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Samsung Galaxy S III to be released in April 2012
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Does flashing as per above have any warranty implications, even without rooting?
I am sorely tempted to jump back to Android after 2 years of iOS but don't want to put up with all of the carrier branding crap they insist on putting on or waiting for their approval on updates (and equally don't want to be forgoing on the warranty if I flash it with stock)
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Kensington wrote: »Does flashing as per above have any warranty implications, even without rooting?
I am sorely tempted to jump back to Android after 2 years of iOS but don't want to put up with all of the carrier branding crap they insist on putting on or waiting for their approval on updates (and equally don't want to be forgoing on the warranty if I flash it with stock)
If you needed to send the phone back, in some cases at least you would be able to just re load carrier firmware back onto the phone before doing so.
I have read posts in the past of people sending phones back with non carrier firmware and they still get fixed.0 -
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Has anyone noticed that the Meteor/eMobile Voice codec is absolutely VILE
I fannied around with an S3 while its owner was abroad this weekend. The sound quality on Meteor/eMobile was cack while the phone was much much clearer with O2. Nothing to do with signal quality either.0 -
The battery life on the phone is amazing when used correctly. Here is my success story.
I have the sbeam and wifi-direct stuff all turned off. I have the app juice defender installed and on at all times, it detects if your using data or wifi and toggles off the device your not using. Well I think it does, its possible to turn both on with the app on so if I'm out of 3g range, which is often when your with 3, if I go to wirless manually I turn off data but usually I'm just quickly reading my messages on whatsapp and going straight back to data, 2g usually.
I find when charging the phone its best to leave the device charging for a further hour after it reaches 100%. This works for the ipad also.
So last Sunday during the European championship I was charging the S3. I unplugged the phone after the charge and had it on the cocuch beside me for the 2nd half of the game, so it was around 9:30pm. During the week I made a couple of calls, about 3-4, took a few calls, about 5. I sent about 10-15 texts and used the whatsapp app almost everyday to send a few messages, 19 exactly. I browsed the web about 3 times but for very short periods, less than 30 seconds. I downloaded one app and installed about 7 play store updates. So it was very light economical use and each time I finished I put the phone to sleep straight away. I hold the home key to bring up the task manager about once a day and close any active apps, usually its messaging thats still open. I use the clear ram function occasionally, twice a weeks tops, I usually get a 20+ applications closed message and finally the free app Appkiller shows that viber or whats app are still running when they don't show in task manager.
The battery finally ran out the following Saturday about 10pm. Thats 6 days later with the phone on night and day. Amazing I thought. I am going to see what else I can do to improve the battery life and go fo the full 7 day cycle next time
I was on 2g roaming the vodafone network as the 3 coverage is poor in my area so this must have helped but still a pretty big plus for this phone.0 -
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Your Airbag wrote: »The battery life on the phone is amazing when used correctly. Here is my success story.
I have the sbeam and wifi-direct stuff all turned off. I have the app juice defender installed and on at all times, it detects if your using data or wifi and toggles off the device your not using. Well I think it does, its possible to turn both on with the app on so if I'm out of 3g range, which is often when your with 3, if I go to wirless manually I turn off data but usually I'm just quickly reading my messages on whatsapp and going straight back to data, 2g usually.
I find when charging the phone its best to leave the device charging for a further hour after it reaches 100%. This works for the ipad also.
So last Sunday during the European championship I was charging the S3. I unplugged the phone after the charge and had it on the cocuch beside me for the 2nd half of the game, so it was around 9:30pm. During the week I made a couple of calls, about 3-4, took a few calls, about 5. I sent about 10-15 texts and used the whatsapp app almost everyday to send a few messages, 19 exactly. I browsed the web about 3 times but for very short periods, less than 30 seconds. I downloaded one app and installed about 7 play store updates. So it was very light economical use and each time I finished I put the phone to sleep straight away. I hold the home key to bring up the task manager about once a day and close any active apps, usually its messaging thats still open. I use the clear ram function occasionally, twice a weeks tops, I usually get a 20+ applications closed message and finally the free app Appkiller shows that viber or whats app are still running when they don't show in task manager.
The battery finally ran out the following Saturday about 10pm. Thats 6 days later with the phone on night and day. Amazing I thought. I am going to see what else I can do to improve the battery life and go fo the full 7 day cycle next time
I was on 2g roaming the vodafone network as the 3 coverage is poor in my area so this must have helped but still a pretty big plus for this phone.
thats impressive, to be fair you arent really utilising it as a smart phone though0
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