yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
Yeah i deleted that link, it was named wrong and he made a new one.

He will update it in his kit soon.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
Awesome!!!!

His tool kit is here...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1746665

If you donate, you get the auto-update on start-up so when he releases the Japan SC-06C support tonight, you should be able to see it and run it.

I did a ton of testing, most of which during my 12hr work schedule last night, lol. This final version seems to work fine. (i have a modified count of 18! lol)

FYI, everything is working fine on mine, Camera, Seifu Keitai (using EDY app), wifi, bluetooth, gps, etc.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
no luck using the kit...will try just odin...i try to go into recovery after flashing thr sgs3-v5 and it just hangs at sgs3 logo...my counter is up to 20...i reflash stock boot i got stock recovery..what in the world am i doing wrong?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
well im rooted...but in the most random way possible...lmao...im talking to mskip to see about help updating his tool kit for the sc-06d variants...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
Yeah, mine was hanging as well, i dont think its the boot, im pretty sure its the phone not liking cwm. It was hard to get into cwm, i had to hold down VOL up and HOME while it would loop a few times. Eventually after holding it, it would get into cwm.

I also figured out that if immediately after flashing cwm, odin auto restarts the phone, you need to unplug RIGHT AWAY and hold down HOME and VOL UP to go straight into cwm recovery.

If you let it boot to desktop, it seems to lose cwm and it reverts back to stock recovery.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mskip:
Thats because you Roms have 2 recovery restore files that tell the operating system to reflash the stock recovery when it boots past into the lockscreen. There is a simple fix to this in my ToolKit to rename those 2 files so that the stock recovery isnt restored every boot.

I really need a couple of users with the SC-06D variant who can test some boot and recovery images for me. It would help if you had a basic understanding of using Odin and typing adb commands but it doesnt really matter as I can tell you what to do over Google Talk. Please let me know as soon as possible if you are going to be free in about 4 hours from this post. I have a full ToolKit uploaded with support added for SC-06D I just need some specific things tested and before you get worried that it might brick your phone the worst that will happen is you may get stuck in the logo screen and the ToolKit includes a stock boot image to fix that.

It would be preferable if you havent flashed anything on your phone yet but I can still use someone who has already flashed custom recovery and rooted.

I cant add SC-06D to the ToolKit without some testing first so let me know if you want to help.

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
I'll help again later.

FYI... I thought nothing was broke from the root, but it seems the Osaifu Keitai is broke possibly. Upon opening the app, it tries to start a "osaifu keitai web plug in" presumably to link the service with your app on the phone, but as soon as the plug in starts, an error comes up and the app closes.

If I open EDY app (for paying via mobile phone) directly, it opens, but it doesn't "see" the money I charged it up with before I rooted. When I try to access any links in the app that bring you to their site, the web plug in opens and an error pops up.

Now after thinking about it, I think I got root from the file in this thread versus root from mskip's toolkit.

I'll have to try his version out again and see if I can get root and not break any hardware functions on the phone.

I wonder if it has to do with the difference in the Japanese version using RFID instead of NFC like everywhere else.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mskip:
Thanks I will message you when I need you.

Anyone else?

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uray84:
Heya,

Been following this thread for the past few days since I got my SC-06D.

I've got some spare time atm so can try to help with testing if you still need someone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DATNDAZZ:
Thanks for this guide as it works really well. Does anyone have link to stock rom ? Im NTT Docomo and I just want basic rom without all the Ibody etc bull**** added to the rom. Thanks in advance....
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guaiwujia:
I have sc-06d, and willing to help

Plz PM me if you need
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mskip:
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SC-06D

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mskip:
Sent you a message as I really want to add support for SC-06D to the ToolKit.

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mskip:
Is there anyone with an SC-06D model that can do some testing on an insecure kernel for the S3 ToolKit?

Please contact me if you have some time to spare.

Mark.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DATNDAZZ:
Hi Mark,

Rooted phone and tried to install rom you gave link too. Why I try to install rom I get following messages....

Finding update package ...

Opening update package ...

Verifying update package ...

E:signature verification failed ...

Any help or tips would be much apprieciated cheers....
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
finally free from work...what have i been missing? is the rooti n the toolkit working...the root method i used involved just flashing a cwm file and then installing a rooted kernel? i sent both to mskip and hopefully he can incorporate it in the toolkit...its some files i found scanning Japanese forums....downloaded them...put two and two together and hoped that they worked and they did...and all my system info stayed the same..build, software, kernel etc....
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
Mskip was updating the toolkit this morning with his newest AND WORKING insecure boot that we tested this morning.

The japanese version on their blogs is some sort of work around that isn't actually a true insecure root.

After much testing we got mskips version working without issue.

Using his latest toolkit with the included insecure boot it flashes fine, boots up, and you gain true access to entire root. All the adb commands worked!

I have it now, seems i've got the first insecure root sgs3 in japan! lol

Last i talked to him this morning, he was updating the toolkit to include it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
hmmmm very instresting...i will give it a go...i hope he updates it to the auto-update feature, i just booted up the toolkit and no update as of yet.....it doesnt seem like a big work around..ive been able to do things like turn change the camera sound off and etc....i wonder if i will run into any problems flashing the toolkit insecure over what i already have?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
You shouldn't have a problem as thats what i did. He still wants someone who isn't rooted to test but it shouldn't make a difference.

How did you get sound off on camera?

Edit: He may not have updated the toolkit yet, he still shows v.1.2.0 in that thread but he sent me a newer v.1.2.2 and a newer insecure boot.

I will try to get him on gchat to see when he will update.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
im messaging him now...and trying his insecure boot.tar... apparently my phone is rooted...just not adb command rooted..for the camera...i used solid explorer...i like it better then es exlporer..i went two folders up...went into system...then media...then audio...then ui...all the files are .ogg..i selected cam_start, cam_stop, camera_click, camera_click_short_, shutter_multiple and videorecord....one by one i selected them and just changed the extensions to .bak..that way they stay there but the system cant use the sounds...presto no more camera sounds....

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did that work for ya?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mskip:
I need someone who hasnt rooted to try to toolkit rooting method that I have been working on with cezeff this morning. Please contact me asap if you are free.

Thanks, Mark.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
From what i just learned on the 2ch blog, flashing a custom boot or recovery breaks Felica but can be fixed by simply reflashing stock boot or rcovery.

Im going to try reflashing stock tomorrow and see if it keeps root and fixes Felica.

Fyi, Felica is what controls the RFID function for paying at register like an NFC for EDY or Osaifukeitai.

I hope we can figure out how to get both to work.

Edit: cezeff, thanks for the tip on camera sound, now for secret up skirt shots!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejradachi:
after donate

which procedure now? how do I update my tool to SC-06D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
after you donate you shouldve gotten an activation code....if the sc-06d isnt enabled in your toolkit just select another model choose option 24 and 4...enter you code in and activate your donor version...if you didnt get a code contact mskip with your donation verification info. so he can be sure you donated...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejradachi:
thanks

very thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
lol...thats what the thanks button is for....
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejradachi:
update

wanted to participate more, both with donations and testing tools

but I did test to see WHAT was going to donate, and not got any code for activation. and the tool does not update
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
i think the auto update is broken at the moment....and if you get a hold of him after you donated he will give you the key....right now our model isnt fully supported...if your phone is unrooted i would like you to kindly get hold of him as we need testers to ensure that the insecure kernel is working flawless...it worked fine with mine but my phone was rooted before hand by another method...mskip uses an adb root method...after a few tires we got his insecure kernel to work and my phone was adb rooted in order to accept commands from the toolkit and push busybox, superuser, etc to my phone...so please get a hold of him if you have a stock SC-06D...it isnt a test, rather a verification that the insecure kernel is working...

i think one of his servers are down but you can go tot the thread main page and download the latest tooklikt that is available and check for the SC-06D in there...if its not, its like i said he is waiting for more testers...it took maybe 30 minutes over gtalk to test his new kernel... he doesnt want to put out anything that us broken or doesnt work...go jump in on the fun...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShizuokaMark:
New SC-06D owner

Good morning from Japan. I've recently purchased my first Android phone and might be interested in participating in having it rooted.

First I have a few questions and I apologize in advance because most of them will be noobie queries. I'm too friggin old to search this entire forum for all the answers so I'm just gonna go to the horses mouth.

As I said, this is my first Android phone as I have been an iPhone user for the past 4 years.

Every phone I had I jailbreaked and the reasons were fairly obvious.

I know that rooting my Samsung will allow me to eliminate a lot of the bloatware that Docomo loads the phone up with,

and that may be reason enough, but I'd like to know what other benefits I will reap that make it worth the risk.

Docomo allows tethering. I really want Jelly Bean but it seems that may be coming in the not too distant future too.

Would I want or need to replace the OS? And would that jeopardize future upgrades or the warranty?

I'm guessing it's like an iPhone jailbreak in that you need to wait for an authorized upgrade from the appropriate developers before proceeding.

I have an insurance plan where if my phone is lost or stolen I can replace it for 5000yen (about $40).

Would it be worth it to do this to ensure I have a clean model available in case something goes wrong?

I like straying off the marked path, in fact I feel I need to do it, especially living in a country where everyone so diligently toes the line.

But as I said before, I'm not getting any younger and I don't want to get in over my head.

Having said all that, I could set aside some time fairly easily if mskip would like to walk me through the process.

I'll leave it up to you to determine if I should or not.

Cheers. Mark

p.s. Here's the specs on my phone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
yes more then likely itll void your warranty...that also depends if docomo even checks for that...when i got mine they couldnt even fully work it their selves...there is development as we speak to reset the flash counter when your in download mode...but this doesnt change your phone from displaying "Device:Modified" under the settings...that insurance is good to have though..ive never ever had an android phone messed up to the point i need to turn it in...usually if anything goes wrong its a defect in the hardware or manufacturing process and not the actual software or rooting (think bad lcd screen, power button, or captive keys)...rooting opens a lot more doors in my opinion then jail breaking...from downloading apps that you couldnt otherwise get (hulu, etc), to modding the system in every way possible to your liking, to unleashing the full power of your cpu or vice versa...yes jellybean will be released for the sgs3..when?..who knows...but even now with a rooted device you can enjoy various apps or designs from jellybean that have been pulled...in my opinion it is the greatest thing in the world to have a rooted device...a lot of the apks that on are front page require a rooted phone...in the end its up to you...either way you have one hell of a phone in your hands...rooted or unrooted..

P.S. i highly advise you PM mskip, because he really needs an unrooted, unmodified phone to test his insecure kernel...it wouldnt take more then 10-15 minutes top...i worked with him through gtalk...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Swaf:
warrant

I got my phone replaced today by Docomo for pink pixels showing up on the top of the screen. At first they wanted to send it in ,but then they said I could have it replaced the same day for a new one.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
was your phone rooted?...did they check to see if it was?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Swaf:
warranty

Yeah my phone was rooted and they didn't check. The tried to tell me it was water damage at first until I explained that other people had the same issue and that its a screen defect.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
if you receive and "unable to connect during call" error while trying to play any of your media...dont panic..it means your using the latest version of the popular messaging app..Line...force close it under settings and all your media should play just fine...i hope they hurry up and correct this major bug...i almost broke into tears thinking my phone was jacked up..lmao...a quick google search solved the issue
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
Hmm, im not getting errors like that and i have Line, but i haven't opened it since the update.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
They just updated LINE today again.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] discoltk:
CM9 for SC-06D Update 1

Hi all,

I posted last week that I was working on a CM9 port. I started a new job and changed apartments, so I've been a bit too busy to work on it as much as I would have otherwise. I was able to resolve all the compilation issues and today successfully installed the custom ROM. It boots, but there are many major issues (wifi, cell, camera). This is truly early alpha at this stage. I have all the bits and pieces needed to progress on the issues now though, so I hope to start to nail them down.

If anyone else hears about others doing this or has experience themselves in building custom ROMs, do let me know. Hopefully I can get a version that's more usable out to share in the next week or so.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
On the 2chan blog they have a new sc06c ROM thread and they are working on cm9 or 10 and an AOKP rom.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
yeah, apparently they fixed the audio bug...

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i wonder if this kernel supports custom boot animations and other stuff?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Swaf:
CM9

Not sure if anyone has seen this video yet ,but it references the 2ch blog about cm9 and it looks like the person is running cm9 on their sc-06D. Can anyone figure out where he got cm9 from and it might save you some time discoltk. The link for the video is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c9x2c5lEXM and I believe the CM9 rom is here http://otachrome.blogspot.jp/2012/07/galaxy-siiisc-06dcyanogenmod9.html .
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jokinawa:
Download

I am trying to download the ZIP with no luck. I cannot figure out the first box by the download.

I got it.

The keyword is: いつもの

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Here is the GitHub of Sakuramilk.

I believe the person that made the rom mentioned above.

https://github.com/sakuramilk/sc06d_kernel_ics/wiki/Kernel

He also has an app for the kernel included in the rom. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sakuramilk.TweakGS3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
Holy crap these guys are awesome!

Says on that page,

Be sure to use APN backup and restore save the docomo apn, and restore later,

Also be sure to then wipe data and factory reset,

Says it looks like Osaifukeitai seems to work!

For Oneseg mobile tv, there is an error but start with volume down then open the Oneseg and adjust volume.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jokinawa:
sakuramilk's CWM 6.0.1.0_r0 works nice so far. Supports internal and External SDcard for backups.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
so is there a kernel out for our phone that supports over and under volting, boot animations and other goodies?..im pretty sure im just running a stock-insecure kernel...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jokinawa:
Apparently yes.

I just got CM9 installed on my SC-06D!

It is smooth as butter compared to the stock ROM.

Just flashed sakuramilk's CWM v6.0.1.0_r0.

Backed up current. Still has 1970 date, but was able to restore it before flashing CM9.

Went and did a factory reset in CWM, flashed CM9 date 27JULY2012 from here:

https://github.com/sakuramilk/sc06d_kernel_ics/wiki/CustomROM

GAPPS installed and working nicely.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
Awesome!

Thanks for doing this!

I think i will try it this weekend.

Elaborate on the whole backup before cm9 1970 issue and what not, im a little confused there.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jokinawa:
All the backups have 1970 dates in CWM. I emailed sakuramilk since he eluded to a fix in the readme of the CWM zip.

Also, my SDCard doesnt seem to work properly, I think he has a fix, but I don't understand the translation.

http://otachrome.blogspot.jp/2012/07/galaxy-siiisc-06dcyanogenmod9.html

Other than that it is really fast.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Swaf:
Cool I couldn't figure out the keyword yesterday. I will try to flash cm9 when I get home today. Now will see if we can get cm10 in the near future.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
is it possible to pull just that kernel so I can flash it using my stock rom?...at this time I pretty happy just using just a custom launcher and some rooted app...but i want to be able to use SetCpu to see how far i can push my processors but the insecure kernel i have will not allow above 1512....
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jokinawa:
Check the github link in my earlier link. I think the kernel is under wiki.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Swaf:
Did you have to restore your APN settings? If so what app did you use? Also can you bring your apps back with Titanium backup once CM9 is installed?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jokinawa:
I did not have to restore my APN settings. I did use the free APN Backup Restore from the market before hand, just in case. I also used Titanium backup and restored all of the apps I wanted besides the Docomo ones I did not.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Swaf:
Allright im gonna flash CM9. Ill give an update once its flashed.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
Thanks....it installed just fine and im able to OC and UV just fine....now about the CWM 6.0 that he posted...ill try to figure it out before i nag you guys but it seems that it messed with your system clock settings or something...ill take a look with google translate...lol

Update: After looking, I'm guessing just to flash the CMW 6 then use TweakSG3 to change the time in recovery?

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Good luck...and did you guys know that even though mskip hasnt pushed the update for the toolkit yet, if you download it, it still has the SC-06D files which can be handy for restoring from bad flashes and stuff...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Swaf:
Hey can you connect to Kies after installing cm9. I installed cm9 and it is like butter ,but will take some time to get used to the setup
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
is it really worth flashing cm9? is it that nice?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jokinawa:
It is a personal decision. I think it is. I enjoy having profiles based on time, customizable notification bar, no bloat, and many other features.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cezeff:
ok...ill back up my current rom...a quick walk-through you guys got...i tried to download the cm9 rom but cant put the damn 3 letters in the right spot...ehhh...and is everything working in the CM9 rom including the LTE? i actually get really good speeds when im out and about...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Swaf:
This is my first time using cm so its gonna take a while to get used to. I can't seem to get my contacts back to the phone even though I backed them up on google and since I can't connect to kies its becoming quite painful.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
Regarding APN RESTORE!

Even though you got your APN to connect you have to make sure its the correct spmode apn as noted on that japanese site, if its wrong you will get a huge charge in next bill, thata why they say to use APN backup and restore app to restore correct APN.

Also, they did say LTE was working on the cm9 rom.

(I can read most japanese btw)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] society mike:
You can also backup Touch Wiz UI and docomo pallet ui if you really want to use stock layout, but personally i prefer ADW launcher as my UI.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jokinawa:
Well, I fixed my SD Card issues. Now my 64GD SDXC works properly.

Download the tool here by clicking the picture. http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

I had to format it in Windows using the GUIFormat tool. Format it as FAT32 and do not use Quick Format. It will take a while. Ijust started it before bed and it was done when I woke up.

If you need to save data, try one of these solutions. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1797499
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Swaf:
I fixed the APN I just manually entered all the data in for spmode. Now if I can get google to back up my contacts correctly I will be golded.