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[Galaxy S III General] lucalunardi:
Just a heads up...

Hi fellas!

I got this update on Kies, so I thought "What a Hell?" And gave it a try... Guess what? Failed update and stuck in recovery mode...

I guess it was because some problem with the usb port (even it's a laptop)... Only got the update to work after a few tries in different usb ports.

My piece of advice (something I already now but stupidly ignored) is... AVOID KIES.

Ending flashing now.. I'll talk more about this rom in a few days ;)
[Galaxy S III General] SignetSphere:
Always use ODIN. KIES sucks big time xD
[Galaxy S III General] lucalunardi:
Sure... It was 30 seconds of dumbness...

The update reactivated a lot of stuff I had deactivated before. Beside that nothing different to the eye yet. I'll let everybody know if I notice something, but I guess there will be nothing.

Edit 1: Home button to wake device send you back to the app not to home screen as previous builds. Finally!!!

Edit 2: Memory usage seems improved compared to emc2 btu... Contacts and Dialer lag remains (2 to 3 seconds)... Home button to home screen has little lag (about 0,5 s).

I'll keeping updating this...

Sent from my phone using the "Send" button.
[Galaxy S III General] xrad:
MD5

[MENTION=1828342]Faryaab[/MENTION]: what is the md5 sum of the sammobile version? It would be great if you could always include the md5 sum in the first post.
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
WHERES MA 4.3 BEACH? :P

As it looks like samsung might be skipping 4.2.2 officialy to support 4.3 directly... No ETA though, so let's just hope they release it withthin a year LOL
[Galaxy S III General] ysrini:
Get ready to hear this from Samsung, in a couple of months "We will directly update the S3 to Android 5.0 so no 4.3 update" :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] FD10:
I've already found it :good:

But not in the last 1-2 pages as nelsonw said
[Galaxy S III General] Painman1963:
I couldn't find it 1-2 pages back either that's why I suggested Perka's Stash. Having his app onboard saves me having to have everything downloaded on my ext sd card
[Galaxy S III General] ysrini:
Guys who are using the recent MF6 / MG4 ROMs, if you can confirm this, it will be helpful for everyone:

Do we have issues like ones stated below, in the latest ROMs or Is everything normal until now ?

Note 2 - ME6 and MF2 Issue:

"With Note 2, there are problems with the recent ME6 and MF2 ROMs, where in the latest kernel changes the EFS folder and when you go back to older ROMs the IMEI is not read by the old modems. Possible solutions being (1) Go back to old ROM but flash latest Modem (2) Restore EFS backed up before the new ROM"
[Galaxy S III General] SignetSphere:
Ah... right this happened to me i think? I tried to flash MC2 modem+ril and i didn't get any signal the IMEI got messed up too. Then again I flashed the MG4 modem+ril and it did have a signal with my IMEI restored.

Is this what you mean?
[Galaxy S III General] ysrini:
Seems so, do you know which ROM caused this? MF6? MG4?
[Galaxy S III General] SignetSphere:
I'm on MF6 right now so i can't tell if this happens on MG4 too.
[Galaxy S III General] ysrini:
If you are in MF6 can you try to flash the old modem say MC2 or MB3 and see if it is okay and you get correct IMEI. If it works all is well. If not, we should then guess something has changed the EFS partition.
[Galaxy S III General] SignetSphere:
I don't have the MB3 modem/ril but i tried the MC2 one still the same. Perhaps MF6 or higher has changed the EFS partition? Weird.

Anyway the solution for me right now is to have the MG4 modem.
[Galaxy S III General] ysrini:
With MF6 ROMs modem what's the case?
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
+1 : Same problem for me. XXEMG4 only works with XXEMG4 modem/RIL.

Peter
[Galaxy S III General] nelsonw:
True. I was reading 2 threads about this ROM and got confused. Sorry. :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] ysrini:
Ah! Did you come to MG4 from a MF6 ROM?
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
Yes I did. XXEMD3 (Turkey) -> XXEMF6 (Spain) -> XXEMG4 (UK).

I didn't notice the problem with XXEMF6, as far as I can remember I flashed the XXEMB6 modem with it and had no problems.

Peter
[Galaxy S III General] ysrini:
So, The MG4 does not get the IMEI with the MF6 (Spain) modem is what you say. Right Peter?

Any chance you tried MD3 modem with MF6?
[Galaxy S III General] SignetSphere:
Same. but what's more weird is that MF6 firmware with an MF6 modem shows i can only make emergency calls lol. Flashing back to MG4 modem again.
[Galaxy S III General] golcheck:
so how long does it take for Samsung to get MG4 via OTA? I'm still on MC2 (BTU)
[Galaxy S III General] msaraiva:
Stop messing with RIL. You should never change that. And only try a different modem if you are experiencing signal problems.
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
I have just tried the MF6 modem with MG4 and it does not work. The IMEI is corrupt (004999010640000/01). So I guess that the change to the EFS happened with flashing the XXEMG4 ROM and all previous modems will now no longer work.

Peter
[Galaxy S III General] ysrini:
(1) Yes, I guess it will be that way, because the MG4 Kernel changed the EFS partition and hence the MF6 modem cannot read it anymore.

(2) If you have MF6 firmware and MF6 modem you can restore EFS backed up during that time. All will be okay then.

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Thanks for trying it out Peter.

This is exactly my point, to know which ROM is changing the EFS either MF6 or MG4 and to stay away from that for time being?

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I cannot agree more.

But at this moment we doubt there is some new ROM (MG4 or MF6) that is modifying the EFS and making it hard to get IMEI when you go back to an older firmware. We are trying t figure out which one is that culprit.
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
It's not the "kernel" itself since I've been running the same Boeffla kernel 2.13 with both XXEMF6 and XXEMG4 ROMs. It's elsewhere in the ROM package other than the kernel specifically. I am sure that it is the XXEMG4 ROM that has made the change since XXEMF6 ROM worked with XXEMB6 modem.

Peter
[Galaxy S III General] SignetSphere:
Well I am having problems with regards to my signal that's why i'm trying different modems. And since the MG4 modem is working fine for me i'm gonna stick to it for a while. :)

I see. But i'll be jumping to MG4 soon so I guess i'll have to stick with this setup for a while.
[Galaxy S III General] msaraiva:
And that's is perfectly fine. Just don't replace RIL. There's a reason it changes between ROM versions, unlike modem, which can be the same.
[Galaxy S III General] ysrini:
Okie. Thanks for updating. Since I run only stock I have been thinking its the kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] sachilleas:
I have Gorgoid custom Rom MF6 (which comes with Boeffla kernel) and some days ago I flashed MC2 modem+RIL without any problems so far ..

Maybe it's a pure stock Rom thing?
[Galaxy S III General] SignetSphere:
The problem will only occur IF...

1. You flashed the MG4 on top of a previous firmware or a custom rom based on it.

(I'm not really sure about the custom roms based on MG4 since developers can freely modify a custom rom)

UPDATE: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=43946365&postcount=15

2. You flashed the MG4 modem+RIL on the MF6 firmware then if you try to revert back to the MF6 modem

it won't read the IMEI hence you only will get emergency calls. You need to retain the MG4 modem in order for the IMEI to be read.

(Just like what happened to mine)
[Galaxy S III General] berkeesmer:
I've flashed this rom yesterday and i am having the same IMEI and no signal, no calls problem. So i didn't have a backup and i tried to fix the efs folder by myself. I may broke it more. Would it work if I flash the rom again? I am a little noob..
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
MF6 is not affected. Only MG4 (so far).

Peter
[Galaxy S III General] SignetSphere:
I'm not quite sure myself but If you tried to fix the EFS partition without seeking help first then i'm afraid that you may have corrupted it. The only solution I know is to have the backed up EFS restored or have it fix by samsung themselves. If you would like to seek more help then I suggest that you either search for a topic that has the same problem and if you can't find one then create a topic on the Q & A thread.
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
A full ODIN flash of the entire XXEMG4 ROM file (KIES_HOME_I9300XXEMG4_I9300OXAEMG4_1314436_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5) might fix your phone if you're lucky. Do not alter any of the ODIN 3.04 checkboxes - specifically NEVER select Re-Partition.

Peter

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The RIL seems to be irrelevant. I've tried flashing just an older modem (XXEMB6 to be precise) leaving the RIL alone and it still doesn't work (corrupt IMEI). The only modem which works after flashing ROM XXEMG4 is XXEMG4.

Has anyone tried to do a full flash of stock XXEMF6 after having flashed XXEMG4? Does it work? Or is the change to EFS permanent once you have flashed XXEMG4 and the only way out is to restore an EFS backup or live with the new modem?

Peter
[Galaxy S III General] berkeesmer:
After flashing the full EMG4 Rom, IMEI problem is fixed.
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
I posted this in the other thread that has been made, but I think I should post here regarding the imei problem after rolling a rom back after the MG4 update:

I think this needs more studying, I'm not sating it's not an issue, but I just checked mount points for each partition in adb checking the mounts folder, and that shows this:

/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 /efs ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1,journal_async_co mmit,data=ordered 0 0

which tells me that /efs is not seen as a folder, but a seperate partition with the mount point mmcblk0p3. Therefore unless the Odin tar has an efs.img inside it cannot be changed flashing a stock rom, and this rom only contains system, recovery, boot, modem, cache, hidden, bootloader and trustzone, so by all rights the update cannot change the efs, therefore the problem you are explaining must be down to something else.

So before jumping to conclusions I would suggest a dev looks into the issue and tries to find the cause.
[Galaxy S III General] ysrini:
We aren't into any conclusion yet, we are still trying to Find which all ROMs cause it and also how do they occur (i.e. by flashing entire ROM or only modem/RIl etc.) and to make people aware of this issue.
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
It's jumping to conclusions because everyone is saying the efs partition is being modified when no tars have contained an efs.img therefore the chances of it being modified is extremely low.
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
No, efs.img is never shipped as it is unique to each phone. Any change to it would have been the result of a setup script.

However, the nv.log file which I believe records changes to nv_data.bin has a few telltale entries from about the time I flashed XXEMG4 yesterday - the first two lines have never appeared in the log before.

Wed Jul 24 13:23:54 2013: input from cp

Wed Jul 24 13:23:54 2013: 2nd NV built

Wed Jul 24 13:23:54 2013: NV data back-uped

Peter
[Galaxy S III General] ahac85:
Im still on XXMD3 and I just flashed modem and ril of the new XXMG4 and all was fine till I flashed an older modem and ril which wss XXMA5 which resulted in losing imei.....I then flashed the XXMG4 modem and ril on the same rom (XXMD3) and IMEI was back to normal again... I prefer new modem since in getting great network signal

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] SignetSphere:
This is what exactly happened to me.
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
OK, so perhaps it's the XXEMG4 modem itself which is "upgrading" the way in which the IMEI is stored and this is not compatible with older modems?
[Galaxy S III General] ysrini:
Would it be possible for you to look at the nv log file mentioned above to see for a log entry to confirm?
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
Yes! So it looks like the XXEMG4 modem which is modifying the nv_data.bin file and "upgrading" the IMEI storage in some way.
[Galaxy S III General] SignetSphere:
So this answers our issue i think?
[Galaxy S III General] ysrini:
May be one of the factors. :)

Any clue why samsung wanna do this?
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
Wondering if JB 4.2.2 or LTE 4G have something to do with it? Maybe they want to streamline modems or it could be an encryption security issue? All speculation though.
[Galaxy S III General] MattBooth:
I noticed way better speeds yesterday at one point on XXEMG4, but it could've been Three doing upgrades.

I'm testing XXEMD3's modem now to see if I can confirm what you guys are saying.

EDIT:

Yep, older modem's don't work anymore.
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Same here, and not just data, Wi-Fi much stronger now as well, at last!
[Galaxy S III General] mikailmohammed:
MG4 could be used in V14?
[Galaxy S III General] tonyt3rry:
Any difference with the firmware? I'm hoping a firmware will speed up my s3 we have had 3 4.1.2 updates now
[Galaxy S III General] kswiss86:
Nope. If you want more speed you have to go to aosp ROM like cm 10.1
[Galaxy S III General] tonyt3rry:
:( gutted ahh well not long left until payday :) trade for n4
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
Hello.

I'd like to link you my post located here about new panic with /efs corruption, lost IMEIs etc.

So if anybody is looking for such info, here you go.

~Archi
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
Or Boeffla kernel which is awesome.
[Galaxy S III General] toxic34:
Have installed the latest firmware now I'm stuck in a bootloop. Ohh heck!
[Galaxy S III General] kswiss86:
It is a really good kernel but it can't do touchwiz smoother;)
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
Nova? ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
Did you try to wipe everything in recovery mode cache/data?
[Galaxy S III General] kswiss86:
Maybe a combo of boffalo and nova;)
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
That's what I have! No lag even in undervolted battery saving mode and battery still at 50% despite lots of use today.
[Galaxy S III General] kswiss86:
Will try.... just had a nexus 4 for a few days and now back to s3. Nexus with stock Android was really speedy and Light. :D

Speacialy in Camera app, , Gallery and phone app
[Galaxy S III General] tonyt3rry:
What do you prefer nexus or Samsung
[Galaxy S III General] bixano:
do you think it's worth the switch from s3 to nexus 4 ?

I'm think about it .....
[Galaxy S III General] tonyt3rry:
Is this on ota I can't be bothered flashing via odin
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Thanks, mate! :)

I've just been really busy this last month. This is the second time in a month that I've looked at the forums here. Let me just get settled into my new place and then, hopefully, I'll be back! I've been so out of it that I didn't even know Android 4.3 was coming out until after it was released! :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] nelsonw:
Full wipe can fix this.

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Yes, u can flash it via Odin!
[Galaxy S III General] tonyt3rry:
I asked if I could use ota and not use odin I seen people aving problems after flashing
[Galaxy S III General] nelsonw:
Sorry, misunderstood. Only if you are in the UK and it appears to download on your phone. U can wait for a custom ROM also.
[Galaxy S III General] tonyt3rry:
is it safe to do so, just it stops me from downgrading? im not gonna have the phone much longer anyway
[Galaxy S III General] nelsonw:
Look I never had problems with Odin, if you have a stable computer and the original cable, can't have any issue. Most problems are due to bad Chinese cables.
[Galaxy S III General] tonyt3rry:
I've only ever had a problem once I only wanted to use ota as people have had some sort of problem with flashing this that's all.
[Galaxy S III General] dmatik:
So if I'm fully stock MF6, just rooted. Can I flash this new MG4 using Mobile Odin without full wipe? Or I must do a full wipe?

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III General] ysrini:
You can but it will change EFS folder. Make sure u back up EFS
[Galaxy S III General] toxic34:
Yeah only after I paniced for quite a while though lol.

All up and running now thx :D
[Galaxy S III General] techgeekdb:
Clock font

I must have that clock font. Can someone confirm if it's in that large file (or can they post the ttf itself)?

Thanks all
[Galaxy S III General] wanam:
I deodexed SlideShow by adding SecGallery2 to the bcp, it seems like the missing SMemo dependency isn't there at all :confused: .
[Galaxy S III General] jassari:
nice

chainfire ... you are the best ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Obliterator:
Don't even think of flashing it.
[Galaxy S III General] gljiva:
I'm on Standby :)
[Galaxy S III General] Obliterator:
That.

You know that it's not a system app., so it will probs be lying around somewhere not in /system/app . It will probs be called something like com.flipboard. something.
[Galaxy S III General] harise100:
(I know, the thread shouldn't be cluttered with OT...)

... but can anybody please explain me why on earth any sane person would attempt to flash a SGS3 ROM on any other device?? :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] Faryaab:
Because they think that they can turn a year old device into a shiny new Galaxy S III. :p
[Galaxy S III General] ÜBER™:
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! :D people are too damn funny.
[Galaxy S III General] wanam:
Actually it's not a joke, i received to Msgs from 2 peoples trying to install this Rom on SGS2 :confused: .
[Galaxy S III General] eXecuter.bin:
We got the firmware before the device is even released, impressive :p
[Galaxy S III General] Quietstorm11364:
S-Voice

Is there a non-rooted version for others?
[Galaxy S III General] tjtj4444:
Well, it sort of works, they'll brick their phones and buy a SGSIII as replacement :)
[Galaxy S III General] :
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10char
[Galaxy S III General] turboblaz:
Yeah that'd be great :D

Cheers mate !
[Galaxy S III General] veyka:
Notice: No, Firmware from this thread WILL NOT WORK on your SGS2/whatever/anything that isnt a SGS3, I just had to delete about 20posts asking about this.

Stay on topic, and read the rules.

Thank you.

Edit: That includes the kernel!
[Galaxy S III General] diferit:
You guys do realize that SMemo is a Samsung free application available in GPlay right?https://play.google.com/store/apps/...MuYW5kcm9pZC53aWRnZXRhcHAuZGlvdGVrLnNtZW1vIl0.

Or am i wrong and the SGS 3 is running a different SMemo?
[Galaxy S III General] melorib:
Are you following me :p
[Galaxy S III General] walda:
Nice but look what it shows me:

"This app is incompatible with your Samsung GT-N7000."

:eek::rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] giftedgiggsy11:
Can i confirm something guys...

I just pre-order upgraded to the S3 on Orange from my S1 but i'm concerned that because i ordered it direct from Orange that it will be full of Orange bloatware.

Can i use the stock ROM on the first page to flash my phone to replace the Orange modified one with no problems?
[Galaxy S III General] omeryounos:
Flash your country csc.
[Galaxy S III General] uberto.costanzo:
file.tar is only one where i take csc country?? thanks for reply

sorry i have download csc my country italy ITVALE7. how to install it ? thanks for reply

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after installation is necessary full wipe? thanks for reply
[Galaxy S III General] Flash_Gordon:
So I take it, this latest Firmware release can be updated using Odin Mobile.....right?

Cheers

FG
[Galaxy S III General] Siberian Tiger:
Install it using Odin place it to the csc section :)

Flashing csc wipes your phone so make a backup first ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Mumin:
Hi guys,

I want to take my friends s3 back to stock (need to send it off for repair)

He has a branded phones, it is locked to the 3 network, can I flash a unbranded firmware on it, without it bricking or anything. Thanks

Sorry for the nooby question :)

Sent from my Galaxy S3
[Galaxy S III General] 43358005:
many thanks for the continuous update!
[Galaxy S III General] dilse:
Should be fine, as I've done 2 phones on Three, using unbranded firmware... all Three changes have been removed, the phones are now pure :)

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I can't believe how smooth the update was, it even preserved all settings, didn't have to restore a thing !

:)
[Galaxy S III General] nuncafalla:
cual es la ultima stock mas reciente para nuestros galaxy s3
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
English..............por favor. :)
[Galaxy S III General] cerebrum3:
iterrbera acting

Thank you very much for your kindness to create a torrent for and seed it. Thanks again dear.:good::laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] ashmont:
Any improvement to S-Voice?

I was just wondering if this Firmware brings any improvements to s-voice which is pretty flakey in the earlier versions. Having said that I'm kind of hoping Samsung doesn't bother developing it any futher as the Google voice recognition in Jellybean seems to me to be far and away better than either siri or s-voice. I'd hate it if Samsung decided to give us their inferior system when they roll out Jellybean.

Ashley
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
Only 'problem' I have with the latest firmware is that whenever you open the music player, it starts over where you left off -- even after you power down the phone. I would like it just to come up with the music list like it used to do.....
[Galaxy S III General] luigig:
Risks in flashing the unbranded I9300XXBLFB on a German S3 I9300

I live in US and I bought an international unlocked Galaxy S III. I received a Vodafone Germany Galaxy S III with firmware IMM76D.I9300BUALF1. It came with all the customizations from Vodafone Germany.

I am intrigue about the possibility to get rid of this carrier customizations flashing the "I9300XXBLFB (4.0.4) - United Kingdom - Unbranded" accessible at the first page of this topic but I am worried of potential side effects. For example: I heard in other threads about differences on the installed camera modules, will this firmware work with all the hardware in my phone, camera module included? Will it work with the next OTA updates? Are there risks in flashing the unbranded firmware? Are there things I need to check to make sure the flash works fine? Other possible cons?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] rodrigo9411:
Does the region matters? i'm on latin america, and my carrier branded the phone and the icons and apps are kinda anoyying. can i use this firmware?
[Galaxy S III General] Galinha1:
Yes you can, it will debrand your phone, but after you install this firmware you should do a full wipe, and depend on your region, you might try flash just the modem , it's very easy and fast, file is about 10~20 mb. and you don't need to do a full wipe. So it's wasy to switch beteween modems.
[Galaxy S III General] victorator:
Flash XXBLFB and then do a factory reset. If any problems appear, flash a CSC file from any of the european countries and then flash the firmware again.
[Galaxy S III General] Flash_Gordon:
*bump*

Anyone help on this?
[Galaxy S III General] Siberian Tiger:
If you are rooted yes ,download the FW extract it and put it in your sd card and open Mobile Odin and flash it :)

And don't forget before flashing do a nandroid
[Galaxy S III General] Flash_Gordon:
Cool....thx
[Galaxy S III General] juliano_q:
Anyone managed to make MTP works with OSX? I cant find a way to make Android File Manager detect the device on LFB..
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
I'm getting about 11.5 MBPS download and 2.3 MBPS upload on Virgin (registered on T -mobile) using XXEMG4 which I guess is ok. I've not seen faster before.

Less than half that on an Orange base station (4.5/1.0) which is par for the course. Orange always has been slow.
[Galaxy S III General] Brotuck:
nvm
[Galaxy S III General] jargalus:
Is this better, stable, faster than the EMC2?
[Galaxy S III General] wohli:
Why not use mobile odin?
[Galaxy S III General] amosolidu:
Thinking .....i we flash ported henrylife rom the efs is changing back ???