yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xavier01:
Hi, I know that i can't use kies for firmware upgrades, i am curious why it's suddenly saying this. Because before it didn't have a problem, whenever i started it up it would say that i have the latest firmware. Since it's showing XXX next to CSC, I'm worried that somehow CSC got corrupted during all of this.

Ok. i just realized what part of the problem was.

clockworkmod v6 did not install. i am still sitting on 5.8

So, i've probably just answered my own question.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] InfiniteImp:
I've googled this but I still don't have a clear understanding. When a rom's release notes say 'Latest device tree updates', what are they talking about? What's the device tree used for and how does it affect my use of the phone?

Thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrhaley30705:
Simply put, the source code is updated to the latest possible, which includes all current big fixes.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] InfiniteImp:
Appreciate it, thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xldavielx:
I think I wiped cache and dalvik cache before flashing the kernel, should I wipe it after flashing the kernel also ? Sorry for the late response, been busy with school. I appreciate your help. :good:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] force70:
Wipe both caches and fix permissions after installing a kernel bro.

sent from my GS3 I747m or my HP touchpad
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] imcol:
Kernel TO Stock

Hi all,

Quick question, i wanted to flash the KT kernel for my phone for the better battery life and performance. But If I dont like it and want to go back to STOCK kernel, how can i do this?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brianray14:
As far as I know, you'll need to reflash the entire ROM. It would be nice to have a revert option

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
if you're not happy with KT's kernel (doubtful), find and download the stock kernel and flash in odin. make sure you know what you are doing.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] VTMongoose:
OK, I've probably spent about 2 hours trying to get an AOKP ROM installed on my ATT S3 and I'm at my wit's end.

-Wiped cache, dalvik, factory reset, wiped system

-Flashed AOKP, then gapps 20121011 (the default that goomanager downloads)

-received error message, "Unfortunately, the process com.google.process.gapps has stopped."

-Googled. Discovered gapps to be the root cause

-Downloaded another gapps (20121212), the one on the website, but I cannot flash this ROM because I can't see it in TWRP

I cannot see the /storage/ folder in TWRP from either install or file manager in TWRP. I have restored back to Cyanogenmod for now.

edit: It appears that TWRP can't see "up" past what my OS perceives as the "0" directory.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
Don't know if this will matter, but I always move ROM and Gapps zips to extSD and use recovery to install from there -- whether I have downloaded onto PC or via Goo Manager on phone. I assume TWRP, like CWM, allows you to install from external card. I can also pull card, copy files to it using card reader and then insert card back into phone. I always have access to files this way.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] VTMongoose:
Thanks for the tip. I'll download them directly to the external card and give it another shot.

Now here's a truly stupid question: Why is it that when I try to move my downloaded zips from the goomanager folder to anywhere that I receive the "The operation failed" notification? I have root access and have the file manager set to root access mode obviously.

edit: I found another way. I directed goomanager to download my files to the goomanager directory under \0\, which I figured out that TWRP could see. Flashed with the appropriate gapps and all is well. I really am stumped, though, as to why TWRP can only see such a small window of my whole file system while my OS can see everything.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
Don't know about TWRP...I'm a CWM guy... it always sees extSD.

Folders that are R/O will not allow files to be written to them, modify permissions and so on.

Perhaps there's a setting in TWRP that enables hidden/system folders?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] busarov:
Make sure you are updated to the latest version of TWRP which is version 2.3.3.1

Use goomanager from the play store to update it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ikjadoon:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Virtuous Ten Studio\External\ADB>adb devices
List of devices attached
b9177030 recovery

C:\Program Files (x86)\Virtuous Ten Studio\External\ADB>adb pull /system/framework/framework-res.apk framework-res.apk
[B]remote object '/system/framework/framework-res.apk' does not exist[/B]

C:\Program Files (x86)\Virtuous Ten Studio\External\ADB>

What am I doing wrong? Phone is in recovery (TWRP, if it matters), connected USB straight to the computer, and still cannot pull framework-res.apk. I checked via a file explorer and framework-res.apk is DEFINITELY in /system/framework. :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brianray14:
It must be said that I had an eventful time looking for my ext SD card til I looked in the /mnt folder :thumbup:

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
Good grief. Now that's truly counter-intuitive. In CWM the intSD is at the top of a very short list of options and extSD is one up from the bottom.

At least you found it.

Cheers to that. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ikjadoon:
Ah! Figured it out. I needed to mount /system as R/W. The commands via adb shell looked a bit mysterious, so I just used the [root]adbd insecure app. Was able to successfully pull!

Now, I'm trying to "push" SystemUI.apk back, but it's been 8 minutes and it's still pushing. Is that of any significance? Or is that normal?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
How big is the file? File transfer rates, except perhaps for class 2 memory, are not all that slow..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ikjadoon:
2MB. It's going onto my internal SD card, not external. The external is class 10, anyways.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
I think it takes well under 30 seconds to copy a ROM file (well above 150 MB) to extSD (class 10), and far less for ROMs closer to 100 MB. I wouldn't think intSD would be much different. Did it finally copy over?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ikjadoon:
OK, thanks for the estimation! It did not. However,I might have found the problem: after patching the binary with adbd, Chainfire recommends unplugging and replugging the USB cable, as well as restarting adb: neither of which I did! I shall try again. :)

Thank you for your help, :)

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Another question! :D Does anyone know where I can learn/see the busybox commands, specifically for Android?

For example,

adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw /system

What does -o do? Sometimes people put -yaffs2 in that last line? I found busybox commands for Linux, but there seem to be commands that we Android people use that I can't find the documentation for...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] EVOme:
Can I use an unlocked ATT S3 on the Verizon network? Vice versa
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SCADAman:
SGS3 Easy USB not working any more

I have an AT&T SGH-I747 and when I got it about 3 months ago it had Android version 4.0.4. I rooted the phone and installed the SGS3 Easy USB 1.7 and I was able to mount my microsd card as a USB Mass Storage device on my pc no problem. I need USB Mass Storage because I use TrueCrypt to keep my personal information safe and if you use TrueCrypt you know it won't mount a file in MTP mode.

I recently upgraded to 4.1.1 and now I cannot get SGS3 Easy USB to work. I have rerooted my phone and reinstalled SuperSU and tried SGS3 Easy USB 1.7 and the new 1.8 and still have no luck.

Has anyone else had the same problem and found a fix?

If it is of any use I am using Kernal ver 3.0.31-274808, Build No. JR003L.I747UCDLK3.

Any help is appreciated!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
No because AT&T/T-Mobile are GSM, which is pretty much a world standard, whereas Verizon/Sprint are CDMA, which isn't compatible with GSM.

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Why not just use VPN on phone? It's SSL, which is secure enough for financial transactions and thus more than secure enough for personal information. Not free, of course, as you need to pay for VPN service, but far more universal that encryption apps.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Pinkbelly:
SIM Unlock then flash

Hello!

I am able to purchase a S3 for a good price that's locked to another network (Telus) then mine (Bell). If I unlocked the device on the stock rom, then flashed a custom ROM and/or kernel, would the unlock hold through the process?

I guess I am confused at what level the unlock takes place...

Thank you!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
Yes it will hold. Don't worry. I have an unlocked Telus phone on fido using tasks aokp rom.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SCADAman:
The TrueCrypt containers I use are very large (15GB) in size on my pc and then I keep a backup copy on my phone so I have access to my records regardless where I am and it is secured. Trying to copy over 15gb of data over VPN is out of the question. I can mount my two seperate volumes as USB mass storage drive and syncronize them in just a few seconds. Without having them mounted as a drive TrueCrypt will not work, therefore I would have to copy the whole container over VPN and 15gb would take forever. Muchless when I am away from my home pc and needed to mount the TrueCrypt container all I had to do was plug it in to any nearby pc to access what I needed. Now I can't.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
Let me suggest that flash drives and external hard drives make far more sense than backing up onto your phone, which simply by being out in the world is subject to being lost, stolen, whatever. This is particularly true for keeping that much data. An encrypted flash drive would be ideal. If access is important, use the cloud. Easily as secure. If you want maximum cloud security, go with SpiderOak. There is only one key, which you have. There's no second key that the company holds. If you lose the key, however, you're screwed because the company cannot help you.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mersine:
gapps sans google now

Hi,

I'm running an AOKP 4.2.1JB rom and I'm looking for the latest gapps without google now. Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DustinD1986:
Not new to flashing.. new to this site.. Now to get to ten posts so I can help the dev's.. Here's a good one. Why do I need ten posts to post in the dev section...? and .. Need a better app for SIM and SD management. Just flashed Hellfire. Super stoked for the new update coming with android 4.2.1!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Euphoria64:
Anyone that uses BBS know what this alarm I keep getting hundreds of times? I've first experienced it when switching from Task's AOKP 4.1.2 to 4.2.1 rom. It's com.android.phone, my battery life has suffered slightly compared to 4.1.2 and this is all I can attribute it to.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] colemac:
I have paranoid android on my s3 and would like to change it up. It's a Telus rooted device. I am wondering ho to go back to stock jellybean perhaps Ota?

I have rom manager and mobile Odin. Just need directions.

Thanks in advance.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] force70:
Reboot into recovery and restore the stock jellybean nandroid that you should have made prior to flashing paranoid. It would take all of 5 minutes.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] colemac:
Cool is that a rom you recommend? Battery power on this one is terrible....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] force70:
No..u should have made backup (nandroid) of the stock jellybean rom prior to flashing paranoid. Please tell me you did this?

If not there are several close to stock jellybean roms out there you can flash in recovery.

Battery life is a very subjective thing and comes down to how you use your phone,settings etc. Granted some roms are better than others in this regard but its alot of trial and error. Sounds like you have alot of reading and searching ahead of you!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] juinny:
gtalk

my gtalk app on my phone seems to fail to sync with the conversations on my desktop. it was perfectly fine until i signed onto gtalk on my tablet.

Is there a way to get it to sync perfectly again? i've tried reflashing gapps on my phone.

Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
always make a nandroid, sir. this link will direct you to the stock firmware page for the S3. your telus device is listed with the others. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1968625
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xerrad:
App killer.

Is there a mod to give roms app killers such as holding the back button to kill current app
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] High_Tower718:
Hey y'all I just flashed ultimarom and bricked my us cellular S3 apparently it wasn't coded for USCC. Will Revolution HD work? apparently I'm missing something here. I can't find a single USCC rom to save my life.

Thanks for the help
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BHalbrooks:
Why isn't the 4.1.2 update showing up on either OTA or Kies? I've seen other AT&T SGS3's being able to download it... I tried googling but the only thing that came up were a ton of Articles from October talking about 4.1.2.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
that's rom dependent. try AOKP's 4.1.2. its stable and offers that feature

are you sure they were AT&T? samsung officially released its 4.1.2 back in december but that doesnt necessarily mean the carriers have begun shipping it ota yet
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BHalbrooks:
He was on Phandroid. He says he has AT&T.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jgaf:
Is there a quicker way for turning on "Location Access" instead of going into setting>Location Access? I know I can turn on GPS through toggles but in order to play ingress I need the Wifi & mobile network location on too. I usually find my self turning it off and on several times through the day, in order avoid battery drain.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] malimal:
Are there any mods for the below issues for a Stock JB TW odexed rooted ROM?

-Remove 5 join contact limit

-Remove persistent wifi notification

-enable native tethering.

If there are none, can someone name the closest ROM to stock that has these mods?

thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Vondis:
My dumb question.

AT&T gave me my unlock code. I want to go to T-Mobile and try out their service in my area. Is it safe to load T-Mobile Roms after being unlocked or am I just adding a T-Mobile apn to the AT&T Rom I am currently running?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
With phone off, simply replace AT&T SIM with T-Mobile SIM and turn on phone. A soon as booted there will be a box to enter unlock code. Enter code, press button and phone will go out to network and unlock. You'll be on T-Mobile and will receive a voice mail from carrier with options.

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I suppose you could Odin stock T-Mobile ROM, but unless you want T-Mobile bloatware instead of AT&T bloatware, why not find a custom ROM (from stock or original development) instead.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] reignzy:
Hi all. I have recently taken the plunge into rooting my phone and decided to use the sgs3 toolkit. Still running everything stock, just wanted root access for certain apps. I have found that rooting after ota update jb 4.1.1 for nz that my phone now has a few red lights showing in the top lwft hand corner of the screen that was never there prior to the official jb update. Does anyone else have this and if somone has fixed it if they would be so kind as to share how they did so i would greatly appreciate it :)

Thanks in advance.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Vondis:
Thats what I'd like to do is check out some tmobile original development Roms once I unlock but was unsure if it would be a issue coming from a AT&T phone with AT&T original development Roms
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
I'm doubtful it would work. They have different Samsung S3 model numbers and I see that the same ROMs for both have separate download versions. Typically, the features of the ROMs are the same but the builds reflect differences in the phones. Even though AT&T and T-Mobile are both GSM, there might be compatibility issues with ROMs. Not worth the risk of brickdom. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bruce Lee:
Is there a way you can take a picture of it to show what you are talking about?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] reignzy:
Here you go buddy, uploaded a pic. The "red lights" are in the top lwft of the screen..

I do think some of them upon closer inspection look like some 'x's but they really arw too small to tell...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bruce Lee:
I googled it and got nothing. But some topics are am interesting to read though.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&....2j5j2j1.10.0.les;..0.0...1ac.1j4.zZuyUvFgnvY
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] reignzy:
Thanks Bruce Lee mate i will take a look and read :)

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Had a read, looks like people asking questions about phone notifications symbols, notification lights, ect...

Cheers mate
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] newmind02:
Are inverted gapps possible on touchwiz based roms?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] FluffyCow:
I've used search here and can't find what I'm looking for. I want a list of bloat that's safe to freeze on an AT&T sgs3. Does one exist?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] reignzy:
I did find this list u seek on google a few weeks ago. Give that a crack :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Death&co:
Is there a working rom that will allow me to use Photosphere properly? If so, which one?

From what I've heard, only the N4 can use Photosphere but I'm finding that hard to believe
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brianray14:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1728126

Quick and easy Google search brought up this

EDIT: bloatware safe to remove

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
The truth about kernels

I'll make it simple. For a given model of phone, is there any reason the same kernel can't be flashed for AOSP and AOKP ROMs?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
i am using AOKP's 4.1.2 ROM and have flashed the Nexus 4 camera. works perfectly.

AOKP 4.1.2: http://goo.im/devs/aokp/d2att/aokp_d2att_jb_milestone-1.zip

Nexus 4 camera (w/photoshere): http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1966426

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gapps are made to work on a specific version of android, not a specific type of ROM. as long as the inverted gapps matches up with your android version (4.1, 4.2, etc), you should be all set
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] natefish:
I would check with the kernel dev first to be sure, but I think so. You can always nandroid first to be safe.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] colemac:
I would like to go from paranoid android to aokp 4.2.1 tasks....can i do all this from booting into recovery wiping and installing zip and then boot into rom then boot back to recovery and install gapps?

thanks in advance
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] natefish:
Is there a way to not show certain folders in the gallery? I get random folders which I would never care to see or use. Any way to hide them?

I assumed this belonged in this thread since Samsung's has been around for a while.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
There is a way. I forget what it is exactly. A Google search should do the trick. It's something like putting a blank file called nomedia in the folder you want to hide.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] FluffyCow:
I had only checked here. I'll Google it I guess. Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] MoritzG.:
Hey,

sorry for asking this stupid question but will the rogers Version of the SIII work in Europe (Germany) as well? I know that LTE won´t work, but what about 3G?

thanks guys.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Dino1976:
okay stupid question about Google Wallet

Ok if I sideload Google Wallet on my S3 I should I be able to load it on my phone right. or do I need to root my phone and go down the route that everyone's talking about
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
the standard procedures:

MAKE A NANDROID

Boot into recovery

Wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, and wipe dalvik cache, then go into mounts & storage and format system

Flash ROM

Flash Gapps

Reboot
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Atiq i747:
Kernel

Hello.. I am currently using cwm and running synergy rom.. i wanted to ask weather i can flash any kernel or its just limited..! ! help asap ,i want to try the lean kernel.!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] colemac:
Awesome up and running on AOKP tasks and it runs good. Does anything not work? Just about to pair my Bluetooth.

Also how do I install and get all these cool themes?

Thanks in advance,
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bruce Lee:
You need to do the way everyone is talking about. Otherwise it would say your phone something about your phone is unsupported.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] busarov:
Make a nandroid and try it out! :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SeanHacker:
Nope. It would require touchwhiz framework.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AtoZ0to9:
I'm sure only the kernal.tar includes the bootloaders... is that what you're talking about modifying? You would be the first... most likely because of resigning the file and the flash count... by the time the flash count was reset, it seems people weren't really looking into doing anything with those files... People are only bricking by doing something dumb like using the Verizon unlocker.apk or flashing I9300 files... CWMs of the kernals have been created, rooted and unrooted... that's about as far as anyone went modifying stock files...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] prbassplayer:
Well for example stock firmware has the SBL2 and SBL3 I know SBL stands for secondary bootloader. Lots has changed from old i897 =P. I don't plan on doing something stupid like flashing i9300 firmware/kernel, however If I screw something else up and need to ODIN back to stock (don't know if it still applies on this device) want to minimize risk. Keep in mind I'm only guessing and have 0 idea if its still needed or possible, hence why the "stupid question thread" ;)