yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] z4ppy:
When flashing Firmware to something else, all the guides/threads up are basically PC/Windows related. Was wondering if it's possible to do via Mac OS X at all with Heimdall at the current time?
[Galaxy S III General] futaris:
Just access Foxtel through the My Telstra app / Website...
[Galaxy S III General] Clinton93:
I'm on I9300XXLFB..what modem is good for vodafone or would i need to flash the whole rom with a modem in it?
[Galaxy S III General] kamalmawa:
Go to cm9 thread and read the OP where it clearly says flash LFB modem. I think about 90% of users reported it won't work.. perhaps you are one of the lucky ones.
[Galaxy S III General] sxi200:
Check out the modem thread below. You'll need the LFB modem or a similar new modem or you'll have call audio problems. Next to the LFB modem files there is a note as to what other modems will work with that firmware.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1740061
[Galaxy S III General] jsobell:
I just dropped Optus $59 business for the three phones in our company and went to Telstra $80 business plan.

Telstra offers nowhere near the same deals in terms of price, but the difference in reception and data reliability is huge.

We also estimated that we spent over $4,000 on hold to Optus (based on our consulting rate/hour) due to billing errors (losing the company credit card details 3 times), failed systems, issues with internet etc, so if Telstras business side is only marginally less useless then in theory this should pay for itself within the first week :)
[Galaxy S III General] priyana:
if Telstra business/mobile side is as good as the residential one, then you are non better.

When I switched my home phone line to Optus line and run Optus ADSL2+, Telstra continue billing me for the phone line.The front end people can see that it is an error but the bills keep coming. With regular calling to their line and getting waiver after waiver, it took nearly a year to finally close the case.
[Galaxy S III General] Malandro2011:
I've been with Telstra & Optus and they're both crap in terms of customer service (outsourced) but I only had billing issues with Telstra..

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Have you got the Telstra Access Point Names setup of your phone?
[Galaxy S III General] s3ct0r:
Does telstra's network support fast dormsncy? Just noticing wake locks with it enabled.

Thanks :)
[Galaxy S III General] briteway:
Awesome! Got an S3 and root. Now to search for custom roms unless someone has a link to a stock deodexed rom???
[Galaxy S III General] copycutter:
Stock roms on XDA

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1704185

Or you can download complete Samsung firmware from

http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=1&o=1&m=GT-I9300&r=-1#modelsa

;)
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
Latest OTA update removes local search

New OTA update started rolling out in Europe. It removes the ability to search for local data using Google Search on the device.

http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-kills-local-search-international-galaxy-s-iii-stability-update

Don't update if you search a lot...
[Galaxy S III General] tangcla:
Do we have to thank Apple for this dumb update?
[Galaxy S III General] yud:
"thank" is one way of putting it.

I had a few harsher words in mind.
[Galaxy S III General] Esra:
Anyone in Oz have the OTA update yet?

I'm on I9300XXBLFB and nothing shows when i check.
[Galaxy S III General] kamalmawa:
Vodafone AU APN

I found that if you install any custom ROM (SAMSUNG or AOSP based) or flashed a any stock firmware such as LFB the APN comes with them are different to what original Vodafone stock firmware comes with. Only major difference is none stock Vodafone firmwares & custom ROMs comes with APN Proxy 10.202.2.60 which could make your mobile data bit slower since it's going through a proxy.. Also if you using an ad-block it might not work with proxy

Go to Settings->More Settings->Mobile network->Access Point Names and compare your activated APN setting to this

And you can add this by click menu soft key->New APN

Stock Vodafone AU APN

[B]Name[/B]
Vodafone AU
[B]APN[/B]
live.vodafone.com
[B]Proxy[/B]
Not set
[B]Port[/B]
Not set
[B]Username[/B]
Not set
[B]Password[/B]
Not set
[B]Server[/B]
Not set
[B]MMSC[/B]
http://pxt.vodafone.net.au/pxtsend
[B]MMS proxy[/B]
10.202.2.60
[B]MMS port[/B]
8080
[B]MCC[/B]
505
[B]MNC[/B]
03
[B]Authentication type[/B]
None
[B]APN type[/B]
default,mms,supl
[B]APN protocol[/B]
IPv4
[B]Enable/disable APN[/B]
APN enabled
[B]Bearer[/B]
Unspecified

Click the menu key then Save. You can delete the useless ones, once you activated the new one by going in to them and menu key->delete
[Galaxy S III General] goughymachine:
In australia, using a european rom which you probably flash with odin I doubt you'll get official ota updates. Probably have to odin it again. I'd say you'll only see ota updates if using stock firmware for our region.
[Galaxy S III General] TassieMenace:
Here's a good one for you.... I have an Optus S3 handset (so i9300) but am on the Telstra network and have recently flashed it with CyanogenMod 10 (JellyBean 4.1.1).

Having some issues with calls dropping out and wondering about trying a different modem... Any thoughts?

Can I use the modems that are for the i9300T variant??

Does it have to be jellybean specific modem??

Current one installed is XXLF2
[Galaxy S III General] rxw:
I'm using a T phone on Telstra with cm10 and TDULF2 and no issues at the moment
[Galaxy S III General] TassieMenace:
So I guess the question is... will this modem work with non 'T' phones....
[Galaxy S III General] copycutter:
Did you flash dulf2 back on after flashing cm10?

Edit: just did 3 back to back speed tests.

1st was with built in cm10 xlf3 modem

2nd was tdulf2 modem

3rd was tdule6 modem

Xlf3 and tdulf2 were both similar but tdule6 was much better (around 50%).
[Galaxy S III General] TassieMenace:
Oh well... guess I'll have a crack at tdule6 then...
[Galaxy S III General] RedBeardThePirate:
Voda i9300 OTA latest

Heya,

Does anyone know what the latest firmware I should be getting OTA is? Currently I'm on UBALF3, but have seen other people are on LFB?

Does OTA depend on carrier?

Trying to decide if I should start upgrading through ODIN.

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] KMino:
LG6 modem it's looking good for data speeds so far! :) great ROM and modem!

Only thing to remember, custom kernels all need to be updated with the new source as its been changed. So they are all bugged for now. Not that the stock kernel can't keep up now... :D seen better results with it than with most custom kernels on prior released ROMs.
[Galaxy S III General] Pitzbull:
May I ask what Rom you are using. Would be good to adjust your signature to reflect this info.
[Galaxy S III General] z4ppy:
So flashed my Optus S3 firmware with the UK I9300XXBLFB one. To those who've done similar, did you flash any radios or such- and if so, what would you recommend? The reason I ask is because I've noticed my reception strength not being as good as it was pre-BLFB flash. Not sure if there is any link between the two, but worth asking.

On the plus side, battery life has been immensely better which is pleasing.
[Galaxy S III General] day1118:
Outright vs Plan

Hi Guys, I am wanting to buy the S3, and currently using TPG phone sim as it is not locked into a contract. I am thinking about buying it through Kogans website as I don't want to sign up to a contract, and it works out cheaper.

Are there any differences in the hardware or software in buying it this way compared to purchasing it though Voda, Optus or Telstra?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] Offica:
LG6 has given me full bar reception on optus (wanam lite 1.9) but after flashing i did notice it got rather warm for a short while and i saw that others had this problem, went to flash back to 1.8 plugged into usb and usb drivers were not working on that ROM with LG6 (don't know if it was the ROM itself or LG6 firmware) had to transfer wanam 1.8 via wifi and re flash usb drivers are detected again.

Gonna give LG6 a miss, HURRY UP JB!!
[Galaxy S III General] Rooster19:
Hey dude, I was going to do the same thing next week :D

Basically the only difference is that the phone is unlocked and unbranded, so you don't have any carrier bloatware, which is a good thing!

Hardware everything is the same.

Better off buying it outright, $578 including delivery is worth it :)
[Galaxy S III General] day1118:
Thanks mate, I was thinking along those lines as well, but from what my Dad tells me (He works for a phone company that re-brand their devices as Telstra & Optus ect) That they modify the software settings to optimize it for Australian networks.

Has anyone bought from Kogan yet? What was your experience?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] beaver2233:
the only major downfall from ordering from somewhere like Kogan is you don't get the local Australian Samsung 2 year warranty... instead I think you get a 1 year warranty with Kogan... The phone will work 100% on Aussie networks and if you're worried about software you can flash whatever modem etc you want as if it were Australian ;) (though that shouldn't be necessary)
[Galaxy S III General] zziggy:
Yeah I had lockups and loss of touchscreen yesterday with franco kernel. Reverted to stock kernel and all gone.

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I'm on that rom and I can see my phone on usb. But that's happened to me before. I always keep airdroid installed for times like that.
[Galaxy S III General] tangcla:
Does anyone know?
[Galaxy S III General] madmattoz:
As far as I'm aware, yes, it does.
[Galaxy S III General] goughymachine:
So are you guys finding lg6 worth flashing over lfb? I'm on fully stock with cfroot kernel. I guess I can push the local search thingy back. On optus too, and don't get the greatest reception at home/work (sometimes have up to 10% with no signal).
[Galaxy S III General] cheetah2k:
Um, well, my data thruput has increased 3 fold. Up to 10Mbits down, 2.5mbits up now on Vodafone.

The UI fluidness has improved, not so many redraws either

Memory management has improved as well. The cam is better (more stable) on multi shot mode.
[Galaxy S III General] anuj25:
My phone refused to charge last week so I sent it to repair to Vodafone service centre.

They came back saying that there is a corrosion./and or liquid ingression indicator activated so they can't repair it.

Came back home and the phone is charging and running fine.

Just concerned might happen again and also don't know how would it get liquid damage, i have a cover, use bluetooth all the time, work indoor and travel by car.

Any idea what can I do?
[Galaxy S III General] Lonski:
Sure you didnt drool over it when you first took it out of the box? ;)
[Galaxy S III General] poczynek:
Anyone know how to get into Service Mode for CM10 Jellybean release? Want to change to 850. Have tried *#197328640# but no go.
[Galaxy S III General] voltagex:
Are there really differences in signal strength with the different firmwares? Currently on ULF1
[Galaxy S III General] anuj25:
Lol, I won't say no ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Offica:
I had to rename the rom extension to .jpg transfer via KIES wifi and then rename the extension to .zip haha going to download airdroid now ;D

There will be a new update coming in the next couple of days as samsung made a mistake of removing search from international devices. For now I'm not going to go to LG6 seemed like it drained more battery+heat.
[Galaxy S III General] KMino:
Defiantly worth it, smoother, way better reception and data speeds! (Optus)

LG8 is out now too... :D
[Galaxy S III General] cheetah2k:
I have found signal strength to be the same if not better than LFB using the UK baseband (ie, not a T modem)

I can't say enough about this ROM. its very very good! :good:

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Vodafone last night 7.56 pm :D
[Galaxy S III General] ididnt:
what ROM?

also can lf6 be flashed over cm9?
[Galaxy S III General] ftoompsh:
Try *#0011#
[Galaxy S III General] b_bhavu:
Just updated my i9300T to latest UK update. LG8. Haven't seen such performance by modem. I live in outskirts of Brisbane.

See this screen shot.
[Galaxy S III General] ActionBastardDV:
that's awesome man. What network are you on? & what were your speeds before?
[Galaxy S III General] goughymachine:
I'm on Optus and here I'd my test on LFB

and here us my test on lg8, flashed just after and tested in same location.

Will be interesting to see what my reception is like in my work shed as it's generally kids of poor.
[Galaxy S III General] b_bhavu:
I live in Springfield. I usually get about 5 to 6 mbps. Some times even ypto 7.5. But this was simply outstanding. It could be the time I tested it. I tested speeds around 12 in night.
[Galaxy S III General] ActionBastardDV:
that's a nice bump in speeds. Did you flash stock or custom for that? My workplace has crap reception too so I'll be keen to get onto lg8.

Sounds like everyone is noticing better speeds on lg8. Are you running a custom ROM? If so, which one?
[Galaxy S III General] priyana:
haha.

Try same server to.

Yogyakarta is in Central Java in Indonesia.

Even the locals will get that speed there.
[Galaxy S III General] goughymachine:
Funny enough, sitting at my daughters ballet waiting for her to finish and it's as slow as here. Facebook won't even connect; tapatalk as slow as a wet week. Not normally the case here.
[Galaxy S III General] ShannonA:
S3 OTA updates

I flashed the xxlg6 via odin and don't wont to download the next update as its another 700mb. Why cant I get the OTA updates.

I have my csc set to TEL. Im on a Telstra model and would really like the OTA updates.
[Galaxy S III General] samorgs:
Modem tests

Hey guys, I am with Telstra and running MIUI 2.7.27 rom on my SIII and just tried some speedtests with 4 different modems.

Looks like from these resulst I will be going back to the stock Telstra modem. All were done one after another from the same spot.

Stock Telstra

Thai LE6

LF3

and finally latest LG8

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] UpInTheAir:
Thai, Vodafone AU and Telstra stock modems are the same for TDULE6 & also TDULF2.

If you check your baseband you well see the modem version after flashing, and if you took an average of (say ten consecutive tests) and compare between "Telstra" and "Thai" stock you should see negligible difference, because they are the same.

Best to test at a quiet time of day or night, as the network may be congested and true modem performance cannot be ascertained.
[Galaxy S III General] sabaramo:
I just ran through a whole heap of tests trying to find the best modem for me on voda i9300t and by far the stock lf2 modem is miles ahead every time.

I tested lg8,le6 and lf2 and lf2 was always better (usually about 2x speed download faster).

I'm am in Sydney sw.
[Galaxy S III General] s3ct0r:
And here's mine running ARHD 2.1.0 and LG8. I'm also with Telstra but in Brisbane. In my opinion it was well worth going back to stock and updating phone and camera firmware.

Only downside is I'm reading how people who updated their camera firmware can't use the camera in cm10.
[Galaxy S III General] gger123:
Hey guys I'm on Vodafone Running a i9300T in Melbourne, speeds are decent with T modems,

however whenever I run a rom thats using a modem such as LFB, internet pages seem to not load properly
[Galaxy S III General] cheetah2k:
LG8 :good:
[Galaxy S III General] kamalmawa:
What ROM are you using ?
[Galaxy S III General] yldlj:
Has anyone enabled the 850mhz band with cm9? Everytime i get inti service mode nothing shows up its just blank
[Galaxy S III General] gger123:
Tried LFB Modem with CM9 latest nightly, which is where I encountered the problems
[Galaxy S III General] ididnt:
I thought LG8 is a modem not a rom
[Galaxy S III General] Rooster19:
Do you guys mind posting some pics of your blue phones just so I can see how it looks before I buy it.

I swear every phone shop I've been to has a different blue.
[Galaxy S III General] kamalmawa:
try this APN setting I posted here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=29289492&postcount=1002

XXBLG8 Rom comes with XXLG8 modem

There's only pebble blue and it looks like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwlPN3dlJz0
[Galaxy S III General] sladflob:
Hey guys, have lurked here for a long while but not posted much.

Just wondering what people's feelings are about network performance of the BLG8 ROM on the 850Mhz networks after using it for a couple of days. I tried flashing the BLG8 ROM yesterday and, while it worked ok with its included modem, it wasn't anything mind-blowing. In fact I had quite a few complete data drop-outs while running SpeedTest but I'm on Vodafone so this is not altogether uncommon :)

I tried flashing back the ALF2 'T' modem and, while it worked better with data, I found that audio calls only had one-way audio (the other party couldn't hear me). Has anyone else experienced this? I read somewhere (this thread? not sure) that a factory reset will fix this but I didn't really want to do that. Has anyone got the ALF2 'T' modem to work with the BLG8 firmware?

Also, for the people who have kept using the BLG8 modem of Telstra/VF, did you go into the service menu and change the band settings? Do you think this is necessary? I did this but stupidly didn't take note of what the settings were before I changed them - I think the 850Mhz band was set but I'm not sure.

Cheers.
[Galaxy S III General] dan0s:
I flashed BLG8 this morning (new checkrom V4) I ended up doing a full wipe but after about 1 hour i noticed that my data connection drops out every now and again, or it would take a long time to start working. (also vodafone)

So i flashed back LF2 and it seems to be much better.

Usually with the settings it seems to pick all of the access points off of the sim card or from the network, i've never needed to manually enter settings so far.
[Galaxy S III General] gger123:
Thanks kamalmawa its slightly better but still not as good as t modem
[Galaxy S III General] beaver2233:
I have an issue regarding receiving mms... I am unable to send or receive; when received, I press download and nothing happens - then notification appears stated message not downloaded... This is the case using both GOSmsPro and the stock messaging app. All APN settings seem correct, even deleted and re added to ensure it was right, however no success. Anyone have any ideas? I'm also using Omega v10 with the default LG6 modem.

Oh and I'm with Virgin by the way :P
[Galaxy S III General] sxi200:
Hey Beaver, mine is fine. Using virgin as well but Optus APN's. Also remember data needs to be on. You can't download MMS over wifi. If wifi is on then you should also see data kick in when downloading. So make sure data is active.

See below.

APN's

Internet

MMS
[Galaxy S III General] beaver2233:
Thanks heaps for the fast reply.... unfortunately I'm having little luck. No idea why - pretty sure it used to work just fine. A family member had similar issues a while ago on their S1, however I managed to fix it easily by just playing with the APN settings. Unfortunately, seems something else is messed up on my end. Might try restore to a stock firmware and see if it makes any difference. Otherwise I'm outta ideas.
[Galaxy S III General] sxi200:
Maybe a long shot but maybe data itself is not working. Are you able to use the net on data?

I've had issues before because I was in a data blackspot.
[Galaxy S III General] beaver2233:
yep data itself is working fine :/
[Galaxy S III General] cheetah2k:
LG8 working fine here in Brisbane on Vodafone. No issues what so ever.

However, I just realised I now have a scratch about 10mm long on the glass... WTF is up with Gorilla Glass 2? Seems to scratch like normal mineral glass... :(

And I suppose there's an oleophobic coating on it to, so I cant polish it out with my automotive glass polish.. :(
[Galaxy S III General] samorgs:
Just did a speed test, Omega V11, XXLF8 modem with default Telstra apns from stock rom. Pretty happy with the result. Same test with apns from Omega rom was half the speed.

View attachment 1232552
[Galaxy S III General] beaver2233:
Just an update regarding inability to download / receive mms... made a backup of my current setup and flashed CM10 preview 12 and it worked just fine... no idea why though :/
[Galaxy S III General] poczynek:
Ah yes was about to install Omega V11 myself and I am with Telstra. How do you change the Telstra apns from the stock rom?? Thanks.

EDIT:

Oh and what are the Omega VPNS?
[Galaxy S III General] sladflob:
Is that with the LG8 modem or the LF2 'T' modem. And if it's the LG8 modem did you do anything to enable 850 mhz or does it just work?
[Galaxy S III General] tangcla:
Try sending yourself two MMS, this may clear some settings. It helped a friend of mine when he was unable to send/receive MMS.

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Mine too. Little scratch that's not really an issue, but disappointing nonetheless.
[Galaxy S III General] poczynek:
Yes this happened to me re MMS too. I then changed the APN's based on this below and it started working:

http://ausdroid.net/apns/#telstra
[Galaxy S III General] samorgs:
I used APN Backup & Restore, free app from Play Store. Backed up the original Telstra APN's with it, then installed Omega, reinstalled APN Backup & restore, followed the directions from the play store for it as ICS will not let 3rd party apps change the APN's so using Titanium Backup converted it to a system app then deleted the Omega APN's then restored the backup of the original Telstra ones.

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] beaver2233:
Thanks to you, I managed to fix up my mms problem... no idea what the difference was in the APN settings on CM10 (look identical to me), though I backed them up, restored nandroid back and restored the APN's (after changing to system app) and it worked :D
[Galaxy S III General] poczynek:
Ah got ya. Thanks. However I didn't save any of my original Telstra APN's! Bugger! Anyone got any they want to upload? Or are they just going to be these I can manually enter from here:

http://ausdroid.net/apns/#telstra
[Galaxy S III General] beaver2233:
those 'should' work fine, just be a pain to enter manually :P
[Galaxy S III General] samorgs:
Glad I could help

Cheers :o
[Galaxy S III General] Pitzbull:
Where did you find XXLF8? only seen LG8
[Galaxy S III General] samorgs:
Fat fingers, supposed to be LG8

:good:
[Galaxy S III General] Fnick:
LG8 was prob the slowest modem for me on Vodafone, stock still beats all of them, has anyone experienced any different?
[Galaxy S III General] Simmo3D:
I am with Telstra and I have the normal i9300 (Not a T model).

Using LG8 seems pretty good to me.. much more stable than LFB and the data speeds are quicker than on my GNexus. I am thinking about trying out a T modem to see if I gain any additional speed. But i wonder if the hardware in the T model has better filters etc for 850MHz
[Galaxy S III General] KMino:
Completely the opposite here on Optus. Your using LG8 modem with LG6/8 ROM? As they ain't compatible with older ROMs.

Those that want OTA, you didn't your CSC to BTU from KOR? Also you can't do OTA with a custom kernel btw.