How to Restore to Stock on your AT&T Samsung Galaxy S III

In some cases you might wanna return to stock on your samsung galaxy s III whether it is to return to the factory for warrenty purposes or just to start over with a clean swipe on your phone to clean up your phone from all your files.Well i am gonna show you how to do just that.First you will need to download your firmware for AT&T and you can find it here .After you have downloaded your firmware you wanna extract it to your desktop which is just an easy place to find your file.Once extracted you will get a tar md5 file.Great now that you have accomplished that you will wanna download Odin which is a download tool for samsung devices which you can find here . Now that you have downloaded your Odin file do the same as you did with your firmware extract it to your desktop where now you will see an application for Odin.What i normally do to make it easier is make a new folder and put the Odin application you have extracted and the firmware you extracted into the same folder.Just makes it easier to locate.Now that you have done that were ready to bring you back to stock. First make sure you have the latest drivers for your computer you can google that but most of the time by plugging in your phone with usb debugging enabled it usually installs the drivers for you. Now that we got that out of the way open up your Odin applicationwhich should be on your desktop open that up and don't get over whelmed but just make sure re-partition is not checked in the box leave everything else the same.Your gonna have to put your phone into download mode by simply holding volume down button center home button and power button all at the same time when you see a new screen pop up hit volume up now that you have your phone into download mode plug your phone into the computer and you shall see a light blue box light up in your com box or yellow if it is not lit up something is wrong and have to re install your drivers.When you see that the com box is lit up click the PDA button on the right side click that and it shall direct you to the firmware tar md5 file if you created a new folder on your desktop i mentioned if not locate it open that up and it should now appear by the PDA section and once you've now seen that by the PDA section hit start give it about ten to fifteen minutes and let it work all the way through and reboot your phone and now you have done it your back to stock on your At&t samsung galaxy s III