For all those who are having a T Mobile Galaxy S2 SGH T989 or Telus T989D and are feared of installing various custom or beta roms just for a reason that the device stores the reset / flash counter can now feel free as in the due course of this article we will be providing you with a work around which will help you to reset the same just with the help of a simple tutorial. Please note that this process can only be applied to the phones which are mentioned above. Please be informed that for applying this work around, you need to ensure that the device is rooted . All the instructions mentioned in the due course should be mentioned and no step should be skipped or else you may face issues.
Disclaimer: Neither we, nor developer should be held responsible for any damage happened to your device in the process of following the instructions mentioned in this article. It’s very unlikely that there will be any issues but just in case if at all there are any issues then we are committed to help you in solving the same, all you need to do is to just report the same in the comments section.
Essential Pre Requisites:
- Download the corresponding Zip file for your T Mobile or TELUS mobile from here to your computer. You need to ensure that your phone is rooted and the Clock Work Mod recovery should be installed in your device as this procedure requires the same.
- All the data present in your phone should be backed up as in the process of applying this update, the data might get either lost or corrupted. With the help of below mentioned steps you can easily backup the same. Please note that this step is not a compulsory step but we recommend you to back up the same for a safer side.
SMS – Use “SMS Backup & Restore app”,
Contacts – Sync with the Gmail application,
Call Log – Call Log and Restore
Images, Songs, Videos, Files – Copy to internal / External SD Card,
APN and MMS Settings – Note down from the path “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”
- Minimum charge left in the device should be at least 60% so as to ensure that device doesn’t get turned Off in the middle of firmware update.
- Disable all the antivirus suites in your computer and uninstall the same in your device as these tools generally tend to interrupt the process of firmware update.
- Enable the USB Debugging in your SAMSUNG Galaxy S2 GT I9100 from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”. The USB Debugging option should be ticked.
So assuming that you have gone through all the above mentioned things, you can now proceed to the next page where we have mentioned a detailed tutorial on how to reset the flash counter in your phone.
