I think that you may have confuse with some of my posts before. Ok I will explain the whole situation.

When I first bought my Note 2, I was on stock unrooted for more than a month, maybe almost two months, just to see how well the stock rom was. Then when the Exynos exploit was discovered and Chainfire released his ExynosAbuse app, I decided to root using this method as this the easiest way to do it.

My flash counter did not trip and maintain as 0 and the download mode was still flagged as Official but the system status was flagged as Modified. I bought Triangle Away and and run an option set the system status to be Normal again. Then DLL7 was released and I know that I can't get an OTA update so I bought Mobile Odon Pro to flash the new released DLL7 to maintain root. So I flashed and the flash counter was tripped an by using TA I managed to reset the counter, as well as the system status remains Normal.

Then our beloved joytest posted an app called Orange Backup which can do a nandroid backup without rebooting to recovery. So I decide to try it knowing it that it would trip the counter but I took the plunge. The OB managed to make all of my nandroid partitions with no problem but it tripped the counter like what I suspected. I was unable to reset the counter by using the latesr TA 2.60 and fortunately joytest had suggested to use the older TA 2.37 to reset the counter and it was a success but the system status remains as Modified. So install TA 2.60 to make my system status to Normal back gain.

So just coincidentally the DMA5 was released and I used this opportunity to flash the DMA5 with Mobile Odin Pro to retain root and getting back the system status to Normal. When I flashed the DMA5 the flash counter remains 0 and download mode status remains as Official....

hope that this will help you to understand....what a long story...

This post has been edited by tot31: Jan 27 2013, 01:48 AM

This looks like the one with the emmc brickbug. There is an xda forum for this. So I don't think we have enough data to understand whether this 0xf1 allows TA to reset counter despite a new bootloader.

my emmc also is the same like his...

Fuuhhh bro... nice long article and quoting me twice in the same paragraph hahahaha.

Good chronology, good for us old farts who can't recall who posted what, when

it has been so long since I wrote an essay... ok continue watching Spartacus Season 3...

This post has been edited by tot31: Jan 27 2013, 02:01 AM

For more tips on how to play God of War is it?

OT Spartacus should just be an epic 3hr movie with all the violence, gore and sex, rather than chopped up into 30++ episodes of Roman politics.

Hehe.. what i meant flashing other custom roms meant through CWM/Recovery, not by Odin as a firmware which included all the elements you mentioned above as a package. I flashed them separately and never cared about the flash counter which I think more than 100 on my s2

Initially I wanted to buy an AP unit but seeing my friend has to fork out additional RM700-800 to replace her cracked screen made me and decided to go for SME but heck, I am refrained from rooting it which is part of my hobby ... but thanks to tot31 long essay , I knew there's a way and gonna get my hands dirty soon when I have the time to READ through xda repository

Wow bro, never expect a detailed incident from you! I was skeptical about flashing other region firmware, concerning my flash counter would increase but I didn't know you have rooted your n2. My bad that I just glanced through your posts.

Ok, gonna try download, flash it and feel the difference! Thanks guys!!

This post has been edited by off_shore: Jan 27 2013, 02:12 AM

Seriously my flash counter has increased and I have no idea how to remove it using TA.

I'm so going to ignore it till I really need it. I hope I'm not that unlucky.

Except for bigger and sharper display, i dont really know what other things I can do with my n2 because i hardly even pulled out the stylus

All you need to care about is how to fill up your sdcard with enough stuff to last you through the salon session

hahahaha...mostly I am using the spen with Montezuma....I don't write as my hand writings are worse than the doctors', sometimes I couldn't even read what I have written...

Eagerly waiting for God Of War Ascension...

Wa i just bought this 32gb with the phone few months ago..
How did this happen..
Anyway.. m card lifetime warranty?

Sandisk has failed many here.

too bad I didn't own PS3

Looks like Sony is atoning for its past sins:

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/an-o...-sort-of-thing/

Here at XDA, we take the responsibility of carriers and OEMs to provide timely updates to their devices (and to honor their GPL requirements) seriously. There are those who do a good job (Samsung is one of them), those who don’t always do a good job (HTC, Motorola, LG), and those who do a terrible job (Huawei, ZTE, Rockchip to name a few). But there is one who right now is doing a terrific job, and that is Sony Mobile.

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So if Sony can engage the dev community meaningfully, they make get more lulz and just may thrash Samsung.

Hopefully Samsung gets the message and does not continue more screwing around with flashers (of roms) and devs.

Proper exynos source code should lead to some really wonderful stuff from the kernel devs.

Bro, even with an SME set, you will still need to fork out that money coz NOBODY provides warranty for a cracked screen.

Wonder if brotans charger cable have the same result as the stock cable.

i thought its a good m.card ?
so what should i do ?

its not that cheap..32gb summore.

btw ever since the new update or maybe before..
finally i realise battery drain faster than like 1-2 months ago

oh n fck.. i think the mcard already died when i just about to transfer
already insert and remove but this no respond on the phone ..meaning like its totally dead -.-
and i dont have adapter..so dunno whether m.card fails or sgsnote 2 m.card slot is the prob

This post has been edited by shark7: Jan 27 2013, 05:31 AM

Haha, now we have GCC to check incoming amps. Good idea syNzoR.

brotan Can you install Galaxy Charging Current from xda thread here and provide a readout report?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2112811
The readout will be helpful to determine the charging current received by the Note2. This will be beneficial to all of us.

This post has been edited by joytest: Jan 27 2013, 06:23 AM