In 2005, Sony was found to have installed rootkits on customer's PCs when you played a music CD you bought from them. This was an attempt to control what you can and cannot play on YOUR OWN PC. They did this twice if I'm not mistaken.

And furthermore, you look at Sony stuff, they usually tend to make it totally incompatible with anything else (micro four-thirds vs alpha), and they fought HD-DVD with BD-ROM. HD-DVD was backwards compatible with DVD, and royalty free I think. Sony pushed BD-ROM with royalties to them...and go see VHS vs Betamax...

So, HTC with locked bootloaders which are unlockable, s-on/s-off which are well known methods sound a lot less aggressive in screwing users over than Sony.

I remember that, last time Sony Ericsson phones used to have a very tiny Memory Stick Micro M2 card slot .. .which is not standard. Other branded phones all using micro sd only. When switch to new phone other than Sony, have to re-buy the memory card... price wise, expensive lor, but product quality great.

And If i'm not mistaken, many years back. Samsung phones price no more than RM2,000.. now... Note 2... 

Please share share.

Just installed it and running it at the moment...it requires 2GB of space for the backup.

It's using its own recovery from without needing a reboot? Cool eh.

Can intro to all the fearful newbies.

2Gb is pretty standard for JB TW roms in Note2.

In contrast, my Mediapad JB CM10 rom is only 185mb in size

yup really cool...in 5 minutes time kawtim already..



Just copied the backup to my 16GB external microsd..just to be safe...

S*IT my counter tripped....just what I suspected....

Running mine now. Why would your counter trip? Due to loading its own recovery?

Yes, seems that this application will install it's own recovery. Counter will trip whenever any custom recovery is flashed. Now in Download Mode my status is Custom and in the system is Modified...

Triangle away then Odin reflash of recovery?

Orange Backup ? Looks cool and easy . 2 mins tot31 ? That's pretty fast . Even TWRP takes longer ........ Anyway , just flash a custom ROM for Wave3 . Blardy hell , for those who are scare of using Odin to flash , Bada is worst x 10 times .

Even TA also cannot reset it....need to return to stock then use TA then everything will be fine.

Orange Backup ? Looks cool and easy . 2 mins tot31 ? That's pretty fast . Even TWRP takes longer ........ Anyway , just flash a custom ROM for Wave3 . Blardy hell , for those who are scare of using Odin to flash , Bada is worst x 10 times .

I use TA 2.37, it reset mine. Coz otherwise I can't run my Allshare. Tried after Orange, confirmed counter was 1, Allshare won't work. TA 2.37....works again

v2.37 seems to be the magic version.

Not 2 mins but 5 mins only, yeah pretty fast. This app is really cool, don't need to reboot in to recovery mode to do backup. Bada ?? never heard of it. Mind sharing any links for it.

I recall that old Samsung phones had some ancestor to Kies that was not entirely compatible with anything else, and needed a proprietary cable.

Ok if that is the case I have to downgrade to TA 2.37 then. How about your system status? is it Modified or Normal.

Status is modified.

In download mode, the 3rd value is Normal though.

In the current TA v2.55 I think, it tries to fool the checker service to revert status to Normal while in the OS, but it only works for a few hours.

not really , Samsung really make a screw up with their own firmware , Bada . Worst stll for 2.0 . U cant install apps unless u dl it from Samsung Apps . If u wanna install it without downloading , u have to flash it in . Here is an example below to flash any rom . . . If wanna flash theme , use this program or even install apps .