yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy Note II General] spiderio:
does flashing with mobile odin will make counter flag rise??
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
No, mobile odin doesn't raise counter, but if you flash custom ketnel/recovery that itself raise count
[Galaxy Note II General] programatix:
Another reason to make it "Normal" again is if you want to use OTA update. OTA update is normally around 100MB of download.

So far, this is what guarantee me to get the "Normal" status.

Wipe the sysscope data

Disable SuperSU (uncheck it in the app)

Remove SD card

Reboot

To perform OTA without losing root.

Make sure status is "Normal"

Perform Update, if no update, then skip and complete.

While update is downloading, start SuperSU and enable it. Also enable Survival mode.

Allow the update.

Reboot.

Btw, I don't recommend leaving SuperSU Survival mode enabled unless you're doing an OTA update. After completing the update, disable it. I have cases where the Survival mode behave abnormally by running another copy of SuperSU (invisible) and cause issue with the installed SuperSU. Anyway, it messes up the system real good. If I'm not mistaken, it happen when I mistakenly uninstalled root.
[Galaxy Note II General] albsat:
I think I read that triangle away needs also a stock kernel. Is there an Odin package that has stock recovery and stock kernel in one file?
[Galaxy Note II General] enisgecgen:
Hello ,

Who can help me for N7100 ?

I need S note for in have 4.2 ROm

who can say me ?

Thanks.
[Galaxy Note II General] axel87:
note 2 stock uk firmware

Hi people hope you are all well..

this is my first post so go easy on me haha..

i have a note 2 lte uk version

i have rooted my note 2 also put rootbox 4.2.2 custom rom onto my phone..

i now want to sell my phone but need it unrooting and back to stock rom.

i have tried to looked at stock roms but not to sure which one is the uk stock rom.

could you guy help me please :)

kind regards

kev
[Galaxy Note II General] knoknot:
You could download the stock rom from www.sammobile.com choose your exact rom, flash it using odin on the pc, it will bring the binary status back to official but it will not reset the counter.

For the counter to reset, follow the steps on the first post of this thread, so you'll end up with a rooted stock recovery with binary counter reset to 0. To remove root you could either follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpmzR-VfQxo (be attentive to the instructions)

or just reflash the stock rom via odin on a pc to end up with a pure stock original unrooted device.

Its a combination of solutions that would work if executed exactly but that's how i'd go about it if it were me.

Please hit the thanks button if I've been of help :D
[Galaxy Note II General] hagba:
After a Factory Reset will the Status become Normal?
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Yes, 99.9 %

but your flash counter should be 'no'
[Galaxy Note II General] hagba:
Ok thanks Doc.
[Galaxy Note II General] almujhool:
thanks

this helped me alot in rooting my phone

many thanks
[Galaxy Note II General] 1320:
Clockwork recovery not accessible please help

Hi i hope someone can help.

I have tried 2 different ways to root my Note 2.

Using the toolkit and odin.

I have super user and so it seems rooted, but when i try enter into the recovery

my screen just flashes and then switches off.

I have N7100 can anyone suggest how to fix this proble.

Thank you.

Garth
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Flash recovery with odin.

If you need cwm then find philz recovery (or else)

OR

Look to op of this thread, that also having link to stock recovery, download and flash.
[Galaxy Note II General] knoknot:
yes it should
[Galaxy Note II General] whokilledsanta:
Maybe try a different recovery. CWM and TWRP are both highly rated. Also, check that you see superuser app, which is a good indication that you actually are rooted. Hope this helps
[Galaxy Note II General] shadow131:
Thanks works fine
[Galaxy Note II General] emadnermen:
thank

that help me so much thaNKS
[Galaxy Note II General] i_iz_deano:
thanks

was having problems trying to figure out how to root got it now thanks for the guide:good:
[Galaxy Note II General] Kremata:
If I have all stock(with root) and all status to Normal (or Officials) and I flash a custom ROM with Mobile Odin. Will my status change?

Edit: Forgot to say I'm on XXMDG1
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
As far as your rom have custom kernel /recovery it will turn modified as well flash counter also will raise, irrespective of method you have used to flash.

And I don't know any custom rom with stock kernel and recovery.
[Galaxy Note II General] Kremata:
ARHD have stock kernel and WanamLite have the options in Aroma. No custom Rom is flashing recovery(to my knowledge)

My goal is to enable using HDMI via MHL. I can't get it to work.

Edit: I did it and it works. All my status are still Normal and Official. By using Mobile Odin I don't need to have a custom recovery and I didn't choose the option for custom Kernel so I flashed WanamLite MG1 and I'm still all ok. :)
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
No Custom rom will have stock recovery. (I think)

Have you tried boot to recovery?

Once reboot to recovery whether it is stock. If it won't have stock, very soon status will turn modified and counter also raise.
[Galaxy Note II General] Kremata:
Yes I rebooted in recovery and download mode (many time to make sure the satus didn't change) it's still stock recovery.:good:
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
If recovery and kernel are stock then flash counter will not raise, and that is only important. Status may change to modified sooner or later. But counter will be 0 then you can reset status easily.

Edit ; whenever you need to check counter, don't use shortcut available to enter to download mod but instead use three button combo. As download mode show status only if you use combo.
[Galaxy Note II General] Kremata:
Yes I noticed thanks.

But I doing all this just because I want my HDMI working via MHL. I've read that if you don't have normal(Official) status Allshare doesn't work. But even all is Normal it still does't work. Do you know anything about that?
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
I have not used but some sw doesn't work even you have rooted device.
[Galaxy Note II General] tozneno:
Hi dr Ketan, i'm landing on the topic but i'm with the last version up to date of firmware xxdme6 and i've tested the very last framaroot version ( 1.5.3 ) and it work like a charm , no flash counter ( apk ) and it keep the status to "normal".

by the way it very easy to root like the time of the exynos abuse.

did you eard about it?

apk here => http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2130276
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Device status can be changed to modified at any time.

You can understand root means adding su and supersu to system, nothing else. Cf auto root uses odin so we have to reset counter, but after reseting counter there is no difference which method you have used. Method you described, i don't think have any special measure to keep your status normal isn't?

It may change to modified anytime.

If that method works (I think it will work with old bootloader, which is not safe) then only benefit is you need not to reset counter.
[Galaxy Note II General] Ram121:
[MENTION=3931450]dr.ketan[/MENTION] i wanted to ask about risk involved in keeping counter non zero. The risk is of the mother board, so if anything goes wrong max risk is of losing mother board. Nothing other can be lost.
[Galaxy Note II General] tozneno:
[MENTION=299966]dr[/MENTION] ketan :

you right i've doing nothing to keep my status to normal.

i know the story about rooting :) no matter about the methode using for gain the root, only the result count.

in fact i whould think using a apk is perhaps a little bite simple methode for gain the root ^_^

did you know what are the things we don't have to touch for not changed the status to modified? perhaps any of the system files?

[MENTION=5229173]fyh[/MENTION] :

the non zero counter is also a problem for the guarenty. sammy's could refuse it because you've flash your note with a non official firmware.

i don't think it could physicaly being a probleme for the harwdware.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
There are multiple things

Most common I have observed are

-Having nandroid on sd card

-Accessing system files with explorer
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Really very little chance you get screwed if your counter is non 0

What I think worst case is you broke usb and power button both. In this case you won't able to flash anything.

Rest of the case still you have download mode available and you can revert device before sending to service station.

Most common problem of note 2 is sds, but really I have never seen any case of sds with raised flash counter. Bcoz in sds Bootloader itself unable to read flash counter.

So any situation, where your device can't boot normally (even you have option to flash anything) and your flash counter is raised, it can cause trouble.

Now status modified is just cosmetic issue, I never seen any case (all sds have status modified) where warranty rejected due to status modified. Even I have seen cases where status is modified even device never been rooted. So samsung must be knowing this. Status have importance only for OTA. But once device have flash counter 0,status can be reset to normal, maximum you will need factory reset. I never worried about status.

What my favorite method is

Using device rooted +cwm

After using cwm, i just do reset counter. So till I don't boot device to recovery, my flash counter will remain 0.

This will help if anytime you suddenly get issue, still your counter will remain 0.
[Galaxy Note II General] Chainfire:
It's strange that this custom recovery doesn't boot after Triangle Away. To be honest, I have not tried custom recovery at all (like CWM) as I'm moving away from it completely. Do you guys all root through custom recovery or something? (I didn't)

However, Triangle Away's special mode is itself a custom recovery - and that boots up fine! So the problem must be the custom recovery itself.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
CF

We have only available option to root is

Flashing custom recovery

Or

Flash pre rooted rom.
[Galaxy Note II General] chemcup:
This method not 100% works

The system status after wipe cache and data is 'official' but after reboot it 'custom' agein reboot 'official' and so on
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Weird

I have 6-7 time reboot to recovery, restore data

Made efs backup

Still it is 'official'
[Galaxy Note II General] Chainfire:
You need to run TriangleAway again after wipe.
[Galaxy Note II General] Chainfire:
Regarding the recovery thing, I'm totally unsure what is going on here. I've just tried it again. I have normal stock recovery, run Triangle Away, it reboots, reset counter, boot up device, turn off device, hold volUp+Home+Power to boot, and voila, there's stock recovery again.

As you might understand, I need to be able to reproduce the issue before I can even attempt to fix anything.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Ya we can understand without reproducing it is not possible to fix.

Thanking you very much for your precious time, hope after some more cases we may come to conclusion why did it happens to some of here.

Again thanking you very much.

Regards And respect.
[Galaxy Note II General] moom999:
it is the same happened too 'official' reboot it 'custom' ageing reboot 'official' and so on

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i did still the same
[Galaxy Note II General] DMax99:
Hey doc...is the recovery you posted in the first post the stock one?

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How did you root without custom recovery?
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Yes it is stock recovery.
[Galaxy Note II General] moom999:
Now after few reboot system status is custom doesn’t change to official only when wipe cache and data

But after restore apps it goes back custom
[Galaxy Note II General] DMax99:
I think we should just be happy with root + cwm atm....until the problem gets solved or when we need to claim warranty
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Still this method is useful in certain conditions like, your device can not boot up normally, here this is useful if your counter is set to '0' already.

Regarding system status, even if it is 'custom' for any reason you can wipe cache and data from recovery Or you can flash rom from download mode to set it to 'official'

Main issue was counter that can't be solved in soft bricked device.

With this method you can keep flash counter '0' with keeping root and recover intact.
[Galaxy Note II General] chemcup:
but what is the side effect if it stays custom?
[Galaxy Note II General] Chainfire:
CWM-less root works better here ;)
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
I am not sure, whether it voids warranty. That's why I advised to set it official. But to set it to official is easy and can be done on soft bricked device.

Important thing is to reset counter.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Please Can you share? :)
[Galaxy Note II General] Chainfire:
I thought this was understood by now - you can't keep the counter at 0 and status on official while running a custom kernel or recovery (cwm) ...

Anyways, yes, the counter being 0 is the important part. The official state can usually be regained if when softbricked. When hardbricked, the status can't be checked. The very most important part is that when it becomes warranty time, we can reset all statusses by resetting and flashing full stock firmware.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Exactly, that is the the motive of this guide.

Who are conscious about warranty, this will help to keep counter zero, and also provide full root access.

Status is minor thing.

But we expecting great magic of CF won't keep us in this status for longer. :)
[Galaxy Note II General] DMax99:
Yeah...how do you do cwm-less root?
[Galaxy Note II General] Ram121:
Thanks [MENTION=3931450]dr.ketan[/MENTION] the reason I was asking about this was i wanted to dual boot and I will not be able to keep counter zero due to that
[Galaxy Note II General] vishal68:
Sir I am New to rooting and I want a step by Sept procedure for rooting . I am on stock 7100
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Look here, post #2

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1896696
[Galaxy Note II General] Gerryvr1987:
Thanks a lot! :D XDA absolutely fantastic !
[Galaxy Note II General] ipXpert:
Cant root my Note 2

Hello,

My phones fails to get passed this error. Its a Verizon Note 2 and I am trying to use CASUAL but I cant get passed the error below. Anyone have a clue as to what the problem is? Thanks

http://pastebin.com/TMPGvM7h

Initialising connection...

Detecting device...

ERROR: Failed to access device. libusb error: -5

[Heimdall Error Report] Detected:

'LIBUSB_ERROR_NOT_FOUND' Error not handled; Script halted

[/Heimdall Error Report]
[Galaxy Note II General] joshsikora:
:D

always having issues but trying to resolve them!
[Galaxy Note II General] antonioNov92:
Cool! :good:
[Galaxy Note II General] Roy97:
Thx!

Verstuurd van mijn GT-N7100 met Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
1.No, upgrading doesn't erase it but after flashing that ROM, if you downgrade to lower version ROM then you will lose IMEI. make backup of EFS while you are on lower version, so this will useful, if you need to downgrade anytime.

2.Read ROM instruction, if it is available in Flashable zip, you have to copy flashable zip to SD card and have to select flash zip from philz recovery.

3.Link not available
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Mobile odin can be used for flashing rom, but new rom will have cwm/custom kernel then also count will be raised.

For theme you will get better answer on that thread, I never used it.
[Galaxy Note II General] PsychoWhite:
Hi everybody I have some questions about whether root my device or not I'm using Galaxy Note 2 GT-N7100 Android 4.1.2 Samsung stock rom but I want to root my device . But if I root my device what's its possitive effects and negative effects I want to know they

Please help it . Thanks . Best regards
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
If you don't know the indication to root your device then better stay away.

Once you find good reason to root, visit thread 'all in one n7100' post #2

Read untill everything gets clear. Feel free to post your queries to same thread.
[Galaxy Note II General] drjamit:
Dr Ketan, I m selling My Note 2 today , How much Should i ask, Scratcless 10 mths Old...
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
17-18 is good.
[Galaxy Note II General] drjamit:
In Croma it is selling for 37k still. What if i ask 22- 23
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Now regular prize is just 28K, don't know why croma have this price.

So you can understand it. If you get 20K even i think it will be best deal.
[Galaxy Note II General] DavidEQ:
I just rooted a couple weeks ago. 1st let me say if you want you can go back to full stock. See above messages about rooting and unrooting. Pros I found are you can get rid of the crud the pile into your phone you never use and gain access to a lot of apps you just can't run without root. Tasker has been a lot of fun using to get rid of minor annoying tasks for me. The downside is some apps may have issues with your new rom, not many. Also when Sprint rolls out a update you have to find an updated copy of your rom if you want that update.

I didn't notice big differences, the little ones you change make you phone a lot more personalized.
[Galaxy Note II General] PsychoWhite:
Dear Friends

I wonder that if I root my device it's s pen abilities and samsung motion functions will disappear ? Or what's happens when I root my device what will disappear ? Thanks everyone

Best regards
[Galaxy Note II General] terenceng:
thanks

Great info!

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Thanks for helping!
[Galaxy Note II General] emmeon:
Nofin Will disappear. Rooting it Will enable you to use more application on ur note2
[Galaxy Note II General] Ram121:
Nothing will disappear. Only thing will change is you will get full control of your device

But before you do anything PL read about counter rise and how to reset it
[Galaxy Note II General] windows phone 8:
good

Thank you
[Galaxy Note II General] gidal:
I did mine using Odin method and rom count is showing 1 now, even with triangle away installed. Can I just redo root using this method? Would it reset the counter back, so I could get OTA updates? Thanks
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
Make sure you don't have custom kernel or recovery installed otherwise you have to first replace to stock then use triangle away
[Galaxy Note II General] oxidil:
Hello dr. Ketan

Are you moving from note 2 to note 3?
[Galaxy Note II General] gidal:
Thank you.

I'm going to attempt the restoration this weekend.

Going to follow the instructions here to the letter.

Using latest ROM from: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1896696

I don't remember what I did last time, but I think it's similar to the latest instructions.

So, the only difference is just the new ROM that will not trigger counter to +1 and ROM status to custom, right?
[Galaxy Note II General] Note2->3:
Hi,

Dear Dr. i too used M Odin, it raises the counter, so used triangle away used to make it 1.

Sir, actually what should be showned is it 0 or 1 :confused:
[Galaxy Note II General] mannyvinny:
U used TA to make it 1? It should be 0.
[Galaxy Note II General] todinaveen:
Root samsung n7100

I have upgraded my already rooted Note 2 to android 4.3. And after that I again tried to root the 4.3 from ODIN, it showed done, but the binary didn't install and the Knox was iritating me every time. So again I rooted my note 2 from ODIN to 4.3 release and my badluck all the previous data is lost.

Now I want to install Echo Rom, can u suggest me what to do. I am a novice.
[Galaxy Note II General] valessio:
I rooted using Framaroot.... This worked on 4.1.2. ME6

Inviato dal mio GT-N7100 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note II General] loorish:
thanks dr.. its work for me
[Galaxy Note II General] john.r.raynor:
Great guide, thanks!
[Galaxy Note II General] Chainfire:
You root any which way (including CWM), then flash back an original recovery ?

I used a modified stock recovery to do it, but in essence that's not much different than using CWM for this purpose.
[Galaxy Note II General] dr.ketan:
So this is ideal thing isn't? First root with custom recovery then reset counter with Triangle away

And finally flash stock recovery to keep counter '0'

Any special suggestions from you?
[Galaxy Note II General] DMax99:
Cool...so it is basically the solution that Dr k has suggested atm... :) that's fine...like I say before...I don't need to flash stock recovery and triangle away unless I need to claim my warranty....

PS...what's this modified stock recovery? Sounds like it's something of a personal use to you? Or has it been released too?

THANKS!
[Galaxy Note II General] freakboy13:
Amazing . Every day I find another reason to desire this phone!

Nice job.
[Galaxy Note II General] thatrunks:
And we hope that it's never warranty time ;)

But great stuff guys keep it going :good:

These are my stats. And I'm fine with it. When it's needed I can reset the counter (but it was not needed accordingly to the salesman of the shop, to claim it on warranty).

Product name: G-N7100

Custom Binary Download: YES (1 counts)

Current Binary: Custom

System Status: Custom
[Galaxy Note II General] jbounours:
I see no reasons for all steps above. I mean if you want root but not CWM, one would flash a pre rooted rom via odin PC and voila. Rooted. No counter issues.
[Galaxy Note II General] Narhim:
as he said... or is there a reason for all this?
[Galaxy Note II General] afilopou:
pre rooted stock rom had an issue with old bootloader (which fixed initially from Chenglu, and as i9000+bodivas released it as well) and i think these prerooted roms generate the problem with stock recovery http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=32446500&postcount=123
[Galaxy Note II General] geovass:
I am finaly rooted, stock French ROM, OTA working and flash counter 0.

Thank you dr.ketan for this thread!