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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blasterrr:
Polo: above post about downloading and then installing fixes GPS? Does this make sense to you?

Just curious are the download sizes same from within CM downloader and PC download?

Just checked : Both downloads PC and CM for September 28th Nightly shows 215.27 MB
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] polobunny:
No it does not (why would it?), and yes both download the same file, as you found out.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sgloki77:
welp, I tried to clean flash last nightly 10/03 ad wiped out my imei

it says, imei unkown and imei sv 00

check the apns they are all there, tried to restore several nandroids both aposp and tw and have no data, only edge

anyway I can fix this mess? any help will be greatly appreciated, I'm on NE4

2 years and half flashing this device and I ****ed up now :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blasterrr:
Man that is pretty messed up. All I can do is point you to this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1804117
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kmarc33:
Well, I had a confusing day, but currently GPS and Bluetooth are working. Steps I took:

nandroid of working setup, M10, pa-gapps, BMS kernel from 06AUG.

Wipe /system and factory wipe. Clean install of 10/4 and pa-gapps. Installed GPS Test, no sats. Grab logcat.

Wipe /system and factory wipe. Clean install of M10 and pa-gapps. Installed GPS Test, plenty of sats in seconds, all is well. Grab logcat.

Dirty 10/04 on top. Plenty of sats in seconds, all is well. Grab logcat. ummm, HUH?

So I'm currently running with 10/04 dirty over clean M10, pa-gapps, no BMS. Bluetooth and GPS are both great. And I have absolutely no idea why a clean 10/04 doesn't work but a dirty does. I'm going to look through the logcats, see if anything is obvious to me, and then post all 3 logcats over on jira and see if someone can make sense of it. I have not applied any of the "use this gps.conf and locks will be faster" tweaks yet. But, at the moment, I seem to be in good shape. But I'm NOT going to be making any more changes for a bit, important road trip towards the end of the week, I've got a working set up, I'll play more when I get back.

After I get better organized I'll post the jira information in case anyone wants to follow along. But I'm pretty baffled. My best guess is that M10 creates something, a directory, a socket, a pipe, that 10/04 needs but doesn't create. But that's a WAG.

I just got 10 feet accuracy with 11 sats in 9 seconds.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sgloki77:
no worries, many thanks to jedi master DocHoliday77 who helped me get out of imei purgatory, 10/03 nightly is a bad boy [emoji4] back to flashing again
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blasterrr:
Oh I'm glad you are back in business :D

Did you end up using NV generator and rewriting it on stock AOSP ROM?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] paluinfusion:
So which is the latest stable nightly ?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sgloki77:
no, I recovered nv back up files in an old broken down laptop, files were from July 2012, the good doc provided nv reader/writer tool with instructions and that did it.I flashed enewman17's stock Rom to use the stock dialer, feels like coming back from the dead [emoji4]
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blasterrr:
That's good you had a Backup :thumbup:

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As you see last few posts have reported Force Close and GPS issues. I myself am sitting on Aug 18 nightly where pretty much everything works. I'm not updating till someone here reports a nightly with GPS and Bluetooth fixed.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ThreeofNine:
I've had all sorts of problems with the Sept & Oct Nightlies. From losing GPS, no volume control when using speaker phone, slow wifi access point connections, and high battery use. The last update that worked completely for me was the Snapshot M10. I don't remember why I went to the nightlies but I'm going back to the M10 snapshot. Time to factory refresh & start fresh!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sgloki77:
I tried dirty flashing 10/04 over m10, didn't solve the gps issue

staying put on m10 for now
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] paluinfusion:
Where can I get that old nightly
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blasterrr:
What a brave soul you are dude. You just recovered your IMEI and boom onto nightlies again :) Thank you for reporting the October 4th as no GPS.

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Sorry I don't know about any archived links...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] paluinfusion:
I had signal loss (from battery screen) at regular intervals.

To overcome, I wanted to go stock thru odin and then flash back. After odin, It boots up. but no IMEI

tried couple of times. What are my choices to restore phone to normal. I am hoping it is not brick, as phone boots up and can connect to wi-fi. Just no AT&T recognized as status page is all unknown entries (phone number/IMEI/baseband...)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blasterrr:
Try to reflash your modem first otherwise ask sgloki above as he just restored his IMEI.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] paluinfusion:
Yes, I flashed NE4 modem/bootloader thru recovery and now i have signal:good:

But intermittent signal loss at same regular intervals still exist. :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blasterrr:
So all your apns and IMEI are back after reflashing?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] paluinfusion:
Yes, Now back to previous stage. IMEI is back, but the regular interval signal loss still exist.

Any idea, how to fix that. Only thing I did.. 2 days ago.. I was trying different 4.4.[2/4] AOSP based ROMS and then TouchWiz 4.4.2 by enewman SR3.x
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sgloki77:
these latest cm11 nighties may have the potential to corrupt your nv data, that's what happened in my case since I had the correct NE4 firmware(modem/bootloader) PREVIOUS to the bad flash.

I used 2 backup files, the first backup file did restored my imei but still no

data (550 line/imei only), it was the second file which is a backup of the whole nv data the one that worked

I suggest you contact DocHoliday77 via private message, he may be able the help

sorry about your situation
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] paluinfusion:
Sent him PM, For now, I am living with this intermittent signal loss problem, till someone gives me solution. I am on M10
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] polobunny:
/rant

New CM profile manager is... bad.

Take one of the most versatile profile manager and dumb it down to the state of any other app available on the market. Per app group settings was the most innovative and configurable profile management I've seen on a phone.

*thumbs down*
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kmarc33:
Someone else had just created the same ticket in jira, so I tacked on my log cats, just in case it helps. For those who want to follow/subscribe to the jira ticket:

https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/NIGHTLIES-239
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] JJohnson1988:
I posted a thread in the Q&A section about the signal drop at periodic intervals. I escalated the case to our CM device maintainer, so I assume he's either working on it or hasn't got around to it yet.

Temporary semi-fix is to switch to 3G for a while then go back to LTE. Worked for me, at least.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tanker Bob:
Thanks, Kevin. Installing M10 clean and then flashing 10/4 over it worked! I now have gps back. Now if we could only get the profile editing back...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kmarc33:
Sorry, I've never used profiles. I use Tasker so I haven't seen anything in profiles that would help me.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] polobunny:
Amen.

Would have been better if it you had a switch for "beginner mode" and "expert mode", with both the old and the new version of profiles. The new profiles pretty much broke all the customization I had.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kmarc33:
ok, you've all made me curious. I'm about to go on a trip and will have free time sitting in the hotel. I'm going to have to investigate profiles and find out what the attraction is. I wrote a README on when I do a clean flash and in there I specifically mention "disable profiles". I'll check around, see if I can find an FAQ or something. I just never saw an appeal but I might be missing something.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tanker Bob:
I use them to quickly change a number of phone settings for places and circumstances that I regularly encounter. That way, I don't have to cruise multiple settings on a regular basis. Profiles are basically set once and use many, and may also be triggered by predetermined conditions like location, WiFi network connection, BT connection, etc. I like profiles because they are simple and effective. As always, YMMV.

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It turns out that I got more than gps back after the clean install and follow-up. My wifi returned to full speed, some very minor display glitches disappeared, and a few new settings appeared. It's been a very long time since I went back to a factory wipe and was apparently long overdue. Ti Backup eased the transition, but I'm still catching up with my preferred system settings.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] polobunny:
In the past (before the recent revision), I would have considered profiles to be an advanced profiles manager. It's actually one of the reasons I stuck with CM based roms.

The magic lies within app grouping. You can specify app groups such as "email" or let's say "sms/messages" and set different ringtones, vibration, and led overrides.

This means you can set your vibration to off and your ringtone to a different one when you're at work (something less annoying than your favorite club song) for your phone, your led to not flash (because your phone is in your pocket) and much more. Like I said, very versatile, compared to the new implementation of "triggered" profile from wifi/bluetooth/nfc.

I realize it will be good enough for most users, but it seems like a bad move to make the profile manager work exactly like all the other profile managers on the play store.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kmarc33:
I don't know if it's easier or harder but I've been doing similar things with Tasker for quite a while using Tasker profiles. Probably just 2 different approaches to the same thing, essentially.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] polobunny:
AFAIK, no app, even Tasker, can dynamically change the ringtone/notification sound for specific apps. It can change the volume, enable/disable things such as wifi/bluetooth/etc but doesn't offer this versatility.

Random example fo what's achievable using the older built-in profiles but not with other apps:

Profile 1

App group composed of Gmail has notification sound set to BEEP, vibration enabled and LED enabled

App group composed of SMS/Hangouts has notification sound set to BOOP, vibration enabled and LED enabled

Profile 2

App group composed of Gmail has notification sound disabled, vibration enabled and LED disabled

App group composed of SMS/Hangouts has notification sound set to BONG, vibration disabled and LED enabled
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kmarc33:
Great, so you're giving me these ideas that I've never considered before and THEN saying "sorry, that functionality has been removed". Gee, thanks, pal. :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Sugarkryptonite:
Does anyone ever have a problem where you go back to the home screen after being in an app (Messaging, or anything really), and it just doesn't do an animation at all, just goes as if animation transition is set to 0x?

It happens to me quite often...and very annoying that everything isn't the same...just seems to do animations when it feels like it.

Edit: this happens almost every time for me if you go back to home screen after opening an app (and before it has fully opened).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] slicetwo:
Has anyone tried M11 yet? I had to skip M10 due to camera issues. Wondering if they still exist in M11.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] polobunny:
Just tried it, nope, everything good here. Running ART and Nova launcher, if it makes any difference.

M release? You crazy man.

*highway to the danger zone*
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Sugarkryptonite:
Sigh....thanks. Time for a new phone I think. HTC make it big today!!!

Sent from my S3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] polobunny:
Same. Eventually I'll need to retire this one. USB port is failing à la Samsung (S3/S4 high rate of failure woop, no idea about S5)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] slicetwo:
I stopped messing with nightlies a while ago. Rarely is anything huge introduced that I wanna take chances with.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] polobunny:
I know the feeling. I had a time like this. Then I got bored. :p
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] matrixzone:
Anyone tried m11?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] paluinfusion:
I know what you meant. Currently going through same phase.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] polobunny:
Plus you know, eventually you realize M releases are just week old nightlies, so it's not like you're gaining/losing much. It's pretty much like not updating your nightly for a month. :p
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ScOULaris:
I'm running it right now with no problems. GPS is working, data is working... etc.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] polobunny:
bluetooth? :p
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ScOULaris:
I haven't had a chance to try yet. I'll test it out when I get in my car after work.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] polobunny:
And GPS connect to sats if you check with app such as GPS status?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] paluinfusion:
Yes. Flashing is just an addiction (most of the times). Just see a fancy screen shots from different ROM or some minor updates from same ROM, we feel like doing it all over, for almost nothing. Each time wasting around 30-60 minutes (some times even longer) and end up not really gaining anything :)

I would do it again, even though I sam writing/thinking like this now. Because it is ADDICTION :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ScOULaris:
Yep. And I just confirmed that BT is working fine as well.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] singhz905:
I agree. LOL. Sometime I see something different in a rom and I get so impatient that I have try that right now or as soon as I get a chance.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] paluinfusion:
YES. Sometimes, this addiction makes me think, are we using the phone for what it is meant for. OR using just a 'flashing' toy :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] MJPollard:
Yes.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] slicetwo:
I just got tired of flashing and things breaking every so often. I figure the M releases are good enough for me. If nothing crazy new is being introduced, I'm not really missing anything.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tanker Bob:
Flashed M11 clean with gapps and everything seems fine. Bluetooth, gps, and wifi all work as advertized. Happy camper here!

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I just flat ran out of time for daily flashing. Between the download, flashing, and yet another reset to load some of my system stuff, we're talking 30+ minutes out of my morning. That just added up to too much time to do consistently.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blasterrr:
Are you using stock kernel?

Your clean install includes only wipe data /factory reset or did you format the System as well?

What was your previous built?

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kmarc33:
I agree, I am always suspicious about a "factory reset" that wipes everything BUT doesn't wipe /system. That's why I'm careful about doing it. I want to try everything again next week and see if we need to get the ticket re-opened.

Blasterrr: did you wipe every, including /system, and try M11? If so, and it worked, then dirty the latest on top?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blasterrr:
No GPS

Man I have abused my poor phone in last 5 hours or so. I did factory reset data wipe not system format.

Installed M10 then nightlies starting October 5th till 10 wiping clean each time. I also tried wiping and installing just M10 and M11 all done with stock kernel. I can't get a darn sat.... NO GPS :banghead::banghead::banghead:

I restored August 18 Nandroid and boom 2 seconds to a GPS LOCK.

I personally believe it's the latest kernel in September October nightlies.

A humble request to nightly installers here, if you do have a GPS working please mention if you are on a stock kernel or another.

Beware of formatting system/SD card this will wipe everything on the internal storage including nandroids and TB backups.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kmarc33:
Note: I wipe /system but NOT /sdcard. I don't lose backups or TiBu. Perhaps it's because I use TWRP but I've done a full restore from TWRP at least 5 - 6 times in the last month after wiping /system and restored with TiBu even more. I also sync TiBu (encrypted) to google drive, JIC. As far as I know there's no reason to wipe /sdcard or the external card.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] polobunny:
Wiping system with both CWM or TWRP will not wipe TIBU backups. It's not usually needed to wipe /sdcard for a rom installation as you said.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crakerjac:
Updated to M11 and APN settings are blank. I think I need to update my modem (still running baseband DLK3), but it looks like the links were pulled due to a couple hard bricks...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] polobunny:
Latest US modem needs modem + bootloader I believe otherwise it results in a brick.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crakerjac:
What baseband should I be running? Or more specifically, what baseband are you running where the APN settings work? My GPS seems to work... but my phone number is "unknown"
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kmarc33:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2321310

That's where I got my bootloader and modem (in the sig of that post). Note that most of the bricks that I've seen were from making big jumps. I went one at a time and was fine. YMMV.

There were definitely some bricks going to NE4 (I think that's where I am) but I went from mjb. One hop at a time and make sure things are stable, and have a good back out plan (ODIN or whatever).

Be careful and good luck.

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Sorry, my link apparently goes to the end, go to the first post.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tepeee:
I have a Galaxy S3 with bootloader i747ucdlk3. I loved the CM11 but I had no data (internet). Can you let me know when it's working. Thanks for all the hard work. Much appreciated.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] polobunny:
When you update your bootloader and modem.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tepeee:
In what order. 1)wipe factory data. 2)flash bootloader update. 3)flash ROM. 4)flash mode update. Is this correct?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blasterrr:
You don't need to wipe in order to install bootloader or modem. It won't hurt if you do.

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tanker Bob:
I didn't check GPS on M10 before I flashed the 10/4 nightly, but I assume that GPS worked in M10 because the 10/4 nightly didn't have any GPS fixes in it, nor did its predecessors as far as I can tell.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tanker Bob:
You only need the latest modem, not the latest bootloader. I've been running the latest JB modem but the pre-Knox G2 bootloader with no problems on the i747. It seems that M11 requires the JB modem for most folks with the North American GS3.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kmarc33:
Note : not saying right or wrong but what I did was download all of the bootloader and modems that I needed. I went into recovery and flashed the matching bootloader and modem, next up from where I was. Rebooted. Note: didn't change rom or wipe or anything. When things came up and looked good I rebooted again and flashed the next pair. Etc. However I did this over a years time. Some people don't go too high with bootloader because of Knox and not being able to downgrade. However I have a 2 year old phone that is very out of warranty so I didn't worry about annoying Knox or Samsung. But that's just me.

Mjb should be sufficient, there are assorted possible problems with ne4. I went to ne4 but I didn't mind rolling the dice a bit.

But bootloader and modem flashing is unrelated to wiping or rom flashing except for the tiny ? detail that too old of a modem won't play nicely with a current rom.

Someone please correct me if I am confused...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blasterrr:
You are well versed above buddy.

Is there anyone here kind enough to upload a October 4th nightly. It isn't listed on CM site for some reason. I want to try installing it over M10 to test GPS.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tepeee:
My bad. I tried numerous times but was unable to get my data to work. All is good now. Everything working. Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blasterrr:
After numerous data wipes and reinstalls over my August nightly I have gps working now on October 9th nightly.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kmarc33:
Nice! Congrats. I assume Bluetooth is good too? I.e. Nightly-123 survived?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Krazywrath:
Since dirty flashing to M11, I've been unable to use data, and GPS does not work.

After updating my bootloader and modem (to I747MVLUEMK5), data worked again! Still no GPS though.

Then I wiped and reinstalled M11 and found data still working, but still no GPS !! :crying:

Guess we have to try nightlies after this M11 was branched for working GPS (or M10).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tepeee:
I spoke too soon. I forgot I had my WiFi on. Still no data. I have tried 20+ times. No data on my phone. Don't tell me to use the update bootloader and modem. Did that no data.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tepeee:
Is it possible I am using the wrong bootloader and modem? What would happen if I tried another modem with the bootloader I already have?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tanker Bob:
Are you using the JB modem? That seems to fix most folks' data connection issues. Bootloader version doesn't have to match the modem version. Also, make sure that you have selected the appropriate Preferred network type and APN under Mobile network settings and that data is enabled. Sometimes a lot of flashing can result in unexpected setting changes.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sgloki77:
If any poor soul flash the NE4 modem on a mismatched(older) bootloader, is gonna hardbrick the phone

guys don't do this

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check your imei to be sure is not that