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[ROM][ODIN]noobfriendly stock jvt firmware (root included)

Hey guys,
I was searching the xda pages for a stock odin firmware for my beloved i9000, I didnt find any so I thought that it would be good that i would post the firmware found at sammobile's website and include vodoo odin kernel to get it rooted
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DAMAGE THAT YOU DO TO YOURE PHONE IF YOU DONT FOLLOW THE INSTRUCKTIONS TO THE TEE!!!!!
And this is for the whole europe!!!!!! Don't know about other parts of the world......
Instructions:
1. Get odin 1.82 or any odin version. Link for odin and the rom are in the next post
2. Unzip the file provided and extract it to somewere where you can find it later.
2. Open up odin with administrator.
3. Switch your phone off and put it into download mode. (the combo is volume down+home+power)
4. Connect your phone to your computer. Odin should reconize your phone and a yellow box will appear.
This is the most important part:
5. In odin, these are the choises you will have to put in:
Pit: s1_odin_20100512.pit
Pda: CODE_I9000XXJVT_CL617736_REV03_user_low_ship.tar.md5
Phone: MODEM_I9000XXJVT_REV_00_CL1064602.tar.md5
Csc: GT-I9000-CSC-HOME-MULTI-OXAJVT.tar.md5
things tickked: repartition, auto reboot, f-reset time. It should tick these automaticly, if it doesent, tick them!!
6. Now click start. It will take a while, so grab something to eat and watch it do its work. When your phone will start the bootanimation and odin says passed, you can disconnect your phone and close odin.
7. Now when your phone has booted up, switch it off and put it back to download mode. (volume down+home+power)
8. Now we will install voodoo kernel. Start up odin with administrator. Connect your phone and in odin there will pop up a yellow box.
9. Put voodoo-kernel-XXJVT-v1.2.tar.md5 in to pda slot in odin.
10. Click start.
11. When your phone is booting up, you can hear a lady talking. This is voodoo. You can disconnect your phone now.
And when your phone has booted up, you have a rooted stock samsung rom.
Links in the next post.
Credits:
totallydubbedhd
madrooster

DOWNLOAD LINK
http://www.mediafire.com/?22vg0suvr7tovqq
size 182.02mb

reserved this

Worked great.... Thank you.

How long will it take on average at the set pit file stage? Thanks,

enya123101 said:
How long will it take on average at the set pit file stage? Thanks,
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im not actually sure but the whole process takes ~10mins
Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk 2

Dev section this is . Move ur thread to general plz mate
Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk 2

Abyv said:
Dev section this is . Move ur thread to general plz mate
Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk 2
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well the dev area is for roms. this is a rom. so this is in the right area. ppl dont go looking for roms in the general section. so this is in the right area
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Abyv said:
Dev section this is . Move ur thread to general plz mate
Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk 2
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How can't do that

Please move it. This is not a developed rom.
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DanielSanchez said:
Please move it. This is not a developed rom.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using xda app-developers app
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im not able to.
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@up
j3tz3, where is reply?

Adalbert52 said:
@up
j3tz3, where is reply?
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reply for what?
Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk 2

Hi,
thanks for your guide, it was easy to follow for me (i hit thanks on the 1st page btw)
got the phone with stock froyo, started to "mod" with your guide to jvt and ended up with jw4 =)
*happy now*

problem
I just followed this thread exactly and the phone doesn't powerup anymore.. what am i to do?

j3tz3 said:
1. Get odin 1.82 or any odin version
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Hi mate.
Can you please remove the second part of this sentence in your OP?
Odin v1.83 was the last compatible version with the i9000, v1.82 works as good, but majority of the newer versions will freeze or not work at all with the i9000.

Wtf re-partition
j3tz3 said:
Hey guys,
I was searching the xda pages for a stock odin firmware for my beloved i9000, I didnt find any so I thought that it would be good that i would post the firmware found at sammobile's website and include vodoo odin kernel to get it rooted
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DAMAGE THAT YOU DO TO YOURE PHONE IF YOU DONT FOLLOW THE INSTRUCKTIONS TO THE TEE!!!!!
And this is for the whole europe!!!!!! Don't know about other parts of the world......
Instructions:
1. Get odin 1.82 or any odin version. Link for odin and the rom are in the next post
2. Unzip the file provided and extract it to somewere where you can find it later.
2. Open up odin with administrator.
3. Switch your phone off and put it into download mode. (the combo is volume down+home+power)
4. Connect your phone to your computer. Odin should reconize your phone and a yellow box will appear.
This is the most important part:
5. In odin, these are the choises you will have to put in:
Pit: s1_odin_20100512.pit
Pda: CODE_I9000XXJVT_CL617736_REV03_user_low_ship.tar.md5
Phone: MODEM_I9000XXJVT_REV_00_CL1064602.tar.md5
Csc: GT-I9000-CSC-HOME-MULTI-OXAJVT.tar.md5
things tickked: repartition, auto reboot, f-reset time. It should tick these automaticly, if it doesent, tick them!!
6. Now click start. It will take a while, so grab something to eat and watch it do its work. When your phone will start the bootanimation and odin says passed, you can disconnect your phone and close odin.
7. Now when your phone has booted up, switch it off and put it back to download mode. (volume down+home+power)
8. Now we will install voodoo kernel. Start up odin with administrator. Connect your phone and in odin there will pop up a yellow box.
9. Put voodoo-kernel-XXJVT-v1.2.tar.md5 in to pda slot in odin.
10. Click start.
11. When your phone is booting up, you can hear a lady talking. This is voodoo. You can disconnect your phone now.
And when your phone has booted up, you have a rooted stock samsung rom.
Links in the next post.
Credits:
totallydubbedhd
madrooster
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RE-PARTITION IS A GREAT WAY TO KILL A PHONE FOR ANY NOOBS/NEWBS i KNOW I DID A YEAR AGO.
Why on earth would you call this a noob friendly tutorial. Every other tutorial I've read since bricking my first try with ODIN where I DID follow the instruction and DID put all the right parts in the right boxes and ODIN failed and I still have that bricked board to this day.
Re-partitioning with ODIN is a bad idea for anyone that does not own a RIFF box to fix the brick or is willing to send their device away to have someone do it for them. It's a mean thing to do if you know what your doing. Noobs maybe noobs and not newbs but getting giggles out of messing their devices up just to show them how smart you are and how dumb they are isn't cool. You yourself wasn't born with all the knowledge and had people thrown stuff like this at you where bricking your device is a very good possibility.
I've been learning this trade (albeit not too much lately making a living has been more important among other things) for about two years now and I have tried re-partitioning 3 times I think on devices I didn't care about due to them not being worth the investment to repair the broken this or that and all 3 have ended up bricks.
Anyway, c'mon don't discourage people from trying to learn this stuff by throwing tricky tutorials that fail most of the time unless the noob or newb manages to get lucky and it works. And just tell people to get lost instead of kicking them in the nuts if you don't want them around.

machv5 said:
Why on earth would you call this a noob friendly tutorial. Every other tutorial I've read since bricking my first try with ODIN where I DID follow the instruction and DID put all the right parts in the right boxes and ODIN failed and I still have that bricked board to this day.
Re-partitioning with ODIN is a bad idea for anyone that does not own a RIFF box to fix the brick or is willing to send their device away to have someone do it for them
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Flashing the PIT file together with stock firmware (so re-partition checked then) is the best way to unbrick the i9000, very important for unbricking from all custom ROMs higher than 4.3
He has mentioned in the OP the PIT file, so people who read too fast or just briefly carry their own fault by not following the guide.
To check the re-partition without having chosen the PIT file will brick the device, of course.
You can send your phone to the service, they will unbrick it....

@machv5 I've gone back to GB from JB or KK countless times, which requires repartitioning, it's not possible to do without repartitioning, and I've never ended up bricking my phone once.
So if you've managed to brick 3 devices when doing this then you obviously haven't been learning this trade very well now, have you lol
Sent from the immortal Galaxy i9000

[q] radio messed up?

I have a galaxy s 2 tmobile version rooted and running beastmod 5.0
So I'm having a problem. I flashed the ics roms to my t989. I was running bm 5 before. I called the #2632* thingy to just get edge instead of 4g because it was killing my battery. I decided to go back to bm 5 cuz the ics ports based on the att leak were horrible. Usually on bm 5 I have GSM only selected for the network but it hasn't been able to connect. The only way I can connect is by using wcdma/gsm auto mode to connect to T-Mobile then I can select GSM only to just use GSM. If I restart with GSM only again it wont find signal unless wcdma/GSM is seleceted then I switch to GSM only. Idk what to do anymore GSM only used to work before I flashed ics and this is pissing me off help me anyone please! Its greatly appreciated.

Did you flash a gingerbread radio before going back to bm?

I did I found the t989 radio on xda I flashed it and it didn't work its the same problem.

joeloe03 said:
I did I found the t989 radio on xda I flashed it and it didn't work its the same problem.
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And what does your baseband say right now?

I attached a picture.

Super wipe, factory reset, flash back to stock with Odin, etc
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 using xda premium

What's a super wipe. Where can I find it and how do I do the rest. I tried it like go back to stock but Idk if it worked I need help

joeloe03 said:
What's a super wipe. Where can I find it and how do I do the rest. I tried it like go back to stock but Idk if it worked I need help
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Hit the darkside part of my siggy and look over the OP. Superwipe is a script by tdj recommended prior to any ROM flash.

joeloe03 said:
What's a super wipe. Where can I find it and how do I do the rest. I tried it like go back to stock but Idk if it worked I need help
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Super wipe:
Thank TDJ!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1477955
Boot into CWM.......wipe data/factory reset
Flash darkside superwipe
Back to stock:
Ok, you are going to need the drivers for your phone. http://www.samsung.com/us/kies/
You need odin as well, download it. http://www.mediafire.com/?u868rqz4qn0ta34
If you already have drivers and odin move on to below
Go here http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/ and make an account. I use sammobile because it contains everything in one shot. No need to get radio and crap from other places. After you make an account go to firmware section and type t989 in the search box. download the t989uvkid or Kl1 ASSUMING YOU HAVE AMERICAN T989
After you have completed the download you are going to need to unzip it with 7zip to extract the tar.
Plug the USB cable into your computer, without plugging it into your phone.
Hold VOL UP + VOL DOWN while plugging in the USB cable to your phone. Stop holding buttons when the ''Warning'' appears.
Press Volume UP and open ODIN (Run as Admin on Vista and 7, just to be safe)
Click PDA and locate the MD5 file you extracted earlier.
WAIT FOR ODIN TO RECOGNIZE YOUR PHONE. THE COM PORT WILL TURN YELLOW AND HAVE A NUMBER
MAKE SURE NOTHING BUT AUTO REBOOT IS CHECKED!!!!!!!
Press 'Start' and be patient. It will take a few minutes because it is a large file.
phone will reboot automatically.

thank so much for the instructions however
this llink doesnt work for the DRIVERS doesnt work
and i had the superwipe already and thanks lol silly me.

If you go to Samsung website and download Kies, the drivers will automatically update.

joeloe03 said:
thank so much for the instructions however
this llink doesnt work for the DRIVERS doesnt work
and i had the superwipe already and thanks lol silly me.
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Fixed link

Okay. Thanks and the drivers what do I do with them??

xcrazydx said:
Super wipe:
Thank TDJ!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1477955
Boot into CWM.......wipe data/factory reset
Flash darkside superwipe
Back to stock:
Ok, you are going to need the drivers for your phone. http://www.samsung.com/us/kies/
You need odin as well, download it. http://www.mediafire.com/?u868rqz4qn0ta34
If you already have drivers and odin move on to below
Go here http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/ and make an account. I use sammobile because it contains everything in one shot. No need to get radio and crap from other places. After you make an account go to firmware section and type t989 in the search box. download the t989uvkid or Kl1 ASSUMING YOU HAVE AMERICAN T989
After you have completed the download you are going to need to unzip it with 7zip to extract the tar.
Plug the USB cable into your computer, without plugging it into your phone.
Hold VOL UP + VOL DOWN while plugging in the USB cable to your phone. Stop holding buttons when the ''Warning'' appears.
Press Volume UP and open ODIN (Run as Admin on Vista and 7, just to be safe)
Click PDA and locate the MD5 file you extracted earlier.
WAIT FOR ODIN TO RECOGNIZE YOUR PHONE. THE COM PORT WILL TURN YELLOW AND HAVE A NUMBER
MAKE SURE NOTHING BUT AUTO REBOOT IS CHECKED!!!!!!!
Press 'Start' and be patient. It will take a few minutes because it is a large file.
phone will reboot automatically.
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So now I download kies open kies plug my phone in in the download mode for it to send the drivers over. Then what? How do I do the drivers

joeloe03 said:
So now I download kies open kies plug my phone in in the download mode for it to send the drivers over. Then what? How do I do the drivers
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You dont do anything with it. kies installed the drivers already. just follow the directions in my post

xcrazydx said:
You dont do anything with it. kies installed the drivers already. just follow the directions in my post
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okay but once i download kies do i plug in the phone and let it install just while the phone is on then unplug it turn it off go into download mode and open odin?

joeloe03 said:
okay but once i download kies do i plug in the phone and let it install just while the phone is on then unplug it turn it off go into download mode and open odin?
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It doesn't matter. Just follow the directions. I've already broke it down barney style and explained it in more detail than anyone else ever has. Spent a decent amount of time to help you, and you have yet to even push the button and give me a simple thanks. Geeze man

xcrazydx said:
It doesn't matter. Just follow the directions. I've already broke it down barney style and explained it in more detail than anyone else ever has. Spent a decent amount of time to help you, and you have yet to even push the button and give me a simple thanks. Geeze man
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okay thank you i appreciate your invested time and trying to help me im at school so when i get home i will do this, im a big noob as this stuff. thanks again

joeloe03 said:
okay thank you i appreciate your invested time and trying to help me im at school so when i get home i will do this, im a big noob as this stuff. thanks again
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Thanks
If you really need it I may be able to walk you through it on here. But you should have no problem if you follow the instructions.
http://webchat.irondust.net/?channels=skyrocket
Pm me if you need help and i'll try to get on

Or you could've used my sticky. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359

[Q] Please Help !!! I Bricked My Phone

Hello all, i was trying to flash back to my stock rom 4.0.2 from my custom rom 4.1.1 and then my little brother accidently unplug the cable and now my phone cant boot up. I can hear the sound but the screen is all black and the vibrator keep going off every 10 seconds. i couldnt go to recovery mode. I didnt do NANO back up either. So please someone help what should i do to get my phone back to normal. Thank you

uhm, kick your brother in the face? lol. you are screwed man.

Afraid he may be right.
Pull battery to make sure phone is off and try to boot into download mode.
If you can call yourself lucky, and odin flash the stock fw. Tie up your brotber first this time!
If you can't boot to download mode or recovery, then you are probably hard bricked.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda app-developers app

This shouldn't be too hard. I can't see how your download mode could have gotten damaged.
It sounds like you were using ODIN? You can get into download mode by pulling the battery. Then hold vol down+home and press power. Hold the first 2 until it is well on the way to coming up. Then you can flash the stock ROM by putting it in the PDA field of ODIN. The ROM should be easily findable in these sub-forums.
An alternate if you have a ROM zip file - which are more plentiful - is to use ADB. Although that takes a bit more confidence. In SUPER short because it can never be in enough threads:
1. Obtain a ROM of your choice, and note the location on your computer.
2. reboot your device into fastboot mode via one the following .
1. power off the device then back on with 'vol down ' + power button.
3. Wipe your device.
1. fastboot -w
4 . Update your ROM.
1. fastboot update </path/to/your/RomFile.zip>
5. Your phone will update and automatically reboot into the new ROM.
But really I'd go with ODIN. It's just easier.

call tmobile and tell them u installed a app off the market and your phone froze
go thru all the crap they tell you to restart the phone
obviously it wont turn on
wait for them to tell you that they are gonna send you a new phone

pufntrees said:
call tmobile and tell them u installed a app off the market and your phone froze
go thru all the crap they tell you to restart the phone
obviously it wont turn on
wait for them to tell you that they are gonna send you a new phone
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Sure, defraud the carrier. THAT'S ALWAYS the answer.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Snowflake approved this message....

ethutch said:
This shouldn't be too hard. I can't see how your download mode could have gotten damaged.
It sounds like you were using ODIN? You can get into download mode by pulling the battery. Then hold vol down+home and press power. Hold the first 2 until it is well on the way to coming up. Then you can flash the stock ROM by putting it in the PDA field of ODIN. The ROM should be easily findable in these sub-forums.
An alternate if you have a ROM zip file - which are more plentiful - is to use ADB. Although that takes a bit more confidence. In SUPER short because it can never be in enough threads:
1. Obtain a ROM of your choice, and note the location on your computer.
2. reboot your device into fastboot mode via one the following .
1. power off the device then back on with 'vol down ' + power button.
3. Wipe your device.
1. fastboot -w
4 . Update your ROM.
1. fastboot update </path/to/your/RomFile.zip>
5. Your phone will update and automatically reboot into the new ROM.
But really I'd go with ODIN. It's just easier.
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I'm bumping this old thread because of a question specific to the info above. I'm in adb and cannot flash the rom to phone because i'm stuck at
fastboot update </path/to/your/RomFile.zip>
I'm obviously not putting the correct path in, so can someone tell me the correct path if my rom is located in
C:\android-sdk\sdk\platform-tools\TD.zip
I've tried all sorts of combinations and am stuck at this point, which is frustrating because i'm almost there.
Thanks in advance.

re: starting fresh
Ok everyone stop messing around, if your phone won't boot to CWM/TWRP or even if it does boot to CWM/TWRP but
you cannot flash custom roms for one reason or another this step by step guide is for you.
If your phone will not go into download mode you will need to exchange it or get it repaired by jtag.
If your phones do go into download mode successfully just follow this step by step guide to get your phone back up and working.
Easy and sure way to to get your phone back up and running properly with this step by step guide:
After you have followed these instructions your phone will be in the same condition
as it was the day you have purchased it except with the benefit of being rooted.
Download the stock-rooted T999 firmware: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390169635556426451
After downloading it make a folder on your computer's desktop and unzip the
file using Winzip or 7zip so the .TAR file is in the new folder you just made.
Here is a link for ODIN which is required for flashing the stock rooted firmware (a windows app) http://d-h.st/Q14
Download and extract Odin into the same folder you made containing the TAR file.
Download the Odin Flash firmware for T999 Tmobile then copy it to the same folder as Odin
Run Odin by double clicking the Odin.exe within the same folder as the TAR file you extracted
Turn off your phone and boot into DOWNLOAD MODE (Volume Down + Home + Power Hold until phone powers up, then release and press Volume Up to enter Download Mode)
Once in Download Mode, connect the USB/Charger cable to the phone and plug into the USB port on your computer.
You should now see a COM** port listed toward the top-left of Odin (under ID:COM)
Click on the PDA button in the middle-right area of Odin.
Browse to and select the Firmware you downloaded (TAR file)
Make sure Auto-Reboot and F. Reset Time are the only options checked and that PDA is the only other thing checked.
TRIPLE CHECK your settings and that you have selected the correct firmware for your model phone and are using the correct options.
If you are using a laptop, make absolutely sure you are plugged in, or if on battery, that it is charged enough and will not go into sleep mode during flash.
Click Start to begin the flash. This will take a while, so be patient!
Once complete, in the top-left box in Odin, it will say PASS and the phone should have automatically rebooted.
You may unplug the phone and close Odin if you wish.
Wait at least 5-10 minutes for the system to boot the first time and then build its cache!
(It may seem to hang during boot, this is normal and you must be patient!!!)
Good Luck!

How much time per-day do you waste answering questions people never asked? Just wondered.

losangeles100 said:
How much time per-day do you waste answering questions people never asked? Just wondered.
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his post was a lot more useful than yours.

reosting
losangeles100 said:
How much time per-day do you waste answering questions people never asked? Just wondered.
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A lot more time than you do posting your nonsense. LOL

[Q] Is my S III fix-able?

Recently I tried to root my SIII T-Mobile.
I used the XDA tutorial to root it with Odin and that stuff.
So when it didn't get past the first thing, after 1 hours, I unplugged it because I thought it wasnt connected good.
So now it's saying this:
Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again.
I haven't got any previous rooting experience, I just followed XDA's tutorial.
Does this mean my phone is bricked?
How can I fix this?
I don't care if my phone will be rooted or not after I fix it, I just want it to work
Please help me.
I know I'm a new member.. but I am very scared.. really scared that my phone is bricked.
Can this be fixed?
Will this work? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900345
(second post)

Next time you attempt to root read a little bit more and don't rush. Try to get into download mode if you can odin back to stock
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium

re: it's not bricked
Mikeyman123 said:
Recently I tried to root my SIII T-Mobile.
I used the XDA tutorial to root it with Odin and that stuff.
So when it didn't get past the first thing, after 1 hours, I unplugged it because I thought it wasnt connected good.
So now it's saying this:
Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again.
I haven't got any previous rooting experience, I just followed XDA's tutorial.
Does this mean my phone is bricked?
How can I fix this?
I don't care if my phone will be rooted or not after I fix it, I just want it to work
Please help me.
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This guide will get your phone back up and running properly, doing anything else will just prolong your problem.
Easy and sure way fix your problem - Here is s step by step guide:
Download the newest pre-rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 T999 Jellybean v4.1.2 rom: T999_UVDMD5
After downloading make a folder on your computer's desktop and unzip the
file using Winzip or 7zip so the .TAR file is in the new folder you just made.
Download and extract Odin into the same folder you made containing the TAR file
Here is the link for Odin: http://d-h.st/Q14
• Download ODIN which is required for flashing the stock rooted firmware (a windows app)
• Download the Odin Flash firmware for T999 Tmobile then copy it to the same folder as Odin
• Run Odin by double clicking the Odin.exe within the same folder as the TAR file you extracted
• Turn off your phone and boot into DOWNLOAD MODE (Volume Down + Home + Power Hold until phone powers up, then release and press Volume Up to enter Download Mode)
• Once in Download Mode, connect the USB/Charger cable to the phone and plug into the USB port on your computer.
• You should now see a COM** port listed toward the top-left of Odin (under ID:COM)
• Click on the PDA button in the middle-right area of Odin.
• Browse to and select the Firmware you downloaded (TAR file)
• Make sure Auto-Reboot and F. Reset Time are the only options checked and that PDA is the only other thing checked.
• TRIPLE CHECK your settings and that you have selected the correct firmware for your model phone and are using the correct options.
• If you are using a laptop, make absolutely sure you are plugged in, or if on battery, that it is charged enough and will not go into sleep mode during flash.
• Click Start to begin the flash. This will take a while, so be patient!
• Once complete, in the top-left box in Odin, it will say PASS and the phone should have automatically rebooted.
• You may unplug the phone and close Odin if you wish.
• Wait at least 5-10 minutes for the system to boot the first time and then build its cache!
• (It may seem to hang during boot, this is normal and you must be patient!!!)
Good Luck!

KingKostas said:
Next time you attempt to root read a little bit more and don't rush. Try to get into download mode if you can odin back to stock
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium
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Thanks for replying.
How do I get it back in download mode? it only says the problem I mentioned before.

With phone off, hold volume down, home, and power. Then press vol up to continue.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium

Misterjunky said:
This guide will get your phone back up and running properly, doing anything else will just prolong your problem.... ....(It may seem to hang during boot, this is normal and you must be patient!!!)
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If this works, wow..
I greatly appreciate you helping me.
Trying it right now

Mikeyman123 said:
If this works, wow..
I greatly appreciate you helping me.
Trying it right now
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It should work. If you can get into download mode you're not hard bricked and should be able to get it running again. Good luck!
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium

Is it normal that it's on NAND Write Start!! for like 15 mins now ?

I googled and the problem was that Kies was running in the BG.
I killed the process and can I safely restart Odin now? I'm scared I'll cause damage closing Odin.

closed kies and its still stuck on nand write start...

Mikeyman123 said:
closed kies and its still stuck on nand write start...
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Try to be patient. It may take a while, but it should eventually timeout and Fail. Though, if you dont think its going to happen, then you can try to stop everything as you did before. Chances are nothing was actually done, but I cant promise you that. Last time you were able to still get download mode, you will probably still be able to if you have to resort to forcing it to stop.
BTW, uninstall Kies!!!!! There is really not much it is good for.

fixed the nand thing, now its on aboot.mbn

DocHoliday77 said:
Try to be patient. It may take a while, but it should eventually timeout and Fail. Though, if you dont think its going to happen, then you can try to stop everything as you did before. Chances are nothing was actually done, but I cant promise you that. Last time you were able to still get download mode, you will probably still be able to if you have to resort to forcing it to stop.
BTW, uninstall Kies!!!!! There is really not much it is good for.
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I unistalled Kies
I tried Odin v3.07 < stuck on NAND Write Start!!
I tried Odin v1.3 < stuck on aboot.mbn
I am trying Odin v3.07 GS3 < stuck on NAND Write Start!!
What should I do?

Cool! Is it still taking a really long time though? Or has it finished?
Now that you know the problem cause, if it were me i would reflash again just to be sure nothing was corrupted.
Good luck!
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re: Odin flash
Mikeyman123 said:
closed kies and its still stuck on nand write start...
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First unplug usb from the phone.
The kies drivers are still loaded unless you reboot the computer so the best thing would
be if you uninstall kies, it's not needed at all then reboot the computer.
After rebooting download the official samsung usb drivers which can be found here:
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/SGH-T999RWBTMB#
After downloading the samsung usb drivers install the drivers and reboot the computer, start odin put the rom TAR file into the PDA slot
in Odin and then put the phone in download mode and lastly connect the usb cable from computer to the phone.
Then Re-Read the step by step instructions which was my first post here and follow it exactly to a TEE!
Good luck!

DocHoliday77 said:
Cool! Is it still taking a really long time though? Or has it finished?
Now that you know the problem cause, if it were me i would reflash again just to be sure nothing was corrupted.
Good luck!
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It was taking a lot of time so I tried v1.3 again.
How do I reflash it if it keeps getting stuck?
Can I contact you on Skype or something?

Mikeyman123 said:
It was taking a lot of time so I tried v1.3 again.
How do I reflash it if it keeps getting stuck?
Can I contact you on Skype or something?
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It should not keep getting stuck if you follow the directions I just gave you.
It normally can take Odin between 5-10 minutes to complete.

Misterjunky said:
It should not keep getting stuck if you follow the directions I just gave you.
It normally can take Odin between 5-10 minutes to complete.
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didn't see your post, thanks I'm going to try this now.

re: step by step instructions
Mikeyman123 said:
didn't see your post, thanks I'm going to try this now.
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After you get done with uninstalling kies and reboot then download/install samsung usb drivers and reboot computer again
then follow this guide to a TEE!
This guide will get your phone back up and running properly, doing anything else will just prolong your problem.
Easy and sure way fix your problem - Here is s step by step guide:
Download the newest pre-rooted Samsung Galaxy S3 T999 Jellybean v4.1.2 rom: T999_UVDMD5
After downloading make a folder on your computer's desktop and unzip the
file using Winzip or 7zip so the .TAR file is in the new folder you just made.
Download and extract Odin into the same folder you made containing the TAR file
Here is the link for Odin: http://d-h.st/Q14
• Download ODIN which is required for flashing the stock rooted firmware (a windows app)
• Download the Odin Flash firmware for T999 Tmobile then copy it to the same folder as Odin
• Run Odin by double clicking the Odin.exe within the same folder as the TAR file you extracted
• Turn off your phone and boot into DOWNLOAD MODE (Volume Down + Home + Power Hold until phone powers up, then release and press Volume Up to enter Download Mode)
• Once in Download Mode, connect the USB/Charger cable to the phone and plug into the USB port on your computer.
• You should now see a COM** port listed toward the top-left of Odin (under ID:COM)
• Click on the PDA button in the middle-right area of Odin.
• Browse to and select the Firmware you downloaded (TAR file)
• Make sure Auto-Reboot and F. Reset Time are the only options checked and that PDA is the only other thing checked.
• TRIPLE CHECK your settings and that you have selected the correct firmware for your model phone and are using the correct options.
• If you are using a laptop, make absolutely sure you are plugged in, or if on battery, that it is charged enough and will not go into sleep mode during flash.
• Click Start to begin the flash. This will take a while, so be patient!
• Once complete, in the top-left box in Odin, it will say PASS and the phone should have automatically rebooted.
• You may unplug the phone and close Odin if you wish.
• Wait at least 5-10 minutes for the system to boot the first time and then build its cache!
• (It may seem to hang during boot, this is normal and you must be patient!!!)
Good Luck!

Just making sure, is your gs3 always a sgh t99 if you buy it from t-mobile?
I'm not sure I first thought I had a i9300 but I just clicked the t-mobile one because I bought it at them.

[Q] How to flash original ROM on Samsung Galaxy S3? Its stuck at the main logo!

Hi,
I have been a regular visitor of this website and have gained quite a good amount of knowledge through this forum.
I have been with android for the past 2 years and I have loved the android experience.
2 days ago, I read that there was a feature in android whereas the free apps access the internet frequently and use up precious battery power also the paid apps access the google play store in order to verify licenses. Both these kind of apps wakes up itself regularly and this eats up huge amount of battery.
To counter this I was searching for solutions through this website and found that there was an app which could be downloaded and which can handle such kind of scenario. Lucky Patcher. I didn't read the whole thread but I just went ahead and downloaded that app and my phone stopped working minutes after its installation. Upon reading the whole thread I found out that the android phone needs to be rooted in order for that app to work. BIG MISTAKE!
Now my phone is dead. I can start it but it gets stuck on the Samsung Galaxy S3 logo and never goes ahead.
I took the help of this forum to flash a stock ROM of S3 onto my fone using Odin 3.07 and a stock rom downloaded from samsung dash updates dot com.
This is the name of the folder that was downloaded from the website
"Samsung-Updates.com-SGH-T999V_GLW_1_20120818102113_dgbyab64vd"
I tried flashing it using Odin following the procedure but there was nothing happening on the software or on the phone. I kept the phone attached while Odin was "Initialising" for around 4-5 hours. I slept along that time, and when I woke up, it was still there. I was supposed to get "PASS!" on Odin but I didn't get that. I downloaded the previous versions of the stock ROM and tried that but all in vain.
Phone model: SGH-T999V (Wind Mobile, Canada)
Now I can't find a solution to this problem and this is my last resort. By the weekend I will go to one of those mobile stores which I haven't seen in ages, but will have to go there as I am unable to revive back my fone. And I utterly miss using it.
If there is anything any of you guys can help me with, I will be more than happy to reply to any further information you need.
Thank you all for reading, and thanks a million for even thinking of helping me.
God Bless you all.
-shanxthechashmish
I can't get in recovery mode (Home+volumeUP+Power). it vibrates once but the screen remains blank.
I can get into downloading mode (Home+volumeDown+Power). which gives me two options, one to continue and the other to cancel.
(May be this helps to determine whether my phone has been bricked or not!)
Using ODIN, the following information is given and is stuck at this only...
"<OSM> KIES_HOME_T999VVLDLL1_T999VYVLDLL1_CL616748_REV04_user_low_ship.tar.md5 is valid.
<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..
<OSM> Leave CS..
<ID:0/005> Odin v.3 engine (ID:5)..
<ID:0/005> File analysis..
<ID:0/005> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/005> Initialzation.."

Usually, if you're stuck.during boot you just need to factory reset. Are you sure you're trying the right way to boot recovery? Hold volume up, home and power, when it vibrates, release power but continue holding volume up and home. Some blue text should flash at the top of the screen (you can let go of all buttons now) and it should boot recovery.
No idea why Odin isn't working. Do you have kies installed? If so, get rid of it, reboot and try again.
You could try flashing CWM or TWRP (see my Sig). Then boot recovery and factory reset or flash a Rom.
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Sounds like the drivers are missing. Or you need to run ODIN as administrator

I'm with @KAsp3rd, the computer is not seeing the phone, reinstall the USB drivers try again.
Here is a guide I made:
1. Download and install USB Drivers from here: Thanks to @DocHoliday77 for hosting
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=1368
2. Download and extract ODIN 3.07 from here: Thanks to @DocHoliday77 for hosting
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=1369
3. Download Stock ROM image (.tar file) from here: Thanks to @DocHoliday77 for hosting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687
4. Save all open files and reboot computer
5. Boot phone into Download mode (also called ODIN mode) by shutting down the phone and holding Volume Down & Home then pressing Power until it vibrates, still holding Volume Down & Home buttons, until the "Yellow Triangle" screen shows up.
6. Plug phone into computer and open ODIN 3.07 and make sure that only "Auto Reboot" and "F. Reset Time" are checked.
7. Click on the "PDA" button (right side about half-way down), browse for ROM .tar file, click "Open" button.
8. Click "Start" button and watch to "Reset" or "Fail" to show in the 1st square (upper left side),
9. Phone will reboot
10. Leave phone alone for 10mins+ to let all of the first time boot stuff complete.
Good luck with it.

DocHoliday77 said:
Usually, if you're stuck.during boot you just need to factory reset. Are you sure you're trying the right way to boot recovery? Hold volume up, home and power, when it vibrates, release power but continue holding volume up and home. Some blue text should flash at the top of the screen (you can let go of all buttons now) and it should boot recovery.
No idea why Odin isn't working. Do you have kies installed? If so, get rid of it, reboot and try again.
You could try flashing CWM or TWRP (see my Sig). Then boot recovery and factory reset or flash a Rom.
Sent from my SGH-T999L using Tapatalk 4
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yes, I was doing the right way with the boot recovery. There was a blue text when the SAMSUNG logo flashed, but nothing after that. I let go off the power button while holding the power up and home buttons, but nothing went ahead.
I dont have kies installed. My laptop has a fresh win 7 ultimate installation. I got the usb drivers for samung already installed, it detects the phone everytime on one of the COM ports.
I'll go through the flashing CWM and TWRP. you meant your signature, right?
sorry for being such a newbie..

KAsp3rd said:
Sounds like the drivers are missing. Or you need to run ODIN as administrator
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TI reinstalled the drivers using the Samsung flashing kit that was available here on xda developers.
I am not sure if ODIN is run as admin. I guess I need to try that one tonight. In class right now, too anxious to study..
wil post up the results as soon as i reach back home..

shanxthechashmich said:
yes, I was doing the right way with the boot recovery. There was a blue text when the SAMSUNG logo flashed, but nothing after that. I let go off the power button while holding the power up and home buttons, but nothing went ahead.
I dont have kies installed. My laptop has a fresh win 7 ultimate installation. I got the usb drivers for samung already installed, it detects the phone everytime on one of the COM ports.
I'll go through the flashing CWM and TWRP. you meant your signature, right?
sorry for being such a newbie..
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Yes, in my signature. But the others may still be correct. When you connect and open Odin does it show the port number in the top left area? If not then it's probably a driver issue, even if they're installed. Happens a lot believe it or not. Also try other usb ports on the computer.
If you can flash recovery in Odin though, this is all irrelevant of course! Either way let us know what happens.
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DJ_SpaRky said:
I'm with @KAsp3rd, the computer is not seeing the phone, reinstall the USB drivers try again.
Here is a guide I made:
1. Download and install USB Drivers from here: Thanks to @DocHoliday77 for hosting
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=1368
2. Download and extract ODIN 3.07 from here: Thanks to @DocHoliday77 for hosting
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=1369
3. Download Stock ROM image (.tar file) from here: Thanks to @DocHoliday77 for hosting
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687
4. Save all open files and reboot computer
5. Boot phone into Download mode (also called ODIN mode) by shutting down the phone and holding Volume Down & Home then pressing Power until it vibrates, still holding Volume Down & Home buttons, until the "Yellow Triangle" screen shows up.
6. Plug phone into computer and open ODIN 3.07 and make sure that only "Auto Reboot" and "F. Reset Time" are checked.
7. Click on the "PDA" button (right side about half-way down), browse for ROM .tar file, click "Open" button.
8. Click "Start" button and watch to "Reset" or "Fail" to show in the 1st square (upper left side),
9. Phone will reboot
10. Leave phone alone for 10mins+ to let all of the first time boot stuff complete.
Good luck with it.
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Thnaks for this detailed list.
but i know this drill, the only problem being that the phone is not going anywhere after the step where the ODIN has already flashed the file on the phone.
It gets stuck while "Initializing.." I have posted that as an update on my Post.
As KAsp3rd said that I must try running it as an administrator, I might do it tonight and will let you all know what it gave me..
Thanks for all the help..

I think we posted at the same time so did you see my post? Do you remember if Odin had the port number at the top left? In the Odin output it said ID:0, so it may not be seeing the phone.
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@DocHoliday77
Yes, it shows the COM port on the top left corner of the ODIN.
I have also uninstalled and reinstalled the driveres several times, but with no effect.. I am thinking the run as administrator is the one thing I havent thought of or tried or seen anywhere on the forum.
I will post the result of that as well by tonight.
And thanks for hosting so many files online. I downloaded the one that was needed for the Stock Firmware.

Ok, and in case you don't know, uninstalling the driver software isn't enough on its own. Go into device manager, right click and either update drivers, or uninstall, then install the new driver package.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Ok, and in case you don't know, uninstalling the driver software isn't enough on its own. Go into device manager, right click and either update drivers, or uninstall, then reboot computer, then install the new driver package.
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Windows, always reboot after uninstalling any drivers.

@DocHoliday77
I tried that thing again. Reinstalled the drivers after uninstalling and rebooting. there is still no response.
I gave it to one of my friends, he tried putting in the recovery file and now the screen says "Installation of the software has been interrupted, please restart to begin"
I'll post the screenshot in the morning now.
Also, @KAsp3rd : I tried running Odin as administrator, but the same thing happened. It used to get stuck at "Initialization"
Any more advices ?

shanxthechashmich said:
@DocHoliday77
I tried that thing again. Reinstalled the drivers after uninstalling and rebooting. there is still no response.
I gave it to one of my friends, he tried putting in the recovery file and now the screen says "Installation of the software has been interrupted, please restart to begin"
I'll post the screenshot in the morning now.
Also, @KAsp3rd : I tried running Odin as administrator, but the same thing happened. It used to get stuck at "Initialization"
Any more advices ?
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Is it the phone that says installation interrupted? When he tried flashing the recovery did he use odin? Did it seem to flash properly?
Something else I don't thonk hss been mentioned is to try a different usb cable. Preferably one thst came with the phone, or another device. (Some cables sold for recharging are not capable of data transfer on these devices).
Also, try all ports on the computer, and unplug all unnecessary peripherals.
If something happened and you got a bad flash, it could be bricked. Can't remember if you tried KAsp3rd's unbrick method already.
Another thing you can try to get recovery installed is to adb shell into the device and using the dd command, dump recovery to the phone. Youll have to have the android sdk installed to do this though.
Its hard to say what's really needed at this point though. Usually if you can get download mode, you can Odin the stock firmware. Most Odin problems are due to driver and cable issues. (Is Windows fully updated?)
Even though you can get download mode, the debrick method may still help, but I'm just not sure. Maybe I'm missing something.....
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DocHoliday77 said:
Is it the phone that says installation interrupted? When he tried flashing the recovery did he use odin? Did it seem to flash properly?
Something else I don't thonk hss been mentioned is to try a different usb cable. Preferably one thst came with the phone, or another device. (Some cables sold for recharging are not capable of data transfer on these devices).
Also, try all ports on the computer, and unplug all unnecessary peripherals.
If something happened and you got a bad flash, it could be bricked. Can't remember if you tried KAsp3rd's unbrick method already.
Another thing you can try to get recovery installed is to adb shell into the device and using the dd command, dump recovery to the phone. Youll have to have the android sdk installed to do this though.
Its hard to say what's really needed at this point though. Usually if you can get download mode, you can Odin the stock firmware. Most Odin problems are due to driver and cable issues. (Is Windows fully updated?)
Even though you can get download mode, the debrick method may still help, but I'm just not sure. Maybe I'm missing something.....
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I have the original cable with me, the one that came with the s3.
he tried using ODIN, but thats as far as I know. He said something about using Kies to flash the rom as well. not sure what.
No, I didn't try KAsp3rd's unbrick method. Could you please guide me where could I find that?
Also, everything you said after this unbrick method simply doesn't make any sense to me. May be some guided instructions would be helpful.
And yes, the windows is fully updated, no issue on that.
Where can I find the unbrick method?

If you want to just search for android sdk. It'll find Google's page for it and instructions. Should also find some good guides on installing and using. All I'd 've doing is searching for then repeating it back to you, so it'll be easier for both of us if you just go to the source. I think it's developer.Google com or something similar.
And she'll basically connects to your phone and allows you to run commands as if you were using the terminal emulator.
The debrick thread is stickies in development.
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what is the official stock firmware can i download directly? and what are name of the firmware and how long the procedure to flash that?

Firmware thread stickies in development section. Link is also in my Sig. Everything you need to know and download to get started is in that thread.
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