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[Q]How to flash other S3 ROMs to the Tmobile S3

Hello, I was curious if you can flash ROMs from the S3's from other carriers besides T-Mobile and also flash ROMs from the international forums. I remeber back when i had my Vibrant all you would have to do is flash the correct boot.img and also replace the keylayout file. Is it as simple as flashing a tmobile boot.img since the keys are all the same? Thank you in advance.

don't do it.
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There is a possibility of sharing ROMs with the AT&T model. If you go check out their forum, there are a couple of ROMs which people have successfully flashed on the T-Mobile model. Search the threads and flash at your own risk!

vinvam said:
There is a possibility of sharing ROMs with the AT&T model. If you go check out their forum, there are a couple of ROMs which people have successfully flashed on the T-Mobile model. Search the threads and flash at your own risk!
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That is totally true. On the Hercules you could flash the skyrocket roms. But the T-Mobile ones are usually better. The att ones are really only better when att leaks first.
Don't do it was an oversimplification, however.
Just heard about too many people flashing the international roms.
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Android_Monsters said:
That is totally true. On the Hercules you could flash the skyrocket roms. But the T-Mobile ones are usually better. The att ones are really only better when att leaks first.
Don't do it was an oversimplification, however.
Just heard about too many people flashing the international roms.
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So there isnt a way to flash the international ROMs? Without bricking

blackoakx22 said:
So there isnt a way to flash the international ROMs? Without bricking
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Nope, the hardware internally is too different. I doubt there'll be an easy method to port the ROMs either.
The AT&T ROMs on the other hand should be fairly easy to port and I think there is a group working towards this goal.

You will lose your insurance.
Just to let you know, you will lose your phone's insurance, this is not the same as the 90 day warranty. I remember I had flashed my vibrant to a rom using the international model, about six months later I got a letter in the mail saying assurion would no longer insure my phone, because it wasn't the right model. I might have been able to add the text file that adds the correct model number, but I don't know if that really works or how to I it.

xdarooted said:
Just to let you know, you will lose your phone's insurance, this is not the same as the 90 day warranty. I remember I had flashed my vibrant to a rom using the international model, about six months later I got a letter in the mail saying assurion would no longer insure my phone, because it wasn't the right model. I might have been able to add the text file that adds the correct model number, but I don't know if that really works or how to I it.
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In this case they could have seen the flashing being done and the changing of the build.prop file. That would make the most sense to me.

You obviously haven't been reading...heck go for it.
You CAN NOT do other roms, as was stated, the hardware is different.

Not that hard to search. Do it and report back with results.
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blackoakx22 said:
Hello, I was curious if you can flash ROMs from the S3's from other carriers besides T-Mobile and also flash ROMs from the international forums. I remeber back when i had my Vibrant all you would have to do is flash the correct boot.img and also replace the keylayout file. Is it as simple as flashing a tmobile boot.img since the keys are all the same? Thank you in advance.
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neverrrr do that lol. Unless you want a bricked phone. Only flash roms from your carrier.

dannyyyyy said:
neverrrr do that lol. Unless you want a bricked phone. Only flash roms from your carrier.
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AT&T ROMs and even Sprint ROMs work just fine if you configure APN settings.
Roms from the international S3 WILL brick your phone.
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what he said above me is correct, ive flashed both carriers to mine and it went flawlessly
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don't do it.
or try att rom

why? why would anyone need to flash a ROM from a completely different carrier?

Cobra281 said:
why? why would anyone need to flash a ROM from a completely different carrier?
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Because some of the other ROMs have features ours might not? Who cares as long as they don't flash an i9300 ROM they'll be fine.
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joshnichols189 said:
Because some of the other ROMs have features ours might not? Who cares as long as they don't flash an i9300 ROM they'll be fine.
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true, but it is risky. also, do sprint and verizon ROMs work, verifiably?

Cobra281 said:
true, but it is risky. also, do sprint and verizon ROMs work, verifiably?
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Apparently Sprint's do, but Verizon's a no-go right now because they have some additional SIM verification.

Cobra281 said:
true, but it is risky. also, do sprint and verizon ROMs work, verifiably?
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Risky is an i9300 rom because the SoC is 100% different. We all have the same SoC so it's not as big of a deal.

joshnichols189 said:
AT&T ROMs and even Sprint ROMs work just fine if you configure APN settings.
Roms from the international S3 WILL brick your phone.
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Hey,
How do you configure the apn settings? I'm on an att rom and love it, on wifi it is fine but when it says 4g away from wifi no luck with service. I can get edge, but that is it.
thanks,
BillY
Ok I figured it out but I cant get the att apn to stick does the phone have to be unlocked?

International N7105 firmware confirmed working on i317!!!

For any of you who want to have your cake and eat it too, you can now flash the international N7105 firmware onto your AT&T branded i317!
What does this mean? It means that you can give AT&T the middle finger by having unlocked firmware with none of the restrictions and bloatware. By extension, this also means that you can benefit from the development going on for the international devices.
Finally, this also means that you can reap all those benefits without sacrificing LTE access in North America!
Now that this has been confirmed to work with the i317, I wonder if the T889 is next...
Check out the main thread over here.

This is nothing new.
Well known information.

NightHawkUndead said:
This is nothing new.
Well known information.
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News to me

Anyway this can help us with the n7100 roms?
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Jt004 said:
Anyway this can help us with the n7100 roms?
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Check this out

I'm confused now. Is there an international ROM we can just flash onto our at&t device?
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NightHawkUndead said:
This is nothing new.
Well known information.
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news to me. Just got device a week ago. Was wondering why most mods were compatible.
Why do we have only 5 of the same roms in development section?

ekerbuddyeker said:
I'm confused now. Is there an international ROM we can just flash onto our at&t device?
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We tried flashing the international N7105 firmware onto the i317 using Odin, but that didn't work. However, the procedure seems to be working if, instead of using Odin, you flash a re-packaged stock N7105 firmware using a custom recovery like CWM or TWRP, just like flashing any other custom ROM. Once that's done, just flash the AT&T modem/kernel, and you're all set!
Unfortunately, there hasn't been much development for the N7105 yet. Root, CWM, deodexing and all the other basics are there, but that's all for the moment. Devs are still trying to work out N7100/N7105 inter-compatibility. N7100 firmware will flash to an N7105, but the modem won't work, so that's pretty useless, and that's what we're all trying to fix.
At least, in the mean time, you can enjoy a stock N7105 experience in North America without AT&T/Rogers sticking their fingers in the pie

Is the 7100 the non LTE version and 7105 LTE? If this allows us to get FM Radio on our North American Note 2s, I'm going to be very happy!
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Sword Fish said:
Is the 7100 the non LTE version and 7105 LTE? If this allows us to get FM Radio on our North American Note 2s, I'm going to be very happy!
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No, fm radio is built into the specific device
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Jade Eyed Wolf said:
For any of you who want to have your cake and eat it too, you can now flash the international N7105 firmware onto your AT&T branded i317!
What does this mean? It means that you can give AT&T the middle finger by having unlocked firmware with none of the restrictions and bloatware. By extension, this also means that you can benefit from the development going on for the international devices.
Finally, this also means that you can reap all those benefits without sacrificing LTE access in North America!
Now that this has been confirmed to work with the i317, I wonder if the T889 is next...
Check out the main thread over here.
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Very nice.
Upon thinking about it. I believe there is a way to use this method to give us international firmware and also retain our NA CSC's so we keep carrier specific settings such as Wi-Fi access, Fast dormancy and the like too.
Currently working on it and will get back to people once I am finished.
Glad to see someone else was working on this as it was something I wanted to get around to messing with but have been busy poking into Bootloaders and dialer codes.

Jt004 said:
No, fm radio is built into the specific device
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Agreed however, no one knows for sure it isn't present in our devices and that Samsung just removed the driver at the request of the greedy NA companies. They don't want us listening to something for free when they can force us to connect and use data. Maybe the driver is in the 7105 firmware...

My phone is rooted, what is so good/different about the international version?

Ghetto Geeksta said:
My phone is rooted, what is so good/different about the international version?
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Read this for the in-a-nutshell version.

Works great for me on my i317.
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I installed this on my At&t Note 2 its feels suoerfast and no At&t crap.
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dbzgod said:
Very nice.
Upon thinking about it. I believe there is a way to use this method to give us international firmware and also retain our NA CSC's so we keep carrier specific settings such as Wi-Fi access, Fast dormancy and the like too.
Currently working on it and will get back to people once I am finished.
Glad to see someone else was working on this as it was something I wanted to get around to messing with but have been busy poking into Bootloaders and dialer codes.
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Did what Miscom had done and got the latest GT-I7105 Unbranded firmware release LJ5, with this one I injected the Canadian CSC's and everything seems to be working except a few carrier apps that check for the proper model number they would force close on me.
Going over this firmware, seems okay but doesn't seem to be any better then the stock LJ2 that came with the phone.
My main hope with using an international firmware would be unlocked dialer codes, and I was correct in my testing, any carrier locked dialer codes are controller within the firmware + check what CSC you have as well.
Got some working that I couldn't before hand, however the main one that I wanted to use was the *#7465625# to view network lock status, it was one that I couldn't get working, but I believe that it wasn't working because my phone is already a factory unlocked one so to really know for sure I'd half to have one that is known to be locked.
Anyways, glad this experiment worked, I will definitely be looking at this again in the future, however I know that the Samsung Canada is planning on releasing an updated firmware for the phone at the same time or soon after the Canadian S3's get their Jelly Bean updated, and it is also rumored that they will be 4.1.2 as well. So with this possibility I will be going back to Bell's Stock firmware and see what we get in a few weeks.

ROM is up
Please visit http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2016575 to download it.

News to me too
Now, I've got to convince my wife to let me have it for flashing.
Oh, does this mean you can do MultiView as well??
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dvdmkr said:
News to me too
Now, I've got to convince my wife to let me have it for flashing.
Oh, does this mean you can do MultiView as well??
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To my understanding, yes. I am downloading it now and will be flashing it shortly. I'm curious if the Wallet issues were NA specific to ATT as well? I should reread those threads to see what the problem was...

Good news

Not sure if its already confirmed but I found that sprint and verizon roms work for us on tmobile
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Link?
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Hoezack said:
Link?
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Theres no link, I installed and tested myself. Im running JellyBombed now. After installing rom, install our modem and a tmobile kernel.good to go
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I tried all of the rooms and they don't work only att room and the international 7005 bit don't tried verison or sprint all of them include the radio so don't make a mistake and damage your phone

pegapega02 said:
I tried all of the rooms and they don't work only att room and the international 7005 bit don't tried verison or sprint all of them include the radio so don't make a mistake and damage your phone
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Most custom ROM's are without radios. You can always pull the radio and edit the update script.
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Yes you can edit the update scrip tried a sprint room they have the radio the only ones that dont have it are the cm 10.1 but we have cm10.1 why should we flash a room that we alredy have and we dont have edit the update scrip well thats my opinion

pegapega02 said:
Yes you can edit the update scrip tried a sprint room they have the radio the only ones that dont have it are the cm 10.1 but we have cm10.1 why should we flash a room that we alredy have and we dont have edit the update scrip well thats my opinion
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So you say we can't because you are lazy? If you want a sprint or Verizon rom you would be willing to remove the radio file and update the script (honestly 2 minutes of work).
I can confirm I had the 4.1 version of sprints PA ROM (was out before ours or ATT) working, I needed tmobile radio and kernel (took from early port of CM10) and needed an APN app to set APNS as settings APN selector force closed on me.
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_Dennis_ said:
So you say we can't because you are lazy? If you want a sprint or Verizon rom you would be willing to remove the radio file and update the script (honestly 2 minutes of work).
I can confirm I had the 4.1 version of sprints PA ROM (was out before ours or ATT) working, I needed tmobile radio and kernel (took from early port of CM10) and needed an APN app to set APNS as settings APN selector force closed on me.
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Where wpuld I find the radio files? I tried the popular roms on both verizon and spring and can confirm by simply flashing roms, modem and kernel for tmo I got them up and running, im trying to get jelly beans on verizon working now but I get no data. It says tmobile in the drop down, but data wont connect
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rambo8987 said:
Where wpuld I find the radio files? I tried the popular roms on both verizon and spring and can confirm by simply flashing roms, modem and kernel for tmo I got them up and running, im trying to get jelly beans on verizon working now but I get no data. It says tmobile in the drop down, but data wont connect
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The radio you get from the development forum. you have a good radio if you get T-Mobile signal. Try downloading HiAPN Global or see if you can change the APNs in the settings menu, I would bet you the APN for T-Mobile is not there.

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_Dennis_ said:
So you say we can't because you are lazy? If you want a sprint or Verizon rom you would be willing to remove the radio file and update the script (honestly 2 minutes of work).
I can confirm I had the 4.1 version of sprints PA ROM (was out before ours or ATT) working, I needed tmobile radio and kernel (took from early port of CM10) and needed an APN app to set APNS as settings APN selector force closed on me.
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pegapega02 has been lazy about roms for what feels like eternity, I wouldn't sweat it.
A week ago I tested exactly what you mentioned here... a sprint rom with the tmobile radio. Worked like a champ. Ended up going back to Teshxx's deodexed t-mobile rob because at the end of the day, every single thing works right out of the box, including the themes I want to install on top.
How did you get around the APN force close issue?

mdt73 said:
pegapega02 has been lazy about roms for what feels like eternity, I wouldn't sweat it.
A week ago I tested exactly what you mentioned here... a sprint rom with the tmobile radio. Worked like a champ. Ended up going back to Teshxx's deodexed t-mobile rob because at the end of the day, every single thing works right out of the box, including the themes I want to install on top.
How did you get around the APN force close issue?
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HIAPN global injects the apn, gets around the force closure.
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pegapega02 said:
I tried all of the rooms and they don't work only att room and the international 7005 bit don't tried verison or sprint all of them include the radio so don't make a mistake and damage your phone
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In case you need to keep an eye on the ROMs, here is an up-to-date list.

[Q] purchasing apps with carrier?

So I was able to purchase app through tmobile before I rooted and flashed a custom rom. But now when I try to attempt to purchase it tells me account can't be verified. Now I check my tmobile settings and nothing has changed. I even tried several roms but still no luck anyone else have this problem? Or know of a solution
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I just switched to T-Mobile and had this problem so I called 611 and the person told me T-Mobile is doing something on it side that is making this problem happen should be fixed in 72 hours and there gonna call back to make sure it working again so I will give a update when it does

inick73376 said:
I just switched to T-Mobile and had this problem so I called 611 and the person told me T-Mobile is doing something on it side that is making this problem happen should be fixed in 72 hours and there gonna call back to make sure it working again so I will give a update when it does
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Thanks mate! Ive been with T-mobile and it was working fine before I rooted and flashed a custom rom. I appreciate the response :thumbup:
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I don't know if I wanna root just yet as I love this phone with TW the way it is but hopefully I can do billing to carrier with a day or so

inick73376 said:
I don't know if I wanna root just yet as I love this phone with TW the way it is but hopefully I can do billing to carrier with a day or so
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I was the same way I got my phone on the 3rd day of july I too actually love TW and I rooted and flashed a customed rom Ive almost tried them all... not very many TW roms. But the ones that are there are really awesome.. I like Wicked V7, The Little Minions, GoldenEye they all have features that are sweet. If you like stock all three has TW, Golden Eye has the stock look and also has apps2sd.
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Thank's so Stock TW doesn't have apps2sd? if not then that odd

inick73376 said:
Thank's so Stock TW doesn't have apps2sd? if not then that odd
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Welk my stock unrooted tmobile galaxy s4 4.2.2. Doesnt have app2sd.... I know verizon, sprint, and att got an update that has app2sd but tmobile never pushed out the update... that's why I rooted
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inick73376 said:
I don't know if I wanna root just yet as I love this phone with TW the way it is but hopefully I can do billing to carrier with a day or so
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Stock battery life will most likely force you to root.
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yeah I may just have to root but eh everytime I root I always go full into it it just not superuser only it I gotta do and ect... xD

(Q) Has anyone gotten the AT&T 4.3 update?

While browsing Samsungs website I happened to click on our Note 2 model i317 and under OS it says 4.3, my question is has been released already? Ive been testing the international 4.3 builds, I would love to test an official rooted deoxed version. I found the info here... http://m.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SGH-I317ZWAATT#specs
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I haven't heard anything, This probably means that because Samsung gave At&t the update that it's just waiting for them to push it to us. Should be really soon, sprint already has theirs and I read that T-Mobilw just got theirs out
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Sprint's update is out, T-Mobile's is out, US Cellular's is out, Verizon's dropped today and we wait. Funny that AT&T was supposed to one of the earliest updates on the leaked list but we still wait. I just want it to get into the hands of the TW ROM teams, Ditto Note, Sky Note and Jedi so I can see what they do with it.

Yeah, my contract is up in January and I don't think I'm going to stick with AT&T. It seems like they really don't update their phones if they don't absolutely have to. =/

Thank God I am not with At&t and I am pretty sure this note will be the last phone I get that is At&t branded phone with how they are locking up their phones
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What is the latest version from AT&T? I am still on 4.1.2. If I am in a different country will I still get an update if AT&T releases on update? Every time I check for an update it always says that I have the latest update.
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I don't think that the update will be far behind the other carriers. At&t always waits till the last possible moment for anything. My guess is that it wont be an OTA but thru Kies which will suck cause my CPU just crashed on me the other day
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ProFresh4 said:
I don't think that the update will be far behind the other carriers. At&t always waits till the last possible moment for anything. My guess is that it wont be an OTA but thru Kies which will suck cause my CPU just crashed on me the other day
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Well as far as I can tell they're already the last carrier to push the update. The only question now is "WHEN?" (if ever, heh...)
As for Kies, I highly doubt it. Every other update was always OTA. Kies is just a convenience factor.

Refurbished units and warranty replacement devices reportedly have 4.3 loaded..
Of course ...no love for the current users ...again....g
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Well, I don't think anyone should be in a rush to update,
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/1...ague-galaxy-s4-galaxy-s3-galaxy-note-2-users/

Here is the 4.3 update from AT&T http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2497994 :good:

jibust said:
Well, I don't think anyone should be in a rush to update,
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/1...ague-galaxy-s4-galaxy-s3-galaxy-note-2-users/
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No rush here brother. ..
I won't take it anyway. ..
The devs need some alone time with it first. ..g
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gregsarg said:
No rush here brother. ..
I won't take it anyway. ..
The devs need some alone time with it first. ..g
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I thought you only ran AOSP roms. Don't tell me you are cheating on AOSP with TW.

Att.Fan1982 said:
Here is the 4.3 update from AT&T http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2497994 :good:
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An official 4.3 update is available now.
http://www.sammobile.com/2013/12/17/atts-galaxy-note-ii-receiving-android-4-3-update-i317ucubmk6/

jibust said:
I thought you only ran AOSP roms. Don't tell me you are cheating on AOSP with TW.
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Uh....gotta go....LOL

Update is failing... I think it's b/c I removed some Sammy bloat apps.
I've never had to go back to stock / unroot. Is there a guide? Is there a stock SGH-I317 UCAMC3 zip in this forum I can use with odin?
-J
(Yes, I searched a ton and only found some questionable non-xda guides.)

jdnyc said:
Update is failing... I think it's b/c I removed some Sammy bloat apps.
I've never had to go back to stock / unroot. Is there a guide? Is there a stock SGH-I317 UCAMC3 zip in this forum I can use with odin?
-J
(Yes, I searched a ton and only found some questionable non-xda guides.)
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2275844

figyu said:
An official 4.3 update is available now.
http://www.sammobile.com/2013/12/17/atts-galaxy-note-ii-receiving-android-4-3-update-i317ucubmk6/
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I bet that "official" update won't have any note 3 spen features or multi window features integrated into it!
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Just got update on my GT-I9300 international version unlocked, got installed successfully but then apps started giving problem, crashing multiple time, unable to launch. So had to reset, works fine now.
One thing! I felt my phone was damn slow after the update.
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