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New OTA update

i received an OTA update on my phone today...not quite sure what it was. anyways, the update downloaded itself and i let it install. after the phone tried to reboot CWM came up saying update failed (my phone is rooted and has syndicate 1.2). does anyone have any idea what this updat eis, and is CWM and syndicate ROM interefering with the installation of it?

BigBeard86 said:
i received an OTA update on my phone today...not quite sure what it was. anyways, the update downloaded itself and i let it install. after the phone tried to reboot CWM came up saying update failed (my phone is rooted and has syndicate 1.2). does anyone have any idea what this updat eis, and is CWM and syndicate ROM interefering with the installation of it?
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Wow. You must live under a rock...LOL. Or don't read threads before you post. Gingerbread man! Gingerbread! If you want it then you need to be completely stock. You could also flash a custom GB ROM.
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If you were running syndicate and you let the ota update run, then you lost your root. Your running "stock" gingerbread now. No more clockwork mod. You have to re-root your phone by flashing the cwm 3.0.0.1 tar with the phone in download mode. Then flash a different kernel first. There's a couple on here to chose from and they are both wonderful. and then you can install an EI22 rom of your choice.
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Oh I almost forgot to mention, you should move out from under that rock. It must be dark down there. Haha.
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lol
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thanks. ive been very busy so i do not have time to keep up to date with my phone nor read through threads without knowing waht im looking for. thansk for the input.
BTW my phone did not go through with the update because CWM would not allow it.
How do i go back to stock to get ginerbread? i have ot go to stock first, then id have to add CWM to it? id appreciate a step by step process on getting ot gingerbread, and how id go about installing a rom and wahtever else needs ot be done. i havent done anything ot my phone in a long time so im very rusty on the process.

BigBeard86 said:
thanks. ive been very busy so i do not have time to keep up to date with my phone nor read through threads without knowing waht im looking for. thansk for the input.
BTW my phone did not go through with the update because CWM would not allow it.
How do i go back to stock to get ginerbread? i have ot go to stock first, then id have to add CWM to it? id appreciate a step by step process on getting ot gingerbread, and how id go about installing a rom and wahtever else needs ot be done. i havent done anything ot my phone in a long time so im very rusty on the process.
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If you want the OTA then Odin back to complete stock from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052813
Otherwise if you are on the EC05 modem you can update your modem from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1339401
And then flash any EI22 ROM that strikes your fancy.

Udate downloaded

The new update downloaded to my phone automatically then took me to the clockworkmod recovery screen and did not do the udate. Now I have the really anoying software update remider coming up every hour. It wont even let me postpone anymore.
Through root manager I can find the unziped FOTA folder. Can I zip that folder and instal the zip folder through recovery?
I searched around for a while but could not find a thread that answered the question?
Thanks!

Same here. When i try to update i got stuck on clockwork mode.
What next ?? Please help
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You could download one of the stock Roms from xda and flash it in cwm
Swyped from my iPhone eater
-BeastMOD
-Supercharged 1000HP

wpf54173 said:
You could download one of the stock Roms from xda and flash it in cwm
Swyped from my iPhone eater
-BeastMOD
-Supercharged 1000HP
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Ended loading one of the roms to get the notification to go away. However, it does not update the baseband. I tried to load the FOTA.zip and it kept aborting. So no go with the original question.
Need to figure out how to get the clockworkmod recovery off so I can load the actual update with updated baseband.

I was able to get mine to update through Kies with clockwork mod installed in the shipping version of the ROM... you might try that.

nissanclay said:
Ended loading one of the roms to get the notification to go away. However, it does not update the baseband. I tried to load the FOTA.zip and it kept aborting. So no go with the original question.
Need to figure out how to get the clockworkmod recovery off so I can load the actual update with updated baseband.
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Use Odin to flash the baseband. There is a thread on RootzWiki that has a link as well as a "how to."
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I need help

Ok, so i followed all of the tutorials for installing the
Blazer rom onto my samsung epic touch 4g
now when it loads up
it turns on
starts loading
then turns off
how can i fix this?
Plus its not evenclockwork mod anymore, its some rogue one now or something
help please?
i made a backup in clockwork
but this new one doesnt recognize it...
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Rogue ET Recovery 1.1.2 (CMW v5.0.2.7)

Same thing happened to me. My MD5 Sum wasn't recognized. Had to flash Caulkins Stock to get back up and running.
After I flashed that I was in original CWM.

rocketmn333 said:
Ok, so i followed all of the tutorials for installing the
Blazer rom onto my samsung epic touch 4g
now when it loads up
it turns on
starts loading
then turns off
how can i fix this?
Plus its not evenclockwork mod anymore, its some rogue one now or something
help please?
i made a backup in clockwork
but this new one doesnt recognize it...
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Rogue ET Recovery 1.1.2 (CMW v5.0.2.7)
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OK Rogue is a derivative of Clockwork and with that said before you rooted you should of done some more research. What you should do is look for calkulins format all zip and flash it then flash the rom again. Also download another version of the rom just incase you have a corrupted zip.
Lastly try not to do anything else until you do some more research.... Quite a few stickys that can help you....
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h4304 said:
Same thing happened to me. My MD5 Sum wasn't recognized. Had to flash Caulkins Stock to get back up and running.
After I flashed that I was in original CWM.
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Guys Rogue recovery is much better IMO
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ok, so after going through the menus over and over, the recovery finally let me use my clockwork recovery, and now im back into my phone like nothing happened
idk why this didnt happen from the begining but w.e
Can anyone lead me to a tutorial of where i can completely wipe my phone like i just got it out of the box at the sprint store, unrooted and all
i wanna go through this process from the begining the right way

playya said:
OK Rogue is a derivative of Clockwork and with that said before you rooted you should of done some more research. What you should do is look for calkulins format all zip and flash it then flash the rom again. Also download another version of the rom just incase you have a corrupted zip.
Lastly try not to do anything else until you do some more research.... Quite a few stickys that can help you....
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Also, i did find that file, i downloaded it from the same page i got the rom from, only it was a modified copy?
idk, it said to use it, so i did
anyway, phone is back to stock with root and clockwork back on it, so ima leave it for now, until i do more research like you said

I just flashed this rom 5 minutes ago. You're not following the instructions
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[Q] Cannot flash rom!! Installation Aborted, help!

Just got my gs3 today and decided to root using this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746682
Not really so tech-savy with this yet and after the whole root process of odin3 i reboot into recovery, wipe/cache/dalvik then flash the new miui 2.10.19 http://miuiandroid.com/community/threads/2-10-19.18540/ one i hit flash it says installation failed blah blah blah (status 7) getprop. Yeah all that junk, so i searched up on the forums and the only solution i find is to update cwm and i have, to 6.0.1.4 and still same thing!! installation error, aborted. Can someone please help me out :crying: I'm sorry if im a noob, just trying to flash a rom here

Update CWM via ROM Manager.

Download again
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use twrp

theexel said:
Update CWM via ROM Manager.
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i did, still no luck

mt3g said:
use twrp
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and this was my last thing i tried before bed last night and still didnt work! should i just unroot then re-root all over again?

How did you update to 6.0.1.4 when 6.0.1.2 is the latest version? And no, you don't need to re root. You don't need root to flash firmware.

Aerowinder said:
How did you update to 6.0.1.4 when 6.0.1.2 is the latest version? And no, you don't need to re root. You don't need root to flash firmware.
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Looking on the forums someone posted a link to download an updated 6.0.1.4 so I tried that since 6.0.1.2 wasnt working. There's gotta be something simple to fix that I dont know about, ive flashed and rooted my htc sensation and mytouch4g easy and never had installation failure when flashing. Can someone walk me through what exactly I need to be fully rooted and flash a rom!?

How could cwm not be working if its updated to latest version? I dont think im downloading the wrong rom and its not a bad link. Even tried dragging it onto my internal sd wirh debugging off. Btw I have the 32 gb s3 with does not have an external sd.

The way I fix that was I rerootes my phone into latest clockwork recovery. I didn't remove the root I just rerootee it. Look for cwr 6 I think.
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From watching the video given for the toolkit, when in odin and have to open up pda then go to the toolkit files and then root all my files are in winRAR type and his are in tar archive type. Does that matter at all? And also when clicking on the pda then root you chose the file /boot-insecure-tmo-t99uvalem-cwm but when in odin and clicking this file on the little winrar icon to the left of the file name its the only one with a little like key lock, doesnt know if thats an issue or anything just something i noticed because when accessing the toolkit files on my c drive and going to the root folder, the key icon is no longer there.. Any ideas??

Reading about people flashing a kernal in recovery then flashing the rom and working but when you flash a rom isnt it flashing the kernal it comes with also? Or is this the problem

Well, I re ran the toolkit, re did the root and odin process same as i did the first time, downloaded rom straight from my phone flashed again still getting status 7 error/ installation aborted -______- ugh...

Brad4891 said:
Looking on the forums someone posted a link to download an updated 6.0.1.4 so I tried that since 6.0.1.2 wasnt working. There's gotta be something simple to fix that I dont know about, ive flashed and rooted my htc sensation and mytouch4g easy and never had installation failure when flashing. Can someone walk me through what exactly I need to be fully rooted and flash a rom!?
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Look at my signature for the proper CWM. I don't know where you saw 6.0.1.4 for our device, but the main thread and the developers website show no sign of it. And download CM10 from get.cm, d2tmo. If you that doesn't work, you don't have a SGH-T999.

I can't believe I didn't see this before....what is the exact file name of the rom you are flashing?
I looked and did not see our phone listed in the op. Looks like the international one is there (codename m0?). But no d2tmo, d2att, etc.
Unless I just missed it there, you do not want to even try flashing that anymore! If I'm right you just got very lucky dude!
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Aerowinder said:
Look at my signature for the proper CWM. I don't know where you saw 6.0.1.4 for our device, but the main thread and the developers website show no sign of it. And download CM10 from get.cm, d2tmo. If you that doesn't work, you don't have a SGH-T999.
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Okay, so i just followed and installed everything you had in your signature and it finally is flashing hellfire!! Hours of frustration i think i finally got it! Thank you so much

Brad4891 said:
Okay, so i just followed and installed everything you had in your signature and it finally is flashing hellfire!! Hours of frustration i think i finally got it! Thank you so much
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I thought you were trying to flash miui...
Glad you got it sorted out.
Just for the future though, never flash anything not built for the TMobile SGH-T999 (codename d2tmo). If you do flash an international GS3 rom it will brick your device. I think this woulda happened had the miui rom from the link in op actually flashed.
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Aerowinder said:
Look at my signature for the proper CWM. I don't know where you saw 6.0.1.4 for our device, but the main thread and the developers website show no sign of it. And download CM10 from get.cm, d2tmo. If you that doesn't work, you don't have a SGH-T999.
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DocHoliday77 said:
I thought you were trying to flash miui...
Glad you got it sorted out.
Just for the future though, never flash anything not built for the TMobile SGH-T999 (codename d2tmo). If you do flash an international GS3 rom it will brick your device. I think this woulda happened had the miui rom from the link in op actually flashed.
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I was at first but then changed my mind, both werent working before hand though when i was getting the errors.

And im using hellfire and the rom is super smooth like butter. I have one problem though, its notifications. Whenever receiving texts i dont get a vibration or light pulse. Sometimes randomly i get a vibration. Anyone know how to fix?

[Q] Unable to flash Stock ROM

I bought a T-Mobile Galaxy S 3 LTE with model number SGH-T999L. I used Odin V3 1.85 to flash TWRP recovery and CyanogenMod 10.0.0.
Everything went well but my camera doesn't work. On launching the camera, I get a "Can't connect to camera" error and it quits. The same behavior is observed when using other camera apps. I tried the instructions in this thread(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239414) but it did not fix my problem. I now want to go back to my stock ROM. I successfully downloaded and flashed stock recovery using Odin. However, Odin fails when I try to flash the stock ROM obtained from the samsung website. It gives me a "write failed" error and stops. Any tips or suggestions to help me out would be appreciated. Thanks

Is it supposed to use T999 firmware?

Only odin flash T999L firmware. I dont see it released yet at samsing-updates.com though.
Maybe samfirmware.com? I can look later.
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re: sure fix
newidforu said:
I bought a T-Mobile Galaxy S 3 LTE with model number SGH-T999L. I used Odin V3 1.85 to flash TWRP recovery and CyanogenMod 10.0.0.
Everything went well but my camera doesn't work. On launching the camera, I get a "Can't connect to camera" error and it quits. The same behavior is observed when using other camera apps. I tried the instructions in this thread(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239414) but it did not fix my problem. I now want to go back to my stock ROM. I successfully downloaded and flashed stock recovery using Odin. However, Odin fails when I try to flash the stock ROM obtained from the samsung website. It gives me a "write failed" error and stops. Any tips or suggestions to help me out would be appreciated. Thanks
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Why not reflash the stock ODIN flash rom and make sure it all works ok for you, that will tell you exactly what the problem is.
If the stock rom is working properly, then there is only one thing left which is the culprit and that is the CM10/AOKP/AOSP
or PORTED roms which many people seem to like flashing.
The CM10/AOKP/AOSP and ported roms are excellent if you are a developer or if you like to do a lot of experimentation with your phone.
So the thing to do now is reboot your phone to recovery mode, do a "Factory Reset", "Wipe Cache", "Wipe System" and "Wipe Dalvik".
When that's done Open Odin and put the stock rooted T999 Tmobile Jellybean 4.1.2 into Odin's PDA slot, go into download mode
and once you see Odin is connected to the phone start the flash. Have patience for the phone to boot after its done flashing.
Here is the stock rooted Odin flash T999 Tmobile Jellybean 4.1.2 rom that you can download if you like: T999_UVDMD5
Official JB Firmware - Latest JB 4.1.2 Firmware
My suggestion to you is to only flash Samsung T999 Tmobile stock based Jellybean 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 roms in the future.
But who am I to say whats best..... This is just my personal opinion...... Which usually is not worth a dime. LOL

Sorry, but untill we know more about it, I would not flash T999 firmware onto the T999L.
Its only been out a day and tgey are different model phones with different hardware.
If you decide to try anyway, please post your results
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DocHoliday77 said:
Sorry, but untill we know more about it, I would not flash T999 firmware onto the T999L.
Its only been out a day and tgey are different model phones with different hardware.
If you decide to try anyway, please post your results
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I am a newbie. I thought the T999 was the same as the T999L. That would explain why Odin doesnt flash stock T999 onto my device. Can anyone here post a link to the stock SGH-T999L ROM?

Just did a quick check and I dont see that the firmware has been made available for download yet.
If you want stock I would flash one of the stock based custom roms via recovery for now.
Out of curiosity, what is your current baseband version?
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DocHoliday77 said:
Just did a quick check and I dont see that the firmware has been made available for download yet.
If you want stock I would flash one of the stock based custom roms via recovery for now.
Out of curiosity, what is your current baseband version?
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Baseband version is T999LUVAMB7. Still waiting for stock ROM to be released on samsung-updates or sammobile.

newidforu said:
Baseband version is T999LUVAMB7. Still waiting for stock ROM to be released on samsung-updates or sammobile.
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I had the same issue with the same phone. Got it 2 weeks ago haha. Did you happen to make a backup first using CWM Recovery? If so, you can just restore that backup and you'll have your camera functionality back. It's pretty annoying switching back and forth from CM10.1 back to stock just to take pictures but Rom manager makes it pretty quick and effortless.

Actually now that I think of it, they prob wont release the original firmware. Seems like the first build is never available, only when an update is released do we get firmware we csn download.
I am working with another member on getting something going for the T999L, but right now we are stuck until a verified safe method of rooting is found. (Dont want to flash a recovery or cf autoroot w/o knowing it wont screw something up)
Itll happen, but we just gotta be patient.
Just reread the op and see that you say you flashed TWRP. So you were able to initially gain root without any problems?
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DocHoliday77 said:
Actually now that I think of it, they prob wont release the original firmware. Seems like the first build is never available, only when an update is released do we get firmware we csn download.
I am working with another member on getting something going for the T999L, but right now we are stuck until a verified safe method of rooting is found. (Dont want to flash a recovery or cf autoroot w/o knowing it wont screw something up)
Itll happen, but we just gotta be patient.
Just reread the op and see that you say you flashed TWRP. So you were able to initially gain root without any problems?
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I used Odin to flash Clockwork Mod recovery first. I did not like Clockwork Mod's interface and reflashed with TWRP. I had no problems to gain root with either of these methods. I also tried Cyanogenmod stable 10.0.0 and then 10.1 RC2 without any problems. As far as I can tell, all apps work except for the camera. One word of caution though. As you can see from my posts, I am new and dont know what I am doing. I might have just gotten lucky since my device is still unbricked. I had only one "scary" moment during the entire process. I used TWRP to wipe my phone clean and was stuck with no OS install file. ADB sideload did not work since it could not recognize the device at that point. Luckily, I had a micro SD card lying around and was able to put in a new OS install file using my laptop and then TWRP was able to handle it.

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faytx1 said:
I had the same issue with the same phone. Got it 2 weeks ago haha. Did you happen to make a backup first using CWM Recovery? If so, you can just restore that backup and you'll have your camera functionality back. It's pretty annoying switching back and forth from CM10.1 back to stock just to take pictures but Rom manager makes it pretty quick and effortless.
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Wish I had made a backup! Could you zip up the files contained inside "/system/cameradata/" folder and post a link here? It would help me and anyone else with the same problem restore the camera's functionality. In case you want to try it out, follow the instructions in this link but using the files from your stock backup
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239414

newidforu said:
Wish I had made a backup! Could you zip up the files contained inside "/system/cameradata/" folder and post a link here? It would help me and anyone else with the same problem restore the camera's functionality. In case you want to try it out, follow the instructions in this link but using the files from your stock backup
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239414
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Here is the cameradata folder from the T999L.
http://d-h.st/Ciy
Good Luck!

How did you get Cyanogenmod installed on the t999l every time i try it aborts with status 7

Mine was failing with this same error. I reverted back to stock, re rooted, then downloaded the flash directly to the phones internal storage. Worked like a champ. I think in my case, there is an issue with the SD card, its kind of old.
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Beefstew said:
Mine was failing with this same error. I reverted back to stock, re rooted, then downloaded the flash directly to the phones internal storage. Worked like a champ. I think in my case, there is an issue with the SD card, its kind of old.
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You reverted to stock on the T999L? please exspain how that was done

Re flashed stock ROM using Odin. I believe I got the file from Samsung's website, but I'm not positive of that. I do know its huge, over 1 gig. If you need help with the re flash I know there are already how to's on here about that, so I won't go into it here.
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You must be using a T999 as your sig indicates, not a T999L. Am I correct?
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Don't I feel like a tool now. Yes Doc, plain old t999 here. Now that I read back through the whole thread here I see that I was being a bit redundant. Now I will return to my closet under the stairs.
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No worries! We all do stuff like that from time to time!
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