yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Update Google Play Services

Updated Google Play Services - GmsCore.apk - Google Settings now in Post 2

INSTRUCTIONS!!!

1. Put flashable on your phone

2. Go to manage apps and find Google Play Services

3. Uninstall Updates

4. Boot into recovery and flash SS_GmsCoreUpdate
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hikouka71:
is all this cooked into the 3.5 link already?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
No.. it is not

You can check yours by going to your app drawer and seeing Google Settings. It will update automatically just like the play store. See if your icon is blue or green and if the menu is inverted or not inverted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hikouka71:
was just curious if had to download those as well as 3.5 tonight

thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hikouka71:
just downloaded everything, if i flash 3.5, reboot back into recovery, then flash the addons i shouldn't have to do all this right? because it hasn't had a chance to update from what you had in 3.5
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gyrra:
Yes, that is correct.

Flash rom

Reboot recovery

Flash updates (currently 3, unless you use Google talk- and not counting handsent since you don't use that)

In this case the order you flash the updates doesn't matter if you flash them all at once.

Reboot system.

Personally, I would not restore data through recovery in this situation.

I would recommend a backup before flashing anything, and again after you are up and running everything current.

Once you have a backup of a clean 3.5 install,

You can deal with 3rd party apps and data.

Happy flashing!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Gyrra.. haven't forgotten about thumb keyboard.

I'm currently working on fixing the banner problem with the market
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gyrra:
Don't worry about it.

I'm not going anywhere, and it was only offered as a time filler anyways.

You have better things to do.

And the other four ;) users will prefer the banners first.

:D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mrcollpepper:
One. Haha:D:D:D:D:D:cool:

sent from the local watering hole
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] raybudd:
TWO!!

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bigbad614:
Three, ah ah ah. I feel like the Count..... Lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mrcollpepper:
Ah ah ah. Thrrrree peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! Lol:cool:

sent from the local watering hole
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Once all the dust settles from all the Google app changes, I will do an incremental update. It will include google settings from within system settings
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gyrra:
Wow, that was post #8000 Steve.

That is alot when you consider this thread isn't flooded with bug/issue posts, but more often humorous drivel.

(Like mine!)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
I have to vent...

I absolutely HATE :mad: the new Google Hangouts and it replacing Gtalk..

I am very irritated..

I wish Google would leave well enough alone and quit changing shyt for the sake of change.. That app is frikking awful!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DrKaotica:
After having played with it for a while.. I can't say I love it either.. Google needed to combine their messaging services which I get..

You can send pictures through it which I love..

And group video chat built in is nice.. But the lack of statuses is pissing me off.. I have some friends that I tend to only send gtalks to if they are 'online'.. I don't know.. Maybe they will make it better.. I'm missing the simplicity of talk for sure.. Also the inverted blueness..

As a side note, I removed talk.apk so I was able to download hangouts from the market (it said it was already installed before). When I receive a message, I get two notifications. One from hangouts and I still get a talk noti.. There must be something else in the system that drives the notification for talk.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] randomfied:
Let me start out with complementing the amazing rom I currently running (the odexed blue). Looks great runs amazing and great battery life. But I have encountered two issues. The major one is my screen falls to shut off after the allied amount of time. Originally the screen would shut off normally, I'm assuming a fresh install would cure this. The second problem I have is the stage echo I get when talking on the phone. Most of my use its texting so doesn't effect me most of the time. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for the help and the wonderful rom.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] raybudd:
Did you do a clean install of the rom?

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] randomfied:
Yes my install was clean. I was thinking about just dirty flashing and seeing if that fixes the screen issue..but the echo I have had on several different builds of this rom. I normally run aosps but when I update my profile I always flash this rom and after messing around I felt no need to return to aodp. And yes I tried other tw roms and don't the echo. I'm convinced there is some setting or something I clicked.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Don't worry, you're not alone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DrKaotica:
Do you have smart stay enabled or something?? Is it possible you ticked the screen timeout toggle or something?

Hate to resort to basics here.. Just want to eliminate the obvious things
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] randomfied:
Smart screen is off toggle is at 15s as well as in the normal display settings. Walked away screen stayed on for 21 minutes. Guess I'm just going to have to reflash.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] motcher41:
Can't see why...I love it. Soooo much better. What is awful about it Steve?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] polo5569:
I've had the same problem before too.even had the brightness go from auto to manual without selecting it (it wasn't even on the pull down to be accidentally selected. Two days ago my phone just rebooted on its own then later the screen turned off and wouldn't respond.had to take out the battery. It's been fine since. I always do clean installs so I have no idea why it did that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
I will be updating the full rom soon. It will have all the updated gapps with no fugly. It will still be MB1. No incremental update will be provided.

edit..

New apps..

Google Plus

Hangouts

Google Music

Google Now

Dropbox

Google Market (with fixes)

Google Play services

Settings brightness slider toggle and Google settings

System UI brightness slider toggle

framework-res

Maybe Pandora

hangout library,
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Google .. this is rediculous ...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] pjjohn73:
Wow, you're hard at work. Thanks

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Strongsteve is just a themin', odexin' machine
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gyrra:
Wait...

Steve = T.O.M. ?

:confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] orlzzt:
Steve, you need to add that to your sig banner...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Trident:
I haven't had much time to keep up with this thread, but after a very brief stint trying to use a CM10 based ROM (I really like the dialer) I'm back. Probably for good. Anyway, I saw that there was some dissatisfaction with the Nova launcher and I was wondering if a different launcher is going to be used in the update? If it's up for discussion, I'd like to put my vote in for the Apex launcher. I've tried a bunch, and I keep coming back to this one.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] pjjohn73:
I have no issues with Nova...

Screenshot of Music.. In process on icons
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
All of the new packages are done now and are being tested for my quality standards. Full rom update coming soon.. still MB1. Dont ask if its still MB1, please..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gyrra:
:carefully choosing words:

Is it md4?

;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] raybudd:
LMAO :p

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Also.. pleas remember .. this fugly headphone picture comes from Google
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Specialksg1:
Refresh refresh refresh ... one part excited for new release, one part lazy Sunday lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mmayo01:
GS4 apps?

Hey Steve,

I've been seeing a lot of apps from the GS4 being ported over to work with touchwiz. I am fully aware that these apps wouldn't be inverted or set to your normal colorful perfection, however, if I odex them would they work on your rom?

The main reason for me wanting to do this is to see if the GS4 apps really are that much better. I understand some of them would be limited by the hardware differences between the S3 and S4 (mainly the front camera commands, unless those are all software) but it would give me/us a preview of the stock apps prior to making the leap to the S4.

Also, I'm sure if they have been ported to MD4 then none of them will work anyways. A lot of them seem to say will work on android 4.1+
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Yes.. they will work just fine. You wouldnt even have to odex them if you didnt want to, however, make sure you delete the previous apk and odex.

I personally do not use TouchWiz or any of the TW widgets so I will not be updating those things.

Later today, I will be doing a full update that includes all of the latest GAPPS, Dropbox, Settings mod, and a few other goodies. Still MB1.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Odexed Blue 3.6

Updated, themed and odexed..

Dropbox

Google Plus

Google Play Store (Market) fixed and updated from before

Maps

Nova

Google Core (Google Settngs)

Hangouts (removed Talk)

Google Music

Nova

Google Search (Google Now)

SecSettings (now includes Google Settings and brightness toggle)

SystemUI (toggle brightness slider)(toggle is in settings)

Framework-res

All necessary library files

Performance full time multi sample anti-aliasing by razz1

YES.. THIS IS STILL MB1. There just are not enough users for me to spend the countless hours it takes redoing the entire rom.

COMING SOON

If you choose to NOT update, please do NOT report issues.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] notmyepic:
Got the pngs for buttons swapped, changed orange to blue, but the alternate text in buttons is too high. How do I move them lower?

Sent from Notmyepic's Odexed Blue GS3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] makipsee:
steve i still think your underestimating your rom... there are a lot more people here than u think....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bigbad614:
I agree.....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
well..

Smith Micro just dropped a Sprint Visual Voicemail update and Google just dropped another Google Plus..

FML

Not sure if I will include those yet or not..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] daniel4653:
I was about to download 3.6, then I saw the "coming soon" Lol :/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cuban4lf:
I agree as well. Never once switched. Drama free thread bug free rom
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] verngator:
Beautiful! Thanks!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Specialksg1:
Not to sounds self centered our nothin, but I don't use either of those, so I'd say don't bother ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] unxguyjr:
I use visual voicemail..pls include
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jdelano:
Is TW 4.2.2 for L710 far off?

Samsung Galaxy S3 4.2.2 Firmware System Dump (SPH-I9300)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
I am working on the new Sprint Visual Voicemail before posting an update

The app comes with the option of two themes. I am theming the dark theme.

So.. I am going in to smali and removing the light theme and then I am removing the option to choose themes from the menus. I hope this makes sense. I dont want anyone asking "hey.. I thought you could switch themes with this app!?"
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Voicemail is done.. but now SuperSu updated... sigh.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 1970mueller:
I've learned to be patient with your ROM updates. They're always worth while and it proves its worth the wait. This rom/phone combo has been the best experience since the sad pre!

I am checking every hour though...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Voicemail has been updated and SuperSU is now done. I removed the light theme from Voicemail so dont go looking for it. I also made the dark theme default on SuperSU.

I will post rom update later today.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 1970mueller:
Sweet, donation coming
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Also..

The brightness slider will be absent from the pulldown by default. There is a toggle in Settings/display to show or hide the brightness slider.

Also from settings menu, you still have your SuperSU, Toggle Settings, and Hotspot menu options but now you also have Google settings there as well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Odexed Blue 3.6

Updated, themed and odexed Sprint Visual Voicemail

Updated themed and odexed SuperSU

Updated, themed and odexed..

Dropbox

Google Plus

Google Play Store (Market) fixed and updated from before

Maps

Nova

Google Core (Google Settngs)

Hangouts (removed Talk)

Google Music

Nova

Google Search (Google Now)

SecSettings (now includes Google Settings and brightness toggle)

SystemUI (toggle brightness slider)(toggle is in settings)

Framework-res

All necessary library files

Performance full time multi sample anti-aliasing by razz1

Brightness slider will be hidden by default, light theme is removed from voicemail, dark theme should be default for SuperSU
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] The Root:
Be thankful you're on Steve's error free, drama free thread. I'm off in the world of know nothings and trolls.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bigbad614:
Thanks Steve!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] daniel4653:
thanks for the update Steve.

[MENTION=3278410]The Root[/MENTION]

so you're not happy with the people on the GS4 T-Mobile forums ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] psyman42:
will there be a 3.5 to 3.6 flashable??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Well my attempts to make SuperSU dark theme by default didnt fully work. You will still need to open SuperSU and change it to the dark theme in the menu.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] pjjohn73:
Nope

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bigbad614:
I believe in a placebo effect but...... I swear 3.6 is running smoother...... Steve.... You.... Are.... The..... Man.....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] The Root:
Nope, he always gets a little more out of the engine every time. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Trident:
LOL. I couldn't figure out why my download was going so slowly. I rebooted my computer when the number wasn't changing, thinking that I had a bad connection. When I tried again, it looked the same. So I tried downloading another ROM and it went considerably faster.

So I looked closer. And then I noticed that it was counting off 1/10s of a GB!! All of a sudden, it doesn't look so slow. It is a little slower than usual [1.3MB/s], but I can't complain.

Looking forward to trying this out.

3.5 is working awesome. So pleased that I actually followed directions and did a complete wipe instead of my usual dirty flash.<-- Never again.

Peace.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gyrra:
Just tested mine even though I don't use it.

Worked fine: signed in, sent text.

I know that yesterday, Google was continually throwing the sign in error at me. That was 3.5 rom so I blame Google. Maybe a rolling system update?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Recommendations

I have added a new "Recommendations" section to the OP. Please look it over and let me know if you guys think that there is anything I should add...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Looks good, but what about checking the "force GPU rendering" in developer options? I hear that that's done some good for others
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] phibetabeast:
Have the battery mods been updated for 3.6?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
done
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
As long as those mods were updated for the brightness slider being toggled on and off then Yes..

I am pretty sure all of pjjohn73 mods are up to date.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
This recommendation, I wanted to post here in the thread..

Download Screen Off and Lock by Katecca from the market. It has the old CRT animation shut off. Program a Nova gesture to your Screen Off and Lock and that way you dont have to use a hard button to turn off your phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] pjjohn73:
Yes my battery mods are still good for 3.6

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DrKaotica:
Yep mine should be good too then
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] randomfied:
While running this rom if I have to contact sprint tec support will I encounter any issues?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] gyrra:
I haven't had any issues myself.

Sprint knows I'm rooted and running a custom rom, and they say they can't support you unless you are stock, but just insist that they try anyway.

This rom IS stock as far as they can tell through the network.

Everything they would ask you to do will work here.

(Sometimes they tell you to enter a code that doesn't work but that's always been because they forget that the sgs3 requires star/pound prefixes that changes)

If you are referring to calling sprint, this rom will still work as long as you don't freeze/remove "sprint zone" interface.

Otherwise, dialing *2 may not dial the system depending on your locale/network connection.

888-211-4727

FYI: This is the number that it calls.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] notmyepic:
I didn't see the recommendation for MD4

:D:D:D:D:D

Oh wait, just saw it in the still to do list.

Just kidding, thanks again for everything Steve

Sent from Notmyepic's Odexed Blue GS3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DrKaotica:
hey guys, threw together some pulldown options. available in transparent or black status bars.. these all have the stock battery icon and do not touch the toggles, just the pulldown changes..

note: my pulldown text says 'Dr Kaotica".. yours will say whatever it currently says after flashing

Master link to all folders

option 1: Download

option 2: Download

option 3: Download

option 4: Download

option 5: Download

option 6: Download

option 7: Download

option 8: Download

feel free to flash either of these toggles right over any of these too for even more blueness (or any of pjjohn's toggles..):

download

download
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Those look really nice, thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] daniel4653:
Steve could you do me/us a favor and make an odexed 5x5 touchwiz launcher, if there isn't one in existence already.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
You can do it yourself, it's not hard

run the following (in terminal shell on your phone, where TW.apk is the apk for the 5x5 launcher)

/system/xbin/dexopt-wrapper path/to/TW.apk path/to/TW.odex

Then open up TW.apk using a program like 7zip and delete the classes.dex from it

Bam. Odexed 5x5 launcher

But then it may or may not need theming, idk how strongsteve set it up exactly in this rom :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
I'm working on smali code for hangouts. What colors should we use for read and unread?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DrKaotica:
I actually kind of like that.. It highlights the unread while keeping things blue..

My only other suggestion would be maybe a pale blue and a 0099ff blue combination?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] raybudd:
Totally agree :D

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Updated Theming to Hangouts

ok folks..

I hated that you couldnt really distinguish the bolded new message from the old messages so I scoured smali for a fix.

Old messages will be our nice blue color where new messages will be highlighted in white as seen here..

Make sure you are already on my 3.6 before flashing this..

Flash attached..

Also available in Darkhorse ..

** Details matter here.. :laugh:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] The Root:
I'm actually happy with many of them. Some used to be on ACS with me or worked with us. They used to try to get me to come over to TMo. Not having Steve around means I have to hunt for the versions of to apps I like and that leads me to people who are less than mannered.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Update Dropbox 2.3.8

Update Dropbox 2.3.8

Flash below
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Spider_Pig27:
I'm going to try this out pretty soon, as I read through a few pages back I came across a post where OP states it's based of MB1. No biggie for me but I have one Q, does anyone know where I can get a multiwindow zip? Thanks in advanced
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Its baked in
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Spider_Pig27:
Ahhhhh you rock bro. Thanks for the reply
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bulldog76:
I have a question. After updating to 3.6 I can no longer see my contacts in the drop-down. Is there a way to fix this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Actually .. yes.. I will post a flashable fix for that tomorrow.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bulldog76:
Thanks SS, you da man!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DrKaotica:
There is a ninth option for my pulldowns.. DJ Spock is back!

Does anyone else have any images that would look good?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bulldog76:
Perfect fix, thanks and some beer money sent your way!:good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Very much appreciated! Thank you!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Notorious:
doing it right now 5x5 appdrawer and grid size :good: but i cant odex it

---------- Post added at 12:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:18 AM ----------

okay someone push this to system/app its untested by me and i probably messed up at some point since ive never done it before http://d-h.st/sfk
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Evilone69tmg:
Didn't work. It would not install.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Notorious:
has to be placed in system/app so it cant be installed like a normal apk
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Evilone69tmg:
That's where I put it. Fixed permissions and rebooted. After that had no TW launcher. That's what I meant by not installed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Notorious:
try deleting the odex file for the launcher
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Evilone69tmg:
Did that as well. Nothing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
I am making the message background transparent in the new voicemail. Notice there is no subscription solicitation .. that's because I removed it :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] raybudd:
That looks sweet :D

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Updated theming for Sprint Visual Voicemail

Updated theming for Sprint Visual Voicemail

Improved colors and transparent panels, no solicitation

Flash attached
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 1970mueller:
Same here.... Can't read the names...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Evilone69tmg:
Steve update is running good and looking great :good:

If anyone is using B-boy's Blackout Facebook. Here's one I changed the text to Odexed Blue if anyone wants.

It's still 3.1. Working on 3.2.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
I am working on inverting the latest modded Pandora now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
Update SS Pandora 4.3

Update SS Pandora 4.3

This Pandora is badazz if I may say so myself

flash attached
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] notmyepic:
gyrra, haven't forgotten about you and the keyboard, just learning about theming and work has been real crazy. I May get to work on it tomorrow and Tuesday if all is calm

Sent from Notmyepic's Odexed Blue GS3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] strongsteve:
I have reuploaded Pandora with a few nice changes as seen here..