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Root [Virgin Mobile] VM Galaxy S III - Android 4.3 Confirmed

King19xx said:
tried searching but still cant find it
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oh well, bummer.... Thank you very much for looking, i suppose i'll just have to wait to get a notification of my own...

As soon as i get a notification & find that ZIP i'll rip it up and make it useful. Thanks again for all your help.
 
punkmaxx said:
oh well, bummer.... Thank you very much for looking, i suppose i'll just have to wait to get a notification of my own...

As soon as i get a notification & find that ZIP i'll rip it up and make it useful. Thanks again for all your help.
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No problem anything to help the community
 
punkmaxx said:
I'm in WV too... Maybe we have to wait longer than the metropolitan areas...
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Did you try going to settings, update, samsung software? came up for me, but I'm rooted so I won't download it just yet. I'm in wheeling wv. Also any idea when will your rom have 4.3? so rooters can have 4.3?
 
Wired66 said:
I would wait updating to 4.3 until we have a updated .zip with Knox removed. Most likely the 4.3 update has the Knox Boot loader. Checked the sprint forums and Knox is confirmed for them.
Here is some info about Knox that I got from the XDA's sprint galaxy s3 forum.

"What does voiding Knox mean? Boot loader flag goes from 0x0 to 0x1

FLASHING A: CUSTOM KERNEL or CUSTOM RECOVERY on MK3 boot loader VOIDS KNOX
CANNOT DOWNGRADE TO OLDER FIRMWARE!
Composed of an OS side and firmware (bootloader-side) implementation. Apps (OS components) can be removed, but the firmware components CANNOT.

You can still root on the new firmware...but you can't flash a custom recovery or custom kernel, or else you will trip Knox"
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noob language please lol
 
Wired66 said:
If you install a custom recovery Virgin Mobile will know if you ever try to return your phone. I'm not positive, but I think you still will be able to flash the phone if you don't care about the warranty.
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lol I hope not that would drastically suck. As our phones aren't like the Evo V 4g which is impossible to brick.
 
Higgs_Boson said:
The last leaked update schedule was nearly spot on for updates.

If VM bothered to update us to 4.3, maybe they'll be kind enough to give us 4.4 (especially with them being a Spring subsidiary).

ALLEGED LEAK SCHEDULE FOR 4.4

Leaked Samsung Memo Points to January KitKat Release for Galaxy S 4 and Note 3, S III and Note II by April – xda-developers
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I just wish I had the stock 4.4 Kit Kat phone and dialer. The rest of touchwiz I would love to keep. especially the motion gestures and stuff like that.
 
Darien153 said:
I just wish I had the stock 4.4 Kit Kat phone and dialer. The rest of touchwiz I would love to keep. especially the motion gestures and stuff like that.
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As long as you've updated Google Search (Google Now) and Google Play Services in the Play Story, you could always download the KitKat launcher. I did this and it relieves a little bit of the Touchwiz ugliness.
 
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