Why specs aren't everything...S 3 letdowns

[gme109]

I've been living with the S3 for not quite a week now,and there a few things that are a bit of a letdown. Number one, signal strength is not as good as my previous phone, an Epic 4G. Parts of town were I only had 1 to 2 bars of service with the Epic, now produce no service with the S3. Number two, screen brightness is not as bright as the Epic 4G. Definitely struggling more to view the screen is direct sunlight. Number three, transferring data to and from my Mac. Yeah there is AirDroid, and I can sometimes use Android file transfer, although its buggy as hell, but neither of these can accomplish all of the things I could do with Mass storage when using my Epic.

I'll need to decide before my 14 days are up, whether or not the S 3 is a keeper or not. Problem is, I already sold my Epic, and I'm not sure there are any other phones that Sprint offers that I want right now.

 

[WildH]

IPhone?

 

[Putty]

Go back to the Epic

 

[gme109]

Go back to the Epic

I sold it. And if I bought a new one, I'd have to be keep it for the duration of another 2 year contract. Don't want to live without all the cool new features of the most current smartphones.

 

[gme109]

IPhone?

I'm thinking about it.

 

[davoid]

You could try using this app that allows you to switch from MTP to Mass Storage mode:

[APP][v1.6 (+US)] SGS3 Easy UMS - Mount external microSD card as USB mass storage - xda-developers

You might need to be rooted though, but it works.

 

[Heisenberg123]

use Kies for transfering data to and from

when in Kies click on the phone in the left pane, than you will see a summary of you intenal and sd card, click the button beside what ever drive you want and it opens a "finder" window where you can rename folders move files all the things you would expect with a normal finder window