Comments on: Fourth Jelly Bean Update Leaks for Verizon’s Galaxy S3 as VRBLK3

By: WhooflTomp

WhooflTomp — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:37:00 +0000

I just got OTA’d to VRBLK3….

By: Evan Wickes

Evan Wickes — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:09:00 +0000

i know, but it shouldnt be. they should be able to say “here is the samsung/lg/asus US support number. call them. we are responsible for the airwaves & signal issues.” this will force more competition also between the carriers & reduce bottlenecks at Big Red.

By: e_droid

e_droid — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 20:51:00 +0000

Love how fast VRBLK3 is. Thanks for this!

By: poopsandwich

poopsandwich — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:58:00 +0000

Maybe if verizon wasn’t installing their crap bloatware we wouldn’t have to wait this long for updates. We could just get them when they were ready from samsung. I’m never buying a non nexus device again.

By: poopsandwich

poopsandwich — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:53:00 +0000

If verizon didn’t waste our time installing their crap bloatware we wouldn’t have to worry about this. We could just get updates when Samsung says they are ready.

By: CelticBrewer

CelticBrewer — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:05:00 +0000

LOL at “mediocre”. It’s still the best smartphone out there, period. The Maxx HD and DNA have significant faults. And the iPhone 5 is just a bigger 4 with LTE- but still a piece of crahp. There is nothing outdated about the S3 except the OS which is a quick fix if you can’t wait for an official update.

By: CelticBrewer

CelticBrewer — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:56:00 +0000

You’re right, verizon is cheap. And this is all about money. I can imagine that it costs Verizon and other carriers a lot of money when an upgrade goes out and people start flooding the help lines or stores. Perhaps, if verizon DID charge for upgrades (or, better yet, just support for upgrades), we’d see more updates put out, and faster.

As is, carriers make more money selling people on a new phone (and contract) versus upgrading an existing phone. Where’s the incentive to provide that update? Believe me, I don’t want to pay more money; but I would have given, say, $20-30 to have jelly bean a few months ago without rooting/flashing.

By: chris125

chris125 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 03:36:00 +0000

The sprint galaxy nexus and s2 had radio problems. Seems to be a cdma thing

By: will

will — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 03:59:00 +0000

Verizon just release the F’n jelly bean already. This is getting ridiculous.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:55:00 +0000

Good choice. Unlocking the bootloader is easy and I’ve been running Jellybean for weeks. The Jellybean Rom also allows you to use ATT Sims and most likely international sims. Little tweaking needed to change APN. Also due to popularity of S3 there will be many unofficial updates in the future.

By: cnlson

cnlson — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:09:00 +0000

here are the overall new features. like i said the blocking is not enabled (same as the note2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP5D5bN8N6g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2PQGsKEnns

By: Chris Robson

Chris Robson — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:01:00 +0000

Ok flashed it this morning seems to be a bit more draining on the battery, but not enough to be a problem for me.

By: Jon L

Jon L — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:10:00 +0000

My thought is when Verizon takes months longer than everyone else and still releases a buggy product. I refer you to nearly every update on the Original HTC Incredible. They couldn’t even fiugure out how to push out the OTA update with out it crashing the phone.

By: Jon L

Jon L — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:07:00 +0000

This may be funny and a “stick it” to Verizon, but if you are really doing it out of spite and not actually using Data you need (i.e. Streaming all day and turning volume off, etc) that is slowing down all of us unnecessarily. Not punishing Verizon, you are punishing me. But if you are genuinely using the data, more power to you!

By: cnlson

cnlson — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:24:00 +0000

Running the latest leak and it is smooth and fast. It has the missing all share cast and a whole bunch of interesting features. I also installed the pop-up browser and can’t wait for the premium pack! For those that want to remain stock there is a flash that basically mimics the ota as everything is preserved.on xda. Only feature I notice missing is blocking mode.