Hey guys, just got my GS3 a little while ago. I flashed to a Odin Rooted Touchwiz ICS rom and got clockwork recovery. I then flashed AOKP and have been happy. Since Canadian carriers are releasing their jellybean stock roms tomorrow, I want to flash back to stock. Do I just flash the rooted touchwiz rom I did earlier with Odin? (I dont mind having the root)
Flash stock rom (either or back up....or older original stock). Flash stock recovery. Wait for update.
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Hey, I was wondering if only rooting my phone ( I still have the stock rom ) would prevent my phone from receiving OTA updates? My wife and I bought our phones at the same time, mine was even activated first, and her OTA update, which includes the wifi calling, came tonight, and I haven't seen mine.
So I was just curious if it is still going to come eventually, or if I need to just flash the updated version of the stock rom? Thanks
You will get the update regardless of what rom or recovery or rooted or unrooted.
Now in order to install it ota you need stock rom and stock recovery though. If you rooted and installed cwm recovery then you need to flash stock recovery.
If your rooted. On stock rom. And stock recovery(like I was) then no worries just install away.
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clninja said:
You will get the update regardless of what rom or recovery or rooted or unrooted.
Now in order to install it ota you need stock rom and stock recovery though. If you rooted and installed cwm recovery then you need to flash stock recovery.
If your rooted. On stock rom. And stock recovery(like I was) then no worries just install away.
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Exactly my set up... Thanks for the information
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Hi
My brother have sg3 from rogers,.. i did root on it and installed twrp ,.. we were thinking about flashing custom JB ROM, but official came out yesterday.
can we safely do OTA update, or we have to un-root it and get rid of twrp (even though i dont know how yet) )
Thanks
Not sure if you need to be unrooted, but you definitely need to be on stock rom and stock recovery.
ROM is stock, but have twrp ,... hmmm
how can i get back to stock recovery?
There is an odin package that has just the stock recovery over in dev section
Right here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2026751
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Hi all
I had a rooted S3 t999 with MOAR 6.0 installed, and I decided to flash Stock via Odin, flashed the 4.1.2 tar file for the device, and I got unrooted and went to stock...I upgraded to 4.3 when the update pushed by Samsung arrived.
I currently have my phone rooted and removed the Knox security, I want to try and flash other custom roms, will my phone get bricked if I decide to flash a 4.1.2 custom rom? I'm asking this just to make sure that I don't get a very expensive doorstep
Thanks for the advice!
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Hellfireworks said:
Hi all
I had a rooted S3 t999 with MOAR 6.0 installed, and I decided to flash Stock via Odin, flashed the 4.1.2 tar file for the device, and I got unrooted and went to stock...I upgraded to 4.3 when the update pushed by Samsung arrived.
I currently have my phone rooted and removed the Knox security, I want to try and flash other custom roms, will my phone get bricked if I decide to flash a 4.1.2 custom rom? I'm asking this just to make sure that I don't get a very expensive doorstep
Thanks for the advice!
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You can flash any rom just don't odin any thing lower then 4.3 and don't flash anything to downgrade your bootloader and you will be fine.
I'm on CM11. I'd like to return to a stock-like JB rom for the time being until there's some reasonable functionality available in the AOSP-based KK roms. I've seen the warnings on the int'l forum that once you go to the Sammy 4.4 roms, you can't go back to JB due to the bootloader update. I've not installed a KK rom other than CM.
Does this no-going-back issue apply if I've only done the following?
1) Rooted stock MI7 using RDLV, installed TWRP Manager
2) Flashed TWRP recovery
3) Wiped device, flashed CM11 nightly build
I looked through the forums but I've not found this question or answer, so I apologize if I'm reposting... I guess I just didn't find the magic keyword combo to search for.
You can still go back to 4.3. Did you happen to make a nandroid backup before installing CM11?
Cm 11 isn't the same 4.4 as the official tw 4.4 which is the one with the updated bootloader. So going back to a 4.3 rom is not a problem. Either find and flash the stock rom located in Dev section or you can Odin the stock tar file (which will revert you back completely to stock.
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Tdeljr said:
Cm 11 isn't the same 4.4 as the official tw 4.4 which is the one with the updated bootloader. So going back to a 4.3 rom is not a problem. Either find and flash the stock rom located in Dev section or you can Odin the stock tar file (which will revert you back completely to stock.
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I'm stuck in a similar spot.
On TMO 4.3 stock/deoxed, I did a nandroid backup with CWM 6.0.4.6, flashed CM11 to play with a for a few days, and after restoring the backup, the phone boots, but after putting in my pin, all i get is black screen and lots of force closes. I tried the Brick_Loop_fixer zip with no luck. I've different combo of wiping cache/davik cache and formatting system BEFORE the restore with no luck. I also tried ODIN back to full stock, flashing the stock/deoxed ROM i was using, then doing the restore, same outcome.
Any help would be great!
Reggie.
Hey guys. This may have been asked already but i am coming from verizons gs4. and over there you can oly get custom recovery if youre on mdk bootloader.
I just bought this phone for my brother and it came with 4.12 (MG2)
I see everywhere that people were able to get 4.3. i tried updating through phone and through kies and says its up to date. so now my question i guess is what bootloader do i need to be on or what 4.x.x do i need to be on in order to root and get custom recovery to flash custom roms?
any help will be greatly appreciated.
I recommend not updating to stock 4.3 ROM as this will install Knox and you will have a non-downgradeable bootloader. You can use Odin to flash Philz Touch which is based on CWM. From there, you can flash custom ROMs.
Some ROMs require a 4.3 bootloader, but these would tend to be based on the stock Samsung ROM. I am running the latest Validus 4.4.2 on a stock Bell 4.1.2 bootloader without a problem.
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I recommend not updating to stock 4.3 ROM as this will install Knox and you will have a non-downgradeable bootloader. You can use Odin to flash Philz Touch which is based on CWM. From there, you can flash custom ROMs.
Some ROMs require a 4.3 bootloader, but these would tend to be based on the stock Samsung ROM. I am running the latest Validus 4.4.2 on a stock Bell 4.1.2 bootloader without a problem.
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Oh ok. Well I just succesfully rotted and installed latest touch cwm.
so if I stay on 4.1.2 I can basically flash any kitkat roms? Because I dont want to install a tw rom.
So another question what are some good 4.4 kk roms? As in stable for daily use that I could flash
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Most kitkat ROMs will work with a 4.1.2 bootloader based on my experience.
I like the Ground Zero ROMs and use them on the s3, Moto Atrix HD, and Nexus 4.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2550340