yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] rbj13:
Do you still have SU and CWM? I know this method doesn't reset the counter but if it sets the status to normal that's one part of having a warranty return method.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] kydkupa:
SU doesnt work and CMW only works for what was in my other post.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] matrox00612:
After flashing via odin the phone is back to stock, including stock recovery, no root and stock boot.img. The only thing is the counter, still on the last flash number, does not reset. Also the internal sd was not formated, old files for root purpose was there.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] LudoGris:
when I mentioned having an Odin root method with this it was to have an Odin method that didn't hit the counter. So far it seems as though this doesn't change the counter, now we just need root built in.

Can this be done without adding CWM? So stock recovery with just root access. This would be a good start for those that would prefer to keep mostly stock with access to change some stock apps out like touchwiz email to ICS email.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Joe777G:
I'm pretty sure that the stock images have a built-in md5 checksum or similar that will fail and trip the flash counter if any odin flashed image is modified even in the slightest. What we need is a way to get root without odin or CWM inplace without using odin to flash custom rooted ROMs.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mrRobinson:
should be doable. if my upload to dropbox ever finishes I'd post it.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pinoymutt:
This may be a good start :) It's for the International one, but in theory it should work relatively the same.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27872306

I unfortunately don't have a Linux box lying around to try this, but if someone was adventurous - it may be worth trying ;)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mrRobinson:
Exactly what i just did. Unfort i don't have my phone for testing for the next 10 hrs so if anyone wants to flash this in odin and see if their counter doesn't increase AND they get root then let me know:

Stock, rooted, no counter increase ???

Download to try...

Edit: removed link invalid system. will try again. I can test myself now.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] AdamLange:
Guys, this is a STOCK rom completly STOCK as from KIES, Samsung-updates.com got only STOCK roms :)

Adam
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pinoymutt:
Probably best for someone who was already rooted (and tripped the counter) and then flashed the package in the OP to get back to stock w/o root to flash this puppy and report back with two things:

1. Did it increase the flash counter?

2. Are you rooted again?

It would suck for someone who hasn't already tripped the counter to flash it and then it not work :(

If this works MrRobinson - you just made a lot of people VERY happy (including myself)

EDIT: If this then works, then we could possibly use some of the steps based on what the guys did for the Galaxy Note for getting CWM on the phone through the command line (again bypassing the counter) - and once you've got CWM - it's golden from there! http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23229071&postcount=57

(the only thing that would have to be tweaked is the mount point, because I believe the recovery mount point on our phones is 18 not 22 like on the Note - but this would have to be verified and we would use the i747 specific CWM recovery files in the dev section)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] AdamLange:
This is STOCK rom so:

Counter WONT be upped.

Counter WONT reset (sorry, flashing stock dont reset counter)

This is STOCK so NO ROOT.

You can use it as recovery.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pinoymutt:
Understood that the one posted in OP is Stock, but what MrRobinson is working on is an root-injected version of the stock that has been shown to work on the international version (and I also think on the Galaxy Note) that if it works also will not trip the counter but give root.

The counter reset issue is different. On the Note it involves flashing a modified sbl1.mbn which it appears is not in this firmware package - so most likely the counter is in a different location on the i747.

---------- Post added at 10:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:33 PM ----------

MrRobinson - it's a pretty damn big file - you mind confirming the MD5 hash for folks that wanna give it a whirl?

I'm getting 4A985D2C20D866DA0CE075FD82E4BF0F
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] AdamLange:
There is a problem with rooting US roms somehow, im trying to do so for like 2 days or so :) good luck!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pinoymutt:
I think the counter being tripped has something to do with Sammy-specific signed files. Depending on which ones are specifically modified may have something to do with it...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] wraithdu:
According to the recovery.fstab in the included recovery.img, you are correct that our recovery block is mmcblk0p18.

# mount point	fstype	device	[device2]
/boot	emmc	/dev/block/mmcblk0p7
/system ext4	/dev/block/mmcblk0p14
/data	ext4	/dev/block/mmcblk0p15	length=-16384
/cache ext4	/dev/block/mmcblk0p17
/recovery emmc	/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
/sdcard	vfat	/dev/block/mmcblk1p1	/dev/block/mmcblk1
/efs	ext4	/dev/block/mmcblk0p11
/modem	emmc	/dev/block/mmcblk0p1
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pinoymutt:
Thanks for the verification! I can feel it getting closer!!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] stan.s:
Does that mean "modified" or "normal" in the About Phone Status page?
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] mrRobinson:
I was able to test it now. invalid system. let me try a couple more things before giving up.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] TitaniumBarbell:
What are the differences of this new stock firmware compared to the First stock one?

Thank you!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pinoymutt:
Appreciate you working this. Unfortunately Linux isn't my strong suite, so serious modification is def out of my league.

But in case it's yours, here's another manual method - it's for the Note, but not sure if some of this may help as well. It also involves manually messing with the system.img.ext4 and manually injecting root components. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=22798858&postcount=32
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] nakedninja42:
Nothing, we just have a way to get back to stock now.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pinoymutt:
This is the same firmware that is shipping on the phones - only in a usable, flashable format.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] AtoZ0to9:
has anyone actually gotten this to finish downloading? im on maybe 30 tries now...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pinoymutt:
The link in the op? Got it last night just fine. Server may be getting hammered this morning :)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] groggrog:
Won't Install and Cannot Factory Reset

I'm having two very strange problems with my AT&T S3.

1) I cannot factory reset the device using any of the known methods, including from recovery. When I try it just doesn't go any further than hitting the "Delete All" button or whatever the prompt is based on the method. It's as if it's trying to call a program to do the reset but it's not there. So at this point I am completely unable to do a factory reset.

2) When I try to install the ROM in this thread, I get a message from recovery that it's a bad zip file. I am able to unzip the file with Windows, so it's not a bad zip. I was able to install Ultimatum and ICS with no problems. I'm really just trying to reset my device to factory and finding no way to do so, and I could use some help.

Thanks very much,

Greg
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pinoymutt:
Are you trying to install the ROM in this thread from CWM? If you try and flash it from CWM Recovery it's not gonna fly.

You've got to get the extract the zip and then flash the resultant tar.md5 file in the "PDA" section of ODIN.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] groggrog:
Ah, I missed that. Trying it now, thank you.

Any ideas about the factory reset issue? Maybe one of the options in ODIN will do that for me when I install the factory ROM?

Thanks again
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] pinoymutt:
The ROM in the op should get you to as close to a stock, out-of-the box experience as you can get on the phone. You shouldn't have any issues running the factory reset from either the GUI or stock recovery after you go back to stock using Odin.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Skunk Ape1:
The whole point of this is to bring your phone to stock. This is basically as factory reset as it gets.

:D

_______________

Just Flash It !!!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] groggrog:
Not quite a factory reset, as all my apps and data were still there after installing the ROM, but it did allow me to do an actual factory reset so it fixed that problem as well.

Thanks all!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] stan.s:
First, I wanted to say thank you to the OP for the root67 which I had to do absolutely nothing except change the ringtones, not even log into Google.

I dispute however the statement of stock. This is "AT&T Stock," it's not 'Samsung Stock generic GSM/LTE for North America' (so it could be flashed on both US and Canadian phones) and while that is a mouthful, that is the firmware update that I want, eventually. Just saying it's stock in the combined environment here is troublesome. Especially since there is no Canadian Android Dev Forum.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] goojman:
Just for the record, when flashing this firmware thru Odin the only box that should be checked is the auto- reboot box right? Sorry if this has already been asked but I'm trying to do this before I go to work.
[Thinkpad Tablet General] rovertech1:
So I started with my TPT working fine, with CWR and 0086 level software. I tried for a few hours to restore the stock recovery, following the stock recovery restore procedures that I found to no avail. Long story short...I copied a file from a backup of another 0086 install to my system/bin folder that I shouldn't have. It was the system/bin/sh.

Now, the tablet boots but I can tell i screwed up pretty bad because I don't have root, and voodoo root protector wont restore it. Also terminal emulator wont open, nor will root explorer. On top of that, i have no wifi.

I have basic adb understanding..thats about it.

Is there any hope?

If not, i'll have a partially useful tpt for sale cheap to experiment on :D
[Thinkpad Tablet General] toenail_flicker:
If no one can help you, and you can get it into a permanent boot loop, Lenovo will replace the motherboard and you can start over. Don't mention root. ;)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Ethere:
Is there any way to have SMS messages read to you over bluetooth without additional apps? I've tried DriveSafe.ly, and Vlingo and both read SMS over the speaker on the phone. It's a shame really, my Lumia did this by default.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] TKTAB911:
Doesn't googles text-to-speech do this..? I have my phone setup with that and it plays through my car stereo via bluetooth [aftermarket stereo, not one of those luxury ones ;D]
[Motorola Droid Bionic] chip0:
so im in 905, how do i downgrade back to 902 or 904 stock with no root? ever since i upgraded to 905 ive been having nothing but trouble, i never seem to have any 4g where i used to i can't ("can't" edited by VeNum. Was misspelled offensively) get online to do anything, can someone please help me out, thanx
[Motorola Droid Bionic] rcicu:
Use RSDLite to FXZ back to 902 w/o ROOT then you can go wherever you want to... :cyclops:
[Motorola Droid Bionic] chip0:
Thank you, where can I find the 902 file?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] 5thAgent:
This thread is in the wrong forum. Should be in Q&A. Second:

902 Bionic Pathsaver

A little googling goes a long way.

BTW I'm on a mac so I've never used RSDLite, so there ya go. Pathsaver.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] VECTUS:
Moved to Q and A. Please spell check what you write from here on out.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] 5thAgent:
Hey VeNuM, you didn't edit the 1st replier's quote. It still has that offensive word in it. >.>
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RationalMonkey:
I'm still in stock, and just rooted after the ICS update, so the problem isn't because of the root. Before rooting I tried factory data reset which did fix many problems like gps and music player, but the vibration/silent mode with vibration for notification still does not work.

Are there any mods or apks to install to replace the vibration settings to fix the problem ?

p.s. vibration works on phone calls when I select vibrate and ring, but seems to only not work with notifications like sms text messages.

Thanks.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blackangst:
Are you on stock?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RationalMonkey:
Yes, but rooted now ! no changes otherwise
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blackangst:
Hmm interesting. I have this issue but on a custom ROM. I got nothin' for ya :(
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RationalMonkey:
are there any apks, mods or apps to modify the vibration profile, that might be the solution ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] RationalMonkey:
Edit: Fixed the issue, ICS has separate sms messaging settings to vibrate, changed it to always from never.

Go to messages > settings > notification settings section - change vibrate (also vibrate when notified) to > Always
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Tweakecho:
Anyone else just notice that LTE is up in Jacksonville.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] Tweakecho:
FL that is LOL, got 38800kbps first few speed tests.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] xcrazydx:
There is already an lte thread, use it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] prbassplayer:
Duplicate Locked
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovenokia:
When will JB ROMS be coming to the samsung vibrant, i know that there is already some work for the g-nexus but nothing about the sgs models. Does anybody know when?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] junglerumble:
I'm assuming soon after Google releases the code for it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android88:
android 4.1

I hope sooner rather then later
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
When it gets to devices such as the Nexus S, I9000, or basically any Galaxy S family device (first gen)

IT has the potential to run on the Vibrant.

I am also hearing that the Nexus S is getting an official google update, so if that is true, we will get it for sure.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HeavyA:
That's what i was thinking as well. I love that our old phones manage to stay on the bleeding edge.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Intellectua1:
Hopefully soon.. I'm dying to run this on my Note..
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
The NOTE will get it for sure, no doubt about that, it just won't be through Samsung as they will want to put Touchwiz on top of it, which will take about 1 year, and by then the new version KAKA will be released.

haha
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skinzy98:
There is already an alpha version that was released

sent from the bottom of a red solo cup
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sil3ncer7:
Looks like Google just released the JB code into AOSP..

Roms will happen when they happen ;) If I were to take a wild guess, I would say in the in the future sometime.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dpaul007:
Patience! Count your blessings that we have awesome devs that gave us ICS!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dligon:
View attachment 1189948 already fully booted on my phone.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N00B_IN_N33D:
^ Ha, very punny sir... Very punny indeed.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vencc:
Yes, and we should really encourage them by donating anything for their cause. They're not really getting paid to do this, but they are doing it anyway. I recently just donated $5 to a dev that has helped me through a couple of problems, may not seem much but a little can go a long way :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jAnimate:
I can't wait to see what all these developers and going to create now that the source code is out. It will be a while with some dev teams starting from scratch but it will be worth the wait.
[HTC Titan] maclean_cherry:
Does anybody know what the update that came out today is? I don't see any changes and can't find anything on the Telstra website.
[HTC Titan] MrGoodBytes:
The only information I can find on this update is here:

h t t p : / / w w w . peterskitchen.net/?p=8330

This is just a firmware update from HTC, updating the firmware revision, radio software and the bootloader. The update is probably targeted at some of the isolated issues some users have had, like random reboots and device freezes.

I updated my Titan 4G last night and since then I've had trouble connecting to my hidden WiFi network and have and my first crash/random reboot.

I'm hoping these issues will sort themselves out. Have you had any similar problems?
[HTC Titan] maclean_cherry:
Only thing I noticed is a different Telstra logo on boot.

Never had a crash or any issues with mine so far. No issues with WiFi noticed since either
[General Questions and Answers] jdshoneybrown7:
First off, thanks to whoever can help me out :)

I did the OTA update for FC09, then used QBKing77's video to root it. I flashed Thunderhawk 5.1 and phone freezes on the thunderhawk boot up. Apparently im on BML and im not sure if that is causing this issue. I'm also running CWM 5.2.0.7. I've ran previous ROM's of TH and like them alot. Again thanks for help in advance :)
[General Questions and Answers] brandnu:
what version of TH are you trying to install? ??....there are two versions a BML and a MTD...it sounds like your flashing the MTD version, if you want MTD then you would have to flash the BML to MTD converter on Randoms Blog site first then flash the MTD version of TH5.1...if you need any more help or want to give more specific info so i can help you better PM me...hope this was helpful.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Ping-Pong:
just want to let you know that T-Mobile firmware is ready for download :cowboy:

http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SGH-T999
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Tweezydak1d:
Is this for odin
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] anthonykash:
Can this be used with the t mobile variant
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] hiazn:
If this is for sprint, why does the title say T-Mobile..

Edit: In that case, thanks PP
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] init_dot_t:
Its for T Mobile.. if you click on the link it says its for the T999
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] es7241:
I was wondering the same thing, but if it matters I went to the link and it says it's for T-Mobile T999UVALEM like the title
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Ping-Pong:
yes it is - same firmware as you would get updting with kies

ye, it is tmobile version i am tired and made a typo - corrected thnks and gnite :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] GoogleFan:
my phone came with this firmware. is this just posted to revert to stock if on a custom rom or is there other significance?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] aczarney:
Has anyone tried flashing yet?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] sswb27:
So this must mean we can flash fash back to stock with odin if we have problems.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] chadster214:
yup! this is our fall back ROM. now we need a triangle away to reset the counter!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] sizer99:
It Works

I decided to be the test monkey on this one.

I had a nandroid backup of when I screwed my system so badly it just boot looped repeatedly. Restored that with cwm, verified it was still hosed, unpacked this zip, used odin to burn the .tar.md5 to the phone as PDA, rebooted.

It does some gear chunking while booting the first time then reboots - don't panic yet! On second boot it does some more rebuilding, then 'WELCOME!'

Bonus: CWM now sees the actual external sdcard as /sdcard and can find things like roms and backups on it. Edit: This CWM finds .zips on the sdcard, but doesn't seem to know how to backup/restore.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] willham:
So is this for un rooting our phones?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] hiazn:
What do you mean "This CWM" ? The tars we're talking about in this thread are completely stock from samsung, there is no CWM in these... please elaborate.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] sizer99:
After burning this with Odin I ended up with a CWM that I didn't expect - and I've never seen one that actually recognized the external card. However, with all the things I've been trying it's quite possible I ended up burning a boot image I forgot about. I need to try reburning this and see if anything changes, but can't do it right now.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] hiazn:
Sounds like a plan, let us know what you find.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] M9x3mos:
is this actually

T999UVALEM

or

T999UVLEM
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] stevessvt:
Mine stock is T999UVLEM, whats the difference between the two?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jntdroid:
does this restore everything, including stock recovery, but resetting the counter?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] glensta:
Strange - I had kind of a weird experience with this. I flashed via Odin as usual (as I've done a 100x before) and when it rebooted, it still had remnants of the previous rom I had installed. I didn't get the "welcome" screen as if I was starting from a new factory rom. but at least it got me back to step 1 and I could flash the Lean 2.1 rom again to repair my screw ups.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Se7eN43:
Build Number (Version): T999UVALEM

Baseband (Radio): T999UVLEM
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mocsab:
Bricked PHone

I bricked my phone trying to get it back to Stock - now I need to flash a tar in ODIN and am not quite sure what to do -

The link you offered in this thread offers three download files - firmware - torrent - and Kernel -

Do I flash all three in ODIN? All simultaneously?

I know I put the firmware in PDA - do I put the Kernel in Phone Slot? What do I do with the Torrent file?

Is there a simpler way to do this?

I am desperate and kind of slow when it comes to this stuff - I can't find a video anywhwere - at least not one that was made for the TMOBILE - so I am a bit unsure what to do? Any help from any one is greatly appreciated. Details are apprecaited
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] spodie:
Nice ....anyone want to make a YouTube... I don't see how it can reset everything... putting everything back to stock with ....cwm and bits of Rom and no welcome screen .? Maybe u need to do a factory reset? Maybe you ment stock recovery?..... a true Odin tar takes EVERYTHING BACK to STOCK....

any one really know? I'm not gonna root or flash till theres a sure fire unaltered recovery tar...... please elaborate or make video showing....

Thanks op -S
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] darren.wlsn1:
its just 3 ways to dl same file.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Se7eN43:
I'm having trouble flashing the firmware with odin 3.07. While on CM9 nightly, i used Rom Manager to flash the tmobile recovery version and ended up with no 4g data, only edge. i wiped and reflashed CM9 with no luck. So now i'm trying to get this firmware to work in odin. Odin goes through the whole process and passes. Phone reboots and stays stuck on the Samsung boot screen with the blue led. I've given it more than 10mins on this screen. Should there be any options in Odin to check other than whats already checked by default (Auto Reboot & F. Reset Time)?

Edit: Ok so i didnt notice i was putting the md5 file under bootloader, and i flashed twice. So now i put the file under pda with the same issue.

Edit2: Ok.. I got it to boot. I had to go into recovery and wipe. Still with no 4g. hmm..
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Lawful123:
I think you lost your imei.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] stevessvt:
This links to the Canadian version of the T999.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mrmako777:
yeah, the t999v is not the same as the t999, so im pretty sure this is NOT for tmobile. i do have a link for the tmobile stock tar if anyone wants it tho
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] parmijo11:
Share please