yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlokos:
So this explains why I could not "flash" the recoveries by adb or TE. I even tried these methods changing the reference from "sdcard" to "extsdcard," but it still would not work. Is this a Samsung thing? I'm used to HTC where there was an EMMC and SD drive and everything was saved to the SD card. In fact, I recall there was a setting in the rom where you could tell it where to store things.

I'm assuming throughout these threads when people refer to sdcards, they are referring to the internal memory. In any event, I put AtLemacks's touch.img on my internal memory, and was able to use TE to install it. Thanks to all.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eastwood1:
It works. I even got to make my first backup with v5.8.4.9. It's still saying 1970 but it is working now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlokos:
Official backup worked fine and my backup had the correct date. I haven't tried a restore though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kls629:
how did you install it? can you link to the file?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
Awesome, so you didn't use the Touch Version then? Just the standard? I didn't realize Touch is v5.8.4.8, not .9.

Touch or standard?

Read OP.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlokos:
I flashed the standard this morning (at that time another thread said the Touch was not working). It appears that it might be working now. I'll try and let you know. Thanks for all your work on these recoveries.

Update: I pushed the official Touch version ( v5.8.4.8) and it installed fine. I then tried a back up. It sits at "Backing up boot image...." and nothing happens. I tried it again and had the same thing happen. There seems to be a problem. I'm going back to the standard version.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eastwood1:
Yeah I'm just using the standard. Flashed the aroma de-bloater earlier and everything worked fine.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jdubau55:
Flashed non-touch via RM. Downloaded the official touch version and flashed via Terminal Emulator. Rebooted fine into recovery, but I get an error when I tried to backup. What's the deal?

Edit: flashed non-touch via RM. Currently backing up.

Is the touch version broke?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
When I ran my backup it appeared to stand still. It just doesn't provide a status during the backup. I would try again and let it sit for a few. Let me know, I'm going to try to rebuild tonight if I'm not too tired.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lair@nc.rr.com:
Just try using the sprint based recovery image. It has worked perfectly for me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
Yea, sorry guys I got too ****ed up last night, lol. I'll work on the build tomorrow after I finish working on my yard.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
OP edited to reflect adding the d2spr version that IS compatible and working with our device.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] antispiral:
If the boot loader was unlocked fixing a broken phone would be considerably easier and close to unbrickable as well so less people would be taking it back.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] antispiral:
Do you have sdcard? If not try backing up into internal SD.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
OP updated
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Budwise:
Despite the OP's post, CWM Touch still doesnt work for me. TWRP seems fine though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] byproxy:
for either version of cwm... is there an option or a way for it to back up to the actual external sd card rather than the phone "sd" storage?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
I posted that only the d2spr version works.

I don't believe so, however, you can easily move the file once created. Might be a pain, but if it works it works.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SightSeeker:
The first edit is very confusing. Whatever touch version I downloaded won't let me do backups. Which one should I use?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Budwise:
"EDIT: CWM Touch is official and is now working correctly!"

Kinda misleading then.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
d2spr

It IS official, and it IS working, doesn't mean you can make backups in it. If you would continue on reading you would have read that point.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
Building another recovery that I will be posting in a few minutes. Those willing to test the ability to push, and make backups let me know how it works.

Posted as AtLemacks.img
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlokos:
I was unable to get it to work. When it rebooted it showed "custom" unlocked symbol and rebooted to phone. I rebooted into recovery, but I got the same screen and rebooted to the phone again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
I've got a buddy giving me a hand. He's looking into the code to see if he can figure out what's going on.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hypnosis4U2NV:
Anyone know how to get rid of this?

Sent from my Commodore 64..

READY.

load"*", 8,1
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
there's no way to get rid of the custom lock except going back to stock. This doesn't belong in my thread.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlokos:
Just a note, but the custom lock showed up only after I flashed your experimental recovery. When I flashed the "official" standard recovery.the symbol remained. However, it doesn't affect functionality so I'm not worrying about it. I also tried the sprint touch recovery in the OP. It worked but it shows the 1970 dates referenced in the thread. The only one that saves with the correct dates is the "official" standard, I think.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
Ok, well we're working on porting my version on the latest update so it's recognized in ROM Manager. Might be up tonight if all goes well. I already know what to do, just am not home.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ftmaniac948:
Is this version gonna be the new 6.0.0 version I read about?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
nope, that's nexus only right now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
Do you get an error message while backing up? I did a backup on Touch CWM on both the internal and external sd card and seemed to go through fine. I haven't tried to restore yet, however, is that where it messes up?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlokos:
Mine just sat at backing up but image and didn't move. Did the touch CWM have the correct date?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
No, it had the incorrect date but I'm not really worried about that. FWIW, the version of touch I used was the one contained in the VZW GS3 EZ-Recovery app.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Karl:
Thank for the thread AtL

Anyone got a screen shot of custom lock
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lair@nc.rr.com:
My sprint.revcovery.img image backs up to external SD!

I've just been successful with the sprint.recovery.img, and it works great. Also,backup works through ROM Manager (I keep seeing that this is not supposed to be true, although I cannot restore through ROM Manager...but who cares).

Download from here: http://goo.im/devs/invisiblek/i535/recovery.img

Just ran a full backup to confirm. YUP, works perfectly.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
Is the version he posted touch? Because if not we have our own standard that DOES work. Don't need the sprint one for that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lair@nc.rr.com:
No, it is not touch, but all the other I tried did not backup at all, or gave me the 1970 date error (which bothered me a lot). I know some newer and/or corrected versions have been posted since, but I see no reason to change from what I have. Is there a reason I should try one of the others now?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
The official standard version doesn't date wrong. Download and install right through ROM Manager.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] XooLoo:
I am fine with moving the backed up files to my external SD card, but what happens when I need to restore?! Can I restore using the files saved on the phone's SD card instead of the external SD?! Won't CWM format the phone's SD storage during the process? :confused:

P.S. Excellent thread by the way. Very helpful. Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
No, unless you manually wipe it. You shouldn't lose any personal files or info like pics/videos/etc...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
Why does the 1970 error bother you? If you look at the dev mount points, it's all dated 12/31/1969. All that's happening is the clock is starting at new year's eve 1969, hence the 1970 backup date. You can easily change the name of the backup, the fact that it works is more important. Just don't use spaces or special characters in the backup name to avoid MD5 errors.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlokos:
Copying recovery to ext-sd

My clockworkmod recovery is on my emmc (sdcard). If I copy that folder over to my ext-sd card, when i boot into recovery, will I be able to see my ext-sd card? On various threads I see suggestions to copy stuff to the ext-sd card, however I can't see that card in recovery, even when I go to mounts and storage and mount the ext-sd card. Any help would be appreciated.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Syndacate:
The MD5 hash isn't performed on the name of the file, the file name doesn't affect it.

The reason they're concerned, I believe, is that it having a 1970 date in the back up has been (on other phones) an indication that the backup won't restore (is bad).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pjamv5:
The TWRP recovery does the same thing with the 1970 backup date, however, I haven't had the first issue with backups and restores. I've probably done a dozen without issues.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
If you're using Clockwork it does. Try and rename that 1970 file with spaces and special characters and see what happens. I think you're okay if you use spaces backing up with ROM Manager but if you manually do it, it can cause errors. I've seen it many times in the past.

I understand that but like I said, that's not the issue here. Look at this link and take notice of the date:

http://vzwgs3.wikia.com/wiki/Dev:_Mount_Points
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Syndacate:
Just because the wrapper of the MD5 hashing algorithm (ie. the program which implements the hash) has trouble dealing with those characters, doesn't mean it's the fault of MD5.

That's an issue with the program. The concept of using an MD5 hash for content integrity is to simply check the file contents. The name makes no difference. That's simply a limitation of the program using the MD5 hashing algorithm, so whatever binary that is inside of Clockwork for hashing (probably md5sum).

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I get what you're saying, I'm just saying that's the reason I believe many people are worried about the backups with 1970 dates.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] s197:
I understand the concept of an MD5 hash, I was just trying to point out a common problem for new users when doing backups. If you do an odd rename, it's possible to get an MD5 mismatch error (or something to that effect) in Clockwork. I was just trying to point out a common mistake that can be avoided, nothing more.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Syndacate:
Gotcha.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jb_alphamale:
I'm using the touch one. If I hit backup/restore it does it from and to the external card. I also have in the backup/restore menu the option to do it on the internal sdcard. I'm happy with the way it is. The only think that I'd like to be fixed is the date and time reported for the backup. We'll, for the time being we'll survive.

Ah and the fact that you cannot boot in CWM. If screw up you have to flash with Odin, install CWM and then recover NAND.

Am I wrong?

I'm coming from the RAZR Maxx where the Safestrap 2 for ICS is fantastic. Not touch though.

Thanks to the OP for his great work.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] saint365:
I’m trying to nandroid backup and save backups to ext sdcard in CWM Recovery, but I can’t find ext sdcard folder in anywhere in recovery mode.

I did mount/storage –> Mount ext sdcard, but still no success. ext sdcard is in fat32.

I have searched but cannot find the good answer.

Any suggestion?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Jurassitol:
I have been using the original touch.img from OP since release, and it works both with backup and restore (1970 dating issue but no big deal). No mounting required, it automatically goes to externalSD when selecting backup. I had the same issue as you with no access to extSdCard from official and updated versions, so I will stick with "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" original touch.img. MUCH thanks to the developer for doing it right the first time.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] saint365:
Thanks for the reply.

Should I install touch.img in first post?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Jurassitol:
Yes, hence my stating it by name twice. Hope you enjoy the developer's hard work as much as I do. I may be new to this community, but already I can see that there are some seriously smart, and determined people here.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] saint365:
Thanks!!! It worked.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AtLemacks:
OP Updated...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] open1your1eyes0:
Looking forward to CWM6 as it supports 2GB+ partitions (fixing this issue).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mrgq1111:
are you able to share the original touch.img you are using? I've tried both from the OP and none back it up to external only internal
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Jurassitol:
It's still in the OP, listed as touch.img (6.3 Mb) and unfortunatly I do not have means of hosting the file, much less any authorization from the developer. Have you checked within the recovery if extSdCard is mounted and is your card formatted in FAT32? Others have verified exFAT is not recognized by CWM.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mrgq1111:
I never really formatted the card its a SanDisk Ultra 64GB that had an Android guy on the packaging. I can format it to FAT32 though. Is there an App that tells you what kind of format your SD card is? CWM does not show extSdCard it just says "external_sdcard" and that wouldnt mount so i did a backup to internal
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] saint365:
Easiest way: connect phone to computer and look for properties to see if they are fat32 or not.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mrgq1111:
tried that, it says "generic hierarchical" file system.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rvrugg90:
I rooted the phone, I then downloaded rom manager, flashed the regular clockwork recovery for verizon galaxy s3...then tapped reboot into recovery. I then wiped data, wiped cache, wiped dalvik, installed the cm10 rom I had downloaded and it installed rather quickly. I installed the gaaps, then rebooted. Now it is stuck in a reboot loop and wont get past the galaxy s3 unlock screen. I tried rebooting into recovery using vol up, power, home kee...clockwork loads then stops and it reboots again. Please help! Not sure what I did wrong.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jlokos:
You installed the wrong recovery. You need the K-Exec Clockwork Mod. See the following link http://rootzwiki.com/topic/30456-vzweasy-unofficial-guide-to-installing-cm9cm10/ You can install the K-Exec CWM by using the custom install on the VZW GS3 EZ-Recovery ~ multi-recovery flashing app which is available in the market. If you can't get into recovery, then you'll need to get back to odin to go back to the stock rooted image and start over.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] neyenlives:
Kexec supporting CWM 6.0.1.0 has been out for these devices a while now....why doesn't the OP reflect this?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] pitbull292006:
Ok, so last night I went to my aunt's 50th b-day party. I took some pix and a couple videos. This morning I go to reveiw them, and I can clearly see them in my gallery. I open a video to watch, and then get a "sorry video cannot be played" message about 3 seconds into the video, then it's closes the video. I'm returned to my gallery where I can still see the pix and video, the the screen flashes and now I can't see any of the pix or videos :mad:.....Is there anyway or any program I can use to recover these lost treasures of mine that my phone thought I wouldn't want. I have connected both the phone and my card to my PC and cannot find the files anywhere
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Rev3ge07:
Are u rooted? Are you on a custom Rom

Sent from my Galaxy S3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] pitbull292006:
Yes I am rooted and running the blazer ROM 1.3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] sewhuy:
Have you tried transferring the files to pc or uploading to dropbox?

There have been times where i download or capture a small video and it doesn't show up in gallery until i reboot the device.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] mt3g:
this isn't completely crazy, a friend has a Droid X and it did this exact thing to her with video and pictures... stock never rooted or anything internal memory, I've never had any issues at all with it on any of the three android devices I've had though.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] oreo:
I always hv the dropbox mobile upload on. With 50gb of cloud storage you should take advantage of it
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] pitbull292006:
I was reviewing them to see which ones I wanted to save. And while in my gallery view, the blinked and I guess reloaded itself, and all of the pix and videos from the night before, were gone. I connected the phone to my pc, and nothing....I took my sd card out and put it in my pc, and still, nothing..... It's as if they never existed
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Dave the Knave:
Might wanna try a file recovery program on the sd card to see if you can get them back.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trecoolius:
Hello everyone, I'd do a search, but I don't even know what to use as keywords so here I go.

I'm looking for a website that has a list for commom problems and solutions for a lot of phones, but I can't remember its name. I just remember it's green, ugly and has a bunch of white cells with short info on every specific problem.

Is there a kind soul that can help me with a link to that site? Thanks a lot and I'm sorry if I posted in the wrong section.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xsenman:
try http://pdadb.net/
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trecoolius:
Thank you very much. Unfortunately, that's not the site.
[Nexus Q General] Some_dude36:
To stream media < music , movies > to the q? Could you store media on the q and play it or store content on a device and still stream to the q and get the real time media que on your device?

Also can it download the netflix app and stream to the tv through the q ?

And does it have micro SD ? thanks

And yes I did google but I'm having a hard time finding these answers
[Nexus Q General] Sienna Hanon:
Stock:

Content only comes from Google Play's Cloud.

Hacked:

Look at the youtube videos and other threads showing the Q doing pretty much everything a normal Android can do. Only caveat is that controlling the Q is a bit esoteric still.

No SD slots.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mazostyle:
Does this zip in his goo work for cm9 alpha 6 or do we have to edit build.prop?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cp320703:
Short answer is it should, long answer is search apps and themes for his thread on it and more info
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Zero Night:
It should work he said it works on cm9.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] juggalo1300:
I reverted back to GB roms I'm currently on caulks ROM. Every thing is smooth. But when I try to download anything from the market using 4g I get the message waiting for market. I can DL in 3g no problem. I went in to app manager and cleared the data and booted into recovery and cleared the cache. Still a no go. Need help please
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] theUsualSuspexx:
Did u fix permissions after all the clearing? If that don't do it id imagine uninstalling and reinstalling market,or one of the dope themed markets and if that don't fox it u got a glitch inn ur md5 sum matrix and got a bum download and should start fresh imo. Or knowing sprint the wannabe 4g service wasn't working lol u got titanium? Of backup, uninstall, wipe cable, reinstall wipe again and fix permissions, that seems to fix me up 90 percent of the time. Goodluck

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] theUsualSuspexx:
Oh hey couple post down homie, sprint just issued a statement that it's a known issue with the newest play store and the 4g

Sent from my SPH-D710 using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] juggalo1300:
I just seen that. Right before you write the response. Thanks you
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iraqi4ever80:
hi everybody,

when installed quick lock widget into GSIII from market it worked fine at first day:fingers-crossed: but later when i press on the icon the phone does not lock as usual way but the screen blinks twice and then stay lock screen illuminated until display off time pass:silly:

i tried several other widgets from market but the same happen:( does anybody have an idea what happened

i would appreciate your help and thanks in advance
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iraqi4ever80:
:confused: Nobody knows about this issue
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] penfold:
my old 'screen off and lock' widget had the same problem, must be something on the S3 firmware that all the screen lock widgets are incompatible with

i've not yet tried to find one that works, using the power button for now

*i think this one might work because it does not act as a device administrator but just puts the display off after 5 seconds*

http://www.appbrain.com/app/off-screen/jp.co.misky.pikaichi.screenoff
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iraqi4ever80:
thank you very much I appreciate your help I thought that only me that encountered this problem.

i really like screen locks widgets and I hope that the developers will make one compatible with SGSIII soon

again thank you very much:highfive:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] penfold:
this one works again (sort off)

was updated today, screen flashes back on briefly then goes off for good

http://www.appbrain.com/app/screen-off-and-lock/com.katecca.screenofflock

*nevermind, forget that one, it's flaky and runs constantly*

this one works perfectly:

http://www.appbrain.com/app/screen-off-and-lock/com.katecca.screenofflock
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iraqi4ever80:
Thank you very much

I appreciate your help:):highfive:
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Araltd:
So I recently saw that Dropbox offered all GS3 owners 48gb or storage for 48 months for $

FREE

$

Are there any other giveaways or promotions for GS3 owners from any other vendors or maybe from the carriers themselves that we the owners are NOT aware of....???????
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] stevesprivateaccount:
Buy a S3 get free wireless unlimited data with a participating service plan.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] x_SCOS_x_ELITE:
your stupid lol, but besides dropbox some carriers have the google wallet credit and that is all
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] SoMann:
Eurosport said I got a free month, using Siii.

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[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] shaun0207:
Does anybody have working copy of MusicJunk or another music app thats working on the SGS3? Keep getting a network error with there version I have
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] j1mmyc:
I have seen this posted a lot on different forums try a different version of music junk or I like to use music box pro

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Here's what I'm using

http://db.tt/qgpKX1Ix
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] Imurdaddytoo:
I feel like music junk is gonna get shut down soon it keeps working and then not working
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] BigSK225:
You can follow Music Junk on Facebook. They give a lot of updated .apk's and respond to problems....hope this helps.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] shaun0207:
I was able to install the new .apk and it worked.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] BigSK225:
Great! Glad I could help....