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Wondering if anyone else got a successful stream on the Thunderbolt.
It's been an incredibly frustrating experience the last two hours with my Thunderbolt.
Thought I'd watch the live stream of the lunar eclipse on the phone. Pulled out my Droid Charge, went to the Huffington Post, clicked their YouTube link, hit full screen and started getting a gorgeous SAMOLED+ view of the event in real time.
Then I thought I'd compare the visual quality of the stream on the Charge against the Thunderbolt. Followed the same steps as I had with the Charge. Stream wouldn't load... just kept getting the spinning gear indicating buffering. Tried with both stock browser (BAMF) and Dolphin HD. Tried different user agents. Downloaded update to flash player. Same thing. Tried different websites, different streams; same thing.
Went to YouTube, live stream not available to mobile devices. Aaaarrggghhh.
Thought maybe the steam was overloaded, so pulled out my Nexus S to see if it could connect. Stock browser got the live stream right away.
Spent an hour screwing around with the Thunderbolt trying to get it to work. Never could. Very frustrating.
This is why I carry multiple devices.
In the end I turned on mobile hotspot on the Thunderbolt and tethered my MacBook to it and have it on the 15" screen. Better looking than the phone anyways.
Hotspot has been very flakey fire me on the Thunderbolt lately, so it's a pleasant surprise to have had it be stable today. It's been no interruption for an hour now; much different than the disconnects every 10 seconds or so I posted about the other day.
I'm going to have to figure out why of three phones, the TB is the only one that wasn't up to the task.
Any ideas?
Hi All, I just upgraded to the TB from a Dinc last month/year so I am very new to this thread, when I had the Dinc, I installed the aforementioned DRA app and it played shows/movies fairly decent, buffering of my shows were quite fast actually...I could actually see the bandwidth jump from 20 kbps to easily over 1Megabits / second....so, very satisfying considering that was over 3G, well, as you all can imagine, since I installed DRA on my new TB, shows/movies either never go up in bandwidth at all or simply doesn't play. I get all kinds of error messages that would state that network connection wasn't good or something along those lines. I would reboot and MAAAAYBE, it would attempt to play, but, still no dice, it does everything, but, play, period. I expected so much more since my phone is now 4G LTE, don't get me wrong, I Love this phone BIG TIME, but, the majority of my reasons for the upgrade was that my shows/movies will play alot smoother/more consistent so that I can take advantage of my Dish Sling adapter, I mean, should I just go back to the store and exchange for another TB since I'm still within the 14 day return/exchange window? Any ideas or other suggestions I can try? Thanks in advance, all.
Hey guys,
I just got a Galaxy S3 however there a lot of annoying issues. First of all I haven't rooted anything and at the moment everything is stock.
The main really annoying thing is the Wi-Fi on my S III seems messed up. On all my apps which require the internet it lags really slow. For example if I load Instagram or Facebook it'll take ages to load the pictures. The same goes for random web pages. It takes around 1-2 minutes to load a page.
This does not always happen, I would say about 3/4 of the time. This issue is also guaranteed to happen in the games Hanging with Friends and Words with Friends. I doubt this issue is the app's fault as so many other apps have problems with Internet access.
I also use an iPhone 4S as a back up phone and it has no problems at all. I've also had no IP adress conflicts so that should not be a problem. This is extremely irritating as it makes using the phone a total pain.
Another thing is that I have created a folder on my home screen and whenever I open it, an annoying tone goes "Folder Open". I looked in Accessibility and couldn't figure out how to turn it off. Please help.
Also, I noticed that on my Galaxy S III when I listen to my music I hear a slight static buzz every now and then. I don't think this is an issue when the file and headphones as I've had them on my iPhone for a long time and had no issues. Do you guys have any solutions? Needless to say it is quite annoying listening to your favourite tunes and hearing this annoying buzz when you least expect it.
I also discovered something very interesting using Android. I have 250 MB of data to use and before on the iPhone it was extremely hard to cap that. However on this phone I'm already 50% through that. I used the iPhone just as much as the Galaxy so why is this happening? Does Android have another system of using data, like loading full size images?
Cheers, Jason
Bite_Me_21 said:
Hey guys,
I just got a Galaxy S3 however there a lot of annoying issues. First of all I haven't rooted anything and at the moment everything is stock.
The main really annoying thing is the Wi-Fi on my S III seems messed up. On all my apps which require the internet it lags really slow. For example if I load Instagram or Facebook it'll take ages to load the pictures. The same goes for random web pages. It takes around 1-2 minutes to load a page.
This does not always happen, I would say about 3/4 of the time. This issue is also guaranteed to happen in the games Hanging with Friends and Words with Friends. I doubt this issue is the app's fault as so many other apps have problems with Internet access.
I also use an iPhone 4S as a back up phone and it has no problems at all. I've also had no IP adress conflicts so that should not be a problem. This is extremely irritating as it makes using the phone a total pain.
Another thing is that I have created a folder on my home screen and whenever I open it, an annoying tone goes "Folder Open". I looked in Accessibility and couldn't figure out how to turn it off. Please help.
Also, I noticed that on my Galaxy S III when I listen to my music I hear a slight static buzz every now and then. I don't think this is an issue when the file and headphones as I've had them on my iPhone for a long time and had no issues. Do you guys have any solutions? Needless to say it is quite annoying listening to your favourite tunes and hearing this annoying buzz when you least expect it.
I also discovered something very interesting using Android. I have 250 MB of data to use and before on the iPhone it was extremely hard to cap that. However on this phone I'm already 50% through that. I used the iPhone just as much as the Galaxy so why is this happening? Does Android have another system of using data, like loading full size images?
Cheers, Jason
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Haven't got this phone yet, i'm getting mine today.
But from what you've said, it sounds like it could be a few things including your phone.
First tho, check the stuff you can fix yourself.
Firstly, try not to compare any android phone to an iphone, they're not the same and have different qualities and weaknesses, the iphone in comparison to this beast is a pipsqueak.
About your connectivity, completely remove your APN and put them back in manually.
Perform a battery pull at least once a day.
Is your sim card a new one or old? You could possibly query that too.
250MB is nothing by the way, not sure how you managed it but even on an iphone that's not a lot, i can easily use 500MB just by allowing my phone to sync normal stuff, i'd personally recommend a gig as a minimum, unless you don't mind actively managing your internet habits and you frequently switch off data altogether.
As for your wifi, pull all cables on your router and start afresh, once everything is back together, connect using your phone and perform a speed test using the speedtest.net app, see what your getting, some apps don't use the speed that's available and that's a limitation of the app and not the phone or connection.
Also regarding your apps, either remove them or remove the data associated with them and start over.
As for the headphones, they're sh** so try some others.
Not sure about the voice over, maybe check settings and see what you can find.
If all this doesn't help then try a factory reset and see if your still having a problem.
Like i said i don't have this phone yet so i don't have too much hands on experience but give this little lot a whirl and see how it goes, if nothing helps then maybe return it if your unsatisfied.
Personally I'll be rooting my SGS3 on day one, right after i've tested to see if everything works of course.
dladz said:
Haven't got this phone yet, i'm getting mine today.
But from what you've said, it sounds like it could be a few things including your phone.
First tho, check the stuff you can fix yourself.
Firstly, try not to compare any android phone to an iphone, they're not the same and have different qualities and weaknesses, the iphone in comparison to this beast is a pipsqueak.
About your connectivity, completely remove your APN and put them back in manually.
Perform a battery pull at least once a day.
Is your sim card a new one or old? You could possibly query that too.
250MB is nothing by the way, not sure how you managed it but even on an iphone that's not a lot, i can easily use 500MB just by allowing my phone to sync normal stuff, i'd personally recommend a gig as a minimum, unless you don't mind actively managing your internet habits and you frequently switch off data altogether.
As for your wifi, pull all cables on your router and start afresh, once everything is back together, connect using your phone and perform a speed test using the speedtest.net app, see what your getting, some apps don't use the speed that's available and that's a limitation of the app and not the phone or connection.
Also regarding your apps, either remove them or remove the data associated with them and start over.
As for the headphones, they're sh** so try some others.
Not sure about the voice over, maybe check settings and see what you can find.
If all this doesn't help then try a factory reset and see if your still having a problem.
Like i said i don't have this phone yet so i don't have too much hands on experience but give this little lot a whirl and see how it goes, if nothing helps then maybe return it if your unsatisfied.
Personally I'll be rooting my SGS3 on day one, right after i've tested to see if everything works of course.
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Hey thanks for taking the time to reply,
This is going to sound stupid but what is an APN? I googled it and it came up with 'Access Point Name'. Is that what you mean?
My SIM card is a Micro-Sim and was in my old iPhone 4S before so it is not brand new.
I understand 250 MB is nothing but I'm being totally honest on my old phone it was really hard to blow it. I asked another guy and he said that Facebook for Android loads the images full size so I'm not 100% sure. It's just a bit of a shock since on iOS it used such little data.
Also, I'm not using the standard headphones. I'm using Audio Technica Solid Bass so I'm sure it's not a problem with that. But please try and help me with this issue. I need music for studying, transport, school etc.
I really want to keep the SIII. The big screen is really nice and the customisation of the home screen is great along with the widgets. Just these issues troubling me.
**EDIT: Also another issue. Sometimes when I go to the Play Store it'll attempt to load and display the page with "Connection timed out." **
Bite_Me_21 said:
Hey thanks for taking the time to reply,
This is going to sound stupid but what is an APN? I googled it and it came up with 'Access Point Name'. Is that what you mean?
YES its your network .
My SIM card is a Micro-Sim and was in my old iPhone 4S before so it is not brand new.
I would check with network for problems .
Factory reset and return phone to seller .
I understand 250 MB is nothing but I'm being totally honest on my old phone it was really hard to blow it.
You have apps syncing data in the background .
jje
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tinggy Tel
did you solve this issue ?
I'm having the exact same issue, I have two S3 devices .
both are bought from a different countries .. .
Both suffer from an extremely poor and slow internet . ..
it's "IMPOSSIBLE" for me to opan Google Play with no wifi . ..
it will time out if I try that with 3G network .. on both devices ..
tried soft reset + hard reset + rom flash ..
nothing worked .. .
"iPhone is soooooooooo much better than androind ..
this is my (3rd) time now ..
with S1, my phone suffered from instant disconnection from the internet
S2, people always get "this phone is out of service" when calling me
and now the lovely S3, which takes 2-3 minutes just to load google's default page ...
how wonderful !
Hi...
I have had my new Samsung Galaxy S3 for about 2 weeks, upgrading from the Samsung Europa, and I need to know if this is a known problem or there is something wrong with my phone.
I have had nothing but problems with playing music on my phone since I got it--which is one of my most primary uses for my phone. From the beginning it skipped during songs repeatedly (which I know aren't corrupt as they were and still do work perfectly fine on my Europa, which I never had any problems with), at first, I googled it, and tried turning off wifi when I listened to music and very briefly it improved. But quickly it started skipping again, and has only got worse, now, not only does it skip, it actually stops partway through every song and won't play the whole song. It sometimes plays a song and then stops even though it hasn't gotten to the end of a playlist. Now, I noticed that even playing Bejeweled, which has a very simple and repetitive soundtrack, it stutters on the soundtrack as well. I got so frustrated this morning because I couldn't listen to a full song without it stopping and refusing to re-start that I took my SDcard out and used my old Europa instead--which again, was just fine.
Is this a known problem with the S3? Did I get a lemon? I do not understand why a brand new phone should not be able to do something that my year and a half old and much less powerful Europa could do perfectly. I don't really want to try downloading a variety of other music players because I have been burned by "lemon" electronics products before, and that is basically like putting a bandaid on a wound and pretending it isn't there, when something clearly isn't working right. Any suggestions? Is this normal? Do I return it or is there something else I could try (that is not a band-aid solution).
I could be missing something as it is a new phone... I'm not new to Android or Samsung, but that does not mean I know all the ins and outs of the S3 either. I did see something about powersaving mode, and it is not on that.
Thanks very much for any help or advice you could give me, and please, if you have an S3 and you do not have this problem, let me know as well. Much appreciated!
Hi,
I just wanted to post that I'm also having this issue. It just started about 3 weeks or so ago while I was driving. I thought maybe it was because I was hitting bumps on the road or something but it also happened while listening at home. But it doesn't happen all the time which is why I can't pinpoint what the cause may be.
I downloaded the free trial of WinAmp and it worked ok for a little while but then it started doing it there too-not as frequent as the stock player but it did happen.
Anyway I'm hoping someone else might be able to help.
itsmygalaxy said:
Hi...
I have had my new Samsung Galaxy S3 for about 2 weeks, upgrading from the Samsung Europa, and I need to know if this is a known problem or there is something wrong with my phone.
I have had nothing but problems with playing music on my phone since I got it--which is one of my most primary uses for my phone. From the beginning it skipped during songs repeatedly (which I know aren't corrupt as they were and still do work perfectly fine on my Europa, which I never had any problems with), at first, I googled it, and tried turning off wifi when I listened to music and very briefly it improved. But quickly it started skipping again, and has only got worse, now, not only does it skip, it actually stops partway through every song and won't play the whole song. It sometimes plays a song and then stops even though it hasn't gotten to the end of a playlist. Now, I noticed that even playing Bejeweled, which has a very simple and repetitive soundtrack, it stutters on the soundtrack as well. I got so frustrated this morning because I couldn't listen to a full song without it stopping and refusing to re-start that I took my SDcard out and used my old Europa instead--which again, was just fine.
Is this a known problem with the S3? Did I get a lemon? I do not understand why a brand new phone should not be able to do something that my year and a half old and much less powerful Europa could do perfectly. I don't really want to try downloading a variety of other music players because I have been burned by "lemon" electronics products before, and that is basically like putting a bandaid on a wound and pretending it isn't there, when something clearly isn't working right. Any suggestions? Is this normal? Do I return it or is there something else I could try (that is not a band-aid solution).
I could be missing something as it is a new phone... I'm not new to Android or Samsung, but that does not mean I know all the ins and outs of the S3 either. I did see something about powersaving mode, and it is not on that.
Thanks very much for any help or advice you could give me, and please, if you have an S3 and you do not have this problem, let me know as well. Much appreciated!
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Try unmounting and re-mounting your SD card.
It may be an audio buffer issue, in which case try power amp, you can tweak the audio buffer size, and it has shown sound quality and features....free trial version on the market too.
skip mucis
Yeah I had that problem with a different android phone my HTC Thunderbolt. It tends to happen when I have the phone close to me. I can be wrong but I think it could be from the energy we throw off. I know it is silly but thats my opinion. I think it may be because of the way it is built. I never had that problem with any iPhone but only to android. The iPhone is is made of glass and most Android made out of plastic. If you fix your problem let me know. I like android phone and would like to know if it could be fixed.
hahaha
Panacea to audio skipping issues
I've had this issue ever since I bought the S3 (E210s).The only solution that I could find is via root. Root your phone, flash Siyah kernal and install CPU Governor app, and then just set the governor to OnDemand. That worked for me! Would probably do it for you too.
Hello. A few days ago while playing music, the sound started to skip randomly and sometimes quite often leading to music stop completely.
Tried a different player, same problem. Sometimes I can play music for hour without skipping, then sometimes it starts to skip after 10 minutes.
This problem seems to be the same as described here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1677132
Phone is not rooted (yet) and is updated to 1.16 firmware.
Anyone has similar problem? Not sure if I should wait for some update or RMA the phone.
I like the phone so far (well, battery life could be better), but this being my second HOX+ (first had bad display) I can't get rid of the feeling HTC is trying really hard to get out of the business.
Edit: The problem happens when music is going through loud speaker. Beats audio off.
ulukai3 said:
Hello. A few days ago while playing music, the sound started to skip randomly and sometimes quite often leading to music stop completely.
Tried a different player, same problem. Sometimes I can play music for hour without skipping, then sometimes it starts to skip after 10 minutes.
This problem seems to be the same as described here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1677132
Phone is not rooted (yet) and is updated to 1.16 firmware.
Anyone has similar problem? Not sure if I should wait for some update or RMA the phone.
I like the phone so far (well, battery life could be better), but this being my second HOX+ (first had bad display) I can't get rid of the feeling HTC is trying really hard to get out of the business.
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HTC is a good company but i still feel Samsung makes better hardware...there is a reason they are top of the food chain....but i digress....
i haven't experienced the problem u are talking about...have you tried factory reset and seen if the problem still occurs
Didn't try hard reset yet. Finally I have setup the phone to my liking and I was keeping hard-reset as the last resort solution. Though I doubt it will help.
ulukai3 said:
Didn't try hard reset yet. Finally I have setup the phone to my liking and I was keeping hard-reset as the last resort solution. Though I doubt it will help.
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Which mp3 player do you use? Google music player, any 3rd party market player like winamp, player pro etc? Does the problem occur with all of them?
Did you try another headphones?
trellva25 said:
HTC is a good company but i still feel Samsung makes better hardware...there is a reason they are top of the food chain....but i digress....
i haven't experienced the problem u are talking about...have you tried factory reset and seen if the problem still occurs
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I had this trouble with my Galaxy S3, but not with the HTC One X+...it was related to the PoweAmp EQ. I uninstalled PowerAmp, and played via the stock player. Problem solved. I'm betting its something with Beats Audio.
Now to find some wood to knock on....
Sorry I didn't mention that this problem occurs with beats audio off and when listening through the loudspeaker (I had to use loudspeaker in the car when my car radio broke and didn't yet have the time to get it fixed).
ulukai3 said:
Hello. A few days ago while playing music, the sound started to skip randomly and sometimes quite often leading to music stop completely.
Tried a different player, same problem. Sometimes I can play music for hour without skipping, then sometimes it starts to skip after 10 minutes.
This problem seems to be the same as described here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1677132
Phone is not rooted (yet) and is updated to 1.16 firmware.
Anyone has similar problem? Not sure if I should wait for some update or RMA the phone.
I like the phone so far (well, battery life could be better), but this being my second HOX+ (first had bad display) I can't get rid of the feeling HTC is trying really hard to get out of the business.
Edit: The problem happens when music is going through loud speaker. Beats audio off.
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Delete your Google account from mobile and then try playing music. Sometime new mobile syn the setting of google which previous save setting of old mobile.
Thanks for the advice, I hate to be messing with new phone like this, but I guess I will try it.
New finding is that while the music skips, the phone is unable to wake up (turn on the screen), at best, the buttons light up but that's it. After skipping is gone, phone wakes up without a problem.
trellva25 said:
HTC is a good company but i still feel Samsung makes better hardware...there is a reason they are top of the food chain....but i digress....
i haven't experienced the problem u are talking about...have you tried factory reset and seen if the problem still occurs
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I hate to point out that one's beliefs might not be true. Samsung is like Apple. A customer wants an MP3 player they ask for an iPod...
They want a smart phone they ask for a Samsung or Galaxy phone. It is all about exposure through marketing.
On average Samsung has just as many hardware problems as any other manufacture. I work in a cell shop so I see what comes back every day.
ulukai3 said:
Thanks for the advice, I hate to be messing with new phone like this, but I guess I will try it.
New finding is that while the music skips, the phone is unable to wake up (turn on the screen), at best, the buttons light up but that's it. After skipping is gone, phone wakes up without a problem.
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From what you described, having the wake up issue once the sound skips, another program is causing the issue.
I am 90% sure that it is not a hardware issue. If I were you, I would have started with your last resort first (sorry ).
If the issue is still there then you might have bad memory or internal SD. If not then start installing your programs one at a time to weed out the faulty app.
Dangerously said:
From what you described, having the wake up issue once the sound skips, another program is causing the issue.
I am 90% sure that it is not a hardware issue. If I were you, I would have started with your last resort first (sorry ).
If the issue is still there then you might have bad memory or internal SD. If not then start installing your programs one at a time to weed out the faulty app.
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Thanks
Even though I'm mostly using the same programs as on my good old HD2, I really hope it will be only a sw issue. I have now made a factory reset, didn't transfer any settings, didn't even install much programs, just the bare minimum.
First 1h of drive with music over loudspeaker was without skipping. So far good, but I think I didn't have the problem right from the start (which could suggest the cause is some program I have installed later).
So far good. Even battery life has maybe tripled, so I guess and hope it was just a really bad app. Now I'm even afraid to install anything
ulukai3 said:
So far good. Even battery life has maybe tripled, so I guess and hope it was just a really bad app. Now I'm even afraid to install anything
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Any thoughts on the faulty app?
adamkaye said:
Any thoughts on the faulty app?
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Don't want to accuse anyone as I don't have proof yet, but I can name apps that I haven't had before on my HD2 and which probably have some kind of process that always runs.
Those apps are:
- Juice Defender (but had it disabled in the past few days as a test if it doesn't try to protect the battery too much resulting in music skipping)
- Lux Free - this feels to me like the most likely candidate
Then I haven't these, but I don't think they have always running process:
- GPS Test
- Skifta
Looking back, it's a pity I first didn't try to have a look at which apps I didn't have before and tried to uninstall them first.
ulukai3 said:
Don't want to accuse anyone as I don't have proof yet, but I can name apps that I haven't had before on my HD2 and which probably have some kind of process that always runs.
Those apps are:
- Juice Defender (but had it disabled in the past few days as a test if it doesn't try to protect the battery too much resulting in music skipping)
- Lux Free - this feels to me like the most likely candidate
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I use both, they don't eat much battery...
Yezariael said:
I use both, they don't eat much battery...
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Then maybe the cause was that I tried to uninstall and disable as many htc bloatware as possible and maybe some other process was relying on those uninstalled/disabled and was causing this problem.