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[Galaxy S III General] IOIDroid:
OTA NANDROID Creation

OK, So For the newbies who have got the update but don't know how to make a nandroid backup here's how !

Download the Program on the link Here ! ODIN

Also download this file at the link Recovery

Open the Program you opened called Odin

Then turn your phone off and boot into download mode , ( Volume Down, Power and Home)

Wait for Odin to show COM and then a number in one of the small boxes

Click on the PDA button and then select the 2nd file you downloaded.

Wait a minute until the file name shows in the box next to PDA and then click Start. (This will flash a custom recovery onto your phone)

That is the hard part out of the way, the next bits are EASY PEASY and are as follows !

Turn your phone off

Boot into recovery mode

Press Volume Up, Home and Power

Once booted you get the option at the bottom to Backup / Restore

Select that and then select the Button that says Create image.zip

Wait for the process to complete it can take upto 10 minutes

Then boot back into the normal phone and then upload the Created .zip file

If you want to do this but don't like the idea of doing it email me at willroberts8@gmail.com and I will log into your machine remotely and do it for you, that way we are able to get this Software available for everyone !

Don't worry when remoting in I will put a Skype session together so that you can see I am not trying to do anything "Malicious"

Regards

Will

p.s. MODS Sorry for posting this here but otherwise this Software patch will not get anywhere into the community and I am all for community development.
[Galaxy S III General] Blenky:
Excuse my ignorance on these matters but won't the backup contain personal data etc?

Also I assume you don't need to be rooted to add custom recovery?
[Galaxy S III General] BanziBaby:
Word of advice I wouldn't let a complete stranger remote login to any PC.
[Galaxy S III General] upss16:
LOlroid is a very respective developer, not a stranger

really seeing this development, seem like need to express my views here. come on guys he is a very respected dev, whose roms have been used up by most of us in the past.. he is not pushing any1 to do this,, just an option.. if u dont like , u dont need to follow up.. but atleast respect all the devs who are working in their private time(mind it its not so called spare time) for making our device up to date...

only people who have recvd crappy 4.3 update from samsung and were rescued by rom devs here on xda will understand..anyway, its a personal choice issue.. but pls have some respect,,, no one asked u to log in to xda and give control of ur phone or pc to a dev...

if they had any bad intentions, they could have done a lot of unwanted things to ur phone while ur happily flashing custom roms on ur phone...

but this place is working on basic trust between each 1 of us.. mantain that...

thanks...:good:
[Galaxy S III General] BanziBaby:
Samsung have obviously released to a small control group to make sure it fixes the issues from their 4.3 release & also doesn't cause any other issues.

Asking folk to make a nandroid backup & then upload it will likely mean that private or account info or files they have on the phone will be uploaded as well & no longer be private.

Also as a general security rule it is never advisable to let strangers remote login to your machine, what happens if something goes wrong? What happens if phones get bricked? Doesn't matter if he is a Dev or not mistakes can happen & you can't trust everyone.

Is it really too much to ask that folk wait a week or so till Samsung makes sure there are no issues with the new update & release it in full?
[Galaxy S III General] 3ig:
I've been away for 2 days and i can't believe this isn't sorted out yet. So lets get some facts straight:

1. IOIDroid is a respected developer.

2. NO. NO. NO. And again. NO. You don't have to be rooted to install custom recovery.

3. Making a Flashable ZIP through CWM only backups /system and boot/kernel. It doesn't touch /data or /cache so you personal data and the naked pictures of your girlfriend are safe.
[Galaxy S III General] andrrei22ro:
and after that how can i get back to my stock recovery?
[Galaxy S III General] pnKK:
Facepalm and double ultra facepalm.
[Galaxy S III General] Blenky:
Keep your hair on!

My daughter got the hot fix the other day. I'm happy to make a backup and upload it. She's out now and don't be back until about 8. Also I don't have anywhere to upload. If someone can help me with that I'm happy to give it a go later tonight.
[Galaxy S III General] Pastrana007:
Hey, upload it to mega.co.nz please.

Thank you very much!
[Galaxy S III General] rafu997:
I have full stock 4.3 MJ9 rom, flash counter 0, no root - FULL stock and csc BTU. All I get is Maximum number of roll-out updates has been exceeded...

Any idea, how to bypass this ?:) I got this message after changing csc to BTU and flashing full stock rom with full wipe. Before I got info that there is no new updates for my phone.
[Galaxy S III General] Pastrana007:
You can't bypass that message.
[Galaxy S III General] andrrei22ro:
[MENTION=4577054]IOIDroid[/MENTION] i have tried flashing CWM with Odin and it dosent work, guess i need to have root first.
[Galaxy S III General] crisagatie:
what you have to do is make sure samsung drivers are installed (if you have kies you have them) and to make sure kies is not running. from task manager close any kies instances you may have (it's running in the background, so you have to kill it). then try the steps above, it should work.
[Galaxy S III General] Slims34:
What is not working is there a Error ?
[Galaxy S III General] andrrei22ro:
it stiil does not work. cant boot in CWM, only in stock recovery. i have flashed previously with Odin (its not the first time)
[Galaxy S III General] 3ig:
Good goddd dude flashing with Odin in download mode has nothing to do with root. Your probably got an error that's why you only boot in to stock recovery.
[Galaxy S III General] headhood:
Flash philz recovery
[Galaxy S III General] Pastrana007:
width izensinl

Do you have the USB Debugging on?
[Galaxy S III General] rafu997:
"Maximum number of roll-out updates has been exceeded" - And what does this really mean? Should I try to update every couple of minutes or there is no chance I'll get OTA?
[Galaxy S III General] IOIDroid:
Once we have the backup I will happily guide you step by step through making your phone completely stock again !

Also to the people that have questioned my trust worthiness in regards to remoting onto machines I work as an IT Technician and no offence meant but none of any of your personal data is what I am looking for, I just want to try and help update the Device that we are using and as you people may have noticed there are not many of us devs left on the Forum providing support for the I9300

Thank you to all that have defended me as they have probably either used my ROM's or have just seen me about the forum, I have been a member for around 3 years and have tried my best to support any questions that people have asked !

Thank you again and I am still available if anyone would like me to assist them in creating a Nandroid backup
[Galaxy S III General] andrrei22ro:
""Stock Recovery being reflashed after a reboot?

There is an auto recovery restore system on stock roms that will reflash the Stock Recovery on a Stock Rom. If the restore files are renamed then CWM Recovery should not be overwritten after a reboot.

You need to be rooted and then delete or rename the following files:

Quote:

/system/recovery-from-boot.p

/system/etc/install-recovery.sh""

this what is happenig. so i need root to flash CWM
[Galaxy S III General] IOIDroid:
[MENTION=5068938]Pastrana007[/MENTION] please PM Me and I will provide you with my Android File Host details and you can upload to there !

Are you comfortable with making the backup or would you like some assistance ?
[Galaxy S III General] jimmyjim11:
have same problem for last few days :(

on stock firmware got crappy 4.3 on ota as well

tried kies 3 as well but wit no luck
[Galaxy S III General] sperelli:
anyone tried the new stock 4.3??
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
As per identical questions .

The servers are overloaded .
[Galaxy S III General] IOIDroid:
Currently speaking to [MENTION=3803166]andrrei22ro[/MENTION] to try and get some form of remote access to show him how to do this !

Once this is sorted out we will try get an upload sorted !
[Galaxy S III General] Blenky:
I'm OK with doing the backup. As it's my daughters phone, which is on contact, I don't want to root. However as you don't need to root to add custom recovery that's OK. Trick will be to prise the phone off her!

If I get it done I will PM you but it will be later tonight.
[Galaxy S III General] IOIDroid:
No problem, I am UK Based so GMT, I will be available until around 10pm !

However if its after that time please still feel free to email me or contact me via hangouts !

willroberts8@gmail.com I will still try and answer !
[Galaxy S III General] andrrei22ro:
i'm making the nandoid backup right now. please have patience
[Galaxy S III General] IOIDroid:
I have got an upload link ready some once the backup has been made I will sort it out then release it for you all !
[Galaxy S III General] nomaj:
Thanks for your efforts! i'm waiting.... =)
[Galaxy S III General] jmmc:
Upload it to mega pls :)
[Galaxy S III General] uptonseasider:
N
[Galaxy S III General] pellonet:
Received an OTA update today & my i9300 is now on MK6(BTU). Have not got a clue what was improved if anything but even one improvement has a cost as now Kies tells me it doesn't support my current software version.

WTFIGO with these people?

AP: i9300XXUGMK6

CP: i9300XXUGMK6

CSC: i9300OXAGMK6
[Galaxy S III General] Millenium3:
Is your Kies version 3?

Surfing from Tapatalk in I9300.
[Galaxy S III General] IOIDroid:
Do a nandroid backup for us ! and upload it !
[Galaxy S III General] pellonet:
Yes KIES 3 current version (checked for update on that, just in case!)
[Galaxy S III General] Millenium3:
Well, it may be because the new firmware is not yet registered as full ROM, only as a hot fix.

Surfing from Tapatalk in I9300.
[Galaxy S III General] pellonet:
Happy to do a nandroid dump but I need to be sure that my device will not be compromised i.e. rooting is a no-no as my Barclays banking software does not allow rooted devices.
[Galaxy S III General] Blenky:
You will still have previous version of Kies as installing v3 does not remove it. Could you be opening v2 in error?
[Galaxy S III General] pellonet:
Yes, I removed the old version to save confusion.
[Galaxy S III General] headhood:
I dont care anymore..moving back to ics (ice cream sandwich) and **** samsung!
[Galaxy S III General] PIRATA!:
I'm sorry...but is it good to activate the Fast Dormancy as I had done with v4.1.2??
[Galaxy S III General] kovacs87:
How to root this rom XXUGMK6?

Sorry! I am amateur.
[Galaxy S III General] Millenium3:
I guess it's with same method?

Backup before anything

Surfing from Tapatalk in I9300.
[Galaxy S III General] IOIDroid:
The upload process seems slow !

It may be tomorrow before I get anything released !
[Galaxy S III General] Pastrana007:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=33305784&postcount=2
[Galaxy S III General] Millenium3:
Maybe you could try alternative file hosting site? Or is it the file size giving the headaches?

Surfing from Tapatalk in I9300.
[Galaxy S III General] IOIDroid:
Its the file size that's the problem !

I will work to release the ROM tomorrow !
[Galaxy S III General] Slims34:
If you give me the link from where you downloaded I can upload for you. Because I now to how to remove the other things. Sry for bad english.
[Galaxy S III General] Blenky:
Has someone uploaded a file to work from? If so I will stand down from hassling my daughter for her phone when she gets home ;->
[Galaxy S III General] Millenium3:
Oh well, we can have patience for tomorrow. Thanks a lot!

Surfing from Tapatalk in I9300.
[Galaxy S III General] headhood:
Heyy!!!! Heres a video of another guy just made a nandroid backup and upload it!!! Link in the discretion! !! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Check that out!
[Galaxy S III General] Blenky:
I hope his nandroid is better than his dancing lol
[Galaxy S III General] Shehab:
We'll wait .... Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] mrbojangle69:
Rick Rolling the i9300XXUGMK6!!!
[Galaxy S III General] kovacs87:
I know the process but I can not find the CF-Auto-Root.tar file.
[Galaxy S III General] hakan_710:
http://download.chainfire.eu/229/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-m0-m0xx-gti9300.zip

here you go mate. use this link
[Galaxy S III General] :
Edit: too slow...
[Galaxy S III General] ClassicalDonkey:
But what if we want the nude pics????
[Galaxy S III General] mrbojangle69:
Nude pics? Stop the chat and share'em!!!
[Galaxy S III General] ClassicalDonkey:
If I could get the update I would give you the files....... Remote is not good but it's a tool that's is very useful..... Keep up the good work
[Galaxy S III General] pellonet:
How do you find nandroid backup images on an un-rooted phone, I've done 3 of my MK6 & can't find out how to save them to external SDCard?
[Galaxy S III General] mrbojangle69:
pellonet, which custom recovery are you using? Because if it's Philz's, it saves it to the internal sdcard by default, but you have also the option to save it on the external sdcard on the same menu. No matter where it is, the important thing is to do it and save it somewhere else on your pc and upload it to e.g Mega.
[Galaxy S III General] dacorsa:
Hope to see a nandroid of 4.3 soon!

Inviato dal mio Galaxy S3 con Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] pellonet:
I'm using the CWM one referenced in post #2072, I was looking for an alternative location for the nandroid backup but there did not seem to be an option for this, where can I find the one you mention, I could try that. At the moment the file is there but I can't get to it & as mentioned before I can't root the phone as the banking facility app has to stay!
[Galaxy S III General] daanismyname:
With ES File Explorer you can browse the root of your phone without rooting the phone itself. You can then copy any system file to extSd (even without being rooted). I don't know the nandroid backup location but this is how you can copy it to extSd

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[Galaxy S III General] pellonet:
I always use ES file explorer but that's my problem the root is there but just showing as empty.
[Galaxy S III General] Millenium3:
Try to use Aroma recovery file manager by Amarullz. This one helped me find the image.zip of my backup when I couldn't find it within file manager apps.

Link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1646108

Surfing from Tapatalk in I9300.
[Galaxy S III General] pellonet:
Tried that & still no access to the image.zip. Did a test backup to exSD from CWM recovery, I can see that fine with ES File Explorer
[Galaxy S III General] Millenium3:
When I found it, it was not in the ClockWorkMod folder in root of internal SD card. It was like in /storage/ClockWorkMod or something like that just to let you know

Surfing from Tapatalk in I9300.
[Galaxy S III General] makgyver:
With TWRP touch recovery you can choose where to store nandroid backup, internal or external sd.

Then, put your SD on your computer. You can extract the nandroid

I hope this help u.

Enviado desde mi bq Edison 2 Quad Core mediante Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] tqgia2:
Maybe can expect a new FW in the next few days - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25265889
[Galaxy S III General] headhood:
Why do yo think so? On that article you gave us nothing about the release day or something....thats regular new about the **** they(sammy) did...nothing more...they just tald us the facts that we already know...
[Galaxy S III General] tqgia2:
Firstly they've run an article about the botched update already, and talked about how it was pulled. This article is a new article which indicates that a revised 4.3 is being rolled out. A google of recent news for 4.3 and s3 indicates that a few other news sites are also reporting the same.

No way to verify until we get something here on xda though
[Galaxy S III General] AssassinGEO:
Waiting.
[Galaxy S III General] :
You will find it under:

/storage/sdcard0/clockworkmod

or

/storage/extSDCard/clockworkmod

In there is a folder called "backup" and in this folder are the folders named with the creation date.

There are the images stored-

EDIT: In CWM choose (under "backup and restore") the option "backup to external storage"
[Galaxy S III General] Lammy696:
Right, so as of yet we're waiting on someone to upload a nandroid backup? Do we have an ETA on that or has nobody gotten to this point yet?
[Galaxy S III General] PIRATA!:
I'm sorry...screen I wasI with 4.1.2 I used to disable Fast Dormancy for better use of my signal.

It good to disable it even with 4.3 or in this version is not useful/necessary?
[Galaxy S III General] langers1972:
We've had confirmation on 28th November from local Vodafone systems engineer that a new release has been pushed to the telcos for testing.

See http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=40&topicid=133846&page_no=3#942271
[Galaxy S III General] IOIDroid:
#Imgoing to need another Nandroid backup preferably an Image.zip folder as I cant get the one I have got to work

Regards

IOIDroid
[Galaxy S III General] rafu997:
I would make a nandroid backup but I only get "maximum number of roll-outs was exceeded". No way servers are overloaded since hardly few people can actually download this OTA. I'm trying from time to time and always the same problem. Really annoying...
[Galaxy S III General] nomaj:
Can you extract it? Maybe you can compare nandroid backup with first 4.3 firmware and find only patched one files?
[Galaxy S III General] IOIDroid:
It wont extract properly !

I am trying to get another version but no one that has a backup appears to be online !
[Galaxy S III General] Naveed Abbas:
I think samsung only updated the kernel and modem with this MK6 OTA update
[Galaxy S III General] IOIDroid:
The size of the OTA Update makes no sense ! Its 26mb which Is much larger than a kernel and a modem !
[Galaxy S III General] Roman91:
there are also the new camera and some improvements in UI
[Galaxy S III General] nomaj:
Can we somehow help? share backup...
[Galaxy S III General] Naveed Abbas:
mybe along with some updated mods
[Galaxy S III General] IOIDroid:
I wll not know for sure until someone releases a Backup for me to work with !
[Galaxy S III General] Lammy696:
What's this about new camera? In the broken update the camera was modified, it had new features like the audio recording on a photo and more in depth HDR settings.

Don't know if the battery drain patch and lock screen patch should accumulate to 26mb though... Did anyone work out which process was draining the battery so much? Or was it the ram manager that was broken?
[Galaxy S III General] Naveed Abbas:
kernel was draining battery and wakeup lag also

I am on stock XXUGM9-BTU with stock I9300ZCUBMK2 kernel and my phone is working fine.
[Galaxy S III General] pellonet:
I have the backup image.zip, my phone is UN-ROOTED & I can't see the folder that is indicated at the end of the nandroid backup process that I followed to the letter as described in #2072.

HELP...................

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I have the backup image.zip, my phone is UN-ROOTED & I can't see the folder that is indicated (/sdcard/clockworkmod/image.zip) at the end of the nandroid backup process that I followed to the letter as described in #2072.

HELP...................
[Galaxy S III General] Naveed Abbas:
if you used CWM for backup it should be located at *root*/data/media/clockworkmod
[Galaxy S III General] Ricky Divjakovski:
has anyone made a system dump? or should i make a quick tool that can do.it for noobs?

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if i upload a .zip that will archive the system, boot and modem into a zip will someone flash and upload?
[Galaxy S III General] pellonet:
I have followed the instructions in #2072, at the end of the process CWM said my image.zip is in /sdcard/clockworkmod/image.zip but as mentioned previously I can't find it, or in any of the other places mentioned in previous posts, to reiterate; my phone is UN-ROOTED.

If you have a facility to make a nandroid to an external SD card then that would solve my problem.
[Galaxy S III General] mrbojangle69:
Please tell me if you have a folder named "0" in this locations: /storage/sdcard/, /storage/extSdCard/ or in /storage/emulated/. That's a backup of you data that some roms makes before the flashing process. Maybe it could be located in there. Try to find the clockworkmod folder.

Thank you for taking your time and patience trying to share your nandroid backup, we all appreciate that.
[Galaxy S III General] Slims34:
Please make a .zip
[Galaxy S III General] tsimitsangaz:
Sorry guys but you must get an Iphone instead of android. 3 days and no one managed to upload a simple cwm stock backup ...Jesus.....:eek:
[Galaxy S III General] pellonet:
I can't find image.zip in any of the locations mentioned however I have used the 'Make backup to SD card' option in CWM, this is not a nandroid backup & will contain my personal data, I can upload some of the files from there but not publicly until I can be sure my personal data is safe!
[Galaxy S III General] Millenium3:
SD card is actually internal SD card, seems like.

Look below in CWM menu of backup and restore, backup to external SD card or sdcard1 or something like that.

Surfing from Tapatalk in I9300.
[Galaxy S III General] mrbojangle69:
Ok, thank you for answering. It was just an idea about the possible locations of that backup. Obviously the things that the devs need is system, boot.img and modem.bin. Your personal data is none of their businesses, is your privacy, it must be kept by you.
[Galaxy S III General] Ricky Divjakovski:
someone pm me who would like make the dump, i don't really want my system dump utility floating around! all you need to do is flash in recovery and there will be a file on the sdcard called dump.zip
[Galaxy S III General] ClassicalDonkey:
Ya iPhone are easy....... But look at the problems when ios7 came out..... You could not do what we can do and swap and change to make things better..... Apple have you locked down and your phone is how they want it to be not how you want it to be!!!!! I pick chose over a dictatorship.....
[Galaxy S III General] Ricky Divjakovski:
try taking a system dump on an iphone... i am uploading my package in a sec that archives system, kernel and modem :D

where is the internal sdcard mounted?

/data/media/0 or..?
[Galaxy S III General] Slims34:
When it will be online ?
[Galaxy S III General] Lammy696:
Since when did this turn into android v iOS? If you can upload the backup then do it. Seems that whoever has been lucky enough to get the fix either doesn't know how to do it or has totally disappeared. I don't want to flash the crap 4.3 update only to be stuck in the same position as guys here and just be sat waiting for the OTA update to come to them. We should be sorted in a day or two, it's not like there's amazing difference from 4.1 to 4.3 so unless you're not able to revert to 4.1 what's the rush?
[Galaxy S III General] Ricky Divjakovski:
uploading now! there will be 2 zips to flash, one will flash an old philz touch recovery so the sdcard mountpoint is /sdcard/ and the other will arching the system to /sdcard/DUMP.zip
[Galaxy S III General] Slims34:
Amazing, thanks. Is your uploading speed fast ?
[Galaxy S III General] Ricky Divjakovski:
first flash the OLD_RECOVERY.zip

then reboot into recovery again(so we dont get errors)

then flash SYS_DUMP_i9300.zip

there will be a DUMP.zip on the sdcards root

files are attached!

heres mirrors if you cant download from xda

RECOVERY MIRROR

DUMP UTILITY MIRROR

ALSO it would be nice if seeing as i am making this dump possible, i would like to be quoted soon as dump is online! thanks!!
[Galaxy S III General] Ricky Divjakovski:
instuctions are up!