Samsung Galaxy S3

Fleeting

samsung 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)
  • boot.img
  • cache.img
  • hidden.img
  • modem.bin
  • recovery.img
  • sboot.bin
  • system.img
  • tz.img
• 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/

install twrp

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

1. 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
2. install supersu

SuperSU-v2.82-201705271822.zip

1. reboot, the first boot may take 10 minutes or so

install twrp

• download the latest recovery https://eu.dl.twrp.me/i9300/

twrp-3.7.0_9-0-i9300.img.tar

• 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.

Notes linking here

• i9300

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