yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Yes i boot native ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop and used that. Not sure what you'd run into with cygwin but in a vm would be just fine.

I'd think this should work straight away for the SII:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27801304&postcount=1

I followed that except the last steps where he had the mkuserimg.sh. Any time I used that script Odin never liked the resultant system image. I was also concerned the simg2img threw up a CRC error. In that post he says run this to make it ext4 but the image in the gsIII is already labeled as such "system.img.ext4" However I could not mount it as an ext4 image unless i ran it through simg2img. :confused:

Whereas in this post you see he has a system.img.ext4 and mounts it just fine!

So like i said I have questions. Don't know why I couldn't mount it straight away if it was an ext4 image. maybe its as simple as simg2img and the mkuserimg.sh need to be updated for a slightly different sammy image format.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
I'm going to have to dd that one on. Look like they went back to v1:

edit: just dd'd v3, looks good.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
VM's are great stuff for extra "machines" especially when you only use them for special purposes or occasionally. Great for beta testing and sandboxing -- I personally use Oracle's VirtualBox since it's free, but VMware or Virtual PC are decent too (however, IMO Linux VMs on Virtual PC kind of suck).

The only problem I have seen occasionally with VMs if you need to use specific hardware, but they are improving in this area - and for the purposes what you are looking to do I think should be fine.

Also - specifically why I was looking at installing Ubuntu in a VM is that there are some Linux-specific tools that some folks recommend on XDA for messing around with images that I couldn't figure out how to get to work with on Cygwin (maybe there's a way, but I couldn't get them to work).

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I just installed v3 as well and dropped a note to the Team Epic guys in their thread that it seems to work fine on the i747. Looks like the fixed something with backups that weren't working in v2.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jsnmarek:
I am not sure if I am doing something wrong, but after entering the data in terminal emulator to get cwm with the file on my internal sd. It says the same thing as in the op but when I try to get into recovery, it boots to download mode. Not sure what I am doing wrong or if I missed something.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] altitude909:
How are you getting into recovery? Its up volume/home/power, download mode is down volume/home/power
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jsnmarek:
That is what I was using to get into recovery. It states it failed to boot and goes directly into download mode. Should the file be a specific name for cwm? Not sure what I did wrong.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] altitude909:
U should extract the recovery.img file from the archive and that goes into \mnt\sdcard

You can also boot into recovery from the console using "reboot recovery" as su
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ronj1986:
Can 1 of you PM me or post in this thread the messaging & messaging.odex from the AT&T GS3 please?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BakaNeko59:
Why is the extracted tar file in root67 (1,594,350 KB) so much larger than the tar in root66 (1,130,480 KB)? I got the impression not that much had changed...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] OTSS:
Random question but what files do people freeze to remove all the bloatware on the phone?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hednik:
Mr. Robinson... No donate button ? I like to donate when the best method me to root any of my families phones. Thanks !
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tony_YYZ:
What is the best way to revert to factory defaults? I want to see if my battery drain issues will be fixed by doing this. Should I just use the factory default feature built into the OS or use a feature in CWM, if so, which one?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] poriggity:
I did this yesterday, since Kies is a POS program that I can't get to work correctly, and this method worked great.. My phone is now rooted with JB installed! Thank you!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 78Staff:
Same as the intl version. You can use MR's debloat app in the OP for fast and easy one step debloating, or if you do not want to use custom recovery you can use TiBu to freeze apps. See thread below for a spreadsheet of apps safe (and not safe) to remove.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1899365
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mordred69:
Hi all.

Maybe I missed this somewhere, but, how/what do I do to implement the newest S3 ATT update from a CLEAN slate? Meaning, I want to delete everything in my phone, install this rooted JB and then restore my backups (from Titanium and GoBackup Pro).

Reason is, I installed Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper for UCALH9 and now the device status says "Modified". I removed it and it went back to normal. When I installed it yesterday to check for OTA Updates (thought this new JB update was also available OTA at the time), the phone went back to MODIFIED and now when I uninstalled it, it still says MODIFIED.

That, and I want the phone to be fresh and clean with this new install. I am having issues with SD errors (phone has damaged 2 32gb SanDisks Class4) and I am thinking it may be software related.

I should mention I am already on UCDLK3 through ODIN.

Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] white00gt:
Handle it as you would when preparing too go from one rom to another : factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik you can actually do it more than once although not needed then odin the ics software (update)then the jb update but make sure you are installing the unrooted update seems like rooting alone may change the status to modified
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Nope. It's a hobby and I want to keep it that way. If i start taking money I might start feeling obligated, which would ruin hobby/do it cause i want to.. status.

Flash the latest in the op. on reboot after done go into stock recovery and do factory wipe. or do the factory wipe before then odin.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mordred69:
Thanks! You mean, I don't have to load ICS, just use UCDLK3 and load through Odin?

Thanks for your hard work. By the way, you have a PM.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ThaPirato:
7Zip or WinRar work just fine...

You can use either 7Zip or WinRar, i know i used WinRar just fine ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mpegripper:
if i'm already rooted on ics and using cwm, can i just flash the 7z in cwm? after a factory reset etc etc of course
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
nope. this is only odin flash.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mpegripper:
ok, thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hednik:
Certainly makes sense. Well keep up the great work that helps us. Thanks again

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There is always the mobile odin route that has worked well for me on a couple phones
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ozark_8125:
I did the wipe after install today but was worried that it might have cleared out SuperSU with a factory wipe post odin, so I went back and wiped first then odin'd - but either way the root will be good?

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Man... I think you're headed for murky waters with that one. I would grab a beer (or two), pull your external SD, wipe everything (including mount/format SD card) and start fresh fresh fresh then odin the OP. I love TiBu, but fresh 'n clean and re-installing via TiBu when making a jump like this might still be asking for trouble... but that's IMO.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cataloochee:
Thank you

Once again sir you have provided an easy and effective method to have a stock OS with root. Thank you.

Bruce
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mphill46:
Hello community,

I apologize if this has already been answered (double facepalm) if it has.

I am on a stock gs3 running the latest jelly bean updare from samsung. I have a couple questions...

1.) if i root using mr. Robinsons method i will trip the flash counter because i am now on jelly bean?

2.) after i root using mr. Robinsons method if i perform a nandroid backup immediately after the root process can i use that backup to go back to stock and flash OTA updates without a problem? I thought you had to have a custom recovery like cwm to make a nandroid and if thats the case then it will backup my root and custom recocery and therefore will not allow any OTA updates. Please clarify how i can return to stock to perform OTA updates if they ever happen.

3.) i came from motorola unfourtnately. Is using rom manager the best way to install cwm on our s3.

Last and final question... When flashing roms do you still clear dalvik cache , clear cache, factory/data reset in cwm before flashing a new rom to perform a clean install of the new rom?

Like i said i am sorry if all these questions have been answered. There is so much information especially with me being new to samsung devices i just want to make sure i am clear before i proceed. Thanks to anyone who responds.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 78Staff:
HI

1 - No. Counter will still be zero if you are only flashing the root injected rom. When you go to a custom recovery, when you boot into it that will, however. If you stay with stock 3e then it will not.

2 - Couple different issues here, but if you are going rooted with custom recovery you probably shouldn't even worry about getting an OTA update down the road, you will typically see root-injected versions of any OTA updates on XDA within a few hours of any official release dropping from the carrier. That being said, you can always flash back official 3e recovery and stock image if you ever need to. Again, bear in mind at this time booting into any non stock recovery in JB will trip the counter. There is a whole thread on this subject alone http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2010157 you can basically start at post 56 and read on from there.

3 - Rom Manager probably the easiest way if you do not want to use Odin, adb, etc. Or use Goo Manager if you want TWRP.

4 - Since you are already on stock JB, you can just flash without full wipe. If coming from a custom rom then full wipe yes. I generally prefer to do a full wipe when making any OS change, however. Once you start messing around with custom roms a full wipe (and formatting partitions, etc) becomes 2nd nature :).

I'd suggest re-reading the OP, a lot of this is covered there. ;) Plus links to odin, adb, recoveries, etc.

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Good,sorry the files didn't help. You did set perms, I'm sure?

Honestly I've have had nothing but trouble with Google Now, in attempting to find an inverted one that will work, anyway. I need to work on that some more on my end, MR's gave me FC's (it's meant for AOKP type deodex'd roms I'm pretty sure) and Justin's just plain didn't work either. Mr. Relius has one but it's the old search bar only deal. I'll keep fiddling with it.

This one has me stumped, it works great for me, I get all toggles, and includes quickpanel settings app to modify toggles. The extended menu is on by default, you get it when you select the reboot toggle. He has both ICS and JB as well as 15 toggle/stock toggles in the same thread, be sure you grabbed the correct one? He's actually added a bunch more since yesterday, but here is the one I am using... Try it again I can't figure what would cause the missing toggles
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ewingr:
Off Topic-> More triangle away discussion

I must have mis-read something somewhere. I was under the impression that if you have a non-stock recovery, it only tripped the counter if you run it. That must not be the case.

I did run Triangle Away, it reported that it changed the count to 0. But when I go into About Phone Status, it says "Scanning". Maybe with enough time it would clear...but over 15 mintutes it did not.

When rebooted, it was in fact back again.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 78Staff:
Go here, this really nails down what's going on with JB and the counter, custom recovery's, and TA, etc. Start at post 56.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2010157
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tamanaco:
Thanks for following up... I actually switched to the AT&T Stock Green (the last one on the list). This one works fine on my phone and I get the QuickPanel Settings. The only thing is that it doesn't have "exactly" the same 4G/LTE icon signal icon in the notification bar that comes with the AT&T ROM in the OP of this thread.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 78Staff:
Just to clarify the toolkit should NOT be used for flashing/moddiing JellyBean yet! Dev is working on it but at this time it's a no-go.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] phonic:
Awesome guide and root injected update! Thanks OP!!!!

I updated mine and installed the 15-toggle and BT-tethering mod. Working nicely.

Question: Is there another mod to remove that annoying "Connected to ____ network" wi-fi notification? I hate that and had it disabled in 4.0.4.

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Hrmmm... I noticed that I just lost Google Wallet after the update. :(

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Fixed Google Wallet :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BakaNeko59:
I upgraded to MrRobinson's JB ROM by using Mobile Odin. In the process, I cleared the selections for recovery and cache, then did the flash. As a result, I have the JB rom, but retained my CWM Touch Recovery.

I have rebooted several times, and run CWM several times to test things. I am properly rooted, and according to Triangle Away my counter is still set at 0. I do NOT have the advanced Triangle Away "reset to 0 on reboot" setting turned on. Did I just get lucky or can someone else confirm that my method does NOT trip the counter?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Seyiji:
Quick question I flashed the AT&T Jelly Bean version and I noticed for the "ro.product.locale.region=" it is listed as being GB now call me crazy but shouldn't that say US not GB since I'm located in the US?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cruzad3r:
i'm interested in learning more about this. can you post link or write detail step for your process? i might try it and see if i get the same result as you. thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ducksauce88:
is anyone else having a problem with the new version not doing a complete nandroid backup? it seems to only be 20mb instead of my usual 2.6gb. I also can't backup directly to my external. the error it throws is "cant mount backup path". i very well could have a bad sd card though. any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: I had cwm touch 5 and just upgrade to 6.0.1.5 through rom manager. I also tried to install it through terminal emulator and still had no luck.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ozark_8125:
I did the same thing - search for blobs - If I understand it correctly there's that backup that we're used to seeing from earlier 5.x CWM + the blobs folder. The blobs contain the bulk of the backup and then any other backups you do will check the blobs to see if they're common and then skip those. The incremental backups are supposed to be faster.

As for the other part - sounds like you might have a poorly formated card (are you trying exfat for CWM? Exfat won't work - it needs fat32 - please correct me if I'm wrong anyone).

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Anyone getting Swiftkey to stick? Every restart I do samsung keyboard steals priority again. I tried to fix permissions from CWM but no dice.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ARchamps:
I previously used this method to root my Telus S3. Flashing a sprint TW ROM seems to have killed my GPS. The general fix seems to odin back to stock and factory reset. Can I use ODIN to flash a ICS ROM while keeping the custom recovery?

Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BakaNeko59:
Well, I'll try to run you through it. First off, I have the paid version of Mobile Odin, but I don't think that makes a difference in this case. I downloaded MrRobinson's JB file and extracted it so I had the file root66_ATT_I747UCDLK3.tar.md5. Then I loaded up Mobile Odin and selected the Open File... option and browsed to that file on my SDcard. (see the first screenshot - they should be in order...)

It then set the Kernel, Recovery, System, Cache, and Modem partitions from the file automatically. (2nd screenshot). After that I just went back to the individual partitions on the Mobile Odin screen and tapped Recovery and Cache and cleared them. (3rd screenshot). At that point I just scrolled down and started the firmware flash. As you can see in the Triangle Away screenshot my counter is still 0, and the ROM Manager screenshot shows CWM is still installed, and the final screenshot shows the build version currently installed on my phone.

That's pretty much all there was to it... Good luck!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] king200:
I"m about to flash following your excellent example. I noticed in your screenshot that you enable Everoot. Is that necessary if root is already part of the rom you are flashing?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BakaNeko59:
Root is already part of the MrRobinson ROM so you don't need everroot.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 78Staff:
Hmm, this is interesting, thanks for the detailed writeup. I may try this procedure next time. I assume you had a 0 count to begin with. Now that I am running JB and custom rom via the traditional method, of course I have a count of 1. TA wil remove it of course, I just never bothered since it increments again every time I go into recovery, so what's the point lol. But, it sounds like the method above, I ca TA my count to 0, install (or reinstall, I guess) MR's rooted rom via Mobile Odin Pro, and be good to go. I might give this a go sooner than later :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hamzer11:
I didn't have Google Wallet working previously but could you point me in the direction of how to set it up now that I am on this beautifully rooted JB stock rom?

Oh and thanks mrRobinson for all the work. Makes life for us novices much easier.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 78Staff:
Well, in my case I still get the counter increment. I didn't full wipe. I TA'd counter to 0, then used Moble Odin Pro to flash (dirty flash), so not sure if that makes a difference. I also did not use everroot, since the img is rooted. Other than that, the procedure was the same. Oh and I have TWRP, not CWM.

I think, in my case, since I am already JB and already have custom recovery, when MOP goes into recovery mode to flash it triggers. IF coming from ICS recovery, you wouldn't run into this. Off the top of my head I think that is the case, anyway. I may fiddle with it some more - I still have pre JB nandroid I could try, go back to that, then try this procedure and see the results. I just prefer fully wiping when changing OS's and not sure one can fullly wipe going this route, except after the fact.

EDIT - good news/bad news...I restored back to preJB nandroid, and got to looking around and remembered how much I liked my fully tweaked and configured ICS, especially my touchwiz customizations, notification changes, and inverted google now which aren't avail (yet) for JB... anyway I may just stay on ICS again for awhile lol. Well I guess it's not really bad news, it just means I'm not retesting above right away.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] king200:
I used Mobile Odin as mentioned in prior posts. I did not select (de-selected) cache and recovery. I did not use Everoot. I did no data wiping so it is a 'dirty flash'. I did flash off the sdcard and not extSdcard, but I do that to eliminate the variable of sdcard quality.

Result, no problems. Very fast, no worry about pc cables or virus software, and a comfortable feeling that I could go back and restore the TWRP backup without having to reinstall TWRP. Flash counter remains 0 even after I boot into recovery/TWRP to install some .zip files for mods. In system settings, I only recall having to reselect my sounds. I don't know how to select the widgets for the 15 widget notifications yet.

Thank you mrR and others in this thread that got me using this method.

I apologize for thread wander to Mobile Odin but it does yield zero flash.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 78Staff:
that's good news, I assume in my case since I was already on JB with cust recovery, I was past the point of avoiding the issue. Now that I am back on ICS with cust recovery, I show counter of 0 and Official binary - so all the pieces are in place for when I do decide to re-upgrade to JB using this method.

The one thing I did notice after going back to LH9 is that I still have the JB (LK3) modem. Not sure why, I may re-flash the old modem, or I may just stay with this one. Not sure if one is better than the other going to test connection speeds a few times and see which works out better I guess.

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Well, I have to retract part of what I stated above, it seems even after flashing a nandroid back to LH9, booting into recovery trips the counter, just like it will in JB. So, unless I missed a step or did something wrong, it appears once you go JB with custom recovery (exclusive of BakaNeko59's steps above), you will have the counter issue with recovery regardless if you revert back. Sounds like the method will work fine if you do it from ICS as your first attempt to upgrade to JB. In my case I am past that, as I suspect many other are, so I wouldn't waste to much time chasing the counter if you are already upgraded to JB.

There may be other ways, ie reverting to total stock LH1/LH9, and 3e recovery even, and then going forward from there, but to be honest it doesn't really bother me enough to go that far back :cool:. Anyway, I'm sure someone will figure out a way to get around the JB counter issue soon enough anyway.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] phonic:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1769083

Just follow the guide. I did it under ICS and JB, and both worked flawlessly.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hamzer11:
Thank you. I will try it. I did find that thread but didn't see the stock jb Rom listed as being supported. Well give it a shot tonight. Love the speed of my phone on JB.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ARchamps:
Anyone?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] seaskimmer:
Flashed LK4 on a Bell i747M. JB works nice and smooth.

However, I have two bugs I can't seem to fix (yes, I searched them all).

1) Gallery app isn't loading old pics. Cleared cache/data of Gallery, Media Storage, formatted SD, etc... Resorted to using QuickPic for now. This happened before on ICS, but clearing the cache for the gallery app worked.

2) User images for home/lock screen are incredibly low resolution. Worked fine on ICS, now on JB it looks like somebody blew up a thumbnail.

Also, I did have the Media battery drain. I fixed that by removing all old CWM backups in a .dup format and changed the settings to backup to .tar.