Hey everyone, I just purchased a GS3 from T-Mobile yesterday and it's great so far. I know what root, flashing roms and all that good stuff is. Now I have a few questions pertaining to this thread, I cannot post there yet, so please bear with me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687
1.) I updated the GS3 to the official JB rom via Kies. Do I need to install those drivers from this thread as Windows 7 Ultimate x64 said I installed ADB and the USB drivers and such?
2.) I know how to use Odin, but since I'm on official JB, I have read that some folks are having their counters go up from flashing the stock rooted JB rom from this thread. Is it true? Is there an up to date app that can reset the counter for the T-Mobile GS3 T999?
3.) I don't intend to flash any other custom roms at the moment, stock is good enough for me for now. When I decide to do so, will flashing CWM via the Play Store app (I have premium) cause the counter to tick upwards? Will flashing any CWM based roms afterwards cause the counter to increase?
I appreciate any help and I want to protect this phone since it cost me an arm and a leg with the insurance and such. I'm coming from a rooted Galaxy S2 that I lost during vacation and I bought the GS3 at full retail. If all else fails, in case my phone acts up, I will simply "accidentally" drop it in the toilet, lol.
1. Kies includes drivers so you should be good there.
2 & 3. Check the info/research thread linked in my sig. Everything we know so far is there, including answers to your ?s.
At the very least read the post linked in the op.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium
Thanks, I appreciate the direction you took me. I will research more thoroughly now that I have the info I was looking for.
Since I don't intend to flash any custom roms at the moment, will flashing the rooted stock rom with the stock recovery in the link I posted cause the counter to tick up? I see that there is an app called Triangle Away, is it up to date for us official JB users?
I just need a few more post before I can post elsewhere, for now I'm using this thread until I can otherwise.
*UPDATE*
I successfully flashed the rooted stock rom and I can confirm it is clean.
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UPDATE: EDIT: Ok after about 3 hours of doing anything possible to fix this, I formatted my SD cards and now everything is OK...
Okay, so with the recent news about ICS coming around soon, I decided to take a look at Kies and see if there was any update.
Kies states "Your device does not support software upgrading via Kies". Since I had the phone rooted and running a custom ROM, I returned it to stock using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1350357, but the same message still persists?
I couldn't find any answers using the forum search or google. Is the phone supposed to be like this or what's going on here?
Thanks for any Help!!
If you are still rooted it won't work. Im running stock ROM with root and i can't update with Kies either.
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So I have to unroot it first, then flash the stock images?
Shouldn't flashing back to stock taken out the root? Sorry Im a newb so I need some clarification.
EDIT: Can anyone guide me to an unroot guide for telus? All the threads I find seem to have links that no longer work.
From what I can tell, my device is unrooted and completely stock, but I could be wrong, I dont know.
This is what my about looks like right now
Follow this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420065
So I am running the stock rom but have root access. the update pops up every 5 minutes to remind me to install it. I let it install and about 3 second in i get a yeild sign with an exclamation point in it. and the phone stops there. I waited for about 3 hours and nothing happened. Anybody know what I need to do here? I used Galaxy Nexus root toolkit v1.3 to root my phone. BTW i am with verizon
For as far as i now you cant update a rooted device. i sugest unrooting an try to update agian.
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yea that's what I thought I was going to have to do. but wanted to see if there was an update package someone had made for rooted devices like some others had.
nvm i think im going to trade the phone
So no one has an answer on this?
jordi97 said:
For as far as i now you cant update a rooted device. i sugest unrooting an try to update agian.
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Yes you can. You can't update a phone with CWM recovery though.
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Correct a rooted phone can update but not with any custom recovery. You need to flash back to the factory stock recovery.
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OK so looks like everyone is here was incorrect. The 4.04 rooted update is here in the XDA forums all i needed to do was flash it and the new antenna and everything is working fine now. here are the links.
4.04 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631796
radio http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630438
Thank you Brandon for helping me out with this.
There are no stupid questions only stupid answers.
Sdalton19 said:
OK so looks like everyone is here was incorrect. The 4.04 rooted update is here in the XDA forums all i needed to do was flash it and the new antenna and everything is working fine now. here are the links.
4.04 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631796
radio http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630438
Thank you Brandon for helping me out with this.
There are no stupid questions only stupid answers.
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Your right, stupid answers, that's not an ota update you did. That was pulled from a phone which was updated and packaged into a flashable file to use on a rooted device. But a carrier ota update as your device was asking you to update will not work without stock recovery.
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Isn't that exactly what i asked for second post in? Point is if you knew that, why didn't you say so? Look there's nothing wrong with being wrong every once in a while but be graceful about it. And if your going to give advice make sure you fully read the question and offer decent advice. You were saying there was no way to update it without unrooting and flashing back to stock. That was after I asked "yea that's what I thought I was going to have to do. but wanted to see if there was an update package someone had made for rooted devices like some others had." Is that not exactly what I asked for????
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Isn't that exactly what i asked for second post in? Point is if you knew that, why didn't you say so? Look there's nothing wrong with being wrong every once in a while but be graceful about it. And if your going to give advice make sure you fully read the question and offer decent advice. You were saying there was no way to update it without unrooting and flashing back to stock. That was after I asked "yea that's what I thought I was going to have to do. but wanted to see if there was an update package someone had made for rooted devices like some others had." Is that not exactly what I asked for????
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Well, you are right that there are a lot of partially right and partially wrong answers in this thread. But what are you saying is not exactly right either.
1) There is a difference between updating your existing build (like what you had asked to do in the first post) and flashing an entirely new build.
2) There is a difference between running a stock ROM (like what you were running before) and running a ROM that looks like it's stock, but is not (like what you are running now).
3) Root has NO impact whatsoever on your ability to install OTA updates on your stock ROM.
4) An OTA update will NOT install with a stock recovery UNLESS you are using the stock recovery version that came with the build you are using. (It seems like a lot of toolkits are flashing non-matching stock recoveries).
5) An OTA update file can EASILY be installed if you have CWM installed. See here.
6) Your phrase "unrooting and flashing back to stock" is silly, as flashing back to stock replaces your ROM, so why would you need to "unroot" your current ROM only to flash a stock ROM overtop? You don't root a device - you root an Android OS build. The phrase "root my device" does not make any sense.
Hello,
About a month ago I rooted and installed a custom JB ROM (Kangdroid I believe?) onto my AT&T Galaxy SIII with the custom recovery mod. Now that the official release of JB has come out from AT&T I want to return my phone to it's original factory state with no custom anything, and then update to the official JB release. I don't want to use a custom un-bloated ROM. Call me crazy but I really didn't want to root/mess with the phone in the first place but I really, really, really wanted Jelly Bean. I already have backed up my contacts since that is the only thing I really need to save from my phone at the moment. I can download all of my apps again, etc. I tried searching the forums but couldn't come up with a very clear answer on how to do this. I found it hard to figure out exactly what I needed to do, and since I did this so long ago, I pretty much forgot how to do all of the little things that made my first attempt at flashing/rooting successful. I guess my question is this: What software do I need and what are some links (if any) on this site to help me return the phone to it's original out-of-the box state so that I can update my OS with the Samsung Kies software. Thanks a lot for your help and I hope to hear from some of you soon. Sorry for noobing it up in here.
easterdev said:
Hello,
About a month ago I rooted and installed a custom JB ROM (Kangdroid I believe?) onto my AT&T Galaxy SIII with the custom recovery mod. Now that the official release of JB has come out from AT&T I want to return my phone to it's original factory state with no custom anything, and then update to the official JB release. I don't want to use a custom un-bloated ROM. Call me crazy but I really didn't want to root/mess with the phone in the first place but I really, really, really wanted Jelly Bean. I already have backed up my contacts since that is the only thing I really need to save from my phone at the moment. I can download all of my apps again, etc. I tried searching the forums but couldn't come up with a very clear answer on how to do this. I found it hard to figure out exactly what I needed to do, and since I did this so long ago, I pretty much forgot how to do all of the little things that made my first attempt at flashing/rooting successful. I guess my question is this: What software do I need and what are some links (if any) on this site to help me return the phone to it's original out-of-the box state so that I can update my OS with the Samsung Kies software. Thanks a lot for your help and I hope to hear from some of you soon. Sorry for noobing it up in here.
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The same way you rooted it with odin .. download the stock rom from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1968625
push it on with odin and that should revert your phone back to stock ..
I have a galaxy s3 from sprint which I rooted many months ago and is currently running android 4.04, It is constantly asking me to update however every time I do it always fails. I've looked around the forums and from what I learned I believe that the only way to update is to unroot and update or to install a rom with jelly bean. I experimented with a few roms including CM10, AOKP and liquid smooth but all of these had problems with sending text messages where long messages would not send or even short messages were split into multiple messages. So unless anyone knows a fix to this I prefer to stick to the stock rom for now at least.
That being said I would like to update my phone to jelly bean. Does anyone know a way for me to do this? If unrooting is the only way does anyone know how I can unroot my phone? All of the post I've ran into are either old(don't trust really old post as methods tend to change as time pases) or don't give enough information aside from "install original firmware". If anyone could help that would be greatly appreciated. I have a mac computer so any methods that could be used with a mac would make things easier. Otherwise I could always run windows with bootcamp so not a big problem.
If it helps I rooted my phone using Odin and currently have CWM, its a sprint galaxy s3 running 4.04
Liquid smooth doesn't have that problem anymore
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luigid92 said:
I have a galaxy s3 from sprint which I rooted many months ago and is currently running android 4.04, It is constantly asking me to update however every time I do it always fails. I've looked around the forums and from what I learned I believe that the only way to update is to unroot and update or to install a rom with jelly bean. I experimented with a few roms including CM10, AOKP and liquid smooth but all of these had problems with sending text messages where long messages would not send or even short messages were split into multiple messages. So unless anyone knows a fix to this I prefer to stick to the stock rom for now at least.
That being said I would like to update my phone to jelly bean. Does anyone know a way for me to do this? If unrooting is the only way does anyone know how I can unroot my phone? All of the post I've ran into are either old(don't trust really old post as methods tend to change as time pases) or don't give enough information aside from "install original firmware". If anyone could help that would be greatly appreciated. I have a mac computer so any methods that could be used with a mac would make things easier. Otherwise I could always run windows with bootcamp so not a big problem.
If it helps I rooted my phone using Odin and currently have CWM, its a sprint galaxy s3 running 4.04
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In order to OTA update the phone you need to be on a stock rom with all the stock apps installed and have a the stock recovery installed. (not CWM).
You could try to just reflash the stock recovery (which is what I did.) You could also just flash the current stock rom in Odin, which may or may not cause you to lose data. Dig around for all the roms and the stock recovery in the development forum.
Two things:
1. Please search. This has been asked (insert large number here) times
2. Head over to freezas thread and flash the MB1 firmware update. Then find a rom that is updated to either MA4 and up (including MB1) and flash it. I would recommended The Peoples ROM or MOAR (Mother of All Roms) if you wanna stay on a nice stock rooted rom
But thats it and you're done. Fully updated to JB
CNexus said:
Two things:
1. Please search. This has been asked (insert large number here) times
2. Head over to freezas thread and flash the MB1 firmware update. Then find a rom that is updated to either MA4 and up (including MB1) and flash it. I would recommended The Peoples ROM or MOAR (Mother of All Roms) if you wanna stay on a nice stock rooted rom
But thats it and you're done. Fully updated to JB
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You don't even need to flash all the firmware, could just flash a rooted deodexed or odexed mb1 rom and modem if you like, but it's not necessary.
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My friend asked me to flash his samsung galaxy s3 from virgin mobile back to 4.1.2 stock, he updated to 4.3 but its having a lot of troubles with the apps and stuff, I couldnt find a forum featuring the virgin brand here, but it seems to be the same model as sprint SPH-L710. Now I cant find the correct stock rom for his phone and a noob friendly guide to do it using odin. Im not new to flashing but I havent done it in a while and besides I always did it on my samsung galaxy S from tmobile which it has its own forum and everything was at hand and i was always sure I was using the correct files. Can someone point me in the right direction to find all I need to make a nice flashing? His device its unrooted and he doesnt want to root, he also has de 16 gb model if that makes any difference.
Robert1989 said:
My friend asked me to flash his samsung galaxy s3 from virgin mobile back to 4.1.2 stock, he updated to 4.3 but its having a lot of troubles with the apps and stuff, I couldnt find a forum featuring the virgin brand here, but it seems to be the same model as sprint SPH-L710. Now I cant find the correct stock rom for his phone and a noob friendly guide to do it using odin. Im not new to flashing but I havent done it in a while and besides I always did it on my samsung galaxy S from tmobile which it has its own forum and everything was at hand and i was always sure I was using the correct files. Can someone point me in the right direction to find all I need to make a nice flashing? His device its unrooted and he doesnt want to root, he also has de 16 gb model if that makes any difference.
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If he Updated to 4.3 he's pretty much stuck with it, You cannot at the present time downgrade to 4.1.2 . If you try to downgrade the Bootloader you will have a very expensive paperweight, But you can Root 4.3 . If he changes his mind , and wants to Root it. THIS is one of the methods people are using to root 4.3 . Also there is another HERE. But before doing anything I would suggest a bit of reading, and research .
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If he Updated to 4.3 he's pretty much stuck with it, You cannot at the present time downgrade to 4.1.2 . If you try to downgrade the Bootloader you will have a very expensive paperweight, But you can Root 4.3 . If he changes his mind , and wants to Root it. THIS is one of the methods people are using to root 4.3 . Also there is another HERE. But before doing anything I would suggest a bit of reading, and research .
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Yes I continued my research last night and found out about knox, I already told him about it, too bad, but im sure people will find a way to beat samsung or whoever developed that in the future, one can only hope, thanks for your answer.