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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Yomaster91:
Hey everyone. I just rooted my AT&T GS3, everything worked fine. However, when I went to update via OTA, I already had CWM Recovery installed. When it went to update, it opened CWM, flashed, and then asked me if I would like to "keep my current recovery," and "keep root." Of course, though I had already taken the precautions with Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper, I selected yes to both of these.

Initially, it said the update had not been completed, but a reboot and update check confirms my SW is up-to-date.

I realized I should've just selected no to both, and used Voodoo to restore root. Will this keep me from being able to install Jellybean via OTA when it releases? Also, is there any effective means to restore the stock recovery/download mode while keeping the flash counter at zero? Thanks.

EDIT: At first, the 3-button combo to recovery would open CWM. Now, it opens stock recovery, but I can reboot to CWM using the CWM app. Not sure if this changes anything...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TCM55:
Does anyone know if this method work on the I747UCLH9 baseband?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Florad77:
Rogers jelly bean update is out will we get a stock rooted image soon? Can't wait!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] border43:
Bell SGS3 Jelly Bean Update

Just got a pleasant surprise! My Bell SGS just got an OTA update to Android 4.1.1.

And I don't know if it's placebo, a fresh flash, or the new OS, but my phone feels A LOT snappier after this update to Jelly Bean. So that's nice :victory:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dank101:
Baseband does not matter

Sent from my jelly bean s3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Xdenwarrior:
This thread needs to be updated with Canadian latest odin root images (preferably with deodexed counterparts also) http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=8&view=8563
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xCAVEMANx:
Who says we are getting JB next week? I am not calling you out. It just that this is the first I have heard among a sea of over anxious speculators. Then again I have been known to show up late to the party.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jack0131:
Bell I747MVLDLK4 JB 4.1.1 :good: Can I root again with the same process? :D

Jack
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Yep. Rogers will be the first I post. Then Bell, Telus and Sasktel. Will update to I747MVLDLK4 which is JB 4.1.1
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Rogers and Bell are good to go. Telus soon. Sasktel, I don't think anyone cares but it'll get there before end of day.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hadge:
Thank you mrRobinson, you are a scholar and a gentleman. Downloading the Bell ROM as we speak.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pro95accord:
Awesome work thanks again. I cant wait for the telus version.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] twistanesh:
Also downloading Bell's You're awesome mrRobinson!:good:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
Thanks! Finally have the root66_RWC! Gonna flash in a moment... just need to backup (just in case) :D excited for this!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Telus up. Did it by order of quantity of downloads. Rogers was highest, then Bell, then Telus. Last poor little sasktel.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Yes I'll always recommend a backup however I did check the RWC file and it was set to wipe_cache NOT wipe_data. So you should be good without losing anything. I didn't check the others but I can't imagine they'd be different.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] LeeC:
Thanks Mr.Robinson. You are simply awesome!!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ejatds:
- delete -
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crewzta:
Awesome thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] shoe:
I just flashed the Telus Rom to my phone and it is rebooting constantly.

Every time it boots, it says "Android is upgrading... Starting apps".

Is this a normal part of the update process and it has to reboot a few times or is there something wrong?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alacrify:
It should, but if you're going to restore a nandroid anyway, you could free up space in /system (or /data) to make room for the process, and it will put everything back anyway (I assume).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kingwp1:
I wonder if this is why we lost the APN settings and LTE connection after doing a factory reset just after flashing the original rooted rom. Maybe it put everything back in and filled up the system and had no more room for other settings?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
i'm not sure restoring a nandroid you had before this process will work. It seems to redo the /system the way it was. At least one user reported that.

You should be able to take a new nandroid and restore those in the future.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Krynn!:
Sweet, thanks! All good now! Didn't have to remove any bloat to get busybox and tethering installed, and still have 434.6 megs free.

shell@android:/ $ busybox df /system
busybox df /system
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/block/mmcblk0p14 1488304 1043220 445084 70% /system
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ainen:
I'm going to try and anvanced restore the /data, thanks for the input and the work!

edit: no luck :( Oh well, looks like I'm starting fresh
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] manny05:
just rerooted with the new file and everything is working perfectly :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
absolutely plan to. cause i have questions and prob some people more familiar with samsung disk images could answer.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
I'm sure some of the devs from the TMo/Sprint/Verizon side are going to be knocking on your door soon :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Raul77:
anyone working on Rogers version of this?

Thank you in advance.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
is there a stock.tar rogers firmware floating around?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] XblackdemonX:
Yes there is! :laugh:

http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=search&searchValue=SGH-I747M
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
Not quite the same thing. You're going to need an Odin flashable .tar of stock like the ones that have been recently leaked for TMobile, ATT, and Sprint.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] lensgrabber:
I've extracted on two different machines and verified the 7z md5 but the tar md5 is showing

(stock_root67.tar)

F633E50DC005B134438A85F73AEC0881

which is different than what is posted in the OP. Is this a good hash?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
I got the same hash that you just posted and flashed with no problems this morning.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TheWyzeMan:
He may not have updated the md5 for that one when he put it up.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dave1977nj:
Thanks for the great work!!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
yea this is src which won't help this process. kernel/rom devs, sure but I'd need a stock system.img. I only deal with python and ruby now... my c days are over.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] caveman999:
I'm happy to say that this method worked flawlessly for me! I still have 0 on the flash counter and my system status is normal.

Thanks for this wonderful method!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ohcie_evo:
if we previously rooted and flashed cwm recovery using this method and are now of stock and onto one of the custom roms do we need to re flash this or are we good to go?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
i'd reflash it then reflash rom. don't use a nandroid to restore just tibu
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
mine did reboot once after upgrading all the apps. make sure you are coming from stock though. if you are coming from a different rom, even if it is stock based you would want to boot to recovery and factory wipe.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] shoe:
I did a factory reset and all seems well. I guess something I had installed isn' t jiving with Jelly Bean.

The ROM I had installed previously was your stock rooted version.

Thanks for the good work!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] loginatnine:
I just flashed telus rom as well and it seems to be working correctly. I got the "Android is upgrading..." once then everything looks fine. Root is working. Thanks OP!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
Looks like ATT dropped too this afternoon -- busy day Mr. R! :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
On it....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dank101:
the day of jelly bean is here
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tnosz:
Thank you for the jelly root downloading as I type.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pizzlewizzle:
Thanks buddy... downloading for my girlfriend now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sfb14:
Wow! I was just about to play with stock JB and its already rooted! Merry merry merry!! Downloading ..again!! lol
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Also I should say the counter behavior is different on JB now. Exact details being researched but we've been dealing with it on the Note II's and the tmo s3 that has had JB for a bit now.

DocHoliday77 put together a good research thread on it. I'd put it on my recommended reading list.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SeV034:
Ok so im downloading the new att rooted image and I read the instructions. Does it matter if I'm on cm10? Will odin method in op still work to get me new update and root? And I'm assuming since its odin It will wipe everything but i dont even care haha

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xsever:
What are the latest instructions?

Go back to LG1 stock and then flash the newest JB using Odin?

Any other way that keeps the installed apps and settings and accounts etc... ?

Sent from my Galaxy S III
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
if you were on a stock like LH9 you can just flash this with ODIN. nothing will wipe.

if you were on a different rom you will want to flash this and then go into recovery and do a factory wipe.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xsever:
Thanks for the prompt reply.

When you say stock lh9, do u mean not rooted?

I am on rooted LH9 following your method. Could please update the OP to guide users coming from this path?

Sent from my Galaxy S III
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
No doesn't matter. Just flash what is in the OP with Odin. Same thing you did before. One file to flash with Odin and you are done.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
btw, if you already upgraded to JB and lost root, if you notice at the bottom of my OP I have an ODIN flashable TWRP. You could flash that recovery then go here and get the CWM flashable supersu zip in that thread. Flash that to get root back in the twrp recovery. Then reset counter if you want.

As long as you have a non stock recovery on every boot the counter will be tripped again. So now with JB either live with it and only reset if you need to warranty return or keep a stock recovery.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SeV034:
So from cm10 I would flash via Odin, install cwm then factory reset/wipe correct?

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brobinson2102:
Perfect JB update with root

Thank you, Mr Robinson.

Worked like a charm!

Cheers.

b.

:victory::victory::victory:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xsever:
I think from what he said, factory wipe/reset is only required if you are coming from a non stock/rooted ROM such as CM10/Task/etc... (your case).

If coming from stock rooted LH9 for example, factory reset/wipe is not required.

Do you concur Mr. Robinson?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
Almost seems if the recommended way is to start with one of the rooted ICS packages and then update to JB via a CWM package when they are available to not run afoul of the new protections. If you go to JB Stock, there's some new coding -- reminds me of some of the bootloader issues on the SGS II when it was advised to move to ICS but keep Froyo bootloaders because of some new nastiness that Sammy put in the new code.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bluemax189:
thank you for the JB update. installing now. just gotta wait for the nandroid backup to finish first.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] white00gt:
Just curious I have been on the t mobile jb release for a while I dont have use of my pc right now so it will be a few days before I flash so anything special I need to do or is there a zip file that I can flash that would offer write the t mobile stuff and add the att files in?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Jammol:
I have not seen this asked as yet, forgive if it is stupid. Can the file be flashed using mobile odin? I don't need to backup or save anything so I decided to go back to stock rooted lh9 and only installed Mobile Odin. Is it possible?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
Since it just came out this afternoon - no one's put together a stock zip for easy flashing through CWM. If you can't wait, you can grab the tar from FUS or one of the firmware sites and flash via Mobile Odin, or hopefully some ROMs will be showing up in the next day or so.

I was trying my hand at trying to deodex the sucker myself, but kept running into some errors, so I'll be patient and hope one of the devs is kind enough to post a base soon.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jazzespresso:
Hi mrRobinson,

first thanks for all your effort and work, it is greatly appreciated!!

second, this will be quite dump:silly: question and probably you answered hundreds times in this thread, but considering it is almost midnight here (and a little sleepy:rolleyes:)and have to get up very early for work tomorrow, I will go head just ask:

Once I flashed root66_ATT_I747UCDLK3.tar.md5 with Odin, am I going to loose all my apps, data..etc? nothing will be wiped out, right?

Do I really need to nandroid backup first?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 78Staff:
stock rom, load the image with odin no wipe required, will keep apps/data/etc.

custom rom, full wipe/reset required, of course losing apps/data/etc.

Personally, I would never flash a new rom without a nandroid, regardless - if you are setup to do it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jazzespresso:
is there differences doing a nandroid back to internal sdcard or external sdcard? asking because not much space I got on internal sdcard:(, wondering if I can do nandroid back to external sdcard.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xsever:
Just got the JB rom installed. I was on a rooted LH9 rom from this thread.

Here is what I did:

Did a nandroid using CWM

Downloaded the JB rom from the OP

Flashed the JB rom using Odin just like in OP

Phone rebooted and now running JB and did not loose any apps or settings and kept root.

Enjoy guys and thank you Mr.Robinson again.

Sent from my Galaxy S III
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 78Staff:
absolutely, external is fine. Preferred, really. Safe copy off device basically, in case something goes really wrong for whatever reason, you don't have to worry about losing it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jazzespresso:
OK I also flashed the JB rom using Odin (root66_ATT_I747UCDLK3.tar.md5 with Odin) just like outlined in OP. it finished. Now it started, and says "Android is upgrading...Optimizing app 90 of 321....." counting...crossing my fingers :p
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 78Staff:
321...yowza. I though I was bad in the 220's lol. :fingers-crossed: keep us updated.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ewingr:
I feel a bit stupid asking this. I am just a bit confused as to when a ROM is considered custom vs. Stock.

For example, I am on Arial 2.10. I am presuming this IS custom.

It is a TouchWiz ROM, Built From I747UCALH1 (AT&T). I am running stock Kernel. However it has been deodexed, has options added such as Toggles, etc. So, sounds custom to me. But, just wondering if the fact it is based on a Stock TW Rom and has Stock Kernel, if then that equates to being considered Stock Rom for these purposes.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] skrambled:
I thought I'd test this out. Couldn't unzip the file with root explorer, but unzipped it on a pc and saved the .md5 file to my sd card. Used Mobile Odin Pro, selected the md5 file, and flashed it with Mobile Odin without incident. Working great!

(Coming from stock rooted lh9 w/stock 3e recovery re-installed)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] badboyz8711:
Newbie question

I've made my update to 4.1.1 (rogers I747MVLDLK4) via kies. Doing this i lost my root. If I do the method in the first post will i'll lose all my apps and need to re-install everything ?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dxwilliams40:
Download mobile Odin in the play store and you will be fine. Works like desktop version
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Knight613:
So I installed JB from Odin from a custom ROM and now I'm on the Samsung logo of the bootscreen for the past 10 minutes or so. Should it be taking this long?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] egyan:
After flashing this, Play Store keeps FC'ing. Any ideas?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] House M.D.:
guys you will need to do a factory rest before flashing this.

and also more information would be useful, us guessing your issue not cool.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 78Staff:
Not sure on this one, on one hand since based on stock LH1 could be no issue, but hard to say depending on mods made by rom dev. I'll let somebody smarter than me answer this one :o Worst case, nandroid and TiBackup beforehand.

---------- Post added at 01:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:31 AM ----------

should not, as you will be updating over a stock Rom now. But, I am ATT but don't see why Rogers would be different.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] amnigo:
I think I know the answer, but will double check just to be sure... I'm on stock/rooted LH9, but have flashed some tweaks like the 15 toggles and no wifi notification. Will I still be able to flash this and not have to perform a wipe, or should I just do a wipe anyway?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 78Staff:
toggles will get wiped, you will revert to stock JB toggles. Anything like that (Custom TW launcher, toggles, recovery menu addon, etc) you will need to reflash/reapply assuming compatible with JB.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ConeyKiller:
I'm just stock LH9 rooted, just gonna flash this via odin. Long as I have root I'm good. Don't need a custom recovery yet. :) Don't really care if apps wipe. WEE!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TriC_101:
Worked like a Charm using Rogers Wireless JB image.. Thanks Again Mr Robinson !
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Carlrobling:
Downloaded Att jellybean version. Flashed with odin. worked great all apps and data is still there. No problems at all. I clicked thanks and now I am thanking you here. Mad props to you for your hard work.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andy_d0:
Hi thanks for this. I've successfully updated to 4.1.1 using your method

Question though - have I lost all mods? Including mods from pimpmyrom and ashaman?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jazzespresso:
remove your google account and add it back, and then try.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jazzespresso:
All good here. Only thing I would recommend is after it reboots, go back to custom recovery again, and do wipe cache and dalwik cache.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xsever:
Yes. All mods are gone and I am not 100% sure if they are compatible with JB now.

We're gonna have to wait and see. MrRobinson, could you please let us know if the mods will work with the new JB 4.1.1. I am going to track the mods' threads and see if they have updates and update everyone here.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Zehlek:
Chainfire's method works on Rogers 4.1.1
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bluemax189:
worked no problem. cwm also installed via terminal emulator on phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drwx:
I'm using a tmo Rom on att. The mods will work, but you may have to just wait for someone to make a rom based on this unless you know what you're doing. I'm on the freesgs3 Rom and out has the 15 toggles and that sort of stuff.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Right, so although this does not touch /data it is a completely new system partition. Most of the mods you guys do edit things in system. So all those edits in system and debloating in system (ashaman) will be reverted back to stock.

I haven't really looked at the mods thread but if it is something that is a simple edit of a system file, chances are you can apply it again. If it requires the framework-res or hooking in specifically to a lib then chances are it'll need updating.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sigp23940:
I have not tested the mods from the other thread. But I want to reinstall at least the tether fix and maybe the 15 notification bar mod. I did try to use Mr. Robisons bloatward remover and it hard locked the phone when I was selecting stuff in custom. So I did not do any thing else yet. :p
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bogdaryl:
@mrRobinson I'm very new to the Android world. I'm rooted running stock TW can iI just use your method over the top of what I have or should iI just revert to total stock uprooted before using this method? any advice would be great thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
You can run it right over top.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bluemax189:
installed and running but gaming is horrible. even basic games like hill climb racing are sluggish. doubt it has to do with the rom but it may. Curious if anyone is having these issues
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] psenseny:
I have not treid any of those mods yet, and the reason being that the files are for the speicif build from the latest OTA. I strongly assume someone has to modify the zips for this build.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] RoryB:
Now I have JB Stock with root.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dave1977nj:
thank you mrRobinson!!!!!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jazee:
Just got my S3 two weeks ago and was waiting for JB update before going to the trouble of rooting (mainly just to be able to tether). Is this rooting method safe with JB 4.1.1 stock update - I won't have any issues (I don't want mods anyway) and are the instructions on Page 1 then still valid and correct?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
I added an Odin flashable stock recovery to the Misc files section of the OP.

Various situations where it is nice to have so there it is.