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samsung galaxy s3

  1. atmu5fear

    Booting with no screen attached

    I want to be able to boot my old s3, out of the housing it came in, eg no screen, no mid frame, no cover. Just the mother board. I can boot it with every thing else disconected, and I can have it running, and unplug the screen and it stays running just fine. But if you try to reboot it it...
  2. D

    Help Phone keeps restarting Samsung galaxy s3

    Hello again all whenever I run an app or application for about a few minutes or so my phone will randomly restart itself for so reason i don't why this keeps happening but can someone please help me as it keeps doing this over and over again and i hate it
  3. A

    WIFI Problem

    I have a problem regarding crdroid 12.1. let me make it much clearer, Previously before I changed the setting from DHCP to STATIC, my device used to find the device but would not connect to it rather would just show something like saved. Now as I have changed the setting from DHCP to STATIC my...
  4. D

    Root Hard bricked virgin 710t unbrick img needed

    Alright what happened is i tried to update my twrp to try flash octo os and i did so using terminal emulator apparently something went wrong and its now fully unresponsive if i plug it in with no battery it does light up and ive tried sd flashing the sprint unbrick image using a windows flash...
  5. Katy Gilbert

    Help??

    So I'm having trouble with my Samsung Galaxy S3, It wont turn on and if it does it gets stuck on a white screen. Now I'm not so worried about all my music, i can re download that, but I have recently lost my dog Merlin, me and Merlin were very close, and all my pictures i have of him are on...
  6. S

    Galaxy S3 stuck on reboot after factory reset

    Hi i'm new to this forum and i need help! i have a Samsung Galaxy S3 that was playing up so did a factory reset. The phone now tries to reboot but is bombarded with Goggle play services stopped / Samsung account has stopped / Google account manager has stopped. The reboot stops at the point...
  7. waitingtogetskyrim2

    Root thread was never answered cause I didn't ask a question

    You all must love paying your phone bills to people who allowed the federal government to use their networks to spy on you. Oh wait you all don't care that your personal data was collected. Some of you say oh I won't use kingroot cause the Chinese server but you have no problem with your...
  8. highjakker

    Help Cord or port?

    I'm wondering what causes my phone to not charge at times. Is it the usb cords or the port to which they connect to in the phone? I've gone through numerous cords and honestly the last few haven't been Samsung OE cords they've been made by Annker(?). I ordered them from Amazon in a bundle. They...
  9. D

    Help Wifi won't connect, factory reset didn't help

    Hello, I have a Galaxy S3. A few weeks ago, my wifi randomly stopped working. It finds wifi networks quickly, but after entering the wifi password, instead of connecting, it will go to "saved, secured". If I try connecting several times, occasionally it will give an authentication error, but...
  10. waitingtogetskyrim2

    Thread for off topic posts

    Why doesn't a phone have a firewall like windows firewall.
  11. A

    Write Fail Error in Odin on Galaxy

    Dear all, I think I have bricked my Galaxy S3 SGH-I747 I have tried Flashing TWRP recovery which was was successful, after that I tried flashing the stock rom downladed from Sammobile which failed. I then tried to flash the Rooting file from Chainfire which also failed. I am attaching the...
  12. X

    Help Stop constant bluetooth scanning?

    My S3 is running stock 4.4.2. I am paired with my LG headset, and that's all I want. Is there any way I can tell this phone to stop scanning for more Bluetooth items? I've got a high time and percentage of bluesleep and msm_serial_hs_dma wakelocks (according to GSam) and my battery is...
  13. S

    Root root or not?

    Newbie here. I will try to explain/ask questions the best I know how. I was given a samsung galaxy s3, sgh i535, verizon phone. My carrier is at&t (which was used in a samsung galaxy s3 sgh i747.) As you might guess, I want to use my at&t sim card on the verizon phone....HOWEVER, I cant get it...
  14. B

    Streaming TiVo?

    Trying to get quality video from my TiVo Bolt to my phone. Configuration diagram here. Broadband service is ATT U-verse. Wireless Airport Express is in bridge mode (DHCP off). I get 8 mbps speed test from phone to the internet. My phone shows 150 mbps "link" to the Extreme. Streaming...
  15. SunMad30

    Help hidding Location Icon

    Hi Everyone, I have a samsung galaxy 3. Can I hide the “location” icon in upper home screen (next to wifi icon, when you browse down). Sometimes by mistake I disable it and I want it to be “on” always. Thank you.
  16. Farkomeister

    Help! All incoming calls blocked. Help!

    Suddenly, my phone has decided to block ALL incoming calls, even from my favorite contacts and voicemail. I just cannot receive incoming calls. The notification shows "Missed call from (blocked) [contact name or phone number]." The [contact name or phone number] part shows the name of the...
  17. R

    How long does it take to reset a Galaxy s3?

    Its currently taking me more than a hour. What is a explanation for this? Please!!! I just want to get this stupid thing to work
  18. R

    Root L710T: Rooting instructions in one location?

    Hi there, I will try to keep this brief--I am a newbie interested in learning how to root. I wiped my Samsung SPH-L710T (Note it is a T model), build number KOT49H-L710TVPUoAOH1. I have surfed around forums for about a month now and thank goodness found out the the T part of the model name...
  19. D

    SAMSUNG S3 - GT-19300 STORAGE

    This phone is rooted and on cm-11-20160115-SNAPSHOT-XNH0E0O00N-i9300. For some time now I've been having difficulty installing and upgrading apps because of low storage space despite EM File explorer reporting only7.89/25.57 and SD card 3.99/29.27 or a total of 22% being used. Windows reports...
  20. L

    Galaxy S3 device not recognized in Windows through USB cable.

    i am having the issue where my phone doesn't show up in my computer when i connect via usb. It plays the usb device sound in Windows but then says USB device not recognized. Etc. WHAT I'VE TRIED SO FAR: I have tried my Samsung Galaxy s4 with the same cable and it comes up as a disk...
  21. L

    I am needing the Samsung use driver v1.4.6.0

    I have tried looking for it, but it seems to be hard to find a good source for it. And Samsung directly wants me to use the newer driver which isn't working. Much appreciated for anyone who will email it or Dropbox it or however. Even a working link . Thanks so much.
  22. J

    App to remove bloatware etc

    The app is called "System App Remover" and it does require root access. I used it on my Visual Land tablet to remove some of the bloatware they install. I have also used it to remove stuff like the Torch app and the IRC app from my slimrom build on my Galaxy S3
  23. M

    Camera Problems after KitKat 4.4.2

    I have to take some pictures and put a time stamp on them. I generally use a stand alone digital camera, but, it is broken at the moment. I'd like to use a camera app on my Sprint Galaxy SIII for awhile at least. The stock camera have a time stamp feature and after the KitKat 4.4.2 upgrade no...
  24. V

    Root i9300 + CWM 6.0.4.6 + Archidroid 3.1.5 - Sudden bricked 'Can't mount /cache/...'

    Hi, firstly I'll say I'm a bit new to this. I've done some searching around trying to find out how I can troubleshoot this problem but I keep getting a lot of seemingly unrelated or contradictory information and I'm left somewhat confused so I thought I'd start a thread of my own... I just...
  25. amagras

    Root Help installing Cyanogenmod in Galaxy s3

    Hi there, Before start let me say congrats, it's a great forum you guys have going on here. I have decided to install cyanogenmod on my Galaxy S3 canadian Bell. It already has recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.4.7-d2att installed. For that I used Odin3v185 and the UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.00 I have...
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