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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] trujap:
The tool kit doesn't recognize the firmware I'm on so I just click the bell version and let it do its stuff? I haven't tried any other recovery other than Cwm. Do they operate the same?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
I haven't used the toolkit, so I can't advise you. I think option 4 for rooting uses Odin to flash a custom recovery and then uses the recovery to root, which is what the steps I mentioned also do.

TWRP does the same thing as CWM but has a nicer UI in my opinion. But you can install any recovery you want either by changing the file in the tar file or by installing it after you've rooted.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mholmes05:
I downloaded the AT&T G1 tar package -- actually noticed I have the most recent update from AT&T H9.

SO...

I apologize if it's been spelled out, but I tried some searching and it didn't turn up - do I need to do a factory reset back to the LG1 baseband version in order to run this root? I tried once, and got a bunch of errors and FC, so I did a reset. Lost root.

My next plan was to do a factory reset, then run the odin root with the older LG1 version, followed by just downloading CWM and using that for flashing and nandroid backups -- I used it extensively with my inspire and didn't have any issues -- hoping to carry that over into the S3.

Can anyone verify that the above is what I need to do? From what I've read, it sounds like this is the right way, then follow to the linked guided if I wanted to get the upgrade flashed into the phone.

Thanks in advance!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] docent000:
You should do a factory reset in the stock samsung recovery - this shoud wipe all the updates and you phone will be back to LG1.

After that just follow the OP - everything will be perfect.

If you already have CWM then you can just use ODIN to put the rooted LG1 ROM to the phone and then do a factory reset in stock recovery.

That factory reset should correct all the problems caused by the conflict between LG1 and LH9.

After that just follow the steps in this post to get the LH9 OTA update and still be rooted.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1896773

I had to do the "pieces" part because my LG1 ROM was already modified (I have thrown away all the bloatware) but you should be able to use the easiest straight-forward method. Just make sure you install CWM before doing the OTA and follow the steps described.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mholmes05:
Yea that didn't work either - I'm still getting the android.process error. I'm going to try doing this with the usb cable that came with the phone tomorrow. I'm at work, using a standard USB cable... maybe that's messing it up. Will redownload everything and try again tomorrow.

Edit -

Trying the old image at&t downloads -- noticed that my version is I747UCLG1, and not I747UCALG1. So I'm assuming I have an older phone even though it was bought last week....

Hoping this works...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pqrs:
in the op it provides a link for the at&t download, i assume its odin? but i downloaded it and extracted and there is no odin there? im totally confused... instructions seem easy enough, but wheres the odin that i use? kinda figured id see it when i extracted the zip file, but i dont see it?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mholmes05:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1722686
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pqrs:
thanks! so i use that odin and use the file from this thread? do i add it file with the pda tab, bootloader, or what? ive never seen it done like this? usually the zip contains the odin and the files you use are obvious, you cant put em in the wrong place.. but i see the file will open under bootloader or pda? that sounds dangerous!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mholmes05:
So I downloaded the "old image" at&t file and that actually worked. I have root and everything looks good. Now... how do I upgrade the OTA for the current version? Do I use the 'new image' and then the LH9 process? leave it as it is? This is a bit tricky...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] docent000:
All you need to do is to download this: I747UCALH9_OTA.zip from the thread I mentioned http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1896773 and follow the steps in there.

Basically, all you need to do it to flash that zip in CWM.

It seems like you have already done the first two steps described there. No need to use odin anymore, the rest is done in CWM, so all you need to do now is this:

(copy&paste)

3. Make sure CWM recovery from clockworkmod.com or TWRP is installed. The recovery from Team Epic will not work.

4. Put one of the zip files from below on your internal or external SD card.

5. Boot into recovery

6. Flash the attached zip

7. Wipe cache and dalvik cache (optional?)

(Optional) Go to Backup and Restore, Advanced Restore and restore the /data from the nandroid backup you made in step 1. If you used a nadroid backup in step 2, this should restore your data and apps. If you used Odin to flash the rooted UCALG1 image, this step isn't necessary.

8. Reboot

9. Open Settings / Application Manager. Choose All tab. Click on AT&T Software update. Clear "Clear data". If you were getting OTA notifications before, this will prevent them from recurring. After doing this, your phone will know it's up-to-date.

---------- Post added at 06:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:39 PM ----------

You need to use PDA.

Do not

touch BOOTLOADER or MODEM - you will brick your device.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
Rename it to recovery.img easier to type... Also, it should be /mnt/extSdCard/ not just /extSdCard

Edit: if= and of= checks from android root directory regardless if in where directory you are right now (such as if you already are at /mnt) ... Noticed that problem is already solved so ignore me... XD, but just so that other people can see as reference

Edit: additional refrence info, /sdcard/ works without /mnt because /sdcard is a "built in" directory at root which points at /mnt/sdcard meanwhile /mnt/extSdCard is not...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dgiaffe:
No more data/voice

Hey all,

ty for that thread, it really seemed useful and easy to use at first. I have a S3 from Bell and I did flash a leaked OTA that brought Jelly Bean on my phone from this tread : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1886709 . I didn't find it too stable and thought I'd go back to stock with root, from your image. My first attempt made me stuck at the Samsung logo and I kept reading the thread and found out I had to do a factory reset and flash again. I've done it and my problem is now fixed. Everything seemed to work fine, however, I have lost any network access from my provider. Data, texts and voice is not working, or actually work I would say works the first 45 seconds after the phone restarts. After that, nothing. I thought I had a corrupted IMEI but dialing *#06# displays the correct IMEI. Anyone has an idea? :/ Note that I haven't install any recovery, simply flashed the root image, that's it. The only thing I find weird is the information in my download mode. Here it is :

Product Name : SGH-I747M

Custom Binary Download : No

Current Binary : Samsung Official

System Status : Custom --> :confused:

I don't understand the Custom status. I read that people had it only when BusyBox is installed, but I really only flashed the Bell image so far.. Could it be the issue? :confused:

For now I'll retry flashing it, see if it helps :/
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
Seeing custom status is OK, it just says that something at /system is not supposed to be there... Such as busybox or the su binary...

Also you might be experiencing problems because you switched from a "future" rom back to an older one... You will need to wipe data and cache (factory reset) to make things work fine and boot properly.

Edit: ok I wasn't reading properly... Lol, ok so you alrea did factory reset... Hah! Install a custom recovery and try formatting /system... Then flash rom via odin
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dgiaffe:
Lol ty it's fine, you still are trying to help! Well Ok, I'll try that.. Tried reflashing the newest image, didn't work.. Will just first try to flash the oldest rooted image from Bell. If it doesn't work, I'll do like you said and see how it goes. Thanks a bunch!

Edit : by the way, what do you mean by flashing rom via odin? You mean reflashing the same root image or another custom rom after formatting /system? Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
Hehe, XD, I was on the bus so I wasn't reading too much... Lol,

I mean, if you can still install a custom recovery (cmw, twrp, etc..) do so and format /system from the advabced settings... Then, just do a normal flash of the rom you are trying to install, such as this one (stock with root from OP) via odin... It's just that one those rare occurances something in /system causes something to go wrong. Flashing via odin doesn't format /system, as far as I know... So yeah,
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dgiaffe:
Agh :/ Flashed CWM, format /system, factory reset, Oding with newest image from Bell and still the same thing. I have no idea what to do. Anyway to revert back to totally stock? I found another thread, but the image specified for Bell doesn't seem to flash, tells me unsupported dev_type
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
Aaww, D:

I actually have no clue... Your problem is getting reception, correct? Might be the modems and rils... The modems are freely available, not sure about the rils (radio interface libararies) if there's anything you could flash for that,... I used to have an HTC Desire Z and gave it to my younger brother now, he's on another network and he doesn't get reception... After doing some research, it seemed his modem and rils were incompatible so I had to flash a modem and rils matcher so that he can get reception... Not sure if there's anything of that sort for the s3, haven't seen anything regarding that other than the imei issue before...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dgiaffe:
Ok, thanks for your quick replies! Well actually it really is weird. I got connection, it states Bell in my notification bar, even the H+ logo for data is there. Got 3 bars signal.. I was able to do 2-3 calls, then nothing, but still shows as Bell is my provider and H+ icon... Gonna try the older image now again.. :/
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
Np! Maybe bell is having some issues in their own network... Have you experienced this issue in the past few days or in another location? If yes, then it's probably your phone, if not, then it might be a temporary problem with bell...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dgiaffe:
Well dang! I guess you were right.. Now it seems to work.. I put the oldest image back and waited a good 30 minutes and now I can connect with the browser.. However, now it wants to do the OTA.. I am tempted to just do it and go back to stock.. I didn't really want root anyway, just didn't like the leaked update of Jelly Bean and thought it would be nice.. So guess I'll just do the OTA and hopefully I will be done after that! I don't mind being back to stock lol. Will re-risk root later I guess :P
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] vineet381:
Hi,

Just got my s3 AT&T today and want to make sure I am getting this right.

Although the instructions says that F. Reset Time should be checked in Odin, I am looking at few threads in this forum which states it should be unchecked.

Can someone please advise what is required, Thank you!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
If your new GS3 is already running the UCALH9 software, I advise you to skip the instructions in the OP and use the instructions here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=32218479. The instructions in the OP involve downgrading your software to the previous version (LG1) and your phone will encounter lots of problems after the downgrade unless you do a factory reset. Also, at the end you won't be on the latest version of the software.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] H2O37:
Hi, yesterday I rooted my rogers s3, I did step one of this process and got it rooted. Then I downloaded titanium backup to remove some of the rogers apps. When I looked at my status under the settings, it said modified, shouldnt it say normal? can I get to a normal status, or would rogers care if I wanted to use my warranty? Thank you so much for the help
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] vineet381:
Thank you so much, it will be good to add this link for LH9 users in the OP

Quick questions- a) I see that you noted to install Triangle Away as this trips the flash counter, does the Triangle Away resets the flash counter to 0 as well,

b) Do I need to place all the attached filed, twrp-2.2.2.0.tar, remove-OTA-recovery.zip and SuperSU CWM zip in my internal sd card in order to follow these steps?

Apologies if these questions are silly.

Thanks again
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
Yes, Triangle Away will reset the flash counter to 0. If you need to return your phone for warranty service, you'd want to remove Triangle Away and unroot your phone first.

twrp-2.2.2.0.tar is for use with Odin on your PC, so you don't need that on your phone. You'll need the two zip files on your phone, either your internal or external SD card.

The only silly question is "I just did some stuff that I don't fully understand and now my phone won't boot. Is it bricked?" Better to ask then regret not asking. Thanks to your questions, I've updated my original post to clarify that the zip files go on the phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Wouldn't matter either way. I did it checked and so that is why i posted it.

Just regarding the "phone will encounter lots of problems" statement, since it is a phone he just received he could easily do the factory reset as the OP states when coming from LH9. At that point he'd encounter no problems and be fine doing the downgrade and then flashing the upgrades via CWM that I added to the OP from your other posts.

I added the method I prefer in the op which will never trip the counter. (you know the thread title and all) You could since day 1 have rooted by flashing a recovery via Odin and tripping the counter. You still have that choice (choice is good) and now you can reset the counter via the app or via a dd command if you are comfortable with that.

I agree with drothenberger, prob easier for you to just trip your counter and reset it, i just wanted to clarify what i have in the OP and why.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zild8:
hi

I have a s3 from telus that a been unlock and im using it under virgin .

Wich rom do i have to take, the one from telus i gess , if i dont want to trip the counter?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zild8:
Maybe im not clear enaught, i want to root my s3 that as been unlock and was under telus

Now unlock done ,im under vigin.Which image should i take the one from bell(virgin) since im using that carier

But it will trip the counter or not

Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
I'd use the Telus as that is what would have came on your phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zild8:
Thankd thats what i did
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kafepuya:
Just unrooted my ATT SGS3 using this method. Worked flawlessly. FYI for future rooters: If you are coming from SGS (Captivate, Vibrant, etc.), flashing through both Odin and CWN take a lot longer than what you may be used to.

Thanks for this guide.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] docent000:
Yeah! Considering that AT&T ROM image for SGS3 is 1.6 gigabytes, it really took much longer to flash it with ODIN. I'm not surprised.

The ROMs for my old retired Cappy were from 115 to some 250 megabytes in size, some earlier custom ROMs were even less than a 100 :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dratsablive:
Phone is rooted with Stock Rom Root Injected. But under settings about phone it shows status as modified. Triangle Away did not reset this to normal? Other than flashing back to stock without root, how can I reset this?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
that status will be reset when you flash back to stock without root. so there is no reason to reset it unless you need to turn your phone in for warranty in which case you should flash back to stock. In other words, ignore it for now.

all this is explained throughout this thread if you want to search and get more details.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] finneginsfast:
Update uperuser through the playstore then open superuser app. Swipe right to the foremost left screen which is the info screen, third entry down says "tap to check for updates" do that then reboot. Should now have "normal" status.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ExBrasil:
Factory reset still keeps me on LH9?

Guys, quick question...I have an AT&T Galaxy S3 and I was preparing to root according to instructions in OP but I noticed that I needed LG1 to root otherwise the phone would have problems rooting...

I applied that OTA update about 3 weeks ago which changed it to LH9, but when I tried to factory reset in order to revert back to LG1 it didn't work it completed the factory reset but it was still stuck at LH9.

Any thoughts on what I can do from here, as I want to root the phone to get rid of the inconvenient Copy and Paste bug?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
You can follow the steps in the OP to root. At the end, you'll be on LG1. Once you're up and running the LG1, you can follow the steps in the thread mentioned in the OP to update back to LH9 while retaining root.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ExBrasil:
Thanks, man! Found another way to root right on 9 while waiting on response but im going to try it that way now.

[Edit] Looks like this wasn't a good idea. Now that I flashed the new file from the OP over my phone keeps showing error message:

Unfortunately, the process android.process.acore has stopped." After I exit out I keep receiving the Touchwiz has stopped as well.

Any thoughts on how to fix?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
As the OP says, you have to do a factory reset first. At this point, you have to go to recovery and do a factory reset to recover. Beware that if you use the stock recovery, it will wipe everything on your internal SD card. If you use a custom recovery, it will just wipe /data.

If you look back at posts I made in this thread over the last few weeks, you'll find some other ways to recover from this situation without doing a factory reset.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dratsablive:
Tried that, updated the binary, rebooted, and still says Modified.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] finneginsfast:
Have you done 2 updates because it should work.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dratsablive:
Just did the SU Update, twice, again. Rebooted and still modified. Not going to worry about it since I can reset it by flashing back to stock if needed.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] psenseny:
JB Update via KIES

Quick Question;

If/when the Jelly Bean update comes out, assuming it will be via KIES, will you have the capability to inject root, bipass flash counter, etc. and provide a flashable *.tar?

I am reading that the update may be via OTA and KIES, and I know you cannot do this if it is OTA however if the update is via KIES, will this method still hold true?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
I will inject root if it is a full rom. I could prob take the time and merge the OTA into a full as well. But we will see what comes along once JB hits.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dbzgod:
Not to downplay Mr. Robinson as making the root injected ones are nice.

For those that get antsy about upgrading right when it comes out their are options. Chainfires SuperSu has a root keeper option to attempt to keep your root when you do upgrades. I try'd it when we got our LH1 updates, sadly it didn't work on our 747M phones then but it may when we get JB since he does update it. Their is also his mobile odin app it root injects when you install through that abd supports OTA update packages so I will definitely be trying that right away to see if it works nicely. If not then I will restore and used a injected rom method.

Just want to give ppl a heads up on options not trying to stir the pot or anything lol.

Sent from my SGH-I747M
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] psenseny:
I thought the same thing, since JB may come as OTA (however I have never seen a major update been via OTA in the US) - I was hoping I would be able to use Superuser, SuperSU, or Voodoo Root Keepers (as they all do the same thing), however I started wondering about the update and I suspect (again suspect) that it most likely will overwrite/wipe most, if not all, of the system partition, this any root keeper would not work.

We will see, however I am glad that MrRobinson will be looking to inject root when this update is available (THANKS!)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Seanbest:
Follow this process and the phone reboots but just sits at the glowing Samsung screen.

I then used the toolkit to flash a CWM kernel, and flash another ROM, but it still sits at the Samsung screen.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mr.Kakarot:
as always, I get erros with this recovery linked... can someone get me to a proper recovery file? that will work, both error while trying to install...

I flashed the rogers image no problems, but that is as far as I can go
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
if you are rooted then either install rom manager to get cwm or install goo manager for twrp (bring up menu and chose install open recovery script). Both work and are very easy.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blaker13:
So im on lh9... even when I factory reset and still on lh9 this method will work?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Yes.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] psenseny:
Rom Manager is the best bet - it installs 6.0.1.2 - the only downside of the most recent versions of CWM recovery is the weird blobs process, I am still skeptical about deleting backups, especially old backups (whish newer backups are built from).....

....I am still researching this for my own comfort.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SndChsr:
Dumb question coming from a noob. Can I flash the Rogers rom on a Telus phone? I just got mine today, but it'll be on Fido so I'm wondering if I can just put Rogers stuff on it instead?

THanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blaker13:
thanks

thanks man worked perfect on sgs3, just a factory reset after I did it a walah! also debloater worked wonders ....Thank You!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mphill46:
Hello all. I have a quesrion that I could not find a definitive answer to. If I install the rom with root injected into it I understand that will not trip the flash counter because the rom itself is digitally signed by samsung. My question is if I do flash the injected root rom can I still install ota updates from att? The op makes it sound like it just has root injected into it, but some posts said it had cwm installed with it as well. If thats the case ota wont work because it does not see the stock recovery and wont update via ota? Thanks for the help and the op!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jethro650:
It just root injected. The recovery install is a third optional step. Re- read the op.