i've heard this happening on various providers, where the battery drains on standby.

normally the cause of this is the phone trying to search for a signal. for example, if your phone can't get a steady signal, it will keep trying and trying and trying and trying- thus draining your battery.

 

Thats strange i have the garnet red as well, first week or so the battery was 5 hours at most. With each charge cycle my battery has gotten better. I can get 10-12 hours with use now.

 

Mine (Pebble Blue, (AT&T) Doesn't have this problem at all, actually mine typically lasts about 2 day's.. Unless heavy usage.. I would go back to AT&T and state the problem your having, Or buy another battery. If your still having problems after that I'm sure Samsungs Warranty covers something like this! Good luck!

 

i have the red one and haven't experienced anything like this.

i'm surprised they didn't offer to swap the phone for you. have you had it less than 30 days?

 

Silly ? but I will go ahead, I just brought my Gallaxy 3 after having my Iphone 4 and I could transfer my pics to my pc or ipad easy with the usb cable that came with it. I don't have one with my gallaxy 3, how do I transfer pic from phone to PC and does anyone know how to sent more than one pic at a time? Also do we always have to get 3 pics of the same pic each time we take a pic? Thanks for all your help, wondering if I should go back to Iphone! Help!

 

At the suggestion of others on this forum, I downloaded juice defender. It doesn't solve the problem, but it definitely slows down the drain on my battery. Still tweaking...

 

As a (relatively) new S3 user, going from HTC, there is one thing that bugs me about this phone.

Multitasking.

With HTC Sense (Desire HD), I could use the pull down tab and jump between applications back and forth. With the S3, it seems that pressing down the Home button brings up the taskbar on the right. It's OK, but it's not quite the same, or as quick to use.

Is the Home button my only option for multi-tasking? Say, between email, browser (my browser of choice is Maxthon), a game, etc?

 

Use the USB cable that came with the phone and plug into your PC. Mount it as a storage device and navigate to your photos folder. Copy and paste freely. Or if you want something more simplified, download kies, which is the Samsung sync utility. The 3 photos at one time is a camera setting that you may have turned on. Look in your camera for a single-shot mode to disable the 3 shots at once.