[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] h311sdr0id:
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CAUTION: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING POSTS ABOUT BACKING UP "USERDATA".

CONFIRMED WORKING!!!

Thanks to then following for their feedback and testing:

open1your1eyes0

con247

scrosler

While playing around with my extra SCH-I535, I came across something very interesting.

I was having a lot of problems getting "full" backups of my larger .img's (ie. data, cache, etc.) I was told to try and mount my system as r/w and adb through my computer instead.

When i would try backing them up in a terminal emulator, I would always get an error about the file being too large...[\B]

I got too confused trying and got way too frustrated.

I found out that I could obtain these .img's just as easily as copy and pasting.

I was able to get the full backup sizes this way also.

Now this method does not have EVERYTHING worked out. If I could get some input and help on this, that would be greatly appreciated.

DIRECTIONS:

1. Take any rooted sgs3 and install ES File Explorer.

2. Setup ES with root (go into settings and click on the "root options" and allow ES to take advantage of root and go up to the "/" directory).

3. Also make sure to change your default home folder to "/" in settings.

4. Now exit out of ES and open it up again. You should be in the root directory (/).

5. Open up the folder marked "dev" (or the "/dev" folder) and locate the "block" folder (or the "/dev/block" folder).

6. Copy the folder named "block" (long-press and select "Copy").

7. Now move to your extSdCard (or you can stay in your internal card if you insist and have a lot of room to spare).

8. Create a folder and name it something you will remember.

9. Paste in that folder and go make yourself a bowl of oatmeal or whatever (you can see the process ongoing in your notification bar).

10. After they are done copying, you will be left with a lot of files (there will be a folder in the folder you created and then a few more folders you will have to open to get to the folder with all the goodies in it)(you'll understand when you see it). Most of them you will find familiar if you ever opened up a stock ODIN tar.md5 before.

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11. Now you have all these files, but none of them have extensions. Transfer this folder to your Linux environment and go ahead and add the proper extensions to these files by renaming them.

Some of them should be .sbn, some should be .img or .ext4. The best thing to do is to download a stock ODIN img and add the file extensions that correspond with them to your copied files.

12. Now you can use the kitchen or any other method that would require these files.

I have only had time to test these files out in the kitchen and create a working folder for them (so I could remove unwanted things and bloat ware, etc.).

I used the system.img.ext4 and another boot.img to create a flashable ROM.

I didnt use the boot.img from the copy I made cause I didn't have time to play around at the moment. But I will be trying later tonight.

It would be cool if anyone else could help me out by testing this and letting me know what was up.

NOTE: I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING YOU DO. PERIOD. BOOM.

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