How to return your Samsung Galaxy S III (R530M) to stock These instructions should fix your semi-bricked or broken phone as long as you can get it into download mode. Make sure you have drivers already installed on your Windows computer before starting. Please read them all the way through and then begin. Things you will need to restore your phone are below. Download and use this version of Odin 3.04: ODIN Tar files needed to flash are in post #3 Set up the software: Extract the odin-pit.zip Run Odin3 v3.04.exe Make auto-reboot box is checked: Put your phone in Download Mode: Power your device off Make sure the usb cable is not connected (it tends to mess up due to charging animation) Press and hold volume down, home and power You will see a warning screen Press volume up to contine to download mode Connect USB cable Odin should now look like this: Uncheck F. Reset Time Click on PDA and load R530M-VQA-LJ1.tar You should now look like this Now you should be able to click Start. When you click start you should see something similar to this: Your phone should auto-reboot when finished and should be working 100%! This returns you back to factory stock, aka Metro has no idea stock, except your download counter (if its been tripped) Troubleshooting: Odin isn't detecting the phone?! It seems frozen and hasn't made any progress for 15 minutes
Heimdall Tutorial will go here when i find time to make heimdall 1.4 (the latest version that supports the US sgs3) ok so for all you linux people here is a temp hold over http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33074572 i can make heimdall 1.4 no issues but cant seem to make it into a easy install package and i cnat seem to make the frontend :/
R530M (d2mtr) All tars can be found at www.shabbypenguin.com using these tars will wipe your entire device. the only way they will know you were rooted is via download counter. How to reset the flash counter use triangle away for flash counter resets, its the only thing that woprks anymore Credits for flash counter reset: airtioteclint edgeez25 averagewonder and a very special big thanks to billard412 for helping me learn this stuff.
nah not that much, i wish i could figure out what teh issue is everything else odin's fine but system
Man..Thought he had it. I think he got it. I saw a You Tube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBcOz4hbkZA
Damn homie, we're gonna have to start calling you...speedypenquin. Stock jellybean and you just got your phone less than a day!!
Device status is Normal in about phone where it normally says customise, and no need for triangle away even tho it wasnt compatible for metro.
No just check, but it change customize to normal in about phone just in case a metro rep might check.
Help I try like 4 times and at the end it keeps on saying FAIL!!! pleaseeee help!!! UPDATED : Shabbypenguin the system tar didn't work for me so I found this one that work just in case someone has the same problem as me : http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SCH-R530M
sorry i need to edit the file, rename it to remove the md5 at the end off and it will flash fine wtf?!? how did you find that site?
