I realize this may have been asked before and if so i want to apologize in advance. First off Im an android NOOB. Long time iphone user and jailbreaker. Anyhow, I rooted my ATT Samsung Galaxy note 2 with CWM6, I also made a backup after installing this from inside recovery. I believe that is what its called anyhow. I then tryed Jedi X and CleanRom 3.0.1. After giving these 2 a try I realized I prefer stock and set out to go back to that. I followed all the instruction that are listed on the pages within XDA. Ran triangle away and removed SU. After reboot Im still sitting in a modified status.
Now according to Triangle Away documentation this can happen. And I need to install a stock firmware. Im currently downloading that from a link on this site.
I re-rooted and installed triangle away.
My question is what order should everuthing be done? Im guessing, 1, flash stock recovery. 2, run triangle away, Uninstall SuperSU 4 flash factory firmware. Is this correct? Also, how do I flash factory firmware? Do I use factory recovery mode to do this?
Thanks so much for the help in advance.
By flashing factory firmware you are tripping the counter again. If you are already on stock firmware and just rooted look here.
1. Factory reset
2. Restore stock rooted backup
3. Click on thread below
4. Post in thread questions press thanks if it helped.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2020607
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Android The Greek said:
By flashing factory firmware you are tripping the counter again. If you are already on stock firmware and just rooted look here.
1. Factory reset
2. Restore stock rooted backup
3. Click on thread below
4. Post in thread questions press thanks if it helped.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2020607
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Flashing a stock rom through Odin does not trip the counter
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If you do triangle away, then go into download mode, then flash stock rom you will trip the counter.... you should have stock rom on before triangle away. Then triangle away. Then unroot.
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If you do triangle away, then go into download mode, then flash stock rom you will trip the counter.... you should have stock rom on before triangle away. Then triangle away. Then unroot.
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Ok I did this. Then went to odin mode here is what it says
Custom Binary Download : no
Current Binary: Samsung official
System Status: official.
Device status in settings still says modified. I have no root, no TA and stock recovery this stuff is driving me batty.
Edit. I just tried to go into stock recovery by volume up, home and power. It DOES not go to whatever menu is there. It just boots.
bigdaddyjosh said:
Ok I did this. Then went to odin mode here is what it says
Custom Binary Download : no
Current Binary: Samsung official
System Status: official.
Device status in settings still says modified. I have no root, no TA and stock recovery this stuff is driving me batty.
Edit. I just tried to go into stock recovery by volume up, home and power. It DOES not go to whatever menu is there. It just boots.
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Stock recovery should work..... If not try cf root again. That restores stock
Anyways you need to factory reset to change modify to official.
I suggest you dont factory reset unless you need to return it, You may decide to root again as I did.
Android The Greek said:
Stock recovery should work..... If not try cf root again. That restores stock
Anyways you need to factory reset to change modify to official.
I suggest you dont factory reset unless you need to return it, You may decide to root again as I did.
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Yea, I tried to factory reset, but i was missing the stock recovery so it went into a boot loop. I battery pulled and booted odin and reinstalled factory recovery, using cf-auto root. Here is my question. Everytime I factory reset it auto installs SuperSU. WTH is going on here
What is the downside of staying rooted? Can I still get updates? Maybe not OTA but some how?
Did you go into supersu do full unroot then factory reset?
Being rooted only affects renting and buying from play store and ota updates.
Upside of rooting... having newest firmware before everone else
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Android The Greek said:
Did you go into supersu do full unroot then factory reset?
Being rooted only affects renting and buying from play store and ota updates.
Upside of rooting... having newest firmware before everone else
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The very first time I rooted with cwm6 the tutoril said to make a backup of those settings. Is it possible that when I perform the reset with stock recovery that it is reflashing supersu? Because that is what im seeing on my end. Weird thing is that odin mode still shows 0 flashes but cant get rid of supersu it just comes back after reset.
bigdaddyjosh said:
Yea, I tried to factory reset, but i was missing the stock recovery so it went into a boot loop. I battery pulled and booted odin and reinstalled factory recovery, using cf-auto root. Here is my question. Everytime I factory reset it auto installs SuperSU. WTH is going on here
What is the downside of staying rooted? Can I still get updates? Maybe not OTA but some how?
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if you're still stuck, consider the using the method i followed in post 51 in the cf root thread (steps 2-8). ignore step 1 if you don't have a custom recovery (e.g., CWM or TWRP). i've followed the steps listed in that post on 4 different devices and it's worked every time. good luck, hope you get this resolved.
Did you go into supersu and click full unroot thats the last step.
Then you can facrory reset in stock recovery.
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Ive followed your direction. I have no custom recovery. Odin download mode still shows official with no counts of flashes.
After bootup I still have SuperSu.
I have done complete unroot with superSu so many times its not funny. Each time I do the unroot I go and do a factory reset. And after every reset it restores root. Under device status it says modified, but Odin says im good. Can I do OTA in this status?
I shouldnt say it restored root after factory reset but it does restore supersu.
After you do full unroot go to play store and unistall all supersu supersu pro super user etc. Then factory reset.
Also take a screenshot of your device app drawer after you factory reset.
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So I was jacking with my phone at work today and I was looking at the internal memory. I had several entrues for titanium backup still sitting there. Wanting to get rid of all things root on my phone I went througj and deleted everything resembling root apps. Then rebooted. Check device settings and it says NORMAL!!! I dont know which app or what was causing it and I dont care. It is back to normal. Thanks for all your help last night.
No problem please don't make this a reason you dont root in the future. I learned the hard way like you did with help from the good people here. Im sure you will be alot more successful on the next go around.
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Hi! When I search for software updates it says that my device has been modified. I have rooted it and that is my only "modification" and how do I remove so my phone don't think it is modified?
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DarknessSky said:
Hi! When I search for software updates it says that my device has been modified. I have rooted it and that is my only "modification" and how do I remove so my phone don't think it is modified?
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To get the status to Normal instead of Modified use Triangle Away to reset the binary flash counter, flash stock firmware with Odin and do a data/factory reset after the booot-up. You will loose root though.
gee2012 said:
To get the status to Normal instead of Modified use Triangle Away to reset the binary flash counter, flash stock firmware with Odin and do a data/factory reset after the booot-up. You will loose root though.
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i tried using Triangle away but it said it wasn't compatible with Jelly Bean...
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i tried using Triangle away but it said it wasn't compatible with Jelly Bean...
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Yes, it is compatible. Used it myself muliple times. Use version 2.10 from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1407144&d=1350418206 or buy it in Playstore.
If you just want to apply a update you don't have to reset your phone. Proceed as follows:
1. Connect your phone to your PC and start the update procedure via KIES.
2. Once the update procedure fails due to "modified phone"-warning reboot your phone into stock recovery mode.
3. Apply update.zip which is located in /cache/fota.
4. Reboot as normal.
That is how I did it anyway
gee2012 said:
To get the status to Normal instead of Modified use Triangle Away to reset the binary flash counter, flash stock firmware with Odin and do a data/factory reset after the booot-up. You will loose root though.
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I do it but not work
yatohese said:
If you just want to apply a update you don't have to reset your phone. Proceed as follows:
1. Connect your phone to your PC and start the update procedure via KIES.
2. Once the update procedure fails due to "modified phone"-warning reboot your phone into stock recovery mode.
3. Apply update.zip which is located in /cache/fota.
4. Reboot as normal.
That is how I did it anyway
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Were you rooted? Does this process affect root?
When I rooted it using ODIN there were an option called "Reset Time" or something similar, if I didn't miss understand this option resets the count that "tells" Samsung my device has been modified? In that case, is it just to do everything with my cellphone like I did when I rooted and instead of adding PDA I just checks the checkbox?
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DarknessSky said:
When I rooted it using ODIN there were an option called "Reset Time" or something similar, if I didn't miss understand this option resets the count that "tells" Samsung my device has been modified? In that case, is it just to do everything with my cellphone like I did when I rooted and instead of adding PDA I just checks the checkbox?
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Listen good, when you use Triangle Away you have to be on samsung firmware and use a stock kernel or the counter will be 1 again upon boot. So what you have to do is be on samsung stock firrmware ,root the phone again and use Triangle Away to reset the binary counter. After reboot go in downloadmode and check that the counter is reset to 0. After that reflash the stock rom with Odin and after the boot you do data/factory reset in settings, backup and restore. Now the status should be Normal after the phone rebooted.
Just flash a stock rom then use chainfires auto root. Dont flash a custom recovery mode. Then after using autoroot use triangle away.then let the device settle for a min then enter recovery mode then wipe cache> wipe data factory reset> then wipe cache again then reboot. Your root will remain but device status is normal.
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EP2008 said:
Were you rooted? Does this process affect root?
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I was rooted, but apparently you lose root.
each dightol
knuckle03 said:
Just flash a stock rom then use chainfires auto root. Dont flash a custom recovery mode. Then after using autoroot use triangle away.then let the device settle for a min then enter recovery mode then wipe cache> wipe data factory reset> then wipe cache again then reboot. Your root will remain but device status is normal.
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Are you sure? because I did exactly as you said, I have CF auto root and after wipe cache and factory reset and cache again the device is modified the same, flash counter is 0, did it with triangle away....
The strangest thing just happened to me today. 2 days ago I rooted using cf auto-root. I tried to reset the counter using my jig but it didn't work, so I bought triangle away and reset the counter.
The status of my phone was showing modified after that and I cannot access the ota. But this morning, my phone status showed normal and I was able to access the ota! And I still have root! Woo hoo!
knuckle03 said:
Just flash a stock rom then use chainfires auto root. Dont flash a custom recovery mode. Then after using autoroot use triangle away.then let the device settle for a min then enter recovery mode then wipe cache> wipe data factory reset> then wipe cache again then reboot. Your root will remain but device status is normal.
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What if I already have CWM installed?
question guys bought note 2 rooted deleted the att bloat....but i think i wanna return it love it but to big for me....how do i flash back to stock?
thanx
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1992303
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1992303
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I have tried this method twice, followed it exactly. it doesn't work on the Canadian variant (i317M) on Bell. In download mode, device status still reads: "Custom".
Triangle away's description on the play store reads: "on new devices like the SGS3/SGNote2/SGNote10.1, status can only be reset on some firmwares - they must be stock firmwares!" but I have stock everything, I never did anything other than use CF-autoroot to be able to restore a Titanium Backup, I never flashed a custom kernel, custom recovery...
I really wish Triangle Away would reset my device status, as I want to be 100% stock from now on with OTA updates.
Go into recovery by pressing volume up home button then power and hold till Samsung screen shows and see what recovery u are using. My guess is it is a custom recovery
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twanskys204 said:
Go into recovery by pressing volume up home button then power and hold till Samsung screen shows and see what recovery u are using. My guess is it is a custom recovery
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I'm not running a custom recovery. The guide linked says to run CF-autoroot which flashes stock recovery. I then run Triangle Away, then uninstall Triangle Away and do a Full Unroot through SU then do another factory reset. I'm stock kernel, recovery, ROM, everything, with a zero flash counter, but OTA updates are still broken.
Not sure... Try doing it all over
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Yossarian33 said:
I'm not running a custom recovery. The guide linked says to run CF-autoroot which flashes stock recovery. I then run Triangle Away, then uninstall Triangle Away and do a Full Unroot through SU then do another factory reset. I'm stock kernel, recovery, ROM, everything, with a zero flash counter, but OTA updates are still broken.
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If your flash counter is at 0, then it worked I'm gonna guess. Where are you that you are getting an OTA update? Because AT&T hasn't released any.
Hi guys,
I've tried to root my device using this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=31801060&postcount=2
I used method 2 because I wanted CWM.
I found that when Odin reboots the phone it goes straight into Android itself, not the recovery CWM. I disabled the autoreboot and flashed again and manually rebooted but still my stock recovery persists, not CWM.
What can I do to get CWM?
Thanks in advance!
It should work.
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It will have CWM flashed. Maybe you should just tick the auto reboot option then when the OS loads up shut down your note and boot to Recovery.
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It will have CWM flashed. Maybe you should just tick the auto reboot option then when the OS loads up shut down your note and boot to Recovery.
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when I boot into recovery it's the stock one, but it shows the status as custom. And the count increases with each time I run it through the ODIN process.
Any advice guys?
Maybe your flashable odin cwm file does not properly work. Something is wrong, Try to reset your flash counter with Triangle Away. Then proceed with installation.
SethCode'z said:
Maybe your flashable odin cwm file does not properly work. Something is wrong, Try to reset your flash counter with Triangle Away. Then proceed with installation.
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Thanks for the help thus far! Just a question, does the flash counter value matter? Or can we continue flashing on top without harm?
RashidD said:
Thanks for the help thus far! Just a question, does the flash counter value matter? Or can we continue flashing on top without harm?
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It matters for me, I have an S3 mini and when my counter goes up, I can't use my back and menu buttons. In some cases you can just continue flashing.
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SethCode'z said:
It matters for me, I have an S3 mini and when my counter goes up, I can't use my back and menu buttons. In some cases you can just continue flashing.
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Oh I finally got it working... I used CF-autoroot to get superSU and then used rom manager to update CWM and flash it. Disabled the stock recovery. Finally!!!
RashidD said:
Oh I finally got it working... I used CF-autoroot to get superSU and then used rom manager to update CWM and flash it. Disabled the stock recovery. Finally!!!
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I had to donit the same way...flashed a pretty rooted ROM...then using mobile Odin and latest philz touch I flashed it and it works..
So, i am helping my friends to unroot her device, i317m bell's carrier.
My friend did rooting by her self but because she flashed cwm recovery, the flash count went up by one.
However the triangle away doesnt seems working(tried several times but didnt work), need to use the option 'Auto reset on boot' to reset the count.
She want to unroot her device. So i am going to do this and please comment on my idea about will be working or not.
So first, i am going to flash clean firmware to get official recovery,
Second, going to flash rooted rom but not cwn recovery.
Third. Reset the flash count with truangle
Fourth. Re-flash the clean rom.
But what i an havign confusion is at third step.
So as i said before, the triangle need to reset on every boot to get 0 count but if i flash the unrooted rom, will the flash count stay at 0 or back to 1 since it doesnt have root access??
Thanks a lot.
imjunpark said:
So, i am helping my friends to unroot her device, i317m bell's carrier.
My friend did rooting by her self but because she flashed cwm recovery, the flash count went up by one.
However the triangle away doesnt seems working(tried several times but didnt work), need to use the option 'Auto reset on boot' to reset the count.
She want to unroot her device. So i am going to do this and please comment on my idea about will be working or not.
So first, i am going to flash clean firmware to get official recovery,
Second, going to flash rooted rom but not cwn recovery.
Third. Reset the flash count with truangle
Fourth. Re-flash the clean rom.
But what i an havign confusion is at third step.
So as i said before, the triangle need to reset on every boot to get 0 count but if i flash the unrooted rom, will the flash count stay at 0 or back to 1 since it doesnt have root access??
Thanks a lot.
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1.Download Bell rom from link below it is root injected already.
2. Run Triangle away.
3. Open Superuser / SuperSu and do full unroot.
4. Go to stock recovery and perform factory reset twice.
5. Reboot device.
6. Go to Download mode (Down, home power button) and check the status there. If all shows official or Samsung if forgot then you just successfuly reset the counter.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004650
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Unlooting!
twanskys204 said:
Unlooting!
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Lol good eyes I didn't see that.
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I thought we already unlooted when we bought the phone!
twanskys204 said:
Unlooting!
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LOL i always make this stupid mistake ;(
twanskys204 said:
I thought we already unlooted when we bought the phone!
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I did....g
imjunpark said:
So, i am helping my friends to unroot her device, i317m bell's carrier.
My friend did rooting by her self but because she flashed cwm recovery, the flash count went up by one.
However the triangle away doesnt seems working(tried several times but didnt work), need to use the option 'Auto reset on boot' to reset the count.
She want to unroot her device. So i am going to do this and please comment on my idea about will be working or not.
So first, i am going to flash clean firmware to get official recovery,
Second, going to flash rooted rom but not cwn recovery.
Third. Reset the flash count with truangle
Fourth. Re-flash the clean rom.
But what i an havign confusion is at third step.
So as i said before, the triangle need to reset on every boot to get 0 count but if i flash the unrooted rom, will the flash count stay at 0 or back to 1 since it doesnt have root access??
Thanks a lot.
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The newest version of Triangle Away is working properly.
Thanks all for the replies!!! going to try tomorrow.
Hey guys I was recently trying to flash back to stock so that i could carrier unlock my device, but when I was trying to flash using cwm, I kept getting status 7 error, so I read up on that and learned that cwm doesn't like certain roms.
After reading that, I used twrp, which allowed the rom to flash.
Now's where it gets bad..
the rom was booting fine, until i realized it was stuck at the boot animation for about 10 minutes.
I went back to the thread and asked how long it should take on first boot, they said 4 mintues...
I can't get back into recovery mode.. (actually i could never get into recovery mode using hardware bottons, i had to use apps such as ROM Manager)
I'm trying to use odin to flash recovery img, but no dice..
Can someone please tell me what I should do?
You can't go back to stock through recovery. You have to flash the stock image through Odin.
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mrzhadow said:
You can't go back to stock through recovery. You have to flash the stock image through Odin.
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It was a custom touchwiz rom. I thought that was possible.
Could I flash stock through odin in my current situation?
Fash the latest frimware using Odin
Can you get your phone into Download mode? Power whitle holding volume down, if you can then flash CWMR using odin
Download CWMR touch or non touch from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2405433
Doing this help me skip some odin errors from previous failed attempts to flash stock frimwares (I don't know if you're having the same problem)
If you successfully flash CWMrecovery, you should be able to flash official 4.3 firmware(T-Mobile) and put your phone back to stock.
create an account with sam mobile for faster download this download can take 1-4 hours SamMobile was like 20 minutes for me, this is the link for the latest frimware for
(T-mobile SGH-M919 !!! ONLY !!! ) http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=22280
If you can get your phone back to stock this is my advice to you: root your phone right-away so you can reset your flash counter using triangle away.
I suggest the following rooting method is safe, it worked for me and did not affect my flash counter
Safe root --> http://www.w0lfdroid.com/2013/12/Safe-Root-Android-4.3-Galaxy-S3-S4-Note-No-Warranty-Void.html
use triangle away to reset your flash counter to Zero
Triangle Away ----> http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/orig-development/2013-10-04-triangleaway-v3-10-t1494114
Good Luck
jacob66 said:
It was a custom touchwiz rom. I thought that was possible.
Could I flash stock through odin in my current situation?
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jacob66 said:
Hey guys I was recently trying to flash back to stock so that i could carrier unlock my device, but when I was trying to flash using cwm, I kept getting status 7 error, so I read up on that and learned that cwm doesn't like certain roms.
After reading that, I used twrp, which allowed the rom to flash.
Now's where it gets bad..
the rom was booting fine, until i realized it was stuck at the boot animation for about 10 minutes.
I went back to the thread and asked how long it should take on first boot, they said 4 mintues...
I can't get back into recovery mode.. (actually i could never get into recovery mode using hardware bottons, i had to use apps such as ROM Manager)
I'm trying to use odin to flash recovery img, but no dice..
Can someone please tell me what I should do?
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Did oyu make a nandroid backup of your stock rom before flashing a custom one?
If so, just restore it.
If not, use Odin.
Skipjacks said:
Did oyu make a nandroid backup of your stock rom before flashing a custom one?
If so, just restore it.
If not, use Odin.
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yeah but i switched recoveries and everyone on my cwm got deleted
but i'm back up and running, i just didn't know how to fully wipe on twrp, someone helped me out with that.
thank you for the help
napacastro said:
Can you get your phone into Download mode? Power whitle holding volume down, if you can then flash CWMR using odin
Download CWMR touch or non touch from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2405433
Doing this help me skip some odin errors from previous failed attempts to flash stock frimwares (I don't know if you're having the same problem)
If you successfully flash CWMrecovery, you should be able to flash official 4.3 firmware(T-Mobile) and put your phone back to stock.
create an account with sam mobile for faster download this download can take 1-4 hours SamMobile was like 20 minutes for me, this is the link for the latest frimware for
(T-mobile SGH-M919 !!! ONLY !!! ) http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=22280
If you can get your phone back to stock this is my advice to you: root your phone right-away so you can reset your flash counter using triangle away.
I suggest the following rooting method is safe, it worked for me and did not affect my flash counter
Safe root --> http://www.w0lfdroid.com/2013/12/Safe-Root-Android-4.3-Galaxy-S3-S4-Note-No-Warranty-Void.html
use triangle away to reset your flash counter to Zero
Triangle Away ----> http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/orig-development/2013-10-04-triangleaway-v3-10-t1494114
Good Luck
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Thank you for your information, I've solved my problem by getting back into twrp! thanks! hopefully this thread will help someone out in the future