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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Asch:
By the first step you mean rooting the phone first ? Then after I can flash custom roms ? Sorry for a lot of questions still new to this :$
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] droid_funktionz:
Any good "daily drivers" you would recommend for the S3 that are not AOKP based? I think I am saying that right. I am basically looking for as close to stock S3 rom as poss, but debloated, with good battery life and most of all stable.

I tried out Graviton last nite and through today and it worked okay for the most part minus I had about 5 random freezes during the day where I couldnt do anything until i popped out the battery. I assume that means its not stable.

Any advice is appreciated.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bwm57:
Group messaging with iPhone

What does anyone suggest for group messaging with a number of iPhone users?

Have not yet found a solution that reliably works.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AtoZ0to9:
A ROM that includes Group Messaging.... SimBean, AOKP, CM, etc...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
First step is rooting the phone yes. I would even call that the second step with the first one being reading tutorials.

Your original post where you linked to the thread that is helping you root your phone:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1739426

This is a perfect step by step tutorial on how to get you started. Just read the first post to become familiar with the steps, then take a look through the thread for a bit.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
I'd look at ROMs in Android Development, not Original Android Development. These are likely to be very close to stock but with little or no bloatware and many improvements...improvements being a point of view, of course. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] droid_funktionz:
Thanks for the tip. I was wondering what the difference was between those two sections since their is a ton of ROM's in both sections. Flashed Darthstalker last nite. So far so good. I had to manualy de-some samsung extras but most allowed a simple "uninstall" option.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
From my post 5 pages back:

Android development is for ported roms or roms that are not built from source. You will find mainly touchwiz roms and some variations of aosp roms. These will not be from source.

Original Android Development is for roms that are built from source. These will be aosp roms. You will not find touchwiz roms here.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mannyboy28:
How do I turn on a phone? Jkjk lol
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] d_pez:
Jedi Invasion ROM

You can try the Jedi Invasion ROM V5. It is a stock-ROM and has some pretty good features like overclocking, customizable toggles and battery/performance tweaks. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2020994 Make sure to give thanks to ptmr3 and all the developers that helped put this together. I am just merely referring you to this ROM and in no part take credit for any of the work done, they did a great job!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eddied042092:
Like mentioned above the jedi invasion 5 is a good rom, its really fast and smooth im running on it right now. Im pretty happy with it. You can also check out the ultimatum 2.0 and the loserrom 1.8 those are also good stock-based roms. I havent tried many others so i cant give you more adilvice but those are pretty good roms each with a lot of little tweaks and stuff.

Good luck.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
One I would recommend is dandroid. It's a touchwiz based rom but looks like stock aosp. Stable. Great battery life. Debloated. All of that good stuff. Best of all though is that it looks like aosp.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] droid_funktionz:
Thanks to everyone for giving me these suggestions. Coming from the JB iphone scene, I am not used to having nearly this many options to choose from. A little overwhelming at times but awesome nonetheless. I flashed Darthstalker last nite and I like it a lot, however I have noticed a significant battery drop today. Way more than usual and I have even been using the phone less than usual today. I will look into all these suggestions and flash away! :silly:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
remember to let a new rom settle in before deciding it's not the one for you. it might need a day or 2 before its running optimally. also, did you make a nandroid before you flashed Darthstalker? be sure to have backups of your system and efs before you go too crazy. cheers
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] droid_funktionz:
I was wondering if it takes a while for the battery to "settle in" or something. I may check it out for a few more days. Should I be making a nandroid backup everytime I flash a new rom or just keep a copy of my first official nandroid backup?

Thanks for helping
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AtoZ0to9:
That's all personal preference... I never make nandroids... But to be safe, have at least one working one... Yes the battery needs to settle... running the battery down and charging fully will be enough... I flash below 15% then fully charge to cut the process in half... not recommend though...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hednik:
Make a nandroid of you daily driver and then store it on a SD card and better yet on dropbox or some cloud based service. I make a new one everytmie but I'm anal retentive I guess.

Darthstalker and Gravtion are two of the most stable ROM's you could have. Graviton is amazing...only ROM that has never had an issue for me. It's clear, uncluttered and leaves out useless bloat. Darthstalker is more bloated but that guys makes a gorgeous ROM.

Just stay away from Verizon ported ROM's for now...are a bit buggy for our phones
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
If I'm doing a clean flash of everything but want to keep apps and data, I use CWM back up and advance restore. I already have other stuff such as photos, ringtones, whatever on extSD, which OS reads when rebooting system. Makes trying new ROMs about as easy as it can reasonably get.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] droid_funktionz:
Yea i like both Roms a lot so far. I don't know what the issue was with Graviton and my phone (it was really fast when i wasnt having problems), but it certainly didnt like my phone it seemed. It would randomly freeze on me when putting a decent amount of strain on the phone. It completely froze my phone (or something did) about 5 or 6 times throughout a day. Several times when I was browsing the web and listening to music on my phone, which normally is not an issue. Then once when I was trying to run WiFi Tether. Only way to unfreeze it was I had to remove the battery. Could it of been a bad flash or something? Is that possible?

Also on a side note. When trying a new rom I am reading online that its good to calibrate the battery. Any opinions on this because I know some say its bad to run the battery all the way down, others are saying this is the only way to re-calibrate it correctly.

Thanks again
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
to be sure its not you, always do a clean install when flashing. this eliminates 99% of all problems. i always wipe data/cache/dalvik/, format system/battery stats, flash rom/gapps, wipe data again, let it boot and then give it another reboot. i never have any issues (other than a roms known bugs) when i flash this way. take the time to do it right. as far as battery calibration goes, i dont worry too much about it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DelphinusMinor:
Altho I have flashed dozens of roms, there is always somethign I have never asked about or was never clear about.

One of those things is this... When someone says to "Wipe Data" is that the same as "Format Data"?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
Not sure if data partition is actually formated, but the end result is the same -- data is deleted. Data is where downloaded apps and settings are kept.

I use CWM to back up everything, and then after resetting/wiping/flashing, I use advance restore to put data back into system. This makes downloading, installing and configuring apps unnecessary.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DelphinusMinor:
I always make a Nandroid and I use the app manager in Rom Toolbox Pro to back up my user apps and data.

Thank you, so the terms are basically interchangeable.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
Well, basically, yes, although traditionally formatting was the procedure to recreate the structure of clusters for file allocation tables (FAT) and wiping data was what happened when formatting. In Android recovery, wiping is what the process is called, but it's actually likely formatting because that is the ideal way to ensure that a new OS, ROM or kernel will not be overwriting existing data, which may or may not lead to issues (which are avoided by formatting).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] droid_funktionz:
You don't by chance have a link to that Dandroid rom you are referring to, do ya? I couldn't find it for the life of me. Tried searching this forum and on google. Thx

EDIT: Nm...found it
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ShawtyLo:
Can't send or receive MMS, Unlocked and using T-Mobile

Hello. I'm new to Android, the forum, etc. I'm not tech illiterate and have searched for the answer before posting. That being said...

My AT&T Samsung SIII is unlocked, using T-Mobile, and running Cyanogen Mod 10.1.

I am unable to send or receive MMS messages. When I try to send one, a small pop-up at the bottom says "Can't download right now. Try again later." Then, the message says "Sending..." but nothing happens. When I receive one, I see nothing in the messaging app. If someone sends me a SMS after I've been sent a MMS, I see a notification for both messages at the top of the screen (including the sender of the MMS), but I only receive the SMS.

I called T-mobile about the issue. They went through my APN settings with me, told me that the settings were right, and that since my phone was rooted and unlocked, they couldn't do any more to help me. They told me I should call Samsung. I called Samsung and they told me since my phone was rooted and unlocked, they couldn't help me at all. They also said it sounded like a network problem.

I uploaded a pic with my phone build and two pics showing my APN settings.

Any ideas?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bubba:
I see by your pics that you are connected to wifi. Is your data on as well? The data needs to be on to receive the mms even if connected to wifi.

Edit:

Did the carrier and Samsung state that they could not help because the warranty was void? Just wondering because there has been much discussion on that topic.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ShawtyLo:
Thank you for the response.

Actually, I don't have a data plan. Is that the issue? Before I got this phone, I was able to send/receive MMS with my old blackberry without a data plan.

Neither the carrier nor Samsung mentioned the warranty. T-Mobile genuinely tried to help even though they knew it was an AT&T unlocked and rooted phone.

Side question: I don't have the option for Wi-Fi calling that I've seen in others Settings-->Wireless & Networks-->More... section. Do you know why that might be.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bubba:
I'm not actually on your device but I do know that I had issues with mms at first. Called att and they were no help. During the call, my son turned on his data and the mms messages stated coming in. The rep at att said she didn't know that it had to be on either.lol. Add far as the wifi calling,I think there are some apps for that.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
For your mms issue, I use to have the same issue before I had a data plan. What fixed it for me is enabling data and data roaming. Even tho you don't have a data plan it still needs to be enabled to use mms. I'm not sure if your carrier will charge you extra fees for it or not, but fido didn't charge me anything because I had unlimited mms as well. So whatever data was used for the mms (even tho I technically didn't have a data plan), it was covered by my unlimited mms.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
One of my two AT&T S3s is also unlocked and has T-Mobile SIM, with no data plan. and SMS works fine. You don't need data plan but data has to be enabled (which it typically is when ROM is flashed in my experience).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bubba:
Sms will work. He is asking about the mms.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
Not sure it makes a difference. I use prepaid T-Mobile SIM in this phone, which isn't my DD, and it doesn't have data plan but it does allow both text (10 cents each) and photo/video (25 cents each) messaging.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] saj222:
Yes this is the issue for MMS as some others have eluded to. You need data turned on. If your plan includes unlimited MMS don't worry about data charges. If your plan does not include data, be careful with browsers and apps that use data when you're not connected to wifi. You will incur per use data charges.

Wifey had a blackberry and a similar experience. The company formerly known as RIM routes data for some things through their servers which may play into MMS without a data plan. Could be wrong here though...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Death&co:
Quick question in regards to Titanium Backup.

I plan to flash a rom for my first time on this phone thats not TouchWiz. I'm currently rooted and running stock. I backed up all apps and data using Titanium Backup. Once I flash the rom and gapps, I plan to download Titanium Backup and restore the apps and data. My concern is it will try to restore all the Samsung and AT&T apps that came with stock. Will that mess things up?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] saj222:
You can choose which apps to restore when using TitBack to avoid any situations like the one you describe.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Death&co:
Good call! Thanks man :good:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] akadreday:
Stuck on edge need help !!!!

I Tried Everything on this thread

even injected back my imei .. flash the modem .. check if the APN settings are right

and all i still get is Edge connection

Some one please help
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] saj222:
No prob! I forgot to say don't restore system apps. Unless you want problems that is! ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] colemac:
I installed aokp tasks and it's fast! Using nova launcher. Battery is not lasting long at all. Gotta plug in a couple times a day.

Anything I can do?

Thanks in advance,
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hednik:
Are you using his kernel and all the tweaks ?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] colemac:
I have no idea.... I flashed tasks then Google now? What do I need to do for the kernel?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cjna:
Is there any way to change the settings so that all sounds - notifications and all - come through the earphones when they are plugged in?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DIRKxxxDIGGLER:
Can't Flash Roms

I've run into something really strange. I can't flash any roms. I have tried booting into recovery and using TWRP and CWM....in either one when I try to install the rom, the file doesn't show up. I am leaving it zipped, it just isn't showing up to be flashed. I have tried placing them in the root of the internal memory, in a folder on the internal memory..everything I can think of. I am rooted, I can use apps like titanium and triangle away. I just can't figure out why the roms aren't being recognized when I am in recovery. When I look at the file on the phone in windows, they are there. Not sure what I am doing wrong, but I'm sure its something stupid. Also, not sure if this makes a difference but I was rooted, went back to stock following the guide here on xda, and re-rooted. Everything went fine. Also when I was previously rooted I had no issues flashing custom ROMS. I am not sure what has changed. I am currently running 4.1.1 stock rooted. Thanks for any insight.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
So you've reset phone/deleted data, wiped cache and dalvik, and then attempted to flash the zip but CWM recovery doesn't see it on intSD or extSD?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DIRKxxxDIGGLER:
I guess the step I missed was delete data...I went ahead and just formatted data through TWRP since I have everything backed up and now it works...Thanks for the help!

+1 Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
have you checked out your battery stats to see if there is any particular app(s) that is pulling a lot? i'm assuming you did a full wipe of the phone/system/cache when you flashed? check out the battery stats and clear the cache of any apps that are running more than they should then give it a reboot. recently, my phone was draining faster than normal and in my battery stats it showed the phone app (which includes messaging) as being 57% of my battery drain. cleared the cache/rebooted and its fine now
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Yzaemar:
Hey can someone reply to me with an updated link on how to root my s3 im in canada with a bell s3, and with an updated link for clockwork recovery. Thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
please search. found this within seconds: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1739426. cwm can be updated via rom manager once your phone is rooted
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Yzaemar:
Can someone please help me http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=37800765#post37800765
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tex Arcana:
So, here's possibly the dumbest question ever:

What is the best way to handle voice mail? Obviously I'm on AT&T, voice and data share. I have AT&T messages, but it blows rancid donkey gentleman sausage. I prefer the built-in text messaging app for texts. I had a Sprint GS3 briefly, and the standard voicemail app with it worked well. I'm not sure if I want to mess with VVM, but the couple times I tried it with the Sprint phone, it was actually kinda funny in how it transcribed the messages.

Anyway, I'm tired of trying to google this and getting almost no answers. I hope I can find a good one here.

thanks!

---------- Post added at 11:47 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:42 PM ----------

Another slightly different stupid question:

What's the best guide for setting up a GS3? What can I delete and kill on my phone that are in essence bloat/crapware, and just keep the stuff I need?

Disclaimer: not stock. Just rooted (thanks SkunkApe), couple root apps installed (superuser, titanium backup), but that's it.

TIA
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Euphoria64:
You can try Google Voice and see if it works, it's in the app store. I couldn't get it to work though and I have at&t also. I can't help you with the bloatware issue cause I've been on AOKP for the majority or this phones life. I would steer clear of touchwiz and try out AOKP. ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] :
I searched but I can't seem to find any definitive answers. I know the international S3 supports apt-X but do the North American variants support it? Specifically the i747. Thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hednik:
If any ROm here would have it it would be Task's AOKP but I didn't see any confirmation in the thread when I searched it.

Bottom of post 1 for a flashable debloater zip. Just follow the directions.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1739426

TW is nothing like people tend to tell you around here. It's not circa 2010 captivate TW in anyway. Some find it bad but personally I find AOKP a bit to ugly and convoluted for my tastes but its' merely my opinion. If you aren't used to custom ROM's maybe a modified stock one will be more to your liking. Most custom stock based ROM's are already debloated so you really don't have to worry about that really.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] :
Thanks, I meant the stock software though. I should have clarified.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mookie_33:
Is there any kind of correction for syncing contacts from an app such as Facebook or Friendcaster? I'm running CM10.1 and lost all my contacts numbers and the apps will not sync their phone numbers to my contact list. It is kind of hard to go in manually and do it for nearly 200 contacts...

Also does anyone think there is a need to start a thread to help people getting stuck in bootloop? I'm considering starting something to help people that get stuck in that kind of situation as I was stuck in it quite a few times. I found a good method using Odin on how to go back to a stock rom...any thoughts?

Mainly concerned about the first question I have though, any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
just to cover the facebook basics, you've gone to settings>accounts and made sure facebook contacts is checked and also under contacts>menu>accounts? i'm assuming you have your actual phone contacts backed up with gmail.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hednik:
As far as the bootloops go there could be a million reasons someone gets into one but in my limited experience it is because either a bad flash or bad download. Rarely do you ever have a ROM on here that will do that. If someone does it's best to just put in the ROM's specific thread in Q&A or general or post is here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1739426

The stock with Odin is already a sticky but many who get in a bootloop don't really need to flash with Odin if they made a nandroid and backed up their EFS. The thing with Galaxy S phones you really have to be messing with stuff to get to a point that you need to start with a completely clean slate.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] MarcquisDale:
Can I troll this board since no question is too stupid?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jd1639:
Troll away

God promised msn that he'd put beautiful women in all corners of the world. Then he laughed and laughed and made the world round
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] MarcquisDale:
Lol thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mookie_33:
Yeah I have done that but I actually fixed my problem :cyclops: I took my contacts that were saved on my Inspire and created a vcard file and synced to dropbox then copied that file onto my GS3. Downloaded perfectly and now I have all of my contacts back. But this whole thing has me thinking about something.... What happened to saving your contacts on to you SIM card? You can import/export on to an SD card but why cant you save on to the SIM card anymore? Why is it that you have to back them up with your gmail account?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xBeerdroiDx:
are you running stock? i'm not, and havent seen stock (TW) on my S3 since the day i bought it, but i seem to remember seeing the option to save contacts to sim on my wife's stock S3. i had that option on my stock S2 also.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
You can backup contacts as vcf using Super SMS Backup. It saves to intSD, but you can then move it to extSD. Current ROMs (4.2.1) will find everything on extSD in new phone and you can restore to phone by installing Super SMS Backup and going to restore contacts. Dropbox and SIM card are not the most efficient way to move contacts to new phone.