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Does anyone know if bestbuy will give me any grief if my phone is rooted for the buyback?
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ssaggy said:
Does anyone know if bestbuy will give me any grief if my phone is rooted for the buyback?
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Yes they will because securities are off. Check out the development threads and download the stock (e.sprint) image zip. Youll need the PC36.IMG and stock unrooted rom. There is a helpful guide that will help you as well. Good luck!
Probably depends on whose checking it. How would they find out? Do they plug it in to something and it tells them?
Perfect thanks. I have the s-on tool and the ruu zip. Hopefully goes smooth
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Probably depends on whose checking it. How would they find out? Do they plug it in to something and it tells them?
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well if nothing else they could just boot into recovery and see for themselves
Really they just make sure phone turns on and that's it. They are sending it out to be refurbished and reload software.... but unrooting should not take so long
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First off I apologize if this is posted already but I searched and didn't see it. I ran across this on google yesterday when I was messing with my phone. It is the latest version of Odin for Windows. Not sure what the differences are other than some additional options, which I don't know if we can use yet So here it is if you want to try it out.
http://d-h.st/hSj
Thank you sir!
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I doubt our phones will have a need for their extra options, but glad to see a UI change.
Crawj!!!!!
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So glad to see u back sir. I've missed your work.
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Right on. Curious about that Nand Erase all option. And the LED control. Wish we could get some documentation on these programs sometimes. But we takes what we can getz when wez getz it
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Nand Erase All...that looks like a good idea lol
musclehead84 said:
So glad to see u back sir. I've missed your work.
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Thanks man. Appreciate that.
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scarmon25 said:
Right on. Curious about that Nand Erase all option. And the LED control. Wish we could get some documentation on these programs sometimes. But we takes what we can getz when wez getz it
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Lol I know. There might be some, I didn't take the time to search.
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bavarianblessed said:
Nand Erase All...that looks like a good idea lol
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Lol almost spit my drink out
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crawrj said:
Lol almost spit my drink out
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haha
Wish I had a "damaged" e4gt to try it on, I'm curious :cyclops:
Well. I just odined the EL29 stock file and it didn't boot. Used the one click and odined it and all is well. Anyone else try returning to stock with this Odin and do it successfully?
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I believe this is the Odin they use on the S3. I was looking for it actually. I will give it a try when I get home tonight
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Have to watch this one. I asked about using this in a couple of threads a while back. All I heard was crickets. Probably stick with 1.85 anyway, if it ain't broke..
Ok I have been screwing around with it for about an hour and it does seem a little buggy. I was able to flash several .tar files but for some reason it had a little trouble with sfhub's el29 tar. When I tried to flash it I got the same thing you did. I flashed a different tar and it worked. Came back to his to test again and it worked. On a side note is there not an EL29 stock tar out? I can't find one that is a full stock tar that deletes data and everything?
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Have to watch this one. I asked about using this in a couple of threads a while back. All I heard was crickets. Probably stick with 1.85 anyway, if it ain't broke..
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I understand that. Unfortunately I am a habitual updater. I have to have the latest versions. Detrimental at times for sure but I can't help it
They must have changed something in how they use the underlying images in the tar file. Since 1.85 works fine, it isn't highest on the priority list to figure out what they changed right now.
There should be a link to the EL29 tar that was leaked from Samsung in 2nd or 3rd post of the EL29 ODIN thread, but I'm not sure if the end link is still active. It has been a while and megaupload and lots of file lockers got shutdown in between.
download for my PC reinstalled. thanks
A while back I tried the 3.04 version and it hung on a .tar too.
Had to use one of sfhub's One-Clicks to get my phone back.
So being very much in need of a working phone I just figured it's not ready for prime time and left it alone.
Maybe someone with more intimate knowledge can find some documentation as to it's underpinings and changes.
Thanks for the find. I may try this later when I'm feeling bored with a working phone. ;-P
ty for the find though; its much appreciated 8^)
Im going to root my phone tomorrow, but im curious if people are still losing imei's?
Any feedback is great. Thanks
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You can just back it up before you root your phone, but I haven't seen anything posted last couple days.
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You back it up before rooting? How would I go about doing this? Thanks
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Only thing I've really seen regarding the imei in the past few weeks are threads asking if its still a problem!
Imo, at this point its just not really worth worrying about.
It probably will happen again and probably will never really be solved, but we have the ability to backup and restore now and both cwm and twrp have since been updated.
Its just not as big an issue anymore as people seem to think.
Just how I see it anyway.
Don't let the imei bug ruin your fun!
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You back it up before rooting? How would I go about doing this? Thanks
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1804123
use that. i think this is the standard for backing up your IMEI. i just rooted today after holding off because of this issue. i havn't flashed anything yet but i have gone through most of the major ROM forums and nothing pertaining to the search term "IMEI" has popped up in the past few days besides just asking about it. I am still a tiny bit apprehensive on flashing just because of the potential issues and the fact that this phone works pretty well on its own. things were so much easier in the MT4G days ha.
There's also a thread by peoplearmy that should be linked in geeks thread as well.
If you're to nervous about what could happen, you should probably just skip rooting altogether. Not trying to be rude, but all things dealing with root come with risk. The number of imei losses is really quite low when you think about how many people have rooted dozens of times with no issues.
Id bet there have been more bricked S3's due to flashing international roms than there have been imei problems.
Just thought id try to add a little perspective!
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Hey would you mind linking the people army thread? I feel like rooting usually comes with risk but that risk is generally user error and a inability to read instructions or use common sense. This imei issue however is scary because no matter how careful you are it could get lost. I have even read about people after losing their imei and restoring it still not getting 4g
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801997
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PulseMonkey said:
Im going to root my phone tomorrow, but im curious if people are still losing imei's?
Any feedback is great. Thanks
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Yep ive lost mine for the first time its backed up but ive read and read and read and dont see how to use the tar.gz files. Any help would be cool. thanks
Rayn1328 said:
Yep ive lost mine for the first time its backed up but ive read and read and read and dont see how to use the tar.gz files. Any help would be cool. thanks
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Just follow the back up and restore guide if you were able to backup you can restore
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Jms122589 said:
Just follow the back up and restore guide if you were able to backup you can restore
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I've seen a ton of guides including the k tool which won't work on our T-Mobile version? My backup was done automatically when I flashed something else so now I have an efs backup file I can't figure out what to do with. Thought it was a simple flash through odin but that isn't the case it seems, and the nv viewer keeps not opening. Thanks again.
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I've seen a ton of guides including the k tool which won't work on our T-Mobile version? My backup was done automatically when I flashed something else so now I have an efs backup file I can't figure out what to do with. Thought it was a simple flash through odin but that isn't the case it seems, and the nv viewer keeps not opening. Thanks again.
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Ok, every thing on the t-mobile sgs3 xda thread should work for our phone...so if you try anything else I guess that's your fault. Also nothing backs up when you flash it you have to make a back up with your recovery. Also if you read any of the stickied guids before you rooted you would have known odin had nothing to do with imei.. you can PM me for more help
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Im going to root my phone tomorrow, but im curious if people are still losing imei's?
Any feedback is great. Thanks
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Definitely something to think about. I've read that even tho you can backup your imei, some of those that has restored, began having problems with extremely slow data service.
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Jms122589 said:
Ok, every thing on the t-mobile sgs3 xda thread should work for our phone...so if you try anything else I guess that's your fault. Also nothing backs up when you flash it you have to make a back up with your recovery. Also if you read any of the stickied guids before you rooted you would have known odin had nothing to do with imei.. you can PM me for more help
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OK....I understand what odin is I've been doing this stuff for a couple years so I also understand the importance of reading everything I can. I assumed since the efs file is a .tar file it was as simple as flashing it through odin. Again I will scour the site to find the right tools and procedure . I am looking at the correct file its an efs backup .tar.gz file? Thanks again and is there one specific link that is a proven working guide?
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OK....I understand what odin is I've been doing this stuff for a couple years so I also understand the importance of reading everything I can. I assumed since the efs file is a .tar file it was as simple as flashing it through odin. Again I will scour the site to find the right tools and procedure . I am looking at the correct file its an efs backup .tar.gz file? Thanks again and is there one specific link that is a proven working guide?
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Yea this imei stuff can be confusing but for guides how to back up and restore look at my post in the first page of this thread. Its a guide how to back up, restore, and create an imei ifn you didnt back up but lost it.
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Jms122589 said:
Yea this imei stuff can be confusing but for guides how to back up and restore look at my post in the first page of this thread. Its a guide how to back up, restore, and create an imei ifn you didnt back up but lost it.
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Has anyone, that has backed up with the su > reboot nvbackup, reported that they have lost their IMEI?
I just lost my IMEI and like an idiot I never backed it up. Is there a method for re-injecting it without a backup or am I screwed?
Check peoplearmy and geeks threads.
Check in dev section.
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lost my emei 2 weeks ago but followed peoplearmy's thread but now i have it backed up and its good to go
PulseMonkey said:
Im going to root my phone tomorrow, but im curious if people are still losing imei's?
Any feedback is great. Thanks
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Okay I've been a little nervous to ask this in spite of the answers I may get, but I'm going to ask anyway. What exactly would I need to know to make my own ROM, tweaks, themes, hacks, and what not? I've taken 2 C++ courses although that was high school and 1 java course. I'm really interested in this, and if anyone who knows what there doing would take me under there wing to teach me. I thank anyone for any answer in advance.
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Okay I've been a little nervous to ask this in spite of the answers I may get, but I'm going to ask anyway. What exactly would I need to know to make my own ROM, tweaks, themes, hacks, and what not? I've taken 2 C++ courses although that was high school and 1 java course. I'm really interested in this, and if anyone who knows what there doing would take me under there wing to teach me. I thank anyone for any answer in advance.
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Well if you want to get started I would say the easiest way would be to get an aio like mine here (There are others as well). Get your PC setup so you can decompile and compile apks and jars. Once you have that setup, I would start by looking around in the folders that it decompiles. This will help you learn where things are and how the apks work.
If you want to do theming you would need to know xml, how to edit images, and knowing java is always a plus.
Once you know where things are and feel comfortable editing apks, Then I would start learning the other stuff. ROM making, mod making, and tweaking will all get easier if you understand how the phone works.
Hope that helps get you started. Let me know if I can help you out with anything.
Shoot me questions if they pop up, can't always get back right away but I'll always try to help. Its been said before and sounds cliche, but read up. And I mean ALL over the net. The amount you learn troubleshooting your own problems as they arise(error messages etc) are invaluable and unfortunately can't be taught.
But for the other stuff, hit most of us up and you'll find help. Think I can speak for he majority of us on that one.
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This is what I love about the xda community.... everyone so helpful I wish to build my own ROM someday too! I wanna take an android programming class but current college I'm attending doesn't offer it and I tried learning on my own but never could get android SDK or eclipse to install my old laptop.... gots me a way better Asus now and I always help with anything I know but that's simple stuff like making bootanimations, where stuff goes in the ROMs ( but I don't know how to make my own), I'm always experimenting with my build.prop and other tweaks til I soft brick and have to dirty flash my phone, I flash to different carriers, different prls, etc.... just simple stuff I'll gladly help. If asked I'll be a tester.... but I can't quit build my own rom
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Wish I could say the same I have reached out to many any never got a single response.
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cas8180 said:
Wish I could say the same I have reached out to many any never got a single response.
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U haven't found the right onea
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cas8180 said:
Wish I could say the same I have reached out to many any never got a single response.
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Google search will always be there for you when most needed
Ya googling only can take you so far. Not the same as an actual Mentor. If that were the case we wouldnt even have schools anymore we would just tell our kids. "Hey google it!" And educational systems would be pointless....
Thanks for all the advice! I really appreciate it, so when I do have questions I can't find the answers to I am happy to have people I can go to. Although I have to put off until I get my own laptop around Christmas... soo you won't be getting anything from me for a while lol
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If you need any help you can ask me. I'm always down to help someone out.
I really want to make a custom rom, but first i need to learn the basics of the s3 and how the android operating system works. any help?
Open up a rom zip and take a look inside...see in what folders which files are
Check out xda-university too
Thanks for the advice. I am tired of not being able to do anything for my self. ive decided its time to step up and take chances.
eisawi99 said:
Thanks for the advice. I am tired of not being able to do anything for my self. ive decided its time to step up and take chances.
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No problem...if you need links to anything im probably your guy, I subscribe to all threads that I feel are important (content wise)
For example, this thread shows how to odex APKs (apps). Same method can be applied for odexing frameworks files
I love being self sufficient to my phone, but it's hard. I barely know anything so far.
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eisawi99 said:
I really want to make a custom rom, but first i need to learn the basics of the s3 and how the android operating system works. any help?
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There is a whole thread by Dreamsforgotten on xda that will teach, guide and show you everything you need. For building roms and for theming.
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I am new too and can appreciate the idea of a thread such as this. Hopefully someone can send me links to an easy way to learn everything about android
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Marchello900 said:
I am new too and can appreciate the idea of a thread such as this. Hopefully someone can send me links to an easy way to learn everything about android
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There is no "easy way" to learning android...
Sent from my rooted, suited, and booted s3, living the dual core life, know dat.
Well I would like to reword that with easiest way to learn ansroid
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