Reset Flash Counter

marchingknight11 · Oct 25, 2012

Charlieb620 decided to be a douche and remove his post telling us how to reset the flash counter for the Blaze for petty reasons, so I pulled a cached version off Google for all who still need it. Here you go:

*I Take No Credit For This*

This is for people who flash constantly through Odin or even CWM. By flashing a lot the ticker on your DOWNLOAD/FASTBOOT SCREEN ticks up. To reset it for repair or warranty purposes just boot into CWM and flash this file.

Your Good To Go.

Link:
http://goo.gl/8Zzty -> no longer available
new link here: http://d-h.st/znC

OG Link/Credits:
http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s2-x-sgh-t989-sgh-t989d-reset-flash-counter-75657/

Instructions:

marchingknight11 · Oct 25, 2012

tommyboy8125 · Dec 13, 2012

Is the file linked in the OP correct for the Blaze? it looks like its for a different phone.

chjema · Dec 13, 2012

tommyboy8125 said:
Is the file linked in the OP correct for the Blaze? it looks like its for a different phone.

Works just fine.

tommyboy8125 · Dec 13, 2012

chjema said:
Works just fine.

When I tried it I got "signature verification failed" message.
What am I doing wrong?

dwitherell · Dec 13, 2012

tommyboy8125 said:
When I tried it I got "signature verification failed" message.
What am I doing wrong?

Are you using the stock recovery, or CWM/TWRP? If one of the latter, do you have zip verification (I think that's the term anyway) enabled? Could just be an unsigned zip.

tommyboy8125 · Dec 13, 2012

dwitherell said:
Are you using the stock recovery, or CWM/TWRP? If one of the latter, do you have zip verification (I think that's the term anyway) enabled? Could just be an unsigned zip.

I was using the stock recovery, I'm attempting to make the phone 100% stock again.

johnb380 · Dec 13, 2012

tommyboy8125 said:
I was using the stock recovery, I'm attempting to make the phone 100% stock again.

U gotta do it before u go back to stock recovery then when it's reset u Odin back to stock ull have to root again to flash it properly

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -If I've helped you the THANX button is - - - - - - - - - - - - - only 2 clicks away! - - - - - - - - - -

tommyboy8125 · Dec 15, 2012

johnb380 said:
U gotta do it before u go back to stock recovery then when it's reset u Odin back to stock ull have to root again to flash it properly

Thanks everyone, it works great.

tweaksall · Aug 27, 2013

I was able to reset the counter, but how do you keep it at "NO" when returning to a stock ROM? After I flashed the stock, the counter is now at 2.

woodzx67 · Aug 27, 2013

Just reflash the count resetter after you go back to stock

Sent from my SGH-T769 using xda premium

tronmech · Aug 27, 2013

tweaksall said:
I was able to reset the counter, but how do you keep it at "NO" when returning to a stock ROM? After I flashed the stock, the counter is now at 2.

I flash stock using ODIN and a .tar.md5 file of the latest official update. Had to do that to my s2 once or twice.

Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4

tweaksall · Aug 27, 2013

woodzx67 said:
Just reflash the count resetter after you go back to stock

Sent from my SGH-T769 using xda premium

Thanks, but the problem I'm seeing is that CWM is overwritten when I flash the stock ROM. And without CWM, I can't reset the flash count.

woodzx67 · Aug 27, 2013

tweaksall said:
Thanks, but the problem I'm seeing is that CWM is overwritten when I flash the stock ROM. And without CWM, I can't reset the flash count.

OK.. flash cwm through Odin after going back to stock then flash the count reset

Sent from my SGH-T769 using xda premium

tweaksall · Aug 27, 2013

woodzx67 said:
OK.. flash cwm through Odin after going back to stock then flash the count reset

Sent from my SGH-T769 using xda premium

I was finally successful after using an "official" Samsung ROM from SamMobile, instead of the "stock" ROM SGH-T769-UVLB7-hitsquad.tar.

I appreciate everyone's help!

nicogetz · Jun 6, 2014

tweaksall said:
I was finally successful after using an "official" Samsung ROM from SamMobile, instead of the "stock" ROM SGH-T769-UVLB7-hitsquad.tar.

I appreciate everyone's help!

Can you explain to me please? I odined an official samsung firmware from sammobile, but my counter still says 5x...I just odined CWM and flashed this zip, but now I have CWM, so won'/t have I have to increase my counter by odining back to stock again? How did you resolve this?

woodzx67 · Jun 9, 2014

nicogetz said:
Can you explain to me please? I odined an official samsung firmware from sammobile, but my counter still says 5x...I just odined CWM and flashed this zip, but now I have CWM, so won'/t have I have to increase my counter by odining back to stock again? How did you resolve this?

download the link in op to root of sd or phone then boot into recovery and flash the count resetter zip. it'll 0 out the counter.
hope that helped..

emanresu2 · Jan 25, 2018

Does anyone have the ZIP file to reset the flash counter on the SGH-T769? I'm late to the party and all the links in the original thread are long gone. Or at least the name of the ZIP file so I can try to google for it?

The closest thing I've found so far was a "sgh-t989-flash_counter_reset.zip" (different phone), but I'm not sure if I can use it to flash the SGH-T769.

I know it's probably pointless to reset the flash counter for a phone this old, but it just want to keep it neat and clean (plus it bothers me).

Thanks!

AjvarXX · Feb 1, 2018

emanresu2 said:
Does anyone have the ZIP file to reset the flash counter on the SGH-T769? I'm late to the party and all the links in the original thread are long gone. Or at least the name of the ZIP file so I can try to google for it?

The closest thing I've found so far was a "sgh-t989-flash_counter_reset.zip" (different phone), but I'm not sure if I can use it to flash the SGH-T769.

I know it's probably pointless to reset the flash counter for a phone this old, but it just want to keep it neat and clean (plus it bothers me).

Thanks!

have you tried triangle away apk? In case it say it needs to boot in special mode you should know that according to developer it is risky procedure and it might brick device (jtag to recover).

Reset Flash Counter

Senior Member

Senior Member

Senior Member

Senior Member

Senior Member

Retired Forum Moderator

Senior Member

Senior Member

Senior Member

Member

Senior Member

Senior Member

Member

Senior Member

Member

Member

Senior Member

Member

Senior Member

Similar threads

Top Liked Posts