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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cooljay5:
Do you know, how to flash original O.S using ODIN? try that.. download firmware from sammobile. search in this forum. lot of tutorials available..:good:

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open settings-> app->whatsapp and clear data and cache-->, disable contact syncing in accounts and settings. reboot phone and try to open whatsapp..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edsfrsnza:
SGS3 Cant go to download mode!

Can you guys help me? My sgs3 that came from a friend cant go to download mode. I want to root it, but I can't! So please, help me.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pagioss:
What??I think that you do something wrong. Turn off the device. Press home button, vol down and power button in the same time until you get into download mode. Press vol up to continue. And done. (My english is bad. I am from Greece)

Sent from my SM-T210
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edsfrsnza:
Believe me, I haven't done a thing! I used an S2 before and it was better when I used a rom at it, so I was gonna try the same for the S3. I found this problem even before I started! It was my friend's phone so I formatted it. That's all! And your English works fine,
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pagioss:
Maybe it's a bug. But if the format solve the problem, you are lucky! ;)

Sent from my SM-T210
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edsfrsnza:
It didn't! That's exactly why I'm here :x
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pagioss:
Ok, I will search for your problem and I reply back.

Sent from my SM-T210

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You tried to press the buttons 30-45seconds?

Sent from my SM-T210

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Try to press home button + vol down + power button and when the phone vibrates release the power button only.

Sent from my SM-T210
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kamran Zafar:
gaming

For gaming which phone is better s3 or huawei G700 plz reply
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] verny94:
Huawei has Mediatek CPU and I think thats not the best for gaming.

Another way SIII is old phone. But I played lot of newest games without bigger problems :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkmayhem:
help please

i am having troubles with removing network protection from my phone. it is a VIPnet phone and i can't even root it. From discussions i have seen around here it seems they somehow blocked it from rooting. I can't even connect to Kies with my phone and odin software returns errors. I have developer mode on, using original cable, odin mode on, removed the sd card, different usb ports and tried multiple versions of odin. i really can't think of anything else to try.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lbanez:
can't seem to flash my phone with roms says /efs isnt there keeps failing in ODIN, nothing is working someone said my EMMC chip is corrupt??

what does XDA think?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcicciox00:
I want to know what is the best rom with the graphics of the galaxy S5
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] verny94:
Best ROM isn´t allowed on XDA ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcicciox00:
I'm sorry, it was not my intention not to comply with the regulation,

I try to rephrase the question in an appropriate way:

You can suggest a stable rom, that you can use for every day, without lag, which has a graphic as the galaxy s5
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikelowik1:
I'm kind of a noob but I want to flash cyanogenmod 11 on my S3

But now i don't know which type of galaxy S3 i have

I have a i9300 s3 it says by model number.

But when I start the phone it always give a t-mobile screen.

Btw the phone is netherlands

So I'm confused which one i have.

Plz help me.

Greetz Mike

Sorry for bad English
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahmadxking:
SGS3 stock camera app

Hi guys

I installed CM 11.2 on my SGS3 (GT-I9300) 2 weeks ago. Everything is OK, I'm enjoying better performance than the stock TW rom and like the features provided by the CM.

But I'm facing a big problem - at least for me -, the camera app. The stock camera app of the SGS3 is very better than CM 11's camera app, I know that I can't get it back because it needs the TW framework, I miss the functionality of it especially manual focus while recording videos.

If someone knows a solution for my problem please help.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Imerer:
Hi

i was have a yahoo news widget on my lockscreen streaming in 4.1.2

but i cant enable this in 4.3 can someone help ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rlimbada:
Phone not switching on at all.

Hi

Recently I installed CM 11 through the CM installer on my S3 (i9300). The only reason I done this was my phone's performance on the stock Three UK ROM was really slow.

Since installing CM 11 the phone has been working very well. However, there are a few small issues which mean I have to reboot every now and then.

This morning when I pressed reboot the screen just went fuzzy and didn't seem to be doing anything so I took the battery out. When I tried to switch it on the phone wouldn't respond. I've tried taking the battery out, plug the charger in etc but it won't switch on at all.

Has the motherboard gone? If so, how much would it cost to replace it?

Also, if I send it to my network for repair and they do need to replace the motherboard, will they be able to tell that the phone was rooted and thus the warranty is void?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zied2000:
a motherboard is very expensive in the netherlands it cost around 200/300 euro's.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alan S.:
need help no booting

So here's th thing, my phone's original battery was already old and wanted to change it, now i received two of new batteries i just bought, the first time everything was alright but now that i used again one of the new batteries suddenly shut down during the loading android screen (by the way i had cyanogenmod 11 working perfectly), i have tried reinstalling cm11 from the recovery mode but nothing, so i decided to reinstall stock rom but surprise! it doesn't recognize the device none of my 3 computers, help me please.... any ideas??

NOTE: i can access recovery and download mode but in download mode there's nothing i can do with odin because it doesn't recognize it.

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshua3001:
Hi guys, I just recently got an S3, so get in to Custom with root, CWM, bla bla bla....and I want to now if it is any port of note 2 camera for Custom Roms (I just want slow no feature, that's all)....I saw that there are a lot note 2 ports but just for Samsung official releases....and also i want yo now what's the difference between Odexed and Deodexed Roms.

Thanks! #stayparanoid
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anthony001:
ok I went to cwm mode(power+vol up+ Home) and wiped the

Factory Reset/Wipe Data

Wipe Cache Partition

and finally wiped dalvik cache

now my phone reboots to stock but SuperSU and CWM app still there. Does that mean that my phone is still rooted? I also got Siyah kernel. Im using 4.1.2 firmware
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] verny94:
You must flash stock ROM via Odin if you want to kill root with CWM ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Allen.:
Have you tried Google Camera app?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psychok9:
Hi! What's the best procedure for wipe permanently ALL data on internal memory and ALL partitions?

I ask this because, I would sell the phone in the future, I want the data is not recoverable any more.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trestro:
Hello, i got new Samsung galaxy S3, from store. Now i'm thinking of rooting it, should i do it? After rooting my warranty will expire, so i'm not real sure if i should do it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] verny94:
Android 4.3 still doesn´t have Knox. So you can reflash Binary counter ;)

It means you can root without worries :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davitomi:
Still no answer to this? Is there actually ANY way to remove the simlock of an updated I9300? I have looked for it in this forum and using google too, but have found nothing.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ritz5311:
proximity sensor issue

i am facing problems regarding my proximity sensor, at first i was advised to format my cell.. i did that it started working fine but only for a day... now again the same issue prevails.... please help if i can do anything to correct it without going to the customer care.....

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i am facing problems regarding my proximity sensor, at first i was advised to format my cell.. i did that it started working fine but only for a day... now again the same issue prevails.... please help if i can do anything to correct it without going to the customer care..... please help me.......
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Umrazahmed:
Hey guys! I just installed paranoid android 4.4.4 with googlymax kernel but even after I tweak the charge current to 1500 it's just stuck at 1000 (I have check ignore unstable powrr and safety margin)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waseemwsm:
S3 GTI9300 High Ram usage after rooted

Hi,

Someone please help to fix this issue, Recently i rooted my GTI9300 with efeXTREME Lite-ROM v3.1 Downloaded form here I'm fine this custom ROM but i see a very high usage of RAM [See the screenshot attached] this screenshot was taken when phone was in Power save mode and also no apps running too, just like in a rest mode. Please help to fix this.

Thanks in Advance.

Waseem
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahmadxking:
Yes I did, it's almost the same as CM 11's camera in functionality.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a2mn2002:
help please

hi guys posting with the hope of help from your side !!!

am so much worried..

I got the new SGH-i747M from Kodoo Canda [Gift] [Dual core version]. with 4.3 out of the box.

I have get it unlocked by a local shop. Now i am facing Network issues my phone keep on searching the network Although i have set "gsm only".

USB is also not working in My lappy. it detects it but doesn't show the internal strorage / SD card.

Kies is not detecting It.

OTA said your phone has been moddified ....:rolleyes:

Can your people know something about it....
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] R1V3R0:
Check if your sim unlock is correctly done

You can check this wikihow guide to how you can check if your phone is correctly unlocked http://www.wikihow.com/Check-if-Your-iPhone-Is-Unlocked if say yes, I think you can for example install a firmware for the unlocked model of your phone.

And abaout the usb problems I had some like that in my computer with my SIII, first try it on another computer, and don't forget to install Samsung USB Drivers ---> http://developer.samsung.com/androi...ttQLwTHTGZp5H8hsh2HnMthzzpy62GyJRC!1841075136

Select another way to connect like Kies or MTP, and check if MTP bundle is updated on your computer, try to activate usb debugging in settings developer settings while your phone it is connected, that works for me sometimes.

Good luck!!! :):):)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drananda:
Hi there,

I need a little help. I'm using S3 for a while, and yesterday an error occurred so my colors inverted, just like negative film strip. I made a backup of my important data and left it on internal memory card and I did factory reset. Problem was solved, but factory reset erased all my data from internal memory. I've done factory reset on my previous phones (S+ and S2), and it never wiped data from internal card.

So, can anyone help me how to retrieve lost data from phone? My phone is not rooted. I've tried with various programs to recover lost data (like Recuva or Wondershare Data Recovery), but since S3 doesn't allow USB mass storage, internal memory card can't be detected (even when I turn on USB debugging).

Then I found Dr. Fone for Android, but trial version doesn't support recovery mode. So, can anyone give me name of some other program or at least activation code/keygen/serial for Dr. Fone :D

A big THX to anyone
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dailey247:
Only get mobile service at home

Hi, I've been scouring the forums as much as I can all week, and found people with similar problems, but different in one detail, so I thought I'd better check if anyone knows what's going on...

I cracked the screen on my AT&T GS3, so I bought a refurb AT&T GS3, switched my SIM card to the new one, and everything worked fine. I'd never rooted my phone before, but I figured this was a good opportunity to learn, so I rooted and then flashed CM11 onto my new phone. Again, everything went smoothly (thanks to the very helpful guides on this forum), and my phone was working perfectly now running CM11.

The next day, I went to work (about 30 miles away) and after a brief period of weak signal, it gave me the no signal "emergency calls only" message. My previous phone had always gotten plenty of signal at work, so I don't think it's just a bad reception pocket. At the end of the day, I drove home and all during the drive the phone still was showing no signal. The second I stepped through my front door, it connected to the network and I started getting all the texts people had been sending me all day. The next day I switched my SIM back to my old phone and took it to work, and it remained connected to the AT&T network the whole time.

Some things I've already checked: The new phone still has it's IMEI. The SIM card is not damaged in any way. I can connect to wifi networks at all times.

So, in short, my question is this: Does anybody know a reason why a freshly rooted and flashed phone can only connect to the AT&T mobile network in one location, and not any others?

Thanks for any help.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rms923:
OTA update after unroot

Glad there is a forum for users with sub-10 posts.

I used this thread to bring my AT&T Galaxy S3 that was running Cyanogenmod 11 Snapshot M8 with TWRP 2.7.0.0 to bring it to stock and it worked perfectly. The problem I am now encountering is that the AT&T OTA update fails when installing. Since I can't ask in the proper forum yet, I wanted to start here and see if anyone else can help.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barty_:
Samsung Galaxy S3 Microphone sensitivity with Headset

Hey folks and good evening,

Finally,after long time participating without registration,I kindly want to ask you for an advice,thanks in advance very much for all your effort and time for all dev. and support!

I bought a new Headset, a Teufel Move, fine hardware btw, but I may not use the accessoire for any phone calls. During a call with the headset, the opposite people calling me hear themselves twice/double, like an echo, as they speak. I read about solutions, e.g.

- about fixing the noise reduction with hardware modifications (which I would definitely like to avoid). Also,

- I want to avoid chaning system setting in system/etc/sound/m0, as I am not that familiar with the detailed values and further dependencies.I also

- searched for settings to change the microphone volume, which I did not found directly (except of the file mentioned above), and also for

- muting the microphone of the Galaxy S3 while making a call with a headset, which I did not find either.

Perhaps somebody in here has an idea to fix this issue? I would appreciate that very much, at the moment I am unplugging my headset at every call, not what was intended ;) Last chance to flash the Custom ROM once again? All other services do run very well and reliable.

My phone data

Model - Samung GT-I9300 Galaxy S3

ROM name - CyanogenMod 11.0 Installer XNPQ08Q

ROM version and base - cm_i9300 4.4.2

kernel version and its settings - 3.0.64
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blacklus:
Galaxy S3 no IMEI very hot temperatures

Hello! First of all, thank you very much for the great work you guys do.

My phone (German GS3 i9300) got water damaged, after drying it out everything worked except for the phone app (lost IMEI number) I tried to recover the IMEI but ended up scewing up somewhere in the process, I bricked the phone. I brought it into a store, they were able to unbrick it, but they couldn't get the IMEI to work again. I already have a functional calling phone, but wish to use this one as a "media" and social life device (Whatsapp, facebook, music, youtube...). Here is the problem: something right under the microSD card slot keeps working, and generating a lot of heat. The battery drains crazy fast, too. I think that it has to do with the phone constantly looking for a cell tower to conect to. The solutions that I found (apps and airplane mode) didn't work, and I feel like the phone will brick again if I try to root it. I've looked a lot, and haven't found a solution. Does anyone know how to disable the cell radio? Is it posible to "phisically remove it from the phone" or something?

Thanks for your time
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azatoth73ad:
Frustrating "Not Rergistered on Network" Issue

Hi Guy, I've had a little bit of experience rooting and installing custom ROMs on various of my phones including HTC Desire, Xiaomi Note and Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300 (China Unicom Version).

A friend of mine asked me to help him update his I9300 (Int'l Version) that he purchased in Hong Kong from 4.0.3 to 4.3. I donloaded the ROM I9300ZSUBNB1_I9300OZSBNB1_TGY from Sammobile.com and used ODIN to flash it. First time flashing, wasn't really smooth sailing as there were some error logs but somehow the version number went from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4. I then used ODIN to flash the same ROM again and this time it succeeded, with the version number showing 4.3. Now comes the problem. I found that I'm now unable to register on the local China Mobile network. Checking on various Andriod forums, some people have encountered a certain level of success by downgrading. So I tried to flash I9300_4.1.2_TGY-ZSEMA1-20130129 using ODIN but the same problem persisted. I then tried MIUI_I9300_4.7.25_3ae5ab3db2_4.1 and CM Installer with CM11. Nothing seems to work. I currently have the official Samsung 4.3 update installed.

I've read that I'm basically f@#$# if I didn't do an EFS backup, but that's exactly what I didn't do! :crying:

Below is my I9300 information:

Model No: GT-I9300

Android Version: 4.3

Baseband Version: I9300XXUGNA8

Kernel Version: 3.0.31-2413962se.infra@R0301-01 #1

Build No: JSS15J.I9300ZSUBNB1

Mobile Network Type: EDGE

Service State: Out of Service

Mobile Network State: Disconnected

IMEI: ********5432

IMEI SV: 01

Appreciate any help I can get to get this phone back to working order.

Thanks in advance!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shorty5631:
I have the i9300 and i have the latest monthly for cm11 installed but whenever i install the kernel an error appears on my screen saying "app has stopped working" and keeps reappearing until I restore my backup. What am I doing wrong did I download the wrong version can someone give me some tips or a quick guide on how they did it if someone's done it?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hoomko:
Good job

Thanks alot:good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tomxass:
If you download wrong version, your device will be soft-bricked and wont boot. :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a7medabdou:
hi guys

i'm facing a serious problem right now and i need your help

My USB in for my galaxy s3 is now corrupted and can't be placed or repaired

So i will never be able to connect it to my PC if there is an emergency matter

(i'm charging it now wirelessly

So i wanted to make sure that i will never lose the recovery (in my case clockwork recovery)

For any reason!

So what should I do to make sure that my recovery still there and my root too?!

As now every time I exit clockwork recovery it asks to fix root

And I'm afraid that corrupt the recovery

And if that happened with a system failure my phone will be gone

As I can't re-flash or restore any backup from the default recovery from samsung

Thanks guys, hope someone can help me sooner

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He unfortunately this problem happened to me a while ago

Because my battery was damaged and I needed to buy a new one

But it was out of all the stores

So some day my battery suddenly stopped and when I turned on my phone an error message appeared

Your efs file is corrupted

So I tried every possible solution online and there wasn't anyone that can help me

As I didn't take an efs backup

So you have to take your phone to someone have a box called z3x to repair your phone

Or you have to get it to samsung customer care to make it work again

In both cases you gonna pay :(

sorry for you bro hope i could help you
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nolicon:
plz restore MTP Attention Message !

dear XDA

I'm Using Galaxy S3 (SHW-M440S, I9300's KOREAN MODEL)

when connect NOT MTP device

got MTP Attention message

View attachment 2874628

this message

Unfortunately, I accidentally clicked "Do not show again"

how can i show this attention message again?

my device is rooted..

plz help me

no reset... edit file..

sorry poor english
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crfahecr:
"Not registered on network" after updating problem, fixed.

Let's start. My name is Cristhian, I'm from Ecuador, sorry for my english (English is not my native language), I'll try to explain all of these steps I did to help you all that have this problem :good:

This happened when I changed my old iPhone 4 for a Galaxy S3 (i9300). It was on the 4.1.2 version, I updated it to 4.3.

My phone was showing this message "emergency calls only", it was really rare cause it was working well at 4.1.2. My IMEI was okay, but I still wasn't getting any signal. So I started reading a lot of post's from differents forums and nothing. Tryed some of them but still. So then. I did it.

Here's are the steps that you have to to:

- First of all: Install a different recovery. In this case, I used Philz Touch.

- Then you have to download the two files I uploaded and move them to your SD card.

- Turn off your phone and enter to recovery mode.

- Go to Install zip/Choose zip from /SD card and select the Kernel file and install it.

- To the same thing with the modem file.

- When you're done, go to reboot system.

This worked for me. Any questions, I'm here. Enjoy :good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UnNaMeD__:
How to install apps with huge .obb or data files on SD card?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LuciIT:
Copy the folder with obb file in Android/obb in internal memory, then install apk, then enjoy your game :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UnNaMeD__:
I want to copy to External SD card dude not internal. Also some huge data games like RR3. Asphalt 8 into SD card. I am not rooted with stock 4.3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LuciIT:
Use an app like foldermount for this
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toledofox:
Hello All,

I have a rooted s3 which my grand daughter got a hold of :eek: and now I'm getting message system UI has stopped. when phone comes on it's just a blank black screen for my home page. I think she somehow got into the android tuner and changed something. PLEASE Help.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lukijs:
Go to cmw or whatever you use and wipe cache, dalvik cache and reflash rom, maybe it will reset settings you changed if they're at fault, if that doesnt work, clean install rom again