I haz teh R00tz! - I got root on my Verizon S3

[Debian Dog]

Update: If I were you I would use this image [[ROM] PROPER Remake of Rooted Stock Image [Verizon] over the one below. The one below has some Sprint code and other oddities that will make your default keyboard not work like stock and change a few things I can't remember right now. This was a good first swipe at root but lets move on.

I just followed the instructions located here but basically:

• Download the rooted system image file
• Download the recovery image in case of the worst
• Download Odin
• Download the Kies files from Samsung (Drivers for the device are included)

Note: I did have to do a battery pull before it would allow me to click start. Not sure why just FYI. I did NOT lose any of my settings, apps, etc...

[dennyjones]

Amazing!

[greevedogg]

So Debian Dog, even though us VZW GS3 owners are now able to obtain root thru the method you used from above, are our phones still BRICK-ABLE?

Just curious...

[furbearingmammal]

So Debian Dog, even though us VZW GS3 owners are now able to obtain root thru the method you used from above, are our phones still BRICK-ABLE?

Just curious...

Always. Only the Droid 1 was unbrickable and even that had a few exceptions.

[da2zoe]

Yes....that's always a risk, but bricking these phones into unrecoverable oblivion is not the norm. Not impossible but rare.

~tapa tappin ~

[NITRO2]

Could use some help, i used Odin3 and was successful, phone booted up and everything. Now when i tried to use adb to get CWM, i was getting a no device error. So i figured maybe i had to do it in Odin mode, well now i can't boot into Odin mode. Any idea where i went wrong?

[furbearingmammal]

Pull the battery, wait 30 seconds, and then try again?

[Debian Dog]

ADB is not in Odin mode. At least not on the other devices I have .

Sent from my SCH-I535

[NITRO2]

ADB is not in Odin mode. At least not on the other devices I have .

Sent from my SCH-I535

See that's what i figured, but when i tried adb with the phone on and plugged in, i got the no device found error. Did you use adb to get CWM or did you stop right after you got root?

[Debian Dog]

See that's what i figured, but when i tried adb with the phone on and plugged in, i got the no device found error. Did you use adb to get CWM or did you stop right after you got root?

No, I did not bother with it for now being I have nothing to load with CWM. I was happy to debloat and get rid of all those damned ads with AdFree.

Did not realize how many apps, games, and web pages HAD ads