pls fedex tissues so that I my cry into them and find a new line of work.

honestly I dont care about quad core. my single snapdragon core in my original Droid Incredible is fast enough most of the time except when apps are updating. when they are updating, shit happens on a "you will wait" basis. it sucks balls.

does having the second (third, fourth) core eliminate that issue so that background tasks like app updates and syncing dont bring the UI to a standstill?

I got a SGS3 with Verizon on Sunday, pondering hard on loading CM10 on it..... mmm jellybean.

Thoughts?

You got trolled.

On my dual core SGS2 I have apps set to update automagically in the background, I've never noticed any slowdown, BUT I don't play games or anything intensive on it so may not be a good yardstick

I would, but then I absolutely detest bloatware and hate with a passion TouchWiz

what is this "trolled" you speak of?

Same here. I used it for 3 days and got tired of it screwing up. I like the layout but it thinks too hard.

The phone locks the screen so you don't accidentally end the call with your cheek.

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For those with a rooted phone that don't multitask, think about changing your IO Scheduler. I changed mine from CFQ to NOOP and the phone became a little snappier.

Fine, but that's bad UI, I want to adjust the earpiece volume with it in use.

You should be able to adjust earpiece volume with the screen locked and whilst in a call.

Why don't you just get the hipster iphone and call it a day?

S2E4GT user with 100% silent camera, multiple line display edit keyboard, and adjustable volume with phone against ear user here. Oh, and I've got epic battery life, too.

What is an S2E4GT?

I'll ignore the iPhone comment, it's not exactly helpful. All I'm trying to do is make my current phone more friendly to me, I never said the iPhone was the pinnacle, just that my current phone is on Android and does things in a way I'm not happy with. I'm assuming your phone is on Android too, so what I want is obviously possible.

So don't be an ass.

that's not funny. that guy is DEAD!

I love ICS on my 2 year old samsung vibrant. I'm using slim ICS, this rom is available for a bunch of different phones as well, you should look it up. He just came out with a jelly bean version that I'm going to wait another week or two until all the bugs are completely worked out (and hopefully someone figures out how to make GPS work). I warrantied this phone once because it was getting worse battery life than it should even with new batteries, and stock or any modded rom. No idea why, flashed it back to true stock with odin and sent it in.

Actually, you are right and I agree with you. That is bizzare. Lock the screen, but why lock the side buttons?


Just tested. My sensation allows me to change volume in call using the side buttons.

Every Android phone I've had allowed for volume adjustments even while screen is locked/off.

Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch.

I have the same phone.

Haven't tweaked it much, but i'd like to know how to do multiline display thingy while in landscape mode because i'm a tard and can't remember what i've typed or what i'm replying to.

Correct. It's the SPH-D710 to be precise, the unit crapple is trying (and will fail) to sue Samsung over because obviously it's more awesome.

I'm running FD26 "leaked" version of ICS 4.0.3 from xda. The only thing that doesn't work is Picasa upload built into Android but I grabbed a free application to resolve that issue. Only other real tweak I've made is hacking the ICS Camera.apk to remove the stupid shutter noise because it's effing annoying as sin. Another good resolution is to download "Camera ICS" from the market which is a very good application, however it won't allow you to adjust the ISO of your pictures.

I'll admit, the phone was slightly buggy when I got it but FS26 resolved all my issues. Beware of the brickbug some phones have. You can download "Got Brickbug?" from the market and it'll analyze your hardware for the issue. Mine has the bug, but I manned up and flashed like 20 different ROM's until I found this one.


I'm not trying to be a dick about the iphone comment. That's basically my advice. If you want a limited device that "just works" and any :riaa: can use, get an iphone. Like to tweak things and maybe eff something up? Don't. It's just really annoying how so many people think the god damn iphone is a "standard" to compare *.mobile device to. I'm lucky enough to support them for my company, enterprise devices they're far from.

I seriously thought about fedexing tissues but could not find your address. No surprise, no care.

Samsung May Be Rolling Out Galaxy S3 Jelly Bean Update on August 29th | The Droid Guy

Bros,
Samsung is releasing JB at the end of the month, this means most of you will get JB in Spring, I'm on Sprint and will wait until 2015 for my JB update.

Jellybean is great, I'm on 4.1.1 on a vzw Incredible2. Aeroevan rom + capacitive buttons disabled so I can try out on-screen buttons full-time.

I like it, but the screen scaling seems off on my phone since it's a bit of a hack, but a well-done hack nonetheless.

Fingers crossed HTC releases ICS for it soon so the real nerds have some source code to work from.

Y8's I only have a dual core processor and my shit feels slow during updates. i'd suspect it's more of a memory issue than a processor issue.

They always feel slow during updates. It hogs up a ton of resources. I have found the newer versions of android have been faster during updates than older, and with the new play store it will only download 1 thing at a time even on wifi, rather than downloading everything at once then installing them in order.

I'm confused. Is there anyway to make a back-up or image of my current, factory ROM as it sits now on the phone without rooting first? I'm want to install CM10, but don't want to "start over" if I go back to my factory ROM.

get titanium backup pro. you can back up your apps and settings with that and then restore them to a stock rom install.

of course if you're going to install CM, you're going to already be rooted and can do a nandroid backup then.

fairly certain you can root, nandroid, CM, restore stock, unroot. but check on that. nandroid really is the best solution for "how it was before"

I want an image of the phone the way it sits now, so I can return it if there is a hardware problem.

i used nandroid to backup my phone but have never reverted to it. I've had my phone for 2 years so it's kind of moot. but as y8's said nandroid s kind of the standard for backups.

I was on jb for a week but went back to special version of gingerbread. since sprint is such garbage i got a version of gb that uses a different modem driver. I can now permanently roam on verizon with this combination of modem/software. I've been much happier. now my speeds are 10x faster and i don't randomly lose signal and miss calls.

Well, this has turned into a nightmare. I can't seem to get anything installed and I'm back on the factory ROM which sucks because I hate hate hate TouchWiz.

my googlage tells me you want to install something called odin. I guess it's a kernel with clockworkmod recovery built into it?

Install ClockworkMod ( CWM ) Recovery on Samsung Galaxy S3 Sprint

is that what you've been failing at?

I'm running ODIN and I've tried this with two TAR files.

1. The phone works fine in Kies
2. Shut-down Kies and double check the task manager to be sure it's shut down
3. Put the phone into recovery
4. Plug in phone
5. Open ODIN
6. ODIN finds the phone
7. Point to the TAR file
8. ...and then every time ODIN hangs on the NAND-write process and will go no further

did you install your drivers on your computer first? also try another usb cable.

Are you choosing phone or PDA in oding for the tar? you want PDA (at least this is how it is for the older galaxy phones). And make sure dont have format selected. Also see if you need a pit file too for your phone to work theoretically with mine you dont need the pit but I always have better luck with it.

Is there a way of resetting the flash counter on the S3?

At's all well having a backup to restore to, but if the flash counter is incremented Samsung will still know you've been messing about with stuff.

Got ICS.

Battery life is half as long now, and picasa won't upload anything.

Sucks.

Fuck sprint.

I reverted to cm7 + nexus s modem and get 30+ hours with full use and wifi. was only getting ~16 or less on jb or ics.

Ginger bread was my worst battery life rom, like worst than stock froyo or eclair. ICS has so far been about as good as most custom froyo roms.

I finally got the phone rooted this morning into CWM, now it won't go back there to install CM10. This shit is fucking gay.

I have no idea what any of this means.

Can you get it back into recovery at all? But only the stock recovery? I've had cwm need to be flashed a couple times to take hold on occasion. And I've also run into times where I couldnt get into recovery without entering by turning the phone on by inserting the battery. IE start with a phone with no battery, hold buttons for recovery, insert battery.

Stock recovery only. I have SuperSU and ROM manager running as if the phone is rooted, but I can't reboot into recovery and load the ROMS. Can I export backup/restore points to a computer, wipe everything, start over with the root and CM9 or 10 install later?

Run update.zip from the stock recovery just like you did the first time you got cwm to work. I've had this happen before for some completely unknown reason, took like 3 tries to get cwm to take.

once clockwork is install you should be able to hold the volume up button down and power during boot to get to cwm if you can't then it's not installed correctly. either that or volume down and power. mine is volume down but im pretty sure yours is volume up.

Well, today was a bitch. I got CM9 installed, loved it, set it all up, then realized I left some data on my stock backup. I loaded that, saved the data to the SD, then attempted to load up the CM9 back-up and it would not boot. I had to clean everything off and could not find a CM9 Sprint ROM so I was forced to install CM10 Nightly. It is definitely daily-drivable but there are a couple problems and a few minor browser crashes. ROMmanager is not working so I'm not sure how to update when a new nightly is available without starting over. Any ideas?

it's pretty easy once youre rooted. i have folders on my mem card for cm 7, 9, and 10 when i want to flash to any of them i just hold my power button choose reboot and then choose have the option to do a recovery reboot. it then boots directly into clockwork mod i then choose to wipe data and cache. then i choose install from zip then choose the folder i want then install the rom i want... after thats done i then choose the gapps for that same rom ie gb needs gb apps ics needs ics apps... and install it. reboot and good to go.

Where can I find a link to the final CM9 Sprint i9300 release? Everything on the CM page is for the international phone.

This all depends on one thing...
How will I update to the newest release of CM10, and not go through setting-up this phone all over again?

Thanks for the help, I'm new at this shit.

xda-developers forum.

I can't seem to find one there, it's like it doesn't exist.

If its not on there, then it likely doesnt.

Well shit. I guess I have to stick with this nightly CM10 deal. It's not bad, I can definitely daily drive it, but I'm not the type of person who should run beta-ROMs.

Did you find any more sort finalized roms based on the CM nightlies? Thats normally what I run, or stuff based on ASOP. I like certain dev's work, I think there is a Slim ICS and a Slim JB for your phone, you should check one of those out. Very clean.

Ordered a pre-owned Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 for $170 from Cowboom yesterday. Was very tempted by the Nexus 7, but the screen just feels slightly too small for a multimedia device. 7" is about right for an e-ink reader, but constricted for browsing or movies.

Now, will Samsung release ICS before my Tab arrives? It's been promised since April. Last estimate was "Mid-August".

Any links? I have a difficult time finding anything for the Sprint phones. CM10 looks great, but I don't really need all that stuff. I'd like to run a stripped down, JBROM for the most speed and longest battery life.

I also cannot seem to back-up any of this CM10 stuff which is really frustrating, but expected for an experimental ROM.

I wanted the RAM, better rear cam, and I need a front cam, so I bought the GS3.

The cool part about non-cell phone tablets if you get the newest ROM when it's finished, but it still gets dirtied-up with TouchWiz, which I thought had a few bugs that were annoying. I'd go ahead and root the thing and install a JB ROM if available. I like the look and feel of JB significantly more than ICS.

Yeah, Touchwiz is not my favorite, at least for phones. I'll see how it works for a tablet once they release ICS, and if it's still bad just go with CM10.

Here's the list of supported devices for slim ICS. Looks like the GS3 can get slim ICS. Supported Devices.

And it looks like there are plenty of other roms out for it. Sprint Galaxy S III Android Development - xda-developers

In the Slim link, notice the download screen does not list the i9300 and the "supported devices" link does not provide a network specific notation. I don't want to get stuck the way I did last time.

I tried the "high on android" and another last night, both had problems.

Yeah, looks like he took the ICS stuff off his site since he doesnt want to have to support it any more. I did check around to see if anyone was running it on the sprint sgs3 before I posted it. Well you've still got infinite choices on xda.

It looks like I'm just going to follow the CM10 nightlies and hope they never require a data-wipe on the updates.

The only real problems are:
haptic feedback won't turn off
Google search bar and voice don't work
random Chrome crashes, batter life could be better.

Fucking piece of fucking shit Sprint ICS needs to DIAF. Navigation doesn't work, can't find satellites. Can't upload photos, internet radio isn't working blah blah blah.

And battery life is TERRIBLE. Drained 25% yesterday searching for a fucking GPS satellite for 10 minutes yesterday.

Unacceptable. Going to throw this piece of shit through their window and tell them to give me another phone with 2.3 on it, because it WORKED.