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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jmcandrews83:
ok so i tripped the counter oops alarms blaring lights flashing cops coming !!!!!!! is there any way to fix it cause i see an app on the market that says no triangle but its a paid app and im not stingy but i don't see the point in buying something that wont help so id appreciate sum help thanks
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Cobra281:
see this thread:

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

support Chainfire! his hard work saves many from being charged for a rejected insurance claim
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Oreo13:
Hey, I usually don't run into problems, but when I do I ask no one tear me a new hole lol. Anyways in odin I click PDA, and go to the folder where the file is at, but there is no file in there. Am I doing something wrong?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] infamouskong:
Alright so I followed the directions and everything was going smoothly until the phone rebooted after the Odin process. Now I'm getting Touchwiz has stopped working and android.process.acore bull****. There was a T-mobile update as of this morning and tried rooting just recently. What could be the problem?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mrRobinson:
Did you extract the 7z file you downloaded? Its looking for a tar which could be why it isn't showing anything.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] infamouskong:
edit: fixed it

Used Odin with stock rom -_-
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] eagle63:
so.. mobile odin?

So if I'm already rooted, can I install this latest ROM using mobile ODIN? Has anyone done this? (just looking for some confirmation that it works before I buy the app)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Jdobrich:
Stupid question!

Do I put the root66 file on the phones virtual sd card??? then go into download mode?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Oreo13:
Thanks for the reply I figured it out. I appreciate it though. Turns out I needed to download z7 file extractor. Go Figure right? lol
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] s13epy:
When you ODIN T999UVALH2 aside from rooting does it also re-flash the stock kernel. I think I'm having kernel issues so I would like to know if ODIN does this. Yes I understand through CWM but I'd prefer to ODIN as it's STOCK. Thanks in advance.

Update: Ok so I went ahead and ODIN'd and yes it does re-flash the STOCK kernel that comes with T999UVALH2 with bloatware to match ): and I'm sure the modem as well was re-flashed, just a hunch. So if your kernel is messing up just re ODIN this. (; This ODIN file is different as it is rooted.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] chrisram88:
Just put it anywhere on your desktop and when you browse pda select it

Sent from my SGH-T999
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] forkandbowl:
So does this put things back to stock or will all of my apps, etc still be the same? I had rooted with a stock rom before and nothing happened except it rooted. I then did the OTA update and lost root. I just want it back.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mrRobinson:
All will be the same. This will be perfect for you.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] bolojr:
only root method the worked for me after ota, then i just flashed cwm from Rom Manager, thanks alot!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Saturny:
Awesome.

Thank you OP. Clicked the Button. Now I have rooty goodness :D
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DougAdamsFan:
Just got the S3 and it's my first Android phone, and I'd like to root it using this method. I've got a quick question though.

When I boot into Download (Vol.Down+Home+Power) mode I get a warning screen with a yellow triangle warning me against loading another OS and telling me to click volume up to continue. Since I didn't see any mention of this previously and I've heard bad things about the yellow triangle, I just wanted to make certain that pressing volume up won't cause my counter to trip.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] prabjeetmaan:
Guys help me.I bricked my phone by installing wrong modems in my phones.so now I can't connect to my carrier and can't make and receive calls.I bought my phone from wind mobile.so can any one share his modem file and build.prop file .please help me.thank in advance
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] chrisram88:
Nope you are good. This is a completely stock rom with root injected so it won't trip the counter. If you Odin anything besides official stock tars then you do get a ticker on the counter. You are good to go just press up and you are 1 step closer to the promise land.

Sent from my SGH-T999
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DougAdamsFan:
*thanks you*
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] chrisram88:
Glad I could help. If you need further assistance just shoot me a pm

Sent from my SGH-T999
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mrRobinson:
Just use Odin to flash the wind image here.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] belly1026:
Well, you're not in "Download" mode until you press that volume up button yet :)

And to answer your question. Pressing that button will NOT trip your counter so go ahead, press away!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] prabjeetmaan:
i already did.flased stock firmware.but didnt work.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ndwgs:
Guys -- Question

Just got the phone 2 days ago. I noticed i'm not on the updated UVLH2 (or something/from the OP). Should I press on and update the phone OTA first, then root ? Or should i just do it with UVLG1, which is i believe my current update.

Thanks for the reply!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mrRobinson:
No reason to ota first. Flash the LH2 in the OP. It'll upgrade you and root same time.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] scooter1942:
any plans for a rooted jellybean image?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Woody:
+1 (obviuosly when it comes out of course)

Big thanks mrRobinson. I just got my S3 on Saturday, got it home and flashed this straight away. Of course I had been reading and reading and reading some more. I appreciate this very much.

Just to be clear, once the JB OTA comes through, all I have to do is use OTA Rootkeeper and temp unroot, take OTA and the re-root via rootkeeper? I have stock recovery and kernel still, so that is a non-issue and I have "frozen" all the bloat, as oppesed to deleting or uninstalling.

With my tablet, before it flashes, it would search through /system/app and make sure all the proprietary apps and the rest were there, check for stock recovery/kernel and if it was rooted. If all three were unadulterated, then the OTA would go through. Just want to make sure that is the case with this, as I was seeing there was a new OTA thread from Sammobile (which generally means a carrier OTA is right around the corner). I have no problem going completely stock and taking the OTA that way, but if I don't have to then that would be better for me.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cr3amy:
I followed this advice when upgrading from the original root image to the new root image. But for some reason, my phone keeps trying to give me the OTA... I've attached a screenshot to show that I have the UVLH2 version and the update service is still there in the notification menu (which I've dropped down halfway for the screenshot).
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Cobra281:
there was a way to disable the updater completely. i'm trying to look for it, can't seem to find it. if anyone else knows, please post it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] eagle63:
I had the same problem after installing the UVLH2 rooted version on this thread. To fix it I just tapped on the notification and chose "start" instead of "postpone". (just to see what would happen) After tapping start it immediately failed and said something to that effect. Now the notification is gone and even if I manually go into System Update (settings-about phone) it searches and doesn't find an update. So for me this seemed to have done the trick.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lagunas11:
This a very nooby question but what do you mean by TRPPING THE FLASH counter?? And voiding the warranty.. i dont get it...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Cobra281:
yes, there's a counter that counts how many times you flash an image, and it can be used to void your warranty.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] lagunas11:
Ooo ok i didnt know about it until now so i can reset the counterflash by doing this or is it too late for me to do it???
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Cobra281:
you can reset the counter flash by using chainfires "triangle away" app:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Barrett S:
What does it mean when it says check the MD5 sums? Will this work with the latest tmo firmware/updates?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] scooter1942:
an MD5 sum is a series of numbers and letters that identify a file and can tell you if your download was corrupted. google "hashtab" and install that. then, when you download your image, right click on it and select properties. you should have a new tab called "File Hashes". copy the MD5 from the OP and then go back to the properties window, select the MD5, and then paste the MD5 you copied in the "Hash Comparison" box below. itll compare the two for you so you dont have to check them yourself and possibly make a mistake
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Cobra281:
just wondering; how is it possible that after flashing this rooted image, all my data is retained? nothing got erased- not my contacts, apps, data. etc. i did get root, of course. does flashing this rooted image not overwrite any system data?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] scooter1942:
it only overwrites system data. it doesnt overwrite any user data
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] redh0rse:
I can never get this to work with ODIN 3.04 but works on earlier versions. Do you know if Norton Anti virus has an effect on the process? Mine took 9:07 to finish, is this normal?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Barrett S:
Dude, thanks for the super quick and informative reply! I haven't been on XDA in a while and I forgot how great there userbase is!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tsunami2312:
does this rom has an insecure boot image?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mrRobinson:
No. Completely stock. Stock boot image.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Mr.Groppi:
OTA Update using Voodoo wont work...

I have tried doing the OTA update using the Voodoo OTS RootKeeper several times and every time it says E:failed to verify whole-file signature E:signature verification failed, Installation aborted. I made sure I clicked temp. un-root, my baseband is T999UVLEM and it is on 4.0.4. What am I doing wrong and how can I update my device. Sorry if this has already been posted. I looked around and I couldn't find anything regarding using Voodoo.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cr3amy:
If you're the one who flashed the root image to begin with and you're comfortable with the process, you can check the OP and flash with the new updated image. It's the exact same process again, but includes the OTA so it'll bring your phone up to T999UVALH2
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] phantommusik:
As for the time I would say that it's completely normal. The uncompressed image is 1.5GB. And Sophos didn't kick up a stink about this at all. Not sure about Norton though
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Mr.Groppi:
Thanks for your input. I am the one that flashed it originally and I am kind of a noob and have some basic knowledge on how this stuff works. If I do this will it reset my phone? Also, I noticed the T999UVDLI3 (OTA) 4.1.1. If I flash that image does anybody know if that's working properly or are there still some bugs to be worked out? One more question is am I at risk of tripping the flash counter if I flash either of these?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Dragoth12:
So, I flashed CWM Recovery and realized afterwards I didn't need to. I am not planning on changing my ROM or Kernel, I want to stay stock (for now) with root and wanted Google Wallet working, correct me if I'm wrong, but I can re-flash this Root Image (I used it originally to gain root) and my recovery will be back to stock without messing with my data, or anything else with my current setup? Maybe I will simply wait until the next OTA is released and update then. Are there plans to keep this updated as OTA releases come out? Thanks in advance guys!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] RaymondPJR:
I'm pretty sure if you reflash, you will be back on stock recovery. If I'm wrong, someone correct me. It will not change any of your user data. Everything will remain as you have it set up now, right down to you choice of launcher and all apps.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mrRobinson:
You are correct.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] RaymondPJR:
MrRobinson, do you find the recent JB leaks too buggy to bother giving the same treatment as you did UVLAH1 and 2? I've been following the leaked threads and so far I don't think it's worth it as a daily driver. BTW, that eye in your signature is always staring at me. Like Frodo looking into the Palantir; makes me so nervous, lol.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mrRobinson:
If I really wanted jb on this phone right now I'd go with the AOKP version. I'd don't think the stock ones are good yet.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Eudeferrer:
Use

Triangle Away

app from the market.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] nicky9door:
Triangle Away is also available free on XDA: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494114. That being said, consider buying the app on the market to support the developer.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] joederp:
The only thing missing for using this rom out of the box is it needs one script for people to mount the ext sdcard directories so they are viewable by every app.

so something like

mkdir /mnt/sdcard/Music/External

mount -o bind /mnt/extSdCard/Music /mnt/sdcard/Music/External

That helps with a lot of apps that for some reason can't get outside of /sdcard/
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Dragoth12:
Okay, quick question here, If I'm in Download mode the status in the upper left of the screen reads as follows:

Product Name: SGH-T999

Custom Binary Download: No

Current Binary: Samsung Official

System Status: Custom

Qualcomm Secureboot: Enable

Do I need to worry about the "System Status: Custom"? Looking at the Triangle Away app it shows my flash counter at zero, but if I remember right, the first time I was in Download mode the System Status showed "Official".

Thanks all.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] scooter1942:
itll say that, but once you flash completely stock firmware, itll go back to official
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rakeshchn:
So you are saying that my installed apps, google account info, settings, wallpaper, widgets and everything will remain the same! Even though this is the whole Rom?

Sent from my SGH-T999
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mrRobinson:
No. First thing you can do after booting is get that from market. Unless you flash a rom that installs it.

I've only injected su and Superuser.apk so you have full root. From there, do as you please.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mrRobinson:
yes cause it doesn't flash anything to /data.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mrRobinson:
you tripped your counter. luckily they no longer have the ugly triangle but if you boot to download mode you see a custom counter there. Your counter is at least at 1.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rakeshchn:
This is perfect Mr Robinson. I cannot thank you enough!

Sent from my SGH-T999
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] stevessvt:
As far as I can tell, it looks to me as if absolutely nothing happened, except now SU is parked with the rest of my apps. I d/l wifi tether, it asked for permission, and it works perfectly.

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MrRobinson,....You.....complete.....me.......
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] bdorr1105:
How do I see the flash Counter on my phone?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jdpdata:
Goto Download mode:volume down+home+power button. Release power button when phone start booting. Press volume up at Triangle warning screen to continue. You'll see your Binary flash counter here.

Mine is at 1 after flashing clockwork.tar via Odin. Oh well wait for someone smarter than me to figure out how to reset the counter.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] bdorr1105:
Yea, I def saw the one, and it's eating at me, although im glad their is no warning triangle and it doesn't effect the phones performance, so Im hoping for a reset app to get updated on the market to support the T999....I WANT IT GONE LOL
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ViralCipher:
Dang, I wish I was patient enough to wait for this method. I rooted only a week ago lol. I hope there will be a method to reset counter just in case, but from what I read the news doesn't sound too good about it as it sounds too difficult for the developer and Samsung may develop ways to make it harder.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] darren.wlsn1:
i have sent back like 20 phones total with binary over 5 and never had a issue, i get you worries but meh.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] irrompible:
Is it possible to just use Rom Manager to install cwm recovery after using this root method?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] AllAboutAndroids:
Hey guys, I just got my Galaxy SIII yesterday and since I am new to the Samsung line of devices, what exactly is "Flash Counter?" and if I use MSKIP's Toolkit to ROOT and Flash CWM, will it cause the "Tripping?"

Thanks in advance :D
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] darren.wlsn1:
if you read mskips thread (op) it states "THE ROOT METHODS USED IN THIS TOOLKIT INVOLVE FLASHING A MODIFIED BOOT OR RECOVERY IMAGE. FLASHING ANY MODIFIED FIRMWARE WILL INCREASE THE FLASH COUNTER ON YOUR PHONE AND INVALIDATE YOUR WARRANTY"

any reason you didnt read his thread or post there? (just curious)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] AllAboutAndroids:
I did read the thread lol

What I wanted to know, and let me rephrase, what exactly is it? So why do Samsung phones have like a "limit" on flashing a Modified Boot before getting a voided warranty? For the LG for example, ROOTING voided the warranty as soon as applied, there wasn't a "counter" of such.

EDIT: After doing some research it seems that the Counter stays there even if you go back to stock so if you return it for Warranty purposes, the "techs" will simply take a look at the counter and say MEH, no warranty for you!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Jaxidian:
According to Chainfire3d, we may not ever have a functional Triangle Away.

http://www.chainfire.eu/articles/118/Triangle_Away_vs_Samsung/

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In other news, I was actually in the middle of creating this file. Glad you saved me some work, mrRobinson. Thanks! :-)

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I was following those exact same posts. Now that you've figured out everything, do you think you could easily reproduce the process for a few other carriers? I bet users on all of the major carriers in the US and in Canada would really appreciate this! I was planning on hooking them up too but since you beat me, I've been severely demotivated. ;-)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mrRobinson:
I have the att gs3 so i did that one weeks ago right when the factory stock rom was posted. Thread here. I did Bell, Telus and Rogers in there as well.

I would occasionally read the TMO, Sprint, and VZW threads and didn't notice anyone there really caring about tripping the counter.

Then there was a thread on the VZW side where they were questioning the root image they had and were asking for someone to give them another, so I made one for them. That's here.

I saw a post or two in tmo regarding the counter so figured I'd spin this one up.

That only leaves sprint. I could easily do that but I do think ATT is the strictest on checking the flash counter whereas the other carriers you might get away with it.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jaliscojorge:
So I'm just being curious here. If I were to do a factory reset would root still be there or would it have to be redone with Odin again? Just wondering since its basically part of the rom.

typed from my white sgs3 hungry for some Zen
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cokewins:
Thanks OP. Just what I was looking for, and it worked flawlessly!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] gbzbar:
Root would stick. Root files are contained in the /system/ partition, and when you do a factory reset, only the /data/ partition is touched.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Dragoth12:
I suspected as much but wasn't sure. I appreciate the response!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] RaymondPJR:
Yeah, I looked at another thread and it seems the same bugs were in that one too. I'll just wait for the official release and satisfy myself with flashing only modems. At the rate they're releasing them that ought to keep me busy.

EDIT: Wow, when I wrote that I didn't know what I was saying. Yet another modem and I just flashed LI4 last night, skipped LI2 and 3, lol. Anyways, on LI4 I was finally able to watch an 18 min, HD, YouTube video with only two minor instances of buffering all on 4G. Even travelled into an area with no 4G bars and it still ran untill I got close to my home wifi network. I'ts getting better!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] dwss:
Quick question. If you rooted way back with the first root method that would mark your phone for 1?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cgingermany:
yeah

yes it has. But to make sure you can find an app within the threads that actually gives you a count. I think it's actually called trip counter or something to that extent. But even if you do Triangle away is now compatible with our S3's so you're good regardless.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] joederp:
Well this is incorrect.

So people have noticed even though the trip counter still says 0, the bootloader and the System Status says "modified"

Well what the OP didn't tell you and didn't disable is that there is a service called

SysScope.apk that is running and is Samsung's spy program and it is a reason that

ChainFire has stopped developing TriangleAway as stated here.

So sadly for most of us, it is too late and T-mobile and samung already know you ran root

apps even if you haven't. I supposed if you never had the data enabled, it might not have

reported home.

Freezing any system apps will set the Modified flag.

OP needed to disable libcordon.so and SysScope.apk

It turns out the trip counter is trivially modified with any root shell...

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=28969935&postcount=1

just set on byte in the flash, and you are done. You don't need Triangle Away, just

type in one line command...

The real issue is what Modified means, and if you will be able to update from OTA,

and if reflashing with a stock rom removes modified. Or if the SysScope wrote to

the flash in addition to the SysScope.db file it is tracking you with.

(So obviously it set a flag in the flash somewhere since it is showing on the boot screen,

there will be no way to remove that flag without flashing more than the 2GB area)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1776019

Just putting busybox on there will mark it Modified.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1776019

Or any of these:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1689601

arrayOfResultCode[0] = OK;

arrayOfResultCode[1] = ADB_RUNNING_AS_ROOT;

arrayOfResultCode[2] = PARTITION_TAMPERED;

arrayOfResultCode[3] = ROOT_PROCESS_FOUND;

arrayOfResultCode[4] = DANGEROUS_FILE_DETECTED;

arrayOfResultCode[5] = NOT_OFFICIAL_BINARY;

Too bad I didn't disable sysscope sooner, if it is even possible.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] mrRobinson:
This has been talked about months ago, you even linked to threads with posts back in july when we all saw the modified status. if you flash back to stock it goes away. so it was no where near as big a deal as the trip counter where there was for a couple months no way to reset that. The "simple" command you linked to took a long time to figure out and one wrong typo there means bad news for your phone. hence if you aren't comfortable with that use the safer triangle away. There is no issue with this modified status, as soon as the things it checks for goes away you are now unmodified.