[MOD] Fix 3 Button Combo

[designgears]

Now due to gingerbread bootloaders, the best way to fix this 3 button problem and not brick your phone, while getting your device gingerbread ready, it to go to this thread.[MOD][BOOTLOADERS] i897 AT&T Gingerbread bootloaders.

 

[SnakeHaveYou]

So.. How do we know whether we have or not the "3-Button combo" right now?
Would be useful a guide to dump our "Sbl.bin" file to compare the hashes..


BTW.. Thanks for this!

 

[designgears]

So.. How do we know whether we have or not the "3-Button combo" right now?
Would be useful a guide to dump our "Sbl.bin" file to compare the hashes..


BTW.. Thanks for this!

Turn off your phone and use the 3 button combos to try to boot into recovery or download mode.

If you cant, then you probably want this fix, otherwise this is of no use

 

[C3P0LOL]

If you can get into recovery using the three button method then you have it. If you can't, you don't.

 

[smokestack76]

So one file fixes this issue? But has to be flashes over and over??. This is a strange issue indeed! But glad they have a fix now lol

 

[wmwilker]

only time I've had the problem is flashing some of the i9000 roms without a reorient kernel

 

[ppau0822]

i dont have 3br. have cog 2.1.6 installed. will flashing this give me 3br back permanently or do i have to do it after i flash a new rom every time?

 

[Rhiannon224]

i dont have 3br. have cog 2.1.6 installed. will flashing this give me 3br back permanently or do i have to do it after i flash a new rom every time?

Did you read the OP?

"You can't lose if you have it and if you enable it with a fix you will have to do so every time you flash back to stock."

 

[mobbinthesteez]

I currently have cog 2.1.4 can I just flash this over the top? Or do i need to go back to stock?

 

[jgaviota]

IT WORKED!!!! (I'm jsg from IRC)

THANKS desingears!

I've got 2 button + usb working now.
3 button recovery also works now.

Both did NOT work before.

I flashed using stock recovery (not clockwork), because untermensch commented on his thread that clockwork would not work. So I renamed to update.zip and used standard recovery.

Confirmation number: 16T5616861584823S

One question, how common is that roms overwrite the sbl?

 

[designgears]

IT WORKED!!!! (I'm jsg from IRC)

THANKS desingears!

I've got 2 button + usb working now.
3 button recovery also works now.

Both did NOT work before.

I flashed using stock recovery (not clockwork), because untermensch commented on his thread that clockwork would not work. So I renamed to update.zip and used standard recovery.

One question, how common is that roms overwrite the sbl?

Mine works in clockwork

Not common at all, but it will now be a part of all my roms from now on.

 

[Bjd223]

Maybe this is a dumb question but does this work with 2.1 and 2.2 roms?

 

[C3P0LOL]

Yes

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

 

[unexpectedly]

@DG: Thank you -- It totally works! My phone didn't 3 finger salute before and it does now.

Info about my phone in this thread:
forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8693181&postcount=129

Now for my newb question: should I do whatever to "brick" my phone, so long as I have a update.zip in /sdcard, the 3 button combo will boot it, yes? Basically, my goal is that if I don't have to worry about this, I won't take my phone back and whine to get another one that does 3 finger. If I'm OK without that, then that's cool. So an answer like "you're fine stfu and enjoy your captivate" or "mmm, man, I can't sleep at night if I had gotten your phone..."

Thanks!
Chris

PS - I made 2 very simple windows batch files for updating via adb and the command line. There's also one which copies everything from /sdcard onto your computer. I also zipped up the 3 files you need to issue adb commands. I tried getting the whole android dev but it doesn't include them.

 

[NightTickler]

This is awesome thank you designgears but one quick question.Why do people that don't have the 3bc lose it if they flash back? From the other thread in the vibrant forum it said it flashes to a part of the bootloader which is never touched by flashes or the manufacturer.

 

[designgears]

This is awesome thank you designgears but one quick question.Why do people that don't have the 3bc lose it if they flash back? From the other thread in the vibrant forum it said it flashes to a part of the bootloader which is never touched by flashes or the manufacturer.

All of the one-click odin's have the older sbl tht doesnt play nice with your phone for some reason... if you flash any other rom you are fine.

 

[mike_terror]

thanks dg! works great!

I ran it through Rom Manager, worked perfect.

EDIT: you mentioned that you will be adding this to the future of all your cognition roms. So I'm assuming I won't need to flash this 3buttoncombozip when Cog2.2beta8 comes out right?

 

[michael.seltzer]

Works great
thanks dg

 

[Konner920]

i love you designgears. it worked. and i'm happy.

 

[airbillion]

All of the one-click odin's have the older sbl tht doesnt play nice with your phone for some reason... if you flash any other rom you are fine.

Does your I897UCJI6-OCD-REV02-Low-designgears fix the 3 button combo problem? If I need to restore to something using download mode I would like to use a one-click with the fix included.