Samsung Galaxy S3 Problems

woodyirl · 21-11-2012 10:13pm

2 different problems
1 The data reception was terrible (I am on 3ireland) but I added a new APN I found on a thread here. Seems to be resolved but I will wait for a day or so before I believe it

2) After getting an update (I believe to Android 4.1.1 aka JB)about 3 weeks ago I cannot send any text messages.
The message center number is grayed out on my message settings. 3 support tell me it needs "repair" or to wait for an update that will fix it.
"Repair" Im sure really means reflash back to an older android version.

Has anyine else seen this or got any ideas on how to fix it without having to be without my phone while its "repaired" or having to wait for the update
3 say that its samsungs problem and an update will resolve the issue.. I m not holding my breadth

Anyone got any ideas.. appreciated

kenyard · 21-11-2012 10:58pm

someone said three reported in their talk to thread that they wud have a JB fix in the next week or two.

as far as flashing something else, three mite have specific roms afaik due to their network being the way it is, so it mitent be the best option. you cud do a backup and try though i guess..

considering its greyed out you are between a rock and a hard place... no idea why thats the case

Slattsy · 22-11-2012 12:55am

Is there not a Bluetooth app/widget on the phone?
Other than on the drop down menu?

opti76 · 22-11-2012 7:08pm

havin an issue with the sound only coming from 1 head phone.. ive tried a few pairs and all the same nothing from the right hand side headphone..
mono sound is turned off so i dont think its a setting ..anyone have any ideas???

Captain Flaps · 22-11-2012 7:50pm

opti76 wrote: »

havin an issue with the sound only coming from 1 head phone.. ive tried a few pairs and all the same nothing from the right hand side headphone..
mono sound is turned off so i dont think its a setting ..anyone have any ideas???

Try using a paperclip to gently scrape out any fluff? This exact thing caused me some amount of embarrassment a few years ago when I brought a seemingly faulty HTC Legend back to the shop :P

kenyard · 22-11-2012 8:09pm

i have the issue in my car where my aux in doesnt work. the connectors inside have become loose so they dont contact the input

for quite some time i had only audio from one side before they both went...
i hope its just what the above post said though and only some fluff or something for your own sake.
besides that the jack itself wud have to be replaced and probably cost a rediculous amount/insurance/warranty claim

kildaremum · 22-11-2012 11:06pm

I updated the software yesterday and the notifications icon on the drop down menu is now gone. I used to activate this at night so I wouldnt hear email and text notifications. Is there any way I can get this back or can I access it somewhere else.

Incidentally both my husband and I have the S3 and there is definitely a problem with callers not being able to hear what we are saying.

SlickRic · 29-11-2012 5:13pm

hi folks,

anyone have issues with the S3 all of a sudden telling you that there's no SIM Card in the phone?

i've tried cleaning, wiping, taking the battery out for a few minutes.

i bought it yesterday.

thanks in advance.

BroLo · 29-11-2012 5:19pm

Have you taken the sim out and tried putting it back in?

Is it a network locked phone/where did you get it?

Was your sim cut down or an actual micro sim?

SlickRic · 29-11-2012 5:20pm

i've tried taking it out, putting it back in again.

the SIM was cut down to micro.

I got it from Meteor.

it was working absolutely fine until about an hour ago, and then all of a sudden, mid-browsing, it decided there was no SIM in the phone.

threein99 · 29-11-2012 5:24pm

SlickRic wrote: »

hi folks,

anyone have issues with the S3 all of a sudden telling you that there's no SIM Card in the phone?

i've tried cleaning, wiping, taking the battery out for a few minutes.

i bought it yesterday.

thanks in advance.

Id take it back if I were you, presume you have tried another sim in it ?

BroLo · 29-11-2012 5:28pm

SlickRic wrote: »

i've tried taking it out, putting it back in again.

the SIM was cut down to micro.

I got it from Meteor.

it was working absolutely fine until about an hour ago, and then all of a sudden, mid-browsing, it decided there was no SIM in the phone.

The sim being cut down may be a factor. Was it an old enough one with the larger connector or a newer style one with a smaller one? ie 1 or 2, what I'm asking basically was any of the gold metal cut off?

Finally have you tried another sim?

Last suggestion, bring it back demand a new one. Shouldn't have to settle for a repair on a brand new phone and I was told meteor's policy is to replace within the first month if its not physical or water damage.

SlickRic · 29-11-2012 5:29pm

ha, you would not fúcking believe this.

i've had the SIM in only about halfway in!

it had been working though, which is the weird thing. so the copper must have literally just been touching the required area.

just pushed it the whole way in there, and all is good.

i'll post it up myself before anyone else does...

BroLo · 29-11-2012 5:31pm

SlickRic wrote: »

ha, you would not fúcking believe this.

i've had the SIM in only about halfway in!

it had been working though, which is the weird thing. so the copper must have literally just been touching the required area.

just pushed it the whole way in there, and all is good.

i'll post it up myself before anyone else does...

Didn't realise it locked like the SD card? :P

kenyard · 29-11-2012 6:53pm

thanks for saving me googling for a pic

glad u have it back working m8

PaulKK · 30-11-2012 12:29am

Anyone having issues pairing with car Bluetooth since jb update?

Mine now wont pair right, I can see the contacts correctly but when I make a call from the car it just drops the call after a second.

Very annoying bug as it was perfect up until the update.

G1032 · 30-11-2012 6:56pm

woodyirl wrote: »

2 different problems
1 The data reception was terrible (I am on 3ireland) but I added a new APN I found on a thread here. Seems to be resolved but I will wait for a day or so before I believe it

Can you please share this APN?
Thanks

duploelabs · 10-12-2012 7:43pm

Anyone got their screen replaced yet and how much did it cost?

kenyard · 10-12-2012 10:01pm

yeah there was a lot of people throwing numbers around. think the cheapest was 120-140 or something. but thats if you are lucky.

MonkstownHoop · 10-12-2012 10:13pm

Where does one find the Llama back up app?

Chet T16 · 10-12-2012 11:53pm

My S3 died today, suspected NAND flash failure.

Boo

duploelabs · 11-12-2012 10:19am

kenyard wrote: »

yeah there was a lot of people throwing numbers around. think the cheapest was 120-140 or something. but thats if you are lucky.

Any idea from where?

BroLo · 11-12-2012 10:22am

duploelabs wrote: »

Any idea from where?

Got mine fixed for 150 through meteor who went to Fónfix. Great job, used official parts, didn't affect original warranty and they are approved by Samsung.

kenyard · 13-12-2012 11:04pm

duploelabs wrote: »

Any idea from where?

as far as i remember it was a backstreet type job by some polish bloke who fixes screens. so he wud just charge low labour costs i guess.
there was a few people had recommended it based on price and what not

El Weirdo · 14-12-2012 12:17am

cheapest I've seen was about €175 from a guy in Malahide that has an ad on adverts.ie. His ad is linked from a couple of threads in here which I found after a search about broken screens.

As it's just the glass cracked on mine, I was considering just buying the lens for about €30 and separating the glass from the digitiser myself using the instructions on XDA here.

I asked a guy that fixes phones in my area to quote me for the job. He said he'd done it before on his own phone but wouldn't risk doing it for someone else.

120_Minutes · 14-12-2012 12:43am

think i solved my battery problem. updated to 4.1.2 and installed gsam battery monitor. it told me maps had been waking my phone a lot, so i disabled location services and there seems to be an improvment. just over 15hrs with 46% left. to be fair i did use it a little less than usual today. i still have to charge it every night, and i lose out on google now, but theres more left in the battery when i do go to plug it in.

duploelabs · 14-12-2012 8:01am

Eh fonfix fix any problem for the g3, no matter what it is for €160 all in

danniemcq · 14-12-2012 9:13am

duploelabs wrote: »

Eh fonfix fix any problem for the g3, no matter what it is for €160 all in

Challenge accepted....

kenyard · 14-12-2012 8:40pm

duploelabs wrote: »

Eh fonfix fix any problem for the g3, no matter what it is for €160 all in

and there was me worried about tinkering with overclocking

danniemcq · 17-12-2012 4:57pm

Anyone figure out a way to move apps to the SD card yet?

I know there are some workarounds GL to SD is one but its messy, really miss the whole app to SD app and they've given up on developing for the s3!

Ste- · 17-12-2012 5:10pm

danniemcq wrote: »

Anyone figure out a way to move apps to the SD card yet?

I know there are some workarounds GL to SD is one but its messy, really miss the whole app to SD app and they've given up on developing for the s3!

Is it the app per se or app data you wish to move to the external SD ?

danniemcq · 17-12-2012 5:16pm

bit of both i guess!

Xbox media Centre for example, 100mb internal (although i'm guessing it could be getting data from elsewhere) but still on internal card.

And things like angry birds @ 40mb + an app.

Its one of the reasons i went for a 32gb card!

Ste- · 17-12-2012 5:21pm

danniemcq wrote: »

bit of both i guess!

Xbox media Centre for example, 100mb internal (although i'm guessing it could be getting data from elsewhere) but still on internal card.

And things like angry birds @ 40mb + an app.

Its one of the reasons i went for a 32gb card!

XBMC does have a decent sized library to read from.
Check the Android folder on your internal SD card for where apps store their stuff. Sdcard/Android/data/
You can them link them folders to your external SD.
I do it with some of the larger games.

Try this.

Saves me a bunch of space. I have all angry birds, two football managers, gta3 and VC Sonic CD, Sims free play and a hell of a lot of other games, which I don't really find the time to play all installed and still 3GB left on my internal storage all the data gets linked from external sd (32GB like you) to my internal so the app thinks its in the correct spot.

HTH.

Ste-.

danniemcq · 17-12-2012 5:27pm

nice one i'll get a look at that when i get home!

workaholicboy · 01-02-2013 8:29pm

Hi guys.i bought an s3 and the weather app keeps showing the wrong time. I know it's only small but can anyone advise?

Melion · 04-02-2013 9:32am

Has anyone had an issue with their phone randomly rebooting? Mine started doing it the other day for no reason.

Patsy fyre · 04-02-2013 9:51am

workaholicboy wrote: »

Hi guys.i bought an s3 and the weather app keeps showing the wrong time. I know it's only small but can anyone advise?

What weather app is it? Should be able to change this in settings easily enough.
@melion are you on the latest software?
Back up and reset will usually solve these problems.

Silver-Tiger · 05-02-2013 2:16pm

Melion wrote: »

Has anyone had an issue with their phone randomly rebooting? Mine started doing it the other day for no reason.

Yep,

Mine too. We may have the sudden death syndrome and are on the way to it.

danniemcq · 05-02-2013 3:04pm

Silver-Tiger wrote: »

Yep,

Mine too. We may have the sudden death syndrome and are on the way to it.

Thats kinda what happened mine before it died.

Back up data now (carbon or titanium if you can, that'll save your app data too)

connect to kies (yuck)

look for updates on it.

failing that check versions against current releases on samfirmware.

if you wanna take the chance then update it manually

MidlandsM · 05-02-2013 3:29pm

Hi,

Anyone know how to get rid of these annoying kind of messages I keep get telling me I won the android lottery.......and have a little "red star" icon. Very annoying, as they don't seem to be an email or a text to allow me to block them.......

any help please?

Patsy fyre · 05-02-2013 3:36pm

MidlandsM wrote: »

Hi,

Anyone know how to get rid of these annoying kind of messages I keep get telling me I won the android lottery.......and have a little "red star" icon. Very annoying, as they don't seem to be an email or a text to allow me to block them.......

any help please?

There ads associated with apps.
Download an app like air push detector to find the culprit.

MidlandsM · 05-02-2013 3:50pm

Patsy fyre wrote: »

There ads associated with apps.
Download an app like air push detector to find the culprit.

AHHHHHHHHHHH THANKS!

I did that, and its a music download App I have is the culprit.....:P

now to decide to keep the app in question for downloading music, or to delete the app to get rid of the annoying messages...hmmmmmmmm

Craigels · 06-02-2013 1:58am

Mother board is damp and phone won't charge had it in repair shop they showed me images of the damp around the board the phone is working perfectly if I put in a full charged battery it just won't charge what should I do

Shpongler · 06-02-2013 2:03am

Craigels wrote: »

Mother board is damp and phone won't charge had it in repair shop they showed me images of the damp around the board the phone is working perfectly if I put in a full charged battery it just won't charge what should I do

Maybe get something like this? Charge the battery outside the phone.

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/New-External-Battery-Desktop-Charger-Clear-Cradle-Dock-Fr-Samsung-I9300-S3-Black-/271034338907?pt=UK_MobilePhones_MobilePhoneAccessories_MobilePhoneChargers&hash=item3f1ae7ce5b#ht_4353wt_1163

danniemcq · 06-02-2013 8:51am

MidlandsM wrote: »

AHHHHHHHHHHH THANKS!

I did that, and its a music download App I have is the culprit.....:P

now to decide to keep the app in question for downloading music, or to delete the app to get rid of the annoying messages...hmmmmmmmm

is your phone rooted?

If so there are adblock apps that can disable ads like this so you can still use the app but no more red stars!

workaholicboy · 06-02-2013 10:16pm

Patsy fyre wrote: »

What weather app is it? Should be able to change this in settings easily enough.
@melion are you on the latest software?
Back up and reset will usually solve these problems.

It's the accu weather app that is pre installed on the phone. I checked the settings and all you can change is 12 or 24 hour format.

threein99 · 09-02-2013 2:02pm

So after having this phone for 6 months now I can safely say the only annoying aspect about it is the volume buttons, too easy to push when in your pocket. or when taking it out of your pocket

Alpha Dog 1 · 09-02-2013 2:20pm

Anyone able to get driving mode to read out text messages?

Quazzie · 09-02-2013 2:47pm

This is probably a very basic problem but I can't get my head around it. I use S Planner and its synced with my facebook, but I'm having a problem, One of the pages I liked on facebook created an event, which was them setting up a new website, but it last nearly three months, so it shows up on S Planner for that time frame. I can't seem to delete the event from S Planner and it doesn't show up at all on facebook. Any suggestions?

kenyard · 09-02-2013 3:04pm

threein99 wrote: »

So after having this phone for 6 months now I can safely say the only annoying aspect about it is the volume buttons, too easy to push when in your pocket. or when taking it out of your pocket

maybe check out http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s3/620377-there-any-way-disable-volume-button.html

i have no issues, but i knew there wud be apps etc for it. i also reckon theres an easy fix to rooted phones where the buttons wont work when screen is off. but someone would have to make that fix. it cud be already done have a quick google

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