Hi,
I'm new to Samsung phones (in fact I'll get my SGSII today), but I've been browsing the development forum and in the thread of a rom a guy mentioned that there's a 'custom rom flash count'. Does this mean that the phone counts how many times you flash it and you lose warranty as this count can be checked?
If this is the case, is there a way to reset the count to gain warranty back?
It checks how many time you flash an inofficial firmware from download mode. Yes I think you lose the warranty.
Reset counter: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1068522
To reset custom rom count, just buy a JIG dongle on eBay...
http://shop.ebay.fr/?_from=R40&_trk...-All-Categories&_sacat_sel=See-All-Categories
Really easy to use : You switch your SGS2 off, you plug dongle in, it starts your SGS2 to erase custom rom count, it's done !
And it also remove yellow triangle at boot, life is beautiful !
Thank you very much for the help guys
I have a jig but a bad usb port how do i reset with the bad port
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Happy new year
Paulius
Paulius7 said:
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Happy new year
Paulius
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Okay thanks i cant access su or private apps but I got this phone off ebay and I need to make sure it was never rooted. The port is bad and samsung is going to fix it since it is still under warranty. I am not sure it was ever rooted. Is there anyway to tell?
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my galaxy s2 is acting weird if i plugin the power from AC charger my phone gets freaking hot and even gives a plastic melting scent... also the battery takes like 24 hours to load to 99% (with the device turned OFF).. so i think i zhould check my warranty
Now the thing is, i flashed it with lite'ning rom (which claims to not give the yellow triangle, however i have got it)
i bought a usb jig and receiving it monday... the question now is: how do i get the phone to stock rom so samsung would think it had never been rooted or flashed?
Many thanks!
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Marco
One if its branded restore branded firmware two if not branded restore a stock older Samsung rom . Three remove any apps that use root .
You may need to check on boot remove yellow warning triangle and set custom rom counter to zero using recovery jig .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113928
Dev section has posts on warning triangle stock roms and usb jig .
jje
how many more times this gonna be asked....
FLASH COUNTER ....what exactly it is??? n why it is increasing every time we flash??? does we really need to care for it?? sorry for newbie quest..
thanks in advance..
It's a counter that tells how much times you've flashed custom stuff. If you have a counter different from zero it means that your warranty is voided. Anyway, you can get a usb jig from ebay to reset the counter to zero in case you need to get it to zero. So you shouldn't worry too much about it.
thanx bro...i was just wondering what is the limit of flashing ??? i mean at the max i can flash upto this much times...
It counts the number if times you flash non-official firmware or kernel etc.
It increases only when you flash a non-official firmware or kernel etc.
You don't really need to care for it. Unless you find your phone bricked one day and there is no way of reviving it and you decide to go to samsung service center and he says get lost you have installed non-official firmware.
This involves bricking the phone (not likely unless you actually decide not to read and do something foolish) samsung galaxy series is one of the less likely phone to be bricked.
This involves you actually going to the service center you may as well read more on the forums here and there will be a solution to your problem.
This involves the person in the service center to know that he is not to accept phones flashed with non-official firmware. If more people read and flash then less bricked phones, then less trips to service center, then less chances the technician knows this.
So moral of the story read more and stop asking things that are already explained like what is flash counter.
I don't believe there's a limit. The counter will just keeping adding up untill you reset it (if you do reset it)
you can flash 1 million times.
hmmm...got it..thanx for quick replies friends...
Suspecting the counter is a signed integer, there will be absolutely NO problems up to 2,147,483,647 flashes.
After that it'll either still be fine until 4,294,967,295 flashes (if the "signed" assumption was wrong) or just overflow and show funny stuff like "Custom Binaries: -1" or reset back to zero by itself.
/geekpost xD
How to check the flash counter????
asirigaya said:
How to check the flash counter????
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Just go to download mode.
(VOLUME-DOWN + HOME + POWER while the phone is off)
Hi guys,
because i have a problem with low mic volume on my Sgs 2 i want to sell my phone,,so i want to ask how to remove how many i flash roms on phone,,
In dowbload mode i see 17 times.
Tnx
Buy a jig... Will remove the number of times flashed by odin...
Please note, however, that there is a rumour floating around samsung has a second counter to see how many times the flash counter has been reset by the jig....
dzontra11 said:
Hi guys,
because i have a problem with low mic volume on my Sgs 2 i want to sell my phone,,so i want to ask how to remove how many i flash roms on phone,,
In dowbload mode i see 17 times.
Tnx
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I do not care about the counter.
But if a potential buyer will do, use a JIG as the other senior member has already said.
If you have got the old bootloader, everything will work fine.
If not, you may already have the new bootloader, which prevent the JIG to reset the counter.
Then you will have to flash the old bootloader like described by Intratech here => http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278.
Please look at the second post "Official Firmwares", there you will find a red text in a grey box, talking about how to flash the old bootloader with a link to download the needed files.
hey guys,, is there any solution to reset custom counter softly without usb jig??
soMeee said:
hey guys,, is there any solution to reset custom counter softly without usb jig??
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Not yet.
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soMeee said:
hey guys,, is there any solution to reset custom counter softly without usb jig??
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Jigs are crazy cheap on ebay. I got one for < $3.
so, where is the software using in usb jig,, which we can use without using jig
Nope. Probably never will be.
Edit to add - There is no "software using in usb jig which we can use without using jig". You switch the phone off, plug the jig in the usb port on the phone & it resets the flash counter/changes Custom Binary Download to "no" & changes the Custom Binary to "Samsung Official" when the phone is in download mode. No software required.
Do a search on eBay for "Samsung Galaxy S2 jig" (without the "").
does it cancel the warranty? if I go to Samsung services and my cus. counter counted 1 unofficial ROM??
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does it cancel the warranty? if I go to Samsung services and my cus. counter counted 1 unofficial ROM??
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Search. Read.
No.
EDIT: No. If you need it, you already voided your warranty. The jig is a tool to get your phone back to the state where your warranty is still intact. You could find that yourself, if you used the 'Search' button and read the threads you find there. Or hell, Google even. Seriously, XDA isn't a place for this kind of crap.
The information is in the forums, if you want it->READ THE FORUMS.
If you go to Samsung service, and they see that your custom counter is set to 1 then your warranty is void. The jig resets this counter to 0.
The moment you flash custom roms or kernels on your phone you void your warranty, yes. And yes, if they see the counter at 1 or showing anything other than Samsung Official in download mode, they more than likely will not fix it under warranty.
However if you are able to put stock firmware back on your phone, get rid of any apps that might give whomever fixes it a clue that you've rooted it, and use a jig to reset the flash counter, there's a fair chance (not 100% tho mind you) you might be able to have it fixed under warranty.
To be perfectly honest, if you want to have a 100% chance of having anything that goes wrong with the phone fixed under warranty, do not put custom firmware on your phone. At all. Ever.
in case of me, I bought it from someone on ebay and did not know that till today
I have a few questions, I'll put them up right away so the impatient may avoid reading my boring story. Beneath the questions are my explanation.
1. It seems to me the flash counter only goes up when I flash non-original firmware. I've flashed twice; once to root, then once again to go back to stock. My counter says 1. Am I correct in assuming this, then?
2. My phone came with astrange and, I think, not widely used firmware called XWKG1. Can I upgrade to ICS using any method, ie. will any ICS-ROM work with my phone?
3. Then I can root, and use Triangleaway to reset flash-counter, right?
And if the answer to question #1 is "yes", I could flash back to stock and have no warranty problems?
Backstory:
I - like many others - downloaded some ROM to get root on my phone. That's all I wanted, just root, no custom UI or anything, so I just downloaded something called CF I think? I'm not very knowledgable about all this, so bear with me.
Now the USB connector and battery is starting to get real weird. In short; my phone thinks USB cable is connected all the time; my phone won't start (says battery is too hot) unless I have a charger plugged in; strange driver issues when trying to connect the phone to a PC, the device is not recognized about 80% of the time; battery drains SUPER quickly. And more probably.
Now this sounds like a hardware issue to me, and should be covered by the warranty no matter if I choose to root my phone or not. But I'm worried Samsung may not share my opinion there. I've flashed back to stock firmware I got with my phone (XWKG1 - I bought my phone from a French company operating in Norway called Pixmania, which gave me this strange version), and the yellow triangle is gone. But flash counter says 1. This could be a problem.
I'd send it back to pixmania straight away. I'm in Norway, I've used pixmania abefore, they're quick and helpful, and I'd guess they'll replace it straight away.
To be honest, I can't remember if stock flashing increases the counter or not. Buy a jig anyway, they're cheap and useful.
Don't think your firmware's that strange, pretty sure I had XWKG1 at some point. Old yes, strange no.
Thanks for the answer. So Pixmania won't just send it to Samsung who will reject it? Have you tried sending rooted phones to them? My phone doesn't have any external damage, but it is currently not covered under Samsungs warranty!
Also, don't know if an USB jig would work since the phone's USB-port is so broken.
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Thanks for the answer. So Pixmania won't just send it to Samsung who will reject it? Have you tried sending rooted phones to them? My phone doesn't have any external damage, but it is currently not covered under Samsungs warranty!
Also, don't know if an USB jig would work since the phone's USB-port is so broken.
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Yep, rooted my brother-in-law's SGS last year. He returned it to pixmania because his home button wasn't working, got a replacement within a week. He'd forgotten it was rooted, but pixmania either didn't notice or didn't care.
Assuming you flashed via a USB/PC connection before , it's probably worth the risk to try 2 and 3. Or if you don't want to risk your USB port, try Mobile Odin.
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1. It seems to me the flash counter only goes up when I flash non-original firmware. I've flashed twice; once to root, then once again to go back to stock. My counter says 1. Am I correct in assuming this, then?
Thats what it is .
2. My phone came with astrange and, I think, not widely used firmware called XWKG1.
Its not strange .
Can I upgrade to ICS using any method, ie. will any ICS-ROM work with my phone?
When ICS is released it should upgrade .
But not if you root or put custom firmware Kies may no longer offer the iCS upgrade . You wil have to flash a stock ICS firmware .
3. Then I can root, and use Triangleaway to reset flash-counter, right?
And if the answer to question #1 is "yes", I could flash back to stock and have no warranty problems?
Yes
Now this sounds like a hardware issue to me, and should be covered by the warranty no matter if I choose to root my phone or not. But I'm worried Samsung may not share my opinion there. I've flashed back to stock firmware I got with my phone (XWKG1 -
Warranty void if custom rom and that included beta ICS warranty void if phone rooted warranty void if custom rom counter above zero .Thats the official Samsung letter to service centres .
jje
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