Hello all!
I am a noob so apologies in advance if this is not where it should be and not described how it should be.
My father in law yesterday had an galaxy s3 lte i9305 Orange upgrade and gave it to me! I however am on Vodafone so with my tiny little brain I set out to flash the phone with a Portuguese Vodafone firmware! This has not allowed me to use my UK Vodafone SIM and now left the phone with the custom firmware.
Is there any way at all I can reload the original UK firmware in order to sell the phone??
Any immediate help will be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks
Nick
willy6182 said:
Hello all!
I am a noob so apologies in advance if this is not where it should be and not described how it should be.
My father in law yesterday had an galaxy s3 lte i9305 Orange upgrade and gave it to me! I however am on Vodafone so with my tiny little brain I set out to flash the phone with a Portuguese Vodafone firmware! This has not allowed me to use my UK Vodafone SIM and now left the phone with the custom firmware.
Is there any way at all I can reload the original UK firmware in order to sell the phone??
Any immediate help will be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks
Nick
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yeah no worries
just flash the ODIN version of the original firmware
will take you less than 5 minutes
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646610
winwiz said:
yeah no worries
just flash the ODIN version of the original firmware
will take you less than 5 minutes
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646610
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As of now, there are no original firmware from UK for the GT-I9305.
kazuni said:
As of now, there are no original firmware from UK for the GT-I9305.
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oh shoot
you are right! OP try samfirmware to see if they have a dump of the official firmware
willy6182 said:
Hello all!
I am a noob so apologies in advance if this is not where it should be and not described how it should be.
My father in law yesterday had an galaxy s3 lte i9305 Orange upgrade and gave it to me! I however am on Vodafone so with my tiny little brain I set out to flash the phone with a Portuguese Vodafone firmware! This has not allowed me to use my UK Vodafone SIM and now left the phone with the custom firmware.
Is there any way at all I can reload the original UK firmware in order to sell the phone??
Any immediate help will be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks
Nick
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You don't have to sell it unless that is what you want to do.
You can have it SIM unlocked for about £17 on web.
winwiz said:
oh shoot
you are right! OP try samfirmware to see if they have a dump of the official firmware
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Thanks guys for you responces! I have looked at samifirmware but can only see firmwares from outside of the UK. Do I have any options to try and restore it to its original firmware??
what a plonker!
thanks again.
willy6182 said:
Thanks guys for you responces! I have looked at samifirmware but can only see firmwares from outside of the UK. Do I have any options to try and restore it to its original firmware??
what a plonker!
thanks again.
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Take a look at this firmware. It's labeled "Sweden", but under regions, it also says UK. Should work, I guess.
winwiz said:
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you are right! OP try samfirmware to see if they have a dump of the official firmware
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YOSEFE said:
You don't have to sell it unless that is what you want to do.
You can have it SIM unlocked for about £17 on web.
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I did have a brief look at this but none of the sites I looked at had the s3 lte just the s3 as an option, are the unlock codes likely to be the same?
I will try this now. The portuguise version I have has th UK option but a few portuguise apps also download and the default language is obviously portuguise. I really would like to restore it to original if there is a way.
thank you very much for taking the time to respond.
Nick
willy6182 said:
I will try this now. The portuguise version I have has th UK option but a few portuguise apps also download and the default language is obviously portuguise. I really would like to restore it to original if there is a way.
thank you very much for taking the time to respond.
Nick
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Yes the sim unlock for the S3 works on our lte.
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda app-developers app
YOSEFE said:
Yes the sim unlock for the S3 works on our lte.
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda app-developers app
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brilliant, thanks for confirming it does!
I have uploaded the Swedish firmware and it looks great! does not come with any Swedish apps or advertising!
thank you everyone for you help and being patient with a noob!
You can get the codes on ebay for about £10
Hi guys, I'm a big n00b in terms of flashing as well.
I'll get a i9305 from Hong Kong in a few days, which obviously will have a HK firmware on it. The problem with that firmware is that it only supports 6 languages. I live in Norway and want my phone to be in Norwegian so I wonder if those firmwares from the UK support all languages or only the language of the region included?
Thanks in advance.
To restore original UK Rom download checkfus from the market and write down all the info for pda phone and csc etc and enter them on the pc checkfus app and download the Odin Rom from there!
Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk 2
unlocker dont work on the uk version had to pay for a code £24.99
Try this
willy6182 said:
Hello all!
I am a noob so apologies in advance if this is not where it should be and not described how it should be.
My father in law yesterday had an galaxy s3 lte i9305 Orange upgrade and gave it to me! I however am on Vodafone so with my tiny little brain I set out to flash the phone with a Portuguese Vodafone firmware! This has not allowed me to use my UK Vodafone SIM and now left the phone with the custom firmware.
Is there any way at all I can reload the original UK firmware in order to sell the phone??
Any immediate help will be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks
Nick
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If you want to install the official Everything Everywhere (Orange) LTE firmware, download and run Check4us. This lets you choose model and region then provides firmware options. Select the UK version, download, flash with ODIN and you are done. All back and working as a new Orange set up. As it's a vanilla Samsung install you might find it works for Vodafone although you will need to search the web for Vodafone APN settings and update the phone accordingly.
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Hello
I have a s3 on orange
And I can't update the phone. Kies says there is a update but it just loads a blank screen when I click ok. I've installed it with the driver and installed it to no joy. There is also no software update on the phone either!
Any ideas?
I'm on EE and there is no update, I upgraded with this as it gives you root but it is still stock, no increase in the counter and it shows that it is original in all the settings.
Done and dusted in thirteen minutes with no worries.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942150
Raistlin1158 said:
I'm on EE and there is no update, I upgraded with this as it gives you root but it is still stock, no increase in the counter and it shows that it is original in all the settings.
Done and dusted in thirteen minutes with no worries.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942150
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Hi Raistlin,
I'm on a HongKong StockROM (TGY), and would like to switch to a StockROM that offers also Dutch as a selectable language.
Does the EE ROM have that? On SamMobile the EE ROM info mentions Belgium in the supported regions, however not Holland. By the way my provider is T-Mobile.
Regards, [email protected]
[email protected] said:
Hi Raistlin,
I'm on a HongKong StockROM (TGY), and would like to switch to a StockROM that offers also Dutch as a selectable language.
Does the EE ROM have that? On SamMobile the EE ROM info mentions Belgium in the supported regions, however not Holland. By the way my provider is T-Mobile.
Regards, [email protected]
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Just checked for you and yes it does :good:
Raistlin1158 said:
Just checked for you and yes it does :good:
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Hi Raistlin,
Just flashed JGS's pre-rooted latest Nordic ROM, went effortlessly, also supporting Dutch.
Thanks for support.
Can someone who has an unbranded Xperia Z with UK FW please dump/create a FTF and post the ROM here?
The only generic FW posted here is from a demo device unfortunately.
Thanks.
I got mine from Carphone Warehouse earlier today and I haven't touched it yet so I might be able to help. Not sure how to make a ftf from it though..
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Have you Tickled Your Android lately?
(tinyurl.com/ticklemyandroid)
That'd be awesome though it's a bit of work...
The basic instructions are here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27031352
Note that doing this WILL re-flash your phone (because the update can't be stopped after it has downloaded) so you may not want to go ahead.
You will also need to use the beta Flashtool for Xperia Z to actually decrypt the files. Then you can load them up in full Flashtool and proceed to make FTF out of it (I think, didn't do this myself, I stopped after decrypting them).
I would suggest not doing this if you're not tech savvy.
+1 for this, im expecting mine to be vodafone branded, that'll annoy me pretty quickly!
frankie99969 said:
+1 for this, im expecting mine to be vodafone branded, that'll annoy me pretty quickly!
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In the meantime you can safely flash the French generic firmware posted here. It's full-retail and I've been using it. As all firmwares in this part of the world are multilingual anyway there isn't much difference.
But yeah, UK FW would be nice...
Question: if I flash non-branded firmware (French for example) and then use Sony Update Service to re-install my firmware, which firmware will it download? French unbranded? The branded one I had before from my carrier? UK unbranded?
lloydbf said:
In the meantime you can safely flash the French generic firmware posted here. It's full-retail and I've been using it. As all firmwares in this part of the world are multilingual anyway there isn't much difference.
But yeah, UK FW would be nice...
Question: if I flash non-branded firmware (French for example) and then use Sony Update Service to re-install my firmware, which firmware will it download? French unbranded? The branded one I had before from my carrier? UK unbranded?
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It will read your current version, so if you flashed french, SUS would give you french
lloydbf said:
That'd be awesome though it's a bit of work...
The basic instructions are here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27031352
Note that doing this WILL re-flash your phone (because the update can't be stopped after it has downloaded) so you may not want to go ahead.
You will also need to use the beta Flashtool for Xperia Z to actually decrypt the files. Then you can load them up in full Flashtool and proceed to make FTF out of it (I think, didn't do this myself, I stopped after decrypting them).
I would suggest not doing this if you're not tech savvy.
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frankie99969 said:
+1 for this, im expecting mine to be vodafone branded, that'll annoy me pretty quickly!
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Looks simple enough. I'll have a look at doing this in a little while. At the moment, I'm just doing some modding of SystemUI which I'll post about when I'm done. Then I can sort this out for you.
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lloydbf said:
Note that doing this WILL re-flash your phone (because the update can't be stopped after it has downloaded)
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Wrong. Simply unplug after the download is complete and your device will remain untouched.
lloydbf said:
Question: if I flash non-branded firmware (French for example) and then use Sony Update Service to re-install my firmware, which firmware will it download?
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It re-downloads the currently running one. If you already reflashed the phone and didnt note down your SI you may never go fully back to stock if you cant find the FTF of the exact firmware you were originally running.
Posted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38678748#post38678748
lloydbf said:
Posted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=38678748#post38678748
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awesome
hi can anyone point me in the right direction,i need to bring my sg3 back to stock to sell it many thanks
You best bet would be the S3 toolkit found in the android development section. Does it all for you
Vengeance
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-I9305
Grab your region's version, then flash via Odin.
I find it easier to not flash the latest version, but to an older version (4.1.1) just to make it feel "Stock-ier".
Snowstormzzz said:
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-I9305
Grab your region's version, then flash via Odin.
I find it easier to not flash the latest version, but to an older version (4.1.1) just to make it feel "Stock-ier".
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my version is not on list 19305BVBLL2 ?
westentertainer said:
my version is not on list 19305BVBLL2 ?
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That looks like your baseband... Find the ART code on your box, the last three letters is your original CSC.
CalInTheZone said:
That looks like your baseband... Find the ART code on your box, the last three letters is your original CSC.
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cant seem to see them on the box any where exactly should i be looking
The sticker with your IMEI.
Find your region/provider instead.
dont want to sound like a muppet where do i find region etc
just get the latest version, the region doesn't matter
Glebun;38829008. said:
just get the latest version, the region doesn't matter
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is this ok com-GT-I9305-TEN-I9305XXBMB5-1361437678
it's for the i9305, so it's OK
Glebun said:
it's for the i9305, so it's OK
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Perhaps in the east that is more than alight. But here if it's not the original CSC and there is no record of a service centre changing it you are screwed.
CalInTheZone said:
Perhaps in the east that is more than alight. But here if it's not the original CSC and there is no record of a service centre changing it you are screwed.
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im in the UK
he didn't say he wants to keep the warranty.
csc for the UK is BTU
Glebun said:
he didn't say he wants to keep the warranty.
csc for the UK is BTU
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sorry cant see BTU on the list
Glebun said:
he didn't say he wants to keep the warranty.
csc for the UK is BTU
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I9305 has nu BTU since all 9305's in UK are sold through providers.
westentertainer said:
sorry cant see BTU on the list
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See my answer to Glebun, but look at your box or tell us your provider (the provider the phone was bought from)
CalInTheZone said:
I9305 has nu BTU since all 9305's in UK are sold through providers.
See my answer to Glebun, but look at your box or tell us your provider (the provider the phone was bought from)
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t mobile uk
TMU is your CSC. But can't find any firmware, try FUS.
H3G is uk
please can some help me with this I looking for a unbranded stock rom for a Samsung galaxy s3 lte international 4.1.2 is there such a thing.
if not then what is a good rom to use that keep unlock and allows me to change the csc as mine right now as TIM on it witch is single csc for italy
jackdor said:
please can some help me with this I looking for a unbranded stock rom for a Samsung galaxy s3 lte international 4.1.2 is there such a thing.
if not then what is a good rom to use that keep unlock and allows me to change the csc as mine right now as TIM on it witch is single csc for italy
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Use this, it's unbranded and pre rooted but pure stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942150
Raistlin1158 said:
Use this, it's unbranded and pre rooted but pure stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942150
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thanks for your help but they are old roms was looking for stock only no root and the most upto date 4.1.2
jackdor said:
thanks for your help but they are old roms was looking for stock only no root and the most upto date 4.1.2
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Then go here and take your pick...
http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=GT-I9305
thank but there is no unbranded uk rom. I take it that there is know roms for the uk that are unbranded.
jackdor said:
thank but there is no unbranded uk rom. I take it that there is know roms for the uk that are unbranded.
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if it's a unbranded rom you want, it doesn't have to be UK.
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thank but there is no unbranded uk rom. I take it that there is know roms for the uk that are unbranded.
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Yes there are UNBRANDED Uk roms all posted on above sites .
Possible you do not understand the term branded ???
JJEgan said:
Yes there are UNBRANDED Uk roms all posted on above sites .
Possible you do not understand the term branded ???
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as I understand it branded roms have bloat apps from the carrier unbranded as no bloat apps . plus some have a logo on start up.
i have checked and all the rom i see for uk are from carriers like ee,t mob,3,o2.
so heres what i am looking for a uk rom with multi csc that will keep my factory unlock. i have look ever were and cant find anything that helps me.
here what i have a unbranded unlocked international Samsung g3 lte with single csc witch is TIM that as i understand it is from Italy.
jackdor said:
as I understand it branded roms have bloat apps from the carrier unbranded as no bloat apps . plus some have a logo on start up.
i have checked and all the rom i see for uk are from carriers like ee,t mob,3,o2.
so heres what i am looking for a uk rom with multi csc that will keep my factory unlock. i have look ever were and cant find anything that helps me.
here what i have a unbranded unlocked international Samsung g3 lte with single csc witch is TIM that as i understand it is from Italy.
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A little understanding is a dangerous thing.... Why ask if you don't want to take the advice....
The EE Rom has no bloat ware and is multi csc know I use it, Now I suggest that you listen or better still read and do your own research as when people are bothered to help you its not polite to throw the results in their faces...
Raistlin1158 said:
A little understanding is a dangerous thing.... Why ask if you don't want to take the advice....
The EE Rom has no bloat ware and is multi csc know I use it, Now I suggest that you listen or better still read and do your own research as when people are bothered to help you its not polite to throw the results in their faces...
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i thanked those who tried to help as i thank you for your help. i have read so much in the last week my head going to explode lol. its good to get confirmation for all the reading from someone who as done what i am trying to do. i asked the question but if the advice don't help then i state why it did not help and then clarify the question i did not mean to be rude in anyway.
as your advice is to the point and answers my question and confirms to me what i have read then thank you for your advice i will use the EE rom i just don't want f things up because i didn't ask
Hi I've got a UK G973 S10 and although its unlocked it's on three network so there branding and bloat.
Is there any way to flash a sim free rom without voiding warranty or affecting Knox.
If so how? I'm not good at these things but would like to sort this out
Any help will be muchly appreciated.
Thanks
vimto25 said:
Hi I've got a UK G973 S10 and although its unlocked it's on three network so there branding and bloat.
Is there any way to flash a sim free rom without voiding warranty or affecting Knox.
If so how? I'm not good at these things but would like to sort this out
Any help will be muchly appreciated.
Thanks
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Yes with Odin and the official unbranded ROM of your country.
There is a site with all the available official ROMs
(Samsung firmware .com or something).
But you'll need to check that
1. It's available,
2. Odin is available.
I haven't checked to be honest
And you should find plenty of tutorials on XDA and YouTube.
vimto25 said:
Sorry admin I posted this in the wrong section please could you move this to the correct section
Thank you
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Odin+samfirmware=done