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[Q] i317 lost root after 4.1.2 update

I'm running a rooted stock I317M with nothing modified except for root. I used mrRobinson's thread h t t p :/ / forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650 as a guide which worked perfectly to keep everything stock (and thus avoid tripping the flash counter) but gave me root. This morning the Canadian carriers began rolling out the 4.1.2 update OTA which failed a few times on my device so I used (GASP!) Kies to do the update. Not sure if it would have mattered OTA or Kies but I have now lost root. Has anyone managed to inject root into a stock image for the I317m yet? It looks like I could go with a custom AT&T I317 build or ADB in and manually install a custom recovery, root etc. but if possible I'm hoping to keep normal device status and not trip the flash counter.

Are you planning on turning your phone in for warranty anytime soon or do you just like the look of "Official" instead of "Modified" on your About Phone settings?

Exact same thing happened for mine, stock rooted Canadian OTA to 4.1.2 failed repeatedly, Had to use Kies as well and lost root. The main reason I wanted root was to switch off fast dormancy since my Canadian carrier doesn't support it and was killing battery. Good news is it stayed switched off.

[email protected] said:
Are you planning on turning your phone in for warranty anytime soon or do you just like the look of "Official" instead of "Modified" on your About Phone settings?
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Not really. Originally it was just to make sure I'd get the update without issue when it was released. My understanding is that I can always reflash with the stock firmware I have from Sammobile and it will reset the flash counter + set the status back to normal if the need arose but also thought it easier to just unroot, reboot and uninstall SU if possible.

chris19000 said:
Not really. Originally it was just to make sure I'd get the update without issue when it was released. My understanding is that I can always reflash with the stock firmware I have from Sammobile and it will reset the flash counter + set the status back to normal if the need arose but also thought it easier to just unroot, reboot and uninstall SU if possible.
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Cool.... Honestly, I never worry about tripping the counter unless I need to turn in for replacement/warranty repair. Apparently, this seems to work just fine: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2073141&highlight=lost+root

m4runner said:
Exact same thing happened for mine, stock rooted Canadian OTA to 4.1.2 failed repeatedly, Had to use Kies as well and lost root. The main reason I wanted root was to switch off fast dormancy since my Canadian carrier doesn't support it and was killing battery. Good news is it stayed switched off.
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First time I've actually heard of fast dormancy. My battery life has actually been pretty good and that with fairly varied, heavy use. Have to look more into it. I rooted primarily for backing up (TB), remote file sharing and just plain messing around.

[email protected] said:
Cool.... Honestly, I never worry about tripping the counter unless I need to turn in for replacement/warranty repair. Apparently, this seems to work just fine: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2073141&highlight=lost+root
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Thanks R1K, I looked at that earlier and still might try it after a little more in depth reading if nothing else presents itself. I use the camera fairly extensively and although it looks like the camera is only affected when patching the exploit I have to be a little cautious since I use it for work. Plus the easy unroot/stock return part :good:

m4runner said:
Exact same thing happened for mine, stock rooted Canadian OTA to 4.1.2 failed repeatedly, Had to use Kies as well and lost root. The main reason I wanted root was to switch off fast dormancy since my Canadian carrier doesn't support it and was killing battery. Good news is it stayed switched off.
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One option which is what I did, was to download the 4.1.2 update from sammobile.
I then used mobile odin to flash it which has the ability to protect root.
So now I am stock rooted on latest firmware device status is normal
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Cool.... Honestly, I never worry about tripping the counter unless I need to turn in for replacement/warranty repair. Apparently, this seems to work just fine: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2073141&highlight=lost+root
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Doubt this will work.
The whole way this gained root was via the exynos exploit.
This firmware I am pretty sure has patched it.
Exynos abuse says no but voodoo app says yes.
I can confirm the exploit is patched in this new firmware so I suspect this will close any holes used by exynos abuse app to root phone.

Canadoc said:
One option which is what I did, was to download the 4.1.2 update from sammobile.
I then used mobile odin to flash it which has the ability to protect root.
So now I am stock rooted on latest firmware device status is normal
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Doubt this will work.
The whole way this gained root was via the exynos exploit.
This firmware I am pretty sure has patched it.
Exynos abuse says no but voodoo app says yes.
I can confirm the exploit is patched in this new firmware so I suspect this will close any holes used by exynos abuse app to root phone.
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Thank you Canadoc. Might be the best bet for me too. I did a TB backup just prior to the update so maybe I'll flash back to 4.1.1 with the root injected ROM in odin and then flash the 4.1.2 update from sammobile from mobile odin. Otherwise looks like it might be a custom i317 build for me. CWM sure sounds nice right now

For those trying to get multiveiw update and are rooted.... it is much much easier ti go get the firmware from sammobile.com then flash it with mobile odin with the ever root option.. all done :thumbup:
Sent from my SGH-I317 using xda premium

twanskys204 said:
For those trying to get multiveiw update and are rooted.... it is much much easier ti go get the firmware from sammobile.com then flash it with mobile odin with the ever root option.. all done :thumbup:
Sent from my SGH-I317 using xda premium
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That's for sure. I'm going to go back to root injected stock 4.1.1 and start from scratch.

chris19000 said:
That's for sure. I'm going to go back to root injected stock 4.1.1 and start from scratch.
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Worked as planned... more or less. Had to do a factory reset and flash twice to get 4.1.1 to boot but from there installed mobile odin, extracted and flashed from 4.1.2 (from sammobile and copied to external SD) and good to go. Now, if you want to go stock with root and for whatever reason don't want to/can't use mobile odin, head over to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650&page=26 mrRobinson is working on injecting root into the stock builds.
Cheers.

Which is the better way ?
chris19000 said:
Worked as planned... more or less. Had to do a factory reset and flash twice to get 4.1.1 to boot but from there installed mobile odin, extracted and flashed from 4.1.2 (from sammobile and copied to external SD) and good to go. Now, if you want to go stock with root and for whatever reason don't want to/can't use mobile odin, head over to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650&page=26 mrRobinson is working on injecting root into the stock builds.
Cheers.
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I use the Mr. Robinsons thread to stock my device to 4.1.1 but when i did . it always stuck on the Samsung logo after rebooting.
so i have to put my phone in recovery mode and factory restore.
this wasy right now i have root on 4.1.1 .
but i wanna know the best way to update my phone to 4.1.2
becasue i know .. with OTA i will loose my root.
please help.

prashant19p said:
I use the Mr. Robinsons thread to stock my device to 4.1.1 but when i did . it always stuck on the Samsung logo after rebooting.
so i have to put my phone in recovery mode and factory restore.
this wasy right now i have root on 4.1.1 .
but i wanna know the best way to update my phone to 4.1.2
becasue i know .. with OTA i will loose my root.
please help.
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Hi prashant there are a number of ways you can update OTA without losing root but of the easy ones I can only speak personally about one of them - Mobile Odin - which is what I used. It's a paid app but it gives you the option for EverRoot which maintains root across roms and automatically installs itself and SU in the new rom. Hate to ask, but are you sure you flashed the right rom? He has it listed as the new! Bell rom under January. If you flash that with his directions it should work - that being said though I did have to flash it twice myself to get it to work. One flash with odin, stuck on logo, back to regular recovery, wipe cache, download mode and reflash with odin, worked that time around. By that time I had mobile odin and flashed the regular update without root that way but mobile odin kept my root.

If you're looking to retain or regain root after ota, this is the easiest way imo. Just answered it in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2156741

Froid said:
If you're looking to retain or regain root after ota, this is the easiest way imo. Just answered it in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2156741
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Thanks Froid. SuperSU seemed to work for some folks too if they dropped the dime for the PRO version. I did see some instances where neither worked too though, but not enough details to say why.

all you need to do is just reflash with odin rooted 4.1.1 stock rom then once that is done goto play store and get voodoo ota rootkeeper make backup then temp unroot then get the ota 4.1.2 update when finished goto to ota rootkeeper and restore root works just fine and u keep root.

[Q] Sprint Galaxy S3 Stuck in Roaming

I have Samsung SPH-L710 and I had it rooted with Mr.Robinson's method on 4.1.1. I had RoamControl installed and I had it on force roaming. Yesterday it was 4 AM, and I wasn't thinking. I accidentally accepted the OTA update to 4.1.2. So it installed successfully, but of course I lost root access. I was stuck roaming and it wouldn't change. I then used Kies to restore my phone. It flashed 4.1.1 onto it and it still will only roam. I have searched for this issue and cannot find anything that seems to work. Thanks ahead of time. I am worried that I will be stuck roaming for eternity.

Make sure you have RoamControl shut off. Then update PRL / Profile.
TEAM MiK
MikROMs Since 3/13/11

Figured it out, new problem
I dialed ##72786# and that fixed the roaming issue. But now I have another issue. I'm on 4.1.1 rooted with Mr.Robinson's method and I downloaded Voodoo OTA RootKeeper. I backed up the root and then accepted the 4.1.2 OTA update. But with the root protected it wouldn't reboot after I accept it. It just keeps saying "rebooting..." So I need to find a way to update to 4.1.2 and keep my root. I would really hate to flash to 4.1.2 and root it with Chainfire's method and then have to use triangle away.

galaxyman635 said:
I dialed ##72786# and that fixed the roaming issue. But now I have another issue. I'm on 4.1.1 rooted with Mr.Robinson's method and I downloaded Voodoo OTA RootKeeper. I backed up the root and then accepted the 4.1.2 OTA update. But with the root protected it wouldn't reboot after I accept it. It just keeps saying "rebooting..." So I need to find a way to update to 4.1.2 and keep my root. I would really hate to flash to 4.1.2 and root it with Chainfire's method and then have to use triangle away.
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why would you hate to do that, it's all pretty straight forward... our you can just flash the stock rooted Rom that's in my Sig to update, but that will also trip the flash counter... it's really not that big a deal to trip that though, if something goes wrong there is a thread by billiard412 that has a stock Rom that you flash that we'll bring you back to 100% stock and will also reset the flash counter... no need to be afraid to trip the counter bud, it can easily be reset
SPRINT GS3 FAQ

flastnoles11 said:
why would you hate to do that, it's all pretty straight forward... our you can just flash the stock rooted Rom that's in my Sig to update, but that will also trip the flash counter... it's really not that big a deal to trip that though, if something goes wrong there is a thread by billiard412 that has a stock Rom that you flash that we'll bring you back to 100% stock and will also reset the flash counter... no need to be afraid to trip the counter bud, it can easily be reset
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Thanks! So just unroot it with Chainfire's Superuser and than accept the OTA to 4.1.2, then use Chainfire's ODIN root? Best way?
Update: I just unrooted it through SU and tried to accept the OTA after I rebooted it and it still won't work. And sorry for being a noob, but I can't seem to find the stock rooted ROM for 4.1.2 to flash with Odin.

galaxyman635 said:
Thanks! So just unroot it with Chainfire's Superuser and than accept the OTA to 4.1.2, then use Chainfire's ODIN root? Best way?
Update: I just unrooted it through SU and tried to accept the OTA after I rebooted it and it still won't work. And sorry for being a noob, but I can't seem to find the stock rooted ROM for 4.1.2 to flash with Odin.
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There isn't a rooted stock .tar for Odin, only.zips for recovery... Check my Sig and download the stock routed Rom, flash in recovery and then reset the flash counter with triangle away... although, my flash counter is at like 7, so there's no need to test the flash counter unless you're bringing it into Sprint for repair
SPRINT GS3 FAQ

How to UpDate Modified Device?!

Hello,
I have Galaxy S3 running 4.1.1, i have perviously
rooted it. After that i done a Factory Rest to the Device,
then tried to UpDate it to the latest Version!
But it always tells me that this device is modified!
What i want is to Completely REMOVE the Root,
then UPDATE it to the latest version? Please HELP!

DaYiM said:
Hello,
I have Galaxy S3 running 4.1.1, i have perviously
rooted it. After that i done a Factory Rest to the Device,
then tried to UpDate it to the latest Version!
But it always tells me that this device is modified!
What i want is to Completely REMOVE the Root,
then UPDATE it to the latest version? Please HELP!
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As long as you have a custom recovery (either CWM or TWRP), you will not be able to update. You could go back to 100% stock unrooted and then update, but this is not necessary and you'll be doing a lot more steps. More steps means more chances to mess something up.
Good news is that you can just install the stock Rom. Freeza always updates his thread with the most recent Stock Rooted Rom. A lot of times he comes out with it even before I get the OTA from Sprint. All you have to do is flash it in TWRP or CWM. In case you're not familiar with the procedure for doing this, please see this linked post.
Finally, OTAs are fairly common, so check out CNexus' thread on OTAs.

DaYiM said:
Hello,
I have Galaxy S3 running 4.1.1, i have perviously
rooted it. After that i done a Factory Rest to the Device,
then tried to UpDate it to the latest Version!
But it always tells me that this device is modified!
What i want is to Completely REMOVE the Root,
then UPDATE it to the latest version? Please HELP!
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If you want to go back to stock completely, you will need to odin the tar file and the latest triangle away. This will set your binary and get you back to normal and then odin the stock tar. This will put you back to completely stock with a stick recovery. You should be able to update from there. There are several links to the info you need.
Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2

4_Weasel said:
If you want to go back to stock completely, you will need to odin the tar file and the latest triangle away. This will set your binary and get you back to normal and then odin the stock tar. This will put you back to completely stock with a stick recovery. You should be able to update from there. There are several links to the info you need.
Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2
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They don't necessarily have to use Odin and Triangle Away. Here is a thread for a recovery-flashable zip which will reset their counter and restore them back to unrooted stock.
That being said, if the only reason they want to go back to stock is to take the update, it's entirely unnecessary. Like I said before, the more steps they have to take, the more chances they have to mess something up (especially when it comes to Odin and Download mode, in my opinion). If they want to return to stock unrooted for another reason, the easiest way is to use the flashable zip.

Thanks alot for all of your help

[Q] Stupid question, because I am bone head!

I recently re-flashed my phone because I was unable to get it back to stock un-rooted so I could get the latest 4.4 update. Someone suggested using Triangle Away to reset my flash counter in order to show my phone was 'not modified'. I purchased Triangle Away installed etc, but it had a stern warning that resetting my flash counter could "hard brick" my phone.
I attempted to use the temporary disable of SU for OTA within Triangle Away to unroot my phone and apply the update, unfortunately the update didn't work and now I can not undo put back SU as enabled. My phone is unrooted without the ability to undo that feature in Triangle Away.
Question, is there a way to fix this with Triangle Away? Am I missing something or do I have to reflash my phone again?
Why would an app like Triangle Away have a feature within it's app that could cause this to happen and not a way to back out of it.
I hope someone can help me with this.:crying:

bigmtnskier said:
I recently re-flashed my phone because I was unable to get it back to stock un-rooted so I could get the latest 4.4 update. Someone suggested using Triangle Away to reset my flash counter in order to show my phone was 'not modified'. I purchased Triangle Away installed etc, but it had a stern warning that resetting my flash counter could "hard brick" my phone.
I attempted to use the temporary disable of SU for OTA within Triangle Away to unroot my phone and apply the update, unfortunately the update didn't work and now I can not undo put back SU as enabled. My phone is unrooted without the ability to undo that feature in Triangle Away.
Question, is there a way to fix this with Triangle Away? Am I missing something or do I have to reflash my phone again?
Why would an app like Triangle Away have a feature within it's app that could cause this to happen and not a way to back out of it.
I hope someone can help me with this.:crying:
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Maybe I should ask the question more simply:
How do I re-ROOT my phone without flashing? Is that possible?

bigmtnskier said:
Maybe I should ask the question more simply:
How do I re-ROOT my phone without flashing? Is that possible?
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Do u still have a custom recovery? If so, maybe flash the team epic root from recovery zip?

DMF1977 said:
Do u still have a custom recovery? If so, maybe flash the team epic root from recovery zip?
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I do have a custom recovery, TWRP. I think I have it running again and rooted, what I did was re-install Busybox and rebooted into recovery, then rebooted back into the System and then it seemed to work fine. Not sure if I will brave Triangle Away again, but thank you for responding and offering a good suggestion.:good:

bigmtnskier said:
I purchased Triangle Away installed etc, but it had a stern warning that resetting my flash counter could "hard brick" my phone.
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Did you reset your flash counter? As far as I know this was put in place by the developer to warn people...Of knowing what they are doing before hand. This warning is mainly in place to try and make people read to see if their phone model is supported.
To the best of my knowledge, no one has hard bricked their phone on any of the I747(m) models using this app. This feature does work as I have used it multiple times.
And what update our ROM are you installing? You said 4.4... I used ODIN to restore back to complete stock 4.1.1 (not rooted, stock recovery included) and the OTA update to stock 4.1.2 went without a hitch. I used CF Auto Root (via ODIN) to root and then installed a custom recovery.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747

aybarrap1 said:
Did you reset your flash counter? As far as I know this was put in place by the developer to warn people...Of knowing what they are doing before hand. This warning is mainly in place to try and make people read to see if their phone model is supported.
To the best of my knowledge, no one has hard bricked their phone on any of the I747(m) models using this app. This feature does work as I have used it multiple times.
And what update our ROM are you installing? You said 4.4... I used ODIN to restore back to complete stock 4.1.1 (not rooted, stock recovery included) and the OTA update to stock 4.1.2 went without a hitch. I used CF Auto Root (via ODIN) to root and then installed a custom recovery.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
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I was attempting to do the OTA to go from 4.0.4 ICS to 4.1.x Jellybean. BTW, I was able to re-set my count to 0! Thank you for the reassurance!

bigmtnskier said:
I was attempting to do the OTA to go from 4.0.4 ICS to 4.1.x Jellybean. BTW, I was able to re-set my count to 0! Thank you for the reassurance!
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I would highly recommend flashing the pure stock 4.1.1 rom (including stock recovery) and then do the OTA. The 4.1.2 stock rom might be available through KIES or through other sites by now, but I can't say for certain. Since you are already using ODIN, then CF auto root will be a breeze for you to root 4.1.2.
No worries. I was a little nervous too about Triangle Away at first but searching did not net anything saying that reseting the flash counter had hard bricked someone's phone. That is what pushed me to use it.

aybarrap1 said:
I would highly recommend flashing the pure stock 4.1.1 rom (including stock recovery) and then do the OTA. The 4.1.2 stock rom might be available through KIES or through other sites by now, but I can't say for certain. Since you are already using ODIN, then CF auto root will be a breeze for you to root 4.1.2.
No worries. I was a little nervous too about Triangle Away at first but searching did not net anything saying that reseting the flash counter had hard bricked someone's phone. That is what pushed me to use it.
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I blew out Kies on my main machine because it doesn't work well, I had to re-set all my USB ports and re-install the Samsung USB drivers so no Kies for me. But where do I find a stock 4.1.1 rom from? My stock version is 4.0.4 (the original ROM when the S3 was released), I wonder if I can just use a custom 4.1.1 ROM instead or do you think it would work if I unroot/stock to 4.0.4 then OTA to 4.1.2?

bigmtnskier said:
I blew out Kies on my main machine because it doesn't work well, I had to re-set all my USB ports and re-install the Samsung USB drivers so no Kies for me. But where do I find a stock 4.1.1 rom from? My stock version is 4.0.4 (the original ROM when the S3 was released), I wonder if I can just use a custom 4.1.1 ROM instead or do you think it would work if I unroot/stock to 4.0.4 then OTA to 4.1.2?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1968625
Flash in Odin..

bigmtnskier said:
I blew out Kies on my main machine because it doesn't work well, I had to re-set all my USB ports and re-install the Samsung USB drivers so no Kies for me. But where do I find a stock 4.1.1 rom from? My stock version is 4.0.4 (the original ROM when the S3 was released), I wonder if I can just use a custom 4.1.1 ROM instead or do you think it would work if I unroot/stock to 4.0.4 then OTA to 4.1.2?
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To ensure best results use ODIN to flash the stock ROM to 4.1.1. You should return the phone stock as if you just purchased from the store new. Then do the OTA. You can use ODIN after that to root with CF Auto root.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747

[Q] Upgrade procedure from rooted 4.1.2

I am on a rooted stock ROM 4.1.2 (LDMF1) on an i747m.
Can someone point me to an upgrade procedure to KK?

desirus said:
I am on a rooted stock ROM 4.1.2 (LDMF1) on an i747m.
Can someone point me to an upgrade procedure to KK?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725839 is full of ressources.
What exactly are you trying to do? Get the official update or flash a custom rom?
If you want the official, remove root and install the OTA (you can use towelroot afterward to root).
If you want a custom rom, follow the FULL instructions in the rom's OP that you choose.

BWolf56 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725839 is full of ressources.
What exactly are you trying to do? Get the official update or flash a custom rom?
If you want the official, remove root and install the OTA (you can use towelroot afterward to root).
If you want a custom rom, follow the FULL instructions in the rom's OP that you choose.
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Thank you
I want to the official ROM for KK, which I can find.
OK so from what you said the first thin I do is unroot? I will research that.
I was wondering if I can go direct from 4.1.2 to 4.4.2?
I would use ODIN on my PC?
Do I have to do any sort of backing up ( I have Titanium pro) before hand, restore procedures?

desirus said:
Thank you
I want to the official ROM for KK, which I can find.
OK so from what you said the first thin I do is unroot? I will research that.
I was wondering if I can go direct from 4.1.2 to 4.4.2?
I would use ODIN on my PC?
Do I have to do any sort of backing up ( I have Titanium pro) before hand, restore procedures?
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Tibu is my fav backup app, just make sure you don't restore system app/data. Just make a batch backup and restore once you've flashed KK.
Unroot can be done directly in SuperSU (app).
Yes you can go directly to KK (or any other version), just don't downgrade once you'll have the 4.3+ bootloader or you'll brick your device.
And yes, use Odin on your PC, mobile Odin doesn't flash bootloaders.
The entire process is fairly simple. Just gotta be patient

galaxy S3 AT&T: from stock 4.1.2 to 4.4.2
I am new to these forms, please help me with my questions.
I have a smartphone SGS III AT&T. It is unlocked and working perfect with:
ROM: 4.1.2 Stock
Baseband: DMG2
Kernel: 3.0.31-1300972
Build Number: JZO54K.I747UCDMG2
I am not in USA, so my Smartphone is unlocked.
Initially I used the *#197328640# commands to unlock it
I want to apply enewman17 thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2789917 to upgrade to 4.4.2
My questions are:
1. When the procedure is finished, the smartphone still unlocked?
2. If it became locked, is there a free procedure to release it again?
regards

franzrocamolina said:
I am new to these forms, please help me with my questions.
I have a smartphone SGS III AT&T. It is unlocked and working perfect with:
ROM: 4.1.2 Stock
Baseband: DMG2
Kernel: 3.0.31-1300972
Build Number: JZO54K.I747UCDMG2
I am not in USA, so my Smartphone is unlocked.
Initially I used the *#197328640# commands to unlock it
I want to apply enewman17 thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2789917 to upgrade to 4.4.2
My questions are:
1. When the procedure is finished, the smartphone still unlocked?
2. If it became locked, is there a free procedure to release it again?
regards
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Unlock is "permanent". You shouldn't lose root but everything you do is at your own risk.

AT&T I747 from 4.1.2 to 4.4.2 Perfect procedure
BWolf56 said:
Unlock is "permanent". You shouldn't lose root but everything you do is at your own risk.
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BWolf56...you are right!!!
Ran all procedure http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2789917.
My I747 AT&T is now in 4.4.2. No problems at all. Still Unlocked.
One point more:
When I was in 4.1.2 Stock, I was not able to use "USB Theter" because I am not with AT&T SIM Card. With this version I can USB Theter without restriction.

unrooted 4.1.1 won't update dead android
My AT&T SG3 was rooted until yesterday with stock 4.1.1. I unrooted, re flashed stock image and stock recovery. The phone status says "Normal" now so I think I successfully unrooted. When I try to do the OTA after downloading, it goes to a screen which says installing then updating with an incremental percent counter. When it reaches about 29%, it just reboots and comes back with "Install Interrupted The software update could not be installed". When I do "adb reboot recovery" from a command window, I see a dead android with a red triangle and I assume that has something to do with it or is some kind of symptom. Is there anything I can do to get the latest stock image installed? Did I miss something in the unroot process?
SGH-I747 4.1.1 1747UCDLK3

hannahse said:
My AT&T SG3 was rooted until yesterday with stock 4.1.1. I unrooted, re flashed stock image and stock recovery. The phone status says "Normal" now so I think I successfully unrooted. When I try to do the OTA after downloading, it goes to a screen which says installing then updating with an incremental percent counter. When it reaches about 29%, it just reboots and comes back with "Install Interrupted The software update could not be installed". When I do "adb reboot recovery" from a command window, I see a dead android with a red triangle and I assume that has something to do with it or is some kind of symptom. Is there anything I can do to get the latest stock image installed? Did I miss something in the unroot process?
SGH-I747 4.1.1 1747UCDLK3
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I'm in the exact same boat. I was rooted with stock rom and recovery previously. No matter what I've done, it always fails.
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Yellow triangle did not solve problem
hannahse said:
My AT&T SG3 was rooted until yesterday with stock 4.1.1. I unrooted, re flashed stock image and stock recovery. The phone status says "Normal" now so I think I successfully unrooted. When I try to do the OTA after downloading, it goes to a screen which says installing then updating with an incremental percent counter. When it reaches about 29%, it just reboots and comes back with "Install Interrupted The software update could not be installed". When I do "adb reboot recovery" from a command window, I see a dead android with a red triangle and I assume that has something to do with it or is some kind of symptom. Is there anything I can do to get the latest stock image installed? Did I miss something in the unroot process?
SGH-I747 4.1.1 1747UCDLK3
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I spent several hours on this again today. I thought I had discerned the fix when I found a post showing the custom download count on the download screen and references to the yellow triangle program to reset it. I rerooted the phone, put stock recovery back, zeroed out the counter with yellow triangle, put the stock image back with ODIN, factory reset, and ended up with an unrooted phone with zero count. The download screen now says:
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE (in light Grey)
I thought that would do it but the OTA still fails and I still see the red triangle on the stock recovery page. The only thing I can think of now is that SuperSU is still on the phone. It is disabled but still has 12KB of data that I don't know how to clear. I used the stock image from the skipsoft Android Toolkit.
Any ideas would be really appreciated.

I would steer clear of the toolkit. Follow enewman17's how to update thread in the General section. Seems to have a pretty good success rate.

get KK 4.4.2 in your AT&T SG3 without OTA
BWolf56 said:
Unlock is "permanent". You shouldn't lose root but everything you do is at your own risk.
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hannahse said:
My AT&T SG3 was rooted until yesterday with stock 4.1.1. I unrooted, re flashed stock image and stock recovery. The phone status says "Normal" now so I think I successfully unrooted. When I try to do the OTA after downloading, it goes to a screen which says installing then updating with an incremental percent counter. When it reaches about 29%, it just reboots and comes back with "Install Interrupted The software update could not be installed". When I do "adb reboot recovery" from a command window, I see a dead android with a red triangle and I assume that has something to do with it or is some kind of symptom. Is there anything I can do to get the latest stock image installed? Did I miss something in the unroot process?
SGH-I747 4.1.1 1747UCDLK3
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I did the same than you and also what n01un0 says but couldn't get OTA update to 4.3 or 4.4.2.
If you want the 4.4.2 in your S3, follow enewman17's http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2789917 Thread.
It worked perfect for me from 4.1.2 stock to 4.4.2. The final result is the same that you get by OTA (if OTA works)

unrooted 4.1.1 won't update dead android - solved
hannahse said:
My AT&T SG3 was rooted until yesterday with stock 4.1.1. I unrooted, re flashed stock image and stock recovery. The phone status says "Normal" now so I think I successfully unrooted. When I try to do the OTA after downloading, it goes to a screen which says installing then updating with an incremental percent counter. When it reaches about 29%, it just reboots and comes back with "Install Interrupted The software update could not be installed". When I do "adb reboot recovery" from a command window, I see a dead android with a red triangle and I assume that has something to do with it or is some kind of symptom. Is there anything I can do to get the latest stock image installed? Did I miss something in the unroot process?
SGH-I747 4.1.1 1747UCDLK3
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I solved my problem by a convoluted process that I could not recommend but will lay out as best I can in case anyone is that desperate. I had re-rooted and un-rooted a couple times since my last post and finally decided to try a different stock image. I found a link to one in an article
how-to-unroot-att-galaxy-s3-sgh-i747 (sorry - not allowed to post URL)
The link is to stockroms.net. Really slow download - it took a couple hours. After the download (and unzip),
I attached my unrooted phone via USB cable to my computer.
Installed it with ODIN and watched the phone reboot
It seem to get stuck on the Samsung splash screen.
I went into recovery mode and noticed that - at last - I did not have the red triangle and no dead android. I tried wiping the cache a couple times from the recovery screen but it still seemed to get stuck at the splash screen (not sure if I waited long enough).
I finally did the factory reset from the recovery and it finally came back to life and went through the whole initialization thing. I confirmed a couple times that the red triangle was gone and noted that I had gone from Android version 4.1.1 to 4.04. Maybe that was the key or maybe I had a bad stock version of 4.1.1. IDK. But I started going through a series of updates. I am currently at version 4.3 and downloading what I hope will be the last update.
Started with 4.1.1 and used outdated stock image to go back to
4.04 - small update but version still
4.04 - cleared data from AT&T Update App to get around the wait 24 hours - got the update installed to version
4.1.2 - checked for update and got upgraded to
4.3 - check for update wanted me to wait 24 hours and I could not see how to clear the data - so changed the phone's date to next day. Automatically started downloading a new update - I'm hoping its the last