I have a galaxy S3 which i bought brand new a couple of weeks ago. I live in the UK and its locked to the Orange network operator. The phone came with stock ICS 4.0.4 and i want to update it to Jelly Bean. I downloaded Kies from samsung.com/kies, attached my phone via USB and it says that there is a new firmware update ready to be installed. So after i click start to start the update everything looks like its going fine, a new box opens up asking me to agree a few things and then i click start. Then a new box opens up with an image of a computer with a cable coming out into a phone and writing saying its downloading the update. when the progress bar reaches 100% all of a sudden kies shuts down and does nothing, nothing changes on my phone and my laptop just goes back to my home screen. I have tried doing the same thing on my friends laptop and i get the exact same results, kies gets to 100% then just shuts down??? This is my phone infomation - Model Number - GT-I9300 Android Version - 4.0.4 Baseband Version - I9300BVLE4 Kernel Version - 3.0.15-554502-user [email protected] #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun May 13 11:40:33 KST 2012 Build Number - IMM76D.I9300BVALE4. I've not found anyone else on XDA with the same problem but i've also read that i could update to jelly bean using Odin, would this void my warranty as i wouldn't want to do that because i've only had this phone for 2 weeks. Any help would be appreciated.
I had the same problem.., I'm on orange too.
Right First off orange have not released jelly bean and are by far the worst network in the world for pushing out updates, the update Kies is telling you about is old from ics. 4.0.4
Kies is a pile of crap mine would do the same at 100% so I gave up after trying for several days.
Go to Sam mobile and download the latest stock unbranded rom (btu) for the UK flash it with odin, this will get rid of all the orange rubbish and give you freedom for future updates from Samsung. As it's official software it will not effect your warranty.
Motogp1 said:
I had the same problem.., I'm on orange too.
Right First off orange have not released jelly bean and are by far the worst network in the world for pushing out updates, the update Kies is telling you about is old from ics. 4.0.4
Kies is a pile of crap mine would do the same at 100% so I gave up after trying for several days.
Go to Sam mobile and download the latest stock unbranded rom (btu) for the UK flash it with odin, this will get rid of all the orange rubbish and give you freedom for future updates from Samsung. As it's official software it will not effect your warranty.
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Thanks mate, i've downloaded the unbranded stock UK firmware from here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646610 but it's a full version which is 780mb in size, if i installed this would i have to wipe everything first by doing a factory reset? i've watched the video on there and the guy does wipe everything because he wanted everything wiped but he didnt say you have to wipe, i would rather not wipe so that's why i'm asking this. If i was installing just an update to the firmware it would only be around 250mb in size, is there anywhere i can find just the 250mb add on instead of flashing the full version? as then i would be able to do it without wiping. Thanks again
Sten1234 said:
Thanks mate, i've downloaded the unbranded stock UK firmware from here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646610 but it's a full version which is 780mb in size, if i installed this would i have to wipe everything first by doing a factory reset? i've watched the video on there and the guy does wipe everything because he wanted everything wiped but he didnt say you have to wipe, i would rather not wipe so that's why i'm asking this. If i was installing just an update to the firmware it would only be around 250mb in size, is there anywhere i can find just the 250mb add on instead of flashing the full version? as then i would be able to do it without wiping. Thanks again
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Download 4.1.1 official for UK (btu) from Sam mobile.
You don't have to do a wipe/factory reset , I didn't and I kept all my apps , messages etc.
Back up everything just in case something goes wrong .
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
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Thanks mate, i've downloaded the unbranded stock UK firmware from here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646610 but it's a full version which is 780mb in size, if i installed this would i have to wipe everything first by doing a factory reset? i've watched the video on there and the guy does wipe everything because he wanted everything wiped but he didnt say you have to wipe, i would rather not wipe so that's why i'm asking this. If i was installing just an update to the firmware it would only be around 250mb in size, is there anywhere i can find just the 250mb add on instead of flashing the full version? as then i would be able to do it without wiping. Thanks again
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How did it go? I am very curious as I want to do this myself (On orange too in the UK) Wasn't sure if it was ok to do this on a carrier locked handset, and was unsure if id lose my data settings etc. Confused about CSC too. So, if you've managed it an update would be great.
Motogp1 said:
Download 4.1.1 official for UK (btu) from Sam mobile.
You don't have to do a wipe/factory reset , I didn't and I kept all my apps , messages etc.
Back up everything just in case something goes wrong .
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
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Thanks mate it worked perfectly, no problems at all. i just flashed using odin without wiping and i now have jelly bean 4.1.1 working silky smooth with all apps and settings i had before, very happy
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Thanks mate it worked perfectly, no problems at all. i just flashed using odin without wiping and i now have jelly bean 4.1.1 working silky smooth with all apps and settings i had before, very happy
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Cannot thank you enough, should have done this months ago!
Took 10 minutes, all my apps settings data everything ok.
Google now working fine.
Phone calls work fine showing EE network (Orange)
Download Odin v3.04
Download firmware GT-i9300 United kingdom (BTU) from sammobile dot com
& Put phone in debug mode.
Follow this tutorial.
www youtube com / watch?v=1VQThuBj5O4
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Hey all,
I have been searching for the proper subforum to post this so I hope it's the right one.
My problem is that I have an S2 which I recently updated to 2.3.6 but since then, I started to have random reboots.
It SEEMS related to wifi because I don't have them when wifi is turned off, but I cannot determine this 100%.
Over on the GoT forum, dutch users are reporting the same issue.
Phone specs:
Productcode: GT-I9100LKAXEN
PDA: KK2 / PHONE: KI4 / CSC: KJ1
Non-rooted.
Whether I have a stock ROM or not I do not know, I'm quite sure it's not branded but Samsung doesn't seem to know either.
KIES says that I have a XEN firmware, I'm wondering if this ROM is for the Netherlands, or Europe, or worldwide(if that exists) but this is not my main concern.
Now, I've been battling with Samsung NL over this issue via Twitter, but the messages are mixed. A few days ago they announced an update, then OTA, then they went silent. Now they are saying they don't know when they will bring out an update.
All I know is that it is very frustrating to have a phone which keeps rebooting AND to have Samsung not give me clear answers.
Does anyone have a clue? Where do I begin troubleshooting this?
Before, this issue was nonexistent.
Iceman_B said:
Hey all,
Phone specs:
Productcode: GT-I9100LKAXEN
PDA: KK2 / PHONE: KI4 / CSC: KJ1
Non-rooted.
KK2 XEN netherlands firmware ,11/11/11 Netherlands CSC .
Whether I have a stock ROM or not I do not know, I'm quite sure it's not branded but Samsung doesn't seem to know either.
If its branded then its branded with network stuff fairly easy to spot .
Unless you flashed custom then its stock .
Presume update was via KIES or OTA ???
If you updated then first choice is backup data and factory reset .
Second is to redownload firmware .
Third is to go the self install route .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
jje
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Update was via KIES, OTA updates have never been available for Dutch T-Mobile customers. AFAIK.
Image of my phone version itself http://i.imgur.com/vyjbZ.png
I'm sure the ROM is buggy, but I'll try a factory reset next week.
Is this problem only with this ROM? Nobody with a stock 2.3.6 ROM experiencing this?
Iceman_B said:
Update was via KIES, OTA updates have never been available for Dutch T-Mobile customers. AFAIK.
Image of my phone version itself http://i.imgur.com/vyjbZ.png
I'm sure the ROM is buggy, but I'll try a factory reset next week.
Is this problem only with this ROM? Nobody with a stock 2.3.6 ROM experiencing this?
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My phone random reboots every now & then, it appears to be due to the SD card, Im in the process of reinstalling all SD programs to phone memory instead, it appears some SD cards dont play nice.
How do I remove old shortcuts of programs no longer on phone?
If u fix this some other way, let me no
Hi Iceman, I have the same issue, can't really say if its the wifi, sure I know its after the PDA:KK2/PHONE:KI4/CSC:KJ1(XEN) update with KIES.
Actually, the kies program s***s, I always have problems when updating firmware.
Think on flashing back to original with Odin, or do you have a great solution for this annoying matter...
Same here,
official upgrade via Kies (Dutch customer), and having daily reboots since.
It started after the 2.3.6 upgrade.
No idea why, something wrong in the ROM I guess, I did not install new programs. Clearing the cache did not help, also factory reset did not help.
Yeah ive started having reboots since getting 2.3.6
Kies at the time didnt have the update but the phone said there was one so i let it update using my wifi. Going to leave wifi off on my mobile and see how it goes. Will let ya know if its still going goood.
If anyone figures it out please post back, thanks
havent had one reboot since disabling wifi.
Hi all,
Hoping someone can help here as i've had this problem for just over three days now and its getting very annoying!
I had the custom lite'ning ROM on my sgs2 before the weekend, and decided to upgrade to the official O2 (uk) ICS rom 4.0.3.
To do this I have to flash the original kernel onto my phone using ODIN before Kies will recognise it and update the samsung way.
Therefore, I did this using ODIN, put android 2.3.3 back on using the official O2 ROM that was on the phone originally. I then plugged into Kies, and it now recognises my phone, but rather than telling me an update is available as i'd expect it now tells me that the phone is not updateable.
I have put numerous custom ROM's on the phone over the past 12 months and have mostly been rooted, and the binary counter has gone up. Therefore i purchased a jig, which reset the counter as i wanted. Could this be what has caused the phone to now be non updateable via Kies?
Any how, not to worry, i put the 4.0.3 O2 ROM on manually via ODIN, and all is good. However, now, whenever I connect to my car stereo over bluetooth and stream my music through it, after about 15 mins of connectivity, the phone randomly restarts itself. This is the only time it does it and it's driving me crazy on my journeys to and from work!
If anyone can offer me some advice on this i'd be eternally grateful, as I am planning on selling the phone soon and do not want to do this until the phone is fully functional without bugs (be unfair on the buyer.)
Cheers,
Luke.
luke222010 said:
Hi all,
Hoping someone can help here as i've had this problem for just over three days now and its getting very annoying!
I had the custom lite'ning ROM on my sgs2 before the weekend, and decided to upgrade to the official O2 (uk) ICS rom 4.0.3.
To do this I have to flash the original kernel onto my phone using ODIN before Kies will recognise it and update the samsung way.
Therefore, I did this using ODIN, put android 2.3.3 back on using the official O2 ROM that was on the phone originally. I then plugged into Kies, and it now recognises my phone, but rather than telling me an update is available as i'd expect it now tells me that the phone is not updateable.
I have put numerous custom ROM's on the phone over the past 12 months and have mostly been rooted, and the binary counter has gone up. Therefore i purchased a jig, which reset the counter as i wanted. Could this be what has caused the phone to now be non updateable via Kies?
Any how, not to worry, i put the 4.0.3 O2 ROM on manually via ODIN, and all is good. However, now, whenever I connect to my car stereo over bluetooth and stream my music through it, after about 15 mins of connectivity, the phone randomly restarts itself. This is the only time it does it and it's driving me crazy on my journeys to and from work!
KIES updates official Samsung roms
If anyone can offer me some advice on this i'd be eternally grateful, as I am planning on selling the phone soon and do not want to do this until the phone is fully functional without bugs (be unfair on the buyer.)
Two routes to upgrades one original firmware via KIES eventually.
Join XDA and flash stock Samsung roms via Odin as soon as released .
Mix and match no one or the other as often you have miss matched codes showing to Kies .
Wipe phone reflash firmware is best suggestion .
or download ICS O2 firmware via CHECKFUS .
jje
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JJEgan said:
Two routes to upgrades one original firmware via KIES eventually.
Join XDA and flash stock Samsung roms via Odin as soon as released .
Mix and match no one or the other as often you have miss matched codes showing to Kies .
Wipe phone reflash firmware is best suggestion .
or download ICS O2 firmware via CHECKFUS .
jje
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Yep, this is why i flashed the original stock O2 ROM back on the phone using ODIN, for the purpose of updating to ICS via Kies the "official" way.
I got the official O2 firmware from sammobile so its definitely the correct one. But like i say, although Kies recognises the firmware, it says that it is not updateable. Strange seeing as though the official O2 ICS firmware 4.0.3 is now out and updateable via Kies. As this did not work, I flashed it on manually using ODIN.
Any suggestions on the bluetooth issue? This is my biggest problem at the moment.
I have done a data wipe and a cache wipe and so far neither of these have fixed it.
Cheers,
Luke.
Sorry no idea ICS is not a product i use .
jje
luke222010 said:
Any suggestions on the bluetooth issue? This is my biggest problem at the moment.
I have done a data wipe and a cache wipe and so far neither of these have fixed it.
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It sounds like something's messed up there. Can you provide all of the versions of your kernel, ROM and baseband from settings -> about?
I have the same issue. After upgrading from 2.3.5 to 4.0.3 and doing a factory reset, my phone works like a charm except when I have it connected via Bluetooth to my car stereo. At random intervals, the phone will reboot and once started, does not make an automatic connection with my car stereo again. I have to disable BT and re-enable it on my car stereo to connect them.
My versions are:
Modelnumber: GT-I9100
Android version: 4.0.3
Baseband version: I9100XXLPS
Kernel version: 3.0.15-I9100XWLP7-CL340913 [email protected] #3
Buildnumber: IML74K.XWLP7
CWM kernel: CF-Root 5.4
I have flashed both kernel and root with Odin from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1103399
The funny thing is, I know when a reboot is about to happen since I hear a glitch in the sound a little before it happens.
Hope this helps pinpoint the issue.
Greetinx
Johan.
Hi,
Today I flashed my galaxy S3 to android 4.1.1, I already had jelly bean but the Poland firmware release. I re-installed the firmware but the UK version from SamMobile (Stock Version, Released On The 23/October) [Can't Post Links Untill 10 Posts] .
After flashing the firmware my phone won't seem to go past the Samsung boot screen, I have rebooted, battery pulled and also re-flashed the same UK 4.1.1 firmware but I still come across the same issue. I then played around with the phone wiping all its data and doing a factory reset, I then decide to flash back to the older jelly bean I was running (Poland) and it now boots up and displays a sense UI problem, I cant make calls and access a lot of other features like notification bar and app manager.
TL;DR: I Found The Problem, I Flashed My S3 By Clicking On Phone In ODIN And Not PDA :/ Is There Anything Else I Need To Do Since I Did Flash With Phone At First, Everything Seems Fine Now?
Any Ideas?
Thanks,
Simon
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Hi,
In my ignorance I loaded on the i9100 rom from Samfirmware XXLSJ, and it loaded ok. However the modem doesn't work. The symptoms are: connects ok to 3g network, however will not txt/make phone calls, the phone reports "not registered on network"
So, I tried flashing the XXLSJ JB again, this time with another modem, one that is supposed to be for the T variant, I'm in New Zealand by the way and use Telecom. Same deal.
No problem i thought, ill simply go back to an earlier official Telecom version on ICS. However, this now hangs on boot up on the S logo.I went back to an earlier one, that one also hangs. I went back to Gingerbread, that hangs on start up also on the S logo too.
So some questions:
Can i run jellybean and use some new modem?
If not, can i put it back to original 4.0.3 official firmware without it hanging?
I'm using Odin 3.07 to do the flashing.
Thanks in advance, i'll just be happy with a working phone at this stage :silly:
laserfist3000 said:
Hi,
In my ignorance I loaded on the i9100 rom from Samfirmware XXLSJ, and it loaded ok. However the modem doesn't work. The symptoms are: connects ok to 3g network, however will not txt/make phone calls, the phone reports "not registered on network"
So, I tried flashing the XXLSJ JB again, this time with another modem, one that is supposed to be for the T variant, I'm in New Zealand by the way and use Telecom. Same deal.
No problem i thought, ill simply go back to an earlier official Telecom version on ICS. However, this now hangs on boot up on the S logo.I went back to an earlier one, that one also hangs. I went back to Gingerbread, that hangs on start up also on the S logo too.
So some questions:
Can i run jellybean and use some new modem?
If not, can i put it back to original 4.0.3 official firmware without it hanging?
I'm using Odin 3.07 to do the flashing.
Thanks in advance, i'll just be happy with a working phone at this stage :silly:
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Sorted, ran the old firmware back on from Telecom, went into recovery mode and did a factory reset. all seems better.
Hi,
Firstly thanks for time and sorry if this is a noob question but I only have a fairly small amount of experience regarding custom roms.
Here goes...
I have changed the rom on my phone about 5 times over the last couple of years and never had a problem. I have the latest version of teamwin and I'm currently running Android Revolution HD 50.0 by mike1986. This rom works great as have all the other I have used in the past ie Cyanogenmod, Omega etc but the problem I am having is over the last 4 months I am completely losing network and even if I try to search for a mobile operator my phone can't find any unless I run a full power cycle.
I have been reading as much online mainly xda-developers to find a solution to this problem but I'm afraid I'm now just running into a brick wall. I understand this could just be a hardware fault but I have read somewhere that I may have the wrong modem installed for my phone.
How likely is this? Can having the wrong modem cause intermittent problems? Also if this is the case where the I find a tutorial on correcting this issue. Plus which modem should I be using in the UK?
Again thanks for you time and any help would be much appreciated.
Mike
Do a full wipe and flash the latest stock firmware for your country, then factory reset.
Test fully before you install or restore anything. If it is still the same then probably hardware.
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ok, Will do. I am just waiting for the UK stock firmware to download. I left it downloading while I was out this afternoon and for some reason it failed and now is asking me to wait an hour before retrying
I'll let you know if this solves my problem.
Thanks
ok..
I managed to get hold of the stock firmware from another site. I first installed a version of ICS so I could run triangle away properly after rooting with CF auto root as without doing this I couldn't reset my binary counter even after flashing stock recovery. Then I installed the latest version of JB and ran the official Samsung update to get my phone up to the very latest Official software with device status official.
So now my phone is completely back to if it just came out of the box. I finished late last night and installed nothing but WhatsApp. Then at about 3pm today again I completely lost network and couldn't restore in without a full power cycle. Even searching for Network operators in settings couldn't restore the connection. I can't think of anything else to try.
Any ideas what to try next please?
P.S. The firmware I installed is as far as I can tell for my location. I'm in the U.K. and I'm using the stock BTU version on baseband version I9300XXUGMK6
the same i9300 problem
Mike_aMPLe said:
ok..
I managed to get hold of the stock firmware from another site. I first installed a version of ICS so I could run triangle away properly after rooting with CF auto root as without doing this I couldn't reset my binary counter even after flashing stock recovery. Then I installed the latest version of JB and ran the official Samsung update to get my phone up to the very latest Official software with device status official.
So now my phone is completely back to if it just came out of the box. I finished late last night and installed nothing but WhatsApp. Then at about 3pm today again I completely lost network and couldn't restore in without a full power cycle. Even searching for Network operators in settings couldn't restore the connection. I can't think of anything else to try.
Any ideas what to try next please?
P.S. The firmware I installed is as far as I can tell for my location. I'm in the U.K. and I'm using the stock BTU version on baseband version I9300XXUGMK6
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Hi I am have the same problem.. I've tried 2x reapir store.. but just can say: "you need put new main board".
But I have trust that its not better solution (at least for me).
So if you find some solution, please dont forget reply here.
Thanks
O2 by any chance? .. if so it's a network issue. It happened to me a while back but cleared up after a day or two.
shivadow said:
O2 by any chance? .. if so it's a network issue. It happened to me a while back but cleared up after a day or two.
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This is exactly the issue I have now - I can get some signal, but can't get anything in terms of using 3G/Mobile data :/