Ota update

[willhamhole]

Woke up this morning to a ota update.
I'm on orange (ee) in the UK. Updated to jb when it came out and the version is still 4.1.2.
Update said it was adding new features, any one knew what they might be lol

 

[silentwitness]

As quoted by GTWalling in another thread
"It is a "fix" for the Screen of Death that plague the international S3."

Samsung Galaxy S3 'sudden death' security flaw fixed in UK | CNET UK

 

[willhamhole]

It said 'new features' didn't say anything about a fix

 

[aldo82]

i thought orange was on 4.1.1, therefore if its now showing 4.1.2 then thats your upgrade. Google the 4.1.2 upgrade to see what you get or look at threads on here as I can't think of them all. Main feature is multi window (having two apps on screen at once). Others include adjustable notification toggles, something called 'page buddy', keyboard imporvements, chrome included as default, general ui updates.....

If you were already on 4.1.2 then I think they re-issued it to block a security vulnerability

 

[willhamhole]

Was on 4.1.2, still am after update, looked into it on xda. Was the exynos, sudden death and a bootloader/trust update

 

[CmdrBond]

3 pulled their finger out and finally pushed 4.1.2 this morning.

 

[SUroot]

As quoted by GTWalling in another thread
"It is a "fix" for the Screen of Death that plague the international S3."

Samsung Galaxy S3 'sudden death' security flaw fixed in UK | CNET UK

No, this article is wrong. It is combining 2 faults into 1. It is getting mixed up between the Exynos Memory exploit and the Sudden death fix

The new bootloader is rumoured to fix the Sudden death issue however there is absolutely zero evidence of it. All this bootloader does is introduce a way to prevent permanent flash counter resetting.

As for teh Exynos flaw, yes apparently a fix is being pushed for this currently so any update after 4.1.2 is most likely that.

I would ask that people refrain from posting that article though as its written terribly and completely inaccurate.

 

[GTWalling]

SUroot, that is the reason I had fix in quotes. Their statement not mine.

 

[SUroot]

You can try this using this link:

Samsung starts rolling out software update in the UK to fix Exynos security flaw – S3 gets it first

 

[bitsandpcs]

3 pulled their finger out and finally pushed 4.1.2 this morning.

I am on the 3 network and I have had the 4.1.2 update for a few weeks now so does this mean I have an unbranded/unlocked phone?

And the phone is performing the latest update now.

 

[SUroot]

I am on the 3 network and I have had the 4.1.2 update for a few weeks now so does this mean I have an unbranded/unlocked phone?

And the phone is performing the latest update now.

If you got it directly from 3 UK, it will be branded. If it was Phones4u / CPW, its unbranded.

If you type *#1234# into the dialer, that info can tell us for sure.

 

[dan44762000]

No, this article is wrong. It is combining 2 faults into 1. It is getting mixed up between the Exynos Memory exploit and the Sudden death fix

The new bootloader is rumoured to fix the Sudden death issue however there is absolutely zero evidence of it. All this bootloader does is introduce a way to prevent permanent flash counter resetting.

As for teh Exynos flaw, yes apparently a fix is being pushed for this currently so any update after 4.1.2 is most likely that.

I would ask that people refrain from posting that article though as its written terribly and completely inaccurate.

perhaps you should take that up with C-net then ?

You can try this using this link:

Samsung starts rolling out software update in the UK to fix Exynos security flaw

 

[bitsandpcs]

If you got it directly from 3 UK, it will be branded. If it was Phones4u / CPW, its unbranded.

If you type *#1234# into the dialer, that info can tell us for sure.

I bought it from Tesco with a three contract, just typed the above and got this info:

AP: I9300XXELLA
CP: I9300XXELLA
CSC: I9300OXAELLA

 

[SUroot]

that's just speculation , nothing concrete as the article itself says .

The article states that there is speculation surrounding Samsung ALSO fixing the sudden death issue, which is accurate. There is speculation that the sboot packaged with XXELLA fixes it. As I have already stated, there is ZERO evidence to suggest that.

The update does indeed address the Exynos flaw, that's not speculation.


...But this isn't what the CNET article says. The CNET article is calling the Exynos security flaw "Sudden Death" which is inaccurate. This is my point.

The comments in the article already pull CNET on this so:

1) No need for me to
2) Not sure what your problem here is.

I simply want people to understand the current situation by reading articles that are accurate.

I bought it from Tesco with a three contract, just typed the above and got this info:

AP: I9300XXELLA
CP: I9300XXELLA
CSC: I9300OXAELLA

Unbranded

 

[bitsandpcs]

Cheers SUroot

 

[GTWalling]

You can try this using this link:

Samsung starts rolling out software update in the UK to fix Exynos security flaw

 

[SUroot]

Thanks for the updated link.

No probs

Here's some fresh info today from one of the gt-i9300's most prominent kernel devs....

Way to spoil my surprise.

Anyway I'm already almost finished.

I'm confirming that the sudden death syndrome is caused by MMC failure and the fix is kernel integrated, the new bootloader is unrelated to any of the security issues or hardware fixes.

Expect an urgency kernel update within the hour. I also advise other developers who already are using other source bases not to use update 7, it is outdated and older than other sources. I extracted the fixes and will be in my Github within the same hour.