yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
Then you did something wrong as it works fine :)

Seems the issue is only with swiftkey3, flow works.
[Galaxy S III General] kaynpayn:
Did you try having the recovery/download mode buttons pressed before inserting the battery? That way you'll already be issuing the order to boot to those modes as soon as the phone gets power.
[Galaxy S III General] johnzoids:
Can Anyone Help

Just flashed the ELLA firmware and now phone stuck in bootloop..

just getting the samsung galaxy s3 spalsh screen you get when you restart the phone that keeps on blinking every 15 sec. as if its trying to load the samsung logo..

can anyone help.

thanks:confused::eek:
[Galaxy S III General] LenAsh:
Cosmic influence!

On another note... have you tried deleting SysScope? :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
Wipe data/factory reset in recovery should solve the bootloop.

A data wipe in stock recovery however WILL wipe your internal SD though.
[Galaxy S III General] gma388124:
I updated my phones through kies to latest UK rom ELLA but been having problems, its very sluggish, phone keeps freezing and rebooting, when I try to unlock phone there's no response and just get a black screen even though the keys next to the physical button light up. Sonetimes the phone doesn't wake and just reboots. There's a rapid battery drain, today without no use my battery went down to 36% from 96% but the wifi was on. Normally battery would last ne 14-16 hours.
[Galaxy S III General] Geryatrix:
Purely for information, anyone on 3UK who upgrades with their software will get:-

PDA XXLL4

PHONE XXLK2

CSC XXLL1

I don't know how to tell if the bootloader was upgraded.
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
Again try a data wipe through recovery, it could be some random data messing something up, but again stock recovery will wipe the internal sd so make sure anything you need is backed up.

If that doesn't work a file might have been flashed incorrectly, so reflash through Odin.
[Galaxy S III General] ZaKaTRoN:
Now I will do a wipe, because my girlfriend and I, are having battery draining issues.
[Galaxy S III General] Gainn:
Had a couple of bootloops with unmodified ELLA so far.. even with a wipe and FR it's still happening. never had any issues like that previously so I have to assume its something in this firmware. The phone that I did CF-Auto Root on is fine however....

very odd :/
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
I would try reflashing in Odin, just to make sure nothing got messed up during the flash.
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
Not even flashed SysScope.apk as I remove it from my ROM ;)

http://pastebin.com/1UhN4kyc
[Galaxy S III General] gokberks:
Can anyone upload SecSettings.apk from XXELLA firmware? Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S III General] Gainn:
After the first time it happened, I re flashed it then the 2nd time I did the wipe and flashed again.. Lasted about r4 hours then boot loop again..

Gonna try a different kernel and see if that fixes it.
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
Sure

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18787285/roms_etc/SecSettings.XXELLA.Deodex.PFS.zip
[Galaxy S III General] mdfpido:
Please correct me if I'm wrong but isn't it that when you install CF-Auto Root, your recovery will become CWM (which in itself, is "Custom") instead of the original recovery of a stock ROM, which is very basic in its form (no Dalvik wipe, no backup option).

I feel either the poster (not me necessarily you) or I who don't know what they're talking about when someone says 'do not install custom ROM' right after saying to install CF-Auto Root. It just sounds stupid.
[Galaxy S III General] OXINARF:
You're wrong. CF-Auto Root only installs a custom recovery temporarily, CF-Root installs CWM permanently.
[Galaxy S III General] mdfpido:
Okay thanks. I knew it's either I or someone who says that doesn't know what they're talking about. It's mostly me. :)
[Galaxy S III General] Cortizone:
Ok so today my phone was updated to the latest firmware, however I want to revert back to stock as the new keypad is horrible and you cant really add your own words properly anymore.

I have had the phone around 2 weeks, got it from Vodafone in the UK and its the Black Version, not sure if this affects which firmware I need in order to revert to factory settings, however I am not sure which one I should be downloading, could anyone help?

Any help is much appreciated.
[Galaxy S III General] lukaaa47:
1q .. when bought i had branded firmware 4.0.4 from my operater with all that bloatware, now i installed this UK 4.1.2. rooted and used triangle away, i have now root things but no red exclamation mark and count is 0 and official in boot mode .. so is my warrany affected if i just leave the way it is, or i have to unroot it? just notice that prob is not sds,but other and they actually could enter phone and see that is rooted...and 2q .. do i have to get back to 4.0.4 with branded firmware or i can just leave this UK version?
[Galaxy S III General] Kobrax:
As you now know cf auto root only installs a temporary recovery.

Saying that mine is just an untested theory. I can't claim its right as I havent yet tested it. Im still fully stock XXELLA at the moment. When I test it I'll let you know

I had a thought myself. Can you even install ROMs using mobile Odin without a custom recovery? ?
[Galaxy S III General] kickokim:
Is changing CSC necessary? I'm usually in italy, but at the moment I'm in spain
[Galaxy S III General] acidemic:
No.
[Galaxy S III General] amviewer:
As long as your csc is not unknown when you type *#1234# in your dialer you are pretty much good to go. If it says unknown you could get battery drains depending on the network you are using. Mostly todo with fast dormancy.
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
To remedy that, search for Fast Dormancy toggle by gokhanmoral in Play Store if you are rooted.

Then disable it if your carrier does not support FD (like mine...sucks).
[Galaxy S III General] Kobrax:
Stock firmware XXELLA doing quite good for me. Unrooted and decent results
[Galaxy S III General] Liquid_015:
Quick Question:

I currently have an GT-I9300 International S3, and I am currently on 4.0. I am wondering if I need to manually update to 4.1.1 before I update 4.1.2, or can I directly update from 4.0 to 4.1.2? And in terms of Official Stock ROMS which ones should I use?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] alankstiyo:
go for it directly, I did it myself

edit: is anyone else having some kind of low battery life???
[Galaxy S III General] Liquid_015:
So in other words, I can directly update from 4.0 to 4.1.2 using the official stock rom? My GT-I9300 is an unbranded version (so it's not carrier locked). Which version of 4.1.2 ROM should I use (would be highly appreciated if linked)?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] alankstiyo:
the same in the first post, is the one I use, unbranded from UK and works worldwide

that´s the best rom you can use
[Galaxy S III General] Liquid_015:
Awesome! Thanks for the assistance!
[Galaxy S III General] chmun77:
Earphones page buddy widgets issue

Do the widgets added from other music players stays in the earphone page buddy after you have removed the earphones from the phone? Mine seems to reset to the default samsung player widgets whenever I plug in the earphones again.

:crying:
[Galaxy S III General] ricomoz:
+1

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] Liquid_015:
Just got back my S3 from the Samsung Service Center, and apparently it seems they installed SU, and CWM on my phone for some reason and I was wondering if it is still possible to manually update from 4.0.4 to 4.1.2 through Odin?

The Device Status: Modified.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] FDisk80:
Yes, It's even easier now.
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
Why would they do that?

Yes you can flash with Odin.
[Galaxy S III General] tatchii:
Hi,

What's the CSC? Why whe have to change it when flashing a new firmware?

Thank you :)
[Galaxy S III General] orine:
Im locked to t-mobile in hungary still with the original rom and firmware... can i update this uk version xxela or will it mess up?
[Galaxy S III General] andisetyawan11:
sir, where's i can download stock firmware for indonesia. please... reply soon
[Galaxy S III General] :
Ive had this since the day after it was released, hut today my home button doesnt work? Any ideas?

Owner of 1xCrested Gecko, 2xTurtles, 4xBudgies, and 1xCockatiel
[Galaxy S III General] htcsnap93:
So here is the deal,

Everytime I installed a new or custom rom I did a full wipe.

Im now on stock unrooted ELKC and want to flash my countrys rom which rolled out today (ELL4)

I want this becaude of the different modem which I want to try for better signal.

Can I just odin flash the original rom over my current one without wiping?

I promise I always wipe when im coming from the toilet but this is an exception.
[Galaxy S III General] herbivoor:
Search http://www.sammobile.com/

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Yeah, you can just flash it, Odin will wipe your device anyways I think.
[Galaxy S III General] Shuryou:
I'm on XXELLA and my phone started doing funny things like charging just 7% in a whole hour, reconnecting the charger did the trick (as in, started to charge at the normal rate) but isn't this like a symthom of the sudden death thing?
[Galaxy S III General] bobsie41:
Incorrect. Odin does not wipe your device.
[Galaxy S III General] skimminstones:
dont want to burst your bubble but for 4 hours screen on time you should be getting at least double the 13hours of device time
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Yep... Totally agree. I'm currently getting 6hrs plus screen time with 1d+ uptime.
[Galaxy S III General] mitky82:
I have reboots from time to time when i surf in internet with stock browser. Full flash dont help. Only when remove chrome app from system i dont have problem. Any other, i wonder why is that?!
[Galaxy S III General] imfromwales:
Are there any mirrors for the latest firmware please?
[Galaxy S III General] Nikhil'Da Devil:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8sCSX2LKKZWV1ZMUHNRbldYUms/edit?pli=1

via odin not flashable
[Galaxy S III General] brainimpact:
Anyone having a problem with battery drain?

This is the 2nd time I've charged today and noticed my phone not sleeping media is keeping it awake.

It kept phone awake for 5hours first charge then I recharged and then rebooted and its back again draining my battery.

Anyone got any idea's what to do?
[Galaxy S III General] Hotzigetty:
Had a similar problem. Did a full wipe and installed chrome, kept freezing. Rolled back to 4.1.1 and stock browser, no issues so far.

Sent from Jupiter
[Galaxy S III General] buge boyo:
No one really cares about screen time and up time just freaking enjoy your phone if you want 10 days up time then connect your phone to a car battery.
[Galaxy S III General] gchindi:
SwiftKey not sticking after reboot, did a clean installation.. Anyone having same issue? Sorry if already discussed.. Im on full stock n clean installation..!

Any solutions?
[Galaxy S III General] buge boyo:
Factory reset or full wipe will sort the battery drain issue you are having.
[Galaxy S III General] LenAsh:
Already reported - app problem.
[Galaxy S III General] corrsea:
You have the media scanner wakelock. The most likely cause is a nandroid backup in the blob format. You will need to delete or move the backup to your computer.

Make future backups in the .tar format.

TWRP uses this by default or Philz recovery let's you choose the format.

ROM Sotmax Ultimate V12

Kernel Yank555.lu-V3
[Galaxy S III General] dazza7111:
SwiftKey Flow Beta working ok for me.
[Galaxy S III General] brainimpact:
strange b/c I use TWRP and it did not backup as a .tar they are all WIN.MD5 files where is the setting to do so
[Galaxy S III General] corrsea:
In that case I'd advise that you format your external SD.

Also check your thumbnail cache to make sure it's not full of multiple copies. Just clear the cache if it is.

If that all fails there is a workaround by disabling media scanner and using another app to scan manually (Google media scanner wake lock for details)

In the meantime you can get rid of it temporarily by force stopping media scanner. It will return when you reboot though.

Good luck:)

ROM Sotmax Ultimate V12

Kernel Yank555.lu-V2.8g
[Galaxy S III General] brainimpact:
Thanks for the tips I'll probably just wipe and format everything then reflash the rom with mobile odin as I've had nothing but trouble since conning OTA to let me update that way
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Obviously a lot of people care about it when they post about their poor battery life and good battery life on here.

I enjoy my phone and to be honest I hammer it to the max. I simply added to the conversation that was already doing the rounds with my experience of battery life.... Simply put if ur not getting 1d uptime with at least 4-5hrs screen time, then there's something wrong.

And a lot u know about it when u talk about connection to a car battery.

Now go back into that hole u crawled out of and learn some manners pls.

Have a good day ;)

Sent from my GT-I9300

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No it possibly won't. Wiping ur phone is not the answer to everything.

He needs to run BBS and post logs to the relevant thread to see what's causing his wakelocks and subsequent drain.

Sent from my GT-I9300

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Your media scanner service is not switching off after its initial boot up scan. This is a common glitch in jb roms to date. Is your phone rooted? If so, then...

Run "rescan media root" from Gplay and stop media scanner service. Reboot and it should be ok. Note if u add any media to ur phone in the future, you will need to run rescan media root again and enable media scanner.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] Kobrax:
;) I agree but I had downloaded about 10GB from the Play Store and about 6.5GB from Utorrent.. so that obviously hammered my battery!!!

So I'm sure you'll now agree that 13hrs was impressive considering!!
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Yeah that would do it alright... Lol. Still though, give BBS a whirl. You'd be surprised as to what apps are actually causing unnecessary drain... Ie FB causes massive wakelocks. EBay app does etc.
[Galaxy S III General] The Divide:
So far so good here, I changed the CSC to BTU, ran triangle away, updated to I9300XXELLA from the polish version (I think)via ODIN, binary still 0 and no sign of a red mark on boot up. I am retaining root as I like to keep it as close to stock rom as possible

I have to say, its an absolute joke how long people with branded handsets are having to wait. The mrs has an S3 and hers is still on 4.0.4, shes asked me to update her phone and then unroot it so it looks as close to stock rom as possible. I am about to do this but I have a question which I thought I would run past the guys on this godsend of a forum :)

If I follow the steps, CF auto root in ODIN> run traingle away> flash ELLA via ODIN and boot up the rom can I then do a factory wipe and wipe cache in the recovery will it remove root and change the device status to normal whilst keeping the binary counter at 0.

The reason I ask is I read something about ELLA changing the bootloader and it somehow making the binary counter aware that it is been accessed and tampered with. Can anyone clarify this, and if so, should I flash her phone ELL4 instead.

Basically all I am trying to do is keep her phone as close to stock so the insurance and warranty, I know technically, its probably voided as the phone is now unbranded but were hoping that it would go unnoticed. I have tried looking through previous posts but I am getting lost in this thread.

Many thanks :)
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Wiping data or cache will not unroot ur phone. However flashing a stock rom will. So u will need to root again after flashing ut rom of choice.

Triangle away don't work properly on xxella as far as im aware so you'll have the red exclamation mark. However, i flashed xxella and twrp recovery and i don't have the red exclamation mark.

You are right about new bootloaders. It's to fix random sudden death issue AFAIK.

Also there's a change in the kernel to fix the exynos security issue.

If ur worried about warranty you can always flash back to old bootloaders and official stock rom for the network at a later date.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] :
If you flash new bootloader it might reduce some possibilities to brick the device, it's not confirmed yet, but might be true. My advice for anyone: keep new bootloader, if you get some random problem, do this: flash old bootloader --> root it --> triangle away --> flash factory ROM --> wipe data/factory reset from stock recovery (it will wipe your internal storage data)

If you can't flash old bootloader because you can't even turn on the phone, send it to fix like that, they can't say any reason why they won't fix. And in some places, Samsung is very serious about fixing their devices problems, and even if you send it with the red !, Superuser, Titanium Backup, they will fix your device.
[Galaxy S III General] The Divide:
Thank you for your help, I may try your method then, can you downgrade with ODIN then. I think I will just upgrade has to ELL4 for now and leave it modified as its starting to do my head in
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
Or you can learn how the new bootloader works, and run triangle away > flash stock (do not enter recovery, do not let it try to boot with a custom kernel)

It is a custom recovery (when you boot to recovery) and a custom kernel (full boot) that triggers the counter to 1, but eh I have said this loads of time, no one want's to listen so I'll shutup now.
[Galaxy S III General] The Divide:
Ok now I am confused, I flashed the bootloader to my phone via odin. Rebooted the phone and it says the device status is normal, the flash counter was 0 this is exactly how I wanted to put the mrs's phone so I repeated the same steps on her phone and it says modified. Ooops
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
When it says normal and modified under about device, status, that has nothing to do with the bootloader, that's the SysScope app scanning the system for any changes.
[Galaxy S III General] Kobrax:
I normally install BBS... havent used it since flashing this firmware. I like how detailed BBS reports. I hate FB, twatter, and pretty much any social network related app where you end up subsribed to 450 different type of notification emails, the privacy invading bar stewards

Ugh!!

Got 20hrs with 4 hrs screen on time yesterday.. that was with brightness almost full too as was watching Netflix for abotu 3 hours of it on the commute so needed screen brightness up to see the blasted screen. held out though
[Galaxy S III General] RTP:
Or just use 'Rescan Media Root' to disable media scanning. Admitedly you then need to trigger a scan whenever something changes...
[Galaxy S III General] Notronic:
It´s possible now with Custom Kernel and Custom Recovery become away the red ! on boot???

By Triangle Away Version before v2.45 this was not a problem, but now it is not possible for me...

...can anybody help me please?
[Galaxy S III General] zimzoid:
Lol...:D
[Galaxy S III General] RS050377:
Does WIFI off in standby work for anyone? It does not work for me.
[Galaxy S III General] buge boyo:
Yes it does.
[Galaxy S III General] RS050377:
Mine stays on in standby. Maybe Whatsapp blocks it?
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
It's OK... Don't worry about it. That's normal behaviour.

It happens pre- XXELLA too. Modified doesn't mean counter has increased. Read up about it in Chainfires triangle away thread..

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Ur better off with XXELLA as it has some important fixes.
[Galaxy S III General] hitbit911:
where i can find a dedoxed XXELLA ?
[Galaxy S III General] :
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35760611
[Galaxy S III General] :
Well, you don't need to shut up, you can talk, but could you try to talk clearer? :)

I can't undestand everything, but the parts I did, flashing stock kernel/recovery might not remove the red !, because it also checks the system partition. And to send the phone to the costumer care you need to flash factory ROM, the one that came with the phone when you bought it.

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If you want deodex just to flash and use there's no point in using deodexed ROMs. Odexed ROMs runs much better than any deodexed ROM, that's why my ROM is odexed, if I need to edit something related to the app source I deodex and re-odex.

Deodexed: pros: easier to mod / cons: uses more space on /data, reducing the free space to store your musics, photos, etc...; much slower first boot and maybe on all other boots; consumes more RAM (even though free ram=wasted ram, still part of the cons)

Odexed: pros: source is already optimized, not optimizing to dalvik-cache; faster boot, as it loads pre-optimized files; no more dalvik-cache wiped because you installed a new framework; less RAM usage (it's a pro, because it loads the app at the same way as deodexed, so it leaves some RAM to other multi-tasking purposes) / cons: quite annoying or a pain in the ass to mod

my solution for everything? deodex your ROM, mod it as you like, and then, reodex when you are all done. but if you just like to use the ROM without modding app sources, use odexed;
[Galaxy S III General] Notronic:
I've no time to read hundred of sites for the answer :D

Von meinem Hyperphone gesendet...
[Galaxy S III General] rickmave:
This ROM is special because it contains the fixes for multiple entry-points of the memory exploit discovered just weeks ago.
[Galaxy S III General] kaiur:
New ROM XELLA in sammobile

Luxembourg

PDA: I9300XXELLA

CSC: I9300OXXELL1

Version: 4.1.2

Date: 2013-01-04

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

Same changelist than UK 742798
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
What modem does it have?
[Galaxy S III General] kamalmawa:
will let you know in 30 min
[Galaxy S III General] Hotzigetty:
Check under wifi settings..

Sent from Jupiter
[Galaxy S III General] baster72:
camera problem!

the XXELLA firmwar works well but today i try to record video and its stuck evrytime i try the camera stuck and fc try to flash again the firmware it not help still stuck someone knew the problem and how to solve it??!?!
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
Modem is XXELLA

I9300XXELLA_I9300OXXELL1_I9300XXELLA_HOME.tar.md5
[Galaxy S III General] kamalmawa:
yeap just finished downloading very slowly.. I see the same thing :S
[Galaxy S III General] zoot1:
Any idea regarding the changelist in the Luxemburg firmware..??
[Galaxy S III General] kaiur:
Update the camera driver following this treath: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2006128
[Galaxy S III General] alijee:
is there any difference in ELKC and this latest ELLA rom?
[Galaxy S III General] strikoo:
Yes!
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
The CSC select app has been updated to work with ELLA the only thing is it now needs root to work on ELLA. No others need root.
[Galaxy S III General] MichalSykora:
Its possible to root phone with working OTA update? I trying CF Auto root and OTA dont work. Device is modified. Thank you.
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
OTA will not work if you are rooted however you can update via Odin and I think Kies.
[Galaxy S III General] alejoca:
Hi,

thanks for the great app!

q:

I don´t have BTU listed to make the CSC change... wich one is the second best to pick? :crying:

Btw i have ALB,BGL,CMF,COA,SYO,CYV,ERO,EUR,MSR,ORL,ORS,SEB,SEE,TMT,TOP,TRA,TSR,TWO,VIM,VVT,XEH,XEO,XEZ,XSK in my CSC list :)
[Galaxy S III General] Marcb:
Hey guys... quick question...

I have a Brazilian device and I'm returning it to the store but I flashed the XXELLA 4.1.2, which obviouslly is not a brazilian ROM, so I want to change to the official 4.1.1 ROM... should I just use ODIN and flash the ROM or there's a "special method" since it's a new bootloader?

I've never used custom ROMs or kernel, so I don't have exclamation mark nor my counter is activated...

Thanks!