[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
Thanks!! I have EVERYTHING working!

For others info..

I wanted to start fresh, so after I wipe data/cache, I first flashed stock ROM using Odin, then booted up and let it do the OTA update to LG6.

I then installed Osaifu-Keitai, which activates the Felica hardware and assigns it to the device.

Then installed EDY, it recognized my previous balance no problem.

Then onto root using the info from the japanese blog mentioning Sakuramilk...

1.　Download the following...

ODIN

CWM Recovery : https://github.com/downloads/kbc-de...ery/SC06D-ICS-KBC-CWM-V6.0.1.2_r1-recovery.7z

root file (save this to internal sdcard "phone")

sgs3_rooting_supersu_v3.zip : http://www.mediafire.com/?7y0hf688eyu0k6w

stock recovery

http://www.mediafire.com/?q3aubc6lri3t2rk

2.　Boot to download mode, In ODIN, select the CWM Recovery through the PDA type button,

Turn OFF "Auto-Reboot" (so you can manually boot straight into recovery mode)

3.　Once flashed, unplug, hold power until screen turns off, HOLD UP VOL and HOME BUTTON (do NOT let it boot to Android system)

4.　Now you should be in Recovery mode, "install zip from sd" and find the sgs3_rooting_supersu_v3.zip and flash it

5.　Once it's finished flashing, select reboot, but HOLD DOWN VOL and HOME/power and boot straight into DOWNLOAD mode again, do NOT let ut boot to Android!!!

6.　Now using Odin again, select PDA, the "stock recovery", deselect "Auto-reboot", and flash the stock_recovery

7.　NOW you can let it reboot into Android, once in, you can check your SU (superuser) and open up "Osaifu-Keitai", install EDY (or any other mobile wallet app, but do it now as you won't be able to later) Check that they work, they should be fine though.

If you don't care about custom ROM's, then that's it. You are done! EVERYTHING will work at this point. OneSeg, Felica, Wifi, camera, LTE, hotspot, etc...

OPTIONAL

If you DO want to try a ROM or kernel, (let's use Sakuramilks latest CM9 for example) then download the files and extract them, then put them on the Internal memory (phone)

https://github.com/kbc-developers/release/wiki/SC06D

fyi, i used the AOSP CM9 kernel and the CM9 nightly ROM in that link

also google apps http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-ics-20120429-signed.zip

8. Now reboot back into DOWNLOAD mode (hold VOL DOWN and HOME/power) and reflash CWM recovery (same as step 2), DO NOT let it go into Android, boot straight into Recovery mode after flashing cwm_recovery!

9. Do a back up, it will take a while. After that, wipe data/cache.

10. Install zip from sd, choose the kernel, flash it, then choose the ROM and flash it, then the google apps and flash it. Finally reboot to DOWNLOAD MODE!! Again, boot it straight to download mode after flashing the ROM's

11. Now in Odin, flash the stock_recovery again (like step 6)

12. Boot into Android and ENJOY!!!

-- NOTE - if you don't reflash the stock recovery, before booting back into Android, some of the hardware/apps won't work, like Felica will NOT work, Camera MIGHT work, phone dialer MIGHT work, OneSeg probably won't work, etc...

As long as you reflash the stock_recovery after your custom ROM or kernels, everything should work fine.

I did those steps above and I have 100% functionality as I have tested everything before posting.

fyi, there is some more info posted with step 8 on the japanese site that i did not include as I don't quite understand what they are doing and I couldn't get it to work.

here's the text..

その後ADBでCWMを入れる（端末は俺の場合リカバリーモードでやった）

cwm_recovery.imgは最初に焼いたCWMを解凍した中のrecovery.imgです（リネームしたほうが分かりやすいから）

$ adb push ./cwm_recovery.img /data/local/tmp/

$ adb shell su -c "cat /data/local/tmp/cwm_recovery.img > /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery"

$ adb shell su -c "rm /data/local/tmp/cwm_recovery.img"

$ adb shell su -c "sync;sync;sync;sleep 2; reboot"

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Question, does anyone know how to get the Samsung ringtones off the phone? I didn't think about it before I flashed custom ROm, but I have a back up, I just don't know how to pull the Samsung ringtones out of it. There are a couple that I like and prefer to use.