virgin mobile Samsung galaxy s3 rooted

[steveazusa]

Hi my phone is rooted stock and i can't update it through the factory update since i deleted most of the factory apps so my thing was can i flash a stock rom zip over my stock rooted phone so i have all the factory apps? Or will this brick my phone i also have stock recovery btw

 

[GSDer]

Well if you're using the stock Recovery software then you can't use it to flash the stock ROM zip file. Odin won't flash a zip file either. You'll have to find the tar file or equivalent for Odin.

Or you could use the Kies software to reload the stock firmware.

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[steveazusa]

How do i reload the stock firmware through kies?

 

[GSDer]

Basically:
- install Kies
- run it once (it'll update to the latest version)
- put phone in Download mode and connect it to PC and let drivers install
- in Kies, select the second item in the Tools menu (something like Emergency firmware update and Initialisation)
- follow the prompts (model number and IMEI can be found under the battery; be sure to enter the model number in CAPS)

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[steveazusa]

Dude! Thanks it worked! Thought that annoying pop up of update firmware would never go away! From now on I'm freezing those annoying factory apps

 

[GSDer]

From now on I'm freezing those annoying factory apps

You can certainly do that - I just ended up disabling all of the apps that appeared to be useless, although there were a handful that I couldn't disable (unrooted at the moment). For the amount of memory that the handful were using it wasn't a big deal to me. YMMV.

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[GSDer]

BTW, here's all the stuff that I disabled on my Verizon S3 (4.1.2, MF1):
Accessories
AllShare Play
Caller Name ID
Exchange services
Google+
Media Hub
Music Hub
MusicFX
Picasa Uploader
S Suggest
S Voice
Samsung account
SNS
Stock Daemon(EUR)
Swype
Sync Service
Talk
Verizon Tones
VZ Navigator
Weather Daemon(EUR)
Weather Widget Main
Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! News

The ones that I couldn't disable (unrooted) that I wanted to check out were:
AllShare Service
Backup+ Media
Factory Mode
NewBayService
PageBuddyNotiSvc
Verizon Remote Diagnostics

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