ok heres the question in its simplest form i bought a verizon galaxy s3 and had it flashed to work on crickets network now im wondering if i can still update it to jelly bean? like i said the phone itself is a verizon phone but it works on crickets network can i update from ics to jb if so ho do i do it also how do i unlock the bootloader and root the phone if the answeres are already somewhere in the forum please provide a link thank you all in advance for any help
cmoslen said:
ok heres the question in its simplest form i bought a verizon galaxy s3 and had it flashed to work on crickets network now im wondering if i can still update it to jelly bean? like i said the phone itself is a verizon phone but it works on crickets network can i update from ics to jb if so ho do i do it also how do i unlock the bootloader and root the phone if the answeres are already somewhere in the forum please provide a link thank you all in advance for any help
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I am not sure will it let you to OTA but you should be able to flash it via odin.
Here is the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1974114
But be careful it might mess with he radios and you have to flash it back to cricket.
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Hi i currently bought the SGH-T959W form mobilicity and I m wondering if anyone can help me with gaining the stock rom from it and also for installing coustom rom and stuff? I had tried rooted it with T959v instructions and it worked but right now i just getting it bak from Service centre so i m it will have the brand new phone.
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Hi i currently bought the SGH-T959W form mobilicity and I m wondering if anyone can help me with gaining the stock rom from it and also for installing coustom rom and stuff? I had tried rooted it with T959v instructions and it worked but right now i just getting it bak from Service centre so i m it will have the brand new phone.
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the next day or two I will have a "W" package available. don't do anything till then.
getochkn said:
the next day or two I will have a "W" package available. don't do anything till then.
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Hi Getochkn,
I have the same issues as Victor.
Please let us know how to get the thing working back.
Thankyou
Kamalakar
kamalakarm said:
Hi Getochkn,
I have the same issues as Victor.
Please let us know how to get the thing working back.
Thankyou
Kamalakar
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33275008
Thanks lumin30
Both of you, bug Mobilicity for a stock image to restore your phone. lol. Wind won't give me one but maybe Mobilicity will.
I can get it to about 90% stock right now and I'm sure I'll get it almost there. The problem is this. To dump the stock phone, we need it rooted to gain access but the only way to get root on 2.3.6 with the latest patches, is to flash a rooted kernel, which is great but then prevents us from dumping the stock kernel. It's a catch 22. Need a hacked kernel to dump the kernel but flashing the hacked kernel erases the stock kernel. lol.
The package linked by lumin30 will get you rooted, and all the options from there are explained.
tnx
tnx
Hi,
I will check with mobilicity and see what i can do to get the files from there. I really doubt if they would do it for us.
Meanwhile i am trying to get the files from someone who has a official unlocked phone purchased which is carrier free.
He hasn't tampered with it yet.
let me see what he can do for us.
Thanks
Hi i bought a verizone sch i535 galaxy s3 with android 4.4.2 i switched over to straight talk and cdma 4g doesnt work from what i could find out online it has to do with frequency someone on another forum said they installed a custom rom and switched the baseband to i535vrbmf1 and has working 4g with straight talk. So can someone help me install the i535vrbmf1 baseband i found a guide to root if i have to. any help is appreciated
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Hi i bought a verizone sch i535 galaxy s3 with android 4.4.2 i switched over to straight talk and cdma 4g doesnt work from what i could find out online it has to do with frequency someone on another forum said they installed a custom rom and switched the baseband to i535vrbmf1 and has working 4g with straight talk. So can someone help me install the i535vrbmf1 baseband i found a guide to root if i have to. any help is appreciated
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Your on a locked bootloader. You can't revert back to another baseband, your on NE1 and stuck on it
From my S3 on Wicked 4.3
I read on here you could send your phone out and pay $50 to have the bl unlocked have you ever heard of that if so do you know if its a scam cause im willing to do that
madprophesser said:
I read on here you could send your phone out and pay $50 to have the bl unlocked have you ever heard of that if so do you know if its a scam cause im willing to do that
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Its legit. It's called JTAG from mobiletechvideos. It takes a couple weeks however, heres the link
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com
From my S3 on Wicked 4.3
ok ty so once I send it and get it back is there something I should do to make sure it doesn't auto update
madprophesser said:
ok ty so once I send it and get it back is there something I should do to make sure it doesn't auto update
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Root it, are you planning on installing a custom rom? If so then you won't have to worry about it auto updating but if not remove two files. Fwupgrade.apk and sdm.apk
From my S3 on Wicked 4.3
ShapesBlue said:
Root it, are you planning on installing a custom rom? If so then you won't have to worry about it auto updating but if not remove two files. Fwupgrade.apk and sdm.apk
From my S3 on Wicked 4.3
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Yes i will probably do a custom rom i havnt looked into them but im thinking it might help towards getting 4g with straight talk. Do you happen to know if they will need the phone active to do the jtag or if i can transfer my number to have a phone while its out
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Yes i will probably do a custom rom i havnt looked into them but im thinking it might help towards getting 4g with straight talk. Do you happen to know if they will need the phone active to do the jtag or if i can transfer my number to have a phone while its out
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I doubt the phone will need to be active to perform the jtag service, I don't see why you can't transfer your number to another phone. I've done it in the past and it was quite easy
Ok thanks again im gonna send my phone out fri and found a guide to root it once i get it back. can you or anyone recommend a good custom rom with a guide to install and ive been having trouble with finding a i535vrbmf1 baseband download and how to install that also i wont need for about 2 3 weeks and will continue to look around myself
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Ok thanks again im gonna send my phone out fri and found a guide to root it once i get it back. can you or anyone recommend a good custom rom with a guide to install and ive been having trouble with finding a i535vrbmf1 baseband download and how to install that also i wont need for about 2 3 weeks and will continue to look around myself
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I only have ML1 myself. I can certainly look for it
So far I found MB1, I'll keep looking
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Hello every body
I have bough an verizon s3 sch i535 with android 4.3 i tryed to downgrade it but i always fail
Now its not working at all i receive an erreur which says firmware upgrade enccounted and assue
Please use software asisstant repair and try again.i tryed all the ways
Showen on the forum but i couldnt make it work.
Its only a gift i live in morocco and i cant trun it back to usa to be repaired
So please would you help me step by step
I tryed verizon assistant but it wont go over 83%
All my tries fails always plz help i got no phone noW
Stendhalmed said:
Hello every body
I have bough an verizon s3 sch i535 with android 4.3 i tryed to downgrade it but i always fail
Now its not working at all i receive an erreur which says firmware upgrade enccounted and assue
Please use software asisstant repair and try again.i tryed all the ways
Showen on the forum but i couldnt make it work.
Its only a gift i live in morocco and i cant trun it back to usa to be repaired
So please would you help me step by step
I tryed verizon assistant but it wont go over 83%
All my tries fails always plz help i got no phone noW
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Bless your heart, I don't think that there's any way to downgrade to 4.1 from 4.3 without royally messing up your phone.
If I am wrong, someone please let me know.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8" model using Tapatalk
cindylike24 said:
Bless your heart, I don't think that there's any way to downgrade to 4.1 from 4.3 without royally messing up your phone.
If I am wrong, someone please let me know.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8" model using Tapatalk
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Nope your right there isn't. Once your on 4.3 your on a locked BootLoader if you took the ota
And since they aren't or even can't send it back to the USA the only other option in the jtag service wouldn't be an option at this point
From my Wicked S3 on SOKP
So ur saying there is no going back to 4.3 even
How do i get my phone working i dont want it downgrade
ShapesBlue said:
Nope your right there isn't. Once your on 4.3 your on a locked BootLoader if you took the ota
And since they aren't or even can't send it back to the USA the only other option in the jtag service wouldn't be an option at this point
From my Wicked S3 on SOKP
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Is there any way to get back to 4.3
Plz help i tried all the ways showen on the forum
I think that each incremental upgrade does something to the system to keep you from downgrading because everything that I've read on this makes it seem like it's more trouble than it's worth.
Now you can go to sammobile. com and search for the i535 rom and flash it on your phone.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk
cindylike24 said:
I think that each incremental upgrade does something to the system to keep you from downgrading because everything that I've read on this makes it seem like it's more trouble than it's worth.
Now you can go to sammobile. com and search for the i535 rom and flash it on your phone.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk
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Can you plz show me how .cuz i have already dowbload it but it always keept failing
Is there a way to show me plz
cindylike24 said:
I think that each incremental upgrade does something to the system to keep you from downgrading because everything that I've read on this makes it seem like it's more trouble than it's worth.
Now you can go to sammobile. com and search for the i535 rom and flash it on your phone.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk
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Stendhalmed said:
Can you plz show me how .cuz i have already dowbload it but it always keept failing
Is there a way to show me plz
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If your on the 4.3 OTA it won't work when you use Odin. Your more than likely going to brick the phone that way. There's no way around it
From my Wicked S3 on SOKP
I think the OP is just trying to get back to 4.3 which is the condition in which he purchased the phone. You should be fine flashing through ODIN either one of the 4.3 full stock files (VRUCML1 or VRUCNC1) listed first in the first post of this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2653902
ShapesBlue said:
If your on the 4.3 OTA it won't work when you use Odin. Your more than likely going to brick the phone that way. There's no way around it
From my Wicked S3 on SOKP
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whats do you mean by OTA i have bough it with android 4.3 and its
Not new its already usee i dont know if it has been upgrade or not
landshark68 said:
I think the OP is just trying to get back to 4.3 which is the condition in which he purchased the phone. You should be fine flashing through ODIN either one of the 4.3 full stock files (VRUCML1 or VRUCNC1) listed first in the first post of this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2653902
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i have already downloaded on of them but i gy always
Fail wih odin something isnt right
I sow all the topics about this essue on the forum
And there one talking about fixing PIT
and i dont know if it is the probleme
Can u show me how to fix it
Hi All,
Newbie here, I have a samsung s4 that has been rooted and CMW installed and I'd like to flash it back to stock. The phone was originally locked to virgin mobile Canada but I paid to get it unlocked. Do I need a ROM specific to virgin mobile to flash back to stock or will any one do as long as it's for the S4? for example I've seen ones that are for at&t, rogers, bell, etc... does it make any difference?
Reason I want to flash back to rom is to be able to get the OTA updates again and be able to upgrade to lolipop when it comes out. In fact, is there a way to re-activate OTA with out having to reflash?
thanks in advance, keep up the excellent work!
Ogriv said:
Hi All,
Newbie here, I have a samsung s4 that has been rooted and CMW installed and I'd like to flash it back to stock. The phone was originally locked to virgin mobile Canada but I paid to get it unlocked. Do I need a ROM specific to virgin mobile to flash back to stock or will any one do as long as it's for the S4? for example I've seen ones that are for at&t, rogers, bell, etc... does it make any difference?
Reason I want to flash back to rom is to be able to get the OTA updates again and be able to upgrade to lolipop when it comes out. In fact, is there a way to re-activate OTA with out having to reflash?
thanks in advance, keep up the excellent work!
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Anyone?
Ogriv said:
Anyone?
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I think you are talking about unrooting.To do this you have to go to SuperSu and settings(whatever it is called).There is an option called "permanent unroot" this should takeaway your root access
vishalns17 said:
I think you are talking about unrooting.To do this you have to go to SuperSu and settings(whatever it is called).There is an option called "permanent unroot" this should takeaway your root access
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Thanks for your response, will this bring back OTA updates though?
Ogriv said:
Thanks for your response, will this bring back OTA updates though?
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Yes,Of course
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Ogriv said:
Hi All,
Newbie here, I have a samsung s4 that has been rooted and CMW installed and I'd like to flash it back to stock. The phone was originally locked to virgin mobile Canada but I paid to get it unlocked. Do I need a ROM specific to virgin mobile to flash back to stock or will any one do as long as it's for the S4? for example I've seen ones that are for at&t, rogers, bell, etc... does it make any difference?
Reason I want to flash back to rom is to be able to get the OTA updates again and be able to upgrade to lolipop when it comes out. In fact, is there a way to re-activate OTA with out having to reflash?
thanks in advance, keep up the excellent work!
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all you have to do is flash a stock rom via odin it will unroot and you will be able to recieve ota's
if you are not sure how to do this post here and i will guide you.
Kobro said:
all you have to do is flash a stock rom via odin it will unroot and you will be able to recieve ota's
if you are not sure how to do this post here and i will guide you.
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Hi Kobro,
Does it matter what type of ROM I use? My phone is an s4 originally locked to Virgin Mobile Canada, does this mean I need to find specifically a Virgin Mobile Canada ROM for my s4 or will any stock ROM do as long as it's for s4? (I haven't been able to find a Virgin Mobile Canada stock ROM anywhere for the s4)
Thanks in advance!
Ogriv said:
Hi Kobro,
Does it matter what type of ROM I use? My phone is an s4 originally locked to Virgin Mobile Canada, does this mean I need to find specifically a Virgin Mobile Canada ROM for my s4 or will any stock ROM do as long as it's for s4? (I haven't been able to find a Virgin Mobile Canada stock ROM anywhere for the s4)
Thanks in advance!
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any s4 stock rom should do the trick
however, you should try sammobile.com to seeif they have the carrier specific firmware.
After flashin with odin i suggest to use kies to control the latest version.
Thanks everyone for your helpful replies. I might wait till Lolipop is officially released for s4 before I flash back to stock. S4 Lolipop here I come!
Hey guys I know that this question has been asked many times and i know that there are many tutorial that show you how to return your verizon galaxy s3 back to stock rom.
My verizon S3 is running 4.3 and it has the locked bootloader but i want to be able to flash the kitkat update using Odin however every tutorial i look at and every link i follow is not working when i try and download the stock firmware.
Can someone here help point me into the right direction and possibly provide me with a link to the official samsung (verizon) firmware for model SCH-i535. If you can provide a good tutorial that would be great as well!
Thank you so much for your assistance and time...
-droidshadow
droidshadow said:
Hey guys I know that this question has been asked many times and i know that there are many tutorial that show you how to return your verizon galaxy s3 back to stock rom.
My verizon S3 is running 4.3 and it has the locked bootloader but i want to be able to flash the kitkat update using Odin however every tutorial i look at and every link i follow is not working when i try and download the stock firmware.
Can someone here help point me into the right direction and possibly provide me with a link to the official samsung (verizon) firmware for model SCH-i535. If you can provide a good tutorial that would be great as well!
Thank you so much for your assistance and time...
-droidshadow
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Have you tried just taking the OTA update? As long as your not rooted and didn't make any changes internally you should be able to take the OTA
Sent from my Nexus 5
tried..
ya i have tried taking the OTA update the problem is the phone used to be rooted and so i am going to have to do this update with Odin and take everything back to original stock.
droidshadow said:
ya i have tried taking the OTA update the problem is the phone used to be rooted and so i am going to have to do this update with Odin and take everything back to original stock.
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Alright. Here's the thread, be advised the bootloader will be even more locked down. With TW 4.3 there is more options for roms. With the 4.4 update your stuck with 3 options
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=54062704
Sent from my Nexus 5