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daniel54

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I have an SIII (SGH-1747M) I bought used at Christmas last month. The phone was unlocked but had been previously locked to Virgin Mobile Canada. After about a week I started having problems when the phone would not receive calls or texts. it would however send calls and text. I called Virgin tech support and they suggested that a poor unlock job was the issue. Not knowing a lot about "cell flashing" I decided to reflash the phone with a stock ROM, using ODIN. the flash failed. the phone will go into download mode but does not boot up. I now get a message saying the firmware upgrade encountered an error and to use recovery mode in Kies. I cannot connect in Kies. I have no idea what to do next. any suggestions would be very much appreciated
 
You could have flashed the wrong ROM. Did you download and flash the correct model version? I'd check again and re-flash via Odin.
 
all good here, many thanks!!!! down loaded new firmware and it worked perfectly. now I want to root this puppy, any suggestions?
 
Virgin s3 all things root sub-forum man. all the s3s vary slightly so start there for the best advice :thumbup:
 
find your devices model and firmware flash able custom recovery then flash superuser. or try cf-auto-root if supported.
 
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