yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Lonelyskatter12:
It really is tbh, but that's just my opinion cx

If you do decide, I would recommend PAC-ROM, or a CM-12.1 Build.

AICP LP is kinda buggy for me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
UPDATE: Jan.16/16

OP updated with latest build

-synced Dec.9-Jan.5

Check following link for commits merged between those dates in 5.1. branch for changes.

http://review.pac-rom.com/#/q/status:merged
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 4thehalibit:
My phone had 2 random power offs during setup i came from stock I've never seen this before

Literally the phone powered down seems fine now just wondering if anyone had ever seen this before thought it war kinda strange
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
I get some power-offs when doing updates, backups or shortly thereafter when running on battery. Before I figured out what it was, I could only do updates if I put my phone in a freezer. Now I plug in my phone while updating and that seems to stop the problem. I think it's a problem with the power regulation chip...

The unfortunate situation is that as much as we all love the S3, we are all pushing beyond the lifespan it was probably engineered for. :(

Try plugging it in if you see it happen again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 4thehalibit:
It was plugged in i only had to do the initial setup twice i thought that may be the issue but was looking to see if anyone else had seen it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 4thehalibit:
you think this is bad I have my xoom Running lollipop now thats pushing limits
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
Hmm, you are the first to report, lets keep monitoring.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 4thehalibit:
Just heard from my son he is getting multiple random reboots randomly with no warning sitting in school pulls phone or and it is off
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
Is it reboots, shutdowns or both?

Shutdowns (pull it out and phone is off) tends to be hardware (battery near end of life, etc). When I have seen software crashes, the phone tends to reboot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cwhatever:
I have had problems like this and tried or got a new battery and problem solved, not always though.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bhays33:
Just curious if anybody is experiencing issues similar to this. I am on boost mobile and have been running and older beta version of this. Have been trying to update to the newest official Bill. I've tried December 9th 2015 and January 6th 2016 bills. None of these will allow me to actually get a data connection. I've tried the APN fix as usual. No go.

EDIT: fixed, I wound up having to flash the rom and then the APN fix and then the rom again allowing it to boot in between each time and finally achieve LTE data
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
Those are the steps for all lollipop and marshmallow roms for this phone. Just fyi
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
Just an update...

PAC has given up on AOSP based distribution and is going back to CM for marshmallow. IMHO, this is a move in the right direction and will result in a release.

Right now the base up on github is basically straight CM, the core devs will be adding in the PAC features you know and love. The powers that be request no public releases of PAC until it's ready.

When will that be? Only the wind knows...

Going forward, there may another release of PAC L for d2 devices, but I'm putting 95% of my effort into M at this point. Upstream work on L seems to have also dried up.

The good news is that L is a great release and if I had to be stuck on one for a while, this is it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] seac0n:
.-..8.

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Mmm.

M.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] lgxb:
So I am on ringplus with pac rom, but no data. What can I do? Is there any apn fix for ringplus ?

TIA
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wizzdome:
At least the camera works now hope that does not break with M!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
Were you having a problem with the camera on pac L? IIRC it always worked really well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wizzdome:
No I meant K broke the camera which pac seemed to fix in L... was the first rom I had for L with stable (mostly) camera. Still get power kills after taking pics especially using flash, but at least it works at all lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
Sounds like time for a new battery. I'm a big fan of the extended batteries from laza.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wizzdome:
I have 6 batteries, I thought that was the issue too, though the flashlight works just fine just flash don't play nice with camera sometimes, and noticed video quality has been choppy as well, haven't noticed any difference with newer or older batteries. Just my luck I suppose, as it works great on old cm 10 roms.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
If you can get me an adb logcat, I'd be glad to take a look. Really suspected the battery on that one though. :)

Don't post it to the forum, send it to me private in case there's anything sensitive in there.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wizzdome:
I actually think that it was the external charger... I since then I got a new one and the batteries seem to be doing fine... thanks tho... (not sure if not actually having mobile service could have something to do with it either, but I am running a spr with no service wifi is all I needed)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
Cool!

Now that I think of it, I have had to replace my USB port on my S3 twice. You might also not be getting a great connection to the charger.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
UPDATE: 27 April 2016

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Commits can be seen here: http://review.pac-rom.com/#/q/status:merged

For changes just look back to the date of your last rom.

Download: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2015525&page=1

You must update your gapps before booting this one!!!

Temp download link: https://s.basketbuild.com/devs/pacman/d2spr/Official

Enjoy!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wizzdome:
is that an easy fix ??? I havent pulled the s3 apart but I would really love to put in a new usb as I have to hold the cable sometimes to get a connection
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
I wouldn't say it's super hard, but you need the right tools and a steady hand. The S3 port has the usual 5 usb pins, plus some extras that have a VERY small pitch. It's very easy to bridge them.

A temp controlled soldering iron (50-60 watts min), desoldering sucker, some fine Pb solder and decent flux. I wouldn't even attempt this with lead-free solder. It's just too easy to bridge. Buy more than one port, I ruined the first one, at least they are cheap.

There are actually videos up on youtube that show the process pretty well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wizzdome:
Yeah I definitely am crappy at soldering... was hoping it might have been just a plug... oh well the external charger works unconditionally and the less I use it the longer it will last I suppose. lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
I am a big fan of the cheap ebay qi chargers and antennas on ebay. For under 10$ you can get a qi antenna and charger and be set up with wireless charging.

As a side bonus, it helps your USB port last longer as usage goes waaay down.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wizzdome:
not to rush or anything... just wondering how goes 6.0 ? been using a regular cm 13 now running great... hoping to play with a 6.0 pac rom soon.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] rootinchase:
All the U.S. S2's, S3's, and S4's don't have FM, and only the sprint S5 has FM, all the S1's, s6's, and S7's have it unless they're Verizon.

I've tried to get FM to work on here, but like everyone else, i had no success.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] pwd847:
I updated all my firmware today. I have OH1. Now my LTE doesn't work. I tried the VM APN fix and still no dice. This has worked for years but not this time.

My apn says n.vmu.ispsn

There is another APN but I never heard of it. eHRPD?

I have Virgin Mobile and I loaded the Sprint pac-rom.

EDIT: My bad. It's been so long since I flashed my phone I forgot that I needed to flash rom-GApps-APN fix, and then boot up, then reboot to recovery and flash rom on dirty system again, then LTE works.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
PAC ALPHA MARSHMALLOW

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Commits can be seen here: http://review.pac-rom.com/#/q/status:merged

For changes just look back to the date of your last rom.

Download: https://s.basketbuild.com/devs/pacman/d2spr/Alpha

Flash it clean for your first time.

Flash opengapps, but do not flash "super" or "stock". Any of the others will work.

Problems have been reported if you flash SuperSU.

Do not use Titanium Backup to migrate your phone settings, including SMS, from Lollipop. SMS Backup and Restore by Carbonite seems to work well.

Otherwise, this build is now stable enough to be my daily driver. It's noticably snappy and many trifles have been fixed with M.

Enjoy!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Cykosnake:
The basketbuild site is down. Any chance of an alternate download site? Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
Have a suggestion of a download site?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Cykosnake:
I use them all like androidfilehost, mega, rapidshare... Thanks again.:D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DanteDFG:
Android File Host was the easiest site for me to download things on a ultra slow connection before my ISP came so then plz

. Been waiting so long to make this my driver :/

Really appreciate it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] rootinchase:
Basketbuild is back up!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] funeralplanner:
For some reason it won't let me download. I always get a blank screen....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
PAC MARSHMALLOW FINAL

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Commits can be seen here: http://review.pac-rom.com/#/q/status:merged

For changes just look back to the date of your last rom.

Download: https://s.basketbuild.com/devs/pacman/d2spr/Official

Flash it clean for your first time.

Dirty flash OK if you are currently on a PAC M version.

Flash opengapps, but do not flash "super" or "stock". Any of the others will work.

Problems have been reported if you flash SuperSU.

Do not use Titanium Backup to migrate your phone settings, including SMS, from Lollipop. SMS Backup and Restore by Carbonite seems to work well.

Upstream has really been busy, this build is very snappy and the most stable yet.

Bad News

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https://plus.google.com/communities/103029729817409918322

PAC is rebranding, this is the last official PAC build for d2. The Crew Formally Known as PAC (TCFKP) hasn't decided the new direction yet. I personally suspect it will be AOSP based, and not support D2 (and plenty of others).

So, I don't know the new direction of TCFKP or my own, but I'm pretty sure you guys haven't seen the last of me in the D2 forums.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] naterza:
SuperSu

Is there a solution to the SuperSu issue? Any way to have working root?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
I have working root without it. What specific problem are you seeing?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] naterza:
Constant notifications that apps were granted superuser permissions. Over the period of about 10 minutes, for the five apps that I granted superuser permissions, I was notified well over a hundred times. The notifications just kept looping over and over.

The only reason I flashed SuperSu was because after a fresh install, there was no root. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. The original 5.7.1 rom that was posted I had working root without installing SuperSu so I'm kind of lost.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] manfromgta:
Is root access enabled in developer options?

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] naterza:
Thank you! This was the problem.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] demonseedxp:
hey guys, I'm having some trouble out of my friends phone he brought to me to root and rom for him. So I did, and now his old boost mobile sph-l710 is sporting this sweet pac rom.

I thought everything was golden after setup, so I had him come get it, he almost immediately after leaving, called me from the device and said it doesn't have data and little while later reported it doesn't have Bluetooth ether.

I now have it back, and digging into the about side of the phone and scouring the web looking for a clue as how to fix it, so far I have nada... so I'm really hoping one of you guys have seen this behavior before and know a way round it.

The IMEI info seems intact so at least there's that...

I'll read out all the info I see in the device that is incorrect....

Under Sim status, it says the cellular network state is disconnected, but it is able to place and receive calls...but no data? The service state says both are in service, cell and data...

Device serial number is reset to 0000000000

IP address is unavailable

Bluetooth is posting it's MAC when paired to a device, but wont connect.

Checking in the cellular network setting and everything looks good, preferred is LTE

oddly enough checking the data page says google services has used 2.28 MB of mobile data... idk how that's possible but there it is, I'm utterly confused.

Google search has yielded hardly any leads for me to follow, so swallowing my pride, I'm pleading for some guidance from the pros. help me please!

lol I dont want all my efforts on my buddy's device to ultimately be the reason we stop being friends! :eek:

this is the first "still in use" no sim type phone I've ever worked on + my first Samsung to root, so it's not impossible I did something incorrectly, I sincerely hope that's not the case tho.

EDIT: I just remembered I snapped a pic if the MEID before flashing the device, and appon comparison to the current being displayed they are not the same, the IMEI IS but MEID shown in decimal and hex on kitkat only display as a unidentified string in marshmallow that is NOT the same string as prior to flashing...

ICCID and PRL both match before and after... I am so out of my league here, idk what a fraction of this even means!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
What is the filename of the version you used?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] demonseedxp:
Trying again from scratch

pac_d2spr_MM.Alpha.1.Official_20160812-204410.zip

I've managed to fix the phones broken modem. After days of digging through forum threads I came across this post that outline a bug in cyanogenmod that would knock out the stock modem because of a driver conflict. It went on to explain that using the one-click oden that does a 100% stock restore on the device, would not only fix the now broken hardware, but would update the firmware on the device to a version that is compatible with cyanogenmod.

And so far so good, I have done the restore on the device, and reflashed twrp, and currently my finger is on the trigger to turn loose Pac on this poor old phone one more time.

Tho since you asked the question you did, gives me pause and makes me wonder, ? do I have the correct files ? lol man I sure hope so!

Hopefully you'll see this soon and respond to let me know, because I've had this dudes phone a week tomorrow, and I feel completely awful about it. Tho at the same time, I'm really annoyed that he's annoyed at me over this debacle.

Needless to say, the sooner I can give this guy his phone back, the sooner I can get some much deserved sleep. This is single handedly the worst experience I've ever had working on a phone, and as icing on the cake, the damn Samsung drivers the phone requires have killed my insiders preview build of win10 and has it crashing blue screen on boot. Rolled it back, just to have it upgrade its self again, and not save the previous build this time, Thanks for the kick in the gut microsoft! Had to setup a 7 partition just to work on this thing.

I just want this thing gone out of my life. lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
Well, that's the first I have heard of that one. Sounds like you are good to go though.

If you followed my links, you should have the right build. When someone starts describing something really wierd, I go back to basics first. :)

I haven't had any problem with the samsung drivers, but I use the "drivers only" install, not the whole big samsung kies install.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] demonseedxp:
/facepalm what am i DOING WRONG HERE!?

Just reinstalled Pac and once again, the serial all 000000 and no data!? I'm letting oden have its way with the device one more time, but please for the love of god, guide me through the process of installing from kitkat to marshmallow.

A simple 1,2,3 ought to do me, but I'm clearly doing something I shouldn't,

Even better heres exactly what I'm doing,

Flash twrp and boot in

Wipe the entire phone - ext-sdcard

flash pac + gapps +xposed

= failure :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
Wipe system too.

Don't install xposed.

Don't install "super" or "stock" gapps. They won't work. Use one of the smaller ones.

You aren't flashing dirty, right?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] demonseedxp:
I still dont truly know what y'all mean by that, but I dont think so. like I said I wiped EVERYTHING except the external removable sdcard.

just for kicks on this last attempt I did not wipe the internal storage in hopes that it was my fault the serial was getting reset to 0000000 thinking I was perhaps deleting some kind of identity file, but nope, didn't change a thing. still all 00000 and still no data.

I'm so over this device.

I'm ready to admit defeat and trow in the towel. I just don't understand why this keeps happening.

Nothing I do seems to make a difference to the final outcome.

You mentioned something about a firmware only installation, where do tell ,can I get my hands on such a thing. Because I'm reaching the end of my tolerance level and if I cant soon remedy this (preferably without reinstalling) I'm probably just going to track down some other stock based kitkat and send it out the door. If it were my personal device I'd be more willing to figure it out, but I've already got an absurd amount of time and effort thrown at this thing and I'm pretty sure I'll see no compensation or even gratitude for any of it, so now I'm looking for the exit, I want off this boat.

If you cant tell me where I've gone wrong (and btw, thank you very much for taking the time to assist me) then this is the end of the road for me.

also on the topic of what I'm installing, yes it is the Micro gapps I'm using, I do try my best to adhere to the guidelines of the up-loader when using a new product and you explicitly said no Stock, so I listened, sorta... you never said not to install xposed... so I figured what the hell.

I've always done the same to my own devices and it's never broken anything, but if you think it could be a contributing factor I'll gladly give it one more try and do exactly what you say, but at this point my optimism isn't to high.

[EDIT] Possible lead?

I just remembered something that I read while researching all this mess, dealing with all the various galaxy s3 models and their origins.

I'll have to dig through my browser history to find the article but it boiled down to a simple way of telling where the phone was manufactured. The way it gave to tell if it was an american model was simply to look at the battery cover, if it's black with a carrier logo printed on it then it's an american model and if it has a white shell with SAMSUNG printed on it, then it was produced over seas, and I found that interesting because this device does have a white shell with SAMSUNG on it and not Boost Mobile or Sprint.

Could that have anything to do with why this one is not behaving in the predicted manner?

The thing that triggered this line of thinking was the sticky thread here in the development forum saying not to install international roms.

I didn't actually read the thread yet, but when the thought occurred to me, seemed worth mentioning.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
There is a "samsung info" app on the app store. Load it up and tell me all the versions.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] demonseedxp:
Well after much pain a suffering I finally got it to accept a custom rom and not break everything, unfortunately tho it was a 4.4.4 SlimKat rom lol and that's where it's going to stay. The tag on the rom was d2lte so I guess I was just putting the wrong rom on it the whole time. Who knew?! oh well, least it didnt go home with it's SAMSUCK OS on it, so at least that's something! Still pretty disappointing, but what can ya do. Win some and you get your ass kicked around for a week by some others.

I'd just like to say thanks for trying to help me figure it out none the less. Much appreciated.

On to the next device....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] koobie777:
You should be able to use a d2spr rom and flash an APN fix for boost or virgin. After boot setup dirty flash ROM again to get data
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] googleygoggles:
Same problem on RingPlus. I've been looking for a solution for a while. Still havn't found a solution either... Sigh...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
Edit the APN.

http://apn-settings.com/us/ringplus-apn-settings-easy-setup-guide/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] googleygoggles:
NM, I had already tried that, anyways, I just flashed back and all is good. Maybe next time I try this ROM I'll have discovered a fix
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] armandop_:
I had that problem, just flash this

http://xdaforums.com/moto-e-2015/cdma-development/flashable-lte-fix-moto-e-6-x-boost-t3290719

Flash it after you flash ROM and gapps and it should pop up different mnvos just choose the one you have
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Re-Raze:
Data but no calls?

Hello Im running pac_d2spr_LP-MR1.Official_20160427-195513.zip and I cant seem to activate service

I can use the network for data but when making calls it says "your account could not be validated"

Anyone have a solution?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Make a nandroid backup, flash a Touchwiz ROM, and activate your phone. Then restore your backup.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Re-Raze:
Thanks so much for your reply. Any particular TouchWiz rom and gapps?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
Any, (wicked x comes to mind). TouchWiz ROMs don't need gapps.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Preferably one that matches your baseband in settings/about device. And like [MENTION=5752019]madbat99[/MENTION] said, Touchwiz ROMs have GApps built in. AOSP ROMs were asked not to include them by Google themselves a few years ago.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Re-Raze:
My baseband is L710VPUDOH1

WICKED says nd8. Does that matter or can I factory wipe and flash?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
It should work, but it's honestly been too long since I've had this device for me to say for sure.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
Are you sure you don't have the triband? (Model ends in t. Sph-l710t)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
You have to check behind your battery.

Also, this project is dead. After the disbanding of PAC the d2 maintainers (john and myself) have moved to Team Octos. I have left this thread up in case someone has a specific reason they need an M build, but all others should probably be on something a bit more recent.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Re-Raze:
Hi. the model number on the phone is SPH-L710. i may need a different rom besides wicked x for a touchwiz rom because it ALWAYS boot loops. flash nd8 . still just the boot animation. Any would you happen to have a link to another touchwiz rom? sorry for the hassle since im just going to abandon the rom as soon as I get the service fixed
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
Any stockrom will be touchwiz.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
when coming from any rom after lollipop, going to kitkat, you have to wipe internal storage as well as data.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] orcecso:
reup pls

may i ask kindly for any person who can reup this rom for me? even though its old i would love to have it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] clearchris:
I thought I might have had the build environment still, but no, it's gone. You might be able to rebuild it from github if you really want it. Otherwise, check out the build for TeamOctos, it's where pretty much all of PAC-ROM moved to after Konami shut us down.