Stock recovery won't let you flash anything much... so perhaps his only option is Odin. When he has a cable.

On a side-note, how can someone not have a USB cable of any kind kicking around??

Re: [Q] [Help] build.prop editing caused bootloop, no usb cable, stock recovery

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Originally Posted by LenAsh

Stock recovery won't let you flash anything much... so perhaps his only option is Odin. When he has a cable.

On a side-note, how can someone not have a USB cable of any kind kicking around??

Just edited my post

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@LenAsh, @slaphead20, @ficti0n851

Hehe, yeah, I'm stuffed without a cable I lost it recently and I'm the only one with a recent phone. All my family members' phones use different cables.

Anyway, I managed to borrow a friend's cable and am currently downloading drivers for the S3. Once that's done I will use ADB to set the file permission and try rebooting my phone, failing which I will restore the backup build.prop, set permissions and reboot the phone. Failing which... well, maybe I'll reflash the stock firmware (I managed to find out the exact build details btw! )

I'll keep you posted, thanks for taking the time guys

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EDIT:

ADB was a success! I got in and changed the permission to 644 and rebooted, done! Funny thing was that /system/build.prop file was not even there, there was only /system/build.prop.bak. I was not able to find my original backup on the sd card, but I copied the .bak file (probably generated by ES FE) and set its permissions and that worked. And now I have also have the software keys!

Thanks for your comments guys. This was fun!

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EDIT 2:

For anybody else who has the same problem, I did it using the commands in these great ADB guides:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1660596

and

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=879701

Also, how do I edit the title of the topic? Want to add a [Solved] tag.