Finally rooted my SGS3 w/Odin/CWM

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Oyeve

Oyeve

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And am loving it. Took all of 10 minutes. I don't know why i didn't do this last year. Uninstalled all the bloat. Yay.

You may resume your lives now.
 
gorcorps

gorcorps

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CWM is pretty nice, but I ended up missing some of the samsung features so I ended up with a faster, cleaner, TW based rom.

I should actually take stock of how many of those features I still use though, as I'm starting to think I've since replaced the functionality with apps.
 
Oyeve

Oyeve

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poofyhairguy said:
The real question. I had my SGS2 rooted in Odin the first day I had it, which was the first day AT&T sold my model.
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The S3 felt so fast then that I didnt think I needed to root. but now, 9 months later, its starting to get sluggish and even with a 64gb sd card i am out of room. Deleted all preinstalled apps and cleared out all of my texts after saving them (had around 20k) its back to its old peppy self. I also primarily did it so i could run titanium and do a complete backup/restore for my new One or S4 (or both:) )
 
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jidery

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Ive wanted to root my Note 2 for a while now, but I really like Samsungs features and don't think I can live without them.
 
gorcorps

gorcorps

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Oyeve said:
The S3 felt so fast then that I didnt think I needed to root. but now, 9 months later, its starting to get sluggish and even with a 64gb sd card i am out of room. Deleted all preinstalled apps and cleared out all of my texts after saving them (had around 20k) its back to its old peppy self. I also primarily did it so i could run titanium and do a complete backup/restore for my new One or S4 (or both:) )
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I've tried to do complete restores of apps before and it was a miserable failure even going from the same phone and just different OS versions. Very unstable and apps would crash all the time. I thought it was the phone or rom but reading around it seems to be a Ti backup thing when going between OS versions. I can't imagine going between phones would be smooth, so I wouldn't count on that... but it could be worth a try. The only thing that's always worked well is backing up texts and transfering those over, but that's a completely different app.
 
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s44

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Remember, a few things:

(1) Rooting isn't ROMming. Also, CWM is the recovery, CM is the ROM.
(2) There are plenty of Samsung-based ROMs. These are more important on the i9300 (imperfect drivers) and Note 2 (loss of pen, multi-view, etc) however.
(3) If you actually want to make nandroids, use TWRP instead of CWM. ;)
 
Zaap

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jidery said:
Ive wanted to root my Note 2 for a while now, but I really like Samsungs features and don't think I can live without them.
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Already touched on but you won't lose any features by rooting. (Without ROMing that is) You just gain SU permissions and can freeze all the bloat.

Rooted my Note 2 using the latest one-click method on xda and it took like a minute. It was the easiest root I've seen. Used Titanium Backup to freeze all the VZW bloat and some Samsung bloat but obviously my choice and nothing that loses any features. Look into it, well worth it.
 
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dawheat

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Ditto TWRP makes things even more idiot proof.

Who's your carrier? If Verizon, I'd check out Scott's CleanROM - absolutely love his ROM on my Note 2.
 
jhansman

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Gonna root my refurb AT&T SGS3 the day the warranty runs out (82 to go), so I'm taking notes. Would love to put a slick ROM on it that is lean and mean.
 
poofyhairguy

poofyhairguy

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I can't stand not having root access. A fourth of my pay apps are root apps. My tablet didn't have root for 6 months and I wanted to throw it against the wall. The week we got an exploit I already had a guide on XDA to pimp out the stock ROM. You can always make it better.

They never got away with that for PCs.
 
WelshBloke

WelshBloke

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poofyhairguy said:
I can't stand not having root access. A fourth of my pay apps are root apps. My tablet didn't have root for 6 months and I wanted to throw it against the wall. The week we got an exploit I already had a guide on XDA to pimp out the stock ROM. You can always make it better.

They never got away with that for PCs.
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Yeah there's way too much crap installed as system apps in Android ROMs not to have root.
 
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lothar

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Twrp > cwm.

No idea how someone can stand not to have root.
All my phones are rooted on day 1.
 
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dbk

dbk

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I've been really pleased with the JB Touchwiz (rooted) on my GS2. I really like all the TW features but Sprint won't be releasing anymore updates for the phone and I really wanted to try 4.2.2 so now I'm on SlimROM. It's very nice.
 
Red Storm

Red Storm

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I was just about to root & ROM my Note 2 when I stopped myself and realized I'm more than likely going to sell this thing in less than a month. I will hold out for the S4.
 
jacktesterson

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dawheat said:
Seriously - ClearnROM

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1986893

You keep all the features you want + more (all apps can be used in Multi-Window), amazing battery life, super stable
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Better Yet

CleanRom with Perseus Kernel --- That was absolutely the smoothest experience I had with my Note II

But to be honest - I preferred the JediXP and SaberKernel combo Rom - It adds lots of very useful tweaks in Touchwiz - the biggest being LCD Density settings and Per App DPI... as well as Voodoo Sound enhancements. Also very smooth - Would recommend.

Since I prefer AOSP though, I often used Sons of Android and SOAP Kernel 4.2.2... so smooth. Never had any issues come up for me - and phone actually benchmarked better compared to 4.1.2 TW Roms.
 
jacktesterson

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Red Storm said:
I was just about to root & ROM my Note 2 when I stopped myself and realized I'm more than likely going to sell this thing in less than a month. I will hold out for the S4.
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You can download a Tar file off the Net for your carrier. There is a site that keeps them all

I rom'd and rooted the hell out of my Note II... and then Flashed the original Firmware back on it using Odin to sell it.. was completely back to stock Rom/Firmware/Recovery - It's dead simple and takes 5 minutes. Best yet, the Status shows "Normal" so nobody would even know.

Just turn off your phone, hold down Volume down + Home + Power to put the phone in Download mode - Connect to PC and flash the file using Odin.
 
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jacktesterson

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jidery said:
Does it maintain tmobile unique features like wifi calling?
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CleanRom has a specific version for AT&T for wifi Calling

There is 2 versions - ACE (all Carrier Edition) and AT&T version.

They both work on the Note II - the only difference being the Ace version is based off the International 7105 Rom while the AT*T version is well, AT&T... meant for people who want specific AT&T features.



EDIT: Wow I somehow read AT&T and not T-Mobile - Not sure about that one.
 
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