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Samsung Galaxy S III Stock Firmware Collection

I9300XXALE8 Download (Thanks To SamMobile!) **No Mirrors**
Base Firmware: I9300XXALE8 (4.0.4)
Region Europe
Country: Turkey
Carrier: UnbrandedBuild Date: 13th May 2012
Modem: XXLE8
CSC: OJVALE7
Change List: 554452
CF Insecure Kernel: Download

Instructions For Flashing Firmware:
* Extract the firmware
* Open the included Odin* Put your device in Recovery MODE (Home + Volume up + Power)
* Wipe Data/Factory reset
* Wipe Cache
* Take Out Your battery & put it back in
* Put your device into DownloadMODE (Home + Volume Down + Power)
* Click PDA and select *.tar.md5
* Then finally click START! 

Ladies and gentlemen, we have root on the SGS3 (!)

This will all be common knowledge in thenear future, but here's some info I though various devs, chefs, and users will be dying to know!

Unfortunately, I am not able to share the "insecure" kernel with you at the moment, because of fearsit is traceable to the leaker (this is said to be the last traceable firmware revision).

Update: The kernel is linked at the bottom of the post.

This root is, as expected, trivial. It was asimple matter of repacking the stock kernel, with a modified adbd binary that thinks ro.secure=0 (even if ro.secure=1). This gives access to all adb root commands (see screenshots). Then SuperSU wasinstalled manually.

Kernel

The modification was trivial, because this time around, Samsung is using the standard boot.img format, instead of the zImage format used for SGS1, SGS2, SGNote, etc, thatis much harder to repackage.

This is also why I don't feel particularly bad about not giving you the insecure kernel - any serious dev on this board can do the same thing in 10 minutes.

RecoveryThe recovery partition is also being used this time around. And thus we can flash recoveries separately from the kernel.

Bootloaders

There was no warning triangle at boot-up after flashing...