yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlee85:
Am I the only one who can't sync fb contacts?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dpwhitty11:
Mine says it syncs from the settings/accounts menu, but they don't show up in the People app.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlee85:
Yea me too. I see the option but it only syncs my Google conacts even tho fb is there n set to display all contacts
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gwlaw99:
nevermind
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] blade7840:
I flash this rom. It worked fine. But when I restore to my stock rooted rom I lost my network signal. I couldn't get it back even By reflashing the the stock root66. Or return it to stock. You should warn people about the dangers of losing the network signal. Luckly I was still within the 14 day return or replace period. Or I would've been stuck with a $600.00 dollar brick.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] salas2324:
U didn't back up ur imei

Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S3 4G LTE
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NotATreoFan:
This is mentioned a few times in the thread already, along with some ways to fix it. Nobody should be flashing a ROM without reviewing all available information beforehand.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slic|<:
Just to confirm if anybody else is still uncertain the imei/data/efs backup works as intended-a backup. ^__^ The first time I flashed this ROM I had broken data including no cell/network/voice reception.. So I basically had no network-(I might have flashed wrong because the "internal" SD card vs. the "external" SD card confused me.. seeing as how all my other phones had the external SD card as just SD card)-and thankfully had made a backup of the stock ROM which I rolled back to but still didn't have data until I took the backup of my imei/efs and pushed through terminal emulator into my phone. Rebooted. And voila got network mobile data again-voice and data! :D

So don't be scared just make a backup and your good to go..:D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ChadHughes:
One of the top five flashing rules of ROM'S:

Flash at your own risk.

Dude, it's not the devs fault. It has nothing to do with the ROM so much as k-exec. And there happens to be thorough documentation on these forums. READ READ READ. this time back up your efs.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] incubus26jc:
Was your IMEI ok?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Narcistic:
Slic|<

What backup exactly of efs/imei did you do?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kssxs:
I sent Slic|< a PM asking him to elaborate in this thread. He said he'll respond soon :) .

Slic|<: can you also confirm you had actually LOST your IMEI before you restored, please?

Thanks again!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
Pay attention and read! All the guides on these fourums state specifically to back up your iemi before flashing anything.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] itsmefu:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1791291
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobloblaw1:
I feel like my sig is especially appropriate here....

-Hai guise don't feel like looking at 5 pages but I haz problems on the pre-alpha release and I don't know why.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Diversion:
Did a fresh install of this, wiped every thing 3x and my phone app force closes over and over until I manage to get it into Airplane mode.. additionally, it won't hold a signal anymore.. even though I had a signal when the rom loaded up.. it just decided to stop getting a signal and causing a FC loop for the phone app..

Edit: Re-installed the rom after wiping 3x again (data, system, cache, dalvik cache) and booted up without signal again Well for some reason the phone was set to WCDMA.. Using Phone Info I changed it back to where it should be and i'm good to go again. Very strange..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slic|<:
It is now.. I have data AND voice. Where previously I did not.

itsmefu is correct. I used the backup from this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29201792#poststop

To elaborate, I went from:

stock rom->rooted with root66 rom->made a backup of my IMEI/EFS

I did not know this but for some reason this phone views our internal storage as SD CARD whereas the actual "physical" SD CARD is named EXT SD Card... so when i first backed it up I was unaware of this... but I had used the method I linked to back up the IMEI/EFS. So that there is an EFS.BIN on my EXT SD Card.

I than updated my kernel to the latest OTA->updated my baseband to the latest OTA (I advise rolling back to the previous baseband as this baseband is HORRIBLE...)

|_->downloaded the vzd2 image recovery from this thread->downloaded JB GAPPS->downloaded paranoid droid

|_->booted into recovery using three finger method->data wiped->cache wiped->dalvik cache wiped

|_->installed PARANOID ANDROID-> installed JB GAPPS

|_->rebooted... and my data/voice was broken.

SO:

went back to recovery->nandroided back (^ok sorry i forgot I nandroid before the whole installing process...)

|_->got back to root 66 rom with root.

|_->downloaded terminal emulator

|_->followed the instructions to push the imei/efs back into the phone.

|_->rebooted.

Working data and voice. Got 4g/3g/and VOICE (<-the MOST Important).

Repeated the appropriate steps to install Paranoid Android..

Now i have working data/voice.. 4g and 3g.. Going to roll back to previous baseband though as with this new baseband I'm dropped 4g, 3g constantly at the areas when i had constant 4g and 3g! :eek:

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I can't really confirm but I know I had ALOT of zeroes in my IMEI with broken data and voice... so I'm pretty sure I had it, as I lost connection to network in total.. basically a broken phone but a working wifi tablet? haha.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] incubus26jc:
My question is... can you confirm when voice wasnt working that your IMEI was 0? And now it is not?

EDIT: Saw your last sentence sorry.

I really wish you could have did a before and after screenshot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aj8600:
There are many threads warning about that. People have lost it many times. It is possible to restore if you back it up first. Also it is speculation but some people have said it has happened less when people use twrp and have the new baseband
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slic|<:
I can confirm there was 3/4 0's in the 15 digit number when I had no network at all.. Also network was disconnected and i couldn't activate my phone. and now it has the appropriate number of 0's like less than 1/2 on my 15 digit number. I'm not going to deliberately bork my phone to test though lol. I do know it was borked and what I tried worked from the other thread.

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I'm sorry but when it happened to me what came to my mind was "HOLY SH*T! i have a $600 brick!"...

not about wether screencaps would help or not.. I took forever to resolve this.. and the rolling back was the last option. Anyways at least it known to be WORKING to some extent.. YMMV though.

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The new baseband is horrible.. it drops constantly and can't even maintain signal for voice, 3g, or 4g... I'm rolling back to the previous one.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] David Dee:
I don't mean to keep dragging this on, but you are 100% sure there was a change in IMEI when your phone was borked? I am hoping that is the case but worried your reception issue had something to do with your new baseband rather than imei loss.

EDIT: My apologies to the OP, I have no intention of hijacking your thread but I am sure you are aware that the implications here could be huge for all GS3 owners.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slic|<:
Well this is technically related to the OP'S rom ^. But anyways I forgot to mention that after pushing the efs file back into my phone with terminal and than rebooting I also did the Sim card reprovisioning thing, which resulted in reactivating my sim card and rebooting my phone.

Um reception issue shouldn't affect voice AT ALL if it's only the baseband.. I had no voice or data, meaning no cell coverage in an are where i had strong 4g coverage... So yes there was a change in my IMEI cuz after I couldn't get my phone to connect or call, I was still connected to wifi so checked XDA's thread and than checked my IMEI and the 0's in the string were 3/4 of it.. as in it started: "00000000440040299" <-exammple.. now my emei/efs is 940043858568<-only about 3-4 zeroes..

OP your rom is amazing btw! so awesome... like an hdtv in my pocket :P
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aj8600:
Has anyone fixed the camera? It's starting to become a hastle
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hero:
I just did. It works flawlessly now. I'm trying to fix the other bugs you guys listed earlier. I just hope it doesn't break the camera or anything...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slic|<:
Theres a number of bugs I encountered...

Irregular bug: happened to me earlier today, i had a whole continous heartbeat (<-the type of vibration pattern I set it to) vibration from the phone... cancelled it when I clicked on the home button (<-onscreeen) and repeated it again when I clicked on the back button (<-onscreen key.

Capacitive buttons (still work and are not turned off, but the light is turned off unless you manually set brightness)

Way to disable either capacitive buttons or onscreen buttons?

and don't think this rom works well at all with the latest baseband.. going to reroll to previous one to check->will update you. Because this one keeps dropping 4g->3g->1 bar.. when I'm in a stable 4g area.

EDIT: forgot to say that it still lists as unkown when you view Phone number under status info pane. :\ Also fixed 4g.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aj8600:
many thanks kind sir
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] johnjay829:
anyone try to dual boot with this rom i would like to keep up with development of this rom and i also like SynergyROM. it would be great to see a marriage of the two roms
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aj8600:
I was watching the google I/O and something that caught my eye was the notifications. I thought it was cool how you could expand them and such. I noticed (and unless im just stupid) that i cannot expand the notifications. Is that a part of this rom? CM?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thesilverhawk:
You sir, just committed insurance fraud. People like YOU are the reason the bootloader is locked to begin with. Thanks ass.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fsufan1200:
Maybe I'm just lucky, but I have been using this ROM for about 5-hours, texting, phone-calls, web-surfing, google voice, facebook, tweeter, calander syncing, and have not had one force close, or problem yet!

Some of the obvious issues are there, such as the signal bars are wacked-out, the roaming indicator message on the lock screen, but honestly it's WAY better than the CM10 releases over the last week :)

Matt
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hero:
The roaming indicator message is now gone and so is the SIM message you normally get upon reboot. Also, for those of you that don't like the soft keys, I fixed it so they don't appear when choosing some of the configurations. I didn't put in the feature where you can select/de-select it yet (like in AOKP).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nick.koutrelakos:
And people like you are the reason people get frustrated with this forum.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slic|<:
How do we get the new ROM? I don't see you posting the download or is it via ota? :/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dpwhitty11:
Awesome! ^_^

Are you going to make an option to disable the hard keys? And any progress on MMS?

Also, I hvee noticed the browser is more likely to close on me when viewing desktop sites and also when in landscape.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hero:
Not uploaded yet. I need to fix something first.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slic|<:
Ah sorry. Was just a lil confused haha ^__^"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aj8600:
god speed PureMotive, god speed
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thesilverhawk:
/10char
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ChadHughes:
Okay, you didn't read, its over. Back on topic :D

What about this SD card issue...I can't play music from my extSD but I can access the files and junk.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ndboost:
Dev Host sucks, anyone have a mirror or two? 8 hours to download gapps? srsly?

Found a mirror..

7/23/12 Paranoid android

http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/...ranoidAndroidCM10/paranoid-SCH-I535-72312.zip

7/23/12 Gapps Mixed

http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/gapps/gapps-jb-20120717-signed.zip

ill slap the files on my crap dreamhost account too.. maybe throw them up on my seedbox as well..

Edit:

They are now on a shared acct with dreamhost... might take a few hrs for dns to prop as its a new sub domain..

7/23/12 Paranoid Android

http://dev.wherespinkie.com/paranoid-SCH-I535-72312.zip

7/23/12 gapps mixed

http://dev.wherespinkie.com/gapps-jb-20120717-signed.zip
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slic|<:
Who are you talking to..?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bdubbin:
Thanks for the mirror! that's what I'll use for now, but does anyone have a mirror for the 7-24-12 files?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dpwhitty11:
Bug? Music playback (from audio-out/headphones) stops for notifications then doesn't start playing again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slic|<:
I'm guessing pure hasn't uploaded the updated rom right? :\
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bdubbin:
The link is up for a 7-24-12 file, just takes a loooong time... maybe he's working on it and that's why it's slow?? Read some earlier posts that he was working on an update that wasn't uploaded yet. Oh well 7-23-12 files are working okay for the time being!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slic|<:
Just wondering is all. I was on last night when he was on. And I already have the 7-24-12 and ended up download the 7-23 thinking that was the new one lol.. downloaded the latest 7-24 from the op. It isn't that slow.. the update should be either titled 7-25 or 7-26 right? Or is he going to update it with the name 7-24.1? :/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] piiman:
how do you go back? just restore my backup?

Never mind I took the plunge.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] chrislewissd:
I am looking for some help on trouble shooting a issue here. First off this ROM is great and has been running smooth and this problem I believe is a random one.

My battery died completely yesterday and when I plugged it in it was bootlooping some update screen and seemed to be unable to Finnish whatever update it was trying to do. After letting it try to charge for an hour while It boot looped nothing was changing so I flashed the stock Odin image. Now it boots to the vzw boot animation but won't go passed that.

Does anyone have any ideas? I know I can recover this somehow but I am new to Samsung devices and not sure where to go from here.

Thank you in advanced to anyone willing to help!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ChadHughes:
We need a little more info maybe.. exactly what stock image are you flashing?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] chrislewissd:
I flashed the stockvzw image with the root66 included in it found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1762204
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ndboost:
anyone else having the cant access extsdcard issue, i know i am.. i cant grab my backups for titanium off my extsdcard..

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Dev Host is utter slow right now and i havent uploaded anything.. i grabbed the files from the mirror i found and mirrored them myself. Once 7/24 and 7/25 can actually fniish on a download ill post my mirror up.

edit:

in case anyone has a similar problem, in titanium backup just go into preferences -> backup location -> /mnt/external_sd/TitaniumBackup
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slic|<:
Where did you get 7/25? Dev host works fine for me.. OP just hasn't updated with the newest ROM update unless km mistaken.. :/.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hero:
The new ROM isn't up yet. I have it on my computer, but I'm waiting for it to be fine tuned. I can't do any more fine tuning right now since my phone basically killed itself during dev testing. Gotta wait for a new one. When the build is safe and functioning correctly, I will put it up. Sorry for the delay.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ndboost:
this rom killed my 4g i think..

wiped data/cache

installed rom

installed gapps

3G only now

nandroid restored back to my root66 and now i still only have 3G, when i know im in a 4G area.. how can i fix this?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hero:
I had this problem after flashing cm10. Boot into Stock recovery and then do a factory reset. That should clear it up. Also, it says 3G, but you are probably getting 4G speeds.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slic|<:
downlaod phone info and check to make sure your baseband is set to LTE/CDMA/GSM. That will bring your 4g backup after a reboot.

Oh, was just wondering-no rush. I'm just not sure if it's me or something but the browser keeps crashing everytime i load a page aside from google.com.. so as currently that's a bug. :|

Did you restore the imei with a previously backed up working imei, reprovisioned after pushing it on a stock root rom (odined), and clear-wiped data both before installing rom and after your first reboot, and also wiping the app data?? Cuz I did all that and I went from no network at all to getting 3g-1x... and than downloaded phone info and changed teh GSM/CDMA baseband to LTE/CDMA/GSM. Reboot. and 4g was back. :confused:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hero:
Yeah I did. The phone never changes from "roaming" and the IMEI always says 0 no matter that I try. Just telling you guys to be careful with K-Exec. Hopefully we won't have to deal with it much longer :(
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slic|<:
You did all that and it still says that?! :eek:... hmmm. You pushed to sdcard not ext sd card right? and you had pulled the efs from your sd card right?? K-exec is ok but I think it's cm10 cuz i never had an issue till i loaded your rom up and than i lost data/voice so I pushed my backed up efs. >< Damn bootloader... :(. Same.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ndboost:
tweeted you about the problem, no sense in messing this thread up with the problem..

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seems this didnt solve the problem, even back on the stock root66.. now it just says network error and where the 3g/4g icon is is a circle with a slash through it..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Slic|<:
Weird it worked for me... you did everything mentioned including pushing your efs?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tpearsall:
My external card stopped mounting when attached to Windows and was not listed in Settings -> Storage, ASTRA file manager could still see it and also in CWM. Flashed back to a stock ROM and it returned.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] neyenlives:
Same thing happened when I flashed this rom. For other reasons I didn't care for it so I immediately loaded up dhackers build, then the ext sd card came back
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hero:
USB mounting is currently a known issue that is being worked on. I will hopefully get it working by the next stable release.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Div033:
Pure, K-exec is not the cause for losing IMEI. This is an issue across all four carrier devices. As we all know, only the Verizon version is using kexec so we can safely rule that out for being the cause.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hero:
Good to hear. I hope the issue isn't associated with custom kernels though. Just curious, have you experienced any weird things when running PA or CM10 (since PA is based off CM10), like a loss of 4G or corrupted data?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Div033:
Data is a bit wonky. Last night I put CM10 on and experienced a complete data loss where my signal was apparently -200. I then nandroided back to stock and my IMEI was still intact. They still have RIL bugs to work out which explains the funky data.

IMEI may or may not be related to those RIL bugs. If this is a problem across all carriers, it would be safe to rule out RIL for being the cause as well right? I'm unsure if we all share the same RIL to be cracked or if each carrier has a different RIL.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dpwhitty11:
I read just now that the 7/26 build of CM10 has working MMS.

Can we expect that in the latest build here?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Div033:
MMS works fantastic on that build until you reboot. It no longer works after that. However PureMotive made some mention earlier that he managed to fix it permanently and will be available with a new build once he gets a working phone...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dpwhitty11:
Oh dang, I missed that post completely.

Hopefully he gets that whole situation fixed up real fast.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
I have had no issues with data on either rom! Although Im back to rooted stock now until a few things are worked out. :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] xMopx:
The backup function of Clockwork in the OP isn't working.. I can make a backup but if I try to restore one I get an MD5 mismatch error...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] neyenlives:
It's probably the old 6.0.0.8 version. That's really old. Use 6.0.1.0.

See invisibleks latest quick root thread in development, it has the right one for loading kexec enabled boot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] IAmPears:
can you link the CWM Recovery, can't seem to find it
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] msnglink:
so how can we get our micro sd cards to work?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JetBlue:
Format them to FAT32 then it should work.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richard6292:
I need some help fixing the issue with my phones speaker. It works, but when using Pandora it sounds like crap. I tried messing with the phones equalizer but had no luck. Is there an update or patch I can download to fix it?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] melvinchng:
Might due to software... try to disable all the equalizer. And the sound should be the original one without any noise or etc

Accidentally sent from my Google Nexus S
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richard6292:
Yeah I tried that, but to no avail:/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Theonew:
Are you sure it's not your connection?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forwardroll:
Afternoon folks,

I'm going away tomorrow and was wondering if it was possible to disable all mobile data except for whatsapp. The friends I'm meeting all use it for communication and it uses a very small amount of data so I'm willing to pay the roaming fees for it but I don't want any other apps getting in on the gig and costing me a fortune :mad:

I hope theres a trick I'm not aware of :fingers-crossed:

Thanks in advance :good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jediknight111:
If you go on settings, Data Usage, it gives you an option to restrict background data on apps
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ascariz:
if you rooted, YES. use firewall from playstore
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MattBooth:
Avast! and Firewall all other apps.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaytronics:
If you are Rooted Droid Wall and LBE Privacy Guard at two off the best apps out there. For LBE I would suggest looking for the 2.1.1002 version. Though if you are on ICS you will have to turn that version on manually if you reboot your phone. If you can not find that version anywhere. I have the apk on my phone and can send it to you. Just PM me. Hope this helps.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaggydabbydo:
Llama

You can use the appl, "Llama". It's a free app available on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebab.Llama&hl=en
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dantheman122:
3G Watchdog let's you restrict individual apps etc
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AMoosa:
I've done the exact thing you described using droidwall. Set it to block everything except ticked apps.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forwardroll:
Droidwall seems to be what I was looking for, cheers guys. :good::laugh: