Fortunately, Smart Stay works with eye-patch as well, else Nick would be really furious.

LOL, hope we dont get this in the future.


15 seconds timed out with Smart Stay is awesome!!!

-repeated post-

This post has been edited by Harddisk: May 22 2012, 10:36 PM

From S3.

It could be due to our beloved Telekom cause was on Unifi.

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Added on May 22, 2012, 11:44 pmThe screen is better than GNex as there is barely any visible bandings on grey colour.

Time to send my phone in for warranty claim. Maybe Sammy improved pentile screen and fixed this problem.

EDIT: homescreen scrolling is a bit laggy if Photo Wall LW is used. So quad core is not God yet. lol.

This post has been edited by Harddisk: May 22 2012, 11:47 PM

Samsung now has option to backup your phone's contact related data.


Got option for LTE .


This post has been edited by Harddisk: May 23 2012, 12:08 AM

I'm testing an S3 right now. Claim warranty is for my GNex as the screen has serious banding issue on grey tone.

Sorry ya, don't think I'll be doing any review. Though I'll put in some of my thoughts on stuff that I find, different from S1 (or maybe S2). Don't want to spoil the surprises for you all.

Samsung Keyboard now comes with "Swype" feature. Swype no longer come pre-installed into the phone. It's a bit different from original Swype as it only activates in plain textbox (search box can't work, as tested in Google Play search textbox).

Only can have it for <24 hours and tomorrow gotta work. Probably can't spend much time with it.

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Added on May 23, 2012, 12:34 amBut FM Radio is confirmed though. lol.

Stock FM sounds so much better than SGS stock FM. Similar after SGS patched with VoodooSound.

WM audio chip.

This post has been edited by Harddisk: May 23 2012, 12:34 AM

It's another way to drives user back from custom ROMs.

For my own requirements and usage, from what I have read online and brief hands-on. I'd say that, this is a phone that I would not bother to flash custom ROM. These are the things that would stop me from doing so.

1) battery % display (this is the 1st thing I'd go for. Root to flash, but seeing that Kitchen doesn't support 720p resolution, one can only resort to custom ROM, as witnessed in GNex)
2) working FM radio, nuff said.
3) Android Beam on Steroid (hence S-Beam). No need further explanation on this, together with working Wifi Direct.
4) Smart Stay. You never know how useful this is until you actually have it. I'm avid Google Reader user, this helps damnnnn a lot.
5) Various vibration rhythms. Back when the day of Nokia! Not sure if AOSP can bring this on, or just not important enough. This is for gamers only.


That's all for now.

EDIT: Sorry guys, bad news... no Mass Storage, MTP/PTP only. I'm sure there will be hack to mount it as Mass Storage.

This post has been edited by Harddisk: May 23 2012, 01:17 AM

Sorry la bro, I don't have 3rd hand to hold my camera.

I have tested the camera activation one, but the wait was... about 2 seconds. As for those stated above, don't think I'll use them.

Stick for a while first. The transition looks nice from home -> app drawer -> home. Maybe 5 minutes?

There are some other stuff to change, the ugly SMS app.

As for GPS, will give it a shot, but no guarantee I'll remember though.

Luckily my other SIM card is micro-SIM ready. SIM slot has ejection spring like SD card's slot.

EDIT: managed to lock GPS in less than 1min, connected to my wifi with 3g on. I was inside my room though. Not sure if that counts to anything or not. Compass direction still haywire. Is that Google Maps' problem? lol.

This post has been edited by Harddisk: May 23 2012, 01:28 AM

Here are the complete notifications files "stolen" from the phone. Hope I'm not violating Sammy's stuff and getting sued.

Just to share with you nice peeps here. I have yet to see complete upload made by anyone so far.

Can't find that in the Settings menu. It's very very similar to original ICS settings menu already, except "Stay Awake" has been hidden and as of right now (DXLE4), the screen doesn't go sleeping when I have PC USB connected. Will try a few more rounds to confirm if it was PC USB that kept the screen awake. I swear the screen went off earlier when I was charging using adapter (without SIM).

This post has been edited by Harddisk: May 23 2012, 01:41 AM

This is quite a pain, if you are into backing up the phone and flashing ROM's.

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Added on May 23, 2012, 1:42 amIt reminds me of Bubble Bobble.

You all should pay some attention to Auto haptic. It's per application control, but the app has to support it. Sammy is opening new room to Android again with this feature.

This post has been edited by Harddisk: May 23 2012, 01:43 AM

Samsung Keyboard's swipe feature has to go side by side with predictive input. Can't disable predictive while retaining swipe function, like on Swype.

Can't really test battery life, too many people want a piece of it. lol.

A-GPS locks in 5 seconds.

Test track recording using My Tracks.

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=...add19d6a2992d20

EDIT: not excellent, but it's 1 of the best track recorded using solely phone's built-in GPS/GLONASS. Can't compare with iPad's though, I think those are excellent.

This post has been edited by Harddisk: May 23 2012, 02:58 PM

Pray that you don't need to flash custom ROM, and for what the variants are worth, they are stable in each variant.

No bullshit like I9100G where taking few shots and camera driver crash. Can only fix with reboot.

Some stuff to share for today.

Delay in home button. I think this is obvious from all the review videos on production unit. Gotta wait for next firmware update perhaps?


Benchmark score, probably irrelevant.


People that uses Lotus Notes Traveler, sorry to say, Email app/client in TW4.0 just sucks. Unlike original ICS Email app.


A couple of pano shots. Pano stitching is impressive. It completes in around 2-3 seconds.

Yup, or prototype. Not sure if that firmware is production or not, most likely yet, cause quite stable already.

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Added on May 24, 2012, 1:12 amPicasa viewer can rotate the image automatically.

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Added on May 24, 2012, 1:14 amPhone not handsome cause pre-production unit.

Production unit is pending the return of this unit. So have to wait. But the time, I think here started selling already.

This post has been edited by Harddisk: May 24 2012, 01:14 AM