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Samsung Galaxy S III (AT&T)

Phone · Samsung
Partial Bootloader unlock + custom ROM
Difficulty
Moderate
Brick risk
Medium
Legal risk
Low

Not stock root. Needs an unlocked bootloader and a custom ROM.

US carrier Samsung Snapdragon models (AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile/Sprint/US Cellular) are typically bootloader-locked and cannot be unlocked.

How-to

How to

Unlock the bootloader and install custom firmware (LineageOS and postmarketOS). postmarketOS status: testing.

Follow the specialist sources linked on this page. If this path is a jailbreak, unlock, or flash, the specialist wiki is the how-to — we do not copy those steps here.

Notes

postmarketOS builds for this device are based on LineageOS kernel source.

LineageOS 14.1 is available. Install with Heimdall.