Hello, I rooted my phone using the Samsung GS3 Toolkit, I'm running Android 4.2.1, and I selected the All In One method which installed cwm recovery. This tripped the flash counter and I know I can get rid of it by using triangle away, not allowing the phone to reboot then flashing a stock rom, however, can I root my phone after that with the toolkit or any other method without tripping the counter? I just want full stock and root access.
Uziwood said:
Hello, I rooted my phone using the Samsung GS3 Toolkit, I'm running Android 4.2.1, and I selected the All In One method which installed cwm recovery. This tripped the flash counter and I know I can get rid of it by using triangle away, not allowing the phone to reboot then flashing a stock rom, however, can I root my phone after that with the toolkit or any other method without tripping the counter? I just want full stock and root access.
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Are you talking about the counter or modified status?
If counter, just run triangle away and you are set.
Modified status appears when you e.g. root the phone, not sure if there is a way of having original status and root
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so what's the point of resetting the counter if you are rooted?
they'll deny you warranty anyway
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Well guys as the title says itself, is there any safe, easy method of rooting S3 on 4.1.1 without triggering the flash counter and with stock recovery like CF Auto Root? But Auto root may trigger flash counter. So can anyone please tell anything about this matter? It's just i bought my S3 yesterday, not so snappy as expected, want to remove useless stock apps n etc but also want to be on the safe side.
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rooting is completely safe. You can reset the counter later, because rooting in itself voids the warranty. But it's perfectly reversible, so you can revert to a fully stock phone with a zero counter.
If you are on the latest ELLA bootloader, the counter will be at 1 if you are rooted or modified in any way.
On older bootloaders use triangle away after rooting to reset the counter
Glebun said:
rooting is completely safe. You can reset the counter later, because rooting in itself voids the warranty. But it's perfectly reversible, so you can revert to a fully stock phone with a zero counter.
If you are on the latest ELLA bootloader, the counter will be at 1 if you are rooted or modified in any way.
On older bootloaders use triangle away after rooting to reset the counter
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Nah i'm on Indian firmware 4.1.1. So should i proceed with auto cf root?
Yes
Else use exynos abuse
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Ok. I'll try and report back
Well guys i used Cf Auto Root and it worked like charm. Phone is rooted now
It seems like the only way to root is through Odin currently, which would trigger the flash counter. I'm not sure if this is the case or not. Does the current root method trigger the flash counter? I know if it doesn't then I'm as long as I flash through recovery instead of Odin I won't have to worry about triggering the counter. If someone could set me straight, that would be awesome.
Bump.
This is my first time on a Samsung device, so I've never heard of this flash counter. I'm assuming it's some level of security. Regardless, I rooted and installed TWRP using this awesome tool: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2301720
I have read that there's an app on XDA for around $2 that resets your flash counter. If you're really worried about your warranty, I wouldn't be flashing, but at least apps exist to address it.
I have rooted and installed a custom rom on my GS4 and it still says official. Is this normal?
I expected that after bricking and flashing stock and rerooting and everything I must have tripped the flash counter.
I don't really care as I don't plan on needing the warranty, I'm just surprised. I even previously had the custom unlock boot screen before bricking the phone.
Am I just looking in the wrong place?
DanGerousDroid said:
I have rooted and installed a custom rom on my GS4 and it still says official. Is this normal?
I expected that after bricking and flashing stock and rerooting and everything I must have tripped the flash counter.
I don't really care as I don't plan on needing the warranty, I'm just surprised. I even previously had the custom unlock boot screen before bricking the phone.
Am I just looking in the wrong place?
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Flash counter will only register non Samsung images which we cannot flash successfully with a locked boot loader. Unless you are unlucky enough to accidently use Odin to install cwm or push a rom, them a factory restore via Odin should for all intents be undetectable as previously rooted. There might be something on a hidden partition I am unaware of but I have heard nothing yet.
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Hi there, I'm not so experienced so far but I'd like to root my Galaxy S3 All stock with 4.3 build, I9300XXUGMK6 (unbranded italian). So far I understood that as long as I only want to run some root apps, I can use cf auto root and mantain all stock, 'cause it will reinstall stock recovery. Then I want to know if triangle away works on 4.3 (recently has been updated to 3.26).
After that will I be able to get OTA, as long as the system files are stock and the only difference is the root and some root apps? Can someone confirm this? Thanks everyone.
Yes to CF auto root, yes to triangle away, no to ota -it won't update if you have modified your phone.
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boomboomer said:
Yes to CF auto root, yes to triangle away, no to ota -it won't update if you have modified your phone.
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Are you sure? There's much confusion in this forum about ota with root, some say that it is possible to get it, if the reovery and the rom are full stock, only there's the possibility to lose root... In fact, there is an option, in SuperSU, which allows to mantain root even after OTA, so I guess it's posible to get it... Am I wrong?
Sure lets put it this way 99% of posts that have OTA problems are rooted and the install fails .
Via the method you post just going to have to try it as i have only seen one claiming it works .
But as i don't have OTA i cannot test .
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Sure lets put it this way 99% of posts that have OTA problems are rooted and the install fails .
Via the method you post just going to have to try it as i have only seen one claiming it works .
But as i don't have OTA i cannot test .
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Thank you for the answer. So assuming Ota not possible, after reset flash counter with triangle away if I want to download it or to claim warranty back I'll only have to flash a stock firmware with odin and it's done? Right?
I was wondering if I could use flashfire to flash XtreStoLite Deo-Mod Edition 2.1 ROM without tripping knox. Any help would be appreciated!
As far as I know in order to flash a rom needs changes to bootloader as soon as you touch the bootloader it trips knox. You can only root without tripping knox
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I had rooted via Pingpong root fine (no knox tripped) and then downloaded Echoe rom with standard kernel after being told that it would not trip knox (it worked for that guy) but it tripped knox anyway. So I though well, why not go all the way.
dwarfer66 said:
I had rooted via Pingpong root fine.
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Ping Pong root uses an exploit in the 5.0.2 Stock rom to get root access, without flashing.
Anytime the bootloader partition gets written to, the Knox counter gets incremented.
Flashing with Flashfire will trip Knox.
I do not believe there is a way to flash without accessing the Bootloader.