yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] syamsoul:
the highest changelist right now...
[Galaxy S III General] brainimpact:
I've already posted this in the main threads never the less I suppose people can see the news better now.

Installed this OTA then rerooted with CF-Auto and now for the first time ever i have the red dot on boot up knew I should of used Mobile odin like last time lol not like a reed dot going to change anything any way b/c i won my device from Samsung and been told b/c of that its not covered by warranty as i asked the promoter Sammy used when i emailed them couple days back to check.
[Galaxy S III General] störte:
Where can i find the changelog ?
[Galaxy S III General] rdrm69:
Does it fix exynos-mem bug? Where is changelog?
[Galaxy S III General] Crest+:
Samsung don't release changelogs ... only changelist though.

--------------------------

Can anyone test exynos bug on this ROM?

(im pretty sure it should be fixed)
[Galaxy S III General] Crest+:
GUESS WUT??????

UK RECIEVED 2 TIMES UPDATE 4.1.2? x_x

Are they special or wut? >_>

(Sorry UK owners)

Samsung Unfair :X
[Galaxy S III General] davibs:
And Where is The changelist? :)
[Galaxy S III General] IamIrene:
changelist: 742798
[Galaxy S III General] rdrm69:
Did anyone check if the exynos-mem bug exists with chainfire's app?
[Galaxy S III General] venki5star:
Where can I check the changelist using the number you provided? Sorry for my inadequate knowledge
[Galaxy S III General] DSA:
Offs...

There are no change logs released from Samsung, figure it out by using the rom
[Galaxy S III General] syamsoul:
just flash XXELLA ... does have fix for exynos mem bug... cant root anymore using exynosMemAbuse v1.4 ...
[Galaxy S III General] duttyend:
i9300_modem_XXELLA_CWM

Dear friends,

Here you will find the most recent modem for our phone, freshly packaged : i9300_modem_XXELLA_CWM.zip - 4.87 MB

Enjoy and best wishes !
[Galaxy S III General] .. IkOrE ..:
you also have the kernel in a zip packaged?! :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III General] duttyend:
Yes : boot.img - 5.06 MB
[Galaxy S III General] RS050377:
CWM zip http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22547287/Stock_Kernel_I9300_XXELLA.zip
[Galaxy S III General] chudy_85:
Info

Away We Triangle counter resets when you restart the counter fona returns to the nabitego

it seems that Samsung has applied additional security in the form of a red exclamation mark in the upper left corner and the security work that way with reads what we call the state or if we modified it automatically poking our custom binary 1 and the entrance to Cwm counter also can be stamped and we see a red exclamation mark

If we want to get rid of it before putting it into service must reset the counter but do not let that system went off which is the original and converted samsung logo remove the batteries and put me back and enter the download mode (do not start before recowery mode) and upload the previous rom and do wipe system / data and cache
[Galaxy S III General] davidd6:
flashing this modem will fix the exynos bug?
[Galaxy S III General] Meemo23:
Hopefully this version can fix the damn memory card problem i am facing. In XXELL5 my memory card can be accessed via file managers. But the gallery and the music player won't show my music or vids and photos..
[Galaxy S III General] GrayJack:
Is it possible to make CWM-zip for bootloader? I'd like to perform the whole process without PC Odin. It will allow to avoid both root loss and custom counter increase.
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
Flashing the bl with pc odin will not remove root, and does not increase counter. (just tested)
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Maybe it is possible, but you have to know this: Flashing the bootloader is the most dangerous thing you're ever going to flash to your phone, odin or cwm. When cwm fails, it fails and if it fails half-way through like it sometimes does, you're screwed beyond self-repair. Flashing a bootloader with odin is the safest way to get the bootloader on your phone.

For Nexii, though, fastboot is the safest way. Do only use CWM for systems, kernels and/or modems and spare the extra seconds it takes to use pc odin.
[Galaxy S III General] GrayJack:
Could you please give more details on this? I have flashed latest XXELLA via Mobile Odin. So what I have to do now to install bootloader? Open firmware file (KIES_HOME_I9300XXELLA_I9300OXAELLA_742798_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5) in bootloader section of PC Odin and then flash?
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
no, either flash whole fw with pc odin as you normally should.

Or just flash the bootloaders I have tared in PDA pc odin.
[Galaxy S III General] GrayJack:
Could you please post this version as attachment or reupload it somewhere? Unfortunately I фсстще connect with neither http://perka.zapto.org/ nor http://niekske.myftp.biz:81/ajaxplorer/index.php
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
did you try with the stash app?
[Galaxy S III General] GrayJack:
Sure, but no connection for some reason (maybe provider concerned).

Anyway I have downloaded it now.

So - PC Odin, open this file in PDA section and three checkboxes - Auto Reboot, F.Reset Time and Phone Bootloader Update? Correct?
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
I think Perka said you can, but it's recommended to use PC Odin.
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
Just put in PDA dont do anything else.

PDA > flash.

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I think I know how, but if it fails when I test I probably brick my phone.

So better go with what I know works :)

But if there's someone who will test I can look tomorrow.

Pm me if you want to brick ;)
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
I don't blame you for not wanting to test it, we all know bootloader fail = hard brick :)
[Galaxy S III General] Darius_AWS:
I don't understand how a hardware related bug can be fixed by a firmware upgrade ? O.o

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9300 avec Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] drakester09:
Not only solve but also mitigate, it could be that a workaround is implemented or a defective wear leveling code is patched thus no longer borking the eMMC.

Consider the following: if you undervolt/overvolt too much, OC too much or something alike, you could end up damaging the chip as you are altering the operational parameters in a nasty way.

Firmware controls the hardware, if firmware is defective or badly configured it can absolutely break hardware.
[Galaxy S III General] donalgodon:
Yep.

Same thing happened with eMMC in the SII. Mine was defective. Never killed it, thanks to CF app to let me know I had the bug.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Who said it was a hardware-related bug to begin with? People only thought it was because of the motherboard giving in.
[Galaxy S III General] GrayJack:
No problem, it flashes OK and now I can observe the bootloader version is updated.

But just as I stated before bootloader is exactly the reason of red marker. It was OK, but immediately I have installed custom recovery I can observe a small marker at the early stage of booting ("Galaxy S3 GT-i9300", before Samsung logo).

TA 2.40 reports about counter=1. It zeroes the counter successfully but right until next reboot.

So I suspect bootloader checks the status in this case.
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Well, the GS3 (starting with the Gnex) does not have the "MMC_CAP_ERASE" bug which lead to crap out the eMMC on the S2 and Note.
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
From what people are saying that's because you have a custom recovery.

Custom kernel, rom or recovery will reset the counter to 1.
[Galaxy S III General] evivbulgroz:
I just did it, it worked
[Galaxy S III General] j@cks:
Hi Perka,

If it's not much problem for you, can you help Us creating a CSC tar file with BTU as default so we can flash it with Odin ??

Thank you for all your work.

Regards

J@cks
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
The easiest way to get the BTU CSC back, is going into /system/csc/btu/system/csc and copying all files there and go back to /system/csc and paste them there, then check customer.xml to see if it mentions BTU (somewhere in the beginning, something saying sales code)
[Galaxy S III General] mossy1963:
I got the red exclamation Mark for the first time so tried a few different Flash combos. I now have lla rooted with cwm recovery and no exclamation Mark. Basically flashed stock rom with mobile odin again which retained root but stock recovery. Flashed cwm with mobile odin and got exclamation. So flashed stock again with mobile odin and flashed latest cwm with rom manager. Bingo
[Galaxy S III General] GrayJack:
What is the problem to simply copy cache.img and hidden.img from tar file of your latest regional firmware to the tar file of latest firmware you want with your СSС, You can easily do it using Total Commander.
[Galaxy S III General] j@cks:
Yep, but all this can be done with out root?

Thanks

Regards

J@cks

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Will try this.

Thanks

Regards

J@cks
[Galaxy S III General] ricnar456:
I think this rom solve the exynos bug but in the tittle say SUDDEN DEATH FIX, how this can be assured.

ricnar
[Galaxy S III General] jody2k:
It cant... guess time will tell
[Galaxy S III General] OrangeRafi:
Tjis firmware fixes the sudden death bug? I tought Samsung is still working on the update that will fix the issue?
[Galaxy S III General] rmsa786:
I just flashed the bootloader and modem via cwm. Is that all that's needed?
[Galaxy S III General] ricnar456:
but the title say

EXYNOS BUG FIXED!!S3 SUDDEN DEATH FIXED!!Jan.02,2013

is not a posibility, the tittle is a fact.

and how comes to the conclusion of the sudden death is solved, the exynos bug can be tried but the sudden death no.

ricnar
[Galaxy S III General] donalgodon:
The kernel.

The problem isn't in the modem, so far as anyone knows for sure.
[Galaxy S III General] rafa6571:
For some reason i cant flash this on odin. Everytime i try my pc gets slow and i have to reboot. I have windows 8. Is odin compatible with it? What can I do?
[Galaxy S III General] alexiuss:
The tittle is wrong, no one can confirm that but Samsung.

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] rmsa786:
Sorry, it was the kernel and modem I flashed.
[Galaxy S III General] Nees3:
What? even google-translate crashes on this... Would like to know what you wrote there :)
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
After installing swipe dialer donate and freezing a lot of apps in TiBu, this rom became a lot better ^^
[Galaxy S III General] Darius_AWS:
How do I know if my system is ota compatible ? When I launch software update it search but never say "no need to update" or "device is modified"

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9300 avec Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] delsus:
All devices are OTA compatible as long as they are stock and unrooted.

What message are you receiving when you try to update OTA?
[Galaxy S III General] kovle:
What app can help me to find out version of my chip and is it faulty or not ?
[Galaxy S III General] Darius_AWS:
Actually nothing it searchs for a long long time and I never been to the end of this but I rooted my device through mobile Odin but I want ota update :-/

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9300 avec Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] cyberdroxxx:
+1. Agree with you. You will loose OTA once you root your device.

Your status may appear Normal even after you run TR Away but it will eventually turned to Modified over time.

TR Away will help you reset your binary counter back to 0 and Official so you can send it in for service and

repair purpose.

You have to flash stock ROM and do factory reset if you want back OTA.

I'm biting the bullet to flash my S3 with ELLA even though there is no official update

for my region. I don't care much about OTA. I'll flash the official ROM if samsung

release it for my region later.
[Galaxy S III General] Darius_AWS:
Actually I want ota because files are small and I don't have to download 800mb at every update even for a 20mb change...that's why I made this topic http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2079297 and I don't think I am the only one to wish that ^^

Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9300 avec Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] MattBooth:
Anyone having issues with bloatware removers? Some of them seem to remove lib files that cause the system no to boot (whereas the same libs have been getting removed for a while each new release without a problem).
[Galaxy S III General] danielhtc:
My phone seems snappier with this new rom. I had flashed to 4.1.2 but this seems even better. Anyone else feel the same?
[Galaxy S III General] Squall-Leonhart:
was comparing two S3's earlier, and the LA did feelsnappier than the L4
[Galaxy S III General] stfudude:
@perka, How do I know if I have flashed the bootloader correctly? I noticed the small exclamation mark during booting so I guess I might have flashed the bootloader correctly but it couldn't hurt to be more sure right? Is there a dialer code or something that I can use to check bootloader info? Thanks for your stash BTW, it's a great resource!
[Galaxy S III General] thegh0sts:
i've been told that CM10.1 fixes the exynos issue though i am not sure if that's in the kernel or in the bootloader.

though i am interested if i can go from XELLA to CM10.1 without issue.
[Galaxy S III General] jshashwat93:
The sudden death fix claim in OP is confirmed or just a guess because of a new bootloader?
[Galaxy S III General] thegh0sts:
exactly, if it isn't confirmed that it fixes the sudden death issue then i won't touch it.
[Galaxy S III General] andip71:
If you want to go very sure, you can open a terminal and list your file /proc/last_kmsg.

There you will find a line that logs the boot loader during start process, it looks like the following if you are having the latest boot loader:

ATAG_CMDLINE: 6c 54410009 'console=ram loglevel=4 bootmode=2 sec_debug.level=0 sec_watchdog.sec_pet=5 androidboot.debug_level=0x4f4c sec_log=0x100000@0x43000000 s3cfb.bootloaderfb=0x5ec00000 lcdtype=96 consoleblank=0 lpcharge=0 lpj=3981312 vmalloc=144m oops=panic pmic_info=33 cordon=8256831ac685af11efbce51fcb3290e4 androidboot.emmc_checksum=3 androidboot.bootloader=I9300XXELLA androidboot.serialno=4df1e0591c214f97 snd_soc_core.pmdown_time=1000'

Andi
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
yea its

adb shell

cat /proc/last_kmsg
[Galaxy S III General] redondogabriel:
i have flashed this firmware and the download mode shows "System Status: Custom", why? my phone was originally from germany (DBT)
[Galaxy S III General] Perka:
you have : root? custom recovery? custom kernel?

How did you flash it?
[Galaxy S III General] cybdani:
Hi all!

Exists any way to flash new boot loader from cwm recovery?
[Galaxy S III General] stfudude:
It has been answered before. No, you can't. Flash with PC odin.
[Galaxy S III General] cybdani:
Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] JH323:
dumb question

hey guys,

a very dumb question from a new joiner with a semi-broken S3 in Hong Kong...no rooting/flashing experience...stock everything...can I still use the KIES method?

Thanks very much!!
[Galaxy S III General] mrm43:
Is this the official update samsung has acknowledged about fixing the sudden death. I thought they were still working on it. Is it for all regions. Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III General] tsw_sweden:
Question.

Is the mem bugfix in kernel? I flashed LLA without bootloader in cwm, and use siyah 1.8.6, bugtest from playstore shows it's there. But, no Wonder if it's kernel. In that case siyah should release a new kernel soon?

Just Wonder if it's worth flashig bootloader. Phone behaves just fine, so I have no need Otherwise.
[Galaxy S III General] thegh0sts:
i have the feeling the bootloader could house the exynos fix though the kernel could also have it. but if samsung confirms XXELLA as the SDS fix then i'll install it but the question is where is the fix to make it most effective: the bootloader or the kernel?
[Galaxy S III General] chudy_85:
information

if the flashed this new firmware, we can not do downgradu rom with a file 3

sboot.bin not because it allows us to

it would be like for someone with perception, which installs the file and how sboot.bin safely get rid of it without brick s3
[Galaxy S III General] nmeuret:
?????

Translation ?
[Galaxy S III General] krivinash:
Hello guys.

I read all pages and i dont understend anything.

Can you make some tutorial for us who are not developers?

Tell us in simple way what we should do to fix that f* bug!

I'm still at 4.1.1. because i ve been waiting regular ota 4.1.2.

Should i still wait, or should I install some other fw???

Thanks in advance!!!
[Galaxy S III General] chudy_85:
i try inastall rom - 3 file using Odin and its impossible becasue sboot.bin stop install

if any body try delete sboot.bin form from s3 and try downgrade to rom 3 file wift out brick fone then we can install 3 file rom
[Galaxy S III General] bobsie41:
Very good point :cool:

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Ah. Now I see. :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] roswell782:
Hi, a question hadn't be answer yet (or i missed it), does the Exynos bug fix is included in the bootloader or elsewhere in the firmware? I have flashed LLA with Mobile Odin and i know the bootloader wasn't update by this way. I want to know if it is necessary to flash new bootloader.

Thanks in advance

Cheers, Ros.
[Galaxy S III General] corkie1:
What red dot on boot? Was this with cf auto root 6.4? Any way around it?
[Galaxy S III General] chudy_85:
i open 2 roms

first is XXELKC and secend is LLA and i see 2 new file

first is sboot.bin and secend is tz.img

I dont now what is this secend file but we must delete this 2 file form fone and then we can install 3 file rom
[Galaxy S III General] corkie1:
So would CF auto root 6.4 work with this fiormware?
[Galaxy S III General] cybdani:
Flash old bootloader, reset counter with triangle away, then flash new bootloader. Flash counter remains in 0.
[Galaxy S III General] andip71:
Hi,

the exynos bug fix is included in the kernel of the firmware, not in the bootloader.

I tested and verified that.

Andi
[Galaxy S III General] GrayJack:
Till next reboot ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
GUYS!!

EXYNOS-MEM FIX = KERNEL!

(RUMORED) SUDDEN DEATH FIX = BOOTLOADER!

Don't mix the two up!
[Galaxy S III General] thegh0sts:
then what does the new boot loader do?
[Galaxy S III General] chevli:
Worked for me - however I ran it on a physically repaired phone but still has the same firmware
[Galaxy S III General] Blackbeard_:
So will flashing this via KIES using "method 2" for a phone NOT in the UK region add the new kernel and the new bootloader, so the sudden death problem is fixed?
[Galaxy S III General] chevli:
Allegedly yes it will fix it. We just have to wait and see if anyone elses handset with this FW dies in the mean time so it is a bit early to conclude at the moment.
[Galaxy S III General] 0asis:
So if you are running a custom LLA rom like me (wanam) what do I need to do? I'm also running the latest siyah.

Don't know if the bootloader is included by the developers in the custom Rom. Anyway I can flash it with Odin.

But for the kernel part should I still run the patch of chain fire as I don't want to use the new stock kernel of LLA?

Sent by an anonymous flashaholic
[Galaxy S III General] theslashy:
one question, i'm just downloading....

i'm on android revolution with perseus kernel....can i just flash the new bootloader via odin and keep everything?

what do i have to check in odin?
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
We don't know yet until we can get an official statement from Samsung themselves. I don't trust Sammobile the first thing I do. :p

It's rumored that it fixes the sudden-death issue that many users have had but, again, we're not sure.

1. The new bootloader is packed nicely in an odin flashable tar from perka's stash: http://perka.zapto.org/ or attached to his post here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=36198777&postcount=187

2. If you don't wanna use the kernel, then you can use Chainfire's patch, although I recommend you use the latest kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] qwerty12:
Eh, given that with another time the eMMC firmware in some Samsung chips required patching it was in the kernel (link stolen from Entropy512), I'm assuming that, if a fix has been implemented, it will've been done so in the kernel, so I would flash that. I have NFI what the bootloader's part is in this, however, so it's worth flashing that also.

Personally, I'm just running the new kernel with the old bootloader. If my device dies by the end of the month (it will be six months to the day I bought it - generally when the phones tend to die), then I should've also flashed the bootloader too :)
[Galaxy S III General] theslashy:
i can't access Perka's stash...do you have another source?`

//Edit...thank you!
[Galaxy S III General] ricnar456:
the second file tz.img is for this

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/trustzone.php

ricnar
[Galaxy S III General] Blackbeard_:
Apparently this won't work, Kies will only detect the latest version for your region/country. The only way to switch country is by changing CSC?

Anyone have warranty repair problems on phone with changed CSC?
[Galaxy S III General] thegh0sts:
hence why you use ODIN...even if it's not recommended.
[Galaxy S III General] mrm43:
So the sudden death fix is for UK only if using kies? Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] msri3here:
about the exynos mem bug, which was about the file permissions on teh file /dev/exynos-mem, the file permissions remain the same even after this update.

However, Samsung must have found a workaround to make it appear that it is fixed.
[Galaxy S III General] tsw_sweden:
Thanks. So Now we wait for customkernels to do thesame?
[Galaxy S III General] gazou_hb:
Hello,

It is possible to flash the new rom by mobile odin pro directly on my second stock rom?

Because my first rom is th 10.1 CYNOGEN ROM and i use the 1.8.6 Siyah kernel.

Thanks your help.

Gazou_hb
[Galaxy S III General] qwerty12:
Well, that, and the fact that it wasn't picky about restricting areas of memory so any app that asked for access to any space got it. Changing the permissions of the node was always the workaround for me; I always felt that AndreiLux's fix inside the kernel to whitelist only the areas that needed to be accessed was the better one. With changing the permissions, you can just stat() exynos-mem and see if it's going to fail exploiting, but with a proper fix, the only way to tell is by trying to actually exploit.
[Galaxy S III General] thegh0sts:
mobile odin doesn't do bootloaders, you need odin on PC to flash the bootloader.
[Galaxy S III General] ricnar456:
is possible original bootloader do not have sudden death bug and this bug was introduced in some upgrade and now is revertiing to a bootloader similar or close to the first bootloader? i say for the reason of the six months gap between the first death and the release of the phone, if a lot of electronic components was failed, the deaths come for first day, not six months later.

ricnar
[Galaxy S III General] STELIOSFAN:
I'm on Yanks 2.8c kernel (3.0.56) and Sotmax Rom (XXELL4) and old bootloader (without the red mark)

If I flash the bootloader ONLY, am I (always in theory) protected by the sudden death thing, or I must flash the kernel as well?
[Galaxy S III General] Notronic:
Here a little info about the many csc questions.

I´ve show in the cache.img from this firmware and there are follow salescodes:

You can change CSC with the standard samsung code or with CSC Selecter from play store...
[Galaxy S III General] eranda84:
is this work with CM 10.1?
[Galaxy S III General] Serdxx:
+1
[Galaxy S III General] thekoRngear:
FINALLY:

Acknowledged Sudden Death, Fix is on the way.
[Galaxy S III General] FeuchtVonLipwig:
Maybe you should state something about the "SUDDEN DEATH FIXED" from the title in the first post.

Does the new rumored bootloader with fix also have this flash counter thingy like the other newer one? because i am on the old one to avoid that excitation mark at the boot up.