HELP! reset binary counter! - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I screwed up my Galaxy S3, i dont know how, but the internal sdcard has malfunctioned or damaged, it can goto recovery/download mode, i tried flashing stock/custom roms/kernals but to no avail, it just stops at the SGS3 logo. i have used Triangle Away to reset the counter before, it works, but now i can't even go into the system to use Triangle Away! is there a CWM Triangle Away or .tar Odin file to test this, as thats the only option i can use, i tried reading thru the thread but can't find CWM Triangle Away or Odin file for it... please please help me! Regards,

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Try bl8. After instal full wipe.
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Have you tried with too take off battery after flashing?
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Or try after Odin directly instal cf. Root or alternatieve kernel
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lazyfox said:
I screwed up my Galaxy S3, i dont know how, but the internal sdcard has malfunctioned or damaged, it can goto recovery/download mode, i tried flashing stock/custom roms/kernals but to no avail, it just stops at the SGS3 logo. i have used Triangle Away to reset the counter before, it works, but now i can't even go into the system to use Triangle Away! is there a CWM Triangle Away or .tar Odin file to test this, as thats the only option i can use, i tried reading thru the thread but can't find CWM Triangle Away or Odin file for it... please please help me! Regards,
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Triangle Away is an app only .
Boot recovery Factory reset YES / NO
Boot download mode flash stock rom via PDA in Odin .
A working rom here .
I9300XXALF2 Download (Thanks To SamMobile!)
Base Firmware: I9300XXALF2 (4.0.4)
Region Europe
Do not mess with kernels custom roms etc .
jje

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A lot of us have been to this scenario, panicking at first, but a very good sign is that it will boot to recovery.
Download a nice safe stock Rom from samfirmware and flash using Odin. When your at that point, your phone is back up and grinning then you can cf-root and flash custom till your heart's desires, till you mess up again, then just start from the beginning again.
Good luck and let us know how you get on
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If its stuck at the boot logo it is usually down to some corrupt data.
You need to be using odin to flash a safe rom. When it starts to boot long press power to turn it off, then boot into recovery and wipe data (even stock recovery can do this) then reboot again and it should boot fine.

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As already said I had this panic... Pull the battery then do a wipe/ factory reset then it will boot fine
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This is what i get after flashing any stock rom with odin via pda. do you think the board is damaged?

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i cannot wipe/reset system, reboots from sgs3 logo randomly, black screen. :crying::crying::crying:

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lazyfox said:
i cannot wipe/reset system, reboots from sgs3 logo randomly, black screen. :crying::crying::crying:
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Try reading the posts. Download Odin and stock rom. You can find odin somewhere at xda and stock firmware at sammobile.com. Use odin to flash as stock roms are not flashable via cwm.

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What have you flashed and how .
jje

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When you are at the bootscreen press vol up +power+menu buttons together ..keep holding untill you see the green droid..wipe data from here
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well things dont go right most of the time, i have flashed many roms, but this is the first time i encountered something like this, i think something is corrupted in the boot/cpu/gfx/internal sdcard system, as you can see from the ss, this is from recovery, i did full/wipe/flash/stock/custom/kernals etc... the system crashes at the Samsung Galaxy SIII boot screen and sometimes crashes at the SAMSUNG logo, every update/zip i try install from external sdcard crashes partway. I can only flash .tar files from odin with success, but if it executes the scripts from s3... i get lucky!

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Goes to to play and instal triangle away... This will reset acounter... Hopes its help you..
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you can flash stock firmware and your phone will work
download it from here http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/?page=3&t=1&o=1&m=GT-I9300&r=7#regiona
just choose register and choose your country and download it
and flash it with odin
then do a factory rese (if u dont do it u will be stuck in the samsung logo )
and ur fone should work

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1. i cant install any apk since it will not bootup...
2. any rom i flash thru odin, branded/unbranded etc... from kies/sammobile etc... will not boot at all.
3. i think the boot loader is corrupted?

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Looks like it's stuck at wanting to install a OTA update maybe.
Try this:
Flash CWM recovery with root adb access (CF-Root should neatly do the job), once in CWM fire up a shell session via "adb shell" from the PC and run these commands:
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p11 bs=4096
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p10 bs=4096
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 bs=4096
Then do a factory reset / data wipe from the recovery's menu and reboot
(what the above does: it wipes the OTA, preload and cache partitions)

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Would a new sd card work? If you can get into recovery, all you need is a new sd card with a rom on it?