yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevica Smederevac:
First of all , you need to pay attention to what are you doing. You made 2 big mistakes, one after another.

If you have download mode, download stock firmware from Samsung mobile and try to flash it with Odin. Be careful what firmware and what model.

If it doesn't work, you can throw it away or visit some repair shop and hope for the best.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chafik94:
I did download it from sammobile website, it's the one i talked about, after getting downloaded to the phone by odin, this happens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2wyJYnr2vI
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevica Smederevac:
Unfortunately, it's not good news. Call some repair shops and see what they say,maybe someone can fix it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KeTuRr74:
Did you tried any unbrick.img on xda ? Make a research ans see if there is a guide or tuto to help you to fix this with an unbrick.img and any other pit files.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevica Smederevac:
Did you see his youtube video?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hawaiihemd:
He said that video was after an Odin flash. So obviously download mode works. So a flash with a pit file would be my recommendation as well. What the video actually shows is IMHO inconsequential if flashed without a pit file. And that info has not been given yet. At least that's what I think.

Or do you know what's the technical background of that screen? Maybe you could elaborate.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevica Smederevac:
If I am not mistaken, as soon as he tries to enter download mode, that thing on video is happening so no way to flas anything.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hawaiihemd:
Ah ok. Hmm, could be. I could not really see what he was doing on the video so... Hope we get some details [MENTION=7479051]chafik94[/MENTION].
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevica Smederevac:
Neither did i from what he wrote but with video it became clear :D

He can enter but as soon as as he continues (second volume down), little android guy dies.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FakeFriend115:
i cant seem to activate this usb setting RMNET + DM + MODEM on my galaxy s3 i9300.. please help
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chafik94:
oh yeah yeah i did use a GT-I9300.pit, while i was looking for how to fix it i figured maybe it had something to do with partitioning when i was seeing that "e: /system can't mount" error, so i tried the PIT file nothing happened, then I followed it by re-installing the firmware from Sammobile and that's when the thing in the video started happening, do you have any idea how to fix this, should I apply both PIT and firmware at the same time?

my first guess was that missed with everything so I think i now have to find all Odin files for the S3 (bootloader, PDA, Phone,...), an other guess tells me it can be a battery thing but the phone can download everything pretty normally, and then when it comes to installing it shuts down. so what do you guys suggest?

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actually, what happens with the phone is that i can't turn it on nor go through recovery mode or anything, but only when i plug it in the computer or a wall charger, the phone can go through download mode, and once I take the cable off it shuts down immediately, this is one case.

when i press volume up to go through download mode it goes just fine and Odin reads it and i can apply anything from there, but, if i press volume down telling the phone just to restart, I thing that the phone tries to apply the pre-downloaded firmware (I applied it in odin and it downloaded to the phone just fine but when it finished and the phone rebooted to start the installation process, "that android you saw on the video", the phone shut down before completing the installation) and the same thing happens everything i try to reboot using the download mode trick.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hawaiihemd:
Ah alright. You should definitely try the pit file together with the firmware. AFAIK that's the normal procedure anyway. I would also untick the restart option in Odin.

After that I would keep it connected to the pc, try to boot into recovery directly by three button combo and leave it there to charge a while. Then reboot normally later.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chafik94:
I'll try it right away, so i'll these files:

- "I9300XXUGNA7_I9300OJVGNA1_I9300XXUGMK6_HOME.tar.md5" the official firmware for my model and SP

- GT-I9300.pit

and i'll tick only:

Re-partitioning

F. Reset time

am I right?

update: I tried this but it didn't work, the phone still has the same problem :( and couldn't boot into recovery mode
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androidps3:
I have the sprint/virgin mobile s3. How can i unlock it with out root.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mloc33:
I'm currently in Cm13, but its running slow and laggy, so I'm after a ROM that's solid and stable, something I could easily flash to, since Cm13 is the newer rom.

I was thinking of cm12.

I found Cm13 just didn't work when I really needed it, maps, camera, no data connection, etc.

I want something that will work, especially when it comes to the simple things, cheers.

I'm using the international i9300 Btw.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hawaiihemd:
If Odin produces a "pass" I am out of ideas for the moment...

Of you want something really reliable IMHO you have to compromise a bit on security. I would suggest latest CM11 snapshot. It has a security level from January 2016.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mloc33:
You to you mean by security level?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hawaiihemd:
This https://www.dropbox.com/s/z9jgmw1qcqo3vp8/Screenshot_2016-05-20-09-14-38.png?dl=0
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mloc33:
Do you think the overall performance would be better than Cm13, when it's running on our old i9300?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chafik94:
Hi guys, the battery theory turned out to be the real cause of my problem, apparently both batteries ran out of juice at the same time :/ the good news is, the phone eventually passed that android logo, I didn't change the batteries either, I took a charger, took the phone's jack out of it and placed both of its cables on the battery directly (black to positive and Green to negative), plugged it on the wall and kept it for few seconds and took it off then tried turning the phone on while unplugged and it worked :D

now i believe it's stuck on the glowing samsung Logo but that won't be that hard to fix, i'll remember reading about it somewhere, maybe recovery mode will do the trick, anyways i'll look for more infos and try to fix it and let you all know, and thanks allot for your help and your time guys, I really appreciate it

#Update: went to try recovery mode and I was able to access it and noticed it still had that error saying E:failed to mount /system (Invalid argument) .... I wiped the data and reset the phone and Boom, it is now working but it still has a week wifi signal and apparently a message keeps popping up

[IMG="here's the message it keeps showing"]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/yVY3tkWFWGtOPFArT0_GELn3B4yRg0E3ZP79xENTIIgYph7Y6FSyUcA7e7JyTJbGoxrk4NtVQsCSAkQYIP4maXIJYhDJgqArZ3JKCr9CwcR1_F0obgizvcOQGlDPaLWN8cH6JZ6hYG57g_YsEzPyW1L58wN0eQwzrj8N1Rr_-Uz5hv2Hfx7SwBVOYlBNGQAe7JG7TMcB6PsoVUhfyXctTKjAsM-evOdZ0QQWYagLjeGHooMMc72Zj6EOdNspbDONjjkiCmfqkF-TuXsrAMkvo8OOb7yKLWuanDN-_oxL-91BriOyBal1UuvuedPTuDVCSe65Snb9-UIIhAlAkjF9GW-ajA00pGr6HV38-XAjqxFT0VD74R6OB1D98BKp5XeSR8JCYeyRav3y--4dO7jXoFp3P5pPYs8577raSNGaEgoCuSiA20Dt02no6cNVDmz_fnw9mGHc9-cD5BbTXaN6WRNjdAoHd4LTxOTW4BUQhqZw9-zSBweB87h3WWAPw9dLJWcANmVzE2npUsBa_G_DHY8ZqG9uBrSWRINopy4ejtVrxd9oWTUCeAqlzaJCjrehlRpNQmvNCzTf3jm8X6kiXeNI3CRsHVA=w362-h643-no[/IMG]

any idea how to stop it Guys?!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hawaiihemd:
I personally have not used cm13 yet. Performance in terms of speed, smoothness from what I've read is comparable. But stuff will work flawlessly!

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That's called "factory mode". There is info on these forums how to get out of it... Search and you will find it. Don't remember where. I'd have to do searching too.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mloc33:
At one early stage of development for Cm13 I found it worked quiet good for me, but now everyday things I do in my phone are slow, phone heats up, reboots randomly, fcs some apps, twas to much.

At this stage, for my phone, I want something that just is solid and works, simple, I'll get more life outta this phone yet [emoji1]
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androidps3:
I hav an s3. Under phone control network lock, there is nothing there. Any ideas as to what this means??
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikoHelp:
[Q] Rooted I9305 with KingRoot , installed BusyBox , want to unroot it and root again

Hello Guys! Hope you have a nice day.

I rooted my Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE (that means the phone model is i9305). with a KingRoot One-Click Rooting App (kingroot.net) , it worked fine so far so I installed BusyBox (it was needed for lucky patcher I think) and few root access required apps. Now , I'd like to install a recovery and a custom rom. However RootKing SuperSU library does not work on all new roms. Thats why I want to unroot it and root again but now with ChainFire Method (I regret I havent done that before). My question is: Before unrooting should I uninstall BusyBox (Ive seen it has some library and strange things and its not only app) and other root required apps? Is there any other solution than unrooting it? Im also a newbie (u can probably see) and Im a little bit scared about what happens if flashing with odin goes wrong , but to actually make a backup Id need a recovery (correct me if im wrong) and If something goes wrong (by my fault of course) and I lose all data and I wont have backup because I couldnt make one because I need recovery to backup and it seems like a loop! Please give me any other solutions if you can! Can't wait to get your pro response!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hawaiihemd:
You are somewhat correct about the "loop" thing. But as you already have root now, there are several methods. As you concider yourself a newbie, I suggest you go ahead first and quickly read over the first thread in my signature to get a better overview.

If you want to play it really safe, i would dump the efs partition to an image file as a backup (ideally to your external SD card) and do the same for the data partition (only if your app data is really, really important to you). All other stuff like videos, pictures etc. you should have a "normal backup" somewhere anyway!

IMHO easiest way to do that is to grab the "DiskInfo" app in playstore check the advanced options under "expert mode" in the app settings which will show you which memory block holds the partition you need to dump. In my case (intern. S3 i9300) /efs is in "mmcblk0p3".

I would just use a terminal app instead of adb. Otherwise follow the instructions here using the "dd" command.

Now you have backed up the most important info of your device. Everything else can be restored via odin in worst case.

Then I would simply flash TWRP recovery for your device via odin, boot into recovery, make another backup (twrp is just easier), wipe and install whatever rom you want. Unrooting is not necessary if you want to install another rom, as that requires a full wipe of at least /system and /data anyway. So everything that was done by kingroot is removed.

That would be one possible cautious variant... I for one would not hesitate to forego the backup by hand and just flash TWRP via odin and go from there. I never had any problem doing that and neither have the vast majority of users here. Theoretically of course every time you write sth. to your device there could be an error wreaking havoc. But that is a rare, rare, rare case.

There are many possible ways, thats how I would do it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MikoHelp:
This might be a stupid question but if everything that was done by king root is removed is root access also removed? I've also heard about TWRP recovery glitches? That can corrupt ur backup file?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hawaiihemd:
Yes, root access is also removed. But most custom roms come pre-rooted (i.e. with the su binary installed) or are easy to root by e.g. flashing SuperSU.zip in recovery.

As for the glitches, as a general rule, yes... No software/hardware of any kind on planet earth is 100% sure to not produce any error ever. ;)

But (as with odin) TWRP is pretty stable as does the job well and IMHO way better than any other current recovery option out there. Never had any issue.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androidps3:
Is it poss to unlock sph l710 from virgin mobile??

Under phone control network lock there is nothing there.??
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inimposter:
Had cm11, wiped system and data and flashed cm13 latest nightly. During the setup process (login into google, etc) it told me that my phone had 90 apps installed (meaning before the wipe) and asked if i wanted to restore them. Did I mess up and failed to do a clean flash and this is what a dirty flash looks like? Or is it a feature of cm13 or cm in general? If it's the latter then how does it work?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cobras3:
That has nothing to do with cm. It's Google (gapps). Google saved the list which apps you used on previous Rom/Google Account. It Asks, if you want to restore them. You can simple click on none or restore everything or you go in the list and uncheck apps that you dont want to install. You do everything like it should be done. But The cleanest way to flash New rom is when you Wipe internal storage, system, data, dalvik and Cache and then install cm13+gapps.

Greetings

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inimposter:
Thanks for the answer. I didn't wipe internal storage. What repercussions this might have? (basically, off-topic at this point - I am wiping it now for that squicky clean feeling :) )
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htc_desire_luke:
Please help.

Can somebody please tell me how to remove and unlock Samsung galaxy S3 security so I can root the phone.

It is ot as simple as my htc desire.

If there is some software i can install that will do it without using pc, that would be great.

many thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oswald Boelcke:
MMS not working properly.

I'm looking for other buddies who are hopefully using the same device, ROM and carrier (Vodafone DE) as me in order to see if "my" MMS issue is a "personal" problem or maybe carrier related.

Please find details of my device in the signature block and the first two screenshots. Remaining screenshots contain my APN settings.

Issue:

If someone sends me a MMS, I receive the respective notification but the MMS is never downloaded. When I try to send a MMS after a while (about 15 minutes) I get a notification that the MMS couldn't be sent.

Just for clarification: In both cases, mobile data was definitely on with sufficient network receiption.

EDIT (2016-07-12): Issue solved. If interested: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=67711840&postcount=4063
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] milky97:
Hi!

I have problems with my I9300 it reboots when my screeen goes black its fine as long as my screen is on, and it happens on clean stock 4.3 and clean Hyper rom,when i go below android 5.0. On cm13 its fine.

Sorry if its already answered i could not find it.

Thanks for help.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spanit007:
Info Message stuck on the Home screen.

The following message got stuck on my homescreen when I flashed Stock ROM on my GS3.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevica Smederevac:
It's factory mode. Search how to exit from there.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dockhalid:
hello guys i am new to XDA. i have an issue so please if u guys help me. I have samsung galaxy s3 Gt-i9300 and its running the stock 4.0.4 because when 4.2.2 came i wanted to had that update quicker so i rooted my device and installed 4.2.2 successfully but upon checking the newest version i found that my mobile is on emergency calls only as my device's IEMI automatically changed to another and device serial number changed to 000000000 somehow i came back to 4.0.4 with changed IMEI but i can't update my device. update downloaded successfully but upon installing when 33% reached that android logo falls down n device restarted to old version so guys how to recover my original IMEI n serial number return under the battery... regards
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woodman:
Hi,

Did you try to do a full wipe and then flash your favorite official firmware through Odin ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kjarak:
hello.

gt-i9300

[ROM][TW][4.4.4][12.06.16][v6] HYPER-ROM

After turning on greenify, and allowing accesibility:

I have a bootloop and occasionally it goes to the login screen (or safe mode) and loops there (once I

Is there a way to somehow disable greenify or get the phone to the state in which it was before turning on greenify without reflashing the phone etc.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oswald Boelcke:
I hope you made a NANDROID backup from your recovery occasionally before installing greenify. Then I suggest to simply restore this backup from recovery.

Remark: I don't have experiences with Greenify, as I would personally never install an application from China, which has so deep system permissions.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kjarak:
gt-i9300

[ROM][TW][4.4.4][12.06.16][v6] HYPER-ROM

by mistake I removed the original SU and installed a different one. the phone is now appears not to be rooted.

What's the best way to proceed so that the phone is rooted. Is there a way to not flash the rom again and install applications.

I removed the new super user and reinstalled the original su superuser, however I cannot update it
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oswald Boelcke:
If your device is still rooted give it a try with SuperSU by Chainfire. His thread provides a link to his apk but also to the downloadable zip for flashing through TWRP/Flashfire.

If you reinstall your ANDROID backup all will be as before your problems started. You didn't tell me yet if you have such a backup.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kjarak:
thank you for responding.

Ideally I'd like to just reroot the phone while leaving rom and apps intact and somehow format the SD card. Is it possible

I don't have a backup with this last rom. I may have one of the previous old rom.

I am not sure the device is still rooted. I uninstalled the SU binary and it's reported as not rooted by root check.

I assume I can't just install su superuser via playstore but have to flash it so that the phone is rooted.

I assume you are saying I should flash superSU and the phone will be rooted + I don't need to reflash the rom and reinstall applications?

Even though I wiped everything, I am noticing that data has been left on the SD card with all the old directories, etc. How can I wipe all this data. Is there a way to do it while leaving the current applications and rom?

Or maybe it's best to format everything and start over. I'd rather not have any traces and directories of old data that is somehow visible in recovery
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oswald Boelcke:
Please read first this: http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/help-i9305/how-to-how-to-best-phrase-request-to-t3404880.

Then this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1538053

It means you should read what was offered to you before.

SuperSU can only be installed on rooted devices; it might be that your's still rooted.

And a very clean approach is certainly to clean flash whatever you want to have; however, root is required for that, too.

Maybe you have to re-root first? There are a lot of excellent threads at xda - just search and read.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kjarak:
ok. thank you for responding.

One thing that is strange is that if I look in root browser, the old data and directories are not on the card, but in recovery the old directories are somehow visible from "choose zip from sd card" . Do you know how this works.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chartreux27:
Sprint Galaxy S 3 Stuck on CM13 "Marshmallow Boot Animation"

My S3 is stuck on the CM13 Marshmallow Boot Animation after

trying to update my PRL and Profile through the stock ROM. :rolleyes:

Hoping someone more knowledgeable can help :)

...I'm very new to forums.

Here are the steps I took before the boot animation problem started:

1.) Flashed CWM 6.0.4.3 with Odin 3.11

2.) Flashed CM13 and Open GAPPS 6.0 Stock

Everything worked fine besides the inability to make/receive calls.

I found out that I probably needed to Update the PRL/Profile to fix this.

3.) Flashed stock ROM with Odin

4.) Updated PRL/Profile from stock ROM.

At this point I could make/receive calls. I assume if I flash CM13 again, my PRL/Profile will still be updated.

5.) Wipe data/cache/dalvik and flash latest nightly CM13 + GAPPS

That's when the boot animation hang started.

The stock ROM works whenever I flash it.

I tried many combinations of tricks to try to successfully flash CM13 (without getting stuck on the boot animation).

Format /system, re-flashing stock ROM, with/without SD-card, with/without GAPPS, the list goes on...

Here's the info on the top left of download mode (stock bootloader) not sure if it matters or not:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

ODIN MODE

PRODUCT NAME: SPH-L710

CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official

SYSTEM STATUS: Official

QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE

Warranty Bit: 1

BOOTLOADER RP SWREV: 2

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

(I have stock ROM installed as of this^^^^)

I'll be more than happy to provide any info if needed!

Any help would be very appreciated,

Thanks :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YannikM:
Asked Cwm to flash superSu, after you had clicked reboot?

You mustn't click yes at this question. Or use the newest twrp.

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chartreux27:
I think I pressed yes when CWM asked me if I wanted to "Fix Root" (the first time I installed CM13), and I had no problems.

I never actually downloaded a Zip for SuperSU,

although I did install SuperSU from the Play Store (when CM13 had installed successfully), but I assume that wouldn't affect anything because I wiped everything since then.

Since my last post, I've flashed TWRP through Odin, and tried flashing CM13 again, with and without GAPPS, after wiping system, data, cache, dalvik etc.

Still gets stuck on the Boot Animation :/

Thanks for the response btw
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] YannikM:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3375384

In this thread somebody had the same problem.

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spanit007:
hello

my S3 cellular network is gone.

how can I recover it?

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Hey [MENTION=7563029]Chartreux27[/MENTION]

I have one question here.

When you flashed your stick rom again when you saw that you cant recieve the phone calls what did you meant by "I updated PRL/Profile......"

which is step no. 4

because I still cannot recieve the calls in my s3 after flashing the stick rom!!!