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[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] gaveup:
Only thing I cannot stand is MMS pictures containing multiple pictures in a sing MMS showing as a slideshow. I currently am using handcent, and it's the same thing.

Was a problem I couldn't find a fix for on the gs2, and I'm sure that will remain the case for the GS3.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Halmo:
Why would you put your keys and your phone in the same pocket anyway that's just asking to get scratched, you have 2 pockets for a reason.

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Oh, and to contribute to the actual topic. Not sure if it is just my WiFi strength or what but everywhere I go I only ever can get 2 bars on the WiFi notification, it seems that it works fine with 2 bars (can drop if it goes down to no bars). I don't know if it is just me or the 2 bars represents a better signal that you would think from a 2 bar connection.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tiisai44:
I have as well. Funny thing is when I watch it back you here me in the back ground saying "focus, focus, focus." Can't wait for a fix.

Sent from my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S3 16gb Pebble Blue running Stock ROM
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] gtuansdiamm:
That can't be it

Samsung has to make it sound more stupid
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] fatboypup:
i dont think the camera is that great, I miss the display modes (saturation) my google wallet isnt working
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] CapsLockKey:
Google wallet not working (sounds like a Sprint problem) and the removal of the brightness adjustment from the notification are my only gripes. The stock keyboard sucks, but Swype beta took care of that. Just hope there is a way to get the full version when the beta expires.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] shorty87:
Not being able to link ringer volume with notification volume.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] smark72:
Is there anyway to disable the home button from turning on the screen ?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] amgpower63:
There's no media control on the lock screen..I just hate unlocking my phone just to skip to the next song.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Yaotl:
That seems to vary on what lockscreen you're using. Pattern lock has music controls for me.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] NA 521":
I turned off animations but still see some kind of animation that apppears to slow things down. For example, switching between the app screen and the home screen. Is there a way to disable that?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Halmo:
You can bring the notification tray down while on the lock screen which has the media controls there.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tiisai44:
Check out this article. It's a focus feature that helped me with the constant focus problem.

http://mashable.com/2012/06/29/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-camera/

Sent from my T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S3 16gb Pebble Blue running Stock ROM
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] brembrad:
Not sure if it's just me , but upon turning phone on for 1st time and then logging into google every single program I currently have downloaded or paid for on my E4GT(S2) was downloaded to my S3......ok no problem pretty cool huh??? EXCEPT that every app as it was downloaded used up every available slot on my home screens!!! ugggh. I wish i had been given an option during set-up so that I didn't have to manually trash and fix. Very fixable just a little annoying.

Swipe display brightness option missing is a bugger too.

The eye follow feature to prevent dimming needs light, evening time outside or a darkened room doesn't help much at all.

Otherwise very happy with screen res, speeeeed of apps, etc. Just need to learn the ICS launcher or get a different one.

brad
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] thearch1tect:
Deleting the screen altogether is a quick way to get around the apps loading to your home screens
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] drksilenc:
you can disable that in the play store settings. it wont auto add them any more.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] chimmycham:
I've had the T-Mobile version for 4 days now and so far I love it.

A few cons though:

on about 50% of the calls I've answered, the microphone didn't work (aka the person could not hear me)

The SIM card somehow wiggled itself out of its slot

the phone has frozen up on me twice to the point where i needed to restart it.

And, for some reason, a simple game (Temple Run) is laggy as ****

My previous phone was the G2, and the game never lagged once.

I have all my other programs closed while playing it, and have cleared the RAM.

...all in all though i do love the phone.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] allendj81:
Ok I have complaints about the phone:

1. Sometimes for some reason, when I get a text message, the phone says the name of the person, when I have that option completely off. It usually happens after I restart the phone....I go back to talk back settings and the options are unchecked, so it should be doing this at all! Any of us have this bug?

2. Smart Stay is not that smart lol. The display turn off even if Im looking straight at it in a well lit area or room and the appropriate distance.

Edit: I have the tmo version btw
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Eddie Bombay:
the home button blows and no scrolling wallpaper wtf is up with that
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] dmchssc:
The GPU is too weak. The SoC GPU is about as fast as the one in the Exynos SGS II, but performance in games is worse because it has to process so many more pixels. I wish Qualcomm had worked harder on keeping the GPU competitive. Graphics performance feels like a step down from its predecessor.

Another issue is the sound quality. I really wish the Wolfson DAC was included. Noise is too high for pleasant listening in quiet situations, and sounds are also a bit muffled. Hopefully some tweaking can be done to improve this somewhat, but this too feels like a downgrade from the SGS II. That didn't have awesome sound quality, but it was better than what I've heard with this phone.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ferris2375:
I had a GS2 and have no complaints about the GPU in this phone, everything I've thrown at it has been fluid.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Pig Vomit:
1. Hate the water droplet sound when touching the screen. HATE IT. I like having a short click, but the droplet sound is annoying. If there was a way to *only* decrease the volume on the droplet without decreasing the volume on other system sounds, or to change the sound to something else, that would work for me, but there's not. As such, I've disabled the droplet.

2. Home button blows. Should be capacitive.

3. Touchwiz and the relative lack of customization options.

4. The eye tracking thingy doesn't work at all.

5. No FM radio. Why can't the US carriers allow this?

CM9 is far superior to stock GS3.

All in all these are minor gripes. Don't get me wrong, I think this is a great phone. Just like when buying a house, you have to expect that there's no such thing as the "perfect" phone or house. Each person is *always* going to have something they wish was different. Still think that this phone is the best on the market, and they did a lot of things right.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] robstunner:
Wi-Fi seems to hang at times. I get a lot of no connection until I hit refresh and then it works fine.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] BakaNeko59:
If you want a method to change screen brightness with swiping, get "Display Brightness" from the app store.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] stonew5082:
also you can only link 5 contacts (i think its five, anyway) which is pointless and dumb. Stock people app allows unlimited linking of contacts. Also the contact pics are small on the app and on in-call screen which is a minor annoyance.

We know how to change ringtone, messaging tone etc what about the dial tone? Its unbelievably dumb and I can't find the settings...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] smark72:
Is there any way to connect this phone to a PS3 to transfer movie files or video files

Sent from my SPH-L710
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] juanpow3r:
I logged in just to express how much I laughed at this. For some reason a "jungle ****" ringtone was absolutely hilarious.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Becoming:
Well I'm not sure about formats, but under Wireless/More Settings/Nearby Devices it seems to have dlna/content sharing stuff.

I haven't tested it yet, but that's probably what you're looking for.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zmore:
Yeah, the "inspired by nature" droplet sound gets old fast. If you're rooted you can modify /system/media/audio/ui/*ogg

I wouldn't go so far as to say the physical home button blows, but it certainly isn't better than capacitive. The ONLY advantage the physical button has is that you can wake your phone without having to hit the power button.

DISADVANTAGES of the physical home button:

Moving parts are more prone to failure

LIQUID can can seep in there the cracks around the button(!) from spills, applying wet screen protectors, etc.

nasty finger sludge builds up in the crack

I find myself using the BACK button more now, since the HOME button requires too much force to press vs lazy BACK. :)

Nova or Apex launcher hide much of Touchwiz, but CM9 & 10 are coming soon.

It works great for me! You just have to have to have adequate lighting, and be in line of site. Maybe wearing glasses helps define the eyes?

Less FM == More DATA use. I don't listen to the radio anymore, but it's nice to have for emergencies. Also, a lot of gyms use FM to broadcast audio from the TVs.

Agreed.

As-is, the phone is a 9 out of 10 for me, but CyanogenMod will bring it to 11...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] smark72:
This will work for the time being, until a custom Rom comes out that may enable mass storage mode. I like to transfer the movies to the ps3 so there is no buffering issues and the transfer rate on the dlna is super slow.

Sent from my SPH-L710
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Advantageous:
My biggest annoyance is the cell standby bug, my phone is using up more battery juice just sitting around than it is actually being used. Bugging the hell out of me.

EDIT:

Just found the fix. Seems simple enough.

http://global.christianpost.com/new...ttery-problems-solution-and-how-to-fix-77482/
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] JayFReaZy:
No mass storage mode, and slide to adjust screen brightness are two things I miss from my old captivate.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] auau465121:
Does any one use custom notifcations for their phone and notice that it cuts short? I have the "Cloud" sound from the Galaxy S 2 but I notice it doesn't play the sound completely. I also have the "Gamma" sound from sense and the phone doesn't completely play that either. When I play either of the sounds from the Sound Player app it plays completely but when I receive a new text it cuts the sound short.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Becoming:
Just curious since I haven't tried it, but would just plugging it into a usb port on the ps3 not work? I've never played around with those options much aside from transferring some pics and music from my Epic Touch to my ps3 previously via the dlna app.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] smark72:
I plug it in and all it asks is to choose pictures or media. Selecting media does nothing and the ps3 does not recognize it. I wish it did, dlna transfer rate of a 700mb file or larger is extremely slow.

Sent from my SPH-L710
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Becoming:
Bummer.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] nooney299:
<<<<<< He la r ious >>>>>>>>>>
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Wickedone82:
one of my issues which i havent found a answer for is my text messaging icon on the home screen. From time to time * more often the most* my phone will have a number next to the icon saying i have a text message but i dont . i make sure all the messages are checked and i even went as far as deleting all my messages and the # is still there. only way i have found to get rid of it for a short period is to remove the app from the home screen and put it back or do a phone restart. its very frustrating.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] krackerjac:
No genie widget

Fu Sammy lol

God I miss that app.....
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cwalker29:
Me too couldn't stand that **** so I switch to handcent
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cmjkxa:
I have the same rattle. It's even more noticeable when it vibrates. It this worth exchanging?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] macdroid01:
Whites on the S III screen are VERY very dim. Half the brightness of a Droid. A quarter as bright as HOX or EVO. Yikes. Colors are bright, though, but almost too bright. I can't say for now I like the saturation, though it sure is impressive. If colors are so bright why isn't WHITE? Isn't it just all colors combined?

Also Pentile jaggedness is there, it's not too bad but it's noticeable on small text and edges even at normal arms' length. It's bad up close of course, when used in bed for example, but it's not a dealbreaker thanks to the high resolution. But the dimness is so bad I might have to cancel or return my VZ preorder. I played with S III at Sprint store yesterday.

I love TouchWiz and love the case and LOVE the physical home button though. Too bad AMOLED sucks so bad. :(

Just thought I'd throw that out there for folks coming from LCD screens that are used to such nice, bright, sharp, color-accurate displays.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tekhna:
Any concerns about the GPS? To date Samsung's GPS quality has been sh*t, and that's a dealbreaker for me.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] starkillers:
If you unmount sd card, all assigned ring tones are reset to default.

If you arrange placement of apps within a folder, after a reboot or clearing out memory, the apps in the folder are rearranged in a different position.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zmore:
Don't be concerned about GPS. The S3 is a vast improvement over my crappy Cappy's barely functional GPS. Indoors, my Cappy never worked, and outside, it took many MINUTES to lock.

My S3, on the other hand, is seeing 20 satellites indoors atm, using 10 of them, gets a lock in a couple seconds, and shows an awesome accuracy of 10 feet.

Gets even better results outside.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cushcalc:
Screen brightness, or dimness I should say

I agree. I had read only one review that mentioned this http://reviews.cnet.com/samsung-galaxy-s3-review/ so dismissed it because I couldn't believe they would provide a worse screen with their new flagship vs. their previous top phones. But the screen is noticeably dimmer and grayer than my Galaxy Note, esp. when viewed outdoors.

Here's a comparison shot:

(if image doesn't show, go here http://twitpic.com/a3iphv)

It's not so bad indoors, but SO glaringly obvious outdoors that it is a real disappointment, and may be a deal-breaker for me. I wonder if there is any chance that this a defect only seen in some.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Mac33:
Not sure if this has been mentioned. Go to settings, display, turn off auto adjust screen tone. That should help with the white being brighter. It does that to save battery.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] macdroid01:
thank you mac33 for this but I did try that to no avail.

And thank YOU cushcalc, I felt alone in this...every review says how great the S III screen, how it's bright, etc. I was quite underwhelmed in person. Personally I hope they just ditch AMOLED for LCD next time. It has a variety of serious flaws inherent to the technology itself that can't be solved via software. Ink marks, tints, dimness, burn in, bad in sun, bizarrely oversaturated colors (which admittedly are sometimes cool to look at), PenTile, etc.

Imagine the SIII with the HOX screen... OMFG that would be AWESOME. I still might keep the S III. I'll give it the 14 days as VZW allows to test it out...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] CVSiN:
real good 2-3 second lock in's even indoors near windows.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cushcalc:
Hadn't noticed that, but now that you point it out, it does seem a wee bit brighter (not "very noticeably" in my case, but now I'll keep noticing it anyway, ha!)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] || Acer ||:
Battery life hasn't been great. I lost a % every two minutes playing a game like Zenonia 4, airplane mode on, brightness at 50%, nothing syncing, etc.

Maybe that's considered good but eh.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] gary.lavin:
Google Voice

I got a Galaxy Siii 2 weeks ago and finally just narrowed this issue down to Google Voice. When I place a call and dial 123-456-7890 the call log will show a different number. I am still connected to the correct number and if I redial that "incorrect number" I am connected to that same correct number. If I go to store the number then the displayed "incorrect" number is stored. Change the Google Voice setting so it is not used to make calls and the problem goes away, still there if I "ask every time".

Never had this with my GSii. Anyone else seen this?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Diekrupt:
Download nova launcher from play store, its fastest and works best.

Sent from the Darkside
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] schwalbach:
This isn't an annoyance for long, but what's the hold up on CM? Didn't Samsung give source codes and have been pretty open? I didn't expect it to not have any real ROMs after a couple of weeks now
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zmore:
AOSP source code for 4.1 isn't out yet.

Mid-july is the ETA, and a few weeks after that a CM10 alpha should surface (with the obligatory broken camera :)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] schwalbach:
Meant 4.0!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mharmon:
Direct Dial Shortcut No Worky

I'm on an AT&T SGSIII and I've found that a direct dial shortcut seems to do absolutely nothing when you try to use it - any advice on making this work or is it just me?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ikjadoon:
Can't post links, but Google an app called "SGS3 Easy UMS" for the USB mass storage mode.

Requires rooting, though.

~Ibrahim~
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] aNYthing24:
Is there no mass storage mode even with a microsd card in the device?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Robert Hodgson:
Emails are blank some times they come in as a solid white background or some times a solid black

I have change the font colour to be able to read the email is there a fix for this.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] strikeoutss:
For some reason I've completely lost 4g on this thing. T-mo cs has tried everything from rebuilding my account. I've gone from stock to rooted and a mod Rom back to stock. No difference. The tech rep thinks I need a new phone. They are sending me a SIM. Which is where my annoyance comes in. Why in the he'll did they change the size of the SIM?????? I could narrow down the problem without having to call T-Mobile if I could just put the SIM in my nexus s or vice versa.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Praetorian011:
Amazon sells adapters for the micro-sim's so that you can put them into normal sim slots.

You can get it for under $1 shipped.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ssbmg:
New email received notification at the top of the screen doesn't always go away after I open my email app. Gmail app and notification has no issues nor does sms messaging. Just the stock email app I use to check my work exchange account. I read somewhere on the interwebs this is an acknowledged bug that will be corrected in a future update. Who knows. Annoying but goes away if I open and close the email app a few times

Home button kind of annoying mostly because I'm lazy. Loved the capacitive home button on the GN.

Otherwise I'm in love.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] smark72:
I just tried this app and I could not get it to work or show as mass storage.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ThC23:
So since it doesn't have mass storage, you can't mount internal and external storage?

Getting my phone next week, but I'm curious about this. Never had a phone where it didn't show mass storage.

Powered by the SGSII
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] amgpower63:
Gps is fine. I didn't have any problem with it.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Fyahstarter:
My biggest annoyance can be the loading time of some apps. Tapatalk being one of them. It crawls compared to my GSII. Also YouTube loads and plays video slower. One last thing would be the slight in the home screen transitions.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ferris2375:
Tapatalk loads almost instantly for me
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mharmon:
Bump - anyone?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] zmore:
Just tried it, and it works for me (but I can't use them since my toddler would wreak havoc)

Apps > Widgets > Direct dial > choose a number.

Tap once to dial... works.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Cappurnikus:
I don't have my sgs3 yet so I can't confirm this myself but with Motoblur, it wants you to sync FB with the launcher. In doing so, you just mashed all of your FB "friends" with your contact list. My solution has always been to unsync FB.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] .Arkham:
THANK YOU! That was really bugging me. I didn't even know about that menu. ;)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] flamarro:
For me, only works in TW, installed Apex and with it, dosen't York
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] 21stNow:
Are you trying this from a text message thread? It seems that this may be the only place that it works from.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] eyecon82:
agreed...direct dial doesn't work with handcent...only stock messaging app...darn!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] 21stNow:
An annoyance is that the "back" button is on the right side of the phone. Because of the placement in internet browsers, we are used to the back button being on the left side. Google puts the back button on the left on the Galaxy Nexus (ironically, a Samsung device). The Note puts it second from the right. HTC puts the back button on the left. I know that manufacturers try to be unique, but consistency here would be appreciated.

A bug that I'm experiencing is that S-Voice force closes if you try to initiate a BT call via voice from the phone's sleep state. This makes voice dialing over BT impossible.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ss4rob:
Love the phone, but thus far only two things are irritating me:

1.) Auto-brightness leans toward the dark side... there's a joke in there, help yourself.

2.) It annoys the heck out of me that the screen comes on for a second or two every time I get a text message. I liked making fun of iPhone users when this happens as they don't have an LED indicator, but *I* do - why turn on the screen when nothing else but SMS does?? Give me the option at least, geez.

Otherwise, I'm beside myself with the joy this phone brings. :)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pavvy:
I think Samsung has always placed Back on the right-hand side of the Galaxy phones (2nd-from-right on the U.S. variants with a Search button). That's definitely where my thumb is used to finding it, anyway! :)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] IBFaboo:
2) On Tmobile it doesnt light upthe screen...just the blue notification light comes on
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] surrealzz:
Hit triangle on the controller while the s3 is connected to the ps3 and go to show all. Easy as pie!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mharmon:
No, not from text message, but from voice direct dial.

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I think I have it figured out - it's the launcher's fault. I loaded up ADW early on. When I try TW, it seems to work just fine.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Mac33:
I'm on T-Mobile & yes it does.