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    After 4.3 update, battery draining + camera flash going off

    Just got the 4.3 update on my Sprint S3, and there are two things. One, the battery seems to be draining a fair bit more quickly than before. Two, the flash on the camer seems to be going off periodically, when the phone is sitting on a table, screen down. Has anyone else seen these? Thanks!
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    Widget Whoops! with Daylight Saving Time

    I don't remember what this widget is called, but I just noticed something funny:
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    Car charger for the S3?

    I have a car charger for my old phone, the LG Optimus S, that doesn't really work very well with my S3. It bounces back and forth between charging and not. What is a good car charger, that plugs into the "accessory port", or whatever the former cigarette lighter port is called? Thanks!
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    Looks like Samsung updated Kies for the Mac

    I had a (broken) install of Kies on my Mac on Mountain Lion, you know, where it just sits at "connecting" to the phone, and just for the heck of it, I decided to launch it this evening. It presented me with a Kies update, which I downloaded and installed, and after re-booting the computer, I...
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    Help Spontaneous reboot?

    Has anyone had a problem with the Optimus S spontaneously rebooting? Today, I was in my car, with the Waze app running, and the phone spontaneously rebooting. After I got to my destination, I looked at the phone and the Waze app, and a couple of others, had disappeared from the phone. My...
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    Help Picture (MMS) messages won't download

    I have a problem with MMS picture messages, where I can't download the picture, I get the message "Message Expired or Not Available", followed by "Download of message New Message from <person> was unsuccessful". I have no idea what started this, does anyone have a suggestion how to fix it? I...
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    Help 2.3.3 update, phone will not turn off

    Has anyone else seen this? Since the 2.3.3 update was installed on my phone, it will not stay turned off. I have tried, multiple times, to turn the phone off. It turns off, then, about 5-10 seconds later, turns itself on again.
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    Help Contacts being merged?

    Hi all, I have contacts in my address book on my Mac, which get synched with my gmail contacts, and then to my phone. For some reason, the phone appears to be combining the information of two friends of mine who happen to live at the same address. No matter what I do, delete them from the...
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    Say Hi

    Hi! I just got the LG Optimus S phone, and am keen to learn more from you all!