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[Galaxy S III General] boomboomer:
I'd guess the number of posts reflect the number of S3 phones, over 40 million sold. Even a small percentage of these people having 'issues', many of which are their own dumb fault, result in thousands of posts but the number of unique bugs are very small.

There are several remaining, now the sudden death is hopefully gone, none fatal. The only lag I get on my phone is a second or so when waking, which I think reflects the very low power consumption I find. I don't view it as a bug, more a feature of the phone.

I've just come from the HTC Sensation and the S3 wins easily on all aspects; component, software and build quality especially. Good luck with the 1X, best go read their forum first to understand the issues with that handset.
[Galaxy S III General] Stu1973:
I get that too....but it's also when coming from being on the net then opening either texes, contacts or calls, it takes 3-4 secs to open, it's a pita....I dont get this with my old HTC Desire S and it's not nearly as powerfull.

So you think the one x is a worse phone, personally I think it's down to personal preference now.....dont get me wrong, I like the S3, but this laging really pisses me off, for such an expensive, fast phone, that's one thing that's not good
[Galaxy S III General] bigmo7:
Haha are you serious?

Do you realise only the people that have a problem with a phone will come here to complain right? The other 99.99% of the population don't bother cos their phone is working fine!

If you're talking about the wakeup lag, I believe that's down to SVoice but not sure, tbh it doesn't bother me too much but that is the only lag I get on this device. If that's the really bothering you that much then you'll be better off with a different phone.
[Galaxy S III General] boomboomer:
I've not had the 1X so have no idea, it's just my opinion on HTC coming from what I thought was a good phone (the Sensation) and finding it was no comparsion to Samsung's S3.
[Galaxy S III General] rockler:
Horrible battery life :silly: IDK whether its fixed with JB, I switched to S3 before JB was released.
[Galaxy S III General] Clobon:
Hi there,

"I know they say the S3 is a great phone" - I say they're right!

As mentioned before, only people with problems post here. If everyone without

problems would post here... crowded:p But seriously if ALL people with "great" phones

would post here (e.g. without Android like iphone users or RIM) I think the

severity of problems would be balanced out.

I got some dark spots too. But that is "meckern auf hohem Niveau" as we say

in german (complaining on high level). Because (as mentioned before) you

can see these paticular flaws only under certain circumstances.

They'll

never

effect your daily usage.

And if (by any chance) your phones screen really is done for in let's say

3 years... Will you even be having the same phone then? Not that it's cool

to have a phone with just 3 years life expectancy, I have older phones like

my Ericcson T65 which still doing fine...:rolleyes: (That was a cool little brick^^)

But anyway...

Long story short: everything has it's shortcomings. Our phones have black

spots on their screens which can only be seen at night on a black screen.

The heck with it^^

Regards, Clobon :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
You must be aware that 99% of faults reported on XDA are dumb user problems .

There will be in the twenty or forty million phones sold a number with problems .

Just because mine has never lagged does not mean others have the same set-up or even the same build of phone component wise .

Real solution for the OP is to sell the phone posting here will not make it better .

Judged on past posts OP has a network problem .

Can anyone get on the net with their HD2 on 02 payg

Bad lag when coming off the net

Cant connect with pc..

and more judge for yourself .

jje
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
First if you want to see actual problems with the phone check a forum that isn't developer based "I flashed an I9305 rom and my POS phone stopped working this phone SUCKS!!!" is a user problem, they made a mistake and it stopped working.

The only problem with the phone is the SDS issue, which Samsung are working to fix or have fixed, (impossible to tell which for certain)

You also have to think that out of the 40 million devices sold, the complaints are probably from around 1% of people if that look at it like that then the S3 is a hugely reliable phone.

The people who are vocal are the ones that are disappointed, for every vocal person saying that the phone sucks there will be 2000 people who are satisfied but don't shout about it.

Also on lag I see lag in the widgets draw (when it has just been opened) but I rarely go there so that doesn't matter and the dialer and contacts take a few seconds to open, which is bearable, apart from there I never see lag, the phone is extremely smooth, scrolling is designed to be a more smooth motion in TW, whereas AOSP is designed to be an instant snap motion.

The phone is definitely not as laggy as you think I imagine you think the lag is so bad because you don't know the difference between lag and an animation purposely created.
[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
Please OP, name a device that has sold over 20 million units, that doesn't have a list of people online complaining about issues. Doubt you'll find one
[Galaxy S III General] blazevxi:
I am pretty sure if you find any product, be it a TV, games console or a phone, you will find problems. People are more likely to post negative comments than positive.
[Galaxy S III General] blade30p:
I love my s3 more than my kids, I've dropped it from great heights onto concrete, tarmac & mezzanines. Still going strong- yes its got a couple of knicks on the corner but the screen hasnt got 1 mark or scratch. Its faster than my s2 by miles, in fact its only the contacts that seems to have a slight 1 sec delay but otherwise it's lightening quick. I use my s2 as a radio/mp3 player- thats it, my s3 is now my main toy.

Sent from my GT-I9300 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] TheCraig:
Battery life is amazing, my battery just died after 4:30 hours on screen in total, and it was charged on sunday (so 4:30 hours on screen and 2 days without charge :D), the phone is amazing,
[Galaxy S III General] haydar100:
It's fine if you are a casual user and wont notice the ****ty performance. LOL my old xperia arc is smoother then this samsung crap
[Galaxy S III General] rajataghi:
I don't have any wake up lag!

Yay! :P
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
@OP

Seeing as you are posting in questions and answers.......what exactly is your question? :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] rotemx:
Thats because ppl use stock roms, its not hardware problems
[Galaxy S III General] Stu1973:
Yes the past posts were bad, as was the HD2

When I said bad lag when coming off the net, what I meant was, yes when off it, then opening texes, contacts or calls....it takes 2-4 seconds to open them....once they're open, and you open them again, there's no lag, it's just immediately after the net

I'm on VM 20mb (we up too, I know you rarely get that) and never had much trouble with it....(you know what'll happen now lol)

As said before, I turned S Voice, animations off, and any apps (and there was a few) that were running were also stopped, if lag is the time between pressing the icon and it opening, then that's what I'm talking about, and that's what's annoying

Otherwise...

A bloody brilliant phone :D
[Galaxy S III General] Stu1973:
Good reading that, thanks :D
[Galaxy S III General] jonny68:
No lag here either, the best Galaxy S3 has been the best phone I've ever had but my head has seriously been turned by the new Sony xperia Z, this has to now rank as the premium smartphone they all have to beat
[Galaxy S III General] soulzero:
This is my second S3 already and the phone starts lagging more the more you use it tbh.

Also the music stutters when browsing the internet or even on the facebook app. Torrent apps dont work either for me, lags the phone to a complete freeze which needs a reboot.

I use megawipes and dalvik+cache wipes between flashes so it cant be that either. Phone is perfectly clean.

Tried about 5 different roms too. I should never have bought a second S3 because its complete trash.

I have no idea how people can say it works flawlessly. It doesnt. Get yourself a one x, im sure itll work better, or the next generation xperia Z.

Ps : also tried overclocking gpu + cpu and even that didnt help anything. The phone is blazingly fast for the first few days (minus the problem of music stuttering and torrent freezing, that always persists) and then starts lagging to ****.

Also froze about 50 bloatware apps with titanium backup lol. This phone wants to be smashed on the wall no doubt.
[Galaxy S III General] adilrenzu:
Sensation and s3 there is no comparison,still i believe tht htc would hv been the better phone. If u want to compare try comparing one x+ (not one x) with S3 n see who wins in all aspects.

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This phone is **** n i got to know it only 2 days after buying but apparently people here dnt think so.S3 owners are behaving like iphone users,not accepting the truth that their S3 is nothing just trash..
[Galaxy S III General] soulzero:
Maybe the people saying it works great have some kinda magical feature enabled. They need to tell me though.
[Galaxy S III General] iridaki:
I'll tell you! Go into Settings>Personality and uncheck Whiny.

Reboot and use your phone normally! :p :D

In all seriousness, I find the phone functions just fine for my needs. If someone feels it doesn't, he should switch to another phone. It's really that simple.
[Galaxy S III General] TigerCourage:
Then you guys should seriously try the latest stock rom out ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
Only thing I disagree with here is the audio part. S3 is definitely cleaner than the gimmick that is BEATS audio.
[Galaxy S III General] samydroid:
And why do you want to impose your self-assumed truth upon the majority (the satisfied S3 users) here? If you got a bad piece or had bad experience then why do you want the other millions of people to ditch their S3s just because you, the most knowing fellow on earth, found out the hidden truth which they couldn't find? If we are respecting your opinion and not calling you an iSheep or ignorant HTC fellow or a liar then don't call us names too! Learn to live in a community where people can have different opinion and experience than yours!
[Galaxy S III General] android167:
I have S3 and OneX and i can say that S3 wins in speed, smoothness, camera and stock softvare (touchwizz). One X has better design, build quality and beautiful display.

And also S3 is full of little functions, like, multiwindow, smart stay, smart rotation etc.
[Galaxy S III General] wicked1683:
Lag is mainly because of touchwiz. After I tried nova launcher everything is smooth! I even set the animations in developer options to 1 and the animations are great!

The problem is on samsung's software, even Kies is not working properly.
[Galaxy S III General] Shan89:
Like i said earlier in my post it's basically all into personal preference. But you gotta accept one simple fact , samsung no doubt has the best marketing among all android OEMS which is why S3 got sold in huge numbers, HTC or other companies don't have the budget to afford so many commercials like sammy. Another thing with ppl in general is * they will always be happy with their new toy and deny that there is better device with similar price or lower, it's simple , no one wants to accept that because they choosed this device instead of other cuz of marketing/popularity* Personally i think S3 is a great device, but for the money you pay for it should be much better, Screen is literally under avarage thx to pentile , tehncially doesn't even have 306ppi but around 270 or so, anyway i wont lecture you about this you just gotta trust me on this one. Anyway in comparison btw S3 and One X that is endless i personally like more One X then S3 mainly cuz of design display and custom roms, Hox is much faster then S3 with stock rom believe it or not , especially on jelly bean with custom kernel , aside from that THD games look much better then any other games and HoX can push every game as S3 on the same lvl with custom rom/kernel, simply because GPU on hox is better then on S3 and CPU as well aside from that THD games don't look only better but also they require more GPU power which hox can afford and S3 cannot. . Anyway you own S3 and you believe it is the best , but it's actually the most *common* Another thing i don't like about samsung is because they used same chip for what ? 2 years now ? just overclocking it and pushing tons of hacks into kernel to make it run fast. Anyway i'm not taking sides here which device is better i'm just pointing obvious and trying to help OP see the truth about both devices , you don't have to like it but it is the truth it's up to you will you understand and accept it or be delusional and believe in everything you see in commercials like apple fanboys.

Once again it's all about personal preference which device you like more and what you need out of it. Just remember none device is perfect and each device has it's pros and cons.
[Galaxy S III General] samydroid:
I feel sooooo sorry for myself to read your rant yet again. Why can't you ultra unbiased, most professional and super technical guys stop telling the majority to accept your freaked out, non-sense truths? You got the BEST device in the world, right. So keep your truths to yourselves and enjoy your device but don't impose it on us. We made a choice and we are happy with that. We had your best-on-earth device, one x, available while buying s3. We could compare both and we did and then we made a choice. Why does it hurt you guys so much? Please, don't tell us what's the truth. Live happy and let us live happily.

By the way...

AND

Now please don't explain it to me. I'm absolutely not interested in reading your next sermon. Just showing the people to take your posts *very seriously*...
[Galaxy S III General] Shan89:
I was expecting something like this coming from someone named as *samydroid* sounds like a fanboy anyway I feel like i've hurt you with my posts if that's the case i'm sorry that was never my attentions , anyway i'm not trying to convince anyone into anything , all i was trying to do was to help the OP out with my point of view from this comparison that me and my cousin did, if you don't like it you don't need to replay to it, besides if you think i've said something what is not truth you're welcome to correct me.

Whats the point of quoting parts of my post, i've clearly said S3 is faster in most of the cases and overall experience with stock roms on both device while it's different story when we switched into custom roms. Considering majority will use stock experience is why i wrote stock and custom experience. And lastly like i said earlier if you feel i wrote something wrong and you tested these 2 devices yourself i welcome you to correct me and help the OP with it.
[Galaxy S III General] uvaman:
Your topic name are telling everything about you.

Listen yourself, better marketing?? What marketing can do with bad device?

Galaxy has history, and S2 was the main reason of rising S3.Great device,great components,great little tricks was important. Read all comparision threads from gsm,engadet,phonearena etc etc... I dont see hox anywhere, did even htc sold 10 mil hox? In this world and world of devices you have some standard, standard for broken or should I say "problem device" which can be tolerated.Someone even explained that here on gs3 threads.. Last but most important is that android is not for noobs (not thinking about you) and every user should know to tweak-optimize their device once a while bc android is full os just like windows and we have too much "EXPERTS" on xda and xda developers... We should change xda dev., to xda troller noobs. Enjoy in your s3, sell it to someone who will appreciate amd respect this device and buy yourself another hox and leave us alone, to the people who accepted their choices.

Kimi Raikonen "Leave me alone. I know what I have to do!" Do you?

Cheers!

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@Shan

You forgot to mention one of the most important things in your first ppst or I didnt notice it.

No extra card slot (big minus)

Non removable battery

No space for additional sim

No gorilla glass 2

HIGHER Price or same (at the beggining)

Additional accessories like extended battery kit, bunch of docks, cover flip,

etc etc...

I must admit hox is great device and I would recommed to everyone but sammy is better STOP.

And forgot to say,I could understand this thread year ago but now? When we got Note 2, Nexus4, Iphone, FHD devices, OPPO, Sony Z etc etc..
[Galaxy S III General] Shan89:
Well everyone have their own opinion and what they see infront of them, this is what i saw which i wrote above , anyway i never said HoX is better, i only pointed cons and pros of both devices that i noticed , i accept that S3 is better device in most of the things then HoX , it's just i liked more sense then touch wizz when buying it lol, also i never said s3 it wasn't better in it's own ways you guys maybe took my posts offensive... if that's the case trust me that was never my attention to do, xda should be friendly and helpful community which is why i even posted on this topic on the 1st place. Anyway i apologize to everyone who got offended with my posts.

Also sorry for not adding stuff like extra sim, sd slot and removeable battery at s3 side , but i must also add there are extended batteries for hox , also hox comes with 32gb (25.2 user avilable) while s3 comes with 16gb (if i'm not mistaken there should be 32gb version now) , so technically you have more space for games on hox, since SD is only for photos / videos / music ( dunno if there is work around for s3 to use it as internal ) anyway HoX uses gorilla glass 2 as well it's not included in some sites but it actually does, we had thread in hox forum about this. Also there are docks for hox and rest of the stuff, not sure about cover flip , never managed to find 1 which sux really like that one.

Anyway good luck everyone with your devices and their lifetime , i hope we all helped to OP with our posts even we had to have a little *argument/conflict* but at the end of the day it's just a device nothing more and isn't really important which one is actually better as long as it finishes the job you need it for. also thx to everyone who pointed out stuff i forgot and corrected me in things i might wrote wrong. Cheers ! :)
[Thinkpad Tablet General] tencer:
ok so about a month ago i bought a lenovo ideatab s2110. As always when i pic up a new android based device i log straight into xda to see what i can do to make it better!! so i used the only rooting method i could find and rooted the tablet. shortly after i ran into an app called "pimp my cpu". i used this app to over clock my tablet. well a short time later i rebooted my tablet and it was all messed up. i kept receiving a "unfortunately, the system ui has stopped" along with prompt telling me that the ideatab desk top has stopped. along with these messages i am missing my soft keys on the bottom of the ui. the back button the home button the settings button and the time and notifications area is blank. i just bought this tablet and i would love to get it back and running the way it should be. Is there any one in the forums that has run into this issue before and knows what i need to do to fix it, or anyone that might know a direction i can start to look?????? any help would be much appreciated!!!!!

htc dream, rooted

htc hd2, rooted duel boot

htc sensation rooted unlocked

lenovo ideatab was rooted now is not and has issues:good:
[Thinkpad Tablet General] tencer:
still working on it

got the tablet working again ish, re rooted, replaced systemui.apk with a generic ics version had to start using a launcher and also virtual buttons, to replace the missing softkeys but i am not experiencing any errors or stops as of now o and the wallpapers work now too for some reason lol. any help with this would be awsome!! oh i guess i should say what i wanted help with lol, i am just trying to get my factory softkeys and the notification bar back
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shmarkus:
Hi,

I'm creating a ROM for RK70SDK tablet and got Status 1 (I guess it happens at

format("ext4", "MTD", "/dev/block/mtdblock8");

Did you find answer to your problem?

Best regards,

Shmarkus
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
Do you have the same error if you remove the format? Often this is unnecessary
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shmarkus:
Hi,

I tried to format manually and remove format part from updater-script. It fails in another place (set permissions rec or sth). Anyway it should be the case with older CWM and kitkat rom. I am now compiling newer recovery for the device
[Microsoft Surface] doudoufr:
Hi

i've got a question for you :

on any android device, when you want to view a website in "desktop mode", all you have to do, is to change the "user agent" and, et voila, it works. All website are now in "desktop mode".

I would like to do the same on my surface, but, permanently ! I don't want to, everytime, go to "f12" menu and change the user agent to chrome or firefox.

On other forums, peoples told me : "oh you cant, it is a server side problems, all website are not "well coded". and blablabla...."

but i know it's wrong, because i do it, time to time, with the "f12" option. and i know it is possible on android device. (so the problem comes from the surface, which identificate itself as a mobile or "arm" device...)

so my question is : how do I do to change the user agent on the surface, and permanently. i know i have to deal with the "gpedit.msc" and change it here....but for some websites, it is still recognise as a tablet device and then, a mobile website. Which user agent I must use ? (when i do it from time to time with the "f12" option, I use the "chrome or firefox" string, and it works well).

ps : sorry for my english, not my mother tongue.
[Microsoft Surface] GoodDayToDie:
I've used Surface RT for months without ever being redirected to a mobile website... not sure what's up with your experience. A few sites have recognized the RT/ARM portion, but the page was not notably different; certainly it looked nothing like what I get on my phone's Mobile mode.

You can use Compatibility mode to send the IE7 user-agent string to a given site. Hardly a perfect fix, especially if the site would like to use HTML5, but I don't know a better option.
[Microsoft Surface] doudoufr:
hi

thks for your answer

What i don't understand, is that we can manually change the user agent (and then view the website in a "normal mode") by pressing f12, and choose another browser, and it works perfectly. All websites are in 'desktop mode". So why can't we do that automatically? i don't want to do that each time i visit a website. I want it done once for all !

The surface identificate itself to a RT/arm device and that's why websites redirect automatically to a mobile version.

Is there anyway to remove this identification, and make sure the surface is always recognize as a "desktop" computer ?
[Microsoft Surface] GoodDayToDie:
There used to be a registry hack that would override the default user-agent string, though I don't know if it still works with IE10. Browser plugins can do it, but those aren't going to be available on RT.

As for what string to change it to, I'd suggest just the default UA string for Win8/IE10 on x86 or x64. You can find this using sites like useragentstring.com. For the record, mine is

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; Trident/6.0)

and if you drop the "WOW64; " part, it's identical to the x86 one.
[Microsoft Surface] chaves:
Same here...

It would be great a solution for IE reconize always as "Desktop mode" without need F12 changing procedure.

I use www.bet365.com and it´s always reconigzed as mobile :(