Root [Virgin Mobile] Cm 10.1 Sprint Successful Flash

[spacepanda]

Straight from the Cm forums - http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/74267-galaxy-siii-virgin-mobile-cyanogen-mod/

No word on mms, but looks promising. Going to attempt this tomorrow.

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[sean19661]

Please let me know i have the same phone but there was something mention about updating to MD5 firmware is this the stock sprint firmware. i would or just
cm 10.1 rom these phone must have the same hardware but maybe different please post
if you do and what you had to do they said something about back camera didnt work
but the flashed RC1 or nightly fixed ?? TY : )) are you getting 4Glte MMS

 

[sean19661]

Please let me know i have the same phone but there was something mention about updating to MD5 firmware is this the stock sprint firmware. i would or just
cm 10.1 rom these phone must have the same hardware but maybe different please post
if you do and what you had to do they said something about back camera didnt work
but the flashed RC1 or nightly fixed ?? TY : )) are you getting 4Glte MMS

 

[sportsinger75]

So I tried to flash a couple of builds of 4.2.2 Cyanogenmod, but they didn't work and returned errors. CM 10.0 stable build works just fine though.

 

[spacepanda]

So I tried to flash a couple of builds of 4.2.2 Cyanogenmod, but they didn't work and returned errors. CM 10.0 stable build works just fine though.

try dirty flashing 4.2.2 over that

 

[evanrobinson85]

didn't work for me.

 

[spacepanda]

In the thread over there it says you must update the firmware. I'll look into that when I'm home.

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[funkylogik]

Whats "dirty flashing" peeps? Flashing without a wipe?

 

[XAL2]

Whats "dirty flashing" peeps? Flashing without a wipe?

Yes sir.

 

[evanrobinson85]

In reference to my didn't work comment, I was referring to flashing cm 10.0 it threw errors. what recovery and version are you using. .?

 

[FatalIll]

Whats "dirty flashing" peeps? Flashing without a wipe?

Dirty flashing is flashing without doing a clean wipe. You wipe cache & dalvik cache and then flash your new rom. It retains data, settings and apps for the most part flashing this way.

 

[other gus]

I've posted about that same exact CMod forums post before...like sean and some other posters above, I was at a loss when the OP of that thread failed to return and explain his method for flashing.

Like someone said, he mentions updating the firmware to MD4, but I have no clue how to do that...does anyone know? (And a sidenote - my firmware is MD7, so is it technically a downgrade?)

What I suspect (and this is a wild guess) is that you need to flash MD4 (that refers to the latest Sprint firmware, btw, just found that out) for its JB bootloader. I'm guessing our stock firmware has an ICS bootloader, that's why the asset failure errors occur.

If anyone knows anything about getting to MD4, or wants to find out how, please see my post HERE.

 

[spacepanda]

that guess seems pretty on point to me. might try it, want to do some research first.

 

[other gus]

that guess seems pretty on point to me. might try it, want to do some research first.

I got it all working...as far as I can tell everything that I posted was right.

I'm gonna start working on an in-depth tutorial tonight with all the research I did so that hopefully not only will people be able to install CM10.1 but they'll also start to get to know the terminology that's used with the GS3.

Note: My MMS isn't working. I'm not sure if that's just how it is...I know that on other VM phones there are MMS fixes - if anyone knows of one for the GS3 I'd love to be able to include it in my tutorial.