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Root [Virgin Mobile] [TUTORIAL] CM10.1 on VM GS3

Apparently CM 10.2 will install just fine on MG2 firmware. You don't need any of the extra steps in the tutorial, you can just flash it as you would any other ROM. The problem, of course, is that the 10.2 nightlies are very buggy. The AOSP keyboard won't work for me, among other things.
 
fourpac said:
Apparently CM 10.2 will install just fine on MG2 firmware. You don't need any of the extra steps in the tutorial, you can just flash it as you would any other ROM. The problem, of course, is that the 10.2 nightlies are very buggy. The AOSP keyboard won't work for me, among other things.
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I'm on the October 4th d2spr nightly. Everything works, camera, WiFi, tethering, aosp keyboard, etc.
Haven't experienced any bugs yet.
 
That's the million dollar question at the moment, it seems. I know those guys are working hard on it in the other thread.
 
Can you give me your install procedure? Perhaps I'm missing something. In CWM, I do a factory reset, wipe cache, wipe Dalvik, flash CM, flash GAPPS.
 
@fourpac

I had to wipe cache and then go into mounts/storage and format system, data, cache, then advanced -> wipe Dalvick

Then flash the modem fix, CM, GAPPS, and Root from recovery. You HAVE to install root from recovery or you'll be stuck in boot loop
 
Mms works fine with stock apns. 4g does not. The source for 4.3 should come soon, supposedly this month.

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
 
The CWM file linked in the instructions is a .img. What I am asking is if I have to convert the .img to a .tar.md5 or does Odin have some sort of conversion SW built in. If it needs to be manually converted, would probably be worthwhile to at least link to instructions on how to do that.
 
Hatchasaurus said:
The CWM file linked in the instructions is a .img. What I am asking is if I have to convert the .img to a .tar.md5 or does Odin have some sort of conversion SW built in. If it needs to be manually converted, would probably be worthwhile to at least link to instructions on how to do that.
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tar is kind of like a .zip file...except not compressed. People sometimes call .tar files "tarballs". You need a program that can create a .tar file. Some .zip programs can do it, but traditionally its done with the program called "tar". i.e.:

tar -cvf filename.tar filename.img

Then, if you want .tar.md5 you would use "md5sum". md5sum will output a signature. You append the signature to the tarball using ">>", and then rename the tar file to reflect that there is a md5 signature at the end of it:

md5sum -t filename.tar >> filename.tar
mv filename.tar filename.tar.md5

The .md5 adds an extra data integrity check to the tar file (a "signature")

For the program "tar" you can use any file name you want...and can tar multiple files into one tarball:

tar -cvf archive.tar f1 f2 f3 ...
 
Hatchasaurus said:
The CWM file linked in the instructions is a .img. What I am asking is if I have to convert the .img to a .tar.md5 or does Odin have some sort of conversion SW built in. If it needs to be manually converted, would probably be worthwhile to at least link to instructions on how to do that.
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You can use this cwm instead of going through the hassle of making it a tar. Most sprint recoveries will also work. http://androidforums.com/showthread.php?p=5896238
 
Sprint sources for 4.3 hopefully coming in around ten days! We should hopefully see better driver support for 4.3

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
 
ebildude123 said:
I'm on the October 4th d2spr nightly. Everything works, camera, WiFi, tethering, aosp keyboard, etc.
Haven't experienced any bugs yet.
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I'd like to try this one first, I'm on a rooted phone using twrp and it has the newer MG2 firmware.

Had to dig up the link, here you can find older nightlies no longer listed off the main CM devices page, if it helps anyone else. Also you can at least see how many downloads they have as well, to get perhaps some hint of quality.

Goo.im Downloads - Browsing nightly
 
IS anyone else not able to download gapps or anything from goo?
 
Pretty sure Goo is in the final stages of their move and upgrade for their new facility. Would assume it will be back to fully functional in a couple of days. Are you looking for anything in particular? I can upload to Dropbox for you if I have a ROM or GApps package that you need (I keep a lot of downloads of that type on my computer for "just in case"!).
 
the two files for cm 10 1.MD4FirmwareModemAIO.zip 2.gapps jb 20130301 those are files I can't download from the guide. Trying to get cm 10.1 on my replacement phone.
 
Right now I pretty much have just 4.3.x based files for the SGS3. Lots of different ROM zip files (modified to work on the VM SGS3, including the Snapshot version of CM 10.2 from a couple of days ago), as well as several GApps versions for 4.3.
 
What do you mean by "6"? Most recent version of CM is 10.2 which correlates to Android 4.3; previous version of CM 10.1 refers to Android 4.2.x (both Jelly Bean, but different numbered builds). With KitKat release from a few days ago, Cyanogen team is going to get 10.2 stable while working on the KitKat builds (I would assume this will be CM 10.3; CM 11 probably will occur when Android jumps from 4.x.x to 5.x.x).
 
I have Android version 4.1.2 on my phone. NO root or anything would this tutorial work for me?
 
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