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[Flashable] CWM Flash-Counter Reset SGH-T989D (Telus) and SGH-T989 (Tmo)

What is a the Odin/Flash counter?
Many users call this by three different names, Odin counter, Flash counter, or the Download Counter ( Most Common). This counter appears when the device is in download mode. When you use Odin, or anything else to flash a non Samsung Kernel to the device, this counter will change from "NO" to a number, depending on how many times you flash a kernel using this method will depend on what your counter says.
Why should I care about this?
Normally you wouldn't have to care, however If you have to return your device to Samsung or the carrier. Their technicians are now trained to check this download counter and if it says ANYTHING but "NO" your warranty will be voided, they will either return the device unfixed to you or send you an invoice for the repairs.
My device is fine, is there any advantage to clearing the download counter?
If you have a custom recovery flashed, and are confident you will not be using download mode to flash a non Samsung kernel, I say YES. In the event your device becomes damaged and you are unable to flash it. You will have the confidence of sending it back knowing that the Counter reports "NO" so there is less of a chance that the device will be rejected for repair under warranty.
Is this dangerous?
In a perfect world things never go wrong, but our world is not perfect clearly. You are flashing a boot-loader, specifically the SBL1 (secondary boot-loader #1). You should not ever have an issue flashing this. But In the event your battery dies while flashing this or the zip file becomes corrupt. YOU WILL BRICK. This is not designed to let you reset your counter 100 times, each time you reset the counter, you play with fire. Too many times, and you get burnt. CHECK THE MD5sum! Don't be a fool.
How do i check my counter?
Power your device off, hold Vol Down and turn the device on, keep holding the Vol button until you see download mode appear. Press Vol Up to bypass the warning and your "Custom binary" counter will be the second line, it should say "NO" if you are clean and warranty intact, it will contain a number if not.
Ahhhhhhhh... I get it, so what's this flashable zip do again?
It resets your counter from a numbered value to "NO"
Get the Flash Counter Reset CWM Flashable Zip
Fear not, they have been tested.
Telus T989D
HERE
md5: 7230923eedcdb8268d6d951089eebc7c flash_counter_reset_Telus_SGH-T989D.zi
Tmo T989
HERE
md5: 3e117d2c5b290fb3f5d6f4ca01ac2691 flash_counter_reset_Tmo_SGH-T989.zip

-Mr. X- said:
Just dumped my untainted SBL1 and then triggered my flash counter. I have successfully reset it by flashing my SBL1 dump back to my device.
I can make one for the Tmobile SGH-T989 if some one cares to dump an untainted sbl1
Get the Flash Counter Reset CWM Flashable Zip
HERE
MD5 12978ff91f3682bdbad66a08e4295529 flash_counter_reset_Telsu_SGH-T989D.zip
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Welcome back.thanks,a TMobile version would be great.
FROM A GALAXY BETTER THAN YOURS.

I assume i need some one who has not triggered their counter to dump the t989 sbl1 for me.
Id like to do a binary compare of a triggered and un triggered one as well. I cant trip mine again because im expecting a conf call with the boss shortly.
any one who wanst to dump their sbl1 off the tmo t989 do
adb shell
su
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 of=/sdcard/sbl1.mbn
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then attach the sbl1.mbn for me. also don't forget to tell me if your counter is tripped and how many times it has been tripped.

Ill check but i thijk i might have a counter of one.
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monkeypaws said:
Ill check but i thijk i might have a counter of one.
Sent from my SGH-T989 using XDA
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I'll take the dump any way and make you a flashable zip, you can flash it back and see if it still achieves a reset.
Did a compare of my untainted sbl1 to a tainted one. the counter is at the very tail end of the sbl. i may even be able to just reset yours in your sbl dump IF no one here has a tmobile T989 with an untainted counter.

X,
Just a quick question. The .zip in the OP can either be flashed through Clock Work Mod Recovery or Odin, Correct?
Thanks

Just CWM, its not an odin tar.

Can't someone reset it with a jig and then dump it clean?
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bbobarino said:
Can't someone reset it with a jig and then dump it clean?
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resetting with a jig has been disabled by samsung since the sgs international GB updates.

How to dump? I do have an untouched dl mode.
Sent from the Darkside of the Force.

I have the sbl1 file posted in this post on the other thread for the Tmobile T989:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24360211&postcount=6

Made a flashable zip and posted it in the first post. now all we need is a tmo user to flash and make sure it resets their counter as my tests have concluded for my telus device.

-Mr. X- said:
Made a flashable zip and posted it in the first post. now all we need is a tmo user to flash and make sure it resets their counter as my tests have concluded for my telus device.
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I can confirm that your zip is working fine. My counter went from 2 to NO. Thank you very much for this.

You're welcome. i had thought about this a while back and just never got around to testing it until a user posted a thread about a user making them for the skyrocket kids.
You could also brick your device flashing junk to the sbl1 block, but that would be unethical for warranty purposes wouldn't it

Thanks for this? Quick question is the only benefit to this for insurance purposes or would this benefit the device by cleaning partitions or the counter and such? Sorry if noobish question lol
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The counter is only for warranty purposes. so unless you have to send it back, clearing the counter serves no purpose unless you have OCD like me.

Noob question. How do I check my counter
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dachinaman said:
Noob question. How do I check my counter
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Get your phone into Odin Mode. Power it off, remove battery, place battery again, pres Volume up+down and press the power button. keep Vol Up +down pressed until you are in Download mode

solracarevir said:
Get your phone into Odin Mode. Power it off, remove battery, place battery again, pres Volume up+down and press the power button. keep Vol Up +down pressed until you are in Download mode
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you left out that he needs to be connected to the computer. easiest way is to hold the vol buttons and connect the micro usb cable to your phone..should be connected to your computer
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dachinaman said:
Noob question. How do I check my counter
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Once you've followed the above instructions to get into download mode, you'll see 2 lines that say whether you have a custom binary installed and your current binary. If it says "NO" to custom binary and "Samsung" to current binary installed, your counter is 0. Otherwise it will show the number your counter is at.

[Q] odin counter reset

ok heres my problem , im trying to reset my odin counter and ive done the odin restore back to ek02 ,i was coming from el29 , but when i power off my phone and then plug in my usb jig my counter doesnt reset so i started to search this forum for a fix but i cant find one and the ones that do say anything says to one click back to ek02 witch i have done and its still not working , i need to take my phone to sprint to get looked at and the repair guys at my sprint are hip to the rooting game so they check that stuff first , please can anybody help thanks
oh and by the way i just got my usb jig today, brand new

Search the market for -triangle away- if you still have root this will reset your count.
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Use an Odin OC to get to ICS, use Triangle Away and then revert to EL29, again by Odin OC.
Hope this helps!
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danders23 said:
ok heres my problem , im trying to reset my odin counter and ive done the odin restore back to ek02 ,i was coming from el29 , but when i power off my phone and then plug in my usb jig my counter doesnt reset so i started to search this forum for a fix but i cant find one and the ones that do say anything says to one click back to ek02 witch i have done and its still not working , i need to take my phone to sprint to get looked at and the repair guys at my sprint are hip to the rooting game so they check that stuff first , please can anybody help thanks
oh and by the way i just got my usb jig today, brand new
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Are you sure you flashed the ODIN OneClick?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=23478866&postcount=869
Any of GB OneClicks would have allowed your jig to work without any additional work.
At this point it is probably simpler if you just flash the bootloader:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1391624

To sfhub,
Yes i used your one click odin to get to ek02 and then used the auto root to unroot and what bootloader do i need to flash and how do i just flash a bootloader?
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It is in the post you replied to.

to sfhub,
thanks man it worked but now how do i get back to the current bootloader without adding to the binery counter ?

I would suggest you just leave well enough alone. You won't have issues.

danders23 said:
to sfhub,
thanks man it worked but now how do i get back to the current bootloader without adding to the binery counter ?
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Use heimdall to flash one of the .bin files from stock recovery. I had this same exact problem. I flashed (heimdall'ed) everything I could get my hands on and couldn't get my usb jig to reset the counter. Finally at my wits' end I download the stock EL29 md5, untar it, and heimdall'ed every file in it using their corresponding --commands.
I did this:
sudo heimdall flash --repartition --pit ../victory_8G_100528.pit --factoryfs ./factoryfs.rfs --cache ./cache.rfs --data ./datafs.rfs --primary-boot ./boot.bin --secondary-boot ./Sbl.bin --param ./param.lfs --kernel ./zImage
sudo heimdall flash --recovery ./recovery.bin
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But i bet you could get by doing just boot.bin, SBL.bin or recovery.bin. Probably recovery.bin.
EDIT: I bet I dorked it up when I heimdalled --kernel boot.img from one of the AOSP ROMs. Just glad I was able to fix it.

Memory error on SGS3 GT-I9300
b1g.p0ppa said:
Use heimdall to flash one of the .bin files from stock recovery. I had this same exact problem. I flashed (heimdall'ed) everything I could get my hands on and couldn't get my usb jig to reset the counter. Finally at my wits' end I download the stock EL29 md5, untar it, and heimdall'ed every file in it using their corresponding --commands.
I did this:
But i bet you could get by doing just boot.bin, SBL.bin or recovery.bin. Probably recovery.bin.
EDIT: I bet I dorked it up when I heimdalled --kernel boot.img from one of the AOSP ROMs. Just glad I was able to fix it.
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Hi folks.
Is there any way to get cust bin Counter reset from Odin on my SGS3?
My Device have memory issues and i want to reset Counter in order to get Samsung Service on the Device since it still is under warranty.
Is it possible to reset Counter on a Device that wont even boot? Just rebooting into the small "Samsung" text on display, restarts and reboots all the time...

nofish_olsen said:
Hi folks.
Is there any way to get cust bin Counter reset from Odin on my SGS3?
My Device have memory issues and i want to reset Counter in order to get Samsung Service on the Device since it still is under warranty.
Is it possible to reset Counter on a Device that wont even boot? Just rebooting into the small "Samsung" text on display, restarts and reboots all the time...
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Hmmm... Why don't you go to the SGS3 forums and see what is said there? You know? Your devices forum. Instead of Necrothreading here in our devices forum and cluttering it up.
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UNROOT sgh-t999v

i need to unroot my s3 for warranty purposes but i cannot find proper procedures for the the model sgh-t999v..
i have 2 questions,
1. can i just root a stock rom for sgh-t999 to my sgh-t999v?
2. anyone have the procedures to unroot my sgh-t999v
thanks

Flash a stock rooted Rom. T-Mobile one. That seems to be ok as long as you don't flash a T-Mobile radio.
Not sure if triangle away works on the Canadian version.
Maybe someone else has tried it.
All I had to do to return my last one was flash a stock rooted Rom.
I don't think they check the flash counter
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---------- Post added at 08:52 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:48 AM ----------
If the Rom has some T-Mobile bloat left on it get it off there.
Hide superuser in a folder
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Thanks, ill try it tonight
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Or you can download the actual fw for your device. You will have to register but its no big deal.
Www.sammobile.com/firmware
11 Years Ago Today...
WE WILL NEVER FORGET!!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!​

I can see you have a Videotron Galaxy S3. They don't check the flash counter. Let's just say I know this "by experience". As long as it's just rooted and you don't have any custom ROM, you should be fine. But indeed if you can at least hide the SU app it would be a good thing.
You could also perform a factory reset in CWM prior to going to the store, as they will make you do it anyways (and you actually don't want them to see the CWM screen)prior to any exchange. It's company policy.

lightpsycho said:
I can see you have a Videotron Galaxy S3. They don't check the flash counter. Let's just say I know this "by experience". As long as it's just rooted and you don't have any custom ROM, you should be fine. But indeed if you can at least hide the SU app it would be a good thing.
You could also perform a factory reset in CWM prior to going to the store, as they will make you do it anyways (and you actually don't want them to see the CWM screen)prior to any exchange. It's company policy.
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It's still probably safer to just use Triangle Away to get rid of the flash counter

Triangle away? Please explain
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yukuansu said:
Triangle away? Please explain
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Heres everything to know about triangle away, it resets the flash counter...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
Jake

T-Mobile & SGH-T999V
Hi,
Can we use the T-Mobile stock recovery on SGH-T999V?

flyerspat said:
Hi,
Can we use the T-Mobile stock recovery on SGH-T999V?
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If your trying to go back to stock, just download the stock rom from sammobile, it has everything you need like stock recovery, and then just flash it via odin.

htc fan89 said:
If your trying to go back to stock, just download the stock rom from sammobile, it has everything you need like stock recovery, and then just flash it via odin.
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Hi,
The only downloads availables are the firmwares, does it include the stock recovery in it?

flyerspat said:
Hi,
The only downloads availables are the firmwares, does it include the stock recovery in it?
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Yes it should be the full fw which includes radio, recovery and more.
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Thanks!
I'll test it tonight, wouldn't look good to download a 700 mb file at work!

I tried a few firmwares, but for some reason they all said "unsupport dev_type" when trying to use odin to return to stock non root (from stock rooted) In the end, the easiest way to remove root was to just let Kies update my gs3 to Jelly Bean (sgh-t999v). Painless, no data loss, took about 30 minutes with the firmware download.
Good luck

You will likely also want to triangle away. I won't link because it's extremely dangerous software that requires you to read up on the risks.
But that will reset your custom flashes assuming you have some on your counter you can check easily by going into download mode.

i recently lost my stock rom backup.. deleted it off clockworkmod touch by accident, so i only have the cm10.1 nightly i was running when i deleted it.. now i'm assuming i will lose root if i flash the stock firmware through odin? is there another way to get my stock rom back without losing root (and cyanogenmod rom backups)?

hey guys im having trouble with triangle away on my sgh-t999v with the baseband version: T999VVLUFNF1
after I used triangle away and I go into download mode it says:
current binary: Samsung Official
System status: official
qualcomm secureboot:enable
Warranty Bit:1
Bootloader AP SWAEV: 2
Although the current binary and the system status have changed the warranty bit is still at 1
Please help!

There is no way (and never will be a way) to change the Warranty Bit. Sorry

DocHoliday77 said:
There is no way (and never will be a way) to change the Warranty Bit. Sorry
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I guess im screwed for warranty..I thought it might be cuz I have a custom kernal installed that triangle away didnt work..but thanks anyway and sorry about posting in multiple threads, im kinda new to this

No problem, thats why i mention it, so you know for the future.
Tecnically, with the warranty bit tripped, the warranty is void. However, i have seen a lot of posts where people sent it in anyway and their warranty was still honored. Its not a guarantee, but there is hope it can be used if needed. The good thing though, is you most likely will never need to use it anyway!

is there anyway to reset the counter??

ok so my kids mother wanted her gs3 rooted so i did she tried a few roms and the whole root thing aint for her.. so today i unrooted it but i forgot to use that app triangle away.. so basicly im screwed rite?? is there anyway to make it to 0 again?? she is not bringing it to sprint but just in case she ever does i dont want them to say she screwed on her warrenty cause the counter is at 3 and not 0..

Triangle Away doesn't work yet. Still waiting on an update.
I think there's a stock software you can flash that resets it. I'll look for it quick and get back to you.
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Here ya go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
You'll have to reset everything though.
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BWFBezerk said:
Triangle Away doesn't work yet. Still waiting on an update.
I think there's a stock software you can flash that resets it. I'll look for it quick and get back to you.
Edit:
Here ya go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099
You'll have to reset everything though.
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yea but dont u have to flash that in recovery?? so ill have to root it again and flash a custom recovery again rite?? i already unrooted with odin its stock everything now recovery and all.. just the counter is not at 0.. do all the stores look into the counter being not at 0??

You'll have to flash root/recovery again in Odin, but as of right now, I think this is the only way to reset flash counter.
Takes 6 seconds in Odin and you're back with CWM and root, so it's not too much trouble.
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Triangle away works just fine as long as your not on jellybean which triggers the counter on every boot. So wheather you use triangle away or the rom w/ reset you will need root or a custom recovery.
Just flash any custom recovery in odin http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900492 which takes two seconds.
Reboot straight to recovery and flash zip in above post. You'll be totally straight afterwards. Dont even need to reroot. 2 step process

u guys think that they will look at her counter in case she ever goes to sprint?? everything else is stock just the counter says 3

billard412 said:
Triangle away works just fine as long as your not on jellybean which triggers the counter on every boot. So wheather you use triangle away or the rom w/ reset you will need root or a custom recovery.
Just flash any custom recovery in odin http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900492 which takes two seconds.
Reboot straight to recovery and flash zip in above post. You'll be totally straight afterwards. Dont even need to reroot. 2 step process
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sorry im new to using odin.. im used to htc phones.. so once i get odin up how to i get a recovery file to flash on to the phone?? i have odin open now so theres the bootloader...PDA... PHONE... csc.... what one do i have to put the recovery file in???

recoverys are in the link i gave above. Everything goes in PDA slot. Here it is again http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900492 And because ur new to this maybe my noob-friendly idiot proof odin would help u here https://rapidshare.com/files/4208525095/ODIN.zip (if you use it ignore the warning up top, its just a joke)

billard412 said:
recoverys are in the link i gave above. Everything goes in PDA slot. Here it is again http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900492 And because ur new to this maybe my noob-friendly idiot proof odin would help u here https://rapidshare.com/files/4208525095/ODIN.zip (if you use it ignore the warning up top, its just a joke)
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pda sweet.. all i needed to kno thanks!!!:good:.. wow this ishh is so much easier then htc phones.. i mite get a samsung my next upgrade?? htc is a pain in the a$$ sometimes!

Ive done an htc or two in my day and believe me i feel ur pain. Everytime felt like the first time with an htc. I will say i do miss having a phone with fastboot tho. HTC def has the right idea leaving fastboot on their phones.
EDIT: all well?

billard412 said:
Ive done an htc or two in my day and believe me i feel ur pain. Everytime felt like the first time with an htc. I will say i do miss having a phone with fastboot tho. HTC def has the right idea leaving fastboot on their phones.
EDIT: all well?
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Totally agree. I've done countless htc phones and each phone is a new challenge. I love my new samsung though.
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Flash counter always comes back!!

OK. I noticed that I had a flash counter and I used triangle away apk.. the apk resets the flash counter back to 0 always and I would go into download mode to check and that is at 0.. but after awhile I'll check the apk not flashing anything and its back go 1 what is going on here?? Is it tricking me showing me a fake 0?? Would like other opinions on this please!
Thanks!

ImEVO said:
OK. I noticed that I had a flash counter and I used triangle away apk.. the apk resets the flash counter back to 0 always and I would go into download mode to check and that is at 0.. but after awhile I'll check the apk not flashing anything and its back go 1 what is going on here?? Is it tricking me showing me a fake 0?? Would like other opinions on this please!
Thanks!
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Flash in recovery
http://goo.im/devs/billard412/d2spr/Sprint_GS3/LI3_firmware(bootloaders).zip
Then reset
The jb firmware has changes made to it to do that that. This will downgrade your bootloaders to stop it

I flash this every time I flash new ROM?

Weird u sure its the li3 firmware Cuz it shouldn't be going up then.
Try these instead http://androidfilehost.com/?fid=9390169635556425848
You'll need odin for them

I'm running the latest JB blaze rom if that helps any

ImEVO said:
I'm running the latest JB blaze rom if that helps any
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The ROM shouldn't matter its in the boot loaders. The Odin ones should def do it. Theyre lg8 I'm using them now. Says 0 and official and I'm running cm10

So your saying use mobile Odin to flash?

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So your saying use mobile Odin to flash?
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No it won't flash bootloaders. Says as the top inside mobile odin

Is there a thread I can read over for all these bootloaders??

ImEVO said:
Is there a thread I can read over for all these bootloaders??
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Is there a thread dedicated to them no. Freeza has the posted as AIOs in his thread. But his come with a modem.
The last 5 pages or so of my stock restore and rooted odin tar thread mentions them but this isn't really an heavily discussed issue . Granted Google couldve told u that in less time than it took me to write this.

I'm just trying to gather a little more knowledge bout this "bootloader".. I flashed that zip and everything seem to be fine.. I just wanted to know what does it exactly do?? Sry noon alert! Coming from the epic touch things are little different here lol
Thanks

So just to have peace of mind I did the right thing flashing that zip right? Lol and I can go flashing ROMs without running into any problems? Sry I'm probably being stupid right now

ImEVO said:
So just to have peace of minto e right thing flashing that zip right? Lol and I can go flashing ROMs without running into any problems? Sry I'm probably being stupid right now
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Ya no worries it just downgrades those partitions to the ics versions and if you prefer
http://goo.im/devs/billard412/d2spr/Sprint_GS3/LG8_Firmware[sb1_tz_etc].zip
There's the lg8 for recovery rather than Odin

What's the difference in zips?

ImEVO said:
What's the difference in zips?
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Lg8 and Li3

I really appreciate you helping me out
Thanks
So I can flash any ROM without having any issues?
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Yes. Those are not Rom dependent. Like i said I'm using lg8 right now with cm10. No issues. Have used them all with different roms and 0 issues to report

Thank you sir! :beer::thumbup::beer::thumbup::beer: