Inside Galaxy S III GT-I9300

As presented May 3 2012 in London, analysis by Franois SIMOND aka supercurio. Folllow: http://twitter.com/#!/supercurio Android apps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=supercurio+-+Project+Voodoo This analysis is done based on elements from a live system, without physical tear-down. Thanks to Brian Klug for the help with running a modified version of my reporting tool to get this data.

SoC
Exynos 4 smdk4x12

CPU:
4 cores. features: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls

Linux Frequency scaling:

Max Frequency 1.4 GHz 1.3 GHz 1.2 GHz 1.1 GHz 1 GHz 900 Mhz 800 Mhz 700 Mhz 600 MHz 500 Mhz Min frequency: 200 Mhz Scaling driver: exynos_cpufreq, Active governor: pegasusq Cpu frequency transition latency: 100000 ns Exynos bus frequency: 160160

Audio codec:

Wolfson Micro WM1811 http://www.wolfsonmicro.com/products/audio_hubs/WM1811/ 100dB SNR Class W Headphone amp output, ReTune DSP, 3x digital interface. Ultra low power standby, flexible, multi-button accessory detect. Like WM8994 in Galaxy S / Nexus S, except: 1x stereo DAC instead of 2x. 2x 2W Speaker amp instead of 2x 1W Smaller and probably cheaper, same sound quality expected. Audio driver configuration & policy implementation based on TinyUCM (/etc/tinyucm.conf) Probable subset of TinyHAL implementing codec configuration in config files instead of having everything hardcoded in ROM or kernel driver at compile time. Native sampling rate: 44100 Hz. It means music played will be sent as-is to the DAC instead of being processed by a software up-sampling routine as it is on Galaxy Nexus or other devices with codecs accepting only 48000 Hz. Confirmed Voodoo Sound capable ;)

FM Radio:
Si4709 receiver, as in Galaxy S / Galaxy S II / Galaxy Note

Display:
Super AMOLED HD, Pentile matrix, 4.8 Likely generation as Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Note display. Resolution: 720x1280 Refresh rate: 60Hz Default color mode: 32bit. Real DPI as calculated by driver (need confirmation by measurements) 305dpi, physical width 60mm, physical height 106mm MHL output controller: Samsung sii9234 (need confirmation about who really manufactures the chip, and if its Sil9234. Driver say Sii9234, might be a typo in driver?) mDNIe hardware support (mode, scenarios, outdoor)

OpenGL / EGL:

Renderer name: Mali-400 MP OpenGL ES 1.1 extensions: GL_OES_byte_coordinates GL_OES_fixed_point GL_OES_single_precision GL_OES_matrix_get GL_OES_read_format GL_OES_compressed_paletted_texture GL_OES_point_size_array GL_OES_point_sprite GL_OES_texture_npot GL_OES_query_matrix GL_OES_matrix_palette GL_OES_extended_matrix_palette GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture GL_OES_EGL_image GL_OES_draw_texture GL_OES_depth_texture GL_OES_packed_depth_stencil GL_EXT_texture_format_BGRA8888 GL_OES_framebuffer_object GL_OES_stencil8 GL_OES_depth24 GL_ARM_rgba8 GL_OES_EGL_image_external GL_OES_EGL_sync GL_OES_rgb8_rgba8 GL_EXT_multisampled_render_to_texture GL_OES_texture_cube_map GL_EXT_discard_framebuffer OpenGL ES 2.0 extensions: GL_OES_texture_npot GL_OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture GL_OES_standard_derivatives GL_OES_EGL_image GL_OES_depth24 GL_ARM_rgba8 GL_ARM_mali_shader_binary GL_OES_depth_texture GL_OES_packed_depth_stencil GL_EXT_texture_format_BGRA8888 GL_EXT_blend_minmax

GL_OES_EGL_image_external GL_OES_EGL_sync GL_OES_rgb8_rgba8 GL_EXT_multisampled_render_to_texture GL_EXT_discard_framebuffer EGL 1.4 extensions: EGL_KHR_image EGL_KHR_image_base EGL_KHR_image_pixmap EGL_KHR_gl_texture_2D_image EGL_KHR_gl_texture_cubemap_image EGL_KHR_gl_renderbuffer_image EGL_KHR_fence_sync EGL_ANDROID_image_native_buffer

Camera:
Back: Samsung LSI S5C73M3 8M pixel camera http://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/10708/ reading shows the sensor should support 120fps capture at 640x480. Might be a potential camera hack!

Network:
Broadcom BCM4334 - latest ultra low power solution for smartphones Wi-fi 802.11 a/b/g/n Bluetooth 4 Contains FM receiver (unused, Si4709 instead) See Anandtech coverage on Broadcam announcement.

Radio:
Baseband: XMM6262 (thanks Brian Klug, good catch!)

ROM details:
Android 4.0.4

London demo device ROM version: I9300XXALE4a (build date Thu May 3 16:05:51 KST 2012) Built for CPU armeabi-v7a ro.build.product=m0 << strange Android UI LCD density configured to 320 dpi 100Hz maximum input frequency (touch) Voice recognition server named WakeUpCmdRecognizer, based on acoustic and grammar models (/system/wakeupdata/sensory/)

Misc
Partition sizes:
/system: 1G (might more: df command rounding error), 315Mb Free. /data: 11G (shared with /sdcard, pure Ext4) /cache: 1G Mount options: optimized Ext4 settings (same as those introduced in Voodoo lagfix) Sd Cards & additional storage. Internal: /mnt/sdcard External: /mnt/extSdCard USB sticks: /mnt/UsbDriveA to FAK8975C Samsung proprietary exfat kernel driver. Mounts:
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0 tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0 none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0 tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0 tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0 none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0 /dev/block/mmcblk0p9 /system ext4 ro,noatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0 /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1,journal_async_commit,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc,di scard 0 0 /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 /cache ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1,journal_async_commit,data=ordered 0 0 /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 /efs ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,barrier=1,journal_async_commit,data=ordered 0 0 /sys/kernel/debug /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0

/dev/fuse /mnt/sdcard fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0

Sensors:
Accelerometer: STMicroelectronics - LSM330DLC 3-axis Accelerometer Magnetic Field sensor: Asahi Kasei Microdevices - AK8975C 3-axis Magnetic field sensor Orientation + Gravity + Linear acceleration + Rotation STMicroelectronics - iNemoEngine Light & Proximity sensor: Capella - CM36651 Gyroscope STMicroelectronics - LSM330DLC Gyroscope sensor Pressure: STMicroelectronics - LPS331AP Pressure Sensor

Voltage regulators, MFD, battery gauge.

MAXIM MAX7763 MAXIM MAX77686 MAXIM 17047 Fuel Gauge

Camera LED flash controller

AnalogicTech AAT1290

Notification LED
Panasonic an30259a

NFC Controller
NXP PN65N (same as Galaxy Nexus)

Linux Kernel:
Linux version 3.0.15-495902-user (se.infra@SEP-53) (gcc version 4.4.3 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 3 15:53:58 KST 2012 Kernel modules:

dhd (Wi-fi Bluetooth) btlock Si4709_driver extfat_fs, extfat_core (proprietary)

Media framework encoders and decoders

Samsung audio decoders AAC AC3 AMR-NB, AMR-WB FLAC MP3 Ra & Rv (Real Audio) WMA Samsung audio encoders AAC AMR-NB Samsung video decoders AVC (H264) MPEG-4 H263 H263 Sorenson Dedicated DRM decoder Samsung Video encoders AVC (H264) MPEG-4 H263 Standard google decoders. AAC AMR-NB, AMR-WB G711 A-LAW / U-LAW H263 H264 MP3 MPEG-4 Vorbis VPx

USB
USB Audio
snd-usb-audio usb class audio driver present. Might work, might not.

Serial Bridge
Prolific - PL-2303