yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] anto40428:
def the bootloader... you need to odin pre rooted stock K1..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bluskyline21:
I've tried all combos of buttons, nothing. Bootloader is unlocked. I followed the rooting steps in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1762709 on both phones. The first phone worked great on ICS/JB roms, went back to JB4 and worked... until I flashed JB5. The second phone went from stock to JB5 (sorta).

I think I'll just call it broken just like the first one. I really want to know why, though. I'm not flashing, rooting, looking at anything else now because a ROM made for VZW didn't work for me...twice. Other than this issue, I love the JB roms...but I don't want it anymore lol

When I say "black screen" I mean dead..not backlit or powered.

This sucks..not sure what to tell VZW when I ask for a tradein LOL

I think I'm going to invest in the jtag repair kit..found a video of it, looks promising!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnA8Djs55Ds
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlee08517:
In that case, all I can think of is MD5 sum of the file is wrong. and fyi, this has to be user error, since you are the only one with this kind of problem. Not to be a **** but just saying.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bluskyline21:
I understand your point, but then why has this happened to me twice with 2 different phones, exact same symptoms, dead phones and everything? Each phone had a different version of CWM and I didn't use the same download to flash the rom. I downloaded it once on this laptop and once on my other. I fail to see how this is user error when I did nothing wrong, followed each step exactly and get screwed twice under different install environments.

I don't know..I'm going to replace my phone now (hopefully). Would you be so kind to tell me EXACTLY how to flash this rom, if not in the way the instructions say to?

Step 1-

Make sure u are unlocked - Obviously...check!

Step 2-

Wipe all(factory reset and davlick wipe) if coming from an old build - check!

Step 3-

Install the Rom - Installed, check!

Step 4-

Reboot and Enjoy! Rebooted, but I did not enjoy....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tnngng:
How did you unlock the phone? adb method or ez unlock? if ez unlock method which version cuz the 1.4 version does not work.

Also in Odin what were the boxes that you checked, cuz if you checked the wrong ones you got screwed.

Just some of my troubleshoot ideas.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] RoboJoe:
Just so we're clear: If you turn off your phone, press Home + Volume Up + Power until the Samsung screen, you don't boot into recovery? That would point to a recovery issue, as that happens before anything ROM related.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bluskyline21:
I used ez-lock. The first phone was 1.2 or 1.3, the second one was 1.3. I read that 1.4 didn't work, but that 1.3 did (despite the root tutorial saying no) so I used it. I never used Odin, but I have it installed on my laptop just in case but it's unresponsive. I guess I'll chalk it up to a very expensive lesson learned. "Don't do your own research and listen to random ppl on random sites, stick to credible sites (like XDA)."

I'm sitting here now knowing that it IS my bootloader, so off to the store I go, maybe they'll believe I just shorted it through faulty wiring or something.

Thanks to everyone for their help, though. I'll click the Thanks buttons..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tnngng:
I'm sure everything will work out for you. Best of luck.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rich33389:
Anyone use pimp my Rom with this Rom? If so what settings do you use, I tried the recommended settings for cleanrom and the phone would not boot up.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Relentless D:
I use it. I'm not sure what settings you are looking for in particular (there are a ton) but it works like a champ for me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Div033:
Dunno if this has been mentioned, probably has but here it goes anyway.

The copy/paste bar on the stock browser has a transparent background, I think, making the icons sit on top of the back, forward, bookmarks and tabs buttons. This makes the copy/paste icons difficult to identify. This is probably a theme issue.

Ended up caving and coming back to TW from CM10. Gave up on Google Music TW bugs and am now using PowerAmp, hoping it doesn't have the same issues. So far things have been good here on beans. Love the popup browser and AOSP lock screen. Fantastic work!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] RJFrank33:
Well, just think about how much you learned through all this. I've never hard bricked my phone but have soft bricked it and it always makes me do more and more research and as a result I'm much better off for it.

And a big thank you to the people on this forum who know so much about what they're doing and are always willing to help. It's awesome!

Sent from my S3 on Tapatalk.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] milkman1026:
Has anyone else had a problem with the SD card not being able to read. I have a 64gb card in there and now since I flashed this rom, when the phone comes on it just says "SD card safe to remove" in the notification bar. I try and mount it, but it doesnt do anything but say "mounting" and then goes back to "SD card safe to remove."
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
Is your sd card formatted to Fat32?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bluskyline21:
RJFrank33,

It absolutely was a learning experience! I'm also thankful for the mature communication lol. I had issues with my Droid X back in the day and one of the devs was a complete tool.

Well I got the 'new' phone.

-Did the RootDebugFS

-Ez-Unlock

v1.2

-Ez-Recovery v2.2

-CWM 6.0.1.0

-Fresh copy of JB5 and I'm ready.

Any advice before I take the plunge? LOL

Is there a way to verify everything is OK before I make an example out of myself? A correct bootloader version number or something?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tnngng:
sounds good. Happy flashing and good luck
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jonnyboiii:
Check the md5 just to be safe...

Sent from my Verizon GS3 on Bean's B5
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] quadracer06:
gmail zooming

Ok, so I stumped the guys over at Droid-life with this, and was hoping someone here might be able to explain...it's a good thing, don't worry.

They had an article on the new "pinch to zoom" feature in Gmail and I wrote them asking if they had seen the "one fingered slide to zoom". They said no. Which has me thinking that it is something that is either built in to the ROM, or an unintended added bonus. Does everyone else have the "slide to zoom" functionality as shown in my video? And if so, any idea of who or how it was added?

(dont pay attention to the blury/ shakiness-ness, but focus on the zooming)

And for informational sake, I am still on Jelly Beans 3.

[YOUTUBE]_H-nxbMCn3c[/YOUTUBE]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] drwx:
I also have that in the freesgs3 Rom on att. I think it is the 4.2 Google apps.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -XIV-:
So I finally got an S3 last week and I haven't ROOTED a phone since the OG DROID days.

I have a MAC and I already have a method to ROOT easily, and this was the ROM of my choice after much browsing. Because I want to keep TW but just take off the damn notification clutter.

But after reading the last 6 pages, seems there's many "problems"

In NO way am I attempting to talk down this ROM because I really want this ROM after beating out my choice over CM10 (and other's recommendations) but are these "problems" because people are "changing" things besides how it comes? Kernals, options, etc?

I just want to really get rid of the TW notification bar and enable to move my apps to SD card. That's all.

-Don't want to have issues w/ BT (since I use it pair my phone w/ my car)

-volume leaking out of speakers while headphones on

-GPS is a big one (since I travel a lot in the city)

Thanks in advance
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] quadracer06:
Here is the thing though, I updated Gmail through Google Play store today. It first had me uninstall the current Gmail, then download and install the new one. And this feature still works...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] majmuni:
You dont know what you talking about this rom is excellent. Everything works. Battery life is good and you should root your phone and try thus rom. That is my opinion.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -XIV-:
I was simply asking why some people are having those issues.

I want to use this, but what if it gives me the problems that I listed? No need to get offended.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] majmuni:
Ok i am sorry did not mean to sound to rough. Since i tried beans rom i fell in love with it you do what you like.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kench33:
That's why you flash and see what works and what doesn't for you. I personally have not flashed anything other than beans just because mostly everything I use works fine and I don't have the time to flash other roms.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cr4ck3r4lif3:
I haven't experienced any problems with this rom (I'm in b4).

From what I've read, they're isn't an option to move apps to the external sdcard but there is a mod that allows you to make your external behave like they internal. You'll have you research to find this.

BT works fine. GPS locks within 5 seconds and I don't lose connectivity while driving.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
As far as issue number two, I don't really see this as a problem. If my volume sounds is on and I have music playing through headphones I do hear notification sounds through both the headphones and phone speaker. To me, that is how it's supposed to work and this just makes sense. When my phone's on vibrate with headphones plugged in, no sound plays through the speakers (or headphones obviously) with notifications. Am I misinterpreting the scenario?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -XIV-:
Which is such an annoyance that Samsung has done this (despite them trying to play innocent).

Interesting, because I was thinking it was easy as this method: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flqmn6FJ87I

Would you suggest downloading the one before version 5 (if that's what you're referring to as "b4")? Because besides AOSP lockscreen, I don't see anything major to HAVE to have the latest. I use WidgetLocker.

Wow...then I guess I'm the fool for misunderstanding completely. I thought that the sound would play through speakers (while headphones on) regardless if my sound profile was on Loud, vibrate or silent. I never have my phone on "loud"...always vibrate and occasionally silent. So I can ignore this "issue" then it seems.

Thanks for chiming in, mate!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Relentless D:
Just out of curiosity, why the need to move apps to the SD card? I usually keep 60-70 apps installed on my phone and have never had any need to move anything to the SD.

On my old evo, there was 512Mb for rom AND apps...there was a HUGE need for it there, but I don't see why on the SGS3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -XIV-:
Honestly, just paranoia. lol Since this feature was allowed with Android, I've done it with my previous 2 phones (Thunderbolt & Rezound) and used to it. It's just that feeling that if I move anything I can away from internal memory, it lessens the chance of any "slowing down."
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jdg1:
I was doing constant battery pulls until I went back to the TW lock screen. After that I haven't had to do it anymore.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Tazer2death:
Just reporting another bug I found. It was crawling along my wall but I managed to kill it with a shoe.

Oh and the Rom is running flawlessly. Haven't had an issue at all on B5, battery settled in after a day and dirty flashing went without issue.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlee08517:
I don't think that is how it's supposed to work. when my headphones are playing music, and at the same time if I start playing a video, it would normally pause the music and start playing the audio from the video.

for all these leaks that is not the case. It would keep playing the music out of the speaker.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cr4ck3r4lif3:
I'm on build 4 cause I've tweaked this to the point that I love it. You may as well take the latest ;)

I have Rom toolbox pro that has an option to install to external, but it didn't work. I checked out the play store with no luck either...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -XIV-:
Can I disable a lockscreen all together? I use WidgetLocker and do not wish the option to be missing (since I have it now on stock ICS) and cause conflicts between WL & ASOP lockscreens somehow.

As for the moving to SD, did you see the video showing the app that can allow this on the S3?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
No problem. Maybe I was misinterpreting this scenario as well because I noticed people complaining about it but I disregarded it. I wasn't sure if we were looking at the same thing from two sides of the same coin since what I consider normal another may consider a big and vice versa.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -XIV-:
Hmm...now I'm taking this differently: Even when phone is on vibrate this occurs? The way you describe it with switching between game to video still always playing through headphones is how I imagine it's meant to be.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cr4ck3r4lif3:
I watched part of the video. It appears to save game data to the external
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] vudugan:
Yes, I use WL as well.

VZW SGS3 Tap a Talk
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -XIV-:
Yes it does. It's made to move games from "GameLoft" however, the video shows that the app picks up others games and apps, such as Facebook, MxPlayer, Google Earth, etc so you can move as well. Just a FYI. Looks like in the minority with other S3 owners in wanting to move whatever I can over to my SD card (which I bought a Samsung Class 10 32GB to take advantage of before knowing this issue w/ Samsung phones)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlee08517:
yes even when on vibrate! well i dont know about when on sound because my phone is ALWAYS on vibrate haha. it happens to me when I use the navigation and music together and also playing games and music together. same situation. the music always leaks out of the speaker
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -XIV-:
Welp

Well, I REALLY want to get this ROM because I despise the TW notification bar & ongoing wifi alert...so looks like the only way around this "bug" is to just not listen to music while I watch/play something that also requires sound simultaneously. This is the only way this issue occurs, right? Otherwise, it's fine through the headphones?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] milkman1026:
I'm guessing so. It was working fine on stock before I installed the rom. And it says extFAT which i'm assuming is the same. Another issue i've encountered is when the phone fails to send a message, the entire thing reboots.. really annoying.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jdub251:
"Bugs" vary for everyone. I play music all the time and it never leaks. It acts like the person described a page back. When playing music I hear notifications come through phone speaker. I don't dirty flash always clean and I have not one single bug. Everything works flawlessly. And b5 seems to be more ram friendly. And I suggest that if u don't want any bugs at all then just install through aroma the stock apps. This is to me the best touchwiz rom because it's themed aosp'ish. Great job beans
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
ExFat is the cause of your "sd card is removed" problems. The kernel included in this rom is leankernel which doesn't support sd cards formatted to exFat. You should also notice your external sd card isn't supported in CWM or TWRP custom recoveries because of that. You have one of two options:

1) flash the stock kernel in the OP and see if the problem goes away

2) format your external sd card to Fat32, however you'll lose ability to transfer >4 GB files.

Option 1 will continue to leave you with an external sd card that is not recognized in custom recoveries. Option 2 is the preferred method since going forward you may notice this problem happening often (if you stick with option 1) given that custom recoveries do not see exFat formatted sd cards and neither do some custom kernels.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] milkman1026:
Thanks! I just noticed this issue was gone over in the Notes/Disclaimer section. I guess in all my excitement of finally flashing a rom on this bad boy, I over looked that. :silly:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -XIV-:
So could you try this out: Listen to a song (with headphones on obviously) then while the song is playing, go over to Youtube and play any video....what happens? Normally it's supposed to halt the music then play the audio of the video through your headphones of course. Or does it do what the other member describes: Music from song still plays in headphones but at the same time the youtube video sound plays through the speakers (I think this is what the bug is being described as)

---------- Post added at 07:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:34 PM ----------

Sorry to budge in...but what's being talked about above is about this ROM not supporting SD Cards? Or certain SD Cards?

How do I find out if my card is that "ExFat32" or whatever?

Thanks in advance
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nnyan:
For whatever reasons most of my phones have found Beans ROMs very innovative but less then stable. JB 5 is by a long shot the most stable. Not a single reboot or fc. GPS and BT are fine no data discos.

There are a few issues. Random graphical glitches on lock screen. Gallery is high use (no Facebook syncing on). Battery is OK (going to try stock kernel soon) but not the best.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
Lol it's either formatted as: exFat or Fat32.

You can check the format of your sd card via a computer and micro sd card adapter. This concerns any and all sd cards, format it to Fat32 if you're going to be a rooted user.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jdub251:
I just tried it and it stops and starts music beautifully absolutely flawless. To each his own and all i can tell u is make a backup and try it. Then if u don't like it then restore. I tried this with Pandora Apollo Google music and YouTube. Hope this helped. My guess is you'll try it and love it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -XIV-:
Okay good, just checked and it's "(MS-DOS)FAT32"

Damn, then that's odd how it's flawless with you but issues with the other member. Guess I won't know until I try :silly: Thanks for your input, I'll have to report back once I do this tomorrow.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] anto40428:
i just did this today... had to install a program called guiformat to format the sd card to fat32, its the only way... and then itll be perfect... even cwm will detect it...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kench33:
Yep tried with both bt and regular plug in headphones and it didn't leak out of the speaker
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nosympathy:
So I played a game today called WTF happened to my battery..below is what it looks like normally.

Also anyone else playing music notice that at times if you touch the screen with the power off it turns the volume down 25%?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hobart!:
First day on new LK 1.0.....not bad
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mikeman45:
Have you made any adjustments through set CPU app or anything or did you just flash and leave it alone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jonnyboiii:
Is there a fix for gps that won't lock? I can't play ingress because of it... :(

Some people's are still working, but is there anything I can do to better it?

Edit: I guess gps lock could only be obtained outside? Seems like it should be able to lock in a one story house...

Sent from my Verizon GS3 on Bean's B5
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlee08517:
Ugh... ATT just started pushing jelly bean update like an hour ago..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] llama555:
When I was playing Google music it was fine. Then I played a game with sounds. Then my music started playing out of the speakers. This was all while my phone was on vibrate. I did a clean install.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Roland_D:
Lol I got jb weeks ago... *Insert Jelly Beans Aroma splash image here*

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S III running Jelly Beans Build 5
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kench33:
Yeah I tried angry birds and that didn't happen to me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlee08517:
Temple run and hill climb racing do that to me all the time. Not everytime but quite often
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JWorth:
i actually have a very similar issue. I can almost NEVER boot directly into recovery when the phone is off. The only way i can get in is from rom manager. When i hold vol up, home and power it'll say Booting Recovery in the corner and then just not do anything and if i let go of the buttons the phone just boots normally
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] RJFrank33:
You can check the md5 of all your downloads and back when I unlocked my bootloader you could tell it was unlocked by the first screen that says Samsung just basically flashes by and no longer hangs for a few seconds. There might be a better way but since I'm unlocked I haven't looked into it for a while. As long as you followed the steps to unlock I'm sure you're alright.

Glad everything worked out. Flash on!

Sent from my S3 on Tapatalk.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] UberSuber:
Yeah, one of the first things I tried. No dice. And, again, my other devices are fine wired and wireless. Only my phone is having Wi-Fi issues. I guess I need to try it at work to see if I have the same issue there. That should clearly show whether it is the phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Valkyrie743:
just wanted to post that i LOVE LOVE LOVE this rom. was rocking AOKP, then Cleanrom lite 4.0 and now this. i missed aosp but for some reason aokp ran like crap compared to cleanrom lite 4.0 and this.

thanks so much for adding aosp to touchwiz :)

not sure if i skipped over anything but i read on droid life that verizon hid the blocking mode for the note 2. is this hidden for the gs3 as well? i miss the AOSP silent mode from aokp
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] deuce237bblock:
Anyone know why google services is so high?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hobart!:
No I did lkconfig option 2 I believe. Then set my voltages to what they should have been with system tuner.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cr4ck3r4lif3:
As soon as you see the blue text in the upper left from a powered off state, let go of the buttons and it'll boot into recovery.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dnoyeb:
Is there anything in these roms that would be keeping prl updates from being allowed?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ef-civic:
I did a full wipe when I installed v5. Now every time I install a new app, I have to reboot to get the app to run and to stop FC's.

Anyone else having this issue?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
What do you mean "blocks PRL updates"? With LTE sim, they update automatically. I hope you're not referring to *228 because that's a cdma/3g phone only function. It will fail on LTE phones.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] yonith:
Using the latest leankernel in this ROM and it appears overclock settings don't stick. This might be due to something thermal related. Worked fine for me on Cleanrom5.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlee08517:
it could be because of ur voltage settings.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Relentless D:
Check this and also make sure you don't have power saving mode on.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dcowboys2184:
What's wrong with this picture....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlee08517:
your phone was doing numerous things while u were asleep. :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dcowboys2184:
And I wonder what it was.. Hmmm
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlee08517:
it would be easier for us to help if you actually show us the battery stats
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] RJFrank33:
Agreed, you can't remain pressed too long and you can't let go too soon. There's no reason for it not to boot into recovery if you do that right.

Sent from my S3 on Tapatalk.