[WARN]I do not take responsibility for any part of the creating, developing or promoting AOKP. All I am here to do is post a link to where you can find AOKP ROMs for your Verizon GS3. I also do not take any responsibility to what you do to your phone. You flash these ROMs at your will and there is always a risk when doing so. Please be careful and do so at your own risk.[/WARN]
[INFO]This will require that you have an unlocked bootloader on your GS3. If you have not unlocked your bootloader I suggest that you back out of this thread and follow the many guides to unlock your bootloader. If you do not unlock your bootloader you will get a softbrick. You also should have a knowledge on how to use your manual recovery. I do not endorse using ROM Manager or any other programs to flash ROMs.
This is a Jelly Bean AOSP based ROM. This means that you will not have ANY of the TouchWiz applications or theming items on the device. If you don't know what AOSP looks like, look at what a Galaxy Nexus looks like and that is pretty much it. The reason this requires and unlocked bootloader is because the kernel is changed because of Jelly Bean. That is why it is so important to emphasize unlocking your bootloader. [/INFO]
[NOTE]The first boot will take longer than any other boot, don't panic. Let it sit and do its own thing and once it fully boots up you should be good to go and go through the activation process like usual. In Build 3 when I personally tested, there was no problems activating data service. Make sure that you IMEI numbers are all there and your phone number matches under the phone info tab of the settings and you should be good to go.[/NOTE]
[WARN]If you use Titanium Backup only restore USER APPS. Do not, I repeat DO NOT restore system data or for that matter any user installed app data unless you know what you are restoring. Restoring system data can result in force closes of Android System among other problems. I would recommend that you only restore your user installed applications.[/WARN]
[TIP]Some tweaks that I had to make since flashing AOKP Build 3 are as follows:
Aside from those tweaks, Build 3 has been a pretty solid build so far.
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[NOTE]If there are any questions or concerns please post them here. As a community we are here to help and will always be glad to lend a helping hand to solve any problems that you have. Note this though... these are not perfect builds. There are bound to be bugs and some things that don't work just right. Unfortunately its the nature of the beast of ROM flashing. If you have a phone that you need working 100% and have all the features working 100% I would recommend you flash a ROM that is ICS/TW based that is more like stock.[/NOTE]
[INFO]This will require that you have an unlocked bootloader on your GS3. If you have not unlocked your bootloader I suggest that you back out of this thread and follow the many guides to unlock your bootloader. If you do not unlock your bootloader you will get a softbrick. You also should have a knowledge on how to use your manual recovery. I do not endorse using ROM Manager or any other programs to flash ROMs.
This is a Jelly Bean AOSP based ROM. This means that you will not have ANY of the TouchWiz applications or theming items on the device. If you don't know what AOSP looks like, look at what a Galaxy Nexus looks like and that is pretty much it. The reason this requires and unlocked bootloader is because the kernel is changed because of Jelly Bean. That is why it is so important to emphasize unlocking your bootloader. [/INFO]
AOKP Jelly Bean Download Information
You are going to need two files when you are flashing this ROM. You are going to need the actual AOKP build file and the GAPPS files. These files are listed below:
AOKP Builds: AOKP on GOO.IM
AOKP Builds Alt Link: AOKP on Android Transfer
GAPPS: Jelly Bean GAPPS
Right now for the GS3 there are only two build, Build 2 and Build 3. AOKP does not do many nightly builds, if anything we will see builds every couple of days if not every couple weeks. They prefer to release builds less frequently but include more updates per build. This is as of recent history, in the ICS days they have nightly builds. We may see nightly builds, we may not.
Process of Flashing AOKP
This is my recommended process of flashing AOKP:
- Download AOKP/GAPPS and place them in an easy to find location
- Backup your apps with Titanium Backup if you use Tibu
- Reboot your device into recovery
- Perform a nandroid back up if you don't already have one set up
- Perform full wipe: Factory reset/wipe cache/wipe dalvik/wipe system
- Flash AOKP build
- Flash GAPPS
- Reboot and profit
[NOTE]The first boot will take longer than any other boot, don't panic. Let it sit and do its own thing and once it fully boots up you should be good to go and go through the activation process like usual. In Build 3 when I personally tested, there was no problems activating data service. Make sure that you IMEI numbers are all there and your phone number matches under the phone info tab of the settings and you should be good to go.[/NOTE]
[WARN]If you use Titanium Backup only restore USER APPS. Do not, I repeat DO NOT restore system data or for that matter any user installed app data unless you know what you are restoring. Restoring system data can result in force closes of Android System among other problems. I would recommend that you only restore your user installed applications.[/WARN]
[TIP]Some tweaks that I had to make since flashing AOKP Build 3 are as follows:
- Change WiFi sleep policy to never, was defaulted to always
- Change WiFi region code to United States
- Uncheck avoid poor connections
- Check Disable HW Overlays under Developer Options to stop occasional screen flickering
Aside from those tweaks, Build 3 has been a pretty solid build so far.
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[NOTE]If there are any questions or concerns please post them here. As a community we are here to help and will always be glad to lend a helping hand to solve any problems that you have. Note this though... these are not perfect builds. There are bound to be bugs and some things that don't work just right. Unfortunately its the nature of the beast of ROM flashing. If you have a phone that you need working 100% and have all the features working 100% I would recommend you flash a ROM that is ICS/TW based that is more like stock.[/NOTE]
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