Did a Google and forum search and couldn't find anything concrete. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Did a Google and forum search and couldn't find anything concrete. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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So no CWM? Is anyone working on it? What about this "Safestrap"?
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Lol ok. Well at least we have root.
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I'm still keeping my ears open for an unlocked bootloder. Root is all well and good, but I'm getting jittery about flashing a different rom. Any news about progress on this?
The bootloader will never be unlocked. The original bootloader on the Verizon s3 wasn't even "unlocked." It was a completely different boot image that was leaked. AFAIK, no bootloader has ever been unlocked through hard coding. There are simply loopholes & workarounds. Kexec and Safestrap are two examples of workarounds. They are pretty much just as good as the real thing so there is still hope for those crack-flashers taken off guard by the new update.
Still, I can't sympathize with people who start threads like these: There have been countless "I took the 4.3 update. How do I flash ROMs?" posts. If you were really into flashing, you would never be in this situation.
It's the cardinal rule. NEVER ACCEPT OTAs!!!!!!
You didn't have to word it in that way. You sounded as if you were talking to a child, and then told me, in not so many words "Boo hoo, cry about it". This thread is old and I've learned quit a bit since then so next time you necro post, how about not being such a ****?
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Still, I can't sympathize with people who start threads like these
Don't do it!!!I unlocked the boot loader with ez unlock app and booted into recovery and hard bricked my sch i535. Just got it back got fixed with jtag. Gabbyanne on eBay is a life saver... Don't do it to yourself. Trust me
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Out of curiosity did jtag get you back to 4.1.2? I don't think anyone has reported one way or the other. From what I understand it should be impossible even for jtag but it's always good to verify.
It is impossible, you can't jtag the bootloader over the 4.3 baseband. It's more complicated after the update because the hardware keys are different. Changing the bootloader is only changing the software.
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I know just waned to make sure. You can never be sure until it is tried. For example invisiblek said that the ml1 firmware will brick the phone if you upgrade from a phone with the insecure bootloader because that's what happened to the s4 that took a 4.3 upgrade. Well I know from experience that wasn't true. Theory is just that until it has been tested who knows what samsung might have forgotten to do that might allow jtag to do that. Plus I have yet to hear if anyone has tried. Not saying it hasn't been done I just haven't seen anyone say more than got it back and it works.
I get what you're saying, if it wasn't hardware coded then it could theoretically work.
The same thing could be accomplished through Odin though by flashing boot chains, ez unlock also proves it's hardware signed. Jtag would do the same thing ez unlock does, just on a more holistic level.
Best bet would be to Jtag a 4.3 developer edition bootloader, but I don't think it exists, because making one widely available for developer edition phones would be handing us an unlocked bootloader. They'd have to be made on a per phone basis with specific keys for each device. I highly doubt it exists, but if it did it might work if we could figure out how it's getting around the bootloader, like what step it's bypassing.
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Truth but I had a idea a couple months ago but I don't have the balls to try it. With these qualcomm gs3 phones there is a emergency boot from sd card for the aboot. If you were hard bricked it might be possible to boot to the insecure bootloader that way. You could never do the flash back trick with terminal emulate so it wouldn't be a true fix but who cares unless you need your sd card (I do but I have learned to love 4.3).
Really?
Ya, if you could do that you could simply run straight from the aboot file without the secure checks. That might actually work, but you'd have to get the insecure aboot loaded without it locking the phone, you'd have to try it immediately after loading the aboot image before a reboot.
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I'm still keeping my ears open for an unlocked bootloder. Root is all well and good, but I'm getting jittery about flashing a different rom. Any news about progress on this?
The bootloader will never be unlocked. The original bootloader on the Verizon s3 wasn't even "unlocked." It was a completely different boot image that was leaked. AFAIK, no bootloader has ever been unlocked through hard coding. There are simply loopholes & workarounds. Kexec and Safestrap are two examples of workarounds. They are pretty much just as good as the real thing so there is still hope for those crack-flashers taken off guard by the new update.
Still, I can't sympathize with people who start threads like these: There have been countless "I took the 4.3 update. How do I flash ROMs?" posts. If you were really into flashing, you would never be in this situation.
It's the cardinal rule. NEVER ACCEPT OTAs!!!!!!
Still, I can't sympathize with people who start threads like these
You didn't have to word it in that way. You sounded as if you were talking to a child, and then told me, in not so many words "Boo hoo, cry about it". This thread is old and I've learned quit a bit since then so next time you necro post, how about not being such a ****?
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