I need a little help with today's way of reformatting a phone. The phone is the Samsung Galaxy S3, AT&T, model SGH I747. It was my mother inlaws, now its my wife's. Hers died and so my mother inlaw gave her the old s3 she no longer uses. As is the case with many non techy people, my mother inlaw put all manner of garbage on the phone and agreed to who knows what all. Also it needs to have root access. So here are my questions.
1. Which is the best version to run on the S3? Can it run 4.4.4 fine? Or should I just stick with 4.4.2?
2. Should I be looking at cyanogen mod? The wife wants it to look largely like the factory android user interface. Is it possible to tell the latest cyanogen mod to look stock? Seems like themes would be something they would do, but I don't know.
3. What is the fastest and easiest way to install this new OS? I remember the days when Odin was what you wanted. You got your ROM, told odin where it was, and hit install. That was it. You could even get ROMS that were already rooted so you didn't have to deal with that whole mess. Is this still the preferred method?
4. I would be interested in just using what it has, which is 4.4.2. But is there a way to just wipe everything her mom did to the phone, and set it back to a bare bones factory setup? With no apps that she installed on the phone? Some of this stuff I just can't seem to get rid of without root. So I was thinking it might be best to just install a better version of android that wipes all that junk out upon installation.
Thanks for reading everyone
1. Which is the best version to run on the S3? Can it run 4.4.4 fine? Or should I just stick with 4.4.2?
2. Should I be looking at cyanogen mod? The wife wants it to look largely like the factory android user interface. Is it possible to tell the latest cyanogen mod to look stock? Seems like themes would be something they would do, but I don't know.
3. What is the fastest and easiest way to install this new OS? I remember the days when Odin was what you wanted. You got your ROM, told odin where it was, and hit install. That was it. You could even get ROMS that were already rooted so you didn't have to deal with that whole mess. Is this still the preferred method?
4. I would be interested in just using what it has, which is 4.4.2. But is there a way to just wipe everything her mom did to the phone, and set it back to a bare bones factory setup? With no apps that she installed on the phone? Some of this stuff I just can't seem to get rid of without root. So I was thinking it might be best to just install a better version of android that wipes all that junk out upon installation.
Thanks for reading everyone