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[Galaxy S III General] ria_drizzt:
Hey gang,

Dual-posting what I told the folks over at Android Central.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but with Sprint severely lacking in communicating any information to us, I figured you would like to hear what I was told.

I received a call today from Anthony Spoon in the Sprint executive offices. I had sent an email to the executives of Sprint offering suggestions on how they could have better handled all of this. More or less just stated it wasn't important when the phone was going to be delivered, but the severe lack of information was ridiculous and unnecessary. To be honest I was surprised I was called.

Anyway, Anthony told me all of the information they have received is pointing to next week for the 32GB phones to be sent out. I kind of laughed a little and asked why in the heck next week looked any better/worse than this week. I said, "Why should you expect to get them next week and not the week after, or later?" He claimed that this was the information they received from Samsung so that was the message they were passing along. I told him thanks for the information but they really needed to make that official and not wait until Friday before passing that along.

So take it for what it's worth but I would stop spamming your refresh button on the myorder page. ;-)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] neverused:
I tried to update my RAZR Maxx last night to ICS, but it didn't work. After resetting everything, turning it off, then on a couple times, and swearing at it, the phone came back on at GB. Unfortunately, now it only picks up a 3G signal even though I live in an area with a strong LTE coverage. I have already checked the settings and I am set to CDMA/LTE, but have yet to pick it up. Do you have any suggestions?

This occurred after trying to wipe the cache/ load the OTA from SD as well as after using "Razr Utility 1.7" first so I don't know what else I should try.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] BytecodeMe:
Fastboot .181 again, you don't have a 4g baseband/radio. That should fix it for good.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] neverused:
This will sound stupid, but how would I go about that?

Thanks for your help so far!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Div033:
Two years ago I bought an Incredible. I could have waited a month for the fascinate, and I'm glad I didn't, but something began to bug me; the Adreno 200 was very underpowered. Fast forward to now and I'm forced to upgrade to keep my unlimited data. The obvious choice is the upcoming Galaxy S3, so I pre-ordered one. I can't help but wonder if I'm repeating my last phone purchase by obtaining hardware with a GPU that simply wont hold up in the future.

The biggest blow of having a weak GPU in my Incredible was the incompatibility with ICS. Google would not and could not support the Nexus One due to the meager Adreno 200 GPU it housed. This upset many QSD based device owners, especially the Nexus One adopters. I know ICS roms are continually improving for QSD based phones but they'll always lag. Meanwhile the fascinate has received great ICS support due to having the same GPU as the Galaxy Nexus. One month could have changed my future proof experience, but inevidbly the fascinate had a bunch of issues I'm glad I didn't have to deal with.

I know hardware becomes obsolete. It happens, I get it. We all want to try and do the best we can though, especially those of us on Verizon with unlimited data; this is our last subsidized upgrade allowing us to retain unlimited data.

Looking at GSM Arena's benchmarks, specifically the Egypt off-screen test, the Adreno 225 lags behind yesteryear's Galaxy S2 with the Mali 400. The international GS3's performance in this test zooms ahead of the Qualcomm variants by double.

Will the US Galaxy S3 withstand the test of time and provide future proof hardware for a reasonable amount of time? Or will it fall short of the two year expected lifespan like the QSD Adreno 200 devices did?

I am uncertain and wish Qualcomm would seriously step its GPU game. Am I alone with this line of thinking?

[I originally posted this in the international forum, but felt it belonged here.]
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Voltage Spike:
I thought the biggest problem with the Nexus One was the limited space for system files. Other Adreno 200 devices, such as the Evo 4G, have Android 4.0 running on them, and I hear it works really well.

I know that the early Exynos found on the Nexus S also works quite well.

I think any modern chipset easily surpasses the performance required for the type of GPU tasks being implemented at the system level. Games are still a concern, but compatibility is more of an issue there than performance, and the Adreno 225 is popular enough that it should be supported.

But there's always next year for really kick-ass GPUs. :p
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Eaglemaniac:
Well, you also have to look at resources available and time constraints. The introduction of LTE in the US probably forced said chip maker to make some concessions. What they lost in state of the art GPU, the gained in the ridiculous profit they made this year because they are the only chip that includes LTE. From their perspective, they've won the war thus far.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] bradleyw801:
I agree with this line of thinking. As an earlier poster said, the Evo 4G had the Adreno 200. I use N64oid all the time. The Evo would struggle with games that the first Galaxy S family had no problem at all with. I have since switched to the Motorola Photon 4G, and the Tegra 2 (Nvidia GeForce GPU). It handles both emulators, as well as high end games so much better than my Evo did. I would have already pre-ordered the S3 if it weren't for this.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Paging Dr B:
real world performance > benchmarks

My Sensation has an Adreno220 and it plays every game and movie just fine. Sure it doesn't get the best benchmark numbers but it more than holds it's own when playing any game. I'm sure the Adreno225 will hold up just fine over the next couple years. In fact I still love my Sensation. Side by side it's still just as fast as most phones out there. You only see a difference when running benchmarks which isn't practical. I personally don't care if i'm getting 200fps or 50. It's not like anyone can tell the difference.

I also want to note that the 220 is crazy powerful compared to the 200 and 205. It was the first GPU that Qualcomm seemed to really take a stab at gaming with. I'm fine with the 220 and can't wait to begin using the 225.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] incubus26jc:
As nativestranger said in another thread,

"The 225 despite its deceptive naming is 4-6x the performance of the 205 and roughly 1.6-2x the 220."

Also, performance on the Evo cannot be based solely on Gpu(Adreno 200). Cpu, Ram, Resolution etc... have a ton to do with it as well.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] doeboy711:
Will the GPU do better in this phone due to the extra ram compared to the one series with the same S4/225 combo?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Paging Dr B:
You should also note that the GS2 only had 480 x 800 (384000 total pixels) resolution and even at that way lower resolution it's score was only slightly higher in that test whereas the GS3 is pushing 720x1280 (921600 total pixels). That means that the GS3 is working 2.4 times harder than the GS2 and it delivers almost the same gaming performance at worst, and better performance in others. That's not bad if you ask me seeing as how we all thought the GS2 was a powerhouse just 12 months ago.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] neyenlives:
agreed, i haven't seen anyone suffering from GPU woes other than benchmark nuts who obsess over the highest score.....everyone actually using it for real things say it works great.....and honestly, my take is if you want gaming performance, don't use a phone, plug your 360 into your big screen and kick ass from the couch in HD and surround sound
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Div033:
I did somehow forget to acknowledge the resolution of the GS3 vs. GS2 because that most certainly makes a difference. It is an unfair comparison.

My primary concern isn't with gaming on the device. I just want the device to be able to run the next two-three versions of android without being hardware bottlenecked.

I've used ICS on my Incredible which is virtually the same as the Evo 4G but performance is still lacking. In some cases it can take a good 4-5 seconds to move from an app to the homescreen when pressing the home button. This may not be entirely the GPU's fault, but regardless homescreen scrolling remains sluggish and somewhat laggy.

As far as popularity of a chipset goes, its become evident that this factor does not affect how long manufacturers will support it. The Nexus One had a QSD chip and was one of the most popular chipsets around at the time but it still did not receive ICS. I know they claimed space restrictions were the reason but I find this highly unlikely considering the other more limiting factors.

Maybe the 225 will be good enough for future android versions like key lime pie and licorice or whatever they call it.

Sent from my Droid Incredible using the XDA app.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] neyenlives:
Well it might interest you to know the Adreno 225 supports DirectX 9.3 and texture compression where Mali 400 does not. Its a requirement for Windows 8. Now, you might say so what....but I for one plan on trying to dual boot or even run a version of Windows RT perhaps on a virtual machine. Something else that the S4 Krait/Adreno package supports natively I do believe, that the Exynos/Mali doesn't.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Voltage Spike:
This is almost certainly a RAM issue. With the ridiculous 2GB on this phone, I would hope you wouldn't run into issues until Android at least wraps the alphabet.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] rakeshchn:
+1. I do believe more ram (largest among this generation phones) matters for long term usage.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] }{Alienz}{:
The GPU is fine.

Guys, this is a Galaxy S phone. The newest one at least.

It is GUARANTEED a Jelly Bean update from Samsung (albeit late). It is also most likely getting at least 1 or 2 more major Android updates because of XDA.

Remember, ALL OF US has the SAME Galaxy S3. That is a LOT of devs that will be working on it.

Don't worry about that. It will come with time.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] nativestranger:
You simply don't compare the Adreno 200 of first generation snapdragon devices with the 225 of current devices. The Adreno 200 gpu even for it's time is woefully weak. The 205 that followed after was easily 3x or more the performance. Most devices based on this gpu including the xperia play actually had no problem playing the latest games. The 220 saw a similarly huge increase. Qualcomm eased off a little with the 225 by using the same architecture but built on a smaller process and increased the clocks/ memory bandwidth resulting in 1.6x - 2x performance increase. Hence the comments of it being a lame upgrade. However when we look at the desktop gpu of the AMD 6000 series. The upgrade was less than 20% over previous year and people are universally appraising the 6970 gpu. This is how gullible fanboyism and can result in strongly skewed perception over actual results.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Div033:
Fair enough. I suppose you're right, the Adreno 200 was already severely underpowered at launch. The 225 may not be the best, but it's still up among the top tier GPUs. I guess I have nothing to worry about. The 2GB ram is definitely nice too.

Sent from my Droid Incredible using the XDA app.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] nativestranger:
Just put this here for a reference:

The nexus one is running the Adreno 200. The htc one v with Adreno 205 is over 5X faster. The rezound has an Adreno 220. over 3X faster than the one V but also running more than 2X the resolution. The GS3 with adreno 225 is hard up against the vsync wall in he hoverjet test and about 3x faster than the rezound in the egypt test. It's amazing how much Adreno has upgraded in just 2 years. From the 2fps on the 200 to never dropping below 60fps on the 225.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Ind3lible:
Thank you this helps me make my decision too ^. Also does having a high resolution screen make graphics look better? Like NOVA 3 on my SGS2 looks awesome. All the effects are there bullet smoke and what not. So will these effects or the graphics in general look better on this sgs3 screen?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Cruiserdude:
Your GPU will be just fine. Other posters have already shown that it is perfectly competitive with the gpu's in other top-tier phones of this generation, and most top-tier phones sold in the US since the beginning of the year have run S4 SoC's. It comes down to LTE, something the rest of the world doesn't have (for the most part, and nowhere near our level). I for one would much rather give up an absolutely world-crushing gpu than to be stuck on 3g forever.

Also, keep in mind that the Galaxy S3 is on-track to be the fastest-selling device ever. The American market is huge, and is the home to many of the major players in this industry (including of course Google themselves), not to mention that Samsung seems to want to treat the two devices (US and International versions) as one in the same. Its not like they'll want all those customers to have a gpu that'll make the phone feel old in 3 months, so I wouldn't worry.

And honestly, I don't really see Android becoming significantly more hardware-intensive anytime real soon. The current/upcoming generation of hardware can beat many people's PC's in terms of UI navigation, launching apps, and even running games. Two HUGE things Google talked about with Jellybean was introducing the PDK, and Project Butter. This shows that they recognize that some of the platform's biggest weaknesses were its slow, inconsistent updates and perceived lower performance to iOS due to the UI. From what I have seen of Jellybean in videos, I don't see much further room to speed up the UI, its already about as fast and smooth as it can get it seems. I would imagine screen resolution won't be making huge jumps in the immediate future; there'll be some 1080p screens, but I doubt people will demand that in a sub 5" device they hold a foot in front of their face, considering the negative impact on battery life.

What I'm trying to say is I don't see Android really demanding significantly more powerful hardware to keep growing, as it already runs as smooth and fast as possible on hardware we're already calling outdated. Sure, more ram and more powerful cpu's may let you multitask with more apps without slowdowns, and better gpu's can run newer games even better, but I just don't see the system itself requiring significantly better hardware than we have now for a few generations. Looks like we'll be more focused on multitasking performance, efficiency/battery life, and manufacturing costs so everyone can enjoy the kind of performance that's currently reserved for us nuts buying new top-tier phones every 8 months.

So again, no, I wouldn't worry. Sure, its not the best thing out there, and will soon be outclassed, but I don't see it handicapping Android anytime soon, especially with 2GB of RAM.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Ind3lible:
I see lol well that's good I don't wanna have to buy a new phone every half a year! But will the HD resolution make any of the game loft games look any better than they do on my galaxy s2 with the Mali 400 gpu? Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] Papaniz:
Hi guys,

so I'm sending in my Legend soon for repair, and it's rooted. I have water damage, and just need to know, will they check if it's rooted? It's hardware damage, not software, so is there a chance they will still fix it? If not, is there anyway to unroot it from Android 2.3.3 to 2.2? It still has "S-On" when I power on into the bootloader. Thanks for the help.
[General Questions and Answers] Kraaw:
I send my Desire to repair, because i've broken my screen. Its hardware, so no one take it in warranty, so you'll pay and you don't have to ask this kind of question ^^. My desire was S-OFF, rooted etc, and when the desire came back, I still rooted and S-Off.

They don't do anything on the software if its only hardware.

Its like this in France.

Wahou, Legend, i love this phone. If i'd the choice, i'd have prefered to choose Legend than the Desire.
[General Questions and Answers] Papaniz:
Aha thanks! I'll just send it in see what happens then. That's what I was thinking as well, it's a hardware issue, looks like the digitizer needs replacing is all. Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] lusout25:
I am trying to compare bandwidth performance on an Android device with and without a proxy. I have root.

My goal is to calculate bytes/second when using the Android Browser.

The first test I am trying to do involves iptables. I created a shell script that refreshed the iptables rules then lists the rules every second. While it is running, I connect to a specific website so I can observe the bytes recieved and time it took. Due to low packet and bytes (16p~1000bytes) on large websites such as CNN, I believe that it isn't capturing all of the data recieved.

My iptables rule simply accepts data coming into port 80 (http).

Is iptables even capable of seeing all the data? Is there a better way to calculate the bytes/sec?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,

lusout25
[About XDA developers] MoHi96:
Hey, guys. I was trying to update my ROM yesterday (at around 2-3 PDT) and the main XDA landing site was working, but the forums were down! Any admins (or anyone really) know what happened to the forums? I'm not whining or complaining; I got my ROM update via other means, but I'm just really curious.
[About XDA developers] ronnie498:
Was just some routine maintenance happens different times day or night
[About XDA developers] MoHi96:
Ah, okay.
[About XDA developers] pulser_g2:
A server had an unexpected issue, but it's sorted now.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reggaetonero:
Hello people,

am looking to get a bluetooth keyboard for my s3 and was wondering if the ps3 keypad would work.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlads:
Unless a driver is written, I doubt it.

Six axis controller makes the ps3 pad work, but I don't know about the keypad.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mbirth:
This is a bit late but the PS3 keypad speaks the normal Bluetooth HID protocol and should be compatible with any recent Android.

The only problem I have is to make SixAxis AND the keypad work at the same time...
[Galaxy S III Accessories] mrmako777:
saw this on FB. available now!!! :D

http://www.tridenteer.com/categories/Samsung-Galaxy-S3/
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Jfree3000:
I called Trident today asking about Kraken cases for the S3 and they stated they would be available by the end of July.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] JediSooner:
Got my Aegis today after ordering on Amazon late last week. Once I finally got my S3 in it without breaking it (the phone or the case), it's really pretty nice. Definitely fits snug... the headphone jack dust cover seems to stay in place a bit better than the one for the micro USB. It adds a good bit of protection for the whole phone without adding a lot of bulk. I got it for around $20 as a temporary until my Otterbox Defender ships. If I end up not liking it, I'll probably look into the Kraken for the S3. I had one for my Note and did not like the belt clip at all. Too hard to get the phone back into it and I didn't like the idea of completely detaching it from my belt every time I needed the phone.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Jude Phailin:
That's what I'm holding out for. I heard it should be around the 15th when I called :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] megamoz:
Hi there!

It seems in the beginning only the 32 GB version of Infinity will hit the stores in Spain, to my dismay 'cause I was eagerly waiting for the 64 GB model.

So, considering I won't be able to wait no more, I could get what's the available in the market along with a 32 GB micro SD card (for example SanDisk Mobile Ultra 32GB). I wonder if there would be performance difference between 64 GB model and 32 GB with 32 GB micro SD card in terms of storage benchmarks or software performance? :confused:
[Asus Transformer TF700] c5satellite2:
The mobile ultra cards should be around 30+MB/sec which should be about what the internal runs at. Get a 64gb card(about $70) and have 96gb storage total! You could use a 128gb card also or any xdhc micro sd, you just need to reformat the xdhc cards to fat32 and they work perfectly! Xdhc cards are faster than sdhc allows, so using an xdhc should test as fast as the internal controller will allow. Sdxc 64gb and up cards should test at over 40MB/sec in a sdhc slot. Sdxc cards should be able to do 100MB/sec which is way faster than the bus/controller in your device, so they will be faster than the built-in storage!

JUST REMEMBER TO REFORMAT SDXC CARDS AS FAT32! And only use SDXC UHS-1 type cards! UHS-2 cards will not work!

If you format a sdxc uhs-1 card as fat32 and it doesn't work, you need to write a new mbr on the card. Xdhc uses exFat file system and that uses ntfs mbr, you need fat32 mbr. Either repartition the card, or use a 3rd party format tool like fat32format which would take care of both issues at once. Shouldn't be an issue on the majority of newer devices.

A lot of devices won't care that the mbr is in the wrong location(exFat and ntfs use a different mbr location compared to fat32) as long as it is formatted fat32.

Good luck, and I hope you stuff a 128gb in there so you have 160GB total! SWEETNESS!

PM me if you need any help!
[Asus Transformer TF700] josuetenista:
I would recommend to buy a SanDisk microsd xc 64gb, and and format it to NTFS. I'm using this card in my transformer prime and it's great because in NTFS file system I'm allowed to copy files larger than 4gb (movies). If you format it to fat32 4gb will be the limit. The SanDisk card is almost as fast as internal storage. You won't notice any difference.
[Asus Transformer TF700] megamoz:
I assume Infinity will support sdxc format since Prime does.
[Asus Transformer TF700] c5satellite2:
None of these support "xdhc" yet, but it will work. Do not use ntfs. Linux support is still not 100% for ntfs(drivers are better than the past, but still not recommended). You can use ntfs if you need files bigger than 4gb. Fat32 is the best choice for reliability.

Again, xdhc uhs-1 will work in sdhc slot(with reformat to fat32), xdhc uhs-2 needs true xdhc slot(new pinout from what I have seen).
[Asus Transformer TF700] Hemidroids:
I would NEVER format ANYTHING to NTFS. There is simply no reason to.
[Asus Transformer TF700] amd1979:
Really? I have hundreds of movies on my home server over 4 GB. I'm not going to spend hours to convert those to work on the FAT32 system.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Hemidroids:
Edit: Nevermind I misread your post.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spliff984:
Just a simple question, how do I get the android device ID out of my KF? Its a non rooted device, and the device ID app is force closing on me. I want to use the APK downloader. I would appreciate any kind of help :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Erphui:
I've installed [ROM][4.0.4] Slim ICS (T959) on my Samsung Vibrant (previous ROM is CM 7.1.0.1) in the following way:

1) Flash Semaphore ICS 1.2.5v from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1724506

2) Flash [ROM][4.0.4] Slim ICS (T959) from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1520919

Camera works fine. But when switching to camcorder, the application crashes with the following message:

"Unfortunately, Camera has stopped".

Has anyone seen this before?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GG88:
Slim Ics started having the camera fc with the newest update. Not sure if they are trying to figure it out but it's not just you.