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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Flipsoul:
I still get stat/copy/no such file/dir errors.

I had to set a system variable to get rid of the adb error.

Anything else I might have to do to route the script to find the programs/scripts in the extracted folder?

Edit:

I'm running windows 7 pro 64-bit.

looking at the script. it's having trouble based on the lack of file paths for the files it's attempting to copy?

Tried to add direct filepaths to the script but then it would hang after echoing that it was copying su.

Tried doing a manual adb pull of the file... but it didn't actually copy to the phone... Hmmm.

also hangs when i try to manually push su to /data/local/

Edit 2:

I got it to work by modifying the script with the full file path... I don't think I did anything different this time though.

Might have just had a typo somewhere.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] savesheep:
Will this root continue to work if superSU is installed and superuser is removed?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pharrisworth:
I have the free version of root explorer, it will not set the xbin folder to R/W....do you know if this requires the Elite version, or a problem with the file structure itself?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] open1your1eyes0:
I'm curious, does anyone see a way we can automate this script to run directly from the phone?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] greatdaneduke:
Root and Unroot

Awesome tool, was hesitant at first but the benefits outwayed the risks. Worked Beautifully.

Just a Question....I have read through the postings looking for unrooting. Will I receive the JB update OTA while rooted? In order to unroot do I, delete the su file in systems/xbin and then uninstall Superuser?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
you will still get the update, but will have to reroot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jnehama:
I had to return my original S3 for hardware issue. I had rooted originally using the rooted firmware and Odin, and I was glad to try this approach on the new phone. I ran it three times and it failed to root. I had usb debugging on and followed the instructions. Fortunately, I reviewed the posts on this method on several android websites and one of them mentioned that it needed to be run as administrator. My home pc is still windows xp and I have to sign in to administrator user to run it. Worked perfectly the first time once I did that. Maybe add to OP. It probably is common sense but it might help others having trouble. Worked on LG7.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jackjohnson:
Will this work on the T-mobile GS3?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Addiso:
Umm look in your forum section i believe the other carriers are unlocked ,don't try this as this is only for Verizon gs3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jackjohnson:
Thanks for the reply. What do you mean by the other carriers are unlocked? I couldn't find anything in the tmobile forum about rooting without flashing using ODIN. I am probably looking in the wrong place. Thanks for the help.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] crackerhacker:
Verizon locked the bootloader on the gs3. All other carriers come with an unlocked bootloader so there is script in this program to unlock it and will cause unforseen issuses on other carriers sg3's.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Noxious Ninja:
OK, I'm not going to try and catch up, but I have a few minutes, so I'll try and tackle this page...

No, it can't be done. The exploit requires being connected to a PC via USB.

If you didn't delete any system apps or install a custom recovery, you will probably still be able to get OTA updates - but these are likely to break root. Unrooting can be done like you said. SuperSU also has a built-in unroot option. Note that this won't remove any customizations you may have made as root.

For now, yes. However, there's a good chance this tool will stop working once JB is released.

Huh, I wouldn't have expected that. Good to know.

Actually, I think it will work on any of the US models. There's basically no risk in trying, anyway.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sunilj75:
Good clarification
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] greatdaneduke:
If you didn't delete any system apps or install a custom recovery, you will probably still be able to get OTA updates - but these are likely to break root. Unrooting can be done like you said. SuperSU also has a built-in unroot option. Note that this won't remove any customizations you may have made as root.

Thanks for the info. Do you mean flashing Clockwork Mod Recovery?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Noxious Ninja:
Yes. Installing ClockworkMod or TWRP will break OTA updates.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] greatdaneduke:
How do I fix this
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Noxious Ninja:
Odin back to stock or flash the stock recovery on its own. (E.g., using EZ-Recovery).

However, be warned that any given OTA may break root. If you really care about keeping root in the future, it's best to avoid OTAs and just flash rooted stock ROMs as they become available.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] greatdaneduke:
Thank you. I feel better. I'd like to stay rooted. I'll wait for a stock jelly bean.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eagene:
VRALHE

I was able to take today's VRALHE update after rooting using this method. I lost root, as expected. I'll wait for someone braver to try to reroot. :laugh:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] open1your1eyes0:
I did it yesterday. Took the update, lost root and CWM recovery, rerooted with this method and installed CWM through ROM Manager. All good again. :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eagene:
Just rerooted. I don't use CWM, just Titanium Backup, but I'm glad to have root back.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] musclehead84:
I just used this to reroot the ota, all is well again
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SpanKyM3:
Would rooting this way still let you update ota? Before I had to unroot to update but now if rooting this method can you still get updates?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] greatdaneduke:
I just received the OTA. Rerooted using this tool. All is cool. Awesome tool.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hockeypuck55:
I also got the new OTA and re-rooted using this tool.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Desertburn:
WHAT?!

YOUR link takes me to a website that wants to charge $29.99 to root ! no chance
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] greatdaneduke:
Use this tool. It's awesome
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
What are you referring to?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hockeypuck55:
I definitely did not post a link. Did he click on an ad or something?

Sent from my GSIII
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Noxious Ninja:
I've checked every link in my posts and any links on these past few questions. There basically all to various things on XDA. I can't think of anything but an ad.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mike216:
I just received an OTA and lost root. Can I this on this build?thanks soo much
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eaglesfan398:
If you mean root I think you can I did but used the modified one with supersu
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mike216:
Thanks bud! Could you link more to it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] matsounds:
AWESOME!!!!!!

Verizon just tried to screw me (AGAIN) with there newest update (10/25/2012) and I lost my root.

I downloaded this awesome program and followed the instructions and it WORKED the first time I tried it!!!!

I did not lose anything on my phone and I did not have to flash my GS3 again.......

This makes me sooooooooooooo happy right now that I have made a donation to this person for their help.

Please do the same if this program has helped you...... Any amount you can afford counts...... Remember time is money and if you don't want to waste a lot of time trying to fix your device then make a donation to this person for the time they spent helping the Android community!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gdavenpo:
two quick questions

1. is there anyway this root method will have a negative impact on the gps? (I "know" the answer is no, but I need to ask to make sure)

2. what is the easily way to unroot from this?

once I rooted with this method, My gps has gotten so unreliable, it is not longer useful. it takes over 5 minutes to lock on, and then will randomly stop working.

I'm getting a replacement for it from Verizon, (no questions asked, and no support troubleshooting) so I need root back.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eaglesfan398:
I highly doubt that root would cause that
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] badbeat33:
I really don't think rooting with this method would hurt the GPS but I will say that I too have had issues with my GPS since rooting using this method. Again, I don't think this is the problem but it is interesting that we both have had GPS issues only after rooting this way when our GPS both worked flawlessly before rooting...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] open1your1eyes0:
So I flashed the Jelly Bean tar file today and I want to state for everyone that in Jellybean this method official no longer works. Try this from a stock non-rooted leak file and you'll see what I mean. :/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] musclehead84:
That sucks. Now we need a other exploit then to root jellybean.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] open1your1eyes0:
I'm coming up few a new solution shortly that I will post. Give me a day or two and I think this will work. I already rerooted just FYI. :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] musclehead84:
Sweet looking forward to it. I'll test if u need me to

Hit me up on Gtalk if u need help @musclehead84
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] musclehead84:
I'm wondering something. I wonder if the root exploit used to root the sprints note 2 would work on the jellybean version of our ROM.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] savesheep:
So I haven't been able to install the update, I keep getting update failed. I use the stock recovery still. Any ideas how to make it take? I believe the phone is currently rooted using this method. (can't remember if i re-rooted after the last update!)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Noxious Ninja:
If all you did was root, and didn't install a custom kernel/ROM or modify the system in any way, it shouldn't affect GPS at all. Unless Verizon's built-in system modification checker is detecting you rooted and screwing with you... but I've never heard of that happening at all.

Good to know. I was about to try it myself. I'm honestly a little surprised there's another root method that works - JB is supposed to be a lot more secure than ICS. Honestly, if you've found something that's not based on a known exploit for another device, I would hold it back until the public release of JB just to make sure Verizon doesn't notice and decide to patch it.

I was looking at the Sprint Note 2. The only root I saw there was flashing a custom recovery through Odin. That's always been an option on the Verizon GS3, it was just more work than my method. I'm interested to see if Verizon locked down the phone against Odin flashing with the Jelly Bean update, or if we'll still be able to downgrade.

Worst case you could re-flash LF2 through Odin to go back to pure stock.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] open1your1eyes0:
Not really an exploit in the OS. Think Nexus-like...think CWM. A few days and it will be delivered. ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
thats how we rooted the fascinate...flashed the su.zip in recovery and root accomplished!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] savesheep:
do you know if I unroot the phone by deleting su directory and uninstalling superuser should it take then? I don't understand why my root is different from others who are able to run the update

EDIT: didn't help. Other ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Noxious Ninja:
If the stock recovery in Verizon's JB update allows flashing custom zips, that would be amazing. Otherwise, I'm guessing it's something like flashing VRALEC, then a custom recovery, then doing Triangle Away... but so long as there's a way, that's all that really matters.

Did you do anything else while rooted? Unlock bootloader? Flash a custom recovery? Freeze/delete anything with Titanium Backup?

If you don't want to poke around trying to find the issue, the easiest way would be to flash back to stock and then OTA/reroot from there. Follow section 6 in this thread:

[GUIDE][VZW Edition]How to root your Galaxy SIII & More!(ROMs/CWM/Stock) (Stock VRALF2 or VRALG1 is probably the best, unless you want to relock the bootloader at the same time.)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] savesheep:
Thanks for the reply Ninja! I disabled a few things in the application manager. Amazon Kindle, Color, Google Play Music, Google+, Kies air, Music Hub, V Cast Tones and VZ Navigator. Will re-enable them now to see if that helps. Putting the list here just in case :) EDIT: Re-enabling them didn't help.

I downloaded VRALG1 (since I have VRALG2 on the phone) to flash. When I flash this, will it remove all my apps/settings?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Noxious Ninja:
If you disabled them through the built-in app manager, it shouldn't affect the OTA process, so that's probably not it.

Flashing back to stock is generally safe*. It should keep all your apps and settings. There's always a slight chance something could go wrong, though... if you're really want to be safe, you should back up everything first, either apps+data through Titanium Backup, or by flashing a custom recovery and backing up there before flashing the stock ROM.

* If you're going from stock-ish ICS back to stock ICS, that is. If you have a custom ICS ROM, or a JB ROM, then flashing back to stock ICS without wiping will very likely cause issues.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gdavenpo:
Just a FYI

i can confirm that this does NOT impact the GPS. seems I had a hardware issue that showed up right after i rooted. My "new" phone is rooted with the same method, and I have no gps issues
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] juanzr1:
I'm having trouble getting this to work on my new s3 , it's saying adb out of date killing server and the uid and Gid 0 never pops ups does anyone know what can be the problem, here's more info .

- Unable to chmod /system/xbin/busybox: No such file or directory

Unable to chmod /system/xbin/busybox: No such file or directory

/system/bin/sh: /system/xbin/busybox: not found

rebooting
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Adizzzle:
I have a Canadian Telus SGH-i747m, does this method work for rooting my android on 4.0.4?

[color=#ffa4ff00]Sent from your Momma's phone[/color]

My Blog: http://ajizzzle.blogspot.com/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] abissel22:
Has anyone else had trouble making calls or sending texts after root?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Noxious Ninja:
Installing a custom ROM/kernel or disabling system apps might do that. Just rooting won't, unless you're suffering from some bizarre fluke.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
not at all.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Adizzzle:
Will this root work for my sgh-i747m?

Its a Galaxy s3 Canadian Telus phone..

[color=#ffa4ff00]Sent from your Momma's phone[/color]

My Blog: http://ajizzzle.blogspot.com/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] MuToiD_MaN:
'su' hangs

Hi, only my second time rooting a device. I tried running the .bat file, and everything seemed to complete as expected (id's shown as 0, etc.) but no app can gain root access. When I run 'su' from the Terminal Emulator, it results in "Permission denied" after several seconds. Should I try running it again, or am I going to have to flash the phone with a rooted ROM to gain root access?

Also my lock screen always shows 6 PM now ... weird ...

Verizon SCH-I535, Android version 4.0.4

EDIT: NEVER MIND!!! Did the Superuser binary update thing and it worked like a charm. *Smack* RTFM!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Bigred007:
Is there any reason that the original root method (from post 1) wouldn't work with the AT&T version?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mrRobinson:
Should work fine as long as you are on ICS.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] hijqx:
This is what mine keeps saying. I have uninstalled the Samsung drivers, installed ADB, added the paths, re-installed the Samsung drivers. Extracted Rootdebugfs zip to its own folder. Downloaded RootDebugfs a second time and did it all over again.

Would you be able to explain how you modified the script? I am having the same trouble you are and I'm on Win 7 Home 64.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] xaueious:
Worked on a Telus i747M running ICS. Good stuff.

SuperUser.apk was not necessary imo. Just flash the su binary and install SuperUse from Market. Cleaner this way.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] damnage88:
uid and gid should both be 0.

Are they? (y/n):

Did like another user in a different forum and assumed it was correct and entered Y, installs super user and now i'm rooted :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Galloway:
Love this tool! I have used it twice on my phone as well as two friends SG3's. One dumb question now... Has anyone tried using it after updating to 4.1.1 with Kies? Does it work? If not I guess I have to wait for my OTA to be pushed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Nozzles Brewin:
Could not have been easier! Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Noxious Ninja:
No, it won't work with any Jelly Bean ROMs.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] EdgeCan:
Am I doing something wrong? Everytime I attempt to root my gs3 I end up at the place where it says uid and gid have to be 0. How do I get by that?

Please help.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Noxious Ninja:
Did you unzip everything to a folder before running it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] iadubber:
:good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good:

Worked great! Much thanks!!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AngryGibson:
This was a very simple process. I believe now I have to unroot for the Jelly Bean update because for whatever reason, it failed to install.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ynot3363:
Last I checked if you are ota updating you need to make sure you don't have an unlocked bootloader or you could brick your phone but it is probably the reasoning you are failing not the root.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] eagene:
I had rooted using this process and I took the JB update today without unrooting. I had no problems. All this does is put an su binary in /system/xbin. Now if you made more modifications after rooting, that could cause a problem. I did lose root. :(

YMMV
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Noxious Ninja:
The two main causes of breaking OTAs are:

Freezing/removing system apps with Titanium Backup

Installing a custom recovery

If you are having trouble installing an OTA, it's probably easiest to just use Odin to flash a stock ROM and get back to a known good state. Following the steps in this thread should help you out:

[GUIDE] Jelly Bean Factory Image (Root/Recovery/Unlocked Bootloader)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] scorpio2k2:
is this working with S3 LTE android 4.1.2 ?

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Davidnaves:
Navesdavid40@gmail.com
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] matrusli:
oppo f5
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] gabiisilva12:
https://xdaforums.com/t/root-tool-2...t-the-verizon-gsiii-without-flashing.1792342/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] trafalger888:
Any loans on making a version for us linux users? And I know you said you were going to look into making it into an apk and I think many people would probably appreciate that...thanks for your hard work in making the tool
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Noxious Ninja:
I'll have to see if the exploit requires being run from adb. If not, it should be possible to create an APK version, and it's just a matter of time.

A Linux version should also be pretty easy, but it also requires more time... I might try porting it to bash on Windows and let someone else test on Linux.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] terpsarlington:
advantages of using odin?

Can someone explain what advantage, if any, there are to using Odin to flash a Rooted or Stock ICS 4.0.4 Rom over this method? In the past i have always used scripts (Bionic, Dinc) to root my phones.

I am new to GS3 and was wondering why all the root guides talk about using the odin method instead of this script method.

thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] trafalger888:
I will test a linux version if you end up making one
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Noxious Ninja:
Galaxy S phones have traditionally been very easy to flash with Odin, so that's just the first thing people tried. It worked well enough, so I guess nobody bothered with a non-Odin root method until now. If all you want is a rooted stock ROM, there shouldn't be any benefit at all to flashing the root66 ROM versus using my tool.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lowg:
The script method is new for the GS3. The original root method was done using Odin to flash the entire system image that was modified to include the su binarys. The script method uses a clever hack to simplify the process and allows you to just install the su binaries.

I think it's safer and easier to use this type of method since you know what you're going to get. It does seem the base "stock" images people are using for the Odin method might be different than what's actually comes with the device, but to be clear at this point this is pure speculation on my part based on user reports and I have not done a diff.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Marcismo55:
I like this method because there no need to downgrade your firmware to achieve root. No surprises.

Thank you for providing us with another option! :good:

Edit: Worked perfectly for me on my "Updated" GS3.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] edthesped:
Yup, I know I have my original stock ROM and not something that may have been "tweaked" As a GNex owner as well, I have to say I really like touchwiz and don't mind running it at all, except Svoice is a little cheesy.

Would the phone still accept VZ updates after root has been achieved?

Also, many thanks for your efforts.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Noxious Ninja:
I can't guarantee it, but as far as I know, it will still download and install OTAs. There's just always the chance you'll lose root.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Marcismo55:
If you are on stock rooted you should be able to receive and update the OTA. However, when you install a custom recovery the update will likely fail.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Noxious Ninja:
Right. Also, if you freeze/remove system apps with TiBu, OTAs are also likely to fail.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lowg:
Not sure about the current recoveries but with sprecovery it allowed you to install the OTA packages from Verizon (even modified and unsigned).

With the original Droid I was able to keep up with all the OTA updates with some minor edits to the update script to disable the patches to files that were frozen/removed, as well as reapply the proper permissions on the su binary (they recursively reset all permissions on the /system folder as part of the update script)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] snoshreddax21:
The tool worked great for me. For future releases, I have two suggestions:

Add in another reboot at the end of the process. I had to reboot my phone before any app would even recognize I had superuser installed.

Change the font color from that dark red in the CMD prompt window to something easier to read.

Otherwise, the tool worked perfectly! Thanks for the time and effort you put into this, it's way easier than flashing a rooted Odin image.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] henrys01:
I just tried this on the latest firmware (I535VRALG1) and it worked. The only difference from the instructions was here:

debugfs: rm su
rm su
rm: File not found by ext2_lookup while trying to resolve filename

I skipped the "rm su" step in debugfs. Everything else worked fine.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Noxious Ninja:
That step is only actually required if there is some existing root already installed. So for the vast majority of people trying to root, it shouldn't matter.

I thought I had a message about that in the tool, but if you were doing it manually, you wouldn't see it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] juancaperez2000:
Hello sorry just really noob question can i root with this method and then use kexec to get CM10 or CM9
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cliffr39:
Thanks worked perfectly this morning as soon as I got to work haha
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sebastianraven:
This took a few tries but it finally worked. I had to switch USB ports.