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After spending a vast amount of my free time on the Verizon GS3 forums, I seem to always see people using Odin to root their phone. I never used Odin, and the method I used was much simpler, so I as to why Odin seems to be the most popular
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That because the method you likely used was for ICS. Since JB, those old root exploits were patched and presently the only way to root involves using Odin to flash the prerelease bootloader. That's why you see Odin referred to as the go to for rooting.
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Depends on if you were going to JB or not, and if you flashing stock builds or custom ones. In my opinion the method to do it is easy either way. For just wanting rooted stock and minimal installs Odin probably is best. But for custom builds I wouldnt use Odin.
I still don't know what Odin is honestly. Ha ha. I'm rooted and unlocked, to be clear.
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Has anyone found out how to root the vrbmf1 update yet? I've look around and can't seem to find a good enough guide or video on how to do so. If anyone has information on it can you please send me a msg.
fofocudlypoops said:
Has anyone found out how to root the vrbmf1 update yet? I've look around and can't seem to find a good enough guide or video on how to do so. If anyone has information on it can you please send me a msg.
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There is one method in the android development section it has been there for months and it's the first post. There are to others that have been updated since it was posted last year also in the android development section. Lastly all the methods work you just have to CAREFULLY follow directions.
Yes its hard yo find all the tight files I have Odin 307 I think do you know if that will work with the files?
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Yes it will work.
Is it beanstwon method that you are referring to?
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Yes it doesn't require Odin. It is just a one click method.
Oh OK I read a lot of the comments and they are positive feedback but as I watched on this guy on YouTube his comment section are loaded with this "messed up my phone" or "don't do this this doesn't work" very little comments that said this worked for me. If this doesn't work on the first try I understand using another USB port on the computer is an option and using a different cord other than the one Samsung gives you is also an option. Is there anything to know about before doing this? This phone s my daily driver and I really don't want to have to use a prepaid phone.
And Should I also download the stock ROM not rooted before doing in case it does like some kind of soft brick?
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Well I have never tried the one click method as I use Odin to root my phone. So get the stock roms as backup in case you run into problems with casual.
OK thank you so much for the advice and I'll shall let you know what happens.
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One more question before I do this. Will I still be able to get back to stock like usual if its a hard brick?
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fofocudlypoops said:
One more question before I do this. Will I still be able to get back to stock like usual if its a hard brick?
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If you hard brick your phone you send it to jtag and pay them to get it fixed because nothing else works.
If you are feeling squeamish about the whole thing then it is probably a better idea not to do it.
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You are right I an a bite on the edge about it because of its locked boot loader I have dine root before but it was on at&t
Not verizon.
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fofocudlypoops said:
One more question before I do this. Will I still be able to get back to stock like usual if its a hard brick?
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No you will need jtag services to fix hardware bricks.
fofocudlypoops said:
You are right I an a bite on the edge about it because of its locked boot loader I have dine root before but it was on at&t
Not verizon.
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Just thought you might like to know that I just used CASUAL this morning to root my galaxy s3 on Verizon build VRBMF1 with no problem. CASUAL unlocks the bootloader and installs TWRP which I like so far. Just make sure you grab the right download and if it doesn't work the first time try again with a different mirror. There's a version of it floating around out there that for some reason wouldn't work with my drivers.
Hope this helps ease your mind a little. Oh btw I probably read 1000 posts about rooting and the best method and someone claims to have bricked their with every single one of them. It's a risk we take.
Thinking about swapping my Droid DNA for a Galaxy S3 and $50. My Droid is freshly unlocked, rooted and s-off all using my Mac 10.6.8 with ADB commands. The Droid is also factory unlocked for any GSM SIM including att and T-Mobile. My issue is I can't find a way to root and unlock the S3 so I'm on the fence about swapping and of course losing this amazing Quad core krait power. Advice?
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Thinking about swapping my Droid DNA for a Galaxy S3 and $50. My Droid is freshly unlocked, rooted and s-off all using my Mac 10.6.8 with ADB commands. The Droid is also factory unlocked for any GSM SIM including att and T-Mobile. My issue is I can't find a way to root and unlock the S3 so I'm on the fence about swapping and of course losing this amazing Quad core krait power. Advice?
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Get the S3 and to root and unlock the bootrom, you must use the Casual Rootkit. It will root your S3 and install Teamwin recovery. Trust me, it is worth it.
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Get the S3 and to root and unlock the bootrom, you must use the Casual Rootkit. It will root your S3 and install Teamwin recovery. Trust me, it is worth it.
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Go look at the Casual Toolkit thread and look at the issue I'm having. I'm the last post on there. Unless I can fix the issue, I can't get the phone because I can't root it. :/
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Go look at the Casual Toolkit thread and look at the issue I'm having. I'm the last post on there. Unless I can fix the issue, I can't get the phone because I can't root it. :/
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Do you have stock ROM or a different ROM?
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Because my S3 on VZW is rooted fully and Unlocked.
My Droid is custom. I haven't traded for the S3 yet because I can't get casual to run on my mac. The casual thread has the errors its giving me.
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Dang.... I don't have $50 but I have a rooted s3 and I've kinda eyed the DNA....
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Dang.... I don't have $50 but I have a rooted s3 and I've kinda eyed the DNA....
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Haha. Yea honestly can't do a straight trade. Just got mine on contract 4 weeks ago and still mint with the box and papers.
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Regardless, even IF I considered (key words) it, how would we even ship these bad boys? Haha.
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No idea lol
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So, just traded my 3 week old DNA for a BRAND NEW S3. I'm sure I lost money on the trade but I feel at home with the S3. Now on to my problem, rooting it with a Mac or Linux (run from a live CD). advice?
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So, just traded my 3 week old DNA for a BRAND NEW S3. I'm sure I lost money on the trade but I feel at home with the S3. Now on to my problem, rooting it with a Mac or Linux (run from a live CD). advice?
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Is your Mac on 10.8? If so, using Casual from Beanstown106 will work. You'll need Java 7 installed for Casual to work. I almost encourage you to use the Casual 634 from the Verizon GSIII section on Rootzwiki instead of the Casual 734 linked in the dev section of XDA. There seems to be some issues with r734 recognizing the device is connected but it can work even so.
Alternatively, you can do the manual route using Open1your1eyes0 root thread in the dev section. It requires Odin which works great on Windows, is incompatible on Mac, and idk about Linux.
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No, I have 10.6.8 but if you head over to the Casual thread, you can see my issue...I posted what my terminal was telling me about the error message when I try to run Casual.
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No, I have 10.6.8 but if you head over to the Casual thread, you can see my issue...I posted what my terminal was telling me about the error message when I try to run Casual.
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I'm not sure you'll be getting Casual to work on your setup. Maybe try the manual method by Open1your1eyes0 or the toolkit by mskip. Like I said there, if these don't work then you might want to find a spare laptop when available and knock this out.
Can I use the Odin method with heimdall?
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Cause I MIGHT be able to get heimdall working on my Mac....but I have never used heimdall in the past, I've always used Odin.
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Cause I MIGHT be able to get heimdall working on my Mac....but I have never used heimdall in the past, I've always used Odin.
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Its possible, but there is no documentation/thread that I know of that goes into detail for this device. Might have to look on the other carrier models for threads. Everyone always uses Odin.
Damn :/
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I rooted it with motochopper, but do I HAVE to be unlocked to flash Roms?
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I rooted it with motochopper, but do I HAVE to be unlocked to flash Roms?
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Motochopper? Wasn't that for Motorola devices? Just asking general questions, what prompted you to try that?
Yes, you do need to be unlocked to flash roms. Are you positive you are rooted? Do you have working SU or SuperSU? If so, download EZ Unlock v1.2 from Rootwiki and press unlock.
Actually, I Google "root Verizon s3 4.1.2" and his exploit works on all american galaxy s3's
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So, folks. I am pretty new to the community, and would like to start trying to contribute some useful information. :good:
Pretty straightforward... The way I managed to remove my custom padlock on my device was to flash a modem after I flashed my ROM and kernel. Upon rebooting, I would no longer have the padlock. Has worked for me dozens of times. (With touch-wiz based roms)
If every one else finds that this will not work for them, let me know, and I will gladly remove the post.
Pad Lock Gone After Flashing Modem- Using:
OUDHS Recovery 1.0.3.4 Here
Ktoonsez Kernel Here
Modems Here: Click ME
Thanks I didn't know about this method I've been using triangle away which usually involved many steps including editing my buildprop so it can read my actual model.
This way looks much faster.
Didn't work for me.
Omega 10 with kt 8/25
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Which modem would be for i337 MF3 thats flashable through twrp?
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Which modem would be for i337 MF3 thats flashable through twrp?
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Yes. MF3 modem.
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This procedure above works some of the time not all the time...quickest would be have a original stock rom backup...restore it run triangle away..done...flash or restore back to whatever.
This method did not work for me on MDL and will not work on the OTA update of MF3.
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Sorry that this doesn't seem to work for everybody. I seem to have good luck with it. My apologies. I don't want to be spreading bunk information.
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It worked for me on mf3. Maybe because mine came with mf3 and I didn't get the OTA.
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TheAxman said:
This procedure above works some of the time not all the time...quickest would be have a original stock rom backup...restore it run triangle away..done...flash or restore back to whatever.
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Is triangle away necessary?
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Is triangle away necessary?
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My understanding is that it's good if you needed warranty repair. Other than that, it doesn't mean anything. Folks, anyone back me up or refute this?
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Triangle away is really just to clear/reset your binary counter to 0.it will also remove the padlock in some instances.
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My gs4 just installed it
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Got the same thing just 5 minutes ago.. installed it.. anybody have a changelog?
Here's the full changelog from Samsung's site:
Android 4.3 OS upgrade
Samsung Galaxy Gear compatibility
Group Play 2.5
Samsung Apps
Knox
Drag and drop to uninstall or disable applications
Call reliability improvements
The new update is build number 1337UCUEMK2 – the last one was 1337UCUEMJ9. So Samsung had to change something, but the very short turnaround time indicates it wasn't anything major (some users reported keyboard issues on MJ9). The update is pretty hefty at 719MB if you're coming from the Android 4.2 software. There is also a patch from MJ9 to MK2 for people who got the last OTA that clocks in at just 28.07MB. Begin hammering the update button – no promises, though.
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Any way to keep root and safestrap?
Wow! This is so new! It's not like it hasn't been discussed for days already!
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Those of us on MF3 who rooted cannot accept the OTA correct? WE would have to unroot first?
I can say this. It was no ordinary update even though coming from the mj9 one it was only 28.07mb's. It did something to the phone to finally take away the lag. I think Samsung finally got the phone working right. I'm pretty happy with my s4 now.
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So I came from an rooted MF3 install, but I have done a factory reset to try and get the update. Even now, I can't seem to get a response from hitting the "Software Update" button. Does anyone have any suggestions? Confused as to why I can't get it to report to me...
You need to use this thread for 4.3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2498897
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Seriously... Another 4.3 thread
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Seriously... Another 4.3 thread
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You don't expect people to actually read before they post do you? I mean, it's only common sense and the XDA rules. Why would most of these people do something smart like that? 90% of the threads are from people that either didn't or can't read.
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Any way to keep root and safestrap?
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I lost root , and I think safe strap only works with mf3 roms
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Those of us on MF3 who rooted cannot accept the OTA correct? WE would have to unroot first?
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Or
You can side load the mj9 update and hit software update in settings.
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I can say this. It was no ordinary update even though coming from the mj9 one it was only 28.07mb's. It did something to the phone to finally take away the lag. I think Samsung finally got the phone working right. I'm pretty happy with my s4 now.
Me too. Even when I take a picture with the galaxy gear, they show almost instantly on my GS4 gallery.
Also, bluetooth is like "smart".
I was having problems connecting my cars bluetooth to my GS4 and at the same time to my gear and each device to know what I needed it for, and now they now somehow.
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root?
Can we root if we updated to 4.3 mk2?
I still keep getting software update interrupted, going to have to use other means to upgrade I guess.
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This new update seems to have fixed the messaging app, before it was all messed up on the first 4.3 update.
Also another thing that seems fixed is the developer options, I would turn off all animations but it wouldn't stick as they would turn back on on their own.
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Can we root if we updated to 4.3 mk2?
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As of today, nop
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I still keep getting software update interrupted, going to have to use other means to upgrade I guess.
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FYI I was onwifi when the update showed up
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