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    Help SIM Card not recognised

    My S3 is no longer recognising any SIM cards. I got a new phone that needed a Nano SIM so got an adaptor for the S3. It was fine when I first used it (had to use the nano with the S3 for a week whilst waited for new phone to arrive.) I then left the adaptor in the S3 (seemed like safest place...
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    Help OS Services - how much wifi data in a day?

    Just got my phone back from being repaired and the battery performance seems a bit worse. After various experiments the only thing that really stands out as concerning is the amount of Wifi data OS Services uses in a day. Also it seems that it is nearly constantly downloading small amounts of...
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    Help What is constantly using my wifi?

    Just got my phone back from Samsung after they repaired it due to the Sudden death bug. As expected it was completely wiped and updated to 4.1.2. However now the wifi seems to be downloading regularly when I'm at home. I think I remember it doing this before, back when I first got it, and...
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    Sudden death happening to S3's

    Has anyone else's S3 suddenly died on them? Mine was working fine until about 2pm today when I attempted to wake it up and got nothing. Tried battery pulling, restarting etc and I get nothing. The LED doesn't even come on when it's put on charge. Turns out it's not just a random thing, it's...
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    No Jellybean update

    Just read the below page. Lists a load of Samsung devices getting JB. The 10.1 wasn't included and given that various other tabs are (including the Tab 2 10.1) it seems like it's been quite deliberately excluded. It was probably always a long shot, and at least we got ICS which runs very...
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    Galaxy 10.1 compared to Nexus 7

    Anyone else bought a Nexus 7 to compliment their Galaxy 10.1? The Nexus is really nice and Jelly bean is incredible - such a big improvement over honeycomb (and ICS come to that.). I'll still be using my 10.1 tab at home when browsing or watching Netflix as the screen, as well as being...
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    Launcher reload after Browser usage?

    Anyone else getting this on their SGS3? I'm using Go Launcher EX as IMO the Touchwiz launcher is a bit pants. Now it works flawlessly pretty much all the time. It's just there is this one small thing that's bugging me just a little. Anytime I use a Browser (I was using the inbuilt one for...
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    Using GoLauncher EX on SGS3

    Anyone else using GoLauncher instead of Touchwiz? I put it on almost straight away. I could live with Touchwiz on my Galaxy tablet but it seemed a bit annoying on the SGS3. Just lots of little things like lack of flexibility with screen size, no options for homescreen animation effects, no...
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    Help Best place to order SIM-Free in UK?

    Planning on getting an SGS3, but I've sorted a decent deal with Vodafone for a 12month SIM Free contract, so I just need to sort out getting the phone now. I'm guessing everywhere is going to
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    Best budget Tablet for school use?

    Just after some recommendations for a sub-
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    Convince me to purchase a 10.1 tab

    I've not had a tab yet, but have started to think it might be nice to take the plunge. I'm not interested in getting a budget tab, having tried a few in some shops, but after I saw the Galaxy tab 10.1 was available at
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    Go Launcher EX - doesn't work well on the Desire?

    Just after some opinions here. I've been a big LauncherPro fan for a long time, but though i'd try some other launchers out to see what they offer. I was quite impressed by Go Launcher EX, except that it's not really that stable at all on my Desire. Regularly when returned from a app to...
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    Factory Resetting - Best approach?

    I've caused my Desire to kind of 'break' with the apps2SD trick on 2.2 resulting in it not updating apps stored on the SD card, or downloading and installing new ones to it. Looks like the only way to fix it is a factory reset. My plan is just to pretty much wipe everything on my memory...
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    Help Broken Default install to SD tweak - can't install apps!

    Hoping someone can help me here. I did the trick to set the default installation setting to the SD card, enabling me to move a load of apps. It worked perfectly for ages however a load of apps were updating and got stuck and I had to turn the phone off. From that point on it wouldn't...
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    Help Lag on widgets

    Just wondering if anyone else is experienced this, and if so if they know of a fix. Basically my widgets need you to be on a homescreen for a sec or 2 before they'll visibly respond to interaction. It's most obvious with powerstrip type controls (i'm using SwitchPro). If you press the...
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    Help Upgraded to 2.2 - wi-fi not working properly

    Disclaimer: I've started a new thread as I felt this was distinct enough from 2.2 feedback and different from a similar thread. I upgraded to 2.2 today, did it over my mobile H connection and it all worked fine, no problems to report. Got home and turned the wi-fi on and while it will see...
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    Best way to 'reset' Contacts?

    I'm thinking of resetting (e.g. wiping and starting again) my contacts list, as although it's working I think something may be a little wrong with it as it seems bigger than it needs to be. My current plan is to remove the facebook account, which I guess will take all the facebook contact...
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    Contacts using lots of space

    Like many of you I'm having space issues. Recently as well as being low it seems to just be going down on its own without any apps being added. It seems like its something to do with my contacts, which is using 10 mb of space. I deleted the data from a htc app, but that turned out to be...
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    Phone Storage - remaining space going up & down for no clear reason!

    Like a lot of you, I imagine, i'm right close to the allocated space limit for the internal phone storage. With Froyo still (probably) a way off this still remains an issue. I was wondering though how people handle being so close to the limit. My problems seem to come when I update my apps...
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    App sizes - much greater in Manage Applications than should be

    I've got a strange problem here with the size of applications. Basically when I go into the standard settings->manage applications tool the sizes it's reporting are far greater than the app says it is. For example I downloaded Snesoid, which in the market says it's ~860kb. Once installed the...
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    Help SMS group msg problem - delivery error despite sending

    I'm using Handcent, but I get the same thing if I use the inbuilt messages app. Basically I select a group to send an SMS to and when I send the message it comes back that the multiple messages haven't been sent, but they actually have. First time it happened I kept trying to re-send, got the...
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    Data cables - how to identify fast charging ones?

    Hopefully i'm not asking anything obvious here. Basically I worked out that my HTC cable which came with my handset charges a lot quicker than the ebay ones I bought. I did some testing and initially I thought the spare 1000mA adaptor I bought was at fault. I only got about 6% charge per...
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    Can't change SMS notification tone

    Got a strange problem here. I set a tone when I first got the phone (created the media/notifications folder, put my mp3 in, selected it in the menu.) Well I added some more yesterday, went in a changed it to one of those, but it still played my old tone. So I tried deleting the old tone and...
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    Opinions on draining the battery?

    Just wanted to get a feel for what the consensus view in this area is, as i'm slightly torn. On one hand i've read online (here I think, and elsewhere) that fully draining the battery regularly is bad for it and will damage its cells. (I'm not sure what regularly means, daily/weekly/monthly?)...
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    Charging & Battery questions

    Sorry for another thread on this, but i've got a number of particular questions, and having read all the threads I can find, there's still a couple of things i'm not 100% on. 1. Would any micro USB 1A charger be safe to use with the phone? It's just I'd like to have a spare charger to take...