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

[Clairvoyant]

Nope not upgrading. The S3 does what I need.

Crap not good about not testing new builds. Cant his daughter do it. lol

 

[Deep]

I'll be keeping my S3 for another 6-8 months.
I want to see what the Note 4 will bring, if it's not worth it I'll probably get a M8 instead

 

[BigBoy]

I'm not due an upgrade for another year so my s3 will have to do me until then!

 

[RIZZEE]

I want to upgrade but can't decide. S3 is doing my fine.

V64 is out as well.

 

[tals]

n/a

 

[tigerstyle]

I'm not due an upgrade for another year so my s3 will have to do me until then!

Same, and even if I did have to upgrade, I don't know what it would be too, nothing has made me go wow recently...

 

[EniGmA1981]

I'd probably go for an S5 or Note 3 right now... depending what the Note 4 brings that might be an option

I'd be all over the Nexus options if they'd only ditch the stubbornness about not having an external SD slot!!

That's a little too iCrap for my liking - my son has an ipod and with no card slot it's a nightmare to keep sifting through which games/videos he wants to keep/ditch

 

[BigBoy]

V66 will be up in the morning (SK time) with the new CM11 theme stuff

 

[Winston]

What's the new cm11 theme stuff?

 

[BigBoy]

Theme Engine

A couple weeks ago, we started a limited alpha test of a new and improve theme engine for CyanogenMod. This new engine pulls together previous contributions from Sony Mobile & T-Mobile and is supplemented by nearly 5 months of work from Cyanogen Inc engineers Andy Mast and Clark Scheff. This week, we merged the core pieces of this new engine into our Github.

So just what is better about this engine? We’d like to think just about everything.

The new theme engine allows the following:
1. Simple creation of themes by compiling on the device
2. System level icon packs.
3. Font packs
4. Swappable boot animations
5. Lockscreen wallpaper
6. Alarms
7. Of course all the things the previous engine could do including skins, ringtones and notifications. There is also legacy support for old themes.

Prior to the public alpha, we reached out to theme creators to give them a head-start in playing with the new engine and creating themes to utilize the new features. We are also working on tools to make themes easier for everyone to create. Lots of fun stuff is just around the corner

 

[RIZZEE]

Very stupid question, but is my phone unlocked if your running a custom rom? I'm heading the US in July and i'm going to buy a pay as you go sim there

 

[Jony27]

No
Iirc, unlock codes are only a few quid on the bay

 

[RIZZEE]

Tempted to do it myself, most seem to be around the £10 mark

Edit: Turns out my phone is already unlocked

 

[BigBoy]

You can get the Galaxy unlock tool on the play store app is free but costs you to unlock you phone.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spocky.galaxsimunlock

 

[.:SAmSuNG:.]

Just upgraded my phone and I'm giving my S3 to my mum but as it's rooted was thinking of sticking on an up to date rom.

Currently has omega 50.1

I Don't need anything fancy just reliable and good on the battery. Any ideas?

 

[BigBoy]

Slimkat is the best no frills ROM about at the moment. Temasek's is good but to many possible problems with current builds.

 

[.:SAmSuNG:.]

Thanks how come its so small at only 135mb? Thought they were around the 800mb mark.

 

[BigBoy]

Na AOSP ROMs are 200mb ish in size.
You will need to install the latest recovery (twrp or Philztouch. Personally prefer philz) And don't forget to install the gapps package

 

[.:SAmSuNG:.]

All done thanks a lot.

 

[A2Z]

Seriously want to upgrade from my S3 but just can't decide what to argh! Something that I will be happy with for another 2 years...