The $15 Samsung Galaxy…

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

There seems to be a degree of confusion in the footage where I am attempting to flash the phone. Yes I am aware I’m using recovery mode, but this was to see if the PC would even detect the phone, I have modded plenty of these devices before, and just used a selection of B-Roll footage to discuss the point. This phone wasn’t detected in download mode, and even automated rooting software would fail, if software like that isn’t even going to get the phone communicating on the final steps I’m not too sure what will. I can understand the confusion but this seems to be an issue with the phone. I have a Galaxy SII there are videos on showing the same methods I attempted here.

[@DodoGTA]

Does Heimdall on Linux/macOS work?

[@dunkeykung1162]

Could it be that you're using usb 3 ports instead of usb 2? Not sure if that's what's going on here, but I've faced this problem multiple times where a modern laptop wouldn't detect a device in fastboot, but my t460 does 100%

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Even used a Windows XP PC with an Athlon 64, no dice.

[@makskrol9565]

Honestly im very surprised with the issues that you had with this phone, ive messed with plenty of old samsung phones, and even own 2 galaxy s3's myself, and i managed to root them and mod them quite easily from what i remember. Ive got the stock rom on one phone, with a custom kernel, and on the second one ive installed android 13, and honestly it felt faster than the stock rom, but then again thats just google play services slowing the phone down to hell on the stock rom, and i have microg installed on the one running android 13. I will say microg is significantly faster and less resource intensive than standard google play services while maintining most functionality. Its also interesting because you could also theoretically use contactless payment on the phone since the developer behind the android 13 rom managed to get nfc working.

[@grizzlyindustries7593]

Could be the phone's connector? Should be the Micro USB connector? Might be having issues. Or maybe the battery? Might not be sending enough power to the Micro USB connector. Or if really random, the ram or storage on the device.

[@Ccoolty]

So actually a LOT of Micro USB cables only had enough wires for charging, and NOT data lines. That would explain why you were having trouble getting it connected to your computer.

[@talibong9518]

He either didn't have the phone in download mode (appears to be the case) or it suffers from a faulty port that a lot of s3 to s6's had a big issue with.

[@dazzle187]

Thanks for the information. That would explain why a Samsung Tab A8 failed to usb tether except with specific micro usb cables. Have a water flosser that also fails to charge with a number of micro usb cables some work but the cables that dont work with that work to charge other devices so go figure.

[@TranscribeYT]

Also, I've found trying a different version of odin SOMETIMES works

[@Ssebyt12]

​@talibong9518 ur right download mode and a micro usb that has data compatibility then u need twrp for that specific model and lineage os or cyanogen mod should work

[@-joo3033]

​​​@@dazzle187tab A8 has a Usb type C, i have one...

[@bokexd3173]

back when i got the s3 less than 2 years ago, i just installed samsung usb driver, downloaded and launched odin, put it in DOWNLOAD MODE, flashed twrp, flashed lineageos and done

[@sugaryhull9688]

That's what I did

[@4n4Queen]

Yes , to make it communicate with odin need to be on download mode , not recovery mode.

[@kuchenblechmafiagmbh1381]

I often struggled flashing my phones (mostly others than Samsung, HTC, Sony, Xiaomi, but now a S8) with Windows because of drivers, then I booted linux and it worked instantly, just launching the Terminal, put the phone into the Download/Fastboot mode and then enter the command...

[@GGori_99]

2 years ago ????

[@Aragon23-p2k]

For its age, it performs decently, but it's mandatory to install a custom ROM to keep it running for a few more years.

[@hatsumi_rou_]

Nah it can't even run half life 1 android port

[@coco3212]

​@@hatsumi_rou_ But it did run lol

[@homemadesuperstar796]

No

[@homemadesuperstar796]

I keep my phones stock

[@blablablablabla9859]

Only reason it wont be a good option is the battery life

[@MovieReviewGuyOfficial]

The man, the myth, the legend is back!

[@JasperTedVidalTale]

FR

[@virtualinsanity7791]

Wake up babe, Budget just dropped a new video.

[@ttkftykyfts]

no i aint waking up

[@wobb_]

​​@@ttkftykyftsWake up NOW

[@catosx2738]

He's back

[@Wierie_]

you communicate with your girlfriend in youtube comments? cute

[@kierenalvarez]

🙄 Comment Cancer

[@Noful-o_o]

I also remember being blown away by the screen when these first came out, it was very impressive back in 2012. Great video.

[@randomgamingin144p]

unfortunately the 2G/3G shutdown exists ..so using this as a "phone" is a struggle unless you live somewhere where 3g coverage is still avaliable

[@TheSpotify95]

yeah in the UK this will only work on O2 and Three, because EE and Vodafone have shut down 3G (the thing this actually uses to make calls - though I think this did have basic 4G support).

[@talibong9518]

O2 will still be providing 2g in 2095

[@the2323guy]

​@@TheSpotify95only the lte versions did

[@TheSpotify95]

@@talibong9518 the UK phone networks have committed to shutting down 2+3g by 2033.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

In many cases, they can't shut down those low speed networks because a lot of essential services depend on them and it would be too expensive to upgrade the services to be compatible with faster standards.

[@danielivanov930]

Oh,forgot to mention but it's possible that the exynos versions of samsung phones to be a pain in the neck flashing roms if i'm correct . S3 neo had snapdragon cpu and probably was easier to put custom rom on it . I remember having issues with some samsung phones connecting or even get recognized by the pc too so there's that .

[@charackthe]

I remember spending an entire night just trying to get my S III to be recognized by my pc.

[@MrOoh50]

Strange I got zero issues with exynos variant

[@talibong9518]

A lot of S3 to S6's shipped with faulty USB ports.

[@yuuji_]

I have 2 with a exynos, no issues to flash them

[@Galax2000]

He tried to flash a custom recovery with the phone just connected to the pc while being in the recovery. He never touched the download mode

[@freddiebanks]

I had this phone! some of the best times. It was my phone during secondary school. The battery was starting to fail on the phone and I had no money, so I took a battery out of a older phone, lined up the pins, taped it down. A bit of wood between the spaces to keep it still and it worked like a charm. 😆

[@gearamihai2782]

To use odinn you need to enter download mode in the phone

[@ŽaliaUgnis]

Exactly

[@ŽaliaUgnis]

Tho doubt that gpay will work unless u'll use magisk

[@tezcanaslan2877]

@@ŽaliaUgnis does this even have gpay?

[@ŽaliaUgnis]

@@tezcanaslan2877 wdym just download the app

[@makifrable]

​@@ŽaliaUgnisnowadays, gpay on custom roms isn't reliable anymore. Maybe those weird signed ones for the pixel would do the trick, but plain normal builds like lineage/pixelos have trouble in passing the playintegrity needed for gpay to work. Google tightened the grip on their side and there are only temporary fixes possible.

[@charlstonrequiez4626]

My mom used to own 2 of this. One is way back 2012 and 2013 when she lost the first one. Then my father bought her a Samsung S7 Duos when it got first released for their Wedding Anniversary.

[@pessoaanonima6345]

I have both this and the S3 neo, although my original S3 seems to be an older variant, as it only got updated up to Android 4.3. Installed custom roms into both of them, and while the S3 was slow, the S3 neo was amazing. It had official LineageOS support (up to 11 I think) and was really fast. If it weren't for my horrible batteries, it would absolutely be usable for someone with basic phone needs.

[@macinjosh2223]

Great to see a new video! Used to use and S4 as my daily driver and flashed new roms all the time - I was screaming at the screen for you to use download mode when using Odin, not recovery mode!

[@Technology-Repair-Proto]

Actually can't believe the timing! I was trying to flash a Note 2 yesterday and it was a nightmare. Awesome video as always! :D

[@plastichairball]

The Galaxy S3, what a phone that was back in the day.

[@VanBourner]

Used to have it and it was for a long time a phone that made me resent Samsungs. Laggy, crappy plastic that kept cracking, overheating. It looked neat tho. The phone that made me appreciate Samsungs again was a second hand Note3 I got when needed a new phone fast and got it for cheap (just needed new battery and charging port). That one I had well into 2019 and was still very much usable, but when Ckvid came around I needed a phone that was up to corporate spec to have 2FA on it so Note3 went out for Note10 lite. And that one I consider to this day the best value Samsung of the decade.

[@rayquazahjier8668]

I remember most people having that thing back then (they were dirt cheap on contracts, back then in my country rules against getting a expensive phone on contract didn't exist yet) But I never had it, I got myself a Nexus 4 16GB which had beyond terrible (even for it's time) battery life on 3G (2 hours of SoT at best on 3G, 3 to 3,5 hours on Wifi) The S3 did that better.

[@finnbianga4189]

If u had an s3 (or even s3 mini) at my school u were one of the cool kids

[@deanchur]

@@VanBourner I was using a Note 3 until October last year when I upgraded to a Zenfone 9 (a VERY noticeable difference haha). Went through 3 batteries but they're only $10 on eBay and take 30 seconds to replace with a fingernail, and the MicroSD slot was very useful. It's such a nice size and weight as well; not too tall and not too wide.

[@VanBourner]

@@deanchur What a goddamn coincidence lol. I bought a Zenfone 10 last year, mostly because of the camera (Note10 Lite has very average camera even for it's time). I still have my Note10 Lite but I use it as a work phone (battery needed replacing and where I live a replacement OEM would take 2 months, generally the one big issue with Note 10 Lite is how Samsung hates it and barely provides spare parts for it). Great phone. The size difference is still hard to get used to.

[@zzyy1934]

Damn, that's a shame. I remember rooting this phone COUNTLESS times with no issue back in like 2014

[@hamoodhabibi8254]

You cannot imagine how LONG Ive waited for another video like this! Long live budget builds!

[@yaboidustin2447]

My first phone was an s3 mini. Great phones. Got ran through the washer and dryer since i forgot it in my pocket years ago, but it still works to this day

[@aturchomicz821]

Aww I remember using this phone just a few years ago to browse the Steam forums in the storage room during PE, good times 🥰 13:52 Treecko spotted🗣

[@vicolin6126]

I remember these from my first IT job back in 2014. They were quickly outclassed by the S4 (it had 2 GB of RAM for starters), so these S3's were stuck in the "loaner bin". Sometimes somebody with a broken phone would loan of of these while waiting for their own phone to be repaired, but that was about it.

[@laginbro]

Just bought one myself, amazing price for what you get. I appreciate you!

[@Droid_Does_not_compute]

Oh my god, the memories just 4 years ago I was still rocking this, the AMOLED display is amazing, loved n cherished this phone every bit, I've still got it hanging around just need the battery, screen and rear camera and it'll be golden

[@RJRC_105]

I had the S3 but in black. Lovely phone. Used to play Pinball Arcade and Baldur's Gate EE on it.

[@TheSpotify95]

Hehe, I was waiting for this video! Personally, I think it's amazing you even got a Galaxy S3 for £15 - it's just a shame you weren't able to flash a custom ROM, like you did with other phones. Either you've missed a setting or there's a problem with that phone - I remember when you managed to flash a Galaxy S2 with Android 10, so it's amazing that devices such as this are still seeing modern OS support. The same cannot be said regarding my first phone that I got, the Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus. I might be tempted to pick up one of these (or another S4, as my current S4 (from 2013) has no working camera or GPS) and try flashing a custom ROM to see if I can make it usable as a test device - my S4 has Android 4.2 and that is way too old to do anything with at all.

[@collyboy187]

Loved this phone back in the day. It's mad that you couldn't get lineage on it, I remember flashing cyanogen onto my 1gb ram one in 2014 or so using Odin, I remember the Samsung USB drivers were finickety for those phones. Great vid

[@Balrog-tf3bg]

My dad had one of these back in the day, and it seemed so advanced, and just giant

[@theadhdunicyclist]

I had one of these as a kid. Amazing phone! Super nostalgic for me to watch this.

[@Stealth86651]

I had the S3 ages ago, it was amazing. Accidentally got into a hot tub with it in my pocket for a few minutes. Dried it out and never had an issue, thing was a trooper.

[@MrCrispy1991]

I had a friend buy this phone a few years back. He upgraded the ram by soldering 4gb to the board instead of keeping the 1gb. Got the larger battery (I think it was 4000mah) with the extended back cover and was able to root and run a custom OS. H ran it as his daily driver until just a few months ago.

[@drewnewby]

What a laugh, that bit where they message you to send them your "old" phone, to recoup cost. Given the age of this Samsung, I'd be tempted to send them a feature phone just to be funny.

[@dragonic_ragecore]

Putting the budget, in budget builds.

[@MicoSelva]

I had one of these. I actually still own an S4, which I recently used to play through Sanitarium that I bought in an old Humble Mobile Bundle. The apk wouldn't work on my new phone but the S4 had no problems running it.

[@AudatiousXtreme]

Good ol galaxy s3, back in the days before my parents allowed me to get a smart phone, and the phone my father shot through a machine at work bent and shattered but it still worked somehow 😂 the original Android days were great Continuing on, makes me feel like my s21 ultra will serve me well for at least another few years! Great video!! :D

[@MichaelFlatman]

I just bought an s3 mini (i had one back in 2012) and i was thinking of doing a similar video. It's surprisingly capable, and being the mini version, it's amazingly small. Almost feels like a palm phone.

[@peconi47]

i have 2 of these, backup phones if i need something, they’re laggy because of the batteries being almost 10 years old but they’re still usable

[@007Neoplan]

This video made me discover this channel. Weird how yt works... Watched it like 10 times, watched the older successful android mods, made me look into ROMs (never knew about them or programing for that matter). I'm looking to buy few old phones just to mod them and try to have some fun on the side... As a long time iPhone user I don't thing i'll switch back to android because of this but it did bring back that spark of imagination and creativity back into a world of phones which I viewed only as pokedex(es) that help us do daily tasks more efficiently. Currently waiting for a s3 and bidding on s7 edge lol Thank you for this video, I would really want you to try with more S series phones and use these Roms in the modern day...

[@TylerComptonShow]

Four years ago, this became my daily driver after my main phone died. I used it for a couple months this way and it was unpleasant, but totally doable. It performed the worst when doing moderate browsing (as you saw) and when using it for navigation. I imagine app compatibility is in much worse shape these days.

[@wastelander138]

My first Android Smartphone. Loved it. Removable battery was great to have as I swapped it for a massive battery with it's own custom back. Turned the phone into a brick but I could run my phone for 2, almost 3 days without charging. Imagine doing that now.

[@JojocWild]

Regarding flashing the phone, you already commented on it on the comments section, but my take was that it was probably your own specific device that was problematic, maybe a faulty usb connector on the phone, the cable, ports, or a combination of all of the above. I'm saying that because I quite recently modded an S3 and you can definitely mod it and make it a lot more usable. Glad we came to almost the same conclusion in the end of the video.

[@mattclarenzmendoza7127]

i have a Galaxy S3 Mini and idk but it isn't as sluggish as that today (it even has 20+ games i installed when i was a child and it has no problem running any of the games). great video btw

[@Mirra2003-f9s]

Legendary phone,and in very good condition too. Nice collector's piece,it's slow but it's more usable than my old iPhone 4s or 5

[@mrofinUtortxoF]

This was my first Android phone. Loved every part of it. Unfortunately it stopped working one day, after 5 years of heavy abuse. No regrets using it at all.

[@jonpeley]

I remember using a Galaxy Fame from the same era as a business phone. The OS and aesthetics where virtually the same but in a lower range.

[@nighttimestalker]

The first smart phone I owned was a red S3. Mine was the 2GB ram model though. So I think an Qualcomm chip I still remember back then when times were so simple.

[@ninoroes07]

Nothing feels better than our chap here dropping new video in a bright sunday

[@sb-si3lf]

My first ever phone. What a beast of a phone, made me love Samsung and I remember an adult at the time being jealous a kid my age had one , now using the S23 Ultra, upgrades aren't as big as they used to be back then so I'll stick to the S23 for a few years.

[@ms.alhajri4068]

Wow I didn't even think it possible to upgrade the old phone like galaxy s3 !!! 😳🤯 Wonderful ❤

[@Stuart.87]

My S2 runs android 11 !

[@ms.alhajri4068]

@@Stuart.87 thats pretty nice ! 👍

[@TruckingShooter]

Brings back some memories, this was my first galaxy phone. And i think my first android.

[@divyanshus7363]

I have a Samsung galaxy tab 2 which from aroiund the same era as this phone. Works like an absolute charm and still pretty darn reliable considering its 12 years old. I modded it and have been continued modded it to even android 8, but there were a few bugs here and there which I didn't quite like. Ultimately, I re-flashed the original Samsung firmware and now once again the tab functions really well. A bit sad that majority support has been discontinued for such amazing devices. Amazing video like always, brought up some good memories.

[@Ultra-Giraffe]

Have you tried flashing any other OS?

[@divyanshus7363]

@@Ultra-Giraffe I haven't, even though the jelly bean has lost a lot of support, i still prefer its stability.

[@GrumpyWolfTech]

Yea, have fun with getting that to work. Even my zenfone3 from around 5 years ago pretty much won't work on any network because it only supports LTE and not 5g. Despite it having all the new features like a 4k camera, usb c charging, but on more updates to android so lots of things don't work off the store.

[@karanjoshi2662]

Using it for NES and SNES games sounds like an awesome time. Even N64 runs good (I know because I had s3 once)

[@MiSt3300]

This was a phone of my dreams in 2012. Then I got the Galaxy S4 and was very happy with it

[@lockout5731]

my first phone was a s4 and oh my its a classic such nostalgia i still own it to this day

[@revanmj]

My guess would be that it was American model instead of global one. American ones often had completely locked bootloaders, even Pixels (I got original Pixel in Europe some time ago that seems to have originally come from Verizon and it had locked bootloader).

[@qwertykeyboard5901]

I know Tracfone does this.

[@dawgre]

american models have the snapdragon S4 chip i believe, the global i9xxx models say their model number on the boot screen so there’s no real way to confuse them when powered on AFAIK only the Verizon S3 had a locked BL and there are still custom roms for it. i’ve found that my S3 has a finicky micro USB port and doesn’t like most of the data cables i have due to how samsung made the port, could be unrelated but that has caused me many issues flashing to the phone.

[@lovelylonely974]

I had this phone as a teenager. The nostalgia is strong.

[@wpipka]

I remember installing 7.1.2 Ressurection Remix ROM on a friends phone I think it was 7 years ago (time really flies by)

[@MrOoh50]

Nice comeback! Great phone, my very first smartphone. I haven't zero issues while rooting exynos variants try different cable or find the old usb drivers form Samsung. Still amaze me, i honestly surprised about HL running well, just got an old ipega controller and battery case, maybe I will Replay HL1 this summer❤

[@Shard113]

I really enjoyed this video, thank you. Could you perhaps post more of these, where you turn these phones into something cool, like home security devices, smart devices or small form factor emulator devices, etc.

[@raki31]

I remember directly flashing a CWM custom recovery on my Galaxy Note from an SD card. There's an option to "update from sd card" in the original recovery

[@nusaibulhaque28]

Easiest way to get recognized in Odin is to just unplug and replug the usb while in Odin recovery mode. Learned after struggling 2 days while installing TWRP on my own s3 many years ago, but the method still works :) USB Debugging must be on in developer settings as well

[@Ren-th7kk]

My first smartphone. Remember playing Max Payne on that in 2012. The technical PC masterpiece from 2001 on a phone.. I was really atonished!

[@mrsuarez430]

Had that phone one of the Goats my first galaxy after leaving IPhone still in still rocking galaxy's a s24 ultra atm

[@brotherloops]

I loved my s3. I remember all the hype about it being the competition to the iPhone 4s. Nowadays there’s not much competition going on

[@MrEcarty]

Thanks for this great video! That's a strange issue you encountered with that particular model. I have custom ROMed many Galaxy S3s and have never come across a similar problem. It's definitely worth the $15 if you can install Android 12, 13, or 14 on it. It works well, although the battery life is quite short. I've noticed that the S3's battery drains quickly, even when it's not in use or when the power is turned off. This only applies to the i9300 model; the Galaxy S3 Neo is much better, as someone mentioned in the comments. The battery lasts longer, and the overall experience when custom ROMed is much smoother.

[@isaiah7617]

I missed new videos, good to see you Budget Builds!

[@Zim5.0]

This was my dream phone back when I was in middle school, smartphones still had that wow factor, now it's been years since smartphones became an essential regular tools in our lives, crazy right?

[@apa3665]

I cannot believe im still alive to see this day. The legend has comeback from the dead O:

[@EhEhEhEINSTEIN]

Still have my SIII. Snapdragon/2GB/32GB version though. Added a 64gb mSD card for a ~100GB phone in 2012. Absolutely loved it until I eventually switched over to an LG V10.

[@ArmySatcomGuy]

He’s back! Glad to see a new video, have loved your content for years!

[@ishaqahmed._]

welcome back, we missed your videos gravely

[@voltare2amstereo]

The S4 4g was the best for repair abilities. Anything that doesn't support vo-lte will be useless in Australia as 3g is shut down (no 2g here either

[@TheSpotify95]

yeah I know the S7 series supports VoLTE (But on some carriers you have to flash carrier specific firmware!) but the S4 certainly doesn't as I have one of those. The S4 also loved dropping to 2G whenever it pleased, despite 3G being there (albeit weaker) and offering much better internet speeds.

[@yuuji_]

I still use a modded s3 almost every day, i have it under android 7. I tried up to 9 at the time, settled on 7 because it's the last version with which i could use the boeffla kernel, which allow me to overclock the cpu to 1.7ghz and the gpu to 700mhz (from 533mhz). Granted it burns the battery quicker now, but it was usable enough to run Real racing 3 and car x drift racing at the time, vanced youtube/music/spotify x with 0 issues. Now it serves as a waze gps on my motorcycle, it takes a bit to load the map and sometimes the gps signal gets lost, but if it fall off i don't care xD (there's also rumors saying engine vibrations could kill a phone, not risking my vivo nex s)

[@dezhocob]

I am so happy that you are back! Another very entertaining video, cheers, mate!

[@BastetFurry]

I remember back when i had that device brand new it worked just fine flashing a new bootloader with Heimdall under Linux. I remember tough that it was very peculiar with the cable used, so you might want to try a bunch of different ones. And use Heimdall under Linux!

[@eclogites]

i also remember having a lot of issues trying to rom mine which was a sprint version, there was only a few roms made for it and the highest was android 7, root didn't work at all on my desktop but it worked fine on my lenovo yoga laptop after i installed the usb driver (the charging port was also old and only liked to work at a specific angle)

[@TheArtmann]

My first smartphone😊

[@stevvieb]

Also these used MHL to HDMI cables so your phone on a big screen. I remember using clockworkmod first then TWRP

[@techdestroyer3035]

The king is BACK! Makes my week every time you upload.

[@wettuga2762]

I'm still using one of these! I replaced the Samsung Android 4 with LineageOS to get Android 7.1.2, but I got slowdows and random reboots in the process. I'm about to buy a new phone, so I'll restore it to stock software and use your suggestion just in case I'll need to use it again.

[@iSamYTBackup]

the return of the king of intresting budget tech vids

[@Sykxezn]

They finally did it, they got the s3, the best selling android and the longest suported phone with community made android updates, a very innovative phone with many of its features, even a better executed file sharing with touching phones with another galaxy device

[@iamperplexed4695]

As you were introing the video I wondered wether i had one of those. I reeached over onto the shelf to grab it but as it turned out i own a SII LTE instead of the SIII.

[@JacobJohnson-lh4gx]

We missed you BBO, glad to see another video from you.

[@Mis73rRand0m]

I remember having the same issue rooting one back in the day and not being able to resolve it, exynos had a locked recovery or something like that. Kind of a bummer

[@alex.d3835]

I don't know if you will see this comment, but to root or install an modded android on samsung you should be in the download mode. To acces this mode you should pres powr volume up, or down I can't remember, and home button when you start the phone, then plug the usb cable into your pc (you should use an samsung original usb cable or a high quality one). Good luck next time.

[@CaveyMoth]

It feels weird to see the Galaxy SIII outside of a case. I'm used to seeing them strapped into thicc Otterbox cases.

[@Kilometers_KPH]

Always a great day when Budget uploads

[@KangMinseok]

Galaxy S3 and S4 were the last dieing of the frutiger aero design breed... so beautiful

[@magcs6233]

I would love to see you cover turning old Chromebooks into Linux/Windows systems, some only have 16G of eMMC like mine, so not much gaming but they are awesome for netbook based applications, the newer ones come with a minimum of 64G of storage, and I'd say thats enough for quite a few fun games.

[@aqyx]

youre supposed to boot into the bootloader in odin, not the recovery

[@dyllburg]

Damn, seeing that gba emulator brought me back.

[@markenetube]

I remember being so impressed by a 2 megapixel camera. I picked up a J3 with Android 5. I would like to upgrade it but I'm worried about bricking it. It works fine, except KZbin won't work. Even the most recent Android 5 version does not work. But I can go on KZbin ad free via the Firefox browser. So not a problem.

[@stratmag]

I remember i first had the regular S3 in black and then an S3 Neo in i think a darkish red? I don't remember very well as this was back in 2014 and tbh i was like 7 so i was too young to have a phone anyways, but overall they were pretty solid phones that did everything i asked them to without major hiccups, and they left a good enough impression on me that to this day im still on samsung with an S21

[@CristianGhervasa]

Usually, when those things happens and Odin don't help, you need to do a hard software recovery, under Odin and custom recovery, runs another kernel, one that was designed just for flashing Odin and base recovery in case you mix something up. While you flash something in this mode, if you disrup the flashing, the phone will be just a brick, not even the smallest light on the screen. Usually in this state, or earlier if you manage to do it well, you can flash unlocked bootloader, or a more standard and universal bootloader. After that you should usually be fine. It's going so deep that you can even flash others phones CSC and other things. If you still want to spend more time on it, you can. Usually those phones have JTAG integrated on the Mobo, solder and ready to flash, but you should really mess it badly to arrive in there

[@rughksu]

Aren't you supposed to put the phone in Odin mode when flashing a custom recovery? You were trying to use Odin while in recovery mode which of course won't work

[@VixAnimations]

He's aware of that.

[@THEPIXELPROJECT417]

Usually the cable can be issues, its the usb cable if it dont detect or have it in odin

[@Calico__Rose]

heckin... YOU'RE BACK!!!.... i've been watching alot of your early vids recently, and noticed that you kinda fell off youtube for a while, glad to see you're back :3

[@wild9439]

I remember hoarding micro usb cables in that era and having to try multiple different ones until it worked in flashing/rooting my S3. Its not something I think I can replicate anymore. Good luck finding a micro usb that plays nice with yours. But it IS possible!

[@CR33D404]

I was about to say "you should try it on download mode" but it seems that you tried it, if I remember correctly, instead of flashing with Odin there was another method other than rooting it and flashing from the Flashify app, I was flashing cwm and twrp just from the default recovery mode, I actually don't remember why correctly, but this used to result on a temporary custom recovery, so I would flash the ROM directly or smth