Questions tagged [samsung-galaxy-s-3]
Use this tag if your issue is truly specific to the Samsung Galaxy S III (GT-i9300) device.
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Galaxy S3 insufficient space
I've got a couple GBs worthof space and my internal and external SD storage are about at 25% full each. No matter where I try to download apps to, it says I've got insufficient space.
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people can't call my s3 after I have already unblocked them
I enabled blocking mode & blocked 1 contact. After that the person can't still contact me eventhrough I have unblocked that contact already. How to fix this problem?
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my phone will not turn on all the way, shuts off and turns on repetitively
My phone was not syncing to Google, I read somewhere to delete a file called 'etc' in my system files. I restarted my phone and found it to never turn on. It will vibrate show Samsung and then shut ...
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My Samsung Galaxy S3 Is Hard Bricked
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Flashed from MOAR to Stock SGS3 ROM
I flashed a ROM and I wanted to get back into recovery mode to flash a zip file using ROM TOOL BOX and when I did that it never turned on ...
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Samsung galaxy 3S, battery is good, phone won't charge or power up
I have a samsung galaxy 3S, about a week ago it rebooted itself, since then it will won't charge or turn back on, I have tested the battery to see if it was that, the battery works perfect, I have ...
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My Samsung Galaxy S3 keeps on restarting every time
Why does my Samsung Galaxy S3 phone keep on restarting every time. It's getting worse. Now even without touching the power button it starts by itself. What might cause this and how do I resolve it?
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ServiceProvider eating my battery after SIM unlocking
I had my Samsung Galaxy S3 SIM unlocked last week. It runs a rooted Android 4.1.2. Since then, I've noticed that ServiceProvider is consuming much more battery that I have ever noticed before. Can SIM-...
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Galaxy SIII SCH-I535, Android 4.4.2 - High Battery Drain
I am not quite sure where else to turn with this issue. It's been happening for about a week now. When looking at the stock battery section in Settings, I see that "Android System" is always using 35%+...
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Fake homescreen loading every 60 seconds on an S3! How to stop it?
It started two days ago when my S3 on 4.1 would make noises and then a fake "homescreen" (which has functioning shorcuts! <--- how is that possible?) would popup every 60 seconds and sometimes ...
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sd card installation in s7582 [duplicate]
I am having a problem with my sd card installation. After inserting sd card in my phone, still its showing "insert sd card". Can anyone help me out with this problem?
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No operating system/no anything!
I have a Samsung Galaxy s3 SGH-I747, I had rooted the phone and had success and tried different ROM's before deciding one I wanted to go back with and stick with. I had booted my phone into recovery ...
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Video and game lags after rooting S3
I recently rooted my phone, and am now using Paranoid and I love it. However, whenever I play videos and games it lags really noticeably. This never happened before I rooted my phone. I'm using ...
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Customer claims our app trashed her phone [closed]
I'm in receipt of a complaint that the android mobile app my company provides has trashed a customer's android phone to the extent that it is now only capable of making phone calls. No sms. No ...
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How can I check whether my phone is network locked (Samsung GALAXY S3)?
I have a Samsung GALAXY S3 with a rooted Android 4.1.2. My network provider is AT&T.
I tried dialing *#7465625# but it doesn't work:
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Permanently disabling Galaxy S3's calling and SMS [duplicate]
I've procured myself a Galaxy S3 and I intend to mess with it.
I'd like to have a phone that runs one app and one app only (mine).
I want to disable calling, texting, app installs. Come to think of ...
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YouTube videos all choppy
Has anyone seen this behavior when playing videos in the YouTube app?
I've tried clearing both the cache and data for the app, but it did not help.
Note in the screenshot how the video is all choppy ...
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How to disable Android Wear's "Listening via TCP" notification?
I don't have an Android Wear, but I always get a notification from the Google Play Services app with this content:
Android Wear
Listening via TCP on 127.0.0.1:5601
I want to disable this ...
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How to check logs with no adb on KitKat after a reboot crash?
Navigating the site I see reboot questions are common, and there are two main suggestions for log viewing: (1) adb, which requries a computer nearby, and (2) aLogrec, which seems to not be working for ...
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Cannot change lockscreen shortcuts on Samsung Galaxy S III, Android 4.3 JellyBean
I have Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III running on Android 4.3 JellyBean. I am unable to find a way to change the shortcuts on the lock screen.
Here is the available settings:
I tried all the settings, but ...
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No storage on my samsung s3 mini
Why is my samsung s3 mini saying that I have no storage when I clearly have aload of space from deleting data; pictures, apps and music files?
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How to chat from my S3 to my PC?
I want to chat in realtime with my family who uses my Windows 7 desktop with their own profile account. Problem is they don't want to sign-up for anything on their end. Now is there a such an app I ...
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USB Connection Not Working After Recent AT&T Update on Galaxy S3
I found I failed to transfer pics in galaxy to my computer using USB connection after my recent AT&T update. I chose settings->network->more network. And there is an option to tethering via USB ...
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Root Samsung Galaxy S3 with broken USB port
I recently purchased a Sprint Galaxy s3 on ebay with a broken charge port, and have revived it with a wireless charging reciever and charger. I want to root it but there is no way to connect it to my ...
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Unchecking the "show notifications" for the Phone app
My carrier keeps sending the voicemail notification to my device. I can force-stop the phone app (makes the notifications go away), but EVERY SINGLE TIME the device reboots or do something phone-...
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How to know if there is any way to access data from a stolen Galaxy S3, or Android phone in general, via automatic backup or any other way
I apologize in advance for my ignorance. My Verizon Galaxy S3 went missing at a party. I am hoping that at least some of the data (documents, media, contacts, texts, phone calls...) was backed up ...
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GPS functionality degradation on Galaxy SIII
I recently moved from a relatively flat area to an area near the mountains. I used to have good reception for my GPS when I would run using the RunKeeper app. Now I only get reception for about half ...
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My galaxy s3 keeps re-booting after install a recent AT&T update
So it happened with a push notification from AT&T indicating an update that needs to install. After finishing installation, my mobile phone re-start and prompts me with "encryption password" since ...
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Contacts phone numbers disappeared after sync to google
After synchronising with Google, all contacts that have phone numbers associated with them disappeared.
I tried to enter a new contact just to test this. If I sync again the new entry disappears as ...
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WhatsApp keyboard smiley bug
I type with keyboard and after typing I want to add a smiley.
Then it looks like this:
bit annoying and only since some days
any idea to fix this?
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also: menu key on i9300 shows menu up the ...
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Replacing stock dialer app
I've a rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 device, and I don't like the stock dialer app; can I replace (i.e. remove it totally) it with another dailer without breaking the phone functionality?
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Filesystem format used for SD Card by Galaxy S3
When I remove the SD Card that was formatted by my Galaxy S3 from it and put it in a MacBook, fdisk shows its sole partition as having partition ID 0C, indicating that it is a Fat32 LBA partition. ...
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How do I restore the microphone button on my Galaxy keyboard
The little microphone icon disappeared from my Galaxy 3 keyboard a couple of weeks ago, and the mic icon does not appear as an option when you hold that button on the keyboard. All of the other ...
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Which Samsung smartphone models support LTE and are not susceptible to "sudden death syndrome"?
Does anyone know which Samsung smartphone models support LTE and are not susceptible to "sudden death syndrome"? Thank you.
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Screen Mirroring with Chromecast
I have two devices - a Samsung Galaxy S3 and a Nexus 7 (2012 version) - that I'm trying to mirror to a Chromecast. It looks like neither device supports screen mirroring on Chromecast with the default ...
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How ever does one log off the Kik app on an S3?
I downloaded an app called Kik off the Play store and I can't seem to find a way to log out of it so it doesn't drain my battery since it uses push notifications. Any tips? So odd that unless you ...
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Samsung Galaxy S3 (i9300) "no network" issue
I bought my phone from a friend and I am the second user. It was rooted and was in modified status (when I checked About->device->status) but working fine and had zero issues. So yesterday I wanted to ...
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"Unknown address" when receiving text message on Samsung Galaxy S3
I have Samsung Galaxy S3 and whenever I get a text message from my friend, my phone says "Unknown address" although I've already saved the number. All their messages are kept under "Unknown address", ...
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How can I search my Favourites in Chrome and stock on my S3?
I have thousands of favourites in my stock browser and chrome and every time I'm looking for a specific link I have to scroll through a lot. If I start typing in a word in the URL box in either ...
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Samsung Galaxy S3 update installs strange applications
Today I updated the software to latest version. It took around 148MB to update and when finished, I started getting 4 new apps:
mytaxi
kaufDA
pizza.de
BILD
Wondering why these apps were installed, ...
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Where does Amazon Music store files?
I have recently installed Amazon Music, I am a Prime customer. Music from my cloud has downloaded to my device (Galaxy S3) but I want to move it to my SD card. I cannot find the music files anywhere ...
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Samsung Galaxy S3 doesn't show SMS notification
I need help with a problem in a Samsung Galaxy S3 with Android 4.3.
I can't receive SMS notification when a SMS is sent to my mobile phone.
Every time I have to open the application to check if ...
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How can I disable the low-battery sound in Cyanogenmod?
I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 running Cyanogenmod 11 (20140804-SNAPSHOT-M9-i9300). When the battery hits ~15% or 5%, an alert appears with a warning sound. How can I disable this warning sound (...
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s3 stuck at booting screen
I bought a Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300 about a month back from eBay. It was working fine till the last Tuesday, but after that my phone started rebooting by itself. My Galaxy S3 is powered by Android 4.0....
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Why does Battery Doctor say my battery is 50% charged while Android says 23%?
Battery Doctor says my battery is 50% charged while Android says 23%:
Is there any reason why? I use a 4200mah Extended Battery on Samsung Galaxy SIII with Android 4.1.2.
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Samsung Galaxy S III i9300 Boot Loop, No Recovery, after Cyanogenmod Installer
Some threads with similar issues are already around, but I didn't find one with the same problem as me.
What I was doing when the issue happened:
I was trying to install cyanogenmod from the ...
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Galaxy s3 backup contacts google play [duplicate]
How can I get my contacts backs from my galaxy s3 when the LCD doesn't work and the screen is pitch black ?
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What made the first Command fail?
I decided to clear my data usage stats on my Android in Settings > Data Usage from the terminal emulator app, but the first command came back with the error "No such file or directory".
The first ...
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Allow USB debug pop-up not showing while installing CyanogenMod on Galaxy S3 i9300
I'm trying to install CyanogenMod on my Samsung Galaxy S3 (i9300, international). Had no problems, until I had to switch to the pc installer.
I'm stuck on the screenshot underneath:
I have enabled ...
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Boot a bricked s3 i535 for photo recovery
I know I need an sdcard formatted a certain way with a factory image and it will go into a safe mode; question is, does anyone know where I can find instructions or can instruct me what file and how ...
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Is it possible to modify the firmware used when the device is turned off?
On (at least) some Samsung devices there is some piece of software that runs when the device is turned off. It is the one that displays the battery state when charging, along with the red/green ...
