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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pwhoeler:
lets be honest here. No company is 100% stable in all areas. Theres always a tradeoff, and as our lives change, as well as our residences, places of work, and hangouts, our choice of company may change to meet our new needs. In my area Verizon meets my needs best, but my neighbor might have a different story.

I think its unfair to judge a carrier in absolutes unless you're talking about a very densely populated area like a major city. If you set foot in the middle of manhattan and have 1 bar, I think that's an appropriate time to speak in absolutes.

And on the topic of smartphones, I think its an exercise in futility. My S3 is the best phone I've ever owned, despite the small glitches and imperfections. Did I buy it because it was the best phone out there? Absolutely. Did I know at the time of purchase it could be obsolete by the time I reached my car? I counted on it. Am I boring you all by answering my own rhetorical questions? Undoubtedly.

As long as you're happy with your phone and it meets your needs, good for you. If you're unhappy do something about it. But be warned, if you spend time comparing your phone to another one already out or soon to come out, you'll almost never feel good with the results.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dave_k605:
Maybe I'm in strong coverage area, Sioux falls sd, my wife and I both had fascinate, she still uses it, I have gs3 and never have had any issues with reception that any other phone wouldn't. I travel slot for work with in a 2-3 hour area.

I also read something about how Sammy phones read their signal v was different than other companies, I think it was about the nexus, but regardless the point was that the sig was still the same.

Fun fact, I currently don't have a comp that is able to root my phone so I used a buddies....he has a rooted razr, before any mods were done to my phone we ran a speed test in his house, off the same server and mine pulled slightly better dl speeds, ran test 3 times to ensure want a fluke.

I've had Sammy and htc phones, never had a complaint about radios.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Norwester:
I just switched from Sprint to Verizon this weekend and was holding off on

cancelling my Sprint contract until I could test the S3 alongside my Evo 3D at work.

I didn't really do any clocked time trials but the difference in acquiring and loading websites

and especially DLing apps between the two was enough that I called Sprint and cancelled when

I got home. Sprint coverage pretty much sucked at work.

I've got LTE and wifi at home so its not an issue here. :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zim2704:
I had the same issue with my pre-ordered S3. With 2-3 bars 3g or even 4g I could surf the web and stream with no issues but as soon as I tried making a call it went downhill. The calls would cut in and out and all together drop. I called support and after following their pointless troubleshooting they sent me a replacement. Have had the replacement for 4 days now and have not had any of the issues I had with my first S3. Both phones read the same -dbm and have the same radio version but the replacement can actually hold a call and not cut in and out. I believe it is a hardware issue with some phones and a replacement is the only way to fix.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] buggerritt:
I meant I made a poor phone choice. They have a great selection of quality phones. But it's silly for me to waste my discount on the S III (which doesn't seem to function as a phone as well as others that have better reception) or one of last year's models when the one I want will be available in a month or so.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] buggerritt:
I never bashed Verizon. As a matter of fact, I'm waiting on the phone of my choice to arrive so that i can return to Verizon. I don't have a choice of going back to my old Verizon phone since i don't have one. I am forced to either go back to Sprint and wait or waste my discount on a phone that I'll be unhappy with. I choose the going back to Sprint temporarily option. I also feel that the galaxy line has great potential. I'm currently on an S II and before that, i had the OG Epic (original Galaxy S). I love these phones aside from some major drawbacks. The radio is not that great compared to other phones, no matter which of the hundreds of modern i flashed. The GPS has been useless with no working fix (that is one thing that worked amazing on the S III and i was shocked at how many satellites locked. I can't wait to come back to that). All in all, my post was simply here to give users a thought to compare before making the choice to go with the S III. Do your research and consider your choices before going with a phone that you'll be stuck with for a year or 2. I think when i do get the new phone, I'll go in store. If i already had an old Verizon phone, I'd go with Amazon again but any change i want to do requires sending the phone back and being without for a few days to a week. Personally, i can't do that since this is my only phone and need it for business.

I agree, staying ahead of technology is a losing battle. But, choosing a device that you can be happy with for a year isn't impossible. Sometimes you have to play the waiting game.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] keno1964:
Nope. Where I live I am the only one that comes into my house and has decent reception and data connection. All my friends and relatives have either AT&T, Sprint or T-Mobile and not a single one of them can make a phone call from inside my house.

The reception on my SG3 has been as good or better than my previous D-Inc 1, pretty much everywhere I go.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmorton10:
I agree unfortunately.

I love my 2 G3s, but the radio absolutely sucks compared to my old Rezounds.

I recently went on a trip out of the country for two weeks & took one of my Rezounds with me for that reason.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] buggerritt:
Ditto on this. Where I had good coverage, Verizon's network blew Sprint away, hands down. There's really no comparison. This has nothing to do with the thread, though..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] buggerritt:
It has everything that the S3 has under the hood plus the design is rugged (waterproof/splash resistant), has Kevlar body, much better battery, the presumed better reception and to be trivial but honest: comes in black. I mean really...what phone manufacturer brings a phone out without having black as an option? That is preposterous. LOL

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] blestsol:
Everything under the hood?

:confused:

Gs3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kintwofan:
Everything under the hood, except half the RAM, a lesser processor, and lesser and smaller screen. I actually came from the RAZR Maxx and compared them side by side before I decided and it was not even close! Sure the battery life was amazing, but honesty with a custom kernel on the s3 I get close to the same. Also, I get reception on my s3 in places my maxx couldn't, but phones still vary.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tricknasty:
I'm really surprised but every carrier is different depending on where you live. East of Los Angeles Sprint is a horrible carrier and Verizon has extremely good coverage.

I switched from sprint a month ago and left the Evo 4G LTE, now I own the verizon GS3 and I can tell you reception is absolutely no comparison. I get LTE coverage 95% of the time even while traveling throughout southern california. On sprint I have owned the original EVO, Epic 4GTouch, Photon, iPhone4s, and Evo 4G LTE- Out of all of those phones the OG Evo and Photon had better reception that the others, but it was still on Sprint so coverage was never good.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] buggerritt:
You're talking about the current Razor Maxx. We're speaking of the upcoming Razor Maxx HD.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kintwofan:
Ya I didn't notice hd on any of the posts, sorry about that. It is going to be a beast of a phone! I had thought about waiting for it myself.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rlatjs17:
Meh... everything seems on par but not better than the S3 besides that gigantic battery. I wouldn't wait for a phone if its similar. Might as well get the best one available now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kintwofan:
Which is what I did.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobloblaw1:
And the one with the, now, unlocked bootloader.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] buhohitr:
I agreed with buggerritt, most of Samsung radio sucks big time, In my family, we owned 2 Galaxy Nexus, 2 Droid Charge and 2 S3, the radio sucks on ALL of them, the 2 Nexus and 1 Droid Charge had been replaced by Verizon due to poor signal and dropped calls, the 2 new S3 are about max 3 bars and fluctuated down to 1. My old Black Berry holds signal steady at full bar inside my house and I live in a "super strong signal" area. When I was visiting my in law, a poor signal area, We (Nexus and S3) received 1 to zero bar in his house, the Droid Charge held on to 1 bar but never hit zero. The Black Berry hold steady at 3 bars. So my recommendation is if you live in a poor area, don't buy S3 or Samsung phones (only a few exceptions), go with either Motorola or Iphone, of course no one buy Black Berry anymore so that's out of the question.!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] blestsol:
Don't forget htc ^^^

Gs3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rlatjs17:
I'm pretty sure all these "Confirmed" service issues are making people paranoid when they check their own phones which makes them assume they have crappy reception. I don't worry about it because I know my phone works fine and have no issues with it. If it really was a real issue wouldn't everybody in the Verizon s3 forum be complaining? I only see a handful of people complaining about it which makes me think its an area thing or an isolated problem. (If you live in the middle of nowhere get a walkie talkie)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pwhoeler:
I'm not directing any criticism your way, I was just remarking on carrier comparisons in general. Almost everyone I know at some point or another has said " $*&@ (insert carrier names interchangeably)" , myself included. You bring up a good point though, because no carrier seems to have customer service down to a science yet. Mailing your phone back and forth is terrible policy.

I've said it time and time again, pick the carrier that offers the best service where you work, live, and hang out the most, its really all you can do.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DeBears1:
Need a cell tower.

My old Motorola Droid X has great signal strength. My new Verizon GS3 with this new VRALHD is better than the old VRALG7, but still not as good as my old X. I used the above information to first install the VRALHD. Mid Oct. Verizon releases a 62MB update which included the VRALHD. I attempted the OTA process, all I got was Update Failed. I reinstalled the VRALG7, then the Verizon update process worked fine. I have only used Odin version 3.07. Nothing was wiped from my phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Keanen:
That's what they keep saying about the Galaxy Nexus. People are still waiting.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bluphi1914:
the wifi atennae sucks with samsung, in comparison with motorola
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] praktical:
Back to the original post. The news that Samsung has weak antennas is relative. The iPhone 4 plagued with its poor handling and signal loss was countered by Apple's bumper effect....lol. I've been an Apple user and app developer as long as I can remember and I am far from impressed with their lack of regard for us the consumers. Switching to Android was like lighting a candle in a dark tunnel. Your problem I think is contributed mostly to the network you're on rather than hardware fault.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] blueis300:
I had 2 Charges that sucked with reception and gps. Just to get out I paid retail for 2 Razr Maxx. Great phones but when the S3 came out I was like cool try another phone. As soon as I got it I had the no sim error and bad reception. I went through 4 and this one seems a little better but of course the reception still is poor. Again the typical, An update is coming that should fix it.
[HTC One V] bornagainpenguin:
Are the generic guides workable for building for the HTC 1V? Or do we have to wait for someone to write up a walk through specific to the HTC 1V hardware?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thefunkyjoint:
Hi,

Anyone had sucess in download this build ? For me all mirrors seems broke !
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] frigidazzi:
I used goo manager and I am running build 2 as we speak.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thefunkyjoint:
I could download using this app. But the links on the official page is still broked...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wayneyen:
the app also has jb build 22..........
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] barry93:
Samsung captivate help

hey how does build 2 run for you? also i'm a bit new at flashing/rooting what kernel do you recommend for it? I'm running icyglitch v14 right now
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] daihard:
Has anyone been able to download the zip file for GSM Galaxy Nexus? The links are still broken.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kyokeun1234:
You could always use goo manager app...

Swyped on my Galaxy Nexus running AOKP with Trinity Kernel, overclocked to 1.4GHz
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] daihard:
That's what I'm doing now. :)

Weird thing is, the app is downloading gapps-ics-20120429 instead of gapps-jb-20120726. I guess it's a bug and I should really use gapps-jb-20120726.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kyokeun1234:
Yeah, that's a bug. You use 0726 ;)

Swyped on my Galaxy Nexus running AOKP with Trinity Kernel, overclocked to 1.4GHz
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] runderekrun:
It's up on goo.im. The links are what aren't working. Try this: http://goo.im/devs/aokp/maguro/aokp_maguro_jb_build-2.zip
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] lordoftheriffs:
I wasn't able to sync in any way. Any help would be well appreciated.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Rapier07:
Use haxsync from play store
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] lordoftheriffs:
Thank you so much, basically much better than the official FB app :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Rapier07:
It is indeed better than the official :)
[HTC Amaze 4G] BiznessMan:
My Amaze was plugged into my car stereo playing some jams when it flew off the seat and down the side. I pulled on the cord to try and slide it back up onto the seat but apparently the phone got snagged. The aux connector broke off inside my phone after that. When I was finally able to take the amaze apart and get the input jack ripped out, the Amaze no longer recognizes any input :crying:

I need to either figure out a wireless solution for my jams or get a new phone. This whole situation is bad news bears :(
[HTC Amaze 4G] Double0EK:
Warranty
[HTC Amaze 4G] chozyn:
If you can't warranty the phone then a 99$ car stereo with Bluetooth may be your best bet instead of paying for a new phone. Good luck...

Live and Die on this day....
[HTC Amaze 4G] Spastic909:
I use this handfree Bluetooth thing from Motorola that has a fm tuner. Can listen to music and make calls. Only like 20 bucks. If you don't want to spend100 bucks
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ironlood:
When you dial *#7284# it opens a menu titled PhoneUtil which has two different categories one called UART with two options MODEM and PDA, and a second option called USB with a single button labeled "Qualcomm USB Settings"

When that button is pressed it opens up another menu with seven different options which are

MTP

MTP+ADB

PTP

PTP+ADB

RNDIS+DM+MODEM

RMNET+DM+MODEM

DM+MODEM+ADB

Can someone please explain what they are and how they function ??
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] maxwell302:
Hi,

I have a very annoying problem:

I was performing a Titanium backup ahead of flashing the CM10 monthly. Duting that process, the phone rebooted for no reason.

After that reboot, bootloop on the Google screen.

I had still acces to Clockworck Recovery, so I attempted a nandroid backup : md5 check failed.

I tried to wipe/install CM10 anyway : success until the bootloop just minutes after first boot.

I tried to restore the factory image with the toolkit, same as CM10, bootloop after the configuration utility.

If i let the phone bootlooping for a while, it sometimes goes through it and actually boots. But minutes after that, the phone shuts itself down and I need to remove the battery to power it up again. And after that, bootloop.

I tried the factory reset from the stock recovery, bootloop again.

I am running out of ideas to solve this problem, perhaps it is a kernel matter? or the battery?

If someone had the same problem and succeeded to fix it...

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] beekay201:
Show us dmesg and logcat of one of those sucessfull stock rom boots.

What fastboot commands did you use?

Start fresh.

Try another battery if you can. If it doesn't work... well, i hope you still have your warranty.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] maxwell302:
The phone reboots so quickly I don't even have time to finish the initial config, I don't have enough time to enable USB debugging at setup a logcat.

Is there a way to use logcat or dmesg logging in fastboot mode?

For the adb commands I used the Gnex Toolkit.

I will try starting fresh with the tutorial you provided.

Thanks for youy help.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] mrphil101:
This is the same issue I had when I installed LBE security. I booted into CWM and fixed permissions and it booted fine. Long shot but easy enough to try.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Petrovski80:
If fixing permissions won't help, backup your /sdcard via ADB in CWM, and then proceed with a complete wipe/reinstall of everything by using this guide: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1626895
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] maxwell302:
Just did that : first boot after the flash process, reboots at the language choice then bootloop on Google screen...

I don't have access to another battery, so this option is out :crying:

I hope this isn't a material problem.
[LG Optimus Black] Systemfire:
Hey,

Is it just me or is it OB but Shazam doesn't seem to be working... I'm currently using Paranoid Android 4.0.4 rom and I've tried fix perms but it still isn't working. Its starts setting up, but then comes up with this even though my wifi is on and working :confused: can anybody help?

Sent from my paperweight. Version = LG Optimus Black
[LG Optimus Black] Vivek_Vivek:
Other apps can access net? You got any firewall installed?

Sent from my Potato
[LG Optimus Black] droidclimb:
Hy, i realized this problem with any ics rom that you can flash for now. If you use gb stock rom shazam works fine. It has to do with the ics roms i think.
[General Questions and Answers] Vigneshj:
Is it possible to change the Samsung Wave 5333(bada os ) to Android Os?
[General Questions and Answers] Vainbender:
No.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] dymndback:
I just upgraded to a incredible4g frrom the original incredible, and wanted to give the old phone to my son to use as a "touch" type device.

I did a factory reset to clear all my stuff off, but now it looks like i need to re-activate it to get it to work. Can this be done even though

I already have a phone activated with that number? If so, how?

Thanks in advance,

Marco
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] kevinygc:
Hi, I am new to XDA, and this is my first post. :)

About a month ago, I grabbed my One XL in Hong Kong. Loved the phone very much but in the past several days, I noticed that the screen brightness seems to change with the background color. When the background changes from "mostly black/dark color" to "mostly white/light color", like when switching from appdrawer with black background to light-colored homescreen (ex., the "serene" desktop), the screen backlight will gradually (within about 1 sec. ) turn brighter. This is quite obvious if I lower the brightness level (I set it to about 10%), and at 50% the issue is barely noticeable. This looks like a battery saving method, but I'm not sure. I would like to ask if this is normal, or is there by any chance a way to turn this off? Because it is indeed very annoying to me:(. Currently using ViperXL 1.2.0 rom and Beast kernel. Thanks for your help!

P.S. The auto brightness is always turned off.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nasir javed:
hy every one!!!

i want to buy a glaxy s2 from a boy but his glaxy s2 shows yellow triangle at boot screen!!!

i dont know what is it??? is this phone normal or something going wrong with his phone ??? is it safe to buy a yellow triangle phone ??? and can i easily remove this or i dont need to do so????

thanks for your help
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jokesy:
buy it. The phone is probably rooted.

If the model NO of the phone is GT I9100, GT I9100P, GT I9100T or GT I9100 T, then you can remove the yellow triangle with an app

Swyped from my Samsung Galaxy SII

Supercharged ParanoidAndroid 2.12

Dorimanx kernel 5.76B

GT I9100

Next phone: Galaxy NOTE II
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lyholm:
AFAIK It's caused by flashing a costum kernel, as a part og the rooting proces, changing the binaries. You can get rid of it with Chainfire's "Triangel Away" app.

I recommed you have a look at his thread :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nasir javed:
ok i understand now thanks for your reply...

thanks to both!!!!!!!!!!!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zander-Man:
You can buy Download Jig to remove hat triangle. But i think you have to go back to an older Kernel to do so.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ephraim:
You mean old bootloader. :)
[General Questions and Answers] mimiw:
I like to use apps like Yuilop or forfone to call free.

On GB it was no problem, but after the update to CM9 by Arco89 beta1, I newer hear the other caller.

Can someone help my, to call for free?
[HTC One X] unnamed777:
After installation mod of camera (based on htc sense) counter of photos was reseted and now new photos have names as "IMAG_001", "IMAG_002" and they rewrite old photos. How to change this counter?
[Galaxy S III Accessories] brynte5:
i´m looking for a stand that fits the s3, for taking photos and recording videos!

the istabilizer seems to be the best one i´ve found so far and i might get it, but it´s a really tight fit and it would probably mean having to remove my rock quicksand cover, every time using it!

the developers are saying that they are working on a mount that would be better suited for the s3, but i guess that could take some time and i need a mount asap!

do you know of any other good quality stand that would fit the s3?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyI4qLn7pnc
[Galaxy S III Accessories] brynte5:
this seems to be another good alternative:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oJ5yMOcY_c&feature=related
[Galaxy S III Accessories] scarrmrcc:
trident kraken AMS, has an adapter to allow you to use ANY normal tripod..

Just sayin', if you want the best.
[Galaxy S III Accessories] brynte5:
thx for your input, but i don´t think i´d want that for a case, since i´d find it too bulky...

i´ll check it out some more anyway, though!

the two alternatives i linked to, would also work with any normal tripod, i´d imagine!?

i do want the best!
[Galaxy S III General] irzero:
This **** isnt OK Samsung!

When you use the dialer and hit contacts and then Keypad and then Contacts the screen goes black and redraws and lags like crap.

People use the dialer every time they use the phone and its just BAD.

How on earth do you think you will ever compete with iOS when you have glaring problems with the most basic functions.

The functionality is OK but the implementation is terrible.

If you cant make Touchwiz work then maybe you should just forget it and start over.

Oh and BTW Nature themes suck.

Rant over :)

Ps. Omega Rom rox
[Galaxy S III General] uberNoobZA:
Works fine for me. Yes it does show an animation or transition or whatever you want to call it, but I see no lag.

Swyped on my Galaxy S3 using xda premium
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Anger management course anyone? ;)

www.getagrip.com
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
<smh> I clicked the link! D'oh! :(