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[Galaxy S III General] Tosh1R:
Hey guys got a bit of a strange one for those who are on the the leaked 4.2.2 TouchWiz ROM. i use Virgin and would like to setup my i9300 to exclusively use the 900mhz frequency, but when i enter the *#197328640# service menu code i get an invalid MMI code error. does anybody know of an alternate MMI code to access this service menu? or atleast another way of manually selecting the frequencies the phone will use? Really wanted to post this in the Android Revolution thread but the 10 post limit has stopped me dead in my tracks! :laugh:

Thanks guys :good:
[Galaxy S III General] butla:
It might be the modem.

It installs it's own modem but if you want to install the Australian I9300 or I9300T Modem go here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1740061&page=1 post 3:good:
[Galaxy S III General] Tosh1R:
Thanks for the tip but from what I can see there are only 4.1.2 modems in there. As far as I'm aware flashing those on a 4.2.2 rom is a bad idea?
[Galaxy S III General] butla:
Here is mine, I am with Telstra on I9300T. All good. If you are concerned backup in recovery first.
[Galaxy S III General] cokebotle:
Is anyone else with a having issues with theirs recently? Mine is doing this thing where the screen will shut off and won't turn back on unless I hold the power button down until it restarts. I've had to do that it a couple times in the past few weeks after almost a year of no problems.

In fact, I had to do it last night and this morning. o.O
[Galaxy S III General] dvduran1:
Yeah I had that problem for about a month and a half. I sometimes had to restart it 5-10 times a day. Sometimes the screen just wouldn't respond, other times it would just freeze whilst doing something. This was on both custom and stock roms (from other countries).

Got a new Sim card for work and fresh installed the Telstra ROM and haven't had a problem since. I would suggest fresh installing the correct ROM and wiping all data and cache......
[Galaxy S III General] neonlight8:
This is the famous Sudden Death Issue.

I recommend to get ROMs based on XXEMC3, it will solve your problems
[Galaxy S III General] cokebotle:
I thought the 4.1.2 update fixed that issue, though. Plus, wasn't the Sudden Death Issue more of a "the screen is off and will not come back on ever" problem?

I'm on stock and always have been, although I rooted before the update back in December. Never bothered to root it again, because I don't use apps that require it. Plus, it's really odd that it only recently started happening, long after I installed the latest S3 update.
[Galaxy S III General] priyana:
it is more "Sleep of Death" then Sudden Death. If it were Sudden Death, it is beyond repair.

Never heard of sleep of death with stock ROM/Kernel before.
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
So sudden death is inevitable? I hope not, maybe the ROMs would fix it, have you even tried?
[Galaxy S III General] cokebotle:
I really don't want to reinstall everything, though. I'll see if I keep having trouble with it.

Worse comes to worse, I root again and start freezing apps with Titanium Backup.
[Galaxy S III General] maatsby:
Might be the battery. My gf's S2 had a very similar issue and a new battery fixed it
[Galaxy S III General] priyana:
So far all official repairs of sudden death seems to be motherboard replacement. But who knows there are some who knows how to rewrite the firmware codes just for the memory chip.

But since sudden death is preventable by the new kernel/recovery, no point to discuss that I guess.

Just be safe (by flashing only ROM and recovery that has that bug fixed).
[Galaxy S III General] cokebotle:
Hm... maybe I'll look into that. I just now had to hard reboot my phone for the ~5-6th time since Thursday night. :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] neonlight8:
I had a similar issue I updated to Vodafone stock ROM backin March and it randomly freezes and when the phone goes to sleep (Screen off) you can't get it back on. I had to hold the power button to reset and reboot again... was really annoying. happened to me a dozen times a day and very random

I felt that the phone was about to die, and was going to get that sudden death issue. As some people reported geting random freezes

I then did a factory reset, wipe all cache then dump Omega ROM on it and finally got rid of the issue. Its not too hard to backup your apps and data with Helium (formly Carbon). At most you just need to redo the widget screens.
[Galaxy S III General] cokebotle:
Well, it's more than just the screen not turning on now. I've had it freeze with the screen on at least twice, as well.

I wonder if it might actually be the motherboard or something physical. I might call Samsung to see if a repair is still covered (I doubt it, it's almost a year old :crying:)
[Galaxy S III General] priyana:
Australian local stock S3 has 2yr warranty.
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
I don't doubt you, but can you point to something on the Samsung site to confirm this? I am looking at a Note 2 and got nowhere looking for warranty information.
[Galaxy S III General] priyana:
http://www.samsung.com/au/support/warranty/warrantyInformation.do?page=POLICY.WARRANTY

You may need to open the full site instead of the mobile site.

Mind you, it brings you to notebook warranty.

But at the top, choose the link to mobile phone one.

I can't copy and make it go to mobile phone warranty somehow.

Then go to the table at the bottom.
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Thank you, I would never have worked al that out, I have a feeling I have been on that page but not scrolled to the bottom. :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] tqgia2:
Things have been quiet here lately- everyone run off and gotten an s4? lol
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
No S3 is on 4.2.2 yet, so no wonder we don't have it yet. :D
[Galaxy S III General] tqgia2:
How is CM treating you? I've always thought about making the leap but have never done it. I actually use some of the "smart" features
[Galaxy S III General] uf21:
What's a good modem for Optus on XXEMC3 build?

I am currently using xxemb6 modem and wifi & h+ reception is bad. It's goes to h+ but struggles to load a page, same with wifi.
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Wifi is not modem related so your problem is not the networks.
[Galaxy S III General] cokebotle:
Yep, I got my phone back this past weekend from a Telstra store and I didn't have to pay a thing. Replaced the board, reflashed the IMEI, and forced a software update. So far, smooth sailing, except I stupidly didn't back any of my apps up :(
[Galaxy S III General] uf21:
Well what is a good modem? What is the current latest modem that Optus is using?
[Galaxy S III General] dean1dj:
I don't seem to have any problems with my battery on my galaxy s3. It generally lasts a whole day. I added the app juice defender ultimate and have it on the aggressive mode and get about 18 hours of battery life now.
[Galaxy S III General] muzzas:
GT-I9300T

I have a Telstra S3 GT-I9300T and I'm having a lot of problems with Touchwiz refreshing/reloading icons and widgets after use. I'm still on 4.1.2 with baseband I9300TDUELL2.

Has anyone else had this problem? Found a fix without rooting?
[Galaxy S III General] ballmead:
Try another launcher that isn't a ram hog? I'm using Apex and it works well.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] muzzas:
I have started using Nova Launcher, but I miss some of the bells in Touchwiz like the headset page. I'm hoping it's fixed soon.
[Galaxy S III General] uf21:
Can anyone on optus tell me what is the modem version on the latest update there is?
[Galaxy S III General] uf21:
Anyone?
[Galaxy S III General] pcoussa:
Try here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1740061
[Galaxy S III General] gtda:
Not to worry
[Galaxy S III General] heath_AU:
I managed to figure this out. Turns out the NFC module for the S3 (and S4 i believe) is actually containing inside the battery. I purchased a "genuine" S3 battery for mine but it turns out the NFC module in said battery is either missing or faulty. My original battery allows NFC to work fine.

This could have resulted in a disaster if I had sent off my device to be repaired. As batteries cannot be posted they would have likely tested it using a genuine battery and found NFC to be working and sent it back to me only to have the same issue persist.

Hope this post may help someone avoid such an incident.
[Galaxy S III General] priyana:
sorry for you to find out this way, but many of us know about the NFC battery antenna when we bought the phone.
[Galaxy S III General] dialman:
no file

File not found in link. Please re-up :)
[Galaxy S III General] samorgs:
Telstra Modem & CSC

For anyone out there that may have flashed the 4.2 leaked ROM, here is the T model modem and Telstra CSC files.

I flashed these with CWM and works fine with the 4.2 leak. I originally tried flashing the T model modem & RILs and that did not work as it got rid of the message centre number in the messaging app and would not let you manually add the number, so by reflashing the 4.2 ROM and then only flashing the modem and CSC all is good.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11795071/modem_CWM_I9300TDUEMB1.zip

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11795071/TelstraCSC.zip

Hope this helps.
[Galaxy S III General] limyuyang:
Every sifu, please help me. I'm a beginner.

I get myself a GT-I9300T a month ago at Bangkok. And I live in Malaysia. So, I plan to flash this rom - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2311671 My phone is rooted and it's on stock rom now. I have not change anything yet in my phone, except for the root..

So my question is : do I have to change the 'modem' if I want to flash custom rom ?

Last question : is every I9300 rom can be flash in my I9300T ?
[Galaxy S III General] samorgs:
Check the post I put up a couple above, don't have to flash the modem, but if you do its optimized for the T model. Download the modem and flash via CWM after flashing the rom.
[Galaxy S III General] limyuyang:
Is the modem compulsory to flash if I want to flash custom rom ?

Sorry for bothering you, but I really don't understand. :(
[Galaxy S III General] tmantanner4:
No.
[Galaxy S III General] alm0nde:
May seem a silly question but;

I have a rooted i9300 running temeseks unofficial CM10.1 rom, with temeseks kernel, should i flash this modem? IF so will it improve anything?
[Galaxy S III General] tmantanner4:
A modem is what the phone uses to connect to the cellular towers. Each modem is optimised for different frequently bands. Flashing different modems can either give you a better or worse connection. My advice is you try a lot of them, test the speed on 3g, and stick with the one that gives you the best speed. But be careful when flashing modems with the ril. I am on paranoid android and I cannot flash any modem+ril packages, only the modem.
[Galaxy S III General] alm0nde:
Oh ok thanks a lot. Have tried a few ROMs but have new to both modems and kernels. Will have to try some modems i guess :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III General] tmantanner4:
Oh, and a very good kernel for aosp roms is yank555's kernel
[Galaxy S III General] alm0nde:
would you recommend it over temeseks own kernel (140713-1946-cm10.1-i9300-linux3086-BOEFFLA-temasek is what im using)?

am about to flash a new build of the temesek cm10.1 rom, what order should i flash these? ROM/GAPPS/KERNEL/MODEM/CSC?
[Galaxy S III General] tmantanner4:
I prefer custom kernels over ones that come with the rom.

As for order, I usually go ROM-GAPPS-MODEM-KERNEL

I don't ever flash csc, never needed ti
[Galaxy S III General] limyuyang:
Ok. Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] Peanuts.:
I was wondering if anyone can tell if the Optus network supports fast dormancy. I've searched this thread and others but can't find a definite answer to this.

Another reason as to why I'm asking this, is because in the past I've disabled fast dormancy. Seeing a lot of secril_fd-interface wakelock I thought this was killing my battery.

Only recently have I enabled fast dormancy, and I seem to be getting better battery life (wakelock is present once again).

I'm currently on Temasek CM10.1 rom so there's not way of me checking what mobile data state my phone is in.

Any help would be much appreciated :)
[Galaxy S III General] priyana:
I am on Optus and I experienced the opposite. If I enable fast dormancy, I saw a lot of fd secril wakelocks.
[Galaxy S III General] adrenalin100:
stock rom best
[Galaxy S III General] rexinu:
So still no official 4.2.2. firmware from telstra? Hoping to update my phone and install a new simcard / sd card reader as i have been having horrible problems with my sandisk micro sd. Ended up damaging the pins from frustration at the constant unmount mount problem, will give a samsung micro sd a shot.
[Galaxy S III General] ballmead:
It's not just Telstra, there is no official 4.2.2 anywhere in the world.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
Well if the S3 will be treated like the note 2 then it will take longer for the update to roll out as Telstra said that the note 2 will skip 4.2.2 to update 4.3.

Sent from my GT-9300T
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
My S3 was replaced by VF under warranty after a fault. I received a refurb unit, which I did not mind (after all, repairing my old phone would have made it a refurb as well...). The replacement came with stock 4.1.2 (i9300TDUEMB1) installed.

The stock rom was a bit of a shock after using Omega for 8-9 months...

Battery life was a shock too, with a drop of 12% overnight. Same apps installed as on original phone, configured same way.

But the thing that I'm more concerned about (and my question today) is:

When the phone is left charging overnight, once the battery is full, every 2-5 minutes I get a "ping" sound and the screen turns on. I think the phone constantly changes from "charging" to "charged" every 2-5 minutes.

I did not have this behaviour with Omega and I don't think I had it with stock when I first receive my original S3.

Any idea? do I have a phone with a problem?

Any thought will be appreciated as I can still swap it under warranty.

Thanks.

Y.
[Galaxy S III General] tqgia2:
Definitely don't have this problem, nor do my friends... I would personally get it checked up by VF
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Hey, guys!

What network would you recommend? I'm currently on Lebara and they've changed their $30 plan by reducing the data limit to 500mb (from 3gb)!

Any good alternatives for the same price? I couldn't care less about unlimited calls and texts. I'm more data-centric. :p
[Galaxy S III General] tmantanner4:
Kogan is the best.

30 a month, 6gb if internet and unlimited everything else

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
I had this problem with my phone, but since I flashed CM have not had this issue since, so it could be a kernel issue and not

a hardware one.
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
Thanks.

Will flash custom and see what happens. Will either go back to Omega or try CM.

How do you find CM yourself? Works well? Has anyone tried both CM and Omega and can recommend?

Y.

---------- Post added at 07:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:57 PM ----------

http://ausdroid.net/2013/07/29/kogan-mobile-increasing-their-prices/
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
I am currently using the latest nightly with my S3, no issues at all for me, I am on yank555 kernel using his profile, Battery is lasting

forever :) drains 3 percent overnight, I am with Vodafone and using the LL2 for the 9300T, getting around 10 mbits download and 3 mbits upload.

and after having the 4.3 on my nexus 4 and 7 I am not in a rush to upgrade the S3 to 4.3, CM 4.2.2 is finally perfect for me :)
[Galaxy S III General] tmantanner4:
Give paranoid android a go, it's amazingly stable and fast. Highly recommend it

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
So the standard nightly of 10.1 works on the T model, right? And all I need is the right modem?

Sent from my TF 'Droid
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
that is correct, I have not had any issues.
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
Thanks mate!

Flashed CM 10.1 nightly.

Not sure which kernel, I think it's CM.

Still using the MB1 modem. Will do some testing then will switch to LL2 to see if there's a difference.

Had some "wait/close" messages, but too early to say if they are consistent.

The only thing I forgot to do is to perfrom a seperate backup of my SMS's. I do have a TB backup and Nandroid. Posted a question in the CM10.1 thread so I don't want to double up and ask here as well...

Thanks again for the recommendations.
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
here is where I downloaded the yank555 kernel:

http://yank555-lu.net/

give it a try, for me it doubled my battery life, I also use greenify.

good luck
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
Getting too many FC's on CM10.1

ParanoidAndroid 4.2.2 is in alpha!

Omega 4.2.2 is in beta.

I think I'll go back to stock for now, until custom 4.2.2 is more stable, or custom 4.3 is out.
[Galaxy S III General] naathaanb96:
I'm on liquid smooth latest build and its awesome :) flashing yank kernel now
[Galaxy S III General] tmantanner4:
I rarely get any FC's on paranoid android. 3.68 is the best build so far.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
Is it possible to flash stock with no wipe?

The story is:

I had stock 4.1.2, flashed CM10.1, didn't like it so I restored my 4.1.2 using nandroid.

BUT...

I had issues with writing to external SD, which I only discovered this morning.

So I fixed permissions from CWM and also selected "yes" on exit when asked if I want to prevent stock from overwriting.

Not sure which one caused it but I now have a boot loop.

I then realised my TB did not write to ext SD since last week.

In terms of backup I now have:

nandroid of good system from last week (missing data from a couple of apps and some SMS)

TB from last week

nandroid of corrupt system from this morning

So if I can flash stock over stock with no wipe I would like to do this, then backup a couple of app data and SMS's. Then go custom

If I cannot flash stock over stock (no wipe) I'll have to restore my nandroid from last week, then try restoring SMS's and data from 2 apps using TB.

After doing all this I will do another nandroid and will go Liquid Smooth.

Any thoughs/suggestions?

Y.
[Galaxy S III General] m1sterpants:
I gave up on 4.2 as there was a bluetooth issue, ie if it is a meter or so away, it would get really choppy and lag, its meant to be an issue with CM 10.1. Even if it was in my pocket, it would play up. Since i listen to music via my headphones, its a no go for me, will keep waiting
[Galaxy S III General] cokebotle:
I've been having trouble with my phone randomly rebooting itself recently, and after sending it off for repair (a second time, actually!) I found out today it's doing it again. After having it back for ~2 days...

Is there a way for me to figure out if it's an app that's causing it? BetterBatteryStats isn't helping and this is non-rooted, stock ROM. :confused:

Edit: Ah, there's another thread on the front page talking about this! I should've double checked...
[Galaxy S III General] elgoog_zyrus:
Hey guys, I just posted in the sudden lag/freeze thread as well but just in case any fellow Aussies of mine get these random freezes/lag issues I thought I'd post here as well.

Just update the phone with official updates via OTA. I went from XELLA4 (UK version and I've only flashed official firmware/updates) to XXEMC2 and now I have zero sudden freeze/lag issues at all.
[Galaxy S III General] shkeef:
Boot loop, please help

Urgent help required as ive had to revert to using my icrud4 !

I dont consider myself a noob, but in this case im a little stumped..

I ran my battery dangerously low (stock firmware never rooted) and since then it has been stuck on the gti9300t screen.

So i figured id try root it and load a rom. I started with a 4.2.2 cwm flash, boots but stays on flashing samsung screen

Then i tried flashing the same 4.2.2 using odin, same result, then tried a stock 4.1 firmware, worse

Im open to any suggestions, and if anyone can repost vodafone firmware im sure i had the jb 4.1.0 firmware before all this **** happened

Thanks in advance!

Im on a s3 gt-i9300t on vodafone network non 4g was the first of the jellybean release
[Galaxy S III General] ballmead:
I would boot into recovery and try a factory reset. Then using Odin and down load mode flash a stock 4.1.2 rom.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] shkeef:
I have, only gti9300t rom i could find was a thailand version.. Had no result, so if anyone has a link to voda au firmware, im on my hands and knees!!
[Galaxy S III General] KonTemPt:
www.sammobile.com is your friend
[Galaxy S III General] shkeef:
Just flashed a genuine voda au 4.1 firmware via odin, still in boot loop

What the hell is going on here!!! I want my android back
[Galaxy S III General] KonTemPt:
Try going into recovery and doing a factory reset
[Galaxy S III General] shkeef:
Phone doesnt enter recovery mode unless i root it
[Galaxy S III General] samorgs:
Volume up + power button + home button all at the same time should get you into recovery mode.
[Galaxy S III General] niko123456:
My baseband is XXUFME7 - I'm using Vodafone. Can anyone suggest an alternative?
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
Hi, if you have the T model use mb1, if you have the 9300 model use mb5, my whole family have S3's and on Vodafone I have installed the mb5 for them and used getril to download matching rils.

I live in five dock I clocked many times speeds above 10 mbits download and 3 mbits upload.
[Galaxy S III General] Pep71:
Is that on 4.12 or 4.2.2?

Can you please post a link to the modem you are using.

Pep
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
I am on 4.1.2,

However these modems work with 4.2.2 as well.

Also for Vodafone make sure fast dormancy is on as they do support it.

This is the thread with out rils;

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1740061

This is the thread with rils:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2076857

If you have the T model flash the one with rils, if the 9300 flash the one without rils then use getril to match your rils to the modem.

From the tests that I have done, when you have the right rils signal and speed are vastly improved.

Good luck
[Galaxy S III General] Pep71:
Thanks Barracuda77777.

Are you using the Australian I9300TDUEMB1 then using RIL 19300XXEMB5?

Or XXUFME7 with RIL 19300XXEMB5?

I've never played with changing RIL's in Getril.

Thanks Pep
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
Do you have the T model?

Sent from my GT-9300T
[Galaxy S III General] Pep71:
Sorry..... Yes I do on Vodafone and have turned Dormancy on.

Pep
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
Download and flash mb1 with RIL, this is the latest for the T model and works really well for me.

Sent from my GT-9300T
[Galaxy S III General] Pep71:
Sorry just to clarify, 19300XXEMB1 or I9300TDUEMB1?

Pep
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
The I9300TDUEMB1 :)

Sent from my GT-9300T