yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] tqgia2:
ha, if it was only that easy :P I've only had my s3 for 10 months, rather donate money for devs to keep developing s3 than give samsung $700+ every year
[Galaxy S III General] dandroid13:
And then after they release the S5 the S3 may get Android 4.3... :p:silly:
[Galaxy S III General] cba1986:
Poland Firmware

PDA: I9300XXEMD2

CSC: I9300XXEMD1

Modem: I9300XXEMC2

Changelist: 1071725

Build Date: 12 April 2013

It seems the same as EMC3.
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
I'll wait for someone to upload it to Mega.
[Galaxy S III General] syamsoul:
Poland MD2 for you

https://mega.co.nz/#!aMQVRDpb!B06QSXdvjoQwWgb9RQBYVBP5qIF8tibYJL--ASPEOPw
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Seems the changelist is the same as MC3.
[Galaxy S III General] jk419:
Thanks. That kinda helped.
[Galaxy S III General] mitky82:
Just to know for waranty! Some people with installed facebook and no root get system status modified after update to OTA XXMD2

GT-I9300 XXEMC3
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Source?
[Galaxy S III General] JohnnyGT:
mmmh .... must be something different why else release it ?
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
I've downloaded it and I'll flash it in an hour, guys. I'll let you know if it's good or not.
[Galaxy S III General] kswiss86:
waiting for that :)

thx mate
[Galaxy S III General] hwjrmrm:
i think no obvious change...
[Galaxy S III General] DaReDeViL:
Just to avoid releasing ME build without having a MD one ;)

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9300 avec Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
So far so good, certainly as good as we have had.of course I don't use the phone very typically but I am happy and I had something to flash today:D
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Hey, guys! I was on MC3 and now I've flashed MD2 without wipe. Here are my impressions of the ROM;

Differences

:

NONE

! Absolutely nothing. Even the changelist is the same as MC3.

Negatives/Unresolved Issues/Bugs

:

Home button to prevent screen timeout still tied to S-Voice.

Widgets drawer still has the initial loading lag.

Multitasking with games is still broken. You can't run two or more medium/heavy games in the background. One of them eventually restarts (if not instantly).

One finger expandable notifications are not present.

Contacts and Phone don't open instantaneously.

When recording a video, left and right audio is switched.

During Pop-up Play, clear type text is turned off and you can see jagged edges everywhere.

Recent Apps Tab still randomly forgets the most recently minimized application.

Shadow redraws on Touchwiz icons occurs when the phone is low on free RAM

Touchwiz can restart when the phone is low on free RAM

NFC toggle bug is present

Recommended or not?

:

Optional update

. I see nothing different from MC3 (which was essentially the same as MC2). The changelist is also the same as MC3 (both are 1071725). I think that Samsung aren't going to fix any of the big bugs in 4.1.2. We'll have to wait for 4.2.2 for the big update, unfortunately!
[Galaxy S III General] SavanTorian:
EMC3 = EMD2 , same changelist. i think, there's no need to flash it.
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Ah, I'd written that review an hour ago but my internet suddenly stopped working. ( -_-)
[Galaxy S III General] onesolo:
Please [MENTION=4069134]DeadSOL[/MENTION], tell me one thing... why did you never, but never, indicate the Music Player (the samsung stock app) bug that cames on all roms since the phone was released?!?!

The bug is simple... play a music in the Music Player, then imagine that you stop (or pause) it. Then sometimes, usually if you start to open several apps or sometimes after a restart of the phone, if you return to the music, instead of returning to the exact moment that you left the music, the music starts from the beginning !!!

Also, if you have a type of sound set on the equalizer, SoundAlive (inside the Music Player), sometimes happens the same, when you comeback to play a music, it changes to Normal... very annoying those two bugs...

These two bugs, are a lot better in the 4.1.2 and 4.2.1 leak, in the 4.1 it was horrible. Still they just keep happening...

Don't know why Sam**** doesn't fix this!!! It so simple to fix...

I'm always forgetting to tell you to include these two bugs...
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
I'll tell you right now what causes that, the paused status is only around when the app is in RAM once it is pushed out of RAM it looses the paused status, it would probably require a complete rewrite of the app to solve. Also what you explain with the paused status I see on every rom and every music player.
[Galaxy S III General] onesolo:
I know that is what it causes that bug... but for example, Google Music app don't suffer this problem... I don't think that GMusic relies on that ****y procedure, to have the app on memory... maybe GMusic writes the last position on the music somehere else...

but please state these bugs
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Yup, Delsus is right. That happens because the Music Player is pushed out of RAM so it loses its last state. That actually happens with nearly all applications (it happens more on Samsung ROMs). It can also happen with other phones so I haven't listed it (which would also mean listing the rest of the Samsung apps).

Long story short: Samsung developers suck at coding and RAM management is awful!
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Even their 2GB RAM phones have a bad memory management in some way.
[Galaxy S III General] oae08:
I have poweramp on cm10.1 and i can reboot the phone and the music still stays where it was paused :D
[Galaxy S III General] IamIrene:
Straight get s5 already :P
[Galaxy S III General] Milerpa:
Can confirm poweramp plays from last point even after reboot
[Galaxy S III General] OXINARF:
That's good programming. Apps always have the option to save state before being killed, they either do it or they don't.
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Precisely! It's good programming on the part of the developers!

We all know that Samsung can't code or develop anything good so we have to deal with the crap. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] tmac31:
well they should make everything like that even games too. cuz android cant mulitask with 2gb ram too so they must do something with another part maybe they can switch ios way too but that 2-3 sec wait time on ios is annoying too but atleast keeps going from where it left. my nexus 4 fails to multitask like s3 too.
[Galaxy S III General] OXINARF:
I don't think they can't do anything good, if that was the case we wouldn't be here in a S3 forum. I agree that they need to focus more in making better software, but my point was that the problem with music players (not only the one by Samsung) is bad programming by their developers and has nothing to do with the terrible RAM management that Samsung devices have.
[Galaxy S III General] key_r:
They are focused on make money, not good softwares...

Sent from Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Actually, it does! Ever tried gaming on the Galaxy S3? If you switch out to check an SMS or a web-page or something else, you may end up losing your game. I've seen this happen a lot on Samsung phones. Their custom ROMs with different LMK values fare rather better, indicating that Samsung are crappy at RAM management. It's the one thing that has constantly bugged me.

If you want another example, look at Touchwiz and its ongoing battle for RAM supremacy.
[Galaxy S III General] OXINARF:
You are confusing things. One thing is the terrible RAM management that Samsung ROMs have, I agree with you on that. Other problem is losing state when an app closes, that is poor programming.

Your example of a game:

- game closes because you simply check an SMS or a web-page: Samsung's fault, it shouldn't close the most recent app, when you are only opening a small app

- losing your state in the game: developer's fault, it should save state when system asks for it
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
From my very basic knowledge of Android programming: An event is called whenever an app loses focus, a good developer should save state in that case. :)

It's a conjunction of two factors: bad memory management and less than perfect implementation of the app.
[Galaxy S III General] _JKay_:
Yeah... it's kinda wierd... even though they share the same changelist there are changes in framework2.jar... wonder what causes a change in number ?

Note: Remember you can use JKay Deluxe Settings to keep you favorite apps in memory! ;)
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
Kernel changes perhaps?

It's kind of odd, but I feel that this build fixed the Samsung keyboard always setting as default annoyance. Or could be that I haven't noticed it before. :p
[Galaxy S III General] nfribeiro:
Can anyone be so kind and tell me the list of CSC available in the XXEMD2 Poland rom?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
It seems much smoother than other Samsung roms to me.

And nice little plug for your app :p
[Galaxy S III General] MattBooth:
One finger expandable notifications is a 4.2.2 feature anyway.
[Galaxy S III General] habylab:
Nope, pretty sure it was 4.1.2

http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/1...llapsing-notifications-with-one-finger-video/

Sent from my Galaxy S3. Long live the original Galaxy S :)
[Galaxy S III General] MattBooth:
No, it's 4.2.

EDIT:

Looking at the article, it's clear he's running AOSP, not Google's official... because that feature wasn't set until 4.2. But it was comitted to the git in September 2012: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/40c6ae4
[Galaxy S III General] j@cks:
Here you go:

CYO, CYV, EUR, ORS, SEE, XEO, XSK

Regards

J@cks
[Galaxy S III General] dkionline:
Maybe they wrote the wrong changelist. Is a new Source update out or not?

[tapatalk]send from DCI/Nano ROM[/tapatalk]
[Galaxy S III General] Kjc99:
So is the new MD2 firmware worth the update or should I stick with XXEMC2?
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=40954338&postcount=11151
[Galaxy S III General] bernard134:
New S3 firmware is release, even later than XXBLFB, now is Singapore I9300XXBLG1
[Galaxy S III General] Siberian Tiger:
Anyone flashed it?

Changes with LFB ?
[Galaxy S III General] bernard134:
Its just release 1hour ago, available for users living in South East Asia. I will flash it when i get home! (:
[Galaxy S III General] victorator:
To download it use Checkfus non-gui version with the following cmd switches.

CheckFusDownloader_v0.5.exe -dl I9300XXALE8/I9300OLBALE5/I9300

DXLE8/I9300XXALE8 GT-I9300MDBXSP GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] riz157:
Hi

Could someone please post mirror link for sim free UK latest firmware. The one from sammobile is very slow and keeps crashing. Need to unroot flash to stock recovery, thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] ausdim:
You can use the chek fus app to download firmwares.

The speed is far better.

I'm in 64% download in about 15 min. ;)

Thank's
[Galaxy S III General] riz157:
Thanks im trying it but how do you flash this?
[Galaxy S III General] omersak:
XXBLG1 (Singapore) from SamMobile:

PDA: I9300XXBLG1

CSC: I9300OLBBLF1

Version: 4.0.4

Date: 2012-07-06

Regions: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

Download: http://www.hotfile.com/dl/162974914/3fafa9a/I9300XXBLG1_I9300OLBBLF1_XSP.zip.html
[Galaxy S III General] olavopb:
And the languages?? Only Asian and English?

CL?
[Galaxy S III General] erto90:
i would like to know changes, maybe only minor fixes from BLF
[Galaxy S III General] kLONkRIEGER90:
Have XXBLFB with a new kernel (france version) on a german s3, but i habe problems with the keyboard.

The "Z" is a "Y" and the "Y" is a "Z". i have the english keyboard layout, how can i change it, into the german layout?

greetz
[Galaxy S III General] P1n3apqlExpr3ss:
Could BLG1 be the update that prevents local search, just like the update some of the american variants got the other day?
[Galaxy S III General] Phone_Guru:
CL is apparently the same as LFB but kernel says July not June. Probably just an Asian update bringing the LFB features such as brightness bar in notifications.
[Galaxy S III General] princepilot:
Hi,

Ive flashed this and it says messaging stopped working. Ive tried resetting it, rebooting and it doesnt fix it. Could somebody please advise me on how to fix it?

Matt
[Galaxy S III General] victorator:
Flash your CSC.
[Galaxy S III General] princepilot:
With what??
[Galaxy S III General] kLONkRIEGER90:
odin
[Galaxy S III General] Aerys:
Just installed XXBLG1 its very smooth but i havent seen any new features yet.

Build date = July 5th

Changelist = 782020
[Galaxy S III General] P1n3apqlExpr3ss:
Can you check for something like this?

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/11/3153912/att-galaxy-s-iii-ota-update-removes-on-device-search
[Galaxy S III General] Aerys:
I can see contacts,apps,music trough the search bar so i guess nothing has been removed.
[Galaxy S III General] ricnar456:
but chinese roms are md2 based and have very higher changelist

I9300ZCEMD2	4.1.2	12.04.2013	1133994

maybe they made a mistake when write the changelist number.

ricnar
[Galaxy S III General] xmatharux:
Nice and usefull thread
[Galaxy S III General] TigerCourage:
Battery life sucks for me on this last one... and I'm using the extended battery o.O... I'll go back to the other one when I get home. I also left my phone all night to charge and for my surprise it qas only on 80% this morning. BUT it's fast as hell, faster than MC2 and almost no lag at all (may vary from device to device)
[Galaxy S III General] mitky82:
Ok, in Bulgarian forum report some people for modded system status after update as i say one day ago. Some without nothing installed, some see facebook change status. Maybe kernel problem is again here.

How is for you? Iam rooted, but using jkay and system is always normal. They are not rooted. Just update via OTA

GT-I9300 XXEMC3
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Which forum, link please
[Galaxy S III General] mitky82:
www.androidbg.com but i don't know you speak bulgarian.

This thread :

http://www.androidbg.com/forum/topi...laxy-s-iii-i-iztekli-testovi-romove-p136.html

GT-I9300 XXEMC3
[Galaxy S III General] innit:
faster and more battery friendly than xxemc3.

s planner got new function - monthly view with pop up

Samsung Galaxy S3 + XDA Premium
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Thanks it looks like there could be other problems besides FB. :)
[Galaxy S III General] syamsoul:
Its already there before

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] innit:
really? haven't seen it. does it only work with touchwiz launcher? because i always install nova after rom flash. now checked the splanner settings and the two options "monthly view + popup" and "monthly view + list" are not there anymore.

Samsung Galaxy S3 + XDA Premium
[Galaxy S III General] crixalis:
I have a problem, need some help.

I can't update my phone via ota update. If I try to check a new rom and appear a message. I paste here screenshot

I have stock emc2 with root

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] syamsoul:
1. this is not Q&A thread

2. are you always have update via OTA?

with assumption you still use stock kernel and recovery,

3. use triangle away to reset counter

4. factory reset your phone to get the status back to normal + root
[Galaxy S III General] dovah:
You can't update via OTA if you have rooted, you'll have to use ODIN for pc or mobile ODIN to upgrade your rom.
[Galaxy S III General] crixalis:
Thanks for answer. I want to use ota update because I don't want to wipe phone to every rom update. Now I want to put new poland rom without reset my phone and lose data.
[Galaxy S III General] johan81:
You are aware that even flashing with Odin will not wipe your phone?! I have done it with Odin always and always kept all my data, apps and settings. This way you will have to root again, but that shouldn't be a problem.
[Galaxy S III General] crixalis:
Thanks for that.

So if I flash with odin for pc I will keep my settings and data.
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Mobile ODIN keeps your settings and injects root back into the ROM.
[Galaxy S III General] rmarcus:
Any torrent files? Hot file keeps getting interrupted.
[Galaxy S III General] Seicer:
+1

The worst part is I have to wait 30 minutes between downloads. Every time I try to download it says incorrect download. :(

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[Galaxy S III General] Brotuck:
Few pages back there is a mega download link

Verstuurd van mijn GT-I9300 met Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] johan81:
YES!
[Galaxy S III General] bart569:
I9300xxemc2

Could some please provide me with an alternative link to download the following firmware, I have tried twice using hotfile and it takes ages to get to about 450mb and then just stops.

I9300XXEMC2 Download (Thanks To SamMobile!)

Base Firmware: I9300XXEMC2 (4.1.2)

Region: Europe

Country: United Kingdom

Carrier: Unbranded

Build Date: 11 March 2013

Modem: XXEMC2

CSC: OXAEMC2

Change List: 1042335

Thank you.
[Galaxy S III General] blinkx:
I9300XXELKC upgrade to I9300XXEMD2

Thanks for the updates! I have a question.

Currently I'm on I9300XXELKC Firmware, I have no problems with it, but I'd like to upgrade. Is it worth upgrading to the new version? Any significant improvement? I am not root, what method is best for root after the upgrade?

Thank you!
[Galaxy S III General] whiskerp:
The only thing which wipes your phone is if the data partition is flashed. None of these stock ROMs contain the data partition. You can check yourself. Temporarily rename the ..tar.md5 to a .tar and open with WinZip and look inside.

---------- Post added at 08:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:53 PM ----------

This new ROM does seem particularly responsive even with full power saving including CPU throttling enabled. Battery life seems ok too.
[Galaxy S III General] kristiandm:
I9300XXEMD2_I9300OXXEMD1_XEO

Please a zip with sotck kernel????

Thanks

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[Galaxy S III General] bart569:
I would be very grateful if someone could upload an alternative link for MC2 uk, I have tried about 10 times to download it from hotfile and it keeps on stopping after about an hour and i really need the new firmware as my phone keeps freezing.

I9300XXEMC2 , I9300XXEMC2 (4.1.2), United Kingdom, Unbranded, 11 March 2013

Modem: XXEMC2

CSC: OXAEMC2

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
But of course, my dear Bart. https://mega.co.nz/#!k88lyTKL!EKeh4QSv9S6ONulPb_HdRnhpr119ljIjh7fQAHhAvhA
[Galaxy S III General] bart569:
THANK YOU SO MUCH lol i have literally spent the whole day trying to download from hot file using multiple browsers and even my mobile and it just would not work.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Hotfile's the very definition of crap! :good:
[Galaxy S III General] bart569:
Quick question, does my mobile have to be sim unlocked to update it to EMC2 UK unbranded?

It is currently locked to Orange uk
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Don't think so.
[Galaxy S III General] bart569:
sorry to bother you again, do you have any alternative links for the EMC2 firmware, the mega.co.nz link keeps stopping the download at exactly 74% and there is no resume function, i've tried everything and used different browsers and looked online for any solutions but i cant seem to download large files from the internet for some reason :S

the hotfile link also kept on stopping at about 400mb and i could not resume the download
[Galaxy S III General] syamsoul:
Your hard disk is full! :D

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] bart569:
Nope i have like 250GB free, it's ok now i finally found a downloader called megadownloader that allowed me to pause the download and resume and finally after many hours I have the file sitting on my desktop lol
[Galaxy S III General] Motodoido:
EMC3 still the most power saver for me
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Means nothing without knowing the screen time.
[Galaxy S III General] enigma1981:
Well the display is 5th down the list 10% of the 3 days 3 hours is about 7 hours 25 minutes... which is pretty damn impressive if I've worked that out right

Swyped from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 4 beta
[Galaxy S III General] TigerCourage:
Maybe he has the extended battery but even with that I'm not getting that amount of time O.o
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
10% is 10% of the 100% not 10% of the time, we need to see the screen time, not just the summary.
[Galaxy S III General] fromaron:
I noticed with MC2 BTU firmware swiping palm across the screen doesn't trigger screenshot anymore.

All other movement detection tricks work, just the screenshot one which doesn't. Settings all fine so I am not sure if it's the firmware issue or something to do with my phone.
[Galaxy S III General] TigerCourage:
Works fine for me o.O
[Galaxy S III General] tomuser:
Your calculation is nice but doesn't show how things are in real world :P. My phone has been charged and unplugged 3 days and 4 hours ago (4% left). Screen is consuming 53% of it but screen on time is 4h 50min. By your calculation screen on time should be 1d 15h :P
[Galaxy S III General] kristiandm:
Kernel zip

I9300XXEMD2

Please a zip with sotck kernel????

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] borjaag:
Yes pls! :D
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Done.
[Galaxy S III General] Geryatrix:
Enigma is correct. Screen time is 10% of the total time which is 3d 3h. This equates to 75 hours, 10% of which is 7h 30mins.

Quite impressive.
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
That's not how it works here, or here :
[Galaxy S III General] Motodoido:
3.2 hours
[Galaxy S III General] cH5:
any noticeable changes on XEMD2?
[Galaxy S III General] kristiandm:
My results

With this new rom
[Galaxy S III General] TigerCourage:
How are you guys getting so much battery life out of the stock one? I don't even get that result with the extended battery O.O
[Galaxy S III General] b-eock:
Then you got problems....
[Galaxy S III General] TigerCourage:
The Max I got with the extended battery 3000 mah was 2 days and with 7 hours of screen on time and yet you can do that with the stock battery o.o
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Beat this: I can do roughly 15 hours with 2 hours screen on time.
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
Try by setting lowest brightness, turning off data and wifi and spend 9h reading a book on your phone, that way you van get 9h screen time on stock!

How long it lasts depend on how hard you use it, that should be all

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[Galaxy S III General] TigerCourage:
Hahahaha then we both have problems? 0.o
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
I have no problem. I have a charger at my computer and it's in reachable distance from my bed. I just need it to last through school/work and then I'm gold.
[Galaxy S III General] cxdz810:
You can get 8+ hours screen on time on minimum brightness and occasional powersaving toggle...

...all about battery is personal usage patterns that are different, but you should get comfortable full day of usage with approx 4-5 hours screen on time...

Install ''Wakelock Detector'' app from playstore, and you can easily see if some rogue app or system pattern is misbehaving and wasting battery...

Also new ''Greenify'' app is great for controling apps behaviour and background proccess control...
[Galaxy S III General] Marsbar:
Major contributor to battery life is signal strength. If you're in a poor 3g area and the cell keeps shrinking when it breathes and kicking you back to 2g, your battery life will be terrible. Ditto if you're in a poor 2g area full-stop.
[Galaxy S III General] shoames:
No review from DeadSOL on MD2 yet ?:)
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
Yes, search some pages back. You'd better read his review and the answer by JKay btw ;) Both worth reading.
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
There you go, mate: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=40954338&postcount=11151

:)
[Galaxy S III General] Hulinn:
My Sms app is very slow, is not since this MD2 but since 4.1.2, are you the same problem ?? I try to look for a solution but i don't found :(

Thanks to bring me :D

(French guys try to write in english xD )
[Galaxy S III General] LegendM:
I want android 4.2.2 and official samsung galaxy s4 theme and apps :(
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
I want a good S3 AOSP experience. :p

Both #blameSamsung