4.3 Update for Sprint Galaxy S3 has Arrived

[mouseglider]

Well downloaded it from XDA... It's alright I guess nothing really exciting to make me go WOW DAMN!...

Did you have to rename the file name from XDA from this "cffb350e111c431bcd19eea86e0d0e6816950053.USER_L710_SPR_MD4_to_MK3_Update_FWD.zip" to this "update.zip" before you went into recovery to installed it?

Thanks

 

[x893]

There seems to be a constant battery drain so far, at least for me. Anyone see notice anything from playing around for a bit?

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After install i did have to uninstall reinstall a couple apps. Moved most to sd card..... no problems there.
AfTer all that reboot again. .... everything is much faster now. Few settings well need to be tweaked though. ...turn off connection optimizer. Also stock keyboard has a new auto correct that is slightly annoying.
Still playing around though. ...... overall a big improvement IMO. Did notice it's using more ram than usual.....

 

[mak916]

Has anyone tested the move to SD Card for apps? I did this on my tablet and it just kind of moved them and some I had to reinstall. Anyone know if it TRULY works?

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I want to know this also.

 

[DWR_31]

Nice signal indicator ;-)

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[madsdad928]

I had to clear the data in download manager app. I kept getting a list of like 20 previous download notifications. Other than that I'm really liking this update. All the native apps were affected in some way, either in appearance or performance or both. The lag i was getting on 4.1.2(which wasn't bad) is gone. Almost like a new phone!

Sent from my SPH-L710

 

[madsdad928]

Do you have the SDK tools? If so run a logcat

Put this in a batch file or run it from adb shell:

adb logcat -d -f /sdcard/logcat.txt *:V

it should in the root of sdcard. search it for http and see if you can find the url for the update file...

I'm not rooted running bone stock. For what i do with my phone root access isn't necessary. Im not linux or coding literate and i worry about deleting things i shouldnt

Sent from my SPH-L710

 

[x893]

App 2 sd works fine. Music player shows i have no music and says i must connect to pc to drag and drop. The music files are still on phone and i can on the file to play. ..... just can't get player to import files

 

[kuoirad]

Does this apply to Virgin Mobile USA S3 since it's subsidiary of Sprint?

No, Samsung will have a separate release for Virgin - they've got a separate entry for "SPH-L710_NA_JU_VMU" on their open source page (Samsung Open Source Release Center).

 

[nuttyandroid]

No, Samsung will have a separate release for Virgin - they've got a separate entry for "SPH-L710_NA_JU_VMU" on their open source page (Samsung Open Source Release Center).

well it's out but is it safe for me to download?

 

[x893]

Just learned that music player only detects music saved on device storage. .... that sucks. It wouldn't detect my music until I copied to device music folder. ... I see no setting to change the save/destination folder

 

[meyerweb#CB]

That's up for discussion over at SamMobile.
Galaxy S4 and Note 3 to get Android 4.4 in January, S III and Note II before April 2014? | SamMobile

Source:
Leaked Samsung Memo Shows Some KitKat Love for the Galaxy Lineup | iTechAddict

I hope that's right, but at this point it's just a blog post. It also references only the i9300; Assuming Samsung does provide a build for the i9300, Sprint will determine whether we see it on our phones.

 

[Cnorris92]

Love the new Icons and the whole setup! Amazing! Now I can't wait till 4.4 is released! they're supposed to overhaul most of touchwiz! But by then, I'll probably on the next Galaxy! gs5 Can't wait!!
Great year ahead!

 

[Weazrbmxr]

So i just got the prompt about 5mins ago. Is it worth it to unroot and install it? Any really BIG changes/improvements?

 

[Cnorris92]

the toggle area is re-done. I'll take some screenshots.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fgck5dkhtl5d8jw/SftRyp2bDf
Look here. in a minute
refresh every so often

 

[BMIC50]

Anyone on Ting (MVNO of Sprint) get the update yet?

 

[Weazrbmxr]

the toggle area is re-done. I'll take some screenshots.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fgck5dkhtl5d8jw/SftRyp2bDf
Look here. in a minute
refresh every so often

Ok so it's similar to the S4 layout. I'll have to wait to download it though, comcast died on us out here today.

 

[Cnorris92]

Ok so it's similar to the S4 layout. I'll have to wait to download it though, comcast died on us out here today.

Yea, It's because that's the touchwiz layout and now we're on the same SW Version

 

[x893]

There seems to be a constant battery drain so far, at least for me. Anyone see notice anything from playing around for a bit?

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Yep LOTS of bloatware. ... Samsung print plugin. ....hp print plug in. ..... etc but most of it can be turned off. After turning off and tweaking my battery life seems to be improving. .... but it's quite tedious

 

[whoknows00100]

I didnt get no update on my s3 by sprint im on L710VPBMD4 will i get the 4.3 update?

 

[cb2367]

I wanted to try the manual update method, but when I connect my phone to my Windows 8.1 computer, the phone states that no programs were found that were compatible. Sometimes when I connect phone, Windows isn't even recognizing the device. Other times, Windows recognizes the device and asks what I want to do and then while looking at files on the phone through the computer, the folder representing the phone simply closes.

I also noticed that there is already an update file on the sd card that I think is about 85MB in size and is from 2011. Do I want to replace that file with the new larger update.zip?