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I finally got rid of Sprint, and might not have to pay an ETF cuz of a mishap on part of a CSR after I ported my number. Anyway, how do I get root on the T-Mobile GS3 and does it stop OTAs?
I did the same after 9 years with them. I recommended you do this so you don't trip the flash counter. Flash counter allows any repair or Samsung to see that you loaded custom roms
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687
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There is am app called triangle away that resets the flash counter so don't worry about that. I recommend you use the toolkit in the sticky of the development section. Toke me 5minutes to do so. Good luck and welcome my friend.
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I dropped my t-mobile GS3 and shattered the top glass. I have insurance, will they accept my claim even though my phone is rooted and running a custom ROM? I can easily ODIN back to stock, but I've read about some sort of "counter" when custom ROMS are flashed. Anyway, does anyone know if they will accept my claim or what I need to do?
Thanks in advance !!
Yes use triangle away and it will put the counter to 0. I also beleive you will be fine regardless because you broke the glass.
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saldebot said:
Yes use triangle away and it will put the counter to 0. I also beleive you will be fine regardless because you broke the glass.
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Thanks, What is Triangle Away?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
[15.09.2012][ROOT] TriangleAway v1.95
phone: sgs2 GT-I9100
kernel : dorimanx 5.80
main rom: rr 2.7
second rom: cm 9.1
baseband: I9100XXLQ6
The counter referred to in the op is a flash counter, it counts how many times your device has been flashed. It puts a yellow triangle on your device that appears during boot up, download mode etc... Thats how they know you've flashed. Triangle away is an app in the play store that removes the yellow triangle from your device and set the counter back to original
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Assurion doesnt care of ur rooted or romd just send it back
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I cracked my screen recently also and had to file an insurance claim
Just to be safe, I ODINed back to stock and sent it back to asurion without issue. Sorry for your loss, by the way. I know i felt horrible when I shattered my phone
elterible said:
I cracked my screen recently also and had to file an insurance claim
Just to be safe, I ODINed back to stock and sent it back to asurion without issue. Sorry for your loss, by the way. I know i felt horrible when I shattered my phone
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Thanx all. I have my replacement phone. Will Triangle Away and Odin back to stock (just to be safe). Thanx again xda community you all rule.
So I was ice fishing a few days ago and dropped my phone in the lake...yea, I'm retarded...long story short, my camera or flash does not work. I tried flashing a different Rom as a message said "camera failed" hoping it was somehow a software issue, but it looks like it is dead. Which brings me to my issue. Obviously they can see it has water damage from the pink marker...So what is the best way to unroot this thing and clear it of any signs that I rooted it? I've read a lot of mixed procedures on this and a lot of bickering between what to really do. So I was hoping someone could put me right exactly where I needed to be so I can resolve this as fast as I can. Thanks guys
This is an at&t phone...just to totally clarify that
texazranger09 said:
So I was ice fishing a few days ago and dropped my phone in the lake...yea, I'm retarded...long story short, my camera or flash does not work. I tried flashing a different Rom as a message said "camera failed" hoping it was somehow a software issue, but it looks like it is dead. Which brings me to my issue. Obviously they can see it has water damage from the pink marker...So what is the best way to unroot this thing and clear it of any signs that I rooted it? I've read a lot of mixed procedures on this and a lot of bickering between what to really do. So I was hoping someone could put me right exactly where I needed to be so I can resolve this as fast as I can. Thanks guys
This is an at&t phone...just to totally clarify that
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Assuming that you can get the device in download mode. You can install the stock firmware with Odin. Go to sammobile and download the firmware for your device. Then extract the file. Fire up Odin, choose pda, then locate the file. Click Start and your device will end up with stock unrooted firmware. You might also want to get triangle away from the market to reset your flash counter before you proceed. There are stickies on this in the development forum.
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Yea the phone works 100% minus the whole camera assembly. Also do you happen to know what the protocol on warranty service is? I know I'm out 200 right from the get go, is this something I can resolve at an at&t store or do they have to send me one?
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From what I remember they will charge you full price for the repairs and it might cost as much as a new phone. My friend drove over his note two and they charged him 299.99+50.00 service fee. Because water damage and other things void warranty. It doesn't even matter that you rooted since the warranty is void anyway.
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From what I remember they will charge you full price for the repairs and it might cost as much as a new phone. My friend drove over his note two and they charged him 299.99+50.00 service fee. Because water damage and other things void warranty. It doesn't even matter that you rooted since the warranty is void anyway.
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AT&T won't warranty the phone if it has water damage, you'd be stuck paying full( off contract price), unless you have another line due for an upgrade, or can get them to do an early or partial upgrade. If you had insurance on the phone, then you'd pay a deductible and they would send you another phone(usually refurbished).
Good luck
I thought I had mentioned that in my original post. I do have full insurance on it. I guess I said "warranty" didn't I? So what are the processes involved with an insurance claim. I apologize for not realizing this earlier.
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I also checked out triangle away, it says it can only reset the counter on certain phones(sgs3) if it is in a stock configuration. So I have to unroot...reroot, reset the counter and then unroot again....?
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ok, so here's the steps i took to unroot. Used triangle away to reset flash counter to 0...rebooted into CWM and cleared everything. Went directly from there into download mode.....And it showed flash count of 1!...WTF. So i proceeded with unrooting through ODIN because....idk. My question is, "what did I do wrong?". Shouldn't the flash counter read 0 and does Asurion/Samsung actually check this particular thing? I need some help here guys
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texazranger09 said:
ok, so here's the steps i took to unroot. Used triangle away to reset flash counter to 0...rebooted into CWM and cleared everything. Went directly from there into download mode.....And it showed flash count of 1!...WTF. So i proceeded with unrooting through ODIN because....idk. My question is, "what did I do wrong?". Shouldn't the flash counter read 0 and does Asurion/Samsung actually check this particular thing? I need some help here guys
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try again, in this order:
Remove the battery cover
In Triangle Away, select "reset flash counter"
Once in Triangle Away's boot menu, press vol up to reset
The device will reboot. When it gets to the galaxy sIII screen, pull the battery, wait a few seconds, replace and power up
Go into download mode and check if it has successfully reset the counter
From download mode, go into recovery
Wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik
Go back into download mode
Launch Odin,
Plug phone in
Flash device-specific stock firmware
After phone has booted, unplug it
Once it goes to the galaxy sIII boot screen, pull battery, wait, replace
Boot into recovery and wipe data and cache
Reboot system
i think you may have to be on stock for this to work. keep me posted
ok I'll be doing that probably tomorrow. I did all the BS paperwork for asurion tonight so hopefully that'll be dealt with tomorrow. All I have to do is root install TA and follow those steps. One question though.... Where is the option in triangle away to let it boot itself into DL mode? I don't recall seeing that.
Side note, I now remember why I rooted in the first place. Stock battery life is laughable compared to what I'm use to haha
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texazranger09 said:
ok I'll be doing that probably tomorrow. I did all the BS paperwork for asurion tonight so hopefully that'll be dealt with tomorrow. All I have to do is root install TA and follow those steps. One question though.... Where is the option in triangle away to let it boot itself into DL mode? I don't recall seeing that.
Side note, I now remember why I rooted in the first place. Stock battery life is laughable compared to what I'm use to haha
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in triangle away, once you select "reset flash counter", it will boot into the screen where you press the vol up to reset. that was the screen i meant. sorry for the confusion. i updated my instructions. cheers
Honestly. Your better off adding a line and getting a new phone. Theyre offering a refurbished note 2 for 99 cents and I believe I also saw the galaxy s3 for 29.99
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So yesterday my brother called tmobile(its its account) to try a warranty exchange on my note, since my charging port is too loose. They said that my warranty is void becouse the phone been rooter. they went thru my web history and found the xda page there. So right mow im f*cked! no warranty and a phone woth a loose port! Gonna try unrooting for a while and not use the xda page for a while to see if does bastards will forget about me been rooted. Im gonna miss been rooted... ahhhhh!
Any one can visit xda. That should not be reason why they said you are rooted.
Unroot phone and get tmo on chat. May be that will work. Best of luck
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That means nothing. Return it in stock form and they must make it right.
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Lol Careful op might be an undercover t mobile agent ... jk
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s3rgio4 said:
So yesterday my brother called tmobile(its its account) to try a warranty exchange on my note, since my charging port is too loose. They said that my warranty is void becouse the phone been rooter. they went thru my web history and found the xda page there. So right mow im f*cked! no warranty and a phone woth a loose port! Gonna try unrooting for a while and not use the xda page for a while to see if does bastards will forget about me been rooted. Im gonna miss been rooted... ahhhhh!
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Try calling samsung directly. They won't swap your phone instead will fix it. Still better than nothing.
chingoo04 said:
Try calling samsung directly. They won't swap your phone instead will fix it. Still better than nothing.
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Or you can buy a new usb and fix it yourself http://www.etradesupply.com/oem-samsung-galaxy-note-ii-sgh-t889-charging-port-flex-cable-ribbon.html $12.00
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Or you can buy a new usb and fix it yourself http://www.etradesupply.com/oem-samsung-galaxy-note-ii-sgh-t889-charging-port-flex-cable-ribbon.html $12.00
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That's not bad at all.
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Z51 said:
That's not bad at all.
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Cheaper then the warranty replacement fee t mobile charges
Im going to return it back to stock for sure. What ive been thinking was just taking it to the tmobile store directly, and from there maybe they can make the replace order. Thats what my sister did last time with her htc one s. Im going to try that first and if dont work im just gonna call Samsung.
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Im going to return it back to stock for sure. What ive been thinking was just taking it to the tmobile store directly, and from there maybe they can make the replace order. Thats what my sister did last time with her htc one s. Im going to try that first and if dont work im just gonna call Samsung.
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Don't forget triangle away if you've tripped your flash counter
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Sounds like your device status has changed to modified, go in download mode and check the binary counter.
If its "Yes" then use triangle away to reset the counter, and then odin back to stock.
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Yeah, it does say modified and thanks, I will use triangle away
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So yesterday my brother called tmobile(its its account) to try a warranty exchange on my note, since my charging port is too loose. They said that my warranty is void becouse the phone been rooter. they went thru my web history and found the xda page there. So right mow im f*cked! no warranty and a phone woth a loose port! Gonna try unrooting for a while and not use the xda page for a while to see if does bastards will forget about me been rooted. Im gonna miss been rooted... ahhhhh!
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So you actually think that they knew it was rooted based on a phone call someone else made?
Odin to stock triangle away then take to store
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My wifes old vibrant was rooted and the speaker went out on it, took it too tmobile and they sent me a free replacement.
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Only reason they knew is due to not using triangle away.
Has nothing to do with visiting the xda forums. It would be bad businesses if they did that and unacceptable.
Many people here are not rooted who visit these forums.
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What about mobile odin? I used it and flashed the version I was with mobile odin and it returned me back to stock even when I was rooted and running JM11. It all said no no and official. And normal status.
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Galaxysm said:
What about mobile odin? I used it and flashed the version I was with mobile odin and it returned me back to stock even when I was rooted and running JM11. It all said no no and official. And normal status.
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The t mobile dude was trolling him and he bit., plain and simple
Some people are just gullible.
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Try a good protection plan, so in the future you can skip dealing with T-Mob.
http://www.squaretrade.com/
If I get the UVUAMDL file that you flash with Odin from the computer and take the root off, will they accept the phone or can they still see I voided it somehow? I pay 10 bucks a month for tmobiles premium handset insurance plan... I cracked the glass so I'm assuming I'll have to file a claim....
Another question, do they send you the new device first? Or do you gotta pay the waiting game with them?
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That won't reset the flash counter, but it will unroot it.
But if it's with T-Mobile, I don't think it will matter.
And they usually send out the phone first.
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That won't reset the flash counter, but it will unroot it.
But if it's with T-Mobile, I don't think it will matter.
And they usually send out the phone first.
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Yeah T Mobile sends the new phoen first. Then you have like 7 days to return your old phone or they charge you $600 for it. But they'll send you a return case and everything with prepaid shipping. Just slip the old phone in there and put it in a UPS box. They are really easy to work with on stuff like this.
I have no idea if you really need to reset teh flash counter or not, but it's insanely easy to do it so you may as well. Do a search for Triangle Away by Chainfire. You just get back to complete stock rom and recovery through Odin, root using CH auto root, install Triangle Away and run it, and it will reset the flash counter. Then uninstall the Tiranlge Away app and go to the Superuser settings and click "complete unroot" (Or something like that, I forget what the term for it is, but it's obvious)
You will now have a phone with stock rom, stock recovery, no Superuser APK, and a flash counter that says 0.
I just did it last week. Took me all of 10 minutes to do the whole thing.
lucas said:
If I get the UVUAMDL file that you flash with Odin from the computer and take the root off, will they accept the phone or can they still see I voided it somehow? I pay 10 bucks a month for tmobiles premium handset insurance plan... I cracked the glass so I'm assuming I'll have to file a claim....
Another question, do they send you the new device first? Or do you gotta pay the waiting game with them?
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Flash the UVUAMDL stock file.
Use CF Auto root by Chainfire to root phone.
Use Triangle Away to reset flash counter (TA need root hence step above)
Open SuperSU app and choose "Full unroot". It will remove SU binary and SuperSU app.
baseballfanz said:
Flash the UVUAMDL stock file.
Use CF Auto root by Chainfire to root phone.
Use Triangle Away to reset flash counter (TA need root hence step above)
Open SuperSU app and choose "Full unroot". It will remove SU binary and SuperSU app.
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Don't forget to uninstall the Triangle Away app too! (It's kind of a giveaway that you messed with it. hahah!)
It installs as a user app though, so a factory reset after this would wipe the app out anyway.
Skipjacks said:
Don't forget to uninstall the Triangle Away app too! (It's kind of a giveaway that you messed with it. hahah!)
It installs as a user app though, so a factory reset after this would wipe the app out anyway.
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Asurion never said squat to me about it and I still had a custom ROM on it when I sent it back.
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Asurion never said squat to me about it and I still had a custom ROM on it when I sent it back.
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Ha!
I once took a phone with Cyanogenmod to a t mobile store to get some help with something. The guy asked how I made the phone look so different. I told him it was an app from Google Play. He believed me. (Technically that was true. He was commenting on the theme, which was an apk downloaded from google pkay)
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Why does everyone get warranty and insurance confused? When you file and insurance claim it does NOT matter if it's rooted, if you bricked it, or dropped it in water. You're paying the $175 deductible sobit doesn't matter. If it was a warranty exchange THEN you would have to return to stock since they only charged you $5 for an exchange.
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Get Triangle Away. Run the app FIRST. Then Odin back to stock. Make sure to do wipe....then its all good
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alloycowboy said:
Get Triangle Away. Run the app FIRST. Then Odin back to stock. Make sure to do wipe....then its all good
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TA will not reset the counter unless your on the stock Rom, kernel and recovery.
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alloycowboy said:
Get Triangle Away. Run the app FIRST. Then Odin back to stock. Make sure to do wipe....then its all good
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The Odin flash to stock always increases the binary counter for me. Triangle Away is used after all your Odining is done.
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The Odin flash to stock always increases the binary counter for me. Triangle Away is used after all your Odining is done.
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Well I guess it must be different than the S3. Cause I have always did Triangle Away, then Odin. Counter was then zero.
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Skipjacks said:
Ha!
I once took a phone with Cyanogenmod to a t mobile store to get some help with something. The guy asked how I made the phone look so different. I told him it was an app from Google Play. He believed me. (Technically that was true. He was commenting on the theme, which was an apk downloaded from google pkay)
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I guess if you rooted, then used Rom Manager to put CM on there it would be an "app" that made your phone have Cyanogenmod after all.
elflip88 said:
Why does everyone get warranty and insurance confused? When you file and insurance claim it does NOT matter if it's rooted, if you bricked it, or dropped it in water. You're paying the $175 deductible sobit doesn't matter. If it was a warranty exchange THEN you would have to return to stock since they only charged you $5 for an exchange.
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Yup. If you broke your screen you are paying the 180 or whatever for a new phone. May as well tell them you lost the phone and keep your cracked one for Battery and what not. Even a good back up phone.
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Yup. If you broke your screen you are paying the 180 or whatever for a new phone. May as well tell them you lost the phone and keep your cracked one for Battery and what not. Even a good back up phone.
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It will not work as a backup phone. The IMEI will be blocked.
Also, while I get what you are saying and understand you are trying to suggest the most cost effective way to do something....what you are suggesting is insurance fraud and could be a felony.
Im not judging you because I agree the insurance company is dumb for making it advantageous to lie aboit what happened to a phobe. Im just saying you are advocating a crime. XDA tends to prefer that you don't do that here.
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It will not work as a backup phone. The IMEI will be blocked.
Also, while I get what you are saying and understand you are trying to suggest the most cost effective way to do something....what you are suggesting is insurance fraud and could be a felony.
Im not judging you because I agree the insurance company is dumb for making it advantageous to lie aboit what happened to a phobe. Im just saying you are advocating a crime. XDA tends to prefer that you don't do that here.
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I didn't meant to promote insurance fraud. I just always at least keep battery and when micro sim cards came with the phone 4 years ago. Figured paying 180 for a new phone should cover that but I get what you mean
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elflip88 said:
Why does everyone get warranty and insurance confused? When you file and insurance claim it does NOT matter if it's rooted, if you bricked it, or dropped it in water. You're paying the $175 deductible sobit doesn't matter. If it was a warranty exchange THEN you would have to return to stock since they only charged you $5 for an exchange.
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Thank you. I knew I wasn't looking for a warranty exchange cuz I cracked the screen too... So I knew I was gonna have to file a claim, and it does cover whatever you do to it, so it does make sense that messing with the system like that wouldn't matter. Thanks again. I don't even run custom roms, the s4 rooted is fine too me.
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