Samsung Galaxy S III Jelly Bean update tipped for August 29th

big_show · 23-10-2012 3:02pm

demanufactured wrote: »

Flash it yourself.
I had jelly bean on my s2 2 Months ago.

Yeah i flashed my s2 with a cyanogen mod before i traded it in.

Looking to keep the warranty on my s3 though, but i suppose i can just "re"-warranty it with the stock image or a backup, triangle away and re-root the phone if i have any issues.

I did prefer the lack of bloat ware on cyanogen, don't like touchwiz much on ICS looking to see if its an improvement on JB.

feic it sick of waiting might just flash it tonight.

ednwireland · 23-10-2012 3:11pm

my vodafone S3 has just updated to 4.1.1

god's toy · 23-10-2012 4:12pm

steven087 wrote: »

My Google Now won't talk any idea

Mine was the same and i sorted it by;
Make sure your phone language is set to United States and google now voice is set to english (uk)

cython · 23-10-2012 8:55pm

statto25 wrote: »

eMobile have indicated on their own support forum that they have no planned release for Jellybean. I take it that would apply to Meteor too as they are more or less the same?

Where did you see that? I saw a post saying that about the S2, but have gotten responses indicating JB is on the way, though the release date is TBC

Vego · 23-10-2012 11:48pm

god's toy wrote: »

Mine was the same and i sorted it by;
Make sure your phone language is set to United States and google now voice is set to english (uk)

Didnt work for me

hustlergraham · 24-10-2012 12:10am

steven087 wrote: »

My Google Now won't talk any idea

Just force stop in applications and it will work fine.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 24-10-2012 8:03am

Meteor/eMobile have released JellyBean for the S3 this morning. Available now via KIES and OTA. 317MB

griffdaddy · 24-10-2012 8:05am

Vego wrote: »

Didnt work for me

They have to be the same, not different. Set Google now language to English UK and general system settings to English UK and it will work.

deckie27 · 24-10-2012 8:40am

BearNecessities wrote: »

Meteor/eMobile have released JellyBean for the S3 this morning. Available now via KIES and OTA. 317MB

Ya bet me to it bear.

splashthecash · 24-10-2012 9:33am

Downloading now....10% down

What can I expect to see in this new version? Any cool new features?

statto25 · 24-10-2012 9:34am

BearNecessities wrote: »

Meteor/eMobile have released JellyBean for the S3 this morning. Available now via KIES and OTA. 317MB

I'm not seeing it here...Feck!

Skerries · 24-10-2012 10:20am

not showing for me on Meteor

Kev. · 24-10-2012 10:54am

Skerries wrote: »

not showing for me on Meteor

I've updated a few minutes ago, I'm on meteor.. Phone seems that bit faster..

statto25 · 24-10-2012 10:58am

statto25 wrote: »

I'm not seeing it here...Feck!

Downloading it now. Might be a phased roll-out throughout the day

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 24-10-2012 12:21pm

For anyone that is interested, the UK generic BTU version was also released today.
(PDA - I9300XXDLJ4 / CSC - I9300OXADLJ4)

god's toy · 24-10-2012 1:11pm

griffdaddy wrote: »

They have to be the same, not different. Set Google now language to English UK and general system settings to English UK and it will work.

Not so sure they have to be the same, mine only started talking after i set the voice to uk and even then had to change the phone to us english.

Edit: just made sure and those are my working settings.

AntiRip · 24-10-2012 1:40pm

When I click on update it's saying 'Access to the software update service is provided to users in the order in which they request it. Try again later'

On Vodafone prepay

griffdaddy · 24-10-2012 1:40pm

hmm that's weird, I have to have them the same. i'm on an earlier release from XDA though. It's unusual in any case how they don't let you keep the system language as English (Ireland) and have it working. I've yet to notice a difference between English (Ireland) and English (UK)

joeKel73 · 24-10-2012 1:55pm

Update was downloaded and ready to install when I woke this morning. Not noticing much changes. Stock browser is a bit different and now allows 16 open windows instead of 8. Will uneed to wait and see how the battery drains but looks good so far, 4% drain from 30 min use including 12min call.

muckwarrior · 24-10-2012 3:40pm

AntiRip wrote: »

When I click on update it's saying 'Access to the software update service is provided to users in the order in which they request it. Try again later'

On Vodafone prepay

I got that too, so just plugged it in and it's updating via Kies instead.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 24-10-2012 3:59pm

Hmm, my external SD card will not mount now. JB is telling me I've to format it. Am I doing something wrong?

Does anyone have any ideas? Cheers.

Hurricane Carter · 24-10-2012 4:16pm

Just updated (UK unbranded).

Definitely a lot snappier. I like the date in the pull down menu.

Some cool new widgets too.

Folders are much nicer. Now I have some on my homescreen!

I never had full wifi reception on the old firmware. This seems to be fixed now.

Yendred · 24-10-2012 5:00pm

Got it on Vodafone yesterday morning.

In my case it's eating battery like there's no tomorrow. This could be related to the change that's been made to the "automatic screen brightness" facility where there's a new slider to add a bias to the brightness. It seems to act like a multiplier for the brightness that the OS itself chooses. I only noticed it today at lunch time.

Plus Google Plus is using 24MB/day...

Tardis · 24-10-2012 5:40pm

Can't receive mms since the jelly bean update this morning (meteor)
Any suggestion?

Tar.Aldarion · 24-10-2012 5:59pm

I Am Kong! wrote: »

Just updated (UK unbranded).

Definitely a lot snappier. I like the date in the pull down menu.

Some cool new widgets too.

Folders are much nicer. Now I have some on my homescreen!

I never had full wifi reception on the old firmware. This seems to be fixed now.

What do people use folders for?

Hurricane Carter · 24-10-2012 6:13pm

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

What do people use folders for?

Well I just put some social and media apps on my homepage as I use them quite often so I put them into two separate folders. Just neater as I have a few widgets on my homescreen too.

s_carnage · 24-10-2012 6:28pm

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

What do people use folders for?

I've always used them. Had a folder for all my games and recently put all my sports apps in another folder.

Melion · 24-10-2012 7:02pm

How are people finding it on emobile? Any bugs?

Shaneboyle · 24-10-2012 7:10pm

Just got my update there today... SIM free phone :-)

biebiebie · 24-10-2012 7:57pm

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

What do people use folders for?

Folders are very useful for categorising apps...
Games, Social, Travel, Utils, Shopping, Nav, News

coupland · 24-10-2012 8:34pm

Just noticed that the update turned on the wifi power save which was knocking out the wifi for some people. Turned mine off again...

http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s3/574442-samsung-galaxy-s3-wifi-problem.html

statto25 · 24-10-2012 8:43pm

Melion wrote: »

How are people finding it on emobile? Any bugs?

Battery drain seems a little worse but that's been reported for other providers too. No bugs to report yet.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 24-10-2012 9:32pm

Yep, definitely seeing the battery drain faster on JB. I haven't even re-installed any of my apps yet. Time to freeze some of the samsung bloat.

Patsy fyre · 24-10-2012 9:41pm

Not much of an update tbh compared to ICS.

Not noticing much of the butter either.

Will see what the battery is like tomorrow.

AntiRip · 24-10-2012 9:44pm

It's not bad, definitely zippier. I've noticed I've lost root though.

paddydriver · 24-10-2012 9:56pm

36 hours in - my battery life was far better today after updating yesterday morning. Had about 2 hours of calls today and similar in screen time. Was at about 15% when I juiced it up at around 8PM - that was 12 hours without charge. No way would have got that on ICS.

Overall seems a little better. No major killer features that I can see. They have revamped notifications etc to show summary of mails waiting.

Still hate that I cannot have white background on the stock e-mail client! Happy to use it over Touchdown etc but please let me decide how I want it to look and then I can decide if white is draining the battery.

god's toy · 24-10-2012 10:41pm

Got so much slow down and battery killings I just said f-this and formatted tonight. Hope it makes a diff...

ComeraghBlue · 24-10-2012 10:57pm

Updated today but had no problems rooting again using the same software and then paid €2 for an app that unlocked it within 2secs. Happy out ! :-)

MrJoeSoap · 25-10-2012 1:24am

Updated tonight, quite impressed so far. Many of the new features are in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6fFoz4fH0s

Slattsy · 25-10-2012 10:59am

Lads my battery is absolutely ****e since the update.
Is there anything I can do?

Will Samsung replace it?

flanzer · 25-10-2012 11:43am

Slattsy wrote: »

Lads my battery is absolutely ****e since the update.
Is there anything I can do?

Mine has been terrible since I put the JB Omega rom on it also

god's toy · 25-10-2012 12:17pm

After a fresh format it's back to being super fast and slick, stuttering is gone and battery looks like it will last the day once more. Win For me!

May I suggest if your not seeing the goodness of JB after your carrier update you should backup and reset, its given me my phone back to me but better than it was..

Now just gotta get three's data problems sorted....

Slattsy · 25-10-2012 12:45pm

god's toy wrote: »

After a fresh format it's back to being super fast and slick, stuttering is gone and battery looks like it will last the day once more. Win For me!

May I suggest if your not seeing the goodness of JB after your carrier update you should backup and reset, its given me my phone back to me but better than it was..

Now just gotta get three's data problems sorted....

What's the best way to back up?

pabloh999 · 25-10-2012 1:13pm

Meteor firmware update available today
I regretted updating my S2 firmware the phone was worse afterwards
Dont want to make same mistake with my S3
Anyone update with Meteor yet?

god's toy · 25-10-2012 1:27pm

Slattsy wrote: »

What's the best way to back up?

Many ways really. Sammy have one built in for some stuff and kies for other stuff.

Patsy fyre · 25-10-2012 2:03pm

pabloh999 wrote: »

Meteor firmware update available today
I regretted updating my S2 firmware the phone was worse afterwards
Dont want to make same mistake with my S3
Anyone update with Meteor yet?

Yeah, updated yesterday.
Haven't noticed that much of a difference, definitely nothing compared to the ics update.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 25-10-2012 2:23pm

I'm using the Meteor firmware. I was getting 2 days of use out of my S3 on ICS.
I updated to JB yesterday morning at ~8am and the phone was dead by 9am with the same usage. (I haven't had time to "play" with the new JB features). Phone was reset after flash also. No extra apps installed yet.

Not impressed at all but will give it a few days to settle.

pabloh999 wrote: »

Meteor firmware update available today
I regretted updating my S2 firmware the phone was worse afterwards
Dont want to make same mistake with my S3
Anyone update with Meteor yet?

Sonics2k · 25-10-2012 3:04pm

I have to admit my battery isn't lasting as long as it used to.
Usually by the time I got home at 7pm it was down to 60% or so, now it's 3.30pm and it's down to 56%.

The lack of flash is quite annoying, I generally watch the odd show on Firefox on my lunch, and it simply hasn't worked lately.

mollser · 25-10-2012 3:10pm

Sonics2k wrote: »

I have to admit my battery isn't lasting as long as it used to.
Usually by the time I got home at 7pm it was down to 60% or so, now it's 3.30pm and it's down to 56%.

The lack of flash is quite annoying, I generally watch the odd show on Firefox on my lunch, and it simply hasn't worked lately.

Flash still works on the stock browser, certainly on mine it does anyway.

Sonics2k · 25-10-2012 3:13pm

mollser wrote: »

Flash still works on the stock browser, certainly on mine it does anyway.

I'll check it out now. Thanks

Edit. Tried playing a Sockshare and Put locker link, no luck with it. Hardly a drastic issue, more of an annoyance really.

Samsung Galaxy S III Jelly Bean update tipped for August 29th

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