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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bmwguy:
I very much appreciate the responses. I realize what everyone is saying about it not being the phone and most likely being a sprint issue. I totally have been in agreement up until recently I started suspecting the phone. Like others here I have been with sprint for several years. I have also lived in the same area for all of those years. My phone doesnt roam, doesnt switch between 3 and 4g in my area. This is also my fifth android phone (first was the hero) and my 8th smart phone. I have over the past several years OCCASIONALLY received duplicate texts from one or more of my android phones. What I have experienced with my gs3 is far from occasional. It is constant. We are talking the same text repeated 18 times. It happens every day. Not once or a few times a week but literally multiple times every day. It isn't with one or 2 specific contacts but with multiple contacts included automated texts such as texts from twitter updates. It happened on a clean install. Flashed modem, kernel and ROM. All stock touch wiz sprint stuff. Not a single third party app installed. Previously I did the service reactivation and it helped slightly. I tried it again 2 days ago, roughly a week after flashing the clean ROM and I will say that it has helped a lot. Over the past 2 days I have only received one duplicate text and it only came through twice. If this was the norm then I would be more than happy. Time will tell if it is fixed or not and I will definitely update this thread.

The reason I suspect the phone is because of the immense frequency of the problem. My theory is that if the radio or antenna is weak or failing then this could be why the frequency is so high. Also, I have been experimenting with using the phone with and without the case on and it seems to be worse when the. Case is on. So, in theory if the antenna is weak then the case makes it even harder for the signal to get through. I could be off base but that's my theory.

Also, my daughter has my hand me down galaxy s2. She has zero duplicate texts. We live in the same house and go to the same places. Her phone has never had the issue. I dunno. Maybe the gs3 in general has a weak radio or maybe its my specific phone. Either way its totally frustrating and I doing want to deal with it any longer.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mouseglider:
One note to your theory - your daughter has an S2 which although is 4G, it is WiMax 4G and your S3 is LTE 4G - your daughter's S2 will not have the same trouble as your S3 because the 4G WiMax towers have been up and running for a while, while Sprint is still working on the LTE 4G, so that could be one of your problems.

With that being said, I am sort of in the same situation, my wife doesn't have the text problem as often or severe as mine as she has an original Epic WiMax 4G and I have a S3 LTE 4G, although my worst case has been repeating text maybe 3 or 4 in a row and then sometimes the same text come to me like an hour to two hours later, but this only happens in spurts every once in a while, as the spurts of duplicate texts happen maybe every other couple of months and only last for like a day, then everything is fine again. I also have been in the same location for the 14 or so years that I have been with Sprint. Anyways, just a thought.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bmwguy:
That's a good point. Maybe it has something to do with it. I thought that SMS used the phones voice network though rather than data? I thought only MMS used data. BTW I have never received a duplicate MMS. Also there is no 4g lte in my area yet.

Thanks for your thoughts.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mouseglider:
Whether or not SMS, MMS uses any data or not (I don't have LTE here either), the fact remains that they are working on/upgrading their towers. Who knows if they have to shut it down or reboot or if there is any type of que or cache that resend any data if it has to shut down even for split second. Anyway, just another thought.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] iamnotbrian:
I have had Sprint for several years and live in a weird part of Pittsburgh but when I go downtown and have great service this will sometimes happen to me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] coogrrr94:
This just started happening to my wife and me. We both have sprint, I have an S3, she has a Note 2. This duplicate text message issue just started happening to both of us today. Right now I am receiving the same text from a friend every 2 minutes or so, received about 17 so far.

---------- Post added at 09:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:33 PM ----------

Just noticed the time stamp on my previous post, 12/31/1969? Could that be a clue to the repetitive messages. I also noticed earlier that my phone clock was off by 20 minutes.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bmwguy:
Coogrr94, any updates on your situation?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] brekfest:
Which app are you referring to? I have the TeslaUnread plugin running as part of Nova launcher. I'll see if that is the culprit.

I have the EXACT same issues as you.... Except I'm on AT&T and have an HTC One X. Maybe the problem is something in the android OS? I also have an issue where SMS messages just don't get sent. Never had problems on any of my dumbphones or iphone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bmwguy:
I wanted to post an update. About 2 weeks ago I took my phone in to sprint to have it checked by one of their techs. He did what he called a network refresh on the phone. The way he explained it was that the phone was most likely locked on a tower with a poor or weak signal. He said it is fairly common for this to happen, especially with all of the work going on right now on the towers for the LTE upgrades. Supposedly, the network refresh forces the phone to let go of the tower and grab a new one. He said it is different than a prl update and that it is something that only a sprint tech can do. He stated that it may not completely fix the problem since the tower upgrades are still ongoing. I really did not expect it to do anything. 2 weeks later I am pleased to say that the problem has not reoccurred. I don't know if it will be a permanent fix but I am very happy for now as this is the longest I have gone in months without the duplicate texts. I will update the thread in a couple more weeks or if the problem reoccurs before then.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] brekfest:
That's good news. Disabling the Tesla unread plug-in I was running with Nova Launcher seems to have fixed the issue on my end.:good:
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] jayyskittles:
I am rather new to GSM phones, but I have been using CDMA for awhile and wanted to know, is there a way to get a new PRL and put this phone on the postpaid tmobile network? Just a question, Im not even sure if GSM uses PRL's xD
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] theAPANT:
If you mean a plan where you sign a contract and pay every month, then my family has a plan that is postpaid, we have the value plan( much better than the classic if the classic still exists) and there are no prls needed. Prls are for flashing CDMA phones to a new provider. For example, sprint evo 4g to boost mobile. I have never heard of a prl used on a gsm phone but i could be wrong.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] jrleathers:
Someone linked a thread that has lots of detail on what they did to get a $30 plan (I think prepaid) ,unlimited 5GB data , text, and 100 min talk. So if u can use WiFi calling I suppose it seems practical. I cant find the link but if I searched long enough I bet I could.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] meekrawb:
I have this plan. WiFi calling counts against your minutes though.
[Samsung Galaxy Exhibit 4G] Clark Joseph Kent:
OP ensure you title your threads for future reference, Thank You.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] positiveg:
Now I experiencing a major problem

the phone battery died on me earlier tonight, I tried one time to see if i could of get it on but no juice

Now I get home it's not coming on at all

I have it plugged in one time was able to get to the boot loader screen bow nothing

and when i touch the buttons in front I feel the phone vibrating but nothing comes on not even the charging light

what do you think is the problem?

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[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] rignfool:
You are using clockworkmod...

Switch to twrp
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] positiveg:
How do I do that if I can't get it on?

Or will I be able to still accedd the bootloader if I plug it up to the PC to flash it?

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[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] homeslice976:
Nope - you'll need to charge it externally, then you need to get new recovery. CWM doesn't support off mode charging, so if your battery dies, you have to charge it out of the phone. Go to ATT store and ask them if they can charge it for you for a while
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] camo_flage:
Just a question what is off mode charging?

Sent from my HTC Raider running Sense 4.1
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] positiveg:
Ok guys I think I got it.

What I did was

Take out the battery

Put the batter back in

Plug in the charger

When the light come on hold down Vol down and power button

When phone boots to bootlader choose recovery

you will get white HTC creen, leave phone plugged in for a while 30 mins or so

then while leaving charger plugged in attempt to power phone pn

phone should boot regularly

Finally.... don't let phone battery run down or get external charger or change to twrp as one person suggested.

I'm just glad that I was able to get my phone booted, as I live outside the US can't go to an ATT store and HTC phones aren't the most popular here.

I'm wondering if I should order a battery from Amazon just in case :silly:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tankshell:
I'm new to this stuff. I'v been looking for a reliable step-by-step process on how to root my at&t s3 and install cyanogen 10.1.

Do any of you know any reliable videos that will help me do this?

Also, I don't want to wipe the phone, but I'm able to back-up and then access that stuff once the MOD is on there, correct?

Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] CamFlawless:
XDA is full of information that will provide you with exactly what you're looking for. Search both here and Google, and you'll find all the answers you need. It's not common practice for users to spoonfeed one another on XDA.

I'm not attempting to come off as rude, it's just that these questions have been asked and answered countless times before.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tankshell:
Thanks, man.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zzmomo73:
I used this video guide.. Worked perfectly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP68g8KRFhI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tankshell:
I was able to root..

I was able to root my AT&T variant but the root process did not go as smoothly. I backed up content (apps,contacts, and pictures) and installed AOKP 4.2.1. But only the pictures show up.

Any idea why? What should I do?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] laserlight959:
Did you wipe everything including your recovery and caches?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tankshell:
Yes, I wiped user data, cashe, dlv cashe (or whatever it's called), and I formatted something. It was suggested that it be done before an AOKP ROM is installed.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tankshell:
The phone has been virtually useless without my GAPPS. I tried unzipping the gapps file I got from the AOKP galaxy s3 4.2.1 dedicated thread, but it didn't work.

I would post this stop there, but I don't have enough posts, yet. :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] skrambled:
You have to flash gapps in recovery (ie install zip from sd card).

Please don't take this the wrong way, but please read and re-read the stickies at the top of the General and Android Development sections before you go too much further. Since you're talking about unzipping a gapps package it seems you haven't read enough. Just letting you know so you don't go and bork your phone.

These links are good for people who are new to rooting/flashing roms.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1802160

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1699450

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1903437

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1725839

Good luck! :good:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tankshell:
I really appreciate the input. I was able to get my GAPPS back after re-downloading and flashing it. Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drinfernoo:
CM10.1 working for you then? I had no issues getting it on, aside from the first build (a nightly) that I used having some FC issues with Superuser and the next few builds having data issues :P
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] davidstech11:
How are you liking the nightly build? I just get tired after a while of always flashing the daily updates and getting everything set back up. Although, I had it so it didn't take too long to get everything up and running how it's supposed to.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dunlap92:
Same here...finally flashed stock back on phone and tweak here and there...got tired of all the little bugs....was starting to feel like a full time relationship with my phone.... Wife got jealous...lol
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DarthDerron:
He said he installed AOKP not CM10.1 lol
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drinfernoo:
Oh duh... well how do you like AOKP? I am running ParanoidKANGdroid right now but I'm considering moving to AOKP because I don't really use the ParanoidAndroid settings to their fullest.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] Abaidullah Muzaffar:
Dear All,

I have an i-mate jasjar. I have upgrade it with so many cooked Roms. After Installation the rom it can't work with any sim (in Pakistan) but without sim it works gteat. These same roms are work perfect on O2 xda exec. Please help me. Thanks in advance.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gypsy214:
guys this is an iphone feature and before you go haters its really cool. I usually have my phone volume down and lay it on its screen. so i miss a lot of calls. My cousin's iphone flash everytime he have a notification or a phone call and it looks really cool. I know this will probably drain your battery but its someone choice to choose this feature or not
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
I've searched around cause I do the same with silent and phone facing down... I have yet to find anything.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Craniotomy:
Look for flash blink in the market. I've been using it for a long time
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] flipq88:
Doesn't light flow do that? I think I saw an option on there when I had it.

Sent from Flip's S3
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
Found one that works finally. Vibrate then ring. Light flow has caused lots of problems for some... wake lock issues and more severe battery caller for me also.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] juicejoeup:
Beacon LED

Yes there is a way to use this feature. The best option is Beacon, it works like an absolute charm on the s3. It is a paid app, however i have attached the apk. Your welcome. Is the sharing of paid apk's frowned upon? I hope not lol. Anyways good luck, post update to let me know how it worked out.

Mod Edit: Took out Paid Beacon.apk as that is Warez and not allowed.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] elracing21:
I'm sure this is not allowed. Doesn't this fall under warez.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] flipq88:
Yeah it's against the rules, but thanks for the apk :) although I'll probably end up buying it if I keep it.

Ome question though, won't using an app like this end up killimg the life of the led flash?

Sent from Flip's S3
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Pennycake:
Why not just turn the phone over and use the built-in LED notification on the front ? You can even configure different colours for different things.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Woody:
You've been registered for all of a few hours and have already broken the "cardinal" rule of posting Warez. I know for a fact that you have to review the rules before the registration is complete. If this is how it is going to be, then your time here will be short lived. No Warez!!!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tw39515:
have you tried flashlight alerts. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1135133
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
The one I mentioned works great, Vibrate Then Ring. And its free :0
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gypsy214:
MMM i dont see you mentioning the one you found!! lol Which one is it? I did not know this feature was able to do with android. My search results took me to iphone lol

By the way Flash Notify seems to get the idea but it hasnt been updated since GB :(
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
Vibrate and ring for the third time lol.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gypsy214:
Got it. It works excellent lol. I was just in the sauna at the gym and then I got a text message I didnt know this app will activate without even open it. and it the flash started to flash. People were asking questions about. Seems like its a cool tweak to show your friends lol
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
I mentioned it 24 hours ago haha, I like it for night time, I put my phone on silent and usually have it flipped over cause the charging LED is bright in my room rather have a few Flashes for a couple seconds rather then unlimited flashes through out the whole night.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Pennycake:
You can set the front LED to not have phone charging as a condition.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mt3g:
I'm aware, I have it the way I like it. Thanks though.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] nomadrider123:
Reminds me of the "whos on first" routine :silly:
[HTC One X+] Dfballa:
Hello all, my question is if I reset everything on my HTC one x plus to stock and relocked the bootloader and sent it into HTC will they know that it has been rooted?
[HTC One X+] Rularn:
From the phone point of view, no.

However I'm sure there is a record of u requesting from htcdev.com the unlock code for your device.

Sent from my HTC One X+
[HTC One X+] AndroHero:
Ofcourse they will. For starters, your bootloader will show relocked instead of locked.
[HTC One X+] Dfballa:
Okay I was just checking to make sure. I wonder how much HTC charges for non warranty repairs
[HTC One X+] 573W1E:
I found out with my old Desire HD that if the work won't be covered under warranty they will quote you a price to fix whatever it is, but even if you don't agree with the charge to fix your device and want it back regardless, they'll charge you a fee for the inspection and such.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikaelel:
official update by zune can lock/blocked my omnia w protected wp7roottools0.13?

thx!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dazza9075:
the tango update will relock the phone if you let it but it doesn't disable the way it which you unlock it.

its the Samsung firmware that will lock up the device, if you lose the unlock after you update the firmware an you don't have a backup, you will no longer be able to unlock it
[Nook HD, HD+ Themes and Apps] msprag13:
[UPDATE] The problem is the time warner app itself. It thinks Stock Nook HDs 2.0.5 are rooted devices.

I used Astro FM on my phone to create an apk of time warner cable app which I side loaded onto a kindle fire and the app works fine.

I used adb to sideload it onto my unrooted Nook HD and it gives me a message that the app will not run on rooted devices.

I did play with creating the CM10 sdcard but the hummingbird version of cwm doesn't root afaik. Is the root check fail an effect of an adb sideload? What might I be missing here?
[Nook HD, HD+ Themes and Apps] traumadog:
Should be fine now with stock 2.1...
[Nook HD, HD+ Themes and Apps] Efros:
Yup works on rooted 2.1 HD+
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] AzizWahid:
Guys, is there any way to install TouchWiz launcher on CM10 or CM9?

Found this : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1667854

Flashed it, but could not launch.

Any other options?
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] SpadaBoss:
try this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1666384 :)
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] AzizWahid:
Thanks :D
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] vj1315:
try this one

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2065556
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] kabychow:
it works well on my cm9 but the launcher will not resize properly if u enable your navigation bar :(
[Samsung Galaxy W I8150] UltimHero:
It didn't work for me on cm9. What rom are you using and how did you install it? Thanks
[Samsung Captivate Glide] mvi57:
I upgraded my wife's ATT Captivate glide yesterday from stock Gingerbread to stock ICS 4.0.4, and after that some of the text messages she has received are received more than once (one came twice, another 5 times). I poked around in this forum to see if there was something about this with the stock released ROM, but I didn't find anything (if I missed it, please say so). Has anyone else seen this?
[Samsung Captivate Glide] PacoL250:
I also see this happening on my phone. It's gotten better since the latest official update from AT&T, but it's not completely gone. Not sure of this issue affects others who have any custom ROMs.
[Samsung Captivate Glide] braintweaker:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2018299

This is the thread about the same issue.
[HTC Rezound] ImaDouche:
I was trying to flash this [ROM][JellyBean][AOSP][12.28.12]┬─┬ ノ( ^_^ノ) v2.0.1 LINARO![Android 4.1.2] and it just just keeps hanging at the splash screen. I'm coming from the same ROM 1.9.4. I wiped everything, flashed in amon ra like all these before. Sorry I'm a douche.
[HTC Rezound] shrike1978:
s-on or s-off? If s-on did you flash the boot.img?
[HTC Rezound] ImaDouche:
I'm S-on and I haven't done it that way once. I permanently installed amon ra and have flashed all of them this way. I did read that and had wondered why...

EDIT, sorry, I completely forgot about this step. I'ts working now. Thanks.
[HTC Rezound] noo_too_droid:
This is why the aroma installer is so nice. If that good be baked into more roms I think it'd be very user freindly

The first ROM i flashed was yours Shrike, and it had aroma installer and made it so easy and customizable

Caryota hodiesis
[HTC Rezound] brenuga:
Permanently installed amon ra can't write to the boot partition if your phone is S-on. That's why I always launch amon ra using the fastboot boot command, so I don't forget about that 'gotcha'.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Boss428man:
Hi,

I have one of the S3's released from day one. After one of the last OTA updates I have not been able to keep a good GPS signal, and sometimes it takes a long time to get a lock. I've tried everything, GPS Status app, cleared Google cache, new roms nothing seems to fix it. I have read some people saying its a hardware issue. Does anyone have any experiences with this before I try and get a replacement? Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s0me guy:
pretty much the same here. original pre-order lot.

both mine and my wife's S3 GPS are completely dead. no locks at all. no software things ive tried seem to work... :(

noticed right before OTA JB update. we have completely different phone use habits.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] skeeterpro:
Anyone hear anymore details on this? Just read about it myself this afternoon and haven't read anything here about it. Most curious....

http://phandroid.com/2013/01/02/samsung-galaxy-s3-firmware-fix/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobAbooE:
According to droid life, it seems to be an issue with the international version.

Here's the thread on here talking about it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1993044
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] skeeterpro:
Well that's a relief!