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    Galaxy S4 AT&T wont update to 4.4.4

    Hello I am searching for some help here. Samsung could not help me very well. My wife and I both bought the s4 at the same time and for some reason hers seems to hate updates. Mine has had 2 since we got them in April and hers will not let her update. I just got the 4.4.4 update but hers won't...
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    camera voice control.

    This is probably something very simple but I've noticed that the option to take pictures by saying "shoot" or whatever is gone. I used this on occasion and liked it but now I see it isn't there anymore. There used to be a microphone on the screen to indicate it was active. I don't even see the...
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    Would you ditch Samsung for somebody else?

    I will have an opportunity to upgrade soon from my S3 and am wondering what other people would do. I'm thinking in February and I don't know what will be out then but has Samsung turned anybody off yet? I was thinking Motorola and actually I was at my brothers house and a brand new blackberry...
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    [Verizon] Garbage phone on 3G

    As you can tell I am on Verizon, I've had the S3 since it came out. The phone has overall been a very good device. Not a good phone, but a good device. Lived up to the hype? No. And as far as I'm concerned I will never even pay attention to hype for phones anymore. A phone is a phone. Or should...
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    Does anybody know when we'll start getting S4 functions?

    I'm on Verizon US so my guess is I'll be last but the news I heard a long time ago was that the update would be ready by July...so far I have seen nothing. Has anybody heard anything? I think it would be 4.2.2
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    No sound after latest Verizon update

    I'm not sure if it was mentioned or if anybody else is experiencing this problem. After the Verizon update to improve the bad reception I have noticed that my phone will often cut all sound. No sounds are played until the phone is restarted and sometimes even when the phone is restarting the...
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    Help can't get rid of app text anymore?

    I remember playing with my phone one day and I was able to get rid of the text under the app icons on the home screens. Now I can't remember where that option is on the phone. This was months ago and I have no idea how I found it before. Can anybody help me?
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    Help Terrible performance 3G on Verizon network

    I'm wondering if anybody else has this problem and if there is any kind of fix for it. I have heard so many times that people did not want to use 4G because it kills their battery. Well mine is the exact opposite. My phone is awesome on 4G and keeps it's battery life very well. However, on 3G...
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    Did anybody download the new Google keyboard?

    I have been busy all day and just now saw it was available. I hated the galaxy keyboard, hated swift key, and all the other downloadable keyboards. I downloaded the Google one which is free by the way and I have to say it has saved my S3. I absolutely hated texting after the S3 had to ditch auto...
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    Google now/location major battery drain

    When I updated to jellybean I started using google now and I kind of liked it but honestly I never really liked having location services on. It might sound dumb but I hate the icon that shows up when location services is on and that's surprisingly one of the reasons. And also I just don't need...
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    Battery percentage issue

    My battery was at 32% but I noticed that something wasn't working on my phone so I turned it off and did a battery pull and restarted the phone. As soon as I turned it back on the battery read 22%. That's messed up. Anybody see this before? Is something wrong with my phone?
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    Really ticked off at my S3 today

    Ok so my S3 has been completely stupid today. First of all, I opened the music player for the first time today and just noticed that my playlists are all gone. Sucks. Second, My battery has been off the charger since 9 am and it is now 6:30 pm. I've been having an awesome day battery-wise and I...
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    Do you think the S4 will get overlooked compared to the S3?

    I posted this here because I am wondering how S3 owners feels about it. I keep seeing in the news about March 14th and unveiling the S4...and I just keeping thinking about how I could care less about the S4. They hyped up the S3 so much and it turned out to be a cool phone and all but it's still...
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    Keyboard changed on it's own...

    I woke up this morning and started replying to a message that I got overnight and realized that for no reason at all my keyboard had changed itself to the swype keyboard that's built it to the S3. Has anybody had this happen before? I'm on Verizon and usually I use a keyboard from the play store...
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    I have a question that may be stupid but I'm curious...

    Is there really any reason to have "sync" turned on? I turned it off and the only thing it seemed to do was stop my gmail from automatically updating, which I'm fine with. Everything else seems just as normal as usual. But is there some reason I would want to have sync turned on that I don't...
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    Do you know about the hidden jelly bean swiping game?

    Ha this is so dumb but it's cool to find little things like this. If you go to settings and about phone and then find your android version...mine is 4.1.1. Click on the version multiple times very quickly and it will bring up a picture of a jelly bean. Then click on that picture of the jelly...
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    Strange but ended up working for me (battery related)

    I've been having some pretty dismal battery issues since updating to jellybean and I thought for awhile that it was just google now...which maybe some of it was. On ics I never used location services at all but since the update I figured I would try them with google now. It turns out that I was...
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    Does anybody know of a good free app to simply password protect apps?

    I would like to password protect apps like my email and gallery. Is there anything good out there? I downloaded two that just seemed way too complicated for what I wanted it to do. I just want to be able to put in a 4 digit pin for when I open those apps. Anything available?
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    Help What does encryption do on S3?

    I see this option under security and I have no idea what it does. It says it takes about an hour to do but what does it actually do? Does anybody use it? Should I? Or is it just a waste of time?
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    General question about the jelly bean update

    Obviously most of us who have S3's are experiencing quicker battery drain. I was wondering if anybody has heard about any other phones that have been updated to jelly bean from ics. Has anybody heard if the motorolas or htc phones have been experiencing the same problem? Is it possible that it...
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    Know of a better battery without having to get a different back cover?

    I'm having some trouble with my battery mainly at work. My phone doesn't get great service at work and it's constantly searching for signal and draining my battery. I have to turn on airplane mode way too much just to save battery. Unfortunately I need to have my phone on for obvious reasons and...
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    Battery drop in low coverage areas.

    I have a question with the battery. I went to see Django Unchained last night and I wanted to see how much my battery would drop in the movie theater. Now I realize that the movie theater doesn't have great reception and it would bounce from 3G to 1X on Verizon. I saw the movie which was 3...
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    Quick question, probably an easy answer

    What is the "sync" button when you pull down the notification bar? Do I need to have that clicked on at all? I have no idea what it is even "syncing"
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    Does Swiftkey have swype style typing?

    I like the new S3 jellybean keyboard a lot and the swyping on it is great but they forgot to add auto correct! I can't believe it. How could they leave out auto correct? I'm typing words and missing them by a letter and it doesn't even correct it. So I see swiftkey 3 is $1.99. I tried the free...
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    Pretty upset; proof Verizon only cares about Motorola?

    Just saw the article saying that the razr hd phones are now getting jelly bean...and they came out how many months after S3??? This kind of makes me sick to my stomach. We have T-Mobile and Sprint who have been updated for quite awhile and after playing with a Sprint S3 with bean I was pretty...