yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Have to laugh, haven't worried about my flash counter or status for weeks and weeks.....dual booted to my Samsung Rom today and checked......unmodified and flash counter at 0! WTF?! .......Nice one Samsung! :D
[Galaxy S III General] bcuraman:
thank's

thank's man :D you're the best ;) i have done what you told and it simply worked :D now i have a custom rom ( in this case Xpower) and the device tells me that everything is official ;)
[Galaxy S III General] mossy1963:
Good to hear bcuraman
[Galaxy S III General] Eoy:
Now this is really strange. I just checked again and now it reverted back to normal, and I didn't even restart the phone. Yesterday was showing the "Modified" status...
[Galaxy S III General] dave852:
Call me an idiot but should CWM not be listed as a prerequisite? There was me leaping before looking and I get to the step that says boot into CWM recovery and wipe the cache. Where the fck does it say you have to have CWM recovery installed?
[Galaxy S III General] mossy1963:
Dave in trying to help I provided very comprehensive instructions which some have criticised for being too detailed. I could have listed as a prerequisite that you have the basic intelligence to read the guide and ensure you understand what you are doing before doing something as technical as flashing your phone.I could have started by saying make sure you are wearing clean underwear before embarking on your journey today. I'm being facetious of course. But please recognise I provided a guide to the best of my ability to help others. I take on board your observation which I appreciate and I will edit my op accordingly, thank you. However there is no need for you to jump down my throat or swear, all that said, hope you find the guide useful, have a nice day.
[Galaxy S III General] dave852:
My apologies, it was an odd hour of the night and I was annoyed with my own mistake because the phrase is obviously 'look before you leap'. Many thanks for the guide, it worked a treat. I am now however looking for a way to revert back to the stock recovery with my ultimate aim just being a stock phone without the startup sound and shutter noises.

I rooted with CF-AutoRoot on a stock ROM so didn't actually have CWM installed. I was able to use Root Explorer to delete the offending sound files and use your guide to return to unmodified status and then unrooted. Everything seems as it was after countless reboots, update on the phone reports I have the latest version and there would be no way of knowing I had ever done anything unless you listened closely or booted into recovery mode.

Thanks again.

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The following steps I feel need clarification also.

18.Note – It will boot into Triangle Away boot mode.

18.5 Once in Triangle Away mode press Volume + to reset and reboot

19.IMPORTANT – Pull out battery immediately after rebooting starts.

20.Replace battery.

21.Power ON (NOT OFF) Samsung Galaxy S3.

I was pulling the battery as it booted into Triangle Away mode as I hadn't used it before. Then I couldn't get it in to recovery mode as each time it booted it would go into Triangle Away mode instead. That little misunderstanding was time consuming.
[Galaxy S III General] carrd:
+1 I also need the above calrification. tried 3 times and still modified maybe i am doing something wrong. also could someone post a link to jaycee video so i can see how to do this in the correct way

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Ok so I have now got this to work, It didnt seem to work with CWM recovery so followed your guide but with stock recovery still factory resetting where stated and it worked.

If I restart the device will status still be normal?
[Galaxy S III General] mossy1963:
Yes, it sticks. It will only show modified status if you flash it again via pc Odin. As long as you flash via mobile Odin it will remain official unmodified. Rebooting won't affect it
[Galaxy S III General] mossy1963:
Rebooting is fine. Can't post link it's not allowed. Google will find it
[Galaxy S III General] mossy1963:
:) granting root access is fine too. In fact your phone will do all the things you normally do and status will remain normal. The only thing that will alter it is flashing via pc Odin.

Ps will pm you a link when I get access to my pc
[Galaxy S III General] Tyxerakias:
I don't doubt the original post, but are you saying that the status will remain normal even if you introduce changes in /system as root? e.g. change the framework or add library files in /system/lib?

That, I somehow doubt... have you tried it?
[Galaxy S III General] mossy1963:
I didn't quite mean that and I suspect you are correct. I meant that flashing via pc Odin will indicate modified. Flashing by mobile Odin will not. Any further normal activity will not alter status. As you say any "modification" will I suspect, but the questioner was asking about rebooting etc which is obviously ok
[Galaxy S III General] Tyxerakias:
Well that was already known... in fact, if you use the new cf-auto-root method which doesn't even touch the stock recovery, and then use triangle away as you suggest, you will be completely official in the download menu....

But I suspect that the moment you start messing around with your system files, the status menu in settings will change from normal to modified. If you use mobile odin to flash, or k-tool or kernel flasher or any other tool that doesn't need the PC and Odin, the counter will not be affected. That was a fact long ago, ever since they introduced counters in the SGS2...

The point is whether or not there is a way that lets you remain 'normal' and at the same time mess with your /system. And I suspect there isn't. There is not much point otherwise, unless you only use root to backup stuff with Titanium... I do more things with root than just backup...

However, I personally think that this whole 'panic' about unmodified status is completely and utterly unwarranted. So what if the system says modified???!! Ok, you won't be able to receive OTA upgrades. So what? If you receive an OTA upgrade, root will be lost anyway, and you will have to use Odin and Triangle Away again, and do the whole thing from the beginning.

Sure, you can use Mobile Odin with everroot to flash and remain unmodified and official, but if the only way is to use Mobile Odin, why did you want to be able to receive OTA upgrades in the first place if you're never going to use it? I mean the whole idea is just too obsessive-compulsive....

The only reason to be completely official, is if you need to return your phone for warranty purposes, or sell it. But in that case, all you have to do is unroot, use triangle away, flash an official rom, wipe, and you're back to official and normal, like when you bought it. (CF outlines the procedure here, including the 'pull the battery' tip).

I appreciate you taking the time to post the guide and tests... but seriously.... I don't understand what all the fuss is about.
[Galaxy S III General] mossy1963:
@txerakius

I actually agree with you I don't understand the panic either, but it is clearly an issue for some people, hence trying to be of help. Why did you feel the need to write all that if it's not an issue for you?.

Please don't knock it when people try to help. Enough people have found the guide useful. Instead, just move on to another thread eh?
[Galaxy S III General] onesolo:
Sorry but you are wrong...

When the UK unbranded got out, I flashed with Mobile Odin, and everything was ok, status normal, official Ok, root ok...

Almost two weeks later, I don't know what happen but unfortunately the status changed to modify and I don't know why...

Perhaps to many root apps installed?!?

Too bad... I guess I only flash roms via odin...
[Galaxy S III General] jb.traveller:
Same here, normal then modified. Why I don't know. It doesn't worry me though.
[Galaxy S III General] Tyxerakias:
Clearly my friendly post was not perceived as such, even with a 'Thanks' attached to the first post. I can choose for myself the threads I move on to, thank you very much. Perhaps instead of writing useless advice, you could enlighten people on how it is not an issue, since you 'actually agree' with me. Besides, it clearly doesn't stick, for the reasons I explained above, and as you can see in the 2 posts above this one.
[Galaxy S III General] cswije:
@ mossy,

Sir,

I tried all the steps in my friends s3.

Everything went fine. Now custom binary count = No

Firmware= official

but phone status is still "modified" :(

Any thought ? where did i went wrong
[Galaxy S III General] gadgetcraze:
Will try. Thanks for this.
[Galaxy S III General] crosis38:
MUCH APPRECIATED!! Very useful to me!!
[Galaxy S III General] kuldeephack:
hey ?

willl this mthod wok on galxy s duos ?

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flsh stock firmare ..again...this shuld wrk
[Galaxy S III General] Androidgeert:
The new version of triangle away also set status to normal.

No need to do a Factory Reset!

Geert

Verstuurd van mijn GT-I9300 met Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III General] arnie2012:
i have tried all these steps to be rooted and get normal status but doesnt work

hi, i need help,

i have followed all the steps in mossys step-by-step for ym samsung galaxy s3 i9300 to be rooted and device status back to NORMAL as its currently MODIFIED, but i can not get it to work

i am rooted, kies says my firmware is not compatable with it to download updates and the OTA on my mobile just loads and doesnt do anything

android version - 4/1/2

baseband version - i9300XXELLA

Kernal version 3.0.31-742798 se.infra@SEP-111 #1 SMPTPREEMPT SAT DEC 22 17:04:04 KST 2012

Build number JZO54K.I9300XXELLA

the device status says MODIFIED, how can i get it to say normal and everything back to normal
[Galaxy S III General] kuldeephack:
just flsh the stock firmwre phn status will become norml n u will be able to updte via kies...
[Galaxy S III General] arnie2012:
MOSSY hi sorry i forgot to add in my last post

im in ODIN mode now on my phone and it says

product name: GT-I9300

Custom Binary Download: no

Current Binary: samsung offical

system status: custom

im guessing its this system status that is stopping my OTA updates from working or kies from downloading the updates. and my device status saying MODIFIED am i right, if so how can i sort it out
[Galaxy S III General] kuldeephack:
flshin anythin custom will says sytem status modified...i was usin cwm5 on s duos so it shwd sytem status modified then i flshed the stock firmware then its shwd normal status
[Galaxy S III General] arnie2012:
what would be the stock rom for my mobile please as i dont know what it should be.

i never wrote down my rom before i starting rooting etc
[Galaxy S III General] kiwitrc:
Thanks very much for writing this up, it worked perfectly for me.
[Galaxy S III General] freethinker79:
it works,thx bro!
[Galaxy S III General] drop_by:
will definitely try this!
[Galaxy S III General] Zlappy:
This does not seem to work for me, i'm on a stock rom with root and when i use triangle away it says my system status is custom so i follow the guide and reset the counter by going in to triangle aways boot mode after that i follow the guide as it says and after i've done all the steps in clockwork mod the counter sets it self to 1 and changes my custom binary to custom and system status stays at custom... i have no idea what the hell i'm doing wrong so i'm hoping someone here might help me shed some light over the problem.
[Galaxy S III General] asdf20:
You need to flash old boot loader for this.
[Galaxy S III General] Zlappy:
Well i never unlocked my bootloader so don't know why i should need it anyhow i've done a whole factory reset of the phone where i flashed in the stock nordic rom so the bootloader should be as it where again.
[Galaxy S III General] Nexxus23:
Hi Guys!

I try to set back the status of my S3 I9300 so that I can clame warranty.

I did the following steps

1. put an original samsung ROM on my i9300

2. rooted it

3. put Phils Touch Recovery on it

4. downgraded to an older Bootloader: Restore_Bootloader_XXBLFB.zip

5. Installed Triangel Away and used it to reset flash

6. pulled immediately battery after Triangle Away made the changes

7. made a factory reset + cache wipe in recovery

when I now check in download mode i get:

CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No

CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official

SYSTEM STAUS: Custom

I think "SYSTEM STAUS" should not be "Custom", right?

Can anybody help how I can get the SYSTEM STATUS to a "good" value?

Or does it change automatically if restore again with ODIN to the original samsung ROM, restore the original recovery and unroot?
[Galaxy S III General] Nexxus23:
ok, problem solved.

I flashed the original Samsung ROM and now SYSTEM STATUS shows "Original"
[Galaxy S III General] rogerxcamargo:
wow thanks man, worked!
[Galaxy S III General] vickyg.coolest:
thanks for this thread

i had red exclamation mark on boot every time since i rooted s3

i thought tringle away will remove it but after resetting the counts to 0 i didn't get rid of red !

then i tried this

1 counters to 0

2 pulled the battery

3 dirctly booted in download mod

4 flashed stock rom without wiping anything

5 rebooted again with all setting as it was but the root was gone (it was actually supposed to be gone )

6 status was still modified

but in download mod it says counts 0 and system status official

The red exclamation mark is gone

but system status in settings is modified

guess i have to wipe system to get system status original

or is there a work around >??
[Galaxy S III General] Abhiroy:
Hey (Gt i9300)

I have a lil problem...I rooted my phone then the other day I officially updated my phone to android 4.3 with Odin 3.07 ...the status is showing official but my binary count is 1...can you plz tell me how to make it zero..my phone is not rooted now..I dont have super user or any of that stuff...reply ...

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] thadoukuki:
I followed this guidr to the letter but Phone status is this custom. Rooted with official kernel and recovery.
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
Update TA

Run TA

In recovery format system data cache sdcard.

Boot to download mode and flash stock firmware .
[Galaxy S III General] thadoukuki:
...and I will be back to non - rooted stock ROM. ??? Read the OP properly once again and try to understand what the thread aims at.

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Please PM me the link of the video tutorial. Will the status be still official even after zips using cwm recovery?
[Galaxy S III General] dratif:
I flashed smartdroid Rom and i lost root access.

It says update SU binary.when i select CWM.it goes to recovery and do nothing.can anyone help me.please
[Galaxy S III General] nainaabd:
is this method tested using stock 4.3 rooted with cwm?or it only work on 4.1.2 as i tried many times using 4.3 but fail .:(

Edit:sucess after switching diff cus rom .
[Galaxy S III General] micr0shaft:
Hi im in the same situation you were stock 4.3 rooted with latest touch cwm and getting nowhere could you tell me what cfw you switched to please, I am trying to get screen mirroring working for my daughter but facing the HW dev error related to root.

CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: Yes (2 counts)

CURRENT BINARY: Custom

SYSTEM STATUS: Official

Tia
[Galaxy S III General] nainaabd:
Flashing custom rom JustarchiNA7/MK6 and using triangle away should solve your problem.:laugh:

In my experience the stock firmware (rooted ) cannot reset but after changing to above rom problem solved .

<<reference >>

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/general/fix-s3-to-factory-unroot-stock-recovery-t2323847

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s3/general/bolehland-malaysian-siii-discussion-t1891048/page45
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abdobasha:
I have a big problem with all jellybeen roms

Phone was showing black screen without responses to home button or power button, then prolonged pressing of power button would bring back the bootup logo (so i guess it was off). I encountered this issue with all jellybeen roms

sorry for my bad english
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
u mean to say that when u off the screen and then later u try to unlock the phone and it goes off?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abdobasha:
no when i off the screen and try to unlock the phone it showing black screen and must be press power button a lot until screen working or pressing long to restart
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rivan_92:
If youre on a safe kernel, do a full wipe.. Maybe that fixes it..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
yes that or go back to stock rom and check if the power button is behaving ok

and then install again from scratch...
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abdobasha:
full wipe + format system when i install any jellybeen rom with safe kernal

and i go back to stock rom and power button was ok but when i installed any JB rom again i face this problem
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
have not come across many such issues and that too common issues on jb.

have u tried installing latest jb roms like pa or cream&cookies or slimbean etc?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abdobasha:
i installed Pa & cm10 & super nexus& slimben and all of them i face this problem
[Nexus S Themes and Apps] alfay13:
Does anyone have an apk for a version of Facebook prior to the last 2 or 3 updates? The newer versions won't work on my phone at all. The feed doesn't load when I scroll down to see older posts.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mocsab:
I have seen a variety of posts in various threads about people not being able to get GPS connections and blaming the ROM they were on the for the problem - I imagine that sometimes that could be the reason but something happened to me recently that makes me wonder...

I am a flashaholic - often going back and forth between various ROMS via Nandroid back ups - all was good - then recently I noticed my GPS wasn't working. I thouht it was the rom - but no matter what I did I could not fix it. I tried installing other roms - totally clean install - I tried flashing back to rooted stock and no matter what I tried, GPS did not work.

I don't know where I saw it, but I finally saw a post from someone who suggested fixing it by going back to stock via odin - I tried that and it didnt work either - digging a little deeper someone suggested using odin to going back to pure stock then go into settings and do a factory restore.

I tried it - and it worked - took me virtually all day to figure it out - but it is working better than ever now - I wish I knew what caused it in the first place - but at least I found a somewhat reasonable solution.

If you have lost your GPS and can't get it working again - give it a shot -

Does anyone else have any other suggestiions that might work?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Tyie101:
This is correct. I had this exact same issue and this worked for me as well.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mocsab:
Do you know why it happend in the first place? Was it the result of a specific Rom or just flashing in general?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] wwevoxnj:
Thats what i found that worked for me too. It only worked after i went into settings and reset the phone after odin.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrhaley30705:
I heard it was sprint based leaks on the s3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] capercb:
pure stock ?? can you explain ..thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] frelnik:
I recently lost my GPS after flashing a Sprint-based ROM. Unfortunately, ODIN back to stock and factory reset from the Settings menu (and from recovery) did not bring back my GPS.

However, I followed a suggestion from this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1923067

I used ODIN to go back to a rooted stock ROM, installed CWM, installed the Sprint-based ROM that seemed to have been the source of the trouble. My GPS started working again. I then used CWM to restore a stock nandroid backup I had from earlier and GPS continued to work thereafter in any ROM I flashed.

There may be a simpler process, but that's what worked for me.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mocsab:
Now that I thnk of it, I also had flashed a Sprint Based rom - that must have triggered my original issue - I explained what I did to restore my GPS at the start of this thread _ and it is similar to what you described - execept I did not odin to a SPRINT rom - I used ODIN to bak to pure stock - then did a factory restore - (and this second step is what seemed to do the trick) then I re-rooted and went backto my happy days of flashing roms - I haven't had an issue since.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] amzi:
so what all of you are saying its only because you flashed that sprint leak and thats why ur gps was all jacked up?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rpavich:
Well...that may not be the cause but it's a common denominator. I did and I had to flash back to stock and factory wipe to get mine back.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] frelnik:
It definitely seems to be a common element to most of these GPS issues. I'm not sure why, in some cases, all it takes is a factory reset in stock to fix it, while others have to re-install the Sprint ROM first. Either way, though, it seems like in most cases, it's user-fixable.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] vw671:
Got the GPS death syndrome today. Flashed a ton of stock ICS nandroid backups without any luck. Finally fixed it after flashing a Sprint JB ROM nandroid then back to ICS. Such a werid issue.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] NYYFan02:
Why flash a Sprint ROM on an ATT phone though?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] vw671:
Because its the only official US Jelly Bean released at the moment.

It was one of the many backups I had. Don't know why it fixed it but it did.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xtwo:
I have the same issue. Now to flash a stock rom using Odin, do you have to use the toolkit? Also where can I download a Rogers stock rom from?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] capercb:
finally after losing gps and reading thread after thread got it to work , thank you to the guys that personally try to help , dont know why it struck this time but it did , now i will try to bring it back to stock , again thanks , by the way the rom i was using to bring it back was serenity 1.1 which i use before but wouldn't stick...:good:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mrhaley30705:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1968625

Canadian roms are on page 2
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xtwo:
Gps still not working

I downloaded the stock Rogers rom and using Odin through toolkit I flashed the stock rom on my Rogers s3. The root is gone and it's back on stock but I still can't use gps. Also now I'm also unable to use ttorents :( What else can I do to fix this issue?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] frelnik:
If your problem started after installing a Sprint-based ROM, then root your phone, install CWM and then install that same Sprint ROM. Your GPS will probably work after that. You can then restore a Nandroid backup of another ROM. That's how a lot of us were able to fix our GPS.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] yooitschuck:
thanks for figuring this out, I've been struggling to get it working a few days now
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Alekos:
I never thought this would happen to me, but it did.

I was trying out hellfire rom with lean kearnel and JT inverted gapps, and after that no gps.

I've tried all stock ROMs (I'm on Rogers) and no go (restored stock by odin, full wipes after installing stock etc)

does anyone have any other suggestions? I think it was the Kernel - should I try reflashing the modem maybe?