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metro.:
SGNote II is coming out soon xShadow.
I would suggest that, if you're not willing to wait.
I don't know the specs of phones coming out in Oct-Nov, but there should be a fairly large release of phones around that time, as people gear up for the holiday season.
deadskin:
--- Quote from: xShadow on October 01, 2012, 10:03:44 PM ---Alright well it's been a while, but: Best Buy had the S3 for 50 dollars off yesterday and since it was my birthday my parents offered to cover the cost. I had enough but what the hell, free shit is free shit.
Anyway, word of warning to anyone that's thinking of getting one:
At first I loved everything about it but then I figured something out really fast: its wifi connectivity is complete shit. I've had it sitting right beside my iPhone 3GS and my Laptop and watched as it could barely get 25-50% of its max signal (it won't even function at 25% btw), while my 3GS and Laptop were at max bars or close. I thought it might just be my phone but I looked around on the internet and this doesn't seem to be anything new.
Honestly, this is the last motherfucking thing I expected a phone to be unable to accomplish these days. Seriously, Wifi? Three year old 3GS has better wifi than this monster of an Android phone? I think that's intentional. I've looked around and it doesn't seem like this is the only Android with wifi issues. I wonder if the carriers have some kind of under-the-table bargain with manufacturers to fuck over their wifi just enough to make it inconvenient to use so that people will resort to a more expensive data plan.
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Are you accesing a public hotspot? Or is it a home network?
Try this for now:
1. Go to your phone dialer
2. Dial *#0011#
3. When you see the "ServiceMode" screen, press the left menu button
4. Select "WiFi"
5. See that "Wifi Power Save Mode" button that is "ON" - well turn it "OFF"
6. Exit this menu, turn off your Wifi and turn it back on. If you already entered all your wifi credentials, forget your network info (remove it) and re-enter it again.
xShadow:
--- Quote from: metro. on October 01, 2012, 11:07:07 PM ---SGNote II is coming out soon xShadow.
I would suggest that, if you're not willing to wait.
I don't know the specs of phones coming out in Oct-Nov, but there should be a fairly large release of phones around that time, as people gear up for the holiday season.
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I realized I dont need anything as large as the Note. Surprisingly even things running at <720p resolutions did just fine at displaying manga in portrait without zooming in. The picture quality for horriblesubs encodes was also amazing. Though, the amount of codecs available for the mx player is bad. horriblesubs is the only mkv encode that would work in it. Commie and other Jinrui encodes would not play with hw acceleration.
--- Quote from: deadskin on October 02, 2012, 12:38:21 AM ---
--- Quote from: xShadow on October 01, 2012, 10:03:44 PM ---Alright well it's been a while, but: Best Buy had the S3 for 50 dollars off yesterday and since it was my birthday my parents offered to cover the cost. I had enough but what the hell, free shit is free shit.
Anyway, word of warning to anyone that's thinking of getting one:
At first I loved everything about it but then I figured something out really fast: its wifi connectivity is complete shit. I've had it sitting right beside my iPhone 3GS and my Laptop and watched as it could barely get 25-50% of its max signal (it won't even function at 25% btw), while my 3GS and Laptop were at max bars or close. I thought it might just be my phone but I looked around on the internet and this doesn't seem to be anything new.
Honestly, this is the last motherfucking thing I expected a phone to be unable to accomplish these days. Seriously, Wifi? Three year old 3GS has better wifi than this monster of an Android phone? I think that's intentional. I've looked around and it doesn't seem like this is the only Android with wifi issues. I wonder if the carriers have some kind of under-the-table bargain with manufacturers to fuck over their wifi just enough to make it inconvenient to use so that people will resort to a more expensive data plan.
--- End quote ---
Are you accesing a public hotspot? Or is it a home network?
Try this for now:
1. Go to your phone dialer
2. Dial *#0011#
3. When you see the "ServiceMode" screen, press the left menu button
4. Select "WiFi"
5. See that "Wifi Power Save Mode" button that is "ON" - well turn it "OFF"
6. Exit this menu, turn off your Wifi and turn it back on. If you already entered all your wifi credentials, forget your network info (remove it) and re-enter it again.
--- End quote ---
Yeah I didn't know I had to do that at every startup (tried it before). I'll see if it makes a difference over the course of this week; I thought all it did was make it so the wifi at least wouldn't randomly stop working entirely. I did do a speed test with 2/4 bars and got this result: http://www.speedtest.net/android/259290827.png
I'm actually posting this from the S3. >_>
Freedom Kira:
I wonder if your wifi antenna connection is loose. I've seen it happen before, just not on the S3 in particular.
xShadow:
Dunno. After doing the power savings mode fix it's at least bearable. Just not ideal. The issue is that I notice it gets worse the more of my hands are covering it. As in, the wifi actually NOTICEABLY drops when I have my hands holding it in certain places (the more the worse). Right now, it's bearable, but what happens when I get an Otter Box case for it? Hard to tell, but it worries me. It's a seriously very noticeable drop in signal with my hands on it.
I'm at quite a quandary here because the apps and amazing screen have started to grow on me, but its problems are also annoying. Ugh. I would have to test it out with an Otter Box on and all this other shit before deciding... =_=;
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