No Otterbox becoz the silly-cone stretches BAD - it's well worth the protection it if you don't pull it out of the case often and don't mind the lint and dust that silly-cone attracts. CaseMate Tough is another good bet.

I have the Tech21 Impact Mesh and SGP Neo Hybrid on order though. Will quick review as soon as they arrive.

Again. Ehem. White 16GB SGS3 for sale?

Actually, people, if we NAND backup into extSD, and stuff it into a new S3 - you can (theoretically) restore everything (on the new phone) once you have CWM running, right?

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 24 2012, 02:41 PM

No man. You don't need root to steal. You just need loose morals.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 24 2012, 02:43 PM

Really.

But heck, Malaysians in general don't think far beyond the present lol. Free now is all that counts.

Plus phone sellers "pamper" them with "free software" (sic) all the time when they buy phones. You think things are gonna change any time soon?

Software as something "worth" paying for is a relatively alien concept for Malaysians it seems.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 24 2012, 03:01 PM

Agreed on Ceberus. It even sends me emails of my sleepy face in the mornings when I screw up my lockscreen passwords lol.

I'm eagerly waiting for a GlasT. In black.

If you can live with other colours, white and blue glass protectors already available here by Xgear: http://bit.ly/M6JzOK

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 24 2012, 03:29 PM

I came from the ORIGINAL Glas so IDK that lol.

The Xgear Spectre Glass protectors are coloured though - white and blue.

Shame if they ever came up with the S3 Glas T, I'm gonna have to stick an Optics (or something) on top just to get rid of the glossiness lol. Talk about Overkill.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 24 2012, 03:33 PM

I feel you bro. I feel you.

Same case over here regarding the S2. Paid launch price, then POOF.

Thankfully, right now most of the guys over here seem really satisfied with their S2s, Notes and Nexuses. So I guess I have another half-year of being "cutting edge" (lol).

It helps that - to non-nerds - there's actually really little to be "wowed" over with the S3 vs the S2/Note. Quad-core? Pfft. Dual core enough edi. HD screen? Pfft. Note got asso, bigger wan summore.

ICS. S2, Note got.
8MP cam. S2, Note got.
1GB RAM. S2, Note got.

Even if the S3 gets cheaper, the S2 and Note will get cheaper still and people (aka the "general, sensible public") will buy that.

Like me, I upgraded for the Wolfson DAC lol. I doubt normal people would be that crazy liberal with their finances UNLESS they are a habitual upgrader - which there's actually a lot of out there - or like me, they have a specific niggle with the S2/Note/Nexus that FORCES them to upgrade.

@ZeneticX: You have to repackage manually from Wanamlite ROM, IINM there's no CWM zip for JUST the kernel. Not that I've seen.

But yeah the "Wanam" kernel is effing smooth. It's like butter through FPSE when Siyah would just stutter. And battery life ain't bad at all.

I miss the audio tweaks of Siyah but, heck, I like me butter more.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 24 2012, 05:57 PM

Buy flagship smartphones at launch price. 2 years in a row.

Yes we are indulgent indeed for what we do lol...

Such is the curse of the gadget-head...

Actually hor, a considerable number of my students over here are QUITE into Android and modding. Which is interesting, seeing them dwelve into XDA to find ways to root and new custom ROMs for their Aces, Ys and Ws.

And we're talking Kuala Lipis here. Which is relatively ulu you know.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 24 2012, 06:06 PM

Actually, there's not much wow factor moving up for nerds either lol. S3 is not much the KARPOW upgrade as SGS -> SGS2.

Get 32GB gip me lar. I gip you my 16GB and some love in return.

How?



This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 24 2012, 06:12 PM

Profiles? Tasker. Accept nothing less.

It's a biatch to learn though. But it does very well as a Profiles + Scheduler + Juice Defender app. In a way, the one app to rule them all.

Most apps bro, most apps.

Logmein is RM90++. FF3 is RM30++.



@DarkAngel: Dun be like me during my iPong days. RM1K on Apps.

In a month.

2 months after that, lose iDevice.

Buy Android. Buy more apps (albeit at a less frantic pace).



A shame I'm not attracted at all to the current crop of iDevices lol. At least my conscience is clear (somewhat), and I have iFamily members.

Also, WHY THE FECK IS GOOGLE MUSIC NOT ACCESSIBLE IN MALAYSIA.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 24 2012, 10:02 PM

That's the thing.

I can see stuff fine (with VPN and Market Enabler of course), but I can't buy em, particularly music. Maybe I should get a US credit card, a virtual one perhaps.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 24 2012, 10:38 PM

Service needs one time payment IINM. Totally worth it though.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 24 2012, 10:36 PM

Which is funny considering the Tridea curved SP is already out, and for a while now too.

In Korea lah.

Well, my friend. After 2 years, 1 OS Update and only god knows how many thread versions, an S2 can't do this either without going into settings.

Rooted or otherwise. IINM lah.

It'll be geng if I can simply tell my tasker to switch to EDGE while screen is off.

BUT, if my previous experiences with EDGE in Malaysia holds true, you will DEFINITELY drop calls if an EDGE data connection is active when somebody is calling you.

I had that issue with my old N900 AND my old iPhone 4. Has to do with the data switching implementation of EDGE locally (at least with Celcom) - it gives more priority to data over voice. Not ALL the time, but MOST of the time.

The S3 does this too to my experience. Active EDGE connection --> incoming calls get sent straight to voicemail.

PLUS EDGE gives my shittily shielded speakers the dreaded TENET TENET TENET sound, which pisses the hell out of me.

SOOOOOO, to answer your question, no. There hasn't been an easy way to toggle 3G/EDGE since GingerBread IINM, for any Android device.

Instead, get Juice Defender or Green Power and get power savings sans dropped calls. You will still get periodic data polling too, so your emails and whatsapps will come in (albeit somewhat slower).

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 25 2012, 02:23 AM

I'm not on Whitey list either, though I'm in the "Drop Hall of Fame"...

Why you worry. Removable battery maaaa. Just charge it moar lar.

I mean this isn't a One X or an iPhone. Battery kong just buy new one lol.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Jul 25 2012, 02:26 AM

I never off phone lol, unless battery kong or I reboot to recovery. Have a tasker task set to autoreboot the phone every 2 days at 4.45am just to keep everything fresh.