I'm thinking of getting the S3 again for the rom/root. I dont want to unlocked my HTC One X with HTCDev because I do not wish to void warranty . So I was wondering are there any issues that I should look out for when getting a SGS3? I read the general section and I didnt see any.
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I'm thinking of getting the S3 again for the rom/root. I dont want to unlocked my HTC One X with HTCDev because I do not wish to void warranty . So I was wondering are there any issues that I should look out for when getting a SGS3? I read the general section and I didnt see any.
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Well most of the physical issues include some black spots/marks on the screen when switched off(apparently prevalent in all a amoled screens, slight heating at the bottom and physical faults with the body. Can't remember some of the others. Quite frankly I haven't encountered any problems with mine. The phone is a bit fragile though so handle with care. Best thing is to examine the phone properly for factory faults when buying it
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Are they visible on low brightness? Or do you need to be on a pitch black screen in a very dark room.
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Are they visible on low brightness? Or do you need to be on a pitch black screen in a very dark room.
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Some have reported it on both low brightness and when the screen is off but I don't have it as far as I can see. Running a CM10 preview right now and loving it =D
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When the screen is turned off that doesnt sound good, any pictures? & thats one of the main reasons I want the SGS3 all the roms and such . The one x has roms but I dont want to void my warranty.
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When the screen is turned off that doesnt sound good, any pictures? & thats one of the main reasons I want the SGS3 all the roms and such . The one x has roms but I dont want to void my warranty.
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Nah it doesn't seem to be as visible as you think. Like I said best thing is to thoroughly examine the phone before buying. I didn't examine it when I bought but I ended up with a good set =p
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Well before the one x and galaxy nexus I used to just buy a phone without thinking. Now I'm constantly looking for defects in phones :/
Well you just need to look for factory faults with the s3. The only real problems are software related which can or will eventually be fixed
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I shall have a look if I decide on getting one bit unsure at the moment.
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I shall have a look if I decide on getting one bit unsure at the moment.
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It's not as bad as it looks. The phone has amazing specs and most importantly awesome developers =D
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I had one before but I disliked touchwiz and kinda the screen mainly touchwiz.
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You are going to void your warranty with Samsung if you root and rom.
My S3 has been amazing. No issues here.
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Touchwood no issues either. Loose volume rocker is not so great but you dont notice it inside a cover.
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I know im voiding my warranty with samsung but I can easily make it look like I never touched the phone you cant with HTCDev.
Any banding on white/grey images? Like the galaxy nexus. This is generally on low brightness.
While I love my S3, I still think the screen sucks VS one X or iPhone 4s. Pentile is pentile I guess, because in the text it is very noticeable.
That being said, it is still the phone I'd choose at the moment. I don't trust the One X hardware quality long term.
Is the black dots that are on the screen the same thing as on the Galaxy Note known as "Black Crush"??
No I think black crush is something to do with the display being dark in videos. I'm not sure.
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I'm a new Thunderbolt owner coming from the Evo, and it seems as though the colors on the TB are less vibrant than my Evo. The whites seem as though they are muted a bit or have a purple-ish gray tone to them. Anyone else notice this?
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Your screen is either messed up, or you aren't seeing things clearly. If your TB looks worse than your EVO I would take it back and request a new one.
Right on, thanks...
Is it possible that it's not one of the Samsung screens, I have heard the new ones HTC has are not as bright?
I will take it to the store tomorrow if anything, for piece of mind..
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Maybe you're just looking for things that are wrong with it? I don't know. I came from a droid so it's a big improvement for me.
The thunderbolts screen uses warm color settings.
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The thunderbolts screen uses warm color settings.
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Thanks! That helps... I'm not looking for anything wrong with it at all, I just want to be sure that I don't have a defective one, because while in the store the rep had a hell of a time getting the sim card to take and give me 3G.
Also, I wanted to make sure it was good before I root it...
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Right on, thanks...
Is it possible that it's not one of the Samsung screens, I have heard the new ones HTC has are not as bright?
I will take it to the store tomorrow if anything, for piece of mind..
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Samsung are S-AMOLED, which is LED and is brighter and more vibrant than LCD.
You sure it's not just the auto brightness dimming the screen?
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Or if you have one of those anti fingerprint screen protectors it will greatly diminish screen quality and brightness
The Tbolt doesn't have SLCD
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Hi guys
On my SGS2 when the touch buttons are lite part of the light seeps through the gap of the hard button. Does anyone else have this?
I can only see it when it's pretty dark but its very annoying.
I don't have this :s
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Yeah, I have it too, but it's not too bad and only visible from certain angles and in a dark room.
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Yeah I sometimes have itbut almost rarely, and like the other guy said only from certain angles when I'm looking for it. I put pressure on the button in that direction and it disappears usually
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Ive got this very slightly on the right hand side. I also notice when im reading a web page with a black background the very bottom left has a white spot/pixel, it goes away when you start scrolling. Anyone else got the same problem?
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Glad im not the only one who has this. Worth returning over?
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Personally It doesn't bother me, its hard to notice and even when I can see it, its really tiny. So to me not a problem
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Im guessing you have Optus stock as well?
When you look at the touch button straight on can you see the light?
Mine has the same issue but i dont care.
I can only see it when I'm using the phone when it's completely dark
My wife has a mole but shes still beautiful, can we not get a little obsessed with perfection with our phones? It is after all the slimmest, lightest, dual core power house smart phone out there....forgive its quirks?
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My phone did this at first but it went away after a couple weeks as the home button got better seated through use. Definitely not worth returning over.
same here, right hand side!
this was the reason for me to switch off the button lights in settings. looks better anyway
It has to be pretty dark...
didnt realise you could turn the light off
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send it back, complain to samsung, demand they redesign the handset!
erm...
This will make it heavier and bulkier!!!
Happens to mine and there is NO PROBLEM with it. Be happy!
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This will make it heavier and bulkier!!!
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And more expensive. All these perfectly good handsets getting returned for new ones have to be paid for somehow.
I switched mine off looks so much better, per sonly I wish it was all black like the nexus s, i think that looks so sexy
Have it too, but dont matter !! I am a perfectionist too ( 620 euros it is for a phone !! ) but i think... i mean ... returning it for this????
If it is same as anyone elses in here its BARELY visible and you should try to find it again.. enjoy your phone. ( there are great chances of getting a same unit back, cause its a design thing i think )
Hey,
have it as well. But I don't really mind.
briko78
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Ive got this very slightly on the right hand side. I also notice when im reading a web page with a black background the very bottom left has a white spot/pixel, it goes away when you start scrolling. Anyone else got the same problem?
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Hi Ministig
I've got the white spot/pixel issue,only noticed it when I was looking at another site which had a very dark blue background
Miss Diva
I was youtubing and this is what my blacks look like. Is this normal?
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Is that a screen shot? It looks good to me. You would have to take a picture of the problem with a camera to show us how it looks to you.
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Is that a screen shot? It looks good to me. You would have to take a picture of the problem with a camera to show us how it looks to you.
Unofficially NOTEd
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Errr. I feel dumb.
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I was youtubing and this is what my blacks look like. Is this normal?
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NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL. There is an issue with the gnote and its black's. I would like to say 8 of 10 ppl are dealing with it. You can see the black blotch is very clear on the right side of your picture. No phone should do this. A fix should be coming with ICS, I hope
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There is no guarentee that there will be a fix for ICS. Most likely, we will have to deal with it.
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NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL. There is an issue with the gnote and its black's the I would like to say 8 of of 10 ppl are dealing with. You can see the black blotch is very clear on the right side of your picture. No phone should do this. A fix should be coming with ICS.
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is it this bad with everybody?
Yes it is this bad. Mine is the same or worse on ics.
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Yes its pretty bad. The lower the brightness the more visible it is on my note. Its kind of a buzkill when looking at my wifes HOXL and seeing perfect blending and no blotchy blacks.
Its gotta be a software issue, cuz I think I read somewhere the one x and note use the same panel tech right?
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Sadly, the black crush problem, or "black clipping," is a very well known issue on both the i717 and n7000 Notes. It doesn't look like the official ICS update is going to fix the problem, but at least one n7000 developer, Supercurio, says he may be able to fix it once we have the official ICS source code.
Even though the problem affects nearly every Note, Samsung has never even acknowledged that the problem exists.
Keep your fingers crossed...
I went into a Carphone Warehouse in the UK today and also a Vodafone shop to have a play with the new SIII and I am absolutely deflated to find that it exhibits quite extreme "lag" or "elastic" scrolling in the menus and in general in the UI. You can see exactly the effect I'm talking about here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DuMZRkBvlw and on the SIII it's actually even worse. It was actually the same on the SII with most of the ICS roms so it seems that this is for some bizarre reason by design and not a bug of some sort?
Why on Earth would Samsung actually CHOOSE to implement this kind of "elastic" delay to finger scrolling? I cannot think of a good reason for them to set it up that way? It's definitely NOT an ICS issue because the HTC One X doesn't have this problem at all - so someone somewhere at Samsung has actually decided to put this in!!!???
Why have NONE of the SIII reviews I've read mentioned this infuriating effect during scrolling? I'm not all that sensitive - I have to emphasise that the effect on the SII and now the SIII is actually quite extreme. The SIII is now even worse than the SII!
Can this be fixed by devs in some way? I think the video I linked to above is essential to understand what I mean. It's NOT slowness because the phone is underpowered or not optimised. It seems to be a crazy design descision on the part of Samsung? I didn't see any fixes to it on the SII threads and the custom ROMS for the SII didn't address the problem either. I can't be the only one to notice this?
Any feedback would be very interesting.... I simply love the SIII but it's an absolute deal-breaker if the "elastic" effect is delayed to such an extreme... It drives me mad!
Oh I just asked if the SIII was like this in the vs one x thread. It was one of my biggest quirks with the SII, but you could actually change the sensitivity if rooted. It improved vastly, but never as good as on the one x. Samsung implemented a high pixel delay(if that's the right wording) for some reason.
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Don't notice it, touchscreen reacts before I put my finger on it :s it's really fast
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omitting the lag, elastic scrolling is a feature of ics updates, its much better than the normal scrolling.
if elastic scrolling is present in sgs3 all you have to do is get practiced to it.
i have it on my galaxy s2 with ICS, both on samsung roms and AOSP roms. gingerbread was much better scrolling.
i really was hoping it was fixed in the s3, but now it seems it isnt
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i am thinking all that nature feeling bs is just to cover it up?
Is that really what your complaining about? lmao
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Don't notice it, touchscreen reacts before I put my finger on it :s it's really fast
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Have you tried a touch screen test app? If you move slowly, how long before the screen reacts? On the SII It's quite a long distance, so playing drawing games and such is impossible.
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Have you tried a touch screen test app? If you move slowly, how long before the screen reacts? On the SII It's quite a long distance, so playing drawing games and such is impossible.
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There is an app for that on play, you have to donate for the settings to stick after you lock and unlock the device..it's perfect and touchscreen test reacts on movements instant
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Touchscreen tune I believe
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I'm facing the same problem with home screen lags as well. After considering, I switch back to EX go launcher with ICS themes; and everything works perfectly as it should - No home button lags, scrollable screen with Original SIII lock screen.
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There is an app for that on play, you have to donate for the settings to stick after you lock and unlock the device..it's perfect and touchscreen test reacts on movements instant
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Yeah I know that, I actually bought it for the SII. Paid 5$. The reason I'm wondering is because my girlfriend wants one, and she won't root it.
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I love my xperia but could not face another month of it been gone for repair and it only been not even 5 months old.
Did not want to leave but too many issues for a flag ship device. Still sending it off for repair but atleast have a phone that works hehehe well for the moment.
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I love my xperia but could not face another month of it been gone for repair and it only been not even 5 months old.
Did not want to leave but too many issues for a flag ship device. Still sending it off for repair but atleast have a phone that works hehehe well for the moment.
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Id bet money that you will have problems with your samsung at some point. No flagship is free of issues.
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I love my xperia but could not face another month of it been gone for repair and it only been not even 5 months old.
Did not want to leave but too many issues for a flag ship device. Still sending it off for repair but atleast have a phone that works hehehe well for the moment.
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C`mon man...we`re not interested in selling or throwing your phone to garbage!
we all know about the xperia s problems.we do not need you to remind us of them.
unless u have to say something usefull( e.g how to get rid of those annoyng bugs from ics or how to repair the yellow tint...or how to improve the battery life) please leave us and buy a ugly Samsung...or HTC or whatever you like! you will find that all the phones have their problems
at least....xperia s with all his problems is a f#^#n` sexy phone...the rest are just...phones
fake HD Pentile display vs Sony's bravia engine HD display.
No thanks.
If not because of the yellow tint issue that was killing me, i would keep it until the 2013 line realeased.
Xperia S is hell a of a sexy phone.
100% agree but cause I need a phone that works and could not face another 5weeks with out it been repaired had no choice. Now I am no fan of Sammy far from it but when I will have an average of 40 calls a day on my mobile (busy upto 65) needed something that would work.
I still much prefer the xperia S but how it looks is not that important or how it feels if that was the case might have chosen the lumia.
Now I have no preconceptions that Sammy make a better phone this actually feels so plasticly you would not believe but when it comes to making and receiving a call its working. I do not have to worry now (at the moment) about people complaining they can't here me with all the beeps cause proximity is bust, and nore do I have to strain cause yellow tint was getting worse and worse, or the endless FC just using the contacts looking up a number (after re flashing bringing back to stock etc.)
Yes my robot who built my xperia was on the oil too much but when they could not issue a replacement why should I stay.
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I never had any problems on the S with force closes and such (system apps anyways). I would much rather have a yellow screen (that can be repaired) than a blue screened plastic fantastic device to be honest. You can't fix the cheap body and a blue screen.
Everyone has their opinions and such so it doesn't matter. I find this thread in general a bit unnecessary but whatev
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Well it was more to say good bye more than anything else.
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