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[General Questions and Answers] NateN34:
I will be picking up my phone this week, when the S3 releases. I believe I will choose the EVO 4G LTS.

Please note that I am only talking about the USA/Canada versions of these phones. The International versions of these phones is a TOTALLY different story and I would probably choose the S3, for the International version, just because of it's sheer power with the better quad core.1`

Evo 4G LTS:

- Better screen. That is no pentile amoled. No burning in and no color fade or degration, due to it being a super IPS LCD2 screen, versus Samsungs Super AMOLED screen.. That is, the screen will theoretically last longer than the S3s.

- Better build Quality. Solid polycarbonate and no back case that can come off. All the reviews say the HTC EVO 4G LTS has better build quality.

- Kickstand. This may seem like a gimmick to others, but I really like this feature.

- BEATS audio. Yes, BEATS audio is an absolute gimmick and is frowned upon in the audiophile world. Although it is said this phone has better sound quality, due to it's "BEATS sound chip".

- No removable battery. This I could again really care less about, as I have the skills to take apart this phone and replace the battery. Some others may not be able to do such a thing.

- Less RAM (1 GB less). It is said that the S3 will have 2 GB and some are saying it has 1 GB but at this point, that is just pure speculation.........we will know when it finally releases next week.

Samsung Galaxy S3:

- Worse build quality. Flimsier plastic, etc. See above.

- Worse screen. Won't last as long and degration of the screen over time. See above.

- Replaceable battery.

- More RAM (1 GB more). See above.

- Better camera and video capturing. To me I could care less and the difference will be barely noticable.

- Better user proprietary added on user interface. This is totally dependent on ones tastes.

They both use the same Qualcomm Krait @ 1.5 Ghz processor for the USA/Canada versions. They both use the exact same GPU too, for the USA/Canada versions. It should also be noted that the dual core USA/Canada versions of these phones actually perform better than their quad core counterparts..

So as far as performance goes, they should nearly be the same. That is until RAM heavy applications come into play, if the S3 has 2 GB of RAM.

For me I decided the EVO though and the deciding factor, was the screen. I do not care to mess with the dreaded AMOLED technology just yet (or ever). I am paying $200+ for this phone and I sure as heck want it to last. Sure it has greater contrast and colors, but it is also less natural and the AMOLED screens are known to degrade over time, with burned in images common. Sure they say they fixed this with the pentile type layout, but this has yet to be tested, so we are not sure if it will actually improve the longevity of the screen and eliminate the other common AMOLED issues. On top of that, it is said that the pentile style layout to improve the screen longevity has its side effects, which are slightly blurry text, reduced image quality and being able to see the pixels.

Both are good phones though.
[General Questions and Answers] Biker1:
Some of the reasoning above is really a Buncha Hooey, sounding like those HTC Counterpoints that are being distributed to their Sales Force :-(

Degradation lol!

Poor build quality??

Com'on, ya gotta come up with some better stuff than that, without copying something from an HTC or similar site lol!
[General Questions and Answers] nokios:
This is my point as well. Go check them out for yourself!
[General Questions and Answers] olyloh6696:
SGS, hands down.

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[General Questions and Answers] Cry Havoc:
Evo 4G LTE owner here. I have had zero issues with oversaturation, and my phone hasn't dropped a call or locked itself yet. In fact, I haven't had the phone lock up on me yet except for individual apps freezing. Pretty impressive thus far.

If anything I'm most disappointed in the amount of grain I'm seeing in photos. Some don't have it, others do. Very puzzling. If you haven't seen the screen for yourself though, it's incredible. Nigh on perfection, in this user's opinion.

Can't wait to see the S3 in stores to have something to compare it to.
[General Questions and Answers] NateN34:
Google a bit and you will see how many issues people had with their AMOLED screens.

Still would not touch any Organic LED screen any time soon.
[General Questions and Answers] Allanitomwesh:
The best display would be ips LCD plus. And it is rare... followed by retina display and clear black OLED which will never get android, then super OLED plus,which might be on the next nexus (whether or not Sammy make it) and then the Super OLED on the S3.
[General Questions and Answers] nokios:
I just spent some time at best buy playing with the floor model. It is pretty sweet, but I certainly noticed that the colors are warmer than my og evo. So, you'll need to play with each yourself to get a feel for which will suit you best
[General Questions and Answers] dlamprey:
Had the reddish display issue... returned it for SGS3

I had the saturation issue with the display that made skin tones appear reddish - like everyone had a rash or sunburn. Although the photos / images themselves were unaffected, I decided to return the phone mainly because all of the reviews I've seen indicate that the camera on the SGS3 is noticeably better that the EVO LTE in most cases - seems to most closely match the performance of the iPhone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] suitifiable:
I know how to do this in Windows and Linux, but not really sure how to go about it on Android...4.0.4 to be exact.

What I'm trying to accomplish is to have both active, with the 3G/4G handling internet-based activities and the Wifi handling local network access.

Why? Basically my home internet is horrible however I have some services/shares on my LAN that I want to access on my phone. And I can't switch between them, not an option. Because many times I'm wanting to take a picture from my file server (Accessed over Wifi) and then upload it to Flickr (Accessed over 3G/4G).

In Windows it's setting the gateway metric, and I would set the connection with the internet with the lower metric while the LAN-only connection gets a higher one.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cmstlist:
I'm not aware of any way to do this on any Android - I would imagine it requires a heavily modded ROM.

You could of course tether a Windows or Linux computer on your network to the Android and implement gateway metrics from that end, in order to copy photos from the LAN server to the Internet via cellular.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Beatsleigher:
I'm agreeing with him ^

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Ask Cyanogen, if he could do such a thing, afterall, he has been hacking/modding Android since it's inital release. If anyone can help you, it's him... Sorry dude.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BinkXDA:
While I've never tried it, you might want to try setting up a DHCP reservation on your LAN that DOES NOT provide a gateway. This should allow Internet access using your egress connection while still allowing local LAN access-at least this is how it works for most computers that are multihomed.
[Galaxy S III General] XIAOSpider:
Greetings GUYS,we are Chinese on XDA-DEVELOPERS. I'M ONLY 15 and want a S3 after zhongkao.we can discuss about s3 here.

is 1.0gib RAM enough？

for my s5570 galaxy Mini's 280mib RAM on CM9,i think its enough.

Sent from my GT-S5570 using my THANKS button.

Thanks and sorry for my bad English:D

The SIII is too expensive.Should I wait for lower prize and buy it in August or just buy a HTC ONE X(international version)?

I tried I9300 and ONEX in zhongguancun, both of them are good, but I like S voice, I think SENSE4.0 is ugly.

IF I don't buy anything, my S5570 Galaxy Mini will with me for the following 3 years(senior high school), this means FCs、freezes and reboots will be in the following 3 years, OH NO!

JUNE 25, the blue ASIAN version(32GB) is CNY 4060 on Taobao.Still expensive:(

OR wait for a QUAD-CORE with 2GB RAM in South Korea? NO,South Korea version doesn't support WCDMA@2100MHZ (2100MHZ is my carrier(China Unicom 3G)'s frequency).
[Galaxy S III General] XIAOSpider:
one of my classmate prefer HTC one x ,so another classmate dont know how to choose between onex and s3

compare with their performance on glbenchMark,s3 is higher than iPad2,it can be compared with the new iPad.but onex tegra3 is not so good.

for screen,s3 is more powersave,but it's pentile,not as good as RGB.

for power,s3 win.

for look, many people thinks onex is better but i dont think so.

Sent from my GT-S5570 using my THANKS button.
[Galaxy S III General] yyhd:
ni hao. wo bi jao xihuan SanXing de shouji. HTC One X yi hen hao, dan wo hai shi xihuan SanXing SGS3.

sorry, Chinese input is not installed on this computer.
[Galaxy S III General] ceo.mtcl:
Please keep it in english here in the forum. One of the rules here...

Sent from Rooted debloated stock Galaxy S3 OG I9300
[Galaxy S III General] XIAOSpider:
my English is enough to read English texts , dont worry.

Sent from my GT-S5570 using my THANKS button.
[Galaxy S III General] tawcw:
In my view,1gig RAM is not enough,and dual core S4 is More energy-efficient...

so i'll waiting for the SIII with 2gig RAM
[Galaxy S III General] Jack_Random:
1 gb more than enough for the stuff you can do with the phone... although OS uses quite a lot of ram...

Brings me to another question... got me a hong kong sgs3, play store etc all here but no samsung apps app and therefore quite a lot of apps missing... which FW doyou guys prefer?
[Galaxy S III General] XIAOSpider:
the news from phonearena shows that Korean Sk telecom version will be quadCORE and 2.0gib RAM.

but someone says cortEx a9 doesnt support 2.0gib RAM.

Sent from my GT-S5570 using my THANKS button.
[Galaxy S III General] XIAOSpider:
i want a Asian international version except HK and China mainland.

the China mainland version is out of s voice,play store,a-GPS and so on.

Sent from my GT-S5570 using my THANKS button.
[Galaxy S III General] g00ndu:
Greetings from Singapore. At this rate, if the architecture is the same between the international version and the Chinese version, I don't think it should be much a problem as you can flash other roms here, provided you have rooted your SIII.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S III General] XIAOSpider:
but Chinese version is the most expensive. 4999 RMB.

Asian version only cost 4100RMB.

Sent from my GT-S5570 using my THANKS button.
[Galaxy S III General] thebobp:
That's quite a huge difference, I wonder why.
[Galaxy S III General] tawcw:
the genuine product cost 4,999 RMB($785) in Mainland China but the smuggled one cost 4,100 RMB($640) only
[Galaxy S III General] Jack_Random:
Ho g kong version 4500 rmb, seen china version today for 5000 as well as 5400 rmb... ridiculous!
[Galaxy S III General] anillboy:
Mainland version sucks in my opinion.

I currently live in Shanghai but I will go back to US to finish the college. So many variants to confuse us. Personally not a big fan of LTE version. I guess I will wait a little bit till someone test them all.
[Galaxy S III General] tg9413:
China/Hong kong cell phone market always has two different channels. The official one which is more expensive but has warranty and all that, and the smuggle one which their phone comes from other region and often times there is no guarantee what you going to get with these phones. Phone can be refurbished, vendor renewed, battery and accessories can be knock off product. So...unless u know what u are getting into I would stay away from those. In general HK smuggle stuff is pretty solid, but ya the ones in china I would just stay away. Spec wise unlike US where different CPU has to be used to support LTE, china usually get the same spec as international version, with china Telecom may have variation due to their stupid self developed 3G format.

And to solve the mystery Chinese gs3 is identical to the international version with no LTE support.
[Galaxy S III General] Jack_Random:
Other question... I can't get my samsung apps app to work...

Wasn't included in first rom, flashed HK rom now, all apps there, can also start the app, but when I try to dl apps it prompts me to login screen. Upon entering password it tells me "this email can not be used in this country".... tried different emails, different vpn splutions, keep getting the same...

Anyone having same issue (or even better a solution)?

Thx in advance! Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] aZooZa:
I bought my WO-branded SIM-free SIII in Xiangtan last night from a good Samsung store (RMB 4,999) and it came with all the warranties and paperwork. What a disaster it is. No Google Play or Android Market; loads of bloat etc. Where are Chinese people supposed to get their apps? I'm a Brit living in China - I suppose I'm going to have to delve into all the rooting and flashing stuff now, with a generic UK image.

Jeez - what a disappointment so far.
[Galaxy S III General] dhang:
XIAOSpider - no worries. I did the same dumb thing an bought a China Unicom S3.

I found the following link.

bbs.gfan.com/android-4381769-1-1.html

Download the 7zip file and following the instruction in the attached image. I used odin 3.0.6 to load the modified ROM (basically contains the Asian international variant).

this should resolve your google play store, maps, etc

enjoy
[Galaxy S III General] 29988122:
I'm glad that if I choose the plan for students here in Taiwan, it only costs me about 480 USD :D

But I'm still waiting for pebble blue tho xD
[Galaxy S III General] Kremata:
You need to flash a recovery that support triangle away, then use triangle away but don't restart the phone. Boot directly in download mode and flash official version with Odin. Then you can update.
[Galaxy S III General] Maniac8888:
Yup. I happened to me 3 days ago. I had my phone (bought from Amazon.cn) on a charger over night. When I awoke, my 9300 was DEAD. No charger indication, no reset. I bought the phone from one of Amazon.cn's resellers 9 months ago for a little history background. The local Samsung repair center apparently unaware of this problem but they are replacing the motherboard as I speak. Now I have to remember what the heck I did 9 months ago to get it working with Google, YouTube, etc. Yes, I have a fresh version of the latest Titanium back up (same night it failed, interestingly enough).
[Galaxy S III General] Maniac8888:
i9300 Motherboard problem

A couple of days ago I awoke to find my i9300 totally dead after being on the charger all night. It wouldn't turn on and I couldn't get into recovery mode. After going into a panic, if for no other reason, remembering all the work I did to get my China Unicom i9300 converted from a Chinese ROM to an HK ROM, I started doing some investigation. Apparently, this is starting to be a rather common problem with the i9300 (Google i9300 "sudden death"). Samsung China currently has my phone to replace the motherboard or give me a new phone. They made a special point to tell me that I will lose all my data, which is what I expected. After a few beers so I could think clearly, I considered all the work I would have to do to convert the phone with a new motherboard and fresh China Unicom ROM to the HK ROM and the additional 500 or so applications and configurations I had on the phone before it was bricked. I was a bit lucky. The phone had done a Titanium backup only hours before it was bricked so I had at least a chance of doing recovery. Upon investigation though I found that Titanium isn't as robust as I thought it was as it apparently does not do a "bare metal" restore. It recovers applications fine but seems to have trouble with recovering the ROM. Bad news. Then I remembered Clockworkmod Recovery. I looked at my phone's SD card and sure enough I had a backup copy of the ROM that I generated right after my successful conversion of the China Unicom ROM to a HK ROM. Unfortunately, this backup is 9 months old but at least I don't have to go through the 20 or so steps (not including trial and error) to convert ROM's. In theory, I should be able to root the phone, do a clockworkmod recovery, then do a Titanium recovery and I should be good to go. I won't know for sure until I get my phone back in a few days. We'll see.

As most of you know, when trying to convert a Chinese ROM (China Unicom or China Mobile) is a real PITA. Do yourself a favor and do a Clockworkmod backup right now. If your phone goes dead which is certainly possible, you will pat yourself on the back if you do a backup once a week. Also make sure you do a regular Titanium (or similar) backup. I did mine every night and I'm glad I did. I can't even imagine what I would do if I lost all my applications and settings.

As an aside, Samsung China apparently is unaware of the motherboard problem even though Samsung has apparently come out with a patch to preclude this from happening. You''ll have to do a Google search as I didn't save the links because it was too late for me to be of any help.
[Galaxy S III General] gkjean:
你好，终于在这里碰到国人的兄弟了，很高兴认识你
[Galaxy S III General] bad@ss:
ROMs

Try if any of this ROMs works http://mobitech.site88.net/category/root-rom

Good luck
[Galaxy S III General] Jester963:
Think I found my answer. Ignore.
[Galaxy S III General] numbazZ:
i got an i9308 here from my chinese friends, can i flash roms from i9300? or any possibility to make from i9308 to i9300? :D

I don't know anything about this phones, so help me, please :o
[Galaxy S III General] colingpt:
no, if you do flash i9300 rom... your broken phone will come to you:D
[Galaxy S III General] yuezhe:
i think 1g ram is enough for daily using if you dont play games such as NFS. but electrical devices update very fast. so 2g ram is necessary. feeling upset about galaxy s3
[Galaxy S III General] smak786:
Hello.

Recently I bought Samsung S2 Plus from China (Original Samsung store)

After reaching my country, i noticed it doesnt have "Play Store" and "Gmail".

I tried to reinstall the rom Jellybean, unfortunately it still doesnt work (which am surprised...or do I need to root first? )

Can you give any suggestions or idea on it ?

Thanks for your help in advance !
[Galaxy S III General] Spixe1:
Chinese i9300?? What about the i9308?

I also have the Chinese S3 here and have been struggling with being able to flash custom ROM, I was really trying to get Omega or ARHD to work but it kept wiping out the IMEI and EFS making it unusable, so I finally had to go back to stock (and yet, even with stock, GPS doesn't work, and data and wifi seem to be unbearably slow, no idea how to fix this).

I've read the first 5 pages of this post so far, and many seem to be having success in flashing. One thing I found confusing however... most of you here in China with S3's are using actual i9300's??? I have a 9308, I was told this is the one they sell in China, and this is why I've been screwed so far when it comes to flashing. Has anyone had any success flashing custom roms to the 9308 (official Chinese s3 as far as I can tell), and not the 9300? All successful posts (so far up to page 5, sorry but I'll keep reading tonight) have claimed to be for Chinese 9300. So now I'm just even more confused. I don't dare try them because I know the 9300 and 9308 IMEI/EFS firmware is different, any flashes thus far have made them unknown.

So, just want to confirm, has anyone succesfully put a custom ROM on a Chinese i9308?
[Galaxy S III General] NBruderman:
Surely 1GB RAM isnt enough, its already more than 3/4 full when the device starts!
[Galaxy S III General] Spixe1:
So, can anyone give us i9308 users any tips on which or where customs i9308 ROMS are available? I'd love to use a custom ROM, use gapps, and get rid of the bloat ware...
[Galaxy S III General] Cpaez:
Try this tutorial.

Please read this tutorial it can help you.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=44637796#post44637796

---------- Post added at 12:59 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:54 AM ----------

Your S3 have the bootloader blocked, try this tutorial, it can be useful for you:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=44637796#post44637796
[Galaxy S III General] fvultee:
So I have a China Unicom i9300 rooted, flashed custom rom (actually I've probably flashed ALL of them at some point!), and have used both TWRP and CWM boot loaders. Everything works great, except for my signal. I'm a bit confused, perhaps someone with a Chinese i9300 can clear this up.

In my apartment here in Xintiandi (Shanghai) the signal is terrible, usually -110 to -113dB. I thougth I would try flashing different flavors of both the modem and RIL files to see if I could get a match that worked better. Currently I'm using Baseband I9300ZNDLK1 and I9300XXDLI2:DLI3 RIL. This works for me, can send and receive calls, data, etc, but the signal is awful. I have flashed just about every combination of baseband and RIL that I can find, and while some of them show an incredible signal (400dB which I'm sure is wrong), these same ones dont allow me to receive phone calls. I can make calls, use data, but not receive calls.

So my question is, has anyone flashed Basebands and RILs here in China and found a combination that seems to be better than what you started with?

Current ROM is Teamsek CM 10.2 v61, (4.3.1).

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III General] Nilist:
Hi guys, have been running a stock EU 4.1.2 ROM installed painless with mobile ODIN on my China Unicom I9300 for a while (which means that I'm already rooted)

I have however upgraded all my other Android gadgets to CM11/Kitkat, and would like to get CM11 on my phone. I'm a bit worried about the locked bootloader.

Am I correct that it's as simple as this:

- Install CWM using mobile ODIN from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2052091

- Boot into CWM recovery and install CM11

Sounds too easy....
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Yes,it's that simple.
[Galaxy S III General] Nilist:
wouldn't CWM overwrite the bootloader and stuff up things when I install CM11?

I thought the reason mobile ODIN was so great for flashing the chinese phones was that it didn't touch the bootloader
[Galaxy S III General] fvultee:
Nope, CWM doesn't overwrite the bootloader, that's recovery, a different thing. The Chinese bootloader stays intact, only your recovery changes to CWM. I have a China Mobile S3 i9300 in the USA, still has the WO bootloader, but I use TWRP (like CWM only I like it better)
[Galaxy S III General] htakahashi:
JTAG Chinese i9300

Hi there,

I saw a post online about changing the bootloader for the chinese version of the i9300. Actually my phone is i9300_chn_cu. I found the document (12-38) GT-I9300 JTAG Guide_rev1.0.pdf that describes the process of changing the bootloader. My question is:

Do I really need to disassemble my phone and follow all the instructions using the specialist cable and shorting something on the board?

My phone isn't bricked I would just like to unlock the chinese bootloader and put on another one so I am able to install the official UK firmware. At the moment I've installed Omega ROM and changed the bootloader to the generic chinese one that doesn't have the horrible China Unicom logo but at some point I'd like to have a non Chinese stock ROM that would be able to get OTA updates.

Any suggestions?
[Galaxy S III General] Jack_Random:
Seen white and blue and have to say white looks better!
[Galaxy S III General] aZooZa:
The Chinese ROM is a joke. No fundamental Google-related apps whatsoever. BEWARE anyone buying this bloody S3 in China...
[Galaxy S III General] Jack_Random:
And what's the news there? Google stuff is kind of blocked here in china...

Desktop wise: gmail slow, search censored, drive blocked, google music only via vpn available to download (once dl'd no probs though), maps rarely working and if, location info completely wrong,

for android bought in china: no play store, no google apps at all, except search... you want the full experience, you gotta buy hong kong or you have to flash a not-chinese ROM, root it and get market enabler cause app store is censored, search is still censored though...

Oh... for all OSes: youtube, facebook, twitter also blocked and so on, so get a VPN as well (not the free ones though, these suck)