My S3 has been acting very weird lately, sometimes it restarts itself and everything back to the basic, which means all the apps i downloaded were erased and the data on the internal memory. I have been performing hardware reset countless times, the problem still persists. Any idea what is wrong with my phone? Or has it come to the end of its journey to serve me? T^T

Just normal usage, the last software i installed was Ramen game, it was a few weeks back then. One morning i woke up to my phone showing touchwiz not responding. So i did a factory reset to that. Then my messengers were acting strange after i installed everything, not responding. So i did a hard reset.

Since then my phone occasionally reset itself. I have no idea what is wrong with it.

I guess i have to figure how to root my phone. T^T

Thank you for the suggestion, I will try to search it up on how it works.

Do I have to root the phone before installing a custom rom? how do i tell which version of Odin should I download?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/...3010596/page636

Is this stable for a beginner to try out?

Tried to root my S3, failed to install the TWRP. Don't know what is wrong with it.

odin3 v1.85
twrp-2.8.6.1-i9300.tar

I dl-ed these two version.

I downloaded Odin and the twrp tar file.

Switch off my phone -> vol down+power+home -> download page -> connect usb -> run odin -> attach the twrp tar file -> phone reboot -> vol up+power+home -> no comment and goes into the standard recovery page

What did i do wrong...

Yes... I was following the tutorial on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsGEXy2MDB8

I was following this tutorial. I've downloaded the SuperSU file as well, but i didn't manage to successfully installing the recovery...

Do i have to flash the SuperSU before i flash recovery???

ORZ

Do I have to follow the same process, using odin and download a tar file as well?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/irolo6rp8wh5ibf/P...3%2039%2034.png
This is how my recovery page look like.

This post has been edited by XJShinoda: Jul 8 2015, 09:45 PM

Tried on the other recovery that you suggested as well... Didn't work for me. Hmm

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fw0qdirhl1b39hf/odin.jpg?dl=0

This is how the odin page look like. Looking at the log, i suspect that "removed" before the "completed" is the reason i failed. But i didn't remove the cable in the process. Hmm

This post has been edited by XJShinoda: Jul 8 2015, 10:11 PM

It was 7.45mb

All the recovery tar file i dl-ed were 7mb+.

P/S: Sorry for all the questions...

Thank you so much for the help! I appreciate it! My S3 is just acting weird, don't know what is wrong. hmm...

<ID:0/003> Added!!
<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..
<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..
<OSM> Please wait..
<OSM> philz_touch_5.00.5-i9300.tar.md5 is valid.
<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..
<OSM> Leave CS..
<ID:0/003> Odin engine v(ID:3.1005)..
<ID:0/003> File analysis..
<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/003> Initialzation..
<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/003> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/003> SingleDownload.
<ID:0/003> recovery.img
<ID:0/003> NAND Write Start!!
<ID:0/003> RQT_CLOSE !!
<ID:0/003> RES OK !!
<ID:0/003> Removed!!
<ID:0/003> Remain Port .... 0
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 1 / failed 0)


Tried it on the latest version of Odin. Not successful as well.

I am gonna try out the rest that you suggested!

Thank you guys @normek @surefire v LED @buukarim, I guess i've finally flashed the rom.

So not used to the new interface! Is it normal for the batter to drain from 38% at 2.30am to 3% at 7.30am?

orz, wifi not working, and all the apps i dl-ed last night vanished without a trace....

So i went to recovery mode, trying to wipe the data off and thinking of reinstalling the rom. While in the process of wiping data, it reboots halfway, the last message i saw was something like failed to wipe "data/misc"

it keeps on restarts and stuck on the boot page....

Preparing to change phone in case anything failed. I flashed the rom again, hopefully it can sustain this time. Hmm...

Using Blisspop v3.2 5.1.1

This post has been edited by XJShinoda: Jul 9 2015, 02:10 PM


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I am wondering if were to update a new version of rom, does that mean that you have to reinstall all the apps again after flashing the new rom?

oh, I just went dl this app. Gonna backup those apps, just in case i had to flash a rom again.

Blisspop V3.2 Reboot a few times in a day, installed apps vanished.

So I updated to v3.5 nightly, few not responding events, so far no reboot. Hopefully, this suits me better.