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[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
Concluding thoughts:

I think I have solved my issues. My phone performs as it should without the frequent lag and overheating issues. Occasionally I will have to close my background apps but it's not a huge issue.

As an iphone user making the jump, I can now honestly affirm my love for the galaxy s3 running 4.1.2 and my preference for it over iOS. But the process to get this phone to the point of love and affection was both tiresome and frustrating. For those that enjoy tweaking and modding then android it is. Otherwise iOS would so the job.

I am considering making a YouTube video documenting my experience from the shift from iOS. Both the good and the bad. Android from the good impressions to poor, from improved impressions to disappointment to a final culmination of satisfaction and love.

Above all though, android out of the box for me was an utter dissapoitnment - but it's amazing how impressions can shift so suddenly. The way the phone works now, the way it just works the way I want it to without limit or interference from the overlord Apple - now that's the phone for me.

I love my GS3 :o
[Galaxy S III General] cb_jimmy:
Glad you found your new love. As a fellow ex-ios user, GS3 is my first android experience and I'm glad I jumped the ship. I love the openness of android and the power of GS3 getting things done fast. Like you said, tweaking the system is frustrating but with how fast GS3 is, you take no time at all to try out various tweaks.

Now my only complain would be the sub par multitasking due to poor RAM management optimization from Sumsung as I expect my international GS3 to be able to have more apps switching without reloading.
[Galaxy S III General] sxi200:
The I9305 S3 is what the i9300 should have been. The 2gb ram makes a world of difference. It feels like a different phone all round.
[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
I second this, though the sluggishness has gone away and the multitasking is sufficient for my user case.

A tip: Something I find doing now is splitting the screen between chrome and Gmail (a new feature on 4.1.2 galaxy note 2) - I copy text from the browser then directly copy it into Gmail. This is far more efficient than using the task switcher. The gs3 performs these kinds of simple multitasking actions without a hitch.
[Galaxy S III General] XenomorphXx121:
I came from nokia symbian which was a closed source and they had basically stopped all improvements and developers had stopped making any apps or games for it so to go from that to this I was just amazed at how great android is.
[Galaxy S III General] a67543210:
I had the same issue when I was driving to London. In my case, I found out that the car's heater was coming to the back of the s3, causing it to heat for than it should. Stopping the heated air getting to the phone resolved the issue.
[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
Laaaame get gps signal lost glitch after 4 minutes of using gps. The lock is fine but it just loses out after a little while.

I knew something would come up. Top good to be true is usually the case. :(

Want to throw this phone at the wall.

It's a common occurring issue I hear. I've re flashed the radio and installed some mods but to no avail.
[Galaxy S III General] cb_jimmy:
The latest leaked 4.1.2 seems to have this GPS issue. Keep in mind that since 4.1.2 is a leaked build, it is ought to have bugs and this GPS is one of them.

Well, you can try install FasterFix from play store or roll back to an older but stable 4.1.1 build or you can just bear with it while waiting for a new stable leak/build.
[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
Sorry for my rant yeah ill have to roll back as my job depends on gps. Have had to pull out an old gps kit with maps as old as 2005 but it does the job. :)
[Galaxy S III General] kickokim:
In my opinion you had very bad luck, the 4.1.1 update was very disappointing for everyone and had some obvious bugs, if you had bought the phone when ics was still on it you wouldn't have had any of these issues and would have been happy straight out the box!

Fortunately 4.1.1 didn't last very long as 4.1.2(which is an amazing update and has no need for modding) is already being leaked.

Last thing, the s3 isn't exacly android, it's touchwiz. The galaxy nexus I had before, which had pure android always 'just worked', now my mother uses it and loves it and I assure you she's definitely not a modder. Samsungs adds a lot of stuff and does some quite heavy costumisations so some firmware versions can be buggy at times, but they get fixed quickly enough so it's not a problem!

Ps.always check you are not in battery save mode because it's always going to laggy if it's on!

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Gps issues are probably related to the firmware not being for your region, it can easily be fixed with the agps patch I suppose.
[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
Hey!

Thanks for the suggestions. Yeah I tried pretty much avenue:

-Agps (tried 3 different ones)

-New modem

-Flash new kernal

-Fasterfix

The GPS isn't totally not working, it just looses its lock every few minutes then spends another minute or two to reconfigure. Works again for a few minutes then the same happens. Cycle goes on, it's very frustrating. The one thing I love about this phone (when it worked) was the GPS. It would lock 90% of the time in less a split second (and a few seconds more in a building). I could also drive around the streets of Sydney hours on end without the GPS loosing its lock.

Now it takes 3-20 seconds to lock (if anything) and looses the lock frequently.

Yep, it's likely the firmware 4.1.2 as I see a few folks on these forums with the same issue. I really like this firmware but GPS is essential for me.

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] kickokim:
Sometimes the patch won't work, you could wait for Samsung to release the official firmware for your reagion or try to fix it mannually by copying a gps.conf and gps.xml (system/etc) from a rom with gps which does work for you and paste in to your rooted 4.1.2 leak rom with a root enabled file explorer. After that use fasterfix app to change ntp to your region.

I got this from an other thread about the same issue.

Notes:

Ensure you paste both files back in the same location (system/etc)

Remember after paste to set permissions to rw- r-- r--
[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
I'm really grateful for that info. I saw his post too and I will try it out soon. The last rom that was working fine was an official 4.1.1 from Samsung. I'll grab the files off my friends rooted device which uses that rom and give it a go.

If it works than big hugs and kisses to you!!!
[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
Unfortunately the fix doesn't work. :(
[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
If anyone is experiencing this problem with the gps signal cutting out often a quick fix is to disable "use wireless networks" in the location settings. This fix did the trick for me and I'm able to do everything as I did before. Great update.

Also another tip is to download the unlimited multi apps mod to allow you to use the side bar multitasking feature with any app.
[Galaxy S III General] tntgdh:
I just tried your experience here too. Everything worked flawless.

I would like to suggest you the omega rom. Using it with nova premium is an absolute perfection. Also omega it's set to never let your memory below 200mb. You should try.

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Oh and i almost forgot. omega It is using the 4.1.2 rom
[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
Cool did you try out the mod that lets you multitask with unlimited apps in the side bar?

Also do you have issues with GPS navigation app loosing its lock after, about 2-10 minutes on 4.1.2 when you switch "use wireless networks on" (it's. A setting in the location settings) ?
[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
For folks using 4.1.2 and getting gps lock issues there is a fix that you can do via cwm:

Follow the link: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=34573025&postcount=7989

It's solved my issue and using this over WanamLite v5 for the galaxy s3 international version is so far a god send.

Loving my s3 again. See how things pans out.

Getting a few launcher. Redraws if I linger in a app with high mem usage though.
[Galaxy S III General] XenomorphXx121:
Good for you

Most of your problems come from the custom roms or kernels you flashed, I've never had any of them problems using stock roms.

The over heating and lag issues are caused by over tweaking, over clocking.

The wrong combinations of custom roms and kernels can cause many problems, takes a while to get it all right and you think by coming here and having a quick go it makes you an expert.

Enjoy your iphone.
[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
Thanks to all for their feedback. I did follow all the instructions and advice given to me from p.1 here in this thread. This includes reverting back to stock ICS and referencing my experience with other people's stock GS3s. I think as the original posters indicated the version of the GS3 I own only has a GB of ram as well as an out of the box flawed JB4.1.1. For most users this is fine, but in my situation it doesn't cut it.

I think my experience was a combination of bad luck and my extreme heavy use of the phone.

-bad JB out of the box

-my user case demands a lot of multitasking (GPS, music, blue tooth, photo taking, constant use of multiple IMs, SKype, Viber, Tango and more sometimes all at the same time).

-Use screen time 4-6 hours five days a week, keeping the phone tethered to a charger whenever I possibly can. I also have a portable charger with a ton of juice.

I think Android is superior if it worked all the time. That's why I will consider a android for my next phone (over my iPhone 4). But I will wait until the next generation comes out.

Coming here does not make me an expert, but it is a great source of knowledge and without this reference source I'd be stuck out in the dark. So I appreciate your feedback.

The gs3 is much better than it was when I first got it, but it's heating up like a mofo. The current rom is Wanamlite 4.1.2 which is practically stock although leaked firmware. Seems to be giving me the best results thus far. Works most of the time, but lags up if I push the device too hard. Not half has bad as before when it would lag out of nothing.

Meanwhile, I will switch back to the iPhone 4 as I know it won't die on me (kind of sad given the GS3 is 2 years newer). I've got a buyer for the GS3 and will wait the GS4! I'm also considering the note 2.

Cheerio.
[Galaxy S III General] gaspernemec:
Well....I dont know where so much problems came from? I am using leaked build (4.1.2) and I dont have those problems...well it can get little laggy, but spikes arent long and strong...all those overheating, ram managing, stability (that requires reboot) problems, idk where they come from, most likely from overtweaking, believe me, galaxy S3 works much better without million scripts, multitasking fixes, that kills it and makes it sluttery (installed foxhound with all tweaks once-it was useless), I am running wanamlite 5.0 with siyah 1.8 and that is everything i need-it works like a charm and i dont need all those tweaks+clearing ram makes cpu work lot more, so thats where overheat might be from, never clean ram on android!....anyways gluck with next ansroid and have fun with iphone :)
[Galaxy S III General] XenomorphXx121:
I had overhearing caused by a certain kernel I tried, also over heating is caused by booting your device too many times causing media scan which only comes on when you either turn on your phone or restart your phone.

To multitask on an Android you have to remember to close some apps in the background and only use the ones you want to multi task with, I found the 4.1.2 the best for multitasking but a shame it's just a leak without all of the tweaks ironed out yet but that will come out officially in December.

Take care.
[Galaxy S III General] kickokim:
Double post. And now my original post has dissappeard, great!

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I wrote a very long post before and delete it by mistake.

In summary I think most of your issues come from bad tweaking and a poor understanding of what the mods do and how they work. Stock official roms for your reagion are always the best solution. Rooting the phone won't make it faster, it just enables tweaking and from the description you gave of what you need from a smartphone it doesn't sound like you need to tweak.

In my opinion you just weren't content with the 4.1.1 touchwiz update, like many others by the way. It's not for everyone.

If you want a no bull****, rock solid android phone just buy a Nexus, anybody can tell you that.

You can't judge android from a touchwiz phone.
[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
Thanks I appreciate the thought too bad the long post died! I would be liked to have read it in its entirety!

The GS3 is a great phone don't get me wrong. Right now I am using it with minimum tweaks and it's running brilliantly, but I know it will lag up and die on me sometime later today, maybe in the next 20 minutes or the next few hours. It's just inconsistent.

And consistency is oh so important. Just like a restaurant that consistently delivers good food, you keep coming back. That's not the case here. I want to come back but I'm afraid. Apple was kinda like that but the new iOS 6 is a piece of crap.

If you say a pure nexus experience is good, would you recommend me just installing a pure android rom on this GS3 like slim bean or one of the other mainstream roms? Thus far I've mostly been playing around with stock touch wiz stuff with in a number of different variations.

Again, Wanamlite 4.1.2 with the Siyah kernal is the best experience so far.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] wednesday13:
Samsung really did a poor job in multitasking and touchwiz. Too many gimmicks, too bad this powerful phone is not tweaked enough and probably won't get maximized as they chose not to release the sources.

I won't probably change my phone for the next 2 years, but when I do I would probably buy Google nexus phone.
[Galaxy S III General] XenomorphXx121:
The problem with the s3 is you can't really explore the open android experience yet because the source codes aren't released yet.

This is my first android phone and android open roms were the reason of me buying it but haven't been able to have that pleasure yet of seeing what others can do with the hardware inside.

So I've had to just experience custom roms that are just really stock roms just tweaked to delete bloatware, add tweaks here and there for better battery and speed.

I hope they are all released so I can have the full benefits of my phone without having to rely on one company giving me what they think I need and want.
[Galaxy S III General] kickokim:
Samsung might release the source code in December and it might be useful for the development of fully working AOSP(pure android!) roms. But until then it's just another reason to complain about the s3!

The simplest way to try AOSP is to try an Nexus 4... I'll probably do that too eventually, I had a galaxy nexus before my s3 and I miss it!
[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
Haha, I think I'll wait till December before I sell this thing then. I do like the XDA community after all. Nice chaps all of you :)
[Galaxy S III General] kickokim:
Nexus devices are my consistent resourant, I'm happy with my s3, but I do realise it's a compromised android experience, many additional features, but also many additional limitations and small issues.

My experience with iphones(I've had or tried all of them since the 3g) was really bad, I really don't like itunes and the apple-mussolini philosophy, it's an annoying invasive experience, and since ICS android has definitely surpassed ios my opinion.

WP7 also was awful for me with the lumia 800. Maybe WP8, but it just doesn't seem so different and I don't want to use Bing!

HTC sense wasn't so bad, but also to much nonsense.

I like sony phones, but I've never tried a flagship. Maybe the next one!

LG... Not so nice software wise, but great hardware!
[Galaxy S III General] stefankorun:
Try downclocking the CPU when you are doing a lot of multitasking with mobile data on and see if the temps stay low. Downclock @ 1.2Ghz is hardly noticeable and you and you can test and see how lower CPU speed affect phone temp.
[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
Cool. My phone seems to be doing alright now that I've undervolted. I maintain the 1.4Ghz max and 200 mhz min. Though I do find there is slow down when I neglect to do some micromanaging in the multi-tasking menu.
[Galaxy S III General] stefankorun:
There is no performance loss with undervolting it just might cause phone to turn off or freeze occasionally if you go too low with the voltages, make sure something else is not slowing down your phone.

Just for the record I accidentally forgot my phone clocked on 900MHz max and I didn't notice any lag except when installing apps. I used my phone for a day and a bit more before noticing :)
[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
Good to hear. I might try under-clocking too. Get some more juice out of this thing. It does lose battery fairly quickly when there is heavy screen time.
[Galaxy S III General] Hujbalo:
Coming back to Android

I just tried using a virtual memory partition at it seems to have eased my phone when the load get's too high. It doesn't magically make my phone faster, but it does seem to make it a lot more stable.

I've used it for a few days now and with very heavy usage. I'm liking the experience again! GPS issues were fixed with a patch too so everything is working as of this moment.

Wanamlite 4.1.2, Siyah Kernal with virtual memory block of 512 mb.

Cheers!
[HTC Desire S] tuaseenakhtar:
im havng a problem in my desire S that when i open or download specific apps from Google Play

my SDCard react in strange manner, when i open any app from card it shows FORCE CLOSE error..

then i hav to unmount and remount the card ..

sometym som apps stop working perminantly so i had to reinstall dem.

Also their are som files and folders in Android/Data folder which cant be deletd... somtimz they shows the size of

around 150 GBs..installed is 4 GB card

I dont knw is dis a virus or SDCard fault, i formatd da card nd reset the cell but same is hapenning agan now.

plzz help!!!
[HTC Desire S] premsrj:
you don't get viruses in Android. All you get are bad apps, called malware. and those are not like your regular windows viruses.

You probably have a failed SD-Card. Try another card, and see if this happens again.
[HTC Desire S] tuaseenakhtar:
Yes u wer ryt

It's working fine wid another sdcard

Thanks alot :)
[General Questions and Answers] Ursa Warrior:
hello all, i have samsung galaxy s2 which has kernel version xwkj1. I am unable to find an insecure kernel for this kernel version. Plus m unable to officially update my phone to ics. I stay in india but bought my phone from nigeria. Please help me. m fed up of running gingerbread on this phone.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] karimz1982:
How do I stop my note 2 from unlocking itself everytime I connect the headset or detach the spen?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chaitanya87:
Click the highlighted settings in the pic below. Then you can deselect the page buddy options.
[Transformer TF300T General] dwardu:
Hi all,

I was reading some documents online and since I bought my tablet in europe, this document states that my warranty would not be void if i were to unlock the bootloader. What do you think about this?

FSFE Website
[Transformer TF300T General] NixZero:
probably true but if they dont comply you'll need to take them to court, are you ready to spend a lot of time and money in tribunals?
[Transformer TF300T General] dwardu:
Well theres a department in every european country that takes care of consumers problems, they can start a court case for you.
[Transformer TF300T General] funnel71:
I would go by what's on the screen when you try to unlock the device. It says void so assume void.
[Transformer TF300T General] NixZero:
E.U. Laws trumph any internal asus statement when they sell on E.U markets.
[Asus Transformer TF700] saugstauber:
Hey Guys,

today i donwgraded from Jelly Bean .20 to ICS .30. I rooted my tab an root did work in ICS. After i had saved root with OTA root keeper i went up to jelly bean (OTA). Now i'm on jelly bean again but root keeper wont restore my root!. When i click on restore, it says "root su restored". Nothing else happens. In voodoo the field "device rooted" stays empty. I did reinstall superuser and even voodoo (surprisingly it has my root saved even after reinstallation) and restarted my tab (normally and cold boot) but it didn't lead to success.

Does someone has an idea what to do? Or was all the downgreading and restoring useless? :(

greetings saugstauber
[Asus Transformer TF700] jkvato:
Try this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1976150
[Asus Transformer TF700] MartyHulskemper:
Or download SuperSU from the Play Store, reboot and see if that fixes it.
[Asus Transformer TF700] saugstauber:
Thanks, but it seems not to work :/

I attached a picture of how it looks like, if I click restore root.

Edit: i just wanted to add that i have superuser deinstalled and SuperSU installed and rebooted.

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[Asus Transformer TF700] buhohitr:
Redownload superuser from the market, open it up and do the update, then try the OTA rootkeeper again. If OTA hang, just un install the superSU then try again.
[Asus Transformer TF700] saugstauber:
Now with superSU and superuser installed i tried to restore root, but it's the samy like before :(

What do you exactly mean with "do the update" ?

Thanks!

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[Asus Transformer TF700] buhohitr:
So when you restore root from OTA rootkeeper, you received a message that root restored but you still don't have root. Redownload OTA root keeper then do root restore again, if still not working then try to open up superuser and supersu then try again.
[Asus Transformer TF700] saugstauber:
Thanks for this really easy to understand guidance.

Unfortunately even a reboot after performing your guide didn't help.

I'm desperated...

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[Asus Transformer TF700] buhohitr:
It's very odd, OTA stills see that you have a backup, but failed to restore. Can you open up superuser and there is an option to check for update, do the update, if there is an update, un install OTA, reinstall OTA and try again.
[Asus Transformer TF700] saugstauber:
When I click on "click to check for updates" it says "manifeste is downloading... Didn't work" (it's Actually German so I tried to translate it). Than I click on "try again" (at the bottom) and superuser crashes ("superuser was unfortunately closed").

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[Asus Transformer TF700] buhohitr:
something is wrong there, I just tried and it displayed in English and updated fine. Check your firmware SKU version and superuser.
[Asus Transformer TF700] DNO1978:
Have you tried following this guide?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1926147

This thread was posted in a link earlier on in the conversation but you might have missed it. I used a few days ago it to take mine down to 9.4.30 and back up to 10.4.20 whilst keeping route.
[Asus Transformer TF700] buhohitr:
He want to fix it as is, he doesn't want to start over.
[Asus Transformer TF700] saugstauber:
@buhohitr: The German language might be because of I'm from Germany :D

My SKU is WW like before.

@DNO: I saw your link, thanks! But for me that is the last solution to try. Hopefully we/I can manage to gain root without having to downgrade again.

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[Asus Transformer TF700] saugstauber:
Hey guys,

today i was so pissed of having no root, that i did jkvato's method.

Now i have in OTA root keper all squares marked, but apps like titanium backup don't gain root access and root checker says i have no proper root access.

I already de and reinstalled superuser, but without success.