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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dannyada1988:
I have searched the web, and I think the link refers to this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ob21hc2Nhbm5vbi5zY3JlZW5sb2NrYnlwYXNzLnBybyJd
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] imneveral0ne:
Awesome work SOOO glad you got this lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ker~Man:
Is This For Real?!?!?!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] adam80460:
Yeah buddy ..all I need now is my damn device ..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] imneveral0ne:
Very real, the man is a genius!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LLStarks:
Bracing for epic.

#f***verizon
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ker~Man:
Doing This **** RIGHT Now! Got Out Of Bed Because I Literally Couldn't Stop Thinking About How Bad These VZW SGS3 Problems SUCKED, And Within 15 Minutes Here Comes THIS! Yeah Boyyy!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Stryker1297:
can anyone confirm this working? if not im leaving verizon
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ker~Man:
The large system.img upload isn't finished uploading yet. Fingers crossed, nonetheless. I'm banging the "refresh" button on this page every 10 seconds or so!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
Nice work, will try soon as I get my device!! Stick this in your corn verizon!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheBiles:
This is fantastic news!

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Neverendingxsin:
mmmmmm <3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bbeelzebub:
This is brilliant. I can't wait to get my phone now. Hopefully the BL is next.

As somebody that has made it his new goal to do everything Verizon doesn't want me to do for the next two years, I greatly appreciate this. :silly:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Kev13Dd:
I plan on downloading it with my tethered Verizon Android phone. As a thank you to Verizon

K
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] akanealw:
Does this trip the flash counter? From what I can surmise from other S3 root methods, the system image root method doesn't trip the counter. Is that true for this as well?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Baconrules21:
Lmao, made my night.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Kev13Dd:
invisiblek just updated the OP- this will NOT trip the flash counter

K
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Neverendingxsin:
Well this might be difficult to download, it stops downloading randomly and my download speed just continues to drop and then eventually stops completely :(
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] invisiblek:
i'll throw up a torrent...

give me a couple minutes...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ker~Man:
For Those Who Haven't Been Able To Try This Yet, I Have One Word That Says It All -- FLAWLESS! Already Got Exactly What Is Described In OP - Root AND CWM - And It Just Works - PERIOD! Excellent, Excellent Job My Friend! Giving The "Thanks" A Little Tappy-Tap Right Now!~
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
ics has app manager built in
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Freshgeardude:
this.

Well at least we figured out the issue, i sent the OP a PM asking him to put in a warning in the OP to help others
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mad96:
Go to the app you want disabled long press and drag to bottom right to app info if it says uninstall updates then repeat the process and it will say disable app.

M.yA.nD.droidS3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] neh4pres:
This root don't involve replacing recovery. You read wrong, flashing custom kernel replaces recovery. But that has not been released to us anywhere in this topic. It has only been stated that it could be done
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] burkett375:
I had no problems and didn't undisable my bloat.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
Actually flashing the recovery.img replaces recovery. Kernel has nothing to do with it. Although you're right on that if you stop before the adb step you won't replace stock recovery
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] neh4pres:
When I mentioned kernel I was referring to where I believe he got the misinformation involving not having a recovery.

The proof of concept is. Flash a custom kernel to the recovery partition, lose recovery. But by booting recovery you will really boot the os with the custom kernel

None of which has anything to do with root
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] preusstang:
You are both right. Neh4pres was referring to the custom kernel that invisiblek has successfully loaded by flashing it over the recovery.img.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hero:
Even if we did have custom ROMs they'd be limited to the official Android releases. Ultimately, without being able to switch kernels you don't get custom ROMs like Cyanogenmod since the custom ROM has to rely on the official kernel. I'd suggest signing the petition Incubus26jc made in hopes of getting the bootloader officially unlocked.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Freshgeardude:
like I said, it is quite possible one app specifically was the cause which you may not have disabled.

having said that, its better to be safe than sorry.

learning the hardway "SDcard" gets deleted as well...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] themusicmonkey:
I'm a little new to Samsung rooting, since I'm coming from a Rezound. My only experience was with a Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab. That was a PAIN to root, and took me half a day to do.

Antways, obtaining root by this method, do you lose whatever data you had currently on your SGSIII from apps, to SMS? If so, how do you backup what you have? I know a work around to back up my SMS with Go SMS, just by turning airplane mode on, and it backs up to your SD card instead of the cloud.

Also, will OTA Root Keeper keep us good for the next OTA?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Neverendingxsin:
Just a thought but what about boot manager? Couldn't you just put the rom in one of those slots and then flash the kernel onto that slot as well?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] buur11:
No you don't lose anything.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Freshgeardude:
wont lose anything, but having said that, I thought the same and ended having to flash back to stock.

what i suspected being the issue was disabling system apps with ICS as the issue.

you should still backup your stuff just in case, like SMS and launcher settings etc
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] stang6790:
It would be very interesting to know if this will work. If I already had mine I would try it but mine still says shipping on the 10th.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NAU420:
So what I got from this thread and others, so we are f$#ked with this phone. I'm not happy with Verizon and can only wish for the best of the dev we have... Thank you for all you have done so far...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tonu42:
Its not ****ed. All of you are so impatient. The damn phone hasn't come out yet......
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] frifox:
Since we want custom recovery and custom kernel, why not just code them in a way that they would share the same partition? As far as I know, SGS2 has both recovery and kernel residing on the same partition...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jackdubl:
Someone should this. I don't know enough to know if this would work.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Neverendingxsin:
If i had my phone i would gladly try it, but i know when i use it on my thunderbolt it boots the rom from the sd card not the phone. For example i have Thundershed 1.5 on my phone (gingerbread based rom) and then a ics beta rom on my sd card and can boot into the ics rom and flash gappz, and kernels without having an issue at all.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jackdubl:
I can do a factory reset and keep root, correct?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tv31284:
Did anyone ever figure this out? I don't see why not unless koush hasn't put up an official recovery for the verizon s3 yet.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jackdubl:
There was no official recovery when I tried. But the OP method works.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tv31284:
Gotcha. Thanks for the quick reply. I suppose I'm in no hurry to get recovery since there's nothing really to flash yet anyway. I don't even have my pre-ordered phone yet.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Shano56:
hey man i dont have this device but i will seed the torrent to say thanks for all your work on the DINC :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hero:
+1 Same here.

Just got a question though. Do you suspect that there will be any difficulties with flashing custom ROMs by achieving root through this method? I'm just trying to be cautious because for devices like the Inc2, if you root a recently bought one, you won't be able to run Sense ROMs as they will continuously bootloop on your phone, rendering it useless. You can only run AOSP or the Stock OTA. Just wondering if you anticipate any future difficulties like not being able to run custom Touchwiz and stuff like that.

Awesome work so far though. I'll be waiting for you to make kernels like your #28 cuz that was beast :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sid8911:
i diddnt want to say this but if vzw doesnt put a unlock or theres is a really REAllY

good workaround for this by july 28th imma be pissed and prob trade in for an iphone or a nexus
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] invisiblek:
thats great, go get an iphone

this thread is not for this type of discussion, please go to general
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] WuTangWindu:
I am unable to get into download mode using the OPs method. Any suggestions?

Was not able to get it after many attempts. Pulled the Battery and put it back in and I got it into download mode on the firs try.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hero:
Enter this in terminal/cmd (make sure you have USB Debugging enabled in Settings):

adb reboot download
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] invisiblek:
If you are plugged in when trying to hit the key combination I've noticed it doesn't always work
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] WuTangWindu:
Thanks guys. Got it working and root works great. The problem i have is i lost The ability to swype text and The perdictions . The blue shows up but no text. I froze a bunch of stuff but not keyboard.

Galaxy S III via Tapatalk
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] themusicmonkey:
I am now rooted. Kept all my data and installed apps, including SMS. No issues, except for Titanium Backup initially. It was already installed, but it never completely loaded after approving SU for it. A reinstall fixed this issue, so now all of my app data from my Rezound has been restored.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] C0mbe:
Seeding. Thanks for all the work.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] neh4pres:
get the Swype beta installer and use that
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BungeBash:
I am also having the issue where swype does not work AS WELL AS the predictive/corrective text. This is a huge pain in the ass now. Looking at the keyboard options it appears I have new options as well. Seems like this was a different image than what was actually on Verizon?

Also what is this option for "Message Center" and what is that number typed in there.

EDIT: Also the 3x4 keyboard no longer works for text, only numbers
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlokos:
Great to see you and invisiblek working on these issues. I loved your work on the dinc. I know we will find solutions with you guys on it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] coolguy71261:
any better way than adb i hate that thing
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tekhna:
adb is awesome. It makes you look 1337, even if you're just rebooting your phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] hgoldner:
Don't have this handset, but just wanted to chime in and congratulate you on getting this done so quickly. Can't stand Verizon Wireless' insistence upon locking things down. Some suit somewhere in a big office thinks they understand Android. Would like to smack them upside the head. :eek:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ratledge:
:silly: I sure have been messing with mine a lot - thanks for letting me know I don't have it yet... :victory:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] blade7840:
Someone needs to create an easy to follow step by step to root phone. One question! Will you be able to install a custom rom by Odin or CWM?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aj8600:
It seems that Odin will be the tool of choice in the future because, as of now, we have to flash over recovery to put a custom kernel on.... Thus taking away recovery and only leaving Odin
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sirjacksinurbox:
Something's not right here...

I'm having an issue and any help/words of advice would be greatly appreciated.

I've downloaded all requested files and followed all steps to the letter, up to step 2. I've been waiting for about 45 minutes and Odin's message window has not progressed from <ID:0/003> system.img.ext4. I've tried this process 3 times and waited about 45 minutes each time.

Anybody have any ideas?

Thank you very much in advance.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
Hmm. Have you downloaded Kies? I think there's some drivers on there needed for Odin to work.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] preusstang:
This seems like a plausible solution to me. A bunch of ppl in here are posting nonsense suggestions when they haven't even read thru the threads. Filling up pages with BS that OP doesn't have time to sift thru.

I understand that the recovery partition is probably pretty small, but I'm inclined to think both a kernel and cwm recovery could fit there.

I for one am totally fine with holding the recovery key combo to boot with a baller a** custom kernel. Plus I'm sure the boot sequence could be fixed later on..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jackdubl:
By the way everyone, I did a factory reset after rooting, and the Messaging app broke when the phone booted back up. This caused all sorts of problems. Had to go back to stock and reroot to fix it. Confirmed that another user had the same thing happen on this thread and had to doc the same fix. Just so you know. I'd make a nandroid as soon as you root and use that as your factory reset.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ratledge:
Yup, yup, yup... That's why everybody needs to follow the instructions to the letter - to the end. Without it, you have only the Sammy recovery.img to work with and you cannot make CWM backups/images. :rolleyes:

The problem is that people go crazy and do shat without thinking, for example people trying to get Odin to work when they don't have device drivers installed for their Samsung mobile phone yet. It might appear to be working, but it's not gonna happen. :eek:

But, all in all - I agree 100%: first thing you do after you R00T and replace the stock recovery with the modded CWM version is do a full backup to your SDCARD. Just an "oh, by the way", when I tried to just do a full backup - it *****ed and moaned. I tried "... to SDcard" (the built-in one) and that worked just fine. :good: It doesn't survive a reboot, though. hmmm... Time to go to the Q&A forum, sorry!

Has anyone else noticed that there is no permanent link to your extended SDcard? I've got a 64GB one in my I535 and I had to use Root Explorer to create a link to the /MNT/extSDcard in my / (root) folder. Curious... :confused: It doesn't survive a reboot, though - time to go to the Q&A forum, sorry!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BungeBash:
No one else experienced the keyboard issues myself and one other had listed on the previous page? I had not disabled any apps and was completely stock when I did the root and had the issue occur.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Robster180:
Download the Swype beta straight off the Swype Web site, this thing is awesome and it works great, I've heard some bad reviews on stock keyboard
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bizhar1990:
Yes same here.

But you have ROOT!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aj8600:
As far as what nice heard you can either have custom kernel or recovery...... I don't know bout y'all but for one Would MUCH rather have a kernel than recovery simple because we could just use Odin.

As much as I would like my cake and eat it too..... I can't see the reason why we don't have roms coming, even aosp and just sacrifice our recovery
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tillithz:
Curious to know what rooted.system.img.tar really is? I am finding a bunch of Sprint network options after rooting with this. Not necessarily having a problem with it but would like to know a little more about it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Robster180:
I'm trying to get confirmation on that.

Last I remember was invisiblek was able to flash a custom image to the recovery partition but it still wouldn't boot, I'm not sure wear the status is with boot from recovery with custom images
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] open1your1eyes0:
I also would like to know which system.img was used. I really hope it's not pulled from Sprint's version. If this is the case can someone remake the same with Verizon's stock image instead? Using this guide
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tillithz:
i think it was from sprint, I have Sprint Connections Optimizer and Sprint Network selections in hidden menus.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] open1your1eyes0:
Any Verizon apps like VZNavigator and such?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BungeBash:
There are Verizon apps, though your apps shouldn't change from what I understand. Definitely not made with the Verizon build. Maybe we can get a redo with the Verizon image? (assuming possible)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] invisiblek:
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SCH-I535

I535VRALF2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] open1your1eyes0:
Very strange. As far as I understand, nothing needed to be changed in that guide from the system.img other than adding Superuser and su. I PMed OP about this hoping he can give us some insight into how he specifically built that rooted system.img.

---------- Post added at 04:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:49 PM ----------

Hmm...if true...and that is indeed a proper stock image...any ideas why we are seeing Sprint elements in there?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] invisiblek:
No idea
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BungeBash:
I haven't seen anything special pertaining to specifically Sprint (as another user posted) I have just noticed different options within the menus. One example is in the options for Language and input > Samsung Keyboard > Keyboard Swipe. I had noticed that option in a youtube video where you swipe the keyboard to change to alternate keys. When I went to my options to turn that on, it did not exist. Now have the new rooted image, that option exists. That is one of a few changes I noticed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tillithz:
screenshot
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BungeBash:
lol how did you get to that page.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tillithz:
any cut but thats a different topic
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BungeBash:
So should it be concerning that you have posted the OS verision I535VRALF2, but my phone says Baseband Version I535VRLF2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] MichaelVash7886:
To the people that are having issues with predictive text and the samsung options,d did you just root or flash the recovery too? I just rooted and have the option for keyboard swipe.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BungeBash:
I only did up to step 4 or whatever. I just wanted root. Nothing was disabled on my phone before hand. I have the options (including the new ones) but predictive text, corrective text, and the built in swype do not work. the predictive text was more of the kicker for me. Also the compact keyboard does not work.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sydewayz:
Odin Problems

This one is for the Sammy noobs (such as I) who have never worked with odin....

If you can't get odin to detect your phone, this is what you should probably do to fix it:

1) Unplug your phone and boot back in like normal.

2) Download the latest drivers for your phone from the samsung website:

Samsung SCH-I535 Windows Drivers

3) Plug your phone in. Wait for the drivers to successfully install. (also may need to disable debug - I had to take my phone OUT of debug mode for this to show up in odin)

4) Then plug your phone in while in download mode.

5) Open odin...you should see your phone show up in a com port now.

6) If it still doesnt do all that...change USB cables. One that shipped with my SG3 didn't work, ever. Weird.

Invisiblek....so glad you got this phone. I've been rocking a Dinc since release day thanks to MIUI and then your work with ICS.

Everytime a phone ships with an encrypted bootloader, god kills a kitten.:eek:

Everytime someone gets root anyway, two more are born

On behalf of both the XDA Community and Cat population, I thank you good sir.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] wpbear:
Which system image from OP was used; stripped down or big 1.5GB? Are both giving Swype problems and Sprint popups?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] open1your1eyes0:
Love this and totally agree! ;) :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BungeBash:
The original file with the 1.5 gig. I wouldn't use the strip down as it removes a few things I'd like to keep around so I cannot attest to any issues with the keyboards on that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
In Odin,

Do you leave "F. Reset Time" checked or unchecked?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
I had the same issues.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BungeBash:
Is that a general question or are you asking me. I kept it checked
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] adam80460:
I'm pretty sure you you un-check all except Auto Reboot .... I think.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
General question
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] hotelmrrsn:
Same keyboard problems here, no apps removed before rooting. Installed Swype all is good now.

SG3 on LTE
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sydewayz:
guys, having trouble over here....

Odin keeps getting stuck at the same stage in the process. After firmware update start it goes through the standard lines of messages and then displays:

<ID:0/004>system.img.ext4

....And halts. Waited an hour, nothing happens. I've tried quite a few times...lol.

Looking at a video posted it is supposed to then go to "NAND Write Start!" next but I'm not seeing that happen.

I hope I just missed a step somewhere, but can someone help me out? It's using COM4, I only have F. Reset Time and Auto reboot checked, MD5 check passed and I'm using the PDA button...

Thanks guys.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sirjacksinurbox:
No, I will give that a shot and let you know my results.

In other news, I have a noob question: OP said that he made a stripped down version of the file he originally put up. Since this root doesn't change any of our program data or installed programs, what is the benefit of the stripped down version of the file he posted?

Once again, thank you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] GTvert90:
You guys havingtrouble have the drivers installed right?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BungeBash:
The people stuck for hours I know it is a driver issue. Make sure your computer sees the device completely and all are loaded before you start Odin. Hell if you have old Sammy drivers remove them. My Windows 7 downloaded tyhe correct drivers for me automatically
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sirjacksinurbox:
I updated my drivers completely to the latest drivers and have full USB compatibility. Still nothing. I'll just wait it out and get root another day. Thanks for the info though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] drmanhattan:
mac drivers

I need the gs3 usb Drivers for my mac i found a version of odin that was ported to mac using wine wrapper and now all i need are the mac usb drivers and boom no more win blows :cool: Picking up my phone in the am so if i could have the perfect modding environment set up before then things will be that much smother once i have the device in hand
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] chakra:
Once you get it together you should start a thread, I'm going to be lost trying to figure it out on Mac.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cmg5461:
Just some clarification, but does this wipe the device?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] themusicmonkey:
No, it doesn't.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cmg5461:
In step 3, what do I enter in adb to take root? Sorry, I'm a fan of explicit instructions :/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tillithz:
you dont use adb. odin, and it tells you in step 2.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cmg5461:
"you'll be able to adb in and use su to take root"

Sorry, but I'm still not seeing it :/