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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
was wondering, is the LH1 images for the canadian i747M the stock OTA updated version of stock that got OTA this week? If so, is it ok to flash it over my current stock rooted? I know I still have to do CWM, that's fine. Just wanted to know if it is safe to flash this over my current stock rooted previous LE8 one. Thanks!

EDIT: nvm, yes it updates and keeps my files... settings, and so on.

EDIT: I'm still uploading the Telus and Sask images... I have the Rogers and Bell LH1 images up

Rogers I747MVLALH1 : http://filecloud.io/5meg4ni1

Bell 1747MVLALH1 : http://filecloud.io/ihjdubn9
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] joey2talk2:
I noticed the LH1 update includes a security to detect SU. With the LE8 version you check system status and it says "Normal" now with the latest LH1 it says "Modified"

I have mounted both images in linux and they are identical in respect to the superuser.apk files in /app as 6755 root root and also same for /xbin/su.. in fact they were the same exact su files used in both roms...

Now I took the new LH1 flashed to my phone which showed "modified" used ES file explorer as root to remove the /app/superuser.apk file and then I uninstalled superuser. Then I booted the phone with CWM and used adb shell to access the system partition and then deleted the /xbin/su. I noticed upon reboot that the file system now says "Normal"

Conclusion LH1 rom now adds a security feature which detects /xbin/su file... funny...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] m82a1:
Can anyone else confirm this?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
I've noticed I got a system modified status right after flashing... Even I had nothing on my system partition modified, yet... Well, aside from that... I've got to try it out sometime tomorrow... For now, I can't say I can confirm. But this is not much of an issue, just flash an unmodified image (no root, no nothing) and it should go back to normal. Or how @joey described, just remove the super user and su stuff and it should go away...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kssxs:
Does anyone have or know where the latest TELUS stock ROM (WITHOUT root) can be downloaded from?

Specifically, I mean the LH1 version. I'd like to have it saved somewhere, just in case.

Thanks in advance.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
check http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SGH-I747M

or

http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/ (registration required)

or to make it stock, just remove /system/app/superuser.apk, uninstall superuser, and remove /system/xbin/su (via adb in recovery mode)

and you just unrooted it, making it stock.... saw these instructions from joey2talk2 above
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] finneginsfast:
I've also got modified status after flashing LH1.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Guys the modified status has been around since day 1. if you search this thread for "modified" you'll see it discussed. page 19 through 32 it was a topic that came up. Page 55 again. etc.

Its just a scanner on the system that looked for busybox, etc and showed modifed. if you want to get rid of this you simply remove the things that cause it to show up. It causes no harm and if you were to flash a stock image again the system status will go back to normal.. so nothing to be concerned about and it isn't a new LH1 thing.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] m82a1:
Did you ever get this fixed?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kssxs:
Awesome, thank you!

I knew about samsung-updates.com, but the site was down yesterday (and today too), but didn't know about sammobile.com. Downloading the firmware now.

Thanks again!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
Just use traingle away app from play store to reset flash counter... I don't know why tripping the flash counter is still a big deal... :s

EDIT: Also, Telus and Sasktel LH1 uploaded

Telus I747MVLALH1 : http://filecloud.io/6de8pwqk

Saktel I747MVLALH1 : http://filecloud.io/i514r98d
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Not sure anything for me to fix. I asked in the rogers ota thread and people there used this without tripping counter.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] m82a1:
Warranty reasons.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] joey2talk2:
Guys you will love me... haha go to superuser go left and select binary update. Then proceed with the binary update of 3.1.1 :) guess what happens next.... Normal :) system status.!!!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] m82a1:
Thats cool. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
Did you miss the part where you reset it, so that they won't know you've done anything to your phone so that you can freely turn it back in for warranty reasons?

You can go ahead and not trip it now... That's fine, but if ever you do trip it, just pay for the Triangle Away app, then you'll be fine to turn it back in like nothing happened. Warranty would be fine.

Which why I say, why make a big fuss about accidentally tripping it now? Way back when they haven't figured out how to reset the trip counter, it was a big deal, even for me. But now? MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHH
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
I agree no one should lose sleep over tripping the flash counter. But I still like there being a method to root that won't trip it. (No reason to go through resetting it or paying for an app if you simply don't have to) Outside of that I like that this is completely stock outside of having root injected so its a good base to fall back on if you've otherwise messed up your phone flashing a bad kernel or recovery. You can hit this in Odin and get your phone back working starting with root.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
Exactly, and I was very grateful for this method from you. I was an early adopter of the S3, and patiently waited for root, it came out, then we discover the trip counter, and other sorts of stuff... I kept track of things and then this method came out like a ray of light in the dark void world...

Anyhow, then later on chainfire updated his triangle away app and was then able to reset the s3's flash counter... That was the day we are able to free ourselves from worrying about tripping ng the flash counter... I still go back here to flash stock+root in case anything wrong happens and flashback cwm and restore any nandroid I made... Still very usefuland informative.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] m82a1:
I did not miss that part. I just don't want to trip it. You do make a valid point though. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
I'll be back to my cave then... Heh, we don't want to clutter the thread with unnecessary stuff, do we? Ciao! :D :thumbup:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dhostetter:
Help Requested

I'm hoping someone can help. I was trying to go back to a rooted stock image from AOKP. I used odin3 and everything went fine until I rebooted.

Now it just stays on Samsung. I flashed 3 times and everything stays the same.

I left auto reboot checked the first time and auto reboot f reset time the second flash thinking it might help.

Anyone have any suggestions?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Johnny424:
lol. same thing is happening to me now. flashed same stock image that I have three other times and my phone is stuck on the Samsung screen as well. I came from cm10 9-11 nightly

edit...fixed..force booted into stock recovert from Samsung logo. wiped data and cache and rebooted into android.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Yeah just remember flashing this doesn't wipe data so if you are coming from a different rom base you'll want to wipe data yourself first.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dhostetter:
That was it. Needed to wipe and it booted. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] elatllat:
Was using the Bell Image but an OTA removed root, with IMM76D.I747MVLALH1 kernel 3.0.8-20120814.100513-user dpi@DELL149 #1.

Are there plans for an updated image or do we need to avoid updates?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
The updated images with the LH1 are avaialble on first post... Flash it over your current and you should have root back (any custom recovery will be overwritten by stock) then, just do the same steps you've done before to dd the custom recovery of your choice
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] EthanMG:
do you think we will get a root injected I747UCALH1 for att? just curious, since bell and others got theirs. i think lh1 is the one designgears posted here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1828152 as a one click.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mikewestlake:
Which CWM

The OP lists three (or two not including touch variation) options for CWM.

I've gone through the posts but can't find any conclusive answer for which one is the best to use with a BELL version of SGIII.

I've seen various posts that some of the CWM options floating around out there are not suitable for all builds.

is there anyone who's got a BELL that can chime in here?

Thanks in advance.

Mike
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Yes but it's a leak. Once it's official I'll root inject it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dhostetter:
That's why your the man!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Sepharite:
I installed the Rogers one, everythign went smoothly. But now when I start the phone, it says process.android.process.acore stopped working, and it lags. I can't click on anything.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] servase:
My phone gets stuck at system.img.ext4. Any suggestions?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] caanda45:
Hey guys picking up my SGS3 from UPS later this am, what method works for the Canadian users for CWM? Does the one in the op work for us?

Can`t wait to play with this new puppy!!! :good:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
Happens to me, but got used to it. I personally don't know why it happens but got myself up to get used to it... LOL

Also, the method in OP works... I'm a Canadian user here... Rogers, btw
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] JKelley103:
I too get this error. Follow instructions to the T. Phone rebooted and now I cannot use anything. Force closes on TW, gallery and also the ACORE. Phone is now useless. Going to try and flash again.

edit: I had wiped data prior to flashing. ATT model FWIW. Used designgears one click and restored normal functions. Flashed recovery via odin and all is well.

Not sure what happpened but flashing using the methods in op for me resulted in non functioning phone. All is well now! Thank you for your hard work!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Remember this doesn't wipe data so if you had something from before there could be some piece now not compatible. There have been people who used this with no issues. if you can please try after full format of data and system and reflash.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Heisenberg420:
Where can I find cwm v5.5.0.4 IMG? I need that version so my aokp ota updater will work. I'm on version like 5.8.#.#
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hunter99507:
My phone gets stuck at system.img.ext4. Any suggestions?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cosmosm3:
thank you

thank you for this excellent post. did exactly what was instructed and it worked perfectly.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pachi72:
Has anyone got a software update on a rooted stock rom? What happens if I update it?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jiv0077:
Great OP post it worked like a charm. I just had one question. I downloaded the latest version of cwm and extracted itbon my phone. My question is on the commands to type in android terminal. Would it be dd if=/recovery. img or recovery-clockwork-5.8.4.5-d2att. img?

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Scratch that I figured it out :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Nitedriver:
Yes I did I got triangle away app and it worked no problem XD
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
if you rename the file you extracted to recovery.img, then use that... shorter and easier to type in the terminal... otherwise, you'll have to enter the full name of the file such as "recovery-clockwork-5.8.4.5-d2att.img"
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aalh:
Just flashed this and have been sitting at the glowing SAMSUNG screen for almost 30min

ATT and yes I got the right zip

how long should I wait?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aalh:
I cant get to recovery either

I can only get to download or get stuck on the screen after the ATT "rethink" animation
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dhostetter:
Try Designgears I747UCALH1. Its an all in one and will wipe the device. Hopefully it will correct it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1828152
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Differentiation:
I have just updated the stock phone's OS to the latest official Rogers ICS (4.0.4). Would the OP files work for rooting the phone? Thanks a lot.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] caanda45:
Worked like a charm, rooted and a custom recovery!!!! Thanks!!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] finneginsfast:
Can you further explain this please.

What do you mean "go left"? The only things I can swipe horizontally are log and apps.

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Figured it out, I didn't have the latest version of SU.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] highaltitude:
Is this the only way to root the phone? Is there a way to root without wiping all that is there already?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] finneginsfast:
Unless you factory reset, it won't wipe your data. At least it didn't for me...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] highaltitude:
Awesome thanks! It worked a charm! and did not wipe anything off the phone! (its my brothers phone he just got 3 days ago) I have an SGS2 but wasnt familiar yet with the 3.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] IcOpRo:
Thanks this worked like a charm, Odin the .tar i downloaded and it did not erase anything of my phone booted up and had superuser on my app drawer.

dont know if anyone has posted this before, but I like to use TWRP recovery and to install it it was very very easy, I just downloaded "GooManager" from the play store and hit menu > Install Open Recovery Script and thats it, I got TWRP recovery on my device..

Thanks a lot for this root method it was cake
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] typedink:
I finally rooted, not flashing anything custom, but I got one issue. I hate that new MTP crap. Anyway to get USB Mass Storage back??
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sdlopez83:
Help I done bricked my phone. Tried to revert from JB AOSP AOKP to Kyan for the dropbox offer. Tried to flash but after the sammy logo it goes black. Im thinking its because of kernel mismatch. I Have CWM 5.6..xx so I CAnt access my external sdcard. is there a way to install a rom via adb or anyway else??? I hope im not totally screwed.

no nandroid:(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
turn off phone, remove battery... wait 15 seconds, put battery back, press and hold volume DOWN, home button, and power button. when the screen goes up and asks you if you want to go to download mode, press volume UP to confirm.

You are now in download mode. Flash the matching stock ROM in the OP of this thread using ODIN. after that, it will try to reboot. If successful, you are now OK. If not, remove usb, remove battery... wait 15 sec, put battery back, press and hold volume UP, home button, and power button. YOu will be sent to RECOVERY MODE. from there, do factory reset to wipe cache and data.

reboot, and see if it works.

NOTE: If you can't even open download mode, you are now an owner of a brick. It could still possibly be fixed by JTAG, but that's already very risky if you don't know what you're doing.

This happened to me before and these exact steps were what I did, and got everything back.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] MrByte:
Got my phone yesterday and followed instructions as in OP... and it worked beautifully. Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] MagicMan3:
Anyone else having issues with the mail/exchange crashing fairly regularily?

I read somewhere last week that someone was having the same issue, I searched the forums, but can't find the thread again to see if that person solved it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gobig89:
Flashing Issues

So has anyone just get stuck on system.img.ext4?? Ive tried flashing multiple times and it gets stuck at that point every time. Suggestions??
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
How long? It takes me about 15 or so minutes to flash that part... If it takes you more than 30minutes without progress, there might be something wrong... It just really takes THAT long to flash that part... Because the stuff are being transferred over USB unlike flashinf from sdcard, which is much faster
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gobig89:
i had it stay there for like 30 or 40 min
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
should be more like 5-10 if i recall.... I'd redownload and try again. what version of odin you using?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] caanda45:
No it is more than 5 to 10 minutes. Closer to 15 I think, but it was one of the longest flashed I have ever done, that much I remember.....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] psenseny:
ATT just released an OTA update (I747UCLH9). When trying to do this on the latest ATT image in this thread the update fails at 26%. Any way to get the image posted here?

More details

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1893036
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
the OTA's need bone stock in order to succeed. You need stock recovery and any app the OTA wants to update needs to be stock as well or the update will fail. if you've changed or modified any app that it wants to update it will fail.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] id_mew:
Hi there, I have the Bell Galaxy S3 I747M and I want to use it for Wind or Mobility City and I'm just wondering what do I have to flash in order for it to work? Thanks a lot.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] husky55:
I did update with the last OTA. You will lose root.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dhostetter:
I tried but it failed. I'm rooted.

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Will mr robinson be making an update for this?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hunter99507:
So I am trying to update to the latest att firmware. I have installed the root injected rom on page one. How do I go about updating to the newest firmware? Even if i have to lose root I would still like to update. How do I go about doing that? I would like to keep all of my data though and NOT do a complete restore. Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Savok:
Here is what I did:

1. Installed the Stock rooted ODIN file from the first post.

2. Flashed a stock recovery (for 3e recovery) via adb.

3. Ran OTA Voodoo rootkeeper (to keep root).

4. Ran the update.

5. Reran OTA Voodoo rootkeeper (to get back root).

6. Flashed CWM/TWRP (twrp in my case) via adb shell (dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18).

I now have the latest stock with update and root access/custom recovery.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Exactly. I'm only root injecting full release stock firmware. Not OTA's. So if you want to get an OTA you need to be on prior stock (including stock recovery) and follow the method above.... OR inevitably someone will take the OTA and make it into a flashable zip you can use right from CWM. Those are the recommended ways to move to the new firmware retaining root unless you want to wait for the full firmware of that version comes out that is ODIN flashable.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mordred69:
Thanks MrRobinson.

Here was my experience:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=31765043&postcount=168

To sum it up in case no one wants to click the link:

I used OTA RootKeeper

did OTA Update.

The phone rebooted and went into CWM Recovery

Installed

Asked 2 questions at the end, one of them being if you wanted to (reestablish/protect root can't remember) and I answered yes to both questions

Phone rebooted

Phone reported OTA FAILURE...

And I have a grayed out "continue update" in the Software Updates area... plys my "Device Status" is now "Modified", where it was still "Normal".

but "About phone" shows UCALH9, I see slider for brightness, and every other feature... plus I didn't lose root.

Go fig. I guess MrRobinson's original injection held very well... :)

By the way, here's the file you can use through CWM. You can rename to update.zip and run from there.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=31714056&postcount=23

</hth>
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] caanda45:
You need to make sure the bands are the same, I think the SGS3 is good for that, then you need to unlock your phone. I just used.....http://cellunlocker.net/

I paid under $15.00 US and it worked flawlessly. You do need a non Bell sim to unlock the phone....

Good Luck!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] z45123:
I just want to say thank you I really appreciate your help
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
NO NO NO NO,

The Wind/Mobilicity phones are the TMobile version... THEY DO NOT WORK FOR BELL/ROGERS/ATT/TELUS/SASK or vice versa

Their phones has access to a specific band, the 1700 AWS, and uses it for regular stuff... meanwhile our phones can only use that band for LTE. Don't even try to crossflash between modems as they might brick the phone.

The Wind/Mobilicity model is the T999 our is I747

check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_III
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] poetikal:
I'll be looking forward to the new version with root. I downloaded the OTA and it killed my root, but I'm not really mad. But I hope it comes ASAP! :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] joe7966:
having trouble with ****Extract the stock_root67.tar from the .7z file you downloaded

I have a brand new galaxy sg3 AT&T. I am trying to extract the ,tar file from "Perm Mirror 1:Thanks to creepyncrawly!: ATT Stock Download I747UCALG1 - 570.58 MB" file I downloaded. I can't find the .tar file when I use winzip to unzip that file. I put the phone in download mode and connected to odin and odin didn't find any .tar files either.

Please, and help would be greatly appreciated.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nathanmurray:
Not a newb ... For some reason when I put phone into download mode and plugin USB, then launch Odin, Odin never picks up any devices.

I have USB drivers for phone installed.

Any ideas ?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sneakyws6:
So question, is anyone working on a new root that will work with the new OTA that came out. As others have said it kills the current root and if you try to root using the previous image now all I get is a bunch of errors.

Any options as the phone boots but all it does now is put a bunch of force close errors up en entire time the phone is up and running. very frustrating.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stan.s:
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Yes there's a thread which has the ota in a cwm format and retains root (and apps). It's in the q & a section.. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=31802808