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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] malbec82:
great post! thank you for all the information

I tried to search for this and sorry if it is too basic

I have att gIII with jb updated via OTA

I want to use the method mentioned in the first post to root my phone

my question: what happen with futures updates via OTA? I will be not able to updated in the future using this method?

I just want to make sure that I will be able to get the last official release in the future!

thank you!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Lahey360:
Hey guys,

Was hoping someone can help me out, as I'm totally stumped at the moment, and most of all confused to s**t.

I am trying to root my SG3 (SGH-I747M Rogers) build number JRO03L.I747MVLDLK4 with:

"Rogers Image

Current I747MVLDLK4 (JB 4.1.1)

Mirror 1: Download root66_RWC_I747MVLDLK4.7z"

I have used this file before with great success, yet after un-rooting via SuperSU, I can no longer root the phone with the same file. I have re-downloaded the file several times, and every time I flash the PDA using Odin3_v3.07_SGSIII everything passes just fine. Yet the device is not rooted.

Running the su command in connectbot also just freezes, along with trying to install any root required apps, such as AdBlocker, or TitaniumBackUp.

The phone is currently running JB4.1.1 without any other issues as far as I know, along with a device status of normal. I have yet to flash a custom ROM as well, just wanted to get away with rooting for now. Flash count is still a legit zero.

Anyone have an idea why root wont take?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] satniro:
Want to start over....

Hello All. I took this method through the second step with success on the first try. I used Titanium Backup to uninstall several bloatware apps and my battery life have vastly improved. I would like to reset the phone as I removed some apps that I now want and would like to use the de-bloat program found on this forum.

The issue I have is that I did NOT wipe the data prior to installing the rooted ROM. I would like to start fresh but was't sure what the best approach is. I still have the ability to wipe data via the Recovery menu and through the OS GUI - Factory Data Reset -- I am just not sure which one, if any, I should use to accomplish this.

Would someone please advise if it's okay to perform a data wipe/reset via the recovery menu? I assume that would get me back to a root injected 4.1.1 ROM with no user data or apps? If that works I could proceed with installing CVM and the debloater. Thanks in advance!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] smelenchuk:
Wiping data will get you back to a state where you have no user data / user apps present; what it won't do is bring back any system apps you've uninstalled altogether. If you want a completely fresh start (i.e. pure stock state with all of the bloat you've removed already, possibly so that you can use your new debloating tools on them), you can do a data/cache wipe and flash the (rooted) stock image again.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Guegs!:
Thanks a lot for the SaskTel image. :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Lahey360:
...And the plot thickens!

Reading some posts along the way I tried the old "pull the battery after Odin completes trick", still unsuccessful. Has anyone else experienced this issue, I can not seem to find anything similar in the forums...?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] madballs:
Have you tried flashing back to the stock Rogers ROM using Odin? You can start fresh. Make sure you back up all your data first because all your internal sdcard data will be wiped. External sdcard data will be untouched.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Lahey360:
Not yet, I was hoping to get this resolved before going through the pain of configuring all my apps and widgets...

Would you recommend flashing back to stock via Kies, or simply grab the stock rom and use Odin?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] madballs:
Kies would be safest but Odin would be the easiest. Either way works and will get your phone back to stock.

EDIT: If you have custom recovery, you can try flashing superuser again to regain root.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Lahey360:
madballs, you nailed it dude!

These are the steps I followed for anyone out there with the same issues I had. Actually, before I get into that, this is what I ended up doing before finally solving this endless loop of awfulness.

Flashed stock rom via Kies first, figured I had already messed things up somehow, why take anymore chances. Well, that didn't fix my issues, so on to plan J or K... Flashed "KIES_HOME_I747MVLDLK4_I747MOYADLK4_538866_REV04_user_low_ship.tar" via odin, and still nothing. Mind you, as soon as I would flash back to stock, I would once again successfully install root66_RWC_I747MVLDLK4.tar, but root would not actually work, nor was I presented with the superuser app. So, before i took the plunge and committed to a full factory reset, and countless hours of reconfiguring my apps and widgets, I took madballs advice.

Flashed stock rom (in hindsight, probably not a prerequisite to solving my issue, but didn't hurt nevertheless)

Flashed Team Epic CWM Recovery

Copied Team Epic Root from Recovery.zip onto the S3's internal storage, and installed via CWM Recovery

Upon reboot, superuser was there, root was active, and I was a happy camper.

Finally I installed Triangle Away and reset my flash count back to 0.

Now, after spending 2 days and about 5 solid hours researching countless failed attempts to restore my rooting awesomeness, I probably could have simple done a factory reset, flashed stock fw and reconfigured my crap with time to spare. However, that wasn't the point anymore. In the end I am in a far better place having installed CWM Recovery, this will allow me to install a bunch of custom roms, and create a new set of problems I get to complain about later on. :p

+1 madballs for pointing me in the right direction.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ReekHavok:
First and formost Thankbyou for such an easy method to Rooting my new AT&T S3. I came from a AT&T Galaxy S that was rooted.

My opportunity now is that whole eveeything works extremely well I noticed that a game I had installed proir to rooting Contract Killer 2 there is an issue with some of the graphics.

Anyone else noticed that after rooting/flashing and going from 4.0.4 to 4.1.1 and issue with some game graphics?

Again otherwise I love it.

THANK YOU!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cnewsgrp:
I will be staying on stock and not install any custom recovery for now. I removed all bloat via root explorer. I am very happy with stock experience (for now)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DynamiteRave:
So earlier this morning I screwed up my phone and now I've tried to do this trick to fix my phone. Now it just sits at the Samsung logo after the ATT splash screen. It's been about 15 minutes sitting here and I have no idea how to fix it.

When I was flashing the rom earlier this morning I wiped cache/dalvik/system, then when I got a new rom to flash it wouldn't keep apps downloaded, like it would download the app but then it wouldn't show up in the app drawer so that I can access it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] JohnM109R:
If you can get back to Download Mode start from Scratch with Odin with original rom
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
pull battery, insert, hold vol up, home, pwer to get into stock recovery. factory reset, reboot.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jennyngo24:
I am trying to root my JB SGS3.

When I put my phone into download mode, windows tried to install MSM8960 driver but failed. What should I do? Odin does NOT recognize my phone :

Thank you very much
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
In the OP I link to samsung's site for the drivers. Use those.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jennyngo24:
Yes, I did use the driver downloaded from Samsung web site

ver.v1.5.14.0

But still can't install MSM8960 :( . Please help me, thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alpunkator313:
failed flash

it failed during odin. please help.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jsnmarek:
Well, if I was not rushing around to get my pregnant wife food, I probably would have noticed that. Thanks for clarifying and with help. Everything is up and working. I don't think there is a better community than xda.:o
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ronj1986:
Anyone feel like assisting me with my previous question? I can assist you if you aren't sure of how to pull the apks from your AT&T GS3s.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
The first one with the system size too small was set to 1Gb. This new one i set to 1477MB to try to match stock. if the mkuserimg.sh would work it seems to do some compression on it which means I'd have a partition of 1536 but resultant end size of image would be like 1.1GB. Anyone I couldn't get mkuserimg.sh to work (it seemed to work by Odin never liked the image) so i was left with resize2fs commands.

There are surely more things i could try to test more but i have a day job and time is not in my favor.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
It's only been like 20 minutes since your first request - Patience my friend :D

Sent you a PM.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] lensgrabber:
Yeah looks like Busybox is the culprit. If you need to take the phone in for service just uninstall Busybox and reboot. It should go back to "normal" if nothing else has been modified.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] caveman999:
I don't think that is the case. I installed busybox and my status is still normal.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
there are two busybox in the play store. I use the one from stericson and still says normal. did you use the other?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Diviance:
Reuploading the new file for a mirror.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Moh_Jay:
Just wanted to thank you sitting here with no counter running diet ics :)

"All this knowledge is giving me a major brainer!"
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] caveman999:
I used that one also and mine says normal too.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] topgun303:
do we have a way to flash original stock rom over custom rom and have zero counter. Before sending the device out for warranty.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
There is no way to reset the counter yet. Just a way not to increment it for now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Diviance:
http://goo.gl/osD9n

Mirror for the new version.

Now quite making me upload huge files on my poor 3Mbps upload.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] caveman999:
That's better than my 1Mbps upload speeds :P
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Diviance:
Yeah, but my phone uploads 4.5 times faster than my home internet. Messed up, that is. Stupid AT&T and their profit mongering instead of upgrading their infrastructure.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Deal!:cyclops:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Krynn!:
Ignore this: Mine switched from "normal" to "modified" when I did the tethering patch. It replaces framework-res.apk, which is probably what triggered it.

Did some more testing and it

is

Busybox. Dunno why it showed normal the first time, but I've installed the rom twice just to chase this down, and I can repeat it every time.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nakedninja42:
Mine still says normal. I just flashed the tether and cell fix moments ago... also have busybox installed.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] is350:
Sorry for the noob question (first android phone). Does anyone think or know if pure JellyBean will be available fore AT&T variant? I see that it is ported (not fully functional) to the international version but wondering where I can find news on any attempts to port to the US variants.

Thank you in advance.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] anag7771:
Definately worked for me!!! I also have the wire thether app and works for tethering and still have NORMAL device status. Mobile WIFI doesn't work though.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
So I successfully flashed the rooted fido image over top my unrooted Telus stock rom. Realized it has all of rogers bloatware installed on it. So I removed all that garbage and like it... Other than I notice my data seems slower. Speed tests back it up as well. Not sure if it's a coincidence and that it's slower because it's a Sunday evening and everyone is probably using theirs. But I will test again later on closer to midnight.

I'm curious if I still don't like it, is it ok to just flash a rooted Telus stock image over top of this one and remove the bloatware from that too? I'm almost certain it's fine I just want to double check.

Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mnemonicj:
When I got my AT&T Galaxy S3, thanks to the OP, I had my stock ROM rooted within 4 hours of purchasing the phone. Thank you for that. Last week, I tried to flash a deodexed Jelly Bean ROM to my phone and everything went fine except the Wifi would disconnect and reconnect at least once a minute. It annoyed me enough that I decided to go back to ICS and get the AT&T OTA updates. The OP made it easy. Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] madballs:
Seems like the default is the Rogers firmware. If you dial in *#272*IMEI# (where IMEI is your IMEI number), do you get an option to install the FMC firmware?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
Before I do that, what exactly will that do if I install the fmc firmware?

Can't post a screenshot for some reason but I get a pre config screen. It tells me my sales code is tls. It gives me three circle options:

Fmc, mta, rwc

What does this do?

---------- Post added 7th January 2013 at 12:14 AM ---------- Previous post was 6th January 2013 at 11:15 PM ----------

I'm wondering if it makes a difference whether I use the Telus rooted rom or fido or rogers. This is an unlocked Telus phone. I flashed the fido image because I'm with fido. But my speeds are significantly lower still. Data I get about 2500kb/s. I used to get 8-10000kb/s. Wifi I get 10000kb/s down from 15000kb/s. I also noticed the unrooted Telus stock rom use to always show 4G in the status bar. Now it cycles between 3g and h+. I never use lte, network connection hspa only.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
Here's the screenshot I couldn't attach before.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] madballs:
Rogers (RWC), Fido (FMC), and I believe MTS mobility (MTA) share the same firmware package. The firmware includes the android system (I747MOYADLK4) and modem (I747MVLDLK4) and the CSC or region or sales codes (RWC, FMC and MTA). The region code defines what carrier the phone is for (and all the bloatwares that come with the carrier). For example, Fido and Rogers have the same phone and firmware, the only difference is the bloatware that comes along with it, this is dictated by the sales code.

You are on TLS, because you bought your phone from Telus. You have options for RWC, FMC and MTA because you flashed the Fido stock ROM. The reason you got Rogers bloatware is because I think the Rogers CSC code is the default in this multi CSC rom.

On my Fido phone, I have FMC selected by default since I bought the phone from Fido and hence no bloatware came with it. If I choose RWC, the rogers bloatware would appear. (Note. changing and installing a CSC would wipe all your data on the phone)

What does this all mean? If you want to be on a default Fido installation, you need to choose and install FMC, all it does is it wipes the phone and gives you the stock Fido image (ie. no rogers bloatware). If you change the sales code and you want to return to the stock Telus image, you would have to ODIN the stock Telus image and choose TLS again for the CSC or sales code.

I have never tried changing the sales codes on a rooted image though. I don't see why it wouldn't work if you want a clean stock rooted image on for Fido (FMC). But it may not work for you now though since you already removed some rogers bloatware.

Food for Thought: The stock images of Bell, Virgin and SaskTel is the same file and size, the stock images of Telus and Koodo is the same file and size and the stock images of Rogers, Fido and MTS is the same file and size. The only difference between each group of carriers is the CSC code.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
Wow thank you for such a detailed answer. That really does give me some background information.

That being said, I have a feeling the best thing to do for me is to reflash the rooted stock Telus image and remove any bloatware I choose. To me it doesn't matter which carriers bloatware I have, I will end up removing it anyways. I just think because it's a Telus phone that it may work with the Telus image better than any others. Not just that, Telus doesn't actually have too much bloatware to begin with. What are your thoughts?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] madballs:
Ya, perfectly said, you might as well go back to Telus so the possibility of messing anything up in the future is reduced. On the international version of the original galaxy note, people realized their android 4.1 upgrades were a mess because of the CSC codes. Majority of the Android 4 samsung builds were multi CSC roms but the android 4.1 upgrades became single CSC. So they had to revert back to Andoird 4, change the CSC, and then upgrade to 4.1 again in order for someone in the UK not to end up with a German build after the upgrade.

However, if other people are already using Rogers/Fido roms, there's no reason not to try out FMC since there are no Fido bloatware for this build!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
I see.. Thank you. I may try changing to fmc to see if it makes a difference. If I see any issues I can just reflash the Telus image. Or I may just do that anyways because I'm ocd and want to ensure I'm doing everything possible to reduce the chances of issues lol.

Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] madballs:
Try turning on USB debugging in Developer Options under Settings. Plug the phone into the computer. And check under device manager in the control panel of windows (assuming you are using windows) to verify if your device is listed. If not, then you probably did not install the samsung drivers correctly. If nothing else works, you may have to try a different computer or try re-installing windows.

With drivers correctly installed, you should see the following in Device Manager:

Android Phone --> SAMSUNG Android ADB Interface
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
Might I add that you should also be using the usb cable that came with the phone. I know my computer wouldn't recognize my phone properly when I used my captivate usb cable. As soon as I tried the gs3 one it worked.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] docent000:
I think I saw this warning in the OP when I rooted my phone in October.

I was about to use my old USB-cable from the Captivate as well but after reading that warning I did use the cable that came with the phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
It is included in the op. When I used my captivate cable it was only to transfer images to and from my computer and it still didn't work. So as a general rule of thumb I only use the gs3 cable unless I'm just charging the phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] okse:
Need TouchWiz (root) installed on GS3 (AT&T)

What is the easiest way to installed TouchWiz (Rooted Rom) on a GS3 AT&T ? I have been using CM10.1 nightly but need something more stable. I have Clock Work Mod installed on phone.

1. Can I just copy the .md5 to phone and use ClockWorkMod ?

or

2. Must I have Odin?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
you can use cwm for a stock based rom you find in a dev thread. but if you want pure rooted stock you'd have to use Odin to flash the root66 provided here.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
Very odd. I flashed the rooted Telus rom and Odin said successful. When I unplugged phone from computer my phone showed me the message about not having the drivers installed on my computer. So I plugged it back in and now I can't connect with mtp. All the other Samsung drivers install properly except mtp.

Ended up reflashing image after reinstalling Samsung drivers. Fixed.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sspikey:
Im just about to start rooting again (been reading a ton)

I shouldn't have to worry about warranty after right? I can always use triangle away and return to fully stock correct?

Coming from a Fido 4.1.1 i747M

Ill be using a custom rom afterwards (REALLY miss pure android)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] madballs:
Yes, you can use triangle away to reset the flash count on the i747m. Of course, as the app indicates, there is always a possibility to brick your device.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aybarrap1:
Device Status sometimes shows Normal and other times Modified

When I first rooted my AT&T SGS3 utilizing this method my device status was "Normal". Soon after that it read "Modified". Did not worry about it. However, over the last month of it being rooted, I have noticed that it sometimes reads "Normal" and other times reads "Modified". It seems to flip back and forth. Could this be to either Titanium Backup or AdFree Android? Just curious as to what might make if flip flop like that. No other programs requiring root are installed except what came with the ROM and what was already mentioned. I only froze through TB (or disabled first if the option was available in all programs after uninstalling updates) Samsung apps (not TW though), a few of the widgets, Yahoo apps, and a couple of other select things that have Google counterparts. Did not uninstall any system apps.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] contentryder:
Is there an ODIN without Administrative rights? I can't open it at work... Please let me know
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bnitty:
trying to root a friends AT&T GS3 & on step 2 I get an error message that reads "adobe reader could not open root file bkuz it is either not a supported file type or bkuz the file has been damaged" or something to that effect. any ideas?

courtesy of my Jelly Bean'd Galaxy Note 2 using Tapatalk 2.4.1
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bdithug:
If you are referring to trying to extract the md5 file, adobe Reader will not work. It must be extracted from the compressed 7z file. Use winrar to extract the md5 file. I think that is what you are referring to.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] guttertrash:
It took me about 10 minutes to figure out

A. how to hold all three awkwardly spaced buttons with only 2 hands :p

and

B. how to keep it from rebooting as soon as download mode started.

For anyone like me who didn't get it, Pinch the Power and Volume Down with thumb & finger of one hand, hold the Home button with thumb of the other hand and let go of everything once the warning comes up, then hit Volume Up.

Other than that, instructions were clear and I didn't get anything stuck in a ceiling fan
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TrainAss:
I have a Bell SGS3, and I've switched over to Fido. All I did was remove all the Bell stuff and manually install the Fido apps. However Android 4.1.2 is now available, and I'm looking for a stock, un-rooted Fido ROM. I see Rogers and all other carriers (I know that Rogers owns Fido). Does anyone have the stock Fido ROM?