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Request for Virgin Mobile Stock

Hello all,
So I bought my HTC Wildfire S Virgin Mobile on black friday like everybody else. I waited a few days and then rooted. And then I had the brilliant idea to try installing the CM 7.1 Mod for it. And well, I didn't do a Clockwork Backup, and well, it didnt work very well. The phone got stuck on the HTC screen. So finally I installed a different ROM, JikantaruROM, and I managed to get past the bootscreen but I can't use my carrier anymore. So I was wondering if anybody could either tell me how to flash CM 7.1 Unoffical release to my phone, or if anybody knew a way I could get back to the original Virgin Mobile software. It seems that you have all the other stock roms, so I would REALLY appreciate if someone could share the Virgin Mobile rom too.
Thanks in advance,
Wieland959

Seconded. Although I think mine is in a slightly worse case; I kept flashing roms and ended up in a state where it turns on, screen remains black, then the phone vibrates three times and evidently does nothing. So Wieland959, I'd advise you to stop flashing until someone posts the ROM.
And if someone could let me know how to recover from my current state, I'd very much appreciate it.

thesnaz said:
Seconded. Although I think mine is in a slightly worse case; I kept flashing roms and ended up in a state where it turns on, screen remains black, then the phone vibrates three times and evidently does nothing. So Wieland959, I'd advise you to stop flashing until someone posts the ROM.
And if someone could let me know how to recover from my current state, I'd very much appreciate it.
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Your in the same boat I was just in. My solution was to go back to radioshack with the receipt and tell them it just turned off and wouldnt turn back on. Just doing the 3 vibrations. I did spend hours trying to search about how to fix it, but I dont think theres a way unless you use a jtag hookup and some sort of fancy programmer.
@Wieland959, If you want. I just tried to do the OTA update through the settings on the phone itself. It would let me download the file(I believe it should be flashable through the cwm recovery), but when I tried to let the phone install the file, I would get the android with the exclamation mark after the reboot. Ill try to post here, if it will upload. But......
DISCLAIMER!!!!
I take no responsibility for anyone damaging their phone using the file here. This file, as far as I know, should only work with the Wildfire S Virgin Mobile USA CDMA model A510C as this is the phone the file was downloaded from.

Thank you for the file, but I couldn't flash it. What might work though, if you are willing is, if you have rooted your phone, to make a cwm backup and upload that here. From there I should be able to recover and then factory wipe my phone. But thank you anyways for the file. I will keep kicking until the phone doesn't boot.

How are you planning on restoring from backup if the phone doesn't even boot?
Sorry, I'm new to this...

thesnaz said:
How are you planning on restoring from backup if the phone doesn't even boot?
Sorry, I'm new to this...
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from the recovery, by holding down the vol down button and power button. then select recovery.
also, im in the same boat as OP haha

Okay. I managed to boot my phone and am able to send/receive texts. The rom I used? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1367701] It seems to work pretty well. However, I would still like to have the original rom if someone could still upload it.

VM USA Stock Clockwork Backup
Well, I don't know much about stuff like this, but here is my clockwork mod recovery backup. It's just the stock VM USA w/HTC Sense. I have realized that I deleted the bloatware, so that's the only thing that isn't 100% stock. Hope it helps.
*Unzip the file before placing on you sd card. (Contains the clockwork folder, which contains the backup folder,and then the folder that contains the backup itself.)*
**!! Disclaimer! Please run the activate application upon installing as when you call voicemail, it will call my number. !!**
http://www.mediafire.com/?le6b07dwr865017
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Wieland959 said:
Okay. I managed to boot my phone and am able to send/receive texts. The rom I used? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1367701] It seems to work pretty well. However, I would still like to have the original rom if someone could still upload it.
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Is this a good rom? I'm looking for some senseless roms that will work with our version of the WFS. will you post if you are able to go back to the Stock Virgin backup that I have posted? Also how much memory is on the rom that you posted?

With the a2sd enabled, you get 150 to 175. It's nice.
Sent from my HTC_A510c

BigChillin said:
With the a2sd enabled, you get 150 to 175. It's nice.
Sent from my HTC_A510c
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Can I easily switch back to the stock rom via my backup? How do I install it. Sorry that i'm such a newbie. xD

BigChillin said:
With the a2sd enabled, you get 150 to 175. It's nice.
Sent from my HTC_A510c
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I tried it and found my phone only had 75mb of internal storage available!!! Weird!!
Nevermind I figured out the problem. Ok. Just one question is there anyway I can get the nice clock back from the stock ROM?

Is anybody else having mms issues with the experimental ROM?

brandonhun said:
Can I easily switch back to the stock rom via my backup? How do I install it. Sorry that i'm such a newbie. xD
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Thanks for the backup! It worked perfect for me!
would you mind if i posted the link on another forum? i know of a couple people looking for a backup aswell.
You should be able to switch back with the recovery no problem. Correct me if I'm wrong, but to install boot into recovery, install from SD, select specific, and select the zip of the rom. Also, I don't have my phone on me so the wording might be a little different.
MMS is a known issue with the rom from what I've read. I don't have it installed personally.

@brandonhun, Thank you so much. You're a life saver. As far as the rom goes, it still have sense on it and there are tons of MMS errors. So just wait and eventually something will pop up.

Wieland959 said:
@brandonhun, Thank you so much. You're a life saver. As far as the rom goes, it still have sense on it and there are tons of MMS errors. So just wait and eventually something will pop up.
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Just a heads up wieland, when you get a voice mail and you try to check it from the notifications make sure it's your number, because I ended up giving brandonhun a call. Going through the activation app and rebooting fixed the problem.

djsquiggly said:
Thanks for the backup! It worked perfect for me!
would you mind if i posted the link on another forum? i know of a couple people looking for a backup aswell.
You should be able to switch back with the recovery no problem. Correct me if I'm wrong, but to install boot into recovery, install from SD, select specific, and select the zip of the rom. Also, I don't have my phone on me so the wording might be a little different.
MMS is a known issue with the rom from what I've read. I don't have it installed personally.
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You can post it wherever you want. I'm glad I could help a couple of you!

ScottPomroy said:
Ok. Just one question is there anyway I can get the nice clock back from the stock ROM?
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I haven't done this ROM change but if its the stock HTC Sense go to personalize and get HTC widgets (perhaps its get more HTC widgets) and you should find an update to the clock widget. That should give you the original clock plus a bunch more new ones.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalkd

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Wieland959 said:
@brandonhun, Thank you so much. You're a life saver. As far as the rom goes, it still have sense on it and there are tons of MMS errors. So just wait and eventually something will pop up.
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Guess what just popped out of the Betty Crocker oven? As close as I could get to stock. Enjoy.
Rob

Infinite Bootloop

Hey guys,
I've never had any real problems with any android phone that I've had. However, I have been running Liquid Beta 2 on my nexus for over a week now and it seemed to be running great. I did see a few random reboots every now and then but thought that might be due to it being a beta.
Today it seemed to escalate to a new level. I turned on the torch in the pulldown bar and as soon as the light came on the phone restarted. However this time it was never able to start back up. It got about half way through the boot animation and started over and will continuously do this.
I can still boot into recovery so that is good news. I have tried restoring previous roms that I had backed up for just in case and they ran into the exact same problem. I have also tried wiping everything and then installing a fresh rom that I had on my phone and again, ran into the same problem.
At this point I am clueless and really have no idea what to do. If anyone can perhaps share some advice or give some suggestions, that would be great and I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks guys.
edit: Not sure if it matters but I do have the Verizon branded GN.

Make sure you are wiping data, cache and dalvik.
Make sure you didn't get a bad download on the rom you are trying to flash.

I am running stock kernels and have never installed any non stock kernels as stock seems to run just fine. I have wiped everything completely and I've tried two different roms and get the same problem. I don't think it has to do with it being bad downloads. Thank you for the advice though guys. Anyone else have any input? I may just have to go to the verizon store and see if I can exchange it out.

Dude. I had that too some weeks ago and had the problem that I encrypted the phone, which made me not getting into recovery mode. I downloaded a fresh restorer rom from samsung. After everything was fresh I never saw the failure again.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App

murflee33 said:
Hey guys,
I've never had any real problems with any android phone that I've had. However, I have been running Liquid Beta 2 on my nexus for over a week now and it seemed to be running great. I did see a few random reboots every now and then but thought that might be due to it being a beta.
Today it seemed to escalate to a new level. I turned on the torch in the pulldown bar and as soon as the light came on the phone restarted. However this time it was never able to start back up. It got about half way through the boot animation and started over and will continuously do this.
I can still boot into recovery so that is good news. I have tried restoring previous roms that I had backed up for just in case and they ran into the exact same problem. I have also tried wiping everything and then installing a fresh rom that I had on my phone and again, ran into the same problem.
At this point I am clueless and really have no idea what to do. If anyone can perhaps share some advice or give some suggestions, that would be great and I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks guys.
edit: Not sure if it matters but I do have the Verizon branded GN.
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Flash it back to stock and if it still does this, contact Verizon.
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http://www.droid-life.com/2011/12/1...the-bootloader-and-return-to-a-factory-state/

Geezer Squid said:
Flash it back to stock and if it still does this, contact Verizon.
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http://www.droid-life.com/2011/12/1...the-bootloader-and-return-to-a-factory-state/
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DO NOT CONTACT VERIZON. After unlocking bootloader, your warranty is voided. Verizon will not be able to help you.
@OP: You can always flash back to stock using stock images provided by google via fastboot with the link Geezer provided.

zephiK said:
DO NOT CONTACT VERIZON. After unlocking bootloader, your warranty is voided. Verizon will not be able to help you.
@OP: You can always flash back to stock using stock images provided by google via fastboot with the link Geezer provided.
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Not kidding. That link to tells him how to return to stock and re-lock the bootloader.

Need help unbricking/restoring phone

i have the droid incredible 2 and i bricked it
i can turn it on and the white screen with the green htc lettering comes up and then it just plays the cyanogenmod 7 load screen in a loop, please help me out, if you can provide dumbed down instructions that would be great
edit: UNBRICKED IT WOOT
edit 2: however now when i try to activate it i cant enter the 4 digit pass code because there are no dial keys while making a call, so i still need help :/

You should be able to long press the settings key and that normally brings it up.

yea i got it activated thanks, i was wondering, is it possible to get it back to htc sense, also i dont know how to get the google app store onto my phone

simple29 said:
yea i got it activated thanks, i was wondering, is it possible to get it back to htc sense, also i cant download apps from google it says they are installed but they arent
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If you backed up before you flashed cm7, then you can just restore your backup. Otherwise, you'd have to flash an ruu and lose stuff... Or there's always andyBONESTOCK.
Swyped From My Mikrunny'd Superphone Using Magic (TapaTalk 2 Beta 5)

tylerlawhon said:
If you backed up before you flashed cm7, then you can just restore your backup. Otherwise, you'd have to flash an ruu and lose stuff... Or there's always andyBONESTOCK.
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That's what I would suggest. Also I have only seen one true brick in my experience, and I've rooted close to a dozen different android phones between my own and friends.
After I rooted my friends galaxy s, I told him to wait before he installs any roms since there were multiple carriers with that phone. He installed a rom later that night that was for another carrier. Obviously the phone would not work properly. So I gave him the instructions on how to fix it (go back to completely stock since he didn't make a backup). while flash through Odin (I think that's what it was, well whatever correct program is called) the usb cord came unplugged half way through the flash.
He had a true brick. After that it wouldn't even power up. It was nothing more than a paperweight, or in this case, a brick.
Sent from my DINC2

[Q] What happened to CWM radios?

A little bit ago CWM had a really convenient 'ICS radios'. This is now gone. Anyone know why or if it's coming back?
Jeff

What? You can Google for radios and find the thread here on XDA.

I can find the radios fine. That doesn't answer my question.

What are you even asking? CWM is your recovery. It doesn't have anything minus what's on your phone.

Yeah sorry about that. ROM manager premium had an item under download ROM that was a direct download for all the ICS radios. It was there for a couple months now it's gone. When I was running SGS I remember seeing it but since I got a GN no.
Long night last night .....................

ROM Manager is different for every device. It might not just be there for the Nexus. You shouldn't use ROM Manager for installing anything anyways.. just download them off of XDA and install them. Just as easy and probably safer.

joshnichols189 said:
ROM Manager is different for every device. It might not just be there for the Nexus. You shouldn't use ROM Manager for installing anything anyways.. just download them off of XDA and install them. Just as easy and probably safer.
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Especially in the radios department.
Rom manager has a habit of saying it successfully flashed something even if it had errors...and you boot into CWM for a split second and don't get a chance to see if it threw any errors.

[email protected] said:
A little bit ago CWM had a really convenient 'ICS radios'. This is now gone. Anyone know why or if it's coming back?
Jeff
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My brain hurts....
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Jubakuba said:
Especially in the radios department.
Rom manager has a habit of saying it successfully flashed something even if it had errors...and you boot into CWM for a split second and don't get a chance to see if it threw any errors.
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BINGO!

Thanks all no more Rom Mgr for flashing. On a related note I downloaded the top 4 new radios from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1405345&highlight=at%26t and apparently (to me it sounds unlikely) smoked my SIM during a flash.
I can receive but not send SMS on my GN but putting my daughters SIM in my GN works and my SIM in an AT&T SGS2 won't work. Is this something that can happen when you're flashing radios or is this is one time freak occurrence?
Jeff

[email protected] said:
Thanks all no more Rom Mgr for flashing. On a related note I downloaded the top 4 new radios from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1405345&highlight=at&t and apparently (to me it sounds unlikely) smoked my SIM during a flash.
I can receive but not send SMS on my GN but putting my daughters SIM in my GN works and my SIM in an AT&T SGS2 won't work. Is this something that can happen when you're flashing radios or is this is one time freak occurrence?
Jeff
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Did you play around with the phone settings in *#*#info#*#* menu? If so, you probably messed up you smsc number. Follow the guide here to fix: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/SMSC_Updates
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

Thanks efrant!!!!! I totally forgot that I went into that to see status of the radio and hit 'update' without knowing that I was zeroing out my smsc number.
Jeff

boot loop, freedompop s3

Started out with having problems with freedompop, it suddenly started using up all my data for texts and calls, even though I'm on unlimited calls and texts. Tried to root the phone and bricked it.
Then I managed to unbrick with Odin reloading TWRP recovery.
Have now tried 3 or 4 ROMs and they all boot loop. I also upgraded the bootloader because I read you have to have a bootloader that can handle later android like 4.4 or 5.1. Now someone told me they never bothered with that and had no problem, so maybe the new bootloader is causing my boot loop problem? I've tried 2 bootloaders that can handle 4.4 and still get boot loop.
At this stage I'd be happy just to go back to 4.3 stock if it would get my phone working again.

I did notice that it didn't seem to be able to find any checksums when it was flashing, and just bypassed them. could that be it?

padosaurus said:
Started out with having problems with freedompop, it suddenly started using up all my data for texts and calls, even though I'm on unlimited calls and texts. Tried to root the phone and bricked it.
Then I managed to unbrick with Odin reloading TWRP recovery.
Have now tried 3 or 4 ROMs and they all boot loop. I also upgraded the bootloader because I read you have to have a bootloader that can handle later android like 4.4 or 5.1. Now someone told me they never bothered with that and had no problem, so maybe the new bootloader is causing my boot loop problem? I've tried 2 bootloaders that can handle 4.4 and still get boot loop.
At this stage I'd be happy just to go back to 4.3 stock if it would get my phone working again.
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Downgrading boootloader will give u a nice shiny paperweight! What device you on reg s3 triband, bootloder?
Sent from my SPH-L710T using XDA Free mobile app

padosaurus said:
I did notice that it didn't seem to be able to find any checksums when it was flashing, and just bypassed them. could that be it?
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Unless you downloaded an md5 file separately, then it will skip the checksum, because you didn't provide one. No big deal, as long as you checked it yourself.
Stop changing bootloaders or you will brick. Nj2 is fine for all current roms. By boot loop you mean it stayed in boot animation? Because lollipop roms do that. Sometimes if it stays for a loooong time, I boot to recovery then straight back to system and it starts optimizing right away. But you may just have to be patient.

(I can't seem to log back on with my other account and it made me start a new account using google....)
I've tried these roms:
aicp_d2spr_lp-10.0-NIGHTLY-20151210.zip
ND8_STOCK_ODEX_ROOTED.zip
and these bootloaders:
L710-ND8-Bootloader.tar
KT747-TW-KK-4.4-SPR-05-13-2014.zip
Is this the info you asked for? I don't know what reg s3 triband is.
I've gone back and forth between the above bootloaders but I think they are the same level bootloaders and the phone hasn't bricked so hopefully that's not the problem. someone else said I needn't have changed the original bootloader to try higher roms like 4.4 or 5.1, but I don't know.
hilla_killa said:
Downgrading boootloader will give u a nice shiny paperweight! What device you on reg s3 triband, bootloder?
Sent from my SPH-L710T using XDA Free mobile app
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madbat99 said:
Unless you downloaded an md5 file separately, then it will skip the checksum, because you didn't provide one. No big deal, as long as you checked it yourself.
Stop changing bootloaders or you will brick. Nj2 is fine for all current roms. By boot loop you mean it stayed in boot animation? Because lollipop roms do that. Sometimes if it stays for a loooong time, I boot to recovery then straight back to system and it starts optimizing right away. But you may just have to be patient.
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KT747-TW-KK-4.4-SPR-05-13-2014.zip is the bootloader that is currently loaded, should I just leave that one?
the rom that's loaded now is supposed to be stock 4.4. It does the fancy sprint splash screen, then the word SAMSUNG appears and just stays there forever, with a blue shadow fading in and out.
Maybe I should try a different ROM? The other one I tried is aicp_d2spr_lp-10.0-NIGHTLY-20151210.zip, that also boot loops with a spinning pattern with icy android robot.
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madbat99 said:
Unless you downloaded an md5 file separately, then it will skip the checksum, because you didn't provide one. No big deal, as long as you checked it yourself.
Stop changing bootloaders or you will brick. Nj2 is fine for all current roms. By boot loop you mean it stayed in boot animation? Because lollipop roms do that. Sometimes if it stays for a loooong time, I boot to recovery then straight back to system and it starts optimizing right away. But you may just have to be patient.
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So I shoulda/coulda checked the checksum myself?

paddosaurus said:
(I can't seem to log back on with my other account and it made me start a new account using google....)
I've tried these roms:
aicp_d2spr_lp-10.0-NIGHTLY-20151210.zip
ND8_STOCK_ODEX_ROOTED.zip
and these bootloaders:
L710-ND8-Bootloader.tar
KT747-TW-KK-4.4-SPR-05-13-2014.zip
Is this the info you asked for? I don't know what reg s3 triband is.
I've gone back and forth between the above bootloaders but I think they are the same level bootloaders and the phone hasn't bricked so hopefully that's not the problem. someone else said I needn't have changed the original bootloader to try higher roms like 4.4 or 5.1, but I don't know.
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KT747-TW-KK-4.4-SPR-05-13-2014.zip is the bootloader that is currently loaded, should I just leave that one?
the rom that's loaded now is supposed to be stock 4.4. It does the fancy sprint splash screen, then the word SAMSUNG appears and just stays there forever, with a blue shadow fading in and out.
Maybe I should try a different ROM? The other one I tried is aicp_d2spr_lp-10.0-NIGHTLY-20151210.zip, that also boot loops with a spinning pattern with icy android robot.
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So I shoulda/coulda checked the checksum myself?
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Well kt747 is not a bootloader, its a kernel. And it's a kernel for stock 4.4.2. Stop flashing random things or you will destroy your phone. The difference between regular and triband s3 is big. Regular is sph-l710, the triband is sph-L710t. That little t makes all the difference. You need to check your model number.
Use odin to flash nj2 stock .tar and start fresh.
Get it here
You will also need the freedompop messaging app for your phone to work.

Got it back again with the nj2 stock.tar! Many thanks
Can't get freedompop messager because google play thinks it's already installed.
Mine says SPH -L710 on label behind battery, so I guess it's not triband?
CAn I now root and install a custom rom eg with android 5.1 and is it worth the trouble?
madbat99 said:
Well kt747 is not a bootloader, its a kernel. And it's a kernel for stock 4.4.2. Stop flashing random things or you will destroy your phone. The difference between regular and triband s3 is big. Regular is sph-l710, the triband is sph-L710t. That little t makes all the difference. You need to check your model number.
Use odin to flash nj2 stock .tar and start fresh.
Get it here
You will also need the freedompop messaging app for your phone to work.
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paddosaurus said:
Got it back again with the nj2 stock.tar! Many thanks
Can't get freedompop messager because google play thinks it's already installed.
Mine says SPH -L710 on label behind battery, so I guess it's not triband?
CAn I now root and install a custom rom eg with android 5.1 and is it worth the trouble?
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Google freedompop apk itll take you where u need to be! Some people have trouble dling it from google play check it out! Valuable info for you!
Sent from my SPH-L710T using XDA Free mobile app

paddosaurus said:
Got it back again with the nj2 stock.tar! Many thanks
Can't get freedompop messager because google play thinks it's already installed.
Mine says SPH -L710 on label behind battery, so I guess it's not triband?
CAn I now root and install a custom rom eg with android 5.1 and is it worth the trouble?
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It is not a triband. Congrats on fixing it. Yes you can now easily root, using odin to flash the most recent twrp tar file for d2spr (our s3's codename).
5.1.1 roms were (are) worth it for me, but everyone's taste is different. I'm actually running aicp 11 (marshmallow 6.0.1) right now!