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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jae04cc:
Np..yea it makes me nervous every time as well lol

Sent from my SGS3 w/ CM10
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nicholaaaas:
No but I'm pretty sure every rom wipes /system in the updater script
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] .Bambino:
When in Recovery go to wipe data/factory reset then clear cache and dalvik
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jdelano:
slight install confusion

I am noticing some stating that in addition to the normal, factory reset, cache partition and dalvik cache being done (say when coming from stock to cm10). That you should go into mounts and storage and format /system.

Is that format needed??

QBKing's install video doesn't mention it and that is a much used reference for installation.

If possible can we get an install steps consensus?

I've started to put the steps in my FAQ a few times; but I've been trying to figure out if the format of system is required or not and I dont want to either miss a required step or add something that isn't needed.

Any enlightenment here would really be appreciated.

Thanks!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] .Bambino:
It couldn't hurt but I don't think it is needed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nicholaaaas:
Do not wipe /system. Do not use wipe scripts.

If you are changing ROMs

1.Factory Data reset

2. Flash ROM

3. Wipe Cache/Dalvik

If you are changing ROM versions

1. Flash ROM

2. Wipe Cache/Dalvik

If you wipe /system (where the rom is stored) and have a problem you have no rom to boot into

Besides any ROM worth a damn has a system wipe script build in
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] EndlessDissent:
It really depends. Like someone else said, it could be done in the updater script. Most ROMs probably do it like that, but it's not guaranteed. If /system doesn't get formatted before flashing a new ROM, you will end up with strange bugs caused by remnants of the old ROM. I like to format it myself just in case. It can't hurt. I'd also format /boot if there was an option like when I had Amon RA on my Evo 4G.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] EndlessDissent:
./adb push ./newest_rom.zip /sdcard/ROMs/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] magoo5289:
It's been a thing with all of the Epic line. If you install a AOSP ROM, you can lose satellite lock. You have to reload a touchwiz rom, acquire a lock, reboot cwm, clear user date, cache, dalvik, and then reload AOSP and it works again.

I'm pretty sure the event that causes the break is the formatting of system. I just noticed GPS wasn't working yesterday and I had formatted system the other day troubleshooting a different problem. I could be wrong on the cause but it seems likely to me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nicholaaaas:
what if you're not by a computer?

It's totally unnecessary and can only cause more problems than it avoids
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jdelano:
Thank you!

Thanks for clarifying you guys.

New phone, OS and storage types and I wasn't 100% sure about it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] EndlessDissent:
IDK. If you're flashing a new ROM anyway, /system won't be empty long enough to cause a problem. Plus, aren't problems why nandroid backups exist? I personally always have a known working ROM zip in addition to the new one I'm flashing and a nandroid backup. That's at minimum.

I really don't see how formatting /system is that big of a problem.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nicholaaaas:
Because it's not necessary and only adds more things that can go wrong into the mix
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] EndlessDissent:
Not imo, but you're entitled to your own. I'll play it safe and wipe /system. You can stick to what's necessary.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alaman68:
not quite sure how it could add something else to go wrong. wiping the system would only help, i do it. Speaking of which, does anyone actually trust the dalvik wiping? seems to be awfully quick again...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jae04cc:
Yea my dalvik wipe seems fast as well but I haven't questioned it yet cuz I haven't run into any problems

Sent from my SGS3 w/ CM10
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] pastert33:
I've been wiping system since I got the SIII and my GPS locks just fine. With CM and also AOKP.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nicholaaaas:
because it's unnecessary

/

if you want to know if wiping dalvic is doing anything. go into recovery and wipe dalvic. then go check and see if you got more memory. I think it's probably working. Everything is much faster in TWRP and I remember back in the OG Evo days when they were the ones first saying not to use CMW because it wasn't properly wiping
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] zanderman112:
Wiping /system before flashing a rom that does it anyways just wastes a nand writing cycle. Eventually, it'll catch up to you.

Sent from Mr. Z's Galaxy S3.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wonsae:
sorry if this asked before but anyone know how to turn off touch key lights? The settings in advanced doesn't work and for the 7/29 nightly screen filter isn't doing anything either
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sevensoft:
thanks and also bug tracking

noobnl.. ty so much for putting so much effort into this.

I was sad when I got my SGS3 and found out I couldn't put CM9 on there.. was stuck with TW.

I was super surprised to see CM10 jump out for it so quick..

I'm using it as my daily and very little wrong with it (other than most of the things you already call out on your status).

So a big thanks again..

One question.. I don't hang out on xda much so I'm sure this is a well known/documented thing.. but for your specific rom is there a bug tracking database you have? Since I'm using it as a daily driver I'd love to shoot issues into there when I see them rather than just spam this thread.. I could then search it before hand to see if its a known one already..

Thx..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] EndlessDissent:
Not really sure what you mean by "it'll catch up to you." Considering that modern NAND chips can withstand over a million writes, I'm not worried. I don't think anyone can flash that much in two years, even on these forums.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mmark27:
Duuuudes, this cm10 dual boot rocks balls!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] dcaplinger76:
I can confirm this....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Decad3nce:
We're in the middle of switching back to cdma subscription to alleviate issues with mnc and mcc being nuked by the gsm stack and causing errors regarding mms parsing(and most likely LTE) so signal strength has fallen by the wayside(see commits; http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#/c/20355/ http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#/c/20356/ http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#/c/20357/)

Thanks for the heads up, here are the results I'm getting in an area where I have absolutely terribly ****ty service(seem like stock):

D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Raw response from RIL: 196701
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Raw response from RIL: 196715
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Formatted: 93
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Formatted: 107
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Raw response from RIL: 983165
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Raw response from RIL: 983147
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Formatted: 125
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Formatted: 107
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Raw response from RIL: 983165
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Raw response from RIL: 983147
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Formatted: 125
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Formatted: 107
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Raw response from RIL: 983165
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Raw response from RIL: 983146
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Formatted: 125
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Formatted: 106
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Raw response from RIL: 983165
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Raw response from RIL: 983146
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Formatted: 125
D/RILJ ( 1199): SignalS: Formatted: 106

Let me know if you want me to commit it to gerrit, or if you'd like to commit it. Preferably I'd like for you to retain authorship, I can amend the commit after we merge the big one.

Anyways, thanks again.

EDIT:

Gerrited here:

http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#/c/20356/

Can update with real name and email if you'd like.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] RickyRage:
Netflix doesnt work :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Decad3nce:
Look ma, look what works.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] noobnl:
Crazy day eh?

New build coming soon!

Updates!

* Restore light setting for capacitive keys

* Galaxy S3 setting fixes

* Proper Signal Strength fixes

* MMS fixed!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] brendan802:
Sweet can't wait for the next build with all the fixes. Noobnl you are a machine that keeps spitting out build after build. I love it thanks man I really appreciate your work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DatDude123:
+1 tencharacters

Sent from your mom
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JohnCorleone:
Just picked up my S3 two days ago to go along with my GNex. This ROM already feels like its about caught go to the GNex builds. GREAT WORK!!

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Xparent SkyBlue Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] noobnl:
http://d-h.st/l4s

Known common D2 devices issues being worked on:

* Overlay for UI (extra butter)- We're waiting on CodeAurora to publish, UI is a little janky.

* Picasa sync doesn't work (if you overwrite the Gallery with the Google version, you'll break the camera, don't do it)

* A2DP is completely broken.

* Camera has some focusing issues, Cyanogen is working on it.

* All the things.

Known D2 CDMA issues being worked on:

* CDMA LTE support is broken.

Updates!

* Restore light setting for capacitive keys

* Galaxy S3 setting fixes

* Proper Signal Strength fixes!

* MMS fixed!

* Fixed Notification LED

* Fixed kernel issue causing weird latencies in haptics

* Other bugfixes

* Updated LG8 blobs

* Even more CM stuff, including Theme Engine

* Kernel and video updates, fixed video rotation

* More CM features!

* More Hardware features!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kram4362:
Sweet!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mmark27:
Can someone post up a fakeCWM version? I'm not able to get to a computer to make the necessary adjustments.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] lballer69:
Everyone's here
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Glewis21:
How the battery life with this Rom
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] thetony:
I usually get around 20 hrs with 2 hours of on screen time or 13 hours with 4 hours of on screen time. Its good.

Sent from my SPRINT GALAXY S III
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] richebattle@gmail.com:
I still can't disable the lighting for my capacitive keys. The option isn't even there anymore! :-/ Help!?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jdelano:
Mirror

I put up a mirror here if needed
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] agrenwa:
You can make the changes straight from your phone using root explorer, unzip the file in root explorer, open unzipped file in root explorer, go to the updater script file open in with text editor make the changes, save it, (it will also save a .bak file which I delete) now zip the file with root explorer, that's it, you can now flash it with cwm. I do it this way and it always works.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jharre08:
Same here. Are we missing something?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] richebattle@gmail.com:
I did a clean install. And still no go... also where are all these "added CM features" most everything looks the same.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] .Bambino:
Hopefully this ROM will fix my issues with data. Always on 1x with 1x speeds and this morning when I woke up the time didn't update from last time I looked at my phone. I had to manually sync the time again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Mr Ian B:
Just want to point out that the 7/28 blue themed button mod is causing boot loops with the 7/30 CM10 build. Had to remove it for the time being and rom works now without mod.

Ian B

Posted in the original mod thread for OP to check out.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jharre08:
Agreed. The only fix/addition I can confirm is MMS is working. Which is awesome!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] eltrutgnik:
So is the on screen buttons zip.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cybersailor:
I have been testing this for the last week and I have not had any problems. It has great battery life and with the LG8 update it seems to be better. In can got 1456 kbs using speedtest last night (LIME server).

I am unable to use it daily due to the bluetooth. I use a LG HBS700 daily. Is the issue with the bluetooth something that will be working in the future?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mmark27:
Yes, I just did this with 7zip (got my grubby little hands a on colleagues computer), and I'm very proud of myself, I must say!

This is pretty sweet. I'm having the SD card read issues with the 64GB cards. I tried all the suggestions in the other posts earlier. Nothing seems to be working. When I went back to stock rooted rom, it said that my SD card was still damaged. I reformatted the card again with ICS in stock rooted (losing everything, sigh) and it still was damaged when I returned to JB. Anyone have any other suggestions? I am going to try the exFAT formatting tonight at home if I'm able to do that on a windows machine.

Has the undual boot instructions been updated? The TeamEpic page says don't use on LF9 and newer. Just wanting to know how I get rid of all this junk when I'm done.....but who's kidding, I won't be done with this for a bit. COME ON A2DP! :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] rs3vans:
I believe A2DP is being worked on. It's one of the most requested fixes...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mmark27:
I got a ridiculous 2.1mbps down on Sprint 3G....(which my signal still says 1x in notification bar, I thought that was fixed?). Those Sprint 3G speeds are high, I usually get like 200kbps?!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Mr Ian B:
yes, twice it put me in a boot loop and once I did not flash it, the new build and gapps worked fine.

Ian B
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] onebelo:
Did you try formatting the 64gb card as FAT32? That seems to work for me .. I havent had any issues since using FAT32, exFAT was giving me weird issues.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ekt8750:
Sprint's been working on their 3G speeds big time lately as part of their Network Vision. Looks like your area's been hooked up.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mmark27:
Seriously find this hard to believe, I'm in Madison, WI. It's like the red-headed step child of the Sprint network. We've been long forgotten. But maybe they're turning things around :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] disturbd1:
For anyone interested - using Widget Locker - if you press the home button, it will bypass the lockscreen altogether. Not sure if this has been observed by anyone else. The only reason I am using it, is to swipe down to unlock, vs. to the right or left. This was as of the 7/26 build.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Smac7:
i think sprint has a lot of red-headed step children.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] eaglenest608:
I quit using it because of the same reason. I am now using Magiclocker but am upset because I paid for Widget Locker and it worked perfectly on my Samsung Epic. Oh well, hopefully they will catch up at a later date.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Smac7:
is that the same as you would get with touchwiz ussually? i tried this rom about a week ago and the only reason i switched back was because of battery life. I was getting about 13 hours with 2 hours of screen time. I normally get about 16-18 with the same use.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] disturbd1:
Indeed. I would even go as far as to request one of two things:

1) Allow customization of the stock lockscreen to enable the unlock swipe action to go in any of the positions.

or

2) To fix the bug not allowing Widget Locker to only wake the screen, but not go directly to home after pressing the home button.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mmark27:
Yet here we all are.......

Annoying that the Messaging app puts in portrait pictures sideways. Worked with Handcent guy for a long time getting that right, which they did. Hopefully Handcent updates for expandable notifications. I also can't get notifications to work at all on Messaging App, anyone else? Not sure I've seen that posted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DutchDogg54:
Can anybody confirm the only changes showing up in the latest build are the MMS receive working?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ekt8750:
They upgraded my area a few weeks ago and I can pull in 1500 down consistently now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] rs3vans:
Here's the sad thing: I am sitting at my desk on the 5th (and last) floor of one of the buildings on the Sprint world HQ campus (I don't work for Sprint -- our company just rents the building). I just ran a speed test and got a dismal 0.19Mbps down/0.01 Mbps up. It's like that everywhere here. Absolutely pathetic 3G speeds.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mikeyfg:
My phone has been "sending" an MMS for 30minutes gonna try a fresh install regardless great work guys
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Bliger241:
I'm getting the opposite problem...I can't enable my capacitive lights....they won't turn on even though I never had the disabled in the first place
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] richebattle@gmail.com:
I don't even understand how this is happening. Idgaf about having my Cap Lights on. Though it should be an option.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] EndlessDissent:
The signal is also more stable. It still reports 3G as 1x, but it shows the correct signal now (in terms of dBm).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] EndlessDissent:
Have you tried toggling automatic brightness on and off?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] rs3vans:
Mine just stays at "sending" too :confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] zanderman112:
And we also have Negative Mode now :D

Rofl. I think the Galaxy SIII settings are being rewritten(don't take that as true, I haven't looked at gerrit in a while), so the previous preference is saved, while the option isn't there for the time being. Just my guess.

Sent from Mr. Z's Galaxy S3.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] blackhand901:
where is the on screen.button zip

I have searched the thread. Thanks in advance.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] zanderman112:
Searched for?

Sent from Mr. Z's Galaxy S3.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Jamin13:
He accidentally his bug.

|Trolling With A Smile|
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alexnaoumi:
My mms stays at downloading. I sent a pic to myself just fine...just can't download
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kpsingh:
Just sent myself a pic it said 0kb null downloading for a few seconds but it worked after that... I've had a few bugs if I don't full wipe... maybe try that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Mr Ian B:
It is in the themes thread but, not currently working with this build as I stated earlier this am. The developer has been notified in his thread and will be working on it in the next few days.

Ian B
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Decad3nce:
What noobnl forgot to mention is that you need to blow away your previously cached telephony settings; thusly forcing the OS to rebuild it.

adb shell rm -rf data/data/com.*.*.telephony/databases/telephony*
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] EndlessDissent:
I need to amend this a bit. It seems that if I'm on WiFi with mobile data toggled on and I simply turn WiFi off to fall back to mobile data, I'm on 1x with 1x speeds. If I then turn mobile data off and back on, I'm back on 3G even though the signal still says 1x.

Has anyone else noticed this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] blackhand901:
The on screen.button.zip mentioned here to be working with the newest build.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] EndlessDissent:
Stupid question: This doesn't apply if we did a data wipe, right? Only if you flashed over the top of the previous build?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Decad3nce:
Yes to the latter.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kpsingh:
Anybody else having this issue:- if I copy any text and paste as an SMS and send it fails and even if I type anything and send it. Still fails have to reboot phone to get SMS working again... did full wipe from previous version. No mods.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] blackhand901:
Oh. Sorry guys. I am looking for the on screen buttons zip. I cant seem to locate it.

Sent from my galaxy s3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] EndlessDissent:
You don't want it. A couple people already reported that it makes the newest build bootloop.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] blackhand901:
Oh. I thought they mentioned that MMS and the on screen zip works. Guess I shouldn't be sneaking and reason at work.

Sent from my galaxy s3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] rs3vans:
No dice. Still stuck at sending... :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] EndlessDissent:
MMS works. This post says the on-screen zip does not: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29537327
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] rs3vans:
Quick question for anyone who knows: Why is it more difficult to get MMS working in the stock app? Why does GoSMS do it so well? Just curious (definitely not trying to criticize anyone's work)...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Decad3nce:
You have to reboot after to repopulate the sql database, my bad, forgot to mention.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] rs3vans:
I did that :) Still doesn't work... I guess I will have to do a clean wipe.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] magoo5289:
GoSMS actually sends it to a server where it is then downloaded as opposed to going direct to the phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Decad3nce:
Because Sprint uses a very outdated mms mechanism to pass around the media files. GoSMS must have a runtime case for this which allows it to trim the bogus header on the incoming mms so that it can download the file. AOSP/CM has the same ability, we just forgot to turn it on. Also needed to set the correct user agent profile urls and user agent.

EDIT: I guess it routes it server side and downloads it there, then embeds the image on the phone messages locally. According to previous post.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] algirnavi451:
Worked for me. No full wipe just removing the telephony file and rebooting using terminal emulator
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jluster:
I don't think that's what happens. The file still arrives on the phone and is then pushed to the GoSMS servers for processing (one of the reasons I am not using GoSMS). So the download happens either way, there's just one round trip for off-site storage in there that's not done (for good reason) by the stock MMS app. Technically, if you want to really violate the AOSP paradigm, that could become part of the local processing, too.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Bliger241:
thanks that worked!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JohnCorleone:
Guys I think the MMS issue is on Sprint's end. This has been a problem on every GNex (Sprint variant) JB ROM. It will work for a while on a clean install then suddenly it stops.

Oh what is the phantom VM fix? Is it to open Google Voice and delete everything from PC?

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Xparent SkyBlue Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mmark27:
Pardon my noobness, can this be done on device like through root file manager, or do we have to do this only upon flashing the zip? As in, blasting it away now will build back the telephony database if we're already in the ROM? Or should we blast the telephony settings, then flash .zip?

I don't seem to have problems sending or receiving MMS or SMS, the MMS take a little bit, but it is Sprint's network so I don't expect it to be fast.

EDIT: my reasoning is that I'm in dual boot version, so I don't want to wipe all over again....unless someone can tell me how to wipe the dual boot all out and start fresh. I see that you have to reboot after you wipe out telephony to rebuild, so maybe my route will work?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jharre08:
Yes, same issue here!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] baublitz:
I looked a little bit but couldn't find the answer, but is there a cm10 boot animation yet? If not can we flash the stock jelly bean animation somehow? Thanks in advance.

Also, is there a place to report bugs just so I know what has been noticed already? That way I can make sure nothing is missed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] algirnavi451:
use terminal manager. Type su to get superuser permissions and then type out the code starting with rm -rf... That's what i did
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] knives of ice:
i'm not sure why it isn't in our version yet but there is a new CM10 boot animation for my transformer prime and its awesome. its definitely out there.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] borismanalo:
wooh new build everyday, yum