yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] wpbear:
Is this CWM the same as the OP? http://www.epiccm.org/2012/06/cwm-recovery-on-all-sgs3-lte-variants.html
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] minmongoblin:
This is probably a really silly question, but how do you boot into CWM once you do the five lines of Command Prompt entering? Is that how you have to do it everytime, using CMD?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Marcismo55:
Mine shows this as well.

To boot into recovery manually hold Volume up + Home + Power. Quick Boot from the market works well if the phone is powered on.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] minmongoblin:
Thanks

As far as the serial number, it's not an issue unless you need to return/sell the phone, right? In which case just Odin back to stock unrooted
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] open1your1eyes0:
Anyone willing to test out Koush's official Galaxy S III CWM (chose the Sprint version since it's closest)?

http://download.clockworkmod.com/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-5.8.4.5-d2spr.img
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] slvfox:
I used this method last nite with no issues. Have SU in app drawer, even my rooted apps work. Flashed CWM from this post and made backup with no issues.

The problem I'm having is the phone will work fine then either freeze where I have to pull the battery or will reboot every 1-2 mins. It's almost like a kernel that's overclocked. When I try to make phone calls, it will connect but then disconnect and I will have no service.

I made the mistake of rooting before activating so I don't know if there was a problem with the phone. Anyone else have these issues?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
Nope, everything looks fine. I used the root66 image from the other thread.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ErylFlynn:
Mine shows all 0s for serial also,.

Also noticed, that when I boot I get the Samsung Custom with an unlocked padlock when I boot. All I did was flash the full rooted ROM from the initial post. Is this the flash counter? And would this go away if I flashed back to the stock ROM unrooted?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pjamv5:
I would recommend for anyone having trouble after flashing this image to try the root66 image in this thread...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1762204

So far no complaints from anyone that has used it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rotarydial:
Anyone get the native swype to work? I usually run swift but the wifey says the native on her stock SGS3 is the best she's used.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Lock-N-Load:
"NEWS: 7/9/12 - There is an OTA coming up very soon (or so I've heard) and its probably going to block this root method. DO NOT UPGRADE!

Once we have a dump of the OTA, we'll release a rooted version of it."

cant you use OTA Root Keeper to keep root even after the OTA comes?

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Also, will there or is here and expected easier root method coming?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] stiltzkin:
With regard to the expected future OTA - I posted about this several times on the IRC channel, but I'm not sure if anyone was paying attention.

If someone has a list of Verizon's update servers, CDNs, et cetera which they use to push out OTAs, we can add those ranges to our /etc/hosts now that we have root and completely avoid the possibility of a surreptitious device update. I think that's certainly preferable to just hoping that OTA root preservation works on its own - the only problem is that I have no idea if these ranges are known. Any info on this is much appreciated.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tekhna:
If you have CWM or TWRP installed the update will fail anyway because of a non-stock recovery.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sinphaltimus:
Taking verrrrrrrry long.

First off - thank you XDA Saviours! I mean devs... I'm a little worried.

Odin has been on system.img.ext4 for over 45 minutes now. (right after the firmware update start msg.) - Afraid to touch anything. what should I do?

The one thing I might mention is that I started this process out of the box (before activating) - was that bad?

~Sin

EDIT: OK I left it for an hour and nothing so I closed ODIN, disconnected the phone, battery pull, and am starting over again. Not sure why it's not working. If it goes for another 15 minutes I'll activate my phone and try again if it boots. If not, I guess I have to try flashing the original stock. Following the directions precisely, not sure what could be causing this. Does it matter I'm on a 64-bit Windows 7 running ODIN?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ercDROID:
stupid question but I just rooted my phone and finally got adb to recognize my phone. Now I want to use adb to push the cwm recovery. Where do I put the recovery.img? Do I put it on my sd card or somewhere else?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
Put it in the platform-tools folder.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] slvfox:
I did the same thing. Root right out of the box. My problem was I was getting constant reboots and freezes. Phone calls would terminate 5-10 sec into the call. Called Verizon, he had me put the new sim card in instead of the one from my nexus (which the online instructions had me do) and after one hr of resetting on his end it works. No more boot loops and freezes.:cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sinphaltimus:
I'm starting with a brand new sim (coming from a droid x (no sim)).

going to wait another 10 minutes and then just try booting the phone and activating. *fingers crossed & penis tied in a knot*
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bishop0114:
I did this and when I rebooted, it says Samsung with a picture of a lock that is unlocked and it says Custom below the lock. What does that mean?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] GuitarrassDeAmor:
Anybody know why my GPS icon would stay on even though it is fully off?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tedkord:
So, what does this mean as far as roms? The bootloader is still encrypted, right? Sorry for the noob question.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mike86325:
bootloader is still encrypted. this only allows root and 3rd party recovery. It's nice, but a locked bootloader still prevents a TON of possibilities for this phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ricky babalu:
Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Neverendingxsin:
that would be perfect :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
invisiblek,

Coming from the original Inc it's awesome to see you have an S3. As it's about 5:45am Eastern I'd imagine most people haven't seen this yet. Don't have my phone yet but going to download the .tar file in case we need to put up mirrors. Suggest others do the same (the torrent is a good idea too!)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheClap:
Has encryption been confirmed? I thought so far the only things confirmed is that its locked and requires signed ROMs, while encryption was still just speculation.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mike86325:
good point, I guess it isn't completely confirmed, but reps at samsung did say it was. I'm not sure how reliable they are so I'll have to watch how i word things until we get a definite answer
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tonictonic:
I skipped step 2 and root works fine. This is great, thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] supercell2000:
no seeders
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Thalinor:
When I call them in a few hours (once Level III Tech support opens) I will ask this exact question and see what kind of answer I get.

@ Everyone who worked on this:

THANK YOU. I can't say this enough, Thank you for all your hard work and determination.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] satadru:
I thought the vzw bootloader didn't allow unsigned system.img files. Wasn't this the crux of the problem?

Is this not true then?

What were we doing wrong?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aatrek:
There are a bunch of seeders right now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sidn3y:
I'm not going to try anything until I'm more familiar with things, but will this allow someone to throw on a rom like AOKP or CM?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] alquimista:
All hail invisiblek!!

You are a god to me sir! I would proffer up my firstborn child, but I dunno if a married 30yr old counts as a sacrifice to a god...

Now I can sleep.

Side note: Who's the guy in the picture? Its funny.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Balthazar B:
St. Linus...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] satadru:
Is this compressed at all?

Somebody want to at least run gzip or bzip2or zip on this file?

Would making a binary diff using something like xdelta3 between this and the original samsung download (on a faster server maybe) help make this download smaller?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheBiles:
What's the point of CWM if the bootloader is locked?

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] scassel:
Nandroids for one. You can still flash roms. Just not radios and what not.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SwervFusion:
If you don't mind me asking .. what is the "and what not"?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aatrek:
Probably things like custom boot animations, etc.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tillithz:
gps? or location? verizons stuck there
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sinphaltimus:
Starting over after activating

OK, the phone booted fine to spite the fact ODIN never really finished (closed ODIN, unplugged phone from computer, needed a battery pull, booted up fine and activation completed).

Trying this root method again. I hear third time is the charm.

-Sin
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Gadgetz:
I'm on AT&T, will that boot animation zip work on my phone too? I hate that damn AT&T splash screen!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
This shows when you freeze or delete certain systems apps.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] GuitarrassDeAmor:
The diamond with a cross through it and the three bars to the right. Is that location or GPS? If location...is there a way to turn it off?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sinphaltimus:
No go. :(

I have no idea why this isn't working for me. ODIN starts the firmware update process but just sits there for way too long and essentially doesn't do anything. as if it thinks it's communicating with the phone but it's not really?

some details:

No SD Card inserted - don't need one yet.

I downloaded all the files from the OP here that I needed for the full rooted image (not slimmed down)

ODIN is v3.07

Brand new SIM card.

Phone activated

OS = Windows 7 Ult. x64

Installed OP USB drivers prior to anything else.

Dl'ed the image from torrent file.

This was my last attempt for the evening. It's been running for 20 minutes now with seemingly no progress.

I am fairly familiar with rooting from the DX and kind of have a basic understanding of ADB (not a complete noob and pretty comfortable)

I'm beginning to wonder if this rumored soon to be pushed OTA update shipped with my phone or got applied during the activation process.

I have no idea what to try or what I might be doing wrong.

I'll check back here tomorrow since it's past my bedtime now. I'd love to here any suggestions and/or supply any additional info in trying to figure out what is happening.

Thanks all..

-Sin
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
Try a different USB port and also a different cable if you have one. I know it sounds like that wouldn't make a difference but it has for a few people.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sinphaltimus:
OK, will do tomorrow. Makes sense, I've heard this resolve other issues with other devices in the past. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll update when I do.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crazy talk:
only do flashes from a USB port on the Motherboard of the laptop/desktop you are using. not the front panel, not a USB hub. you could have problems otherwise.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Dizfunky:
Thanks for the guide. Running rooted cwm with the stock stripped rom by invisiblek. What next...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ssmaster:
disregard. Sorry i posted on so many forums, thought this was important and wanted to spread the word...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] minmongoblin:
Why are so many people rooting before activating their numbers? That sounds like it's asking for trouble, honestly...

Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DebianDog:
I agree I also don't know why people insist on still flashing this non-Verizon version of root. I had so many issues with this build. I loaded the proper Route 66 build in the other thread my phone is running perfectly.

Sent from my SCH-I535
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] yznhmr:
I followed this , and rooted, and loaded the recovery last night, but my camera doesnt work.. any Ideas?

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and where is this Route 66 build, i did a search, and could not find

thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pjamv5:
Check the OP in this thread...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1762204
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] yznhmr:
I was going to try that one.. now I will thx..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] santas16:
Keyboard: I believe the new image is missing/deletes the user dictionary/database. Keyboard types & swypes but when typing cannot predict text due to lack of information. I noticed tho Once you type a word it recognizes it the next time...doesnt help on the punctuated words. Swype results are same, no text to predict.

Side note, I noticed this root method is not 100% rooted...some root apps still have issues working correctly because they dont really see phone as rooted.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] drbveb88:
How has this rooted version worked out for everyone? Should we wait until after the next update?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] minmongoblin:
What are people meaning by "Sprint elements"? I'm seeing nothing Sprint related in mine.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tillithz:
Theres options in hidden menus and other places that refer to sprint network or apps. Whats odd though is I flashed back to stock, and then rooted with a the other method and still found Sprint network as option under data profiles (a hidden menu). odd
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] open1your1eyes0:
See this post

Screenshot
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] biff6789:
So is there a consensus yet on what the unlocked padlock screen with the word "custom" means, how exactly it shows up, and if there is a way to get rid of it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pitmanr2003:
Just got my sgs 3 from Verizon today. I think I may have locked boot loader version being it won't goto Odin mode. Am I correct and if so where do I go now
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] drburke:
Quick question:

How do I convert a .zip to a .tar on Windows? The stock rooted debloated .tar was zipped and I have no clue how to convert it. Odin won't find it because of it.

You definitely have a locked bootloader, and you can still get into Odin. Vol down + home + power. Hold it until the screen comes up.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] chakra:
I think you just change the extension from .zip to .tar
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] drburke:
How? I know it must be simple, but when I do it on Windows it still shows up as a .zip. When I try and change it on a Mac and bring it back over, it just fails.

EDIT: I don't know why the one I downloaded doesn't work. People in IRC tried and worked. I just used the stock image.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] -copyguy-:
Did you add the directory that adb is in to your Windows path?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] chakra:
Sorry, my mistake, just open the zip the .tar file is inside the zip.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] drburke:
The only thing inside the .zip was system, META and busybox. There wasn't a sublevel. I just used the stock and it flashed. Weird :confused:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kls629:
what if verizon releases the ota and forces it on us? will we lose root?

also, how do we stop backup assistant and other verizon bloatware?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] chakra:
Ok, well since I seem to be of no help I just googled it

http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/unix/tar_build.html
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jonhern:
i made a back up before i restored my phone back to factory to return to Verizon, had the rattling volume button. Anyway, rerooted, and installed twrp, but when i go into recovery it is not seeing my backup. hitting restore just takes me to a screen with nothing listed. i but the backup on my sd card and internal, still does not show up.any ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kls629:
1. Backup files are accessible through >data>media>TWRP, even though they are on your internal SD card.

2. Zip files you want to flash are also accessible through >data>media, if you first move them to the root of your internal SD card before booting into recovery.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jonhern:
yeah, its in there, but nothing shows up in recovery when i hit restore. there are not options to chose or folders to chose.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kls629:
i have rom manager installed, but when i try to backup it says i need to install clockworkmod recovery. what do i do?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jonhern:
has anyone been able to restore from TWRP? trying to restore backup but don't get any options in the restore window, just says select package to restore but there is nothing listed. Even made a new backup and still nothing shows up. If its a f'uped recovery will be good to know so i can just call it a day and install clockwork mod instead and just set up my phone from scratch again. And it will be good to warn people not to use it if you can't actually restore from it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
Might be the format of the SD card, FAT32 usually works best. Lots of people seem to be having issues with TWRP, I would just use clockwork for now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jonhern:
is there anyway to use the backup files in clockwork mod. I am guessing no, but thought i would ask. and my card id fat 32.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
Not that I'm aware of.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sinphaltimus:
All done and very happy.

I didn't even bother on my computer with the usb cable I had. Needed to get to work and get this done so i took the oem cable that shipped with the phone and my phone took it via Odin like a champ. Been spending all day recovering my programs via titanium backup and restoring my settings (Yeah I came from DX but with AOKP ICS) - what was really cool is all my AOKP ICA settings saved by google came right back on my SGS3.

I am noticing some trouble with KB too. dictionaries? not sure how to fix that. When I swipe now, it does not type anything at all. I have to hit each letter individually. Any suggestion on getting the swiping back? I'm going to play with it for a bit and try different things.

Thanks you all for this and for the help/suggestions.

Makes me regret the day I stopped coding many many many years ago..... There's still time. :)

-Sin

:):good:

EDIT "When I swipe now, it does not type anything at all." - But it does leave the swipe trail behind my finger so swype appears to be there...

Also, where the predictive text would normally appear - it actual has text that says "Predictive text area". so swype is fubared for the time being. did i miss a solution along the way?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
Glad it worked for you. Apparently the stock rooted.tar in this thread has those issues. If you flash the root66 version in the other thread, it should clear those up.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sinphaltimus:
Yeah I was reading about that. I'm DL'ing it now. Thanks again (yep, I clicked the button - :))
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kthung:
Not really sure what the issue is but ODIN stops responding as soon as I select the stripped.rooted.img.tar.md5 file. I think it begins the md5 check sum and runs into an error there. I downloaded the tar.md5 file off my phone and transferred it to my PC, I don't know if that's the issue but I'm torrenting the rooted.img now.

Anyone else have any ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tillithz:
be patient, have you given it 2 or 3 minutes to respond. it isnt instant for sure. I think it took me like 60 seconds. Just sit and leave it there for a few.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kthung:
Waited 20 minutes and the ODIN window grayed out and Windows said the program was Not Responding.

EDIT: I was able to get the non-stripped version to flash in ODIN and it worked right away. I'm not really sure what the issue is.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] xformulax:
Swype sucks in general but that wasn't my question. Something is wrong with this tar.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ratledge:
Depending on which rooted image you flashed, you need to have ADB installed and up-to-date (you're using Ice Cream Sandwich, now) and just type: "adb shell". If it doesn't come up with a "#" (root) prompt, type "su" and you're there, the properly rooted version brings you up in superuser mode when you "adb shell" without having to "su"... :victory:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sinphaltimus:
All issues resolved 'cept 1

Reflashed route66 tar and my swype features are working again. i see no issues with the phone except for 1 which was an issue since takig it out of the box.

Couldn't see the forest for the trees. i took a look at my DHCP server and found ALL my addresses were used up - Because it's my home, I set the leases to never expire. Cleaned em out and now it connects and stays connected just fine. Silly me. All my other wifi devices connect because they had an active lease.

FORGET THE BELOW STATEMENTS:

My wifi won't connect to my home network. It connects at work just fine. I have 3 APs and it won't connect to any of them.

I did the *#0011# and disabled Wifi power save. No go.

I ended up having to apply a static IP and it connects.

I hear lots of people had this issue and ended up returning the phone to Verizon for a replacement that works fine. Crud, should I really do that instead of settling for a static IP assignment when home?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Zoandroid:
UNROOT?

I didn't have any luck searching for "unroot" in this thread to find a link to the stock unrooted image file I would need if, after rooting, I wanted to use Odin to unroot back to stock. Can someone point me to where that image file would be, or if I need to know something else about unrooting?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pjamv5:
Check the OP. Basically you download the stock image referenced in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1755386

Then you do the same thing you did to flash the rooted image, i.e. boot your phone into download mode and flash the stock image via Odin. This should put you back to fully stock including stock recovery.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Zoandroid:
Thanks!!

This also resets the "Flash Counter" said to be in the S3, keeping tabs on whether it was rooted?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] idelgado782:
install clockwork mod recovery without flashing the recovery.img

Ok guys so I may have a very silly question. As soon as we flashed the img. file using odin that automatically gives us superuser and and root. So it is possible to download clockwork mod recovery from the play store and install the recovery from there, without out flashing the recovery.img to the phone first? i'm having some issues with command prompt and I wanted to know if I can install recovery this way! Thanks in advance!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
Edit: Poof
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jnehama:
They have added the SGS lll to Rom Manager so you can download Rom Manager, select the correct device and install CWM from there.

The other alternative is to install the TWRP recovery via Goo Manager. Sorry that I don't have the link but you can find the TWRP thread under Verizon SGS lll development. It was amazingly easy to install and it works. Does take a bit getting used to though since it is very different from CWM.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] boomerod:
Dude, the mediafire link to get rid of the VZW logo has a fake av software attached. My Norton 360 blocked it...just thought I'd share.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlokos:
The standard recovery from Rom Manager works. Don't used the Touch version. I was not able to do a back up with it.