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??
soMeee said:
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
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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
Triangle away search in this forum
Happy new year
Paulius
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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?
I just got a new Galaxy S II, its not been even a week. Should I root my phone ? Since rooting will void my warranty, will un-rooting it get me back my warranty?
One of my friend has rooted and then un-rooted his phone but the yellow exclamation is still there. So scared to root it.
shantanuthatte said:
I just got a new Galaxy S II, its not been even a week. Should I root my phone ? Since rooting will void my warranty, will un-rooting it get me back my warranty?
Yes providing you flash a stock rom and remove the warning triangle and custom rom counter .
One of my friend has rooted and then un-rooted his phone but the yellow exclamation is still there. So scared to root it
Thats due to them not reading the instructions .
Why do you want to root no point rooting for no reason .
jje
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unrooting will not get rid of yellow triangle. You have to flash back to stock kernel and you can use a usb jig to remove the counter
I read about the USB jig, You add a 301k resistor to pins 4 and 5 of microusb connector, but all it does is puts the phone in download mode. So how do I reset the counter?
And moving towards more common question. Is it advised to root the phone coz i'll be needing just the root access to compile stuff on-the-go (mainly c/c++ files) and ofcourse access to system folder. But I'm scared of voidin the warranty of such a costly phone, coz incase if it does, i'm screwed....
No, pressing VOL DOWN + HOME + PWR (pwr btn for approx 3 secs) puts the phone into donwload mode without resetting the ROM counter.
The USB jig does the same AND resets the ROM counter.
So in simple terms, if you needed to send it away for a warranty repair, you would put the phone into download mode with the USB jig before uploading a stock firmware.
There are other ways of removing the yellow triangle without the jig. The jig is ONLY required for resetting the ROM counter.
Thanks a lot.... building the jig.... Will give out soon....
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????
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How to check the flash counter????
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Just go to download mode.
(VOLUME-DOWN + HOME + POWER while the phone is off)
i was trying to get rid of the yellow triangle in my galaxy s2 with usb jig method
while following some instructions on site which told me to flash tar file in PDA...there were two tar files..after first flash nothing happened
but when i flashed the second tar file my galaxy s2 got bricked
its not going into download mode or recovery even with usb jig
i think its bricked for good...only black screen..the best i could get were two white notification lights which would turn on at the bottom of the phone.
odin detects the phone but i cant do anything since phone doesnt enter any mode
what are my options here??
my phone is still in warranty...before it got bricked i saw for about 2 secs when it restarted into download mode that ROM counter showed 0 with official ROM..then it got bricked
so will samsung take my phone??or will it be rejected since i have checkrom revolution hd 4 with siyah 2.6.11 kernel installed in it??
is there any other method i can try to make it work??
If you can't get into download mode you have two options. JTAG repair, or send it to Samsung for repair. How would we know if they'll repair it under warranty ?
The moment you put non-stock firmware on your phone you void said warranty. Given you can't re-flash stock or even wipe the flash counter with a jig, you're going to have to take pot luck if you send it back to Samsung.
Given you've already tried a jig (and despite what I'm sure a few people will probably tell you given some of the replies we've had to threads like this so far this week), there's pretty much no way short of the above two methods of getting your phone working again.
thanks for the input
i guess taking a shot at official repair is my only chance here
if they make a fuss about my phone not being on official ROM then i guess ill have to pay them(and i hope they dont charge too much!!)
Might be worth getting a quote for a JTAG repair. Even if you have to send it overseas/with the cost of postage it might end up being cheaper. That way, if they do decide to charge you for it you can ask them "How much ?". If they want to charge more than the JTAG repair and the amount of time it will take Samsung to repair/return it to you is the same or longer than the JTAG, you can take the JTAG option.
Or you might be lucky and they might just fix it under warranty. Good luck with it
fatjivi said:
thanks for the input
i guess taking a shot at official repair is my only chance here
if they make a fuss about my phone not being on official ROM then i guess ill have to pay them(and i hope they dont charge too much!!)
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Might be worth getting a quote for a JTAG repair. Even if you have to send it overseas/with the cost of postage it might end up being cheaper. That way, if they do decide to charge you for it you can ask them "How much ?". If they want to charge more than the JTAG repair and the amount of time it will take Samsung to repair/return it to you is the same or longer than the JTAG, you can take the JTAG option.
Or you might be lucky and they might just fix it under warranty. Good luck with it
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thank for the info i think this the best way to go about it
damn i wish i hadnt tried this stunt...i was quite happy with my phone
now i find out u dont need to flash stuff in odin to get rid of the counter and triangle...just the jig is enough...dont know which stupid sites instructions i was following
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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