yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Because MAYBE the update will come out ... They don't have excuse to don't update the i9305... And the excuse that they gave to don't update i9300 it's the most stupid excuse that i ever seen.
[Galaxy S III General] psychok9:
I've lost any hope. In the past, it was expected on May '14. Now even make advertising in which they explain why it is good to go to S5... :eek:
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Yup... They want us to send to garbage a good usable phone for buy a newest one expensive like an iphone --'.
[Galaxy S III General] gxg10:
Hello. Some noob questions.

I want to update to 4.4 with custom rom. I read something about cyanogenmod 11 ,omnirom, archirdoid. What is the difference between them? I read that all of them were based on cyanogenmod. I want a rom with less customization, more "stock", more stable, less teaks. Which should i consider and what is the stage of their development ?

Thank you
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Cyanogenmod11 . Install the snapshoot.
[Galaxy S III General] Occasus:
Hi dude,

it may be true that we've got a real "ROM jungle" but you can find all essential informations in the respective ROM-threads. Read the feature lists carefully as well as the installation instructions, pay attention also to the posts of users, as they should give you a good overview regarding features, functions, stability, state of development etc. You find something that fits your wishes for sure.

Cheers & good luck!

- Occasus
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
OmniROM is based on AOSP, CM is based on AOSP, while ArchiDroid is based on CM.

CM is more mature than Omni, it's not close to AOSP anymore, while Omni is close to AOSP, but this also includes some "core" features like theme manager missing.

ArchiDroid is based on CM, and it includes everything what CM does and far more.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
In my case i prefer use the original cm11. It's stable fast and have updates OTA. It turn your phone into a nexus eheh. You are almost the first receiving android updates :)
[Galaxy S III General] gxg10:
Thank you all for your answers. I will continue to read and learn a little more about this.
[Galaxy S III General] Allen.:
I just moved to a Custom Rom and as far as I remember the proximity sensor led was off when the screen was off and on when the phone was charging. Why can I see that led "shadow glowing" when my phone is locked and not charging? It only deactivates when I slide to unlock. Is this a problem?
[Galaxy S III General] cjunk:
Might want to ask in the ROM's thread

Sent from my SlimKat edition Nexus4

hells-Core inside
[Galaxy S III General] ballsofsteel:
May I ask if Samsung has given up on development for the S3 entirely yet? Not just about KK specifically but is the current 4.3 build already the final one?
[Galaxy S III General] SILELICA:
Lo mejor software android kk. v.4.4.4 para Samsung Galaxy S3 para mi es CM-11 SNAPCHOT M8. Lo he instalado en mi movil y me funcciona de maravilla. Ahora no se calienta al cargar la bateria y ademas la bateria me aguanta mas de una dia, el intercambio de los pantallas de escritorio corren muy fluidos tambien las conexiones a internet. Los felicito a los desarolladores de este software por el trabajo hecho.
[Galaxy S III General] Allen.:
Yes, 4.3 was the last update for S3.
[Galaxy S III General] ballsofsteel:
I mean is the current 4.3 build still being worked on?
[Galaxy S III General] Allen.:
As far as I know the project is dead.
[Galaxy S III General] ballsofsteel:
OK thanks, I think the last build was released back in March anyway so there isn't much hope anyway.
[Galaxy S III General] techno-np:
4.3 was a nightmare !! After 3 months of hassle and slow operation i felt my S3 was slow and laggy !! After going back to 4.1 i feel like the power of the old breast has returned !! 4.1.2 best for S3 !! 4.3 is a disaster !! Never going back to 4.3 again !!
[Galaxy S III General] sohagpnk:
How to go back to 4.1
[Galaxy S III General] techno-np:
Flash 4.1.2 firmware using Odin !!
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
His imei will be null :)
[Galaxy S III General] techno-np:
Nope not if he has the EMG4 modem !!
[Galaxy S III General] sohagpnk:
Yes i also know this if i want to back from 4.3 to 4.1.2 then IMEI will be null and some other problem will appear
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Oh okay xD
[Galaxy S III General] techno-np:
Or simply you can flash NeatRom v4.8 ...
[Galaxy S III General] droidzer1:
S3's have 2GB (1.774GB) RAM

I read the OP and can't see reading all 229 pages here but OP says the Galaxy S3 only has 1GB of RAM. I've got two of the S3's and both seem to have 1.774GB (1774 Megabytes) of RAM (which is actually probably 2GB before some formatting or overhead). I'm running a 4.4.4 KitKat ROM although custom it runs smooth and fast. I have to question if it has been pointed out that the U.S. or North America versions came with 2GB RM versus the Global only had 1GB.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
There is the lte that have 2gbs ram also and doesn't have the update. So... Are the United states better than the rest of the world for be the only country that reveived the update? Who knows? :)
[Galaxy S III General] popoyaya:
This thread is in the i9300 section, which means international s3.
[Galaxy S III General] MD500:
Friend I know native-spanish but in xda you must talk in english..if you cant write in english talk in spanish + english (Google translate)

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] carpediem_10:
lov memory :(
[Galaxy S III General] Giowi:
Perhaps better to back to 4.1.2:confused:
[Galaxy S III General] psychok9:
*nevermind
[Galaxy S III General] GyroJXPL:
Not sure..

i personally think we won t have it! the 2 GB RAM version could have it or not because the lower cpu specs.I m running the 4.2.1 JellyBean on my S3 1 GB version right now and i didn t update to the 4.3 because of the problems that i heard from the people on the internet...and i know since my phone is rooted, that i could make a backup of my present ROM and try the 4.3 but i don t want to because i find it useless with those problems and i think that 4.2.1 runs smoother and faster and im happy with it! we could maybe 4.4 with a slight downcrease in requirements if possible...take out the stuff we don t kind of need on our SGS3.

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You have the what i believe the 2 GB RAM version and that version of S3 has a weaker cpu...i think 2 core and the 1 GB RAM version has 4 core cpu...
[Galaxy S III General] quaker1985:
I dont know if this is right place to ask but please answer

I have running smartdroid KK B1 which is based on Archiport preview 5

when i was on 4.3 ROMs geotagging in camera was working great there was no need to turn on gps every time i click a pic

but now in 4.4 i need to start GPS and turn grotagging on every time i want to geotag a photo

is there any solution for this??
[Galaxy S III General] kenzoxd107:
Wish to have one :(
[Galaxy S III General] .NetRolller 3D:
Oddly, the American versions (which have a weaker CPU than I9305) are being updated, but not I9305.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Samsung only cares with the US costumers -.-
[Galaxy S III General] droidzer1:
It flies with the SOKP 4.4.4 version ROM and I have had no problems with it after using it several days now. With several apps running including the usual Google services and so on it's only using 489 Mb of RAM so I would assume with that ROM you could run 4.4.4 on a 1GB version of the Galaxy S3.

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I know there was some feature I read about recently (still trying to recall) which was only available on Samsung phones for Korean customers so I don't think that is true but the US market is big and I imagine they will cater to the bigger customers more at times.

Might have been this: "Samsung just announced a new version of the Galaxy S5 with a sharper screen and faster processor, but it's only available in Korea." which was on the arstechnica dot com web site.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
The samsung international it's from the rest of the world. The us it's not more important that the other countrys... But well...
[Galaxy S III General] luq529:
Samsung updated the US s3 because of "drivers". Its a lot of easier to cook a rom with complete drivers which qualcomm provides. Samsung know that their exynos stuff are really messed up and they would need a lot of work to prepare a good one for Android 4.4. Its all about that Samsung is not as good as qualcomm in making processors and more in making software things.

Secondly, Samsung want to sell us a new galaxy s5. They thought most people who were using s3 would buy the newest one. But they were wrong and now they need to cut off budget a little bit. :)

There is a chance that Samsung will suprise us but... You know :)

Cheers and have a nice time :)
[Galaxy S III General] baselsayeh:
i dont think galaxy s 3 cant hold android 4.4
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
One acronym: AOSP
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
I only use the stock 4.3 because the camera on aosp it's buggy...

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It's their hardware... Don't tell me that they can't build good drivers for their own hardware. They only want to make the people update their phone turning the update of galaxy s3 for newest versions more impossible...
[Galaxy S III General] .NetRolller 3D:
They did make a version for the N7100/N7105, which is the same hardware...
[Galaxy S III General] Riskypedia:
Bluetooth test passed for KK SHV-E210S which is SK LTE model in Korea... and it has a same chipset with i9300 so maybe soon there will be a good news i think :)
[Galaxy S III General] mikaillevist:
Kitkat coming ?
[Galaxy S III General] xda_Noob.:
The Problem is System Space guys Not RAM. I tried to add hole bloatware with Googles apps to archiport but it doesnt boot. If samsung Removes All google Apps than we would definitly get Kit kat but I think this will never happen...
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
The partition can't be rezized?
[Galaxy S III General] xda_Noob.:
No Samsung has to use the Nandroid Partition. Our S3 has got 1,5 GB for Nandroid.

We need at least 1,7 GB(to present all Feuture). Thats the reason why 4.3 is Buggy...
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Ok dude thanks for answering my questions
[Galaxy S III General] coolhof:
Wrong they can resized.

Check the link.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2762594
[Galaxy S III General] degasto1:
use stock 4.3 because love the camera cyanogen bad camera :mad::mad:
[Galaxy S III General] xda_Noob.:
But samsung cant do this because than you cant recieve any ota
[Galaxy S III General] guillaume_gs3:
Hello

I have crash with 4.4.2 custom rom on gs3. Phone is block and i need restart by long press on stard buttom.

I had wipe cache dalvik cache and data. I try to change rom ... same problem

Someone to help me ?
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
In the last nightlys the cm camera was a bit improved... Hope that will be more improved
[Galaxy S III General] MakingOFF:
Rom Beta 1 Fast and Smooth ,have one Reboot last 2 days
[Galaxy S III General] gks24:
Guess motorola moto g is better than s3 except the camera.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Memory, cpu and screen... But it's faster
[Galaxy S III General] daedric:
Let's be serious.

And while not disagreeing with you, the S3 came out with 4.0.4. ANYONE with a sane mind, will tell you that when updating MAJOR versions, you should wipe. So you got your S3 with 4.0.4, kept updateing it to 4.1... 4.3... now 4.4. HOW f00bared up can it already be? :D

Samsung has kies. Make it a KIES only update. I'm sure kies can send a pit file...
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
That's for cache, not system (nand).

If you resize system, you'll get a nice brick.
[Galaxy S III General] Choristav:
Are you sure? I think I have system resized to 800mb, using the zip on the last page.
[Galaxy S III General] daedric:
Don't be silly. ALL partitions can be resized. You just have to be sure NOT to medle with the dangerous partitions (EFS), but /system, /data, /cache, /preload, etc etc come after it (IIRC).

On the N7000 we had pit files for several resizes, /system was not resized because it was pointless, we needed more inside /data and less inside /sdcard.
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
Nice, gonna give it a try then.
[Galaxy S III General] xda_Noob.:
Sure i understand you but you know when they do this than its like an "hack" and many users will cry why after updating the phone they dont get any otas.

Removing feutures making people mad lik they did in 4.3 with lockscreen shortcuts
[Galaxy S III General] .NetRolller 3D:
They can still provide OTAs on repartitioned phones - they just can't deliver the repartitioning uodate as an OTA.
[Galaxy S III General] yanghui911:
s3

i love my s3
[Galaxy S III General] dfxos:
Why they removed usefull things in 4.4, I tried custom rom and in the gallery the autorotate don't work, intead of delete button upright there is button for rotate...
[Galaxy S III General] gtsfreak:
Custom Roms are far better than original updates :D:thumbup:
[Galaxy S III General] daedric:
For the record, 4.4.2 TW is booting on i9305... a thread which had 2/3 pages now has 35 :)
[Galaxy S III General] enibej:
Petition

What would be if all GT-I9300 owners make some kind of global petition to Samsung about update to kit kat 4.4?
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
They'd laugh at us even louder then.
[Galaxy S III General] Vishnu pv:
But I contacted lots of samsung customer services and technical departments and I asked about the cancellation of s3 kitkat update images (Each phases), and they confirmed that its not official. They confirm that kitkat update will bring soon to S3 GT-I9300, but they don't share the ETA.
[Galaxy S III General] Hanzo.Hasashi:
Hope dies last
[Galaxy S III General] .NetRolller 3D:
You should ask about the I9305 - they never officially cancelled that one, moreover, there was a document a few months ago that listed it as completed, awaiting carrier approval.
[Galaxy S III General] Vishnu pv:
Who said Android 4.4.2 KitKat update officially cancelled for Galaxy S3 GT-I9300? Does anyone show me the proof?
[Galaxy S III General] iamezio:
Samsung are the one who said they won't update I9300 as it has 1GB of ram and they arn't willing to remove futers as a means to shrink the system to make it compatible with the device.
[Galaxy S III General] Vishnu pv:
But they said, they've never published this kind of any information yet. Not the customer care executives, but from the technical division.
[Galaxy S III General] iamezio:
If the devision in charge of the update can't deliver the product why would another devision would say the complete opposite?
[Galaxy S III General] titidu3701:
ty for explain
[Galaxy S III General] oscar682:
Hi, Can somebody give me instructions to to update my s3 to 4.4 touch wiz from 4.1.2 every time I update I lost my imei or network registration problem. Do I need to flash modem or something. Thank you

From Mta
[Galaxy S III General] ezekionokia:
So long S3, you've been a great companion.

It's 1+1 time.

Still keeping the S3 in case the 1+1 is a flop.
[Galaxy S III General] zennmoto:
Archi and QS Port

These ports 4.4.2 from archi and qs and others that i possible forgot are great, it is very cool that we have ports of the latest android version but still primitive :( we hope we will be having way better and stable ports .. keep going so !!
[Galaxy S III General] coolhof:
If you on 4.1.2 than you have to update first to official 4.3.

Than you have the efsv2.

And you can flash 4.4.

Make every time a backup of your efs.

First on 4.1.2 than again if youre on 4.3.

Just to be sure.
[Galaxy S III General] Choristav:
This isn't true, efsv2 came with 4.1.2 and there is no need to update the ROM, just the modem.
[Galaxy S III General] oscar682:
So it means I can flash any TW 4.3 custom ROM and then I can update to 4.4 right. Or do I need flash 4.3 stock 4.3 via Odin and then 4.4 Thank you

From Mta

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Can you tell me please where can find 4.4 TW modem. Thank you

From Mta
[Galaxy S III General] Choristav:
There are no 4.4 TW modems.
[Galaxy S III General] oscar682:
So how can I solve this problem

From Mta
[Galaxy S III General] Choristav:
Get a efsv2 modem?
[Galaxy S III General] techno-np:
Check if you currently have the EMG4 modem in your 4.1.2

From EMG4 onwards all modems are efsV2

Then you can go straight to any 4.3 rom and upwards ...

If you don't have that modern then you need to update your phone first then flash 4.4 ported Roms
[Galaxy S III General] Grimzee:
I rooted my phone with cm11 and now have 4.4.4. Probably because I have no bloatware or anything but it runs better than before, no ram issues at all.
[Galaxy S III General] Unrealwolf:
Stock-based i9305 FW went bonkers a week ago, greeted me with hard reset all of the sudden. Tried CM11 for a first time in last 6 months, and it surely is better than way back then. Camera doesn't hang, no noticeable music stutter, battery life not worse than on ****-ridden half-of-year-old stock firmware. Modem seems wacky a bit, but i guess i can live with that.

Anyway it'd be nice for the devs to have official 4.4 sources, but i kinda doubt that this will happen.
[Galaxy S III General] hwjrmrm:
hope my S3 would be ended with official KK.
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
Then I have bad news for you.
[Galaxy S III General] IRoN MaN9:
I can't believe there's people still hoping to get official kk for there s3
[Galaxy S III General] xda_Noob.:
Guys please understand its over with kit kat from samsung
[Galaxy S III General] Cancar96:
I remember that they have had kitkat kernel for i9300 and some other stuff, why havent they released it yet?
[Galaxy S III General] .NetRolller 3D:
Because it makes a nice selling point for the S5 that it has KitKat, and the S3 doesn't.

I wonder what happened to all the roadmap leaks showing I9305 as Completed.
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
It was ended (sic) in 2013. Consider it long dead.
[Galaxy S III General] jason11:
Waiting for next nexus, if it has a sd card, I will buy it and No more waiting for new updates.
[Galaxy S III General] konohanz:
trying k.k custom rom would be nice to me rather than waiting the official k.k release from sammy :cowboy:
[Galaxy S III General] cjunk:
Nexus don't do SD cards...:banghead:

Sent from my SlimKat edition Nexus4

hells-Core inside
[Galaxy S III General] Vishnu pv:
No KitKat update

No KitKat anymore

Hi all, today I got reply from Samsung UAE that they will never update Samsung GALAXY S3 (GT-I9300) to Android 4.4.2 KitKat. I know its a sad news to all, but its a time to take decision for people who still using buggy 4.3 Jelly bean. I suggest to all of you should try a custom KitKat ROM or go for new device. If people happy with 4.3/4.1.2/4.0.4 go alive with stock.

Proof:

I think its time to end this discussion thread, right? :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] dkionline:
We know that a long time, so, for what mail to samsung?

Better say to samsung, that 4.4.2 was ported to s3 and all now happy.
[Galaxy S III General] .NetRolller 3D:
What about I9305? Supposedly it was "completed" in May, and sent to carriers for testing...
[Galaxy S III General] Kimins:
News?!? Yea right...
[Galaxy S III General] suburbadroid:
test build

We need to get a hold of that test build Samsung tried
[Galaxy S III General] FicoXL:
I really get tired of waiting samsung, my guess it's that their only gonna focus on the newer phones, it's sad but understandable to leave the older ones behind eve tho the S3 sold very well
[Galaxy S III General] achrafi9305:
What's new on i9305 kitkat official update?
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
The news are that Samsung strongly suggests you to buy upcoming Note 4 or recently released S5.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
I strongly agree...
[Galaxy S III General] Imerer:
who did it and where is it?
[Galaxy S III General] gangoja:
Well I don't understand what are you waiting for, there are a lot of amazing kit kat roms for gs3 out there :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] Imerer:
They are all draning battery.
[Galaxy S III General] gangoja:
There are a lot of triks with different kernels and governors to make your battery last longer.
[Galaxy S III General] syamsoul:
custom rom 4.4 kitkat

- battery drain

- no 3G video call

:(
[Galaxy S III General] Mitachben:
Kitkat version very important for our s3 (i9300) .

Hope we'ill get the update by Samsung
[Galaxy S III General] hinuk:
Qs-9300-kk rom+ boeffla kernel gives me better batterystats than official or custom 4.3 jb ever did.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
The s3 will never receive the update from samsung.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Very untrue. AOSP gives me 4 hours of SOT with stock kernel settings while stock 4.3 JB gives 4 SOT only with UV.

You should just set up right kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] Trimod:
Choppy musik playback with screen off on any boeffla or agni kernel with android 4.3 or higher custom roms. (New bootloader). Much better with stock 4.1 or 4.3. Battery drain after using cell data on 4.3.
[Galaxy S III General] GrippingSphere:
Not happening on qs-i9300-kk with Agni kernel

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] pr_s14:
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/06/18/atts-galaxy-s3-is-getting-android-4-4-2-kit-kat-today/

This has been out for awhile. Am I missing something? Am I in the wrong forum?
[Galaxy S III General] szotaa:
AFAIK us and european versions arent much different except for the ram amount. Even if european version wont get 4.4 update, xda will make it happen

Wysłane z mojego GT-I9300 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Galaxy S III General] NightSky256:
AT&T S3 -> SNAPDRAGON S4 SOC

EU S3 -> Samsung EXYNOS 4412 SOC

They are 2 different phones, with 2 (very) different SOC, different boards... just the chasis and the software "flavour" are similar.
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
Our hope lies with Samsung Galaxy Note II (GT-N7100) which is also powered by a Exynos 4412 SoC if i understand it correctly.
[Galaxy S III General] Robin2:
Note 2 roms have been ported to our device before, so it seems possible.

Verstuurd vanaf mijn GT-I9300 met Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] d1rekt0r:
Really ?

Well, even if not , 4.4.2 kernel source from Note 2 should do some good on both AOSP and stock 4.3 ones right
[Galaxy S III General] SnowPluralism:
http://www.justaboutphones.com/global-android-4-4-kitkat-update-list-samsung-poland-fake

Enviado do meu GT-I9300 através de Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
No one is sure whether it's true or not. We just need to wait.
[Galaxy S III General] JoeSenki:
I have been using AOSP 4.4.x versions for a month and works very well with 3G versions with 1gb ram, maybe the official update will cover only 4g models with 2g ram.

Now, even losing the samsung dive and official radio fm, i'll stay on kit kat roms because the performance is much better than 4.3
[Galaxy S III General] popoyaya:
What about the bad bad camera and battery life :(
[Galaxy S III General] JoeSenki:
Sure, this kitkat roms are experimental and not bug free, in my case, the camera on carbon rom gave some shutter button freeze, but omni, mokee and aosb works fine.

Now, on the battery issue i use my phone for my work too (music player usage around 2hrs on the way work/home, calls, email, instant messaging, google docs, camera and plants vs zombies 2 for break time) and the battery never lasted more than 12 hours straight (even with the 4.1.2 JB rom) so the fix for me was a small 2,200mah portable battery and sometimes i arrive home still with a 20% battery so no need to use the portable one.