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Just got my gs3 today and decided to root using this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746682
Not really so tech-savy with this yet and after the whole root process of odin3 i reboot into recovery, wipe/cache/dalvik then flash the new miui 2.10.19 http://miuiandroid.com/community/threads/2-10-19.18540/ one i hit flash it says installation failed blah blah blah (status 7) getprop. Yeah all that junk, so i searched up on the forums and the only solution i find is to update cwm and i have, to 6.0.1.4 and still same thing!! installation error, aborted. Can someone please help me out :crying: I'm sorry if im a noob, just trying to flash a rom here
Update CWM via ROM Manager.
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use twrp
theexel said:
Update CWM via ROM Manager.
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i did, still no luck
mt3g said:
use twrp
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and this was my last thing i tried before bed last night and still didnt work! should i just unroot then re-root all over again?
How did you update to 6.0.1.4 when 6.0.1.2 is the latest version? And no, you don't need to re root. You don't need root to flash firmware.
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How did you update to 6.0.1.4 when 6.0.1.2 is the latest version? And no, you don't need to re root. You don't need root to flash firmware.
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Looking on the forums someone posted a link to download an updated 6.0.1.4 so I tried that since 6.0.1.2 wasnt working. There's gotta be something simple to fix that I dont know about, ive flashed and rooted my htc sensation and mytouch4g easy and never had installation failure when flashing. Can someone walk me through what exactly I need to be fully rooted and flash a rom!?
How could cwm not be working if its updated to latest version? I dont think im downloading the wrong rom and its not a bad link. Even tried dragging it onto my internal sd wirh debugging off. Btw I have the 32 gb s3 with does not have an external sd.
The way I fix that was I rerootes my phone into latest clockwork recovery. I didn't remove the root I just rerootee it. Look for cwr 6 I think.
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From watching the video given for the toolkit, when in odin and have to open up pda then go to the toolkit files and then root all my files are in winRAR type and his are in tar archive type. Does that matter at all? And also when clicking on the pda then root you chose the file /boot-insecure-tmo-t99uvalem-cwm but when in odin and clicking this file on the little winrar icon to the left of the file name its the only one with a little like key lock, doesnt know if thats an issue or anything just something i noticed because when accessing the toolkit files on my c drive and going to the root folder, the key icon is no longer there.. Any ideas??
Reading about people flashing a kernal in recovery then flashing the rom and working but when you flash a rom isnt it flashing the kernal it comes with also? Or is this the problem
Well, I re ran the toolkit, re did the root and odin process same as i did the first time, downloaded rom straight from my phone flashed again still getting status 7 error/ installation aborted -______- ugh...
Brad4891 said:
Looking on the forums someone posted a link to download an updated 6.0.1.4 so I tried that since 6.0.1.2 wasnt working. There's gotta be something simple to fix that I dont know about, ive flashed and rooted my htc sensation and mytouch4g easy and never had installation failure when flashing. Can someone walk me through what exactly I need to be fully rooted and flash a rom!?
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Look at my signature for the proper CWM. I don't know where you saw 6.0.1.4 for our device, but the main thread and the developers website show no sign of it. And download CM10 from get.cm, d2tmo. If you that doesn't work, you don't have a SGH-T999.
I can't believe I didn't see this before....what is the exact file name of the rom you are flashing?
I looked and did not see our phone listed in the op. Looks like the international one is there (codename m0?). But no d2tmo, d2att, etc.
Unless I just missed it there, you do not want to even try flashing that anymore! If I'm right you just got very lucky dude!
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Aerowinder said:
Look at my signature for the proper CWM. I don't know where you saw 6.0.1.4 for our device, but the main thread and the developers website show no sign of it. And download CM10 from get.cm, d2tmo. If you that doesn't work, you don't have a SGH-T999.
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Okay, so i just followed and installed everything you had in your signature and it finally is flashing hellfire!! Hours of frustration i think i finally got it! Thank you so much
Brad4891 said:
Okay, so i just followed and installed everything you had in your signature and it finally is flashing hellfire!! Hours of frustration i think i finally got it! Thank you so much
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I thought you were trying to flash miui...
Glad you got it sorted out.
Just for the future though, never flash anything not built for the TMobile SGH-T999 (codename d2tmo). If you do flash an international GS3 rom it will brick your device. I think this woulda happened had the miui rom from the link in op actually flashed.
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Aerowinder said:
Look at my signature for the proper CWM. I don't know where you saw 6.0.1.4 for our device, but the main thread and the developers website show no sign of it. And download CM10 from get.cm, d2tmo. If you that doesn't work, you don't have a SGH-T999.
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DocHoliday77 said:
I thought you were trying to flash miui...
Glad you got it sorted out.
Just for the future though, never flash anything not built for the TMobile SGH-T999 (codename d2tmo). If you do flash an international GS3 rom it will brick your device. I think this woulda happened had the miui rom from the link in op actually flashed.
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I was at first but then changed my mind, both werent working before hand though when i was getting the errors.
And im using hellfire and the rom is super smooth like butter. I have one problem though, its notifications. Whenever receiving texts i dont get a vibration or light pulse. Sometimes randomly i get a vibration. Anyone know how to fix?
Hello,
My phone is rooted but ROM is stock. I don't generally flash anything and just stick to removing bloatware.
I installed TWRP and now I cannot get the latest official OTA AT&T update since the update load fails due to not having stock recovery. I have been searching online and cannot figure out how to get stock recovery.
I have been able to locate a supposed stock zip ROM for this phone. Can I just somehow flash this ZIP to return my phone to stock.
On previous phones I have been able to do a factory reset, which I have done several times on this phone today, in order to get it back to stock and accept OTA updates. This TWRP seems extremely invasive and I cannot get rid of it.
Thanks for any help
dave
Wrong section dude better move it before you get flamed to general
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Use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2052779 and POST IN THE CORRECT SECTION
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You can run cf-auto root and it will install stock recovery
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Need help guys, can't get the update , I'm only rooted and tried changing the date trick and no luck .. funny thing my next retry is after 805 hrs , any ideas what to do ?
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chadiz said:
Need help guys, can't get the update , I'm only rooted and tried changing the date trick and no luck .. funny thing my next retry is after 805 hrs , any ideas what to do ?
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I gave up and ended up just flashing cleanrom 3.5. Didn't wipe, kept all of my apps and data. I recommend this route if, like me, you want to keep stock kernel and tw.
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I would love to help you, but help yourself first: ask a better question
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
I am the original poster. My phone would not flash the stock ATT rom that I downloaded somewhere. It could have been a bad ROM.
I could only end up getting into recovery and download mode. I did something to erase the entire operating system.
The guys over at TWRP or at least the guys on the message board got me through it. I ended up flashing the 3.5 clean rom. I never flashed a rom before only rooted. i also flashed the new modem zip as well. So far so good I guess.
Im going to have to figure out how to do an entire backup of my phone so that next time I can just restore it.
Thanks for the replies
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Im going to have to figure out how to do an entire backup of my phone so that next time I can just restore it.
Thanks for the replies
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Boot in to recovery (it's now an option from the power button) and follow the very easy buttons for backup. Select everything for an entire system backup (7 checks, I believe). Future backups can be just your data and apps if you want.
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So guys wat u r saying is there isnt any way to unroot then do the official update im rooted with the exynos app just tryed to update and duh got the same thing everybody else got but was hoping i didnt have to flash any roms
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I am trying to upgrade my Virgin ROM to the 9.12 build but get a fail upon trying to flash it. The background.... I'm using TWRP recovery and have tried the chainfire root method. Here are the results:
As you can see you can see some conflicting information... all shots were taken in sequence. I'm thinking the fail in twrp is coming from the system not having root but the info is telling me otherwise....
Bump... Anybody???
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Bump... Anybody???
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Do you have the latest SuperSU version?
I'm a little lost at what you are saying.
You flashed a rom, and it said fail, and you think it has to do with Root?
If you have TWRP installed it doesn't matter if you are rooted or not. It's going to over right the system partition regardless if you have root or not.
So it's either a bad download or bad transfer for it to fail.
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I do have the latest SU version by chain fire. And maybe I'm doing something wrong the because I am running the virgin gpe ROM now and that flashed in twrp with no issues. Now when I go to install (after wiping) and select the 9.12 update that I downloaded it hangs on trying to open the zip and fails... I haven't changed any twrp settings but in the write options of twrp what boxes should be checked because system is not by default... Thanks for the replies!
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I previously only used cwm so I'm not sure if I should just try that or what... And I've checked the download and md5 for verification
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th3h0ff said:
I previously only used cwm so I'm not sure if I should just try that or what... And I've checked the download and md5 for verification
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You can give CWM a try, I've been using it for a while without any issues. Out of curiosity what version if TWRP you are using? I think most people recommend TWRP 2.5.0.2. I'm using the latest version of CWM.
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If all else fails, just start from scratch, get stock UVUAMDL tar, flash it with Odin, make sure to do a factory wipe after you flash it, sometimes bootloops occur if you don't. You don't even have to go past the first screen where you pick the language. Just shut it down from there and boot into download mode and root with Chainfire with Odin, then shut down and boot up again into download mode again and flash custom recovery tar of ur choice with Odin. Then download whatever custom rom zip and install it via custom recovery.
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If all else fails, just start from scratch, get stock UVUAMDL tar, flash it with Odin, make sure to do a factory wipe after you flash it, sometimes bootloops occur if you don't. You don't even have to go past the first screen where you pick the language. Just shut it down from there and boot into download mode and root with Chainfire with Odin, then shut down and boot up again into download mode again and flash custom recovery tar of ur choice with Odin. Then download whatever custom rom zip and install it via custom recovery.
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Thanks again to everyone... not going to have time to mess with it tonight but I'll update tomorrow. Thanks again
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Thanks again to everyone... not going to have time to mess with it tonight but I'll update tomorrow. Thanks again
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heyyy saw your reply in my thread.
just as @byron1985 suggested there, it sounds like you got a bad download. the flashing scripts are essentially exactly the same from previous version. the flashing process has absolutely zero to do with SuperSU.
edit: re-read. so you've verified the download. if you had success with CWM previously, i would go back to that. i do not use TWRP.
mrvirginia said:
heyyy saw your reply in my thread.
just as @byron1985 suggested there, it sounds like you got a bad download. the flashing scripts are essentially exactly the same from previous version. the flashing process has absolutely zero to do with SuperSU.
edit: re-read. so you've verified the download. if you had success with CWM previously, i would go back to that. i do not use TWRP.
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Im going to give the twrp 2.5.2 a try as it seems most of my troubles keep happening on the 2.6.3 build. Hopefully that works either way its back to CWM for me as well. Thanks again for taking the time to help out and again sorry about hijacking the thread for a page... Your ROM is absolutely perfect so I appreciate the efforts and time!,
Andrew
SOLVED... tried 2.5 version of TWRP and all went well... odd but apparently my device doesnt like 2.6 versions of TWRP! Thanks to everyone who helped me out and gave me suggestions and thank you to the dev for taking some of his time to assist! It was a great help to me!
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SOLVED... tried 2.5 version of TWRP and all went well... odd but apparently my device doesnt like 2.6 versions of TWRP! Thanks to everyone who helped me out and gave me suggestions and thank you to the dev for taking some of his time to assist! It was a great help to me!
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Good to know you are out of trouble
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See you shoulda said you were running 2.6.3 lol
word of advice (and to all who run twrp)
DO NOT RUN ANYTHING GREATER THAN 2.5.2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I originally posted in the wrong area, and was told to post here instead so, here goes. I have a US Celluar GS3, SCH-R530U, and I lost root access while trying to upgrade from stock rooted 4.1.2 to CM 10.1.3. I've tried flashing SuperSU along with CM 10.1.2 to my phone with no success. Every time I try to flash something new it says 'Can't open /storage/sdcard1/-filename-.zip (bad)' and it aborts. I don't know how I can get a file on the phone memory since the phone never boots up past the 'Samsung Galaxy S III' screen, so I'm really stuck and I don't have a backup phone, so if someone could help me get my phone up and running again, I would really appreciate it.
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I really only need help getting my phone to a bootable state again, I have backups of everything, so if someone could please help me out, I would be most grateful. I've been trying dozens of things. I just tried doing CF Auto Root through Odin, and that didn't work, it just removed CWM. It still freezes up at the same screen, so I'm really lost as to what to do.
My best advice would be that you download the Odin file that matches with your phone. But get the fully stick one. There should be one that is rooted and non-rooted. Get it back to stock and start from scratch. I know it may suck but honestly in problems like this it doesn't hurt to go the safe way
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My best advice would be that you download the Odin file that matches with your phone. But get the fully stick one. There should be one that is rooted and non-rooted. Get it back to stock and start from scratch. I know it may suck but honestly in problems like this it doesn't hurt to go the safe way
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That would not be a problem at all, in fact, that is what I would love to be able to do, but I haven't been able to find an image file for odin to do it. Every image for a stock rooted file for my phone is formatted for CWM, and it won't flash anything from my sd card right now. If I had an odin image, I would do just that.
Found one and flashed it. It's sad to see everything on my phone get deleted though.
Well, I tried to install http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2683507 and I've done it before, but this time I'm having trouble and I think I screwed up.
I downloaded it, copied it to my SD card in my phone, made a backup ( or so I thought ), wiped, and well it fails
whenever I try to flash it says
E:error opening '/data/data/com.android.chrome/cache/com,google,Chrome.
E: error: Too many open files
E: Unable to open zip file
Error flashing zip 'external_sd/V9 (1).zip'
This is kind of urgent I no longer have a phone now
EDIT: WELL I have it working again THANK THE GODS I honestly don't know how. I just sort of well, kept at it. I kind of figured the download got a little messed up, so I downloaded a different ROM, turned the phone off, and well it did the same thing. by now I'm freaking out, thinking "holy **** I finally did it, I ruined it." But I refused to stop, I just kinda kept trying to get it to work, I honestly don't know how I got it to work, and I don't even care. I DID notice when the ROM did get installed it said on TWRP the same message, but that was after the ROM installed. so I have no idea.
Might have to Odin to stock and start over.
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Might have to Odin to stock and start over.
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Wouldn't mind going back to stock, not sure how I would ODIN back to it, I'm a little new to phone stuff. but I did end up getting it working anyways, I edited the first post
Glad to hear you got it going.
In case you need to in the future to Odin back to stock you download the firmware from Samsung:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
Then you go into download mode and using Odin (on your laptop) you flash the stock firmware.
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