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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tazfanatic:
Are you talking for at your house or just in the area? If you are having a issue at home you can complain to Sprint and they will send you a Airave to plug into your network. In your area in genreal you can still complain but I doubt it will get you any where. You can also go here and get info on what is going on in your area.

https://network.sprint.com/MA/Boston/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sevenpioverthree:
Well just at my house. A tech guy at Samsung told me that the crappy signal is shortening my battery life and that must be it because I've eliminated all major PWLs and KWLs and am not a heavy phone user. I've also tried a conservative governor and still I get bad battery life

Edit: Meh calling Sprint right now, gonna give them an ear full.

Edit 2: They're sending me an Airwave just like you said! I already Thanked your post and I would thank it twice if I could, thanks again!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tazfanatic:
Excellent it will help. I also have roam control for when I am out and about but I don't see a big difference with it on this phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] proudfrog:
Sprint GSIII Rooted - Want to Update to 4.1.2

I am looking for the easiest/best method to update my phone. I have a stock ROM and CWM recovery. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Go to freezas stock rooted thread, then flash the updated firmware and the latest stock rooted rom (version MB1)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sevenpioverthree:
How do I install themes? Same as any other APK? Or through my recovery?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] pathtologos:
For the "0" directory, this is how I get rid of it. Whether I'm flashing from a 4.1.2 to a 4.2.1/4.2.2 or vice versa, before flashing the file(s), I copy my whole SD card to my desktop or to my external storage (if there isn't too much crap), then when I do my wipes (just before flashing) I wipe my internal memory. After this I flash my new ROM. Once im booted up, I copy the files back onto my SD card directory. It's a little bit of a pain but it's worth the trouble IMO. I hate having a messy internal drive.

Hello my name is George and I'm a flashoholic.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Depends...the theme could be made for AOSP, in which case it would most likely be an APK that you can either sideload or download from the market

It may also be in the form of a flashable zip that installs certain "themed" apps over the version of the apps you're already running, like inverted gapps for example

As far as I know, the themes for TW involve replacing the apps with themed versions
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tazfanatic:
If you are on MoAr or TPR you can flash morphology

Sent from the peoples choice
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Maynard46:
on goodness jb rom there is a goodness update section that allows you to download all sorts of cool stuff. after i download something...like a widget or whatever...how do install it? do i use twrp install or is there some other method?

also, on goodness jb - is there a way to make the notification drop down window have a full background rather than be 80% opacity ?

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also, in exchange server, i have everything setup correctly for my work email. but when i goto my email it says its loading...but it stays like that with the circle loading icon and nothing ever loads up. Had our IT guy check the settings and they are right, but the phone wont connect

again, goodness jb rom...thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 3×5:
I rooted my phone using the Unified Toolkit and everything worked fine, as far as I can tell, except one important detail: When I turn my phone to landscape, the image flips the wrong way, so the screen is upside-down.

This is not specific to any particular app--- it's universal. I haven't been able to find an example of this happening for anyone else on this forum so I am at a loss. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
I heard that this problem was due to a kernel bug...try flashing another kernel and see if it fixes it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] pdaddy:
Is group texting something that Apple has decided they invented? Is that why the only way to group chat like iPhone is to use a 3rd party app? Will Google eventually use thus feature? I am using Go SMS Pro now to group chat with my iPhone coworkers. Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Slomodrop:
How do I change the default image that appears in dialer, phone and contacts for unknowns or people for whom I don't have a saved image? In TPR it's a blue pirate Andy. Where is this file stored?

Would prefer to manually change the file myself rather than do a run through with the morphology UI tools.

Sprint GS3 LTE - The People's ROM 3.14 - KT747 - sent from xda premium
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 3×5:
Is this something I can do using the Samsung S3 Galaxy Toolkit?

edit// nevermind, it tells you how to right in the thread. I wouldn't know why my kernel is no good, though, or what to replace it with. How do I know?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bedtimehero:
I'm running liquid smooth. The stable ROM that jus came out recently. Its android 4.2.2. And im wondering if that's the reason i can't install Facebook? Same with google maps.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] natthewife:
Now this is my kinda thread lol so.... I rooted my sgs3 i9350 and flashed clockworkmod but ive heard so many things about cwm causing boot loops etc that ive decided I want it off. Any easy way to do this??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Wrong forum, this is for the Sprint S3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Download goomanager, go into settings and pick install openrecoveryscript, that will overwrite cwm with twrp :thumbup:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] stanglifemike:
Dang it, just now saw this thread! My new girlfriend has a Sprint GS3, and I opened a new thread to ask a noob question. My bad guys. Now I know this thread is here though, so I'll come here for any other noob questions, though hopefully I won't have any, lol. I'm not an Android noob by any means, but have only worked on few friends' Samsung devices. Samsung is pretty different from HTC!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] csmasn:
+1 to ^.

Sent from my O=O
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] BigRitz:
im a noob for sure!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cteq1:
Have few question/confusions/queries

1) I want to take advantage of new JB v5 release. However my rooted phone hasnt been updated to latest Samsung update, can I update to JB 5 and then take update or have to take update then install JB5?

2) Will I lose all my data? Apps?

3) Does this JB5 already have latest updates from Samsung? ( I thought I read it somewhere that it had )

Thank you
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] xblackvalorx:
Just purchased and rooted my SGS3, and wondered a few things. I have the latest ota and firmware.

What do you guys suggest for a good fully functioning rom/kernel combo. Not looking for bleeding edge performance, just good performance with better battery life than stock. PMs or replys welcome (:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] csmasn:
If you flash JB leak you don't need to install any update cause those are for ICS.

But if you use JB you can't tether anylonger.

Sent from my O=O

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You can try them all. But I recommend FreeGS3 with stock kernel.

Sent from my O=O
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] aveda6:
For Rom/Kernel recommendations I would suggest JellyBomb by Josh Beach. It works great and has a much cleaner look overall. If you do end up downloading and installing the Rom please make sure to read all of the thread pages beforehand. There are numerous questions that seem to come up over and over again and all of have been answered in the thread.

Regardless of which Rom you decide to go with you may want to try out a few to see the differences. I've changed Roms numerous times trying out different themes and seeing how my phone reacts to specific installs. Just don't let one bad install discourage you. It may take some time to get the hang of the install process.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] csmasn:
No hotspot. :/

Sent from my O=O
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] WHYDavid:
You can't tether via wifi (hotspot), but you can tether via usb or bluetooth.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mnhertz26:
Agreed. How about we just stop talking about if it is a good thread and wait to see. I will take it down if it isn't productive. If you don't like it, don't post

Sent from my Jelly Bombed SGS3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mnhertz26:
Make sure that if you go to jelly bean, you don't restore any app data or system data. It will cause you many problems

Sent from my Jelly Bombed SGS3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alaman68:
Edit: removed comment, thought this thread was about boobs
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cteq1:
Well I think it is getting too complicated for this noob.. May be I will do some more reading and may be practice on my old HTC Evo first, just in case
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] black_label:
Hey guys noob here, quick question, I lost all my contacts and can't seem to link to my gmail account. I'm stock unrooted, on li3. Could an app have erased everything?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mnhertz26:
No. Your contacts are synced to cloud storage. Did you by any chance delete your primary gmail account? If you go into settings, accounts and sync, select your gmail account, hit sync now to perform a sync ..does it have a red circle or say that sync is experiencing problems?

Either way, your best bet and quickest resolution would be to go to settings, storage, and perform a factory reset. Then, you will be able to sync your gmail starting from scratch

Sent from my Jelly Bombed SGS3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mnhertz26:
Lmao!

Sent from my Jelly Bombed SGS3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mnhertz26:
Allow me to clarify. You don't have to accept any updates. You will do the following, MAKE A BACKUP of your current system, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache...then you install zip from SD card and flash the lih modem/firmware (every Jelly Bean leak rom has a link to the lih firmware with the downloads on the first page)..then flash the jelly bean rom of your choice. You will have a clean install now.

** A lot of people use titanium backup, mybackup, or rom toolbox to back up their applications and associated data. They then restore the app and data on their new rom that they just flashed. This way, if you were on level 62 of angry birds, you can pick up where you left off. You CAN NOT do this when coming from ics because the data isn't always compatible (made for use with) jelly bean.

On Josh Beach's Jelly Bomb Domination version 5.0 thread, he has a very detailed set of instructions, with all of the files you need, and there is even a video walking you through how to install. Hope this helps

Sent from my Jelly Bombed SGS3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] black_label:
No I didn't delete the account, even play store says it's not installed, maps and navigation also disappeared. I can't even select Google account as an option to restore account
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jiffener:
I think this thread is a great idea. I spent a few hours looking around in the 9300 forum before figuring out I have sph l710 which isn't the same. So I think that alone qualifies me as a newb. (or noob as you spell it... our is it n00b?)

I even would go so far as to suggest an adopt-a-n00b program where you can buddy up with someone and have them standing by for advice if the going gets rough :D

Anyway, I'm just at the beginning of my info survey. That's the whole problem for most people by the way. There's just too much information, and only a small fraction applies to any given person's situation. Wading through the stuff that doesn't apply to get to the beautiful shining gem that is perfect for you takes forever...if you manage to accomplish it at all. Daunting to say the least.

I've lurked around XDA before, even running the OMJ ROM back in the day on my HTC Touch, at least until Sprint enabled gps in the stock ROM. So I'm not unfamiliar with the concepts here, but with the evo I never touched the stock os.

Now I feel I MUST do something, for at least two reasons I discovered right away:

1) The camera shutter sound must DIE (My phone is my primary photo and video device for getting pictures if a baby and she is distracted by the sound. Plus it's just freaking annoying in general!

2) I really need usb mass storage transfer or whatever the eff it's called.

So maybe I don't even need a shiny new ROM or kernel (and no, I haven't read up on the difference yet), maybe all I need is root access and the ums app? Then I could rename or remove the shutter sound file and both problems are solved? Maybe?

But step 0 is to get a complete backup of everything, especially...everything. ok most important are the photos, videos, and anything else that lives on the phone and doesn't sync anywhere useful, like call history.

So hi guys! Thanks for making this thread.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
The first thing you should address to noobs is that questions go in Q&A ;)

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] scruffy4386:
Really noob q but why does everyone edit smali files and not go to Java to edit files?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Because the java code is highly obfuscated, so its easier to read the smali code and make the edits there

Because you have to use dex2jar to turn it into a java file...and that path doesnt decompile as well as it would if you decompiled to smali
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Black_Fatboy:
Hi All,

Guess I'm a total noob since moving to the Samsung Galaxy S3 from my HTC EVO, which I had fine tuned.

Here's my question, I pulled my sd card from my busted EVO, and had partitioned for link2sd. Rooted easily and now I see under root explorer, storage/extcard0,storage/sdcard0,and /scard directories. Which do I use?

I'm finding a lot of dups under each... Eg. Tasker, Titanium etc. Just trying to understand which is the one to use to recovery backups, media etc.

Any help for this non-techie would be most appreciated!

Sorry for the noob questions.

:-$
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tazfanatic:
Oh boy you got yourself mess. What I would recommend so you don't confuse yourself going forward is removing the card and going through your data and coping to PC delete all partitions and reformat then copy data back. The S3 has internal card as well which is going to add to the confusion.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Black_Fatboy:
Oh boy, I thought so! Thanks for the scoop. Question, I have everything backed up with recovery and all files over to computer, after partition for link2, and format, does the SG3 not use a /sdcard directory?

Seems like it's under /storage in the root directory. Am I incorrect?

And thank you!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deadrage78:
why do some roms auto restore apps after flashing and some dont?

I flash roms weekly at times and it seems that most roms dont do an auto restore as far as apps are concerned. Some do though and it seems like the "stock" roms have the most luck as far as restore is concerned. I always make sure to check the backup and restore options when installing a new rom. Does anyone know why some roms auto restore and some dont? I would prefer not to have to rely on any 3rd party backup tool and i dont mind having to sign in again on the apps that need it. I have done a google search and an xda search and the only thing i really found was this but it doesnt really seem to clear anything up. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1724022 :confused:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Ah, i think I may know why :good:

Could you upload the build.prop for one where it works and one where it doesnt?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] deadrage78:
I'll have to flash a few in order to find one that does auto restore. Iirc the last 3 ROMs i flashed didn't. I'll post the one I'm using now in a few minutes. (Can't seem to figure out how to attach a file using xda app will move to PC) This one does not auto update for me.

http://db.tt/BfsP0RSz. Current build.prop (does not auto restore)

sent from the mind of a madman
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 3×5:
Please help, I am having a hell of a time with this new phone. I used the Samsung Galaxy s3 toolkit to root my phone about a week ago. Immediately there was a bug where screen rotation would go the wrong way, putting the screen upside-down. I've spent a fair amount of time this week trying to learn about rooting, rom flashing, kernels and the like but now i've just decided to start over from scratch.

So, I tried to use the toolkit to unroot and recover my original system. The process failed because it couldn't find the device, halfway through the process (among the myriad problems I had this week, usb connectivity became spotty at best).

So I tried a factory reset from the phone itself. I still have the landscape rotation bug. This was not the case when I first picked up the phone.

So, my most pressing question is this: What is the simplest and most surefire way to reset my phone the way it was when I got it?

Thank you so much for your help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Not exactly an answer, but this may shed some light on the issue:

http://support.google.com/android/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=168906

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Best way would be to ODIN back to stock by flashing a stock tar. Search around, there are plenty of guides :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tazfanatic:
Yes it is /storage/external or internal the default is usually internal

Sent from the peoples choice
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Black_Fatboy:
:thumbup: thanks again!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] homeland:
I just unlocked my 4.1.2 phone last night using the great and easy to use unified toolkit 7.0 . After I was finished I lost wifi capabilites, i.e. it won't turn on. Inf the FAQ there is this

.

What does this mean? I want to do a backup of the phone before I move onto trying cm10 , but don't wanna do a backup of a rom thats wifi is broken.

I asked this in the toolkit thread but it seems like a slow moving thread, so figured I would get a quicker response here.

Thanks .
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
To fix wifi/bt issues either START OVER FROM SCRATCH OR just FLASH A COMPATIBLE KERNEL
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] homeland:
Thanks out of curiosity what causes it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Its something in the kernel. I've seen this post a few times after using the toolkit which tells me that the insecure kernel mskip uses to root is either outdated or incompatible. If u put the phone in landscape is the orientation upside down? The broken WiFi or flipped landscape orientation are 2 tell tale signs. Another good example is here

http://forums.androidcentral.com/sprint-galaxy-s-iii/253395-4-1-2-gs3-sprint-3.html pages 3 and 4 say a lot

I have a one click for people to shut off the Camera sound without root. It worked great till the mb1 update. People on mb1 flashed my lj7 system without changing the kernel and the biggest problem was broken wifi
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Z_Black:
I have done a fair amount of rooting/romming on my devices, but never have I switched carriers, hence my noob question! I used to be on AT&T with a Note and have now switched to Ting and have a Sprint version of the S3. I'm about to flash a rom, and I don't see there being any issues but thought I should ask just in case.

Since I have a Sprint S3 and the Ting service is just an MVNO of Sprint, all of these roms and such should work exactly as they do for actual Sprint customers?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
I can't advise flashing anything important(modems boot loaders etc) but your everyday rom shouldnt hurt anything and I would imagine would be issue Free
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tazfanatic:
There are a few threads for alternate carriers check them out for info on what you might need and how to get it. Such h as apns or other info

Sent from the peoples choice
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] homeland:
Updated to the suggested kernel, so can't check orientation, but wifi works now so all good. Thanks again!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MajorTom1:
CIFS for mounting SMB shares to a local directory

Hello, I have a Sprint Galaxy S3. I am trying to find a way to mount a SMB share as a local directory. I have done this before on a different device using Mount Manager and a custom rom. However, I cannot find any roms for the S3 that have cifs.ko included. Would someone please point me in the right direction?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] twig49:
Direction

Ok, so I'm not sure if this the place for this but being a noob, I guess it sort of fits. I did a lot a searching and I guess what I'm after is not as easy as I would have imagined at first.

First off, the phone is rooted stock 4.1.2 MB1 so I can see files if it matters here at all. What I want is to change the color of the notification bar icons and text from the stock green or gray respectively to blue similar to CM10. I tried different launchers and themes for them but nothing is getting me where I want to be so if someone would care to enlighten me on how to do it, I would appreciate. I was hoping it was nothing more than editing a file somewhere with a different hex code for color, but I'm steadily leaning towards, "It ain't that simple dummy".

I'm not asking for someone to do it for me as part of the "fun" is learning to do it myself, but I would ask for some direction here if possible.

Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Pngs.... check out some theming guides, but you are going to need to color some pngs
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
To get started I would recommend checking out apktool and some guides on decompiling SystemUI.apk

I would also

strongly recommend going to xda-university.com and reading through the theming sections for "as a user" and "as a developer"

This^ is what you're gonna need to do, theming is basically just editing pngs, switching them out, and maybe even some XML edits
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] twig49:
Thank you both. I figured it was going to be more than a simple file edit through root explorer. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Haha yeah, the thing is to make android as fast as possible it was necessary to compress everything, and hence the fancy zip files called APKs :good:

But dude, dont beat yourself over it or call yourself a dummy! Everyone was new to this at some point, even the (*GASP*) great devs and themers you see posting their work ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MajorTom1:
For those who find this, it was a problem with options on the mount command. The cifs module is built into the CM10 kernal. I have Win7 Pro and shares with guest access. These commands worked to mount my share:

su
mkdir /mnt/obb/music
busybox mount -t cifs -o "username=guest,domain=MyWindowsWorkGroup" //192.168.1.2/Music /mnt/obb/music

/mnt/obb/music is probably not the right place, but I was desperately trying to find a solution and saw this as a working example in a forum. If anyone can suggest a better location, please let me know.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] twig49:
No worries my friend. I appreciate all you/them do. I have come to realize that if I don't know how to do it, I can come here and generally find it already done, or get some direction on how to go about it. My work keeps me "away" for all but about 30 days a year, so ...... A lot of times I have no choice but to rely on others. That's what makes this place so great IMO.

Much thanks to all here for what they do.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Yeah, that is what makes these forums so great :)

Good luck on getting the status bar to look the way you want :good:

If you need any help, feel free to PM me and I'll help with what I can ;)