[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] DocHoliday77:
Hey man! Thank you for taking the time to write all of this up here. Admittedly I suppose I did drop the ball on keeping up with some other related threads such as yours for Triangle Away. I had checked it when a lot of this had started showing up for us a couple of weeks ago and I saw a lot of the same questions that we were running into here. Between the holidays and trying to figure it out on my own here, well, I should of taken the extra time to check. But still, thank you for the answers and for all of your work!

My primary goal of all of this wasn't to necessarily defeat the counter or SysScope, (the warranty issue was easy to figure out here) but to find a way to get DRM protected media working again. Apparently even after running Triangle Away, it still will not work. Its as though once the counters been tripped, or system status set to modified once, the damage has been done, so to speak.

The problem that we are still having is there are people reporting that even after resetting the counter back to 0, their DRM content still wont work. (But they say it did after rooting, before tripping the counter with a custom recovery). Basically its forcing them to reflash their firmware to be able to watch a movie. (Note that I have not personally verified this, but was planning to try it myself this weekend).

It kind of sounds like you are saying that this shouldn't happen if SysScope and the framework code is removed? Just curious here, but what about removing SysScope and libcordon? I'm assuming that the embedded code you are talking about is also dependent on this library?

In short, what needs to be done to be able to still view protected media, but still be rooted and preferably be able to have at least a custom kernel?

I will check your thread to see if this was already figured out as well later this afternoon....

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You mentioned that Mobile Odin will not trip the counter when flashing a .zip file. I hate to say that this has not been my experience. I have verified that on my current setup a regular reboot will not trip the counter, as I am running stock unmodified kernel and recovery. However, when I flash any zip file, I check in Triangle Away and Download mode and the counter now says 1. Run Triangle Away and reset back to 0, then after doing another standard reboot, the counter remains at 0. I have tried flashing a mod, an app, and reflashing the unmodified kernel. All of them trigger the counter for me when flashing in Mobile Odin.

I guess its possible I'm too tired and I'm missing something, but I don't think so. And please don't get me wrong! I am in no way knocking Mobile Odin. It's not a big deal to me and it isn't something I ever worry about, but I thought I should at least point it out. I'm not exaggerating a bit when I say M.O. has easily been my overall favorite app for some time now! (I probably annoy folks sometimes trying to get them to use it instead of standard recoveries, i.e. see my fw thread)

I agree 100% about using it in place of CWM and TWRP. The only thing I use them for anymore is for the nandroid. (I like having it available on my phone since I'm not always at a computer when I'm messing around with it!)

Again, thank you for your post here. And I never want to bug you with just a 'thanks' post, so I want to also thank you here for all of the outstanding work you do, especially on Mobile Odin as well as your various other apps! I'm loving PerfMon too, btw! :cowboy: