Has anyone bricked using triangle away? If so, which rom were you on?
z31k said:
Has anyone bricked using triangle away? If so, which from were you on?
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Ya man,i used it the other day. You can only run it with ICS kernels a or you will likely brick.I'm on Calkins FD02Ics2V1.4. Worked great. A little nerve racking but no more bindery count!
It only works with ICS and make sure u follow all directions, especially making sure the info matches, binary count needs to be exact, model# should match unless u have the wrong bootloader and make sure if the triangle is or isn't visible that matches as well, otherwise there's a chance of bricking if the info isn't matched up
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-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
It only works with ICS and make sure u follow all directions, especially making sure the info matches, binary count needs to be exact, model# should match unless u have the wrong bootloader and make sure if the triangle is or isn't visible that matches as well, otherwise there's a chance of bricking if the info isn't matched up
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Thanks for the help!!
I haven't tried triangle away yet, my flash counter is now at 37 but I don't have the yellow triangle so it doesnt bother me at all. Alot of ppl have used it numerous times tho and I haven't seen anyone brick from it as of yet, atleast not on our device. I did see 1 person who bricked on another version of the sgs2 but their info in the app didn't match up the product ID meaning they most likely had the wrong bootloader installed to begin with
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What about cm9
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What about cm9
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I started using this after flashing CM9 Alpha1. No issues at all. Just used it a few minutes ago again after flashing a FD16 based kernel for CM9 through odin.
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What about cm9
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Theoretically it will work with any ICS rom/kernel combo for the time being, eventually Samsung may patch the exploit that allows it to work or they may not. Apparently they will have to actively hide the partitions to disable the apps functionality so they may or may not go that far to patch it.
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I used it with CM9 Alpha 3 yesterday. Everything went through without a hitch.. YMMV though... It has a warning before using.. That's what made me a bit weary.
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Rooted...no issue there.
Installed ROM Manger.
Installed Clockwork Recovery from Rom Manager as I wanted to install a new rom.
Now when I boot, no matter what combination I hold down, it goes to the Android System Recovery screen and in the background is the white triangle, yellow exclamation point and little android guy.
I can move between the three ofered choices but pressing the power button (I assume this is the OK button) does nothing.
Thoughts / help?
Does your computer recognize it? If it does you should try adb download and see if you can get into download mode
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Have you even tried pressing any of the soft keys, home button?
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Just realized I posted the question in the wrong forum as well.
Computer makes a noise as though it knows it's connected, yet it doesn't show up and odin and kies don't find it either.
I think home button is select and power button is back, but I haven't used stock in a long time, so might be remembering incorrectly.
I suggest you don't use Rom Manager to install recovery. It doesn't work properly for this phone and could lead to non-recoverable problems.
Read this thread and you'll have references to everything you need to undo and start from scratch:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728
THANKS!
What a doof........hit the home button and all is fixed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jfenton57 said:
What a doof........hit the home button and all is fixed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And leave stupid ROM manager alone it's crap on Samsung
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I don't know for the life of me why people still use Rom manager to install roms.
I think they are probably HTC converts because nothing here is asking them to use ROM manager.
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I don't know for the life of me why people still use Rom manager to install roms.
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Lazy lazy and most don't know how to do it correctly....
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sfhub said:
I think they are probably HTC converts because nothing here is asking them to use ROM manager.
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I came over from an Evo and believe me everything pointed to not use Rom Manager when I had my phone as well. I agree that if people took the time to read properly they would see that Rom Manager and a few other crazy things they do are not suggested. But they make sure to have time to post and read their threads when they screw up. Honestly with all the brick laying and blue light specials up in herrre. Do you really need to post your problem and how do you fix it...
His problem is one of 100 exactly the same in here and instead of searching and helping himself he did the same lazy thing that got him stuck in the first place. Then too lazy to find out how to work CWM. Quite sure he will be back again if he keeps up this route... @OP not trying to be an ass but just hate to see people who don't want to help themselves.
Sorry to hear that you've bricked OP. Hope you can get a replacement and get back into owning your phone.
Here's what I've done to avoid bricking since I am also somewhat new to the E4GT...
Read the forums on XDA.
Observed what others are doing that worked.
Didn't flash anything you are unsure of.
Became familiar with ODIN.
Stayed away from ROM manager.
Flashed using el29 rogue recovery only. (I've been successful with this so far, others say to use el26.)
Wipd cache/dalvik-cache/data/system.
Purchased mobile ODIN, $5 is better than the deductible to get a replacement.
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I bricked but it was a bad recovery well not bad just messy team trolls recovery bricked me 2 weeks ago wiping Cache . But as always when u post questions like this here ur gonna hear it lol but searching helps.
Now if its hard bricked ud not even get to recovery at all just a blue light and a black screen that if is ur case unplug it cause it runs the battery super hot .
If not in that position than try power and volume down if it does not bring u to download mode to Odin another recovery if that don't work idk
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I think they are probably HTC converts because nothing here is asking them to use ROM manager.
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The OG Epic uses ROM Manager just fine.
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azyouthinkeyeiz said:
The OG Epic uses ROM Manager just fine.
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That took a long time and a ton of porting. Pretty recent. Went through Eclair and Froyo without support.
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That took a long time and a ton of porting. Pretty recent. Went through Eclair and Froyo without support.
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Porting was needed for CWM recovery. Not ROM Manager. Support for ROM Manager comes from device devs, not koush. In the form of uploading vetted software, that doesn't corrupt. It is a universal starting point, not a fully functional product.
But regardless, I wasn't even talking about it's support. I was saying people other than ones with HTC devices can get into the habit of using ROM Manager.
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azyouthinkeyeiz said:
Porting was needed for CWM recovery. Not ROM Manager. Support for ROM Manager comes from device devs, not koush. In the form of uploading vetted software, that doesn't corrupt. It is a universal starting point, not a fully functional product.
But regardless, I wasn't even talking about it's support. I was saying people other than ones with HTC devices can get into the habit of using ROM Manager.
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I never used it even when there was support. Lol
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Doesn't matter the recovery is in the kernel and rom manager will not work on this phone ....there is no separate recovery partition and ROM manager won't flash the recovery right on here since it's part of the kernel partition.koush doesn't really care he made it to temporarily flash a recovery like touch that might work if not for ics kernels... The thing is it doesn't work people should not rely on it like a crutch
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Wanted to get a discussion going over a much debated and discussed topic....flashing ICS roms with ICS kernels. I want to know the forums specific attempts so we can better understand user errors versus software errors versus hardware errors.
I bring this up as I went from el29 to fc07 a while back and have been on ICS since. I am now on FC22 courtesy of agat63, which I flashed over calks fc18 v2 from. Before that I went from stock rooted fc15 to calks. This was all done using either rogue recovery fc07 or rogue recovery fc22 and using calks format all zip or modified format all zip.
Does it seem this was all "lucky"? I have a feeling many of these brick issues are due to people trying to flash between an AOSP type rom to another and/or using ROM Manager to do so. So lets hear it . . .
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wow, finally an official thread to discuss this rare issue......
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Wow a troll in xda. No way....
http://troll.me/images/futurama-fry/not-sure-if-trolling-or-just-retarded.jpg
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The bricking is related to (I think) data partitioning in the ics cwm recovery. If you wipe anything, something is most likely going to go wrong.
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The bricking is related to (I think) data partitioning in the ics cwm recovery. If you wipe anything, something is most likely going to go wrong.
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That's what I'm trying to boil down to....I have done bith wipes and zip formats, yet no issues....some methods or ROMS are leading into this so I'm hoping the brickers out there can give some feedback on exactly what was flashed and on what ROM, along with some success stories to try to figure out the issue.
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I dont mind firing up the Pc to run Odin, it justifies the 500+ I spent on it 4 months ago.
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I dont mind firing up the Pc to run Odin, it justifies the 500+ I spent on it 4 months ago.
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Agree, love Odin. Just wanna stop the brick posts and hope we can formulate a solid practice on how to prevent it.
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dante32278 said:
Agree, love Odin. Just wanna stop the brick posts and hope we can formulate a solid practice on how to prevent it.
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Someone said once the source is released the risks should be minimal.
Also true....but with all the leaks going around and flashaholics it'd be good to have some guidelines til then, other than speculation. "I believe in science."
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The bricking is related to (I think) data partitioning in the ics cwm recovery. If you wipe anything, something is most likely going to go wrong.
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In addition,
CM9/AOSP/AOKP seem to increase brick chances.
CMW Touch espicially with ROM Manager is espicially dangerous and should not be touched.
zonlicht said:
In addition,
CM9/AOSP/AOKP seem to increase brick chances.
CMW Touch espicially with ROM Manager is espicially dangerous and should not be touched.
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This is what I hear the most. Has anyone else had success with flashing stock ROMs via clockwork on a stock(ish) ICS ROM? By this I mean based off fc07/15/18/22 (calk/agat63/goodness) and not CM9/AOKP/etc...
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Well, I recently got the S3 is rooted running Xquizit v35. But my main question is what exactly is the counter?
is there any bad things if it gets too high? does it need to be reset?
Oh, and based on your opinion and experience what is the best ROM for us T-Mo S3 users out there?
The counter is for samsung to tell if you have ever modified your device. They do this for warranty purpose, if it is tripped then they will charge you. However Chainfire has an app out called Triangle away that will put your counter to zero.
There is no such as the BEST ROM...I recommend cm10 ...its a great noob ROM...its stable enough for daily use.
http://get.cm/?device=d2tmo
You can download it there...make sure you get the latest gapps because the ROM doesn't have them reinstalled
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handman29 said:
There is no such as the BEST ROM...I recommend cm10 ...its a great noob ROM...its stable enough for daily use.
http://get.cm/?device=d2tmo
You can download it there...make sure you get the latest gapps because the ROM doesn't have them reinstalled
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And I would disagree it a very un-noob rom, it has words they'd have to search "nightly" "milestone" "gapps" better option, stock ROM debloated, or stock ROM with root permission and learn what you can do from there.
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mt3g said:
And I would disagree it a very un-noob rom, it has words they'd have to search "nightly" "milestone" "gapps" better option, stock ROM debloated, or stock ROM with root permission and learn what you can do from there.
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If you've flashed you have to send Samsung $15 if you want to keep your warranty.
Well, I'm not a noob at android I know most about it. I'm just new to Samsung. I haven't tried CM10 since I'm mainly about battery life w/ a good performance. How's the battery life on CM10? And I guess I'll try to reset my counter with that app. Thanks guys!
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FWIW my counter is at 15 right now. (See how worried I am about it)
Just download Triangle Away and run it when you want. After each flash, once a week, never. It all depends on how careless/ful you are when flashing and if you bork something so bad, it has to be returned for warranty.
Also best ROM threads are frowned upon bc they always turn into pissing contests.
How do I check my counter?
type R-blood
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How do I check my counter?
type R-blood
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Either run triangle away or boot into download mode. Both will show your flash counter.
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Ok, so can't ask "best ROM", but, is everything working and stable in any particular version of CM10?
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I see people talking about the warranty aspect of it, but I found out the hard way that having the counter not zeroed out affects the way some T-Mo and Samsung services work. Examples:
1) I was excited the AllShare Cast dongle for $50, got it all hooked up, then had this problem where every time the phone tried to hook up to the hub, it would just disconnect after a few seconds. After doing some reading, it was discovered that if your flash count reset back to zero (and binary showing as "official"), then the hub worked just fine. So I did the Triangle Away business, and bam. Worked like a charm.
2) There was a promotion a little while back where T-Mobile customers could view or download The Avengers movie from one of the bloatware apps I removed long ago. I don't remember all the details, but the download only worked once the counter and then the TV app data were both reset.
So there are real world reasons to go ahead and reset the flash counter back to zero. It just took me a little bit of time to figure this out myself. And now I'm passing the savings on to youuuuu!
Thanks for that! That's a heads up
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Updated to the jellybean Monday, and now I see in phone status the above message.
Thoughts..??
Thanks.
Rooted? Ota update? Need a bit more info
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Rooted, but not much more.
Ota update.
Its because you've rooted the phone.
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Edit: I was Ninja'd from above ^^^
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That is why is shows Modified then.
You can go here to find out more about it.
[INFO][RESEARCH] JB Flash Counter, Triangle Away
Ok, I kinda knew it was because I had rooted the phone. I guess my question was, what does it mean "big picture" wise.
Rickkins said:
Ok, I kinda knew it was because I had rooted the phone. I guess my question was, what does it mean "big picture" wise.
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Its nothing of consequence unless you plan on cashing in on your warranty . If you need to get a replacement , all you need to do is use triangle away to set flash counter to 0 and then Odin to stock. That will make your phone look brand new firmware wise...
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Rickkins said:
Updated to the jellybean Monday, and now I see in phone status the above message.
Thoughts..??
Thanks.
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that happened to me after I removed the carrier iq stuff off the phone...
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Its nothing of consequence unless you plan on cashing in on your warranty . If you need to get a replacement , all you need to do is use triangle away to set flash counter to 0 and then Odin to stock. That will make your phone look brand new firmware wise...
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Oh good, it doesn't ruin the warranty. Thanks.
Firstly thank you in advance to anyone who takes time out to help me fix this problem.
I have searched high and low for an answer both here and abroad but I have not been able to find anything that addresses non-stock recovery and yellow triangles.
I have an Epic 4G Touch running CM9 with CWM. A couple of days ago I noticed that my charge port was giving me issues and I had to place the connector in just the right way to get it to charge. Now it has become a large issue where it will barely charge.
TL;DR: I have insurance and need to figure out how to get back to stock everything, remove the yellow triangle (without USB jig) and make it look like the phone has had nothing but stock.
Thank you again!
That's cheating.
Pp.
sent from a jellybean filled epic touch.
Search "Triangle Away" and all stick ROMs are in the Repository... Click on stickies in the Dev section
Why not try a PC Odin One-clic stock restore (FL24) - carefully holding in the connector during the whole flash?
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Search "Triangle Away" and all stick ROMs are in the Repository... Click on stickies in the Dev section
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This
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Use your current recovery to flash the FL24 modem and then use Mobile Odin to flash FL24.
Or he could just flash a full stock one click using the SD card and avoid all that stuff...
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Or he could just flash a full stock one click using the SD card and avoid all that stuff...
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Depending on which modem they are running...
I'd suggest;
Use triangle away, flash an older official stock tar with mobile odin, (wont matter with current modem since they can be mixed since they're running cm9) then let the ota take it to official latest.
But I'm betting op has done something by now.
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Depending on which modem they are running...
I'd suggest;
Use triangle away, flash an older official stock tar with mobile odin, (wont matter with current modem since they can be mixed since they're running cm9) then let the ota take it to official latest.
But I'm betting op has done something by now.
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Implying that he will have the battery life to do all that.
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My apologies for not replying sooner.
To anyone still watching:
I ended up finding a 3rd party Sprint dealer willing to get me a replacement and bring EVERYTHING back to default before sending out the phone for repair.
Thank you everyone for your suggestions.
PS Does Triangle away really work? All of those "this may brick your device" warnings make me nervous...
jhw549 said:
My apologies for not replying sooner.
To anyone still watching:
I ended up finding a 3rd party Sprint dealer willing to get me a replacement and bring EVERYTHING back to default before sending out the phone for repair.
Thank you everyone for your suggestions.
PS Does Triangle away really work? All of those "this may brick your device" warnings make me nervous...
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Yes it works.
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jhw549 said:
My apologies for not replying sooner.
To anyone still watching:
I ended up finding a 3rd party Sprint dealer willing to get me a replacement and bring EVERYTHING back to default before sending out the phone for repair.
Thank you everyone for your suggestions.
PS Does Triangle away really work? All of those "this may brick your device" warnings make me nervous...
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It does really work. But there are chances for it to brick if you lose power to the phone. Battery dies, if falls and battery falls out, power button issues. Other than that, it won't brick you. They also put that warning on there so someone can't blame the dev if they did something to f**k their phone up. Its a universal disclaimer thar tells people to be careful.
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There will always be warnings
Stock roms/kernels should remove that triangle as well unless i am mistaken.
Razzzzer said:
There will always be warnings
Stock roms/kernels should remove that triangle as well unless i am mistaken.
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Or you can just use triangle away like what was posted.
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Razzzzer said:
There will always be warnings
Stock roms/kernels should remove that triangle as well unless i am mistaken.
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You're mistaken, to a point.
Flashing a stock will remove the triangle but not reset the binary counter.
Triangle away will do both.