yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NikoSadie:
Psych!?

Well, that didn't fly. It reported new, downloaded, then didn't give option to continue properly.

My bad. Never had that happen before.

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Hehe... understood. I plug the thing in every day or so. That was the first time the updater told me there was new software. Kies later said it had the latest. Can't explain, and I have no problems deleting (i.e. "it didn't happen").

I scanned for large files created/modified today, found this (which looks far too old by date in filename): SCH-I535_VZW_1_

20130627

174016_uxh23opkwp.zip.enc2. No idea why.

Go back to your homes. There's nothing to see here. <ahem>
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] MartyMacGyver:
Hmm. The one thing I sorely miss is the Samsung HDR mode... that'd tempt me back to the stock ROM - assuming they ever actually update it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gwhizkids:
Let's be careful here: what we have here are unsubstantiated reports from people speaking / chatting with VZW personnel holding positions within VZW that are normally not privy to software rollout dates. I don't want to be a Debbie downer, but I would not bet my paycheck that this info is completely reliable.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] MisterSprinkles:
So...Maybe I missed something. Why can't we port the Sprint 4.3 OTA to our phone? Same hardware, no?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nbay64:
Well regardless of what he said, I think we can all agree it will probably rollout sometime in December or early January. Although personally, I'm hoping for sometime in December.

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I'm confused, did they begin rolling it out today, or was it a false alarm?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
I'm hoping it rolls out within the next two weeks. But its whorizon.... who knows
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DigitalMD:
Correct, no
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nbay64:
Yeah, I'm hoping for sometime in December or early January.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 0331:
I think the OP is right... it WILL be October before we get it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Casey707:
Verizon will find a way to mess up the 4.3 upgrade and strip it of key features like they always do
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] HF4L:
Verizon should give us a galaxy gear watch for free.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nbay64:
I wish they would for all the **** we have to put up with, but I don't think that's gonna happen.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] donnyp1:
I'm still believing it will come the 22nd. Just don't know what month.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thewump:
At this point I'm past caring. Having successfully used my broken screen backup for a few days with Cyanogenmod 4.3.1, I flashed it to my real phone and it is flawless. Yesterday it made it to "stable" build. I have hadn't had a single issue since I installed, it but very much enjoying the benefits and Verizon de-clutter from the apps.

It's a thing of beauty, and I see no reason to have anything to do with the Verizon build when it comes.

K
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zachf714:
It's the blobs, there would be no d2 cm without the proprietary blobs
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kailin63:
Not that they care...but Verizon and Samsung certainly lost my business this holiday season due to this. I don't really blame Samsung but had to include them simply because I was going to buy 3 galaxy gear watches for Christmas but I'm not willing to waste the money hoping Verizon gets the update out. Fyi I love how Verizon employees can say how soon the update is coming when they are trying to sell the galaxy gear, but magically have no knowledge of an update the second they have your money.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
+1 to kailin63's post the main reason was that Im getting the galaxy gear watch for my birthday which is a few weeks away and I would like to use it...that's why I call Verizon to try and see if I can get some info from them rather than the generic bull**** they put out on social networks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] smart--phone:
I'm really close to just giving up and rooting this phone...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
That's the xda spirit!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Bright09:
Would say still probably putting bloatware and tweaking the ROM...

Sent from my SCH-I535
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] markdapimp:
I gave up already

Running cm-10.2 Stable

http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=d2vzw&type=stable
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
In the event that we do ever get the update, do any of you think a FDR should be done post update?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] funnyperson1:
Don't worry, I was waiting for TW 4.3 to move from the buggy 11/14 AOKP nightly but I broke down and installed SlimBean 2.2. This of course means that 4.3 will be released tomorrow!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
Haha how do you figure that
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] markdapimp:
Nope
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
Yeah I've been checking the update page and the one they keep recommending on twitter/community forums. The software update page is still .MF1 and that crap "update" page has been the same for over a week it feels like.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DigitalMD:
I'd prefer a Reagan , but what the heck, anything would be an improvement..

As far as clearing data, it's not needed. My wife got the Sprint 4.3 update and it didn't affect any data or apps. In fact the update seem pretty benign and hardly noticeable.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] markdapimp:
My friend has the T-Mobile s3 and it's still on 4.1.2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] funnyperson1:
That's how my luck has been mostly, There's been a couple updates where I was waiting for the TW release, gave up and tried another ROM. Then the next day the TW was released and I had to backup/restore everything again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobloblaw1:
There is nothing to fear but incompatible system data itself.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
Lets hope your lucky today haha the software update PDF is still the same :( haha
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DigitalMD:
I was hoping for the Rapture today, but the PDF says we are still on Armageddon 1.2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thewump:
How is that working out? I was running Slim Bean too about a week ago, but it had known issues with NFC, and I've been playing around with NFC so that was a deal killer. Cyanagenmod 10.2 just hit "Stable" for our device, and I'm much preferring that.

K
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TyZollman:
Every time I install an AOSP Rom (no matter which one) I have issues with signal and the camera. Can anyone confirm CM 10.2 doesn't have these issues?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thewump:
Can you educate me? 4.3 compatible blobs must exist already or the CM 4.3 build wouldn't work.. or am I missing something. Are blobs release dependent?

Thanks in advance.

K

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I have no issues on CM 10.2 with camera (front or rear) or signal. Signal issues are a bit subjective though. What are your symptoms? I haven't had any dropped calls or dropped service, and I don't perceive that I have slower data, but then again, I'm mostly on Wifi.

K
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TyZollman:
The issues I usually run into are signal bars and camera lag.

For example:

On a TW rom I have 3 bars at home. With a AOSP I have 1 and sometimes no signal. I have read that this is simply an indicator and the signal is actually there. However, when I go to make a call it says "No Signal".

The signal issue is the biggest killer for me... that's also why I switched to Verizon (great signal)!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Wisiwyg:
The signal issue has been around awhile. eg. CM 10.1/10.2 suffered from low signal due to the RIL being proprietary and tweaked to interact with TouchWiz. Once that was figured out to be a problem, the CM team began to work on an updated RIL for Samsung phones that normally use TW, but it took a long time to get started. What I've gathered in various comments is they've already started on the CM 11 RIL for Sam already. Hopefully that won't take long to complete. (Go CM!)

Personally, I'll wait either for CM to release the CM 11 with RIL update or for the TW 4.3 update. While I work in a well covered metro area, I live in the boonies and get spotty signal even with a TW ROM. I need the good RIL.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TyZollman:
Yea... I had read something like that... thank you for the additional information! As soon as the new RIL is released... I will definitely check it out!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zachf714:
Well, our ril blobs are ICS blobs our camera blobs are ICS blobs are adreno blobs are hacked from some other device etc
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cammykool:
shoulnt we have JB blobs?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zachf714:
Since we upgraded to the code aurora 3.4 kernel the kernel has almost no Samsung parts in it anymore so we use hacked blobs
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cammykool:
From random devices?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zachf714:
Code aurora is a part of the Linux foundation
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cammykool:
Ah. And thanks for the help eairler.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mikejr83:
I believe the qcril merges were committed in CM 10.2. I use Mastamoon's builds which I know have the qcril merges. Him and the crew in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2385652 have worked their butts off putting together the best CMD2VZW builds.

I highly suggest trying his builds out. He's stopped 10.2 builds and has moved on to CM11 which for me is already at DD status.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Wisiwyg:
Yep'er, have Masta's 10,2 thread subscribed and his CM11 build site bookmarked. Looking forward to him posting his CM11 thread here. Have already nandroid'ed and backed up in prep for a run with it. I figure when he thinks it's good for the masses (me!) he'll post.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] funnyperson1:
The features of the ROM are killer, with the configuration options, their version of PIE is the best I've tried yet.

I did run into a couple of issues:

No exFat support, I had reformatted my sdcard when CM supported it thinking that everyone else would follow (and most did).

I had to install leankernel to get exfat support.

I had a couple hard locks while trying to use navigation and bluetooth streaming today.

Things like email app aren't included by default, requires add on package.

Overall it's a really nice ROM, but maybe not deserving of the "stable" tag that attracted me. If I didn't feel like a TW 4.3 drop was imminent I would probably drop to CM10.2 stable.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kude87:
It is good. Really good. I was on his 11/27 build and hit 5 hrs of screen on time. Went back to TW, reluctantly, for the camera and signal (low service area where I work). That said, I think the signal and data was about the best from an aosp rom I've tried.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cammykool:
This thread had gone from excitement and anticipation to consparicy theories to angrily spamming VZWs twitter to people giving up and talking about aosp. Lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
The four stages of grieving are....?? Haha
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] david_hume:
Withdrawal symptoms galore
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Krusej23:
I see that Samsung started pushing out the 4.3 update to international phones again today. That's another good sign that Verizon could start rolling it out tomorrow.

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/samsung-galaxy-s3-android-4-3-update-rolls-out-again-gt-i9300-05-12-2013/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
Just saw that on a few other sites too..hopefully tomorrow is the day
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gwhizkids:
I saw that and had exactly the same thought. At the same time, Verizon is not going to care what happens to overseas phones on essentially different hardware. They have their own schedule, like it or not.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
Bad news guys just got off the phone with verizon...she called samsung and kept me in hold they said anytime after JAN 1... bc theres 4 devices getting it and its in this order note 3 > s4 > note 2 > s3,
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobloblaw1:
Well maybe its time to drop Verizon then. I'm sick of this ****.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] K20Z1:
She's outta her mind. The note 3 is on 4.3 already... S4 on Verizon already got 4.3 and the user base on Verizon for the gs3 is quite a bit larger than note 2 users, so if verizon and samsung were smart they would push the 4.3 update first for the gs3 then note 2.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobloblaw1:
Im thinking about this logically now and I think she may have just put on a show for you.

Aside from the onconsistancies already pointed out, Reports have stated that Verizon already has the update. In fact, we know they have the update from Samsung. So unless they completely rejected it and sent Sammy back to the drawing board rhisnis nonsense.

Furthermore who did she really call? Samsung customer support wouldn't know. Not to mention the final call on the release date is, and always has been, Verizon's.

Sounds to me lime you were fed a ton of BS to keep you quiet into the new year. The release very well my take until next year but blamingnit on samsung is as dishonest as it is ridiculous.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
I think she meant the first two as bug fix updates tho. BC I know it was sent for the s4 but but isn't it due for a bug fix too?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zachf714:
Makes no sense, Note 3 came with it S4 got it already and the S3 was to come before the note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gwhizkids:
I can only imagine the gales of laughter going on after she hung up with you: "...and then I told him [blah, blah, blah]. That will serve all those S3 people right for bugging us about this stupid update!!! [insert laugh track] "
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] K20Z1:
Someone with the name wanttofish over on the official verizon gs3 forum claims his buddy got the ota 4.3 update Dec 4th in the morning and saw it with his own eyes.... Although he hasn't said what the build was or anything :) most likely fake....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zachf714:
System dump or it didn't happen lol

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I bet our build will be MH3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobloblaw1:
Verizon: Our customers are idiots and we treat them as such

Catchy corporate slogan, eh?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
she said its going to be updated in the order of how new the device is. The newer the device the quicker it gets the update
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DigitalMD:
Having worked as a developer for General Electric, I keep telling you not to waste your time with support reps and sales people. They have no information to tell and and will only concoct things to get you pacified because they can't tell you to go pound sand. They and the developers are not allowed to provide actual dates to customers before formal announcement, ever.... period or they will be fired. by pressing a rep on the phone to give you an answer on this, you are just asking them to lie to you to get rid of you. They will have a date when Verizon management announces it, and no sooner.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zachf714:
I call bs .. She obviously had no clue what she was talking about being the fact that 1) the Note 3 shipped with 4.3 . 2) S4 got it's ota already . 3) every other carrier, the leaked doc and samsung themselves pushed the S3 it's before the Note 2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] K20Z1:
lol no doubt, I doubt he will reply anymore, his account will just go missing.

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I'm thinking the build should be ending in something like MJ# or MK#.... I though the Japanese corresponded to the month with J being October and K being November. Unless the build was from the first week in December then maybe ML#? Because MF1 was built in June(F)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Restola:
More likely she turned to her supervisor and said "some guy just called about a galaxy tree? have you heard of that?"

supervisor: "huh, no, weird, did you make something up like we told you?"

rep: "yeah, i think it sounded convincing"

supervisor: "good job, you get a gold star"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zachf714:
????? Never trust anybody at Verizon .. If my sim goes bad I am going into vzw with my phone on my kitkat builds and twrp installed
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobloblaw1:
That'll show those big, bad retail employees!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] smart--phone:
Screw this I'm done with waiting
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TyZollman:
made my day!!!!

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Well... The US Cellular build is available via Kies. Hopefully not too much longer!

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nbay64:
I hope you're right. I swear Verizon is probably looking at the update and going like "Which phone was this supposed to go to again?"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 0331:
us cellular is one of the smaller providers, how did they get it before us?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] HF4L:
Maybe you should ask a Verizon Tech!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] smart--phone:
Because they are actually TRYING to please their customers...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 0331:
Touche ol chap!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
hope theres an OTA rollout planned for tomorrow but given the vz reps lack of knowledge of one is making me think otherwise
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Krusej23:
I did a chat with Verizon on their site today. She said the same thing about the date for 4.3 on the S3 is after Jan. 1, 2014. I said that someone on this forum said that it was slowly rolling out to people already and she said that the date in the system is just a rough idea and they could send it out much sooner than that. So it sounds like it's in the system as after the new year but it sounds like it will come sooner than that and possibly tomorrow still.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
Let's hope it does. In my perspective they're late by 2 weeks at this point they're probably like **** it make em wait
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Krusej23:
This is what the guy said on the verizon forum about his friends 4.3 update....

I can't seem to post the picture of the system info page from my friends Verizon gs3. But here is the build #...

JSS15J.L710VPUBMK5.

What does this tell us? Is this any different than the earlier 4.3 version?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] HypostaticOnion:
Sprints build was MK3 so it's an updated version

If I've helped, please hit the thanks button
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
Well according to that the "l710" part indicated that its a sprint s3 not a Verizon one.

Update: its a virgin mobile update not verizon. read here:

http://androidforums.com/virgin-mob...uest-vm-4-3-mk5-update-zip-please-upload.html
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] markdapimp:
Sprints PREPAID branding beat verizon

what kind of bull**** is this
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zachf714:
The kind of bull**** we keep taking ... Honestly I've pretty much been on aosp since week 2 of owning my phone but i need teh blobz
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
+1 ^^… more than one prepaid has now that's really sad
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zachf714:
I'm to the point that I am trying to save for a motox dev edition ... And I'm 15, if a 15 year old is trying to buy an off contract phone there is something seriously wrong with the way you are running things
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] markdapimp:
This Im saving up for HTC One GPE Plus im ditching verizon

Currently on my Nexus 4 on T-mobile prepaid Paying $30 my verizon bill costed me 110 per month
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zachf714:
I can't ditch vzw just yet, parents pay my plan with theirs and I have another year on the plan
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] markdapimp:
Well seems like you got verizowned
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
If you have a couple hundred right now, there's that $150 off retail deal happening again for the Moto X on Monday. Won't last longer than 30 mins given Wednesday's outcome.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tburns:
Did anyone pay attention to the issues Samsung had with their update screwing up phones? They just fixed the problems and sent Verizon their bug fix.

Anyone hear about the problems the s3 international phone had after the update? Non working phones ect... A huge oops on Samsung's part.

Verizon isn't the best cost wise but if u travel to remote parts that's all u have. Been with them since the first bag phone came out at $0.25 cents a min.

There are cheaper companies but if u travel u get what u pay for. Sprint is behind the ball chasing verizon. Imo
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cammykool:
I'm 17 suck on my dads plan till early 2015...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
Anyone receive an update today?

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Just checked the software update page on vzw. And its down can someone else confirm maybe off a computer?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zachf714:
That was an exynos S3 .. Exynos is known to be less stable

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Nothing yet , I can still get to it
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] markdapimp:
http://support.verizonwireless.com/support/pdf/system_update/galaxy_s3.pdf

Still MF1
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] K20Z1:
Wow, so virgin mobile gs3 owners have 4.3, c spire is getting it, boost mobile has it, I'm sure cricket will push it out soon, and then there is big red.... A large carrier, and yes they are pushing out a update today!! Yay!! Oh... Wait... What? 4.2 for numerous gs3 owners on Verizon?? OK, cool, we will be a bit closer to being up to date with our OS.... Oh.... No nevermind....all 12 and a half people on Verizon who own the DROID DNA your getting 4.2 with sense 5.... 5 page pdf!! Congrats

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Who else do we have left to get it first before Verizon will push it? Net 10? Straight talk, metropcs, leap wireless, simple wireless, clear talk...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 0331:
there's always Swappa and Craigslist.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
Probably will..I think the best way we would know if its going to be released anytime soon would be to check the firmware page on sammobile.com last night they uploaded a bunch of ROMs but none for the US or for the i535 atleast
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Bulls1969:
Verizon Galaxy S3 4.3 Out now!!

View attachment 2436802 :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
isnt that the custom deodexed rom?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] HF4L:
Calling the above pic a fake or a custom rom!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] parth212:
its some version of this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2301814&page=25
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] smart--phone:
Disappointed again this week. Thanks Verizon.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zachf714:
look at the baseband version .... the baseband is MJ3 not MD3 =P ... I think we may actually have something here

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System dump plz
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BadUsername:
Text looks right too, nice and white, I think it might be something too.