I bought an I9100 off of eBay and I thought it would be all fine (because it said it wasn't provider locked) until it boots with some French logo (la poste mobile) and has some French bloatware on it.
This wasn't a problem until I realized today different providers get ICS at different times.
I was wondering when the I9100 with la poste mobiles firmware (or whatever it may be called, I'm extremely new to android) is getting ICS.
Yes, I've googled this intensely and all I found was some reviews of the I9100 in French.
Any help would be much appreciated, and I would provide you with my undying love.
You can apply any firmware you want to any, thus effectively turning your hardware into a phone from any operator.
I don't know if the firmwares replace the booting logo, but there are separate boot logos you can apply.
What is important here is the hardware, and that you already have. Everything else you can freely change using the proper firmware.
about the bloatware (don't you hate them?!), if the phone is rooted, you can easily get rid of it using TitaniumBackup.
If the phone is in French, you can use an appl called "More Locale 2" (available on Google Play) to change the language.
If the phone is indeed an I9100 (and not one of the variants such as i9100g) then you can just flash any suitable ics base (such as lpq or lp7) via odin.
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Easy. Just find the rom for your carrier or even an unbranded rom. It will wipe all the old carrier crap and bootlogo.
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Zawesome said:
I bought an I9100 off of eBay and I thought it would be all fine (because it said it wasn't provider locked) until it boots with some French logo (la poste mobile) and has some French bloatware on it.
Unlocked means sim locked to network .
This wasn't a problem until I realized today different providers get ICS at different times.
I was wondering when the I9100 with la poste mobiles firmware (or whatever it may be called, I'm extremely new to android) is getting ICS.
Yes at some stage .
Why the rush for ICS ???
Stock Samsung ICS available on XDA on Sammobile or via Checkfus .
jje
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Hi,
I'm new to android, and for the past few days I've been reading a lot form this forum to get some idea.
I've noticed that there are many different firmware versions (almost as if each country & each custom ROM has a different one), e.g. my phone is XXBLH1, my country's (Israel) standard ROM is JKBLH3, and there are many more such as XXBLG8, XXBLFB etc.
As far as i understood there should be no problem flashing a different one for my phone when changing ROMs. But still what are the differences between them, why are there do many? Is there any restrictions on which are compatible to change mine, for example, JKBLH3 is ok but XXBLFB is not? If so, is there a way to know this from the version code itself, meaning everything starts with 'J' is not for you?
Thanks in advance for your replies,
Dan
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Hi,
I'm new to android, and for the past few days I've been reading a lot form this forum to get some idea.
I've noticed that there are many different firmware versions (almost as if each country & each custom ROM has a different one), e.g. my phone is XXBLH1, my country's (Israel) standard ROM is JKBLH3, and there are many more such as XXBLG8, XXBLFB etc.
As far as i understood there should be no problem flashing a different one for my phone when changing ROMs. But still what are the differences between them, why are there do many? Is there any restrictions on which are compatible to change mine, for example, JKBLH3 is ok but XXBLFB is not? If so, is there a way to know this from the version code itself, meaning everything starts with 'J' is not for you?
Thanks in advance for your replies,
Dan
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that's a very good question, I never understood that either, I think those letters differ from country and from modem version in the specific country.
Also I don't think that is a problem to flash other official ROMS, because I have a S3 that was with branded firmware from the operator and I flashed it with official international unbranded firmware for my phone model (GT-I9300) and it works pretty nice
Also another question I will be capable to receive updates from samsung with my official ROM right? thanks
These codes are used to differentiate between different regions.. All the firmwares are almost the same except small region specific customizations.. Some apps would work for some regions some might not..Also there are some region specific customizations such as language..
You can install any firmware made for international galaxy S3 without any major problems..
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Hi!
As what i know, there are a lot of firmwares out there because they differ in their unit. Let'e take for example, a korean S3, they cannot take in an I9300 firmware because of the regional basis and their "specifications"..
Also, firmwares differ also in ways such as updates.. let's say firmware X was released last June but it lags so bad.. so sammy release firmware Y.. something like that
I hope this could help you.. this is the simplest explanation my brain could process
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just to add, firmware variants may also be due to the legal implication of particular countrries and/or regions as we saw several small updates rolled out a few months ago due to the "search for all" function in which Samsung and Apple had conflict in within the courts...however, such updates were not applied to the NZ firmware as far as I am aware...also...since OP is from Israel, there are also variations in the keyboard that are available...examples such as chinese input method differs between Taiwan firmwares and China firmwares eventhough both countries speak chinese lol...
Need Stock ROM forSGS III of Bouygues Telecom France
Few months ago I bought an SGS III GT-i9300 with CSC of CHU running stock ICS 4.0.4 ROM (bouygues telecom). The phone was originally bought in France, and later on when I came back to my home country ie Pakistan, I got it unlocked so it could work on local carriers. The long of the short of the story is, last sunday I decided to update my SGS III to the leaked polish JB ROM I9300XXDLIB_I9300OXFDLI1_I9300XXDLIB_XEO. This resulted in loss of connectivity with my GSM network. Sadly, I made the cardinal mistake of not backing up the original ROM, in case I needed to go back. So now I am kind of stuck with a phone which at best is just like a small tablet ....
Can anyone please help me locate Stock ICS 4.0.4 ROM for the above CSC region? As so far I haven't been able to do that despite hours and hours of trying.
Also, can I install Stock ICS ROM for CSC PAK/WDC on it? If so, how can it be unlocked & made to work with it?
I hope that someone can help me in resolving this issue. Thank you.
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Need Stock ROM forSGS III of Bouygues Telecom France
Few months ago I bought an SGS III GT-i9300 with CSC of CHU running stock ICS 4.0.4 ROM (bouygues telecom). The phone was originally bought in France, and later on when I came back to my home country ie Pakistan, I got it unlocked so it could work on local carriers. The long of the short of the story is, last sunday I decided to update my SGS III to the leaked polish JB ROM I9300XXDLIB_I9300OXFDLI1_I9300XXDLIB_XEO. This resulted in loss of connectivity with my GSM network.
>>>>>>>>>>A wrong modem B user needs to input APN settings for their network .
Can anyone please help me locate Stock ICS 4.0.4 ROM for the above CSC region? As so far I haven't been able to do that despite hours and hours of trying.
>>> Use sammobile.com or samsung updates .com or easier use CHECKFUS .
jje
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Thanks alot JJE. Didn't knew about this checkfus tool, but it sure is one very handy util. I will let you know of the progress asap.
Regards.
Okay, I used CheckFus to locate the ROM, downloaded it, wiped/reset S3 before going ahead and installing the ROM. But unfortunately it didn't help. By the way CheckFus in Product Code field says 'Not Active'.
I was wondering whether I should get unlock code, will it help solve the issue?
In continuation of my previous post, here is an image from Galaxy S3 Sim Unlock.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/571/new123.jpg/
That "Not Active" against the product code is probably the cause. Any help will be hugely appreciated. regards
It's been almost a month since left the ROM for Poland, and so far, just over 35 ROMs were released. Why so long? I'm in Brazil, here not even launched the Galaxy Note II already out and upgrade to Jelly Bean. Meanwhile, no sign of Jelly Bean for the Galaxy S3 in Brazil.
I'm sorry if I posted in the wrong place for my question.
Sorry for my English.
The Brazilian JB for S III might not be released until late January or Febrary.
Yet, when it is released, it will not be the latest version of JB, but one that is older than what other countries will have by then.
For your information, the Brazilian CSCs are: ZTA (Claro), ZTV (Vivo), ZTO (open / unbranded), ZTM (Tim) and ZVV (Oi).
You don't need, however, to wait for Samsung Brasil to do us a favor: just flash the UK unbranded (CSC -> BTU) ROM, using Odin3 and don't worry about it again.
All stock ICS and JB contains all languages (including Pt-BR) and the ROM I mentioned works flawlessly in Brazil. I am using it right now.
Simonetti2011 said:
The Brazilian JB for S III might not be released until late January or Febrary.
Yet, when it is released, it will not be the latest version of JB, but one that is older than what other countries will have by then.
For your information, the Brazilian CSCs are: ZTA (Claro), ZTV (Vivo), ZTO (open / unbranded), ZTM (Tim) and ZVV (Oi).
You don't need, however, to wait for Samsung Brasil to do us a favor: just flash the UK unbranded (CSC -> BTU) ROM, using Odin3 and don't worry about it again.
All stock ICS and JB contains all languages (including Pt-BR) and the ROM I mentioned works flawlessly in Brazil. I am using it right now.
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I know i could install any ROM ever released. But i do not want to put another ROM on my Galaxy S3. I want to keep it as original as possible. I had a Galaxy S2 before S3, and installed an uninstalled all ROMs as possible, but in my Galaxy S3 want to keep it original. I know it will not install official ROMs increment the counter. What i do no understand is why they are taking so long.
But i appreciate your explanation.
Thank you
Does your carrier have any kind of restriction for rooting and flashing your cellphone? If not, it's pretty much irrelevant what your binary counter says.
You can always reset the binary counter to 0 and set system to official using Triangle away if you're worried about warranty.
pipusquack said:
I want to keep it as original as possible. I had a Galaxy S2 before S3, and installed an uninstalled all ROMs as possible,
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Why? What is the point of that?
You'll just have a device that is always outdated and with uncorrected bugs.
Simonetti2011 said:
The Brazilian JB for S III might not be released until late January or Febrary.
Yet, when it is released, it will not be the latest version of JB, but one that is older than what other countries will have by then.
For your information, the Brazilian CSCs are: ZTA (Claro), ZTV (Vivo), ZTO (open / unbranded), ZTM (Tim) and ZVV (Oi).
You don't need, however, to wait for Samsung Brasil to do us a favor: just flash the UK unbranded (CSC -> BTU) ROM, using Odin3 and don't worry about it again.
All stock ICS and JB contains all languages (including Pt-BR) and the ROM I mentioned works flawlessly in Brazil. I am using it right now.
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Hello, sorry for the (a bit) irrelevant question but does flashing through Odin the UK unbranded one (while I have another country's official ROM unmodified), increase my counter or ruin my warranty?
cleanthis26 said:
Hello, sorry for the (a bit) irrelevant question but does flashing through Odin the UK unbranded one (while I have another country's official ROM unmodified), increase my counter or ruin my warranty?
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No. Install original ROM does not increment the counter.
Cyclosporine said:
Does your carrier have any kind of restriction for rooting and flashing your cellphone? If not, it's pretty much irrelevant what your binary counter says.
You can always reset the binary counter to 0 and set system to official using Triangle away if you're worried about warranty.
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I know, I just want to leave it as original as possible. On my Galaxy S2 I always installed by Odin ROMs without any problem and reset the counter with Triangle Away. But I really want to use the Jelly Bean, I'll install the ROM UK.
thank you
cleanthis26 said:
Hello, sorry for the (a bit) irrelevant question but does flashing through Odin the UK unbranded one (while I have another country's official ROM unmodified), increase my counter or ruin my warranty?
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No, it doesn't. If you need to RMA the phone, just flash the ROM for your carrier/country and it's as original as it gets and THERE IS NO WAY they can find out you ever had a different ROM in there.
Do you do any changes to the rom? LIke CSC or modem?
Hi all,
I just got my brand new I-9305 Galaxy SIII phone from SFR (a French operator) and I want to replace the operator installed ROM with the basic, standard Samsung ROM. I tried using Kies to do so (the official Samsung PC app) but it only proposes to install my operator's ROM.
So before jumping in and doing this manually I wanted to know what I should be careful about? I know there are different makes for the SIII and I was wondering how to know which make mine is. I also read about a flash counter, what is it and should I worry about it? Where can I get the official standard vanilla out of the box ROM for my phone and how can I install it? I don't want to root or sim unlock (but I don't want to completely block those options either).
This is not my first phone flashing (but I'm not an expert either) although I'm a total Smasung n00b.
Thanks!
LarrxX said:
Hi all,
I just got my brand new Galaxy SIII phone from SFR (a French operator) and I want to replace the operator installed ROM with the basic, standard Samsung ROM. I tried using Kies to do so (the official Samsung PC app) but it only proposes to install my operator's ROM.
So before jumping in and doing this manually I wanted to know what I should be careful about? I know there are different makes for the SIII and I was wondering how to know which make mine is. I also read about a flash counter, what is it and should I worry about it? Where can I get the official standard vanilla out of the box ROM for my phone and how can I install it? I don't want to root or sim unlock (but I don't want to completely block those options either).
This is not my first phone flashing (but I'm not an expert either) although I'm a total Smasung n00b.
Thanks!
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If you have a carrier simlock and you want to unlock you might look here http://pakdroid.com/2012/12/05/how-to-factory-unlock-samsung-galaxy-s3galaxy-note-2-for-free/. For flashing roms use Odin and get the rom`s from here www.sammobile.com/firmware.
gee2012 said:
If you have a carrier simlock and you want to unlock you might look here http://pakdroid.com/2012/12/05/how-to-factory-unlock-samsung-galaxy-s3galaxy-note-2-for-free/. For flashing roms use Odin and get the rom`s from here www.sammobile.com/firmware.
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Thanks for the info. I just have one more question: to get the frimware on the sammobile site, I have to provide the name of my carrier, why is it needed? Isn't the stock ROM supposed to be carrier nidependent?
And another question (guess I had two questions ) On the XDA Odin page, there's a disclaimer about "may increase your ODIN flash count." what is that all about?
Thanks again for your help.
LarrxX said:
Thanks for the info. I just have one more question: to get the frimware on the sammobile site, I have to provide the name of my carrier, why is it needed? Isn't the stock ROM supposed to be carrier nidependent?
Sam carries carrier roms as well .
And another question (guess I had two questions ) On the XDA Odin page, there's a disclaimer about "may increase your ODIN flash count." what is that all about?
may increase your custom rom counter please read faqs and guides before not after messing with firmware .
jje
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The stock FWs from sammobile shouldnt trip the counter.
JJEgan said:
LarrxX said:
Thanks for the info. I just have one more question: to get the frimware on the sammobile site, I have to provide the name of my carrier, why is it needed? Isn't the stock ROM supposed to be carrier nidependent?
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Sam carries carrier roms as well
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Have to inform the country/carrier to get the ROM on sam's site. How can I get the stock ROM? Should I choose "Unknown - DNF" as a country/carrier?
Also the PDA versions do not exactly match. I'm not talking about the XX part (I assume the Xs are fillers) but the SFR ROM on the site ends with ALK5, the "Unknown - DNF" ROM ends with ALK3 whereas my phone is ALK2.
xSpeced said:
The stock FWs from sammobile shouldnt trip the counter.
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Are you sure about that?
Doesn`t matter. Just pick one for your region.
PDA is just version number. EMA2 is out for France.
May break Kies update until you return the phone to SFR`s rom.
xSpeced said:
Doesn`t matter. Just pick one for your region.
PDA is just version number. EMA2 is out for France.
May break Kies update until you return the phone to SFR`s rom.
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If all ROMs from my region are stock ROMs, why are there different ROMs for different carriers? Sorry for all the questions but I'm trying to fully understand this before I do anything I regret...
LarrxX said:
If all ROMs from my region are stock ROMs, why are there different ROMs for different carriers? Sorry for all the questions but I'm trying to fully understand this before I do anything I regret...
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Some are stock some are stock with operator branding you just want the stock ones without carrier branding you would know the French branding better than me but I would guess France stock roms being XEF or VGF or you could just go for Open Europe OXA whichever you choose just download and flash via Odin then boot into recovery on your phone and wipe the Cache and Dalvik Cache re boot and set your phone up.
ag4751 said:
Some are stock some are stock with operator branding you just want the stock ones without carrier branding you would know the French branding better than me but I would guess France stock roms being XEF or VGF or you could just go for Open Europe OXA whichever you choose just download and flash via Odin then boot into recovery on your phone and wipe the Cache and Dalvik Cache re boot and set your phone up.
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That's just it: the only 3 ROMs for France seem to be operator branded and, looking in the country list, I don't see anything remotely resembling "Open Europe" all the items in the "Country" list have a country and a carrier except for the last entry "Unknown - DNF" is that the basic stock non branded one?
If it's any help, my model is GT-I9305 (I found the Open Europe ROM but it's for model GT-I9300, so I guess I'm out of luck on this one?)
LarrxX said:
That's just it: the only 3 ROMs for France seem to be operator branded and, looking in the country list, I don't see anything remotely resembling "Open Europe" all the items in the "Country" list have a country and a carrier except for the last entry "Unknown - DNF" is that the basic stock non branded one?
If it's any help, my model is GT-I9305 (I found the Open Europe ROM but it's for model GT-I9300, so I guess I'm out of luck on this one?)
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Asumed you were on an i9300 with you not saying originally, I believe Nordic Countries NEE are non branded but maybe wait for someone who has an i9305 to answer or someonthat know about the i9305
ag4751 said:
Asumed you were on an i9300 with you not saying originally, I believe Nordic Countries NEE are non branded but maybe wait for someone who has an i9305 to answer or someonthat know about the i9305
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I updated the first post to show I have a I9305, I knew I'd forgotten a critical piece of information! Anyway, here's waiting for someone with info on this but, googling around abit, I don't think there is an unbranded European version for the I9305 (which is kinda weird...)
If it's any help, my model is GT-I9305
Then its I9305 Question and Answers you require .
je
JJEgan said:
If it's any help, my model is GT-I9305
Then its I9305 Question and Answers you require .
je
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Oops! I didn't even notice there was a dedicated I9305 forum... is there a way an admin can move this thread to the correct subforum?
Info 9305
LarrxX said:
Oops! I didn't even notice there was a dedicated I9305 forum... is there a way an admin can move this thread to the correct subforum?
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Slt...
Tu as 9305 pas 9300 donc 4G SFR
Va voir ici (pas possible mettre lien direct donc w 3 fois
galaxys-team.fr/viewtopic.php?f=106&t=32221
Ce site en français se sert aussi des infos de ce Forum XDA...
PSPour adm Desolé pour le language en français
doubledom89 said:
Slt...
Tu as 9305 pas 9300 donc 4G SFR
Va voir ici (pas possible mettre lien direct donc w 3 fois
galaxys-team.fr/viewtopic.php?f=106&t=32221
Ce site en français se sert aussi des infos de ce Forum XDA...
PSPour adm Desolé pour le language en français
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Thanks for the info, I'd already found it on another forum here: http://www.phonandroid.com/forum/post624683.html#p624683
(In french also)
Hey, I have been trying to return to stock, I've downloaded ODIN, but when came the time to pick a stock rom, I saw that there were quite a few stock roms for my phone (GT-19300 international) . I live in France, there are 4 operators: Orange (where I bought my phone and where I have my contract), Bouygues, SFR and NRJ, on Sammobile I saw there was a stock rom for NRJ, and I also found stock roms for the other operators (not on sammobile though, on tha site there was only the NRJ one), then came the question, do I need an orange stock rom, or the regular international one, does it matter? If it's any help, there isn't the orange logo on my phone, and I don't recall having orange apps on my phone when I bought it, but have a vague memory of me downloading a couple, although maybe anyone with a contract there can download them, I qish I could provide more information but nothing comes to mind :/ I'll try to answer all questions as best I can, thanks for answering quickly.
P.S. I'm using this guide to unroot, if you can think of a better one or if there's a problem with this one, I'd appreciate all suggestions, thanks! http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27407556
AnyI9300 rom on any I9300 phone .
Stock is just Samsung firmware usually by country basis .
Vendor roms are usually branded and may have addons from the network . Vendor roms will have the correct modem and CSC .
jje