Verizon Galaxy S3: 4.3 update questions and issues!

[Happyfellow]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

My beefs -
1) I do not want a widget on my lock screen. I have figured how to turn on the clock and message, but I cannot get the alarm clock notice to vanish. I do not want to turn off the alarm clock, either (yes, that would fix the issue but then I would have to turn the alarm on and off all the time - lame).
2) the security pattern has shrunk! Not a huge issue, but now I have to look at the phone to unlock (again, not a huge issue)
3)I did have the issue with constant notices of downloading old files - to cure this you simply find the 'downloads' app, and then clear it through there. Clearing through the drag down from desktop doesn't solve the issue. You need to clear the downloads in the 'downloads' app. My apologies if this was already covered.

4) - anyone know how to remove the alarm clock notification from the lock screen widget? More crap that I do not need to see on my lock screen! Thanks.

Other than that - I am happy to have 4.3. Seems to run very smoothly and quickly on my S3.

 

[mina alphons]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

i have a problem with my GS3 i9300 ... when i upgrade to stock 4.3 my imei be like that 00041xxxxx0000
what should i do !!

 

[Gbuch]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

My beefs -
1) I do not want a widget on my lock screen. I have figured how to turn on the clock and message, but I cannot get the alarm clock notice to vanish. I do not want to turn off the alarm clock, either (yes, that would fix the issue but then I would have to turn the alarm on and off all the time - lame).
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4) - anyone know how to remove the alarm clock notification from the lock screen widget? More crap that I do not need to see on my lock screen! Thanks.

It's not ideal, but you could try another alarm software. One suggestion is Timely, which was recently bought by Google (nothing special about it, just syncing of alarms between devices and a nice interface, though I really liked the stock alarm widget, which is not available for Timely...)

 

[GSDer]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

when i upgrade to stock 4.3 my imei be like that 00041xxxxx0000
what should i do !!

Was your phone stock before you updated? If so, you should take the phone to your carrier and get them to deal with it - I don't think there's any way for you to fix a borked IMEI unless you have a backup of the /efs partition (which you're unlikely to have unless your phone was rooted and you were used to fiddling with ROMs).

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[katalinagirl]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

If you want to successfully roll back to 4.1.2 you can follow this instruction. This was created today by someone close to me and is the only successful way in which to do this with the now locked bootloader that was installed during the 4.3 update https://gist.github.com/revasm/8569644

 

[mina alphons]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

Was your phone stock before you updated? If so, you should take the phone to your carrier and get them to deal with it - I don't think there's any way for you to fix a borked IMEI unless you have a backup of the /efs partition (which you're unlikely to have unless your phone was rooted and you were used to fiddling with ROMs).

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I have efs partition backup .. my flash counter : 41 so i am a super user .... but when i restore it on 4.3 i get unknown baseband and unknown imei !!!
I must run 4.1.2 to have my imei back ... i can't update !

 

[ericlc2]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

This update has been a complete pain. Getting rid of this gs3 tonight, was a fun run.

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[katalinagirl]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

As I mentioned to you last night you can roll back to 4.1.2 but, must adhere to specific instruction to avoid bricking your phone. We put this technical document and packaged ROM/Kernel together for others after this 4.3 update impacted our S3 and in a not so positive way. For more technical specifics in regards to what Verizon did when they pushed this update out to your S3, it can be read in this technical document that provides instruction on safely rolling back to your original 4.1.2 ROM. You can access this at the following: https://gist.github.com/revasm/8569644

 

[Paul627g]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

Welcome to AC, katalinagirl. Thank you for dropping a helpful tip to the community.

Paul
Moderator Team Leader @ Android Central

 

[katalinagirl]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

Thank you, Paul627g, for your friendly welcome. The techinical doc that I posted had a typo that caused some confusion but has since been corrected and so as a result the URL changed for accessing it and was updated in both of my posts.

On another note and in response to a user here that pm'd me on here in regards to my post: Mention of this rollback and the link to the technical document: https://gist.github.com/revasm/8569644 was posted on XDA last night. Perhaps you didn't come across it is all.

 

[GSDer]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

Mention of this rollback and the link to the technical document was posted on XDA last night.

Would you care to comment on the difference between this approach and the use of Safestrap? This appears to give the user 4.1.2 with a locked bootloader, Recovery and kernel; Safestrap appears to give the user a locked bootloader but with a pseudo-recovery that allows the user to load different 4.3-based firmware (and kernels?).

Is there something in the 4.1.2 image that you've provided that prevents it from attempting to update to 4.3? That could be a real mess.

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[katalinagirl]

"Is there something in the 4.1.2 image that you've provided that prevents it from attempting to update to 4.3? That could be a real mess."

No, there are no modifications to this firmware image and you can install updates manually.

In addition, this roll back instruction was only created as a friendly service for those who aloud the full OTA update via Verizon and as a direct result ended up with many unfriendly incompatibility issues and have been unsuccessful in all attempts to fix some of these issues; this so they can have the option to safely roll back to the original 4.1.2 ROM and Kernel. The locked bootloader, ML1, that was installed during this 4.3 update remains unscathed as well as the 4.3 radio driver that was installed during this 4.3 update. As you are probably aware of by now the risk with this latest ML1 bootloader that was auto installed during this 4.3 update cannot, without consequence, be flashed back, let alone exploited, at least not yet. Some are working on it, including the person that wrote this simple instruction for those wishing to roll back to the original ROM. He's already updated the unfortunate news of his findings on XDA after disassembling both the ML1/MDK for both the S3 & S4. You can view these findings at https://gist.github.com/revasm/8572927 and the thread on XDA is forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2618887

Hope this is useful for you. ..

 

[chiro972]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

I have a question. Is there a way to make my phone stop asking me to update it every time I unlock it? My wife upgraded to 4.3 and has had lots of problems, so I am going to hold off but I would like to get rid of the full screen notice to update my system every time I unlock it.

Thanks all!

 

[katalinagirl]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

There is one suggestion located in the following thread listed below via rooting your phone (I personally don't know as I have not tested this scenario but am confident that this might be the permanent solution). This thread will also make mention that you can "Force stop" the SDM app in the Application Manager and that this will stop this from reoccurring in which is NOT true at all as it's not exactly as simple as that scenario. Good luck to you

http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...do-i-stop-4-3-update-notifications-my-s3.html

 

[pbuzzard]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

Since updating to Jelly Bean 4.3, my S3 locks up at least once a day. This is definitely associated with the update since i had this phone for 18 months and only had to pull the battery twice. Now, I've come to expect it. Additionally I have problems with some specific applications that seemed to crop up since the update. Words with friends will have occasional 'vibrating' screen episodes after submitting a move. Trivia (the real estate app) sometimes freezes when scrolling pictures.

 

[GSDer]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

Since updating to Jelly Bean 4.3, my S3 locks up at least once a day.

Which solutions have you already tried:
- clear system cache in Recovery mode?
- Factory Reset?

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[pbuzzard]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the two apps I mentioned. I just now went through and uninstalled 4 or 5 apps that I don't use any more. I also cleared the system cache, but not in recovery mode.

 

[GSDer]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

I also cleared the system cache, but not in recovery mode.

I'm not aware of any way to clear the system cache except in Recovery mode - the OS has to not be in use in order to do that.

Regardless, if none of the usual solutions pan out then it's time for a Factory Reset. It's not like you can boot up in Safe mode and prove anything since you won't be able to use those apps in that configuration.

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[5150angel]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

Just an FYI - I am NOT experiencing the battery drain some have spoken about. I keep my GPS on all the time and have not done anything different after the update and my battery life has not made any significant changes. In fact, I have no issues with the update... knock knock.

 

[5150angel]

Re: Galaxy S3 4.3 update questions and issues!

"Who's There?"! Lol ;-) I'm going to do a FR as soon as I am done browsing around. Thank You