yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nidpancho:
Kernel Version:

3.0.50-cyanogenmod-g1f0dc3e

shareef@sxa96401.student.rit.edu #1

Mon Dec 10 00:39:44 EST 2012

If that means anything...maybe you big brains can extract that exact file from [MENTION=2682982]noobnl[/MENTION]'s .zip?

Would it even work to just flash this kernel?

What did you do to make it work noobnl?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shekinahsmoke:
question: do the one click options keep the recoveries on the phone or are they a temporary "flash"?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
They should all be permanent.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shekinahsmoke:
definitely booted into recovery ... i dont know that it worked.. i saw a something something not found...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nidpancho:
Something was not found?

Well if you can view the contents of your sdcard you should be golden.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
Try the Odin methods...I am not sure what the problem is with the batch files.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
I don't understand what your trying to do. Your device was already rooted and running custom recovery. These would not apply to your device. Unless you just purchased a new one or had a replacement one.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shekinahsmoke:
i just got my replacement device July 25th. I have CWM 6.0.3.6 on it but I dont want to find out the hard way that it wont work with the 4.2.2/4.3 roms. I am using an alternate TW rom now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
If you have recovery on it and it mounts storage and you where able to flash tw rom then your good to go. None f this here applies to you. This is only for he new devices which won't mount storage

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shekinahsmoke:
oh ok! great! :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nidpancho:
Still no fix.

However, thanks to [MENTION=3125148]kennyglass123[/MENTION], we have found out it is not as simple as flashing [MENTION=2682982]noobnl[/MENTION]'s kernel from his modded nightly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nidpancho:
In my quest looking for fixes I discovered this...

http://jes.st/2013/cyanogenmod-10-1-bootloop-fix/

Normally I would just try anything but this has me flashing something to the /system.

Is it safe to try?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
It is just a lib file. Note the name of it and delete it if it does nothing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nidpancho:
there's a libskia.so file already in my system folder. Is this file based on the ROM?

If it is, I'm assuming that pushing this file after flashing cyanogenmod would simply replace that file in the system folder. Right?

Does it matter that this fix if for a Samsung Galaxy SII (GT-I9100)?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
I see someone posted with an Xperia that was going to try it. If you already have that file it may already be in there. What you want to do is open the ROM zip of one of the ROMs that will not flash, put it in there and try to flash it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nidpancho:
is the /system folder part of the rom or my phone itself? Would a nandroid backup secure me to do this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
If you open a ROM zip you will see the system folder, go further and you will see all the subfolders like app and lib. So since you would be modifying the ROM zip with 7zip or winzip or Jzip, then flashing, your return to what you had with a nandroid would replace what you tried to flash, so that was a long winded way of saying yes.

Also [MENTION=912474]Dees_Troy[/MENTION] just notified me that he has a TWRP 2.6.0.1 which incorporates the changes from mod 2 to access recovery but it will probably still have the same AOSP issues. It is here:

http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/d2spr

Give it a try. Odin in the tar.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nidpancho:
appreciate the long winded response actually. Now I know exactly what I'm doing!

I'll post my results in a couple minutes...

---------- Post added at 04:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:49 PM ----------

Same result.

So, neither using [MENTION=2682982]noobnl[/MENTION]'s kernel from his modded nightly or replacing this lib file does the trick.

If only noobnl can respond with what he did to the nightly...Please?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nidpancho:
MD7 Open Source Kernel

I stumbled upon this a couple weeks back, http://androidforums.com/virgin-mob...in-mobile-source-sph-l710-md7-jelly-bean.html

I asked [MENTION=4513677]rwilco12[/MENTION] if this is what he needed to make an ODIN one click for the stock ROM, he told me this is what you need to make a Kernel.

Now we believe that these new S3's have an issue with the kernel and the Virgin Mobile variant is about 1 month old. So perhaps these files will give you big brains a better idea about what's going on with these new S3's (on both Sprint and Virgin Mobile).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Xeraxic:
I can now mount my stuff thanks to cwm_mod2.img but i cannot flash the MIUI ROM, which I believe is AOSP based. Has anyone come up for a fix yet? I'd be more than willing to donate to whomever manages to fix this...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nidpancho:
I second this.

The only AOSP ROM that I have gotten to work has been [MENTION=2682982]noobnl[/MENTION]'s modded nightly from December 2012 (CM 10.1), http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2030660&page=27 (post #269)

As I said previously, the big brains believe it to be a kernel issue. Perhaps noobnl will come around again one day to share what he did to that nightly. In the meantime we're trying different things...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
I'll be posting a flash tool in the development section to make all of this easier. All you need to do is run it (have latest Java installed) with your phone connected, browse to and select the recovery.img file and then select flash. Everything else is done for you, it even self-extracts adb so you don't need to set that up.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] CNexus:
Tool is up

Should help speed up recovery testing

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2408627
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] goku2778:
i've been at this new sprint samsung s3 for over a day now, nothing, NOTHING has worked! says here that this is a fix, hasn't worked...the instructions are vague to none. i've rooted many droids before without a hitch...i run the adb.bat file, 1st tells me cannot find the path specified, then reboots my phone into a recovery, seen this many times before as well from other guides on the net. finishes, reboots, ok...that's it! it's not rooted, tried both fixes, tried the odin ways but i kept getting the cannot mount sd errors.

so now what am i doing wrong? brand new sprint s3
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
First this is not a root method. You must first root the device correctly. Once rooted you can flash the custom modded recovery of choice from the OP of this thread. These recoveries will allow storage to mount. You can adb these recoveries onto your phone or there's an odin version as well.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] goku2778:
ok, so again i'm getting vague to none in help dude lol

it won't root because i get the mounting error "e: cannot mount sdcard" when i use odin to flash the cwm recovery file after i place the .zip file on my sd card...this said it fixes that, how? again i run the adb.bat command, each mod on here, they both do the same thing...reboots my phone, i get red letterings telling me it's doing its thing, phone reboots and that's it.

so again i'm asking, what am i doing wrong to fix my mounting error to simply root my phone? (not being a wise ass either, just getting frustrated on the rooting only part of this phone) thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
Why would you need to mount sd card to use odin. That's where I'm confused. You don't need an sd card to root or to use odin.

Here use this method to root your phone.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=34579827 use any one of the recovery from op and flash via odin. Then the root zip.

Edit: reading your last post you said can't use odin because you placed zip file on sd card and it won't mount. Are you referring to mobile odin? Cause that ain't going to work. You need Odin from a computer. Your downloaded file should be on your computer, your device should be in DL mode and connected to your computer via usb cable.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
These are the ones you would use with odin. Chooses one View attachment 2194706

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] goku2778:
lol let me explain it again...here goes:

using the computer, every time...

using odin, every time (used that guide you posted, again, cause i found that last night as well as others...all failed and failed again)

following the instructions, you place the teamepic.zip file on your sd card and here's the readme as well "DO NOT EXTRACT OR UNZIP THE TEAMEPIC ROOT FROM RECOVERY ZIP FILE. PUT IT ON THE PHONE AS IS. "

odin works, i leave all boxes unchecked, reboot into the cwm recovery no sweat...next steps are now:

3. Once in recovery tap on "install zip from sdcard" HERE IS WHERE I GET MY MOUNTING ERRORS

4. Now you will tap either "choose zip from sdcard" or "choose zip from external sdcard" HERE AS WELL

5. Scroll by swyping up and down on screen. Tap on "TeamEpic-Root-from-Recovery-v5.zip. NEVER MAKES IT TO THIS OPTION DUE TO ERRORS

now, again this thread is said to fix this mounting error...it has not, any other ideas or anything would be greatly appreciated...the problem is the mounting errors ;)

6. Tap on "- Yes - Install TeamEpic-Root-from-Recovery -v5.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
When you Odin your recovery you need to use the one on here... Not the one that came with previous root methods. That's where your going wrong. Install cwm or twrp from this thread in odin then you should be able to access Teamepic root zip. Which should be placed on your internal storage. Once you flash the recovery from here on you phone via odin do not let the phone reboot, pull the battery out, unplug from computer. Place battery back in. Boot into custom recovery power+home+vol up... Once in this new recovery you should be able to go into flash zip from internal storage and fash the Teamepic root zip. Then reboot phone. Done it at least 10 times this way No problem.

I did edit my previous post, you must have missed where I corrected it to make sure you knew to use the recovery from here to root the device.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] goku2778:
ok, i'm going to try that right now...i grabbed the recovery.tar file from the bottom that said it's for odin...i'll post back

edit...you dirty bastard!!! worked!! thanks a ton!! but where the hell is the allow unknown sources at? disregard...i found it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
Glad you got it working. Now with these new S3's there are some issues and flashing AOSP roms right now will not work but you can flash any TW rom you want to try.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] internetpilot:
Finally got around to trying this after being on vacation (cruise), then school starting, etc. Worked like a charm on both my boys' new S3's (customer recovery, rooted stock TW)!

As one of the first people (seemingly) who reported having problems with this, although I hate for it to have been so much work for everyone, it was a nice confirmation of sanity that I still know what I'm doing (as a user) to know that something was definitely wrong/different with the newer S3's.

Thank you everyone for all your work on this! It was driving me nuts not having root on these phones!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nidpancho:
Right? I was going insane at my custom recovery not working until I found out I wasn't alone.

Then I was concerned that AOSP would simply not work until I discovered [MENTION=2682982]noobnl[/MENTION]'s modded nightly.

Now we know that it's possible. Just need to know what he did...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] goku2778:
cool man thanks again! don't really do that, i just root and remove the bloatware basically and use some rooted apps for performances on these phones that regular apps can't do...maybe you'll know this though, about to start looking into this issue:

i can't move apps to the sd card with my rooted app that does it...seems like it's an s3 thing that it uses its own internal memory as its external memory too??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
Nope the S3 doesn't like that none of the apps will work and you run into issues. I have close to 300 apps on mine no issues remember there's 2 gigs of ram.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] goku2778:
kinda what i'm finding out...there is a lot of internal memory though, thanks again...gonna leave as is lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
It's not that we thought you were crazy, we just thought you were crazy...lol!

[MENTION=4169204]edfunkycold[/MENTION] thanks for helping out last night to get goku2778 going.

[MENTION=5397578]goku2778[/MENTION] I am sorry that the instructions were not very clear as this affects such a small percentage of phones currently...just new purchases within the last month.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] goku2778:
eyscrac judicial

things happen...but hey, i got some help and once that was cleared up, it took 1 attempt and i was done lol all other forum sites i went to looking for answers to the sd mounting problem all said "currently there is no fix" and then on 1 of them, someone from this thread directed this over saying it was fixed. so thanks again for FIXING it lol maybe just make some little notes on your instructions, especially the odin part because that's what worked for me, using the cwm method with odin.

once i did that like edfunkycold said to, once it booted to the clockwork recovery and i clicked on install from zip, i yelled out FINALLY!! lol keep up the good work man and again thank you, both of you!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
I removed the batch files as I am not sure why it is not working. Thanks. I think the notes need to go into the TeamWin thread somehow to guide them to here...will look into this.

If only there was a moderator who could help me..........

EDIT: Note placed in the OP of CMTeamEpic thread and message sent to [MENTION=894259]mskip[/MENTION] as this affects his toolkit.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] internetpilot:
Well, I thought I was crazy!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] goku2778:
looks better now dude...if you saw my first posts on here i did say the batch files ran, i got those red notes of what it was doing on my phone, rebooting it and trying to run and install supersu and rooting but never worked. if my friend switches over to sprint too pretty and gets the s3, i'm definitely using exactly what i got off of here to root his :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Xeraxic:
It looks like g60madman managed to get AOSP working over at Android Forums...

http://androidforums.com/virgin-mob...jelly-bean-aosp-4-1-2-alpha-06-27-2013-a.html
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] manesdean:
sprint gs3

i used the odin flashable cwm and it works like a charm. now i can backup and mount my storage. im downloading jellybomb to try out, now that i can flash roms. thank you for the working recovery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shekinahsmoke:
yeah I just tried to flash a splash image in CWM Touch and it wouldnt boot. Had a nandroid thank God. This didnt happen on my other S3 with the same zip. So I think Im one of the people who are affected now. Also Online Nandroid App doesnt work on my phone either... :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
If you had a new S3 and standard CWM touch it would not find any files to flash as it can't mount storage.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] midnightmaraude:
Having issue with ADB

I just got my new replacement s3 today. Rooted the previous one..so here I am using the odin method (sprint). All goes well but I do have the mount issue so I'm trying this out. I have the .img and adb in the same directory on C:

This is what I'm getting when I type the commands. Any assistance please? TIA

adb push cwm_mod2.img /sdcard/cwm_mod2

I get 2939 KB/s <7913472 bytes in 2.629s> then

adb shell and I got

shell@android:/$su

I typed su and got

/system/bin/sh: su: not found
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
Go to the OP go to the bottom of the OP choose the recovery of choice download and use the odin flashable tar and flash using Odin much easier.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] midnightmaraude:
Thank you for your fast response. I'll try this now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] whotakesallmynames:
FInally able to root new GS3

I spent twelve hours today trying to root my new GS3. I registered to say thanks to everyone who has offered their input and to relay my experience for others.

I ordered the phone off Amazon last week and I activated it on Tuesday 8/22/2013.

This morning I tried rooting it with just Odin, some one-click method I found, and failed due to "can't mount sd card" error in recovery. Two subsequent rooting methods I tried failed with the same error message. I searched google and read forums for hours. I found some threads where people had similar problems with encrypted phones, but I verified mine isn't encrypted. (Thank goodness I decided to keep searching instead of trying to use Odin to push a factory reset. What a waste of time that would've been.) Then I found the thread where some devs had uploaded a few trial image files to push with adb, but I was unsuccessful there of course because I hadn't gained root access (su not found).

Finally I found a post in this forum from a guy who had precisely the same situation as myself, and he'd successfully rooted a new SG3 via the Samsung GS3 Toolkit. I tried that method and it worked. :good:

I don't know why that worked and none of the others worked. I'm a super noob, so I have absolutely no insight. Maybe some of yall have some ideas as to why the toolkit method is the only way to gain root access on these newer S3's. Hopefully tutorials can be amended to include that information. It sure did take a lot of searching and reading for me to figure out! *whew* :eek:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
I am sure the developers wish they knew, as none have one of these new phones. I did let [MENTION=894259]mskip[/MENTION] know about the situation.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mdprfsr:
Just got second s3 for my girl that happened to be one of these new ones that she wanted me to modify. So thanks to all and there hard work everything went flawlessly and headache free. Can't thank everyone enough.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] whotakesallmynames:
update

This morning, I picked up where I left off and flashed Cyanogen 10.1.2 (correct version for my phone with correct version of gapps). I'm using TWRP because in CWM I keep getting unable to mount errors. Anyway, boot loop, soft-bricked. Then I flashed the stock rom and re-rooted. Like many people, I noticed that wifi is not working after rooting with the toolkit. For those that want to keep the stock rom, there are rumored fixes, like flashing a new kernel or just flashing a new rom altogether. The toolkit rooting method seems generally frowned upon. I wish I could root without it so that I don't lose wifi capability, because I may not be able to get any roms to take. :/

As for me, now I'm going to try flashing The Peoples Rom and see if I can get that one to boot.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] whotakesallmynames:
How did you go about rooting and flashing your new L710? Specifically, which root method and which recovery?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mdprfsr:
Used the root method from QbKing77. But odined cwm mod2 recovery then flashed chainfires latest SuperSu zip and was golden.

Edit: after doing that and letting it boot up. Sent back into recovery and flashed M.O.A.R. So didn't test stock rom. But on M.O.A.R everything is working flawlessly.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] lvpre:
I've also used the unified root toolkit. I found it easier, but both get you the same result.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] whotakesallmynames:
Thanks Ivpre and mdprfsr for posting your methods. If I can't get any of the good custom roms to flash and boot properly, I will try rooting yalls way and then see if I finally find success...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ragnar:
Rooting is rooting which ever method you use accomplishing root is the goal the issue lies in that if you have a new s3 regardless of which root method you use you must incorporate the custom recoveries from this thread.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] whotakesallmynames:
Storage works in TWRP, so I've been using that to flash. I will use the files linked by OP and see then if storage mounts in CW...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] manesdean:
i used the gs3 rooting kit and the recoveries just don't work. i used the odin flashable recovery linked in this forum and now my gs3 works perfectly. i now am using wicked sensations rom with the eREDicate theme. frigin awesome theme. i showed my wife the wicked sensations wicked pink them and finally got her to lat me root her phone. that's saying something about how badass this rom is. thanks for your help with the working recovery

guys
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nidpancho:
I checked it out and got the same result. Furthermore, I contacted him and he said he's not working on the s3 at the moment.

I also attempted this method, http://androidforums.com/virgin-mob...36505-tutorial-cm10-1-vm-gs3.html#post5950436

same result.

Like I've said, The only AOSP ROM to work has been [MENTION=2682982]noobnl[/MENTION]'s modded December 2012 CM nightly build, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2030660&page=27 (post #269)

I have not been able to find another CM developer with knowledge and experience in Qcom chips. Hopefully he comes around or another big brain cracks the issue soon...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] maaneeack:
Used the CWM ODIN, just bought my VM GS3 from mal-wart on Saturday. Didn't try the storage mounting, but the recovery installed and a full back up worked.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
If it backed up, then it is accessing storage.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] aviindub:
cwm_mod2 worked for me using Heimdall on a gs3 i brought home from the sprint store 3 days ago. thanks so much! it was a rather frustrating couple of days before i found this thread. I am able to use TW based roms, but the latest stable Cyanogenmod gets stuck on the gs3 splash screen. i havent tried any other AOSP roms.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Jsheeler84:
I have tried others they do not work same result
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Moped_Ryder:
nidpancho

I thought I was in the same situation as you until I found that a lot of the 4.2.1 ROMs flashed fine on my phone, but no higher. 4.2.2 and up = nogo. Try an older Slim ROM like the Slim-d2vmu-4.2.1.stable.1.0
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nidpancho:
holy crap. The nightly is 4.2.1...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] flutur:
galaxy s2: error mounting /sdcard/.android_secure

hi guys,

I tried to install Cyanogen with this guide: wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_i9100, using MacOS,

I followed all the steps from the wiki guide.

When I try to wipe data/factory reset or install zip from sdcard in ClockworkMod Recovery I get:

error mounting /sdcard

I the recovery methods presented in this thread (all 4 different files) and nothing helps, the error still persists

When I type in the terminal these commands:

adb push .img /sdcard/.img

adb shell

su

dd if=/sdcard/.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18

afther the the 3rt command: su I get this msg: /sbin/sh: su: not found

I type int the 4th command and I get:

15456+0 records in

15456+0 records out

7913472 bytes (7.5MB) copied, 0.336347 seconds, 22.4MB/s

So I guess the file came through, but the problem is not solved, the error still persists:

error mounting /sdcard

Please help!

Thank you!