Root [AT&T] Remove encryption from ATT SGS3

[quib]

Hello all,

My S3 currently has TWRP 2.7.0.1 recovery and CM11 installed. It was also previously encrypted.

Recently the gapps on my S3 have completely stopped working. New accounts cannot be added and the programs immediately crash upon starting. Deleting the app-data for these has had no effect.

While I can decrypt the phone for regular use, I cannot do the same in recovery to reinstall gapps. Consequentially, it appears that the best option would be to wipe out everything to get rid of the encryption. Unfortunately, it seems that you cannot flash a new ROM over an encrypted partition via recovery. I have reached the conclusion that Odin should be used to reformat everything.

Is this a correct understanding? And how would I go about doing this safely?

Thanks,
quib

 

[dmcjr22]

Im not sure on the encryption part of your question. But i can safely guide you to reflash your phone via odin. Your gonna need two things odin v3.07 and flash the correct firmware for phone if you have never updated your phone via ota to 4.3 or higher than use 4.1.2 if you have updated to 4.3 or higher dont use anything less than 4.3 will brick your phone.

Heres AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III - XDA Forum a video to show how to use odin its to root phone but the premise is the same just use the firmware that you can download from sammobile.com