yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] rahulmadhan:
after flashing 4.3

i did not find any camera chang??

what features has been added in camera can any one tell me???

and yes there is no light effect now in unlock screen?!!:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] DaveyRepairs:
There is not much change really just better ram management and the chance to move ganes to sd card
[Galaxy S III General] Rhythmeister:
Maybe I'm just a wuss! I've got petrol powered pursuits to occupy me too :highfive:
[Galaxy S III General] ciprigeorgiu:
that uccw shouldn't be so high on usage. I thing there is your problem. on wifi i get 2 hours on 1% battery.
[Galaxy S III General] d1rekt0r:
Guys is MK6 that we got by OTA from MJ9>MK6 same as the Open Europe MK6
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Mine works just fine, no bootloops
[Galaxy S III General] flither:
I've just noticed I've been advertising excellent MK6 VOD as MK6 BTU. silly me:o

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looks like the same, i've noticed only one additional option in shoot mode (sound & picture)

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I reckon that all of us here do:)

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i don't think your battery is the problem cause without wifi enabled you got decent battery life, isn't it?. has to be some app(s) synchronizing in the backround, have you checked that?
[Galaxy S III General] KonTemPt:
On the stock Internet browser on mk6 I'm unable to delete saved bookmarks. I get FC every time and the bookmark doesn't get deleted.
[Galaxy S III General] flither:
KonTemPt, i just checked it and youre right, but in my case it just says "unable to delete". i was able to delete only one of them...

I'm on VOD MK6
[Galaxy S III General] Lammy696:
Hmmm it could be, I'll have a look. If you look at that screenshot in the post you're quoting you'll see that UCCW is the second most power hungry thing. Yeah if it's in idle and the WiFi is off then it's pretty good. Still think it drains a little faster than anyone else's under normal mobile network use. Getting about seven hours out of a charge (power saver on) and in that time you're talking 3-4 hours screen time with a 1.5 hour film and a few hours of general internet browsing (Facebook, eBay, this place etc)

Maybe I'm expecting too much, I mean, my laptop only lasts 2.5 to 3 hours on a charge to do the exact same things (minus a radio chip for mobile network use)

EDIT: After having a disable spree on apps I don't/won't use I realise I left voice commands on for apps. I presume S-Voice is doing some background listening or something as the past 10 minutes since disabling this the battery has only dropped a few percent under use (radio and WiFi on)
[Galaxy S III General] flither:
sure, s-voice's service are well known battery hog, so keep them off unless you're driving:laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] tcpma:
Is already there 1-9 keyboard? I mean the 3x4
[Galaxy S III General] flither:
nope...
[Galaxy S III General] tcpma:
doh! thank :good:
[Galaxy S III General] samkent6:
Guys I need some serious help, the boot loop issue happened again only this time every time I re insert the battery it turns on by itself and loops again, can acess recovery and download mode but it wont boot juet stuck at the first screen, help :(
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
In recovery format data system cache and sdcard .

Boot to download mode .

Download a clean stock rom and flash via Odin
[Galaxy S III General] tcpma:
Do you think that the old Samsung keyboard (with 3x4) could be installed on 4.3?
[Galaxy S III General] d1rekt0r:
Anyone else having this problem ?

I updatet to MK6 with OTA and now when i flash custom recovery with odin nothing happens ?
[Galaxy S III General] Lammy696:
You're gonna need to enter recovery mode, wipe cache and do a factory reset

Not tried it but I remember on the MJ9 version, I tried to install a custom ROM through the SD update in recovery mode and it went through the process but didn't appear to change anything
[Galaxy S III General] popoyaya:
Try something else? There must be other ways to flash a custom recovery.
[Galaxy S III General] mossy1963:
do you mind? keep that up and I'm likely to wet myself, die laughing, or both :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] samkent6:
No I havent, I will try tomorrow
[Galaxy S III General] malachow:
Psst.. a few more updates in →my post about 4.3 kernels←, seems like the list is nearly

finished

, yay! :victory:

Cheers to all flashoholics,

Custom-kernel guy :cool:
[Galaxy S III General] depalaza:
why in android 4.3 update, samsung not insert smart pause and scroll in official :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] hwjrmrm:
I remembered when S4 released，SAMSUNG said they will add these features to S3,right?
[Galaxy S III General] MethMargera:
samsung keeps trolling..hahaha

btw its no longer fun to wait for their update...it's getting ridiculous..
[Galaxy S III General] Millenium3:
Just as Faryaab mentioned few weeks ago, older devices users shouldn't really expect all the features of newer devices... it is logically understandable after all...

Surfing from Tapatalk in I9300.
[Galaxy S III General] MethMargera:
i know right...ahahaha...

nvm..customs rom all the way...

hahaha
[Galaxy S III General] cloudx720:
4.3 mk6 is just bad, way too laggy and slow compared to cm11 its just a terrible user experience :(
[Galaxy S III General] s14sh3r:
That's because it's full of bloat. I'm running ArchiDroid 1.7.3 with Yank555 4.0b kernel and very pleased with it. I don't know if I could go back to a stock rom.
[Galaxy S III General] TheAwesomeBit:
HEy guys, do i had MJ9 on my phone. Got an OTA update to MK6 and trust me its so far great compared to MJ9. No wake-up lag (atleast compared to 4.1.2), no music stuttering, battery life seems good. So yeah, i guess it was worth the wait.
[Galaxy S III General] rome786:
Go to recovery mode wipe data than wipe partition cache .loop issue will be done if I'm not wrong
[Galaxy S III General] ezekionokia:
I'm just curious, how are you happy with a kernel that's been launched yesterday :) ? Or do you assume it is just as good as 4.0a ?
[Galaxy S III General] crisagatie:
the kernel is basically the same as 4.0a. only difference is in busybox and zram, for those that use zram. otherwise it should not matter.
[Galaxy S III General] onesolo:
all this days after the last update is released and still no kernel released by Samsung...
[Galaxy S III General] Rhythmeister:
4.3, WOOHOO!

I got mine last night (using Kies, OTA overloaded) after trying mostly unsuccessfully to backup things using Kies. It went smoothly, as I had NOT expected, but I'm yet to connect to my car stereo with bluetooth to stream music or make calls. Fingers crossed those functions are fine. It's pretty smooth animating Real Racing 3 anyway!
[Galaxy S III General] s14sh3r:
I've been happy with 4.0a. The only major change in 4.0b is the implementation of quad zram. I haven't seen any observable difference in battery life so far with the new version. That was my major concern. So, it's at least as good as 4.0a. Is it better? I honestly can't tell yet. Benchmarks are slightly better, but other than that I haven't noticed.

I've had zram disabled because it that helped with wake up lag. I'm happy to report that having quad zram enabled hasn't caused any lag.
[Galaxy S III General] samkent6:
Ive given up all hope with Samsung now im going with a nexus 5 for Christmas I think
[Galaxy S III General] flither:
Thats how my g3 goes with MK6 VOD when not touched, except few checks on time and battery.

Phone offline, wi-fi off, power saving on.

14 hours straightline, already reproduced.

not to shabby, Sammy, not to shabby:)
[Galaxy S III General] thereassaad:
hello sir .. can anyone give me a link for BTU Mk6 but not in terafile like mediafire or another . I try to download on samsung updates & sammobile but they dont download plzzz

☞ Thereassaad ☜
[Galaxy S III General] Cortical:
Good idea. My next phone is definitively going to be a Nexus device - even it is from Samsung. I'm fine with their hardware, but the software they provide is just ridicolous. And luckily, they don't have any influence on a Nexus device aside from manufactoring :P
[Galaxy S III General] Zeus1098:
Yeah me too can't get it to work
[Galaxy S III General] flither:
hava you tried this?http://mega.co.nz/#!kdszBAZQ!eEFVkQ3fdJHBZt_nWXOkXTtWpKlDPqn3j7OcU2xl4jw
[Galaxy S III General] thereassaad:
Thank u alot .. is this official??

☞ Thereassaad ☜
[Galaxy S III General] Imuo9:
Hey, could those who received 4.3 through OTA/Kies please post their location? I'm in East Africa and no sign of an update so far. I did get a 13.7 mb update but it didn't change anything.
[Galaxy S III General] Hanzo.Hasashi:
It's region related so the only thing you can do is wait. It doesn't matter which countries got the update, as long as you don't :D check out sammobile or Samsung updates.com. Firmwares uploaded there have gotten the update apparently.

Sent from beneath my cloak of magic
[Galaxy S III General] Imuo9:
Thanks. Ugh Samsung is so unreliable with its updates.
[Galaxy S III General] Awesome Developer:
other mirror

hi my friends if any one wants a fast mirror here you are

to download xxugmk6 official click here

notice

i downloaded the fw from [Official Firmwares] I9300XXUGMK6 (Android 4.3) - United Kingdom (BTU) [18-12-13] then uploaded the zip file like i downloaded i am not touch the file
[Galaxy S III General] Smirge:
aaand now it's in the netherlands (vodafone) : http://live.samsung-updates.com/

http://live.samsung-updates.com/det..._International/GT-I9300/VDF/I9300XXUGMK6.html

i so want the NEE version!!!!
[Galaxy S III General] KGB1021:
You are not alone. :)

But i still don't understand Samsung policie,that the last year flagship model S3 doesen't deserve update to be pushed forward!

I dont want to buy every year a new phone because the new update!
[Galaxy S III General] Smirge:
No i feel the same way. It's getting to the point where it's frustrating to sit and wait while all other countries and providers are getting the update - while the non branded version gets stuffed....annoying...
[Galaxy S III General] vj_dustin:
Hence, Nexus! :good:

Anyhow, waiting for the India update. My sister is nudging me constantly because I recommended her the S3..

Stupid LG Google feud had delayed the N4 launch here! :mad:
[Galaxy S III General] gxg10:
I m also waiting for region COA , Romania non branded, when Romania vodafone and orange appeared.

I will wait for OTA until the first 2 weeks of january and then i will instal BTU for united kingdom. Are there any risks for flashing another ROM ? I don't want root.
[Galaxy S III General] Imuo9:
Hey, If my phone is originally from India, but I'm in Tanzania ATM, will I still get the Indian update here?
[Galaxy S III General] fabianokbr:
Just to see if I got this right, I'm confused.

It's safe to downgrade from MK6 to MG4 because both are EFS v2?

I have to use Odin or there's some sort of "revert to latest official firmware" on Kies?

By the way, my i9300 is XEF and there's no 4.3 official update for it.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Alright,installing MK6 Vodafone one now. Will see if there's any difference.

EDIT: Gotta say,I don't really like new MK6's battery. OTA update was holding much better and much more. Especially games are draining battery really badly,I remember how my girlfriend once was playing subway surfers for like 6 hours without turning that game off and now phone can't hold with power saving mode on more than 4 hours playing subway surfers non-stop. Meh
[Galaxy S III General] Lammy696:
Anyone tried both the BTU and VOD versions? Just wondering if there's been any noticeable difference/ advantages/disadvantages between them
[Galaxy S III General] danierakes:
No different

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Buy nokia 3210..u can play game 1 week non stop
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
That's pretty good advice,but unfortunately it won't run subway surfers :(
[Galaxy S III General] Lammy696:
I can't decide whether or not I'm getting a better battery life as I have to charge it once a day regardless. I've had to uninstall a widget I used due to a **** up with it on 4.3 and it draining the battery (drained like 40% in 8 hours in idle, before the update it was 25% max) but I still think my device drains too quickly. I use power saver constantly and my screen is only at about 60% brightness. Will be testing again having removed the widget and shall see if it's improved but I don't think there's any more I can do bar turning off sync (rather not in case I forget to turn it back on again months down the line, have to reset everything and lose loads of settings and data) and having auto brightness on (I like the pretty screen, don't want it looking all dark and crap)
[Galaxy S III General] alexmihai92:
In Romania, only the Vodafone branded versions got the update, the Orange ones didn't.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Alright,just installed Vodafone one.

Full of bloat,deleted nearly all of them,only two app's are stock ones,which can't be deleted.

Wake-up is faster than MK6 BTU! And it's pretty smooth. Phone loads faster,and it stops lagging just after one scrolling on homescreen (widgets,app's - everything from MK6 btu,same placing). Gotta say nearly no differences,but they are.

Will see how battery goes starting from now.
[Galaxy S III General] vj_dustin:
After Netherlands, France gets 4.3 today itself.

Hope they are stepping things up & the rest of the world (including India) gets the update ASAP!
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Alright guys,I wanna share my final results after using MK6 VOD for 40 minutes.

Smoother than MK6 BTU: Task Manager turns on faster. When only one process on the background,there's no lag while swiping out that proccess (not like in BTU,when swiping out one process was laggy). Settings also turns on fast,changing tabs is faster. Not even by second,but it's still noticeable,I just feel that faster process,and when opening new windows - there's absolutely no lag. In BTU,after disabling two-three app's,opening animations of fourth and others more were getting laggy. Gallery opens slower tbh (no problems with that),but there's slightly less lag/slugginesh when opening folder with bunch of pictures/videos. In overall: animations,speed - better. By small amount,but they're better.

Better RAM management: Even at the first boot after flash,phone is using only 470+mb,even with Vodafone's apps (still disabled them).

Multitasking handling is same btw.

I can say some words about battery too,even if it's early: phone was turned on with 47%,for 40 minutes,from there,36 minutes were used with screen on,and 10% only was drained,while in BTU,it was taking 15-17% after 30 screen on time. Dunno what's wrong,but I think BTU's battery sucked really hard,at least for me. (my phone?)

That's all guys,I hope I helped someone :)
[Galaxy S III General] Lt.Win:
Ohai vj! I'm waiting for the update too, I recommended my dad the S3, he doesn't really care, it's just that I like to tinker xD

Seriously though, Samsung is way too slow for this one...
[Galaxy S III General] Squall-Leonhart:
ITS THE SAME ROM

your experience is Placebo

no difference to BTU
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
I was thinking that I will have placebo,but dude,I can notice some improvements in animations so I believe that's real and not placebo.

Read again about task manager or gallery. I can sure see CHANGES in my experience. And what's then if it's the same ROM? Those are different versions,and they can be different in ANYTHING. I wouldn't talk so much,if there couldn't be any changes after installing. I was expecting the same experience only with new app's installed,but when I turned it on and used it for 40 minutes,I really noticed a difference and first was the BATTERY.

If you hate my opinions,or even reviews I would say,then sorry. But I prefer sharing my experience. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Squall-Leonhart:
Because of the nature of Dalvik, i can confirm with completely certainty its placebo.

The performance behavior will differ every time you rebuild the caches as optimised code is never exactly the same between 2 complete wipings of the caches.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
We'll see,we'll see.

I'm mostly concerned about battery. It was better with OTA 24mb update,that's why I installed VOD one hoping for changes.

I already tested battery with BTU.and gonna test now with VOD and see if using time will be the same or different.
[Galaxy S III General] Milerpa:
Change log is it different?

Sent from my Samsung GT-I9300 Stock 4.3 Boeffla Kernel Nova Launcher Prime Kit-Kat themed zero lemon flying machine™
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
I heard it has bigger changelist. I dunno myself,though :)
[Galaxy S III General] tsimitsangaz:
4.3 VOD changelog is higher (2191747) BTU (2168382) Probably they have added something.
[Galaxy S III General] megadelayed:
I've just finally updated my i9300 to 4.3 OTA

there is literally not much difference apart from the lock screen is looking worse and turning on the power saving doesnt make the phone feel laggy anymore

i wonder if there is a way of putting the newer weather widget on the s4 and note 3 without having to root the phone and flash a new fw

and the lockscreen looks out of place for the s3 imo, as well as most of the features changed in this update look the same if not worse that before (eg: the calculator) xD.
[Galaxy S III General] moochinazz:
What's with the new message notifications. Instead of getting sender info in status bar, i'm getting "message has arrived". Am i the only one?
[Galaxy S III General] vj_dustin:
Hey, long time no see!

Which forum you moved onto? :p
[Galaxy S III General] Lammy696:
Go into messages, press menu and go into the settings and you'll find a tick box to enable/disable message previews. It's a shame you can't have the option to only show it in notification bar and not on home screen rather than both though
[Galaxy S III General] Maxxwell_Rhyno:
Whata dissapointment:S
[Galaxy S III General] white-bird:
No. Its is not necessary. I had been doing flashing ROMs now and then but never did that. My flash count is more than 30 by now.
[Galaxy S III General] Squall-Leonhart:
all they added is carrier customizations.

kernel, baseband and csc are the same.
[Galaxy S III General] Ajdnet:
Experience so far

Finally got official 4.3 OTA UK Unlocked (CSC OXA). [Full OTA 4.3 MK6 ROM 416MB, not just the MK6 patch]

Experience so far compared to 4.1.2:

1 - Faster boot-up & shut-down

2 - Smoother swipe (even with power saving enabled)

3 - Lots more bloat to disable in 4.3 - still working out which ones are safe to disable!

4 - Gallery slow to load (mentioned by someone else), and folder layout slightly different

5 - Dialler lag still present

6 - No notable wakelock delay compared to 4.1.2

7 - Camera has a lot more options - most of which no-one will ever figure out how to use properly

8 - Lockscreen pattern lock harder to use, as now smaller (to make room for message notifications etc)

9 - More prominence to people's heads in messages/contacts

10 - Updated video player, calculator, Email app

11 - Unfortunately latest version of Google Maps - which I had been avoiding in the Play Store (as I preferred the old version)

12 - Paid for apps are now able to stay during boot e.g. Swype, rather than having to be manually enabled after every boot.

13 - 'App ops' permission manager now available in 4.3 (with a Play Store shortcut app)

14 - Settings layout redesigned

15 - A lot more background running processes - still working out which ones are safe to disable!

16 - Some improvement in RAM mngt, but not a lot

17 - Disabled apps now have their own tab in Application Manager (rather than at the boot of of 'All')

Battery seems ok so far, but still experimenting.
[Galaxy S III General] Soryuu:
Just with point 7, what do you mean by a lot more camera options? What's been added?
[Galaxy S III General] Lammy696:
Right, tested the battery again last night with just the mobile data and power saver mode on and had a drop of 15% in just shy of 10 hours. Having WiFi on as well adds another 10% to this figure so I'd have to say the cell radio uses more power in idle than the WiFi chip. Can someone run the same test for me to see if we get the same results, otherwise there must be something going on with my phone.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
With new 4.3 battery acts strange sometimes.

I mean,if I charge the phone fully,but then will just use phone to check and send sms and nothing more (thus having it more idle than on),battery will drain fast. Screen on or idle - same fast drain.

If I will use phone a lot more after full charge,battery will drain less,and after in idle mode it will also drain less.

This doesn't happen always,but it does mostly. So I think it's all about FW.

EDIT: Hey guys,give me some tips.

I heard about disabling bloatware in app manager to save battery. I tried that,and haven't noticed any difference. Even more: battery drained faster (by much). I disabled Samsung services,some other app's like ChatOn,musichub and videohub services,weather widgets and much more,but battery sucked. Is it me or what? How many of you have bloatware disabled and does it help? Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] Ajdnet:
There is a separate thread that looks at which apps can be disabled, but S Voice is a big one to disable. As is not using Google Now.

For the thread that looks at disabling apps, see http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1634624

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In terms of the camera options, I can't remember how many 4.1.2 had, but 4.3 has 13 Scene modes, 12 Shooting Modes, but also has GPS Tag, a few effects, exposure settings, white balance, ISO, Metering, Contrast options, Guidelines, Auto Share Shot, Anti-shake (for pictures), contextual filename, voice control, as well as things like resolution, timer, focus mode etc etc

I know some are new features, but I couldn't say exactly which ones are new and which were there before.

Hope that helps.
[Galaxy S III General] flither:
hard to judge just from these 2 screens. mobile network signal strenght looks fairly ok, varying from good to fair coverage, not sure if slight changes of signal strenght can drain battery so fast.

if next time you could send screens with running apps usage and additionaly which processes are running under Android System and Media, that would be great:)
[Galaxy S III General] kadir456:
Hello XDA:)

my internal Memory is nearly full! But my question is how?!

Other Data said i have nearly 8GB in it?! - but when i'm click on it there is only whatsapp.. is there a way to fix that? - how come the 8GB?

Hope someone can help me, to get my memory back..

Thanks alot!

Greetings Lukas

Sent from my Overpowered Galaxy S3 with RevolutionS4 ROM
[Galaxy S III General] flither:
havent noticed that indeed! i got data summarizing to 2 gb and OTHER DATA shows 4.5gb, or sometime even 7gb.

that gives me an idea that Other Data are showing only folders which you can delete, the others are not shown, but i will test it more
[Galaxy S III General] clouds5:
Also the specs are getting ridiculous with flagships. Smartphones are getting higher resolution screen than my PC... And octacores... I mean wtf? I think my next phone will be a "budget" phone with a "small" 4.5" screen :D
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
I know about which ones are safe/good to disable. I'm about if that helps or not,because as I wrote,it doesn't for me,so I wanna know how many people here do that and what results they get.

Thanks for reply , anyway.