yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nwdst:
this does work if done right...

Quote: Originally Posted by Intercrew

I've successfully rooted the phone using Telus canadian variant. But I'm confused on how to get CWM. The comands for the android terminal emulator doesn't work :S

I can second this because I also used the terminal emulator app to flash CWM and it did manage to install. Again...make sure u type it in exactly.

The only problem I had was that the CWM recovery put my phone into a soft-boot loop so I decided to flash the new stock-root (was running UCALEM). So I guess I just wonder if I have to hard reset my device after installing CWM recovery to get it to work?

One thing to keep in mind, a lot of ppl have gotten this to work using this guide and have not had their phones brick or lose IMEI. Although I respect ppls choices to not go further than stock rooted, I believe that you can safely flash the stock-rooted, CWM recovery and at least one Rom type and back to stock root without bricking your phone. This IS however you follow the directions and don't go Indiana Jones on your phone...travel the well beaten paths until someone figures out the IMEI thing.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Intercrew:
Thank you :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zaghy2zy:
I noticed to happed to my phone, too, but didn't really post about it. I don't even know why it happens. It's far fetched to say it runs out of memory... All of the persistent programs seems to get shut as well, such as SetCPU and battery monitor in mine. The whole thing just feels like it did a hot reboot all on it's own. Just without leaving the lock screen or going into the boot screen at all.

I check running apps and stuff like skype are no longer there even if i left it running in the background. With the talks about this app that checks if the systems is modified at startup.. I'm inclined to say it might be doing it so that it can do it's thing once it thinks you have a modified system.

EDIT: I believe we don't need busybox to dd CWM... I was able to install CWM (downloaded the version from the rommanger site, att version for Rogers) and worked fine. I wan't able to get adb on my pc running so I put cwm on internal memory (which is /mnt/sdcard/) and NOT on the actual sd card (which is /mnt/extSdCard/) and was able to dd it using Android terminal emulator....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mordred69:
I did the same thing and CWM worked fine for me. Later, I installed Busybox because I thought I would need it for Titanium, but this installation switched my Device Status to Modified. I then uninstalled it to return my Device Status back to Normal. I posted the steps on how to do this a few posts back.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AxAtAx:
I went into download mode, and it showed the counter at the top.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Intercrew:
lol I can't get into download mode after installing CWM. Any other way to check my flash counter? And I thought CWM would download an app but theres nothing new :S I'm guessing it's just a hidden software and only way to access it is by holding vol up + home + power right?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kssxs:
volume DOWN + home + power

lol :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 1sagain:
anyone know how to UNROOT my telus i747?? I even got CWM on

I am going into the store tomorrow to have my device replaced...

I don't want trouble

The guy said to bring it in.

The issue is with the volume rocker. vibrating along with the phone vibration making a nasty noise

will having it rooted be a problem?

:confused:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pachi72:
I think just flash the original firmware via Odin?

Nokia 3650>Nokia 3660>Nokia 6630>SE W800>SE W810>SE K790>Nokia N95-1>Nokia N95-3>Nokia N95-4 8gb>iPhone 3G>iPhone 3GS>iPhone 4>GS Capitvate>Galaxy S2 i9100>Note N7000 32gb> Galaxy S 3 i747 32gb
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
yes just use ODIN> get telus stock rom here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1752729

and flash it in odin. do a factory reset as well.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 1sagain:
Do i add it in PDA??

Sorry for noob question
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
yes but that info is in the OP.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] is350:
Thanks for the post. Just rooted my first Android phone and will later install CWM so I can start flashing some custom roms.

Only one thing - the OP says to leave Auto Reboot & Reset Time checked while every other tutorial says to leave only Auto Reboot checked. I followed the latter and only kept Auto Reboot. Does it make a difference?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Zamdam1:
Ok. Thanks for the directions. I rooted is with the stock rooted firmware and installed CWM touch recovery.

Question.

Can I use CWM to flash CM9 or CM10 and it not affect the flash counter?

Or would it affect the flash counter, but if I wanted "Device Status" to return to "Normal," would i have to flash it back to the stock rooted firmware?

And would I need to use Odin or CWM to flash it back to the stock rom?

Thanks in advance.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Nothing in CWM will affect the flash counter now. Just flashing unofficial with ODIN does that. The device status field is a completely different thing that you really don't need to worry about unless you want to return your device for warranty. At that point you'd factory reset, ODIN flash stock firmware and it would be Normal. Its not a field that gets "tripped" and remains that way.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Zamdam1:
Thanks. I think I am reading this right. So, I could bork the phone and as long as I was able to install a stock firmware, everything would be good for warranty?

Also, to revert back to my rooted stock rom, all I need to do is restore from back in CWM?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Yes, and if you had tripped the counter you'd need to reset it. if you never tripped it then yes just flash stock via ODIN.

Restore from stock in ODIN, not cwm. cwm is a non-stock recovery, flashing stock firmware via odin will put back stock system, stock recovery etc.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aznguy84:
Another successful ATT S3 user...rooted on stock rom. Thank you!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tamanaco:
I have two quick questions before I flash.

1. - Is the ATTI747UCALG1 image a full "official" ROM image from Samsung with just root injected or is this image the AT&TI747UCALM "official" ROM with root AND the OTA UCALG1 components injected?

2. - Is the MD5 of the decompressed file root69.stock_ATT_I747UCALG1.tar MD5:

5be8cca6363def1b3848018fff2b7f91

Thanks...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
1. yes the UCALG1 is the full official rom with root injected.

2. not by computer to know. if your 7z checks out you should be fine.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
MrR already answered #1, and yes, that is the correct MD5 for the extracted tar.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tamanaco:
Everything appears to have gone well. After the first boot had to clear the data from the AT&T OTA app as it kept popping up. Now two more questions... after installing 5.8.4.5 CWM using the dd command the version on the CWM screen appears to be (3e) is this correct? Also the Play Store prompts me to update the Superuser app to version 3.1.3... is it safe to update it?

Thanks again...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
3e is not CWM, did it flash correctly?

Yes safe to update Superuser.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tyshemi:
mr robinson the att version wont download ??
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
this link http://d-h.st/u2B just worked for me....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tamanaco:
The first time I tried the dd command I got...

14004+0 records in

14004+0 records out

7170048 bytes transferred in 0.813 secs (8819247 bytes/sec)

The second time after re-downloading recovery-clockwork-5.8.4.5-d2att.img and entering the dd command again I got:

14004+0 records in

14004+0 records out

7170048 bytes transferred in 1.288 secs (5566807 bytes/sec)

The second time worked as I can now see CWM v5.8.4.5 - Can't figure out what was different the second time, but everything's OK now. IMEI still intact.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Jason123420:
So this may be a stupid question but I have a bell sgs 3 and I wanna go back to stock rooted from cm9 if I flash the bell image will that work?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
that and i'd recommend a factory reset when coming from a different rom base..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] raheelanwar89:
The link is now working, it was not previously :D

Woot.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] creepyncrawly:
Dev-Host is fairly reliable, not perfect, but it's on way more than it's off, which is good, since it is the sort of official file host for xda.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] wiz4769:
Just wanted to say I used this method on my AT&T S3 with no issues. BUT, the phone does now show Modified now. Not sure if this really means much unless warranty stuff has to be used. I only rooted the phone, no roms or anything. Is flashing the stock rom and resetting everything the only way to reset this?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] lostsoul565:
thank you for this!!! i am new to android, coming from iphone. This took me a total of like 5 minuets to complete. no issues at all. I can say that i have no regrets coming to the sgs3 and now into the dark side...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
yes the modified means nothing, you probably installed busybox or something. if you have to return phone you flash back to stock (no root, busybox, etc) and that will go away.

is this the dark side? thought maybe gray... but.....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jfl0wers:
I get an error when trying to download root69.stock_ATT_I747UCALG1.7z. Is the File service down?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jfl0wers:
It's back up...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Scyzor:
3rd day on the Dark Side ;) Only root so far.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bori1030:
got the root no problem but trying the cwm in terminal emulator keep getting "no such file or directory".. any ideas thanks

doing

su then hit enter

dd if=/sdcard/recovery-clockwork-5.8.4.5-d2att.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 then hit enter
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] malinois16:
You just need to type

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

. You need to extract the recovery.img file out of the zip and put it in the root of the phone directory.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bori1030:
yea that was the problem i had it on sd card i put on internal and im rolling now!!.

now lets see what to flash.. :) i was flashing the att touch that he recommended sweet now thanks bro
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jasvncnt1:
OK so I'm on uclem. I'm thinking about going with the OTA for lg1 that's posted here and then install TWRP. I'm assuming if I were to use the lg1 I would still be able to restore my previous ROM backups without issue? I know I can't use TWRP to flash my CWM backups....I'm just trying to find the best steps to upgrade to lg1, install TWRP and then re create my CWM backups
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
if you install the lg1 that is here via ODIN or find the lg1 you can flash via cwm you won't have to restore anything. It doesn't wipe your data.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jasvncnt1:
Really!? Didn't think it would be that easy! I'll install the one here via Odin. So I don't need to do any reset before hand since its a different version? Thanks mrRobinson for your work and help
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hormosapiens:
local search back?

thanks for this rooted room. done everything + installed cwm recovery and went to the dark side of the moon with my sgs3. tested aokp jb and cm10, but small issues here and there and bad battery made me go back to nandroid restore. now i am back on this rooted stock. the only thing i cant seem to do is how to copy the local search .apk on /system/app

to buy root explorer from google play, not for me.

any other free folder manager that have root access?

terminal needs some commands that i dont know...

thanks again.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
I use es file explorer. Many others. Solid explorer...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Phateless:
Is there an Odin-flashable version of clockwork touch? I'd rather just flash recovery, then flash su for root, and so on.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] n8izzle:
Unable to find recovery.img

Hello all, i was able to get access to ADB Shell and I rebooted into recovery successfully but when i try and load the recovery image it is not coming on my phone. It asks me if i would like to chose the zip file from SD Card and I select it but the recovery.img file is not in there. I checked it on the computer and it was but the phone is not reading it. Is this happening to anyone else? How do i fix this? Thanks for the help
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] fabzbear:
Is there a flashable stock lg8 Rom/tar out? If not is there a way to make one? I know the lg8 is an ota update that can also be done manually but I'm just wondering if there is a stock Rom itself of it out a way to create one.

I'm asking because I'm trying to make a custom Rom but want the latest stock for Sprint variant.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rakhov:
I used this method origionally to root my phone. It has worked great and I have since flashed twrp, cm10, aokp, etc...

I would like to go back to stock rooted again. Can I simply just re-do the steps I did to originally install this? I am guessing I will loose twrp but that is ok, I can just re-install that.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stevenca:
I have rooted and installed CWM on my Bell i747M using these methods.

Thank you to the developers ! Anyone else on Bell who is not sure about doing these steps , go ahead!@

I also did a backup from CWM , date was 1970-01-16.04.37.37 for some reason

total size of my backup is 2.01 gigs!!

IS there anything else I should back up or do ?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
yes that was the first way to root that came out. will trip the counter if you care but yes its in these forums, shouldn't be hard to find.

I'm confused what you are doing.... if you rebooted into recovery then recovery is there? unless you rebooted to stock recovery. don't do that. if you want cwm on your phone via the OP way just keep your phone booted normally. run adb shell. extract the .img from the .zip and put that on your phone. use that as the if=

lg8 for att? or sprint? I'll inject root into any full rom that has been released. If it is just out as an OTA then someone can easily make it into a flashable zip. Usually once an OTA comes out it takes a few weeks for them to release the full rom of it then we can inject root to that.

yep exactly.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gab1to:
So Heimdall is able to recognize my SGS III but I can't figure out how to flash this.

That's the error that I get if I try to flash it with the gui frontend. I haven't try it using the terminal since I don't know how to proceed. There are a lot of extra files in that .tar that I'm not able to recognize.

Some help will be appreciated. I'm using Heimdall 1.3.2 and it's able to recognize our phones like I said earlier. Give it a try.

BTW: I'm using Fedora 17.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zmore:
Running F17 here, too, but that front-end GUI error is even less helpful than the actual backend error. :)

Unfortunately Heimdall still hasn't been updated for U.S. variant support yet, but the developer has stated he's working on it. (but no git commits in 4 months)

If you can't wait any longer (I couldn't), find a Windoze box (or a VM if you're feeling adventurous) and just use Odin.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tamanaco:
I just noticed that the date for all the backup files saved by the CWM v5.8.4.5 backup function are dated 1970-01.17. I rebooted and ran the backup again a couple times, but I still get the same date on the files. Any idea as to what might be causing this?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] buvk:
Known issue
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] fabzbear:
It will be for Sprint. I'm trying to make a custom Rom based on the stock Rom for the s3.

As of right now the only stock Rom I know of is not the latest lg8 which is what I want.

If you could make a stock with root injected into it, with the flashable for the update lg8 that would be great. Much appreciated.

Though if it's not much and its not a drag could you point me to or write a how to/guide/tutorial to do both that would be even better because I'm trying to learn how to do these things. I pm'ed you as well. Thanks again and your information is much appreciated.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
i responded in the sprint thread since it isn't applicable here.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stan.s:
Once again I thank you for this rooted stock rom. I had applied some mods that I think were causing some issues and with the 69 version I was able to easily return to basics with Odin in a single step and continue on without any data loss.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] border43:
It worked!

Thanks, this worked great. Successfull rooted my Bell I747M. :good:

This has probably been answered already, but I tried searching the thread and did not see anything, and I don't really want to go through 80 pages and CTRL-F for "bell". So sorry if this is a re-post.

Has anyone successfully installed CWM recovery on the I747M? The CWM download page says that it should theoretically work on all LTE variants of the SGS III, so I think it will work. But it only is confirmed on that page for Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile, Rogers SGS3. Can anyone confirm that it works with the Canadian Bell I747M? Thanks a lot!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stevenca:
IT WORKS :) I have cwm on mine!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] :
Hi, just rooted using this method but the recovery step seems to not work for me.

I have root and applied the recovery .img via the terminal emulator.

(I just got the GS3 a couple of days ago so it already had the latest update on it)

When I did the last step: reboot recovery

it went into recovery, but it appears to be the stock one. At the top of the screen it says "Android System Recovery"

Not CWM touch.

Not sure what I did wrong.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Snorkel

---------- Post added at 06:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:01 PM ----------

Never mind, I have it working now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mythology01:
Will this root rom unlock the phone for other sim card?

Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] baghera1979:
No
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mythology01:
If so, what can I do to unlock the phone to accept other sim card?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] baghera1979:
Wrong thread. Look in the q&a section
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] border43:
Awesome, thank you! I'll try flashing right now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TheShamsMan:
Hey guys,

I just wanted to confirm everything. I haven't messed around with an Android device in a while, and I literally just bought my S3. It would suck if I managed to f*** it up within the first hour. I'm with Virgin Mobile in Canada. I wanted to confirm the steps.

1. Download: Bell Image (This works with Canadian Virgin Mobile SGH-I747M too)

Perm Mirror 1: Thanks to creepyncrawly!: Bell Download - MD5 Sum: 17a0c7a9699290370d5026c8061aeb22

Perm Mirror 2: Thanks to anethema!: Bell Download -

2. Boot phone into Download Mode and with Odin, flash the above PDA file. Reboot and the phone is rooted.

I was a bit confused with the third step where I get CWM on my device. Can I only get it through Odin, or ADB? I can't place a file on my internal SD and flash CWM from recovery?

Can anyone tell me if this works for Virgin Mobile Canada's Galaxy S3? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1743780

Thanks for the info! Any help with this is greatly appreciated!!

Peace.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] :
Outstanding easiest root ever!

Rooted and running a de bloated custom rom in 15 minutes.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Aquethys:
Has this method corrupted anyone's IMEI? I'll probably use the backup tool just in case, but I want to be safe than sorry!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
No. I don't think anyone has had imei issues flashing in Odin. Just using cwm or a custom recovery from everything I've read.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Aquethys:
What recovery do you recommend? JB AOKP is fixed to be able to be used with all recoveries, so which one has most success that you know of? the one in OP (d2att)? :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Well that one works fine but I've been liking TWRP 2.2.1 lately.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rqthrottle:
Thank you! It worked great on windows 7 running on a Virtual Box VM under OSX 10.7.3.

installed cwm using the dd method outlined using terminal emulator. I suggest transferring a text file with the command to your phone and using copy/paste into terminal.

Thanks for the universal search fix. Pretty painless procedure when done with root explorer.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Aquethys:
Any problems recorded in that?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jasvncnt1:
OK here is my stupid question for the day...After I flash to LG1...if I then flash a ROM backup from before..Im assuming my baseband will be back to LEM?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
If by "ROM backup" you mean nandroid, then no. A nandroid backup does not include the modem (aka baseband). At least, ones created with cwm don't; I'm not 100% about twrp.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Aquethys:
Okay, question:

After I odin the rooted package using this method,

To install TWRP do I reboot and install GooManager (without odining the CWMR) or is it safe to install CWMR first, and then GooManager TWRP?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
you can grab the .img of twrp from their site and dd it per instruc in the OP. or just root/busybox etc and grab goomanager and install it from there.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Aquethys:
My gsiii (red :D) arrives in 3 days. Do I flash the first ATT or the one under it that says original image? After that I should have root and busybox, so GooManager is good, right?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jasvncnt1:
Not sure if this will answer your question but the first one is the new firmware LG1 which has root injected. The one that says original is the LEM that came originally came stock with the phone. I used goomanager and have had no issues. Enjoy your phone!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TheShamsMan:
Hey guys! I was wondering if I require specific drivers for adb? Would someone mind linking that to me?

Also, after entering the last command line to push CWM image, is there something I need to do to exit adb? Or can I just simply unplug the USB cord?

Thanks!

EDIT*********

Found everything here: http://maderschramm.blogspot.ca/2012/07/root-verizon-samsung-galaxy-siii-and.html

Thanks again!