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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hesam.demon:
can anyone tell me my carrier?

Hi.

I want to download a stock frimware and i dont know my carrier

So i dont know which i should download

See my phone's full info below :

GENERAL INFO

Manufacturer: samsung

Brand: samsung

Phone Model: GT-I9300

Device Type: m0

Product Name: m0xx

Country of Origin: MADE IN VIETNAM

Manufacturing Date: 2013.1.16

Knox Warranty Void: Warranty bit not found

CSC INFO

Original CSC Code: AFR

Firmware's CSC Code: AFR

Active CSC Code: AFR

CSC Country: Kenya

CSC Country ISO: AE

Product Code: GT-I9300MBDAFR

DEVICE ID

IMEI: 355994051263064

Serial Number: 4df7c9697044cf8b

Samsung Serial Number: RF1D15EV7DX / 00000000000

FIRMWARE INFO

Bootloader Version: I9300XXEMG4

Baseband Version: I9300XXEMG4

PDA Version: I9300XXEMG4

CSC Version: I9300OJVGML1

Kernel Version: 3.0.31-1314436 se.infra@SEP-108 #1

OS INFO

Changelist: 1314436

Build Number: JZO54K.I9300XXEMG4 (I9300XXEMG4)

Build Fingerprint: samsung/m0xx/m0:4.1.2/JZO54K/I9300XXEMG4:user/release-keys

Build Description: m0xx-user 4.1.2 JZO54K I9300XXEMG4 release-keys

Build Date: Tue Jul 16 20:32:33 KST 2013

Android Version: 4.1.2
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yusuf_adsas:
Never use CWM anymore, use TWRP

Sent from my handphone, not yours
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sliddjur:
Camera crash - have to reboot device. (snapchat?)

I have been running a few different cm/aosp roms lately on i9300.

All of them seem to end up with the same problem that I have to restart the camera because I get an error message saying "cannot connect to camera...". It seems to be related to snapchat, because I've avoided using it for a few days without problems.

I've Googled and there was a camera fix app for cm11 based roms. But to no success.

At the moment I am running cm12 based rom, which is working perfectly. Other than that I still have the same camera problem.

Never had this problem on my other phone Galaxy s5.

Is there a final fix for this camera problem?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maction:
Phone is super slow and laggy

Hello everyone!

So I have some questions, right now I'm on ArchiDroid 1.7.18 and my phone is getting super laggy, I have some random freezes that last forever, some crashs... You get the idea. Even when I did a clean install I still had those random issues, not as bad as it is now, but still.

So I was thinking that, maybe if I install the stock firmware back into my phone, it'll be better? Though I want your guys opinions, 'cause well... I don't know much about phones. My phone is like 2 and 1/2 year so maybe the hardware is like, not as good? I don't know... Just throwing random ideas.

So anyway, what do you guys think I should do? Install another custom rom that is better than ArchiDroid 1.0? Install the stock firmware? Do some stuff that I don't know about? Buy a new phone?

I'm tired of always waiting around for my phone to wake up, so that's why I'm asking for your opinions.

Well, that's all I have to say.

Thanks in advance for your help guys!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mpadhu:
Hey,

First try to do a factory reset. This will erase all your data (Apps, data, pics, videos) so make a backup of your important stuffs and proceed. If factory reset have not solved your problem then going for other ROM is the next idea. If you have a custom recovery like CWM or TWRP then you can go ahead and install a stock or a custom ROM.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maction:
Hey,

Thank you for answering, so I followed your advice, but I've done a bit more than just a factory reset.

I've completely wiped my phone, installed the latest stock rom available (so that it'll update everything), and then installed a new version of CWM and ArchiDroid again.

For now it seems to be running well, I'll test it all week and if everything runs fine then perfect, if not I'll be back for more questions.

Thanks for your help though, I had kind of lost hope for this phone but your advice made me want to try saving it, so thank you!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yusuf_adsas:
I find CM cameras crappy anyway. Use Open Camera it's awesome and free from Playstore

Sent from my handphone, not yours
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] josephiskandar:
First, flash TWRP or Philz recovery, CWM is not updated anymore and can lead to flashing errors.

Then, be careful that you flash Gapps matching your ROM Android version. For example CM12 is on 5.0.2 and CM12.1 is on 5.1. You can find lots of Gapps packages in this thread: [GAPPS] The Gapps Central - Consolidated Gapps

Finally, flash your ROM in recovery then your Gapps directly after without rebooting in between, this is the best way to go.

---------- Post added at 10:27 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:14 AM ----------

No you can't.

Your phone carrier is the one you're paying your phone plan to, so you probably know it.

Then use another camera app, like google camera or your preferred one from the play store.

That sounds like ram management issues for me.

Try using zram, it increases your ram capacity, you can do it with Boeffla Kernel for example.

Start using Grennify which puts apps you don't want to run in background in hibernation.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snuggy:
Just wanted to say that my problem was fixed a couple of days ago. It was indeed a problem with CWM and I've switched to TWRP since.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ph0pl:
Anyone???
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eisfreak7:
Flash Stock Rom with Linux

Hi!

My problem seems rather trivial: I want to flash from CyanogenMod back to the Stock ROM (to sell my device).

So I downloaded the (hopefully) right ROM from here (although the site seems currently down). I now have a file called "DBT-I9300XXUGNA5-20140325143255.zip" which contains "SS_DL.dll" and "I9300XXUUGNA5_I9300DBTGNB1_I9300XXUGNA8_HOME.tar.md5".

My first try was simply copying the zip to the S3 and try flashing it through CWM 6.0.3.1. But it simly says "Installation aborted" without any meaningful error message.

So I searched the internet for solutions, and everybody brings up odin. Unfortunately I use Linux (I didn't when I first flashed CM on the device, back then I used odin).

I also found heimdall but that seems rather outdated and I'm not sure if I know enough about flashing ROMs not to brick my device with it.

Any suggestions? What's the best way of restoring my device to stock?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevica Smederevac:
Only with Odin but you can try mobile Odin also.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eisfreak7:
I didn't know this existed. Like everything from Chainfire, it worked flawlessly.

Thank you!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pigstew:
Hi guys, I have i9300 on 4.3

I'm trying to root it.

So far i haven't been able to get my win 7 machine or my win 8.1 machine to mount the phone.

Keep getting 'usb device not recognised' code 43

Ive tried:

installing kies

Rebooting pc and phone

Usb debugging enabled and off

Different usb ports and cables

Different windows machines

Tried an s3 toolkit skipsoft

Removed battery, sim and sd card for half an hour

tried towelroot one click root. No luck( event with galaxy mode enabled)

This has come to the point where I'm about to give up. Any good advice is very welcome. Please help. Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevica Smederevac:
Deinstall Keis and drivers and install this drivers

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fhimf3vi737by0n/Samsung-Driver.exe?dl=0

---------- Post added at 10:40 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:38 AM ----------

Usb debbugging must be ON
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hawaiihemd:
On a side note, usb debugging "mode" set in the ROM does not matter when in download mode e.g. when using ODIN.

[MENTION=4915322]pigstew[/MENTION]: If you don't want to uninstall KIES just make sure no KIES process is running in the background!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bejunk:
hi, i made the phone for a friend. its all awesome (using Archis CM12.1)

just 1 thing: he needs FM radio..

anyone knows if its included in previous CM's or other custom roms NOT based on stock?? i dont have time trying so much roms with him.... maybe its included in in officilal CM11???

thanks in advance!!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExTrEmEe:
i think there is no fm. radio app that work on CM, there is SpiritFM radio application, but i don't know will it work on CM based ROMs. Try it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bejunk:
yes spirt works but its network based. he has only slow net... you had official Cm11 installed the "M" relase channel? because i once installed this long time ago for other friend, but dont kno if FM was included. many other freinds which use CM which is same android version as delivered "officially" have FM radio. because its easyier to make work i heard.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExTrEmEe:
no, spirit isn't network based, it work with fm chip, and no, i don't use CM, i use stock ported 4.4.4. I have used CM long ago, but it didn't have fm app. Found that SpiritFM app, and it work well on stock roms, don't know about cm, you should try it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RhckTeam:
SpiritFM is not using your internet connection. It is using your Fm transmitter. For me on Archi CM 12.1 SpiritFm is working very well.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neferpitou:
Help!

Good day, everyone! I would like to ask for help from all of you - I am truly desperate.

I tried to root my phone yesterday, anyway, here are the facts:

Model: Samsung Galaxy S3 (International/i9300)

Software used: Odin3, v 1.85

When I connected my phone, it was detected, and started flashing my phone. It was set to reboot automatically after flashing. The PASS! box appeared at the upper left side of the ODIN software, then the phone reboots. The "Samsung Galaxy SIII i9300" logo shows up, followed by a screen which shows several things, like SD card marker, installing SU, etc.

After both these screens, the boot logo appears again, then is followed by a black screen. In my laptop, the "USB Device detected" sound is heard, and when you detach the phone, the "USB device removed" sound is heard. I can still see the device via Odin. Even the phone software installs. However, there is only a black screen.

I tried recovery mode, CWM screen shows up. I tried Wiping Data, Wiping Cache, Wiping Dalvik Cache, but still, I can't seem to get past the boot logo.

What would be your diagnosis? And what possible solution can you suggest? Thank you, and more power!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neo5468:
Guys, I am running Slimkat 4.4.2 with boeffla kernel, and multitasking is killing me. I can't even have 2 browser tabs open, without refreshing every page. It feels like i have 256 mb of ram, not 1 gb. Should I just go back to the most stable touchwiz stock rom, 4.1.2 ? I heard that memory management is the best in that rom. 4.3 is supposedly a disaster.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fehaan:
[HELP!! ] I am geeting this error during flash (either stock or custom rom)

<ID:0/007> Added!!

<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..

<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

<OSM> Please wait..

<OSM> BOOTLOADER_I9300XXEMG4_1314436_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> CODE_I9300XXEMG4_1314436_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> MODEM_I9300XXEMG4_1314436_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5 is valid.

<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

<OSM> Leave CS..

<ID:0/007> Odin v.3 engine (ID:7)..

<ID:0/007> File analysis..

<ID:0/007> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/007> Initialzation..

<ID:0/007> Set PIT file..

<ID:0/007> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!

<ID:0/007> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/007> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/007> sboot.bin

<ID:0/007> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/007> tz.img

<ID:0/007> param.bin

<ID:0/007> sboot.bin

<ID:0/007> param.bin

<ID:0/007> tz.img

<ID:0/007> boot.img

<ID:0/007> recovery.img

<ID:0/007> system.img

<ID:0/007> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<ID:0/007> Added!!

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

when I purchased, it had:

ROM: i9300xxugmk6

CSC: i9300OJVELL3 (AFR)

BASBAND (AP &CP): i9300xxugmk6

kernel: 3.0.31-2168382 se.infra@Ro301-02#1

Android: 4.3

ABove ODIN failure started appearing after I was flashing HD Revulotion ROM in the CWM recovery. that setup hanged at 30% and boot loop started. Since than I am unable to flash any stock/custom rom on it.

What could be the problem and resolution????

Thanks,
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] albalooshi1:
my samsung s3 i9300 stuck on samsung logo

i have samsung s3 i9300 from 2013 and used it well. after thata month ago i root it via kingo app successfully. and used it for a month downloaded so many apps which requirs root after when once i turned off the phone to change the sim card and than i saw mobile automatically started but stucked on samsung logo i tried every possible thing to make it stable but could not. after rooting i restored it many times it normally shutdown and start nothing wiped please help
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] h1020:
boot animation stuck cm11 s3. help

i hav installed cm11 by cm installer from the officical site,, everything was good until today i uninstalled some of my downloaded apps like facebook , whatsapp etc..

and i restarted my i9300 , but it got stuck at boot loop animation the circle keeps rotating..

please help,, i dont want to loose any files from my internal storage,, please reply asap.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SaggyAfiq:
Get into recovery and try wiping cache and dalvik cache.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v7:
Can I get a rooted stock FW that can be flashed from stock recovery?

Tapped from my furious ZR ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nakuldev:
I accidentally flashed the CF Autoroot of Note 2 (gtn7100) in my Galaxy s3 (gti9300) in an attempt to root my phone.

After booting up, everything is working fine except touch (the volume keys, power key, display, screen rotation, bottom buttons are working fine). Touch screen is not working. I flashed stock rom via odin but none of these saved my device. So I confirmed that its a hardware problem. I don't know much about hardware so im asking this..

I went to the repair shop and they just looked at it and said i have to replace the whole LCD Display + touch. There is nothing wrong with the Display, then why it needs to be replaced? (I couldn't ask them then)

Is my device's touch completely gone? What should i replace? Full touch screen and LCD display?

Or the digitizer?

If you could or if there is, can you give me a link to what is to be replaced?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kushagra98:
Hey I want Help on my galaxy s3

I flashed the company stock firmware again for india... The place where I live because its call feature were not running.. So I tried everything that was available on the net.. Still the same problem.. Wrong imei and "not registered on network on network" problem

I really need an engineer for this problem... Flashing NEW stock roms dont Help... I did not backed up my efs folder before..

Is there anyway to get my phone back?

Is there anyway to get my imei back and my efs folder? I m really sad from last 6 days I cannot use my its really annoying :/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagachief:
I've made a pretty bad mistake. I successfully flashed CyanogenMod, but apparently I failed to recover the baseband/efs before I did so, making the phone unable to use SIM cards, make calls, and send texts. I've been unable to find a working link for a Samsung Galaxy S3 (GT-i9300) 4.3 stock rom to try and grab the baseband from. Does anyone have a working link to either working baseband modem firmware or the stock rom? I'm at my wits end trying to fix it constantly following broken links and missing downloads.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Have you tried sammobile.com? Just download .zip(might take a while) and extract .tar Flash via odin
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagachief:
I couldn't find a US version for my phone, was going to wing it with a UK version, but the download decided to time out (wanting me to wait an hour) every time I try to start it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hawaiihemd:
Check this thread. Good luck.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mpadhu:
Try this http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-i9300
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZulEstaTheseus:
My galaxy s3 running 5.0.2 from temasek with boeffla kernel.

System UI isn't responding sometimes.

Any idea ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExTrEmEe:
Very bad decision, when something like that happen, you MUST first flash stock firmware via ODIN.

Download stock firmware from: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/

Download ODIN: http://samsung-updates.com/Odin307.zip
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flobin:
So why is that? Also, it was running stock firmware. Wouldn't it be redundant to flash stock firmware?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExTrEmEe:
Because flashing stock firmware will flash everything, boot partition, recovery, modem, system, etc.. and will probably fix whatever happened to phone, while CM will just wipe system partition and extract new files to it. So that's why. And also before flashing new ROM with odin, go to stock recovery and do factory reset (sometimes ODIN won't do it) then go to download mode and flash ROM.

Also you can repair phone with KIES.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flobin:
Ah, thanks for the info. I have been trying to work with Odin (on my other laptop), but it won't recognize the phone. I have to install the drivers, but to do so properly I believe the phone needs to be on (right?), so I'm in a bit of a catch-22 situation here. If you, or anyone else has any ideas, I would really appreciate hearing them!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExTrEmEe:
Ahh drivers xD Just install KIES it should install all drivers for phone.

TO flash ROM with ODIN, you need to go to download mode (VolDown + Home + Power), then ODIN should recognize phone.

Here is nice thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1922461
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flobin:
I tried doing that, installing the drivers with Kies, but Odin never recognized the phone. I think you have to have it working to be able to fully install the drivers. :/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExTrEmEe:
No, you don't have to. What happen when you try to enter download mode with pressing Volume Down + Home Button + Power Button? if you can enter it, it will ask you to press Volume Up to Continue, press that then phone will show model number and some more information. Now connect phone with PC, you should hear "USB connected sound" and open ODIN as Administrator (if you are on win 7 or 8). If Odin again can't recognize it, then go to Device Manager and look for device with questions mark (Unknown Device) if there is any, you don't have drivers installed, if there is no "?" then look under universal serial bus, you should see "Samsung...." something xD

And one more thing, keep KIES closed all the time, he can mess with odin. If you again have problems try to install drivers, from link i gave to you in last post.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qibdum:
need to restore galaxy s3 like new

OK guys. I really messed up.

I recently got a new phone and decided to give my gt i9300 to my brother. Problem is I played out around with it way too much before. I removed bloatware like any other guy...but I also removed touchwiz and replaced it with nova launcher.

I wanted to give it to him like brand new so I went to super super and chose the remove root option. It seemed like it worked. Then I booted into recovery mode and using clockwork mod I factory reset the phone.

When I turned it on again I got the message 'setup wizard has stopped working' then I found out that there is no launcher and pressing the home button does nothing. Also when trying to update software I got a message saying that the device system has been modified and updates are disabled. I managed to send him nova launcher using Bluetooth and it works now.

But I don't want this. How do I get touchwiz And any other bloatware back? How do I get rid of clockwork mod back to the default android recovery system? I want just like new. As I'd it's never been touched.

I know that I acted really stupidly and I hope that there is solution.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Just download stock rom from sammobile.com then flash in download mode in Odin. This will restore to factory spec
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ExTrEmEe:
There is search for a reason, do it next time, but here is thread:

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/general/fix-s3-to-factory-unroot-stock-recovery-t2323847
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dumdumno2:
bring back touchwiz

I accidentally removed touchwiz home using NoBloat. Galaxy s3 Gt i9300

Can I bring it back
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v7:
Reflash stock rom.

Tapped from my furious ZR ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iceman440:
can't load /cache/recovery?

My SIII has crashed and when I try to reboot it it get stuck on the loading screen.

It was running cyanogen 11 I can't remember which version exactly.

I went into recovery and I got messages like:

can't load /cache/recovery

Some pages on the web suggest loading a /tar file with clockwork recovery mode in odin on the PDA slot. I tried that but I get

NAND Write Start!!

FAIL!

is there a fix?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v7:
Read http://xdaforums.com/chef-central/android/nand-write-start-fail-odin-soluction-t2851096

Tapped from my furious ZR ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iceman440:
Thanks but are there more detailed instructions on how to proceed?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ibrhmozn:
Charging issue

Hi guys , i'v got couple problems if you help i'll be precheated , first one is Charging issue i plug in and its excepts but its not filling i'm gonna crayzy you know :) , second one is i was using 4.1.2 stock but result of my first issue i get the custom rom but (its still same by the way) anyway camera is not working all of the programs it says : camera not connected but in 4.1.2 it is working well and my rom is perfectly installed and tested by me in other s3 could you guys help me cause i really need some help i'm sick and my computer speaker is not working which is i'm so boring :(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lasitha23:
thnx to the thread.

could u plz help me to find a good rom for SHV E210l model?

is it ok if i flash shv e210s rom on e210l????

thnx
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Justin20020:
hey@all

I flashed an month ago stock rom 4.3 and I got always the notification that my connection is instable. Its already rooted and much custom things are installed. Every1 help?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shivam.k:
[MENTION=4791093]Justin20020[/MENTION] please would you send me a link for s3 4.3 firmware india

But the links other than rapidgator and terafile