Galaxy S3 (Verizon)

[JGoosey52]

From XDA

If your previous phone was only capable of 3G - remember we had to dial *228 to activate it or update our PRL? Well, DO NOT dial this on a 4G phone. Constantly dialing *228 on our Galaxy S3s has the potential to fry the SIM cards rendering our phones useless. With 4G phones, the PRL is automatically pushed to the phone via the SIM card and should be given periodic updates by Verizon.

So if i already went through the update (stupidly) it seems to have taken away my 4g. Do I just need a new sim card?

 

[JGoosey52]

Go for it bro.

I would root it right off the bat and run beans build 6 ROM its the best ROM out for it now.

I have the phone now! I just haven't decided if i want to root it. I am very experienced at rooting since that's all i did with my Droid 2 and X, but I care about this phone more

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

hmm not sure if i should root my gf's S3 either...

once you root factory updates must be a PITA to handle. personally once you root you need to decide to move off to custom ROMs. it's kinda annoying. i remember her incredible 2 got slower and slower and took 10 minutes to boot. she didn't do anything with the root ability except to take screenshots. finally i wiped it down and put CM9 and it was 200x faster.... but that's a huge jump to leave sense or whatever bloated UI you're used to.

I'm a CM guy so if I were to have an SGS3 it'd have CM9 within the hour of opening the box..

 

[georgec84]

I'm holding off on rooting until Jelly Bean ROMs are set.

Also, it doesn't seem like there is a way to block OTA updates if you're rooted, so if your phone automatically downloads an update while rooted that could screw things up.

I'm sort of a noob to rooting and flashing, so maybe I'm not correct with the above, but I just want to wait it out for awhile.

 

[Zaap]

I'm very happy with the phone right now-as is, unrooted. (Usually I root everything I get my hands on, but see little reason to on the SGS3 yet.) I can hide or disable all of the bloatware, and stock performance is great, so that works for me for now. When/if there's a near perfect JB ROM I may go for that.

 

[grkM3]

I'm very happy with the phone right now-as is, unrooted. (Usually I root everything I get my hands on, but see little reason to on the SGS3 yet.) I can hide or disable all of the bloatware, and stock performance is great, so that works for me for now. When/if there's a near perfect JB ROM I may go for that.

You do know there are a few stock ROMs out there with just root access added to them right?.

Root it for at least the use of tethering apps and overclocking

Rooted the s3 5 min after using lol

I hated the 50 pop ups that tell you to connect threw WiFi and it always being in the drop down and hated all the bloat running like 2 or 3 headphones popping up asking you to use an app once plugged in.

Its like they went out of there way to make it to easy to use.they must of thought ios users could not figure out how to turn on WiFi or how to play music using android. Lol

 

[RockinZ28]

Why is there such hesitation or reluctance to root phones? I don't even trust an OTA update, and I certainly don't want Verizon or anyone else telling me what apps I'm allowed to use. Root also allows you to add tiny mods like a quick WiFi toggle in the drop down menu, without flashing a custom ROM.

Flashing custom roms I can understand people not wanting to mess with, but root, don't see why you'd choose not to.

 

[grkM3]

All this got me to install cm10 again lol here are some pics and these should be make people want to root...vanilla android looks 10x better than Samsung themes and I'm getting almost 6k quadrant scores!!!

 

[KentState]

Is CM10 very close to stock Android?

 

[grkM3]

Is CM10 very close to stock Android?

Pretty close to stock jellybean if not 100% exact,they just need to fix a few things.

I just wished the s3 was the galaxy nexus with full Google support and had the latest os made just for it like on the nexus.

 

[ponyo]

hmm not sure if i should root my gf's S3 either...

once you root factory updates must be a PITA to handle. personally once you root you need to decide to move off to custom ROMs. it's kinda annoying. i remember her incredible 2 got slower and slower and took 10 minutes to boot. she didn't do anything with the root ability except to take screenshots. finally i wiped it down and put CM9 and it was 200x faster.... but that's a huge jump to leave sense or whatever bloated UI you're used to.

I'm a CM guy so if I were to have an SGS3 it'd have CM9 within the hour of opening the box..

Root doesn't normally effect factory OTA updates. The OTA updates will install just fine. Most of the time, you'll lose root when you apply the update. But long as you saved copy of superuser with Voodoo OTA RootKeeper app, you can gain the root back in like 2 seconds with one click. I probably received like 3 or 4 OTA updates on my Galaxy Nexus while rooted and all installed perfectly. I have not touched custom rom at all with Galaxy Nexus. I see no point when stock Google Android rom is so good.

 

[grkM3]

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Root doesn't normally effect factory OTA updates. The OTA updates will install just fine. Most of the time, you'll lose root when you apply the update. But long as you saved copy of superuser with Voodoo OTA RootKeeper app, you can gain the root back in like 2 seconds with one click. I probably received like 3 or 4 OTA updates on my Galaxy Nexus while rooted and all installed perfectly. I have not touched custom rom at all with Galaxy Nexus. I see no point when stock Google Android rom is so good.

You have a nexus and not running jellybean? You can download it right off the Google servers what are ya waiting for?

Verizon took like 4 months to even update to 4.04 and will take just as long for for jelly bean.

I'm not talking about custom ROMs I meant vanilla source jellybean from Google,

Gsm Nexus's got the new is pushed a while ago!!!

 

[ponyo]

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You have a nexus and not running jellybean? You can download it right off the Google servers what are ya waiting for?

Verizon took like 4 months to even update to 4.04 and will take just as long for for jelly bean.

I'm not talking about custom ROMs I meant vanilla source jellybean from Google,

Gsm Nexus's got the new is pushed a while ago!!!

I didn't say I wasn't running Jellybean. I've been running Jellybean since day 1 of Google I/O when Google released the JB preview version for the old "takju" build. I have the GSM Nexus and had it since December of last year. Everything I installed is stock. I have not touched custom rom or anything not stock including radio, kernel, and bootloader. I don't even have custom recovery like Clockworkmod Recovery. If I need Clockworkmod recovery to flash direct downloaded OTA update, I manually one-time fastboot install using the command prompt. I don't like or trust one click toolkits as I like to see what's going on with my phone.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Root doesn't normally effect factory OTA updates. The OTA updates will install just fine. Most of the time, you'll lose root when you apply the update. But long as you saved copy of superuser with Voodoo OTA RootKeeper app, you can gain the root back in like 2 seconds with one click. I probably received like 3 or 4 OTA updates on my Galaxy Nexus while rooted and all installed perfectly. I have not touched custom rom at all with Galaxy Nexus. I see no point when stock Google Android rom is so good.

Not on my gf's Incredible 2. It failed to install factory OTA updates. If I remember there was an error, and she also got some recovery-like error. I taught her to just clear cache every time this would happen (about once a month).

She's a saavy user but definitely not a tweaker. I walked her through doing a Nandroid once but we never really moved onto ROMs.

In the end she's not really happy about rooting her phone.

I'm guessing it varies phone to phone as you have a GNex so its pure AOSP. Furthermore maybe ICS OTA updates work differently. My gf was getting the minor GB updates like 2.3.3 to 2.3.5, etc.

Not to threadjack but I hate dealing with root in general. Rooting isn't always an easy process and once you figure it out, you could lose it with an OTA update and then have to dig for new ways. That's why for me once I root I'm on another ROM. It's easy to stick to a stable platform (i.e. AOKP, CM) and use CWM to keep updated, but dealing with stock crap? Messy.

I guess it's ok for Samsung phones because Odin makes life easier, but working with my old Motorola, and my gf's HTC? Ugh.

 

[Krazy4Real]

Installed the Swype beta keyboard. Way better than the stock keyboard. Yay!

 

[ponyo]

Not on my gf's Incredible 2. It failed to install factory OTA updates. If I remember there was an error, and she also got some recovery-like error. I taught her to just clear cache every time this would happen (about once a month).

She's a saavy user but definitely not a tweaker. I walked her through doing a Nandroid once but we never really moved onto ROMs.

In the end she's not really happy about rooting her phone.

I'm guessing it varies phone to phone as you have a GNex so its pure AOSP. Furthermore maybe ICS OTA updates work differently. My gf was getting the minor GB updates like 2.3.3 to 2.3.5, etc.

Not to threadjack but I hate dealing with root in general. Rooting isn't always an easy process and once you figure it out, you could lose it with an OTA update and then have to dig for new ways. That's why for me once I root I'm on another ROM. It's easy to stick to a stable platform (i.e. AOKP, CM) and use CWM to keep updated, but dealing with stock crap? Messy.

I guess it's ok for Samsung phones because Odin makes life easier, but working with my old Motorola, and my gf's HTC? Ugh.

I'm guessing something wasn't stock on her phone. Everything must be stock excluding root. I mean everything. Radio version must match, bootloader, kernel, recovery, etc. If anything is different or you edited the framework, theme, or even battery indicator, the update will fail. Having CWM is instant fail. Stock Android recovery is a must. I never had any problem updating OTA updates for Samsung Vibrant or Galaxy Nexus when I had root. I root all my devices. It's not AOSP or ICS thing. Vibrant was on 2.1 Eclair.

Keeping or restoring root after OTA update is trivial if your phone supports Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper app. It takes like 2 seconds to get your root back. My Galaxy Nexus has received like 4-5 OTA updates and Rootkeeper restored root every single time without issue. I unlocked the bootloader and rooted the Nexus 7 tablet the minute I opened and turned on the device. I had Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper copy the SU and within 5 minutes of booting, I received OTA update for Nexus 7 prompting me to update from 4.1 to 4.1.1. I lost root with the update but Rootkeeper restored the root with one click. Unfortunately Rootkeeper doesn't work with Galaxy S/S2. Nexus S should work fine though since it uses EXT4 filesystem.

 

[Red Storm]

I just wished the s3 was the galaxy nexus with full Google support and had the latest os made just for it like on the nexus.

Don't worry in a few months Google will unveil the new Nexus phone(s?) and all will be good.

 

[RockinZ28]

Fuck yea, SynergyROM v1.4 released.


Finally!
15 toggles + brightness slider

You can also control which toggles appear in notification and in which order


And also, woot!

Google Now voice search fully working thanks to a whole bunch of devs here on XDA (Step aside, Siri, let the king of search show you how it’s done)

 

[JGoosey52]

All this got me to install cm10 again lol here are some pics and these should be make people want to root...vanilla android looks 10x better than Samsung themes and I'm getting almost 6k quadrant scores!!!

Oh that's so pretty!

 

[RockinZ28]

Ah, so much better.

 

[JGoosey52]

Ah, so much better.

Okay I want that. Jelly bean ftw

 

[RockinZ28]

Okay I want that. Jelly bean ftw

This is a modded stock s3 ICS rom. SynergyROM v1.4.

I think there is a flashable zip to flash the notification menu I have pictured, but not sure what roms it's compatible with.

 

[Zaap]

You do know there are a few stock ROMs out there with just root access added to them right?.

Root it for at least the use of tethering apps and overclocking

Rooted the s3 5 min after using lol

For now I admit I'm a little chicken to screw with it just yet. I've had the phone only about a week and am happy with it at stock. Eventually I'll get bored, feel more confident to mess with it and install the stock ICS. Looks pretty cool in your screenshots.

I definitely had to root my old DX just to make it usable.

I hated the 50 pop ups that tell you to connect threw WiFi and it always being in the drop down and hated all the bloat running like 2 or 3 headphones popping up asking you to use an app once plugged in.

Its like they went out of there way to make it to easy to use.they must of thought ios users could not figure out how to turn on WiFi or how to play music using android. Lol

Yeah I had some issue at first where plugging in a headphone would make Google Play just start playing on its own. Luckily fixed that thanks to someone's advice here.

 

[grkM3]

My pics are vanilla jellybean with pure Google gaaps and no custom tweaks.this is what stock jelly bean looks like lol

My s3 has nothing related to Verizon on it.where the stock ROMs have mobile hot spot vanilla jelybean has WiFi teething built into the ROM,no custom app to use IG.

You can chose 19 toggles in jellybean and to the pic above your toggles were taken from jb source,only difference is on jb you don't have to flash different zips for custom toggles,you simple choose what you want in the settings

 

[Zaap]

^ Anything that doesn't work quite right in CM10 on the Verizon SGS3?

One of the things that makes me weary of ROM'ing is when people report things like "Almost everything works!..." I'm thinking, "uh, oh. Almost? So what doesn't?"

Sometimes it's things I couldn't live without.

So just curious- everything working 100%?