yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] fastfix2013:
Thats cool man I know its hard to understand people sometimes lol I have made a few errors haha.

:). What it boils down to tho is with 4.4.2 we would have had an uodated kernel. Now even if firmware is leaked yes we will have new radio and kernel but as it would be a leak and if the proper official firmware is not released kernel is useless for CM and AOSP as we wont have sources to work from. We would only be able to use kernel for touchwiz based ported roms from say note2 and so on. But well worth it tbh
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
AOSP is not bad at all.

I'm on touchwiz now,and gotta say,I had some BIG problems with it these days. I have even made a thread about it. Gaming sucks (check the thread),syncing also makes it lag,wake-up lag,jittery phone-unlocking. I like the sound and camera (anti-shake feature),but I found camera laggy still when choosing HDR and Low light and etc features. Why I installed stock ROM was for smooth camera when taking photos,and it was until I didn't notice lag with these features,so now I'm moving to AOSP back again as there will be no changes. Taking video was also jerky,I was surprised. I compared it to AOSP and if I set AOSP camera to 1600ghz when taking videos,it's smoother than Touchwiz one.

Other features are working perfectly on AOSP and I'm kinda happy. At least games won't lag (I hope. If they will,then it's my phone,but I doubt it).

So guys,don't be afraid of AOSP. Camera quality isn't worse,you just don't have that anti-shake feature which makes it smooth,othen than that - it's same. And to make video smooth,you need to work some.

Also,back to topic. As some still claim,RAM ISN'T A PROBLEM. Remember new Samsung phone which has 512 RAM and has 4.4 Touchwiz on top? Logic.
[Galaxy S III General] daedric:
You don't need the entire source, just partes of it (drivers and similar). Sure, a full source makes it easier, but people have been porting drivers from the sources of other devices for a long time (take the SGS2 and N7000 using S3 drivers IIRC).

Worse, all it takes is for the i9305 to get KK and Kernel Source. The devices are VERY similar, making porting easier (just look at Boeffla and AGNI's kernels)

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I don't know on what world you live, but TW Camera is miles ahead of AOSP (it's not just the camera App). Worse, you claim things without even testing:

I hope? If they lag on TW they will probably will lag on AOSP.

BTW, what's the Samsung device with 512Ram and KK ?

I'm not saying AOSP isn't nice, it is... but it has it's flaws... :)
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Now let me say,I'm not stupid. I had non-laggy Real Racing 3 on AOSP,and had some BAD fps drops on Touchwiz. No ROMs and Kernels helped (that's why I pointed to check my thread). Dead Trigger 2 had the same,heck even Subway Surfers had bad lag spikes. None of these happened on AOSP. I dunno what happened with touchwiz ROMs on my phone,before it was perfect on both ROMs.

Now,about the camera. What do you mean by miles ahead? Are you about features? Download Lenovo camera and enjoy all of the features. HDR,Low Light and others - everything works perfectly. Quality is good,also. I can't see the difference,I already have photos taken with both cameras,and I still can't see the difference. Even my friends claimed that they couldn't see anything special after I changed to TW camera. And I agree with them.
[Galaxy S III General] davidroid03:
Im loving this thread. i guess its 60-40 that we will have an update. :D
[Galaxy S III General] amir_n71:
what!

SII plus getting KK?

Russia (SER)	GT-I9105	GALAXY S II Plus	4.4.2	I9105XXUBML1

http://www.sammobile.com/2014/05/08/sammobile-recap-kitkat-update-schedule-galaxy-s5-dx-and-gear-2-solo-rumored-and-app-updates/

:(
[Galaxy S III General] nicola1989:
That s is unbelievable

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[Galaxy S III General] thereassaad:
60 million S3 user dead idk what is Samsung doing ?? I dont imagine thats.
[Galaxy S III General] amir_n71:
what is this on sammobile?
[Galaxy S III General] stefan.slavici:
I think S II plus was launched in 2013 !?
[Galaxy S III General] XeLLaR*:
yeah because if we keep whining about how other devices get updates and the S3 not will make samsung change their mind.

looks like you guys are stalking sammobile 24/7 for any kitkat update that comes to a samsung phone only so you can brag about it....

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[Galaxy S III General] stefan.slavici:
At least we can assume that it's not about technical capabilities

but wether it is or not older than 18 months.
[Galaxy S III General] iamezio:
It has nothing to do with Ram , there are new Samsung phones with 512MB of ram KitKat out of the box , also the Note 2 is the SAME hardware just with 2GB of RAM and it got OFFICIAL OTA to KitKat few days ago so no reason samsung would have so much problems with the S3 update .
[Galaxy S III General] daedric:
Did not meant to imply that you're stupid :D Regarding games, specially heavy 3D i cannot confirm or deny. Bad regular FPS are usually due to bad GPU drivers. Bad fps DROPS are usually due to a bad governor, or something on the device using too much cpu for brief instants, you should not mix both.

Regarding camera, in a good light, disable flash. Tap to focus, and press and old shoot. Take a not how fast it is. Do the same on AOSP, and i'm sure you'll feel the diference (i'll test the Lenovo cam to confirm or deny, but i suspect it's the cam driver and not the app itself). Regarding quality, do not under any circunstances compare quality on the phone. Copy both pics to a computer with a good ips lcd, and compare. The AMOLEDs are CRAZY.

So, in sum:

* I'm not a gamer, i cannot confirm or deny your observations, but you stating "i hope" meant you haven't test yet.

* Regarding camera, i believe it's not the TouchWiz camera app, or the Google camera app, or the Lenovo for that matter. It's the driver. I'm not even sure if we're using the OS HAL on AOSP or Samsung's proprietary blobs, but the camera behaves differently from TW, no matter the app.

</offtopic>

Regarding the S2 Plus, i9105, that's a weird device, Broadcom chipset. If that device got KK it's because BMC publish drivers, probably.

Either way, the device was releases 02/2013, it's well inside the 18months. i9300 was released on May 2012, it already on 24 months (Sure, KK was released 6 months ago or so, when the i9300 was 18months, that's very borderline)

Just my 2 cents :) I advise all i9300 to relax. XDA exists because OEMs have been screwing with the costumer for ages, back in the WM era. If a KKTW get's released for the i9305 it will probably be very easy to port it and it's kernel to the i9300. Be happy that KK is (probably, hopefully) being released to such a similar device.
[Galaxy S III General] xtcvampire:
SII Plus didn't get 4.4.2

google I9105XXUBML1 and you'll see it's actualy 4.2.2

sammobile misspelled it

I'm also frustrated because of samsung's decision not to give i9300 the KK it deserves.

we, the i9300 owners, deserve a proper KK rom because the last decent version was 4.1.2 (4.2.2 wasn't meant to be and 4.3 is really crappy)

I personally would be very happy with a proper working 4.3 build (lag, battery and bluetooth fixed)
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Camera speed and stability can be fixed,and I already did. Without animation on Lenovo,I can take photos as fast as on TW,just tested. And videos are smooth now,also. Nothing changed compared to TW.

Quality isn't really a problem for,because,as I said,I still see no difference (maybe only low light).

Btw,as you could already understand,I'm already on AOSP and games are running flawlessly! Same governor,same configuration and Real Racing 3 just runs very well,not a single FPS drop in Modern Combat 4 and everything is so smooth! Finally i can be sure it's not hardware.

Now I don't know what happened to official 4.3 builds for me. No matter which ROM and kernel (stock kernels,too),games are lagging BADLY! I just don't know how to fix it and can't decide whether should I stay on AOSP (hellish fast! (with S5 theme. Gotta say,looks much better than on touchwiz)) or change back to stock touchwiz.
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
verizon s3

http://www.androidcentral.com/veriz...canadas-telus?utm_source=ac&utm_medium=dlvrit
[Galaxy S III General] syamsoul:
Its jelly bean right
[Galaxy S III General] xda_Noob.:
That isn't kit kat :)

Translation:

Bu kit kat degil :)
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
ok

Translate

Sammobile direkt 4.4.3 gelecek diyor s3 için doğrumu acaba twite bak bi :)

https://twitter.com/Faryaab/status/464067864786264064
[Galaxy S III General] ayoubij:
I dont know how or why but i dont have any lags while playing the same games on justarchi 4.3 rom. Im using pegasusq governor and not a tweaked one, even i undervolted it 100mv and thats it. Make sure you debloat the rom as much as you can if you dont use the stuff.
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Dunno man. I already tried different ROMs,debloated ones,too. But that's not really the case,as before,when I was pure stock (nothing modified),games were smooth.

I'm surprised how smooth games are now on AOSP,and how sh*tty they were running on touchwiz. AOSP is hellish fast,wakes up much faster,proximity sensor is better,functionality is better,keyboard animation and everything is better,but that camera. I still miss it. I feel better with stock ROM,dunno why,though the only biggest difference for me was (if already NOT IS) the camera. Now games were added to that list.

I'm really tired already and even while having time for testing,I'm lazy to continue,though I really want to continue testing! ._.

Btw,do you have Zram disabled or tweaked?
[Galaxy S III General] xda_Noob.:
English: No they dont say the s3 will get 4.4.3 direcly. They say it maybe get.

Turkish:

S3 4.4.3 e güncelemesi olabilir belki diyolar sade
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3RR06H7rwc

port please note 2 kernel :(
[Galaxy S III General] XeLLaR*:
OK. So finally samsung has spoken a word.

They have OFFICIALLY told a german website that there will be NO KITKAT UPDATE FOR THE SAMSUNG GALAXY S3 (GT-I9300) AND GALAXY S3 MINI!

http://www.androidnext.de/news/sams...-kitkat-offenbar-vorerst-gestrichen-geruecht/

http://www.techstage.de/news/Galaxy-S3-KitKat-Update-wegen-Problemen-gecancelt-2185179.html

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[Galaxy S III General] nicola1989:
the second link say i9300 will have the update
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
"Das Samsung GALAXY SIII (GT-I9300) wird kein Update auf Android 4.4 erhalten. Ebenso wird es kein Update für das S III mini (GT-I8190 bzw. GT-I8190N) geben. Allerdings gibt es ein neues Modell GALAXY S III mini (GT-I8200N), das mit Android 4.4 ausgeliefert wird."

Translate İ9300 kitkat coming ?
[Galaxy S III General] nicola1989:
the second site i open with crome and auto translate in italy and read say i9300 will update
[Galaxy S III General] XeLLaR*:
Scroll down where it says "Update". But anyways. I asked Samsung Mobile Germany about this matter. They say that Samsung Germany didnt confirm anything to anyone...so the articles aswell as the pages are calling bull****! Do not trust anyone!

Link to the facebook thread where i ask Samsung - Its german: http://goo.gl/wnC9RB

L
[Galaxy S III General] nicola1989:
thx for post the pic, but i dont' speak dautch so i don't undertand, so well if the update isn't come i will install cm, and end of the problem
[Galaxy S III General] XeLLaR*:
Here is a translations (as good as i could translate it) :silly:

Edit: The Article has been deleted :P Error 404

http://www.techstage.de/news/Galaxy-S3-KitKat-Update-wegen-Problemen-gecancelt-2185179.html

Gz

X
[Galaxy S III General] aasimkhan30:
I told you all last week

Samsung india has said they will skip 4.4.2 update and will work onvfuture version

And i stand corrected
[Galaxy S III General] nicola1989:
Nice translation!

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[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
You guys have to be patient. Post websites that sometimes give us fake. And untrustable facts. And stop asking in facebook. They will give you the same answer as ever.
[Galaxy S III General] ballsofsteel:
Delete please, apologies to the person I was replying to, I missed the last phrase
[Galaxy S III General] IamIrene:
officially confirmed by samsung, no kit kat for i9300

http://www.sammobile.com/2014/05/08...-galaxy-s-iii-gt-i9300-and-galaxy-s-iii-mini/
[Galaxy S III General] nicola1989:
ok end of the story see oll of u on CM
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
shame samsung shame !
[Galaxy S III General] cloudx720:
Well thats that then :D
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
About bloody time something official came out!

Tapped with Tapatalk on my GT-I9300 running rooted and debloated stock 4.3.
[Galaxy S III General] -Aatif-:
Official Statement of Samsung

"Samsung officially confirms no KitKat for Galaxy S III (GT-I9300) and Galaxy S III mini"

Source: Sammobile.com
[Galaxy S III General] benschhold:
Then we have to wait for 9305 kitkat and port it :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III General] elboo:
bye bye samsung :svetius:
[Galaxy S III General] x92:
Alright finally cleared doubt. so where are those people who said "unused ram is wasted ram", "1gb is enough for upgrade", and defending for samsung when S3 LTE is out? Samsung release both 3g and LTE in my country one after another, loyal fans and early adopter like me have to stuck on buggy 4.3 official firmware and suffer.
[Galaxy S III General] XeLLaR*:
Well samsung you did it once again... i hope there will be a port from the LTE version...lets see.
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
android 4.3 not stable ! fuk of samsung byeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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PLEASE SUPPORT !

http://www.change.org/petitions/sam...east-confirm-you-are-giving-the-update-or-not
[Galaxy S III General] cottino:
sammobile is not samsung, where's the real source? No samsung, no official
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
Samsung Turkey :

There is no official statement !
[Galaxy S III General] tmac31:
well ram isnt an issue for sure there is no way that 4.4 will use more ram than 4.3.,they just cant implent knox and drop update for 9300 probably .and honestly i dont see any big bugs on 4.3 compared to older firmwares its good enough if u debloat it.
[Galaxy S III General] mlatti:
I think that ram is not the problem.

"Also, the newer Samsung devices are running a lighter and newer version of TouchWiz that debuted on the Galaxy S5, which we’re guessing is something Samsung doesn’t want to bring to the Galaxy S III as it would affect sales of its newer devices (and not to mention those low-end devices don’t have all the features that you would find on flagship devices.)

There is the key.
[Galaxy S III General] NexxP963:
Shame on Samsung. They ain't able to implement their useless bloatware into a Android base which needs less Hardware (e. g. 512 MB RAM).

Now Samsung should release the sources for the GT-I9300, that the dev's could improve their AOSP custom roms.

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[Galaxy S III General] sam145:
The real motif is COMERCIAL ! If he update the S3 who will buy S5, Note 3 and others Sam****S.
[Galaxy S III General] techno-np:
Well its the End of the Road for GT-i9300 it was a pleasant journey with my S3...

Well its about time to close up this thread and start a Porting thread when GT-I9305 KK update arrives !!!

Well now I can definitely say my next handset is going to be a LG G3 or M8 or Motp X+1 ...no more Sammy for me , been with them for a long time since my S2 ..its time to explore the other places in the Android world.
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
:( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee925OTFBCA
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
oh boy...
[Galaxy S III General] davidroid03:
I agree. If this is the end of the road for our lovely I9300,I believe to all developers out here who will continue to port 4.4 to our device.

I like this thread though. Maybe we can keep this for updates and jokes . LOL!
[Galaxy S III General] daedric:
How the hell are you running Lenovo Super camera on KK ?
[Galaxy S III General] franatic08:
Samsung just lost me as a customer. I sure hope karma will screw them over.

I know they are in the money making business, but thanking their breakthrough flagship users by giving them a final update to kk would have been the decent thing to do.
[Galaxy S III General] x92:
yeah of course I know ram is not the problem and everybody here knew that. BUT they used ram as a reason for not updating S3 and it did sounds very familiar: http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/23/no-ice-cream-sandwich-for-galaxy-s-and-galaxy-tab-says-samsung/

So those who plan to get samsung as their next phone. do in mind that Note 3 has 3gb of ram and S5 has 2gb of ram. Samsung will do it again.

debloat it? not everyone use custom rom, millions of S3 customers out there get to suffer.
[Galaxy S III General] MartinBM:
No Kitkat - No Samsung

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[Galaxy S III General] ayoubij:
No zram is off but i increase the LMK values 10 points each.
[Galaxy S III General] tmac31:
then just disable alot of useless apps coming pre installed you can lower ram usage to 400-450 mb without root and custom rom.they dont have to suffer, samsung 4.4 wasnt gonna fix that anyway you have to get rid of useless samsung apps for multitasking.. and im pretty sure samsung will drop note 3 update earlier than s5. and i have no idea why people should buy s5 either other phones are much better imo.
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
Kübler-Ross model: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kübler-Ross_model - via http://everywiki.com

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[Galaxy S III General] ayoubij:
Which other phones
[Galaxy S III General] Hansoliv:
Ok, thanks, but no thanks Samsung.

I'm off to buy an S4.
[Galaxy S III General] tmac31:
well i would prefer htc one and z2 over s5. only downside of them are camera but not a big deal for me even though as a htc one m7 user i hate ultrapixel camera but hate touchwiz and plastic more.
[Galaxy S III General] xda_Noob.:
Allright samsung i hope you go down. SHAME ON YOU. The world biggest Smartphone industry isnt able to get kit kat working ? They just wanna kidding us I think... anyway samsung you can be sure that a **** storm will out globaly.. My first and last Samsung flagshiph.. Good bye Samsung forever.

My next Phone will be a Sony xperia z3
[Galaxy S III General] d1rekt0r:
Well , sad news.

also I laugh at those who cry " never Samsung again" , how pathetic :D

I guess we need [MENTION=5145944]GeeckoDev[/MENTION] now more than ever , help us kerp S3 alive :((
[Galaxy S III General] Curst:
This is XDA, i am sure that we will see some sort of ported firmware soon enough. ;)

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[Galaxy S III General] amir_n71:
then the time of the samsung come to end

i will live enough time in samsung's flag

i will wait for NEXUS 6

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[Galaxy S III General] xda_Noob.:
Well think ist time to cloase thread [MENTION=310513]MOD[/MENTION]
[Galaxy S III General] ballsofsteel:
Why close it? Has Samsung announced anything yet? What about news for the i9305 rollout? Has that been firmed yet? No. So this thread stays where it is.
[Galaxy S III General] manzua:
Sprint kitkat firmware on Galaxy s3 International

Its not posible to install and use the Sprint kitkat firmware on Galaxy s3 International?
[Galaxy S III General] myshakugan:
I'm still shocked that sasmung is leaving behind such an awesome phone of theirs, hell, it's their most sold flagship! :/ They just want to force users into buying their latest devices, that's all. I'm really hoping to see some sort of ported rom for s3, this is xda :D

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[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
I still can't get how can be kitkat ported from i9305? Aren't both phones just 100% different under the hood?

I think porting kitkat from Note 2 would give much better results compared to port from i9305.

Btw,shame on samsung. They proved their touchwiz and bloat to be RAM hungry as much as they can. CM works flawlessly,though I won't go much in details,everyone knows that. Though I want to claim one fact about that no matter how full CM is,it still runs well,whereas touchwiz gets really laggy when theres' less than 5gb on storage left.

Oh,well,not really dissapointed,I expected that,already. My next phone can be from samsung,but I doubt it. Just because of skin. I know that sense isn't much better,but it's close to stock android and I think m7 will be my next.
[Galaxy S III General] JustArchi:
It's the same family, it doesn't really matter because i9305 and Note 2 both use smdk4x12.
[Galaxy S III General] tmac31:
9305 is same with note 2 just 1.4ghz instead 1.6. and why do you think sense isnt better sense is great and fast like stock android.
[Galaxy S III General] Soryuu:
I don't know if people missed this on sammobile but...
[Galaxy S III General] WarCow:
Interesting. But I think people have trouble understanding this because the phone ran ICS, 4.1 and 4.3 with TouchWiz bloat. And Kitkat is supposed to be lighter than those (well, at least 4.3) and still it can't run it? It doesn't really add up when you think about it.
[Galaxy S III General] Soryuu:
I guess that's true. Maybe they tried to bloat it even more? :P
[Galaxy S III General] myshakugan:
You're right, it really doesn't. Kitkat is supposed to make devices run faster even on low ram. Touchwiz is to blame, as it requires much more ram and memory. It's just Samsung's policy of leaving s3 out, so that their new devices can be sold. Hmph.
[Galaxy S III General] WarCow:
Yup..they know we can't live without such memorable apps such as S-Memo and S-Suggest. Never underestimate the power of Samsung's bloat!
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
Samsung Mobile Romania ! :)

Bună Dan, vă vom ține la curent cu informații pe msură ce vom avea informații oficiale. Mulțumim și o seară frumoasă să ai!

Cand apare 4.4.2 pentru i9300? When you see 4.4.2 for i9300?

Trans : Hi Dan, we will keep you updated with information on the extent we have official information. Thank you and good evening to you!

https://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobileRomania?ref=ts&fref=ts

Sammobile News Source Please ! Fake Fake Fake News .
[Galaxy S III General] alecore:
sammobile romania are way behind the news ,i asked them too and got the same answer ,2 weeks ago ,even from samsung vietnam from where i got the phone ,had the same answer . They don't know anything.
[Galaxy S III General] eskorpiao112:
Guys how i root my galaxy siii?
[Galaxy S III General] -Aatif-:
In my View Samsung did best for Samsung Galaxy S3 From ICS 4.0 to JB 4.1 and 4.3.. This mean three major update got by Galaxy S3, no other Galaxy S got updates.. Samsung still can update Kk for S3 but there are two major point that Samsung is keep en in their minds

1. Ist is true that S3 was sold in billions but as a manufacture and google policy you can support your phone till 18 months, which S3 had completed.

2. Samsung can use lighter TW Ui which is used in newer Galaxy devices included S5, and Ace style, Core 2; which runs on 512mbs . but if they do so they will face decline in sales.
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
There's a document leak I will never share with you..
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
Then we can celebrate.
[Galaxy S III General] XeLLaR*:
Good.

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[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
n7100 Kitkat rom port finished :D
[Galaxy S III General] bornlivedie:
I'm not the useless Mod Edit – Some content removed here.

Want to root your phone? Google it. Use your brain.

OMG CAN I HAS? THIS IS BEST NEWS SAMSUN NO OFF FUK
[Galaxy S III General] blackcat67:
Rom testing boeffla-kernel-5.2 Samsung kernel rom is working
[Galaxy S III General] -Aatif-:
it could be fake.. or maybe he just rename the file, no one know its true KK rom for S3 or not ..