[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] MWTTRON:
Hi and thanks for the great Thread!

Edit: I had upgraded my SCH-I535 to JB 4.3 using CWM 6.0.xxx. I am suspicious the architecture(partition change combined with write permissions) is my whole issue!??

My issue is my SCH-I535 would not accept any odin flashes. I had tried to restore a backup but something happened and it went to the error screen saying to connect to Kies for emergency restore. Well I could not get to the Green Icon download mode. But that other error is Odin ready it even says odin mode above the other info in the upper left corner.

Anyway nothing would help. I tried the kies route but that wouldn't work (It NEVER does) I tried a bunch of different Tars, Root Stock, Unroot stock, etc.

I stumbled across this thread and it wasn't even working so I finally got a hold of a 'sch-i535-16gb.pit' PIT file from another thread on XDA. I ran that file under PIT with repartition set and low and behold after I reset my phone I was able to Flash the Bootloader Vralf2 and then I could actually boot to CWM recovery 6.xx which is what I had. Unfortunately I could still not boot or flash any other ROM. I have tried this thread's procedure Both the VRALEC and VRALF but I can not get the VRALEC to flash correctly. Using ODIN3.07 it will sit and sit until after a long time it will fail. I've been up all night YAAWWNNNNN... LOL

I even tried to restore a backup to no avail. Basically It seems to me that only part of my partitions have been fixed???

The first time I got into Recovery I went to mounts and DATA was not even available! I could not format it, mount it, etc. I finally did the wipe Data and Media on the SDcard Partiton??? and got the data partition back but still cannot write anywhere. I also am getting the No File_context error if I try to boot or restore a backup.

I just tried to Force the Factory ROM on my phone and it went back to the emergency "Firmware upgrade encountered an error. Please select recovery mode in Kies and try again." Well I know that wont do anything. I just reran the 16G PIT file and got a pass.I removed the phone batt etc. and can now get to download. I am trying Vralec first but am assuming it is going to stall. I will do Vralf next and then I will be able to get to recovery.

I have downloaded Both bootloader chains two or three times and the root66.tar twice. Neither the Vralec or root66 files seems to work!

My question is this: Is there any other option/procedure that I am missing? Should I try a different source for these files? If so can you direct me to such a source?

I have to go do a service Call "I am a IT professional, don't know much about linux!", when I come back I am wondering if I copy one of the 4.3 MODs.zip to my SD card and Flash that if that may work for me. Please anything you can suggest IS MUCH APPRECIATED! My last thoughts are all I have left!!!

EDIT: I finally decided to try using a 4.3 ROM. I copied it to the External SD Card and then booted to recovery. I flashed the 4.3 Version ROM and then wiped the data and cache even the Dalvik cache(Although they were already wiped! LOL)

I now have an operating system on my phone again!

So I am ASSUMING that there is NO WAY to REVERT back to Earlier than 4.3! The PIT files at the beginning of this tread did help me get back my bootloader though!

Many thanks to you guys and Gals!!!