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JB - It's here. Official.

bupolo,

Backup everything and factory reset.

99% of the time it fixes any issues and your battery life will go back to normal.

Damn, factory reset? Installing all the apps again, putting all the settings back? I did that so many times when I rooted my OGEvo, I really don't want to spend much time doing that.

I'm still waiting for an economical solution to replacing my cracked screen without having to go through Sprint's insurance coverage and get a refurbished shitty one.
 
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can some please let me know if theres anyway for me to run that update on my sprint gs3

no , DO NOT DO RUN THIS UPDATE ON ANY GS3 IN THE US, YOU WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE

don't wanna sound rude but yeah this only works on international versions, there are hardware differences and the carriers are different, there are older leaks for us versions but if you are not comfortable tinkering with your phone i would suggest you wait for it to come out officially thru OTA eventually .
 
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no , DO NOT DO RUN THIS UPDATE ON ANY GS3 IN THE US, YOU WILL BRICK YOUR PHONE

don't wanna sound rude but yeah this only works on international versions, there are hardware differences and the carriers are different, there are older leaks for us versions but if you are not comfortable tinkering with your phone i would suggest you wait for it to come out officially thru OTA eventually .

lol no prob bro just wanted to make sure lol
 
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Question for those with jellybean.

Are you on 3rd party launchers? And do you see the benefits of JB? Smoothness etc


I use Apex and definitely JB is smooth. I used to have all animations disabled as I always thought they slowed down the phone and I have them on as they are blazing fast.

Any gt i9300 could have polish JB via OTA.
All you need to do, is change csc code on XEO.
(change code is automatically factory reset)

No need to change CSC to get it.
 
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Newb over here. So with OTA JB update (when its available in my area). Does it wipe the entire phone, and you have to restore your backup? or will it just update your phone, and all your previous settings and installed software are still there.

It will install it over your software on your phone. it won't wipe it. There may be a setting or two that is different after the update if the update changed anything but otherwise it should be painless.
 
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