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[HOW TO] SGS3 LTE CWM Recovery and One Step Root

Team Epic Blog: CWM Recovery for all SGS3 LTE variants
Downloads and instructions for CWM recovery to enable rooting and customization of all SGS3 LTE variants.
Team Epic Blog: Root from Recovery
Simply flash this.zip in CWM and your phone is rooted! This is the easiest method to root the stock Samsung ROM.
Team Epic Blog: Unroot from Recovery
Simply flash this.zip in CWM and your phone is unrooted! This is the easiest method to unroot the stock Samsung ROM.
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noobnl said:
http://i.imgur.com/mWg1z.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Q5uUm.jpg
We know clockworkmod is a little buggy.. don't complain about them.
clockworkmod download: http://d-h.st/lTv
flash it with odin in pda tab
Donate to TeamEpic, an official division of CyanogenMod:
http://www.epiccm.org/p/about-team-epic.html
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This is great, thanks.
But when you say buggy, what do you mean exactly? Which parts are buggy?

So is this installing a rooted
kernel as well?
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humdrum2009 said:
So is this installing a rooted
kernel as well?
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Nope it doesn't install rooted kernel

noobnl said:
Nope it doesn't install rooted kernel
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so at this point can we flash super su, ect?

Nice
noobnl said:
Nope it doesn't install rooted kernel
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good to see you here man, i miss testing for you on the og epic.
so how did you install superuser?

Its been a while since I used a samsung, how do I get into recovery again?

in recovery, download the superuser 3.0.7, extract it, then
adb push Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed/system /system
adb shell chmod 6755 /system/bin/su
No, it isn't magic and it isn't hard...

teh roxxorz said:
Its been a while since I used a samsung, how do I get into recovery again?
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Volume up and power and home button
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dtr145r said:
Volume up and power
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See, did that, and it didn't boot into recovery for me, but odin said all went well, so i was confused.

teh roxxorz said:
See, did that, and it didn't boot into recovery for me, but odin said all went well, so i was confused.
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home, volume up, and power

noobnl said:
home, volume up, and power
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I knew it, thank you, was doing that as I typed this.
Edit: Still nothing, I saw a quick blue text like it was going into recovery, but then nothing.
Edit 2: I remembered you basically have to let it go at that point. All is good in my hood.

teh roxxorz said:
See, did that, and it didn't boot into recovery for me, but odin said all went well, so i was confused.
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On the et4g it was volume up and power..
Find an application in the market that will reboot to recovery.
There are a bunch.
Rom Manager
Rom tool box
Absolute system root
You can also adb recovery as well..
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Now how do we get into download mode for odin?
Nevermind, vol down + home +power.

shane6374 said:
Now how do we get into download mode for odin?
Nevermind, vol down + home +power.
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Volume down, power and home

Thanks noobnl, who all on the team has an sgs3, just wondering?
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noobnl said:
in recovery, download the superuser 3.0.7, extract it, then
adb push Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed/system /system
adb shell chmod 6755 /system/bin/su
No, it isn't magic and it isn't hard...
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Would you please post a link to su 3.0.7?

Can I flash superuser zip from recovery?
I can't get adb working from recovery... What am I doing wrong?
EDIT:
I installed Samsung USB drivers, but the phone isn't recognized as an adb device while in recover,,,

obender said:
Would you please post a link to su 3.0.7?
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http://goo.im/superuser/Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip
nabbed said:
Can I flash superuser zip from recovery?
I can't get adb working from recovery... What am I doing wrong?
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I generally use adb when booted into the OS, and then do the remount on a pc with the sdk installed. Make sure you have the proper drivers installed.

teh roxxorz said:
I generally use adb when booted into the OS, and then do the remount on a pc with the sdk installed. Make sure you have the proper drivers installed.
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Can't do remount w/o root.

No operating system on phone

I did a factory reset on my galaxy nexus. I also by mistake erased my internal SD card. So now my phone only boots as far as the google screen because there is not ROM to boot into and when you connect to a computer it doesn't recognize the phone. How do I get a rom on my phone so it works again.
Thanks
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AshleyPem28 said:
I did a factory reset on my galaxy nexus. I also by mistake erased my internal SD card. So now my phone only boots as far as the google screen because there is not ROM to boot into and when you connect to a computer it doesn't recognize the phone. How do I get a rom on my phone so it works again.
Thanks
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Can you boot into fastboot? (Hold the power button and both volume buttons). I would boot into fastboot and reflash the Stock images. Also want to specify which variant you have.. GSM or CDMA if CDMA, verizon or Sprint?

Factory reset from stock or a custom recovery will not wipe the system partition. If you formatted the system partition from a custom recovery you can boot back into the custom recovery and adb push a ROM to your sdcard

Install the drivers on the computer. Then put the phone in fastboot mode like uber mentioned. Then push the rom to the phone and flash it in recovery. If you didnt install a recovery either, youll need one of those too.
Yeah hard to tell by her post if her bootloader is unlocked or not. I didnt think it was possible to wipe system without unlocking the boot loader and flashing a new recovery. Which means she needs knowledge of fastboot to even set that up.
The more i read the OP the more it sounds like unless she bought a used rooted phone off ebay. This thing is stock and just needs to boot to stock recovery and perform a factory reset from there. And that her system is fine.
With then phone off, hold down both volume buttons. Then hold down the power button, once it boots , use the volume keys to cycle and the power button to select. Navigate to recovery and perform a factory reset.
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Lol i just fixed this on my brothers phone, Odin a stock tar, then reroot/install and CWM
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Fire n mage said:
Lol i just fixed this on my brothers phone, Odin a stock tar, then reroot/install and CWM
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No.

Thanks for all the replies. My bootloader is unlocked. I'll give it a try and let you know how it turns out, thank you
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Also my phone was rooted and GSM
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AshleyPem28 said:
Also my phone was rooted and GSM
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Doesn't matter if its GSM or rooted. Fastboot is independent.

I can boot into fastboot and clockworkmod recovery, but the SD storage is blank. The computer won't recognize the phone. I can't seem to fix it and it's driving me crazy not having a phone. Please help!!
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Plug in your phone via USB, in Fastboot mode.
Does it show in the device manager? It might not be called 'Galaxy Nexus', might be called something Fastboot related. It might be in the USB section.
XP:To open Device Manager, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Click Performance and Maintenance, and then click System. On the Hardware tab, click Device Manager.
7: Hit windows key, type in "Device Manager"
If there's a yellow triangle next to the device, the drivers on your PC may be not working correctly.
If it is working correctly, the easiest option is to load the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit, and flash stock ROM.

You installed the drivers as mentioned I take it?

AshleyPem28 said:
I can boot into fastboot and clockworkmod recovery, but the SD storage is blank. The computer won't recognize the phone. I can't seem to fix it and it's driving me crazy not having a phone. Please help!!
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[HOW-TO] [GSM & CDMA] Convert to latest yakju/takju/mysid (incl JB) / Return to stock
Take a look at step A. Install the drivers. Note you should also be able to set up the adb drivers while your phone is booted into a custom recovery.

follow the instructions here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images

Install the drivers, then flash the stock image in fastboot, nothing to it.

Whoa there are females on this forum!!!!????? <Sound of a hundred myths shattering>
But anyway, why dont u just flash fastboot stock images?
Whoops, ninja'ed.

psycho2097 said:
females
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Pluralizing the word is likely over-optimism on your part :laugh:

CMNein said:
Pluralizing the word is likely over-optimism on your part :laugh:
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Damn, it's getting sexist!

Mach3.2 said:
Damn, it's getting sexist!
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Well its bound to when there's 40k males n 40 females(i m taking 1-2 per current device)
THIS. IS. NEXUS.

Ash just install the drivers for the galaxy nexus, download a rom like aokp (the "maguro" version is the gsm version. Dont flash "toro" versions those are for cdma ) and then push it to the sd card using fastboot. All those steps are listed in a lot of posts in great detail by the author mskip and are stickied in the dev section here. Just read his posts for questions or drivers . Its all pretty straight forward once you read the right posts. Id avoid using any toolkits though, its all fairly simple stuff. And dont worry about the geeks here being surprised about seeing females. Some of them have never left the basement before. ( no offence guys , i got no problem with the homosexuals )
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[Q] Unable to get into Bootloader [Bootloop]

So I bought myself a Galaxy Nexus from Ebay and it arrived today.
The problem with it is, that the seller told me he did an OTA Update that in the end causes endless Bootloops.
I thought to myself that this should be easy to solve by just flashing a custom rom but I don't even get to the Bootloader.
Whenever I press Volume Up + Down + Power the Google logo appears without vibrating or anything.
Then it goes on to the Nexus Bootscreen till it just restarts.
Any Ideas?

Does adb recognizes your de vice?
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Isn't it necessary to be able to boot to check that?

So it looks like my phone is soft bricked.
There's still the problem that I'm unable to get into the bootloader aswell as into download mode.
I also already tried the OMAP flash tool.

domimatik said:
Isn't it necessary to be able to boot to check that?
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I got into a bootloop once and i could access adb.... maybe you can try...
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I sadly can't access ADB either. Bought myself a USB-Jig.
Anyone got experience in these kinda things?

domimatik said:
I sadly can't access ADB either. Bought myself a USB-Jig.
Anyone got experience in these kinda things?
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It will get you into Odin mode similar to pressing Vol down + Power, then you can use Odin to flash a new firmware which is very dangerous and could brick your device if done wrong

DynamicRam said:
It will get you into Odin mode similar to pressing Vol down + Power, then you can use Odin to flash a new firmware which is very dangerous and could brick your device if done wrong
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Yes... USB jig should do the trick.
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Successfully flashed a new rom on my nexus via Odin but I'm still unable to get into fastboot/bootloader.
Bootloop also occures whenever I start the device

No root No recovery?

I accidentally flashed a ROM update with no ROM. Odviously nothing booted up. I then was able to get into recovery and flash cm ROM I rebooted phone, but now I have no root.
I tried installing a superuser app that didn't work.
Is there anything I can flash, install?
I have no access to a PC. And can't boot into recovery.

I found this up in general... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2352669
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bigpappags3 said:
I found this up in general... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2352669
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Thanks for that, but unfortunately it didn't work.

rickmatic said:
Thanks for that, but unfortunately it didn't work.
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Sorry man...hope u get it.
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Fid the team epic root zip and flash it in recovery. http://db.tt/hGyuqdkl here's the file. Your just going to have to get into recovery. The 3 finger method didn't work?
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edfunkycold said:
Fid the team epic root zip and flash it in recovery. http://db.tt/hGyuqdkl here's the file. Your just going to have to get into recovery. The 3 finger method didn't work?
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If by that u mean volume, power and home button. No it didn't.I tried booting threw ROM manager and it detects my recovery, but doesn't do anything.
Is there a way to flash a ROM threw download mode without a PC. I remember the Evo was capable of doing it threw bootloader.

Do you want to get root? Or flash a rom?
To boot into recovery it's power+home+vol up
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I thought you had to enable root under settings? It has been a while since I've used Cm, but I remember they disabled root access by default . It seems like he can still get into recovery.
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I had root access and I'm currently running a 10.2 nightly of cm 4.3 with a few glitches. So I want to flash a 100% working ROM. I can't boot into recovery with any app due to the fact it requires su permission and I have no binaries according to su. I cant get into recovery either using 3 finger method the Samsung logo appears with the blue words on the top left, but it doesn't do anything after that. ROM manager shows my recovery as twrp so I'm in a pickle....lol
And no on turning on root in settings.

Then you need to find a computer to flash recovery again via odin, otherwise flash a rooted rom via odin.
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edfunkycold said:
Then you need to find a computer to flash recovery again via odin, otherwise flash a rooted rom via odin.
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OK so its impossible without a computer...Damn. Thanks for ur help I really appreciate it.
Last question I used Odin to get root, since I'm on a 4.3 ROM, can I still use the exact same method?

rickmatic said:
OK so its impossible without a computer...Damn. Thanks for ur help I really appreciate it.
Last question I used Odin to get root, since I'm on a 4.3 ROM, can I still use the exact same method?
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You can use odin to flash recovery and then you can flash the root.zip it should work. But I would use odin to flash to a stock rom first.
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You can flash recovery without a computer.
Download the recovery image file, rename it to rec.img
Go into terminal emulator
Code:
su
dd if=/path/to/rec.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
Be very careful when typing the second command.
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CNexus said:
You can flash recovery without a computer.
Download the recovery image file, rename it to rec.img
Go into terminal emulator
Code:
su
dd if=/path/to/rec.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
Be very careful when typing the second command.
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That might be a problem I need to type su and since I have no binaries my terminal emulator won't have su privileges.
Right?

rickmatic said:
I had root access and I'm currently running a 10.2 nightly of cm 4.3 with a few glitches. So I want to flash a 100% working ROM. I can't boot into recovery with any app due to the fact it requires su permission and I have no binaries according to su. I cant get into recovery either using 3 finger method the Samsung logo appears with the blue words on the top left, but it doesn't do anything after that. ROM manager shows my recovery as twrp so I'm in a pickle....lol
And no on turning on root in settings.
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There isn't an option under settings --> developer options for root? At one time, they had didn't options for apps, adb, or both. You would need the both box checked for it to boot into recovery via an app. I haven't used it in a while, so I'm not even sure if they still do it this way.
And it is strange that you can't boot in recovery. Instead of the power off, then hold volume up, home button, and power....have you just tried to reboot the phone and when the screen goes blank hold the volume up and home? I've had luck getting into recovery by that.
Plus, if you are running CM, there should be a reboot option for recovery when you power off. Reboot --> recovery.
Last idea, have you tried to download goo manager from the market? That works well with TWRP.

lvpre said:
There isn't an option under settings --> developer options for root? At one time, they had didn't options for apps, adb, or both. You would need the both box checked for it to boot into recovery via an app. I haven't used it in a while, so I'm not even sure if they still do it this way.
And it is strange that you can't boot in recovery. Instead of the power off, then hold volume up, home button, and power....have you just tried to reboot the phone and when the screen goes blank hold the volume up and home? I've had luck getting into recovery by that.
Plus, if you are running CM, there should be a reboot option for recovery when you power off. Reboot --> recovery.
Last idea, have you tried to download goo manager from the market? That works well with TWRP.
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I tried goo and that didn't work.
Cm does have the reboot options, but it had to be turned on. Developer options doesnt show up under settings, but I remember there was a way to turn it on. I went under "About phone or Device" clicked on everything like 10 times and I forgot which 1 it was, but I unlocked developer options. Turned on reboot menu. Rebooted phone into recovery and although it took a while I got into recovery. Flashed a new rom and I'm back in action.

Thank u guys honestly. I could not have done it without u guys.

Glad u got it
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Plus the OP said he was running cm 10.2 nightly with Android 4.3...did I miss something?

lvpre said:
Plus the OP said he was running cm 10.2 nightly with Android 4.3...did I miss something?
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U definitely missed it. Go to the original development section the cm 10.1 thread and I think it was 10 pages back from the last page. They posted an EARLY preview. Had a few glitches but nothing to major.
Its the first post on page 657. A few post down are the gapps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2030660

ive really done it now bricked :(

so guys i had just flashed beanstalker and was having a good time liking it suddenly goo.im an app said i had a rom update so i thought cool ill just flash the update well i flashed the update and now im bootlooping fastboot and recovery dont work ive used omap flash it went through without an error but didnt help. nexus toolkit (wugs) didnt help and samsung galaxy nexus toolkit recognized it as adb with a serial but said offline beside it. its showing up as samsung mobile mtp device with an error code of 10 cannot start in device manager also shows up as android adb interface without one. ive tried everything i could think of any help would be realllly appreciated as ive spent some hours now trying to find a way to fix this device

When you say fastboot and recovery don't work, does that mean you can't boot into them? Or that when you tried to use fastboot to flash an image an error occurred?
Have you tried OMAP flash?

cupfulloflol said:
When you say fastboot and recovery don't work, does that mean you can't boot into them? Or that when you tried to use fastboot to flash an image an error occurred?
Have you tried OMAP flash?
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yeah i cannot boot in them i tried omap flash i mentioned it in op it went off withhout a problem but still bootlooping

gears177 said:
yeah i cannot boot in them i tried omap flash i mentioned it in op it went off withhout a problem but still bootlooping
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If OMAP flash can't get you back into something that works, then the title of this thread is probably correct.

cupfulloflol said:
If OMAP flash can't get you back into something that works, then the title of this thread is probably correct.
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damn thats unfortunate i guess its too ebay now to sell it for parts

Take your battery out. Then put it back in and hold volume up and down and power. That should put you into fastboot mode. I am not entirely convinced that your fastboot is completely fried. Its really hard to do on this phone. Especially during a ROM update.
Do you know how to do fastboot without the toolkit?
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blackhand1001 said:
Take your battery out. Then put it back in and hold volume up and down and power. That should put you into fastboot mode. I am not entirely convinced that your fastboot is completely fried. Its really hard to do on this phone. Especially during a ROM update.
Do you know how to do fastboot without the toolkit?
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yeah volme up right plus power adb is working but it says my phone is offline so thats a no go and ill try with the battery out and see if that works if not im going to make a jig monday and see if it helps im not sure how to push files or anything without the toolkit
nope didnt help is their anyway to delete everything except fast-boot or recovery or perhaps fix adb?

gears177 said:
yeah volme up right plus power adb is working but it says my phone is offline so thats a no go and ill try with the battery out and see if that works if not im going to make a jig monday and see if it helps im not sure how to push files or anything without the toolkit
nope didnt help is their anyway to delete everything except fast-boot or recovery or perhaps fix adb?
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so im guessing the commands for the fastboot and recovery were messed up as i know its still there i could boot to them before the rom update it must be its not recognizing the volume keys when their being pressed

Can you boot into odin mode?
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gears177 said:
yeah volme up right plus power adb
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thats not fastboot.
vol up and down and power

razi914 said:
Can you boot into odin mode?
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how would i get into odin mode? im not sure but most likely i cannot if it involves a button combo