[Q] Firmware updating problem + Google Play - Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help &

Hey,
Recently I've been having a LOT of trouble with my galaxy S3 LTE. For over a year it's been fine other than a firmware problem - but roughly 3 days ago, Google Play started to not let me in thanks to a "connection error". After deleting my account from Google, clearing cache and fixing the "hosts" file. Nothing worked.
Seemingly, A factory reset would be the only solution?
So I backed up all my images, music and contacts to the SD card, unmounted it and factory reset the phone through the recovery method thinking "Finally, it'll all be back to normal" but once again. Google won't allow me to add an account and the software won't update although I have the stock firmware?
Is there any way to actually fix these problems properly?
Thanks.
Galaxy S3 LTE
Stock Android version 4.1.2
EE

DavidPicksley said:
Hey,
Recently I've been having a LOT of trouble with my galaxy S3 LTE. For over a year it's been fine other than a firmware problem - but roughly 3 days ago, Google Play started to not let me in thanks to a "connection error". After deleting my account from Google, clearing cache and fixing the "hosts" file. Nothing worked.
Seemingly, A factory reset would be the only solution?
So I backed up all my images, music and contacts to the SD card, unmounted it and factory reset the phone through the recovery method thinking "Finally, it'll all be back to normal" but once again. Google won't allow me to add an account and the software won't update although I have the stock firmware?
Is there any way to actually fix these problems properly?
Thanks.
Galaxy S3 LTE
Stock Android version 4.1.2
EE
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Re flash with this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942150

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sgs gone crazy

hi there
getting straight to the problem : i got my sgs (international I9000) 3 months ago and tried to upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 but failed many times. then i accidently flashed a vibrant rom (eugene one) in my phone and i couldn't get to dl or recovery mode so i gave it to a local store here that helped me get back to stock 2.1 but i didn't know how he did it .. probably with a jig
everything went fine and i was able to enter both modes but then NUMEROUS force closes appears whenever i open most of apps (google apps and other 3rd party apps but others like massege, phone, contacts, players works fine), can't delete or put anything in the sd card . I tried to fix it with flashing to another stock roms i even tried 2.3 , the flashes were ok but force closes kept coming. I also tried wipe data and factory reset from recovery but to no avail. also when i change settings, delete files, etc .. and then reboot everything goes back to how it was before i did the change
i read many threads that my phone internal might be corrupted from all this @*&* and i thought i would ask here before sending it to samsung hoping i would find a solution here
regards and sorry for bad english
zimbawi90 said:
hi there
getting straight to the problem : i got my sgs (international I9000) 3 months ago and tried to upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 but failed many times. then i accidently flashed a vibrant rom (eugene one) in my phone and i couldn't get to dl or recovery mode so i gave it to a local store here that helped me get back to stock 2.1 but i didn't know how he did it .. probably with a jig
everything went fine and i was able to enter both modes but then NUMEROUS force closes appears whenever i open most of apps (google apps and other 3rd party apps but others like massege, phone, contacts, players works fine), can't delete or put anything in the sd card . I tried to fix it with flashing to another stock roms i even tried 2.3 , the flashes were ok but force closes kept coming. I also tried wipe data and factory reset from recovery but to no avail. also when i change settings, delete files, etc .. and then reboot everything goes back to how it was before i did the change
i read many threads that my phone internal might be corrupted from all this @*&* and i thought i would ask here before sending it to samsung hoping i would find a solution here
regards and sorry for bad english
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I flashed a vibrant and captivate rom on the first day i got my SGS and promptly soft bricked it.
Was able to get it back and running though, no force closes.
I suggest backing up all your phone internal data SD data (On your computer) etc. And send it to Samsung and just replace all the data afterwards.
I'm not experience enough to aid you (Sorry) and and the problems are a little ambiguous.
Hope i have helped. Good luck getting your phone back and running again

[Q] After Hard reset accounts and applications stay

I have a problem with my new Samsung SGS gt-i9000.
i purchased it today and started to install markets applications.. (new to android world ). after a couple of downloads samsung apps asked to update. then i rebooted device but some appplication (google maps, gmail) begin to hang.
phone was new i decided for hard reset because it was almost empty
and now the problem.. i tried different types of hard reset (Volume+home+power and then wipe, with code *numbers that i don't remember# and from privacy-restore to factory settings but everytime i boot my Phone accounts and apps are still there and of course Samsung apps won't run.
where is the solution? any way to perform a REAL hard reset? thanks
Andrea
trie to format sd and then do a factory reset. your problem is strange,coz it should erase everything with factory reset except your sd (internal an external).
trie to flash one of the custom ROM's.
sorry for my english.
Odin to stock
Sent from my I897 using XDA App
i tried several kinds of format but apps are always there.. seems strange to me too!
thanks for answers.. the problem is that phone is buyed yesterday.. flashing a custom ROM void warranty so i think is better to sent it back..
but what about ODIN to stock? this flash void warranty?
u shold find stock rom for your country.(i mean csc and that) find it on google.
otherwise take it back to service,and make their life miserable..
it's realy f...... that u have problems with 1 day old phone.
OK.. found a stock rom, same version, same everything.. flashed succesfully with odin BUT when android booted SURPRISE!
same applications, same wallpaper, same problems, same everything WTF!!!
i'm at the end of the rope..... this afternoon i take it back to service
Connect to PC via USB( first in you phone USB debugging),than format your device on PC
I have the same problem. Tried odin with all possible options, bricked/recovered a few times in the process. Now, on stock firmware 2.3.3. I still can't hard-reset the phone. The files on my internal SD card, google account etc. keep reappearing after each reset. I believe this is some 'real' problem with the internal storage of the card.
Did you take the phone to service center? What did they say?

[CDMA][SPRINT] Every App Crashes

Some Info:
First things first: This is not my primary tablet anymore so If I can't get it working that is okay.
Second: I am trying to fix it for my parents or to sell it.
Third: It is the Sprint CDMA Version.
Okay so the problem with the tablet is when I turn on the device after flashing anything (whether it be the stock Gingerbread Rom via Odin/Heimdall or Cyanogenmod/AOKP) it works fine for a couple of moments... I set it up.. I open a couple of apps... and suddenly every single app starts to force close!!
On Stock it shows some apps like Swype and on ICS roms it shows some acore process.
I really want to know how to unbrick this and I can't send it in cause my warranty ended in February.
I'm also having a similar problem.
But I can't flash any ROM.
Even if I copy the zip file to the tab memory, after I reboot it, the file disappears. It always goes to Italian language. Can't remove the google account or the hotmail account.
I have tried to reset to factory defaults, etc and still the same...
Any ideas?
What android version your tablet have ?
AtaAlla said:
What android version your tablet have ?
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Stock Gingerbread but the problem started when I had AOKP on it.
I tried flashing back to stock yesterday and now it's in a boot loop on the second Samsung logo after the Sprint logo.
The things that crash are android.process.acore, all gapps, Swype on stock, and Google Play.
Hello guys
i have bad news for you...
if you can't do wipe(i mean, you do it nothing change)
you need JTAG-spacialist
many people had problem with Sprint Tab
i am work on this problem-- i buying P1000 with same problem (2 weeks ago)
but now i see that is big problem
you have read-only movinand
i think it is /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 it is /data part
i find bad blocks , but i can't fix them
sorry for my terrible english

[Q] S3 Mini Froze alot after baseband upgrade

Dear, all
first of all, sorry for my bad english...
I have my galaxy s3 mini for a few months (i bought it on august 2013), a week ago my HH had a notification that a new ugrade available. So i tap OK, and the phone downloaded the upgrade (195 MB, if i remember correctly). When the phone succesfully updated, i check the system. I noticed that the baseband version was upgraded from i8190DXAMA2 to i8190DXAMJ1. A few days later, my phone started acting wierd. All the system apps start to crash a lot. One day the messaging dan contact app not responding, and i had to force close and reboot the phone. The other day was clock app crashing, and i had to reboot the phone.
Does anyone have same problem like me? How can i fix this? I tried to clear app data, but that didn't work. Reboot is the only way to fix this problem. And i don't want to reboot the phone every day or two. If i want to downgrade my baseband version to original, how can i do that?
and oh, my phone is not rooted. Still using stock ROM.
thanks
I'm guessing you didn't do a factory data reset after update?
Reinstall firmware using kies, after it's done, turn on the phone, do a factory reset and then setup it as you would with new phone.
Optionaly you can make a backup with KIES before the upper ster, and after doing a factory reset, restore the backup. Or just copy/paste stuff you need (music, picture, etc)
zvorkapic.os said:
I'm guessing you didn't do a factory data reset after update?
Reinstall firmware using kies, after it's done, turn on the phone, do a factory reset and then setup it as you would with new phone.
Optionaly you can make a backup with KIES before the upper ster, and after doing a factory reset, restore the backup. Or just copy/paste stuff you need (music, picture, etc)
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No, i didn't. The update was via OTA. Ok, i will try it and see if it works, thanks. :fingers-crossed:

GT-n7000 no sim card error CM-13

i've been using the cm 13 night owl 4.2 beta on my SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE GTn-7000 for like a week without any issues but recently my phone froze so i restarted after that im getting no sim card error. at first i thought its a bug but its still there.
things i tried
1. restarted (many time)
2. cleared caches, re-installed rom
3. thought might be problem with the sim so tried with outher simcards and problem still exists.
4. tried almost everything (haven't tried the stock rom)
hope you guys find me a quick fix, thank you
arjunvp21 said:
i've been using the cm 13 night owl 4.2 beta on my SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE GTn-7000 for like a week without any issues but recently my phone froze so i restarted after that im getting no sim card error. at first i thought its a bug but its still there.
things i tried
1. restarted (many time)
2. cleared caches, re-installed rom
3. thought might be problem with the sim so tried with outher simcards and problem still exists.
4. tried almost everything (haven't tried the stock rom)
hope you guys find me a quick fix, thank you
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Go to your phone Settings >> About phone. Do you see the IMEI, baseband in there?
If no, your EFS file might be corrupted or deleted. If you didn't have a backup then you might wanna Google for help.
If yes, check your SIM slot and make sure the gold pins are all there.

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