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[Galaxy S III General] Manar Aleryani:
What I hate about Samsung Galaxy SIII

Add to the list if you can.

-Social Networking: Phone has no built-in social networking app. You soon find yourself jumping in the market from one app to the other. Modern phones now combine the social networking experience and offer social networking hubs that combine all of your contacts from several social networks and email services in one single place.

-Text Messaging: Unlike most stock text messaging apps, there seems to be no built-in support for delivery reporting. So instead of a small icon on the corner of the text messages you send that display the status of the message (Delivered, pending, or failed) you get an annoying notification in the status bar along with the default notification ringtone whenever a message is successfully delivered.

-Task Management: There is no preinstalled stock app for managing running services. You would have to scroll through the android setting menu in order to be able to kill any task you need to. Motorola photon, for example, offers this really intuitive automatic task killer that kills user defined apps 2 minutes after screen timeout. You won't find that in any of the task killer apps in the android market.

-Stock Dialer: Stock dialer is anything but smart. Whenever you dial a part of a name or a part of a number you only get one entry to chooser or you will have to scroll down through a huge list. The order of the entries in the list is even strange. It does not show the most frequently contacted entries at the top of the list rather the closest match to what you have entered.

-TouchWiz: While the ICS has lowered the stupidity of the TouchWiz Interface (better way to add widgets than before and support for resizing and scrollable widgets), Samsung decided to change nothing else about the TouchWiz interface which is quiet strange because it does need a lot of fixes.

-WIFI: WIFI signal was much worse than all of the other phones I had in the house. And one time the WIFI got disconnected suddenly for no reason. It only happenned once but it's a bad indication never the less.

-GPS: Samsung claims that the support for GLONASS will help get better accuracy on the location results. I used gps test on two phones (GSIII and Xperia X10) both with a GPS cold start and it took the GSIII 30 seconds more time to get my location with an accuracy of 2 meters less than the Xperia.

-Hardware: Same annoying layout of the back and menu button. Despite the fact that google has given a default layout of the back, home, and menu buttons, certain manufacturers still insist on reversing the order of those buttons.

-Stock browser: Very poor support for flash. I played a video on CNN website using the latest version of Flash and the video streaming was not consistent most of the time.

-Camera: Yes. The camera is cool but only because it's a copy of HTC one X's camera. Still not a good camera for shooting in low light.

Well. That's about it. So if you're still looking for a feature-free quad-core ICS phone, you will want to buy SGSiii.
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
Sell it and stop wasting our time .

jje
[Galaxy S III General] Superuser_x:
Who paid you to post this ?
[Galaxy S III General] bscotth:
CyanogenMod 9 fixes many of the software complaints you listed.

I can't stand TouchWiz. AOSP-like ROM's on the SGS3 is perfect for me. Hopefully you feel the same.
[Galaxy S III General] speedyjay:
+1.....that's why they have display models in phone shops, so you can have a feel for the phone before you buy it. You've obviously missed this point....sell your phone if you don't like it and stop cluttering up the S3 forums with pathetic ****e like this....reported to moderator for encouraging flaming! Absolutely ridiculous!!
[Galaxy S III General] onslaught86:
You might want to do more research on task management in Android, particularly on ICS. You'll note Motorola has removed that task manager app from their ICS updates. You'll also note you can remove applications by swiping them away from the multitasking menu, and that there's a task manager available from within that menu.

Additionally, the S III's camera is demonstrably better than that of the HTC One X, which - naturally for HTC - uses a lot of compression. HTC's camera app itself is, I found, better than Samsung's, but it's the end results that matter.
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
So you can go to the market and download the same app that other phones have built in and get the same functionality and feature set, only those people who dont use social media will not be annoyed by having an app they cannot remove running constantly without rooting

The stock messaging app is ugly and poor. Swapped it out for the AOSP (Blacked out version) as soon as I could

Long-press home shows recent applications. At the bottom of the screen is a huge "Task manager" button. Needless to say, you only need to kill applications that are frozen. You do not need any task killer from the market. You also do not need to kill apps after 2 minutes. They will sit in RAM using no battery. If Android feels RAM needs to be cleared, it will use its pre-defined "Out-Of-Memory" values and kill tasks according to a task status based rule set. Read about RAM in my signature.

Not had any issues myself. Although to be fair, I usually pick contacts to dial from contacts. As I have done since the 1990's

Touchwiz is awful. Sense is awful. 3rd party launchers have always been my preference

No worse than my HTC Desire

Unable to comment. Not really used. Quoting to show I am not conveniently missing things

Yep, same layout I've had on my android devices. Missed the extra buttons on the desire but after a couple of days I found it quite intuitive. Back button is fine where it is for me. Where its always been as far as I am concerned.

Again I cant comment. All I can say is the browser annoyed me in several ways and I had to swap it out almost immidiately.

Not convinced any of them are.

Erm.. Feature free? Thats a bit of a joke. The SGS3 packs in more technology than ANYTHING on the android market. Lots of cool stuff that the competition simply hasn't got. You're pretty aggresive about the SGS3.
[Galaxy S III General] Stovemeister:
Task manager: press and hold home button. Running tasks pop up, with a one click link to task manager. Hard? I think not .

Social media: Flipboard is preinstalled on mine. Doesn't yours work?

Had my SGS3 for less than a day, and while there are some annoyances, not these ones.

I suspect sir, you may be trolling just a bit ;-)
[Galaxy S III General] ruianast:
i believe you

hello.

i must say that i have my phone also for a very little amount of time.

the things you say are real.But thats the beauty of it.

you could allways improve your phone here in xda.

ruianast
[Galaxy S III General] dr.m0x:
Umm. I get GPS locks in under the second from a cold start. I've never had a phone do it that fast before. Either your phone is faulty or you live in a lead house.
[Galaxy S III General] kulisap:
Sell it. Go buy a perfect phone.
[Galaxy S III General] zen0s:
So you hate everything about the phone... why didn't you try it out before purchasing? Could have saved yourself from all this whining...
[Galaxy S III General] d4fseeker:
Everything has been covered so far by others with the result: get the apps you want and customize the heck out of your phone.

Well nearly everthing except this:

There are multiple methods for starting satellite navigation. (GPS is not really correct since GPS is the US-version of satellite navigation which does not include the russion GLONASS. I'll however restrict myself to the GPS system in the post to keep things simple)

When your phone has internet connection it will use A-GPS supl-Servers which calculate the phone's accurate position from the raw data it sends.

Based on that information and the also downloaded satellite trajectory prediction it gets a predetermined location. Using that information it can then continue on it's own. Usually this takes less than 3-5 seconds depending on your view.

Without active supl-servers, the phone can download or use a cached version of the satellite trajectory prediction and calculate it with it's own chip from scratch. That usually takes anything from 2 seconds to a minute depending on your view and signal stability.

If neither is available, the GPS receiver has to download the satellite prediction data from the satellites themselves. Each satellite transmits the whole prediction data within ~10 minutes in a cycle. The more satelllites your phone "sees" and actively uses, the faster the download.

As soon as it has the data, it will use it. In total it can take anything from a few seconds to several minutes before a first fix is determined.

It's noteworthy that the prediction data is afaik kept across reboots, so you'll have to disable any network connections (even disconnect from your carrier) use special apps to remove the data, reboot the phone and try again.

Usually a cold-start with active data connection gives you a fix within 5 seconds, without active within 30.

Accuracy as determined by the phone is just an educated guess based on a simple formula. It's rather easy to change it so it displays 0.001 meters....

It's technically impossible to get a less-than 5meter accurate fix with such a GPS receiver, usually you are between 10 and 15 meters. Now tell me, which is more accurate; a max-12 satellite algorithm or a max-24 satellite algorithm?
[Galaxy S III General] b-eock:
haha quoting 2 fast 2 furious I see XD. good series. can't wait for the next film!
[Galaxy S III General] Aimara:
usually people who buy the phone , using it less then a month is to criticise the phone ;) haha nothing new , next please....
[Galaxy S III General] colts187:
Sounds like an HTC fanboy to me lol
[Galaxy S III General] Jamin13:
He may not have even bought the Galaxy S III. He might have gotten the original Galaxy S or an old LG phone running LG's UI. :rolleyes:

|Trolling with a smile|
[Galaxy S III General] nodstuff:
-Social Networking: Don't care, less bloat is always good

-Text Messaging: Changed it to AOSP.

-Task Management: No task management? You need glasses.

-Stock Dialer: I enter a combination of numbers, press call, works as I expected it to.

-TouchWiz: It's ****. This has been common knowledge for years.

-WIFI: Stronger than my gnex and nexus s.

-GPS: Works fine, 5-10 seconds.

-Hardware: Don't care, they're only buttons.

-Stock browser: ****, don't like scrolling with it.

-Camera: Great. We must remember that its a phone, not a dslr.

-You: Complaining asshat.

That is all.
[Galaxy S III General] lude219:
I enjoyed reading threads like these. I really do. :good:
[Galaxy S III General] Aimara:
anyway real samsung user will too busy searching for improvement for S3 , not a stupid hate list with no solutions, guess is other brands supporter is idle free since their flagship phone is not out ,hence more hate list threads surfacing , hmmm find something else to do ..maybe go take a walk in the park or something
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] FlyinHi:
Here is the APK from europe, I found that it works much better than the NBC version. All credit goes to OP in the thread linked.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=28707109

Sent from my White Hot Galaxy S3 on AT&T
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] itsjusttim:
Great find.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] aaaa7xxxx:
I am running the Only One ICS UCLE2. Its been working great for a while and i decided to try the ics perfection UCLF6. I noticed that the music player made doubles of every song, and only one of them worked. All music players. I reverted back to the restore i had for the Only One ICS UCLE2. It worked fine and now its doing it again, any ideas? Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] freq019:
I have the same issue with proplayer but when I use root explorer there is only one copy of the song on my phone. Just noticed it when I upgraded from ucld5 to ucld6.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] KSoD:
Go into your Settings. There go under Applications>All. Find Media Storage. Clear the data. The stop the service and reboot ur phone. Give it some time to rescan it media and you should have only a single copy of every song you have on the device.

This happened to me right after I updated. This worked to clear up my media.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] aaaa7xxxx:
Thanks! it works!!
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nathan96:
what is the best stable and recent blur rom ?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] carlharsch:
The best blur rom is Nottachtrix. It's not in development any longer, but it is stable and works well. Until ICS is released, I don't think there's a better blur based rom out there.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clod007:
Try Topogigi 1.1.

Stable, fast and good batery life.

One problem. Widget not stable.

Very good rom for European's zone.

Sorry for bad english.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
This is a port of the Samsung Galaxy S3 Launcher for the Skyrocket

Thanks go to the following:

Smando for the port (thank him HERE)

Gyebro for the guide on how to mod the port (thank him HERE)

seanzscreams for continuing to improve performance (thank him HERE)

Features:

5 rows and 5 columns in both the home screens and app drawer

No icon labels in dock

Icon labels in both the home screen and app drawer were decreased slightly in size

Icons line up perfectly with those in the doc

Includes the AccuWeather wiget from the S3

AccuWeather widget's size was modified to fit in the new 5x5 configuration

Note: the agenda and calendar widgets are NOT included (yet)

Requirements:

ICS

root

CWM or TWRP

Installation

1. Download the ZIP

2. Reboot to CWM

3. Flash away

Change log

Version 1.5

*Performance improvements (thanks seanzscreams)

*Fix to black on black in list view (thanks seanzscreams)

Download

http://d-h.st/VSe

Add ons

Semi-Transparent Weather widget (5x5) - http://d-h.st/EEK

The backgrounds have all be made semi-transparent (about 50%) and gives it a pretty cool look. (see attachments for screenshot)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
Screenshots

Home Screen

App Drawer
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mossination:
Only works for ics?

Nevermind. I Read the original thread.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] sumnerm1:
Works flawless on Galaxy S III Skyrocket R4 ROM! Things look much more "finished" all lined up.

Can get more icons on less pages, leaving wallpaper more visible too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Bronk93:
Working nicely. What is the 1 above the am/pm?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] kinvid:
I'm assuming number of alarms on.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
I'm not entirely sure myself, but I'm making the same assumption. All I did was mod the layout to fit correctly on the screen :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Bronk93:
Its not alarms. I have no alarms set and its still there. Odd....
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
I agree. I did the and and see the same. Maybe I'll find the original port from the SG3 and mood it from that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Bronk93:
That would be great.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] mossination:
Works great on nexus mod 5. Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Bronk93:
Wallpaper won't display properly. If I choose an already downloaded image and set it, its like blown up and distorted. I use zedge mostly and if I set it from inside the app it displays properly. Anyone else experiencing this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] scottx .:
Nice work. I run 190 dpi and instead of stretching it out it centers everything in the smaller, 240 dpi setting.

Guess I should go to the original thread and report it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
Interesting. I haven't tried changing the DPI on it. I can look at the layout XMLs and see if I can't get it to scale properly. May take some time though.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
Not sure. I either use Live Wallpapers or use QuickPic to set the Wallpaper. What ROM are you using?

I have, however, noticed that I sometimes have to set the Live Wallpaper more than one time to get it to take....will have to look into that one.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Bronk93:
Is dl link not working?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
Working fine for me. Changed the formatting in the OP some to make it easier for the mobile app. Try it again.

Posted from my AT&T Sky(pocket)rocket running SeanZ's Sky ICE 4.2F6 "Dragon" using xda premium. Please hit me up with a Thanks if I helped.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Bronk93:
Yea the download link works fine now, weird. Jury still out on that 1 above he am/pm?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
Yeah....not sure exactly what that one is :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] russellglen72:
works great on my badass t989
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
That may be because I have wallpaper scrolling set. I've heard it can do that.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
I did some more searching and it's an indicator of Daylight Savings Time. There can be a "1", "2" ... or nothing I guess.

I am currently working on the Weather Widget and doing the following:

1) Removing the Daylight Savings Time indicator (that "sun" icon with a 1 in it)

2) Changing the background to be semi-transparent for a cool look

Next on the list will be to see what I can do to get the Agenda and Calendar widgets working without FC (that is why they are not in there now)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Mrdearagony:
Should I root s2 for it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
Yes. You will need root and CWM recovery to flash.

Posted from my AT&T Sky(pocket)rocket running SeanZ's Sky ICE 4.2F6 "Dragon" using xda premium. Please hit me up with a Thanks if I helped.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] HateMeILoveIt:
Nice. :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] chinthekng:
could you possibly make a 4x5 version and will this work on cm9
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
The original port has a 4x5 version and says it does support CM. Yup can find it HERE

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] chinthekng:
Thanks for the reply but I kinda prefer this one cus of all seans tweaks and stuff
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
oh ok. I can package up a 4x5 that has seanzscreams tweaks.

Edit: here is the one from Sky ICS. http://d-h.st/5sh

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ConfusingCurve:
Will this work on CM9?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] chinthekng:
Yeah I asked that questions a few posts ago and he said yes
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] aycockonxion:
Effin awesome.

Only issue I've found so far (and it's minor) is that it seems a little wonky when you try to add an app to a home screen from the app drawer.

This is an outstanding launcher.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] musiconwax:
I'm not new to any of this, but when I install the launcher it never runs nor is it an option. I've flashed it a couple times with no luck. I'm on seanz SkyICS 4.2F6 R2.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
Hrm....do me a favor and check to see if these two files exist:

/system/app/SecLauncher2.apk

/system/lib/libdrawglfunction.so

i"m running SkyICS 4.2F6 R2 as well and have no issues flashing this over top of it.

Also, out of curiosity, what recovery and version are you using?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] musiconwax:
I checked and I have both of those files. I'm also running twrp 2.2.0
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
What launcher are you using right now?

Go to Settings -> Applications -> All

Find your current launcher, click it and choose "Clear defaults" under "Launch by default".

Then hit the "Home" haptic button at the bottom. This should then ask you which launcher you want to use and you can select "TouchWiz Home"
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] musiconwax:
That may be the problem then, the because I'm using touchwiz home and it's 4x4. When I clear the default it offers touchwiz home and twlauncher but neither are the 5x5
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
Interesting. Now, be sure you re-flash the 5x5 version after any updates to Sky ICS. Sometimes seanz includes tweaks to the launcher in his updates. I usually follow pretty quickly with an updated version of the 5x5 version, but his update WILL overwrite mine.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] musiconwax:
Did all my updates and add ons days ago. Just can't get this launcher to overwrite the 4x4 or make a new one... Whatever it's supposed to do.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
It should overwrite it. You could try using Root Explorer or Titanium Backup to remove SecLauncher2.apk (TouchWiz home) and then try flashing again.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] musiconwax:
I tried removing seclauncher2.apk and after a re flash there was no change to the launcher but the file was back.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Jessical:
Weather widget not working under CM9, but the launcher does. Meh.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] raynan:
Speed?

Is this launcher any faster than the stock ICS TW launcher?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
I haven't used the stock in a while so I honestly don't know. I have incorporated all the changes to the config that seanzscreams added for the one in his ROM so it certainly should be.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
Have you set a custom DPI? I started playing around with my DPI (currently set at 210 instead of stock value of 240) and it reverted to 4x4 instead of 5x5. I'm currently trying to figure out how to get it to 5x5 regardless of DPI.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] musiconwax:
Yes, I changed my dpi to 190. I'll try changing it back and re flashing the launcher.

*edit* I set the dpi to 240 and re flashed. It worked beautifully. Put it back to 190 and it reverted to 4x4.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
Yeah, I was afraid that would be the case. I'm working on getting it to be 5x5 on other DPI settings, but obviously it's not there yet.

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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] musiconwax:
I don't know how to do what you do, so thanks for keeping at it. We all appreciate it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] aycockonxion:
Yes. Less lag, built well.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] cy-rock:
Anybody got a TW stop working while using Folder?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Blazekrypt:
not working on cm10......

---------- Post added at 05:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:34 PM ----------

will try on cm9
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] deezhemi:
I have not had that issue.

I personally haven't tried this on CM9 (although I hear it works). I would be surprised if it does work out of the box on CM10.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] tickerman:
Tested and is working on Galaxy S2 for T-Mobile! I am using this in one of my ROMs! Thanks for the contribution!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Raijinbu:
Thanks for making this available for those of us who drool over the S3!