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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ITALIANNYC:
I gotta say, I HATE UPS. I dont know why T-mobile uses them. You get overnight delivery and of course they ring the wrong bell and do not come back. I live on ground floor and they up and ring top bell. Fed EX of course would always come back. Thank fully the overnight delivery was basically be free, but that sucks. I also wish they would just leave the phone sometimes but they never do, even though it is not sig required. ( Drivers Discruction )

Gotta wait till Monday now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] pizzadragon:
sux brohim

had the same thing happen to me. this was back when i was dong the stock ICS update through (hang myself) Kies. Thankfully T-mobile sent me a new one at no charge and i didn't pay for the shipping either. either battery fried or something in the phone. seems to have been a fairly rare but known prob with the t989.

i always seem to to get the units that are within the .05% of defective units, no matter what company i buy from.

Here's to hoping you get better luck with the next unit! :raise a beer:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ITALIANNYC:
Quick question

I have used GB for my gs2 from the beginning and never upgraded to ICS.

I am worried that the replacement they send will have ICS in it. Simply put, will it be easy for me to put GB on the phone when I get it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Android_Monsters:
You can root and flash a gb Rom
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ludbosanac17:
You can go through odin and follow the tutorial on galaxys2root.com to unroot and ffash to stock GB. Link provided. The power button may have been stuck on yours but congratulations on getting it replaced. Just follow that tutorial and it will get you to stock 2.3.6 GB with no root or anything done, completely stock.

http://galaxys2root.com/t-mobile-ga...ck-t-mobile-galaxy-s2-sgh-t989-android-2-3-6/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ITALIANNYC:
Was messing around with the power button today pushing it 100 times and it finally turned on. Figures it would turn on when I'm getting a new one on Monday. Least I now backed up all my pix and contacts. Now point in keeping this one though, probably gunna happen again. Keeping the new one.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DroidDonX:
Wow another S2 down with a defective power button. I just had to send my out to get fixed for the same problem. This is become more common
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ITALIANNYC:
So I received the phone today. Came stock with 4.0.4.

I plug it into my computer and kies gives me this

" Your device does not support software upgrading via Kies "

What the hell is that all about.

Oh and when I made my first call, I heard the people on the other end, but they did not hear me. I had to battery pull. It sucks because that was an issue with my phone on GB, figured it might have been fixed with ICS. Guess not. It really makes me sick that this happens. Sometimes I call someone and I hear nothing at all. Its happened with both GB and ICS. When the hell are they going to issue a fix for this crap.

First thing that I noticed and do not like is that when I use the keyboard, the phone vibrate heptic or w.e is not as strong as it was with GB. Also the voice on the other end sounds more muffled and more can like than GB. Not sure if thats the phone though
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ITALIANNYC:
I keep reading that ICS stock verison UVLH1 ICS 4.0.4 is the Official tmobile and best ICS rom for stock

The phone they sent me is Baseband Version UVLI1.

I cant find anything on this version. What is it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] aj_sdd:
Time for upgrade maybe you can convince them to send you S3
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] sparkie6point0:
I had to just replace my S2 with a new one from t-mo because I had tons of problems with my original phone once it upgraded to ICS. "Hanging" goodbye (didn't want to shut off unless you took out the battery, even after the buzz - which tells me that I may possibly had a stuck on/off switch too), lost the phone's internal driver so that the phone can be plugged into my PC, internet and processes became S-L-O-W-E-R than molasses, and more.

I'm assuming that, since all the S2's now have ICS on them shipping out, Samsung may have added a little additional processor power or something in order for it to run efficiently on ICS. All I know is that it runs a little faster than my original S2 did. And no problems - SO FAR.

P.S. UPS really does suck - they tried to deliver twice to my house, didn't leave one of those sticky things that said they were there, and I finally wound up going to a UPS service facility where I had to wait over one hour to get my new phone. :rolleyes:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] ITALIANNYC:
I am not really happy with it. Seems slower to me. Not as smooth. Still sometimes the person on the other line cant hear me, and vice versa with the battery pull, but I had that with my old phone and GB also. If I am going to have it either way though, id rather just stay smoother with GB.

What did your new one come with? Mine is UVLI1. Kernel 3.0.8
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] VeryCoolAlan:
I just got this phone....and I see there are over 100 threads in the dev section...all I want it a..

Close to Stock Samsung ROM w/o any themes.

Kernel

Jussss that ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DownTheCross:
I just got my s3 yesterday, rooted it pretty much instantly and ran ashamans debloater tool just to give stock a chance. But being the flashaholic I am I had to flash drewgaren's jellybean747 milestone 7 and so far so good.

But I am thinking of trying some of the aokp/aosp ROMs, coming from an HTC vivid though its really nice to have so many options, so its extremely tempting to go flash crazy.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrhomiec:
i think right now, the top ROMs closest to stock are both by DrewGaren.

JellyBean747 Milestone 7 and Serenity 1.2

JellyBean747 is based off the Sprint version that has received the official JellyBean release so far. and with that, you get the Sprint apps pre-loaded.

and the Serenity ROM is based off the AT&T Galaxy Note 2. so it's Jelly Bean, but you get some stylus related settings.

i have tried both, and i personally like (and am still using) Serenity. one of the main reasons i'm on Serenity, is because i'm on the AT&T shared family plan, where i have official wi-fi tethering. and it can only work on an AT&T based TouchWiz ROM. (but also for CM10 and AOKP ROMs).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blaker13:
Intergalactic is stock with a awesome kernel and amazing battery life, my daily driver for a week and it's awesome. Put the jelly bean theme to it and have a sick rom with great looks, EVERYTHING works and just awesome battery.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Rekzer:
My friend Bought a SGSIII from Telus, i hope to get one to if this all works, and we were using the Android toolkit 2.3 to get Clockwork and TWRP onto the phone which worked(we tried both and got errors which ill show in pics)

When i copy the latest CM nightly to his SD and try to fail, i get this 'assert failed' error. Screenshot attached.

Current its on stock and rooted, but thats as far as we can go.

IS there a fix for this? I flashed using the latest toolkit.

Also, i cant seem to find a definitive answer on these forums regarding this, just alot of uncertainty and different opinions.

1.) Is there any harm in flashing a Rogers modem on a Telus device, or vice versa, wouldnt that just convert the phone into another carriers device since they carry it to.

2.) Are there ANY restrictions on what can be flashed, i realize 90% of roms will be AT&T, is there any chance of bricking by using this.

Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrhaley30705:
Update to newest cwm, or use twrp
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] klin1344:
Open the updater-script and delete the first few lines which check if you are flashing on the correct device.

Alternatively, you can just change your build.prop to "d2att" and it will flash. I'm pretty sure that the i747m will run the i747 ROMs, as long as you have the right radio flashed.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Rekzer:
Got it all goin! Thanks guys!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tony_YYZ:
What was the resolution?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Rekzer:
Steps were

Use Tooklit to Install TWRP and Root Phone

Download a build.prop editor and change all d2can to d2att

Reboot phone

Install goo manager, menu button, install recovery script(should install the d2att one)

Reboot into recovery..flash CM

CM's self updater works after this cause i think the ATT boot loader is on there. Very good stuff!

You COULD maybe skip alot of it, and install the ATT boot loader from the toolkit, but this is what worked for me on 3 devices(coworkers/mine)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrhaley30705:
Or, you could have used ROM manager to upgrade to cwm 6.0.1.2 or newer.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stevehkim:
Rpm manager supports sgs3? I was under the impression never use rom manager from s2 days.

Suped up S3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrhaley30705:
It works on s3. I've used it a couple times. Worked great on my old Inspire too.
[Galaxy S III General] suarsg:
Let me start off by saying - I have never rooted or installed any custom roms or whatever on my phone. The reason is that I just wanted a phone and not play around with it anymore (playing around = more can break).

Since my SGS3 notified me about the JB update and I installed it via OTA i literally started hating my phone. Here are multiple reasons why:

WiFi does not work. I have the same N-router I had before JB and since then my phone couldn't log in to my WiFi network - always stuck on "authenticating". I then configured the phone to use a static IP and not DHCP and it can connect successfully to my network - but I have NO internet connection. I now my router is fine because it used to work great before and my Nexus 7 as well as ALL other devices work without a problem. I refuse to downgrade my routers speed to B- or G-speed.

Google Calendar won't sync. Under Sync -> Google, for more than a week it says "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly.". Mail and Contacts etc. sync just fine. Calendar on my Nexus 7 syncs fine too. ****ing annoying to not have your appointments visible.

Battery dies _much_ faster. For some reason the battery doesn't last anywhere as long as it used to with ICS. I'm not doing anything different, the battery just drains and drains. I have a suspicion about "gpsd" which sometimes pops up under "Settings -> Battery" even though I haven't used Google Maps or anything. I keep killing it but the phone still dies at least three times faster than before. So it must be more than just gpsd.

F*cking hot! Using it to text someone real quick - the phone gets really hot at the bottom. What the F is up with that? I'm not playing a game or watching a movie or whatnot. 1 minute of WhatsApp makes my phone go toast. On ICS i had to really push the phone to become hot.

Slow. Navigating menus etc. got of course more smooth than on ICS but I have a feeling that a lot of apps now work worse than before. For example the contacts app starts even slower than it did before (>2 seconds). No matter which browser I use, it lags far more often than before. Don't know what it is, but it's definitely there.

What the f*ck is this bullsh*t Samsung? I'm not a power user and have no "special" apps installed. Stock ROM, no root etc. and still a buttload of problems since JB. On ICS everything was great.

I guess I could reset my phone to factory. But seriously - that's not acceptable. Backing up my texts, messages, photos, app settings etc. is too time consuming and annoying. And what if after resetting the phone the WiFi still doesn't work - am I supposed to use my mobile data to download all those apps (Google Search is like 10 MB, other apps are no little fly either). It adds up (time + money).

That Google Nexus 4 is starting too look really good right about now. But I'd rather keep my Samsung. Although I'm probably NOT gonna buy any Samsung phone again any time soon.
[Galaxy S III General] Arsaw:
You are just bad luck for been updated with faulty firmware.
[Galaxy S III General] enigmaamit:
I don't know if I'd agree with all the issues you're having, but is have to agree with you on the fact that Sammy jellybean for the s3 is not really that good...I've tried all of them including stock odexed and deodexed, wanam, insertcoin, omega, etc etc... they're all great roms, but the base is still Sammy jellybean, and battery life sucks when compared to ics. Also, app performance is better on ics based Roms. The buttery smoothness also lasts for only some time after boot and gradually the UI status stuttering, as do the launchers, whether touchwiz or third party... probably the reason why I'm still on an ics Rom.

Tapatalked from my SIII
[Galaxy S III General] IntenseTorture:
Thanks for the valuable info mate. Is there no alternative for us to use jellybean?? Will AOKP/AOSP or Cyanogen Roms help?? I am on Jellybean base currently. ICS was a lot better
[Galaxy S III General] enigmaamit:
AOSP based Roms are definitely good options to official Sammy jellybean, but the problems are with closed source drivers etc that are not available to AOSP Roms. So stuff like tethering, camera, etc will never be as good as the official firmware...

Best thing is for Sammy to develop a jellybean update with these issues fixed... till then I guess you should stick to AOSP/AOKP for a better jellybean experience.

Tapatalked from my SIII
[Galaxy S III General] Striatum_bdr:
That's why I have dual boot. Paranoid as primary for performance; smoothness (and only 160 MB to download !! plus google apps), and a Sammy ROM as secondary for tethering when I need it.
[Galaxy S III General] eseregin:
Let's wait for a wile... Sammy promised to public some sorces. Will see in just a week what it will be.

Bad side - most good programmers left developing cm10 for sgs3...

So not many who will be able pick up the cm10 flag and rise it again even if Sammy will public sources..
[Galaxy S III General] LTame:
I had the same problem until yesterday, when i decided to factory reset my phone. Used TitaniumBackup and took about 2 hours to restore everything :|

Now it's much much better. I had to restart my phone about 2~3 times a day before. I haven't since resetting.
[Galaxy S III General] Ausboy 2011:
boot recovery mode and wipe data
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
On the contrary I started loving my phone after jb update and I even dumped aokp for samsung rom ;)

Smooth ui

Faster than ics

Improved camera features

Much more to say

There are one or two glitches here and there but none of them are show stoppers, absolutely happy with jb

《swagged from aokp》
[Galaxy S III General] htcsnap93:
I returned to stock rom because it has a better battery life than wanam his. But i love it. I dont have any problems you mentioned. I wish the best for you and I hope you full whipe and flash again. This would propably fix all your problems.

Also to people who are restoring apps with TB, i stopped this method because I am convinced it does more harm to the rom than good
[Galaxy S III General] enigmaamit:
To each his own I guess... but I believe the battery is much worse on jellybean as compared to ics on Sammy Roms...and apps behave much better on ics too.

As far as project butter is concerned, UI smoothness is nowhere near what jellybean promised at release... still stutters badly at times... ics feels more at home on the s3, at least with the current lot of jellybean releases by Sammy

Tapatalked from my SIII
[Galaxy S III General] pwhooftman:
Same here. Even better battery because of the wifi schedule feature.
[Galaxy S III General] bala_gamer:
What problems did I mentioned? Lol

And btw how does tb restore affects your rom? ;)

《swagged from aokp》
[Galaxy S III General] Cloudstrife:
Me too... Went from great phone to hate phone. JB just brought me more STOP errors. Even gallery now stops 1-2 times a week.

I hate the grey topbar. I have a bug that when i exit an app, i can see the shadows in the icons slowly returning back instead of beeing instant in ICS.

The phone is also slower. Project butter is just not there. It's like samsung took that out...

dissapointed and want to sell the phone :(
[Galaxy S III General] irawanjohan:
Happened to me when I had my Galaxy Note. Did an ICS OTA update and everything went wrong.

Now, I'm using S3, I am now using custom ROM and happy about it, faster and lighter with no problem at all.
[Galaxy S III General] htcsnap93:
I wasnt referreling to you. I was just as positive as you are ;)

Restoring from TB is just a personal weirdness, I have the idea that pushing all that data into /system sometimes corrupts. I prefer a clean install from Play.

Also i have seen dozensbof people restoring ICS apps and data and complaining the Rom is bad. Thats why I prefer people not too.
[Galaxy S III General] rQvsnaps:
Either root and install a custom rom or wipe data and setup from scratch.

Every now and then software can and will be broken by an update, it doesnt matter if its samsung/android, windows, or even ios - updating can go wrong. Go ahead and get a nexus, even though the chance is slim its possible that the same thing happens when the next update is pushed out.

Im not defending samsung at all, obviously it sucks having to wipe data to fix the problem, but in the end it will solve it - as well as rooting and installing a custom rom will.

Whats with the F*kn language btw?
[Galaxy S III General] jgalvez21:
1 . try wanamlite, android revolution hd and checkrim

2- s-memo and stock browser eat battery disable them.

those two should fix most of ur problems if they dont it's a app u installed.
[Galaxy S III General] rab1412000:
Stock browser? This is the first time I heard that it affects battery life.

Doesn't it give better battery than chrome?
[Galaxy S III General] hallydamaster:
As I recall it, I ran ICS stock for a while (rooted though). Then when JB arrived I installed a version of Omega on top of it without wiping.

I have never had any problems with force closing, battery drain og performance issues. I actually felt my device became a lot faster with this.

In the past when I had any problems with my SGS2, I just backed up everything with TB, wiped and then flashed a clean ROM.

I have never had any problems restoring any of my apps with TB.

I know some users struggle with rooting their phone, and really just want it to work out of the box, but then I can't figure why they didn't buy an iPhone instead. I'm not an Apple hater, I actually think they make a great phone for most people.
[Galaxy S III General] bass2b2000:
Having WIFI trouble as well now. If someone can help, I would very much appreciate it.

Running stock Rom, done nothing to the phone, no root no nothing. Got OTA update to 4.1.1 and suddenly Wifi does'nt work anymore. Well it does work if im very close to the router, but if im more than 3 meters away it does'nt. I can still be connected, but there just is not anything happening when trying to use browser or Google Play for instant. And after a while an error occurs, "authenticating failed". Forgetting the network and reconnect works, but just for a short while.

Then i did factory reset, did'nt fix it.

Flashed latest stable Cyanogenmod 4.1.2 with sgs toolkit, did'nt fix it.

Flashed back to stock 4.0.4 from sammobile.com, still not fixing the Wifi problems.

I'm out of ideas, anyone got one?
[Galaxy S III General] alexx910:
If you have issues with your firmware, just download the latest official one, like now the LJ5 or what it is. flash it to your phone and make a factory reset, then your phone should be ok, my galaxy s3 on JB with the polish firmware is actually ok, battery life isnt the best, but if I dont use it too much, I lasts up to 2 days.

And it doesnt get too hot.

I guess you are back luck ryan with your s3 :D Just do what I said and it should be ok again. And dont forget to backup your stuff or do at least a list with the apps you had.
[Galaxy S III General] testadeferro:
I tryed different roms, and I tell you that the LJ5 rom its flawless, good battery ( i think better then ics) no problems with wifi at all and nothing that I can say its worser then in ICS.

Maybee you should do a wipe and try again.

Battery is an issue that you only can talk after 3 or 4 cycles of full charge discharge.

S3 as lack of sources and the best is to keep stock rom and use a good kernel like syah or perseus. And you just will feel the difference and you probably be happy again with your s3.
[Galaxy S III General] :
If not by JellyBean = SIII sold out for Galaxy Nexus.

If I use ICS = CM10/CM9, but never Samsung ICS.

My solution for you: downgrade to ICS and stop posting useless threads. Or, you know, can try flashing another FW to see if your bugs go away, or even wipe data, because here is more than perfect.

ps: don't know about other people, but when I get any problems I don't desperately cry to XDA thinking it will solve my problems. I get up, take my time, flash a firmware, wipe data, and check if the bug got fixed. If not, I try another firmware, and then, read last pages of firmware thread, and if I find no solution, I ask IN THE THREAD.
[Galaxy S III General] jetbruceli:
I mostly ran stock for awhile but I came acrossed omega rom and with power saving on when not using it, it really runs super well!

Anyways buddy try wiping and starting over it could be some Apps that need to be installed after the update
[Galaxy S III General] suarsg:
Thank you guys for all the posts!

I decided to give it a try and start from scratch over the weekend (I just hope WiFi will work again so I don't have to download all those apps over 3G).

I noticed some people referred to resetting as "wiping" - is it the same as when I just go to Settings -> Back up and reset -> Factory data reset? (since I have no root I'm not sure how else I'd do it).
[Galaxy S III General] htcsnap93:
Yes, factory reset is known as a full whipe.

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[Galaxy S III General] Teio:
If you're gonna take your time to do this, why don't you root and flash a custom rom? It's not difficult and won't take long...
[Galaxy S III General] zodiaxe66:
Flashing is addictive and fun,but if u are a noob then read(recover from boot loop,odin,cwm) as much as u can before flashing,this will save u from much headaches,everything u need to read is here in this forum..

AND its almost impossible to brick Samsung phones...have fun:good:
[Galaxy S III General] speedyjay:
Turn your device off, put it back in the box, go to your local cex or something and flog it if you don't like it.
[Galaxy S III General] dstech:
I've tried many different jelly beam ROMs and I've also come too the conclusion that battery drain is worse. I know there is septate thread for battery drain issues so I don't want this thread to turn into another one. I went back to ICS recently and it's much better again. I'm using the omega 13.1 ICS ROM. Also I think depending on your region the modem may be an issue. Try flashing back your old modern if it was working fine before. There is a separate thread with all the modems in it too.

Oh ya, omega ROM has a special deep sleep app to force it with screen off. I think this helps out tremendously. It's called "fast dormancy toggle".