Samsung Galaxy S3
Fleetingsamsung galaxy s3
boot on recovery
vol up + home + power
to install the system, and also magisk
boot on download mode -> to use heimdall
vol down + home + power
back to stock
i9300 back to stock, using android 4
boot on download mode -> to use heimdall, then print the PIT
- heimdall print-pit –no-reboot > pit.txt
- then find the Filename and images, like RECOVERY and recovery.img
- using that pit, create the command line to flash the stock images
heimdall flash –BOOTLOADER sboot.bin –TZSW tz.img –BOOT boot.img –RECOVERY recovery.img –RADIO modem.bin –CACHE cache.img –SYSTEM system.img –HIDDEN hidden.img
It may fail in the middle, most likely in the system image, simply remove the already uploaded ones from the command line and retry
If that happens
- unplug the phone
- force reboot the phone in download mode
- plug the phone
- heimdall flash –SYSTEM system.img –HIDDEN hidden.img
One of the firmware below worked, another went into boot loop, the other I did not try. I forgot to note which one did what.
- firmware from orange from the file -> GT-I9300_FTM_I9300XXUGNB5_I9300FTMGNB1_I9300BVUGNB2_I9300XXUGNB5.zip (some stuff from orange) (taken from https://galaxyfirmware.com/model/GT-I9300)
- some other firmware /ipfs/bafybeiet5miqpdd7ndlboe6ueqcvjtn7csu4nvocrpqchfvycaudm5bwjm?filename=GT-I9300_FTM_I9300XXUGPE1_I9300FTMGPF1_I9300BVUGNB2_I9300XXUGPE1.zip (from https://galaxyfirmware.com/model/GT-I9300)
- I cannot download from https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/galaxy-s-iii/firmware/, because it asks me to pay for it.
- from samfw SAMFW.COM_GT-I9300_BOG_I9300XXUGND5_fac.zip
lineage os 14
using android 7
web page mirror
- https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/i9300
- https://konubinix.eu/ipfs/bafybeigstobmoyghyxkjygrzyfunv4uvc22wraxvad6pvm5ola46udpp74/devices/i9300
- https://lineageosroms.com/i9300/
- https://konubinix.eu/ipfs/bafybeie5j7ebmhgpxn4vcf6mlioqz3afmoi52kjvfit35wj35mfvgn2xfe/i9300/
flash lineage-14.1-20230602-UNOFFICIAL-i9300.zip this is the last known official (from https://github.com/Mibo5354/i9300_builds/releases), before it became unofficial It was along with
lineage-14.1-20230602-UNOFFICIAL-i9300-recovery.img
lineage-14.1-20230603-UNOFFICIAL-i9300-microg.zip
- maybe flash the gapps : https://konubinix.eu/ipfs/bafybeidfg5b72rqz4to55vtbrrxbptygsubwbcbydihje47uspq7pdp7ve?filename=open_gapps-arm-7.1-nano-20220215.zip, taken from https://sourceforge.net/projects/opengapps/files/arm/20220215/open_gapps-arm-7.1-nano-20220215.zip/download?use_mirror=master&r=&use_mirror=autoselect I never tested this
- install supersu
SuperSU-v2.82-201705271822.zip
- reboot, the first boot may take 10 minutes or so
install twrp
- download the latest recovery https://eu.dl.twrp.me/i9300/
- boot on download mode -> to use heimdall,
- heimdall flash –RECOVERY recovery.img
- then, boot on recovery
lineage os 20
using android 13 taken from https://www.mhs-solutions.com/instructions-s3/
- boot on recovery,
- adb sideload 20.0-20230306-HTML6405-i9300.zip
Although, recent versions of android uses at least 1G of RAM. With only 800M, this phone barely keep up and most applications (like osmand) are closed with OOM.