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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crazzyy_:
HELP!

Heya there guys, a noob here, my uncle has recently passed down an I9300 SGS3 that was bricked during his holiday. He isn't too tech smart so I have no idea what really happened but apparently after heading to bed and charging his phone in a European country (We're Australian) he woke to see the phone dead, and when he tried to turn it on only a grey battery were to greet him. I took the phone and got a new battery from ebay, and it seems as though the phone is still soft bricked. I am not able to go into recovery mode BUT can get into download/ODIN mode. From here I have encountered errors from "can't open serial(com) port" to "no pit partition" and am extremely stressed, before anyone suggests new cables, turning off kies, trying a different USB port, installing new drivers, another version of ODIN, I have tried them all unfortunately to no avail :( Anyways I am really just looking to get the phone to boot and not necessarily rooting it so an Original Firmware is fine by me :) if anyone could suggest anything at all to me please do! Thanks in Advance, Paul
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinc06:
If you open Odin 3.07 as Administrator and connect the phone (after putting it into "Download mode"), is the device recognized?

If yes, and you have the 16GB version of the international S3 i9300, you could try to follow this guide I made: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=54987323&postcount=5
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeatherinHN:
Any idea what I need to do about this problem?

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/help/help-samsung-i9300-wifi-refuses-to-rom-t2859016

I just posted it up here in a thread, and then saw your Galaxy S3 thread...

maybe someone can help me??
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justindanielfox:
MMS problem

S3 (sch-r530x) on ntelos. Flash spiritrom v1.2 and lost MMS. Everything else is fine ezcept battery drain
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gbmolina:
S3 weird problem

Hi, I recently bought a S3 from eBay, shipped from Hong Kong, all ok, exept if I try to install cyanogenmod (any version) the phone does not recognize the mobile network, it is like if the sim card is been taken out. Same goes for AOKP.

Stock rom and Omega do work, no problem there.

Any ideas, suggestions?

I already posted in cyanogenmod's forum, nobody bothered to reply.

For root I use this method: http://goo.gl/9GOLVJ

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] broken920:
Restore efs folder or flash another modem.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gbmolina:
thanks

Thanks, but.. restore efs folder to what? It was like this when I bought it, besides, I have flashed android 4.3 using Odin (originally the phone came with 4.1), no luck. I did not know modems can be flashed separatedly, are there different modems I can download for the S3? Here, in XDA?

Thank you.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] broken920:
Have you ever made a backup of the efs folder? You can restore with it.

Here you are modem 3D: http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/general/ref-galaxy-s3-ril-modem-cwm-flashable-t2076857
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gbmolina:
Nope, I did not :(

Do you think installing this modem (withput restoring the original efs folder) will help?

by the way, let me just clarify that right now I am using the 4.3 stock rom and it works fine, so maybe the efs folder is not needed?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] broken920:
Sometimes it works ;)

I suggest you to make a backup of efs folder because contains very important infos like IMEI, serial number and others
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crazzyy_:
yes it is recognised, I will follow the guide and give it a try however I have attempted to do a similar recovery and it seemed to fail I will report back in a bit with the results! Thank you for the help :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fewmitz:
Is there an easy place to go to get the framework for an S3 ICS build? I've got a system app that I want to deodex/rebuild/etc and it's from this build (I don't have an S3, just the app). I've pulled a framework from a Jelly Bean phone from someone I know and tried that but no luck. I did some searching here/on Google and it doesn't look like someone keeps copies of these or anything.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psychok9:
I've found because my S3 have weak 3G signal: when I take the smartphone in my hand, i cover the lower/bottom side of the phone... and my signal drop a lot (from 12 asu to 4 asu).

Like Iphone 4.

Have you found the same problem?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amigo24:
Hi guys i am currently on wanamlite 4.1.2 and i would like to change to efeXTREME Lite-ROM 4.3, i just want to know if i do a full wipe and flash through cwm i wont need to do anything with the modem? Im still a little confused with the efs partition stuff and have read about people loosing their IMEI and not getting a signal on their phone after.

Thanks in advanced,

Daniel.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andjeomilosrdja:
First backup efs ,just in case. Then full wipe then flash new rom via Cwm.:thumbup:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amigo24:
Great, thanks a lot for your reply.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tallman43:
The reason why it works on 4.3 is your efs as been upgraded from efs v1 to efsv2;) When you flash 4.3 it changes the way your efs can read your baseband this was implemented by Samsung on 4.3:crying:.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aim2lead:
Restore from backup

Hi friends,

I have created a backup using CWM recovery mode. I decided to install a latest version of Cyanogen Rom for my device. The latest install has wiped off all my data. I was not worried since I had already taken a backup. when I tried to restore from backup, it has wiped off the current version and restored the image completely including ROM. Long story short, is there any way I can chose to only restore data (apps, contacts, pics, call log etc.) without touching the ROM? Let me know.

Thanks,

Sreedhar
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tallman43:
If you use PhilZ recovery you can do just that restore your data without restoring the rom:good: But unsure if will restore from a cwm backup it should do but I have only used it to restore backups made from PhilZ recovery.;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coltlacey1:
Hey guys, I have an i9300 running cm11 nightlies yesterday I went from 20140815 to 20140827 and was all working great til the battery got down to about 20%. Randomly rebooted, and now when I touch the Google search bar the phone reboots, when I hold the power button to pull up power menu it reboots, can't change clock alarm tones (force close) can't use cmupdater (force close) anyone know what the deal is. I obviously should have backed it up first but failed to do so. Starting to look like it needs to be wiped but wanted to ask beforehand. Any help would be great.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kinc06:
Boot into recovery, wipe "cache" and "dalvik cache" and reboot...

If that doesn't solve anything, I'm afraid you have to do a full wipe and re-flash the rom
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coltlacey1:
Thanks for replying. Tried that so it looks like a full wipe is in my near future haha
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] broken920:
Change modem: http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/general/ref-galaxy-s3-modem-radio-collection-t1740061 ;)

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psychok9:
Mine is GT-I9305 model but it's the same: hardware problem (antenna in the lower part of the smartphone). I've tried a lot of modems :(

Can you check it on your smartphone?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] broken920:
Mine is GT-I9300 and it hasn't this problem: signal is stable!

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coltlacey1:
Wipe and installed new gapps and ROM. Works like a dream again. Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr H:
help :(

hi there,

i am currently using samsung official rom 4.3, and there is problem about my wifi..

the problem is a bit weird. where i only able to connect and use my wifi whenever i am near my wifi routers. or else i fail to connect. (when i click connect from far away the wifi signal become zero bar from full bar and then it is full again)

i tried many solution from XDA forum, googling , flashing alot of rom (official & custom) & changing my routers settings and yet the problem still there..

i hope someone could help me because this problem is annoying.. it work just fine before.. one morning when i wake up and then this problem suddenly occurred.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stefanovais:
Battery Issues

I'm having problems with my i9300 battery.

I'm using since months the CM 10.2 stable, that I installed with Philz Touch.

Than recently I started to notice that my battery is draining out easily. I uninstalled the facebook messenger, and some other notification apps, than installed Greenify and Battery Doctor AND bought a new battery.

But it's still ocurring.

Sometimes I loose like 3%-4% in a minute just using wifi an facebook.

If I will run with my runkeeper app with GPS and 3G, my god, it's like 30% less easily.

Than I ask: If I flash another ROM, this could change?

Cya!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Amslow:
Hi guys, I lost my efs folder and now my baseband doesn't read my 3 when I switch to 3 mode only or when it's on dual mode it takes time before the down link works pls help needed urgently
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andjeomilosrdja:
Change rom and see or install BBS so you can see what's eating your battery
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Amslow:
Hi guys, I lost my efs folder and now my baseband doesn't read my 3g when I switch to 3g mode only or when it's on dual mode it takes time before the down link works pls help needed urgently
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stefanovais:
Hey, thnx for your help.

Would you suggest any rom? CM 11 maybe or another one?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeevanreddy58:
Hi friends,

I need help.. I m using international version of S3 and it is not in contract.. Running 4.3 Samsung firmware. Not rooted device.. I m planning to root this device for cm11 ROM.. Can u tell me what all I need.

Downloaded Odin software into my PC.

USB drivers r installed.

I need to have .tar file for root.

And cm11 version.( I will download the snapshot of cm11)

I need Gapps as well.

Can u tell me the path where I can download above softwares.

And also can u explain me the steps to root , ROM install , gapps install.

Thanks in advance,

Jeevan
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coltlacey1:
There is a thread on here for gapps packages. Very handy. I just used it last night. It works for all 4.4.x Roms. Do a little more searching for root and everything else. Should be easy to find.

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andjeomilosrdja:
You can try Aosp Neat. In my opinion one of the best if not the best. Battery life is amazing. Cm is good but i wasn't happy with battery life

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Search for Chainfire's tool for rooting s3 9300. Flash via Odin but you need to turn on usb debugging on your phone. Then search for proper recovery for your phone(Cwm,Twrp or Philz) in md5 format. Flash via Odin. After that,download Rom of your choice( sd card or ext sd card) doesn't matter. First flash rom(this time via recovery) then flash gapps(via recovery also) and that is it:thumbup:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeevanreddy58:
I have a doubt.. what is Chainfire tool? is it another one OR same one as CWM?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andjeomilosrdja:
You don'n know who is Chainfire?:confused:

he is the most famous guy here. You can read about him and his work http://www.chainfire.eu/

And this is how to manual http://www.android.gs/root-galaxy-s3-i9300-using-cf-root-tool/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qhost000:
Battery Charging

Hello im new at forum.I couldnt post reply for my rom Efextremev5 because of 10 post.So im going to ask here.

My phone is S3 its been 1.5 years.When i charging my phone it takes +12 hours like 15 hour for full charge i think something broken do you know any ideas ? Original charger original battery
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andjeomilosrdja:
Instal this and see how much mAh is charging your phone

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abmantis.galaxychargingcurrent.free
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qhost000:
Reference:1198 mA

Maximum:100 mA

Average:100 mA
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moradgog:
please heeeeeeeelp

HI

I have S3, when i power it on it stuck on logo, i'v made all reset kind and flash official rom, And no thing happen.

I read a lot of things, is the device need to repartition and delete internal memory.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andjeomilosrdja:
holly ****:D Of course it takes 15h to charge. you should have a 999mAh or at least 466 if you use stock kernel. Try another charher or usb cable and report back;)

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How did you flash stock rom? with odin? Firmware from Samsung mobile?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qhost000:
okay i tested with my mom charger it says 1000 1000 i think my charger broken ty for help i go for samsung service
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moradgog:
with odin

I flash with odin!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andjeomilosrdja:
Right firmware for your phone? 4.3? odin said success? if that is the case,there should be no problems.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] broken920:
Install BetterBatteryStats and control battery consumption: you can find what process/app drains your battery.

Have you ever made an efs folder backup?

Try a different modem or flash stock ROM...i hope it works!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moradgog:
official stock rom

I use official stock rom from mega site download with odin 3.09 and an error message appear and said wirte error, so no rom is accept
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andjeomilosrdja:
Use the one from Samsung mobile. Why from Mega? You need to register but it's 2min efort. If you cant find,i'll send you a link
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prateekchanda:
S3 LiquidSmooth and Plantronics Voyeger Legend - Incompatible

Since I cannot, at present post on developer forum, I'm posting it here

My Samsung S3 I9300 is running [ROM] [4.4.4] [OFFICIAL] LiquidSmooth v3.2 - I9300 v3.1	2014-07-15 09:58

I'm also using Plantronics Voyeger Lagend with latest firmware

My problem: The headset is having crackling sound on Mobile voice calls only (both 2G and 3G)

The same headset used to work fine with S3 original firmware (4.2) and is also working fine with Xperia Pro at present.

Is it possible to extract and flash only the Bluetooth module of the original S3 Firmware.

Regards

Prateek
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prateekchanda:
Cont....

In continuation to above I've analysed the voice crackling problem going from 0-100% based upon the amount of body mass in between headset and phone.

-Like if I headset is on left ear and I take my phone to right side of my head voice may completely drop. But other materials have less impact.

The above forced me to believe that liquid smooth ROM have some kind of reduced Bluetooth power emission, If the experts here help me locate the file or better still provide me the appropriate module. I'll be great full.

Regards

Prateek
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coltlacey1:
Need a bit of help. Have 4.4.4 cm11 and new gapps package installed. Everything is working awesome now (had to wipe and reset) but as before, I cannot upload videos to Facebook or Instagram and I can't seem to figure out why. Any ideas on this? I am on a fresh install as of last night caches wiped and whatnot as well. This happened here awhile ago to where videos won't fully upload. Progress bar in notification drawer will go all the way to 100% but won't close and if u watch the progress bar on Facebook it never goes over 15% or so. Its quite strange.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moradgog:
I wish

I hope that u send me the link

thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andjeomilosrdja:
You need to register a then you can choose what ever firmware you want.

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilperro:
hs3000 micrphone not working

If I call someone, they can't hear me.

But what I really want is to be able to record any sound in the surrounding. However nothing is picked up.

Tried app Bluetooth Recorder lite and native of of my ROM.

I93000, Clockwordmod 10.3/Android 4.3

Strange thing is in the manual of HS3000 it says that if you press and hold Volume up/down, you turn mic on/off. When it's off the HS3000 is supposed to beep at regular intervals, but it's not. Needless to say I've tried both toggles anyway.

Tried on a HTC One X with said app, it crashes unfortunately. Native recording app nothing. Google Voic Searcing nothing.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeevanreddy58:
Rooted my S3 and installed custom ROM ( CM11 snapshot august ). Luckily I didn't install gapps , they r in CM11 snapshot.

Thanks,

Jeevan
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kurmashka:
i formatted data on my phone in cwm, and i haven't ext sd card, how can i download rom on my phone now,can pc detect phone wothout system? or only flash official stock rom with odin
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] csirkea:
You can put a rom on your ext sd card on a pc/notebook and flash a custom rom from there. There is an option in cwm to flash from ext. Sd card:)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Reyko97:
I am using CyanogenMod 4.4.4 temasev v120.

Out of avaiable 11.3 Gb of internal storage I only have 1.6 Gb free strogae. I have nothing but a couple of pictures and some aplications on it.

Any help ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tallman43:
Look here >> http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/general/info-flashed-4-2-sdcard-data-t2274218 << it explains why and how to solve it.;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kurmashka:
some times camera doesn't work in all apps( camera, instagram, everywhere) only rebooting helps. Paranoid ANdroid 4.4.2 stable
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] disneytoy:
Can't receive picture mail MMS Sprint S3 (SM11)

I'm new to this.

I am running S3 on Sprint network, and latest CM11 Snapshot. I am using EvolveSMS. My problem is if someone sends me what use to be called Picturemail, I don't see it in Evolve. I have heard a notification chime, but nothing in my drawer other than as a voice mail?

When installing GAPPs I used the minimal set.

What app should be receiving a picture mail? Do you think I'm missing a Sprint app or a GAPPs not in the minumal package?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaveX2012:
Can someone please help me out. I've battery charging problem.. When I charged first time it's in 1000 mA after a few minutes it go down to 700 mA and reach 100. I don't know what wrong with my phone. I bought new Samsung charger last week.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cyanogen-Droid:
Missing Settings apk file HELP!

I use a Samsung Galaxy S3 running the latest nightly build of Cyanogenmod 11. Somehow or another, the settings app disappeared. It's not in the app drawer, when I try to access the app using the quick settings panel, nothing happens. And when I try to drag an app from the home screen to the "App Info" tab I get a pop-up notification saying "application is not installed". I've tried updating my phone but it didn't work and all of my back-ups are not working either! I'm thinking it may be the Trebuchet launcher that comes with CM 11 hiding the app shortcut. I've went into the file manager and did some digging and I did find some files related to the app, but what worries me is that I couldn't find the .apk file. Help would be greatly appreciated! :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bel911:
Hey Guys,

I will apologies ahead for the noobish question. Don't know if this issue is common. My phone on stock firmware 4.1.2 never updated became slow. it takes 2-3 seconds just to unlock and all functions just decided to move on a glacial pace. never flashed nor rooted. so i decided to do the rooting and flashing.

Odin 3.09

rooted with CF Auto Root

then went for Philz Touch 6.48.4

in recovery mode. the touch function is fine. so i thought. hhhmmm... problem fixed.

used RevolutionaryS5-V3 for the custom ROM. boot screen seems fast. but wen it loaded. had the same problems. still lagging and slow. on a fresh firmware. nothing installed.

Went looking for answers but couldn't find any. if anyone can help, it would be much appreciated. Thanks Guys...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] broken920:
Have you done a full wipe (wipe data+cache+dalvik cache) before flashing rom?

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bel911:
Yes Sir... did all that before flashing ROM. still having the same issue. wat i noticed is when its on the lock screen. wen i swipe to unlock it... i can see black squares from the top and goes to the bottom. its like rendering the image but very slow.

will post a video to understand my issue better.

tried posting. still need to post more

Thanks again guys
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] broken920:
Try with another kernel like boeffla.

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bel911:
will do that sir.

i also noticed my IMEI is gone. BASEBAND is gone. build number is different from my stock ROM. would that matter? i should have I9300XXEMF6 but i have I9300XXUGNB6.

sorry for being such a noob.

just want to make this S3 work. learn how to do this FLASH thing. get things right. dont want to mess up my other phones
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andjeomilosrdja:
Forget about s5 based rom. All apps were meant for 2gb of ram i much faster processor. They all lag. 4.1.2 was ok but you should've perform factory reset or clear cache from recovery. If you want speed then install Aosp rom.

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Try another usb or charger. Buying Samsung charger means nothing in terms of quality.

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Try clearing cache and Dalvik
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anil84:
problem in s3

My s3 stopped suddenly and not restarting.

Model : GT-I9300

Samsung Official

E: Cant mount

E: failed to mount

adb usb doesnot work "error:closed"

if try sending rom from sammobile it gives error : protocol error

cant use adb push

what to do?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bel911:
hahaha. heres a video of wats happening. to make it clearer for you GURUs. :D

thanks guys. hopes this vid helps make it easier to find out whats going on

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fnjy5km5svu01f5/Super Lag.mp4?dl=0
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeevanreddy58:
Radio app

Hi Friends,

Many of you are rooted ur mobiles, and you might be looking for fm radio app which can "over the air" FM radio app.

Search in Google as "spirit-fm-radio-unlocked-vnov19-android-app-t6862941.html" and download torrent.

I am from India and it is working for me.

Enjoy :highfive:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andjeomilosrdja:
Misunderstud you:D .I know what you mean,like slow motion. I did all i can,root ,uninstalled all the bloatware,greenify but nothing helped. Only custom 4.3 roms do the trick,if you want Samsung look and feel. On 4.1.2 everything was ok but 4.3 was terrible. I can suggest a 4.3 custom rom,if you want;)