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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] adslee:
If I remember correctly, CM10 didn't flash for me until I installed CWM Touch. The touch user interface is a little easier to use anyway so I'd say go for it :D
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] scrape-show-joe:
okay sounds good. can I flash CWM touch through odin like i did the original one? or do i have to use fox4305's method? i'm assuming it should work through odin but i don't want to mess anything up:fingers-crossed:

edit: my bad, i'm an idiot. gotta install CWM touch as it says (should've known)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jd10nn3:
i add the step for install CM 10.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] scrape-show-joe:
thanks, i'm going to flash CM10 either tonight or tomorrow (just gotta check out change logs) but your step-by-step is clutch.. works with no problems at all for me thus far, so i don't see any occurring at this point. cm10 install instructions are probably not necessary, but i'd say the post is completely noob-proof. much appreciated.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] magu2k:
Hello all, I used these instructions and they worked well for my SGH-T999V. However the CM was having problems with crashing so I used the recovery but now I get no service. I can not find much information, but it may just be the modem/radio firmware? or is there something else I might have to do. Wind is my carrier, and the network information seems to be there but I can now not send or receive calls or data.

I used a backup recovery from the steps in this thread. When it failed to allow any data/voice I used a stock recovery through Odin, but still nothing. Although with the odin recovery, the wind *app* does show up, but it will not connect, whereas in my CWM recovery I noticed that app was not present.

I have searched here and on google to no avail, can anyone please help, or is this phone hopelessly done for?

Magu2k
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] htc fan89:
Does your imei number appear, it might have become corrupted and you have to restore it again
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] dhoai:
Face unlock

Anyone have the latest build (starting from 20120918) of CM10 installed having problems with face unlock? It always gives me a "Unfortunately, Face Unlock has stopped." error.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] g026r:
A question: I did the flashing of the recovery with Odin, using the CWM image provided.

Odin goes through the steps, says "Passed", and the phone reboots just fine. However, when I boot it into recovery mode I get the stock Android recovery rather than CWM. Anyone else have this happen?

Edit: It looks like the latest Wind OTA update reverts the recovery loader to the stock one on reboot. Turning off "auto reboot" in Odin and then booting into recovery mode after flashing allowed me to get SuperUser installed.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] magu2k:
Thank you for your reply, sorry I have not gotten back sooner, but I ended up sending it to Samsung for repair. If I recall, the IMEI did show up, but even with a new SIM and a wind rep trying to factory reset, the unit could never find a network. Hopefully it will be back soon. probably will cost a hundred or 2 dollars.

I am not certain, but I think this problem came up because of a previous restore I performed. It may be that I used an incorrect rom.

In retrospect, I used a downloaded image that was aid to work for wind, but I realize that there was a difference. My phone was/is VVLALE6 but the one that ended up being flashed was slightly different.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lucien.power:
wind OTA update breaks cwm recovery

I used Kies to update S3 stock with cwm touch. This broke root and Odin is unable to flash cwm again.

Any suggestions how can get root again?

from odin:

<ID:0/007> Added!!

<ID:0/007> Odin v.3 engine (ID:7)..

<ID:0/007> File analysis..

<ID:0/007> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/007> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<ID:0/007> Added!!

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

I have s3, t999v wind mobile and used this thread to root originally. That worked great until ota, which would not update throgh phone, only via kies. now on anroid 4.04.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I found that this worked for me! Wind mobile, T999V

galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-root/how-to-root-u-s-and-canada-galaxy-s3-sgh-t999sgh-i747sph-l710-fail-proofnoob-proof/
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] sabharwal:
same for me, i need to know!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] shahkam:
Im reading OP and it seems just too easy do we need to unlock bootloader or anything ? Will i need to change my baseband or anything else ?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Download the full fw file from sammobile

and use odin to flash it. Then using odin again try to flash custom recovery. Then reboot recovery and flash a supersu package built for cwm and twrp.

You cannot root without odin.

No need to unlock bootloader. Change your baseband all you want after rooting by flashing one of my modems!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] shahkam:
What i meant is... is it necessary to change modems/basebands ? Or it will get signal on first boot ?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] saumitra91:
Can you unlock the phone by flashing a new modem?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Flashing the modem is not necessary and it will not unlock your phone.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] saumitra91:
Then how do you unlock it?

Apart from going through the normal way.

And without using a Z3x box or paying dollars.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] BunkerKing911:
I've just installed CM10 on my new T999V. Everything seems to work great except I don't have voicemail notifications anymore and I had to reconfigure the number in the phone app settings.

Is it a known bug?

Is there gonna be a fix soon for this because I had the same problem with my other P999 g2x on Vidéotron.

Thanks,
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] TheDiddlerMan:
I've been trying to install ClockwordMod Recovery for the last few hours unsuccessfully. I get to step 11, but when I boot into recovery, it appears to be the stock recovery. I've followed all of the steps. Anyone have an idea what I might be doing wrong? I'm using a Wind Mobile S3 (T999V). I have installed the USB drivers, downloaded all files, everything seems to work after running Odin, says pass, etc. But when I boot into recovery by holding vol up, home button, and power, it takes me into the stock recovery where I have the option to "install from external storage". Any ideas?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lucien.power:
Try using this method to install CWM then install CM10. I have T999V wind mobile in Vancouver

galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-root/how-to-root-u-s-and-canada-galaxy-s3-sgh-t999sgh-i747sph-l710-fail-proofnoob-proof/
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Its because stock recovery is being rewritten at boot. Here's what you do,

Flash your preferred recovery as before, but have Auto-Reboot UNchecked in Odin. Then once done, press and hold power for about 10 seconds to force reboot, then as soon as screen goes off immediately press and hold power + vol up + home (be quick) when you see the blue text flash at top of screen you can release and it should now be in recovery where you can root the phone.

Once rooted, delete or rename these 2 files.

/system/recovery-from-boot.p

/system/etc/install-recovery.sh

Now using Goo or Rom Manager, reinstall recovery one more time and it will now remain through boot.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] shahkam:
I installed cm10 thanks to this guide and let me tell you one thing... : EPIC EPIC EPIC yeah thanks a whole lot @OP
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] TheDiddlerMan:
This was exactly what I needed to do. Thank you.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] madenadem:
I followed up the instructions and then when I got to the point where I had to select the CyanogenMod zip and flash it, I get this error:

assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "d2tmo" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "d2tmo"
E: Error in /sdcard/cm-10-20121025-NIGHTLY-d2tmo.zip

I'm not comfortable with the whole process just yet, this is my first time trying this out so, can anyone point me in the right direction from here? Thanks.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] speedstix:
adb method?

Anyone know if this can be done using adb? I have a mac and no access to windows and would really want to root this phone.

Thanks.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] speedstix:
Found a way to root this phone using a mac. Used the script found on a website called galaxys3root (sorry cannot post links since account is new)

Then installed odin mobile and found the newest clock work mod recovery zip file. I flashed the file and phone restarted with clockwork mod. When I rebooted from recovery in had an option to make it permanent. Worked on my sgh-t999v.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jfbibeau:
can't boot in CWM recovery

I followed the procedure to the letter and everything goes well with Odin.

When I'm trying to reboot the phone in CWM recovery, it always boot in Android Recovery...

I did try to flash CWM rec another time and Odin seems to indicate that everything is fine but same thing.

It is either that I can't flash CWM rec in my phone or I can't boot in CWM rec.

Any suggestion ?

Thanks
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Check my post about 6-7 posts up and see if that helps.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jfbibeau:
It worked !

Great, it work exactly like you said. Thanks.

My phone is now rooted and I'll explore the new possiblities that offer to me.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] X-Nemesis:
I'm experiencing the same issue on my Wind GS3 (rooted). I've downloaded the latest CM10 nightly but I get this error message:

assert failed: getprop ("ro.build.product") == "d2tmo" E:Error in /emmc/_Download/cm-10-20121104-NIGHTLY-d2tmo.zip

(Status 7)

How have you fellow Wind users managed to install CM10?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fabian20685:
hey having problems rooting it

when i have to put the file on the root of the sd card and put the cw super user file and go on the phone and do the instalation it stalls but fails and it says the file not sign verification

what should i do ??? any suggestions thanks
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Turn off signature verification.

You do have cwm or twrp installed right?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] fabian20685:
hey sorry one more thing

how do you turn it off igoogle it and nothing

and the cwd is install succesfully

thanks men appreciate the help

enrique renteria h
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] OxyClean:
Mine did same thing on d2tmo, I installed twrp and flashed it. Worked just fine.

Have not gone back to clockwork either. Seems to work just the same o.O
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
It should be an option after booting into recovery. Can't remember for sure where in cwm, sorry. Look under advanced settings maybe?

You could also try twrp recovery if you like. I prefer it anyway.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cuzmonote:
Beside cm9 & cm10.... Can we install others rom?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Should be fine, so long as you dont include the modem.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cuzmonote:
Thanks for the quick reply.

So any sgh-T999 roms will work without problems as long as I don't flash another modem?

Any suggestion for a good rom/kernel combo I could flash without any major problems.

I'm looking for battery life first.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Correct any T999 roms should work. Occasionally you may run into roms that include the modem, it is rare though and I don't think there are any that do this in our forum here.

If you do accidentally flash a modem, it shouldn't brick your phone, just you won't get any signal most likely. But if it happens I have all modems for both models posted in my modem thread. Its stickied in development.

Hard to recommend a rom because evrryone has different needs and tastes. I just released a port of Sprints Official JB release and its getting great feedback, and is so far quite good on battery. If you want a taste of jellybeans you should check it out!

Otherwise look at Frosty jb and ics, Xquizit, FreeGS3, wanam, And on and on! We've really got some fantastic devs here!

Good luck!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cuzmonote:
Thanks doc.... Being on a Canadian carrier ( Videotron ) and android term is not always clear for a franchie like me
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cLogic:
hello all :)

I have the SGS3, T999V, 16gb, pebble blue .. on videotron

rooted, of course ;)

cuzmonote :

the are basically two kinds of sgs3-compatible roms: those that are (samsung) touchwiz based and those that are (google) android based .. ie cm10

personally, I like touchwiz + speed + butter ;)

I am currently running Xquizite xD, jb 4.1.1 .. check out the attached jpg for My battery stats!

the rom forum is here xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1875923

always make a nandroid backup before wipe+ cache clear+ rom install .. and you're good to go. :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cuzmonote:
I'm currently on exajoule ( something like that) and i can compare my batt stats to stock rom :( .... At work +/- 6h ( 100% @ 30%) push across multiple apps like Facebook twitter k9 and tapatalk. Beside that maybe 3-4 widgets spread across 3 pages.... I don't think this is normal..... I'll try tomorrow to save a batt log so someone can pin point my problems

Edit... Maybe i'm playing with my phone too much... And maybe my expectations where too high lol

Edit 2 : maybe someone can help me on my battery drain concerns
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cLogic:
battery saving

if you really must have social media updates, it is best to turn Auto Sync off in phone Settings and then toggle it on when you activate your screen (from toggles in notification bar) and toggle it off as soon as your bells and whistles stop ringing :p

OR ...

I highly recommend Juice Defender (Plus or Ultimate) to schedule brief windows of data/wifi activity while your screen is off, regardless of your auto sync setting .. only allowing your social media, email, sync, etc scheduled bursts

free version

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.latedroid.juicedefender

very good guide, MUST READ, for battery saving

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1969741

if this helps at all, hit Thanks.. assuming I have a Thanks button by now. lol ;)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cuzmonote:
Thanks cLogic....

But from the screenshots I've provided, can you tell me why i'm getting "poor" battery time.... I know my cell reception is most of the time in the yellow... I really wish i could squeeze 2-3 more hours between each charge
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cLogic:
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking ...

your screenshots show lots of screen on ... many wakelocks from background jobs ... hmmm and lots of data ... no wifi

you should really be on wifi as much as possible

data (cell) uses a lot of power ... besides the obvious battery suck of high speed data ... 4g/hspa/3g ... cuz it polls for strongest tower constantly

wifi also polls ... but pulls a lot less power than even 3g

if you are gonna play with your phone, screen on, surfing on 4g, or even hspa/3g ... bye bye battery lol

part of the reason apps like juice defender are so useful, is cuz they limit the amount of DATA (4g/3g) that background processes can suck while the screen is off

the faster the data stream ... the higher the power usage ... 4g .. hspa .. 3g ... wifi

altho I get 150Mbps by using the 5GHz band of My wifi router :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cuzmonote:
Ok so basically your telling me that my battery life cycle is normal since i'm using my phone lol... That's ok.... I'm new to android and smarthphone as well... So i think i was expecting too much... Seing people doing 24+h on a single charge was giving me hope i could do something close to that... But obviously i'm a heavy user. I've turn off data when screen is off with tasker.. I'll see how it turns out...

Thanks again
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
You may want to check out Woodrubes Battery thread. Its stickied in the Q&A section.

Im certain you can get better battery! Dont give up yet!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cLogic:
lol ... no ... just like Doc just said ... dont just read our posts ... GO TO THOSE LINKS and BOOKMARK THEM!! :D

they WILL help you ... to understand ... and to get MORE battery ... especially the Woodrubes guide !!

example ... I will BET that your brightness is more than 50% ?? ;)

on a screen as bright and beautiful and sharp as the sgs3 amoled (especially indoors), you can disable auto-brightness and set to 40-50% and it is MORE than enough ... and ... the SCREEN uses the most power ... BRIGHTNESS is a BIG PART of battery usage

get Juice Defender!! :D

another thing ... are you using Power Saver mode ??

if you are not using a cpu tweaking tool/rom ... then make use of the Power Saver mode on the phone ... and make sure CPU limit is set

this will limit the phone to between 384MHz and 1 GHz ... instead of ramping up to max of 1.5 GHz (power!!!)

if you are just reading mail, socializing, or even worse, IDLE ... power saver mode will easily add 30-60 mins battery per day AT LEAST

when I need the speed ... like when about to play a game or heavy surfing, etc ... I pull down the notification shade and slide across to the handy Power Saver toggle and turn it off ... and get full speed :) just get into the habit of turning it back on when you dont need the speed anymore

Doc and I just saved you 2.315 hours ... give thanks :p

* waves to Doc ... hi there :) I'm new to the forums, but not to linux and such ... nice to meet you ... I've seen some of your posts ... great stuff :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Welcome to our corner of the Galaxy! And thanks, im glad you like some of my stuff. If you ever have suggestions for how to improve anything, do let me know!

:cool:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cLogic:
merci :)

I think it is you that hosts the thread for T999(V) basebands ??

I'm hoping Videotron comes out with the JA model soon ... to match today's t-mobile offering

always a bit leary of using the t-mobile one ... very weird for Me to see some of the tmobile stuff

the tethering part really threw Me ... they have an app that fires when you turn it on in data settings ... and it requires some sort of t-mobile plan tied to the sim card ... for Me ... it just dies and says invalid sim

on My stock rom from Videotron ... I just turn tethering on in data settings .. done ... it works

they dont care about plans or stuff like that ... it just uses your data plan and they hope you'll go crazy and need to add a few gig blocks lol

good thing I had backed up My APN's before installing roms ... the t-mobile roms work for Me ... but they destroy the entire apn list

cheers! :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Yup, The threads you see in my sig are mine, the Modem/Baseband thread and the Firmware/OTA thread are the ones I am happiest with! Still got some work to do on both. Im going to try looking into an alternative for the tethering. In my Sprint Port, you can use the Sprint Hotspot app and tether to your hearts content! Gonna try to see if theres a way to put it in place of T-Mobiles version. I may have to take a look at the T999V ones too, hadnt thought of that! If anyone here wants, I can try to throw together a deodexed version of the T999V builds. Im actually kinda surprised that no one has ever done this, that I know of.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cLogic:
as long as you'll buy Me a new $600 brick if it fails ... I'm willing to test for ya !! :D

T999V is Videotron (Mine) and Wind and Moblicity ... total units up here in canada, rooted ... prolly 42 hehehe :p

but we simulate t-mobile cuz we all use AWS spectrum ... which is 4G, but not LTE ... yet *sighs*

its getting colder.. soon we can overclock to 3GHz cuz canadian winters prevent battery overheating :P

I tried a sprint/att port once ... db747 or something ... lost all apns, sprint apps all over the place ... plus I really didnt like seeing SPH-L710 as model everywhere ... its hard enough seeing T999 without the V ! lol

ugh 5am ... ok gotta grab some zzzz's before the clients and users start calling, lol

ciao buddy :D
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cuzmonote:
Brightness on lowest setting and power saving mode enable. :-$

And at work, i can't use wifi sadly

But by doing the screen off / data off with Tasker i think I'll have better result.... Will have to wait tomorrow.

I'll check the thread doc post definitely.

Thanks guys for you help it's really appreciated.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ranapratab:
Thank you, just rooted my S3 for Wind. Although I prefer the Stock Rom looks and all rather than CM, so left it at that. Thanks again.

** I followed the tutorial and got stuck at these:

5. Connect your phone to your PC and if drivers will install again, allow installation to finish first. - After installation the phone did not show on odin, so I existed odin and went in again and the com was there.

11. Boot into ClockworkMod Recovery. Turn off your phone and hold down the Volume Up, Home...... In this step I used to go to stock recovery menu instead of CM recovery. What is did is unchecked the Auto reboot before flasinging in odin, once it says pass, removed the battery, put in the battery and follow step 11 and it would work.

Hope others don't have this if they do they can try the above.

Thank you :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cLogic:
sounds like you prefer touchwiz (samsung) based environment ... cm10, aokp, liquidsmooth, etc ... are "pure" AOSP android

if you're interested in touchwiz roms ... take a look at Frosty, XquiziT xD, and others that mention that they are touchwiz (non AOSP) based

enjoy :)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] SamuelLimkiamkong:
How can I get this :Handset USB drivers (T-Mobile_T999_GSIII_Samsung_USB_Driver_v1_4_6_0.exe

---------- Post added at 01:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:20 PM ----------

I dont understand what you mean when you say :Copy the CWM-SuperSu-v0.87.zip file on your phone at the root of sdcard.

Can someone please give me detailed instructions on how to do this^
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] X-Nemesis:
From what I've read, in regards to Doc's post about reflashing the newest stock JB rom from your provider first, to get the new partition setup for JB. That this is the best approach to utilize the full potential of JB on our GS3's and so before going with any new ROM, wait for Wind to release their JB stock and then follow Doc's advice on reflashing for JB?

I hope that made sense.

We with Canadian T-mo variant GS3's cannot flash Tmo stock rom's because that also will flash a T-mo modem correct? I'm slowly trying to figure all this stuff out :silly:
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Lol! All ill guarantee is that any problems you have will be your own! Aka, no responsability!

Let me know how that extreme overclock goes! I used to live in Alaska and I always wanted to try snow cooling my system!

I guess you nevrr tried my Sprint Port? It was going pretty good before the official T-Mobile release the other day.

Here are the latest, afaik, drivers. 1.5.9.0.

http://d-h.st/zya

1.4.6.0

http://d-h.st/iEY

More up to date SuperSU

http://d-h.st/CMH

What they mean by copy to root of sd is to copy it to your sdcard, but dont put it in a folder, this is only to make it easier to find. You flash it in recovery.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] SamuelLimkiamkong:
Thank you for your response. I dont understand all this flashing and rooting and recovery stuff. So I would just have to take my external sdcard, Insert in my laptop, drag the file in and then put it back in my phone? Could you clarify this entire process please. Im confused.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
You could do that, or just download it straight to your phone, the same as youd do on your PC.

You should check thexels stickied thread in the Q&A section. Also another right next to his for flashing roms. You should be able to find most of your questions are answered there.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] SamuelLimkiamkong:
What possible errors can happen while doing this process? Also, how can I update my phone to JellyBean if I dont want to do this Root?