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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnthonyMooreDevices:
OMFG

I have finally rooted, moded, and kernel'd My s3(thanks to all who helped) but mail I'm like w....... t....... f....... I have the v3 patch, bloatware, etc and i still have quite a few problems and i kno u guys are probly tired of Me complaining but help is greatly appreciated:

-I still cant download amazon(its not compatible)

-I have a lot of apps and alot that are suppposed to tame them but they do things i dont want

-Sometimes My phone runs smooth like butter, then sometimes it acts like a phone with 100mb of ram

-My battery drains just as fast as without rom

-People are talking awful about Roehsoft Ram Expander

With these in mind, should i have downloaded a 4.4 or up rom and kernel? Should i still get the ram expander or do it manually?( i have a samsung 32gb 90mb/s uhs1 class10 msd card) should i not install all 500+ apps that I WANTED TO install? Should i jus save up and get something l like an Xperia Z3 or 4? But i really dont wanna do that but wut do yall think?:crying:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Isaac_T:
I just read about the SDS problem, and I downloaded an app to see which emmc is inside. It turns out that I have the insane chip: vtu00m fwrev 0xf7.

Could this be the problem that causes modem problems? Because most people that have the SDS problem, use to have the bootloop problem and so.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yusuf_adsas:
Hi

So if I'm not mistaken you are on Revolutionary S5 rom?

That rom is EOLed (end of life) and is based on JustArchi's 4.4.2 rom. As development progresses, there are other roms based on Quraqumus' 4.4.2 port and is much more stable. Also 4.4.4 ported roms by arter97 which you can either use in the stock form or in S5 and note4 style. Therefore my suggestion is to change your choice of rom.

Sent from my handphone, not yours
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] josephiskandar:
Yes, bad chip quality can also lead to problems.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnthonyMooreDevices:
these roms all have something wrong, blekota=no fm radio, arter97 either only does kernels or roms for korean and non 4g s3, couldnt hardly find an official 4.4.2 or Quraqumus rom, etc looks like i might be able to deal with blekota but should i still do RAM Expander? Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TWEAKiMP:
I did that, it didnt help. :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnthonyMooreDevices:
I like the Blekota S5Lite rom but should i go with agni or boeffla, idk which 1 has the best/most features:confused:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExTrEmEe:
You have Spirit 2 radio apk, which work great. Also if you don't want to search everything for yourself, just install stock 4.3, and you'r good, everything else is trial and error. I use Blekota Note 4, and Boeffla kernel, and phone work super smooth and everthing work very good, and don't have RAM problems, so i don't use RAM Expander.

Try both, and you will see which one work better for you.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xDave7:
Hey guys

I can't access to my external storage from my phone (Resurrection remix v5.1.5, KK 4.4.2), but I can from recovery. I found out about this just now because I want to upgrade to LP.

Are there any solutions to this?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExTrEmEe:
Try tools like SDFix, Kitkat ROMs had problem with that.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trey32:
having problem with my S3 4.3 Stock I9300.

a Chrome browser, often suddenly closes.

have already cleaned cache, restarted. a problem pops only after some day using phone, btw RAM cleaning not helps.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xDave7:
thanks for the reply ex, unfortunately I tried like 3-4 different apps and all of them either showed the status 'fixed' or failed to do their job...

Funny thing is that TWRP detects it, but neither the phone nor when plugged to a pc do

EDIT: from TWRP the SD folder is named 'external_sd', if that is of any help
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnnS:
Hello! I've been wondering, if I root a Galaxy S3 I9300, will it be able to receive OTA updates (I guess if it does, it'll lose root, but that'd be fine)? I'm planning on using CF-Auto-Root by Chainfire, which doesn't install a custom recovery, so I'm guessing OTAs will not be an issue but I'd want to be sure.

Thanks in advance!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeTuRr74:
There will be no more update for the S3,the latest official release is 4.3.You can root your phone and you will loose OTA,but when you will not have any update it's crazy ^^

Yes Chainfire is the best
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnnS:
Thank you for your answer! I didn't know that, I did some research and apparently some S3 have received the 4.4 update, but it's not a sure thing and this one might not receive it at all, as you say. Had I known that before, I'd have rooted it many months ago (it's my mother's phone)!

Thanks again. Cheers! :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sobah5050:
Hi guys, I was running on 4.3 jellybean and I updated to official 4.4.2 ROM on my galaxy S3 GT-I9305. After that I am having a lot of issues with the phone and the overall performance and plus fast battery draining. I like 4.3 jelly bean a lot so I tried to figure out any way to downgrade from 4.4 to 4.3... By chance I came across a thread regarding on how to downgrade 4.4 to 4.3

here is the link > http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=2744061

Unfortunately the method was for S4 but I think that it might work the same for the S3 model as well...

So can I use the same method for S3 GT-I9305 to downgrade from 4.4 to 4.3? or by any chance is there a more easy way than that?

If you guys could help then it would be really great and a million of thanks in advance :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamz12345:
Hi people. Ive been out of modding my s3 for a while.

I have a few questions if anyone can answer them?

I had issues before when flashing my current rom (ultimarom v15) where I lost my imie number and had to redo my efs backup blah blah.

Im currently on android 4.1.2 and want to upgrade to latest android .

My current kernel is adam kernel 2.6 .

Now... my main question is..

How would I go about updating? Would I simply need to flash back to stock samsung firmware/kernel and then update to 4.3 (for example) then go ahead and flash a custom 4.3 rom and relevent kernel?

Or can I just flash a newer kernel and rom for android 4.3 or 4.4 etc?

Ive been reading up for a few hours looking around and would love if someone cou clarify this for me or a link maybe to a proper guide/info on upgrading from 4.1.2.

Im worried about messing up my modem and baseband again as I havnt updated my phone for well over 2 years.

Im confused about basebands and modems and this that and the other.

Im happy with my current rom but I want to get with the scene again and update my phone with a half decent newer rom/kernel.

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hi,

Normally you don't need to worry about baseband etc. unless there is a problem with reception or something. Just make sure you have a recovery that is compatible with the rom you want to flash and you're good to go. Always read the first few posts of the thread you are interested in carefully with instructions and you shouldn't run into too many problems. No need to flash stock roms unless you have major issues either. Just backup your efs and current rom to be safe, and follow the steps...:)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamz12345:
Thank for reply.

So if I wanted to flash latest paranoid android, I would just flash tje required kernel and then the rom? And should be good to go?

How would I of got into the mess before where my imie was just 00000000.....

Scared me abit. Also my recovery is the twrp* big icons etc

Edit:

Also I see on some roms that you need to be on the latest firmware or something before flashing.

Im confused lol
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Just go to PA thread and follow the recommended steps. You would only flash the rom as it comes with its own kernel. No idea how you lost the imei but it can happen when you flash roms, thats why its a good idea to back up the efs etc. TWRP is fine, you will need 2.8.x.x I think to flash LP or KK, or you can use the latest cwm or philz, your choice
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamz12345:
My current twrp is 2.3.3.0 ?

So I would need to update that correct? Flashing via odin or something?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Follow the steps from twrp -

http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/114
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamz12345:
My bad forget to edit post.

I updated twrp with app from play store lol

So for future reference, if I want to go about updating my rom I can just downloaded the rom package and just flash over my current rom/baseband after a wipe?

I have my efs backup so I can restore if that messes up, my modem went tits up before so I had no wifi or signal and a generic imie
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sycross:
factory reset without home button

Hello everyone, I havê a question, like the title says im having trouble trying to factory reset my s3 because my home button doest work and i get the cyanogenmod loading screen and it doesnt move from there. Is there any way to reset it without the home button key? Keep in mind that i cant turn it on passed the loading screen so i cant install anything. Thank you in advance.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xDave7:
Can anyone help me out?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] josephiskandar:
You can use ADB.

---------- Post added at 11:31 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:18 AM ----------

You normally don’t need to do a factory reset when updating your rom, but just to wipe cache and dalvik after flashing the rom. It’s always good to read your rom thread though, and follow the developer’s instructions. Example here, read installations and update instructions.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeTuRr74:
Cheers ✌

---------- Post added at 11:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:33 AM ----------

Try another rom,it can be a problem with your sdcard
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] josephiskandar:
Download the latest 4.3 official Samsung firmware on Sammobile and flash it with Odin.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yusuf_adsas:
Just download your official 4.3 JB ROM of choice and flash thru ODIN.

Backup your EFS and modem first to be safe.

Sent from my handphone, not yours
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamz12345:
Can I ask where the modem is stored? So I can back mine up
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] josephiskandar:
I had looked for it but I didn't find out. However you don't need to, you can also:

1. Look at your baseband version in Settings<About Phone

2. Download your current firmware on sammobile or samsung-updates

3. Extract the zip, then extract the md5

4. You'll find inside the modem.bin file

5. If you need to restore it, you can flash it with Odin by fetching the modem.bin file in "CP" (previously "Phone")
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamz12345:
makes sence thanks you..

another quick question before i wrap up.

i had to flash a file before when i messed up a rom install called EFSv2_basebands.zip

i had a choice of MG4 MG2 and MH1

i had to do this becuase my imie went to default 00 generic and i made a post about it and got it sorted by flashing said file.

i currently use ultimarom v15 with speedmod kernel but i do feel i have the wrong modem installed, i get signal to my local tower but it is VERY poor sometimes,

is there a way i can actually tell what modem i need to actually have on my phone by checking something? instead i was told to flash a certain file over to get my wifi and signal working again,

sorry if it doesnt make sence,

i currently run android 4.1.2 ultimarom v15 titan but im in the uk on ORANGE network but im pretty sure my modem is ok (ish) but not the one specific for my phone as the signal can sometimes be VERY poor
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] josephiskandar:
If you look on Sammobile, the latest firmware for Orange in the UK is in from June 2014. Its modem should be optimised for Orange, so you can try it and see if it works better. You have to wait a few days for a modem to get to its optimal performance, so don’t judge directly after flashing.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamz12345:
So considering im still on 4.1.2 im still able to use a 2014 modem?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seb_reunion:
Hi,

My phone is on stock 4.3 sammy rom.

Band Base : I9300XXEMG4

Build Number : JSS15J.I9300XXUGNJ2

I can't flash any 4.4 or 5.x rom without losing my imei / baseband.

I'm able to downgrade to official stock 4.1.2 without losing imei / baseband.

I'm confused as i read that mg4 is EFS V2 format, so i should have lost my imei / baseband downgrading to 4.1.2 and i should be able to flash any 4.4 / 5.X rom without issue...

Any idea on the real EFS format that my phone use ?

Any idea on a procedure that would allow me to taste any 4.4 or 5.X rom ?

Thx
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rugbyfreak:
With updating i have no problems. At downgrading, i always lost my imei. But then, when i flash 4.3 via odin, i got it back.

Hope i can help.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RazorMC:
I faced this issue earlier when I installed stock Samsung 4.3 ROM.

You should back up your efs and then install patched modem. After that you should be able to install custom ROMS without losing IMEI.

You can search the forums for the procedure to backup efs and patched modem.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abbeyboyz54:
My S3 Gt I9300 is not showing screen lock...please help me
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seb_reunion:
Weirdly given the fact that i am on stock 4.3, i can downgrade without issue but i'm not able to install any 4.4 / 5.X. It shoulb be like you, the other way around.

I tried installing the patched MG4 modem just after installing stock 4.1.2 sammy rom (which was functionnal) but it breaks my imei / baseband.

I should have a broken imei after downgrading to 4.1.2 and it should be good again after the patched modem but it is the opposite for me...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RazorMC:
Do you have the proper stock 4.3 ROM for your region/carrier ?

Are you using the right ROM, kernel, modem, for your phone (i9300 vs i9305) ?

Have you tried the patched MK6 modem yet?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seb_reunion:
Yes, i'm using the right stock rom for my region.

yes, i use the right rom for my i9300. I install the 4.1.2 stiock rom with odin and i got an OTA to 4.3. I also tried to install the stock 4.3 direct with odin.

During my test, just after donwgrading to 4.1.2 without any issue (imei / baseband OK), i try both patched MG4 / MK6 modem but applying those modem brak my imei / baseband.

It's like my phone is on stock 4.3 but is still using the EFS V1.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yusuf_adsas:
Backup your EFS and Modem first just in case.

Download EFS v2 from

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2393289

you will be asked to chose a modem/baseband; just chose any and then search for your region's modem from

http://www.android-hilfe.de/root-cu...sung-galaxy-s3/508822-efsv2-modem-thread.html

Sent from my handphone, not yours
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sobah5050:
I am currently running on official 4.4.2 as I mentioned in the post, "I upgraded to 4.4.2"

So bootloader doesn't allow me to install a 4.3 Jellybean official ROM through odin...

Firmware update fails
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seb_reunion:
Thanks for your help.

Should i follow your procedure on my stock 4.3 before installing any custom 4.4 / 5.x rom or i should do this after installing custom rom and getting a broken imei / baseband ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yusuf_adsas:
If your 4.3 rom is working good then backup that EFS and modem and obviously you need to have downloaded all the necessary files; then follow the process after installing 4.4.x / 5.x.x rom

Sent from my handphone, not yours

---------- Post added at 11:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:51 PM ----------

Have you tried this? It should also work for 4.3

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/help-i9305/i9305-4-4-4-to-4-1-1-downgrade-knox-t2960029

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sobah5050:
Thanks a lot that procedure does really work! :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yusuf_adsas:
Sometimes a simple search helps:) and thanks for the feedback.

Glad it has helped you fix it;)

Sent from my handphone, not yours
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myah5000:
Soft Brick and lost

Hullo. I have a bit of a challenge... or maybe it isn't a challenge for you... god I hope not, because I really don't want to buy a new phone. Hope you don't laugh too hard at my tale of ever-worsening woe.

About a year and a half ago, I bought my S3-I9300 through a friend (first mistake). It ran on Android 4.1.1 and I was fine with that.

Things became LESS fine when I realised that my Android refused to update. And even less when I started to run into memory issues. And even less when I realised that it refused to update because what I thought was a brand-new phone had actually been rooted twice before.

Please note: I am NOT a developer. I'm that horrible person who thinks that if you just research enough and follow steps closely, you can do most anything.

So, brilliant-me thought that a hard factory reset would solve my problems, so I went right ahead and did that. (second mistake)

My phone was clean, clear... and my google play apps refused to download. If they downloaded, the download didn't complete. If it completed, the install quietly failed. I cleared cache and data and uninstalled updates a million times with no results. And then the final straw: the phone started getting problems connecting to my PC. This is when BRILLIANT me decided to make my third mistake: to unroot the phone and restore it to stock.

I found this thread yesterday and decided to try it. I installed TriangleAway just fine, but in attempting to run it it said I didn't have root permissions. So being the brilliant person that I am, and ready and willing to make mistake number 4, I simply decided to use ODIN and CF Root to fix that issue. In doing so, in download mode I finally noticed that what I thought was an I-9300 actually carried the product name SGH-T999- even with the sticker behind the battery proudly proclaiming it an I-9300. I don't know if this is why, when I tried to use ODIN, it failed. Again. And again. I switched to CF's autorooter. Still failed.

Current status: my phone is stuck. Every time I put in the battery, it automatically loads a black screen with the following text:

ODIN MODE

PRODUCT NAME: SGH-T999

CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: Yes (6 counts)

CURRENT BINARY: Custom

SYSTEM STATUS: Custom

DUALCOM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE

Unsupport dev_type

Then a nice little yellow caution sign (WAY TOO LATE) and below it:

Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again.

I'm not sure what more you'd need to know, or if you're laughing too hard at my idiocy by now to really take this in, but I'd really like to know if this whole mess is salvageable, or if I should bite the bullet and get a new phone (an ACTUALLY NEW one this time).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExTrEmEe:
Go to

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/

type your phone model(one that is shown on screen when you insert battery) and download latest firmware for your country. Then just flash it with ODIN. Everything should work fine again. Try that and report, we will fix it somehow ;)

I just checked firmwares for you phone, there is only T-Mobile USA, so use latest 4.3 firmware.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myah5000:
I could KISS YOU right now! It's ALIIIIIVE!

Well, alive and running on Android 4.3 and obediently downloading all my apps and telling me that I have an incompatible SIM card, but it's alive!

So. It seems I have a T-Mobile phone, but I use a SIM card for TSTT (Trinidad & Tobago). What do I do to fix this problem? And can I do it without rooting?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExTrEmEe:
Oh i'm glad to hear that :D and for kiss, please don't xD

Just serached a little and found this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2014982

for this to work, you first must flash 4.1.1 firmware, then do this:

then you can flash 4.3 back, everything should work. So try that.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myah5000:
Thank you so mush! My phone is back and it's so good to have it!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExTrEmEe:
Did SIM unlock worked?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ph0pl:
Strange thing with "Not enough disk space"

Hello!

First of all, I'm writing here, because all of the things I found didn't work. So here's the story of me & my I9300:

Few days ago, after coming back late from job, I realised that I lost some of my apps, e.g. GoWeather translation and (sic!) my Swype Keyboard. I got confused, but ok, Google Play->Apps->Install. And then this freakin' popout: "Not enough disk space". I searched bunch of threads and people usually have problems with install ANY apps when it comes to such issue. But I can easily install any application I didn't have before and the majority of the apps I had before. Some of them had "-24" error message, but I figured it out with data/data folder erasing (or moving, as I wasn't able to remove few of them). Anyway few curcial apps for me are unable to install with error "Not enough disk space".

Things I already tried:

clearing Google Play/Google Service data & cache, CWM cache wiping, Dalvik cache wiping, uninstalling updates for Google Play

bunch of cleaning apps, such as: CCleaner, System cleaner ROOT, Clean Master, System Cleaner, SD Maid, manually Root Browser

also tried use Cache Fixer app

installing from *.apk file with the same result

factory reset (I used CM 10 stable version)

clearing all and installing the brand new ROM (Android Revolution HD 53)

Issue remains the same with exactly the same apps, including: Swype, GoWeather Polish Translation, Jakdojade.pl, RealCalc, GPS Test.

I don't have to mention that I'm not running out of space and am able to install many other apps with various size... I'm exhausted and out of trace. Any ideas how to save my phone? Any additional info needed?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snuggy:
Hope you guys don't mind me asking a bit of a trivial question here. I've been considereing trying out one of the Lollipop ROMs hosted here. Unfortunately PA Gapps are no longer available because Kuzzle? retired. So far I don't fancy any of the Gapps packages so I figured I could just download the .APKs from here and simply use a bloatware removal tool/ script type thing after installing the ROM and just flash the Gapps I want afterwards.

Will I run into any problems by using this method? Someone posted a script that removes stuff such as the dialer, contacts and camera which would allow me to install Google's but I'm not sure if that's a good idea, I'm still aspiring to be a n00b at this.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
There is no problem installing apk's separately, but it would be easier to use a package like minimal gapps by [MENTION=5772029]jajb[/MENTION]

http://xdaforums.com/android/software/gapps-google-apps-minimal-edition-t2943330

This is for 5.0.x and 5.1 roms. If you research enough you can modify the bloatware removal script to keep/remove whatever apss you want/don't want. A lot of roms also let you remove system/apps as well

You can then install any additional apps via playstore or other to data/apps