yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LordManhattan:
I have the same problem on ParanoidAndroid. I noticed that QuickPic's videoplayer (plays only a few codecs) works just fine without any lag or delay. VPlayer on the other hand is rubbish. I can't even play a 20 minute 480p video (150 MB) without some delay.

The best one i've tried is Dice Player which works fine without any lag or delays up to 1080p.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brolee93:
Where can I found code of official firmware for put it on cm9 rom please reply for help :-)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] killerabbit37:
On a whim I sent Verizon a message asking about the locked bootloader for the Verizon

My original message just to clear things up:

And got an interesting reply back:

Can anyone else back this up? This is the first I am hearing of it.

Edit: Screenshot of the email mentioned above.

http://i.imgur.com/ULA4X.png

Edit 2: Verizon just got in contact with me and confirmed that their previous message that they sent me (see above) was indeed about the global usage unlock and not about the boot loader. He also said that there is no work being done right now to unlock the boot loader on the SGS3. Although, he did suggest that they may revisit their decision down the road (as in several months from now) and possibly work up a patch.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] CBMC:
I am intrigued, yet highly skeptical.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] killerabbit37:
Exactly, although I think this is a bit better than Panda saying he has the unlock keys. Still, not going to get my hopes quite yet...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cordell12:
They want you to think the upcoming update is a unlock, but it will really lock it down even tighter! LoL
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ptaros:
Did anyone ever think Verizon locked down this phone because they want to push their variant as an enterprise device? This is the only one I believe that came with the vpnclient app.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] stupidchicken03:
This.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ftmaniac948:
Why would Sammy sell a dev variant if verizon is just going to unlock their phones? Just doesn't make sense
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AftermathLK:
show screenshot of the email please
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] troyzero:
You think maybe all the negative press combined with their inability to stop Samsung from releasing the dev version that could be a key to unlocking anyways which would make them look even worse and heavy handed combined to make them want to change it.

Honestly just hopeful thinking, but it would sure make me a happy camper.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Juicy92:
If Verizon wants to heavily compete with the dev edition, they will release an unlock tool
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Kipland007:
I emailed Verizon a few days ago. I got the standard "we're looking into it" response.

Today I got an email from them saying that they were happy to hear my issue was resolved. I figured this was just their ****ty customer service but now I might be in conspiracy mode.

Dun dun dun
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] CBMC:
There will be no competition, at least from a sales standpoint. Verizon will easily outsell Samsung. 99% of people either don't care about a locked bootloader or can't afford/justify the unsubsidized pricing. If they did unlock it, it would be a pr move. (or legal) Now I definitely expect the dev model to attract higher prices on ebay, craigslist, etc.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] toddley:
Maybe the email was just a stupid CSR who thought you were referring to SIM unlocking. doesn't make sense that Samsung would be releasing that instead of Verizon though
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mburke178:
This ^
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] killerabbit37:
As requested. All I did was black out my personal info. Sadly I'm under 10 posts so all I can do is attach the file. Lemme get to 10 and I can post a better one.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] killerabbit37:
I wouldn't be surprised about this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] killerabbit37:
Maybe they made some progress...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AftermathLK:
Thank you, now I'm curious lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Kipland007:
I guess then the question will be who gets the bounty? Donation to Verizon anyone?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] incubus26jc:
me for putting the pressure on them with my petition. :) j/k
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] c0ns0le:
This has been fixed. See chainfire post.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494114

I've taken a dump of a known CLEAN sbl1 and have tried restored it to a flashed i747. This did not work for me. If someone is willing to proof my process for accuracy, that would be nice.

Create the Backup from the good i747

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p2_sbl1.img bs=4096

Backup the existing BAD w/ the same command

Restore the good

boot into cwm
# replace /path/to/ w/ the actual path of the file.
#dd if=/path/to/mmcblk0p2_sbl1.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2

Still stuck w/ same number of flashes.

I've additionally backed up all the partitions for both the bad and the good via the below:

#remove the echo to perform the backup you'll also want to change the target

echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p5_aboot.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p20 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p20_backup.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p7_boot.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p17_cache.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p11 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p11_efs.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p19 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p19_fota.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p21 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p21_fsg.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p23 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p23_grow.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p1_modem.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p12 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p12_modemst1.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p13_modemst2.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p9 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p9_pad.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p10 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p10_param.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p16 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p16_persist.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p18_recovery.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p6_rpm.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p2_sbl1.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p3_sbl2.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p4_sbl3.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p22_ssd.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p14 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p14_system.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p8_tz.img bs=4096
echo dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 of=/mnt/extSdCard/backup/good/mmcblk0p15_userdata.img bs=4096

Advise welcome.

Please post steps you've taken to try and reset the counters.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] nyciz:
+1 I rooted via SGS3 ToolKit program and executed a few times to get rooted and CWM installed, now my counter is up at 6.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] lordmorphous:
There must be a way this gets reset and this is why I say this:

I followed the no trip method to install rooted stock and used the adb shell dd commands to write the cwm recovery. All was well, I had no flash counter and device status showed normal. I flashed other roms using cwm and even flashed cwm using cwm a few times. I used the dd commands to write a different cwm image in adb shell and noticed that device status showed modified. Now, I had never ever ever flashed anything with odin except the stock rom and the stock rooted rom per the no trip instructions. I was perplexed, but figured I just didn't know enough about what I was doing and screwed something up...oh well. Tonight, I flashed the stock rooted rom using odin, again no trip instructions. The dd'd the latest touch cwm 5.8.4.7. Flashed a few things in cwm, most notably update package that didn't disable search funtionality. I noticed device status says normal again, and the bootloader screen doesn't show a counter nor does anything point to custom.

I don't know if any of that means anything to anyone working on this, but thought I would share.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] drothenberger:
Device Status != Flash Counter

The device status in About Device is different from the flash counter in the Download screen.

There is a background job that looks at important files in /system and changes the device status to modified when it finds them. For example, installing busybox will change that to modified ... eventually. It may not show up as soon as you boot, but if you wait long enough it will. This is no big deal, really, because if you were to return your device, you'd flash back to stock first and the device status would go back to Normal.

The flash counter, on the other hand, records when you flash an unsigned recovery or kernel through Odin. (It may be tripped by other Odin flashes, but we know flashing an unsigned system image doesn't, which is how we can get root without tripping the counter.) Once this counter is incremented, we don't (yet) know how to reset it. This may be a big deal because your provider could check this counter if you had to return your device and deny warranty coverage.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] mrRobinson:
Can you post the clean sbl1?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] SkipKelley:
What was done on the Note

The developer Braway on the Galaxy Note took a diffenet approach. He had a process keep incrementing the counter until it cycled around and hit 0 again. Not sure of the exact steps but it took about 10 seconds to run it's magic and you where then back at 0.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] McAwesome:
Interesting
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] modest_mandroid:
Interesting.. I wonder how that affects the nand chip and if the memory allocation for the counter is the same on the gs3 as it is on the note. Would totally suck balls if it was a dword, requiring 4294967295 flashes before it rolls over..
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] majingrim:
With that method, braway said that Samsung could still tell something was flashed, and what the last thing flashed was. Doesn't this mean that our warranty would still be void?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] briggie108:
I have flashed Nostagia and some of the cm nightlies with cwm and no tripping of the flash counter yet. Is there anything that flashing with cwm will trip the counter? Is there any reference that says what will or will not trip the flash counter? If not, oh well; it just makes things more exciting I guess. I do miss the old days of captivate. I threw everything at my captivate. When I exchanged it for a new phone (was within a month), I just odin flashed to stock. No one was any the wiser :angel:
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] ForcedZucchini:
Nothing in cmw will ever trip the flash clunter
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] c0ns0le:
file name is inconsequential. dd simply takes whatever comments of the 'if=' and does a block for block copy to 'of='.

Anyone know what is actually in the sbl1? I'm to lazy to go look right now.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] drothenberger:
This thread has some interesting information: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1769411. It's from the Verizon phone, but I'll bet it's the same for all of them. Adam doesn't know what it is, but he's pretty sure it's signed by Samsung. My mostly uneducated guess is that if it's signed, it's not where the flash counter is stored (since changing a bit in sbl1 might break the signature). We could easily verify that by comparing the sbl1 from a phone with a tripped counter with one without. We'd also have to compare the sbl1 from two phones without the tripped counter to see if they are identical on every phone.

The AT&T UCALG1 OTA update flashed sbl2 (mmcblk0p3), sbl3 (0p4), aboot (0p5), rpmfw (0p6), and tz (0p8) so I'm guessing those don't contain the counter, either.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] c0ns0le:
Would seem to make sense.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] wbounds:
Is this where it ends? Please don't let it stop without a fix.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] johnhazelwood:
Not sure if this helps. I'm not able to try it out yet, but if anyone else is able to confirm it works on the AT&T variant I'm sure it would be appreciated by all :)

Ignore my old link to a manual way of resetting custom flash counter. Chainfire updated his Triangle Away up to save us: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494114

It sounds like it works for AT&T (for sure I used it), plus all other variants.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] wbounds:
It worked on my AT&T!! Custom Binary Download: No - Current Binary: Samsung Offical - System Status::laugh: still says Custom. Will flash Odin stock to see if that will change. I will report back.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] johnhazelwood:
Flashing stock should resolve the custom flag. I know it did for me.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] wbounds:
It worked!!:fingers-crossed:

How does this compare to someone who has not tripped their counter?

CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No

CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official

SYSTEM STATUS: Official

If this is correct then we got it and returns are possible
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] xlazaruzx:
The updated Triangle Away on the market works on my AT&T S3. It went from 3 to 0.:)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] bkeaver:
Worked for mine as well
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] steph2:
Works flawlessly thanks. Went from 6 to 0
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] pj1000:
System Status still indicates "Custom" Rom although the counts go back to zero. Won't that show the phone's been altered?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] jasonziter:
Confirm

Version 1.7, available for free in the original post, supports U.S. variants of the SGS3. This should a sticky. Chainfire......you ROCK man !!!
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] corythug:
That returns to normal once a stock untouched rom and kernel are flashed.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] ElBeaner:
Worked on my GS3, went ahead and bought from play store for the Dev.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] pj1000:
Thanks Cory. Worked perfectly for my ATT GSIII. Chainfire has done it again.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] lgkahn:
Worked got me as well bought from store. But under system/ about device/status it still says modified... is thus just because I am currently rooted?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] mrRobinson:
yes. if you needed to return your device you'd flash back to stock factory reset and that would not say modified.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] c0ns0le:
Will update op later.

Seems chainfire figured it out.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] rgoyena:
How do you check the flash counter?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] c0ns0le:
Simplest way is use chainfire's app.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] rgoyena:
Ok i bought the app and mine i guess says 1. All i do is hit the rest right and should go bacm to 0? Also this will not cause IMEI problem right?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] EthanMG:
1. yep, should be that simple

2. no, it shouldnt mess with any part of your phone that contains the imei

as a side note, we may want to see this thread stickied, so people know that the flash counter can be reset. just a thought.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] paleman27:
Ditto
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] rgoyena:
Thanks a lot guys! Very helpful.

Now just to deal with the IMEI. That stuff is scaring the crap out of me.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] iastonish:
You can flash this when your phones up and running on a custom rom and it won't mess anything up right? Or is this just for after doing an odin back to stock
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] AnarchoXen:
Doesn't 'mess' anything up on a custom ROM.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] SwervFusion:
Either put your phone in download mode and read the text or use the triangle app
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] zaghy2zy:
Quick question, any side effects using Chainfire's app, yet? If there's none then we could rejoice and freely flash without having to worry about the flash counter.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] woodydog:
Got the app from play store. I had 1 on the flash counter opened app hit reset easy as that. Well worth the 1.99
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] KennyG123:
Read forum rules AND stickies before making threads

This says APP.

Thread moved

FNM
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] EthanMG:
originally this thread was made as a start for developers to work on a way to reset the flash counter, that is why the thread was in the development section. you can clearly see that from the op, try to read a little before you get so snappy. it wasnt until later that chainfire updated his app to work for our phone and the thread was updated to show that. no need to be mean =D
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] captanabolic:
Worked awesome on my TMO SG3 with TRINITY ALPHA KERNEL and GS3 Release 4 Update 1
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] busties:
Does it matter how many times it gets tripped?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] Jfree3000:
I'm sorry if this has been answered, but flashing something through Odin is what sets of the counter? I have flashed several roms in cwm and only see that my counter is at 1, I assume that is from the custom recovery via Odin. Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] EthanMG:
yep, flashing non-stock through odin is what raises the counter
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Wolfbeef123:
Sprint pretty much screwed me over and I am on the everlasting quest to find a sprint galaxy sIII.

16gb is fine. Preferably white

If you known where I can get one for cheap, please post :)

Or if you're selling one please pm me :)

Thanks :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jgalan14:
Craiglist is your friend make sure you meet the person at a sprint store tho
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Wolfbeef123:
My local cl has them for 600+! :o
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jgalan14:
Screw that buy it from Sprint 550 plus tax and you going to get legit, plus you can sell your old phone on Craiglist
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Wolfbeef123:
No one wants to buy a galaxy nexus for some reason.

Its kinda odd. But kinda sucks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jgalan14:
Yeah I had a hard time selling my cdma one, my gsm was sold in the same day, maybe try swappa.com
[XPERIA X8 General] xperiax8tester:
I'm not trying to make smart here.But everyday here comes a new theard like "Soft brick" "how to get back on stock"

We have to know diference between soft and hard brick.

SOFT BRICK-It happens when you flashing a new rom via CWM and you forgotto flash addons or you just install the wrong rom.Then the phone stucks on Sony Ericsson bootlogo and that could be fixed by PCC.

HARD BRICK-It happens when you try to unlock your bootloader before you read this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1481630

That cant be fixed by PCC or SEUS so if you try to unlock bootloader on your phone before reading Hard brick warning and your phone dont wont to turn on (no led light,vibration,screen light) that means that he is dead.You can only fix your phone by changing the mainboard or with special cabel and riff box.

So here is my little video tutorial how to do it with Sony PCC.

http://youtu.be/ACKHU8NvReM

I got pictures too but they are on Croatian so ill do them on english and post it tomorow
[XPERIA X8 General] Cancar96:
You know that there are benchmarks :p

Yea ati froyo and froyopro are good but 2,2 android.
[XPERIA X8 General] Fortun:
Benchmarks only tell part of the story.

Which is why, for example, I should expect a considerable boost in performance from overclocking; but no noticeable difference.

You mean old, right? Then, the question would be old for what?

And if you paid atenttion, with the tests GingerDX came on top: it would open PiB every single time.
[XPERIA X8 General] Cancar96:
2.2 cant play some new games...i love sas3.

Cyagenmod rc1 v4 seems to be perfect rom by xperiafan.

Based on minicm7 and stock kernel
[XPERIA X8 General] elderduke:
Hey Fortun, I really like your post and how you wrote it. Hope to see more of you,

Cheers,
[XPERIA X8 General] Fortun:
Glad you enjoyed it.

I really can't think of any other threads to start... Will see how it goes.
[XPERIA X8 General] faraz_fireboy:
I'm sure u spent some time to test them & write here.

Tnx & waiting for more.

Is it important how did i send this?
[XPERIA X8 General] Cancar96:
floyo by racht (latest)
[XPERIA X8 General] elderduke:
Fortun, continuing the quest for the perfect stock kernel rom , have a look on this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1776643

Cheers,
[XPERIA X8 General] ahmadsamhann:
sorry but I think the UI is g@y lol. nvm we need good performance tho. I'll try it later. thanks for the info mate ! :good:
[XPERIA X8 General] elderduke:
that OP is a girl...so what did u expect....;) LOL
[XPERIA X8 General] Fortun:
Saw that ROM but wasn't actually going to try it since the latest LinuXperia, the base of this new ROM, didn't passed the tests. Plus: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27499552&postcount=241.

But I might give it a go this weekend along a few things.

There's this one ROM I would really want to try: LinuXperia Mika v9b. If anyone of you could hook me up with a working download link, it would be great.
[XPERIA X8 General] elderduke:
PM'ed.

Since Alessio was disabled due to problems in paradise, I will send you the link by PM.

But as far as I remember, it was not so great in terms of batery or 2d/3d.

Also, he developped starting from XGin + Xperiafan, but lately he started to OC @691 and appeared is faster, but once you revert to 600 then is quite normal.

Also quite heavy on theme and colors.

Cheers,
[XPERIA X8 General] elderduke:
Well, as you stated, benchmark is not everything. But also playing games is not everything.

For some reason, on my device the one Rom with the best quality of sound into calling is FroyoPro 2.5. Also is the only rom who can score higher than stock in AnTuTu. that's why I allways go back to it when I'm tired of "trying out".

On the other hand , I tried the HoneycombFroyo also by Attis and it looks really nice but it has 2 problems: the backlight and the floating point which scores 17 ???? Please test AnTuTu on AtiFroyo and see if there is the same issue on variant 5.2. - maybe that is one cause also for lags....Anyways maybe I did something wrong when installed. I downloaded it from this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1763389

Please let us know if is any way to improve it.

Cheers,