Having trouble finding stock roms, can anyone point me in the right direction of where I can find what Im looking for?? Those that I have found are eiter hosted by hotfile, which has been taken down or on the Sammobile and Terafile which unless you are a premium memeber, the download times are horrendous. Im looking for unbranded roms. Not looking to root and install custom roms at this time. Thanks in advance guys, any help with this will be be very much appreciated
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I have a galaxy s3 I9300 which since I did a factory reset now sticks on the Samsung logo however I can boot into recovery and into download (the phone was rooted before I did factory reset but I am not bothered about preserving root as I just want to sell it) All I want to do it install a standard samsung stock rom. In download mode Odin 3.07 sees the device so I presume that I cold flash the stock rom from there IF I could find one - the damn us government has taken down hotfiles and like the OP I can only find premium sources. As I say I dont mind if the rom is rooted or not just as long as it returns the phone to working order - I dont have any data to worry about
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Having trouble finding stock roms, can anyone point me in the right direction of where I can find what Im looking for?? Those that I have found are eiter hosted by hotfile, which has been taken down or on the Sammobile and Terafile which unless you are a premium memeber, the download times are horrendous. Im looking for unbranded roms. Not looking to root and install custom roms at this time. Thanks in advance guys, any help with this will be be very much appreciated
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Try these >>>>> http://androidfirmwares.net/Home/sgs3 <<<<<<<
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Try these >>>>> http://androidfirmwares.net/Home/sgs3 <<<<<<<
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Thanks, very much appreciated:good:
Anyway to find out which ROM is right
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Try these >>>>> http://androidfirmwares.net/Home/sgs3 <<<<<<<
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The problem here is that I cannot get into the phone to check the firmware! It is an unlocked UK version of GT-i9300 and someone suggested "BTU" was the right one but this isn't listed on the site you gave - at least not with BTU in the name - there are so many listed and none with even any indication of country
I clicked download on the most likely one which is I9300XXUGMJ9_I9300OXAGMJ9_BTU.zip - I didnt see BTU until I got to the download step - is this likely to be a UK unlocked one or would I be taking a risk installing it?
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Hi guys, been looking everywhere for this. Anyone can give me a clear guide Superoneclick doesnt work
Find the CFRoot kernel that corresponds to your current kernel in settings/about phone & follow the instructions in that thread to the letter. Bout 10 steps, easy peasy
search on the forum, there are plenty of threads already made for rooting..
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Find the CFRoot kernel that corresponds to your current kernel in settings/about phone & follow the instructions in that thread to the letter. Bout 10 steps, easy peasy
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Thank you
NP Done ?
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Thank you
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NP Done ?
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Yeap. Done. Had issues with Modern Combat 3 lagging in Singleplayer. Hmm, btw, any guides to unroot? Just in case I needa claim warranty
Good man
If you ever need to unroot, in case you have to send the phone in for warranty service or whatever, find your firmware in this thread or if you can't find anything specific to your carrier use the most recent one for your country from here and flash in Odin.
Do a factory reset just to make sure there's no apps laying around on the phone that might tip off whomever repairs it (Samsung) that you've been running non-official firmware on it, and get a jig from eBay to reset the flash counter (do a search for "Samsung Galaxy S2 jig", costs a couple of bucks).
Not sure about the MW thing as I've never played it, hopefully someone else might come along and offer a hand (Maybe change the title of your thread ?).
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Yeap. Done. Had issues with Modern Combat 3 lagging in Singleplayer. Hmm, btw, any guides to unroot? Just in case I needa claim warranty
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Good man
If you ever need to unroot, in case you have to send the phone in for warranty service or whatever, find your firmware in this thread or if you can't find anything specific to your carrier use the most recent one for your country from here and flash in Odin.
Do a factory reset just to make sure there's no apps laying around on the phone that might tip off whomever repairs it (Samsung) that you've been running non-official firmware on it, and get a jig from eBay to reset the flash counter (do a search for "Samsung Galaxy S2 jig", costs a couple of bucks).
Not sure about the MW thing as I've never played it, hopefully someone else might come along and offer a hand (Maybe change the title of your thread ?).
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If theres any award for XDA's most helpful member, think you deserve it. Thanl you so muchhhhh. Really appreciate it
Awwww You're much too kind.
No worries, as long as you read up & follow the instructions for flashing a rom/kernel you should be able to handle things just fine, and given you nailed the CF Root thing first go without any dramas (which is a pretty fair effort, a lot of people who post here seem to have problems with it ), I'm sure you'll ace anything you have a go at
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If theres any award for XDA's most helpful member, think you deserve it. Thanl you so muchhhhh. Really appreciate it
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Awwww You're much too kind.
No worries, as long as you read up & follow the instructions for flashing a rom/kernel you should be able to handle things just fine, and given you nailed the CF Root thing first go without any dramas (which is a pretty fair effort, a lot of people who post here seem to have problems with it ), I'm sure you'll ace anything you have a go at
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Thanks. Anyway, flashed my official :
DXKL3
Firmware info
PDAXKL3
PHONE: DXKL1
Date: 15/12/2011
Android 2.3.6
MultiCSC Package (GLB, MM1, SIN, SMA, STH, THL, XEV, XME, XSE, XSP, XTC, XTE, XXV): http://www.multiupload.com/AK0TGH6WXX
DXKL3 Stock Kernel: http://www.multiupload.com/PY2EJTIQ2E
Password: [email protected]
But erm, its still rooted
Flash the kernel on it's own. Hard to say why the kernel didn't take when you flashed the full firmware.
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Flash the kernel on it's own. Hard to say why the kernel didn't take when you flashed the full firmware.
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flashed the tar.md5 file. Am i suppose to remove the .md5 and change it to tar?
No. Don't have to remove the md5 bit. If you've tried flashing the kernel on its own in the PDA section of Odin as per my last post, try re-flashing the entire rom.
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flashed the tar.md5 file. Am i suppose to remove the .md5 and change it to tar?
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ok. Any ideas where I can find the original rom mate?
You downloaded & flashed the "official" firmware as per your post on the first page, didn't you ? If you've already tried flashing the stock kernel as I'd suggested & that didn't unroot your phone, try flashing the whole stock package you downloaded again.
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ok. Any ideas where I can find the original rom mate?
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You downloaded & flashed the "official" firmware as per your post on the first page, didn't you ? If you've already tried flashing the stock kernel as I'd suggested & that didn't unroot your phone, try flashing the whole stock package you downloaded again.
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Ok, im on stock rom. What I did was to flash the kernel for root. Firmware wasnt touched. So, erm I have to reflash the entire rom. Any links I can refer to? I'm from Southeast Asia - Singapore
I gave you the links to official firmware on the first page. Yes. I told you how to unroot the phone on the first page with those links :-| I'm not going to tell you which firmware to flash, you should be able to work that one out yourself given you mentioned your original firmware on page one as well.
Ive bought a JIG and would just like some noob-friendly layman advice and references on using the JIG and steps i need to take to prep for a warranty return (I tried searching but im not good at processing large amounts of information so ended up no where). Linking will be fine if you cant be bothered.
I also have other questions such as, when they return the device do i lose ROOT and such? Will they flash an unrootable/unexploitable ROM?
Thanks so much.
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Ive bought a JIG and would just like some noob-friendly layman advice and references on using the JIG
Turn the phone off place usb recovery jig in usb port . Screen should now show custom rom zero .
and steps i need to take to prep for a warranty return (I tried searching but im not good at processing large amounts of information so ended up no where). Linking will be fine if you cant be bothered.
What preps ???
Requirments are no root and no custom rom and rom counter at zero .
= flash your original rom or stock rom to remove root .
I also have other questions such as, when they return the device do i lose ROOT and such? Will they flash an unrootable/unexploitable ROM?
If you have root on returning your warranty is void .
They will flash a standard stock rom .
jje
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Hi,
Try the below which I found very useful.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1402286
Stock roms are available in the development section right? Is there a right or wrong stock rom to choose from?
Also i used odin to flash a CWM kernal in do i need to do anything about that too?
Renren1403 said:
Stock roms are available in the development section right? Is there a right or wrong stock room to choose from?
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the one which was on the phone while shipped
This might sound stupid but i dont remember which one that was ><" is there a way to track back? Or can i use the special identifier on the custom rom i downloaded and work backwards?
Renren1403 said:
This might sound stupid but i dont remember which one that was ><" is there a way to track back? Or can i use the special identifier on the custom rom i downloaded and work backwards?
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with available sources you cant...
I reacently went to the showroom where I purchased the phone, I just picked a display peice and checked the firmware version, it was still my stock version, but in my region (in middle east it may work since all middle east firmware are same) this way you could guess and flash the same...
If you dont know what you bought then just guess at location etc .
jje
JJEgan said:
If you dont know what you bought then just guess at location etc .
jje
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So stock ROMs are by region?
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So stock ROMs are by region?
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YES...
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=1&o=1&m=GT-I9100&r=1#modelsa
ZACQ8 said:
YES...
http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=1&o=1&m=GT-I9100&r=1#modelsa
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thanks.. sorry for the silly question...
Hello guys,
I bought this phone unlocked from a store in Cyprus (not from cytamobile vodafone as stated below). When I came to the UK, as I'm a student) (and inserted an O2 Sim-card) I got asked to update, which I did, but I haven't noticed anything difference and I'm still in 4.0.4. I've seen most of the people (in this forum at least) have upgraded but I still get that there is no update available for me.
So I've downloaded checkfus and the results are in the attachment... So i've searched in the checkfus website (it won't let me link it as my account hasn't got many posts) and I got some weird info and I'm trying to figure out what's going on without any luck.
As you can also see from the attachments here are the info and on the right the country results I get after searching in the checkfus website:
Product Code: GT-I9300MBDCYO (Cyprus (Cytamobile Vodafone))
PDA: I9300XXBLH1 (India, Kazakhstan (Kcell), Serbia (Vip SRB), Ukraine)
Phone: I9300XXLH1 (Kazakhstan (Kcell), Serbia (Vip SRB), Ukraine)
CSC: I9300OXFBLH1 (Serbia (Vip SRB))
So if you check the attachment you will see most of the information about my phone.
Also, please note that I've tried searching the above but haven't found anything useful. If I missed anything that has the answer I'm really sorry for creating a new thread.
Anyone knows what's going on? Is this normal? Should I flash another stock ROM (and which one)? Should I just wait?
Thank you very much for your time and I would really appreciate any helpful reply! If you need any other information please let me know as I really want a taste of the buttery update!
dude get the galaxy toolkit root and install any cooked rom they work great fluid and crispy get any famous one
muhammadshais said:
dude get the galaxy toolkit root and install any cooked rom they work great fluid and crispy get any famous one
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Hello,
Thanks for your reply, but I don't want to start rooting and adding custom ROMs yet, as the stock one (until now) works for me!
My guess is that jb updates haven't rolled out in cyprus yet. As you bought your phone is cyprus, it won't follow the uk schedule.
If you don't mind flashing, just get any official i9300 firmware from sammobile and flash.
As you mentioned you don't want to amend your phone, or the sort, you can just wait for the cyprus jb to roll out?
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
xcly said:
My guess is that jb updates haven't rolled out in cyprus yet. As you bought your phone is cyprus, it won't follow the uk schedule.
If you don't mind flashing, just get any official i9300 firmware from sammobile and flash.
As you mentioned you don't want to amend your phone, or the sort, you can just wait for the cyprus jb to roll out?
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
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Thank you for your reply!
Well, I don't want to mess around with the phone this early as it's only about 2 months old.
I wouldn't mind waiting but as it's kind of weird that I haven't got it yet! Do you know if it would make any difference if I flashed the UK one?
If I get the UK Universal one (is that the BTU?) and flash it through odin as a PDA will that work? Will that make the flash triangle appear?
Sorry for asking so many questions I'm kind of a newbie and a bit of scared of the flashing process and don't wanna lose the warranty!
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Thank you for your reply!
Well, I don't want to mess around with the phone this early as it's only about 2 months old.
I wouldn't mind waiting but as it's kind of weird that I haven't got it yet! Do you know if it would make any difference if I flashed the UK one?
If I get the UK Universal one (is that the BTU?) and flash it through odin as a PDA will that work? Will that make the flash triangle appear?
Sorry for asking so many questions I'm kind of a newbie and a bit of scared of the flashing process and don't wanna lose the warranty!
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In that case leave it alone and wait for the update or contact the phone supplier or try a Samsung forum .
BASICS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927113
jje
JJEgan said:
In that case leave it alone and wait for the update or contact the phone supplier or try a Samsung forum .
BASICS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1927113
jje
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Oh I hoped there was another solution or someone that knew what was going on...
Still, thank you and I'll have a look at the link you provided
so i bricked my samsung galaxy 10.1 and cannot get passed the samsung screen on boot. I install the recovery tar and still...I think I have to install a tar file through odin but i cannot find clockwork mod file in tar, only zip. Anyway, I bricked my tablet and I need help recovering it. Yhanks in advance.
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so i bricked my samsung galaxy 10.1 and cannot get passed the samsung screen on boot. I install the recovery tar and still...I think I have to install a tar file through odin but i cannot find clockwork mod file in tar, only zip. Anyway, I bricked my tablet and I need help recovering it. Yhanks in advance.
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Dont look for recovery. Just download ur firmware u were using and flash it via odin..
Wat u actualy u did that it got bricked.
U hv any backup made earlier.?
Just few ques.?
And just only do this not nethng else pls. imp..
Post here
ADDICT.ANK said:
Dont look for recovery. Just download ur firmware u were using and flash it via odin..
Wat u actualy u did that it got bricked.
U hv any backup made earlier.?
Just few ques.?
And just only do this not nethng else pls. imp..
Post here
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I went into recovery to wipe data so i can sell it and i formatted/system, formatted/cache and formatted/ data. I dont know what I was thinking when I formatted system. anyway when it boots it sometimres asks me to recover firmware via kies but it never connects to the computer to update the firmware. I do not have another copy of the firmware and cannot locate on web
no backup of firmware
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no backup of firmware
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Just go to Samfirmware and download Odin flashable firmware from there
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found the firmware tar and installed. back up and running...many thanks!
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found the firmware tar and installed. back up and running...many thanks!
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well thats the way its done here...
it's always too early to give up..
now let me tell you exactly wat happened..
when u wiped out the data all the clashes or unknown cache and data were removed..
and as u flashed the stock it was back up and running...as everything was in its place now..where it needs to be..
So always keep a copy and backup of ur data and rom from now on..:highfive:
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NEVER GIVE UP TOO EARLY AND EASILY​....
WE ARE HERE TO HELP AS ALWAYS..
the help is much appreciated as I had been hacking at it for two days. it was not easy finding the firmware but I eventually found it and it is now backed up in a safe place with a proper name. Tablet is running like brand new. although I like my new Nexus 7 a lot more. learning that I just had to install the firmware and not a ROM made all of the difference. I was about to give up but I have never given up in the past and I'm not about to start. I was a little more patient but I was finally able to get it back up thanks to your advice.
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the help is much appreciated as I had been hacking at it for two days. it was not easy finding the firmware but I eventually found it and it is now backed up in a safe place with a proper name. Tablet is running like brand new. although I like my new Nexus 7 a lot more. learning that I just had to install the firmware and not a ROM made all of the difference. I was about to give up but I have never given up in the past and I'm not about to start. I was a little more patient but I was finally able to get it back up thanks to your advice.
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No probs cheers bro.
Be Humble and Hit thanks if you find the post helpful or if I helped u.
A click for u but rep for me
Sent from my Rooted LT26i using xda premium
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the help is much appreciated as I had been hacking at it for two days. it was not easy finding the firmware but I eventually found it and it is now backed up in a safe place with a proper name. Tablet is running like brand new. although I like my new Nexus 7 a lot more. learning that I just had to install the firmware and not a ROM made all of the difference. I was about to give up but I have never given up in the past and I'm not about to start. I was a little more patient but I was finally able to get it back up thanks to your advice.
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Good that you got it working again
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dskies1117 said:
the help is much appreciated as I had been hacking at it for two days. it was not easy finding the firmware but I eventually found it and it is now backed up in a safe place with a proper name. Tablet is running like brand new. although I like my new Nexus 7 a lot more. learning that I just had to install the firmware and not a ROM made all of the difference. I was about to give up but I have never given up in the past and I'm not about to start. I was a little more patient but I was finally able to get it back up thanks to your advice.
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I'm having the same problems as you, is there any chance you could post a link to the firmware that worked for you please and thanks.
Yekrallum said:
I'm having the same problems as you, is there any chance you could post a link to the firmware that worked for you please and thanks.
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http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
you have to register and it will take you to an external site for download. Make sure you get a magnifying glass and get the full model number of your tablet before going to download. it is legit so go ahead and download the file for USA
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http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
you have to register and it will take you to an external site for download. Make sure you get a magnifying glass and get the full model number of your tablet before going to download. it is legit so go ahead and download the file for USA
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take a look on the back of ur device's sticker behind the battery.......
HELLO HELP NEEDED
My sisters S3 i9300, never been rooted just got stuck on the Samsung S3 i9300 logo..
How do I go about it since I cant confirm the stock Rom or firmware to download. I cant get to the screen to check the country specific code. I can get to download mode and all it shows is
Odin mode
Product name: Gt-i9300
Custom binary download: 0
Current Binary:samsung official
System status: official
Please what is the way forward
Sorry I had to start a new thread for this....jux cant find the solution anywhere. My apologies
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HELLO HELP NEEDED
My sisters S3 i9300, never been rooted just got stuck on the Samsung S3 i9300 logo..
How do I go about it since I cant confirm the stock Rom or firmware to download. I cant get to the screen to check the country specific code. I can get to download mode and all it shows is
Odin mode
Product name: Gt-i9300
Custom binary download: 0
Current Binary:samsung official
System status: official
Please what is the way forward
Sorry I had to start a new thread for this....jux cant find the solution anywhere. My apologies
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What is it you would like to do? Keep it stock or root it?
start into recovery and do FactoryReset & WipeCache
Did that several times.. still stuck on the logo...
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What is it you would like to do? Keep it stock or root it?
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Maybe rooted, just so that I can flash a good stock custom rom... that is debloated, deoxed, good battery, camera etc...I may need suggestion wirh that one too....
I really appreciate u guys replying. .. thnx
You have bigger problems to solve first.
Go to sammobile.com and download the latest stock firmware for your own country.
Follow the instructions on how to flash with odin.
If the flash works then factory reset in recovery, before you try to boot.
If the flash fails then you may find the reason it suddenly stopped working.
Thank u for your response.
Thats the main problem I have. The phone is being used in Ghana now. I could have checked if could get to at lest the screen.
How can I check for the country when the fone wont get me to the screen. On top of that... its stocked and not rooted!
Root is not needed for flashing stock firmware.
Original country is irrelevant, use your own.
Okay sir, will proceed and get back to u...I appreciate the suggestions.
Once you have done what @boomboomer has said then we can help you with rooting and rom's, that is if you still want to root it.
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Original country is irrelevant, use your own.
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Firmware MUST coincide with the original one, otherwise possibly bricking.
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Firmware MUST coincide with the original one, otherwise possibly bricking.
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but I dont know the original firmware that came with it. What I do know is that.... its never been rooted or flashed before when bought
Go to a SamsungStore. Perhaps they can find out the country-code by the codes on the label behind the battery. But perhaps there are still other&better idea's...
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Firmware MUST coincide with the original one, otherwise possibly bricking.
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No, this isn't true.
Only the model number of firmware must match the phone to avoid brick. CSC makes no difference and even region lock is irrelevant, if it worked in that country before.
Make sure you understand details yourself before advising others, although you did no harm in this case.
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No, this isn't true.
Only the model number of firmware must match the phone to avoid brick. CSC makes no difference and even region lock is irrelevant, if it worked in that country before.
Make sure you understand details yourself before advising others, although you did no harm in this case.
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Okay I got it working one 4.3....thanx so much everyone. Now I wanna root and find a Rom that gives me max battery life...close to the stock as possible and also better camera quality. Also debloated....
Suggestion: NCS-ROM 8.1
Use it since 1 year and return always after trying another rom.
Thank you...will try that one too....am open to other suggestions too.... Roms close to stock but optimized for speed, debloated and very stable.