mylittlebambam
Newbie
Hi 
Alright, so, yesterday, I (stupidly) made an attempt to root my Virgin Mobile GS3 using mrrobinson's Sprint tutorial on xda developers - not thinking that it'd be much of a problem, given that Sprint and VM are essentially the same company. According to Odin, my phone passed the root process, but it wouldn't boot up. When I tried to boot it normally, all it did was hang on the Galaxy S3 screen indefinitely. Every time I tried to access the recovery menu, it would tell me that the cache was unable to mount or open because it 'didn't exist'. Removed my SD card, got the same message. Tried to factory restore, it was unsuccessful. Thinking my phone was bricked, I used Odin to flash Sprint firmware onto the device - which worked beautifully, phone starts up, I'm able to send and receive texts and calls, all of that. The exception to the phone working flawlessly is that data simply will not connect. I thoroughly expected something to go wrong, so it didn't come as a huge surprise. Spent a few hours last night surfing through here and found the stock VM modem. Tried to flash it today, using Odin, but it failed.
I have a few ideas for further action to take, but I really don't want to touch anything else without clearing it on here first - which I should have done in the first place, I realize.
I was thinking that, since it is Sprint firmware, I can try rooting it again using a technique made for a Sprint phone, flash the original VM firmware/modem package found here from TheBritton, and then perform the root tutorial found on this forum in order to root the device for VM. Would that work for me?
Alright, so, yesterday, I (stupidly) made an attempt to root my Virgin Mobile GS3 using mrrobinson's Sprint tutorial on xda developers - not thinking that it'd be much of a problem, given that Sprint and VM are essentially the same company. According to Odin, my phone passed the root process, but it wouldn't boot up. When I tried to boot it normally, all it did was hang on the Galaxy S3 screen indefinitely. Every time I tried to access the recovery menu, it would tell me that the cache was unable to mount or open because it 'didn't exist'. Removed my SD card, got the same message. Tried to factory restore, it was unsuccessful. Thinking my phone was bricked, I used Odin to flash Sprint firmware onto the device - which worked beautifully, phone starts up, I'm able to send and receive texts and calls, all of that. The exception to the phone working flawlessly is that data simply will not connect. I thoroughly expected something to go wrong, so it didn't come as a huge surprise. Spent a few hours last night surfing through here and found the stock VM modem. Tried to flash it today, using Odin, but it failed.
I have a few ideas for further action to take, but I really don't want to touch anything else without clearing it on here first - which I should have done in the first place, I realize.
I was thinking that, since it is Sprint firmware, I can try rooting it again using a technique made for a Sprint phone, flash the original VM firmware/modem package found here from TheBritton, and then perform the root tutorial found on this forum in order to root the device for VM. Would that work for me?
