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[Galaxy S III General] szotaa:
Hint: look at the model version. We have the GT-I9300, on the link i posted there is GT-I9300l

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http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1446871 - googled this :D
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
Look at the Android version, we already have it running fine on our phone. :P

Tapped using TapaTalk on my GT-I9300 running CM11 with Boeffla Kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] anthonys2r:
Thank'ed just for "my 0 cents" :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] nkirk:
http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/18/samsung-kitkat-us/

KK for SG3 .. :victory::victory:
[Galaxy S III General] Kasmott:
This is great news.Cant wait:D
[Galaxy S III General] Lowrider39:
When will it come to Europe?

Congratulation to everybody who will get KK soon. I think in Europe, especially in Germany we need to wait more time. What I saw, 4.1.2 was working nice, but with less features. Now we got the 4.3 which seams to me somewhere unstable and slow. So I have two ways: Wait vor KK and hope it is better, faster or put a CM nightly on it.

Andreas
[Galaxy S III General] Eleve11:
4.4 was released for S4 just a couple of hours ago!

Really hope we're next heeh
[Galaxy S III General] Ricky Divjakovski:
BAD NEWS! S3 isnt getting kitkat.

Samsung poland confirms devices updating to kitkat

Why? unfortunately, S III , and the official reason is a small amount of RAM.

Where did the sources come from? the most reliable. Sammobile and robertnawrowski.com​
[Galaxy S III General] hwjrmrm:
no S3...

Global KitKat update list for multiple devices confirmed by Samsung Poland

http://www.sammobile.com/2014/02/20...multiple-devices-confirmed-by-samsung-poland/
[Galaxy S III General] Tintin69:
What a joke

Hi everybody,

I don't post often but I read a lot, and what I've read is a big deception for me. International S3 won't get the KK update... But why ? As seen, in US, they'll have the update even for the S3 mini which is, if I remember, at the same level as the S3 (GT-I9300), furthermore, they gave us the 4.3 update which is a RAM eater compared to 4.4 and they can't give us the 4.4 ? I think it's just laziness and marketing goals that made that decision. Sadly, for Samsung, I think that I'll buy another phone of another brand, the Nexus 5 looks nice enough ;)

Hopefully, they'll change their mind, but I won't bet all my money on that.

What do you think people ?
[Galaxy S III General] tariq2kn:
It is shameful abandoning flagship devices. What a waste of money on these devices.
[Galaxy S III General] gfreeman86:
I think that if my buggy S3 4.3 ROM will not get updated to a new 4.4.2 buggy S3 rom, I will not spend another single coin on Samsung's products in my life and I will do my best to convince everybody to do the same.

Samsung means GREAT hardware but ZERO value on their paying customers.

Max
[Galaxy S III General] Ricky Divjakovski:
yeah, Im going for the Nexus 5, Note 3 or S5..
[Galaxy S III General] danierakes:
S3 no kitkat.....too bad:(
[Galaxy S III General] Iqbal Ansari:
WTF!!!

My heart is broken. ;(
[Galaxy S III General] Eleve11:
Haha that's just stupid Samsung..oh well..we did get three updates so I guess it's fair to say that Samsung did a good job on updating our phone.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
What? No update? What the f*ck?! That news made me sick!!!!! I'm freaking angry now!

Go and eat sh*t Samsung,I hate you now.

Now can anyone give me tips about best ROMs to have a good debloated one,smooth and still nice Samsung official experience? Or pure android would be good,too. But not battery heavy,with LED notifications and smooth one.
[Galaxy S III General] Iqbal Ansari:
Almost all OEMs are like that.

I swear now that my next device will be a nexus device.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Agree,same.

Can you give me recommendation about custom roms? I'm strongly going to root or install any good custom rom and get a rid of this 4.3 rom. I would love temasek KK with LED support and good battery,if you know one. Or can you share what rom and configuration are you using now. And what about that archidroid?
[Galaxy S III General] Imaginos.88:
Not really surprised, US press release hinted something like that reading between the lines. It is a 2 years old device as well...
[Galaxy S III General] Niksha88:
And they said KitKat is built to work on phones with 512MB RAM and S3 won't get it because of 1GB RAM... What a joke Samsung.

What about same chipset Exynos 4412 in I9305 with 2GB of RAM?
[Galaxy S III General] nexy33:
meh HTC did the same thing all the time you see where that landed them. I'll buy nexus devices from now on samdung can eat a **** I'll use LG for tvs
[Galaxy S III General] szotaa:
Look at the kernel version, we have 3.0 neo has 3.4. Newer kernel bring newer drivers and stuff so we may benefit in terms of performance. And who knows maybe neo will get 4.4 soon

Wysłane z mojego GT-I9300 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
oh my god i9300i use snapdragon :(

msm8226 http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=cpu&id=a8226&c=qualcomm_snapdragon_400_msm8226

open build prop :(
[Galaxy S III General] Choristav:
But the neo plus does not.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Dude... In my country the SIII it's selling :o
[Galaxy S III General] AmirDada21:
If we don't get KK - Henrylife has been doing a tremendous job porting 4.4.2 stuff and S5 stuff over to his new rom (Whenever it will be released) So I guess that will be our only choice if we truly want a Touchwiz based rom with KK features!
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
If we don't get the Kitkat by Samsung, i will wait for a stable release of CM11 for our device :)
[Galaxy S III General] ömERgin:
New firmware includes KNOX or new features?

GT-I9300 cihazımdan Tapatalk kullanılarak gönderildi
[Galaxy S III General] clintonsquads:
Check this out guys http://www.samsung.com/us/support/faq/FAQ00059206/82024/EFC-1G6FFEGSTA
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
US models i think.

Tapped using TapaTalk on my GT-I9300 running CM11 with Boeffla Kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] Choristav:
But then there's SIII mini which makes no sense.
[Galaxy S III General] clintonsquads:
Yeah i think i9300 models get 4.4.2 kitkat
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
Probably this QualComm equipped variant: http://m.att.com/shopmobile/wirele...fferent-processor-than-international-variant/

Tapped using TapaTalk on my GT-I9300 running CM11 with Boeffla Kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] h4ck3rc1:
I am running SlimKat 4.4 stable version 4 with Googy Max kernel and it is great, smooth as, good battery and no noticeable bugs. Best performance I have ever gotten on my S3 with any ROM. I would be super careful about stock 4.4 if it is released, if you get Knox on your phone, it will wipe your recovery and you can't get it back, happened on my work supplied S4, I can't even put CWM or a custom ROM on there now
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Wow! Realy? Why dude? Why thats happen? :(.

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This is good news for us. If they put the Kitkat in this phone, i'm sure that they will bring the kitkat for our Galaxy SIII! :highfive:
[Galaxy S III General] beeeto:
Now I'm pretty lost. Thought I was going to get much better results on Stock, the first screenshot is Atuntu benchmark, wich is a general test of the system. The second one is 3d performance only. May I ask you why are these results so similar? Maybe HWcomposer isn't that "broken" as many users here claim?

Stock rom was your latest Archidroid and AOSP was Temasek's rom. Both with boeffla kernel.

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
Because both of the tests were performed on the same hardware. Antutu is NOT a reliable benchmark.
[Galaxy S III General] beeeto:
But shouldn't AOSP be much slower due the lack of a proper HWcomposer? (Even if the benchmark is performed on same hardware)

P.S: I'm not arguing, just trying to fulfill my questions. Couldn't find that info on google or other XDA threads.

Thanks again.
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
AOSP IS slower in terms of GPU performance. And I mean advanced GPU performance, which utilizes more than software rendering offered by Android. Actually only a few games offer that, such as Real Racing 3, with infamous "audio stuttering" in fact caused by broken HWComposer.

In the same time AOSP is faster in terms of software GPU rendering and everything connected with the software itself. If you take a look at ArchiDroid's Optimizations you can notice that ArchiDroid is now 3x faster than it was without these. But in the same time it still performs worse in advance GPU rendering.
[Galaxy S III General] clapton86:
On Boefla kernel I have Intellactive governor. Is that similar to interactive?
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
As I know,it is based on interactive,can't say anything more. I think intelli is slower,at least for me,as with it UI was lagging like a hell,always. Dunno about the battery life,though.
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
Yes, it's going to sell at a rate of 5 phones by person, totalling 50 million phones in 2 months.

Sure man, sure.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Sure that will continue to sell more that some new phones of Samsung.
[Galaxy S III General] alcitron:
definetely i like this system
[Galaxy S III General] h4ck3rc1:
Because (at least on the S4) Knox is an enterprise level security app that locks down the bootloader on the phone and will wipe your custom recovery, if you try and overwrite it, it apparently trips some sort of eFuse and have read can brick your phone. Not sure if that would happen with the S3 or not because I don't know that the S3 has this eFuse but I personally would not risk it until more information is released
[Galaxy S III General] chrissykess:
Samsung as company need money, but how they are earning money? They need customer whos buy usually new phone. So... For Samsung, developing kitkat for s3, is waste of time and money, why? users s3 dont need new Galaxy, because they have new android (kitkat)....

This is answer about kitkat for s3

Better save some money or waste time here for rumors... For Samsung this phone is too old, for normal company hardware which have half year is old, i know because im working in big company with IT.

Send from my Galaxy S3 runing with TemasekROM
[Galaxy S III General] szotaa:
But to sell their products thay also need good PR, dont you think? Not upraging their flagship phone puts them in negative light.

Wysłane z mojego GT-I9300 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
:highfive:Kitkat coming

:eek::svetius::p:p:p:p;):D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Gsmarena also say that the SIII have a planned ugrade ;)

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Dude... You are not right... You are speaking like the SIII was so powerfull like the SV
[Galaxy S III General] Soryuu:
Hmmm seems interesting but the S3 never got 4.2.1, 4.2.2 (officially) nor does it have 4.3.1

But who knows, even though benchmarks can be faked this may be one of the more... reliable sources
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
note 2 4.2.2 ? :
[Galaxy S III General] Klejdi90:
Maybe its referring to the US model updates? I am not sure if US models got 4.3.1 but its seems somewhat reliable...

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] Raulinho7:
Well for a company as big as Samsung, it's not gonna cost so much money and time to upgrade to kitkat. Especially when they do not port any new feature.

But business is business. .
[Galaxy S III General] clintonsquads:
Look thats not only i9300 guys, i9305, etc :)
[Galaxy S III General] oreo27:
Some interesting news. Worth a read. It's from the most popular blogger in my country. Maybe we are finally getting an official Kitkat update.

Source
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Guys, do have idea if the update for galaxy SIII will make look like the SV?

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Only me that got an update?
[Galaxy S III General] szotaa:
What update? lol
[Galaxy S III General] techno-np:
Samsung should update all their S3 !! If not this will damage their after support image.. Motorola just announced they will update Moto Razr Maxx , Maxx HD , Razer M and some more of they're 2012 handsets to latest KitKat 4.4 all which was running 4.0 when launched !! Hats off to Moto !! If sammy does not update my S3 then i am switching to something else other than Samsung ... I am sure they will lose many of their old customers..
[Galaxy S III General] Soryuu:
Correct me if I'm wrong but none of the other S3 models got those upgrades either?

Maybe they're just listing every Android version it could have gone through :P

Though the international variant did have 4.2.1 and 4.2.2 leak...
[Galaxy S III General] -Aatif-:
i dont think Samsung will do this

according to me based on past experience

Kitkat is last update like Samsung done for S2 in last update on S2 4.1.2, they gave touchwiz & Weather widget same as from next flagship S3

so this time Kitkat is last update so S3 has got everything from S4 like Theme,Apps, icons but this Samsung may give Touchwiz and Weather widget from S4 but not from S5,,
[Galaxy S III General] DuceTheTruth:
I couldn't wait to get a stock 4.4 ROM until I read this......as I am also running slimkat v.4...smh
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
A 30 mb update... It gave me the googe drive :D --.
[Galaxy S III General] clintonsquads:
4.3.1 is aftermarket rom ver like cyanogenmod bro, 4.2.1 idk :D
[Galaxy S III General] szotaa:
Lol its not. Its just an android version released by google

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[Galaxy S III General] sensejstg:
Update to KitKat confirmed?

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/547957/20140414/samsung-galaxy-s3-note-2-android-4.htm#.U0ufvlV_vv0
[Galaxy S III General] cornelha:
I flashed a 4.3 rom yesterday morning and I have to admit, I am rather disappointed with the performance. One would expect that Samsung roms with official Samsung kernel drivers would perform well. It's a shame they just cannot seem to squeeze the performance out of this device as intended. The rom feels smooth, it just lags in places, most notably the Dialer, Contacts and Settings. It stutters much more in games (game in question being JetPack Joyride) than SlimKat, Temasek or OmniRom 4.4 roms. I really wish they would drop TouchWiz and come up with something leaner. I wouldn't buy an S5 purely because the colour scheme looks like something you want on a child's phone. They have really lost the plot when it comes to a professional looking UI. As much as I detest iOS (especially from a developer point of view), it would seem they have the right idea when it comes to UX.

I sincerely hope that Samsung catches on and when 4.4 finally becomes mature, they have a much better offering. I am not sure about the rest of you, but I am starting to find that using the device one handed is almost impossible because I don't have 4.3" thumbs. When Android 1st hit, none of the device had huge screens like we have now, so placing the status bar at the top with top down swiping made sense, but this is really something someone should rethink.
[Galaxy S III General] Gravaze:
samsung kernels are terrible. can't use without any lag. i want to smash the phone while upgrading apps. 4.3 not good as i expected.
[Galaxy S III General] beeeto:
Well I am really happy with 4.3 right now. Archidroid and boeffla kernel with performance setup = snapiest experience ever. I have been on KitKat since it was launched, been on Temasek's, Carbon, SlimRom, cRDroid and they are all great roms, but in my opinion they are not as smooth as my current setup with Archidroid. My camera is perfect and the UI is really snappy. My only complain is the ugly touchwiz dialer but oh well, you can't have everything you want, aren't you. hah

Also, there's a lot of ways to use the device one handed, nova launcher prime has a shorcut to open notifications and you don't even need to get your finger all way up to status bar. I use switcher too and it helps a lot using my device one handed.

Anyway, it is just my opinion, but to everyone who says Stock is laggy should try Archidroid & performance setting,

Kind regards!
[Galaxy S III General] pmortari:
Same here. I've recently tried a Sammy 4.3 based rom and used just for a day. But IMO, I don't really think Samsung will release Kitkat for S3 (at least for i9300). They already did a poor job releasing 4.3 as we've seen and I don't think they will do it again. I think they will only focus on their new devices (which is a shame).
[Galaxy S III General] gieffe22:
guys i really tried almost every rom and i switch ever back to a sam one...i think its more a placebo with cyanogen... there's only one test we should do to prove whic is the best. a video beetween 2 identical phone running a custom stock(eheh if you want a fair comparison this is the way) vs a cyanogen/slim/omni. i'm ready to cut off my head ( :p ) saying that on par apps the stock should be identical or even faster in opening or scrolling. i think it's totally placebo because of a few apps lighter on aosp like dialer or settings, but other app ar simply CRAP like browser (and i tried analiticcally ALL browsers by aosp one to chrome to boat to next ...and many others), the camera firmware is not as polished to a stock one( lack of proper method in cleaning camera files by firmware)...like other said the broken graphic composer let stutters some games or even can't play these...so i think we have different preferences, some prefer aosp way ( "lightness feel"...because is a ...feel and not reality), and other people prefer a polished very stable roms( and complete at 360 degrees, thing that aosp not can do NEVER, multiwin, video player tricks, music player tricks and quality, the 200 other thing like motion gestures etc etc...)
[Galaxy S III General] xda_Noob.:
I personaly prefer miui. Light stable and No Lag at all :D(latest version)
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
The only real reason for "crappy" AOSP for SGS3 is the lack of proper source code.

Currently, AOSP requires blobs of: GPS, RIL and Sensors (i.e. proximity). We also lack everything Samsung added to the stock build, such as camera drivers, hw composer etc. For example as a camera we use opensource camera hal written initially by Paul Kocialkowski (Replicant), about 8 months ago. Before that we used camera blobs, but at least this is one of the very few things community was able to reverse-engineer.

AOSP will never be able to run as smooth as Stock on SGS3. And I'm talking about GPU and stability. On the other hand, SGS3 has pretty damn good AOSP support, and the only thing is semi-working compatibility with hardware components. But what did you expect from closed-source Samsung phone?

However, AOSP will always feel "faster" because we can optimize the whole system (take a look at ArchiDroid 2.X), and this is what we can't do on stock. The overall effect will always be better than slow, "back to froyo times" TouchWiz, and while I can also make my best to cut the crap and show that stock could also be smooth (ArchiDroid 1.X), major part of the system is untouchable and we can't change that.

Both of my ROMs have fans, personally I use ArchiDroid 1.X as my daily driver, mostly because battery is better. But in the same time I love to optimize ArchiDroid 2.X and I hate the fact that I can't do so on stock :p.

Back to topic, I think that we may get a kitkat, but if we're about to get it, it must happen in the next month, because SGS3 support ends in the second week of May if I remember correctly.
[Galaxy S III General] pmortari:
I respect your opinion, but, in fact, isn't just a placebo or just a feel, otherwise, there would be no developers wasting their time working on these roms, do you agree?

But I totally agree with you when you say each users has it's own preferences or purposes when he chooses a rom. For my taste, the roms provided by Samsung (and their based ones) just don't fill what I need anymore. And when I say this, I say at all. Obviously I wish I could have a AOSP for S3 fully functional, but, based on what I do with my device, AOSP suits me better for the moment.

I believe that the single fact that with these projects users can have a choice, turns it valid. And with these projects getting bigger and stronger every day, Samsung (and all other companies, even Google) starts to deal to their users with a differenct vision and approach. Google Play devices is a good example, and who wins the most from that is us, final users.
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
Do you seriously think these "developers" have engineering degrees or something? They're just dudes that have an S3 and have a passion for meddling with things and are bored. It's just a hobby. They'd do the same if they had another device.

The real deal is behind CM/Omni (and not even that) and others "distributions". The vast majority of roms you see in these forums are just the product of a bored dude with lots of free time. Not a developer.

So no, I would include this as a parameter for anything.

And no, it's not getting bigger and bigger... each day it passes, we see less and less roms. Even for stock.
[Galaxy S III General] goughymachine:
So, as Archi has said the biggest issue for us is the closed sources within a sammy phone. So sorry if this is OT, but do all the others have open sources, or who is the best when it comes to this? I'm one of those who love aosp but camera stability and bluetooth are two I have to have, and those weren't up to scratch for me. So if you were to go away from sammy so you could have a phone that would work great on an aosp rom, who would you go to?

Myself I'll probably look at a Nexus phone next time purely because of cost. But do LG, Motorola, HTC etc have open sources and does aosp work perfectly on them? And how well do they keep their phones firmware up to date? I mean, I know we're not happy with how far sammy lags behind an android update, but aren't the others the same too? And I'm not talking about the updating of their latest and greatest, but the update of their 18mnth old phones?
[Galaxy S III General] Velogr1992:
we want emoji full support :P
[Galaxy S III General] michaelsalter92:
Doubt the s3 will ever get 4.4 now whats the point, they got the S4 and S5 to look after and make sure they are up to date. Personally I HATE with a passion the default OS for samsungs I hate it. I love the custom roms better what make it feel like an android:)
[Galaxy S III General] k-semler:
Android 4.4 for the i9300 should be coming by the end of this month:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/android-4-4-kitkat-release-status-galaxy-note-2-galaxy-s3-1444728