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[Galaxy S III General] joevik:
Is anyone from SA? Do u happen to know when the 4.3 firmware will reach South Africa?
[Galaxy S III General] mjw2k11:
I had this problem and then after two days I decided to wipe and factory reset, this solved my battery drain issues, now working fine!! Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] stephg27:
Hello,

I often read that a wipe and factory reset is recommended after the update. But does it apply also when we update the phone "normally" using KIES ? :confused:

I noticed yesterday that the 4.3 update is available for my ROM version. But I hesitate to do it because of the battery drains issues reported by several people :(. And if a wipe/factory reset is needed even when updating using KIES, I am not very enthusiastic to do it because I will lost all my settings.
[Galaxy S III General] Iqbal Ansari:
4.3 is a huge upgrade from 4.1. There are a lot of under the hood changes. So I will recommend a factory reset. You can easily backup all your stuff easily. People running into issues after update because maybe they are not factory resetting it.
[Galaxy S III General] RafRorschach:
Help and info.

Can someone link me to 4.3 firmware for S3 and instructions to manually flash please. Thank you in advance.
[Galaxy S III General] Raulinho7:
would you like some coffee or tea with this?
[Galaxy S III General] Iqbal Ansari:
LOL !!!!

Go to sammobile.com to find latest firmware for your device.
[Galaxy S III General] Comed1an:
4.3 OTA just landed on my phone... looking good so far.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] stephg27:
Thanks for your answer! But is there any way to backup and restore easily the settings without to have the device rooted? I feel that all the backup tools like Titanium require root access to work properly and I don't want to root my device :(.
[Galaxy S III General] Niko_v:
Yes my batteri has never been this bad before.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
With Kies,just turn it and go to backup/restore. There you choose what you want to backup (SMS,Contacts,app's and etc). After you install your new FW and wipe your phone. Turn it on,set up the FW and then go to that tab where you backed everything up,press "Select All" and then "Restore".

Btw,you need Kies 3 to properly read Android 4.3,so go ahead and download it now,and remember to backup everything with Kies 3 and not older one!
[Galaxy S III General] stephg27:
Thanks for the advice! :good:
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
And don't worry about battery drain. Those who have it just didn't probably install it properly or didn't wipe the phone.

Don't forget to give a feedback about how everything goes (Kies backup,FW install).
[Galaxy S III General] alexmihai92:
How about bugs, WI-FI signal? I heard WI-FI signal is not so good as 4.1.2.
[Galaxy S III General] Krato§:
i want to flash to the newest 4.3. at the moment i am on the old XELLA fw. can i do this without problems? i have read about changes in the efs partition. (efsv2)
[Galaxy S III General] stephg27:
Kies 3 can't handle the S3 if the S3 is not updated to 4.3 so it is not possible to backup with Kies 3 before updating the S3 to 4.3. I suppose that backup from Kies 2.6 cannot be handled by Kies 3?
[Galaxy S III General] rodlane:
I've tried all the versions after MA2,which is what Vodacom has as the latest, and the battery drain gets worse with newer versions. I'm back to the MA2 now and happy with it.
[Galaxy S III General] wangdaning:
If you read about it efs versions are only an issue when downgrading. If you have a backup EVERYONE SHOULD then no issues, Also, yes, mobile odin will flash firmwares, including this one.

Sorry if I am a bit snarky, but haven't had the best holiday season, wish you the best none the less.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Try it then with Kies 2.6. It should read it.

Btw,guys with battery drain problems. There are more and more of you. Does that mean that BTU MK6 firmwares are the best for battery life? Because I have no problems.

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Wi-Fi works as good as in 4.1.2,just sometimes needs a restart (rare). That's the only change with Wi-Fi working process.

Also,you can turn off Wi-Fi power saving mode to speed it up.
[Galaxy S III General] RafRorschach:
Coffee :P. Since I am in malta i do not know which firmware to use and i need help on how to flash it!
[Galaxy S III General] rrr:
Using MK6.

Could not activate 'voice control' to answer calls by 'answer' command.

Bug?
[Galaxy S III General] gxg10:
Hello. After the 4.3 update, when i have a missed call or receive a message i have on the lockscreen a BIG sticker that says " 1 missed call" or "1 message" . I want to remove this way of showing me . I only want to see in the notification bar that i have a missed call or 1 message, like 4.1.2. Can it be done? i HATE this !

btw: the smart stay icon never dissapears in the notification bar. bug ?
[Galaxy S III General] mossy1963:
As ever there is some lazy "advice" being given out as normal - yes it can

You firstly back up your pre 4.3 with kies 2.6.

you then restore your upgraded 4.3 device with kies3.

Kies allows you to choose the backup folder during restore - and kies 2.6 and kies 3 do indeed back up to different directories on your PC so in kies 3 you restore from a folder from your kies 2.6 backup.

search your pc for the relevant directories on your pc. obviously depends on your set up - will be something like my documents\samsung\kies etc.
[Galaxy S III General] stephg27:
Thanks for these details, mossy1963! :good:
[Galaxy S III General] darkshaft:
I was using CM 11 so I had a very good RAM usage with around 500 mb free ram, had an excellent multitasking but had battery drain although I used googy max and also boeffla, the phone was very responsive. Now am on JB 4.3 UK BTU version, its a bit laggy and multitasking is more than terrible although am using boeffla kernel, there is also a bit battery drain. The one thing I like about Samsung's 4.3 firmware is the clear sound and the interface, camera, lastly keyboard, other than that touchwiz sucks.
[Galaxy S III General] alexmihai92:
If you turn it off it dissappears. I turn it on only when I need it.
[Galaxy S III General] rekenaar00:
Hi, there is an Xposed module called "disable samsung lockscreen notifications"

Edit:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2398174
[Galaxy S III General] beda_boy:
Flash player unsupported?

this version can't seem to play flash (.swf) files, any workaround/resolution other than going back to 4.1.2?:confused:
[Galaxy S III General] Suenu:
You guys should get better battery stats and find out what's draining your battery.. Then greenify them.. Its helps a little
[Galaxy S III General] Cortical:
Android 4.3 MK6 is rolling out to German i9300s - either per KIES or OTA. However, be prepared to do a full wipe of your device, since several notifications popped up repeatedly and were non-deletable.
[Galaxy S III General] Hanzo.Hasashi:
It's always recommended to do a FULL WIPE before flashing a new rom.

Sent from beneath my cloak of magic
[Galaxy S III General] Iqbal Ansari:
I'm on 4.1.2, if I root I know I wont receive OTA for 4.3 but will I be able to upgrade through KIES officially. Or I have to unroot first to upgrade through KIES.
[Galaxy S III General] alexmihai92:
If you have root, you won't be able to upgrade through Kies either. In both cases (OTA and Kies) your phone's status must be official. But you can flash the firmware you want with Odin.
[Galaxy S III General] mossy1963:
that is not true. rooted and unofficial will prevent ota but as long as you are using the correct firmware for your region you CAN upgrade via kies whether rooted or not. Kies will unroot your device though.

ps. done it loads of times so I know this to be true

pps. even if you are unofficial and not using the correct firmware for your region you can force Kies to upgrade using Tools > Firmware Upgrade & Initialisation. You will need to enter your phone serial number when asked to do so and possibly your imei (can't quite remember). This is to check your phone is legit and registered for a network for the region you are trying to upgrade to
[Galaxy S III General] stephg27:
before or after ? :confused: I thought it was after in order to reinitialize all the parameters of the new ROM.
[Galaxy S III General] Iqbal Ansari:
Somebody please confirm it. I'm confused.
[Galaxy S III General] mossy1963:
I just did confirm it! I've told you how to upgrade via kies whatever the status of your phone. what more do you want?
[Galaxy S III General] Lammy696:
I've noticed this here in the UK as well. My buddy got the MK6 OTA update and was having notification issues. Talked him through making a backup and doing a cache wipe/factory reset and it's all going well by the looks of it. Must admit I want to know what the **** Samsung is playing at. The MK6 release just looks like a quick fix to get rid of the main balls ups but even so you shouldn't have to do a factory reset after an OTA update. Has knocked my confidence in Samsung a bit, just want them to release a totally stable 4.3 release but IU doubt it seeing as the S3 is meant to be getting KitKat in June(?)

Handbags ladies!

By all means it should work. Never bothered with Kies personally as it's a slow piece of **** and about as much use as ITunes
[Galaxy S III General] Cortical:
They are

never

going to release KitKat until June. I don't even think we will be seeing KitKat at all - it's Samsung, after all.
[Galaxy S III General] Iqbal Ansari:
I hope you are wrong. I really want kitkat due to lack of ram on this device and I dont wanna use custom roms.
[Galaxy S III General] Cortical:
Are they really that good? Always went with pure CM on my previous phones, did not flash my i9300 yet - but it was a close one this time ;)

Yeah, I hope so too - but, let's face it, the i9300 is almost two year's old now, and Samsung latest trend was not focussing on flagships, but derivatization. And every single update that they pump out for these "Active", "Zoom" or "Mini" whatsoever devices is getting their focus further away from flagships, especially from old ones. Additionally, with more chips being produced - since updating is a process which relies not only on the OEMs, but also on the chipset producers - the support for older models is less likely than ever. Sad, but true.
[Galaxy S III General] Lammy696:
Hmmm, my argument to that is the S2 was upgraded to Jelly Bean. That shocked me
[Galaxy S III General] c_tho:
but then, the jump from 4.3 -> 4.4 is not so big, esp compared to either 4.1 -> 4.2 or 4.0 -> 4.1. i'll need a more impressive change list than kit kat's before i start getting anxious about waiting for samsung (after 4.3, that is).
[Galaxy S III General] ajiron11:
alternative download sites

I'm having problems with sammobile, any other site with official firmwares?
[Galaxy S III General] Robin2:
I have tried Slim roms over the years.. Must say that I'm not a fan.
[Galaxy S III General] MrWWolf:
I did full wipe before and after and all work fine.

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[Galaxy S III General] gxg10:
Hello. When i listen to music the music widget appears in the lockscreen. Can i remove it ?

This sux ! First the "1missed call" and "1 message" in the lockscreen, now the music widget. I wish we had some options to remove these lockscreen widgets !
[Galaxy S III General] Robin2:
I don't like it's default settings and overall look and feel. Performance is adequate as far as I know. I wasn't comparing it to Samsung's roms, but rather to PA and Temasek's roms. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] NeoKbm:
After upgrading to 4.3 the phone has gone from take 3 minutes to start to take 6 also contained messages like "Dropbox has stopped", "link Samsung has stopped" etc.. I'm thinking of making a full backup and do a clean install.
[Galaxy S III General] iefie:
Thats not good. I did a factory reset after the 4.3 and phone runs good. Same as 4.1.2 maybe a bit faster. Screen looks a little bit beter and text is more darker
[Galaxy S III General] NeoKbm:
Thank you. :) That's what I'll do once I have made ​​sure that a copy of all applications and all important data.
[Galaxy S III General] NeoKbm:
Posted in wrong place. Sorry.
[Galaxy S III General] kus234:
is there a fix to Music Stuttering ?
[Galaxy S III General] Simonna:
What firmware you're on? Did you root your device?
[Galaxy S III General] Lammy696:
Must admit, I was reluctant to do another reset. I went from MJ9 back to 4.1.2 and onto the MK6 4.3 without doing a full reboot but I was forced to after having a few persistent bugs that were getting on my nerves.

Just do it, made a big difference in everything for me to be fair. I've even gotten rid of using ADW launcher and having the phone totally stock (well, except for root access) and I have't noticed anything drastically bad. It's nearly as smooth as having a Nexus device, except the camera and camera>last taken picture load time is still stupidly slow

Battery life has seen some improvements too, just looking at my phone now and it's been on for 5h 3m 26s with wifi, NFC (accidently left on) and mobile data on and it's dropped 22% from full charge which I didn't think was too bad
[Galaxy S III General] fcaronte:
Any fix for gallery opening lag? I haven't any sync in gallery

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[Galaxy S III General] v1ks:
i use Quickpic, its so much better compare to the stock gallery.
[Galaxy S III General] Iqbal Ansari:
Me too!
[Galaxy S III General] iefie:
I don't have any gallery lag. 4.3 with factory reset
[Galaxy S III General] xbean:
Andriod 4.3 for I9300 XME?

Is there a 4.3 ROM can be flashed to I9300 XME? New official ROMs for Europe are being released by Sammy, but can't find any for Asia region. wonder if any can be used? TQ. :)
[Galaxy S III General] crisagatie:
If only quick pick had cloud integration... I really like my Picasa and Facebook pictures to appear in gallery.
[Galaxy S III General] dakoookie:
Well, we will see how much you don't care when all the drivers are too outdated to be used for future roms. :cyclops:

A new update always means that there's a chance for newer drivers which custom roms benefit from.
[Galaxy S III General] Lammy696:
Ewww, why?

At any rate the Samsung gallery and Camera is bloody slow. The best i've found is the 4.3 stock Android camera, stupidly fast. Shame it doesn't support saving to SD card though :/
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Cyanogen vs Slim? I really want a good custom ROM. I don't like CM. It deletes nearly everything,some useful stock widgets,app's and I know that SLIM does the same. Any recommendations?
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
It doesn't delete everything. It's not a Samsung rom so it -obviously- doesn't include Samsung's apps. What exactly is that you need? There are alternatives for everything.
[Galaxy S III General] Samzter:
slim's based from cm bro.. and there's much better alternatives to Samsung's widgets and some of the bloatware..
[Galaxy S III General] Electricview:
I've had the update a week now.. And most things are welcome updates (they finally fixed text messages so I can view pictures with zooming instead of as slideshows! wow!)... But am I the only one who noticed that loading up the pictures in a windows explorer folder when hooked up via USB (MTP setting) seems to take FOREVER now... I notice that now it actually shows me thumbnails when previously before kitkat (4.3) It never could do that, only showed windows generic icons.. I'm guessing that's part of why it takes so long? it's just much much slower now... same usb cable I've always used (came with the phone) and have 64Gig class 10 Sandisk memory card in there.. Just slow as heck now.. transferring seems okay though, I copied 56 pictures 111 megs worth in about 6-8 seconds, so that was okay).... So I'm not sure its the 'transfer' speed or what...
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
I like Stock music player,stock Video widget. Stock time widget,flashlight and etc.. I don't really like any other music player,only stock. Dafuq :(
[Galaxy S III General] Iqbal Ansari:
You like a lot of stock stuff like me, so better stay with stock. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
Then stay with stock rom, lol.

But music players are all the same... you get the same audio quality with all of them, basically. And you have flashlight in CM, too (btw, flashlight in stock rom is not a default feature implemented by Samsung, is something that someone added when making a custom rom).
[Galaxy S III General] TheAwesomeBit:
Heard of Assistive Light?
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
I just want some speeds guys. I want to get a rid of Samsung TouchwiZ firmware,but not stock apps/widgets.

Stock is enough for me,but I think I will like Pure Android more
[Galaxy S III General] tomuser:
I discovered annoying problem in official 4.3 concerning file naming while taking pictures or filming or making screenshots. If filming or making screenshot then file name has date which is wrong and could be related somehow with timezone - I get 2 hours difference. So if my local time is 17:00, I'll get file name like it was made at 15:00. But if taking pictures then in this case everything is completely correct - at 17:00 taken pictures have also file name 17:00. It wouldn't be such problem if ALL pictures or movies would have same (wrong) timing but problem is that some type of media will have correct and some have wrong ones. So in the end there will be complete mess if trying to watch everything in correct order. In 4.1.2 everything was correct.

EDIT:

Seems to be not Android fault but Dropbox app instead which changes the names. I checked again and original filename in phone is still correct and as it should be. Files in Dropbox have wrong names.
[Galaxy S III General] goughymachine:
Really the only stock thing I like to have is the camera. Not that I've played that much with cm and variants, but it seems to me the stock camera is the most stable/reliable and best featured.

But, am I wrong in thinking this? Do the aosp roms have stable camera options now, even if it's a third party (like focus) that I have to download. I found focus video cam would fc for me when I tried it on cm11.

And using bluetooth for google now/autovoice in my car. It seemed my voice wasn't going over my bluetooth device rather through the phones mic which meant it was too far from me to be accurate enough.
[Galaxy S III General] Devil Child:
Issues regarding the 4.3 update

I all ready downloaded the 4.3 update OTA. But I was disappointed due to the camera features, I thought it gonna be like the S4 (drama cam, eraser. ..) but this mentioned features aren't available. How can I add this features without rooting?
[Galaxy S III General] Iqbal Ansari:
So guys I'm tired of waiting for 4.3 in India so I thought of flashing it via odin.

I will flash ML2 or ML6 version. I want to know If I flash 4.3 with odin and at some point I want to downgrade to 4.1.2 again with odin, can I do this without any issues. I heard somewhere about IMEI issue, what is that.

Are there any specific baseband which work with specific version or I can use any baseband with any version.

EDIT:I will flash switzerland ML2 over Indian MH4, and possibly downgrade if I dont like it.
[Galaxy S III General] white-bird:
You should try neat ROM which is based on latest ML2 base. Also it gives you options before hand to choose the apps you want to install, backup EFS, choose modem version and also gives you choice to flash new recovery. Its pretty customized and easy to install and tweaked to be as fast as possible.
[Galaxy S III General] quaker1985:
ur case is same as mine.

I was using 4.1.1 (modem mg2) miui and then I flashed zdroid v3 (which is without any modem).

so now I am on stock 4.3 ml2 with modem mg2 and I can go back to my old 4.1.1 rom.

this zdroid v3 also has indian regional languages if you want
[Galaxy S III General] fabu1234:
hello guys! i've installed stock 4.3 I9300XXUGMK6 and i really like it since the GPU drivers have been updated and games are running smooth than in the previous 4.1.2 but i have a little problem. wifi is working but is very very slow. can i change the baseband?
[Galaxy S III General] Iqbal Ansari:
So you are saying that if I flash 4.3 ML2 via odin I wont be able to downgrade to 4.1 due to modem.

But my build number is MH4 that means my efs partition is V2 and ML2 also has a efs V2 modem so I can go back and forth without any issues. This is what I read in the efs forum in general thread.

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I dont think wifi is related to baseband.
[Galaxy S III General] fabu1234:
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I dont think wifi is related to baseband.[/QUOTE]

so what can i do?
[Galaxy S III General] Iqbal Ansari:
Try factory resetting phone.
[Galaxy S III General] gxg10:
Hello. Can you provide me a list of bloatware i can safely remove from the new 4.3 ? thanks !
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Google.

(ChatON,Some of Samsung services,Music Hub,Video hub,etc.)
[Galaxy S III General] ridowski:
Rooting

Any way to get my S3 with soft 4.3

rooted?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] darkshaft:
Is therw any difference between MK6 and ML1?
[Galaxy S III General] Iqbal Ansari:
Its newer. And its better. Try ML2 its latest.
[Galaxy S III General] pepo930:
How can I get DSP Manager to work on 4.3 ROMs?

I have a working one for 4.1.2 but I can't get it to work with 4.3, this is the only thing keeping me from updating.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Yes,check some tutorials around forum here.
[Galaxy S III General] ridowski:
did not find, where exactly? Please
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
I don't really know which one link to you,sorry.

Just check General forums of this device,there will be some ROOT tutorial threads,you may find the one you need. Check all of them.
[Galaxy S III General] y4nkee:
What about multiwindow?

It works on your device?

Because on mine, when i press the button doesn't appear the semicircle on screen side as on 4.1

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[Galaxy S III General] tomuser:
did you enable this function in notifbar at all? or maybe you are using easy screenlayout instead of standard?
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Multiwindow is completely working.
[Galaxy S III General] Sensamic:
Is the wake up lag bug already fixed?

I want to flash 4.3 now.
[Galaxy S III General] mossy1963:
Depends on country / 4.3 version / carrier etc.

From my perspective as a UK user of the international BTU fw version, MK6 is a big improvement on MJ9 and the awful bugs of MJ9 have largely been addressed.

HOWEVER, and its a big one. v4.3 on the SGS3 is far from perfect. Still very laggy which gets worse with time and problems such as "your internet connection is unstable" soon develop.

Have tried many things to address these problems including deep wiping, fresh firmware initialisation and installation etc. but if you check other international forums you will see that 4.3 on all sgs3 variants is poor and in my personal experience of various devices and every firmware since 2.1 Eclair - very disappointing.

The best solution I have found so far is to install a cache cleaner and do a daily cache clean.

Personally, if you want to stay on stock I'd await the inevitable 4.3.1 update before moving from 4.1. There are no improvements on 4.3 that make up for the really poor implementation that haven't been fully addressed since they rushed out the disastrous MJ9.....or flash a custom rom via odin of course.

ps. battery life is sh*te too
[Galaxy S III General] popoyaya:
Why use such crap when you have Googymax Wolfson, Viper4android, Noozxoide and many other. Check this thread (All About Samsung Galaxy SIII's Audio)...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2422949
[Galaxy S III General] Devil Child:
I already have the official 4.3 update on my Gt-I9300 . But the cam features are far away from the s4. is it possible to download the s4 camera features on my device without rooting?