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Galaxy S3 Watering Hole

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XplosiV said:
I can see why onscreen buttons are useful and all, (thanks to my recent education from the gnex hole) and I totally see that you can have a line of 5-7 buttons and its a customisable size etc, and how it can slim down the overall size of the phone because theres no need for physical buttons n all, but personally, i just dont see the point in wasting the screen real estate with on screen buttons when you don't evan really need them. At least there's user choice and preference n all. I'd rather have a button and not use it, than not have it and need it.
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For fun I set mine up like the GS3/Note 2.
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For the record, this is all good natured ribbing. GS3/Note 2 is really a fantastic device. :)
 
XplosiV said:
Speaking of sports n all, when does Tiny T(reb) start football again?
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August. She currently is going to a soccer camp every Saturday morning to work on her overall game, & we work on goalie stuff here at the house at least once a week.
 
treb1797 said:
August. She currently is going to a soccer camp every Saturday morning to work on her overall game, & we work on goalie stuff her at the house at least once a week.
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Can wait for my little one to start tball! He's two and has an accurate arm. Little treb must have a lot of fun. I was a goalie in soccer (read: international football) and hockey.
 
XplosiV said:
I can see why onscreen buttons are useful and all, (thanks to my recent education from the gnex hole) and I totally see that you can have a line of 5-7 buttons and its a customisable size etc, and how it can slim down the overall size of the phone because theres no need for physical buttons n all, but personally, i just dont see the point in wasting the screen real estate with on screen buttons when you don't evan really need them. At least there's user choice and preference n all. I'd rather have a button and not use it, than not have it and need it.
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To be fair, some roms let you completely r enable/disable the nav bar on the fly so that you can use the entire screen. It's pretty neat. :cool:
 
jmartino5920 said:
For fun I set mine up like the GS3.
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For the record, this is all good natured ribbing. GS3 is really a fantastic device. :)
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Hmmmyeahhnahh sorry man, I'll stick with my physical button.

The other thing is, I like knowing I have physical buttons for booting into different modes etc. All you need is 2-3 and you can easily combo for whatevers there, but if there was such a device with no physical buttons and it simply went into deep sleep then woke with a touch, your relying on touch tech and all its components to be working properly to be able to achieve the simplest of things. It's a bit like sky net - I'd much rather keep a human in the loop.
 
jmartino5920 said:
Can wait for my little one to start tball! He's two and has an accurate arm. Little treb must have a lot of fun. I was a goalie in soccer (read: international football) and hockey.
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It's alot of fun. Just be patient & as a parent don't take it too serious. I can't stand parents who are just too over the top & take the fun out of the game for the kids.

/rant :p

Maybe he'll pitch for the Giants one day ;)
 
XplosiV said:
Hmmmyeahhnahh sorry man, I'll stick with my physical button.

The other thing is, I like knowing I have physical buttons for booting into different modes etc. All you need is 2-3 and you can easily combo for whatevers there, but if there was such a device with no physical buttons and it simply went into deep sleep then woke with a touch, your relying on touch tech and all its components to be working properly to be able to achieve the simplest of things. It's a bit like sky net - I'd much rather keep a human in the loop.
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The GNex has a power button and a volume rocker for physical buttons and can be used to boot into fastboot etc...
treb1797 said:
It's alot of fun. Just be patient & as a parent don't take it too serious. I can't stand parents who are just too over the top & take the fun out of the game for the kids.

/rant :p
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Saw some of those parents at that tball game. We were all sad for those kids
treb1797 said:
Exactly. Just weird how they did it on the Note 2, but not the S3.
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Verizon got smart. :rolleyes:
 
jmartino5920 said:
The GNex has a power button and a volume rocker for physical buttons and can be used to boot into fastboot etc...

Saw some of those parents at that tball game. We were all sad for those kids

Verizon got smart. :rolleyes:
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Oh I know , I was just speaking hypothetically to demonstrate a point.

And now I need to rest my brain cell, thats my long word ration used up for the rest of the month.
 
X : just curious, as I'm sure our Nexicans are as well ;), why haven't you rooted yet ?
 
XplosiV said:
True, but I did get K'kin rooted from 3500 miles away ;) and on an unfamiliar network which happened to be the biggest PITA of all the networks out there, oh sorry, CARRIERS :p
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I remember that! Just thought you'd be rooted too...:rolleyes:

Takes skill to help someone on a forum from so far away. :thumbup:

Now about this Root Master nickname...:confused::rolleyes::beer::D;)
 
Mm, well if I had a good enough reason to root I would be. I only rooted my portal phones because it took forever to get updates, from 1.5-1.6 and there was no multi-touch enabled etc. So I had a real usability reason to root them.

The S3, not so much. Im sure I could run faster ROM's and kernels etc, but I'm happy with a Stock S3 running a few alternative apps etc.
 
treb1797 said:
Only rooting I do is pulling weeds in my back yard :rolleyes: <<<<< ok, that was bad :)


No sir.
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I kind of suspected you where a rooter :o

Of course the Big Red version is locked down a bit more.

I have clean rom on mine but I am going to attempt to return to stock rooted and downloading the image now. Mobile odin next, update TWRP and attempt to make a backup of my stuff and see if I can get things to work and hope this will kind of fix the airplane toggle mode I have needed here and there.
 
treb1797 said:
X : just curious, as I'm sure our Nexicans are as well ;), why haven't you rooted yet ?
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Well, I just don't really have a justifiable 'need' to root, as I said above, sure I could root and take advantage of it, to a point. But in my mind, I'm pretty happy mostly stock.

Remember, my S3 is international unbranded, so I've got no bloatware. Only the standard Sammy crap. (all dumped into a sammy folder on the ap draw, as with all the Google junk)

Plus as I don't / won't pay for phone insurance, I don't want to void the warranty just yet. The old portal was pretty much an entry level phone (equivalent to a galaxy ace) so it was cheap, and I just wasn't that bothered about it, but I still didn't root that until after the warranty expired naturally. So having shelled out $450 each for two S3's, and being as awesome as they are, I'm sure I can live with them being stock for a while longer before deciding to 'play around' with 'em.

Atm my only reason for rooting, really, would be to gain control over the CPU and over/under clock via Tasker when charging etc, but the quad 1.4ghz is meaty enough, when throttled to quad 1.0ghz on power saving for doing what I need to be honest.
 
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