Hi guys, I have a T Mobile Galaxy S3.
I have been trying to reset the flash counter with Triangle Away but the app just keeps crashing.
I now have used ODIN to flash back to the stock rom, but now when I go to download mode, I get a "Yes (2 counts)" for the flashcounter.
I do own a USB Jig, I have tried to use it to reset the flashcounter but it doesn't seem to be doing anything, I hear this may be due to the bootloader?
Any way I can reset this flashcounter to No? I have to bring it in because of a cracked screen.
Thanks
Just ran triangle away. Worked like a charm. Went to download mode to confirm. How did you acquire triangle away? Maybe reinstsll the app.
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Buy it from the store. Wipe the app's data/cache, uninstall, reinstall store version.
Downloaded it off of the xda thread, it loaded up and then said "Unfortunately Triangle Away has Stopped" tried it with both downloads. Problem is now i'm unrooted so it's gonna be a pain...
I think it doesn't work if your not rooted..
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tried it when I was rooted, now i'm not rooted
that's why I was wondering if we have alternatives if i'm not rooted
nsilverman15 said:
Downloaded it off of the xda thread, it loaded up and then said "Unfortunately Triangle Away has Stopped" tried it with both downloads. Problem is now i'm unrooted so it's gonna be a pain...
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Rooting takes less then a minute? Buy it from the playstore. In the last week I've had three updates.
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I got it guys, thanks all
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Hi guys,
I'm a bit new to the galaxy S3, I'm not too familiar with most things. I rooted my phone a few weeks ago with ODIN. This was to try to get the Google Wallet to work. After numerous attempts, i gave up, and figured i would unroot my phone because of guarantee reasons. Today i went into recovery mode to wipe cache and davlik, then upon reboot, the phone stopped working. I would get the vibration, the Samsung logo, then the Galaxy S3 logo, but that's as far as it goes. I can also go back into recovery mode, and probably download mode.
I just downloaded TriangleAway to reset my flash counter, but that wasnt compatible with my phone. I also got mobile Odin, same result. I have the Videotron Galaxy S3 SGH-T999V. The only changes i have made were of the build.prop, which I have restored to its original state, though the phone still thinks its a Galaxy Nexus.
Any ideas of what i could do? I wouldn't mind wiping all my data and going back to how it was when i first bought it without the root.
Thanks guys
Forgive me if i am not in the proper section
Get to download mode holding home button volume up and power button then install tar file found in development section
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lazarat said:
Get to download mode holding home button volume up and power button then install tar file found in development section
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Do i do this with the original android development section or just the android development? I cant find that tar file, so could you link me to it?
and isnt download mode using the volume down button?
I've heard about thus happening to phones without a stock rom, but not just rooting. You could try using Odin to flash a boot loader, kernel and rom. That should unbrick the phone. There are lengthy directions on xda for that. Let us know what happens, and good luck!
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You have the T999v, be very careful with what firmware you grab. Look at sammobile.
Here is the link to the latest Videotron fw VLALH2
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/173149966/1ff667a/T999VVLALH2_T999VYVLALH2_VTR.zip.html
Old fw: VLALE6
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/163232712/b049991/T999VVLALE6_T999VYVLALE6_VTR.zip.html
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Here is the link to the latest Videotron fw VLALH2
Old fw: VLALE6
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Thanks a lot. So after i get the latest firmware, do I use it through recovery mode? or do I unzip the file and use the tar file inside with ODIN?
Also are these the only steps to do and that should work?
I will try this tonight since i'm at work now lol
tarek619 said:
Thanks a lot. So after i get the latest firmware, do I use it through recovery mode? or do I unzip the file and use the tar file inside with ODIN?
Also are these the only steps to do and that should work?
I will try this tonight since i'm at work now lol
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Unzip and flash the .tar.md5 file with Odin. This will rewrite your system and other partitions.
After rebooting it can take a few minutes at the Samsung logo so just let it sit for at least 10 minutes.
If it gets to be much longer than that, hold power till it reboots and as soon as the screen goes off let go of power for a moment and immediately press and hold power, volume up and home. Then release when you see the blue text flash at the top of the screen. This should get you to recovery. Wipe cache, dalvik and factory reset then reboot again.
No guarantees itll fix your problem of course but this will give you a fresh, full stock system. So hopefully it does fix uou up.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Unzip and flash the .tar.md5 file with Odin. This will rewrite your system and other partitions.
After rebooting it can take a few minutes at the Samsung logo so just let it sit for at least 10 minutes.
If it gets to be much longer than that, hold power till it reboots and as soon as the screen goes off let go of power for a moment and immediately press and hold power, volume up and home. Then release when you see the blue text flash at the top of the screen. This should get you to recovery. Wipe cache, dalvik and factory reset then reboot again.
No guarantees itll fix your problem of course but this will give you a fresh, full stock system. So hopefully it does fix uou up.
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Thanks a lot for ur help! i did this, and i still have all my apps and files! however, SuperSU is gone, to my preference actually. but how do i check if it is unrooted or if it still is rooted?
tarek619 said:
Thanks a lot for ur help! i did this, and i still have all my apps and files! however, SuperSU is gone, to my preference actually. but how do i check if it is unrooted or if it still is rooted?
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Go to Play Store and try acquiring Titanium Backup. It can only be used if the user is rooted. Try using it and if it doesn't correspond then you're not rooted. If it does then you're still rooted. I also believe if you don't have Superuser or SuperSU on your phone, then you're not rooted since those two are the "gateway" between apps and system.
Dont worry. Youre not rooted anymore. Flashing that fw in odin rewrites the system and other partitions to be just like it would come out of the box. If you're still concerned about it look for the file "su" in /system/bin and /system/xbin. If its not there youre not rooted.
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Noobiologist said:
Go to Play Store and try acquiring Titanium Backup. It can only be used if the user is rooted. Try using it and if it doesn't correspond then you're not rooted. If it does then you're still rooted. I also believe if you don't have Superuser or SuperSU on your phone, then you're not rooted since those two are the "gateway" between apps and system.
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cool im not rooted anymore! thanks a lot man. now i can get my guarantee back lol and get a new phone
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Dont worry. Youre not rooted anymore. Flashing that fw in odin rewrites the system and other partitions to be just like it would come out of the box. If you're still concerned about it look for the file "su" in /system/bin and /system/xbin. If its not there youre not rooted.
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oh so does that mean my flash counter is also reset? or its still at 2 or whatever?
Did you reset the counter before? Why don't you just go to Odin mode and check
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Teo032 said:
Did you reset the counter before? Why don't you just go to Odin mode and check
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I tried but triangle away wasnt compatible with my phone. Its a t999v and practically everything is incompatible. How do i check though? I assume i go into recovery mode, then what?
Go to download mode. It should tell you on the top how many flashes youve done and if the OS is modified.
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tarek619 said:
I tried but triangle away wasnt compatible with my phone. Its a t999v and practically everything is incompatible. How do i check though? I assume i go into recovery mode, then what?
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Oh yeah completely forgot you mentioned that. But yeah like the other person said. Download mode, i think it's vol down home and power.
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Go to download mode. It should tell you on the top how many flashes youve done and if the OS is modified.
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Booo "Yes (1 counts)" i guess ill have to take my chances. Thanks a lot for everything guys!
Thsts weird. I couldve sworn other T999V users have used both Triangle Away and Mobile Odin.
Both do require root though.
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Thsts weird. I couldve sworn other T999V users have used both Triangle Away and Mobile Odin.
Both do require root though.
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Maybe he used an older version. Op, xda has a thread just got triangle away. You should check it out. It's also linked in the themes and app section.
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Wondering if anyone could help me out....
I rooted my Samsung Galaxy S3 SGH-T999 a couple of weeks ago and everything went well. I was using my rooted phone for two weeks until i got a device update from t-mobile. I was hoping it was the jelly bean update so I went ahead and tried to install the update but it was failing. Since I wanted jelly bean so bad I decided to unroot my phone and flash the stock recovery in order to install the update. I flashed the stock recovery and installed the update obviously it was not jelly bean... Now I want to root my phone again but every time I try to flash clockworkmod recovery with odin it does not flash. Odin says everything went okay but when i put my phone in recovery it brings up the stock recovery. I think I may need to reset my flash counter but I could be wrong. Can any one tell me how i can root my phone again? Is there a way to reset the flash counter if my phone is not rooted? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Triangle away. Seriously? Pull the battery after flashing recovery or delete the two files (search) or untock a box.. SEARCH. It gets asked once a week at least.
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Triangle away. Seriously? Pull the battery after flashing recovery or delete the two files (search) or untock a box.. SEARCH. It gets asked once a week at least.
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Can I use Triangle away when I am not rooted? I posted it here because im not sure if i can't root because of the flash counter or because i got an update. I tired pulling the battery after flashing recovery and it did not work. Now my flash counter is up to 4.
TwistedNy7 said:
Can I use Triangle away when I am not rooted? I posted it here because im not sure if i can't root because of the flash counter or because i got an update. I tired pulling the battery after flashing recovery and it did not work. Now my flash counter is up to 4.
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I wrote this again yesterday....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33239838
And yes triangle away requires root.
Good luck!
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DocHoliday77 said:
I wrote this again yesterday....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33239838
And yes triangle away requires root.
Good luck!
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Thank you DocHoliday77.
DocHoliday77 said:
I wrote this again yesterday....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=33239838
And yes triangle away requires root.
Good luck!
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DocHoliday77 If I flash the stock recovery after I rooted the phone would i loss root? I
hi guys how are you ...just a quick question...i bought galaxy s3 through at&t last week and some reason from this morning my phone battery doesn't charge..i have put it on for charge through usb since 4pm and right now it still showing me only 18% of battery i don't know why...it was fine this days until today its acting up...anybody know why...its charging so slow...i think i am planning to go at&t store tomorrow morning to tell them about the issue..so need anybody to tell me how to do factory reset like i received the phone first time...my phone is rooted and has custom rom on it...so i need to do factory reset as i received the phone first time...like an out box phone starting first time....factory firmware...
thank you
Download Triangle away app in google play and follow this link
http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-unroot/how-to-unroot-att-galaxy-s3-sgh-i747/
Make sure you follow instructions well.
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VeryCoolAlan said:
Download Triangle away app in google play and follow this link
http://galaxys3root.com/galaxy-s3-unroot/how-to-unroot-att-galaxy-s3-sgh-i747/
Make sure you follow instructions well.
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thanks bro but i don't have a yellow triangle when start my phone do i still need to download triangle away app...
Doesn't hurt. It can check your flash counter, make sure it's 0. Even if you don't have to run it, it's always good to know it's 0 instead of being surprised later.
Also, did you take note of which firmware version you had before rooting and flashing a custom rom?
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Doesn't hurt. It can check your flash counter, make sure it's 0. Even if you don't have to run it, it's always good to know it's 0 instead of being surprised later.
Also, did you take note of which firmware version you had before rooting and flashing a custom rom?
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no i didn't check the firmware version before i flashed the custome rom...
thanks
lazboyz said:
thanks bro but i don't have a yellow triangle when start my phone do i still need to download triangle away app...
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Yea it resets the counter
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I have a question about Triangle Away, I have the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 AT&T SGH-I317 model, I just installed CF-Auto-Root for my first time, and immediately installed Triangle Away from the Google Play Store after.
I rebooted into the "special mode" and did Volume Up to reset counter and status.
This is what is listed after a reboot into special mode again
Device: SGH-I317
Flash counter: 1
Binary status: custom
Upon rebooting back into Android, TriangleAway app says:
Current status cannot be determined. Need to reboot into a special bootmade tap Reset flash counter.
Which I did.
Is this how it should be? Did Triangle Away work? Aside from flashing a completely STOCK nonroot ROM, is there any additional steps required if I needed to exchange for a warranty?
That's what i got also until i installed persues kernal. Now i get this:
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If you shutdown and reboot into download mode you can see if it worked. Just pull battery or hold power when it says downloading do not shut down.
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If you shutdown and reboot into download mode you can see if it worked. Just pull battery or hold power when it says downloading do not shut down.
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If I go into download mode, it just says the typical WARNING: A custom OS can cause critical problems.... blah blah.... if you want to download a custom OS, prell the vloume up key.... blah blah"
45ACP1911 said:
That's what i got also until i installed persues kernal. Now i get this:
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So you had to install the persues kernel before it displayed that?
May I ask why you did this?
go into download mode press volume up
and you should see your flash count. Because Triangle Away didnt gave me that exact comment.
everytime you reboot your flash counter will say 1 even when you reset it...you have to set triangle away to reset the counter on each bootup. it's all in chainfire's cf rooting thread in OG development section
JGGW said:
everytime you reboot your flash counter will say 1 even when you reset it...you have to set triangle away to reset the counter on each bootup. it's all in chainfire's cf rooting thread in OG development section
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The issue I'm having is how.
I don't see any directions on that
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ttt.
Figure anything out?
hey guys, I don't really know much about rooting and all that stuff. i rooted it once out of curiousity but quickly went back to the stock firmware and reset the counter. months later (now) I recently started getting all these sim card errors I figured i installed the firmware wrong or something so i tried to redownload the stock firmware and upgrade from there
I launched odin 1.85 installed OUDHS-Recovery-jfltetmo-1.0.3.3 into the phone, ( it passed) and then i installed ROOT_M919UVUAMDL after it rebooted i started getting this
"kernel is not se android enforcing
set warranty bit: kernel"
I can still access cwm touch req0very v1.0.3.3 but I dont know where to go from here, i just want my phone back
Are you still getting sim card errors?
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lol well it wont go past the galaxy s screen. it stuck there and it gives me the error, also i believe its because the stock rom i got was android 4.2 but it was running 4.3. i dont even care what os runs as long as i get my phone running. i tried going through all the posts in the other threads but I dont understand some of the procedures to get them running. cyanogen mod looks nice and simple
I got it to boot up with a nexus rom, its really different from touch wiz it still gave me the kernel error when i booted it but it ran fine afterwards, i was also checking out the rom and it said that I only have 1.2 gb of ram when ireally have 2 gb. slowly but surely i'm starting to dig this changing of the roms, haha. can anyone hook it up with a link the latest firmware of stock touchwiz? i kinda want to get it running good by the weekend. thanks in advance
There's nothing wrong with the message at boot up, you tripped the Knox counter so that's why you get that message.. You can just flash a stock ROM if you want to go back to touchwiz
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well, it looks like i'm still getting the sim error message, could it be because its running 4.3 still? how do i get it back to stock and reset the counter so that i can exchange it at tmobile?
It's because you tripped the Knox bootloader. I usually just flash the stock ROM that came with the phone when exchanging.
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dfa1979 said:
well, it looks like i'm still getting the sim error message, could it be because its running 4.3 still? how do i get it back to stock and reset the counter so that i can exchange it at tmobile?
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You cannot reset it.. All you can do is flash the stock 4.3 firmware with Odin if you're thinking about doing an exchange
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serio22 said:
You cannot reset it.. All you can do is flash the stock 4.3 firmware with Odin if you're thinking about doing an exchange
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wont they notice though?
Not in my experience. They just have stuff like Knox and the flash counter, so they have the upper hand in a dispute.
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Not in my experience. They just have stuff like Knox and the flash counter, so they have the upper hand in a dispute.
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wish me luck bros lol
dfa1979 said:
wont they notice though?
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Only if they check, which I don't think they will
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well, i got the replaced but guess what, it still has the sim card issue, i'm' a 3rd sim card so it seems like these phones are factory defective. looks like I will have to call samsung and try to get it replaced again.