I just got a new Galaxy Skyrocket and I am dying to root it and put Jelly Bean on it. The problem is that I have absolutely no idea where to even start. I am not worried about voiding the warranty since I bought the phone outright with the intention of rooting it and installing Jelly Bean. But being the idiot that I am, I don't have a clue what to do. Does anybody have a rooting guide for dummies?
go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1399
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Mine is on ICS 4.0.4 official
so is there any light at the end of tunnel for us?
like rooted without unbricking, goin from a fresh start?
so far, ICS has out for almost a month and nothing came up as far as rooting.
You can root your phone, it's just almost pointless to do so because rooting won't get rid of your ****ty locked bootloader. Only "unbricking" to a Gingerbread rom will do that for you.
i was skeptical and hesitant to unbrick, but it was surprisingly straightforward. now running cm10 and loving it
Hello,
probably a stupid question for many of you, but I just want to know if there is a way to maintain the root after upgrading to Jelly Bean, or the only way to gain root access again is to flash again.
Cheers!
I just did it with the Samsung Galaxy Nexus Toolkit 7.8!
Dear all,
in case someone had the same question, since I had already rooted my device, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus Toolkit 7.8, rooted Jelly Bean leaving everything untouched, and all automatically!
The Toolkit is great!!!
Cheers!
I thought OTA RootKeeper or SuperSU should do the trick... :cyclops:
So at this point I've given up on Samsung and Sprint releasing an official copy of Jelly Bean anytime soon and am looking to root and flash Cyanogenmod 10 to my GS3. I just had a few questions about the rom and such before I commit to this.
1. I've heard the camera app isn't as good as the stock Touchwiz one (i.e. can't save to SD card, less features). Is there anyway to get the stock app on CM10?
2. Everyone says rooting a GS3 is easy, but from what I've read keeping the flash counter at 0 is a bit more difficult. Does increasing the counter void your warranty, and if so how would I go about keeping it at 0?
3. I know it's possible to get Google Now on CM10, but are there any more steps than just downloading and installing the APK?
4. I own a Macbook and would prefer to do everything through it. Using a PC isn't out of the question but it'd be kind of a hassle. How much of this can I do through my Mac?
(EDIT) 5. With CM10 M2 I don't need to flash every new release, right? I remember hearing they recently put in OTA updating and will push new versions there. It'd be great if that were the case.
I know these are kind of noob questions, but I've only every rooted my OG EVO and have almost no experience flashing roms. And considering I'm not paying for my phone or service plan I'd love to keep my phone as stable as possible with the warranty intact.
TheDude113 said:
So at this point I've given up on Samsung and Sprint releasing an official copy of Jelly Bean anytime soon and am looking to root and flash Cyanogenmod 10 to my GS3. I just had a few questions about the rom and such before I commit to this.
1. I've heard the camera app isn't as good as the stock Touchwiz one (i.e. can't save to SD card, less features). Is there anyway to get the stock app on CM10?
2. Everyone says rooting a GS3 is easy, but from what I've read keeping the flash counter at 0 is a bit more difficult. Does increasing the counter void your warranty, and if so how would I go about keeping it at 0?
3. I know it's possible to get Google Now on CM10, but are there any more steps than just downloading and installing the APK?
4. I own a Macbook and would prefer to do everything through it. Using a PC isn't out of the question but it'd be kind of a hassle. How much of this can I do through my Mac?
(EDIT) 5. With CM10 M2 I don't need to flash every new release, right? I remember hearing they recently put in OTA updating and will push new versions there. It'd be great if that were the case.
I know these are kind of noob questions, but I've only every rooted my OG EVO and have almost no experience flashing roms. And considering I'm not paying for my phone or service plan I'd love to keep my phone as stable as possible with the warranty intact.
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1. You do have the option of using the Touchwiz JB build. which has all the camera features and that can be found at the link below http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32152586&postcount=1
2.It will void your warranty but as long as you put it back to stock and remove the root you should be fine. (Remember to make a Nandroid Backup)
3.Google Now comes preinstalled on any Jelly Bean Rom.
4.You can do all of this through a Mac its very similar to the PC setup
If you need any tutorials on anything check out QBKing77 on Youtube he does video tutorials for all of this.
averymlewis said:
1. You do have the option of using the Touchwiz JB build. which has all the camera features and that can be found at the link below http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32152586&postcount=1
2.It will void your warranty but as long as you put it back to stock and remove the root you should be fine. (Remember to make a Nandroid Backup)
3.Google Now comes preinstalled on any Jelly Bean Rom.
4.You can do all of this through a Mac its very similar to the PC setup
If you need any tutorials on anything check out QBKing77 on Youtube he does video tutorials for all of this.
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Thanks, that helped a lot!
I guess I realized this voids my warranty regardless of the counter haha, but would going back to stock with a Nandroid backup reset it?
Also, say I decide to go with CM10 over a Jelly Bean leak, would Google Now still come pre installed or would I need to find the APK?
TheDude113 said:
Thanks, that helped a lot!
I guess I realized this voids my warranty regardless of the counter haha, but would going back to stock with a Nandroid backup reset it?
Also, say I decide to go with CM10 over a Jelly Bean leak, would Google Now still come pre installed or would I need to find the APK?
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No, this will reset it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
So will this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
And Google now is available in ANY jb rom including CM10 provided you flash the gapps with it
Hello everyone, I'm new to this site and i started rooting not to long ago so i guess I'm a little bit higher than noob level but here's the thing, I did not do my research prior to updating my S3 to 4.3 via OTA update. I was already rooted with 4.1.2 so when i updated I thought i would just remove the root which it did but super user was still on my phone. I was only given the option to "turn off" (new feature of 4.3) and me being OCD about my phone I didn't like that. So I tried to use odin to go back to stock 4.1.1 thinking I could Just upgrade back and I was denied. I did some research discovering that I cannot do that because I was already on 4.3. Later on I found out it was possible to re-root 4.3 which is in the general forums. So I did that and removed knox with the "DeSamsungnizer" and tried downgrading to a custom firmware Cyanogenmod 10.1 based on 4.2.2 to be exact but I was denied again on the Clockworkmod recovery screen (also tripping the warranty counter). So since that didnt work I thought why not upgrade to the the cyanogenmod 10.2 based on 4.3 and that DID work... so i tried to odin back to 4.1.1 on cyanogenmod since i've done it before but again I was denied.. doing more research I discovered that andriod 4.3 came with a new bootloader so today I tried going back to 4.1.2 on my phone via one of my previous backups on CWM and it worked, once again, I tried to odin back down to stock 4.1.1 thinking I restored the old bootloader which I was finally denied again. So now I'm here, sitting on the rooted 4.3 with a locked bootloader and tripped warranty counter. So now youve heard my story, you are probably wondering why I'm here telling you all this, here's my question.
Is there any way I can downgrade this locked bootloader or unlock the bootloader itself that comes with 4.3 so I can finally get rid of the root, restore my warranty and go back to the experience had when I first bought the phone? honestly, I'm ready to retire from rooting, ive seen all the bells and whistles, tried custom firmwares, used rooted apps and all that, but now, I just dont care for it anymore. If there is no way to fix this problem currently, which a lot of those might have ran into as well is there any news of developers working on a fix for this? If there is I would like this forum to be the central discussion thread for our 4.3 bootloader issues. Thanks for reading! I hope someone can help!
bcjay16 said:
Hello everyone, I'm new to this site and i started rooting not to long ago so i guess I'm a little bit higher than noob level but here's the thing, I did not do my research prior to updating my S3 to 4.3 via OTA update. I was already rooted with 4.1.2 so when i updated I thought i would just remove the root which it did but super user was still on my phone. I was only given the option to "turn off" (new feature of 4.3) and me being OCD about my phone I didn't like that. So I tried to use odin to go back to stock 4.1.1 thinking I could Just upgrade back and I was denied. I did some research discovering that I cannot do that because I was already on 4.3. Later on I found out it was possible to re-root 4.3 which is in the general forums. So I did that and removed knox with the "DeSamsungnizer" and tried downgrading to a custom firmware Cyanogenmod 10.1 based on 4.2.2 to be exact but I was denied again on the Clockworkmod recovery screen (also tripping the warranty counter). So since that didnt work I thought why not upgrade to the the cyanogenmod 10.2 based on 4.3 and that DID work... so i tried to odin back to 4.1.1 on cyanogenmod since i've done it before but again I was denied.. doing more research I discovered that andriod 4.3 came with a new bootloader so today I tried going back to 4.1.2 on my phone via one of my previous backups on CWM and it worked, once again, I tried to odin back down to stock 4.1.1 thinking I restored the old bootloader which I was finally denied again. So now I'm here, sitting on the rooted 4.3 with a locked bootloader and tripped warranty counter. So now youve heard my story, you are probably wondering why I'm here telling you all this, here's my question.
Is there any way I can downgrade this locked bootloader or unlock the bootloader itself that comes with 4.3 so I can finally get rid of the root, restore my warranty and go back to the experience had when I first bought the phone? honestly, I'm ready to retire from rooting, ive seen all the bells and whistles, tried custom firmwares, used rooted apps and all that, but now, I just dont care for it anymore. If there is no way to fix this problem currently, which a lot of those might have ran into as well is there any news of developers working on a fix for this? If there is I would like this forum to be the central discussion thread for our 4.3 bootloader issues. Thanks for reading! I hope someone can help!
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Short answer NO. no you can not, you upgraded to the 4.3 bootloaders you're now stuck there, make the most out of it, I have hard bricked my phone 3 times in the last week trying to get back to an older version. Good luck.
Hello All-
I previously had a Galaxy S3 running Android 4.2. It is At&T and i am a Mac user. It was rooted and In ran Cyanogen 10.2. To make a long story short, it started dropping every call and AT&T finally replaced it .
They replaced it with another Galaxy S3 running jellybean 4.3 and it has knox. Have spent countless hours trying to root this phone if for no reason than to get the Samsung and AT&T bloatware off of it. It will not root and I can not find any articles on how to root S3 with Jellybean on a MAC. I have also tried to remove Knox and it won't go away. I am at the end of my rope. Remember that I am trying to do this on a MAC.
Thanks in advance for the help!