Don't want to get in the way of what's going on above ^^ but can we keep this thread as close to topic as possible
I just see leaks for the gs3 international (android 4.3) is there any news about our getting updated
The only 4.3 leaks I'm aware of are for the s4 Google edition and nexus 4
I was finally able to restore root
I had to use Odin to go back to LJ1
Root
Mobile Odin to MB2 with Root Option
Then downloaded OTA Root Kepper
Then updated to MF2
Restore Root
Thanks to Shabby for obtaining & hosting the files.
Does this mean the service will get better? Will I have access to T-Mobile 4G towers?
i dont see the any issues here lol shabby started making roms for us without even having a metro gs3 he had me as one of his first tester and file sending assistant so what changes now? nothing dont know if he mentioned but theres an update for metropolis coming so while those fear lack of development they are so far from reality its not even funny. anyways with all due respect to my partner in crime and shabby lets move on with the topic. there are things needed to be discussed since development is still going forward and nothing is stoping us then i would like to discuss our journey with this mf2 update. so i got home yesterday around 5pm by the time we figured out that the update uses a smart script to determine i cant be on a custom recovery it was around 6pm from there there was another script i believe i could enter stock recovery browser sd card for file but the update zip will not show....... perhaps i could of renamed it to something else... regardless we decided to flash via adb usb to pc that worked flawlessly. so once that was done shabby showed me how to dump the files and mind you guys these are huge files im talking about system.img is alone over 1 gb but either way the next step was for me to upload these huge files and send them to shabby. in conclusion shabby dont need a physical phone to continue his development this is a team effort not a one man train i hope you guys continue to enjoy your experience here at androidforums!
if you guys gonna go back to stock using odin not mobile odin cuz like shabby said using mobile odin wont change bootloader. im on mf2 rooted with twrp installed. it wasnt easy since i had to odin to mb2 then install cwm then root then i downloaded ota root keeper on the play market free to preserve my root from there i used mobile odin only to flash the stock recovery from mb2 then i entered recoveryand chose adb and flashed mf2 patch once i booted back up everything was fresh and clean and i just opened ota root keeper and restored root anyways it was confusing at first but we succeeded!
hey i have CWM recovery on my stock rooted phone. How do i switch back to stock recovery ? If i switch back to stock recovery will that let me get the update ?
Thanks to Shabby it's already posted flushable zip so you just download it and flash it like the other that's what I did you don't have to switch recovery. You can get it on post # 52 OR http://androidforums.com/showthread.php?t=682410
[SGS3-R530M] Modem Repository
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