yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] waiters:
I just went through this as you can see from here

From this thread i downloaded the AT&T stock Tar

then from this thread i downloaded Odin 3.07

i already had adb/samsung drives installed on my computer...

disabled my firewall, and anti virus.

ran a "adb devices" to make sure i could see my phone

and from there just extracted the image and ODIN'd it (pda - dont click anything!) read second link..

worked like a charm after i used a USB port on the back of my computer
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Vigi73:
Unfortunately I couldn't do anything with the phone and now have a new phone. I have not tried rooting again as I am a bit hesitant now :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] equlizer:
Use this thread to root (very noob)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1746665

Use this to backup your IMEI:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1801997

Use this to reset your Binary counter: (if you need to send in for repair)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coolnand:
I have been using s3 fr past 2weeks. It performs awesomely... super fast and all.. should I root? I know abt the warranty problem. But still, wot r the benefits on rooting s3? Is it worth? I know rooting gives us root privileges. But, is rooting s3 really worth or at all needed?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
The accepted opinion is that if you have to ask then don't root .

Root when you require root or decide to join XDA Developers forum to flash mods and custom roms etc .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gee2012:
+1 Read about rooting, roms, kernels, apps and then decide. Rooting has many advantages but if you don`t need/miss them don`t.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoot1:
Well of you have to ask about the advantages than you will be better off without rooting your phone..

But the once you get root priviledges..you can modify the device to your liking ..you dont have you follow your devicemaker's configurations...biggest advantages is that you can change your operating system to something different which suits your needs ..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SPLucas26:
If you don't know any of the benefits, and you have to ask other people whether to root or not, you either should read up or not root.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coolnand:
Can u give some specific advantages? I'm not so ignorant of rooting. But I just don't know in much detail about it. last time I rooted was my old xperia x10 mini pro. I rooted coz it dint support app2sd. And that was a terrible problem. Used an xperia mini pro sk17i till now for about a year. Though it was 1ghz, I wanted ta over clock it. For good performances in games and all but was waiting to buy a new phone. Now gte an s3 and I don't plan ta change it fr a while.. so... :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
So what do you want that requires root.

Root and its uses are plastered all over this forum .

Start here read this then decide .

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1674286

Follow ups are going to be which root shall i use . what about warranty what about the custom rom counter my update has failed due to root how do i remove root .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mariachi84:
I googled it for you and can gladly announce that googling "android root advantages" gives good results. I just don't want to copy the text and don't want to post external links but the first results shall help.

Cheers.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nodstuff:
This.

This is the answer to your question right here.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] benefit14snake:
So I've been playing around with faux's kernel and seeing what kind of under volt I can achieve. I have to say that my chip was severely over volted in the stock configuration. Here is my stable under volt results. I have ran an assortment of apps to test stability at different frequencies and this seems very stable for me. I do have a little tinkering to still do in the lower ranges. Anyways post your results and let me know what your getting with your cpu. I want to see who has the golden chip. =)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] benefit14snake:
Oh it's worth mentioning. Do not try these settings on your phone if you don't know what your doing. It probably won't brick it but it can cause major instability and reboots.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Crisisx1:
wow man that is some major under volting. glad everything is stable for you!! i really have never messed with those settings, i usually run trinity 46g kernel and everything seems good.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] benefit14snake:
Yeah it seems to be a really good chip. I was rocking trinity 43 but switched back to faux 11. Runs great and it doesn't throttle anymore (due to overheating). So it is overall a lot smoother in everyday use. I think I could probably run 2ghz stable.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] elracing21:
With that kind of uv how much more battery life do you get vs other kernels or not uv at all?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] benefit14snake:
Honestly I don't know yet. Every time I use the UV kernel I mess with the settings and benchmark too much lol. I'll update in the next couple days. It is WAAAY better than stock but I need to see if it is better than trinity where I could get almost 6 hours of on screen with normal usage.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] OGWisdom:
That is some serious under volting! Holy smokes. I am envious. As I have a crippled CPU in my gs3. I can't flash any kernel that has the 1839 MHz frequency unlocked. My phone just won't boot. My CPU max is 1728 I believe. And when I tried to under volt, well, I don't even wanna talk about that, I thought my phone was possessed! I'm thinking bout sending this piece in and getting it replaced, but I know for a fact they are going to want some type of deduct able. Ah well, maybe its best I don't get to play with that frequency or undervolting, I'd hate for my chip or phone to melt.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] adslee:
Looking at some of these UV values, I'm beginning to think that YOU have the golden chip :p
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] benefit14snake:
Haha I thought my results were really good. I figured if mine are this good there must be much better out there because I have terrible luck.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mohamedselim:
Is their anyway to backup efs folder of our tabs just to be more safe while flashing roms ?
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silentvisitor:
Use Nitrality from Play Store.

Good Luck !
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] eltonpestana:
Hi-person group. I have a friend who is facing major problems. I tried to help but also, there is no progress. Facing problems with

RED LED

lit. The phone does not come into Fastboot mode or mode FlashBoot. We tried several ways. Even with hard boot the old procedure. Place a separate battery with usb cable connected and the volume button -. But nothing works. I read in some post that the problem may be related to the battery. Dead Battery. This can happen? any conflict between the voltage regulator? Motherboard damaged?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] modifidious:
By now we all know our live sound recording at concerts completely sucks. It sounds like muffled garbage which nullifies the point of even whipping out the ol' e4gt to record and brag to your friends later :/ I've read up and down the boards about the ig/lgcamera app on the market. I was wondering if anyone had luck in obtaining correct ig/lgcamcorder settings to achieve better sound quality? If so mind posting? I've sat w/ the app for about an hour trying all sorts of toggles. All I ever seem to see on the screen, more often than not, is some "Recording failed" BS or I have to toggle between filters before the screen unfreezes. I have 6 major concerts I'm attending this month and would really love to have better vid clips with great audio you can actually understand. Any help here would be greatly appreciated! Thanx in advance XDA Community.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elliwigy:
our phone can only record as good as the microphone it has can record.. thats like asking how we can make a 2mp camera take 8mp quality images by just installing another camera app
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] VeNuMuS:
Yeah the microphone sucks. I went to Iron Maiden last Friday and the sound of the videos suck.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] modifidious:
I completely understand where you're coming from and do appreciate the input, but we can all overclock our phone with a quick updated kernel and 3rd party apps like Tegrak or SetCPU, can't we? :p. Have you at least read up on, or tested igcamera/camcorder before just saying it's impossible? I'm just playing devil's advocate here b/c I know lgcamcorder allows you to change the audio recording freq/rate which, in theory, will allow better audio recording inside videos ;) I've also heard that plugging in an external mic with other apps will work too, but I haven't tried.

Update: Thanks to RubberBigPepper! He's got the latest

working

LGCamera app here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1677645 . After installing the apk I recorded parts of Metallica - And Justice For All ;) a few times (JBL speakers @ 100% incl. system sound) with stock camcorder vs. lgcamcorder (changed audio encoder to AAC, Audio sample rate to 48000 and Audio bitrate to 320000). LG won that contest hands down. Don't take my word for it, check it out yourselves. I don't have a data cable w/me atm so I'll upload my comparison in a few hours.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] elliwigy:
thats because our phones hardware is able to be overclocked to a certain extent and the kernel we need because the stock kernel doesnt have the ability to be tweaked.. but hey, if you got an improvement by using a different camera and bitrate then awesome lol. i still dont think its going to sound as clear as you want it at a live recording but hopefully its at least decent for ya.. i personally NEVER use my camera for anything lol so good to know tweaking it can help somewhat
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hooover:
This goes along with my idea, AOKP, MIUI, and CM9 cameras function better than any TW (IMO). I say this because their ability to process light seems to be slightly more advanced, though not as advanced as the iPhone which has a far superior camera application. If the settings can be tweaked to grasp certain things in images e.g. light, exposure, focus...then why can't settings be implemented in order to achieve the same thing via camcorder? If there is an ability to mess with settings that enhance cetains audio features then the sound quality should improve. I'm interested in seing what others have to say.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] modifidious:
I'm in agreeance with ya man. And yes, obviously we can only go so far with what hardware is provided to us. I just annoys me that we have an iphone killer but ****ty sound qual. in camcorder. I just hate to lose bragging rights when I'm next to a friend w/an iDevice comparing vids:/
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] hooover:
Comparing quality of video/photos, you will lose every time (very few exceptions) the software is specific and until the auto features are pulled and implemented in to our devices then the picture quality will be better. I don't see where they win with sound qaulity though, background noise is a main factor on our device for me....does any here have the s3? if so can they confirm whether or not video audio is the same, maybe pulling that .apk and having some edits on the build prop would impose better values, hardware permitting! Just an idea.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] modifidious:
<<<goosebumps just thinking about the possibility of that cam being ported:) heck Beats was blended with DSP and ported!

As far as comparison goes: I've stood side-by-side with friends at concerts, my E4GT vs. their iPhone 4s, and recorded the same video shots. My audio was absolute garbage, not one lyrics clear. iPhone 4s however was crystal...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] krisI0N:
Yeah..no we can't allot that happen. Wouldn't want people to think an iPhones decent would we. Not I
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] modifidious:
Exactly, it's just absolutely unacceptable ;) I've been w/ Android since the G1 went on presale back in the day, yo! I've got at least a dozen Apple lifers to make the switch to "'Droid". I hate selling ish and sounding like a billboard... I don't believe in it, but dammit! Our EG4T will still hold us over 'til the SGS4 comes out (in what I predict will be Spring). I live in J-ville, FL and we don't have LTE so the only benefit of upgrading to SGS3 is a faster 3g, which is irrelevant to me since I'm always on WiFi. Anywho.... LONG LIVE ANDROID, XDA, and OPENSOURCE T3CH!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
I love how people come in with possibly unrelated reasons like oh we can overclock so we should be able to this and that.

About the only thing your going to be able to do here is have someone mod the camera app for a higher data rate and its at 61 kbps. Being a Mono mic that is NOT as bad as it sounds. Being Mono you need only half the data rate for the same quality. So 61 kbps is around the same as 128 which would be considered decent for AAC. If you can get that to 96 or even 128 your going to have the equivalent of 192 to 256 kbps data rates you normally use for stereo.

Sure if the sampling rate is turned down artificially you might be able to fix that. Its at 44,100 now which is fine. Max sample rate is going to be physically tied to the analog to digital converter chip.

If the mic is physically cutting out a certain frequencies and sound levels there is absolutely jack you can do about it except change it physically and you dont really know its properties as is might make selection a little more blind. Most cheap microphones are going to cut out with loud music and fail to record any bass at all. Mics that size in the 2,500 dollar range still have their own issues :p
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RainMotorsports:
Well did some testing noticed some things changing the settings for the AOSP camera versus my old stock camera recordings.

By default the aosp camera audio setting is set to 128Kbps stereo and 48,000hz. It seems the 48,000hz sticks but the audio caps out at 96 Kbps. So that said there seems to be some improvement to be had versus the stock camera application. As per my previous post this is in comparison to 44,100hz and 61 Kbps. I tried 96,000hz for kicks it does not work. AOSP has 2 channels enabled unlike stock but setting it to 1 or 2 doesnt have too much effect. I will have to test but if its writing 2 channels of mono audio it might be harmful to the quality since the overall bitrate is for both channels.

EDIT - The settings for the aosp camera vary wildly on our CM9 builds it seems every few days someone has changed this or that or maybe the source file has i do not know.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] xb0n3z:
I have a friend at work with the S3.. We went to a concert together and the S3 audio was only about 25% better.. Samsung has crappy mics in their phones.. However I have a Samsung Samsung HMX-U20 hand held pocket cam and the sound recording at any concert is simply amazing.. But hate having to bring two devices to events.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] modifidious:
Thanks for the update on the S3, glad I didn't get roped in and am waiting on the S4 :)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shark107:
Hey guys, I have a question.

Right now I'm running stock Gingerbread on my Arc S, with unlocked bootloader ( I tried a lot of ROMS ) and of course root access

If I wanna upgrade to ICS, may I do it the " proper way " via Sony Companion? Or do I risk bricks and stuff? I know I can flash a .ftf but that way I'm gonna lose everything and I have to start all over, and I did that so many times switching roms that I'd really like to avoid it if I can

So, with unlocked bootloader and root access may I use the official upgrade from Sony or I'm gonna brick everything?

Thanks in advance
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cuerrix:
Sony companion doesn't work. You should use flashtool.

Sent from my Arc S
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] justkiddinghere:
Relock bootloder and then flash gb rom with flashtool then try pc campanion
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adamka13:
If you are rooted on GB and then try to update with PC companion the ICS will unstable... j tryed and many programs crashed.... so bacup your data with titanium backoup and flash ICS .ftf with flashtool that is the best way.. :)

Hit thanks if this post usefull for you !!!! :)
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shark107:
thank you guys, that's what I thought, now it is confirmed :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nasdriver:
Hi, I know you may get bored with my post, but after a week struggling I really ask for some experienced tech to be so kind to guide me to install a valid ROM and kernel.

I've rooted this Samsung i9000 and was working but then followed some post where it said that we should/could re-install a secure kernel. So then I found this post (pdf instructions) where there was a ROM and kernel, that I installed and now the phone has this small 'r' near the signal strength like when you are in roaming (cannot be deactivated as it's not activated in settings) and the wifi will never connect to my router, and 3G never works.

For the last week I've been trying to re-install all ROMs I can found in the forum compatibles, and for that placed it in the sdcard, rebooted in recovery mode, wiped the cache and selected install from sdcard, install:update.zip, tried all the options and always says that can't found update.zip (it is in the root of the sdcard.)

Phone info:

Firmware version: 2.2.1

Baseband: I9000XXJVE

Kernel version: 2.6.32.9 SOK@4_8_2#1716

Build number: EZbase v2.00

Apps:

ROM Manager

Superuser

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tchindalia:
Hey

Have you tried through odin??

Like upgrade to 2.3.6 root it and then flash a rom..

Sent from my GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scjoao:
go to samfirmware, there u can find plenty rooms as also as full instalation guides with all stuff u will need to.

GL
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Latrop:
OK follow the in this website and use the new sourceforge mirror http://www.darkyrom.com/index.php?threads/odin-darkyrom-10-2-resurrection-gti9000.4272/

Make sure you have the Samsung drivers installed http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=961959/ then once that's done phone should start up if it does follow my previous instructions

Sent from my Awesome I9000 running Slim Bean

---------- Post added at 06:17 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:15 AM ----------

Once done do you want to stay on gingerbread or go to ICS or JB ?

Sent from my Awesome I9000 running Slim Bean
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nasdriver:
Solved with F1 GalaxyNexus. Works like a charm

thank you
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Touch Pro kid:
A friend of mine started the 1.22.653.1 OTA download by mistake and shut off his data halfway thru. Is there a way he can cancel or stop the download now so he can root and s-off? Soon as he turns on his data or wifi download continues. Is there a download folder where the partial OTA file can be deleted?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Robbzilla:
I believe you can cancel at the end of the download.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Rxpert:
You can download it, just don't install
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Touch Pro kid:
Once its downloaded, what folder can I delete it from so its out of the phone?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] leo72793:
scard2/downloads

or sdcard/downloads
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] alm77ar:
It is not there
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Magnum_Enforcer:
Look in the downloads folder in the internal memory, then.
[Captivate General] agomez87:
Neeed help pls, cant install stock android 2.1 whit odin, my captivate its only accept from android 2.2 and further. :rolleyes:
[Captivate General] jmtheiss:
Just out of curiousity, is there some specific reason you need 2.1? If you're just wanting to go back to it for nostalgic reasons, I think that the one-clicks in Development section are the only way to go right now.

If you're just trying to go back to stock for warranty purposes, I believe that AT&T officially pushed out the Gingerbread update, so you could flash that one and take it in.
[Captivate General] agomez87:
Recovery mode

Why?

Because cant enter in 2.2 in clockword recovery mode, only 2.1, i want to install ICS 4 :confused:
[Captivate General] agomez87:
recovery

recovery 3e, android 2.2 , need 2e, but cant install stock 2,1 :(
[Captivate General] 4-2ndtwin:
Just follow the Guide. Read the 1st sentence of that Guide. Then read the 2nd sentence. :thumbup: It will work from Any Stock.

:D
[Captivate General] jmtheiss:
If you're only going to be going to a Jellybean rom, you could also just download a Gingerbread-based stock one-click from the development section (with bootloaders) and flash that. It would get rid of the 3e error, and give you the bootloaders you'll need to flash anything else as well.

As always, be careful when flashing bootloaders, though. Make sure you have a good connection to you computer.
[Captivate General] agomez87:
lets doed

downloading I897UCKH3 Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread With Bootloaders - Link 1 / Link 2 [With CWM Injected Kernel from Boog] ...
[Captivate General] agomez87:
Works, like a charm.

thx to all
[HTC Sensation XL] dubiousboy:
Hi, i am a noob to rooting and today was my first try.

I have already unlocked the bootloader but when i tried using the zerg exploit i got this.

--- STARTING ----

--- WAITING FOR DEVICE

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

--- creating temporary directory

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

mkdir failed for tmp, File exists

--- cleaning

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

rm failed for *, No such file or directory

--- pushing zergRush

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

1185 KB/s (23060 bytes in 0.019s)

--- correcting permissions

--- executing zergRush

[**] Zerg rush - Android 2.2/2.3 local root

[**] (C) 2011 Revolutionary. All rights reserved.

[**] Parts of code from Gingerbreak, (C) 2010-2011 The Android Exploid Crew.

[-] Not a 2.2/2.3 Android ...

--- WAITING FOR DEVICE TO RECONNECT

if it gets stuck over here for a long time then try:

disconnect usb cable and reconnect it

toggle "USB DEBUGGING" (first disable it then enable it)

--- DEVICE FOUND

--- pushing busybox

7046 KB/s (1075144 bytes in 0.149s)

--- correcting permissions

--- remounting /system

mount: permission denied (are you root?)

--- checking free space on /system

107 KB/s (439 bytes in 0.004s)

df: /data/DxDrm/fuse: Permission denied

df: /mnt/secure/asec: Permission denied

--- Free space on /system : 71% bytes

test: 71%: bad number

--- NOT enough free space on /system!!!

--- making free space by removing Google Maps

--- copying busybox to /system/xbin/

/system/xbin/busybox: cannot open for write: Read-only file system

--- correcting ownership

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

--- correcting permissions

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

--- installing busybox

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

--- pushing SU binary

failed to copy 'files\su' to '/system/bin/su': Read-only file system

--- correcting ownership

Unable to chmod /system/bin/su: No such file or directory

--- correcting permissions

Unable to chmod /system/bin/su: No such file or directory

--- correcting symlinks

rm failed for /system/xbin/su, No such file or directory

link failed Read-only file system

--- pushing Superuser app

failed to copy 'files\Superuser.apk' to '/system/app/./Superuser.apk': Read-only

file system

--- cleaning

--- rebooting

ALL DONE!!!

can anyone help me?

and what do i do after this?
[HTC Sensation XL] nashshafrulrezza:
You on gb or ics?
[HTC Sensation XL] dubiousboy:
im on ics
[HTC Sensation XL] stona175:
here Next time use your brain and search!