Samsung Galaxy S3

ClintZA said:
I've got one. Don't stress. If you look in more detail you will see it is a few individuals having issue with particular phones, out of the thousands sold, or others showing concern about "only" getting 19 hours use out of the device and "only" being left with 30% battery time! Hell, if most smartphone users could get anywhere near that they'd be stoked!

I work from home. My wifi is on the entire time I am at home, almost 16 hours per day. When I leave the home for appointments the phone is used as a turn by turn voice navigation GPS device. I make and receive calls throughout the day. I spend a lot of time on Whatsapp. I spend time on the forums on Tapatalk. I browse the web. I watch some YouTube videos. I play some games or the daughter does. I snap photos fairly regularly. Prior to Jelly Bean, and probably partly because it was my new baby, I'd need to plug in the phone at around 6pm as it would be running low on "gas". Now I have found I can make it to 8pm and still have juice left. Yes, it gets plugged in every night but I have had to do that with every cellphone for as long as I can remember. It is a habit of mine.
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That really is not amazing battery life, so not sure what you are on about.
 
Mike Smit said:
If you come right with this, please let me know. I would love to get my hands on a Note 2 myself.

The urge to just go buy one comes strong, then subsides, then comes strong... Damned internal war going on here.
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lol. too late. coudnt resist. charging it now. will make do with the s3...
 
marco79 said:
Thanks ClintZA that sounds reassuring. Sounds like my typical usage. I am 2 minds about the jellybean update after reading the review posted above.

What type of charger does the phone use? Mini USB like the HTC and BlackBerrys?

Would you recommend getting the phone from FNB or via Vodacom or cell c? I'm thinking more in terms of warrentee offered.
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I would recommend FNB. Delivery might be a tad long, but you get a discounted phone that you pay off over two years without interest. And it helps you earn more eBucks haha. Also you have the flexibility to go prepaid or month to month on Cell C. You defs don't want to be locked in to a contract with all the turbulence Cell C is causing.

EDIT: Warranty on all three options is the standard one from Samsung as far as I know
 
Mine downloaded an update this morning, 88 MB, although it fails to install. Is this the official Jelly belly already?
 
I also got the update.
It updates the firmware to 4.0.4 and I see no changes to the os
 
Yep, then it's that minor fix that came out in August (or was it July) that fixes the auto brightness etc. Mine was already on 4.0.4 when it came out though, I thought they all were. Wonder why CWM loader refuses to run the update though...
 
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After installing the update I notice that my exchange emails now show the subject line in the notification area, and if in powersaving mode, there is also a slider in the notification area to increase screen brightness. Must be a collection of tweeks, but I like.
 
The slider is the same one as ICS, and I can't remember if that settings shortcut was always there.
I updated this morning and received a message that it is a Stability update.
One other cosmetic change I noticed is that the power button menu screen now has multiple sound options.
Was really hoping it was Jelly Bean :(
 
Do the service providers count this update towards your monthly data usage? Or should I rather do this over wifi?
 
marco79 said:
I am about to just ship from HTC to Samsung and started reading up on the S3. Now I find that almost everyone is complaining about the battery life.

How does the S3 battery life compare with the One X?
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Man walks into car dealership and says to dealer.

"Hi, I have enough money to buy that Ferrari over there, but I heard its pretty heavy on petrol. Do you think I should maybe go with the Prius?"
 
I cannot copy and paste within my Galaxy S3... this is most evident when in Whatsapp. I press and hold, select copy... then a message appears saying: this functionality is not supported by your device

Huh? Is this a whatsapp problem or is S3? i have the phone rooted [this was never a problem before] and haven't fiddled with loading different roms in the last few weeks. This is been ongoing since a month now.

HELP
 
Received a msg that update is available, accepted the update but due to network issues it stopped. It then gave me the option to cancel or continue. Figured I would cancel until later when I will be in an area with better coverage. Now when I check for the update it says no update available.

Anyone help please??
 
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