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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Xdenwarrior:
Im abit confused with these instructions:

How does one extract recovery.img from CWM_Recovery_LTE_v5.tar.md5

Other than Odin, my PC doesnt recognize md5 :(

(sorry long time Windows Mobile/Symbian user but only 10 days with android)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] malinois16:
Remove the .md5 from the file name and then unzip, recovery.img is in there
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Phaze13:
/sdcard is where it should be.

Do yourself a favor, download terminal Emulator from market and do it on your phone. Follow OP instructions.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Safe to update. It was just updated since I injected it into the ATT one. The Bell, telus, rogers should have the updated one as I did those later.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Stoneyguy:
Thank you and Phaze13 very much. It was indeed a nOOb mistake. I thought the external SD Card was the sdcard directory in question but it appears that the phone labels it's own internal card as the sdcard. So once I copied the recovery file to the root of the phone's internal memory it worked like a champ. Thanks again for your time.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ak789:
Mine is working fine after following the steps from page 1. Stock rooted rom using odin and cwm using adb. Are uou using custom rom on top of it?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alacrify:
Might be a silly question, but you did reboot, right? APN probably won't kick in until at least one reboot after...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hcyplr29:
Well from someone who has never used adb I successfully rooted and installed cwm without tripping the counter. Thanks a lot for the instructions, I needed it. Coming from the Skyrocket it was a little different from what I was used to. Took me 24 hrs to decide to do it, I was gonna wait but I'm already suffering from flash syndrome. Now time to decide which ROM to flash?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] #1RAGE:
Is anyone working on a rooted SaskTel image? Would there be any problems using the Telus or Bell images on my SaskTel SGS3?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] anethema:
APN kicks in soon as you back out of the APN config. I've been fighting with APNS for a while now so I've got a good idea.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mr.Kakarot:
"Once rebooted grab the recovery from here: http://www.epiccm.org/2012/06/cwm-re...-variants.html

extract this file to get a recovery.img file and copy to your phone's internal /sdcard"

I cannot extract the file... it is a tar file (odin)... so the instructions after the fact confuse me? Can I just use odin, or is the file fine and I just do the adb?

thx

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sillier question, you saved the apn you created right? After saving it, you selected it, so that is has a green dot in the circle?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] quitlee:
Worked flawlessly for Rogers i747M!

Got both root and the custom recovery :D

Great work.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
If you use Odin you'll trip the flash counter. Use 7zip (or maybe WinRAR) to extract the recovery.img from the tar file. 7zip worked for me directly on the .tar.md5 file. It gave a pop-up about extra stuff at the end of the tar file (the MD5), but you can safely ignore that.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hcyplr29:
I was confused about this also. I read earlier in this thread that you need to remove the md5 file name at the end of the tar and then extract the img from the tar and push that with adb.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dbzgod:
Sasktel uses Bell's firmwares since they have some kind of deal setup with them so sasktels CSC is always included in with the bell firmwares. Flash the bell rom and you will maintain your Sasktel csc and should be fine. Worse case scenario it doesn't work properly with the csc and you just flash sasktels firmware back over.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stickem601:
Yeah i did that a few times, i found away around it, made a new apn with just "phone" in the apn line and "default,internet" in the apn type and it kicked right on after i selected it with green dot. But I did tons of reboots and followed the steps with no problems when doing the root/flash.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jevoe:
I've had a long time hiatus from Android and would like some help. Last time I rooted I was on VZW DINC, and it was done with a GUI with the phone connected. Can anyone create a script/program to do the same for this process or must it be run through Odin?

Are there any good threads on how to properly go through the third step of the process to load CWM?

Any/all help is appreciated. Thank you XDA, I'm glad to be back!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
This must be through odin.

:( I thought this was a good thread...

if adb is your stumbling block then just download android terminal emulator to your phone and run the commands there after copying the recovery.img to your internal /sdcard.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jevoe:
This is a great thread :-) - I meant a refresher thread I can reference for proper use of the ADB command line so I don't break anything when trying to apply CWM. Thank you for the heads up on the terminal emulator, that is perfect and the route I'll take. This is why I love Android, infinitely more resourceful than anything I've come across on iOS
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] anethema:
I love my sgsIII but no sense deluding yourself about iOS. In a lot of ways it is more friendly for hacking stuff than Android has ever been. You don't need busybox in iOS to run commands, the real commands are all there. You dont need Dropbear ssh from anywhere, full OpenSSH suite is compiled for it. The terminal in android feels much more like being on a phone where as if you're in the terminal on iOS you can never even tell it is a phone, it feels like a full computer. If you want to use your phone to administer other linux computers, you can run ssh-keygen, get keys, put them in the servers and log in passwordless all from your phone. The phone runs bash by default, and uses apt (best packaging system ever) for its packages.

There are many other problems of course, you wont be flashing any custom roms or anything, but no sense not knowing how things are.

That being said I won't be switching to iOS anytime soon.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mr.Kakarot:
ok thanks, winrar found nothing! I will try that :)

I rooted and removed all bloat.. so far, so great :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mpazevedo:
You have to remove the MD5 extension. so it says WM-Recovery-LTE-SGS3-v5.tar then unzip to get the image file.

This is getting repetitive.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alacrify:
Did avid get the phone or not? We need one of his FAQs :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
yea... just added a little one liner to the OP...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mpazevedo:
That would be a great idea, but you know better, no one would read it.

mrRobinson, you did a great job with the instructions on how to get root and CWM but could you dump it down (step by step) a bit for all these new folks who seem to be asking the same question on the OP?

I would recommend also the addition of Terminal Emulator as the primary way to get CWM. https://play.google.com/store/apps/...idterm&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd

My two cents, it might help with some of this repetitiveness.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Theojt:
Had this same problem - Had set preferences but Tibu could not access the location. Everything else seemed normal.

CWM "Fix Permissions" resolved it for me.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dave1977nj:
Tested v5 from http://www.epiccm.org/2012/06/cwm-recovery-on-all-sgs3-lte-variants.html working fine ATT Galaxy S III AT&T
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] skatin707:
Edit: Got ADB to work. Now I can't get the phone to go into recovery again.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alacrify:
Try ADB reboot recovery?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] skatin707:
I ended up doing that. I flashed kyan and am very happy with this phone so far. This root + cwm guide just made everything better. Thanks to everyone involved, as well as everyone that answered my questions. If I didn't thank your post, it's because I ran out of thanks :p
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] timbit123:
He guys, I got a status modified after this but i'm not sure if its after I modified the system partition to remove apks or anything else that could happened. I will try to reflash later... Don't know if someone else had this.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alacrify:
Status modified is meaningless - reflashing back to stock will clear it (and there's discussion earlier about how it gets flipped on and off). The counter in download mode is the only thing you need to worry about.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] timbit123:
okay, thanks I still got no flash counter. I just did a quick search and my status modified is coming from busybox...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] frewys:
Thanks for the guide.

Mobile odin is out. Just flashed CWM on my ATT. Works perfect! No increase in flash counter and super easy!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] qwer777:
Mobile Odin requires root right? So we still can't do everything from the device yet without windows?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bjtheone:
If your issue is with loading cwm you don't need adb. Use Odin on a pc to load a stock rooted rom, then go to Google play and load a terminal emulator and busybox. Then use the terminal apply to do the "su" and "dd" commands from a shell on the phone.

bj | SGH-I747M | Rogers | Rooted | ICS | CWR
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] frewys:
Most of the "things you need" needs root anyway. Why would you not root?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Updated OP with the recovery for our phone now. The recovery now see's the extSdCard perfectly. Running nandroid backup now see if it has the date issue.

Date is still 1970 but it did run the backup direct to the extSdCard now which is nice.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] qwer777:
I'm definitely going to root. I was just hoping we'd reached the point where you can install an app and root all from your phone like you see on a handful of devices
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
Does clockworkmod.com's recovery support exFat?

Is your external SD card formatted as exFAT or FAT32? v4 of Team Epic's recovery sees the external card find and backs up to there by default, but it has to be FAT32.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
CWM-flashable recoveries

I created CWM-flashable ZIPs of the two new AT&T recoveries as well as v4 of Team Epic's recovery. If you already have a recovery installed, you can flash these to switch recoveries to avoid the dd thing.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
its being mounted as vfat so prob fat32.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] phzi:
Latest version of CWM Touch Recovery for d2att in a flashable zip:

recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.4.6-d2att.zip

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-fed9a267.html

also working on i747M (Canadian) variant.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] the1stSecond:
OK, regarding the new OTA update that is out there for AT&T as of today.

If you are totally stock, then did the OTA update (going from UCALEM to UCAL61).

Then, flashed the stock root in OP which is based on UCALEM.

Would the counter trip at that point being different builds, or does it not matter since they are technically both stock and it would be basically like reverting to UCALEM?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zmore:
Thanks, but are the menu items any larger in the touch version? I don't trust my fat fingers... :)

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mobilehavoc:
I just flashed the stock rooted ROM (67) and when I check for software update I get "Communication Failed". I've had this error before I flashed the stock rom so it's not new but I figured flashing the stock rom would have fixed it. Anybody flash the stock rooted ROM and then check for software updates not get an error? I'm starting to wonder if it has to do with my SIM card.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alacrify:
Depending on where the SIM card came from, it certainly could. Because of LTE, you have to use the new SIM that comes with the phone to get it to work right (AFAIK).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
The counter couldn't trip, but you will have undone the OTA update and be back on UCALEM.

The rooted ODIN flash in OP is just UCALEM with SuperUser and su injected. Until UCAL61 is available for download through samsung-updates.com, we won't be able to root it in the same manner. I did read a report that OTA Rootkeeper was able to preserve root, though.

But why would you want to install the OTA? It just removes universal search.

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Yeah, the items are bigger and there's a blank line between each item.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] the1stSecond:
I already did the OTA just to see what it was before all the details came to light. I knew I could roll back if I wanted to. I was curious if I could keep the counter at 0, but at the time I did the OTA I really didn't care if I upped the counter or not by "rolling back".

Thanks for the info.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] slomanski:
I am also interested to know if anyone has done this on their Sasktel devices. Bit of a newbie to carrier locked devices as I was using an unlocked i9000 before... :confused:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mobilehavoc:
I was using a SIM card from my One X so I tried provisioning the new one that came with the GS3 and still get the same error message. It's really bizzare. It's just odd that after a full system flash it still has the same issue.Any other ideas?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Gadgetz:
Oh boy...I'm on stock rooted, baseband UCLEM, and I checked for a software update and it automatically began downloading it....It's been completely downloaded and asked me if I wanted to update, options were either update or postpone...I clicked postpone, options then were 1, 2, 4 or 8hrs...I picked 8. Does that mean it's gonna update after 8hrs no matter if I want to apply the update or not?

As for the touch CWM....somebody embedded it in one of their posts here, then somebody provided an external link as well, are they one in the same? I have the regular CWM from the OP, would I simply flash the touch zip or do I need to do other things as well in order to get the touch recovery?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mobilehavoc:
Can you please post the OTA update? Maybe there's a way to flash it with stock recovery?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Gadgetz:
Sure...just tell me where I'd find it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mobilehavoc:
I'm guessing it's somewhere on your sdcard since you haven't accepted it yet. Can you look for it? It's a 10MB file that was modified today - shouldn't be hard to find :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Gadgetz:
That's what I'd guess too but the reason I asked is cause I checked internal and external sdcard and couldn't find it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] caveman999:
Can anyone confirm that they were able to go from the OTA to UCALEM with these Odin files? The reason I'm asking is because I need to return my phone due to hardware problems and I might need to do that if they have already updated the phone with the OTA update. I'm hoping they haven't, but I guess I will see what happens tomorrow.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] starryeyez:
Question

Okay so I updated, I now have the UCALG1 not 61. I want to root. Can I use the rooted UCALEM to root or will it brick my phone. :confused:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
I have not installed the OTA myself, but I think flashing the rooted UCALEM in the OP will return you to UCALEM. I think the Odin package in the OP flashes the ROM, kernel, modem, recovery, bootloader... everything.

I don't think it will brick your phone, but it will undo the update. But standard disclaimer: I have not tried this myself and I'm not responsible if it does brick your phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] QuarkGluonSoup:
unroot

How do you unroot your phone?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zmore:
The OTA update should be sitting in /cache/fota

shell@android:/system # ll /cache/fota/2400258.cfg
-rw------- system system 11259086 2012-07-11 16:46 2400258.cfg

Might not be named the same, but should be 10.74MiB.

(EDIT: Browsing through the update (it's just a zipfile), most are tiny inconsequental patches, but GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk.p is big, as are a few others)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nitroproductions:
Is there an image file or Tar file for Virgin Mobile in Canada? Would it be the same as Bell? I wold like to start rooting and flashing custom roms soon but want to do it without tripping any counters. Someone please let me know. Thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Gadgetz:
Here's the AT&T OTA update

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/44732317/2400258.cfg.zip
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
I think a few folks are probably hammering the server at once, but the more mirrors available the better :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BakaNeko59:
SO - now we need a name for the method...

RobiRooter?

MrRooter?

MrRobiRooter?

MrRobinsonsMiracleRoot?

Bob?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] manny05:
can anyone help me with ADB shell?

how do i use it..where to download it..

never used that before.. always been grateful for one root clicks :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
I kinda like the MrRobiRooter :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jiggytom:
Fast link updated in op
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Guys, I have a fast mirror up but will be temporary.

anyone who can host this for me please download and send me your hosted link. I'll add to OP with credit to you. Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jiggytom:
Downloaded at 5.7MB\s Thanks!!. Flashing soon!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zmore:
Temporary mirror #3

Here's another mirror:

DIRECT DOWNLOAD stock_root66.7z (568MiB)

7z md5sum: c4df26831cefff1c2f1d88ebdec971e2

7z sha256sum: c921ca2ac5a61d33c709110eca132ab8d60a8da6f8b38ac45c8789c56706f1a9

I'll keep this mirror up until I've exhausted my spare bandwidth quota for the month, then it'll 404.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
I did say it was fast... :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Diviance:
I can provide a fast mirror once I finish downloading, then uploading it. Abuse it as much as you want, I have no bandwidth limitation.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dLo GSR:
i KNEW patience would pay off!! thanks both of you. now i will have a rooted, CWM'd sgs3 with a virgin flash counter. i don't know how i managed this last week without root!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
I envy your patience. I could not wait...:(

though without the ugly triangle the counter itself doesn't bother me until i break my phone..;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jiggytom:
Same here! Doing a nandroid backup now :p
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zmore:
If I would've had my phone by now, I wouldn't have waited either (but now I don't have to), since the odds having to return the phone and the odds of anyone caring about the counter (before triangleaway shows up) is..... maybe 1 in 50. Still, nice to have the safety net, for when I DO get my rooted s3.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
EDIT: OP put a link to the ADB install method on the directory - this is much cleaner and preferred..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] altitude909:
Q: Do we need to rename/extract/etc the recovery image from team epic? Its seems odd that its called : CWM-Recovery-LTE-SGS3-v2.tar.md5
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
yes you want to extract the recovery.img file out of there. will update OP.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
EDIT -- Sorry, mrRobinson beat me to it :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TheWyzeMan:
I'm sure I'm making a noob mistake, but when I run "dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18" to flash recovery, I just get "d1|shell@android:/ #". What am I missing?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
Shot in the dark but a couple of things:

1. When you type adb devices - you are seeing your phone listed, correct?

2. You have placed the recovery.img file in the root folder of the phone's internal sdcard?

3. Before you type the dd if command, you are first entering in shell mode and then enabling superuser right?

(From prompt):

1. adb shell (press enter)

2. prompt should now say "shell@android:/ $"

3. su (press enter)

4. dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18

Just wanted to check off all the basics.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hanfordrob:
This is awesome! Took me 10 minutes to root and then I downloaded Mobile Odin Pro. Now I'm licensed too thrill!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pachi72:
Quick question.. Once I root a Rogers/Telus phone I can just flash custom ROMs from Att versión?

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mobilehavoc:
Awesome any way to manually install this with either Odin or Recovery? Assuming if I placed this in the same cache folder the stock recovery would pick it up?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Oogy:
I rooted my phone 2 days ago and since then so many things are not functioning correctly..

it goes back and forth between the plain 4g and lte constantly (and its not the area i'm in, my wife's One X sits on lte all the time)... this makes the bottom of the phone incredibly hot as i'm assuming the radio is constantly search for a signal..

also com.process.android.gapps crashes if i have internet sync checked... without internet sync i dont have my bookmarks in the browser, so i really need that.

none of these things happened before rooting.. i've already factory reset once and problems persist..

any ideas? bad phone?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] lensgrabber:
What is the best way to protect root (rooted via OP instructions, no CWM) so that when the phone gets the OTA everything will still be good? I have Voodoo OTA root keeper installed and root protected but I'm not sure if it works on the GS3.