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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gillonio:
I did not explaine well my idea. I want to install 4.3 or 4.1.2 stock rom. But i found some information that confuses me. I read somewhere on this site that last stock version for s3 att is 4.1.1. On att site they say that last version is 4.3. Also i found on this site that in 4.3 stockversion ( if exisist) there is too much problems and if i do that i can not downgrade firmware. So i am close to decision to install 4.1.2 stock. So did i have to do wipening before install with odin 4.1.2. Stock fw. And i read somewhere that i can not at all stock fw 4.1.2 with odin, is that true?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pc103:
First for your earlier question, Win 8.1 responded nicely with my i747's (running 4.3) MTP. GS3 lockscreen message said "Connecting as a media server", the drivers loaded (laptop was internet connected) and i747 folders opened in Explorer. Picture folders gave nice thumbnails & slideshow.

AT&T is accurate, 4.3 is currently our latest over the air (OTA push) update. If you connect a stock 4.1.2 phone (rooted or not) with stock recovery, the 4.3 OTA gets pushed to it. The 4.1.1 reference you saw was by people whose phones did not qualify for the OTA push. (missing stock 4.1.2, etc).

My GS3 is running 4,3 ROM, modem & kernel on 4.1.2 bootloader, Battery life is great because I debloated & optimized it.

The quote below is true for any "dirty flash" vs, "clean flash" rom upgrade. Cached data & APK data (from use & misuse) of your old rom easliy corrupt or destabilize the new flash, sometimes long after continued use of your new flash. This means even if you go from directly from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 to 4.3 in one session, you should do the 3 wipes in custom recovery before and after each flash.

"Wiping is best. Slow down & take time to prepare your backups all for a better flashing experience. That is your best way to avoid needing to repeat a successful flash.

If 4.3 is your goal I hope you understand the bootloader & Knox changes. Yes, go from 4.1.1 - 4.1.2 - 4.3."
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gillonio:
About connecting phone to laptop. I try to connect s3 to my desktop, my laptop and laptop of my wife. I changed usb ports (not cable) , milion times install and uninstall drivers, try every method which i find on the net and nothing. I speak with sam online help and they told me to go to store beacouse they think somethink wrong with the phone. In that moment i was already in europe.

How can i now is my phone capable to recive ota upgrade? Do you advise me to do the same thing as you, install 4.3 with bootloader of 4.1.2. If your answer is yes cen you send me a link where i can see how to do that.

Tny for "user manual" .
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pc103:
You can find my quote in post #318 & "user manual" in #320 here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48783825#post48783825

Basically I like TW, do my own optimization, need a daily driver where everything works. I wanted the 4.3 without Knox.

That's just me. There are all kinds of roms here you could choose from. I got the result I wanted, like 4.1.2 with benefits.

Have you tried a "known good" usb cable?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gillonio:
Yes. I try cable that i use with my htc. I will try to find out can i use custom rom neat lite, beacouse i have great experiemce with that rom on sgs2. But firdt of all i have to find out what is knox and boatloader and how i can brick my phone. Then i will try to install custom roms. Thanks again
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aircooledbusses:
I recently updated my buddies T-Mobile gs4's base band and he claims way better reception. I'm thinking if I can get more performance out of my art gs3 that would be good.

So my question is do you think it is worth it and will I have to deal with the issues I've read about with knox and not being able to go back.?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] shadowbro:
i have a few stupid questions :(

1) i used ODIN to install the Rogers stock rooted 4.3 found on here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1739426 does this mean that i cant go back to any other version of stock OS, because i have the latest bootloader due to that 4.3 update (even though i didn't update OTA)?

2) now that i am on the Rogers stock rooted 4.3 can i still install for example different versions of CM,because they dont have bootloaders?

3) about 6 gigs of my phone are being used up by something. all data(movies and pics, etc) is already deleted, when i search up "gapps" in es file explorer i find 4 different locations that contain exactly the same folders, and after that i did some manual searching and i found other locations, each last folder in all those lines contains 28 folders and and same items.

-device/sdcard

-device/storage/sdcard

-device/storage/emulated/0

-device/storage/emulated/legacy

-device/mnt/sdcard

which ones are safe to delete? or can i just do some kind of reset that erases everything that is not needed. (i dont know how to do that)

i appreciate the help.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aircooledbusses:
Just the last one....... If it were me I'd start over by cleaning up the SD card, and wipe your phone (formatting internal strorage) restoring your latest back up. Then see if there are still duplicates.

I know it's not an answer, but it's the best I got.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] akashanksta:
Anyone else having rebooting issues when switching wifi off from the pulldown menu, or widgets?

My phone restarts after turning wifi on and off through any switch outside of the settings menu. I've experienced this on both Quantam's KitKat rom and the new unofficial Liquidsmooth KitKat rom...

I've been a lurker forever, but since I have under 10 posts, I can't post in the development thread! someone, please have a convo with me :D:D:D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pc103:
Haven't seen that before, but if you want to try a workaround, Widgetsoid's a good app. Unusual interface, but stable & worth learning for what it does: custom "stock-like" widgets & notification toggles.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Boomer1605:
I've notice on the Beanstalk Roms that in the battery tab that my phone is always Awake. I flashed cm m2 and let it sit for a few and it showed that it would sleep. Then I flashed beanstalk again with just gapps none of mine to see if it was my apps or not and it still shows the phone Awake all the time...Would flashing a new Kernel solve this issue?..is there somewhere that I could get the M2 kernel?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Capa1970:
Anyone?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pc103:
Generally speaking, you are safe as long as the rom flash has no bootloader included. Also, you must verify your resulting rom, kernel & modem are mutually compatible. Full wipes in recovery helps surrounding each new flash.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aybe:
So, I have the i747 but I'm on T-Mobile network. Wifi calling is sort of important because I barely get a signal where I live.

What I would like to know is, if it is possible for me to upgrade to 4.3 or should I say with 4.1.2? Right now, data works fine and I have Wi-Fi calling with the S3Rx 1.8

For some reason my phone won't install a Rom unless it is a TW Rom and I'm ok with it. Can someone help me figure out if I can upgrade my phone to and if so, what steps should I take to do that.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aybe:
Here's a screenshot of the "About Device" section right now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rachelm920:
Lock screen wallpaper

I am in no way shape or form a newbie but I am getting tired of flashing ROM after ROM and not having the capability to change the lock screen wallpaper to something different that what the default wallpaper is. I have been flashing KK ROMs the last two were AOCP, and Gummy.

I've looked in all the usual places including:

Settings - Lock Screen

Settings - Personalize

Settings - Display - Wallpaper

and it only changes the wallpaper for both. I love the KK lock screen with the full screen music player, so I don't want to switch to widgetlocker. I know I was able to do this previously and love customizing my screens to be different. (i.e. my S/Os pic or kids etc.)

Just wondering if anyone on and KK ROM can check and see if it's there, and if so reply back quoting me (so I'm notified) letting me know so I don't have to keep repeatedly flashing ROM after ROM. Also if I am being a real dumb butt here, and completely overlooked where the setting is, please let me know LOL

:D:D:D

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Last I knew the modem/bootloader was only for AT&T and once you go to 4.3 you cannot go back. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aircooledbusses:
It is the bootloader mjb you can't come back from. Like the previous poster said..as long as what you flash does not have a bootloader included.

My stable go to recovery is a 4.2 ROM. So I can confirm going from 4.4.2 back to 4.2.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aircooledbusses:
Just did it to be sure and went from 4.4.2 back to 4.1.2.

You can't downgrade your bootloader, that's a different story.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] silversteinx07:
I'm not completely new to XDA or CM, but I've distanced myself from any form of modding for the last year. In short, just updated my phone to the newest OTA update to 4.3, and I'm loving it for the most part. Part of me wants to test CM11, though. So, rooted my phone today using the "Saferoot" method (using a .bat file), and I now have SuperSU installed. AND, apparently KNOX (this technology is still beyond my understanding besides the fact that it just checks for modifications to your phone) has now been turned off or disabled. GREAT! I can use a couple low-end root features that I've wanted to use for a while now (including more options for Ceberus, for those of you who know about it/use it).

Question now becomes: I have root. I don't have a custom recovery/bootloader/anything. The first thing I want to do is create a backup image of my current phone state. I need a custom recovery, correct? Can I now just install ROM Manager from Play Store and allow it root access + install of recovery?

I DON'T WANT TO TRIP THE FLASH COUNT or KNOX!

Just give me some insight on what the next step should be. Please. And thank you! I honestly appreciate any help.

- Warm regards from Chicago
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Hay350:
It is my understanding that flashing a customer recovery with the OTA boot loaders trips the warranty bit and I have not seen anywhere if a solution to this has been found.

updwn4par has created a guide for rooting and getting the customer recovery installed. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2538991

PS and Off-Topic - can we get the warmth back in Chicago, it is too cold. :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] agentfusion:
Here's my stupid question: why is there a complete lack of totally vanilla AOSP for our phone? I would really like a plain vanilla Android experience, not just grabbing CM and installing the stock launcher then turning off all of the extra features.

If something like this exists, can someone point me to it? Or could it really be as simple as compiling from source provided by Google then flashing a proper modem and kernel for the S3 with it?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] natefish:
I just replaced my phone after a hard brick from heck.

My new device came with 4.3 update already installed. Can I flash this rom without the new bootloaders? And, if I do use the new bootloaders, can I go back to stock via a nandroid restore?

Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pc103:
My stupid question: what new bootloader are you referring to?

You can flash over 4.3 so long as your flash doesn't include a bootloader.

Attempting to flash over your 4.3 bootloader with a different one bricks your gs3.

Your 4.3 flash counter is irreversible.

"flashing back to stock" for your gs3 now. means. 4.3 or greater (later i747 releases, except for rule 1 above).

Any flashing you might do likely voids your warranty.

You are welcome!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ChinDaChin:
What is MJB?

And is there an idiot proof odin explanation?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] scissorscrush:
Question.....

If someone has seen setcpu on play store, in the video the guy unlocks the phone and the weather just zooms in and shows the sun. Can anyone tell me what that is, i searched for it and could not find it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DIRKxxxDIGGLER:
Strange thing on my phone... I've run custom roms for a while now. A few weeks ago I upgraded to mjb bootloader and modem and was running a 4.3 touchwiz rom with no issues. Because I got a hair up my bum I decided to try out a 4.4 rom. It works fine, but I wanted to go back to a touchwiz rom... The only problem is that now when I try to flash in recovery they all fail(I downloaded many tw roms to try and fix)... Some just fail and some just reboot me back to recovery right in the middle of flashing them. I've tried using both twrp and cwm ... All roms tried were 4.3. Not sure if going to an aosp rom caused this or if it's just a coincidence. I can flash any aosp, aokp, or aocp rom with no issues...... Any ideas on what I did wrong?

Thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] :
Is this true for the Verizon version as well? I'm on Verizon 4.3 stock rooted and interested in SlimRoms but on the Verizon S3 forums, all the most recent posts say to not attempt flashing ANY recovery or ROM.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pc103:
The answer has to be in the SlimRoms & Verizon threads. Flashing any recovery, because it breaks your warranty. The same for ROMS, with the added danger of bricking if the flash alters your locked bootloader.

afaik This is true because both carriers have implemented Knox Warrant bit flags & the locked bootloader with their 4.3 OTA pushes.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ajdope:
Bluetooth Stack Between Roms?

I have been using the 4.3 PAC-Man Nightly Roms for a few months now, and have been having trouble with my bluetooth devices.

I flashed liquidsmooth 2.37 (AOSP 4.3.1) because I read that it fixed some people's Bluetooth woes.

It fixed mine, it auto-pairs every time, but I want to continue using PAC-MAN.

Is there any way to flash only the Bluetooth-related files from Liquidsmooth back to my pac-man rom?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] browningj:
I installed the 4.3 bootloader and modem like a dummy and am having issues with the phone. It randomly freezes during screen rotation once per day requiring a hard reset/battery pull. I know that I cant downgrade, but is there any way to get the actual stock 4.3 firmware on the device to star fresh. At this point I don't care about root, but would like a device that doesn't freeze each day.

I have root and cwm installed.

Thanks

Justin
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pc103:
Back up & wipe first.

The 4.3 firmware image is in update4.3.zip here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2387423http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2387423
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bass_me:
Help - Downgrade CM11 OK I'm confused

I'm listing my upgrade process for reference. i747 AT&T

I started out with the AT&T 4.1.1 rooted ,stock recovery using mrRobinsons method. I froze the Sammy OTA updater with TiBu so I never got the OTA AT&T 4.3. Then in late November used the installer off the playstore to install the latest CM10 version. Then the CM11 update was pushed to my phone OTA. CM11 is a bit buggy right now on my i747 namely bluetooth which I need solid for use in my car. I'd like to return to stock TW 4.1.1 or a JB ROM based on that.

My question is can I use ODIN to return to stock from CM11, or flash a JB based ROM from CWM? I did some searching and was wondering about the KNOX thing there are so many threads regarding bootloaders, hardbricks, and such that I'm totally confused right now. I would guess since I never did the ATT 4.3, I don't have KNOX on my phone so should be able to ODIN back to stock without issues.

Any advice, a step by step, or point me in the right direction, is greatly appreciated.

TIA for your help
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] browningj:
I appreciate the help, but I can't seem to get it to work. I backed up the phone and tried to flash the zip, but no luck. I formatted all the mount points with the exception of sdcard1. The error was error 7 and it mentioned not being able to stat the build.prop as it couldn't find the file.

Thanks again for the help.

Justin
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aircooledbusses:
Bass.

Restore to stock through Odin, no trip counter. Just make sure you choose the right one for your phone.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2363882

hit the thanx button if I helped or get me some space on copy link in signature
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] distracto:
I am wondering if I can region unlock my phone after it has been rooted and running a custom rom and kernel? I am using the latest quantum kit kat.

I am from Canada and am heading to Hawaii in a week, and would like to grab a pay as you go sim card when I get there.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
Yes, unlocking is the same as with stock phone. You need 8-digit unlock code from your carrier. If you insert SIM from any other carrier and then power up phone, a box will appear into which you enter code. Enter code carefully, ensuring it's correct. Phone will unlock. I've done this with two rooted I747s with custom ROMs and kernels. This occurs at firmware level, not OS.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bass_me:
Thanks

I did just that and everything's OK now. I was pretty sure everything was going to be fine but just needed to double check. I liked KK on the phone but for me CM11 just isn't ready for prime time yet. The BT was way too flaky for me to use in the car and that's a must have for me.

BTW I owned a 66 double door cargo bus and also a 68 Westfalia for quite some time. Love those VW busses :cool:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aircooledbusses:
I am wondering if I can region unlock my phone after it has been rooted and running a custom rom and kernel? I am using the latest quantum kit kat.

I flashed back to stock before unlocking mine and immediately returned to quantum.

Gimme dem cakes!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tex Arcana:
So I posted this in the thread by itself, but it seems no one wants to answer it there, so imma gonna try here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2619548
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] theramsey3:
Maybe no one has a solid answer for you? I have no effing clue what would cause that issue I personally would get back to a fresh flash of a stock rom via whatever means necessary. Take the darn thing to best buy if you have to and ask them to flash it back to stock if you're on 4.3 and use Odin to do it your self if you never made it to 4.3.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BobMurray999:
AT&T Samsung Galaxy s III running Android 4.3 bricked

So I have been running Android 4.3 stock for a while on my Samsung SGH-I747 when I got the itch to "upgrade" to try new android and new rom versions. I failed to absorb the notices that upgrade to Android 4.3 is a one way trip. I tied to restore an old backup and bricked it. I have all the usual utilities. Skipsoft tootkit, Odin3, CWM, TWRP, ROM Manager, Goo Manager, Triangle Away, etc.

I can get into download mode but with Odin3 I need to download a tar file and all I seem able to find are zip files. I have a lot of potentially helpful zip files on my PC but I cannot use Odin3 to load zip files. I can get into recovery mode on my phone but I can't get the zip files from my PC onto my phone. I have found several convoluted scripts to follow to unbrick a phone which involve formatting new SD Cards and loading them up with files. Is there not a tar file of a stock Android 4.3 system somewhere? Ideas?

Why am I having so many troubles rooting my Android 4.3 AT&T Galaxy SIII? I follow the CF_Autoroot instructions but it always seems to screw up somehow?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gseror4:
pit file????

i need the pit file for my phone and i cant seem to find a good link online. can anyone give me a good link. Yes i am using the sgh-i747 in case you couldnt have guessed
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Boomer1605:
What are the advantages/disadvantages with swapping bootloaders?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tex Arcana:
Eh, it was worth a try.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TomMelee:
Argh. I've got 4.1.2 Dandroid installed and I want to go to 4.3 stock w/o knox, at least for now. I do not know my bootloader version and I can't seem to find it. I want to say it's LK3 but tbh I don't know.

I found loserskater's 4.3 and this thread talking about using the MK2 insecure kernel, but I CANNOT find the MK2 kernel for download anywhere.

There are like 10 posts all with quite competing info about how to do this, but I would just like to have stock 4.3 with all the loserskater goodies so that I can drop xposed on it and be on my way. Can anyone help me out here? Please?

Edited: I went with the Intergalactic Rom, which does---by the way, have the best install documentation procedure I've seen for any 4.3 rom.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] natefish:
If you go to the thread that lists the stock 4.3 versions (I think loserskater started it), there should be links to kernels and bootloaders. I think you can also find it through saranhai's thread for the aroma installed Galaxy note 3 experience rom.

Not sure hot to know what bootloader you currently have. Just flashed what the thread said to flash. Just make sure you are done with 4.1 forever before you update.

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bogdaryl:
Guys can someone help? I can't get my download of CWM touch converted to a zip file so that I can flash it. Can someone tell me how to do this or tell me where I can download it already in the flashable zip format? I paid for this on one phone already but just don't want to do it again jjust because I'm replacing a phone.Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eduardo_b:
I go here http://clockworkmod.com/rommanager to find CWM for device and flash the img file using Mobile Odin on phone. You can find Mobile Odin in Playstore. I have CWM recovery on every device and use Touch version when possible (not available for every device). Just rename image file to recovery.img and place in SD or extSD (my preference). You can use this process to update touch versions, and because you've paid for MO, you can install it on new phones as you acquire them.

If my reply helped you, please click on thanks to let me know.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bogdaryl:
Thanks, I finally have it installed. Not the end of the world but was annoying me that I couldn't get it done. I'm guessing I can use this for other things like roms as well correct?