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

Nismo said:
Fair enough, but seeing as the iPhone gets slated for it's battery life and her old one had more battery-draining features enabled (and was 2 years old) then I would have expected a brand new phone to last at least as long.



Is this the cell standby reporting bug? I read about it but as I understand Samsung themselves haven't fixed it yet? The phone itself is fully updated as far as I know, guessing it will only get fixed through official channels when the JB update comes out?
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Try and update via Kies to be sure it is fully updated. Some updates do not work over the air.
 
Nismo said:
1. It was already set to 2kb, but I set it to 50kb and still doesn't update read emails. Very annoying, and it's not even my phone! :o

2. So you are saying to have to charge every 24 hours without even heavy use is considered normal for the S3? I find that bizarre with the iPhone comparison, as that's the one that always seems to get slated in terms of battery performance. At worst she had to do that every couple of days, and that was with Bluetooth turned on too for the car! Pretty much straight after she has fully charged the S3 overnight and got out the house it can drop 1-2% without touching it.

3. After I posted this I did wonder about getting another gallery app. Installed Gallery ICS for her and that's much better.
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1 - No clue sorry, I never had this problem :( Is it running POP or IMAP?

2 - In all seriousness my SGS3 gets more life per charge than my 4S, I'm inclined to say it's either because it's new and she's playing with it more or she has everything set to sync every hour by default or the cell hasn't reached capMax yet (can take a week or so). I used to test handsets for a fruity company until recently and these handsets were roughly comparable in most user scenarios. People see a massive illusion in their own use with new phones, I'd suggest giving it time.

I'd like to dispell a huge thing right now though, The "instantly drop 2%" thing. Phone batteries when they hit 100% charge do not then switch to trickle charge, it would ruin the battery. Instead they let the cell drop to ~95% then charge again but because users are inheritly stupid they just show 100% else the moronic user go into the shop and cry then lovely new handset has a fault. Every, and I truely mean every phone does this made in the last 5 years. Most phones cheat it by just averaging out 100-90% but some who rely on spot sampling (Such as samsungs) can show this oddity of dropping upto 3% instantly. It is present on nearly every android samsung have made.
 
Antony101 said:
I don't think it will, flashing stock firmware will remove a root and CWM mid flash, you could end up buggering your phone up, I'd recommend just waiting.
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I installed the JB OTAs through CWM which obviously removed the recovery, though.

Am I being dim, or is there no way of making folders with the stock launcher? I usually use Apex, so might go back to that.
 
Ol!ver said:
Just downloading the stock ROM. Will flashing it in Odin wipe everything, or do I need to do a factory reset first?
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If you are coming from a custom rom I would imagine you would need to factory reset. So just backup anything you can before hand. Remember a factory reset wont delete music and pictures and whatnot.
 
kona786 said:
Are you using lightflow? I remember it took a few goes/try's to get the colour right...try it a few times...and test it with a real notification.
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Using CM10's standard notifications settings. Just tried the default yellow and default plain white in there.

smokedog said:
Yes, its normal.
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Is the white normal too?

Thanks for the replies guys, much appreciated!
 
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The only true colours the S3 can do is Red, Blue and Green as it only has an RGB LED (like all phones IIRC). The other colours are done by mixing the RGB's which results in that kind of patchy colours.

TBH it does me as I only use 3 real colours:

Blue - SMS/MMS
Green - Email
Red - Low Battery


I also use

Orange - Missed call
White - Missed Calendar event

The 2nd lot work ok but are not perfect
 
The fact that its an RGB LED means it should do all the colours - maybe just not in the exact shade you want it.

Lamboman - try Lightflow - its free and has a load of settings
 
On the topic of the LED (and this may have been asked before, but I'm not sure what to search for), is it possible to stop it coming on when the phone is off but charging? I put the phone in a dock next to my bed to charge each night, and the red LED is very bright and distracting in an otherwise dark room.
 
kona786 said:
The fact that its an RGB LED means it should do all the colours - maybe just not in the exact shade you want it.

Lamboman - try Lightflow - its free and has a load of settings
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The thing is that is isn't even a shade, just a mix of colours when displaying the mixes, purely because each individual LED is too far, it seems.

I would try LightFlow but CM's settings give you nearly as many options without requiring an external app. But thanks for the suggestion :)

Now I've found a small spec of dust at the top right of the display :( Will not be enough to send back though as the phone is otherwise flawless, it's just not worth it!
 
lamboman said:
The thing is that is isn't even a shade, just a mix of colours when displaying the mixes, purely because each individual LED is too far, it seems.
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just a mix of colours - I had this on Lightflow on a release day S3 - After a few tries the white LED did work...

Try lightflow just to see if white works - I'm now intrigued.
 
Okay, played with LightFlow a bit more. To sum up, RGB are pure, but aside from that, everything else is either completely off or a weird mix that, at a push, could be called the right colour, as Richie said. White is a strange blend of a light green, light blue and a bit of purple, that could classify as white at a real push if you hold the phone away from you. Pre-set orange is a blend of orange at the bottom left , and yellowy green at the top right. Some colours are way off.

Basically, it seems that the three base colours aren't blending properly. Is this just my phone, or is this just the way it is, and it can only really do RGB well? I'm suspecting this is the case, as I have only managed to find one discussion relating to this online!
 
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So... my trip to pick up my SGS3 from Carphone Warehouse today -

CPW: "Here you go, it says it's all done and working"

It says they'd updated the software and 'replaced screws'?

Me: "Okay, would you mind logging in to one of your WiFi networks?"

CPW: "Oh, that's odd... it just keeps saying 'authentication failed' "

Me: "How odd, that's exactly the fault I was having, which was why I brought it to you!"

One of their supervisors/managers had a go and conceded there is a fault. He's now asked Samsung to send me a new S3, but it's going to take 5 working days :(

It's the first time I've ever had a hardware fault, in all the devices I've had (and that's a lot in the last couple of years) and what a pain in the bum it is :(
 
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