[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Master Cylinder:
[ROM][Official]CyanogenMod 12.1 Nightlies for the Verizon Galaxy S3 (d2vzw)

CyanogenMod and D2VZW: Together Again!

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DANGER!! CMUpdater is providing the new CM13 Marshmallow nightly builds and notifying you of an update. IT SEEMS THERE ARE NO MORE UPDATES FOR CM12! 12/10 seems to be the last one. If you flash CM13 without looking into things first, you could be in for a world of hurt! Check out invisiblek's Official CM13 Nightlies thread in this same forum. BEWARE!!​

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De-unified Lollipop builds for the Galaxy S3 line. This is for the Verizon variant (SCH-I535) only

CyanogenMod is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 5.1.x which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.

Notes:

Please Use Firmware: VRBMF1

and

Modem/Baseband Version: NE1 (Also, see "Notes - Possible Bugs" section below)

(EDIT:

The following statement might not be true

. It happened to one user. Unsure about circumstances... If you've done it or want to try, please tell us what happens.)If you have recently downgraded firmware from 4.3 to 4.1.2,

DO NOT

flash the MF1 firmware. You'll brick your device!

If you know you never took the 4.3 OTA, then you can flash the firmware and modem to your hearts content.

CWM Recovery addicts: Please seriously consider giving up CWM and come on board with what works for sure with 5.1.x, TWRP. Problems have been coming up with CWM users so if you have one, that's were to start. Hopefully there's a 12-step program somewhere for y'all ;)

#include <std_disclaimer.h>

/*
* Your warranty is now void.
*
* We are not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at us for messing up your device, we will put a picture
* of you up and throw darts at it.
*
*/

CyanogenMod is based on the Android Open Source Project with extra contributions from many people within the Android community. It can be used without any need to have any Google application installed. You will need to provide your own Google Applications package (gapps). CyanogenMod does still include various hardware-specific code, which is also slowly being open-sourced anyway.

All the source code for CyanogenMod is available in the CyanogenMod Github repo. And if you would like to contribute to CyanogenMod, please visit the Gerrit Code Review. Your changelog is whatever was merged into gerrit.

Regarding the Stagefright Exploit: The latest patch update to protect against the security vulnerability was merged for the 8/14 nightly. Please update to that or later to make sure you are fully protected, though work still continues.

XDA Article on the Stagefright Exploit: http://www.xda-developers.com/stagefright-explained-the-exploit-that-changed-android/

Download Links

:: Download Links Broken!! - :( On or about 12/18 the links for 12.1 ceased to function. The links for 12.1 and 13 are all listed on the same page at the moment as well. While 12.1 builds have continued to come out every few days or so for other devices, the last one for the d2vzw is for 12/10 at the moment. I don't know if this is a temporary of permanent state of affairs but inquiries are forth coming. In the mean time, the 12/10 build is in the "

d2vzw ROM Extras

" link below so at least we got that, thanks to XdrummerXboy.

Also, if you have a build from about 11/15 and later hanging around you could upload it for others to access, if need be, by following the instructions from this post: Upload Instructions
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CyanogenMod:

Nightly: http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=d2vzw&type=nightly LINKS ONLY WORKS FOR CM13 NOW!!

Download with daily commits tracked:http://www.cmxlog.com/12.1/d2vzw/

>>These are the de-unified d2vzw builds now instead of the d2lte builds you previously used<<

Google apps addon:

TK Modular GApps by TKruzze. Get your GApps from the Master. Follow his installation instructions.

Open GApps:opengapps.orgThey are modular AND have the option of Aroma Installer. Updated daily. Very interesting story on these. There is the website, and an XDA thread.

>>>WARNING!!<<< The first time one installs Open GApps, you have to do it with a ROM update (or reinstall current ROM) AND manually wipe the system partition first. Then install the ROM and the GApps normally, then wipe Dalvik and Cache. After that, you can flash them anytime. (More info on Website.) ALSO, for now, don't install Webview as it might not work. There is an "Android System Webview" in the Play Store that will work.

Other Options:

The Gapps Central For those of you who just have to be different, a GApps Smorgasbord, by TheXGX

Banks Gapps removed after just one too many malfunctions... If you use 'em and have a problem, update from the Play Store your offending app or flash one of these others, but don't come complainin'.

Firmware and Modem thanks to Invisiblek

Download - MF1 firmware with NE1 modem Combo: http://www.invisiblek.org/firmware/d2/d2vzw_MF1_firmware_NE1_modem.zip (md5sum: 7a49bb13c1160f4d4a89488127684b5b)

A MF1 firmware only zip is in the "d2vzw ROM Extras" link below, as well as individual modem choices.

Other Possibly Useful Stuff

d2vzw ROM Extras

Link to TWRP Recovery You can flash the .img file right in TWRP recovery 2.8.4 or later!

- All you ever wanted to know about how Cell service works but were afraid to ask: Cell Wiki

- Samsung Galaxy S 3 the most popular phone of all time? Still? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_III

Notes - Possible Bugs

Bluetooth observed as flaky with some connected devices.

CMUpdater apparently only functional with TWRP 2.8.7.0

4G/LTE Data might not start on bootup (lately) - With Wifi disconnected or off, go to Settings>Mobile Networks>Access Point Names and select one of those not already selected. Give it a few seconds. Should be good till next reboot.

Addendum to Data Issue

: If you can't live with the above solution (like me) then downgrading to the ML1 modem has fixed it, seemingly without any ill effects. Modem is in the "d2vzw ROM Extras" link above.

>>Attention ATT, T-Mobile and other GSM Network Users (International)<<

If you use your d2vzw on one of the GSM networks, you will have to flash the d2gsm_rilblobs.zip file in the '

d2vzw ROM Extras

' link above or your phone won't operate properly!

The CyanogenMod team (of which I'm not a member) always thanks everyone involved in helping with testing, coding, debugging & documenting! Enjoy!

Another Note: CM12 was introduced to our phone first by mastamoon and Invisiblek:

Many thanks to them

! There may be data on those threads that can help someone, so I've included those links for reference:

Mastamoon's Unofficial CM12 (and cm11) thread.

Invisiblek's Unofficial CM12 thread by amf66.

<Disclaimer: OP is not a Dev. Just a normal schlub.>

XDA:DevDB Information

[ROM][Official] CyanogenMod 12.1 Nightlies for the Verizon Galaxy S3 (d2vzw), ROM for the Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

Contributors

Master Cylinder, Nardholio, Device Maintainer: Nardholio

Source Code: http://github.com/CyanogenMod

ROM OS Version: 5.1.x Lollipop

ROM Kernel: Linux 3.4.x

ROM Firmware Required: VRBMF1

Based On: CyanogenMod

Version Information

Status: Nightly

Created 2015-05-20

Last Updated 2017-06-10