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[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Is it normal,that I charge my device twice a day,if I multi-task with Wi-Fi heavily ?

Phone lasts 3-4 hours (4 hours guaranteed,if slow charger used),then I need to charge it again,and then charge it again over night.

I don't really worry about that,though sometimes there may be moments,where I will need the phone to use heavily but won't have a charger,it will discharge before I'll go back home. Rare,but may happen sometimes.
[Galaxy S III General] sanefirst:
What do you mean by this?

With Wi-Fi turned with Sync on and screen turned on for approx. 2 hours (watching movies, facebook, gmail) I easily get whole day battery life w/o charging.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
No sync. Just 6+ apps open,often changing from one to another.

Sometimes I do this without stop,and that leads to 2 charges a day.

I charged it 5 hours ago,nearly 3 hours of screen time,47% left,so I'm gonna charge it again. That seems to be too often,so is it normal? I get results like this from day one,so I don't worry,but wanna be sure,that heavy-nonstop using of phone always leads to this and this is normal.
[Galaxy S III General] tmac31:
3 hour screen time and 47% left battery your battery is superb. you just use phone alot thats all best phone can give around 5-6 hour screen time on heavy usage atm. my ipad air lasts 8 hour so there is no problem on your phone.
[Galaxy S III General] Ecomo:
Hello guys, I need some help.

So, yesterday I flashed this rom ( Smartdroid, Android 4.3). I came from stock android 4.1.2 with baseband I9300BUEMA1. Everything seem fine,except phone dont catch sim signal. I cant send sms and I cant take a phone call. I saw in other treads, that I my modem is to old. What should I do now? How can I flash new modem?
[Galaxy S III General] patriotaki:
When will the 4.4 be released official by samsung on i9300?
[Galaxy S III General] alexmihai92:
It was rumoured to appear on April-May, but nothing's for sure. It may be very well not released at all.

Sent from my Samsung GT-I9300 Galaxy S III
[Galaxy S III General] alexferdean:
Do what I did. Buy a Samsung dock (the one the let's you place the battery inside to charge it) off eBay for 6-7$. You can also find the retail one with a battery included but it's expensive this way (25-30$). Or buy a swap battery (recovered from broken phones). I found original swap batteries in my country (Romania) for 7$.

This way I charge the battery in the dock and when my phone gets below 10% I simply change the battery. Problem solved.

One more thing, don't rush and buy new oem batteries for less then 10$ because they are all fake. Even from Amazon.

Sent from my S3
[Galaxy S III General] Soryuu:
Yeah, be careful that you don't buy "authentic" looking batteries either without verifying them first... where I am, there are some street markets that sell supposed original batteries, but (very) close inspection of the case would tell you they're fake.

Preferably, get OEM batteries straight from Samsung if possible. Its a bit pricey, even in Korea, but in the long run its worth it (they still produce fresh S3 batteries as well, my new one has a build date of November 2013).
[Galaxy S III General] darkshaft:
The best solution for my S3 to work properly is:

with based on sammy firmware:

1- install ML2 or ML4 with launcher like nova or kitkat launcher + beoffla kernel zzmove battery yank.

This option will give you everything which I like except no stock weather widget, which is a bit frustrating. But still you will have poor multitasking which is sammy's fault, but the Note 3 pen window feature can help a bit.

With CM based:

1- Temsak rom v36.

You will lose ALL stock features and mostly for me the camera cause it sux with CM but you can download fix for it.

CM based roms will give you excellent multitasking, speed, lag free.
[Galaxy S III General] drelite08:
Why has the official firmware thread been closed?
[Galaxy S III General] Eleve11:
Yeah!?

Was just looking for it. What happend to it?
[Galaxy S III General] alexferdean:
That why I bought a "swap" battery which is a battery taken from a lightly used phone which had other manufacturing problems and then sold by the service. It's basically a second hand battery, but it's at least original and very cheap.

I used it for 3-4 cycles already and it's the same as the one which came with the phone. Charges the same and lasts as long as my phone's original battery.

Sent from my S3
[Galaxy S III General] alexmihai92:
That's what I did. It's more useful than I thought it would be. I always have a fully charged backup battery.

Sent from my Samsung GT-I9300 Galaxy S III
[Galaxy S III General] patriotaki:
Im running 4.4.2 with cm11 if i downgrade to official samsung stock 4.3 rom will it brake my phone?

Because i heard something that can go wrong with the IMEI and stuff but i dont really remember..

What do you think?
[Galaxy S III General] alexferdean:
Check your modem first. If you had 4.1.2 then installed cm11(cm doesn't change modem because it uses the same you previously had), then you have modem v1 and if you install 4.3 your modem will be upgraded to v2. It won't break your phone, but if you go back to a v1 rom like the 4.1.2 then you will loose your IMEI and you'll have zero signal. Then you will really get in trouble if you have no EFS backup. Just install Phils recovery and backup your EFS just in case.

Sent from my S3

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News about KitKat

http://www.sammobile.com/2014/01/21...to-receive-android-4-4-2-kitkat-by-march-end/

Sent from my S3
[Galaxy S III General] patriotaki:
I had 4.1.2 and flashed stock rom 4.3 and did a ROM backup with cwm and then i flashed cm11 and i want to switch back to stock 4.3 bcz i dont like the design :P

What can i do now?
[Galaxy S III General] alexferdean:
If you had 4.3 flashed then you are using the v2 modem. Everything will be fine as long as won't flash 4.1.2 or older again. You could backup EFS just in case though.

Sent from my S3
[Galaxy S III General] patriotaki:
Can you link to the app to backup my efs?

I cant find it on play store
[Galaxy S III General] alexferdean:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.hellcat.droiddev.ktool

This app will do the job.

Sent from my S3
[Galaxy S III General] Gravaze:
i've a lag problem on some 4.3 based roms since last week. even after a clean install i've "com.google.process.gapps stopped" problem. i tried restoring preference solution but a few hours later problem repeats. what should i do? i can't downgrade to 4.1.2.
[Galaxy S III General] Robin2:
Stock Samsung roms do not need gapps.zip to be flashed. If you're on a non Samsung rom, try flashing a different gapps package.

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[Galaxy S III General] FritzFact:
Guys I wanna change my kernel, how can I do without wipe data? I'm on a full stock with latest 4.3

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[Galaxy S III General] MoritaZX:
Hey, I've been using EFS professional and it really came through for me. I woulnd't flash anything without EFS being backed up Just make an EFS backup on your PC and you're OK.

Link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1308546
[Galaxy S III General] rome786:
First root your phone using odin than install mobile odin in your phone download kernel boeffla etc and flash it ...
[Galaxy S III General] FritzFact:
Thanks, so flashing with Odin for have root and recovery won't wipe the data of my phone?

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[Galaxy S III General] rome786:
Yes it wouldn't
[Galaxy S III General] Gravaze:
i'm using s4 revolution v12 now. but before s4 rev, i'm using stock 4.3 (first release of 4.3 with googymax kernel). when i'm flashing s4 rev, firstly i flash with stock kernel for camera issues. after, i flash litegx kernel but this time lags and crashes appear. after litegx, i flash with boefla kernel and same issues here: "samsung keyboard has stopped working" and "com.google.process.gapps".
[Galaxy S III General] chrcol:
do MJ9 mods work on ML4 tho?

I am reffering to mods that change features and visuals not bugfix mods.

For me this MJ9 is now actually quite snappy with adam kernel and no wakelag issues as well as no wakelocks.

--edit--

sorry stupid question I see you already answered.
[Galaxy S III General] tomashaker4e:
Can anyone give a link from XXUGML2 Kernel only? I cant seem to find the kernel alone anywhere, and i need it in tar.md5 flashable, not cwm zip :)
[Galaxy S III General] bexem:
Hi there, which one has the less number of bugs?

MK6, ML2, ML4?

My friend prefer to stay on sammy firmware, stock, but it has a version with many bugs, what you advice?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
MK6 BTU is what I have installed and is bug-free,speedy and with good battery life.
[Galaxy S III General] Aditya Keri:
I'm on ML4.

Battery is not much different from the previous 4.1.2, maybe marginally better.

But the overall performance has improved to a large extent. Games play much better, TouchWiz is super responsive now. Overall very smooth.
[Galaxy S III General] alexferdean:
Same here on ml4. Best firmware so far, although I use ArchiDroid ml4.

Sent from my S3
[Galaxy S III General] nagi_007pk:
Not satisfied

So I've had a galaxy S3 for a year now and I tried flashing custom roms based off samsung's stock 4.3 firmware but I don't know is it either my device or 4.3 doesn't run as well as I thought it would. I'll list down some of the situations I've been facing even after using all the roms publicly listed on the android development forum for the I9300

1) Phone gets warm quite frequently.

2) Battery backup is almost similar bit if the phone warms up it drains more quickly

3) The worst implementation of multitasking! I get so many launcher redraws that everytime I turn back to 4.1.2 stock because of this issue (my phone has over a 100 hundred apps)

4) Overall the phone feels quite responsive

5) Apps are killed if I exit them...

This is my experience overall but the trouble that samsung has placed upon users is too much to bear
[Galaxy S III General] Sensamic:
Is ML4 better than ML2 in smoothness and lag? Or are they mostly the same?
[Galaxy S III General] viktor92:
I've tried MK6, ML2 and ML4 through ArchiDroid 1.74/75/76 and and all are pretty much the same, a little faster than 4.1.2 and very stable (the only real difference I've found between them is that MK6 connects to wifi a lot faster than the other two). Initially the standby was very bad, but then I've disabled FAST DORMANCY (it seems that my carrier doesn't support it) and the final battery performance was even better than 4.1.2 :D
[Galaxy S III General] Sensamic:
What is fast dormancy and how can I disable it too?
[Galaxy S III General] onesolo:
me too... where we disable that??
[Galaxy S III General] viktor92:
I can't give you an exact description, but if the carrier support fast dormancy, supposedly the phone will use less battery when idle (maybe entering faster in deep sleep), but if it's not supported, the effect is the oposite. The easy way to disable fast dormancy is downloading from the market "fast dormancy togle" by Siyah, it's free and can't be easier to use, one button to enable/disable.
[Galaxy S III General] alexferdean:
First google fast dormancy if you want to understand it. It's simple really.

Sent from my S3
[Galaxy S III General] rome786:
Latest modem for I9300 .any link
[Galaxy S III General] viktor92:
Download the full rom from this link:

terafile.co/7c2af33de576/I9300XXUGMK6_I9300OXAGMK6_OXA.zip

and extract MK6 modem from the zip file.
[Galaxy S III General] sashundera:
Can someone tell me the diffrence between: I9300XXUGMK6 → I9300XXUGMK7 → I9300XXUGML2 → I9300UBUGML3 → I9300XWUGML4 please?

Also, which country should I flash for? My country region is Bulgaria, and the CSC showed VVT. However I saw that they have the older MK6 version. Whats gonna happen if I flash a build from different country? Thanks.
[Galaxy S III General] ithunter:
no risk you can flash whichever you like !! diffrent between these rom is only country, career wise :)
[Galaxy S III General] danierakes:
If u want unrooted stock firmware better Flash mk6 or ml2...ml4 will suck ur battery...

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Try ml4 without root and tweaks...see if ml4 better than ml2 or mk6..I bet u gonna cry cuz ml4 suck u battery very fast
[Galaxy S III General] v1ks:
I am in the UK using BTU 4.3 MK6 - i want to flash the boeffla kernel is this possible via odin? i dont want to install a custom rom and root so not sure if custom kernel can be installed on my current stock rom.

if possible does anyone have a link to the download for odin package for this kernel.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] rome786:
Yeah you can flash boeffla kernal use mobile odin
[Galaxy S III General] arghness:
MHL and HDMI differences with 4.3

I haven't seen it mentioned here, but I have noticed that the MHL/HDMI output works differently with 4.3 stock.

With 4.1, hardware accelerated overlays would go fullscreen on the MHL output even if they weren't on the device (meaning that you couldn't see YouTube controls on the screen, for example).

With 4.3, the screen always appears to be mirrored, which is much better for my use-case (plugged in to a dock and remote controlled with Sixaxis).
[Galaxy S III General] viktor92:
I tried MK6, ML2 and ML4 through archidroid 1.74 to 1.76 with fast dormancy disabled and the battery performance is exactly the same in all three and better than 4.1.2. In each installation I do cache partition wipe, dalvik cache wipe and format internal sd card as suggested by the rom maker and I have had not a single problem.
[Galaxy S III General] alexferdean:
I believe you but the rooted and debloated ml4 I got now saved me from going to cm11. It's that good! I didn't like camera and recording sound in CM11.

Sent from my S3
[Galaxy S III General] Swallen:
kernel question

Hey guys just a quick question. I am with 4.3 stock rom MK6. I am unrooted so can i flash Googy-Max2-Kernel_2.1.4_CWM via stock recovery without root ? Also any info about good daily driver kernels will be good and also battery life with them. Tnx a lot! :)
[Galaxy S III General] Robin2:
No. You will have to root with cf autoroot, then install a custom recovery. Only after that you will be able to flash custom kernels/roms.

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[Galaxy S III General] Iqbal Ansari:
No root required. Just flash recovery of your choice with odin and start flashing.

Root is only to gain access to system files. While recovery and kernels are related to bootloader and as s3 bootloader is already unlocked you can directly flash any recovery or kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] chrcol:
ok the wake up lag is back so I will be upgrading to a fixed 4.3 (or not?)

Seems there is no way to quick toggle 2g/3g in touchwiz 4.3? or am I wrong.

I downloaded power toggles and the toggle on that just takes me to the menu.
[Galaxy S III General] scoldrf:
yep
[Galaxy S III General] chrcol:
So I am now using ML4.

Initially went onto googymax kernel but noticebly slwoer than adam, so adam is back on.

I plan to add a 3g/2g toggle widget to my homescreen via tasker (wtf in removing this function).

Wakelag is gone.

Wanam exposed installed to recover some loss functions I miss from jkay, but I havent got everything I want such as aosp lockscreen and fading led.

ML4 in my view is slower than MJ9 although this could be down to how the custom rom was made tweaking changes etc,. (neatrom).

Out of the box 4.1.2 is faster than 4.3 however when I install xposed framework on 4.3 there is only a slight performance penalty, on 4.1.2 xposed massively reduces performance so when comparing the 2 with xposed installed 4.3 wins.

I am hoping wakelocks remain gone in ML4 as was in MJ9.

Other things I am hoping to recover that are in all aosp based roms I used is volume control to move keyboard cursor. Overall tho I am happy with this rom as all bugs I had in 4.1 are fixed, the brightness bug included which I mistakenly said wasnt fixed earlier.

So reminder of bugs fixed 4.1 to 4.3.

1 If brightness is not at default setting, on reboot of phone the brightness reverts to default setting, settings will show the custom setting but actual brightness will be default, as soon as touch settings the correct brightness shows - fixed in 4.3

2 Stay awake if charging developer setting, this resets to disabled on reboot - fixed in 4.3

3 Wifi 5ghz, channel36 on a 40mhz 5ghz wifi signal or any channel on a 80mhz 5ghz signal dont work properly, almost zero throughput. - fixed in 4.3.

In addition I like how when enabling unknown install's it will auto disable again just doing for the single install.
[Galaxy S III General] rome786:
Plz any link of adam kernel for I9300. Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S III General] chrcol:
Well it isnt stable, seems whatever version of android always problems :(.

I just had my phone self reboot after turning on spirit ul to use FM radio after 1 minute in use.

adam kernel http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2189061
[Galaxy S III General] viktor92:
I'm using JB 4.3 ML4 through ArchiDroid 1.7.6 with latest Yank kernel, and is the fastest and battery friendly rom I ever used, absolutely stable.
[Galaxy S III General] dkionline:
No new firmwares in the next time?

Ciao
[Galaxy S III General] glockaki:
is mk6 the latest modem?im using the mk1 the brasilian but not sure if its the latest.

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sammy will start rolling firmwares for europe countries.waiting for mine(greece).and the end of march will propably roll out 4.4.2 kitkat!!

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im on imperium rom with boeflla kernel.any sugestion for better configuration for the kernel?
[Galaxy S III General] hwjrmrm:
XXUGNA* serials next week?
[Galaxy S III General] glockaki:
only sammy knows....it should havebeen the previus week.rumors say for a 4.4.2 leak in february..i see you have mk6 modem.working good?
[Galaxy S III General] hwjrmrm:
infact every 4.3modem are similar,but MK6 is the most stable one..
[Galaxy S III General] glockaki:
any 4.3 custom rom sugestion.im curently on imperium.nice batery life.
[Galaxy S III General] hwjrmrm:
any stock ML2 4.3 rom~
[Galaxy S III General] glockaki:
gonna try it.thanks

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why not ml4?the one i use is prety good.
[Galaxy S III General] v1ks:
I am tempted to try this rom out...been reading the rom thread for a while and some very + feedback. im currently on stock 4.3 using boefella kernel its ok but not great....
[Galaxy S III General] gtcat:
Question

Hi! Maybe someone have a list from s3 unwanted stock progs, under the 4.3?

(Wich internal stock progs will uninstall safely?)

THX!
[Galaxy S III General] NexxP963:
Hello gtcat

you could check the following thread. There are some spreadsheets posted

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1634624

or take a look at these post

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49218435&postcount=306

S3-Stock / Phillz Recovery / Boeffla Donation
[Galaxy S III General] kangerX:
no idea about 4.5 , they are planning on skipping official 4.2.2 update and directly jump to 4.3
[Galaxy S III General] Millenium3:
I think you meant 5.0 Key Lime Pie? We don't know about that. Most probably no big hardware/software restrictions but if we consider that Galaxy SII stopped at 4.1.2 (I'm not taking about SII Plus which got 4.2.2), maybe GSIII will stop at 4.3 and GS4 will stop at 5.0. All this to make customers update to newer devices.

But well, for sure we're skipping 4.2.2 and go directly to 4.3...
[Galaxy S III General] burakd0gan:
yeah i thought i wrote 5 but when i saw it says 4.5 i felt a bit weird. lol. thx for correcting me. and thx for your answer :)
[Galaxy S III General] djshorty:
Yes they will release it, if we are lucky, as a christmass gift.

If not this christmass maybe next who knows.

SAMSUNG SUCKS!!!
[Galaxy S III General] fstomaz:
Luckly there are always custom roms!
[Galaxy S III General] hwjrmrm:
I hope there will be some news for 4.3 update on Sep 4.
[Galaxy S III General] qmor:
4.3

I'm very happy after i've installed 4.3 (cyanogen). Battery is really live longer. The interface became more smoother.
[Galaxy S III General] onesolo:
yeah yeah... keep dreaming...
[Galaxy S III General] blazevxi:
Well, we've got news on what Android 4.4 will be - Android Kitkat
[Galaxy S III General] kangerX:
Why are you posting that again ?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=45259912

sent from the state where marijuana is NOT illegal !!
[Galaxy S III General] IamIrene:
hope s3 getting official 4.4 update

since we only receive 1 major update (jellybean)

from 4.1 - 4.3

suppose get 2 major update for each samsung flagship ...
[Galaxy S III General] x92:
will samsung give a break on 4.2 and then decide to skip straight to 4.4 KitKat?

http://www.android.com/kitkat/
[Galaxy S III General] kangerX:
This is getting crazy , Sammy , first they used to push updates late , now they are just skipping the updates

sent from the state where marijuana is NOT illegal !!
[Galaxy S III General] NightSky256:
KitKat it's obviously a joke/commercial-joke by Google...

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300 con Tapatalk 4
[Galaxy S III General] Millenium3:
Now let's discuss the name of next version... L... Lollypop? Lavender?

Oh and request of new forum for Android 4.4 Discussion Thread please! :D
[Galaxy S III General] onesolo:
Just to rember...
[Galaxy S III General] tonyt3rry:
When is this event by Samsung going to be please I have hope that Samsung will just say what update or when we will get something
[Galaxy S III General] NightSky256:
LOL... They will say that Santa will bring to us a 60Gb microSD with in the zip to flash via CWM with official 4.4 Update, and a box of KitKat to give friends. then we should wait 12 days therefore, the "Befana" (italian witch that delivers gifts on epiphany eve), if we were good, will bring us Exynos drivers sources, otherwise much coal.

:)

Sorry for the sarcastic post... but we should keep foots on the ground. they will announce new products to buy if we want to be up to date.

But i'm not angry with Samsung. I made a big mistake. I (and who ever wants the "bleeding edge" android version like me) shoud had bought a Nexus.

ANY other manufacturer will sell a product with THAT version. any upgrade is a plus. this is what i call keeping foots on the ground folks!

Peace !
[Galaxy S III General] tonyt3rry:
I just don't like the lack of communication a simple we are cancelling this or not doing this is good enough for me
[Galaxy S III General] chrcol:
on ML4 I am still seeing approx 2-3 seconds wakeup time. It isnt instant thats for sure.

How is my old galaxy ace waking up instant and my galaxy s3 not?
[Galaxy S III General] viktor92:
I can't understand why people go crazy with this, it only happens when the phone come back from deep sleep, I don't care at all.
[Galaxy S III General] Iqbal Ansari:
Try some other phone and you will understand what he is talking about.

This seems to be an issue with exynos processor as it takes some time to wake up. Damn its a lazy processor. LOL
[Galaxy S III General] viktor92:
Anyway it's an insignificant problem for me. With latest rom and kernels the phone flies.
[Galaxy S III General] hajjar40:
android 4.3

SO badd best software for android I9300 is 4.1.2 :/ :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
if you say so
[Galaxy S III General] danierakes:
Ml3
[Galaxy S III General] drelite08:
Seriously, what has happened to the official firmware thread? And how can we now keep up with what is the latest firmwares and where we can actually post and use mirrors to those firmwares?