yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jpeg42:
I flashed the one-click odin ICS leak, then recovery via odin, and had a custom binary counter of 2. I then flashed The Collective ICS via CWM.

Thought I would give this a try and worked fine. Counter is back to 0, Samsung Official. Haven't seen any issues so far.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] martyr2k6:
I have to apologize for asking someone to repeat themselves, I am going to blame it on my new medication for adhd... But I need clarification...

This is to be used only if one needs to restore their phone to new in box state to return to the manufacturer and avoid being denied due to flashing custom firmware?

For some reason, every time I get a new android device, I have to do a buttload of researching to make sure I don't mess my new toy up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] pickupman66:
Dense brain here.... so if this is flashed thru cwm, how does one put stock recovery back in and not trip the counter back to 1? Maybe I missed that part.

sent from my Samsung Galaxy tab
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] braway:
you can flash it also through cwm, or flash it manually (also through cwm)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] pickupman66:
Huh? Flash thru clockwork or manually thru clockwork? Same thing there.. I guess we need to know can it be flashed thru stock Samsung recovery. This will truly reset it to factory look. Otherwise wouldn't you push it to 1 when you Odin the stock recovery back in afterflashing this in cwm?

sent from my Samsung Galaxy tab
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] braway:
back to stock with reset

ok, simple guide:

requires that cwm is installed!

1. flash stock system, kernel, modem and so on (not recovery yet) through odin (or cwm, if you have that stuff as update.zip)

2. flash this reset through cwm to reset the counter (now you should have everything stock, except for recovery)

3. in cwm, now you can either flash a stock recovery using an update.zip (if you have it), OR follow this:

a) extract recovery.img from the odin stock recovery tar file

b) put it on your sdcard

c) boot to cwm

d) use adb to connect to cwm (adb shell)

e) in the cwm shell, use one of the following commands:

recovery.img on external sdcard:

dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22

recovery.img on your internal sdcard:

dd if=/emmc/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22

WARNING: a typo in that line could hard brick your phone!

f) reboot

now you should have everything stock, with no counter, and so on...

Note: i haven't tested that, but that's how it should work...

as usual, i give no guarantees :P
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] pickupman66:
Thanks... you answered my question... now to find stock recovery as an update.zip

sent from my Samsung Galaxy tab
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] landoc73:
This works perfectly with CWM and ICS leak on AT&T. Quick, easy and wonderful. Big thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] spec2323:
I installed the ICS Leak w/ oneclick .. installed CWM b4, rooted, then flashed this zip w/ CWM b4. I booted into DL mode to verify, samsung w/ a count of 0 ..

THanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] lowspeed:
cool it works :-p
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ahmarchi:
I teztify..this works on ics bootloader
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] JDrew:
I installed the leak of ICS and used Odin to flash. Now I'm back to stock via Odin and want to reset my counter. if I'm understanding this thread correctly, I would have to root the phone to be able to use CWM to reset the counter, correct?

I really have no need to root unless its required to reset the counter. I'm just trying to get this back to "stock" per say so when the OTA ICS comes, I won't have any troubles...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] jes24cap:
Worked great for me went from 1 to 0
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] KLUVJ:
all we need now is the bell version
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] braway:
ok, i've uploaded the bell version

thanks to everyone who provided the data
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] crielstar:
Works great on telus i717D , Thanks everyone!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Skizzy034:
There are two ways I can think of doing this and both, after going back to stock, trip the flash counter.

1) flash back to stock, Odin CWM recovery, flash this, flash original recovery, 1 flash count. Or don't flash the stock recovery but when you return it they will see CWM on it.

2) flash this, flash back to stock, 1 flash count.

Maybe I'm missing something, but how do I get back to stock completely, recovery and all, without getting a flash count?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] MrJoran:
This is purely speculation on my part, but if you could perhaps reset everything to stock (modem, recovery, kernel, etc) except the system image, then reset your flash counter, then flash your system image via Odin (because as I understand it, system flashes via Odin do not trip the flahs counter) you should be able to get what you're looking for. Keeping in mind this is totally in theory on my part and may be incorrect.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Skizzy034:
If I reset the recovery to stock, how will I flash this zip?

Would changing it to update.zip allow me to flash in the stock recovery?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] MrJoran:
Never said anything about flashing via recovery. Flashing system through Odin (not recovery) doesn't trigger flash counter.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Skizzy034:
I know but if I flash back to stock it replaces the recovery too.

If I flash back to stock I will need cwm to flash this and to keep the flash count at zero cwm will have to stay and they will see that
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] MrJoran:
Here we go. You can flash CWM (and thus possibly stock recovery) via this alternative method using a rooted system rom. Then replace the rooted system rom with your stock rom via Odin. Therefore, back to stock and no flash counter. Again, theory but seems possible.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Skizzy034:
I understand but when they check, cwm will still be on there
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] MrJoran:
Yes, but using the alternative method I linked to above, you can install CWM recovery using adb from a rooted system image. Using the same logic, you should be able to restore the original recovery via adb from within the rooted system image after you've done all the other stuff, then replace to rooted image with the stock one via odin. Phone back to stock and flash counter at 0. Again, in theory.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] braway:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=24463791&postcount=128
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] BlkSquad:
Confirm on att note
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Skizzy034:
Ok here are the steps I used to finally get back to stock - system, recovery, kernel. Some of the steps may not be needed but I'm going to post them anyway:

1) Flash stock odin through Odin

2) Flash CWM Recovery through Odin

3) Flash AT&T Reset Flash Counter Zip through CWM Recovery

4) Followed this guide by roloracer to root without tripping the flash counter: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1518962

5) Followed this guide also by roloracer to unroot without tripping the flash counter: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23499670&postcount=133

This got me back to stock with stock recovery, system, and kernel without a flash count. Hope this helps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] lindenhurst:
Awesome man. Just awesome.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] andreww88:
I know this is not the N-7000 model Note forum and I KNOW it doesn't say it, but has anyone tried it or do you know if it will work or not? Just curious. How hard would it be to make it work on the N-7000? Thanks!

I read through every page so far on this thread and braway you sir are awesome since you didn't even have a Note to begin with! I hope you have one now!

By the way, I have AT&T, I just have the N-7000 instead of the other model.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] braway:
The N7000 and SGH-i717 are quite different. So it won't work.

Chainfires method should work though. Or the one with the jig, ... (if it isn't the same)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] garbagedump481:
Pardon my ignorance, or if this has been asked already, and please don't take this as downing

any

development process - this is only for my own curiosity:

How is this useful - other than to get repairs/warranty on your phone by the mfg - provided all they checked was the flash counter (seeing as in the OP they can still see whether or not you've played with the system files)? If you were going to reset the flash counter after going back to stock in order to obtain service, could the mfg. (any phone really, not just Sammy) not just check the timestamp on the newly flashed files and check that against a date of shipment or spit out from the assembly line? Or do the timestamps on those dumped stock files transfer?

Or is there some hardcap to the number of flashes allowed or something else I'm not seeing here? I could very easily be missing a piece to this puzzle that my mind has created.

Again, just for my curiosity. I don't own a Note, just to answer that. It's smexy though, my friend let me hold his Note and feel true jealousy for all of a few minutes.

In any case, good job on this!

EDIT: Read through to literally page 3 or 4, and while they won't be able to tell you flashed something, would that whole spiel I went on about timestamps still be valid?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] braway:
as you've said, the counter isn't that relevant if you keep the phone, and do all the stuff.

It becomes more interesting when you have a warranty case, want to return it or if you want to sell the phone.

because according the the tos or so, you are not allowed to modify the phone in any way (don't quote me on that, but it is something pretty restrictive)

To the timestamps. That depends on how the data (for system for example) was saved.

If you have a proper backup (nandroid should do that) or a real system dump, then the timestamps are preserved and do not change.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] garbagedump481:
I see. Would transferring your original nandroid backup/system dump to the computer affect any of these timestamps, or just the archive file itself? This is new ground for me :p

I don't trust keeping any data I want to have later (IE, every damn last bit of anything I have) on my phone's internal or removable SD card.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] archer007:
This is something I'd like to know as well before buying a Note.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] HTCinToronto:
I've got a Rogers unit but after DAG's Alpha 2 ICS ROM it now reports as an i717 less the R. Nor does it boot with the Rogers boot animation. Do I still to use the Rogers zip file or the AT&T? I assume so but would like to confirm. TIA.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] braway:
yes, it depends on your device, not the rom
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] armyboy11b:
Hey idk if you'll read this but thank you for this reset file!!! Im completely broke but Im deploying soon actually so ill send u some money then! ! Even if u already have it. You deserve it thank you and keep up the good work
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] rabloom:
Rogers Note I717R

So I have rooted my phone and now would like to unroot it now. How can I use the rogers boot.img included in this post to do this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] VeryCoolAlan:
Couldn't you do this with a JIG like the GS2?

Sent from my Galaxy Note
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] shansmi:
No and that does not work on the GS II if you are running one of the later ROMs that has the new bootloader.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] VeryCoolAlan:
Thanks for clearing it up!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] vijai2011:
So does the file sbl1.mbn contain all the counters?If so wouldn't it be simple enough to reset counter for N7000 too?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] braway:
afaik, the n7000 stores the counter somewhere else
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] tyshemi:
Just wanted to say thank you worked great !great work but scary ten seconds lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] vijai2011:
Thanks....If not sure what about a try?Does it going to brick the phone?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] braway:
i'm pretty sure it will, sbl1 is part of the boot loader, and the n7000 boot loader probably won't like our sbl1... (meaning hard brick, with a chance that a jig might be able to restore it, I wouldn't risk it :P)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] vijai2011:
Me neither:D.Nobody would like to yield a expensive brick from their phone.BTW is these files the stock one or did you mod it?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] braway:
stock
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] BereanPK:
I tried this on a 1-week-old AT&T Note i717 rooted and CWM Touch Recovery.

ODIN-Flashing CWM Touch Recovery increased my flash counter. Downloaded this .zip to SD Card on the Note, rebooted into recovery, flashed this solution, and let it reboot. Then checked in download mode, and voila! Back to "Samsung Official" and "No" for flash counter! No worries! Can't wait for a good ICS ROM to flash and try this solution again!

~ BereanPK
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] v_lestat:
not to sound like a retard but even if you flash it back to zero, hen you Odin back to the factory rom you are increasing your flash counter again......

any possible way to adb this one you are back on a stock rom, or flash it like an update.zip via the tock recovery?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] v_lestat:
ok so i used this and it said flash counter zero, stock kernel (or what ever it says)

so i restored the phone and flashed via odin the attstockrom.zip and now it says

flash counter 2 and customer kernel image, or what ever it is.

so how did it change from zero to 2, and why when flashing a stock image does it think its on a custom image?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] braway:
well, the stock image is not an official image, meaning it still is custom afaik

and for the counter, i guess the attstockrom contains the stock kernel and stock recovery? each counts as 1 flash, so 2 in total...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] v_lestat:
i kind of figured given the way things are flashed but didnt want to assume.

oh well the lovely note went back to ATT.

i just cant stand paying $30 more a month and having 3 gigs less a month data just for a phablet. (i am on uscc and have 5gb for $30 and only pay $147 for two phones, 1500 min, unltd text and incoming calls)

its nice and Saurom made the Note what it should have been from the start, but $30 more and only 3gigs of data is too much. $100/mth is too much for any phone - 3gb, 450min, unlimited text

thought i would be able to swallow it but nope...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Nightforge:
How would I go about getting the update.zip? I have to take the phone back tomorrow and have followed steps 1 and 2 (very cool by the way, thank you) I want to get CWM off the phone but honestly adb is not my friend, especially the whole...one error and hard-brick thing. I did extract the recovery.img from the stock recovery.tar but I have no idea how to turn that into an update.zip.

Any help is much appreciated
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] khairon:
Please help...my SGN bricked after I flashed the zip file thru CWM...No response what so ever from the device after many attempts.. Please help? Thanks in advance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] EthanMG:
what rom were you on when you flashed it? can you get into download mode?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] khairon:
I was on GB 2.3.6 DarkyRom_Note 3.4(Final). The device is simply not responding at all after flashing the zip file ( flash_counter_reset_att.zip) to reset the counter for my SGN.

Any other way to get it to download mode since my SGN is dead at this moment.

Thanks.
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] svennn:
So I gave my son a gtab in April 2011 as a birthday gift. The first thing I did was root, install CWM, and vegan tab. Nothing has been changed since then. Even my CWM is 2.5 something.

Now 1 year later it is time to update it and see what has improved. I have a few questions that I'm hoping someone can answer.

I'm pretty sure I have bl 1.1. I have never used NV Flash but I think I can get it working.

I would love for the tablet to sleep and not kill the battery. That was a god send on my Nook Color when the Devs got it working. Do any current ROM's have a good deep sleep?

Am I better off staying on the 1.1 bl or moving to 1.2? If I want ICS I need to go to 1.2?

Thanks.

Steve
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DaggerDave:
Yes, you will need to be on the 1.2 bootloader to run ICS. The NvFlash file you will need is in the instructions at the ICS thread (in the Gtablet > Development section). You will need to use that one, as it increases the system partition size to accommodate the larger ICS Rom and Gapps. Make sure you read the ICS threads and know what to expect, as it is a beta release. I have been running it for a few days and it looks/runs great, no serious problems so far. TeamDRH has done a great job and it will keep getting better!

Regardless, if you want to run a newer Rom you will probably want to upgrade you bootloader to 1.2. 1.1 development has pretty much ended, and even Viewsonic is finally moving to 1.2. If you aren't going to use ICS you can probably upgrade without using NvFlash, Visit this thread and follow the instructions to install the 1.1.3588 .zip to get back to stock (of course, wipe your data/cache), then just take the OTA update to get to 1.2. However, if you do decide to use NvFlash, please visit this thread first.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamzada:
Please excuse me if this has already been discussed in NC & NT Forum but for me it was impossible to get an answer any where for past 3 days of googling or XDAing. :) Please also excuse me if I am asking dumb questions.. but this one keep taking my attention day and night

I was trying to make dd image for my own study of Android system and noticed one thing that some DD Img can be compressed to below 260mb but others exceeds over 600mb. Can't find reason why..

To be specific.

I created two different SD card using verygreen 1.3 size-agnostic method.

1. verygreen 1.3 w/ used CM7 nighty 252 build. on Sandisk 4GB

2. verygreen 1.3 w/ Mireage Kang 7.2 build on Sandisk 8GB

After I confirm those cards are working, I did not install anything but created img file with command

(Ubuntu 11.10)

For #1

DD if=/dev/sdb of=cm7n252.img

For #2

DD if=/dev/sdb of=cm7MK.img

then result was as expected.

#1 img file about 3.8GB

#2 img file about 7.8GB

I winzip two files to see how much they will be compressed. and result surprised me.

-winzip with ultra compression-

#1 over 680mb for 4GB

#2 over 280mb!!! for 8GB

Can anyone explain me why? or How to create reduced zip for DD img?

Thank you for your time in advance
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jideay:
Paired fine with the Maxx, but notifications and ringer are not ringing through the headset. I'm sure it's something stupid, but I've been all through the bluetooth setup on the Maxx and can't find it. I'd like the notifications and ringtone to go through the headset.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] jideay:
Apparently its a known motorola thing...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] slypie:
bluetooth

I had this problem. went to settings, wireless & networks, bluetooth settings. then looked for the devices. touch and hold the device and i got another menu. went to options, it came up with profiles. when i selected media everything worked fine. hope this works for you.

Pie
[HTC Sensation] blupoison:
Hey all,

Any news on the ics update in India? I dont see any discussion thread on that...
[HTC Sensation] wr8_utd:
Nothing yet. Still waiting for it :(
[HTC Sensation] alanfernandes77:
Yup. Still waiting
[HTC Sensation] blupoison:
Man... Its the end of the month... Which other end of the month is it supposed to launch??? So many Asian countries have got it now... Let's c
[HTC Sensation] djpeesh:
Well then again, they never specified end of march in which year. Someone did mention that they had the update though. Been furiously pressing the check now button but my software still is "up to date." Urgh.
[HTC Sensation] sidd6800:
When I asked HTC_India on FB ..they deleted my post from their wall...coz they are busy on One X... :( ...Hope we will have this end of this month.
[HTC Sensation] DroidRap:
Tired of using check update button. I don't understand why HTC always delays in OTA for India. Are they not looking at India as market to grow?.
[HTC Sensation] whosaysjohn:
Just Wait

We will have to wait till HTC decides to update our devices...wait for godot...
[HTC Sensation] Gigell:
Don't be so sad. Most of Europe didn't get it either.
[HTC Sensation] Otmin:
You do know that even E/W Europe didnt update yet? And you want for India?
[HTC Sensation] blupoison:
I saw someone in India say they got it too... When i asked for the details... They just stopped sending me updates... Strange... Worse than the delaued missing update os the behavior... Upsetting...
[HTC Sensation] sarkar_007:
Just saw many threads with most European countries getting ICS update. Why is ICS still not available for India?

Is there any rule that India should get it after E/W Europe? Since Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan etc are getting it (i.e. SE Asia) logically India should have got it by now!
[HTC Sensation] montenis:
My sensation xe (India) has software nr. 1.77.720.103 , i don't think to many xe's have this build, so it is possible that this will get update later...
[HTC Sensation] kanav bhasin:
We'll get our updates man .. but as usual itll take the agonising equivalent of ages.
[HTC Sensation] nabeelrazanaqvi:
Blupoison dear what is your software no. Mine is 1.52.720.3 and hboot is 1.18.000 and some one told me that i am not having stock rom so willnot have ICS update my device says S-On. So am i not having original Rom and will i not get ICS Update.
[HTC Sensation] krazy_about_technology:
1.52.720.3 is the latest stock rom for sensation in India. So dont worry my friend, u are stock and you will definitely get it.
[HTC Sensation] blupoison:
I was just about to say that... It is original stock... In fact... You cant change it till u do s_off... So don't worry... We will get it... Question is... When... Asian update was out the last i heard... But i dont know when it will hit India... I have the same config by the way.... Just waiting now... Bored reading other countries updating that they have received it...
[HTC Sensation] imblfmstr:
Sensatio ICS update before 7th April

I spoke to Service Manager HTC Customer care, he told the update would available before 7th April....

keeping finger crossed and hitting the check update button like hell...more than 200 times a day ;):rolleyes:
[HTC Sensation] blupoison:
Hmm.... 7th april... So not march... That's disappointing... Neway... Going to stop checking for the update... Thanks man
[HTC Sensation] Gstar2006:
Hi,

I'm in the UK with a Sensation XE which I purchased from a company in Hong Kong. I run it with a T-mobile sim card.

When I check my software version it says I am 1.77.720.103 like a couple on this thread.

If i use CID Getter it shows my CID as being HTC__038 and that my ro.carrier is HTC-India. When I first got it I had to change the locale to be english GB so that it received news articles to do with the UK.

I'm a bit puzzled by how exactly the phones receive the updates OTA. They obviously check a server somewhere which checks something on the phone and makes a decision whether to let it update or not. Is there not some way that I can change my phone settings so that it believes it is a UK phone and receives the update at the same time as other people in the UK?

Is there a way that I could flash my phone with a European/UK ROM so that I don't have to mess about changing locale etc?

Many thanks and apologies if this has been asked before as I could not find it when I tried searching.

G
[HTC Sensation] jazzzzzzz:
No update for HTC 038 ...