Samsung Galaxy S3 carrier signal bouncing up & down.

Nine_Lives

I say give thegoodman a chance there. I have a suspicion as to why he went 'missing', or perhaps enforced absence, who knows.
He's come back & had the opportunity to give 2 bias laden posts & hasn't taken it - his posts there seem perfectly fine to me.




Anyway, not on your life would i ever try a windows phone. Those stupid boxes all over the place. I hate those damn things. I also wont be buying Windows 8 - looks absolutely horrendous. You'd have to pay me to use that stuff.

I don't get what's going on with the app scene - as the reviews are panning Shazam on the Galaxy S3, but the wife has just downloaded it & it works fine.
Interestingly, the free one says "unlimited tagging" - i thought this is what made the "Encore" version different?! So i don't know what the difference is between the two.

Rusty!

Those 'boxes' (live tiles) on Windows Phone are brilliant to be fair.

Nine_Lives

Rusty! wrote: »

Those 'boxes' (live tiles) on Windows Phone are brilliant to be fair.

They're actually not. They look awful. The layout is awful.

Nine_Lives

Here's a question regarding signal issues....

With the iPhone, you can toggle between 2G & 3G. If i'm right then with the S3 you 'can't' - it just auto-selects the best signal available.
With the iPhone, if you have 3G on & you're in a non-3G network then it is supposed to pick up 2G, correct?

Well here's my problem...

At home we really struggle with an o2 signal, yet if i put my iPhone in the corner of the window i actually get 3 bars, but note: I'm not in a 3G area at home.
If i have 3G turned on & put the phone in the corner of the window, i still get NO signal, yet if i toggle 3G off, a signal appears.

As you can't toggle anything on the S3, could this stop a signal coming through the way i've just described? If it's as though 3G is auto-enabled, then could it be similar to what i've just described experiencing with the iPhone?

jem16

K_P83 wrote: »

With the iPhone, you can toggle between 2G & 3G. If i'm right then with the S3 you 'can't' - it just auto-selects the best signal available.

You can toggle 3G/2G with the S3 too.

Use Menu - Settings - More Settings - Mobile Networks - Network mode.

GSM only is 2G.

Nine_Lives

Thanks jem.

We'll have a play with that to see if it improves the signal. By signal i don't mean bars, i mean performance.