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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reydel1221:
thanks

thanks i select the reboot system now after selecting that i see no and yes-disable recovery flash selection do you mean i will select the yes disable recovery flash?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EvilPickle:
Strange.. dont think you should see anything after selecting the reboot option. Did everything else work and load as it was supposed to?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reydel1221:
this error i got when i run the osaifu keitai

after doing the steps and zip the sgs3_rooting_supersu_v3.zip you must select go back then you will see reboot system now after i select that another selection pops that is no or yes-disable recovery flash then it will boot i immediately hold the vol down + home button the back in download mode setting and i flash it on odin using stock recovery then follow the last step which is allow android to boot itself but when i check th e osaifu ketai apps and select the id apps i got that error, but when i installed id apps using google play its works but not the orange osaifu keitai apps
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skywalker6705:
Just thought I'd follow up that the root tutorial listed earlier worked perfectly on my Docomo GS3. Had time to play around and test it at work. Osaifu Ketai and other functions like tether are currently working just fine.

Will go ahead and backup my APN settings now as a precaution in case I want to jump on the ROM bandwagon in a bit.

At present, what is broken in the Sakuramilk ROMS?

My reckoning is

CM9:

mentioned something being broken here

CM10:

Camera

???

I'm holding off on custom roms at the moment due to the lack of information. I love CM usually, but the speed of the stock camera is fantastic and I don't want to lose that.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EvilPickle:
Been using CM9 for a couple weeks now.. no issues with it at all. The camera has worked fine the couple of times I've used it.. and I don't use any of the DoCoMo apps, so no idea on Osaifu Ketai.. Society Mike has said it works on his phone no problem.

I need to add Sakuramilk's updated ROM's to the folder.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EvilPickle:
Added a couple more of Sakuramilk's CM9 ROM's and Kernel's.. also added info pages to the ROM/Kernel folders with a link to Sakuramilk's release page if anyone know's what they're doing and would like to go strait to the source.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skywalker6705:
Ah, but I have heard the CM9 camera is much, much slower than the stock TW camera app. Any truth to this? Because being able to jam on the shutter button and take a dozen pics is quite useful now that I'm traveling with the phone.

Otherwise, thank you for the update on the CM9 status, good to know it's a solid daily driver. I'm hoping the GS3 JB source is published soon, as I really want to start using Google Now. Hopefully that will help fix some of the lingering JB issues on the JGS3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
anyone noticed LTE now working on post in Okinawa? Docomo mutve installed some new towers or something..good..but a serious battery drain...may have to switch the cell modes...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soldave:
Working on post??? They've set it up in Chatan, and Naha has had it for a while.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forestcall:
So did you physically change from SP to Mopera-U or are you using BOTH --- SP + Mopera-U ?

I signed up for it today and I could only do the normal version which is 515 YEN per month (Internet + Mail).

I am rather confused as how having Mopera-U helps.

Do I need to go and also signup for mopera.net

I got a SMS with a link to start.mopera.net but I have not the foggiest idea what to tdo next :)

ANY HELP ON THIS would be great! Just pretend I am an idiot and explain very s-l-o-w-l-y :cyclops:

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOTE: I called Docomo and added the Mopera-U + SP.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Swaf:
I live in Chatan and don't have LTE. The only time I saw it active was when I was in Naha.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soldave:
Came online last weekend. Am looking at it on my phone right now.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
LTE is a power hog, also on stock rom.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Swaf:
The tower must not be very strong then since I live near the sunabe area and im still just getting HSPA. Owell I would prob just turn it off anyways most of the time.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
thats around the time I seen it pop up...and if you live on Kadena know you service is completely different as soon as you leave off post...i was getting LTE down around Naha but never got it on post until last weekend....

---------- Post added at 02:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:17 PM ----------

power hog cant even describe it...i went from pushing to the limit a day and half...now im barely getting to the end of a work day before my phone is dying...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skywalker6705:
It may just be that you're at the edge of the LTE service area, so you phone is just working a lot harder to access it. If you were in the middle of it it's not that bad, but your phone constantly fighting to keep connected to a weak signal will certainly eat into your battery a lot faster.

New Sakura JB Build is up.

Also since he's building from the CM10 source now:

http://teamhacksung.org/wiki/index.php/CyanogenMod10:GT-I9300:Nightly:Known_issues

this link of known GS3 issues will be relevant to anyone interested in CM10 on the S3

same list for CM9:

http://teamhacksung.org/wiki/index.php/CyanogenMod9:GT-I9300:Nightly:Known_issues

Basically the CM10 build has two big bugs left to iron out it seems, with the hardware composer and a lingering memory leak. I'll probably flash over to CM10 SakuraMilk once these are taken care up upstream. Hopefully his fixes for the Japanese Galaxy S3 are easily ported forward to any other OS updates after JB as well.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jutaro:
I am rooted and on CM9 now! But I want the stock music player,stock video player and Samsung app store back! Any idea how to do that?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soldave:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=28901255

Try here for the Samsung Store. No guarantees it will work though, especially as quite a few apps might need Touchwiz.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irstaxer:
Hey guys, I'm new to the forums and about to be stationed in Misawa on September 30 for a couple of years. I read the majority of this thread and a couple of questions popped up in my mind.

1) Seeing as the SC-06D uses RFID and not NFC, does that mean that they can't "communicate" with the USA versions? For instance, the tap-to-transfer features for photos and such. Also, I think I read somewhere that Google Wallet doesn't work on these RFID phones? (that one isn't a big deal)

2) I'm not sure yet if I'm going to use a different ROM than stock, so I was interested in what societymike said that there was a code you could dial to turn off LTE, is that still possible? I scoured the net for apps to do this and it doesn't yet seem available, except as features in custom ROMs.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
I'm actually not 100% sure on this as I have only read on a wiki about the differences between RFID and NFC. They are nearly identical, the chips look the same, NFC is newer, but RFID has been used for a VERY long time.

Japan adopted RFID for cell phones in the early 2000's, maybe even late 90's. It has a long established standing here with every "dumb phone" (flip phones) having RF transfer capability and most smart phones as well. They can all transfer between each other, contacts, pics, pay at the register, etc. (FELICA is the hardware/feature that uses the RFID/NFC chip to pay at register like google wallet, but has been around for 10yrs)

The SC06D has the tap to transfer feature using the RFID/NFC but I don't know if it will communicate with a NFC equipped phone, however, there are apps like BUMP that do this anyway.

Yes, there is code you can type in the dial pad that allows you to toggle he LTE on or off, but it's actually for a testing/maintenance feature. It's a series of number taps through menus, and this is available in the stock ROM. In sakuramilks CM9 rom, there is a simple power toggle at the top of the notification bar that can toggle LTE on/off.

Welcome to the forum and soon to Japan. I've been here 13yrs. You will most likely find that on Misawa (like at Yokota or Kadena) there is a vendor store for Softbank, a cell phone carrier, and because of that, their staff at that on-base store will all speak english, and since it's so convenient for military members, they ALL go through Softbank and they ALL have iphones. It's pretty much the only thing they show in the store. (even though Softbank carriers better Android phones than an iphone) Don't be fooled into automatically going to Softbank, you can choose between them or Docomo or AU off-base at local shops. Docomo has THE best coverage in Japan, hands down, nobody disputes this, it's common knowledge. (the government has a stake in NTT Communications who owns Docomo, so they get the best cell bands for 3G, LTE, etc, plus they are the ones who INVENTED 2G, 3G, HSDPA, LTE, etc.)

AU's network isn't so bad and they are spreading LTE slowly, then you have Softbank, with the worst coverage, worst mhz bands, nearly no coverage for LTE, but cheap plans.

FYI, Docomo's unlimited data plan ends for everyone in October, going to a 7GB cap, then once that limit is reach, you will get bandwidth throttling for the remainder of that month. Softbank will still offer unlimited but YOU CAN NOT TETHER ON SOFTBANK. I'm not sure about AU, but the trend is that all carriers will go to some form of data cap. 7GB is pretty damn high so I'm not worried, i barely get close to 2GB and I am a HEAVY user.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irstaxer:
Thanks for all the information. Yeah, I know RFID has been around for a while, I think our credit cards use it and they are in the microchips for pets as well. Especially after reading this forum I had planned on going through Docomo, because I never mind shelling out the right money for the best quality (I'm getting a Galaxy S3). I don't even think I use a GB of data in the states, but I do enjoy the convenience of all the apps and feature at my fingertips, just in case. Thanks for all your help again :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tecbarrera:
Hi guys! Forgive me for asking if this has already been brought up and answered before (it's a long thread, and I honestly couldn't find what I'm looking for). My folks sent me a Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 model and I was wondering if I could use it on AU network? If so, what functionality would probably be lost? (NFC, LTE, etc?) If needed, would I be able to root to the Japanese version? I understand that the models are different, but am unsure as to whether this is strictly software-related, (in which case it should be fine to root into Japanese, right?) or hardware related. Thanks in advance for helpful responses!

Oh! And in response to Society Mike's post above, AU still has unlimited data plans, as far as I know. I'm on it. ;) And I totally agree with you about Softbank. Avoid at all costs!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soldave:
AU has unlimited data but if you go over 100MB per day or 300MB in any 3 days then you are throttled until your previous 3-day total is under 300MB.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soldave:
Looking at the latest update, it might be time to move to CM10 soon:

https://github.com/kbc-developers/release/wiki/SC06D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jutaro:
Don't try this! I just bricked my phone and had to wipe it totally!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
On that page, where can we see what different changes have been made ono each release? I see lots of release dates, but not sure what's changed.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soldave:
Well I've taken the plunge on CM10 and it seems to be working ok. Only think I can't get at the moment is the cards working on Google Now. Says Location Services are not enabled, but when I go to settings they are up and running.

Also, there seems to be no stock camera supplied with CM10 at the moment.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkflint723:
Just got my wife and I a pair of SGS3 from DoCoMo yesterday. So far I'm really enjoying it. Only down side that I've seen so far is that it seems like it's a little bit more of a pain to get everything rooted and running CM10 than my SGS2 was. I was always able to use the international ROM, but now i'm not sure what version of CM10 to use with this phone, other than sakura. This isn't really a bad thing. I am just used to getting all my CM roms from the same place and having them all updated basically the same day. I don't know if sakura does nightlies like the official CM team. Anyone know if he does?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
Read the thread.

Cm9 from Sakuramilk is stable and everything works, but the cm9 camera sucks and crashes.

Cm10 from Sakuramilk JUST got updated but it's not final and only partly works.

Other ROMs for S3 may partially work but many of the hardware features will not. It's also likely LTE won't work on all other ROMs.

Stick with stock rooted rom or Sakuramilk’s CM9 for now.

There is a rooting step by step post a couple pages back.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vocalonation:
Hi all,

First post here!

I wasn't too interested in the iPhone 5 and since Docomo is practically paying me to take the S3 from them, I've decided to take the plunge into android.

My question is:

Has anyone tried to get the Docomo apps back and working after installing a custom ROM? I saw on p27 it was possible to get osaifu keitai working, but what about the others like 1seg or the Docomo store etc.

When you guys say restore to stock you mean restore to touch wiz?

Is there a way to get Samsung only functionality back as well? Eg splanner, s-voice and what not.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irstaxer:
I had a question to those of you who got the discount monthly rate and credits toward a new phone by switching from Softbank to Docomo. I was thinking about doing what societymike advised and getting a cheap phone from Softbank and then getting that MNP number to switch to Docomo. Has anyone tried this yet?

Specifically:

1) Is there a required wait period from when you purchase a Softbank phone to switching over to Docomo? I mean, will they even be able to tell?

2) If/when I purchase a phone from Softbank, what's the shortest contract I need to possess in order to get the switching discounts? I assume I'd have to pay an early termination fee regardless, but I was just wondering what some of the costs incurred would be and the cheapest way of going from Softbank to Docomo.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
You can get most of the Docomo apps running again, including ALL of the hardware related apps like osaifu keitai, oneseg, etc. (just have to carefully read instructions, see my link at the bottom of post)

"restore to stock" i assume was when you read "restore to stock ROM" in which case, you reflash the stock ROM.

fyi, touchwiz is part of the stock ROM

I have been trying to figure this out slowly, but have been busy. There are a couple threads in Development regarding getting Touchwiz to work on CM9, I haven't read them much yet but I gathered someone is working on a way or has a way to get Touchwiz installed on CM9 (touchwiz is required to have Samsung only apps running including their superior camera)

Official SC-06D root and ROM thread!!!!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1895737
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soldave:
What have you noticed that's not working in CM10?

I'm being a guinea pig for it a little on here as I've got it installed. Google Now wasn't working initially but that was because I flashed the wrong Gapps version across. Did it all again and it seems to be working fine.

Not sure if my alarm went off or not this morning; I've got a feeling it didn't but I only got to bed at 3am so it might be because I was sleeping heavily.

One thing I have noticed is that if the phone is on standby for a while, the Home button won't bring it back to life. It will need the power button on the side pressing to fire it into life.

Tethering and LTE is working fine, and I haven't noticed any other issues with it in general usage yet. The camera works (although no stock camera app) and the mic does too (I think!).

Will update when he throws up a new nightly version, but I haven't found a lot wrong with it just yet :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkflint723:
I know one issue I just ran into is it says I can't log in to my google account. However, it appears that everything is still working fine. I can still sync everything that is marked under my google account. This didn't happen until about 20min ago.

Edit: I am also able to remove all my google accounts and re-add them just fine. So I'm not sure what's up with that.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soldave:
I just had that error about 30 minutes ago too. I'm thinking it was just a glitch in the Google servers as it went away quickly and I could connect again :)

Just flashed up on mine again :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
question answered...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soldave:
Don't think so, as the stock camera had Touchwiz features, which are not supported in CM9 or 10.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkflint723:
Looks like this is a Google side issue. I just checked my TF101 and Nexus 7. Both are showing the same error as well.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soldave:
Yay, Google's down :)

Wait... what?

Actually a relief that it's not something wrong with the build. Thanks for letting me know :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
you find any good places around Oki for accessories...maybe even a replacement battery door?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soldave:
Nah, nothing really. With the state of the yen against the dollar, I'd probably order from the States anyway. I got my S3 Otterbox from Ebay and it works fine apart from covering up the Oneseg antenna spot (which I don't use anyway.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
yeah...but the battery doors i know i can order from the states...just will the slight extra thickness be a difference and i dont feel like cutting away a little slot for the antenna just for the battery door to fit...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
This issue is think is cm10 related as my cm9 phone and wife's stock phone didn't get any errors.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkflint723:
Apparently the issue is related to Google Now. So stock and CM9 would not be affected.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jutaro:
Where I can get the Japanese Samsung galaxy s3 stock rom?

And i noticed on cm9 the LED light are not working. Correct me if I am wrong. Maybe I haven`t found that in the settings app.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
here..

http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/

type in sc06d in the search, it will show you the 3 versions, download the latest. It's over 800mb and downloads SLOWLY.

ATTENTION

Any issues with ROOTING or CM9 related, let's start discussing that in the new ROOT thread!!

See the link in my SIG below!!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jutaro:
Ok!!! But those stock roms don`t work. I get an error message! They are all bad( that is what is says in CWR).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
stock ROM works, just unzip it in windows, put phone in DOWNLOAD MODE, then use ODIN to flash the "SC06DOMALG6_SC06DOMALG6_SC06DDCMALG6_HOME.tar.md5" file.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jutaro:
Oh! That's how you have to do it!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soldave:
Battery life seems to be a lot better on wifi with CM10 than CM9 was doing. It's easy to see that being on the edge of an LTE area is the big drain though.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soldave:
One bug found with CM10. Just had a couple of calls from people and I couldn't hear them at all, although apparently they could hear me fine. Rebooted the phone and it was working fine again.

So yeah, CM10 is very close but just being a little temperamental with Sakuramilk's build at the moment.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SQ3.0dotJP:
Same issue here.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vocalonation:
Thanks for all those answers!

I just picked up my phone yesterday. Yay android, so long iOS!

I'm about to follow the instructions to root and install Sakuramilk CM9 on my s3. The default touchwiz bloat is ridiculous.

I just want to ask if the Sakuramilk rom contains the apps for oneseg, felica, etc.? Or is there some other way of getting those included apps?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
Honestly, I suggest you check out the stock version for a week or two at least.

Then compare it to the cm9 variant.

The camera is SO much better on stock rom.

Bloatware, there isn't much of any Samsung touchwiz Bloatware installed but there are some Docomo apps installed.

You can even use the stock rom, root it to open up room for mod and more apps, but use a different home launcher like ADW or GO. With a different launcher, you can completely customize the layout without dealing with the stock limitations.

Battery life is better on cm9 though. It's just that the stock camera is so good, I am tempted to go back to stock rom. Plus the cool touchwiz only features like the water ripple effects that are impossible to get without touchwiz. I even tried some apps that include the water ripple wallpaper but they suck.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jutaro:
Found out on cm9 that the battery is not so good at all. Walked from my hose to the station(15min). Listened to music checked my mails and Facebook. When I arrived at the station my battery dropped from 100% to 89%. That sucks!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
That's odd, all of us are getting better battery on CM9 than stock ROM.

Check some things...

Go to Settings > Performance > CPU and make sure the CPU governor is on "conservative", this saves a ton of battery.

Also... did you actually flash sakuramilks latest kernel provided in ROOT guide?

It's called "SC06D-ICS-KBC-20120829-AOSP.7z"

The older Kernel used too much battery and if you still have the stock kernel, then you will burn through battery FAST!

let's continue CM9 and ROOT related issues in the new ROOT/ROM thread, seen in my sig below.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Swaf:
Went back to stock rom and its so much more of a dd than cm10 is at this point. Im not in a LTE area ,so I can get almost three days of battery life. Ditto on the ripple effect lock screen. I use that as well and love it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soldave:
The camera is probably the only thing I'd switch back from CM10 for. Even Shot Control isn't getting as good snaps as the stock Camera was. Shame as everything else pretty much is better.

Battery life is so much better on CM10 than 9, which in itself was a huge improvement from the stock ROM. Plus you can turn LTE on and off at will very easily.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jutaro:
I switched back to rooted stock too! If cm10 is ready I might try this out but for now I stay with the stock Rom and one extra battery which I got from the Docomo shop!