yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] DroidZombie:
You can't just flash any rom you want. You will brick your phone. By brick I mean turn it into a paper weight.

You must convert a rom (cook it) so it will work with your phones hardware. Luckily the people at KBC developers made a tool for this.

Yes the site is in Japanese...they are Japanese and so is your phone...

Google is your friend. They have search functions and translate functions.

XDA also has a search function. USE IT!
[Galaxy S III General] eldridge27:
Someone posted rxtreme rom that is only for sc-03e.. do we need to cook it first before installing even its already for sc-03e?
[Galaxy S III General] Robobob1221:
Think you need to find out what the bat file actually does yourself

You got a link for this ROM?
[Galaxy S III General] eldridge27:
xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=42182374&postcount=318 thats the link for rXtreme for sc-03e
[Galaxy S III General] DroidZombie:
If you were talking to me, I know what it does.

I used it to cook Liquidsmooth and I am about to cook Carbon to replace that.

As nobody here seems to be interested in cooking new roms I'm going to bow out of the discussion now.

Have fun!
[Galaxy S III General] Edgrr000:
Hey, I was the one that posted the ROM. It's ready to be flashed on the SC-03E. I've been using it for some weeks now and it's awesome. I linked up two versions, one that is just the ROM like you would find in any other S3, but no NFC.

The second version is the "cooked" one that tries to make NFC work, since NFC on the SC-03E is not implemented the same way as the rest of the s3.

I have not tried the second one though
[Galaxy S III General] eldridge27:
im still downloading it.. i just installed cyanogenmod..but its JAPANESE =) i cant understand it... is rxtreme ENGLISH version?
[Galaxy S III General] majin:
Help needed about EFS Folder

[size=+1]Hello to everybody.

Sorry if I ask to all of you again about the same issue.

I need your precious help.

As I wrote in my previous post, I got a “problem” about the EFS folder:

I did flash a wrong file by Odin (my BIG mistake): the “Chinese EFS folder” from here.

I didn’t get any problem about IMEI, but I had to fix just my device serial number.

Now I’m trying to “rebuild” the original EFS folder structure (contents, permissions and owners) on my device, because I did many changes during my tests.

So, I got lost the original settings.

I did search a lot on the web, but it is very hard to get precise information about the SC-03E’s EFS folder.

I tried to make a summary about my present situation, that you can see on the images into the attached ZIP file

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Please check the infos about files and folders from the images into the attached ZIP file and compare them with the infos from your SC-03E.

NOTE

Since I did flash the that Chinese thing, I did get on my device the folder \efs\factory too.

Well I don’t know if actually it was previously on my device ad what content it had.

More, I have a \factory folder tooon my device with the same content of the “Chinese \efs\factory”.

Please help me about this too.

You can find that folder into the Chinese IMG file.

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For this job I used these tools.

- EFS_Pro_1.8.11_Release.zip (probably it was from here)...

It is old, but it worked for backuping the EFS folder from the SC-03E and it can keep the original permissions for the files/folders inside the backup (*.IMG or *.TAR).

- 7-Zip

- WinRAR

- TreeSize Professional Demo to get easily MD5 Checksum values for the files extracted from the (backup).TAR file.

- sgs2toext4.jar + DiskInternals Linux Reader to extract the files from the IMG file.

- Root Browser Free 2.2.3 to explore the permissions/Owners of the root files and folders directly on the SC-03E.

- Chinese EFS folder.

- WinMerge for comparing files and folder on the PC.

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[Galaxy S III General] eldridge27:
rXTREME rom no root

I installed rXTREME rom successfully.its from xda too. It says its already rooted.. but its not.. do u guys know how to solve this
[Galaxy S III General] Robobob1221:
^^^^ Go back to this post and read it again. It tells you what to do about root issues at the end
[Galaxy S III General] kizuki.buy:
I could see the content of EFS folder through Root Browser.

Contents are same for the EFS folder and FACTORY folder. Attached are the screenshots from EFS folder.
[Galaxy S III General] majin:
Thank you.

Could you make the same for subfolders?

Something about Owner/Group permissions too?

mmm... I'm a little worried, because some file are totally missing on my phone.

I'm very surprides you don't have NV files there!

P.S.

I need to know also about Owner/Group ownership about file/folders.
[Galaxy S III General] kizuki.buy:
Here you go. The folders where I have not included screens, did not have have any files.

By the way, few weeks back I played around with IMEI/EFS backup using the following link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1852255

I do not remember, what exactly I had done, but basically I had tried following the guide to backup my IMEI and after the procedure when I had checked, IMEI was still intact. Some users had complained that flashing CM can sometimes cause IMEI issues. I am guessing NV files missing could be because of CM or maybe because of NV DATA INITIALIZE step that is done for unlocking. Since I had a faulty international SIM, I had done the unlock procedure multiple times in various permutations and combinations assuming that my phone was still locked (due to faulty international SIM). However, long story short, after everything I have done, IMEI still seems to be intact.
[Galaxy S III General] eldridge27:
CSC

i got it =) 1 more question is. i cant call anyone bcoz the CSC installed is for australia..but theres a thread here that explains how to flash CSC code for philippines..but theres no zip file for sc-03e..only for i9300 and i9305.. which one do i need to flash? my phone is not 9300 and not 9305

...
[Galaxy S III General] Edgrr000:
That Australian CSC you have, it came from the i9305. So anything that you flash, as long as it's for the i9305, it should work. I say should because I'm uncertain. I flashed a Hong Kong CSC and my docomo sim card still works. To be honest I don't know in great detail what a CSC does, I just know that I can provide you with any features your carrier may have.
[Galaxy S III General] eldridge27:
i dont have a i9305...i have sc-03e samsung galaxy s3. i installed rXTREME rom . it works fine but the only problem is. i cant call to anyone but i can receive text messages..thats why i need philippine CSC for sc-03e..i dont know if i9300 CSC will work..need to try..PLEASE HELP ME
[Galaxy S III General] Edgrr000:
Hey everyone, well this links just got suspended for "generating excessive traffic"

that tells tells me that you guy love this rom :good: so can anyone recommend where i can upload these ROMs without this issue of "excessive traffic"?

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I'm telling you that i'm 99% sure the CSC for the i9305 are compatible, you should do a backup before flashing though, there is still a 1% that i'm wrong.
[Galaxy S III General] Robobob1221:
http://www.androidfilehost.com/

I recommend using this hosting site, good download speeds as well
[Galaxy S III General] nacuajo:
private email

you can tell me you email?
[Galaxy S III General] LeathSeraph:
I tried doing these backup methods also. I've already done the third backup process a while back. I did the first one using the terminal emulator app inside the phone itself.

I tried doing the second one where you flash the zip and it isn't working though. Were you able to do this one? When I go into CWM to flash the zip file it says:

Efs is not unlocked

Efs not backed up.
[Galaxy S III General] kizuki.buy:
I did only Part A using the Terminal Emulator on the phone.
[Galaxy S III General] IparryU:
dammit... i didnt look for the Japan CSC... need to find that now.
[Galaxy S III General] Edgrr000:
Got the new links up
[Galaxy S III General] yauchildchew:
I converted and tried this Liquidsmooth rom with my S3a. Felica and mobile TV and i think everything just works.
[Galaxy S III General] Umair.K:
PROBLEM WHILE FLASHING ROMs to my SC-03e

Successfully Rooted & Installed CWM on my Sc-03e

Now problem is, I've tried the following roms so far:

Liquid Rush 2.7 - Official - Toro -- Result: While Flashing, results in Error & Aborts

Liquid Rush 2.7 - Official - d2att -- Result: While Flashing, results in Error & Aborts

Cyanogen Mod 10.1 - d2att -- Result: While Flashing, results in Error & Aborts

Cyanogen Mod 10.1 for I905 -- Result - Phone Does not Turn on/Boot screen acts weird or enters loop

Avatar Rom for I905 -- Result -- Phone Does not Turn on/Boot screen acts weird or enters loop

^ Even Japanized these roms but still, phone enters boot loop or doesn't turn on.

Managed to restore using Odin & CWM. to Stock MC3 (Rooted)

Now problem is, I need a decent Rom that will work on my Sc-03e & one that's English (Since I don't know Japanese)

Questions:

Is there any list of Roms that'll work with Sc-03e?

Do roms for other models like I9305 work on SC-03e?

I remember seeing a post by Droid Zombie which said I9305 are compatible with Sc-03e but the ones I tried certainly didn't work.

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME! Thanks in Advance!
[Galaxy S III General] DroidZombie:
Then you didn't cook them properly.

Yes you're right I did post a how to. Nobody bothered to acknowledge it so I took it down.

There are a few people posting to this thread that are trying to help everyone else and honestly no one is listening to us. You guys can't even be bothered to search the thread for answers to questions that have already been discussed. You say things don't work when we give you an answer telling me you didn't really bother to follow our directions.

And why do you all keep asking for English roms? Change the language setting!
[Galaxy S III General] LeathSeraph:
Japanized ROM Tool

Since there aren't any directions for using the Japanized ROM tool anymore I'm posting new ones here. I'm basing this off of the Japanese directions and my own experience when testing the tool. THIS IS FOR REFERENCE ONLY.

I can't answer any questions if anyone has any problems so use these directions as reference only. You take responsibility for anything that happens with your phone. Do your research in this thread first! If you don't understand any of the terms, use Google!

Requirements:

An AOSP ROM for the Galaxy S3 LTE GT-i9305.

Instructions:

1. You need to have JDK installed. (I recall [MENTION=4505156]DroidZombie[/MENTION] replying to another member having issues that JDK7 will not work. JDK6 was advised instead.)

2. Create a new directory with a name that has NO SPACES.

3. Unpack the contents of the Japanized ROM Tool zip to a directory.

The tool is below:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oajwpgejthncnvb/make_japanized_ROM_SC03E_20130704.zip

4. Place the ROM (the zip file) you want to modify in the same directory as the contents of the unpacked Japanized ROM tool. Make sure this .zip file has NO SPACES in the name.

5. Drag and drop the ROM's .zip file to the Japanized ROM tool's .bat file.

6. You will be prompted for whether or not you want One-seg. This is a technology that receives special TV signals that only works within Japan. If you are within Japan feel free to answer Y or N depending on if you want it or not.

If you are NOT IN JAPAN it shouldn't matter which you answer, but you CANNOT use it. Don't ask if there is a way to make it work. It shouldn't as it doesn't pull in normal over the air TV signals.

7. Once the script finishes the modified ROM should be in the directory. If not, then the tool was unable to modify the ROM for some reason.

I am not a developer and am no expert at any of this. I cannot answer any questions. You do any of this at your own risk.

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For additional reference Japanese readme.txt contents are below.

■概要

海外版GALAXY S3 LTEのAOSPカスタムROMをdocomo GALAXY S3α SC-03E用に最適化するツール

■使い方

事前にJDKのインストールとPATHの設定を済ませておいてください

まず、最適化したいROMを"make_japanized_ROM_SC03E.bat"と同じディレクトリに配置してください

同じディレクトリに配置したROMを"make_japanized_ROM_SC03E.bat"にドラッグ&ドロップすると最適化が始まります

■対応ROM

・GT-I9305(i9305)

■最適化の内容

・KBCカーネル導入(20130519#8相当)

・build.prop最適化

・spモードメールのプッシュ通知対応

・ドコモ絵文字対応

・モトヤフォント導入

・ワンセグ対応

・おサイフケータイ対応

■ワンセグ有り・無しの違い

・ワンセグ有り…ワンセグが使えるが、起動できるカスタムROMが限られる(互換性低)

・ワンセグ無し…ワンセグは使えないが、起動できるカスタムROMは多い(互換性高)

■備考

スペースを含むファイル名・ディレクトリ名には対応していませんのでご注意ください
[Galaxy S III General] Umair.K:
First of all, Leath & Droid Zombie, thanks a bunch.

I think I'll be able to do it & possibly help others too.

Secondly, Droid, calm down- honestly, I appreciate what you've done so thanks a bunch. Also, people keep asking for English roms because when you say "Japanize the Rom", they're going to interpret that it will change the Language of the Rom to Japanese only. See, most of us asking questions probably don't have a percent of the knowledge you have because we're not developers. As far as common sense goes, you can obviously apply it better than most people- hence you're a developer & undunderstand. So to be honest, don't expect them to get everything easily; I got most of it because I looked at the instructions a number of time & applied my common sense EXCEPT when it came to Japanizing the rom. In any case, sorry for any inconvenience I might've caused and once again, Leath & Droid Zombie, thanks a lot- you guys are Amazing. :)

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Also, please provide me the link for Liquid Smooth rom for I9305; their "goo" pages don't seem to have the Rs anymore. Thank you.
[Galaxy S III General] IparryU:
Just tried this with the June 19 CM10.1 nightly and it worked flawlessly.

The one thing I may add is that my cmd window did not display japanese, so i didn't know if it passed at the very end. but it worked!

Thanks [MENTION=4505156]DroidZombie[/MENTION] for making this and thanks [MENTION=5286099]LeathSeraph[/MENTION] for reposting!

BUMP Please!

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http://goo.im/devs/liquidsmooth/i9305/
[Galaxy S III General] DroidZombie:
Finally a response! This is all I was after! That someone would read what I wrote and post some intelligent questions about it.

Ok here goes:

1. I will repost the instructions in full in the next post

2. I'm not sure who first jused 'Japanize', but I think I managed to avoid it. To avoid any confusion using the tool provided by KBC will not remove English support. All it does is set the default language to Japanese on first boot. When you boot your phone you will have the option to change it to any standard AOSP supported language.

3. The common sense part is simply using the search bar. I'm not a developer, I learned all this by reading other threads and experimenting.

4. In my opinion you guys would probably enjoy Carbonrom more than Liquidsmooth. Do some research about them both and you'll understand why.
[Galaxy S III General] Umair.K:
IparryU Thank you so much for the link! :D

Droid, Carbon sounds great. Though again, please post a link to Carbon for I9305. I'll try to help you out wherever I can.

Haha, my bad- I assumed you're a developer. :P

Well, it's either one of 3 things:

- People are too lazy to use the search bar

- People don't know how to use search bar

- Common Sense isn't really all that "Common"
[Galaxy S III General] Umair.K:
Great Post! :D

I'll make a collection of all the necessary softwares needed to perform the above instructions & post the links here.

Cheers! :D
[Galaxy S III General] DroidZombie:
....Everything except Odin, the USB drivers and task650's gapps are direct links. As for Odin, I HIGHLY recommend reading that post before doing anything to your phone. Task650 updates his gapps regularly so there is no point posting a link to the file.
[Galaxy S III General] LeathSeraph:
I think it's more of a matter of that's what KBC named the zip and bat file. Not everyone on this board has the same first language, so at least for me it is not trying to make things even more unclear by referring to the file by another name than what it is already named.

If you have any feedback on how Carbon has been up to now on your phone feel free to post. CM is the only one that has a lot of feedback on this board, but not much to say since most people seem to be having the same experience - it's really stable and the battery is really great for me. Almost no loss when on wifi and minimal loss on 3G. A few percent an hour with light usage.

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Let us know your feedback on how this nightly is working for you. It's possible a stable release from CM will never come for our phone since the devs don't have access to the processor's info from Samsung so it would be good to know which nightlies are working well for the phone.
[Galaxy S III General] DroidZombie:
There is no comparison. Carbon is far superior to CM. I used to love CM, tried a bunch of other roms (AOKP, Pacman, Paranoid), but always went back to CM. Once I tried Carbon I never went back to CM. It's smooth, well laid out and virtually bug free. I have it on my SC-06D and my wife uses it on her SC-03E with no complaints. My only advice is to go into developer options and turn on force gpu rendering. It will make things even faster.

And there is a stable build of CM10.1 for the i9305 that you can convert.
[Galaxy S III General] LeathSeraph:
Do you just mean that there are stable nightlies for CM10.1? Because there's still only nightlies for CM10.1, but no final stable release.
[Galaxy S III General] DroidZombie:
Nightlies are "stable" and I think there are release grade versions. Not quite perfect but I doubt you'd be able to tell the difference.
[Galaxy S III General] LeathSeraph:
I think we should be careful about saying all the nightlies are stable since the last time I went through the i9305 board there were always a story somewhere of an issue after a person upgraded to a new nightly from one that caused no problem. It might not be common, but it can happen. And at least for CM, nightlies aren't meant to be used as daily drivers, even when they are stable. Considering what people miss when reading through this board, I'm pretty sure they will miss that point too.

Also, there are Release Candidates but those are not for i9305. The RCs aren't for all models of phones.

And let us know if your wife is seeing any bugs with Carbon, even if it's minor. It would be nice to have a list so anyone else that installs Carbon can see what get's replicated or not and can help with reporting the issues to the devs. Also might help limit questions if it's already known what issues a ROM has.

The only issue I have in the May 13th CM I flashed is when scrolling through the widget list it shows jagged, squiggly edges. Nothing else so far.
[Galaxy S III General] DroidZombie:
My bad. I thought CM was farther along for the i9305.

I take stories with a grain of salt, especially when they come from a single user. People often run other mods or just don't know how to flash stuff.

It does raise a good point though. Whenever you change your ROM, even if it is only a new nightly you are flashing MAKE A NANDROID. Backing up a working rom will save you hours of frustration.
[Galaxy S III General] IparryU:
Thus far the nightly I used is great. Not sure what the difference was for the "Japanized" CM10.1 thar was released on June 19th, but the i9035 has no problems.

i will most likely hold off on any more testing until next week as I will be heading back to the states for summer vacation. once I am back home I will start testing again.

I like how liquidsmooth and carbon are looking, rXtreme looks nice... if you customize it and also the separate csc is a bit annoying. But I assume when Japanizing it that that is fixed... I wil test this too and I have already downloaded the theme stuff I wanted so this should be fun.

Nice guide BTW [MENTION=4505156]DroidZombie[/MENTION]
[Galaxy S III General] majin:
DoCoMo released the new MF1 Stock software.

P. S.

I wasn't able to flash CWM Recovery on MF1.
[Galaxy S III General] DroidZombie:
Through Odin?
[Galaxy S III General] xeonga:
problem with tool create cook rom

Hi all,

Now i use make_japan_tool to create custom rom from i9305 rom. But i have error: make_japanized_ROM.wsf<179, 3> ADODB.Stream: File could not be opend. Any one can help me. Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] yauchildchew:
did u try the latest CM10.1?

does it include pie control?

the japanized cm10.1 at 1st page has no pie control.

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by the way, liquidsmooth is nice but i have got a few auto restarts once in a while and feeling that vbattery life is not so good.
[Galaxy S III General] majin:
I did it OTA.

Upgrading by Odin, no problem about CWM.
[Galaxy S III General] IparryU:
1. does the file path have ANY spaces in it?

for example, i just put the file in C:/cook so there would be no issues with my filepath. does the name of the rom have a space? try renaming it to rom.zip if

2. do you have JRE6?

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre6-downloads-1637595.html

3. did you drag and drop the rom onto make_japanized_ROM_SC03E.bat ?
[Galaxy S III General] xeonga:
Thanks. It done :D
[Galaxy S III General] majin:
Thank you for this very nice guide.

Well, I did have a fast look to Carbon and Liquid custom ROMs.

Carbon ROM seems very nice.

Thanks for sharing.
[Galaxy S III General] DroidZombie:
I haven't had those problems.

What dates were the nightlies from?

Did you flash a different kernel?

Double check the instructions and try again. There should be no reason for both ROMs to be giving you that problem. One maybe, but not both.

And for anyone who is trying to follow the guide now, I have to redo some links. The kbc crew moved their stuff. I will try to do it tonight, but no promises.
[Galaxy S III General] majin:
Thant is ok.

I did re-flash ROM and Gapps, then wipes... now it works...

Now I'm testing... but it seems it has more problems:

I can't find the Calendar

It seems I can't sync Tasks with Microsoft Exchange Account

Voice Search not working

...

mmm Very sorrowed.
[Galaxy S III General] DroidZombie:
Google calendar?

Which gapps are you using?

I don't have an exchange account so not much I can say about that. Try one of the other gapps I suggested.
[Galaxy S III General] IparryU:
not sure what you are doing to not get the calendar... but you should wipe/factory reset, then wipe cache, the wipe devlic cache, then flash cm10.1 then flash gapps and boot. no need to wipe after flashing cm10.1 from my understanding, or else nightlies would be horrible for anyone that customizes their phone....

sync tasks with Microsoft exchange cm10.1

in one of the top two results was this app: