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reset binary counter?

Im trying to return my phone for warrenty reason, but i notice that my binary counter is not at 0.
does anyone know how to reset it??
and what will happen if i return it without resetting it?
Thanks alot!

There is no way to reset it.
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Use the usb jig. Google it
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It works on other models. I have googled it. It doesnt work on ours. Seqrxh for the reseting binary counter thread in general. It has veen tested not to reset. Having a jig for download mode is never a bad idea though in bricky situations.
ransz28 said:
Use the usb jig. Google it
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thanks, imma order a usb jig and try it anyways

Don't bother, its not going to do you any good. There is a whole thread that shows that it does not work.
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Monk4Life said:
Don't bother, its not going to do you any good. There is a whole thread that shows that it does not work.
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A usb jig is still great to have in a brick situation, even if it doesn't reset the counter.
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avarize said:
A usb jig is still great to have in a brick situation, even if it doesn't reset the counter.
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I see your point. But at the same time I owned the vibrant since day one and now this device since day one. I have flashed almost every rom/kernel available for each and have never needed a USB jig. But to a person that is some what new to flashing its probably a great idea to have one handy. Hell I may even need one eventually (knock on wood).
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Wrong. I have the Jig and it reset mine....

Sharpie603 said:
Wrong. I have the Jig and it reset mine....
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Where you bought it from..

Monk4Life said:
I see your point. But at the same time I owned the vibrant since day one and now this device since day one. I have flashed almost every rom/kernel available for each and have never needed a USB jig. But to a person that is some what new to flashing its probably a great idea to have one handy. Hell I may even need one eventually (knock on wood)
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Let's put it this way, never know when the dog is going to come running near the coffee table and snag the usb cord dangling from the laptop flashing from Odin :-\ grr
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I believe my jig works...
When I use it it shows...
FACTORY MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SGH-T989
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: NO
CURRENT BINARY: SAMSUNG OFFICIAL​
And I've flashed several ROM flavors and currently running Juggernaut 4.1/bullet.

Flashing roms doesnt rack it up. Only flashing using odin and only files that are not stock kernel or official files. Flashing modems or stock recovery wont do it. Any modified files will. Flashing roms through cwm wont. .
Wilsonium said:
When I use it it shows...
FACTORY MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SGH-T989
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: NO
CURRENT BINARY: SAMSUNG OFFICIAL​
And I've flashed several ROM flavors and currently running Juggernaut 4.1/bullet.
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Have you flashed aby custom kernels or files with odin?
Sharpie603 said:
Wrong. I have the Jig and it reset mine....
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I have a jig and have owned phone since day 1. I can definitively say only flashing Odin to stock rings up my counter; regardless of a jig. Mine is currently at 4. (skyrocket btw but basically the same) Samsung removed binary reset capability with 2.3.5 and up.
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Odin to stock rings up your counter? Weird vecause i have used odin to return to stock many times on t989 and its still zeeo. Only time it rings it up is when you odin insecure kernel. Stock kernel and stock recovery both nwver ring it up.
bacheezy said:
I have a jig and have owned phone since day 1. I can definitively say only flashing Odin to stock rings up my counter; regardless of a jig. Mine is currently at 4. (skyrocket btw but basically the same) Samsung removed binary reset capability with 2.3.5 and up.
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I have 3 jigs that all work fine to reset the counter $1.99 on ebay
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Is there any app to read the binary counter?
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Sharpie603 said:
Wrong. I have the Jig and it reset mine....
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yea, where did you get it from? plz shed some light
i order one from amazon and it should be here by monday...hopefully it works...cuz i need to return it to tmo for warrenty exchange...>.>

[Q] Why device get bricked

Can anyone (Dev) please explain why phones get bricked? I'm just curious what's going on behind the scene. BTW I know why phones get bricked - bad flash, wronf ROM or Kernal - But I want to know why there is hard brick why we won't be able to do a reset and make it work.
why would a "brick" even exists in the first place?
Thanks guys

am not a Dev but will hazard a guess...
A Hard brick is a phone which had some sort of issue while in download mode and didn't get enough of the uploading ROM to have anything to reboot with.
Here's an example of how I am pretty sure you can hard brick your phone:
1. put it into download mode and connect to computer
2. fire up Odin, find a Rom to flash and start the process.
3. Before the process finishes disconnect and pull the battery.
4. Try to boot... Bet it's hard bricked.
When a flash goes bad it can leave nothing for the phone to boot from. It's like having a blank hard drive without the ability to format it and write a boot sector...
Hope that helps.

ronin4740 said:
am not a Dev but will hazard a guess...
A Hard brick is a phone which had some sort of issue while in download mode and didn't get enough of the uploading ROM to have anything to reboot with.
Here's an example of how I am pretty sure you can hard brick your phone:
1. put it into download mode and connect to computer
2. fire up Odin, find a Rom to flash and start the process.
3. Before the process finishes disconnect and pull the battery.
4. Try to boot... Bet it's hard bricked.
When a flash goes bad it can leave nothing for the phone to boot from. It's like having a blank hard drive without the ability to format it and write a boot sector...
Hope that helps.
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I don't think so cuz you can still enter download mode and Odin a recovery.
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Its our blue screen of death basically. You can screw with your big cpu so much its time to go back to walmart, right? Same with little cpu in your pocket.
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Android_Monsters said:
Its our blue screen of death basically. You can screw with your big cpu so much its time to go back to walmart, right? Same with little cpu in your pocket.
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You can overclock a cpu on a phone safely without hard bricks. Does it happen? Yes. Most of the time it's not that but if it is, time to go to walmart.
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bzlik88 said:
I don't think so cuz you can still enter download mode and Odin a recovery.
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Try it and let me know how that goes for you...
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ronin4740 said:
Try it and let me know how that goes for you...
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Lolz
Btw DONT try this or you will have a paper weight.
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ronin4740 said:
Try it and let me know how that goes for you...
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I've done this before and didn't hard brick. Maybe I got lucky.
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Beefvvl said:
I've done this before and didn't hard brick. Maybe I got lucky.
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=)
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Am not sure abt what they mean when they say soft and hard brick ... but to me soft is the one u can go to download mode/recovery and get it back working in seconds ... here comes the word soft
As for hard bricks, its that case when ur screwed and cant get to download/recovery mode ... so it becomes f***in hard
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Can't boot AT&T GS3 into recovery or download mode

Hi, I haven't seen this topic brought up anywhere and needed some help.
I bought an AT&T Galaxy S3 on Oct. 1. I wanted to flash a rom but I can't root my phone, boot into recovery or download mode. Whenever I get into download mode the phone just reboots as soon as I let go of the buttons. My question is, was there was an update applied to the AT&T version that prevented this? Or am I just doing something wrong?
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First of all this is not development in anyway. And I'm not completely sure but it sounds like your doing something wrong. Never had this problem before
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Also I apologize as I think I posted this in the wrong section.
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chad90r said:
First of all this is not development in anyway. And I'm not completely sure but it sounds like your doing something wrong. Never had this problem before
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Yes it was a mistake on my part. For some reason I thought I was in Q&A.
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Don't hold down the buttons so long. As soon as it blips the little text at the top of the screen (I think it says Samsung something) , you can let go.
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NF-1087 said:
Hi, I haven't seen this topic brought up anywhere and needed some help.
I bought an AT&T Galaxy S3 on Oct. 1. I wanted to flash a rom but I can't root my phone, boot into recovery or download mode. Whenever I get into download mode the phone just reboots as soon as I let go of the buttons. My question is, was there was an update applied to the AT&T version that prevented this? Or am I just doing something wrong?
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Do not have the micro usb cable plugged in while attempting this
plug it in after you get to into the mode you want

Thanks for the replies guys. I was holding the buttons for too long. Also the new update issued for the AT&T galaxy S3 overwrites CWM when you reboot the phone so I had to flash cwm using ODIN and uncheck auto reboot and boot into CWM Recovery and install Superuser so I could have root access. Next I had to flash a ROM so that I could maintain CWM. Not too hard of a process but I was getting really frustrated because I couldn't figure out while CWM Recovery wouldn't stick. Now I know, hope that helps anyone else.
Thanks again for the help guys.
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Mine is a SDS issue bug chipset

Hello I m on SDS bug chip Type: VTU00M, FwRev: 0xf1.....
but can anyone please make me understand actually what is sudden death issue????????
please someone helo as I am so much worried

99% having it, just flash latest 4.1.2 (LL7 and up) it is believed to be fixed this issue.
SDS - device can die without any reason, like you have keep device on table and just auto reboots and never turns on.

dr.ketan said:
99% having it, just flash latest 4.1.2 (LL7 and up) it is believed to be fixed this issue.
SDS - device can die without any reason, like you have keep device on table and just auto reboots and never turns on.
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Thank you for the quick reply bro...
but when I was checking my chip model with eMMC app then it shows like my chip is "sane" like this attachment..
So is there any way that my chip is unaffected :S
Thanks in advance

It was stater that "sane" remark worth nothing. Pay attention to the chip revision.
I myself can hardly believe the whole f1 batch is affected equally. But better be safe...
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sifat004 said:
So is there any way that my chip is unaffected :S
Thanks in advance
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Chip is hardware and you can understand fixing with SW it doesn't change your hardware. it will remain same, but once you flash latest ROM (having fix) it will block commands which can damage device.

dr.ketan said:
Chip is hardware andoyou can understand fixing with SW it doesn't change your hardware. it will remain same, but once you flash latest ROM (having fix) it will block commands which can damage device.
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Thank you both SMS and Ketan for helping me to understand the fact.
So I should be well updated my rom with the new releases.
Thank you

hey......i just got to know that like s3, my Note 2 may also die suddenly???
how to check whether i have good kind of chip or not???
Here's the screen

Revision 'f1' means welcome to the wet panties club.
Like mine...
Not that I don't sleep nights....
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So revision f7 is safe?

Just update to dll7+ and forget everything.
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UtkarshGupta said:
Just update to dll7+ and forget everything.
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Today morning itself i got 2 back to back updates................ Hope all is well now.
What is dll7+??

You have got is latest (advanced to ll7)
Njoy
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Am i safe ??
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No, you need to update to latest rom.
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Is revision f7 safe? Because i want to downgrade to 4.1.1 due to battery drain in 4.1.2 on UBDLL3.

I am on ubdll3 wanamlite 2.5
Ii jhave used media rescan root on it and now everything is normal.
10h and 2% drain.
Wifi
Mobile data
Gps
Smart rotation.
Smart stay
Sync
WhatsApp
And motion on not quick glance though.
I think thats too good.
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UBDLL3 has the fix for SDS/????

No
Only ll7 and ma6/7 believed to have fix.
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Just about to flash mine with ma6
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You mean ubdll3 is vulnerable.
They do have a same cl and a later release date.
Other than that I don't think it is vulnerable.
Why would Samsung release an update without a critical fix?
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[Q] after root get info on front screen on galaxy s2

Hi I need help after root I got this..
HW:nullQCT MSM8X60 FUSION FFA.000E
PDA:T989UVMC6
Phone:Unknown
CSC:T989TMBMBC6
RF Cal.Date:
SMD,PBA: N
Camera: N/A
TSP:0x10
TSK:0x13
Unique Numer: CKY12C7773E23BE
IS THERE WAY TO REMOVE THIS ON MY GALAXY S2

Another guy had the same problem the other day. This is something new to me though. I have seen alot and done alot on different phones so it's really strange. Does it stay on the screen all the time? What did you use to root it?
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richardlibeau said:
Another guy had the same problem the other day. This is something new to me though. I have seen alot and done alot on different phones so it's really strange. Does it stay on the screen all the time? What did you use to root it?
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Yes it always there expect when you open a app or youtube or answer the phone..

cloudranker said:
Yes it always there expect when you open a app or youtube or answer the phone..
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How exactly did you root the phone in detail?
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Yea curious as what file you used and be specific please
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richardlibeau said:
Another guy had the same problem the other day. This is something new to me though. I have seen alot and done alot on different phones so it's really strange. Does it stay on the screen all the time? What did you use to root it?
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How exactly did you root the phone in detail?
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the first time I did it, I used Odin from galaxys2root.com. and I install Jedi mind trick.
I think this happened when I try the galaxy s4 weather.apk and the phone got into boot loop and then i tried to recovery to early back up and didn't work so i went back to GalaxyS2root to see how to recovery from a boot loop therefore, I did it and lost every thing I hand in the phone and info will still be there. sometimes it disappear and will pop up and there..

richardlibeau said:
Another guy had the same problem the other day. This is something new to me though. I have seen alot and done alot on different phones so it's really strange. Does it stay on the screen all the time? What did you use to root it?
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How exactly did you root the phone in detail?
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the first time I did it, I used Odin from galaxys2root.com. and I install Jedi mind trick.
I think this happened when I try the galaxy s4 weather.apk and the phone got into boot loop and then i tried to recovery to early back up and didn't work so i went back to GalaxyS2root to see how to recovery from a boot loop therefore, I did it and lost every thing I hand in the phone and info will still be there. sometimes it disappear and will pop up and there..

cloudranker said:
the first time I did it, I used Odin from galaxys2root.com. and I install Jedi mind trick.
I think this happened when I try the galaxy s4 weather.apk and the phone got into boot loop and then i tried to recovery to early back up and didn't work so i went back to GalaxyS2root to see how to recovery from a boot loop therefore, I did it and lost every thing I hand in the phone and info will still be there. sometimes it disappear and will pop up and there..
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What file did you download from this site?
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rolling56 said:
Yea curious as what file you used and be specific please
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something like this
the first time I did it, I used Odin from galaxys2root.com. and I install Jedi mind trick.
I think this happened when I try the galaxy s4 weather.apk and the phone got into boot loop and then i tried to recovery to early back up and didn't work so i went back to GalaxyS2root to see how to recovery from a boot loop therefore, I did it and lost every thing I hand in the phone and info will still be there. sometimes it disappear and will pop up and there..

richardlibeau said:
What file did you download from this site?
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if your mean for the galaxy s4 weather.apk look in T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II Themes and Apps
if is the root. GalaxyS2Root.com

cloudranker said:
if your mean for the galaxy s4 weather.apk look in T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II Themes and Apps
if is the root. GalaxyS2Root.com
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They have numerous root files for different phones. And you did download the files for sgh-t989 and not another s2 right? Did the phone come on after you used odin? And which box did you click on in odin? Phone, Boot, PDA, CSC, etc.
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richardlibeau said:
They have numerous root files for different phones. And you did download the files for sgh-t989 and not another s2 right? Did the phone come on after you used odin? And which box did you click on in odin? Phone, Boot, PDA, CSC, etc.
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yes i did it on the first time and the second time. the file is sgh-t989

cloudranker said:
yes i did it on the first time and the second time. the file is sgh-t989
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Did you click on pda button using odin or another button. Sounds like you flashed the wrong partition on the phone somehow.
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Did you click on pda button using odin or another button. Sounds like you flashed the wrong partition on the phone somehow.
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yes i did click on PDA button

cloudranker said:
yes i did click on PDA button
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Somewhere your partitions got messed up. Can your computer recognize the phone?
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richardlibeau said:
Somewhere your partitions got messed up. Can your computer recognize the phone?
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ok then to fix the issue i have to re-down SGH-T989 and do it again

cloudranker said:
ok then to fix the issue i have to re-down SGH-T989 and do it again
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I would format data,system, cache, factory reset too.
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richardlibeau said:
i would format data,system, cache, factory reset too.
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ok..... Thanks for your help.... I will do that next time.....

This is from the galaxy s4 AccuWeather widget, I did the same once and it completely f*cks up your phone really. Just gotta restore or do a wipe/reflash.
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nashy10 said:
This is from the galaxy s4 AccuWeather widget, I did the same once and it completely f*cks up your phone really. Just gotta restore or do a wipe/reflash.
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Good to know that for others who might try the s4 mod.
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