http://forums.androidcentral.com/ a forum dedicated to enthusiast of the Verizon Galaxy S3. en Sun, 26 May 2013 03:53:01 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forums.androidcentral.com/images/misc/rss.png http://forums.androidcentral.com/ http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282822-internet-has-stopped-working-anytime-i-try-download-mostly-pdfs-new-post.html Sat, 25 May 2013 19:37:32 GMT Hi there!
I get the "Intetnet has stopped working: message whenever I try to download a PDF. I checked my SD card and it's OK. I changed download location and that didn't fix it either. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Pete ]]> Sprint Galaxy S III phamann http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282822-internet-has-stopped-working-anytime-i-try-download-mostly-pdfs.html http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282814-exchange-push-since-4-1-2-a-new-post.html Sat, 25 May 2013 19:14:45 GMT Ever since 4.1.2 update a few weeks ago my exchange account push email works sporadically or not at all. I've tried removing and readding the account to no avail. Also confirmed sync is enabled everywhere. If I do manual refresh all mails are downloaded normally. It used to work fine since I had the phone for about 6 months.

Any ideas? I've had to resort to using eval Touchdown for the moment.

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2 ]]> Sprint Galaxy S III mvelasco2 http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282814-exchange-push-since-4-1-2-a.html http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282781-my-persistent-issues-since-purchase-4-months-ago-new-post.html Sat, 25 May 2013 16:15:25 GMT Hi All! I have google searched and spent a lot of time searching for people with my same issues. I have found some similar, but with different... Hi All!

I have google searched and spent a lot of time searching for people with my same issues. I have found some similar, but with different causes and solutions that did not work. If my phone would work, I'd love it--but these issues are getting annoying. They have been pretty consistent since I purchased my phone in January, 4 months ago.

First, TEXT MESSAGES. I often receive the same text message multiple times, 3 or 4 or 5 times. My wife sends me a text, and I respond. A minute later, "Oh another text!" Alas, it's just the same one...then again...and again.

Frequently, I just can't send text messages. I will hit send, and it will process for a minute before just failing to send. If I restart my phone, it then works 50% of the time. The other 50 I have to turn it off and leave it off for a couple minutes. This happens several times a week, and has for months, and has not occurred on any other sprint phones in the area, so this (and my previous issue) do NOT appear to be tower issues.

I use Handcent for messages.

Another issue, my ringtones will randomly reset to default on a couple contacts. I have about 30 unique ringtones for contacts, and this problem only happens on 2 of them, but their ringtone will frequently just reset to the default ringtone. I am getting tired of constantly changing it back to the unique one. Other members in that group are unaffected, and it resets not to the default ringtone for that group but the default ringtone for unassigned or unknown numbers (my general ringtone).

Also, voicemail does not work outside of actually calling it on my phone. Every time I try to use the app where I can listen to it, it crashes and says that "unfortunately, voicemail has stopped working."

Thank you for your help!

The other issues, unfortunately, are courtesy of the boneheads who think that "upgrading" a phone means removing services and actually downgrading the usability of the phone (i.e. removing the side zoom feature, and now removing the left to right swipe option to call contacts in the most recent "update").

ANSWERING PHONE. ]]> Sprint Galaxy S III jlj93byu http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282781-my-persistent-issues-since-purchase-4-months-ago.html http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282479-list-apps-sharing-locations-new-post.html Fri, 24 May 2013 19:55:08 GMT Is there a menu or way of finding out which apps are sharing my location? Chimpie Sent using the Tapatalk app! Is there a menu or way of finding out which apps are sharing my location?

Chimpie

Sent using the Tapatalk app! ]]> Sprint Galaxy S III Chimpie http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282479-list-apps-sharing-locations.html http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282477-screen-time-50-a-new-post.html Fri, 24 May 2013 19:47:41 GMT As I've seen in another thread, my screen time is always at 50%,even though I haven't touched my phone on hours. Brightness is all the way to the left and on auto.

Whatever is causing the screen to think it's on is causing my battery to drain faster than I would like.

Any suggestions?

Chimpie

Sent using the Tapatalk app! ]]> Sprint Galaxy S III Chimpie http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282477-screen-time-50-a.html http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282457-media-server-battery-drain-my-solution-new-post.html Fri, 24 May 2013 18:36:48 GMT Noticed some battery drain yesterday and warm phone...battery confirmed with 60+ percent going to media server, media, or downloads. I screwed... Noticed some battery drain yesterday and warm phone...battery confirmed with 60+ percent going to media server, media, or downloads. I screwed around with reboots, closing apps, not syncing in gallery,*and searching online for other ideas.

I found nothing short of deleting most media or resets. I don't like nuclear options.

What I did find was quickpic flashed something about no folders but it would load. I had two identical "downloads" folders. Same contents. One was "downloads" and the other was "Downloads" File properties showed the path as /mnt/sdcard in one file and the other folders twin file had a different path. I suspect this created some sort of loop in media scan.

I downloaded an image and then went in and deleted it via quickpic. This ended up forcing some sort of rebuild and the duplicate folder was gone :)

Battery returned to normal and no more media scan chewing up the battery.

Stock, rooted gs3 ]]> Sprint Galaxy S III Thrillhouse617 http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282457-media-server-battery-drain-my-solution.html http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282224-text-alerts-new-post.html Fri, 24 May 2013 00:56:30 GMT How do I get my S3 to stop giving me vocal alerts when I get a text? I can't find anything in settings to turn this off. Thanks, Ray ]]> Sprint Galaxy S III raymb1 http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282224-text-alerts.html http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282175-help-update-new-post.html Thu, 23 May 2013 21:42:49 GMT Noob here :-\ lol

I keep getting a update android software notification when I try to install it it keeps failing

I am rooted but i don't know how to unroot or how to check what i used to root as my laptop is fried and the link with the steps i used was saved on there :(

Any help will be greatly appreciated :) i have the 4.1.1 on my GS3 now i dont know what this update is or if its even worth it ]]> Sprint Galaxy S III salm04 http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282175-help-update.html http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282138-screen-rotation-reversed-wicked-sensation-rom-md4-new-post.html Thu, 23 May 2013 19:45:58 GMT How do I fix this? Can't watch youtube or netflix.I don't have any smart rotation boxes checked.HELP !!!!!!!! ]]> Sprint Galaxy S III Seeker03 http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282138-screen-rotation-reversed-wicked-sensation-rom-md4.html http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282100-launcher-new-post.html Thu, 23 May 2013 17:51:19 GMT What is the best launcher? Thanks!! What is the best launcher?
Thanks!! ]]> Sprint Galaxy S III kinckn http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/282100-launcher.html http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/281845-application-refund-google-play-new-post.html Thu, 23 May 2013 00:15:11 GMT I've had a Pandora one account for the past year. This month, it came up for renewal. I renewed on my phone with the intent of wanting to renew for a year. I didn't realize that I could only do month to month when renewing using my phone. I canceled the auto renew and then contacted Pandora and asked about getting a refund so that I didn't have to pay the annual renewal fee plus the month to month fee I already paid when I go to renew again in June. Pandora agreed to issue a refund and said that it was credited back to my Google play account. I'm wondering where in Google play I can verify that the refund was processed.

Posted via Android Central App ]]> Sprint Galaxy S III cb2367 http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/281845-application-refund-google-play.html http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/281696-play-store-no-connection-retry-new-post.html Wed, 22 May 2013 16:09:18 GMT Hello,

Anybody having this issue? I have LTE connection. But it's saying NO CONNECTION..

Thanks again. ]]> Sprint Galaxy S III aznberry http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/281696-play-store-no-connection-retry.html http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/281481-phone-freezes-when-booting-restarts-could-bad-pdf-new-post.html Wed, 22 May 2013 00:49:42 GMT I had issues with the phone freezing on the lock screen when booting up the phone. Then when I pressed the power button the screen went black and... I had issues with the phone freezing on the lock screen when booting up the phone. Then when I pressed the power button the screen went black and unresponsive until it rebooted itself. This happened numerous times until it finally decided to behave.
It drove me crazy. Tried factory resetting without success. Until I deleted a PDF that I recently downloaded and that solved the issue! So if you have this problem think of files and documents that you downloaded before the problem started happening and that might very well solve this very annoying issue! ]]> Sprint Galaxy S III adlebo http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/281481-phone-freezes-when-booting-restarts-could-bad-pdf.html http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/281428-play-music-lockscreen-widget-when-using-pattern-unlock-new-post.html Tue, 21 May 2013 22:10:51 GMT Just thought I'd share with the group, as I hadn't seen it reported anywhere else... I changed to Pattern lockscreen option just for yucks. Much to my surprise, the next time I went to unlock the phone while playing some tunes through Play Music, there was a "widget" on the lock screen. Shows the current song, with Prev, Play/Pause, and Next buttons. It's only there if you're playing music when the phone locks (it's not a perpetual widget), but hey I'll take it. While I had gotten accustomed to pulling down the Notif bar from the lockscreen and using those Play Music controls, I'm quite pleased with this discovery. Has anyone else found this to work with any other apps to get a lockscreen quasi-widget?

(PS - Not sure if it works with the other non-swipe lockscreen options, haven't tinkered any further) ]]> Sprint Galaxy S III muskrat2k1 http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/281428-play-music-lockscreen-widget-when-using-pattern-unlock.html http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/281410-removing-duplicate-application-shortcuts-new-post.html Tue, 21 May 2013 20:45:01 GMT From my home screen, when I swipe across the screen to the right, the first two screens have shortcuts for the applications I have installed. Somehow... From my home screen, when I swipe across the screen to the right, the first two screens have shortcuts for the applications I have installed. Somehow I managed to get duplicate shortcuts. It used to be that I could long press on a shortcut and drag it to the bottom of the screen where a trash can icon would appear. Now when I do this, it just moves the shortcut to the bottom row where the dialer and messaging icons are. In other words, the shortcut from the top of the screen switches places with the messaging icon (or the dialer) depending on where I drag the shortcut.

Posted via Android Central App ]]> Sprint Galaxy S III cb2367 http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/281410-removing-duplicate-application-shortcuts.html