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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
If you are using an unlocked bootloader, then you might want to Odin flash VRBMF1 and check GPS from there. If its all good, root and unlock using Casual.

If you used Safestrap to install this, Odin flash VRUCML1 then test GPS. Then use Saferoot and Safestrap.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] burntrat:
I'm getting a weird problem where after I close the apollo app with pie controls, the music continues to play. It looks like the app closed itself, but the music plays in the background. If I open up the app again, the music will just play on top of the other song. What can I do to fix this? I think the music stops after a song or 2. After that, when I increase or decrease the volume of the phone, it controls the media volume and not the ringtone volume. So I'm guessing a media app is still running in the background even though I clear ram and close anything music related.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ¿GotJazz?:
Hi, Artemis - I loaded whatever came with the AllianceRom v23 installer.

Let me go grab the phone and check ... <Mad dash through the house, looking for phone>

OK, found it: My Kernel is 3.0.31 scott@MintBOX #3 (Jan 27 2014)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ¿GotJazz?:
Hi, burntrat - I have never had good luck with Apollo. It has always been buggy and unstable for me. I would recommend using the Google Play Music app (or Amazon MP3 Player) as alternatives. Those guys make money off of their players working properly.

Hi, steveim - See my answer to my #1 question here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=52617297&postcount=14555
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] siouxhockey11:
Has anyone had problems downloading and flashing the themes through the alliance manager?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Goldie:
Alliance Manager doesnt download or flash anything. It just applies settings. Whats your issue? If its fc then just delete alliance folder on internal sd and try again
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] siouxhockey11:
I used it to dl a theme but when I went into safestrap t Ok flash the theme it wouldn't work
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Goldie:
I think you are confused. Like I said Alliance manager does NOT download anything. What exactly are you trying to do?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] OMG_VTEC:
so ive been having an issue with alliance here lately. not sure if its kernel related or not.

everytime i unlock my phone i get some horrid lag. and its bad. like a good five seconds before the phone responds to my touch.

kinda annoying when youre trying to snap a quick picture or something.

before anyone asks, i am running xposed but it seems to stick around even if i disable it.

dkp kernel running freelunch and row

is there anything i can do to try to figure out what it causing this?

i did get a day or so of smooth running when i deleted some videos a few days ago but it has since returned...

any ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] siouxhockey11:
I'm trying to apply a theme from op
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Goldie:
Which one? I dont see any themes in OP. Your'e gonna have to give step by step what you are doing including names of files cos you lost me
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] vmancini3:
Did you try any different governors with that kernel?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gospodinwizard:
I see a few posts back that some people had problems with GPS. My GPS works fine, but when I go to Setting --> Location Services and try to toggle on the ability to let apps access location services the toggle won't turn on and Settings force closes...no idea why...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -Lawless:
Roaming mode?

I tried searching and I found a reference to this a year ago but saw no resolution..

Why does my phone go into roaming mode after flashing.

I'm a flashoholic by nature and this is the first time I've ever run across this on a ROM
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BlueEyedBehemoth:
What's up next?

Are we going to see a build 24 any time soon?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] GeTex:
Oddest thing ever. Same thing is happening to me Running Synergy R484 which is a 4.1.2 Rom. I'm about ready to stab my phone because of it.

Anyways, Now that i heard that, I'm more inclined to ditch my S3 for another phone, but If i don't I was considering moving from Synergy to this Rom. Could someone guide me through this because do to samsung's massive amount of bootloader changes, and other crap they've put us all through, bricking a GS3 is beyond easy now. I'd LOVE to just keep Using Synergy, but it's way out of development.

Anyone have any answer's about the GPS issues?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
Just upgrade the firmware to MF1 and then the modem only to ML1. Under no circumstances take the ML1+ OTAs or flash those Odin files and you will be fine. Here are the files. :cool:

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407591785

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23329332407591786
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] OMG_VTEC:
could you describe what it doing? i feel like mine just started to do this also and ive been going crazy trying to fix it. i even dropped back to beans 20 to see if that helped and its still there. i can switch airplane mode on and it fixes it for a little bit but not permanently. reflashed hardware and modem and no change. and the phone keep asking me if i want it to switch to global mode...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] airmaxx23:
I picked up a new phone for my wife and now have her S3 to play around with (i have a Note 3 for daily use). It's currently on old version of the Jelly Beans ROM running 4.1.2 (MF1) w/ baseband version MA2. What do I need to do to get this ROM running with out bricking the device? I'm a bit confused with of the different modems around. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -Lawless:
It tells me I'm roaming and then if I try to make calls it says I'm not authorized to make calls from this phone.

If I put the sim card back into my S4, everything works fine so it's not the sim.

Right now I'm back on BLK3 and still nothing works...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ed hit:
Look 2 posts above your original... Prdog is the man.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] airmaxx23:
Thanks, I thought that's what I needed to do but I wanted to make sure.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] OMG_VTEC:
looks like were in the same boat. i havent tried to make calls though. im gonna try to get a new sim card just for drill and probably odin back and start again...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -Lawless:
Returned to stock MF1 and now I'm no longer roaming but...

4GLTE works great for data but still no phone access. Call just dies after a while and never rings.

Loaded Hyperdrive 15 and I get the same result.

IEMI check does not result in zeros.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ed hit:
yeah, i was on either bonestock or an old beans when i came to 4.3 and did fine with the new modem. One other thing some people suggest is to wipe internal storage to make sure the file system gets recreated with the right storage... 4.3 uses a 0/ folder to accommodate multiple users.

Obviously back everything up.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Benjamin1966:
What page does the Alliance rom posts start? I want to read and catch up since I haven't flashed a rom in long time.

**warning newbie questions coming soon**
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LazerDino:
Post # 13025, if I recall correctly.

Alliance23-afide SCH-I535
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] vudugan:
GPS issues? Try this. So far so good.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1880810
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tsachi:
My phone just started doing the roaming thing. I'm on mL1 (safe strap) and everything was working ok until 5 minutes ago. Haven't flashed anything in weeks. Any thoughts?

Edit: I tried airplane mode and that didn't help, but after restart the roaming went away.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -Lawless:
Finally got everything installed and working correctly. No idea what happened with the modem flash the first time.

Anyway, is anyone else having issues backing up this ROM using TWRP 2.7.0.0?

It fails every time I try.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
Set it to compressed. Takes longer but uses less space and works. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -Lawless:
Wow it sure does take longer but hey, it worked!

Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] OMG_VTEC:
i hate to ask another color related question, but its a little different

im trying to get into the service menu and once i do, the text is either not there or impossible to see due to text color.

i "disabled if menu text was hard to see" but that didnt help.

its the hiddenmenu.apk that im talking about

has anyone ever accessed this successfully on alliance?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
It was accessible up until 4.3. Even 4.2 was accessible on S4. Haven't seen a way to access on 4.3. All the apps no longer work. If can be done it is probable through command line in terminal. Know TrevE was able to access some of them that way. Even ones we didn't know existed. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] funkpod:
Hey, are websites in Chrome or even the Internet app appearing weird? Go to www.teva.com or timbuk2.com I thought they worked before, is it my phone or the website? All I get is like text and no pictures.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bawaji:
If you don't want to use compression, try an older version. I could never get v2.7.0.0 to complete the backup process on my phone and went back to v2.6.3.1 which works fine.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mav3rick478:
Seems to work fine for me using chrome. Teva went to their mobile site but images and text loaded.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] burntrat:
i tried on latest chrome and stock internet browser and it just loaded up text for teva.com
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] funkpod:
Thanks guys. So...What could be my problem? I even cleared all data and it still was weird.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] helobubba88:
An adblocker perhaps?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LiRa89:
Has to be ad blocker app, i opened teva and only txt came up, disabled my ad blocker and it worked, (stock browser)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] burntrat:
How do you disable the ad blocker?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pyrite123:
So I downloaded MOAR to try and use the 100% sound mod but I have no idea how to extract it from the zip properly so that it's in a flashable state.

It's titled snd_soc_msm_2x in File format...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
Just use winzip or 7zip and replace the file in this zip. Rename zip to 100% so know which is which. The file is named the same. :cool:

http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23269279319202506
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pyrite123:
You the boss dog :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hobart!:
Hello,

I am still having problems with pasting into the system/app folder. I can rename to .bak but when I try to flash a sammy keyboard it won't take. If i try to copy an .apk from sd card into system/app it fails. Root browser and ES file explorer with root access won't work. So I started thinking...Could the system/app folder be FULL? Is this happening because there is no more room in System/app folder? I deleted a few things and then tried to flash a sammy keyboard and it worked! The keyboard swype and other things are messed up but it flashed? So could this be what it is?? System/app folder has too much in it stock and can hold any more unless you delete a few things to make room??/ Just wondering. PR dog??? Anyone?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] capt730:
I am not on Alliance at the moment, but can you check your partition info (I believe there is an app on the Play store) to see if the system folder is full? That's all I got, I will defer to those with much more Android knowledge than I, because what you are saying makes sense in regards to being full. I also found this to use adb shell command to check your partition sizes - http://techblogon.com/android-file-system-structure-architecture-layout-details/#more-635
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
I would say it is possible especially if have run AOSP or CM and they have repartitioned to make the allocated space for system smaller sohave more sd space. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hobart!:
PR...I have never run aosp with this phone....just thought beans could have stuffed the system/app folder with so much there was not room left.

Also I have deleted a few things from folder so it isn't full anymore.... ......Since then I flashed 2 keyboards which flashed but crashed .......and pushed the stock Sammy keyboard from the alliance zip successfully to system/app.

I also changed permissions on system/app folder to....rwxrwxrwx

Not sure if that did anything...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
Well I run stock and system partition is 5.74 GB. Not sure of Alliance size unpacked. I have seen others unable to write with root browser and ES but never knew what caused it. I have never seen the problem myself but Alliance is a pretty big rom even compressed. With aroma and all the options and coded mods it could be bumping the limits. Although only the aroma system mods you actually flash stay on system. Rest remain on internal sd with data or on sd card depending where you flash it from. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Master Cylinder:
You better test it! My Alliance 23 won't boot after restoring no matter how many times I tried it or how I held my mouth. Had to go back to 2.6.3.1
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -Lawless:
Your timing was impeccable. I was just loading alliance and experienced the same thing. ...

Sent using Tapatalk Super Advanced Pro+

---------- Post added at 07:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:56 PM ----------

Here is a workaround. Restore than dirty flash alliance again.

Sent using Tapatalk Super Advanced Pro+
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dakota-boy:
I flashed the Rom on my stock slot, and have no problems with room in system or data
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] enohand:
i dont know if this is a rom issue or not.

but i notice that the proximity sensor when on a call is a piece of ****.

i make a call..then the screen goes black then on then black then on...its really a pain to try to put it on speaker..

anyway to set it so the screen only goes black when the phone is vertical?

IE have screen off when up to ear. but when it notices the gyro moving & then reaching a "flat" level with a bit of cushion then turn the screen on
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] siouxhockey11:
I'm having a problem with my keyboard downsizing after use. Any ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
Sounds like xposed or dpi mod. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] capt730:
Looking at the time of this post, I am beginning to believe prdog is an android cyborg. Answering morning, noon and night. :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] siouxhockey11:
So if I update/reinstall xposed it should is my problem
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] chadwicky:
Is it safe to move from a 4.4 ROM?

I'm using a CM11 4.4 Rom on my VZW GS3.

Do I need to take any special considerations before moving from my 4.4 rom to this 4.3 AllianceRom? Or, should I just wipe and then flash?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] capt730:
I would move all your files you want to external sd and then wipe everything, including internal storage before coming back. I do that when moving between stock based and aosp and never had any issues.

Note 8
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dvaderx:
Just curious if there is a v24 in the works or is 23 the last release? v23 is working great for me. but again just curious.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BrokenWish:
yea those websites came up weird for me too !!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DoubleL03:
All of a sudden my contacts won't open up. I can see them but when I click on a contact to open it open it close. I wipped clean and formatted and still getting them same results.

Can anyone help?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
Sounds like you picked the AOSP messaging app. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kasghost:
So I've been running this rom for the last few days and have enjoyed the experience with one exception. Coming from beans 20 I have noticed that I now struggle to maintain any kind of signal. In areas where I at least had 3g I am often unable to get anything. I did a reinstall of the ML1 modem, was using prior to installimg this rom, but that has not helped. Has anyone else seen this issue or have any ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DoubleL03:
Doe's it still do that if you disable the message app?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
Make sure it is not in Global mode in mobile networks. Should be CDMA/LTE. It flips sometimes to Global. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] burntrat:
supposedly it's the ad blocker. i'm not sure how to disable the one that came with the rom though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
We have already had a discussion (or two, I don't remember) about the ad blocker. Searching for "ad block" within this very thread eventually takes me to this post from April 2013. With a thread as old and lengthy as this one, definitely search for a few key terms and see if someone else has discussed your issue before. Try out the hosts file suggestion though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LiRa89:
Easiest way is to download an adblock, i have AdFree from bigtincan.com (logo is green bluish shield with an umbrella)

Install it an open it, after hosts are installed, click on revert,

If want to enable again, well u will know what to do.

Otherwise google search on how to modify your host files and follow the manual method.

Ps. I think adfree will b enabled after every boot, not sure, so if its blocking again, just click revert on app again
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] burntrat:
Thank for that info. I didn't realize it was already discussed here. I probably would've dug deeper if I really needed to disable it. As long as it's blocking youtube ads, I'm happy with it.

Hmm...I'm not sure if I used that in the past or not, but the few that I've used still allowed youtube ads to go through. I'm pretty good with the ad blocker that came with the rom. I'll keep AdFree in mind if I need a different ad blocker. Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LiRa89:
For youtube ads i use a Xposed module, had totally forgotten about ads on youtube til i barrowed my friends phone to show him a video, got slammed with several ads, plus the frame already comes with the rom, its the only module i have enabled and have not seen any problems with phone, some people reported lag with some modules, not me with youtube adaway
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jager420:
Tries aosp but battery was running out super fast. Flashed back to this and I dont even use my phone and battery drains too much.Not as bad as aosp but still bad. I changed my battery out before I went to sleep and this is my screenshot??!!!

Anyway to keep battery life without turning off my internet overnight
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
Wipe dalvik and cache and reboot. Should help. Play services using a lot but always does. Have to tweak. Turn off allowing it to scan for networks all the time. :cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] royta:
I have two questions. I've searched, but haven't found my answers.

1) Do I need to install the ML1 modem/baseband? I currently have MF1 and would rather continue with it. I'd actually rather flash MB1, but I have a hunch that won't fly. Or will it?

2) What is the cLock app option that I see in the Aroma install? What does it do?

Thank you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] slvfox:
I can answer #1 for you. I am still on MB1 and running without any problems. I could not run ML1 and still send texts. MB1 runs great on my phone
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] n3wt:
it's a lock screen clock/weather widget.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] royta:
Thanks to the both of you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Beej1970:
Contacts app

I had similar issues with the original contacts. I downloaded Contacts+ from the app store and everything works great, nice app too.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] vmancini3:
You can flash whatever modem you want! If it doesn't work well, flash another....and so on. cLock is a CM/AOSP clock and weather widget, nothing really fancy about it!

Edit: Wow, that moment when you realize you reinstalled Tapatalk and didn't make it jump to "newest post"....lol Oh well.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] chiadrum:
Speaking of Lockscreen

Hi all-this ROM is about perfect however when using the CyanogenMod Lockscreen with the 8 slider targets I am getting a serious lag.I tried searching some keywords in this forum but can't come up with anything.Sure I'm not alone on this-any help is much appreciated.

One of the things I love about this ROM is having those 8 shortcuts while keeping the good Touchwiz features in a nice smooth package.

Tried the usual fix permissions ,wipe cache/davlik.Didn't happen day 1 which is strange-wonder if I tweaked something that triggered this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Master Cylinder:
Hooray! I'm able to backup and restore this ROM with TWRP 2.7.1.0 in compression mode! (I haven't tried it without compression.) I had not been able to get it to boot ever using 2.7 (compression or not - I was forced to use 2.6.3.1, not that it was a problem) but works now! :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] funkpod:
Hello, question about Maps. I looked and it seemed like others had a similar problem, but not the same. Maps quit after about a half hour forty five minutes of usage. And then, I restart it, and it quits again after that amount of time again. Amy ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] im_on_fire:
I experienced this using my friend's stock S3 just yesterday. So, it may not be specific to this ROM.

I use Waze haven't experienced this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] funkpod:
yay. sigh... thanks for the info, though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] OnceAMatrixMan:
Have the same issue, well I had the same issue. The latest version of Maps killed GPS (even after I Uninstaller the update). Sigh too. Dirty flash?

Sent from my SCH-I535
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] vudugan:
I posted a couple of fixes of what I thought was wrong with Maps and GPS but in the end it was nothing more than an app. I found that Call App borked my gps. After uninstalling that alot of lag and gps issues went away for good.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] chiadrum:
OK so I became frustrated and wiped data/cache/davlik and started over again basically tweaking almost nothing and just adding a couple of apps to the phone and the problem was back again almost immediately-this was when I was running Apex launcher which has always been excellent for me.Because Apex was a variable that could be changed I went ahead and configured Go launcher and now the problem seems to have disappeared and since then I have continued customizing and adding apps and the 8 slider AOSP lockscreen remains snappy and actually the phone using Go launcher is quite snappy and definitely cool animations and gestures as well.

If anyone else has this problem I would be very curious to know if they are running Apex launcher-which as I said has always been a great performer for me on many many ROMS.

Hopefully this information helps someone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ¿GotJazz?:
Is there a way to speed up the shut-down and power-up process?

Whenever I reboot my phone, it is almost five minutes before my phone becomes usable again - It's a little over 2 minutes to fully shut down and almost 3 minutes for the phone to finish booting (all screen widgets have come up).

I haven't seen a reboot process take so long on any other ROMs ... Is there a fix?

Thanks,

¿GJ?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] OnceAMatrixMan:
I finally got gps to work (the update to maps killed it). Unfortunately I have to turn on Google location services in the GPS menu. Not happy.

Sent from my SCH-I535
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sdc5364:
Can I use wifi tether on thin room? Any suggestions? Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mav3rick478:
I got Version 3.4 Experimental1-07202013 working on my phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sdc5364:
Do you have a link, much appreciated!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] prdog1:
Native tether is built in. Don't need an app. :cool: