So, my company gave us GS3s... And being a fan of custom roms, it is the first thing I did. Well through exchange our Network Admin could tell that it wasn't legit and told me to get it back to stock... Well, I flashed I747UCLG1 via odin and everything looks perfect. The problem is that I cannot upgrade to the latest firmware to I747UCLH9 that was release two weeks ago(ish). I keep getting a communication error, and Keis tells me I am already running the latest firmware.
At&t told me to return it because I am under the 30 day return period, but I would rather not get in trouble with work. Anyone have any ideas on how to get I747UCLH9 on my phone, or better yet how to get the phone to successfully use the OTAs....
Any help would be great!
did you try going to LH1 first, and then to LH9?
it was some time ago that I installed LH1 -- and then jumped to a JB leak, so I by-passed LH9 entirely but I remember liking LH1 and that is still the baseband I am on
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Alright folks, bear with me here...this one is odd because I've searched and all the SG3 references for 4.1.2. are custom ROM's. I was having some wonky issues with my Stock Rooted SG3 so I rolled it all the way back using the STOCK ICS version of the SG3 ROM for LP710. After I rolled it back...I freaked out because although the phone was fine, calls could be made, texts came in and all other functionality was good, however, I was getting a "SIM CARD NOT FOUND" message on my notification pane constantly. I was worried I had taken the stock ROM for the wrong carrier.
Instead of flashing it to the newest JB version of the sprint stock ROM...I chose to let it take the updates, see what happens. All in all I believe the phone took 4-5 updates total...and when it was all said and done, about halfway through the updates the sim card issue was gone. But then after I rooted it...I was using it a few hours and I realized some things just seemed different. So i grabbed my wifes SG3...completely stock non rooted phone. I noticed FIRST off that her version of JB was 4.1.1 and MY version is 4.1.2.
Did I miss something? What is Sprints latest ROM version for our SG3's? I've tried updating HER phone and it says it's "UP TO DATE" on ver. 4.1. What gives, anyone know what's up?
***EDIT*** I DID find some mention of 4.1.2 showing up on some Sprint users in diff. locations, but if I got it, why has my wife's phone not gotten it. Anyone else seeing this in Az. or otherwise? I also loaded up Kies and it says "your devices current firmware version is not supported to update firmware via Kies." WTH? All the updates were OTA updates...
Phederico said:
Alright folks, bear with me here...this one is odd because I've searched and all the SG3 references for 4.1.2. are custom ROM's. I was having some wonky issues with my Stock Rooted SG3 so I rolled it all the way back using the STOCK ICS version of the SG3 ROM for LP710. After I rolled it back...I freaked out because although the phone was fine, calls could be made, texts came in and all other functionality was good, however, I was getting a "SIM CARD NOT FOUND" message on my notification pane constantly. I was worried I had taken the stock ROM for the wrong carrier.
Instead of flashing it to the newest JB version of the sprint stock ROM...I chose to let it take the updates, see what happens. All in all I believe the phone took 4-5 updates total...and when it was all said and done, about halfway through the updates the sim card issue was gone. But then after I rooted it...I was using it a few hours and I realized some things just seemed different. So i grabbed my wifes SG3...completely stock non rooted phone. I noticed FIRST off that her version of JB was 4.1.0 (Methinks...i don't have it in front of me anymore) and MY version is 4.1.2.
Did I miss something? What is Sprints latest ROM version for our SG3's? I've tried updating HER phone and it says it's "UP TO DATE" on ver. 4.1. What gives, anyone know what's up?
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The latest version of SG3 for Sprint is MB1 (v4.1.2). I don't really have a good answer to why your wife's phone hasn't been getting the OTA updates (there have been 2 since LJ7: MA6 and MB1). If I recall correctly, MA6 was the one that brought you up to 4.1.2.
If you want to bring your wife's phone up-to-date, you can always flash the "purely stock files" over on Freeza's thread. You'd have to flash the updates starting at her version and each subsequent one (i.e. LJ7_to_MA6 before flashing MA6_to_MB1).
Hope this helps!
topherk said:
The latest version of SG3 for Sprint is MB1 (v4.1.2). I don't really have a good answer to why your wife's phone hasn't been getting the OTA updates (there have been 2 since LJ7: MA6 and MB1). If I recall correctly, MA6 was the one that brought you up to 4.1.2.
If you want to bring your wife's phone up-to-date, you can always flash the "purely stock files" over on Freeza's thread. You'd have to flash the updates starting at her version and each subsequent one (i.e. LJ7_to_MA6 before flashing MA6_to_MB1).
Hope this helps!
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Thanks for the speedy response topherk. Well, I figured it had to be legitimate and I saw updates behave this way back when I was on my EVO....but it not being supported in Kies kind of worries me.
My wifes gs3 has yet to get the update either. As far as the sim card issue i know that was a probably a while back with rooting, haven't seen much on the issue in 3-4 months.
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Speedin07si said:
My wifes gs3 has yet to get the update either. As far as the sim card issue i know that was a probably a while back with rooting, haven't seen much on the issue in 3-4 months.
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Interesting...worth noting is that although my version is 4.1.2, I don't seem to have the reported functionality (such as multi view page buddy, etc) and a few other things. ?????
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Interesting...worth noting is that although my version is 4.1.2, I don't seem to have the reported functionality (such as multi view page buddy, etc) and a few other things. ?????
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There is no multiview for the Sprint S3 in 4.1.2. You will have to waitnuntil we get 4.2.
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There is no multiview for the Sprint S3 in 4.1.2. You will have to waitnuntil we get 4.2.
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Ahh, ok Kenny, thanks good to know... I guess I'll just hang out with this build for a while and see what gives. I noticed that when I have the keyboard up, i can tap the T/Pencil icon and I can spell like on a tablet w/stylus. I don't remember being able to do that before. (reminds me of Palm O.S. although the Palm writing style doesn't work here)
I have searched countless threads for assistance. I have been able to root every phone I've had. I am finally having an issue with my GS4 from AT&T. I bought it back in May, but had to go out of the country for work before I could root it and I just got back this last week. It had received the updates from the server so it is now running the I337UCUAMF3 build. I ran Motochopper, but it said failed and no SU. I have tried utilizing Odin to revert back to the original firmware so that I can try running Motochopper, but when I try it shows fail when in the middle of running the program. I tried factory reset from within android and the stock recovery, but it just reverts back to the latest firmware. I tried going through Kies, but it won't do a recovery and says that it is only through the phone server. I have downloaded 10's of gigs of firmwares, motochoppers, loki flashes, etc.... I am officially lost and would love any assistance someone could offer, cause I would really like to get a better ROM installed like on my other phones.
Thank you
Read the gs4 forum. The info is there. You cant revert back to a later firmware. You can't use Loki or motochopper. All you can do now is root mf3 firmware and that process just became available a few days ago. Stop what your doing and read read and read.
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I have searched countless threads for assistance. I have been able to root every phone I've had. I am finally having an issue with my GS4 from AT&T. I bought it back in May, but had to go out of the country for work before I could root it and I just got back this last week. It had received the updates from the server so it is now running the I337UCUAMF3 build. I ran Motochopper, but it said failed and no SU. I have tried utilizing Odin to revert back to the original firmware so that I can try running Motochopper, but when I try it shows fail when in the middle of running the program. I tried factory reset from within android and the stock recovery, but it just reverts back to the latest firmware. I tried going through Kies, but it won't do a recovery and says that it is only through the phone server. I have downloaded 10's of gigs of firmwares, motochoppers, loki flashes, etc.... I am officially lost and would love any assistance someone could offer, cause I would really like to get a better ROM installed like on my other phones.
Thank you
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Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=44165374#post44165374
You are on MF3 build which means this is only root method that will work, but be careful what you do after rooting, currently there is no custom recovery available for the MF3 build due to locked bootloader and loki being patched and there is not any Odin images to restore stock firmware if need be yet. Once you upgrade to MF3 from MDL, there is no way to go back either.
Hope this helps!
Thank you so much for your help!! Much appreciation to all the techs out there for making all these sweet ROMs and roots!
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About a year and a half ago, I gave my father my T999L after I upgraded the phone. Since then it appears a 4.3 update has been released and in order to use his Galaxy Gear watch that he wanted for his birthday, he needs to upgrade. He wants to stick with a stock (or stock based) ROM and I need to get it taken care of for him today. When I had the phone, I was running Dandroid. Because I rooted, installed custom recovery, etc. it reads as modified software and will not receive the OTA even though I flashed returned it to stock before I gave it to him.
Any help would be great - apparently the 4.1.2 bootloader won't work with the 4.3 ROMs? Anyone have a link to something I can just use ODIN to flash and get it all done in one step? I assume the link here can do it? Hopefully...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687
Thanks in advance.
EDIT : Never mind, we're good. I got it figured out
i just encountered this issue the last few days and continues even after installing a new rom. im having trouble downloading files online or apps from the play store, its almost like the connection keeps getting disconnected and reconnected. im also having a problem playing a small online game called spades that worked fine a few days ago. its a card game so is not graphic intensive or take up alot of bandwidth.
another issue that ive just dealt with for months is rarely getting LTE data even though i should be getting according to the coverage map. im usually in wifi so it doesnt bother me too much but it got me thinking maybe i should look into installing another radio/modem which could possibly fix these issues. my current baseband is UCUFNJ2
You're running the latest modem for this phone, so there's nothing newer available. People have hard bricked the i747 on newer firmwares getting the bootloader and modem unmatched, so you have to be careful. We used to think the bootloader couldn't be downgraded at all post Knox, but it turns out you can downgrade as long as you don't go back a major version. There's a set of odin flashable files available. That's the only confirmed safe way I know to downgrade NJ2. Since you're already on NJ2, you have to stick with a 4.4.2 modem.
Safest thing to do, if you want to try out a different modem and just give the phone a fresh start would be odin back to stock NE4 4.4.2 using the files you can get from here.
From there you can test drive NE4 and see if it works any better. If you leave it stock it should offer to OTA to NJ1 and then back to NJ2 too, letting you fairly safely try out all the modems left available to you.
Some time ago I loaded a firmware onto my VZW S8+ (G955U) which I thought was a legitimate firmware. However, I've never been able to update the phone since. The firmware that I loaded was CRE1 and since loading that, no OTA updates have occurred and even trying to use the VZW update tool, I get an error saying no update for that firmware or something to that effect.
I assume that I would need to flash back to a base version 8 firmware and then see how things go from there but I haven't been able to locate a base v8 firmware - assuming that is the direction I need to go.
Can anyone advise? The phone is not rooted. I did see one other similar thread with CRE1 firmware from 2018 - I can try downloading the closest firmware to CRE9 that I can find, which is CRK9, and see if I can get it to load.
Other suggestions/ideas are welcome!
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So I essentially followed another post here and using Odin 3.13.1 I loaded CRK1, the oldest I could find that was near CRE1, and the phone came back up and pretty much immediately notified of an OTA update. About 12 or so OTA updates later and I'm at the current OTA release.
I'm having the same issue. I bought a VZW S8+ (G955U) from eBay Seller mistyelectronics that was supposed to be new in box. It has never updated since I received it almost a year ago. It stuck on Software Version G955USQS5DSE5. Any insight or advice to go the same route? I used Odin years ago. Where would I look for the files to load to the phone?
I appreciate any help you can give.