***The Official Samsung Galaxy S III Thread***

Mattey1 said:
I need to ask this why did they bother with MTP? I have had nothing but problems whenever that thing has been enabled.

What was wrong with usb mass storage?
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**This is not all technically correct but is good enough to understand :) **

It allows you to communicate with other objects (like tablets) in a way that USB Mass Storage cannot and it's fairly standardised. Hell, you can plug it into Emirates planes and it works which is kinda neat I guess. It also allows them to undo their HUGE bodge that they had to do.

Back when Android was concieved the memory card was the only user memory so just mounting /extSD over USB MS was easy but when internal storage came around they started having to rename /extSD as internal (as apps storage was pointed here) and extsd/external_sd as the SD card. This is a horrible, horrible bodge that can cause huge issues and long term this was a very bad thing (tm).

The fix was to mount the entire device storage through MTP and then put /extsd and /externalSD under the root of the MTP mount. The problem with MTP is it has things like folder locks etc... but technically it's better than USB MS as at least you don't have to completely unmount /extSD on the phone (which is what mass storage required*). it's better for users too long term. It works mostly like USB, works for more than just PCs which is how Android is truely visioned and while it can be annoying - a reboot fixes virtually anything.

*Technically it's possible to mount /extsd over USB and internally to the phone itself at the same time but it is possible to do some truely bad stuff doing this so it was usually a developer type feature used in some ROMs.
 
Myshra said:
**This is not all technically correct but is good enough to understand :) **

It allows you to communicate with other objects (like tablets) in a way that USB Mass Storage cannot and it's fairly standardised. Hell, you can plug it into Emirates planes and it works which is kinda neat I guess. It also allows them to undo their HUGE bodge that they had to do.

Back when Android was concieved the memory card was the only user memory so just mounting /extSD over USB MS was easy but when internal storage came around they started having to rename /extSD as internal (as apps storage was pointed here) and extsd/external_sd as the SD card. This is a horrible, horrible bodge that can cause huge issues and long term this was a very bad thing (tm).

The fix was to mount the entire device storage through MTP and then put /extsd and /externalSD under the root of the MTP mount. The problem with MTP is it has things like folder locks etc... but technically it's better than USB MS as at least you don't have to completely unmount /extSD on the phone (which is what mass storage required*). it's better for users too long term. It works mostly like USB, works for more than just PCs which is how Android is truely visioned and while it can be annoying - a reboot fixes virtually anything.

*Technically it's possible to mount /extsd over USB and internally to the phone itself at the same time but it is possible to do some truely bad stuff doing this so it was usually a developer type feature used in some ROMs.
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Thanks good post. Makes a little bit more sense now :)

I'm still old fashioned though so I'll be sticking with USB MS!
 
ORDERED ONE!!! in white for myself, only because I found it on a good deal. It works out in total to £422 sim free, and if I want I can pay slowly over 2 years interest free, and it's unlocked on all networks. I ordered the white because it was in stock and ready to ship, and having played with both I don't really think the blue is that much better in all honesty. They said they won't have any blue until Mid-July. Once I receive it and set it up, my giffgaff sim goes in and I will have to sell my lovely Galaxy Note.
 
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Right after a couple of days with my SGS3, ive finding a few bugs.

One is everytime i restart my phone, my haptic feedback on the soft keys ie the ones next to the home button stop working so i have to go back into settings---sound---and re-enable that setting as it seems to turn itself off:confused:. Anyone else come across this issue and if so is there a fix??

The second issue im having is the app battery stats, in the pull down menu all i have is the percentage of battery left when within the app, i have ticked the info i need. But for some odd reason it doesnt show that info even after a reboot of the phone. I dont know if its an issue with the app or a bug in the phone...i didnt have this issue on my HTC One X. Again has anyone had this issue and been able to resolve it??. If not, is there something similar to battery stats that would give me stats of my battery on the pull down menu??.
 
Peter Tsang said:
Thanks!
I just got my pebble blue. looks very nice. but the box comes with a white color headphone. does anyone got a black color headphone?
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igot white headphones as well with my pebble blue. I thought it was strange as well but not that bothered to be honest.
 
vanandjuanunited said:
That's the one I wish I had bought . My saDisk seems to be knackered after less than a

week
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****, not what I wanted to hear. My Samsung 32Gb Class 10 card arrived on monday, and I ordered the Sandisk one on monday too!

Unfortunately I've just literally sold my Samsung SD to a colleague (for price I got it at of course!) and I'm now awaiting delivery of the sandisk UHS-1 :(

If this card is buggered I shall blame whats his face who recommended it :p
 
zoomee said:
****, not what I wanted to hear. My Samsung 32Gb Class 10 card arrived on monday, and I ordered the Sandisk one on monday too!

Unfortunately I've just literally sold my Samsung SD to a colleague (for price I got it at of course!) and I'm now awaiting delivery of the sandisk UHS-1 :(

If this card is buggered I shall blame whats his face who recommended it :p
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I posted in the S3 accessory section about Sandisk micro sd cards - I have had 2 64gb & both are phut. 1 after 2 weeks & one straight out the box.

Sandisk are pants imho
 
I've had a 64GB Sandisk in my Galaxy Note for a few months now and had no problems with it, although it is the slightly older class 6 card. I don't think they had the class 10 back then when I got it.
 
My camera seems to be fine now. I have no idea what the black mark was on every pic, but cleaning didn't remove it. Instead, I got frustrated and didn't touch the phone for an hour and then it vanished. :confused: :p

HangTime said:
Joking aside I have noticed that mine gets very hot around the bottom at times, I think it may be down to the thin casing compared to previous phones I've had
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Mine does too.
 
Received mine today but I've been unlucky and got one with a damaged screen. Looks like some dirt between the glass rather than dead pixels:

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Amazon UK delivered it to me in Spain so could be interesting getting it sorted. Do you think I'll be able to get a replacement from a local Samsung shop?
 
Took mine to work today, jumped it on the corporate wifi, and put the proxy server details in to the wifi config, only to realise only the browser and very few apps actually uses the proxy, other apps just fail, as designed!!!

Looks like there might be a few apps out there that can re-route traffic from non proxy supporting apps, but need to root the phone first .. guess I will look in to trying that tonight

Starting to wonder whether leaving iPhone 4 was a good idea
 
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