[HOWTO] [ROOT] No Tripping Flash Counter - [ATT / Bell / Telus / Rogers / Sasktel]

TayzGpa · Feb 23, 2013

Hieuy said:
i did all the steps above.. but now im stuck at the samsung screen.. anyone else come across this problem?

Yes. I believe what I did to get past the Samsung logo was to pull the battery, boot into stock recovery (vol up/home/power) and do a factory reset.

rrowe1980 · Feb 25, 2013

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rha_december · Feb 26, 2013

So this supposedly doesn't trip the flash counter. Can I flash it and then run Triangle Away, run the SuperSU Full Unroot, and be completely stock with "no" flash counter and it show official status in download mode? My Note2's antenna/radio or whatever seems messed up, because it can barely pick up a signal, so I want to send it back for another one.

UPDATE:
Confirmed. After trying so many different methods, I gave this a shot. Flashed via Odin, ran triangle away, used full unroot, and now I'm 100% stock with 0 flash counter.

jon3sh · Feb 28, 2013

rha_december said:
So this supposedly doesn't trip the flash counter. Can I flash it and then run Triangle Away, run the SuperSU Full Unroot, and be completely stock with "no" flash counter and it show official status in download mode? My Note2's antenna/radio or whatever seems messed up, because it can barely pick up a signal, so I want to send it back for another one.

UPDATE:
Confirmed. After trying so many different methods, I gave this a shot. Flashed via Odin, ran triangle away, used full unroot, and now I'm 100% stock with 0 flash counter.

Did you use rooted rom from here? Please post exactly hoq you did cuz im sending mine in too.

Sent from my SGH-I317M using xda premium

mrRobinson · Feb 28, 2013

jon3sh said:
Did you use rooted rom from here? Please post exactly hoq you did cuz im sending mine in too.

Sent from my SGH-I317M using xda premium

You can just use the stock Odin rom from sammobile.com
If you use this file then just launch supersu after and in settings select full unroot .

jon3sh · Feb 28, 2013

mrRobinson said:
You can just use the stock Odin rom from sammobile.com
If you use this file then just launch supersu after and in settings select full unroot .

I tried but still showing as modified tried with triangle away first then full unroot on superuser it does not show any counter but showing modified then tried flashing root injected rom from here and then full unroot still same result. Thanks

dsmturbo · Feb 28, 2013

Well I am not sure what happened to my device but I just checked Status and it shows Modified. I thought I had checked it before and it showed Stock or whatever.

How do you check for the Trip Counter?

wherestheanykey · Mar 1, 2013

jon3sh said:
I tried but still showing as modified tried with triangle away first then full unroot on superuser it does not show any counter but showing modified then tried flashing root injected rom from here and then full unroot still same result. Thanks

Did you try either doing a factory data reset or flashing the stock tar from sam mobile, after running triangle away and unrooting?

When I did it, I flashed this first, then installed and ran Triangle Away, then using Odin, falshed the stock ROM tar. Then did a factory data reset before sending it in to warranty.

Good Luck

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dsmturbo said:
Well I am not sure what happened to my device but I just checked Status and it shows Modified. I thought I had checked it before and it showed Stock or whatever.

How do you check for the Trip Counter?

I noticed the same thing on mine recently. I had it all back to a zero'd flash counter, a binary status of normal, and a system status of normal in settings. But something happened along the way, and now I show modifed in settings and for binary status in download mode. Kind of a bummer after having it all cleaned up and fully rooted at one point.

Anyway to check the flash counter, turn your phone off, then hold volume down, the home button and power button all at the same time until the screen comes on with the yellow triangle, then push volume up once.

jon3sh · Mar 1, 2013

wherestheanykey said:
Did you try either doing a factory data reset or flashing the stock tar from sam mobile, after running triangle away and unrooting?

When I did it, I flashed this first, then installed and ran Triangle Away, then using Odin, falshed the stock ROM tar. Then did a factory data reset before sending it in to warranty.

Good Luck

Yup tried diff ways

1 flashed root injected rom, flashed triangle away, reset counter then after reboot ran superuser did full root then factory reset. Result Modified

2 flashed root injected rom, ran superuser full root then factory reset. Same modified.

3 flashed stock rom root with cf root installed t away, reset counter. Uninstalled t away then superuser to full unroot then factory reset still modified.

All above gives me No binary and Samsung official except for modified at device status.

I will try again with first or second step and will flashed stock rom no root then factory reset after. Will post for result later. Thanks

Sent from my SGH-I317M using xda premium

dsmturbo · Mar 1, 2013

wherestheanykey said:
Did you try either doing a factory data reset or flashing the stock tar from sam mobile, after running triangle away and unrooting?

When I did it, I flashed this first, then installed and ran Triangle Away, then using Odin, falshed the stock ROM tar. Then did a factory data reset before sending it in to warranty.

Good Luck

---------- Post added at 07:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:21 PM ----------

I noticed the same thing on mine recently. I had it all back to a zero'd flash counter, a binary status of normal, and a system status of normal in settings. But something happened along the way, and now I show modifed in settings and for binary status in download mode. Kind of a bummer after having it all cleaned up and fully rooted at one point.

Anyway to check the flash counter, turn your phone off, then hold volume down, the home button and power button all at the same time until the screen comes on with the yellow triangle, then push volume up once.

Thanks I'll check that.

What is Binary Staus and how do you check that? I am just going by Status in normal phone about settings?

OK I just checked Shows Custom Binary No Current Binary Samsung Official System Status Custom

mrRobinson · Mar 1, 2013

jon3sh said:
Yup tried diff ways

1 flashed root injected rom, flashed triangle away, reset counter then after reboot ran superuser did full root then factory reset. Result Modified

2 flashed root injected rom, ran superuser full root then factory reset. Same modified.

3 flashed stock rom root with cf root installed t away, reset counter. Uninstalled t away then superuser to full unroot then factory reset still modified.

All above gives me No binary and Samsung official except for modified at device status.

I will try again with first or second step and will flashed stock rom no root then factory reset after. Will post for result later. Thanks

Sent from my SGH-I317M using xda premium

?? None of these make sense.
Use Odin.
Boot to download mode. Flash stock rom.
Once done pull batt and boot to stock recovery. Factory reset. Reboot.

jon3sh · Mar 1, 2013

mrRobinson said:
?? None of these make sense.
Use Odin.
Boot to download mode. Flash stock rom.
Once done pull batt and boot to stock recovery. Factory reset. Reboot.

I ll give it a try like you said and yeah all done using odin. And fyi your root injected rom does not trigger counter or anything its just weird Im not sure too why modified status sticking and why it wont go away. Thanks again.

Sent from my SGH-I747 using xda app-developers app

dsmturbo · Mar 1, 2013

Hmm, I am wondering if my status is due to disabling a couple Factory Samsung Apps? Would that do anything to change the Status to show Modified now?

mrRobinson · Mar 2, 2013

dsmturbo said:
Hmm, I am wondering if my status is due to disabling a couple Factory Samsung Apps? Would that do anything to change the Status to show Modified now?

Do you use allshare or something and are being blocked from using it due to the modified status? If the status is having no ill effects on you using your phone then there is no point in you sweating over it. It could go back to normal after a day and then go back to modified. It can flag on any modifications you've made to system including simply adding root. It is not like the binary flash counter that needs a special method to be reset. once you flash stock odin it won't be modified.

dsmturbo · Mar 2, 2013

mrRobinson said:
Do you use allshare or something and are being blocked from using it due to the modified status? If the status is having no ill effects on you using your phone then there is no point in you sweating over it. It could go back to normal after a day and then go back to modified. It can flag on any modifications you've made to system including simply adding root. It is not like the binary flash counter that needs a special method to be reset. once you flash stock odin it won't be modified.

Thank you, I won't sweat it if no ill effects It could be something I was playing with as I had used an app called L***y P*****er and Flash I think but I have since disabled it and downloaded unmodified Flash Player.

fredfire · Mar 2, 2013

For those who are wondering why it's not booting, you need to do a wipe data factory reset after flashing with odin.

Kaiotee · Mar 6, 2013

im curious

As one interested in a good stock root, I just read this entire thread. One thing that jumps out at me is many people having to factory reset after odin sends them off into a bootloop.

I also saw mentioned that having stuff in your cache can cause a bootloop.

I was just wondering if anyone stuck in a bootloop after odin has tried just clearing the cache instead of doing a full reset?

Or if clearing the cache beforehand would avoid the bootloop altogether?

dsmturbo · Mar 6, 2013

fredfire said:
For those who are wondering why it's not booting, you need to do a wipe data factory reset after flashing with odin.

I never did a wipe data and factory reset. But I see some have had to do it or did it anyway.

crooks306 · Mar 7, 2013

Heimdall

Any chance we can get this to work with Heimdall. I don't have access to a windows box and I'm pretty much at a dead end trying to get the sasktel one to work. Stuck with the missing xml file error and I can't really grasp the concept of creating one. I'm sure there are enough linux and osx users to make it worthwhile.

dsmturbo · Mar 8, 2013

crooks306 said:
Any chance we can get this to work with Heimdall. I don't have access to a windows box and I'm pretty much at a dead end trying to get the sasktel one to work. Stuck with the missing xml file error and I can't really grasp the concept of creating one. I'm sure there are enough linux and osx users to make it worthwhile.

I think this would be the wrong thread for that. Are you referring to getting Odin to work? I believe if you search you will find mention of Heimdall somewhere in the forums.
I run Mac and use Parallels and worked fine for me. You can use a virtual machine or Bootcamp and run Windows. It would ne nice if there were versions of Odin for other OS platforms.

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