My S3 on LIB cannot be rooted? - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My device cannot be rooted. I've tried everything (apart from wiping or installing another rom). Oddly enough i have CWM recovery yet any app that requires root access says the rom is not rooted. What on earth do i have to do to get this thing rooted? I've tried cf-root 6.4 but that didn't do anything either. Rooted fine when on ics?
Cheers for any suggestions

With CF-Root, there can be one problem:
Chainfire said:
NOTE: Sometimes the device does *not* boot into recovery mode and root your device. Just do the entire procedure again if this happens. If it still will not install root and such, make sure that in Odin "Auto Reboot" is not checked. Then after flashing, pull the battery, and boot with VolUp+Home+Power button to boot into recovery manually. This will start the install process.
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Anyway, if you already have CWM Recovery installed just use it to install the ZIP from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053

qwerty12 said:
If it still will not install root and such, make sure that in Odin "Auto Reboot" is not checked. Then after flashing, pull the battery, and boot with VolUp+Home+Power button to boot into recovery manually. This will start the install process.[/url]
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Thank you so much! That worked and I'm now rooted!

j-man246 said:
My device cannot be rooted. I've tried everything (apart from wiping or installing another rom). Oddly enough i have CWM recovery yet any app that requires root access says the rom is not rooted. What on earth do i have to do to get this thing rooted? I've tried cf-root 6.4 but that didn't do anything either. Rooted fine when on ics?
Cheers for any suggestions
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You could try rooting with this ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1825272
Works fine for me without affecting the counter. It does not flash a custom recovery but then with titanium backup I don't need one really.
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Error while installing custom ROM

E:Short write of /tmp/sideload/package.zip (No space left on device)
The phone is rooted as I've searched on google and what little I could find says to have it rooted. Not exactly sure what to try. I've wiped and reset everything and still a no go. Doesn't matter which ROM is selected either. Thank you.
TommyStarwind said:
E:Short write of /tmp/sideload/package.zip (No space left on device)
The phone is rooted as I've searched on google and what little I could find says to have it rooted. Not exactly sure what to try. I've wiped and reset everything and still a no go. Doesn't matter which ROM is selected either. Thank you.
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My best advice is to unroot and do a complete factory reset and try to root again
Go to rootgalaxynote.com and click the upper right tab to unroot
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Jt004 said:
My best advice is to unroot and do a complete factory reset and try to root again
Go to rootgalaxynote.com and click the upper right tab to unroot
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Just rooted it and checked it with super user downloaded ROM manager set it to Recovery mode from there and still the same error.
You should still try to unroot even if you just rooted. It fixes many problems
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Do you have Clockwork recovery installed on your phone? How are you trying to install these custom ROMs? Are you using ROM Manager?
You don't need root to flash a Rom...
Get Odin
Get an Odin flashable version of cwm
Flash said recovery with Odin
Boot into recovery by holding all the buttons till you feel a vibrant and letting off the power button, or the adb command: adb reboot recovery (or since you have root, download a terminal emulator from the market enter the command: reboot recovery, then Grant superuser permission.)
Then Flash Rom in cwm...
Old version of TWRP maybe?
To run the ROM Manager I needed root access. I tried to load the ROM from the ROM Manager and also straight from manual recovery mode.
flappjaxxx said:
Old version of TWRP maybe?
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Trying to install yours and i get
E:signature verification failed
That is stock recovery 3e...
Go read my post above...
THIS IS A LINK TO CWM TOUCH...JUST CLICK ANYWHERE HERE AND GET THE ODIN FLASHABLE VERSION
You do not need root to flash a Rom... Rom manager is not needed, and in fact just causes more problems than is worth
I don't think ROMmanager is even capable of flashing anything on the note. Someone correct me if I am wrong
You're correct...i wish that app would just go away and be erased from people's memories.
Actually i don't think Rom manager has worked on any Samsung device since eclair...as froyo was when they introduced 3e recovery, which requires signed update.zips, which only Samsung has the signature tool for.
So the update.zip Rom manager downloads to flash cwm with just gets stuck at "E: signature verification failed"
I'm still getting errors I'm going to search on youtube some more and see what could possibly be an issue. I go in with Up+home+power and erase everything I can in there and try to load from .zip and errors.
So I got it to work. I didn't really do anything differently except put it on my external SD card instead of my internal.

CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4 NOT working on XXDLH9, any ideas?

Hi guys,
I have an international S3 with the latest (until today ) firmware.
Everything works smoothly and fine, but I want my root back...
So after some reading I found the process is pretty simple.
Downloaded the CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4 package, odin 1.85. Flash PDA with AutoReboot and Reset time.
The process ends up successfully, but when reboots I still don't have root.
Any idea as why this is happening, I couldn't find any alternative ways to get root...
Any help is welcome
Cheers!
noiselabinc said:
Hi guys,
I have an international S3 with the latest (until today ) firmware.
Everything works smoothly and fine, but I want my root back...
So after some reading I found the process is pretty simple.
Downloaded the CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4 package, odin 1.85. Flash PDA with AutoReboot and Reset time.
The process ends up successfully, but when reboots I still don't have root.
Any idea as why this is happening, I couldn't find any alternative ways to get root...
Any help is welcome
Cheers!
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Cf root has yet to fail for me.....are you sure you dont have root. you may just have to update your SU binary. Tried that?
do you see the SU apk in your app drawer?
noiselabinc said:
Hi guys,
I have an international S3 with the latest (until today ) firmware.
Everything works smoothly and fine, but I want my root back...
So after some reading I found the process is pretty simple.
Downloaded the CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4 package, odin 1.85. Flash PDA with AutoReboot and Reset time.
The process ends up successfully, but when reboots I still don't have root.
Any idea as why this is happening, I couldn't find any alternative ways to get root...
Any help is welcome
Cheers!
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How do you know you don't have root ???
Do you have CWM Manager and CWM recovery if not its a failed flash .
jje
Happen to me once: CWM was flashed but no SuperSU and no CWMmanager after reboot
If it's your issue, try that:
-reflash CF-root with "auto-reboot" untick in Odin
-when flash is done, disconnect your phone from computer
-Directly do Vol Up+Home+Power to restart in recovery
This should start the flashing process for SuperSU and CWM manager
Then the phone should restart (or do it yourself from recovery) and you should be rooted
Mopral said:
Happen to me once: CWM was flashed but no SuperSU and no CWMmanager after reboot
If it's your issue, try that:
-reflash CF-root with "auto-reboot" untick in Odin
-when flash is done, disconnect your phone from computer
-Directly do Vol Up+Home+Power to restart in recovery
This should start the flashing process for SuperSU and CWM manager
Then the phone should restart (or do it yourself from recovery) and you should be rooted
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Indeed my friend!
Many thanks
hmm
JJEgan said:
How do you know you don't have root ???
Do you have CWM Manager and CWM recovery if not its a failed flash .
jje
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yeah how do you know if you are rooted?
Namkyeongwoo said:
yeah how do you know if you are rooted?
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there are many ways to know if the phone is rooted or not , one is by installing titanium backup application. when you install titanium backup, it will tell you whether your phone is rooted or not
Namkyeongwoo said:
yeah how do you know if you are rooted?
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install any root based app terminal emulator, TB,rom toolbox, busybox..hell there is even a root checker app in the market ..if i am not wrong..
Mopral said:
Happen to me once: CWM was flashed but no SuperSU and no CWMmanager after reboot
If it's your issue, try that:
-reflash CF-root with "auto-reboot" untick in Odin
-when flash is done, disconnect your phone from computer
-Directly do Vol Up+Home+Power to restart in recovery
This should start the flashing process for SuperSU and CWM manager
Then the phone should restart (or do it yourself from recovery) and you should be rooted
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Thank you very much for this advice! Until Android 4.1.1. I had not problems rooting with CF-Root, but after several (re)flashing (re)tries with CF-Root your trick finally got my S3G with I9300XXDLIB rooted! :good:
I wanted to post a question about this in CF-Root forum, but since I'm new I don't have rights to post there, but your advice definitely belongs there.

Jelly Bean Rooting

Hey all,
I've just flashed the poland Jelly Bean ROM today to my GT-I9300. All went well, Jelly Bean rocks, but I also tried to root it with the CF Root package (v6.4). Upon rebooting the phone did not show CWM doing anything (the boot animation just displayed as normal). SuperSU wasn't installed. Upon manual install I am informed that the SU binary is not present, so presumably the root didn't work. I can boot into CWM recovery but the device is not rooted at all.
I've tried with the same 6.4 packages from multiple sites, I've tried multiple versions of ODIN, nothing works. Any suggestions? I have no idea what has gone wrong and/or what I am doing wrong.
Any help is appreciated!
Try install superuser from play store.
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ProxyChain said:
Hey all,
I've just flashed the poland Jelly Bean ROM today to my GT-I9300. All went well, Jelly Bean rocks, but I also tried to root it with the CF Root package (v6.4). Upon rebooting the phone did not show CWM doing anything (the boot animation just displayed as normal). SuperSU wasn't installed. Upon manual install I am informed that the SU binary is not present, so presumably the root didn't work. I can boot into CWM recovery but the device is not rooted at all.
I've tried with the same 6.4 packages from multiple sites, I've tried multiple versions of ODIN, nothing works. Any suggestions? I have no idea what has gone wrong and/or what I am doing wrong.
Any help is appreciated!
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Did you notice this part of the guide?
- NOTE: Sometimes the device does *not* boot into recovery mode and root your device. Just do the entire procedure again if this happens. If it still will not install root and such, make sure that in Odin "Auto Reboot" is not checked. Then after flashing, pull the battery, and boot with VolUp+Home+Power button to boot into recovery manually. This will start the install process.
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2 - Questions.
Were you on a stock rom before jellybean? And did you root it before flashing Jellybean?
I did that with mine, and all worked fine. I did have to flash the CF root package twice, as well as manually enter recovery in between, before all took, as well as 2 reboots. Hope this info helps.
Kangburra said:
Did you notice this part of the guide?
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rofl, I must be blind.
Thanks so much, 2nd time around it works brilliantly
Issue resolved!

HELP - Black Screen After Root via Odin (i9300)

Hi Mates - i need help.
I just rooted my Galaxy S3 (i9300) and after it restarted, all i can see is just pure black screen.
- Prior to Rooting, here's my phone status:
Official Stock 4.1.2 Official Firmware
Never been rooted prior to this incident
What i used:
Odin 1.85
CF-Insecure-SGS3_XX_NEE_ALE8-v1.2
Can someone please help me?
Sometimes it doesn t get rooted. Check if you can boot into recovery or not by using button combo.
Post in General section.
caloyskii23 said:
Hi Mates - i need help.
I just rooted my Galaxy S3 (i9300) and after it restarted, all i can see is just pure black screen.
- Prior to Rooting, here's my phone status:
Official Stock 4.1.2 Official Firmware
Never been rooted prior to this incident
What i used:
Odin 1.85
CF-Insecure-SGS3_XX_NEE_ALE8-v1.2
Can someone please help me?
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1st thing is this should be in QA section not development section
Right can odin still see/connect to your phone? Can u still enter recovery etc?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1695238
Re-downloading and flash cf.root 6.4, everything will be fine.
SwiftSmoke said:
1st thing is this should be in QA section not development section
Right can odin still see/connect to your phone? Can u still enter recovery etc?
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yes, i can detect my phone, mate. need help please..
misacek said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1695238
Re-downloading and flash cf.root 6.4, everything will be fine.
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after downloading cf.root 6.4 and flashing it via odin, still shows black screen.
Question - considering that i have flashed cf.root 6.4, will the procedure below brick my phone?
- install CWM 6.0.3.1
- reboot into CWM recovery
- install custom rom
Please advise me, mates...
caloyskii23 said:
after downloading cf.root 6.4 and flashing it via odin, still shows black screen.
Question - considering that i have flashed cf.root 6.4, will the procedure below brick my phone?
- install CWM 6.0.3.1
- reboot into CWM recovery
- install custom rom
Please advise me, mates...
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You cannot install CWM recovery unless you root your phone. . Did you try going to recovery using button combo?? Sometimes, if roots after you manually go into recovery.
If not done, download Galaxy S3 unified toolkit and root using that.
caloyskii23 said:
after downloading cf.root 6.4 and flashing it via odin, still shows black screen.
Question - considering that i have flashed cf.root 6.4, will the procedure below brick my phone?
- install CWM 6.0.3.1
- reboot into CWM recovery
- install custom rom
Please advise me, mates...
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If the cf root procedure was successful I wouldn't worry about installing a diff recovery just yet, lets get the phone booting 1st. Download a custom rom and get it moved onto your external sd card, Boot into recovery(from power off, press volume up, home button and power), make sure its custom and not default. Then install the custom rom zip and reboot it should hopefully fully reboot. then look into installing a newer custom recovery.
dhirend_6d said:
You cannot install CWM recovery unless you root your phone. . Did you try going to recovery using button combo?? Sometimes, if roots after you manually go into recovery.
If not done, download Galaxy S3 unified toolkit and root using that.
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when you say button combo, that's VOLUME UP+HOME+ POWER, right? if so, yes, i can go to recovery mode, hirend_6d.
dhirend_6d said:
You cannot install CWM recovery unless you root your phone. . Did you try going to recovery using button combo?? Sometimes, if roots after you manually go into recovery.
If not done, download Galaxy S3 unified toolkit and root using that.
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SwiftSmoke said:
If the cf root procedure was successful I wouldn't worry about installing a diff recovery just yet, lets get the phone booting 1st. Download a custom rom and get it moved onto your external sd card, Boot into recovery(from power off, press volume up, home button and power), make sure its custom and not default. Then install the custom rom zip and reboot it should hopefully fully reboot. then look into installing a newer custom recovery.
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in odin, it showed that the root procedure was successful. not sure if i got your correctly, mate. so you mean i can go into recovery mode and flash custom rom?
dhirend_6d said:
You cannot install CWM recovery unless you root your phone. . Did you try going to recovery using button combo?? Sometimes, if roots after you manually go into recovery.
If not done, download Galaxy S3 unified toolkit and root using that.
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no..! you can flash CWM recovery even though the phone is not rooted! for sure! after flashing CWM recovery we can root the phone by flashing superuser.zip! i've done this many times!
caloyskii23 said:
in odin, it showed that the root procedure was successful. not sure if i got your correctly, mate. so you mean i can go into recovery mode and flash custom rom?
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If the recovery has been updated to the custom CWM recovery then yes you could flash a rom which will come with root and super user. But it must be the custom recovery if your still on the stock recovery u couldn't flash a custom rom.
caloyskii23 said:
when you say button combo, that's VOLUME UP+HOME+ POWER, right? if so, yes, i can go to recovery mode, hirend_6d.
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Ohk, is the recovery stock recovery or custom (CWM) recovery. Anyways, try to wipe data and cache and boot. If not successful, install a custom ROM. But make sure the recovery is CWM recovery.
dhirend_6d said:
Ohk, is the recovery stock recovery or custom (CWM) recovery. Anyways, try to wipe data and cache and boot. If not successful, install a custom ROM. But make sure the recovery is CWM recovery.
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how would i know if it's custom recovery? any sign that will tell me that?
're super SU apk.v phone? Icon?
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here cwm
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2002953
misacek said:
're super SU apk.v phone? Icon?
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here cwm
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2002953
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Can you ecommend a custom rom that is already rooted? i already have downloaed sentinel rom 4.6. is that rooted? tried to read the thread but i didn't see anythng that says it's rooted.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2249984
caloyskii23 said:
Can you ecommend a custom rom that is already rooted? i already have downloaed sentinel rom 4.6. is that rooted? tried to read the thread but i didn't see anythng that says it's rooted.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2249984
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O__O, All custom ROMs are rooted I suppose. And yes Sentinel ROM is rooted.
dhirend_6d said:
O__O, All custom ROMs are rooted I suppose. And yes Sentinel ROM is rooted.
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yes, saw it. its a custom rom. tried wipe data / cache but didn't work. will try to install custom rom sentinel now.
was able to install the custom rom but kept on rebooting after few minutes. it already happened thrice now.
anything i am missing?
It could be the insecure kernel you used earlier is making it unstable, probably if the custom rom doesn't install a kernel. Only thing I can think of is install an official Samsung g3 rom which should repair all the partitions that might of been damaged or corrupted, use it for a while to make sure no reboots. Then go through root and install of custom rom again. In theory creating a good foundation to install a custom rom on.
Just out of curiosity did u download an official Samsung rom before starting to flash in case u need to send it away or sell it on? If not what network/country are u using? Is the phone locked to the network or unlocked?
Edit:- I never used a kernel flash to root my phone just used cf root 6.4 to get root and custom recovery cwm. I only changed my recovery this weekend to Phil touch.
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SwiftSmoke said:
It could be the insecure kernel you used earlier is making it unstable, probably if the custom rom doesn't install a kernel. Only thing I can think of is install an official Samsung g3 rom which should repair all the partitions that might of been damaged or corrupted, use it for a while to make sure no reboots. Then go through root and install of custom rom again. In theory creating a good foundation to install a custom rom on.
Edit:- I never used a kernel flash to root my phone just used cf root 6.4 to get root and custom recovery cwm. I only changed my recovery this weekend to Phil touch.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
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hi swiftsmoke!
I tried reset and wipe 4x before i installed the rom. works perfect now!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
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[Q] Can't re-root after flashing stock ROM [XXEMC2]

Hello all,
About a week ago I ran into a problem with my phone which I thought was a software, which actually turned out to be a hardware issue with my sim card. Cutting a long story short, I flashed the official stock rom with Odin V1.85, and it passed and everything was back to default factory settings.
Having now got my issue fixed, I wanted to re-root my phone, in order to go back to the old ROM I was using [UltimaROM v12]. However after flashing various versions of CWM I cannot get my phone to root. I'm no stranger using Odin, I can usually install a new version of CWM in 30 seconds, but my phone is persistent on not rooting. I can't work out if maybe I've done something wrong, but it doesn't seem to be working.
I've tried running as Admin on W7, but it doesn't make a difference, I'd appreciate if one of you guys could help, as I used the search bar before, but it seems no-one has had this problem before.
Modem: XXEMC2
Kernel: Stock
ROM: Stock
Use TWRP or Philz recovery .
jje
I've tried those too, they don't work either.
bkss said:
I've tried those too, they don't work either.
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Use framaroot aragorn exploit
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What exactly is the problem? Phone not recognised? Flash failing? If so at what point? More details please
slaphead20 said:
What exactly is the problem? Phone not recognised? Flash failing? If so at what point? More details please
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The problem is the recoveries will look as if they've installed fine through Odin getting a "passed" flag, but when I go to recovery it's still the default Android recovery. Therefore no root.
What root method are you using?
Chainfire one I believe. You basically install CWM recovery, then install SuperSU from .zip in CWM.
So you have rooted but can't install recovery?
Just flash one with mobile Odin,
Nope, no root yet, because I can't flash SuperSU.zip 'cause I'm still on the default recovery.
Just use the old cf root then update the recovery or use framaroot and flash recovery with mobile Odin
cf-root roots the phone as well as changes the stock recovery to cwm recovery! is this the exact one you flashed? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1695238
sriram231092 said:
cf-root roots the phone as well as changes the stock recovery to cwm recovery! is this the exact one you flashed? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1695238
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I think he is using cf auto root

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