Hi all,
I have a Rogers Galaxy S3 i747M and I tried installing clockworkmod several times on it. Each time Odin showed 'success' and the binary counter increased however whenever I would go into recovery it would go into the stock s3 recovery mode. Any solutions or similar experiences?
Thanks!
The S3 has a fail safe where by when it detects you have flashed a custom recovery it will automaticly restore the stock one when you try to reboot the phone.
As explained here by teamepic http://www.epiccm.org/2012/06/cwm-recovery-on-all-sgs3-lte-variants.html Under step 9 their root files includes a removal of the automatic restore of the stock recovery so it will maintain your custom one. And the way to actually push whatever kind of root method you wish you need to make sure Odin is not set to auto reboot. When done flashing do a battery pull then do the Vol Up+Power+Home key method of booting directly into recovery this gets you into the custom one and not activate the restore feature. (however once you reboot normally the restore gets triggered so you will need to use team epics method to get rid of it or:
Alternatively you could also manually copy the custom recovery via the Disk Dupe command, and the restore feature does not get activated when doing it this way. (requires a rooted device)
Thanks bro, The procedure worked,
Now installing CM10 on my second S3
Hey guys,
I a long time IOS user and just moved over to the Android family. I just purchased my S3 from ATT yesterday. Came home, did the OTA update and went to root it.
I just found out that the new OTA prevents you from installing CWM and rooting the traditional ways. So my question is, what is my option to get my phone rooted? I wanna remain on the stock ROM but, just clean it out a little from all the bloatware, use google wallet and be able to tweak some things around.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
I THINK the ota can be rooted through the toolkit...pretty sure I read that before. Maybe someone can confirm that.
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I'm pretty sure the toolkit can do it. Option 4 (I think ... the last option at least) will walk you through using Odin to flash a custom recovery and then flashing a zip file in recovery to root your device.
You may find that when you reboot your custom recovery will be replaced with stock recovery. The OTA includes a script that's run on boot to reset recovery to stock. If that happens to you, then make sure that when you use Odin to flash the custom recovery you don't let Odin reboot your phone. When the flash is done, pull the battery or press and hold power and Vol Up until the phone turns off, then press Vol Up, Power, and Home to get into recovery. Then flash the zip to root your device.
Once you reboot your phone, you can remove /system/recovery-from-boot.p and /etc/install-recovery.sh. You may need to install a custom recovery one more time, but it should stick.
my wife installed an update and her phone has lost root....i have read all of the rooting posts and the only way to correct this situation is to re flash and wipe everything. So my question is is there anyway to reroot without having to wipe the phone!!! thanks in advance!!:good:
bush2088 said:
my wife installed an update and her phone has lost root....i have read all of the rooting posts and the only way to correct this situation is to re flash and wipe everything. So my question is is there anyway to reroot without having to wipe the phone!!! thanks in advance!!:good:
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Check out this informative post by Febby.. :good: (Yes, this is for Sprint. Febby was informing a Boost user in this post)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33070871&postcount=4
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Rooting a boost device is no different than a sprint device. Here is my Febby approved guide to rooting ICS based ROMs on sprint or boost manually.
Step 1: Download a custom kernel such as agats to your PC. I'll link Agat kernel thread below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1767421
Step 2: If you don't have odin, download odin zip and extract. Link below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1418814&d=1350807034
Step 3: Download superSU zip, and transfer it to your phones sdcard or internal. Links below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
Step 4: load up odin, press the pda slot to select the custom kernel you downloaded.
Step 5: Put your phone into download mode. To do this remove the battery, put the battery back in, press and hold the power button + Vol down button, and Lastly press Vol up to confirm download mode.
Step 6: connect your phone to your pc with a usb cable, confirm that you are connected to odin by looking under "ID:COM", It should say com5 or such. Press start to flash the kernel. Phone will reboot.
Step 7: Boot phone into recovery mode by powering off the phone. Once phone is off, press and hold the power button + vol up, till the sgs2 screen pops up (let go of the buttons). Once in recovery, flash the superSU or superuser zip by pressing "Install zip from sdcard", then press "Choose zip from sdcard" or "Choose zip from internal/external" depending where you placed the file. Reboot phone after flashing zip.
Step 8: Phone is now rooted!
Step 9: If you want the stock kernel back, just download the stock kernel for your stock ROM and reflash it via Odin.
step 10: Thank my post (Febby is my name!) and enjoy live.
Credit list:
Thanks to ChainFire for SuperSU!
Thanks to the makers of Odin!
Thanks to Agat63 for making a custom kernel.
Thanks to this amazing community for any other work and support.
Thanks to me aka Febby, for writing this small guide.
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bush2088 said:
my wife installed an update and her phone has lost root....i have read all of the rooting posts and the only way to correct this situation is to re flash and wipe everything. So my question is is there anyway to reroot without having to wipe the phone!!! thanks in advance!!:good:
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I believe the odin methods have a Data restore and a No Data restore version. If you are just worried about apps there are programs like android commander that will backup all her apps no data so that you can restore them later. Its a pc based program
Edit: or do above...lol
thanks everyone...i appreciate it!!!
i tried rooting my galaxy s3 and i followed a guide i apparently cant post cause its an outside link, all was going great but i didnt realize that i wasnt supposed to unzip the Team Epic root from recovery folder, so when i tried to install from zip it wasnt a zip it was unzipped. I was thinking i could just put the zip on the internal but now i cant access it i get the feeling this is because of clockwork... so what should i do? i just need to install the zip folder if i could get it on my internal, if i could figure out how to go to stock thatd be good i just need to access it again. Help anyone? i thought it said something about not booting into the rom cause it deletes some files so it wouldnt work, is it safe to just power off? (i removed the battery once, do it again?)
You need to get the Team Epic zip on your internal sdcard. If you can not get there without rebooting that is ok. You will lose the cwm recovery when you boot. At that point you need to download the team epic zip and start over from the beginning. No harm done.
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You need to get the Team Epic zip on your internal sdcard. If you can not get there without rebooting that is ok. You will lose the cwm recovery when you boot. At that point you need to download the team epic zip and start over from the beginning. No harm done.
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so you are absolutely sure if i remove the battery and boot normally to access the internal that i will be fine and it has not deleted files?
sorry im such a complete noob at rooting and stuff
WARNING: Do not boot into Samsung's ROM without first applying our Root .zip. Samsung's OTA updates install /system/etc/install-recovery.sh and /system/recovery-from-boot.p, which cause Samsung's ROM to replace the recovery image you had just flashed with the stock recovery. Our Root .zip removes these files, thus preserving your custom recovery. Follow the directions below to boot directly into CWM recovery.
Ya all that says is you will lose what you just flashed, basically starting you over.
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If you flash a custom recovery and do not also flash the Team Epic Root from Recovery ZIP (or something similar) the ROM will detect that you have a non-stock recovery when it boots. The ROM performs a signature check and if the recovery fails the check it will replace it with the stock recovery. That essentially puts you back at square one.
You can then download the Team Epic Root from Recovery file and save the ZIP to your internal sdcard. Then start all over.
- Power off the phone Boot into Download Mode (Vol-Dwn + Home + Power)
- Run ODIN and connect your phone.
- Load the CWM recovery (do not have Odin reboot when complete).
- Disconnect the phone and pull the battery when complete.
- Power up the phone in Recovery (Vol-UP + Home + Power)
- Flash the Team Epic ZIP.
- Reboot.
- Enjoy your rooted phone.
If you fail to flash the Team Epic file before rebooting the rom will not "delete any files". It will simply restore the stock recovery.
Flash this in Odin instead of the custom recovery. It will root you and reboot. You can then get the custom recovery with goo manager or ROM manager.
So I flashed cm 10.2 on my Galaxy S3 AT&T, and forgot to flash the right gapps, so I did that, except I forgot to do a factory reset when I flashed them. When I went to reboot, my phone would not turn on, nor get into recovery mode. It keeps showing the Samsung logo with the little CyanogenMod figure underneath it, and keeps vibrating repeatedly while trying to turn on. This is not a boot loop (I think) because my phone doesnt even get as far as the arrow animation that keeps going in circles. All I can do is access download mode. Can anyone help me? I have tried taking the battery out multple times and waiting for the battery to charge and then trying to turn it on, to no success.
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So I flashed cm 10.2 on my Galaxy S3 AT&T, and forgot to flash the right gapps, so I did that, except I forgot to do a factory reset when I flashed them. When I went to reboot, my phone would not turn on, nor get into recovery mode. It keeps showing the Samsung logo with the little CyanogenMod figure underneath it, and keeps vibrating repeatedly while trying to turn on. This is not a boot loop (I think) because my phone doesnt even get as far as the arrow animation that keeps going in circles. All I can do is access download mode. Can anyone help me? I have tried taking the battery out multple times and waiting for the battery to charge and then trying to turn it on, to no success.
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If you can get to download mode, try flashing a stock file via Odin to reset your phone to working conditions. Thereafter, you can go back to a custom ROM. Would you recall what firmware version you were on prior to flashing CM? If it was anything older than 4.3 (e.g. 4.1.2, 4.1.1), you can Odin back to 4.1.1. If you already had 4.3, you would need to Odin back to 4.3 following the instructions posted in the thread below ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2722660&page=3. Scroll through carefully for the file you need for 4.3. Otherwise, you can find the Odin flash-able 4.1.1 stock file on sammobile.com
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If you can get to download mode, try flashing a stock file via Odin to reset your phone to working conditions. Thereafter, you can go back to a custom ROM. Would you recall what firmware version you were on prior to flashing CM? If it was anything older than 4.3 (e.g. 4.1.2, 4.1.1), you can Odin back to 4.1.1. If you already had 4.3, you would need to Odin back to 4.3 following the instructions posted in the thread below ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2722660&page=3. Scroll through carefully for the file you need for 4.3. Otherwise, you can find the Odin flash-able 4.1.1 stock file on sammobile.com
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I have looked at the thread but I am new to all this stuff, how do I flash using Odin?
rohanr014 said:
I have looked at the thread but I am new to all this stuff, how do I flash using Odin?
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First you will need to download and extract the Odin tool. Odin is Samsung's tool for flashing (installing) firmware. You can download Odin v3.07 via the link below ...
http://www.mediafire.com/download/772dlmuaxfgm0x2/Odin307.zip
Once you have downloaded it, extract the files and look for the executable file (*.exe). That's the one you will need to run to open Odin.
We also need to identify the appropriate firmware to flash. You did not answer the earlier question on what Android version your device was on prior to flashing the custom firmware. This is important to let us know which official version you can safely revert to (4.1.1 or 4.3). If you were an older version than 4.3, you should flash 4.1.1 but if you were already on 4.3, then you should stick to this. Either way, you can download the 4.1.1 file via this link .. http://rapidgator.net/file/681a28a5...ATT_I747UCDLK3_I747ATTDLK3_Original.zip.html?
Download the files to your PC and extract.
To flash via Odin, open Odin.exe on your PC
Click on the PDA tab and navigate to the file you just extracted. Select the file ending in *.tar.md5 (For 4.1.1, this would be I747UCDLK3_I747ATTDLK3_I747UCDLK3_HOME.tar.md5). Make sure this file is showing in the PDA tab.
Boot your phone into download mode and connect to your computer with a good quality micro-USB cable. Make sure your phone is recognized by Odin. You should see the message Added in the left pane.
Do not check or uncheck any boxes other than the defaults.
Click on start and waiting for firmware flashing to end and you see Pass. Your phone will reboot at this stage. You can disconnect from your PC
However, for 4.3, it looks like the Odin flash-able file has been taken offline so you would need to this via custom recovery. That's a different process so please revert on your Android version first so we'll know whether this is required or not
I was running JB 4.3, and I am planning to flash 4.1.1 as you've said. I am downloading that rom from the SamMobile site, however it is taking quite a while...
I understand that it shouldnt be a two minute download, however its been 2 hours and only 210 MB has been downloaded.
Also, I have Odin v3.09, which in the place of a PDA tab, there is an AP tab... should I place the file in the AP tab?
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I was running JB 4.3, and I am planning to flash 4.1.1 as you've said. I am downloading that rom from the SamMobile site, however it is taking quite a while...
I understand that it shouldnt be a two minute download, however its been 2 hours and only 210 MB has been downloaded.
Also, I have Odin v3.09, which in the place of a PDA tab, there is an AP tab... should I place the file in the AP tab?
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Please do not try to flash 4.1.1 if you were on JB 4.3 otherwise you could hard brick your phone due to the secure bootloader in 4.3. You need to revert to stock 4.3 via custom recovery. You may go to the thread below for instructions...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2658486
1) Flash custom recovery (I would suggest TWRP because of the GUI). In Odin v3.09 use the AP tab in place of PDA. You can download TWRP for your device via the link below ...
http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/d2att/openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.1-d2att.tar
2) Download the stock restore zip file in the thread above and copy to your (micro) SD card. The (TWRP) stock restore zip is also available via the following link .... http://www.mediafire.com/download/30idxwhg2hidxx2/ATT_I747_UCUEMJB_StockRestore_2282014.zip
3) Flash the custom recovery file via Odin. Remove battery immediately the flashing is complete to stop reboot.
4) Place the SD card with the recovery file in your phone
5) Reboot into recovery mode by simultaneously holding down the Volume Up, Home and Power buttons. Hold all buttons until you see the blue flash across your screen, then release power button but keep holding the volume up and home buttons until the Android image appears.
6) Select install and navigate to the stock restore file. Swipe across screen to flash and wait for installation to be complete.
7) Clear cache/dalvik and reboot to system
If you are unable to boot to recovery, then you may still try flashing using Odin v3.09. You may follow the instructions in the thread below and load all the respective partitions. You would need to use the version that has separate flashable files as the single *.tar file has been taken down.
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Please do not try to flash 4.1.1 if you were on JB 4.3 otherwise you could hard brick your phone due to the secure bootloader in 4.3. You need to revert to stock 4.3 via custom recovery. You may go to the thread below for instructions...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2658486
1) Flash custom recovery (I would suggest TWRP because of the GUI). In Odin v3.09 use the AP tab in place of PDA. You can download TWRP for your device via the link below ...
http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/d2att/openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.1-d2att.tar
2) Download the stock restore zip file in the thread above and copy to your (micro) SD card. The (TWRP) stock restore zip is also available via the following link .... http://www.mediafire.com/download/30idxwhg2hidxx2/ATT_I747_UCUEMJB_StockRestore_2282014.zip
3) Flash the custom recovery file via Odin. Remove battery immediately the flashing is complete to stop reboot.
4) Place the SD card with the recovery file in your phone
5) Reboot into recovery mode by simultaneously holding down the Volume Up, Home and Power buttons. Hold all buttons until you see the blue flash across your screen, then release power button but keep holding the volume up and home buttons until the Android image appears.
6) Select install and navigate to the stock restore file. Swipe across screen to flash and wait for installation to be complete.
7) Clear cache/dalvik and reboot to system
If you are unable to boot to recovery, then you may still try flashing using Odin v3.09. You may follow the instructions in the thread below and load all the respective partitions. You would need to use the version that has separate flashable files as the single *.tar file has been taken down.
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Just to reaffirm since I am not very experienced and do not wish to break my phone:
1) Download the twrp 2.6.3.1 d2att.tar file and flash it to my phone in download mode via Odin.
2)Download zip file on my computer, and take out the microSD from my phone, and copy the file to my microSD.
3) I am confused here because you stated to flash the custom recovery in step 1... anyways when flash is complete I immediately take my battery out to stop the reboot.
4) I insert the microSD with the zip file containing the stock rom
5) Now I should be able to reboot into recovery mode on my phone, though I could not beforehand.
6) Once in Recovery, go to Install and flash the custom stock.
7)Wipe dalvik cache and cache, and reboot to system.
Please clear up any confusion, I am very cautious and inexperienced. Sorry.
rohanr014 said:
Just to reaffirm since I am not very experienced and do not wish to break my phone:
1) Download the twrp 2.6.3.1 d2att.tar file and flash it to my phone in download mode via Odin.
2)Download zip file on my computer, and take out the microSD from my phone, and copy the file to my microSD.
3) I am confused here because you stated to flash the custom recovery in step 1... anyways when flash is complete I immediately take my battery out to stop the reboot.
4) I insert the microSD with the zip file containing the stock rom
5) Now I should be able to reboot into recovery mode on my phone, though I could not beforehand.
6) Once in Recovery, go to Install and flash the custom stock.
7)Wipe dalvik cache and cache, and reboot to system.
Please clear up any confusion, I am very cautious and inexperienced. Sorry.
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Yes, you are correct. What you are doing in step 1) is flashing custom recovery to your phone. Custom recovery allows you install zip files to your phone and is more functional and versatile than stock recovery.
The zip file referred to in 2) is the stock restore zip. This is the file you will be flashing from (custom) recovery and is the one from the following link (http://www.mediafire.com/download/30...re_2282014.zip). Once you have downloaded it to your computer, save to an SD card so you can insert it into your phone to flash.
The battery pull is after flashing the TWRP file. You then have to boot into (custom) recovery mode to flash the stock restore zip from the SD card.
You are OK on the other steps. Trust this clarifies. Let me know if you encounter any issues.
I have done everything you said, I flashed the TWRP file via Odin, and then i copied the stock zip file to my microSD and put it back into my phone.
I am able to boot into recovery, and everytime I go to flash the stock rom, midway through the flash my phone starts rebooting. Even if I try to clear dalvik cache and cache first, once they are cleared my phone automatically starts rebooting. What do I do now? The zip file is there and I can reach TWRP recovery, but the flash wont complete because my phone starts rebooting. I am at a 100% battery right now so I do not know what the cause of this could be. Please help, I cannot tell what I did wrong if I did do anything wrong.
Try installing the latest version of Philz Touch for the d2lte. Some people have good results with TWRP. I found Philz Touch, which is based on CWM, better for my purposes. Philz can be installed via Odin as long as you down the tar version.
http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/d2lte
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Yes, you are correct. What you are doing in step 1) is flashing custom recovery to your phone. Custom recovery allows you install zip files to your phone and is more functional and versatile than stock recovery.
The zip file referred to in 2) is the stock restore zip. This is the file you will be flashing from (custom) recovery and is the one from the following link (http://www.mediafire.com/download/30...re_2282014.zip). Once you have downloaded it to your computer, save to an SD card so you can insert it into your phone to flash.
The battery pull is after flashing the TWRP file. You then have to boot into (custom) recovery mode to flash the stock restore zip from the SD card.
You are OK on the other steps. Trust this clarifies. Let me know if you encounter any issues.
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Ok, something very strange has occured.
Since my phone would not flash the original stock rom, I decided to go ahead and flash CM10.2 and its gapps to see if it the problem was with my phone or with the file. Everything worked fine and my phone booted and ran CM10.2, but then I had absolutely no signal anywhere. I could confirm something was wrong because there were multiple AT&T users near me that had good signal. So then I went to flash the stock rom, and it worked. I cleared dalvik and cache like normal after all these flashes and performed factory resets, however when I flashed this stock rom, it worked but 1) I could not connect to Wifi 2) I could not use apps with root requirements, and Root Checker said I did not have root access, even though I had definitely rooted my phone earlier when I first ran CM11 and CM10.2
Should I root again? Please help, my phone is working and I can go into download, stock recovery, and normal mode.
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Try installing the latest version of Philz Touch for the d2lte. Some people have good results with TWRP. I found Philz Touch, which is based on CWM, better for my purposes. Philz can be installed via Odin as long as you down the tar version.
http://goo.im/devs/philz_touch/CWM_Advanced_Edition/d2lte
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The whole idea was to get your phone back to working state. Thereafter, you can build up on the food chain. The stock file you flashed restores the phone to near factory settings including a complete stock (official) firmware, stock recovery, resetting the flash counter. Unfortunately, it also removes root as well. You can, however, re-root in a number of ways. You may also do as Audit advised and reflash Philz Touch custom recovery which would allow you flash any custom ROM of your choice. You do not necessarily need to root to flash custom ROMs if you have custom recovery. However, if you need to use apps which require root, I would recommend you try SafeRoot (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2565758). Very easy to use and worked quite well for me.
Finally, you should be able to restore your Wi-Fi from settings. Wi-Fi setup should have happened during the set-up process upon reboot after the firmware installation but sometimes this step is skipped. If you go to Settings, you should be able to enable and set up Wi-Fi.