yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] jamie.miro:
Ok i had the the latest 4.1.2 jb stock rom. as soon as i rooted the phone using the s3 toolkit, this exclamation mark appeared. i flashed a Android revolution hd 32.0 rom thats based on the official samsung 4.2.2 jb firmware. But that exclamation mark is still there. So now i need to know , is there anything to worry about? and is there a way to remove it?
[Galaxy S III General] drmjp93:
have anyone that have flashed stock rom - can revert back to stock recovery over CWM?
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
Please explain litle more, if you flash stock ROM you have Stock Recovery :)

Never the less if you have CWM you can flash Stock Recovery over CWM .

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] toterkeks:
AT&T users:

Only appears on the UCDLK3 firmware.
[Galaxy S III General] plapic:
Can't boot into Recovery Mode

[YOUTUBE]Uefri3dG04M[/YOUTUBE]

Jump to 4 minutes 7 seconds

After I loaded CF-Root-SGS3-v6.4.tar on my i9305 with 4.1.2 I can't seem to get it to boot into Recovery Mode to finish the root process.

Just like in the video I get the red mark appearing on the top left corner of the screen and while holding Vol Up + Home + Power the S3 keeps boot looping. I noticed from the video after a few boots the owner then starts to release the keys and it goes into Recovery Mode. I've tried this but still cannot seem to do it. I can flash back to stock rom and manage to perform Recovery Mode by the same technique.

Is there some trick to this? :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] Darke5tShad0w:
9305 forum is here

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/help-i9305
[Galaxy S III General] SKV Taiwa:
Plz help me same problem i'm facing now , my phone is do not starting
[Galaxy S III General] gemhottie:
I got d same issue on my galaxy j1. How will i fix it? I need a phone so badly. Pleasehelp me. Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] yoahmad1995:
This happens in firmware older than 4.3
[Galaxy S III General] omarmwinyi:
i also have the same problem(i installed the wrong twrp)the screen will never go passed there......................
[Galaxy S III General] EdgaBimbam:
it is WORKING. reseted, download mode, flashed that .tar and no more that red exlamation mark and flash counter 0 :)
[Galaxy S III General] :
great ;).. I attached the problematic sboot in my previous post, maybe someone knowledgeable can make some use of it.
[Galaxy S III General] ChrisHRocks:
let me get this right before i do anything.

I use triangle away

I boot straight into download mode

I flash this .tar

I reboot and exclamation mark is gone

????????????????????

is this right?

thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III General] EdgaBimbam:
yes i have make like this. Also in Odin on PC, you have to put it on Bootloader, here the screen shot: (you should edit odin3.ini with notepad and set PhoneBootUpdate=1, be careful not to touch anything else).

Credits and biggest thanks to tumult
[Galaxy S III General] alchopop:
Just used the method in OP and all work. perfect :)

thanks
[Galaxy S III General] blackyz:
That's a good find. But I am still wondering that after official Poland jb leak Samsung has not delivered any official update as well any OTA. Den from where this thing come from??? Even no new custom rom update too.....
[Galaxy S III General] :
it would never be in custom roms (hopefully). sboot was in some countries ics OTA and also one jb OTA leak from NEE..
[Galaxy S III General] gatebil:
same on LTE-I9305 device

[YOUTUBE]Uefri3dG04M[/YOUTUBE]

@4:15min
[Galaxy S III General] viki-bg:
Тhank you very much :good: It did a good job
[Galaxy S III General] cammel:
Hi, i need some help here please... Yesterday I saw this red exclamation mark for the first time on my international galaxy s3, and the thing is that I don't understand where did it came from.

I flashed my phone countless times, and never had this problem before.

Yesterday I was running CM10 but I decided to go back to stock jellybean cause of the poor camera of cm10.

So I decided to do it the official way for the first time, so I flashed the latest ICS update from Spain (BLH1) that was on my pc and let it update through OTA to Jelly Bean. So I waited about an hour but after installing I realized that the jb update installed was an old one (DLH1) and that there was a most up to date version of jb from Spain (DLJ4) on samfirmware, but on the phone the OTA updater says that there was an update but that I should check again later, don't know why.

So I downloaded that DLJ4 update (Spain) from samfirmware and manually installed using pc Odin.

Everything was perfect until in rooted it using cf-Root.

After rooting it, every time I turn off the phone and press volume up+power+home to enter CWM recovery I see that stupid red mark on the left top corner of the screen for a few seconds until the cwm us loaded.

But the thing is that if I flash a stock firmware without installing the cwm recovery the red mark is gone when entering to stock recovery.

Can anyone please tell me why this happened?? Is it related to the OTA update I installed or what is causing this??

Thanks a lot in advance for the help! :D

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[Galaxy S III General] ChrisHRocks:
Its because your flash counter is not at zero. When you use cf root it clocks up your flash count. Its not really a problem just ignore it, I've just forgot mine now I don't even notice it (bugged the f*#k out of me for about 2 weeks)
[Galaxy S III General] cammel:
OK thanks! But I need to know where did it came from.. I used to flash my phone every time a new jb update came out on samfirmware, and then rooted it using cf-root and I have never seen that exclamation mark before! My flash counter was on 18 and I never used triangle away and still never saw that mark before. Yesterday it appeared after flashing back from cm10 to ics and then to jb. If I flash a stock firmware the red exclamation mark is gone, but as soon as I flash a custom recovery like CWM, it appears again..

The tar file uploaded here, solve this problem for ever? Or if I flash that tar file (an old bootloader If I'm not wrong) and make the exclamation mark dissappear, when I root my phone again using cf-root it will appear again??

Thanks a lot for the help!

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[Galaxy S III General] Sleepycat3:
Is the last JB rom that you flashed newer than all the old ones that you used to flash from samfirmware? Clearly the ROM is detecting the custom recovery and thus flagging the custom tag which the ROM reads and puts up the red exclamation mark.
[Galaxy S III General] vinbaure:
I have noticed this too. Clearly it was only happening on official stock jellybean roms.
[Galaxy S III General] jaidev.s:
For me it came up in ICS. I flashed LG8 and did a 1mb ota. After that this came up

Sent from my GT-I9300 with a BIG :)
[Galaxy S III General] cammel:
The problem is with the ota's!!!!

I finally fixed it for good!! Tomorrow morning I will give you the link I followed to fix it!! (the problem is that it is in Spanish language, but I can translate it for you if you want to)

And you will have no more red exclamation mark!!! But it has nothing to do with the binary counter or anything like that. It is a problem with the bootloader being updated with the ota's updates!

Now I'm going to bed cause my girlfriend is going to kill me if I don't!

I promise you tomorrow I'll give you the link and the translation!. Thanks a lot to everyone that helped me!! You guys are great!!! :D:D:D

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[Galaxy S III General] vipermo:
Ok i just got rid of the red exclamation mark and flash count of 2.

what i did was flash stock in odin then i flashed this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1957273 it said it was reseting flash counter but it never so then i installed TriangleAway let it do its thing flashed stock again to get rid of root after boot up reset the device all sorted
[Galaxy S III General] crazbanditz:
Wheres the link?
[Galaxy S III General] cammel:
Sorry about that, I didn't had the time.

OK, here's the link:

"All the credits goes to Grupo Android and to the user's who did this tutorial. I'm not taking any credit for this. Just posting it here to help those with the same problem I had."

http://www.grupoandroid.com/index.php?/topic/54751-Flasheo-limpio-con-Odin#entry821876

When you go to that link, first of all you will have to login or register to the site so you can download the files from there.

What it says basically is that you need to flash an old (really old) ICS firmware but with the 3 files (csc, pda and phone) plus the *pit file.

I need to say that I have the 16gb version of the I9300 and this pit file worked perfectly for me.

I don't know if it's good to flash on a 32 gb versión of the phone...

Now that you have downloaded both files (the pit file and the zip or rar with the other 3 files in it) FIRST you need to go back to any stock ICS firmware you have on your pc if you're actually on a jelly bean firmware.

In my case in particularly I went back to UK BTU LG8.

Once it's up and running, turn on usb debugging on the phone and then turn it off and enter download mode, open odin 3.04 (close every Kies process running on windows) plug in the phone and make sure odin recognize it.

Choose the pit file you downloaded before and put it on the pit tab (re-partition will be automatically checked) then do the same with the other 3 files on the zip file

CSC = CSC

PHONE = MODEM

CODE = PDA

Once it's all done and passed the flashing process, the phone will boot up on a very old ics firmware WITH AN OLD BOOTLOADER WITHOUT THE RED EXCLAMATION. (you will see that in the flashing process it will flash a sboot.bin file!)

Now you can use odin again like you always did and flash anything you want and you will never have that stupid red exclamation mark again unless you update your bootloader again.

I think I got mine updated when I OTA updated from ics to jb on Spanish firmware.

What I did after this process is to flash UK BTU ICS LG8 again and then on top of it I flashed the UK BTU DLJ4 JB.

Then I rooted it using cf-auto-Root with no problems, installed cwm recovery and that's it, no more red exclamation mark when entering recovery and my flash counter is on 1.

Hope this helps and sorry for my English!! :D

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[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
That auto-partitioning sounds awful, hope that I will never be pushed to do that... too risky. What about Triangle Away, didn't worked for you guys?
[Galaxy S III General] cammel:
It works, but as soon as you flash a custom recovery it will come back.

The only way I found to fix this is doing what I explained before.

Just stay away from ota's updates and you'll be fine! :D

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[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
Fortunately I just need to flash now, no need to partition, but if I will even been forced to do that definitely I will search for alternatives, even Triangle-Away even if I will need to use it each time. I don't trust those .pit files :D
[Galaxy S III General] cammel:
If you didn't update your bootloader you only need to flash using odin like you always do, no pit, no re-partition, no problems at all.

The problem is when the bootloader gets updated, that's why I warned you on the other thread because I get mine updated using ota on the Spanish PHE firmware.. That's why I am telling you this so you don't make the same mistake I did.

And about the pit thing, I have never used it before in my life and I was also scared about using it, but fortunately all went ok with no problems at all and solved my issues.

Maybe if someone could extract the bootloader from an old firmware for those who has the bootloader updated and only flash that using odin the problem could be solved without the need for using the pit file and re-partition, but I don't have any idea of how to do that..

(sorry about my English)

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[Galaxy S III General] demlasjr:
I apreciate that you warned me before doing that mistake. Thanks once again. And btw, your english is very good, you don't need to excuse.

Gracias y un saludo!
[Galaxy S III General] cammel:
:thumbup: un saludo grande!! :D

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[Galaxy S III General] reydoog:
That pesky red exclamation mark

Just to let you know this also worked perfectly for me. The only tricky bit was to "Boot straight into download mode". Triangle Away reboots normally automatically and if I allowed it to do this my counter would be incremented again. I had to pull out the battery at just the right time (after Triangle Away had finished doing its magic and before it started rebooting) to get it to work. I had to have quite a few attempts but I eventually got into download more with the counter at 0 and everything saying "Official" on the download screen. Would hate to think what would happen if I pulled the battery too early (what do you guys think??). Flashing the new boot sector as discussed by Tumult and OD, before letting it boot then meant the counter was not incremented and the triangle stayed away.

If Chainfire is listening, it would really help if you modified Triangle Away so that instead of it rebooting the device at the end it instead provided a menu with the options of either rebooting or going into download mode.

Thanks all, I am very very grateful.
[Galaxy S III General] 101gamzer:
This reminds me the RED RING OF DEATH from by old Xbox ;)
[Galaxy S III General] ronaldshi:
just out of curiosity.

my flash counter is at 40 now.

if i dont care abt warranty and stuff, i dont have to reset the flash counter right?
[Galaxy S III General] wednesday13:
Btw how do we check flash counter?
[Galaxy S III General] ronaldshi:
shut down your phone.

then press and hold

vol down+ on + home buttons simultaneously
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
Right :)

Try to achive 100 in counter, maybe it will be a 0 whit one more flash... :)

---------- Post added at 01:07 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:04 AM ----------

No need, i flash my original boot loader 4.0.4, after that i run TriangleWay, and done, counter with 0 and no exclamation mark :)
[Galaxy S III General] ronaldshi:
Maybe i should try that, i will let you know when i achieve that. :cyclops:
[Galaxy S III General] crazbanditz:
How did you do that bootloader? Please help :(
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
Here you have:

Old BootLoader i9300

Just flash with ODIN in PDA section :)
[Galaxy S III General] crazbanditz:
PDA not bootloader? its safe? Thanks :)
[Galaxy S III General] harise100:
100 won't be good enough.

Try:

256

65535

4294967296

18446744073709551616

Happy flashing! :D
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
Yes, I never flashed boot loader in boot loader section, always flashed in PDA section, since the times of S2 ;)

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[Galaxy S III General] crazbanditz:
Okay Thanks. I will try after phone fully charges... hope everything goes well...

Just to cfm.

1. Download mode

2. Open ODIN as Admin

3. Load the downloaded file in PDA(NOT BOOTLOADER)

4. Connect phone and just flash.

Is this correct? Thanks. :)
[Galaxy S III General] XenomorphXx121:
Is there a way of rooting without the flash counter going up?
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
Yes, after that use triangle way and your counter will remain at 0 even after reboot :)

It already exists, search at XDA section original dev :)

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[Galaxy S III General] rock4hell:
no it dont work
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
What? What dont work ? :confused:
[Galaxy S III General] Geordie Lad:
Hmmm... I'm seriously considering copying the fingerprints off that greasy screen and committing a series of murders with them.
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
Ok, i never think in that way...
[Galaxy S III General] reverend remiel:
Will this work with JB stock rom that's been rooted?
[Galaxy S III General] titus1:
OMG!

I though I was the only one who has this issue with that red exclamation. Though I did notice that when my phone is not rooted it doesn't appear. The first time thatI notice it was when I install CMW or TWRP.

---------- Post added at 10:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:13 PM ----------

Do we have to be on stock ICS before doing so??

Update: Yes! It works.
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
JB, ICS, you named ;)

Rooted, not rooted (Not related)

I me using this old boot loader with 4.1.2 Leak :) (GodBye Red Exclamation and Counter Remain a 0 )

Cheers
[Galaxy S III General] kerbiii:
Does flahing the old bootloader with stock jb 4.1.1 is okay? And is it okay to flash it using mobile odin pro?
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
Mobile ODIN dont flash boot loader, Only ODIN PC.
[Galaxy S III General] kerbiii:
I see, then i guess i just have to ignore it for now.

Incase i try to remove it, what are the dif using old bootloader and my current bootloader?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
Reed OP and you will see the difference:

New Boot Loader you will have red exclamation on top of screen and counter will remain at 1 with custom Recovery ;)
[Galaxy S III General] zack037:
Normal boot doesnt show that red exclamation mark,

but when booting into recovery, that red exclamation mark appeared.

i guess it happens on everyone with I9300 device, with at least flashed custom rom once.

checked my flash counter, its zero though, using TA to reset it.
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
No, using old bootloaders i dont have red exclamation booting to custom recovery.

With new boot loaders iven if you reset with TA the counter, when you boot to custom recovery counter will go back to 1 and red exclation apper when booting to recovery.

Old boot loaders Rulezzz ;)
[Galaxy S III General] cybdani:
Thanks a lot! Worked flashing old bootloader from ODIN pc as PDA.

Greetings!
[Galaxy S III General] ImSpecial:
I've flashed my phone 50+ times, I've used triangle away several times, never had that red mark.
[Galaxy S III General] cybdani:
My S3 (25 may) never displayed any warning and triangle away always reset counter. I've flashed cf-root today my wife's S3 (purchased 3 weeks ago). After flash it showed red mark and triangle away was unable to reset counter. Flashed old bootloader and red mark has disappeared. Then triangleaway resets counter to 0.
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
Its because you never had new boot loaders installed.
[Galaxy S III General] semantsen:
Thanks,

Old Boot Loader working successfully,

+1
[Galaxy S III General] vipermo:
Worked thanks alot mate:laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] titus1:
Where's that new bootloader coming from anyways?

What is the culprit?

What are the things should we prevent from acquiring those?
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
Don't use OTA update from Samsung, I already try to find if they came in latest firmware from Sammobile, but its all the same, in ODIN packages I don't see bootloaders included, the only thing I can remember was the OTA update I make from 4.0.4 to 4.1.1 (3 OTA updates). I was boring and phone begging for flash :)

After that hello red exclamation and counter won't stick 0.

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[Galaxy S III General] titus1:
Thank you for the reply. You're very helpful.
[Galaxy S III General] thegh0sts:
if i was gonna do this on a fresh S3 where would this fit into the rooting process?
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
You are mixing things, do not mix... :)
[Galaxy S III General] thegh0sts:
i don't see how i am mixing things cos if i know about this before hand and want to prevent it at the time of rooting.
[Galaxy S III General] disclaimernotice:
You know you're rooted when you don't triangle away the flash counter but treat it as a high score instead.
[Galaxy S III General] thegh0sts:
so does one really need to worry unless they want to keep the warranty?
[Galaxy S III General] mat111:
Thanks, work on 4.1.2
[Galaxy S III General] ebane12:
Can someone give me a link of the lastest triangle away
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
Here you have:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
[Galaxy S III General] maranello69:
absolutely not!
[Galaxy S III General] PIRATA!:
Ok let's say I need to send back my S3 to Samsung...

First of all I have already decided that in that case I will revert back to a stock firmware as I have a custom rom.

Let's say I would flash back the same firmware I found on the phone when I first turned on. It is quite old, but as I have friends that use to use for years old Samsung Galaxy devices without a software update with ota or kies, I think I could appear like one of them for Samsung :)

Let's say that the firmware I will flash is prior of listening about this new bootloader problem....

Will my new bootloader (if I have one..don't know..I'm on last official rom base) be overwritten and flashed over by the old one or should I have to flash the old one manually back????

Thank you all.
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
It depends if the firmaware came with bootloaders...
[Galaxy S III General] hrcell:
samsung service center they have special access to look use imei number

from this imei number they will see regional,distributions included last kernel and firmware,when you have service etc,included carrier lock or unlock

so the best is need always remember your 1st original firmware (make screenshot) and always backup your imei and efs

this only special for level 3 and 4 service center
[Galaxy S III General] PIRATA!:
Mmmm.... Is there a way to check that looking at the firmware file??

I mean maybe looking inside it if there are the bootloader files....

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I have written down my imei and my custom ROM made backup of efs... but I installed it noir on the stock firmware I had when first came the phone...

Should I restore efs as well? Why? And moist important..HOW????
[Galaxy S III General] Andrewtst:
Thanks for your help and your old bootloader, my after service S3 no longer have that red dot and everything was reset to 0 now. :)
[Galaxy S III General] PIRATA!:
How can I see if I have new bootloaders???
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
If your IMEI its OK dont mess with EFS FOLDER, just flash stock ROM, its my advise to you...

Do your files have sboot.bin file ?

---------- Post added at 08:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:34 PM ----------

New bootloaders you have two symptomes:

1- Flash Custom Recovery, then boot to Recovery, when booting you will see a red exclamation at the top left side of the screen.

2- Triangle Way will reset counter but when you enter in Recovery counter will go back to 1

Thats all ;)

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You welcome mate, glad it helped... :)
[Galaxy S III General] comaticks:
Hello everybody...

Does someone have a link for the new bootloader?

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] kerbiii:
Try reading OP

- SIII GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] comaticks:
What does it mean?

I search the new bootloader, not the old one...

I'm Belgian so maybe i didn't understood what "OP" means...
[Galaxy S III General] danieldmm:
What hell you want the new boot loader? :)

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[Galaxy S III General] PIRATA!:
How can I look inside firmware files for the sboot.bin file?

I have last Darky Rom v8.0 based on last official 4.1.2 and I use TWRP recovery... and entering in recovery I don't have any red exclamation mark on top-left of the screen or in other positions of it...

Am I ok???
[Galaxy S III General] vatvedt:
Worked great doing this:

1. Download mode on phone

2. Open ODIN (NOT MOBILE ODIN) as Admin

3. Load the downloaded file (Old_BootLoader_i9300_TugaPower.tar.md5) in PDA (NOT BOOTLOADER)

4. Connect phone and just flash

:D Thanks!

Edit: The file is found in post #54: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=34782762&postcount=54

And the post below mine has tried successfully using the same procedure, but using bootloader and not PDA. :)
[Galaxy S III General] kerbiii:
I load the file using bootloader and it works just fine :)

- SIII GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] siganid:
old bootloader for i9305?

Any possibility you might know how to get old bootloader for i9305? It has same ! problem.