My Galaxy S3 Rooting Journey

Another attempt to root the Samsung Galaxy S3

I was invited to a community in Google Plus called Android Root by +GeoffWhitely and it gave me a link to a site which would give me the necessary items and information to read my Galaxy S3. I put off following the recipe for sometime because I didn't want to do it while I was busy and end up with a bricked phone that I didn't have time to fix. Eventually, I got down to doing the job and the instructions were pretty easy to follow. A very simple step-by-step process starting with downloading the zip file from the website. At the very least with this process I learned about how to put the phone into a recovery mode. From this recovery mode it is also possible for me to reset the phone to factory settings. This could be very useful to do if I mess things up completely and want to get things back the way they were. Of course I have already made a backup of the applications, which includes the data for those applications. This backup is available on my SD card which is a 32 GB size and has plenty of room available for everything I need to backup. I might at some stage see if I can find an even larger SD card for the phone. I am pretty sure it is possible to put a 64 GB SD card into the Samsung Galaxy S3.

Rooting Failure again

Everything was going really well until I got to the final stages of the process. I found it easy to get into the various modes required to do what I needed to do with the phone. It was simple to install the software called Heimdall on my Mac which is just a front end for things going on in the background, probably via terminal. As you can imagine after seeing the failure message regarding the e-signature verification I breathed a sigh of relief to be able to get back into the phone as per normal. So when it booted up into the usual Nova Launcher view I was able then to test whether the phone had been rooted with the tester application. I was quite disappointed to see that this process had failed once again. I did try once before to root the Samsung Galaxy S3 using an application which was meant for another job, but also had the side benefits of being able to root the phone.

Not giving up!

So now I am at the point where I have given Geoff the details of where it went wrong over in the Google plus community and are now awaiting further instructions.

At Step 14 - I get a message
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Verifying update package..
E-signature verification Failed
Then I went to reboot System and checked to see that the phone was still not rooted.
Other than that it went great
What do you think +Geoff Whiteley ??

Finding a workflow for recording an Audioboo on my Galaxy S3

Yesterday when I went out for my late evening walk with the dog, I decided to give the Audioboo application on the Samsung Galaxy S3 another try. Once again I was disappointed with the application because after talking for the ten minutes time allowed with Audioboo, the upload failed once again. That is two times in a row when I have been let down by this application and I will be heartily pleased when the application is properly updated and set right. When I was using the iPhone and the Audioboo application for iOS I was able to make a recording and not lose it every single time. There were occasions when it took more than one day for the recorded boo to be uploaded to the Audioboo server, but I never completely lost any of the work.

Using other applications to boo

I have a number of audio recording applications which will give me a good quality voice recording and the one that I prefer to use is called Audio Evolution Mobile which is a multitrack digital audio workstation for Android. I also have Easy Voice Recorder which is not bad, but doesn't let me do any editing of the recording. Then there is Pocket WavePad which is easy-to-use and gives a fairly good recording. With this one I also get a decent level meter and it seems to work reasonably well. I do prefer to have an audio recorder that will let me see the audio wave of my voice recordings. This makes it so much easier to edit the sound when I can see the sounds on the timeline as well as hear them.

As I was inclined to buy the Audio Evolution Mobile application as with it I didn't want to have any annoying advertising taking up valuable screen space. Sometimes I find that I have to be careful with the distance of the audio source, my mouth, to the microphone on the telephone as it is very sensitive and I can easily find that the audio is clipping. When the tops of the waves are cut with this clipping, it totally destroys the sound and I have to do a new recording of the audio.

Using my microphones with my Samsung Galaxy S3

Not too long ago I bought a Giant Squid lapel microphone (lavelier) which gives excellent audio recordings and is perfect for video blogging or audio blogging. Up until now I have been connecting it to a Zoom H2 Recorder, but I have recently ordered a converter so that I can use the microphone with the Samsung Galaxy S3. So instead of taking the audio from the zoom H2 and moving it to my iMac to do some editing, I will be able to do it all in house on the S3. On account of the fact that I always have my phone with me, then so long as I have the adapter then I will be able to create my audio recordings. Good quality audio is incredibly important with video and I will be very pleased to improve upon the already pretty good audio I'm getting from my video recordings using the Galaxy S3.

Switching from the iPhone to a Samsung Galaxy S3

Is it time to Root the S3?

I have been using the Galaxy S3 for a month now and mostly loving it. Having a great time learning new things and being nerdy. No is the time to take it a step further and Root the phone and then I will think about running something different in terms os alternative ROM. Much of it all seems to be in a completely different language and totally weird but I will dive in there. I mean I didn't  even jailbreak the iPhones I had. reading through the posts on some of these websites it all seems a bit cryptic.

Getting help to Root

I have looked at some Youtube tutorials and I hit a brick wall. I used a downloaded software that was supposed to root the phone easily, but didn't work for me and now I have the help of +Geoff Whitely  and there is the Google Plus Android Root Community which I was guided to by Geoff. I would do the rooting straight away but it is late in the evening and it will have to wait until the morning or maybe the day after when I and devote the proper attention and time to the task. If I rush it I will only cock it up. That will never do.