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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] LuigiBull23:
Rooting doesn't change anything on the phone. You couldn't tell if it was rooted unless someone told you lol. The same thing applies to any rooted device. What ROOT alone actually does is it gives you privileged control, also known as permissions, within the android's subsystem. In other words it reduces your limitations that carriers or manufacturers put on most devices, allowing you to alter or replace system apps and settings, run apps that require administrator permissions, and a bunch of other neat things. Probably the biggest benefit to rooting is having the ability to completely replace your OS, which is known as a custom ROM. Custom ROMs are what changes the overall look of your phone. However, since you're a complete beginner and afraid of rooting and all the affects it has to the phone, I suggest just simply rooting and become accustomed to it's benefits before going further into custom ROMs and such. When you're ready you can go ahead and do some research on the things you wanna try but are unaware of how to do them. As long as you do read carefully with everything you plan to do to the phone you honestly run no risk of hard bricking your phone. The worst that can happen is a soft brick, which can easily be worked around. If you're not satisfied with being rooted there are always methods to unrooting It's very easy to do. My advice to you is to learn how to unroot your phone before actually rooting it that way you're less concerned or tempted when going through the process.

If you're stock rooted with stock recovery you can possibly receive OTA's. Custom recoveries are the main culprits in preventing you from receiving them. However, if you update you'll lose root but there is an app called Voodoo Rootkeeper that will back up root and it's binaries and gives you the ability to restore it after an update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] topherk:
First off, we really appreciate the fact that you took the time to read and study before actually trying to root your phone. Way too many people go willy-nilly about it and end up bricking their phones. The main thing with rooting is that you need to understand what you're doing, and the only way to do that is to read and read some more. You're a rare breed, my friend.

Ok, pleasantries aside, let's get down to business! In my opinion, the easiest guide to follow to get root access is

Skunk Ape's Rooting Guide

. The instructions are clear and include pictures so you can follow easily. It's what I recommend 100% of the time, and no one ever comes back saying that they don't understand how to do it. Just follow the instructions carefully, as you'll have to do a battery pull at one point.

Now, once you have root, you can flash any ROM you choose. Since you want a TW experience as close to stock as possible, I'd recommend installing

Freeza's Stock ROM (DeOdex version)

. After you install that ROM, you can manually strip it of bloatware based on

this guide by VegasRooted

, but as always, create a nandroid backup of your phone before doing anything crazy like uninstalling system apps.

Finally, as far as OTA (Over-The-Air) Updates go... I understand your desire to have the "official" update from Sprint, but it's really not necessary. Freeza's Rom is the stock Rom, just rooted. All you have to do is flash the latest Rom from his thread, which is usually out well before I even get the OTA notification. The other way to receive an OTA is to: unroot your phone, re-install the stock recovery, receive the OTA update, then re-root your phone. In my opinion, all those steps are unnecessary.

One last thing, since you've been reading a lot, I'm sure you're already aware of this, but only flash Roms/Mods/Kernals that are made specifically for our phone (d2spr). Any Rom/Mod/Kernal for the international version (i9300) will hard-brick your phone. Roms, Mods, and Kernals for other US variants of the phone (for Verizon, T-mobile, etc) might work, but most likely will have many, many issues (including no data/4G, botloops, etc.). Not worth it, in my opinion.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] LuigiBull23:
Very helpful statement to go along with my response above. Our newcomer should have a much clearer understanding and be all set for prime.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] topherk:
One note about trying to allow the OTA to go through:

If she (I'm assuming MJGirl is female) has removed any stock system apps, the OTA will fail (even if she has stock recovery). So if she's going down the path of removing bloatware, she won't be able to update without going fully back to stock (Rom as well as recovery). In my opinion, if she's already flashing a stock ROM to get the OTA, she might as well just flash Freeza's.

Just my two cents.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] LuigiBull23:
Yes, exactly. That is why I suggested simply rooting and becoming familiar with some of it's benefits before actually go through researching how to perform some of these specific root functions, such as removing bloat and that's where your statement comes. Sorry if there was a misunderstanding there but regardless, thank you for pointing that out.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] topherk:
No worries, I just remembered after both of our posts that OTAs will fail in stock apps are removed/frozen and felt it was worth noting. Thanks for helping me explain the stuff I forgot (or don't normally use)!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Juls317:
anyone know where the md5 is displayed on GooManager?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] topherk:
Unless the Dev includes it in the changelog, I don't think it's built-in to goomanager. That'd be a good addition, but from my cursory search through the app, I couldn't find it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tresveces:
ROM, Kernel, Baseband .... what are the differences?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bthorne79:
ROM is the software kernel is the boot image baseband is your modem
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MJGirl:
Thank you all for the well rounded input. I'm not planning to do anything crazy. I just want to see what all the fuss is about. :D I will be rooting tomorrow (hopefully, fingers crossed).

PS. I am a girl lol. :o
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] LuigiBull23:
The worst that can happen is you get hooked and become a flashaholic lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] galexandr:
Got a Sprint S3, want to flash to CRICKET. Do i first go to the store and port my number over, or do i flash my phone? Thank you for all your help
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Juls317:
did i see something about a screen flickering issue earlier? i searched but can't seem to find anything about it for some reason. but i believe i've begun to experience it now and it's not something i'd like to deal with, for obvious reasons. have any solutions been found?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
It seems to busy be an issue with AOSP roms....something got updated in the source that is making this happen.

Try reflashing your rom for the moment
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Juls317:
ok. I've actually wanted to try out a TW rom anyway, so i might just do that. I didn't have the issue until I flashed the newest RootBox nightly so I might just flash back
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Yeah, Liquid Smooth, AOKP, they were all having.this issue
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MJGirl:
I meant to root but various things came up that got in the way of my plan. I was thinking though, I heard something about "sudden death syndrome" (something like that) and I wanted to know why it happens, what are the probable causes, and if it happens to rooted devices regardless of the Roms, kernels, etc. If anyone has a short and straight to the point recap of the hundreds-of-posts-thread it would be greatly appreciated. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] g_money:
If ur talking about being "bricked", from what I've read (and imo) it happens when the user has not read up on just whar they're attempting, or they have not verified the process (before) they attempt it or the files that they are using. Read up! And make sure ur uaing the correct files! You'll do fine...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
That can happen to any device because its caused by a hardware failure. Rooting your phone or running a custom ROM does not increase the chances of it happening, because whatever causes it is present out of the box.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MJGirl:
So let me see if I understand. It's basically present on the device and rooting it might trigger this "sudden death"? Are the galaxies more prone to this sudden death or is it just impossible to get a yes or no answer?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
No. I said that its a hardware defect. Nothing you do will trigger it, it happens on its own.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MJGirl:
Oh okay. Thank you for replying. I definitely had a misconception. :o
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Yeah, rooting will not cause your phone to suddenly die, if you're paying attention to what you're doing anyway
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MJGirl:
Hi, I just wanted to say thank you all. I got my phone rooted and now I'm backing things up with Titanium Backup. My next step is to flash a ROM. I have no clue how to do this. I'm leaning towards this one Freeza's Stock ROM (DeOdex version) just because it's closest to stock, but what are all those other links (Stock kernels, stock recovery, MD4 Firmware, etc)? Do I have to download them all? What are the top 3 things I have to do before I start installing/flashing ROMs? Any help is greatly appreciated. :o
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
Please also do a nandroid backup using your recovery. That's the best back up you can do. Freeza's is the same as you have now. It's a rooted stock rom. Try something different to start with i would recommend TPR The People's ROM or MOAR (mother of all roms). Very similar to stock touchwiz but lots of goodies.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MJGirl:
Okay, I'm doing a backup in recovery mode. What I'm basically looking for in a ROM is something stable, simple, clean, and as close to stock as possible. I want to start off slow and start to do more once I become a little more experienced.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] LuigiBull23:
You do that and while you're at it please do refer to my signature on my profile page for my link to a full Android development guide. Stick to section A - "Getting Started", as the remainders of the thread takes you more into depth on development and such so you may not want to read any further than that. I highly recommend reading through the links provided in the "Getting Started" section because it's a great way for learning the basics for those just getting into flashing ROMs, kernels, unrooting, etc..

Good luck
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] MJGirl:
Thanks for the reply! I usually browse XDA through the phone app and I stick to reading threads that are in normal language (i.e. how to turn off phone, Cases and Screen Protectors) lol. I will be reading that guide for the rest of the week and hopefully it will answer all/most of my questions. :o
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] alabamajagd:
Cm 10.1 rc4 mms

I just flashed the CM RC4 today. I have been running a nightly from about a month ago. Anyway, I did a clean flash, but now I cannot get the stock messaging program to send or receive pictures. It sends plain text without a problem. I thought it might be my modem, so I updated to the latest modem. No luck though. I reinstalled the rom a few times today without any luck. I even tried the most recent nightly. I am sure it is something simple I am missing. Any suggestions? Oh, I also put Go SMS on and it sort-of works. With that on I can receive text message images and send compressed images. I would rather use the stock SMS program though.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Captain Quack:
where are the stock ROMS?

I've been fiddling around with rooting and that and I want to go back to complete stock. no bootloaders. no root. nothing that didn't come out of the box. I know how to flash a ROM. my frustration is the 12,487,282 links to threads with links to links to a version that may or may not be the right one and even if it might be the right one it takes 3 days to download if it isn't a dead link

is there one place where I can go to get the latest stock rom for my SPH-710? and know it's the right one? so many version. so much confusion!

wimper...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ramer:
This is exactly what you need: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1904099

Just make sure to read the instructions carefully. Download the correct file for you Sprint phone, either 16 gb or 32 gb. Copy the file to your phone, boot into custom recovery and flash the file. You will be returned to out of the box state.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Captain Quack:
that looks like exactly what I need! thank you thank you thank you. I think I hit the thanks button right!. I'll let you know how it works out.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fitz420:
Can a kernel generally be flashed at anytime simply by wiping cache/dalvik and flashing or must it be flashed after flashing the ROM in the same recovery session?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Juls317:
anytime. just make sure the rom and kernel are compatible with each other
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fitz420:
I'm also assuming that cache/dalvik need to be wiped before flashing, correct
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Juls317:
I'm not quite sure if it's 100% required, but it's always suggested to wipe both before flashing anything
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] LuigiBull23:
You wipe whatever is instructed to in the OP of that respective ROM, kernel, mod, etc...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fitz420:
So when plugging into my computers that run Ubuntu I can't get my microsd card to mount as a drive. I read that this is a problem but figured I could find an easy workaround. I wanna transfer a bunch more of photos and music. I have tried a couple recommended apps but they don't seem to work.

Do I need a windows computer, cause if so I can put one on my network.

Ideally I'd use Ubuntu cause that's what my server runs and where all my files reside.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1711009

^^that'll do it. Windows not required
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Captain Quack:
yeeeee and HA! that did the trick nicely. sorted out some major problems. like why my wifi wouldn't stay on and why my GPS app crashed every time I actually turned the GPS on. thank you much and now I have a goto site in furture
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fitz420:
Seems to work but Linux only sees my 32gb card as 12gb. Android sees it as 32, any ideaa
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Can't say for sure other than your card being formatted incorrectly. Are you able to read and write to it even tho its only being seen as 12gb? I would try reformatting it to fat32
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fitz420:
And should I do that from recovery or another method.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Doing it from recovery should be enough. It would have to be custom tho I believe. I don't think stock recovery will wipe external storage.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fitz420:
I'm running CWM. So I should do it through there? I could also pull it out and use gparted under ubuntu
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
I was gonna recommend gparted as a backup if the recovery method fails ya. But ya cwm should be fully capable of doing it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fitz420:
Thanks again for all the help. You guys over here seem incredibly helpful. Glad to be a part of the ssg3 forums

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no wonder you're helpful....you're from the 412 too. haha. small world.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ozzy_0310:
TWRP MD5 error?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] halodos:
Can I use the ktweaker app to generate the logcat that developers want for bug checks?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] LuigiBull23:
Yes you can.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ozzy_0310:
Note 2 keyboard?

OK I had installed the themed note 2 keyboard on my AT&T S3 everything went fine. So I tried to install it on my friends Sprint S3 and now when the phone boots it goes as far as Android is upgrading and no further? Let it sit and about 5 min later it flashes the Samsung screen real quick and then just goes back to Android is upgrading. Using TWRP for recovery I can get into the file manager. Can I remove the files I installed and if so what ones would they be?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hewey_mx5:
I've been using ROMs for awhile now but only tw until about a week ago. I'm running liquid smooth v2.5 and it's amazing but it hits my battery pretty hard. Like 8% an hour on standby sometimes. I'd this common with any non tw rom?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cmyasika1:
can a t-mobile rom be flashed on a sprint device?

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Question.

When you say 'Any Rom', do you mean any us carrier Rom? Basically, my ? is "Can I flash a T-Mobile Rom on our devices?" Reason is I want all of the Samsung apps and run 4.2.2.

And I'm not a Complete Noob, just a noob with this device
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] hewey_mx5:
At the bottom of the paragraph you quoted, it says that flashing ROMs intended for other carriers can lead to some serious problems. In other threads people have said you can brick your phone that way, too. I'm just a noob so I may be wrong but that is the information I've seen in other threads and I wouldn't risk flashing a rom on a Sprint gs3 that was built for the t mobile variant.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Generally flashing another carriers roms is not that big a deal. You are only in danger of bricking if the rom includes stuff like bootloaders. (Alot of people will say the radio/modem from another carrier will brick you, but I've done it and it's never caused anything worse than a bootloop). Most roms are nothing more than a system and kernel however and are harmless to flash but should go without saying you'll have some debugging to do if you want it to run without issues.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
No DO NOT FLASH a Tmobile rom on a sprint s3, bad advise from the poster above. The kernel, the rom, the partitions are different. The tmobile phone is gsm device sprint is cdma. You will brick your phone. Only use roms listed in the Sprint SGS3 forums under development section. Follow Cnexus advise and start off with what he recommended.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
I speak from personal experience here. The partitions across all us gs3's are identical. I have purposely flashed modems from other carriers onto my sprint s3 and it has never hard bricked. And how many custom roms out threre include a modem in them anyway?

The recoveries and kernels can also be swapped with the only I'll effect being an upside down screen when in landscape. So what made my advice so bad?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
[MENTION=4428718]billard412[/MENTION]

Because your giving advice to an individual who is trying to learn how to root his phone for the first time. Haven't you seen the amount of i bricked my phone threads in these forums? . Now there are ways to get a GSM ROM to flash but it requires changing the meta.inf so it writes to the correct places. He nor any other NOOB in this specific thread will know about this yet alone understand it. I'm giving the best advise possible for the individual and the thread we are in.

Edit:

Maybe I can explain it differently, just cause I see some guy on a stunt show running and leaping over moving cars proves that it can be done. But i would never nor would I recommend to someone to go try and do it. Obviously the individual on television has years and years of training in order to accomplish that feat.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
I understand that but at the same time I hate to see people misinformed. And the point I'm trying to make is that unless the zip were to include something important like firmware (which 99.9% of custom roms don't include) then no changes to meta-inf would be needed. Partitions across the us and Canadian variants are identical. The international is a huge no no of course. But I can assure you that on both the tmo and sprint s3 the system is mmcblk0p14 the Kernel is mmcblk0p7 the recovery is mmcblk0p18. I know the s3 like the back of my hand.

With that said, I get [MENTION=4169204]edfunkycold[/MENTION] 's point so if youre a noob that's new to all this please disregard everything you've just read. This is advance **** ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
Whether that is true or not, this is not the place to be saying it is OK to do so. There are carrier specific files required by the CDMA carriers that will cause data errors, spamming other carriers with fail requests, and lots of other problems that a new member should not be messing with. New members should only be flashing ROMs for their specific carriers. Maybe after reading a few months and trying a few things they can learn some of these advanced tasks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] halodos:
Why does google play not update some apps when the lcd density (is this the same thing as DPI?) is 240 (as opposed to 320 stock?)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
Because some apps require the it to be set at stock for the app to look and or function correctly so they build in scripts to check for that. Just like some apps check for rooted devices.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] halodos:
would changing just the google play store dpi to 320 using the xposed framework fix the compatability issues?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
Idk try it, but I doubt it it might be checking for that specific app your trying to update. Try the play store if not then do both play store and app your trying to update. Let us know what you find out.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] halodos:
So I clean flashed Liquidsmooth 2.5 again, followed their instructions which included

1. change dpi to stock (320)

2. reboot

3. clear google play and google framework service data

4. reboot

5. open google play and click accept

6. set to wanted dpi (240)

7. reboot

and i get zero network connectivity using either 4g or wifi after step 3, which i only fixed through a reflash of liquidsmooth...

Then i checked slimroms and they updated with the new gapps, so i'm going back to them. I hate messing around with this DPI stuff...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] topherk:
Yeah, changing the dpi through that setting menu is sometimes hit or miss. Try using the stock dpi setting and using xposed to do the per-app seeing. That's what I'm running right now and it's running just as if I had set it separately in the settings.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Best way to go about it is to download a play store that's modded for multi-dpi support. Plenty of them on xda.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fitz420:
What max CPU freq is considered to be the highest safe freq to use when over clocking for games that lag a bit? I understand how all the governors work but I was also wondering what the recommended I/o scheduler is. If I remember right, deadline was the recommended scheduler on the evo
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Juls317:
I can't speak for schedulers cuz i haven't been able to do too much research on them yet but as far as frequencies go it depends on your phone. while every processor is made the same, there are still idiosyncrasies in each individual processor that makes their top out level a hit different.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wallythander:
I would advise SIO or ROW from personal experience on schedulers. And I have used Deadline before and had no problems with it. CFQ is always a good all round choice too.