yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alacrify:
You haven't provided ANY information that would let anyone help. Which carrier? How did you root? With which file? Did you load CWM and if so which one (and how?). Have you flashed anything?

Best guess is you picked the wrong image to root and you'll need to Odin back to the correct stock rooted (you should be able to use Mobile Odin at this point with the correct image). But I'm not an expert at that, and if you provide a LOT more information, you might get a better answer from others.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Gadgetz:
So you want to get rid of universal search?

via Galaxy S III
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] johnhazelwood:
With Root you can freeze the AT&T Software updater via Titanium Backup and the notification as well as updates go away. You can always unfreeze later if you want the update.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Narcistic:
With this method could I flash the root with pc odin and then flash recovery with mobile odin and still not trip the counter but gain touch cwm?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mpazevedo:
Yes, with

MOBILE

Odin you can flash anything without tripping root, consider it like CWM.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nakedninja42:
I just got an ota update from AT&T for UCLG1. I lost root after the update. About to flash back to LEM and use supercurio voodoo OTA to see if I can keep root.

Update: I flashed with ODIN using stock67 and then used the Voodoo OTA RootKeeper and I still have root on the LG1 OTA. The app only works for OTA and not Kies or ODIN for saving root.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] lensgrabber:
Don't know what that is.

Edit: Nevermind got it... Damn Apple.

Frozen. Thanks. Unless there is something really great about the update, I'll keep away for now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Oogy:
fair enough, my bad. at&t, used the at&t image i'm sure of that at least. with which file? stock_root67.tar. even checked the md5sum to be safe. and no, i never went so far as to put cwm on. i haven't flashed any roms or anything. just followed the directions in the post and used odin 3.07.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AtoZ0to9:
do you still have the update.zip on your sd? could be useful to the devs...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nakedninja42:
I went looking for it but it was gone. :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AtoZ0to9:
maybe one of us should odin back to stock and hit software update let it download but not update... what was the file size? ive neverr done an OTA... so dunno would it even show that...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
I have a CWM-flashable version of the OTA that will preserve root and not remove universal search. I'm writing up a post in general about it now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alacrify:
Download and use 3.04 instead with the same image. I've heard a few cases of issues where it just wouldn't work with 3.07 (and of course, for some it would). If you didn't use the cable that came with the phone, I'd recommend it (that has caused failures in flashing more than anything). I think 3.04 will take care of it, though.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1768826
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bjtheone:
Once you are rooted (if you used Odin to load a stock rom with root injected, and hence did not trip the dreaded counter), you can them load either an alternate recovery like cwm or mobile odin and flash any rom using one of them without tripping the counter.

If you flash a att based rom you will likely loose the ability to toggle lte on/off as att does not support than and so far no one has founded the appropraite files in the rogers source. Everything else is the same between rogers and att, other than possible leftover carrier bloatware.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
I think someone posted the RAW update file here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1767827

But for general use, I would recommend the CWM flashable one that drothenberger put together.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bravomail:
Newer CWM touch recovery images available

There is newer recovery.img available from http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/

I got "recovery-clockwork-5.8.4.7-d2att.img" - regular CWM

and then "recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.4.7-d2att.img" - touch CWM.

Both work really good! Suggest updating OP.:good:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nitroproductions:
Bump. Anyone?

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
5.8.4.5 worked with /extSdCard but on 5.8.4.6 it was broken again.

Can anyone confirm 5.8.4.7?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mobilehavoc:
Will this post be updated with a stock rooted tar that can be flashed by Odin for the newer ROM (UCALG1)? If so I'll probably just wait for that instead of rolling back to older ROM and then have to manually update
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] David Dee:
Search is your best friend. No firmware has been released for Virgin. I assume that is because according to this post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=28664986&postcount=58, Virgin & Bell use the identical firmware. Given this, I think you should be fine using Bell as a base for rooting and all flashing.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
This is only possibly if a full flashable image of UCALG1 is ever released and posted on somewhere like Samsung Firmwares website. The OTA and the files floating around are "patches" and even if a root-injected version was created - it would not have official drivers and would most likely trip the counter if you tried to use it.

The latest thinking going around is that UCALG1 doesn't really add anything (actually cripples search), so may not be worth it anyway. Jury's still out if the new kernel or modem have any improvements.

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Word on the street is that 7 is busted too.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=28636118&postcount=26

Looks like 5 is still the go-to version.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
as pinoymutt said only if full stock rom is released for that version. otherwise you seem to have a few options:

1. Root with the orig stock rom here. Keep stock recovery, get the OTA update and use voodoo OTA root keeper to keep root after applying the update.

2. Root with orig stock rom here. dd cwm recovery. find and flash the update flashable zip someone created.

Both methods work, pick your poison.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mobilehavoc:
I can't use option 1 because it seems no matter what I do my phone doesn't get the OTA. I've been through 2 SIM cards and this is my 2nd phone with the issue. So I can only use option 2 which has risks with losing IMEI
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mobilehavoc:
Has anybody who followed this process had issues with IMEI being lost ? It appears to be when people flash CWM using Odin.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] myrez:
Noob question here. Can you flash a rom through rom manager without tripping the counter?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Don't flash cwm recovery using ODIN, that will trip the counter. Put the recovery on as the first post in this thread says to do it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mpazevedo:
Noob answer, never use ROM Manager on these Samsung phones. Get Mobile odin if you are determined to have a GUI interface or CWM the old fashion but proven way.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
The flashable zip for the OTA update is here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1768826
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mpazevedo:
You can flash from the following link if you want to go UCALG1. It leaves root and universal search.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1768826
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] starryeyez:
It works

Okay to reply to my own question.

I went ahead and rooted with the UCALEM file even tho I had already updated to the UCALG1. It took a good 5 mins for the process to finish. Everything passed but when I downloaded Titanium Backup it said superuser rights were not granted. So rebooted and tried again and still didn't work. So I tried the root process again. Took another 5 mins but It worked the second time. YAY!! :good::D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
Check Settings / About device. I think you're probably back on UCALEM, at least if you followed mrRobinson's no-trip rooting method.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mobilehavoc:
I've decided to wait for the next rooted Rom update when it's available. I don't feel like futzing with my phone and the only thing tempting me right now is Google Wallet but I can resist that urge.

The stock LG1 ROM is fine and works well. I'll check back once in a while for the next Rom
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stoobie-doo:
Can that, or does another version work with Mobile Odin? Not ready to move to CWM...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mpazevedo:
If it's flashable Mobile Odin will flash it. BTW, Mobile Odin is certified for our phone and it will never trip the counter.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] myrez:
Thanks. I'm relatively new to Android and this is my first Sammy. Much appreciated.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mpazevedo:
No problem, my advice is to learn by reading through the forums. Most of your answers will be in there. For me, my crash course was reading up in the AT&T Galaxy S II forums. That place is packed with info.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
The OTA was provided as an Edify script (the language used by recovery for flashing) and can't be applied with Mobile Odin. The OTA is actually a bunch of binary patches and is not a complete ROM.

If you don't want to install CWM, you can just apply the OTA through the phone. There are reports that OTA Rootkeeper successfully preserves root when applying the OTA, so if you're rooted and want to keep it, install OTA Rootkeeper first. After the OTA, you may want to replace the updated Google Search widget with the older one to restore Universal Search. There's one or more threads in General about that.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stoobie-doo:
That's what I ended up doing; using OTA Rootkeeper and TB to back up and then restore the Search Widget post-update after re-rooting. I figured that the patches probably contained bugfixes worth getting.

In the end, TB reported that two apps had changed post-OTA update; the Search widget and the Samsung Accounts app. Hadn't seen anyone mention the second change before, and not sure it's that important, but it was bundled in there.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] grkmaster:
How long does it usually take to flash completely? It seems its been stuck on system.img.ext4 for a while now.. I put the mouse by the green bar to see if it moves but has not for a while

What hapens if i disconnect it and change usb ports .. will I be able to restart the odin flash again?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Narcistic:
Took about 8 minutes for me
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alacrify:
Try a different cable.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nitroproductions:
Oh wow. I went through all the posts in this thread and searched everywhere but missed that one post you put on here. Such a noob mistake lol. Thank you very much for your help dude.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] shortskoolbus:
Ignore this post...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] David Dee:
No problem. If you are a noob, make sure you spend some time reading and understanding precisely what you are doing before you start flashing anything. If not, you may end up converting this awesome piece of hardware into a fancy paper weight!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nitroproductions:
lol I'm not a noob but I definitely had a noob moment by not being able to find the one post in my search.

To the OP, I just rooted my Canadian Virgin Mobile SGH-I717M using the Bell tar file and it did not trip the counter. Also installed recovery using the instructions in the first post and it worked with no issues. You can update the first post to include Virgin Mobile with Bell so that Virgin customers can go ahead root and join in the fun. Thank you very much for all your hard work.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nitroproductions:
Just want to point out the typo with the model number (should be i747m not i717m) in the main post to avoid confusion with other readers. Thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] louvass:
This fails at modem for me wont flash, puts me back to CWM. Any ideas. Thanks for your work on this.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] smithisize:
Ok, so I successfully followed this tutorial (thanks! ) Now I can flash cwm zips without increasing flash counter right?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AtoZ0to9:
Yessir!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
Help! Initially successful and it says normal on about phone... Now it says modified and download mode says "custom"

Can I still revert that or is this permanent?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alacrify:
The flash counter is the only thing that won't go away if it goes up. The other two will change back if you go back.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
Samsung noob here, but what I don't understand is this flash counter... I've read we can see it on download mode... But where exactly do I see it? I haven't flashed anything other the one in this thread... No custom rom, etc etc... Just some basic root stuff like TB and SetCPU...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alacrify:
Enter download mode (volume UP/power/home) - it's right there. BTW searching is a really valuable tool (try google with XDA as one of the terms).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
Thanks, will look... Just seemed faster to ask righy now since someone is available to answer.. Heh, sorry to bother!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alacrify:
If you were the only person using XDA, that might make sense. But if every person makes another post "because it seemed faster" the threads go all to hell and the flame wars escalate.

Remember this isn't a help desk, it's a resource. :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
Lol, sorry... Fully aware of that... Just that the samsung stuff is waaaaay different from what I'm used to... Previoisly had an HTC Desire Z and din't had to worry about these kinds of things... Hehe, thanks again
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] McAwesome:
Thank you wish I would have looked around a bit before I started flashing and bumped my counter.

Great job.

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nitroproductions:
Same here. Initially it said official under system status and after resets, system status is custom in download screen with modified in the about menu. This doesn't mean flash counter is tripped. From what I read, if you trip your flash counter, the custom binary download line in the download screen will say yes with the number of flashes in brackets next to it.

If I am wrong, please do correct me so that the right information is given. Thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] boravr6:
Read this whole post plus a few more... i still need some help :crying:

Keep in mind im a noob so dont take for granted i know stuff :laugh:

Trying to root a rogers Galaxy S3. However odin it keeps failing. here is the error message.

I have done the following steps already to help narrow it down.

1. installed the newest version of kies.

2. tried 3 cables. a GS3 cable, a GS2 LTE cable and a mono price cable. (tried in 4 ports per cable as well as every version of odin)

3. Tried 5 different odins. 1.7, 1.85, 3.04, 3.06, 3.07

4. tried 4 different usb ports (and confirmed the samsung cable shows up in device manager)

5. Tried all of the above on windows 7 64 bit, as well as on my laptop with a 32 bit version of windows 7.

6. tried all of the above running odin in normal and admin mode

7. USB debugging is selected

any advice is welcome! After reading the forums for a few hours its clear many rogers users claim they have rooted with NO problems what so ever.... I have no idea what my wildcard is but it just start up :crying:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Maybe bad download. Try downloading the file again. Use Odin 3.04.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
ANd I just rooted mine, which is a Rogers GS3... Using the cable that came with the phone, and Odin 3.07... no KIES software on computer, drivers installed via the Toolkit on the other sticky thread... (Didn't use the toolkit, so it was primarily for the drivers)

Maybe you are having issues because you have the KIES software running in the background and it is interfering with ODIN... try closing it down or uninstalling it...

thanks! I think that's what happened to me... and I did search and found a youtube video that shown how it looks like if you have the flash counter... and yes it is beside the thing saying "Custom Binary Download" and if you ripped it it will say YES and a number in brackets how many times.... Otherwise it will say NO, which means you haven't tripped it, yet... And god I'm happy I haven't. They say the system status in the download screen as CUSTOM and MODIFIED on the about phone will go away if you go back to stock and no root.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] boravr6:
I tried the second rogers file and it worked! Good call !!!!

many thanks!!! ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
Lol, coincidentally I used the second linked file for rogers without trying the first link...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] P00t:
So I'm getting the sgs3 today. I shouldn't use the latest odin??307?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Narcistic:
Some people have had problems with it... 3.04 is what I used without issue
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] P00t:
Thanks for the fast answer.

Im confused on the optional part of the process(maybe ill unserstand it if I have the device). Im getting the at&ts sgs3, do I dow load both files??

Lte variant ans att recovery?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Narcistic:
If your looking g to just root the phone get odin and the att file. If you want to install custom roms/kernels you will need the optional recovery file as well
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DarkredD14:
I am having the same issue. I went back to stock today will see if that fixes it. Did you ever find a solution?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] House M.D.:
I do have the same issue, and sometimes the phone just restart the whole thing, and dropping signals for a few seconds and then it goes back to normal,
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Narcistic:
I haven't had a single issue since rooting...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DarkredD14:
Yes while I was rooted I also had some really annoying random restarts. I also felt the phone getting hot down by the charging input area.

It could very well be an app that I had installed. I did also put clockwork on and did the cell standby fix. Not sure if those were the culprits or not. Android system was extremely high on my battery meter at times it would take close to 25% or more battery depending on what else was running.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] smithisize:
I followed this and flashed first ics. Note I'm download mode it says "system status: custom"

Does this indicate an increase in trip counter?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
I don't think so. Mine says that too. The flash counter is the "CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD" line, I believe. The SYSTEM STATUS thing is just an indication of whether you have custom changes in /system. It would change back to "normal" if you flashed an official UCALEM stock Odin package. You shouldn't worry about it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pixbuf:
I hastily installed root a different way and now my counter has been incremented. Is there any way to reset it? Can't I just flash the original stock ROM? Does triangle away work with this phone?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
There is no known way to reset the counter (yet). Sorry.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] McAwesome:
Quick question in Odin it always displays reset when it completes the process not pass I haven't had any issues just wondering why it doesn't say pass like other peoples and it used to for me with my infuse. Running 3.07 works fine just curious.

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
For those who keep asking.... Here`s how it looks like if your Trip counter has been tripped

http://bayimg.com/jaahfaaeb.jpg

and here's how it looks like if you have NOT tripped it, yet

http://bayimg.com/jaahhaaeb.jpg

don't know how to see this screen? Power down your phone... then press VOLUME UP + HOME + POWER BUTTON at the same time until a confirmation screen appears. Press Volume Up to get to this screen...

OP should post these images on the first page as reference to so that people would know and stop asking over and over... XD
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
You are going to want to do VOLUME DOWN + HOME + POWER BUTTON to enter download mode.

Easy way to remember is vol DOWN enters DOWNLOAD mode. when you hold vo up + home + power you get to recovery.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rockstarbrad04:
I started with a blue gs3 and rooted it just fine with no problems. I then gave that phone to my wife and purchased a white one.

So, I (without thinking) accepted the OTA update that came out a couple of days ago on my new phone before I got a chance to root my phone. The same files and process I used to root the phone my wife now has is not working. Am I doing something wrong or did I just screw up bad by accepting the OTA?

I even tried using odin to go backwards in software with the original software listed in another thread but that also fails on odin.

Any suggestions?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
You should be able to Odin back to UCALEM using the method in this thread's OP even if you're on LG1. I've done it a few times. If you're having problems, check your cable, try another USB port, etc.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] goojman:
I accidentally did the OTA update, can I still root using the method in this thread? Apologize if this has been asked but just don't wanna brick this bit$h.. Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jethro650:
Read the post above yours.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] goojman:
Thanks. Wut can I say, I'm retarded..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] David Dee:
I just realized that I installed the .img file from team Epic's Sprint v-4 CWM version on my Rogers sg3 :o The funny thing is it has been working flawlessly since I installed it on July 7, access to sd card, no imei problems, etc.

I was curious if I have just been a lucky S.O.B. and should immediately flash v5 of the "other devices" CWM from team epic, or just keep on going with the Sprint version? Any thoughts would be appreciated.