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Ok....i have a Skyrocket that i got that was already ROOTED. But i didnt like the launcher....so i used the Odin and put the Original non root firmware on it then factory reseted the phone. Now im on a stock ICS 4.0.4.
NOW...the phone is unlocked and im using it with T Mobile. But im only getting a Edge "E" signal....which is slow as sh**. My question is....(May be a dumb question but worth asking)....can i keep this Stock Firmware and flash some kind of Radio over it to get 3G/4G? Or do i have to flash a custom ROM to get that? Love the phone...hate the edge tho. By the way....i have the SGH- I727
first check your apn settings.
you have to flash a custom recovery first, then root it so you can flash a different radio, third link in my sig, you can flash any ics radio, there in my first link in my sig.
check your apn settings
DJR0D said:
Ok....i have a Skyrocket that i got that was already ROOTED. But i didnt like the launcher....so i used the Odin and put the Original non root firmware on it then factory reseted the phone. Now im on a stock ICS 4.0.4.
NOW...the phone is unlocked and im using it with T Mobile. But im only getting a Edge "E" signal....which is slow as sh**. My question is....(May be a dumb question but worth asking)....can i keep this Stock Firmware and flash some kind of Radio over it to get 3G/4G? Or do i have to flash a custom ROM to get that? Love the phone...hate the edge tho. By the way....i have the SGH- I727
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Might take a look at this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1783795
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Im gonna check both of those out. But to be clear....after i install CWM....then ROOT...ill still have my Stock firmware on the phone after that right? I did yesterday. Then from there what? Clear cache and flash the Blaze Mod Radio on top of the stock 4.0.4 firmware? Is that possible? Thats what i really wanted to know. I did that last night and got my signal all messed you. But i used the Blaze Radio without the "Mod". Which they said was the wrong one.
Main thing is....i wanna keep the same stock firmware i have now....but just add the Blaze Mode Radio to it. Thats what i wanted to know.
DJR0D said:
Im gonna check both of those out. But to be clear....after i install CWM....then ROOT...ill still have my Stock firmware on the phone after that right? I did yesterday. Then from there what? Clear cache and flash the Blaze Mod Radio on top of the stock 4.0.4 firmware? Is that possible? Thats what i really wanted to know. I did that last night and got my signal all messed you. But i used the Blaze Radio without the "Mod". Which they said was the wrong one.
Main thing is....i wanna keep the same stock firmware i have now....but just add the Blaze Mode Radio to it. Thats what i wanted to know.
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yes, installing the recovery and rooting is still stock ics, you wont see any changes when your phone boots up, but its not true stock for warranty purposes because of the custom recovery
Okay... now that I have everyone's attention...
Here is the deal... in between a series of insane work trips my Mom comes over and says she just bought a new One X, and can I set it up for her.
I am pretty comfortable with this stuff, or at least following directions , but I am seriously pressed for time.
I started reading last night and think I have a pretty good handle on what and where, but want to confirm I am on the right path...
Phone is currently on 4.0.3 with version 1.85.502.3
I have zero plans to load custom ROMs on this since all my Mom needs is stability, but I want to root so that I can get in TiBu, clean out the bloat, setup a backup schedule and so on.
I have read a couple of comments that the 2.2 software gives better battery life and a few other improvements, so would not mind putting that on.
I have not gotten any OTA update notifications since I turned the phone on.
What is my best path?
Can I simply root the device using these instructions http://briefmobile.com/how-to-root-htc-one-x-att and then install the rooted stock 2.2 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1812459
Sorry for the dummy questions, but I am leaving for another work trip tomorrow AM and was hoping to get this done, although to be perfectly honest it is not as if she wont have a working phone, but if I can do this all up front then I can let her play around with it, customize etc and not have to redo it all when I get back.
THANKS for your help!
post pics and I'll help.
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post pics and I'll help.
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Of my mom? classy!
Did you copy paste the title from brazzers.com clips?
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I would defo flash CleanROM 4.5 stand for her.
lazarat said:
Did you copy paste the title from brazzers.com clips?
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I guess I should have known better... felt bad posting noobish questions I can figure out if I spend a bunch of time reading, but really short on time right now, so figured I would try to be funny and hopefully generate more views and quicker responses.
For what it is worth my Mom is 67... I am not 17 and this is not a MILF scenario...
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I would defo flash CleanROM 4.5 stand for her.
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Right... I don't want to flash custom... stick with stock... I have no time to update customs or to act as tech support when things inevitably go wrong with a custom.
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Right... I don't want to flash custom... stick with stock... I have no time to update customs or to act as tech support when things inevitably go wrong with a custom.
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Believe me man you would want to how much bloat and crap that att throws on the phone. Might as well give her something worth having the rom is very stable and would never have to fix it for her.
Also after you install TWRP for her (the recovery) Make sure to make a nano backup of her stock image then flash with CleanROM and make one of that to. So if she ever has a issue she is just one click away from a new phone.:good:
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Right... I don't want to flash custom... stick with stock... I have no time to update customs or to act as tech support when things inevitably go wrong with a custom.
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I think the problem is that if you're going to root anyway, you've already made it so she can't stay current on the "official" path.
I've found CleanROM to be far more stable than AT&T's PoS.
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Of my mom? classy!
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just replying as per title
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post pics and I'll help.
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Lmao!!
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I must.. refrain from Googling sexy old ladies and relying to the tread must resist the urge.... :angel:
dcdivenut said:
this is not a MILF scenario...
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Dont make it then
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thebobmannh said:
I think the problem is that if you're going to root anyway, you've already made it so she can't stay current on the "official" path.
I've found CleanROM to be far more stable than AT&T's PoS.
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+1000.
You'll never know it isn't stock sense/att except that all the apps which, if she clicks them she'll get charged additional usage for, are gone.
FWIW, ATT's OTA isn't anything special. My phone was three months old and was still running 1.73. Never succeeded in an OTA update.
So, CleanROM 4.5 was a huge improvement.
I would say that, if she is not totally interested in Modding, that she should either leave it with all stock ,or switch to CleanROM. I am running CleanROM because I like the stock feel, although I have modded a few things. I also liked the removale of bloatware. I feel that the best place for rooting your One X is on onexroot.com. just make sure you choose the right ROM and root method depending on your model, such as international AT&T, or Rodgers. Hope this helps!
dcdivenut said:
Okay... now that I have everyone's attention...
Here is the deal... in between a series of insane work trips my Mom comes over and says she just bought a new One X, and can I set it up for her.
I am pretty comfortable with this stuff, or at least following directions , but I am seriously pressed for time.
I started reading last night and think I have a pretty good handle on what and where, but want to confirm I am on the right path...
Phone is currently on 4.0.3 with version 1.85.502.3
I have zero plans to load custom ROMs on this since all my Mom needs is stability, but I want to root so that I can get in TiBu, clean out the bloat, setup a backup schedule and so on.
I have read a couple of comments that the 2.2 software gives better battery life and a few other improvements, so would not mind putting that on.
I have not gotten any OTA update notifications since I turned the phone on.
What is my best path?
Can I simply root the device using these instructions http://briefmobile.com/how-to-root-htc-one-x-att and then install the rooted stock 2.2 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1812459
Sorry for the dummy questions, but I am leaving for another work trip tomorrow AM and was hoping to get this done, although to be perfectly honest it is not as if she wont have a working phone, but if I can do this all up front then I can let her play around with it, customize etc and not have to redo it all when I get back.
THANKS for your help!
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2.20 breaks root if you go with the stock RUU. So you are going to be unlocking the bootloader and going off the "official" path anyway. Which means you will have to periodically update your mother's phone anyways and she will software warranty.
I would go with one of three options:
1. Root/Unlock and flash CleanROM 4.5 (you will have to update her phone every so often and she loses software warranty)
2. Root, stay with 1.85 and de-bloat (don't really recommended because of multitask issue)
3. Don't root, leave phone stock and stay on the official path (if you don't have the time to maintain your mother's phone go with this)
Actually, if you root &unlock bootloader now, flash a custom recovery, you can manually update the firmware to 2.2x, flash back your stock recovery and relock it you have a fully updated, stock device that you can always go back and unlock if u want to later.
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Butters619 said:
2.20 breaks root if you go with the stock RUU. So you are going to be unlocking the bootloader and going off the "official" path anyway. Which means you will have to periodically update your mother's phone anyways and she will software warranty.
I would go with one of three options:
1. Root/Unlock and flash CleanROM 4.5 (you will have to update her phone every so often and she loses software warranty)
2. Root, stay with 1.85 and de-bloat (don't really recommended because of multitask issue)
3. Don't root, leave phone stock and stay on the official path (if you don't have the time to maintain your mother's phone go with this)
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True that for root on 2.20, you will need to unlock the bootloader anyway, so you may as well go ahead and root, SuperCID and unlock bootloader.
A 4th option would be to flash a stock rooted 2.20, 2.23, or 2.29 ROM (after unlocking the bootloader). Honestly, the 2.2X stock ROMs are quite good, and you won't really need to update the phone much after that; really mostly if you just want to.
Personally, I would suggest either leaving as-is on 1.85, and root and debloat; or unlock the bootloader and flash either a rooted stock 2.2X ROM, or custom ROM that does not divert too much from stock 2.2X (like CleanROM).
Updating to 2.20 the "official" way is just robbing yourself of any other options, until (if and when) a root method is found for 2.20. Personally recommend you stay away from that.
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dcdivenut said:
I have zero plans to load custom ROMs on this since all my Mom needs is stability,
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Custom ROMs have a huge variation in their stability. Sure, ROMs which are AOSP have some things broken, and ones based on the leading edge (Jellybean) have issues too, since they are ports, do not fully support our hardware, etc.
But many of the ROMs you will see in Development are based stock ROMs, with bloat removed, performance tweaks, and some features added, without any real drastic changes. CleanROM, King Cobra among others actually run smoother and more stable than stock. Don't knock all custom ROMs, especially since you haven't even tried any on this device.
CleanROM 4.5 is better than stock. It's the best rom I have ever flashed on any device ever.
I am thinking of rooting and installing the cyanogen mod but before I do that, I want to make sure that I can go back to stock if I need do. I have been looking around the wiki and the forums but I couldn't find anything on going back to stock on the SGH-T959W. Can I just use the method which is shown for the T959V?
Stop.
You do not want to flash these roms. Search this forum for your model there have been a lot of bricks and discussions on your model.
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vopezy said:
Stop.
You do not want to flash these roms. Search this forum for your model there have been a lot of bricks and discussions on your model.
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I see that I should not flash bootloaders which I already know not to do. I also see that the T959V is the same as the T959W (except for the difference in preinstalled apps and also the fact that one is Verizon and the other is wind) which is why I was wondering if the going back to stock tut will work for this model.
Ok. I wanted to avoid disaster. The one click should bring you back to stock. Just be careful with everything
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I see that I should not flash bootloaders which I already know not to do.
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Check.
aman207 said:
I also see that the T959V is the same as the T959W (except for the difference in preinstalled apps and also the fact that one is Verizon and the other is wind)
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T959V is t-mobile, T959W is wind. There is also T959P which is telus, and supposedly there is a T959N, but no one has come forward on that one. The telus phone is very different from T959V and T959W.
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which is why I was wondering if the going back to stock tut will work for this model.
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getochkn is working on getting the OTA update from wind and should be getting it soon.
I'm also working with him to extract the bootloader files from his phone so we can get a back to stock oneclick like we do for T959V.
I hope that helps.
Ahh thank you!!
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Yes, as of now, there is no way to go 100% back to Wind stock. You can go back to T959V stock, which for all intensive purposes is the same, +/- a few stupid bloatware installed apps, but nothing that serious. The 2 things are the bootloader, which I am trying to get from Wind, will not much success but I keep emailing and calling and hopefully someone sooner or later will get sick and tired of me and give it up. The second, is the modem, which LB6 (I think) that only appeared on our Wind phones. The T-Mobile KD4-KJ1, etc modems all work fine, so it's not an issue, but I have a second SGS4G that is stock, that when I am ready to upgrade that one, bhundven is going to help me preserve and extract the modem, so we will have the modem, so a one-click back to stock with our modem replaced in it would get you 99% stock, again the only diff being the pre-bundled app's. I only used 1 click to root+cwm mine as you have to flash again and click bootloader to actually flash that, so if you don't do that, you can then explore any of the ROM in this section only on your phone.
You seemed to have done your reading, asked your questions in a good manner, so keep it up and ask or even PM me if/when you're ready and I will help you. Sadly some people don't read and jump in and end up with a bricked phone and it's hard to want to help someone who just randomly flashes stuff to a $400 phone because they watch a youtube video.
Do you research and reading, asking polite, informative questions and you will get help.
............Now on to read the thread of the guy with the T959W phone, showing a picture of it, with the tmobile logo, meaning he flashed the bootloaders and he's stuck in a loop. lol. There is someone who didn't read, jumped in, and may have a bricked phone. We can replace stock apps, I will have the Wind modem soon, but unless Wind gives me the kies tar, we will never have the bootloader.
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Yes, as of now, there is no way to go 100% back to Wind stock. You can go back to T959V stock, which for all intensive purposes is the same, +/- a few stupid bloatware installed apps, but nothing that serious. The 2 things are the bootloader, which I am trying to get from Wind, will not much success but I keep emailing and calling and hopefully someone sooner or later will get sick and tired of me and give it up. The second, is the modem, which LB6 (I think) that only appeared on our Wind phones. The T-Mobile KD4-KJ1, etc modems all work fine, so it's not an issue, but I have a second SGS4G that is stock, that when I am ready to upgrade that one, bhundven is going to help me preserve and extract the modem, so we will have the modem, so a one-click back to stock with our modem replaced in it would get you 99% stock, again the only diff being the pre-bundled app's. I only used 1 click to root+cwm mine as you have to flash again and click bootloader to actually flash that, so if you don't do that, you can then explore any of the ROM in this section only on your phone.
You seemed to have done your reading, asked your questions in a good manner, so keep it up and ask or even PM me if/when you're ready and I will help you. Sadly some people don't read and jump in and end up with a bricked phone and it's hard to want to help someone who just randomly flashes stuff to a $400 phone because they watch a youtube video.
Do you research and reading, asking polite, informative questions and you will get help.
............Now on to read the thread of the guy with the T959W phone, showing a picture of it, with the tmobile logo, meaning he flashed the bootloaders and he's stuck in a loop. lol. There is someone who didn't read, jumped in, and may have a bricked phone. We can replace stock apps, I will have the Wind modem soon, but unless Wind gives me the kies tar, we will never have the bootloader.
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If you dump your bootloaders, we will have t959w bootloaders. But do what I said in both PMs I sent you. (the second one gets the PIT the right way)
Bob The Builder said:
Can we fix it?!?
Yes we can (well... I think so )
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getochkn said:
Yes, as of now, there is no way to go 100% back to Wind stock. You can go back to T959V stock, which for all intensive purposes is the same, +/- a few stupid bloatware installed apps, but nothing that serious. The 2 things are the bootloader, which I am trying to get from Wind, will not much success but I keep emailing and calling and hopefully someone sooner or later will get sick and tired of me and give it up. The second, is the modem, which LB6 (I think) that only appeared on our Wind phones. The T-Mobile KD4-KJ1, etc modems all work fine, so it's not an issue, but I have a second SGS4G that is stock, that when I am ready to upgrade that one, bhundven is going to help me preserve and extract the modem, so we will have the modem, so a one-click back to stock with our modem replaced in it would get you 99% stock, again the only diff being the pre-bundled app's. I only used 1 click to root+cwm mine as you have to flash again and click bootloader to actually flash that, so if you don't do that, you can then explore any of the ROM in this section only on your phone.
You seemed to have done your reading, asked your questions in a good manner, so keep it up and ask or even PM me if/when you're ready and I will help you. Sadly some people don't read and jump in and end up with a bricked phone and it's hard to want to help someone who just randomly flashes stuff to a $400 phone because they watch a youtube video.
Do you research and reading, asking polite, informative questions and you will get help.
............Now on to read the thread of the guy with the T959W phone, showing a picture of it, with the tmobile logo, meaning he flashed the bootloaders and he's stuck in a loop. lol. There is someone who didn't read, jumped in, and may have a bricked phone. We can replace stock apps, I will have the Wind modem soon, but unless Wind gives me the kies tar, we will never have the bootloader.
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Thanks for your help! I'll think I will wait till you get the bootloader. Don't wanna do anything major with the phone in case something goes wrong and then I can't go back to stock (when something goes wrong I mean like hardware wise where I would need to get it sent in for repair and then wind will see that it is rooted and modified). But I can wait. I have another tablet that I can play around with in the mean time.
Thanks again!
getochkn said:
............Now on to read the thread of the guy with the T959W phone, showing a picture of it, with the tmobile logo, meaning he flashed the bootloaders and he's stuck in a loop. lol. There is someone who didn't read, jumped in, and may have a bricked phone. We can replace stock apps, I will have the Wind modem soon, but unless Wind gives me the kies tar, we will never have the bootloader.
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I can just pray lol
The pic of tmobile doesnt have anything to do with bootloaders. It has everything to do with Param.lfs
airfluip1 said:
The pic of tmobile doesnt have anything to do with bootloaders. It has everything to do with Param.lfs
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Yes, I have dumped the wind params and have flashed it without problems. Upon extracting the jpgs from it, there is 1 additional jpg in my params, the Wind one we get. The weird thing is when I flashed the "V" params though, I got no boot logo as the ofsets are different.
Brian and I are trying to put together a package to get it going. I have a stock Wind phone as well still that I am going to dump the GB ROM we get instead, with our default apps, etc, so hopefully in a few days, we should have a FULL restore to stock for Wind people. Having troubles with the modem not flashing though through Heimdall. Can flash one in CWM no prob but that doesn't solve the problem of using a 1-click stock to go back to stock without root, etc.
still searching for stock rom
getochkn said:
Yes, I have dumped the wind params and have flashed it without problems. Upon extracting the jpgs from it, there is 1 additional jpg in my params, the Wind one we get. The weird thing is when I flashed the "V" params though, I got no boot logo as the ofsets are different.
Brian and I are trying to put together a package to get it going. I have a stock Wind phone as well still that I am going to dump the GB ROM we get instead, with our default apps, etc, so hopefully in a few days, we should have a FULL restore to stock for Wind people. Having troubles with the modem not flashing though through Heimdall. Can flash one in CWM no prob but that doesn't solve the problem of using a 1-click stock to go back to stock without root, etc.
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i have not seen a stock rom for the galaxy s 4g sgh-t959w anywhere and the phone was with telus also so i am not sure but want to go back to factory as now baseband or imei showing and no wifi ether ?
Slickinator said:
i have not seen a stock rom for the galaxy s 4g sgh-t959w anywhere and the phone was with telus also so i am not sure but want to go back to factory as now baseband or imei showing and no wifi ether ?
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ARe you sure you have the 959W? I thought the Telus model was the 959P. The W is the UTMS band version of the phone, which Telus doesn't use, so I don't think you have a W.
Hello, I have a galaxy s4 but my mom has a galaxy s3. I rooted and put a rom on there for her 9 months ago so she is on 4.1.2 with the bootloader before the put knox on. She is visiting for 2 days so I dont exactly have the time to spend reading all day to figure this out.
I dont really see a reason for her needing root, so if I just odin here the new Verizon firmware with knox and wiped the phone will she be returned to stock like nothing happened. Will she be able to resevie updates through Verizon still after?
Would it be easier just to flash a new rom and just wait to i see her again in a year to update it?
If i did just flash a newer rom I should probably stay away from knox if possible right?
Thanks for the help.
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Hello, I have a galaxy s4 but my mom has a galaxy s3. I rooted and put a rom on there for her 9 months ago so she is on 4.1.2 with the bootloader before the put knox on. She is visiting for 2 days so I dont exactly have the time to spend reading all day to figure this out.
I dont really see a reason for her needing root, so if I just odin here the new Verizon firmware with knox and wiped the phone will she be returned to stock like nothing happened. Will she be able to resevie updates through Verizon still after?
Would it be easier just to flash a new rom and just wait to i see her again in a year to update it?
If i did just flash a newer rom I should probably stay away from knox if possible right?
Thanks for the help.
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If you ask me it sounds like she doesn't really care so stock should work fine for her. If you go that way make sure you use triangle away before you Odin. Also if you plan to upgrade her to 4.3 you should just Odin right to it because the ota will change settings and make the phone buggy until a factory reset is done.
Thanks man
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Hello all,
It has been a while since I did anything to my S3 as I had moved my wife from VZN to PagePlus and had the phone custom-rooted to work with them (this was before they changed and allowed 4G BYOPs).
I have just moved her to an S4 (which I had rooted over a year ago with ROOT66 and help from this forum) and would like to return my S3 to either the newest Verizon version for the S3 OR if it is available in a new version, ROOT66 (I had saved I535VRBLK3.7z prior to the switch to PP, which I know is old). Whichever way I go, I would like to have it unlocked to play with certain files.
Right now, I have 4.1.2, build JZO54K.i535VRBMA2. i believe I saw some S3 have 4.4? Is that the latest for the S3, and if YES, is it good, or should I stay with an earlier one?
In checking my archived S3 folder, I see I have saved the following
Odin307
SCH-I535_VZW-I535VRBMF1_Original.zip
Stock Root - VRALG7 - ODEX.zip
Stock Root I535VRBMF1 - ODEX.zip
root66_VZW_I535VRBLK3_nowipe.7z
Samsung_USB_Driver_v1_4_6_0.exe
I do have SuperSU 1.04 and Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper installed and running on the S3.
Any help would be appreciated. It has been over a year since I did this so if you would be kind to me as I get my feet wet again learning how to do this, I would be very appreciative.
Thanks.
Frank in Michigan
FMinMI said:
Hello all,
It has been a while since I did anything to my S3 as I had moved my wife from VZN to PagePlus and had the phone custom-rooted to work with them (this was before they changed and allowed 4G BYOPs).
I have just moved her to an S4 (which I had rooted over a year ago with ROOT66 and help from this forum) and would like to return my S3 to either the newest Verizon version for the S3 OR if it is available in a new version, ROOT66 (I had saved I535VRBLK3.7z prior to the switch to PP, which I know is old). Whichever way I go, I would like to have it unlocked to play with certain files.
Right now, I have 4.1.2, build JZO54K.i535VRBMA2. i believe I saw some S3 have 4.4? Is that the latest for the S3, and if YES, is it good, or should I stay with an earlier one?
In checking my archived S3 folder, I see I have saved the following
Odin307
SCH-I535_VZW-I535VRBMF1_Original.zip
Stock Root - VRALG7 - ODEX.zip
Stock Root I535VRBMF1 - ODEX.zip
root66_VZW_I535VRBLK3_nowipe.7z
Samsung_USB_Driver_v1_4_6_0.exe
I do have SuperSU 1.04 and Voodoo OTA Rootkeeper installed and running on the S3.
Any help would be appreciated. It has been over a year since I did this so if you would be kind to me as I get my feet wet again learning how to do this, I would be very appreciative.
Thanks.
Frank in Michigan
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4.4.2 is the latest one via OTA if the phone is unlocked you can go to another version ie lollipop roms. I however highly advise against taking any OTAs from big red
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ShapesBlue said:
4.4.2 is the latest one via OTA if the phone is unlocked you can go to another version ie lollipop roms. I however highly advise against taking any OTAs from big red
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I don't need the latest update (4.4.2) if it doesn't do much or has some added baggage / can't be rooted. I would be happy with either ROOT66 or a stock VZN that can be rooted; just need help with the steps to load it over what I have (to wipe out any changes that were made for the PagePlus 3G usage).
I have no problem wiping it clean either; in fact that might be desirable. Not going to use it on a postpaid Verizon account - maybe prepaid Verizon, ROK, or Straight Talk, since all 3 allow you to BYOP.
Thanks again for any help from anyone.
Frank
FMinMI said:
I don't need the latest update (4.4.2) if it doesn't do much or has some added baggage / can't be rooted. I would be happy with either ROOT66 or a stock VZN that can be rooted; just need help with the steps to load it over what I have (to wipe out any changes that were made for the PagePlus 3G usage).
I have no problem wiping it clean either; in fact that might be desirable. Not going to use it on a postpaid Verizon account - maybe prepaid Verizon, ROK, or Straight Talk, since all 3 allow you to BYOP.
Thanks again for any help from anyone.
Frank
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I'd highly suggest straight talk. As far as coming from another carrier there wasn't anything special I had to do when I went from VZW to straight talk other than put the sim card in the phone and change the apn settings to ST
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ShapesBlue said:
4.4.2 is the latest one via OTA if the phone is unlocked you can go to another version ie lollipop roms. I however highly advise against taking any OTAs from big red
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ShapesBlue said:
I'd highly suggest straight talk. As far as coming from another carrier there wasn't anything special I had to do when I went from VZW to straight talk other than put the sim card in the phone and change the apn settings to ST
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I do have their CDMA kit coming Nov 4th to the local store and will try them for a month.
**BUT** I must restore my S3 back to original status, preferably rooted. I had it modded for PagePlus and I know there will be issues if I try to use it as-is with any other prepaid MVNO, since it was forced to 3G mode....
Frank
FMinMI said:
I do have their CDMA kit coming Nov 4th to the local store and will try them for a month.
**BUT** I must restore my S3 back to original status, preferably rooted. I had it modded for PagePlus and I know there will be issues if I try to use it as-is with any other prepaid MVNO, since it was forced to 3G mode....
Frank
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I truly wish I could help get you back to what you need. Unfortunately I can't help with that
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FIXED - I found ROOT66_VZW_I535VRBMA2_ FULL_WIPE.7z via a different forum and let it do a full wipe/reinstall of that version of Kit Kat. Might not be the newest but it gave me root. Phone is ready to go back on VZN.
FMinMI said:
FIXED - I found ROOT66_VZW_I535VRBMA2_ FULL_WIPE.7z via a different forum and let it do a full wipe/reinstall of that version of Kit Kat. Might not be the newest but it gave me root. Phone is ready to go back on VZN.
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In my opinion you are much better off with that kitkat rom than you would be with verizon's. I agree with ShabesBlue, do not take updates from verizon. If you ever get the official NE1 bootloader you are locked down: no custom recoveries, only three (at the moment) roms to choose from.
ShapesBlue said:
I truly wish I could help get you back to what you need. Unfortunately I can't help with that
Sent from my Nexus 5
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dawgdoc said:
In my opinion you are much better off with that kitkat rom than you would be with verizon's. I agree with ShabesBlue, do not take updates from verizon. If you ever get the official NE1 bootloader you are locked down: no custom recoveries, only three (at the moment) roms to choose from.
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As soon as I got the ROM up and running, I froze FWUpdate and SDM with TPro so that would never happen. Happy where it is at and it is a S3, so there is not going to be any more development for it anyway.
Cheers
Frank in Michigan