Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

Meh, I have the One X and find that other than the screen and wifi signal strength, it's inferior to the S3 in just about every other way.

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there is a CF root with CWM that does not even change the kernal for this device. There is also a program that deletes the counter warning you get so no one would know if you flashed it back to stock that its been messed with

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I did read that the counter could be reset but as ive only had the phone little over a week i think ill wait a while first . Thanks for the info thou

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Anyone know how i can play m4v videos? I have a few triple play Blu Ray films and got the digital content from iTunes using the code on the disk but S3 doesnt play m4v. I have tried converters but because its DRM protected they wont convert or if they do its just a grey screen. I want to be able to play the videos on my S3

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http://www.androidzoom.com/android_a...ite_bvtdg.html not tried it just google searched ;)


http://www.androidzoom.com/android_a...yer_ckstc.html

the drm of course may well stop them playing?

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Can you get sky go on S3? I am still waiting for it on Samsung Nexus

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...t5Yi5za3lnbyJd thought you just installed the app? reviews looks poor though and will not work on rooted phones how mad is that

it appears it does not support ics so no is the answer

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Lol..was just going to say that :)

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Ill have a look at them links, i have googles it but just keeps talking about convertes. Will threy play DRM content thou?

At the moment you cant get Sky Go on S3 but i download the test apk file and it works fine

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Out of intrest just how bad is your battery?
On a stock ROM I can get around 36 hours light/med usage & on stock ROM + Siyah over 48hrs with my usage pattern.

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Try MX Player or VPlayer (both free)

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

Have a look at this for getting sky go to work win a s3 or HOX its supposed to block the root / unsupported being reported to the sky go app. Not tried it on my HOX but there are reports of it working

I used a similar one for my jailbreak iPad.



J

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...06967&page=193

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Just tried these and they see the video put cant play it. MX Player says cant be played and VPlayer plays it but its just blank, no picture and no sound. Im guessing its because they are DRM protected. Its annoying me now. Ive paid for the film but i can only play them on iOS devices, grrr

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Correct, it's the drm that stops them working.

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I have only tried that 1 film which on Windows or Mac has to be done from iTunes. I have another film that may work on S3 as it can go via WMP or from the film site its self but dont want to use the code in case it doesnt work

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If they are digital copies the drm will mean they will only work on iTunes or wmp.

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That sucks :(

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Just ordered my first android phone Galaxy Ace 2 i hope its good as a starter phone.

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bought Max Payne mobile last week, Wow!!

Been playing all weekend, game is still as good as I remember and the detail and smoothness on the GS3 is phenomenal.

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Anyone got any issues when playing music, im asking as when im listening to music player it will just randomly put its self on pause or even just go off competely, i tried winamp free for a short time and tha went off as well but thay may not be linked

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

Phone going off or music player going off? Can't say I've experienced either on my S3 (though I did see the former once or twice on my S2)

I wonder if it's incorrectly detecting you've unplugged your headphones? Most android media players automatically pause music when you unplug your headphones, to avoid it blurting out loudly and embarrassingly over the phone speaker (this has happened to me several times in the past on Nokia handsets in the library, it's not fun). You can turn that function off in many media players, though if there's a fault with your headphone socket I'd get that looked at first.

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Have you possibly plaed the phone face down or covered the screen? Its got a feature that pauses when that is done.

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The music player ethier goes off or goes on pause. im wordering if there is a fault with ethier the headphones or the socket but not sure how to tell.

Ive turned that feature off. Most times it will work for ages all ok but sometimes just pauses every few mins,

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As I say, I'd try turning off the "pause when you disconnect your headphones" feature - I'm not sure if the stock media player has it but PowerAmp definitely does. Alternative being just wiggle your headset a lot to see if it causes it.

Oh and if you use the supplied headset, it has 3 buttons and one of them acts as a play/pause button.

Course it could be nothing to do with the headphones and just the phone running out of RAM, and closing the media player. Memory management on Android 4 is still a bit flakey on some devices.

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Must say I've not had any issues with the music player pausing or stopping of its own accord.

Just at train station andit just went on pause by its self it stoll had headphone icon at top to show headphones were still in i went to play again as soon as i press play and pressed home button it did sane thing it did tbis 3 times in less than 2 mins and still kept showing headphone icon i really is peeing me off to max all settings are ok

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Ram usage was high even with bo apps runnning and i even went into task manager ended all active apps and processes and still it was over 600mb restated and gone back down to 400 something mb and ok at. Maybe it is a ram issue bit why is my ram so high with nothing running and no live wallpaper?

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Android by default keeps all applications running (cached) in the background to make them load faster. It usually kills these before killing any actual live applications, but sometimes gets it wrong (especially on HTCs with their custom/aggressive app killing code). It's unlikely to be a RAM issue but a remote possibility is still a possibility.

Have you tried Poweramp with the autopause function disabled? And are you using the included headset?

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I havnt but i shall try and report my findings. It is strange as when i restarted my phone all was ok again

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As stupid as it sounds...sometimes turning it off and on is the best solution.

If I could do the same for people, life would be so much easier :D

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Quality

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Sometimes, you just need to turn it on in the first place :p:

Probably wouldn't work so well on most girls I know (turning them off and on again...)

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Ive just download the trail version of Poweramp and also free version of Winamp but it vibrates to the music when playing, how do i stop this as i cant find it in settings for it? I dont want it to drain my battery by vibrating all the time

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

I guess you turned on auto-haptic. Settings => Sound => Auto haptic. Turn it off or deselect the app in the list of auto-haptic apps.

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thats what that means. Now turned off. Thanks

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On the note of the S3, Samsung seem to have copied Apple again in yet another aspect, having built a phone that likes to spontaneously self-combust:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/21/31...n-fire-ireland

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One case doesnt mean it will happen on all devices

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Same could be said of the exploding iPhones.

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True point

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OK so this just happened to me for the first time today; music player simply disappeared 10 seconds into a track.

Incidentally the only difference between today and yesterday is I disabled media sharing and downloaded a wake lock application.

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I have had media sharing disabled since i got it, maybe its connected to that. I have used Poweramp and no issues with that at all, so maybe it is a software issue with media player

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Well I figured out what it was for me. There's two different things.

One is the mute/pause music when you place your palm against the phone (feature), the other is the RAM management being bad - for me I only notice it when browsing heavy web pages during which the music player sometimes exits.

But the placing palm against phone to mute it feature did trigger it a few times in my pocket too. I just turned it off. Not happened once since.

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That featurehas been turned off since i got it and it still happened to me. I think its a RAM managment issue. Been using poweramp alot and had no issues with that at all. Im on the trial version so may buy the full version. Not sure if winamp or poweramp is better

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

Personally I prefer Poweramp, because at the time I bought it Winamp didn't have an equalizer at all (not sure if it does now)

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i think it does in the pro version, i need to use winamp a bit more to see which one is better but i really love poweramp

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On the subject of music players: Does anyone know of a music player for Android that allows you to sort artists by first letter only? I've got 20GB worth of music on my phone, and the stock Android music player lists all artists alphabetically, which means I always have to scroll through all artists. This gets a little laborious for artists further down the alphabet (particularly seeing that 'the' is a popular prefix for band names). I'd like to be able to (as I could on my Creative Zen) just select a letter of the alphabet to jump to all artists starting with that letter. I've not been able to find an Android music player that allows that though.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

the default one on the SGS III allows it lol

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

The stock one on my HTC Desire (rooted, on GingerBread now) doesn't though. I must say I'm tempted by the Galaxy, though I'll have to wait a couple of months till my birthday to justify paying £500 for a new phone...

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

Everyone I've tried does - including Poweramp. Just use the fast scroller at the side that scrolls by first letter and you can subselect by first+second letter in the default media player too.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

Doh! I never noticed you can use the quick scroller that way. Not exactly intuitive that...

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The prices have been released and I can say not impressed really £99 for the handset no matter which tariff you take seems alittle strange too me not sure I can justify £99 and starting another 24 month contract.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

O2 are offering for £46 a month unlimited mins and txts and 2gb of data and handset for £19.99 so not everywhere is £99

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t mobile do the full monty for £36per month free phone 2000 mins unlimited text and net and if you buy from buymobilephones.net you get a sim free phone and quidco/topcashback

I go a feeling he meant virgin??

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

I think the top tariff you get unlimited internet with Virgin, still a bit of a rip off to charge £99 with the top tariff.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

better heading over to tesco phone shop

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

It's free on a £24 a month contract.

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Or you could get unlimited texts, unlimited minutes, unlimited* data and free handset for £31 a month.

*They call it 1GB but there's no limit or charge when you go over this amount, it just gets (a lot) slower

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You can get the same thing for <£36 a month with the handset for free on O2.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

Free at £34 a month on 3 on the one plan, unlimited internet, 2000 minutes, 5000 texts.

VM's pricing is ridiculous on this. They seriously need to rethink it. If they don't at least drop the £99 upfront fee I'm off.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

A friend at work has just got one of these (Vodaphone) and it doesn't seem to want to charge properly, has anybody else had this problem?

The Red light does come on and the white dots cycle indicate it is charging.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

When you say doesn't want to charge properly, what happens? Does the battery not last long? Could be the battery or it could be the connector on the phone. Get it replaced if he only just got it.

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It seems to take ages to charge

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

Is that with the official charger?

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How long is ages? Got a screenshot of the charging graph? (Settings => Battery)

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I have read on forums there is a 72MB OTA download for the phone. It it a stability update and a brightness slider in notification bar. I cant update at mo as on 3G not Wifi

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

I got the OTA notification this morning and just downloaded and installed. liking the brightness in the notification area.

Why can't you download it on 3G? I just did.

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Says i need to be connected to Wifi. Looked in settings and cant find any settings to change it to update over 3G

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The page you click to search for updates has a tick box for update over Wi-Fi only. Untick for updates over 3G.

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Where is that i dont see that screen? I am proberly being blonde and looking at wrong section thou

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In google play front screen..press 3 dots top right, and choose settings
That lets you set update over wifi only tick box

i am blond (though losing hair), and yes we do have fun, just not more :)

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Settings>about device>Software Update

Then Below the update button there should be a tick box option for updating over WiFi only. Untick it.

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Its the system updates not the app updates.

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I have looked in there and there is no tick box just update - check for updates, nothing undernearth it

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i am natual blonde but dont loose my hair just yet

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

sorry..i was just thinking google play...you can access from there

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I dont have Play updates on for over 3G incase i have loads and then eats my data usage, system update i am willing to do over 3G thou

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Your network must have disabled it then :(

Mine is an unlocked handset.

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Darn. Well i got home and checked for update and i dont have update yet :(

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No update for me either, but this is what the screen should look like:

[img]Download Failed (1)[/img]

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Glad it isnt just me that hasnt got update. I dont have that option so maybe it is locked by O2

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That's weird, O2 generally don't brand or modify or even SIM lock their phones

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my s2 was sim locked and had branding, my s3 wasnt from o2 direct and is sim free and i have no update

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Must have been the early days then, last May when I was looking around to buy my S2 O2 told me it would be unbranded and unlocked - but I ended up getting it from an independent anyway. S3 was also through an independent (CPW) though it is rooted and slightly modified

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Had the update this morning. Only took about 2 mins to update

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Still no update for meh :( Notice any changes?

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Battery life has improvd, i no longer loose that inital 1% as soon as taken off charge. weather updates your location automaticlly now as well

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i love this phone no issue with battery life fast as anything, the only thing that is starting to bug me is when im watching a film on it going to work the screen darkens a little bit.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

Wait until you get Jellybean on it

Galaxy Nexus zooms, so i would expect S3 to be a rocket

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Manual brightness control?

I use an app called Lux to override the built-in auto brightness anyway

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Change the auto brightness in the settings in the video player.

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Mine updated using the Kies software when I plugged it in.
Give that a go.

Sky Go now in play store. I have downloaded and works fine. Also has anytime+

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The killer app I'm waiting for is O2 Tu Go

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Whats that app?

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

A smartphone app that lets you make and receive phone calls and text on any connected device you own. You can hold a conversation over wifi on a tablet for instance.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

cool

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Mainly for all the dungeons around here that have no mobile coverage at all (but do have wifi)

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Anyone know how to change the background colour on the email app ( list view) - it's black on my trial S3 (fine on the gmail app)?

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Don't think you can change it. The default email app is ics themed. Dark with turquoise highlita I think. Only ever use the Gmail one.

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Thanks - we use the default one for Exchange....

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Root?

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Not possible on a work phone - if I did it, I have to fire myself....;)

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Does anyone know how to find the default notification files folder when you connect up to pc with a usb, I cannot find them anywhere, I placed a couple of old mp3 files I had in /mnt/sdcard/media/audio/notifications they appear in phone but tags are in Chinese I think and not English, So I wanted to open the folder that contains them to edit tags.There seem to be various notification folders on phone so placed files in these and again it shows up in phone and again in Chinese doubling up then trebling up, I deleted all files but there is still a set of files in the phones notifications folder but these seem to be hidden files, any help appreciated

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Anyone know when the Jelly Bean update is coming?

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

From what im led to believe some unbranded models are getting the update some point this year

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

A few weeks probably, given that a dozen different versions have already been leaked.