Recent content by Fingerstoo

This thread could now be closed as I have extensively thrashed the new build and Samsung have got it sorted out now! No need for any workarounds! There are NO music dropouts anymore. I agree that the phone appears to be faster in all respects, especially the startup time from wakeup, but menu...

Got mine this morning too by OTA on the phone (don't trust that Kies rubbish!). Haven't had time for extensive testing but it does wake up from sleep faster, just as it used to do on 4.1. I do so hope the music drop-outs have gone. I will be testing this during today and will report back.

No sign of the fix update here (UK) on my unlocked S3. I was not aware that there was a new version of that horrid program, Kies 3, that is necessary for S3's that are already updated to 4.3, like mine. Kies 3 does appear faster but refused to do a backup of some categories of my files, as did...

Not sure that we have a proper workaround? After extensive testing, the music still skips but not often. It is definitely a memory management problem, since when playing music the whole phone seems sluggish, as if the processor and memory are tied up with the music processing. I got some really...

Hi, I am new to this site. I have been looking for a workaround. I was in IT for many years, but now retired! The problems of slow wake-up and the music drop-outs are really annoying me. I listen to classical music a lot and these random gaps are more annoying than coughing during live...