yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] Andrewtst:
Anyone notice video thumbnail animation seems not really working on it. (I had not restart my phone to retest yet). Mine only the stock video is animated, the rest is not.
[Galaxy S III General] Motogp1:
Thanks.

Taken a screen shot of about device and I have one from before I tried to update.

If you have a look both the kernel version and baseband number have changed, but I don't see any of the updates on my phone and kies says it upto date.

I'm just trying to understand what's going on.

Thanks

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To unroot and return to stock for warranty., watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Tga_yKywc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Galaxy S III General] IamIrene:
download the torrent file below :)
[Galaxy S III General] AngelSoul:
I didn't get OTA so I tried connect to kies but in firmware section its writing: Your device does not support software upgrading via Kies. Why i get this? At the moment my phone rooted with stock rom LF2.
[Galaxy S III General] lvoonjian8888:
Thank for helping!!.:) But I found a way to bypass every limitation that suffer from many download website. We can use RDesc Downloader. It's work great for me...^^

Galaxy S3, Omega 7.1, Ninphetamin3 :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] miowbeast:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXBLFB (4.0.4) - United Kingdom (BTU) [06-07-12]

I have this problem too...
[Galaxy S III General] ZACQ8:
I updated from LF2 to LFB today with KEIS,

main changes found,

1) new feature in the notification bar for brightness control,

2) 100% charging now

3) New information line added in the about phone under the build number, the name of the country (United Arab Emirates) for which the firmware is released and some codes..

Anybody has got the 3rd change mentioned above as attached??
[Galaxy S III General] cor3ys:
ksactop western

I also get this in kies after updating to LFB via odin and also noticed that i can not connect to Kies via wifi now also get a pop up msg on phone saying "kies via wifi has stopped...
[Galaxy S III General] TeeJayEss:
Yay! We now have the ability to explicitly enable or disable vibration notification for the stock email accounts!
[Galaxy S III General] nadram:
Yeah I had that. I'm in UAE as well.

I don't trust it though so I went and flashed the same one but UK.

Can you check one thing for me please? go to Settings-> More Settings-> Nearby Devices-> and check if you can switch the toggle on and off
[Galaxy S III General] bastilein:
her are some Changelogs and the Testmode in Video

youtube.com/watch?v=XcM_shooiYs
[Galaxy S III General] ZACQ8:
now I am not on the Wifi, when I try to check the toggle on it asks "Connect to Wi-fi"

How did you flash UK one from ODIN? are you rooted?
[Galaxy S III General] Andrewtst:
No issue on video thumbnail animation, now all is animated, never knew it take time to generate. ;-)
[Galaxy S III General] garethclement2009:
anyone else got a new style keyboard?
[Galaxy S III General] omersak:
Everyone.
[Galaxy S III General] uberto.costanzo:
any have this problem??????
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Well it is up to you, ICS is at risk , the latest JB is not.
[Galaxy S III General] nemisi:
i know its just a pity that no one can use ICS now.

Which 4.1.2 are you using? i want the one with the best battery
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
I am using the lite version from here Neatrom which is giving as good battery as any JB but it is also blazing fast at opening apps and the modem is working well on Optus. :)
[Galaxy S III General] ivan4o5:
PDA: I9300UBELL6

CSC: I9300CHLELL1

Version: 4.1.2

Date: 2013-01-29

Regions: Brazil

Has anyone tested it ?
[Galaxy S III General] Dean-xXx:
No point in testing that, cause has lower changelist.
[Galaxy S III General] uberto.costanzo:
bugs

In XXEMA2 tag gps no work!!!!! IS BUG????? thanks
[Galaxy S III General] cmd512:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Agreed, I just upgraded directly from LG8, pretty noticeable difference. Loving the smoothness and speed of JB though.

I still think some of the battery drain on JB is from the UPDATE_SVC_LED alarm that keeps triggering, reason for the increased "Android System" battery usage if you're using the LED indicator.
[Galaxy S III General] astuermer:
Anybody has experience, what stock ROM offered here has best battery life?

I am on EMA1 currently... in comparison with the battery life of my old I9103 it's poor now :(
[Galaxy S III General] LenAsh:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Is not
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
47 views/download and number of THANKS = 0 :confused: What ingratitudes :crying:
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Yeah, Jellybean is quite smooth.

Hmmm... Are you sure about that? I'm using Better Battery Stats to find out the cause of the drain. According to it, "DownloadManager" is causing me a lot of drain. I've disabled that application and things seem to have settled down.

Oh, wait!!! Didn't they introduce a new light-sensing behaviour in the LEDs in Jellybean? Could that be causing all that battery drain?!!! Is our phone constantly measuring the level of light in order to determine whether to display a bright/dim LED? :mad:
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
XXEMA2_TUR

I am running the Turkish version with ELLA as modem. The battery is awful, very bad, the worst ever. Android system is consuming about the same as screen. Check screenshots for details.
[Galaxy S III General] ricnar456:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

The users with Android os draining the battery have the rom bad instaled or need wipe or have a troubleshoot program look in ema2

http://db.tt/P4qAeHE8
[Galaxy S III General] cmd512:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Very interesting, thanks for this tidbit. And yeah, under BetterBatteryStats - Alarms, Light Flow was consistently the top culprit on LG8/ICS everytime. However, with JB EM2, Android System has been the worst offender, and when you click on details, it's some lightservice with the most wake-ups. Again, not sure if the other JB ROMs had this, but I can say for a fact ICS did not.
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
Hehe get used to it ;)
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
I've turned off my LED indicators and, yet, Android System continues to "stay awake" for increasingly longer periods of time (I checked in Settings-> Battery).

I really hope someone can figure this out. It's ridiculous how much battery drain we're having because of poor coding! At least we have a list of Apps that come under Android System; they can be found in the Use Details under battery.
[Galaxy S III General] dmatik:
Anyone else noticed that in EMA2 (Singapore), the GTalk contact picture in notification drop-down (when someone send you a message) is out of proportions?

It was fine before I flashed EMA2.
[Galaxy S III General] pat357:
Maybe a stupid question, but how do you make the CSC under recovery visible ?

(I know the 1234 method, but no other)

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What about the modem ?

I could be wrong, but I can imagine this France ROM maybe has a better optimised modem for use in Europe than the Singapore version ?
[Galaxy S III General] astuermer:
What about this EMA2 release?

http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=8&view=11239

It's an european one - so no CSC mess...

Anybody tried it?
[Galaxy S III General] danieldp1990:
so back to ICS then??
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Has different baseband (XXELKB) and more languages (euro unbranded CSC).

Same kernel, bootloader and PDA.
[Galaxy S III General] ToddeSwe:
Sv: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

I think I will. Thanks

Sent from my I9300XXEMA1 Android 4.1.2
[Galaxy S III General] pat357:
How do you "look"in the IMG files ? :p

Can they be mounted somehow or do you have a tool to open these ?

I've tried a lot of tools (Win 7) but none of them could even view the content !

(ext 2/3/4 viewers, all kind of mounting utilities to mount ext4 in Windows, but until now no success):(
[Galaxy S III General] astuermer:
Just downloading too.

For me XXEMA1 has terrible battery life... :/
[Galaxy S III General] fcasoli:
R: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

I'm using that version, perfect and contains CSC for Italy, you can use France without problems but I decided to change because I think this ROM will be for long time on my device.

Rooted and with Recovery added after flashing.

Sent from my GALAXY SIII or Note II
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
Torrent XXEMA2 France

I'm going to use to it :) (60 dl now). No problem I regive the link http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37464415&postcount=8750

oh! I'm now a Senior Member :)

---------- Post added at 06:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:41 PM ----------

Has CSC for Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom
[Galaxy S III General] danieldp1990:
can i flash this XEMA2 version on my I9300 unbranded, if im from latin america?
[Galaxy S III General] flitzjoy:
Here we go

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1667081
[Galaxy S III General] ToddeSwe:
For me MA2 is a dissaster for my battery. Went back to MA1 from a NAND backup i had. I love NAND backups. :) Make life alot easier.

I had 9% left on MA2 after 9 hours at work. :( Very bad i think, but MA1 is good to me, i really don't know why i MUST have the latest build... :)
[Galaxy S III General] fcasoli:
R: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

I think better if you wait for a version of your continent.

Sent from my GALAXY SIII or Note II
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
Yes you can ! see post 1 for changing CSC
[Galaxy S III General] fcasoli:
But if the ROM does not contain your CSC?

The France doesn't contain south America...
[Galaxy S III General] j0sefuz:
i am currently with ema2 singapore. i want to try ema2 france just to check it out.

but reverting my contacts' photos back to HD is such a hassle. :S
[Galaxy S III General] danieldp1990:
WELL i have the XEMA2 singapore, right now and its works really nice, except for the battery, what would happen if i try the france version? (unbranded, from latin america, i9300 S3 , its suppose to be europe version).
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
Not any real difference, the only improvement is that the CSC is European, which contains Spanish available by default (instead of using a language enabler).

Modem might be better for you, but that can be downloaded separately.
[Galaxy S III General] danieldp1990:
whats the modem? sry :good:
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
I9300XXELKB.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gwiiy8bccznf2av
[Galaxy S III General] danieldp1990:
but what is it for? how to instal? O.O
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
CSC info : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1671969

CSC is the consumer software customisation and is specific to geographical region and carriers. It contains the software packages specific to that region, carrier branding and also APN settings for data connection, MMS etc for your service provider.

CSC has nothing to do with what languages the firmware supports and it will not add keyboard language support either.

---------- Post added at 08:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:32 PM ----------

Make a backup , it could be usefull ...
[Galaxy S III General] danieldp1990:
and the singapore does contain south america?
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
Nice remark :) seems NOT ....
[Galaxy S III General] fcasoli:
Singapore doesn't contain south america.

You can install and check manually APN after a reboot. You can set it after.
[Galaxy S III General] danieldp1990:
it was working really fine for me dont know why then :P.
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
To whom do you refer?
[Galaxy S III General] jjflappy:
Which Galaxy S II Is This?

Hello, I think I may have REALLY messed up. I rooted my phone awhile back and now a friend asked me to root his. By looking at the phone, it says Samsung Galaxy S II, it's white, it's 4g, and it has the 4 touch buttons at the bottom of front face. I tried at least 5 different root methods to no no avail but the last one left me with black screen. I can get the

yellow triangle

, the download page and boot into recovery, but that's as far as it goes. I can't get it to mount sd card either. Someone please enlighten me. I sure don't want ro have to pay for this brand new phone. Oh yea, the carrier is Sprint and we were trying to root so maybe he can get prepaid service through Straight Talk or some other cheaper service. Is that Really possible?
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
I'm downloading the French one from your link so I've thanked you in that post! :)

I want to backup my data (if I can get the Carbon Backup & Sync application to connect), wipe, and flash the French firmware just to test the results on my battery.

Currently, 3 hours of battery is a LOT for me. :rolleyes: :mad:
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
If you had just rooted you could

a) easily backup apps plus their relative data with titanium backup/pro

b) install a custom firmware (not like me, whoring a new rom every 24 hours :p)

;)
[Galaxy S III General] danieldp1990:
you what could happen if i dont set the csc of my region? only the updates?
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Yeah only the updates. You would not get a worse signal or anything. Also, you wouldn't be able to download using Kies either but since you're at XDA I'm guessing you're familiar with Odin.
[Galaxy S III General] danieldp1990:
yep im familiar with Odin and its the best xD, thanks for the info :good:
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
There's a button for that ;)

By the way, only Samsung deals with this CSC crap. It's not in aosp nor on any Nexii or OEM device.
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
So, Mr. "Theshawty", is it? ;) What is this "root" that you speak of? Is it like magic? 'cuz, I'm a Muggle, you know! :angel: :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
Thanks for thanking me :laugh: (the one among 70 downloaders ;)) Is the download finished ?

Titanium Backup is known as the best for backuping data ...
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Root is like an everyday supply of the finest quality marijuana except it's free, legal and easy to acquire. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] smokey_bear:
Have flashed the France unbranded XXEMA2 XEF and it´s doing great. And no need to use the Language Enabler. :)

Uploaded to my Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4VtnscL6_KGeURnUGw2aTdWNE0/edit?usp=sharing
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Yeah, it was really fast. I've also flashed the ROM, with wipe! Thanks for the link! :)

I'm not rooted, hence, no Titanium Backup for me! ;)

Oh. That sounds fun! I think I'll try that in the future, then! ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
How about tomorrow? I know you want to. I implore thee. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Hahaha. I want to stick with stock a little while longer. I'm rather enjoying everything about it (except for the battery drain)! ;)

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy is the French firmware acting different?!!! The changelist is the same and, yet, the notification panel is as slow as ICS! What on Earth is this madness? :mad:
[Galaxy S III General] VaiSync:
Is the latest update XXELMA2 is sudden death fixed ?
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

I'll sum it up with one word: touchwiz
[Galaxy S III General] philgalaxs3:
Yes : all 4.1.2 are safe
[Galaxy S III General] cevbr:
i was using ema 1 italy and the battery was ok.. installed french ema 2 last night and battery is terrible, worst than ever.. android service is the top 1 in the battery stats and ive done a FULL FACTORY RESET when updating to ema2...
[Galaxy S III General] j0sefuz:
i always backup my contacts.

so far, i have used:

KIES

Google BackUp

Export to sdcard

Go BackUp PRO

but still, the contacts' photos degrade to low resolution. :(
[Galaxy S III General] danieldp1990:
battery is worst in france version XEMA2......
[Galaxy S III General] j0sefuz:
I dunno what I did with my stock rom. but under settings>battery, I do not see any AWAKE bars when screen off. :)
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
battery sucks....7% overnight....i was on stock..same thing...instaled omega..same thing...xella did not spend a % overnight !
[Galaxy S III General] BrandoHD:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Have you tried going to your Google account and adding the photos there, then let that sync to your phone.
[Galaxy S III General] LenAsh:
User error....?

sweet here, 1% in 9 hours airplane mode.
[Galaxy S III General] j0sefuz:
you mean, settings>account>google>sync now?
[Galaxy S III General] flytomars:
I downloaded I9300XXEMA2 XSP Singapore from

Firstly I wiped user data and cache.

And after having flashed it, I started the phone and English(Philippines) is default language.

I use *#272*IMEI# to check the sales code. It shows XTC(Philippines) not XSP(Singapore).

This firmware is considered to be from Singapore. Why it shows XTC?

Did I download a wrong firmware?
[Galaxy S III General] yanqemil:
....wipe user data and cache form Recovery Menu after flash.
[Galaxy S III General] moochinazz:
hi, does anyone know why each and every time i update to new firmware, my wifi stops working and i have to replace etc/wifi folder if i want wifi working? where's the problem?
[Galaxy S III General] flytomars:
I installed Philz Recovery I wiped data and cache after flashing.

Still the same.XTC not XSP.
[Galaxy S III General] yanqemil:
Make wipe data and cache from default Recovery Menu.
[Galaxy S III General] Riskytwin:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Flash firmware again and then check sales code
[Galaxy S III General] moochinazz:
does not seem to help either
[Galaxy S III General] flytomars:
:eek:flashed again and after flashing wipe them in official recovery.

in official recovery it shows "multi-csc, aplied multi-csc to XTC..."

still the same.

so whatever. because no matter what sales code it shows, my phones works fine and there's no proof that i downloaded a wrong firmware.

anyway, thank you very much!:good:
[Galaxy S III General] yanqemil:
Wipe again from Recovery Menu...and do not restart phone after !!! Remove batery, then replace ,and go directly to Download mod. (do not start or restart phone). If phone autostart after replace batery re-wipe again ad go directly to Download mode.

When phone start after wipe, restore files wrong form csc...this is reason for wrong csc.
[Galaxy S III General] squeeish:
hi guys, I downloaded the Singapore one from Sammobile. Can I just flash this over without wiping anything?
[Galaxy S III General] Shadow350z:
Yes i do that all work fine for me ;)
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
guys have you noticed that the bulgarian xxema2 on samfmobile is more MB than the other...why?!
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
Can be that it has bigger CSC and/or carrier apks.
[Galaxy S III General] imadooox:
Best Rom Official
[Galaxy S III General] LenAsh:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Don't spam to bump your post count. In future you could try actually contributing...
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
im downloading the I9300XXEMA2_I9300OJVEMA1_TUR.zip Turkey version. Will report. The french one did have the 7% overnight battery drain, singapore also..will see this one :) I dont want to flash the bulgarian cuz its obviously operator based...i dont want those :p

The thing with the battery drain i think is modem based.
[Galaxy S III General] j0sefuz:
i have ema2 singapore and i have 2% / 8 hours deep sleep - plane mode is OFF.
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
you dont click on the power saving or anything else right ?
[Galaxy S III General] j0sefuz:
nope. i just remove bloatwares and other apps I don't use.

please be reminded that it is in DEEP SLEEP for 8hours. no incoming messages or anything that could turn my screen ON.
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
how did you removed the bloatware ? you have to have root for it..which one do you use for xema2 ?
[Galaxy S III General] donalgodon:
1. Root it with CF-Auto-Root.

2. Remove (or freeze) bloat with Titanium Backup.
[Galaxy S III General] cxdz810:
I tried changing kernel to speedmod and xxella modem on xema2, but simptoms remain with battery drain and high android system usage and media usage...

However deep sleep works fine... deep sleep problem is sometimes connected to Google Maps alarm manager drain...

Try to install better battery stats and view partial wakelocks and statistics for overnight drain...
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
the turkey xema2 have the xella modem...the reception is not so shiny. everything else is the same...the same stuttering when opening menu in settings for the first time or going back...lot of things opening for the first time feel like they are showing in 15fps. dont know how it happen but the toggle bar once turned bright gray...almost white..with lock on lock off screen, it fixed itself :D:D apps doh are opening faster compared to xella or xellc. if any of you are bored and want to flash please try the Macedonian xella firmware..its on sammobile under Macedonia (vim) i think..that one for me didnt had any problems...

Question :) can you flash a newer kernel on xella firmware ? and if so where can i download stock kernels ?

just thought of another 2 prob that are annoying me. open in galery picture and click fast couple of times "back" it will slow down like its an old phone even if you have 2 pictures...instagram (this is instagram problem but anyways) if i take a picture and then go back to take anotherone..it will freeze and FC...always !)
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
I have some kernels :)
[Galaxy S III General] flytomars:
go to download mode and then what should i do? and my s3's original sales code is CHN. is it possible that XSP csc is not suitable so the phone just switch to XTC automatically ?
[Galaxy S III General] j0sefuz:
this

3. NoBloat Free (from app store) - this is what I used to remove bloatwares.

you will be surprised,

45% - Discharging

1d 3h 43m

3h Screen On

1hour mobile data on + wifi tethering

10mins of phone call

little conversations with friends.

10mins of Pou - game :)
[Galaxy S III General] rafaykhalid89:
Guys I recently used eMMC brickbug check app to find out that my S3 has the insane chip on which these sudden deaths are supposedly happening.. Even though I am on Stock XELLA and have the new bootloader I am still pretty freaked out cox I am in Pakistan and dont have any sort of warranty for my device.. so can anybody confirm that the sudden death issue has been fixed by the new bootloader? cox I remember reading on sammobile they thought that the issue was "SUPPOSEDLY" Fixed.. they were not sure themselves..

has there been any reported issues of sudden death on the new bootloader? If Yes, then are there any new tricks to avoid it?
[Galaxy S III General] j0sefuz:
use stock ma2 fw

use cf auto root

use philz recovery
[Galaxy S III General] rafaykhalid89:
I am already rooted with cf auto root and have a custom recovery..
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
ive flashed the singapore than root than deleted video hub, google+ and chat on....than flashed JK deluxe...i set the battery circle only everything else stock....wifi off data off...and in 8h 8% battery loss overnight....same as in all other xema 2's...this might be stupid but...what do i actually remove with root uninstaler? i removed the things i dont use...but there are milion other apps that are running and i have no idea what they are :)

PS: wow the Australia (Optus) version is 1194mb..extracting that will be...damn...its: I9300XXEMA2_I9300OPSEMA1_OPS.zip....now this firmware is full with blotware :D:D