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T-MOBILE T999UVALEM firmware ready to play with :)

just want to let you know that T-Mobile firmware is ready for download
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SGH-T999

Is this for odin
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Can this be used with the t mobile variant
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If this is for sprint, why does the title say T-Mobile..
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Edit: In that case, thanks PP
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Its for T Mobile.. if you click on the link it says its for the T999

I was wondering the same thing, but if it matters I went to the link and it says it's for T-Mobile T999UVALEM like the title
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Tweezydak1d said:
Is this for odin
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yes it is - same firmware as you would get updting with kies
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Can this be used with the t mobile variant
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ye, it is tmobile version i am tired and made a typo - corrected thnks and gnite

my phone came with this firmware. is this just posted to revert to stock if on a custom rom or is there other significance?

Has anyone tried flashing yet?
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So this must mean we can flash fash back to stock with odin if we have problems.

yup! this is our fall back ROM. now we need a triangle away to reset the counter!

It Works
I decided to be the test monkey on this one.
I had a nandroid backup of when I screwed my system so badly it just boot looped repeatedly. Restored that with cwm, verified it was still hosed, unpacked this zip, used odin to burn the .tar.md5 to the phone as PDA, rebooted.
It does some gear chunking while booting the first time then reboots - don't panic yet! On second boot it does some more rebuilding, then 'WELCOME!'
Bonus: CWM now sees the actual external sdcard as /sdcard and can find things like roms and backups on it. Edit: This CWM finds .zips on the sdcard, but doesn't seem to know how to backup/restore.

So is this for un rooting our phones?
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sizer99 said:
I decided to be the test monkey on this one.
I had a nandroid backup of when I screwed my system so badly it just boot looped repeatedly. Restored that with cwm, verified it was still hosed, unpacked this zip, used odin to burn the .tar.md5 to the phone as PDA, rebooted.
It does some gear chunking while booting the first time then reboots - don't panic yet! On second boot it does some more rebuilding, then 'WELCOME!'
Bonus: CWM now sees the actual external sdcard as /sdcard and can find things like roms and backups on it. Edit: This CWM finds .zips on the sdcard, but doesn't seem to know how to backup/restore.
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What do you mean "This CWM" ? The tars we're talking about in this thread are completely stock from samsung, there is no CWM in these... please elaborate.

hiazn said:
What do you mean "This CWM" ? The tars we're talking about in this thread are completely stock from samsung, there is no CWM in these... please elaborate.
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After burning this with Odin I ended up with a CWM that I didn't expect - and I've never seen one that actually recognized the external card. However, with all the things I've been trying it's quite possible I ended up burning a boot image I forgot about. I need to try reburning this and see if anything changes, but can't do it right now.

sizer99 said:
After burning this with Odin I ended up with a CWM that I didn't expect - and I've never seen one that actually recognized the external card. However, with all the things I've been trying it's quite possible I ended up burning a boot image I forgot about. I need to try reburning this and see if anything changes, but can't do it right now.
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Sounds like a plan, let us know what you find.

is this actually
T999UVALEM
or
T999UVLEM

M9x3mos said:
is this actually
T999UVALEM
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T999UVLEM
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Mine stock is T999UVLEM, whats the difference between the two?

does this restore everything, including stock recovery, but resetting the counter?

Strange - I had kind of a weird experience with this. I flashed via Odin as usual (as I've done a 100x before) and when it rebooted, it still had remnants of the previous rom I had installed. I didn't get the "welcome" screen as if I was starting from a new factory rom. but at least it got me back to step 1 and I could flash the Lean 2.1 rom again to repair my screw ups.

[Confirmed] Verizon TWRP 2.2 working on Sprint

Team Win's official Sprint version http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/107
Everything else is no longer needed
I installed the Verizon version this morning and everything seems to be working. The problem is Goo Manager won't install it for you and on the TWRP site it's still the 2.1.8 version.
So what you need to do is go on Goo Manage, go to browse all files, /devs/teamwin//twrp2/openrecovery-twrp-2.2.0-d2vzw.img
Download that and move it to the root of your sdcard and rename it recovery.img
Open up and Terminal emulator and type the following code
Code:
su
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery
reboot recovery
And there you go a[n almost] fully functional (from what I've seen) newest version of TWRP
Downloads:
openrecovery-twrp-2.2.0-d2vzw.img
openrecovery-twrp-2.2.0-d2vzw.tar
With the download you can use and adb to push it
Code:
adb push recovery.img /sdcard/recovery.img
adb shell
su
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/recovery
reboot recovery
Edit: playing with this some more it can't get either sdcard to mount in recovery. So if you are going to use this make sure everything is on your sdcard before you reboot into recovery
Edit 2: To get CM9 to flash you need to do the following steps:
on your phone:
1. Extract the nightly zip
2. open the extracted folder
3. Navigate to META-INF>>com>>google>>android>>updater script
4. open it with a text editor and delete the first two lines
5. Zip it back up
6. Flash!!
Any rom that gives you an error 7 when you try and flash this is probably the problem.

Have you tested it yourself?
I do believe I saw issues of it not backing up / restoring properly / difficulty accessing the external sdcard.

teh roxxorz said:
Have you tested it yourself?
I do believe I saw issues of it not backing up / restoring properly / difficulty accessing the external sdcard.
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backup/restore works. it appears neither of the sdcards are mountable, but both are accessible in file manager so you have to put everything where you want it before you reboot into recovery. I'll still take it over CMW

nicholaaaas said:
backup/restore works. it appears neither of the sdcards are mountable, but both are accessible in file manager so you have to put everything where you want it before you reboot into recovery. I'll still take it over CMW
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Well the latter isn't really an issue, since i normally through it on there. but if backup/restore is working nicely, I'm deucing out on CWM. Just wish it was in a .tar format so I can flash with mobile odin.

teh roxxorz said:
Well the latter isn't really an issue, since i normally through it on there. but if backup/restore is working nicely, I'm deucing out on CWM. Just wish it was in a .tar format so I can flash with mobile odin.
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give this a shot. Make sure you got CWM to revert back to. I just used BitZipper to convert to a .tar file, so I don't know if it will work. Can't hurt anything.

nicholaaaas said:
give this a shot. Make sure you got CWM to revert back to. I just used BitZipper to convert to a .tar file, so I don't know if it will work. Can't hurt anything.
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Mmm true. Just backup up using twrp and it was nice and flashed a rom. Both files located on internal/external storage. I'll have to give it a go on mobile odin.

nicholaaaas said:
give this a shot. Make sure you got CWM to revert back to. I just used BitZipper to convert to a .tar file, so I don't know if it will work. Can't hurt anything.
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The file will never flash mainly because the image that you tar up MUST be named correctly. A recovery image needs to be named recovery.img before you tar it or it will crash Odin before even flashing it. I dont know if the Bitzipper method would have worked but I have made a working tar to flash via Odin for anyone who wants to try it out.
Mark.

How is this working for you guys? Any bugs or anything not working? I just got clockwork touch recovery working for sprint and I would rather use twrp if it's fully functional
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How do you get cwm touch to stick?
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tdwp16 said:
How do you get cwm touch to stick?
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You have to flash the recovery.img in mobile odin. The zip file doesn't stick
Go to the thread below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28687877
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mskip said:
The file will never flash mainly because the image that you tar up MUST be named correctly. A recovery image needs to be named recovery.img before you tar it or it will crash Odin before even flashing it. I dont know if the Bitzipper method would have worked but I have made a working tar to flash via Odin for anyone who wants to try it out.
Mark.
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Thanks, added to OP

cbond007 said:
How is this working for you guys? Any bugs or anything not working? I just got clockwork touch recovery working for sprint and I would rather use twrp if it's fully functional
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Mounting SD cards doesn't seem to work. That seems to be the only problem I've run into so far.

nicholaaaas said:
Thanks, added to OP
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Did this work for you? Can you flash this with mobile odin?
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cbond007 said:
You have to flash the recovery.img in mobile odin. The zip file doesn't stick
Go to the thread below
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28687877
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Yep flashing with mobile Odin worked great for me

just flashed twrp via tar file & mobile odin, works great.
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So we just rename file to recovery.img and flash with mobile odin?
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So with this can u flash Verizon roms to fs3 for sprint

dragshawn said:
So with this can u flash Verizon roms to fs3 for sprint
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Not if you want your phone to work version roms will not work on our phone. This is just a recovery.

Thanks. I had CWM touch installed but didn't like some of the issues such as incorrect date stamp and not being able to choose sd or extSd. It was one or the other. I can easily deal with not mounting sd from recovery. I have also always liked the way twrp would compress my backups.
Downloaded and used Mobile Odin Pro for the first time. Very easy and painless to use. The biggest failure with desktop Odin was the usb cord and drivers. Mobile Odin eliminates those quirks.
Edit: WTH... Still doesn't know the damned date... Lol.. It's using the same 1970 date that every recovery has had.

Did you get permission to post this
Even if you did discover it you still need permission to post someone else's work
Thanks for the discovery though
On a side note I'm not trying to attack you or anything
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[Q] how do I erase everything so all I have is Odin?

I did some searches and couldn't find a confirmed/direct answer to this. I am somewhat new to flashing ROMs but not new to technology.
I have an epic 4g touch. It is rooted with the unofficial 9/18 cm nightly on it. When I look through root I have a bunch of folders/files left over from apps long since removed and never used again. I have tried factory resets and clearing/ formatting caches etc etc. The root never seems to be touched inmost of these processes. With that said, how do I do a fully clean, erase everything wipe and reinstall of cwm and cm?
Thanks for your help!
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Files on your SD card can be deleted using a file explorer like esfile. If its not that please explain what files you want to get rid of. If its on your internal or sdcard it will never be wiped using factory reset.
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patrao_n said:
Files on your SD card can be deleted using a file explorer like esfile. If its not that please explain what files you want to get rid of. If its on your internal or sdcard it will never be wiped using factory reset.
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The internal should be erased if you do a factory reset from the phone's settings menu if I'm not mistaken. Doing a factory reset in recovery doesn't though.

Correct. Not external sd. Think of a full low level format of a HD and reinstall.
That's what I wound like to do.
Also,
Is Odin a hardware based admin terminal or is it firmware?
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stonesaber said:
The internal should be erased if you do a factory reset from the phone's settings menu if I'm not mistaken. Doing a factory reset in recovery doesn't though.
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Tried that. Didn't do much of anything more then what cwm does when booted into recovery.
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Finalnull said:
Tried that. Didn't do much of anything more then what cwm does when booted into recovery.
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Odin is the software used to flash roms on your phone. Its not actually on your phone if I understand it correctly.
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Finalnull said:
Tried that. Didn't do much of anything more then what cwm does when booted into recovery.
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If you really want to clean everything out, format the User storage and any MicroSD card from the Storage menu and then flash the full restore Odin one click. Good as new and no lingering stuff.

Do not do this if your phone is flashed to a different carrier. It will mess up your nvram. You will possibly lose service. If on a touchwiz rom on sprints network you can also use the code ##786# I believe. It formats everything. I would take out tour external SD card as precaution.
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patrao_n said:
If on a touchwiz rom you can also use the code ##786# I believe. It formats everything. I would take out tour external SD card as precaution.
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But if I remember correctly this also wipes out the activation data in NVRAM... not a big deal if you're on Sprint, BIG deal if you've flashed the phone over to another carrier or MVNO.
As a result I don't usually recommend unless necessary.

garwynn said:
If you really want to clean everything out, format the User storage and any MicroSD card from the Storage menu and then flash the full restore Odin one click. Good as new and no lingering stuff.
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From there I would have to root and reflash my recovery/ROM right?
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garwynn said:
But if I remember correctly this also wipes out the activation data in NVRAM... not a big deal if you're on Sprint, BIG deal if you've flashed the phone over to another carrier or MVNO.
As a result I don't usually recommend unless necessary.
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Thanks for telling me I didn't know. I will update my post so it doesn't mess up anyone's stuff.
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nubsors said:
Odin is the software used to flash roms on your phone. Its not actually on your phone if I understand it correctly.
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Not on my phone as in on the external SD or... ?
Is there an in depth article/thread that I can read on Odin and how it works?
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Finalnull said:
From there I would have to root and reflash my recovery/ROM right?
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You can get FI03 rooted. After the one click, boot back into download mode and flash Agat's FI03 + Recovery repack by Odin. Then use Triangle Away to make the yellow triangle disappear and you're all set!
Odin is pretty straight forward. You only use the PDA option on these devices, no matter what you're flashing. One clicks have the Odin software already in there so all you need to do is install USB drivers, go to Odin mode and click Start. The regular Odin package you specify the package in PDA, go to Odin Mode and click Start. Easy peasy... but PM if you have any ??s
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Finalnull said:
Not on my phone as in on the external SD or... ?
Is there an in depth article/thread that I can read on Odin and how it works?
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Odin is a proprietary Windows application made by Samsung that connects and safely updates software on a phone such as ours. If you've ever updated by Kies it uses the same method. (This is what I know of it, please correct if I'm wrong).
There's also an Odin Mode which resides on the phone... but whether or not it's on one of the eMMC partitions I'm honestly not sure. Hopefully someone can confirm that one way or the other.

garwynn said:
You can get FI03 rooted. After the one click, boot back into download mode and flash Agat's FI03 + Recovery repack by Odin. Then use Triangle Away to make the yellow triangle disappear and you're all set!
Odin is pretty straight forward. You only use the PDA option on these devices, no matter what you're flashing. One clicks have the Odin software already in there so all you need to do is install USB drivers, go to Odin mode and click Start. The regular Odin package you specify the package in PDA, go to Odin Mode and click Start. Easy peasy... but PM if you have any ??s
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Odin is a proprietary Windows application made by Samsung that connects and safely updates software on a phone such as ours. If you've ever updated by Kies it uses the same method. (This is what I know of it, please correct if I'm wrong).
There's also an Odin Mode which resides on the phone... but whether or not it's on one of the eMMC partitions I'm honestly not sure. Hopefully someone can confirm that one way or the other.
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Ahh that's what I was looking for. Trying to figure out if Odin is a closed bios or if I could do something to screw it up. LoL
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Odin is download mode, part of the firmware related to the bootloader as long as your bootloader is intact download mode will be intact, its entirely seperate from the rom, kernel/recovery, and data partitions. If you want to wipe both or one SD card(internal or external) you can format them from recovery.
ETA: download mode will work even without a rom or kernel on the device, its entirely self-contained in its own partition along side the bootloader and unless you manage to delete the bootloader partition, which will hardbrick your phone, download mode will work. If you've ever had an HTC device download mode is similar to the part of hboot that allows you to run an RUU to restore your device. Kies, Odin and heimdall use download mode as a way to restore/update the rom,kernel/recovery, data, bootloader(if there's an updated version) and modem partitions
We are legion, for we are many.
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garwynn said:
You can get FI03 rooted. After the one click, boot back into download mode and flash Agat's FI03 + Recovery repack by Odin. Then use Triangle Away to make the yellow triangle disappear and you're all set!
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I flashed FI03 and Agat's repack, but don't see a yellow triangle. Does that show up when I boot?

-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
Odin is download mode, part of the firmware related to the bootloader as long as your bootloader is intact download mode will be intact, its entirely seperate from the rom, kernel/recovery, and data partitions. If you want to wipe both or one SD card(internal or external) you can format them from recovery.
ETA: download mode will work even without a rom or kernel on the device, its entirely self-contained in its own partition along side the bootloader and unless you manage to delete the bootloader partition, which will hardbrick your phone, download mode will work. If you've ever had an HTC device download mode is similar to the part of hboot that allows you to run an RUU to restore your device. Kies, Odin and heimdall use download mode as a way to restore/update the rom,kernel/recovery, data, bootloader(if there's an updated version) and modem partitions
We are legion, for we are many.
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Ahhhh OK. So Odin does not have it's own chip to reside in, it shares the memory space through partitions with everything else.
Awesome answer, thank you very much!
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Stock Samsung recovery for AT&T galaxy s3 i747

Stock Samsung recovery pulled straight from stock firmware and packaged as a Odin flashable tar file. I decided to do this for those who may want or need to flash the stock recovery. I have tested this and worked fine on my phone. I am not sure if it will work with any other carrier besides AT&T so if you try it do so at your own risk and if it works report it and I will add any other confirmed carriers that it works for. I am not responsible if you brick, melt or blow up your phone so don't cry to me lol...
Below is the link to download the tar file. If anyone wants to make a cwm flashable zip feel free to and post a link to where it can be downloaded....
Edit....
It has been confirmed that this will work on Bell devices also...
http://db.tt/AvISQtPy
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garydv2002 said:
Stock Samsung recovery pulled straight from stock firmware and packaged as a Odin flashable tar file. I decided to do this for those who may want or need to flash the stock recovery. I have tested this and worked fine on my phone. I am not sure if it will work with any other carrier besides AT&T so if you try it do so at your own risk and if it works report it and I will add any other confirmed carriers that it works for. I am not responsible if you brick, melt or blow up your phone so don't cry to me lol...
Below is the link to download the tar file. If anyone wants to make a cwm flashable zip feel free to and post a link to where it can be downloaded....
http://db.tt/AvISQtPy
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sorry to ask such a nooby question but is this the stock recovery as in the ROM or as in a recovery like cwm or twrp?

eddied042092 said:
sorry to ask such a nooby question but is this the stock recovery as in the ROM or as in a recovery like cwm or twrp?
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This is pure stock. Not custom (new vocab: custom is what you call cwm and twrp, stock is, well, stock ;P)
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rani9990 said:
This is pure stock. Not custom (new vocab: custom is what you call cwm and twrp, stock is, well, stock ;P)
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Thanks lol I knew that already its just I just barely upgraded to thw gs3 from an htc vivid and im not sure if this had an hboot menu like that one did you know? Im just a little new to the whole samsung thing my bad
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eddied042092 said:
Thanks lol I knew that already its just I just barely upgraded to thw gs3 from an htc vivid and im not sure if this had an hboot menu like that one did you know? Im just a little new to the whole samsung thing my bad
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Samsung doesn't have hboot. Only recovery and download (Odin) modes.
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lessthanzach said:
Samsung doesn't have hboot. Only recovery and download (Odin) modes.
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Can you explain to me what the odin mode is for?
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eddied042092 said:
Can you explain to me what the odin mode is for?
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Odin mode or download mode is for flashing a new firmware. I mainly posted this stock recovery for the ones using a custom recovery like cwm or twrp and just wanted to flash the stock recovery back so they could update their phones via a OTA update. If you are running a recovery like cwm or twrp and your phone tells you that you have a ota firmware update available it will not let you install it with a custom recovery. To update via a OTA update you must have the stock Samsung recovery. So now anyone using cwm or twrp can just flash this stock recovery download everoot from the play store for free then run ever root update their phone run ever root again and never even lose root privaledge on their phone....
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Has anyone tried it on a canadian i747m yet ?
I'm not willing to be the first one to try it out as I can't afford to brick it due to software incompatibility. :/

Thanks for posting this Gary! And good to see ya here, we gotta get the remaining skyrocket crew to join the dark side lol
Does anyone know if stock recovery is required to perform official OTA updates with the S3 on AT&T? I remember needing stock recovery for updates to the S2 Skyrocket, but I'm not sure if anything's changed with the S3 (and I did see a Rogers user say he was able to get the jb OTA while using TWRP for recovery, so maybe it isn't necessary?).
EDIT: Also wanted to mention, in case anyone is wondering, this .tar does work with Mobile Odin Pro. Just used it successfully.

From what I've heard yes you do need the stock recovery to ota update on the s3. Again I hadn't tried it but that's what I hear anyway.
Oh and its good to be here. I still have my rocket. Its used for highly experimental testing and flashing lol.. I've soft bricked it three times since I've had my s3 in less than a month lol. I just hope my next experiment whatever that may be isn't my last lol...
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garydv2002 said:
Stock Samsung recovery pulled straight from stock firmware and packaged as a Odin flashable tar file. I decided to do this for those who may want or need to flash the stock recovery. I have tested this and worked fine on my phone. I am not sure if it will work with any other carrier besides AT&T so if you try it do so at your own risk and if it works report it and I will add any other confirmed carriers that it works for. I am not responsible if you brick, melt or blow up your phone so don't cry to me lol...
Below is the link to download the tar file. If anyone wants to make a cwm flashable zip feel free to and post a link to where it can be downloaded....
http://db.tt/AvISQtPy
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You didn't mention it, or I missed it, but this is LH9 stock, yes?

eduardo_b said:
You didn't mention it, or I missed it, but this is LH9 stock, yes?
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As far as I know the stock 3e recovery has not changed, it's the same for any build number for the S3. The stock recovery is on a partition separate from the rom so it shouldn't matter which build you're on.
(99% sure on this but someone please correct me if I'm wrong)

skrambled said:
As far as I know the stock 3e recovery has not changed, it's the same for any build number for the S3. The stock recovery is on a partition separate from the rom so it shouldn't matter which build you're on.
(99% sure on this but someone please correct me if I'm wrong)
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Stock 3e recovery? Not familiar with this, so research seems in order. Thanks.

Stock 3e recovery == Stock Samsung recovery
However, I'm still curious to know if the stock recovery is indeed the same for any build number / variant of the North American GS3...

Anyone know if this triggers the counter?
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It did not trigger my flash counter....
And I also agree with skrambled I think the stock recovery is for all builds of the S3
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Worked perfect on my att gs3 running jelly bean. Thanks for posting. I would also be curious if this works on the other variants as well.
No tripping of the flash counter either.
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I don't use ODIN enough to remember. Which button do i pick to flash the "stock recovery.tar"? (bootloader, PDA, PHONE, CSC)
thanks

eggwardo said:
I don't use ODIN enough to remember. Which button do i pick to flash the "stock recovery.tar"? (bootloader, PDA, PHONE, CSC)
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Pda.... make sure re-partition IS NOT checked....
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garydv2002 said:
Stock Samsung recovery pulled straight from stock firmware and packaged as a Odin flashable tar file. I decided to do this for those who may want or need to flash the stock recovery. I have tested this and worked fine on my phone. I am not sure if it will work with any other carrier besides AT&T so if you try it do so at your own risk and if it works report it and I will add any other confirmed carriers that it works for. I am not responsible if you brick, melt or blow up your phone so don't cry to me lol...
Below is the link to download the tar file. If anyone wants to make a cwm flashable zip feel free to and post a link to where it can be downloaded....
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It has been confirmed that this will work on Bell devices also...
http://db.tt/AvISQtPy
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this stock recovery, will it "upgrade" my phone to 4.3? as in make all the adjustments already made go back to new? asking because i accidentally upgraded what i think was a Knox security thing that crashed my SuperSU and now i cant even start it.

[Q] Latest CWM

I was wondering, does the latest CWM 6.0.4.3 have a tar.md5 version that I can use to flash the recovery via ODIN? I've digged through a few threads all over the place and tried Google searches but nothing comes up, either it's not available (only through ROM Manager) or I missed it somewhere.

Doc holiday 77 has them in his sig
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Yup. Should all be there, but if you ever see where I've missed one or haven't got a new update just let me know and I'll do so right away.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Yup. Should all be there, but if you ever see where I've missed one or haven't got a new update just let me know and I'll do so right away.
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Sweet thanks guys. I'll have to bookmark your profile.

Jay Rock said:
I was wondering, does the latest CWM 6.0.4.3 have a tar.md5 version that I can use to flash the recovery via ODIN? I've digged through a few threads all over the place and tried Google searches but nothing comes up, either it's not available (only through ROM Manager) or I missed it somewhere.
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Your othe option would be to use mobile odin from the play store, rename the .img to recovery.img and place in root of internal storage. then choose and flash with mobile odin.

Hollow Ronin said:
Your othe option would be to use mobile odin from the play store, rename the .img to recovery.img and place in root of internal storage. then choose and flash with mobile odin.
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That's true, but when wanting to switch from a stock non rooted rom to a custom rom, it makes it a lot easier and faster if I can simply get CWM and flash a rom instead of having to root the stock rom and then having to go through that process.

Jay Rock said:
That's true, but when wanting to switch from a stock non rooted rom to a custom rom, it makes it a lot easier and faster if I can simply get CWM and flash a rom instead of having to root the stock rom and then having to go through that process.
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Good point. The last few times i have gone from stock to custom, i have used odin to flash a rooted stock. then I move forward from there since cwm .tars have been hard to find. I should have read your post more closely.