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Sooner the better for me - they are unlikely (if at all) to release it for my galaxy s2 before the s3 ;)

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Ordered my (work) S3 today.

I waited until the iPhone5 was announced, for comparison - the S3, for my requirements, was the best choice.

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Bravo. Welcome to the club.

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Welcome to the club. S3 is better than iP5 IMO as iP5 doesnt have any WOW factor

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I am neither a fanboi or a h8r (I use Android, Apple, and MS products at home and work), but I found this interesting...

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/09/29.jpg

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A lot of those additional features are a bit meh. Especially since they aren't include the software features of the iPhone but are for the Samsung. That said I do like my S3

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And Jellybean will make a difference too

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Here's a spoof from the other direction ;)

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/09/30.jpg

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Sorry but android also has panorama mode and the S3 features a quad core CPU, front 1.9 Mega pixel camera and most other features can be accessed through various apps. The Sumsung one makes a better point of features the iPhone can't actually do.

Also its not cheap plastic but a gorilla glass 2 front and the rear is polycarbonate. Very strong and very light.

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I remember HTC doing the same thing with the One X vs. Galaxy S3 somehow stating having a much better hardware chip but lack of a "Beats" software equalizer on the S3 made it inferior to HTC's offering.

And some dribble about polycarbonate vs "ordinary plastic" on the S3 while it is in fact made out of the same "plastic" as the HTC...

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all the apple junkies love the 5 cuz its slightly different to the last 2 was always going to sell well lol

S Voice actually works bit of a shock for me as the rest have been poor up to now . Still totally stock on my 3 not even bothered to root it just works like a treat

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This is a must watch. Samsung having a huge dig at the new iPhone in a new S3 advert! Brilliant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf5-P...e_gdata_player

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I played with an S3 last week and although it's pretty good and impressive in parts, nothing available on the Google market helps with my ADHD as what I can find in Apple's App Store. I had android-powered phones for 3 years before I went to Apple so I have a great deal of respect for them. But my 4s with iOS6 at present cannot be beaten.

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Lol, nice one Sammy!

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What can you get on the app store you cant get on google play? theres not much difference between the 2 stores nowadays

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I'm really intrigued about what apps one could get to help with ADHD. Please enlighten us.

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I've found that there are loads - but regarding ADHD the ones on the iPhone just seem to work more efficiently.

PM on its way :)

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Samsung wish they had queues like that for their products.

Sent from my non-Apple device.

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Queues are just caused by supply restriction for PR purposes i.e make people preorder and queue up otherwise they'll 'run out' of handsets

Can understand it for the first or second gen iPhone, because Apple may have not made enough, but at this stage it's done on purpose

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So you won't be using the Apple Maps feature then. ;)

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Well there's no doubt that Apple Maps is a huge disappointment but....I used it for my satnav the other day and it got me to my destination fine :shrug:

Google's navigation is clearly better though, however the Copilot app I have on my iphone beats them both.

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Its out and is multi lingual.....http://www.sammobile.com/2012/09/24/...-1-jelly-bean/

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I still have to wait as Sky Go wont work on JB yet :(

It has Resizable Pop-up play screen which i think is great, it was needed when 1st came out

No ETA fot when it comes out for the S3 thou and more importanly when O2 will send out the update

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I have a firmware bug that makes my phone crash when copying and pasting, can't back up the damn thing as kies doesn't work on windows 8, could do with the jellybean update

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Not in the UK

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You can update to it using Odin.

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im after the official release

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It is an official release, although not the UK one.

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It is official and i'm on O2. I did update via Odin also. Cant fault it so far.

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doh!

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There was a queue for certain versions of the Galaxy S3 due to manufacturing problems (i.e. actual supply problems, not done on purpose)

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Exactly

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Or at least that's the 'official' story :)

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what is odin and how do i get it? where can i download the JB offcial rom from? is there a sky go apk that will work with it once i have put JB on?

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A google search should sind Mobile ODIN for Samsung phones and sammobile.com for the official Polish ROM.

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no one who does not know what Odin is should be advised to use Odin without first fully researching the ins and outs of such a program

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There are guides and videos on sites and youtube. To flash a ROM is not hard at all.

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ill take a look, unless i can find a sky go apk that will work on JB i doubt i will upgrade but i can always research

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would you be prepared to accept responsibility if something went wrong?

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That's what guides are for, I have used a Rom from xda for a number of months now with a different kernel, nothing happened :)

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Just follow the instructions here

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/4778...xy-s-iii-early

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Well obviously not as its the responsibility of the person whose phone it is. They they don't feel comfortable then don't try it.

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I have been messing with devices for years and its all rosey till it isnt

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any word on the official release?

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OTA update for this phone is now out. Looked on forums and i think its update for JB. One of the forums takes me to this page http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?p...ype=1#firmware and that is JB AFAIK. I started to download the update but if its JB then i will loose Sky Go so cancelled it. Anyone updated it and if so is it JB?

EDIT: I am on O2 and did SW update in settings and it finds and update.

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Ahh no skygo or flash, glad i never installed it

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I havn't yet but i really want to but its the Sky Go that is stopping me at moment

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I have looked and the OTA download is less than 300MB but the FW from the link i posted is over 700MB, does this mean the OTA DL is JB or just an ICS Update?

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The OTA IS JB. I installed it yesterday.

It even tells you its Jelly Bean before you download it.

OTA updates are always smaller as it will only contain the updated system files. Where as the full file downlaod will probably contain the full OS.

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Mine doesnt, i just go to SW update and it says connecting to sever then says downloading update package with the ETA of download and size of download

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Mine popped up a window telling me about the update and the size and a few of the new features when I went in to SW update on the phone.

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Is yours unbranded? If so i wonder if thats why

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Yes fully unbranded. Was from phones4U on Vodafone but using my VM SIM in the phone.

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I bet thats why you got a pop up box. I really want to update to JB but i dont want to loose my Sky Go ether. I wish i knew how long it would be before Sky Go comes out for JB then i know if its worth updating or not

My phone keeps trying to auto download the update. When its on wifi it starts downloading and so far i have seen it in time to stop it. On 3G it trys it but says needs wifi. Why is it trying to auto update?

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Because it is the best available software?

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Never thought of it like that

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Because you turned auto update on ;)

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there is no auto update option on mine. Its Branded so dont think i have that option, do i?

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Well yesterday morning my S3 died.

It keeps restarting, get the Samsung logo and then it reboots. Not sure what's happened.

Need to get an official rom and try to flash it.

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Have you tried a hard reset.
Video showing how to hard reset

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it6pIvfKorM

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Tried to do that but the hard reset menu doesn't come up either. Phone just restarts again.

Need to find the official uk JB rom.

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Just updated anyway, does feel smother, no skygonow

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can you get into download mode?

Have you removed the battery waited a while then after putting it back together tried to get into recovery mode?

If you can not get into recovery or download mode a stock rom is not going to help you

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I can get to download mode. Its the only thing I can get to.

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that is a phew situation then :-)

Your 2 options are install a stock rom as you say or install cf root with CWM

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Am just going to use the UK stock JB ROM.

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Mine has restarted its self a few times for no reason but works fine once its restarted

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

I've found Android to be surprisingly robust myself, since my first Android handset (I've now had 5) I've not once, ever, had a situation where I had to hard reset it for any reason, every error, bug, or fault it had come up with could be fixed without a reset (though in some cases, needing ADB)

My S3 certainly restarts itself a lot less than my S2.

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This is my 4th android phone and never had any issues before.

Well it's dead, reinstalled firmware and Odin stated it completed ok. However it starts to reload and I get the android on screen with the spinning thing in its belly, but then it restarts again and again on a loop.

Need to take it in to the store I purchased it from. Possibly a piece of hardware has failed.

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My phone has just updated to jellybean, one useful feature before the upgrade was the quick settings bar for switching on off wifi, gps, sound etc. One button is now missing which is the notification button, this was useful for turning off the sounds to email and text when phone had to be left of for alarm clock to work, does anyone know where this has now gone or is it replaced with new button called blocking mode, if so how do you setup to mute email and text temporary.

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It's not missing. It's now called blocking mode and is more in depth. You can block the led from flashing, and calls and texts. Or a combination. Also possible to add exceptions so certain numbers can get through. Also possible to set for certains times of the day.

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Except now it doesn't actually work.

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I updated to JB yesterday and i like it. Dont see many differences but i can see a few changes. I have turned off Google Now so i save battery. I had some issues with Direct Call and Wifi issues while i was on ICS and at moment now im on JB it seems all ok

I also found the secret Android game from the settings.

To do this go to settings > about device > and where it says Android Version 4.1.1 tap it 4 times really quick you then get a picture of a JB with a face on it, press and hold that and a game comes up where you have to flick the JBs off the screen

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I am still getting quite a lot of lag most times also when i had a phone call it took ages for the CID to kick in. It showed the number then the Name ID but took ages

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Is there a fault with the copy and paste function, I'm trying to copy text from an email so I hold onto screen and you get two cheese shaped pointers, which are supposed to be beginning and end of what you want copied,but both pointers keep moving, it will stay on a line but will not stay at beginning of text and end of text, am I doing something wrong or is there an easier way of copying text in an email

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This might be silly question, but have you tried moving the little cheese wedges to hi-light the text you want to copy?

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I cannot get the start pointer to stay, if I put it at the beginning of the sentence and drag the end pointer down the start pointer then moves down also, the text though is being highlighted, it does not want to highlight the whole text, it is missing the first line of the sentence.:confused:

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I think its a bug, I've tried another sentence, and each time the start pointer drops down a line and starts to highlight one line lower than original highlight , move the pointer back up and both move.

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I had an issue the other day copying and pasting. I could copy fine but i was unable to paste. I just got an option for clipboard and when i tapped that it didnt come up so had to re type everything instead

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

That seems to be a known bug - a work colleague had the same issue, and the advice is apparently to either do a factory reset or root it so you can get to a file to delete it (as it's a corruption of that file which causes the issue)

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Dont fancy any of them tbh. Ive only had the bug once and been able to copy and paste since. Ill just live with it me thinks. Hopefully wont be to long before we have to wait for 4.2 and hopefully it will be fixed in that version

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Will an unlocked UK S3 work on US 4G LTE networks?

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AFAIK it has to be the LTE S3

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No.

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Finally upgraded at the weekend from my good old Galaxy S1, loving the S3 so far :)

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My upgrade is now due and i am considering getting this phone, are there any better options for an android phone available?

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There is plenty of other options. Depends on the phone you want. There is the HTC One X for example. Ive you want a phontablet then there is always the Galaxy Note 2

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I've had the note 2 for a few months and it's a great phone, a little big for some, but you do get used to it.

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I already have an HTC Sensation which i am happy with but i don't really want another 1 and i don't want a tablet phone, personally 4.3in phone would be ideal so i am reluctantly going upto 4.7in as that seems the way they're going now and it is a free upgrade so i may as well take it.

Probably will go for it with it being free.

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It would have to live in my pocket at work as i wear a cleanroom suit so a phone/tablet that size is out of the question.

I really wish the S3 was the same size as my Sensation.

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Snoopz, have you checked out the Google Nexus 4?

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I need it to be on EE but they don't have it and if they did i bet it wouldn't be a free upgrade.

Also not sure about an LG phone. :)

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The One X has a much better screen but dreadful battery life (unless you leave it idle all the time, at which point it outlasts the S3 by a factor of 3, but who gets a £500 smartphone to leave it idle all the time?). Also a generally all-round better user interface, though the hardware performance, other than the screen, isn't quite as good.

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Nexus 4 is coming to VM later this month

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...s/td-p/1567128

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Ordered the blue GS3 yesterday, looking forward to getting it now, although i had to phone EE for a micro sim, so i hope that comes quickly as well as a leather pouch for it. :)

Am i right in thinking Jelly Bean is officially available for it now?

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Well, it is on Voda...

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I think the phone comes unlocked so hopefully it will be for me too.

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My newly arrived SIM free one has 4.1.1.

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Although should be getting 4.1.2 soon http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-...-4-1-2-1117502

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Thanks for that.

On another Note :erm: still waiting for this for my Note 10.1:

http://www.samsung.com/global/micros...html?type=find

Sky Go now out for Jelly Bean. Its in play store and i have testes it and works fine

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I'm trying to mount my sd card with pc, sync phone basically but having problems,htc you basically hit a button once usb is connected but S3 is so different, i've installed an app called SGS3 Easy but it comes up with error "could not get root privileges sd card is being accessed or other error, any one else having problems like this.