How to root T889 +Counter reset + Unroot+ Stock firmware

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konceptz

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One thing you guys may want to remember is that this method will increase the flash counter.

So if you bring your phone back to the store they can tell you the warranty is voided.

I'm not sure if triangle away works for our devices, maybe someone with root permissions can check on that for us?
 

techn0crat

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I had very easy method to flash which i did try by myself and work perfect with T889:
1. download cwm6-recovery-n7100-121014.tar : http://www.mediafire.com/?mouxvj4og7azcow
2.download CWM SUPERSU installable ZIP:http://www.mediafire.com/?w3i20sr6r58r8ah ( copy this file into your EXcard )
3.Download PC Odin : http://d-h.st/6Er
4.1.Open Odin and select PDA tab
2.Point to extracted file cwm6-recovery-n7100-121014.tar
3.Now switch off device and reboot in download modeby:
press Vol down + Home +Power, And then, press Volume UP button in Warning Page to enter the Download Mode
4.Connect device to PC and wait till device successfully added to com port (it will turn light blue)
5.Hit ‘Start’ to flash
6.Once it flashed successfully, you can see 'PASS' in table above the ID :COM, you can disconnect device from PC
7.Now reboot into CWM by :Switch off device and press Vol Up + Home +Power hold about 5 second
8.Install SuperSu.
9.Reboot.Done
Take about 5 min to do.Special thank to Dr.Ketan , Chainfire , Chenlu..


DAMN.

What about for us Linux users?
Will this .exe work with wine?
 

simplelife

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One thing you guys may want to remember is that this method will increase the flash counter.

So if you bring your phone back to the store they can tell you the warranty is voided.

I'm not sure if triangle away works for our devices, maybe someone with root permissions can check on that for us?
Triangle away not work but I think Chainfire will suport our note soon.
 

noCOMPLY

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Does anyone have MD5 sums for these files?

EDIT: Nevermind, don't know how I missed those...
 
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Joe333x

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Thanks for this, checked out the note 2 today. Will most likely get it. Cant believe the mod thinks that a how to root shouldnt be in the dev sections. Not only does it belong in the dev section, it belongs sticked since thats the first thing people look for.
 

antique_sonic

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I confirm the device is working with Galaxy Note 2 LTE N7105 too.

I have no idea if it is different or not.
But for N7105, after finish the odin, don't let the phone fully restart until the phone up.
once pass (from ODIN), and the device is restarting, quickly press Vol UP + Home + Power to go into CWM.
If you let it fully restart till the phone UP, the recovery will go back to stock recovery instead of the CWM recovery which you have just injected by ODIN.
(I flash 4 times with ODIN, and let it fully restart, recovery always go back to stock. The 5th time I never let it fully restart, and can go into CWM recovery.)

Once inside the CWM recovery already, just follow my friend (simplelife) step. And you're good to it alrd.

PS :
Triangle v2.10 is working for N7105.

Simplelife,
perhaps you would like to update your thread title for N7105 also. It is confirmed working, only i can't let the phone fully restart.

Sent from the corner of this rounded earth.
 

simplelife

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I confirm the device is working with Galaxy Note 2 LTE N7105 too.

I have no idea if it is different or not.
But for N7105, after finish the odin, don't let the phone fully restart until the phone up.
once pass (from ODIN), and the device is restarting, quickly press Vol UP + Home + Power to go into CWM.
If you let it fully restart till the phone UP, the recovery will go back to stock recovery instead of the CWM recovery which you have just injected by ODIN.
(I flash 4 times with ODIN, and let it fully restart, recovery always go back to stock. The 5th time I never let it fully restart, and can go into CWM recovery.)

Once inside the CWM recovery already, just follow my friend (simplelife) step. And you're good to it alrd.

PS :
Triangle v2.10 is working for N7105.

Simplelife,
perhaps you would like to update your thread title for N7105 also. It is confirmed working, only i can't let the phone fully restart.

Sent from the corner of this rounded earth.
Thank to confirm. You remember me when I root my N8013 need to reboot into CWM right after unplug from PC
I had triangle away paid app and not support for T889 yet. Hope Chainfie will be touch his hand here
 
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noCOMPLY

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Yeah, but I keep getting a different MD5 for the .tar file.

I get:
67208cd19e8247af8591a83ca0a39b2

but you posted:
67208cd19e8247af8591a83ca0a39bso

---------- Post added at 11:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:23 PM ----------

:)
If you let it fully restart till the phone UP, the recovery will go back to stock recovery instead of the CWM recovery which you have just injected by ODIN.
(I flash 4 times with ODIN, and let it fully restart, recovery always go back to stock. The 5th time I never let it fully restart, and can go into CWM recovery.)

Didn't have this problem at all. But I'm running an 889
 

61103

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Comfirming this works. The only thing I did different was entered download mode before running odin/setting up odin. Thanks Simple for posting

Sent from my SGH-T889 using xda app-developers app
 

teshxx

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Thank to confirm. You remember me when I root my N8013 need to reboot into CWM right after unplug from PC
I had triangle away paid app and not support for T889 yet. Hope Chainfie will be touch his hand here

I wanna try this but I need the stock custom Rom first :-\

sent from the monster Galaxy Note 2

Chainfire can't do anything at the moment since there is no STOCK recovery.img from T889. You ask, can't we just pull the recovery.img from a rooted t889??? Answer is No. Because that recovery won't be the same as stock since its already been modified when you flash recovery.img from n7100.

As to custom stock roms, any roms you will see will be the ones made from a nandroid back up. Tmobile/samsung haven't released a full STOCK firmware yet. Only OTA's are available and they are old and useless.

Hope this helps clarify certain things :)
 
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LuffarJoh

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can someone with a stock SGH-T889 firmware dial *#1234# or use checkfus to let me know your complete firmware version.

thanks in advance!
 

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    Rooting Indtruction
    SINCE SUPERSU.ZIP DOES NOT WORK ON ALL DEVIVES THE BEST OPTION TO ROOT RIGHT NOW :
    1ST: ROOT BY OPTION 2
    2ND : FLASH CUSTOM CWM VIA PC ODIN OR MOBILE ODIN ( PLAY STORE )

    Option 1: CWM + SuperSU .
    1. download cwm6-recovery-n7100-121014.tar : http://www.mediafire.com/?mouxvj4og7azcow
    OR Download cwm recovery V6.0.2.5 .tar: http://www.mediafire.com/?oyv15gidjxd6c23 . Big thank to Dr.Ketan&KoushThis CWM will not support EXFAT Card
    2.download CWM SUPERSU V0.99 installable ZIP: I took off download link until further notice. From Chainfire " SUPERSU. ZIP does not work on all devices, needs fix. Note that if you are already rooted, installing through Market is by far the easiest way to install SuperSU !". More infor here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
    3.Download PC Odin : http://d-h.st/SdH
    4.Open Odin and select PDA tab
    5.Point to extracted file cwm6-recovery-n7100-121014.tar
    6.Now switch off device and reboot in download modeby:
    press Vol down + Home +Power, And then, press Volume UP button in Warning Page to enter the Download Mode
    7.Connect device to PC and wait till device successfully added to com port (it will turn light blue)
    8.Hit ‘Start’ to flash
    9.Once it flashed successfully, you can see 'PASS' in table above the ID :COM, you can disconnect device from PC
    10.Now reboot into CWM by :Switch off device and press Vol Up + Home +Power hold about 5 second
    11.Install SuperSu.
    12.Reboot.Done

    Option 2 : Only Root

    Download this CF Auto Root from here http://download.chainfire.eu/264/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-t03g-gtn7100.zip
    and extract it to .tar
    Procedure :
    1.Open Odin and select PDA tab
    2.Point to extracted file CF-Auto-Root-SGN2.tar
    3.Now switch off device and reboot in download mode
    press Vol down + Home +Power, And then, press Volume UP button in Warning Page to enter the Download Mode
    4.Connect device to PC and wait till device successfully added to com port (it will turn light blue)
    5.Hit ‘Start’ to flash
    6.Once it flashed successfully, you can see 'PASS' in table above the ID :COM, you can disconnect device from PC
    7.Reboot device and you will have superSU in application drawer.

    Option 3 : Root with Exynos Abuse Apk

    3.Root with apk No counter reset needs, Easiest - Credit goes to Chainfire, alephzain

    1.Download latest from chainfire's here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=35512626&postcount=1
    2.Install application as routine apk installation and open it.
    3.Open Exynos Abuse application from App drawer
    4. Select Root Device
    6.Now your device is rooted, for security purpose you can disable Exploit.
    ( Note : This may break camera, but unchecking disable exploit make it working again )
    7. Open SuperSU & Update binary.

    How to unroot Exploit :

    Open Exynos Abuse app, uncheck disable explot & Disable Exploit on boot then select Unroot device
    Restart device and wait for 10 min. and then you can check status.

    Since Chainfire support our note now . if you want reset counter for warranty then download TRIANGLE AWAY from play store which will do the job.Still dont know what is it, go here for more infor http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494114.

    If you want to unroot for some reason :

    From stock rom and root by Chainfire method all you need to do : Triangle Away app ,SuperSU / setting/ full unroot. Reboot into Recovery / Factory reset.

    From custom rom : reflash stock image via Odin .reroot by CF auto root,reset counter with Triangle Away App,SuperSU/Setting/Full unroot . Recovery / Factory reset.
    Can find stock firmware from here http://www.sammobile.com/firmware/ search for T889
    Stock T889UVALJ1 & T889UVALK8 (Post 51) http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1969551 ( Thank , TeshXX)
    Stock + root http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1975560 ( Thank , Mr.Robinson )

    How to flash rom via Odin :

    Make sure you have installed Kies OR Samsung USB driver
    Open up the ODIN
    1. Enable the check mark by click on the following options(default Option)
    - Auto Reboot, and F. Reset Time
    - Download TAR ROM
    - Check PDA, and point to TAR ROM file
    2. Now switch off device and Enter into Download Mode
    - Enter into Download Mode by pressing Volume Down button, Home Key and
    Power Button simultaneously. And then, press Volume UP button in Warning Page to enter the Download Mode.
    3. Connect the device to PC via Data Cable.
    Make sure that the one of communication port [ID:COM] box is highlighted in
    light blue. The device is now connected with the PC and ready to download the
    binary file into the device.
    4. Start downloading binary file into the device by clicking Start Button on the screen.
    the green colored "PASS!" sign will appear on the upper-left box if the binary file
    has been successfully downloaded into the device.
    5. Disconnect the device from the Data cable.
    6.Done

    Common question about reseting counter
    I have reset counter but system status still 'custom'
    You should have stock recovery (Opton 2)
    If you already have stock recovery(CF Auto root) then reset counter first
    then wipe cache + wipe data(factory reset) + re wipe cache
    You should now have system status 'official'
    I have rest counter but after reboot again it goes to 1
    This happen if you have rooted with CUSTOM RECOVERY(Opton 1)
    This is neither error of recovery nor triangle away. This happens due to new bootloader which have auto checksum for recovery, when you reboot to custom recovery count will raise.
    To prevent this you need to have play version of Triangle away, and you should check (enable) 'Auto reset at boot'. Again this feature depends on kernel/recovery is supported or no



    How to Backup EFS : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1922473

    Flash tool for Linux user : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=33074572

    Special thank to Dr.Ketan , Chainfire , Chenlu ,Koush, Alephzain , Mr.Robinson , TeshXX.
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    That my dear children, is not how you do copy paste.

    the files are:

    cwm6

    https://hotfile.com/dl/176065007/332cffb/cwm6-recovery-n7100-121014.tar.html

    and

    CWM SUPERSU installable ZIP

    http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
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    I had very easy method to flash which i did try by myself and work perfect with T889:
    1. download cwm6-recovery-n7100-121014.tar : http://www.mediafire.com/?mouxvj4og7azcow
    2.download CWM SUPERSU installable ZIP:http://www.mediafire.com/?w3i20sr6r58r8ah ( copy this file into your EXcard )
    3.Download PC Odin : http://d-h.st/6Er
    4.1.Open Odin and select PDA tab
    2.Point to extracted file cwm6-recovery-n7100-121014.tar
    3.Now switch off device and reboot in download modeby:
    press Vol down + Home +Power, And then, press Volume UP button in Warning Page to enter the Download Mode
    4.Connect device to PC and wait till device successfully added to com port (it will turn light blue)
    5.Hit ‘Start’ to flash
    6.Once it flashed successfully, you can see 'PASS' in table above the ID :COM, you can disconnect device from PC
    7.Now reboot into CWM by :Switch off device and press Vol Up + Home +Power hold about 5 second
    8.Install SuperSu.
    9.Reboot.Done
    Take about 5 min to do.Special thank to Dr.Ketan , Chainfire , Chenlu..

    This method works 100%..I did it last night.

    Sent from my SGH-T889 using Tapatalk 2
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    Is it that one? It just stays yellow. Even on stock usb cable.

    Sent From Land Of Ooo.
    Odin V3.04 http://www.mediafire.com/?3a7gllyx3pc4ha5
    SuperSU http://download.chainfire.eu/266/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-t0ltetmo-t0ltetmo-sght889.zip
    -Download & Unzip the attached Odin3.04.zip file
    - Download & unzip the CF-Auto-Root-....zip file
    - If you end up with a recovery.img and cache.img file, you've extracted twice. You need to end up with a .tar.md5 file - don't extract that one
    - (USB) Disconnect your phone from your computer
    - Start Odin3-vX.X.exe
    - Click the PDA button, and select CF-Auto-Root-....tar.md5
    - Put your phone in download mode (turn off phone, then hold VolDown+Home+Power to boot - if it asks you to press a button to continue, press the listed button)
    - (USB) Connect the phone to your computer
    - Make sure Repartition is NOT checked
    - Click the Start button
    - Wait for Android to boot
    -Done
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    Can also confirm it works and please thank the OP for posting "How to" ... This however does not belong in Development, How to belong in General.. Thanks Mod for not slacking.. :)

    Yes, you are right! It belongs in the general section and not stickied in the dev section (like every other phone) so it can get lost on page 8 and more people **** up their phone.

    Seriously. Go in the dev section of 20 different phones and tell me what percentage have a root method stickied right at the top.