I'm a little new to Samsung rooting, since I'm coming from a Rezound. My only experience was with a Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab. That was a PAIN to root, and took me half a day to do.

Antways, obtaining root by this method, do you lose whatever data you had currently on your SGSIII from apps, to SMS? If so, how do you backup what you have? I know a work around to back up my SMS with Go SMS, just by turning airplane mode on, and it backs up to your SD card instead of the cloud.

Also, will OTA Root Keeper keep us good for the next OTA?

Just a thought but what about boot manager? Couldn't you just put the rom in one of those slots and then flash the kernel onto that slot as well?

Originally Posted by themusicmonkey

I'm a little new to Samsung rooting, since I'm coming from a Rezound. My only experience was with a Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab. That was a PAIN to root, and took me half a day to do.

Antways, obtaining root by this method, do you lose whatever data you had currently on your SGSIII from apps, to SMS? If so, how do you backup what you have? I know a work around to back up my SMS with Go SMS, just by turning airplane mode on, and it backs up to your SD card instead of the cloud.

Also, will OTA Root Keeper keep us good for the next OTA?

No you don't lose anything.

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Originally Posted by themusicmonkey

I'm a little new to Samsung rooting, since I'm coming from a Rezound. My only experience was with a Verizon Samsung Galaxy Tab. That was a PAIN to root, and took me half a day to do.

Antways, obtaining root by this method, do you lose whatever data you had currently on your SGSIII from apps, to SMS? If so, how do you backup what you have? I know a work around to back up my SMS with Go SMS, just by turning airplane mode on, and it backs up to your SD card instead of the cloud.

Also, will OTA Root Keeper keep us good for the next OTA?

wont lose anything, but having said that, I thought the same and ended having to flash back to stock.

what i suspected being the issue was disabling system apps with ICS as the issue.


you should still backup your stuff just in case, like SMS and launcher settings etc

Originally Posted by Neverendingxsin

Just a thought but what about boot manager? Couldn't you just put the rom in one of those slots and then flash the kernel onto that slot as well?

It would be very interesting to know if this will work. If I already had mine I would try it but mine still says shipping on the 10th.

So what I got from this thread and others, so we are f$#ked with this phone. I'm not happy with Verizon and can only wish for the best of the dev we have... Thank you for all you have done so far...

Originally Posted by NAU420

So what I got from this thread and others, so we are f$#ked with this phone. I'm not happy with Verizon and can only wish for the best of the dev we have... Thank you for all you have done so far...

Its not ****ed. All of you are so impatient. The damn phone hasn't come out yet......

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Since we want custom recovery and custom kernel, why not just code them in a way that they would share the same partition? As far as I know, SGS2 has both recovery and kernel residing on the same partition...

Originally Posted by Neverendingxsin

Just a thought but what about boot manager? Couldn't you just put the rom in one of those slots and then flash the kernel onto that slot as well?

Someone should this. I don't know enough to know if this would work.

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Originally Posted by jackdubl

Someone should this. I don't know enough to know if this would work.

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If i had my phone i would gladly try it, but i know when i use it on my thunderbolt it boots the rom from the sd card not the phone. For example i have Thundershed 1.5 on my phone (gingerbread based rom) and then a ics beta rom on my sd card and can boot into the ics rom and flash gappz, and kernels without having an issue at all.