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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jburke90:
Ok, so I know this isn't the I535 (verizon s3), but I have to ask.

I got the S3 from Straight Talk. It's running CDMA on Verizon. It says CDMA-V right on the box.

Now Ive had the I535 before and it was easy to find ROMS for the beast. But this, this SCH-S968C, I have never seen it and I cant find any

good sources to ROOT it. Or even find ROMs for it.

Any help would be great.

Many thanks! =)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Klown80:
What version of android does it have on it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jburke90:
Its 4.1.2. Here is a screenshot of all the important info.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Klown80:
To root Google impactor. It will get you rooted,sorry but no idea about custom ROMs.

Hope this helps!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mitchb315:
as the post above said cydia impactor will root this phone in about 8 seconds .as far as the roms some people have been able to get the sch-i535 firmware to work but I don't know,all I can tell you is don't use ez unlocker to unlock the bootloader . also before you get to far make yourself the debrick image.otherwise you will be stuck with a hardbrick like me

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to make the debrick image go into adb shell or terminal emulator

and type this

su

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/Unbrick.img bs=4096 count=50000

.p.s. if it works for you could you please send it my way.thanks .
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Wh1t3Rose:
Also backup your IMEI after you root. You must be rooted 1st
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Klown80:
Be sure and Thank these guys, following their directions will save you a world of headaches later!! :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] evertking:
Hoew do I back up the IMEI and find the unbrick img
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Mookie2014:
Be careful backing up IMEI. Do NOT try to unlock phone. If you do, it WILL hard brick.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mitchb315:
to get the unbrick image you will have to have your phone rooted,and superuser installed .then using adb shell(available in the android development tools bundle from google) or terminal emulator(from play store runs on your phone)in whichever you choose .you would the type su hit enter.grant root access .and then type

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/Unbrick.img bs=4096 count=50000
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kenny1974:
If anyone needs the Odin file to restore back to stock ST let me know
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] WesSmiley315:
Rom for SCH-S968C

I have the SCH-S968C running on straight talk. I rooted it and installed the CleanRom found here ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1904329 ) and it told me Insert sim for the longest time. I got a tracfone sim and cut it into the shape of a micro sim. I inserted it into my GS3 and everything works fine. It still says No Service on the notification bar but data, messaging and calling work. Hopefully this helps!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] evertking:
You installed cleanROM? Can you got to about phone and send a screen shot of the build#, baseband.. Ect?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] WesSmiley315:
My phone is really a SCH-S968C but I installed the SCH-i535
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] evertking:
Cool... So everything works? Have you tried any other TW ROMs?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] WesSmiley315:
I haven't tried any other roms but I can confirm everything works on it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ForeignOfficial:
Stock

do you still know how to get back to stock if so please let me know
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] zzhondaxx:
sch-s968c

hey did everything work fine before the sim or did u have to get a sim to get it to work
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] znk_dunkar:
can you tell me which recovery u use ?? please help me
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sintanio:
Can someone please upload the odin file for this model? the dropbox link is not working anymore
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] WesSmiley315:
You must have the sim.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] matt_man:
Has anyone tried flashing CleanROM on this phone?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] evertking:
I never have flash any TW rom but seems like i read that a guy did but didnt have working data, not sure though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DiSiD:
I confirmed with a liquid smooth dev that this model can run it (using the d2lte builds). The reason is because I'm going to flash it on my friends St phone (sch-968c). I won't be able to flash it until next weekend, but he showed me the logs with the device number in it and he has never steered me wrong)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jack1876:
To root Google impactor. It will get you rooted.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] evertking:
Yeah, but working data is the question.

I will save ya some time here... Flashed the latest LS and still no data. That seems to be the trend with this phone, sucks... But same with aicp, carbon, cm ect ect

Only ones working now are CM snapshots and all Slims and PA, but any CM based should be good to go if before 9/05
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] DiSiD:
He did say I'd have to mess with the apn settings, I'm going to try it tomorrow.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] evertking:
Good luck and let me know if ya figure it out! There is an app in the play store called control panel that some have used to by pass the "system APN" just a thought.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] anand96999:
pls help me i hv hardbricked s3 i535 on 4.1.2 jellybean

created img using ur details for i535 verizon from 4.1.2 jellybean os

but it creates 175 mb of image and originally it should be 128 mb

am i missing something ???

i hv a hard bricked samsung s3 i535 verizon

after flashing the 175 mb image using win32disk imager it did not worked...

pls help me or guide me with more other details..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] lost6feetdown:
need image for schs968c

Does anyone have the image for the schs968c? I have a bricked one and a fully functional one and I made an image thru emulator and it didn't wrk.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] hubbard420:
s968c rom

Heya Kenny, anyway you could provide me w/ the stock rom for the s968c? would really appreciate it! :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bildy_44:
Hey guys. I have cyanogen mod 10.2.1 on my sch-s968c with working data... When I first installed it did not have working data, which at that point I was freaking out thinking I just tossed $400 down the drain. So I messed with a bunch of the APN settings. Finally, I figured it out and got working data. What you have to do is go into your APN settings and change

Your CDMA subscription to NVR. I also changed my network mode to CDMA+LTE/EVDO trying to somehow get 4g, which I never managed to do:/

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Also this was my first time rooting a phone and installing a custom ROM. So I do not have any advanced knowledge of anything...when it comes to ROMs and what not. So if what I did to my phone doesn't work on your phone... Sorry. Also if anybody has updated to a latest version of cm... Say a kitkat version and everything still works, minus the camera because I could care less. Please let me know. I have been afraid of flashing a newer rom, in fear of losing my data or something. Thank you in advance

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Forgot to mention I flashed Verizon's version of the firmware( sch-i535 ) onto my s3 before flashing cm as well.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] huicho81:
stock s968c rom

Do you have the stock room for the straight talk galaxy s3?

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Did you ever get the stock rom?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
check this link, you'll find the stock tar for the sch-s968c on page 28 of that thread, if you don't find it there then go to Android Area51 and look in the straight talk galaxy s3 forum, you'll find a post for rooting the sch-s968c after Aug 7 2014, there is a link in that post for the stock tar, its also on Motorheads private server at AA51, if you don't find it in the thread I link you to or in the s3 forum at AA51 then its sure to be on motorheads server, there is a post in the forums for his private server, if you like custom roms they are also discussed in the thread I'm going to link you to, even a lollipop rom for this device, good luck

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2516498&page=30
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kenny1974:
My link comes and goes. They shut it down sometimes because of high traffic, sorry
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
motorheads private server should always work for the foreseeable future, its low cost and he setup and maintains it himself.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kenny1974:
Yeah, I wasn't going to use a pay site with no donations. Times are hard. Lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
just send everybody his way when they come to you looking for the stock tar, now if we could just get the stock H2 tar, then we could make a flashable zip of the whole thing or just the kernel or modem in a zip that way we can keep root but have the upgraded kernel and modem on the ROMs we're trying, it might even fix stock MMS. who knows?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] buffnitup:
100% Working Stock S968C Image for Odin

You will have to sign up for free, but I assure you this one is valid at this point in time. http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/35267/S968CUDUAMH1_S968CTFNAMH1_TFN.zip/ . Good luck. It is very slow so get you some coffee and watch a movie. Extract zip file, rename S968CUDUAMH1_S968CTFNAMH1_S968CUDUAMH1_HOME.tar.md5 to S968CUDUAMH1_S968CTFNAMH1_S968CUDUAMH1_HOME.tar, run Odin v3.09 with Samsung USB drivers installed, click AP button to load the file tar previously spoken of. Give it a few minutes to flash and you are ready to go. Screen should look like the screenshot. I hope this helps.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Army_Spec_Ops:
Could one of you guys possibly make a debrick.img for me and/or point me in the direction of a thread that can explain how to use the debrick.img? im pretty sure i bricked mine..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
There is an unbrick img in the "how to root the straight talk sch-s968c samsung galaxy S3" thread here at XDA, I can't remember what post number it was, if you have trouble finding it I can repost it for you. What did you do to your phone to brick it, depending on what you've done the unbrick.img may not work for you but I know a few other methods that I might could help you with but I need to know exactly what you did to create your issue because that has a lot to do with which method will work and which won't.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Army_Spec_Ops:
Here is the post that i made about it but havent had any replies yet: Here

Pretty much i downloaded all of the files (the rom, gapps, modem, and firmware ( <-- think this is what screwed me)), went into recovery and flashed them. didnt get a single failure message and rebooted. but when it exited recovery to reboot the screen never came back on. The rom is Mastamoon's cm12 build
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
The firmware was the modem for the Verizon i535, you weren't supposed to flash that, you should have done more research, you can't boot to download mode or recovery?

Edit, I see you've tried download mode with no success.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Army_Spec_Ops:
i realized that a little too late. lol i cant get into download or recovery. no led light up or even the charging animation when its powered off. when i plug it into my laptop though my laptop will beep at me saying that its registering that its plugged in but i cant get it to show up in my computer or device manager.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
Have you tried making a USB jig by cutting the end off of an old USB cord? You'll need a 5 pin cord, not a 4 pin, cut the end off and get a 300k resistor(or any combo of resistors that equal 300k) then you can either strip the delicate wires back and connect the two necessary wires with the resistor(s) or you can strip back the end and connect the resistors directly to the pins in the end, there are you tube videos for how to do this. Once you have it together just plug it into your phones USB port and wait, it should boot you to download mode, then flash the stock H1 firmware and flash it through Odin, if you can't find a working link I'll help you find it.

Or go to the thread I mentioned and get the unbrick.img, it also has the software to use the .IMG and the software needed to return your sdcard back to a usable storage medium.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Army_Spec_Ops:
havent been able to find the .img itself. was using the search within that thread for unbrick and .img but the the posts that were showing up were yours and a couple other users who were talking about it. not the actual download

Edit: Wouldnt happen to know of a Lollipop build for our phone would you? :D

I'm a flashaholic.... lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
I just hope you haven't NV bricked your phone, if you did then your IMEI is gone unless you did a nvbackup through terminal emulator before you flashed the modem. If you killed your IMEI and didn't do a nvbackup then the only way to get your IMEI back is to manually rewrite your modem partition, there is nothing you can flash to fix it.

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The CM12 you flashed works fine as long as you don't flash the modem, you gotta keep the ST modem, all the d2vzw ROMs, recoveries and kernels work just fine for us. Here's your unbrick.img
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Army_Spec_Ops:
So i finally found the unbrick.img and used Win32DiskImager to write it to my card and followed this thread: Here . pulled the battery, put the sd in, and put the battery back in. It didnt start back up but i plugged it into my computer so it had some juice running to it and the led flashed red 2 times and went off..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
OK, I just found the unbrick.IMG but I see you tried it already, now your only hope is a USB jig, you can make your own like I said or you can order one from eBay probably, if that doesn't work then you'll have to send off for JTAG.

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Have you tried adb/fastboot for windows to see if it recognizes your device? If it does then you can flash the stock H1 back to it. There's another all purpose android stock firmware flashed for windows but I can't remember what it is
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Army_Spec_Ops:
i dont have very much experience with adb but i am willing to try anything. cant really make the phone any worse lol. what would i have to do? and would Windows or linux/ubuntu be better to use adb? i have Win8 but ive also been running Ubuntu in VM.

If you'd like to or can send me a message on hangouts. I would like to try and get it back up and running asap if possible cause its my phone for dispatch. Sent you a pm.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
OK, I got your pm but didn't understand what your intent was, but I do now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dkg57:
Many thaks to XDA

I know this is an old post but I ran across it and followed the directions and was able to make a debrick img for my galaxy SCH-S968C thanks for posting had tried everything then I tried this and it fixed my bricked galaxy thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] unimatrix725:
There is a catch to the unbrick img method

Most people do not mention that you must have a 16GB sdcard brand/speed do not matter. The sdcard has to be the same size as your internal storage 32GB =32GB and 16GB for 16GB. I myself bout shat a brick, when I thought I was flashing a kernel. That turned out dude had no assert and didn't kno what he was doing so it wrote kernel into my params or pad partition. I learned to open those zips and verify what and where the scripts write to. I use Linux *mate and had zero problems imaging the unbrick img. Windoze never worked for me....

Obtain a 16GB* sdcard (backup, imaging will erase)

Take battery and any cards out of phone.

Download a live Ubuntu Mate or Linux Mint cd/dvd burn it to flash or disc.

Boot computer (try w/o) install

Open terminal type cd and drag the img file into terminal window hit enter. If you get error hit up key and remove both quotes hit enter agin.

Type ls - l this should show you are in right place.

Type fdisk - l this will show you your disks and the flash media to write.

Type sudo dd if=unbrick.img of=/dev/sdd this will show nothing for some minutes then will say done. REPLACE UNBRICK WITH YOUR File .Img AND /dev/sd* With correct letter from fdisk - l listing. Be careful with dd, its nick name is Disk Destroyer ;) hopefully your flash reader has a light like mine.

Take sdcard out of reader put in bricked phone, then insert battery.

2 options here depending. You may push power and it may start up. You may need to factory reset also. I instead just held keys for dl mode, chose continue to programming.

ONCE YOU HAVE Download Mode on screen Remove SdCard.

You may hook usb to phone and open. Google a browser to casual jodin3 website and flash away. That site is http://jodin3.casual-dev.com a java version of ODIN.

I am not sure if you have the stock image, but if you had to do all this then you have to restore to stock, then root, Install a recovery (philz touch) and after all this you may install CM12.1. Only if you successfully boot up and verify root can you proceed to roms. You may even have to resort to another flash to stock with a .PIT file, only if the above did not work.

I went and Google CM12.1 D2VZW and it should point to CyanogenMod nightlies. I had best results with 5-16-2015. Every other release my sound doesnt work! I know this seems like a work but is really simple once you do it a time or two ;) . Once you have root and recovery you are good to go. I hope you did not lock your bootloader when you flashed the Verizon img, if that was you, there was some hijacking over last few pages.

Just remember ODIN is Dangerous, you are safer with zip flashing in recovery.

I hope this helps you get your unit fixed. I was freaking out then pissed for 3-4 days without my phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Jaws4God:
I just purchased a Total Wireless Samsung S3 S968C Phone. I haven't set it up yet but I did want to start researching how to root it and install custom ROM's and Kernels. I am coming from a Nexus 5 which had "WUGFRESH" so it was EASY to flash back stock.... Are there any programs out there like that for me to use? I"m not familiar with ODIN at all.

Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
First, go to your system settings>about phone and tell me if your baseband ends in MH1 or MH2, this determines the steps you need. Get me that and I'll give you everything you need. I'll warn you though, if you intend on flashing the newest ROMs then you're gonna need a Verizon LTE 4G SIM card or the phone won't get any data, the ROMs are for the Verizon 4G device so it makes us need the SIM the sane as that device does, you can get them for $2-5 on eBay.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Jaws4God:
mine shows: S968CUDUANH2 so i have the H2.. so it seems like this is harder to root.

Please help me find the easiest and safest way to root my phone.. I would love to update the phone to Kitkat or Lollipop.

Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
OK, first you need to go to sammobile and create a free account there, then use this link to find the stock firmware for the H1(H2 is not rootable, the H1 is, that's why we downgrade to the rootable firmware before rooting). When you get to the download page, select the "regular download" it will be a really slow download because the firmware file is 1.2GB but it'll be free, if you want it faster you'll have to pay for a premium account, I don't suggest getting a premium account because you'll only need it this one time. Here is the link to the firmware.

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/35267/S968CUDUAMH1_S968CTFNAMH1_TFN/

Then go to this thread here at XDA and download Odin and install it on your PC.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2711451

Then do a Google search for "USB drivers for Samsung phones" and download the newest version you can find and install those drivers on your PC.

Before going any further, make sure you've backed up everything that you have on the phone that you want to keep, copy that stuff over to PC or to your extsd card. Downgrading factory resets the phone so you'll lose anything that you don't backup.

Then go to this guide.

http://blog.flexispy.com/root-samsung-galaxy-s3-sch-s968c/

One of my usernames is Droidriven, I updated flexispy on the downgrade and root method for this phone, you can trust this guide with no worries. The links in the guide are probably dead so just use these links I posted above. In the guide they don't give the right info for getting developer options and turning on USB debug mode, to do it correctly go to system settings>about phone, then go down to the build number and tap it 7 times real fast to enable developer options, go back and above the about phone setting you'll see developer options, open it and go down and turn on USB debugging, then you can start the downgrade like described in the guide.

After you get through the guide you can use cydia impactor to root or you can use the towelroot app, they both take just a few seconds to root the device.

Follow that guide to get downgraded and rooted then I'll get you setup with the next steps to get updated to lollipop, you'll need a Verizon SIM to update to lollipop, you won't get cell signal or mobile data without it. When you get rooted and you come back here just send me a PM and I'll get you set.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Jaws4God:
Thanks! I followed this method and now appear rooted... right now i'm trying to figure out what to do about ROM.. I HATE touchwiz.. runs so slow and bloated.. I know now that i'm rooted i could delete the unwanted apps.. but I would prefer to go with a simplistic Android ROM... Do you know of any that i can easily flash and have no issues with?

Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
All the lollipop ROMs need the SIM, most of the kit kat ROMs from the last 6 months of last year also require the SIM. The Kit Kat ROMs from the first 6 months of last year shouldn't need the SIM but even they don't have a working camera and stock MMS doesn't work. If you want a good ROM with no issues then get a Verizon SIM from eBay, you can get one for $2-5, I'm sure you can afford that and the week it'll take you get it in the mail. That is your BEST option period.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Jaws4God:
I actually got one from work.. they have old Verizon work phones.. so he gave me a 4g sim card.. so I just put it in? do I have to do the *288 code? will that try to register it with Verizon? (don't want work to be charged or something) will it mess with my Total Wireless (verizon 3g tracfone service) ?

Thank you!

If anyone has a write up to let me know how to add recovery, and a list of STABLE current roms, please let me know! Thanks so much. :good: