you generally dont wanna run ota updates when rooted. I have yet to encounter a fer-sher answer about this on the S3, but (as you likely recall from the OG Evo forum) Ocnbrz always put in all caps (all caps rage!!!!) to not accept any auto update as it would eff with your root access. And whatever Ocn says is gold in my book

 

whats the update saying? can you give (as close to as possible) a verbatim of what it says? its not telling youthat "all your base are belong to us" is it? cuz if so, NOONE CAN HELP YOU!!!!!! or even worse, i hope to God its not telling you that you lose the game :O anyways, all kidding aside, yeah man, i was happy to see a ol' friendly face in here too!!! And im honestly curious as to what its telling you that it wants to update. Is it a system update, or does the message give you more/less detail than that? I hope i worded that in a logical way, I dont always make the most sense when trying to add a little humor into my posts

 

More than likely it is an update for the Baseband Version/Build Number.

Go into Settings---->About device and check the bband and b #, it should end in LG8, this would be the newest one. More than likely you still have LG2.

People have said that you can get Voodoo's OTA Rootkeeper from play store and use it to keep root while doing the update, but I have not tried it myself because my phone updated as soon as I activated it and before I had a chance to root it.


Also....good to see both you and youdoofus here.............I learned a ton from both of you in the OG EVO forum.

Edit:
here are a few threads from XDA.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=60952637

and here is a thread with the files for the Radios.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1787677

as you know flashing Radios can be risky to say the least so it may be safer to flash back to the stock recovery, accept the update then flash back to custom recovery.

 

If you don't do the rooted way of updating, the update will simply fail as you have CWM installed and the OTA is designed to work with stock recovery. The phone also stops messaging you about an update for awhile (like 5 days). I've done this as I was tired of those messages, too, and figured I'd just root again after the update and was entertained by the results.

But LG8 is a good update to have, you should do the updates that disc golfin linked.

 

It depends on the device and the update. I had an LG Viper (for about a minute) and I rooted it. I was able to update and not interfere with root once but the next update would not work (would tell me every day to restart to install, on boot it would still be there). If you don't have an answer and you still want to update, cross your fingers.

 

Ok, let's start back at square one:

You want to keep root. That's a given.

Do you want to update to LG8?

Yes

Spoiler

Then go to this thread: [ROM]7/28/12 LG8 Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 3 OTA (Stock/ROOTED/Odex/DeOdex/Firmware!) - xda-developers

Download either the Odex or Deodex file. If you don't know what the difference is, get the Odex file.

Then download the LG8 Firmware. You can download the 'other bits' and flash them through Odin, but that's optional (I didn't flash them).

The other files are optional. Don't get the Deodex file if you downloaded the Odex version of the update, or vice versa. The LF9 Universal search is the non-dumb search that was removed due to Apple litigation fears. The Wifi thing is irrelevant if you don't have a dual band router.

Now, with these files on your phone, reboot into recovery. This will be Clockwork Recovery or TWRP, but you'll have something other than stock recovery. Make a backup. Then clear cache/dalvik cache (dalvik cache is in advanced in CWM). Then flash the ROM file first (the big file) then flash the firmware file (and any of the optional files after that. Reboot, you're now updated and still rooted.

You don't want to update but want the message to go away?

Spoiler

If you rooted with flashing CWM through Odin and then flashed a Superuser patch, then just hit reboot & install. Don't worry about voodoo OTA recovery or any other nonsense. The update will fail. I promise you. I did this myself. The OTA does not work with CWM or TWRP. It says so on XDA, too. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1838329) The message will go away for 5 days or so. Repeat.

If you don't have CWM installed and rooted by some magical means that I have yet to see posted anywhere, then this may not be the case.

How do you check to see if you have CWM or TWRP installed? Turn off your phone. When it's fully off, turn on your phone by holding Volume Up + home + power until you see blue text in the upper left of the screen, then let go. When recovery is done loading, you'll either see "Clockwork Recovery Mod" or "Team Win Recovery Project" or nothing. If you see nothing, it's stock recovery and reboot your phone and don't take the OTA. If it's CWM or TWRP, then reboot your phone and take the OTA, which will fail.

 

My BAD.....I never had to use it but was passing along what I had found...

Thanks jerofld for confirming this! :thumbup::beerglass:

 

damn i missed alot here lol ok, so, who dont you just go download the lg8 rom, and install it via recovery? thats what i did, and its all good in the hood...

 

here

 

as always, make a nand b4 flashing (like i need to tell you that LoL)

 

While it looks like this issue may already be addressed above:

On the T-Mobile side. I did the firmware update through Kies. It looks like I lost my root (TitaniumBackup not working anymore) but... all the bloatware I froze with it is still frozen.

 

When you're rooted and frieze shit, its still feel frozen if you loose root

 

hi like to know how to update galaxy s3 sgh-i747 att to new baseband I747UCLH9 with out loosing root? My baseband now is I747UCALG1 with root. Can someone send me step by step how to this thanks?

 

You might have to go to the AT&T forum for that. This is Sprint's Galaxy S3.