yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] newbuyer17:
The new firmware also comes with a new modem doesn't it?

I can't mess about with it. Its branded and still deciding whether to keep it it (because of the signal issue)

If I root and try other modems, I wont be able to return it. But if I knew another modem would fix it, I would keep it and root it. Its a bit catch 22 really.
[Galaxy S III General] pkoper:
Don't worry about it then...
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
tested with my crew, no such thing.

doesn't vibrate(smart alert) when it comes out of standby when there is missed sms before or during calls.

btw, you said long phone calls and you mentioned by your ear.

by long calls you mean 20 minutes or more straight phone to ear always?

there's a reason why they moved the signals at the bottom.

but still that could just be asking for cancer.that's why there's loudspeaker or bluetooth for that especially if you want the other side's conversation unhearable by others.

also can't bear the phone being warm or the ear in pain for us unconsciously pressing the phone hard to it.

ciao.
[Galaxy S III General] treble4:
any other links for the fw other than waiting 18 mins for hotfile
[Galaxy S III General] mario06:
The LG6 modem seems to be best(it's more aggressive), I had problems to....

---------- Post added at 02:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:06 PM ----------

Well, I had an sms and a lost call and during the phone call I might have received another sms, I don't know the combination of things that triggered of this behavior (smart alert like symptoms during a 20 minute call) but it did happen and it never happened on the LF6. :(

Yes, about 20minutes through the earpiece. :D

Ciao Fratello ;)
[Galaxy S III General] seaQuest_AMD:
I have some weird issues with both LG6 and LG8.

The lock screen becomes unresponsive after some time and I suspect it is something to do with the latest version of PowerAMP. I need to hold the power button down or do a battery pull to unlock the phone. I have disabled the ICS player on the lock screen to see if it fixes it.

Wondering if anyone else is having similar issues?
[Galaxy S III General] newbuyer17:
Thanks. At the risk of banging on about this, can you confirm that in areas you previously weren't able to get a decent signal you now can do?

Sorry, but the reception is important to me as I'm using it for business.

I tested S3 with same same network with other phones. HTC desire and in particular One X were better, but I dont really want a one x.

They all had similar signal dB when in high signal area, but in lower signal areas the S3 just drifted off and lost reception while the others kept signal. I can only assume the HTC phones increase power to the antenna when in lower signal areas, where the S3 doesn't.

It would be great if this were fixed, and proven to be fixed, so I can keep it.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] pkoper:
Download it directly with checkfus... took me like 3 minutes
[Galaxy S III General] mario06:
I live on the mountain sides, only a handfull of units gave me good reception like the Nokia e51 and a few others. Getting back to the S3 I had LF6 and in gsm I got a bar or nothing. I flashed many modems with no success. When the LG6 came out I was shocked that I got a steady bar if not 2, I mean calling bars and not symbolic ones. The LG8 is good to but not as good. The LG6 might consume a bit more but it's more aggressive on getting the signal and holding on to it.

Let's say its reception is like the HTC One X because on earlier HTC units I didn't get good signals.

Just flash the various modems and see which one fits your needs, you can always flash back the original one.

Regards

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] JBL74:
I had same problems with custom kernel. Installed original LG8 kernel and problems are now gone.
[Galaxy S III General] lininjim:
Hi, flashed this onto my wifes phone on 3 UK, couldn't make a data connection afterward. Does anyone have any idea why? Phone worked ok for calls and wifi was ok too.

Thanks.

J
[Galaxy S III General] zohawkish:
flash LFB rom then use voodoo sim ulock :angel::angel:
[Galaxy S III General] Jack Barrett:
Its compressed alot. Or u wanna download 1.2 GB?
[Galaxy S III General] radeonxt:
looking at sprint sgs3's changelog reported here:

http://www.androidauthority.com/sprint-galaxy-s3-gets-update-not-jelly-bean-104066/

KI – Touch Wiz home has stopped

Single picture MMS no longer displayed as slideshow

Optimized LTE system selection

Enhanced Smart Stay function

Enhanced Voice recognition algorithm

All-Share Cast (All-share accessory hub) support

Music Hub support

yes there's ends with LG4 while the international's ends with LG6/8, and since samsung doesn't release changelogs and also the release of LG8 and LG4 for sprint is pretty close we might as well try to see like for example those who complained about MMS display bug showing as slideshow and see if it's fixed in LG6/8 right?

and i'm liking those 2 other updates as well, enhanced smart stay function and enhanced voice recognition.

i went to sprint's thread here and they're saying it ends with LG8 not LG4 as reported on that article, hence that makes what i think more probable.

another changelog not mentioned in that article but can be found here

http://support.sprint.com/support/a...e-fk158645-20120629-165043?&INTNAV=SU:DP:HDIA

is security fixes:victory:

regarding improved s-voice:

http://community.sprint.com/baw/message/453772#453772

7. Jul 26, 2012 11:02 PM (in response to mmark27_)

Re: 7/25 - Samsung Galaxy SIII Software Update - L710VPLG4

The new S-Voice is waaaaaaay better. Works flawlessly in the car, windows down, speaking normal volume. It can actually under me finally. Great update.
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
Answers like this are not really helpfull at all... if you read at least 2 pages back, you'd see I'm aware of the rollback option, but still I wanna get rid of crackling issue so I want latest base.

I'm just quoting that guy who posted a suposedly magic method to solve this problem (most apreciated to have people looking into it) and I was just saying he shouldn't even bother to try that out, as was an old method for old devices.

It's all right now?
[Galaxy S III General] IamIrene:
no lar just curious
[Galaxy S III General] ss4rob:
What version of GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk is installed with this latest update? I've been using 1.4.1.388691 to restore my local search on my US S3. If a newer one has been included, can someone post the separate apk? Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] ratsalad:
I updated OTA and it's the same version as yours. :good:
[Galaxy S III General] saddameu:
I had the same issue, the touchscreen was getting unresponsive , all I did was to install the firmware again and it got solved by itself.
[Galaxy S III General] gchindi:
hey buddy, how about this method? we flash LFB, use voodoo unlocker and unlock the phone, later, flash unbranded Bootloader file for SGS3?

will that not resolve the issue, as far I know, branded simlock data is kept in the bootloader part of the software in the phone right?

if we unlock and change th bootloader, then should that not work? guys who use voodoo unlock have anyway already lost the part of claiming the warranty as they have unlocked the phone and cannot go to their network / are using a diff. network....

I would like to know where the lock/unlock data is kept in SGS3 for any service provider??
[Galaxy S III General] gchindi:
can someone check any of these codes work?? found on the below link--

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1687249&page=2

*#7465625# View Phone Lock Status

*7465625*638*# Configure Network Lock MCC/MNC

#7465625*638*# Insert Network Lock Keycode

*7465625*782*# Configure Network Lock NSP

#7465625*782*# Insert Partitial Network Lock Keycode

*7465625*77*# Insert Network Lock Keycode SP

#7465625*77*# Insert Operator Lock Keycode

*7465625*27*# Insert Network Lock Keycode NSP/CP

#7465625*27*# Insert Content Provider Keycode
[Galaxy S III General] code72:
I'm on XXBLFB, should i update to this XXBLG8 or there aren't significant improvements?
[Galaxy S III General] andrewilley:
I'm still looking for a way to abort, rather than just keep postponing, a pending OTA update on the phone.

There must be a way to cancel the upgrade (which the phone has downloaded without asking me) but all I seem to be able to do is select 'Later', and even then the maximum is 3 hours before it pops up again (see attachments).

It's driving me nuts, as I do NOT want to install it (rooted phone). Can anyone here help? Thanks.

Andre
[Galaxy S III General] otester:
Try:

Settings -> About -> Software update -> Update -> Cancel.

Or:

Settings -> Application manager -> All -> Software update (one with arrows) -> Force stop.
[Galaxy S III General] Deus_ex11:
andrewilley

Since your rooted. You should have a root explorer. If not get one from the play store. I use es file explorer.

1. Using your file explorer with root permissions, go to the directory /cache/fota

2. Delete the update.zip

3. Press install on the update nag. It should fail.

4. Reboot

5. Nag should be gone

6. The other permanent way is to freeze the fota client in titanium backup

I just did it myself and no more nag. I hope that helps
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
I live in Pakistan and my firmware is XXALE9. KIES says that my phone "does not support software upgrading through KIES". Why is that? I've even tried updating through wifi but it says that no software update is available.

Can I safely flash the latest update in the OP? Will my data be deleted? Will everything work properly? Thanks in advance for the help!
[Galaxy S III General] andrewilley:
Thanks both for the advice.

There is no Cancel option in my About>System Updates screen (in fact, ironically, it says the system is currently up to date, even if I ask it to check again).

I force-stopped the Software Update app, which worked for the time being but came back after a reboot. I have already renamed the /system/app files FotaClient.apk and FWUpgrade.apk to .bak by the way, but that doesn't seem to stop the Software Update task from kicking back in.

Deleting /cache/fota/update.zip did work though, thanks for that tip. At least now I know where the file downloads to, so I can just kill it if it does it again. I only have the free version of Titanium Backup, so I don't have the freeze option. I thought from another thread that removing those FotaClient.apk and FWUpgrade.apk files was meant to stop it, but apparently not. (I assume I would need to fully wipe and re-install for those already-installed tasks to go away?)

Anyway, the nag gone away for now, many thanks. All I need to do now is re-read the last few pages of this thread to find a tidy/safe Odin way to install the newest version of the update without losing root, but there seem to be some contradictory messages about doing this.

Andre
[Galaxy S III General] coldhandz:
Hi, I was just wondering if flashing with Odin ie LG8 fw (or any stock fw) or modems .tar files increases the counter? I've been reading up (still am infact) about Chainfire's Triangle Away and understands that the app helps with this. Just not sure if flashing stock rom's with Odin increases the count:confused:

Thanks for any advice
[Galaxy S III General] IamIrene:
if use pc odin will increase, use mobile odin won't increase
[Galaxy S III General] victorator:
Wrong

Flashing stock packages does not increase your count.
[Galaxy S III General] coldhandz:
OK thanks. So to confirm if I was to flash a new modem for instance with Odin the counter does not increase?
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
No .

jje
[Galaxy S III General] edd080:
So how come whenever i flash a stock package downloaded from sammobile and flashed using odin increments my count? I always used stock firmwares, only difference is i root afterwards, but the count would have already increased. It isn't such an issue for me as i can always use triangle away at the end...
[Galaxy S III General] nadram:
CF-Root increases the count, not the stock rom
[Galaxy S III General] MattyDip:
Is it so difficult for Samsung to restore a high resolution icon for the gallery?:confused:
[Galaxy S III General] freaked:
I'm on Stock unbranded XXBLFB, should I get OTA update for LG8 ?

why it says no update avaiable ?

Anyone can help me, I flashed the unbranded stock version so I can receive the OTA updates without watiting for my cell operator to release the update.
[Galaxy S III General] nadram:
Don't wait for anything. Download and flash. OTA is always sketchy and kies... lol

Odin is my favorite option

Sent from my SGS3
[Galaxy S III General] SimonCraddock:
Your probably missing the Access Points in your settings...

Go here to get them sent to your phone

http://h3g.hosting.smarttrust.com/mysp_h3g/sc.0;jsessionid=E298BB0FF24D7920B6750C3B544EE78B

Selecting Samsung I9300 as your model.
[Galaxy S III General] dubart:
Can anyone please share Voodoo unlock app? PlayStore doesn't have it anymore... Thank you!
[Galaxy S III General] sarbe:
Try there m8 : http://project-voodoo.org/

Also look at this : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29484324
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Supercurio removed it cause it doesn't work with the latest LG6/8.

If u are on either of these don't bother.
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
If u are rooted u can't receive ota
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Is there any way to download the latest firmware with a resume-able download? Hotfile doesn't allow it and I have the world's worst internet connection. It keeps getting disconnected every two minutes and the download is estimated to take 1 hour and 30 minutes!!!! So, it just gets stuck and stops downloading!!!! :(
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Finally done with the download! Phew!

Do we REEEEEEALLY need to change our CSC? I mean, my region doesn't get﻿ the latest firmware so I'll be downloading via Sammobile anyway. I have loads of data on my phone and it takes too long to backup.

Should I change my CSC or just leave it? Nothing's going to be missing, right?
[Galaxy S III General] adrian_vindel:
I have been using this rom XBLG8 for the past 3 days and I can confirm, at least on my s3 that drains battery more than XBLFB

Anyone else notice this?
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
Why change CSC it has nothing to do with using the phone .

jje

---------- Post added at 09:26 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:25 AM ----------

I can confirm that it has better battery life .

jje
[Galaxy S III General] camil:
please can you tell me why change CSC ??? excuse me but I'm a very new and unexperimented user. I read alot on this forum but I don't fully understand the CSC issue. Thanx
[Galaxy S III General] FDisk80:
If I move from: AP: I9300ZSALG3 / CP: I9300XXLG3 / CSC: I9300OZSALG3 to I9300XXBLG8 will I be required to do a factory reset and wipe everything in recovery?
[Galaxy S III General] stan187:
This update drains my battery so quick.... I hope Samsung to sort it out in the next update.....don't know the reason but my battery goes low quicker than before....
[Galaxy S III General] adrian_vindel:
Mine too, and I have installed the whole rom from the scratch, I mean no OTA update, factor reset- >clear all data/caches- >installed XBLG8 vía odin

And now my battery wont last more than a 30 hours with moderar use
[Galaxy S III General] adrian_vindel:
Which ROM are you coming from?

I went from XBLFB to XBLG6 then to XBLG8 and in my opinión XBLFB was the Best, regarding battery life time
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Read what I wrote here and stop moaning :D

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29436423
[Galaxy S III General] olisun39:
LOL
[Galaxy S III General] adrian_vindel:
Yes i read it, check your post, it was me the One complaining... So i madera three full charger cycles but Everything still the same thats Why i keep saying that in my opinión this rom drains battery faster
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Did u run BetterBatteryStats and check for wakelocks? .

Did u run cpu spy and see if ur phone is going into deep sleep?
[Galaxy S III General] adrian_vindel:
Ok i will try both app, but I have juicedefender installed i am not pretty sure if it will alter the results
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Get rid of JD for a start. It's common knowledge that causes wakelocks.

. Run bbs and post a log.
[Galaxy S III General] corkie1:
I'm rooted with cf root 6.4 and I receive OTA just fine...

link here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1695238

I've just updated OTA to LG8 - lost root - ran the cfroot again and now I'm on latest OTA update with full root access. All took less than 5 minutes.
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
Just use search, mike posted a fix for unlock on newer RoMs, I myself testes it with him and it's working just great...
[Galaxy S III General] adrian_vindel:
Ok i will make a full charger and disable JD till next full charger ok, and post the results of bbs, is there any specific log?
[Galaxy S III General] FDisk80:
Nobody knows? :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
You don't need to do a factory reset when flashing stock firmwares. These are all NON-WIPE updates.
[Galaxy S III General] FDisk80:
I know it works like that if you upgrade UK firmware to UK firmware, but the current firmware is not from UK. It's from Taiwan.

You sure it's possible to switch countries without wiping?
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
The current firmware (XXBLG8) is also UK. Installing it with ODIN won't wipe your phone.

If you are going to chance your CSC then that will wipe your phone.
[Galaxy S III General] FDisk80:
That's what I'm saying, my current firmware is not a UK one. it's a Taiwan firmware:

AP: I9300ZSALG3 / CP: I9300XXLG3 / CSC: I9300OZSALG3

So updating to I9300XXBLG8 will make me wipe everything because it's a different country?
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
It shouldn't. I'm from the U.S. and I flash all kinds of different firmwares with ODIN and I've never lost any data.
[Galaxy S III General] nadram:
Not required to do factory reset

Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T
[Galaxy S III General] FDisk80:
Thanks, one more thing.

From what I understood updating the PDA via ODIN. When updating with "I9300XXBLG8_I9300OXABLG8_I9300XXLG8_BTU" file. It will update all of those? AP, CP & CSC Or it will not touch the CSC?

I'm confused about this. Because all of you here say that changing CSC does wipe everything. And the package does contain the CSC.

Or does it wipe only if you update the CSC manually?
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
Only when you update it manually OR if you were to include all 3 system files in ODIN when flashing. Since you are just flashing PDA, it will not wipe anything.
[Galaxy S III General] FDisk80:
But all 3 are still updated? Yes?
[Galaxy S III General] ShironLive:
Hi

I think i have a weird problem here, my baseband version is I9300XXLFB but my Build number is Something.I9300XXBLG3.

Is that normal ?
[Galaxy S III General] FDisk80:
I guess I will find out soon. :D
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
Updated but not wiped and overwritten. :)
[Galaxy S III General] FDisk80:
Awesome, thanks man. :good:

If it wipes my phone, I'm coming after you. Haha. :D I'm joking.
[Galaxy S III General] dezborders:
Did you root after flashing by using SGS3 toolkit? When I did it left Me with an older (insecure?) Boot.img

What I did to fix it was as follows...

use winzip to extract the correct boot.img from the main update file (xlfb in your case),

Copy boot.img to \sgs3 toolkit\input\ folder (check there's nothing else in that folder! If there is, empty the folder first)

Run option 9 in SGS3 toolkit to create an Odin flashable file (saved in ...\output\ )

Flash this file using Odin in pda mode

Problem solved
[Galaxy S III General] mikejt2000:
None of these codes work on my S3 using stock unbranded LG8
[Galaxy S III General] otester:
Just so you guys know, networks will unlock your phone for ~£10-15.
[Galaxy S III General] craigels:
Mine is LF2 not branded from Ireland how old it. Im not getting any over the air updates
[Galaxy S III General] natetruong:
Hi guys, I got stuck at Samsung logo. I tried to return to stock firmware, and I came from CM9 Nightly Builds. I followed exactly those steps in page1. I don't know why it happens. I think my phone came from Hungary, so what stock firmware should I flash? I did try the latest but it doesn't work and I stuck at the Samsung logo now. Please help
[Galaxy S III General] stan187:
right while it is stuck on the Samsung logo press and hold volume up, home button, and power button and hold them all together until the phone switch off it is bit longer time but be patient the phone will turn off and keep holding them until the phone switch on itself and enter the recovery.....then in the recovery wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache partition....... if you can't do the buttons just pull out the battery, wait 1 min put it back and turn on the phone by pressing and holding the volume up, home button and power button and when you enter in the recovery just wipe everything and should be ok....I have been stuck lots of times like this before when I was coming from CM back to stock :)

about the rom try to flash the latest UK rom XXLG8 from the General forums :) it should work as you are in UK I suppose :)
[Galaxy S III General] craigels:
Can I update to the UK firmware on my s3 from Ireland with out wiping my phone
[Galaxy S III General] Demonhotrod:
I've attached some screenshots of my battery, after using LG8 for a few days, I have even let the battery discharge (which I rarely do) and recharged it to 100% and i've found the stats to be quite poor really. I know the screen has been on for a couple of hours, but that's still 100% to 19% in 7 and a half hours. Well below what I had on one of the other firmwares.

BetterBatteryStats lists AudioOut_1 and FaceDetectionService as my two biggest wakelocks but that's fairly normal isn't it? I can't see any apps in the list
[Galaxy S III General] nadram:
what you can do is at least read the page where you posted before asking a question that showed up way too many times in this thread

Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T
[Galaxy S III General] Keep Walking Greece:
So if that's true I can flash through Odin LG8 and my phone won't get wiped,is that right ?

Because last time I flashed LFB my phone got wiped so my internal sd :(

Thanks for the confirmation :)
[Galaxy S III General] n1r0k:
Once updated via Odin to Stock Samsang (unbranded) software. Is it up-datable via Kies?
[Galaxy S III General] gchindi:
forget kies, if you are coming from branded to unbranded....sometimes no OTA also, im not discouraging you, but thats the fact,

as long as you believe in XDA and odin, you will always be ahead in the race of getting latest firmwares compared to kies....so its not bad to do it via odin....
[Galaxy S III General] adrian_vindel:
I am investigating the same issue here, I have disable Juicedefender and made a full charge at 18:00 i will let you know tomorrow how everything is going

By the way BetterBatteryStats shows audioOut1, statehandler(spotify) as the two biggest wakelocks

,but thats ok i was listen tracks on spotify.

Is there any way to setup autosinc to "sync" every XX minutes?. I mean with the standard setup, no running tools ln background
[Galaxy S III General] dezborders:
.. one point 're LG8 and battery drain...

after flashing with odin and re applying root with SGS3 toolkit, i noticed in android settings->about that my kernel was from way back in may, so the root process flashes an old boot.img and doesn't flash the new one after. Maybe this is the cause of the battery drain?

I unpacked the new boot.img using WinZip then used SGS3 toolkit to create an Odin flashable file for boot.img. flashed the new boot and stability and battery drain are Perfect for me
[Galaxy S III General] adrian_vindel:
I flashed XBLG8 with odin aplied cfroot with odin to and I have checked that my kernel is the last one

So i think thats not the cause of battery drain
[Galaxy S III General] dezborders:
Fair enough, was worth a shot. However doesn't explain why u have bad battery drain whilst I don't

One other suggestion... I had recently done a full wipe before upgrading to new Rom... wbu?