yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] oddspec:
Wipe davalic cache wipe cache and wipe system along with factory reset is a full wipe and no full wipes won't delete ur pics ur vids u need to format ur SD cards to make that happened u probably didn't wipe system is y ur having issues

sent from the samsung galaxy airplane (i747)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Andrew9mb:
Actually, thats exactly what I did. I wiped the cache, dalvik cache, and formatted the system after doing a factory reset. So I guess I did do it correctly? Meaning the problems I'm having are related to the ROM/Kernel version specifically? Another thing, what exactly can I delete in my Sdcard0/0 folder? It eats quite a bit of memory up. :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DelphinusMinor:
Hi guys/gals, I am here to pick your brains once again. =-}

I flash roms all the time, in fact I would consider myself to be quite knowledgable in that arena now since I am a rapid learner, and flash at leats five times a week.

One thing I never got into tho, was flashing kernals.

Task just released a new kernal for his rom and I want to flash it.

Now, when flashing kernals, do I simply copy the kernal onto my phone somewhere and then just flash it like I would any rom?

Is there anything I should wipe first? Do I just flash the kernal over my current rom without the need to flash the rom and Gapps again?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SeanHacker:
Put it on your sdcard. Flash. Done. Kernels are simple. The kernel has to be compatible with the ROM you are running. The kernel I released is only compatible with other aosp based ROMs that have been updated to work with the new 3.4 kernel.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DelphinusMinor:
Thank you kindly sir. It's just an area I was unfamiliar with and I didn't want to jam your thread up with queries about it when I could come to this thread to ask about it.

However, you showed up and saved the day. You are definitely stalking me and it's been reported to the cyber police. Consequences will never be the same cuz I back traced it.

Seriously man, thank you. :good:

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Okay, last question while I still have my mouse in my hand.

If I updated to your March 21 rom, I don't need to flash the new kernal since it's already incorporated into your latest rom?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ciberious42:
How do I check my flash counter after I've use Triangle Away and flashed back to stock firmware?

Samsung Galaxy III AT&T
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
Boot into download mode (Vol down + home + power)

The flash count and more will be displayed after pressing Vol up
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Cholerabob:
I am getting a message when i look for updates via my phone that it cannot proceed since my phone is modified. Is this the trip counter thing ? Can it be removed ? I don't really mind, since i often try different ROMs, just asking.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Antillar:
Two stupid questions

1) Can I use ROMs for the i9xxx Galaxy S3 on my ATT i747 S3? I was particularly interested in the superNexus ROM.

2)I have a 32Gb external SD card. Is there a way to make that my ROM testing SD? In other words, a stable ROM is on my internal SD, while I boot from the external SD with whatever new ROM I want to try out.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AtoZ0to9:
It will most likely brick, and no, there's no dualboot for this phone...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
you absolutely cannot use any international software on your i747 device. i would hate to see it bricked. stick with i747 firmware, kernels, etc, if thats the model you have.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bigal1542:
Is it safe to post last_kmsg files on the forums here? I've seen it done, but it doesn't contain any personal information does it?

Been having crashes and I have two of them from two crashes. Just making sure it's cool to post them online.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
it simply contains the last few debugging messages from the kernel. nothing personal. what kernel?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bigal1542:
Sweet sounds good. I am using Task's ROM and kernel. It happens every once and a while where I will lock my phone and when I try to unlock it, nothing will happen. Interestingly enough, one time I was playing music, and the music kept playing until I rebooted it.

Here are the two files then if they help. Thanks!

I changed them to text files so I could upload them. I hope that was the right decision.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
I'll take a look at them when I get home from work. Cheers
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bigal1542:
Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rwaterspf1:
Thank You for the help. It ended up being a problem in the proprietary blobs and once that got sorted the rom builds correctly and my modem shows up!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cojomojo:
Im having an issue where files disappear off my external sdcard. Usually it happens when I move something new to the external SD card. Before I updated twrp to 2.4.4.0 I also was having everything disappear when I would make nandroid backup to the external SD. Any ideas why everything disappear and how to.fix?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AtoZ0to9:
Try reformatting the card as FAT32 with EaseUS...

Insert sig here...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Phoneguy589:
Just curious if someone could port a i9300 rom to the i747. I know the i9300 one is exynos but wasn't sure if it was only kernel differences from touchwiz roms. I had purchased jkay framework but he only releases updates for i9300. I thought I'd be able to use it when nottach released a 4.0 rom (Ariel I believe) that had jkay framework but I was never able to update because the firmware is not supported. Just curious.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ecip:
I may be looking to give cm 10 a try on my rogers s3.

The phone is rooted and cwm recovery is installed.

I'm wondering if I now simply download cm10 for the s3 att and flash via recovery? Thanks.

Sent from my Galaxy S3 & Tapatalk
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Phoneguy589:
CM10.1 is great as well as the other 4.2 ROMS. What I do is backup all my roms and downloads to my external sd card. CM10/10.1 changes your sd storage to /0 so if you restore a 4.1.2 ROM, you will still have the /0. I store all my music, backups and photos to the external so I can format my internal sd then restore. The only thing that I didn't like was the quality of the camera in 4.2. I did read somewhere recently that there is a zip you can flash that fixes it. Hope this helps.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xLucida:
Busy box

Hi, I just rooted my phone using MrRobinson's method, when I use a root checker it says I am missing busybox, can I still install roms without busybox?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AtoZ0to9:
If you have CWM or TWRP installed, yes you can... :good:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xLucida:
Thanks for the super fast reply! And how do I check if CWM or TWRP is installed? I tried installing rommanager but I couldn't find the file for my phone (Rogers)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AtoZ0to9:
You can select the ATT recovery in ROM Manager if you want, and it will load CWM, but I personally recommend against having ROM Manager on the phone...

mrRobinson's guide has instructions for installing CWM through ADB with the phone hooked up or Terminal on the phone... did you do that portion of the guide? If not, download Goo Manager from the Play Store, hit the menu button in the App and choose InstallOpenRecoveryScript, it will load TWRP for you...

To get into recovery, take out the battery and replace it, hold Vol Up + Home + Power and release Power when it vibrates... You'll see blue text at the top of the screen says "Entering Recovery" or something, I never read it...

Stock Samsung Recovery will have just a few options and say 3e Recovery at the top, CWM will say ClockworkMod... While choosing which recovery to use is a preference, I prefer TWRP because it will flash multiple zips at once...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cojomojo:
OK I'll try that. Also I just had the issue again and I thought I'd provide more details. I had two folders "Roms" and "Backups" that everything disappeared from and the folders changed to "uRoms" and "uBackups". Also a folder "Lost.Dir" appeared with 3.4GB of random files with random numbers appeared. On the extSDcard I also have a couple.other folders that weren't affected. This happened after I moved a file over to the extSD.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AtoZ0to9:
Seems to be some corruption with the file system, a reformat is most likely the only way to fix it...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
There's the easy method given that you're rooted, which is install Mobile Odin, go to ClockWorkMod site, download image file for your model phone, rename it recovery.img, put it on either SD or extSD and flash it with MO. Done. You can also flash Touch version (right-hand column) if you want. And, just so you know, I have ROM Manager on five devices...zero problems.

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I should also note that the costs for apps on smartphones are trivial and usually a worthwhile investment. The cost of a single utility or program on a computer is easily as much as dozen apps or more.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AtoZ0to9:
Or load Goo Manager, not pay for Mobile Odin, and have a recovery installed in 15 - 20 seconds...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] colemac:
How do I take a screen capture with my s3 running tasks650.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DelphinusMinor:
Hold your power button for a second. The power menu will appear. The screenshot option will be there if you have it enabled in System Settings -> Rom Control -> Power Menu.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] CamFlawless:
Or hold down the power and volume down button simultaneously. ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Fuzzypits:
I just got the S3 through bell and under about phone it says my phone is the "i747m" not just i747. Can I still flash the roms in this forum?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DelphinusMinor:
The i747M is the Canadian variant, and the i747 is the US variant. See my sig for the i747 rom I am using. My phone's model is i747M but it's not relevant when flashing i747 roms.

You won't have any problems flashing i747 roms. Good luck! =-}

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I am on the same carrier as you also. Bell owns Virgin mobile Canada. =-}
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
welcome to the forum, Fuzzypits. as you can see, there's a knowledgeable group of people on here. read up around the forums and get comfortable with the processes and procedures. we'll help to get you where you want to go.

i've attached a link to a 5-step guide that will make all this go as well for you as it possibly can. follow it. its a compilation of proven techniques by great people. cheers

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2179330
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Fuzzypits:
Thanks, it's appreciated!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] randman2011:
System UIDs Inconsistent

Every time my SIII boots, I get the same message:

System UIDs Inconsistent

UIDs on the systrem are

inconsistent, you need to wipe

your data partition or your

device will be unstable

Followed by a button that says: I'm feeling Lucky

I see a couple other people having this problem (mostly on Verizon) but I haven't found anyone with the SIII that has talked about it. I assume that this means the Internal SD must be formatted. Not a big deal, since I have everything backed up to my computer. My question is, where did this come from? What causes this error? It popped up after I installed ParanoidKANGdroid 2.22, but there was nothing in that thread about it. Could it be a virus? Is something corrupted? Will formatting IntSD completely fix it?

Help me keep this from coming back!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
Each app has a UID, and data partition (not intSD) contains apps and settings for them, so there is apparently a conflict between two or more apps regarding one or more UIDs. If you wipe that partition, you'll have to go to My Apps in Playstore to reinstall, but it is probably your only viable option. Did you factory reset prior to flashing PK ROM? If not, that could be the source of the issue.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] randman2011:
I did not factory reset the first time because I forgot, but when I got that message I wiped caches, factory reset, then reinstalled the ROM and Gapps. The problem continued, so I Factory Reset again last night. I am still getting that message.

It could be a function of Titanium Backup restoring things. I let most apps install from the Play Store because they don't have data that I care about, but there are a few that I cannot lose. I'll have to reset it and see if that message comes up before I restore apps. I don't know what I'll do if one of the few apps that I restore is corrupted.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
I've stopped using TB for app backups and instead use CWM (but only if I'm factory resetting for new ROM). If I need to restore apps, I can select advanced restore > data for that. Not that TB won't also work. If you have any apps that you didn't get through Playstore, that could be a problem...maybe. It's not necessarily an issue of corruption but conflicting UIDs, and that will make the system unstable.

Hope this helps you.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] randman2011:
I just Factory Reset. It installed everything that I don't need to be restored from the Play Store. There was no UID error when I restarted it. I guess I'll install each app from backup and restart to see where the problem comes from and then delete the backup of that app.

I do have one app that is not from the Play Store, but I found a replacement on there and only kept it installed in case the one on the Play Store had issues. I can leave that one uninstalled for now.

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I didn't know that you could restore just the data from a backup. I might try that if this doesn't work out. Thanks for the info!

-edit-

I just restored all of my apps. No UID messages on boot now. I'm not sure what is different, but I guess I can't complain!

Thanks for the quick responses, guys!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] randman2011:
Well, since I fixed my last problem, I've got one more for you. I got the contact info from a few people via email, so I added them to my Contacts on my Laptop. I kept waiting for them to sync to my phone, but they just weren't there. Then I found them at the very top, unsorted. They have just the phone number (which is also set as the name) and their picture from G+, but no email address or link to their G+ page. I manually tell it to sync on occasion and nothing changes.

Also, when I check Contacts in a browser, they're still there. And these weird half-contacts aren't. Any ideas?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
Unless you're importing from Outlook or Gmail, there can be all kinds of issues with data integrity for all contacts and syncing issues. I have developed a strategy of manually entering contact info for accuracy, consistency and completeness, and then I back up the contact data so I can restore it if necessary and even move it to another phone using the same app. Yeah, it's a bit of a pain, but I do it once, I know it's right and I have it all backed up. If contact info needs to be changed, added, deleted, I back up again. There's always a copy on hard drive and at least one external drive, plus you can keep a copy on extSD.

That's the best advice I can offer. Hope it helps you.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] randman2011:
I guess I should have been more specific. This is entirely within google services. I receive contacts in Gmail, enter then into Contacts within Gmail, then sync them to my android phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] livethisfight:
I'm using whatsapp to chat with friends. I've noticed that if I try to send a video, it gets cut off due to the size limit being reached. Is there any way to record in a lower resolution? I reach about 10 seconds in 480p and its 10MB. Seems a little high...

Anyway, thanks for listening to my stupid question
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
So I was flashing a couple different roms last night, wasn't too excited about any of them so I restored my nandroid backup of my current setup. After restoring, I noticed I must have lost my imei at some point. My data connection would not work and didn't have an imei in my "about phone" tab. Luckily I made a backup of my efs folder. I booted into recovery and copied my backup efs folder back onto the phone (in the / folder) since it was missing. I rebooted and it appears I have my imei back :)

My question is, is that the correct way to restore the imei? I mean I have data working now, and have my original imei back on phone in the "about phone" tab. But I just want to make sure I won't run into any problems down the road due to this. I read that even some people couldn't restore their imei by using the process I used. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
hey, if it works, it works. i'd be interested in seeing if it stuck after flashing a different rom. wouldnt hurt to make a nandroid up your current config with the imei/efs installed and working. just to have

what causes this loss anyways? its so random. it seems like we should be able to nail down exactly what causes this.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
True. But the nandroid I restored would have had that efs folder backed up would it not?

I'm almost thinking the efs folder isn't included in nandroid backups. I did think the same thing tho. I have a feeling if I flash another rom I will lose my imei again.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
i know that the siyah kernel on the S2 backed up the efs folder. i wonder then, if imei/efs corruption is kernel-based. random, but somehow related to the kernel.

and i havent read on anybodies imei loss issues lately so i'm not sure, but when their imei is corrupted, do they still have their efs folder/an efs folder with the correct contents?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
Not 100% sure to be honest. I know a while back I read that you should always have a backup of your efs folder for this reason. Good thing I made one.

I don't want to blame any specific roms because I think it can happen to anyone using any rom. I have a d2can device. I went from rooted stock to tasks Aokp. Never had any issues before with my imei. It wasn't until last night when I flashed tw based roms (wicked v9, extremeperia z, csrom the bmb, dandroid) that I apparently lost it. I have a feeling it was due to flashing one of the roms that are not d2can or d2att based but not sure.

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Might I add that during the installation of extremeperia z, I chose to backup my efs folder again. I have found this backup on my internal sd card. It is a tar.gz file.

I do not know tho if this backup contains corrupted data because I flashed 2 other roms before this one (wicked v9 and csrom)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hednik:
I believe on my SGS2 that EFS folder was stored somewhere else and it was quite common with the flashingof TW ROM's that you could loose you IMEI. Someone explained why it's an issue with Samsung ROM's, something to do with how it is copied when you flash a ROM that it can go wrong (not very technical but it made sense at the time)

EFS is not stored on the ROM from what I know of. It's stored on the root of the sd card. When a ROM is flashed you wipe cache,davlik,system, and data and no other folders.....so I assume that no other foolders would effected when you flash a ROM.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
but then wouldnt these 2 statements contradict themselves?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
Yes I agree. If flashing a rom doesn't touch the efs folder then nobody should ever lose their imei. I remember reading somewhere it's due to an error when flashing that the phone tries to restore it's own imei through a backup that samsung didn't inject. So it fudges up the imei on the phone. Or something like that.

I just want to be sure I won't encounter any issues down the road due to the process I used to restore my imei.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
i agree. it would be nice to nail down a exact or near-exact point at which imei/efs is corrupted. to be able to eliminate that would be massive...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hednik:
More and more ROM's with Aroma installers have the option to backup your EFS. It was only one at first and it didn't really seem to trust it but not for any real reason. I just keep my nv.data file safe just in case.

I remember not wanting to Root my sons SGS2 because EFS loss took you having to PM a guy who know how to "fix" it or jtag I think.

I never heard back if that guy got his phone out of factory mode or the EFS created since his was corrupted.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TheArchangelJoe:
Okay I dont know why but on my external sd card I can't write apk's to the sd card unless i remove it from the phone and put it into my adapter. It only happens on my S3. It writes perfectly fine In my Inspire 4g and Galaxy Nexus. I have reason to believe it's something to do with the S3? Any help is appreciated.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
Are you using USB cable that came with S3 phone? If not, that may be the problem. Is it only apk files? Can you write zip files to extSD in phone? It's not the phone if you can write some files but not others.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TheCoCo3133:
Can't find a answer, is this legit tho? Just wondering because it's YouTube and I never believe youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHhjduFCCug&feature=youtube_gdata_player

AT&T gs3 on Tmobile with Tmobile sim running a Tmobile rom with working wifi calling?

Sent from my HTC_Amaze_4G
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hednik:
Yes that feature is t-mobile feature so its a an at&t phone running on t-mobile with a t-mobile SIM. That feature will be enable when a t-mobile sim is put in. Phone is unlocked so therefore it works. T-mobile and at&t ROM's are very similar.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TheCoCo3133:
So you can flash them interchangeably without worry?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cojomojo:
I went ahead and reformatted and it still corrupts. Any other ideas? Or is it time for a new SD card?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cojomojo:
SD Card issue

I reformatted and still have the same issue. Any other idea? Or is it new SD Card time?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AtoZ0to9:
Whats the specifics on this SD? Brand, size, class, etc...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cojomojo:
Its a Kingston 32GB, class 10.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] colemac:
So I have tasks650. My phone did something very strange yesterday something like windows lol. It restarted on its own in safe mode.... All my logins were logged out.

What happened here and how do I set this to never happen again?

Thanks in advance,