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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irish-sid:
Even those that have been sitting on the fence the last couple of months to see what Apple has to offer?

Also, a personal insight, my mom and sister got a gs3 shortly after release, and genuinely with no persuading from me. They aren't tech heads, but they knew a class phone when they seen it.

The guys waiting for today to make their decision i think will go galaxy.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgalvez21:
i think so, seen people taking 99$ deal on amazon right now

it will not be huge spike but there is going to be one.

for me the new iphone disappoint

no new tech or old favorites like fm radio, xenon flash, still LCD and only 4'

i mean 4.5 would have been fine
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sword Fish:
I wouldn't under estimate the loyalty a large percentage of smartphone users have towards Apple. Most of us probably had an iPhone at one time and moved to Andriod because we expanded our knowedge to include other smartphones and made an informed decision. There are a lot of people that don't realize there are options and will still buy the iPhone 5. Not sure if they will sell 20M after what I saw today but I have learned to never under estimate people with loyalties...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demlasjr:
My boss wanted to buy the iphone 5. He is very loyalty to Apple. But he started liking my S3. He already have doubts about buying iphone or not.

My mission: convert him into an android guy and wake him up to the reality :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irish-sid:
Of course, they'll sell shed loads. But the huge advertising campaign with the Olympics, the recent trial and those already on the fence should have the gs3 planted in their heads! I think Samsung will steal a good few of them.

Htc might get a wee jeg too if they get in the news regarding the lte patents (if that even happens)

Exciting times for sure.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayharper08:
I've cleaned up the mess fellas. ;) Please remember to be polite and let's not get too far into the "you know what" discussion. :highfive:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
I didn't quote it all for obvious reasons, but god damn it, that is the best comment I have seen on xda in months.

If I could thank you twice I would.

Hats off to you sir, you have made my day. :thumbup:

I'm also gonna link this in my signature.

"It's all in the game yo, all in the game..." - Omar Little
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr Woolf:
^^ possibly the most eloquent post I have ever read. Bravo Sir.

Edit, nodstuff was too quick and got in the way..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
Why thank you very much! I apprecia.....

Oh. You weren't talking about my post...:(:P

"It's all in the game yo, all in the game..." - Omar Little
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Journyman16:
*grins* In 1987 I bought an XT clone (1MB Ram, twin 5.25" FDD's - envy of the few I knew with PC's because I could put my programs floppy AND my data one in at the same time :D) to write books. I was sick of having to re-type a page or more just to change a sentence. 3 months later the PC got me a new job supporting WPO's at 3 grand per year more than I was getting. and I still haven't written my SciFi books. :( Working on it now and of course, along comes bloody Samsung S3 with Android and I'm fighting against techo distractions again... le sigh...

Forums like XDA will help greatly with selling Android; some older members need to recall that they once didn't know stuff but mostly folk are very helpful and there is a LOT of info to be had here. Mind you, it suffers a bit from popularity - search for something you want to know and you get like 5000 threads to look through. Needs an Advanced Search function, or maybe I just haven't found it yet. And why can't I search on the entire Samsung S3 forum? le sigh...

I think the reaction from a number of sites about how the court case showed Apple users how they could get everything Apple offered for far less if they stepped away from the Kool-Aid spigot shows an interesting facet to the competition. I haven't seen such comment before, even for Mac/Pentium battles. Usually it was about the differences, not the fact you could get the same thing. It could make a difference, particularly if the members here make a point of posting such a view on any/all forums they are members on.

5th column... the ONLY Army to join...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] furt890:
It is surely a good day for people that knows stuff from the gadget world but for common people they are still awed no matter what. The power of Apple's marketing can even turn a pile of scrap metal into gold.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VulguM:
I'm gonna quote that to my signature too.-
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irish-sid:
bbc news, sky news.... ripping into the iPhone. They say it boring, more of the same... and they mention the s3 a few times in each article.

This is big.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CuBz90:
:D

Source?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Acidpunk:
just Search : iPhone 5: Consumer Anger Over £25 Adaptor

I'd link but not allowed :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irish-sid:
http://news.sky.com/story/984469/new-iphone-is-more-of-the-same-from-apple

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19557497
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skibadee:
I was surprised at this. I expected the BBC to do their usual (non bias of course :P) over the top coverage of the new Iphone.

Either someone's given them a slap for practically advertising Apple stuff, or they've hired new tech reporters who know the real score.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irish-sid:
This trend is all over the place. The Olympics and the patent verdicts seems to have opened people's eyes.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Journyman16:
Samsung seem to have done their homework well. The S2 was extremely impressive, the GNote was talked about even in the pub, and the S3 is selling like hotcakes. When a phone converts people over to a brand or model, you know i has something. In the past couple of weeks, since the court case where the US Californian Court found against Samsung even though a number of other countries denied Apple their suppressive result.

Samsung has posted their view of things on Samsung's Blog - seems a reasonable post to me, given what we have heard and seen across the decades from the Computer world's largest and most frequent litigator.

And to highlight just how bad Apple's behaviour has been, and to demonstrate why S3 sales SHOULD go up, here is a reason for ethical people to punish malfeasance-by-verdict...

Apple - Have you HEARD about 'Thou Shalt Not Steal?'

And for Apple to now produce such a yawn-inspiring product as they now have simply highlights that the innovation has moved WAAAAY past Apple.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Damov3:
1 hour

I would not be so quick to judge the iphone 5 chances just yet! Looks like the iPhone 5 has sold its pre orders out in under an hour!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Acidpunk:
Everyone knew the iPhone 5 would sell well because of the fact that there are a huge amount of users locked into the ecosystem at this point, It's their own fault for buying so many Apple iDevices and apps.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TeeJayEss:
I'm an Android fan, though did own the first 2 iPhones, and Android ever since, but I'm sorry... as underwhelming as the iPhone 5 is, I just don't see the unstoppable force slowing down - any sales which Samsung appears to gain aren't going to be at the loss of Apple. As someone else said, Apple appears to command such blind loyalty amongst many of it's customers, there is little which will make them flinch. Honestly, it's like a damn religion to them, I just don't get it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Fault? Maybe they like the products?

S3 sales are probably going to stay pretty strong for the next few months. It's much like the iPhone in this regard - it's a device that has built up hype, and people want it. For users of previous Galaxy phones, they know what to expect. People typically know what they want, and rarely do new releases change that. People who are set on the S3 aren't going to see anything in the 5 that will make them want to change. The big advantage of the S3 is that it is the cheaper alternative.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Journyman16:
ref: RT - Question More

Did we really think mobile technology was going to loosen the chains that bind our world? Boy does Apple have news for us...

Apparently our Lords and Masters don't like the recent outbreak of information flow...

Now, ask yourself, given Apple's professed commitment to all those things we hold dear, )like communication, information, free speech, democracy and so on... is this REALLY the Corporation anyone should be giving money to? This company that can't even be bothered to adhere to their own ethos of innovation?

Or should we be telling everyone we know to go with companies that try to live in a world within which we would also like to live?

Is there a point in buying a communication device which other people, people with agendas you and I did not sign up for, get tyo decide whether or not we can use?

Now, XDA might feel this is not a valid thread, but given the open source approach to Android and to phones and pads built to run Android, there is an assumption that a world where a certain amount of freedom of communication is expected, and performed. Apple's contempt for their users by the 'drink-the-kool-aid' approach to the iPhone5 that hypes up something barely recognisable as a 2012 smartphone as well as their clear commitment to throttling the ability of users to use their phones in any conceivably socially responsible way should, in any sane world, lead to a wholesale rejection of their philosophy and programming.

It will not, because the programming is ubiquitous and we have been trained for decades to allow the memes, symbols and archetypes in through our inbuilt censors, but any forum like XDA that refuses to address the environment within which they participate is abdicating a responsibility tat mimics that performed by those who get voted into power by the victims of their power programs.

/rant
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skibadee:
Well just as some manage to escape crazy religious cults I know 4 people that switched to s2s from IPhones, ipads to nexus 7s. People are 'seeing the light' so to speak :P
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Acidpunk:
Yes they may like the products but because of the locked in nature of the ecosystem it does make leaving it almost an impossible chore, that's why I say it's their own fault for not doing the correct research.

It's like a post I saw the other day on ArsTechnica where a guy says that he wants an iPhone because you just plug it in to sync contacts and music, and that it was easier to do than Android.

Had to explain to him that We've had wireless contact syncing forever it seems like and Google Music's 20,000 song cloud storage :cool:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Journyman16:
Just an addendum to this thread... I've been researching pads so the missus can reduce her tech items - she now has a new desktop so having a GNote and 15 laptop as well is a bit of overkill for what she needs.

What I found is the following... The S4 has dropped in price down to around $630 for the 4G/LTE 16GB model (from Kogan) I bought my S3 from Kogan a year back on a Flash-Sale deal for $439 - about $120 off their normal price. Kogan are STILL selling the S3 and the price is $459. Now I might be mistaken here, but it seems to me the S3 is still selling well enough to keep the price up while the S4 isn't doing as well and so the price is dropping to find a market-acceptable point.

Not saying the S4 isn't good, but it was more like a point-upgrade than a full version change. I think most people just didn't see enough improvement to justify the big bucks extra and so they opted for the S3. IMO it shows just how good the S3 was in conception.
[Android Apps and Games] rcolitz:
I installed flashplayer 11.11 and then I also found a foreign version of Google Chrome that I also installed on my phone. Then I went to several flash player movie sites including YouTube but for desktop using the Chrome browser and they all worked beautifully. The Google Play store won't allow Adobe Flashplayer to be installed on my phone from their site or Chrome either. All the Android Apps will work on any phone as long as the hardware is compatible. If the play store won't allow the app to be installed. Because its incompatible its most likely not true. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy Prevail with Boost Mobile and it's not rooted. I wish it was.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsar1:
I've gone through all the old posts, tried various suggestions using Odin and the SDK but without success.

My son got his Samsung GT-i5800 locked because he forgot the swipe code. I tried suggestions on forums but no good. So I put the phone into the recovery mode and selected "wipe data factory reset" then selected "system reboot now". The phone then rebooted and arrived back into the recovery menu. Everything I've done has brought me back to "Samsung Recovery Utils for BML"

I've downloaded the SDK manager and tried typing "abd" into the command line but it is not recognised. I've pointed the command line at the tools folder, then the platform-tools folder found the abd application but cannot run any commands. Not that it would do much good anyway as the phone doesn't connect to the PC via USB when in the recovery menu.

I know this problem has been mentioned before but all the suggestions from those posts have not worked. I have now run out of ideas.

I've spent too many hours on this, so before I go buy another phone, does anyone have any other suggestions, please?

thanks.
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h4r5h:
^First of all, there's no such command called as "abd". Also, I'm pretty sure that you probably haven't installed adb properly. Just follow the steps given in the following tut to make it work:

[How To] Setup ADB for Windows/ Mac

And secondy, there's no need to go through all that hassle. Simply pull out your battery. Insert it back and then press the following key combo:

"Vol Down + Home + Power Key". This would take you to the Download mode, now simply flash any stock or custom ROM via Odin. Here's a list of Stock ROMs available for our device:

Galaxy GT-15801 ROM/KERNEL List
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsar1:
Thanks for your suggestion. I will give it a go when I get some more time. I was following quite carefully what others had written in posts. I can only assume they missed out a detail that they thought was obvious.

Sadly I've gone through all that. You are not the first to suggest this. I flashed the rom to the phone, Odin says "PASS" but the phone just reboots back in recovery mode.

It feels like that the phone's equivalent to the bios is telling it to go into recovery mode and not boot up the operating system. So regardless of what ROM is flashed onto the phone, I get the recovery menu. :crying:
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] austin266:
Delete boot partition

And reflash...

Hope it will ... or else try purumod ..
[Galaxy 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nikhil_android:
If u were on stock rom initially then u can always get help from Samsung service center

Secondly if u have cwm recovery u can install rom or update.zip through cwm itself

Also

Its surprising that after data wipe such problem appeared did u miss out something
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] henry225:
Hi guys, hope you can help me.

See.. I asked for google about a replacement because the half of the screen going out when I pressed on the top right side between the camera and the right corner, exactly like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrrV6L5nD68

I called google for my replacement, I was little worried because I purchase my n7 in july 18 th but the operator told there is no problem, he send me the rma to my gmail, I notice google charge 200 dlls (8 gb) for your replacement until the old one arrives.

Well the old one arrived in friday sep 7, i paid in 8 september the replacement but google hasnt unhold my 200 dlls, so my question is how much takes google to unhold your money ?, I called again like 3 times and every operator tells me something different:

The first one they tell the money gonna be unhold when the defective one arrives. (obviously not..)

the second tell me one week since the defective arrive.

the third 3 ONE MONTH! I was like what?!?, each time they increase more the time..

somebody have the money back? how long it takes?

oh and my replacemnt hasnt arrive yet, they first tell me 3 days, i called yesterday and say me 1 week, why..
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3vo kid:
Delivery of ur replacement should be about 4 days, 2 days to process and 2 to ship. They take the charge off ur card when u ship the defective tablet in, normally after UPS has input it into their system is when they remove the charge

Sent from my Rooted, LazyPanda, White "Destroy Mode" Evo
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] henry225:
That is my problem the defective has delivered in September 7, and google doesnt return the charge, and I have not even received confirmation of process of the new one.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] henry225:
Nobody with experience? :(:confused:
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eager27:
Lots of people with experience, and but no answer I'm afraid. Take a look at the 'returning Nexus 7 UK' thread on the general forum to see the range of of experiences.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xkyuz:
Hello,

I would like to discuss and ask why the newest rom from cyanogenmod team, cm10, is using a lot of RAM om the galaxy s2.

By a lot, I mean buckets of RAM. If you look at your app management settings you will see that it uses up to 630+ of MegaBytes!! And the phone itself only has about 1 GB of it. Because of this heavy usage of the memory the phone gets laggy, the smoothness of the whole system is terrorized by this heavily usage of RAM memory.

The only option is to reset the phone and then the usage goes back to normal again.

Could someone explain why this is?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jokesy:
There memory leak in CM10. it's a known bug, that's why it's still in beta.

The only way you can fix this is:

1. by using a Ram manager

or

2. By using a patched services.jar for your ROM, made by Dorimanx
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsCuBe:
Hi,

I have the same RAM problems, i'll try the fixed services. Thanks
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rolltrain:
Not sure when it happened but I noticed it after I put a different ROM on. Flashed back to the other and nothing. I have tried every back up I have and still no go. It will charge but no usb access at all. If I could get it back to stock I would take it to sprint. Any ideas?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polobunny:
Boot in fastboot, then recovery, and mount your USB from CWM. When it's mounted, unplug and replug the USB cable to make sure it gets detected. If even then it doesn't work, something is fubared.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rolltrain:
Hmmm... don't know anything about fastboot. How do I boot into that?
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] polobunny:
The same way you did when you rooted your phone.
[HTC Rezound] griffstert:
I was running 3.14.605.5 before and the GPS worked fine until I updated to the latest 4.03.605.2 RUU. Now after 15-30 minutes of navigation running fine, the GPS just loses signal suddenly out of nowhere in the middle of my commute and it is annoying as hell. Has anybody else run into this problem. Are there any known fixes? Some suggestions on what do here would be nice, Thanks.
[HTC Rezound] YTHero:
I don't know any fix, but if I were you I would probably consider changing this thread to the Q&A subforum. You might not like the responses some of the people give you since you posted in the development forum. Just thought I would give you a heads up.
[HTC Rezound] nbhnohome:
I've posted up the fix for this ISSUE before. All you need is to flash the Radio from the latest GB in Hboot

http://www.mediafire.com/?nk6mh2n4hv7fal3
[HTC Rezound] 66racer:
Wow thanks, Im getting setup to do the latest ruu once it finishes downloading and will keep this in mind.
[HTC Rezound] csong95:
Did you flash radio for 4.03.605.2 Etc
[HTC Rezound] famouscollin:
You'll be alright;)

sent from my s-off reZound rockin' viperRez Rom on global ICS firmware:)
[HTC Rezound] griffstert:
YES today I had no issues today with GPS thanks a bunch
[General Questions and Answers] that1guyyep101:
I recently got a Samsung Galaxy S III SCH-R530 32GB from U.S. Cellular and haven't rooted it or anything. I was wondering if anyone had any instructions or tips they could give me?

Before this I had a Motorola Electrify that I successfully rooted, but since this is a newer phone I'm guessing the steps have changed since then.

I have heard stuff about some triangle sometimes appearing after rooting, and something else about a counter.

I would like to root my Galaxy S so that those things don't happen if possible.

Any help would be great, thank you! :fingers-crossed:
[General Questions and Answers] that1guyyep101:
Anyone going to help? Thank you.:confused:
[General Questions and Answers] jmonroe0914:
Take the time to actually search and you'll find your answers.
[General Questions and Answers] that1guyyep101:
Oh yeah, where?? I see answers for different carriers.. but not for us cellular. So unless you're going to help don't reply.
[General Questions and Answers] gagdude:
Er... actually there are plenty. But the Sprint root method works on the US Cellular S3.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/us...1-how-root-us-cellular-samsung-galaxy-s3.html
[General Questions and Answers] jemcon:
Wow

I understand where you are coming from with seeing it many times, but why do you have to be so harsh? Some of us do attempt before we ask. But seeing a response like yours makes it more frustrating then helpful. You're a junior member, if you can't be nice or respond with something nice then don't at all.

I'm sure at one point in time you were in the "noob" shoes. And I'm sure you were frustrated as well. Did you feel good when someone was ruthless and harsh like that to you?

Not being rude, just stating a fact.
[General Questions and Answers] kynolin:
Really annoying when posts like this seem to always be the number one Google search for model# root. If they're such a problem, admins should be deleting them so they aren't everyone else's number one search hit. Yes, I know this will only make the thread come back up, but it's already #1 Google. If the question isn't worth anyone answering, no need to be in the questions and answers section.

For anyone who got here searching Google. This thread is not a guide. A link or two down on "SCH-R530 root" there's an android sc link with a guide and download. (That was just the next closest, so there's something here.)
[General Questions and Answers] that1guyyep101:
There's no need for you to respond to this thread especially since the last response was 3 months and 4 days ago. You're just wasting forum space.
[General Questions and Answers] suki300me:
Boo hoo

Oh really? Cry to your momma.. Ho ho ho :crying::crying::crying::crying:

+1 to [MENTION=561355]kynolin[/MENTION]. A fine point. Indeed this was my direct hit from Google. Shame the OP is such a dips*ick
[General Questions and Answers] Eternalty:
Wow dude. Just wow. I won't say much because the quoted post says a lot about you.

Sent from my CLEAN Note ll
[General Questions and Answers] suki300me:
No man, I really hate people who ask for help and then shouts at those same people who helps you. The guy previously there just gave a comment to help the people who land on this thread future. For example "me".. The OP didn't have to be so rude about that IMHO. No offence to you BTW ;)