I already rooted my t999. I have voided my warranty. My phone is slightly defective. How do I make it so that I am running the official OS of the t999 and make it so they can't tell I rooted my device? Will triangle away fix my warranty? If that will then also how do I get back on the official OS of the t999? (I want to be able to use my warranty)
Triangle away to reset counter. Odin stock ICS then install JB over the air. The files are in android development under docs pinned thread.
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Right now I am on stock rom i.e. S5360DDLA1...Can anybody tell me if I will move to a custom rom through CWM, I will void my warranty or not??? and then if I reflashed my y with stock rom through odin, I will get warranty back or not???
And what about the Custom binary counter, do samsung really cares about that???
definitely will void your warranty, don't know much if flashing back your original ROM will get back your warranty.. that will depend if they will not notice that you did some changes in your phone(customizing your phone)
Happy New Year Everyone! I have someting I have been trying to do. I did the OTA update to 4.3 that included knox, yes I know stupid. I only did it because I have Tmobile JUMP and I want to return it to tmobile after 6 months and purchase a nexus 5. The question is, How can I root and flash a rom without tripping knox? I am ok about the flash counter because I have triangle away. But if there is ANY way to do this please respond as I want a non OEM rom.
I have a Tmobile Galaxy S 4 ( SGH-M919)
Thank You
Happy New Year!
There's no way as of this writing to test Knox counter.
Someone stated using Saferoot didn't trip the Knox so you might want to look into that.
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I dont think Triangle Away is compatible for 4.3. Rooting should be out of the question if you don't want to lose your warranty.
I've been contemplating this and have a sort of similar situation but not that similar. I want to flash my s4 but I updated it to the 4.3 update via Kies and obviously Knox has been installed. Now, my situation at hand is I have insurance through T-mobile to cover accidental damage and because of a drop the bottom left corner of the screen is cracked and over time I just started plucking the shards out and eventually just exposed the entire menu button side to the corner of the screen itself.
Now if I were to flash CF-Auto Root and then install CWM and CM11, will T-mobile still honor the Insurance?
Or if I were to Odin back to the stock mdl or mk2 rom, would they still take the phone back.
I don't see why not. Insurance is totally different than warranty.
Since you updated to 4.3 via Kies, you can Odin back to stock mk2 but not mdl.
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I don't see why not. Insurance is totally different than warranty.
Since you updated to 4.3 via Kies, you can Odin back to stock mk2 but not mdl.
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Makes plenty of sense considering I'm paying for a service than not. Thanks, that clarified a bit of my doubt.
Hello everybody,
My current device is a Captivate, and I'm thinking about upgrading to an i747. After doing some research in the forums I found out about knox, but find it a little bit confusing, let's see..
1) Has there been any known cases of devices that were shipped with a knox bootloader?
2) In a i747, what does a knox bootloader look like in Download Mode (as opposite to a non-knox one, does it say knox warranty void or something else?)
3) This is where I'm most confused. If you've got a knox bootloader, then you can't downgrade it, and can't flash anything except for new official otas? would anything except the ota void it? can you flash CM11 for example? and if it's void, that means that it's a hard brick? or does it still work? Can you go foward if it's void (again, like cm11)?
4) Let's say the one I get comes with 4.0, I can root and move freely between CM and stock as long as I don't flash 4.3?
I also have the option to go for a S4 Mini, but given it has the same issue and similar hw.. love the S3 screen
Thanks in advance!
Samsung s3, s4, Note 3, etc. that shipped with 4.3 will include Knox.
If the device shipped with Knox, you will see something like warranty bit in the text at the top of the download screen.
If you have a knox bootloader, you cannot downgrade to an earlier bootloader but you can still install a custom recovery and custom ROMs which voids the warranty but does not brick the phone.You can flash any ROM you want with a 4.3 Knox bootloader as long as the ROM does not try to flash a new bootloader.
If you have a stock 4.3 phone and try to load anything that is not official Samsung software, it will trigger the knox counter (change from 0 to 1 or 0x0 to 0x1) and void your warranty. At the moment, there is no way to reset the knox counter to 0.
Yes, if you get a 4.04 phone, you can install a custom recovery, custom ROM, and move freely among custom ROMs if these ROMs are support but the installed bootloader.
I have done all of this with an i747m (Bell version of the s3).
That's crystal clear, I was confused and thought that if you had knox and flashed anything else over it it would brick... but I see now, just avoid bootloaders.
Thanks!
I have a Hungarian N7105 which randomly reboots - it's been doing it since the day I took it out of the box. I've done the usual cache clear, and no change. It's running stock 4.1.2 (XXDMB2).
Samsung's warranty advice is to update it to the latest version before sending it in, and indeed some forum comments suggest that a later ROM will fix the reboot problem. However, if I do that, presumably I will activate Knox? I'd rather not do that because I might want to flash something else later on.
So is there a way I can flash something like CyanogenMod instead in a way that will leave no traces if I have to send it in for warranty? I'd be going straight from 4.1 so will I avoid tripping the Knox fuses? To revert to stock afterwards this presumably means reflashing the recovery to be stock, locking the bootloader again and unrooting? Is this all possible?
I've been reading dozens of threads and am a bit confused by the combinations of Knox, warranty, 4.1, bootloader unlock, rooting and third-party firmware, how they all relate with each other, and how to unpick everything back to stock.
Thanks...
NOOB alert!
Please forgive me in advance if this question is totally off the mark.
I've been using Fenny's 4.4.2 ROM for a while, under the impression that it is MDL based and I'd still be able to flash back to stock 4.2 if needed, and set the flash count back to 0 -- i.e. keep the warranty.
If I'm totally wrong and my warranty is already voided, can any of you let me know? I can then begin playing with custom roms to my heart's content!
If I was right ... anyway to enjoy any 4.4.4 ROM without voiding the warranty (i.e. with the ability to move back to something which will not have tripped the switch)? If yes, where can I find that info, or can you post detailed instructions?
[I've read that if I switch to MK2 there is no way to keep the warranty if I root. That true? I see many roms claiming to have removes knox ... does that help? ]
I thank you in advance for bearing with me.
It all depends which boot loader your phone has.
If your phone was on the 4.2 MDL firmware, it has no Knox counter active, and you can flash away without making any permanent changes. Note, the firmware on the phone isn't the same as the ROM... for example, I'm using a 4.4.4 ROM (Dirty Unicorns) on my phone which still has the 4.2 MDL firmware. So, if I wanted to, I could return it to stock and there would be no sign it ever was used in a nonstandard way.
However, any newer firmware version on the phone has the Knox counter that gets permanently, irreversibly tripped if you flash a nonstandard recovery (such as the TWRP or CWM most of us use). So, in these phones, there's no way to play with ROMs without making irreversible changes.
Marc