yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] wyelkins:
Me Four. When you Odin the tar to upgrade to ND8 or NDC, you get the bootloader, modem, Samsung 4.4.2 TouchWiz Unrooted Rom and the basically useless stock recovery.

I rebooted and played with stock for a few minutes. Then I went back to Odin and flashed the newest Philz tar.

Then I updated to newest Philz zip.

Then I backed up Unrooted Stock.

Then I flashed Wicked-X.

No bricks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] nguyento1986:
Link does not work anymore. Please upload it again.

Thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jdsingle76:
I'll get it back up ASAP. Thanks for letting me know.

Edit: Link back up and running! Enjoy :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shooozs:
HI, Just wondering if you can tell me why the flash is failing using odin, I am trying to bring my boost gs3 back because after rooting and flashing sprint rom nd8, my screen became upside down in landscape so I want to restore it but for some reason it keeps saying failed, any help would be appreciated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Do you have the L710T model? Check your Settings/More/About Phone and see what the baseband is... If it is NDC, disregard everything above. If it is not NDC, stop now, or you could ruin your device.

If it is NDC, the most common reasons for an Odin fail are a bad cable or bad port on the computer.

My ROM: WICKED X
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shooozs:
It is L710, Maybe I had a bad download?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
It would tell you during the md5sum check

My ROM: WICKED X
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] shooozs:
Why won't this work?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Not sure what you mean

My ROM: WICKED X
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madoubletee:
I flashed a custom recovery (CWM) and now I want to go back to the stock recovery (unroot device). I'm still using the stock ROM; I never changed it. I did this before activating service to the phone. I was unable to use the hands free activation; Virgin had to manually program it. Since then, I have been unable to get LTE service and "System Upodate..." appears in my notifications.

I want to undo any changes Clockworkmod made to my device and restore it to factory so that I can attempt to reactivate it with Virgin and (hopefully) start getting 4G LTE service like I used to.

Will flashing this to my phone accomplish this? I'm not sure if my baseband version is right for this file. My "about device" menu shows baseband: L710VPUCNJ3; I don't see anything referencing NDC or ND8.

Also, I am new to this so I want to be sure what I'm doing is right, I'm not as comfortable doing modifications to my phone as some of you are. I also don't know all the initialisms, so bare with me.

Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
You are on the newest firmware (just came out). I wouldn't recommend using this as attempts to downgrade the Bootloader usually end up in the phone being a paperweight. You'll have to wait for somebody to grab the NJ3 tar. CWM would not make ANY changes to your device other than the recovery. It would not cause the problems you're having.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madoubletee:
I forgot to mention that the CWM I'm using is a Sprint version; does that make a difference?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
No... The only thing CWM, TWRP, and Philz effect are recovery, when you boot into recovery mode. They don't effect the running system at all.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madoubletee:
What is the difference between a bootloader and recovery? or are they the same?

I'm not quite sure what to do; assuming it were available, would flashing the NJ3 tar be a possible fix?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Recovery is when you power off, then hit Power+Home+Volume Up... How things are flashed. Bootloader is part of the firmware.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madoubletee:
So, when I flash CWM, is it changing the recovery and the bootloader or just the recovery?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Ainz_Ooal_Gown:
just the recovery, the bootloader never changes unless you flash a new bootloader via Odin or in the custom recovery
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madoubletee:
Thanks for the help everyone.

Someone I spoke with suggested I flash the modem. Would I use the NDC modem located: here ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madoubletee:
There are also some issues accessing storage on my device. When I try to use CamScanner, I get this message: "Directory check failed. Please check SD card state."

I never had problems scanning with my camera before I rooted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Download SDFix by Next App in the Play Store... it's Google and Samsung's screw up, even unrooted on the OTA has that bug.

My ROMs: Wicked X & Wicked S5 Xperience
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madoubletee:
I tried using that app; the problem persists :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
I've heard some users say the only thing that worked for them was flashing the KT747 Kernel by ktoonsez (it's in Original Development).

My ROMs: Wicked X & Wicked S5 Xperience
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madoubletee:
I'm not sure how to do that. After I download it, do I select PDA from the Odin menu?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
You flash it in CWM

My ROMs: Wicked X & Wicked S5 Xperience
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madoubletee:
Is it alright if I PM you? I have a couple questions and don't want this convo to get too far off track.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jdsingle76:
Yeah [MENTION=4310299]bilgerryan[/MENTION], PM the dude and quit hijacking my thread LMAO:D Kidding, kidding...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jreink01:
Hello, I have a Boost Mobile S3 that is rooted and running custom rom and recovery. My baseband is L710VPUCNDC I would like to return it to out of the box state so I can sell it. Is this the correct thread to return this to stock? Thanks for the feedback.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Yes indeed

My ROMs: Wicked X & Wicked S5 Xperience
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] droiddekka:
how long is the first boot typically take? i can never tell if im waiting long enough.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
No more than 10 mins

My ROMs: Wicked X & Wicked S5 Xperience
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tatt2mike:
Just need to know why there is no" .tar" file in the extracted package. Md5 matched but download shows 1.46G when it should be 1.5G. When I open up Odin it only sees an older 4.3 Tar from one of the OP's older "no knox" builds that I have on my PC. Not even in the same folder or location.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Judging by the download page, it is a tar file.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
You don't extract it. It is a tar file. Click PDA in Odin and navigate to where you have it downloaded.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tatt2mike:
OK thanks for the reply. I guess I'm confused. After extracting the zip and opening odin into PDA, there isn't anything to select to flash.

Download zip.

Extract.

Open Odin.

PDA.

Select TAR.

Flash.

Flash what? I have done this before(about a year ago). I haven't had to use odin since. PDA needs .tar I thought.

I guess I'm doing something wrong. Thank you for your help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
If you downloaded a zip, you downloaded the wrong file. The file is a tar. No need to extract anything.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tatt2mike:
The link for the .tar in the OP is a 1.5G zip. See my attachment Maybe have a look at link.

Thank you for help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
I did, I posted a picture that shows the file ending in .tar.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tatt2mike:
I see the same as your pic on the download page, but it downloads a zip.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
It's downloading as a tar for me. What browser are you using?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tatt2mike:
I am running Firefox. I also tried Chrome with same results.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
I'm using the stock browser
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tatt2mike:
I am not using device. I am downloading from my laptop. I just went into Winrar to see if something in settings could help me. I noticed in the integration tab there were a list of file types to "associate" and TAR was one that was checked. I unchecked it. I am going to see if zip icon shows up when I try to download again. I am downloading right now to device through chrome. But it is going to take awhile. I am in a rural desert area with only dsl at 1.5mbps at my disposal. I really do appreciate your help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
If its showing a symbol for zip, it just means its a compressed file. Its compressed in .tar format though not zip. What is the file extension at the end? Don't extract the one you downloaded, just flash it with Odin the way it is when you downloaded it.

You don't need to re download, just Odin as is.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tatt2mike:
Thanks for chiming in. I have no idea why this isn't working. If this download was just compressed in .tar format it should be detected by odin. I tried 3.07 and 3.09. I tried to select the file with no luck. This file is 1.5 gig. Seems pretty big for being compressed. I'm not having any luck with the download that you see in my post via attachment a few posts back. I'm downloading again to my phone right now but its slow, probably another hour. Bangs head on table. Lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] marcran75:
Definitely something on your end. I just downloaded and it's showing in Odin for me. I'm using Odin v3.04 and never have any issues.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tatt2mike:
Ok I re installed everything fresh even odin 3.07. I just odined tar and now my phone is stuck on sammmy logo. I will try again with a battery pull before reboot. Hope it works.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
It should show in odin. You have to navigate to where you have it downloaded. When you click PDA, whatever folder opens just navigate to the right one
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] tatt2mike:
I got everything figured out and i am finished. I had to reinstall odin and fresh tar downloads. I got kk,philz and JD's stock rooted with modem fix. Everything seems to be good.

Thank you for your time guys. This forum is awesome. Too bad they sold it to google. Hahaha They got me on that one.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] jdsingle76:
Thanks for the help keeping this forum alive guys. Much appreciated!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] allrockedout:
Can i flash this tar if im on the nj2 modem?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
Most would say it's too risky and would causes hard brick. A user over in AP swears he was on nj3 and Odin flashed this and is successfully back on NDC. It would suggest that a brick only happens when trying to Odin a pre-knox firmware like mk5. I have not tried this, just passing on what I've read.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fenz4rt:
I did it yesterday. I'm on NJ2 stuck with 1xRTT so I tried different stock ND8 and NDC. I found out that NDC is actually NJ3. When I odined NDC i don't get any signal though.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] upconvert:
I am getting stuck on the samsung logo, and the ROM won't boot. I checked the MD5, tried several versions of ODIN (3.09, 3.07, 3.04), two cords, 2 USB ports. Same result every time, I keep getting stuck at the samsung logo for up to 30 min. I was able to ODIN back to Philz, but I can't install anything (Error 7). When I restore a nandroid, I get stuck on the boot animation. Any suggestions?

Edit: I reflashed with odin, same result. Then I booted into the stock recovery and wiped data and cache. All better now. Now that I think about it, did someone mention this earlier in the thread?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
Yep. Going from lollipop to KitKat you have to wipe internal SD (data/media) and cache, well everything really. Sometimes a couple times.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] explicitKC:
Thank you very much

Got the s3 and rooted it. First custom rom messed up my data. It worked but connection went from best i've had while on boost to "your applicable monthly plan data allotment is reached". (They might as well shut your phone off when they throttle you lol) So i find a fix. Says if you're having problems with data connection install mk5 modem. This is what made me nearly throw phone away. Not only did installing modem not help, it erased all the info you find in about phone>status. phone number, imei... basically everything. Now i could'n't make voice calls had absolute 0 service, Found one thread by a guy who did the exact same thing. Got the modem from same thread too. Wish he'd posted his problem there cause I read all posts before flashing . Not one issue was meant relating to info being erased. I tried flashing other roms and modems. Nothing worked..in fact it got worst. I lost all audio and haptic feedback..Luckily i was stubborn and kept trying and found this thread. Flashed it and started phone, notifications from old unread text messages never sounded so good lol.

TYVM .. imy bday was sept 27th and i was running out of excuses of why her bday gift to me wasnt being used yet lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
Dude, do not flash anything mk5. You will hard brick. Do not flash anything older than ndc. Meaning you can use nd8, nj2, nj3 and up. But you're lucky that mk5 modem didn't destroy your phone. If you want a good rom, I'm using aicp lollipop (latest nightly) and it works great. Luckily ,if this tar worked, means you don't have the triband model. Which is a whole separate issue. But don't flash roms that say their for boost Mobile, those are for the triband. Flash roms for sprint and use the boost apn fix .zip. I can hunt you down some links if you want.

Sent from my Nexus 9
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] explicitKC:
Ok ty thats good to know. does that rom have a working hotspot of a rom that has one?

lol sorry but i want to make sure that this is the rom you said you used.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
Yep that's the one. Yes it has working hotspot. You need the boost Mobile apn fix zip to get lte working.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] explicitKC:
thanks man.... i was kind of nervous to try out anything else. about to download it now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mydian:
My Boost Mobile S3 (sph-l710) is receiving an update notification. It appears to be L710VPUCOJ1. Has anyone else installed this update yet? I have the NJ3 to OJ1 OTA update.zip if anyone wants it. It's also showing up on Kies 3 for me but my phone is obviously rooted so I haven't messed with that. The update.zip is 75mb and the description says it contains Stagefright fixes.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sabunassar:
Updated to OJ1

I am on VM S3 (not Tri-band) & re-flash this NDC every few months, mainly to update PRL. I have been using CM12.1 & now trying out Lrs21's unofficial CM13. Phone has been on NJ3 since last time I updated.

I happened to repeat the procedure this morning & went through all the updates. First thing I noticed is that modem went back to NDC & still worked ok. After the updates, it is now on OJ1. I've restored back to CM13 & cell/texts/LTE seem to be working fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bryan_orc:
sph-l710

Hello , you who are more knowledgeable on the subject would help me about a problem that I have with my SPH- L710 ... I'm trying to set you a different recovery which already brings factory but will not let me install ... with Odin intalan well but when entering recovery mode always starts the same recovery to bring. can you help me please?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sabunassar:
SPH-710 Recovery

I'm not sure I understand what you are asking. For recovery, I use TWRP 3.0 for d2spr. If you install the NDC image in this thread, then it will revert back to stock recovery, but you can always just Odin TWRP again.

TWRP: https://dl.twrp.me/d2spr/

NOTE: Make sure you are using the 710 S3 NOT the 710T. The 710T is different.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
When odin says "pass" , pull out the battery. Then boot directly to recovery with power+home+volume up. Then the stock recovery will not be re written.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bryan_orc:
and I tried but it did not work when I did ... any other ideas? Please
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] remotehugger:
ok - so no need to reflash the modem with this stock file correct ? just flash in philz and the phone will be back to full unrooted stock 4.4.2 ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
This is a .tar file, so it has to be flashed with odin on a PC. You may be able to use chainfire's flashfire app to do it if you don't have a pc. It's the full .tar so it has the modem in it. Yes you will be stock unrooted afterwards. You may have to do a factory reset after to wipe data. Philz will be replaced with stock recovery. Out of the box stock.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] koobie777:
Deff. do a factory reset from stock recovery. Wouldn't boot from my experience without that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] remotehugger:
stupid question - but is there any way to go into the stock .tar and delete any apps I dont want then flash it with Odin and still be stock unrooted ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
You would have to unpack the tar remove what you don't want and repack the tar, theoretically (I've never actually tried as rooting is much easier). You wouldn't be stock though, firmware would say unofficial, etc. Only way to be official is to have all the BS that comes with stock. On newer phones (lollipop and up) you can disable (still installed, but not using any resources and doesn't appear in the app drawer) almost every stock app and bloatware.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] remotehugger:
I was afraid of that - stupid Niantic - looking like I'd be better off just getting my daughter a new low budget phone and just leave it un-rooted - she really wants to be able to play Pokemon Go - thank you for all the help and advice -
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bilgerryan:
Pretty sure there are ways to play that while rooted. RootCloak, Magisk, Xposed modules, etc. Just had to do it so many son could play Super Mario Run (I used RootCloak).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
For my wife, I flashed lineage os ROM, it comes unrooted. But the build prop is still a problem. So I flashed their root add-on zip, then installed the app isu ( available here on XDA using XDA labs app) it allows you to change build prop, and actually shows you which ones to change. Then has a switch to disable root. Sounds like more work than it actually is. It's a pretty clean system and is Android nougat with all the latest security patches.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Osorio1798:
Work for SPH-L710T?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] madbat99:
No. Do not flash this on that model.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] BirdOPrey5:
So here's my situation. My mom needs a new Virgin Mobile phone, her old one no longer works. I had a perfectly working but unused Virgin Mobile Galaxy S3 stock. Unfortunately after moving her account to this phone I see it never got an official firmware update beyond Kit-Kat. As a result many apps she uses like Uber Eats won't even install on the phone, they simply don't even show up in the app store. However with a newer OS they show fine. The phone is in damn near perfect condition but they never did a newer firmware. I thought I'd have nothing to lose by installing a newer firmware after rooting. Unfortunately the download link to the tar file in the original post is no longer working. It will take you to a download page but the download pages says "no mirrors found" when you try to download. Does anyone have a working link? I tried to google search for it elsewhere but found no working links, just the checksum,.

Or does anyone have a way to update this phone even beyond Lollipop? There seem to be lots of modern phones with near equal specs that run even newer versions of Android.

Thank you.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] sabunassar:
I may still have the original TAR for the S3 VM. I've switched over to newer phones since then (on refurb Pixel 2 XL on Google Fi & love it). You are correct that the S3 never got an official update past 4.4x. I used to use latest CyanogenMod on it for some time on 5.x and it worked well. There are some scripts you had to run after installing a custom ROM, however, in order to get VM LTE to work. I don't remember all the details. Of course, after CM's demise, LineageOS had some ROMs but it then became unsupported. The phone felt very sluggish installing Oreo after Lollipop.

In any case, you don't really need the original TAR. I suggest you browse here & find a good stable Lollipop ROM, install TWRP, and just wipe everything & perform a clean install.

TWRP: https://twrp.me/samsung/samsunggalaxys3sprint.html

LTE issue fix: https://androidforums.com/threads/v...rgin-mobile-apn-fix-wip-cm-aosp-4-4-x.840298/
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turntechgnostic:
ive encountered an error while trying to update my rooted motorola defy from 2.2.2 to jellybean.

i was using the update.zip method and got as far as installing it on the recovery mode before this happened

"Finding update package ...

Opening update package ...

Verifiyng update package ...

E:failed to verify whole-file signature

E:signature verification failed

Installation aborted."

any ideas?

-b.
[Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0, 5.0] JhonaTIM:
HELP!!!!! My screen does not work!
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I have a Galaxy Player 3.6, a few days ago I probe the 4.4 rom is published; then I decided to go back to putting on CM7, but I lock in the process. I decide to set up for ODIN STOCK ROM but after finishing the process and start the OS My screen did not respond. What I can do? Now try by installing KERNEL but does not work. The model of my PLAYER is the U.S. version and as an extra comment, do not hit the screen or you fall water, nothing. I hope you can help me and I appreciate your contributions!
[General Questions and Answers] Rini94:
I own a Lenovo S920. It has 4 GB of total internal memory. 2 GB as phone memory and 2 GB as the built in memory. But for some reason the internal phone memory is more occupied than it should be. I have attached the picture. What happened to the marked space?
[General Questions and Answers] Trozzul:
so your saying that it used to have 4gigs of internal memory? or it says that it has 4 gigs of internal memory? my bad if im not asking the right question.
[General Questions and Answers] prashant13b:
I was victim of same problem but not now here I how you what to do

First root your device then download titanium backup. Launch it and select app you use most and swipe to special features and select on convert to system app now your apps will be stored in system rom

Do It with multiple apps

And at last click on thanks of it helped

Pm me if you want to know in detail :)

Sent from my Andi 3.5KKe+
[General Questions and Answers] Rini94:
It's just that I don't know what's occupying most of the 2 GB memory. It's definitely not the apps.
[General Questions and Answers] Rini94:
But what is it that's actually occupying the space? Is there no way to do it without rooting? I had some problems with my last phone after rooting it. It was an HTC explorer.

And I used an app to view the actual internal memory. It says the total internal phone memory is 1008 mb. Where's the rest of the 1 GB??
[General Questions and Answers] Trozzul:
i think this is the best way to answer your question, There has to be a place for the operating system to go, some phones have two internal storages which one is X amount of gigs to store the Operating system and System apps, while the other is free user space, so pretty much if yours comes with 4gigs of internal storage, its dummed down to around 3gb - 3.4gb and around 1-2gb of the operating system (this includes system apps and bloatware) thats what is taking up your space, thats why most people flash roms because you get tons more storage since nobody wants the bloatware.
[General Questions and Answers] Rini94:
But isn't that a little too much space for operating system?

So what am I supposed to do now? Root it and remove bloatware? Don't want to install a new ROM. I like the stock ROM.