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[Q] OTA 4.1.1 JB and other questions!!!!

Hey XDA! I recently perm-rooted my SGS3 T-mobile versionT999 using the QCOM Toolkit and Odin and I flashed custom CMW recovery 6.(whatever) and did backups of all my stuff like data, system, EFS partition and more. It also renamed my recovery restore files. I read a few things regarding the OTA update of JB coming out soon and heard that if it is updated it could actually turn s-off back on and mess up your root and mess up a bunch of other things that I've done.
First off I would like to ask for some clarification on this subject as to what exactly will happen if the OTA updates to JB and if it will automatically be prevented or if I have to do something to keep my phone from automatically upgrading to JB on its own. Also if it turns out that I cannot do the OTA JB update should I just flash a custom JB rom or possibly flash a stock release of the JB rom?
Secondly I wanted to ask about the flash counter. Currently I have not flashed anything but CWM (twice cause I tried to flash touch but it failed) I have not flashed any roms or kernels or radios yet. Has my flash counter already been tripped? What exactly will trip the counter? I also read something about resetting the trip meter and flashing everything back to stock including unrooting. Can someone post a link to a guide(s) that have steps for that? (Trust me I've been looking on XDA for a few hours trying to answer all these questions myself but I cant find some of them and I figured asking and having them answered all in one place would be much easier and helpful to me and others as well). In the future I may look into flashing another kernel so I can overclock and also some other roms. Another question arises though: What exactly is and insecure kernel ( I believe thats what they're called) and also what is an insecure boot img? Sorry I have so many questions but theres a lot of information to take in when a new phone receives root and gets a bunch of new possibilities!
One final question until new ones arise. What exactly are these new builds I keep reading about? Ive seen "T999UVALEM", "uvalh2", "uvalh3" , "UVLI2,3 & 4", "UVDLI3", "UVDLH3", "UVALG1", and "ULVH2" and I assume there are many more haha.
What exactly even are these??? Its just too much to keep up with. Thanks to anyone who can clear up the confusion
Well I believe that about sums up my questions so if you can help me out I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks guys!

If you have cwm installed the OTA will fail.
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We don't have S-on/off either. That is an HTC thing.
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flashing using Odin trips the counter
Flashing using cwm does not
You can use triangle away (an app) to reset your flash counter
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the uvl stuff is different leaks (builds)
The different builds came with new basebands (modems) as Samsung tries to increase reception
Look in development for the modem thread
For example I'm running the latest cm10 nightly and using the latest modem. So my baseband is T999UVLI8
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Android_Monsters said:
flashing using Odin trips the counter
Flashing using cwm does not
You can use triangle away (an app) to reset your flash counter
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the uvl stuff is different leaks (builds)
The different builds came with new basebands (modems) as Samsung tries to increase reception
Look in development for the modem thread
For example I'm running the latest cm10 nightly and using the latest modem. So my baseband is T999UVLI8
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So when I used the toolkit (which used Odin) to root and flash CWM the counter was tripped? Oh well I'm sure there will be workarounds later

Yes go ahead and flash a custom Rom. The developers will have a rooted version of the ota once it drops. And you can just flash that.
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jtl_777 said:
So when I used the toolkit (which used Odin) to root and flash CWM the counter was tripped? Oh well I'm sure there will be workarounds later
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You can download triangle away on xda website or buy it in the play store
It resets the counter to zero.
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jtl_777 said:
So when I used the toolkit (which used Odin) to root and flash CWM the counter was tripped? Oh well I'm sure there will be workarounds later
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I don't know what the toolkit is but there was a guide in the development section on rooting without tripping the counter. Essentially it used Odin to flash a stock rom that had root injected and from there you could install cwm. As long as u flash roms with cwm it shouldn't trip the counter to my knowledge but if u use Odin to flash roms it will trip the counter
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Here is a guide on reseting ect, and making it look stock just found.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31890397

mystycs said:
Here is a guide on reseting ect, and making it look stock just found.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31890397
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Thanks matey I'll give it a look

mystycs said:
Here is a guide on reseting ect, and making it look stock just found.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31890397
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holy mackerel this is GOLD!!! Clears SOOOOO much up! many thanks dude!!!

triangle away 2.2 problem

im using rooted stock rom, when i boot with triangle away, it say im in custom and counter is 1, so i use it to reset, but after i check again, it still the same, anyone can teach me how can i get rid of that?

Do you have a custom recovery? Chainfire states quite clearly that using a custom recovery will cause that.

Stock recovery, havent flash cwm
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Same problem but i don't flash nothing in download mode. Only ROM in stock.

i had this issue apart from reflashing back to stock rom i read that if you did a factory reset it also works. Its just a pain installing all your apps again and setting the phone back up again.

But what will trigger this again? It quite pain if i need to do this frequently
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Strange, on Note N7000 Triangle Aways sets everything to zero and samsung official. At N7100 I have custom with CWM.

After reset with triangle away,u must wipe cache and wipe data(factory reset)..then it will be 0..working for me..
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astalavista88 said:
After reset with triangle away,u must wipe cache and wipe data(factory reset)..then it will be 0..working for me..
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This is stupid. I need to wipe everything for just clear my damn counter?

astalavista88 said:
After reset with triangle away,u must wipe cache and wipe data(factory reset)..then it will be 0..working for me..
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Are those options even available in the stock recovery? I've not looked...

Tried new 2.26 version of Triangle Away and hooray! It's now on Samsung official and all zero and official status without any wipe and with customROM+cwm. Thanks chainfire for this fix.

anonymous572 said:
Tried new 2.26 version of Triangle Away and hooray! It's now on Samsung official and all zero and official status without any wipe and with customROM+cwm. Thanks chainfire for this fix.
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didnt work for me.... lastest hk firmware with stock recovery

emprize said:
didnt work for me.... lastest hk firmware with stock recovery
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damn, after I reboot it again and enter download mod - it's on Custom status... AGAIN. Looks like this is new samsung protection. Chainfire need to invent some new algorithm to reset counters.

anonymous572 said:
damn, after I reboot it again and enter download mod - it's on Custom status... AGAIN. Looks like this is new samsung protection. Chainfire need to invent some new algorithm to reset counters.
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er.....same as me

Unless you're needing to return your phone, I wouldn't worry about it. You can still get the OTA updates by getting them from sammobile and flashing with Odin.

emprize said:
er.....same as me
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Umm...me too
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FloatingFatMan said:
Unless you're needing to return your phone, I wouldn't worry about it. You can still get the OTA updates by getting them from sammobile and flashing with Odin.
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I know, I know, but it bugs me it's there!

wiping data/factory reset didnt work for me.

Will rooting Note 2 disable OTA?

Hi
My N7100 has a strange problem.
I switch on wifi, then go to about phone and then software update
Then I click check for updates.
Earlier when no update was available, the phone used to simply say "latest already installed or something like that"
Now it keeps doing "Checking for updates" and this goes on for more than 10 minutes. After that I pressed cancel.
I restarted phone, but no use
I am on stock rom, stock kernel. My phone is rooted though using dr. Ketan's method and I have also reset the flash counter.

Same here....got no clue
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I've got the same thing. I just put it down to been rooted.
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So, does this mean, if you root your phone OTA updates are KAPUT??
I did not see this in the rooting threads. I think then we need to add this info, that if you root your phone, update through mobile ODIN only

Since rooters are facing this problem, I have changed the title to reflect the same.

Rooting is a modification in firmware, and OTA can not recognize modified firmwares. If you've rooted without a custom recovery, may be removing root from supersu (or any super user management tool) can fix this problem.

Mine showed 2 different OTA messages after rooting: The first one: "The phone has been modified, etc..." then I used Triangle Away (it always shows 1 in the flash counter though) and now it's stuck in "Searching for updates".
Unfortunately I can't find the stock rom for my country (Honduras). I want to go back to 4.1.1

Of course, sure. Rooting will Disable OTA update. If you wanna get OTA update back, just go to Samsung-update.com
, download the latest firmware with your country name, if your country is not found, choose the nearest country, and then flash it with Odin, then OTA update will available back.
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Flashing the firmware over Odin won't bring your ota back as you binary will still show custom there is a away to get the Samsung firmware back but up must use triangle away first to get the counter to 1
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2088809 this should help out
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userdefind said:
Flashing the firmware over Odin won't bring your ota back as you binary will still show custom there is a away to get the Samsung firmware back but up must use triangle away first to get the counter to 1
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I think as long as you're rooted you can't use OTA updates on Samsung. I got triangle away, status normal, rooted and the same thing happened to me when trying OTA.... so best way to just flash each new update via Odin. Since there is no data loss involved, it is ok. And then root again (it is a 3 minute operation anyway)

dalanik said:
I think as long as you're rooted you can't use OTA updates on Samsung. I got triangle away, status normal, rooted and the same thing happened to me when trying OTA.... so best way to just flash each new update via Odin. Since there is no data loss involved, it is ok. And then root again (it is a 3 minute operation anyway)
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Yes if your rooted you can't do it. And your right it would be a lot faster just to flash the update via Odin. But if your just having a bad time with a rooted phone for some messed reason. Then that fourm will help u get back to stock as you can be.
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Thanks everyone for the information. I want to go back to 4.1.1 mostly because 4.1.2 has a very annoying auto-rotate bug (the screen gets stuck in landscape or portrait after a while) I also wanted to recover the OTA feature but it's not a big deal now.
Envoyé depuis mon GT-N7100

I have mobile odin pro so even after flashing I don't need to re root
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tsk1979 said:
So, does this mean, if you root your phone OTA updates are KAPUT??
I did not see this in the rooting threads. I think then we need to add this info, that if you root your phone, update through mobile ODIN only
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Its mentioned allready in different threads that when u root youd loose your ota update function
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firez_hn said:
Mine showed 2 different OTA messages after rooting: The first one: "The phone has been modified, etc..." then I used Triangle Away (it always shows 1 in the flash counter though) and now it's stuck in "Searching for updates".
Unfortunately I can't find the stock rom for my country (Honduras). I want to go back to 4.1.1
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After u reset your flash counter and reboot you still have a custom recovery that makes flash counter raise to 1 back again x) if u want to keep flash counter zero and still root u should get prerooted stock roms, there could be other options but i dont know abt that
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Yeah... Rooting means losing OTA's
but after all, u could just use mobile odin and download the update from sammobile.
i never really used ota 2 be honest.
good luck

I tested this Awhile ago, But it was with the official rooted firmware flashed via odin, as long that the system is flagged as official OTA works just fine while rooted.

[Q] 4.3 I747 Rooting Need Help

Its currently on 4.3 i747 ucuemjb
I tried CF-Auto-Root-d2att-d2uc-samsungsghi747.tar Still nothing
Is there any other way ..?

Is this what you tried? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2538991

You gotta unzip the file. Then load the file in PDA again
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S i have tried that also still no luck

vipimg said:
S i have tried that also still no luck
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Did you try root method #2 in the link that audit13 provided you with? It will root you and remove knox so you won't have knox trying to block SuperSU. But it will certainly void any warranty you may have (if the things you have attempted haven't done so already).
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Si have done that also & many other Still no change
Flash TWRP with Odin via PDA
Reboot to recovery then flash SuperSu and the Knox Remover
Everything showed Success
After downloading Super su its says binary something etc
Not success

The usual message is "binary needs updating" which is easy to satisfy.
But you got us guessing. 'something something' is hard to troubleshoot.
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vipimg said:
Si have done that also & many other Still no change
Flash TWRP with Odin via PDA
Reboot to recovery then flash SuperSu and the Knox Remover
Everything showed Success
After downloading Super su its says binary something etc
Not success
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You have the first phone I have heard of that didn't take root after using method #2. I have done 3 so far with that method. After flashing SUbinary and knox remover, I downloaded SuperSU, opened it and it gives a message about updating something, allow it and then reboot to recovery wipe the cache and Dalvik.
I will do some reading perhaps I have forgotten something I did. If so I will edit this post...
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theramsey3 said:
You have the first phone I have heard of that didn't take root after using method #2. I have done 3 so far with that method. After flashing SUbinary and knox remover, I downloaded SuperSU, opened it and it gives a message about updating something, allow it and then reboot to recovery wipe the cache and Dalvik.
I will do some reading perhaps I have forgotten something I did. If so I will edit this post...
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May be its something else lot of them have got their phone rooted by the 2nd method (Strange & Unlucky no mine)
i think will do a clean install & re do the steps again & let u know

vipimg said:
May be its something else lot of them have got their phone rooted by the 2nd method (Strange & Unlucky no mine)
i think will do a clean install & re do the steps again & let u know
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Have you considered using a custom rom like maybe S3Rx it is very stable way better than AT&T 4.3 and it is pre rooted with no knox. Your warranty is already void anyhow check it out in the development section. I have to warn you though it is a large file due to all of the options it has for you to pick from as far as what you actually want to flash on the phone. That's what I'm running now and won't use anything else.
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theramsey3 said:
Have you considered using a custom rom like maybe S3Rx it is very stable way better than AT&T 4.3 and it is pre rooted with no knox. Your warranty is already void anyhow check it out in the development section. I have to warn you though it is a large file due to all of the options it has for you to pick from as far as what you actually want to flash on the phone. That's what I'm running now and won't use anything else.
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Yup Warranty is over that's y i am looking to root it
I like to keep it stock Customs rom might have bugs Also need to be connected to kies for back up

vipimg said:
Yup Warranty is over that's y i am looking to root it
I like to keep it stock Customs rom might have bugs Also need to be connected to kies for back up
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The S3Rx has less bugs than the stock 4.3 glad I made the switch, but it isn't for everyone. To each his own. But don't rule them out. I don't do nightlies because of the bugs I only do stable roms.
There is another stock 4.3 in the development section that is a stock AT&T rom and has knox removed with selinux set to permissive. It is pre rooted aswell it is by loserskater IIRC it's in a thread by updwn4par. Good luck and happy flashing.
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I think ur right i have downloaded yesterday its file name is AT_T_I747UCUEMJB (I downloaded from this site don't know from were)
If i am right i read it's a pre rooted stock AT&T rom and has knox removed with selinux set to permissive
I am going to try it
THX theramsey3

Still bad news
Just flashed with that file everything works even it's rooted checked it
but after if u reboot the phone it justs stucks on samsung s3 logo flashed it again same works but if u switch off or restart it hang's on logo

vipimg said:
Still bad news
Just flashed with that file everything works even it's rooted checked it
but after if u reboot the phone it justs stucks on samsung s3 logo flashed it again same works but if u switch off or restart it hang's on logo
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Do a factory reset wipe cache and Dalvik from recovery that should fix it. If not try a different rom. Or perhaps a bad download did you check the md5?
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Before the factory reset if you still have user data on it (because you dirty flashed) you should back it up with titanium backup. Factory reset, wipe and then restore data.
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Did that also same result i was on openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-d2att
Changed to CWM-Recovery-LTE-SGS3-v5.tar
Did factory reset wipe/cache and Dalvik & installed it
Now it works Fully Even its rooted tested with adaway & triangle away.:good::good::good::good::laugh:
@Last its done :laugh:
This is just my beginning
next stop rooted apps/games ......
THX
(Keep up the good work EVERY ONE)

Revert back to stock

Sorry if it's been posted already
Tried to search but the page kept timing out
I have an old note 2 I need to reactivate
I have to take it into a sprint location though so i'd like to revert back to stock
Is there a topic or tutorial?

This is the current stock rom. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53353625

i'M ON 4.4.2 now
Anyone to revert back to 4.2?

You can go down to 4.1.2 (we never got 4.2) but it is not something most people want to try. You can end up in a soft brick state where nothing will boot and no stock odin files will work. Then you have to flash a special fix to make your phone usable.
So why would you want to try that? If you just want stock odin the current NE2 tar from samsung.
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jlmancuso said:
You can go down to 4.1.2 (we never got 4.2) but it is not something most people want to try. You can end up in a soft brick state where nothing will boot and no stock odin files will work. Then you have to flash a special fix to make your phone usable.
So why would you want to try that? If you just want stock odin the current NE2 tar from samsung.
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For some odd reason, if I revert back to the current stock rom, when I root, supersu never works.
Figured I'd revert back to 4.1.2 and root from there.

mrmondaynight said:
For some odd reason, if I revert back to the current stock rom, when I root, supersu never works.
Figured I'd revert back to 4.1.2 and root from there.
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Like jlmancuso said, you're headed down a slippery slope. If you tried the same thing with your s3 you would've made a paperweight.
Flash it to stock 4.4.2, take it to the sprint store (per your original post) and once you get it up and running, then try to root. If you run into problems just post here to get help...
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Getting back to stock cont. . .
Soooo,
I was on a mission to flash custom kernel when all hell broke loose. Long story short list:
1. I have done a system wipe which has erased my OS
2. My device was rooted with the binary count tripped so I can't revert to stock rom *
3. I can't go back to the custom rom that I was on because there's no OS *
* = is this true
Question is, is there a way to either reset the counter so I can go back to stock rom OR get a custom rom that has the stock framework underneath already that I can just flash?
I'm totally stuck. . .and I dropped my phone in the middle of this debacle and cracked the screen

I'd try going into download mode and flashing the stock NE2 tar through Odin...
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g_money said:
I'd try going into download mode and flashing the stock NE2 tar through Odin...
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Cool I'll find it and give it a try
I tried,
I get a signature fail error when I try it in Stock recovery, and just a failed notification when I try it in TWRP. Anymore suggestions on how to get an OS on my device?

dcbound said:
Cool I'll find it and give it a try
I tried,
I get a signature fail error when I try it in Stock recovery, and just a failed notification when I try it in TWRP. Anymore suggestions on how to get an OS on my device?
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You need a windows machine and a program called odin to flash a tar not recovery.
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You need a windows machine and a program called odin to flash a tar not recovery.
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Ok, I've been trying to flash .tar.md5 files via odin and but I get an error message on the phone that shows the binary counter, and says the file is not signed

Did you try flashing a custom recovery through Odin yet? I would suggest trying to flash philz latest version through Odin.
Turn off auto reboot in Odin. Once it's complete, pull the battery. Put the battery back and and reboot into download mode (power+home+volume down buttons at the same time)
Edit. Before doing the above, have you unzipped the tar file on your pc?
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g_money said:
Did you try flashing a custom recovery through Odin yet? I would suggest trying to flash philz latest version through Odin.
Turn off auto reboot in Odin. Once it's complete, pull the battery. Put the battery back and and reboot into download mode (power+home+volume down buttons at the same time)
Edit. Before doing the above, have you unzipped the tar file on your pc?
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Yup, I've unzipped the tar file. I've been in and out of the latest TWRP and stock recoveries with no luck so far, but I haven't tried philz yet. And I'll remember to turn off the auto reboot and see if this method will allow me to get the tar file flashed
Thanks, I'll let you know
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dcbound said:
Yup, I've unzipped the tar file. I've been in and out of the latest TWRP and stock recoveries with no luck so far, but I haven't tried philz yet. And I'll remember to turn off the auto reboot and see if this method will allow me to get the tar file flashed
Thanks, I'll let you know
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So I flashed Philz latest recovery and got back into download mode, but I got the same error message
SW REV CHECK FAIL. DEVICE 3, BINARY:2
I'm going to try to flash the custom ROM I wanted using Philz. . .
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dcbound said:
Yup, I've unzipped the tar file. I've been in and out of the latest TWRP and stock recoveries with no luck so far, but I haven't tried philz yet. And I'll remember to turn off the auto reboot and see if this method will allow me to get the tar file flashed
Thanks, I'll let you know
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So I flashed Philz latest recovery and got back into download mode, but I got the same error message
SW REV CHECK FAIL. DEVICE 3, BINARY:2
I'm going to try to flash the custom ROM I wanted using Philz. . .
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SUCCESS!!!!!!
Philz did the trick, initially the ROM wouldn't install but I ticked the update binary option and VOILA!
Philz is my new recovery, and now that I know it works. . .I may even get back to trying out my pegasus kernel lol
Thanks for the assistance!