We need to fix this issue as this is the main reason why most of us cannot flash any CWM or custome Kernals.
Why would samsung do this? Unless they are introducing this into all future ROM's so nobody can flash custome kernals or Roms!?!?!?!?
While the Tab was at a black screen, did you ever press the power button or did you just leave it alone for Odin to eventually find it?
Or maybe it's to mess with us leak-users? Maybe its only a test? We really don't know. But indeed it had crossed my mind that they may be trying to limit our custom ROM/kernel use.
I'm a bit confused about this. I have flashed to JM6, JMA and JMC. JM6 with pit and repartition (CODE, MODEM & CSC, and boot.bin/sbl.bin not inside) and JMA & JMC with no repartition and no pit (from samfirmwares). Also, I never cheked "Phone bootloader update" in Odin v1.7.
The question is: if I have never used "phone bootloader update ", and both times I've flashed JMA and JMC have been updates (no pit, no repartition, although boot.bin sbl.bin were present), it is possible to modify the bootloader?
Sorry for my english. Hope you understand the post (a bit, )
Edit: I forgot to comment: After flashing JM6-JMA-JMC as I said, I re-flashed JM6 (which has no sbl.bin boot.bin or inside) with .pit and repartition without any problem.
PD.: Thanks for the warning, at least it will serve for new users... if they read the post ...
i think they will going to do this change to all their roms. everybody says in JMx M means nothing but maybe this is the reason.
I'm a bit confused about this. I have flashed to JM6, JMA and JMC. JM6 with pit and repartition (CODE, MODEM & CSC, and boot.bin/sbl.bin not inside) and JMA & JMC with no repartition and no pit (from samfirmwares). Also, I never cheked "Phone bootloader update" in Odin v1.7.
The question is: if I have never used "phone bootloader update ", and both times I've flashed JMA and JMC have been updates (no pit, no repartition, although boot.bin sbl.bin were present), it is possible to modify the bootloader?
Sorry for my english. Hope you understand the post (a bit, )
Edit: I forgot to comment: After flashing JM6-JMA-JMC as I said, I re-flashed JM6 (which has no sbl.bin boot.bin or inside) with .pit and repartition without any problem.
PD.: Thanks for the warning, at least it will serve for new users... if they read the post ...
whew.. ok i was able to downgrade using roto's JMA release.
everything ok.
@rotohammer: Is the kernel in your JMA release actually modified or just stock zImage ?
Yes, but ... Why? Because I have not use "Phone update bootloader" in v1.7 odin? Or because I have not check "repartition" and I flash updates in the case of JM6 and JMC?
Or any of this?
Stock from JMA zImage, I only modified the factoryfs.rfs to pre-root it.
Ah ok. And thus rotohammer's JMA being flashable doesn't mean anything one way or the other, regarding protected or unprotected bootloader.
None of those mean you are safe. You may still have the protected bootloader. You won't know for sure until you try to flash a non-Samsung-JMx-kernel. There is no easy way (yet) to find out. He's plain wrong in saying (for sure) that you are safe.
rotohammer, you're the man! did u already figure out the steps u are going to do, or are they still the same u posted here some time ago?