would it possible to create an automated script that roots your existing rom like what this genetlemen sfhub has done over there in the ept4g forum...this avoids upping the counter and the birth of the yellow triangle..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728
or a one click odin..im guessing he took a tar that is completely stock and just added root, everything is basically automated after opening the .exe ...you guys can check that out here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1694695
I brung this to attention so maybe someone could get idea to hopefully bypass upping the counter and the entrance of the yellow doom
Upping the counter isn't really an issue, we have a reset for it, and also a way of flashing CWM without upping it. And once you have CWM, you can flash ROMs without upping the counter. And the yellow triangle isn't doom, it's just a form of download mode where you can still flash back to stock using ODIN and give it another go. The process of rooting is already pretty simple, all it takes is flashing CWM through ODIN and then superuser through CWM. That process is good to learn if you're coming from stock anyways, as it gets you used to using ODIN and CWM. Also, unless you're on stock, the other ROMs are already pre-rooted when you flash them.
Sorry, not trying to rain on your parade, just saying it would be work for a developer that isn't really necessary. Who knows though, maybe if one of them wants it they will build it.
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Being in stock unrooted, coming from that community.. I have knowledge of Odin, but being this is a new device for me.. What would u suggest far as a way to root without raising the counter
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=23004630
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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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Long time lurker, first time contributor.
After rooting, installing CWM recovery, Saurom, Da_G's kernel and a few tweaks I wanted to wipe and start over (and do some ICS hacking!). Unfortunately I didn't see a really quick way to do it (other than ODIN, what a pain - I'm on linux).
So I wrote a little update script to overwrite existing partitions with stock images stored on the sdcard. But here's the twist, instead of hardcoding everything in the update zip, it uses a property file on the sdcard at run-time.
Check it out, flame away...
Hope someone finds it useful.
I will try it later this week
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Great idea! It works, now I can put different combination of OC, ROMs, Rooting in different folders and flash to any set I want in one step without increasing the counter.
This post should move to Development forum to get more discussions.
Thank you.
Thats awesome. Always wondered why no one had done this
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eightmillions said:
Great idea! It works, now I can put different combination of OC, ROMs, Rooting in different folders and flash to any set I want in one step without increasing the counter.
This post should move to Development forum to get more discussions.
Thank you.
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complete modding has already been accomplished without increasing the flash counter, I have rooted, installed cwm recovery, flashed overclocking kernel by da_g, and I haven't increase the flash counter, and I'm waiting for the tpc v3 to flash that and as long as is on cwm zip format I can flash whatever I want without the worry of the flash counter ever going up. Now that cwm is fully working(except for usb storage)people will make stuff in cwm format, this method would help if it would be necessary to go back to stock in case of a mayor issue, and what's so great about your recovery that you say it blows away cwm?
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what's so great about your recovery that you say it blows away cwm?
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I think he means overwrites recovery, i.e. reverts back to completely stock.
Yup..including recovery...without the need for adb
That what makes it pretty Much awesome. I have seen the nook guys do this but not many others
The other stuff about is just neat
Its development...which we sorely need and should be encouraging
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I think he means overwrites recovery, i.e. reverts back to completely stock.
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00mred00 said:
Yup..including recovery...without the need for adb
That what makes it pretty Much awesome. I have seen the nook guys do this but not many others
The other stuff about is just neat
Its development...which we sorely need and should be encouraging
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install from zip?
Can someone point me in the direction of a CWM flashable stock AT&T Rom? A lot of my important apps (like Titanium and SetCPU) are force closing at inopportune times and search isn't getting me anywhere.
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I have the stock at &t rom rooted back-up?
Did did you back up after you rooted
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I've got a back to stock solution, but I'd rather just have something I can flash back to stock or even TPC v2 using CWM. I'm trying to avoid increasing my flash counter.
I don't think anyone has uploaded one yet. There is one, but via ODIN. One of you guys who need it could create a CWM and upload for everyone
If only I knew where to start. If anyone knows how I could use adb in recovery mode to push a system.img.ext4 file, I'd be grateful for that as well.
Follow this post here. I used it and it worked on mine, and didn't increase flash counter.
Link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1518962
So no way to flash TPC v2 without increasing the counter at this time?
Seems so. Since you seem have to have tripped yours, you could try one more time for the rest of the folks here.
eh, I'm still at 0. I'll figure something out.
Oh ok. I thought you tripped yours already.
I did, but I had to return my first one because of some hardware issues. When I got the new one I did everything the fun (0 flash counter) way. I was wondering if I could flash a system.img the same way that I flashed the CWM recovery.img (through ADB)
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.
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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My question is basically what the title asks. Is there any way to reset the Odin counter yet? Apparently Triangle Away does not work yet for Sprint's S3 (but it does work for the international I believe). Does anyone know if chainfire is working on making the AT&T/T-Mobile/Sprint/Verizon versions compatible? Or does anyone know any other ways? I tried using the USB Jig I use for my Epic 4G Touch but it does not work.
And what makes the AT&T variant special that they can avoid tripping the counter?
What?
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that would be cool if they had a reset counter for tmobiles gs3.
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What?
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The AT&T variant has a method to flash a custom recovery without tripping the flash counter. I'm just wondering what's different about that phone that allows this.
wow 2 threads in a row I'm tired of seeing posted...
Here I think this could be of some help.. https://twitter.com/ChainfireXDA. And as he says a few posts back the hardware is completely different between these and the international version. As of now he doesn't know if and when triangle away will be available for us. With that link you'll be the first to know. I'm sure if the counter gets reset he'll be the 1 to do it. And all the methods that don't trip the counter involve installing a rooted system which in itself doesn't trip the counter and then manually flashing tha recovery via adb
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Here I think this could be of some help.. https://twitter.com/ChainfireXDA. And as he says a few posts back the hardware is completely different between these and the international version. As of now he doesn't know if and when triangle away will be available for us. With that link you'll be the first to know. I'm sure if the counter gets reset he'll be the 1 to do it. And all the methods that don't trip the counter involve installing a rooted system which in itself doesn't trip the counter and then manually flashing tha recovery via adb
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Just to clarify: all methods i have seen involve installing a "stock" roms, with root injected, via ODIN. The counter sees these types of roms as an official rom. Flashing anything goes else via ODIN trips the counter. However, once you have root you can use adb or dd in a terminal emulator to load a custom recovery or just load mobile ODIN. You can the use either of these to flash any custom rom without tripping the counter.
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bjtheone said:
Just to clarify: all methods i have seen involve installing a "stock" roms, with root injected, via ODIN. The counter sees these types of roms as an official rom. Flashing anything goes else via ODIN trips the counter. However, once you have root you can use adb or dd in a terminal emulator to load a custom recovery or just load mobile ODIN. You can the use either of these to flash any custom rom without tripping the counter.
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Yes, this is true. But I guess we all add to our counter initially by flashing CWM through Odin when rooting, which our phone registers as an insecure kernel.
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So why is this not possible on the Sprint S3? Or is it possible now?
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Yes, this is true. But I guess we all add to our counter initially by flashing CWM through Odin when rooting, which our phone registers as an insecure kernel.
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FYI, I'm working on creating this file for T-Mobile GS3. If successful, I might try to create it for other carriers as well but will need help testing the files with the caveat that I might trigger your counter, I might brick your phone, and I might cause your phone to come alive and eat your dog.
I didn't find this forum and the method of rooting without tripping the counter until I had already loaded two roms. I can do an exchange at AT&T for a different color phone for $35 within the next 30 days. Should I get a new phone and start fresh or not worry about it and hope that Chainfire figures out a solution?
Chainfire will most likely find a way to reset it, but I don't think you'd be able to exchange with an activated counter. The counter really doesn't matter unless you want to get your phone replaced or something. Jigs used to help us reset the counter for the S2 even while the phone was off but now jigs don't work and the only way is Triangle Away for the S3
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Chainfire will most likely find a way to reset it, but I don't think you'd be able to exchange with an activated counter. The counter really doesn't matter unless you want to get your phone replaced or something. Jigs used to help us reset the counter for the S2 even while the phone was off but now jigs don't work and the only way is Triangle Away for the S3
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Chainfire said he's probably no longer updating the Triangle Away app any longer. Go see his blog/G+.
So we're sol?
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Does the counter matter if you return your phone to a best buy with their black tie protection?
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I heard BB employees can kill users who have Odin'd their phones. They are ordering special dumpsters to place to bodies of the violators. :angel::angel::angel:
Oh dear,I should've never exchanged my evo lte for this phone!
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ghostyroasty said:
Oh dear,I should've never exchanged my evo lte for this phone!
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unless you don't plan to return you phone you don't need to worry. I now I'm not!!!!
iniz94 said:
Yes, this is true. But I guess we all add to our counter initially by flashing CWM through Odin when rooting, which our phone registers as an insecure kernel.
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Hmm I though CWM was flashed through adb not odin? With CWM installed I get a black screen with a unlock symbol and the words "Custom" underneath the lock before the boot-up animation and under setup>phone info>status it has Device Status 'Modified' but nothing about an unsecure kernel.
caguas56 said:
unless you don't plan to return you phone you don't need to worry. I now I'm not!!!!
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I'm more worried about hardware failure like a mess up home button, or something of the sort.
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