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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nam300:
Fail to flash firmware in Odin

Hello,

I just got my ATT Galaxy S3, it was on LG1 firmware. I followed OP's instructions and got it rooted successfully, I used SuperUser to temporarily un-root it and applied the OTA LH9 update. After restart, I can't uncheck the temporary un-root box in SuperUser anymore, and my phone became un-root again. So followed instructions for LH9: performed a factory reset and trying to flash LG1 firmware again, but it kept failing after few seconds. Now I can't flash any firmware using Odin. Below is the fail log from Odin every time I tried:

<ID:0/004> Added!!

<ID:0/004> Odin v.3 engine (ID:4)..

<ID:0/004> File analysis..

<ID:0/004> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/004> Initialzation..

<ID:0/004> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/004> There is no PIT partition.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

<ID:0/004> Removed!!

Additional Info:

I forgot to mention, after Odin failed, it was stuck at Download mode on the phone. I had to pull out the battery and put it back, then it will show this error at boot up:

" Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again".

But I can get it boot back to normal by pressing "Vol Down + Home + Power" and Cancel.

Please help!

Thanks in advance!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] solarpenguin:
LH9 is tricky. There are a couple of posts on how to re-root lh9 with a twrp recovery and supersu (as opposed to superuser).

On your Odin flash, are you loading the image via PDA? What image file are you using?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nam300:
Hi,

Thanks for your message. I followed your tip searching for how to re-root lh9 and found this thread which works good:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-...13815-how-root-t-galaxy-s3-sprint-forums.html

Now my phone is rooted again.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tony_YYZ:
Hi All,

I am trying to confirm a few things regarding my Galaxy S3 but haven't seem to find consistent answers during my searches. I'm just wondering if someone here can help.

Background: CANADA | ROGERS | GALAXY S3 | i747M | STOCK ICS 4.0.4

I am currently suffering from the Samsung issue where I can no longer copy/paste without crashing the app I am in. So I am forced to either reset to factory settings or Root and flush a cache and delete the files within the clipboard folder (see: http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s3/630687-samsung-galaxy-s3-copy-paste-issue.html)

I have been reviewing this thread on how to root without tripping the flash counter and retaining the stock TouchWiz OS

My questions regarding this rooting method are:

1. Will that method wipe my device and all the data contained on it? (EDIT** Just re-read the OP for like the 5th time and don't know how I missed this line: "Using the method's above, at least in my two tests, wiped nothing off my phone. everything in sdcard remained etc."

2. Will OTA break for me? Samsung has said that the TouchWiz update for JellyBean is due in the coming weeks for Canadian carriers so I want to make sure that I get it.

3. Will I lose root if I get the JB OTA? (I believe the answer is yes unless I use a tool like Voodoo to retain Root)

I appreciate any and all responses.

Cheers!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] MasterDecker:
Can some one give me an idea of what happened to my phone please?

I did NOT use root keeper, and had to restore to factory ICS, while following the same previous thread I had used to root, my phone went dead, no lights, power anything, computer wouldn't even see it on USB. I tried all the tips on recovery and nothing , not even putting in a new battery helped. In my frantic mess of needing to have an operational phone I used another USB cable to plug in my former Sky Rocket.

The skyrocket was already turned on, was just going to use it to "top off" the battery. But just as soon as I did that my computer started going nuts, hearing several (around 6) USB connects and disconnects. So I grabbed the SR thinking OMG what did I do just kill another phone? Looking over the SR it was doing it's normal thing on the home screen, then I hear the boot up sound coming from my S III.

The S III is now alive and doing well, but I am confused as all can be as to what happened. Oh and this method above let me re root the S III this time without an issue.

Does anyone have any idea's as to what the heck happened?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
1. Won't wipe

2. OTA can break if you deviate from stock. Flashing this ota will still work. If you remove system apps or load a non-stock recovery the ota will fail.

3. Exactly, need to use a tool like voodoo.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tony_YYZ:
Thank you very much!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] amzi:
so basically this is kinda a rom i gotta do the same stuff i usually do wipe data all that stuff and then flash this and i got stock with still root access?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tony_YYZ:
Hey again,

So i just finished flashing following your instructions. My Device Status shows my unit as "Modified". I do not have any other tools such as BusyBox installed, just regular run of the mill apps. Do you know what is causing this? Does it affect anything such as future OTA's? (I didn't install CWM, just flashed the Rogers image that you provided)

In download mode, my System Status reads as: "Custom". Is that normal?

Rogers | i747M |
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
yep that's about right.

it'll show modified with just root. So yes its normal and of no real concern. if you were to flash stock without root that goes back to normal so no harm done.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tony_YYZ:
hmm, alrighty. I don't really care that it says modified if it doesn't affect anything like future OTA's. I just thought it was odd because other people in this thread were stating that their phones still show Normal.

In Download Mode where my System Status reads: Custom - is that normal as well?

Thank you once again for your replies.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jstoyotaguy6:
So, I've tried to root m..phone a couple times, and Odin got stuck at the gathering pit...... fresh downloads every time. I'm on Windows xp, not sure if that's the issue or what. Plz help.

Sent from my pebble blue s3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] caanda45:
Try with a reboot of the computer and phone....needs that sometimes...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jstoyotaguy6:
Did that

Sent from my pebble blue s3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tony_YYZ:
Did you install the USB drivers or Kies?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jstoyotaguy6:
Drivers, kies wouldn't install for some reason

Sent from my pebble blue s3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tony_YYZ:
phone model / carrier?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jstoyotaguy6:
At&t s3

Sent from my pebble blue s3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DXP2:
Excellent guide.

Very easy to follow.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tony_YYZ:
Right click on the Odin file and try to Run As Administrator
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dxwilliams40:
my phone shipped with LH9 and i performed the factory data reset as suggested before I attempted to flash the firmware with root injected. Now my phone boots with random errors that make it unusable. I tried using odin to flash a pure stock firmware, and the same thing happens. What can I do at this point ? Any help is appreciated.

Edit: Solved. Did a hard reset and everything was fine.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] islandboy_2000:
I tried this method numerous times last night to no avail. It just keeps on failing in Odin I had to revert back to stock firmware and needing root but afraid to try this again. Could it be a bad download although I had no problems actually unzipping the file?

If there is anything else I may be doing wrong please let me know.

I really wish they had CF-Root for this model GS3 :p
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
could be a number of things. will probably come down to

1. try downloading the image again

2. make sure latest version of odin

3. try different usb cable.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tacotino:
delete
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alotmoore:
Great instructions. I was on OTA LH9 and rooted without a problem. I also followed the instructions on the other thread to apply the OTA update and retain root.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Hyperion-Droid:
I tried to connect my phone to the computer, I when into download mode, and then connected it to my computer, and it said the device was not able to connect. But I gave it a shot anyways, and opened Odin, followed the steps and unsurprisingly, nothing happened. What can I try?

I have used all 3 available USB ports.

On the Telus phone, and latest Odin
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Savok:
Open odin first and then connect the phone.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Hyperion-Droid:
Still doesn't want to connect :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Misterjunky:
Error Post Please delete

please delete Error Posting
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tony_YYZ:
Have you installed the USB drivers in Windows?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Hyperion-Droid:
Ah, that did the trick
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eatkabab:
When flashing the stock stock original ROM via ODIN, does it also flash the stock Kernel? As in, does the ROM file include the stock Kernel? Or do I have to search for and install the stock Kernel separately?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ScudMuffin:
It should contain the stock Kernal. Most ROMs include a kernal in the build (and say which they use). You just have the option of flashing it using something more custom. You would only need the stock kernal if you changed it out or the ROM you load says something else. The Settings > About should list the Kernal version.

If you grabbed it from this thread they contain stock kernal: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1968625
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Yes the stock original's and the stock root injected in this OP actually flash stock everything. That's kernel, modem, recovery, rom, etc.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TheUndertaker21:
hello

what does this do? will this help me fix always on edge problem? i restored my imei from the other post and still having connection issue

going crazy :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
It can't hurt. It'll get you back to complete stock just added root so is always a good starting place when trying to troubleshoot issues.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Organized_Chaos:
Thanks for this wonderful tutorial. Just got my phone tonight and am already rooted thanks to you. ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mhowland24:
att image

Both att images are failing to download for me, can someone throw me a link to another mirror, I'd really appreciate it
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Organized_Chaos:
I don't have a mirror for you. However, I can share my experience from tonight:

The download kept failing for me too. I was using Google Chrome on Win7 and finally had to switch to Firefox. In Firefox, the download would stop but pausing/resuming the download finally allowed me to complete the download.

Be sure to verify the final file with the md5sum if you have the same problem I had.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Baldilocks:
Is this safe to use on the UCALJ2 firmware?

AT&T Note II
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] skatin707:
Rooted my second S3 with this method, still works as good as the first one did :good:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Werewolf88:
Just rooted my new i747 from Bell, LTE seems to be not working anymore

I tried to flash two different modems, ktoonez kernel, nothing helped
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jmelan:
will rooting using this method cause me to lose my user data and apps? - on att stock right now
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
nope.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bagel Bear:
I just got my phone today and it came with LH9 and when I factory reset it did not downgrade to LG1. Is there a method for me to gain root?

EDIT: Just tried the method after my factory reset and I got the "...acore has stopped" problem. I re-factory reset'd and will wait until I can get help I guess.

EDIT #2: After the factory reset I noticed that I was on LG1 with root. OTA'd and am on root with latest. Thanks for you post, OP.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crypt0kiddie:
I just had the same issue with the acore has stopped and 20,000 other things crashing. Saw Bagel Bears message and tried a hard factory reset and now I'm back up and I still have Super User / Root.

Thanks Bagel Bear! =)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brehon1104:
by hard reset do you mean going into settings > backup... > factory reset? or is the "Hard" reset another method?

edit: well my method described does work. If you let it sit for too long then everything else will start crashing and you won't be able to select anything in Settings. Just take out your battery and do it faster. I had to press "OK" to "acore stopped working" in between swipes and presses. Works fine after the reset.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crypt0kiddie:
Pressing OK did nothing. It was completely unresponsive.

Anyway I'm still having issues. I have the Super User icon but anything I install that requires root is NOT asking me to Approve or Deny it, its automatically denying everything. I checked the settings and I'm pretty sure everythings set right, it's set to prompt.

Thoughts? I can't run GooManager, Adfree, anything I've tried. I just noticed GooManager SAYS denied as soon as I open it. Super User shows it was denied and I have Super User set to allow all right now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] JohnM109R:
Superuser APK (can be different names) is only located in the /system/app directory.

The su binary only located in the /system/xbin directory.

The busybox binary only in the system/xbin directory.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] todorcim:
I can flash this with mobile odin right?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jonnyjb:
i just rooted my bell i747m with the appropriate rom, but it wont get passed the samsung start screen, does anyone know how to fix this?

the first time i did it it started up just fine but then i restarted and it wont get passed the samsung screen so i reflashed it again and same thing.

also it takes a while to flash the system.img.ext4, 5-10 mins i dont know if that makes a difference or not.

any help would be great thanks everyone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] skim7x:
So unfortunately, I made this mistake. I flashed the stock rooted image with Odin as the OP's instructions described, and it went successfully. However, when the phone booted up, I had all those errors as quoted above. How can I do a factory reset? I tried holding down "down + home + power" but it put me back into download mode. I have not even had a chance to flash a custom recovery like CWM... can anyone help??

EDIT: OK so actually what I ended up doing was just fighting through all the errors and performing this factory reset:

Performing a factory data reset via settings

Go to Settings.

Select Back up and reset.

Click on Factory data reset ~ Reset all settings and delete all data on device.

Select Reset device.

Finally, select Erase everything.

I did so and the phone self-rebooted. Turns out, none of my SD card data was deleted!! The phone restarted back in factory state. I finished step 3 on the instructions posted in the OP and voila!!! Rooted phone!!! Thanks again!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crypt0kiddie:
OK I want to add a little more to the issue I had and apparently that Skim7X had. So after flashing with ODIN we get the above mentioned errors and have to either fight threw the errors which is a PAIN IN THE BUTT, or hard reset via holding down the volume rocker and power.

OK so hard reset archived. However it looks like I'm on an older version of ICS now. My phone tells me there is an update. If I allow it to update though, all my root apps stop working because I've lost root.

Coming over from Sprint and the Epic 4G Touch (Sammy Galaxy S2) I'm used to seeing rooted offical roms drop as soon as Sprint dropped an OTA. Is that not the same with ATT's S3? I'm not seeing a "here is the lastest rooted stock ROM thread".

How do I update but keep root? Help? =)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brobinson2102:
Thank you MrRobinson and all the people you reference to build this great guide. Easiest root evah!

I got a $0.96 SGSIII from Sam's Club on Black Friday (first time ever doing something crazy like that!)

Took me all of three days before I had to root. Did my homework. Searched. Found this in the Stickies.

I've got an AT&T white that came preloaded with the LH9 image.

I did do a factory reset before ODIN but I still got the process.adcore errors.

Another factory reset and all is fine. ;)

Thank you!

b.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Use voodoo ota rootkeeper from the play store to preserve root through the ota process.

and no att hasn't released the stock roms in a while now. Not here or even for the NoteII.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crypt0kiddie:
OK thank you.

I have another question though. My phones telling me I'm up to date but I know I'm not because we have 3 other non-rooted S3's and they all have a brightness slider and this rooted one DOES NOT.

Can I just download the OTA from here?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
You can grab the OTA from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1896773. The easiest way to apply it is to flash all the files in the PIECES section at the end of the post, making sure to flash the kernel after the ROM.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] skeltonh:
Reset Flash Counter - Triangle Away

Go to the Play Store and get Chain Fire's - Triangle Away
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] razielpr:
Sent From My Galaxy S3 Boricua 100%

This method is not working with the new jellybean update I did it and now my counter went up by one
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SuPaKiLaMaGiLa:
what happens if you flash a phone that had ucalem with the ucalg1 root injected rom?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
you end up with a rooted ucalg1 rom.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SuPaKiLaMaGiLa:
Then I don't unfderstand what happened I rooted my boys phone the same way I rooted my sg3 and once it was done I keep getting touxhwix unexpectedly stopped errors and android core something or the other has stoppwed
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sNoxious:
You need to reset your phone. It'll be hard cos of fc's but doable.

Sent from my Galaxy S3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
can do it in stock recovery.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] degenerazn:
So I just used Odin 3.07 and tried the root. It rebooted and now I'm getting the "Unfortunately, the process android.process.acore has stopped." How can I fix this or do a factory reset with Odin?

I can barely get to my homescreen and everything is freezing so I can't even get to my settings to do a reset.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Pull batt. Boot to recovery. Vol up + home + pwr.

Do factory reset there.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tornadolf:
Same thing here, but all good after reset.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jazee:
I was holding off on rooting, but I want Google Now sooner than later. So I take it I need to root to install Google Now.

I spent a lot of time installing apps and configuring the phone. If I follow these instructions do I have to do it all over again, or is there another method to root where I don't have to reinstall and reconfigure everything?

AT&T Samsung S3 (I747)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dlbjmb35:
Looking for a flash to get the extended power menu. Is this available without flashing a custom ROM?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zapper_master:
Not sure if everyone knows this but when you use this method and reboot (no you dont lose any data or information) and you get the error "...acore has stopped", that is a result of having contacts on your phone prior to using this root method. To resolve go into application manager, all apps, contact and in contact clear data, then do the same thing in contacts storage. This will clear all phone contact and also clear the error message. Simply restore your contacts via sim card, google contacts etc. Be patient as when you do this the error will keep popping up and your phone will move very slow when trying to open application manager and trying to scroll the screen...again, just be patient and you will get there....but super easy fix
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] docent000:
Yes. See this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1820007

Easy flash via CWM.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] machhho:
can anyone who extracted the stock_root67.tar from root69_ATT_I747UCALG1.7z to post it here so this way I don't have to download the whole new Rom ?

thanks in advance
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] toonhead85:
I wanted to thank you! I managed to soft-brick my phone while trying to return to stock (to sell the phone) from CM10_Stable. I thought I wasn't going to be able to return from the boot to "Samsung Galaxy SIII" > Black Screen of Death, but Thanks to your directions, my GS3 is now in a box, Unrooted > Triangle Away'd > ready for sale!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mkatforum:
That file is the only thing in the .7z file so you are asking for a pretty big file to attach ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kyphur:
I've been away from Android and XDA-Devs for a couple of years but finally am ready to return to Android with a GS3, bye bye iPhone 5...

This thread was of grea t help to this salty old dog. My GS3 was rooted, uodated to lates t OTS retsining root & then debliated in under 1 hr!

I'm glad to XDA retain so much of what I loved about the site from my very active days here...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] MurphyZombie:
Hey everybody. I've read the thread, I have all the files downloaded I have one question though. My phone build number shows as UCALI5 and when I check for updates it says there's no updates, But the thread says LH9 is the latest update. Is there anything special I need to know or do before I root?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
yea you have a newer version than what has been released. Until we get JB next week I'd recommend you root via the following:

1. At bottom of OP in misc files you will see an odin flashable recovery. Flash that recovery on your phone with Odin. this will trip your counter.

2. use that recovery to flash this: http://download.chainfire.eu/282/SuperSU/CWM-SuperSU-v0.98.zip - this will root your device.

3. you can then reset the counter with triangle away or if you are confident you won't mess up you can use this command:

adb shell
su
echo -n '\x00' | dd obs=1 count=1 seek=4193796 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0

4. if you want to flash back stock recovery i don't have a way to do that with LI5 right now.