Root [AT&T] Need a temporary guru. re: stock ROM's, etc.

[Papamalo]

So grateful for this forum!

I have just gotten a galaxy S3 for AT&T.
My previous Galaxy S3 was for Sprint, and had no sim card, and could not recieve MMS messages, because I was using it with my metro PCS account.

Questions:

1: I am really happy with the settings, icons, and apps, on my old Galaxy S3 and I am wondering if there is a way to import them to my new Galaxy S3?

2:The new model is rooted with Cyanogenmod just like my old one, but I really prefer the simplicity of the stock ROM, with no fancy graphics. How can I flash my phone to the stock jellybean ROM, without unrooting it?

3: Does anyone have current download links for 7-zip, and ODIN?

I have yet to get a SIM card for my new phone. Recommendations?

Any other cool tips appreciated. I am looking forward to a S3 with a SIM card, as opposed to a Galaxy S3 without a SIM card, because of all the limitations it presented.

Thanks!

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[Rukbat]

1: I am really happy with the settings, icons, and apps, on my old Galaxy S3 and I am wondering if there is a way to import them to my new Galaxy S3?

Most of the settings in the TouchWiz launcher can't be exported or imported. If you're using a different launcher, there might be an export/import function in its settings.

2:The new model is rooted with Cyanogenmod just like my old one, but I really prefer the simplicity of the stock ROM, with no fancy graphics. How can I flash my phone to the stock jellybean ROM, without unrooting it?

The stock ROM is unrooted, so if you flash the stock ROM you're flashing an unrooted ROM. You're asking how to sit in a tub of water and not get wet. Rooting is in the ROM.

3: Does anyone have current download links for 7-zip, and ODIN?

Check SamMobile Firmwares

I have yet to get a SIM card for my new phone. Recommendations?

The carrier you get an account with will give you a SIM card. (Or sell you one if you chose a cheap carrier.) The choice of carrier depends on the phone - which carrier is it for?

Any other cool tips appreciated. I am looking forward to a S3 with a SIM card, as opposed to a Galaxy S3 without a SIM card, because of all the limitations it presented.

The only real difference is in what the signal sounds like when you start to lose it (which is called "going digital"). A CDMA phone (one without a SIM card) sounds "underwater". A GSM phone (with a SIM card) sounds more like choppy. But since both are digital, not analog, unless you have very sensitive ears (like a musician) or very bad ears (like an old man like me), you'll hardly notice a difference. I can understand a bad GSM signal better than I can understand a bad CDMA signal. But that's after decades of listening to noisy radio signals, so my hearing is past the point that I can use an in-the-ear hearing aid.

Oh, and you can switch the SIM card from one phone to another, as long as a) it fits and b) the other phone works on the same frequencies that carrier uses.

 

[Papamalo]

Wow! that helped a lot!
By the way, my old phone was a sprint S3 with no SIM card, unlocked for use with my Metro PCS account
This new phone is an ATT S3, unlocked for use with my metro PCS account.
I am rooted with cyanogenmod ROM, CWM, and thjngs are shaping up.
Thanks!

One more question?
I was told that I could basically port the entire scheme from my old S3 to my new S3 using nandroid.
I think I need some step by step instructions, if this is true, because I tried to back up one phone boot image or scheme, using nandroid and then I tried restoring it from the new phone which also has nandroid, but I could not seem to get it to work.
Any good tutorials? I'd sure love to recreate all the custom functions I had on my old phone!


thanks again.

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[GTWalling]

The original phone you had was a CDMA phone and the AT&T is GSM. I don't think a Nandroid would be compatible between the 2 different formats.

 

[Papamalo]

thanls! bo9mus round question:
W@here can I find a download of the stock ROM? Or what do I have to do to unroot the phone and get back to stock ROM?

thanks again. I know my questions are totally newbie. I appreciate the patience.

 

[Mikestony]

Have you checked over at XDA?
AT&T Galaxy S III Android Development - xda-developers
It doesn't look like our sticky has been updated in a while