yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] adie1234:
Came from mc2 to mg4 and noticed my signal is poor.... on orange/ee :mad:
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
No.
[Galaxy S III General] Marsbar:
better battery on EMG4

So I flashed EMG4 from EMF6 and my battery life has gone back to what it was with the original ICS firmware - unplugged at 0730 and now (nearly 6 hours later) it's reading 78%. Normally by now it would be at the 55% mark. Last night I plugged in to charge at midnight and it had only just gone past 50% (whereas recently by that time it's been getting towards 0).

Happy camper :)

I guess it's related to the network (I'm on O2 UK so I guess it's likely to be optimised for it), but I don't remember battery life being this good with the last BTU.

I'll probably keep this one until 4.3, unless something pops up that's seriously worth an upgrade.
[Galaxy S III General] ysrini:
Interesting. Let us know how it pans after 3 full charges.
[Galaxy S III General] Marsbar:
Sure.

I'm not suggesting this will definitely apply for everyone else, but it looks like such a significant change (so far after 36 hours' use it looks like it's about doubled my battery life) I thought it was worth mentioning in case other UK users had decided not to bother upgrading.
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
I agree. The battery life looks pretty good.
[Galaxy S III General] leoniedelt:
I'm on EE/Orange and finding the battery life is nowhere near what the EMF6 was. Also i find its on 3G instead of H+ most of the time now, and all the swapping around is running my battery down. Also it gets hot.

Clean flash, clean wipe, using philz, formatted everything.
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Settings/more settings/mobile networks/select operator........You should see 2 EE to choose from, one defaults to orange, one defaults to t-mobile, Orange have always had rubbish signal, so go for the t mob one and you will get h/h+ back

Note that once this is done you may lose it again if you go into no signal area and it might default back to the Orange one!

I think usually the EE that appears top in the list is the stronger signal ie. T mobile
[Galaxy S III General] leoniedelt:
Interesting - i cant tell one EE from the other. I will have to play with it.

Since it seems i'm stuck on this modem anyway!
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
That I'd the problem since they renamed them both to EE.....I think the upper one is the stronger signal possibly? Ie. Tmob
[Galaxy S III General] leoniedelt:
Will have a fiddle with it, thank you. The EMF6 modem was the best i've tried so far. Shame i got into a big hurry with the "new" BTU software, bleh.
[Galaxy S III General] MattBooth:
My GF's on Orange and her phone did indeed say 3G instead of H+. She got 5Mbit Down and 2.5Mbit up, still, though.

EDIT:

Ok, I switched networks on her phone to the SECOND EE in the list and it then went onto H+ and got 7.60Mbit down and 3.99MBit up.

A marked improvement :D
[Galaxy S III General] leoniedelt:
Yes its the SECOND ee. Got 9000kbps down and 1500kbps up just now.
[Galaxy S III General] xrad:
Does anyone know if that new MG4 modem (which was reported to prevent modem downgrades once installed) will affect me when I install cm10.1/2? Even with the mandatory full wipe I'd be worried about that IMEI reformat that was talked about.

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 10 mit Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] SignetSphere:
See this thread for more info: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2377731
[Galaxy S III General] leoniedelt:
still burns through my battery at an alarming rate though. something to do with the screen? seems to get hot, too. EMF6 never got hot :/
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Have a look in your battery stats and see if media scanner is using a lot, or post a screen shot :)
[Galaxy S III General] leoniedelt:
Screenshot attached. I read fb, twitter and chrome for about 30 mins this morning, lost 9 pct of my batt.
[Galaxy S III General] boomboomer:
I'm finding EMG4 about the same battery life as EMF6, not really noticed any major difference in wifi/gprs strength or speed with the new modem.

Usual solutions to poor battery life/heating are freezing all the bloat, convert Google apps to user then greenify everything that doesn't have a widget. Power saving mode and auto screen brightness turned on - all this gets me 2 days average use with around 6 hrs screen on time included.
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Run bbs for a cycle and see if their are any abnormal wakelocks/partial wakelocks
[Galaxy S III General] boomboomer:
Facebook and the app launcher are the odd ones out from that screen, ditch fb and use another launcher.
[Galaxy S III General] leoniedelt:
I have everything greenified. I have moved all the bloat that i can using systemcleanup. Deleted most apks, hibernated a few more.

Unfortunately i use facebook, its one of the things i have the phone for (sold my nokia N9 to get a phone with an easier fb/tw/instagram/etc experience).

Another launcher? I've never done that before, no idea what to look at using instead. In fact, i've never seen launcher in the list before. Odd.

BBS lists some odd wake locks that i probably ought to get to the bottom of if i can.
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
As it stands it's not too bad

30 mins screen on=6% approx

1 hour standby=1-1.5%

Leaving 1.5-2% browser and Facebook etc
[Galaxy S III General] mdacic:
That's normal for 30 minutes of work.
[Galaxy S III General] leoniedelt:
Maybe i got lucky on EMF6 - it would only have costed me 5%. perhaps less.

I am using perseus kernel, and i did with EMF6. I wonder if there's something that needs tweaking?

I also discovered my screen wasnt set to "natural" colours - so i just fixed that.
[Galaxy S III General] jargalus:
How is the heating issue on this release? I has on ELA and had absolutely no problem with heating or batery but flashing ich got me and i upgraded to MC2 and my phone has a realy hot screan now adter only 5 min of use. So im thinking not to go from worse to even worser.
[Galaxy S III General] tonyt3rry:
I've always had heat problems with my phone ever since hitting jelly bean
[Galaxy S III General] kristiandm:
Change kernel

CHANGE KERNEL , use lonas kernel find int in esp-desarroladores, download 4.7 stock and will alucinate
[Galaxy S III General] leoniedelt:
I have always used perseus, and i've always had staggeringly good battery life on 4.1.2. So if this update works better with a different kernel, i'll stay with stock (which i'm on currently as i reflashed the lot last night trying to sort it all out)
[Galaxy S III General] kristiandm:
probe it

probe and after coment
[Galaxy S III General] leoniedelt:
actually i am reading good things about googy max kernel. will try it. since i am stuck on this modem, bleh.
[Galaxy S III General] kristiandm:
secret

i cant speak about googy, i cant demostrate it , is private, but probe lonas kernel
[Galaxy S III General] leoniedelt:
Es bueno que hablo un poquito de espanol, ¿si?

Thanks man. Will look it up. Anything to survive this terrible modem.
[Galaxy S III General] Smartie36:
Is it possible to have a bad flash with odin, I ask as I'm having wifi issues with MG4, never had this issue with any previous firmware and as I've not seen anyone else in this thread talking about wifi issues with this latest firmware I'm wondering if re-flashing MG4 might fix it.
[Galaxy S III General] nelsonw:
Did u tried Boeffla Kernel? It's the best for me. Lonas seems nice, but it isn't configurable, u need to download a lot of versions. Boeffla u customise it with an app.

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There's a lot of talk on the previous pages about MG4 modem. Take a look.
[Galaxy S III General] Smartie36:
Yep I know about that but as far as I'm aware the wifi drivers are in the kernel, not the modern.
[Galaxy S III General] nelsonw:
Well in that case u can try a different Kernel, but wifi reception is managed for the modem also.
[Galaxy S III General] leoniedelt:
Yeah boeffla also eats my battery.

Emf6 plus perseus was treatibg me all right.

Something about emg4 doesn't do too well wrt the screen or net use cos having either one on no matter which kernel I have, seems to munch my battery like 4.2.2 did. Not impressed.
[Galaxy S III General] nelsonw:
Thanks for the info. I'll wait a little to flash this. BTW there's a EFS fixer for Windows. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1308546.

Maybe u can downgrade the modem.
[Galaxy S III General] Smartie36:
As I said the modem has nothing to do with the wifi, that's all dealt with by the drivers in the kernel. I've now flashed mf6 back on my s3, still using the mg4 modem and all is well now, all the wifi issues I was having with mg4 rom have been sorted.
[Galaxy S III General] MattBooth:
No, all radio transmission is handled by the modem. However, the "driver" is still in the kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] amosolidu:
MG5 free india is comming on samfirmware.com ;)
[Galaxy S III General] JohnnyGT:
Model: GT-I9300

Country: India

Version: Android 4.1.2

Changelist: 1292854

Build date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:04:22 +0000

Product Code: INU

PDA: I9300XXEMG5

CSC: I9300ODDEMG1

MODEM: I9300DDEMG2

Download : http://www.hotfile.com/dl/236573306/9842bf5/I9300XXEMG5_I9300ODDEMG1_INU.zip.html

or choose from .... Sri Lanka ,Bangladesh downloads
[Galaxy S III General] AdL2012:
guys i have a huge problem...

i make a restore of my EFS folder with EFS Profesional and my phone dosent want to start again,it remains on Samsung logo and after few seconds its restarting,and again restarting,and restarting forever...i make a wipe data and nothing,i reflashed XXEMG4 and still nothing,continuously restarts

in recovery mode i have this error message :

E: failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument)

and the CSC is unknown

please i need help immediately because i need my phone on work...
[Galaxy S III General] IamIrene:
changelist is lower, not going to flash it
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
I really don't believe that there's anything left for Samsung to update. They should just give us a finalized 4.2.2 OS and then tell us that they're working on 4.3.

Enough is enough. :mad:
[Galaxy S III General] SignetSphere:
Agreed. But this is the problem with android. The fragmentation of updates. However I've read somewhere that Samsung is gearing up 4.3 for it's older flagship phones on Q4 so the earliest month we can get the update will arrive on October (waiting time again :rolleyes: )

BTW. I missed reading your comments here DeadSOL lol
[Galaxy S III General] habylab:
What are they updating? All these updates in the last 2 months seriously could be placebos... I've noticed very little, but have expected differences. If it was silently updated by someone else for me, I'm sure I would not have noticed.
[Galaxy S III General] kalebdevil:
Hope this can help you.....

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2087567
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Yeah, sorry about that! I've been really busy and had to shift. I've got no internet at my new place and I've been looking for something cheap. Until then, I can only come on XDA twice a week when I have classes in university (if I have time to visit XDA). :p

So, expect a little less of me! :(
[Galaxy S III General] samydroid:
mobile internet... xda app...? :P
[Galaxy S III General] rul3z:
So is it worth upgrading from MC2 to MG4, or should i just stick to MC2 with jkay ? Noone is posting about the good stuff from it so I'm worried :silly:
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Much better Wi-Fi and signal here, jkays has been ported to it, generally smoother and quicker, imho definitely worth the upgrade, as usual the improvements are incremental so don't expect miracles, but it feels better all round (been running it since day of release)....as of yesterday I'm running boeffla on it also, and jkays.
[Galaxy S III General] amosolidu:
Long time ago ....in another generation of samsung (galaxy s) it was a program for changing efs partition To ext 4 !?!? some dev can updatethisto work on galaxy 9300 and solve the efs problem ????
[Galaxy S III General] popcorn1122:
I9300XXEMG5 of India has a higher modem MG5? will it further change efs? or would it read efs made by MG4?

I am downloading it as it is in my region. not sure what would happen next.
[Galaxy S III General] zoot1:
If I am not wrong the modem is emg2
[Galaxy S III General] popcorn1122:
You are right, but i am trying as i have no other option after flashing the btu mg4

:)

will update once I have answer
[Galaxy S III General] jignesh4933:
same problem with mg4
[Galaxy S III General] abhibnl:
ANy chance of a flashable cwm zip of indian latest build/rom??
[Galaxy S III General] jignesh4933:
bro i have same problem,,,,,,,have u tried MG5 firmware?? it helped or not.....??????
[Galaxy S III General] popcorn1122:
I installed MG5 and the modem has no problem.

It is MG2 and the network works and imei works !

INU rocks !

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I installed MG5 and the modem has no problem.

It is MG2 and the network works and imei works !

INU rocks !
[Galaxy S III General] ysrini:
Which firmware did u have before going to the latest MG5?
[Galaxy S III General] popcorn1122:
The UK btu MG4
[Galaxy S III General] ysrini:
That means the UK MG4 and INDIA MG5 have the same type of modem which read the modified EFS.

Right?
[Galaxy S III General] SignetSphere:
Looks like it since they're in the same "MG" filename.
[Galaxy S III General] popcorn1122:
Yes correct. I am on I9300DDEMG2 official modem of INU http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-I9300 - I9300XXEMG5 -- Changelist 1292854

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The only test which I need to do is to roll back to old official INU version and check if modems work.

I am in office and it will take 10 hours more to conduct that test. I am now tooo scared to do it though... if someone does it it wold be of great help.
[Galaxy S III General] AdL2012:
where i can find a list of all modems...for exemple XXEMC2 modem??

thanks
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
By using some initiative and reading the stickies?
[Galaxy S III General] subfire91:
im abit confused. which is the newesr of all MG4 MG5 or MF6 ?any significant differences or preferences between these 3 ?
[Galaxy S III General] popcorn1122:
in modems MG4 is latest

MG5 modems are still not released. MG5 in this case is the PDA version
[Galaxy S III General] sachilleas:
Sorry for the noob question. I guess I've been using aosp roms for too long and now that I came back to latest Stock I can't find how to change standby timeout after the screen is off. Is there such option like in 4.2 roms?
[Galaxy S III General] Painman1963:
The setting is under Display Settings not Lockscreen Settings

Sorry, I thought I was in the Leaked forum and therefore misread your question. I can't help you I'm afraid. Perhaps a repost in the QA section might help
[Galaxy S III General] AdL2012:
after i flashed XXEMG4 and then i returned to XXEMF6 my phone was dead,blocked on samsung logo

today i get him back to life but still have an incorect IMEI (0049...) and no network,i try almost all things from XDA and still nothing

i make a backup first to flash with EFS_Pro_1.3.2 and resulted a image file(4MB),when i restored the backup nothing changed...my phone still have another IMEI and its dead on network...

it is anyone here who can help me to get my phone back to line please??? :(
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
Flash MG4 Modem.
[Galaxy S III General] AdL2012:
like i said i tried almost all tricks and still not working... :(
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
I had the same problem and flashing the later modem worked for me.
[Galaxy S III General] AdL2012:
not work for me and i dont know why :confused:

if i restore the EFS backup same problem :rolleyes:

i think there is a problem with EFS_Pro_1.3.2 because its a old version
[Galaxy S III General] ahac85:
Try this one http://db.tt/AdHu5doD I used that version and it worked fine

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Time constraints. :p
[Galaxy S III General] ifzaal305:
still cannot make calls

My stock is I9300XXEMC2, after that I used XXEMG4. then i moved to the stock again, IMEI changed and unable to make calls. I again went back to the XXEMG4, still with the same problem. changed IMEI and unable to make calls.

HELP PLZ

My phone My stock is I9300XXEMC2 (region - france XEF)
[Galaxy S III General] charlyboy1:
i don't understand, if everybody say that it;s probleme with xxemg4 why you flashed, or why you didn.t stay on it?
[Galaxy S III General] joevik:
What are the changes in the new firmware (MF6) ?
[Galaxy S III General] AdL2012:
if you dont have an EFS backup it wont be easy to resolve this problem....try to flash XXEMG4 modem

i have the same problem :(
[Galaxy S III General] TigerCourage:
Finally got my S3 replaced by the warranty. EMG4 here and it works wonders :)
[Galaxy S III General] emokid09:
will this format my phone? got really far on alot of games :p

ps will this be ok to upgrade to from xxemb6 build number xxemd3

edit: ive just realized something odd, my phone was bought legitimately from a UK store (p4u) and it upgraded itself to a Turkish build number... how strange of it

edit 2: so i downloaded an english firmware from sammobile, a vodafone one, and it turned my phone german!! this phone is possessed!! off back to phones4u and complaining, theyve obviously sent me a duff phone
[Galaxy S III General] mab71:
Will this mg4 modem benefit users from Malaysia? As this is a UK rom
[Galaxy S III General] Blush91:
Anyone having issues restoring app data with ultimate back up
[Galaxy S III General] IamIrene:
I am Malaysian as well

however I flash the omega 43.9 which base on EMG5

its okay for me
[Galaxy S III General] Garreth88:
Seems like a lot of people are having troubles with the latest version. Indie, why no reaction from you? Maybe it's not good to flash this one?
[Galaxy S III General] sarbe:
These are stock firmwares not Omega.
[Galaxy S III General] Garreth88:
Oops, had two tabs opened;P
[Galaxy S III General] sarbe:
Ha ha it happens mate.
[Galaxy S III General] rubbem06:
helpppppppppppppp

hello Faryaab .. who speaks is a big fan of your work ..

Always follow your firmwares for gt i9300 (s3) and I've installed all ..

but install the last XXEMG4 and not let me install roms I get UNREGISTERED RED .. attempt to return to a previous firmware or other I9300XXEMF1 I9300XXEMF6 or above and nothing in all the microsim does not recognize me and the imei is different and the original 001 is 354 .... I've been looking around here I might xda to install him I upgrade this firmware XXEMG4 EFS folder and so I read the microsim and the imei is different ...

And it is here where everything is confusing me (do not understand) ..

because if I reinstall the whole XXEMG4 drives me imei is correct microsim I read everything .... I get excited and say what I just achieved it repaired ..

and I root and install the CWM to install the rom (pure rom s4 style or glamor or

any other rom) and everything returns to how it was before without any microsim coverage imei starts with 00 and yet again ..... (help me please) ..

and not to do if you want to use I have to flash by odin firmware XXEMG4 is the only one who read everything but will not let me set you anything (any rom)

just ask some pity for someone who is willing to sacrifice his s3 to continue using your input friend help me not leave me this way and that but do not really ... (and do not know what I had to work to buy this great
[Galaxy S III General] popcorn1122:
I would suggest you to install the BTU latest ROM of UK for s3.

Then wait for a new stock ROM released for your region and install it.
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
Just stick with MG4 modem
[Galaxy S III General] Oomahey:
You, sir, need to read this. :good:
[Galaxy S III General] kovai:
G4 problem

dear Faryaab

i have put the G4 BTU rom

now G5 is there for India

but lot of people are complaining that if we move from G4 to any other ROM IMEI would be lost and wont be able to make calls

is it true ?

can i flash G5 from India over G4

is it safe?

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anyone plse help

can I flash EMG5 over EMG4

is it safe
[Galaxy S III General] mdfpido:
I haven't tried updating to the new MG5 ROM as I'm very satisfied with the MG4 (even though I'm on CM10.1 but just having the MG4 modem), but it seems that you'll just lose your IMEI if you DOWNGRADE from MG4 to previous ROMs. Since you're upgrading from MG4 to MG5, I "think" you're good to go.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, people.

Sent from a place where the sun don't shine
[Galaxy S III General] Smartie36:
You can also downgrade to previous roms as long as you keep the mg4 (or later) modem, which is what I did when I went back to mf6 rom from mg4 as that one was a bit buggy for my liking.
[Galaxy S III General] kovai:
but MG5 has only Mg2 modem

is it ok to flash it over MG4
[Galaxy S III General] mdfpido:
As stated above you, you can flash it as long as you'll flash the MG4 modem later on.

Sent from a place where the sun don't shine
[Galaxy S III General] kovai:
but how flash MD4 modem over MD2 modem

i read in other forum that any MG firmware can be flashed is it right

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that is MG5 if flashed over MG4 will not create any problem

is it right
[Galaxy S III General] emokid09:
why when i update to latest UK firmware does it set up in german? all my apps are german, the language is german... im not german, im not in germany.

im confused.

even samsung, phones4u and vodafone are confused. help!!!!
[Galaxy S III General] Moskyz:
If you flash the MG4 and after you want to downgrade you will lose you IMEI cause Samsung change the partition of the EFS folder :eek: so if you have a backup of it you can downgrade and restore the EFS but if u don't have one u can't and if you downgrade you will lose the IMEI and your phone will can do only emergency call.:D After it u can throw it in the bathroom :p:p:p

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Yes :D you will have problems only if you flash a previous firmware than the MG4 :thumbup: if you have rooted your phone you should backup the efs :sly: It's an advice
[Galaxy S III General] raff222:
and behavior? Worth changing?
[Galaxy S III General] emokid09:
mine seems a little more stable, not had any force closes or crashes yet (fingers crossed) my only flaw was it setting up in german. other than that no problems... YET
[Galaxy S III General] Brotuck:
Getting pretty decent batterylife here. Two hours screen on and still 45% left after a day.

Running stock MG4 ROM and Modem.
[Galaxy S III General] Ryanscobberwash:
Well the Galaxy s2 plus in Germany has official 4.2.2 now and so does the Galaxy tab 2 7.0........... this is upsetting :(
[Galaxy S III General] tonyt3rry:
Just read the same I'm thinking it got 4.2.2 because its the last for that phone and ours will get straight 4.3
[Galaxy S III General] emokid09:
i read a few reviews saying they gave up with 4.2.2 because of bugs and instead are focusing on giving us 4.3

which will include upto 90% of what the s4 has. which begs the question, why would you get the s4 when our lovely s3's will be identical (nearly)

i think the s4 was what the s3 SHOULD have been, but samsung just wanted to get the phone out and selling.

i must say though i was playing on the s4 active in a shop and its was stunning. the s4 zoom is just silly, huge camera with a phone strapped to the back. looks ridiculous.

my friend has the s4 and i have the s3, he prefers mine due to it been 'easier to live with'

i just hope they give us the 4.3 soon
[Galaxy S III General] x7moodx:
Designed For Humen :p
[Galaxy S III General] reS28raM:
Always thought the same! They needed the S3 out just for competing with iPhone 5, but the true S3 is the S4...

Nevertheless at the moment the S3 is better and so it will be for a while.