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Just searched Google for S3 Jelly Bean as always, and it seems like phones in Europe are getting their updates now.
Just to share.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/24/jelly-bean-ota-update-for-samsung-galaxy-s-iii/
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The long-awaited roll-out appears to have commenced, with lucky GS III owners in Poland being among the first to get an early official taste of Android 4.1.1. If you hadn't heard, the update will bring a host of subtle yet powerful improvements, including Google Now for anticipating search queries, smooth UI improvements from Project Butter, as well as some Samsung extras already seen on the Galaxy Note II, such as a resizable Pop-up play screen. Hopefully this means the update will soon be sent on its merry way to GS IIIs in other parts of the Old World, and maybe at some point -- dare we suggest it -- those in the US too.
Yea but us Verizon customers will get it last.
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xXJay_RXx said:
Yea but us Verizon customers will get it last.
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This! Verizon has the best coverage, but they are the slowest to update!
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This! Verizon has the best coverage, but they are the slowest to update!
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That's the only thing I dislike about Verizon. That and locking down bootloaders. but with the great devs we have here, we will have JB Touchwiz months before Verizon releases it
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Since we are on the subject, when the Galaxy Note 2 is released on Verizon, wouldn't devs be able to base JB touchwiz ROMs off of the Galaxy Note 2 JB base? I know the Note will have that S Pen thing but I'm sure that's removable
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Does anyone know what carrier is getting this jb update?
Edit. Nevermind. I read Portland. But it says Poland. Haha!
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When I worked at Verizon we used to test software deeply and daily. Verizon is very picky and minimizes as many big as possible. Honestly, the updates are never perfect as the manufacturer will read the reports we sent in and approve what bugs are left based on time frame for release, if the manufacturer says release it, then Verizon hq gives the yay on it. These oems sometimes allow huge bugs to get out there. (Eh hem, moto before google) I think the other carriers may not test as hard core as vzw. I miss that job.
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Since we are on the subject, when the Galaxy Note 2 is released on Verizon, wouldn't devs be able to base JB touchwiz ROMs off of the Galaxy Note 2 JB base? I know the Note will have that S Pen thing but I'm sure that's removable
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Yes and thats exactly what I suspect will happen...The only way were getting a non-leaked TW JB rom in a timely fashion, will be from the Note2.
http://thedroidguy.com/2012/10/sams...ariants-to-receive-jelly-bean-update-in-2013/
Can't believe this if this is true, anybody know how reputable that site is? I haven't seen any other sites report that It definitely won't be out this year.
Samsung hs their own site that specifies when updates are coming out. All of the major US carriers EXCEPT Verizon said November last time I checked (Monday). Verizon is listed as pending or something like that.
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Just did a search and you might be right... Unfortunately.
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http://thedroidguy.com/2012/10/sams...ariants-to-receive-jelly-bean-update-in-2013/
Can't believe this if this is true, anybody know how reputable that site is? I haven't seen any other sites report that It definitely won't be out this year.
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Doesn't the faulty grammar and horrible syntax in this article make you slightly skeptical as to how trustworthy it may be? Typically I distrust full page articles that present themselves as one huge run-on sentence.
Also he doesn't cite any sources, and his other articles cover a huge range of products from cell phones to cars, making it hard to believe he has the inside track on any industry, and just roams around the surface discussing whatever he feels like.
The fact that none of his articles have generated any comments should tell you how seriously his articles are taken.
Android Authority says the same... what a shame, best to start using one if the many jb ROMs we have, of course a vzw leak would be nice too.
http://www.androidauthority.com/no-...66/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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Samsung hs their own site that specifies when updates are coming out. All of the major US carriers EXCEPT Verizon said November last time I checked (Monday). Verizon is listed as pending or something like that.
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Just did a search and you might be right... Unfortunately.
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I was with Sprint before Verizon and I thought Sprint was bad at releasing updates, so it seems each carrier is bad at releasing updates. Glad there's custom ROMs.
Wow this is crazy, I get on the forums everyday of hoping I see a JB update talk ar something. Guess I'll stay on ICS because it seems like every JB Rom has something broken or something. I'll stay on my stable ICS ROM.
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Given the fact Samsung replied with a your getting jb in the coming "months" this is in fact 100% true. Demon carriers!
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Given the fact Samsung replied with a your getting jb in the coming "months" this is in fact 100% true. Demon carriers!
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Mountain out of a molehill. You guys are putting way too much emphasis on spotty sourcing and broken english.
How does "in the coming months" and them letting carriers announce dates on their own turn into 2013?
We already have fully working JB roms both touchwiz and AOSP With rooting there's no need to wait on silly verizon to get us jellybean
So after jelly bean, it's up to manufacturers to post updates and not carriers correct?
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Just get custom ROMs folks.
No point of owning an Android phone without rooting, IMHO.
Well depending on how awesome the RAZR maxx hd will be I will probably be selling my s3 for one
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If you enjoy perma-locked bootloaders, then Motorola is definitely for you
I think you miss the official Samsung response to this story. Their response is fact beyond this original spotty story
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There only two and a half months left
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Neverendingxsin said:
We already have fully working JB roms both touchwiz and AOSP With rooting there's no need to wait on silly verizon to get us jellybean
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Amongst touchwiz JB, what do you recommend?
I know there are 2 of them out there for i535, but both are kinda not fully stable.
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We already have fully working JB roms both touchwiz and AOSP With rooting there's no need to wait on silly verizon to get us jellybean
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What JB ROMS are "fully working"?
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We already have fully working JB roms both touchwiz and AOSP With rooting there's no need to wait on silly verizon to get us jellybean
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Amongst touchwiz JB, what do you recommend?
I know there are 2 of them out there for i535, but both are kinda not fully stable.
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What JB ROMS are "fully working"?
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This is why we want the "Official" because all those bugs and quirks that are not working properly can be hammered out. I agree that Stock blows, but stock source is the key. Especially if we get the kernel source. Then all will be well with out custom ROMs/Kernels.
FWIW, this was posted on the TMo SGS3 side from engadget:
Samsung will update US Galaxy S III devices to Jelly Bean 'in the coming months'. Again, no time lines, just more carrier dependency.
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Amongst touchwiz JB, what do you recommend?
I know there are 2 of them out there for i535, but both are kinda not fully stable.
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Jellywiz by incubus, last i checked everything on there was working. I haven't personally used it, but i do browse that thread every day keeping up to date on it.
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LiquidSmooth for a fact, i say that because its been my daily driver the past couple weeks and i haven't had a single issue with it. Granted its AOSP and some people may not like that. But gps, bluetooth, nfc, data, wifi, etc all work
While I agree that most of us root and don't really need to wait for a carrier to release an update I can't stand when people say that. We shouldn't need to do that. These damn carriers and OEMs should be supporting their devices, that we spend our hard earned money on, in a better manner.
Looks like 4.2.2 is ready to roll out. Hopefully the CM team, AOKP and other developers can implement the fixes for the new jelly bean builds to fix A2DP issues.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105....2.2-a-better-jelly-bean-rolls-into-the-wild/
Wonder if 4.2.2 will also address the flickering/ui stuttering issue.
I hope it also fixes the S-beam incompatibility problem with S3's running ICS. Every since my wife's S3 upgraded to JB, S-beam has been unable to pair with my S3 running ICS.
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I hope it also fixes the S-beam incompatibility problem with S3's running ICS. Every since my wife's S3 upgraded to JB, S-beam has been unable to pair with my S3 running ICS.
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We don't have 4.2.1 stock lol. We wont be getting a jump from 4.1.1 to 4.2.2
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zetsumeikuro said:
Wonder if 4.2.2 will also address the flickering/ui stuttering issue.
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Check hardware overlays in developer options.
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I hope it also fixes the S-beam incompatibility problem with S3's running ICS. Every since my wife's S3 upgraded to JB, S-beam has been unable to pair with my S3 running ICS.
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how come still on ICS if I may ask
I was waiting for them to address the screen stutter and battery drain issues that my wife's S3 has been experiencing. Plus, I'm rooted with google wallet working and other customizations that I don't feel like redoing for JB until those bugs are fixed. Sort of the "if it's not broken, don't fix it" mentality.
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We don't have 4.2.1 stock lol. We wont be getting a jump from 4.1.1 to 4.2.2
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Check hardware overlays in developer options.
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I didn't even notice the extra 2 until you pointed it out...LOL! We really are behind the times here at Verizon. (should be big red's new tagline)
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I was waiting for them to address the screen stutter and battery drain issues that my wife's S3 has been experiencing. Plus, I'm rooted with google wallet working and other customizations that I don't feel like redoing for JB until those bugs are fixed. Sort of the "if it's not broken, don't fix it" mentality.
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think you can ODIN JB w/o wiping and no major changes to customization. jb is much faster and smoother, it might even fix your problem.
go here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1974114
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We don't have 4.2.1 stock lol. We wont be getting a jump from 4.1.1 to 4.2.2
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Check hardware overlays in developer options.
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Who knows when 4.2.x will get pushed to VZW phones, BUT I would be shocked if it wasn't 4.2.2 or some higher iteration. It doesn't make sense to go to 4.2.1 at this point. Back in the GB days, it wasn't uncommon to go from froyo to 2.3.5 or 2.3.7
It is Verizon's slow update policy that made me root in the first place. Next phone I get, I'll consider a google phone and a pre-paid plan somewhere...
Ditto on that ... I am just not sold on pre-paid plans yet. I would like either the ubuntu phone or nexus phone from google.
d1ez3 said:
Looks like 4.2.2 is ready to roll out. Hopefully the CM team, AOKP and other developers can implement the fixes for the new jelly bean builds to fix A2DP issues.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105....2.2-a-better-jelly-bean-rolls-into-the-wild/
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Article by CNET's Eric Mack. Let me introduce you to this gentleman. About a year ago, he posted articles about the upcoming ICS update to the Droid Razr. Twice. Both wrong. One cited a screenshot allegedly from a Best Buy employee, the other a "secret source inside Verizon". His last wolf-cry was about a month and a half wrong.
Bottom line, take anything he says with a huge grain of salt. He's usually wrong.
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It is Verizon's slow update policy that made me root in the first place. Next phone I get, I'll consider a google phone and a pre-paid plan somewhere...
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That's what I said too... then I experienced T-Mobile and AT&T in my area with a Nexus 4 and lasted one month on each before I went back to Verizon on a work phone.
Loved the Nexus 4 compared to this thing... It's a shame that Verizon is just too damn good.
As i've seen moto x is getting kit kat, does the verizon droid maxx already has kit kat update or is coming?
Not yet
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December 3rd
I thought it was gonna be December 1st.
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TheWhiteChallenger said:
December 3rd
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Where did you see that at?
spiral777 said:
Where did you see that at?
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Part fact part theory.
Vzws Droid maxx "known issues" log shows SU2 (next update) as December and the last updates followed the motto x two weeks to the day.
nov 33
Things are running so well I'm almost afraid of getting the update for the first time ever. Virtually no lag and about 9 hours of screen on time.
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Things are running so well I'm almost afraid of getting the update for the first time ever. Virtually no lag and about 9 hours of screen on time.
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Holy cow! 9 hours?? I'm getting about 5 and a half hours max, and that's with brightness at about 40%. But it's still plenty for me. But I agree, phone is super fast. My first phone ever with virtually zero lag, and I'm not convinced it's worth the trouble to go through the trouble of unrooting, getting back to stock and updating. I didn't even get the camera update.
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I can't wait for the update. I installed it on my gs3 and loved it with some issues. I can't wait to see what 4.4 does on my ultra
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Anyone heard anything?
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Holy cow! 9 hours?? I'm getting about 5 and a half hours max, and that's with brightness at about 40%. But it's still plenty for me. But I agree, phone is super fast. My first phone ever with virtually zero lag, and I'm not convinced it's worth the trouble to go through the trouble of unrooting, getting back to stock and updating. I didn't even get the camera update.
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I did a battery test one day after a surgery while I had plenty of time off. Between 9 and 10 hours to kill the battery with screen on constantly. No WiFi, mediocre 4g signal, playing games, streaming movies, web browsing.
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Well it's December 3rd. WHERE'S MY KITKAT MOTOROLA!
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Well it's December 3rd. WHERE'S MY KITKAT MOTOROLA!
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Yeah, here we go...get ready for about 10 dates that people are just absolutely certain about. This process always takes 6-8 weeks and it sucks. Of course that's old Moto / VZW...let's see if they really changed.
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Anyone heard anything?
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I did a battery test one day after a surgery while I had plenty of time off. Between 9 and 10 hours to kill the battery with screen on constantly. No WiFi, mediocre 4g signal, playing games, streaming movies, web browsing.
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screen shots or it didn't happen
i can smell the chocolate already...
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I think I did a screenshot in the battery life thread. Have to look for it.
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I think I did a screenshot in the battery life thread. Have to look for it.
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Just checked and I did not do a screen shot! One would think after using the phone all day to test you would screenshot it!
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I think I did a screenshot in the battery life thread. Have to look for it.
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Just checked and I did not do a screen shot! One would think after using the phone all day to test you would screenshot it!
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Here's to your 9 hours.....
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The gauntlet has been thrown!
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Yeah, here we go...get ready for about 10 dates that people are just absolutely certain about. This process always takes 6-8 weeks and it sucks. Of course that's old Moto / VZW...let's see if they really changed.
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I never said a was certain, its was an educated guess. I was hopeful thought. So... Let the wild speculation begin!
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Any update on the update?
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Hey Guys,
I already pre-ordered the Galaxy S7 and I cannot wait to play with it!
As you may know, if you preorder the Galaxy S7, you can also get the Gear VR free with it with 6 free games...
So, to those of you who have got the S7 early with the Gear VR headset, can you tell me what those 6 free games are?
Thank you
GearVR rebate online page just went live today, so I doubt anyone's receiving it anytime soon. Says 4-6 weeks to get it.
https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/s...oculus-now-bundled-with-galaxy-s7-pre-orders/
mentions EVE: Gunjack, Land’s End, and Anshar Wars 2. Says varies by carrier.
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GearVR rebate online page just went live today, so I doubt anyone's receiving it anytime soon. Says 4-6 weeks to get it.
https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/s...oculus-now-bundled-with-galaxy-s7-pre-orders/
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Our okay. Thanks for the response!
Do we need any sort of controller for these games?
it's just in usa??? not in europe???
Moga pro power. Avail on Amazon. Officially supported by occulus as well.
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Got one. Rocks. Source:https://support.oculus.com/hc/en-us/articles/205698678-Bluetooth-Gamepads-controllers-for-Gear-VR
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Moga pro power. Avail on Amazon. Officially supported by occulus as well.
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Got one. Rocks. Source:https://support.oculus.com/hc/en-us/articles/205698678-Bluetooth-Gamepads-controllers-for-Gear-VR
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That's a helpful list but are those the only ones that will work with the gear VR? The ones they suggest are like $60 compared to some that are $15
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You'll be lucky to get the Sammy one on the list as I don't think they make it any more... They are probably working on a new one if the whole VR thing takes off. I'd guess the freebie games won't need controllers to play (controls are on site of headset) BUT having a controller is definitely worth it if you wanna go and buy some of the other games available. I've got a cheapskate mate who went with some cheap option and couldn't get it to work so be careful if you pick something not on that list
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Oh. And the moga one also has a few other features read up on it. It's a few years old but a really nice piece of kit.
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