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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
As I stated previously, none of the stuff from Verizon's i535 stock firmware can be flashed on S968C except maybe the system.img, all other parts of i535 stock firmware are a guaranteed brick. That is why I stated it clearly in the guide, ONLY the d2vzw CUSTOM recoveries(TWRP) and CUSTOM ROMs will work, but NONE of the i535 stock based stuff or any part of the i535 stock firmware can be used on S968C. The radio(modem) hardware is different between i535 and S968C, this makes the i535 modem incompatible and it also makes the kernel incompatible. Also, the bootloader are different, the only thing that is even remotely compatible between the two is maybe the system.img.

If you flashed the Verizon i535 modem, it is thoroughly hardbricked, I doubt the debrick trick will work in this case. You'll probably have to resort to using JTAG service.

If the device will not boot or charge, will not connect to PC, makes no sound when connecting to Windows, has no LED when plugged in and does not vibrate when you try to power it on, then, sadly, the debrick trick will not help you, you'll have to resort to JTAG/Riff box/octobox methods. It only works on devices that are bricked but still at least vibrates when powering on.

[MENTION=9833065]noidodroid[/MENTION], I added information below.

Here is the debrick.img

https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=24499762636005553

Let me know if the link works for you or not, it's at my AFH repo, I can't remember if I set it up to be available for public download or not. EDIT: I checked the link with someone else's device, it downloaded so it must be available to the public.

Do you have the thread for the method to use the debrick.img?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] noidodroid:
Nope. Didn't flash the d2vzw modem but rather another from TFN firmware I have. I am thinking what did it wss the MicroG kernel mod to allow MicroG to run but still doesn't make sense to me. You are right the system.img is similar. I am getting nothing at all but Qualcomm 9008 mode right now so thats why i know it is hardbricked. Thank you a ton for the debirck image. I will give it a try now and see if it works out. If i have to resort to Jtag I will just try to find another bootloader unlocked logic board or another S3 with a unlocked bootloader (hopefully i can). A Riff box is on my list of equipment to buy sometime when i get to where i have time to train myself. No stranger to EDL or testpoints but Jtag'ing is a whole other other learning curve. Not too difficult just need the right hardware, software, patience and semi decent soldering skills. Riff box now has a usb solution that requires no soldering from what I was told recently so might be worth an early investment.

Debrick thread - Do you mean this one? https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2581166

If so yeah that is what I have been following. It's similar to how I did a Alcatel One Touch years back.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
Yes, that is the correct thread. Good luck.

I wasn't aware that there is another Tfn firmware for d2tfnvzw. Where did you get the firmware? Are you sure it wasn't the firmware for the Sprint variant S906L? Using that firmware would have surely bricked your device.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ibuprophen:
It may me being a bit lost here...

I just wanted to provide the following regarding what I've located.

You can obtain the Unmodified Stock Firmware for/from the following links:

There's only 1 Tracfone Firmware for the SCH-S968C (Samsung Galaxy S III - Tracfone Service)

https://samfrew.com/model/SCH-S968C/region/TFN/

The following reflects 3 variants to the SPH-L710 (Galaxy S 3 LTE - Sprint Services)

https://samfrew.com/model/SPH-L710/

The following reflects 2 other variants to the SPH-L710T (Samsung Galaxy S III - BoostMobile & Sprint Services)

https://samfrew.com/model/SPH-L710T/

I do know that SamMobile had Archived one or more (i believe all - for Paid Premium Only) of the above device variants but, your able to download the firmware via the links above (free of course).

I do know that samfrew is reputable as I've confirmed various firmware downloads there as well as being in touch with the Admin there on a few occasions.

I hope this was helpful in some way for you! :)

Good Luck!

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
Yeah, there should only be one stock firmware available for S968C, the "H1" firmware as we have come to call it. The closest variant would be the I535 since the S968C actually has a I535 motherboard with a modified radio.

The L710 d2spr firmware "might" flash but would not have everything working correctly. The other d2 variants might flash but I doubt it, if they do, they would also probably not have some things working. I would imagine that some of them won't flash or will brick the S968C due to potential bootloader differences, partitioning differences due to android versions all having different partitions(which requires an appropriate PIT that matches your partition order) and/or potential Knox/Qfuse being tripped. That last one is bad juju, my friend.

The biggest reason for the differences is that the partitions are not the same for all d2 variants. For instance, the recovery partition on d2tfnvzw S968C is mmcblk0p18, but is 0p13 on the d2spr. I believe the I535 is different than both of them but I'm not sure. And that is just the differences in locations of recovery, not to mention bootloader, modem or system, likewise, their locations would be different between the variants.

Those are my thoughts on it anyway.

I'm certain that the system.img can be swapped around on all the variants without issue, if one were to properly extract, port system and compress the modified firmware using the other system.img in the place of your original stock system.img. I'm pretty certain that the modems can't be safely swapped, especially not the bootloaders because some of them are locked and others aren't
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ibuprophen:
Yeah...

The SCH-S968C is a 3G-only model that's specific to work on the Verizon Network/Towers.

The SCH-S960L specific to work on the Sprint (LTE) Network/Towers.

I don't believe that the SCH-S968C will "effectively" work on another network.

If it was attempted on another network, it'll likely have Internet/MMS but, not Phone/SMS since the CDMA/GSM Frequencies would be enough of a mismatch.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] noidodroid:
UPDATE: After some deep digging I found and puchased a i535 in mint condition just untested for $8.00 and a S968C that is boot looping in poor condition which I just need the motherboard from for $6.00. So I will be finishing up the S968C and hopefully do the i535 if it works. If not I will use the screen (should match up) as my S968C has a hairline crack in it. Then comes the custom battery doors and color outlined 9h glass screen protector. Will look pretty darn cool once finished. Next when i have time will be finishing up which Galaxy S phones through s1-s8+ I havent modded yet.

I will post my final findings here once finished with the S968C and a thread with some screenshots + some or all of my Research and Repository i've put together here on XDA when I get spare time.

I appreciate all the help from you guys and of course all the others who've wrote excellent tutorials such as ones on debricking / multibooting and more. If there is ever anything you need just let me know!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] noidodroid:
So I unwrapped and seems I received an S968C on H2 (i downgraded to H1) and a i535 on a newer binary of 4.3 so looks like safestrap only on that which kind of sucks as i was hoping the i535 would have been on 4.1.X on up to before that binary of 4.3? where the bootloader was locked down. Out of 3 similar variant builds here I put them all together and built 2 phones however ones digitizer had a small crack and spidered the bottom of the screen a bit when replacing (age for ya) and the other was already trashed. These phones just arent worth buying a whole frame/screen combo for unless i can find one cheap then ill completely finish the S968C for my collection and put the i535 aside for parts or get rid of it for a more collectable variant in mint condition. I have managed to get the S968C up and going and restored a twrp backup so it was almost at where it was before it bit the dust. Working toward a dual/multi boot if indeed possible (should be, did a little research) running a stable base ROM out of my selection and the others tested up to 7.1.2. The S968C SIII now sits for a bit until i get the spare time again for it and also really a cheap screen combo etc. Was fun (not much money in investment just time as usual) and will still be fun when i finish it completely with physical mods as well.

Want to give immediate thanks to OP [MENTION=5691352]Droidriven[/MENTION] + [MENTION=4828250]Ibuprophen[/MENTION] for the guide, repo, files, and overall solid very useful help. I haven't forget everyone else past/still active who poured hours into this device. Once i return a compiled repo with everything I have tried tested modified you name it back here on the S968C these others will get their respect and more as well.. again this time in 2019. (sorry busy and life as usual else id go through now all and pull links, and @ everyone)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
You remind me of myself, I did kinda the same thing with a series of LGA775 motherboards a bought just to do the LGA 775 to LGA 771 mod. I bought a variety of 775 boards then bought various 775 and 771 CPU's, various sets of DDR2 RAM and some extra PSU and cases just to experiment with the mod to see what kind of overclocking results I'd get. I still have them all and they all work.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] noidodroid:
Ah brings back memories! I have done a similar mod to some of those old LGA775'd and other board / cpu's. I still have a good dozen older boards, processors, ram etc and i dont know how many towers dating back to my commodore days. Wish i still had the commodore 64 but it's long gone. Only thing i have left are lots of 5 1/4 in floppies for it. Still have 5 1/4 floppies from my old 286/386/486 DX (mostly all games.. sierra, apogee, infocom, etc). Very first AOL text on 5 1/4 floppy still mint condition. Lot of memories from those days. hehe

I have a 1983 Apple IIe with both disk drives, additional cards just no Disks. Rare machine that I am refurbishing as best as i can that i got about 5 months ago. Id love to keep it but I don't have the room and need the cash bad. I don't know if this is allowed or not but if anyone is interested in it shoot me a msg. It goes for as much as $1600 but this one is a bit aged (plastic is yellow and is missing a few keys) but fires right up! So I would be looking for around half that price or a bit less. Collectors will pay a lot of money for these I simply just don't have the time to track those die hard ones down.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
[MENTION=4828250]Ibuprophen[/MENTION] is a retro tech-head, he has some old stuff he still uses.

Apple IIe is the very first computer hardware I ever used. I also have fond memories of the 286/386/486(and the so-called "586" otherwise known as the first Pentium processors). That was in my military days back at the beginning of the .com era. We used 386/486 and systems with the first Pentium to manage our MDS(Message Disseminating System) comm systems and built small area(slave) servers for each battalion/company/platoon for most of the military installations in southeast Asia using Hayes 2000 modems, Zircom Ethernet adapters and the early Cisco routers and such. They weren't used as our main servers, obviously. Our phones have more memory, storage and processing power than the most advanced systems we used in those days, lol.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ibuprophen:
HA-HA!!! :eek:

I may have some older components and such but, as nostalgic as those are, I'm not crazy (at least in that way). LMAO!

I still have the 3.5" Floppies of Windows 95 that consists of 25 of them as well as MS-DOS 3.11 and others.

I threw a bunch of stuff away and keep only a few nostalgic items that I take out when I have visitors to say "Holy Moly!!!" when they see them.

[MENTION=9833065]noidodroid[/MENTION], I bet you can get allot more for the IIe if you get Steve Wozniak to autograph it. LMAO!

Those were the days indeed! :)

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] noidodroid:
It's funny that you mention that. The army is who if I didn't already mentioned it pretty much got me involved in computers at about the age of eight and it's been years ago I'm 36 now. My Uncle who is a retired lieutenant colonel taught me everything I needed to know. While you guys were using them to protect our nation I was running 5 and 1/4 floppies, with a bunch of apogee infogrames, Sierra, and you name it video of games with a Disney Sound Source sound imitation Sound Blaster card since Could not afford AA sound blaster, crystal chips, and all the other great audio file cards of our days then. Definitely some fun times I learned a lot of things programming at an early age in the most basic of what was so Is Essential to us in those days that is hardly ever even touched these days.

Here is a picture of kept since I was a kid of my old stomping grounds where a lot of ass saw chair lol and also where put the light into the fire to where I paid attention and was worth it. That's a 486 DX Laser I built with help from my uncle. Musta been around 8 to 11 or so.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] noidodroid:
Hahaha. Yeah man you gotta see this place its half office half shop and rest museum or a RadioShack meets a Compton California Swap Meet. Rofl. The apple hes still sitting waiting for a wipe down and some rebuilding.. I'll get to it. That would be awesome to get him to!

Remember these?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Droidriven:
How did you ever hold on to that stuff, I haven't had any luck holding on to things from those days. I don't have anything from my childhood or school days.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ibuprophen:
HA-HA!

I still have a bunch of nostalgic software as well...

The attached image is the Windows 95 Floppies (Boot & Software). I think it was 25 +1 Boot Disk...

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] noidodroid:
Haha I guess because I'm just a geek at heart. And it's hard for me to part ways with things I spent so much time with. Sure you can only imagine what my life as a cell phone technician and salesman for some of my phone business can be like for me. Have more unique custom phones I customized over the past y e a r s then I need to have held on to. I will eventually get around to getting them to the right buyer someone who will definitely enjoy the perks running the likes of modded out linage OS based operating systems all nice and professional hopped up with an exterior and interior looking like an old school big body show car thanks to substratum and more. Anything I do anymore is custom it always has been my whole life it seems like ever since I get back to phones in 2012 I was destined for the most unique absolute beautiful things you could do with them. I kind of look at our industry like the old days of before NASCAR and the starting of NASCAR flat track desert races and more. We took the normal and made the incredible out of all of those machines. Eventually custom everything available to everyone in anywhere around the states and eventually world came out of it. I have a hunch that's where these phones are headed at least what we do around these parts.

If we build it they will like it. If we really build it bigger people will pay attention more so and you will see everything take off as planned you should say.

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Very cool bro! Same with me here and put away. I've all windows original since the very beginning. I <3 3.1 and 3.11 windows for workgroups. Those I ran a lot. I have AOL 1.0 Dos on 5 1/4 same sheath and stored well. I worry about my commodore stuff and discs I had with my first 80 and my tandy's however. And sadly none of my apple discs will work with the IIe else I'd be playing with it a bit to see how well it holds up.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ibuprophen:
I do too... Even the MS-DOS before Windows.

I used to be Microsoft Certified for a handful of their software. After all these years, i'm still registered as a Microsoft OEM System Builder. It was cool to get a hold of Microsoft Software before they were officially released. LMAO!

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] noidodroid:
You betcha. I was never officially certified but our company years ago had MSDN access so I got to play around with everything MS had out. Since then I have been an insider since the start when you had to register and get approved. That's about the last I have really got into MS more than usual. Now looking to create my own deployable version of Win 10 and 7 dual boot or Win 10 and Win 7 VM. Pretty much for business so I can setup a easily deployable distro for when major system crashes occur and or i get ahold of a real nasty virus like Floxif.f or Floxif.H which will demolish a windows machine quick (pretty common one that floats around in my line of work) Even being sandboxed doesnt help 100%. I am now reading about Windows To Go also so really want to as well get a good solid configured version with all my apps i use setup then get the WTG version that can be used on the go for when I want to boot from a clients pc and fix issues.

Darn it! Love all this old time days chat, We are keeping this thread alive for sure but taking it way OT. lol

Here in the coming weeks I am going to get the S3 back out and toy with it some more. I have like 3 or 4 S3 now 1 tracfone together but cracked screen, another verizon i started modding but with locked bootloader and a few for parts one bricked tracfone if anyone needs anything.
[Huawei Ascend P7] ChILd_ReBoRn:
Hello there

After upgrading to b852, I noticed that my copilot live isnt working anymore. It starts as usual, and after I enter all the route options, and press go, the map is all messed up. all the buttons are just blank squares, text is written over each other, and my location isn't shown on the screen. the voice works, but the map isn't moving.

I tried reinstalling, but nothing.

Is there a remedy for that?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deathnet:
okay so i picked up this tablet at a pawnshop for $10, doesnt boot, but will go into recovery. I downloaded the firmware from the proscan website but it wont install it from recovery(says rkimage update failed) with the image file that was in the firmware download, the zip file wont install either. I cant get my pc to detect it without popping up usb device not detected ****, and it will detect it and install an mtp device while its stuck in a bootloop, any ideas or help with this would be awesome?

Also when i took it apart i saw that the chip in it was a RockChip rk3128 which i found is mostly quad core chip but the tablet specs say its a dual core?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bohorbaej:
hola amigo podrias pasarme el firmware que bajastes de la pagina de proscan. gacias bohorbae@gmail.com

hi, my frien can you give me the firmware that you download from proscan web site. thanks bohorbae@hotmail.com
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yordancg1984:
hola amigo conseguiste el firmware porfavor lo necesito si tienes el link gracias
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nilesh.pandey26:
my phone connected to wifi but not working on my phone ...i m unable to use internet...and wifi is working fine in other devices...pls help me i have purchased 2 days back and getting this issue...should i return the phone??
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kenny_cfc:
Try forgetting the connection and put the password and reconnect again. If that doesn't work, try if you can access internet on a different wifi connection than yours.
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Taha.ineflass:
hi

you should know what kind of wifi technology on your router or your access point

because the moto g 2015 support only 802.11 b/g/n (2,4 GHz)
[Moto G 2015 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrTooPhone:
Is this happening with all APs?

When I got a new router at home, all devices except my G3 connected just fine. I had to change the encryption type on my router to get the G3 to work. I still have occasional issues with connecting to some APs (including public APs) but not being assigned an IP #.
[XDA Assist] XDA Visitor:
Hello, I rooted my bluestacks 2 player with kingroot but still, when i run xmod and install mod for clash royale i it says that mod start failed please grant root acces to xmod, i did that in kingroot but still doesnt work

Another question:

I have Samsung galaxy core prime sm-g361f with 5.1.1 android version and i cant root it.. anyone knows any way to root this phone?

I tried kingroot,kingoroot
[XDA Assist] NOSTALGIA:
Hi

Thank you for using xda assist

You can create an account and post questions here

http://xdaforums.com/t/galaxy-core-prime

Thank you.
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vikash0513:
What is the best kernel app for the S6 edge
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thatsupnow:
Synapse works great
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muratturatci:
Hello i've bought specific LTE sim card and LTE is enabled by my operator but in options LTE isn't existing. (I'm using stock 4.4.2 ANG2 Rom - Rooted)
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plomba97:
Can someone please tell me how can I theme the status bar of the settings and dialer app. I don't like the way it got changed in marshmallow. I tried editing the apk but didn't succeed in finding the values.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plomba97:
i found how to edit the settings app but the dialer is more difficult
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gazza35:
xposed framework, then theres a few htc sense apps to theme it all with.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Refalm:
But not because I bricked my phone or something, but because the model of Xperia SP isn't found on the official Sony website.

This one: developer.sonymobile.com/unlockbootloader/

Am I doing something wrong? :confused:
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elijah_k:
Hey! I had the same problem. I needed to unlock bottloader again, but I didn't have a key from my previous attempt. So I just opened the "email confirmation" link, entered my email, recived a reply, and then everything according to the instruction of unlocking bootloader. It helped me somhow....
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dims_Camper:
The XSP section for unlocking bootloader has beed deleted somehow by Sony :(
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NyQuilXT:
WTF!! I also noticed this right now...

Since I had a still locked device available - I simply tried the following:

- open http://developer.sonymobile.com/unlockbootloader/email-verification/

- entered my gmail.com address since by gmx.de / t-online.de accounts never ever received confirmation mails!!

- got mail with link to IMEI-verification site...

- entered IMEI from my still locked Xperia SP

- got unlock code

- successfully unlocked my Xperia SP with that unlock code !!!

I really don't know why Sony removed the device from the device selection :-S

I hope, I could help you....