Root [Virgin Mobile] MidnightRom:GS3 JB 1.0.4 9/1/2013 Supercharged stock

[xthedakmanx]

I present... MidnightRom GS3! After saving up forever, and taking an extremely long time working on the files for this phone, it's finally here!

MidnightRom: GS3 1.0.4 <---- Download here!


Playstation Mobile <-- Extra​

Warning: Do not flash any third party kernels on this phone at this time. ALL third party kernels (ANY from xda for example) will BRICK YOUR PHONE.

Features list:

-For the SPHL710AVB Phone
-"Stock" 4.1.2
-Latest Sprint firmware
-Fully deodexed/zipaligned
-Optimized for speed and battery usage
-Better deep sleep
-Better memory management
-Sound file optimizations
-Tons of useless things removed (Virgin Mobile ID, etcetc)
-Init.d support (With some of my custom init.d scripts)
-SuperSU
-Busybox
-Gps changes
-Playstation Mobile support
-Full restart menu (Reboot, hot reboot, download, recovery) (TY to punkmaxx)
-Removed browser, replaced with chrome
-Google Wallet support (Says it's not supported in the app, but it works flawlessly)
-Custom boot animation support

Helpful hints:
-Slide the side of your hand from the left side of the screen to the right to take a screenshot!
-This phone has a built in barometric sensor. Seriously! Download AndroSensor and see for yourself


Miss the stock weather app? Download this file, and flash it in recovery (Thanks to Punkmaxx)
(Click file and download on the page

Todo:
-Overclocking
-Camera changes
-LOTS more optimizations
-Sound optimizations
-4G/3G/Wifi tweaks

 

[xthedakmanx]

Easy Installation instructions:
(From the perspective of just getting the phone)

Getting recovery:
-Download the MidnightRomGS3 all-in-one package onto your computer
-Unzip and install the included drivers
-Turn off your phone
-Hold home+volume down+power until your phone says booting into download mode (top left)
-Plug in your phone to your computer and wait for it to be installed
-Open the included "Odin3-v3.04" folder, and run "Odin3 v3.0.4"
-You should now see that your phone is connected to a com port (A box will be green)
-Click PDA, and choose the recovery file included in the package
-Hit Start, and Odin3 will then push the recovery onto your phone!


How to flash:
-Download the latest MidnightRom Version
-Turn off the phone again
-Hold home+volume up+power until it says booting recovery (top left)
-Go into the mounts and storage menu and format the following: Cache, System, Data
-Go back and select install zip from SD card
-Choose zip from either internal or external depending on where you put the rom.zip file
-Flash it
-After it's done just reboot into system and enjoy!

 

[xthedakmanx]

9/1/2013 1.0.4
-Fixed missing settings issue

8/31/2013 1.0.3
-Forced device status in settings from "modified" to "normal"
-Removed connections optimizer (was more annoying then anything..actually kind of spyware)
-Better audio drivers integrated
-Better gpu optimizations
-Loads better battery life
-Lag fixed
-Fix for videomms creation fail
-Fully removed samsungaccount app
-Install script/build.prop enhancements
-Lots of MISC. enhancements
-Reduced file size

8/14/2013 1.0.2
-Fixed the loss of superuser after flashing the latest sprint firmware
-Added camera sound toggle option
-Increased MMS size to 2MB
-Enabled signature
-Enabled option for delivery reports
-Enabled slow motion/fast motion in camera


8/14/2013 1.0.1
-Integrated newest Sprint firmware upgrades
-Integrated newest Sprint updates
(No more update nagging, woo!)
-Fixed some missing files
-Removed non needed files
-Removed a bunch of sprint stuff (Sprint cloud sync, Sprint account, etc etc. There's no real reason to have any of them IMO, and they just use more battery)
-More optimizations
-Changed the default touch water drop noise (It got annoying after the millionth time hearing it)
-Build.prop changes
-Install script changes
-Goo.im update support should work now

Todo:
-Overclocking
-Camera changes
-More advanced optimizations
-Sound optimizations
-4G/3G/Wifi/LTE/bluetooth tweaks
-Weather app (I THINK I might of integrated it back into this one while updating all the sprint files)


7/26/2013 1.0.0
First release

 

[other gus]

woop woop, will test once i get CM10.1 all figured out and backed up. thanks dak!

 

[djdrma]

Dakman you allways make roms for everything your awesome

 

[xthedakmanx]

ANNNND Here we go! Tell me if it boots guys ^_^


http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19855502/MNRGS3TEST1.zip

 

[6burgh]

Finding update package
opening update package
e: can't open.... MNRGS3TEST1.zip
(bad)
Installation aborted

Downloading again......

 

[punkmaxx]

ANNNND Here we go! Tell me if it boots guys ^_^


http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19855502/MNRGS3TEST1.zip

Thanks for Joining in the "ROM race" Dak!!

sorry it took me so long bud...

Wiped Everyting
Flashed OK...
Booting...
BOOTS!...
Touchwiz Home FC's...
3G Works!
4G Works!
WIfi Works!


....Everything seems to be fine except for the original Touchwiz Home Force Close.

Rebooting...........................................

Uh-Oh Bootloops!

BATTERY PULL...
Booting...............................................
Bootloops!!! Oh NO!!!!!

(My guess is its something in the TW framework...)
Back to my Backups....

 

[xthedakmanx]

Bah. Thanks for testing atleast >.<
Working on V2 now

 

[xthedakmanx]

V2 Is up

http://db.tt/sy8Iy8wH

Fixed bootloops and FC's...maybe >.>

 

[sean19661]

Hello the link for ur dropbox isn't working
You guys here are awesome.ty soo much

 

[xthedakmanx]

Whoops. Fixed.

http://db.tt/sy8Iy8wH

 

[punkmaxx]

V2 Is up

http://db.tt/sy8Iy8wH

Fixed bootloops and FC's...maybe >.>

Okay!
Wiping....
Flashing....
Booting.......
Boots!!
3G Works!!
---Hard Freeze after setup wizard---
4.5 minute freeze recovery time....
---Hard Freeze after pulling down notifications---
Battery Pull...
Rebooting........
Booted!!
No more Hard Freezes after reboot....

3g, 4g, Wi-fi, bluetooth, all working...

 

[quicksilvergts]

Awesome!!!
I will try this when I get time(working 10-14hr days) . Also I will be make another donation(much larger this time) for funding this project. As I am tired of waiting lol. And excited lol.
I do realize this takes "time" which is cool. Just anxious and tired of only seeing posts about accessories for the VM S3 lmao.
Thanks!!

 

[xthedakmanx]

Thanks guys =3

 

[djdrma]

I'm going to try this out

 

[Rambo828]

I'm going to try this out

Any success with this?

 

[djdrma]

Any success with this?

It didn't work for me

 

[xthedakmanx]

Buying it today since it's 20% off. Still...expensive though >.< AND I'm gonna be flat out broke for a month T_T I was saving the money for ComicCon Chicago, but oh well The things I do for you people lol.

I'll have it in 3/5 business days...so Tuesday, Friday, or next week >.<

(I'm still taking donations though if anyone would like to help ^_^)

 

[XAL2]

Buying it today since it's 20% off. Still...expensive though >.< AND I'm gonna be flat out broke for a month T_T I was saving the money for ComicCon Chicago, but oh well The things I do for you people lol.

I'll have it in 3/5 business days...so Tuesday, Friday, or next week >.<

(I'm still taking donations though if anyone would like to help ^_^)

Hurry up sir!

 

[xthedakmanx]

Version 1.0.0 is finally up! Enjoy everyone
(Changelog is basically the features list in the first post)

 

[spacepanda]

What's the base? AOSP/CM/Stock?
And is this 4.1 or 4.2?

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

 

[xthedakmanx]

What's the base? AOSP/CM/Stock?
And is this 4.1 or 4.2?

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 4 Beta

Stock 4.1.2

 

[djdrma]

going to test this out now.

 

[xthedakmanx]

Just got the allinone package in the second post uploaded as well