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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Testicopolicious:
Well, there are already people getting the phone today, but I know that past phones like the Mesmerize and the Aviator have been Cyanogenmod supported, and Root supported.

Do you happen to know which carrier US Cellular has the most similarities to?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Testicopolicious:
The US Cellular variant of the Galaxy S II shared a lot of similarities with the Epic4G Touch.

Well, as US Cellular is finally starting to grow, I've seen a lot of developers for AOKP and CM9 discussing the possibilities of ROMs by making it for the 4G Touch, and just porting it over by changing a few things.

I can't answer that last question as I really have no idea on porting ROMs, but as I said in another post, it's either closer to Verizon or Sprint.

But for the S II, I've seen a few threads that it was very easy, but that they just had to change a few things, so I'm assuming that it's not that much of a hassle.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Testicopolicious:
I've tried Googling that but I can't seem to find an answer.

Some answers say yes some say no, but I think that US Cellular has more similarities to Verizon than any other carrier, at least that's my speculation in terms of radios, as they both use the same spectrum.

But you can go to the website and go to a live chat with a representative and ask there.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Pompsy:
Has anyone rooted this phone yet? Can we get our own section?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nairbandroid:
Bump for a fellow U.S. Cellular S3 owner. Would love to see it rooted.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] vexx00:
The instructions at galaxys3root.com works for US Cellular.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Pompsy:
So it is confirmed that this phone has an unlocked bootloader?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nairbandroid:
Has anyone tried and can verify on U.S. Cellular that they have used galaxys3root.com and it worked?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sageDieu:
this phone can be rooted with the method that team epic uses for the sprint version. I dunno what the website you're talking about does but it is the same method as it is with all the other carriers.

I would love to see a separate section for us, no we aren't gonna have a whole lot of development going on compared to the big 4 but it would be really nice to have a place where we can have specific discussions and rom ports and things for just us.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] chakra:
Does anyone know if a verizon mini sim will work in this device?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] vexx00:
Yes that site just has a set by step guide for installing the Team Epic recovery using ODIN and it worked on my US Cellular Galaxy S III.

Seconded on the separate forum idea. I think there will be more than enough people to have one. I know a lot of people is moving to this from the Desire and that had a decent sized community.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tallgrasshawk:
Successful root using teamepics procedure.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tiberian:
Agree with vex and all the rest. A separate forum for USCC GS3 owners would be wonderful.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Pompsy:
Who would we contact to get a separate section?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] one028:
does anyone here like the home button???....the button on my s3 seems very loose and clicks.....it doesn't feel right....anyone else notice this or is my button defective....not only does it feel loose, but I hate it....its to low, and is almost hard to get to with a case on......
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] defnow:
I love it.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] DarkManX4lf:
Nope its fine.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Iphony89:
I actually enjoy having a home button
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] KBizzle:
Pretty handy.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] brickbeats:
I could do without the physical button. I liked how my old Fascinate just had capacitive buttons
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] dls5375:
I like it and it adds to the look of the phone.

t-mobile sgs3 stock rom/rooted
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] z0phi3l:
The button generally is fine, it really sounds like your is defective, it shouldn't click as far as I know
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] cashyftw:
I like it, I hated the captivated buttons.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] dave2metz:
I don't use it very often...

T-Mobile Pebble Blue Galaxy S3
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] toughcookie:
I hated it at first since I had gotten so used to not having one but, now I LOVE it.

Mine isn't loose or anything, Maybe you should go back to store and see what they think?

It is kind of low but I use the rock quicksand case which leaves the bottom area open so no issues there.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] vinuneuro:
The physical home button is pretty annoying. All capacitive like in the One X was much better.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] johentie:
mine is the same.. the right side is lose compared to the left side and it clicks everytime i favor clicking the right side..

Rogers is sending me a brand new one in the mail..

and my phone gets MAD hot.. temperature says 48degrees C right now
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] maxh:
I love it! Mine is solid and silent; yours is probably defective.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] nabbed:
Capacitive buttons are MUCH better than physical ones.

Hating it.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] maxh:
For the people who don't like it: did you know you can wake the phone using it instead of the power button? That's something you can't do with a capacitive home button...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] crash822:
Don't like the button. What good is it that my home button can unlock the phone when i hate pressing the button?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] erikiksaz:
If you don't like the home button, you can use this program called Task Changer to put a virtual home right above the physical one:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...mNvbS5wYWNvc2FsLnRhc2tjaGFuZ2VydGl0YW5pdW0iXQ..
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] vinuneuro:
Given the great placement of the power button in Samsung phones, that's nothing to write home about.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] earldom:
The home button works perfectly. It has a positive feel you just don't get with the capacitive buttons.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] americasteam:
+1 I really like the physical button too. Also, I think it looks cool. ;)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] christohfur:
I especially like the button on my white version. I like how it looks more prominent than it feels. The Samsung keyboard on the other band is not jiving with me right now.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] itechscs:
I like the home button, I use it all the time. Also like the hold home down to launch the task manager feature.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Negrito:
Crap, really? Mine clicks too. From the get go it did feel like i was having to press extremely far to activate the button to return home.

SwiftKeyed on my Sprint Galaxy SIII...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jarnow94:
I love the home button! Mine's pretty silent, though.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] kronium:
Hate it. Much slower than a capacitive home button. Mine is clicking on the right side as well.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] eyecon82:
go into s voice and deactivate the double click home to activate s voice feature

your home button should speed up by a lot
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] computermilk:
I freaking HATE the home button... im with you... and little dust and dirt particles get caught up inside there.. it's something i'm major OCD about..

say what you want about the iPhone 4/4S design but i truly miss it.. glass FLUSH all the way to the end of the screen..

on my SGS3 i've got dust stuck in the SIDES and in around the home button... super lame.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] rschauby:
Add me to the list of people who hate the home button. It's hard to press and putting a case on makes it that much more difficult to press. This phone would be perfect with a capacitive home button.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ingenious247:
The physical home button is definitely a step back from the capacitive buttons on the SGS2

And to be honest, at a time when Samsung is being accused of ripping off Apple left and right, they go and put ONE physical button at the bottom of the phone?!?! Straight rip off, only there to try and pull more iPhone users to Samsung.

And I bet its working lol

I mean c'mon... the odd shape of the button was probably to avoid getting sued, because it's ugly as ****.

Not that I like Apple.. cuz I don't, and I am a huge Samsung fan.. but a spade is a spade..
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Iphony89:
Samsung has been using home buttons for quite sometime on their international versions...not to mention older phones. I really like having a home button and i hope they stick with or use on screen buttons
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] toughcookie:
i think its actually more functional than SGS2, I have my phone almost always on a desk or table next to me. It's so much easier to just press the button to turn the screen on then having to pick the phone up to hit the power button on the side.

i was pretty bummed at first too though now that im used to it i wouldn't not want it anymore. When i pick up my BFs SGS2 i'm annoyed at not having the button to turn the screen on.

just takes getting used to i guess
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ingenious247:
So they've been using a single, centered, home button?

Or are you referring to when they were using ALL hardware buttons (home, back, menu, etc)

Because my point is, they copied the single, centered button at the bottom of the phone just like you know who...

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I can wake my phone up just by waving my hand over it a set number of times (two in my case..)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Feartheterp:
I'm not a fan of the physical home button either. It is a bit annoying to press if you have a case, for example my TPU case, that is raised on the bottom of the phone. It does not feel good to hit the bottom of the case when I want to press the home button. I'm thinking about getting the Rock case or somethin just cuz of this issues.

On another issue, I feel that there is a bit of lag when you press the home button to go back to the main screen. It makes it feel like the phone is not responsive. I compared the speed of transitioning from the App Drawer and a random App to the home screen by pressing the home button to my girlfriends HTC One X. After pressing the home button her One X transitions almost immediately to the home screen whereas my verizon Galaxy S3 is unresponsive for about 1.5 - 2 seconds first, then begin to transition to the home screen.

I've tried changing the transition speed but it just makes the screen appear must faster but doesn't make it any more responsive (responsive as in reducing the 1.5-2 second wait). I know this isn't a hardware issue on my phone since the screen wakes almost instantly when I press the home button. This could be a software issue. Does anyone else feel that there is lag in its responsiveness?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ingenious247:
That's because of S voice. Disable the double tap home in S voice settings and the lag disappears

Sent from the current Heavy Weight champ GALAXY SIII
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Feartheterp:
Wow that worked!! That was driving me crazy thanks a bunch!!! :good:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ingenious247:
There's a thanks button for that... here, I'll even show you on your post..
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] bigblue95z:
While I felt I'd like the physical home button when I was on the Captivate and SGSII from ATT, I've now come to realize that I prefer the capacitive buttons. While sitting on my desk propped up with a post-it stack, it was so easy to just tap home, now I have to actually push a button and has a tendency to slide around. I really liked that it was just an easy tap with no effort, just like the touchscreen.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ken830:
Actually. That's the only thing I hate about the home button. You can't disable that. Many times when I put the phone in my pocket, it wakes up. And unlike the power button, you can't press it again to put it back to sleep. You have to pull the phone out to hit to power button. Truly sucks.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] maxh:
Must be something wrong with yours, as mine is firm enough there's no chance it'll get accidentally pressed in my pocket.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tekhna:
Hate it. Makes the phone feel unstable in my hand.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jonhern:
its a love hate thing for me, but i have only had it for a day. I like that i can turn off the led on the other buttons since the physical home button is a reference and since there are only two capacitive buttons i don't need to see them to use the one i want. I just don't like having to click all the way down to get to home, and having to hold for recent apps as i use that a lot. It would have been better if it were a dual button, capacitive and psychical, kind of like the button on the HTC Touch diamond if anyone remembers that one. Then they could of done touch to go to home, press to go to recent apps, and hold for S voice. then you would not have to disable s voice double click to get rid of the lag, which i did too.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] IceCreaMan:
It's different and I have no problems with it... Heck the whole phone is different from the htc and moto that I had... A button is nothing
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] freakboy13:
This.

The capactive home button concept is nice. Big ugly loose pos thstvreminds me of an iPhone? Fail.

If Sammy engineers would have put dome thought into it they would have dumped the wart on the bottom and event for matching capacitive .

I personally hate the physical button.

It takes away from the design and functionality. Imo it requires too much pressure to enable, while everything else on the phone is enabled by barely touching it.

I really like how the settings and return button are hidden and light up when you touch them. Not to mention its another entry port for dust where as the capacitive buttons are underneath.

I predict all cell phones will eventually have all physical buttons removed sand replaced with capacitive or something similar. Including the power button and volume.

On the other hand it's not deal breaker, still love this phone.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Kreeker:
So if my home button feels loose and is clicking, that warrants replacement correct?

So mad...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Phone_Junkie:
I love my SGS III, but do not care much for the home button. I much prefer capacitive buttons.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Kreeker:
If I push towards the top of the button it can get stuck underneath the screen... Really Samsung?

Anyone else experience this?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] OneStepAhead:
don't feel one way or the other about it, i really never press it, i just use the back button.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] toughcookie:
thats cool, but i dont want to look like a weirdo in class waving at my phone lol
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] The Root:
They had it at least as far back as the Moment.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Kreeker:
Just went to the Verizon store. I felt the home buttons on the two display phones, and they felt so much more sturdy (no looseness, no clicking) than mine. I waited for around 10 minutes, and then told the rep about my issue. He said he didn't notice a looseness. I told him to feel the display phones. Still didn't feel the looseness. I started to get angry at this point because I still had the original screen protector on the device and was not trying to "scam" the system.

Then he showed it to two other idiots. They didn't notice the looseness either. This is when I lost it, and said "are you fking kiding me?" The original guy said you're going to have to calm down if you want us to help you. It really didn't seem like they were going to help me because they kept making me feel like I was crazy. This is when I mentioned that I was a quality engineer, and know this kind of stuff (I regret saying this because he took it as me talking down to him).

Anyway he showed it to a fourth guy, and he finally recognized the issue. This is when the guy finally started looking in his inventory for a replacement. I said I was sorry for getting so crazy, and his response was "yeah because you're getting what you want now". This statement to me was asinine, but I did not want to start another conflict. I got the phone yesterday, and I am asking for a replacement for my brand new phone...

Anyway, because I preorded they weren't able to order another phone for me. So they put a comment on my account, and I should get a new one with the shipment the store is getting next Thursday.

**Cliffnotes: I'm getting a new phone because of the home button...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ingenious247:
Dude that's how their taught to be. It's not your fault, honestly most people are oblivious to the flaws we see as perfectionists.

Who cares what they think, you got what you wanted, despite their efforts to trivialize your concerns.

"WINNING"

Sent from the current Heavy Weight champ GALAXY SIII
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Samsung.Galaxy.S3:
I don't like it. I just want to touch and not have to press. Plus, the button (and its two other capacitive cousins) are way too low. They need to sit higher up to the screen.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] digital4282:
Try to push on either side of it. If it sticks into the glass it's defective. I had to return my first S3 to best buy because of it. If they don't want to replace it over that, go to a different best buy or talk to a manager. It is absolutely not supposed to do that. When the button is working properly it should feel haptic without being clicky, not sure how to explain that.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] torontommy:
Nothing beats the home button on the international s2... man i miss it.

The s3 home button is so hard to press especially if you have a case on like the one i use (otterbox commuter)

oh well, guess you gotta live with it now.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] drmanhattan:
I found the gestures in the nova prime launcher to quell my home button hatrid. I set one finger swipe up for recent apps double tap screen for camera etc.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tosh1:
Love it
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] kivlad:
I would've liked it to be less tactile and more soft touch... think of some mfgrs' laptop touchpad buttons. Still it feels great to be using what the rest of the world had for two years earlier.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] dsDoan:
I hate it. Physical buttons have no place on an Android phone. It should be all oncreen buttons. Worst case scenario; all capacitive.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] gingson:
I prefer to have something that moves and reacts to my manipulations.:D
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] one028:
Mine clicks on the left side 80% of the time I push it.....I feel stupid trying to exchange it and try to convince the sales guy that its not suppose to be like this.....its annoying as hell.....does anyone button rock from left to right when you slide your finger across the button?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Cicatrize:
The thing I don't like about it is that it's a mix of capacitive and a hardware button. I'll hit the back button a lot when hitting the home button. I'd rather have all capacitive or all hardware.

That being said, it's not a huge deal, just takes some getting used to. I think it adds to the look of the phone for sure.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Serious_Beans:
What about everyone's volume and power button? Mine squeaks...neither of them are smooth. Should I replace it at the store? I have 1 day left lol.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] eqthinklab:
so i finally got a text from ATT that 4.0 is now available...

i really dont care haha, im perfectly happy with my seraphim ics ROM and rather stick with the devs here that are waayyy more helpful than ATT :D

HIGHLY recommend the other ics roms listed in this forum...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] vijovame:
Cool!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jaymz77:
+1 got my message today too!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] reinbeau:
Thread closed

We don't need multiple threads on the subject.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] Savant:
Thanks man and it's definitely worth the leg work.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] ghaf85:
Nice job... :>)

downloading...
[Atrix 4G Android Development] john9:
Thanks for the tips!
[Atrix 4G Android Development] schwarzlichtkind:
AWWWWWESOME!!!

Thank you for your work - man I´ve been waiting for something like this.:laugh:
[Atrix 4G Android Development] greenwitch:
I think more interesting tool would be one which changes partitions installation in zip files to one which is preferred by user with all symlinks etc.

Adam
[Atrix 4G Android Development] sendust7:
All of the partitioning tools I have used to date perform auto-numbering.

Also, any partitions added beyond the first four primary partitions (e.g. beyond FAT32 and three primary "ext"s for dual boot) must be extended, not primary.

One interesting experiment would be to try adding a fourth "ext" for webtop2sd.

Hope this helps.
[Atrix 4G Android Development] shenoyh:
I finally got this working however the cloned version shows "Wifi error" and cannot turn on Wifi. I think this is similar to the Data error that someone posted. I am guessing this is due to permissions. I am going to try re-cloning with all of the Radios turned on at the time of cloning to see if this makes a difference. I will post back if successful.

[Update: Wifi not working even when cloned with all radios turned on prior to cloning. BTW, my ROM which shows this issue on ext-SD only is Notatrix 1.3.1. I might try a CM7 based ROM if I can get a system.img of it - right now I don't want to wipe Notatrix without getting it to fully work off ext-SD.]

If someone can create a flashable zip that fixes permissions on ext-SD card (just like CWM does for int SD), that would solve a lot of such issues easily and would be appreciated.

In order get the cloning done successfully, I did have to modify SmartPart a bit since I am using a 32GB SD card and it appears that the last 6 MB on a 32GB SD card are reserved or cannot be allocated for some reason. I already PMd sendust7 on this and am posting in case someone else also has the same issue with 32GB SD cards. Again, I am not sure if this is something to do with the specific SD card that I am using (Samsung Class10 32GB micros SD). This is the change I made to the part-sd script to get it working (reduce the size of the last created partition by 6):

After this line:

parted /dev/block/mmcblk1 mkpartfs primary ext2" $val7" "$val8"

added this block:

if [ $? -ne 0 ]

then

val8=`expr $val8 - 6`

echo "Partition 3 create failed. Retrying with a slightly smaller size to account for some large SD cards(New last sector=$val8).."

parted /dev/block/mmcblk1 mkpartfs primary ext2" $val7" "$val8"

fi