Samsung Rolling Out Substantial Update to S III

I have the Telus S3.

Hopefully, it fixes S Voice and all the Diving Mode issues. I find S Voice sucks. My friend just upgraded his Nexus to Jellybean and the Google Voice on it incredible. We asked the same questions and 9 times out of 10, S Voice couldn't answer and his gave him the answer.

Driving Mode doesn't work either. It won't read text messages, emails or let me voice dial to call someone.

Other than that, I love the phone.
 
Havent noticed much except for whats listed on the blog..

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The phone is only officially out in stores for AT&T as of today.
And we are complaining about waiting for an update to the phone? Wow, we are impatient. Even the people getting the international had to wait a month.


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Another minor find.. when holding the power button the menu now displays sound options like silent etc..

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The menu on long press of the power button has always been there.

The most significant thing appears to be that they have removed the brightness control in the browser.. it just works from the main brightness control now.
Speaking of which, this is now adjustable in the notification area.

There is a bunch of other stuff, take a look here : New Samsung Galaxy S III I9300XXBLFB Official Update – GT-I9300 | Totallydubbed
 
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I have the international version...no update for me yet...guess I have to be patient

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what is the different between the international version i9300 than the ATT i797 ? Can the i9300 work with ATT LTE ?
 
international = quad core 1gb ram, no LTE.
us version = dual core, 2gb ram, LTE.
 
The menu on long press of the power button has always been there.

The most significant thing appears to be that they have removed the brightness control in the browser.. it just works from the main brightness control now.
Speaking of which, this is now adjustable in the notification area.

There is a bunch of other stuff, take a look here : New Samsung Galaxy S III I9300XXBLFB Official Update ? GT-I9300 | Totallydubbed

Yes but i said the sound options at the bottom is new

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Does it still prompt you to confirm your choice every time you change the sound mode from the power button menu? That's really annoying right now.

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Does it still prompt you to confirm your choice every time you change the sound mode from the power button menu? That's really annoying right now.

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No it jus changes and vibrates

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That's great to know, thank you! Can't wait to update my device just to get rid of that prompt and really hoping that somewhere hidden in that update is a fix for the extreme power drain my device suffers from.

Update: Darn the update I got today is the previous version: Baseband version I9300XXLF2, build number: IMM76D.I9300XXALF2

Guess our region is lagging behind for some reason even though my device is the International unlocked model :(
 
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That's great to know, thank you! Can't wait to update my device just to get rid of that prompt and really hoping that somewhere hidden in that update is a fix for the extreme power drain my device suffers from.

Update: Darn the update I got today is the previous version: Baseband version I9300XXLF2, build number: IMM76D.I9300XXALF2

Guess our region is lagging behind for some reason even though my device is the International unlocked model :(

I didnt even get an OTA...had to do it thru kies

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I use Odin for the update, Kies is a rubbish price of software especially for updating. I keep Odin in dropbox so our is easy to update from anywhere..
 
I didnt even get an OTA...had to do it thru kies.
Same here, no OTA, only through Kies. Strange thing is other countries in the same region have gotten the LFB update. Oh well, previous update better than no update at all although I'm looking forward to the newer Sound mode toggle and Brightness controls. Small features like that make a huge impact on the day-to-day use of the device.
 
did the update on my uk galaxy s3 last night via kies and now i cant make calls everytime i try i get ' unfortunately the process com.android.phone has stopped working' message

Ive tried factory reset and its still doing it, Have called samsung support but they cannot call me back until monday! anyone have any ideas?