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C03BRA79

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Help!

My phone was rooted, I'm about to trade it in and tried to "unroot". Now when I turn on my phone I see "Samsung" then "Samsung galaxy s3" then the screen goes black it makes noises like its booting up, but all I get is the blue light in the top left stays lit.

I had "team epic" root installed and used their instructions to "unroot".

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
funkylogik said:
Google "odin flashing s3 stock firmware" and see if that helps :)
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I thought it did...

Downloaded the MD5 file today and just installed via ODIN. Now my screen is atleast working...It goes thru the 1st 2 Samsung screens then the white screen showing "Sprint 4G LTE" then the next samsung screen it freezes up.

When I searched for what you suggested I found a good link with instructions " How to flash Stock ROM via ODIN on Samsung Galaxy S3".

Any ideas? I was never able to upgrade my phone after I bought it due to the root. Could it be a driver issue? It still had the original "jelly bean 4.1" from 2012 installed.

When I just did the flash it was the latest 4.4.2.

Thanks!
 
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C03BRA79 said:
I tried to "downgrade" and flash 4.1 back on, but get a "fail" each time I try.:(

Any ideas are appreciated!
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Hey bro, you will find the sprint restore to stock .tar files for the S3 here
If you are on sprint, that will fix you right up and get you 4.4.2 KitKat stock. Don't try to downgrade or you will brick.
Again, DO NOT ATTEMPT A DOWNGRADE AFTER UPDATING TO 4.4.2 VIA ODIN. YOU WILL BRICK.
 
Madbat said:
Hey bro, you will find the sprint restore to stock .tar files for the S3 here
If you are on sprint, that will fix you right up and get you 4.4.2 KitKat stock. Don't try to downgrade or you will brick.
Again, DO NOT ATTEMPT A DOWNGRADE AFTER UPDATING TO 4.4.2 VIA ODIN. YOU WILL BRICK.
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That worked! THANK YOU!
 
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