T999 Stuck on System.img.ext4 - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

I have a bricked Samsung T999, brought it back to live with JTAG, but not i can't flash the stock firmware back on it.
I tried to used odin to put the stock firmware back on it, everything start but when it get to the system.img it just stay there forever (system.img.ext)
anyone have an idea how to get it fix.
Thank you

That sounds like a nandroid backup youre trying to flash in Odin....wont work im afraid.
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If you are trying to flash a nandroid backup, it won't work, this thread (below) contains stock firmware, as well as root66 if you want to flash back to root with Odin. Flash with those
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687
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[Q] restoring stock rom?

Short and sweet, I'm having trouble restoring the Stock ROM on my phone? I have installed the Ultimatum ROM but following multiple guides (even the one here on XDA that includes a full wipe) doesn't seem to remove it. Am I doing something wrong here?
Everything you need to know is in the first few threads in the Dev section
afrobull said:
Short and sweet, I'm having trouble restoring the Stock ROM on my phone? I have installed the Ultimatum ROM but following multiple guides (even the one here on XDA that includes a full wipe) doesn't seem to remove it. Am I doing something wrong here?
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You need to flash through ODIN while phone is in download mode. You can get the stock .pit and .tar files from the development forums if you look. Then you can restore the stock software and start fresh.
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pussyliquor said:
You need to flash through ODIN while phone is in download mode. You can get the stock .pit and .tar files from the development forums if you look. Then you can restore the stock software and start fresh.
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In dev section under sticky..stock rom with root and no trip counter via odin
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To vanilla stock no root flash stock w/root via Odin, use triangle away to reset binary counter(if tripped) then flash the official UCALG1 ROM via Odin and you should be good to go.
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do I need root to slash stock rom?

Do I need to root my phone to flash Stock roms via Odin? I want to flash the Stock rom and I wonder if it gonna lose the IMEI? thanks guys
Nope. But you do need root to install a custom recovery like TWRP or CWM. There may be another method but im not familiar with it at the moment.
Anyway you can easily dl one of the stock firmwares from samfirmware.com and install using odin. Provided you just want pure stock.
And you shouldn't have to worry about losing your imei flashing stock with odin. I dont recall that ever hapoening. Besides, imei issues have been solved. Just check the dev section for info.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Nope. But you do need root to install a custom recovery like TWRP or CWM. There may be another method but im not familiar with it at the moment.
Anyway you can easily dl one of the stock firmwares from samfirmware.com and install using odin. Provided you just want pure stock.
And you shouldn't have to worry about losing your imei flashing stock with odin. I dont recall that ever hapoening. Besides, imei issues have been solved. Just check the dev section for info.
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thanks for your reply
btw, I'm on stock with latest Tmo update now. Let say I want to flash stock without that update (stock before the update). how does it change my stock recovery? is the recovery still the stock with latest Tmo update?
I dont really understand how the stock recovery works. after I apply the update, is the update applied to the stock recovery too?
As far as I am aware it will rewrite your stock recovery back to whatever version you are installing as well. So long as you use odin and a full firmware file from Samsung.
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[Q] How to switch from CM10 to stock jellybean

So I'm giving my wife my galaxy s3 since I'm getting the nexus 4. I was running CM10 and she does not like cm10 and prefers touchwiz. So how do I safely go to the official tmobile jellybean update without bricking the phone. Need help been searching the forums all night. Thanks
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991255
Just flash the .zip if you want to stay rooted or you can odin which sometimes loses root. All you would have to do is flash recovery then flash the .zip with root injected to recover.
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mrbmg said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991255
Just flash the .zip if you want to stay rooted or you can odin which sometimes loses root. All you would have to do is flash recovery then flash the .zip with root injected to recover.
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THANKS! I'll try this out tomorrow and update.
mrbmg said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1991255
Just flash the .zip if you want to stay rooted or you can odin which sometimes loses root. All you would have to do is flash recovery then flash the .zip with root injected to recover.
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So I tried to flash the stock deodexed in cwm and it installed but I was stuck at the black samsung boot up screen. Is there like a step by step method of doing this. I'm still new to the whole odin thing and dont quite understand it.
Did you Odin back to stock? Or did you flash the .zip? There was two files on that thread I linked you to. The top one was an Odin file. The bottom one was the .zip to flash.
To use Odin DL the file then unzip the .tar and Odin it.
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mrbmg said:
Did you Odin back to stock? Or did you flash the .zip? There was two files on that thread I linked you to. The top one was an Odin file. The bottom one was the .zip to flash.
To use Odin DL the file then unzip the .tar and Odin it.
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I was able to odin back to stock thanks. It was a close call I thought my wife was gonna kill me! Thanks for all your help.
nexus2 said:
I was able to odin back to stock thanks. It was a close call I thought my wife was gonna kill me! Thanks for all your help.
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NP man. I was switching back and forth between ICS and jb and realized it was not only messing my SD card up but I had glitches galore on my jb ROMs. I reformatted my sdcard and Odin back to stock jb and have been running jb every since. I had a hard time understanding the process of Odin then flashing the ROM that was already rooted.
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Mobile ODIN?

mobile odin came with w rom i just downloaded. what is it before i download it? im using twrp recovery, would using odin be safe? or is it something different all togethr?
lesnbec3911 said:
mobile odin came with w rom i just downloaded. what is it before i download it? im using twrp recovery, would using odin be safe? or is it something different all togethr?
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mobile odin is version of odin you can use on your phone to flash tar files it is not a recovery stock roms are usually in a .tar format
Soo if I wanted tto go back to stock. Is using mobile Odin ideal? Stock meaning like no root, no rom, back to factory. I was looking at another thread. Someone was going back to stock to upgrade to jellybean, root it, nandroid, now they have a good fall back to fresh start
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Mobile Odin will flash firmware directly from your phone and inject root
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Odin stock recovery only?

Is there a way I can flash just the stock recovery through Odin without having to flash the entire firmware? I'm currently rooted on the latest firmware with a customer coverage and everytime I reset the counter and reboot it gets set back to tripped. So I want to flash the stock recovery without losing root so I can reset the counter and then flash the entire firmware through odin again so I can send the phone back for exchange.
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Pull out recovery.img, TAR it, flash it.
Ok and just converting it to a tar makes it safe to flash? I'veflashed many times but have never created a file to flash
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Yea I got no clue how to take the .img and tar it.. been on google for 30min.. just cant seem to find out how
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2001868
If you download that and get the donation version, it has an option to make tar files. Doesn't matter that the toolkit is for the nexus 10 as far as just making tar files. I've used it to make cwm tars for my S2 and S4.

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