yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
No phone (and I mean no phone) can EVER be as smooth as a Galaxy Nexus running stock JB, not even an S3 running completely stock AOSP Jellybean.

That's a fact.
[Galaxy S III General] ANDROID_S3:
If the software is well written and optimized and the hardware of other devices (in this case S3) are better than Galaxy Nexus i don't understand as this isn't possible.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
With bloatwiz, that'll never happen.
[Galaxy S III General] ANDROID_S3:
:laugh: ok! so better move to cm10 when it will became stable?
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
In theory, yes. In practice, yes.

When CM10 becomes somewhat more stable than it is now, I think I will make the move. Basically, all I want is for the memory leaks to be fixed before I make my move.
[Galaxy S III General] genghisk:
my wife has the international S3, she got jelly bean earlier today!

in Caribbean BTW.
[Galaxy S III General] tronderbataljon:
This is the battery status from my and my wifes phone. They have been idle over night, almost the same features and settings on. One with JB, one with ICS...
[Galaxy S III General] amund7:
I got the official OTA (LJ2) thru Kies. Never rooted my S3, just waited patiently for JB. Now mine is just like you say, 4-5%/hr, in ICS it was down to under 1% with backitude and all syncs running. I tried everything the net tells me, even factory reset. Disabled all syncs, all maps etc. Still 4-5% pr hr. BBS reports a lot of stuff, but nothing that seems to really spend a lot of cpu time. Only thing I see is that the phone is awake sporadically, see screenshot.

Any ideas, anyone ? ? ?
[Galaxy S III General] janeku_a:
I don't know why there are two maps process? And i dont know why android system is taking around 20% of battery usage. Is this normal on Jelly Bean? On ICS android system used about 10% and never spotted two maps process.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] kenyw:
What are the differences between the way Kies, Odin and OTA carry out the update process? In particular what makes Kies a worse method of updating even than OTA?

I understand the general advice given that a full wipe and Odin install is the best way to avoid issues, particularly around battery drain, but I would like to understand the situation a little better. As far as I could see the Kies update put the phone in download mode just as Odin did.
[Galaxy S III General] darenb4:
When in google now hit the settungs button bittom left on the phone when the popup menu comes on screen select settings ive added screen shots with circles over where u need to press

Hope this helps
[Galaxy S III General] 4eye5:
Thanks mate, now to clarify things a bit.

I used this community.giffgaff.com/t5/Learn-giffgaff-Top-Tips/Unlock-Samsung-Galaxy-S3-for-FREE/td-p/5207988/page/1

tutorial

so i used ODIN v 1.85

and CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4

and than voodoo glaxy s iii sim unlock

.

Today i managed to update to Jelly Bean via Kies, but i got stuck with locked sim.

I tried the same tutorial and i get a sim unlock error.

So i wonder: Is the Voodoo Galaxy S III SIM Unlock compatible with Jelly Bean?

Is there any other method, other than payable ones Galaxim Unlock and IMEI unlock?

Can i delete T-mobile logo when the phone is booting and other T.mobile preinstalled components with custom firmware, and is there a tutorial?

I presume some kernels require certain ROM's and vice versa?

Model GT-I9300

Version: 4.1.1

Baseband: I9300BOLJ1

Kernel: 3.0.31-256827

se.infra@SEP-67#1

SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 28 20:44 KST

2012
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
BASICS..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1927113

jje
[Galaxy S III General] Code124Y:
hey.. relax pal, no worries. 1st of all i want to make sure something with you, sometimes, apps do drain more battery but they did not mention at menu/setting/battery, example for you,after i installed Facebook, i facing a lot battery drain but not showing anywhere, i don't even know what wrong. after some research i found out that it drain battery by searching location... my GPS off but AGPS on, my network keep searching my location, battery drain appear here. All apps contain location service is almost the same, if you do not use GPS, the best way to solve this problem is turn both GPS/AGPS off, which on only when needed. if you want to have better/accurate location indoor, turn on wifi(you don't need to connect any network, same here, off it when not needed).

Sent from my GT-I9300 Omega 4.0 AOKP JB
[Galaxy S III General] Matcarroll:
Had WiFi off all day. This is definitely the cause of my problems. For nearly 8 hours with 30 minutes screen on time, it's at 89%. This is better than ics was BUT I use to leave WiFi on at all time with ics. Jelly bean clearly has battery problems with WiFi. Looking around it seems it's quite a common problem.
[Galaxy S III General] Code124Y:
maybe the modem is not suitable for you, try another one?

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
WiFi is not modem .

jje
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
The modem controls radio signals, i.e. GSM (calls, texts) and data (2G/3G), not WiFi. WiFi is managed by the kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] 101gamzer:
Can someone say which type of upgrade is good OTA or via Kies update? im a newbie :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
Neither is the answer as both upgrade slightly different Kies is a full upgrade OTA only upgrades the new files . OTA is more likely to fail compared to Kies .

Not that i ever use either method i joined XDA Developers forum .

jje
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Neither. Use Odin.
[Galaxy S III General] 101gamzer:
Well got it :)

BTW i did trust ODIN but will never trust OTA upgrade because i still remember how i ruined my uncles S II by via OTA to ICS 4.0 which got bootloop short after :(
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
By the way, neither of these methods wipe your data. You have to manually make a factory reset, but unlike OTA and crap-Kies, ODIN is your friend. Odin can help you get your phone out of bad situations, although it can also put your phone in those situations as well, but those problems are mostly user-errors.
[Galaxy S III General] akhil333:
Iam new to android. But I had a bad experience with kies. It can't do even a single task perfectly. Odin is much more better.
[Galaxy S III General] The S3 Kid:
Has anyone gone back to ICS? I was impressed with the speed of JB after updating but everything else is crap.
[Galaxy S III General] Code124Y:
YaY! my mistake... try other kernel such as siyah? Siyah kernel implemented I9305 wifi driver... quite battery friendly to me..

Sent from my GT-I9300

---------- Post added at 12:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:22 PM ----------

what thing else do you mean?

i had no problem at all...with the speed, im not gonna leaving JB away...

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] Wedge85:
Something I have noticed is where before I would of had 1 bar of wifi and sometimes dropping out, now on jellybean I have a minimum of 2 wifi bars and constant signal..
[Galaxy S III General] dodgebizkit:
Something impressive - on most Android handsets they need to keep sending out small bugfix updates to fix this, that and the other. Hasn't been one for S3 JB and hasn't needed to be (in an ideal world would like one for battery life but whatever). Google/Samsung seem to be turning the image of Android around... Apple however are causing themselves a lot of problems :P
[Galaxy S III General] descartes1234:
Hey guys.

I have a uk unlocked S3(I9300) with android 4.0.4 on it. My problem is I can't upgrade to jelly bean. So this happened:

I did the OTA update twice with the same result. The 284 mb jelly bean patch downloaded, but the installation stopped at 24% both times.

Fortunately it did not brick my phone... But I still can't upgrade for some reason.

Via kies, it's not possible, since the firmware preparation window stop at 99% every single time.

I'm thinking about rooting the device, but I'm afraid it would just stop at 24% like with the OTA update and it definitely bricks the phone.

Can you give me any advice please what to do here?

Thank you a lot in advance.
[Galaxy S III General] beaver2233:
there's no need to root your device. Either go to sammobile and find the firmware for your device and region or use checkfus downloader (my preference). Once the firmware is downloaded/extracted, use Odin to flash your phone (whilst in download mode and the PDA section containing the firmware you downloaded). There's a lot of info regarding Odin around if you are unsure.
[Galaxy S III General] descartes1234:
Okay I'll look into it. But what I'm afraid of is that the same will happen when using Odin, installation stopping at 24% or something.

But i guess no one knows the answer for this.
[Galaxy S III General] beaver2233:
I doubt this will happen - kies is known to be unreliable, as for OTA I'm not sure. Odin is the best choice for many here on xda when updating.
[Galaxy S III General] Arman167:
I just got my S3 and was wondering has anyone been able to root 4.1.1 yet? I looked at the toolkit but didnt have 4.1.1 listed. So I am a little hesitent on doing something and bricking my phone. If someone asked this question already. Im sorry for asking again. Im using my phone, so its kinda hard to read each and ever page.
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Boot into recovery, factory reset..

Boot into download mode, connect to pc, use Odin to flash ur desired FW. Then factory reset again.

All should be good.

You are joking here... Right?

Flash cf root v6.4 or cf-auto root using Odin.

Sent from my I9300 on XXDLJ4
[Galaxy S III General] Throw Out:
in Germany and updating now...

Jelly Bean here I come :victory:
[Galaxy S III General] rab1412000:
A bit ot but if I were to consider perseus for better battery, would I also get good audio as in Siyah?
[Galaxy S III General] ratedr75:
Did my update today on 3 UK. One thing I have noticed is that the Samsung Apps iss saying that I have one update to do despite having downloaded all the apps from here that I had done previously.

Can anyone help?
[Galaxy S III General] mihqke:
Hi. After updating and rooting I get this message when I open CWM. Is it okay or I should do something?

Edit: I rooted with CF-root v4.6
[Galaxy S III General] Engineering Support:
Many Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] Sumea:
What I am reading around seems mostly that pretty much EVERYONE are seeing substantial and noticeably more battery drain in the official jelly bean update.

I am bothered by this a lot. to me GS3 was great because I could do stuff with it, not worry about charging it, take it with me outside, listen music, come back STILL use it same way for another day before I had to charge it. now I need to charge it daily, or maybe twice in a day. I like samsung's android implementation a lot and the idea that I can at least use official accessories but it is with failures such as these that I really want to look into custom roms that probably hopefully did this better than samsung themselves.
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Why not flash back to your ics backup?
[Galaxy S III General] sarbe:
Yes that's fine, CWM not fully compatible with JB, that's why the message.
[Galaxy S III General] Sumea:
Sadly I do not have one... I'd love to. - The other thing is that I waited out to not custom rom because I thought samsung's take would be the best - battery and all included, and I think seeing at least what some custom roms offer, the battery life should be better, and if it is not it is not like I would be LOSING anything by trying.
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Yes u get the same audio mod ( louder speaker and headphones volume) but unless u can use scripts, Perseus is not configurable like siyah is... Yet.

STweaks app with siyah is fantastic for configuring kernel tweaks and audio tweaks.

That's fine. It's a compatibility issue with jelly bean and cwm. The main features still work correctly.

Chainfire has stopped supporting cwm as it can cause issues when flashing using mobile odin.

I'm using TWRP at the moment and to be honest I can't fault it.

Sent from my I9300 on XXDLJ4
[Galaxy S III General] ch33kster:
There is a CF-auto root made by Chainfire for this problem. It uses stock recovery rather than CWM recovery.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1957273
[Galaxy S III General] emsee:
Nothing at the link

What happened to the file in Dropbox?
[Galaxy S III General] rab1412000:
Good to know that there are other good audio kernels out there. I've been eyeing Franco kernel and perseus for a while but Stweaks is just so convenient. At least I know there are options when gk decides to stop development.

Regarding twrp, I've used it on my dad's galaxy tab and I just love its interface. Nice to know it's here. Question is, are Nandroid backups made via cwm compatible with twrp?
[Galaxy S III General] Arman167:
I explained how to do it to my little brother. Disregard the post please.
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Yeah Francos kernel has the audio enhancement too afaik but like Perseus, it isn't configurable without scripts.

I doubt cwm backups are compatible with TWRP. Reason I say this is it takes 20-30 mins with cwm to make a nandroid. With TWRP it took me just 6 mins last night but the back up is 2Gb in size :eek::eek::eek:

Sent from my I9300 on XXDLJ4
[Galaxy S III General] mihqke:
Thanks man. I took also TWRP in use but is it possible to remove CWM? I know it wrong threat but I ask anyway.
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Twrp will overwrite cwm. U will only have one recovery...

Sent from my I9300 on XXDLJ4
[Galaxy S III General] KeithSr:
I just got the OTA jelly bean upgrade on my S3 in New Jersey... I hope it lives up to the hype.
[Galaxy S III General] gangstar:
hi!

i am on s3 black 16gb factory unlocked csc: i9300xfblh1!

i have not yet recieved an OTA and neither does kies let me update, it says im on the latest firmware!

what can i do?

didn't all s3's recieve JB update?
[Galaxy S III General] KeithSr:
I think you just need to wait it out. I think Sprint is sending it out, but not to everyone at once.
[Galaxy S III General] gangstar:
i am not in the us. my phone was bought from hungary factory unlocked. how do i know what country/version i have?
[Galaxy S III General] Hana88:
jellybean it's nice on gs3!
[Galaxy S III General] MIKEMON:
so great, but the best modified from dev ..
[Galaxy S III General] gangstar:
if i flash XXDLJ4 with odin will i get further ota updates or i will have to do all of them with odin?

or i have to change csc too?
[Galaxy S III General] ozzyita:
Format internal memory and system and install! It will be smooth.

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] ganucci:
Just rooted my phone. Installed super user and cwn. Took a back up via Rom manager. Now you're to install omega 31?I have the zip in my external sd card. Shall I directly flash via cwm or do I need to change baseband version or flash jelly bean Rom first or anything?
[Galaxy S III General] wuppiwuppi:
have to correct my "battery life is fine" report on DLJ4

It is weird, during some nights, the battery gets drained completely, during others it only looses 7-10%

another question:

do you all have so few apps installed / stuff configured, that you can easyly do a factory reset? After a factory reset, I will be busy for 2-3 hours to re-configure all aps and so.

well I flashed a unbranded version via odin, now kies tells me, that it cannot update my device anymore.

I have done all updates via odin since then...
[Galaxy S III General] Kenablo:
Media scanner

Can't seem to find related threads so I'm just gonna ask it here.

Is anybody else having problems with the music/gallery app not showing all music/pictures?

Seems like the mediascanner just doens't pick up the missing files.

I'm on I9300XXDLJ4.
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
1. Don't complain about battery drain until you have done a factory reset and have tried for a few days with no apps installed.

2. Then, install apps one by one and see what's causing ur drain. Either this or install all apps and run BBS for a few hours (preferably overnight) and see what's causing ur wakelocks.

3. "Titanium Backup pro" backs up all ur apps so u can easily restore them again afterwards, in a matter of minutes. Just back up the "titanium backup" folder cause a factory reset will wipe this.

"my backup pro" will back up almost everything else u want to back up before a factory reset. But the same as above applies. Move the "rerware" folder to ur pc before factory reset.

4.With regard to kies... Why are u worried about Kies if you've done all your updates via odin so far? Kies is a useless, slow piece of bloatware.

5. All your queries have already been answered on here several times.

If you had been bothered to take the time to use the search function you would have discovered this.

Sent from my I9300 on XXDLJ4
[Galaxy S III General] amund7:
Hi,

I installed LJ4 thru Kies. Battery drained 3-5%/hr. Uninstalled everything, factory reset, turned off all location services, syncs - same. Randomly discovered 0.7%/hr if I turned Wifi off + waited a day (3g/H+ staying on). I'm used to having wifi on at all times, and have had just below 1%/hr on ICS with that) I searched and searched, found a few (2 ppl) with the same problem, but no solution. I tried different battery stats including BBS, but nothing really singled out, 'android system' and different kernel threads used some cpu, but just a minute or 2, after draining my battery completely, made no sense to me.

XDA experts tell me that it's not modem, but kernel that controls wifi. So i tried both Siyah and Perseus. No change. Ending up with Perseus kernel, I turned wifi off and instantly went down from about 5%/hr to 0.5%/hr. Stock Battery stats report 'gpsd' as using most of my battery today. I've checked all known issues + googled a lot both Siyah and Perseus - nobody mentions wifi battery drain.

Could this has something to do with the rest of the ROM? Kies fail? Should I reflash the stock LJ2 (or LJ4) with Odin? Or am I likely to solve my troubles with AOKP Jelly Bean for instance?

Any tips on how to pinpoint and fix this will be greatly appreciated. The really strange thing is that so few are having this problem.
[Galaxy S III General] anuragvivek93:
**** Galaxy S III! On JB unbranded (Uk)... still I can't see the the phone is not utter smooth... I can't believe that Galaxy S III is Samsung's flagship phone still they don't take about updates nor its bugs n all and are not willing to solve them. I thought JB would be utter smooth with no lags n all... But all I can see is :

1) Still there is home screen redraw followed by lag in the menu. Although it's less from ICS but still there which is really frustrating.

2) Contacts and Messaging App lag:That wait for 2-3 seconds is simply frustrating which I don't really expected from a phone of SIII quality. Although its solved through Ex Dialer but the messaging app prob has not solved even after using Go SMS.. there is lag for 1-2 second for the first time.

3) Another lag is when we try to open the widget. Why can't the Samsung ****in save them in the memory.

4) Sometimes some app stop responding such as facebook, any game, or even at times Gallery.

After encountering so many problems in the "WORLD BEST PHONE" currently, I really don't have any words as to how to explain, I am already regretting my decision to buy S III as I could have bought iPhone 4S at that time... and currently iPhone 5 even though its specs was less as compared to S III but still the phone is "UTTER SMOOTH" .

SAMSUNG YOU LET US DOWN
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
Pointless post if you want to complain complain to Samsung .

jje
[Galaxy S III General] anuragvivek93:
i think its a discussion thread and I am just sharing my point. Hmm Harsh and awkward replies are necessary huh... :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
It just seems to be a fault with jelly bean wifi drivers to be honest. Wifi on causes more drain than with wifi off. I don't know why.

Sent from my I9300 on XXDLJ4
[Galaxy S III General] blazevxi:
I've had no issues with Wifi drain so far
[Galaxy S III General] janeku_a:
I have the same problem with Wi Fi after updating to JB... Everything is smooth (except contacts, phone, and mssgs) but Wi Fi drains the battery, if i can say, aggressive. When Wi Fi turned of (also data connection turned off) i can cat almost 36-37 hours of battery ( if not playing games, only for phone calls- about 70-80 min a day and 15-20 mssgs, and also about half hour surfing on Wi Fi), and when it is on i can get max 20-22 hours usage. So is there any solution? When i was using ICS the battery was way better no matter what you do than now.
[Galaxy S III General] ecastanyos:
I agree with you

Enviado desde mi GT-P7500 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] got-petrol:
the phone has only got 1 gig of ram what do you expect jellybean and touchwiz is too much for the phone
[Galaxy S III General] The S3 Kid:
Yes well I threw caution to the wind and put 4.2 on mine. Its much better. :)
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
Fair play. Aosp/aokp will always be faster and smoother than Sammy roms cause of the huge overlay.

Sent from my I9300 on XXDLJ4
[Galaxy S III General] bojler:
any news for Hungary jelly bean update?

my sgs3 is unlocked (XEH).
[Galaxy S III General] Dark5tar:
The latest JB build has poor performance. It's rather laggy
[Galaxy S III General] arovik:
That's the most stupid thing I've ever heard :P
[Galaxy S III General] dugi0:
Although I live in Poland my s3 was imported from Hungary. I don't see any updates yet, hopefully it will be available soon.
[Galaxy S III General] rab1412000:
No it doesn't, you just have a bad install.
[Galaxy S III General] bojler:
Similar situation here, also imported device from Hungary, but I live in Croatia and no updates yet :) I was thinking of changing CSC..
[Galaxy S III General] krs360:
I don't know why I keep coming back to read this thread... maybe I have a sub-concious fetish for banging my head on a desk.
[Galaxy S III General] KeithSr:
I'm lovin' Jelly Bean so far!
[Galaxy S III General] akhil333:
i'm waiting for jelly Bean for india. any news regarding update in India?? i think samsung forgot to release update to some countries... just kidding... but the waiting is killing me.
[Galaxy S III General] bigkay:
It's no longer funny.. Samsung south Africa is waiting.. for our update
[Galaxy S III General] Cyclosporine:
JB experience is butter smooth as promised for me. Battery is finally giving me decent output.

But of course, I'm running it with Siyah kernel with CPU OC to 1.7Mhz and GPU to 600Mhz

You guys probably have a bad flash as mentioned, try reflashing and wiping davlik cache. You must wipe davlik cache (if you don't wish a full data wipe) because some apps may keep files that are for ICS instead of JB and may cause some conflicts.

Changing CSC is a nuisance and unnecessary, just flash any of the official firmware available, it's the same for everyone, when Samsung releases in your region it will be same as everyone. If you're going to go to the trouble of changing CSC, it's simpler to root and flash.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Oh yeah, pure 80's!! :p
[Galaxy S III General] blade30p:
My ota jb went without a hitch, I really like the improvements ;)

Sent from my GT-I9300 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
I actually want the Optus one in case they have tweaked the modem. :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] Nicolasvaja:
HDMI output port + JB 4.1.1

Hi Everybody

ok... I have the galaxy s3 GT-9300 the international version, I do want to improve my phone, by updating the software, to jelly bean 4.1.1, but I really dont want to loose the HDMI output port... please help me to find a rom or a kernel that allow me to be update but also allow me to have the HDMI output port.

Thanks very much.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Hi, doctor Nic!

if you didn't get it. Have you seen the Simpsons? :p
[Galaxy S III General] ZunRob:
Since the update to Jelly Bean my battery drains when Wifi is connected, I lose about 25 percent per night with Wifi on. When wifi is off I lose almost nothing. Battery drain was normal with ICS... I have no clue what is causing this, anyone?