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[Galaxy S III General] cooma7:
[MENTION=2744142]samorgs[/MENTION] Thank you so much for the reply!.. I went back and I think I found the file I need.

Its "Modem_RIL_CWM_I9300TDUDLJ2.zip which is for android 4.1.1 which I have.

So I reboot into recovery, go install from sdcard, I choose the file and it says.

Installing modem

Searching for original RIL backup...

E: error in /sdcard/Download/Modem_RIL_CWM_I9300TDUDLJ2.zip

(status 0)

Installation aborted.

Do you know what is up with this? .. I have had no experiance flashing RIL or modem so not sure if I am doing it properly..

This sounds like if I can figure it out, it will fix my problem which would be awesome!
[Galaxy S III General] samorgs:
Go back and try the 'modem_RIL_CWM_I9300TDUEMB1' that is the latest 4.1.2 T model modem and its the one I use. The one you downloaded is the earlier 4.1.1 model.

Never had that error when I've installed so can't help you there.

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] cooma7:
Ok, I downloaded it, and it installed perfect!... but did not fix my problem haha :(

just out of interest.. what version of MIUI are you using.. maybe I can get get the same one and see if that does anything toward it.

Cheers.

Ryan
[Galaxy S III General] samorgs:
I'm using MIUI 3.4.26, newest version. But I use this modem with all roms I flash. I have had the staticy, poor quality sound in the past no matter what rom I flash, and flashing this modem seems to fix my problem.

The only real difference between the modems is that the T model is optimised for Telstra & Vodafone.

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] sirs2k:
Hey guys,

I'm really interested in buying the second generation of S3 (I9305) because I like the 1GB extra ram and a 4G capable phone.

However I do have some questions/concerns and would love to see what you think.

1- I'm on Aldi Mobile which use's Telstra network, do I have to buy the I9305T version, or would the performance of I9305 (grey imports) be the same on Telstra network (3G only)? Are there any other differences? (I can flash roms etc if that changes thing)

2- I have some concerns regarding battery drainage on I9305 because apparently it's always searching for 4G network. Can you switch that off? Just leave it on 3G to conserve battery?

3- Are there any other issues I'm unaware of?

Thank you very much in advance.
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Posting the same question on whirlpool may elicit less responses :)
[Galaxy S III General] sirs2k:
That's very helpful mate, thanks
[Galaxy S III General] kamalmawa:
Only difference between the T model and the non T model is T model supposed to be optimized for 850 3G band which used both Telstra & Vodafone new network.. that doesn't mean none T varient doesn't work well with 850 band. I'm pretty sure you won't notice much difference at all. Don't know anyone actually did any testing for this....

Power consumption wise 2G<3G<4G . You can easily disable 4G in settings under network mode ;)
[Galaxy S III General] bazzazz:
There actually is a way of extracting the firmware from kies.. however it is quite time-consuming and somewhat difficult. As the phone needs to have a failed update.. in other words a firmware update gone wrong.. which causes the device to go into recovery mode.. when kies detects a phone in this mode it gives the user an option to download and reinstall the stock firmware..that's where the code comes in.. the download of the firmware is usually done first by kies. this is normally located in the temp. Folder and must be extracted as soon as the download is completed.. I for 1 am not game to try it..again but I have done it with a galaxy tab before that I could not get a hold of the firmware for. As I said difficult and time consuming but if needed may be the only way..
[Galaxy S III General] SirRufio:
Yep just flash the 'T' model modem and u should be right in terms of 3G/H/H+
[Galaxy S III General] sxi200:
He'll get them with or without the T modem. Only issue is whether the phone is locked or unlocked.
[Galaxy S III General] Bluephantom3:
Why wouldn't you just buy it from Vodafone? If you get the optus handset you have to get it unlocked and you may have to pay extra for that.

The 850mhz should work on it regardless but in some older phones like the Galaxy S 1 it was deactivated and you needed to go into a hidden setting to activate it. or just flash the T modem which had it activated by default.
[Galaxy S III General] UpInTheAir:
My phone is unlocked, but after reading some of your posts here, you might find this useful to Sim unlock.

NOT SURE IF CONFIRMED WORKING FOR T VERSION. All at YOUR own risk!

CONFIRMED: 2 Posts down :)

Voodoo Galaxy S III SIM Unlock app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.projectvoodoo.simunlock
[Galaxy S III General] yaggy85:
Hey there I have vouchers for a shop that sells optus branded handsets.. otherwise i would buy it from vodafone :)

thanks for the help guys, will bite the bullet and grab one tomorrow.
[Galaxy S III General] 7tOny4:
I used this on my Vodafone I9300T yesterday and has worked all locks say off.
[Galaxy S III General] MrIwik:
Stupid question, how do we check if our phone is locked without putting in a simcard from a different carrier? I don't want to cut my prepaid sim down to size if the phone is locked and can't use it.

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S III General] 7tOny4:
*#7465625#
[Galaxy S III General] zziggy:
After trying Checkrom yesterday I went back to stock optus le8 (via nandroid) and then to stock unbranded LF2 with just a battery mod and extended power menu mod. It's about all I need.

I had some slight microlags on checkrom. Whether it's from being deodexed or what I don't know, but I think I'll let the custom roms mature a bit more.
[Galaxy S III General] kramus:
Was looking at using this but decided to visit the unlock page on the Vodafone website, punched my IMEI in and it gave me the 8 digit code to unlock at no expense. I am on post paid though, not sure if that makes any difference.
[Galaxy S III General] 7tOny4:
Yer your probably right I unlocked my s2 that way on contract after about a week or two.
[Galaxy S III General] MrIwik:
Thanks all locks are off, guess I'm safe to cut down my Telstra Pre Paid to use in my phone I got through Optus.
[Galaxy S III General] UpInTheAir:
Just wonder if there's a surprise in the fine print, and of it'll turn up on the bill in few weeks time?
[Galaxy S III General] kramus:
I could do without that surprise! Their unlock FAQ answers a couple of Q's on unlocking. Soft locked devices are free to unlock, so they say.
[Galaxy S III General] MrIwik:
I cut my Telstra Sim card down (I often need it for working in areas that don't get Optus service) and stuck it in and it works perfectly on an Optus branded SGS3 with no modifications or setting changes, APNs even updated automatically..

:good: I'm a happy man

As much as I would like to I don't think I'm going to bother rooting and flashing roms until Optus original firmware is freely available, just in case.
[Galaxy S III General] CheezyMeister:
OK, here's a follow-up then, how do you force a failed update? And in doing so wouldn't your computer then not read the phone?
[Galaxy S III General] sxi200:
Nah, no surprise later. All Vodafone handsets (iPhones and galaxies at least) can be unlocked for free on their website. Lost count of how many I've unlocked.

As for Telstra, it's also free but over the phone.

With Optus / Virgin, they're a pain in the butt. You'll have to be the original owner and still they can be tough. Only a few times have I had luck using non-owner details.
[Galaxy S III General] bazzazz:
I was able to force an update to fail by unplugging the phone from the pc while the update was in progress on my galaxy tab. Once the update failed the tab had an exclamation mark with a phone symbol on the screen which i guess must be some kind of fail-safe, and then when I reconnected to the pc kies automatically picked up the device as it was in some kind of recovery mode. I am in no way suggesting this is true for every device. However it worked on a galaxy tab p1000 and I was able to extract the firmware this way.
[Galaxy S III General] CheezyMeister:
I'd attempt that but my computer isn't picking up the phone for some reason. Kies just stalls on the attempting to connect window. What about through the phone directly?
[Galaxy S III General] sirs2k:
Thanks for the prompt help kamalmawa,

Regarding the first point, since the non T version is not optimized for Telstra's 850 3G, is that a soft optimization? Can we flash a T version firmware to optimize it just the same?

Thanks again
[Galaxy S III General] samppl:
I've tried T and non T modems on my i9300, both seem about the same. The T one might be slightly better or it might just be a placebo. I've got some signal strength meter on my phone and I put the phone in roughly the same spot on the desk with each modem and they got about the same signal strength. Trouble is, if I move it just a few inches the signal fluctuates so it's hard to test conclusively unless I glue it to the table for a couple of days.

I would say it would have to be a hardware mod though wouldn't it? I mean to filter out all the other frequencies in software would be kind of pointless because they'd all be going into the hardware muddling everything up. Be like applying a lot of digital gain to a weak audio signal, comes out worse. From when I had a desire, the T models (from what I remember) had different hardware in them, some speculated they were frequency attenuators to cut down on all but the 850mhz incoming signal.

I'm not an expert though so don't just take this as the truth, I'm probably wrong and stuff has come a long way since I had my desire.
[Galaxy S III General] ajgftw:
Just wanted to pop up here to let this thread know about this Rom:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2249984

[ROM][25/04/13][4.2.2]-SentinelROM v4.30-CM10.1 Source-Fast, Stable, Extreme Battery

I only point it out because the dev is an Aussie! And its an amazing Rom!

Anyway, carry on as you were :cool:
[Galaxy S III General] jackaz:
Hey guys,

My girlfriend has an S3 with Vodafone and the reception is absolute rubbish, but when she puts the SIM in her old iPhone 4 it's more than twice as good. She actually has a usable phone. It's a GT-I9300T running Android 4.1.2, Baseband I9300TDUEMB1.

In the past I've been able to achieve signal strength increases in the past with Moto + HTC radio updates, along with custom ROMs. Seeing as Vodafone and the TIO are doing two fifths of **** all about it - what would you guys recommend in terms of custom ROMming + any other tweaks? I've never flashed a Samsung before and am weary about doing so because I've heard more bad luck stories than good. Some direction would be excellent.

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] maatsby:
I only just went through all of the flashing and custom romming with this phone for the same reason, I was worried I didn't really understand it well enough to get through it safely. But like all the other devices I've screwed around with, it turns out it was pretty easy once you read through everything

The bootloader is already unlocked so all you have to do is flash a recovery using Odin (a piece of software that is like using fastboot commands i guess?) Then boot in to recovery,

backup

, and then install whatever you want - new radio, new rom, etc, following the steps in each thread.

But keep in mind that as soon as you do any of this your system will be "modified", and you will get the little red exclamation mark on the splash screen to let the world know you've increased the binary count attached to the bootloader (i.e. flashed a recovery or something else). Phone companies will use it as an excuse to not honour your warranty. Look in to Chainfire's Triangle Away to get it back to stock if you have to.

My personal advice: I've always found that whenever I've changed my radio there have only been minor improvements. So you might end up doing all of this and not get much benefit! Or you might hit the sweet spot and find the perfect radio. That's the risk I guess.

Hope this has been helpful. HTC to Samsung is a bit different!
[Galaxy S III General] jackaz:
Thanks for the help dude! I saw so many S2's completely brick after being flashed with the wrong region. So you're saying as long as it's a 9300 ROM I should be fine?
[Galaxy S III General] maatsby:
if your radio has a T in it, does that make your phone the 9305 not the 9300?

edit: never mind, i see your baseband says I9300TDUEMB1 so i guess its the 9300 roms, but I'm not sure if flashing a rom would also change your radio. I guess not, but i would recommend you read in to this for yourself. Have a look at the radio thread: for starters
[Galaxy S III General] jackaz:
"About Device: GT-I9300T"

Says the same on the sticker under the battery.

White non-4G handset.

*shrug* :p
[Galaxy S III General] maatsby:
yeah sorry i just noticed that, I edited my post above. i don't think flashing a rom will change your radio...? not sure 100% though. if it does, i guses you flash the T radios from the radio thread after flashing the rom
[Galaxy S III General] jackaz:
I'll give it a crack, worst case scenario I'll be sleeping on the couch :P

Thanks guys!
[Galaxy S III General] jackaz:
Oh boy, here we go...

I flashed CWM via Odin, then flashed an apparent root exploit for 9300 international via Odin and I am blesssed with the start up sound, pulsating blue LED and a black screen. I still have access to recovery and flashed Android Revolution HD 25.0 and still a black screen.

I knew this was a bad idea. Any ideas?

edit:

CF-Insecure-SGS3_XX_NEE_ALE8

finding a stock rom and flashing through Odin, can get into download mode after a few reboots. god damn it.
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Wipe the cache/dalvik cache
[Galaxy S III General] jackaz:
No dice. CWM only gives me the option to wipe just the cache anyway.
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Flash a full stock rom then and go back to stock recovery and start again.
[Galaxy S III General] jackaz:
Excellent. I'm on the right path then, I found the exact version the phone was on and it's downloading now. I'll report back with good news hopefully.
[Galaxy S III General] maatsby:
There's no need to flash a root exploit if you're going to flash a custom rom anyway. Did u back up your original rom before flashing anything? Sounds like the exploit was for a different firmware and it broke stuff, then trying to flash arhd over that made things worse. Have u tried to full wipe and install arhd?
[Galaxy S III General] jackaz:
I was planning on trying out a couple of su-apps before going to custom, I'm used to rooting via ADB commands and figured that an Odin flash was just as harmless - it either worked or it didnt and the phone still worked. Apparently not. :/

I planned on making a backup with CWM Touch, but apparently the package I downloaded lied and gave me the regular CWM. So no backup. I didn't realise it was a few versions old until I was soft bricked.

Immediately after flashing that exploit the phone died. I wiped/wiped cache.etc then flashed ARHD but had no luck.

GT-I9300T-THL-I9300TDUEMB1-1361192508.zip is what I'm downloading. Thai/NZ/Aus.etc all have the same version - so hopefully this fixes things up. Hotfile is terribly slow tonight :(
[Galaxy S III General] jackaz:
Success!

That factory ROM set me straight. Wiped cache. Installed ARHD. Got the missus to sign into all her accounts - she's wrapped. More than twice as fast as her old ROM and everything has synced up and it's like nothing has changed. I'm very impressed with that ROM. Makes my One X look like a pile of **** in comparison honestly.

Thanks again guys!
[Galaxy S III General] maatsby:
Glad to hear it :)

I'm using the Adam Kernel v2.4 with ARHD and my battery life is amazeb8lls. Something else to think about too
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
What sort of screen time do you get?
[Galaxy S III General] maatsby:
Not sure exactly, its variable. But for example this morning my phone has been off the charger for 2hrs. I've made 30 minutes of phone calls, 30 minutes with the screen on browsing, about 30 minutes of listening to music and probably 30 minutes just sitting there. I've lost 18% of battery. I reckon that's pretty solid. I'll see how it goes over the weekend and what sort of screen time I can get
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Anything over 5 hours is impressive, be interested to see how far you get.
[Galaxy S III General] joshy123:
wondering if anyone could do the latest build TDUEMC1 from vodaphone with telstra CSC and branding aswell?
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Just do it in dsixda's kitchen, it's not that hard http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1939300
[Galaxy S III General] XdividerX:
First off, wrong thread... i know but haven't seen the oz thread yet for the S4.

Can someone please help me im trying to make a launcher fix zip for the S4. I'm on stock vodafone 4.2.2

Sent from my GT-I9505
[Galaxy S III General] kamalmawa:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2193742
[Galaxy S III General] jamsori:
My phone (unlocked/unbranded s3) has started randomly freezing, so i sent it back to JB Hifi to get it fixed. It was sent back saying everything was ok... but it's still freezing and they've flashed the Telstra ROM on it. Lucky me :/
[Galaxy S III General] pcoussa:
Has anyone Been able to get an OTG cable to work on TWRP 2.5?
[Galaxy S III General] ididnt:
Once extracted do you install each part separately via odin or at all parts at once?
[Galaxy S III General] samorgs:
If you right click on the first one and extract it will extract from all six so you end up with one file to flash with odin.

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] kamalmawa:
In case you guys didn't know... Vodafone released an official TDUEMC1 firmware for Vodafone users. So if you trying to flash Vodafone version I posted there's no point since MC1 is newer.. Download it from sammobile.com
[Galaxy S III General] ididnt:
thank you

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ok :cool:
[Galaxy S III General] ididnt:
oh no..i thought that file was to update the bootloader and radio. I was running cm 10.1 and after odin'ing the TDUEMB1 rar's, i have voda splash then samsung splash bootloop.
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
I'm currently on Omega v42 and going to install v44 with full wipe (S3 is a bit sluggish lately). My current modem is DUELL2.

What is the recommended current modem for Vodafone? I see that Omega v44 has the XXEMB1 modem - should I change?

(my device was the VF T version before I flashed Omega).

Thanks.

Y.
[Galaxy S III General] pcoussa:
Has anyone been able to use an OTG cable? Mine will work when the Rom has booted but will not work in recovery.

I am using twrp 2.5.0.0

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] butla:
Guys you should check this out http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1797334&page=1 Revolution V31.0

Touchwiz 4.2.2 leaked and tweaked for S3 - I'm using it on I9300. Because it's leaked it has a carrier splash screen and 3 apps that I froze with titanium. Early days yet, but looks very promising for a 4.2.2 release.:D
[Galaxy S III General] pcoussa:
Do you know if it overwrites current modem> I am using the telstra modem and I don't want that wiped!

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] rexinu:
anyone tried the 4.2.2 leaked firmware yet?
[Galaxy S III General] butla:
"Do you know if it overwrites current modem> I am using the telstra modem and I don't want that wiped!"

It does but I just re flashed I9300TDUELL2 and all seems good. You can find a CWM flash-able modem using search.

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See post 3016:good:
[Galaxy S III General] OrangeRafi:
Currently using it right now. Rooted it while flashing using Mobile Odin pro. The leaked firmware is a carrier branded. 3 or 4 carrier apps & an UGLY bootanimation. The ROM is stable though and looks promising.

Flashed it w/o wipe over 4.1.2 EMB5
[Galaxy S III General] tqgia2:
If you want to have a clean version I highly recommend wanamlite v7. No carrier bloat with all the leak features. The Rom remains quite true to stock as well with minor tweaks
[Galaxy S III General] BillGoss:
+1

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] goughymachine:
I'm on wannam v.7 too, since it came out. Seems fine to me. I'm having crap battery life but I always have. Poor signal at home/work, and I have no idea how to set things so they consume less, like syncing etc.

I've installed cpu spy and bbs but what they say really doesn't mean much to me. I know my phone has been awake nearly 50% of the time while a barely use it. And maps is taking about 25% of battery. Last night, from full charge then unplugged, I lost 14% of battery in 5.5 hours while asleep.

Not a biggie as I work where I live so always have a charger handy, and when I go out for a day usually turn data off. But if anyone can point me in the direction of where I can learn about all this stuff better that'd be cool. I'm a bit of a numpty with this stuff (yet can flash a phone with the best of 'em ;))
[Galaxy S III General] ballmead:
+2 wanams rom rocks

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] priyana:
You can greenify maps and any other apps you found stubbornly alive.

For maps, I have to use titanium to convert it to user app, then uninstall it, then install from Play, then greenify.

For additional juice saving, I use tasker and have a scheduled task to disable mobile data from 00:00 to 07:00 , but every two hours enabled back for 2 min and perform sync.

It is from a user contributed script in tasker wiki.

My batt drop 1% overnight while I sleep.
[Galaxy S III General] tqgia2:
Oh that sounds like an awesome script. Could you get me a link on that?
[Galaxy S III General] noahdee:
Vodafone GT-19300T on US network?

I was lucky enough to be given an unlocked Vodafone GT-19300T phone by my father-in-law. He had it unlocked at a Vodafone store before sending it to me in the US. (I'm a naturalized Aussie citizen and I will be back) I'm having trouble getting it to work on a US network.

I've tried NET10 and SimpleMobile SIM cards, which use the T-mobile and AT&T networks. I always get a SIM NETWORK UNLOCK PIN request. Nothing works including the unlock code from the Vodafone store.

I've even stumped the local computer store owner who knows this stuff better than anyone in the area.

What would you all suggest at this point?

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III General] tqgia2:
This is a fairly long shot but have you tried - https://unlock.vodafone.com.au/voila/handsetunlock/self-service.html?method=selectService
[Galaxy S III General] priyana:
It is this one, default every hour, you can edit of course.

http://tasker.wikidot.com/juice-defender-inspired-battery-saving

You need to buy tasker though, worth the money.

Then import that script and run it.

The learning curve even for using pre made profiles are quite steep.

( or it could be just me)
[Galaxy S III General] tqgia2:
Cheers for that!

And it's not just you, struggle town for me. I've had tasker for a while and only have 2 profiles I made myself (lol so basic compared to all these other ones :()

1. Turn on GPS when maps is on

2. Greenify when screen is off

Kind of gave up after that since it is quite tough to learn. Will get around to learning properly when I have time tough
[Galaxy S III General] goughymachine:
Yeah, had tasker since my first Android, but never fully got a handle on it. A few basic profiles, but that's all. With no computing or programming background the way it works is often beyond me.
[Galaxy S III General] Revhead:
if you are network locked, try "GalaxSim Unlock" by Spocky from Playstore. Did the trick for me first pop after trying others. Can't remember how much it was but it wasn't much and it works.

Best of luck.
[Galaxy S III General] tqgia2:
In addition to what priyana suggested earlier, I am also using "wakelock detector" in conjunction with bbs and Gsam battery monitor to try identify rogue apps and put them to sleep with greenify. Also TiBu to freeze useless apps that could be syncing