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Verizon SIII 32GB Blue Brief Review Video

Guys earlier I posted an unboxing video in another thread. That video is right here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BryoOlaWQaU&feature=plcp
Then I spent the next 4 or 5 hours trying to get the freaking thing activated. That finally happened, but I haven't had much time with the phone. Anyways, here's a quick video showing the boot up, and some speed tests on 4G LTE. This phone is beast! (it may be sideways for a bit but I've rotated it to the right in Youtube, sometimes it just takes a while)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wovT50uGfLw&feature=plcp
Feel free to ask questions, I can try to post more videos over the next couple days but my schedule is literally booked for the next 2 days so I'll do what I can.

Good job

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It's looking like the Verizon version is going to have sweet sweet battery life!
The phone starts at about 50% and I still have stellar life out of that! I had rebooted it and connected it via usb to try and get adb shell. Otherwise it would show nearly 20hrs of battery at this point!
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Have they fixed that 34ma battery drain issue yet? Officially? I'm a nexus dude but seriously considering returning it and getting in on one of these s3's. Just switched to Verizon and I love, love, love the network. Haven't been with vzw since '07.
I'd also like to know if there is still the bleeding/weeping/leakage of the back lights on the white version? Like there was on the white galaxy s 2.
Thanks.
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I'm not aware of this battery drain issue you speak of. If it exists on my phone, I can obviously obviously with it. The cell standby numbers are way too high, especially considering I was on full LTE coverage all night. My epic4g had a similar issue and it was fixed via software fairly quickly.
Mine is blue so I can't comment on your other question. Yes, the Verizon network is AWESOME!
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Muckrak3r said:
I'm not aware of this battery drain issue you speak of. If it exists on my phone, I can obviously obviously with it. The cell standby numbers are way too high, especially considering I was on full LTE coverage all night. (...)
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"The cell standby" that is the Battery drain issue he is referencing, it is not really a "real" drain issue, more a reporting issue.

Even with the drain issue that battery life is awesome. Thank you for posting your initial thoughts and battery stats.

After I get fully charged up again today I will leave it off any charge and post the full drain stats.
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How did u get the phone already?
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Judging from your screenshots the phone charges itself!!!!! 8:17 25% 8:16 26%
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cell128 said:
Judging from your screenshots the phone charges itself!!!!! 8:17 25% 8:16 26%(...)
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? I think you need to sleep
at 8:16 the phone got 26%
LATER
at 8:17 the phone got 25%
Seem right to me...

cell128 said:
Judging from your screenshots the phone charges itself!!!!! 8:17 25% 8:16 26%
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You have your times backwards. Lol
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Lol my mistake
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Here is a brief part II review of the phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD700UVaN8w&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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If YOU are noticing degraded battery life after kitkat update, post here!

Are you noticing worse battery life after doing the kitkat update? I am, and I want to know if you are too.
Post in here, take the poll, and lets figure out how to track down what is going on.
Requirements: Try to post a screenshot of your battery stats, wakelocks (if possible) and how many hours you were getting before on a charge.
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I will get some screens soon and try to track it down but I have been noticing that on days I use my Bluetooth after I turn it off. See a drastic.decrease in battery and my phone gets hot. I was have seen others say there was a Bluetooth wakelock as well and it's very random when it happens
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I'm down from 1.5 day to hardly 10 hours on a single charge

That's basically what I'm seeing, maybe 12 hours if I'm lucky. Granted I am using my phone a lot lately since I just got it but still... My s2 t989 with same usage was lasting far longer.
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Here's just today's bat life after sleeping 8 hours.
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My two main reasons for me rooting are ad blocking and greenify. I just learned that greenify added support for non-root users. I have greenified every app I don't use on a regular basis and am noticing significant difference in battery. The only thing is that after you use a greenified app you have to re-greenify manually.

Greenify and tasker work great, I had tasker auto hibernate all greenified apps upon screen on. Its basically the closest you can get to automation without rooting.
Greenify has saved my battery issues.
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Usually when going from previous to a newer android I factory reset twice
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Same here
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Usually I do a factory reset after such an upgrade
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Usually I do a factory reset after such an upgrade
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More often than not, a factory reset will take care of battery issues after a major OS upgrade. I'm not sure if it's left-over system files or something about the "upgrading" of existing apps during the process, but I've had to do it with both my Galaxy S3 and Nexus 7 2012. Not every upgrade, mind you, but with one or two.

I do notice my system battery monitor jumping around all crazy, this is after a factory reset.
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My wife's battery life has become so bad since the update, that I'm on this site trying to figure out how to downgrade her phone right now. (My N5/CM11 sometimes lasts longer than her G2 now)

Curious how everyone is now doing on the 20e update?
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Bout the same for me. Only thing I notice is that before my wifi was always running in background according to bbs, no matter what I did to change settings. Not anymore after update.

First cycle on the update I lost 35% or so in a couple hours with little use. I checked battery use and Instagram was the primary hog. Uninstalled and reinstalled the app and getting awesome battery life comparable or better than before the update. Not sure why instagram went crazy but works fine now
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The update fixed a serious wakelock issue caused by wifi calling for me. A lot of wakelocks seem to have disappeared with the update for me.
Nothing leaps and bounds, but notice a bit of an improvement for sure.

M8 Experiences...

Hi everyone, I just upgraded from a droid DNA and I am very excited to have this beast now. My question is what are you guys experiences with this phone any faults or nice things you like about this device... Also any tips you have that would help out??? Thanks in advance!!!
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JB_Da_Greatest said:
Hi everyone, I just upgraded from a droid DNA and I am very excited to have this beast now. My question is what are you guys experiences with this phone any faults or nice things you like about this device... Also any tips you have that would help out??? Thanks in advance!!!
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The camera is pretty bad :/ It's also hard to hit the power button when holding it one handed.

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The camera is pretty bad :/ It's also hard to hit the power button when holding it one handed.
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Double taping the status bar turns the screen off.
The camera ⊙
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Double taping the status bar turns the screen off.
The camera ⊙
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I never got that to work, only double tapping to turn on, it must be sensitive. Also that's why I'm not a huge fan of the camera :/

I upgraded from the DNA as well,and so far I don't have any complaints. The camera isn't the best but I knew that going in.
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You can improve the camera a lot by the custom settings.
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^this was a bit over saturated

The cameras not really bad. It's a 4 'ultra pixel' but it's good in low light and all the effects I.E 3D makes up for the la lacking pixels. I love the phone coming from a note 3. The build quality,display,size,speakers,and speed is what I favor most.
I'm not a real fan of sense but I took care of that with nova launcher and the viper1 Rom? I recommend that Rom if you're thinking about rooting ?
HTC ONE M8?

After a little over a week of use my experiences with this phone has been nothing but positive... Of course the camera leaves a lot to be desired but other than that, smooth sailing.. After a day of use on a full charge I still have 50% + left. It almost lasted 2 days that's a lot more improvement over the droid DNA.. I haven't rooted yet, I'm actually kind of scared and hesitant to. On another note I feel like I made the right decision over and S5..
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T-Mobile update

I thought this was the one but it was a false alarm and I haven't noticed anything different yet lol.
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What's this android for work function? I also hope the battery life gets better.

Just got the OTA too. COJ5.

johnny tsunami said:
What's this android for work function? I also hope the battery life gets better.
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That's what I'm trying to figure out myself lol.
Looks like app optimization has been added.
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Hopefully it fixes cell standby drain.
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shook187 said:
Hopefully it fixes cell standby drain.
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Hopefully custom ROMs and kernels are still compatible.

If you want to download the ODIN file.
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347852281

The first thing I noticed after the update was improved fingerprint recognition. I've never had issues with my thumbs not reading, but it seemed my index fingers had to be perfectly aligned in order to unlock my phone. Now they work at off angles and much quicker.
I also promptly froze the Gear VR apps since I don't want to risk battery hits from something I won't use.
Anyone use stock messaging? I'm curious if the awful delay when trying to send a message is gone.

Just a question. With the app optimization do we still need greenery? Just wondering.
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Weird thing I noticed was when when I factory reset after I took the update factory recovery was saying something about dfverify tree or something like that.

Interesting; I just had my Note5 unlocked and with my AT&T SIM in, I was able to download and install the update OTA.
Happy to see all known Stagefright vulnerabilities are now addressed.

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Interesting; I just had my Note5 unlocked and with my AT&T SIM in, I was able to download and install the update OTA.
Happy to see all known Stagefright vulnerabilities are now addressed.
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Why wouldn't you get the update? I don't think SIM card mean anything.
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shook187 said:
Why wouldn't you get the update? I don't think SIM card mean anything.
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SIM cards are used to determine OTAs for Nexus devices. But you are correct that they typically don't matter for other OEMs because each carrier gets a different model number assigned to their hardware variant.

peterfabri18 said:
Just a question. With the app optimization do we still need greenery? Just wondering.
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Greenify? I'm wondering the same.

Wireless charging is being a lot more picky about where I place my phone on the pad after the update. I have to set it down a bit higher on the phone rather than centered like usual.

DJ ELITE said:
Greenify? I'm wondering the same.
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Why, doze isn't until Marshmallow. Is that why you're wondering?
beep

Daiskei said:
Wireless charging is being a lot more picky about where I place my phone on the pad after the update. I have to set it down a bit higher on the phone rather than centered like usual.
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thats upsetting
i was having this problem prior to the update, was hoping for a fix
Samsung wireless charger is supper picky, third party ones, not so much

I'm already noticing improved battery life.
Unplugged for 3.5 hours, and in the marginal LTE/H area that I am for work, I would be down 20% or more with light usage. As of now, I'm at 89%.

Is anyone else experiencing issues with Text Messages? I'm using the stock messaging app (after I started having issues with EvolveSMS). I'll get the same text messages from someone 5 to 7 times, kind of getting annoying when my S2 vibrates and get's blown up with notifications.

Nougat is here!

Well tried to flash khongloi v6 got stuck on boot and for some reason could not get into recovery only dl mode so i used smart switch and emergency fw. And this is what i boot up too!!

http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r601/sarni84/Mobile Uploads/Screenshot_20170422-152049.png

Nice, I'll probably wait for the OTA update.
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Anyone know how to set livewallpapers in nougat?For the life of me can't figure out..lol smh
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Raver27 said:
Anyone know how to set livewallpapers in nougat?For the life of me can't figure out..lol smh
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The option does seem to be missing from the Wallpaper menu. I just set one that I downloaded from the Play Store though and it works fine. Just have to open the app after you download it and set it from there.

I couldn't wait lol, my phone is so much snappier now ??
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I couldn't wait lol, my phone is so much snappier now ??View attachment 4123167
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Do u have any kind of Bluetooth problems after u reboot the phone. ?

Installed Nougat 7.0 with Odin after download through SAMFIRM. No problem whatsoever encountered yet, everything works flawlessly. Phone seems little faster. After 4 hours of use also battery use seems little better compared to MM.

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Do u have any kind of Bluetooth problems after u reboot the phone. ?
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No, everything's working fine. I didn't fresh install. But I did have some battery issues. Device idle and cell stand by are the main battery drainer.
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OnnoJ said:
Installed Nougat 7.0 with Odin after download through SAMFIRM. No problem whatsoever encountered yet, everything works flawlessly. Phone seems little faster. After 4 hours of use also battery use seems little better compared to MM.
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It's A LOT better.
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geeshiet said:
No, everything's working fine. I didn't fresh install. But I did have some battery issues. Device idle and cell stand by are the main battery drainer.
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Maybe you already know, but I wanted to mention in case you didn't. After months of looking into cell standby battery drain, the ONLY way I can minimize it down to basically nothing is to be in airplane mode and using wifi/wifi calling. Sad to see that cell standby drain is still an issue with 7.0 though.

Thanks for the info, I've tried mostly everything but I still couldn't fix the issue.... As of right now I'm on 25% with device idle by being 8% drained about 225 mAh and cell standby being 5% drained 149 mAh.
It might be that I didn't do a fresh install... Since I haven't heard anyone having issues with battery. So I might factory reset in a bit.
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