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Did I get a clone phone?

Hi all. I recently bought another S3 4G and it feels no where near as good as my old S3 is there a way to tell if I have received a clone phone? It says galaxy S3 and I successfully installed ripper rom on it but it just don't feel right.
Also what is a room that has 0 system apps on it and is bare so I can start from scratch?
Thanks
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Check if kies can detect it as s3
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ngoralph said:
Check if kies can detect it as s3
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Well when I plugged it into the PC it said hardware ID missing but then Kies installed drivers so I'm guessing so but not to sure.
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Simply put: If it says it registers to be a SGS III and you can install a ROM that is device specific then it is an S III. If you are still curious though try finding a hardware reading or something and compare it to normal S IIIs
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Just check if it has Samsung features like direct call, and multi window

Glebun said:
Just check if it has Samsung features like direct call, and multi window
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If it is running a Samsung ROM that would brick any other device other than the I9305, then it would have it.
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Okay I'll check everything as soon as I get home . Thanks for the help everyone.
My other question is what's a rom with everything removed and just the important things like phone and messaging ect
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Well it was detected as a S3 and I installed 2 I9305 Roms on it so must just be because....... Well I dunno. Its black maybe lol? Just doesn't feel the same as my old S3 4G did.
It will grow on me
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aussiesausage said:
Well it was detected as a S3 and I installed 2 I9305 Roms on it so must just be because....... Well I dunno. Its black maybe lol? Just doesn't feel the same as my old S3 4G did.
It will grow on me
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Hahaha I can imagine the feeling actually, well enjoy and I strongly recommend Liquid Smooth ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2149746), it is basically the same as Cyanogenmod (both AOSP) but unlike CM it has an official build, less bugs (in my experience), proper support and a proper maintainer though it would not be there if not for CodeWorkx so many thanks to him.
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so it has all the Samsung features? and the flashing succeeded? just to make sure

Glebun said:
so it has all the Samsung features? and the flashing succeeded? just to make sure
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Yes I have it on my phone, it has never bugged flashing. If it were to have the Samsung features then it would have a crap load of bloatware on it, making it slower etc. It doesn't even come with the calendar installed so it doesn't like bloatware (excluding GTalk)
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I have liquid smooth and installed it. Only thing is the icon names wasn't in English for some reason and it was set to English in the settings.
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aussiesausage said:
I have liquid smooth and installed it. Only thing is the icon names wasn't in English for some reason and it was set to English in the settings.
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Reboot and you should be fine, a few others had the same issues with the language but they fixed themselves with reboots and time
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Magik_Breezy said:
Reboot and you should be fine, a few others had the same issues with the language but they fixed themselves with reboots and time
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Yeah I tried but still didn't fix it so changed back to ripper ROM as I need my phone. Will try it out though when I'm home and don't need it.
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Galaxy gear...to get or not

Is it worth it? Would be nice at work if I didn't have to pull my note 3 out every time I get a text or email....I receive 50-100 texts a day. Any info would be excellent....thx in advance
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$225 at tmo is not a bad price

Do you have to be a t mobile subscriber to get that price?
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No, you don't have to subscribe

TopDogg1 said:
Is it worth it? Would be nice at work if I didn't have to pull my note 3 out every time I get a text or email....I receive 50-100 texts a day. Any info would be excellent....thx in advance
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With great respect only you can answer that. The online operating manual is now available for the Sony site. I would suggest you go read it and see if it will perform what you expect of a smart watch or not. Ones mans trash is another mans gold etc..........
Regards.

Thanks...you are correct about what "I" expect from the device. As long as it sends all my texts and emails I'll be good. I work in a dirty factory and hate pulling out my phone
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TopDogg1 said:
Thanks...you are correct about what "I" expect from the device. As long as it sends all my texts and emails I'll be good. I work in a dirty factory and hate pulling out my phone
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i been replying to all my text from it. it works pretty good

Cool....tmobile is outta the black one now.....crap
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jrdejavux said:
i been replying to all my text from it. it works pretty good
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Can you user a voice to reply
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cherylbaker said:
Can you user a voice to reply
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yes

jrdejavux said:
yes
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I have it and its ok you can see the text but you cant answer text and you cant respond to text like other smart watches i might return it after a week, theres not many apps either im kinda disappointed

You can reply to anything using s-voice no on-board keyboard. Loving this thing so far and the phone is a big improvement over the note2 (and I loved that phone too).
Absolutely room for improvement and not many apps.. yet. Patience people.
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staffn said:
You can reply to anything using s-voice no on-board keyboard. Loving this thing so far and the phone is a big improvement over the note2 (and I loved that phone too).
Absolutely room for improvement and not many apps.. yet. Patience people.
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no i love the note 3 best phone ever but it seems like theres something missing on the galaxy gear it has the potiential but the software lacks and it needs play store access the samsung store sucks

loads of potential its early days , you will be buying it back in a month
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stesteste said:
loads of potential its early days , you will be buying it back in a month
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Still waiting 4 stocks here in saudi would like to see demo units

The SMS and Email notifications work great on Gear.
Gmail and Facebook notifications need to work like the above two to be useful and they aren't yet.
Gear seriously needs a calculator app, including a tip calculation function. It's mind boggling that they didn't include one already.
It would also be nice to have a compass function but not sure whether it can support that or not.

can you share a picture taken from great and upload straight to Facebook
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stesteste said:
can you share a picture taken from great and upload straight to Facebook
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Not from the Gear directly, but you can quite easily transfer to the smartphone and then, share from the phone.

ArborRes said:
Not from the Gear directly, but you can quite easily transfer to the smartphone and then, share from the phone.
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Really . I thought it was suppose to have a fb app..
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ArborRes said:
Not from the Gear directly, but you can quite easily transfer to the smartphone and then, share from the phone.
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its growing on me but it needs playstore access its so good but its bad. the speaker phone is unbelievable the viewing of text is great and this is the best s voice i ever used and i hate s voice, but the bad is the apps the apps is horrible. it needs three things 1. the ability to answer a text with a built in keyboard. 2. Play store access. 3. micro sd slot. If I could get 1 and 2 Ill be happy other than that Im probably going to return it based on google announcement on oct 31

[Q] I think my play store is corrupted

The specific problem is a little hard to describe. Its unusable, because I cant read anything. Screenshots are required to understand the problem.

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The specific problem is a little hard to describe. Its unusable, because I cant read anything. Screenshots are required to understand the problem.
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That is weird!
Are you rooted, or is device completely stock?
Have you downloaded any new apps that may have gone rogue or maybe a virus that you can think of?

440bro said:
That is weird!
Are you rooted, or is device completely stock?
Have you downloaded any new apps that may have gone rogue or maybe a virus that you can think of?
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I am rooyed with android version 4.0.4 been using it like this for over a year. Havent installed anything recently.pretty sure I dont have any viruses.
The play store thing seems to have happened recently.

What device are you using? This is the Note 3 section...
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graydiggy said:
What device are you using? This is the Note 3 section...
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I am using samsung galaxy note. I plan on getting the note 3, so I guess I accidentally just read note 3 as my device.

I'm guessing if I could uninstall any play store updates, I could update again, and everything would be fine. But I don't know how to do that.
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Go to app manager click play store then uninstall updates
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I tried that already. Wasn't there. Looked again, and realized it wasn't where, I expected it to be, because the name had changed to some unintelligible string. Cleared data, then removed updates, just as easily as I expected it to be, but I didn't look good enough.
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I suspect you got hit pretty hard with malware.
What carrier are you using or what is the model number of your device, a mod will be by shortly to move this to the proper forum.
You may need to go and do a complete restore of your device.
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Topic resolved: closed.
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[Mod] HTC Extreme Power Saver

Hey everyone.
I thought it kinda sucked that our phones didn't come with the Extreme Power Saving mode so I did some tinkering around with the smali and here you have it!
I flashed this on the completely stock odexed ROM using TWRP 2.7.0.0 and it worked perfectly.
Enjoy!
PS. I'm not liable if you blow up your phone. Make a nandroid!
Here's a link to google drive, XDA is being weird about uploading it.
Just hit File ---> Download
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Deodex:
http://goo.gl/yMcEJ9
md5: EE7E22C40E410C9405D94F0831EB6F0F
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Odex:
http://goo.gl/6H6da3
md5: 00175CC69DD53DC8E2AC015F3D0A8F8E

jkt97401 said:
Hey everyone.
I thought it kinda sucked that our phones didn't come with the Extreme Power Saving mode so I did some tinkering around with the smali and here you have it!
I flashed this on the completely stock odexed ROM using TWRP 2.7.0.0 and it worked perfectly.
Enjoy!
PS. I'm not liable if you blow up your phone.
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Where's the zip?
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jkt97401 said:
Hey everyone.
I thought it kinda sucked that our phones didn't come with the Extreme Power Saving mode so I did some tinkering around with the smali and here you have it!
I flashed this on the completely stock odexed ROM using TWRP 2.7.0.0 and it worked perfectly.
Enjoy!
PS. I'm not liable if you blow up your phone.
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Ummm did you forget something? LOL

Lol i updated the OP. Patience young padawan!

Only caveat I've noticed so far is that it takes a little bit for apps that rely on background sync to reengage. For example, if you go into the play store it doesn't see that background sync is on unless I kill the app.

awesome, thanks!

magicalan said:
awesome, thanks!
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You're welcome!
I added deodex version for use with bad seeds stock ROM

So, where is the zip?

mcwups1 said:
So, where is the zip?
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The links are in the first post. They link to Google drive.
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I'm completely brain dead in the subject.
I download all files and zip myself? Or, do I just pick a certain app?
I think Steal's new ROM has it included.

mcwups1 said:
I'm completely brain dead in the subject.
I download all files and zip myself? Or, do I just pick a certain app?
I think Steal's new ROM has it included.
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Open page. File menu, last option is Download. At least that is my recollection.

I'm confused. They pulled extreme power saver on the sprint model? (I don't have mine til Monday.)
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Yep all domestic carriers I think. Until it gets approval by sprint
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Confirmed working for m7wls any sense 6 port, I'm using bad boys sixth sense port
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Captain_Throwback said:
Open page. File menu, last option is Download. At least that is my recollection.
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Had to change to desktop mode in dolphin browser to even get there.

DEFNUB said:
Confirmed working for m7wls any sense 6 port, I'm using bad boys sixth sense port
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Good to hear!
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Good to hear!
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This is just the ui portion, it needs the services and libs to make it function. Sytemui can also be included for the quick settings tile but not necessary.
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A couple of screen shots
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henderjr said:
Yep all domestic carriers I think. Until it gets approval by sprint
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That's just stupid. Oh well. I've never run stock longer than it takes to get a recovery installed anyway. It's just dumb that carriers eliminate main features of a device. I thought that was one of it's bog selling points.
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adamlee011 said:
That's just stupid. Oh well. I've never run stock longer than it takes to get a recovery installed anyway. It's just dumb that carriers eliminate main features of a device. I thought that was one of it's bog selling points.
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I'd have to agree.
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Just received system update

KMV78Y is the new build number.

Just refreshed mine and nothing. I just bought mine today so that'd be nice to have an update already! Hope they put a changelog soon.

Joe0113 said:
KMV78Y is the new build number.
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That's the same build number that was just released for the LG G Watch. I doubt that two different companies would use the same version numbers, so are you sure?

Not showing up on mine yet

JimSmith94 said:
That's the same build number that was just released for the LG G Watch. I doubt that two different companies would use the same version numbers, so are you sure?
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My version on my Gear is the same thing except instead of the Y, its an X. So that's definitely the format for the gear.

tu3218 said:
My version on my Gear is the same thing except instead of the Y, its an X. So that's definitely the format for the gear.
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Same, No updates available either :|

Just checked mine, no update.

Nothing for me too, I just checked. Also rebooted the device and check but no updates.

I have my update, ending in Y as well.
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Krunk_Kracker said:
I have my update, ending in Y as well.
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Huh mine is the same except ends in X
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I just recivied KMV78Y

Seems it's slowly trickling in to everyone. Anyone noticing any differences?
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tu3218 said:
Seems it's slowly trickling in to everyone. Anyone noticing any differences?
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I honestly haven't noticed shiz yet!

Joe0113 said:
I honestly haven't noticed shiz yet!
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Maybe battery optimization?? One can hope lol
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tu3218 said:
Maybe battery optimization?? One can hope lol
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Just charged my Gear Live last nite, lasted me from Saturday evening!

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Just charged my Gear Live last nite, lasted me from Saturday evening!
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Yeah that's good to me! Just got mine yesterday an still going well. What brightness do you have it set on?
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Yeah that's good to me! Just got mine yesterday an still going well. What brightness do you have it set on?
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Five in the day time/sunlight and the one at nite/when it's dark.
Sent from a Galaxy 5 light years away

I don't have any problems with battery life, but a lot of people seem to complain about it. At midnight last night I was at 28% after taking it off the cradle at 7 am. Right now I'm at 80% at 3:30pm EST after taking it off the cradle at 7 am. I don't let the screen stay on and I keep my brightness at 3.

Does this update break anything.. Root wise? I just got notified about it

I got the notification
I'd imagine that if rooted, it wouldn't install. Just like a nexus device. If it did though, root would usually be lost. Give it a go and let us know