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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mike21pr:
I have spent a week with this SGS3 i747 and im still not sure how I feel about it. My last phone was a international HTC One X Tegra model which I loved but after an unfortunate incident I lost it so I used my upgrade to get a SGS3. I chose it over the ATT One X due to double the RAM, removable storage, bigger battery, and Samsung seems to have the edge in overall features so I gave it a shot.

Having a Tegra 3 phone, I could toss any game at it and it would play flawlessly which is not the case here. Game play ok for the most part but hardcore gameloft games have noticible lag considering such a high end device. I always had a sour taste for Qualcomm chipsets but this one gets pretty good reviews even though the GPU isnt considered top shelf anymore.

Anyway. My question is: Is this phone futureproofed enough to keep long term? I still have options since my 30 days expire on the 15th next month so I have a chance to see the Note 2, new iPhone, and Nokia WP8 announcement before my time is up. But I wanted the opinion of fellow users. What do you guys think of the S3 when it comes to long term use? Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cuhrazy:
It doesn't matter what you buy. Anything will be outdated in two months to just go with what you like. Don't follow everyone else.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] shahkam:
This.

There will always be new phones out every month i think the s3 can make it out until your next upgrade...

Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rickwood:
If you've had it and used it for the last week, you're in the best position to determine whether or not it's worth keeping! What works for one person may not work for another. So, while the opinions you may get on a forum can vary widely, the only opinion that really counts is yours!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eortizr:
if after a few days with the phone you are still not convinced about it, just return it and get something else. The new Nokia will be something worth looking and there is always the iPhone5.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] expertzero1:
Or sell the phone get the international one x again. Or exchange for the one x. Or save the upgrade for the iPhone 5.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cuhrazy:
I have upgrades set up every year to help with the growth of the smartphone world. It moves so fast you almost need a new one every year.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] neonsector:
you need one every 2 months or so.

I've gone through 5 phones this year, 4s, gn, note, one x, s3 and we got 4 months left in the year
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 0u7br3ak:
If your looking for hardcore gpu and can wait maybe 3 months or so the adreno 320 will be out by then and it compares to the xbox 360 gpu, in the mean time you currently have the most sought out phone in which u can sale by then and get the latest upgrade...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] curtisdaley2012:
The S3 is a great phone, it was/is the official mobile phone of the London Olympics. It is really popular over here.

I'm loving it on the Three network on "The One" plan, with 2000 any UK minutes, 5000 three to three minutes, unlimited texts something like 2000 texts and unlimited (yes its truly unlimitely not like AT&T where you get 3 or 5GB a month). Ive got up to 7GB and havent noticed any throttle of speed. All for around £34 a month, with no upfront fee, which is like $51 US a month, which is dirt cheap. I visited Los Angeles and Las Vegas for two weeks end of July / beginning of August, used it with a AT&T go phone microsim, was great taking photos using its 8MP and uploading them to Facebook. Using google maps with the voice navigation when the cabbie got lost and general web browising when I was out and about, the screen size is just beautiful. Although I may add AT&T coverage is a bit spotty, 2 to 3 bars in surburbs and 4 - 5 when in the city, which is crap considering I have full HSPA+ coverage in the UK wherever I go, compared to CA. But hey we don't LTE in the UK yet, while you guys have. I say stick with the phone bro, or atleast wait to the S4 next year May.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bruce Lee:
I am curious, which gameloft games in particular are you talking about? Modern Combat 3 for me doesn't lag, or maybe I am just too into the game to notice.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] wiz4769:
These guys get the placebo effect way to easy is all, they hear this one has quad core or whatever and think they must have quad as its more than dual...so many other factors in the setup. Basically know that there is not currently a better phone available , at least RIGHT NOW. But you sound like the A.D.D. type that will get a new phone in 3-6months anyways so its up to you. Then there is the type holding out on their old phone for the S4, etc. This phone will last till my next upgrade I have no doubt, and I sleep well at night not worrying about it, give it a try.
[Nexus 7 Themes and Apps] patstock11:
I can't seem to get twitter to sync any tweets or ,mentions etc on my nexus 7. If I go to settings in the app the sync options for notifications is all blacked out. If I go through the settings menu on the tablet and go to twitter only thing I can do is "sync now". Any ideas?
[Nook Touch General] auerg:
Dear Members!

I did the stupid thing of using a tool, not completly knowing what it does.

After using TouchEraser.zip I installed Alpha-FormatTouch-2.zip using clockwork.

I tried to boot the device, no luck... :(

Clockwork says:

can't mount /cache/recovery/log/log

can't open /cache/recovery/log/log

can't mount /cache/recovery/log/last_log

can't open /cache/recovery/log/last_log

Please help!
[Nook Touch General] auerg:
Stupidly enough I don't have the devices own factory image. :(

What to do now?
[Nook Touch General] speedman2202:
ok , first boot with noogie image and lets see what partion u got , if u have got rom partions so take a copy all files from it and take backup from the whole nook and do this steps in this post

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=30722156&postcount=2

but u must try to recovery ur nook partition rom especially cuz very important ..... before do anything above .... i will keep continue active in this thread

good luck
[Nook Touch General] auerg:
only one partition on on gParted...

Do You think theres any way to fix it? how? :confused:
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
If CWR came up that far then the /rom partition must be ok.

All we know is that the /cache partition has a problem.

That's a disposable partition, you can format the /cache partition.

Be careful, don't make anything worse.
[Nook Touch General] speedman2202:
as Renate say ..... dont make anything more worth .... so can u type fdisk for ur nook to see all ur partition table info???
[Nook Touch General] auerg:
Pretty screwed...

I did but what it listed is ONLY ONE 1,8 gb partition. Toucheraser probably wiped the whole table :((

I'd need a tool to restore the original filesystem or a factory image ( I don't have my own...).

I found one for glowlight, but probably I shouldn't write that to my mormal NST.

Alpha-FormatTouch-2.zip using clockwork.didn't work.

I'm pretty screwed...
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
Get Clockwork Recovery working on an SD card.

Get ADB setup and connected to CWR.

Run nookpart.sh from a shell (download the script from my signature).

This will recreate the partitioning without formatting or writing any of them.

You can then see if/what you can mount.

Use either the mount options in CWR or the mount command in ADB.
[Nook Touch General] speedman2202:
U kidding with me. Did u format the whole partition.? I suggest u try again and boot ur nook with noogie image and the all sevsen partition will show to U?

Tru agan man. Good luck
[Nook Touch General] dummy56:
resurect nook

I even can`t do that!,"my" nook simple are "dead" after, i delette all the memorie intern with MINI TOOL PARTITION WIZARD, without make backup or copy room, very nervius then, with CLOCKWORK RECOVERY in a sd card y instal a program call ALPHA FORMAT TOUCH2, after that my nook are iresponsive .no sd card function

any more no usb conection just charge, ¿can is posible resurrect it by some way?
[Nook Touch General] digixmax:
The only way I can think of to quasi-resurrect your Nook is if you can obtain a full image backup of another Nook (e.g., boot it up with noogie and read/save its entire drive as an image file) then write the backup image file back to your Nook (after booting it up with noogie) -- but then the two Nook devices will have identical device-specific data (e.g., encryption keys, WiFi MAC address, etc.), which can cause Internet access/communication problems of various sorts.
[Nook Touch General] dummy56:
The batery are charged but it won't power on , after i install ALPHA FORMAT TOUCH2

maybe i kill him.
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
Wow, this is an old thread!

The Nook Simple Touch was/is a simple device.

With its SD card it's almost completely unbrickable.

Add in the stuff we've learned in the last few years about booting over USB and it's almost unsinkable.

First, whenever somebody says "dead", it's never clear what the state is.

Until you get to the point where the screen is initialized you don't know what's going on.

If you have Windows where it goes "bong" when you plug in a USB device, see if it "bongs" when you connect/power up/power down.

As said above, you'll probably need to find a full NST image somewhere.
[Nook Touch General] dummy56:
similar to this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2322762

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the batery are charged the machine have no image and whent i plug in a usb, no screen are inicialized just windowsXP said "OMAP3630 - No driver found". :silly:
[Nook Touch General] Mnurlan:
Dear Renate, may I kindly ask you to provide the command prompt syntax here for dummies like me: "Run nookpart.sh from a shell (download the script from my signature)"? I know how to use adb, but with a ready syntax only.

And I have a spare completely bricked NSTGL, it was brought to me bricked already, managed to write an image from my current NSTGL using MiniTool Partition Wizard, and was able to open it in Windows Explorer, could see all files and folders, could add, copy and delete anything, but never succeeded in seeing any sign of life at the Nook's screen (nothing at all, never), and tried everything with a battery - disconnected it, pressed the switch button at the mainboard for some time, charged fully etc., then one unhappy day I have tried to overwrite it with a new image, but forgot to delete all partitions first and it crashed during the writing process in MiniTool Partition Wizard and now it is recognized by Windows (bang) and shown as a (some) drive but I cannot open it. Obviously I have damaged the partition table, and since then was unable to restore it, and now came across your messages here. Although, I am afraid restoring the partition table will do me no good, as it already showed no sign of life with a healthy image onboard. And I would appreciate it if you provide here a syntax for adbsync too :)
[Nook Touch General] digixmax:
I think a simpler, more expedient alternative to any adb-based method would be:

Use a disk-imaging tool (such as win32diskimager) and

write

to SD-card the image Noogie.img

Boot your

live

NSTGL off the Noogie SD-card and connect it to your PC via USB

Use the disk-imaging tool to

read/save

the NSTGL drive image to a file on your PC

Disconnect your

live

NSTGL from your PC

Boot your

bad

NSTGL off the Noogie SD-card and connect it to your PC via USB

Use the disk-imaging tool to

write

the file containing previously saved image of the live NSTGL drive to the

bad

NSTGL drive.

When writing out a disk image, make sure that you select the correct target drive (in particular don't select by mistake your PC "C:" drive).

Afterward you will have to figure out how to resolve the issue of the two Nook devices having identical device-specific data (e.g., encryption keys, WiFi MAC address, etc.), which can cause Internet access/communication problems of various sorts.
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
[MENTION=5100841]Mnurlan[/MENTION] I think [MENTION=3511186]digixmax[/MENTION] has it about right.

Just copying a whole image over is probably the easiest way.

If you have a raw image of the whole disk then the partitioning comes over just like all the other data.

[MENTION=7238130]dummy56[/MENTION] if your device is IDing as OMAP3630 then what you have there is the bootloader.

The easiest thing to try would be just like above, with noogie and a full 2GB image from a friend.

Depending on what got overwritten, you might be able to fix things with just a recovery and ADB.
[Nook Touch General] Mnurlan:
2 digixmax and 2 Renate

This is exactly what I did, remember I said that I received the "bad" NSTGL bricked already, so of course I took an image of my healthy (live) NSTGL FW1.2.0 to overwrite (re-write) whatever was left on "bad-dead" NSTGL, and I know in details how to write-read-save an image with win32diskimager, just during the second attempt I forgot to delete all partitions first and that resulted in damaged partitions - that is my educated guess. I would like to point out that my first attempt was successful (I have copied a healthy image of my live NSTGL to a bad one) and I was able to read-see-delete-add anything to NSTGL in Windows Explorer whenever I connect that dead NSTGL to PC directly, without a Noogie.

I am afraid, the screen has been damaged somehow (although it looks visibly intact), as it never showed any sign of life, no matter whatever I've tried.

And now the problem is that no Nook's partition appears in the MiniTool Partition Wizard window, only SD-card with Noogie, so I have nowhere to write an image. This is why I thought the culprit is - a damaged partition table. I have tried to use the GParted Live CD, but my notebook failed to boot on it, so I just postponed it for a while, as I had to leave for my rotation. Currently I am away from home and I left that "bad" NSTGL at home, and won't be able to do anything about it until I am back on Feb. 18.

And having two Nook devices having identical device-specific data is the least of my problems as I am pretty sure that I can easily do without W-Fi functionality of that Nook should I manage to revive it somehow, which I doubt.
[Nook Touch General] digixmax:
Since Wiin32DiskImager can read/write from/to a

raw

physical

device, there is no need to clear/fix the partition table of the bad NSTGL using MiniTool or GParted before re-imaging it.

As long as your bad NSTGL when booted on Noogie appears as a

raw

physical

drive in Win32DiskImager's drive-selection menu, you can re-image the bad NSTGL using the raw drive image of the good NSTGL.
[Nook Touch General] Mnurlan:
NSTGL in question appears as (some) drive in Windows Explorer window, but does not appear in the Wiin32DiskImager's drive selection window, and I run it As Administrator
[Nook Touch General] digixmax:
Was the NSTGL running Noogie.img on SD-card when you started Win32DiskImager?
[Nook Touch General] Mnurlan:
Yes, of course, as I said the only partition I can see in MiniTool Partition Wizard is SD-card with Noogie
[Nook Touch General] digixmax:
Does MiniTool show a "Windows drive letter" assigned to the Nook running Noogie?

If not, you'd need to assign it a driver letter using MiniTool pull-down menu, then try again to see if that drive letter show up on Win32DiskImager's list of raw physical drives.
[Nook Touch General] Renate:
Noogie only mounts one partition.

If you are seeing Noogie-like stuff as a disk when Noogie is running it's because you wrote Noogie to the internal SD card.

From init.rc inside uRamdisk inside noogie.img:

on boot
write /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file /dev/block/mmcblk0

So, with Noogie running, all you have to do is write your backup to the only disk presenting on the USB.

The only thing I wasn't sure of is whether Windows would give you a letter if you had no partitioning/formatting at all.

So I did the experiment on one of my Nooks. I backed it up while running Noogie, then I did:

# cat /dev/zero > /dev/block/mmcblk0

That will wipe out a lot of stuff before it eats itself.

Windows recognized it as a raw device and offered to format it.

I didn't take the offer, I just copied my backup to the Nook using Noogie.

Everything is back to normal.
[Nook Touch General] Mnurlan:
Digimax and Renate,

Thank you both for your advices I will definitely try to follow them thoroughly and accurately as soon as I am back home. Have a nice day.
[Nook Touch General] dummy56:
For me no noogie are helping , maybe is the slot SD card, because i can´t pouch for eject(no resort) and it not "clik" .,

ALPHA FORMAT TOUCH2, after that my nook are iresponsive .no sd card function, no turn on again
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JT-on:
Hey all, trying to push gtalk library files to MildWild 4.3 system dir has turned into a massive headache.

ADB doesn't recognize I have my device connected. Commands always return "error:device not found". "adb devices" command returns blank.

From the tutorials I've read in these forums, I was under the impression HTC Sync drivers in fastboot mode are needed to use ADB. No dice. I've tried other drivers I've found in the forms as well: "android-usb-driver.zip" from unrevoked and "adb_driver_htc.zip" (found this in the sim unlock utility thread).

Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this further?

What is the proper name of the device in device manager? Right now I'm using HTC Sync drivers in fastboot and the name is: Android USB Devices > My HTC.

The guides I've read never touch on this issue, they always skip it and assume the device is connectable.

Thanks in advance
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nlooooo:
To use ABD you need to be connected in recovery or a booted device.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JT-on:
Brilliant. Like you said, ADB recognized my device in both booted OS and recovery. However, I needed to be in recovery to push files to the system directory. Thanks.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nlooooo:
You're welcome. You can push in booted device you just need to enable superuser rights in adb shell.

Sent from my HTC Desire using Flashes and Thunders
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kross666:
90% of the time the problem is with the drivers etc. Use this tutorial to fix that : http://goo.gl/OS3Vi

If you still encounter the problem then you can use ADBwireless available at google play to wirelessly connect your device to the computer

Hope it helps :highfive:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rmp5s:
Unchecking MTP did it. Thanks!!

Why is that necessary on the N7Flo but not my old N7 or the N4 (or any other device I've had contact with for that matter)?

Also, anyone know how I can get devices to show up as a folder...you know...like a thumb drive?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abaaaabbbb63:
You can't. Both the n4 and the n7 have their memorys formatted as ext4, partition type that windows can't access normally. MTP was the only sollution google had.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Erosinelysium:
Hi all, I'm using the latest JB leak and I have noticed that some games end up causing the screen to go black as if it's turned off. Anyone have a fix for this issue?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marrila:
Settings / development options/ disable hw overlays.

S

In future do a search common problem

Regards
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Erosinelysium:
Thanks but it resets after a reboot? Is there a way to get it to stick?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marrila:
What ROM are you running?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fethi2:
i have the same problem too i tried ARHD and OMEGA. Both had same problem ( Arhd 5.0.0 dont know if problem still exists )

Everytime you boot up your phone you have to select it manually as far as i know.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chaitanyapatel8880:
the developer setting will not stick... I tried... The final solution is to change the ROM... I switched to XXDLH5... It works perfectly fine...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Erosinelysium:
I'm on DLH6 4.1.1
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] yabyuh22:
The vibrate when I hold the home button is gone also in power button and also in message when I'm trying to input method it usually vibrating but now its now I check in vibrating msg and it works pls help me bring back the vibrate in home and power key

Sent by doing moves like jagger
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] thirdzcee:
What rom you using? If on stock, Do you have spare parts installed?
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] yabyuh22:
I'm using ussrv5 sir .

EDIT:i fix it.. and also thanks to you for the idea of spare parts.. i forget that i tick the heptic feedback :DD

Sent by doing moves like jagger
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] thirdzcee:
No problem bro... 1st thing that went into my mind was haptic feedback from spareparts when i saw your question:D
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] yabyuh22:
haha thanks i was curios so i tick that then i forgot to tick again :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] rhgbg:
Hi to all,

I want to apologize for my english :).

Is there any working gamepad (usb for pc) driver for usb host function developed here for HTC HD2.

I tried some find here: bitbank gamapad.cab file, but no success :(.

I have normal USB PC gamepad.
[EVO 4G General] ozzyzorda:
I am trying to root my Evo 4G and seem to bee running into a brick wall. When I plug in my phone it asks to install the drivers. I have tried automatically finding and installing them as well as downloading the Andriod SDK and manually updating the drivers. Either way I recieve a message "cannot find the appropriate files."

Any suggestions?
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
HTC Sync has the drivers you need.

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Current Device: HTC EVO 4G LTE | ROM: toasted-deck CM10 | Kernel: Stock
[EVO 4G General] ozzyzorda:
But unrevoked says not to have that installed
[EVO 4G General] Captain_Throwback:
Then did you install the drivers from the unrevoked site?

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Current Device: HTC EVO 4G LTE | ROM: toasted-deck CM10 | Kernel: Stock
[EVO 4G General] HipKat:
You have to install HTC Sync, which will install the drivers, then uninstall it, which will just uninstall the program
[EVO 4G General] ozzyzorda:
okay. installed and then uninstalled the HTC Sync so the drivers are still there and unrevoked recognize my phone and started running the root. Now I'm stuck with "error: failed to get root. Is your firmware to new?"
[EVO 4G General] ozzyzorda:
ok. I think this might be an HBOOT problem. Any suggestions?

Otherwise, I found this thread while crawling around: " http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1425792 "

Anyone thing I should give it a try???
[EVO 4G General] eyesofice:
so ive attempted to install the drivers didnt work

have sysnc installed but when phone is plugged it htc sync says device not connected

got the android tool box for Win 7.....

i spent the last 2 hrs trying to unlock the evo 4g
[Galaxy S III Accessories] dLo GSR:
the edges and cutout shape of the back look terrible. especially the bottom.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] aturyan:
Keep in mind, I did do some slight cutting to the back piece around the edges. Normally, it'll go all the way to the sides. I found them to be too long so that's why I decided to cut it.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] Blutonic:
That cutout alignment is unfortunate
[Galaxy S III Accessories] hypertek:
man that looks horrible to tell you the truth. I think its a waste of money, just go with a case and a colored screen protector.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] xxlikquidxx:
ugly.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] bordikun:
front looks nice. but back no

Sent from xda premium powered by GT-I9300 :D
[Galaxy S III Accessories] nacron:
It's just 3m dinoc cut to a template...not worth $20 and most likely not going to protect the phone.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] ipaq_101:
That looks so retarded, disgusting,