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And now the second phone has the same issue. There is no way this is hardware related. Is anyone else having issues with theirs. I find it extremely hard to believe two phones having identical issues after an update is coincidence.

Well my problem as escalated on one phone. Now any time I plug it in to charge it tells me moisture detected. Never been wet, never been damp. Yeah I think I'm just going to move on to different phones. I'm not a fan of the bugs I've encountered on both, and they don't inspire confidence in...

What? I haven't messed with it since Saturday. I'll update when I get a chance. Today was the first nice day since a storm wed that downed a bunch of junk in my yard, and damaged the roof to my barn. I likely could have bad drivers or the wrong version of Odin. I've not used Odin since the days...

Yeah resetting the phones was my first step. They do it without any other app installed. I'm just going to have to mess with Odin until my driver's accept the phone. It's been ages since I've had to mess with it, and it js just frustrating

Yeah I saw that, I've yet to get Odin to recognize my phone. I guess I'm going to have to try another PC. Do any of those have the update function killed?

Outside of rooting to flash custom Roms is there an official way to downgrade. Nougat is junk. Both of my phone's will not hold a charge more than a couple hours and have issues waking up from sleep, and a myriad of other issues I have with the update. If not I'll have to smash these and hope...

Every Samsung phone I've owned has had horrible screen burn in, even with brightness at low. I finally quit buying them but my old lady still does. She decided on an iPhone last time because of the screen burn. So from the galaxy s all the way to the galaxy s6 every phone had burn in.

My phone is bone stock, not rooted only ota updates from Google. No dev view anything.

I don't think it's the Web view. I guess I'm going to have to find another launcher

At some point today my phone updated and changed my app drawer to some new style. I don't care for the search bar at all, its useless to me completely. Is there any way to remove it, or revert to the older one without rooting? I also would like to remove the recent apps or whatever that is at...

Is there a guide to get this back to stock? I found a few for other carriers, and even the One X but haven't seen a solid one for ours. Maybe I'm missing it somewhere.

My phone has no issues that I have found. Or if they are it isn't anything like what you guys complain about. I'll tell you every Samsung I've owned is a rancid pile, but every day I see people rave about them. The amoled screens burn in horribly in a few weeks. Every time I point it out...

I would agree with other HTC devices I've owned. This one however is awesome for a week or two then nothing. I have no service for data at all even in their stores.

Nope, I carried my S3 with me all day long, pull out the dna to check g+. No data connection, pull out the s3, perfectly fine. Every other VZW phone in the joint, perfect. None of my phones are rooted or modded in any way. There is no user error because I quit installing anything on the phones...

Your best bet is to go beyond that. Anyone can make a rom, build a kernel, or even a AOSP build. Tons and tons of people build new kernels for their home boxes every day. It just takes time to learn how to deal with the compiling errors, and fix the bugs in your new kernel. Anyone that can use...

I can't wait to unload this DNA. This thing has more radio issues than any phone I've ever had. I always thought Samsungs were bad. This thing is a nightmare. I've had 5 of them and after a week or two the radio slowly starts to die to the point I can't get any signal anywhere. Not even in their...

I've been using this forum for ever, and I feel the 10 post count rule is ignorant. All it does is promote new people to post stupid crap everywhere to get their 10 posts so they can post something ignorant elsewhere. It doesn't help anything. The people who post the most, are often the ones...

LCD non pentile display.

Yes, the replacements come with the OTA. I say that because I've yet to have a GSM based android phone that has any radio issues.

The radio works fine for around 2 weeks then slowly dies a horrible painful death. Sometimes it starts getting a sim error, other times is just never connects to data. Usually I catch it because I can't send text messages. The first few days the problem starts I can reset the phone, or do a...

Everyone seems pretty sad this phone is leaving, but I can't wait to get rid of it. I'm on number 3, all with the same radio failure issue. The new one is starting to show signs of the same issue and it is less than 2 weeks old. I always thought samsung radios were crap, this thing is on another...

If you judge by number of bars the DNA looks way better. If you judge by actual signal strength the DNA is only slightly edging out the Galaxy S3. However this phone hasn't locked me out from receiving and sending texts yet. So I'll say it is better in that regard.

I wouldn't get my hopes up about us seeing it too quickly. VZW doesn't have the best track record of getting updates to their phones quickly. Basically x70xchallengerx got it, support our devs and hope they get it. The likeliness of this phone getting another android update is 50/50, and an...

Android became the in thing forever ago. What did change was the flood of hipsters coming to android with their whatever google does is perfect mentality. The stock os has pooped all over what made it good in the first place. It has added more steps to simple tasks, more menus and pages for...

If this is made by Samsung, there is no way I'm going to buy it. I've had a hit and miss relationship with their products. The Gnex was ok, however the screen burn in plagued it really bad, as well as terrible battery life. I decided to get the GSIII because from what I found the battery life...

I've been spying some of the rumors on the LG Nexus, it seems it may not have a user replaceable battery. That is a deal breaker for me.

I've been a huge fan of the nexus devices since the first one. However they have their drawbacks and I rarely recommend them to people who use their phone as an actual phone, and not as a hobby device. I can tell you I would have a hard time buying a Motorola nexus device, I absolutely hate...

T-Mo is always an option, their coverage isn't really good in some areas. It is pretty hit and miss here in the Cinci area.

I don't eat at McDonalds so I couldn't care less about any of it. When google gave away the 50 bucks for using wallet with the Gnex it took me 3 months to find a store that accepted it. I used it once, I bought 45 dollars in beer, never used it since or cared to. Now if this was 15 years in the...

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Anything that is mass produced on the level of these products is bound to have defects. No one can say for sure if it will have defects or not. Last I saw there is about 3 million of them sold. So at a 1% defect rate that is 30k units with a defect. Seems like a lot, but not when you consider...

Find a factory image you can flash via fastboot. There should be a thread around with them in it. Basically it is the same process you used to flash the recovery. I think CyanogenMod's wiki has a article on how to use it.

Are you saying that you can't flash a different recovery? Or that when you do you still get the same stock recovery? I'm not quite sure what the issue is here, because that is exactly how the stock bootloader, and recovery are supposed to work. Are you making sure to unlock fastboot before...

I just run stock. It doesn't matter what rom/kernel I wind up running, it never seems to be as stable in the long term as the stock setup. Since I have bought my N7 I have flashed a ton of roms to it, when heading back to stock for a while out of boredom I found that I have an up time of well...

I'm not saying they are, but everyone is somehow surprised that they don't have the latest update moments after it is released. This just happens to be the Samsung board, so I targeted them.

I'm pretty sure most companies track your online habbits. They claim the use it for "market research". On my phone I'm not really that bothered by it, I don't do anything on it that I want to keep private, because I don't trust how private they are. I wouldn't worry too much about it, unless...

Welcome to every Samsung phone on the market, did anyone somehow think it would be different for this one? Google now is a great novelty for about 15 minutes, then you will probably never use it again. It would be easy enough to just release it on the market as an app. Matter of fact, I cant...

I still don't see what everyone is all up in arms about. If you did ANY research on what you bought, you would have seen slow updates/complete lack of updates coming. It isn't like it is top secret information that Samsung is way behind updating anything. Samsung is terrible for future support...

It is the nature of Amoleds. If you do any reading on them it explains why they burn in so bad. So far every Samsung I've seen with an Amoled has burn in. Moment, Epic, Epic touch, Galaxy Nexus, and even the GSIII. As mentioned earlier, you just have to take precautions.

Yeah, it is VZW's fault. So, why is it this is a historic problem with Samsung on all carriers? Don't worry, you'll get the update. Long after the phone isn't relevant.

People keep buying these Samsung phones expecting Samsung to be right on top of updates. I hate to break this to you, but keylime pie will probably be almost dead by the time we get official JB.

I prefered my Galaxy Nexus over this one so far. It fit better in hand, looked better, and ran smoother out of the box. I haven't had a chance to get an aosp build together for this phone yet, but stock to stock I would take the Galaxy Nexus again now that I've had some time with the S3.

Just because the animations are sped up does not mean its faster. The more crap you have going on on the launcher the more it pulls resources from other tasks the phone needs to run to opperate properly. That results in running slower, but looking faster. I've seen tons of people do it in...

Is it just the launcher, or nothing?

You must be the only person who was holding it properly. VZW is really popular where I work because we get a hefty discount, I always have a connection enough to send messages, surf the web, and send MMS, not that I do that while I'm supposed to be working, but the iPhoners have to go to the...

Honestly I've only been on VZW for about 2 weeks now, but I couldn't ask for better MMS sending. I can't tell you a time that I could actually send a MMS over Sprints network in the last 4 or 5 years. I've probably sent 20 or so now just because I can. The problem you are describing is exactly...

Interesting, I wonder if it was a returned product. Staples is known for returning a product from a customer and re-selling it. I wonder if someone was screwing around with it and returned it. I would say that is WAY more likely than getting a "dev unit"

Why do you have to do it with the toolkit, just get the sdk and do it. There are probably root methods for ICS devices that would work on it.

Wifi is pretty much everywhere, and that works for some people, others it doesn't. Now look at the rest of consumers, the petty crybaby whiners that they are. How many people do you think are going to buy something with features they can't even use for a year out? Spending 8 years working...

In my experience iPhone users will find thousands of things to hate about this phone. The battery life is short for 90% of users, the screen ghosts and is grainy for many users, the signal is weak for a lot of users. However the phone isn't a fail. I really love it. Everything is smooth, even...