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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] electech13:
YES mine has scratched easily! And I'm fairly careful with my phones and screens. My S1 and S2 were amazing and practically unscratchable but this phone dud come with a DIFFERENT VARIATION OF NEWER GORILLA GLASS. Can't find the article but it is different. My scratches aren't major but definitely there and came within 3 days...as well this phone is easier to crack the glass so be careful. I know one friend who easily cracked his and Rogers has stated they have had several returns already too. So take 'er easy on this phone. I now have screen protector which I never needed in past
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] JayRolla:
Yes it's second generation gorilla glass. Maybe not as good as they thought. I bought a screen protector from att the day I bought mine.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] electech13:
Good call and I recommend ALL to get a screen protector.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] artisticcheese:
For me personally it's bad call. Why get this top of the line phone with excellent screen and then put something on top of it which would make screen duller? This was never an issue with previous Galaxy S phones and Samsung screwed it up somehow with this iteration.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] JayRolla:
I felt the same way when I had iPhone 4. Too off protection and in a month had very faint scratches. From there on always put on protection. It's like a condom. Yes makes it duller but always worth the protection. Lol
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Uzi578:
Mine has 2 micro scratches. Plus a few nicks from dropping it off my shorts since it slides so easy. Case recommended... Waiting over a month for mine...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] davidstech11:
I got the Invisishield HD and its not bad. It does not make the display look bad at all. I would not have got it if it did.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pdhahn:
My otterbox defender will be here in the mail tomorrow and my phone just slipped out of my pocket while I was sitting on a chair and hit the hard wood floor and got a nice nasty scratch. FML.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mgawelek:
Is there some way to fix this then? Cause it looks bad and I notice them.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] artisticcheese:
YOu can not feel the scratch? I can feel it if I slide with my finger nail accross it
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] meaintsmart:
I had my Galaxy S3 for a few days now and I have some really small scratches you can't feel if you shine a light directly at it and at a certain angle. I was surprised it was scratched so soon. That's why I ordered a screen protector coming in the mail today. :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kayungjoo:
Lol I freaked when I got scratches on the back of it. I'm really picky when it comes to maintaining my phone though clean it everyday and once a week I dust out all the lint that gets into it. So far haven't gotten a single scratch on my screen but I think I will go find a screen protector for it now that I have read all these posts. Thanks for the heads up :D
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gdrocks:
Does it only work in certain apps? I've been trying to use these since I got the phone, and really want to know now that venomROM has custom gestures. Whenever I try a 3 finger swipe on the home screen it just takes me panel view. When I try in apps, it just seems to work as a normal 1 finger swipe.

The lack of info/videos on the web tell me I'm quite incompetent but hopefully you guys can still help me figure this out!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ronman1:
I think the 3 finger swipe is for the app that sends your phone screen to a monitor/TV. You need the medialink equipment to do that.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] P.Mobile:
whats venom rom??? u mean viper?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] gdrocks:
Yes, yes i do.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] kotaro-chan:
Yeah it also works normaly with dlna also when I use 3 finger slide on video but on custom roms it doesn't work for me . Can somebody help me?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] TaintedByte:
Just as an fyi, the HTC 3 finger swipe breaks multi touch so you might want to leave that disabled if it is important to you.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] rleonard55:
Not sure about venomROM but most of the ROM's I've tried that use custom swipe stuff breaks the media link bits
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AlwaysNoob:
Base: All stock firmware(rooted) with OEM hardware including OEM battery that came with the phone.

Issue: I observed incorrect battery indicator in the status bar. The battery indicator will remain nearly full for 4-5 hours after its been fully charged. Than it would show drain quickly.

I enabled the percentage battery indicator from settings and it shows correct battery percentage. Battery status indicator is way off from battery percentage value as can be seen by the following images. At 61% battery, the indicator shows it nearly fully charged(around 90%) as seen from the screenshots below.

Has anyone seen this on their phone? Is there any solution/workaround for this?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] corythug:
Mine stays pretty full looking for awhile as well, probably to make us think it's lasting longer then it is. Doesn't look really low til 50 ish.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bri315317:
Mine is the same way :o

Sent from my Red S3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AlwaysNoob:
Yes, it stays almost full even when it is around 50%. Just to give us placebo effect? I would prefer accurate status instead of placebo effect.

I wonder if its only 3 of us or I747 specific or all Galaxy S3 models.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Addictedtothegreenguy:
It's because of the % increments on the battery image most phones come kiem this stock. Someone will eventually make a mod for 1% incremental decrease.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] mrdie89:
Hi. Sorry if this isn't new, but I couldn't find an answer anywhere.

I want to know how to enable the navigation bar con CM9 because my softkeys are not working due to a hardware issue.

Does anybody know how to do it? I'm on AOKP now just because of the bar.

Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] vishal24387:
SOLUTION

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29619986#post29619986
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] mrdie89:
Thanks a lot! I'll give a try :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Spider_Pig27:
Any Tutorials On How I Or We Can Root The S3 On A Mac??
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] esteho:
Looks like there is a program called Heimdell. I would post a link,. But I'm not allowed yet.... Found a video at galaxys3root. com

Sent from my phone! Suck it 1980's. Thank me if I somehow managed to help someone other than myself.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Spider_Pig27:
I'll take aloof at it thank you
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] hypmatize:
http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-root/how-to-root-galaxy-s3-on-mac-osx/

:p
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Spider_Pig27:
Lol thanks but actually this method only works for the international S3's As far as us in the U.S. in any carrier it wont work.. crap, guess im ging to go bug people to borrow a windows pc..
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] hypmatize:
Yeah I didn't try this method or even really look at it... just found the link and posted it for you :p

I actually used bootcamp to root mine
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Spider_Pig27:
Thanked though
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Classick206:
Just use Parallels to run Windows and root that way? That's what I plan on doing if I ever root mine.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Spider_Pig27:
is it the same VMWare? because that sh** was hard for me to use.. ill google it.. and see whats up ill get back at you..
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] txnr70:
I ended up going to bootcamp just for this phone. The drivers just weren't working well under a VM.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Spider_Pig27:
How does boot camp work?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] brummett:
I don't suppose Odin works on Windows 2000, eh? That's the latest version I have installation media for.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Spider_Pig27:
well im setting up mine as we speak and im downloading windows 8 free trial i would say you could approach it that way
[Motorola Droid 3] Alistair George:
Hi I have an opportunity of buying one of these and understand from elsewhere that: 'All Motorola phones locked to Verizon Wireless (USA) are not supported for unlocking. Do not purchase the unlock service if your DROID 3 is locked to Verzion. '

Which strongly indicates to stay away from it?

The current owner says:

I brought the unlock code but it has already been entered wrong to many times and is now subsidy locked. I have already spent nearly $600 on this phone Is there any way to unlock it?

If there is, can anyone point me to the resource url or give advice thanks vm.

Alistair.
[Motorola Droid 3] MrObvious:
If it is subsidy locked then your only hope is to flash it to Cricket or some other CDMA carrier from the way I understand it.
[Asus Transformer TF700] hshah:
For some reason my Media Scanner isn't working and updating the libraries. I checked for .nomedia files and there were none. What could the issue be? :confused:
[Asus Transformer TF700] Keion:
Are you talking about the stock gallery? Quickpic detects everything fine for me, I never use the stock anymore.
[Asus Transformer TF700] hshah:
Well yeah the built in Android one.

I create folders and download files on the tablet but I can't see them on my PC over MTP until I restart the tablet which fires up Media Scanner.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Asus Transformer TF700] Keion:
Oh, there's your problem. I never use the PC connector stuff, it's notoriously unreliable and slow. Personally, I'd recommend a microSD or airdroid to transfer stuff.
[Asus Transformer TF700] hshah:
I don't think that's the case here. My Samsung Galaxy 10.1 runs Media Scanner when files are changed and have never had this issue.

Also the default music player does not see new files added until the tablet has been restarted.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Asus Transformer TF700] Keion:
Ooooh, I see your point. I meant the ASUS tablets' file transfers are unreliable (this was the case with my prime too). I don't really know what the problem might be. Have you tried upgrading the normal stuff (upgrading firmware, factory resets)? Also, I've heard good things about the beats ROM in the dev section.
[Asus Transformer TF700] hshah:
I am running the latest .26 firmware and have tried factory reset. I've not flashed a custom recovery yet, so not going to be able to try custom ROMs just yet.

File transfers for me have been fine. I created a folder on the tablet (via ES File Explorer) and then had to reboot the tablet before this folder was visible on my PC via MTP. I then copied 20GB to the tablet without a hiccup.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ken.yong:
I tried using S beam to transfer files. I found that pictures or music files are doing fine, but for some reason I cannot transfer pdf or apk files via S beam. Is this normal?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyancatland:
So since I can't get a hold of my phone right now, I'll explain with an illustration done in Photoshop :p

My battery graph goes a bit like this.

As you can see, the first green segment is the normal drain rate while my phone is in deep sleep. Say, if I restart the phone, and just leave it to sleep without touching it, the graph would go down at this rate. This rate is pretty good for me, usually a 1% can last 4 hours.

The blue segment is the drain rate while browsing with wifi. The drawing is only an approximate illustration, but needless to say this drain rate is much faster than the green drain rate. I can get 5 hours with wifi browsing, with equates to 1% every 3 minutes. It's not too bad I think.

The problem here is, after browsing (or doing anything) over wifi, the battery curve would go weird. When I'm done with browsing, I always turn wifi off. What I would expect was that the battery curve would immediately return to the normal deep sleep drain - the green line. And yes it should, because as CPUSpy shows, the phone deep sleeps perfectly. But the graph, instead, shows something of a "transition" curve - the red one as shown in the illustration. The drain in this period isn't as fast as the wifi rate (blue), but it is faster than than normal deep sleep drain (green). Only after some time will it return to the green rate.

So...what is causing that red curve?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spiralzz:
Did you check for wakelocks using betterbatterystats?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyancatland:
Yes I did, but I thought having a wakelock would take away from deep sleep time? I usually wipe my CPUSpy stats and leave the phone to sleep for an hour, it would almost always come up as 99% deep sleep. But anyway, I did check again, and RILJ was at the top of partial wakelocks, at 16 mins after 16h. It isn't seem to be adding time though.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Why two threads within half an hour ? They're essentially about the same thing. You could easily have edited your OP and/or title in the thread you created ~26 mins before this one :-/
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spiralzz:
Dunno why CPUspy is reporting wrong, but the rilj wakelock was for long, hence the battery drained more. If you're looking for a solution, what I've read to solve that wakelock is to turn airplane mode, switch off mobile, switch it on and then turn airplane mode off....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LifeLessGT:
Is it possible to add input languages to the Samsung Keypad?

Because next to English, I really need Hebrew and Russian,

I would really appreciate some help about it (: Thank you!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tuner420:
Go to language and input, select android keyboard, touch the settings icon, go to input languages, untick use system language and select your desired languages
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brekec88:
I just switched from Sprint to AT&T(best idea ever btw) and I got the gs3 for me and a hox for my wife. The gs3 has the hox beat in almost all aspects. One thing the hox does have the galaxy beat at though is camera (atleast on stock). There is just so much blur on the gs3 if anything is not staying still. Also low light performance Is much better. Anyways I'll get to my point...loving this phone, just want to know what settings if not stock everyone is using on the camera?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] King Shady:
Actually the GSIII has a better camera, the HOX may have better camera software though. In my opinion the HOX wins in two categories only: screen and build quality/design. SGS3 wins in everything else
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brekec88:
Call it the hardware. Call it the software. Hox takes better pictures. Also the display is brighter and crisper on one x but the blacks are definitely better on the galaxy.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] King Shady:
Yea that's one thing I've always loved about my Galaxy phones, the blacks are true black :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] phzi:
Except they aren't at all... The GSIII has an obvious grey tint in very low light situations. The "true blacks" are left to the GS1.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brekec88:
Ya I just set my home screen and lock screen. To an all black background and the lock screen looks like it has Grey fog or smoke on it while the home screen looks fine. Anyone else having this problem? It's really starting to annoy me.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] KentuckyHouse:
If you have the "ripple" effect turned on for the lockscreen, that's why you're seeing the gray haze. It's part of the ripple setting being on. Turn that off, and it will go away.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] robstunner:
Camera: One X > SGS3

Camcorder: SGS3 > One X
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Hunt3r.j2:
One X with root to flash a high quality camera mod is much, much better than the GS3 for both photos and video.

The GS3 just doesn't have the optics to keep up, sensor innovation can only carry you so far.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] robstunner:
I dont think the camera/optics/sensors make or break the decision on one phone or the other. They are both great.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] theraffman:
I take a ton of photos for work and I never have issues with blurry or bad lighting. I can't compare to the hox but compared to my infuse this thing rocks. No complaints here regarding the sgs3 camera quality.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jev3gs:
Doesn't the One X have a Fantastic standby mode too? My friend can last 2 days easy on his phone because he uses it moderately. I feel I couldn't do it because the Android os or Cell Standby will drain me by then
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brekec88:
Standby is better in the hox. I feel like I can get more screen time with the gs3 though. Either way they both have amazing battery life. Also the hox has random lag here and there sometimes. Can be kind if annoying. I'm sure once I root it and throw a custom Rom on there it will be more smooth.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brekec88:
What camera settings are you using?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] robstunner:
It's not the standby mode thats great, its the aggressive task managing. People complain about multitasking, however it runs well for it when the phone is off and in your pocket because it kills everything.

Agreed. Screen off drain is better on HOX, Screen on drain is better on SGS3.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Sidneymac:
Are there any good camera hacks for the S3 ?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Skizzy034:
This is better than what I've seen others with the SGS3 have:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brekec88:
Hour and a half of talk time and almost 3 hours of pandora and 3rd day of owning (battery hasn't fully settled yet). Stock rom unrooted currently.also I've seen pictures in this forum with 5 hours screen time.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaisaroni:
HOX has better standby time because it isn't multitasking much... It frustratingly kills apps sooooo much.

Sent from my AT&T Galaxy SIII (SGH-i747)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Skizzy034:
The standby time is still just as good with the multitasking fixes HTC implemented in the new software updates and the custom fixes by developers. I haven't noticed any battery drain issues.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] greasemuntney:
If you cut off the ripple effect the lockscreen will be a solid black like the home screen. The ripple effect causes the grayed look.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brekec88:
Thanks buddy
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alus415:
I had a HOX and even though the S3 is slighty better (people make it seem like the S3 is 2x as powerful, is not same S4 chip and all) I have to agree the pictures at least on my HOX were sharper and crispier than the S3 blurry mess.

Either phone you get you will be happy .

HOX = better screen, build (feel) and camera.

S3 = 2GB , slighty larger screen albeit pentile, sd card slot, removeable and larger battery.

Touchwiz > Sense (least for me)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bagbug:
tried a Hox and I really dont see what is so good about the screen. I prefer my GS3. And no SD card ? What was HTC thinking ?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eallan:
It sucks that HTC is the OEM actually following googles guidelines this time, and they seem to be catching flack for it. Using the proper 3 buttons, having just one mountable pile of storage.

I have both the GS3 and the One X. The One X is a beautiful phone with an incredible display. The GS3 feels like heaven in the hand though. They're both amazing devices.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] wtmk81:
I love my HOX but I do wish I could have expandable storage.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gmac1990:
I had the HOX but switched because of the lack of external sd and because the GS3 is a great phone. Largest downside im finding is my HOX had drastically better battery life than GS3.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Skizzy034:
Why does Google want just one mountable storage? They should be using all they can to differentiate themselves from Apple.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eallan:
From an Android engineer:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] notshaneo:
HOX had a cool feature where you could record in slow motion. It's hilarious
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Rblacula:
But the s3 has MTP, doesn't it? Like, all 16GB can be apps. HTC went back to gingerbread and made it UMS on the hox, which is one reason I am leaning towards s3. Only 2GB can be apps on the hox and I'm tired of "insufficient storage available" on my nexus s even though I have like 500MB left still. I've never had this issue on my xoom with MTP and love how it's all 1 big partition! I know for sure the hox is UMS and I'm fairly sure the s3 is MTP but the external SD shows up as UMS. Correct me if I'm wrong tho!

Edit: On Google I found a ton of websites stating the s3 is in fact MTP.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] davidstech11:
Having both I like my GS3 more. But I am fine with either one.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cecilia:
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and had absolutely No difficulty seeing the S lll as a removable drive simply by plugging it in my laptop.

I can connect using either MTP or PTP
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] spiderjerusalem:
I agree the camera and build quality I miss. I am actually not at all impressed with the camera on the s3, it takes a great shot if something is perfectly still in perfect light, but that's about it. My hox was far nicer in terms of pictures while moving or in lower light....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brekec88:
Thank you! Couldn't have said it better. If it's something still like a house it looks great. If it's something moving like my daughter or are dog it's blurry. Examples
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] theking_13:
Just came from the One X, so I can offer good opinions on both. :)

Screen goes to the One X hands down, it's the best screen on a phone so far (general consensus), has a full RGB matrix, and is gorgeous.

Also, since it's LCD instead of OLED, it uses less battery, unless you only have black on your screen. I easily got 6 hours screen on time with about 20% brightness no matter what. First day with a full charge on the S3 so I'll come back and compare that.

The camera goes to the One X again, both hardware and software wise. Hands down.

And lastly, build quality. The One X looks like a professional, high quality device next to the S3.

The S3 beats it in some areas too of course, like multitasking isn't crap. The speaker is definitely louder, I was surprised/blown away yesterday when I used YouTube to play one of the same videos I played on the HOX.

And the biggest thing that the S3 just ruins the HOX undeniably is storage. HOX (AT&T version) comes with only 16 and thats it. On the S3 however, 16 or 32 GBs, with an SD slot for up to 64 GBs. So a max of 96 GBs. Personally that's too much for me, but I get to use my Class 10 card and can have a bunch of movies and PS1 games for emulators without worrying about space as I did on the HOX. The extra storage is one of the main reasons I'm debating keeping this phone.

On a side note, not sure if it's me, but I feel the capacitive buttons on the S3 are more responsive than the One X.

And this is just personal preference, but I hate the physical home button. I don't see why it would be physical yet the others are capacitive. Haven't had a physical button on my Android phones since the Mytouch 3G Slide, 2 years ago. Lol