odin now crashes when I press start

[crbdave2000]

I have a sprint samsung galaxy s3 ( SPH-L710 ) that I upgraded to android 4.3 using kies. A few days ago I tried to root the phone by following the directions here : How to Root Galaxy S3 (Sprint) SPH-L710 on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean Firmware - Honai of Android . The procedure went exactly as described until the very end at which point I installed a root checker which told me that I don't have root access. According to comments following the directions, other people have seen the same problem.

Yesterday, I attempted to apply the trwp recovery rom ( openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.1-d2spr.tar ) . Now however, when I attempt to use odin to apply this, odin crashes, instantly, when I press "Start" to initiate the transfer.

Note that odin *did* work when I attempted to root the first time.

Does anyone have any suggestions regarding how to proceed? I would still like to root the phone but I don't know what the next steps should be ( it probably would be useful to be able to get odin working though ).

Right now the phone is working fine.

Thanks.

 

[UJ95x]

Which Odin version were you using? I'd recommend using another version of it to see if that helps.
Use v1.85 if it didn't work on 3.07 or vice versa

 

[crbdave2000]

Which Odin version were you using? I'd recommend using another version of it to see if that helps.
Use v1.85 if it didn't work on 3.07 or vice versa

I tried 1.85 and got the same results. Here's a screenshot from the 1.85 attempt at the time of failure.

 

[UJ95x]

Ok, is it only happening when trying to flash TWRP?

 

[crbdave2000]

That's all I've tried. I don't mind trying other things but it seems like I'm putting my phone at some risk every time I do this so I would like to make intelligent choices about what I try to flash ( or at least not make bad choices )

 

[UJ95x]

No worries. Would you be willing to try ClockwordMod to see if that works?

 

[crbdave2000]

No worries. Would you be willing to try ClockwordMod to see if that works?

It worked! Thanks!

For the record, here's what I did:

• Downloaded recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.4.3-d2spr.img from here: ClockworkMod ROM Manager - Recoveries
• In a cygwin bash shell did the following:

cp recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.4.3-d2spr.img recovery.img
tar -H ustar -c recovery.img > recovery.tar
​

• Used odin 3.07 to flash the recovery.tar file ( see attached screenshot )

I used the touch version of clockworkmod because I saw that someone else had a similar problem and was able to make things work using the touch version: [Q] Odin 1.85 -- Crashing when hitting "Start" (trying to root 4.0.4) - xda-developers ( but I don't know if that mattered or not ).

The img to tar conversion technique came from here: Clockwork Mod Recovery - Odin Flashable



Thanks again!

 

[UJ95x]

It worked! Thanks!

For the record, here's what I did:

• Downloaded recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.4.3-d2spr.img from here: ClockworkMod ROM Manager - Recoveries
• In a cygwin bash shell did the following:

cp recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.4.3-d2spr.img recovery.img
tar -H ustar -c recovery.img > recovery.tar
​

• Used odin 3.07 to flash the recovery.tar file ( see attached screenshot )

I used the touch version of clockworkmod because I saw that someone else had a similar problem and was able to make things work using the touch version: [Q] Odin 1.85 -- Crashing when hitting "Start" (trying to root 4.0.4) - xda-developers ( but I don't know if that mattered or not ).

The img to tar conversion technique came from here: Clockwork Mod Recovery - Odin Flashable

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Thanks again!

No problem
Glad you got that to work, good luck with getting rooted :thumbup:

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