Samsung S3 to stock

[Dolby]

I want to give my helper my old Samsung S3 - but around 4 years back, a technical friend of mine flashed it with custom (very cool!) Android. I'd like to give it to her stock.

In baby step terms - what do I need to download to do it? I remember Kies was a program mentioned and then the software in this link?

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/galaxy-s3-i9300-gets-official-port-android-4-4-4-kitkat-update-1467538

 

[phoneJunky]

On my phone now, so I can just give you the starting point

Download Odin

Then go to sammobile.com and download the official version you want

Then power your s3 up in download mode. I think it is either home+power+volume up key or the same combo but the down key

Then open up Odin and connect your s3

Then you can flash it by choosing pda and pointing it to the file you downloaded from sammobile.

Will look for a link with photos in for you

 

[phoneJunky]

http://www.technobezz.com/flash-stock-rom-via-odin-samsung-galaxy-s3/

But I used to get my firmware from sammoble insted

 

[phoneJunky]

AFAIR you cant use KIES if you have a custom rom on your phone

 

[Dolby]

Ok will get Odin! Thanks!

EDIT : I didn't know there were so many S3s

2015-12-07 South Africa (Vodafone) 4.3 I9300XXUGNB6 I9300OJVGNB3 YES
2015-08-10 South Africa (Vodafone) I9300XXEMA2 I9300OJVEMA1 NO
2015-08-10 South Africa (Vodafone) 4.1.1 I9300XXDLJ1 I9300OJVDLJ2 NO
2015-08-10 South Africa (Vodafone) 4.0.4 I9300XXBLFB I9300OJVBLF3 NO
2015-08-10 South Africa (Vodafone) 4.0.4 I9300XXALE9 I9300OJVALE9 NO

 

[phoneJunky]

Just remember to choose the correct options in the options tab

And I would just take the newest one.

 

[genetic]

Ok will get Odin! Thanks!

EDIT : I didn't know there were so many S3s

2015-12-07 South Africa (Vodafone) 4.3 I9300XXUGNB6 I9300OJVGNB3 YES
2015-08-10 South Africa (Vodafone) I9300XXEMA2 I9300OJVEMA1 NO
2015-08-10 South Africa (Vodafone) 4.1.1 I9300XXDLJ1 I9300OJVDLJ2 NO
2015-08-10 South Africa (Vodafone) 4.0.4 I9300XXBLFB I9300OJVBLF3 NO
2015-08-10 South Africa (Vodafone) 4.0.4 I9300XXALE9 I9300OJVALE9 NO

Those are not different S3's. They're different firmware releases.

Use the latest JB 4.3.

 

[Dolby]

Sorry if these don't resize ; using app. But it seems my menu is different too

 

[genetic]

That's the recovery. Did you flash the stock ROM via Odin?

It will overwrite the custom recovery.

 

[Dolby]

Someone did it for me years back. No clue what was done, or how

I was very happy - but when I give it away, I need stock. So I don't mind deleting everything

 

[genetic]

Flash the stock ROM via Odin as PhoneJunky said, it will return everything to stock.

Just do this;

- Go to download mode by powering your phone off and pressing home and volume down keys together until you see the warning screen.

- Plug your phone into the USB cable and into your PC with Odin running.

- You should see the phone listed in Odin. Select 'PDA' button and select the 'tar.md5' archive you downloaded. If the download is a ZIP file, unzip it. make sure 'Re-Partition' is unchecked before flashing.

- Press start and wait for Odin to flash your phone with the stock ROM. It’ll take a few minutes but once it’s completed you should get a green 'PASS' message in Odin. Your phone should now automatically reboot.

That's it. Phone back to stock.

 

[backstreetboy]

I want to give my helper my old Samsung S3 - but around 4 years back, a technical friend of mine flashed it with custom (very cool!) Android. I'd like to give it to her stock.

In baby step terms - what do I need to download to do it? I remember Kies was a program mentioned and then the software in this link?

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/galaxy-s3-i9300-gets-official-port-android-4-4-4-kitkat-update-1467538

Why go back to stock? It's not going to get any security updates. Rather flash the latest Cyanogenmod Snapshot - http://download.cyanogenmod.org/get/jenkins/144360/cm-11-20160115-SNAPSHOT-XNH0E0O00N-i9300.zip

 

[genetic]

Why go back to stock? It's not going to get any security updates. Rather flash the latest Cyanogenmod Snapshot - http://download.cyanogenmod.org/get/jenkins/144360/cm-11-20160115-SNAPSHOT-XNH0E0O00N-i9300.zip

Stock Samsung is a lot more user friendly to the non-experienced smartphone user than Cyanogenmod, even though CM would be my first choice too.

 

[backstreetboy]

CM is just stock Android with a few addons. Fail to see how it's harder to master then Touchwiz...

 

[Dolby]

Stock 4.3

There's actually a download mode when I press the power button. Didn't need to reboot

EDIT : Aside from over saturated screen and eye popping colours, this wasn't a bad little phone now that I'm playing with it !

 

[genetic]

EDIT : Aside from over saturated screen and eye popping colours, this wasn't a bad little phone now that I'm playing with it !

Go to Settings -> Display -> Screen Mode -> and select Natural for a more colour accurate rendition of the display.

 

[Dolby]

Got it - thanks !