Im thinking of trading in my note for a s3 ive spoke to cpw who have them at £499 in white
I know on note cpw has its own firmware on it despite being unbranded
Question has anyone got a sim free cpw s3 has the latest update been pushed out is it truly unbranded or is it cpw own?
Thanks
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I have one but updated it via kies
Piertown said:
I have one but updated it via kies
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Sorry what i meant was in relation to the latest firmware pushing out i take it the update from a few daya ago came through?
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Hi yes it did, tried the ota but it failed so used kies, have always had phones from them and have always got the updates
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Hi yes it did, tried the ota but it failed so used kies, have always had phones from them and have always got the updates
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Superb just need to now work out if the s3 will work with my parrot car kit now and im happy
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Hello
Can anyone tell me if the s3 on t-mobile uk is heavily branded? Both the handset itself and the operating system with added apps etc
I am considering moving to t-mobile, but if it is heavily branded then I will just get a sim free instead.
Many thanks.
It probably will be... But it's very easy to unbranded by flashing the unbranded stock rom via odin.
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All the S3 on T-mobile so far have pretty much stock apart from a splash screen. There are reports that are unlocked too.
eon_designs said:
Hello
Can anyone tell me if the s3 on t-mobile uk is heavily branded? Both the handset itself and the operating system with added apps etc
I am considering moving to t-mobile, but if it is heavily branded then I will just get a sim free instead.
Many thanks.
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I'm on T-Mobile in the UK and I received a Pebble blue on upgrade from T-Mobile, I have zero branding on the phone, and when I say zero I mean zero, nadda, zip, nothing. It goes without saying that I received my upgrade at about the time when there were just about no pebble blue's available, I'm assuming T-Mobile sent out the first batch without any branding. I consider myself very lucky. This is the first phone I've received from T-Mobile without any branding.
I'm not sure what it's like now, now that they've caught up with stock etc. they have no doubt added all the usual sh*t that they add to their phones.
I also got a OTA update when other people with branded phones were not receiving.
I also have a White SGSIII on T-Mobile and have no branding what so ever!
Not even a T-Mobile splash screen just the stock Samsung.
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How recently did u get your white sgs3?
I just got my Blue S3 on T-Mobile yesterday, and it has no branding whatsoever.
I did buy it from Tesco Phone Shop rather than T-Mobile directly though, don't know if that makes any difference.
I've got white s3 from t mobile and there is no branding what so ever! I'm thinking if it has sim lock?
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got 2 sgs3 in white on T-Mobile uk both no branding at all and both unlocked direct from my local tmob store in the town centre
also got OTA updates
I got mine through mobile.co.uk on T-mobile. Its not branded or sim locked.
You know I just noticed I've no t mobile branding on my blue s3. If course it says Samsung but not t mobile.
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Maybe the first batch will be this way. Here in the U.S t mobile released the S3 to few t-mobile stores. Now a week later all the stores will get it. Do not know why they did that, but hopefully I got something others won't get. X)
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Then again, maybe the t-mobile s3 will not be branded at all. I haven't seen a branded s3 anywhere...
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I got it around three weeks ago.
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i have a white 16gig s3 on uk t-mobile...and there is no t-mobile bloat at all..
plus the the phone is not sim locked at all...
Thanks everyone.
Took the plunge - just got a blue one today from the official T-Mobile store. No branding on the phone or on the software. Excellent.
Got my pebble blue from T-Mobile direct last week. No branding except for the browser homepage which was set to T-mobile's site, however surprisingly, it was SIM locked.
I have since rooted, unlocked and installed an unbranded official Samsung ROM
Seemingly weeks ago Samsung released an update for the international SIII that fixes some issues and adds a brightness setting to the notification menu. It has yet to be released for the Hong Kong version. I've checked OTA everyday and even check Kies yet nothing.
Any idea when it will be released?
You could always flash the latest update to your phone using ODIN.
Not sure if this is relevant but I have an Australian unbranded S3 and got the new firmware notification while in Hong Kong last week.
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kwyj said:
Not sure if this is relevant but I have an Australian unbranded S3 and got the new firmware notification while in Hong Kong last week.
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If the Australian unbranded S3 gets a new update, the phone will be able to update itself regardless of its geographic location. Galaxy S3s have CSC and firmware depending on various factors such as carriers and the country that the phone is purchased in. Both CSC and firmware can be changed. Mine was changed from an unbranded Romanian firmware to unbranded UK firmware. The CSC was changed as well. Now I get updates as they are released in the UK.
Guys,
Just a quick question, I bought a sim free S3, and would like to update to 4.1.2. Do I download the BTU version as I didn't buy the phone from a carrier?
Also, what does BTU stand for?
Thanks in advance
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Yep BTU will work fine.
But if you aren't rooted, wait a few hours and it will come OTA
Hi. Has anyone managed to obtain a UK LTE version?
Sony store still shows pre-order only with shipping from the 17th June.
Would be great to hear if anyone has nabbed themselves one!
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Yep. Got mine from O2 on 25th June.
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Thanks for the reply.
Guessing it might be locked to O2?
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Thanks for the reply.
Guessing it might be locked to O2?
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It is locked to O2
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Hi. Has anyone managed to obtain a UK LTE version?
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Amazon UK currently have it in stock for £579.99. :good:
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It is locked to O2
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Got mine on o2 as well, it was locked on o2 but when i called them and told them to unlock it for me, they filled out a form and i received the unlock code within 3 days free of charge, now my tablet is unlocked and am currently using my other sim card in it