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[Galaxy S III General] Kobarsos:
Questions on Australian S3 i9300T

Hey all,

(since I saw discussion about the DUEMB1 version I thought this would be an appropriate place to make my questions)

I'm new here so I'm really sorry if the questions are too noobish.

Anyway I got my hands on an Australian S3 i9300T from a friend.

It seems to be unlocked and 4.1.2 jellybean is installed on it, specifically this version that I saw in one opening thread :

TDUEMB1

Android:4.1.2

Date: 14/02/2013

Carrier-Country-Region: Vodafone,Thailand - Asia

Fact is I'm living in southern Europe and I did read that this cellphone actually favors the 850Mhz band right?

I've checked with carriers here, and the fact is we mainly use the 900 or 1800 band with GSM/WCDMA. 850 seems unavailable in our country.

1. So what does this mean exactly that I'll have trouble with my network will it be slow or something? Or will I be ok with 900 band carriers with the i9300T? Must I change something in phone options about the band from the bootloader to be ok?

2. Since I'm especially interested in rooting, would it be possible for me to root this version of the phone with CF-automatic root as it is? Or the CF/CWM manual root? Is it possible to do it as it is compatibility-wise I mean, or is it a requirement to install a stock rom version first in order for the procedure to work?

If I should have opened a new thread for this, please inform me appropriately.

Thanks in advance and sorry for the trouble!

---Kob---
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
If you are willing to root the phone, you can install a 9300 firmware of the region that you are in, I have ran many roms on my 9300T, cm 10, cm10.1, I even changed the bootrom from 9300 T to 9300 and back with no ill effects.

So, I think if you you do flash a 9300 rom, you should be fine, worst case scenario you can always flash a 9300T back, or make a nandroid back up before you start experimenting.

As for rooting, there is a 9300 and 9300T auto root by chainfire, both will work.

Good luck
[Galaxy S III General] Kobarsos:
Thanks for the fast reply!

Sorry if I wasn't clear in what I asked.

While this is good to know let me explain. I don't really care for installing much custom stuff or 9300 firmware (I'm pretty fine with i9300t firmware if it works that is), all I want is to root the phone in an "easy enough" way and have a stable jellybean release on it, that actually supports good 3G speed europe networks (900 band carriers etc).

I'm still new to this and got too much to learn before I demand super custom roms. :P Unless there is a very stable release I could use that would be easy to flash that is. xD

So is it ok to root it as it is (with the DUEMB1 version it has on now) or do I need to flash something else first? I'm mainly puzzled by simple things such as the order in which I do stuff, flashes etc, cause I'm afraid of damaging the phone with a non-compatible rom etc or by doing things in wrong order. And do I have to reinstall a rom after the root?

I'm aware of the automatic roots by chainfire but are those both compatible with DUEMB1 (vodafone) 4.1.2 JB that I have now installed on the phone?

Thanks again for sparing the time to answer. :)
[Galaxy S III General] priyana:
I think it is only optimised for 850MHz but runs fine on 900/1800 GSM and 2100 HSPDA.

I used to have a I9300T vodafone australia but running on optus network (which is using the same "standard" frequencies that is in Europe)

What is your experience so far? Do you get good speed?
[Galaxy S III General] Kobarsos:
Runs fine you say ha? I guess I must test it soon then.

Unfortunately I have no experience so far in speed etc, since I'm just doing my homework about it before using it.

Meanwhile I'm still using my galaxy s1 and thinking on how to transfer all my saved games, sms, contacts easily to the s3. I must first root the S3 anywayz, not to mention that I must also "cut" my sim to fit the S3.

I still didn't get any clear answer on my root questions though. :(
[Galaxy S III General] niko123456:
Wowsers.

I installed mb1 and the difference on speed test is incredible. I was getting half a Mbit before and now I get 7!
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
Great to hear :)

Sent from my GT-9300T
[Galaxy S III General] niko123456:
do you mind if I ask a newb question about how to ensure dormancy is switched on?
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
Hi, install the following app, that should tell you if you have dormancy on or off, you need root to check though.

usually by default fast dormancy is on.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gokhanmoral.fastdormancytoggle.i9300&hl=en

cheers
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
Thanks for all the usefull info [MENTION=4193974]Barracuda77777[/MENTION]

I'm on the VF network, running LiquidSmooth (Android 4.2.2) with the TDUEMB1 modem.

I get an avarage of 4-5Mb down (in both inner-city Sydney and North Shore). Same results in both locations with the TDUELL2 modem, so I reverted back to TDUEMB1.

I checked Fast Dormancy and it's enabled on my SGS.

Will I have any benefit installing TDUEMB1 with the rils from the link you posted?
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
Yes, you will get extra speed and better signal, I can't explain it, but that is the case every time I have a matching rils.
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
Brilliant.

Thanks!

EDIT:

Sorry, one more question:

Just wanted to make sure I need to delete the System folder before flashing. I'm on 4.2.2
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
What combination of modem + ril are you using yourself?

My modem is TDUEMB1. I ran GetRil and as expected got the message of mismatch. But I could not find a matching ril in the list of rils in GetRil (there are 30 rils in the list, none of them are TDUEMB1).

So I installed the TDUELL2 ril and flashed the TDUELL2 modem. Did some test calls and found that I cannot hang up an outbound call.

So now I'm back to where I started: TDUEMB1 modem and XXDLIB ril.

What would you recommend?

(i'm on 4.2.2 with VFA in Sydney).

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
I have the 9300T, getrils does not work, so I flashed the modem_RIL_CWM_I9300TDUEMB1.zip, let me know if you can't find it and I will post the link.
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
Thank you!

I already have the modem+ril files for TDUEMB1.

But the advice I received in the modems+rils thread was not to flash if I'm running AOSP rom.

If it works for you I may try it myself.

Do I need to delete the system folder from the zip file before flashing? I'm on Android 4.2.2
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
I actually agree with you were told, sorry I thought you were on leaked 4.2.2

I am running the Vodafone latest 4.1.2 for the 9300T, if you flash rils with modem on Asop you will stuff up the signal as Asop uses open source rils.
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
Thanks heaps for all your help and advice!
[Galaxy S III General] Ricky Divjakovski:
I think all us aussies should run an aussie rom, such as my TSLD rom ;)
[Galaxy S III General] smegg:
AGREED.....Downloading it now ;)
[Galaxy S III General] h4ck3rc1:
I'm running CarbonROM at the moment, quite happy with it, what's your ROM based on?
[Galaxy S III General] tmantanner4:
Temasek's unofficial
[Galaxy S III General] Ricky Divjakovski:
Its based on MC3 ;) check it out
[Galaxy S III General] h4ck3rc1:
I might take a look, easy enough to Nandroid and check it out :)
[Galaxy S III General] KMino:
They this anyone whom dislikes Samsung, highly recommended it with ME7 modem!

24hrs+ uptime, 4hrs+ screen time on average here. :D
[Galaxy S III General] hrtrulz:
I am running Slim bean 4.3 and is working great. One thing I have the i9300T and I am confused which is the modern I need to be optimised for the T Model
[Galaxy S III General] hally8296:
Hey guys just watch which modem you flash. I didnt read the fine print on the Modem+RIL I9300 thread (dont flash the RILS in that thread on leaked samsung roms - only official) and downloaded the DUEMB1 modem+RIL on 4.2.2 leak (ARHD 32) No reception. Managed to flash DUELL2 modem and get the RIL using GetRIL which sorted me out. Decided to flash ARHD 29 and try out MB1 modem on an official Sammy ROM and afterwards found baseband was unknown. Didnt matter what modem + RIL combo I flashed. Nandroided back and still no luck, no reception. Luckily I backed up my EFS Partition and used kTool to restore it back.

Just make sure you backup your /EFS before you do ANY modem changes. Some modems modify your EFS partition and the only way you can get reception back is to restore your old EFS back...
[Galaxy S III General] hally8296:
If anyone cant send SMS's after flashing a ROM below might be a fix. It certainly helped me.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1916507

Telstra's SMSC (message centre numbe) = +61418706700
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
Charging issue

Hi,

I posted this in the LiquidSmooth thread but received no reply. I'm hoping someone here can help. Happy to delete this if it's considered double posting.

Need some advice please.

I was running LiquidSmooth v2.9 for about 3 months. In the past month or so my i9300T was having intermittent charging problems. Sometimes it was charging fine, other times would not charge regardless of how long it was connected to the charger. Disconnecting from charger and reconnecting helped sometimes, but not always. Over a period of a month I replaced wall charger, USB cables, tried charging using a laptop, all with same results. I thought it may be a faulty battery and purchased a new one (genuine). Same results.

I then suspected the phone has a fault as it was replaced in July under warranty and I received a refurb unit. So I had the phone replaced again under warranty (not before I bricked it trying unsuccessfully to go back from LiquidSmooth 2.9 to stock...). Received refurb unit again, rooted, installed a fresh v2.10, and 3 days later the issue is back! Intermittently the phone will not charge.

Basically, I replaced everything: charger, USB cable, charging source, battery, phone and ROM.

Any ideas? Anyone else experienced such an issue?

I'm considering going back to Vodafone stock as a test to see if this has anything to do with the ROM.

Any advice will be appreciated.

Y.
[Galaxy S III General] goughymachine:
For anyone who's given 4.3 a go, are there any different modems you find works well over here, particularly with optus? I've installed wanam 7.2 but in my she'd I've noticed the reception is worse, barely getting data and losing signal much more than usual. Any suggestions
[Galaxy S III General] sladflob:
I'd be interested to know this too. I've installed the Samsung 4.3 (Irish) ROM and find that its modem doesn't work so well on the Vodafone network. I tried the TDUEMB1 modem (not the RIL) but couldn't get it to work, so flashed back the BUUGMJ3 modem out of the 4.3 ROM. Do the T modems need the RIL to be flashed too?
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
I'm running LiquidSmooth 2.10, which is based on 4.3, with TDUEMB1 modem on the VF network and have no issues

(other than the battery charging issue I posted earlier, but I had this issue on 4.2.2 and 4.3)
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Why is Telstra so expensive? :-\
[Galaxy S III General] goughymachine:
Cause it can be
[Galaxy S III General] Barracuda77777:
We will have to wait for Vodafone to release the 9300T 4.3 version as the ROM from Ireland will only work with V2 modems.

Has anyone else noticed that the bootrom got flashed too?

And yes i9300 modems never worked well with Vodafone.
[Galaxy S III General] tqgia2:
:S really? I installed EMB1 and now I've lost reception

Also telstra is worth the money in my opinion... though none of their plans are. I'm on prepaid at the moment (back to the stone ages) and I find that I'm quite happy with what I'm getting. I'm a pretty light user though

OH difference is I'm on the wanam rom. Could be why
[Galaxy S III General] thegrach:
I've installed the stock 4.3 the modem in this seems to be working fine with Optus. My main issues are the lag and Wi-Fi dropping out at this point. Also ant+ support doesn't seem to be activated yet, which is the reason I installed this in the first place.
[Galaxy S III General] neonlight8:
I'm curious too about the latest Omega ROM based on XXUGMJ9 with Modem BUUGMJ3

Does this work well on Telstra or Vodafone? Or we have to wait for modems released for 4.3?
[Galaxy S III General] maidangisme:
I roll back 4.1.2.

-4.3 firmware Samsung had changed Service Menu Code (*#197328640#) and no one has found new code yet. I just use service menu for locked in Only 900Mhz band (Optus) but not on 4.3. My area 2100Mhz too much congestion and drop, on 900Mhz i had stable at 5mbps all day, without it 0.25mbps at max and drop constantly.

-Damn Optus.
[Galaxy S III General] goughymachine:
I'm thinking of going back to 4.1.2 from 4.3. Even with yank kernel I'm getting a lot of battery drain.

I'm wondering if any of you have tried cm and how you find it on the s3? How does focal camera app work on it? And if I'm on 4.3 do I have to do anything super special to go back to cm, or will it just be easier to go back to the 4.1.2 that works?
[Galaxy S III General] ballmead:
Before you do that give Sale's repacked Chinese modem a go.

It's awesome, it's very smooth, no lags, or home button wake bug and it's good on the battery too.

You can find it here, it's the 3rd link down.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47180741&postcount=7644
[Galaxy S III General] Arcane 911:
uk

Has anyone tried the unbranded UK version of 4.3 yet? I've been using CM for ages and while it's doing really well, I would like to go back to stock for better stability.
[Galaxy S III General] alm0nde:
I'm in the same boat, keen to give stock another go
[Galaxy S III General] ballmead:
The Rom itself is fine, it's the kernel that it comes with that causes the issues.

If you install the 4.3 UK ROM, flash the Chinese 4.3 kernel and you are good to go.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] goughymachine:
I didn't find the Chinese kernel solved my issues. Back on yank, but I think I shall revert. Might wipe data first, but I'm finding scrolling very jerky.
[Galaxy S III General] tqgia2:
Haven't heard about the scrolling being jerky before so I thought it was just my phone. Nice to see I'm not going crazy. But yeah on yanks + 4.3 seems ok to me. I'm getting comparable battery to 4.1.2 and also getting that jerky scrolling only when I swipe left or right... Not too big a deal to me right no
[Galaxy S III General] goughymachine:
Yeah, I get it left to right on home screens, and app drawer. But also vertical in Facebook app, twitter, dolphin browser and acrobat reader; that I've noticed so far. Enough for it to be annoying. Also a jerky screen on and off.
[Galaxy S III General] goughymachine:
I've just reflashed yank 4.0beta2 again, and my stuttering in scrolling and sliding between screens is pretty much gone.
[Galaxy S III General] hally8296:
Hey guys well im on the latest 4.4 CM 11 nightly and I can say its fine for daily use. Get great reception (prob best ive ever had) using the TDUEMB1 modem (using Telstra) and stock kernel. No bad battery drain here either. Still have 50% at 715pm taken off charge at 6am with moderate use during the day.

Prob the best custom ROM ive used to date.
[Galaxy S III General] Lord Zod 0z:
Yep, here's what I'm running and it's smooth:

Handset: Samsung Galaxy S III

Firmware: DeltaROM III v3.1

Kernel: Yank555.lu v4.0a
[Galaxy S III General] BassTeQ:
Hi all,

Looking at updating my WanamLite Rom 4.1.2 to the latest 4.3.

When I installed 4.1.2 I manually updated the csc folder, CSCVersion.txt and SW_Configuration.xml inside the rom before installing. Then installed the telstra modem TDUELL2 from an installable zip file using CWM.

Does anyone have the CSC files and installable modem package for the latest telstra s3 stock rom below?

GT-I9300T Galaxy S III

PDA: I9300TDUEMJ1

CSC: I9300TTELEMJ2

MODEM: I9300TDVEMJ1

Added: 2013-11-20

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] Ricky Divjakovski:
All I can say is go australia :D best rom for the s3 is made by an australian ;)
[Galaxy S III General] zachs_xda:
Hi guys,

I noticed a new(-ish) modem + RIL has been released for Telstra (from Telstra's stock firmware EMJ1) in October. Strange how no one bothered to release the modem + RIL for us Telstra users :mad:. So I downloaded it, extracted the modem and RIL and repackaged it into a CWM flashable zip. This is the EFS v2 modem so we can finally use a 850MHz optimized version with the latest Sammy ROMs. :victory:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/wacub233az8lq3o/modem_RIL_CWM_I9300TDUEMJ1.zip

Cheers.
[Galaxy S III General] samorgs:
I don't want to burst your bubble but, I think you will find this is

not

V2 modem. I was already running a 4.3 rom with V2 efs and modem so i flashed this and eneded up with no network. I then restored my old efs for the V1 version and this modem then worked.

I think you will find this is just a newer V1 modem, especially when you see that the new Telstra stock firmware is still only 4.1.2.

What I can confirm is that I am currently running Smart Phone Revolution Rom and restored my old efs then flashed your modem + RIL and everything appears to be working fine at the moment.

Cheers,

Scott
[Galaxy S III General] zachs_xda:
I'm on 4.1.2 but v2 efs. Nothing before emg4 would work. So I'm 100% sure this is v2. If it's a v1 modem I'd get no network but no such problem here. I tried going back to a v1 modem to test but I still ended up with no network n no imei. Going back to emj1 restores the network. So again I'm very certain it is v2.
[Galaxy S III General] bazzazz:
Thats odd Kies picks up my phone without a glitch everytime it is connected . What firmware do u have on it at the moment?
[Galaxy S III General] CheezyMeister:
Paranoid Android, I have to return it back to the stock one for warranty purposes (buy a phone, mod it, week later it decides to act up, sometimes I hate Murphy)
[Galaxy S III General] bazzazz:
Not sure if this would work but you could try and see if anyone has a nandroid backup .. Not sure if someone elses backup will work on your device.. but if it does you then just need to unroot and you are done.
[Galaxy S III General] MrIwik:
Sorry to be the one to tell you this but you're looking in the wrong place if you're trying to get kies working on an aosp rom.. You might just have to deal with a stock Rom from a different country/carrier until Australian ones are available for download

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] CheezyMeister:
Yeah that's what I'm thinking of doing, somehow work my way back to the Aus Firmware
[Galaxy S III General] actiff:
+1 for the LF2 modem. Im on Telstra using a i9300T and wasnt getting good speeds in speedtest app and oz broadband speed test. Im running CM9 nightlies (currently the 23rd June) and SiyahKernel v1.2.6. Works a treat. No bugs found which effect me. Getting 7Mbps down, 2Mbps up..

Better than the original Voda/Telstra T modem..

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] cheetah2k:
Has anyone tried the LF5 modem just released? The stock Vodafone Aus T modem is rubbish.. I get massive Cell standby drain on the battery, as well as the speedtest.net being 1.2mbit/400kbit vs my wife's iPhone 4S which is 4mbit/2mbit phones side by side... :crying:

I was also thinking about flashing the unbranded EU rom via Odin. I assume this will be all ok???
[Galaxy S III General] LJE:
Not yet, I'm still on LF2. I'll try LF5 when I knock off in a few hours.
[Galaxy S III General] copycutter:
Anyone else that's using custom roms having issues with call audio?

I have tried omega aokp and cyanogen nightly rom and both seem to have a problem with calling my friend's android phone. I can't hear anything, and he can't hear me. Sometimes it does work but the audio is terribly garbled - like underwater.
[Galaxy S III General] LJE:
I know a dev has the same problems and had to get it replaced. I can't remember who though

Did you make a backup before you flashed a custom Rom? If you did restore that and see if the problems still there
[Galaxy S III General] =Oberon=:
Got mine on Optus plan.

Pebble blue but have also got a silver battery cover from this guy:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Brand-ne...878289?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item27c7a007d1

Confirm it fits great.

Anyway,paying $55 total with handset,$500 calls,1GB data and unlimited txts (per month).

Coming from the first Galaxy S obviously its a big improvement.

Very happy so far.

The little things I appreciate like being able to hide apps (default ones which we dont use),LED notifications and inbuilt data counter and % battery meter,no need to install circle battery mod like on my Galaxy S.

And also a camera flash,no such luxury on the first Galaxy S..:D

Screen is awesome.

Only thing I did was use root it thanks to Chainfire's root via Odin,very easy and quick.

Ive no need for custom roms for this phone,I only ever did that on my Galaxy S cause of the lag issues.This phone seems way fast enough in stock,so fine for me though I dont rule it out sometime in the future.:D

And the other thing I needed to do was download (from the Samsung store) the program monitor widget,or for the GS3 its called Application monitor,wish the widget was a little smaller though.
[Galaxy S III General] copycutter:
I'm just about to try full wipe procedure (wasn't aware of wiping system partition step). I have previously tried with/without wiping caches etc without success.

Then I'm going to try latest Touchwiz Omega rom and SiYah kernel.

If not, I'll go to the stock backup I took as soon as I put CWM on there and post up.
[Galaxy S III General] Lonski:
Found it, installed now, i guess time will tell now.
[Galaxy S III General] 7tOny4:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27761651
[Galaxy S III General] ncanqn:
Hi All,

I just flashed my Telstra phone with UK latest I9300XXALF2 I9300OXAALF2 ROM. Everything working. cell standby drops from 54% to 12%, but screen display increases from 32% to 64% with the same setting. Don't know why.

Also, internet speed is a bit slower. It was ~7.5 Mbps, now 6.5 Mbps download.

I'm happy with that speed. I'm afraid to flash Telstra modem back as cell standby may going high again.

Anyone knows why screen battery usage is so high? I got my friend S3, both phone were factory reset but screen battery usage is completely different. One is 34%, the other one is 64%.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] UpInTheAir:
Because his screen on time is more then yours
[Galaxy S III General] kelvinyap9:
Keen to see how XXALF5 modem goes for the people using Vodafone Australia :)

Cell Standby is ridiculous with I9300TDULE6.
[Galaxy S III General] LJE:
Maybe for every 6 times you checked your phone your friend checked his 3 times?
[Galaxy S III General] sxi200:
My brother has one of those but he only used it for a day.

It kills reception and internet was crap. As soon as he popped it off, reception jumped up.
[Galaxy S III General] =Oberon=:
Interesting,Ill have to check that.Im in rural VIC and the exact spot Im in is never the best anyway,still..will check this though and compare.\

Cheers.
[Galaxy S III General] GrippingSphere:
[MENTION=3713090]zachs_xda[/MENTION], amazing! this modem TDVEMJ1 always gives me full bars even when traveling via train. My previous modem just gives me fluctuating 1 to 3 bars max. Thanks for sharing.

I'm currently on Kitkat Omnirom running ART and under Vodafone.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] DeadSOL:
Vodafone is so annoying. Visited Margaret River and had no coverage most of the time.
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
Recommended custom ROM for LTE

Hi,

After continuous ongoing probs with different refurbs Vodafone agreed to take my i9300T and provided me with a brand new i9305T.

Is there a consensus regarding a good custom ROM for the i9305T on VF AU?

Y.
[Galaxy S III General] hem0101:
I have i9300T and im in india .. which custom rom is good ? or Can i install international custom rom?

Thanks

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I have i9300T and im in india .. which custom rom is good ? or Can i install international custom rom?

Thanks