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Just bought this phone, should I root?

Hi guys, so I can pretty much do anything, I've been rooting for a long time. So should I root now? If so, which Rom would be best? Thanks in advance
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Best way to find out what's the best rom is to try them out people can say one thing about a rom and you can think something else,
Root and rom away, and welcome
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funziebear said:
Best way to find out what's the best rom is to try them out people can say one thing about a rom and you can think something else,
Root and rom away, and welcome
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Thanks! Does T-Mobile have some sort of 30 day warranty or something? Lol my mom says I should wait just in case
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I think its 14 day but I'm not to sure, make a list if your gonna root most people get a bit to happy and forget to back up after they root and start flashing like crazy (guilty) so I started making a checkoff for my first root and flash haha
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funziebear said:
I think its 14 day but I'm not to sure, make a list if your gonna root most people get a bit to happy and forget to back up after they root and start flashing like crazy (guilty) so I started making a checkoff for my first root and flash haha
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Lol thanks for opinion!
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I rooted on second hour after I got my phone .
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eggydrums said:
Hi guys, so I can pretty much do anything, I've been rooting for a long time. So should I root now? If so, which Rom would be best? Thanks in advance
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I remember you from the amaze forums!!!! Lol I have a galaxy nexus and buying a galaxy s3 next week!! I love toys!!!
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fuego77 said:
I remember you from the amaze forums!!!! Lol I have a galaxy nexus and buying a galaxy s3 next week!! I love toys!!!
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Yeah you should root it. Pondered it myself a few days. Then I just had to get ri d of some bloat.
Been wanting a nexus for a while and google store has new for 349
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fuego77 said:
I remember you from the amaze forums!!!! Lol I have a galaxy nexus and buying a galaxy s3 next week!! I love toys!!!
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Heyyy, me too bro nice to see you here! I will root this week also, can't wait
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mike102871 said:
Yeah you should root it. Pondered it myself a few days. Then I just had to get ri d of some bloat.
Been wanting a nexus for a while and google store has new for 349
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galaxy nexus is better than the s3 IMO. but I'm getting it for a decent price so I couldn't turn it down. I will look like such a nerd with aokp galaxy nexus and a galaxy s3!!!
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eggydrums said:
Heyyy, me too bro nice to see you here! I will root this week also, can't wait
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Awesome! Let me know how difficult it is to do! Lol
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You should back up your IMEI first before doing anything

mjhay19 said:
You should back up your IMEI first before doing anything
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Imei is in my box, don't know if that's the one, I plan on keeping the box cuz it's awesome
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mjhay19 said:
You should back up your IMEI first before doing anything
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This.
Save yourself from any future headaches and head on over to Peoplearmy and GeeK's threads and back up your IMEI with both methods just in case.
I ran with stock rooted for a good week after getting my GS3 just to make sure there weren't any defects (since stock is the most stable).

Pardon my ignorance, I know what imei is, but if things go wrong, how will imei be involved?
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Some people where having issues and there imei was lost, there's a tool to back it up in development section just back it up you shouldn't have issues I haven't seen people inquiring about lost imeis lately,
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eggydrums said:
Pardon my ignorance, I know what imei is, but if things go wrong, how will imei be involved?
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For some odd reason, people have been reporting that their IMEI information on the phone was wiped while flashing ROMs through recovery. That information isn't supposed to be touched, but nobody has really found out the reason why that data gets wiped during the flashing process for some users.
When this happens, the phone loses its ability to connect to your mobile network (because it has no IMEI information to present to the network), so it's essentially an iPod. Last week I randomly lost my IMEI from restoring a nandroid backup from CWM (luckily I backed up my IMEI information and was able to restore it within minutes), but I've heard people saying that it happens on TWRP as well.
I'm not saying that it will happen to you whenever you flash a new ROM, but when it comes to these things it's always better to be safe than sorry.
Also, welcome to the SGS3 forums . Leaving the childish drama behind in the Amaze forum alone was worth the upgrade for me.

eggydrums said:
Hi guys, so I can pretty much do anything, I've been rooting for a long time. So should I root now? If so, which Rom would be best? Thanks in advance
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Really up to you... me personally i always root my phones :cyclops:

I did it!! Got imei and got slimbean with ktoonez kernel so awesome
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eggydrums said:
I did it!! Got imei and got slimbean with ktoonez kernel so awesome
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How'd it go bro? Was it difficult???
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Trial and error always the best course with roms. I would root mine was rooted a few hours after I pulled it out the box.
Very easy to do and with our development section well worth it.
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System apps safe to remove?

So I did a quick search on tapatalk and saw nothing. With that said, anyone have a good list of apps safe to remove? The slimmer the better lol.
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slick_rick said:
So I did a quick search on tapatalk and saw nothing. With that said, anyone have a good list of apps safe to remove? The slimmer the better lol.
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This^^^ even though im not rooted yet lol
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Not sure how much this will help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32212501
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gtafairlane said:
Not sure how much this will help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32212501
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Thank you. I followed that thread and deleted what I could. Everything is still working fine for me :thumbup:
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Glad to hear it worked out.
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Samsung posts Galaxy 4 for Sprint Specs

http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SPH-L720ZWASPR-specs

Only in white? Please no.

Ascertion said:
Only in white? Please no.
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White and black.
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I'll still stick with my S3
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cbass15 said:
I'll still stick with my S3
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I agree.. I think i'm just going to wait until the next note comes out..

I'll be getting it in white.
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb374/TexasEpic/ThePeoplesROM-KennyGlass123/daniel4653.png

I'd be more jealous if I haven't heard so much talk about the lack of development for the s4
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sevenpioverthree said:
I'd be more jealous if I haven't heard so much talk about the lack of development for the s4
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I thought the lack of development was for the 8 cores not the quadcore.
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How can there be lack of development for a unreleased phone. Lol.
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Seems nice .. too bad I used my upgrade for this S3 . O well I guess I'll wait for the S6 . LoL
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In the sticky thread please

Anyone else. ...

Is anyone else going on hold off on rooting, installing custom recoveries and roms because they lost their imei on the s3? I know I am.
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Not because of that but I am waiting some time to root.
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bikrame said:
Not because of that but I am waiting some time to root.
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whats the reason ?

Eh. Rooted. Wasn't going to right away...
But so much bloat to freeze/remove...
As for flashing...Not yet
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I was gonna hold off on rooting, but I gave in today. as for ROMS, I'm jumping on them as soon as they become available
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Planning on holding off a week or 2 just to get the full experience.
It makes installing a good rom, that much better!
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I will be holding off as well. I'm kinda satisfied at the moment with what Samsung has provided. I don't like the bloat and I miss my root apps. But I think I'll be just fine for a month or so.
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I already rooted and installed a custom recovery.....
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Rooted already. Was originally gonna wait I while but I gave in lol

OxyClean said:
Eh. Rooted. Wasn't going to right away...
But so much bloat to freeze/remove...
As for flashing...Not yet
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I was going to wait on rooting.
With the 2GB of ram is the bloatware still slowing the phone down.
DEVICES:
NEXUS 7 32GB STOCK
(NO ROOT)
T-MOBIL LG G2X (LG-P999)
STOCK (ROOTED)
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No. Wasn't slowing down. Just wanted to freeze a couple annoying things
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No custom stuff yet just rooted to remove bloat
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Been waiting on my sd card from amazon that arrived today. I'm trying to hold off rooting until TWRP is ready.

I'm amazed I've lasted this long without rooting, but like others above I'm holding out until I can 'fully experience' the stock software Samsung tossed out there. I didn't want to drop 600+ on a new phone and not at least give the new stuff a try!

Atmazzz said:
Been waiting on my sd card from amazon that arrived today. I'm trying to hold off rooting until TWRP is ready.
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twrp is ready

TheAtheistOtaku said:
twrp is ready
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Thanks! Now I'm ready to rock!

MacTheRipperr said:
Is anyone else going on hold off on rooting, installing custom recoveries and roms because they lost their imei on the s3? I know I am.
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Lost imei?
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jmoak said:
Lost imei?
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Yeah I was wondering the same thing. I was under the impression that the only way you could get a bad imei is if the phone was lost or stollen.
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Well back when the s3 originally came out we had a bunch of people randomly lose their imei. I would show up as just 0. And there was no efs folder to back up because it no longer contained imei.
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TheAtheistOtaku said:
twrp is ready
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In one of the TMO G4 forums?
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Google announced Android 4.3 today!

OTA will rollout to Nexus devices right now. Updates to Google Edition S4 will follow up shortly. Let's hope outs do not take forever!
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http://m.cnet.com/news/google-nexus-devices-are-first-to-get-android-43/57595290
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This will prove how much Samsung and HTC really care about the GE phones they released
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Actionx1 said:
This will prove how much Samsung and HTC really care about the GE phones they released
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My thoughts exactly. Start your stopwatches now.
To those who might know more than I: What are the odds of this release bringing with it any AOSP additional support that might allow the likes of CM to fully support the IR and other sensors on the S4, and similar phones?

Whats the point of waiting for the GE edition? I am sure roms like PA will have it merged in by tomorrow.

djsaad1 said:
Whats the point of waiting for the GE edition? I am sure roms like PA will have it merged in by tomorrow.
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Some people do not know root access is even possible. They just own"the new galaxy".
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We won't see an official 4.3 till the end of the year for this phone. I'm sure the Google edition will be updated faster but not as fast as Nexus devices.
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The guys at the Galaxy Note 2 forum think the Note 3 will have 4.3 when it comes out (supposedly) in November. They also theorize 4.3 will then be released on the Note 2 shortly after. I wonder if Samsung will release 4.3 on the S4 at that time.

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The guys at the Galaxy Note 2 forum think the Note 3 will have 4.3 when it comes out (supposedly) in November. They also theorize 4.3 will then be released on the Note 2 shortly after. I wonder if Samsung will release 4.3 on the S4 at that time.
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They will obviously support the s4 faster than the note 2. We're their flagship
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I cant wait for this apps to sd update
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Apps 2 SD is in 4.2.2 M919VVLUAMG1 Firmware...
stayRooted said:
I cant wait for this apps to sd update
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This option is introduced in the July 01, 2013 Firmware update (4.2.2).

itzik_man said:
This option is introduced in the July 01, 2013 Firmware update (4.2.2).
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T-Mobile has received no July update. Every one and their brother has, even Verizon, which having had a Vzw GNex, the much neglected nexus, this is the biggest joke on me!! Lol.
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Paxdad said:
T-Mobile has received no July update. Every one and their brother has, even Verizon, which having had a Vzw GNex, the much neglected nexus, this is the biggest joke on me!! Lol.
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Think about how much money we paid for this phone only to get left out...
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Soldier 2.0 said:
Think about how much money we paid for this phone only to get left out...
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We'll get it eventually. But for the time it is taking them I would sure like to see some performance enhancements and stability improvements as well!
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Paxdad said:
We'll get it eventually. But for the time it is taking them I would sure like to see some performance enhancements and stability improvements as well!
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We might go straight to 4.3... Psyche! This will be our last update
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nexusmanftw said:
We might go straight to 4.3... Psyche! This will be our last update
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LOL!
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I feel a strong urge to exchange this phone for a Nexus 4.
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Soldier 2.0 said:
I feel a strong urge to exchange this phone for a Nexus 4.
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You say that and wait and watch. They'll have a update that will knock your socks off. There sneaky like that.
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I have both the nexus 4 and the gs4..i am also using faux display calibration on the gs4 ..but i am really sold on the s4 ..screen size and quality..physical button.....
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Actionx1 said:
This will prove how much Samsung and HTC really care about the GE phones they released
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Any updates on this? I really wish we had GPe subforums. Hard to find quality info about these phones scattered in the general forums.