Today I have been using my SGS3 GT-I9300 (16Gb IMM76D.I9300XXALE8) for precisely a week. It's a brilliant phone and a huge step forward from my old desire - no doubt about it!
This however is the last positive comment from me in this thread
From hereon I will focus on the downsides I have been seeing. I'd love to hear from any of you if you had similar issues and got them fixed.
1.
Two times now I have had to remove the battery because the device was frozen. First time it was hanging in the pin-pattern screen refusing to take input or to turn off the display again. Second time I had set the timer to count down from 20 minutes (needed a nap). I overslept and the phone couldn't be turned on anymore. I made my girlfriend phone me when it was frozen like that. My phone did nothing and hers acted as if it was ringing normally!!?! I don't have to say this is my biggest concern...
2.
Blue Tooth devices does not remember their parings. As soon as I loose connection to my 'Polar heart rate monitor' it wants me to reenter pairing password even though I did that numerous times. It should auto reconnect like normally on every other phone I have been using.
3.
Text reflow in the stock browser is limited to certain websides and how they are implemented. I ended up loading the same web page as the reviewer in some YouTube video just to be able to try the reflow button he talked about. I have tried Chrome and Dolphin Browser both without luck. I suspect a ICS issue because the same version of Dolpin browser on my HTC Desire work flawless => pinch to zoom for desired text size, then double tap the screen to start text-reflow.... not on SGS3 however...
4.
The automatically brightness adjustments seems to work in strangely big steps. Sometimes in indoor lightning it's a bit too dim. It suddenly turns up the brightness for a few seconds and then return to the dim level. I'd like smaller steps and a better hysteresis!
5.
I can't adjust the numbers of buttons in the top pulldown panel. Who needs "Driving mode", "Vibrate", "Screen Rotate", "Notification" and "Sync" up there??? It's annoying why can't I choose only the ones I'd like to use?
6.
I am with the people annoyed by the time it takes to bring back the home screen when you press the home button. I understand it is due to the 'double press' bringing up 'S. Voice' - but let me be able to disable that for faster homescreen access! The speech recognition is terrible anyway.
EDIT: There is a fix
7.
The stock keyboard has a 'Continuous Input' check mark to make it work like SlideIt and Swype etc. It works sometimes but it does depend on the text input field. I couldn't make it consistent sometimes it accepted continuous writing and sometimes not. I ended up installing SlideIT...
8.
WiFi started dropping connection like mad. I have to toggle it every time I turn ON the phone and then it only works for a couple of minutes.... The setting under 'Advanced' called "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" ignores every choice I make and defaults to 'Never (increases data usage) no matter what I do (reboot etc.)
Edit: Seems there is a fix for the connection drops - been working okay that last 20 hours...
Thats it for now... and ohh... don't flame, I do like my phone!
/Aero
This however is the last positive comment from me in this thread
From hereon I will focus on the downsides I have been seeing. I'd love to hear from any of you if you had similar issues and got them fixed.1.
Two times now I have had to remove the battery because the device was frozen. First time it was hanging in the pin-pattern screen refusing to take input or to turn off the display again. Second time I had set the timer to count down from 20 minutes (needed a nap). I overslept and the phone couldn't be turned on anymore. I made my girlfriend phone me when it was frozen like that. My phone did nothing and hers acted as if it was ringing normally!!?! I don't have to say this is my biggest concern...
2.
Blue Tooth devices does not remember their parings. As soon as I loose connection to my 'Polar heart rate monitor' it wants me to reenter pairing password even though I did that numerous times. It should auto reconnect like normally on every other phone I have been using.
3.
Text reflow in the stock browser is limited to certain websides and how they are implemented. I ended up loading the same web page as the reviewer in some YouTube video just to be able to try the reflow button he talked about. I have tried Chrome and Dolphin Browser both without luck. I suspect a ICS issue because the same version of Dolpin browser on my HTC Desire work flawless => pinch to zoom for desired text size, then double tap the screen to start text-reflow.... not on SGS3 however...
4.
The automatically brightness adjustments seems to work in strangely big steps. Sometimes in indoor lightning it's a bit too dim. It suddenly turns up the brightness for a few seconds and then return to the dim level. I'd like smaller steps and a better hysteresis!
5.
I can't adjust the numbers of buttons in the top pulldown panel. Who needs "Driving mode", "Vibrate", "Screen Rotate", "Notification" and "Sync" up there??? It's annoying why can't I choose only the ones I'd like to use?
6.
I am with the people annoyed by the time it takes to bring back the home screen when you press the home button. I understand it is due to the 'double press' bringing up 'S. Voice' - but let me be able to disable that for faster homescreen access! The speech recognition is terrible anyway.
EDIT: There is a fix
7.
The stock keyboard has a 'Continuous Input' check mark to make it work like SlideIt and Swype etc. It works sometimes but it does depend on the text input field. I couldn't make it consistent sometimes it accepted continuous writing and sometimes not. I ended up installing SlideIT...
8.
WiFi started dropping connection like mad. I have to toggle it every time I turn ON the phone and then it only works for a couple of minutes.... The setting under 'Advanced' called "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" ignores every choice I make and defaults to 'Never (increases data usage) no matter what I do (reboot etc.)
Edit: Seems there is a fix for the connection drops - been working okay that last 20 hours...
Thats it for now... and ohh... don't flame, I do like my phone!
/Aero
I usually root after about five, six months. 
