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[General Topics] mistermentality:
Actually they kind of already have....

http://ashentech.com/index.php/topic,2987/wap2.html?PHPSESSID=9vsqjuof9e1r5u7mouj6pt0155

Dave

( http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAownKXmAQ/bigfatuniverse )
[General Topics] mojo22:
I've read some comments about people getting all excited over this patent as if its in the consumers benefit hahah!

this patent is actually screwing the consumers!

Its defending Apple even more so on top of all the other profit maximising T&Cs they have

I sure do hope even more phones go water proof now, that will be a good step up.
[General Topics] Slap-Yourself :):
Ugh. I'm so sick of this bs. Next it'll be a lawsuit for making devices in Black/White colors, or phones with touch screens, or phones with cameras, or for even making a device at all.

Then there will be no cars, buses, trains, airplanes, or boats because "There's an app for that." and it's infringing on Apple patents.
[General Topics] spunker88:
Apple once again patenting a basic piece of technology that has been around for years, these likely predate cell phones all together. I imagine they use a basic chemical reaction with water to produce the color change.

I have proof Apple has taken over the patent office, as I found this when I was browsing some old patents.
[General Topics] _Variable:
:O OH MY GOD!!! All patents? Even non Apple ones?
[General Topics] chaki-:
I wonder what's next..... Oh yeah, the celebrities should patent their quotes. The writers every word they write down so no one can use them. And it will be silent and productive country :D
[General Topics] lykos:
As a writer and designer I'm going to start patenting every pen stroke and pixel.
[General Topics] alpha-niner64:
Are we done with the Apple-hate circlejerking season?

Anyways, being the first post with an actual opinion on the indicator itself: it's similar to what HTC does or Samsung does to help expedite service calls and prevent fraudulent insurance claims. I wonder if Samsung/HTC have a patent on their side regarding the S-ON and TAMPERED notes on the bootloader.
[General Topics] masondoctorjt:
What? Even the shepard of the isheep would have to admit that no such patent should be issued to a conpany that started using the water indicater 10 years after the rest of humanity.
[General Topics] MissionImprobable:
How's that Kool-Aid taste?
[General Topics] fayosi:
I won't even be surprised if that actually happens.

Both of you are sooo funny :):):):)
[General Topics] hellot1M:
Where is the company that designs and manufactures these little stickers? Do they not have a say in this? If apple makes it so other company's can't use these anymore for some odd reason then it would greatly effect the manufactures or as deep as the company who manufactures the chemical used.. idk what all goes down when placing the stickers inside our phone but I'm sure you get what I'm saying.
[General Topics] alpha-niner64:
Good post. Good question. Thanks added.

I think it's more about application rather than chemicals used. You can't patent the chemicals used in the process, but you can patent how it is used afterwards: in this case, application sticker.

I think all this means is that should other manufacturers want their own "liquid damage indicator", they have to apply it in a way that's not the same as Apple's. It can't be on the outside?
[General Topics] orb3000:
Closed

Use iphonedevelopers.com to discuss anything related to that device
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flamingskull:
Updated to the firmware XXBLFB

Started Getting an error "process com.android.phone" has stopped working.

Have tried to factory reset my device 4 times now. Each time there is an error notification saying :"Unfortunately, Touchwiz home has stopped".

Also still getting the error "process com.android.phone" has stopped working when i get calls from specific contacts, not all.

Always occurs while restoring contacts, but the 1st 2 times I was using Mybackup pro, then tried using the vcf file I had created on my microSD and the last time tried using the Sandisk application.

WTF is wrong?! Royally pissed with this phone now man

Any Solutions?

P.S. Have not rooted the phone and wasn't planning to do so in the near future!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] systemwizard:
I have a similar issue with phone.process crashing. Here is what all I have tried after OTA

- Stop using Custom Ringtones ( Didnt work )

- Reset/Reformat the device completely ( Didnt work )

One thing that comes to my mind is that when I formatted the phone , I did have a longish conversation with a friend without anything crashing. This started to reoccur when I installed facebook contact sync ( to bring in contact photos ).

This closely aligns with the problem you are having with contacts not uploading. I have disabled the contact sync and removed all the pictures which were bought in by that application. I will wait to see if the issue re-occurs.

PS : can you change the tread name from Touchwiz Crashing to Phone.process crashing that would make it move visible.

---------- Post added at 07:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:24 AM ----------

Yep.. without contact photos ( imported via facebook ) . This seems to be running fine. Had couple of calls no issues.

I will post back my end of day to confirm.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flamingskull:
Were you using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ro.weednet.contactssync&feature=search_result or the official facebook app to sync contacts?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee2012:
Go to recovery and wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache and reboot. Save files to the pc first. Conflicting settings and scripts.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] systemwizard:
Yes.. this is the one.. with 500x500 pics .. ( Largest )
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prabhjots:
Same issue

Process “com.android.phone stops responding”

Can’t make a call, can’t receive a call. The screen goes blank and all buttons stop responding, until the crash error dialog comes up. Then the signal disappears and reconnects to the network again.

I have done a factory reset. The problem appeared to have been solved but still occurs with a few specific contacts. Please help.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] systemwizard:
This is a NON-rooted phone with Stock OS. So no wipey ;) .. Did a complete phone reset , didnt help. This contact change seems to be working thou.

---------- Post added at 08:12 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:09 AM ----------

Remove any custom ring tones and photos you might have attached to those and try again.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prabhjots:
I removed them all. Still unable to call to those specific contacts.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flamingskull:
Were you using the same app "facebook contact sync"?

Almost confirmed that it was being caused by this app. Synced my contacts using haxsync. No issues at all.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prabhjots:
Nope. I used the official Facebook app.

Anyhow, that was before doing the factory reset. It's crashing all the same even after a factory reset, and before syncing with fb.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flamingskull:
After a factory reset what exactly happens for you? What's the error msg?

Does it happen even without syncing google contacts?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prabhjots:
The Error Message remains the same: "Process com.android.phone has stopped working"

I'm unable to replicate it by creating a new contact. I think the problem lies with Samsung Sync. Only specific contacts are creating problem. On my phone, these have a number of phone numbers attached. I just extracted some of them to another contact, and that works fine. It works without any issue even after replicating the entire information.

However, the old contact file seems to be the problem, I tried changing the numbers and then calling, it gives the same error. Maybe a caching issue?

Curiously, the same was working just fine before the upgrade.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] systemwizard:
I can confirm that the issue is only specific to where the display picture or ringtone is customized. I just went a day without having any issues.

When I sycned back using facebook contact sync again, the issue reoccurred.. hmm.. strange !
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prabhjots:
I'm unable to replicate the issue with any contact now.

I was earlier using Samsung Sync and now am using Google sync.

Adding custom photos and ringtones to the contacts has no effect now.

Haven't tried a facebook contact sync yet.. Will post the results.

Puzzling...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_furious_man:
Hi Guys,

I had exactly the same problem, I was using the official Facebook sync and Facebook Contact Sync. I removed both completely and so far this seems to have sorted it out.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kspan:
Contacts

I upgraded from an HTC Incredible and tried to import my contacts from my SD Card. Once I did that, all this started happening. I deleted all my contacts and reverted to what came in from Verizon's backup assistant utility (thank goodness for the Titanium Backup) and all is well now. Unistalling Facebook didn't make a difference. Something with the contacts seems to have been causing the crash.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g4rvd4:
I was facing the same problem for the past two days.

No amount of factory resets would solve the issue. So I came to the conclusion that something was wrong with the phone.apk in the firmware itself.

On a hunch, I flashed Criskelo's Disable-Increasing-Ring mod.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1700174

WORKS PERFECT NOW!!

Posting here so that it may help somebody.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enigma20xx:
I have the same problem.

Everything was fine since yesterday I instaled the new firmware update.

My phones has the original rom, nothing has been made to it.

Incoming calls and Outgoing:

Phone rings

Back screen

Pop up with "the process com.android.phone has stopped". Accept.

Please, some help.

Thank you.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fwdkiller:
Buy an iphone problem solved lol jking this only happens when flashing roms. Try fix permission in rom managaer and install busybox.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enigma20xx:
Is it possible to reinstal the same version of the original firmware again?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ficti0n851:
See if your csc says unknown.

If you can load the dialer type *#1234#

Could be a facebook sync app, think i had a problem with friendsync. Could dial out but when i received a call com.android.phone would force close.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] g4rvd4:
Have you tried this?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kainyt:
I'm having this problem now after the update. Is there yet any certain solution I should try? Does that ringtone mod help?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_furious_man:
It was definitely Facebook contact sync that caused it for me. I've updated to firmware BLG and reintalled contact sync - so far it seems ok, although it's only been a day. I'll let you know if the issue comes back.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sony.123:
Same problem here, solution for me was to change synced facebook contactpics to smaller than 720x720
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bildircin:
I had the same problem with my stock Galaxy S3 on its second day

When I was trying to call someone, the phone gives "process com.android.phone has stopped" error and I can not make a call

This happens when someone calls me too.

And when the problem occurs, the cell coverage sign changes to "no entrance" sign meaning no cell coverage...

This problem occured after the second OTA update (first update was around 30MB and second was around 70MB)

When I called Samsung, they told me to factory reset the device by typing the code *2767*3855#

I did the factory reset and the problem re-occured after a while

Then I realized that this problem may be related to importing my contacts from my old phone using an SD card

I was importing my contacts using .vcf files and after impoting the contact list, I was adding contact photos to the phonebook from SD card

I re-reset the phone and this time I haven't imported my contacts/contact photos and now I don't have this problem

Some other people having the same problem say that their problem was caused by facebook contact sync

It seems that there is a bug related to importing/synchronizing contacts and contact photos

I hope Samsung finds a quick solution to this problem

I am truly dissatisfied...

The basic function is to call and accept incoming calls, THIS IS A PHONE!!! and it has no meaning if you can not make a call...

An inacceptible bug...

Other threads concerning the same problem:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1784768&highlight=com+android+phone

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1798418&highlight=com+android+phone

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1773825&highlight=com+android+phone

One other bug: When importing the .vcf files (more that 300 contacts) from SD card, the notifications area shows many contacts are being imported and even after the contacts are imported to the phonebook, the notifications does not disappear.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
I hope Samsung finds a quick solution to this problem

I am truly dissatisfied...

Complain to Samsung in writing.

As you give no indication of firmware version there are two solutions.

One upgrade your firmware via Samsung or return the phone to a service centre .

Or you can join XDA Developers and flash the latest stock rom .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ambjk79:
same issue

hello room

i am new here and i had the very same issue after a download an app from app market called bdobirthday or something which is supposedly made to sync facebook bdays with android phone and google calendar.

after this download my phone galaxy S3 went haywire.the screen simply froze and kept saying ":touch wiz not working"

i did a full factory reset and erased everything.after this from app market got all my apps excluding that sync app which caused it.

after i got my facebook i chose DO NOT SYNC.

so far its working fine just like when i got brand new with no dramas.

made calls ,did texting , received calls , internet browsing , live walls all seem to be working.

will report if that comes back again

cheers
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EP21:
Touch wiz home keeps crashing because of animations turned off, just turn them on(back to x1), rebot and you can customize the amount of HS you have. I think this isn't Sammys fault, it's more like Googles fault. I know it sound crazy but it's "Project butter" that's causing the crash. I changed those three dev settings and got the bug, changed them back and i lost it, changed others except for those three and everything runs predictably. Going to post back in a few days and write if i was right.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raulcano95:
Custom Sounds

My wife and I just ran into this same problem tonight and after deleting everything having to do with Facebook, she still could not receive my calls. We tried the second suggestion of getting rid of custom ringtones and that solved the problem. We're still not sure why it happened now though as it had been working fine two days ago.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Divone:
you was right thanks i love you i change the animation and i make it off to speed up and i didn't now it's make my Touch wiz home crash

just do as what he say and you will be okay

thanks bro
[Galaxy S III General] nageshv24:
Just noticed that the scrolling wallpaper bug is fixed in the new update. This feature is now working in other launchers (Apex and Atom launchers which I tried) but not in TW launcher. Please update if anyone finds the option to enable this in TW launcher.
[Galaxy S III General] armanderli:
Was always working with other launcher but Touchwiz

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9300 avec Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] nageshv24:
As far as I know, the wallpaper scrolling was messed up in other launchers also. So there was one 'scrolling wallpaper' app in the play store which was created mainly to address this issue.
[Galaxy S III General] Halle:
This is true. I now use Nova, before I used Apex. The thing is, you can't set a wide wallpaper from our gallery without being forced to crop it into portrait mode. Sure it will scroll, but the edges will be black. You have to choose a wallpaper from your default wallpapers folder to get it to work. And how many wallpapers are in there, like 5?

One tip: I found the Zedge app in Play. With this one you can set wide wallpapers directly from the app that you have downloaded with the app. Works fine and you get wide high res wallpapers that do indeed scroll (does not work with Touchwiz).
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Meyrinn:
I have searched through this forum, and have not yet found a thread pertaining to this issue. I am not a developer, just an android enthusiast, so i do not have a clue why, but the build.prop tether tweak does not seem to be working on some evo lte devices (including mine). The tether app would show connected, but with no internet access to PCs, laptops, anything not-android it seems. I will shed some light on how I fixed this issue, to hopefully help others in this forum who were most likely just as mind boggled as I was.

I downloaded foxfi from foxfi.com/bin since Sprint took it off of the market.

However, they did not take the foxfi addon off of the market, so I downloaded that as well.

Run foxfi, go to settings, and enable proxy. Foxfi will give you a proxy IP.

Connect to the network from your PC.

(I use Firefox, so I am unable to give specific browser instructions here)

Go to advanced network settings in your browser, and change the automatic proxy to manual, and type in the IP foxfi gives.

Wa-la! Hope this helps, if anyone has any questions, I will help as best as I can!

IN ADDITION: I have tried every other possible mod/app/setting that I have found on these forums. I do not know if Sprint hotfixed the phone to change the code of tethering (like i said, not a developer), because I bought my EVO LTE the last week in June. I will again clarify for the idiots below that cannot seem to read correctly, this is for those that have tried build.prop mod and/or wifi tether with generic ICS setting, fiddling with routing/MSS options and getting "connected with limited access", "no internet connection", or "connected" but still no web browsing capability to their PCs. If I am the only one out there with this problem, it would be my luck. :)

Happy tethering!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] thatotherguy..:
Use wireless tether from the market
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Spyderekz:
googles wifi tether works fine, just set it to generic ICS
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] NastroGlide:
Thanks guys. I was making this harder than it needed to be too. Feel like a noob.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Meyrinn:
It doesn't matter, for some people, WiFi tether on any setting does not work, sprint did something to their network, I spent hours trying to figure it out. It would connect to other android devices, but would give no net connection to PCs
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wonton164:
Looks like I've fallen victim (as well as others) to not noticing that there are 2 forums for the Galaxy S3 and bricking my phone not even 24 hrs after getting it in my hands.

Any way this forum could give at least *some* indication in the forum name that it is for the International version? It seems like a simple way to save a lot of people a lot of stress and $$. Had I seen International version in the forum name, or somewhere in a sub-forum, I would have avoided it altogether and easily avoided hard bricking my phone.

In my case what I did when rooting was follow this forum to this thread:

SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 TOOLKIT V3.0

and noticed that AT&T SGS3 uses a different toolkit, so i followed the link to:

SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 QCOM TOOLKIT V1.0

thinking it was just a different thread in this same forum (I've never come across split forums in any of the previous phones Android or otherwise) I followed everything there, and had zero issues with rooting and getting CWM on there.

I went back to the Android development sub-forum and decided I'd stick with a ROM similar to the stock rom for starters (seems the least adventurous, just in case), the most common seeming to be CM9 or Omega. I've already seen CM9, so I figured I'd try out Omega. Downloaded it, copied it over to internal SD, followed the usual boot to CWM, backup, clear data, clear cache, and flash zip.

Installer ran through, said it was successful, and showed an error about a mismatched property (can't remember the exact error). Installer said it would reboot, I clicked go and that was the last the screen turned on.

I've had at least a fair amount of experience with flashing ROMs, bootloaders, etc. across several phones and have had no serious hard bricking issues until recently. I usually pay attention to indications of different versions of a particular phone and which ROMs, etc go with which phone but this one got the best of me.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Note the heads up on the first page .

PM mods to change to International in the forum header .

Wont stop those who fail to read the instructions same happened on SGS2 presumption by users that this is the forum for my phone .Says I9300 on the lid but the phone in question is SGH 1747 not I9300 .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mopral:
The forum name is "Samsung Galaxy S III I9300"

Last time I check, this number is only for international SGS3

Seems like I start to think like a Green Day's song...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
Sorry to hear your phone is broken.

Have you tried getting it into download mode or using a Jig?

One of both methods should get you running again.

Btw, cm9 is the absolute opposite of stock Rom: it has NOTHING Samsung-specific since it is built from heavily modified Google sourcecode,
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CreekDirt:
This. We have to tread lightly in the world of modifications.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OrionBG:
Nobody have to change anything!

Some people have to learn to READ!

Is your device's model the GT-i9300??? If you've killed it than it for sure is NOT!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] B3311:
"You're not very bright, are you? I like that in a man."

- Kathleen Turner, "Body Heat".

Her best line from that film? "I never forget a face I've sat on."
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
People have already explained how to differentiate between the international version and the US version.

This forum has I9300 written on top, that means international version.

Your phone has its own forum easily found by searching for att galaxy sIII.

Your phone isn't the I9300 so why would you flash it with stuff for that model??

Would you flash a kernel for a I9250 or a rom for an I515? No.

Sorry this happened to your phone but it happens so often here that now not a single f*ck will be given as it is down to not reading and not searching. User error.

This has been fixed before so try search here and in your respective forum.

Lesson learned.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Even with the stop if you are a Yank or Canuck post they are still coming here and flashing wrong firmware today .

No way around majority wont read and if adding SGS3 i9300 to the forum header is going to save a few i don't have a problem . But will they even read that forum header .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rlorange:
Americans like to sue everyone for their own stupidity. So first they have to convince themselves that everyone except themselves are to blame.