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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xpirozx:
When I tried the leaked OTA jelly bean release.... the audio was terrible... so bad I had to revert back to stock I was using.. and then all was good..... It sounded almost like it was in mono instead of stereo..... The official release of jelly bean I installed over last few days.. sound is good.. I use sennheiser and Bose earphones through poweramp...

If your using the leaked version LALI3 I think.. from early sept.. this could be your issue... ive seen a few other posts from others saying the same...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] superballz00:
So there's no hiss with your headphone jack?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bagbug:
none, sound is great (not amazingly great, of course).

Ill probably go back to ICS too, but certainly not because of audio quality output.

Android is a weird OS. Some people (like me) got around bugs/weird behaviors simply by doing a factory reset. You should give it a try but remember to backup your data/save games with an application like Titanium Backup: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup&hl=en

But hiss is probably a defect unit, I would return it asap.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] superballz00:
Noise floor is the same with both stock ICS and JB. I going to do a factory reset later to see if that will fix my issue with everything lagging on JB before I go back to ICS. What headphones are you using by the way? I might have to look into exchanging my phone if most people don't have a problem with the loud hissing noise. Can someone with balanced armature IEM give their input on the noise floor?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sandy_thegame:
My sound clarity is good with any custom or stok rom with default heaphone :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ymodem-G:
The sound quality out of a Galaxy S3 headphone jack could be much better than it is. We have two, so I have multiple devices to use as a frame of reference. To be honest, our Samsung Galaxy Captivate (CDN version) had far superior sound output from the headphone jack for the simple fact Voodoo supported the device.

The Galaxy S3 would be far better if there was a decent mixing-board or app that would allow you to adjust levels beyond stock. So far, I personally haven't found one.

The audio quality is good, the levels are just VERY low compared to other devices.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] superballz00:
Yeah the stock hp makes the noise floor and distortion tolerable. But more sensitive IEMs especially balanced armature are almost unusable because the both the noise floor and volume is too high due to the amp settings. There is also a crazy amount of distortion compared to the Captivate.

Looks like I seriously have to consider trading for the international version so I can use Voodoo to turn down the amp.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] chodaddy:
Install awesome beats.see if eq fixes sound problems
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rani9990:
Or get noozxoide eizo-rewire. The greatest audio EQ of all time :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mxt86:
sound quality is great for me... samsung audio quality has always been good imo
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] theraffman:
I hook up my sgs3 through my denon receiver powering a Bose acoustamass surround sound system and it sounds wonderful. No complaints Here, except that I could have got a better system than Bose for a cheaper price... I fell for the marketing machine, it's still a great system though.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drewgstevens:
The SIII (US version) has pretty poor audio specs, most obviously the high output impedance which makes it very noisy on low impedance headphones (i.e. almost all IEMs). I use an a 75-ohm adapter cable which at least makes it possible to listen to podcasts etc. I also use an external DAC/amp (Sony PHA-1) to bypass the crappy internal amp which works really well with my full-size headphones.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nizda1:
I use a pair of sennheiser IE-60's and an older pair of sennheiser with an adapter. Both work excellently, especially if I rip a quality bluray and I can use dolby digital 5.1. Music wise, its fine with my own music. However no matter what phone you have streaming video or music will never sound like it could, although sometimes I catch some 5.1 support. The stock headphones are garbage, just like most stock headphones. They definitely dont support enhanced playback, if loudness is all you want, some custom roms will mod the loudness or incorporate beats etc. Im an audiophile too, so I look for a different kind of experience. Even on my s2, I first noticed your headphones play a good part in your experience on mobile devices, when my old sennheiser adapter broke and I used the stock headphones to watch a movie, but dolby digital 5.1 was greyed out, and it sounded lower in volume and generally poor.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crixley:
Lol beats are crap....

Get your garbage headphones out of here
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] maurobonder:
Hi All,

I wonder if someone already using Galaxy S4 test this problem with sound S3 has solved.

I have an S3, and use in my car with cable auxiliary output 3.5 sound, the quality is reduced and is very bad, using poweramp gives an improved, but still losing in quality compared to any appliance not samsung.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] maurobonder:
i found a article that show a few informations about this subject.

in S3 when something was connected to the output quality was reduced to 3.5 (from -92.6 to -53.1) and now in tests in S4 reduction is small (from -96.4 to -95.5) which makes me think it was resolved.

Right?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] maurobonder:
Ops. I found more information regarding these graphs is that the 9500 model has a new audio chip (Wolfson), but does not support LTE.

The i9505 that supports LTE is the same audio chip S3, so if you care about sound, it is better to opt for GS4 9500
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Zammo76:
I just had an issue with my S3's audio sounding really tinny and awful for for the last few days. I use the Equalizer app and thought this was playing up so de-activated it through the phones sound settings, however the sound was still bad. In the end I re-activated the Equalizer app and checked its settings and I had a Virtualizer effect switched on, once this was turned off the sound was fine (I find it strange it didn't sort it before when I switched it off in the phones sound settings)..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] maurobonder:
I went to the store where he had a samsung DockStation and tested my GS3, GS4 and ipod.

When testing the GS4 the three had a large decrease in volume when connected to the AUX input, and also had the GS3.

The best of the three is the ipod in my opinion.

Comparing GS3, GS4 and ipod.

1 - Best: Ipod

2: GS3

3: GS4

One thing I did not ask because I forgot. What was the model that I tested the GS4 (i9500 or 9505). Should I go back on Monday to ask.

For anyone thinking of using the GS4 in an AUX input of car stereo, maybe it's a problem. As I am still unsure, not bought.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] wardoc22:
To the people thinking these "beats" headphones are high quality.. Lol

The audio quality on the s3 (US variants) is just fine, at leat the frequency response is.

Ill try to explain this in regular English.

First you have to know that the voltage of a signal directly affect the volume.

There are 2 types of audio gains, hardware and software.

Software is when you adjust the volume with the volume buttons on your device. This does not amplify the audio signal itself but simply just decrease(volume down) or increase(volume up) the amplitude of the waveform. If you increase the waveform too much, it starts to clip because it is attempting to output a voltage that it cannot. You can model this by increasing the volume of a sound file in audacity until the tip waveform is literally flat. That's clipping. This will give you a visual on why it happens.

So to software audio control up, it is basically increasing or decreasing the waveform. If you go too high up, it starts to clip. If you go too low, you are essentially decreasing the resolution.

In hardware audio gain, you are pretty much increasing the amplitude of the signal itself, and not the waveform. A drawback of this is if you amplify the signal too much, you start to get noise. The amount of noise you get depends on the quality of your amp.

The noise from the amp is what op is hearing. Most people don't even notice this noise since it is so common nowadays (my lumia 900, lumia 710, and our beloved galaxy s3)

The us model of the s3 is loud, much louder than the international version of the s3. This noise is just a byproduct of the extra volume gain.

I'm sorry but I don't understand why manufactures to care so little about audio quality. The only mobile devices that I find with decent audio quality overall is my Nokia n9 and -I'm ashamed to say this- all of the Apple products

I'm sorry for this seeming like an advertisement, but the only way to fix this is by installing a custom kernel worth faux audio support and then installing his faux sound app. This allows you to directly control the amp on the device itself, at the cost of a lower max volume of course. I personally use a gain of - 10.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] adammc86:
I was having the same issue and i rebooted several times. with no resolve. But then I found that it was spotify causing the issue for every other application.

In spotify go to settings > Audio effects. Turn it on but don't alter any of the equalizer.

Hope this works for you too.
[Nokia Lumia 920] buffalosolja42:
My Lumia is dead after very little usage today and overnight charge my co-workers is at 77%. Should I be concerned or just leave it dead until it comes back up?
[Nokia Lumia 920] emckai:
Try draining the battery to 0% and then charge it back up to 100%

I didn't have to do any of that and my battery is running strong. Strange...
[Nokia Lumia 920] alodar1:
I am told that conditioning these batteries is no longer required to gain optimum performance. However, it is strange to see the things we do with the battery 'appear' to work.

If you drain to 0% , be aware that you may have a problem bringing the phone back up. As you know, WP does turn on when the power is connected. With the battery at 0, there is not enough power to turn on. You may find yourself going in a turn on , turn off loop for a couple of hours, before enough juice is transferred to the battery to allow it to turn on and stay on, on its own. I'm not aware of any damage this can cause, but it can be irritating if you need the phone quickly as the charging sequence is continually being interrupted by the lack of power. If you do this...be very very very patient
[Nokia Lumia 920] Nissan350:
I have never had this problem. Not on my HD7, Lumia 900, Focus S or Flash. And not on my 920. All of my phones turned on immediately after I plugged them in (at 0%). Strange that you've run into this problem...
[Nokia Lumia 920] buffalosolja42:
Me either having owned a Focus, Focus S, Lumia 900, and now 920 I was worried like I said a co-worker has the same phone different color was sitting at 75% while I was at 20ish. I am well aware of the phone not coming up though and I actually don't like one thing on windows phone is that the phone won't stay off once you connect power. But I will report my results today 8:26 and I'm sitting on 100 after takind device off at like 7:24 with a 10 minute call and like 2mins of data usage. Looking better so far I will do a little media listening when I have to get out of office and will report back. And I really don't like how clueless ATT Reps are, when I managed we actually had people who cared and none of them was sporting a Windows Phone at all.
[Nokia Lumia 920] alodar1:
I haven't had this problem. Never have. But several people in the xda 900 forum have reported this. And, as you know, with Microsoft products, bad news outruns any good news.

Just thought it prudent to put everything known on the table. Would have felt bad if I didn't mention the possible situation, and then he/she ran into the problem

For me, I'm on my 4th charge since I got the phone. The battery lasts from when I get out of bed in the morning, till I go to sleep at night, with lots left over. That's 430am -10ish pm...charge was over 40% still left. Last night I played a card game until the % got under 10%....then plugged it in.

First day results of the battery were horrible. After first charge it also left a lot to be desired...since....its better each time.
[Nokia Lumia 920] buffalosolja42:
**Update**

After letting the device completely die out it has been working optimal, on like 80% now after 7hrs of use
[Nokia Lumia 920] LBacaj:
Funny, I made an account just for this issue. First day I got the phone it died within 3 hours of use, it came in the box at roughly 77% battery.

Being as it was 0 percent i figured that was fine for conditioning the next day again it died after about 3 hours of use..., I tried turning it on and the battery thing kept flashing, I kept trying to turn it on and eventually it turned on and it said it was at 0% :(

That 0% increased on its own to like 6 and it didnt die for a long while then when it fully died a third time... I fully charged it and now it does not seem to want to die. I dont know if it is just my unit or what but it seems to take a few charges to get fully running.

Regards.
[Nokia Lumia 920] AlienHairball:
That's exactly how it went for me as well. First day - it drained super fast and shut off. It wouldn't turn back on until I had charged it for a while first. Each day since has shown better performance than the previous day.
[Nokia Lumia 920] yeahmon:
I have had my 920 for a week now. I was barely getting 4 hours on a charge. "Conditioning" the battery doesn't seem to have done any good. Using Battery Saver does however. I charged it to 100% this morning, put it on Battery Saver, and put it on standby. I just checked it 12 hours later, and it is STILL on 100% battery. I haven't used it at all mind you, but it didn't even sip 1% of the battery in 12 hours.
[Nokia Lumia 920] JonnieLasVegas:
I had this problem with my HD2 (running WP7), my Radar, my HD7s, & my 900. Everyone I've known with a Windows Phone has this same problem. I think you and the others are the lucky ones. Seems to be an OS problem. Really would love to plug in my phone and leave it off to charge. Not that big of a deal, really, but just weird it's not capable of doing this.
[Nokia Lumia 920] buffalosolja42:
Update*

After letting it die completely I have been getting all day and putting it on the charger at nigh with 40% ~ 50% left, and I am running 3 email accounts and live tile galore. I do only 20-40min calls a day and slight web surfing while a decent amount of music listening 15~1+hrs, sure when Teamviewer or Logmein comes I will use it a lot more.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zanakorus33:
Hi guys , i just bought this phone but i have a little big problem here :)

This device have only 4gb internal memore show in system as a sd card , and i put my 16gb sd in slot but can not install aps on it any advice for me.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avicohh:
Hi

I'm looking for root & cwm for this device. specially cwm recovery or another kernal/recovery that can install zip files.

there is something like that?

thanks a lot.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nixonik:
someone managed to do the root?
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gummygum:
managed some soft bricks in how not to root. Odin up & waiting if a dev comes up with it
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alberto888zz:
I am also waiting for the root!
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] winxuser:
not sure if it would work, but im working on a rom right now that is pre-rooted, but like i said i dont think that it will work,, i hope someone makes a cwm recovery soon
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] teddybt:
I'm currently trying to create a prerooted rom the way I did it for my tablet.

Extracting the system image from the Update package was easy, currently I'm trying to mount the syste,.img to set the rights and add the SU binaries.

If this works out, how can I flash this ROM?

With KIES? Or Update.zip on SD?

Is there an Update mode, and how can I get there?

edit: Okay... I was able to mount the System.img, but this is not that straight forward as in the img of my tablet.

I found a lot of folders, but no .apk, known folder or something I could work with.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quiquesaiz:
softbricked

Have you tried adb shell?. I am not allowed to post outside links, but if you type "londatiga net/it/how-to-use-android-adb-command-line-tool/" in Google, you will get the appropiate link

Could you explain with some derail how did you unbricked the phone?

Thanks a lot
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] winxuser:
ou should of just setup android kitchen and put the boot.img and system.img in there and it extracts them, plus you can pre-root it aswell
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alberto888zz:
I have posted here for help!
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeek12:
Hi guys, I'm pretty new here.

I was wondering if there is any official 4.1.1 Jellybean for SIII Mini, 'cause my phone is pretty dead at this moment. I tried to download from official servers some packages , and use them with Odin ...but the phone is still at the main screen " Samsung Galaxy S III Mini GT-I8190 ". Any ideas how to manage with this ?

Or can I use another firmware, as 2.3.4 Gingerbread?To downgrade the device just to work?
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dltabares:
Do you tried to get some of this firmwares:

samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-I8190

and installing with:

trickytweaks.com/i8190xxaljl-4-1-1-jelly-bean-update-gt-i8190-s3-mini-how-to.htm
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeek12:
Yes, I have tried with my provider's firmware , but nothing happened. Still at logo screen. I have also tried with other firmwares, but still at a dead end. Right at this moment I'm flashing my phone again, hoping that something will change.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gummygum:
Had it stuck by flashing custom boot.img. Solved it by flashing 1 file image from samfirmwares as pda in Odin 1.85 default settings
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeek12:
I have succesfully extracted the PIT file from my S3 mini with the Heimdall software, but I don't wanna use it to flash with Odin because I think it's pretty messed up. Can anyone provide me with their Galaxy S3 Mini PIT file, hoping to rescue my dead phone ?
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] winxuser:
no boot into recovery mode and wipe data/cache that should get the phone booting again, esppecially after flashing firmwares with odin
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeek12:
Well, if the recovery mode can be accessed with Volume Up + Home + Power, then I can say that my S III Mini won't get into it.If I press these buttons the phone just gets on, and remains at Samsung Logo. So that is why I'm asking for a PIT file, 'cause I can't get into recovery mode to erase all data, so I can flash my phone again using Odin.

I have tried all official firmwares and still nothing. I guess my SIII Mini partitions are a little (or a little more) messed up, and I need to use Re-Partition from Odin so I can revive my phone.And to do this I need a PIT file from a working phone.

Or there is another way to get into recovery mode, excepting Volump Up + Home + Power?

Thanks for the answers.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeek12:
Well, the NsPro tool requiers a box, that costs 170$. The program is useless without that box. I have downloaded it and doesn't work without that box.Another solution is by using a JTAG box, which does the pretty same thing, but again, it is expensive.

I was thinking that if I'll repartion my phone it will resolve the boot.img file, because it's in the "softbrick" at this moment.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kicker63:
helpline

Have you tried emailing or phone SAMSUNG`s helpline, they might help.
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cianyika:
Write this image file whit odin 1.85 and voala you phone revive.

Pls use tanks buton
[Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeek12:
That param.tar file I saw it is for S II . Does it work for a S III mini too? Aren't 2 different devices?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] spizzak:
Does anyone know what this widget this is:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] thermanlee:
Looks like beautiful widgets 4x1 weather with a different downloadable theme applied.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] spizzak:
Cool, thanks. I'll check that out.
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] Ahmet098:
If I do hard work with my phone or enter some apps when I press home button.I wait for widgets loading [3or 5 sec] and enter apps list I wait for 3 or 4 sec.it won't happen on my friends s3.why it happen.because of ram or CPU it can happen when 150 Mb free ram and it can won't happen on 50 Mb ram.I think it happen cuz of CPU.how to solve it I just use amop and nova launcher.

Sorry for bad English
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] 7amada100:
thats a problem with most launchers on our phone, some launchers solved by locking the home in memory or caching every this (like launcher 7 or launcher pro). Go Launcher somehow solved this problem without anything. i've been using Go launcher for quiet a while because i have tried many launchers and they all have this. and if you want the ics look you can download a Go launcher theme or customize your own. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] pepoluan:
You can try using "V6 Supercharger" script.

-- xda app / CM9b3 / DXKL1 / Galaxy W --
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ls1ssz28:
I need to unroot and return stock, the only issue is im out of town and only have mobile Odin on my phone.. Can anyone walk me through what I need to do?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ls1ssz28:
Or what do I need to download?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ChaseBroyles:
Flash http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1904099 if you have a custom recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ls1ssz28:
Thank you
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ls1ssz28:
This will return to 100% stock so I can get my phone looked at in the store?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Speedin07si:
Yes, but you may want to do a factory reset as well. I used that zip while running freegs3. And in the settings my network still said FreeGS3, only a factory reset would clear it back to Sprint.

Sent from Pluto.
[HTC One X] McBeaker:
This has got to be one of the best Live wallpapers I've seen in a long time! so thought I'd share this find with you all :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=opotech.starfieldLWP
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] eltarod:
So I friend gave me his i777 and I rooted it and then went to install Omega Rom. The problem is that from the 4 touch buttons only 2 work and they do stuff that isn't normal.

For example home button goes back...

Is it a Rom problem or something I did wrong?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] 122ninjas:
Um maybe omega is not for this phone?

Sent from my GS4 running CM11 Kandy Kane
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Pirateghost:
Somebody flashed an i9100 rom and kernel
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] eltarod:
Thanks for pointing that out :)

So then if I just flash a specific i777 Rom will everything be ok?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Pirateghost:
You need to follow the xda member creepyncrawly's guide to reverting to stock
[General Questions and Answers] oliviancool:
Hi i need a root for my galaxy note i dont i tried so many roots but no result.
[General Questions and Answers] Theonew:
What firmware are you running?
[General Questions and Answers] oliviancool:
XXLPT