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[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] 92drls:
For someone who has over 6000 thanks's, I'm not getting any support here. Sorry but I'm super frustrated and this is now my 2nd bricked SG3. I wouldn't be so worried if I was dumb but I have rooted probably 30 phones in the last couple years and I KNOW what I'm doing. Does Samsung have some kind of recovery backup? My phone is completely bricked now and wont power on after flashing CWM and doing a SG3 Superwipe and ROM install from Mike.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] drakester09:
If what your signature says is accurate, then it was your mistake buddy, this forum is for the international S3, not the T-Mobile. The chipset is different (Exynos on the intl), LTE, 2GB ram vs 1, etc. There must be several other differences.

It is no one else's fault. Sorry.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] 92drls:
Well damn.. The main page says GSM edition, T-Mobile IS GSM? Whatevs, my bad, hopefully I can get this one exchanged too and will triple check next time. Didn't mean to point fingers at anyone, was just frustrated. Thanks for the heads up.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] drakester09:
Best of luck mate. Hopefully you can get it exchanged.

Here's the forum category for the T-Mo S3 variant (T-999):

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1706
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] 9Lukas5:
What's your modelnumber in settings? If it is I9300 you're right here. I'd advise you put the rom you want to flash onto a sdcard (fat32 formatted), put into the phone, flash cwm touch 6.0.1.2 with Odin and uncheck autoreboot in Odin. After the flash was successful, disconnect the device, pull out the battery and wait a bit, put it back in and directly press the recovery combination (power Vol+ Home). Then the recovery starts hopefully and then you can flash the new rom, make a full wipe and restart into the custom rom ;)

L
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] jcval13:
Will CWM Touch work on 4.1.2? or it doesn't matter? Cuz I currently have cf root and I want CWM touch.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Unexampled Orion:
And is ROM Manager usable with this version (6.0.1.2)?:confused:

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No, it doesn't matter. It works on 4.1.2 as well.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] norpan111:
Is there some way we can achieve temp root and flash this from mobile odin or something? I'm home with my kids and my computer is & *=@.. I just want to flash this without pc hah

Skickat från min GT-I9300 via Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] ducky1979:
I always flash with mobile odin, have you not permanent rooted?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] wizzbang3:
Well I've found a clear design flaw in this new backup method.

I have 2 backups of my phone and not enough space for a third backup.

I accidentally kicked off a backup instead of a restore and it failed, unable to make a backup of the system section and failed

In doing so, because the blobs structure design, my 'system' was over written (but damaged) and rendered both my other backups useless too! Very clever.

Does anyone know how to disable this system and switch back to the nice, single file method? Ideally with max compression to boot? (space is my problem, not time)
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Striatum_bdr:
It's in backup menu, set format to tar.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] mloc33:
Anyone have any problems installing this while on Omega 33.2?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] wizzbang3:
Format- got it, thanks dude. Appreciate it.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] silvio82:
I've made a backup yesterday with 5.8.4.5 to the external card and my backup is 1.3 Gb......

I'm lucky or depends from other factors?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] mskip:
It could very well work for some people but if a number of people including myself are getting errors then its not a stable release.

I will attach it back to the first post for people to test and post results if they want.

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] lukemo:
For me 4.1 gb total bup on external sd ...reverting to 5.8.4.3
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] lollo1927:
For me no longer recognizes MTP on PC, I go back to 5.8.4.3 and it works ...
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] graphreak:
I am on 5.8.4.5 and I do get both MTP and PTP options each time I connect with USB to my laptop.

Though, I have not tried a nandroid yet.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] BatGnat:
Thanks. 5.8.4.3 was awesome, and I wasn't likeing 4.5 (apart from not working) as it makes the external the default, i want the internal as default.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Bishopandme:
good job:cowboy:
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Shane:
GREAT WORK SIR
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] happybob:
thanks work great
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] TotallydubbedHD:
Lovely!

Works like a charm on my SGS i9300

Running 5.8.4.3

Video guide to follow :)!

EDIT:

Here's the video!

I'de appreciate it if it was put in the OP :)!

[YOUTUBE]zE0zjG7taBs[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] walkergeri:
Isnt there a CWM manager for this touch recovery? Because i like to do Backups with it.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] mskip:
CWM Manager is an app by Chainfire for his modded version of CWM which you can find in the main forum.

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] mskip:
Nice video I especially enjoyed your excitement at the end when you said you could do everything by touch lol :p

Video added to the OP.

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] TotallydubbedHD:
Thanks mate!

Hope you don't mind me using your very good written guide (of course credited) on my website
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] mskip:
No of course not :)

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] galarond:
Hi, im using the 5.8.4.3 version and im getting 6gb backup on externad sd, what im i doing wrong?, yeah im using version 3, not 5.

Tnx
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] gatebil:
try to backup to your internal sd. my backup to internal sd is fine (1.62gb)
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] mskip:
V5.8.4.3 doesnt support backing up to external storage so if you have that option I would suggest downloading and flashing cwm recovery again and recheck it.

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] rasoolakhter:
I did

i did this with my mac used heimdall it works awsome but didnt find external sd card will fix with the help of you love you
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] shorty1483:
Has the 5.8.4.5 non touch version also the bug?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] PIRATA!:
I'm sorry...REAL ifferences between this CWM Touch and other TWRP 2.3.1.0 touc recovery???

Really interested in this one as I am using now that version of TWRP.

Thank you.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] sarbe:
No problems here mate.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] makalolo:
Hye OP i already flash you CWM but i got some prob when boot into cwn and i got some msg at btm of the screen say can't found log file error some thing like that...i flash using odin
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] ARDV:
after flashing with odin and rebooting, i get the old recovery

tried 3 versions of recoveries (all are cwm)

help please
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] wizzbang3:
Suggestion for developer:

Hi there,

I am having space issues on my S3 and I keep accidentally backing up to SD card. Is it possible to simple set up an option to disable it as a destination? Similar to how the backup format (tar) thing writes a small file, I'd love to just hide the SDCard entirely as a backup destination.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] seanpr123:
Is it possible to flash this anyway in the old CWM or do I need to Odin it through?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Chillz88:
Use mobile odin mate.. its easier...
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] seanpr123:
Thanks, just decided to Odin it along.

Thanks OP!
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] gsw5700:
Any chance of adding efs backup and restore? Thanks

Sent via TCP/IP
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] iamthemandroid:
Strange situation: My external sd card seems to only exist within ClockwordMod! Whether it is CWM Touch 6.0.1.2 or CWM 5.5.0.4 :: CF-v1.3, I can successfully take a nandroid backup to the external sd card and restore a backup from the external sd card to the mobile, and see the files when I browse the directory tree from the CWM interface.

But very strangely I cannot see the external sd card in the TWRP recovery program or in the stock Samsung 4.1 ROM or the custom Resurrection Remix 3.1.2 ROM that I just switched to (it was right after this switch when the card stopped being recognized).

I'd like to save my files on that external sd card! But I can't get at them... :confused:

/sdcard, /mnt/sdcard, and /storage/sdcard0 show the contents of the internal sd card (in file explorers like TotalCommander) on my mobile

/extSdCard, /mnt/extSdCard, and /storage/sdcard1 are empty, though earlier that's where the contents of the external sd card appeared

I tried putting the card into a sd card adapter and sticking that in my laptop, and my laptop doesn't seem to recognize the card either. So it seems like the only place where the existence of these files is getting recognized is in CWM!

How can I retrieve my files from the external sd card? Is there a way to use CWM to transfer the files from the external sd card to the internal sd card (which is getting recognized)? Or perhaps a way to use CWM to connect to my laptop in USB mass storage mode or something like that so I can transfer the files out of it?

Any suggestions would be most welcome for saving the files on that card! I know the files are there, but CWM is the only one who believes me :)
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] strikoo:
I am having problems with creating a backup. The size of the backup is only 16mb :eek: Doesn't matter if I backup to SD card or phone storage. I installed the recovery through Samsung SGS3 Toolkit
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] bing1221:
Change format to .tar:victory:
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] 9Lukas5:
That's the way the new blobs backup method works. The backup itself is stored in the blobs folder and the backupfolder is only a link to the files in the blobs folder ;)

L

---------- Post added at 11:58 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:58 AM ----------

Have you tried the Aroma file manager?

L
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] strikoo:
Stupid me. Thank you for the answer.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] krz_ayman:
Hello, your kernel can not install files from the external sdcard via recovery and also impossible to mount the card. !
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] inzaghi75:
Can I flash it on I9305?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] sarbe:
Read the OP, Samsung Galaxy S3 GSM edition only.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] iarapilot:
I have backed up my phone using the tar format. How would you restore from this? By flashing the image.zip from within CWM?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Striatum_bdr:
By using restore feature would be more simple.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Kobrax:
Can I install this recovery through mobile Odin?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Striatum_bdr:
Yes. Odin and Mobile Odin user the same format.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] iarapilot:
But in the CWM restore menu, what would I select? The image.zip is stored on my internal sd and there is no option to restore from internal sd.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] THE.W!ZARD:
I Am On CWM 5 ( Through This Guide http://checkrom.com/threads/resurrection-odin-checkrom-evohd™-v4.896/) Anyway To Update To CWM 6 Without Odin?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] ginodp:
Go to this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=32235061 Thats the CWM for the i9305.

Give the search a try or take a look at the i9305 section. I don't think you want to brick your device with wrong stuff.

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[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] andy572:
can someone give me a small hint? i have softbricked my phone today and must flash the original samsung firmware to use my phone again, now i was

flashing this recovery twice and again, but if i reboot my phone to recovery mode i only get the samsung recovery. what can i do to use this recovery again ?:D

Its not a joke, sorry :)

### EDIT

Its all ok, have to untick "reboot" after flashing with Odin to use it :D
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] sharingan92:
Get the latest 6.0.1.9 touch and non touch recovery's here

for the int s3 only

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35039672

im what Willis was talking about
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] febrilabs:
hi guys im using cwm 5 and custom rom.

is it work when i flashed this one? because cwm 5 still using volume pad to control the cwm :(
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Koetermann:
Hi, I installed CWM 6.0.1.2 via Odin on my wives S3 int.

It works, but now I have a big problem.

I made a "normal" backup to external SD card and got no error messages.

But when I started the restore process I got the error messages "can't restore /data". :crying:

Can I repair the backup?

Don't get me wrong. I love CWM very much and used it many, many times. But can I trust it, when that happens?

Regards

Koetermann
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] fenstre:
You should really ask in a thread dedicated to your ROM, not here. But general advice for the direction you should take:

Install/configure adb (android debugger) on your computer (you should be able to connect the phone, open a terminal, and type "adb shell"). Within the recovery, find out the details of the sdcard hardware:

mount | grep -i sdcard

or

mount -l | grep -i sdcard

The first part of the file is the device node/ID. (And the rest of the line may be informative in some way.) Boot into the phone system (not recovery) and try to mount it yourself:

su
mkdir /mnt/temp
mount /dev/block/vold/179:49(or whatever) /mnt/temp
rmdir /mnt/temp

The "mount" command should return an error. What error? If we can't help you here, bring that information to a thread about your ROM and ask them for help. But the good news is it mounts from recovery, so you can get some idea of what's going wrong by comparing the system when booted to recovery and the system when booted into Android proper. But really, it might be easier to backup, factory reset, and restore all the apps you use.

The same procedure you used to backup can be used to restore, just instead of choosing "backup to sdcard" in the menu, choose "restore from sdcard".
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] pat357:
Thanks for the update !

Do you maybe happen to know what has been changed in this version compared to 6.0.1.2 ?

Has anyone maybe noticed a difference between this and the 6.0.1.2 version ?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] sharingan92:
Ability to side load and multiple no's are gone when wiping dalvik and cache but still there in factory reset to avoid accidental presses thats what i have noticed

im what Willis was talking about
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Koetermann:
And tar is now the standard for backups, not longer dup.

I think that's better.

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[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] pat357:
A bit strange : it seems that I had more options in ROM Manager advanced settings that are gone now.

Like going to an older CMW recovery version : there used to be a list to pick the version you wanted (from v5.8 and up, IIRC).

Although I've both bought CWM recovery and ROM Manager, it seems that the so called "extended commands" don't work anymore.

In the log I've : "..extended commands.. FILE NOT FOUND.. and it continues.

What is still bugging me the most is that when I make a backup in TAR format, some off the TAR's are 0 bytes, but there are TAR.A and TAR.B files.

boot.img

cache.ext4.tar

cache.ext4.tar.a

cache.ext4.tar.b

data.ext4.tar

data.ext4.tar.a

nandroid,md5

recovery.img

system.ext4.tar

system.ext4.tar.a

system.ext4.tar.b

Total space occupied : 1.8 GB

Is this the "expected" output from a "backup" (I wanted a nandroid backup) from CWM ?

It seems that some .TAR files are 0 bytes and 2 files are then generated : one with a .TAR.A and one with a .TAR.B.

The file system.ext4.tar.a for example is is exactly 1.000.000.000 bytes, de rest is in system.ext4.tar.b

Note that I'm using the "Touch version 6.0.1.2" from CWM recovery (see method here)

Why are these .TAR files splitted in an empty .TAR (0 bytes) + .TAR.A + .TAR.B ?

I didn't take the risk yet to do a "restore" : suppose that the restore chokes on the empty .TAR files, then I'll end up with an empty SYSTEM and an empty DATA partition !!! How nice !!

Have a look at the screenshot and you'll see what I mean :
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] mskip:
OP updated to 6.0.1.9 Touch Recovery.

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] IamIrene:
don't know why download from sharingan thread and flash got something error

but download the 1 from OP and flash working fine lol

*flash using mobile odin
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] redcore2k:
6.0.2.3 Touch Recovery

Here is the the v6.0.2.3 Touch Recovery!

-flash with Mobile Odin
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] :
Do you have tar file? Because mobile odin 3.57 do not know what is a img:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] strikoo:
Why would you flash something that someone with 9 posts uploaded? And knowing that latest version on clockworkmod website is 6.0.1.9.

WHY?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] redcore2k:
See here: https://github.com/cyanogenmod/andr...mmit/69cbb9049b074f4282e30cbe526ce28f57e69a1b

then do it yourself with the http://builder.clockworkmod.com/

But hey, you know better :)

one more user to ignore :good:
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] strikoo:
Don't cry for your SGS3 argentina.

Put some real life proof :good:

I know better than to flash everything that someone uploads!
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] redcore2k:
I just did.

I doubt you know anything better, but nobody forces you to use it.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] strikoo:
Make your own thread and post there.

Good for you being so smart and awesome!
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Phil3759:
All these versions are based on a cm10 or worst 10.1 kernel and could give you trouble for some features. They also will never support exfat...

Furthermore, they will not accept unencrypted recovery commands

Not to highjack the thread, but you'd better recompile from source by yourself, or take a look here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2002953
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] fenstre:
bicker bicker

Rather, if I were you I wouldn't use unreleased, untested versions of CWM. Do you guys remember when that poorly tested version wiped everybody's /data partition?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] :
My dream: .7z support, hehehe. Imagine very high compressed ROMs. I did a backup of the whole system here, uncompressed is 1GB. When I compressed with 7zip-ultra mode+some other parameters, it reached 500MB. It's amazing.

ps: don't flame me, it's just a dream that might never be possible.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] mskip:
Are you saying 6.0.2.3 from koush doesn't work?

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] fenstre:
Koush's site is the official ClockworkMod site, right? If so, there isn't a 6.0.2.3 from Koush. Unreleased. Not tested "in the wild".
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Striatum_bdr:
We are in a free land, let people decide what version they want to use. 6.0.2.3 is working you're free not to use it. That's how things work here, people test new things never tested before.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] mskip:
My apologies I actually meant 6.0.1.9 which is the version I have posted in this thread. I was downloading some builds for other devices at the time and had 6.0.2.3 on the brain lol.

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] longice:
- I can't seem to get the 6.0.1.9 to flash via Odin. I follow instructions to detail, and click Start, it seems to start but then nothing happens. My only choice is to restart device by holding power button and I'm still on 6.0.1.2. No error message in Odin, it just sits there and seems to be waiting for something... Any hints or tips?

- If I understand this deleting blobs thing correctly, I can delete old backups from CWM? And upon next backup the blobs folders will be cleaned up? Right now they seem to eat my entire phone memory...

- And would someone know if the SanDisk Mobile Ultra microSDHC 32 GB Class 10 UHS-I would be OK to buy for my phone?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] fenstre:
Yes, or the cleanup will happen immediately if you click "free unused backup data" option (don't remember the exact name).
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Vlad_M:
Can someone explain this to me - does this mean that the recovery will be overwritten after a reboot? In other words, I have to be rooted and rename the files?

Sorry for the noob question.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] fenstre:
Yes and yes, unless you are good with ADB. In that case, you could delete them the first time CWM runs without actually booting the phone. (I think. Haven't actually tried it.)
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Vlad_M:
In other words, to be able to flash different roms safelY, one needs to be rooted?
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Striatum_bdr:
No. You never need root to flash from recovery, by definition recovery had root access during file writing process, as it runs from another partition than system ones.

The sentences quoted above concern ONLY SOME STOCK ROMS (which ones ? I've not tried all Sammy roms but I guess devs don't include a stock recovery in their Rom that would be idiot ) that contain a stock recovery image that overwrites the installed recovery. The sentence should be rephrased, it's not clear at all.

I've never had to use that feature and never had to reflash the recovery.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] fenstre:
There's a misconception here. The ROM itself is either rooted or not rooted. When flashing ROMs, it doesn't matter whether you're rooted or not--after flashing, you will be rooted if and only if the ROM is rooted.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] mskip:
If you are on a samsung stock rom then most probably the files will exist in which case the stock recovery is reflashed after every boot. You can use the Galaxy S3 Toolkit (link in my sig) to flash an insecure kernel and rename the files or you can root and rename/delete them manually with root explorer or es file explorer.

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] neoavi7:
Hey, I am using 32 GB Samsung Class 10 card for a while now and works great.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] ezechiele2517:
Hi all, I have a problem with my new S3: I rooted the device 2 weeks ago without an external sd card inside it and all was fine but when I use the dalvik cache I see this message at bottom of the screen:

"E: unknown volume for path [/sd-ext]"

but afther this message I see Dalvik Cache wiped so all works fine but

I just updated to latest CWM Recovery 6.0.1.9 but the problem is the same; is it due to the fact I rooted without an external sdcard inside it?

How can I fix it?

thank you
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] Vlad_M:
Thanks Mark!
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] mikep99:
Its not a problem :)

sdext is when you have apps on your external sd using ext2/3/4 etc.

This isnt possible on GS3 as far as I know so it's nothing to worry about.
[Galaxy S III Original Android Development] ezechiele2517:
ok thank you