Hello all,
I have encountered a problem on my i9308 galaxy s3 so I hope some of you on xda could help me out.
First of all, I got the phone from China Mobile. As such, there was no play store or any google related apps. Thus I flashed a custom rom using cwm.
Everything was fine, until I noticed the micro sim card was not recognized, and so I flashed everything back to the stock rom. But now, even though I do get bars, whenever I try to call, it says "not registered on the network".
I also tried flashing a custom rom in cwm then flash the i9308 modem in odin, but the stop sign symbol is still present. I also tried flashing an UK firmware (PDA) and the i9308 modem but odin fails at the modem flashing part.
Frustrated, I took the phone to the T-mobile store, but they figure out what's wrong with the phone. They gave me the number for tech support, but I have a feeling that they won't resolve this problem.
Thank you for reading this post, sorry for the long story, but I wanted to give the whole picture for my problem.
I would gladly appreciate any help at all, so post your ideas, even if it's far fetched.
tomniu said:
Hello all,
I have encountered a problem on my i9308 galaxy s3 so I hope some of you on xda could help me out.
First of all, I got the phone from China Mobile. As such, there was no play store or any google related apps. Thus I flashed a custom rom using cwm.
Everything was fine, until I noticed the micro sim card was not recognized, and so I flashed everything back to the stock rom. But now, even though I do get bars, whenever I try to call, it says "not registered on the network".
I also tried flashing a custom rom in cwm then flash the i9308 modem in odin, but the stop sign symbol is still present. I also tried flashing an UK firmware (PDA) and the i9308 modem but odin fails at the modem flashing part.
Frustrated, I took the phone to the T-mobile store, but they figure out what's wrong with the phone. They gave me the number for tech support, but I have a feeling that they won't resolve this problem.
Thank you for reading this post, sorry for the long story, but I wanted to give the whole picture for my problem.
I would gladly appreciate any help at all, so post your ideas, even if it's far fetched.
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I'm having the same dang problems! I couldn't find the i9308 firmware for the longest and I didn't backup before throwing an i9300 firmware onto my phone and basically bricking it from wifi/phone calls/etc. Thank god I got the stock firmware.
is that a fake clone? because I haven't heard or i9308
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But as always a search would bring up information .
ITS not I9300
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1722273
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1702244
Google say its Chinese from China Mobile .
nternational Model : GT-I9300 (quad core/1gb ram)
International Model LTE : GT-I9305 (quad core/2gb ram)
USA/Canada Models :
SGH-T999 (dual core/2gb ram)
SGH-I747 (dual core/2gb ram)
SCH-R530 (dual core/2gb ram)
SCH-I535 (dual core/2gb ram)
SPH-L710 (dual core/2gb ram)
China Model : GT-I9308 (quad core/1gb ram)
Japan Model : SGH-N064 (SC-06D) (dual core/2g ram)
South Korea : SHV-E210K/L/S (quad core/1gb ram)
Glebun said:
is that a fake clone? because I haven't heard or i9308
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No, the Galaxy S3 GT-i9308 is only sold by the company China Mobile, so if you've never lived in China, you probably have never seen one.
On another note, I'm still having the same issues. I flashed the i9300 (US) firmware onto my i9308 to basically turn the OS into an american version but now my SIM is not being recognized and the phone will not register for any updates. Im going to just flash back to the stock i9308 firmware, root it then uninstall all the chinese apps, flash to AT&T and it should work fine considering I was able to flash to ATT, previously, before flashing the i9300 firmware, and everything worked fine except for having problems getting the Google App store to work correctly and such...which I'm sure I can play around with it a little longer to figure that out. Anyways - hopefully some of my errors will help stop others from doing the same.
where did u get the stock firmware ?
JusDigital said:
I'm having the same dang problems! I couldn't find the i9308 firmware for the longest and I didn't backup before throwing an i9300 firmware onto my phone and basically bricking it from wifi/phone calls/etc. Thank god I got the stock firmware.
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Where did you get the stock firmware
hi guys..
any custom rom for thi device..? i9308..?
JusDigital said:
No, the Galaxy S3 GT-i9308 is only sold by the company China Mobile, so if you've never lived in China, you probably have never seen one.
On another note, I'm still having the same issues. I flashed the i9300 (US) firmware onto my i9308 to basically turn the OS into an american version but now my SIM is not being recognized and the phone will not register for any updates. Im going to just flash back to the stock i9308 firmware, root it then uninstall all the chinese apps, flash to AT&T and it should work fine considering I was able to flash to ATT, previously, before flashing the i9300 firmware, and everything worked fine except for having problems getting the Google App store to work correctly and such...which I'm sure I can play around with it a little longer to figure that out. Anyways - hopefully some of my errors will help stop others from doing the same.
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Can you share the link for the i9308 stock firmware or the original baseband version.
Hello, I need a small assistance I have galaxy S3 brought from Switzerland but i live in lebanon i tried many sims in leb and they worked and the phone comes with the following info :baseband version: I9300BULF1build number: IMM76D.I9300BUALF1. also wheb i turn the phone on i see swisscom logo. however I want to flash another firmware and root my phone so is it safe or not to do so? also I wanna know if the phone is branded or not? thx in advance
Hi,
I got a galaxy edge s9250 from China. It doesn't have google service at all. It's there anyway to install it without root?
Or it's there anyway to flash HongKong G9250 rom on it?
Many thanks in advance.
I tried to flash the HK firmware for the China S6 (non edge), but Odin craps out and got stuck before the writing.
Even after unlocking the phone using the CROM service app from the Galaxy Apps store, I still got stuck at the same part in Odin.
You can try to flash the edge HK firmware and see if it works though.
If not, you'll need root access to flash the basic gapps package.
Questions belong in Q&A, not General.
Thank you.
Hi guys, sorry in advance its probably been asked 1000 times, I have searched but get mixed feedback.
I have bought a Samsung S5 and unlocked it and want to remove the o2 branding and bloatware as I am on Virgin, I understand I need to root/flash the phone.
I found this which is the latest Virgin rom;
PDA/AP Version G900FXXU1CPL7
CSC Version G900FVIR1CPL1
MODEM/CP Version G900FXXU1CPL1
Region VIR — United Kingdom
Build Date 2016-12-08
Changelist 9493471
OS Marshmallow
OS Version 6.0.1
But others say there is a ROM I can download that is empty with no branding. There is also the custom ones ofcourse but not really interested in going to that level yet.
Can you advise if I am selecting the right ROM to download, I have found a pretty straightforward guide to flash it but if you know any recent ones it would be appreciated.
Finally my current Android version is 5, can I download an Android 6 ROM so in theory I am updating the Android version too when flashing it.
Thanks
aiwnjoo said:
Hi guys, sorry in advance its probably been asked 1000 times, I have searched but get mixed f
Thanks
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Try with German Firmware with doesn't have branding .
https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-s5/SM-G900F/DBT/download/G900FXXS1CQD4/130595/
Before you flash , Wipe Cache Partition.
Make first backup in order if something goes wrong!
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