Originally Posted by drothenberger

If you use Odin you'll trip the flash counter. Use 7zip (or maybe WinRAR) to extract the recovery.img from the tar file. 7zip worked for me directly on the .tar.md5 file. It gave a pop-up about extra stuff at the end of the tar file (the MD5), but you can safely ignore that.

I was confused about this also. I read earlier in this thread that you need to remove the md5 file name at the end of the tar and then extract the img from the tar and push that with adb.

Originally Posted by #1RAGE

Is anyone working on a rooted SaskTel image? Would there be any problems using the Telus or Bell images on my SaskTel SGS3?

Sasktel uses Bell's firmwares since they have some kind of deal setup with them so sasktels CSC is always included in with the bell firmwares. Flash the bell rom and you will maintain your Sasktel csc and should be fine. Worse case scenario it doesn't work properly with the csc and you just flash sasktels firmware back over.

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Originally Posted by alacrify

Might be a silly question, but you did reboot, right? APN probably won't kick in until at least one reboot after...

Yeah i did that a few times, i found away around it, made a new apn with just "phone" in the apn line and "default,internet" in the apn type and it kicked right on after i selected it with green dot. But I did tons of reboots and followed the steps with no problems when doing the root/flash.

I've had a long time hiatus from Android and would like some help. Last time I rooted I was on VZW DINC, and it was done with a GUI with the phone connected. Can anyone create a script/program to do the same for this process or must it be run through Odin?

Are there any good threads on how to properly go through the third step of the process to load CWM?

Any/all help is appreciated. Thank you XDA, I'm glad to be back!

Originally Posted by jevoe

Can anyone create a script/program to do the same for this process or must it be run through Odin?

This must be through odin.

Originally Posted by jevoe

Are there any good threads on how to properly go through the third step of the process to load CWM?

Any/all help is appreciated. Thank you XDA, I'm glad to be back!

I thought this was a good thread...

if adb is your stumbling block then just download android terminal emulator to your phone and run the commands there after copying the recovery.img to your internal /sdcard.

Originally Posted by mrRobinson

This must be through odin.


I thought this was a good thread...

if adb is your stumbling block then just download android terminal emulator to your phone and run the commands there after copying the recovery.img to your internal /sdcard.

This is a great thread :) - I meant a refresher thread I can reference for proper use of the ADB command line so I don't break anything when trying to apply CWM. Thank you for the heads up on the terminal emulator, that is perfect and the route I'll take. This is why I love Android, infinitely more resourceful than anything I've come across on iOS

I love my sgsIII but no sense deluding yourself about iOS. In a lot of ways it is more friendly for hacking stuff than Android has ever been. You don't need busybox in iOS to run commands, the real commands are all there. You dont need Dropbear ssh from anywhere, full OpenSSH suite is compiled for it. The terminal in android feels much more like being on a phone where as if you're in the terminal on iOS you can never even tell it is a phone, it feels like a full computer. If you want to use your phone to administer other linux computers, you can run ssh-keygen, get keys, put them in the servers and log in passwordless all from your phone. The phone runs bash by default, and uses apt (best packaging system ever) for its packages.


There are many other problems of course, you wont be flashing any custom roms or anything, but no sense not knowing how things are.

That being said I won't be switching to iOS anytime soon.

Originally Posted by alacrify

Might be a silly question, but you did reboot, right? APN probably won't kick in until at least one reboot after...

Originally Posted by drothenberger

If you use Odin you'll trip the flash counter. Use 7zip (or maybe WinRAR) to extract the recovery.img from the tar file. 7zip worked for me directly on the .tar.md5 file. It gave a pop-up about extra stuff at the end of the tar file (the MD5), but you can safely ignore that.

ok thanks, winrar found nothing! I will try that

I rooted and removed all bloat.. so far, so great

Originally Posted by Mr.Kakarot

ok thanks, winrar found nothing! I will try that

I rooted and removed all bloat.. so far, so great

You have to remove the MD5 extension. so it says WM-Recovery-LTE-SGS3-v5.tar then unzip to get the image file.

This is getting repetitive.

Originally Posted by mpazevedo

You have to remove the MD5 extension. so it says WM-Recovery-LTE-SGS3-v5.tar then unzip to get the image file.

This is getting repetitive.

Did avid get the phone or not? We need one of his FAQs