yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] j0sefuz:
that's just few of all the bloatwares installed in your phone.

i removed more than 10 bloatwares like:

s voice,

samsung apps with blue/cloud icons. i found around 10 of these if i am not mistaken.

yahoo apps,

and etc.

also disable sync.
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Hmmm... On the French EMA2, you can't turn off the camera sounds!

Also, I've had the Media bug (where the Media process starts sucking battery life if you charge over 90%) since... either ELLA or ELLC. This is really frustrating. :mad:
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
add this line to your system\csc\feature.xml

<!-- Camera -->

<CscFeature_Camera_ShutterSoundMenu>true</CscFeature_Camera_ShutterSoundMenu>

As this is a regional feature, illegal in some countries :p

As for the drain. I dont have it :) (might not help you tho)
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Yeah, they usually do that to cameras in European firmwares! :rolleyes:

Haha. You're lucky! Not even a wipe has been able to salvage my battery life! :(
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
No wipe here, but also a very slim ROM :D
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
Nordic Countries is out on Sammobile, do you think it's worth a try?
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
I take it that you're not on stock? :p
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
It's the same EMA2 firmware so it'll have the same features.
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
No I'm far away :p
[Galaxy S III General] ricnar456:
drain in mediaservices is for a corrupt video mp4 aac or audio mp3 file, my friend have media service eating his batery and start deleting the mp4 and solves the problem.

ricnar
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Hmm nordic just got ema2. My flashing fingers are itching.
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
If you dl can u pls upload the cache.img for me? to filecloud.io
[Galaxy S III General] ToddeSwe:
Sv: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

But it's NORDIC :) must try it.

Since I'm from Sweden I feel this is a must. Even though my downgrade to M1 and much steadier battery I fell I must try.

Sent from my I9300XXEMA1 Android 4.1.2
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Sure. :)

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Btw, I'm ota'ing this update but I'm downloading the tar file just so I can give you the cache file perka :p I have a premium acc on hotfile until august so I might as well download a lot. By the way does mega work? I think they got faster d/l than filecloud.

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@perka here you go mate: https://mega.co.nz/#!B4FDED6J!JsXtlHdv2rNtq9DGl0lZSirOreVYunigZb5YH8mUf64 <--- cache.img only

EDIT: Thanks to mega being as awesome as it is, I could upload at 4MB/s and here's the FULL untouched and unmodified EMA2 NEE package (extract the zip first to get the tar): https://mega.co.nz/#!Z0kQRT6C!KIPnkCuuYDEAVpWFysl1-QATTl4SinIzBkaSzdwHAUo <--- full NEE EMA2 firmware
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
Can you please share your findings with me. I am tired of the EMA2 roms. I have tried all of them with a wipe before flashing, but the battery life is like crap. The France rom did worked fine on the first day, but today I have a very high android system battery consumption. I hope the NEE build is better, but I am afraid it's not, because it has the same changelist.
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
All MA2 are the same!

Just diff csc and/or modem!

omg!
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
they are all the same, only the modem is different. flashed the Nordic and it is the same...doh android system says 17%... im gonna stay at this one and if it drains my battery again im going back to stock xella.

PS: i did something different with this rom..did a factory reset from settings not from revocery...and...well android system 17% before that was 32-42%
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
Agreed, but the modems are different so there still is a reason to test. The France rom worked better for me than the Singapore rom, so there are some differences.
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
So just flash a different modem ;)
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Is that so? Well, I decided to use a .nomedia file to hide some of my videos from my video players. Then, I deleted the .nomedia file but the videos still wouldn't show up no matter how many times I rescanned the media or restarted my phone. Okay, now the entire folder has disappeared (it was there two days ago, I swear!) :rolleyes:

Haha. You may go ahead and try it. Like I've mentioned before and Perka has done so, above; all EMA2 are the same! :)
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
I surely can do that but I am living in Suriname so I am afraid of loosing my warranty.
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
flashing modem dont trip the counter. Just tested.
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
Tnx Mate, what about system status official or custom?
[Galaxy S III General] onesolo:
So to start, when I got my S3, I updated with the first JB roms that were available.

I then had Camera Shutter sound.

Then for somewhat reason, I loose that shutter sound... and I tried and tried but can't get it back!!!

I already install serveral roms by erasing every thing but never never got back the shutter sounds...

Today, I saw this:

I went to see my feature.xml, but it didn't had this line, only "<!-- Camera -->"

I add the second line, reboot, but still nothing...

And by the way, isn't that line, it has a true statement, to give shutter sound?? what some guys want here is to turn off shutter sound (I want the exact opposite!!!)
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
Cant tell you as I have custom ROM, but I dont see why it should show modified. Just a new modem.

It gives you a menu in camera to enable/disable sound.

Works for me anyway.

Also you can just delete the camera sounds in system/media/audio/ui

camera_click.ogg

Camera_click_short.ogg

pls go here to ask : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2063817
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
one simple and stupid question...when i install something always there is shortcut created on the home page...why? how to disable that?
[Galaxy S III General] ToddeSwe:
Sv: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Can someone please tell me why mms are really bad on S3?

I want to be able to tap the picture and zoom right away. Not save it first and the find it in gallery and then open it to look at it.

Edit: looks like it's fixed in the latest Nordic rom I flashed tonight. :)

Sent from my I9300XXEMA2 Android 4.1.2
[Galaxy S III General] c_codrut:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Disable automatic adding of shortcuts from google play settings.
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Did I just inadvertently fix my battery issues? Huh... :confused:

Well, this is interesting. Interesting, indeed!

---------- Post added at 01:26 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:23 AM ----------

With almost 2 hours of screen on time with a 52 minute call and almost 30 minutes of gaming, my battery has come from 100% to 67%. Interesting, indeed.

Oh, I fell asleep whilst charging my phone. Otherwise, I hardly ever charge it over 96%.

Okay, nobody jinx it. Shoo! :D
[Galaxy S III General] goughymachine:
I asked about this on a 4.1.1 optus rom on the aussie s3 thread. someone suggested that it included the Navigon app and Aussie maps within it, which would add up to about the difference. We get navigon and aussie maps for free over here.
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
No maps just extra apks. Music hub etc in csc.img Once you strip that out it is just a normal ROM with (hopefully) a tweaked Optus modem.
[Galaxy S III General] dmatik:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

It is a setting in Play Store. Just untick it.
[Galaxy S III General] alankstiyo:
how did you do it?

I barely manage to get 12 hrs of battery :S, thinking on getting a new battery, for now my iphone is winning th battery battle ;S so sad
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Okay, for all of those people having battery issues, can you try something and report the results back to me?

Log into the Dropbox account and turn its background sync off

. Log into Flipboard, too.

I know it seems quite silly but... I kept getting a message to try Dropbox out (I never sign in). I signed in yesterday and both my Android System and Android OS have been below 10%. I have done nothing else. Now, I've had my screen on for 3 hours 40 minutes, played games for 1 hour, was on the phone for 1 hour, and had wifi on intermittently.
[Galaxy S III General] manish19:
Can I flash this?

Hello,

I am on stock 4.1.2 which I updated from Kies on XXELLC firmware. Somehow I feel this is unstable and I am planning to flash the 4.1.2 variant of Italy.

PDA: I9300XXEMA2

CSC: I9300ITVEMA1

Version: 4.1.2

Can I flash this after obtaining the firmware from Sam Mobile? The boot.img flashes the bootloader so it wont cause a problem or conflict with the existing bootloader right?

Is it safe to remove the boot.img when flashing stock roms from the tar.md5 file using winrar? Can we flash the package after doing this?

Moreover how to add the Indian CSC to this?

Regards,

Manish
[Galaxy S III General] cmd512:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Both are frozen on my phone, so that can't be it.
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
i didnt log into any of those except google for the play store...sync is off..and everything else is off...and this night..again battery drain :) seeing on how much % android system is is useless because if you play a game or do something else it will drop on 12% or 17....doing a full charge and then not touching your phone for 12h then you will notice that android system is like 40% and your battery have gone for 12h :(

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one thing important...on sammobile there are 2 firmwares for bulgaria and serba..they are xella...but is the kernel december or january ?!
[Galaxy S III General] hsveight:
Matching stock rom to CSC

Hey guys.

Im in a bit of a pickle here and cant seem to sort it out myself.

Basically I put a upgraded my firmware using Odin a while ago. Since then I have found out that because my CSC doesn't match my rom I cannot update via Kies or OTA.

I don't want to change my CSC because I don't want to wipe the phone. So what I'm after is someone to tell me a samsung rom I can download that will match the CSC and I will have a legit phone again. Here's the details I could find on my phone.

Kies tells me;

PDA: LJ4

Phone: LID

CSC: LJ4 (XEO)

Typing *#1234# tells me;

AP: I9300XXDLJ4

CP: I9300XXDLID

CSC: I9300OXADLJ4

Let me know if I haven't provided enough info.

Cheers :good:
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
guys there is a firmware on sammobile its uploaded now...and it says 31.1.2013...I9300UBELL6..........bell6 is new or old ?
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Older than EMA2.
[Galaxy S III General] FDisk80:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet#Alphabetical_order

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
LOL I spat out coffee! Thank you! :)
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
so you are telling me that samsung is marking its firmware by alphabetical and numeral order...so the last of its kind will bei9300ZZZZ9 or i9300AAAA9 ?!!!

dont worry i know the alphabet and its right order of letters. My first language have even more letters in it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_alphabet
[Galaxy S III General] FDisk80:
No. The 3 letters after i9300 is country.
[Galaxy S III General] onesolo:
But I don't want to delete the camera sounds!!! I want the camera sounds!!

With that line, I don't have any menu in camera to enable/disable sound!!! And yes, I remember that I had that item on camera's menu...
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
that makes things more clear :D
[Galaxy S III General] Agaranda:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

I think that I9300UBELL6 is:

UB country

E version (4.1.2)

L year (2012)

L month (december)

6 correlative

I9300XXEMA2, Boeffla 2.7b8, Earsonics SM3
[Galaxy S III General] cxdz810:
Behavior of Android System is completely oppossite on XEMA2 that i have used, when you are using the phone, android system usage is rising very fast (you can see seconds and minutes rising)...when you leave phone is standby, android usage is stopped and percent is falling by standby usage...

I tried several things to stop that galloping android usage, but failed, tried changing modems, kernels, freezeing and deleting almost all bloatware and apps on phone, clean wipe installs...

Thinking to go back to XELLA...
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
XXEMA2_NEE

Hi,

I also tried different roms and have the Nordic one since yesterday. This one also has the XXELLA modem like the Turkish build, but this one is behaving better till now. Check the screenshot. It has the same change list and same modem as the Turkish build! I can't understand why it behave different!
[Galaxy S III General] uberto.costanzo:
R: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Hi whit EMA2 i have problem visualizer photo tag gps camera work i have long. and lat. but map can't open why? Help please. Thanks for reply

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300 con Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] bull3tster:
SMS to MMS issue

Hi guys,

I have a problem in galaxy S3. Whenever i am typing an SMS and it exceeds a number of characters (Probably 3-4 full text messages), it automatically gets converted to MMS. whereas in my other non android phone i can type 6 full length text messages and it doesnt change to MMS.

How to stop galaxy s3 to convert SMS to MMS automatically? Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
Go to your sms settings and change input mode to GSM alphabet.
[Galaxy S III General] mrm43:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Factory reset your phone. That would solve the csc issue.
[Galaxy S III General] bull3tster:
SMS to MMS issue

Still the same bro. Tried after clearing recent apps as well after applying GSM alphabet mode. it still gets converted to MMS after 3 full text messages. :(
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
What is your limit in message settings for SMS? Try putting creation mode on restricted?
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
im on the nordic one too since yesterday and the battery drain is not that bad as previous ema2's but they all had diferent modems this one has xxella. im gonna try out that ubell6 tonight and tell you how it feels..if its the same sh** i will go back to xella
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
Is the XXELLA battery life better than the EMA1?
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
I think, ema1 had the exact same problem for me. xxella did not spend 2% overnight even with the wifi and data connection on...
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
Tnx Bro.
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
doesnt hurt to try....I flashed 4 different xema2's to find out that is crap...try out the macedonian one at sammobile its under macedonia (vim)...
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
I think I will try the dutch one.
[Galaxy S III General] Motodoido:
I don't think so bad battery life on EMA2,3h of mp3, at home wifi on,3g on all time, some emails/sms, 1 1/2 of calls and I got 36h
[Galaxy S III General] ToddeSwe:
Sv: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Insane good. This is a dream for me. Have never gotten close to this.

Sent from my I9300XXEMA2 Android 4.1.2
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
Thanks Bro, Which build are u using?
[Galaxy S III General] bull3tster:
SMS to MMS issue

My Limit is 500 messages. I have turned Restriction mode on but no use. Still facing the same brother. This is so annoying. :(
[Galaxy S III General] Motodoido:
Singapore + syah 1.8.9 + ell1 modem (Brazil)
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] b-eock:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

When wifi is on and connected, data is off even if enabled. So everyone saying data and wifi were on, not really possible unless using super download to use both connections and download something.
[Galaxy S III General] Geryatrix:
I'm not sure about all service providers, but the two that I have used set the size of SMS messages, and instruct any message over a certain number of characters to change to MMS.
[Galaxy S III General] javier_83:
i just install EMA2 and i love it!! finally the laggy Gallery is gone!! :D
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
The laggy galary made place for a worse battery life!
[Galaxy S III General] ToddeSwe:
WANTED the guy who removed MAP and reinstalled it again WANTED!!!

Hi!

WANTED

The guy who removed MAPS with Titanium on MA2 or was it MA1?

Are you still happy with the battery after removing and reinstalling maps?

I went for the Nordic MA2 yesterday but today at work i noticed after 9 hour that i was down to 60%.

So tonight i removed MAPS and reinstalled it. Hope it helps...
[Galaxy S III General] raj_p:
Hi,

Which 4.1.2 rom is the best according to you? I am tired of flashing a different rom every week.
[Galaxy S III General] cxdz810:
Im the guy with maps fix :) - its the problem with ''alarm manager'' battery drain connected to G maps...

It happens on EMA2 rom, its related to standby battery drain (where usually XEMA2 has no problems)... this can be seen on better battery stats - partial wakelocks section...

Battery drain with Android System is consistent on almost all EMA2 roms (didnt try nordic) - you can see it in default battery diagram - refresh few times and see how fast seconds are rising in android usage...

Tested XELC rom - there is a bit reduced usage - about 15-20 percent.

On EMA2 and EMA1, usage is galoping on par with screen on 30-40 percent margin...

However, the standby (deepsleep) works good on xema2, on par with xelc and xella...
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
well in stock you have camera sounds.
[Galaxy S III General] cxdz810:
If you want battery friendly rom with solid performance i suggest trying XELC and XELLA roms... where xella is most battery friendly and you are safe from sudden death sindrome....

And please for

performance fix

- in development options

turn off

''Transition Animations'' to off, and Animation Duration set to ''x0.5'' (from x1)... and restart your device...

I will try Nordic EMA2 rom soon to see battery performance and eventual drain...
[Galaxy S III General] ToddeSwe:
Sv: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

I did what you did and are now hoping for a longer battery life tomorrow.

Will tell you how it went.

Thanks, I will try the other thing about turning down and off animation.

But not until after tomorrow night.

Guess what I had ticked to on when looking at development settings just now. Force gpu in 2D... That kills my battery. So now I think it will be better.

Forgot to look after my nandbackup. :)

Sent from my Nordic I9300XXEMA2 Android 4.1.2
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
Thank you so much sir, you made my day ! (dont know how i didnt notice those options by now..i was wondering where they are..
[Galaxy S III General] Mikulec:
U can easily eliminate/improve the gmaps battery usage by disabling the location settings in maps. U dont have to freeze/uninstal them.

And Android system drain is also dependant on various things and settings, u cant say that one rom has it better and other not. For example I have significantly lower Android system drain then u on MA2.
[Galaxy S III General] ToddeSwe:
Sv: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

I think a lot of different things matter.

But I can compare to myself and that's what I do. I try out for myself and compare to the rom I had before.

I can say that on my device ELLA was the best one for me.

Sent from my Nordic I9300XXEMA2 Android 4.1.2
[Galaxy S III General] cxdz810:
''Drain'' that i experienced on EMA2 is out of the box settings, tried untouched default rom, and tried bloatware free, tried with and without external sd card, sd memory always flashed clean, tried various scenarios, with default kernel and modem...

You may not look the percent of ''Android system'' usage, try looking on - time of usage ''min and seconds'', when you refresh battery statistics youll see seconds rising without pause on that parameter...
[Galaxy S III General] gboros:
Can you point me where I can get this modem?

Thx
[Galaxy S III General] Motodoido:
CWM package
[Galaxy S III General] olavopb:
GT-I9300 - Taiwan

PDA: I9300ZSEMB1

Changelist: 899179

CSC: I9300OZSEMB1

Phone:I9300XXELLA

Version: 4.1.2

Date: 2013-02-02

Regions: China, Hong Kong

Download Hotfile: http://goo.gl/1M6xo
[Galaxy S III General] ivan4o5:
The changelist is : 899179
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Heck, no! :p

I'm not going to flash a Taiwanese ROM ever again. They're completely useless. I'd rather wait a few more days for something better.
[Galaxy S III General] tczhang:
Re: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Try add a line in /system/csc/feature.xml and it might be helpful.*<CscFeature_Message_SmsToMmsTextThreshold>500</CscFeature_Message_SmsToMmsTextThreshold>**
[Galaxy S III General] olavopb:
Relax.... Stay where you are.

News??? very smoothly, as always in all...
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
I9300ZSEMB1

BRI

http://filecloud.io/cwze8q47

TGY

http://filecloud.io/nb19ox8l

Enjoy!
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
anyone wanna share how is the new rom ? im downloading the hong kong one...
[Galaxy S III General] wanam:
Any Google Drive mirror?
[Galaxy S III General] DaReDeViL:
filecloud is fast enough ... i'm downloading at full speed ;)

Anyway, L3AZZZ :)
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
Afaik Wanam has issues with this mirrors in his country/job and he can only use Google Drive
[Galaxy S III General] onesolo:
But I'm on a stock rom!!!

For example, I also found out that one of the biggest drains comes from the LED Indicator notifications!!!

I just disabled Led for the notifications, and now I reduce immensely the wakes up and have much better battery life!!

For example, this night (8 hours) I only had 2% of drain battery (no wifi or data turn on...)

Led notifications in JB is a major hog resource
[Galaxy S III General] MuertoKo:
+1 to this, it's quite insane if you just watch the drain slope in battery stats before and after having the LED blinking (easy to test by using phone on Plane mode to avoid interference and switching On and Off the Blocking Mode...
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
just flashed the new firmware (the hong kong one) its running smooth. the kernel is from friday feb 1. did not do a whipe...its runing smooth. some of the widgets are on language we dont understand...doh i dont use them anyways :) funny thing one of the widget that i had on the home screen its on english..when you put the same one again it will be on...on....jiberish :D:D
[Galaxy S III General] ozzyita:
R: [Stock Official Firmwares] I9300XXEMA2 (4.1.2) - Singapore (XSP) [28-01-13]

Google drive anyone?

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] xbranex:
Ive noticed that the phone uses less ram, under 600 (which is weird) and quadrant gives 5660 everytime (and that is weird too bacause in the xema2 it was different all the time 5600 - 6100) and here is battery info for the xema2

PS: subway surf 20m, screen 1h 26m.
[Galaxy S III General] ricnar456:
this lasts hong kong and taiwan rom have english? or only asiatics languaje.

ricnar