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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] vesperwillow:
So really it's not that radioshack had it for $99, which they don't, it's just that you committed a class A misdemeanor of defrauding a merchant.

*golf clap*

Next, you could always steal one of the fake display phones and try to return it for a full credit.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] lostboy702:
Radio Shack no longer has it on sale
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] vesperwillow:
Was it a very short, one or 3 day sale or something? or not for at&t? or only for certain areas? because the ones in my area never had the at&t model on sale for $99. they did a $149 sale for a couple of days but that was it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] lostboy702:
It was on sale here at Fort Hood for two whole weeks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kietur:
They do price match!

When I ordered mine they matched the $99 Walmart price. I was told it would be $300 + Tax and I was in no way going to pay that much!

I also received free over night shipping!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] vesperwillow:
Yeah they do price match and free overnight has usually been the standard for most upgrades or online sales. I was just curious to know where, be it radio shack or now walmart, they have the at&t s3 going for $99 at the present moment (not so much the past), which is why it caught my eye.

Is Walmart running that deal right now for at&t? I know they did it for Tmobile in the past.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xxlikquidxx:
Wow I didn't know FAN account doesn't have to pay the $36 upgrade/activation fees. Those bastards! I'll call them tomorrow to get $72 back from 2 phones.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] garyd9:
It depends on your particular FAN account. Some waive it, some don't. If all else fails, Just Play Dumb.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xxlikquidxx:
just called them and got $74 back... You're right, my FAN account doesn offer no-fee upgrade fees but since my account has been in good standing for 10 years, they waived it with no hesitation.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] garyd9:
No problem. Please forward my commission to... (just kidding, of course)
[HTC Amaze 4G] TheCrow1372:
What kernel will give me better battery life or who is using what I'm on the Energy Blue ROM and want to have a bit more battery life and do u all find Skype drains it a lot cuz I was at 100% this morning and it dropped to 92% in a 8min vid talk also I have just wallpaper no live wallpaper running?:(

"It Can't Rain All the Time", sent from my AMAZE 4G/ENERGY
[HTC Amaze 4G] Dark Nightmare:
Skype does use a lot of power, that's why I keep it signed out unless needed, try faux kernel and the power saving profile.
[HTC Amaze 4G] hatlesssandman:
To be honest there are like a total of 3 kernels to choose from and 2 of those are for sense 4 leaving you with either stock or faux's kernel if you have ICS...
[HTC Amaze 4G] aznvi3tric3guy:
Faux kernel v21 , Under volt it!! So far so great!
[HTC Amaze 4G] alvinma:
Faux kernel is the BEST!

links for his lastest kernel:

v21:http://faux.androidro.ms/ruby-faux123-kernel-v021.zip (recommended over beta versions... )

v22 beta1:http://faux.androidro.ms/ruby-faux123-kernel-v022b1.zip

v22 beta2:http://faux.androidro.ms/ruby-faux123-kernel-v022b2.zip

Or, you can find his latest kernels here:

http://faux.androidro.ms
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] punkyskunky:
hi. I am having an issue with my stock galaxy s 3 alarm. When I set the alarm to a time and set with vibration and melody and pick any song (sounds or my files) it will only vibrate. I know I haven't blown the speaker because it still plays music from it. Can anyone help me with my problem?

Sgs 3

I747m

Sasktel

Still stock. No roots or attempts to root
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] punkyskunky:
Never mind. I found out what was wrong. Appearently with the new update they moved alarm volume with default volume. Not notifications. So now I have to have my sound on to have an alarm.

Can anyone suggest an app that will mute all other volumes without muting my main sound? And possibly put it back to the way I had it after? And it needs to be free until I can get a credit card or Google accepts visa debit.

Edit: also the app must be able to work on a non rooted phone. Hopefully I'm not asking for a whole lot or posting in the wrong spot.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] accrews2001:
That's weird. I always keep my phone on vibrate at night too. Try another alarm app. I've found the Samsung default alarms to be unreliable anyways.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] punkyskunky:
They all do. I tried a good portion of ones including DoubleTwist alarm.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluemonkhp:
Hello Guys!

I using the Cyanogenmod 10 with JB . I got a big problem cause every time i turn my phone into standby i loss my connection to internet and also i loss my mobile signal. after unlock my screen i have 2 enter my pin , i can only phone emergency. when i enter my pin, the phone reconnect and i got signal. can someone help me? i tried nearly every update, i flashed stock rom and reflashed cm10, nothing better

best regards
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluemonkhp:
noone can help me? i tried with cm9 and it works..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orb3000:
Closed

Please read the rules before posting, use Q&A
[Galaxy S III General] gavin-phelan:
Hi all.. just a heads up i was on goomanager and seen that cna was just released. :)

Sent from the third Galaxy
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
I hope someone can translate that to English :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] gavin-phelan:
Sorry what are you on about?

Sent from the third Galaxy
[Galaxy S III General] chiragkrishna:
he is talking about this

find the rom here
[Galaxy S III General] anthropolyte:
Is it even compatible with the GS3?

---------- Post added at 02:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:03 PM ----------

Well whaddyaknow, it is indeed. The latest nightly release is, anyway. Well worth a look I reckon... It'll be interesting to see if it still has the memory bug in CM10.
[Galaxy S III General] gavin-phelan:
Just use the fix by codeworkx

Sent from the third Galaxy
[Galaxy S III General] Kangburra:
Thank you, make much more sense with a link!
[Galaxy S III General] anthropolyte:
Just for reference, I tried flashing the latest nightly ROM and got a black screen on boot. Had to return to Nandroid backup.
[Galaxy S III General] gavin-phelan:
Wait for tomorrows nightly so :)

Sent from the third Galaxy
[Galaxy S III General] anthropolyte:
Will do. Do you have any idea whether it's CM10 base or compiled from source?
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
Wouldn't this be better in a development section?
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
no no no! If you don't create it and then post in development, you may as well pour petrol over yourself and strike a match!
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
Its not development its just a link to an outside site that may or may not have SGS3 firmware on it .

The developer of the rom is at liberty to post in development .

jje
[Galaxy S III General] gavin-phelan:
Compiled from source with added stuff i think

Sent from the third Galaxy
[Galaxy S III General] chiragkrishna:
There is a ROM for international s3

find it here

(sent through internet)
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
Pardon ???

I never said their was not a rom .It was a reply as to why this post does not qualify for development .

jje
[Galaxy S III General] LJE:
I think he was just giving a link to the Rom. He never doubted what you said
[Galaxy S III General] dano9258:
It's compiled from source I'm pretty sure. A very good alternative to CM10 right now.

---------- Post added at 11:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:00 PM ----------

Has anyone figured out how to install yet?
[Galaxy S III General] slonn:
Not stable enough for the SGS3 yet. Lots of force closures under Settings. Used to be stable for the Xoom but seems to be getting worse with every nightly.
[LG Optimus Black] Metallurg.IT:
When you update the firmware on the LG P-970 process generated an error.

The service center said that Booth killed Loader.

The phone does not respond to any button presses, connect the power supply and are not connected to the computer.

S/W updater not work.

phone will not turn on at all.

Please help with posstanovleniem Boot loader phone.

Apologies for the curve English.
[LG Optimus Black] N00BY0815:
Sorry but what? :D
[LG Optimus Black] xonar_:
Hello

Just to make sure you did plug it in with battery out and volume up button pressed?

If you did and it still doesn't work then your x-loader and U-boot is definitely fried.

Then we can confirm that SW Update is done from already working U-boot (We are trying to modify the KU5900 V30 to fit our phone but we needed to make modifications to U-boot and we too afraid to test because of this.)

If you plug your phone in does your computer detect it at all? (If your computer is running Linux then there's nothing anyone can do short of opening up the device and re-flash the flash memory using specialized tools. Well that's the conclusion I drew when scouring the internet a few days now in search of a method to revive a boot-loader-less Optimus.)

If your computer detects anything then you can save your phone.

You said that the service-centre said that the boot-loader is gone. Did they refuse to fix it?

I'm going to keep on searching to find a way to fix it from shot boot-loader so that we can start working in modified U-boot and of course now to help you too.

Hope you get your phone fixed.

Good Luck
[LG Optimus Black] Metallurg.IT:
Phone is not connected to the computer.
On pressing the button does not respond.
The charger starts to charge the battery.

Dealer refused to repair, as the phone was purchased in Germany and I was in Russia.

In general, what should I do? Point the blind on the themes of repair or tell what to expect?
[LG Optimus Black] xonar_:
If it start to charge then it's good , it lives!

OMAP chips follow this boot process :

Your ROM is fine since it Read Only :)

Instead of booting from the Flash Memory in the phone (which doesn't work in your case) I have been looking into the possibility of booting from SD Card. Easy to fix if something goes wrong and doesn't do anything to the device itself. In your case if you can boot from SD Card then you can restore your first few partitions and have SW Update Working again and recover from there.

The Rom supposedly looks for boot devices in the Following Order :

Seral -> SD -> Nand

Booting from Serial is nearly impossible since we can't make a proper connection to the phone without U-boot already set up. LG probably did it on purpose.

Booting from SD is the next thing. I only recently came onto the idea and I still have to figure out how I am going to approach this.

LG has the power to change the ROM so it might not be possible to do this. I will post again as soon as I find out what order our device looks for boot devices.

Good Luck in your efforts.
[LG Optimus Black] gabwerkz:
How did you come to this failure? As I read, there was an error updating the firmware.

Give us a background. What firmware did you flash? KDZ or BIN? Did you modify anything?

Must try bringing up S/W Updater mode. Insert USB and press volume up for few seconds and don't release.
[LG Optimus Black] redy2006:
Hmm, maybe wrong ROM flashed? Then it would be changed anything related with x-loader and u-boot... :confused:

But when looking this,

If plugging charger would shows charging battery indicator, then bootloader is fine...
[LG Optimus Black] gabwerkz:
Yep. Might want to rest it for several minutes, or hours. Remove battery and let it sit for a while. Then try again booting in S/W update. Volume up (+) first and then insert USB.
[LG Optimus Black] Metallurg.IT:
Connecting the charger is not indicating the display screen.

NOT S/W repair.

after a failed firmware - Display never light up.

Read about boot from a flash card, please give more files or describe a way to restore the phone

Killed when flash a phone through ---- SmartFlashTool_External
Strip installation stopped and became red.
A picture ((( S/W Upgrade )))hanging on the phone and the phone did not answer one pressing than taking out the battery.

Tried to connect the phone to the computer, nothing happens, the new device is not connected to the computer
[LG Optimus Black] xonar_:
I haven't been able to tale the idea of booting from SD any further, because I have been really busy, sorry. I will have time over the weekend.

Sent from my LG Optimus Black
[LG Optimus Black] Metallurg.IT:
Well, I'm waiting your public response. thanks
[LG Optimus Black] xonar_:
I ran some tests today and they were not so informative. Afterwards I found out that the X-loader I used looks for U-boot from the onboard storage first so it might have worked but just loaded U-boot from normal storage and continued as if nothing funny happened.

I'll keep you posted.

Sent from my LG Optimus Black
[LG Optimus Black] Metallurg.IT:
Thanks for your support, I will be waiting for your answers.
[LG Optimus Black] xonar_:
Good news! Our Device Supports Booting from SD :)

I recently figured out that we have a internal sd the is booted from, I always though it was NAND.:silly:

I'll have a test for you to run in a few days, maybe less. I don't expect much more than the LG logo to show, but thats more than what you got, right :).
[LG Optimus Black] Metallurg.IT:
Quickly would you write a manual restore my phone
[LG Optimus Black] xonar_:
I haven't been able to get a working solution. (I think mine stops when finding working X-loader from device itself then continueing)

I don't have time this very instant to write how I make (supposedly) bootable SD. I won't have time tomorow either, unfortunately. I should have time over the weekend.

Do you have a linux machine availiable? I don't know of a way to do it in Windows or OSX.

This is still a long shot by any chance. You should look into the possibilaty of taking your phone to a cellphone repair shop (Not your service provider a proper cellphone repair shop). It might cost a bit, but it will make your phone work again.
[LG Optimus Black] Metallurg.IT:
Yes, I have a Linux OS. (Gentoo / CentOS / Ubuntu )
[LG Optimus Black] wollernic:
Bricked P970 stuck at LG logo

Hi, I have a P970h which had Huexxx's Zeus 7.0 ROM and I sent CWM to do a backup of the ROM's current state. I continued to work but then I realized the phone was still sitting in th LG logo after quite a while. I dindn't know Zeus had the option to go into recovery by pressing a physical key (G button) multiple times while starting boot and I got into CWM recovery thinking I had pressed a key combination. I was able to wipe the cache and the phone booted normally but as I didn't have the battery in the phone as it was booting when I put the battery and unplugged the phone from USB it still showed as if I had full battery, so I sent the phone to reboot.

From that moment on I wasn't able to find the "key combination" that got me into CWM recovery and I flashed the stock ROM to send it to warranty to my local carrier. They weren't able to get it passed the LG logo and told me that it was due to the phone being dropped as it was showing a little bump on one of the corners of the battery cover and told me that because of that bump the warranty was void.

I have tried to get it out of the bricked state via SMARTFLASH, LG Mobile Support Tool, KDZ_FW_UPD, using the stock KDZ file for my device, injecting CWM and so on, but I'm still staring at the LG logo. I'm able to get into S/W Upgrade mode at any time, and the problem presented is the typical brick with the LG logo showing and the action keys smoothly and repeteadly going on and off.

I'm not new at using ROMS but it's the first time this happens to me and I'm sure if I'm able to go into fastboot or recovery I'll be able to unbrick the device, the first thing that comes out of my mind is if it is possible to reverse engineer a flasheable ZIP file with Zeus ROM so I can access CWM recovery into a KDZ file but I don't think that's possible.

What do you think I can do in this case? Should I feel hopeless?
[LG Optimus Black] xonar_:
Your bootloader is fine. If you can go to SW Update mode and device is pysically OK, then you can easily recover. Go to SW Update and follow recovery procedure using SFT. If that doesn't work (asuming you did it right) then your device is physically broken.
[LG Optimus Black] wollernic:
I have done the SFT procedure propperly, if I'm not mistaken, that's the tool I initially used to root the device, I have tried the stock KDZ file, converted to BIN and FLS and a couple of BIN and FLS packs posted here at XDA but haven't been able to get it to work. I have only dropped my device twice, once without silicon case and the other with silicon protection, both times the height of the fall was minimal and they were far back from the moment the phone bricked.

After my first attempt to unbrick via SFT I started thinking this was a faulty device and it was a fail waiting to happen since shipped from factory and that's the reason why I sent it to warranty claim. Thanks anyway...
[LG Optimus Black] xonar_:
The keys going on and of means it got as far as boot.img. From there it should go of to recovery or do full boot.

Try flashing with SFT without applying CWM Patch. Ussually recovery is Vol Down + Power. Try redownloading SFT.

Are you sure you have P970 and not KU5900? It is unlikely that a fall would break it. My Optimus flew halfway across the room and it survived :D.
[LG Optimus Black] wollernic:
It is indeed Optimus Black (see picture). I have tried numerous key combinations to go into recovery but with stock I'm stucked... I was only able to get into recovery when I had Zeus ROM and I got there unknowingly (at that moment) of the keys I pressed.
[LG Optimus Black] xonar_:
Try updating to a official ROM specifically to the P970H and not P970. Doubt this will make a difference since theyre identical except for the 3G bands, but it's worth a shot.
[LG Optimus Black] xonar_:
Okay. Theres two possibles paths too follow when booting making a supposedly bootable SD.

First is too make bootable fat partition and second is too make it look like our phones internal storage.

The default X-loader it actually looks for SD/MMC1 but only after it looked for ONENAND and EMMC.

I'll tell you in more detail exactly how to do it in a while. Sorry that I took so long but I got a little sidetracked.

Sent From Optimus Black
[LG Optimus Black] stegi3374:
zeus v7 problem

Hi

I have similar problem with my p970 running on ZEUS v7... the difference is my system is working.. I can make a call, write textmsg but it's very unstable... I can not boot my phone in fastboot mode, have no access to recovery etc. I have tried to hold "g" while booting but then the phone is booting in "safe mode" nothing else:( I have tried to flash it with SFT and also I tried to do the emergency recovery with LG software but after that my "black" freezed on LG logo with all 4 buttons lit constantly... in this case the only way to run it again was take of the battery but then phone booted with the old unstable ZEUS ROM... nothing was changed even all the apps was there... even when I uninstall the apps from the phone , after restart everything is back... Basically every try of rebooting (normal, recovery etc) is ending with phone freezed on a LG logo(with 4 buttons lit constantly)... Then I need to take out the battery and when system is loaded,everything is without any changes... do you have any idea what can I do to get rid of this ROM?? thanks in advance for any help.
[LG Optimus Black] xonar_:
If SFT succeeded then there would be no trace of Zeuz left on your phone. Does your cable work? Did it give any errors? If you can get to fastboot you can manually flash another ROM from there. Did you try going into recovery by typing reboot recovery from adb?
[LG Optimus Black] stegi3374:
ZEUS v7 problem

yes I did that but then phone restarted and stoped on LG logo again... I was waiting about 20 minutes and then I gave up :( few minutes ago I installed custom recovery by terminal emulator but it didn't work... maybe I do something wrong... but I have no clue what.. :/ can you tell me what I should do like step by step with what files and what programs to to get rid of this ZEUS stuff from my black if you don't mind?? the phone just stop on lg logo everytime I try to reboot it and it no matter if I rebooting the phone manualy or some application doing it... phone just freeze...
[LG Optimus Black] xonar_:
You need LG Mobile Drivers Installed and have SFT.

1) Take out battery

2) While Holding the Vol Up Button plug phone into computor

3)Keep holding it until SW Update Appears.

4)Open SFT. Make sure it says BProj afer model select in Normal D/L

5) Goto ROM copy D/L

6) In CP File select fls file and in AP file select bin file

You can get these almost everywhere just search to forum.

7)Make sure in Communication Driver is LG Serial Port Something (Not exactly that but something like that)

8)Click Start
[LG Optimus Black] stegi3374:
Unfortunately, I just did everything exactly step-by-koku by your tutorial but after the whole operation the phone restarted and hung up on LG logo as usual. I waited 15 minutes and took out the battery. Again, I turn on the phone and ZEUS v7 was loaded. For some reason, the usual flash does not do anything and I think that the problem lies in the hunging up after automatic reboot but I'm not sure... I just don't have any access to fastboot mode... is there any way to clean the phone and all system partitions and re-install Android? :confused:
[LG Optimus Black] xonar_:
Yes SFT. Can you give me the log of SFT? Did you use a patched bin and fls?

EDIT: Fastboot mode isn't recovery. You have to manually do everything if you use fastboot mode.
[LG Optimus Black] SaschaKH:
What I say now is probably helping stegi and might help some other here too, cause a lot (if not all) ROMs use the same way to get into CWM recovery.

If your phone works hold the power button longer and from the screen that apears then (called 'Power menu') select 'Recovery' (or 'Wiederherstellung' or how ever that mode is called in the language your phone is working), it should be the secound last the one before 'Switch off' or 'Power down' or what ever it is called in that language.

From there you can restore a nandroid backup (that I hope you made) or even flash a new *.zip ROM.

Now I go a little more in what Huexxx tells:

'Case B: you want to install v7(.01) in other situation

- Need to use CWM recovery.

- Copy v7 ROM (and v7.01 update) to sdcard root.

- Reboot into recovery in the way you can with your actual ROM (adb, market app, g-recovery, power menu).

- Do a nandroid backup of your phone, I'm not responsible of your data losing.

- Do a 'wipe data/factory reset'.

- Flash v7 ROM with option: Install zip from SDCARD.

(- Flash v7.01 update with option: Install zip from SDCARD.)

- Reboot and wait...'

I put the things for the v7.01 update in brackeds cause it does not really matter if you installed the update too, if you just want to get rid off Zeus. If you have done that you have a nandroid backup you just can flash back/restore now. If you don't have a nandroid backup you can just flash a other ROM but never forget to make a 'wipe data/factory reset' first (especially in this case), a lot problems happen cause ppl forget to make that wipe/reset.

P.S.: If you find any spelling errors (and you probably find some, cause I'm not so used to writh in english, my german is much better) there all (C) by me.

:D
[LG Optimus Black] xonar_:
Most phones don't use that method to go into recovery. He broke his CWM and can't get to recovery thats the problem.