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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] McGoodle:
Hey, I was the one who had the no sim problem on boost mobile. I can't comment much about if the boost mobile apn fix will work with sprint, but I can say that my own no sim card issue wasn't resolved until I wiped and flashed the original 4-10-18 rom. Although I was originally flashing the 5-20-18 rom.

If you haven't setup your phone much yet might not be a bad idea to see if that fixes your no sim error as well. You could always try dirty flashing updates after that as you see necessary though I haven't had much issues with the first release other than the occasional reboot. Though that's just from my own personal usage experiences.

Either way I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than I am will reply given time. Just something to consider until then
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jacklong13:
Right on! That did the trick. This is great. Tons of respect all around for helping bring this phone back to life!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
[MENTION=9240060]diamond-optic[/MENTION]

You can block texts from that number. Easy peasy. NO more text notifications. Calling your number is actually the official way of checking voicemail, lol. Visual voicemail is a perk. That's how it's been done since before smartphones. But I see you found the one that works.

You could have saved yourself some time by activating the phone on stock first, since you can't update prl and profile on LineageOS.

For visual voicemail you can also copy the APK from stock (the actual system app version) and the updated one in data/app. Then place the system one in system/app and set permissions, then install the update like normal. Well that worked for me. But it doesn't matter since you found one that works. You actually have to use Sprint vvm, as I'm sure you found.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] diamond-optic:
Yeah I figured worst case scenario I could just block those texts if they had continued. And im much too lazy to deal with the regular way of checking voice mail now days lol.

And I realized that about activating on stock first, didnt even think of it when I started though. Plus I wanted to start messing with the phone and getting some apps and settings configured while at the same time I couldnt risk having an issue swapping the service over till I was done with work for the week. But once I actually got it all fixed and working a simple flash of my already configured backup put everything back to how I had it setup prior to the issues I ran into when swapping the service. Im sure I could have done more reading & research on things first lol, all my previous phone-related experience with this stuff is with my htc evo and I could still do profile and prl updates in harmonia so it didnt even cross my mind that it wouldnt be possible after flashing lineage.

I think the initial issue I was having with the voice mail app was most likely that they were just old versions that were from much older versions of android. I had tried several VM and sprint versions initially before I managed to find that T.6.0.0.48 version. But really, outside of issues caused by my own actions, this was super simple to get up and running. If my memory is anywhere near accurate (unlikely though) I feel like things were much more tedious on my htc then on this samsung. This just seemed so much more simple (again, aside from user mistakes)

Then again it seems like things have come a long way even from when I did my htc evo, i mean just the way TWRP is now versus when I did the evo (I have twrp 1.1.1 on that phone) was comparable to the first time i built a pc that had a UEFI bios lol.. mind blown haha

...and thanks for the input though, Ive got another virgin mobile S3 making its way into my possession so if for some reason I do anything with that, I'll know what *not* to do the next time around haha
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
That phone was very simple to work with. I had one, and I got my wife one too. I know what you mean about modding it before activating it so as not to bork your main device. Used to be able to activate on a custom rom. Not sure when it changed (likely rom changes).

We used our vm s3's for a long time and loved them. That aging dual core processor started to show it's "aging". I really wanted a quad core.

Life proof cases for that phone are pretty cheap on Amazon. You can also get a wireless charging adapter (just a little pad that goes in with the battery) and a charging pad. The S3 is capable of wireless charging. I still have a Mophie juice pack I never got to use.

Sorry for the OT, just remembering a little. Feeling nostalgic. Lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] meatfest1974:
Actually, madbat99, I can't recall how many times you've helped me prolong the life of my VM S3! Talking about nostalgic, you've must've guided me through so many snafus!

I would've held on longer if LineageOS was still churning out d2spr nightlies.

But yeah, it definitely shows its age. Especially, nowadays.

As of now, the S3 is still chugging along as my offline workout media player, paired with the gym's shaky Wi-Fi and Bluetooth headphones.

Thanks for the help and memories, dude!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Chris.Soloy:
I'm downloading now so that I can play with it on my FreedomPop on Sprint network SIII one of the next few nights...does anyone know of a way I can backup my APN settings now so I can restore them after flashing? Is there a known APN fix for FreedomPop? I'm also going to hunt for the latter personally, of course, as well as backing up the FreedomPop exclusive APKs
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] diamond-optic:
is this what you might be looking for: https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3-sprint/general/fix-freedompop-apn-fix-t3323878
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Chris.Soloy:
INDEED!!! :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Cobra11Murderer:
I tried the latest clean flash and all I got is that it boots but network never connects.. keeps saying insert sim when its a sprint phone...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
Try 4/10/18 build. These are unofficial so eventually theyay not boot at all. Enjoy it while you can dude.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Joker1716:
I am trying to update these ROMs today I've started on the d2att variant already this morning. I have to pull a few hours at work but after that the d2att should be done the d2spr d2tmo d2refreshspr will follow later on today and tonight. I have been busy, still am. but I will try to update these roms today. Thanks for being patient.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Cobra11Murderer:
It's a backup phone so no biggie.. actually FreedomPop phone that I use in the car lol. Or if there is a outage.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Death_Gun:
well.... on first, I want to say thank you very very much for being keeping this device alive. even lineageOS team has left us and because of that we gave up and we lived on the last few old custom rom..... until you show up and giving us a new hope :o:o

so thanks again ....now I will download the last one 7-28-18 and I will test it :good::good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Death_Gun:
actually, I have the same problem as you after flashing the last one 7-28-18

I tried this method but it didn't work, even with wiping data\cache\system\ instorage... and reflashing the rom\gapps\apn fix zip .... it didn't work! :(

well that's a great idea :laugh:

I will try to download 5-31-18, then I will instill it as a update by the recovery (dirty flashing). then I will till you if it's working or not :good::good:

by the way, also I will download the first one 4-10-18

just to make sure it will work or not, but it will take a long time ' cause I have a limit internet and it coast me alot! :crying:

---------- Post added at 01:20 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:58 AM ----------

just to make sure and clear....

when you said "try dirty flashing updates", you mean flashing the roms one by one (I'm talking about the updates on the first page of this post) ??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
Probably try the first one (clean flash) then dirty flash the last one (only wipe cache and dalvik/art).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Death_Gun:
ok, I will try now
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Death_Gun:
actually.... it didn't work!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
Did the first build work? Many have used that build and it ran fine. What exactly isn't working? If you flash the very first build with gapps, it should work. The no sim error is in later builds, and may not get fixed since the person building doesn't own this device (he can't troubleshoot or test). But it wasn't a bug in the first few builds. What carrier are you on?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Death_Gun:
when I said it didn't work, I mean your idea about "dirty flashing" the first rom and the last rom + gapps + made wipe cache and dalvik/art

after all that the problem (no sim card) still didn't fix.

also I flashed the apn fix zip, but it didn't solve the problem :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JakeG1984:
I thought it would be worth mentioning that I couldn't get any build to flash until I wiped my internal storage and deleted the android created directories on my sdcard (android/lost.dir_etc...). I tried the 5/30 build and the 7/28 build and got the no Sim message. Had to restore nandroid backup of stock ROM to confirm radio was working then wipe system, data, cache/dalvik and internal storage and sd directories as stated above. I am using FreedomPop APN on the new Unreal Mobile. I used ChangeOfJinzoData-APNFix-V1.2.zip to flash FreedomPop apn to no avail...LTE was non working. Once I deleted all apns in the settings menu (by accident) all of a sudden LTE started working. I think the flashed APN took finally and the listed APNs were conflicting in some way. Of course I'm just guessing. Calls, texts, and data work. MMS doesn't work. Haven't tested voicemail. The weird thing is if I try to add an APN from within settings I get an error and settings force closes. Definitely some weird things happening in the background with APNs. My APN list seemed to be populated with a bunch of old stuff I've used before and I could add delete and edit with no problem but after deleting the last one all went to hell; except LTE was working so I just backed away slowly. Something sticks around even after full wipe. It's beyond my pay grade but that's my theory. I did a whole bunch of crap in a unrememberable order so hopefully the above gets you somewhere. Battery usage was crap though so I'm troubleshooting that now. To be clear my APN list in settings shows no APNs but everything is working except MMS. And my status shows Sprint not FreedomPOP.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Death_Gun:
I understand from this you fixed the texts, and data, but MMS doesn't work.

also LTE started working (by an accident)... so could you describe your" theory" with simple way, because I want to try it and I need really really the sim signal and data!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JakeG1984:
To reply to your question. I have no theory. But I can confirm that I was able to get the 4-10 build to work on my brothers d2spr with ting APN. I screwed up my phone trying to theme it so I had to redo it as well. I am on Unreal mobile. I used the APN zip I spoke of in the last post and was able to get data to work on both phones with no problem. This time it was a little different for my phone however. I flashed the APN zip for freedompop but then went to see my apns in settings and had to change the APN address to point to Unreal mobile spl2401.i.dlsn then my LTE started working right away. I must not have the correct MMS settings for Unreal as my MMS is still not sending. My brothers calls MMS text and data all worked fine for him on Ting so it must just be a matter of having the correct APN settings. This time I didn't have a bunch of extra apns on my list like the last time. Now I can add and delete apns without the settings force closing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Joker1716:
It will take about 16 hrs for the roms (d2att, d2tmo, d2spr, d2refreshspr) to build. I will have them by tomorrow. I apologize for the inconvenience.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Joker1716:
Update Posted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] specialgreen:
I'm using Tello (Sprint MNVO), and I am able to get SIM recognized with the 4-10-18 ROM; but having trouble upgrading. For reference, I'm doing a Clean Flash (Wipe data, system, cache, and dalvik/art cache) then flashing the 4-10-18 ROM, plus GApps, plus add-on SU, plus the universal APN fix. That works fine, and I get a working phone with Tello (Sprint) voice and SMS (though the display says "Virgin Mobile").

If I then reboot to TWRP and dirty-flash the 12-16-18 ROM plus APN-fix, then I lose all cellular (the SIM/carrier information is all 0dB/unknown/blank). Same thing happens if I take the working phone (running the 4-10-18 ROM+APNfix) and only dirty-flash the 12-16-18 ROM (without reapplying APN fix).

Thanks very much, Joker1716: it's still much better to be on an 8-month old ROM than my old stock 2014 ROM with 2015 patched kernel!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Joker1716:
I have a few suggestions but, as I do not have the sprint variant of this device, I cannot test them myself. 1st is delve around in the secret menu settings and other mobile connection settings and second is flash the 4-10 rom, root, and backup the kernel then flash the newest update, root, and restore the 4-10 kernel with apn fix and all that. I suggest root rashr for the kernel flashing or you could try extracting 4-10s boot image and flashing it after you flash the newest update (so flash new update then flash boot image then reboot ) Good luck and thanks. :svetius:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
Sounds like you're flashing the Virgin mobile APN fix. That's obviously not for your carrier.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] specialgreen:
I think there may be two issues: fix needed to correct APN to get MMS and data; and a separate issue that the SIM is unreadable in later builds.

I can boot a spare SPH-L710 (which has not been on any carrier since RingPlus died), and wipe it and flash the 4/10 build (just the ROM, no gApps, no APN fix), and it boots and recognizes the SIM card: the SIM's MEID is shown, and it starts showing dB signal strength. _Which_ particular APN it is using doesn't matter, because it's not on any carrier at all: there is no "right" APN, but the radio still communicates with towers.

I can dirty-flash up/down between 4/10, 4/13 and 4/18 ROMs, and the SIM is still recognized. But if I dirty flash to the 4/26 ROM or later, the SIM is not recognized: MEID is "Unknown" and ICCID is "DUMMY_NV_ICC_SERIAL". And if I dirty flash between later ROMs, the SIM "stays gone". I've seen bad APN data before, but nothing that would prevent reading MEID; usually it just breaks MMS and Inet.

Adding the APN fix to later builds did not make the SIM readable for me, but dirty-flashing back to 4/10, 4/13 or 4/18 brought the radio back on-line. In fact, I can clean-flash the 12/16 ROM, then dirty flash the 4/18 ROM, and the SIM is recognized with basic communication to cell towers (no gapps/apnfix needed).

As Joker1716 suggested, if I take a working 4/10 ROM phone, and dirty flash the 12/16 build, then flash just the boot.img from the 4/10 ROM, then it boots OK and I can see the LineageOS version is 20181216-UNOFFICIAL and the Kernel is dated 4/10/2018... but unfortunately the SIM is still "gone."
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
[MENTION=9628699]specialgreen[/MENTION]

It's probably because lineage hasn't done any device specific commits for this phone in long time. It was bound to stop working at some point. I still have my s3 sitting in a drawer. I used it for a long time thanks to lineage.

I built it for myself for a bit. I actually use Virgin Mobile as my carrier, so that APN fix was very useful.

The actual APN was in the rom, but that APN zip made some other changes that got Lte to work. Probably would have been better to include them when I built, but easier to just flash.

There were some other APN zips floating around that worked for other Sprint mvno's. (Virgin is more a subsidiary than an mvno).

It does seem that 4/10 was the last one that had the radio working for most.

Joker1716 doesn't have this device to test changes in the build process, but it was very gracious of him to keep building. People are still downloading it, so there are still some s3's out there. USB port died on mine or I would probably still have it as a backup.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Joker1716:
I am going to try something to see if I can fix this. I do not have this device so I cannot test it. You will have to test it. Give me about 6 hrs (probably closer to 3 but just in case) and I will post the link to this post.

i would try clean flashing just to make sure.

12/23/18 fix?

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=11410963190603881247
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Death_Gun:
well... it's been long time since I came here for having a new built or new custom rom for my device (sph-l710) in case that still there any chance for having a second life for this old man!

I will try instilling this built, also 12-16-18 built

it may takes a long time or maybe a couple days for giving you my review, because I have final exams semester

so... thanks again for your great work:good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] specialgreen:
Thanks, Joker1716. The first look is good: after wipe+flash of 20181223 ROM only, the test SPH-L710 sees its own MEID and Sprint towers.

FYI, I tried my own build of Lineage 14.1, and pulled vendor blobs from the phone with your 20181223 ROM, and that also seems to build cleanly, boot and see towers. So I was wondering if the problem was in the vendor blobs you were using before this 12/23 build?

**Update 2018-12-27*** I dirty-flashed this 20181223 ROM on my "daily" Sprint(Tello MNVO) phone. It seems fine, and cellular+SMS work.

**Update 2019-01-09*** I clean-flashed the 20181223 ROM + addonSU (no gApps or APN fix) and it has been working fine for cellular/SMS plus MMS/Inet on Tello(Sprint) for almost two weeks. .
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Cobra11Murderer:
I know when I tested one of yours not too long ago Freedompop wouldn't connect.. I'll make a full backup soon and try the latest one you made. Thank you and happy holidays.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] redulus:
Cannot get any rom to load on my SPH-L710

I have tried to no avail geting cm 13 or 14.1 on my phone. I have tried every rom I can find that has android 6.0 or higher on to my phone all have the same result... Stuck at loading splash screen. I have tried every solution to fix it I can find and have had no success even with this rom. I am not new to flashing custom roms, I have been flashing roms for many years going all the way back to my S2. I came across a thread where people were saying that there is some sort of kernel issue and that the phone will not successfully flash anything over 4.4. I am not sure if that is my issue as I have seen posts with in the last year on this thread of people saying they had success. I wish I knew what the problem was. I need a rom that has atleast 6.0 on this s3 so I can install the recoil app for my son who got a recoil lazertag system for Christmas. I have found an alternative apk called simple coil but then he would not be able to use alot of the features the recoil gear can do. Any tips or pointers to a rom 6.0 or higher for this sprint version of the s3 would be greatly appreciated. All I need to work is google play wifi and gps maybe google maps.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Joker1716:
Could you provide info on the variant of s3 that you have the model, the carrier, etc. What os it's currently running. What baseband modem and bootloader it has installed. What was the last official stock rom it had installed. The more info the easier it will be to help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
Model number? Is it a triband s3? (Model number will end in L710T. Notice the t at the end. Also, look in "about phone" and post your baseband and any other info.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Cytherean2:
Dear joker, thanks a lot for the effort I put inyo building this rom. My s3 works like a new device running this ROM and I can finally run many apps that required newer versions of android. However I have a genuine question regarding the security of running a custom ROM such as this. How secure is a custom ROM exactly and does it need to be updated frequently to keep it running stable. I'm sorry if this sound like a stupid question but I'm not an advanced user. Thanks again.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
It's waaaay more secure than the old KitKat firmware this device died on. Check the security patch date in settings and you'll know where you're at.

Lineage is mainstream, and boasts security on par with pure AOSP. Read their info on their website.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] specialgreen:
For security updates, you can watch the list of security fixes at https://www.lineageoslog.com/14.1 (type "security" in the Filter box). Generally, the Security Patch Level is routinely updated to the 5th of each month unless a significant flaw has been fixed. You could update whenever there is an out-of-cycle Security Patch Level change (any change that is not to the 5th of the month), plus your own regular schedule to pick up minor fixes (like every X months).

Since this is an Unofficial build, the "Setings -> About phone -> LineageOS updates" will never show whether there are any new builds. You just need to download the new build and "dirty flash".
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Death_Gun:
sorry for taking me a while for giving my respond and review

so here's the thing, data works fine, but SMS is not and the gallery is taking a long time for loading and sometimes it doesn't show any pics and albums.

also, the file explorer crashes when I delete large data and sometimes it shows me files that I have already deleted it!

the camera app shows error sometimes when I open it and you have to restart your device to make it work again!

the status section in phone setting still gives "setting keeps stopping" and why the battery usage (battery consumption) goes down faster than the last build? also, why google play services takes a lot of data?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JakeG1984:
Thanks for the review death gun. I thought I'd chime in to say that I'm basically having none of these problems. I'm going to make another post describing my setup. It's been almost flawless and no one can believe me that I'm still running an s3.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JakeG1984:
Hey redulus, my best guess is that you need to delete your entire internal storage and all android related directories in your SD before flashing to a 6.0+ rom. Failing to do this has caused boot loops for me before. See my latest post (3-13) for my setup!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
He needs to format internal storage. A simple wipe won't do.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] JakeG1984:
Forgive my ignorance. In TRWP what's the difference between wipe and format for internal storage? If there's a difference how do you format internal instead of wipe?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
I forget the actual steps right now. It's the one that makes you type "yes" and swipe to confirm. I'll check

Update: in twrp, select wipe. You'll see 2 options above the swipe. One says format data.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Death_Gun:
can I flash it using twrp recovery without format internal storage, wipe data, wipe cache?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Joker1716:
If your are coming from a different rom then no. If your coming from one of theese previous roms then yes
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Death_Gun:
now, I'm using build 2-24-19

so I'm gonna flash the latest one you posted :good: