Hi, I have a problem with my S3. I don't know what's going on!
I can't reset my flash counter with TriangleAway anymore. Tried and retried, but nothing!
Before you ask me, I am on vanilla stock XXUGMK6 ROM, stock Kernel and stock recovery. SuperSU is updated to the latest version.
Are you running the latest triangle away? A version was released about a week ago that had a bug that stopped it from working but a fix has been released.
TriangleAway 3.26 is the latest version, am I right?
I also tried v. 3.10 (the last one I used to work) but nothing, flash counter stays at 8.. if I reflash the original ROM with Odin, trying to reset the counter with TriangleAway only causes the integer to go +1 everytime. I'm ending up with like 20 flash count
Try downgrading your bootloader to BLFB then reset counter, triangle away works fine for me on 4.3.
Sorry, but I bought this phone in November 2013 and the original firmware version was XXEMG4. I don't think I can do any downgrade
Bootloader is irrelevant to the firmware. I'm on UGML4 firmware with BLFB bootloader, custom recovery & kernel and zero flash count.
If you downgrade you shouldn't use download mode for anything, due to SDS risk.
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I don't want to risk a brick by messing up with the bootloader.
Also, I always knew that, in the electronic world, you can't put a firmware below what the device was programmed for.
I will try to flash EMG4 and use TriangleAway again, hoping that resets the counter!
Well, downgrading to XXEMG4 and running TriangleAway from there it did the game!
Problem solved, thanks
iJo09 said:
I don't want to risk a brick by messing up with the bootloader.
Also, I always knew that, in the electronic world, you can't put a firmware below what the device was programmed for.
I will try to flash EMG4 and use TriangleAway again, hoping that resets the counter!
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Firmware is not the same as bootloader lol. The bootloader is wat boots ur fone. Like for windows. The bootloader is mbr. Linux is grub. Android idk wat it is called. But it is definitely irrelevant to the firmware issue.
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Hi i have the same problem , i cant reset flash counter. I Got GMK6 , how to downgrade to XXEMG4 ?
Follow the guide in general, stickies on how to flash a stock rom, factory reset afterward.
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ye ye i know but there wont be problem with that EFS? when i downgrade from GMK6 to EMG4??
If u have it rooted thats why u cannot reset it ... --'
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maybe but after i reset i still have flash counter 5 so it's totally not working , no idea why (my device is rooted)
Simply downgrade to 4.1.2 following the guide. No EFS problems if you put EMG4 or later in your S3!
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Want to test if it works ...
Flash a triangle away supported kernel.
Run triangle away
Afterwards reboot imidiatly to download mode flash stock
And see whats your counter then
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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!!
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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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Hi guys, i'm going to sell my galaxy s2 and the buyer want it all stock. I'm using the cm10 ROM on it. I've already downloaded the factory stock firmware on sammobile.com. Until there everything was ok, but now I'm not sure about the way to flash the stock firmware. Should I flash it by clockworkmod, as the customs Roms I've flashed before? Or should I flash it by Odin, like an unrooted phone?
Since now, thanks a lot for your help
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Flash it via Odin as PDA
Then wipe all in recovery
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when doing this, will the yellow triangle go away, phone get unrooted, and flash counter reset to 0?
cus im sure the buyer would want any avaliable warranty back aswell.
It would probably be good to reset counter before flashing, maybe with Triangleaway. Once i flashed original rom over custom with MobileOdin. Everything went well.
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aliendna99 said:
when doing this, will the yellow triangle go away, phone get unrooted, and flash counter reset to 0?
cus im sure the buyer would want any avaliable warranty back aswell.
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No, to reset counter and remove triangle you can do it either with a usb jig or by downloading chainfire app "triangle away" (Search it on the play store")
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when doing this, will the yellow triangle go away, phone get unrooted, and flash counter reset to 0?
cus im sure the buyer would want any avaliable warranty back aswell.
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When u're flashing samsung stocks it'll does full wipe include rom itself, kernel, root, user data & caches then turn all to factory value. So don't even too worries about all u said above. But it worth to use stock 4.0.3 & avoid stock 4.0.4 in case to avoid emmc superbrick bug if u still doubt about advancing..
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If you flash a "samsung official rom" it will take the triangle away but it does not reset the counter.
I have flashed CM9 CM10 and 2.3 stock , 4.0 stock a few times and my count is at 7, each time i flash stock the triangle goes away but the counter keeps counting.
I need to send my SGS2 back to Samsung for a hardware display fault on warranty, but obviously they're going to check the software etc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1650919
I did find a guide, so yes, I have taken time to look. But there is one thing which I'm not sure about.
Currently my phone is Gingerbread 2.3.3 original ROM with CF root with Siyah kernal (CWM Recovery), firmware has never been upgraded. But Samsung warranty told me that my phone has to have the latest firmware (ICS I think) for them to process my warranty, so I have to upgrade the firmware.
Do I need to upgrade to ICS before doing the guide to reset to factory stock? Or reset to factory stock as Gingerbread then update to ICS? I also don't know if as a rooted phone with a different kernel can update itself the "normal" way through the Settings/Software option?
Thanks
I've had to do this and I returned it to stock by:
Flash stock ics
Root phone and install triangle away app
Run triangle away to remove triangle and reset counter to 0
Re-flash stock ics and factory reset. Done.
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HANDSY said:
I've had to do this and I returned it to stock by:
Flash stock ics
Root phone and install triangle away app
Run triangle away to remove triangle and reset counter to 0
Re-flash stock ics and factory reset. Done.
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so do you mean that when you flash stock ICS, the phone becomes unrooted?
and how did you flash stock ics? using odin or kies or ota (i think from the phone settings)?
and how did you reflash it?
thanks.
jeanclaudevandamme said:
so do you mean that when you flash stock ICS, the phone becomes unrooted?
and how did you flash stock ics? using odin or kies or ota (i think from the phone settings)?
and how did you reflash it?
thanks.
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Yes when you flash a stock ROM the insecure kernel is replaced with a stock kernel, therefore you lose root access to your phone. All this is done through Odin.
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Hi everyone. Is is true that there is a flash counter on the S3? So even if I flash a stock rom (which i did) with Odin, it'll still increase and so I wont be able to use warranty if i ever need to?
I don't plan to root my phone, and i just used a different stock rom because my old one had the freezing-bug that happens a lot lately, so what do i have to do in case i ever have the need to send the cell to repair?
Thanks in advance.
it's true.
no, stock roms don't increase it
tharghan said:
Hi everyone. Is is true that there is a flash counter on the S3? So even if I flash a stock rom (which i did) with Odin, it'll still increase and so I wont be able to use warranty if i ever need to?
I don't plan to root my phone, and i just used a different stock rom because my old one had the freezing-bug that happens a lot lately, so what do i have to do in case i ever have the need to send the cell to repair?
Thanks in advance.
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Try reading the basic faqs and guides and the return phone for warranty guide .
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Glebun said:
it's true.
no, stock roms don't increase it
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You totally sure about this?
Thanks again...
I hope this is the right topic and I tried to find my problem but I couldn't.
While ago I had CWM flashed and Cm 10.1 running. Then there was some problem with my kernel so it kept freezing 1-5 minutes after boot. So I reflashed Samsungs ROM and it worked again. Then I flashed CWM again and tried to reset the flash counter using Triangle Away. It worked but always went back to one after reboot. So I installed CM 10.1 again and tried again and same problem.
When I had CM 10.1 installed first it worked perfectly. I could flash CWM and it wouldn't increase the counter.
I just flashed it again and tried to reset it again, but still the same problem. Do you guys have any idea what to do?
Thanks in advance
you have to be stock for it to be zero. CWM is not stock
Simple procedure
Run triangle away
Flash stock Rom
Enter recovery and factory reset (wipes data and internal sd)
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you have to be stock for it to be zero. CWM is not stock
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But the thing is I got it to zero on CWM as well
Okay so basically I'm just holding on and leave it like this since I don't need my warranty right now and if I need it I'm running Triangle Away and then flash Stock.
I still think it's weird because it worked a couple days ago.
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can't be on zero with CWM with the latest bootloader
Glebun said:
can't be on zero with CWM with the latest bootloader
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Thanks for your answer. With which version of CWM does it work?
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I think your confusion has arisen because originally you had an old bootloader....then when you flashed back to Samsung Rom if it was a later version it may have updated bootloader and that's why it always shows 1 now.You can flash back to the older bootloader if you want and your situation should be back to where it was in first place
Okay that makes sense. So if I wanted it to be zero and back on stock I would reset it, power off then in download mode then flash stock ROM again and then I'd a data wipe and my counter should be zero. Am I right?
Thanks for your help!!!
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Crosswind96 said:
Okay that makes sense. So if I wanted it to be zero and back on stock I would reset it, power off then in download mode then flash stock ROM again and then I'd a data wipe and my counter should be zero. Am I right?
Thanks for your help!!!
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Yup, that should do it
I have my S3 in a Revolution HD v51 custom rom. Everything was working very smooth until the phone all the sudden crashed and never passed the sammy screen again.
I tryed varies reflashes, recoveries roms etc. it seems it cant mount the internal sd. I've been reading for hours about possible solutionsI'm guessing some hardware error.
Is there a way to reset flash counter WITHOUT triangle away?
Any method or suggestion welcome. since the phone is already screwed.
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I have my S3 in a Revolution HD v51 custom rom. Everything was working very smooth until the phone all the sudden crashed and never passed the sammy screen again.
I tryed varies reflashes, recoveries roms etc. it seems it cant mount the internal sd. I've been reading for hours about possible solutionsI'm guessing some hardware error.
Is there a way to reset flash counter WITHOUT triangle away?
Any method or suggestion welcome. since the phone is already screwed.
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Im having a similar problem except triangle away isnt working for me.... I follow steps and manage to load app on phone and then it reboots into its own recovery thingy and i press vol up and it does the thing to reset flash but when i got back into download mode i still have 6 flash counts!!:crying:
No, there is no other method to reset flash counter.
Triangle away only works on older bootloaders.
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boomboomer said:
No, there is no other method to reset flash counter.
Triangle away on works on older bootloaders.
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So is there any other way to fix mine? I bought my phone late january 2014 and TA isnt working for me...dosnt reset the counter even though it states it does...
Triangle away will work, but not with the bootloader you have now.
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Please take a look at this thread, may be it would help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/fix-s3-to-factory-unroot-stock-recovery-t2323847
all you gotta do is downgrade your bootloader to the one other than the JB bootloader and follow the steps as mentioned on the guide so that the JB bootloader would not set the flash counter to an integer again other than 0.
Credits to @doovd who prepared this guide.