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[Galaxy S III General] Wapu:
Been running Go Launcher Ex for a year now and never bothered theming beyond that. Never appealed to me.

So, I've decided to make a list of why I rooted in the first place, including all the benefits discovered afterwords and whether they apply to the S3. Feel free to jump in on this and add items or thoughts. Obviously I don't have all the answers, so I defer to group brainstorming on this.

Lag - no longer an issue

Swapping partitions

Changing the scheduler

Changing filesystem (rfs / ext4)

Access to /System

Needed to add OpenVpn capability

Changing Host file for Addblocker / loopback

Overclocking / Voltage (haven't seen a quad-core capable OC app yet... anyone?)

Themes

Full system backups (need debatable w/ Samsung cloud backup)

Changing ROMs

Changing Market location (Korea now has full Games market so no longer needed)

Voodoo Sound *** Because Samsung was brilliant enough to put a frickin awesome sound chip in and hamstinged it w/ crappy software that didn't utilize it!

Autostarts... The ability to manage/disable events for all apps without deleting the app (kinda like direct access to cron scheduler in unix)

I have to say, system resources at this time are not an issue. I was clicking away through a couple dozen apps yesterday and had a bazillion things either running or still in cache and my memory still had 600M available. Sickeningly Sweet! However, more than anything else, I miss having Titanium Backup. I always felt safe w/ backups stored offline.

I guess my major concern about rooting at this time is the ability to pull updates. Does rooting preclude us from updating via Kies? And I suppose we would have to wate for devs to update rooted methods for updates too. Kinda miss Tegrak in that respect. I haven't heard whether or not he is going to support GS3. I hope so, his method allowed easy root/unroot.

Ok... enough whining from me... anyone else got more perspective on this?
[Galaxy S III General] M@31:
1 - definitely no longer needed.

2 - Never used an OpenVPN, but the addblocker is nice as well.

3- The custom Prestige Mod ROM gives you the ability to over/under clock and ability to use 1,2,3, or 4 core.......I havent done this yet, but someone who has installed Prestige could hep out.

4 - I WANT TO LEARN ABOUT THEMES!! I have the files I just want to apply them :)

5 - Titanium Backup is awesome, just back up to my external SD and to Box cloud....... Also, having a CWM backup is nice. Can never be too sure.

6- Only really one ROM available at the moment....still waiting on some more

7 - Still have found a few games that can't be found on the Korean markets, so I am keeping Market Enabler ;)

8 - Prestige Mod has their own version of VooDoo, they just can't call it voodoo. But, I agree, the sound is pretty terrible when you plug something into it to listen.

9 - Never really gotten into the autostarts on my phone, on my Tab though, it works really well!

I have tried to update my phone with the one that has come available recently, but it won't do it. Even tough I disabled SuperUser, it still wouldn't update. Just said it failed. Could be because of the root. I have not tried to use Kies yet though....maybe try that tonight.

I havent heard anything from Tegrak, but if he does come available, that is all I will use for sure. He was/is the best (although I got hooked on Nakyup)

One other thing that could be done is a custom Startup. Which would be kind of cool.....Id have Ivy crossing over Jordan and would want to restart my phone A LOT more often :P
[Galaxy S III General] Wapu:
a) you can always check the site... http://www.cyanogenmod.com/

b) I believe this has been said before... CM has never made a rom directly compatible with our korean versions (S, S2 & S3, Note, etc.). That being said, we don't really follow it. You can if you'd like but you will most likely brick your phone.

Since we have the korean phone, we tend to use korean developed kernels, roms & themes. If you know what your doing and have plenty of backups you can try others, but many tend not to work at all (some won't even get past boot screen).

So, one to the final question... why doesn't CM develop for our phones too? Because they only develop for phones they can get their hands on to test out. They don't have access to our phones over here and no one in korea has stepped up to volunteer to be part of the CM team and develop/test for them yet. (official response from CM on another blog)

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??? [I know I'm missing something here...]
[Galaxy S III General] beatsmaster0510:
After reading the Siyah kernel thread, i'm pretty convinced that the Prestige ROM is using it and the devs who created it was able to modify the kernel to fit to the SKT 3G/LTE S3. I went back to stock ROM and attempted to flash boot.img and recovery.img via Odin from the Prestige ROM but failed. Basically, I just want the stock ROM look but the modified Siyah kernel in S3. Can anyone contact the Prestige ROM dev to release a kernel only update? I can't speak Korean. :mad:

Sent from Korean S3
[Galaxy S III General] p33k:
Junwon aka privileged can speak English. Try contacting him.
[Galaxy S III General] M@31:
For a boot animation, if I could do it....It is a video, and I am a huge Iverson fan (basketball)
[Galaxy S III General] M@31:
If you find this information out, I would love to know as well!

Im not a huge fan of the theme....hence why I am trying to figure out my own themeing (which, I think I am close!)
[Galaxy S III General] magicm3n:
You can do it. Just open tar file and delete system.img. Flash it. Or I can share some zip for CWM, that will comeback Prestige ROM to full stock. There are only 7 files are different. I did this with my E210S , because I do not like that status bar and other changes.
[Galaxy S III General] beatsmaster0510:
Nice! I'll be doing what you have suggested later as soon as I get home from work. Please also share the zip for CWM flash.

Sent from Korean S3
[Galaxy S III General] M@31:
Maybe a pain the the A$$, but do you mind posting a HOW TO type thing for us newbies who have never done this before?

If you could post or even send me a message and then I could add it to the OP for everyone to use in the future.

This would be great knowledge to have!

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] magicm3n:
Ouh, can`t share file here. Ok. I tell you what you can do for manualy install only Kernel or kernel+Recovery etc...

Download and install AlZip http://www.altools.com/Downloads/ALZip.aspx (becouse RAR can`t deleting files from arhive)

Delete .md5 extention if exist in ROM file.

Open .tar (ROM file) in AlZip and delete ALL what you want. Just leave what you need.

In PRESTIGE MOD cache.img, hidden.img and modem.bin are the same STOCK ROM. If you need install only KERNEL, just delete all files except boot.img.

After editing .tar file flash it via Odin.

Sorry for my bad English, I hope you understand me :)
[Galaxy S III General] beatsmaster0510:
I had the same idea actually but what I did last night was to create a new tar file from the content of the Prestige ROM tar file. Later i'll do what you have just shared. Thanksz

Sent from Korean S3
[Galaxy S III General] M@31:
I am having a hard time following, but sounds like you get the idea....

Think you could post a step by step. Pretend that it is someone who has never done this or thought about this before..... :)

If not, no worries. I am sure Ill figure it out sooner or later.

I am investigating Ninjamorph right now :)
[Galaxy S III General] xcly:
Flashing directly is fine
[Galaxy S III General] M@31:
Do you mean Mobile Odin?

If not, I highly recommend using it. It is so much easier and doesn't increase your binary count.

No need to connect to your computer or anything.....
[Galaxy S III General] marwil87:
help

appreciate who can help me, as I can install rom omega, in a galaxy m440s?
[Galaxy S III General] johnny31092:
In your case its better to use CWM recovery to flash the omega ROM

Because you need to flash the kernel separately :)

First save the ROM on your external memory.

Second save the kernel(page one of the M440S page has kernel names)

Third save the kernel converter.(also explained on page one)

Then you go into recovery mode

Flash the Rom first

Second flash the kernel

Third flash the kernel converter.

Then lastly do a wipe of cache and dalvik cache :)

Then should be working fine
[Galaxy S III General] marwil87:
converter kernel I can not download I have a 64-bit computer .. I can help unload the kernel comvertidor in a separate link?

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] rajjah:
Thanks. I flashed directly and it went smoothly.
[Galaxy S III General] johnny31092:
Here you are

http://db.tt/4qkWxoBr

:)
[Galaxy S III General] panot:
Thanks, good job as usually :).
[Galaxy S III General] marwil87:
smell the installation will not let me install the kernel is left on my black screen .. first install the rom. scent but goes into the screen and stays in second samsung.ingrese in cwm and install the kernel and then third the converter .. but I can not install omega rom 44.2 .... I have currently vk rom m440s 11.1 with support with siyah kernel 1.8.9

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 usando Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] johnny31092:
I'm using Omega ROM version 43 with no problems
[Galaxy S III General] p33k:
Siyah has not been updated to work with the 4.2 leaks. Just install the rom and then flash converter. What I have to do using cm10.1. It sucks because no dual boot. Just waiting on Siyah to update his kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] blaze2k:
is there a way to modify the theme of the original dialer because I dont like the korean letters there.(I dont want to install another dialer i just want the default without korean crap)

Also what is that small icon right next to the wifi icon? The one which looks like the redial button from the dialer and it has a small phone on it.
[Galaxy S III General] johnny31092:
I was able to use CM10.1 (4.2.1) with the latest Siyah kernel version 1.89 using this kernel converter.

Dual boot was working too :)

(M440S)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/iejofjavavk0pdp/converter+.zip
[Galaxy S III General] weng_cas:
can anyone help. after flashing jb 4.1.2 stock rom on shv-e210L, my imei is null/null..and baseband is unknown. plz help
[Galaxy S III General] p33k:
The newest 10.1? Even if you look in siyah discussion thread so many people waiting for a new update. Asking same question over and over. It stopped working with cm10.1 last month and doesn't work with the new leaks.
[Galaxy S III General] johnny31092:
I'm using a download from January 5th maybe the later ones don't work ?

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Did you try a factory reset ?
[Galaxy S III General] p33k:
For cm10.1 it was around Feb 24th it quit working. The leaked firmwares it's never worked on like omega 44.2.
[Galaxy S III General] blaze2k:
Try downloading the firmware from the link below and flash CWM Recovery via ODIN then flash the zip file fia CWM. Hope this helps.
[Galaxy S III General] jyhlee:
Lock screen shortcuts for mb7

hey everyone,

long time no see, glad to see the forum is still alive and kickin'. first off, thanks everyone for the updates and input, i always appreciate it. now, down to the nitty gritty. i'm currently on the SHV-E210s (4.1.2 - LK7) with icarus kernel, orJB alpha theme, and the aosp lock screen shortcuts. my issue is as follows:

1. i would like to stick with the same combo for MB7 as i haven't found a custom rom quite to my liking. i know that the rooted stock rom, icarus kernel, and alpha theme are now all available for MB7, but i can't find a patch for

MB7 lock screen shortcuts

on matcl.com or develoid.

can anyone help me out with this?

thanks as always!

as an aside, here is the link for the ELS ROM v0.5.0 for Galaxy S3 LTE SKT (E210S-MB7-JB 4.1.2) as i noticed the link on the OP is outdated: http://estiloleche.tistory.com/159
[Galaxy S III General] widokeren:
That is what I'm working right now. Custom rom for e210kjmb3 and e210sjmb7
[Galaxy S III General] M@31:
All is quiet on the SGS 3 front eh?
[Galaxy S III General] davidcsv:
E210KKKJMB3 - new rooting mechanism & cwm touch recovery

Note that the recently uploaded E210KKKJMB3 firmware image for the E210K has a new rooting mechanism. When you boot first time after having flashed the image with Odin, root will not be available. Whenever you want to activate root, press VolumeUp/VolumeDown/Power for a brief moment to root the phone and install CWM Touch Recovery. Both actions are permanent and survive reboots... the mechanism also allows for easily flashing/installing other flavors of recovery images, but more about that another time.

All links for E210KKKJMB3 have been updated already in the E210K reference post.

If anyone is interested in making this rooting mechanism a toggle kind of thing, where you can toggle root on and off (unroot) by pressing those three buttons, please let me know and I'll try to make it happen.

Update: root/unroot can now be toggled using the three buttons described above. links in the reference post have been updated.
[Galaxy S III General] cynosure4sure:
he next thing GS3 front??

Some days ago 4.2.1 ROM leaked for I9300...and also the screenshots for the rumored GS4 showing eye scroll feature were also said to be from a GS3 running 4.2.1...so based on this info I guess the next update might be around the corner and brings a lot of tasty features
[Galaxy S III General] johnny31092:
I'd love the option to unroot like that on my E210S :)
[Galaxy S III General] Wapu:
Been using Tegrak kernal for a couple years now (Galaxy S --> SIII). Kernel adds root capability, app actually adds root functionality and SU. The app allows you to root/unroot at will. This way you can unroot to use certain wallet applications, etc. then re-root when done.

Don't know why its not adopted as much anymore. Just vanilla SIII kernel w/ a bit of extra functionality built in. Have never had a problem w/ it.
[Galaxy S III General] M@31:
Ive too been mostly using Tegrak.

Has always been the easiest and has always worked for me!
[Galaxy S III General] panot:
Good idea, please...
[Galaxy S III General] davidcsv:
Toggle switch is available as of now...links in the E210K reference post have been updated. And there's also visual confirmation when you toggle :)

I'm currently uploading the E210S MB7 firmware with the same toggle mechanism too... wouldn't want to disappoint the other fans :p
[Galaxy S III General] davidcsv:
Here are the links to download a copy of an MB7 stock image which has the root/unroot three button toggle switch embedded. Chainfire's SuperSU is included as well.

hotfile

or

mediafire (11 part multi-part zip archive)

Flash with Odin, as usual.
[Galaxy S III General] davidcsv:
Three button root/unroot toggle switch - how to

Removed for various reasons... PM me for details regarding the three button rooting mechanism.
[Galaxy S III General] vivi22:
Question

I have Galaxy S3 ShV-210K v.4.1.2, can I flash any custom rom / kernel made for GT-I9305? If yes, how can I do it.:confused:

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] chris151722:
no! e210k and i9305 not only have different hardware but also has huge difference in partition table so it will surely brick your s3 if you flash rom/ kernel from i9305.
[Galaxy S III General] Wapu:
MBD out now. Anyone install yet? Want to know what this change brings.
[Galaxy S III General] cynosure4sure:
Sorry I don't know....can you please tell us what is MBD??? the next update or what??

Thank you
[Galaxy S III General] M@31:
Patiently waiting :)

How did you find out about this 3 button toggle for rooting?

Is it just for the firmware that you have uploaded, or is it for stock Firmware that is released by Samsung?
[Galaxy S III General] davidcsv:
The E210S version was made available a few posts back...here...

It actually isn't a toggle, I just thought it would be fun to give it toggling functionality :D

This particular 3 button action should be present in most stock Samsung firmware images. As far as I could assess, Sammy has left it dormant and doesn't make use of it, at least not on our models. If you look at the original Google implementation, you will find that its purpose is to support automated bug reporting; my Nexus actually does have a script to handle bug reporting. Samsung somehow decided to not implement the script by default, so that's why I decided to, in a way, 'hijack' it for our benefit :victory:

Turning this rooting procedure into a toggle is scripting/programming one-oh-one (101)... nothing exciting here, just great results and lots of convenience.

How I found out?... at first I wanted to hijack the phone's boot animation module. I even wrote an alternative version to do the rooting, but then discovered that the initialization process runs the animation module under a user account which does not have the appropriate privilege level to perform the rooting. Then after a quick glance at the init process, I noticed there were a few more options of which the bugmailer service seemed the best candidate (at that moment) in getting the job done.

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Yep, seems the E210S will be receiving a new update, MBD (release date 2013-03-13, yesterday). I checked a few moments ago, but Kies is still on MB7. I'll try again later.
[Galaxy S III General] M@31:
So, with my phone right now, it is on stock MB7.

If I do the three buttons, it will root my phone? It can't be that easy.......

I might be misunderstanding this, sorry.....reading again, you said it is dormant. So that means that we can't just root our phones this way, but you have implemented the function through your ROM?
[Galaxy S III General] davidcsv:
Correct!
[Galaxy S III General] matanp:
HSPDA doesn't seam to work

Hello

I've got SHV-E210S from Korea but i use it in Israel

Near the signal sign it always shows "3G" and never "H" therefore my download speed is slower

Any idea how to set HSPDA to work?
[Galaxy S III General] davidcsv:
Install Network Signal Info made by Kaibits Software from the Play Store. Then place the NSI Mobile Widget on your home screen and that will give you a more accurate indication of your connected speed. Your phone will display 3G when it is connected at HSPA speeds (it doesn't show H), so don't worry.
[Galaxy S III General] matanp:
I've done what you said

Indeed in NSI it's show H+ but still there are differences between the download speeds. i've added some screenshots from the galaxy S III SHV-E210S and my Nexus 4 that are connected to the same mobile network

Galaxy S 3 is marked with RED circles

Nexus 4 is marked with BLUE circles

I have noticed that my Nexus 4 switch between HSPA+ (21.6 Mbit/s) and HSDPA (7.2 Mbit/s)

while the galaxy s 3 switch between HSPA+ (21.6 Mbit/s) and

UMTS (384 kbit/s)
[Galaxy S III General] widokeren:
Thanks for your guide I'll try to understand it.

Btw do you know change log for new firmware e210k jmb3 and e210s jmb7 ?

Because I can't find it in google.
[Galaxy S III General] davidcsv:
Good luck finding details on Samsung change logs. As far as I know, they keep it very much hidden from public eyes :mad: The fact that it's completely absent in your Google search results should be a good indication of their policy/policies regarding firmware change logs.

Anyone who knows more, please share?... supposedly those who do know are bound to some kind of non-disclosure agreement... ;)
[Galaxy S III General] dc_power!:
In order to rule out certain suspicions, if you have an sdcard in the S3, can you please run the speedtest again without the sdcard inserted?
[Galaxy S III General] matanp:
I don't have
[Galaxy S III General] dc_power!:
Based on the screenshots I noticed that both tests (Nexus 4 and S3) were run each connected to different operators? If this is correct, then try to repeat the test with the same sim card connected to the same operator and verify, before starting the test, that you are testing against the same server too.
[Galaxy S III General] pilottyung:
hi guys,

before i do anything wrong. currently running on ochie rom. now i feel like flashing latest rom with davids mod on my 210k. do i have to wipe everything or just flash it on top normal via odin ?

TIA
[Galaxy S III General] matanp:
"Orange" is the owner of "012 mobile" yet they use different APN, so after your remark i've changed the APN and the download speed increased a lot!!! :good:

But still, using NSI shows that the galaxy s 3 use only 2nd generation UTMS and 3.5 generation HSPA+ and not using 3rd generation HSDPA :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] M@31:
You can just flash the new ROM over top.

But it is recommended to do a full wipe most of the time that way there are not problems.....
[Galaxy S III General] widokeren:
So david it means when i using your mod i need few files zip that contain su and bootanimation, can you upload those files if you not mind :)

some update that i know from new firmware is update binary for sqlite, and other binary too.

that is reason for my new mod failed to implement in new firmware and now i have to begin from scratch.:crying::crying:
[Galaxy S III General] davidcsv:
Here they are.

The bootanimations I've used are just examples that I based on one of the default Samsung Galaxy S series startup animations. The su binary can be copied from the latest Chainfire Superuser distribution, that way you will always have the most recent one.
[Galaxy S III General] widokeren:
Awesome thank you so much david :good::good:
[Galaxy S III General] M@31:
Ive flashed the E210S version and seemed to work fine.

SU app was there, but wasn't rooted first boot.

Then, I tried the vol up/down and power buttons, but nothing.......I don't know how I could be doing something wrong, but.....

Am I missing something?

Upon restart, cwm is not there either.
[Galaxy S III General] davidcsv:
Yeah...big sigh... unfortunately, I have to review this whole mechanism. The E210K owners' stock images work flawlessly toggling between root and unroot, but I've noticed on several phones (SHV-E110S and GT-I9100), even with the structures and configuration in place in the stock images, something blocks this particular key chord to trigger the bugmailer script to run. I'm getting myself up to speed at the moment with Android's internal input 'framework' and hope to resolve this issue for all the phone models that suffer from this.

For now, please remove the link for this download from your reference post for the E210S (if it was added) or mark it as not ready yet and being under investigation.

My apologies for the inconvenience and I promise to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

PS. and thanks for testing. I no longer have my E210S (only E210K).

Update: Reminder for anyone trying out the new root ready stock firmware images with three button toggle, you have to enable USB Debugging otherwise the combo-button press will not trigger the appropriate service to root.
[Galaxy S III General] davidcsv:
Just a quicky.... when you were testing, did you have Settings->Developer Options->USB Debugging enabled? This is a pre-requisite for keychords to be handled.

I forgot to mention that for the 'toggle' to fire, that setting must be enabled first. If you can try that and give me some feedback I'd very much appreciate it.
[Galaxy S III General] M@31:
I don't know if I did or not to be honest.....

If I can, I will check tonight after work. I just got the phone set back up again :)
[Galaxy S III General] davidcsv:
Updated root ready MB1 image available for E210L

The root ready stock firmware image, version MB1, is available for download in the model's reference post.

This image incorporates the three button toggle to root/unroot. Flash with Odin and after your phone has booted root/unroot as follows:

- make sure you have enabled Settings->Developer Options->USB Debugging

- toggle between rooted and unrooted state by pressing VolumeUp/VolumeDown/Power simultaneously

There's no need to reboot when you toggle between rooted states.

Enjoy!