yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ecip:
Hey guys, I recently updated from cm 10 to cm 10.1.2 with android 4.2.2. I'm wondering if there is a better modem to use then what comes with this latest cm release that would give me better signal?

This is on rogers.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hednik:
CM releases, or any rom here for that matter, does not come with a modem. There is a listing for all US and CA modems in a sticky around here....jsut can't remember where
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] oldbbman:
List is in the developer section.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1831898
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andy_d0:
Hi I want to restore a nandroid backup but I'm not sure if I have to reset my device first. I've set up a replacement phone with the rom I was using before but I restored my apps through titanium first so not sure if I have to start from scratch
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] post-mortem:
If you restore a nandroid, it will overwrite everything. Recoveries can vary a bit, so in TWRP, for example, you can choose which partitions are included in the backup (cache, data, system, etc); in CWM, you can do an Advanced Restore, and only restore some parts of a backup. Therefore, if you set stuff up on your phone before doing a nandroid restore, all that stuff is going to get replaced anyway.

In any case, you should not restore from a nandroid backup which was made on another phone. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it can cause problems. If you already have backups of your apps & data in Titanium Backup, you should just use that.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] diberard:
This happened to my Sandisk 32gb card on stock i747. Card ended up dying completely and Sandisk replaced it as part of their 5yr warranty pretty hassle free.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andy_d0:
Ok thanks. I'll stick with Titanium. I was just a bit annoyed with the fact that somehow I lost my Nova Launcher backup and wanted to see if I could get it back with the nandroid. I managed to find an older back up of Nova though so good now
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] greogory:
On the Nova backup frustration you ran into, that's happened to me numerous times with numerous apps' settings backups. My fix is to make, for example, a Nova settings backup, then immediately copy "/sdcard0/data/com.teslacoilsw.launcher/backup" from my internal SD to an external SD, such as "/storage/sdcard1/data/ com.teslacoilsw.launcher", using "Root Explorer". That way, after a factory wipe, or whatever, I can simply copy the whole Nova settings backup directory to the location Nova expects it to be on the internal SD. This protects my Nova backup and lets me restore it right away. I've found this to be a more convenient way to protect and restore various apps' backups & settings than either a TBU or NANDROID backup.

In regards to NANDROID vs TBU, I recommend you rely on both TBU and NANDROID, especially if you experiment with different ROMs.

I always make a NANDROID backup before upgrading my ROM, or flashing a new ROM. I also make a NANDROID before trying a different kernel, or testing an XDA- or dev-released version (as opposed to a production Play Store version) of an app that works on the system level or requires root, such as Ad-Away, SD Maid, ROM Manager, or the like. If something goes awry I can *quickly and painlessly* get right back to the exact same happy state my device was in before I hosed it up.

I don't know if I have to completely wipe my phone before restoring a NANDROID, but I always do anyway for peace of mind. Before restoring a NANDROID, I always format /cache, /system, /data and Dalvik cache in recovery. This is probably overkill, but it doesn't hurt anything and only adds a minute before the NANDROID restore.

A NANDROID backup protects you from having to start from scratch if you flash a ROM that works just fine, but that you just don't like for some reason, and from the temporarily catastrophic results of installing a ROM that bricks your phone or just puts it into a boot-loop. Restoring a NANDROID puts you quickly back to exactly where you were before installing the new ROM.

A TBU backup is fantastic for restoring one or more apps and data if you haven't changed ROMs, or have just upgraded the same ROM to a new version, or kept the ROM the same, but flashed a different kernel, for example. In these cases you might need or want to restore an app and / or app data without doing a full restore. But restoring system apps / data can cause unexpected results if you did install a new ROM-- especially one that's basically different than the one you were using, such as going from a TouchWhiz-based ROM to an AOSP-based ROM. In that case, you could unintentionally restore a system app from your previous ROM that IS incompatible with the new ROM. System apps from incompatible ROMs can cause issues like force closes for many other apps, lockups or other unexpected and unpredictable behavior.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] newmind02:
Ok, so it appears after flashing a rom, and then after having some trouble with it. I lost my LTE connectivity. I feel kinda stupid about it.

I flashed the dandroid rom and ran into some trouble, and I then did a data wipe only in twrp (stupid idea) and rebooted, and didn't have the LTE anymore. Did a new wipe and reflash of the rom, but still gone.

I still appear to have hspa+, but it tends to go in and out. I can still make calls, and it looks like I still have my imei. I flashed the stock modem also, but still the same thing.

Any thoughts? I had previously backed up my imei on my old laptop. Would restoring that make a difference here? Or might flashing back to stock be the answer? Any help will be appreciated.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] newmind02:
Also, just flashed that LTE fix zip, and that didn't work either.

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Ok, im an idiot. The wrong apn was marked in settings. Fixed it. Ignore the last several posts of stupidity. Smdh.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] noobchef:
Hey my friend has a problem that I can't reproduce. He flashed the latest Task AOKP on his s3 and now his computer won't recognize his phone. Nothing comes up on his screen, and the adb notification doesn't show in his status bar. It charges, and I got Odin to see it once, but so far that's it. He's tried at least 2 different computers and 5 different cables, one being OEM. Due to time constraints, I only had time to download the same ROM and connect my phone to a computer and mine works fine. He's already tried to redownload the ROM, and a different ROM, but it didn't work. He's checked to see if fast charge was checked or not, adb is checked, mock locations is checked. New drivers. I am puzzled. So my question is this; before we make a trip to Odin land, and try stock, is there anything we might have missed? I tried to give all the relevant details, but I can always give more. Like I said, I think its something we missed. TIA.

P.S. nandroid didn't work either, but it was a backup of the new ROM.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] post-mortem:
If you boot to download mode, Odin should absolutely see it. If Odin can't communicate with the phone, it's either the computer, the cable, or the USB port on the SGS3. You seem to have eliminated the 1st two, so he may have hosed his USB port.

If Odin won't work, I suppose you could also try Kies.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
It might also be the kernel. I have two unlocked, rooted I747s, and a few months ago I had one connect fine while the other suddenly had no USB connection to desktop. I only found it was a kernel issue as I was trying to work through what was causing one S3 to stop showing in Windows. Flashing a different kernel (I knew all along it was unlikely to be the ROM that was on both phones) fixed the problem. Can't remember which kernel it was now, but prior builds had been fine. I think Task comes with Underwear kernel, so your friend might try flashing something else. I'm running dkp kernel these days and love it...particularly nanolunch governor. Hope this helps.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] noobchef:
He has tried different kernels and whatnot. Problem still persists. He posted a question in the q&a forum for his device so if you want to help out without cluttering this forum.http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2385761

Thanks, guys.:thumbup:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Walknmemfs:
pictures

I have a question. When I flash ROM'S I loose pictures. It seems random. I have flashed ROM'S and then when I view the gallery I have pictures taken within minutes of each other 1 a will be fine the the next will error saying it is a unsupported format. Thought it might be where it is stored but I make sure I store to the Ext SD card on the S3. I was on version 4.1 and went to version 4.2 of Wicked Sensation and lost a few pictures. Just wondering if anyone knows why.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rulesluca:
New ota update for sgs3 at&t

Hello everyone, I'm in a little bit of a trouble. Stupid me was checking for updates on my phone and left it unattended for a little while, when a came back it had downloaded the update and was asking to install or postpone. The phone is stock rooted on jb 4.1.1, the update was told was larger than 200 mb, I could not cancel so i had to postpone the install as I don't know what should I do since I don't want to mess up the phone and sorry but don't have much chance to spend time searching since I'm at work at this moment. So, my question is: What can/Should I do? install a custom rom to prevent update? will ota preserve root(?) help? Any ideas/help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] greogory:
A stock OTA update will remove root. But, since you have a down level stock ROM anyway, just let the stock OTA finish then simply root it again afterwards. Or is there some particular reason you don't want the new stock ROM?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rulesluca:
Thank you, I just found out it is the 4.1.2 update and since I've read in many an occasion the people do the ota just to find out they mess up the phone and I didn't want that to happen. I have frozen the update -thanks to Titanium Backup-, so I didn't have to worry about it for now, So I can update without worrying too much?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mumbo jumbo:
You can Odin back to stock (mobile or desktop) install the new update and then root with Odin (desktop) you will still be able to flash current roms with no issues.

Sent from my SGH-I747
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] vasilli:
How do I sync via wifi? Noob to kies and galaxy s3

Bone stock
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] post-mortem:
What do you want to sync?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] chuckwoj:
I am running deadly venom 7.0 and is working great but I can't for the life of me find out how to install the cobalt theme. I know it's probably right in front of me, but any help is welcomed
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] oldbbman:
It is a zip in the first page. Here you go:http://d-h.st/DFD :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] chuckwoj:
I have the zip but can't find where to go from there goo , rom toolbox nothing will install it
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] oldbbman:
Install just like a rom. I used twrp
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] runawaybayeh:
back to the future

Put cyanogen mod 10.1.2 on my wifes Samsung G 3( sorry,cant remember the number right now and dont have the phone handy) that had the older ICS bootloader that was no longer compatible with Cyanogen 10.1.2. We updated the bootloader and installed Cyanogen.

Shes not happy with the system, claims the battery runs down much faster than on Touchwhiz,doesnt like the messaging app, etc etc,basically doesnt like change is the bottom line. Cut to the chase;

I want to put touchwhiz back on, will using ROM manager to restore her touchwhiz that is backed up on the sd card work, or will the fact that we upgraded the bootloader cause an issue.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] chuckwoj:
Found it

I found my problem finally. I couldn't find it in twrp. when I looked for it I noticed it was under storage/sdcard/downloads.

Twrp was looking in sdcard/0/downloads and I could not find the file through twrp at all. It must have been when I used a different browser to download. or something. anyway once twrp could see it , it installed flawlessly. Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DelphinusMinor:
Searched the forum and found nothing.

Are there any Android 4.3 roms for the SGS3 i747M or i747 model?

I know there are for the i9300.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] oldbbman:
Glad you got it! :thumbup:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] njdevils28:
Yet another NooB question from me.

Topic: Uninstalling a MOD

Would a System Backup (I use TWRP) Before installing the Mod be the only real option for uninstalling the Mod or is there a different way?

Thanks,

-NJ
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] oddspec:
Best different way I use would be a full nandroid not sure where addons make changes if system would be enough
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] B.Miller:
So I flashed liquid smooth last night and I'm loving it except for one problem I'm noticing. My notifications (email, fb, snapchat, etc) aren't being displayed on my notifications bar whenever I get a new one. I have gone through menu's 10 times but can't seem to find anything. Where is the specific setting to help me fix this?

Thanks! :D

edit- I'm running v2.9 official android 4.2.2.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] B.Miller:
Figured it out, had to uninstall and re-install and they're working fine now. Heads up for anyone who might encounter the same problem.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] KuRuPtIoN:
Hi, I went to a custom rom day 1 of having my S3. I have stayed with an AOSP custom rom since. I was thinking of trying out some some Touchwiz custom roms and was wondering if there is any issues between switching from a AOSP rom to a Touchwiz rom? I heard there might be GPS issues when doing it. Anything else I should be aware of? Thanks for any help.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jethro650:
Read the whole first post of that thread.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] slinson:
thanks for sharing!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zmore:
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a giant Gobstopper? TIA.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nubreed000:
Do I lose all my settings, apps, etc if I install the latest version of a ROM such as Cyanogen? I'm on CM10 "M1 release" from a couple weeks ago and would like to upgrade to the latest nightly...however, if I have to reconfigure everything from scratch I'm definitely passing on it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SmakBerry:
Yep, I did, and one app in particular it didn't even find in the list and when I restored, it didn't restore any app data. Not sure if there's something I was doing wrong. I have the backup files from titanium, but don't even know if there's a way of loading onto the new device.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] LiquidSolstice:
Hey guys. Evo LTE user here, but I'm looking to root a friend's GS3. I'm quite the veteran when it comes to rooting, but I've never really worked with Samsung devices so far. I have a few questions that I'm hoping can be answered.

1. Can CWM flash everything? By that, I mean, can it flash the kernel and the modem as well? Some posts seem to indicate that only Odin can flash the kernel/modem/recovery and others suggest that CWM can do it all. I hope it's CWM!

2. On the Evo, we have an executable RUU that's run when the phone is connected to the computer and that fully restores a phone back to stock. What are the preferred options for reverting my friend back to stock? I see this thread here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1902178. Can I simply flash any of those through CWM to bring him back to stock, or do I need to use Odin?

3. I'm intending on performing all the root/unlock/busybox stuff using MSkip's amazing toolkit (I've already used it on my brother's GNex and my own Nexus 7). Is that's all that's required?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] EVOme:
Why after transferring pics to my SD card do I get an error about I need WinXP sp3 or something about kies. Then now when I go in gallery I see my PC/username above my folders. I cannot remove it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] myrez:
OTA update issue

I used mobile Odin to install CWM touch. Seems like CWM is interfering with the OTA update. How do I get around this? I have yet to update my ATT GS3.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sulihpoeht:
So far, the only ROMs I have been trying are the CM10 ones, which don't require you to do a Nandroid backup. I see a lot of other android development threads tell you to make one. Is making a nandroid backup fully necessary, or can we just do it the same way CM10 works? which is basically use titanium backup for the apps, and then redo the rest of the data by yourself...

(In other words Im just wondering if i can just use a regular system backup instead of a nandroid backup because its much less work for me atm)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jethro650:
No you don't have to make a nandroid, BUT, it is suggested for a reason. If you have no nandroid and you get a bad ROM download and flash and get a non booting phone what are you going to do? Sure you can fix it....DL and Odin flashable rom, get Odin running on computer, flash back to stock, start all over, provided you near a computer, but what if your not near a computer? If you took the few minutes to make a nandroid ( a few extra choices in recovery) you could, in the above situation) just pull the battery, boot into recovery, restore the nandroid you made, presto, working phone again. Pretty easy peace of mind I'd say.

So, I would suggest keeping at least one known working nandroid on your SD card "just in case". Most people, including myself make a nandroid every time they flash, just delete older ones with a file explorer after each successful flash. Sorry to be so long winded lol.

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Still trying to get an answer on this one lmao, giant is right :eek::p tongue is getting sore....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] resrevni:
Can someone tell me where to get the flashable zip to go back to the original modem? I'm on ATT. I flashed I747UCLH9 and I'm getting 10MB/s instead of the 14MB/s I was getting before.

I'm guessing that restoring a CWM backup doesn't revert the modem back? I tried that and I'm still on *H9.

Damn.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jethro650:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1831898

[MODEM] The complete modem list for I-747 & I747M
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] resrevni:
Hi, thanks for your reply. That's the thread I got the H9 modem from. The I747UCLEM posted in the OP as the oldest modem is not the original modem, though. Or is it?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jethro650:
I do believe it is....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blackdiamondbobo:
Verizon to ATT port

Hello, Im trying to figure out how hard it would be to port a ROM for verizon over to ATT. I want Miui.us rom on my S3 problem being ATT seems to be at the bottom of their list. that being said with the tools out there for replacing the IMEI, Radios and Modem on this site, how much more should I have to alter to get it to work? I figure Samsung wouldn't allow for too many hardware/software changes to be made between carries other than say those I just listed above.sorry if this has been answered before (Ive tried searching google, this thread specifically, and the entire forum. I may just be retarded in knowing how to word the search)

thank you for any help you can provide
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AntiCommon:
Can anyone please explain to me how to get to the screen where you unlock your GS3? I just got a straight talk sim and need to unlock it so that it will work on their network, (which is really just the ATT network I was just on... go figure) and the normal 'boot with incompatible sim card' method doesn't show an unlock sim card screen for me on boot. (I think this has to do with the fact that straight talk wont activate my card until I unlock my phone, and I can't unlock my phone until I activate my card.)

Any ideas? This is getting me all flustered as I've been without service for over a week now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Rocket Nine:
I paid about $20 for an unlock code at cellunlocker.net. I think the international version has an app that will unlock it for free, but AT&T GS3 owners aren't so lucky.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Froid:
I don't believe you need to unlock your phone for straight talk. Just need to change your APN's.

Gubment Cheeze
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tsol:
Canada/Bell questions

Hey

Stupid ques:

1) Any recommendations what I should rip from a stock install of a Bell Samsung G3? (SGH-I747)

I want to rip out as much spyware as possible, and experiment with Redphone (yes, I know it's US only but I'm experimenting with the source code/sms forwarding).

2) There isn't any Carrier IQ-like rootkits in Bell stock roms is there?

3) Alternatively is there already a rom floating around that comes with all bloat and spyware pre-nuked? :)

4) Any recommendations to permanently disable the GPS?

Thanks, big ups to the stupid ques thread.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] leo321:
True! That is all you must do! :good:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] slickrick95:
Does mskip's unified tool support at&t gs3 4.1.2?

Alright, here is my stupid question.....DL'd and donated to mskips unified toolkit before the 4.1.2 update pushed. I was delaying letting the update push but decided to g ahead and do it anyhow. I went to root using Mskips toolkit and notice it does not state that At&t 4.1.2 is supported.

-If this is true, what is everybody doing to root the At&t gs3 with 4.1.2?

I searched and searched and have been reading these forums for months. Long time lurker.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] lpiratel:
Help me help me please, I'm so stupid :(, I have an AT&T S3 unlocked and I'm currently using Tmobile...

I rooted my phone, and I used DEBLOATER FREE, to debloat some of the stuffs in the list. I was actually being careful with the selection. Anyway, I deleted some files, and when I restarted the phone. I'm no longer getting signal. Can someone please help me. I need to get it fix soon. Any helps and advices at this point would be greatly appreciated. Please by the way, i tried to go to setting ->More setting->Mobile Networks, and it freezzed and received a message "unfortunately, settings has stopped"

I used mskip's tool to rooted my phone, if i used that tool to relfash my stock recovery, would this solve the issue?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
Yes, select option 14 and reflash stock ROM with Odin. You may (probably) have to root again after this. I've been on custom ROMs so long I'm not sure about this.

My suggestion is ignore all debloaters and use TB to freeze stuff so you can determine what is safe to delete and what isn't. You can always unfreeze, although even with freezing you want to exercise caution. Most true bloatware is fairly obvious.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] levaine:
Does anyone know where i can get the correct firmware for my att s3: i'm trying to update to 4.1.2 and it says my firmware isn't supported: