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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] darknessxyz:
Finally get it up and running again. Thanx for the great help and your file links. You save my day man.

A note for people doing this: after flash the .tar file via Odin, it'll create another "0" folder with all your old files. So it'll be a good idea to back up all your file first. Like I use the Nova launcher and my restore file will moved under "0" and the apps will not restore my setting.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mdfritz:
Not sure what firmware benefits you will realize, but the major benefit is you will be able to flash new nightlies. Otherwise, you're stuck at 5/13 for the rest of your life.

It's not too painful (unless like for me Odin failed to write cause either my computer needed a reboot, or my first choice of USB port or cable was bad).

Just do a backup first, Odin the update, Odin a recovery, restore your backup, and flash new nightly. You won't lose a thing.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ataferner:
I believe you might be mistaken. Like I said I am on the DLJA bootloader. From what I have read only bootloaders older than that are affected. I haven't had any random reboots for a while and flashed 5/15 without a problem. So I'm just curious what the benefits of going through the process would be.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mdfritz:
Right, sorry I wasn't paying attention. Not sure if it is really necessary then.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mofogx:
I want to see about suggesting a feature. I like the SMS reply feature with the popup window, but what would be awesome was that if I were to close the window, whatever I typed in the message box would be saved as a draft, as it would in the SMS app. Is this possible?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tidewblch:
South Florida

Is anyone who is good with this in South Florida. Being a relative noob I would very much appreciate it if either someone was local who could help me on the phone or if very local show me. Please feel free to msg me. I am in Hollywood.

Thanks
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Halotron:
At what point did you do a factory reset/wipe data? I'm about to do this because somehow I've made it all this time on UVALEM.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mdfritz:
No reset/wipe needed. Just get into download mode and plug into Odin. it will overwrite your Rom and recovery automatically.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] elesbb:
I believe it wipes your internal sd card too though.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Halotron:
Thanks. That worked great and was much easier than what I was going to do. The phone did get stuck at the SAMSUNG boot screen after Odin flashed UVDMD5, but I just powered it down and flashed CWM from there.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ataferner:
That's probably why he mentioned to make a backup first.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] larva_pro:
Has any one got the new hangout app using this rom im on 4/24? Play store says i already have it installed by i keep seeing the normal Talk app
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
You need to uninstall Talk. I did that, then was able to install Hangouts. I like it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
Its very nice, i prefer it immensely.

T-Mobile SGS III
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] larva_pro:
How do i uninstall talk, it only gave me the option to clear data and force stop and disable.

:(
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tuxattack80:
I use root browser lite from the play store but any file manager capable of gaining root access will work. After finding one you like just navigate to system/app and delete the talk.apk file then reboot and install hangouts from the play store.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mdfritz:
I didn't even have to reboot. just delete or rename the apk to talk.apk.back , then hit the play store.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
Overall same thing.

T-Mobile SGS III
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ajm786:
I noticed my battery life was not as good as it was lately. Come to find out the culprit is this! I recommend EVERYONE that finds out they have this issue, go to this link and star it. Comment if you must. We need to force Google to fix this issue.

http://code.google.com/p/android/is...s Owner Summary Stars&groupby=&sort=&id=42641
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Sixonefour:
This was extremely helpful, thank you!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] klin1344:
Hmm..looks quite interesting. Now that I've looked into it, I have this same issue with contacts syncing. It's strange that Google is keeping silent about this bug.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lowsnamebrand:
I'm getting a status 7 error when trying to install the newest nightly anyone know how to fix it?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Just_K:
major problems with RC2

1. Battery life

2. Network speed ... Its unbelievably slow.

3. Reinstalling all the Gapps! (If updating)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
The newer CM nightlies require UVDLJA or better bootloader to install. Answer is to Odin UVDMD5, then install CM.

Just_K, update to newest nightly and modem. Report back with findings.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lowsnamebrand:
Got a link to the newest Sammy firmware with root? Will I need to reflash my recovery?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rage913:
Aerowinder and Elsbb. Just want to thank you guys for all the help you guys do. Honestly with out you guys I would have been done something retarded. :D:p:thumbup:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
In the dev section. Sorry, not linking it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Sixonefour:
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/221552059/b6b1b61/T999UVDMD5_T999TMBDMD5_TMB.zip.html

You will need to flash recovery.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lowsnamebrand:
Do I Odin this or flash through recovery?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] kpizzle:
Forgive the noobiness, but I'm a little confused. So we need to flash new firmware in order to run the latest versions of CM. Does flashing this firmware through Odin wipe our data?

I found a pre-rooted version from a thread over in the Android Dev. section.

http://d-h.st/Arn
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lowsnamebrand:
I believe it does I've done multiple phones so I'm not a complete noob but this is the first time I've had to update the baseband/firmware
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mdfritz:
Yes it does wipe your data. So what you want to do is make a nandroid backup first, then after you successfully install the firmware update thru Odin, and then cwm or twrp thru Odin, reboot into recovery and restore your nandroid backup with all your data, then you can flash new nightlies as usual.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] corkythetard:
Holy links gone wild!!!

Anyone with feedback on the latest nightlies? I'm stuck on 5/13 until this weekend sometime.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mdfritz:
Download that zip file to your computer and extract the .tar.md5 file (which is the type of file that Odin installs). When you click pda in Odin, you will select that .md5 file and hit start.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] kpizzle:
For those who say it'll wipe your data, these guys don't seem to think so...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1949687&page=35

In fact, someone made a version of the firmware upgrade that can be flashed via CWM.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rage913:
Two Quick questions. I just went and updated to the newest bootloader so;

Odin-->cwm-->stock rom+root-->recovery-->wipe the hell out of everything. Flash and bang.

First: when you guys say to wipe your system portion where exactly do you mean? I wiped both caches plus wipe data/factory reset but I didn't see the wipe system? Is this essential? Everything seems fine with out it at the moment.

Second: can someone explain to me why after flashing the deodexed rom with the new modem then flashing cm10.1 over it the bootloader didn't stick? Is Odin that omniscient that it makes the bootloader switch? Just curious/trying to gain more intelligence. :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] richua:
Regarding your first question, formatting system (mounts and storage --> format /system) removes the underlying ROM. It's possible to flash a ROM over an old ROM without formatting system and have everything be OK, as in your case, but sometimes if you go between different ROMs or upgrade to a major release, not formatting system can cause problems.

I don't know about your second question. I had that same problem and resorted to Odin to fix it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
Because the deodexed ROM you flashed didn't contain a bootloader (they never do). You need to use Odin with the stock firmware or root66 to get it updated. Be sure to backup the contents of your internal SD card before you start doing this.

Don't need to wipe with Odin, because it overwrites the partition. Don't need to wipe with custom roms, because they wipe it before they extract the new files to /system. I would seriously question the competence of any ROM dev who wasn't wiping /system (via updater-script) before flsahing a new version.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tidewblch:
Lost app drawer and other issues

Ok, so my phone downloaded some updates for apps this morning and all of a sudden my app drawer is gone. The middle icon on the bottom. I have tried long pressing on a blank area of the desktop and that only gets me wallpaper settings so I cant put it back from there. Since I now have an issue with this I figure it might be a good time to do the boot loader update so I can continue to upgrade the nighties. I figure doing that will fix my issue anyway. I have read the notes seen on here about upgrading the boot loader. I am on a Mac though and have never used Odin and dont even know if it available for mac or if there is another way to do it. The time I rooted my phone was the first and only time I have rooted a phone. I always dirty flash using cm updater and have never flashed a different kernel. I am currently on 4/24 build baseband uvdlja. I could really use someones help in fixing my first issue and how to make my backups without having an app drawer to access my apps from, as well as how to go about doing the baseband update and such from a Mac if anyone knows. If anyone is willing to talk me through it on the phone that would be easier and faster for me. I can call anyone or vice versa if you are willing.

Thanks,

Tide
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tidewblch:
Ok so I managed to restore the app drawer but would still love some help with all the rest of it. If there are any takers.

Thanks
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] elesbb:
The zip only updates radio, not the bootloader or deeper I/o stuff that needs to be updated to eliminate random reboots and to allow you to flash the latest nightly builds. And if you want it to boot after Odin-ing stock you must wipe data. I like having mine boot, makes me sure that I didn't screw anything up :)

I also just wanna comment that after flashing the latest Odin update my random reboots are completely gone. I love this even more now :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rage913:
Just want to clarify. I did also have to install gapps again. It was the 2013 build. Build from March I think right?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mofogx:
Does anyone here use the rtorrent webui? I seem to keep getting a "Bad response from server: (0 [error,getplugins])" error on the stock browser, but it loads up on every other browser I've tried, including Chrome. Is there a plugin that AOSP browser is missing? How would I report this?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mdfritz:
+1. Everyone should read this post by CM if they haven't already:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/117962666888533781522/posts/UzrLe6wtk5d

If you restore your Nandroid backup after the FW update, it should put the same Gapps package you had back on there. I did not have to re-install Gapps after restoring.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tidewblch:
How do I check which bootloader I am on.

Sent using two tin cans and some string.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mdfritz:
Android system info app
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] carlitozway57:
I seem to have lost root after flashing this through odin.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] dvize:
I definitely don't want to risk losing my IMEI by flashing to a stock rom in order to make a backup of it. I saw from that thread there is some CM10 adb commands to bring up the hidden menu, but those are for other varients. Anyone successfully run the IMEI backup from the script provided here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=29461879&postcount=2 and what was the idVendor / idProduct that you used for T-mobile?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cwalker29:
Anybody else having low touch sensitivity with the latest build? It feel like I have to press things twice. Facebook also lag very badly.

Sent from T mobile galaxy s3 (24mbs down) 4g network
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fineazbro:
done it it works great
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] laylovj:
Have you seen http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1804123 ?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] :
You cant be on AOSP using that method
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] shehade08:
*#*#4636#*#*
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] adrieono:
Can someone download Twidroyd and tell me if you can scroll? I couldn't on the last build.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] swa2k4:
+1 for the usb id needed of T-Mobile would like to back my stuff up
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Paging Dr B:
Why would you restore the cache? That's the first time I've ever heard of anyone doing that. Or did you mean to tell him to delete the cache and not restore it?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ikhtiaralam:
Not thread jacking but Whitehawkz AOKP that's based on this build is very smooth.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] afbengochea:
What kind of speeds are you getting? Is usually around 5 or 6 for me and I see some people post much higher. Was wondering if it's based on locations
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] SlakWReX:
That's thread jacking

Sent from a Galaxy 3759295 light years away.

Thank me if I helped :D
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] SlakWReX:
I'm in a excellent connection area and I get around 7 but its a bug on this build if you go to twiz rom it'll be around the 20's

Sent from a Galaxy 3759295 light years away.

Thank me if I helped :D
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ikhtiaralam:
His is based off the 7/29 build so I was just stating. If you want it, you can find it yourself. :).
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] zonly1:
Try this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1804123
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] OGWisdom:
It being a 64gb microSDXC has nothing to do with it bro. I also have the same exact card and when I was on cm10 it worked just fine. No damaged messages, no nothing. It would also seem as if all of these phone were not created equally and I'm not just talking different variants. On cm10, none of my videos would play, if they would use the s/w drivers. Well, not that they wouldnt play, but there was no sound.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] SeanFloyd:
Is there a link to the compatible CM10 themes? Thanks in advance.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] osokrayzay:
Searched for wifi hotspot. Is hotspot working for anyone?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] capcanuck:
Search cm10 in the play store, there's a bunch
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Lakeshow423:
I usually get around 15mbps but with CM10 I'm getting around 9-10mbps. Its k cause the rom is a lot faster and 10 is fast as hell already. It might cut be location based, I'm in SoCal LA area.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
Did you think you wouldn't?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] carlitozway57:
No, I didn't. I was posting to warn others in case they were mislead as well. Thanks though.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] elesbb:
Not being rude, but who cares if you lose root! You HAVE to flash another recovery anyway! Unless you wanna stay on stock then i can see why you need root. but ROOT is NOT needed to simply flash to get the updated bootloader.

So i dont see what the "Warning" is.. its not important or needed. i can just see it now, people freaking out cause they lost root :o lol
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tidewblch:
Latest nightly

Can anyone comment on the latest nightly?

How is battery life, reboots, freezing, sound etc..

Are there still battery drain issues?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] WoodmanMN:
I'm on 5/15 and odined latest firmware/bootloader. Battery life is on par for rc2 which ran well for me. I used route66 pre rooted firmware, installed twrp, reflashed my backup, then installed 5/15 with no issues to report.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] carlitozway57:
The steps you'd take after flashing a pre-rooted rom versus a non-rooted one are different as far as I can tell, making it relevant.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
No. I'll explain why this line of thinking is incorrect:

You are running CM 10.1, and learn you need to update the bootloader to flash new nightlies.

You flash

stock Samsung firmware

. This firmware never has been, and never will be distributed with root access.

So you are now on the UVDMD5 ROM, and wonder why you have lost root.

When all the time, you planned on reflashing the newest CM 10.1 nightly.

This is how I understood your posts. It makes zero sense, and this is why people are questioning you. I think there may be a misunderstanding on what the stock firmware is, and how Odin works.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] richua:
Ah cool, never knew that. I'm still stuck in the old ages. :crying:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] carlitozway57:
What needed to be done, as I understood it:

1) Flash stock through Odin.

2) Install ROM Manager, flash Recovery.

3) Flash CM.

The link I clicked on was posted in response to someone requesting stock with root, so I assumed it would be pre-rooted. I booted up and no root. So, I thought I'd warn people that the link lead to a ROM that was not in fact pre-rooted. I'm not sure what you mean by the firmware never has been and never will be distributed with root access. Is that not what root66 is?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mondokat:
Not exactly. Assuming you have an old cm10.1 nightly and want the latest, do this:

1) create a nandroid backup with twrp or cwm

2) flash stock through odin

3) re-flash twrp/cwm, because the odin'ed stock flash overwrote it with the stock recovery

4) restore your nandroid with twrp/cwm

Now you are back where you started, but with a newer rpm/tz/modem than you started with. Upgrade to the latest CM10.1 the normal way.

I really wish those guys giving out the cwm compatible zips for modems would just include the rpm/tz partitions as well, then we could just point to a link and say "flash this".
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] GinoAMelone:
However, most modern ROMs are using the CM-team developed solution for backing-up and restoring parts of /system. This can mean stuff is "left over" in /system despite the installer wiping it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Aerowinder:
That file is not root66. It's stock firmware.

Gapps and hosts file; inconsequential.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Sixonefour:
I gave you exactly what you asked for and answered your question. You didn't ask about root and I didn't say anything. My bad. It's not anything to break a sweat over mang.

Anyways - I updated the new firmware, flashed TWRP, wiped what I needed to wipe, and flashed the 5/15 nightly without any issues.

The new DMD5 radio wasn't cutting it in my area so i flashed back to DLJC as it seems to be a bit faster for me.

Somehow I managed to keep my root access though? How did that happen and was it not supposed to? I don't recall having to re-root my device after the stock DMD5 firmware upgrade. Odd, but I'll take it. Everything appears to be functioning correctly.

Android System Info confirms the firmware has been updated and a free root checker from the play store confirms its still rooted.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mdfritz:
What he did was try to flash a new recovery from Rom manager after booting up in TW stock instead of installing cwm or twrp in Odin and then restoring the cm backup. You can't use rom manager without root (or on pure stock tw).
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mondokat:
Why use rom manager if you already have a working odin? It's extra work for no gain, especially since he's planning on installing CM10.1 afterwards anyway.

ugh, this thread is so far off topic now.

:eek:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rojovilla:
zzzzzzzz, took the words right outta my mouth!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ghostriderz85:
1.flash stock rom through odin, no need to wipe anything, and root is not needed.

2. you are still in odin right? then flash cwm or twrp

3. reboot to recovery and install cm10 and/or restore backup.

4.profit???

what is the problem?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Sixonefour:
Ah, that makes more sense now. I didn't even get that far. It hung on the Samsung logo but it didn't matter because it was going away anyways.

It was amusing watching it boot up something stock. It's been a long time!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] St0n3s:
I know this is frustrating for people that are a whiz at this stuff, but not everyone is. I wish someone would put together a nice easy & idiotproof & in real world terms & explain step by step how to do this.

I consider myself fairly good at this stuff & i'm fairly lost anymore. Nobody explains anything, a new nightly was released but as far as i saw it, nowhere was it mentioned you had to change a bunch of stuff in order to update to that new nightly.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] elesbb:
Well, thats what Google is for. Nobody was born knowing what all the terminology means. Simple google search answers a LOT of questions. Its where i started :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ghostriderz85:
you don't have to change a bunch of stuffs, it's actually so simple. you just have to revert back to a stock rom temporarily.

just flash the most recent stock rom, that's it, then you can go back to custom roms.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tidewblch:
5/15/13 nightly

Well I downloaded the 5/15 nightly and it immediately started to suck the life right out of my battery. My battery was already low but it started draining super fast once this installed. I gave it a couple hours and then had to restore back to 4/23. If anyone else has had this same issue and can comment on it or have a fix for it that would be great.

Thanks
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] St0n3s:
Not everyone is in here looking to get started &learn all of this. Most just want to download the best for their phone & get it set up & be on their way.

---------- Post added at 01:03 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:02 AM ----------

Easy said when you know what you're doing.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ghostriderz85:
you mean, you rooted your phone, flashed a custom recovery, and flashed a custom rom, but don't know how to go back to stock rom?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] St0n3s:
I know exactly how to do it. But most don't. & honestly & no disrespect towards the admins & mods & developers that do this stuff for free mainly, but sometimes this place isn't exactly user friendly. It becomes rather hostile when someone asks questions that people believe they should know or they think they should simply use the search function.

Not everyone has tons of time to spend searching & reading & this & that to load a new rom on their phone.

& in order for this rom to run the way it should, it's a bit more involved then simply setting your phone back to stock then flashing the new rom.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ghostriderz85:
the truth is, it's just as simple as that...,

if you already installed a custom rom, then you know how to install a stock rom, and back to custom.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] St0n3s:
No! It's far more involved then that if you want your phone running properly. If that's is all that you have done is install a custom rom, then i can assure you that your phone isn't running at 100% & you just don't realize it.

There are many other things to do.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ghostriderz85:
like what?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mnasledov:
tl;dr: I found someone's T999 UVDLJC updater and modified it to update the UVDMD5 firmware. Links to both in this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2282603

EDIT: These updaters are flashable in recovery -- no need for Odin and making a mess of things.