Recent content by Jamie Bass2

Thanks everyone for your help! I have the phone rooted. Now I am trying to unlock... help?!

My best friend's mom gave it to me. It was her son's phone. So I don't think I meet the requirements. I will have to root I believe.

t-mobile wants $400 for the unlock code. So I'm going to root. I've heard that will allow unlocking. Advice, opinions..? And can you link me to a good tutorial on rooting? Thanks!

Ok, I will do that. I read that 4.1.1 came with the network unlock feature.

Did the galaxy s3 stock firmware have the unlock feature that was in 4.1?

I was able to recover the phone and upgrade it to 4.3 with Kies. It took a while but it just finished. I want to downgrade to 4.1.1 and I pretty much get how to use Odin to do so. I'm currently downloading the 4.1.1 zip file. If I go from 4.3 to 4.1 will it 'brick' it again? (I want 4.1.1 so...

I do have the 'warranty bit'. I just looked.

I believe that was it. Like I said, I'm new. Thank you guys for your help. I already signed up for sammobile :) I have everything, just not sure what to do. I have the stock 4.0 downloaded. Could I use that? The phone is on the "firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery...

Yes, I updated it to 4.2 first. Then found that I needed to restore it to stock firmware. How would I go about fixing it? I have Odin and kies. If you don't mind, could you break it down into steps please? Thank you lots!

I had 4.2 I hadn't updated because I saw that it worked with 4.1.1

I attempted (as a beginner) to restore a galaxy s3 to factory firmware (4.0). I used Odin v3.07. Here are my problems: -The phone is stuck on the Samsung Logo screen (with the flashing blue light around logo). -I cannot go into any mode at all (recovery, download, etc). -Samsung Kies will not...