yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Aquethys:
Edit: never mind, corrupt d-h download (their servers are getting hit hard)

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Ugh, I keep getting crap downloads that are 397mb/500 or so..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
It's recommended to flash CWM or TWRP through dd (ADB) or Terminal Emulator right now because of some potential IMEI weirdness some folks are still trying to track down that could be related to flashing it through Odin. I don't believe there is a CWM that is flashable through stock recovery for our phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] buvk:
Theres a fix for that imei issue

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1801997

Be sure to backup before flashing roms :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
There's some promising work, but no sense tempting fate if there are ways to avoid the whole IMEI mess to begin with :D

But yes, do take a backup of your info if you are going to consider flashing on this phone, in case you ever need it - better to be safe than sorry.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Alucardis666:
Thanks for the root, just got my S III today, can't wait to go flash-crazy
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Pellel2:
Is there an easier way of installing CWM than using OP suggested? thanks maybe a flashable or odin version of it?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Aquethys:
@above:

If you want a risk of losing your IMEI...

Does anyone know if using GooManager to install TWRP when just rooted stock will have any risk of IMEI loss? And if the NV Data Backup Tool works just as well as peoplearmy's fix?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
Personally, I'd stick with just getting the TWRP img file and installing it via dd to be on the safe side.

As for the tools, I've seen recommendations to use both PeopleArmy's NV Data Backup Tool and Geek's simple tool to make backups (that's what I did, even if I hopefully never need to use them). Pretty simple to run them both quickly and have peace of mind IMO.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
The NV Data Backup Tool in <:GeeK:>'s thread supposedly backs up more of the NV data than QPST does (the one Peoplearmy suggests). Also, it is freeware, while QPST is not.

That's what I did, too. Back up every damn thing you can, just in case.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] David Dee:
+1 on that, a little overkill never hurts.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Aquethys:
Hm, here says that the app is the recommended way. HOwever, do y'all still recommend dd'ing? Want to make sure everything is good for my Red GSIII :)

Can you link me to the GEEK tool?

What if my phone goes with firmware LEM? Do I still flash LG1 (root injected in the OP?) Is that safe?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xxsashixx:
Thanks :)

Uploaded on my server to provide some more mirrors!

AT&T Image

http://galaxytree.net/stock/stock_root67.7z

Bell Image

http://galaxytree.net/stock/stock_root66_Bell.7z

Rogers Image

http://galaxytree.net/stock/stock_root66_Rogers.7z

Telus Image

http://galaxytree.net/stock/stock_root66_Telus.7z
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Not going to matter either way. I don't love using an app to install recovery. But i use vi, not nano. etc y' know. to each their own.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Aquethys:
Thanks. Does it matter if I flash LEM or LG1 if I am going to be flashing AOKP JB?

So here's the procedure I'm going to take:

Unbox the phone

Turn on, set up, etc...

Backup using GEEK tool

Go to download mode, flash firmware root injected

GooManager/dd the TWRP recovery

Wipe Data, Cache, Dalvik, System 3x and flash AOKP

look good?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
Personally I would flash LG1, install a recovery (I like TWRP lately) and then make a nandroid before flashing anything else. You may want/need to go back to stock between flashing different ROMs and I think restoring a nandroid is easier than firing up Odin. If you don't care about that, then it doesn't matter which ROM you flash for root.

In fact, if you don't care about the nandroid, you could just use the toolkit to Odin a recovery and then flash a root package from there.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] alas1986:
Hi guys, just a quick question here. Is it safe to flash the rogers image on a bell SGH-i747m?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jack0131:
Hi Stevenca, quick question regarding CWM for Bell.

Hi Stevenca,

Would like to ask you about installing the recovery. Which file did you end up using for the process?

From First Page of this thread:

"However if you have the ATT model (not sure if this will work on Bell, Telus, Rogers, etc.), this recovery will see the extSdCard and seems better for our devices:

For ATT models use either this

recovery

or this touch recovery."

which gives you this file: recovery-clockwork-5.8.4.5-d2att.img

or

From Team Epic's CWM page:

"Download

CWM-Recovery-LTE-SGS3-v5.tar.md5 [1] [2]"

which gives you this file: CWM-Recovery-LTE-SGS3-v5.tar.md5

Thanks for your time, just want to make sure before I do it.

Jack

Bell SGSIII Rooted
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Heisenberg420:
does the method in the OP erase all my data?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jasvncnt1:
I updated to LG1 following the instructions posted and no, It did not erase any data
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Cabanon:
had a bit of fear going through the cwm process but it all went good. thanks a bunch. had to use android terminal emulator. did it on a Telus sgh-i747m. now about ot flash a rom.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ahfu25:
the links for the cwm you recommended for att users are dead...nevermind its my internet explorer
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gabby131:
Hi!

First of I know the risk of rooting and the dangers....now, I am experiencing those risk. I am just here to ask for assistance.

I have searched similar cases to my issue but non of them (at least three search results/methods) have worked for me.

I tried installing the recovery.img of att on a rogers SGS3 through Terminal. as I reboot recovery, the device wont turn on. Below is the list of what I already did:

-holding power button for few minutes until i am tired does not work.

-battery pull

-wont go to download or recovery

-odin wont recognize

-plug phone with battery and w/o sim, microsd

-plug phone w/o battery, sim, mmc card (results in LED turn to RED in few minutes)

-plug phone on laptop w/o battery, as beeps are heard, put battery back in, attempt to turn it on (no result)

-my jig does not work (no, i did not bought it from ebay)

-if I plug the device on pc, I hear beeps but no good results

things I did not do, i can't do atm:

-return to the shop

I am still searching around of how to work this around but it comes to me that I need the help of my fellow forum members.

Thank you

UPDATE: I already gave up, and now my phone is plugged on a socket (battery, sim, mmc in) LED is red as if it's a charging indicator
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Jaskwith:
So I flashed the root injected img per the instructions and I have root now, but im getting a hang up on installing clockwork.

NVMMMM I FIGURED IT OUT, SORRY!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jack0131:
Thanks :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] EthanMG:
is anyone else getting an insanely slow download speed for the lg1 file at http://d-h.st/u2B? i accidentally deleted mine and now when i try to download it again, im getting that it will take 10+ hours to finish. im certain it is not my own connection, tested it with speed tests and other downloads and everything is normal.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Aquethys:
They should put up a mirror. Sometimes Dev host bandwidth is horrible
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kssxs:
Had a bit of a scare this morning after rooting. I flashed the latest version of CWM for S3's (v6.0.1.0), and found when I rebooted into recovery that it wouldn't show anything on the screen. Just black. It would show the blue flash in the top left, but then nothing! Powering off and then trying to boot back up just kept looping back into recovery mode with a black screen.

So I finally managed to break the loop by going into download mode, and then rebooting into the full OS. Copied over v5.8.4.5 of the d2att version of the recovery, adb'd it, rebooted and voila, working recovery.

So the lesson here, at least for me, is the latest version of CWM doesn't work for a TELUS S3 phone. However, the d2att variant that is linked in the OP DOES work (and DOES see my external micro SD card, btw), but then again, your experience may be different ;) . I was able to get a Nandroid backup done as well, to my external SD.

For a bit there, my heart was hammering in my chest though! I just got the freakin phone yesterday! LOL
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] EthanMG:
our latest version is not 6.0.1.0, that is the latest for the international versoin. if you go to http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager the latest version for our phone is 5.8.5.7. the only versions are the team epic cwm which is only at version 5, and twrp which is at 2.2.1.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ahfu25:
Yup! and also 5.8.4.7 touch doesn't see the external SD...if you like the touch use 5.8.4.5!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Jaskwith:
Might be a novice question but I have never really thought about it Cuz I never really cared about an ota, but if I am running the stock, root injected ROM would o receive and ota if they pushed on? And if I downloaded how would that affect my phone? Would it brick? Or just unroot? Or would it just update normally?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
If you are running stock, you would probably receive notification of the OTA. Worse, you would only be able to postpone it for a little while before it would automatically download and try to install. If you're not using stock recovery, the OTA won't install (it requires stock recovery). If you are using stock recovery, it would install and you would lose root unless you use a product like OTA Rootkeeper (confirmed to work with UCALG1 OTA) or the "keep root" function of Superuser or SuperSU. (I've never heard if they worked for the LG1 OTA).

You can prevent OTA notifications by freezing the AT&T Software Updater application.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Jaskwith:
And freezing the software updater would also prevent it from updating then? Awesome thanks for the information! I really appreciate it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Sidetracking:
Hey guys, quick question.

So I've tried out a few roms but I can't find any that fit my needs. My nandroids are getting MD5 mismatch so cant restore to stock that way, but I was wondering if I could flash this in ODIN and get back to stock without messing anything up.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] malinois16:
Yes it would bring you back to stock rooted with all your current apps and data :good:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Sidetracking:
So I would just flash it the way I did the first time?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] malinois16:
Yup
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] grkmaster:
Whenever you Odin flashed to stock all the apps and data were gone(coming from the captivate), how come with this all your data and apps are still there even though you are stock now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] iNcRiMiNaTi:
Yay followed all the instructions and got it rooted (first android phone so I was kinda nervous) but I have a question. I flashed the touch CWM not thinking about if the screen on my phone gets damaged and the touch functions fail to respond. Is there a way to change CWM to the regular button one or am I gonna have to unroot and go through the whole process again? I kinda dont wanna lose everything I already have
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zmore:
Button nav also still works in CWM Touch.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] colhavoc:
What Recovery Image file from the first post did you use?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] creepyncrawly:
Nandroid backups can lose their md5 sum when the directory name is renamed and spaces are used in the new name. If you have a nandroid backup that you know is good, you can fix the md5 sum using adb shell, as follows:

(make sure the directory is a valid nandroid!)

(directory must be on internal sdcard)

adb shell

# cd /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/your-nandroid-backup-name-here

# rm nandroid.md5

# md5sum *img > nandroid.md5

But be careful that you don't have a corrupted backup. If you repair the md5 sum on a corrupted backup, it will restore, but it could be a disaster.

On your other question, you already got some advice. I don't have the GSIII but the general rule of thumb for flashing is to wipe if you are changing base. So depending on which rom you are flashing back from, you may be ok without a wipe. If you get freezes and fc's after you flash, then you may need to enter recovery and perform a wipe data/factory reset. So in any case, it would be a good idea to back up everything first.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] iNcRiMiNaTi:
Late response because I've been busy but thanks for the heads up, button nav works perfectly.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aerdman:
I have the Bell version of the SGS3, and I followed the steps described on page 1 (using the Bell image provided).

The good news, I got root access.

The bad news, I can no longer connect to the mobile network. My APN is set correctly, my device status shows that my Network is set to Bell, my IMEI seems correct (on the status page at least), but Mobile network state is "Disconnected". I've tried enabling/disabling flight mode, restarting the phone, and a battery pull.

Has anyone experienced this? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix it?

Edit:

A few hours later, everything appears to be working properly. I'm not sure what's changed, I didn't install anything since my initial post.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Rastabolino:
If you follow the entire list of instructions I think you will have root and cwm...check out my thread if you are new to samsung..should help out with the transition. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1802160
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] turilo:
Just what I was looking for ty!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Deputy13:
the dev host download speeds are awefully slow
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
nothing i can do... sorry. there is a link near the bottom with more mirrors but doesn't have the latest...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] fullmetal2k:
ok guys I'm trying to download the rom but everytime I try to extracted its corrupt with 7z and rar any advice?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Aquethys:
When DL speeds are slow that happened to me too. One time I downloaded only a 300mb package. Try when speeds r better
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] fullmetal2k:
isn't there a torrent I could get it from?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] superman2112ms:
CWM questions

After doing steps 1 and 2 I moved on to Step 3. A link sends me to instructions that say I must install Root.zip first. Well If I just rooted it in steps 1 and 2 do I need this file or not. I understand it is removing some files but it says it is also rooting the phone I am confused why did I do the first two steps if all I needed was the Root.zip?????

Steve
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bmmaximus:
Odin is not detecting the phone. I've installed samsung USB drivers through windows update, but am getting a device driver error with a device called "gadget serial control" in the device manager. any suggestions? (when the phone is left to boot properly the phone is detected fine as an MTP device)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gabby131:
I believe your phone is already on Download Mode. If still aint working, see if kies is active. If yes, close it (kies has a feature that it will launch auto when a sammy phone is plugged), if still not working, try rebooting your pc/laptop.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pinoymutt:
Doublecheck the MD5 of the extracted file and it still maybe ok. I've noticed sometimes 7z will give an error message when decompressing certain files but in the end the files were actually fine. If you are still having trouble, I'd recommend trying Winrar if you have access to it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bmmaximus:
my phone goes into download mode, but odin does not detect. I don't have kies installed, I installed usb drivers separately. rebooting didn't work.any other suggestions? :)

edit: fixed, installing kies properly installed drivers for gadget serial control. as much as i hate kies, i had no choice but to install it :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gabby131:
You can uninstall kies....it wont remove the drivers for what i believe.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rkriekle:
Does anyone have a stock sasktel image? Rooted or otherwise? I have looked everywhere and cant find one. The one listed in the s3 general forums has broken links. Thanks so much.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Bmmaximus:
Yea, thank God, got rid of that awful software. thanks :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] magicm3n:
Can I flash full BELL image for ATT i747 ?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DRShockie:
Getting back to Original S3

This was such a great help to get my phone rooted..I thought I would share this video( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raY_bwsHZSs ) to reset counter and get back to Original S3..

...Again thank the OP for his work...Donation:cool: coming..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Jimbroski:
The Bell, Rogers, and Telus images are based off Version:

I747MVLALE8

originally posted in this thread Thanks AdamLange!.

^ The "I747MVLLE8" has a "A" that shouldn't be In there right!?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Scyzor:
Backup to external card

Where is OP for touch recovery? Somehow when I have try to do a backup to external sd-card it shows me that there is no sd-card (aka extSdCard) :\
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] chug:
Before I flash my phone and mess everything up, will flashing to the stock_root_r66 file (Rogers for me) with Odin put EVERYTHING on the phone back to stock (+ root)? I'm talking kernel, baseband/modem, ROM, etc.

So even if I don't have or lose my nandroid backup, I'll always be able to go back to stock?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] slomanski:
This is a great guide. I tried this on my Sasktel i747 with the Bell image and it worked perfectly. I just wanted to confirm that this does indeed work on Sasktel i747s and ask if you would update the OP and title with this info to help out other prairie dwellers like myself?

Thanks for your excellent post.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
correct

Will do. Thanks for the info.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ReggieSmith:
THANKS!

Dude! I have been around the world and back trying to get the latest CWM recovery installed so I could flash the cyanogenmod10 ROM! (I was getting the error 7 due to the old recovery!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Johnny424:
hi guys..

can i jump straight to option 3..and flash cwm to my att sgs3 without doing the first step or two of rooting beforehand?

i am familiar with odin.. and im pretty sure that would be okay but just wanna double check..my aim is to flash cwm and then flash aokp or cm9\10

sorry if i missed something in the op..thanks for any help
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Jimbroski:
Is this 100% success rate If done correctly?

I'm scared!

Sorry for the potentially dumb post but 930 posts Is a lot to read :(.

THANKS!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] britbloke:
Thanks for this. I just picked up my S3 yesterday from Rogers. I have unlocked it and an now using it on Koodo.

Weird thing happend. Before rooting using this method, I was only getting the 4G icon and typical speeds of around 3-6mbps downloads.

After rooting, I now get the LTE icon (Koodo are quietly rolling it out, but I didn't think that it was in my area yet) and LTE download speeds too!

Coincidence? I don't know. Maybe Koodo switched on LTE just after I had rooted!! ;
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] EthanMG:
depends, are you already rooted? the third step requires you to have root access on your phone, so if you arent rooted, you will either need to root, or you will need to flash a cwm recovery using odin instead of adb (the third step). if you follow the links on this thread you can just install cwm recovery using odin: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1737446

nothing is 100%. this method is certainly one of the safest though, especially if you are on at&t. all this method does is flash the stock at&t rom with root already injected, then uses adb to push the cwm recovery. follow the directions and you will be fine.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Johnny424:
thanks I figured it out last night..

I actually just followed The steps through instead of getting ahead of myself lol..everything worked great..no problems at all..thanks for your help and thanks to then op..for making a easy tutorial...:D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dc41:
Anyone else having trouble downloading ATT Stock Download I747UCALG1? It's very slow and "completes" around 118MB. I found the mirror for stock_root67.7z but wanted to try the update.

Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Optimizer:
Does anyone have this mirrored? I am getting 30kb/s and its completing like he said at 110.

:(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] snoopdaclown:
With rooting and flashing the clockwork mod recovery from the rom manager app do you still have to do the recovery through this thread to flash a custom rom or am I good to flash away? New to these threads and rooted the way this thread said but I'm sure this thread was out before they had the recovery in rom manager. Just please let me know. Thank you

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I download the stock 69 and it shows 570mb and stock67 at 567mb. What browser are you using? I used stock for all of them so it should be fine. Just did it on monday

Sent from my rooted stock s3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BYOBret:
Took me several tries over a few days, but I was able to download completely last night. Keep trying, it should work eventually. ;)

Follow up: Flashed successfully. Thanks a bunch! Now to restore my apps from my captivate.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrandyp69:
thanks for this.

got it first try. luckily my adb was still set up on my windows machine. easy as pie. rooted and CWM touch running great.

now im off to google wallet.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] housry23:
Thanks for this. Someone on. Craigslist traded me his at&t gs3 for my nexus 7. Straight trade. Had to try cm10. Your root method worked perfectly then used goo manager to install twrp.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] irish.iolar:
I flashed the CWM Touch recovery zip file from recovery then rebooted the recovery and it worked but when I try to flash my nandroid backups, it says can't mount system & it doesn't work, I go back to regular CWM recov. And the backup works fine... Any ideas what's going wrong??