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[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] njank:
Well that didn't go well. Flashed the modems easy enough. But after the first one I went from regular extended disconnects to the "unknown baseband and imei" problem. Flashed other modems, no difference. Full restored to backup and I still had the unknown baseband problem. Restored backup to take me back to stock 4.3 from before I ever pushed a rom. That fixed the imei and baseband issue. But I only have voice, no data. And the reported baseband is the last one I installed before the restore,not the original one. I guess a "full restore" isn't quite full, huh?

I tried other modems on 4.3 and have no change in behavior. Cell but no data, IMEI and baseband showing fine, though. Suggestions or threads you can point me to? I'd like to at least get back to where I started.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] DJ aliasz3d:
Hi, I'll have to have a think and a look around and see what can be done. Maybe try flash stock through Odin and start from scratch and see if that helps.

Edit: if you have imei showing fine better do a backup with qpst if you have a Windows PC handy then it's backed up for the future, it's in the i9305 dev thread, if you need I can get you a link :good:
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] njank:
i pulled down the stock ROM from samsung-firmware.org. Made sure to get the one with the baseband I started with. I haven't actually been able to find that one to just try flashing that modem. Should I be able to pull it from my initial backup or the firmware I just downloaded?

Also, except for using odin to push TWRP initially, I've been doing all this with TWRP. I saw reports that an old version (2.8 or so?) had trouble flashing modems and backing up efs, but one of the 3.x release threads said that was fixed. I'm using 3.2.x or so, but could that still have been part of the problem?
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] njank:
it appears qpst is needed for the i9305 which has a qualcomm modem, but won't connect to the i9300. can anyone confirm? Is the twrp backup insufficient for backing up the imei? restoring to my 4.3 backup did restore the unknown imei issue. should i find some other backup route before messing around further?

i9305 instructions that dont work for the i9300

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/development-i9305/warning-guide-backup-restore-imei-nv-t1946915

i9300 thread which seems to indicate qpst won't work for it (others say similar)

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/help/gt-i9300-backup-imei-qpst-t1861250
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] DJ aliasz3d:
Is your device a i9300 or i9305?

I'm guessing you need to start from scratch with Odin. TWRP 3.0+ recoveries backup and restore imei fine.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] njank:
i9300

ok, I'll flash the stock 4.3 back and try to begin the process over again.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] DJ aliasz3d:
OK thanks, please read my Edited post above :good:

qpst won't help.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] njank:
ok. thanks. will reflash the stock with ODIN and hope that gets me back to normal cell & data activity, then I'll pull a fresh backup and start playing again.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] DJ aliasz3d:
Good luck :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] njank:
ok, reflashing with odin didn't seem to do anything, it did reset baseband back to JKUGNB2. but I was in the same state with a fine voice/sms connection and no data.

was about to do a factory reset when i flipped through the mobile data settings and noticed my apn list was empty. googled the settings for Cricket and after putting it in suddenly had mobile data again. guess i could have done that at the last step. (I do remember the APN setting being there when I was on CM13)

But, I did open up the stock tar.md5 and pulled out the JKUGNB2 modem. One more option to try if I have to go through a reflash frenzy again.

SO... it seems I've managed to go full circle and get back to my 'pre flashing the phone' state sitting here on 4.3.

I'm probably going to try again. Isn't there any way to try to avoid the NO SIM / no connection issue people keep getting? Any other advice before I charge forward again?
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] DJ aliasz3d:
Glad you recovered it. Definitely make a TWRP 3.0+ backup including efs partition.

Edit: could be very risky but I'm wondering if a US s3 modem could be flashed on an international model? Also does the no sim message only happen in stock or when you tried on a custom non Samsung ROM with same result?

I think cricket have there own s3 variant so maybe there was some difference for there network they had to address. [MENTION=5652209]njank[/MENTION]

Also I would consider asking around on the U.S s3 threads for GSM s3's or for cricket s3's for some advice even though your phone is an international model there could be something to gain from it, just state that you are trying to get an international model running on cricket. And next time you get the no sim message please take a screenshot for me. I really wish I could help more but am not sure when it comes to other regions devices, I think it is one of those things you'll have to do by trial and error.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] njank:
Definitely. Glad I read enough to do that the first time.

I did think of this. Might read up a but and give it a go if i don't see anything clearly off with it.

Only happened after flashing to CM13. In stock mobile connection is immediate after boot and (now that I fixed the apn) data comes right on. In cm13 I would intermittently get a no sim, or just a no connection message. Then after some random time in the same location, it would connect at full speed. I have noticed with a *#0011# it's always on 850MHz. So I'm wondering if my theory from the beginning was right.

A good idea

Will do. Under cm13 it was just the status indicator. But upon connecting it would sonetimes pop up a "Choose your SIM" dialog.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] DJ aliasz3d:
This choose sim dialogue also happens on RR with the s3 LTE but if you dismiss it data still works, maybe related? Also if you have a problem with MMS in cm12.1 onwards try my guide linked in my signature it works on i9300 too.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] njank:
Maybe. The dialog wouldn't appear until it detected a connection could be made. And then it would show cricket. Selecting cricket cricket or dismissing the dialog didn't seem to matter at that point.

hadn't, but will keep it in mind. At this rate who knows what will pop up next.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] DJ aliasz3d:
Mine said Telstra (my carrier) or titanium backup. In regards to my thread it's just a build prop fix to fix MMS on carrier's that use a double APN to fix MMS sending error on cm based Roms after 12.1 thanks to [MENTION=431247]erosco[/MENTION] for the ultimate fix.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] Tlailaxu:
Hello,

i wanted to ask if anyone has PokemonGo running on any ROM that is not 4.4.4/Stockrom and if yes, if that person could provide me with a howto. I can not get it to work at all on any CM variant as SAfetyNet check always will say ProfileMismatch while using either Systemless Root OR even totally unrooted (by deleting SU related files under system/bin & system/xbin.

Maybe i am missing something phenomenal or incredibly small here but as i said,i tried almost every CM13 based ROM and i end up having the ProfileMismatch on any of them. The only ROM i got it working on is a pre-rooted StockROM where i had to delete root completely but i would love to have any Android Version above 4.4.4

ANY help would be apreciated
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] weirdzombie_21:
Hi there everyone.I was using CyanogenMod 13 (Snapshot) with Pico Version of Gapps on Galaxy S3 I9300. And all of sudden my phone died.I posted my problem here on xda,also went to service center and they said that your EMMC is dead,you have to buy a new Motherboard.So I bought a new Motherboard.Now I am using my phone with Stock ROM (Touchwiz). And I really want to Flash CyanogenMod.

I just want to know that Flashing ROM will not make my EMMC chip dead again? I mean I have no idea why my EMMC chip died.And now I am afraid to Flash any ROM but I really want to.

Sorry Noob here :)
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] :
The age of the S3 means that motherboards(and/or other hardware) will fail from time to time. Providing you got a OEM motherboard and not a cheap and nasty one, you should get plenty of life from it. Either way, flashing custom roms will not affect this at all.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] weirdzombie_21:
Thanks for clearing that up.

Have a Good day Sir :)
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] DJ aliasz3d:
I would also check with the emmc brick bug check app in playstore just to see if your new chip can suffer this problem or not. If it says yes don't worry it just means it's susceptible to it, Samsung finally fixed it on the s3 LTE i9305.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] Tlailaxu:
Greetings,

on my GF's S3LTE i flashed BeanstalksROM(based on CM13) and other ROMs so far.

She wants to play PokemonGo which requires a build.prop edit to fool the playstore & let her download,update & play the game natively. Sadly,every build.prop edit results in total loss of Audio,no music/calls/key sounds/other content comes out of the phone (while any equalizer displays there IS something running).

My build.prop changes are based on this post (which works on 4.4 roms but somehow not on newer ones)

Could anyone point me in the right direction in solving/avoiding this issue please?
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] Bigmacro:
I have a 9305N and i have RR 5.7.4 and I tried to install the 5.8.0 instead but I just cannot figure it out? I have searched for answer but I cannot find anything relevant. Is there any guide I have missed that explains how to upgrade from one version to another?

I simply wiped the whole phone and tried to install but I just got error, no error codes but just error...? I have also a Oneplus X and that works just fine Samsung is not that easy... :) Any suggestions?

SOLVED: I tried several times but got same unknown error. Then i downloaded the ROM again but this time from a mirror site, the German one. And to my surprise it worked directly. So in my case the first file was corrupted.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] DJ aliasz3d:
Always check the md5 sum with either a checksum app or gtk hash or similar on pc if there's one provided like Android file host does. It saves a lot of time in the end ?
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] ingi477:
Phone full of crap after data wipe

Hey

I have a i9305 and I've installed multiple roms throughout the years. Last time I installed a room I noticed that after wiping everything in recovery and installing a new room I still had everything in my download folder of the emulated sd internal storage. This is probably not the first time this is the case and my phones 16gb internal memory keeps filling up even if I haven't installed much, it contains some apps and a few pictures, not much else.

So my question is what is the best way to completely wipe everything off the phone (manually or automatically) and start fresh without potentially bricking it?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] woodman:
Which custom recovery do you use?

Wiped everything? Are you sure? Did you wipe internal memory as well?

You have to be sure you have TWRP v3.0.2-0 installed and then in recovery options you have to wipe at least data, dalvik, cache AND Internal memory.

You can also try Philz recovery touch 6.48.4.

A useful thread here including links for custom recoveries: https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/development-i9305/recovery-i9305-cwm-philz-twrp-versions-t2694249
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] ingi477:
Thanks, you are definitely right, I thought "wipe data/factory reset" was supposed to take care of that. I have ClockworkMod Recovery v.6.0.4.7

Cant find "wipe internal ..." anywhere, is "format /data and /data/media" what I´m looking for?
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] woodman:
ClockworkMod Recovery v.6.0.4.7 is old, so I don't remember the available options. You should upgrade to TWRP 3.0.2-0 (or TWRP 3.0.2-1) like I suggested previously and you'll find the "wipe internal memory" item.

But if you want to stick with CWM, yeah I think format /data and /data/media are the wipe options you're looking for. :)

Just be sure you have saved your precious data before formating everything.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] ingi477:
Got it, thanks!
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] Bleiz:
Yo, I have a question for those flashoholics! I can't decide, so I need your helps, of those who are running those ROM's. I want to install N on my S3, but I am not sure which is giving best of it. I mean with less bugs than others. AICP? BeanStalk? Pan's CM? or RR ? I don't really care about features it got, I just want to be stable as much as possible. Battery is not a problem either, S3 was made to have 4h SOT anyways. Any answers are welcome!
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] Oswald Boelcke:
I personally have doubts that someone on XDA is going to recommend any ROM; at least I won't. XDA is full of great developers and contributors who are delivering great ROMs; however, each with its own pro's and con's.

Additionally, we all have different devices in millions of different setups, and our personal desires are of the same number. Furthermore, your S3 musn't be one of my S3s (they are all GT-i9305 - SGS 3 LTE), for which other ROMs are available as for the GT-i9300 for example.

My suggestion: Read through all the threads of the ROMs available for your S3; as you want to go Nougat that shouldn't be too many. Make your decision and give it a try. Unless you like a ROM try the next one.

Personally, I'm already for more than a year with RR. One of them (my daily used phone) still on v5.7.4 Sammy for special reasons; the other two are on v5.8.0-5 i.e. Nougat but I'm upgrading later on to v5.8.1.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] Bleiz:
[MENTION=7408621]noc.jfcbs[/MENTION] thanks for your reply. I understand that, and I really have full respect to any developer here on XDA. I am into this ( flashing, rooting etc. ) for like 2 years only. And in that time, I've been trying to use custom rom alot of times, but for some reason I always return to stock. Not because I prefer TW, not at all. Just it's stable in some conditions while sometimes it did not. Many of apps started to bishave, probably to outdated OS. I wanted to hear opinions of people who are already using some custom, how they are satisfied, what is most common bug at specific rom, so I can easily decide which one should I take. I am using S3 LTE, which got like 4-5 different custom roms of N but I am yet not sure which I am going for.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] Oswald Boelcke:
...as stated, two of our three S3 LTE are on RR v5.8.x (https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/dev...4-4-2-kitkat-v5-t2704828/page568#post70845969), and my wife and her sister are really appreciating @rodman01's great work. As soon as [MENTION=4419114]rovo89[/MENTION] publishes Xposed for Nougat, I'm definitely migrating from RR v5.7.4 Sammy to v5.8.x; even without the ability to use @psndna88's AGNi kernel. Maybe, I'm going to give @limjh16's kernel a try then.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] DJ aliasz3d:
To add to what [MENTION=7408621]noc.jfcbs[/MENTION] said, RR is the most customisable ROM however certain ROMs have certain features that is special to that ROM for instance AICP which I now use has pocket mode were the screen turns on when you take it out of your pocket or wave your hand over it, it also has peek kind of like ambient display and full substratum support. On the other hand RR has on the go mode were you can use the front facing camera as a wallpaper while you walking etc. It also has legacy substratum support. Try them all and see what you prefer I like RR but switched to AICP for the substratum themes
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] Theziggy:
Bootloader question

I'm looking to update to a nougat ROM and have read that I would need to have a KK bootloader, i9305xxufnl1 has been suggested as a suitable one to use. I have found a repository of kk bootloaders with this i9305xxufnl1 name yet they all of them have different CSC codes. At the moment the Samsung Info tool shows my existing CSC code as VD2 - although I am in the Uk/ Which code should I use?

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] public3n3my:
Csc is not really important if your carrier is open i think. But if it matters, I think there's a csc changer app. First update ur firmware & BL then root. Install latest custom recovery then search for csc changer in [MENTION=5784234]MaHo_66[/MENTION] rooted offficial stock rom thread.. If it doesn't work, flash the rom from that thread and follow the guide given. If Vd2 working fine, why not use the same one?

Sorry for my bad english.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] Theziggy:
Full Wipe, Clean Wipe ???

I am going to install a new or major ROM update to my S3 and the ROM instructions state that you should factory rest and full wipe (which I take as format system, boot and data) then I came across this - I am using TWRP

Is that guide right?? I didn't know that most ROMs had wipe system etc baked into their install scripts !!

Thanks in advance.

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A CAUTIONARY TALE

Thanks, I downloaded newest recovery as my old one kept failing when I tried to make an Nandroid. So I used Flashify to flash the img file - and my phone booted to the ODIN screen without the text in the left hand top corner. Pull battery etc, back to screen, Android Robot and text DOWNLOADING do not turn target off. I could however use power, down and select buttons to get to a proper ODIN Screen but that was about it.I checked and realised that the file I flashed and had downloaded was only 7K, so I had destroyed my recovery and now phone wouldn't even boot. Lucky OH was away so I could curse and stamp as much as I wanted.

3 hours later, managed to sort my head out long enough to Odin flash (I did convert an img file into a tar.md5 file which ODIN choked on) a tar recovery and am now ready to update phone when it recharges. Why oh why don't I download md5 files to check before flashing - now that I know what can happen.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] Oswald Boelcke:
I doubt some of the information provided in the linked post. Certainly a lot room for discussions.

Anytime I convert to a new ROM or a major update, I wipe dalvik, cache, system, and data. I don't wipe internal memory (unless I want a really clean device) and external SD. Factory reset doesn't wipe them either. To conduct a factory reset it's just a regular behaviour that takes less than ten seconds; however, I doubt it's necessary at all if I conducted above mentioned wipes. By my information, factory reset equals a wipe of cache and data excluding internal memory.

Thus far I never wiped boot - and I wouldn't certainly ever do. My TWRP (v3.0.2-1) even doesn't offer such an option.

Thanks for this useful explanation. Life is about learning for mistakes we hopefully make onyl once.:o:good:
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] DJ aliasz3d:
I've always been under the impression that factory reset is only useful on a stock unrooted OS for the everyday person since it's the only way a user can wipe the phone, I think the only reason it's on custom ROMs still is that it's part of the original google code. When we have a more advanced tool like a custom recovery why not use it. I think the information in the article is one argument out there but there are different opinions in everything. I usually on a clean install just wipe ART cache,cache,system,data and only internal if changing ROMs and I don't want left over files, of course I move important things to ext SD which I never wipe.

Edit: I remember in slim lollipop days the Dev recommended to wipe with factory reset and recovery wipe but I doubted it was needed.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] dragonkiller96:
hi does anyone (can anyone) upload the update for the Optus samsung GT-I9305 the id is "I9305XXUFPA1" (1.1GB) i need it to download and reinstall it through Odin as smart Switch wont download the update and keeps failing. and every version i find is only downloading 70KB/s and would be faster through xda or mega.nz. would be very helpful.

EDIT: nevermind ill just sit through the 5/6 hours of downloading to fix my phone with Odin. then to root my phone with chainfire auto root, then apply the KitKat SD Card fix, then replace the boot animation images for Optus that show Up (im Vodafone) then unroot again just to get Pokemon Go to work and the constant freezes to end.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] DJ aliasz3d:
:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] Oswald Boelcke:
:rolleyes:;)
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] DJ aliasz3d:
LoL C'mon Schmidy you know it's always the phone's fault ;) :laugh:
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] Qwer33:
i installed for the normal s3 the CF gti 9300- now i cant do anything. ---> classic D

i installed for the normal s3 the CF gti 9300- now i cant do anything. ---> classic DOWNLOADING do not turn off target ..... now i installed the right one 3905 but its not working too . what can i do. i ll nee jsut the roots.

thanks
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] public3n3my:
So your phone was i9305 and u r using cf auto root for i9300 to root? What a joke ? n after that u did flash the i9305 cf auto root without flashing back to stock? Lol..

I think u need to start from 0 again.. Go back to stock and root with proper root image..
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] Qwer33:
but how ? i need the old flash isnt it ? you guys have a link thanks
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] public3n3my:
This is where the power of google come to shine.. Search for the kitkat official stock rom 4 the device n download. Flash it and u will be fine.. At least do some research b4 doing it.. Know what to do and whats not to prevent from making mistakes that will brick your device..
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] Lsdpower78:
Hello. I have flashed in my i9305 the RR-N-v5.8.2-20170302-i9305-Official rom. Everything works ok except GPS and battery drain. But i want to tell me how can i send long text sms (with 160 character)? is there an app or something??
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] public3n3my:
Try greenify to reduce battery drain.. It work best for me.

As for the gps, if u r having locking issues, u might want to try gps fix.

Search for the fix gps location/locking to satellites issue thread and follow the instructions given.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] sai255:
samsung galaxy gt-i9305 i faced message unfortunately after update to 4.4.4

hi all..i have galaxy s3 gt-i9305 after update from 4.4.2 to 4.4.4 i faced this message in all downloaded application unfortunately Facebook has stopped. when am use application in 5 or 7min. help me!!!1
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] Oswald Boelcke:
I personally use "ChompSMS" and "Silence". Length of SMS not limited and not converting to MMS.

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Sorry, no idea. I'm not using F***book at all.
[Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help & ] DJ aliasz3d:
Trackbook :laugh: