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SGS3 owners on Sprint, your JellyBean starts today

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DLeRium said:
Android is pretty boring unless you go all out and customize your screen. If you look at that homescreen thread on AT forums it's pretty butt ugly compared to the desktop threads on ATOT.

Anyway, who cares if WP is boring. Being buttery smooth is one of those basic things that Android should've gotten right from day 1. It shouldn't take 5 years. And I don't see butter as a full solution. It's an interim solution. The root cause of lagfest is the lack of GPU acceleration.
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seriously bro Im getting sick of reading your hate and BULLSHIT towards android,can you just stop posting about it and move on with your life.

5 years to get smooth?serioulsy you are nothing more then troll baiting,Im pretty sure that every cell from gingerbread on was smooth to the point where people had no issues with it and I clearly remember my droid x on miui ginger running smooth and fast on that old junker of a cell.

next your going to say blah blah android needs major powerhouse cpus to feel smooth blah blah,whatever android is not optimised we know.Guess what? ICS is buttery smooth on most devices and jellybean just adds some more kick to it and if you think android is boring honeslty what is ios?they have had the same home screen for 5 years,at least on android we can change it.GS2 runs smooth right out the box and is not 5 years old now is it,I mean you say you even have a gs2(I kinda dont believe it)since you post so much hate towards it but hey I guess that cell for its time was a slow pos.I also dont believe your gf has a gs3,its like you say that just to add comfort to your bashing towards samsung and android.While were at it post a pics of both phones with this thread loaded up on them.

seriously why you mad bro,what did android ever do to you?

posted from my unsmooth gs3 with boring homescreen running ICS

rant over!
 
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MrX8503 said:
If iOS has cracks, Android has canyons. If its not on JB, then Android users are missing out on the benefits of project butter.
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But thats not the argument. The argument is that Windows Phone 7 and iOS are buttery smooth 100% of the time, when it is clearly not the case.
 
Nope nope nope, not today. Well, the information says it was released today, but I haven't talked to a single person with a Sprint SGS3 who has been able to download or receive the update today.

Simply put, it didn't happen.
 
NikolaeVarius said:
He has no idea what he is talking about. His talking points were debunked months ago
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Directly by Google's engineers, no less. Android has had GPU acceleration since before the 1.0 release, and full GPU acceleration since HoneyComb. Several posters bring it up in every Android related thread, then get smacked down until the next thread.


But, back on topic, do we have any Sprint SGS3 owners that have updated yet?
 
Haven't seen anything on mine. I check with the firmware update in settings and get nothing, and Kies basically wouldn't even work with my phone. GJ Samsung.
 
leper84 said:
Haven't seen anything on mine. I check with the firmware update in settings and get nothing, and Kies basically wouldn't even work with my phone. GJ Samsung.
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I'm under the impression that this is an OTA, and the usual staggered rollout. So, it may take a day or two to get it. Haven't heard anything about it being a WiFi only update at the start, but connecting to a WiFi network could be worth an attempt.
 
NikolaeVarius said:
But thats not the argument. The argument is that Windows Phone 7 and iOS are buttery smooth 100% of the time, when it is clearly not the case.
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If its not minority report or iron man UI, then it's not smooth 100% of the time. Saying iOS/WP7 isn't 100% smooth is a poor excuse for Android.
 
MrX8503 said:
If its not minority report or iron man UI, then it's not smooth 100% of the time. Saying iOS/WP7 isn't 100% smooth is a poor excuse for Android.
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Android has nothing to do with it. The claim is that "iOS and Wp7 have been buttery smooth since day one"

This is not true.
 
New code name: Android 1.0 Molasses
There's no official name anyway and I don't think anyone wants to argue about how iOS was smoother than Android in 2008.
 
Zink said:
I don't think anyone wants to argue about how iOS was smoother than Android in 2008.
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You'd be surprised. It's certainly easier for Apple advocates than discussing how it's been rehashing itself (and bits of Android) ever since.
 
Mine is giving me an error when I check for a firmware update saying "update could not be downloaded, try again later". This morning when the story first hit the news I just got "no update is available" .
 
leper84 said:
Haven't seen anything on mine. I check with the firmware update in settings and get nothing, and Kies basically wouldn't even work with my phone. GJ Samsung.
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A little off topic sorry, but I know when I updated my Samsung blaze that I had some issues with kies also. I ended up having to odin back to a earlier radio like the stock one before Kies would put ICS on my blaze.
 
Good to hear Sprint is getting their act together with updates. They had a horrible time with some of the earlier phones. That being said, even though Verizon isn't supposed to get the update till early next year, I think I can wait. The phone is working so well right now, that it doesn't bother me. If ICS was crappy, I would be more impatient.
 
lothar said:
Because it shows that Samsung isn't dog slow in providing Android updates like you claimed that they were in your previous musings.
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I have a GS3......on Verizon, no jellybean yet. : D

I did just root my Galaxy S Fascinate with Jellybean and it seems ok. Hard to tell if it's better due to spec difference between GS3/GS
 
Vdubchaos said:
I have a GS3......on Verizon, no jellybean yet. : D

I did just root my Galaxy S Fascinate with Jellybean and it seems ok. Hard to tell if it's better due to spec difference between GS3/GS
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Which phone on Verizon already has Jellybean besides the Galaxy Nexus?
Which HTC, Motorola, or LG phones on Verizon has Jellybean?

The International GS3 phones already had Jellybean for a while now. Don't blame Samsung for slow updates that are caused by Verizon.

Oh, and did I already mention that the Sprint version of the GS3 already has Jellybean? It's the same exact phone as what's on Verizon with different radio frequencies.
Blame Verizon for your delay, not Samsung. Sprint didn't have a problem releasing Jellybean on their GS3...
 
lothar said:
Which phone on Verizon already has Jellybean besides the Galaxy Nexus?
Which HTC, Motorola, or LG phones on Verizon has Jellybean?

The International GS3 phones already had Jellybean for a while now. Don't blame Samsung for slow updates that are caused by Verizon.

Oh, and did I already mention that the Sprint version of the GS3 already has Jellybean? It's the same exact phone as what's on Verizon with different radio frequencies.
Blame Verizon for your delay, not Samsung. Sprint didn't have a problem releasing Jellybean on their GS3...
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the international is not the same exact phone,its a completely differen phone with one being a quad core a9 and the other being a dual core a15 based cpu,also both devices having differnet gpus and differnent modems.so samsung would of had to make a whole different jelly bean for its a15 soc

basically they are 2 different cells with the same shell

verizon will have to install its boatware to jelly and when there done they will push it out.
 
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grkM3 said:
its not the same exact phone,its a completely differen phone with one being a quad core a9 and the other being a dual core a15 based cpu,also both devices having differnet gpus and differnent modems.

basically they are 2 different cells with the same shell
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The Sprint and Verizon phones are exactly the same hardware like I claimed in my post.
What the heck are you on about?

Can you prove that the Sprint uses a different SoC from the Verizon version?
If so, then by all means prove it.
 
Why does every thread devolve into a Android vs iOS vs WP(lol) war.

I for one am happy for our Android brethren. Enjoy the update guys.
 
grkM3 said:
the international is not the same exact phone,its a completely differen phone with one being a quad core a9 and the other being a dual core a15 based cpu,also both devices having differnet gpus and differnent modems.so samsung would of had to make a whole different jelly bean for its a15 soc

basically they are 2 different cells with the same shell

verizon will have to install its boatware to jelly and when there done they will push it out.
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He didn't say that the international and verizon Galaxy S3 were the same, he was comparing Sprint's and Verizon's.

Also, the North American Galaxy S3 uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon "Krait" S4 dual core CPU, not an ARM A15. There are no phones using A15 as of yet.
 
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