[Q] HELP HELP HELP!!!! with Verizon S3 - General Questions and Answers

Hi everyone I am a newbie when it comes to rooting phone and installing a Roms, I recently rooted my S3 and everything went smooth except my WIFI did not work so after so research it seemed as if I did not do it correctly but i followed all the steps. So i decided to try a new Rom I put the Rom on my S3 rebooted into recovery and wiped the phone and the cache as well. I then loaded the Rom that I downloaded from XDA and showed to work with my S3. I used Clean ROM 5.6 and I am sure I jacked something up. Well after I went through the install it went back to my recovery screen and looked like it was asking me to update my sd zip file or something so I updated it and restarted my phone. I am now getting the message "System software not authorized by verizon Wireless has been found on your phone". I thought that the SU privileges were removed or somehow the phone became unrooted so I tried to re-root my S3 and everything shows to go through successful but I cannot get passed this screen, I can get to download mode but i cannot get to recovery at all, I am not sure what I jacked up but its jacked. Any help would be greatly appreciated very much Thanks.

so you say that you cannot open your recovery? try pressing home button, volume up, and power button all at once. try this, if it does not work,i have some more
tricks up my sleeve!!

sralli said:
so you say that you cannot open your recovery? try pressing home button, volume up, and power button all at once. try this, if it does not work,i have some more
tricks up my sleeve!!
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Yes I tried that and it did not work I also started ADB on my PC with the S3 in download mode but there was no devices found
I am totally lost and not sure what caused this issue but hey you learn from you mistakes well that's at least what they say lol. Any help is greatly appreciated thank you for your reply. :good:

keithp05 said:
Yes I tried that and it did not work I also started ADB on my PC with the S3 in download mode but there was no devices found
I am totally lost and not sure what caused this issue but hey you learn from you mistakes well that's at least what they say lol. Any help is greatly appreciated thank you for your reply. :good:
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will you like to do a full format??? full new rom and everything- no data will be saved??

sralli said:
will you like to do a full format??? full new rom and everything- no data will be saved??
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Does not matter to me as long as I get it back I can be rally picky at this moment.

Ya OK' wait till 10:00,tonight, I will post the method, and one thing find your phone a flash able live suit rom .
Hit thanks if helped!!!!
Sent from my P300(Funbook) using xda premium

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[Q] Galaxy S wont start after lag fix

Hello,
Im running Froyo on my Galaxy S. And recently I tried to install ryanZA's one click lag fix. When doing this it said its rebooting and finalizing but the phone turned off and when starting it stops at Galaxy S welcome screen and start vibrating time to time after that. Screen disappears but the phone keeps on vibrating time to time.
The reason I was trying to install this was my notification bar, it gets stuck most of the time and I was trying to get rid of that. In most places I read that its a memory issue and the lag fix would fix it if it was installed.
I installed the one click lag fix from the market, it needed rooting. then again from most of the suggestions I installed z4 root on the phone. It worked.
And while I was trying to apply the one click lag fix and it rebooted, it wont boot. welcome screen comes and goes, and after half an hour its till vibrating with 20 second interval.
Please help me, im very scared that I bricked my phone.
What can I do to fix this?
You need ODIN. here---->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=821625 (only works with windows OS) You need samsung drivers installed.
You need to get into download mode. Hold down both volume buttons and plug in usb cable(while cable is plugged into computer), that should get you into download mode.
If you can get into download mode, and odin recognizes your phone, download these files here--->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475 and put them in their respective places.
Hit start and done, let the phone reboot.
Try looking around here something in here might help you out if you get stuck. http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=708
**Edit these files are only for the Vibrant SGH-T959**
Hagarza said:
You need ODIN. here---->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=821625 (only works with windows OS) You need samsung drivers installed.
You need to get into download mode. Hold down both volume buttons and plug in usb cable(while cable is plugged into computer), that should get you into download mode.
If you can get into download mode, and odin recognizes your phone, download these files here--->http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734475 and put them in their respective places.
Hit start and done, let the phone reboot.
Try looking around here something in here might help you out if you get stuck. http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=708
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Hello, thanks for your reply. I see what you mean by this, but do I really want :
T959 (US T-Mobile version of the Galaxy S)?
Mine simply is not this - bought it unlocked in UK as Galaxy S.
Will it be the same?
thanks
Hey mate, please confirm this :/ Im seeing lots of different stuff as I'm googling around.
Not sure what to do, someone please help
Ok reset to factory settings from the recovery screen.
all Data lost but at least its working.
;(
Oh wow sorry, I didn't even notice that you never mentioned vibrant. Dont try to flash those files it will probably mess up your phone.
Glad you got it working.
Hagarza said:
Oh wow sorry, I didn't even notice that you never mentioned vibrant. Dont try to flash those files it will probably mess up your phone.
Glad you got it working.
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NOT only got it working =, but after extensive research I installed speedMod kernel, that will probably solve all my problems.
Thanks tho.
Ok, I will Assume you have a I9000 Galaxy S phone. That is the European phone
You will need to Odin back or use Heimdall to get back to Stock, 2.1 variety of some sorts. Check the development and general section in the I9000 forum. You will get all the info and files needed to accomplish this.
Then Once you have it back to stock 2.1 , then root the phone/ Then Download Rom manager. From there you will be able to do anything you want to the phone.
Do not use Ryanza lagfix use Voodoo it is preferred for this phone over all others. Also, All the new Custom Roms usually have it pre-installed already.
You will need the following files:
Samsung drivers for the computer
Stock 2.1 Tar File
Pit 512 (this is for mapping) file
Odin 1.7 or higher
After you are in stock Then you can then root/ download rom-mgr/ then flash any Custonm rom of your choice (Like Darky's9.3, etc)
Good luck
Cheers
Thank you.
The problem has been solved by going into recovery mode and doing a factory reset. All DATA has been sacrificed.
Then i flashed it with speedMod kernel. Its much better now.
Thanks for the reply anyway.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA Premium App

[Q] Root Question

I am a dummy when it comes to some technology but I really want to update to Froyo. I have followed several videos and instructions on how to root. I get all the way to the blue screen that says that the phone is rebooting and thats where Im stuck. It doesnt reboot into Android System Recovery. I have tried to do a force restart by pulling the battery and still nothing. Any suggestions????
wassa112 said:
I am a dummy when it comes to some technology but I really want to update to Froyo. I have followed several videos and instructions on how to root. I get all the way to the blue screen that says that the phone is rebooting and thats where Im stuck. It doesnt reboot into Android System Recovery. I have tried to do a force restart by pulling the battery and still nothing. Any suggestions????
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Im new to this also but im running EC05 froyo on my epic 4g and i rooted it lastnite to SyndicateFrozen 1.1.0 Twilight 1.1 kernel jst by looking at the youtube vids and coming back and readin this site. Its fairly easy honestly...let me see if i can post a link. Oh and have u tried to boot it into recovery urself by turning the phone completely off holding down the volume buttons, camera and power button until it turns on that will put you into recovery mode jst make sure you already have your file saved to you sd card or your gonna have a nice time converting back to stock like i did lastnite lol. Are you familiar with Odin?
You 2 should not be rooting your phones. All phones are different, and neither one of you posted what phone you have.
lowandbehold said:
You 2 should not be rooting your phones. All phones are different, and neither one of you posted what phone you have.
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How did I not tell him what I have when I stated plain as day I rooted my Epic 4G? Lol smh....
Sent from my Rooted n booted Epic 4G
go in the development section to find the best rom for yourself
wassa112 said:
I am a dummy when it comes to some technology but I really want to update to Froyo. I have followed several videos and instructions on how to root. I get all the way to the blue screen that says that the phone is rebooting and thats where Im stuck. It doesnt reboot into Android System Recovery. I have tried to do a force restart by pulling the battery and still nothing. Any suggestions????
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NOT ADVISEABLE TO ROOT!!
BUT WHAT is that ur facing!! r u not able to open ur phone completely and also cannot get into recovery mode??!!
if thats so then ur screwd big time!!
try again to get into recovery by pressing the key combinations thats needed!!
if it goes into recovery then fine post it here and i will tell u whats to do next..
else try to hard reset ur phone by pressing key combinations thats generally given in ur phone manual!!
I have a Samsung Captivate...

[Q] My Verizon S3 is bootlooping

I have searched threads all over XDA similar to this one to ensure it is not a duplicate. Sadly I have not found any so I hope one of you at XDA can help me. I got my Galaxy S3 and rooted it as soon as it was available. Then two days ago I flashed Cynogenmod 10 onto it without a hitch. I liked it a lot but sadly there were some shortcomings so I wanted to reflash stock. This is where I believe I messed up. I looked up some instructions, and gave it a go. When I turned on the phone, the annoying verizon bootup image and sound came on, but my phone goes no further. I have no care about my data, I just want my phone back to stock, could a developer assist me in this?
If so I would be eternally grateful.
Just reboot to recovery (hold home, volume up, and power). Wipe everything and flash again.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app
trent407 said:
I have searched threads all over XDA similar to this one to ensure it is not a duplicate. Sadly I have not found any so I hope one of you at XDA can help me. I got my Galaxy S3 and rooted it as soon as it was available. Then two days ago I flashed Cynogenmod 10 onto it without a hitch. I liked it a lot but sadly there were some shortcomings so I wanted to reflash stock. This is where I believe I messed up. I looked up some instructions, and gave it a go. When I turned on the phone, the annoying verizon bootup image and sound came on, but my phone goes no further. I have no care about my data, I just want my phone back to stock, could a developer assist me in this?
If so I would be eternally grateful.
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Click gs3 link in sig
thanks so much guys!! both of you were big helps
droidstyle said:
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Im having a similar issue as the OP. I made a mistake last night and flashed cwm via rom manager and then loaded CM10. Now my phone just bootloops, but I can get into cwm. MY nandroid backup wont load, says "file invalid". I try to get into odin mode but when I hold the volume buttons and the power it just boots into cwm.
Help!
dreamsti said:
Im having a similar issue as the OP. I made a mistake last night and flashed cwm via rom manager and then loaded CM10. Now my phone just bootloops, but I can get into cwm. MY nandroid backup wont load, says "file invalid". I try to get into odin mode but when I hold the volume buttons and the power it just boots into cwm.
Help!
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hold volume down and the power button
sent from locked bootloadrer SGS3 running a custom kernel

[Q] samsung galaxy stellar sch 1200

Hey! from my phone, it freezes on the samsung image when is boots up. It stays there forever. I'm pretty sure it is bricked. I rooted my phone, then tried to install some kind of font switch that is required for a root phone. After that it told me to restart my phone, did exactly that, and now my phone is stuck on the samsung logo screen. I have odin, and now im just looking for a stock rom for it. I did a factory reset, but that didnt work either. Can anybody help me?
p4u191 said:
Hey! from my phone, it freezes on the samsung image when is boots up. It stays there forever. I'm pretty sure it is bricked. I rooted my phone, then tried to install some kind of font switch that is required for a root phone. After that it told me to restart my phone, did exactly that, and now my phone is stuck on the samsung logo screen. I have odin, and now im just looking for a stock rom for it. I did a factory reset, but that didnt work either. Can anybody help me?
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oh yea... its for verizon by the way.
Did you install the verizon update manager? You should be able to do a repair. As for the stock Rom we are working on that right now.
Oh and you can follow us on these sites so you can keep up with what we're doing with the phone:
http://androidforums.com/galaxy-stellar-4g-lte-all-things-root/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1902170&page=2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32269460
WELL... thanks. And no i didn't install the verizon update manager.. What's that? And please let me know as soon as the stock ROM comes out or any word of it,... or yea... hahaha. im really stuck on it. I really wish things could work out.
You'll find the Verizon Update Manager at the 13th post of the 2nd link I posted here. You'll also need a Dropbox account.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1902170&page=2
Before you do that, however, can you get into recovery mode? Hold down the home button, VOL Up, and the power button to enter into recovery mode.
If you cannot enter recovery mode, please be patient as we try to get a stock ROM uploaded.
You also can help us. Since your phone is rooted, you can make a backup of the stock recovery if it still works. If you're familiar with ADB you should try looking at the last post of my link: you'll see a command there to extract the recovery.
sovereign73811 said:
You'll find the Verizon Update Manager at the 13th post of the 2nd link I posted here. You'll also need a Dropbox account.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1902170&page=2
Before you do that, however, can you get into recovery mode? Hold down the home button, VOL Up, and the power button to enter into recovery mode.
If you cannot enter recovery mode, please be patient as we try to get a stock ROM uploaded.
You also can help us. Since your phone is rooted, you can make a backup of the stock recovery if it still works. If you're familiar with ADB you should try looking at the last post of my link: you'll see a command there to extract the recovery.
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well i can.. i can get into recovery mode. Thats how i tried the factory reset... and it didn't work. I am currently at school... so ill try to do the ADB command this weekend. I was looking at that post earlier. but.. as i said before, but my phone won't fully turn on. It's stuck at the "samsung" logo. that's where it stops. Just curious is the Verizon update manager the same as VZAccess Manager? And the link on the post its the bootstrap helper.exe... that one am i correct?
Verizon has several names for its features but I do belive the VZ Access manager is different. I just pulled up the app and found that it's actually callied "Verizon Upgrade Assistant"...which really means "kiss your custom rooted ROM goodbye" in the future when everything works well.
I have someone trying to upload a stock ROM and I'll get back to you when you can download the ROM. My phone's bricked as well so all I can do is sit, wait, and gather information. I've been without this blasted phone for nearly two weeks so don't feel too bad; you're not alone.
I appreciate the help you can give for the recovery option as if we all can get some stock ROMs extracted, the REAL devs can start having fun with this phone...hopefully we will too.
p4u191 said:
Hey! from my phone, it freezes on the samsung image when is boots up. It stays there forever. I'm pretty sure it is bricked. I rooted my phone, then tried to install some kind of font switch that is required for a root phone. After that it told me to restart my phone, did exactly that, and now my phone is stuck on the samsung logo screen. I have odin, and now im just looking for a stock rom for it. I did a factory reset, but that didnt work either. Can anybody help me?
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hello. I just did the EXACT same thing to my phone. Were you able to fix yours and unbrick it? if so, may I ask how you did so. any help you can give me would be extremely appreciated. thank you.
satyrs said:
hello. I just did the EXACT same thing to my phone. Were you able to fix yours and unbrick it? if so, may I ask how you did so. any help you can give me would be extremely appreciated. thank you.
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Just got official TWRP support after working on this with a dev for about a month. In the link below, use v6 or v7. The official version should be out soon after this final testing that we;re doing.
http://goo.im/devs/invisiblek/i200/

[Q] Where's my Stock Recovery gone?

Hi All,
Just got hold of a pretty good condition Nexus S for my Work/ Second phone, and its a dam nice phone. My daily is an N4.
I have read many threads, tried many tips and even ended up rooting and running CM10.1.
I much prefer stock android, so its now on 4.1.2.
Unless I am being an utter nob, and missing the obvious, I cannot get into my Stock Recovery. It seems like its missing.
I have tried Vol+ & power. Vol- to recovery. I get the Android Red Triangle.
I have tried then pressing Vol+ or Vol- or a combination.
I must be doing something wrong.
Any advice would be great.
Chill................
chill today said:
Hi All,
Just got hold of a pretty good condition Nexus S for my Work/ Second phone, and its a dam nice phone. My daily is an N4.
I have read many threads, tried many tips and even ended up rooting and running CM10.1.
I much prefer stock android, so its now on 4.1.2.
Unless I am being an utter nob, and missing the obvious, I cannot get into my Stock Recovery. It seems like its missing.
I have tried Vol+ & power. Vol- to recovery. I get the Android Red Triangle.
I have tried then pressing Vol+ or Vol- or a combination.
I must be doing something wrong.
Any advice would be great.
Chill................
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Just use Nexus root tool kit and put in a custom recovery.. You can use to flash completely to stock, which should restore the stock recovery, but the custom is better and more reliable for flashing..
Thanks for the very quick reply Setting.Out.
I have used the root kit. I used it to root and install a custom recovery.
I used it to return to stock rom too, but still cannot show the stock recovery.
I have seen youtube vids where the red triangle shows and you need to use Vol+ to access your stock recovery, but no luck for me.
Is it possible its missing.
I bought it and prior to buying it was running a custom rom. I asked the owner to return it to stock for me.
I have rooted and got my hands dirty with phones for years and this is just bugging me :silly:
Chill................
chill today said:
Thanks for the very quick reply Setting.Out.
I have used the root kit. I used it to root and install a custom recovery.
I used it to return to stock rom too, but still cannot show the stock recovery.
I have seen youtube vids where the red triangle shows and you need to use Vol+ to access your stock recovery, but no luck for me.
Is it possible its missing.
I bought it and prior to buying it was running a custom rom. I asked the owner to return it to stock for me.
I have rooted and got my hands dirty with phones for years and this is just bugging me :silly:
Chill................
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When I first unlocked my phone, the stock recovery was buggy and didn't always show...
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium
Thanks again Setting.Out. :good:
I feel a complete nob.
I have tried and tried in the last 10 minutes and did get the stock recovery to work.
Its working now.
It's a tricky little bugger to show.
Thanks and I now wish I hadn't bothered opening this thread, but it may be of some help to others one day.
Chill...........
chill today said:
Thanks again Setting.Out. :good:
I feel a complete nob.
I have tried and tried in the last 10 minutes and did get the stock recovery to work.
Its working now.
It's a tricky little bugger to show.
Thanks and I now wish I hadn't bothered opening this thread, but it may be of some help to others one day.
Chill...........
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Thanks Chill for the post, it has been useful, just have a question, need to copy some files off the phone from recovery but i get the andriod figure lying down with a red exclamation mark. My Nexus S(stock) keeps rebooting before it gets to showing the home screen. Read from other posts that if i can get to recovery, plug cable into PC then i can copy files. If i re-flash recovery with stock recovery, will i lose my data files?
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tuvix777 said:
Thanks Chill for the post, it has been useful, just have a question, need to copy some files off the phone from recovery but i get the andriod figure lying down with a red exclamation mark. My Nexus S(stock) keeps rebooting before it gets to showing the home screen. Read from other posts that if i can get to recovery, plug cable into PC then i can copy files. If i re-flash recovery with stock recovery, will i lose my data files?
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Hi tuvix, Sorry but I do not have the Nexus S anymore. In fact I do not own any Android phones.
So unfortunately I am unable to advise.
Good luck finding a solution
Chill................
tuvix777 said:
Thanks Chill for the post, it has been useful, just have a question, need to copy some files off the phone from recovery but i get the andriod figure lying down with a red exclamation mark. My Nexus S(stock) keeps rebooting before it gets to showing the home screen. Read from other posts that if i can get to recovery, plug cable into PC then i can copy files. If i re-flash recovery with stock recovery, will i lose my data files?
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You don't lose data if you flash a recovery. As a matter of fact, any recovery.
chill today said:
Hi tuvix, Sorry but I do not have the Nexus S anymore. In fact I do not own any Android phones.
So unfortunately I am unable to advise.
Good luck finding a solution
Chill................
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Okie enjoy ur next phone
Thanks i need the luck
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smit.sanghavi said:
You don't lose data if you flash a recovery. As a matter of fact, any recovery.
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Thanks smit sanghavi, I did finally figured out how to get into the menu of recovery(stock), once you see the green android lying down with red exclamation mark, hold power then click up volume. However unfortunately i might have run out of luck, i couldn't re-flash the stock recovery, because the error says bootloader is locked. As per details in other posts, when i unlock the bootloader, it will wipe all files. Even when im at the recovery menu, windows won't detect the Nexus S when i plug into USB... so unless there is another way to get adb running, then all my files are lost...
tuvix777 said:
Thanks smit sanghavi, I did finally figured out how to get into the menu of recovery(stock), once you see the green android lying down with red exclamation mark, hold power then click up volume. However unfortunately i might have run out of luck, i couldn't re-flash the stock recovery, because the error says bootloader is locked. As per details in other posts, when i unlock the bootloader, it will wipe all files. Even when im at the recovery menu, windows won't detect the Nexus S when i plug into USB... so unless there is another way to get adb running, then all my files are lost...
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Try a different system to see if you can get adb working in recovery...

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