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I flashed to unnamed last October and I bought a JIG to remove my yellow triangle and reset the counter. It worked.
I read that the new ICS roms disable the JIG ability and the counter gets updated.
I'm planning to flash to either CM9, Phone Bricker, or ShoStockv2. When I flash to those roms, how can I do so without updating my flash counter?
I tried reading the guide, but I'm confused as to what exactly I should make sure I do. The guide looks like a normal flash.
As long as you flash from CWM it won't trigger the count or triangle. Flash just like a GB ROM, no special prep. Only the odin-one-click of the leak has a bootloader (that is what causes the jig to stop working). The zipped ROMs won't have a bootloader.
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crewxp said:
Sorry about the stupid appearance of this question.
I flashed to unnamed last October and I bought a JIG to remove my yellow triangle and reset the counter. It worked.
I read that the new ICS roms disable the JIG ability and the counter gets updated.
I'm planning to flash to either CM9, Phone Bricker, or ShoStockv2. When I flash to those roms, how can I do so without updating my flash counter?
I tried reading the guide, but I'm confused as to what exactly I should make sure I do. The guide looks like a normal flash.
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the triangle will not come back. Just wipe and flash. Your already rooted and have a kennel installed.
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crewxp said:
Sorry about the stupid appearance of this question.
I flashed to unnamed last October and I bought a JIG to remove my yellow triangle and reset the counter. It worked.
I read that the new ICS roms disable the JIG ability and the counter gets updated.
I'm planning to flash to either CM9, Phone Bricker, or ShoStockv2. When I flash to those roms, how can I do so without updating my flash counter?
I tried reading the guide, but I'm confused as to what exactly I should make sure I do. The guide looks like a normal flash.
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As long as you don't flash boot loaders you'll be triangle less. Check out the mobile Odin thread also.
Also, TriangleAway (free on XDA, paid on Market) will nuke the triangle if you're on ICS.
Doesn't work when running GB.
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I bought a jig to prevent the triangle after it popped up. I flashed a ton of times with CWM it has never revered its head. You're fine and I'm on ICS now. Like others said just say no to new bootloader
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As long as you don't flash any of the newer 1click which flashes the boot loaders like uckk6 and newer you should not have any issues. I went from unnamed 2.2.1 to fakerom than to shostock rc2 than up to rc3, rc4, rc5 and v1.0 with out any issues! Plus shostock does not flash any bootloaders in fact I am still running uckh7 2.3 bootloaders.
Hth,
Charlie
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Hello, have been lurking on this forum for a while but never actually made any posts until now.
Let me start off my saying that I am a beginner when it comes to installing custom ROMs, I have only done it a few times before. I flashed my kernel, installed CWM and a custom ROM. After a while I got tired of the rom and decided to go back to Gingerbread 2.3.5. I hated the yellow triangle that shows up when using a custom kernel, so I went ahead and changed that back to stock as well, and that removed CWM as well.
But I've just discovered a ROM called "Batista70 Foxhound Edition 3.0" (which you can find in the i9100 general android dev section) and I love the look and feel it has, and would like to install it on my phone.
My question is pretty basic and simple:
Can I install this ROM without actually flashing the kernel (to avoid the f*ing annoying yellow triangle)? Or perhaps there is a way of flashing a kernel without getting the triangle? Though I'm not getting my hopes up for that question.
I also have a related question:
Can I install CWM without flashing the kernel?
Anything I forgot to add, let me know.
Regards,
Dimergon
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If you by a jig off eBay for a few bucks all your problems will go away. It gets rid of the triangle and resets the flash counter. Well worth the $3.
CWM is within the kernel so to use it a custom kernel is required. CWM is worth having for backups and simple flashing.
My suggestion. Install one of chainfires cfrooted stock kernels. Use the jig to get rid of triangle. Then backup via CWM incase you want to go back at some stage.
Then flash foxhound.
Hope this helps.
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What you could try is rooting it with zergush exploit. Then download mobile odin from the market, flash cf-root true mobile odin and then you have the recovery needed to flash. And no yellow triangle.
Don't know if it's possible, because I never tried it. But we are on a developers forum after all.
You could of course just flash the CF-root and then remove the yellow triangle with instructions from the CF-root thread. Or buy a jig.
Buy a USB-Jig from Ebay its a good investment and helps you on the triangle.. then download the old Bootloader and save it to your pc and then you are safe
All you need to remove the triangle is a zImage from a secure kernel it's all on the cf thread.
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Thanks for the replies. I will definitely have a look at the USB jig, seems like the way to go.
And, to the reply above, is it possible flashing a secure kernel after installing a custom ROM? Seems to me this will not be without complications.
Regards, Dimergon.
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Hello,
I have the Samsung Galaxy Note i717R (from Rogers/Canada). I rooted it using odin v1.85 and then subsequently installed CWM a1 (which I am now coming to realize that this was an alpha release. Didn't realize that beta4 was out..I'm a noob). All went well however. I then decided to flash SAUROM and that went well also but not for long as I ran into some issues with some force closures. Not sure what caused this. Nonetheless, I decided to restore back to my stock rooted ROM using CWM. I would like to upgrade to CWM beta4 and possibly rety flashing the SAUROM but I am concerned of a few things like tripping my flash counter etc
My main question: How can I tell if my flash counter has been tripped? I am new to all this rooting stuff so I'm not sure.
Thanks
You put your phone into download mode, you can find the flash counter there.
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Thanks...I got it. Looks like I have a count of 3. Any way I can get that reset back to 0 ?
iThrive said:
Thanks...I got it. Looks like I have a count of 3. Any way I can get that reset back to 0 ?
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Not yet. The devs will probly figure it out down the road. I wouldn't worry about it anyway. It seems Sammy doesn't look at it yet. At least there is no known case of it.
Not yet. I'm in no hurry to reset it tho. If I brick it, I brick it... it'll be my fault.
i have been looking for the absolute bone stock bootloaders for my phone for about three hours now. i decided to reset it back to unrooted stock, but when i did, i used my jig and it still didnt reset the counter back to 0, so i found some bootloaders off of a 9100. it took my counter away, but now it says 9100 when i boot up. it is really annoying to see that when i boot up. so if anyone knows where i can find the stock bootloaders... or any bootloaders for 2.3.4 for that matter, please let me know... I WOULD BE VERY APPRECIATIVE!!! thanks
lunder09 said:
i have been looking for the absolute bone stock bootloaders for my phone for about three hours now. i decided to reset it back to unrooted stock, but when i did, i used my jig and it still didnt reset the counter back to 0, so i found some bootloaders off of a 9100. it took my counter away, but now it says 9100 when i boot up. it is really annoying to see that when i boot up. so if anyone knows where i can find the stock bootloaders... or any bootloaders for 2.3.4 for that matter, please let me know... I WOULD BE VERY APPRECIATIVE!!! thanks
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Just flash an ics rom and use triangle away
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i actually managed to find the old bootloaders. the only downside is that it runs in a pda. but it worked perfect! and i didnt want to flash to ics again. i just came from ics. and plus, if i went back to ics just to do away with the triangle, i would end up getting it again when i flashed entrophy's kernel again, and i would be up that same creek again
ANYWAYS, if anyone needs the stock bootloaders, they are here!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1316726
this will allow you to use the jig trick to take away your binary counters!
thanks for the quick reply tho
lunder09 said:
ANYWAYS, if anyone needs the stock bootloaders, they are here!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1316726
this will allow you to use the jig trick to take away your binary counters!
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Also available in the Download Repository, along with a few other useful things.
lunder09 said:
i actually managed to find the old bootloaders. the only downside is that it runs in a pda. but it worked perfect! and i didnt want to flash to ics again. i just came from ics. and plus, if i went back to ics just to do away with the triangle, i would end up getting it again when i flashed entrophy's kernel again, and i would be up that same creek again
ANYWAYS, if anyone needs the stock bootloaders, they are here!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1316726
this will allow you to use the jig trick to take away your binary counters!
thanks for the quick reply tho
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You would not get the triangle again if you flashed his zip in cwm. Once you are rooted and have cwm there is almost no reason to ever flash with Odin again.
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The files that i had were indeed 2.3.4 and rooted, but did not include cwm. And, yes i know the files are on a sticky in android dev. When i reset to stock, however, it did not replace the ics bootloaders, so where i flashed entrophy's kernel with heimdall, the ics bootloaders would not allow me to reset the custom binary count. But no worries. I found the gb bl's and got it all wiped. I am now running stock 2.3.4 (my personal fav) with entrophys and everything is running flawlessly. Overclocked to 1.45 stable and stock battery lasted over 24 hours with moderate usage. Thank you for the quick replies, and thanks to all the devs that are making my android experience the best out there!
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Only thing I hated about stock 2.3.4 was the damn home button lag. If not for that I may have stayed on it.
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Hello.
I've flashed the latest Siyah kernel (4.1.5) on my stock GingerBread 2.3.4, using Mobile Odin, not knowing that this version of the kernel is not compatible with Gingerbread, and ended up bricking my phone.
Now when i turn the phone on, I get the usual "Samsung Galaxy S II - GT-I9100" initial screen, then the eye logo of Siyah kernel, but after that the screen goes black and android does not boot.
I've tried Vol Down + Home + Power button combination a few times, even after removing the battery, but it looks like there's no way to even get into recovery mode, because the screen remains black. :crying:
Will I have to buy another phone, or is there any chance to save it?
Pleeeeease help me, I'm desperate!!
SOLVED
I finally maneged, I don't know how, to get into recovery mode, and I could flash back the stock firmware using Odin. PHEW!!!
My apologies for having opened this thread.
Recovery is both volume and power not home and power
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In fact!
The post I read which was saying that it was that 3 keys combo must have been wrong...
btw... I'm so happy I could recover the mistake! I have also successfully re-routed my device with the old good doomlord exploit.
What I wanted to do was to install the latest stock ICS and have it rooted without triangle and counter issues, keeping a nandroid backup of my current rooted GB 2.3.4 in case I won't digest the well known ICS appetite for battery. I have rooted my phone using doomlord exploit, therefore currently I have no triangle and my counter is 0. Also, I've read that a full wipe of the phone is highly recommended before upgrading to ICS.
So my plan was:
To make a backup of all the apps, contacts, SMS'es, etc, using a few free apps available on the market, since I've read somewhere that, I don't know why, Titanium Backup can't be used in this case.
To install Siyah kernel in order to get CWM, with which I would have made a nandroid backup of the phone (but here I made the mistake of flashing the wrong kernel version).
To Download latest stock ICS ROM, and flash it using Mobile Odin, which would allow me to make a full wipe and inject the root permissions into ICS without triangle/conter issues.
To reinstall all the apps and reconfigure the phone using the backup made at point 1.
Do you think that the procedure should work, provided that I use Siyah kernel 2.6.14 (which is the latest compatible with GingerBread) at point 2?
Or perhaps it would be better to simply use Odin for PC, root ICS using CF-root, flash back ICS stock kernel (which would remove the triangle but leave the root permissions set), and then use triangle away to reset the counter? (but is triangle away actually capable of resetting counter, or all it does is removing the triangle?)
Since you are in Venice, I assume that you have the GT-I9100 or similar model. If so, you are in the wrong forum. This forum is for the AT&T SGH-I777 model, (US carrier) version. You should go to the I9100 forum to ask your question. And when you do, please post in Q&A, not the general forum. I asked a moderator to move this for you.
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Since you are in Venice, I assume that you have the GT-I9100 or similar model. If so, you are in the wrong forum. This forum is for the AT&T SGH-I777 model, (US carrier) version. You should go to the I9100 forum to ask your question. And when you do, please post in Q&A, not the general forum. I asked a moderator to move this for you.
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Oops you're right!! Sorry today I just don't seem to be able to do anything right.. My apologies once again.
Moved to proper thread
JuniorGG said:
In fact!
The post I read which was saying that it was that 3 keys combo must have been wrong...
btw... I'm so happy I could recover the mistake! I have also successfully re-routed my device with the old good doomlord exploit.
What I wanted to do was to install the latest stock ICS and have it rooted without triangle and counter issues, keeping a nandroid backup of my current rooted GB 2.3.4 in case I won't digest the well known ICS appetite for battery. I have rooted my phone using doomlord exploit, therefore currently I have no triangle and my counter is 0. Also, I've read that a full wipe of the phone is highly recommended before upgrading to ICS.
So my plan was:
To make a backup of all the apps, contacts, SMS'es, etc, using a few free apps available on the market, since I've read somewhere that, I don't know why, Titanium Backup can't be used in this case.
To install Siyah kernel in order to get CWM, with which I would have made a nandroid backup of the phone (but here I made the mistake of flashing the wrong kernel version).
To Download latest stock ICS ROM, and flash it using Mobile Odin, which would allow me to make a full wipe and inject the root permissions into ICS without triangle/conter issues.
To reinstall all the apps and reconfigure the phone using the backup made at point 1.
Do you think that the procedure should work, provided that I use Siyah kernel 2.6.14 (which is the latest compatible with GingerBread) at point 2?
Or perhaps it would be better to simply use Odin for PC, root ICS using CF-root, flash back ICS stock kernel (which would remove the triangle but leave the root permissions set), and then use triangle away to reset the counter? (but is triangle away actually capable of resetting counter, or all it does is removing the triangle?)
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Flashing a stock ROM will not cause Yellow Triangle or increase your binary counter.
So you can follow below steps after you get all required backups using apps:
- Flash 4.0.3 stock ROM using PC Odin.
- Root using the method mentioned in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1501719 if you are concerned with Yellow Triangle and binary counter.
- Flash latest Siyah. Use Mobile Odin if you are concerned with Yellow Triangle.
- Flash any custom ICS or JB ROM.
Just follow first two points if you only need stock ICS with root. Factory reset is not mandatory but recommended so there are no issues later.
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Thank you acekay. Now it's late but I will check the thread you linked. It looks promising!
Btw I think I must pay attention not to flash custom kernels or use CWM if I upgrade to stock 4.0.4, since I have the buggy eMMC and so would risk to brick the phone, wouldn't I? In such case I would try upgrading to 4.0.3, just to be safe.
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JuniorGG said:
Thank you acekay. Now it's late but I will check the thread you linked. It looks promising!
Btw I think I must pay attention not to flash custom kernels or use CWM if I upgrade to stock 4.0.4, since I have the buggy eMMC and so would risk to brick the phone, wouldn't I? In such case I would try upgrading to 4.0.3, just to be safe.
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Yep. 4.0.4 and CWM recovery is risky. 4.0.3 should be fine.
All the best.
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JuniorGG said:
Thank you acekay. Now it's late but I will check the thread you linked. It looks promising!
Btw I think I must pay attention not to flash custom kernels or use CWM if I upgrade to stock 4.0.4, since I have the buggy eMMC and so would risk to brick the phone, wouldn't I? In such case I would try upgrading to 4.0.3, just to be safe.
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If you flash custom kernel after upgrading to ICS 4.0.4, you are 100% safe!
the emmc bug itself is on the stock 4.0.4 kernel not the firmware as a whole
Jokesy said:
If you flash custom kernel after upgrading to ICS 4.0.4, you are 100% safe!
the emmc bug itself is on the stock 4.0.4 kernel not the firmware as a whole
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Ok. So the only thing to take care of is not to have both the stock kernel of 4.0.4 and CWM installed at the same time. All the rest is safe. Thank you for having made that clear.
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Hello,
I've just got myself a USB Jig! And I turn off my phone and plug it in. The phone goes into download mode but the flash counter doesn't reset
Any reason why this is? Cause I don't wanna use triangle away as I am scared of bricking my phone. I'm running Super Nexus ROM with Syiah kernel.
Adarzannh said:
Hello,
I've just got myself a USB Jig! And I turn off my phone and plug it in. The phone goes into download mode but the flash counter doesn't reset
Any reason why this is? Cause I don't wanna use triangle away as I am scared of bricking my phone. I'm running Super Nexus ROM with Syiah kernel.
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use "Triangle Away" ma8, thats the best way to remove Yellow triangle and reset ur counter when on latest ICS build Roms
Adarzannh said:
Hello,
I've just got myself a USB Jig! And I turn off my phone and plug it in. The phone goes into download mode but the flash counter doesn't reset
Any reason why this is? Cause I don't wanna use triangle away as I am scared of bricking my phone. I'm running Super Nexus ROM with Syiah kernel.
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The USB jig couldn't reset the binary counter because you have a new bootloader. USB jig only works on older bootloader.
I seriously don't know why you are so scared of triangle away app. I've used it many times for myself and friends.
Read the instruction on the OP very well, then use the app.
Happy Independence Day!
The last time I used Sammy kernel was when I reverted my phone to stock before going to JellyBean. What I did was I flashed my S2 with the bootloader came from Gingerbread days. Luckily my JIG reset my counter but recently people suggest the triangle away app rather than flashing an old bootloader.
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UnwiredDroid said:
The last time I used Sammy kernel was when I reverted my phone to stock before going to JellyBean. What I did was I flashed my S2 with the bootloader came from Gingerbread days. Luckily my JIG reset my counter but recently people suggest the triangle away app rather than flashing an old bootloader.
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flashing/changing Bootloader is a messy thing compared to using the well known method ie 'Triangle Away app' ma8
Thanks all, I used the triangle away app and it worked great! I was just kinda scared as it says it can break your phone in the description and when you click to reset the counter. But I'm super pleased now, thanks a bunch