HDC Galaxy S3 i9300 Rooting and Play Store Fix How to Tutorial

HDC Galaxy S3 i9300 Rooting and Play Store Fix How to Tutorial

Edit: Before you try this, please try this instead: CLICK

Just to make sure, this is for this phone: CLICK 

All you need is this: CLICK

If you are using the flash tool the first time, a driver will be missing. PLEASE don't ask me how to install this driver, it's different on every Windows version :-( I already had the driver on my PC, so I can't demonstrate how it's installed, that is something you need to figure out by yourself.

Edit: If you are having driver problems, check out this as well: CLICK

Credit for the rooted bootimage goes to yiminghung

  

Thank you so much for that!!!

Edit: Download this: CLICK 

and copy these apps into the system/app folder as well. Also change the permissions, this should fix the contacts / calander sync :-)

and remember,

YOU ARE DOING ALL THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! 

Firmwares:

This is the original firmware that I tested on my phone: CLICK 

This is another firmware somebody posted: CLICK

I did not test this firmware, I'm not even sure which phone exactly it's for! 

Edit: Alternative link: CLICK 

UPDATE: If you are having problems with your g-sensor after rooting, see what flavio molt wrote below:

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1.just download this file.

s3-firmware.zip from colonel blog site ;)

2.then open it with winrar and extract only the boot.img
3.take the boot.img and replace it with the one in the flash tool directory
4.then flash it using flash tool( just like you did with colonel zap instructions)
5.Switch on and off your auto rotation on display settings.( sometimes needed)
6.Cheers...



Here's the trick to get rooted and solved the problem with g-sensor
1. Root your phone using colonel zap instruction using downloaded files from his site

colonelzap.blogspot.de/2012/08/hdc-galaxy-s3-i9300-rooting-and-play.html

2.Follow the instruction above to solve g-sensor problem.

Hope this will work on you....