flashing my s3 mini

[Shnorkiller]

Hi all,

I've now been battling with this for 2 days, and figured i'd now post and ask for some help.

I recent broke my iphone and have started using a friends S3 mini. i'm wanting a clean android install before i really start using the phone. i'm not a fan of samsung bloatware, and well, i just want to be able to do this now!

I have completely wiped the phone and it's fully default at the moment. I downloaded the CyanogenMod and googleapps from http://novafusion.pl/downloads/# and have put them onto the SD card as zip files.

I'm using a Mac, so i cant use odin, although i have tried Jodin3 for mac, without any luck. I have booted the phone into recovery mode and tried "apply update from external storage" i then select the cm11 zip file, try run it (ater clearing cache and wiping all data - of course) and get an e:failed to verify whole-file signature.

Am i missing something?

I'd really appreciate any assistance i can get, i'm new to android so i'm still wrapping my head around it all.

 

[Willy Strong]

How to Root Galaxy S3 on Mac OSX!

 

[Lupus]

Remember this is an S3 mini. which uses the Novathor 8500 chipset which wasn't easy to crack. You probably won't be able to use odin to flash it :-(

 

[Shnorkiller]

thanks, i eventually came right using a windows pc. the problem i was having is that device wasnt already rooted, which i then did and was able to flash cm11 onto it. (just incase anyone stumbles onto this in the future and finds this helpful)