[ROOT] Wont Trip Flash Counter (Bell Canada I747M)

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Hey Everyone!

This is my first time doing an official ROM repact by injecting Root into the ROM itself so as to not trip the flash counter!

This is for Bell's Canadian S3 SGH-I747M firmware: I747MVLALE8
I know this has recently already been done by MrRobinson for the Canadian carriers but I have done mine slightly differently.

Most of you im sure know of Chainfire and his amazing work, well I love the work he does and it is my opinon that his Root app SuperSU is better then the Superuser one, this may be very minor or non exisist to some people and it all really boils down to Personal perference but as such I perfer SuperSU and love it and want to support his work!

I have tested this myself on my own S3 works great, counter does not increase, and flash time only took me 6 minutes! (some people were complaining about the other root injected roms taking 10 minutes and upwords to 20 to complete)

IMPORTANT NOTE:
This rom has been injected with Chainfires CF root but it is only his SuperSU root app and does not contain any custom CWM recovery or Manager app. Chainfire custom builds his CWM manager app specific to certain devices and is not compatible with the North American varients.

To get the North American LTE version of CWM Recovery please see team epics website at:
http://www.epiccm.org/2012/06/cwm-re...-variants.html

To install this recovery without tripping the counter you will need to manually copy it over to the memory card block which contains the recovery section of your phone. Once downloaded extract the recovery.img file out of the tar and place it into your sdcard.

Either through ADB shell or using a terminal emulator app on the phone run the following commands:

su

dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18

Remember to do "su" first to grand root access to the ADB shell or terminal emulator otherwise you will not be given the permissions to do the recovery copy on the 2nd command as mentioned above.

1 final note, like all the other root injected roms for the S3, these root methods currently do have not busybox built into them so it is highly recommended for you to download and install the busybox app off the play store [the one by Stephen (Stericson)] to get even more functionality for your rooted device.

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My apologies in advance for uploading to filefactory as they are known to be slow sometimes on downloads. If anyone is able to host it for faster speeds that would be awesome.

EDIT:
For some reason the cache file doesn't properly install and so you are left with a blank CSC. Currently trying to figure out why this is happening as I havn't done anything to the CSC file to begin with. In the mean time I have taken down the link. I recommend getting the one made by MrRobinson for flashing Bells Rom

View the sticky post for his here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1739426

There is already a thread for this under stickies, but thanks for your contribution anyways.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda premium

Originally Posted by jthrasher47

There is already a thread for this under stickies, but thanks for your contribution anyways.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using xda premium

I am aware of this, I actually made a point of saying so in my post but I guess you skimmed it and didn't see that part?.

I also explain that mine is a bit different and why.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but SuperSu and Superuser and interchangable via. the Play Store. No need to redo the whole rooting process just to change the app.

Originally Posted by dbzgod

It took me longer because I had to do it without a Linux box, funny enough I manage to do it using my Rooted S2 phone lol.

Am I understanding correctly that this method doesn't use odin, and you somehow used another android phone to do it?

Originally Posted by danny6514

Correct me if I'm wrong, but SuperSu and Superuser and interchangable via. the Play Store. No need to redo the whole rooting process just to change the app.

Yeah they can be changed out, but I released this anyways because I had started work on it right away when the firmware was released and even though MrRobinson had put out root injected roms before me I still wanted to complete what I started and not leave it half done.

I would of had this out at about the same time if not before the others but because of time contraints on my part as well as running into a few problems via doing the whole repack and inject a unique way on my rooted S2 Android phone. Instead of a Linux box I figured out how to do almost all of the repacking steps on an Android phone and then I was delayed trying to figure out 1 important step that required a full Linux box, but discovered an alternate means to do so on Windows.

At any rate I just wanted to post my work (even though late coming) and offer people this alternate root injection Rom.

Originally Posted by qwer777

Am I understanding correctly that this method doesn't use odin, and you somehow used another android phone to do it?

No you still need to use Odin to flash the firmware. I see your misunderstanding though, I was just trying to explain in my post that since I dont have a Linux box I had to do the repact and inject process over ADB shell via my Rooted Galaxy S II phone for a Linux eviroment.

Originally Posted by dbzgod

No you still need to use Odin to flash the firmware. I see your misunderstanding though, I was just trying to explain in my post that since I dont have a Linux box I had to do the repact and inject process over ADB shell via my Rooted Galaxy S II phone for a Linux eviroment.

Damn! I was really excited! Oh well. I'll need to find me a windows pc.