Problems after flashing - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello guys
I was running Android ICS 4.0.4 on my Galaxy S III international version (GT-I9300) with BB version of I9300XXLFB (KSA). I recently downloaded the official Samsung firmware of Jelly Bean 4.1.1 with BB of I9300XXDLJ1 (UAE), which is a different country (UAE vs KSA) provided by SamMobile.com, which supports Kies as well. I have no root, my device status is "Normal", flash counter is "0" and every thing else is fine.
After flashing the ROM, it looked amazing and there is really performance improvement noted.
But the device kept restarting, and when I connect it to Kies, it show that "Access to C:\ProgramData\Samsung\DeviceProfile\Cache\GT-I9300\version.dat denied", and Kies shows a message implying that "Software upgrade is not suppored by Kies 2.0".
I re-flashed the ROM using Odin3 v3.07 and restart problem seems to be fixed, although it restarted many times initially after the re-flash.
But Kies problem is still not fixed.
I searched the forums here and some solutions suggested uninstalling, cleaning registry of Kies, and reinstalling Kies would fix these problems.
An interesting point to mention is that, although I re-flashed using UAE ROM, Kies still shows that my device is "KSA" version.
Any idea how to fix?

Unfortunately, the restarting problem has recurred and everytime I switch on the device it hangs and reboots
Any idea?

factory reset may be necessary

slaphead20 said:
factory reset may be necessary
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That's really hard
Well, I tried something stupid:
1- I cleared cache.
2- I flashed back to the stock original ICS 4.0.4 (SamMobile.com firmware) of KSA region (WITHOUT wiping any data)!
3- I flashed again with JB 4.1.1 of UAE region.
It seems to be working. Until now, there is no hangs whatsoever, and the device did not reboot.
Hopefully it works, I will keep you updated.
But Kies still shows that it does not support firmware upgrade on the device.

Unfortunately, I had to restore back to 4.0.4 and wipe my data
My data have been lost
Samsung is a bad company, week customer support!
I will have to wait and wait and wait for their official update to KSA region
Sh*t on everyone who told me in another post that updating to another country's firmware is not going to affect Kies update and will not cause problems. F*ck them! You answer without knowledge!

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Did i just update

Hi there, i updated my S2 to 4.03 in April with ther official Tmobile UK update via Kies.
I have read on a few sites recently about 4.04 being out and that it makes further improvements. Well yesterday i connected my phone to Kies and was informed there was an update due so i went throught he whole update process and when complete it shows my phone as still being on 4.03.
At the end of the update my phone had all my apps, contacts, pics, everything still on phone. I did not have to reinstall anything. Kies now shows that i have latest firmware but i can see no difference.
Kies reports firmware as PDA:LPD / Phone:LPB / CSC:LPD (TMU)
Anyone had anything similar and bottom line is did i get an update or not.
Thanks for any help.
LPD is quite an "old"-ish ROM, if we can say so (check here for details: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1544487).
The Build Date is 8th May 2012.
I have found LPG to be the most stable version of 4.0.3 (Build date: 24 May 2012).
Looks like we're gonna have to wait a while longer for 4.0.4 (I meant worldwide coverage for it cause as far as I have found out this latest LPO for NEE is quite alright).
Cheers,
Mihai
jmbill said:
Hi there, i updated my S2 to 4.03 in April with ther official Tmobile UK update via Kies.
I have read on a few sites recently about 4.04 being out and that it makes further improvements. Well yesterday i connected my phone to Kies and was informed there was an update due so i went throught he whole update process and when complete it shows my phone as still being on 4.03.
At the end of the update my phone had all my apps, contacts, pics, everything still on phone. I did not have to reinstall anything. Kies now shows that i have latest firmware but i can see no difference.
Kies reports firmware as PDA:LPD / Phone:LPB / CSC:LPD (TMU)
Anyone had anything similar and bottom line is did i get an update or not.
Thanks for any help.
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There was an update for Kies (just the program you run on your computer) lately, are you sure it wasn't just that?
SNAP!!
Hi guys,
I just went throught the same update issue. I had already upgraded to 4.0.3 earlier this year - but I have been experiencing problems with the phone simply turning itself off at random times and needing to have it's battery removed and reinserted to get it going again.
I e-mail Samsung support and got advised to do a firmware upgrade via kies.
So I did - and lowe and behold it found an update and duely installed it - but I am still showing droid version as 4.0.3 and I can see no difference what at all.
I also didn't need to reinstall any apps etc - so exactly what is going on?
Have samsung realised that they made a mistake with the initial release of ICS and applied a patch?
I've got my fingers crossed that what ever it is, it will hopefully stop the phone turning itself off.
Meanwhile I have e-mailed samsung back to ask exactly what was in the update - if I get anything back I'll post it on here.
Samsungs latest firmware is on 4.0.3.
When upgrading with Kies, none of your apps and personal data is tempered with. Just the system is updated and the rest is left untouched.
So, yes, your're upgraded to the latest firmware.
Sent from my GT-I9100

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After updating my 9100G with I9100GXXLPY 4.0.4 official I have been unable to connect Kies with the phone. It is not that I miss it so much, but I'd like to get some stuff back from the backups.
The error message returned by Kies is always the same:
Cannot start service on the device. Please disconnect then reconnect the device.
I upgraded through Odin, wiped cache, data, etc and do not have an sd card in place (I saw some reports of Kies going crazy sometimes with sd cards). I understand Kies might have problems with some non-official roms so this is puzzling to me.
Anyone had this problem? any ideas?
Thank you.

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Does anyone have an idea why this happens? Is there a fix?
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I have the Galaxy s2 version 2.3.3 and trying to update to 4.03 through kies.... My daughter downloads kids apps all the time and may have a bug. Anytime I turn phone on and off the all my deleted apps and messages return from a certain date. I have done a factory reset but still everything returns with nothing deleted. I have tried everything! Even thourh kies I have backed up everything and do the filmware upgrade but immedietely returns to version 2.3.3 with all the deleted stuff. Everything does work fine with phone untill I shut phone off then back on.
Please help me or is this phone done for?????

S3 "emergency calls only" network problem.

Hello.
I have a problem which annoys me a lot for a half a year now. Here's the story:
I bought my S3 from secondhand in 2012. It was Android 4.1.2. I was complete newbie that day. When update came off, I wanted to update it via my phone, bu then i threw errors. then i tried it via Kies but also did not managed to. I googled the problem and saw that I am rooted. I listened to people, who said that I should use Odin to upgrade my firmware, So did I. Downloaded latest firmware from sammobile.com. i did everything following the tutorial, but I got the network problem - no connection to the service - no sms, calls, 3g and so on. Only wifi. Then I spend three days trying to google out the problem. Tried almost everything, but as I didint had any backups made for my EFS, and my IMEI was "unknown" as phone said, I assumed that there is nothing i can do there. So I gave phone to the repair service. They fixed it in a day. I got it with the old 4.1.2 firmware version and enjoyed my phone like a year for now. And immediately backed up EFS.
So today I thought that im very bored with this old 4.1.2 and encouraged myself to try upgrade it again. So as I have efs backup, (I also did modem backup) I tried downloading latest 4.3 fimware from sammobile again. (as Im from Lithuania, there is no firmwared for LT, so I downloaded Croatian, because the carrier was the same (Tele2). And here I go again. No network, only wifi. I tried to restore efs, modem - no change with network (Did not managed to recover modem corectly, Odin fails when i want to recover it). then I tried several modems from Perkas file Stash, which i managed install via Odin, but still no change. I truly tried almost every app ant searched every thread in this forum for solution.
Now I tried to flash in to 4.1.2 I9300XXEMG4 firmware. And now im stuck with Samsung logo, mobile does not even turn on.
Any solutions? I will apprecaite any information. Thanks
There is no single solution, once the efs is damaged only a reputable repair centre can recode it properly. If it comes back with 4.1 then it isn't hasn't been fixed properly.
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