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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Sir_Brizz:
I'm still not sold on battery life. I can't believe battery life has improved that much between the 4 and the 4S/5. With a similar usage pattern on the iPhone 4 as my GS3, the iPhone 4 tends to turn off 1-2 hours before my GS3 does. Granted, it is older. But I've never seen the iPhone 4 I have last more than 12 hours without turning off.

Meanwhile, I go 14-18 hours on my GS3 consistently. The only time I had "bad" battery life was one day where my screen on time was 5 hours. And I still got around 12 hours before I had to be plugged back in.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Sianspheric:
The one big difference in terms of battery life that I did notice....is the amount of time it takes a GS3 to recharge.

Plugged in and charging my iPhone 4 could go from 0% to 100% with me occasionally checking it within 2 hours max. The thing recharged quite quickly.

With the same occasional usage it takes my GS3 about 4 hours or more for the same result. I don't know if the standard 2100/2200mah batteries for the GS3 are significantly bigger than iPhone 4 batteries.

But beyond the battery drainage, which can be extended or modified on either device based on closing apps and lowering brightness, etc. The recharging thing is hugely different, imo.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] derberts:
Switched to GS3 from a 4S.

Things I love about the GS3

-customizability

-screen size

-possibilities, I haven't even started using tasker, but the fact that you can install custom roms and kernels is just ridiculous

-how it plugs into your computer like a USB stick (itunes is possibly the worst program ever created, for me at least)

-being able to download music from mp3skull or other sites and have it play on any music player app

-jellybean > iOS6 all day every day

-the blacks on this SAMOLED display are superior

-notification tray where you can enable and disable wifi/bluetooth etc... (this is a big one as with the iphone you'd have to go into settings and all that)

Things I miss

-pictures seemed a bit more real on the iphone

-portability (this is a trade off really)

-compatible headsets and accessories (very few headsets with mics are compatible with the GS3)

I'm sure a I missed a lot but I can't think of them all right now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] theraffman:
My sgs3 charges incredibly fast, usually folly charged in about 2.5hrs and never ever over heats. I can be on phone calls, watch YouTube, stream Pandora or pay games while charging and no problem. On all my iPhones it would get so hot that it would sometimes shut off and give that over heat screen... plus my previous iPhones would seem to take forever to charge.

Additionally, I believe the iPhone only has a 1400mah battery, vs the sgs3 having a 2100mah, and my sgs3 still charges faster than any iPhone I have ever owned.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] howtomen:
For those with battery issues i felt the same way with my first android after my iphone (2 years ago) and what you have to do to get super awesome battery is find the right kernel and uv settings... it works wonders! If ur phone doesnt like uv then ur outta luck but all 3 of my androids seem to have liked it:P
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nwbie07:
One of my favorite features is the customization of Android (Widgets, Themes etc). I am a recent iPhone fan switching over to Android. I still own a few Apple products. On the iPhone i can still customize it after Jailbreaking but the customization level is no where near as good as Android. The other attractive feature is Android phones tend to have bigger screen. Even the iPhone 5 still has a tiny screen (just taller). I want it wider.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Vanillamarble:
I don't know why everyone is complaining about the battery life. Wih my iPhone, I would normally have to charge the thing at least once during the day. With my GS3 I can easily get through the day with 40-50% left with moderate to heavy usage. Maybe I'm just lucky or something. *knocks on wood* :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] diablo009:
This surprised me too, coming from Android phones - Captivate, Infuse, etc. I come home in the evening from work with like ~40-50% battery left with about 2-3 hours screen usage time (on auto brightness) and multiple sync accounts.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] waiters:
Some things my iphone friends get jealous of:

That we have had panoramic for a year, and we can go up/down /left right and they can only go side to side..

Widgets

Nfc (after I show them Google wallet and my nfc tags)

Live wallpapers (don't personally use them but still fun to show people)

Ability to overclock, undervolt, and under clock.

More memory (64gb mem card, I show off 50gb of music and they freak out lol)

Sharing with all applications like from gallery upload photo to fb, twitter, email, etc etc. (they have this with fb only)

And cool apps like dsploit, droidsheep, zanti etc..

And blocking of ads (which I conveniently forget to tell them they can also once jaikbroken)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] :
What's an Iphone?

Open source to rule them all...

Android is Neo in matrix.

Iphone ur just in the matrix.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] deliciousqt:
in no particular order:

1. customization

2. expandable memory

3. screen size

4. speed! (does that count? lol) i had an iphone 4 before my s3. what a difference! i

when i bought my s3, i always thought to myself that i would eventually go back to iOS, but after owing the s3 for 2 weeks, it's getting harder and harder to go back to apple.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mathewrice:
Personal Preference

Favorite Features of the GS3:

Factory Unlocked Bootloader

Most Missed Features of the iPhone 4/4S & 5:

Aesthetics - its simply a more beautiful device
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrnovanova:
Ok guys I have no Idea what you're all talking about the gs3 comes with avcrp 1.4 stock. I have bluetooth in both of my cars and when I play music from my phone "wirelessly" not only is the sound great but I get all the metadata track, artist, album. I NEVER got that with my Iphone 4.

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I remember making ringtones on my iphone 4 how did it go again?

Choose song

open in itunes

song info

chop it down to 29 seconds

save in aac

put on desktop

make sure you can change file extensions

switch aac to mr4

open in itunes

upload to phone

10 steps

all I have to do now is longpress and set as ringtone

Imagine that!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] metalhawj:
Like: expandable memory, better emulators, capacitive buttons, nice camera, OPTIONS for different default Apps.

dislike: Apps arent built as good as in app store.

- stock UI is just garbage with so much bloatware. only tolerable with custom roms.

- For every cheap problem, there is a cheap solution, and there are plenty that come up here and there.

- S3 isnt very friendly with mac users

- MMS/SMS just plain sucks. every group message from iOS is sent as a MMS

- Love or hate for most people but I really dont like how every damn app can theme itself.

- every phone has its own rooting community.

- large screen is nice, but still a bit too big for me. slightly smaller would be perfect.

- people will flame for this buta rooted android phone is not as customizable as a jailbroken iphone.

1. a custom rom is really as far as you can go. whatever comes with the rom is what you get.

2. i dont count theming because both can do it.

this is based on my experience upgrading from iPhone 4 to S3 and how i personally use my phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rootyourphones:
I love it ,how It crashes alot and battery drains.apps force close alot i specially i love how google wallet still doesn't work.my galaxy s3 is the best even it can't play nova 3, tomtom app doesn't work and i love to flash roms specially flashing recoveries just to get one rom to work.

I love it how my phone when im on a call and my screen stays black and i have to reboot all the time thats the best ever i so love it when it reboots itself i don't even have to touch a button its like magic and its the best feature on the device. I can go on and on it won best award for best worst phone ever and im proud of that.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] norbarb:
Why you even here ? Get back to iPhone. Why are you using something you don't like ?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jethro650:
Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I personally have helped several iPhone converts get started on android, its a big step and a lot of differences, some people have a hard time adapting to something different. To those who dislike it put your S3 up for sale and switch back to iPhone...its all personal preference anyway. Having said that and seeing the way this thread just turned
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] norbarb:
That whay i said. If you don't like it why bodder. Get back to iPhone.

I switch from iPhone 3gs over year ago and i personaly will never get back. I even sold my iPad 2 to get sasmung tablet : Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. It is diffriend but i never complain about i try to find good things about android and now i know which is better in my opinion.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ikjadoon:
You can download apps from your computer and they install on your phone without even touching it! :D

That just blew my mind in a thousand different ways.

--

Go SMS Pro can appropriately thread group MMS texts. I use ChompSMS because it's sleeker...I've emailed the developer to see if they think they can support it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] waiters:
Sounds like you are using a broken rom and kernel
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] metalhawj:
I don't get it when people say open source.I don't even think people get it when they say open source.

If android is as open source as everyone says, why do we still have to go through the trouble of rooting and unlocking bootloaders. Why are there apps that require root?

Why do developers have to beg Samsung to release documentation for the exynos chip?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Sir_Brizz:
Because who has anything better to do... ;)

Then get developers of apps you want to use to make better apps.

I prefer vanilla but I actually haven't minded TouchWiz. I came from an Atrix which I love and had rooted and custom ROMd to snot, but the new TouchWiz is actually usable.

I don't even know what this means. Every app in iOS can "theme itself", too.

I'm not interested in flaming, but I am curious what specific things you mean.

Huh? I just played NOVA 3 this morning...

Why do you even use this phone? Sell it and get something else. Also, I haven't had any of the problems you mentioned with force closing, battery drain, or anything else.

Because unlocking bootloaders has nothing to do with whether or not software is open source, and the fact you can root Android so easily in many cases is partially due to the fact that it is open source.

Because the Exynos chip is proprietary, not open source.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bigjim1488:
I have to disagree on your last point. Yes I loved my jail broken iphone 4s but it was not as smooth jail broken as my galaxy is rooted. After a while with my iPhone I would run into slow downs and crashes with tweaks running. Granted great concept but most people I know that jail break and tweak hard end up having issues.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Sianspheric:
How exactly do I do this?

I am rooted, running Triune II right now as my ROM.

But I have no idea how to mess with kernals and "UV" settings?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] theraffman:
Just curious, what customizing can be done on a jb iPhone that can't be done on android?

I had iPhones for years and I found that a jb iPhone is only slightly more tweakable than stock android, jb iPhone couldn't touch rooted android, between init script, kernels, uv/oc manipulation, audio tweaks, Roms specifically cm, aosp, miui etc...

But that's my experience.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] slimslim:
This is where you lost me... It looks like you already think you made the wrong choise and try to justify it with cons. There are so many 4-4.3" devices to pick from?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rquinn19:
Don't bother with that clown...he showed how clueless he was with his "open source" post.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crash822:
I don't think you understand what opensource means. Opensource is when a program, or in the case of android, has the source code available. This means that the actual coding itself is available for free to anyone who wants it. Opensource allows anyone to take the code and modify it however they like.

The reason people have to root and unlock bootloaders is due to the cell phone manufacturers as well as the carriers. Those carriers and mfg are the ones who will lock a bootloader or not allow root access by default usually due to a lot of people who don't know what they are doing will end up braking their phone.

I could be wrong on this but google requires that the rom that is put on the phones by the MFG to be opensource but not the documentation for the hardware. Having access to the documentation for the hardware allows developers to fully optimize and customize hardware which is the reason why people want the source code and documentation for the exynos processor.

We bother with this "clown" so that we can educate a person so that they won't be clueless

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There are some kernels in the original development section. Flash a kernel through recovery and wipe cache/dalvik cache when doing it. There is no need to wipe data or anything else. Make sure to make a nandroid backup before flashing a kernel or anything else that is a modification to the OS like a rom/kernel/theme/mod/etc. Uv is undervolting. I'd advise reading a lot about under volting as it can cause problems to your phone if you don't do it correctly. Try a new kernel first then if you aren't satisfied try undervolting later after doing some research. I'm using ktoonsez's kernel myself. I almost forgot but make sure you download the correct kernel version as well. If you decide to stay on Triune II then make sure you download the touchwiz or "tw" for ICS.

FYI TW kernels are for samsung based roms like triune II, AOSP kernels are for aosp based roms like CM10, aokp, miui, stuff not based on samsung firmware. Make sure you download ICS if you're using an ICS rom and the same goes for downloading the JB version if you are using a JB rom.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ikjadoon:
Other things I like about the GS3 over the iPhone:

1) You can change keyboards, change system-wide fonts, icons, launchers, stock SMS, LED colors, and actually use different browsers without rooting.

2) +1000000 on using MP3s as ringtones

3) SmartStay should be included on all phones henceforth made (screen won't turn off if you're looking at it...thus, you can set a very short timeout)

4) The notification bar plus easy setting toggles are AMAZING

5) Bluetooth can be used to send files!!

6) NFC to use as a transit pass (one less thing to hold)

7) LTE is blazing (though, if you have a new iPhone 5, you have it now, too)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] waiters:
I learned a lot I didn't know about the sgs3 from this...

50 reasons sgs3 is better then the iphone5

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=A48A4J5qpYA&desktop_uri=/watch?v=A48A4J5qpYA
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pbpatel1981:
pbpatel1981

Just Return Iphone 5...and got a SGS3 i had inspire 4g before but got stolen..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sgq:
I was an iPhone 4 user for a couple of years. I really loved my iPhone coming from a Blackberry. However, I owed it to myself to try Android before making a decision to stay with IOS for another 3 years (3 year contact here in Canada).

Things I really like, to name a few:

Screen size

Toggles

Expandable memory

Changeable keyboard

Notification

Customization

Definitely no regrets moving to Android and getting the S3.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] uch1da:
Has anyone tried flashing android onto iphone hardware? The best of both worlds!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] A Ham Sandwich:
I don't have an iPhone but I had an 4th Gen iPod Touch with iOS6 on it for about a week and my good friend is an Apple fanboy with a 4S, which I've used several times in his attempt to show me that it's "better." After using Android for the past 5 years I found the interface with iOS6 to be so severely limited compared to what I'm used to on my Android that I became frustrated using the devices within a few minutes. Granted I'm used to, and biased towards, Android but I found the iOS system to be far too limited in what I can customize and do on it. I need OPTIONS!!!! I need to tinker and change things to make them how *I* envision my experience on a smartphone, not the way Apple envisions it.

Oh yeah, and widgets/toggles.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crash822:
I could be completely wrong as I'm only guessing here but I would imagine it wouldn't work well. I'm sure someone has tried but here are several factors that would prevent it from working well. There is no documentation for the HW on the iphone available to the public making it so that it would be very difficult to get HW acceleration for anything in the OS. I'm pretty sure the cpu and hardware architecture are too different to make any kind of porting feasible.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bigjim1488:
That's just silly talk!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bradgillap:
Enjoying it

I carried a 3gs for the entire 3 year term and kept it in good shape. The battery got much weaker toward the end which was expected but changing it out was not something I was looking forward to doing. So that situation alone made me choose the S3 when my contract was up.

Thing I miss the most is probably imessage for sending photos to friends.

I rooted the s3 within a day after a ton of reading. I got the commuter case a few days later and now have buyers remorse over that purchase as the hyperion 4200 battery doesn't fit with it. There are many obvious software improvements that I really like. My girlfriend hates it so far as I try out different roms and occasionally lose features. A few weeks later I noticed all of my friends are now switching to the s3 ditching their iphones and blackberry's. I ordered a bunch of NFC tags and had a blast with that. It's a pretty solid gadget and I hope it lasts out to the end of my contract like my 3gs did.

I have kind of hit a wall now with it. Ive done just about everything I can find on xda to try with it and settled into a set of apps and roms I like. I'm hoping at some point they add a bluetooth profile for my new car deck to show song info. It's a DEH series pioneer which is working to play music and take phone calls for now.

pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Car/UnAssigned-Content/Android+Compatibility

I picked up my 3gs the other day and it felt like a childs toy in comparison.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] wataytay69:
New to android here. I had several iPhones over the past 4 years. I've had a few complaints about Android thus far. But absolutely without a doubt best feature yet is no iTunes!!! I hated having to have my library scattered across multiple computers in order to be able to sync. I also hated that they shoved updates down your throat.

Main reason I decided to leave ios was because the jailbreaks aren't coming along any more either. There still isn't even an untethered jailbreak for the 4s let alone the 5.

Good riddance ios!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Apple deserter:
my favourite is the auto pick up when someone calls,it automatically answers if put up to the ear. Absolutely awomse and incredibly useful
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mattedwards2686:
Finally found the problem with the headphone controls!

I POSTED THE SOLUTION ON PAGE 4 of this post

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1935434

Just trying to spread the word:)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Sir_Brizz:
FYI you can post links once you have 5 posts. That's interesting information. I was trying to figure out why certain headsets didn't work on other Android phones as well and this makes sense. There are a couple of apps in the store that supposedly can translate the signals.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Spawn026:
It's been done by hacker planetbeing. It was buggy and only compatible with the 3gs I think. You can still find info on it if you search but last I heard the project died after the initial launch
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mattedwards2686:
Its irritating that android never vocalized this issue. You would think that they would sell adapters like these in Best Buy or mobile outlets. I discovered this issue when I decided to make an XLR to 3.5mm cable. I was trying to do some mobile recording of some acoustic songs i wrote, so I bought the tips and wired it myself. Later, I wired one for a friend with an iphone and it didn't work. It wasn't until later that I discovered that Apple's pinout was different from the standard. I guess I'm just more irritated over the fact that new android users are going to have a negative impression of these great phones, unless the word is spread. I like apple product, I just wish we could all agree on one simple standard.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] KentuckyHouse:
FYI, there IS an untethered jailbreak for the 4S (as long as you're still on 5.1.1). But yeah, there's nothing for iOS 6 yet and judging by the responses of the usual jailbreak guys, there isn't one coming any time soon. That alone drives me away from my iPhone.

While I keep a 4S around, mainly because my wife is a fangirl (and I need to stay up-to-date on what's going on with iOS), I rarely use it. I only switch away from my S3 to the 4S when I feel a hint of boredom coming on. The funny thing is, every single time I switch to the 4S, within an hour, I'm switching back to the S3...LOL. iOS just feels so constricted and closed compared to my S3.

I debated and debated over dropping the $$$ to get the iPhone 5 (since I'll be passing my 4S to my wife and she'll be retiring her 4 soon). But after really giving it some thought, I opted to pick up a mint 32gb white 4S from the MP yesterday. The 5 is just having too many problems (contrary to what the fanboys will have you believe). I was reading a few threads on MacRumors yesterday where people are having problems with their 5's BENDING. Seriously. Some are claiming it's happening spontaneously (they're surmising that the battery is expanding and causing the soft aluminum frame to bend and crack) while others are bending them by accidentally sitting on their phones while they're in their back pockets. Either way, whether it's a battery issue or user error...that's just silly. I usually keep my S3 or 4S in my back pocket and have sat on both of them multiple times without issue. If you can now bend an iPhone 5 just by accidentally sitting on it...that's awful planning in using such a soft metal for the frame.

Bottom line for me...I love my S3. :good:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DJBBOX:
I've been an iPhone user since 2007 and I just changed to my SGS3 from a 4S and I love it!