[monkpit]

If you could factory-reset to the original firmware on internal ROM (with buggy xml parser), wouldn’t you still get stuck in the boot loop?

They way I understood it, the write up in the article says that the XML is downloaded and parsed during boot.

Edit: I guess if you disabled network access you could boot. Derp

[molticrystal]

If they included a factory reset, a good one besides being accessible early in the boot process, would erase and restore the filesystem on the flash chip to how it originally shipped. So that policy file will either be erased or a safe default.

Then you just keep it offline until Samsung fixes the file on their server so you don't have to reset it again. They fixed it a few days later so it is safe now, so even old firmware should be safe to go online.