Ok all I just got my note2 yesterday and wantvto root it but I heard there is a counter that tells when and howmany time you root you phone. I had the og evo and loved it but it was time to move on. I am good with the phones as I made several themes for Tommys classic rom on the evo. Just looking for info as I want to use the phone as it was intended!!!!
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Charles
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Chaz187 said:
Ok all I just got my note2 yesterday and wantvto root it but I heard there is a counter that tells when and howmany time you root you phone. I had the og evo and loved it but it was time to move on. I am good with the phones as I made several themes for Tommys classic rom on the evo. Just looking for info as I want to use the phone as it was intended!!!!
Thanks,
Charles
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There is a counter but all that can be set back to 0 with an app called TriangleAway. Have fun with device, all can be set back to stock if need be.
Yup....go ahead and root. The counter has been there since the gs2 and even if you don't reset it the Sprint employees(most) won't know the difference. I replaced mine with no issue and flashed all the time. But it's easily removed as said before so no worries
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thanks for the info guys I rooted last night 5 minutes after I made the post it out have fun with this phone
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What exactly is the deal with this counter, you mean like a tech guy could see if you rooted & restored back to stock? I had the og Evo, rooted once & only once, now looking forward to rooting note2, but never heard of this counter thing,
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The counter increments each time a non-stock ROM is flashed. So any number greater than zero indicates that a non-stock ROM was installed on the device at some point.
You can see the counter in download mode.
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What exactly is the deal with this counter, you mean like a tech guy could see if you rooted & restored back to stock? I had the og Evo, rooted once & only once, now looking forward to rooting note2, but never heard of this counter thing,
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I have 2 Epics, soon to be 3 that need to be wiped for selling them.
All 3 are rooted with Clockwork Mod on them. Is there a way to wipe the phones back to 100% stock?
Use ODIN to return both to stock. Make sure you have Samsung drivers installed on your PC.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/SPH-D700-ODIN
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I have 2 Epics, soon to be 3 that need to be wiped for selling them.
All 3 are rooted with Clockwork Mod on them. Is there a way to wipe the phones back to 100% stock?
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Follow the directions here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13245831
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First off questions go in Q&A
Second: google how to restore a semi-bricked epic xda and it will point you to the thread in development that explains it and has links to the files. You need to odin it to stock.
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why not sell them rooted probably get more money for it not to mention. i know a lot of people on craigslist always wanting rooted phones.
Unless your selling them to a store that's different but even then they;ll just restore them, themselves.
How much are you selling them for? What condition are they in? I wouldn't mind picking up a decent one for a decent price, and it would save you the trouble of cleaning it, I'd be flashing a different ROM on it anyway and starting fresh from there.
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Thanks for the replies. I have used Odin 20x to return a phone to stock. Just wasn't sure that pulled clockwork totally off. Is there a way to clear the flash counter on it?
I was thinking I would either sell them to Sprint or sell them on EBay. 2 of the 3 are in daily driver condition. The other 1 is perfect except for the charging port. Depending on the angle of the charging cable, it doesn't always charge. I'm not looking to make a bunch of money. But if they will sell for a decent price on EBay, that's what I will do. Not sure what the going rate is.
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Please share a link to where you end up choosing to put them up for sale.
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Muckrak3r said:
Thanks for the replies. I have used Odin 20x to return a phone to stock. Just wasn't sure that pulled clockwork totally off. Is there a way to clear the flash counter on it?
I was thinking I would either sell them to Sprint or sell them on EBay. 2 of the 3 are in daily driver condition. The other 1 is perfect except for the charging port. Depending on the angle of the charging cable, it doesn't always charge. I'm not looking to make a bunch of money. But if they will sell for a decent price on EBay, that's what I will do. Not sure what the going rate is.
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The Epic has no flash counter.
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kennyglass123 said:
The Epic has no flash counter.
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Another touchling?
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MДЯCЦSДИT said:
Another touchling?
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Good catch. OP you have a slide out keyboard on those Epics right?
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Good catch. OP you have a slide out keyboard on those Epics right?
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Yep
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Thanks for the help guys. It had been so long since I did an Odin stock reset, I had forgotten about it!
Wiped and sold the phones.
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does anyone have the stock image for sprint note 2 yet and can post it.
As of yesterday even the sprint store didnt ... I had to swap my soft bricked unit out
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As of yesterday even the sprint store didnt ... I had to swap my soft bricked unit out
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thanks man how did you swap it out did they ask you what happened to it or why you needed to swap it i figured it would void the warranty and they wouldnt let you swap it
Stock tar isn't yet available. Sucks.
You guys are way too paranoid when dealing with sprint stores. It's not their main goal to void your warranty. You act like you have a neon sign above your head flashing "I'M ROOTED!" lol
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Stock tar isn't yet available. Sucks.
You guys are way too paranoid when dealing with sprint stores. It's not their main goal to void your warranty. You act like you have a neon sign above your head flashing "I'M ROOTED!" lol
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lol whats up viperboy havent seen much of you since evo 3d man i know im being paranoid but you think i should go to the store and ask them about it or just wait on a stock image i just want to be out 600 for a new one lol thanks man
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thanks man how did you swap it out did they ask you what happened to it or why you needed to swap it i figured it would void the warranty and they wouldnt let you swap it
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The tech asked if I tried to root it and I grined and said "me? Never" lol
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Was no problem swapping but I had to drive 20 miles away for it cause most everyone was out of stock the one I got was going to be that stores demo
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cool thanks man
picked up my new gn2 from sprint today had to go with the white one cause they were out of the silver which sucks but o well i was gonna put it in a case anyways. Got it rooted and twrp on it and running great. Did not mess with the toolkit this time and all is well lol.
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picked up my new gn2 from sprint today had to go with the white one cause they were out of the silver which sucks but o well i was gonna put it in a case anyways. Got it rooted and twrp on it and running great. Did not mess with the toolkit this time and all is well lol.
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yay
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im living the dream now lol
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im living the dream now lol
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Howd your return experience go? Did you talk em into letting you keep the battery like I did? :victory:
I had to get the white too cause no gray. .I thought it was going to suck..Now I'm glad cause it looks so clean and every phone I've had was gray anyway.
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lol the stock image is up now
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It was pretty easy to return just had two go to a different sprint store to get the phone. I went to the store at the main campus in overland park. I like the white one it looks ok and no I wish I would have thought about asking for the battery I was just excited to be getting one that worked i didn't think about it. Would be nice to have an extra one. But when the lady was activating my new phone she asked if I had the charger, headset and box and everything and I don't have it she said don't worry about it so I got 2 chargers and 2 headsets now lol. Also yea that sucks the stock image is out now
Lol just saw that lame o well got extra stuff out of it and I really like the chargers they have longer cords than most of my other chargers.
Yeah, it would be nice to have extra charger. Ive been looking online and nothing. Sometimes I go spend the night at my moms or we go out of town and its nice to bring an extra one with without having to grab my own.
Subject says it all. I've been using my S3 for about 6 months, stock. Recently OTA upgraded to 4.1.1 JB, which killed my battery life compared to ICS, but now I'm considering rooting just to test out ROMs and see if I can improve battery life (and all the goodies that come along with it)
Is preserving the flash counter important? Is that really something we should be concerned about?
I read something in a thread where it was said no matter how you obtain root, when you flash ROMs or kernels it trips the counter +1 anyway.
Just seems like if that is true, then why bother to preserve the flash counter if it trips anyway?
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Don't worry about it. Triangle away will reset it back to zero when needed
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But remember that it's not guaranteed that resetting the flash counter will work. It will void warranty.
I bought my S3 used, so I gave about zero craps because I had no intention of ever trying to get a replacement under warranty, anyway. I'd just sell it for parts if it came to that.
I hope that app works because lately the people who inspect the phones at the tmobile stores are actually looking to see if the phone is rooted now. So maybe the technicians at the lab will look for that counter and see that the phone was rooted.
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Yeah , same problem with me. When on stock ics the battery would drain by 2-3% per hour in idle mode. But after upgrading to jb it is draining at 8-9%. Does anyone knows how to fix that?
I've used triangle away and it resets flash counter. So if u ever need to get ur warranty back just use traingle away and flash stock rom.
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also, you can't play Avengers which you get free as a download from Media Hub if that counter is tripped. I've tried.
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also, you can't play Avengers which you get free as a download from Media Hub if that counter is tripped. I've tried.
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wow. I just tried this and it says it could not play this video. Which I downloaded before from media hub and it did play. But not now. Wow.
It doesn't really matter, BUT that is bull kaka!
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I even dont know how it matters and why.
Happly flashing everything best in market
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Flashing stuff when you don't even know what you're doing and impacting is a bad idea - a user needs to make an informed choice and understand the possible risks and benefits.
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So I convince my sister to let me root her phone after showing her my awesome phone. I get all the files and prepare for the Odin flash but when I go into download mode on her phone everything says custom and she has a flash count of 7. Weird thing is that her phone isn't pre owned and I can guarantee that her phone has never been rooted or had anything flashed on it. Anybody see this before?
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Not I. The only way to trip the counter is to flash anything but official firmware via odin.
You sure it wasn't a refurb, or used and repackaged? Unless she got it direct from T-Mobile or a Wal-Mart type store, this is very possible.
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That's the weird thing, she bought it straight from tmobile. My sister has no idea how to do any of this stuff so I know she didn't root it before.
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Maybe it was used for batch testing? I kinda doubt there's any way to get to the bottom of this one...
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Yeah but it kind of makes me curious what would have happened if she ever needed a warranty replacement...
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Yeah but it kind of makes me curious what would have happened if she ever needed a warranty replacement...
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TriangleAway?
Yeah I used triangle away after I rooted it
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I am definitely not a noob here but, it has been a loooong time. From the HD2 and g2x days including a stint with Team Hellfire. I just tried to get back in to the scene with the purchase of a tmous galaxy s4 (4.3) and am realizing that I may not be able to root. That being said, I have read that you can and that you can't. What is the definitive answer? can I root this paperweight or not?
I'm not too familiar with the s4 but I know with 4.3 on an HTC one you can't root yet.
Check your software build number and boot version and then search on those numbers. Most 4.3 phones right now can't root unless you were previously s off and just took the ota. Then all you had to do was reinstall superuser.
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I am definitely not a noob here but, it has been a loooong time. From the HD2 and g2x days including a stint with Team Hellfire. I just tried to get back in to the scene with the purchase of a tmous galaxy s4 (4.3) and am realizing that I may not be able to root. That being said, I have read that you can and that you can't. What is the definitive answer? can I root this paperweight or not?
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You can root, use custom recovery, flash other ROMs, etc but you will trip the (as of right now) KNOX warranty flag. If you care about your warranty, leave it stock and don't muck around. If the warranty doesn't really matter to you, having a tripped KNOX flag doesn't incapacitate your device or anything; just don't expect warranty agreements to be honored.
Cf auto root
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Thanks all for the replies. F the warranty, let's play. Who's got a step by step root for 4.3
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Here you go:
http://honai-android.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-to-root-galaxy-s4-t-mobile-sgh-m919.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2294005
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Awesomeness!!!!! Don't know if I'll get back into dev but ya never know
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TOG565 said:
Awesomeness!!!!! Don't know if I'll get back into dev but ya never know
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Not sure who you are but we can always use a little more action here. Welcome. Sometimes there's crickets.
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Was rock in w team hell fire but moved in to an app that was picked up by a major carrier. Just messing around back here but we will see what shakes out. Picked up an S4 and it's lookin like a rough go.
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Was rock in w team hell fire but moved in to an app that was picked up by a major carrier. Just messing around back here but we will see what shakes out. Picked up an S4 and it's lookin like a rough go.
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I was deciding between s4 and HTC one. How do you like yours? I don't think I'm a big fan of touch wiz. I hope Verizon does not take away my unlimited data because all I've had were Verizon HTC phones.
If I had to switch carriers I would probably keep my DNA as it has bands that work on pretty much all carriers except sprint.
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So far it is nicely put together and it has a ton of features. Not really happy with the lock down from Samsung though. First is was a lack of source release from LG and now Samsung has to play games
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Yeah they did pack a lot of features in the s4. What they should have done was made the build quality better, it's not as plasticy feeling as the s3 but they should have of course got rid of the home button.
I heard Knox is a pain but at least you can root it now. I can't even use my one right now because I hate the Verizon software.
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I can't find a valid cf autoroot download. Every link I've tried here, on utube, and my own searches result in the same thing. File appears to download but when I try to open it it says it is a corrupted file. If I try to unzip it it says there are no files to unzip. Anyone have a good do for it?
I would a went w the One but the camera sux
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I don't think we are allowed to post links but I'll pm you something I found. I'm not sure what model you have but take a look.
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You can always flash recovery thru odin then flash whatever
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