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Hi Guys,
Soo.. I know this question might of come up like 100's of times BUT, I couldn't find anything for my needs . My question was, as a guy who is starting out on rooting/flashing/roms/themes etc, what do you recommend I use? Which rom and which themes?? (Want a rom with good features, and I am on JB btw)
Would appreciate your opinions...
Thanks!
I suggest you wait until AOKP ROM updates to JB. I had AOKP and it is beyond awesome
I am just rocking stock everything for now though
When will that be updated? Any estimates?
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soulja786 said:
When will that be updated? Any estimates?
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I'm not quite sure
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The CM10 Kang is also a good option. Lots of added features and more coming each day.
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The CM10 Kang is also a good option. Lots of added features and more coming each day.
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+1 CM10 is very good for starters since all you need to do to change most of the customizable things is change a setting! In other words no flashing themes necessary and since a lot of people use it, there is plenty of support and developers.
I just tried getting the new nightlies for jb on threads in dev section about a minute ago and they were all down, all of them. Aokp and cm10 look really nice and strentghful I think so and am switch a lot between ROMs now a days and loving it. My fav touchwiz is Jedi and I don't really know why, it must be a mysterious Jedi skill, and cm ROM will conclude this post with guru. Try them all guys. These ROMs are real blessings and you won't know until you lift it up. By the way thanx.
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I just tried getting the new nightlies for jb on threads in dev section about a minute ago and they were all down, all of them. Aokp and cm10 look really nice and strentghful I think so and am switch a lot between ROMs now a days and loving it. My fav touchwiz is Jedi and I don't really know why, it must be a mysterious Jedi skill, and cm ROM will conclude this post with guru. Try them all guys. These ROMs are real blessings and you won't know until you lift it up. By the way thanx.
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Goo has been having issues. Hope they get things in order
If it costs money let me know. Although I don't believe that money is the answer. It's easier I hope.
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Hopefully they dident get hacked
Or someone forgot to pay the electricity bill
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Seems like it's been down more than up lately.
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The web has some source of hardware issue.
I think I read somewhere else that the problem was a database that got killed by a glitched upgrade.
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The video is in Spanish... In the Youtube comments it's not clear if he already shared this ROM on XDA. I looked around, but I could not find it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33DoSZuS1ao&feature=player_embedded
I like the additions they added to the notification bar and I love Google Now. Can't wait for the update..whenever it gets here
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Looks good......better than what I expected. Touchwiz seems to be getting more nice every update!
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Looks good......better than what I expected. Touchwiz seems to be getting more nice every update!
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Yea I agree, I do prefer stock JB, but the current AOKP or CM builds just aren't stable enough for me. Touchwiz is perfectly fine though.
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wow.. i cant wait till there is a test version of this rom available for the masses. Im constantly going back between CM10 and Diet ICS/kyanROm. I simply dont have good battery life with ICS roms, but with CM10, its a day and night difference in terms of battery consumption. Only downside to Cm10 is that there is no access to netflix just yet.
But Cm10 is a work in progress (WIP), so it will get better, as it already has, in due time.
still prefer the pure bean!
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wow.. i cant wait till there is a test version of this rom available for the masses. Im constantly going back between CM10 and Diet ICS/kyanROm. I simply dont have good battery life with ICS roms, but with CM10, its a day and night difference in terms of battery consumption. Only downside to Cm10 is that there is no access to netflix just yet.
But Cm10 is a work in progress (WIP), so it will get better, as it already has, in due time.
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Yea once CM10 gets Netflix fixed I'm hoping back onboard. The only other thing that makes me stray away from CM is the vibration intensity... it's too damn strong
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Yea once CM10 gets Netflix fixed I'm hoping back onboard. The only other thing that makes me stray away from CM is the vibration intensity... it's too damn strong
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the difference in performance alone when you drop touchwiz is enough for me to deal with that stuff
i did kind of get used to s-voice, but it made the home button laggy and couldnt be bound to another gesture
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the difference in performance alone when you drop touchwiz is enough for me to deal with that stuff
i did kind of get used to s-voice, but it made the home button laggy and couldnt be bound to another gesture
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Yea CM10 with .5 transitions and animations is awesome for me. Wicked fast
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Can't wait for this.
As much as I love cm10 and aokp.
I just fell in love with touchwiz. Love all the features. I just wish some developers took touchwiz and made it better.. Don't understand why there's so much hate for it.
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^agreed
I couldn't bother with watching the full video. Sorry haha but was Google now featured
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I cant wait for this to leak for our phones. I have always hated touch wiz. But I have to admit, I don't mind it on the s3. From the looks of that video it looks like a good mash up.
Google now was featured. And it seems there are some problems with the build, at least if the thread on xda is any indication. Good to see Samsung is working on it though!
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I couldn't bother with watching the full video. Sorry haha but was Google now featured
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You can access Google now in multitasking window
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There's another video on youtube that shows off the leaked JB rom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1fDgP7YBWM
He probably just explains what the guy in the OP says but I couldn't understand that one because it was in spanish
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Can't wait for this.
As much as I love cm10 and aokp.
I just fell in love with touchwiz. Love all the features. I just wish some developers took touchwiz and made it better.. Don't understand why there's so much hate for it.
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There's another video on youtube that shows off the leaked JB rom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1fDgP7YBWM
He probably just explains what the guy in the OP says but I couldn't understand that one because it was in spanish
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OMG. Boner! I cant wait for this to be released
It was leaked to the international model today
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1836802
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Same here. I used to hate TouchWiz, but the one on SGS3 is pretty bearable and very smooth.
This JB leak is definitely welcome. Let's just remove that S voice and start using Google Now.
If someone can just port the camera app onto CM10, it will be golden.
What is currently considered the best 4.2 ROM in terms of features and stability? I'm looking for something in which I will not lose any functionality going from 4.1 (which I'm currently on) to 4.2. I tried checking out all the ASOP ROM threads, but it's a little difficult to get a feeling for what's working and what's not right now..
Thanks for the help. The main reason I'm looking to upgrade up to ASOP/4.2 is for Google Music All Access
In my opinion, Vanilla Root box is the best. It has features from CM10.1, AOKP and Paranoid Android.
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In my opinion, Vanilla Root box is the best. It has features from CM10.1, AOKP and Paranoid Android.
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Do you experience any issues with it? I was actually about to get that last night but decided against it because I couldn't find some more details about it. Thanks for the response btw.
Spleef's AOKP is fantastic. No real issues at all that I've found and it runs lighting fast.
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AOKP or Rootbox are the best at the moment, imo. Ran these the most and had minimal issues.
Rootbox or EOS
Really though, they are all quite stable and I encountered very few issues with any.
If Camera is important to you, however, my experience is that you should stick with something like Lifeless or a Stock ROM.
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Rootbox or EOS
Really though, they are all quite stable and I encountered very few issues with any.
If Camera is important to you, however, my experience is that you should stick with something like Lifeless or a Stock ROM.
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I agree with the camera part. I'm running beanstalk and it seems just as good as any other aosp ROM I've tried. However they all have the same camera problems. Even with the camera script it just isn't as fast and seems like the focus isn't quite right. Lifeless with epics camera mod is solid for taking great photos. I always keep a lifeless backup just for that reason.
Any more thoughts on this? I just recently unlocked and rooted my LGOG and am looking for a good, stable 4.2.2 rom? I'm coming from a rooted ns4g on rasbeanjelly which was super smooth, fast and had great battery life
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Any more thoughts on this? I just recently unlocked and rooted my LGOG and am looking for a good, stable 4.2.2 rom? I'm coming from a rooted ns4g on rasbeanjelly which was super smooth, fast and had great battery life
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Ouch, you really going to revive a "best" thread?
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Ouch, you really going to revive a "best" thread?
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You're really gonna answer my question with a question?
Well I'm hoping maybe someone that has tried rasbeanjelly can direct me to a rom with a similar feel.
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You're really gonna answer my question with a question?
Well I'm hoping maybe someone that has tried rasbeanjelly can direct me to a rom with a similar feel.
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Sorry, as a senior member it'd think you'd know better. Surprised a mod hasn't locked this yet.
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Sorry, as a senior member it'd think you'd know better. Surprised a mod hasn't locked this yet.
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Funny... I was just thinking the same thing. That you as a senior member should know what xda is about and that posting useless comments like the ones you've posted are the ones that get threads closed and not asking about others' opinions and experiences with ROMs they have used. So please allow someone to answer my question so we can possibly get some ROM discussion going and learn from each others' experiences.
...I like jelly beer...
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The first custom rom I've tried is vanilla RootBox... Flashed it yesterday and so far it's running great! Love the Dark RootBox option! Need to give it a couple of days to see about the battery life. My battery life on stock was pretty good... I'll give it a couple days and then post a screen shot
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Jelly Beer is the first 4.2 ROM I was man enough to try. I was concerned about bugs, but the only one I came across was for the GPS. It wasn't hard to fix, so I have no complaints.
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I would say Lifeless Rom. Just got my phone last Thursday, rooted it and put that Rom on there and havent tried any since. Rom is quick, no lag, you can have it as close to stock as you wanna and it even includes Aroma installer which has a ton of apps and tweaks you choose yourself.
Oh and EVERYTHING works! Cam, video, wifif, gps, LTE
its only 4.1.2 but its still good!
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Jelly Beer is the first 4.2 ROM I was man enough to try. I was concerned about bugs, but the only one I came across was for the GPS. It wasn't hard to fix, so I have no complaints.
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I would say Lifeless Rom. Just got my phone last Thursday, rooted it and put that Rom on there and havent tried any since. Rom is quick, no lag, you can have it as close to stock as you wanna and it even includes Aroma installer which has a ton of apps and tweaks you choose yourself.
Oh and EVERYTHING works! Cam, video, wifif, gps, LTE
its only 4.1.2 but its still good!
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Well I've had Vanilla Rootbox on for about a day and have had a couple of issues with it. Like I was rebooting my phone and after it shut off it didn't want to power up again
It took like 5 minutes for my phone to power on again... I was so scared... Then I had some issues trying to place a call. The call would not go through. Had to reboot and again it took a while before I could power it on...
I'll give this a couple more days... if issues continue I'll have to try another ROM.
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Well I've had Vanilla Rootbox on for about a day and have had a couple of issues with it. Like I was rebooting my phone and after it shut off it didn't want to power up again
It took like 5 minutes for my phone to power on again... I was so scared... Then I had some issues trying to place a call. The call would not go through. Had to reboot and again it took a while before I could power it on...
I'll give this a couple more days... if issues continue I'll have to try another ROM.
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I'm very interested in your results. I've been passively looking for a ROM since discovering gMusic All Access doesn't work on LGOG. Thanks for posting.
I've used beanstalk, vanilla root box, and now I'm currently on jelly beer. Personally, I'm liking jelly beer the most but I'm noticing that my battery life is lacking a little however I have only had it for one day so I'm sure theres some tweaking I could do
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I've used beanstalk, vanilla root box, and now I'm currently on jelly beer. Personally, I'm liking jelly beer the most but I'm noticing that my battery life is lacking a little however I have only had it for one day so I'm sure theres some tweaking I could do
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What you like about jelly Beer?
I had to ditch Rootbox cuz it was too inconsistent. I'd try to make calls and they'd just hang up, people would get multiple of the same text messages, and I could not hang up at times. I'd push the end button and it would hang up until the person on the other line would.
I'm currently on Beanstalk. So far haven't encountered any issues other than the occasional screen flicker and that the gps won't lock. I love the Darkstalk option too!
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Or Has The Development For This Phone Seriously Slowed Down?
The S4 came out. Many are working on both devices or more, 5 or so Roms just got updated I wouldn't see that as slowing down very much. This is also the time a lot of people get the used device to Dev on so many may come to our community as well. If you get "bored" you can try to build yourself or use att Roms also, so long as they don't have their updater-script device specific.
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I think the above is true. It's just not shiny enough anymore. I still love it though!
Another aspect, from a development point of view is: why? Why develop for the S3? It's already over-saturated with (mostly) TW and AOSP ROMs. And one ROM is pretty much the same as the next. What I'm trying to say is, nobody is going to reinvent the wheel, because there is nothing wrong with the one we're using. If I'm being honest, we already have a ridiculously large selection of ROMs to choose from. There's not really anything to update.
Well over in sprint forum we have cnexus working on the sense five rom...i dont think its slowing to much
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There is always a slow down between major Android releases as well. We will see a huge uptick once 4.2-based TW ROMs launch and even more when key lime pie launches.
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People have to deal with life too.. Me I dont stay on the computer all the time cooking roms, I start on working on something and I leave it and then go to it again. Right now im in the moving process so I dont get much time as I used to on the computer.
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Yup, I'm a great example! I was gone for what, almost 6 months I think. Real life comes first for sure!
As far as roms go, I'd much rather have just a few really solid ones than anything.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Yup, I'm a great example! I was gone for what, almost 6 months I think. Real life comes first for sure!
As far as roms go, I'd much rather have just a few really solid ones than anything.
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This!!! And further more like aerowinder stated, there isn't much more that can be done. Almost all AOSP Roms have the same issues and will continue to for the most part, they all use the same overall base for the most part, if one has more "features" it is more prone to breaks, same goes for TouchWiz Roms. The more stuff messed with and customized the larger the chance for breaks. I think the forum is bloated as is but thats not a problem as it gives options.
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Im just hoping on a ubuntu build just for the hell of trying something new but other then that rocking miui v5 because every aosp rom is about the same so are the touchwiz one's..
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This!!! And further more like aerowinder stated, there isn't much more that can be done. Almost all AOSP Roms have the same issues and will continue to for the most part, they all use the same overall base for the most part, if one has more "features" it is more prone to breaks, same goes for TouchWiz Roms. The more stuff messed with and customized the larger the chance for breaks. I think the forum is bloated as is but thats not a problem as it gives options.
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I completely agree with this, I find roms that are closest to stock, AOSP or Touchwiz, to be the ones that are the most pleasant to use.
Not trying to bash all the hard core rom cooks out there who packs in features into their roms, it is just my preference. You guys are doing an excellent job.
I know how much work it takes to develop a piece of software, especially when working by yourself or a tiny team. And for free.
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Im just hoping on a ubuntu build just for the hell of trying something new but other then that rocking miui v5 because every aosp rom is about the same so are the touchwiz one's..
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I'm watching Ubuntu development and its not progressed any further on the kernel level than the last kernel I posted - it's in Development if you want to try out the OS but nothing works. I have to wait for Ubuntu to update the kernel source... They're still using 4.1.2 source code which is what they launched with. They need to work on the kernel before it's going to be any use.
First release isn't until October so I don't think they are going to do much kernel development right now and instead they're going to focus on app development
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I'm watching Ubuntu development and its not progressed any further on the kernel level than the last kernel I posted - it's in Development if you want to try out the OS but nothing works. I have to wait for Ubuntu to update the kernel source... They're still using 4.1.2 source code which is what they launched with. They need to work on the kernel before it's going to be any use.
First release isn't until October so I don't think they are going to do much kernel development right now and instead they're going to focus on app development
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Oh well i guess I'll wait until then and see what they will bring to the table but until then miui v5 ftw !
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No one is working to port 4.2.2 update to our phone..
I am relatively new to S3,, is it really difficult to get 4.2.2 from international s3?
and in original android development, besides cm, paranoid asop roms there is nothing else.
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No one is working to port 4.2.2 update to our phone..
I am relatively new to S3,, is it really difficult to get 4.2.2 from international s3?
and in original android development, besides cm, paranoid asop roms there is nothing else.
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It is not possible to port international ROMs to the Us S3. Entirely different hardware. We will have to wait for an official 4.2.2 release or rely on AOKP, AOSP, CM, etc.
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It is not possible to port international ROMs to the Us S3. Entirely different hardware. We will have to wait for an official 4.2.2 release or rely on AOKP, AOSP, CM, etc.
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I've been thinking about porting it over but been super busy lately.. Using a CM10.1 based rom to port the international 4.2.2 update..
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I've been thinking about porting it over but been super busy lately.. Using a CM10.1 based rom to port the international 4.2.2 update..
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That's quite the project you are thinking about undertaking!
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That is typical after a device has been out for a year or so... It will slow down a bit.
I wouldn't worry too much, though. Our devices are going to get the 4.2.2 update... Things will pick up again.
I heard a leak may be exposed within the week. Rumor, of course... But from Samobile.com, they are typically a good source of information for stuff like that.
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Really?! That would be awesome! I had so much fun back when we would get weekly leaks!
Can you link to where you saw that?
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Really?! That would be awesome! I had so much fun back when we would get weekly leaks!
Can you link to where you saw that?
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Seems to be in the comments here:
http://www.sammobile.com/2013/06/19/sammobile-prepare-your-flagship-device/
Can't find much else about it but I guess we'll know tomorrow?
I found this... it seems that a fixed leak for the international version is what's coming...
http://androidworld.nl/nieuws/perfecte-testversie-android-422-update-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-onderweg/
Lol
I couldn't help but laugh a little at all those comments.
But I can just about guarantee its not for any of the US versions.
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Lol
I couldn't help but laugh a little at all those comments.
But I can just about guarantee its not for any of the US versions.
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Yeah I about lost my mind trying to keep up with some of those comments haha.
It looks like its the I9300 for sure though, we haven't even had one test build for US variants and it makes sense, especially with all the features of the S4 that Samsung is porting over. Like it or not, they are always going to update Exynos devices before Qualcomm, especially when it comes to the S3 because of the relatively large disparity between the performance of the two versions.