Recent content by David Sutherland1

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    Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300 freezes every hour or so.

    Following up on my earlier post. My phone uptime is 99:51:05 and hasn't frozen once in that time. That's 4+ days. It would be longer but I shut it down while flying. I no longer need to mess with the wifi settings or do any other tweaks. The fix for me was running fstrim. This suggests...
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    Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300 freezes every hour or so.

    The wifi setting is a couple of posts above. In the dialler, type *#0011#. You'll go into the service mode. Select wi-fi using the menu button and you should see a toggle to disable WPS mode. Change it to OFF. I'd be really interested to know if this helps you. Most of my freezes were when I...
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    Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300 freezes every hour or so.

    4.1.2 is supposed to contain a workaround for the sudden death issue. So while there is certainly a hardware issue, the symptoms of "sudden death" are that the phone is bricked. It won't work at all, and can't be turned on. This does not seem to be the same issue of freezing and random...
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    Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300 freezes every hour or so.

    Two things I've done which have helped considerably: Turn off wi-fi power saving. I picked this tip up from another forum - can't recall where. In the dialler, type *#0011#. You'll go into the service mode. Select wi-fi using the menu button and you should see a toggle to disable WPS mode...