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Originally Posted by
jspock if it is not tied to the O2 network then why the full screen O2 logo?
The GT-i9300 (the International variant) is a strange bird. It's not carrier-locked (you can use whichever carrier SIM you have) but there are different flavors of firmware for the various countries/carriers which allow things like the language, etc to be customized to the locale. And as you would see if you looked through the list of all of the firmware available for the GT-i9300, some carriers choose not to update to certain versions of firmware (or they're late to adopt it) depending on their support decisions.
So the phone that you have had a base O2 firmware loaded on it - there's nothing wrong with that (other than if the splash screen really annoys you). What country/carrier are you with?
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