Of the many features Samsung included in the Galaxy S3, what is your favorite (or one of them) and why? Even if it isn't exclusive to the phone, I'm curious to know.
Personally, and I didn't think this would be one of them when I heard about it, I LOVE Smart Stay. I usually use my phone a lot to browse and read forums and other internet documents. My old phone was constantly turning off the screen while I read a long post. My Galaxy S3 never turns it off. One of the best features of the phone imo. It's all the little things that work together to make this phone so great.
So what is your favorite feature of the phone?
Picture-in-picture is pretty fancy
adslee said:
Picture-in-picture is pretty fancy
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Where is and what is that?
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bikrame said:
Where is and what is that?
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When watching a video, on the bottom right there's a button to enable picture in picture
I also love Smart Stay, it just makes reading easier than having to constantly be touching the screen.
Personally, I love all the ICS and JB leaks I get to play with!!! Never seen a phone with so many so fast!
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Other than full integration with my tv and palm wipe to capture, I don't really use any, not a fan of phone camera either
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kulzboy said:
Other than full integration with my tv and palm wipe to capture, I don't really use any, not a fan of phone camera either
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Well someone's a negative Nancy.
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I would have to agree with the Smart Stay, it works great. Swipe capture and picture in picture are also on my list. I wish u could watch youtube videos with it though like u can do with the app Super video.
Direct call!
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Smart stay! It really helps me get through those walls of text that some people put out.
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Direct call!
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That is a nice convenience feature. Saves a few steps if you need to call someone. PiP is sweet too I agree.
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How do you turn the shutter sound off for palm swipe? It's crazy loud.
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When watching a video, on the bottom right there's a button to enable picture in picture
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I didnt see it lol. And whats use of it.
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There's an app called super video floating that does the same thing as the pop up player. Works on non gs3 as well
Smart stay for sure I love the feature when reading books or en gadget really helpful, I like direct call but I hate the stock messaging app :/
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- Smart stay
- Screen shot swipe
- Direct call
The screensize, can't tell you the amount of convos that got started from just that.
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Illusion81 said:
The screensize, can't tell you the amount of convos that got started from just that.
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It is pretty much perfect. I agree. Not too large not too small.
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Screen.
Screen size for me. 4.8 is my new "sweet spot".
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It drives me insane when I'm using the device one-handed and trigger this "feature" when I scroll near the edge of the screen...
Same here especially when trying to bring up the quick controls.
Same here on international version
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+1
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I guess no one
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There seems to be no option. The browser itself is one of the best stock browsers I've ever used. But I want to punch sammy in the throat at times for not allowing that to be turned off.
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I agree I would also like it to be disabled. The other big annoyance in the stock browser is the double tap to zoom doesn't work (over zooms every time - naturally you have to be in desktop view to see this). There is a setting to alter it but it doesn't help. Firefox works correctly but I end up using the stock browser most of the time and just pinching.
I no longer have this problem. I was stock AT&T, then rooted, then running International ROM with a stock browser that doesn't have the edge zooming. Yes, it did annoy me when I had it.
Wow! You're right! I also changed to a different rom a while back but kind of forgot about the problem. I thought I was being more careful I guess. No! I forgot only because the problem was gone and didn't notice! Yet another reason to get off stock! Great info, big :Thumbup:
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post up the APK? thx
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post up the APK? thx
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huh?
No movement on this topic I guess. This feature drives me nuts as well but I don't want to go to a different rom to resolve it.
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Well you can also use a different browser - plenty of choices out there...
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This actually occurs on the stock browser as well as other third party browsers...
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The new update eliminates that irritating "feature"!
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Yep happy to say that the latest 4.1.2 update removed this annoying behavior.
Indeed. I guess they realized it was more of a pain.
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I went to youtube.com instead of using the app was able to pull the video from the web and play it on the qslide. Just blow it up then minimize it and turns into a smaller window to move around ish awesome stuff....Mayb i was the last one to fig that out but just wanted to put it out there . Anyone else notice that lol?
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Yea it's awesome,,.great for porn viewing, and texting, on the go.. jk
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Hahaha :thumbup: I guess u can use it for different purposes lol
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Just picked up thus phone.. loving it so far but not sure how to do what your talking about?
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Just picked up thus phone.. loving it so far but not sure how to do what your talking about?
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I went to youtube.com instead of using the youtube app.. Just maximize it then minimize it and turns into a smaller window
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Just picked up thus phone.. loving it so far but not sure how to do what your talking about?
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Make sure you're using the default browser and not a 3rd party app.
Smart pause isn't working for me for some reason
I've tried going to a place with good-lighting and u tried opening my eyes as wide as I could, still didn't work.
I just restore my stock rom from the Infamous rom, and I flashed the tmobile kernel too. I was previously running ktoonsez. It's odd that it does take work.
Can anybody help?
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I've noticed issues with Smart Pause when I have my glasses on. Seems to not play nice with glasses.
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I've noticed issues with Smart Pause when I have my glasses on. Seems to not play nice with glasses.
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I don't have glasses :/
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You are using the stock video player right?
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It only worked once for me and I turned on smart stay
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It only worked once for me and I turned on smart stay
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I'll try that
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You are using the stock video player right?
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yes
The thing is...u have to be in a well well lit area it never worked for me until I was outside on a very sunny day then it worked
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So we all know the GS4 out of the box has some atrocious lag. Well I went through the steps to clear a lot of it out without rooting. Just stock, and changing some settings within the OS itself. But I was still noticing some small lag here and there. Well it turns out I put my GS4 on the charger and start using it, and I notice that there is significantly less lag, I unplug it, and then it goes back to usual lag. I have done this back and forth a couple of times, with the same results.
So could it be that Samsung ramps up the CPU when on the charger?
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Your power save could be on?
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I never experienced lag on this phone until yesterday and I noticed google services was using uo my battery. Went to the google settings and there is a new option call android device manager and I unchecked all the location settings and lag gone. Also if you have google currents go into settings and disable background sync.
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Checked that and it's completely off. I wouldn't put it past Samsung do that, we've already seen them ramp up the processor and gpu for the benchmark rests, my guess is that they lower the clock speed when not charging or maybe below a certain percentage.
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No lag here. Sorry to hear that bro
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It's not like it's everywhere, it's just in a few places, like hangouts, where my One never lagged, or sometimes a jitter when swiping through apps or home screens. Guess I'm just not used to it coming from the One. But there is a difference in performance when plugged into a charger and not.
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No lag here.
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It's not like it's everywhere, it's just in a few places, like hangouts, where my One never lagged, or sometimes a jitter when swiping through apps or home screens. Guess I'm just not used to it coming from the One. But there is a difference in performance when plugged into a charger and not.
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Watch a movie on the one or play a game. Its night and day compared to the S4.
My cousin has the one. YouTube takes at least 2 more seconds, worse quality, and skips.
Games skip/lag, and loading time is longer for the One.
You gotta take the good with the bad with either phone.
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That is true, the YouTube app is much more solid on the GS4. But one small thing is that I get this huge black bar at the top of my YouTube app when I switch from portrait to landscape. Anyone know how to fix that?
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That is true, the YouTube app is much more solid on the GS4. But one small thing is that I get this huge black bar at the top of my YouTube app when I switch from portrait to landscape. Anyone know how to fix that?
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I think that's an app issue. Had same prob on Note 2
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That is true, the YouTube app is much more solid on the GS4. But one small thing is that I get this huge black bar at the top of my YouTube app when I switch from portrait to landscape. Anyone know how to fix that?
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That's just the app itself. That's not even a problem. If something like that REALLY bother you, then you're EXTREMELY anal about things.
P.s. I think you're a ONE fanboy that came on here to put down the S4.
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tikay00 said:
When you're watching a video? That's never happened to me.
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It happens when you go from portrait to landscape and then back. I'll post a picture.
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It happens when you go from portrait to landscape and then back. I'll post a picture.
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I just tried it. My YouTube app doesn't do that. You probably have an app issue. Sorry to hear that bro.
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+1 for app issue
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I have the weird app issue, so does my brother, and my mom. Both have galaxy S4. Why can't YouTube/Google fix this. Shouldn't be to difficult?
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Exactly what black line are you referring to?
I even took a screenshot of YouTube with the search bar left on. No double black bar on my phone.
Like I said before. Its a ROM/app issue. Or phone issue.
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Larger pics.
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Last one. I took a screenshot of YouTube app the exact same way you had yours setup to show us.
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I put my pictures up on previous post, but I'm on a stock t-mobile rom, just got the phone yesterday. Coming from HTC One.
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New card UI, multi tasking video + more. amazing update!
For forget the hit the thanks Button!:good:
Great tablet view
Do you know if it supports 1080p playback
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Hey thanks for this! Huge update wow
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Quite the improvement lol. Thanks!
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Sweet
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Do you know if it supports 1080p playback
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no i think its only 720p .... i could be wrong tho .
Is It just me or the quality is lacking?
Looks less than 720P from my S4 but looks perfect on my N4. Both are on WiFi, extremely weird
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Damn this is pretty sweet. Just wish the would add the ability to reply to comments.
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Nice improvement but the stupid "black bar" bug is still there only now its "white bar"
this is what i am talking about
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42916686
I cant install it. Unknown source is checked. When I touch cancel, it cancels but when I touch install, nothing happens. Does anyone know whats happening? I am stock, not rooted.
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I cant install it. Unknown source is checked. When I touch cancel, it cancels but when I touch install, nothing happens. Does anyone know whats happening? I am stock, not rooted.
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The way I installed it was that I uninstalled first using Titanium Backup, and then instead the new version. But you have to be rooted for that.
poor video quality.
Has any one noticed that it doesn't play in 1080p? I hope it can be fixed.
Yea the quality is really ****ty...
I went to general and made sure the high quality square was checked.... Also the three little Dots in the upper right hand corner where you push them while the video is playing it gives a option from CC OR HD.
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I went to general and made sure the high quality square was checked.... Also the three little Dots in the upper right hand corner where you push them while the video is playing it gives a option from CC OR HD.
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Yup, with HQ on video quality is fine. Watching a video while searching other videos is [email protected]
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