[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Mostafa Wael:
okay i came from ArchiDroid 3.0.0 based on 9/11 CM11 nightly

using arter97 recovery

formatted system, preload, data (w/o internal storage), cache and dalvik

installed the ROM.zip provided from OP

installed gapps from HERE!! to skip the setup screen

installed latest SuperSU-2.16.zip from download.chainfire.eu/SuperSu

wiped cache and dalvik again

rebooted

all worked fine, except the fact that there is no File manager that can handle APKs so i made my own-made ES File Explorer zip and all worked smoothly

WiFi working*

UI is smooth

Google account setup smoothly from settings after enabling the hardware keyboard option

only Mobile data not working (3G icon shows up but not transmitting data)

So here are my thoughts.

Let's start with

--------- the google setup page that FCs: my solution is to install gapps provided from the link above

---------WiFi: well i think it is related to the following file (/data/.cid.info)

Samsung galaxy S3 phones are divided into three vendors named "murata", "semcosh" (that is mine!) and "semco"

some phones don't have this file in some ROMs which i don't have any thoughts about it!!

Anyway, there was 2 ways to fix such problem:

1) a way to change the inside of the /data/.cid.info from what it is to one of the above and try another ones if still fails through terminal command (maybe some other more experienced user help us with that as i don't remember the command typed, obviously not needed for me :D )

2) in the ArchiPort thread there was a flashable WiFi-fix.zip file (i don't know what it is since i don't need it :p but people had their wicked WiFi issue fixed so maybe you need to search for this post..)

--------- UI not smooth, no lockscreen and status bar thing otherwise not booting with other kernels than arter97: well i think it is either related to:

1) previous ROM, most probably, specially the gapps. I came from ArchiDroid 3.0.0 which is based on CM11 nightly dated 9/11 and gapps in the ROM were PA micro gapps with further debloation and it worked smoothly as hell!, so as an initial thought why don't you guys flash latest ArchiDroid 3.0.0 from github (follow instructions in the thread) and then do what i did above?? May be it works , who knows.. :D

2) bootloader of the phone (most probably for people who are not able to boot successfully due to bootloops) Mine is XXELLB (a 4.1.2 bootloader) and i don't know which bootloader is which/what

3) installation of ROM is "block" based, which i have no idea about. maybe [MENTION=2875964]dhiru1602[/MENTION] gives us more information on it, or tells us what is different between the installation of other zips "the normal one" and this "block" installation method. it backs up things and restores things AFAIK so yeah it may be the cause

4) previous gapps method, so you have to replace that file from /system/lib. i don't have any idea. Unfortunately people will have to follow instructions provided earlier in one of dhiru's posts, not to mention that you will have to read/search for it badly :D

So that is just a mind storm about the issues detected. i personally use it as a daily driver, and when i need mobile data badly, i will reboot to one of my other 3 ROMs installed to use mobile data :D :D (gain of the multi-booting :p ), as well for the external sdcard as arter97's kernel has a bug with external storage.

So hope [MENTION=2875964]dhiru1602[/MENTION] sorts it out!

Sorry for long post

hope i helped you :)

Thanks :good: