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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] 88EVGAFTW:
Sorry don't have skype and never used it.

One thing I noticed is that when in Play Store and Google Music, pressing the Menu softkey no longer brings up a menu. I think it might have started after changing DPI but I've changed it to other numbers with the same result. Any idea?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nostrings:
Thanks for the update. Maybe someone else can chime in with their Skype experience on the latest weekly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CL1311:
Flashed the latest weekly 4.8 last night and happy to report everything is running very smooth so far and my LTE is back. Thanks again for such a great ROM.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] iLLdWes:
Same here LTE is back and seems to be working great... One thing tho, i wasnt getting and LTE at first but i turned LTE off and back on and it came up rightaway. Now to test the 3g-4g , 4g-3g hand off... Love this rom.. Been running it for a few months and its great..
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ssmercurys:
Just clean flashed 4.8 weekly and Google Camera is still not working.

The camera works, but the Lens Blur/Photosphere/Panorama are not working.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] iLLdWes:
Looks like the 3g 4g hand off is working good!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sixgunmojo:
Hmmmm, I've always changed dpi right after flashing. I've noticed this with Play since at least 3.10 and possibly as early as 3.6 and with Tasker the menu key would bring up the menu but some of the choices wouldn't work. I'll report back as soon as i reset my dpi.

OK reset dpi back to 245 and the issue persists. I just figured it was a Play thing and since I only enter Tasker menus once after setup I tended to forget about it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] thznutz87:
To get to settings you have to swipe from the left side. Its in the list twords the bottom. Since settings is a button now, menu key no longer brings it up
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sixgunmojo:
I just hit the 3 bars to the left of the play logo at the top. Good thing the left swipe isn't the only way because my thumb automatically hits the activation area for my Swapps bar.

The odd thing with Tasker is when I press the menu key the menu drops down but 2 or 3 of the choices don't work (don't remember which) but if I push the 3 dot menu button in the app all of the choices work. The specific case I ran into is was when trying to import my profiles. Menu key > data > nothing happens. Menu button > data > import > I'm not spending 30 mins re-typing my profiles (plus an hour searching the web to find half of them again :eek:).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] phaseL:
At first I thought this was a feature, but it's clear to me that it's not. I'm just wondering if it's ROM related, or if anyone else has this going on.

This is what happens when I hit the Camera button in the Facebook Messenger app:

(Photo removed)

EDIT: Never mind, and apologies for clogging the thread. It's an app issue.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kuhl_man:
I just switched over from tw and I love this rom. So snappy and smooth and great battery life. Thanks devs. I have one question though. Is there something I have to do to get the performance settings to show up in the advanced menu?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sixgunmojo:
Pretty sure SK doesn't have it (could be wrong tho) and doesn't really need it. If it is what I remember it to be (cpu, i/o, scheduler, etc., don't have access to my sister's stock s3 at the moment) you don't really need it (as you will learn in time). If you are looking for performance tweaks most here flash an alternative kernel and use an app to UV, OC, change i/o and schedulers and such. Leankernel and Quantum seem to be the favorites around here.

Totally OT guys, but for those of us that keep a TW nandroid laying around Sammy has officially dropped KK for the Sprint S3. [MENTION=4645794]CNexus[/MENTION] has it and I'm pretty sure he is working on rooting and de-knoxing it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hayzooos:
Yeah, I happened to stumble across something that said Sprint S3 was getting updated, but I've been on Slim for so long, I don't remember what the last version of TW was I ran. The only thing I'm excited about with this update to stock is maybe an awesome new modem? I think that every time they come out with something new and I'm always left disappointed :(

EDIT: Anyone try the latest QuantumKernel on 4.8? I think it's dated 4/28 from the AT&T thread.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JaylanPHNX:
Is anyone using the new d2lte builds with Viper4 Android? I updated from Stable 4, which was d2spr, and now I'm having trouble getting Play Music to play anything. I've wiped, tried different Gapps, formatted internal storage. It worked without viper, but had DSP crashes. I'm at my wit's end, here.

From my Pro Tab 8.4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sixgunmojo:
I don't use it but it has been one of those things I've been keeping an eye on to try in the future,bummed to see you having issues with it. I'm assuming your upgrade turned into a clean install and your still having issues, if this is the case head over to the V4A forum and read the last couple, 3-4 pages you're not the only SlimKat user having problems and their seem to be a couple of different things guys have done to get it working.

OT the ND8 modem has been posted. I'd love to tell you guys I installed it and my radios started s@$&ing rainbows but I live in, and spend a lot of time in, areas with crap signal so I don't know if their is any advantage other than it being a KK modem. I can only verify that it works
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] iLLdWes:
Im running slimkat 4.8 on stock kernel and im lisenting to music right now through play music.. Its music on my internal card... Bte i perfer power amp and never use play music but tried it out to see if it worked and it does :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JaylanPHNX:
Thanks, I do need to head over to the viper thread. I've gone through crazy hell trying to get it to work, even with everything wiped clean and set back up exactly the way I had it. The only difference is older AIO Gapps that I can't find to reinstall. It's bizarre. Frustrating, too, because the difference with viper is impressive.

From my Pro Tab 8.4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sixgunmojo:
I don't know if it would help, or if you are interested, but i have Slims minimal gapps build 4. I can upload it to my dropbox if you want it (may take a bit as I'm going to be busy til this evening) I'm going to be at a function later today when I will be board to tears and may entertain myself by doing a clean install and maybe giving V4A a whirl, see if I have any problems. Maybe when people see the awesomeness that is a rooted, custom rom, we can gain some converts. :) Everyone I know with android runs stock unrooted (wtf?).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JollyGrnReefer:
Just installed the ND8 modem on KitKat, I did not accept the OTA, definitely seeing an increase in speed any signal strength, quite impressed with the update. Don't be afraid to update, everyone's reporting performance increase across the board, but do NOT flash the ND8 modem if you accepted the OTA, it will brick your phone, you have been warned.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JaylanPHNX:
That would be great. I think that's the version I had before.

From my Pro Tab 8.4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sixgunmojo:
Here is the Gapps.

I installed V4A and the bad news is that I don't appear to be having any problems. However I did not do a clean install of 4.8 first. I'm still on a dirty 4.6 w/ 4.6 gapps and I only tested it with Poweramp and did not do any heavy testing, only played about 3 songs and left most of the settings on default. I did not test Play Music as i had un-installed it earlier. I will do a clean install tomorrow and test it with Play Music before I remove it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JaylanPHNX:
Thanks. I finally got it to work after reinstalling stable 4 with Banks minimal Gapps (though I plan to plug in the ones you provided at a later time) and using a different zip for viper. This time I've made a nandroid, but I'm afraid to attempt to update to the d2lte weeklies and start the nightmare over again. You can't dirty flash between d2spr and d2lte builds, can you?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sixgunmojo:
Ok finally did a clean install. This, if you care, is my process for a clean install. The current setup I'm running is SlimKat 4.8, Slim minimal Gapps 4.6, and Quantum Kernel 4/27 (no kernel tweaks yet). I installed V4A (ViPER4Android_FX_A4.x.apk) before I installed my other apps. I used Play Music and played 2 albums, one with speaker and 1 with headphones and don't seem to be having any issues. I don't know if its V4A or if its the fact that I actually applied any audio effects, but I can say that the sh**ty (for music) external speakers and ear buds have definitely improved, now they are merely crappy. :) I'll have to find one of my buds with decent headphones and give them a whirl.

If Banks minimal Gapps is working I wouldn't change it until you do an upgrade/install.

As far as dirty flashing from d2spr to d2lte, I did it from 4.0 to 4.6 and only had the usual small annoyances that I seem to get on those rare occasions that I dirty flash, usually fixed by clearing app cache and data. I did apparently get the camera not working after 3-4 pictures bug but I either deal with minor crap on a dirty flash or if its a major annoyance I just clean flash. I refuse to be the guy that posts "I just dirty flashed and now I have a problem"

"This time I made a nandroid" That may be the scariest thing I've read in a long time.:laugh: Hope you learned that lesson.

PS If you're reeeaaalllyy bored sometime, you can try and hunt down the random post I thanked for getting me to try V4A. Shoulda done it sooner. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JaylanPHNX:
Ha, I usually don't nandroid because I got used to having no space on my 16 GB N4. Instead I usually do a fresh titanium backup and make sure I keep all old zips, so that way if I run into trouble I can just wipe all and clean install the old setup. This was the first time that's not worked for me. Also, play music has changed the way it handles music downloaded for offline play. It used to be that all that counted as the app's data, making a nandroid of the data partition many GB in size. Now it just keeps a list for re-download.

From my Pro Tab 8.4
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hayzooos:
If someone accepted the OTA, wouldn't they have the ND8 modem from that? Why would they flash the ND8 modem then? I'm just curious as to who would do this. And what causes the brick?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] marcran75:
There have been a lot of ppl reporting that they have hard bricked. The cases I've seen are of ppl who are on Knoxed 4.3 trying to flash the ND8 modem. My phone does not have Knox and I am running ND8 modem just fine. I'm pretty sure the link for it has been pulled anyways.

Sent from my BlackedOut VM GS3 running MOAR powered by DKP
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] arrows83:
Link was indeed removed. Bummer ... I've been looking for the modem and when I do, It's gone. :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sixgunmojo:
I was wondering the same plus I'm pretty sure if you're on the Slim forum you didn't get and probably don't want the ota update.

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Here is the one I flashed with no problems. Disclaimer: I had MK3, no knox, and no ota. Flash at you own risk. :)

Link removed per request
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hayzooos:
Ah, I didn't think about the people who would flash the modem before they got their own update pushed to their phone. Why they would flash just the modem when the direct link to the OTA was readily available is beyond me, but I can see it.

Same one I flashed as well. Worked for me too. I can't say I've noticed anything spectacular, but I haven't noticed anything bad, so that's a good thing. I know there's a known 'dead zone' on my way home from work, so I'll see if I maintain data through that area with this modem instead. My wife (stock unrooted) usually doesn't lose any data through there, but I always have when on Slim for whatever reason, regardless of what modem I was on.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] kjjm:
I flashed the ND8 modem yesterday as well and have had no problems at all. The signal seems a bit stronger now, and calls definitely connect faster on ND8. But I also updated the PRL beforehand after quickly flashing my TW backup (the only use I have for TW), so I recommend that. I'm still on the MD4 bootloader, too - it seems anyone who took the full MK3/TW 4.3 OTA update and tries to flash the ND8 modem alone will brick their phone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sixgunmojo:
I'm going to assume I also have the MD4 bootloader, or whatever bootloader came with my phone. I was rooted 5 mins. after the battery was charged and on CM 5 mins. after that. Any upgrade to my modems was done by flashing the zip. The only ota update I ever took was on my OG Epic 4g and that was such a charlie foxtrot that I rooted, went to a custom rom and never looked back - Thanks Sprint! :)

Ditto on the only use for TW, I cry a little every time I nandroid back for a profile/prl update. My sister has 2 S3's both running stock un-rooted. I can understand not doing anything to the work phone but after 3-4 days I finally told her to at least let me root the personal phone or stop asking me for help/advice, needless to say I no longer worry about having to fix her phone problems. To me having an un-rooted phone is like having a car and not being able to do any work on the engine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] arrows83:
Thanks. I'm on MD4. Never downloaded OTA. I should be on the clear. If all else fails, I can always upgrade. :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Hi,

Please take this file down. There was a reason why I removed it, which you can read as the last post of the ND8 modem thread.

Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sixgunmojo:
Done. Do you have a better/deeper understanding of the problem yet?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Thanks.

I'm not exactly sure, but the problem is that whatever is in the ND8 rom causes some low level malfunction in the device if it doesn't have the latest bootloader.

Maybe the rom needs certain parameters passed from the bootloader to operate correctly, or else the kernel (only part of the rom that can actually brick your phone) writes junk to your device? Not sure. But I do know that bricks can be avoided by flashing the ND8 tar first and then going about rom flashing like before.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hayzooos:
This is pretty much the only thread I frequent, so if we've already flashed the ND8 modem, should we flash something else? I haven't had any issues since I flashed it yesterday or the day before.

EDIT: I'll go looking for that other thread now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] marcran75:
If it's working for you without issue you will be fine keeping it. I've been using it the last 2 days. It was removed because there were many reports of ppl hard bricking after flashing. From what I've read it was only those who flashed it while on Knoxed 4.3 bootloader who had this issue.

Sent from my BlackedOut VM GS3 running MOAR powered by DKP
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sixgunmojo:
Ok this post is probably going to violate about eleventy-seven rules for seriously being off topic/posted in the wrong place but as the Slim devs aren't giving us any problems to fix and I'm pretty sure we won't be getting any until Android 4.5 (5.0?) drops so I'm going to ask anyway (sorry mods). Hopefully this will clear things up for others as well. The questions may be wordy but with the exception of my first question, I will try to make them answerable by yes, no ,maybe, or I don't know. Don't want to take up too much of your time while you have bigger problems to deal with.

1) In settings > about phone > baseband I have L710***ND8. The only time this has ever changed was when I flashed modem zips. I was under the impression that this had nothing to do with the bootlader and was just the modem I had. I thought I sill had my original bootloader since I have only run AOSP roms since I got the phone (originally android 4.1) and the only TW rom I use was flashed from recovery.Can you clarify this in 3 sentences or less? If not ignore this.

2) I see that you have made a rooted zip of ND8 but that I would still need to Odin the original tar file. This would give me the ND8 bootloader with knox, correct?

2a) If I read and understood your 'knox and you' post correctly the only thing thing, from my point of view (philosophy of it aside), this does is prevent me from installing older versions of android (we'll skip the apparent issues with newer versions of TW)?

3) Since I have no desire to install knox if I can avoid it (I really don't like others telling me what I can and can't do with my stuff), will we ever see a de-knoxed(?), bootloader independent version of ND8?

3a) is this even possible?

4) Thanks for all the work you have done on our behalf. If it wasn't for people like you and the devs on XDA, people like me wouldn't be able to have so much fun with our phones.

Mods, we now return to regularly scheduled programming. This is the last I will post of this in this forum, anything else I will attempt to find the proper thread or start one in the proper forum. Everyone else, thanks for your patience. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fitz420:
Hey guys, I've been away from the s3 for a couple weeks as I got a Nexus5. I'm about to flash latest Slim to my wife's phone. Do you guys know if there are still mobile data issues on the latest unified builds. I was having them a couple nightlies ago and couldn't rectify the problem, even with APN backup/restore. Last I checked it was a known issue and they were working on it. Just wanted to check before I flash...

Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hayzooos:
I'm on the latest (I think) weekly 4.8 and I'm not having any data issues, but I never had any either. At least, not that were ROM related. I came from 4.2 to 4.8 as I don't normally update every week, especially when things are running good like they have been for me. I think 4.2 was the first (maybe second) unified build and it worked well for me. 4.8 still going strong too.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] HenBoward:
Looked around but to no avail, is there a way to increase the status bar height?

Those icons are just a bit too small for my liking. I flashed cm11 M6 and those looked much better, but slim just holds my heart.

sent from my SlimKatted GSTres
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] arrows83:
You will have to change the dpi. This will also make everything back to stock size.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
[MENTION=5304781]sixgunmojo[/MENTION]

1) Yes, that is the baseband not the bootloader version (you can check bootloader version by running "getprop ro.bootloader" from a shell)

2) Yes

2a) No. It only prevents you from installing older

firmware

. You can still flash any version of any rom you like as you normally would on a non-Knox bootloader

3) No

3a) No. They made too many changes and it requires the new firmware, otherwise TW 4.4 will not boot
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] caseyatbt:
If I am coming from a JB rom and going to this non-TW rom do I still have the flash the ND8 tar first?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] xxSTARBUCKSxx:
No.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hayzooos:
Slim stock is 245 and TW stock is 320 I think. I go in the middle at 280 and it seems to work very, very well. Everything a bit bigger than Slim stock, but not childish big like TW stock.

Anytime I flash a new version, I just manually edit the build.prop file and change the dpi in there, reboot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wallythander:
Yeah, 320 DPI is stock for TW and most AOSP roms. I use RomToolBox change mine, you can navigate to it yourself if you want, it is in /system/build.prop under ro.sf.lcd_density.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] caseyatbt:
I just loaded it and for some reason when my bluetooth headset is activated and my phone rings there is no external ringtone. I haven't had this issue with any other roms so it might be a setting I haven't found.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hayzooos:
Is it just when bluetooth is enabled, or actually connected to a headset? And is there any ringing in the headset or not? I ask because though I don't use a headset, I always have media going through my car via a BlueTrip. None of the notifications come through there now that I think about it, whatever is playing just gets quiet for a second.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hayzooos:
Question for you gents: What are you using for voicemail? I haven't been using anything for a long, long time. I just got a text message notification and that was sufficient for me. I'd call into my VM, listen to the message and be done with it.

However, I just now realized over the past 2-3 weeks, these text notifications have been blocked. I'm using Hangouts as my SMS app, and nothing else, the stock 'Messaging' is frozen, not uninstalled.

Does anyone know where to unblock this number, or has there been a change made in a recent update of Hangouts where those text messages are being blocked? Any info anyone has would be a big help. I'd prefer not to use Google Voice as voicemail as I know it has it's fair share of problems as well with integration, but maybe using it for voicemail only would be okay?

I've been running fairly up to date versions of Slim for months now, probably at least 6-8 in a row now. I'm on 4.8 weekly right now with LeanKernel.

EDIT: I'm using Hangouts version 2.1.100 and have been using Hangouts as the default SMS app for a while now too, probably the past 2 months or so at least. Didn't have this issue until as of late. I know most people are hell bent on blocking those messages, but it's the only VM notification I would get, so I'd like them to stay. I'm just wondering if when Google updated Hangouts, they're blocking those texts in a way it cannot be undone.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] rcatank:
Can someone confirm on 4.8 or 4.9 D2LTE that the camera focus is working and you're able to change the focus types to infinity or auto instead of just continuous?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sixgunmojo:
Can't help with the Hangouts (shudder) problem as I don't use it. I did un-freeze it and take a brief look at it but nothing jumped out at me .

I have been using Sprint's VVM with no problems, just make sure it is fully provisioned. The crackling speaker issues seem to have gone away since SK3.6.

IMNSHO VVM may be the only thing Sprint has gotten right. I still get amazed talking to friends on other carriers that don't have it or have no idea what it is. They get jealous when I show them what it is.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] rcatank:
What's the latest VVM version?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] caseyatbt:
Thanks, 280dpi is the sweet spot!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hayzooos:
I'm not a gigantic fan of it myself, but it seemed to handle Group Messaging better than the stock Slim Messaging app did, for me at least. Not sure why, but that was the only reason I moved to Hangouts. Thanks for the link to the thread with VVM, I'll see if that's the latest version or try and track down whatever is the latest.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] funkbuqet:
I am on 4.1 and noticed the same thing. If I am connected to my bluetooth speaker listening to music and a call comes in, the music gets quieter and I can hear a very faint ringtone (which is definitely not my ringtone). I hadn't bothered mentioning it though since I am not on the latest build and I figured it might not be an issue anymore. At least the music gets quieter, so I know something is up.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sixgunmojo:
AFAIK the 5.3.4.32 I linked to is the latest version. I'll check the ND8 zip a little later and see what version is in there. If it is newer I'll give it a test.

Update: just checked 5.3.4.23 is the same one in the ND8 upgrade

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4.8 here I can confirm that you cannot change focus modes. For me this has been an issue since at least 3.8, others have said even earlier. Third party camera apps seem to not have this issue.