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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] blazerboy567:
You do not have to change the name if you update from sd card. I didn't have to change anything never have and I'm on the stock recovery. Just put the zip file on the sd card.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bluesmoke2012:
Im on my phone not near a computer can someone give me the website link ( not the direct download link ) the actual website
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] zanderman112:
http://d-h.st/KOT

You have to click download in this one :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ss4rob:
I used Odin to flash the stock recovery, now I'm getting an assert error on /dev/block/mmcblk0p7, which I think is the recovery image. Ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jazz995756:
Anyone link me to a backup file from this ROM or any other backup for stock i just don't want to Odin back
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cas8180:
Give it a day or so someone with post a ROM that will work with twrp and the modems as well and then you should be able just to flash over what u currently have with little head ache
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fzammetti:
FYI, I was able to successfully install this update from CWM 6.0.2.3 (latest as per ROM Manager) and I DID NOT need to restore stock recovery with Odin first, did it all while sitting on the couch watching TV :)

Here's "the trick", I think... after flashing the update in CWM as you would any update ZIP I then I selected "Reboot Recovery" from CWM menu... then when I got back into CWM I selected "Reboot System"... CWM at this point told me I might lose recovery so I let it fix that... then it said I might lose root, so I let it fix that too... system then rebooted and all was right with the world: MA6, root and CWM still there :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] qbking77:
I've got a how to manually update video uploading right now. hopefully that will eliminate questions
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Whiplashh:
Surprisingly, I went back to 4.1.1. The update made my phone really hot all day after flashing it.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Wired0980:
Why does this not change anything but baseband version for me?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
So who is gonna rip the baseband from this update? :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] lord dredd:
Freeza has already done that

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=32152586
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Thanks for the link, want there a bit ago
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] FLBoy1991:
Not sure.. did u do it with stock recovery & ROM?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] qbking77:
How to manually update:

http://youtu.be/VDzUT716u58

Hope this helps :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] poit:
It took a few hours (and reboots) for my phone to settle down after the update. It got pretty hot during the update and didn't cool down for a while but now battery drain is back to normal.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kermitcfrog:
This has happened to me also, flashed thru stock recovery on stock rom
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] yaniel06:
Im in the philly area and this MA6 update is poor in battery life. It sucks the life out of my battery. Also the MA6 radio at least in my opinion is horrible. Constantly drops 3g signal and heats my phone up badly. This is after 2 days on it and let phone settle over night. Flashed back to wicked with MA4 radio
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Getting exactly the opposite with the radio... excellent data speeds and rock solid...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] poit:
I found that the location reporting in maps turned itself back on after the update, which is pretty tough on battery. For those with bad battery life after the update I'd suggest checking there, and generally going through all the data-intensive settings in the phone to see what might have changed.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shekinahsmoke:
Yo in NYC here and flashed the ma6 modem on my freegs3 ROM. I immediately got 4g lte in my house. For those who know, lte isn't even official in NYC yet and I live in Brooklyn. So so far, so good :D :thumbup:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Logix:
So you have a cwm zip of it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Give me a few and u will throw it in my Dropbox, there are a few already floating around though

Edit-here Ya go... http://db.tt/xgYBYX04 don't thank me, thank freeza, he put it together for us...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] rpruey3:
Confirm works. Kept everything as it was. Nice work around.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cas8180:
Anyone else have some random glitches and force closes with the camera app in this update? I love the new features and my camera works 90% of the time but there are some random times it will hang when trying to take a picture then force close. And I need to reboot my phone then all is good again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JungleKing76:
Got impatient waiting for ota to come in so I flashed the update zip in cwm. Nice little update. I have read several others report slight lag at first and phone getting hot but I did not have any of that.

As got the "work around" after flashing in cwm there is no need to choose reboot recovery. After flashing the zip in cwm just choose reboot and cwm will ask if you want to save root and save recovery.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ytsejamer1:
My steps to updating LJ7 to MA6 (Stock Root w/ CWM)

Hey all...

I just went through the update, flashing the LJ7 to MA6 Update-Only zip on my stock rooted with CWM Recovery v6.0.1.2

1. Copy Stock LJ7 to MA6 update to external sdcard... It's about 158MB or so. (http://goo.im/devs/freeza/update_SPH-L710_LJ7_to_MA6.zip)

2. Shut off phone. Press volume up, power and home button at the same time and go into your CWM Recovery.

3. Install update via your copied update zip file from external sdcard. This takes about three to four minutes to fully run.

4. Once complete, go back and wipe cache directory.

5. Go to Advanced and then wipe the dalvik cache.

6. Choose to reboot phone. CWM will warn you that stock recovery has been chosen, do you want to make sure to ignore that change, keeping CWM. Say yes.

7. CWM will then say that root might be removed, do you want to fix?...say yes.

8. The phone reboots...you'll see the android is upgrading/optimizing apps and then you're back to your lock screen.

9. It'll take a bit of time...but my SuperSU was still present and accounted for. Wifi tether worked fine (with encryption), root programs worked without issue, all was good to go.

I didn't feel like flashing the full Odexed or DeOdexed 4.1.2 either via full wipe/reload or dirty flash. I just wanted the update. This was the closest method that I used to use with my EVO 4G to handle OTA updates.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] icelus1:
This worked perfectly for me. Thanks! :laugh::good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Epicnole:
Anyone know how to undo the MA6 update? I need to go back to the previous version and let the update happen via OTA again. I lost the ability to zoom in email and web browsers.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Odin
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ytsejamer1:
That is one of the features they removed in the MA6 update. Even if you let it install again, the feature will be removed. As for downgrading back to LJ7...that I'm not sure of.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Follow this guide on how to unbrick to downgrade http://www.qbking77.com/how-to-unroot/unroot-unbrick-the-samsung-galaxy-s-iii.html
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] loaderboy:
Failed. Do I need to rename to update.zip?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] icelus1:
I didn't have to when I did the update. I couldn't have the zip on the external SD, though. It would never mount. Otherwise everything worked OK using the Clockwork Touch Recovery.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Epicnole:
So...your saying that even if I go back then let the phone update via the official Sprint OTA MA6 the Zoom feature I am referring to is removed? If that is the case there is no point in going back. I liked the feature but if the normal update will remove it anyway there is no point. I'll just wait until Sprint releases 4.2.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Exactly... going back and reupdating won't bring back the feature you want... just hope the next update does... I too think that was a dumb move honestly
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nacron:
Wait, they removed the zoom feature entirely from the browser? or just pinch zoom or side scroll zoom? I found the stock google email app and have been running that since the last update because I had this weird flashing when I would scroll in HTML emails in the touchwiz email.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ytsejamer1:
Sidescroll Zoom was removed if my memory serves. They probably got a good amount of negative feedback on it and hence why they removed it. Regular zooming within the browser is working normally. I haven't noticed anything different...but I never used that sidescroll zoom.

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I'm not sure what difference renaming the file would do. I had the file on my external sdcard and had no issue. Ice on the other hand, did and was able to work around it. Good info there to be sure.

Maybe try downloading it via a different browser or something? OH...I downloaded it on my computer, had my phone hooked up to my computer, and transferred the zip over to the external sdcard via Windows explorer. Maybe if you're downloading via the phone itself, it is doing something to the file. I'm not sure why it would...but you never know. Just throwing stuff at the wall here.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nacron:
Thank goodnesss, sidescroll zoom was really annoying.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
I rather liked it actually.... but on the other hand, before I got used to it, it made me want to throw the phone out a window....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] daniel4653:
Pinch to zoom is still there
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] en11gma:
01 where is the official MA6 "FULL" OTA at?

02 can i use "Samsung_Galaxy_S3_ToolKit_v7.0.exe" to root and install recovery like i did with LJ7?

i usually installed the cwr 6.0.2.3 and the SuperSU (just the ones that came with that dload mentioned above) and not the updated versions that you get if you donate.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] RaySorian:
This seems to kill Wifi Tether, I use it sparingly with my N7 tablet and now it isn't even seeing the SSID.

Edit, newest version of WiFi Tether - TrevE Mod does work. Running it now and connected to it using the laptop I am typing this out on.

Go to ->[App-Mod/Source] WifiTether for JB TouchWiz Roms for updated WiFi Tether.

Dead version 11/12/12, Working version 11/22/12
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] smartbaby:
I want it too
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mewikime:
Has anyone still not got the update yet? I just purchased the phone today. All apps have been updated, but it says that the phone itself is up-to-date. :-/
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Mb1 will be pushing out soon, my guess is they stopped the roll out of ma6 because they missed something, hence the roll out of mb1 so soon after... I know a few stock unrooted gs3 owners who never received the ota to ma6... you can always download and install yourself though

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
I think something about the MA6 update is making some users have overheating problems (specifically the MA6 modem). Maybe thats why they stopped it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Interesting... perfect example of every phone acting differently... my phone loves the ma6 modem...

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Yeah i know most peoples phones are better than ever with the MA6 modem, but a handful were having these issues, its intriguing

I've seen probably about 10 reports of issues with MA6 that were fixed by flashing back to the LJ7 modem
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] djconundrum:
Small update for my stock rooted ma6?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] getinnocuous:
Just got the same thing. Running MOAR MA6.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] daniel4653:
Yeah I just got it too. Lol to whose on stocl install it then see what the version of the build is!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] burnnhell:
I rarely use my s3 anymore and just saw it with update screen. Sure is mb1. It seemed fine on ma6 for me.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] keekah:
I barely got the ma6 update about an hour ago. Does this mean I'll be getting another update or is the 3mb update included? My phone shows this.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] keekah:
Yup. Just checked to see if it would updates again and she enough I had a 3mb update waiting for me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] daniel4653:
Nice dude! Do you see any differences from ma6 ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] keekah:
I can't say as I barely got the ma6 update about an hour ago. Sorry.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] squeedps:
I can only dogpile on to what others have said. I'm running MSG and Chubbz MA6 ROM so I can't flash the update. My wife's phone, however, is stock and it still didn't have the MB1 update this morning and never had a push for MA6. My phone is running MA6 like a champ. It gets a little warm whenever I run a game with a lot of movement on screen but otherwise nothing that would cause overheating.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jazz995756:
The new update is just a fix for overheating issues on MA6 and adds a Google settings app
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] GiantJay:
Google settings app was from the Play Store, it was a update to the Google Play Services. Nothing to do with the MB1 ota update from Sprint.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] illogos:
Anyone have an issue with form data in their browser after updating? For example, if I start typing Street with just St it gives me the option in the form to fill Street, but it fills it as StStreet. If I type Str it will do StrStreet. I'm not talking about the keyboard suggestions. It only affects saved form data.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jrny99:
I am full stock no root and waited for update

when i finally got the update this is what i ended up with. does anyone know why i'm still at 4.1.1. with MA6 baseband ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tft:
i haven't even received the first update yet while people are already getting the second update. kind of makes no sense the method sprint is using to push out updates..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nanobutter:
Same here haven't received it either:(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Rxpert:
I just got it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] BigMosley:
Hey all new to the S3 and am loving it! When I try to update Samsung Software or firmware it says no update is available. I'm on 4.1.1 and LJ7? How did some get it close to a month ago and some still haven't or just now are?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Azzair113:
For the ones that didn't get MA6 yet if you go on YouTube and search QBKING77 he has a video on how to manually install it from your phone instead of waiting on the update and if you look through this thread theirs like 6 post on MB1.I think someone has a zip for it just search for it.heres a link to another thread with the updates http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1910947
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] BigMosley:
I'm assuming this method doesn't work for the non rooted crowd...?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Azzair113:
Yea If you try the MA6 to MB1 update zip flash that through stock recovery that should work but if you already got the MA6 Update you can try updating it through system update.I know they pushed that out to everyone i woke up to the update already installed on my phone i just had to restart it and it did the whole update process.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Not everybody... ;)

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
Are you talking about theme wise? yes

It will bring you back to complete stock like the day you got it... if you're rooted and modified any system files it probably won't install... if you are rooted and don't want to accept the ota and want the nag to go away, modify the build.prop to refer the new update... so if the update is for ma6 change build.prop, everywhere you see lj7 change to ma6... if for mb1 same thing, but change everything ma6 to mb1, reboot to recovery, clear cache and reboot... :)

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] diablo-3000:
got my mb1 just five secods ego

i got my MB1 JUST five second after i manually upgrade to MA6 is abaout 3 mb:good:...no rooted device;) yet///lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] netkgb:
I'm in the same boat. Decided to go back to LJ7 and factory reset with stock recovery. Status normal. Was hoping for an OTA message while I was reinstalling all my apps again but it never came after several hours. Downloaded the ...update_SPH-L710_LJ7_to_MA6.zip, put on extSD, booted in stock recovery. (Note: The green droid avatar was on his back like he was dead). Proceeded to update from external, all seemed to go well, rebooted, went through the update apps and got upgrade complete. Checked settings -> sysinfo and they are the same as above. Attached another pic with more detailed info. View attachment 1771434 Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
I would say it failed. There is an MB1 restore to stock thread in Development. As for MB1 it just adds some third party licenses that got left out of MA6. They have also combined the 2 updates for those that did not receive MA6 yet.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] prom311:
Have rooted stock and just recieved OTA today for MB1. never received MA6. Used Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper to backup/restore root and worked flawlessly
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Costas86:
I used this method and it didn't warn me about losing root access. Phone rebooted and I lost root access, then I got a notification to install the 3MB update afterwards, and I just did that OTA.

If I wanted to regain root access, do I just follow the process I used originally a few months back over here? I rarely modify my phone, just rooted it when I first got it to gain wifi tether access, so this is brand new to me again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkkcCCjeUpI

Edit: Nvm, I realized I was on CWM 5.x.x which is probably why I didn't get that option to fix root in CWM. Went ahead and followed the instructions in the video link I posted, root access is restored and wifi tether is working again so all is well :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
For future reference, Samsung devices are the easiest to root so unless we get a locked bootloader or the like, exploits and other rooting methods will still work fine ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] excitedfermion:
This was one of the deciding factors for me, when choosing between the S3 and the comparable HTC model.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] otterboxfan4l:
4.1.2 is not even worth the trouble or talk about 4.2 is what we need to be talking about

Sent From My Samsung Galaxy S3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] zanderman112:
So talk about it? Maybe using proper spelling and use of punctuation next time.

There's no use in complaining about not having 4.2 officially. It'll get here when it gets here, and if you want it badly enough, there's CM.

I swear, only thing I ever read on here now is people complaining...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ascertion:
Why even mention his spelling and/or grammar? Seems like his point still came across. Seems redundant to complain about something, while posting to not complain about something.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flastnoles11:
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] lytuantai:
I JUST got this update too - I'm rooted & obviously want to stay that way, heh
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sprkat85:
My wives phone just got the update. It seems like it took forever for her phone to receive the update.

Sent from my phone
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Count_Chockula:
I am having this issue. Did you ever find a solution?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] SprintGalSII:
The problem with the feature is someone put it there but "forgot to tell anyone" it was there, and so you stumbled upon it buy accident and until you figured it out on your own, you thought it was a bug that was tricky to reproduce.

Most of us having come from a desktop environment are used to "scrolling" down a page at the right edge of the window. This for me goes all the back to my first Mac, in 1984.

This of course is silly on a phone since there is no scroll-bar but it is habit.

Anyway, it doesn't matter if you like or dislike the feature. All that matters is that they put the feature in without telling anyone, including their own Tech Support/Customer Service and then took it away because some people didn't like it.

They should have added a switch to enable/disable it.

Knowing I have no choice but to either continually reject the update, 50 times a day, or accept the update and lose the feature gives me only one option, which is to scrap Samsung.

This is my 3rd Samsung phone in 2.5 years which still has some bugs (Email messages get mixed, Email Search doesn't work with sub-folders, Swype malfunctions, the phone must be switched out of CDMA/4GLTE then rebooted every time I enter my home, to communicate through my Airave)

Add back the "zoom" or I'm done, Samsung. You are too stupid a company to deserve my business.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Slomodrop:
Pinch zoom re-enable

This feature can be added back in pretty easily if you are rooted, change the setting in system/csc/features.xml. I use Root Explorer to edit that file.

If not rooted it can likely be done by editing then flashing a file via Odin software on a PC to your phone. I will point you to that thread on XDA and suggest the edit to be made to the file to be fed into Odin.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] SprintGalSII:
WOW!!! So it is not Hard-Coded as others have led me to believe!!

WOW!! I am very happy to hear this!!!! I was under the impression from others on here that such options were all "hard coded".

I am new so forgive my ignorance, and ignorant questions.

It has been over a decade since I needed to work with Unix, and I know this has become common jargon, but when you say "if you are Rooted" I assume we are talking about logging in to my phone as Root, so that I have sufficient security/rights to access folders and files that are hidden, above our level of access? And you are saying there is a switch in "features.xml" that controls the zoom. Do you know what it is called, and what the switch is?

Also, how do I logon as Root? I looked through Root Explorer and don't see where this is an option. Do I bring up the phone in Recovery Mode to accomplish this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Slomodrop:
EDIT: I see the setting actually pertains to pinch zoom, and I can not get the edge zoom to work. But I am looking into a different method. Sorry...

ORIGINAL:

I am on MA6 and am an edge zoom hater so was happy to see this feature disabled. Let me re-enable mine and ensure it works okay, then if so I will write up a how-to for you.

Meanwhile, it sounds like you have not gone through the process of "rooting" your phone yet? You would know if you had done that because you would have gone through a process such as Skunk Ape1's guide: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2011491
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
The way it works is that you once you're "rooted" an su binary is installed and everytime and app invokes the binary, the binary calls your superuser permissions manager app (for example, SuperSU or Superuser) which then prompts you to accept or deny superuser privileges for the command the app is trying to run

So you just use Root Explorer how you need to, and when it finds that it needs root privileges to say, modify a file in /system, it will call the su binary which in turn calls your superuser manager app and prompts you to allow / deny the action

And its better to ask questions than to be in the dark about something

All of us were noobs at some point ;)

Hope this helps!