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[Galaxy S III General] kyeung14:
I would appreciate if you can let me know where you can find the I9300ZNLE9.7z and the three piece (pda, phone, csc). Thanks!!
[Galaxy S III General] johnps:
I9300ZNLE9.7z

I found the file I9300ZNLE9.7z but it is password protected. Does anyone know the password of this file?

Thanx for your help,

John
[Galaxy S III General] GaryLiao:
The password is on the Chinese site linked before. It's www.52samsung.com or something along the lines of that.
[Galaxy S III General] jlevy73:
Yes, that's correct site. In order to get the link you need to register for the site.
[Galaxy S III General] nawf29:
Security Remote controls not working

Hi guys!

Got a HK I9300 a few weeks ago! Loving the phone, the phone is still stock.

I am currently on mainland China, on a China Mobile sim card, must also add i do get access to Google Play (so no need to change to change roms for now:D)

Problem though is that i wanted to add some security to the phone, with the "remote control". Registered on Samsung Dive, Google, allowed google locations,... aand when i go to remote controls and press "ok", i get " Unfortunately, Settings has stopped" :confused:

i would like to know if anyone had the same problems or is it remote controls is not supported for mainland china?

Thanks ... really want to keep track of my phone in case it gets stolen
[Galaxy S III General] jlevy73:
I have both the I9308 (China Mobile's version of the SGS3) and the I9300 unlocked purchased through the UK. I am in China right now using a China Mobile Sim card on both devices and get the same issue you described. So I guess it's not supported in Mainland. When I go to HK next week I will try it out there. Chances are it will work fine. China has managed to take every ounce of fun out of the SGS3.
[Galaxy S III General] nawf29:
Thanks man.

Damn China, well i guess that's the only neg i have on my part about this phone. Gotta be a litttle bit more careful with the phone, in no hurry to have it in the black market anytime soon.

PS. you got 2 GS3 :p lucky you
[Galaxy S III General] segascott:
any of you guys have luck with custom JB ROMs?

Hey, sounds like a few of you have managed to get stock UK + HK ROMs working on the Unicom 9300... anyone try custom JB ROMs?

I'm taking a look at a buddy's SGS3, when he first told me he was going to buy it, I recommended a store here in Shanghai that a few foreigners go to get euro/HK phones (got my GNote from there, very happy about it), but he wanted to make sure he got the "real" one, so he bought a Unicom S3 from Mediamarkt. Then he said, "uh, no google... should I return it?" I said, "YES!" and he didn't... probably too proud to admit he was wrong and too lazy to return it :laugh:

Anyway, he'd probably sell it to me cheap, but boy - the chinese carriers really seem to have screwed this pooch pretty hard. I might consider if if I could get custom ROMs on it, but y'all have just installed stock ones, right? I love RocketRom on my rooted Note...
[Galaxy S III General] GaryLiao:
Custom ROMs can be installed the moment you have a custom recovery installed. Make sure the phone is rooted. That's all really, you don't even need to flash a stock Sammy rom before jumping to CM or anything else.
[Galaxy S III General] segascott:
CN waaaah....

THIS.

Oh yeah, and the internet. The People In Charge have managed to remove 97% of fun from the internet.

On my last trip back to CA, I got a straight talk SIM ($45/mo, unlimited voice/data/text!) and my Galaxy Note was a BEAST. The usage experience is really several times better than what we get here... access to fast data at all times, no filtered internet, no problems with Play store or Youtube or FB...

Now I feel like I'm 10 years behind when I use my "smart"phone in China :crying:

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Thanks, Gary!

Well, I suppose I'll give it a whirl just for the heck of it. I mean otherwise it's just hiding at the bottom of some drawer so he doesn't have to be reminded of all the money he wasted on it :silly:

...but is what they say true about the Unicom 9300? That in whatever mangling they've done to make their "Wo" 3G work, the LTE reception has been disabled? If this unit can't receive proper high-speed data in US/Europe then there's no way I'd buy this from him...
[Galaxy S III General] GaryLiao:
The I9300 has never supported LTE, only the North American variants with the Qualcomm S4 have LTE. The new I9305 also has LTE but it doesn't work outside of Europe as far as LTE is concerned.

China Unicom didn't really do too much to the phone beyond messing with the boot signatures apparently, so that's why it can't flash UK ROMs through Odin.
[Galaxy S III General] sandvolk:
You can flash it with mobile odin. First you must root it, this is no problem, than you can flash it with mobile odin.

The reason is that mobile odin doesn't flash the boot image and only the boot section is different to European phones.

After flashing make a factory reset and enjoy the phone. At boot you will see the Unicom logo first and than you come to

the European Android.
[Galaxy S III General] jlevy73:
That's good to hear, apparently China Unicom has done less to their phone then China Mobile. Flashing a UK Rom on China Mobile is a pain in the ass especailly if you forget to backup your EFS folder :) Rooting is a piece of cake but installing custom Roms is a bit trickier.
[Galaxy S III General] segascott:
er... hspa?

...so HSPA+ is ok? Heard that CN Unicom boned it, but perhaps it was CN Mobile?

I do have to say, though - whenever I move back to the US I sure am going to miss my (2G) monthly phone bills of $10...

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well, this is good to hear. Hm... maybe I will take the time to mess with this phone a bit.

Hey, I tried to access the links on that chinese site but the download link said "file not found" - or something like that in Chinese. Anyone know if the link is dead?
[Galaxy S III General] jlevy73:
Which file are you looking for specifically?
[Galaxy S III General] segascott:
I was looking for the I9300ZNLE9.7z file which was supposed to be here:

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

I think it said the file couldn't be found on the download link, but I speak about as much Chinese as your average Nebraskan. Apologies to all the Chinese speaking Nebraskans :)
[Galaxy S III General] GaryLiao:
http://db.tt/cZTohjAv this one is a rar that I made from the file a while back. No password protection so you should just be able to extract it with winrar.
[Galaxy S III General] segascott:
wow, thanks! downloading now... will be sure to share with any other folks who need it.

-scott

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Hey folks in China, how consistent is your Maps/GPS performance with regards to the China GPS offset?

I changed to gps.conf to point to cn.pool.ntp.org and the host to supl.cn.com... I notice that sometimes (usually in my apartment) I get the "china offset" on google maps, but when i'm out on the scooter or bike, it usually recognizes where I actually am if I'm moving around enough.

Is there something to change other than the gps.conf?

And geez, this data offset thing seems like a giant example of a lose-lose if I ever heard of one... I'm sure there's some party officials who don't want to admit it was an ass-backwards idea, and so it endures :(

-scott
[Galaxy S III General] GaryLiao:
Never knew that there was an offset, I'm in Canada so I wouldn't know how to deal with it, though it sounds completely pointless. You might have to go ask a low level developer (maybe Odia?) About GPS configuration.
[Galaxy S III General] segascott:
yeah - it's laughable... the story I heard is way back when consumer GPS devices just started to become available, some brainiac in the Party said, "WOW, EVIL CAPITALIST PEEPULZ WILL BE ABLE TO USE GPS TO FIND OUR STASHES OF CRISTAL AND OUR MISTRESSES, WHICH IS BAD."

SO, that particular nuthead concluded that "IF WE BUILD AN OFFSET INTO ALL CHINESE GPS DATA, THAT MEANS THAT WHEN THE BAD PEEPULZ INVADE US, THEY WILL ALL BE 3 BLOCKS AWAY FROM WHERE THEY ARE! BUT OUR GPS UNITS WILL HAVE THE OFFSET ALREADY OFFSET! HAHAHA!"

*NOTE: above quotes are not the actual quotes from the folks that run China, but are an expat interpretation of what said quotes would have sounded like.

*ALSO NOTE: that the above is just the story I heard, but the fact is that there is a stupid offset built into the Chinese GPS data that means I'm occasionally three blocks away from where I am. Yarrrgh.
[Galaxy S III General] jlevy73:
Welcome to China lol. The GPS offset has been around for as long as I have been doing business in China. Everything is offset by 600 meters in azimuth 260 degrees. What I have done is use Garmin then place a "bin" file to correct for this. If you're using Garmin I can give you the file and tell you where to place it. For other maps I'm not sure if there is a fix for it.
[Galaxy S III General] segascott:
Well, dangit - after modifying the gps.conf file on my galaxy note, it's SOMETIMES correct. I'm sure there's some other part of the fix I'm missing. Baidu Maps for android is okay, it's just Google Maps that gets thrown for a loop.

and why do all my hack-savvy Chinese friends have iProducts? Nuts.
[Galaxy S III General] jlevy73:
Is there an English version of Baidu Maps? Last time I check it was all in Chinese (which I cannot read). You should try this Samsung Navigator that came pre-installed with my China Mobile device, it's thus far the most accurate maps program I have used. Let me first make sure it's not a paid app before I post it.

By the way, are you rooted?
[Galaxy S III General] segascott:
No English that I know of - I know the characters for a couple of the major streets, but it's pretty easy to do a quick compare btwn baidu + google maps.

Samsung Navigator, eh? Interested, please let me know what you find out. And yeah - rooted (only way to quickly change the gps conf files in \system\etc
[Galaxy S III General] dgcruzing:
Be interested too
[Galaxy S III General] sandvolk:
Hello together,

i found already a way to flash my Unicom SIII with a European ROM. You can read it before in this thread. Thanks' to all. But until now, i have

to flash every update with mobile odin. Kies will find a update and start to update. At 22% it will brick the phone, bcause of the different boot

loader. Then i need to flash the original Unicom ROM, root it again and flash with mobile odin my preferred ROM. Had anyone already found a

solution to flash the bootloader of the Unicom SIII? So that it don't boot with Unicom splash and you can flash all other ROM including boot loader?

Best Regards
[Galaxy S III General] GaryLiao:
I've been asking this for a while, but be happy that your phone works right now :) and be patient. I'm sure that we'll have a talented low level developer help us out one day!
[Galaxy S III General] sandvolk:
OK, so no solution now. Is it possible to take a European ROM and replace the boot.img in the tar file with the boot.img from the unicom ROM. After this flash the modified tar file with normal odin?
[Galaxy S III General] GaryLiao:
Haven't tried it. I won't be trying it since I don't want to risk a brick.
[Galaxy S III General] segascott:
Chinese GPS - a little update

ok, so I'm not really sure why, but all of a sudden my GPS started tracking accurately... wonder if it takes some time to adjust to a change in the gps.conf? Feels like it started placing me correctly about a day after I tried the configuration pasted below.

It's remained accurate through a couple of reboots, but still knocking on wood.

NTP_SERVER=0.cn.pool.ntp.org

XTRA_SERVER_1=http://xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

XTRA_SERVER_2=http://xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

XTRA_SERVER_3=http://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

SUPL_HOST=suplcn.sirf.com

SUPL_PORT=7276
[Galaxy S III General] hello5629:
My s3 LTE took up 1.3 GB ram when nothing is on....... 1.3g/2g -.- wtf
[Galaxy S III General] GaryLiao:
Wrong thread :) unless China has the I9305 now... even then you're gonna have to read in the I9305 thread.
[Galaxy S III General] segascott:
success! thanks dhang/gary/everyone

hey, so thanks to the kind folks here, I've got this GS3 working great!

Couple of notes:

Went with the install package Gary thoughtfully transferred to me (thanks!) to get back to the horrible original China Unicom software

rooted with chainfire's new autoroot

used the adb install (part of android SDK) to push mobile odin onto newly rooted phone

used mobile odin to flash clockwork recovery onto phone

used clockwork recovery to full wipe,

use clockwork recovery to flash the newest SuperNexus (v5) ROM + google apps package

I'm used to touchwiz on my GNote, and of course it's nice to have it + s-note/s-planner to work with the pen, but on this pen-less GS3 the near-stock jellybean experience is great. Phone feels super fast, though I've not yet loaded up all my apps or put it through any strenuous workouts. Makes my GNote feel pretty darn slow in comparison (though I suspect that going to supernexus on the gnote would also make it feel a lot faster).

haven't done proper testing on mapping and whether or not it shows without the blasted China Offset, but can update if anyone actually gives a toot.

-scott
[Galaxy S III General] dgcruzing:
Scott,

Did you get the standard i9300?

I am thinking if grabbing one myself now that the root is sorted out..

But also the i9305, is on the back of my mind..

I also are here working as a expat..

So am looking at upgrading from the trusty htc, evo..
[Galaxy S III General] segascott:
Hi DG,

it's a China Unicom i9300, so more PITA than a nice HK or Euro i9300. (honestly, a google phone with no google apps = serious wtf). Not knowledgable about the i9305 but I think there's an S4 coming sooner than expected - you might want to wait?

If it was my own purchase, I would have gone to the good 'ol somewhat-trustworthy grey-market shop and grabbed an HK or international GS3, but that's just me. This is my buddy's S3 that I rooted/ROM'd, he bought it from the unicom store against my advice :)
[Galaxy S III General] tyoung88:
Followed the steps on here to root and flash the latest 3UK 4.1.1 Jellybean on my Unicome i9300. Everything is working great however many apps (whatsapp, skype, etc.) are not available on the Google Play Store. I keep getting the error:

"This app is incompatible with your China Unicom Samsung GT-i9300"

Is there an easy fix for this? I'm able to upload APKs from XDA to install apps but I'd rather have seemless install/undate from the Google Play Store if at all possible
[Galaxy S III General] segascott:
tyoung, the next thing you'd need to do is find either "market enabler" or "market unlocker," and I'd highly recommend having a decent VPN service as well.

I have better luck with Unlocker than Enabler, and with Unlocker + a US-emulating vpn connection I've had no issues getting onto the US store and purchasing what I want.

It's a bit of a pain, but i'd blame most of that on China's wonderfully bad internet filtering.
[Galaxy S III General] tyoung88:
Thanks Unlocker worked perfectly. Finally got this Unicom'd phone working the way it should! :)
[Galaxy S III General] segascott:
Congrats! Feels good, doesn't it?

The first time I heard the darn "WO 的世界" or whatever the heck it is he's saying on the boot animation, my teeth grated.

Now every time I pop a new ROM on there it feels like a nice warm fuzzy "F U" to China Unicom :)
[Galaxy S III General] chanthony:
so just got the chinese i9300 and spent all night trying to upgrade to the UK jellybean so I can get google acounts, google play, etc... just via odin

"bricked it" and then got it back working by reading the chinese OS via odin

after a bunch more reading i realize it is more difficult than just any other i9300..

Can someone help explain the process to me? Do i root the phone then load the UK OEM OS?

As I am unfamiliar with androids/rooting/etc please provide as much detail as possible.

thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] Crowl_fr:
I9308ZMLH3 - china mobile

Hi everybody,

It seems as though I might have some similar problems to some of you on here.

I have just purchased from taobao a new samsung galaxy s3 (yipee...!), however it has the chinese root on it (from China mobile).

Model number: GT-I9308

Android version : 4.0.4

Baseband version : I9308ZMLH3

Has anyone succeeded in installing the international root/ROM on this model ? If yes, could you indicate me what you did ? I would like to be able to use google play store and use European apps on it.

Sorry if my technical english vocabulary is wrong or poor (I am quite new to this, and I'm also French...).

Thankyou for your help.
[Galaxy S III General] GaryLiao:
Bonjour! Je crois que vous voudriez aller ici pour un reponse: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1722273

Pardon my limited french, but from what I can see it is very difficult for you to get an English ROM running without breaking something network related. Maybe if you knew how to modify ROMs and placed the i9308 modem into the ROM you wish to flash and signed it; maybe that would work. I, however, do not have the knowhow to pull that off. But anyways, bon chance!

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] Maplobats:
Sorry to hear all the problems people are having. Never realized how much I lucked out: ordered my i9300 on Taobao, and got the proper (ie: authentic) one, and the international version. Had all the google apps, and they all worked more or less fine. Been through nearly a dozen custom ROMs (dual-booting makes this easier), with no problems flashing anything. Even GPS has no offset (never heard of that until I read this thread), usually accurate to 8 meters.

Only issue is sites outside of China are often throttled or blocked, and Google sites can be hit and miss. But in these circumstances, turning on the VPN or even just SSH tunnel takes care of it. (I can't recommend SSH/VPN enough to anyone living in China...helps preserve sanity)

Oh yeah and had to switch from China Mobile (which has great reception in my area) to China Unicom, so I could get HSPA+, but the signal is spotty in my apartment, and often drops to EDGE or GPRS. (But usually on wifi in my apartment)

Almost went with the official version to make sure I was getting the real thing, and now very glad I didn't.

I hope everybody gets their phones working the way they were meant to (though I admit I would be pretty scared to flash a i9300 ROM on a i9308)
[Galaxy S III General] Archie7878:
First Time Rooter

Guys, I’m a complete novice at this, so I’m hoping you can review my plan and let me know if I’m about to brick my phone or not.

I bought a SGS3 GT 19300 from China Unicom on the weekend, presuming it would work like it should, i.e. have Google Play (or at least support it).

Anyway, you all know it doesn’t, so I found myself trying to work out how to fix that. I’ve spent every spare minute I’ve had trying to understand this stuff, and I think I’m at a place now where I’m willing to give it a shot. All I want to be able to do at the moment is have access to Google Play so that I can get some apps I can’t find anywhere within this limited Chinese marketplace.

I also want to retain my Chinese language text input.

The phone only understands Chinese when I try and search using voice, will this process eliminate that?

Here’s a screen shot of my phone specifics.

So, given that, this is my plan:

Simply following Chainfire’s process at this page http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1957273

I am going to use chainfire’s autoroot which can be found at this page: http://download.chainfire.eu/229/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-m0-gti9300.zip

The file reads as CF-Auto-Root-m0-gti9300.tar.md5

The Odin I have is V3 1.85 Is this ok?

From what I understand, the process will take less than a minute if I follow the steps correctly.

Do I need to have an SD card in the phone?

Please correct me if I am wrong, this process will allow me to use any apps I want to. Beyond that, this process doesn’t have much more purpose?

I understand this voids my warranty, is there some way to give the reverse the information in the phone if I should seek to use the warranty some time in the future?

Or is this a waste of time, seeing as I live in China, and most things that go wrong with the phone can probably be fixed by some guy in a phone store down the street?
[Galaxy S III General] shanespencer:
Archie, I also bought a China Unicom i9300 here in China (I'm in Dalian). I tried flashing a different firmware using Odin, but it bricked the phone. I tried the local mobile phone engineers that we see everywhere here, and they couldn't do it - I ended up getting it flashed back to life by a Samsung Service Centre.

Anyway, I found the reason I bricked the phone was because the boot loader cannot be flashed using Odin. I loaded my rom onto the SD card, then flashed it using Mobile Odin. this worked perfectly! After that, I used Mobile Odin to flash CF Root and all was well. Since then, I've been able to flash roms without any problem - all using Mobile Odin. Well, I flas Samsung roms with MO, and other rooms like MIUI etc using CWM.

The only time I have got desktop Odin to work, was when I flash back the original stock files that match the firmware installed when I bought the phone.

Hope that helps!
[Galaxy S III General] Archie7878:
So I can just download Mobile Odin from the Samsung Apps app? It's called Mobile ODIN Pro?!

I thought mobile odin can't be used on a phone that hasnt been rooted?
[Galaxy S III General] shanespencer:
You're right Archie; I missed a step out - sorry about that!

I followed the instructions HERE to do this. You need to do step 3 to get it rooted, then use Mobile Odin (Pro, if you want to inject everRoot). After that, you can use MO or CWM to install roms.

One thing to note though; you'll never be able to get rid of that awful China Unicom boot screen. You can get rid of the startup sound though, where the guy says "Wo的世界"
[Galaxy S III General] Archie7878:
Slap me, and then please tell me where my wires have been crossed.

Ok, so I'm as confused as ever and would love if someone could push me in the right direction.

I'm reading what I believe are conflicting instructions and not sure what to follow.

So I did this as you suggested.

But when attempting this process, I get an error along the lines of e:signature verification failed

Originally I was planning on following this guys instructions, as he too has a SGS3 in China, with unicom, and has done what I want done, as has someone else by following his instructions a few posts later. But I've been told I would brick my China Unicom phone if I used Odin to root my phone? Confused?