Which root method should I use? - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

There are 2 root methods in the Android Development forum.
Which one would you guys advise me doing? OR which method did you use?
I know that one of them is flashing Stock ROM image with root, and the other I think is rooting via Odin as well...
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I would say the one you feel more comfortable with. I personally used the ODIN then flashed SU from CWM. I have not had any issues.

I took the Odin no flash counter method it took about 20 min but it happened
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erod188 said:
I took the Odin no flash counter method it took about 20 min but it happened
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Lol why did it take you 20min to flash a tar file?
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Your guess is as good as mine buddy but it worked and no flash counter and no resetting phone
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I used the guide by mrRobinson here. No issues whatsoever and it was very straightforward. I also used the guide mrRobinson linked to in the same post to install a custom recovery.

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How to root update OTA 2.3.6

My sister got the phone out of the box updated and how would i go about rooting. I read and searched (im not a noob believe me) and i only see them from like the first week it came out. So old root will it work?
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Worked for me
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Okay awesome thanks man!
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Which method? I waited one day too late, and got the 2.3.6 update yesterday - and from what I read, superoneclick doesn't work for SGS 2 that's been updated?
I'm looking for the simple, proven way to do it without having to go command-line
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Which method? I waited one day too late, and got the 2.3.6 update yesterday - and from what I read, superoneclick doesn't work for SGS 2 that's been updated?
I'm looking for the simple, proven way to do it without having to go command-line
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This worked for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311194
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Why not just use Odin to push the recovery Once you have cwm, rooting is almost pointless. Just flash a full Rom / Kernel via zip
Refer to this thread for everything
Http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1311194
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pyraxiate said:
Why not just use Odin to push the recovery Once you have cwm, rooting is almost pointless. Just flash a full Rom / Kernel via zip
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Unless of course you just want rooted stock ......
Yes in which case just flash the su zip included in the thread ...... He SHOULD want cwm in either case if anything so he can perform nandroid backups
At a minimum though, I'd flash a rooted deodexed/zipaligned/CIQ free stock release ;-)
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pyraxiate said:
Yes in which case just flash the su zip included in the thread ...... He SHOULD want cwm in either case if anything so he can perform nandroid backups
At a minimum though, I'd flash a rooted deodexed/zipaligned/CIQ free stock release ;-)
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Oh I agree with you 100% , at the very least to get rid of CIQ.
True thanks guys! Im going to need to do a backup tho
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To root or not to root

That is the question
I wasnt going to root my phone but while playing with phone and seeing Ads come up and cant install adfree worth rooting for this alone .Ok back to the pc hope I find a good roooting method
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I have decided to hold back on root at the moment due to the flash counter and OTA break issue.
Its killing me though to have to live with such high lcd density atm
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i'm holding off as well...
waiting to see what sort of custom roms appear in the coming weeks before i decide what to do with it...
aside from Titanium Backup, i don't really use a lot of root packages... changing the DPI would be nice, but i can live with it for the moment until the devs get coding
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I'm holding off for now too, I really like having this phone stock at the moment but if Google wallet comes out for root then I will.
One idea if you afraid from raising flash counter.
Flash pre rooted rom
Use mobile odin to flash stock rom.
This won't raise flash counter.
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dr.ketan said:
One idea if you afraid from raising flash counter.
Flash pre rooted rom
Use mobile odin to flash stock rom.
This won't raise flash counter.
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What happens when the flash counter rises?
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Warranty will be voids.
Though soon triangle away application will get support for note2, then it can be reset.
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Just looked your sign
PS : any special reason for asking? As you have already used sgs3,note and difficult to believe you don't know it.
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dr.ketan said:
Warranty will be voids.
Though soon triangle away application will get support for note2, then it can be reset.
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Just looked your sign
PS : any special reason for asking? As you have already used sgs3,note and difficult to believe you don't know it.
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I really do not. I buy unlocked phone and import it in the US where the warranty isnt valid anyway.....
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Ok.
Then you have never need to worry about that. I can say you are lucky, flash anything with pc odin.
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dr.ketan said:
Warranty will be voids.
Though soon triangle away application will get support for note2, then it can be reset.
Edit
Just looked your sign
PS : any special reason for asking? As you have already used sgs3,note and difficult to believe you don't know it.
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Any ideas if the break OTA problems can be fixed that comes with rooting?
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I don't think it can be fixed as recovery is custom.
But let's hope it can get fixed.
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dr.ketan said:
Ok.
Then you have never need to worry about that. I can say you are lucky, flash anything with pc odin.
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Awesome thanks for the info!
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DMax99 said:
Any ideas if the break OTA problems can be fixed that comes with rooting?
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You need to choose what you want:
1. Have root and forget about OTA`s and Kies and use CWM and PC/Mobile Odin or
2. Stay on stock firmware and forget about root all together.
You can`t have it both ways mate
You will never be able to install OTA`s if you are rooted as you have a custom recovery.
ok still some what a new bee im looking to get note 2 unlock and run it on att..i have a gs3 on att..
i like rooting to get rid of my crap ware on att..but unlock is nice pure TW and i like it..so if i root and theres a update do i just flash the new update ? coming from a rooted stock TW?
thanks
ROOT!
Then u can clean bloatware, like gmaps, g+, ChatOn etc.
Hi Ketan, i have a question for you, i want to install the rooted rom but before doing that i would want to take the nandroid backup of the stock rom. Can you please give me step by step guide as to how i should go ahead wih it . Thanks and await your reply.
Without root you can't do nandroid backup.
Is there still away to root or install custo m rom without raising counter and without doing full wipe as I have good set up now thx Dr
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stesteste said:
Is there still away to root or install custo m rom without raising counter and without doing full wipe as I have good set up now thx Dr
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Here you can download a pre-rooted stock rom`s without raising the binary counter http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1915386. Read the OP well as there are different rom`s to download.
Will it do full wipe or not thx
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T999v jellybean ..

So im on stock rooted and lets say i get the update but im rooted do i need to unroot to proceed ??.. or i can do it whit root? Cant wait for some jellybean goodies
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Root should be fine. Its the custom recovery that'll prevent you from even being able to get the update.
You will lose root though unless you use voodoo rootkeeper or mobile odin pro.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Root should be fine. Its the custom recovery that'll prevent you from even being able to get the update.
You will lose root though unless you use voodoo rootkeeper or mobile odin pro.
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Okay so how do i take off cwm and go back to stock recovery for the update ?
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Flah stock recovery through odin or flah stock jb thourgh odin
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sean19661 said:
Flah stock recovery through odin or flah stock jb thourgh odin
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Ok so i get a stock jb firmware flash it whit odin and then can is root released for jb ? Sorry for my nooby questions..
Also i have a t999v im not sure what to flash..
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shahkam said:
Ok so i get a stock jb firmware flash it whit odin and then can is root released for jb ? Sorry for my nooby questions..
Also i have a t999v im not sure what to flash..
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Just flash the root66 firmware. Its in the thread in my sig. Its pre-rooted.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Just flash the root66 firmware. Its in the thread in my sig. Its pre-rooted.
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Okay last time i flashed thru odin i kinda forgot the steps .. would you kindly help a newbie here ?
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shahkam said:
Okay last time i flashed thru odin i kinda forgot the steps .. would you kindly help a newbie here ?
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Its pretty straight forward actually. There should be steps laid out in post 2 of the fw thread and I believe Theexel hasit in his thread stickied in this section.
If you have any problems let me know, but don't see a reason to retype it all again!
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Along the same lines...I just got an s3 yesterday and rooted stock 4.0.4. Used OTA root keeper, downloaded the ota for JB and when I attempt to upstate it fails....I have stock recovery. No idea why it keeps failing. I would Odin the prerooted JB but my wife doesn't want to lose her settings she already set up. Any ideas?
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idtheftvictim said:
Along the same lines...I just got an s3 yesterday and rooted stock 4.0.4. Used OTA root keeper, downloaded the ota for JB and when I attempt to upstate it fails....I have stock recovery. No idea why it keeps failing. I would Odin the prerooted JB but my wife doesn't want to lose her settings she already set up. Any ideas?
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You probably have a custom recovery causing it to fail.
Regardless of how you update you will possibly lose some settings. Its recommended, but not required to do a clean update anyway. But flashing with odin should preserve your settings as well as the ota would. Once they boot up it shouldn't matter as the resulting build is the same.
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DocHoliday77 said:
You probably have a custom recovery causing it to fail.
Regardless of how you update you will possibly lose some settings. Its recommended, but not required to do a clean update anyway. But flashing with odin should preserve your settings as well as the ota would. Once they boot up it shouldn't matter as the resulting build is the same.
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So let's say I download the flash able version of the JB stock OTA, I can flash it through stock recovery or twrp or cwm, right?
Sorry, not new to flashing ROMs at all..but normally I flash custom ROMs and don't care about losing anything, but my wife likes the touchjizz...lol
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idtheftvictim said:
So let's say I download the flash able version of the JB stock OTA, I can flash it through stock recovery or twrp or cwm, right?
Sorry, not new to flashing ROMs at all..but normally I flash custom ROMs and don't care about losing anything, but my wife likes the touchjizz...lol
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Touchjizz lawl.
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idtheftvictim said:
So let's say I download the flash able version of the JB stock OTA, I can flash it through stock recovery or twrp or cwm, right?
Sorry, not new to flashing ROMs at all..but normally I flash custom ROMs and don't care about losing anything, but my wife likes the touchjizz...lol
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Depends if you've done anything to your current build.
Cwm will flash it, but I just don't care for it. Caused probs for quite a few people.
But you have to be full stock. No mods, no deodexing, no bloat removal, no modems flashed, etc.
Then you should be able to flash it in cwm.
Its preferred you do it through stock recovery. You can use voodoo rootkeeper to preserve root.
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Ok im gonna do it whit odin i feel safer that way now i have this build (see screenshot below ) im on the fw thread and two fingers away from downloading the t999_UVDLJA it says t999 and not t999v am i safe to proceed ahead ? I really dont want a brick thanks for your help !
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it will prob lose your root
dr.devman said:
it will prob lose your root
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ok i have another issue now i downloaded the correct version for my phone and i decided to flash it whit cwm recovery so what happens basicly is i select zip to flash and it says something like : assert failed getprop("ro.product.device" (status 7 ) any ideas??
I give up..
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Problem rooting

Hey guys sorry if this question has already been answered but I just got a new gs3 from tmo and it had jb pre installed on it and I followed a root guide and for some reason I can't update my binaries it keeps saying failed and in root checker it says I don't have root but superuser is on my phone... Also juice defender says I have root for some reason. Any help?
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May i know what guide did you followed.
Bitcloud30 said:
May i know what guide did you followed.
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http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s3-sgh-t999-t-mobile-easy-root-99302/
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Try rooting your phone again via Root66 that is much easier than that + its a updated version of rooting and am assuming that recently you just got your phone?
and if your gonna root it again go for the JB version the pre-rooted one.
Root66
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687
if you dont want it wait for somebody else to comment
I'll give it a shot when I get home what links do I use for the download?
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Use this guide can't fail. Remember to unchecked reboot on Odin. Or you will never have root. Cause when it reboot it reflashes stock recovery u need to flash su before you let it reboot. So after you install cwr with Odin remove battery and boot into recovery and flash su. And ur good to go.
http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-r...gh-t999sgh-i747sph-l710-fail-proofnoob-proof/
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kipster3001 said:
Use this guide can't fail. Remember to unchecked reboot on Odin. Or you will never have root. Cause when it reboot it reflashes stock recovery u need to flash su before you let it reboot. So after you install cwr with Odin remove battery and boot into recovery and flash su. And ur good to go.
http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-r...gh-t999sgh-i747sph-l710-fail-proofnoob-proof/
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Thank you this was the guide I was looking for ill try this first tonight
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Ehhh cf auto root is way easier.
Poblem Solved using the galaxys3oot website thanks

[Q] Root question

I had an s3 before but it was running 4.0.3 my question is im running 4.1.1 now can I use the same root and recovery through odin I used to root the older version ?
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Check the stickies. Flash twrp through Odin, then flash root or pre-rooted rom through twrp.
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gunz.jones said:
Check the stickies. Flash twrp through Odin, then flash root or pre-rooted rom through twrp.
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Yeah I read through it just still wasnt sure but I understand .. thanks
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2042775
That has everything you need to gain root. What you do from there is up to you. I've personally used it on both the ICS and JB stock images. Worked perfectly.
Search before you make a new thread next time though. Took me all of 15 seconds to find that when I first got on here.

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