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[Galaxy S III General] jgmccabe:
Many, many thanks for letting me know.

Do you still get the wake-up lag?

The other thing they suggested doing was to let the battery die completely then fully charge it with the phone off, then switch it on and do the factory reset. Did you do it that way?

I want to be able to go back to them and say "yip, tried that, made eff all difference. fix it you scumbags" (or words to that effect :)

Have you reported the issue here.. http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/erms1?

Thanks again
[Galaxy S III General] jgmccabe:
When you say "you will get a bootloop" - is that a definite or is it possible to do this without getting a bootloop :)
[Galaxy S III General] Alestilohomer:
When you have the bootloop, you must enter in recovery and do the factory reset, and problem solved :good:
[Galaxy S III General] dept27:
That did not fix it for me, but at least it recalibrated the battery. :)

Did you try removing the ripple effect if you have that set and going to developer options and setting the transitions to .5
[Galaxy S III General] fabianokbr:
http://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_on_region_lock_you_need_5_min_of_voice_calls-news-7184.php

"Note that the Region lock is implemented in the Android 4.3 software that many Samsung phones are receiving at the moment, including the Galaxy S4, S4 mini, S III and Note II."

Is this true? I have a Galaxy S3 "made" in France (XEF) and I use it in Brazil. If this is really true, I'm screwed big time.
[Galaxy S III General] shafez:
I don't this is true as my S3 is XSG Middle East version and I was able to get back to 4.1.2 without any problem after flashing the BTU 4.3 rom.
[Galaxy S III General] jgmccabe:
Thanks for taking the time to answer but I was aware of that solution, I just wanted to know whether there is any guarantee that you will get a bootloop or whether sometimes it will work ok and you'll be able to continue (whether or not that's appropriate) without doing the factory reset.
[Galaxy S III General] Alestilohomer:
Sorry... :p

In any downgrade, you must do EVER a factory reset, it's necessary or the rom doesn't bootup (bootloop).
[Galaxy S III General] Falster:
First do a factory reset, then back to 4.1.2 with odin - no bootloop. Worked for me.

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[Galaxy S III General] jgmccabe:
Thanks again - that makes sense.

The main reason for asking was so that I can try to find the easiest option to avoid clearing out all my stuff. It doesn't sound like there is one unless flashing the Yank555 kernel wouldn't require a factory reset!

Seems like the main options I've got are:

1) Revert to 4.1.2 using Odin (can I do that without root?) and doing a factory reset to get rid of the bootloop

2) try a factory reset on the 4.3 as it is just in case it does fix the problems (seems unlikely)

3) Flash the Yank555 kernel

Thanks

John
[Galaxy S III General] Alestilohomer:
Yes... the quickest and easyest option is to flash the Yank Kernel. If it's not what you expect... save all your data, and go back to 4.1.2 (using Odin with or without root, it's indifferent) and do the famous factory reset :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
Yep!! much probably he's getting into bootloop
[Galaxy S III General] Falster:
Again, first factory reset while 4.3 installed, then flash back to 4.1.2 - NO BOOTLOOP!

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[Galaxy S III General] Alestilohomer:
Hahaha, yes sure!

Yes, it's the same! Factory reset before or after, but you must do it!

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[Galaxy S III General] jgmccabe:
Thank you. Just a couple more questions - I'm going to try to search round for the answers as I'm sure they'll be in here somewhere but, if anyone would be kind enough to let me know either the answers or where best to look in the meantime I'd really apprectiate it.

1) Do you need to do a factory reset after flashing yank?

2) I've read you need a custom recovery to do it. I saw TWRP mentioned somewhere; would that be a good choice or is something like CMW in more common usage (is it the touch version described here... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1719744)?

3) Is there any way to boot a recovery on the S3 from the fastboot sort of thing I was able to use on my HTC Desire rather than flashing one? (i.e. boot into fastboot on the phone and, on the PC, use "fastboot boot recovery.img").

4) Also the link in #2 mentions something about the custom recovery being overwritten with the stock recovery on reboot unless you root and remove/rename a couple of files; is that correct?

5) Does the Yank555 zip just need copying to the phone by attaching it as a removable drive? (May seem like a stupid question but I've been playing around doing this sort of thing with my old HTC Desire which has a real SD card and the S3 seems a bit different).

Many thanks everyone; I apologise if this is the wrong place to ask these but Samsung have really put us in a spot with this update!

John
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
1 no need to wipe in case of kernel flashing

2 use any custom recovery. Doesn't matter which one. It s only a way to install the kernel zip in this case

3 never tried it

4 none sense

5 drop kernel zip file in root. Reboot in recovery. Chose install from sd scroll down until you find the zip then install it as it s recommended. I mean defaults to avoid any problems
[Galaxy S III General] Alestilohomer:
Ok... I will try to give you some answers:

1- Not needed. The factory reset is only necessary when you do a downgrade. It's recommended when you go to a new base, for example from 4.1.2 to 4.3, but not imperative.

2- Yes, you need a CWM to flash kernels, custom roms, etc... TWRP and Philz are touch versions of CWM, choose 1, not big differences between them.

3- I think that it's not possible... you must flash a recovery in the phone.

4- I don't understand completly what are you asking for... if you flash a full stock rom with Odin, your recovery will be overwrited with the stock one. But if you flash a custom rom with CWM your recovery will remain untouched.

5- You only need to copy the zip file into your phone (or into a sdcard if you want) and flash it from recovery via install zip from sdcard. The internal memory of the phone it's named sdcard and a sdcard it's named external sdcard.

Ok... hope I helped you... I've explained the best I can...

If you have any doubt, don't hesitate to ask again. It's the best way to learn.

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Pole for you!

I'm slower writing in english trying to explain all his questions

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[Galaxy S III General] jgmccabe:
Huge thanks to both of you. In relation to #4 my understanding of the comment was that if a stock ROM was installed, then you put in a custom recovery, the ROM would replace the custom recovery with the stock one on the next boot. Seemed odd though.

I'll give Samsung a few more days to get their finger out and fix this then look at installing the Yank555 kernel using all the valuable advice is had on here.

John
[Galaxy S III General] Alestilohomer:
Ah ok. No, when you flash a recovery it remains untouched (even after a reboot). It's only replaced if you flash a new one or a stock rom with odin.

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[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
Gee thx. Pole for you 2

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OK focus. You flash an official rom. So it comes with official kernel. Then you install custom recovery which you'll need to install the yank kernel which gonna replace the first official one
[Galaxy S III General] winuxguy:
4.3 to 4.2.2

For those who wants to go back to 4.2.2 make sure you flash the XXUFME3. It works just fine for me. I just hate this 4.3 release for now. If this was windows, it would have been the Windows ME (aka Mistaken Edition)
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
This is a thread about 4.3 in case anyone gets confused .

You use the red triangle to report the post or simply strike out your comments .
[Galaxy S III General] hbkl:
WOW REALLY THANKS i was sick and tired from 4.2.2 its too laggy
[Galaxy S III General] jgmccabe:
The ANT+ Support has not been added for the S3!

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Currently at 9h 15m and 57% battery with 4.3. I'm fairly sure I haven't done significantly less with the phone today than I did yesterday yet battery usage seems to have halved. Intriguing!

EDIT: Looks like I probably had been doing less - back to 'normal' excessive battery drain yesterday.
[Galaxy S III General] Narenji89:
Can you please explain what exactly the ANT+ is?
[Galaxy S III General] tomuser:
http://www.thisisant.com/
[Galaxy S III General] hbkl:
i installed it but it always says "samsumg keyboard has stopped from working" im tired of that! anyone can help me?
[Galaxy S III General] jgmccabe:
Other than the technical aspects, ANT+ is pretty much the only feature I was particularly looking forward to! I use a bluetooth heart rate monitor but it's a bit flaky; apparently ANT+ is far superior for these things as it's been specifically designed for them.
[Galaxy S III General] c_shekhar:
Can anybody point me to stock MJ9 deodexed. I have failed in googling..
[Galaxy S III General] nemisi:
Its like samsung dont give a **** any more. Their 4.1.2 range was a complete stuff up with batery life
[Galaxy S III General] got-petrol:
Galaxy s3 isnt going to get ant+ http://www.thisisant.com/directory/filter/~/60/~/
[Galaxy S III General] rescuedog1:
I think the best to do is to stay on a stable 4.1.2 rom and wait for an official release.

All this 4.2.2 and 4.3 roms aren't stable enough for daily use or the battery life is mess.

But i don't think that we see a official 4.3 rom this year. Samsung has to push the S4 and Note 3, so the S3 or Note 2 users aren't important anymore.
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
thanks for being optimist mate!!
[Galaxy S III General] stephg27:
If they want to sell more Galaxy Gear watches, then bringing Galaxy Gear compatibility through the 4.3 release makes S3 and Note 2 users important because for the moment, there is much more users of S3 and Note 2 than users of S4 and Note 3!
[Galaxy S III General] smokey_bear:
Official Galaxy S 3 (International) 4.3 firmware United Kingdom (BTU) available.

Version: I9300XXUGMJ9

Unbranded

Build date: 26.10.2013

Changelist: 1902166

Downloads:

Stock Firmware:

Hotfile: http://hotfile.com/dl/254641539/5a9824c/BTU-I9300XXUGMJ9-20131112172342.zip.html

Ul.to: http://ul.to/tnru6h5s

Kernel File (Odin Flashable):

Hotfile: http://hotfile.com/dl/254641543/abeecea/KERNEL-BTU-I9300XXUGMJ9-1382758162.tar.html

Source/with thanks to samsung-updates.com
[Galaxy S III General] dkionline:
Lol, your slow. Wake up from deep sleep.

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[Galaxy S III General] smokey_bear:
Couldn't discover it on XDA so I posted.
[Galaxy S III General] boomboomer:
You posted into the thread for the same build, the UK version is exactly the same. Don't use the kernel, it's crap, use the China one instead.
[Galaxy S III General] jugg1es:
Is there anything in this worth using?

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."

- Golda Meir (1898-1978)
[Galaxy S III General] lucalunardi:
All but the kernel...

Sent from my phone using the "Send" button.
[Galaxy S III General] C7SS:
Ok so wake from home button is a bit slow, it hasn't got all we expected and battery life isn't great. At least we had an upgrade at last (for a while. ..)

Latest battery from 4.3 BTU

Just ordered Nexus 5. Sorry Samsung, great phone but tooooo slow with updates.....
[Galaxy S III General] shafez:
I have switched to CM 11 Un-offecial, Nexus 5 Kit Kat and it is really great, very fast and stable.
[Galaxy S III General] popoyaya:
Battery drains fast?
[Galaxy S III General] Zevin64:
Ever since updating to 4.3 no equalizers work including MusicFX. The sound gets lower/worse when the eq is enabled. Most of my other issues had been solved by flashing the chinese kernel, but this remains. Any ideas?
[Galaxy S III General] arghness:
I'd like to, but I really don't want to lose mhl (via smartdock) support.
[Galaxy S III General] simplyanin:
Battery doesnt drains too fast but it drained 18% battery on overnight standby which is a big issue.
[Galaxy S III General] omar9x:
Flash chinese Kernal

Flash chinese Kernal, That will solve the problem.
[Galaxy S III General] cocous:
The Chinese kernel works fine but the problem is in the counter (increase to 1) and the triangle away don't work to reset it.

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[Galaxy S III General] HAAAAAATIUUUU:
Im now using the unofficial kitkat 4.4 by temasek, smooth as f*ck, phone feels new again, battery life same as leak 4.2.2 but 4.1.2 still has the best battery life :)

Link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1797109
[Galaxy S III General] c_shekhar:
Is n't there any deodexed 4.3 BTU available?

Bump!!
[Galaxy S III General] NexxP963:
It's not the BTU one, but both have the same Changelist

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2509764

S3-Stock / Phillz Recovery / Boeffla Donation / JKay
[Galaxy S III General] osbazoka:
how can I change CSC on JB 4.3 without voiding warranty?

thanks in advance
[Galaxy S III General] shafez:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manniakk.cscselector

Must be rooted.
[Galaxy S III General] miguelpdm000000:
Does anybody know if all share cast work? Thanks!

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[Galaxy S III General] emiromeo:
hi, this version fix the little lag in opening the lock screen?
[Galaxy S III General] syamsoul:
We were discussing the same thing, every page since the leak came out. :banghead:

Anyway.. any MJ9 has really bad lag.

But MJ9 + chinese kernel or latest yank or latest boefflla kernel is ok
[Galaxy S III General] dkionline:
Country: Netherlands (T-Mobile)

Version: Android 4.1.2

Changelist: 1422104

Build date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:57:45 +0000

Product Code: TNL

PDA: I9300XXEMU8

CSC: I9300TNLEMU5

MODEM: I9300BOEMU1

Maybe someone want a goodie, thats for waiting lol.
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
plz close this topic
[Galaxy S III General] danierakes:
galaxy S2- gingerbread >ics 》jb

Galaxy s3- ics》jb》HELL...
[Galaxy S III General] Faryaab:
If you are using official Android 4.3 update on your Galaxy S III, please let me know of all the bugs you are encountering.

I'll try to get it sorted out with Samsung. :)
[Galaxy S III General] Gorgtech:
Here is my list:

- broken light unlock effect ( menu entry has been removed on the chinese MK2 base, Samsung maybe wanted to remove the effect anyway ).

- wake up lag ( there are known workarounds by now, every custom kernel without zRAM and PegasusQ governor activated reduces the lag close to 0 seconds. )

Maybe you could convince Samsung not to include so many junk apps ? There are way to many processes which regular users would not care about, running in the background and consuming the battery unnecessary..
[Galaxy S III General] hwjrmrm:
improve the battery life,thanks,please do more work on kernel...
[Galaxy S III General] Regash:
the official stock 4.3 rom is slow mainly heavy multitasking so need better ram managment and sometimes not responsible when touching the screen

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[Galaxy S III General] A.D.D.Y:
Ant+ not implemented..
[Galaxy S III General] kaynpayn:
This is the first time i ever i see a way of getting a chance at reaching samsung developers. Thank you very much for doing this!

i'd like them to just accept the fact the S3 only has 1Gb of memory. That means i'd like to see them owning up to that and develop a lightweight rom that doesn't try to have every single feature in there if it just can't. I'm assuming this is the reason multitasking is mostly broken. Not sure if i should consider this a bug but it's the biggest issue with samsung roms for me.

As for some examples, it's frequent it killing a video playing on a popup just because i opened the appdrawer. Skype can never stay open too long because it just gets terminated even if i'm not doing much. Also happened during a phone call on loudspeaker, while i was opening the notepad to take some notes from what the other person was telling me. I can never expect to pause a game, reply to a text message and return to the game without restarting it. I could go on. Actually, i just can't trust the phone to get anything done in the background. Almost everything just gets killed after a bit, regardless of still be doing stuff. Except the music player, this guy seems to be able to stay strong and remain open for days for some reason. :)

And, as others said, the obvious broken stuff (light effect, wake up lag...)
[Galaxy S III General] trinity77:
+1
[Galaxy S III General] Gorgtech:
If it´s just the multitasking you´re interested in, there is a way to help you out. You can create a Linux Swap Partition on your external SD card and use Yank555´s feature "hardswap". Sure a plain SWAP Partition is not as fast as true RAM or zRAM compression but it would at least help a lot.

The downside is that by using this feature, you may not break any benchmark records again ;)

You can even use Yank555´s hardswap script with other custom kernels too if a) the kernel is capable of using swap partitions, b) it has init.d support ;)
[Galaxy S III General] RustyJoe:
I made the mistake of updating the BTU before Sammy pulled the plug on it (FOTA).

The ROM is completely half baked. Huge lag on wake up, awful battery life, the ROM is wakelocking the CPU like crazy (10 hours and 23% awake CPU, 8% screen on).. I barely make it through the day. Used to finish the day with 60-70% battery (medium use). Now I'm at 17% after 7-8 hours..

Thanks for giving us the chance to "connect" with Samsung directly. Please tell them to hurry with this.

BTW - most depressing is that I flashed the official Chinese kernel because people said it fixes most issues and my counter is up by 1 (and the mobile data was lost). Never went custom, only official ROMs (this is my work phone so I did not want to f@#$k around with it too much..).
[Galaxy S III General] buge boyo:
Too much bloatware please reduce the bloat.
[Galaxy S III General] Hanzo.Hasashi:
Make the background scroll on touchwiz

Sent from beneath my cloak of magic
[Galaxy S III General] kaynpayn:
Thanks. But I've tried most of that already while yank was still around publishing his stuff here. I've even bought a c10 sd card just to try hardswapping. Tried zram later.

Also managed to format my efs partition in the process by being an idiot, fun story :p

granted, multitasking probs were gone but hardswap is slow as hell. My gf's crap lowend android phone is faster than mine on a class10 hardswapping :)

As for zram, my phone can't seem to handle it. Regardless of what configuration of zram I use, phone always end up halting for several seconds at random times, quite frequently.

The only thing I didn't try was hardswapping to the internal sd. Don't want to wear it down any faster.

While I would be happy if I got a workaround (its xda, after all), all I'm asking is they make it work like any other android phone as i think it should. Even like the s2. Sorry if this feels like ranting, im not :)

Galaxy 3 sent this.
[Galaxy S III General] got-petrol:
Ant+ isnt supported on the galaxy s3 and never will be I know samsung said ant+ they got it wrong
[Galaxy S III General] UGW:
On Andorid 4.3, my lockscreen has an invisible rectangle which surrounds the clock. If I touch it I can make it bigger and my neutron player shows controls in it... Is that normal? and if yes... is there any way to get rid of it? It's pretty annoying when I try to unlock my phone..
[Galaxy S III General] id1k:
has anyone a fast link to get the BTU mg4 firmware i hate this 4.3 -.-
[Galaxy S III General] biazoto:
hello guys .. I'm using the ROM since yesterday MJ9 BTU and not noticed some of the reported problems .. the only problem was the lag on the lock screen, but only because not installed the kernel chines yet .. the battery in standby reached 73% in just over 11 hours of use (using just the device to access social networks and games) .. may be that it is too early to give any guesses or draw some conclusions .. but for now, I had no problems with the ROM .. the only different thing I've done so far was to give root access to the device to use some apps ...

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[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
It is a custom screen lock. You can change few things from display multi view but you cannot get rid of it
[Galaxy S III General] winuxguy:
Heap Memory Increase

Hello Mate! For those of you who experienced slowness...

Try using a "DeOdexed version" of the 4.3 firmware from Ireland, use China's Kernel, leave the modem alone and do the following modification on build.prop:

From "dalvik.vm.heapgrowthlimit=64m"

To"dalvik.vm.heapgrowthlimit=96m"

From "dalvik.vm.heapsize=256m"

To "dalvik.vm.heapsize=512m"

And...

From "dalvik.vm.dexopt-flags=m=y"

To "dalvik.vm.dexopt-flags=m=v,o=y"

Reboot your phone to CWM-based recovery

Clear Dalvik Cache and restart.

You should be good to go...

If you really can stand it, downgrade to 4.2.2 XXUFME3, use the modem BUUGMJ3 and stock kernel for that leaked 4.2.2 and you should be good to go.:victory:
[Galaxy S III General] biazoto:
like I said before, I had no further problems with battery drain

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[Galaxy S III General] SignetSphere:
Samsung has temporarily halted the 4.3 firmware updates so I suggest that you guys refrain from flashing it for now until they release a much more stable version.

http://www.sammobile.com/2013/11/18...garding-galaxy-s3s-android-4-3-update-issues/
[Galaxy S III General] HtcDesire2:
Oh!!! You are too fast mate...
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
here wot samsung said

http://www.sammobile.com/2013/11/18...garding-galaxy-s3s-android-4-3-update-issues/
[Galaxy S III General] DSA:
people really dont read do they....look two posts above yours...
[Galaxy S III General] vnky12:
Note 2 got 4.3.! hope it doesn't have much problem like us.
[Galaxy S III General] jgmccabe:
Hi Faryaab,

For me the major issues have been the wake-up lag and the battery drain. I've only seen one case of oddities happening on an incoming call (which, given I hardly get any incoming calls, is quite a high proportion) and one random reboot..

The wake-up lag is an absolute nightmare; sometimes it takes so long I can't even remember if there was a specific reason I wanted to use the phone! Sometimes when I press the button it does nothing for a a bit, then the touch-buttons light up then go off, and nothing else happens. Sometime I press the button and nothing happens for a bit, then the display lights up and goes back off within a very short time - certainly not enough time to even swipe the screen to unlock it.

As far as the battery life is concerned, these things are supposed to be "mobile" phones; how can it be a "mobile" phone when you need to constantly be near a charging facility!

One good thing that as come out of this update though is that the SwiftKey bug where, on a reboot, SwiftKey is replaced by the stock keyboard app every time has gone - yaaayyy!

I do want to see ANT+ on this phone though.
[Galaxy S III General] got-petrol:
you will not get ant+ as the phone isnt supported

and im having the above problems too with 4.3