[Q] Warranty and the download counter - Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello.
I have some questions regarding the warranty and the download counter / custom Roms
I found a counter (download mode) for non samsung installed roms.
Has the counter any impact regarding the warranty?
Is it possible to reset the counter with the USB Jig?
If i flash a custom Recovery via fastoot (http://droidbasement.com/db-blog/). Recognize the counter this as a non Samsung FW?
Greetings

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how to reset the flash counter after installing CF-Root plug JIG

as a topic on how to reset the flash in I9300 counter after uploading CF-Root plug JIG??
USB JIG does not work on S3 to reset flash counter
If you want to reset your flash counter, the only way is to use Triangle Away app by chainfire
thanks

Q: about the triangle and flash counter

I've been curious on how the triangle and the flash counter works. So, please consider the following scenarios and answer accordingly:
Flash a...
1. a fully stock ROM via...
a. Odin
b. Mobile Odin.
c. CWM (going from a custom ROM).
2. a modified Samsung ROM like this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1704185 which include very minimal stuff via...
a. CWM
b. Mobile Odin (is it even possible considering that it is a zip file?)
3. an AOSP ROM via any method.
And finally
4. If you had a triangle and then flashed a stock ROM does it disappear?
Thank you guys and I would be very grateful if you answer these questions.
There is no triangle on SGS3, only the flash counter (and a device status in phone settings)
Flashing with odin will increase your flash counter except if you're flashing a stock rom from Samsung
Flashing with mobile odin will not increase your flash counter
Flashing with CWM should not increase your flash counter
If you flash a stock rom, it will not reset your flash counter
You can reset your flash counter with triangle away (need root) from chainfire BUT you will have to reflash a stock rom in order to reset the device status
Mopral said:
There is no triangle on SGS3, only the flash counter (and a device status in phone settings)
Flashing with odin will increase your flash counter except if your flashing a stock rom from Samsung
Flashing with mobile odin will not increase your flash counter
Flashing with CWM should not increase your flash counter
If you flash a stock rom, it will not reset your flash counter
You can reset your flash counter with triangle away (need root) from chainfire BUT you will have to reflash a stock rom in order to reset the device status
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Thank you very much. I was under the illusion that it had a triangle like SGS2.
yes the s2 has the triangle
the s3 doesnt
but if u want to reset the costume binary counter u can use the triangle away app

[Q] SOFT BRICKED - How to reset custom binary?

Hello!
I soft bricked my Samsung Galaxy s3 GT-I9300
I don't know how...
I tried flashing cutom roms, stock roms and kernels...nothing works
ODIN says: NAND write start!! Then it fails everytime.
So i'm looking forward to send it back to the service centre as it is supposedly still on warranty. To benefit from the warranty, the custom binary download should be "No".
My phone can still go into download mode, recovery mode is inaccessible.
In download mode it sayS:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: GT-I9300
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: Yes (5 counts)
CURRENT BINARY: Custom
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
Is there any way I can reset the custom binary download to "No" ?
PS: According to some videos on YouTube, USB jigs only get the phone in download mode, it does NOT reset the custom binary download counter.
Please help me, thank you.
Gowtamee said:
Hello!
I soft bricked my Samsung Galaxy s3 GT-I9300
I don't know how...
I tried flashing cutom roms, stock roms and kernels...nothing works
ODIN says: NAND write start!! Then it fails everytime.
So i'm looking forward to send it back to the service centre as it is supposedly still on warranty. To benefit from the warranty, the custom binary download should be "No".
My phone can still go into download mode, recovery mode is inaccessible.
In download mode it sayS:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: GT-I9300
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: Yes (5 counts)
CURRENT BINARY: Custom
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
Is there any way I can reset the custom binary download to "No" ?
PS: According to some videos on YouTube, USB jigs only get the phone in download mode, it does NOT reset the custom binary download counter.
Please help me, thank you.
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you can use Triangle away app from playstore to do that.
sriram231092 said:
you can use Triangle away app from playstore to do that.
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I cannot switch my phone on...
So how do I use Triangle Away?
Gowtamee said:
I cannot switch my phone on...
So how do I use Triangle Away?
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a wrong post! sorry for that!
Sorry, you can only use triangle away before failure. After failure, there is nothing that anyone can do.
Please let this be a lesson to people. Keep on top of your Custom download with Triangle away
rootSU said:
Sorry, you can only use triangle away before failure. After failure, there is nothing that anyone can do.
Please let this be a lesson to people. Keep on top of your Custom download with Triangle away
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Im stock my Binary Counter is 10 and i cant boot my i9300, is there not anything i can do??? I mistakenly deleted the boot recovery file not sure what the name of the file was. But now i am stocked and bricked?
Use Odin to flash stock firmware, read the guide in general forum.
Gowtamee said:
Hello!
I soft bricked my Samsung Galaxy s3 GT-I9300
I don't know how...
I tried flashing cutom roms, stock roms and kernels...nothing works
ODIN says: NAND write start!! Then it fails everytime.
So i'm looking forward to send it back to the service centre as it is supposedly still on warranty. To benefit from the warranty, the custom binary download should be "No".
My phone can still go into download mode, recovery mode is inaccessible.
In download mode it sayS:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: GT-I9300
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: Yes (5 counts)
CURRENT BINARY: Custom
SYSTEM STATUS: Official
Is there any way I can reset the custom binary download to "No" ?
PS: According to some videos on YouTube, USB jigs only get the phone in download mode, it does NOT reset the custom binary download counter.
Please help me, thank you.
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did you try flashing twrp recovery?

[Q] [Samsung] Read Flash Counter

Hi
I'm working on an observer app which should be able to detetect modifications on the system. Is there a way to read out the flash counter of Samsung Galaxy Devices?
I'm not interrested to reset the counter I just like to get informed if someone did it or replaced the boot.img or recovery.img.
There is an app called TriangleAway which is able to do that. Do I have to access the bootloader to get the counter?
Regards
cloooned

[Q] Reset Flash Counter

I have Rooted my Galaxy S 3 GT-I9300 . now I want to unroot it and reset the flash counter
I have tried to do that ( 3 times ) Using Triangle away :
1- I've got into Triangle away Hit Reset flash counter in Triangle away.
2- after restarting my device I got into SuperSU > Settings > Full Unroot.
3- Restarted my device , now there is no Root access.
but when I get into Odin mode ( Binary Counter : Custom (Yes : 3) )
is there any way to reset Binary Counter ?
Thank you .
You must have the original Kernel and Recovery to reset the binary counter.
dadomonte said:
You must have the original Kernel and Recovery to reset the binary counter.
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Stock not original .
Flash back to stock and root
i made this mistake before.
First lets say you are rooted running Cm11 ok.
what we have to do now is go to your pc and flash back to stock 4.3
then you root it again
install triangle away and reset it
then you reflash your s3 back to stock and it will be as of new e.g. all warranty back and flash counter will say none/no
Hope this helped?

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