G+_Tom Gehrke Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Verizon Updating Samsung Galaxy S3s? I checked for updates this morning (as I have every morning since 11/22) and behold! There is something there. If this is The Update then we're talking about going from 4.1.2 to 4.3. (Yeah. No Kit-Kat.) This brings a ton of stuff to those running stock Touchwiz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_todd zimmerman Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Have you pulled the trigger yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tom Gehrke Posted December 19, 2013 Author Share Posted December 19, 2013 todd zimmerman Well, of course! ;) All seems well so far. Haven't gotten to dig too deeply into things yet, but hope that the performance tuning and TRIM support that came to Android after 4.1.2 will have a positive impact. I'll run like this all day and then try to convince my wife that it's OK to update. Then I'll probably go back to CyanogenMod or another ROM. If I see anything worth reporting (positive or negative) the AAA community will be the first to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Joe Morrison Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 The update uninstalled SwiftKey so I need to reconfigure it. Also I no longer get notification sounds for Exchange email. And trying to reconfigure crashes the app. The other big thing is that it will take some time to get used to the lockscreen ui changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tom Gehrke Posted December 19, 2013 Author Share Posted December 19, 2013 Joe Morrison That's odd. It left my SwiftKey intact. I don't do direct Exchange email so no insights there. :-( Having seen the lock screen changes via other ROMs before it's not a big shock to me. One thing that is different though is that there is no swiping directly into the camera app. Oh! And using a secure lockscreen disables swiping to lockscreen widgets. That's different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dean Penderghast Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 My daughter got her 4.3 update on her Sprint Samsung S3 this morning. Still waiting for my Verizon S3 to get updated. Ug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_James Heuer Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 My S3 got the update to 4.3 awhile ago. Unlocking gets choppy with widgets on the lock screen but otherwise runs fine. Still just going to root to KitKat as soon as I can however. Who wants 4.3 when it should run much better on KitKat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Karl Witsman Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Thanks! I had not checked on Verizon's update in weeks. Woo hoo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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