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[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] alsat1:
Iam trying to change some things in audio settings like SPH and sph2 in engineering mode,and I always press set and its saying succesfull ,after that I restart phone,but that settings didnt save and its nothing changed.Iam using latest unnoficial LL from snapdragontpt.

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[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] Valentino001:
The truth of the matter is that the s3 came with so many bugs and they've been trying to fix them all since then. In fact mine refuse to grant root access after activating superuser, so it took me a very long process to get it rooted because kingroot refused to root it. Since I bought it, I av been making calls with my earphone since I won't hear clearly what the caller is saying if I don't use it. Currently the rom I'm using is showing an ota update but whenever I download and flash it, it always cause bootloop. Some are lucky, theirs doesn't av these bugs. But that does not mean I won't pick the s3 over p7000 anyday.

Pls who has link to any latest kitkat rom with lesser bugs. The one I'm using is S3W20150205-141543, I got it from the jiayu.es app. My phone is s3 basic.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] zed-78:
[MENTION=6528215]Valentino001[/MENTION]

Search for needrom.com.

Sent from my Nokia 3210
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] sutty86:
phone died again on me last night, its been on charger since midnight , its 42 percent at the minute 9 hours later...

charging whilst turned off also!

whats going on

on Beta 3
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] Valentino001:
I downloaded from there but when I tried flashing it refuse to load MT6752_scatter.txt
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] 1testi:
Happend for me once, that the phone stopped charging after 75 minutes. I noticed it, because the charger was cold. After reconnecting the charger to the socket no further break and 100%. I'm on KK. Maybe the charger switched off accidentally with overheat control? It never happend again. Charging time is unter 3h for 92% (green LED) and under 4h full, which is great for 3000mA.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] zed-78:
Witch flashtool did you use? I used v5.1516.00

Be careful, if s3 or s3s rom.

Sent from my Nokia 3210
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] Valentino001:
I use version v5.1452.00. I always download s3 roms
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] patcruz:
Hello,

I'm tired of waiting for 5.1 and I'm still stuck on S3SW-2015-02-13. I think I will try the latest KK Rom available. I checked needrom and saw the latest version is S3SN-2015-06-12, with the new UI. Is this a good version?

I never flashed a ROM on a Mediatek device. I think there's a problem with EMEI when making a total flash. How can I backup my EMEI? (if really needed).

On this link http://www.needrom.com/download/s3s-nfc3gb-ram-2015-02-13/ theres a ROM2 S3SN-2015-06-12 with two options: flash tools and OTA. Is it better/easy to install OTA over S3SW-2015-02-13? To install the OTA do I have to go to copy the file to my device and go settings ->about phone -> wireless update -> local updates?

Thank you.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] kommando:
Yes the OTA is easier, download the file and extract the update file and if not on the phone move to SD card, then go settings ->about phone -> wireless update -> local updates. If you have Google apps they will dissappear or crash so pre download GAPPS and have jiayu.es app installed as a way to have access if the file goes missing and reinstall TWRP recovery.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] patcruz:
Thank you! I will do it this way... :D

No problems with lost IMEI?

EDIT

It's giving me an error during the update... :(

It says: "System property does not match, Update.zip is not correct. Installation aborted."
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] kommando:
Are you on Lolipop, this will have to be using flashtools as the partitions are different.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] patcruz:
Nops... As I said, I'm on KK Rom version S3SW-2015-02-13 and I was trying to upgrade to S3SN-2015-06-12 using the OTA version posted on needrom (file with name ROM2: S3SN-20150612-181316 - OTA ).
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] kommando:
Have you extracted the update file called update.zip from the one you downloaded, there is a PDF in chinese there too which you can ignore. The file is in a folder within the downloaded zip file so its downloaded zip/folder/update.zip.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] patcruz:
Yes, I did. I extracted the downloaded file and only copied the update.zip to sdcard.

Then in local update I selected the update.zip from the sdcard and the phone restarted in recovery. After a few seconds that error poped up! :(
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] kommando:
Try rom S3S 20150507-083407 which is the latest one I know for for the S3S ie 3GB ram and NFC, runs very well for me but you have to reinstall GAPPS.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] :
For everything 'not working' it seems always at least someone mentiones to have it 'working'.

I don't I, and I think nobody does, know what to conclude...

- Are some phones others than others?

- Do the particular firmwares matter (I guess so)?

- Do some (combinations of) settings matter (I guess so)?

Also note that the XDA forums partially exist to help people having issues,

so: the complaints are kind of 'natural' content.

Someone who has 'everything working' will perhaps not even know or care if XDA forums exist.

---------- Post added at 16:25 ---------- Previous post was at 16:18 ----------

I am also curious what jiayu.es and jiayu.de have to say. No offense, just curious for some semi-official answer indeed.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] alsat1:
Is that true the TF developers using in their own roms,their own own kernels,modems etc?I heard their roms have no problems with call quality.

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[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] kenturky:
Hi all, I have been using LL Beta 3 from superdragonpt, and there are battery problems, which I have noticed, others are also facing. This is something to do with android 5.1. Its buggy, or the kernel isn't optimized to support 3000mAh.

When I charge a battery using the external charger(jiayu s3 battery dock), on KitKat, the battery is 100%. But on Lollipop, the battery shows 94%. And after using it, when the battery percentage drops to 20%, it will suddenly fall to 1%, and switch off. This was with another stock 5.1 ROM. So because of that, I switched to TF's AOSP kk ROM, and I am quite satisfied with it. Here's my screenshots from Team Force's AOSP ROM.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] sutty86:
still having the battery problem,

got my trust charger in atm its on 53 percent and saying it ill take four hours to charge (lollipop)

battery monitor is MA FLOW at +367ma (12% an hour)
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] alsat1:
How about call quality on that ROM?

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[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] kenturky:
The call was quite good. I could hear the other person clearly. I actually changed mic in normal mode of all values to 255. It works. The other person can hear me clearly too. No issues there...
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] Daniel2255:
Conclusion About Jiayu S3

I will make all things clear, I think camera optics and algorithms are bad, also I think they put cheap microphone in phones, same with speakers, also I think that in phone manufacturing is too much hand work, that make possible that 2 phones won't be identical, this is not the case of meizu or xiaomi production where all is automatized, I think part of Jiayu phones are ok and other part need to be classified as "Defective Unit" , it is even possible that those "students" who make phone not being enough careful with phone parts and put them close to magnets or dust or other things that can damage your buyer experience. People search for info about phone, so in forums should be all possible opinios, most important, bad ones.

I know someone with exact same problem who say that he don't have same call quality problem, only echo what he fixed through patch, other buddy said that he have same problem and want to sale it asap. I think that Elephone is better, because of call quality, better have performance issue than CALL QUALITY issue, it is a PHONE FIRST OF ALL !!!

I put this phone on sell and I think to buy one of those 2 phones: Meizu M1 Note and Meizu M2 Note (Presale), 50$ difference, my big problem is that M1 have no memory card and only 16 gb(I think you can use 10GB), but it have better specs and slightly better display. I play games, store music, photos, I don't know if it is enough?
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] genesisalgor:
I read until you say Elephone... C'mon while I agree you should have got a defective unit and this can happen even with the bigger ones. But fine, experiment buying a Elephone device, buy a Elephone P7000 and after that tell us about the great quality of it ;)
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] sirdickens:
Call quality was nice, and was a bit louder than stock. No echoes, but I got poor signal reception and signal losses, and proximity wasn't working so good so I stopped using it. However, that was on Version 4, don't know if they updated it.

Also, notification LED was only red!

If you are using basic version of S3 I recommend you use official chinese ROM and just flash gapps through TWRP or CWM and you are good.

This ROM is really stable and nice, no problems whatsoever. Call quality is really nice it would be nice if it was a bit more louder on front speaker but overall I recommend it amongst all ROMs for S3 basic version at this moment (thrust me I tried all of them and wemt back to official).

So best ROM if you ask me is S3 20150430-131240.

I hope it helps! Cheers!

Still paitently waiting for final LL 5.1 :))))
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] Tolden:
I had a XiaoMi, too much memory leaks and MIUI stuff for me, so I bought this S3 and I don't regret nothing.

P7000 looks great but this one is amazing, I am using stock KK, root&personal apps (open camera, for example) and I need no more for now.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] lolemenos:
Mine works without a single problem too..
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] adilrenzu:
Most of things which people complain are due to the fact that they are using very outdated rom version. Someone yesterday was complaining about sound issues and when asked whichversion rom he said 20150215, really how many updates has jiayu done since then. I bet most of the problems would disappaer if people upgrade to latest version of rom.

P.S : people are having too much expectations from a 200$ phone.

I have been using this phone for nearly 5 months now, and i must say that this phone is worth more than 200$, the phone is solid.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] patcruz:
Where can i download that version? Can you give the link?

Is it OTA install available?
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] alsat1:
I also agree.s3 is solid,especially build quality is nice.I was only complain about call quality nothing else.Currently Iam on latest superdragonpt LL and its really stable,good battery performance and fast.Was problem with sound but fixed with audiopatch v4.

I think I will try latest KK for s3s anyway for test.

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[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] Nutsonfire:
Yeah with latest kk normal UI no problems for me. Only sound is not so good or loud even with patch in my opinion...
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] kommando:
http://www.needrom.com/download/jiayu-s3/

ROM Phone JIAYU S3 – ROM Android 4.4.4

ONLY MT6752

Update ROM 1 - S3S 20150507-083407- mt6752_h560_s3s_jyt_cc_128-24_kk_lte_5m-cs_tphone – KTU84P – Advanced – 3G Ram – no gapps – Multilang

Install Flash or OTA

Link to OTA version

http://www.needrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/S3S-20150507-083407-OTA.zip
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] Daniel2255:
Half of Jiayu phones have problems and how I see, the most problems have Advanced version so Jiayu sucks. Or you should rationally understand this or you are jiayu paid to spam on forums that jiayu is not bad, actually S3 is their fail.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] ProTechShark:
I have the advanced version, and in my opinion it is amazing. I haven't had any sound quality/ mic issues. Charge time is slow, but that isn't really a problem for me. The S3 and S3A really aren't fails.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] rashpel77:
Everyone understands that Jiayu placed on the knees. But sdes about ROM. And what is good or bad in this chat.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] Metrino:
You cannot flash from S3SW to S3S (or S3SN) via OTA.

OTA works within same rom “family”

You have to use sp flash tools.

Use “download” mode if you move to Another kk rom, use “firmware upgrade” to have Lollipop.

20150623 Lollipop build is good, just few Know bugs, the worst is voice bluetooth works just only in outgoing direction

In both case remember you'll need to add Google Playstore by yourself
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] sarge246:
Thanks marsian0 for your reply .Yes certainly helps & seems my only option . Will do a lot more reading up & tutorials & take the plunge & probably flash the version of KK i'm on .
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] :
Do you experience any difference having noise reduction in phone settings on or off?

You will have noticed 2 microphones, one for voice and one for noise reduction. That's a feature not found in every phone.

There are issues mentioned before in this thread where this noise reduction is said to not work (for whatever reason, maybe one microphone bad or dirty, or maybe software). So: try to turn noise reduction off. There are also people mentioning that upgrade fixes noise reduction. After all it may be a software issue. But there are also people mentioning that, even if they turn noise reduction off, other software (gaming perhaps?) turns it back on. Maybe some software (camera?) tries to record in stereo? Then, to fix this, many people reboot (or it is also said that it can be sufficient to clear other software cache).
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] uptowner:
i'm using s3sw 201150213-171816 from way back and the phone is fine just waiting for lollipop that is just as stable and everything will be good really cant understand what so many people are moaning about , i have had phones more expensive than this which were totally crap so far so good for me :cool:
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] Daniel2255:
How much I need to explain that ??? Some phone are made ok, I willl explain you other way, if some kid from factory have a bad day and he wasn't very careful with a phone what then will be my phone, then I will be in trouble. If a phone was assembled by skilled student with good mod and that phone will be your phone, then you will get a good version of phone. The problem is that half is bad and if you don't understand why people are moaning I will explain you : you don't have their problem because you don't have defective unit, but defective units are a lot and don't compare jiayu with european manufacturers, big difference. The conclusion is that Jiayu suck, too many people have problems with call quality and this is a basic and primordial function for a phone, you will not see that in any damn elephone or mlais, who yes, are crap, but you can use them to talk at least.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] ProTechShark:
From what I've heard there are lots of manufacturing defects with the elephone p7000, out of the two that IXTutor got one had two screen pressurepoints, and the screen is reportedly very weakly attached to the phone.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] uptowner:
sorry to say but there are fake jiayu s3 out there
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] :
[MENTION=6788785]Daniel2255[/MENTION] : [thinking aloud] Unit Testing or Quality Control to qualify devices to be fully working would sure make a device production line more expensive. Certainly for smartphones having so much functionality in hardware and software. Many other brand phones are 'made in China' (I mean also the expensive ones). I would be surprised if one brand would be notorious for worse assembly. What can perhaps also happen however, typically with powerful high end devices like the ones discussed here, is that individual components themselves are of varying good quality (to meet the high end requirements) and that, no matter how skillful one assembles the device, a less perfect quality component ends up in ones particular phone. Maybe expensive device manufacturers also have preventive measures to avoid such to happen.[/thinking aloud]

btw: did you try to turn off noise reduction?
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] AlexZap:
Dude, let me explain something to you: NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR OPINION. you already said that you are selling your phone and buying one from another manufacturer. Go hang out in their forum. Don't look for advice here as to what other brand of phone to buy, I doubt anyone. Will have any to offer.

As far as QC goes. That is one way the jiayu's, elephone's, xiaomi's, ulefone's, meizu's, mlias's (I could go on) save money. They don't pay for the same amount of inspection that Motorola or Samsung pay for. Before the p7000 shipped to customers, stores like coolicool were posting pictures of their staff going through each and every phone before they ship because elephone has basically 0 quality control. Meizu and xiaomi are not immune either. They actually have SOME qc, but it is no where near the amount of Samsung or LG.

You are delusional to think that you will buy some $200 phone and get the same amazing quality and service as a $1000 galaxy note edge. For what you get in the 200 dollar package from jiayu, however, I am quite impressed, and I believe that so are most of the other people who own the phone. It has quirks. Deal with it or don't, but don't delude yourself in to thinking you will get perfection from anything. I'm sure you will get a Meizu and will dislike flyme OS and ***** endlessly about how the developers aren't catering to your exact needs in your timeframe.

My first china phone was a star n9002 note 3 clone. The thing was a nightmare. No updates to a horribly buggy Android 4.2. It was a mt6582, but it reported it was a mt6589, which is actually a worse processor. The battery life was ****. But I paid like 119 for it. I didn't expect anything major out of it, and it always continued to impress me.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] sutty86:
well said alex!!!!
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] clayts450:
I've been unlucky enough to buy a phone with a damaged lower microphone, but that is always part of the gamble with importing a Chinese phone.

I don't have any ill-feeling towards JiaYu at all because of this defect. These things happen in any walk of life. However, it's going to take too long to ship back to the vendor, for them to fix. I have already ordered a replacement lower USB/microphone board for a cheap price, and have no problem doing this fix myself.

This is a phone which cost me £130, the same price I paid for the Moto G (1st gen) 18 months ago. It's a great spec, and aside from a few ROM issues which will be ironed out, this is a spectacularly well-specced phone for a great price.

Compared to the Elephone P7000, there have been very few reports of hardware defects with the S3 in this topic - the build quality is excellent. For sure, there are a few software issues to sort out, but give it time.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] Bantryred:
I agree with the lads above, my last phone was a premium phone at the time a HTC one x+ which cost me 600 euro+ at the time about 1 and half years ago, it had to go back twice for repair and never had 3g in my house, took a chance over the internet and bought the S3 advance, got it delivered to my home for 270 euro, and I have 3g in my house, nearly 2 days battery, it does everything I want, all for 2 good nights out( OK, they would be really good nights out :) ), I'm diffenetly not complaining about this great phone.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] alsat1:
Ok but regarding to call quality,because some people have that problem.I have advance version,and Iam happy with everything except that one thing,so its a software problem or hardware?

Asking because I bought mine in amazon uk about 3 weeks ago and have 4 days to return it.

I dont think its hardware problem couse when I have that echo/bad quality call and I disconnect call,make phone reboot and making call again the call quality is just fine after reboot.

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[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] :
I imagine you have noise cancelling off?
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] alsat1:
I tried off and on and problem usualy come back.

You never ever have that problem?

Currently as said before Iam testing now latest KK from may for s3s.

Will see how will be on here.

I dont think is hw problem couse rebooting phone always help.I dont want to return that phone couse really like it.

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[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] sutty86:
alsat if your gonna return it i suggest you return it now, otherwise warranty is in china.....
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] adridu59:
Hence why better buy from Jiayu which has importers in western Europe (just like Meizu but Meizu has higher margins like Xiaomi). This already tells you that the assembly is not going to be randomly screwed up.
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] Valentino001:
JIAYU is not a mate to any of those phones you pple are comparing above. Jiayu is known for making strong and rugged phones Right from my first encounter with the G4s. S3 is a great phone if not for this issue of call and I believe they are working hard to correct it. I will always chooose my s3 over p7000 any day anytime
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] Daniel2255:
Let me say once more, if a phone have bad call quality no matter if it is deca core or have 4 gb ram or have good build quality or good display - It's useless. I have impression that some people here are dumb or underage or without any education, is really hard to understand that you don't have problems because you are 1 from 2 guys who are lucky to get good phone, I am engineer in other field, however I understand that assembly is crucial because very few components are produced by manufacturer, most of them are borrowed from mediatek, samsung, lg, sharp, gorilla, etc I there don't work robotics then is a big chance that some of us will say PHONE IS AWESOME and other one PHONE IS WORST, because we don't have identical phones, even if it's same model, because there is too much hand work, too much depend on human factor. I tried Elephone p7000, call quality is great, yes screen is not same good and build is not so strong, but it's a phone, and you need to be crazy to buy a phone with who you can't talk a people, then it's not a phone, it's a tabled, pls no more nonsense bull.****, speak wise and abstract, forget that you are lucky owner of this phone and understand that Jiayu have failed a big amount of people with their phones, with a basic function of phone, ability to take and make calls! I think it is hardware problem and nothing can solve it for me or other unlucky guys, echo problem is not a hardware problem. It is expensive to send item to China so I hope I can sell it and buy Meizu M1, better brand, never buy jiayu, elephone, ulephone, mlais or other **** like this, too bad for jiayu, phone is ok but i can use it only like a tablet, for tablet it is expensive. Cheers!
[JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers] clayts450:
Sorry, but where is your evidence of this so called 'big amount of people' with issues ? Take the time to read through this enormous forum thread and you will find very few people complaining. They are in the very smallest of minorities. After all, you don't get people posting on here to say 'my phone is working exactly as it should and I'm happy with it'.

Now compare that with the Elephone P7000 topics - now there is a phone with real issues.

I do take your point that, for the very small number of people affected by microphone hardware faults (I count three, including myself, in this topic), the phone is currently as useful as a tablet, not a phone. But to extrapolate three hardware failures reported here to every single model of the S3 sold by JiaYu is plain daft.

Clearly you are trolling for the sake of it, so I will not be responding to any further posts from yourself.