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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] CKTurbo128:
Not too long ago, I had heard that the Verizon Galaxy S3 would support global roaming in a future update. With the Verizon Galaxy S3 release imminent, I was wondering if this was still the case.

I recently ordered a Galaxy S3 for my Dad, considering his contract with Verizon was up and the data plans were changing. Now, my dad often travels back and forth between the US and South Korea; so often in that he carries two different Android phones for each country (DROID Incredible on Verizon and Nexus S on KT).

Would it be possible for him to dump both the Incredible and Nexus S phones and use only Verizon Galaxy S3 on both of the carriers (if unlocked), by just swapping out the SIM card when traveling between Korea and the US? He will be keeping KT as his cell provider in Korea and from what I've heard, KT does allow foreign phones to be registered on their network, as long as they're unlocked. Both Verizon and KT support CDMA & LTE, but I'm not sure if their frequency bands overlap and if the Verizon S3 would be able to hook onto both without having to flash the radio.

I see that there's already a Voodoo S3 SIM Unlock app on Google Play (probably not compatible with Verizon S3 yet, but maybe eventually possible?).

Either way, it'd be awesome to be able to use the S3 as his main phone on both carriers with a simple SIM card swap! Does anyone have any insight on this, whether it would be possible or not?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] djkinetic:
As far as I understand it, the Verizon S3 needs a software update to unlock the GSM bands within the radio, which currently is not available...Also the LTE Bands are Not Compatible, according to my research Verizon uses 700/750 KT uses 1800. The Verizon S3 has 700/750 LTE Support...Also note while the Verizon S3 likely will have GSM support via a software update it will be Edge bands not WCDMA/HSPA+...as for the CDMA side out of luck there too according to KT they use the 1800 band and the Verizon S3 only has 850/1900 band for CDMA...in short getting the Verizon S3 will in no way help your father ditch his second phone...If your father is an international traveler he would be better suited to using a GSM carrier then buying a phone like the Galaxy Nexus which is pentaband WCDMA, this will work in any country that has WCDMA, I can vouch personally that my GNex (GSM Unlocked) works in S. Korea with HSPA+ Data Speeds as I was just there this past February.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] monkeyhihi:
So though the GS3 would most likely not be able to use 4G (through HSPA+, I may also be misunderstanding...) would it be able to have 3G overseas? I ask since I will be traveling to China later this year and being able to use 3G over there would be more convenient than getting another phone...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Peace_Keeper:
I had sim unlock via code, is anyway to recover it, is it stored somewhere on the phone?

Thank you.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Joy2DaWurld:
I always thought if you unlock it with the code it'll stay unlocked forever, even if you ODIN or flash back to factory...just call up T-Mobile and get the code again. Shouldn't be a problem if they gave it to you once already
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] VoiD_Dweller:
Once its unlocked its permanent as far as I know..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Peace_Keeper:
Thank you for reply!

I'm with Mobilicity and the phone was unlocked through 3rd party, Cellunlock net.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] zak rabbit:
Root or unlocked? They are very different things. You will probably need to re-root. I'm not sure about unlocking, i would assume that goes with the SIM.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cloudstrife:
Just bought my S3 and i can see some dark/grey tiny lines (almost like dirt) on white/grey backgrounds. Is this normal? You dont even have to look that hard to spot it.

In chrome i can see it very good. And in the grey image before play store opens fully.

Anyone who can please tell me what this is? :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oomahey:
Any pics? I doubt if a screenshot will show these lines.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cloudstrife:
Hmm... Dont have any pics no. They will not show up on screenshot.

You can compare the marks with some kind of bad printer ink marks on a white paper (tiny tiny and very faint)...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cba1986:
I think i have the same i ssue, but is only visible on greys tones. Not in whites.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oomahey:
How about a camera pic? Don't the lines show up there as well?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cloudstrife:
Yeah it's worst in grey tones... and in whites when in low background light. When backlight is in full the lines almost disapears in white tones.

Could this be a pentile issue?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gaspernemec:
Well if I am thinking about same thing they look likr "uneven" color (darker and lighter lines) had them on S1 but never noticed em om S3 yet
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] puiradu2009:
There are present on all SuperAmoled screens.more or less. It's not a faulty unit.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fallenwout:
I don't have it. Not one bit. And I'm a nitpicker about screens. I think pentile looks bad in the first place, so imperfections are not tolerable.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] samf:
Hi all,

My nexus developed a bit of a problem regarding the USB plug last night, its often not acknowledged by my computer when I plug it in (not even charging), or if it is, a message comes up saying the device isn't recognised (though it will charge at this point). Also, the phone does not acknowledge my AC charger. Interestingly, if i turn the phone off and plug it in (to the ac charger), it will charge. Bit of a weird one. The pins all seem in line in the connector, I've tried a few cables, and also updated my kernel to franco's latest to see if it was a software issue (though I am yet to try a new rom, which is currently cyanogen 9 RC1).

Any help would be much appreciated,
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jubakuba:
Sound like the port is ****ting out, unfortunately.

Obviously wait for another response...

But if it gets to this point:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27945515&postcount=128
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Wolfbeef123:
I agree. My guess would've been to try different cables, which has already been done.

Maybe try a different ROM or a stock ROM. And see if it works on that, if not. Then it is just giving out. Which would be very unfortunate :/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] samf:
Thanks guys, restored it back to stock and sent it back. 2-3 weeks they reckon :(. In the meantime I can play 'block kid' on the loan phone and reminisce about my youth.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khuram.shahzad:
dear please help me in update my phone .

i have Galaxy S2 E120L korean version .

now i have ROM ( team leader ) 2.3.6.

i want to up date my phone . i dont know how.

i have tried to update it with (E120L_UE11_v5c_by_sorg.ZIP)

but during wiping , device going held .nothing doing next . please help .

or any body have and other ROM and complete install process . please help me .
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thegreatdead69:
Hey

My Advice, you should post 3 or more question like this in this section.. so that people can see, because there's so many question in 1 minutes.. at least 50++

good luck.

sent from peptalk i9100
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scottyf79:
yeah now thats a sensible idea :eek:

i would suggest asking your question in the Q&A section.....where it should be
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mar.ioo:
Not in the right section but....

Usually with custom ROMS you cant update your phone. Before any ROM install you should have made a Backup of the stock ROM. If you didn't, go to sammobile.com and search for your stock firmware. Keeping in mind of your location and everything.

After that flash through ODIN. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] antchee:
My phone is running 4.0.2 rooted and unlocked, and I have a 4.0.4 backup image. Both of them are Yakjuzs.

Is there a way to restore from the image without wiping the user data?

I know you can just OTA update, but I can't because I don't have the stock build.prop
[Nexus 7 General] xperiax10.awesome:
[POLL]Does PlayMusic,TVShows & Magazines Unavailability on NEXUS7 outside US matters?

As you may already be aware of, some of Google Play features are not available outside of US at this moment, and that includes Play Music, TV shows and Magazines.

DOES IT REALLY MATTERS TO YOU?

How many of us actually buy these things from market, please use the VOTING button.

I just hate all websites cribbing about NEXUS 7 and bringing out Negative points unnecessarily !!!
[Nexus 7 General] Xi2wiked:
I prefer to have these items available, but if they were not due to location or whatever reason I'm sure we as a community could devise a workaround/solution.
[Nexus 7 General] AZImmortal:
The next step is to rename the thread to something besides [POLL], heh.
[Nexus 7 General] xperiax10.awesome:
???

I can see the poll

???
[Nexus 7 General] Xi2wiked:
Need another option for: Screw it, I'll make it work.

This is the xda community you're polling. :)
[Nexus 7 General] xperiax10.awesome:
XDA devs will make it work, that's another story.

Basically I wanna know how its a negative point & how many ppl actually uses it !! :)
[Nexus 7 General] EVIL JIMMY:
For me, the only thing I would be interested in is the TV shows, but I can happily live without. I don't care much for the magazines, and I already have Google Music, through the use of a proxy as soon as it was released!
[Nexus 7 General] Rock-&-Roll-Hedgehog:
It does matter up to a point but for me the number one issue putting me off the Google Play shop is the absolute lack of proper search engine. Considering how Google made their name in the first place it is just embarrassing. If they would sort that out I would happily live with the lower level of content.
[Nexus 7 General] Nexus Phreak:
Same here!

Google Music is actually the most important feature for me, as I have all of my music files stored there and working perfectly since day one. And there's also plenty of good and free books available in the Google Play store. :D
[Nexus 7 General] jmbillings:
I'd like to see Magazines. Music would probably be useful too (currently not in the cloud at all). Also, unrelated to Play, I'd like proper Wallet support (I did the hack to get it working on my Nexus, bought 3 coffees with the pre-pay and then it didn't work any more as I can't recharge it)

I'm aware there's workarounds for us UK folk but it all seems so unnecessary, especially when Apple seem to have sussed it. I hope Google can work out whatever crappy licensing rubbish prevents it at some point soon.
[Nexus 7 General] gbroon:
I'd like music to be available to buy but its not as if its hard to buy/download elsewhere and upload to the library.

I know if/when TV becomes available it will likely be months/series behind the US availability so I'll still use other methods to get recent shows. Recently I decided to check out iTunes and the UK was things like series 6 of mythbusters against the US currently showing series 10. I'd actually happily pay for the TV if they can get US shows available in the UK at the same time/not long after they are in the US. Not likely though.

Magazines aren't really a big consideration.
[Nexus 7 General] jabsys:
Music I'd like, but I'll just use the workaround anyway, the rest doesn't matter at all.
[Nexus 7 General] CrazyPeter:
Well you can sign up for Google Music using a proxy, and from that point on, use it just fine on Android (you can't BUY music, but you can use it to store your own music). I have been doing this for over a year from the UK.

If you want Magazines, then you have Zinio, which has an excellent selection. I think you also get some trial issues too when you install it (I did with my Asus TF101)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zinio.mobile.android.reader

Perhaps Google should just buy them...

TV Shows, well Loveflim and Netflix offer that...

So no, whilst it would be nice, it's not essential, as unlike Apple, Android gives you the option of consumer choice. In the UK we have Apps/Movies/Books. And it's sure the others will arrive eventually, once content publishers can be certain that upsettting the iTunes/Apple monopoly for content publishing is worth it. Apple are the ones that are holding a gun to content publishers heads. Supply to Google and lose iTunes publishing.

#BoycottApple
[Nexus 7 General] Reapman:
I put down that it matters, but I still bought. I do consider it a negative, when up here in Canada it seems that if there's one thing Apple does right, it's allow us a more inclusive media selection. I mean, I still use iTunes for purchasing music, and thanks to iSyncr and PlayerPro I can still reference my media library but.. it's not as slick as a real Google solution.

Don't care about the TV, but Magazines I also care about - would love to be able to read mag's on that thing. I'll check out Zinio, but not holding my breath.

So ya, to me it matters as in Google stop ignoring us, but doesn't matter enough to affect my purchases..

Thankfully EBooks do work up here at least....
[Nexus 7 General] kiewee3:
I think if I bought a nexus 7, I'd try to use the play store
[Nexus 7 General] xperiax10.awesome:
seems Close call, let see the no. on 19th July: UK Release !!
[Nexus 7 General] Scottatron:
Not a big deal, as I will mainly use it for browsing/internets and some gaming.
[Nexus 7 General] kanzlerin:
I don't want to buy music as mp3, but I want to subscribe to music streaming service, ditto magazine and books. I don't want to buy them, but I would like a "credit" system where I can pick a few books or magazines every month. If that's not possible, I don't need any content from the google store, just apps.
[Nexus 7 General] Evil_enc:
well im from germany and it would be much better to have some good german magazines build for the nexus 7.. the U.S. is not the only market ^^ all in all maybe 40% at the end of the year I guess.
[Nexus 7 General] jmbillings:
Ah, sure I had tried this in the past but took another look, and seems ideal. It's got my usual holiday-reading fare in there like T3 etc.

Cheers for the recommendation. Will investigate the music workaround at some point for my existing stuff too.
[Nexus 7 General] GR36:
There is a work around for play music using a USA proxy to sign in once and then you can use it fine.

Magazines I am not sure off but I hope its available in UK soon
[Nexus 7 General] lordlad:
i'm from singapore but I have been using all the US features of Google play via a combination of VPN/Proxy and market enabler/unlocker..

of course, a rooted device is needed.
[Nexus 7 General] RBFesquire:
The only one that really jars is the Google music one. I have netflix for shows and I'm not much of a magazine guy

I am using the Google music workaround which is awesome apart from not being able to buy content

Sent from my HTC One X
[Nexus 7 General] abogrhen:
i Relay want to try read magazines on my future nexus 7 :laugh::laugh:so yes

if not i will us proxy simple :p
[Nexus 7 General] Reapman:
Just curious (and if this is the wrong place to ask i'll ask elsewhere), but does anyone have a comparison between Zinio and the Google Magazine service?

What I'd really like is the ability to have both paper and electronic for my existing subscriptions, without paying twice - doesnt' the iPad have that?
[Nexus 7 General] xperiax10.awesome:
May be its too early to ask :)

sent from seXperia S
[Nexus 7 General] saadi703:
To me it does not matter as I am more interested in Tegra 3 and games. A Nexus product would feature best compatibility so this is why I am going for Nexus. I am not interested in movies, magazines and TV shows. I have nice dish connection for TV shows and movies as well as I have netflix and hulu. For books and magazines I have kindle store which is way better than play store.

I would use play store only for apps and games which is available outside USA as well so no it doesn't matter.
[Nexus 7 General] sbdolphine:
Little bit matters at South Korea.

At south Korea neither google play store(except apps) and apple iTune store(except apps and podcasts). It means users needs to get their contents by self or other contents providers.

In case of music, It doesn't matter. There were many contents providers which sells non-DRM musics. Book are also ok because we also has providers.

Problem is Movies. Big providers like WB, paramount doesn't give a way to run their contents at most of android devices.(except Galaxy Player if my knowlege is correct...) So I can watch many of block buster movie at my android device due to DRM problem. especially foreign movies.(many of Korean msvies provides with no DRM) Of course there is a provider who sells non-DRM movies but number of contents were limited.

So it's problem If in tried to use contents in law's wall. Out of law? It's poissible but... it's crimminal.
[Nexus 7 General] TjPhysicist:
Right now I live in Canada, that will likely change in the near future. Being in Canada (also travel to US a lot) means that i get most of the content fine, only magazines gives me issues, but only read journals (scholarly stuff) anyways which i get from school in pdf. For a while i was worried about what I would do for stuff if I moved to India or something. And then I realised that unlike Kindle Fire or Apple i;m not stuck using google play. I can still use youtube and other video watching websites (even legal ones like globaltv.com etc), which TBH is basically the only way ive been consuming video on any electronic device even WITH the advent of google play. And you could always get the netflix app which kinda works a little nicer outside US. There are also some magazine subscription apps that work well too (some even have their own app, TIME uses a third party app for example iirc which works well enough outside the US).

Google Books is starting to become useful, but between the Sony Reader store, Nook Store and Amazon store (they work outside US i think) google books is still kinda behind, esp. on those "really old books that are free on kindle store" type ones which is about 90% of the stuff I read.

As someone mentioned before, legally consuming content is going to always be restricted to a few countries etc, and I'm so used to doing stuff before Netflix or Kindle was big, that i'll just continue that way if I have to move to somewhere, where even those aren't available.
[Nexus 7 General] shaneydroid:
Yes I think it matters and Google should have worked harder getting it sorted.

I'm sure much DOES have to do with greedy media companies and all the license difficulties but other companies manage to get it sorted.

I think it's quite bad that people see things like workarounds and hacks as normal things they expect to do to get things working.

I have gone to the trouble of the workaround to get Google Music working but I am using it to store my own music and refuse to buy anything from there until they support my country directly.
[Nexus 7 General] geekygrl:
Given the Nexus 7 was designed to work seamlessly with Google Play (Music, Movies, Magazines, Books...everything) and the device is market all over the world of course this matters.

I am in Australia and we have Movies, Books and Apps - what is the point in buying a device with Google Music pre-installed if its only for one market?

I would have thought Google would have taken the initiative and made Play Store a lot more global upon launch of this device.

I love my Nexus 7 as a media device, but to buy music I am still using iTunes as well as streaming with Spotify and I use Zinio for magazines.

Would be nice if Google (a global company after all) took the rest of the world into consideration....
[Nexus 7 General] AntMcl:
It doesn't really bother me. I don't read magazines, don't stream movies even though I could on other services, and I never stream music; I like having everything physical - call me old fashioned, lol. Still feel a bit cheated though as the Nexus 7 was marketed as a portal to all of these Google Play services and in the UK we only have a few, I guess that isn't Google's fault though.
[Nexus 7 General] Amon_Re:
It bothers me on a principal level (there are no frontiers on the internet god damn it!) but it didn't stop me from buying my device.
[HTC EVO 3D] Arceo85:
I just spoke to sprint costumer service and they did infact told me that htc evo 3d is not getting ics. I also asked if we would be able to get an erly upgrade becouse of this and they said no. They also told me that if you get a new htc evo 4g lte or samsung galaxy s3 insurance will increase to 11 dollars and 99 cents a month. Deductable also increases to 200 dollars for this phones. By the way i got s-off 1.50 using the wire trick very easy i just thoght you should know.:cool:
[HTC EVO 3D] Lothaen:
i'll believe it ... when .. I see it? :confused:
[HTC EVO 3D] spaceosc:
thanks for the warning. but what sprint customer service knows changes every time u talk to someone at sprint.
[HTC EVO 3D] xblackvalorx:
Hey look another crap post about ics

Every thing you just said is junk. The deductable won't double the phone is the same price.

Also the 3D is definitely getting ics.

Also no Sprint rep really knows much about the updates ever
[HTC EVO 3D] eXplicit815:
In before the lock. This guy must've talked with a rookie.
[HTC EVO 3D] zcink:
What did the soup Nazis used to say on Seinfeld:

"NO SOUP FOR YOU"

Haha. I think if I were a Sprint customer service rep, it would be fun to mess with people calling up all the time asking when they were going to get the upgrade.
[HTC EVO 3D] akiradavis:
Hey man, a lil hostile there eh?

1) how do you know for certain Sprint will release ICS for the EVO 3D? Do you have a contact in Sprint? If so, pic or your lying out your ass.

2) I like how you shot down his notion that the price will increase. When has prices in this economy ever decreased or stayed the same (especially in the telecom business!). I feel you just want to start beef with OP.

3) Now lets see...this is a forum about phones, and specifically in this section we are talking about general EVO 3D subjects. Since our phone is indeed able to run ICS, what's the problem about talking about the official update in the forum? Its not like this subject is way off topic, its regarding a much anticipated update for our phones. Stop being a Negative Nancy, get off your high horse, and say something positive.

I may have not been around during the Hero days but I was around during the OG EVO incarnation (I still remember toastcfh's God Mode). I feel XDA been getting more hostile by the day and its sad to see such a good community get tainted by negative nancys.
[HTC EVO 3D] xblackvalorx:
These posts are old and just misguide people.

And no I have no inside source. But wanna bet me ics won't make it to the 3D?
[HTC EVO 3D] NineInchNails:
Guys if you disagree with a post just ignore it. Flaming back only encourages useless posts like these and I guarantee you the mods have better threads to moderate then another ICS update thread full of crap.

E=MC420
[HTC EVO 3D] oohaylima:
Maybe it feels hostile because of the redundant **** that keeps getting posted. Or how about the continuous negative feedback that people post that the EVO 3D isn't getting this, or it can't do that, or that this new phone is better.

I know I get irritated when I constantly see posts like that.

Not saying yours is, but that's the feeling I've been getting when I sit down and try to catch up on my forum when I'm finally off work.

Personally, I'd rather see threads that talk about what my phone can do, not what it can't. Don't know about others, but I have this phone for another year. Not trying to constantly read about my phone's deficiencies.