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What is your favorite Galaxy S3 exclusive feature?

Of the many features Samsung included in the Galaxy S3, what is your favorite (or one of them) and why? Even if it isn't exclusive to the phone, I'm curious to know.
Personally, and I didn't think this would be one of them when I heard about it, I LOVE Smart Stay. I usually use my phone a lot to browse and read forums and other internet documents. My old phone was constantly turning off the screen while I read a long post. My Galaxy S3 never turns it off. One of the best features of the phone imo. It's all the little things that work together to make this phone so great.
So what is your favorite feature of the phone?

Picture-in-picture is pretty fancy

adslee said:
Picture-in-picture is pretty fancy
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Where is and what is that?
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bikrame said:
Where is and what is that?
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When watching a video, on the bottom right there's a button to enable picture in picture

I also love Smart Stay, it just makes reading easier than having to constantly be touching the screen.

Personally, I love all the ICS and JB leaks I get to play with!!! Never seen a phone with so many so fast!
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Other than full integration with my tv and palm wipe to capture, I don't really use any, not a fan of phone camera either
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kulzboy said:
Other than full integration with my tv and palm wipe to capture, I don't really use any, not a fan of phone camera either
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Well someone's a negative Nancy.
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I would have to agree with the Smart Stay, it works great. Swipe capture and picture in picture are also on my list. I wish u could watch youtube videos with it though like u can do with the app Super video.

Direct call!
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Smart stay! It really helps me get through those walls of text that some people put out.
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Direct call!
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That is a nice convenience feature. Saves a few steps if you need to call someone. PiP is sweet too I agree.
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How do you turn the shutter sound off for palm swipe? It's crazy loud.

AttachedSilver said:
When watching a video, on the bottom right there's a button to enable picture in picture
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I didnt see it lol. And whats use of it.
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There's an app called super video floating that does the same thing as the pop up player. Works on non gs3 as well

Smart stay for sure I love the feature when reading books or en gadget really helpful, I like direct call but I hate the stock messaging app :/
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- Smart stay
- Screen shot swipe
- Direct call

The screensize, can't tell you the amount of convos that got started from just that.
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Illusion81 said:
The screensize, can't tell you the amount of convos that got started from just that.
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It is pretty much perfect. I agree. Not too large not too small.
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Screen.
Screen size for me. 4.8 is my new "sweet spot".

Avenger movie is lagging on my phone...

I've tried other media players but it's still lagging. I'm using wicked v5.
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Mine too! Completely stock here.
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Turn on wifi....itll smooth out once wifi is enabled. I dont know why, but it fixed my problem.
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I've noticed when I play another movie first (making sure that it doesnt lag) for a few minutes then play Avengers afterwards, then it doesnt lag.

I'm completely stock as well and having lag, also I can't get the pop up video feature to work with this movie
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Im telling you guys...just Turn on wifi...u dont even need a network to connect to...just enable wifi and itll smooth out.
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I've turned sync off. Airplane mode. Cleared cache. Killed all tasks and it still lags! Crazy crazy. Because I couldn't watch it I ended up renting it on vudu. Great movie. First time ever watched it.
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ergibson83 said:
Im telling you guys...just Turn on wifi...u dont even need a network to connect to...just enable wifi and itll smooth out.
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Yea my Wifi is off, btw can you get video pop up player thing tho work with this movie? Did you move your movie to extSdcard?
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g2uzer said:
Yea my Wifi is off, btw can you get video pop up player thing tho work with this movie? Did you move your movie to extSdcard?
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No Dude... Turn it ON
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ergibson83 said:
No Dude... Turn it ON
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Lmfao sorry, I meant its On lol
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g2uzer said:
Lmfao sorry, I meant its On lol
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And its still lagging? Thats weird...well this is my set up.
I have it located at /mnt/extSDcard/movies/HD/ and i have wifi enabled. Its choppy if i have wifi disabled, but itll smooths out if i enable wifi.
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ergibson83 said:
And its still lagging? Thats weird...well this is my set up.
I have it located at /mnt/extSDcard/movies/HD/ and i have wifi enabled. Its choppy if i have wifi disabled, but itll smooths out if i enable wifi.
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I just stopped all running task, rebooted,, and now it's smooth ^_^,
My wifi is also on, but still can't get the pop up video feature to work
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g2uzer said:
I just stopped all running task, rebooted,, and now it's smooth ^_^,
My wifi is also on, but still can't get the pop up video feature to work
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It doesnt work on this movie.
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I think a lot of people have been getting bad downloads. It took me 7 downloads to get the one that doesn't lag.

I downloaded from, hub but I don't know where it downloaded to. I would like to move it to my ext sd card unless it's already there. Also mine lags too wifi on.
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Thats weird, mine plays just fine, downloaded it once from the hub and has played flawlessly, even if i skip to different parts of the movie. My phone is completely stock.

Turn wifi on fixed lag for me strange
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Media hub downloads to the internal sd and in order to see it you need to enable to view hidden folders
the folder name will be
.SamsungMediaHub
there will be a series of folders but the file will be a pyv file type.
My take on laggy video play is if it's HD or if it's SD. In my opinion the phone has a big screen but it's not big enough to distinguish between SD and HD. The phone has to struggle a little bit more to be able to play a video file that's HD and nearly 3GB (my computer even struggled with that let alone a phone)
The SD version is about 1.7 or 1.8 gb and I haven't had any lag issues on my phone while watching it.
That's all personal opinion and your entitled to shoot it down but it's all sensible
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K_esco said:
Thats weird, mine plays just fine, downloaded it once from the hub and has played flawlessly, even if i skip to different parts of the movie. My phone is completely stock.
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Same here, just got done watching it and worked flawless! Awesome movie!
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How do you enable the option to see hidden folders? Can it be done through root explorer. Also I downloaded both hd and sd but it doesn't give the option to pick which one to play so I assume it's hd playing since it's lagging.
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Smart pause isn't working?

Smart pause isn't working for me for some reason
I've tried going to a place with good-lighting and u tried opening my eyes as wide as I could, still didn't work.
I just restore my stock rom from the Infamous rom, and I flashed the tmobile kernel too. I was previously running ktoonsez. It's odd that it does take work.
Can anybody help?
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I've noticed issues with Smart Pause when I have my glasses on. Seems to not play nice with glasses.

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I've noticed issues with Smart Pause when I have my glasses on. Seems to not play nice with glasses.
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I don't have glasses :/
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You are using the stock video player right?
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It only worked once for me and I turned on smart stay
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androidsoccer said:
It only worked once for me and I turned on smart stay
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I'll try that
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You are using the stock video player right?
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yes

The thing is...u have to be in a well well lit area it never worked for me until I was outside on a very sunny day then it worked
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GS4 lag, weird discovery

So we all know the GS4 out of the box has some atrocious lag. Well I went through the steps to clear a lot of it out without rooting. Just stock, and changing some settings within the OS itself. But I was still noticing some small lag here and there. Well it turns out I put my GS4 on the charger and start using it, and I notice that there is significantly less lag, I unplug it, and then it goes back to usual lag. I have done this back and forth a couple of times, with the same results.
So could it be that Samsung ramps up the CPU when on the charger?
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Your power save could be on?
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I never experienced lag on this phone until yesterday and I noticed google services was using uo my battery. Went to the google settings and there is a new option call android device manager and I unchecked all the location settings and lag gone. Also if you have google currents go into settings and disable background sync.
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Checked that and it's completely off. I wouldn't put it past Samsung do that, we've already seen them ramp up the processor and gpu for the benchmark rests, my guess is that they lower the clock speed when not charging or maybe below a certain percentage.
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No lag here. Sorry to hear that bro
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It's not like it's everywhere, it's just in a few places, like hangouts, where my One never lagged, or sometimes a jitter when swiping through apps or home screens. Guess I'm just not used to it coming from the One. But there is a difference in performance when plugged into a charger and not.
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No lag here.
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Droidz said:
It's not like it's everywhere, it's just in a few places, like hangouts, where my One never lagged, or sometimes a jitter when swiping through apps or home screens. Guess I'm just not used to it coming from the One. But there is a difference in performance when plugged into a charger and not.
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Watch a movie on the one or play a game. Its night and day compared to the S4.
My cousin has the one. YouTube takes at least 2 more seconds, worse quality, and skips.
Games skip/lag, and loading time is longer for the One.
You gotta take the good with the bad with either phone.
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That is true, the YouTube app is much more solid on the GS4. But one small thing is that I get this huge black bar at the top of my YouTube app when I switch from portrait to landscape. Anyone know how to fix that?
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Droidz said:
That is true, the YouTube app is much more solid on the GS4. But one small thing is that I get this huge black bar at the top of my YouTube app when I switch from portrait to landscape. Anyone know how to fix that?
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I think that's an app issue. Had same prob on Note 2

Droidz said:
That is true, the YouTube app is much more solid on the GS4. But one small thing is that I get this huge black bar at the top of my YouTube app when I switch from portrait to landscape. Anyone know how to fix that?
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That's just the app itself. That's not even a problem. If something like that REALLY bother you, then you're EXTREMELY anal about things.
P.s. I think you're a ONE fanboy that came on here to put down the S4.
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tikay00 said:
When you're watching a video? That's never happened to me.
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It happens when you go from portrait to landscape and then back. I'll post a picture.
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Droidz said:
It happens when you go from portrait to landscape and then back. I'll post a picture.
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I just tried it. My YouTube app doesn't do that. You probably have an app issue. Sorry to hear that bro.
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+1 for app issue
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I have the weird app issue, so does my brother, and my mom. Both have galaxy S4. Why can't YouTube/Google fix this. Shouldn't be to difficult?
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Exactly what black line are you referring to?

I even took a screenshot of YouTube with the search bar left on. No double black bar on my phone.
Like I said before. Its a ROM/app issue. Or phone issue.
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Larger pics.
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Last one. I took a screenshot of YouTube app the exact same way you had yours setup to show us.
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I put my pictures up on previous post, but I'm on a stock t-mobile rom, just got the phone yesterday. Coming from HTC One.
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New YouTube v5 apk

New card UI, multi tasking video + more. amazing update!
For forget the hit the thanks Button!:good:

Great tablet view

Do you know if it supports 1080p playback
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Hey thanks for this! Huge update wow
GS4

Quite the improvement lol. Thanks!
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Sweet
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Do you know if it supports 1080p playback
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no i think its only 720p .... i could be wrong tho .

Is It just me or the quality is lacking?
Looks less than 720P from my S4 but looks perfect on my N4. Both are on WiFi, extremely weird
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Damn this is pretty sweet. Just wish the would add the ability to reply to comments.
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Nice improvement but the stupid "black bar" bug is still there only now its "white bar"
this is what i am talking about
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42916686

I cant install it. Unknown source is checked. When I touch cancel, it cancels but when I touch install, nothing happens. Does anyone know whats happening? I am stock, not rooted.
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I cant install it. Unknown source is checked. When I touch cancel, it cancels but when I touch install, nothing happens. Does anyone know whats happening? I am stock, not rooted.
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The way I installed it was that I uninstalled first using Titanium Backup, and then instead the new version. But you have to be rooted for that.

poor video quality.
Has any one noticed that it doesn't play in 1080p? I hope it can be fixed.

Yea the quality is really ****ty...

I went to general and made sure the high quality square was checked.... Also the three little Dots in the upper right hand corner where you push them while the video is playing it gives a option from CC OR HD.
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Jarule51082 said:
I went to general and made sure the high quality square was checked.... Also the three little Dots in the upper right hand corner where you push them while the video is playing it gives a option from CC OR HD.
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Yup, with HQ on video quality is fine. Watching a video while searching other videos is [email protected]
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