3 Ways to Root Samsung Galaxy S3 to Access Its Full Potential

Part 1: Things to Remember Before Getting Started

If you are planning to root your Samsung Galaxy S3 to access its full potential, you need to know these important things before getting started to root the phone. It is remarkable to note that rooting is a highly risky task as a single wrong move may brick your lovely phone. Therefore, remembering and following these few things will save your Android phone from being a brick and help you root it with success and safety. 

1. Backup Samsung Galaxy S3

It is essential to back up your data from your Galaxy before rooting incase the lost during the rooting process. 

2. Fully Charge Galaxy S3

Our Samsung Galaxy S3 should be fully charged before started to root it so that there be no chance of draining the battery while rooting. 

3. Choosing Right Method

It is also an imperative pre-step to make a good research on how to root Samsung Galaxy and choose a correct one. Watch the tutorial many times to get clear ideas of that method. Rooting methods differ from device to device so be specific to yours. 

4. Download Necessary Drivers

Make sure that you have downloaded and installed all the needed drivers on your computer before getting started. You can easily get the drivers from their official websites. 

5. Learn How to Reroot Samsung

The chances are that you might have trouble in rooting and want to unroot to get everything back to normal. To make things earlier at that time, you can now search the  internet to get known some tips about how to unroot your Android device. Some rooting software also allows you to unroot Android device.

6. Disable Firewall and Antivirus

It is also necessary that you disable the antivirus or firewall on your computer before rooting because Some antivirus or firewall setup might interfere with your rooting process.

Part 2: Root Galaxy S3 with TowelRoot

Now we will learn another way to root Galaxy S3 that is using TowelRoot application. Rooting Samsung Galaxy S3 with TowelRoot is an easy and simple task that anyone can do it. You don’t even need to use your computer to root your phone. Here we have shown the steps with screenshots to guide you how to root galaxy S3 with Towelroot.

Step 1. Downloading TowelRoot

First of all, you need to download and install TowelRoot. You need to go to the official website of Towelroot and simply tap on the lambda symbol to download it. 

Step 2. Installing TowelRoot

Before installing TowelRoot, please not that you need to enable the ‘Unknown Sources’ Settings so that the device allows you install any app outside the Google Play. Now you have to install TowelRoot as shown in the screenshot. You may also get a warning while installing it so just accept it. 

Step 3. Running TowelRoot and Rooting

Once Towelroot is successfully installed on your Samsung galaxy, you need to run it. You have to tap on the ‘make it ra1n’ option as shown in the following image. It will take around 15 seconds to root and reboot your phone so just wait till then. This is how TowelRoot works to root your Samsung Galaxy S3. 

Step 4. Verify Root using Root Checker

Now you need to check if the phone is rooted or not by simple installing Root Checker from Google Play. 

Once Root Checker is installed on your galaxy, you need to open it and simple tap on Verify root button and it will check well if the device is rooted. 

Part 3: Root Galaxy S3 with Odin 3

Now in this last part of the article, we are going to show you how to root your Samsung Galaxy S3 with Odin 3. Odin is a cool Window only software developed by Samsung for rooting, flashing, upgrading and restoring Samsung phones through a special firmware file specific to your device model. Let’s learn how to root a Samsung galaxy S3.

Step 1. Download and Extract Odin 3

At first, you need to visit the official website of Odin and download it. Here is the link for you: http://odindownload.com/. Once it is downloaded, you need to extract it on your computer. It doesn’t need to be installed but just extracted.  

Step 2. Boot Samsung to Download Mode

Now you need to boot the galaxy S3 to download mode in this step. First, switch it off and then Press and hold down the Home Key, Volume Down Key, and Power Button at the same time until the Samsung screen shows.

Step 3. Launch Odin 3

Now you need to run Odin 3 as administrator and connect your phone using a USB cable. Once your phone is recognised, you will see there a colour  light blue in the ID: COM section.

Step 4. Checking Auto Reboot

In this step, you need to check the Auto Reboot and the F. Reset time on your Odin and leave others as they are. Clicking on the PDA button, you need to search for the extracted CF Auto file. After selecting this file CF-Auto-Root-m0-m0xx-gti9300.tar.md5, click on the Start button and wait till it completes. You will see ‘PASS’ on the first box meaning the device is rooted. 

Step 5. Verify using Root Checker

Now you need to check if the phone is rooted or not by simple installing Root Checker from Google Play. Once Root Checker is installed on your galaxy, you need to open it and simply tap on Verify root button and it will check well if the device is rooted.