Feared of the thing called “Flash Counter” in your Samsung Galaxy Note I717 smartphone powered with AT&T, Telus, Rogers or with Bell network? Not any more you need to think about it, in the due course of this article we will be checking out on how one can easily reset this flash counter. Over a period of this article we will be checking out on how you can easily reset the flash counter to 0. Flash counter basically gives the exact number of times to SAMSUNG on how many times you have applied the beta / custom firmwares in your device. This trick will only work on the rooted devices or on the phones who are on the custom ROM firmwares.
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.
Pre Requisites:
- Though there will be no data loss until and unless you clear or wipe the same which you need to do in the due course of the process, we recommend you to back up all the data present in your phone so as to ensure that just in case if any data is lost or corrupted, the same can be restored easily.
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 Note I71 from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”. The USB Debugging option should be ticked.
Assuming that you have followed all the above mentioned instructions, you can now head to the next page where we have mentioned a detailed tutorial on how to reset the flash counter with a simple tutorial.
