Samsung Galaxy S III to be released in April 2012

tuxy · 22-12-2012 12:44AM

I got the otterbox commuter today for my S2. I like it but it does have one downside, I can't really use the phone one handed any more as it's now too wide.

Does the silicone collect much lint? I have not used it enough to know.

Overall I'm happy, great protection for the phone.

evolutionqy7 · 22-12-2012 08:43AM

tuxy wrote: »

I got the otterbox commuter today for my S2. I like it but it does have one downside, I can't really use the phone one handed any more as it's now too wide.

Does the silicone collect much lint? I have not used it enough to know.

Overall I'm happy, great protection for the phone.

I don't really keep it in pockets too much now, but overall haven't seen much of it. I've seen some gathering the first day I got it, but not since. It would be a good idea to take it out and clean it once in a while anyway. I couldn't really use my S3 one handed anyway so didn't make much difference. I always sort of thought flip cases were the best, but I really have zero worries of cracking the screen with it. The big lip at the front sort of makes that impossible.

Patsy fyre · 24-12-2012 06:16PM

For anyone looking for a headset/headphones this device is quality.

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/4-/38654548/704086288/Panther-Bluetooth-Stereo-Headphones-For-iPhone-iPad-Android-Phones-Android-Tablets/ListingDetails.html?ptsl=1

Sonics2k · 24-12-2012 09:57PM

I was kind of hoping O2 would have put it the latest update by now, maybe as a nice Xmas gift.

Still nothing for O2 customers on either kies or wife.

Squeaky the Squirrel · 25-12-2012 11:28PM

Samsung Galaxy S III experiencing sudden bricking due to hardware issue

G1032 · 25-12-2012 11:58PM

Squeaky the Squirrel wrote: »

Samsung Galaxy S III experiencing sudden bricking due to hardware issue

Thread open about this already. Check out XDA to for more info.
touch.boards.ie/thread/2056838322?page=1#post_82353191

errlloyd · 29-12-2012 02:35PM

My GS3 has been dropping texts for a while now. Like I just don't recieve some of them, its 6 months old, its on emobile, but it's an o2 handset. Any ideas?

srdb20 · 29-12-2012 07:25PM

Hi lads, is anyone else getting random reboots since the latest update??? Happened twice in the last two days.... Does anyone know of a fix for this, is it firmware or hardware related like?

Cheers

fionny · 01-01-2013 06:59PM

Hi all,

Anyone else having an issue with the phone randomly vibrating during the night in a 1 second pulse then stopped. Its really annoying and there is no notifications and its not even the stupid fully charged alert thing.

Pj! · 01-01-2013 07:06PM

srdb20 wrote: »

Hi lads, is anyone else getting random reboots since the latest update??? Happened twice in the last two days.... Does anyone know of a fix for this, is it firmware or hardware related like?

Cheers

I'm getting this. Haven't looked into it though.

fionny · 01-01-2013 08:22PM

Im getting rightly sick of this phone at the moment, first the mainboard fails and apparently lots of them are after 5 months now it apparently seems the usb connector is dodgey and the vibrating i the phone connecting and disconnecting from the charger.... Im going to push for a totally new handset.

Sonics2k · 01-01-2013 09:29PM

I've had mine for months and literally had no problems with it.

Sure the battery life could be better, but I use it quite heavily at work and it lasts from 7am to about 11.30pm. So its not so bad.

I'm more annoyed o2 haven't pushed out the 4.1.2 update yet, I wouldn't mind so much but I do work for them and they haven't given us an update yet.

evolutionqy7 · 01-01-2013 09:49PM

Sonics2k wrote: »

I've had mine for months and literally had no problems with it.

Sure the battery life could be better, but I use it quite heavily at work and it lasts from 7am to about 11.30pm. So its not so bad.

I'm more annoyed o2 haven't pushed out the 4.1.2 update yet, I wouldn't mind so much but I do work for them and they haven't given us an update yet.

Just end the pain and go flash a generic or the latest available version. You don't lose any personal data anyway.

Sonics2k · 01-01-2013 10:30PM

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Just end the pain and go flash a generic or the latest available version. You don't lose any personal data anyway.

I'm tempted, but with luck something would happen the phone and my warranty will be void.

evolutionqy7 · 01-01-2013 10:41PM

Sonics2k wrote: »

I'm tempted, but with luck something would happen the phone and my warranty will be void.

As far as I'm aware all you would be doing is changing the ROM region. Which shouldn't affect the warranty. You would be flashing official Samsung software.

So I don't see any reason why your warranty should be void. Now if you decided to root it, its a whole different story. Sammy could see your running unapproved software and decide to not to honor the warranty.

PogMoThoin · 02-01-2013 11:08AM

SuperNexus 2.0 is out, going to flash later

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2076672

hidinginthebush · 02-01-2013 06:46PM

PogMoThoin wrote: »

SuperNexus 2.0 is out, going to flash later

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2076672

Sounds nice and minimal, I'm very interested! Gonna have to double check what way the SD card's set up first, it says there's a known issue with exFAT formatted cards.

evolutionqy7 · 02-01-2013 06:48PM

hidinginthebush wrote: »

Sounds nice and minimal, I'm very interested! Gonna have to double check what way the SD card's set up first, it says there's a known issue with exFAT formatted cards.

Id be all over it, but no video out support stopping me. Super Nexus beside that is a great stable ROM.

Patsy fyre · 02-01-2013 08:35PM

So I'm watching sky on the xbox when I go into the gallery app on my phone. Suddenly all pictures and videos are displayed on the tv....

WTF?

kenyard · 02-01-2013 08:48PM

Patsy fyre wrote: »

So I'm watching sky on the xbox when I go into the gallery app on my phone. Suddenly all pictures and videos are displayed on the tv....

WTF?

allcastshare?
guessing u have a nice samsung tv. wud like one alright.

kenyard · 02-01-2013 08:51PM

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

As far as I'm aware all you would be doing is changing the ROM region. Which shouldn't affect the warranty. You would be flashing official Samsung software.

So I don't see any reason why your warranty should be void. Now if you decided to root it, its a whole different story. Sammy could see your running unapproved software and decide to not to honor the warranty.

nah flashing anything increases the binary count i believe. so it would increase it making the warranty void unless u use triangle away.
saying that im with o2 and have 4.1.2 for the past 2 months caus i flash everything. although my contract is finished now so i moved to three prepay.
not had any of the roaming issues peoples reported also which is good, though their mobile network isnt as consistent as o2 i find in that the phone keeps going on G or 3G mode and being slow as hell for like 10 mins before going back to H+ where i get infinitely faster speeds.
ofc thats the phone, not the network. still to find a fix for it to force the phone to stay in H+ mode

Patsy fyre · 02-01-2013 09:03PM

kenyard wrote: »

allcastshare?
guessing u have a nice samsung tv. wud like one alright.

Jvc non smart tv 2 years old.
Don't even have blue tooth on. Pretty impressive. The future.

evolutionqy7 · 03-01-2013 12:30AM

kenyard wrote: »

nah flashing anything increases the binary count i believe. so it would increase it making the warranty void unless u use triangle away.
saying that im with o2 and have 4.1.2 for the past 2 months caus i flash everything. although my contract is finished now so i moved to three prepay.
not had any of the roaming issues peoples reported also which is good, though their mobile network isnt as consistent as o2 i find in that the phone keeps going on G or 3G mode and being slow as hell for like 10 mins before going back to H+ where i get infinitely faster speeds.
ofc thats the phone, not the network. still to find a fix for it to force the phone to stay in H+ mode

If your flashing official Samsung Firmware it does not increase the flash counter. The flash counter is only for custom firmware, you don't have to be rooted to flash an official ROM.

I just tried it there for theory sake. Triangle still isn't there and flash counter remained at the same number.

I used to get that a lot in Dublin, I just fixed by setting it to 3G only mode. I don't allow it to fall down to GSM network.

danniemcq · 03-01-2013 08:00AM

Patsy fyre wrote: »

Jvc non smart tv 2 years old.
Don't even have blue tooth on. Pretty impressive. The future.

My guess its the xbox and your phone is set up for sharing.

there are a few apps that allow this imediashare is one according to the interweb.

have you any sharing programs open in your phone or settings?

quick enough for a ninja edit??

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1946006

Surprised no one has talked about this at all. Anyway, happened to be watching Netflix on my XBOX last night, and while doing so, was checking out some pictures on my phone. Saw a button I never seen before that kind of looked like a little computer screen with 3 lines kind of going through it. I guess it said something like "view on another player". This apparently being the first time I was using my S3 and XBOX at the same time. So I press the button, and it stops my movie, and shows my picture on my TV!

more in the link

kaimera · 03-01-2013 08:40AM

PogMoThoin wrote: »

SuperNexus 2.0 is out, going to flash later

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2076672

flashed directly from build5 of 4.2.1, no issues to report.

i did have a prob with the gapps not downloading properly to my pc and it wouldn't load in CWM but I quick download via the phone and it worked fine.

4.2.1 on the gs3. reading the comments it'll take a day or so for the battery to settle down.

Q - NFC on supernexus...does it work? I had probs with build5 on 4.1.2

DarkBlonde · 03-01-2013 09:01AM

Patsy fyre wrote: »

Jvc non smart tv 2 years old.
Don't even have blue tooth on. Pretty impressive. The future.

This also happened me. I was watching a movie on the xbox and I took a picture on the phone and went to share it on viber but the viber icon was replaced by an icon I didn't recognise. I pressed it and the picture just suddenly appeared on the screen. When the xbox was off the icon disappeared from the share option. I have a few media share apps I downloaded including that I media one but couldn't figure out which one it was. I tried it the next day with my son's xbox but it didn't work on that for some reason.

I must mess around with it again and figure it out.

ferrigan101 · 03-01-2013 09:25AM

DarkBlonde wrote: »

This also happened me. I was watching a movie on the xbox and I took a picture on the phone and went to share it on viber but the viber icon was replaced by an icon I didn't recognise. I pressed it and the picture just suddenly appeared on the screen. When the xbox was off the icon disappeared from the share option. I have a few media share apps I downloaded including that I media one but couldn't figure out which one it was. I tried it the next day with my son's xbox but it didn't work on that for some reason.

I must mess around with it again and figure it out.

Pretty sure it's xbox smart glass. I've used it to stream video to the xbox.

The button only shows up in the regular Samsung video player and gallery, not in third party ones, and then only if you've recently been in smart glass. (I.e. It needs to be running in the background I think.)

big_show · 03-01-2013 09:46AM

hidinginthebush wrote: »

Sounds nice and minimal, I'm very interested! Gonna have to double check what way the SD card's set up first, it says there's a known issue with exFAT formatted cards.

Yep exFAT isn't recognised under vanilla android, I had the same problem. I copied everything off the sd card onto my laptop and reformatted to fat32 and then copied everything back on.

thomasj · 03-01-2013 12:25PM

fionny wrote: »

Im getting rightly sick of this phone at the moment, first the mainboard fails and apparently lots of them are after 5 months now it apparently seems the usb connector is dodgey and the vibrating i the phone connecting and disconnecting from the charger.... Im going to push for a totally new handset.

Looks like a fix to the motherboard issue is on the way!

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_admits_to_galaxy_s_iii_sudden_death_issue_fix_is_on_the_way-news-5278.php

PogMoThoin · 03-01-2013 12:34PM

kaimera wrote: »

Q - NFC on supernexus...does it work? I had probs with build5 on 4.1.2

Working fine for me on 4.1.2. I've not flashed yet, I think I'll wait for build 2 for some of the niggly bugs to be ironed out.

Samsung Galaxy S III to be released in April 2012

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