Verizon just offered to replace my brother's S3 to an S4 due to a charging issue. The binary counter shows 1 so he might get charged for the S4.
When he was on 4.2, I rooted and attempted to flash a custom recovery, which failed with a Verizon message. Since then he received the 4.3 update which made him lose root.
I am having him use saferoot to regain root so he can use TriangleAway to reset the flash counter...
On OP it says
"Samsung Galaxy S3 Verizon UNLOCK BOOTLOADER"
Does this mean I won't be able to do it unless we unlock the bootloader? Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to get this thing back to where Verizon won't know anything was done?
Thanks!!
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Recently, I messed up real bad and I accidentally installed the firmware of a Verizon GS3 on a T-Mobile GS3. Now it is a Verizon phone :c I already rooted it so I can replace the firmware with a T-Mobile TouchWiz Stock ROM. All I need is the last step: to unlock the bootloader. Can someone (or anyone) please help me remove it? I am currently mentally constipated by the problem and I just have only a couple steps until I return it back into a T-Mobile Galaxy S3. Now that's the question. Here's the story of how it is what it is right now.
So one day, I was rooting my phone to install CyanogenMod because I wanted something similar to 4.2.1 Jellybean. I did everything except I didn't delete the Dalvhik Cache. So when everything was loaded, I see that my phone cannot open the PlayStore. In my mind, I reflect back a couple minutes in the past just to remember I didn't clear what I needed to. Idiotic me goes off and attempts to erase CyanogenMod 10 and I get stuck in a boot loop. I am in a state in which I call "mental constipation". I then accidentally and foolishly install the Verizon GS3 ROM and BOOM. I am in a worse situation. Fast forward today, I root the phone but as a Verizon Galaxy S3. I am almost done but I need to just unlock the bootloader and I am set to return it back into a T-Mobile GS3. So, can someone please tell me how to unlock the Verizon GS3's bootloader?
tl;dr turned T-Mobile GS3 into a Verizon GS3 and I need to unlock boot loader
Hey guys,
Today I went to root and unlock the bootloader of my Verizon Galaxy S3 however, after unlocking the bootloader, I went to change the bootchain and I got Verizon's annoying message about how the software isn't recognized. Any suggestions on how to fix or how I can return to stock without flashing the stock image and loosing data?
esmier said:
Hey guys,
Today I went to root and unlock the bootloader of my Verizon Galaxy S3 however, after unlocking the bootloader, I went to change the bootchain and I got Verizon's annoying message about how the software isn't recognized. Any suggestions on how to fix or how I can return to stock without flashing the stock image and loosing data?
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Nope you have to Odin back and start all over bootloader wasn't unlocked right.
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Months ago, before the 4.3 OTA, I attempted to unlock the bootloader and root my wife's Galaxy SIII on vzw. The phone seemed to be bricked, but I was able to recover it using one of the available unbrick utilities. From that point forward, on boot it displays "Custom ROM", but is not rooted and I cannot boot into recovery at all. To make things worse, my wife accepted the 4.3 OTA before I could warn her not to and it has since upgraded to 4.4.2 OTA. Is there any option to still unlock the bootloader, or are we stuck? Also, if I can't unlock and root the phone, I would like to be able to return it to stock, but nothing so far has worked.
My playstore not working said. " cant initialize...."
I know the cause of this is the freedom. I used freedom when im in kitkat official. Im also rooted that time. Then i forgot to delete the "host" file before updating. Now my "at&t galaxy s4 is 5.0
1 official" can someone help me root this device pls. To fix this problem ? Or any fix/method to this problem without root ?
I also dont know what is lock and unlock bootloader, even how to check if i have lock or unlock bootloader. What does it mean if i have lock and unlock bootloader
Note: my galaxy s4 is at&t 5.0.1 not rooted.
My galaxy s4 at&t can read any sim card because its already factory unlocked.
I have a MetroPCS Samsung Galaxy Core Prime. Yesterday I successfully rooted my new toy and restarted my phone. I then got a "Custom binary is locked by FRP" message and couldn't get in my phone so I Odined the stock firmware and I'm able to use it now. However, I would really like to root my phone. I went into Dev Options and enabled OEM unlock. I want to root but I don't want to get that FRP mess again. Do you guys know how I can root without locking my phone again? Thanks.