yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] xda_Noob.:
I dont have the knowledge to port but blackcat will try.

If you dont want to install thats your option :D
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
Mod Edit

New Leaks !!!

Kommt nun das 4.4 kitkat auf das s3 in deutschland oder nicht??

Hallo Nejma, wir können zu einem nächsten möglichen Update für dein GALAXY S III derzeit keine Aussage treffen. Danke für dein Verständnis. Wenn du unter "Menü > Einstellungen > Info zu Gerät > Software Update > Automatische Aktualisierung" ein Häkchen setzt, wirst du per Nachricht darüber informiert, sobald ein Update für dein Gerät zur Verfügung steht.

SamsungMobileDeutschland !

ROMANİA

Bună, sperăm să revenim cu informații oficiale despre acest subiect cât de curând. Mulțumim și o zi frumoasă!

Hi, hope to return with official information about this topic soon. Thanks and a nice day!

Comes now the 4.4 kitkat on the s3 in Germany or not?

Hello Nejma, we can not make a statement to a next possible update for your GALAXY S III now. Thank you for your understanding. If you "to Device> Software Updates> Automatic Update> Info> Settings Menu" puts a check mark under, you will be notified by email about once there is an update for your device.

Samsung Mobile Germany!

Romania
[Galaxy S III General] xda_Noob.:
They both dont confirm anything, Just the standard answer. "If we get information we will Let you know" bla bla bla nothing else :D

Turkish: ikiside bisey bilmiyolar sadece standard cevaplari verdiler :D
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
This is a english forum, i'm portuguese and i'm not talking portuguese so please translate.
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
I am starting to suspect that they have bots posting that answer now anytime the keywords S3, GT-I9300, Kitkat and/or 4.4.2 is asked. :P

Tapped with Tapatalk on my GT-I9300 running rooted and debloated stock 4.3.
[Galaxy S III General] Ricky Divjakovski:
so cars are designed for long term use? okay, well so is a phone.

this device is a piece of **** anyway, the reason i got this EFS bricked S3 is to much around with, and no matter how much i test on the device it still remains in tact.

so mate id stop making a fool of myself if i were you.

now, ive got work to do, wanna complain more? PM me and we can talk more ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Kasmott:
Dont worry guys there are a lot or devs will port kitkat that will work for our beloved s3. :banghead:
[Galaxy S III General] cornelha:
Actually I wasn't complaining, I was highlighting the complaints laid out by others, which actually has no relevance since Samsung is doing way more than other manufacturers when it comes to the SIII.

As for making a fool of myself, well if at least one person laughs at this, then I have done something worthwhile with my day. If someone has gained some clarity on the situation, even better. If someone argues in circles, well that's just some fun to be had.
[Galaxy S III General] Ricky Divjakovski:
yeap, right..

its good that you think making people laugh is nice, but honestly man, this is a joke, i usethis device weekly and for testing purposes and couldnt care less but this is pretty harsh seeing as its the worlds most popular android device...
[Galaxy S III General] johan81:
I am laughing a bit at all the rage here, sure, the S3 wasn't listed there, but that doesn't mean anything! It only listed already confirmed devices, it didn't confirm devices that are not getting it, so it very well might still come. Is it possible that it won't come? Yes, but I still think it will come to the S3 officially from Samsung, but time will tell.

I do hope it comes, but if not, that is the life of Android phones and as said earlier here, it doesn't mean your phone becomes unusable instantly.
[Galaxy S III General] cornelha:
That's the point I been trying to make, but alas, swearing at Samsung and mud slinging takes precedence.
[Galaxy S III General] KMino:
It's here already, CM11 and no dev shall ever be able to port Samsung features. As Samsung shall never release the source code.

Anyway try it, you might be surprised how fast it is actually. Pair it with Devil kernel, f2fs and ART. Nothing comes close! ;)
[Galaxy S III General] sam145:
4 major release ? Wtf 4.0.4 》4.1.2 》4.3 so 2 major update....

"Envoyé depuis mon GT-I9300 avec Tapatalk"
[Galaxy S III General] cornelha:
I quote myself "4 major release versions". 4.0.4, 4.1.2, 4.2.2 (A leak, but still a stock Samsung rom), 4.3. It's very important that people read words the way they are typed, there is a reason why words have meanings. You can't just change the meaning of words to suit your particular brand of trolling. I never said 4 updates.
[Galaxy S III General] tomsi91:
This has to be fake, because galaxy Grad has 1GB RAM too. And everybody knows, that kitkat eats much less resources than 4.3. So if Samsung writes that reason is low HW specs of S3, then its actualy reason to give us 4.4.
[Galaxy S III General] x92:
technically 4.2.2 is not consider a release as it's not officially released. So it's more like 3 major release version and 2 updates.
[Galaxy S III General] tomsi91:
I suppose if samsung will not release kitkat, nobody of S3 owners will buy another samsung. I hope its enough to destroy samsung.
[Galaxy S III General] hwjrmrm:
:highfive:
[Galaxy S III General] syamsoul:
::highfive::
[Galaxy S III General] nomaj:
If Samsung wont give us update i hope that some ported roms will show up...
[Galaxy S III General] TheSSJ:
Hm, what's about this source?

http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-lays-out-which-devices-will-get-android-442-kitkat

There our SIII's are listed..

EDIT: I didn't read now every page because at some point in time it became just a discussion about how good or bad smartphone companies are, so :P
[Galaxy S III General] Imaginos.88:
Only US versions of phones listed there.
[Galaxy S III General] LancelotSA:
So why are you bothered if they upgrade it to 4.4 or not?!
[Galaxy S III General] T0nyCr:
export 4.4.2 firmware from S4 to S3

At least, there is a chance our xda masters developers can migrate / export / fuse 4.4.2 rom from S4 to our appreciated s3?
[Galaxy S III General] LancelotSA:
Or, as a result of their two year contacts being finished anyway, they will go and get themselves the S5.

Or would they just sit complaining about the fact that the S5 has hardware upgrades that us poor S3 owners didn't get....
[Galaxy S III General] xda_Noob.:
hahahah maybe they are bored and they develop bots instead the kit kat update :D
[Galaxy S III General] XeLLaR*:
if you guys could stop spamming this thread about how you're going to port KitKat and post only relevant infos about the KitKat update, that would be great!

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[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
Samsung greece

Good morning, we have this time something specific this update.
[Galaxy S III General] Zero_One:
What you mean vith "Something Specific"? Just for ask :)
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
I'm gonna ask to samsung portugal about the update
[Galaxy S III General] Soryuu:
Is it worth trying for Samsung NZ and Samsung Korea again? Last time they said "We don't know"...
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
And i am almost sure that they will say the same thing
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
It seems like Samsung Mobile Italia have joined the "Standard Answer"-club.

From Google Translate:

"Hello Andrea, we currently have no info but you can check for updates by connecting your device to Kies will automatically alert you of the presence of new firmware updates. hello!"

Original reply:

"Ciao Andrea, al momento non abbiamo info ma puoi verificare la presenza di nuovi aggiornamenti connettendo il tuo dispositivo a Kies che ti avviserà automaticamente della presenza di nuovi aggiornamenti firmware. ciao!"
[Galaxy S III General] dreadlord52:
Just ask for S4/N3 kitkat update, then they will say "we don't know..". It is not special for S3 KitKat update
[Galaxy S III General] brkas:
Guys, get real for a moment. The guys who manage the FB accounts are just normal employees which dont get that much more info than we get. Their job is to give uncontroversial answers.

The people who are involved in the actual programming of firmwares are located somewhere else.

In my personal oppinion/wishing:

Altough the sprint GS3 has a different hardware it would be pretty stupid from samsung to release 4.4 just for sprint and not for the international GS3 (PR wise), Samsung is that one company which would manage to sell different phones under the same name but which isn't bound to tread them the same way.

I really whish that 4.4 gets released, but, with Samsungs update policy in my mind, I wouldn't be surprised if we (9300 users) don't get an update.

Only time will tell.
[Galaxy S III General] Soryuu:
Considering Samsung's track record they usually have been pretty good at pushing out updates for every variant of a device. If one variant gets it, every other variant gets it - that's how they've usually done things. So it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to hope for Kitkat on the I9300 cause otherwise they'd be shooting themselves.
[Galaxy S III General] brkas:
Thats what I hope for, I just couldn't find the right words as english is not my native language. My main reason for writing my post was just to defuse those FB screenshots/shares.
[Galaxy S III General] Soryuu:
Very true, there's only so much we can do, and the people at Samsung would probably get sick of us pretty soon. :P
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
If we keep spamming them with the same question over and over again we might just enrage them enough to give us a real answer just to shut us up! :P

Tapped with Tapatalk on my GT-I9300 running rooted and debloated stock 4.3.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
I'm sure that our phone will receive the 4.4. The sprint already received, and i believe that all variants will receive. It's not a good image for a brand don't updating one flasgship phone for a version that it's a mark on the history of android. You know why it's a mark isn't? So i will wait and keep looking for this this thread. All the informatiom that the user posts here will be usefull. And remember the facebook pages don't know anything about updates. They only say what their bosses says. Just wait guys, the rumors tell that in this month the phone will receive the update.
[Galaxy S III General] theronkinator:
That is already true, all Qualcomm North American Variants are getting it. You can't keep thinking of the NA and Int as different variants of the S3. As far as Samsung are concerned and the hardware is concerned they are completely 100% different phones, and you need to accept that, might as well just compare it with a HTC, it's just as irrelevant to comparing it to the NA version.

They aren't even proper Samsung employees, it's all run by PR companies who copy and paste standard stuff.

It's not just the Sprint S3, it's all North American Versions and it was announced officially over 3 months ago.

If we are about to get it like people claim, they'd have announced it months ago, just like they did with the US version which now has it, like the said. They've not said the Int version is getting it, because it isn't.
[Galaxy S III General] siddhu1150:
Well you are right.. my friend working as software developer in samsung told that all models of a particular phone get their development started at the same time.
[Galaxy S III General] Soryuu:
Hmmm that's an interesting bit of info to know. So regardless of hardware all variants of a model start development at the same time?
[Galaxy S III General] siddhu1150:
yup thats what he told me.. but unlike the development updates for 4.3 he doesn't have access to 4.4 development.. so no idea what's going on
[Galaxy S III General] ayoubij:
100% different phones? LOL

More like 90% SIMILAR phones.
[Galaxy S III General] XeLLaR*:
They may look alike, but the hardware isnt. The US Variants of the S3 use different Chipsets.

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[Galaxy S III General] Vishnu pv:
Video of Official Kitkat running on S3(Sprint).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L1-KoFpSRCI&fulldescription=1&client=mv-google&gl=IN&hl=en-GB&guid=
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Our galaxy SIII maybe will be faster than that galaxy siii because ours have a quadcore cpu 1,4 ghz, and it's a big difference. We have less ram but i saw the performace and yes. It's very improved and fot that the apps are consuming less memory :)
[Galaxy S III General] techno-np:
Seems really snappy !!
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Damn,that wi-fi icon sucks. Never liked GPe style.

Other than that,it seems to be running great,and that animations when going back to home screen seem to be more kitkat like. That's what I really like.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/faq/FAQ00059206/82024/EFC-1G6FFEGSTA Did you notice this? They didn't put the link for sprint version like they did with the Galaxy SIV. The update will come out for the other variants.
[Galaxy S III General] fastfix2013:
Wrong they look same but under the hood they are 100% different
[Galaxy S III General] Soryuu:
Lockscreen performance as well seems to be a LOT better - screen turned on almost instantly when locked (compared to my attempt just now lol) plus fullscreen album art looks glorious..
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Lockscreen lock and unlock performance is better (though that may change after some time),art is really amazing,default apps feature is also neat,back to home animation is awesome, faster response time,white icons. All these are amazing.

But wi-fi icon really sucks now! It looks even worse when being transparent and bigger than on Nexus sevices. Me want signal icons back!!! I hope it will be different on our international version.
[Galaxy S III General] Moster2:
The device does not have an exynos. So waking up is totally different and always fast.
[Galaxy S III General] d1rekt0r:
Waking up worked just like that when we were on 4.0.4 and bit slower on 4.1
[Galaxy S III General] Moster2:
It was never 100% instant on the exynos, but on 4.3 it was really slow.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
And in the sprint version?=
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
Samsung greece

Καλημέρα, δεν έχουμε αυτή τη στιγμή κάτι συγκεκριμένο για αυτό το update.

Translate

Good morning, we have this time something specific this update.
[Galaxy S III General] ömERgin:
specific = lie !
[Galaxy S III General] jimsiv:
The exact translation is "Good morning, we don't have something specific at the moment for this update."
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
Anonymous Leaked

We have received this update from Samsung and after our rigorous testing, has been approved and passed to Samsung for release. We hope for this to begin pushing out to handsets over the coming week or two (hopefully before the end of the month) so keep your eyes peeled on your update screen. We'll let you know if there are any unforeseeable issues or delays that crop up.
[Galaxy S III General] bhbmkii:
Source ? Where did you get this information ?
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
Anonymous Leaked

Samsung galaxy s3 android 4.2.2 update old year and may mid-May receive samsung galaxy s3 kitkat update 2014 Mid-May update receive ok wait please.:good:
[Galaxy S III General] bhbmkii:
Yeah buddy I get that it is anonymous leak but where did you read it ? And I really hope that the leak it true ☺
[Galaxy S III General] malachow:
Yeah, and I'm Whitened Obama.

Nothing more than we already know, just copy, paste this text into google & check dates of other searching results:

https://www.google.pl/search?q=We+h...i57.179j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

Surprised? ;)

Guys, be more precise while posting here/searching for this "unbelievable" leaks.

Cheers. :cool:
[Galaxy S III General] Klejdi90:
I sent an email to samsung directly they got back with this generic answer.....:sly:

"Thank you for contacting Samsung Customer Support.

Regarding your query please be advised that there is currently no official release date for a newer firmware version for your product.

You can check for available updates for your device on its support page on our website or by connecting to Samsung KIES."

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] dkionline:
Please write to our brands, they are faster...look, 4.3 released first by brands...three o2 vodaphone tmobile...come on guys
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
http://news.supermoney.eu/cellulari...id-kitkat-entro-la-fine-del-mese-0089673.html
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
can we ban blackcat67?

kthxbye
[Galaxy S III General] bhbmkii:
Dude you've got a point but he's just another SGS3 owner who's excited for the update we can ask him to stop spamming the thread ☺
[Galaxy S III General] ömERgin:
Someone stop blackcat67 :))
[Galaxy S III General] xda_Noob.:
You can write him to stop to post such things no need to ban ..
[Galaxy S III General] xda_Noob.:
Let us begin collect signatures maybe then we get the update dont ask me how its just a proposal
[Galaxy S III General] Klejdi90:
It may be too late for that :(

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
I answer to Samsung Portugal about an update and this is the answer:

"Olá Ariano, iremos solicitar novo ponto de situação à nossa equipa sobre este modelo. Mal tenhamos novidades, partilhamos de imediato! Obrigado." - Portuguese

Translation:

Hello Ariano, we will ask to our team about the situation of this model. When we get information we will share it imediatly! Thank you.
[Galaxy S III General] malachow:
The same PR-blahblahblah as always.

Paste here guys only precise and worth-our-attention infos, I beg you. :cool:
[Galaxy S III General] xda_Noob.:
Please stop posting about facebook sh1ts they dont know even more then we.

So lets discuss a bit to beat the time until we get leaks or something else

I give a start :

Do you guys thinks we recieve kit kat ?

If not why ?

If yes Why ?

Lets argument with pros and contras.
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
If only the clowns at the hq would put out a list like the us branch did it would settle this once and for all.

Tapped with Tapatalk on my GT-I9300 running rooted and debloated stock 4.3.
[Galaxy S III General] Soryuu:
Since they receive firmwares directly from Samsung Korea for testing, they might also return a generic answer by saying "Sorry we don't have any test firmwares".

Then again, worth a shot - especially if any carriers are open about update progress (like Vodafone NZ is).
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
They sad that they will ask to the time that manages the galaxy SIII about the update, and will give information when they have information. It doesn't seems to me an answer just for get ride of me, like the other pages are giving. :)
[Galaxy S III General] Sinek_:
I'm sure we'll get KitKat (i9300 users) but it's not going to be much better than the actual 4.3 stock roms. To work flawlessly, the 4.4 rom will have to be modified too, as all the previous versions.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
I saw the video of galaxy siii sprint with the update and i notice a better performace. :)
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
And this proves that for us the update will be better
[Galaxy S III General] Soryuu:
Asking Samsung Korea got me this answer:

"Dear Valued Customer.

Thank you for your mail and so sorry for this inconvenience.

But, the device have difference with software and hardware according to released region.

So, firmware upgrade service also supported by region that model was released. and firmware schedule not only decide in device's manufacturer. need to conference with Tele-communication Firms.

Thus, upgrading schedule is inaccuracy and different with according to released region."

Don't know how this is different to any of the other answers but...
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
I am afraid that a screenshot taken out of context doesn't prove anything mate.

What phone and rom is "My Device" running?

What rom is the SPH-L710 running?

---------- Post added at 07:40 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:38 AM ----------

To me it kinda sounds like they are shifting the blame on the carriers...
[Galaxy S III General] Sinek_:
Really? These are really good news then. :) I didn't have any hope on Samsung doing anything to improve S3's performance.
[Galaxy S III General] Soryuu:
They're not entirely wrong about that but yeah. Carriers need to receive the firmware to test it on their networks (cause some firmwares have slightly different features or apps, such as HD Voice on VNZ) before Samsung can push out anything.

Still, its a more detailed answer than any of the others we've gotten :P
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
Well, i suppose i can give them some extra points for that. :P

Tapped with Tapatalk on my GT-I9300 running rooted and debloated stock 4.3.
[Galaxy S III General] hemal_4404:
One more rumour.

http://www.android.gs/android-4-4-2-kitkat-update-for-samsung-galaxy-s3-is-close-for-all-users/
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Mine it's the gt-i9300 totally stock.
[Galaxy S III General] XeLLaR*:
No source, no facts....just guessing. That is probably the whorst article i have read yet.

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[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Google did dude... Google did...

---------- Post added at 10:14 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:13 AM ----------

They should saying the things based on the facts or sou still thinking that our galaxy siii will not receive the android 4.4.2?
[Galaxy S III General] carlosbtbt:
Not hopes

Galaxy S3 i9300 has been updated,but not to KitKat,the update is 30 mb Android 4.3,my galaxy S3 in Spain is now with Android 4.3,and i think it will be the last update.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
That update only add google drive :)
[Galaxy S III General] XeLLaR*:
Nah, just some app updates.

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[Galaxy S III General] carlosbtbt:
Good read that :good:.
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
To me it looks like your phone is the winner, so i don't understand your logic.

Tapped with Tapatalk on my GT-I9300 running rooted and debloated stock 4.3.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
I just wanna show that if the international version can be better than the Sprint version, why people still saying that we will not go get the update
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Benchmark doesn't really prove anything. US models still run pretty fast (I think even faster than international versions),especially when it comes to multitasking,no matter what numbers they get in benchmarks.

They only lag in games a little,because of 2 cores,but that's not noticeable.
[Galaxy S III General] Sinek_:
Hahahahaha! That's so true! ;)
[Galaxy S III General] theronkinator:
No it doesn't, my phone or it's updates has nothing what so ever to do with carriers. Samsung are the only people who control it, and Samsung Korea even say that themselves. They don't sell the international version so don't control it's updates, Samsung EMEA/EU/UK or whatever would control the updates for the international version.
[Galaxy S III General] szotaa:
Actually our phone is much better. We have quad core cpu, they only have double core. Howewer they have 2 gb of ram. But I think 1gb is enough

Wysłane z mojego GT-I9300 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Galaxy S III General] Cavalera90:
Our phone is much better because it's got mor cores?! :D

If I go down on all fours, I can run surely run faster because I only have two legs. So if I get my two hands to help me, I'm faster -> 4 limbs > 2 limbs.

We are on XDA here, do it should be basic knowledge that more cores =/= better performance and higher clock =/= better performance (comparing two different chipsets)
[Galaxy S III General] cornelha:
How do you figured that more cores, higher clock != better performance? Why on earth are cpu makers even trying to improve clock speed and adding more cores then? More cores = better multithreaded performance since the OS can shift threads between cores. Higher clocks speed = more cycles for the cpu to perform tasks. Granted, there are gains between difference chipsets using the same amount of cores and simliar clock speeds, but that still doesn't explain why cpu's get overclocked the world over to improve perfomance.