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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bmeek:
I'm not usually the guy who says "wrong thread for this question", but you really could have determined the very early nature of this ROM by reading a few of the recent posts. Otherwise, there are general and Q&A sections...

FWIW, you've received good advice about cm10.2, but since you "just as well use TW 4.3 stock" I think you'll want to stick with something like bonestock or CleanROM (TW 4.1) until/if we see how the nasty locked bootloader issue surrounding stock tw4.3 is dealt with... IOW, the path to "TW 4.3 stock" appears to be a one-way street for the time being.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] merdely:
If I had to guess (and this is purely a guess), the code in CM11 for making Bluetooth connections has a problem auto-connecting to SOME devices. If I manually connect (with Bluetooth already on, long pressing the bluetooth icon in the drop down menu and touching the car's entry in the list), it works perfectly fine. But it never connects on the first try. Someone posted a log that had an error in it pertaining to the failures a few pages back.

I followed OP's instructions to a T. And, I have had this problem from day one using CM11 earlier in December (maybe not the first official CM11, but soon after the very first builds).

My car (a 2005 Acrua) has an old Bluetooth chipset and I wonder how much that has to do with it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rruready:
I have a question for all of these people saying that they're happy with the KK ROMS that they are running. Do you have any issues using the camera with the flash? Every time I try an aosp rom and I take a picture using the flash, the screen goes black immediately and I have to pull the battery. I'm wondering if you guys are experiencing that on kit kat, or if anyone else has experienced that pre kit kat, for that matter. Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lou1210:
I've had the problem, but its been fixed with the 12/17 nightly. Also as an alternative, try an app called "a better camera". Both should solve the problem.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] merdely:
Ooh ooh ooh! There was a bluetooth related commit! I wonder if it will help my problem.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rruready:
Thanks lou!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] joedajoester:
Has anyone noticed that if you pull down the statusbar and then tap the button in the top right corner for quick toggles, the animation is a little laggy. I think I remember it not being leggy at all when I first flashed, then I guess I played with the settings. Its definitely not as smooth as cm10.2, at least in this case.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Lrr_r:
It happens for me often with 10.1.3 release and MF1, not every single time though. I believe any camera issues had supposedly already been fixed by then.

I doubt that pre-11 versions are going to see many bugfixes and KK nightlies don't seem too stable yet. Bummer.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SDQB17:
Everything, BT and Camera work great on mine. It is not everyone that are having problems. People tend to post only when they have a issue...look at the amount of posts with issues versus the amount of downloads that don't post at all. This is very stable..not all users phones are having issues.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hybridnoob:
Same here on two S3s (12/17 build). Thanks for pointing that out.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SDQB17:
When I posted that a few minutes ago..I actually tried to quote a different post. I was trying to answer the same guy the person I quoted was trying to answer...something went weird with this board...lol. But I think the point still comes across :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mcchazo:
Anyone having problems with phone call volume after using speaker phone? I have to restart after every call to able to hear anyone, otherwise it's incredibly low. After restart its normal volume till a second call. Updated from one of the first builds to 12/19 and have the same issue??

Edit: apparently I can't have the volume maxed otherwise it goes low after first call. Leaving it one click under allows to stay full volume during every call. Not sure if this only occurs after using speaker phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Mystikalrush:
Fixed this by hiting volume up or down and the speaker will activate.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lexluthor:
I think I might just take the leap and give this a shot.

I see there's a 12/21 nightly. Anyone tried that yet?

I know I need to do a clean flash initially, but can I just dirty flash the nightlys? I think that would be a pretty big pain for me to be clean flashing once a week or more.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Jay Evans:
I just use Cyanogen's built in update feature. Never been a problem for me. YMMV

Just flashed 12/21. Seems fine but too early to tell a lot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Jackdog89:
I've been on this since 12/07 and I've had fewer problems than 10.2.

You're right by the way, you're not going to hear from anyone on here unless they have a problem. Just thought I'd add my $0.02.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
I'm on a different AOSP rom and I noticed the same issue as well. What's weird is that it affects phone calls only and nothing else. For example, I was listening to a podcast in an app with max volume then I received a call which is when I noticed the call volume was incredibly low even on speakerphone. Once the call ended, my podcast resumed and it was playing at max volume.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lexluthor:
Good point about no one complaining if things are going well.

I don't know why, but I did it. CM11 is booting up now.

One quick question. Why would someone not install gapps? If you don't, then you can just install one at a time from the market and they'll be user apps instead of system apps? Do must people just flash them? I did.

Wish me luck!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] annoyingduck:
No gapps = no google. No playstore, sync, service framework. Open android, sideloading apps or using other methods.... :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] titanshadow:
I unpaired my headset from the phone on the latest build and then paired it again, for the moment it is auto-connecting.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lou1210:
What nightly are you on? I've tried that with my car and it didn't work. I also read an article this morning that Bluetooth is a known issue with 4.4.2 and even customers who are using official releases have reported the problem. It even mentioned that some are calling their carrier and asking to downgrade. So here i am once again and I'm getting frustrated with the Bluetooth problem. In addition it's not finding my mobile apps that are compatible with Microsoft sync in my car. I've been hoping and hoping that this is going to get fixed but even the official release has issues. I can't and won't unroot my phone for Verizon's update but I'm having too many issues still. I've even tried a few different aosp versions of KK. I think I'm going to go downgrade until Google can fix this problem. FWIW the article is by an author named Adam Mills. I can look it up and post it if anyone would like to read it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Jackdog89:
Lag

Is anyone else experiencing lag on the 12/21 nightly? I updated about 6 hours ago and there seems to be hiccups here and there. I can't say that it's on any specific app, but I've noticed that the keyboard occasionally takes longer to pop up and I experienced one lock up trying to unlock my phone.

I'm going to wipe my dalvick cache and the cache to see if the issue persists.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] titanshadow:
I'm using the 12/21 nightly myself. And I don't know if it'll continue to automatically connect, just that it did it twice soon after I paired it. I haven't done tests like testing it after reboot or anything like that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lexluthor:
Wow, I must have really done something wrong. I was on TW 4.1.2 stock/rooted/cwm/unlocked. I followed the directions and wiped data, then cache, then davlik-cache. I then flashed the latest CW11 nightly .zip and then the gapps.zip.

It appears as if everything on my internal sdcard was wiped, included my pictures (which I have mostly backed up anyhow) and my music (which I have on my PC anyhow).

What happened?

Also, it seems as if the internal SD card is now referenced as sdcard0.

Also, I had backed up my sms to an .xml file using titanium, but it looks like it only partially restored. I'm still missing some stuff there. Again, not a big deal.

Everything else seems to be working so far though. It's sure fast and customizable.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hybridnoob:
Doing a full internal data wipe will save you from some problems coming from Touchwiz. Doing just a factory reset would likely have preserved your internal storage. You may want to refrain from restoring data from any TouchWiz system apps (including Messaging), as that can be the source of problems.

Make a nandroid backup before updating, stay on the latest recovery (CWM seems to have less issues) and use CM Updater to easily update. You can check out ROM Manager or ROM Installer for easy backup and recovery updating.

Enjoy!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lexluthor:
Was internal data wipe vs factory reset an option in CWM that I missed? I didn't think I really had a choice.

As long as CM11 works fairly well, I didn't really lose much, so I'll be happy.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] edthesped:
I have to give a thumbs up to CM 11. I've had this phone since the release day and this is the first rom I installed on it and I'm pretty impressed with it. The only issue I see is that battery life seems mediocre and I wish I could default pictures to the SD card. I'm glad I tried this before I considered the update as now I know I'll not let my boot loader be locked down.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lou1210:
You can substitute the stock camera for an app called "a better camera". The settings will allow you to save to the s.d. card. Just my $0.02.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kirkwoodlucas:
Leankernel doesn't work with new builds.. Is there a kernel anyone is using that they would recommend?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] scorchedsky:
I have been using KT747 for every build since 12/9 with few issues (using 12/20 kernel with 12/21 nightly now). Wakelocks aren't really being reported correctly (since the 12/16 nightly that changed the battery stuff they're all showing as kernel wakelocks) but I haven't noticed anything else.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lakingslayer:
You can use an Xposed module called picture2sd. My 12/21 build camera now saves to my external sd card.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rednukleus:
I'm using the default kernel, not sure why I'd want to use another, and the 11/19 gapps.

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Google_Apps

12/21 build works OK. Now to load 12/22.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SDQB17:
I can't find anywhere in Camera settings to save to sd card...where are you finding the setting? thx
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] RayMcGrath:
Install xposed and then from xposed download the module called pictures 2sd. Works great.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rednukleus:
My camera app saves to internal storage no matter whether the Settings→Location icon is "slashed" or not.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lakingslayer:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1574401

Install the latest and follow directions to install the module. There is no selection in the camera settings.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Aquila76:
That means GPS location, not storage location. Having that checked will embed latitude and longitude data into the picture's EXIF tags.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bmeek:
It's not surprising (that Leankernel isn't working with new builds), since cm11/KitKat nightlies are a bit of a moving target for kernel developers.

Why are you looking for an alternative kernel?

FWIW, I'm a fan of the dkp kernel and his "freelunch" CPU governor, but I generally don't bother flashing it to nightlies...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rednukleus:
Ehehe yes just realized that one. Thank you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mbarry55:
12/21 and 12/22 both seem to break my WiFi. Won't connect, won't allow WPS. Reverting back to 12/19 now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Mystikalrush:
22 wasn't playing nice with my network. 19 seems to be the solid contender for now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] RedRumy3:
Latest nightly broke recording for camera. I can take pictures still but when I switch to record it crashes. Only problem I have atm. ?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] edthesped:
Ditto for me as well. I don't know about earlier versions because I didn't try it until I read your post. As per earlier advice I installed "A Better Camera" and I'm pretty happy with it. I think I'll stick with CM 11 for a while.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lexluthor:
I see video isn't working for me either on 22. I guess I'll keep A Better Camera handy.

No issues with wifi on 21 or 22 (I only started on 21).

I'm going jinx myself here, but WOW, my phone is running a million times better/faster or CM11 4.4 vs TW 4.1.2. Things like installing apps would really lag me on TW. I also see so much more free memory and I think that's resulting in much better multitalking. On TW, I'd often home key out of an app and come back to it shortly after and the app would have restarted. On CM11, seems like the app comes back to where it was before.

I know I'm going to get annoyed by something I need not working at the wrong time, but this is pretty nice at the moment.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] theatomizer90:
I am new to CM i have played with it a bit but no more than a day because of instability in key areas. This rom is really working well for me (except camera) BT, everything is doing well and it is quick. I am glad it is this stable. -I hope i dont speak too soon...

Anyway what can i do with this? i mean that it is CM 11 i have gone through all the settings built in and changed them to what i like. i am working on finding a free theme that i like (any suggestions?) and i am excited to be using google wallet again. (surprised how much i miss it. -it broke on my last stock rom and i never put the effort into fixing it.

Anyway is there any cool things to flash or do on CM 11?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hybridnoob:
For themr(s), check out BetterKat.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aznsensazn29:
This doesn't seem to be working, I recall that there was a setting that I needed to turn off so I could customize the individual notifications, but I can't find that in CM11. Any other suggestions?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bmeek:
I'm wondering about these modified wallet apks you spoke of... :).

I went through the motions of setting up Wallet along with tap and pay. But like BlaJod reported back on the 9th, I found that the tap and pay function failed to work at the the two registers I've tried (even though Wallet --> Settings --> About reports under Tap and Pay reports that the "Device is ready for tap and pay purchases").

Is this issue likely to be Wallet, AOSP, cm11, d2vzw-port-related? IOW, where would we file the bug report? :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] annoyingduck:
Go here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2454820

Haven't tested on 4.4 yet, but they worked flawlessly on older builds. The big difference with the modded ones is that set up time I spoke of...on kk it's non existent with the "built in tap+pay+unmodified wallet". Where as the modded ones have an actual set-up ...

---------- Post added at 01:59 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:44 AM ----------

Just installed the modded one. 2 big things that DO NOT HAPPEN with the unmodified one:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lexluthor:
Anyone confirm if 1223 fixes video?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dvaderx:
no, but focal seems to work and i hear there is a modded cam in the apps section that may work
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lexluthor:
Wow, you mean the camera wasn't even focusing until now? When people who are on this were saying "the camera doesn't work", it'd be nice to note that means not that they are having FC issues, but that it takes crappy pics before it doesn't focus.

How do you access this modded camera?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hybridnoob:
He's not talking about the stock camera. Focal is a third party app available on the Play Store. Worth a look if you want to try something new.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lexluthor:
Thanks for clarifying.

Edit: Focal is a very nice cam. Camera works, screen freezes when I switch to video mode. Also, can you enable/disable gps tagging of the photos? I didn't see that? What about setting video resolution? I didn't see that in A Better Camera either.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Defragger51:
Anyone know if Bluetooth is working correctly yet. By correctly I mean it connects automatically and not by me forcing it to connect like its a new device every time and me having to reboot to reconnect after I disconnect
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bdr9:
Is anyone else having issues with Wi-Fi? I can't see or connect to any networks. Mobile data works fine. Tried restarting. Using the 12/23 nightly.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] edthesped:
Wi-Fi is working fine for me on the 12/22 nightly. I'm in no hurry to move to a newer build yet.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] WarER4X:
I haven't seen anyone mention battery drain problems. I'm on the 12/22 build and my Google Play Services is causing a lot of drain. My phone sat on a table this morning for 4 hours, untouched, and was down to 54%. I stopped and cleared the cache and data for the play store and play services to no avail. This really has been going on at least since the 12/19 build, I think. I have the 12/8 gapps installed. Anyone else seeing this? Any ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lou1210:
I tend to turn off anything I'm not using and it saves - NFC, location, auto sync. Just those will help. But KK is notorious for battery drain
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] edthesped:
I'm at a little over six hours of moderate to heavy use and am at 67% my wife's is rooted stock and is at 73% with slightly less use than me so I'd gamble to say it's not much worse than stock 4.1.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Defragger51:
I have been using KK since the 11/12 unofficial cm11 and the one and only time I have ever had battery drain issues was on the 12/09 official cm11. I have used every night up to 12/17 skipped 18,19,20,21,and 22 ,went back to the 11/28 unoffical cm11 build because blue tooth worked correctly. Today I did a clean wipe and installed 12/23 because some people claimed blue tooth was working on the last 2 nightlys. Bluetooth on the 12/23 build is still a joke and the camera worked fine until I tried to put it in video mode when it FC. the only cure for booth problems is a reboot.If you have to force your bluetooth device to connect every time as a new device and have to do it several times and reboot the phone to get it to work again , then your phones Bluetooth is not working as it should.Oh yeah I am still getting very good battery life though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lou1210:
What would be a good way to get Bluetooth working better? I have the problem intermittently but only on KK ROMs.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] h4fsaliva:
I know its available somewhere online, but i want to be 100% sure, and be sure it applies to 4.4, but is there a way you can flash cyanogenmod on the Samsung S3, and be able to revert back to stock with no trace in case i want to trade it for a new one with my warranty from bestbuy? For free preferably?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lou1210:
There is a process including an app called triangle away and then using Odin to go back to stock. You can search for it in the forum.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] h4fsaliva:
Thank you very much for the fast response, appreciate the info. Looks like imma be getting back into flashing :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lou1210:
You're welcome. Glad to help.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bass0324:
Anyone else having GPS issues with latest nightlies, just wondering if maybe I need to do a clean install soon

Edit: apparently just need to turn off and on again
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hellven:
Just so you know, in 4.4 they changed some choices in Google Play Services. You can choose between high accuracy and battery savor. I found that with battery saver enabled, it was normal usage, but with high accuracy I had a lot of battery drainage. Just turn on high accuracy when you need to.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] WarER4X:
Good point. I noticed that setting change and went with high accuracy. I'll switch it to battery saver mode and see how that goes.

Thanks!

-SR-
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lexluthor:
I tested quickly with my Motorola Elite Flip and Bluetooth seems to be working fine on the 12/23 nightly. The first time, I did have to re-pair quickly, but that may be because I updated nightlys since last time? Otherwise, I turned the device off and back on a few times and it connected each time. I also turned BT off and on on the phone a couple of times and the device still connected again once BT was back on and I turned the device on. Maybe it works for some BT devices and not others?

I'm seeing battery that's certainly on par with TW 4.1.2 stock/rooted.

In order to get google wallet working, we have to do this?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2454820

But, if I use the internal CM11 updater, it's a bit of a PITA to reboot just to flash wallet again.

No other way to get wallet working right now?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] h4fsaliva:
I've been looking all over and am very lost on where to begin... I've been out of the flashing community for far too long.

I have the samsung s3 verizon sch-I535 on the latest official 4.3 update. I have found videos on how to flash it, but it skips the part where you root it... can someone please point me to a rooting method for 4.3?

Edit

Dammit... did i screw myself out of roms for a while till the crack the 4.3 rom?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] philosoweed:
What is it you are trying to flash? CM 11? If you are on the latest 4.3, then i am afraid you will not be able to root, unlock bootloader, and install custom recovery/rom.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] h4fsaliva:
Yes i wanted to flash CM 11 or 10.2.. I am on 4.3 :(

Its just temporary until they figure a root/whatever out for 4.3 right?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] philosoweed:
I believe you can root, the bootloader is what gets you. Your bootloader becomes permanently locked after updating. See this post http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2575661.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] h4fsaliva:
awwwww mannnnnnnnnnnnn... nothing but bad news... why would samsung do that.. thats some motorola droid babyback bs.

I have bestbuy's warranty, so im gonna try to go get another s3 and ask if i can get one without the 4.3 update, doubt it, but worth a try.

Man i wish i had read all this before taking the update. ****.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AndyMan386:
this still seems to be an issue
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dvaderx:
You've misunderstood this. It's not google play services.

What you are seeing is a display of "recent location requests"

You can see anything there that has requested location. Maps. chrome. play services.. etc. any app or service that wants your location.

below each app you will see what type of usage has taken place.

for example. if you use facebook. it may say "low usage" because it just grabs your location when you launch and then not again.

but an app like maps or another GPS intensive app it will say "high usage or high accuracy"

If you click on "mode" at the top, it will let you choose if you want to use wifi, cell towers or just GPS on the phone.

this is all the same as it always has been before, it's just displayed differently.

Personally I don't like wifi detection because it's not accurate and I don't like using the cell towers because well, I don't think VZW needs to know where i'm at. so i just use "GPS or Device" only
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dvaderx:
FYI - camera (and video) works on 12/24

Great job CM Team!