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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LinuxHippy:
Here's what I mean. I used to have a Samsung Galaxy Player 5 and I was able to flash a special kernel on the device after I put a ROM on it. So, could that be done with our locked S3, SlimKat and a flashable kernel that's the original kernel from the SuperLiteROM or the PaulPizzROM?

EDIT

Also, the galaxy player was only released with android gingerbread. So when android upgraded, people here at XDA figured out how to patch the kernel so the hardware would still work on the galaxy player.

And they did get SlimKat working with the galaxy player hardware that was designed for gingerbread.

Marty
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
Safestrap disable flash kernels and dont try flash custom kernel.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LinuxHippy:
Oh... looks like Verizon and Samsung put together something almost bullet proof when they locked the boot loader. Did they do this to the s4,5&6?

Marty
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
No just verizon locked bootloader for s3/4/5 and 6
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LinuxHippy:
Wow... Verizon made something they like and are sticking with it. This effects a lot of people and I'm surprised that nobody can unlock their boot loader. You figured out a way around it with SS, but it's still limiting.

Marty
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] XxD34THxX:
God darnit I got way to excited because I misread that as "unlock"...

btw, This new Safestrap fixes the huge text in recovery :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LinuxHippy:
What does Verizon gain by locking down the boot loader on at least 4 phone models they sell?

Marty
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
Power and control. They don't care about the consumer only what that they want whatever they can get. It's also all about money

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LinuxHippy:
How would locking the boot loader get them money?

Marty
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
Because they then control people from bricking there devices which then brings more money instead of having to fix bricked devices constantly. I don't agree with VZWs practices but then again that's why I left them, prices were quite outrageous. I pay $45 plus tax a month for my service with 5gb of high speed data. I got a mere 2gb at double the price with them

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LinuxHippy:
OK... They could get out of that by saying a bricked device is not covered by warranty.

Marty
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
Very true. Regardless VZW is only one of two carriers than believes locked bootloaders are a good thing. They will always control what people try to do with any phone on there network. I chose not to let them dictate what I can do with my device. Thankfully the two phones I had while with them are both bootloader unlocked and rooted

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LinuxHippy:
OK...I just use my s3 as a Wi-Fi toy with a T-Mobile hotspot so Verizon is not involved. Verizon makes me wonder, though!

EDIT:

That 4G Hotspot from T-Mobile is only $20/mo.

Marty

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So what is the other company that locks bootloaders?

Marty

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Motorola may be in the locked bootloader group. I have a Moto-G (another Wi-Fi toy) that had a locked bootloader but unlike Verizon they give u the ability to unlock it via their website. It's free but it does take time and it didn't guarantee that all Motorola phones could be unlocked.

The carrier probably matters... It's a pay as you go boost phone. It now has clockwork recovery 6.0.4.7 and runs SlimKat.

Marty
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
That would be AT&T, both sprint and TMobile don't bother to try to lock them down

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dawgdoc:
The AT&T S3, i747, has a bootloader that is restricted, but not near as tightly controlled as the vzw S3. The i747 is my daily device. The big limitation with it is that once you reached the jellybean 4.3 firmware you could no longer downgrade to a prior version. Rooting and flashing were no more troublesome than on early releases. Once you reached the 4.4.2 firmware you could no longer mismatch bootloader and modem.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sohaib-alm:
Hey mohammad

I was using SS B05 when i decided to flash SLROM v4

After flashing successfully.

SS recovery is not found (not the app) it was uninstalled

I downloaded it again and installed it but when i open the app it closes

Now i can't install it :( please help me
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LinuxHippy:
He may need some more info to help quickly like did u install slr4 on the stock slot? That's what I did and ss b5 is still there.

Marty
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
Safestrap save its backup on /tmp before flash and. After flash to system its restore the backup.

If you reboot from aroma safestrap will be lost. If flash the rom dont reboot wait for safestrap to restore file thin reboot.

now using file explorer go to /system/etc and delete safestrap folder then reinstall app.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Sohaib-alm:
Thank you so much

It worked :)

Sent from my SCH-I535
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sezamer66:
Would this work with the Verizon Prepaid S3 (SCH-I535PP) running KK 4.4.2 build NF5? Or would it have to be ported over to it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
Why not!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sezamer66:
Are you sure? Because I definitely do not feel like bricking my phone. Not today lol!:p
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
I think they are same hardware and different software.

Wait for a while. I will check and search more.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sezamer66:
They're identical in hardware, besides the fact that the I535PP is pure CDMA (no SIM slot). And they do have different software. On the I535PP the build number for KitKat is NF5, while on the I535 its NE1.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
This light ROM from VERIZON by the way.

I will add support to SCH-I535PP on my SLROM if I got time and I need tester.

PS: Original SCH-I535 users dont try to flash full NF5 fimware on our device!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sezamer66:
Wait.... So the screenshot tells me you're running NE1 baseband on I535PP hardware and getting edge speeds? Have you gotten LTE with that too? Because on the NF5 baseband with I535PP hardware I only get 3G and 1xRTT

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Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to test. This is my daily driver lol. Will you be building Safestrap for I535PP as well?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
this is SCH-I535 hardware with SCH-I535PP software only system flashed.

Safestrap should be OK.

LTE disabled on NF5
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sezamer66:
Would you know any way of getting LTE working on the I535PP?

By the way I can confirm that Safestrap works like a charm on the I535PP.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sezamer66:
Does CM12.1 for d2vzw boot fine on the ROM slots? Also, if I have an I535PP, would I have to add it to the assert lines?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
If SIM support LTE why not, flash SLROM on slot rom and check it out.

backup /system/lib/modules from I535PP as WIFI wont work on our module I will make flashable zip later.

cm12.1 not supported only cm11 and I will drop it next update as its not functional.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] sezamer66:
Would anybody be able to port GPE KitKat from I545 (GS4)? Its based off of a TouchWiz Kernel, but its all infused and entwined with AOSP 4.4.2. I'm more than willing to help get AOSP working if someone could teach me.

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And also, I see that in the Safestrap folder somewhere in the /system/ partition there is ramdisk images for Omni, Slim, and CyanogenMod. What would that contribute to in terms of building a CM/Omni/Slim ROM that shares the same TW kernel/is flashable through Safestrap?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
GPE ROM can be ported but I cant help you need hard work.

In safestrap folder there a ramdisk for AOSP to be loaded at boot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] OpenSourcererSweg:
Cant wait to see safestrap working on i535pp, I will be more than happy to test :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
You dont need to wait. Its working on I535PP.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] OpenSourcererSweg:
When I press "Install recovery" it says installation conplete. The state remains "not installed". It doesnt have the splash screen either. I have reinstalled the apk etc and I have busybox.

Edit: I extracted the apk and manually installed it and it works now :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
did you installed busybox from the app it self?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] OpenSourcererSweg:
I already had busybox. Got one of the installers off the play store and ran it to install the binarys the day I rooted it :p

I read though most of the thread and its unfortunate we dont currently have a way to get working wifi on an aosp rom :/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
Yes wifi modules implemented in kernel. We cant get wifi working only if someone compiled new rom with hacked wifi driver.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] OpenSourcererSweg:
Can I flash ss compatiable roms such as yours on my i535pp if I only flash the system parition?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
Yes you can but backup kernel modules before from system/lib/modules and restore after flash.

I will make a flashable zip soon.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] pmh1@hives.us:
Back to stock

I've been successfully using Safestrap for quite a while (thankyou). I'm now going to trade in my phone and need to get back to stock. How do I do that? (its been a while since I've played with ROMS etc!)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LinuxHippy:
There's uninstall inside unofficial ss app.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] phonetool:
Uninstall safestrap and leave it at that. Why mess with going all the way back to stock?

(honest question)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LinuxHippy:
Take off SS & then make Verizon wonder how u got a non-Verizon ROM on their phone or got it rooted!

Marty
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] darkharbinger81:
Lmao verizon frowned upon that I know from experience I did that with my Xperia play I had. They asked how I had the timescape ui on it and after looking closer they seen I had an AT&T 2.3.3 gingerbread rom they said my warranty was voided but I already knew it was when I used Sony to unlock the bootloader
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
Big red knows way too much about everything. One day my gf called them after having issues with her S3 and they repeated back to her an app she updated the previous day from the play store and right there assumed that's what was causing issues with her phone. The charging port was severely messed up on it. She had nearly 4 replacements for the S3. I am so glad I dumped them

Sent from my N5
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] darkharbinger81:
Just installed and used this app I I had it say backup wasb successfully but i had to pull battery to reboot phone how long does it take to normally reboot after pressing reboot button and no other buttons were responsive is this normal? Im run him latest kk from vise with root
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LinuxHippy:
Not normal. It should reboot within a second. Did you let busy box install the busy box software after the busy box app installed?

Marty
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] darkharbinger81:
Yes i have busy box installed before I downloaded the app to install twrp

The recovery took without a problem its still installed

Edit/update:

Ok so I deleted my nandroid I made of stock kk and redid the nandroid after what seemed like forever i was prompted to reboot the system i pressed reboot system and it rebooted no problems now since I'm unlocked with twrp I'm looking for a Rom to throw on this thing I'm looking for something on the dark side like dark paranoid android I've seen but since I am on kit Kat what are the risks of flashing say a cm10 rom being as I have stock kit kat thanks for the replys
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] LinuxHippy:
Very risky from what I read on this thread. It seems that any other kernel would mess up your radios and most other ROMs may brick your device.

You could install the super light ROM. Anything in slot 1 will drain your battery and USB connectivity messed up. I put super light ROM in stock ROM slot with no problems. Put stock backup in slot 1.

Marty
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] masterlo3:
am sorry if it's a silly question but, can i flash any cm11 for i535 rom using safestrap? are there any bugs?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ShapesBlue:
Only TouchWiz based roms will work on safestrap. Trying to install custom roms will brick the device

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] masterlo3:
that's tough. Thanks for clearing that up.... no hope of a higher version of android then. :(
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] masterlo3:
in the safestrap app, what does ''support AOSP for now'' mean? does it mean we can flash AOSP roms?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] leroyinc:
there is some rom i can load ?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] landshark68:
As Mohammad.afaneh told you earlier in this thread, there are no custom kit Kat touchwiz ROMs yet for you to load. The Kit Kat update just came out, so you will have to wait a little while.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] leroyinc:
thx dude, sorry for my impatience, i will wait for a bit longer)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] landshark68:
No worries. While you are waiting for custom Kit Kat TW ROMs to come out, do as much reading on these forums as you can so you are well informed. Impatience will often lead to problems and possibly a bricked phone thus turning it into a paperweight.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] leroyinc:
yes, I will monitor the forum, i wont brick my phone ^^
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PaulPizz:
Thanks!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] techfreak243:
I tried to reboot to recovery using the app and it didn't work. I used towelroot to root and then installed the recovery through the app. Are there any modules that I need to install or anything that I need to do for me to be able to reboot to recovery? Oh and I do have busybox installed
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
First check if busybox installed (not the program) if not open the program and install it.

then if the bug still exest install again then reboot.

if that didnt work reboot manualy then enter recovery from splash screen.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fattony2k:
No safestrap boot logo

first I want to thank you for you time working on this.

I'm on 4.4.2 (d2vzw) from OTA update (bad advice from a "friend")

rooted 4.4.2 via towelroot

rebooted

installed busybox

ran root validate (everything came back good (all green))

installed Unofficial-Safestrap-D2VZW-3.75-B01.apk via apk install.

I ran "unofficial-Safestrap" down at the bottom left it says 3.75 before I installed it, so I clicked "install recovery" and the state changed to "Installed." and Safe System says "Not Active"

but when i reboot via "Reboot to recovery" I dont see the safestrap boot logo, just the normal samsung galaxy s3 logo then verizon's. If I boot into the locked bootloader recovery mode, it just shows the following:

Android system recovery <3e>

KOT49H.I535VRUDNE1

with the normal menu: reboot now, apply update from adb, apply update from external storage, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition, apply update from cache.

I'm confused to why I dont see the safe strap boot logo, even tho it says its installed. :silly:

Please Advise, Thank You!!!

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I found out triangle away was the culprit for it not showing for some strange reason, I re-enabled 3 ticks in triangle away rebooted. uninstalled safestrap then reinstalled, and tapped reboot into recovery and viola!! it works! many thanks to you and the developer behind this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
And exposed some time not make safestrap work, any way there a rom in the kitchen will uploud when finish last touch
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 5ft24:
I have triangle away and never had an issue with the rebooting into the safestrap recovery. Do you also have SuperSU installed? If not, I would install that before installing the safestrap APK
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
The "Install" button will not be avilable if Safestrap didnt grants root access.

Sometime you need to press the install button again to be sure safestrap installed probably.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] fattony2k:
Yes SuperSU was installed before safestrap, everything works good :)

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] FuzzieKiwi:
So this is working on 4.4.2 NE1 now?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 5ft24:
Yes, this version works.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
Yes, read Installation guide carefully and dont forget busybox.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] PaulPizz:
Ive been trying to use ArchiKitchen do create a rom like your superlite. but for some reason i keep getting the attached screen. HELP???:confused:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
I have pulled a system dump from my device not from the full tar

boot.img and cach not necessary only system.img try to copy the system from root explorer and copy to your project.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] FingerBlastJ:
Boot Looping

On rooted S3

Installed busy box 1.20.2

Installed unofficial safestrap 3.75

Reboot to recovery in SS

Keep getting stuck on old splashscreen

What am i doing wrong?

Im trying to install KK superlite rom

Help please
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
Open Safestrap and install again then reboot manually not from Safestrap.

I doesnt help, Uninstall then remove safestrap, install again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
Only on slot roms but not fully functional.I will drop it in next update until I build a functional cm11 rom.

BTW Im updating the reovery to 2.8.7.0 huge update and changes by twrp team its take me long time to solve conflects.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] The_B1G_JBZy:
Any guidance/videos/walkthroughs on how to do that? I'm at the same point you were- screen reads: installation complete, but Safe System: Not Active and the Reboot to Recovery button is grayed out.

I extracted the APK using Root Browser, but I'm not sure what steps to take next.

Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
Make sure you installed busybox from the apk (NOT THE APP) then try install again.

Safe system mean that you are on slot rom not the stock.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
Safestrap Recovery 4.00-B01 Uninstall old Safestrap application.

Changlog:

[2015-08-13] Update TWRP recovery to 2.8.7.0 .

[2015-08-13] Materialize Safestrap apk.

[2015-08-13] Drop aosp support.

if you need full changlog look here https://github.com/mohammad92/recovery-safestrap/commits/safe2.8.7.0
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] masterlo3:
Thanks for clearing that up man, nice update on recovery too. you're really doing a good job. would it be impossible to build cm12.1 instead of cm11? cm12.1 on this safestrap will be a dream come true.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
At this time its impossible to build cm12.1 kernel not support it! and there massive changes.

the idea is to start working on cm11 as its boot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] masterlo3:
okay... that clears it up, verizon really messed up this device with 4.4.2. Thanks for your effort, we will wait for your cm11 build :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] The_B1G_JBZy:
Uninstalled everything, downloaded 4.0 instead of 3.75, re-installed busybox, reinstalled Safestrap and voila!

Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
Safestrap theme materialized

How to...

The theme zips are not flashable. First installation has to be done manually:

- Download the theme and rename it to "ui.zip".

- On SD card (if device has internal and external storage, use the internal) open TWRP folder and create a folder called "theme", without capital letters.

- Copy ui.zip to theme folder.

- Restart to recovery.

thanks to z31s1g for the theme base

Safestrap_theme_materialized_2.8.7.0.zip
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] darkharbinger81:
OK I tried that and it still says safestrap disabled no idea why but I still have twrp installed
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] The_B1G_JBZy:
Don't know if this will help but I was unknowingly skipping a step:

1. Uninstalled both Busybox & Safe strap apps, and then downloaded the Safe strap 4.0 apk, but didn't install it.

2. Downloaded the Busybox app from playstore. After getting the app, I had to tap "open" and actually install Busybox from the dialogue within the Busybox app. I initially thought it automatically installed when I got it from playstore, but it doesn't. The playstore app just downloads the apk + a fancy graphical interface to guide you through the process of installing Busybox (I think that's what Mohamed meant in his advice to me.) I didn't have success until after I did this "extra" step.

3. Then went back to the downloaded Safestrap 4.0 apk, clicked on it, and followed the dialogue to install recovery.

Best of luck. The Superlite ROM is really nice. Hopefully you're able to get it soon.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] darkharbinger81:
I have superlite rom downloaded, I've made a nandroid with my old 3.70 or 3.75 safestrap in had before the recent update. Ill try all the steps again and hope it works. Question though should I make a different nandroid before I attempt to flash superlite rom in stock slot. Also if nbwhike I decide to restore my nandroid will it restore to the stock slot? Sorry for so many questions but this phone is my daily driver and in can't afford to brick it

EDIT: I went back to 3.75 still said it was disabled wiped data etc and flashed superlite Brown So far so good haven't connected to pc yet but will try soon
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] afaneh92:
A new nandroid backup is recommended to have latest data backed.

and yes you can restore on stock slot any time.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nightevo89:
I'm back!!!!!!! Also by the way #linuxhippy my name Is Marty also ?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] navpal93:
safeststrap

i was trying to install safestrap to my Verizon s3 but after downloading it and installing it i tried to install the recovery but it does not install
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] OpenSourcererSweg:
Do you have busybox installed?(Not the installer app, the binary executable(s))
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] carlinho1994:
AYUDAAAAA!!!!! acabo de instalar esta rom pero no vibra cuando recibo una notificacion ni llamada ni cuando lo pongo en modo vibrar.....

HELPPPPPPPP!!!! I just installed this rom but no vibrating when I receive a call I did not notice when I put it on vibrate mode
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dawgdoc:
Which ROM?

There are three that can be used with SafeStrap on the i535 with the NE1 bootloader. Even more than that if your device does not have the NE1 bootloader.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Fear28:
Unlock Bootloader

Plz tell me how to unlock:confused: bootloader on s3 verizon 4.4.2 ?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] phonetool:
Plz tell us how it is possible for you to have read this thread and NOT UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO UNLOCK THE BOOTLOADER OF VERIZON 4.4.2.