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Device / Update Software?

I have two t-mobile galaxy s3. when I go to Settings / About Device one of them has Baseband version T999UVLH2 and when I do Software Update it says that it is up to date. The other one is Baseband version T999UVLG1. When I do Sofware Update it says it's not up to date, and downloads update, and then tells me to reboot but after rebooting it fails to update it, and so it reverts back.
What could be the problem that it can't update it - might it be that I rooted the device and I have put the clockworkmod reocvery?

Yes, that's the problem. You have to have stock recovery to update.
Why not just flash a stock rooted Rom, since you have cwm?
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How would I flash a stock ROM, using odin? Where would I find the stock ROM? And can I still remain rooted?
Sorry for these basic questions, I am very new to smart phone and android.
Karakoram2 said:
Yes, that's the problem. You have to have stock recovery to update.
Why not just flash a stock rooted Rom, since you have cwm?
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Look in the development section of this phone. There are stickied threads that go over the basics.
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You could just download Rom manager, also. And, flash from there, as well.
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Use the toolkit and read the no trip root method.

can you point me to the link - I don't even know what the toolkit is.
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Use the toolkit and read the no trip root method.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1645

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28175575
And
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28740768

Aerowinder, thanks for your reply.
Rooting - I have rooted the phone. That is was not problem. It worked after rooting. It is after the Restore that it is having the problem.
What am I suppose to do
Reset to factory default? I can't do that cause I can't get to settings. In fact I cant get to anything.

How can I remove twrp from my s3...???

It seems to be blocking the update videotron is pushing..
Thanks.

Replace it with something else
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It'll have to be stock recovery for it to even download to the phone I'm pretty sure.
Only a few options I can think of.
Get a stock VLALE6 recovery and install it.
Flash the stock FW and then update.
Or just flash the updated stock FW.
Has it already downloaded the ota?
It should be in /cache/fota/ if it has. It'll be update.zip.
If it did, I can help you get it installed as is. Make a copy of the update.zip if you can btw.
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Here's the link to the updated FW VLALH2:
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/173149966/1ff667a/T999VVLALH2_T999VYVLALH2_VTR.zip.html
And link to original FW VLALE6:
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/163232712/b049991/T999VVLALE6_T999VYVLALE6_VTR.zip.html
If you want you can try using Mobile Odin. Download the LE6 FW and choose to install it in Mobile Odin. You can deselect everything but recovery and flash. Then you should be able to get the ota.
You could also pull recovery.img from the FW re-tar it and flash with pc odin.
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Ok, thanks Doc, I think I understand. I'll give it a shot in the morning.

Flash this stock recovery with Odin. http://stockroms.net/file/GalaxyS3/SGH-T999/stockrecovery
And this is the stock rom which is also flashable in Odin. http://stockroms.net/file/GalaxyS3/SGH-T999/StockROMs.net-SGH-T999_TMB_1_20120523140229.zip

knickfan5745 said:
Flash this stock recovery with Odin. http://stockroms.net/file/GalaxyS3/SGH-T999/stockrecovery
And this is the stock rom which is also flashable in Odin. http://stockroms.net/file/GalaxyS3/SGH-T999/StockROMs.net-SGH-T999_TMB_1_20120523140229.zip
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Always good to have another resource, but two things real quick...
He can't use this FW. Its for the T999 but since he's on Videotron he will almost certainly have the model T999V.
It does not say what build either the FW or the Recovery are. I'm guessing they are both the original build UVALEM, but it really should specify.
Thanks anyway man.
@OP
If you do have the T999V like I suspect, use the links I gave you a couple posts up.
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Thanks Doc, I do and I will....

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DocHoliday77 said:
It'll have to be stock recovery for it to even download to the phone I'm pretty sure.
Only a few options I can think of.
Get a stock VLALE6 recovery and install it.
Flash the stock FW and then update.
Or just flash the updated stock FW.
Has it already downloaded the ota?
It should be in /cache/fota/ if it has. It'll be update.zip.
If it did, I can help you get it installed as is. Make a copy of the update.zip if you can btw.
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Here's the link to the updated FW VLALH2:
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/173149966/1ff667a/T999VVLALH2_T999VYVLALH2_VTR.zip.html
And link to original FW VLALE6:
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/163232712/b049991/T999VVLALE6_T999VYVLALE6_VTR.zip.html
If you want you can try using Mobile Odin. Download the LE6 FW and choose to install it in Mobile Odin. You can deselect everything but recovery and flash. Then you should be able to get the ota.
You could also pull recovery.img from the FW re-tar it and flash with pc odin.
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I have odin 3.04 on my computer, can I use that..??
Thanks.

I'm guessing it would work ok, but 3.07 is the lateset. Here's the thread for it. I would get the updated one personally.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1728605
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Well hell, seems I managed to do it, thanks again Doc...
For a while, it looked like my brain had finally reached capacity....

try
Rickkins said:
It seems to be blocking the update videotron is pushing..
Thanks.
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download rom manager and flash cwm and boom done

puchodog1977 said:
download rom manager and flash cwm and boom done
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you realize how old this thread is right?

HELP with Sprint Galaxy S3 rooted phone
Somebody installed the TeamWin rom on my Sprint Samsung S3 phone. I just want to factory default my phone and get it back to the way it was. Is this info still valid to do that?
Thanks

indyharleyguy said:
Somebody installed the TeamWin rom on my Sprint Samsung S3 phone. I just want to factory default my phone and get it back to the way it was. Is this info still valid to do that?
Thanks
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Yup. Just flash your stock firmware in Odin
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[Q] Downgraded from 4.3 back to 4.1.1 and now I'm bricked

Last night I downgraded my phone from 4.3 back to 4.1.1 and it worked fine. So after the 4.1.2 OTA update started and my phone rebooted. Since then it has been stuck at the Samsung Galaxy Note II screen and will only boot into download mode. Does anyone know any way to force it into recovery mode.

What model? I317m or i317?
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I ask cause I want to downgrade. But seems impossible for i317m users. Rogers bell etc.
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Gutierrez2071 said:
Last night I downgraded my phone from 4.3 back to 4.1.1 and it worked fine. So after the 4.1.2 OTA update started and my phone rebooted. Since then it has been stuck at the Samsung Galaxy Note II screen and will only boot into download mode. Does anyone know any way to force it into recovery mode.
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your not bricked
get the appropriate stock odin firmware for your phone and use odin to put yourself stock.
Where you on official 4.3 or leak 4.3?

pandpet first
jester12345 said:
What model? I317m or i317?
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I ask cause I want to downgrade. But seems impossible for i317m users. Rogers bell etc.
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i317 the at&t version

voluntas scirmto
bbrennan said:
your not bricked
get the appropriate stock odin firmware for your phone and use odin to put yourself stock.
Where you on official 4.3 or leak 4.3?
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Official 4.3. I've tried that and it won't boot

I am on the leaked 4.3 from designgears and want to get the official how do I do that?
I have an AT&t i317

Gutierrez2071 said:
Official 4.3. I've tried that and it won't boot
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unfortunately due to you being on official its a one way street. LOCKED bootloader, there is no downgrading. Now i believe I read on the s3 forums that if you can reflash the current official bootloader and rom you 'might' be able to boot, suck part is I dont think anybody has posted it yet.
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tubaboy26 said:
I am on the leaked 4.3 from designgears and want to get the official how do I do that?
I have an AT&t i317
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NO
no you dont, stay on leak and stay having the freedom of not being locked down

Listen to the above post.... g
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bbrennan said:
unfortunately due to you being on official its a one way street. LOCKED bootloader, there is no downgrading. Now i believe I read on the s3 forums that if you can reflash the current official bootloader and rom you 'might' be able to boot, suck part is I dont think anybody has posted it yet.
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NO
no you dont, stay on leak and stay having the freedom of not being locked down
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I managed to find a modded bootloader on here and was able to boot up again I'm stuck on 4.1.1 now but its working again

Gutierrez2071 said:
I managed to find a modded bootloader on here and was able to boot up again I'm stuck on 4.1.1 now but its working again
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Mind posting the steps you performed? You might help other members out making the same mistakes you made. And can you just one click back to 4.3?

Yes ....please post...as many users need a bootloader downgrade method ....g
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gregsarg said:
Yes ....please post...as many users need a bootloader downgrade method ....g
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I've seen a lot of luck from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2502464
Edit: DO NOT run this on the official ota update.

Ya luck for non canadian varients lol.i think were screwed over here
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flymacs said:
I've seen a lot of luck from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2502464
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You trolling? @Milkman00 reports it not to work with new official 4.3 ota. Just wanting to make sure no one is led astray...
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joedeuce said:
You trolling? @Milkman00 reports it not to work with new official 4.3 ota. Just wanting to make sure no one is led astray...
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No, I'm not trolling. Nothing to troll for. If there are issues with this downgrade on the OTA 4.3, I highly recommend following Milkman00's advise.

I think there is some confusion here.
I was on the stock 4.3 and tried using ODIN to undo the bootloader. It didn't work. Not only did it not work, but it rendered my phone unusable. It claims that there is a firmware problem and to use Kies to restore the firmware, which cannot be done currently as the latest firmware in Kies is <4.3.
DO NOT USE THAT METHOD. Long story short is that I now have a Note 3 because I broke my Note 2. :/

Milkman00 said:
I think there is some confusion here.
I was on the stock 4.3 and tried using ODIN to undo the bootloader. It didn't work. Not only did it not work, but it rendered my phone unusable. It claims that there is a firmware problem and to use Kies to restore the firmware, which cannot be done currently as the latest firmware in Kies is <4.3.
DO NOT USE THAT METHOD. Long story short is that I now have a Note 3 because I broke my Note 2. :/
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Ouch! Hopefully, thanks to you and joedeuce, the rest of us on the official ota won't go down the same path.
Thank you

I hope not. That is why I posted it. Didn't want anyone else to experience my pain. :/
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New 4.3 to 4.1.2 downgrade method?

Hello, I recently decided to downgrade from 4.3 to 4.1.1 (I'm on Telus I747M 4.3) so that I can unlock my phone due to it being impossible while on 4.3. So then I knew that it basically was impossible, until I stumbled upon thishttp://www.androidpit.com/how-to-downgrade-galaxy-s3 So now I'm wondering if this method is possible? Anyone tried it? Telus users?

According to the screenshot, the s3 used was an i9300 rather than the i747m.
Personally, I would not take a chance.

I was able to downgrade from 4.3 to 4.1.1 however it's still not possible to unlock. Don't know why, I tried by leaving the new modem as well as downgrading the modem. ANY of the older modems would show up as unknown and not even let me into service mode.
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COfatboy said:
I was able to downgrade from 4.3 to 4.1.1 however it's still not possible to unlock. Don't know why, I tried by leaving the new modem as well as downgrading the modem. ANY of the older modems would show up as unknown and not even let me into service mode.
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Were on a stock 4.3 rom with the latest 4.3 bootloader? Did you use mobile Odin to downgrade the OS?

Yes stock 4.3 with new bootloader. I flashed TWRP with Odin then flashed a 4.1.1 custom rooted ROM with it. The problem with downgrading is changing the bootloader, if you flash the old firmware with Odin it flashes the bootloader also. Then you have problems, mabt reported brickings from this.
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I just looked at the link you posted, definitely don't follow those instructions, or you will brick.
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COfatboy said:
Yes stock 4.3 with new bootloader. I flashed TWRP with Odin then flashed a 4.1.1 custom rooted ROM with it. The problem with downgrading is changing the bootloader, if you flash the old firmware with Odin it flashes the bootloader also. Then you have problems, mabt reported brickings from this.
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You had stock 4.3 with Knox on your phone?

audit13 said:
You had stock 4.3 with Knox on your phone?
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And if you were to remove knox?

audit13 said:
You had stock 4.3 with Knox on your phone?
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Yes stock 4.3 with Knox. I rooted with Chainfire autoroot and Knox kept blocking Super SU.
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COfatboy said:
Yes stock 4.3 with Knox. I rooted with Chainfire autoroot and Knox kept blocking Super SU.
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Just to confirm, you were on stock 4.3 with Knox, you flashed TWRP, you booted into the OS, and you still didn't have root?
I'm asking because I was trying to help another XDA member that is having trouble with his s3 that's running stock AT&T 4.3 ROM.

I would not call it a true downgrade since you only flashed a custom Rom and you still have the 4.3 bootloader and modem.
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Also, I believe that you needed to update supersu to the latest version and then update the su binaries to disable knox. The latest version is 1.89, but it's currenly only on XDA, not in the playstore
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audit13 said:
Just to confirm, you were on stock 4.3 with Knox, you flashed TWRP, you booted into the OS, and you still didn't have root?
I'm asking because I was trying to help another XDA member that is having trouble with his s3 that's running stock AT&T 4.3 ROM.
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I rooted with Chainfire autoroot, when it booted Knox was blocking and force closing Super SU. I flashed TWRP with Odin, Knox is still there and no root access, but now you have a custom recovery and can flash a custom rom that has Knox removed. I'm running this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2252932
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COfatboy said:
I rooted with Chainfire autoroot, when it booted Knox was blocking and force closing Super SU. I flashed TWRP with Odin, Knox is still there and no root access, but now you have a custom recovery and can flash a custom rom that has Knox removed. I'm running this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2252932
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Thank you very much for the information. Glad you got it all sorted out.:fingers-crossed:

shortydoggg said:
I would not call it a true downgrade since you only flashed a custom Rom and you still have the 4.3 bootloader and modem.
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Also, I believe that you needed to update supersu to the latest version and then update the su binaries to disable knox. The latest version is 1.89, but it's currenly only on XDA, not in the playstore
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As I said before after I rooted with CF, Knox blocks SuperSU or something and it force closes. No way to get into it and update binaries, and yes I was on the latest version. There are many people reporting this on the CF autoroot thread. This is the only way I was able to obtain root.
I'm well aware the bootloader cannot be downgraded. It also seems as long as you are on the new bootloader you can not use the normal unlocking methods. That's the reason this thread was started to begin with.
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audit13 said:
Thank you very much for the information. Glad you got it all sorted out.:fingers-crossed:
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Sure, hope it helped you out and maybe saved you some time.
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[Q] Stuck on rooted stock 4.1.2 firmware and I can't seem to do anything about it.

I'd love to update my firmware to KitKat but nothing I do will let me update it. When I do an OTA update it goes to 27% and then fails (I've tried this multiple times and it ALWAYS fails at 27%)
So far I have tried these other methods:
Installed (and uninstalled/rebooting my PC) Kies multiple times and tried various methods of upgrading it through there like trying download mode, which the phone didn't even recognize because it stayed on "Connecting" until it timed out, but it says I'm on the most current version which is total BS. I then flashed this rom (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1980644) via Odin to see if that would help updating it OTA but it didn't. It still stopped at 27%. I've done a few factory resets and tried each method again after each time. Still nothing works.
Is there anything you can suggest to help?

What bootloader do you have ??
If you have either the official 4.3 or 4.4 loader. ..The flash will fail because those bootloaders cannot be overwritten. ..g
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And if you want stock rooted 4.4...just flash zen arcades rooted stock 4.4 rom using TWRP OR CWM recovery. ..g
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2802189
Check the first page of the thread. ..g
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I did a factory reset before flashing that ROM via Odin.
My firmware is only 4.1.2 so I'm pretty sure I don't have either the 4.3 or 4.4 bootloader but I don't know which I have for certain. I do know I used the rom I linked to earlier to root my phone when I first rooted it. ChainFire AutoRoot if that helps.
I was looking at installing SaberKat 1.5 because it sounded like a good option due to the lack of bloat and a few tweaks.

Freshenstein said:
I did a factory reset before flashing that ROM via Odin.
My firmware is only 4.1.2 so I'm pretty sure I don't have either the 4.3 or 4.4 bootloader but I don't know which I have for certain. I do know I used the rom I linked to earlier to root my phone when I first rooted it. ChainFire AutoRoot if that helps.
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Okay. ..
If you have the 4.1.2 loader that isn't the problem. ..
I'd just flash Zens 4.4.2 rom...and then you can retain your 4.1 loader... (good)...
Locate the TWRP recovery thread in development. ..and flash the new recovery via Odin....then flash Zens stock 4.4.2 rom....and done...g
Here ya go...see the first page of the thread. ..
Once you have TWRP...you can flash the rom above. ..or any 4.4 build...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1981198
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Good to go! Thanks for all your help!

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Good to go! Thanks for all your help!
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Always welcome. ..
And very sorry about the late reply to your P.M....
It was late. ..And I crashed. ...lol
Enjoy the rom...
If you have any WiFi issues. ..
Flash the latest version of AGNI kernel. ..g
http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/?id=2368#downloads
And don't worry about the N7105 designator. ..as its fully compatible. .g
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