Flashing Firmware with Odin, Samsung Galaxy S3

1. Just download the firmware version you want from the second or third posts and extract the .tar or .tar.md5 file in the archive and save it somewhere

2. Reboot your phone to download mode.

To get download mode shut down the device. After it shuts off completely simultaneously press the Down volume key+ Home button + press the power button .



You should see a warning asking you to press volume up if you want to continue or volume down to cancel, press volume up. You are now in download mode!

3. Start Odin




4. If your ROM is a single .tar.md5 package click on the PDA button and browse to the .tar or .tar.md5 file that you extracted in step 1 and select it. This should like like the image below




If the package has more than one .tar archive then they will be labelled with PDA/Code, Phone/Modem and CSC. Just put them in the corresponding section of Odin like below




5. DO NOT PUT .PIT FILE AND DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT TICK REPARTITION.



Regardless of firmware version it's still the same methodology


6. Connect the USB cable and wait for any required drivers to install and the ID:COM section to turn blue like below




7. Click start to flash. If Odin hangs at setting up connection just unplug the USB cable and re-attach it, Odin should now resume

8. Do not disconnect the cable or turn off the device once the flash has started, it will reboot when it finishes.



If the firmware is from this thread it will not wipe your phone if you flash as recommended UNLESS I state that the firmware is a "WIPE" version.

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Quote: Quick Root 1. Make sure you have the Android SDK installed on your PC as you'll need adb to accomplish this. Get it from here: Android SDK 2. Download ChainFire's root install zip package and extract it's contents. Get it from here: Download 3. Download the insecure kernel that you need from here and extract it from the archive 4. Start Odin 3 5. Click on PDA in Odin 3 and browse to the insecure kernel that you've extracted above in step 3. Your Odin should look exactly like this: 6. Turn your device off and then place it into download mode (See guide above for instructions) 7. Connect microUSB cable to your device and wait for the ID:COM section of Odin to turn blue. It should look like this: 8. Go ahead and click on Start and wait for Odin to complete flashing the kernel. The device will reboot automatically. 9. Now go into settings -->Developer Options of your device and ensure that USB Debugging is ticked. If it isn't then unplug your MicroUSB cable and tick it then plug the MicroUSB cable back in. 10. Open your file browser and browse to the directory to which you've installed the Android SDK. Browse to the Platform tool directory 11. Press SHIFT key on your keyboard and right click anywhere in that directory and click on "Open command window here": 12. Now type: adb start-server and press enter: 13. Now that you've started the adb server close the command window and browse to the directory to which you've extracted ChainFire's root install zip 14. Just double click install.bat Or holding Shift Key + right click on mouse then click on "Open command window here" and type "install.bat", without the quotation marks, and press enter 15. Your phone should reboot itself once the script has completed. 16. Your phone is now rooted! Booom!!! 17. Install BusyBox from the Play Store 18. This is optional but if you want to you can flash back the stock kernel now. 19. Excuse me whilst I reboot my PC back to OpenSUSE. Windows!!

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Video Guides go here when ready

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Samsung Letter Code

CE---> Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands

DC---> Thailand

DD---> India

DX---> Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam

DZ---> Malaysia, Singapore

JA---> South Africa

JC---> Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia

JP---> Arabic, Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria

JV---> Tunisia, Turkey

UG---> North America

UH---> Latin America, The Caribbean

XE---> Bulgaria, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine

XX---> Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, United Kingdom

XW---> Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Nordic, Spain, United Kingdom

ZC---> China, Hong Kong

ZH---> Hong Kong

ZS---> China, Hong Kong

ZT---> Taiwan

How To: Unlock (ROOT) Samsung Galaxy S3 with Voodoo SIM Unlock for i9300 GS3

                  

                   Decodare/deblocare gratuita  Samsung Galaxy s3 i9300

                    Working Voodoo SIM Unlock for i9300 GS3

 

 

  The app is an implementation of XDA Forum Member txlibre‘s procedure for SIM-unlocking the SGS3, which itself comes from Forum Member dagentooboy‘s thread on how to unlock all SGS models via nvdata.bin.
  Voodoo Galaxy III Sim Unlock is written entirely in Java, which means there is no busybox requirement for this application.
 The application requires root in order to modify the /efs/nv_data.bin, and sets the simlock bit from a 1 to a zero.
  At this point, a reboot would be required.
  However using strictly Java, the application parses the /proc folder in order to locate the rild process which triggers the nv_data parsing again.
 This fails verifying the md5, which generates a log file, which contains the newly expected MD5 sum for the nv_data.
  The system-generated MD5 is inserted in place of the original MD5.  It’s an interesting technique, and all this is done with just one click!

                                           Now for the actual process:

1.Root process:

-First download and unzip the following two files:

  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498257/Odin3-v1.85.zip

 https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498257/CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4%281%29.zip

-Open the Odin .exe file.

-Turn your phone off.

-Hold volume down, home and power buttons and it will boot into download mode.

-Plug phone into computer.

-Press "PDA" in Odin and choose the CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4.tar file you extracted earlier.

-Make sure the "Repartition" box is UNTICKED.

-Press "Start" and wait for the process to complete. When it's done it'll reboot.


 

2.Unlock process:

-On your phone go to Settings > Applications, and make sure "Unknown Sources" is ticked.

-Instal  VoodooGalaxySIIISimUnlock.apk

-Let the app install.

-Now launch the app and choose "Unlock". Your phone will now unlock itself. Reboot and your phone is unlocked!


 Download:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498257/VoodooGalaxySIIISimUnlock.apk

 You may need to repeat this procedure if you update your phone's software.
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If the phone asks for an unlock code after reboot, download the attachment (SIM fix)

Transfer the zip file to your phone (don't unzip it).

Switch off your phone.

Hold down the Home button, Volume Up button and Power button.

Use the volume keys to navigate to Install Zip from SD card and use the Home button to select that option.

Navigate to where you downloaded the zip file earlier

Confirm that you want to install it.

Once it's installed, navigate to Reboot device and your phone should now be unlocked.

Sim fix for Voodoo SIM Unlock s3:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9498257/SIM_Fix_v.0.1.zip

ENJOY!