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[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Well played! :p

Except that his credit CART has a stubborn ass attached to it. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Pard0ned:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

I was actually on NeatRom 3.0. However I had a problem with that that I couldn't fix, so went back to XXELLA. Then flashed xxemb5 stock rom over that with a full wipe with the option in mobile odin. Seamless app. One click operation.

Would highly recommend trying it again with mobile odin. :)

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Anyone got an issue where you can't change lock screen shortcuts? When I try it just force closes and throws me out of the menu.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Good thing mobile Odin doesn't touch bootloader stuff. :)
[Galaxy S III General] Pard0ned:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Very true.
[Galaxy S III General] durrri:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

thnx.

i think what i should have done is go xella first and then xemb5. not sure though
[Galaxy S III General] MikZa:
Hi,

I'm on I9300XXELLA (4.1.2), is it worth me upgrading to I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2)?

There is a couple of months difference in build date, did they fix a bunch of bugs?
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
Sudden Death fix is improved. Seems to be better overall. :)
[Galaxy S III General] mdfpido:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Yesterday my phone just formatted itself. Good thing I have a Nand backup. Whew!

Anyone else here faced that issue before? Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] sagemda:
I really dont know why but please help me... my phone started to freeze from 2-3 days ago and its irresponsive, last night during i listening to some music on it, the touchwiz crashed... I really don't know why.. The frist freeze was bt simply swipping the apps in the apps drawer
[Galaxy S III General] enigma1981:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Yes, happend to my partner the other day (though hers only did a part-wipe) no idea what caused it though.... and again, backup to the rescue :)
[Galaxy S III General] maccboy2010:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Can someone help me iv just tried going back to stock unrooted through odin and I keep getting failed heres some pics of odin.
[Galaxy S III General] axessf:
Hellllpppp

HII everyone, i just install new update, and when finish, i have this screen just in home screen how can i reslove this problem please help meee
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
Seems like Odin cannot find your pit file for mapping. You can try putting the right pit file and flash the firmware with the pit file. But BE CAREFUL only do it when you are 100% sure of what you are doing.

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Try booting in recovery en do a full factory wipe and wipe cache also. After wiping restart the phone straight in download mode and flash firmware again.
[Galaxy S III General] axessf:
I do this but again same i downloaded the old update and i installed but again same, i think that this is any developer options to close this or any code ? please hellpppp
[Galaxy S III General] maccboy2010:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Hiya where can I find the pit file im on unlocked uk version. Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
http://www.filecrop.com/i9300-.pit.html
[Galaxy S III General] maccboy2010:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Do u no which one I should get for 16gb uk version? Theres about 6 there and they dont say??
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
You can use the mx.pit
[Galaxy S III General] maccboy2010:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

When I flash it in pit in odin do I tick both re partision boxes? Thanks for your help your a life saver :)
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
When you upload the pit in odin, re partition should automatically ticked. In total with the pit file and the PDA file there should be 3 boxes ticked, re partition, f.reset time and auto reboot. Tell me if it worked. Good luck.
[Galaxy S III General] ShahabJafri:
If you are going to use PIT file, ODIN will recreate your repartitions, so don't forget to take the backup of your data on an external sd.
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Wow wow wow... Guys... Hold on a minute..flashing pit file is NOT recommended.

If you do not understand how pit file and flashing pit works 100% then Do NOT continue with flashing pit file. You should have no need to flash pit file ever unless u screwed up ur partitions.

Flashing pit file could render ur phone useless and in need of a motherboard replacement.

I've seen it here before, guys bricking their phones by flashing incorrect pit.

Be warned.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] sagemda:
Someone please... just happened moments ago again
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Are you on stock EMB5? Or do you have a custom recovery installed?
[Galaxy S III General] sagemda:
i am on stock EMA2..the spanish one PHE, i have stock everything.... last 2 night toucwiz crashed and last night a game Zombies, i even unnistalled some of the apps but still freezing... just moments ago when i wanted to unblock it with swiping the finger on the homescreed, the status bar with clock and time dissapeared and froze
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Best bet as you are on stock is backup and do a factory reset
[Galaxy S III General] sagemda:
is this a sign of a sds? or eMMC or something that will make my phone die..?
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Hopefully not, just Touchwiz getting bogged down, as it does periodically
[Galaxy S III General] sagemda:
I even installed this app eMMC BrickBug Check and run it but i dont have root acces so i cant run the test just open it..
[Galaxy S III General] enigma1981:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

This sounds like the problem I was having... in the end I flashed my carrier's latest ROM which was ELLA then flashed EMB5 stock and now I'm using sotmax v16 which is based on EMR2 and my freezing has gone.

Try that... maybe it's a problem that had a fix in among the various firmware versions.

Sorry I can't give you a more simple "this is what fixed it" but at least you know that it did get fixed :)

Good luck mate.
[Galaxy S III General] sagemda:
so do you suggest flashing EMB5 ?
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

I would do, it's a very good firmware, consensus seems to be that it is the best to date. I vaguely remember having similar freezing problems and it definitely stopped after a good clean install with Odin
[Galaxy S III General] enigma1981:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Definitely! Really smooth ROM :)
[Galaxy S III General] sagemda:
ok i will flash it after i recharge it, now its 16% battery and will see if something changed, thnx for support guys
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Negativity of flashing with Odin is that you also get the JB bootloader. Dunno why, but I wanna retain my ICS one.
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

It's a simple cwm flash to revert back to an older bootloader ;)

Here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2083860
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Indeed, but it's an incredibly dangerous thing to do. If the CWM flash fails, you're toast. Mobile Odin is very handy and worth every cent for the Pro version.
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

+1

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Pussys :p:D
[Galaxy S III General] Pard0ned:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Plus 2.:D

Since I'm wanting to stay on stock roms for the foreseeable future this will be worth its weight in gold, Since my laptop's a PoS. :)
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
I'm still sporting MR2. It's running smoothly and without any hiccups! :D
[Galaxy S III General] enigma1981:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

I'm using MR2 but that's only because that's what sotmax has based his last ROM on... if I wasn't using his ROM I'd be on MB5 in a flash :)
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

I'm disappointed in you! BTU has MB5.....Why you no use?!:confused::D
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Lol. It's because I'm afraid of the errors that come with a downgrade. I know what apps need their cache cleared but I'm not willing to risk stability for... MB5. :p
[Galaxy S III General] xrad:
AW: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Just "downgraded" from mr2 to mb5 yesterday (using Mobile Odin btw to keep root and supersu). Only wiped dalvik and cache. Had to clear data for contacting provider. No other issues, so go ahead if you like.

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 10 mit Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
If only you had root. Seriously, a simple data wipe (without wiping the internal sd by using cwm) and then restoring all apps with Titanium. ^^

Easy as cake, literally.
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

I'd be fairly sure a guy like deadSOL, flashing all the time has root :D

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
I know for a fact he's unrooted. ^^
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

I'm surprised :eek:

I mean... What's the point not having root? It's not hard to get around warranty issues anymore. Why would u NOT want root?? Lol

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Agreed. I could never ever go unrooted. Though, he has actually never rooted his S3. Not even once. ^^
[Galaxy S III General] sagemda:
ok i flahed latest russian EMB5, lets see how the freezing thing does... did numerous wipes of data and cache before and after flash... 1 more question, can i root it with latest cf autoroot without any problems ?
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
If your phone has started acting up (freezing, etc.) then not even a million wipes/rom flashes will help. A send in is your only solution.
[Galaxy S III General] sagemda:
i dont have where to send it in because i dont have a warranty on it
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Would be inclined to agree with Theshawty..

U could contact samsung for ur nearest service centre and pay for the repairs if u have no warranty.. Prob needs a mobo

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Hardware faults don't require a warranty. After all, there was nothing you could of done to prevent it because the fault was there from the beginning.
[Galaxy S III General] pyro2677:
MB5 is Crap

Well it is on my phone at least, i was running LLA without any problems then it OTA to MB1 when that came out and then when MB5 came out it update to this. I had nothing but problems ever since MB5 came on the phone i would plug my phone in at night and when i woke up in the morning the sounds didn't work anymore. I missed my alarm and phone calls from work because the sounds didn't work. I had to reboot my phone and then it would have sound again. this happened on and off over the course of a week i guess so i flashed back to LLA and not a problem at all for a few weeks. so i thought i would update to MB5 and again now problems, alarm didn't go off this morning that was set for 7am i woke at 7:25am i changed alarm to 7:30am and it went off. Strange and my partner didn't hear it go off at 7 either as she is a very light sleeper. Last Night my phone was just sitting next to me and i heard my email tone go off and when i went to bed 2hrs later i picked up my phone and the lockscreen was frozen. Having to hard reboot my phone. but i am having apps force close all the time and are just generally slow to run sometimes. I'm thinking of going back to LLA never had a problem with BTU firmares before.
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Haha. You'd think so, right? :p

I'm actually living without root right now. The thing I've learnt about rooting is that if you don't do it in a while, you won't need to. ;)

It's like quitting smoking. You need the will to stop yourself from doing it. Initially, it's hard to quit. Then, you won't feel the need to smoke. :good:
[Galaxy S III General] hwjrmrm:
ZSEMC1 released
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Quitting smoking's easy, I know people who've done it a million times ^^
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
ZS? Hong Kong firmware? Noooooooooot trying it.

Fortunately, I don't smoke. That was just to prove a point. :D
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

I don't smoke either ^^

Whoa, MC1?? We'll see MC1 for other countries soon enough. :D
[Galaxy S III General] Mikulec:
It has a quite high changelist number: 1042642 (MB5 has 996085).
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
what does "mc" stand for exactly? and why not flashing a hong kong dong firmware, the last one didnt gave me any problems :angel:
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

MC signifies the build date.
[Galaxy S III General] Mikulec:
M-2013 (13th in alphabet)

C-March (3rd in alphabet)
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Exactly.
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
I'm going to wait until we get MC for any other part of the world. The Hong Kong ROMs never have anything good in them.
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
I'm deconstructing it now! Flashaholic! :D
[Galaxy S III General] Mikulec:
The MB5 had build date 25.2.2013 and was released around 7.3.2013 which is something around two weeks later.

Build date of MC1 is 11.3.2013, now its 25th so its about time to release this one. :laugh:

I suppose it will come this week.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

If you had been rooted and used custom recoveries, you could of removed whatever bloat Chinese roms ship with. ^^
[Galaxy S III General] olavopb:
We have had ZS on op (I9300ZSALED - Taiwan), no problems!
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Not extracting cache.img and a few extra apk's in system/app but all looks normal otherwise.
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Brilliant! :D

Bloat has never been a problem. You can easily disable stuff without needing to root. It's the presence of additional fonts, a different keyboard, and the Asia-Pacific languages in the widget drawer that unsettle me. Yeah, it's nothing big but I have never had a good experience with the Hong Kong firmwares. They're built specifically to drain my battery. :p

Yeah, that firmware wasn't good at all and it was replaced quickly. :)

Plus, the Hong Kong firmwares sometimes have a higher changelist but they've never got anything extra in the ROM. I believe that they're on a different changelist.

Also, MC1 should be out soon for the rest of us. :p
[Galaxy S III General] enigma1981:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Maybe the changelist includes all the additional fonts lol
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Well I have removed all the Asian specific stuff, and the usual bloat and it is not much different than MB5. Just to note the widgets are in English not in Chinese or whatever they were before on the Z rom. :D
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Did you install the bloatloader that came with (if any) or did you stick with some other one?
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
I used an existing one I keep in the kitchen :D
[Galaxy S III General] gaui:
Has Samsung stopped developing for the S3, now that S4 is coming?
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Far from it. We've still yet to see 4.2.2 and 5.0. :)

Btw, is there really a big performance boost in mass-debloating or no debloating at all? I mean, I like if my phone performs better but I don't really wanna do mass debloating. I don't care if most of the bloat is there so long as there aren't any hub apps. That's the only bloat that bothers me because they aren't supported in Sweden anyway.
[Galaxy S III General] Mikulec:
Some of the apps (and services associated) are constantly running in the background, which has some effect on performance and also battery life. And they are also taking up our precious RAM. :o
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Right now I'm pretty fond of S Memo but since I'm a very fast adapter, I think I could get along just nicely with apps like colornote/Keep
[Galaxy S III General] Mikulec:
Thats exactly the combination (Colornote/Keep) that I am using. If only Keep has better widgets like Colornote.
[Galaxy S III General] gaui:
From the looks of it, they are not in a hurry.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

They're still faster than HTC and Sony with updates ^^
[Galaxy S III General] maccboy2010:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Just tried downloading the mx pit file again and its is Spanish it says download and takes u to mediafire. And then there nowhere to download it.:(
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
Any fast link for ZSEMC1?
[Galaxy S III General] amarko5:
i have found that all the mb series eat my battery ,, i have now flashed back to ella and its back to normal.
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Perka, I'll be expecting XXEMC1 to be in your stash as soon as the firmware appears. :D

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Yeah, that can happen. I think it has happened to me, too.

Unfortunately, no one will ever be able to get to the root of the problem since... other people have experienced great battery life with the MB series.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
in about 3 mins I can start uploading ZSEMC1 to Mega for those who want it.

EDIT: Btw, Wanam noticed that MC1 has the stuff from MR2 together with the goodies from MB5 so if you come from MR2 there's no need to wipe data.
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Goodies from mb5?

I don't remember seeing any.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Contacts stuff or something. Check the WanamLite thread in the development section.

Btw, can't seem to upload to Mega today. The upload just freezes.
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Yeah, MB5 was pretty much the same as the rest of the MB series. I could tell even without flashing it. :p

So, what you're saying is that the latest MC1 has caught up with my old MR2? :p
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
I'm saying Wanam said something like that, yeah. ^^
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Yeah, I just checked that. :D

Cool, cool. I was definitely up for flashing MC1 anyway! Now, all I need to do is wait for some European firmware and wait for Perka to upload it to his magical kingdom of fast downloads. Then, I'll write up a proper review. I haven't written one in ages. :angel:
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
You're getting rusty, my good Sir!
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Heck, no! I'll make sure it's one fine review! :angel:
[Galaxy S III General] maccboy2010:
bricked my s3 woops

i tried flashing stock firmware and the pit file and when it was flashing my battery went on my laptop what a idiot!!! thought id plugged it in. now i cant get into cwm i can only get into odin mode volume down. can anyone give me the proper files its just the proper pit file for uk 16gb unlocked that i need. and is my phone hard bricked or soft bricked? thanks
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

Download XXEMB5 zip file from Sammobile and flash the .tar.md5 file within the downloaded zip using Odin. Use the PDA file entry in Odin and don't touch any option check boxes especially PIT.

This will hopefully get you the latest UK unbranded ROM.

Peter
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Uhm, if the battery crapped out whilst the pit was flashing, I'd say you're pretty much toast now.
[Galaxy S III General] mchu6am4:
Bricked phone

Anyone know what country/network this phone as I'm trying to fix a bricked phone please...

-Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300

-FCC ID: A3LGTI9300A

-SSN: -I9300GSMH
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMB5 (4.1.2) - United Kingdom (BTU) [07-03-13]

I DID warn about flashing pit file a day or two ago. In fact I said it's NOT recommended. I'd be surprised if you could recover from this.

U obviously have the correct file from before right? Try flashing again and see how it goes. My guess is that the flash will fail and you could be needing a new motherboard.

I really hope u prove me wrong.
[Galaxy S III General] born4trance:
... :crying: