yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] MirkoFG:
I just saw on youtube, boot up the galaxy s3 LTE

is really slow

Galaxy i9300 s3 does not have this slow, booting i9305 is slower?

look this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU_toOAmKFI

I also read in the German forum which is slower than all, compared with i9300
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
LOL SHAKES head! ohh man this guy .... again its korean version look at date... and carrier animation plays into it
[Galaxy S III General] I Can Be Your Hero:
I didn't think it was terribly slow. I mean it's acceptable boot speed. For me anyway.
[Galaxy S III General] mick.wheelz:
hey mate.

download the following zip file

https://hotfile.com/dl/174393434/730bdb5/bootlogos.zip.html

then copy bootsamsung.qmg to /system/media with permissions of rw-r--r--

also copy shutdown.qmg to /system/media/video/shutdown with permissions of rw-r--r--

this will give you the stock samsung startup and shutdown logos.

I will be putting these in to a rom I am working on.
[Galaxy S III General] poczynek:
Perfect! Done and done. Thanks again. Have now debloated via freezing Tibu, changed boot and shutdown and now all that would make it perfect would be a 15 toggle buttons mod - is that possible?? It's now blisteringly fast!
[Galaxy S III General] mick.wheelz:
15 toggle button mod?
[Galaxy S III General] poczynek:
Yes so in the custom ROM's for the i9300 there is a mod that allows you to change what is in the notification panel - get rid of what you don't want and change the order via a 'quick panel settings'. See here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1876384

Oh and the only other thing that would be amazing would be a Siyah-like kernel where you could Undervolt and change the audio settings:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1709686
[Galaxy S III General] richie331:
s3 9305 rom install

hi everyone i also managed to mess my phone up. ive almost got it back to normal using this post.

heres my story hehe

i wanted my s3 9305 to be seen as a hard drive when i plug the phone into my car usb it would play my music etc. the car stereo does not see ftp ( file transfer protocall) which the s3 uses. so i wanted to root the phone to change this.

being new to all of this ( experienced on pcs but im crap on phones ) i decided to root my phone. what a mistake!!!

i messed up the phone to the point where i could only see the intro screen . i could still get into download mode and i used odin pc program and samsung usb driver to try and install rom version 9300.

2 weeks ago i couldnt find a 9305 rom so i thought there cant be any out on the net as the 9305 is so new. the odin program would almost install the 9300 rom and then fail at the very end.

i gave up and took my phone to a samsung repairer in perth australia. they failed to sort anything on the phone for me, i was still stuck at the intro screen.

i downloaded the rar file on this page and installed it on my phone and have got my phone back up and running.

once my phone was working again ive downloaded root explorer, root, ive got super user access ( not sure what it does but i have it).i cant see the point of trying to restore a imei file which isnt the factory imei number (unless the efs folder isnt deleted when you root a phone)

all is ok except i have no imei which i guess is causing my virgin 4G to not make calls.

i didnt make any backup of the efs folder which contains the imei stuff to connect to the virgin signal.

any idea how to get my optus/virgin phone signal back?

once my phone is back to normal im leaving it that way :)

thanks for any replys richard
[Galaxy S III General] JJJohan1:
You're in the same boat as me. I have tried absolutely everything the past week to restore IMEI data.

I'm finally going to take it in on Monday. Warranty or not, there's no other way to get it fixed.
[Galaxy S III General] Kaibosh:
Jeez Mick - If you keep this up, you're going to become THE go-to guy for anything i9305!
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
Man after all these months of people owning 9300 I haven't seen 1 brick then 2 weeks of 2 ppl buy the i9305 and brick it lmao come on man think. How did you let this happen .I would have NEVER flashed anything unless I seen it confirmed on here by another user. How did you flash 9300 stuff? Why? Shakes head..... LOLL
[Galaxy S III General] gelvy:
Hey Mick,

Thanks for putting in the work on this, much appreciated. I will be looking into this once I get a spare moment, as, although I love the phone, there are some things that need to be changed as I am sure you are aware. Hence the the effort on your behalf.

I too noticed that the dock icons could not be changed, in the normal ways anyway. Has anyone succeeded in doing this, even before rooting, i feel like a fool for having to ask something that should be so simple?

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] Kaibosh:
Post removed: Temporarily lost the ability to ignore dropkicks with overinflated senses of themselves.
[Galaxy S III General] JJJohan1:
To be fair Kaibosh, I admit I was personally quite stupid to do what I did. I'm certainly not optimistic about me getting a free replacement, lucky you :p.
[Galaxy S III General] mick.wheelz:
haha thanks. I just wish I could get CWM working properly... I have managed to wype my phone 5 or 6 times now testing various things. I am getting mighty sick of re-setting it up haha.

Once I get that working and can make a proper backup I will be able to make more progress without losing all of my settings etc.
[Galaxy S III General] mick.wheelz:
I am just glad I saw what happened to your phones, lol. I was very tempted to attempt the same!
[Galaxy S III General] MirkoFG:
I meant to say that the animation is very slow, if not, will release a version, not brand, is very slow to start with animations of the various operators ok???

learning education okay? you're not talking to your brother, respect;)
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
learn english
[Galaxy S III General] MirkoFG:
perfect , you can post a video of i9305 with no operator logo startup?

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you learn Italian and you learn respect

I use google translate you use respect idiot
[Galaxy S III General] mick.wheelz:
hey guys can you please stay on topic here. I don't want the mods to close this thread :(
[Galaxy S III General] Kaibosh:
I had such high hopes of things being "more or less the same" than with the i9300! Ahhh, such naivety! :)
[Galaxy S III General] T-01A:
Thanks for the reply :)

I guess the initial question I needed to ask was if this phone (GT-i9305) supports sim or micro sim.

I now know it's supports micro sim.

My phone has a normal sized sim card and not micro sim, so it will not fit.

I've herd of just cutting down the sim to a micro sims size and inserting it and it should work just fine.

Has anyone done that successfully with their GT-i9305?

Sorry for going off topic in your root thread.

Thanks for your time
[Galaxy S III General] mick.wheelz:
I have done this before with my iPhone and it worked fine.

here is a video on how to do it;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=BOZIsT3XdCs&gl=US
[Galaxy S III General] T-01A:
Thanks for the reply

Though I appreciate your time and effort trying to answer my question, the question I asked was, had anyone done this successfully and got it to work on their Samsung Galaxy SIII 4G GT-i9305....?

As I stated in my previous post, I know it's possible and I know people have done it.

Just because this trick works on one phone doesn't mean it works on another.

Therefore I asked if anyone has done it specifically on the GT-i9305...?

Again, I appreciate your time and effort to answer my questions

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BTW, Good video on how to make a micro sim from a normal sized sim! :)

Did you make that video yourself?
[Galaxy S III General] mick.wheelz:
nah I didnt... however if cutting the sim works for iphone, it will work for any phone that uses micro sim... all you are doing is removing plastic around the chip... the actual chip is the same regardless of what phone it goes in.

e.g the sim in my I9305 is the exact same sim that was in my iPhone 4... I also ever-so-carefully positioned it to get it to work in a galaxy S2 for a little while (S2 uses normal sim size)
[Galaxy S III General] Kaibosh:
Yep, although as mick.wheelz has mentioned, microsim is microsim since there's not a difference in sim thickness so if it works in one phone, it'll work in all.

I used the template at http://www.thechinacellphone.com/micro_sim_template.pdf, and successfully cut down 2 full sized sims which fit just fine (and worked) in both a standard S3 (i9300) and a 4G S3 (i9305).
[Galaxy S III General] T-01A:
I see, thanks....

Now I'm just wondering if when I cut down my 3G sim to make a micro sim... Will it work in the GT-i9305 because it's a 4G phone.....?

Guess I'll have to gamble on this one :cool:
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
If 4G sims are different then yeh might have to change it but I really dont think they are so cutting down should be easy.

LOL i remember cutting mine the roughest way possible only to realise it was my girlfreinds sim as we had both our phones out in pieces, And both looked the same, but she has a galaxy S2 so she didnt need a small sim, so all I did was line up the gold bits with the sim holders pins and it worked fine, looks funny tho. ( Hacked up lil piece of plastic sitting where the big sim is supposed to sit. So at the time my friend happen to come over and with his tools in his car he had a Sim cutter, which cuts big sims down to size in 1 snip Very clean looking and so easy to do. So my g/f ended up with a hacked up sim for nothing and me Nicely cut one.

Those sim cutters are very useful if your in the bussiness

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Hey Mick Guess what? :) There are more Firmwares for the I9305 on Sammobile to play with now and hong Kong uses a different Base firmware I think its a later version, This might actually have FM radio drivers and maybe some other improvements. SO there are more things to play with if you wish.
[Galaxy S III General] mick.wheelz:
yeah I might have to download that image and see what I can find in there... still working on CWM... I am going to have to build a kernel me thinks... the stock kernel does not seem to work.
[Galaxy S III General] jayharper08:
Two things here:

1) Please post in English as the rules state.

2) If someone does not post in English, hit the report button and do not do the whole name-calling thing.

Good day.
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
Hey Mick after some google searching and talking to someone from hong kong we are 99.99% sure that Sammobile has just released Hong Kong Unbranded I9305 Firmware this is an excellent base for the phone as it is untouched from carriers and everything is how it should be on the phone. In Hong Kong they release the unbranded firmware before the carriers.

I think you should download this and work with it, Soon as I get mine Imported I will check to see if its unbranded and if not I will flash this straight away like I did with my I9300

Here is what it looks like on sammobile >>>

GT-I9305	Hong Kong	2012 September	Android 4.1.1	I9305ZHALI7	I9305TGYALI6

Edit : you might like to take note as well which confirms it even more, Is that Next to the word Hong Kong there is no Carrier name, with all the other firmware it says Country - Carrier ,

Edit Again: I have confirmed this does NOT have the FM radio in it :( Im trying to find this members firmware version as he does have the FM radio, He has the White I9305
[Galaxy S III General] MirkoFG:
these files and this procedure remove boot logo operatos brand?

you could post a guide to root i9305 germany?

thanks

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this firmware no compatible for australian e european version phone, and not have all languages but only language hong kong , read in sammobile , not have all languages but only 1 languages

and the firmware european and australian no compatibile with hong kong phone, because have hardwere different , the hardwere different is the only antenna for this have incompatibility hong kong have different frequences LTE different chip LTE = different hardwere + different firmware
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
This is not correct what are you talking about it comes with more then 1 language, Just stop posting non sense please the hard ware is exactly the same I already confirmed it with samsung the i9305 is same European Hong Kong and Australia all same hardware

Only the 9305T maybe have diffevent frequency

Edit: Comes with 6 languages and the main one is English
[Galaxy S III General] prodigiez:
unfortunately it doesnt come with 20-30 languages..check the attached screenshot

im using hkg i9305
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
As long as there is more then 1 language and its the other guy that said how many languages I thought he was from hong Kong ... Well It sure doesn't only come with 1 language and if it comes English thats good enough for me.

Thanks for confirming it comes with 6 languages and Most importantly ENGLISH :)
[Galaxy S III General] prodigiez:
the hardware are same... is just that hkg version run on 1800/2600mhz lte.. i think the aussie version and the hkg version both are same.. as i know aussie is running on 1800/2600mhz too

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why dont u buy the EU version ? im sure it will have more languages...
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
Yess I know all hardware is the same in the I9305

I only need English..... I dont need any other language. Almost Every single Firmware has Engish that is why I am not worried. I dont care which version I buy as they are all the same, its only the firmware is different.

I want to find out if the Hong Kong firmware has Radio FM app ??? Can you please confirm this
[Galaxy S III General] prodigiez:
nope...there is no radio fm app in my phone..

argh..i wan to root my i9305 badly..need to get rid of the sammy bloatware...

the battery last only 14hours with LTE

average available ram is 1200... if i get rid of sammy bloatware , i think i will have 1400 available ram and battery last even longer
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
NO RADIO FM APP??? This is really strange... I saw one guy which had the I9305 and he had the Radio FM app, How can this firmware not have the FM radio if its Unbranded??? I dont understand this. Cause If your firmware does not have the FM radio app it means you dont have the drivers in your phone which means you will never be able to listen to FM radio even with 3rd party app. The only ther way is to find firmware that does and then flash it. But only if you want FM radio lol

This member : weeo

Owns the I9305 and he has the FM radio app, I am wondering which firmware he has, I have messaged him, I want to see a screenshot of his firmware.. Only thing I can think off is there is firmware that Sammobile has not got there hand on yet which has the FM radio

He has the White I9305, His the only one I know that has the White I9305 at this moment
[Galaxy S III General] MirkoFG:
you want to put in your head that this model does not have the radio??

always be useless to repeat it does not have the radio chip, has a Qualcom chip inside is 9300 has another chip that supports radio

stop

if you want, and then, the radio change phone model!
[Galaxy S III General] poczynek:
What does this garbled response mean? No offence, but you need to write so someone can understand.
[Galaxy S III General] Steve113:
Will this root work on the i9305 variant sold by mobicity? I cannot find info on the software branding that comes with their version of the s3 lte.
[Galaxy S III General] MirkoFG:
simple, this model i9305, does not have the radio chip

i9300 has the chip radio

too difficult to understand?

if you want radio, buy another phone model understand ??

I hope that someone understands
[Galaxy S III General] poczynek:
It is really not necessary to be so rude or sarcastic when people don't understand what you are saying. Just be polite and ask questions nicely and people will generally be nice in response. The world works better that way!
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
No I dont understand ;) lol....You seem to be abit slow EDIT: I read in the Sprint S3 thread about Radio that one of the other US brands did have radio and I am sure as its from the US it did have Qualcom

But anyway can you Show me where you found that the I9305 Uses Qualcom ??

And Again I will repeat myself reason I say this does have the hardware is because samsung stated that its up to the carrier if they want to add FM. So by this comment it means it does have the hardware, But still waiting on confirmation from another user as he will be checking if after he does wipe/data if the radio works, because his I9305 came with the FM radio app < Why would it come with the FM radio app if it doesnt work. at the end if it doesnt have radio then Im not caring but I would like to try find out 100% first and if you dont want to find out then dont reply
[Galaxy S III General] MirkoFG:
the person who said that internally there is the radio, have demonstrations?

an icon not attest that internally there is the radio, it can be an application, please post a video of this friend where attests that the radio works

and we all believe that internally there is the radio
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
This is the comment from the thread It was not the S3 BUT it was another phone with QualCom like the S3 here is the comment

"It's now working on my AT&T HTC OneX(L) which has the same Qualcomm SOC as the US S3, and which has Qualcomm FM"

And yes If I do find 100% i will post, but for now Im just trying to find out, So if you dont care about FM radio just dont reply
[Galaxy S III General] MirkoFG:
we want a video that demonstrates this, showing that the radio works on the device

at moment all in this forum do not have radio except that guy

please do have video that proves it. that the radio works
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
READ... I said if I find out 100% I will post.... But for now i am trying to find out

Edit: Biting... Tounge.... Argh.. Jaws... Clenchinggg..
[Galaxy S III General] MirkoFG:
I'm reading the european topic, and this guy does not see it convinced "the only one who has the radio"

buah ... the illusion that the imaginary radio exists in this model is too strong
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
From this comment from samsung =

Thank you for contacting Samsung Customer Care.

We apologise for the inconvenience.

The Australian Samsung Galaxy SIII 4G (GT-I9305) does not come with a Pre-Installed FM Radio Application.

Some Networks may choose to include this Application on the device when Network Branding the devices.

Now by this comment from samsung leads me to beleive there could be radio in some firmware out there. I emailed Mobicity which does sell the device imported and asked them if there BLue and white version of I9305 had radio and they said yes. Its still too early to say that its impossible to have radio in the I9305 because its too new. So if you are not interested in radio stop commenting.

If you want to keep talking about it talk in private im not going to talk to you in public anymore as it just goes around in circles and annoys everyone.
[Galaxy S III General] MirkoFG:
I hope this radio we can install it

muah we will see
[Galaxy S III General] mustang2012:
It's just a frickjn FM RADIO guys.....

Just can't believe the arguments over simple radio app. I couldn't be careless if mine came with fricken radio app or not!!
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
Well I didnt start off arguing, Instead I was investigating.... And then it seemed to branch out into Annoying back and forth commenting..... And if you couldnt careless how do you know everyone is the same some people might want radio.

But anyways enough... Im over it.

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I would say it does work But Not 100%, If you want to be sure you can speak with Mick maybe he can ask you to send him a file so he can view to confirm its the same. My assumption is that it will..... But report back and let us know
[Galaxy S III General] prodigiez:
im not sure about white i9305 but on the current release , only titanium grey is available... the next color will be black...
[Galaxy S III General] MirkoFG:
exists no cut dual sim 4G LTE for samsung i9305 galaxy s3??
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
Yes there is 100% white and Blue I have already confirmed it. One user had one in the UK and Mobicity.com.au Sells them now.
[Galaxy S III General] rhinocort:
Has anyone try this in the HK released SIII LTE , the model is the same I9305? thanks
[Galaxy S III General] btemtd:
Wrong thread this is the thread you should of clicked in

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1914394

This phone needs a sub section soon threads are getting lost amongst the clutter
[Galaxy S III General] Moochin:
I second that for sure would love a section just for the I9305.
[Galaxy S III General] Steve113:
this thread is labeled "GT-I9305". The one sold by samsung HK is also "GT-I9305"

I may be wrong from what i gathered the hardware specs look identical apart from the LTE bands. There is a good chance this root will work too?

I am referring this to all the Australian users who bought the GT-I9305 HK model from a PI shop.
[Galaxy S III General] singlecell83:
.

So is there a unbranded rom around? Or just the ones from the carriers?
[Galaxy S III General] bolagnaise:
Sorry for the Noob question,

I have purchased an Optus Galaxy S3 4G unlocked to use with a Telstra SIM (Got it cheap off a bloke who didnt like touchwiz)

Is there any difference between the optus and telstra versions? i see people referring to the I9305T VS I9305?

Looking forward to getting rid of the optus bloatware.
[Galaxy S III General] singlecell83:
Dont think so, I have the optus rom running on my telstra phone atm. If you dont like bloatware just root the phone and use titanium backup to uninstall it all.

The best roms in my opinion are the ones that also have all the Samsung software removed also. Just pure android.
[Galaxy S III General] bolagnaise:
Thanks dude, i didn't think there was a difference, what do you like about the optus ROM? I am runnng a GNEX with 4.1 atm and i absouletly love it. Touchwiz just looks horrible after using JB pure. There definately needs to have a seperate forum for the I9305. Sorry for hijacking the thread.
[Galaxy S III General] dest1:
Had the i9305 for the wife running Telstra stock and intermittent no service at all, even whiles on call. I thought rooting might fix so i tried the method. But still same issue.

Should i reflash back to original optus ROM? If someone would be kind to upload so we can restore.

Or

Should i send back for ELF/DOA as is since its only been 2 weeks since the phone was launched.

Thanks all
[Galaxy S III General] singlecell83:
Man I would be giving them a call about that!

bolagnaise, I had a s2 running aokp pure. Best experience ever, agreed you can go back to touchwiz.

There isnt anything special about it to me, I removed all the optus software from it, and changed the startup and shutdown animations. So it looks half decent untill come good roms come out.
[Galaxy S III General] bolagnaise:
go to samsdroid.com, they have the stock optus rom there. cant post the link
[Galaxy S III General] jinda_pir:
Can i get the phone revert back to factory condition after rooting with this method? My phn is playing up and i may have get it repaired under warranty
[Galaxy S III General] kazuni:
Not at the moment. There is an exclamation mark on the top left (!) when you boot up - which means you have flashed a custom rom image.

Need to wait for support from Chainfire (TriangleAway)