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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] beachbum40:
4.3?

Hi doc I posted a while back asking when or if there is going to be a 4.3 build for our T999L and you said not yet untill someone gets a test build on there device and pulls it for you. Just wondering what and where can I find a test build for our T999L, s im willing to be a tester but dont no where to begin. If you want I will do all your testing if u could help us get 4.3 on our devices. I no with the current build I can flash but dont have data and sim card cant be detected. Any info snd help on this would greatly be appreciated. Thanks doc PS. I here that there is supposed to be an official update around the 25th of November for us is this true?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
You have to work for Samsung (or in rarer cases, T-Mobile) to have a chance at getting a test device. Even then, I have no idea how they choose who they hand them out to.

The schedule that was posted does say we would get ours on 11/25. But I seriously doubt that will happen. The I9300/I9305 was supposed to get theirs in October, but it was the first week in Nov. Sprint was supposed to get theirs a week ago, on 11/6, but still have not got it yet. So I would expect the same to be true for ours. Only if they finish testing, and decide to keep us on schedule but push back the others even further, will we have a chance at seeing it by the 25th. Not saying it definitely won't happen, just that it is very unlikely. It is 100% a guess, but I would guess maybe 1-3 weeks after our scheduled date.....maybe. I have zero information to back that up. Its not even a very educated guess! Just a guess!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] supamas:
Just a thought for the OP.

LTE is in Eastern Idaho - Idaho Falls and Rexburg so far.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
I've been meaning to update the list, just haven't got around to it. Will try to get to it soon though.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] player90247:
Thank you Doc for this thread! Spent the last 2 days reading all 50 pages helping a friend to install a custom ROM on T999L. Just a feed back on my experience,

Recovery

TWRP 2.3.1.0

ROM

Wicked v10

Kernel

KT747 JB 4.1.2

so far so good... kernel fixed the camera issue.

Again, thank you!

Somehow I ended up with a older recovery, but was lucky it worked.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
To those with interest in LTE Speeds, please see my post in Doc's thread for T999.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gabe05:
Hello guys, I've been having problems with my external SD card with all of the Roms I've used so far, so I was thinking, is it possible to flash different apks to a stock rom? For example, if I want to change the stock status bar, can I flash some sort of apk and still keeping the stock ROM?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
I am not sure if the SD cards and the Status bar have absolutely anything to do with each other. If you have a sd card reading problem, format the card on Windows to Fat32 and that will solve that one.

If you want to, use various Launcher themes to change.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gabe05:
Sorry my post made no sense I wrote half awake at 3 in the morning, but what I meant with the SD problem was that none of the roms I've tried will play the music on the SD card or load the pictures also whenever I use es file explorer or any file explorer for that matter the SD card removes it self
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
Did you follow my advice on PC formatting to Fat32 ?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gabe05:
Yes I did, I also formatted the card using cwm and still a no go
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
how old is the sd? class? brand? almost sounds as if the problem is the card itself. got another you can test with?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gabe05:
The card is a couple of weeks old, and the reason I doubt is the card because I can manage files around with stock ROM, while on a custom ROM I can't even read mp3 files, so I really doubt is the card it self its a sandisk 16gb
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
its not formatted exFat is it? i know you said you did as perseus suggested, but thatd be the onky reason i could think of.

id still test with a different sd. you couldve got a fake one....
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
On a PC you have to do a detailed format not Quick Format. That will ensure it got formatted to FAT32. Formatting in CWM is something else alltogether. I wouldn't do that until this is sorted out.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] player90247:
Google "SDFormatter v4.0" it should come up on top of the list., install it on pc and format your SDCard. Very reliable and useful.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gabe05:
I formatted the card on windows and Mac to fat32 and still a no go, download sdformatter still nothing, so I went out and bought a Samsung 32gb SD and it still gives me the same problem if I'm not on stock ROM
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
What's your Kernel when you are on Custom Rom?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gabe05:
What ever kernel the ROM includes, I don't flash kernels as I don't find them to be an important thing to change
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
Let me re-phrase. What kernel did the Rom include ?

EDIT - What kernel was included in the most recent Custom Rom you tried ?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gabe05:
Miui v5 multi language includes this kernel that's the last ROM I've used
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
thst 32gb card you just bought will likely be exFat oob. did you make sure to format it fat32 before trying?

and you may in fact want to try another kernel if it still doesnt work
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] volcomleader:
I'm sorry for the miss information I meant I tried all downloads and followed your tutorial step by step.. I found the problem was the md5 file was not completely downloading it would stop about 3MB before it should have.. I eventually got it to completely download and all is working thank you doc
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
no problem, apologies not necessary, stuff like this happens, and AFH has had issues with one of their providers recently, causing all sorts of up/download problems.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Mixinitup4Christ:
Hi Doc,

Wonderin' if you could shed some light on something for me. I've been reading/searching through this thread, and I flashed the recoveries from your signature, but I couldn't get CM10.2-M1-d2tmo to flash on the device. I tried unzipping, deleting the certs, and editing the updater script but I still get a Status 7. Any guesses as to what I'm doing wrong?

*****EDIT*****

FYI, it's for a friends GS3, not trying to do this to my d2vzw :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
By Cert you meant Asserts from the updater Script right ? Which Recovery did you flash ? I assume CWM as TWRP does not seem to support that rom.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Mixinitup4Christ:
CWM 6.0.4.3 from DocHoliday77's Sig.

Tried to flash cm-10.2-20131102-SNAPSHOT-M1-d2tmo.zip initially, status 7.

Followed these instructions:

Flashed new zip, still status 7
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
not entirely sure why its not flashing. but that is an older rom and im pretty sure there are newer ones that will flash with no problems. have you tried a newer one from cm?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
Did you unzip the contents of the ROM Zip file to make the changes and then re-zipped them all ? I bet that broke the signature on the zip. What I'd do is re-download a fresh copy of the zip then make changes while the file is opened by winzip. It will automatically add the modified updater script back into the archive without breaking the signature.

Do not Unzip the contents and then re-zip them all back.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Mixinitup4Christ:
Good thought, I'll give that a try!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gabe05:
So now I have a different issue and I hope you guys can help me, going back to my SD card problem I decided to update my recover from cwm 6.0.3.1 to 6.0.4.3 now any ROM that I flash just won't boot up, the samsung logo appears and then it goes black, this happens with ANY ROM I flash, where did I go wrong?! :confused:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
you probably just need to factory reset.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gabe05:
Through cwm or like going back to 100% stock?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
Either way works. But Best if you did through CWM.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gabe05:
okay that did the trick thanks!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lawhawk:
I highly recommend S3Rx. I used it on both versions and it runs without a hiccup. There is one small LTE patch you run for the lte version, which is posted in there right with the latest rom. It is also still being supported- now that the 4.3 update is out they're starting to work on it to incorporate the update!

I love the rom, truly awesome- if you like TW and want to keep your wifi calling.

~ sent from my tin can attached to a string ~
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] SamsungAllDay:
Well I kinda encrypted my t999L i dont know why but, haven't figure out how to decrypt it, when I do ill try the ROM out. Unless anyone knows how to decrypt it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gabe05:
I have read around the web that in order to decrypt your phone, you have to factory reset the phone and format the internal storage, that being said if you have cwm you have those options, might want to give it a try, although you will lose data when formatting your internal
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] SamsungAllDay:
I'll try doing that through cwm, I has twrp but I'll switch because I'm tired of it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] SamsungAllDay:
yea i tried that with cwm and its still encrypted. i don't know what else to do unless im doing it wrong.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gabe05:
I'm just brainstorming at this point, try to flash a ROM then format internal storage, hopefully flashing the ROM will over ride the encryption
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] SamsungAllDay:
I'll try that.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Odin flash your choice of firmware. Then try factory reset from stock recovery. Should reset back to oob state.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] beachbum40:
just curious have we got 4.3 working yet with data? I also was woundering why we have an att stock recovery in your sig? im trying to get 4.3 running on this device . i have the T999L version sorry for so many questions..;)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] henry8668:
I am using rooted stock ROM for a while. and decided to take a step for custom ROM. Looks like cm10.2 doesn't have stable release yet, so will try this cm10.1.2. A few questions before I flash it:

1) I have TWRP recovery and did a backup. If I need to revert back to current state after I flash cm10.1, do I just need to do a recovery from TWRP?

2) How can I migrate my existing app/data to new ROM? I do have TitianiumBackup, but not sure if it can be used to migrate app/data between ROMs?

Thanks!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Adreaver:
Full 4.3 firmware is not released for the T999L, only the T999. You should be able to flash the ROM only in recovery and have working data with the current mb7 modem.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] henry8668:
I went ahead and flashed CM_10.1.2_d2tmo-d2ltetmo-d2can.zip and gapps-jb-20130812-signed.zip, all went well.

1) camera is mssing, installed Camera MX and seems working fine.

2) my phone is T999L which has LTE. The top bar never show LTE, only 4G. however the mobile option does show LTE. How can I tell the phone on LTE or not?

3) no wifi calling, searched a little bit seems this is not available on cm10.1, is there any replacement or separate install to enable wifi calling? Wifi calling works well in my experience.

4) seems use more battery than the stock rom. compared under almost same settings, still trying to tweak settings to lower battery drain.

5) using Titianiumbackup to restore a few apps from previous ROM, app seems working fine, some app lost some data(for example, some of tasker profiles/tasks were missing). I should have done full backup in the previous rom before reset. (I only did backup new app/data, which seems doesn't back up all user data).
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] afwolfpacked:
CM has never had the LTE icon. Speed test should show it working or not. If not then edit the apn. As for wifi calling use an outside app for wifi calling feature. As for backup apps restore it is from my experience to restore app only to prevent any conflicts between Roms. Sometimes apps and data restore will cause an app to fc.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Adreaver:
Actually, cm uses 4g/h+/h/3g/g/e as the signal icon. 4g being LTE, everything elder self explanatory.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] henry8668:
speed test shows 15Mbps download using mobile data, looks it is LTE:)

however, speed test using wifi dropped to 4Mbps download, it was about 18Mbps when in stock ROM. tested using same router at same place. not sure why...

using it one day, already had 5 reboots when I looking around and change some settings. hope it gets stable.

[MENTION=4532058]afwolfpacked[/MENTION], any recommendation app for wifi calling?

Thanks
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
There are some build.prop tweaks for better, stable wifi. You could try those.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] henry8668:
is there a dedicated thread for S3 w/ LTE and CM10.1 Rom that I can look for detail?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
Well, there's this one I am sure that will help you plenty. For the Rom, you will have to go to Rom's thread.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] samven582:
Will this phone work on ATT?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
Your question is on Wrong thread. Best if had read the Device Q&A

The unlocked T999 will work just fine on ATT. It does not have an LTE Antenna so don't expect LTE data Speeds on ATT.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Brigga86:
Tethering with SGH-T999L & Stock Rooted 4.1.2

Not sure if anyone has had success in tethering with SGH-T999L & Stock Rooted 4.1.2 past their tethering data cap (unlimited plan) with the information provided on this thread and a root access tethering app? If you have a success story please let us know!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] zswielder:
Can Metro PCS version work on T-Mobile?

Hi,

The thread starter says the two versions are nearly identical. Does that mean we could use the Metro PCS version on T-Mobile? I didn't think this was possible, but I thought I'd ask you geniuses here. Please let me know.

Thank you,

GT
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
Is the Device for Metro PCS unlocked ?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] zswielder:
I don't have one. I'm asking the question because if it can work, I'd buy one because the Metro PCS version can be obtained much cheaper.

I just went to Samsung's website and looked at their radios, and they seem identical, so it should work, right? Including LTE? As long as we unlock the N version. Anyone with Metro PCS version that may be willing to test?

Metro PCS version: GSM Quad Band 850/900/1800/1900; UMTS Band I, II, IV, V; LTE Band support IV, XVII

T-Mobile version: GSM: 850/900/1800/1900; UMTS: Band 1(2100), II(1900), IV (1700), V(850); LTE: Band IV(1700), XVII(700)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
Oh it will work just fine on T-Mo Bands. For that matter it will work on VZW as well. I just am not sure weather the "CDMA" device the agent will sell to you needs to be unlocked before it can work fine on GSM bands. If the agent assures you so, then go for it.

Better yet take your T-Mo Sim Card or some one else's T-Mo sim with you. If it works you buy. Simple.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] dwgibson2000:
Does anyone know if this Beanstalk rom here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2345663 will work on the T999L?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
Yes I believe so.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] dwgibson2000:
Thanks

I guess I'll give it a try then. love it on my S2, but been worried about the differences between the T999 & T999L either bricking or running into transmission/reception problems. Guess I'll just have to make sure my backups are in order.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
Just to be safe make an NVbackup as well.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Adreaver:
Don't mess with modems or Odin flashes and you should be fine. There are only 2 acceptable Odin flashes for the T999L at this point; the original and rooted LJC firmware. Flashing any modem other than stock will result in no service.

Using the T999 twrp recovery from [MENTION=411699]Docholiday[/MENTION] 's sig, I have been able to flash any ROM or kernel for the t999, including some originally ported from other carrier variants.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] dwgibson2000:
accounts tedhero

Is this NVbackup method valid for the T999L http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1804117, or is there one specific to the T-Mobile? The thread doesn't mention T-mobile, I'm thinking drivers at least might be different. Sorry, never done one before, and had to look it up, but having that info backed up would make me feel much more secure.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mcoeks:
Data Usage

Love the Rom but having issues with battery dying quick. I noticed that something is using my data the arrows keep going up and down. I wiped the phone back to factory and issue went away. Went back to this Rom, did not sign into Google or change anything and data started going crazy even though I wasn't doing anything. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Conzo427:
how do you tell if you properly installed CM 10.2?

The gs3 forum said "you cant post here" so i guess I will try to post my question here instead. I just installed Cyanogen on my GS3 and it has factory reset itself, but from what I can tell the os is identical to what it was before. Is Cyanogen JUST like the stock ROM or is something not right? I installed it via the pc installer/app on my phone. Even the boot up is the same as it was. Last time I installed CM on a different phone the look and feel was very different from stock. Maybe this isn't the case with the S3? The only difference I can tell is when I enter the recovery screen, it boots with a picture of the CM alien, but once I restart the device l, the whole os experience seems the same as before the switch. I just want to confirm that the latest CM release is pretty much the same as stock, otherwise, I guess I did something wrong, though it seemed pretty straight forward. Thanks!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Perseus:
Yes I believe so. There's also an app here on XDA that you can install to do the backup. DocHoliday has also posted another way using Terminal emulator. Try any method you are comfortable.

Try Droidwall. It will lock out all the apps from accessing Data without your permission. Do note, immediately after reset, android may want to access google servers for log on. So that could be the reason. If you use BetterBatterystats, it will tell you more precisely as well.

CM is NOT stock. The Stock is Samsung's own Touchwiz Framework based Rom. CM on the other hand is AOSP. Now on a Nexus, the STOCK IS AOSP. So in that sense CM is like a Stock. But that's Nexus this is S3.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] 1milenia:
4.3 rom update is now available has anyone used it yet
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Mervingio:
Nop I wait for our Devs to bring the butter :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] TremuloS:
just an update

tmobile has updated there service in wareham Massachusetts to 4glte whoohoo we now get blazing fast internet speets on our t999lte
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gabe05:
Which ROM did you flash? Because if you just plugged in the phone and didn't download any files and such, you practically didn't do anything
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Do you mean cwm recovery? Cm is a rom.

If you updated via OTA, you will have files that rewrite stick recovery at every boot.

Odin flash the stock firmware and try again.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] zswielder:
CWM Recovery for T999L?

Hi,

the instruction here mentions that CWM has a specific version for T999L. However, when I open Rom Manager, the device is not among the list. The only one I see is Metro PCS. Do I just choose that? I'd like to be sure before I do this. I'm not planning to install T999 ROMs to my phone, so I'd rather get the specific version for it.

Thanks,

GT
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
I'd stay away from the metro one, unless its confirmed to be for the T999N, and not the original metro S3.

The T999L and T999 recoveries are most likely one and the same, only coded to flash to one and not the other. If you want full compatibility use the T999 one. There are no T999L/T999N based roms that I am aware of.

Rom Manager is going to download the recovery according to whatever your build.prop says the device is. So if it says its a metro model, that's what it'll look for. If it says its a T999L (d2ltetmo), it should try to get that recovery.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] zswielder:
Thanks for the reply and the caution. Could you clarify what you meant by the following statement in the recovery section of your thread then? "Currently, only CWM has a recovery specifically for the T999L." Do you happen to know where I can get this specific CWM for T999L???
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] scaredem23:
ege problem

hello all. I'm new to the samsung family :victory:. So i bought this t999l from ebay and rooted it using twrp method. I installed the stock rom, stock kernel with the uvamb7 modem. I then had it unlocked and activated with t-mobile. since then i have only once slightly had 4g and i do mean slightly. It said 4g with no bars. I tried calling t-mobile several times, they keep telling me to change settings that do nothing really. So i tried someone else's sim card with t-mobile, same thing they get 4g and i don't. When i put my sim in their phone they still get 4g and i don't. So obviously its a setting on my phone. Another day i tried a at&t sim card and i get 4g just fine. Any ideas?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] zswielder:
How did you get TMO to unlock your phone? When I asked for mine (which is paid in full, no contract), they told me the phone had to be used under my account for at least 40 days and accumulate at least $50 before they would unlock it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] scaredem23:
sorry i wasn't clear. I payed to unlock it. There is a guy on ebay that does it remotely for 6 bucks. :laugh:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] zswielder:
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for clarifying.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
They may have dropped it. Its no longer listed here.

http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager

Everyone uses the d2tmo recovery, so it probably wasn't worth the time and effort. Just a guess.

I'd take it to a T-Mobile store and show them how it works with their sim cards but not yours. They should give you a free replacement sim.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
ROM - T999L 4.3 deodexed, Knox Free!

Hey guys! I have a T999L 4.3 rom for anyone interested!

Based on latest 4.3 MK4 firmware.

Deodexed

Knox Free

CIQ Free

Busybox added

init.d support

Flash Player added

Insecure Kernel

Thanks to [MENTION=5597868]red rocket[/MENTION] for testing.

Note: If you have NOT updated to the official 4.3 firmware yet, you may encounter an issue where WiFi does not work. I need someone to confirm this please. If this does happen, flashing the AT&T MJ2 kernel should fix it for you. I will link to it if needed, and will add this to the OP once its been tested more thoroughly.

You would also most likely need to flash your T999L MK4 modem. This is found in my modem thread sticked in Development and linked in my sig.

If you have already updated to the official Full firmware release, you do not need to worry about the above. Still, let me know what you think and if you have any issues.

Upon testing, red rocket reported that seLinux status was still enforcing, even though the kernel is insecure. I need someone to confirm this please and I will be looking into it.

Ok, so here is the T999L 4.3 deodexed/KnoxFree Rom from build UVUBMK4! Enjoy!

T999L_4.3_UVUBMK4_deodexed_KnoxFREE.zip