yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukesan:
Well the amount of sats locked doesn't actually say a thing about accuracy I think. I also a have 2 bluetooth GPS receivers that lock on to the same amount of sats as the S2 but which seems to be much more spot on the map.

I do the test in the garden combined with google maps which gives me a nice idea of how it behaves.

Anybody care to do some tests in either gps test or gps status?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] corrsea:
Already done all those. Believe me if I stand by my front gate that's where g maps will show me to be.

Anyway all civilian GPS are artificially limited to 5 meter accuracy by the US govt. I'm not sure about glonass but I'm guessing it's probably the same.

BTW I've had multiple GPS devices over the years and the S3 beats them all hands down.

ROM Sotmax Ultimate V12

Kernel Yank555.lu-V2.8g
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukesan:
arggg, ok seems no more reason not to buy it (I can manage my wife :angel:)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] corrsea:
You won't regret it:)

GPS was the major factor in my choice as well.

The addition of the glonass sat system was the icing on the cake.

The lack of GPS threads on the s3 forum only attests to how few issues there are with it on our device :)

And yes, wives don't really get it:)

ROM Sotmax Ultimate V12

Kernel Yank555.lu-V3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
My accuracy never gets to 5m, unfortunately
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elcom:
The GPS chip is the best I've had in any device.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] corrsea:
Don't worry about it. It's not a real measure anyway. Is just a statistical estimate which is set by the devices libs. Unless it's something ridiculous like 30 meters you don't have an issue. On the hd2 when Tytung was developing the libs he allowed the setting to be altered through GPS conf. Yes it felt good psychologically to look at GPS test and see an accuracy of 1 or 2 meters but it actually meant nothing. If GPS test or maps is showing variations of 6 to 12 meters everything is fine.:). The most important thing is the speed at which it locks on to sats and that the lock is held with no drops. If you have a steady lock on 4 or more sats everything is good:).

But just to show I took these screen shots a moment ago. Note the difference in accuracy. In actual use this will have no impact.

ROM Sotmax Ultimate V12

Kernel Yank555.lu-V2.8g
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GizinBLN:
my sgs3 accuracy is 4m in less than 10sec on any rom
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] medicjunKie:
Hey y'all, so story is that I rooted my friends Optimus T. And installed a CM7 P500 rom in it, it booted but with no signal at all.

Installed kdz firmware 20 , now this gave him signal, but it doesn't have network connection (no internet) and now under phone settings it says P500 instead of P509.

Do any of y'all have any ideas of what can I do fix it?
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidisfuture:
check ur apn settings

and pressing thanks is appreciable
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] medicjunKie:
There's nothing under the APN settings.
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeratos:
aren't p500 and p509 different?
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidisfuture:
that's why there was no internet contact ur service provider to send u apn settings
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] medicjunKie:
There's no other way?
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androidisfuture:
check ur apn settings in net simple:)
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] medicjunKie:
Ah, thank you.
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rr0yy:
I think you need to unlock your phone first to use custom roms.

Search this forum !!
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrcorey:
You do NOT have to unlock your phone. You have already rooted it, which is good.

I am pretty sure your T-Mobile phone is still on old baseband. Check in settings for about phone. Software or baseband will be version 10x (the x represents a.letter). Pretty sure you need that to work on T-Mobile. If you've "upgraded" to 20x, you may have no phone signal. If you so, but no place to add apn, you need old baseband fix. Check out the jellybean discussion thread for links to it, as its been discussed recently. There's also a stick topic with a link to it in development. If I can dig it up, I'll edit my post. But,you seem smart. I'm sure you'll find it on your own.

If its a recent cm7, you may just need to flash the attachment on this post : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=34664075

Oh, and here's the place to look. Old baseband fix is linked on the op for the rom : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=21374465
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mikelman90:
Is there a way to change the low battery notification? A zip or an apk? Or do I have to go in and dig around in the system?

Sent from my galaxy mod iced gs3
[HTC Rezound] sdsubball23:
I'm wondering if anyone has any video of them using a jellybean rom that has recently been made available?
[HTC Rezound] zetsumeikuro:
You could just try one ;).
[HTC Rezound] GrayBoltWolf:
Much better than a video.
[HTC Rezound] sdsubball23:
I know, but I have some fears with rooting and flashing roms. If I mess up my phone, I don't know if I'd have the money to get a new one for a while.
[HTC Rezound] Squirrel1620:
The only way you could hard brick your phone is if your s off and you mess with your hboot or radios.

The rest can always be fixed.
[HTC Rezound] sdsubball23:
Thanks for the assurance. I'll have to look into rooting a little more to get a better idea of what to do.
[HTC Rezound] Squirrel1620:
Things to search for (xda or Google)

- HTC dev Site for unlocking bootloader

- hasoon2000's All in one toolkit (for unlocking, flashing recovery)

- ICS RUU for updating firmware. If you are on gingerbread firmware, you will need to update
[HTC Rezound] DCnovicky:
okay.....ten already..
[HTC Rezound] sdsubball23:
There are 10 videos? where? I searched youtube, but I don't see anything and I just did a brief search on google and didn't find anything
[HTC Rezound] cslingerland:
i was scared at first as well with rooting and it took myself a while to convince my brain to do it. but like mentioned above, you cant break your phone unless you s-off, and once you learn how to flash regularly, you wont have any worries of breaking anything :)
[HTC Rezound] shrike1978:
10 posts. He got his 10 posts so he can post in dev.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] CaLLm3LAzY-:
I wanted to know if I can use the stock at&t boot animation on any ROM? If yes can I you send it to me for I can flash it? Thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stratatak7:
This will flash in recovery and as long as your rom has a kernel that supports custom boot animations.

Here is my thread. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1906092

There is an inverted version as well as the original version in recovery flashable format. :cool:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lither:
I'm flashing ARHD V18, I want to backup some data files such as Facebook and Viber, are they stored in SD card or Internal memory?

Can I install a custom kernel later on after flashing V18?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
use Titanium backup
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lither:
I don't want to install a app to backup the data, just want to know if the data files such as Facebook and Viber is saved to SD card or Internal memory?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
data files are in the data partition of the internal memory. Why don't you want to install TB?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zharif91:
u can use Titanium Backup to do backup for any apps u want. u can choose whether u want to save the backup file in the internal or external. just find in the titanium backup setting. for the custom kernel. most of the time u can flash it.. but make sure the developers claim that it is compatible with your ROM..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gingerneil:
I have recently upgraded to 4.1.2 ELLA stock. I am using a rooted 9300 on stock kernel.

Is there a hack that will give me the ability to edit the apps that are available in the bottom shortcuts on the new screen that appears when headphones are inserted? I don't use any of the stock apps, but they are all that appear!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
Yes there is.

https://www.google.com.ua/search?q=sgs3+headphone+shortcuts
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gingerneil:
LOL - clever clogs. But that doesn't work. That's designed for editing the shortcuts that appear on the notification drop down. I want to edit the ones that appear at the bottom of the main screen. Try to long press on those and you get a pop up saying they can't be edited. Is there a mod for that?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
I don't use TW so I don't know what you're talking about.

Use a custom launcher like Nova
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikemyerslyon:
I have the same problem.

I don't know how to change them.

But if anyone finds the answer, I am interested too.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Spyderwalk:
So, I tried meddling with ROMS using the Rom Manager and installed the Clockwork Mod thingie through the program and when it rebooted, Verizon keeps telling me I'm running unauthorized software. I went to

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2040264 and used odin 4 times with the stock firmware, but it still keeps telling me the same darn thing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm coming from iOS and am loving what I've found so far on android, but Verizon is ... yeah.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] agnewton:
I did the same thing. I had to take my phone back to Verizon to get a new phone. Sucks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] aczm1988:
And your one of the reasons why we have locked bootloaders. Take responsibility for your actions you created the problem.

Sent From My Galaxy Note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Dakota0206:
You should probably just keep your phone stock.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] jjubb:
restored soft bricked SCH-I605

the same thing happened to me also, using ROM Manager on 01/10/13. i used the section "Section 1: How to Root/ Return to Stock 4.1.1 Jelly Bean with Odin" info found at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2024207, to get mine back to normal.
[Acer Iconia A500] grasshopper645:
So I am running a 4.2 jelly bean ROM but the dock doesn't work. I did some research and I understand I need to install "acerMedia" player? Anyone know how I go about doing this?

Thanks!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k@ke:
Hi guys!

It's been awihile since i've posted in this forum. Happy new year and all! :)

I need help! My note has had Cassie's xtralite 4.0.4 rom awhile and everything has worked great with it. But couple of weeks ago the battery had drained and i put my note to charger (official). But it never bootup since. Only black screen and no sign of any life.

What can i do with this? I still have warranty, but i quess, i should have to flash a original firmware, before i send this to samsung repaircenter? Is there any way, that i can do this? Thanks!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
keep the phone plugged in to the charger for a couple of hours and then try to boot up the phone.. try download mode as well
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k@ke:
Thanks, but no help. Still a dead note. :/
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
try a charged battery from a different note. if that too fails, then i don't think the service center can also start it up to find out what rom its on
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baz77:
actually if the phone didnt properly shutoff, you have the jb leaks bug. Reinstall rom, and all should be fine.

first turn off rom, then insert charger, watch charging indicator, let charge till full, then do the rom flashmob flash on safe kernel cleanly.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikeCriggs:
You're going to need an external battery charger. You can pick one up cheap off eBay.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k@ke:
Hi,

I have Cassie's ICS rom not JB. There shouldn't be any memory leak problem in this rom, that i know of. I've tried to put my note to download mode, when connected to PC + Odin. But no luck. I could send this to repair, but i'm afraid that samsung sees, that my note has a custom rom in it and i loose my warranty.

So, is there a change, that my battery is just dead?

thanks for your replies!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
you should have tried a charged battery on your note till now.. first thing to check
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k@ke:
Thanks!

Too bad, that my friends don't have Note. I'll check my local Cellphone store and ask to try different, charged battery from them. Can you tell me the reason, why my Note + charger wouldn't charge the battery?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
I have seem many cases where the note is dead and the battery does not charge. If you have an external charger, even that would work to charge the battery.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alvinhaw:
few days ago having the same symptom as ur's .

but I'm using JB , after charge the battery n than press 3 button go to recovery mode n press reboot system now.

everything back to normal.

I'm not sure whether is it works on 4.0.4
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k@ke:
The problem was the battery!

Thanks for your help guys! I had a change to try different battery and my Note booted up normally. I just ordered a new one.

Samsung batterys seem to really suck in quality. 7months and the battery is dead. :eek:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
agree with you.. max life seems to be around 10 months of use. also depends on your charging cycle
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] este548:
This is what up I am up to right now, when the battery is below cca 95% then my Note dies, but still works under charger. Battery lasted around 12 months - never happened with HTC, but 20E for a new one is not a big deal either ... :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjoy:
Hello to all. Suddenly my galaxy s3 usb cable stopped working. Whenever i connect to pc it starts charging but display message of pc taskbar that (USB device not recognized, The last USB device you connected to this comnputer malfunctioned, and windows does not recognize it.) Even i tried to connect another nokia mobile to pc with SGS3 same cable & worked fine but mine not working. Even i try other ports too as well as back side of main board & tried another cable but the problem is still same. Please kind person help me to solve problem. Thanx
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kofiaa:
Sometimes the cable has a problem with the phone. Mine stopped working for some weeks, then it was normal again. Just use another cable.

Please post in the Q&A section next time.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjoy:
Thanx for reply. You told that sometime the usb cable has a problem with the phone but the same cable working fine with another device as i mentioned already above problem.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kofiaa:
That's what I encountered, the cable worked with other devices. Try another cable and give feedback.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spamtrash:
Replace the cable, mate.

I have 3 Sgs3's, of which:

1st cable was eaten by cat,

2nd causes: connected-disonnected messages in Odin

3rd one works flawless...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjoy:
already replaced the cable but still same problem
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjoy:
same day i had try another cable but did not worked... This cable works fine when i tried on another pc.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjoy:
It shows Unkown Device in Device manager. I'm using windows 8 & Windows 7. Tried everything, installed kies,samsung usb drivers, windows drivers but still shows Unkown Driver. I;m using XXELLA latest firmware in my device, Is that XXELLA problem? Please help me.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ptisam:
Try to clean the USB connector of your phone with a toothpick (carefully), I had this kind of problem and cleaning the connector worked fine for me :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjoy:
i did as much i know but did not work
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjoy:
I did again to clean connector with needle & works very well as works before. Thanx very much. Thanx to all who had reply to this thread. Problem solved.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tel911:
Many thanx for this

I just had exactly the same problem tried everything clearing cache, different cables, restarting Phone, removing battery & sim, I was on the verge of doing a factory reset but realised that if it had no effect I would not be able to access my backup,

5 minutes with a needle torch and magnifying glass removed a lot of fluff (why didnt Samsung put one of those flap thingys over it)

Now works perfectly again,:D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wajidgates:
hello i am haveing same problem i have 3 samsung galaxy s3 only one is not connecting to pc its charging only i have tried every solution on google as well as xda developers .... is their any kind of problem with my usb connector ???? will it resolve by cleaning or i have to change it ????

i have tried by changing cable hard reset secret codes every thing but had no luck i need help here plzzzzzzzzzz......
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Msnetrom:
I think this will work.

I think one of this options will work:

-option 1:

Type *#7284# in your phones keypad. Then you choose qualcomm settings. Select MTP + ADB and then reboot.

-option 2:

Type *#0808# in your phones keypad. Select MTP + ADB and then reboot.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boas:
Same issue here

Hello I and many others have same issues after the 4.3 upgrade, theres quite many threads about it on the net but still no solution. I have contacted Samsung Sweden about this issue but they do not knwo of any widespread problem and said to send the phone to service (not optional for me since i change the screen of mine + out of warranty). Asked if there is any bugfix update on the way, but Samsung support didnt know about it

I have tried 3 computers and 6 usb cords, cleanded the connectors but no luck. In my case the phone never realizes that its connected to a computer, but starts to charges instead. Some people says that after the upgrade the computer sees it as an unknowned device.

EDIT: Didnt see this thread was solved, nothing to see here, will continue to look for a solution
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elcs:
Hello guys,

I own an unlocked, unbranded SGS3 I9300 on the O2 UK network. Samsung Kies happily advised me of a new update for my phone so I went ahead and started to update. This is my first smartphone where I haven't rooted it or flashed an unofficial ROM, every ROM I have used has been downloaded and updated through Samsung Kies.

This time it failed...

It gave me a generic SGS3-I9300 error code. I turned my phone off and back on again, and it displayed the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again." error. Plugged my phone back in, ran Kies, started the emergency recovery... it was taking a long time. It reached 19%. I left it for about 45 minutes and it shot up to 47%. A while later, 53% and I went to bed, leaving it on. Woke up in the morning to find that the emergency recovery had failed at 59%. So this morning I have attempted to start the recovery process again... and it has been stuck at 0% (after confirming that I wish to recover) for over 30 minutes now.

As far as I understand it my next step is to install Kies on another computer and attempt emergency recovery from there. Is that correct? If that fails or is not the next course of action, what is?

2013 has not been a great year for technology for me so far and heck, I've flashed custom ROMs, rooted and HSPL'ed all of my previous phones and cannot recall having a problem but I decide to use the official program and the official updates and this happens? :D Luck of the draw.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snowstormzzz:
Next course of action is to install a custom recovery, and then flash a custom rom. :D

Seriously.

If you prefer stock though, I think there are stock roms out there which can be flashed via CWM or Odin. Should be there in the dev forums.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kofiaa:
Try a different computer. If it doesn't work, download a stock rom and flash with Odin.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elcs:
Thanks for the help guys.

Do I need to root my SGS3 before using Odin to flash a stock rom?

So far, Odin is throwing up this error for me.

<ID:0/006> __Xmit Write fail

<ID:0/006> XmitData Fail..

<ID:0/006> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

I've closed down anything and everything I can find relating to Kies as well as downloaded a UK language stock rom.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kofiaa:
You don't need to be rooted. Can you enter recovery mode (vol up + home + power, then release power after logo comes up), then do a wipe.

Try flashing with a different pc, also run odin as an administrator.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elcs:
Tried recovery mode but it still gives me the "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again" message, same as if I tried to turn it on normally.

Odin is being run as administrator. Will use a different PC.

Thanks for the help :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elcs:
Thanks given all-round.

Installed Odin on my dad's laptop and the USB drivers. Flash failed the first time around but swapped USB ports and it sailed through second time.

Phone seemed dead but it appears as though the battery has been wiped down to 0%. Charging for about 10 minutes, the phone booted, installed, updated, optimised and did stuff and finally got into the Android OS as I remember it pre-flash.

Not holding my breath just yet but it appears as if my phone is back in business on a Stock ROM :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kofiaa:
Good stuff :thumbup:
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] luke1987:
It has been awhile since I've busted out my Dinc. I was surprised to see it has a 4.2 based ROM. I don't know how the AOSP keyboard is working, but encase it is buggy I wanted to share my second favorite gesture keyboard. Shapewriter works great with Dinc, and I always thought it was well ahead of its time. I heavily themed this Shapewriter. Screenshots are included in thread. Hope you enjoy

ICS Shapewriter thread
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] huber69:
hi guys.

sorry im posting this here and not in the official thread but because im new i cant post there.

i have a BIG problem. yesterday i had a problem with files on my DCIM library on my device storage. i could see them with the built in file explorer but when i connected the device to my pc - the files wasnt there!

i looked for a solution and when i didnt found one i tried upgraing my ron to the last one available (10.1-20130107-NIGHTLY-I9100). sincs then my gmail acount jas been erased on the device! when i try to add it under "+add acount" i only have an option to add CORPORATE, EMAIL, FACEBOOK or SKYDRIVE - no GMAIL option.

what can i do? please help, all my contacts are on the gmail account :crying:

btw - the files issue didnt resolve itself and i found another issue. i tried to make a screenshot, the device took it (made the animation and sound) but couldnt find the file itself in the device storage.