yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AndroidGraphix:
Thanks a million for the thorough instructions. I've at this for an hour and couldn't figure it out. Cheers.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Karl:
im game
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] guthrien:
I know we're discouraged from posting these sorts of posts, but holy crap you guys are awesome you just increased the value of this phone to me. The unlockers are mf'ing kings of SG3!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dincfool:
Im kind of confused as well, I thought adams 3 click method was a root method as well?

So what else would need to be done to root my verizon s3 on my mac?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ckochinsky125:
ok so with 7zip how do i get it uncompressed or whatever it is called? This is such a PITA compared to previous devices I've had.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] twolfekc:
Just did it through terminal emulator. Worked like a charm. And oh boy does this thing boot fast now. **** YOU VERIZON
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JBO1018:
No offense but if you don't know how to unzip a file *PLEASE* do some reading before dding a bootloader to your phone.

Edit: also I don't know if Adams tool leaves it rooted or not. Did you try installing the superuser app from the play store?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
Double click it

Extract To... (where ever you want)

Execute that *****.

After you've got your drivers up and running, etc. Follow his instructions. It's stupid easy. Read the **** first, understand it, if you have questions about what something is google it BEFORE you start the process. Once you understand it all, do the damn thing.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jbzcar:
Already released as a flashable .zip :)

http://glassnetworks.net/bootloader/VRALE6-aboot_cwm-flashable.zip
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ckochinsky125:
that has nothing to do with it. The download wasn't in zip form. I cant help it the tool that's supposed to work doesn't. I never had any of these issues with my nexus or maxx. and when I double click on it it just kept asking about 7zip
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
I'd guinea pig it for you but.. well.. I'm hasty as **** :)

You turned that **** around quick man.. nice job. :good: (I'm outta thanks.)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
Terminal is stupid easy!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] luke1987:
We can flash the original bootloader back via odin and stock image right? For warranty
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jbzcar:
Yes.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JBO1018:
I'm not sure what you downloaded but the file in this thread is a zip file. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29228358

Anyway not hijacking this thread anymore. Everything you are asking can EASILY be found by searching.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ckochinsky125:
I click on the big download thing and it isn't a zip file.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
It's a .7z

7zip

A variant of WinZip
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JBO1018:
OP: To help protect anyone that uses this method you should really add an md5 check of the mmcblk0p5 BEFORE reboot AFTER the dd to your instructions.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dincfool:
figured it out

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ckochinsky125 - just download superuser, you'll have full root after that
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] THE SKATER DUDE:
is there a tutorial on how to do this? and what is "dd"
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] p-slim:
Will this unlock the bootloader?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] con247:
Fixed it in the OP to reflect
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ckochinsky125:
yeah still not rooted.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] inline6power:
Go to market and install busy box. Open busy box and it will give you an option to Dow load and install new binaries. Reboot. Profit

sent from my galaxy s3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jbzcar:
Yes...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] p-slim:
Thanks, I knew the longer I waited the easier it would get. I was going to knock it out tonight on way or another. You probably saved me an hour or so.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jbzcar:
Gotta love how fast the Android community moves. :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] amebiasis:
Got to say thanks to the OP and the developer and a big F@#K You Verizon! Came over from a Nexus S on Sprint hopefully now with all our amazing devs we can get the goods rolling out like the guys over in the NS4G forums. THANK YOU AGAIN!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TokedUp:
OT sorry but has anyone noticed better service as far as signal bars after unlocking. I was only getting 1-2 bars in my apt before now I'm at steady 4 bars sitting in same place. Strange.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] con247:
someone else mentioned that. Bars mean nothing however. dBm is where its at.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ZAVALARR:
I unlocked it using terminal emulator put SU ENTER then

dd if=/sdcard/download/aboot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 that's all this is the link to the aboot.img http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=30276359&postcount=492
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ew0kfarmer:
I did it this way with Synergy ROM installed and still have the Custom padlock when I reboot. Does this mean the unlock didn't work?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aj8600:
Can someone post the aboot.img as an attachment plox

EDIT: Disregard
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Elite49:
Let me know if that works.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ZAVALARR:
Try it again you must of done something wrong I'm also running a synergy Rom and I had no problems with the terminal method
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
http://db.tt/8IZyHHUK

Sent from my unlocked Galaxy S3! We win, Verizon!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hsoras:
I did section 8 procedure from this thread http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=28530409&postcount=2

I am full stock untoched, i am doing the Root GS3 with DebugFSRoot with the Casual program, and the last part it says /system/xbin/su: not found and the rebooting dialog that says to click ok when device has fully rebooted and is displaying lock screen.

Well I do not see a lock screen.

What am I doing wrong here?

***EDIT*** nevermind on the root part, i ran it again and now it rooted and installed SU this time around.

So I flashed the unsecure aboot. How do I know its unlocked? all it said was

"--Flash Unsecure Aboot--

This will flash an unsecure bootloader to your device.

*WARNING* It is possible that updating your device with any firmware past 15AUG2012 may cause this exploit to render your device inoperative. Please look at the comments on the thread on XDA-Developers.com

preparing to flash6564 KB/s (2097152 bytes in 0.312s)

Flashing4096+0 records in

4096+0 records out

2097152 bytes transferred in 0.412 secs (5090174 bytes/sec)

Done.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NickStew:
Anyone know if it'd still be a bad idea to flash the international s3 roms even just to play with?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Rich3077:
Yeah its not the same hardware,, bad things would result.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cmhydro:
This is why I love this community. Dedicated devs that want to transform our devices to what they should have been from the start.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] p-slim:
Didn't work for me, but as you probably know there are plenty of easier methods now, such as http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1835791
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] aj8600:
its crazy how fast this boots now.

also, i miss my unlocked logo i know it didnt matter, but it made me feel cool lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] furkanayhan:
thank you for all your messages
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] brockkk:
unlocked *****esssss. man i cant believe how fast it was unlocked, haha.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LinxuSx:
When it says "Done." at the end that's how you know it's well... Done... I'm pretty sure this file has a little error checking and will let you know if anything goes wrong.

Just be patient and wait until some kernels are released. If you can't flash them then go back to the drawing board.

Sent from my Rooted, Synergized (1.7) and now unlocked bootloader VZW S3!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] RealMuphukkinG:
Alright good job..... now hurry up and make the one-click unlock
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jdhas:
I hope this was meant as a joke....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Kreeker:
I almost feel like it wasn't... Quite a shame...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mad96:
Thank you to everyone that had a part in giving us this wonderful end result! My hat is off to you great sirs.

M.yA.nD.droidS3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Haro912:
I agree lol. Made me feel like rebel when I booted my phone. :happy:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kidhudi:
In regards to Adam

[YOUTUBE]1jUBbCgMWmE[/YOUTUBE]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BeADroid:
Anybody use this yet? Does it work?

Rocking T2 on the S3!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] preusstang:
am I alone in thinking the "african canadian sock puppet" should be getting a sizable portion of the bounty money? Sure, all the devs in the bootloader thread spent countless hours mapping out the MSM8690 and different registers and what not (which is greatly appreciated, btw,) but in the end, it is someone else who put their neck on the line for this community, and I believe they need some reimbursement. We don't know who it is, but Adam definitely does.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
Its comments like this...nevermind your not worth it!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] xXJay_RXx:
Shut up
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JBO1018:
That kind of stuff makes me sad, really. All the time and effort the devs put into this stuff and so many people won't even bother to do a little reading and understand what that are doing so they can follow simple directions
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Josolanes:
Agreed 100%
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mybook4:
The best part about the whole unlock imho follows from what Adam originally said.

"every line of code spent working around a problem is a line of code that does not add a new feature."

Now our problem is gone. Devs are free to concentrate on features, not the problem!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jb_alphamale:
As far as I know this is a kexec kernel. It defies the purpose of the unlocked bootloader.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mybook4:
Agreed.

Or maybe they could actually learn from the open forum of knowledge and actually contribute, lol. I've never met a dev who didn't want to help me learn. As a result, I've been able to add the features I've wanted to my phone and help others get theirs.

P.S Knowledge is power. Cyanogen now works as an Engineer at Samsung because his excellent community work was noticed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jb_alphamale:
+1.At least the processor is different.

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Yeah. The windows method worked perfectly for me. Both ways.Yupiiii.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Schaweet:
The worst part is it already is a one click method. He was just too lazy to look at it. Download a file, click do it. That's it. Oh well, some people feel entitled and will never learn for themselves.

Sent from my SGS3 on Synergy Nightlies
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lazarus2405:
Typically the sort of person who does that sort of thing has reasons much deeper than financial gain. It's also always possible that accepting donations could compromise the anonymity of the individual. It's also possible that said donations are already going to the cause of the sock puppet's choice. I personally don't feel the need to second-guess it. In my view, the less we know of a leak or leaker or how the unlock was obtained, the better for everyone involved.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] BeADroid:
Awesome terminal method worked for me. Thanks so much.

Rocking T2 on the S3!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Schaweet:
Exactly. Why advertise what was done to get the work around. We also have another one apparently, in case this one gets patched. I hope the source stays anonymous so we have the ability to get future help for said person if needed. Donations are going to Adam and he can do what he wants with them. I am pretty sure Ralekdev had a heavy hand in this and I would assume he's on board with what Adam is doing with the money.

These guys typically don't do this for the money but simply for the cause and the fight against those that try and control things that shouldn't be controlled.

Sent from my SGS3 on Synergy Nightlies
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
anybody have a stock aboot.img so we can relock via terminal? Not a big issue since we can flash the stock bootloader.tar in the bootloader function of odin correct??
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
Don't pry! :)

Sent from my unlocked Galaxy S3! We win, Verizon!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mybook4:
There a couple if ways to go back to the stock aboot.

1) make a backup of your aboot partition before you flash the unsecure aboot with the following :

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 of=/sdcard/myAbootBackup.img

and when you want to go back to the stock aboot perform:

dd if=/sdcard/myAbootBackup.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5

2) Grab the stock bootloader tar and flash in Odin (which flash almost all of rhe stock boot chain including the aboot partition)

Or

3) Grab the stock aboot.img from the bootloader tar, transfer to your sdcard and run

dd if=/sdcard/aboot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5

(be sure you have the stock one, as the unsecure one is also named aboot.img)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] meishkov:
Man, I don't check the forums for a few days and look what happens. Unbelievable, simply amazing. I was following that r&d thread and man it was like a bunch of mad scientists goin to work, it was awesome. And to that realmurph or muffin douche he should get banned from xda for being such a tool.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] patt2k:
so is there any tool that help me make the process easy like with galaxy nexus there was this bootloader unlock tool? thanks guys!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] duxup:
YAY! Hooray for the devs!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] TheDiabolicaL1:
Kidding, right?

Sent from my unlocked Galaxy S3! We win, Verizon!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Schaweet:
Yes the tool provided was a file you download, execute, and you are unlocked. Just do a little searching.

Sent from my SGS3 on Synergy Nightlies
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] patt2k:
You mean ODIN? dont wanna brick the phone :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] heynicebits:
How do you stop OTA updates from samsung/verizon. After I unlock, i dont want a brick :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
Thanks! This was my thinking but I wanted confirmation...very much appreciated!!! One more thing just to confirm, we do indeed flash the bootloader in the bootloader slot of odin correct? I am 98% sure, again just want confirmation as I have never messed with anything other than pit/pda in odin!

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Yes its called casual by Adam Outler, its similar to mskips tool for nexus. I have full instructions in my guide on setting it up...dont forget to thank ADAM!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jackdubl:
Was it unlocked or was it leaked? The latter.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] patt2k:
Thanks! I would so love to -rep those not helpful people :]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] blackguy101:
So what are the chances of Verizon having some sort of press release about this? Not that It matters or anything but part of me is kind of curious to see how they will react to what happened.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ruvort:
Well the leak allows us to unlock.... So yes unlocked
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thebrink:
The directions aren't very good. they just aren't, this is an awesome achievement but very little has been done to make this even "moderately skilled end user"-friendly. I'm still reading but basically it's "find post X that linked to Y that was mentioned in Z by the 1 of the 6 guys on the internet who knows exactly what they're doing" - which is pretty dumb.

All I really wanted to know is if I can just click "Flash Unsecure Aboot" on my already rooted synergy rom w/kexec hack and not BRICK my phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] xsteven77x:
I would assume by not installing them?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmw03j:
This occurred a hair over 12 hours ago and you are complaining that there isn't a wiki dedicated exclusively to every possible way to unlock the bootloader and which answers every obscure question relating to it?

These things take time, other peoples time and effort, and if you aren't able to learn enough to be comfortable doing this at the current time, how can you feel entitled to other people doing that for you? Chill, wait a few days and you will be able to profit off of other peoples hard work just like you so desire.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] confusedman112:
Simplify this. I have Synergy Rom 1.7, works fine. Can I now install CM10 or something?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Schaweet:
They seemed pretty clear to me. Download the file, root the phone, flash the aboot.img. These were directions from stock. If you are already rooted, then you just need to flash the aboot.img. You can do that through the casual provided by Adam or use the extracted unsecured aboot.img that has been posted all over here and rootz to over write your existing secured aboot.img via dd in terminal.

I don't think it gets much clearer tbh.

Sent from my SGS3 on Synergy Nightlies
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] egore93:
Yes you can flash this if your are already rooted with synergy. I was rooted and on synergy and it worked like butter. Halfcab123 has a program that is window ready. Sorry I don't have the link but its floating around. You can do a search on his name.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] thebrink:
I'm not complaining even, chill out...

I'm just referring to the fact people (some of the people who are very dedicated to the scene or following this forum) point out "just read and it's all there" when that's a good way to read some bad info and get a brick.

but of course the holier than thou response is what I expected.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] carpe13:
So i am rooted on stock. I put the aboot.img in my /sdcard/ root. I checked the MD5, it was good. I used the bottom command.

su

dd if=/sdcard/aboot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5

I then used

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 of=/sdcard/abootTEST.img

MD5 didn't match, so as suggested, i tried to flash again.

Now i get the error

"write error: No space left on device

4096+1 records in

4096+0 records out

2097152 bytes transferred in 0.324 secs (6472691 bytes/sec"

any ideas? I'm afraid to reboot my phone.

I'm rooted and using Terminal Emulator, from the market.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmw03j:
If you go into it looking for that it is a lot easier to find it.

Its not much different when you lay into them for not giving a thorough workup of the process less then a day into its discovery.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] codyvance:
Apparently you missed this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1835791

Not sure how much easier it could get...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] psycopanther:
tried flashing this in recovery. fails due to sha1 sum failure. although the md5 did check out. anyone else try this?

but does still match both md5 and sha1 in the card when checked. just fails in recovery 6.0.1.0
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mybook4:
Do NOT reboot your phone or you may have a brick. I'm at work right now. Can someone please help him/her out? If you don't have this solved by tomorrow morning (14:00 gmt), please PM me and I'll help. We can avoid a brick.

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From Adam's bootloader unlocking thread it appears that there are two odin packages. One for the bootloader section and one for the PDA. I personally feel more comfortable using dd. I'd just pull the aboot image from the bootloader tar and perform dd.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] psycopanther:
From Adam's bootloader unlocking thread it appears that there are two odin packages. One for the bootloader section and one for the PDA. I personally feel more comfortable using dd. I'd just pull the aboot image from the bootloader tar and perform dd.

am i blind or am i missing seeing the unlocking thread with the odin packages :P
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Jothen2002:
How do you get out of download mode?...please....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] psycopanther:
unplug phone, pull battery, reinsert battery. basically a hard reset
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fillyo:
I am shocked how many people are having issues, the terminal method is so easy, download the aboot.img file, enter two commands. If you are not sure what you are doing, wait! I am sure there will be a few methods shortly.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pyrostic:
Hold your power button for like 30 seconds
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] psycopanther:
or that way :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Immolate:
If you are rooted, you can download Adam's Casual.

Run it,

plug your phone into your computer.

When Casual says "Device Connected",

select "Flash Unsecure Aboot"

and then "DoIt".

You should get a confirmation of success in the Important Information window.

If you aren't rooted, run the "Root GS3 with DebugFSRoot" first. You can run this even if you aren't booted and it won't hurt anything.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] meishkov:
Exactly. Smartest n safest route to take. Coming from the OG 2 weeks ago to this I've managed to hold off even rooting, cuz after seeing that r&d thread by Adam outler and the other geniuses, I knew it was only a matter of time before they'd be able to work their magic to get the bootloader unlocked and make things even more fool proof and encourage full and further development. Some peeps just can't wait I guess, or even follow simple directions for that matter.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] carpe13:
Update:

Tried it ONE more time (after the previous 5 attempts)

this time i got no error message about no space. MD5 of the abootTEST.img now matches the original file. Should i be okay to reboot? lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] shuura:
I used the Windows batch file method. All went well!! It's really quite simple! - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1835791

many thanks to all involved!! :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jackdubl:
Sounds like you're good.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] MGK645:
Pushed the aboot file with terminal and loaded up JB non-kexec, working awesome so far.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tonyb81:
any help with flashingpermission denied error?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] carpe13:
Well that was scary, did a restart, came right back up, good to go. Thanks for the info everyone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Jugger naut:
Did you type su then the enter key before you typed the dd comand? That will give you superuser permission
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] abissel22:
Runnine the latest version of ubuntu. Can't get the tool to f***** work. Can someone help? Do I need java? Help me install java?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] codyvance:
You should get # after you type su, if you dont get that, you may have lost root. Happened to me yesterday, i used Adams tool to root again then it flashes fine.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] xformulax:
**** ubuntu man... just dd the aboot.img
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Josolanes:
^ this. dd'ing is A LOT easier imo. You can do it on your phone in a couple of minutes
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmorton10:
How do you know if it worked or not??
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] psycopanther:
did not brick my phone at all and showed it was successfully flashed in recovery . that is all i can tell though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] con247:
The person who tried it is kinda semi-bricked from something else he did so he can't even boot his phone. So he was willing to see if this bricked it fully because he is sending it back anyway. It didn't brick, but he can't tell if it worked since he can't boot.