yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] DaveE128:
I can confirm that the official 4.3 update does NOT include ANT+, contrary to many reports. I have checked this by email with ANT+ by email, and they confirmed the S4 4.3 update includes it, but the S3 4.3 doesn't. Also confirmed that the hardware is there but no software/firmware support. :(
[Galaxy S III General] winuxguy:
Has anyone tried the UK version? :cowboy:

I'm downloading the one for China and will install it later tonight. Will give feedback after. Hopefully they have the Lighteffect on lockscreen fixed on this build.

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Read through a couple of pages... changed my mind on the china firmware... lol

For those whoe wants to see if SELinux status in the about, modify your build.prop and add the following line (this is pointless though):

ro.build.selinux=1
[Galaxy S III General] hwjrmrm:
no Lighteffect on lockscreen...sammy deleted this function.:(
[Galaxy S III General] winuxguy:
Too bad lighteffect was working with the leaked 4.2.2...
[Galaxy S III General] hwjrmrm:
Maybe Sammy will fix it in later updates,because compared with XXUGMJ9,Chinese 4.3 fixed many bugs,also added S4 keyboard..
[Galaxy S III General] nelsonw:
True, kernel it's amazing!
[Galaxy S III General] winuxguy:
Light-Effect was never part of this 4.3 release. I've checked the framework-res.apk and I can't find the flare sounds nor the flare png files compare to the one from the leaked 4.2.2.
[Galaxy S III General] Squall-Leonhart:
updated to 4.3 OTA, i can't say i see any of the problems people are reporting, short of the issue with the home button switching lag, never use it myself anyway so its a non issue.
[Galaxy S III General] hmbarbosa:
4.3 Btu is running fine since 10hr started with 1 2 sec delay unlock screen but I remove sound and ripple effect and is ok... Not faster as 4.1.2 but much better. Player issue not happining anymore as I formated the ext SD card and copied all music again. Testing and testing now... With stock kernel Sam.
[Galaxy S III General] blackrose1:
Hi

I Just flash this rom

I Have 4.2.2, before this

When i want to call or send SMS it says

Is not registered on network

How to fix?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] t3chg33k:
Deep sleep and WiFi drain seems to have been resolved as well with the Chinese MK2 kernel on the Ireland MJ9 release.

0.7%/h overnight which includes a scheduled TB backup. So quite a good performance, though still some way off from what I used to get from 4.1.2
[Galaxy S III General] RsOnAndroid:
Do we have an ODIN flashable China Kernel? I don't want to install SWM yet, as it messes up the screencast with PTV3000.
[Galaxy S III General] Larision:
i flashed china kernel posted some posts ago with odin mobile as zip update and all ok, ill check battery performance today...
[Galaxy S III General] edd080:
I tried searching for a solution or post about this but no luck ; when i receive a phone call i am noticing that the picture i have set for that contact has a light blue background, i dont remember seeing this color in the previous firmware I had (XXMGU4) is there a way to change this or can anyone give me a link to a post please?
[Galaxy S III General] R0g@t:
Check here - http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-I9300

And here - http://samsung-updates.com/details/15803/Galaxy_S_3_International/GT-I9300/CHN/I9300ZCUBMK2.html

Samsung-updates updates provides odin flashable kernel for all firmware. Find firmware and click download!
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
Read in pages 1300,1306..it's a modem version problem
[Galaxy S III General] kornelius1982:
China I9300ZCUBMK2 ROM is out with increased changelist 1969761

http://samsung-updates.com/details/15803/Galaxy_S_3_International/GT-I9300/CHN/I9300ZCUBMK2.html

Did someone give it a try?
[Galaxy S III General] HtcDesire2:
Try to read!!
[Galaxy S III General] ratsalad:
It didn't for me, Voodoo still says SIM Lock is active, tap unlock it shows as inactive reboot and it locks again

They've changed something in the Baseband and it's broken the exploit :(
[Galaxy S III General] TotallydubbedHD:
ah lol - I might do that when I have time to kill then.

I need my phone atm :)!
[Galaxy S III General] Vermut:
Hi guys: a question

I install this firmware but when I try to change CSC to XEU I don't found it.

I search in forum but does G3 have XEU csc? Or I have to use BTU?

Thx to all
[Galaxy S III General] Mikulec:
Anybody knows how to contact Supercurio and ask him to look at this issue?
[Galaxy S III General] djstevie:
Agghhhh. Updated to newest rom and AGAIN WB-AMR is disabled by default and i cant get it enabled even although it was enabled on the original Three UK rom.
[Galaxy S III General] TotallydubbedHD:
Use XEO, or XEF - google it

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/supercurio
[Galaxy S III General] Mikulec:
Thanks, but I dont have a twitter account :o

Could someone sned him a message? Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III General] Vermut:
thx for ur reply. I google it but I didn't found result for g3. I had first galaxy n I remember I had a XEU, but with this new phone...

About XEO it mean poland n XEF France.

If I want totally uk unbranded is??!?!
[Galaxy S III General] Siberian Tiger:
There is a link in my signature with an index for S3 .

TIP: look at the 3rd post ;)
[Galaxy S III General] kikoexe:
i just flashed LG6.. and now everytime i dial a number, i get the "com.android.phone has stopped" error.. i already cleared the data of contacts and contacts storage, i even removed my google account and fb account.. wiped cache and dalvik.. but still the error persists..
[Galaxy S III General] Rc-Blob:
The new firmware has Allshare Cast in the "More Settings" options! Now we can share screen with the display dongle and (I think) any Samsung TV/BD/Amp thingy :)

Also I didn't get the last update with the brightness slider even though my device is unbranded. This update does add it though :)
[Galaxy S III General] cantIntoCode:
Hey I found a fix for this

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=29135232&postcount=1204

I told franco about it and he put it into his kernel, use franco kernel and mtp works fine on OS X.
[Galaxy S III General] sarbe:
Did you do full wipe first?
[Galaxy S III General] sarbe:
Strange I don't have Allshare Cast in display options, installed LG6 after full wipe.
[Galaxy S III General] Rc-Blob:
Oops, it's in "More Settings".
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
The bain of my life atm.

Never used local search so loosing that doesn't bother me.
[Galaxy S III General] sarbe:
Yes mine is in there lol.
[Galaxy S III General] Guantanamo86:
can anybody post an anutut benchmark? my points are very low, around ~9800
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Ffs 37 mins minutes remaining at 320KBps.... Faryabb thanks for the upload and we're all grateful here but do u have to use Hotfile??? ..

Anyone got a torrent?
[Galaxy S III General] newbuyer17:
Signal strength?

Has anyone compared signal strength in low signal areas with the new baseband?

I've been hoping/waiting for Samsung to release an update to boost the antenna when in low signal areas, as I struggle to get reception in areas where my old HTC phone works fine.

Can anyone comment?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] pirina79:
A question, i'm newbie, flashing with Odin the China MK2 kernel increase the counter?
[Galaxy S III General] HtcDesire2:
NO!!
[Galaxy S III General] pirina79:
Thanks :good:
[Galaxy S III General] Lci:
Actually it increases the counter :).Flashed the chinese kernel over stock BTU an now counter is 1 and Device Status is Custom.

Rooting the phone and running Triangle Away does not remove the counter it remains 1 and custom.
[Galaxy S III General] Falster:
Please let us know:

- is the wakeup lag sill there?

- how is battery drian doing?

- any random reboots?

- any other problems?

Thanks :)

Puh, that sounds not good :(
[Galaxy S III General] bender_007:
Stock recovery will fix it.
[Galaxy S III General] Lci:
BTU with chinese kernel works great no wakeup lag at all.Battery drain i dont know i did not use it that much.No reboots.

I have tried the BTU ota 2 days ago and the lag was pretty bad.Yesterday went back to 4.1.2 BTU and updated via KIES and the lag was gone compared to the OTA.

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It was the stock recovery before i did flash the kernel with odin 3.09.Will try to flash the recovery.img to see if it makes any difference.
[Galaxy S III General] edd080:
I am not sure, but this post might help you out in getting the device back to normal instead of a Custom status, here.
[Galaxy S III General] Keghan:
My baseband is I9300XXEMA5, can I flash VDI - I9300XXUGMJ9?
[Galaxy S III General] syamsoul:
Is MJ9 kernel and MK2 chinese kernel really the same as someone here said before?

Strangely, after flash chinese kernel on BTU 4.3 , no lag at all anymore..

Can someone senior here comfirm that?
[Galaxy S III General] hmbarbosa:
Diferente kernel and I have installed kernel mk2 over Btu firmware and all ok at the moment and much better.
[Galaxy S III General] dept27:
Running the BTU 4.3. Battery life sucks, but something strange happened yesterday. The phone beeped to tell me that I was on about 5% battery and then after an hour died. So took out the battery and it booted back up but it said it had 44% battery. Wonder if there is a bug in the battery reporting.
[Galaxy S III General] Lci:
Already tried rooting and triangle away but it did not removed the counter because of the chinese kernel :).I flashed the stock 4.3 BTU and its all fine now.Lets hope that i wont regret it because 4.3 BTU with chinese kernel was awesome :).But what can you do when flash counter 1 is more annoying than wakeup lag :D.
[Galaxy S III General] Roman91:
try to calibrate the battery, you can find many tutorials on net :good:
[Galaxy S III General] gbyrne2011:
I'd advise against it. It's one of the worst builds I've ever installed on my phone. Tried to give it a day or so and it was quickly wiped for Cyanogenmod 10.2 which is clearly better by miles.
[Galaxy S III General] GrippingSphere:
The BTU build is running well on my phone. I don't experience any bug yet and no wake up lag on this build unlike the first release VDI. Battery usage is normal. I used complete stock build, Rom and kernel.

I previously used Custom Roms for more than 2 years but now i prefer the stock build.
[Galaxy S III General] fridlack:
Hi all Guys

Just instaled china kernel and seens like phone moves smooth

I have a question, Is zram activated in china kernel? i try typing "free" in terminal and swap are showing zeros... i am not sure, but i think i remeber that in MJ9 kernel zram are on by default

Thanks in advance for your answers

Best regards
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
WOW!! you must be having an S3 GTI or whatever man!! :p
[Galaxy S III General] hmbarbosa:
Zram is not actived on china kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] edd080:
Hmm with regards to the wakeup lag I saw a guide which might help here ; it applies for the S4 but since the 4.3 update incorporates a few features which are also now in the S3; I tried the transition effects myself and it seems to have worked with the wake up lag. Maybe you could try it out and see if it works out for you.
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
no it wont, because it is official ROM,however, it will be increased when you root your phone
[Galaxy S III General] Lci:
As i said it before it does increase the counter to 1 and change status to custom.At least it did on my official BTU after i flashed the chinese kernel with odin 3.09.And you cannot remove it with root and triangle away until you restore the stock BTU kernel.In my case root and triangle away followed by flashing the stock 4.3 BTU(wipe cache and dat) returned to official and until now there is no lag at all :).
[Galaxy S III General] bender_007:
:) try reading his question again.

He asked about the firmware. It does not, official does not do that.

But the kernel you installed is not a "firmware" he is speaking about :)

How is it running ? Good for me :)
[Galaxy S III General] Lci:
Actually the question was about chinese MK2 kernel :)
[Galaxy S III General] bender_007:
:) my apologies. I have to read better :)

I saw the "firmware" part somwhere.
[Galaxy S III General] myshu:
Installed UK MJ9 and only rooted it. It still has all the bloatware and seems the screen lag is half or less and the battery drain is almoust completely gone.
[Galaxy S III General] reubend:
Can Someone PLZ post CHN Firmware mirror Coz downloading from Hotfile i really very slow man
[Galaxy S III General] rafaelchampion:
Guys, I need help ok. I have flashed ROMs but I never flashed kernels before(I want to flash the Chinese one someone posted some pages ago). So I have some questions:

1.: I don't get how to flash it, already googled but there's 1000 ways. I thought it was through CWM, under Install from zip option. Is it right?

2.: Do I need to wipe before flashing it?

3.: If so, is there a way to backup my phone's settings? (I mean, I know how to backup other things, Contacts, SMS, APPs, Call logs, but I really want to save like the configs, the accounts. I'm full of reconfiguring it, because I know next week or so we'll have a new ROM, so I will probably wipe my phone all over again.)

Sorry, I know there may be a lot of explanations somewhere but I really read a lot and each one is different. Tutorial links are welcome if they are very detailed.

Thanks for now.
[Galaxy S III General] Lci:
Download http://hotfile.com/dl/254658379/38d27f1/KERNEL-CHN-I9300ZCUBMK2-1383563287.tar.html start the phone in download mode and flash with odin 3.09(start odin press AP select downloaded file and Start).Dont need to wipe and all data will remain intact.

This is for stock recovery you dont need to have a custom recovery.
[Galaxy S III General] rafaelchampion:
Fast and painless. Thank you very much. My phone is flying now (I was having trouble even with BTU, but it's alright now). :laugh: :good:
[Galaxy S III General] pinco78:
I really thank you LCi. Your info on how to install the chinese kernel is simple and very clear. Now I wanna test this kernel, the battery drain and the annoying wake up lag!
[Galaxy S III General] danierakes:
Yes u can flash it....there will b no problem...but if u want to return back to 4.1.2 u need to flash mg4 stock rom

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4 me wake up lag and battery drain solved in this kernel...:thumbup:
[Galaxy S III General] pinco78:
for me too
[Galaxy S III General] junky4rd:
BTU Firmware 4.3

I came from 4.1.2 XSE and flash using ODIN from BTU 4.3

1. No Wake Up Lag problems

2. Widget Lockscreen no Bug (all normal)

3. Flying SGS III

4. Still testing battery drain rght now :)
[Galaxy S III General] jgmccabe:
No, it doesn't. I've checked with a Garmin HRM. If you install the ANT+ Radio Service, ANT+ Plugins and ANT+ Demo from the Google Play then try running the Demo you get a popup saying there's a missing dependency for a USB dongle. If ANT+ were supported in the firmware it should just work.

Also I emailed someone at thisisant.com to see if they knew anything about it and basically they said anywhere that suggests ANT+ is supported is misleading you.

I asked Samsung the same sort of question but their response was useless (they seemed to think I wanted help with the ANT+ apps I'd installed from Google Play.
[Galaxy S III General] Garreth88:
Is there any trick to enable in this firmware transparent status bar with Go Launcher Ex? The bar is transparent in touchwizz, but I still want to use go launcher...
[Galaxy S III General] bytestar:
All is well with the new Chinese kernel + 4.3 BTU no lags.
[Galaxy S III General] junky4rd:
i though ANT+ need some sensors on Galaxy SIII

maybe sammy still has some bug on it. because according this http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/521732/20131113/s­amsung-galaxy-s3-4-3-jelly-bean.htm#.UoOnh484mld

4.3 on SGS III still has some bug :)

and i also not demanded abut ANT+ support because it hasnt build in hardware or it has but sammy doesnt enable it :)

i just wanna get 4.4 and 4.3 it also nice and good service from sammy :D
[Galaxy S III General] jgmccabe:
From all the information on the net it seems the S3 has got the necessary hardware installed to use ANT+, it just hasn't been enabled. There are many sites out there that said ANT+ would be in this FW but they're all talking bollox.
[Galaxy S III General] xbizkuit:
is the mj9 modem without ril available??

thanks
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
No. Unless you flash leaked 4.2.2
[Galaxy S III General] adamsuail:
is the battery life better than yanks kernel ?
[Galaxy S III General] abrigael:
Yes Better Life Battery

Yesterday flashing my phone with China Kernel post by Shafez and better all XXUGMJ9 4.3 firmware. Lenguages remain unchanged :good: :laugh: :cool:
[Galaxy S III General] winuxguy:
Why would you be concern about the Flash counter if you will be flashing ROMs via Odin in the future anyways? Just a thought.

Mine has 16 since Triangle reset over the weekend. I had 102 before the reset... hehehehehe...:D
[Galaxy S III General] deepgrass:
Samsung is rolling out 4.3 without testing. This is a very bad decision.

http://www.sammobile.com/2013/11/13/android-4-3-update-for-galaxy-s-iii-causing-major-issues-might-have-been-put-on-hold/

What is your first impression after flashed 4.3 BTU?
[Galaxy S III General] Prowler:
seems that Samsung uses his users as guinea pigs

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] mariocms:
So which kernel is better?

For those of you who have tried both, the yank kernel and the Chinese kernel with the BTU 4.3 firmware... Which is the best option?
[Galaxy S III General] GrayJack:
Galaxy S3 Android 4.3 update pulled, Note 2 delayed
[Galaxy S III General] Awesome Developer:
Hi my friends

HI MY FRIEND IS THERE ANY BODY TRIED THE UK 4.3 ??

AND IS SOME THING CHANGED OR THE SAME OF IRELAND ??

WHAT ABOUT WAKE UP LAG ??

WHAT ABOUT BATTERY ??

DOES SAMSUNG PUT KNOX OR NOT ??

THANKS MY FRIEND :good:
[Galaxy S III General] Garreth88:
Questions "which is the best" are forbidden on this forum:P I tried yank and it's great, but my phone shut down once (during sleep) and restarted once during internet surfing - I have no idea what's the reason behind this, so I'm changing kernel first. Few hours ago I've installed boeffla test kernel and so far it's great, however we will see after some time.
[Galaxy S III General] winuxguy:
Nothing has changed mate! Read through the threads and you'll find out that most of us here are using the Ireland with the China kernel and no lockscreen lag...
[Galaxy S III General] stasiulaska:
4.4

I just want to say that i'm waiting to long for 4.3 from samsung and i jest try latest cm11 preview grom temasek and ITS great!
[Galaxy S III General] hwjrmrm:
sammy gave a better 4.3 to Chinese user before paused...
[Galaxy S III General] subfire91:
You mean the home button awful lag ?

Where i can find your mod ?

Thank you
[Galaxy S III General] Ricky Divjakovski:
Yes it fixes almost all lags and in the s3 original android development, or just go on my profile and look at my atarted threads
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
hi guys,

is the new keyboard from S4 included only in Chinese ROM? isn't in uk?

thx
[Galaxy S III General] Falster:
@ All running 4.3 BTU with chinese kernel:

Is everything still ok with our phone? Any problems like battery drain / wakeup lag coming back / random reboots? Do you recommend switching from 4.1.2 to 4.3 with chinese kernel? Or is it better to wait?

Thanks for your answers :)

Yes
[Galaxy S III General] dkionline:
Only chinese, soon we have it. wait for next updates after samsung fix all problems.
[Galaxy S III General] jay_m3:
Yeah, exactly, i'll wait for the next update
[Galaxy S III General] MikeOnX:
i would NOT recommend using this firmware. I have an i9300 from the first batches with the crazy emmc chip and after flashing STOCK MJ9 my phone was useless, took ages to wake up after screen locked, everything was slow, something got messed up i guess in the reading and writing speeds coz even music playback without any other apps on the backgroud would stutter and even stop for some seconds, the whole phoen was kinda slow some times and it was ok some other less. Getting into recovery was a pain, i had one moment in which i couldn´t get into recovery and it took several battery pulls but i succeded and i better returned it to my carrier´s rom (4.1.2) in case i have to take it to samsung for a dead chip... it´s been working fine in that rom for days now.
[Galaxy S III General] Shamus69:
The new yank kernel (4.0a) has been recompiled using the new mali sources used in the Chinese kernel.

It seems like a big improvement to me, but only time will tell :)
[Galaxy S III General] tiby87:
Please tell me if I can go back to 4.1.2 from 4.3. I like it alot but it's too bugy.:(

Please answer me. Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] dkionline:
Only with MG4 or newer Modem.
[Galaxy S III General] Moster2:
Yes, if you use a firmware after mg4( new efs), unless you have a backup of the efs
[Galaxy S III General] Alestilohomer:
Yes, you can of course.

Make a backup of your data, flash the 4.1.2 Rom you want, but MG4 or newer to avoid network issues. Once flashed the rom, go into recovery and perform a wipe data factory reset. If you won't do this, you will get a bootloop.

And that's all ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Awesome Developer:
Thanks my friend

THANKS MY FRIEND I DOWNLOADED THE CHINA KERNEL AND LOCK SCREEN LAG IS SOLVED

THANKS :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III General] Gorgtech:
Have a look at this : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2517781

The chinese kernel uses no swap or zRAM, this is one reason for it to avoid the wake up bug. I´d still prefer a high quality custom kernel ;)
[Galaxy S III General] tiby87:
Thank you :)
[Galaxy S III General] Lci:
OTA and Kies update not available anymore for i9300

I did restore my phone back to 4.1.2 and after reading the news about Samsung pulling the update for our phones i tried to see if that is true or not.Well it appears that it`s true because manually checking for updates shows "The latest updates have already been installed".Same thing with Kies no update anymore.
[Galaxy S III General] drelite08:
Its basically like they've accidentally rolled out a test firmware lol :D not that I care its superb with custom kernel that fixes the issues.
[Galaxy S III General] Lci:
They could have used the chinese kernel in the first place and everybody would have been happy :)
[Galaxy S III General] drelite08:
There will always be some who are never happy :D lol.
[Galaxy S III General] Awesome Developer:
Thanks my friend

THANKS MY FRIEND FOR YOU HELP AND INFORMATION :highfive:
[Galaxy S III General] jgmccabe:
Anyone tried factory reset after FOTA update?

The other day someone posted an email from Samsung saying about doing a factory reset after updating OTA. I was on unbranded 4.1.2 in the UK and got updated to 4.3 the other day. As I mentioned elsewhere, it's ****e, and I had a moan about it through the Samsung UK support page. The response arrived this morning and it was the "some files left behind blah blah backup with Kies blah blah recharge battery from flat blah blah factory reset".

I was just wondering, before I went down that route, whether anyone's tried that and seen any benefit. I don't really want to go through the hassle of reinstalling shedloads of stuff if it's not going to make a blind bit of difference.

Many thanks

John
[Galaxy S III General] Amir12hbk:
worng forum
[Galaxy S III General] brianwescombe:
I installed 4.3 BTU OTA update, and after haivng most of the issues I did a factory reset yesterday. Still getting some problems and the battery drain is a *****. Hopefully Samsung will issue a fixed FW soon