yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rwc95:
Mine is pretty good on this build, getting a little over 3 hours screen time and like 20 hours on a charge
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] havy15:
I'm on lean kernel
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
I believe in using the rom kernel during Beta stage so we have a better look at what is going on. My battery good if I would quit flashing it every 20 minutes testing other things. LOL

That said I do agree with the 1.72. After that there is not enough gained performance to justify the heat and battery hit.

:cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thornev:
I respectfully disagree. I run at 2.1GHz and find screen transitions to be snappier and I don't suffer THAT much more battery heat (I run at mid 70's) and battery drain. But then I use the extended battery so it wouldn't matter much to me anyway.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] airmaxx23:
I was having too many issues with the stock kernel, no matter what I did I could not get it unstuck from running at max speed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
That also close to the max that CPU can handle. The quad only good for a max of 2300. Not worth it to me to bench 100 points for every 100 I go over 1.7. I'm talking CPU heat. I not worried about battery can get one of those at the store. lol My transitions fine and you can tweak that in developers settings. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ronbo85:
LOL I had one.

Actually after tweaking and learning it I was able to make the std battery last pretty long but needed the extended one for longer days and heavy use which in a case was a bit of a brick.

My S3 is holding up well on battery I think
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
Still got mine Homie. Need another one. My son using my last Rezound on TMo and I got 2 sets Beat Buds that sound great on S3 and all controls work.:rolleyes::cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ronbo85:
No thank you just sold mine although it was a good phone. Keep the Bionic for backup
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
I still got BB Storm for International. Don't need nothin but a sim. :laugh: :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rwc95:
I'm on the rom kernel, just turned off usb debug, set to on demand, and running around 1.6 or 1.7 can't remember but runs great.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ronbo85:
Yep, Went thru a few of them fixing and flipping them and then a couple BB Storm2's

When it came time for something new was tossed up over this S3 or a RazrHD. the RazrHD is pricey right now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
+1. Same here. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] airmaxx23:
I tried everything suggested for about 30 minutes the other day and could not get the CPU unstuck from the max speed. No matter how many times I tried checking and un-checking USB debugging (among other things) I could not get it fixed. I had a previous install get stuck but I was able to fix it, this last time I couldn't get it figured out. I installed KT747 and things have been fine since.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eschelon:
Has anyone flashed this ROM on an AT&T model? We've got someone with a problem and we're trying to help troubleshoot.

If you have, let me know how it went.

EDIT: Ok, we're all good now :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jeremyumo:
Bluetooth

I hope there is a Bluetooth fix in the next Build....I'm crazy with anticipation...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lukestuffy:
+1 I wanted/needed a miniature nuclear reactor strapped to a backpack.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Cool Cake:
What's wrong with your bluetooth, since being on r169, I haven't had any issues. :o
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jeremyumo:
One of my Bluetooths connects but does not carry voice. It is a Motorola Elite Flip. The one that did work till last night also connected and I made two calls on it and now when I make calls thru it reverts to speakerphone while in the cardock and unplugged. My Plantronics Backbeat 903+ works for Audio just dine. Don't use for voice. When I try to connect my Motorola it freezes and I have to battery pull then it will connect but no voice or commands from the earpiece.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NeWCuLTKiNG:
That's one way to try for better cell coverage ha
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] maxpowerSr:
I am on the road and my battery life is not so good due to media storage service draining it. I am on r169. I did restore all data so next time I flash a new release I won't do that based on the advice here.

Also I read that one had to reformat the sd card to get rid of media storage battery drain. I might try that too after next flash.

My point in posting is that I used startup manager(free) from the market to disable media storage and now maps is the biggest culprit although to a much lesser extent.

With media storage disabled, I can still play music, take pictures and see the new pictures in the gallery. Plus the gallery loads quicker. What am I missing by having media storage disabled?

Also, is there any new advice on stopping media storage drain? In thought that issue was supposed to be taken care of in r169?

Thanks for the great rom and thanks for all the helpful posts in this long thread. :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ker2gsr:
I don't use this ROM but try to erase your blob folders from the clockwokmod folder the new way cwm saves the backups it creates aloy of blob files and that's why your media storage is high due to the extra files that are created try switching your backup method to .tar format .....and if you don't use cmw then disregard this lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NeWCuLTKiNG:
With a file browser go to the folders that has no media files on your sd make a file ".nomedia" without quotes with the period especially clockworkmod and titanium backup
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] anthony92170:
what r the blobs in cwm? and if you delete them I thought you can't restore. When I got new phone the other day I tried to restore without blobs folder and I couldn't, but when I put all folders back I was able too
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NeWCuLTKiNG:
Clw has two options for backups the blobs is one way takes up a ton of space I always change it to tar
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Tracerlx:
Global Option

I heard with this new release, I could select Global Mode and insert a SIM to be good. I can't seem to find an option for Global. Is there suppose to be one?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] catalyst11:
Settings, More Settings, Mobile Networks, Network Mode
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ker2gsr:
Blobs are thousands of tiny files that are created for backup of ROM instead of one single large .tar file ....so the High media usage is due to the system trying to read all these files instead of a single file
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Tracerlx:
That was the first place I looked and it's not there.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lennie paz:
I have the option on my phone. Do you have a sim card inserted? If no, maybe one needs to be inserted to get the option?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Schaweet:
Have you flashed the latest radio files?

Sent from my SGS3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jank0023:
Esch,

Quick question, you home screen layout allows you the weather widget to be 4x2 where as everyone else that uses a 5x4 layout the weather widget is 4x3. Did you do something to customize that widget?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eschelon:
Nope, that wasn't me. It was some cleanup done by wchill
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Metfanant:
Hoping for a snow day tomorrow and a new build of SynergyROM to play with :thumbup:

sent from my VZW Galaxy S3 running SynergyROM
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jank0023:
wchill,

Anyway I can remake or get a hold of that resized widget from you?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mikeman45:
I had the TBOLT and that was by far the worst battery life on any phone ever. I lived next to an outlet.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DieselNY:
I deleted the blobs and all back ups. Switched to twrp and it made no difference. Still have the drain.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Thebear j koss:
I had 1 too, but the lg ally was worse.

Thebe@r'$ G@L@XY
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eschelon:
Just take our entire SecLauncher2.apk
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dudeSDCA:
One person wrote after flashing r169 to let the battery run all the way down to 0%, then charge it to full. Worked like a charm for me.

Someone else suggested to force close the download app, but that didn't seem to do much.

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Anyone having issues with the landscape/freeze issue. I think it's related to AOSP lock screen. Turned it off and noticed no further issues. FYI in case anyone is still experiencing this bug.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] a65lopez:
I have two backups but CWM takes up so much space! How can I reduce that space?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ronbo85:
I do remember when I had my freeze problem I had AOSP enabled. I was on 147 then. I also was getting 3-4 lockups needing battery pulls a day. Happened every time txting only once using camera.

Now on 169 not using AOSP everything is fine after lots of tweaking and reading here.

(Tbolt is fine if you set it up right, used mine for 1.5 yrs)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ker2gsr:
Do clean install of rom

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I don't think there's a way around size of file
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DieselNY:
Did that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] FrostyOrDie:
Nevermind

Make it happen number one!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Longwayii:
My contacts stop syncing on clean install. Is anyone else seeing this? Great ROM but getting force closes on a lot on gapps (messenging, phone)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] soopervoo:
Esh, in the next build are you able to fix the bug to be able to turn off wifi for location fix?

I've already applied the google fix, but the phone has no idea which country i'm in unless wifi is turned on (but doesn't have to be connected) if I'm not on the road (like in a building)

i.e. I couldn't use NFL Mobile app b/c it didn't detect my location (this was before I figured out the wifi temp fix)

I never use wifi so its just a battery drain for me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Jeremy W:
I've noticed that apps are unable to see any information about the cellular signal, including strength and tower ID.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] xdreaper15:
I remember Esch posting awhile back about using Fast Charge. Whenever I open it, it automatically FCs on me... Am I doing something wrong?

I downloaded the one off GP and am on Ziggy's latest kernel if I am not mistaken
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] maxpowerSr:
Thanks for all the suggestions on the battery drain.

I already had .nomedia in tibu, cwm and twrp directories. I did delete the blobs. Still have the drain. Only goes away when i disable media storage service.

I started with a clean install but restored with data. The phone also reboots itself once a day.

I've haven't tried letting the battery go to zero yet. I might try that tonight.

I also won't restore data on the next revision which sounds like it is coming soon.

Hopefully that will do it.

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Amazingbman:
Everyone having fc on apps are you setting up permissions in pdroid? I found that solved my problem with apps not opening. I use pdroid manager.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] silver1882:
My Google calendar did the same thing I just deleted Google under accounts and then added it back. It fixed the syncing prob, hope this helps.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jank0023:
Thank you much..that did it!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Tracerlx:
I came across blk3 as the latest radio. Should I install modem and RPM or just one of them?

VRBLK3 Modem

VRBLK3 RPM
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crackerhacker:
You need both of them
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] airmaxx23:
I'm pretty sure you don't need both, I only flashed the modem.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crackerhacker:
They go together. For one to work properly you should flash both
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] airmaxx23:
Taken from somewhere else.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] appye:
Yeah so, I really don't care if recovery mode supports extfat. I flashed my current rom from internal memory without any problems. So will a 64gb microsdxc card work in synergy if it is formatted exfat? The file size limitation is the main reason I want exfat.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] im_on_fire:
He said no Google wallet. Too many issues

Sent from my SCH-I535
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eschelon:
No it will not. As I've previously mentioned, I don't want to be responsible for people not wiping correctly and nuking the secure element of their NFC chips (which breaks it permanently). Most of you guys would be fine, but you know there would be one or two "one offs" out there that would happen.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] robpet2:
To take Google Wallet off of the phone, what would be the steps?

Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] yamaha_wins:
Can you ads the ability to take a sscreenshot from powerbutton like cm9 has builtin
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] duarian:
Can't you use the home+power button combo like stock s3?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] drbveb88:
Or swipe across the screen with the side of your hand.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] The5Venomz:
Here's the camera mod I was talking about..I've been testing it and .I think it's pretty cool, only draw back is 1080p video is broken...it's nice being able to take a pic using the power button though. Easy to add to the rom I would imagine, if not its easy to add manually.

http://hx-custom-roms.com/galaxy-s3-camera-mod
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Neverendingxsin:
WOOOOOOH :D

Im so excited

*starts backing up everything*
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bigee1212:
Hey. Great rom. Just wanted to know if the touchwiz launcher is the smoothest one for you guys because I've tried every launcher out there and touchwiz seems to be the smoothest. Compared to go launcher pro adw nova apex holo atom. Don't know if its just me but I'm thinking about just sticking to touchwiz home.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ty07allstar:
Try the Apex Launcher beta that is based on the JB 4.1.1 launcher. Much smoother then TW, old Apex, and Nova.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] saintsdarkness:
I used JellyBomb Domination theme and it puts Google wallet in there. I never opened it and deleted it. Will I be all good when I clear both caches and do the factory/data reset? I dont wanna be that one that nuked the chip :crying:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TechBSwift:
before anyone ask where to find Apex Launcher Beta.... LOL http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1452663
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Neverendingxsin:
yes you should be fine. As long as you don't link it to anything.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ty07allstar:
Does anybody know how to edit the levels of the auto-brightness?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mike86325:
Pretty sure you can't yet, but there are scripts that change the levels that you can flash
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bigee1212:
Hey just set it up. Def a speed improvement over the apex in tthe market. But still seems laggy for the normal transition but using a custom transition and def very smooth. Keeping this one for now. Thanks for the find.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] baudi11:
Or use Lux Auto Brightness
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ty07allstar:
I flashed the script the one person made that was the Galaxy Note levels but I would like to flash the script he had for his custom levels but they weren't for the Verizon S3.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jaymattt:
Yeah they don't go together -- at least the modem isn't dependent on the rpm.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thornev:
I can confirm that (1) you can flash any modem/radio you want and (2) you don't need the .rpm. Radios work fine either way. Only way to know which radio to flash is to experiment and to see with which one you get the best reception.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Quickpaw:
I saw a post a few pages back about enabling Global mode (Settings -> More Settings -> Network mode -> Select Global) and gave it a shot. I tried that, and then switched immediately back to LTE/CDMA. Since then, whenever I lose my data connection, like in a tunnel, I will get a popup that has the Phone icon that says along the lines of "Global Settings" with a option to enable Global mode. This comes up every 30 seconds no matter what I do until I get my data connection back.

I went into recovery and cleared cache and dalvik, but still the same thing comes up when my connection is lost. I can confirm that all of my settings within Network mode are back to the way they were before I tested out Global mode. Any ideas on what this could be?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dems86:
+1 most people find the rpm has no effect on anything that can be noticed. Definitely try different modems. I get better service at my house with HE over LK3, just need to test run each one until you get desired results.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] airmaxx23:
I think I've encountered an issue with my battery level, it's been stuck at 23% for about 2 hours and has not gone down after some heavy usage. Any suggestions?

Disregard, it finally went down to 22%, I guess I shouldn't be complaining...lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] caveritt:
I have seen this before after flashing. Have you gone through a full battery cycle? If not, the battery is still calibrating. Give it time to run through a full cycle from 100% to shut-off and you should not see this again.

Yesterday i went from 92% to 73% in less than a second, but today it is running through at 1% at a time.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DAMAGEvINC:
Where is the synergy android boot animation stored? I want the stock look back, thank you for your time whom ever answers this for me!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jaymattt:
I had that happen to me around the same battery percentages. I was quite impressed until the phone just died on me before the battery hit 15%.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tummytom10:
Can someone plz explain why my battery is doing terrible?

sent from My Own Galaxy
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] blaine07:
Try toggling debug mode off for a few minutes then back on. Should let Android "let go" Someone said init.d is hanging up or something and this releases it. Hopefully someone with better understanding can chime in.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Cool Cake:
I think we need more information before anyone can help you:

1.How long has it been since you flashed?

2. Did you flash clean or dirty.

3. Which ROM did you flash over?

What kernel are you using?

Did you flash any mods?

That kind of thing, there are a lot of things that could make a battery go especially within the first 24hours of flashing.:o
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] MrCapcom:
Anyone else having a issue with tether? I used Trev Mod and my devices see it but just won't connect or get ip if they do connect
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] airmaxx23:
The included hot spot app works fine.

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I just rebooted and it dropped to 4%.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ronbo85:
Yes I concur, although I have done quite a bit of tweaking based on suggestions in this thread I have also noticed the phone has stabilized after a few days of use on its own as well. I am on day 2 & my batt at 41%
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] MrCapcom:
Yea I tried that too and nothing will connect , do I have to do anything other than just click on the icon in the notfications?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Tracerlx:
So I am okay with just flashing the modem to see if my global setting appears? Currently I have my verizon lte card in the slot but I am in a non cdma country now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] airmaxx23:
You need to setup a password for it under "configure".
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] MrCapcom:
Yup I just tried and even when I do connect the device says no internet connection. Is there like a pdroid setting I have to do or anything else. not sure why this won't work nothing will connect another phone/laptop/tablet anything :rolleyes:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] chupafaros:
Anyones contact birthdays not syncing on their calendar?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] airmaxx23:
I didn't have to do anything else, you're entering the same password on the other devices? Maybe try a different security type.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] MrCapcom:
Yea same password it connects fine just no internet. I also tried with and without security.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] airmaxx23:
You may need to "allow" each device in the hotspot settings.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] MrCapcom:
I allowed my laptop . IT connects on both the VZ hotspot and trevE and still no internet
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] airmaxx23:
Did you try the WPA2 PSK security?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nraines:
Accounts Deleted

I just installed r169 a couple days ago (full wipe) and my phone has been running great. I didn't run into any major bugs until last night. My battery died and when it was charged enough to turn the phone back on, I noticed all of my accounts had been deleted. Two Gmail accounts and 2 Exchange accounts were gone. Has this happened to anyone else?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] azumandias:
Under settings I had to change the device profile to "generic ics/JB (wlan0)" before my computer and tablet would connect.

--

Sent on the fly.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Schaweet:
Yeah try flashing it and see if global appears. I believe the radio is what unlocked global settings. I could be wrong though.

You should be able to select global and then insert a SIM from a foreign carrier and get service. There is an app in the play store called "offline SIM APN database pro" that will automatically find the correct apn for the SIM that is inserted.

Good luck.

Sent from my SGS3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] MrCapcom:
Thanks a bunch that worked using Trev Mod . How can I get the regular Mobile Hotspot to work? Is that something eschelon has to fix?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] whatnow275:
I have had my text messages wiped multiple times, sometimes after a random reboot and sometimes not. Any ideas why this would happen? Clean install 169 on lk
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] blestsol:
Similar situation with me. After a hot reboot my SwiftKey needs to be reinstalled.

:confused:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rlatjs17:
Hey great rom and awesome battery life. I lose around 1% every 2 hours. Airplane mode is not on. Only thing I have synced is my gmail. One problem I have is my music player will just randomly play when the screen is off. I've had this happened to me 3 times so far. I have some shower music in my playlists so any help on how to get this to stop?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Himmad:
My top right clock constantly keeps disappearing, anyone know how to get the clock to always be displayed?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Biker1:
I've noticed my clock also sometimes disappears.

I've not investigated it thoroughly to see when it disappears and appears.

No biggie, and this is the only minimal issue I've seen so far.

Btw, does Kinda Crap Mods still break stuff, as I'd like to color the notification bar.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
KindaCrap works. Just don't use the Android Policy Mods. SystemUI and Framework mods are fine. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sweeds:
Anybody else getting random restarts? I'm still getting soft reboots. I can't seem to reproduce it on a regular basis, it happens randomly.

I've clocked down to 1.7GHz and running msm-dcvs with cfq on Ziggys Kernel. I may try LeanKernel to see if there's a difference.

Edit: 1.7Ghz aka 1700Mhz o.O"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dems86:
1.7mhz? Thats the problem, you should try 1.72ghz!! ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Biker1:
Thanks ;)

Working perfectly without conflict.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
Android Policy mods kill it cause it tries to add back to kill to back button. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mapatton82:
Just curious, wouldn't the framework changes in KindaCrap mess with Multiview and Pdroid?