How to turn your GS3 into a GS4!

Tutorial:

Hey what's up guys in this tutorial I'm going to show you guys how to make your Galaxy S3 look like a galaxy S4!  For all of you salivating at the thought of having a GS4 this might be your best bet before it's actual release.

DISCLAIMER: I am not responsible for bricked devices or misuse of this tutorial.  The actuall process of rooting and flash mods/roms is slightly volatile and things can and do happen.  I've been doing this for 3 years now and I have only bricked a phone one time due to my own user error.  I test everything on my personal device before showing you guys.  With that being said.... LETS GET INTO IT

 YOUR WARRANTY IS NOW VOID

Prerequisites:
-A rooted Galaxy S3 GT-I9300
-CWM recovery and preferably a 4.2.1 samsung based rom

If your device is not rooted that watch my video tutorial and how to root and flash a rom to your gs3.  Make sure to download and flash this rom Android Revolution HD 4.2.1 download

Tutorial is here 
TUTORIAL TO ROOT and FLASH ROM on GS3




Ok now with all the prerequisites out of the way we can get to the good stuff!

Here are all the downloads
1)GS4 wallpapers
2)GS4 ringtones
3)S Voice
4)GS4 accuweather widget and music player ( scroll down a bit and pick the right download depending on if your running 4.1.2 or 4.2.1)
5)GS4 keyboard (only if your on a 4.2.1 rom)

(REMEMBER: when flashing rom for first time allow rom to fully boot up once before applying any mods)

How to install :

1) Place all files on your phones storage.
2) For the ringtones and wallpapers just unzip using astro file manager or androzip and you're is business.
3) The S voice apk can just be installed by finding it with astro file manager (or any file manger) and clicking on it.  Make sure your "tick off" unknown sources in your settings so it can install.

4) The keyboard.zip, accuweather.zip and music player.zip are to be installed in recovery.  Boot up your recovery mode my turning your phone off, and then hit the power button, volume up button and home button at same time.  Once in recovery look for the "install zip from sd" option and hit that.  Once in there look for all those zips and install each one.

5) Reboot your phone change your wallpapers and ringtones and you're good to go!

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Cyanogenmod 10.1 [march 28 nightly] review

Lab notes:  
-Ok so first of all the wifi is working fine for me, I just downloaded like 15 games while on it so it should be fine.  But everyone's results will vary.

-Battery life so far seems bad but this is without wiping my battery stats so after it dies I will fully charge, wipe the bat stats and give update.

Here are some preliminary stats

-Notifications are slick like always.

-Also one thing I forgot to mention in the video is the consistent performance of the rom.  Everything seems to operate at a even keel speed, nothing slower and nothing faster which actually real makes it feel much more fluid overall, similar to an IOS device.

-For some reason I can't delete directories in the CM file manager, even with root permissions enabled in app.

-  For those who don't know, with CM roms you loose all Samsung specifac software features (Svoice, smart stay, smart notification, etc)

Full video review

Ultimate rom challenge

Everyone who has been consistently watching my videos knows that I started this thing called the ultimate rom challenge when I first started doing GS3 rom reviews.  I basically was going to flash as many roms as possible on my GS3 record my impressions on each one and then tell you guys which one I though was best for different situations.  I have over 17 gs3 rom reviews on my channel and I've also flashed roms that I never made a video so I got a pretty good idea of what constitutes a good rom and one that is average.  Also when I say average in no way am I knocking on any devs, they do work that 99% of people can't but on a comparison standpoint some roms are just a bit less feature rich than others and for people that decide to take the plunge and root their android device and flash that warantee voiding rom we really want the added experience to be worth all that risk.  Now back to my previous point, what constitutes a good rom?  Why do you even flash roms in the first place?  Is it just a lack of satisfaction with what we have or is a unhealthy habit that is impossible to kick?  If you really think about it flashing a rom is an extremely destructive process.  You need to redownload all your applications, reformat all your home screens and loose things like text messages that you can never get back without backing them up before hand.  All extra work that is just more time fiddling with our phones getting nothing done.  I flash roms because I like progression and growth.  It gives me great satisfaction to see my phone to grow over time and become more proficient with it's abilities.  Also sometimes change is a good thing which can rectify a lot of annoyances that you may have with your device.

Ok now lets talk about roms that I think are top of class for the GS3.  These are all for the international  varient GT-I9300 so don't go flashing these on your north american GS3's.  

Cyanogenmod 10.1: Team hacksung does a really good job in porting over unadulterated android to our beloved gs3s.  They allow us to have features like photo sphere and lock screen widgets which than trick down to other AOKP roms allowing them to create their own content.

UltimaROM: Ultimarom is easily one of my favourite roms for the gs3.  It is performance oriented and has features that other roms wish they had.  It has the most complete aroma installer I've ever seen allowing you to build it up exactly as you want.  Also with multiple kernel support and modem support  radio strength, battery and stability is always top notch.

Android Revolution HD:  If you're looking to keep the body the same but improve under the hood than this rom is for you.  With basically no visual changes it looks and feels the same but under the hood it is optimized and improved in every which way possible.  

From now on, every time I do a rom review on my channel I'll post any interesting findings here.  

Thanks for reading and have a great day. 

     

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