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steamroller

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samsung galaxy s3 internet slow?
« on: November 03, 2012, 10:05:34 PM »
i just got my first smart phone ever a samsung galaxy s3....

sort of surf related because i will be using to to check bouys, winds, tides, cdip...all that stuff....

anyway...the internet, youtube, sigalert...all internet apps run suuuuupeeerrr  SLOW!!!...some never load at all...just get stuck 3/4 of the way through the load...

my kid has an iPhone4 3G and we both clicked a youtube video at the same time today and his iPhone4 KICKED my A$$...my galaxy never even ran the whole thing...

been scouring the galaxy forums and cant find much info on the prob...

cleared the cache, cookies, history..nothing helps...

somebody suggested to "root" it...

this place is the BEST source if info for things like this...anybody have any experience with this prob???

thanks

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Re: samsung galaxy s3 internet slow?
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2012, 03:58:16 AM »
If you have just been testing at home so far, is it possible your son's phone is picking up your local wifi while you have not connected to it yet?  Your load should not be that slow using cellular but there are bad reception spots.

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Re: samsung galaxy s3 internet slow?
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2012, 05:23:18 AM »
Hey steamroller..... check this link out. Tons of useful information. Simple registration, and you can ask all the questions you want. I just got my daughter an SG S2 last night, didn't get the SG S3 because she's 12 and Best Buy sold me the SG S2 for $10! Any way.....check out ...... http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s3/

Hope it helps you......

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Re: samsung galaxy s3 internet slow?
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2012, 05:25:01 AM »
Sounds like a defective phone, my galaxy s3 is amazing and super fast.

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Re: samsung galaxy s3 internet slow?
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2012, 05:27:22 AM »
My S3 is quite zippy, even more so after the update to the new android version (Jelly Bean).

If yours is slow, most probably it is due to the data link of your carrier.

Is is still slow when using wifi at home?

Try this free app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.zwanoo.android.speedtest
It will measure your internet data rate, to try to see where are your problems.

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Re: samsung galaxy s3 internet slow?
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2012, 05:27:52 AM »
Also....check to make sure your phone has all the updates done.

Menu>system updates> .....and then make sure each of the items is up to date.....PRL, software and so on....

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Re: samsung galaxy s3 internet slow?
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2012, 08:28:27 PM »
thanks for your replies eveyone...i think i have it figured out...maybe

we both are on the same verizon network his was 3g mine was 4g...not near any wifi....trying to play the IronMan3 trailer...

the problem was i had about 7 active apps running in the background clogging everything up...just like a computer...TaskMangaer ..."remove all"...sucker runs like lightning now...

kden

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