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[Q] How To: Reset Flash Counter

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.

psykhotic said:
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

[Q] How do I restore the phone

Hello,
I have an AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 3 that has been rooted and flashed with the Cyanogen JB rom. I need to return the phone for warranty work. Triangle Away says that my counter is at 6. How do I restore the phone to the factory rom and reset the counter? Since the phone has to be rooted to reset the counter, how do I restore without adding to the counter? Should it be at 0 or 1 to send it in? I'm a little lost here. I appreciate any help I can get.
Dustin

I would suggest Triangle Away, then format/wipe/clear everything and then flash stock via odin. Odin will not trip counter. If on a non-stock I believe you must check the repartition box. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, please.
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ConeyKiller said:
I would suggest Triangle Away, then format/wipe/clear everything and then flash stock via odin. Odin will not trip counter. If on a non-stock I believe you must check the repartition box. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, please.
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How dangerous is Triangle Away? I bought and installed it on the phone already. Are there any precautions that I need to take? I do want to restore it with the original rom. Where would I get it?
Thanks btw!

dustinsroberts said:
How dangerous is Triangle Away? I bought and installed it on the phone already. Are there any precautions that I need to take? I do want to restore it with the original rom. Where would I get it?
Thanks btw!
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There shouldn't be any problems using triangle away
u can get the official stock from here sammobile.com

I followed the steps on this page. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1710613
I got past step 11 but now after restarting the phone is stuck at the Samsung logo during the boot. Any suggestions?

dustinsroberts said:
I followed the steps on this page. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1710613
I got past step 11 but now after restarting the phone is stuck at the Samsung logo during the boot. Any suggestions?
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try shutting down your device and boot while holding the volume up, home button and power button simultaneously then do a factory reset from there. should work

flash counter reset problem

I've been flashing some custom roms into my phone and i noticed my flash count is 1..
I really dont bug me but for the in case of situation, i want to reset my flash counter.
I used an app triangle away but it didnt work for my phone... which app or what should i do to reset the flash countrr??
Thanks

What Rom are you on? If you ever had official jelly bean installed, I think the bootloader has been updated to block triangle away.
I was able to reset my counter by Odining back to stock rooted ICS (it downgrades the bootloader too) and then running triangle away. Hope this helps.
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d3athsd00r said:
What Rom are you on? If you ever had official jelly bean installed, I think the bootloader has been updated to block triangle away.
I was able to reset my counter by Odining back to stock rooted ICS (it downgrades the bootloader too) and then running triangle away. Hope this helps.
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I've been using the official jellybean ROM and then changed to cm10. DO i need to unblock the bootloader?
If i downgrade the Rom, and erase the flash counter, anyway won't it's count goes up if i flash custom ROM again?
I'll try to unlock bootloader. Thank you

imjunpark said:
I've been using the official jellybean ROM and then changed to cm10. DO i need to unblock the bootloader?
If i downgrade the Rom, and erase the flash counter, anyway won't it's count goes up if i flash custom ROM again?
I'll try to unlock bootloader. Thank you
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From my understanding you need to run triangle away, reset to factory, and downgrade to ICS (and stock recovery first). Then reflash custom recovery. Do not use JB from Samsung. ONLY ICS. In theory this should prevent your flash counter from being tripped. I have not tried but everything I read seems to indicate that this is the way to go.

aybarrap1 said:
From my understanding you need to run triangle away, reset to factory, and downgrade to ICS (and stock recovery first). Then reflash custom recovery. Do not use JB from Samsung. ONLY ICS. In theory this should prevent your flash counter from being tripped. I have not tried but everything I read seems to indicate that this is the way to go.
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Yea that's exactly right. There are a couple background apps that spot the custom recovery. There is a huge discussion about it over in the tmo forum that dives real deep into all of this
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aybarrap1 said:
From my understanding you need to run triangle away, reset to factory, and downgrade to ICS (and stock recovery first). Then reflash custom recovery. Do not use JB from Samsung. ONLY ICS. In theory this should prevent your flash counter from being tripped. I have not tried but everything I read seems to indicate that this is the way to go.
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What you mean "do not use JB from samsung".. it means i can use custom rom with JB. right?

imjunpark said:
What you mean "do not use JB from samsung".. it means i can use custom rom with JB. right?
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He means don't install the OTA, Kies, or the pre rooted Odin version. Only install custom JB roms that come in zips.
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[Q] tmobile returning phone

I need to return S4 White and get another S4 white.
Can I just do the nandriod backtup on Phone 1 and restore on phone 2?
Ques 2.
Is that okay that I just do the factory reset and leave the root on along with twrp?
if not then I just need to ODIN the stock rom?
I am still within the 20 days return policy

First, yes u can restore it with everything you have on that one with no issue except if your getting the s4 from another carrier, the bloat might give you issues with it.
Second, If you're returning it and it's rooted your warranty is voided so you need to go back to stock and unroot it and the flash counter that tells if you've made any unauthorized changes to the software might give you issues so I don't now how to reset the flash counter so I would wait until u can restart the flash counter and go back to stock... I hope this answered your question...
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lagunas11 said:
First, yes u can restore it with everything you have on that one with no issue except if your getting the s4 from another carrier, the bloat might give you issues with it.
Second, If you're returning it and it's rooted your warranty is voided so you need to go back to stock and unroot it and the flash counter that tells if you've made any unauthorized changes to the software might give you issues so I don't now how to reset the flash counter so I would wait until u can restart the flash counter and go back to stock... I hope this answered your question...
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isn't if I ODIN back to stock would unroot automatically? even remove the recovery as well?
you mean there is no way to check the flash counter or reset?

Odin erases any root files but hey the only way to see if it resets the flash counter is by doing it and once you went back to stock and get on download mode again and once you proceed check at the top left where a small text will say something like, system version: official Samsung, flash counter: 0 or 1, name... Etc... And yes it will take the recovery as well
Edit: if it doesn't reset it try researching it on Google I'm pretty sure there's some way to do it..
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flash counter only increase if you ODIN anything other than Stock. Correct?
I use the exploit to get the root access, so technically I never ODIN, and my flash counter should be to 0.
question is if I do the ODIN to stock, is that gonna increase the flash counter?
Can I not just go back to stock via kies? that will not increase the flash counter I guess.

here is the screenshot showing the current status of what it is now after root and twrp installed.
Does not really show the flash counter.

I'm not really sure but try to use triangle away and see if it shows u Ur flash counter and if it does don't try to reset it with it Kuz I don't know if it's compatible with the s4 yet
Edit: I just checked and yes that app does work with the s4 so there's Ur option... Check if it's showing the flash counter nd if it does reset it nd then go back to stock nd problem solved..
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-greenboy- said:
here is the screenshot showing the current status of what it is now after root and twrp installed.
Does not really show the flash counter.
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System Status is Custom, which if I remember correctly means it has at one point been flashed with a custom firmware.
I may be wrong though.

can someone who is not rooted please tell me the difference, what they see on ODIN screen?

-greenboy- said:
can someone who is not rooted please tell me the difference, what they see on ODIN screen?
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You mean in download mode?

-greenboy- said:
can someone who is not rooted please tell me the difference, what they see on ODIN screen?
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It will say Official instead of Custom. I used Odin to install the MDL update and it changed to Official. In settings > about device > scroll to the bottom and under Device Status it should also say Official.

yeah!!.
This thing is getting on my nerves now.
First that stupid Tmobile error which is forcing me to order the same phone for different line and return this.

Like I said just used an app called TRIANGLE AWAY and it will reset your flash counter...
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Triangle Away says I am not using jellybean and the app won't work
now what?

Go to recovery, do a full wipe, power off, use Odin and install the new MDL update.

the s-health is hooked up with the samsung account or I need to do the backup for that data separately?

-greenboy- said:
the s-health is hooked up with the samsung account or I need to do the backup for that data separately?
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Is hooked to the phone so once you get a new one it will b there but u will have to re start everything you've made on it its not good to back up system apps.. It will give you too many issues..
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follow the instructions as you said.
Now I am back to stock but the Device Status still shows "custom".
I also used the triangle away 2.90 which let me reset the counter back to 0, it showed me on the confirmation page, but looks like that didn't do the job.
Now there is no root but custom device status.
Returning phone like this would cause any issue?

I tried kies as well, its just not connecting with kies, even after re-installing drivers couple of times

Go into stock recovery and wipe cache and do a factory reset from there that should clear it up.

triangle away and rom 4.3

Is compatible the triangle away with 4.3 rom?
Custom bynary dowmload: yes (2)
Current bynary: custom
System status: custom
Thank you very much

Why dont you just try it ?
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No
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What you mean???

jonnyhall1bmx1 said:
Why dont you just try it ?
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Maybe the warning that he may brick his phone is a big turn off? I almost tried yesterday, but finally decided against it until I know better...

frankieGom said:
Maybe the warning that he may brick his phone is a big turn off? I almost tried yesterday, but finally decided against it until I know better...
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It should work but if you have the knox flag there will be no reset of it.

You seem to have not upgraded to the mj9 bootloader (one which has 'knox warranty void' message)... check your bootloader via zdevice test app.. if it is 'Dmg1' then you can reset it...
Hope I helped :thumbup:
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manan999583 said:
You seem to have not upgraded to the mj9 bootloader (one which has 'knox warranty void' message)... check your bootloader via zdevice test app.. if it is 'Dmg1' then you can reset it...
Hope I helped :thumbup:
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I've got mj5 bootloader with knox warranty thing and I've reset a flash counter by triangle away.
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can confirm custom counter reset was succesfull on latest EU 4.3 firmware - XXUEMK9 (now have all as stock only knox warranty bit its on 1)

post in annex the triangleaway thread on xda
a file called triangle away. zip has been created on your sd .please attach it to a post in the triangleaway thread on xda, with details about your device. I try to install and hope you can not afford to have a solution for this type of device, I get the wait.

Yes it works on 4.3...
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yes it is compatible and it will reset your counter but knox counters will still and status will be modified

whats the point of using triangle on 4.3 knox enabled firmwares ? if the knox counter goes to 01 bye bye warranty ! you can reset the binary counter to 0 but whats the point doing so!

Could someone confirm that i can reset the counter to 0 on a 4.3 (MK4) custom rom with MJ5 bootloader without changing the knox flag to 1 ( it is set to 0 now, of course )?
And also, after using triangle away ( if possible ) my status will become official if i'm using a stock kernel?

You need to be on STOCK kernel in order to Reset counter on 4.3 I flashed stock and rooted and then reset.
I tryed with custom rom like DN3 and its not working.

bihslk said:
You need to be on STOCK kernel in order to Reset counter on 4.3 I flashed stock and rooted and then reset.
I tryed with custom rom like DN3 and its not working.
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So you tried on DN3 with stock kernel and it doesn't work?

eskamhl said:
So you tried on DN3 with stock kernel and it doesn't work?
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YES
I tryed with Triangle away and it said that flashcount was reset but a popup shows and says that if its not reset then you are not on
the stock recovery and stock kernel.
I rebooted and saw that it was not reset. Then i flashed stock rom again. Rooted it and tryed again. Then it was OK

bihslk said:
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I tryed with Triangle away and it said that flashcount was reset but a popup shows and says that if its not reset then you are not on
the stock recovery and stock kernel.
I rebooted and saw that it was not reset. Then i flashed stock rom again. Rooted it and tryed again. Then it was OK
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Understood, so it works just like was before android 4.3 if both kernel and recovery aren't stock the counter gets stuck to 1 :good:
Thanks

bihslk said:
YES
I tryed with Triangle away and it said that flashcount was reset but a popup shows and says that if its not reset then you are not on
the stock recovery and stock kernel.
I rebooted and saw that it was not reset. Then i flashed stock rom again. Rooted it and tryed again. Then it was OK
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Are you sure you need to be on stock recovery to reset counter?? From what I undersotood on 4.1.2 you could reset counter even with Phil's, but it would incerease if you flashed something or went to recovery, but it COULD reset it.

dalanik said:
Are you sure you need to be on stock recovery to reset counter?? From what I undersotood on 4.1.2 you could reset counter even with Phil's, but it would incerease if you flashed something or went to recovery, but it COULD reset it.
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I dont know wich one is needed but Triangle Away says both of them so i flashed stock and count was reset to "0"