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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] smallyetzon:
Great effort on this method anyways thanks for the help i keep my hopes up on you guys wating for that miracle way to root my useless no data sync gs3 without a computer Thanks

Sent from my useless no data sync gs3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrksbrd:
Smally,

Just curious of "my useless no data sync gs3" means? Are you soft bricked? Please explain so we can get you up and running
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] smallyetzon:
my usb port wouldnt charge or sync with computer tried everything so decided to get it fix got the usb port fixed charges ok but still no conection with pc not even shows up on notifications

Sent from my useless no data sync gs3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrksbrd:
I would assume you speaking of the micro end and not the USB port on the computer side? If that's the case will ODIN recognize a com port while in download mode? If your able to do that you will be able to flash a insecure boot image thus allowing ADB commands or use the toolbox in this forum to flash a recovery script. Of your able to do any of these we can get you going again.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] smallyetzon:
yes the mini port of my phone ive tried that in download mode no luck but i will try again and get back, how come is impossible to root my gs3 i747 without computer or Odin when you can find lots of ways with older phones and other versions of gs3? i am about to give a reward for a dev to make it happend!! :))

Sent from my useless no data sync gs3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrksbrd:
Smally,

Inbox me for further if needed....we're starting to get off topic of this thread
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tobesedated:
lost imei...trying to get it back
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
watch your inbox.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tobesedated:
Thanks for that...I think the error might have been in what I supplied you so sorry for that and I'll try again when you have it fixed..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Turbojugend:
Any chance of getting this for a Bell phone?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
I'll see what I can do

EDIT:Just about done. Check your inbox.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] joshuagalipeau:
does this bring me back to ICS or the latest jellybean update?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
They're all made from the newest tar files available so they're all jb 4.1
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Turbojugend:
Bell/Virgin restore worked like a charm, thanks!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Rally187:
on att and worked great thank you very much for this.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] agentfusion:
This is probably a dumb question, but since this is my first device that counts flashes I am going to ask anyway:

If I flash this stock to reset the count, then flash a custom recovery and use that to restore a previous nandroid backup, would that keep the counter at zero, or one? I'm not sure if it counts nandroid restorations as a flash or not.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
It will automatically increase to 1 if u flash a custom recovery after. As soon as it turns on it checks the recovery and ups the count if its not stock
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] agentfusion:
I have to admit, then, that this makes no sense. Why would someone flash a custom recovery while resetting the counter if it's just going to go up to 1 as soon as they reboot their device to finish the process? I mean, I just did that myself but not for the purpose of resetting the counter... I'm working on my own Rom and I'm having battery drain issues that aren't going away after calibration so I'm running this to test if it's a Rom issue or a faulty battery, but aside from stuff like that, what is the point of resetting the counter and adding +1 right away? Am I missing something here?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
The point of the count reset are for people who need to get it serviced by samsung or the carrier and need the phone unrooted with a reset counter. In your case the count reset isn't needed since you're just using it to troubleshoot its not a big deal if the count increases to 1. I left that an option for someone in a situation like yours, flashing a recovery or root zip real quick at the end is easier than going through all the steps to reroot/reflash a recovery from scratch (ie; the toolkit, cf auto root, odin, team-epic recoovery zip etc). And all those options listed need a pc whereas a zip before you reboot doesn't. Make sense?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] agentfusion:
See, now THAT makes sense. I misunderstood the way the thread was written... this is intended to be an option to run rooted stock with a custom recovery to give you the option of keeping a rooted stock system or at least a nandroid backup of one, OR go to stock and reset your count.

I will say, I'm extremely thankful for this, because Friday I'm returning my I747 and switching to the Note 2, so being able to use my phone my way up to the last possible moment when I'm in the car on the way to the store is pretty awesome. I can sit in the parking lot, do a backup of all my texts and calls and launcher settings, copy it all to my sd card, and flash stock with a counter reset then go inside! Just in case, I'm taking my laptop with the stock tar and Odin, but considering how smooth and stable the process was of using this for rooted stock, I doubt that will be necessary.

Major thanks to everyone involved with this! Now if only there were a way to do this from stock recovery so you could buy a phone, pop in a prepared sd card, reboot to recovery and flash away before you've even left the store, we'd be living in a perfect world.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tobesedated:
OMG!!That made me laugh so hard!! I've said that so many times....perfect it would be!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] shorteh:
Rogers version of this rom doesn't work on TWRP.

Just tried and it fails with an unspecified error.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
16gb or 32gb?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] shorteh:
16GB
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Check the md5 of the zip and compare to the one in the op. sounds like a bad download
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] thekenderman:
Worked like a charm on my Rogers S3....no issues. My count was at 3, then flashed this... Was at zero. I have rebooted and back at it but now, I have a quick and easy way to get back to stock fir any carrier/warranty issues! Thanks a million!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dbaler:
I have a 16GB 747m (Rogers) that I bought off kijiji, the owner flashed a TMO ROM on it, I have been trying to get it back to stock, would this be safe?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Yes this should be safe
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dbaler:
Is there anyway to check what carrier the phone was originally purchased from? Or can all 3 of the Canadian s3's be interchanged like if I had a bell device and restored the rogers ROM. I am wondering this because I bought a phone from kijiji and am not sure where its from
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
If you're unsure then I recommend using Odin instead. I know the 747M models are all the same but since they all have they're own Odin tar files, they must be different somewhere. And if you attempt to flash a Odin tar for a different phone than you have, it will fail as a safety feature to prevent a brick. This on the other hand will not. Better safe than sorry. I would hate to see a brick happen

EDIT: As said above, odin won't let you flash the wrong firmware to your device. So HERE is the ROGERS S3 firmware(Load in PDA slot of odin). It will only take a few seconds to flash this. If it succeeds, then your phone must be rogers. If it fails, then you know not to use this.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hyewiz:
As a total newbie I like to ask you this so bare with me if my question sounds "stupid" or "wont make any sense",

I'm with Rogers on S3 phone, and using "Pac-man" ROM. Triangle Away show "4" I don't know how much that is accurate, plus I am having very bad battery drainage, so if I use this and go back to stuck and get Custom recovery only and get rooted with the original S3 ROM will that work.

and clean all that leftover folders from previous ROM flashing's.

please advice

Thank you
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] boni7010:
please helpme on this:

I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 rooted... I buy this phone in Canada, today I use on Mexico... I install several roms to this phone without not problem ( in the box the model show this SGH-I747M, and show down the battery too )..

I need to sell the phone and I want to unroot the phone, but my problem its, when I do this, the original stock rom came with this 3 languages "English - French -Chinesse ) so, I Need the Spanish language... all the roms what in the past are installed came with this option, so then I don't have any problem, because I choose the Spanish Language...

Please I have 2 question:

1.-

If I flash the stock rom called "AT&T"

I don't brick my phone, because the original stock rom its from any company from Canada? ( and I don't know what company are the phone on Canada )

Can I flash this rom to my phone without bricking ????

2

.-how to know the MD5 original file

came with the phone when I buy on Canada, if I rooted and installed several roms until this day?? how to select the correct rom to install on my Samsung galaxy S3 to get again like new from box, without bricking??

please any can helpme on this???:confused:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] RoryB:
Worked perfectly.

I wiped everything and then flashed this.

Reset up my phone and accounts and then got the AT&T 4.1.2 OTA without a hitch.

Good work.

Hope to see the 4.1.2 version in the future.

I wonder if there is a way to "dirty" flash this. Probably would be best to only do from a 4.1.1 to this 4.1.1 so we can be sure the folders are the same.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dbaler:
In Odin which boxes are checked?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Auto reboot. And f. reset time
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brolybrah:
Out of curiosity, would there be a risk if one were to flash this after flashing the OTA 4.1.2 rom with the updated bootloader?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] trh1341:
Thanks a lot!! Worked perfect!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blackmoor2000:
Worked like a charm on my Telus S3....no issues...just like out of the box

What a breeze.............:good:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hyewiz:
I have followed the OP instruction and flashed "TWRP2.6-CANADIAN_GS3.zip" before rebooting the system but now I don't have access to TWRP where I did wrong please help.

Thank you
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gvsukids:
Does it matter if I'm coming from 4.3? Will this still work?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AshishPyala:
Someone please make a 4.1.2 verson for this soon!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Anonymously_Unknown:
That's not going to happen in "stock form" as 4.1.2 was an OTA update. The best you will get is someone else's firmware dump.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
That's not necessarily a bad thing. My version of this for sprint is made using dumps due to 4.1.2 being an ota. It's still total stock and receives ota updates as intended. The problem is that I don't own the at&t version so even if I find someone to dump it there's no promises it'll be unmodified.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
that imei issue was a bug that only affected the Rogers version. It was a small fixable issue that was resolved same day. And to wipe internal storage just factory reset in stock recovery after flashing this
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] basily:
OK, really dumb question here... but I bought my phone used, and I have no idea whether it's AT&T, Bell, Rogers or what... how can I find out? Or can I flash any of these regardless?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Is it a i747 or i747M? That's a good start
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] basily:
OK, well, on the box it says SGH-I747 (no "M"), but if I scan the barcode, searches consistently bring up the red Bell phone (my phone is in fact red). Does the baseband version have anything to do with it by any chance?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
check the build and baseband number and see what they say. I though only AT&T had a red s3. And the i747 would indicate a AT&T version. But the baseband and build installed may help confirm that
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] basily:
I'm pretty sure there were also red Bell phones, at the very least because they're coming up on searches with people selling them. Unless they're lying and they're not Bell.

Baseband indicates a 747m, but I'm running a custom ROM (though I never flashed a modem) so I don't think the baseband and build can tell me anything, yes? Also, I have no idea, when I bought the phone if the previous user had installed a custom ROM or alternate modem. It came to me looking pretty stock, but they may have flashed it back to stock, I don't know.

Would flashing the wrong stock screw up my phone? Does it matter?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Well it would seem its a bell s3 then. Even still I recommend you use odin unless you're totally sure its bell. If you choose the improper odin file, your phone will be fine(the odin flash will just fail). Whereas if you pick the wrong version of this, you're looking at a paperweight. Better safe than sorry
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] basily:
OK, thanks for the advice :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] shaker2k:
I have an unlocked Canadian gs3 that I bought from Rogers. I've been running Telus for the last year. I've also ran bell.

Which rom should I use? Should I just use Odin?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 850T5m:
Hey guys, I'm having a problem with my galaxy s3. It's warrantied at futureshop, except they refuse to exchange the phone unless it's 100% stock. I flashed the 16gb bell stock firmware in the OP. Everything went fine, boots into stock Rom, it's unrooted, no more custom recovery and the flash counter says "no"

The technician is telling me that the phone is giving a "rooting system error"...is he just being an asshole and doesn't wanna change my phone? Does this flash actually reset the phone to 100% stock?

I'm going to bring it to another future shop tomorrow, hopefully they don't hassle me...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
It's 100% stock. he's being an a-hole
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 850T5m:
Alright, that's what I thought. I'll bring it to another future shop tomorrow. Hopefully I won't hear any complaints lol
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] GreenMean:
Yeah as long as your flash counter is at 0 and device status isn't modified (which this flash should do) they have no reason to replace/return your device.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] acloaf:
Is there a 32 gb telus version that I missed somewhere?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Nope it doesn't exist yet. Shoot me a pm if u want to lend out a few mins of your time to make it happen
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] acloaf:
Pm sent.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Yes
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] :
Ignore!

Sorry for the spam, fixed the problem.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] daver68:
Just wanted to add my thanks for this. I needed to send my S3 in for warranty repair at the last moment, and didn't have a chance to hook up into a computer to do the usual Odin trick. A couple of frantic web searches and a download later, I was completely back to stock and noone was the wiser to my crack-flashing addiction. My local Samsung repair centre took it in after checking the Download mode screen, and claimed that it was indeed stock and "under warranty" (it's really 1.5 weeks outside of warranty, but they were nice enough to let it slide).

Cheers!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] allrockedout:
Hey I flashed the wrong file how do I fix it
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DarthDerron:
Bell version worked like a charm. Needed to return to stock for stability and having the flash count reset is nice too. Thanks OP. Maybe this thread should be stickied?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dimasp6:
My imei is showing 0. What can i do to fix that?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] :
I flashed the Telus 16GB file for my Telus 16gb S3 and it is taking forever to boot up. Its been 10 minutes. Is this normal?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] GreenMean:
Probably not. Try booting into stock recovery and clearing cache
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] :


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Thanks. I cleared cache and did a factory reset in stock recovery and its booted now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xxkid123:
Worked fine for me, reboot took less than 5 minutes.

steps:

1) factory reset (wipe data, cache- the default wipe setting on TWRP)

2) install file (I have the 1747)

3) wipe cache and dalvik just in case

worked fine for me. I've been having issues with 4.3 roms, whenever I reboot them all my internal storage gets corrupted and I get stuck at the boot screen. It's a PITA. It seems to be a somewhat obscure problem, and the only solution that seems consistant is to go full stock, use the stock recovery to wipe stuff a few times, and then re root. (I used this tool http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2189536 since it works on my linux machine).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mhumfleet:
another Noob in search of knowledge :)

I have a stock non-rooted S3 and i am wondering if this can be used to Root and Put in a custom recovery so I can do backups and flash other ROM's.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
No because none of the files in this thread can be flashed from stock recovery
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] allrockedout:
Can I use this with the leaked 4.3 modem and rom? With 747
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] players21:
no usb

For what ever reason I cant seem to get my phone to work when I plug it in to my computer. Tried Kies drivers all the regular things any ideas why it just keeps showing up as unknown device ? This started after I flashed the rogers 32gig reset rom . Only thing I haven't tried is flashing an older stock rom from rogers with the factory flash tool off the phone, but I'm not sure how that works.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] vanisleryan:
Tried flashing the 16 rogers restore in twrp and it fails....am I doing something wrong?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] vanisleryan:
Sorted wouldn't flash from external sd...moved to internal and success...thanks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tyrantsbane:
Just curious if I can do this coming from Losers leaked rom. I installed the new bootloader and modem during installation.

I am thinking that it should be fine, as this replaces the bootloader and modem to their stock variants but I just wanted to be sure.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Brooklynsour:
Thank you so much, appreciate the time and effort put.

So since this resets root and counter, after I boot up I can just format internal and then it'll be blank?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Yup
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TheIgster:
So just a quick question. Last night I tried to revert back to stock. I flashed the Rogers stock as well as the file to keep a custom recovery and keep root. When I got into the system, software update was there in notifications. I tried to update, but it said it couldn't because the system had been modified.

Is this because of the root or custom recovery or both? So if you flash more than just the ROM for stock, you can't ever update the OS?

Thanks to those in the know...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sketch2k278:
This should be a STICKY because it's sooooooo helpful and very easy to do!! thanks for this BIG TIME!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Flash it again but do not keep a custom recovery. It will automatically up your count to 1 again and make your status modified. Root is ok but you must use ota root keeper or you'll lose root when you take the ota.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TheIgster:
Thanks very much for the useful information. So you can't keep a custom recovery huh? So what happens if I do a backup with my recovery, then flash this, set it up, then decide I want to go back? Can I flash the custom recovery then and then do the restore from my backup on my sd card?

I'm running CM right now and just wanted to see what stock was like all updated, but may want to go back to my backup of CM.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Yes you can do that. If you keep root you can Reflash recovery later using goo manager or rom manager. Without root you'll need Odin of course.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] walkah21:
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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] walkah21:
Updated package?

Any chance that this could be updated with the 4.1.2 version? Thanks for all your hard work, this saved me!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mercath:
The OP mentioned not using this if you got the stock OTA 4.3 update. Just to be perfectly clear, can I use this if I'm currently on a custom 4.3 ROM? Such as BeanStalk/CyanFox?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] billard412:
Yes in that case you'd be fine using this
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TKG26:
FYI The default server for the 16gig TELUS file is short changing on the down load. The 749MB file is stopping at 436MB

I switched to one of the mirrors and im getting the full 759MB just about to flash and see it works :)

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And thank you for this ZIP.... I wanted to get my 4.3OTA today from telus, and i could not get ODIN or KIES to play nice enough to flash a stock rom..... This file got me back to stock and right now my OTA is coming in. Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] grotz497:
I once had an issue with my S3 not being able to connect to my computer unless I used the USB cable that came with it in the box. Give that a try maybe?

Edit: worked perfectly for me coming from Slim 4.3.1
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Testman08:
Ok so in theory if I want to return to stock and start over. I can format and totally erase all files on my S3 as long as I have rom, root and customer recovery files on sd card. I should be able to flash stock rom, custom recovery and keep root file before reboot and start fresh for 4.4 or whatever version android I want to use? Correct? I was having some issues with kitkat 4.4 and want to reset the phone completely. thanks in advance!! :good:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nickdoherty:
I've updated my bootloader to I747MVLDMF1, is that the same as taking the ota update to 4.3, I guess what I'm saying is can I flash this?

Edit: never mind, I guess I didn't update, just read MF1 is from 4.1.2 which makes me a tool.