Once again we are going to give the good news to the holders of a Samsung Galaxy S3, international model or better known as the GT-I9300, that this terminal, no matter how much the Samsung leaders nickels, if it is capable of running the latest versions of AndroidOf course, not precisely thanks to them.
The graces of power update to Android 4.4.3 your Samsung Galaxy S3, we owe it once again to the independent developers of Cyanogenmod, Which just a few days after the official launch of the factory images for the Nexus, have already adapted it for their large list of terminals.
Requirements to meet to update the Samsung Galaxy S3 to Android 4.4.3
The first of all will be to have a Samsung Galaxy S3 international model known as GT-I9300. Besides this terminal must be rooted and the modified recovery installed.
It is essential to have a backup of our entire system performed from the modified recovery itself, as well as it is vitally important, to have a backup EFS folder kept safely.
In addition to all this, we must have the battery of the Samsung Galaxy S3 charged to full capacity and USB debugging enabled from the terminal settings.
Required files
The files necessary to update your Samsung Galaxy S4.4.3 to Android 3 are limited to two compressed files in zip format, one with the latest Nightly from Cyanogenmod 11 and another with the native Google applications. On the Cyanogenmod download page, you will have to select last nightly version which is the one at the top of the page, as for the Google Apps you must select those corresponding to the Cyanogenmod version 11.
Cyanogenmod 11 Android 4.4.3 installation method
If we are already in Cyanogenmod 11, we will only have to download the file corresponding to the nightly, copy it to the internal sdcard or internal memory and make a Wipe cache partition and from advanced a wipe dalvik cache then flash the Rom from the option Install zip from sdcard.
For those who come from Samsung's original Android Stock, I mean Android 4.3, or those who come from Cooked Roms other than Cyanogenmod 11 You will have to copy both zip in the internal memory and follow the instructions that I detail here to the letter:
- Wipe data factory reset
- Wipe cache partition.
- Advanced / wipe dalvik cache.
- Go back.
- Mounts and storage and we format system, data and cache.
- Go back again.
- Install zip from sdcard
- choose zip
- We select the zip of the nightly and confirm its flashing.
- Choose zip again.
- We select the zip of the Google Gapps and confirm its installation,
- Reboot system now.
That's all friends, just wait for our Samsung Galaxy S3 international model to restart to be able to enjoy the latest benefits of Android 4.4.3 that Samsung insists on denying us in order to sell a few thousand more Samsung Galaxy S5.
Let's see gentlemen, of course Samsung can update it, but if it cannot ensure a correct and good user experience, it is better not to do so, in the video where the S3 has 4.4.2 there are applications that do not open, and they are basic, storage doesn't work either ...
Samsung, for me has died. As of now I am not going to buy absolutely ANYTHING from Samsung. I started by buying an SGS, very satisfied (except for the issue of updates). A good phone, resistant and with very good features, although with the official roms it goes like the ass. Then I bought an SGS 2. I thought about the previous one a thousand times, I think it was the best phone I have ever owned. It went well with both official and cooked roms. Unbreakable. My girlfriend fell from 1 story high and hit the edge of a step. Nothing happened, no broken screen, working normally. THE BEST. Later I bought the S3 expecting another miraculous phone, but in daily use I did not notice any difference with the previous one and on top of that it falls and does break. After 2 months I got a green streak that crossed my screen, I took it to the SAT and it took 2 months to fix it. Currently I have Cyanogen on because the official rom is going like bad ass. The problem with Cyanogen is that it is very slow to release stable roms and they always crash somewhere. In my case, it does not record video and as in all of them, it does not bring FM radio. They gave me a Samsung Smart TV a few months ago. I was trying to do Screen Mirroring on the TV and it told me that there was a hardware error… ¿? ¿? ¿? ¿? Shortly after they released an update and it seems that it fixed, but it was working with a lag that made it impossible to play on TV. A few days ago it broke down -.- Next week I'll take it to the SAT, let's see how long it takes ... The other day talking to a friend who has an S3, he told me that he had bought a Galaxy Gear and that he said it was fully compatible with the S3 ... it has been trying to connect them for a week and nothing ...
I said, plastic devices, without backing and of very low quality of components, and above with exorbitant prices.
Samsung is screwing it up. They remind me a lot of Acer computers, very powerful, but of poor quality and little durability, but with the difference that Acer at least is cheap ...
Apate the S3 is very common it scrapes the entire shore that is to say the paint is falling very expensive and bad
I installed it on Friday, I went from cm11 4.4.2 to cm11 4.4.3 and from that moment I have no more signal ... only emergency call ... I'm going crazy ... nobody gives foot with bolus in my theme IMEI correct SN correct ...
come by here help me. I hope it helps you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zyWrigGILQ
Well ai personally I take it from the sgs and sgs 2 and now the sgs3 and everything well I have thrown it on purpose and coo if nothing if it peels off the edges but from then on coo if nothing and it continues to work perfectly
If I want to install this version on my sg3, can I keep my applications and settings?
But the latest version is 4.4.2, right?
Not in the Nightlys versions
I do all the steps and it jumps to the recovery menu, what could it be due to?
I installed it and it works very well on my S3, however I have a question, is there no fm radio?
I did everything exactly and my phone does not start. stays on the screen «samsung Galaxy SIII»
so I keep my phone. What did you do to solve that problem?
When downloading cyanogenmod and the Gapps from the links I have downloaded 2 folders that are not zis files. Do you have to create the zips before uploading them to the mobile's SD to be able to install zip?
Well then, why do they talk about an upgrade to kitkat… .if it won't work later? Because they put this tutorial to update it. I prefer to stick with version 4.3, which is perfect for me and nothing on my mobile fails to have a more updated version if some things don't work for you.
I want to know if I will lose the release of my cell phone before doing it?
It does not install the zip of the Google Gapps, can someone help me? Greetings
And if I come from android 6.1.2? It happens to me that it does not let me update more from the system. I'm reading and I don't know how to proceed ...
Thank you very much in advance.
I finished the installation but the google play services are not working. How do I solve it?