it's been a while since i exchanged a handset under warranty through t-mob. Besides unrooting, do i need to reset the flash counter? have they gotten smarter? thanks
Dint forget to use this to reset the counter
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.triangleaway
Why is the right door always locked?
Quick question. I couldn't reset the custom binary counter except back to 1 using triangle away. I got the phone to say "official" everywhere else and in DL mode it says my current binary is official. I am unrooted now as well. I have a couple issues with my phone that aren't root related ( dirty prox sensor and a degraded weak signal unless I am really close to a tower). Tmo is sending me a warranty replacement phone next week. Will they reject my phone that I am sending in since it was rooted and says that I had a custom binary at one point? Thanks in advance.
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bump. bueller... bueller...
Any help would be appreciated, my question is sort of urgent.
If you are still on 4.1.x bootloader then you can use triangle away app to reset the counter.
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ciphercodes said:
If you are still on 4.1.x bootloader then you can use triangle away app to reset the counter.
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when I was on 4.1 I couldn't reset it to 0. I tried over and over again trying multiple times in different ways. no dice. I wasn't even able to make it say "official" in the "about device" section of settings. So I said screw it and just updated to 4.3 and everything is stock except the flash counter. I am afraid of re-rooting and using triangle away again just because I don't want it to trip the counter again and say "modified".
On 4.1.x, counter will trip if you have a custom ROM, recovery or kernel.
I do not think as of now there is a way to reset binary counter on 4.3 bootloader.
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rfail1988 said:
when I was on 4.1 I couldn't reset it to 0. I tried over and over again trying multiple times in different ways. no dice. I wasn't even able to make it say "official" in the "about device" section of settings. So I said screw it and just updated to 4.3 and everything is stock except the flash counter. I am afraid of re-rooting and using triangle away again just because I don't want it to trip the counter again and say "modified".
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First, factory reset the device.
Second, odin MrRobinson's root66 rom (4.1.x). This will return the factory recovery and leave you rooted.
Third, install triangle away apk. You will have to allow unknown sources.
Fourth, triangle away and reset counter.
Fifth, unroot and factory reset.
Once this is done, check the flash counter. Should be reset. If so, put it in a box and ignore it until you send it back. You could also take the ota and use it...
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
A good way to check (unfortunately) to see your root status is to use T-Mobiles device health (should be on your phone somewhere) and it will tell you if you are rooted or not.
Lol if that is their way of checking then I am good to go, I am not rooted. I am afraid to install mrrobinsons stock rooted ROM because I think it might trip the knox counter... Is that right?
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By the way I am on the 4.3 boot loader so there isn't going back...
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rfail1988 said:
Lol if that is their way of checking then I am good to go, I am not rooted. I am afraid to install mrrobinsons stock rooted ROM because I think it might trip the knox counter... Is that right?
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By the way I am on the 4.3 boot loader so there isn't going back...
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Honestly I don't know. Are you running official 4.3 now? If not and you're on 4.1.x and you like it then stay on it. I can say I did not see anything worth while going to 4.3 (that is me personally).
To check your "Device Health" you need to go to:
Apps > T-Mobile My Account > Device Health (Beta) > History > Device Diagnostics Report > scroll down to the header that says "Rooting" and it will tell you if your device is rooted or not.
My Note 2 says its rooted even though I installed the official OTA from T-Mobile.
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Keep in mind I have not tripped the boot loader, no triangle count, no knox count and my device status reads official.
Yeah, the only reason I even give a crap about the counters is because I am sending my phone back to tmo for a warranty replacement. I am just worried they will reject me and charge me the full price for the replacement phone since my flash counter is at 1... But my Knox counter is still 0.
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rfail1988 said:
Yeah, the only reason I even give a crap about the counters is because I am sending my phone back to tmo for a warranty replacement. I am just worried they will reject me and charge me the full price for the replacement phone since my flash counter is at 1... But my Knox counter is still 0.
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Sorry, I missed the part where you ota'd. KNOX is irreversible. I don't know what you're options are.
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Coug76 said:
Sorry, I missed the part where you ota'd. KNOX is irreversible. I don't know what you're options are.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
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Well one option is IF you have accidential damage on your line to use that. I'm not advocating that one let their accidential insurance covered phone get run over by a bus or something...BUT if that were to happen Tmobile would replace it for you.
The problems mentioned by rail88 seem to be hardware related, not sure why Samsung would deny warranty when KNOX counter is still untouched.
But again its up to rail88 to try different options but my personal opinion is that any such attempt may cause more harm than good.
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Yeah I agree cipher. I hope they wouldn't be so petty but I will just take my chances and not mess with it. I think I will be safer and keep more counters from tripping if I just leave it alone.
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So did T-mo accept the phone?
I've been itching to try a new rom on my T-mobile Note 2 but hesitate because of warrantee issues so I was wondering how T-mobile treated you on that phone, I case I have to do the same thing I might know what to expect.
Thanks in advance.
John
rfail1988 said:
Yeah I agree cipher. I hope they wouldn't be so petty but I will just take my chances and not mess with it. I think I will be safer and keep more counters from tripping if I just leave it alone.
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i need to unroot my s3 for warranty purposes but i cannot find proper procedures for the the model sgh-t999v..
i have 2 questions,
1. can i just root a stock rom for sgh-t999 to my sgh-t999v?
2. anyone have the procedures to unroot my sgh-t999v
thanks
Flash a stock rooted Rom. T-Mobile one. That seems to be ok as long as you don't flash a T-Mobile radio.
Not sure if triangle away works on the Canadian version.
Maybe someone else has tried it.
All I had to do to return my last one was flash a stock rooted Rom.
I don't think they check the flash counter
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If the Rom has some T-Mobile bloat left on it get it off there.
Hide superuser in a folder
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Thanks, ill try it tonight
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Or you can download the actual fw for your device. You will have to register but its no big deal.
Www.sammobile.com/firmware
11 Years Ago Today...
WE WILL NEVER FORGET!!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!​
I can see you have a Videotron Galaxy S3. They don't check the flash counter. Let's just say I know this "by experience". As long as it's just rooted and you don't have any custom ROM, you should be fine. But indeed if you can at least hide the SU app it would be a good thing.
You could also perform a factory reset in CWM prior to going to the store, as they will make you do it anyways (and you actually don't want them to see the CWM screen)prior to any exchange. It's company policy.
lightpsycho said:
I can see you have a Videotron Galaxy S3. They don't check the flash counter. Let's just say I know this "by experience". As long as it's just rooted and you don't have any custom ROM, you should be fine. But indeed if you can at least hide the SU app it would be a good thing.
You could also perform a factory reset in CWM prior to going to the store, as they will make you do it anyways (and you actually don't want them to see the CWM screen)prior to any exchange. It's company policy.
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It's still probably safer to just use Triangle Away to get rid of the flash counter
Triangle away? Please explain
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yukuansu said:
Triangle away? Please explain
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Heres everything to know about triangle away, it resets the flash counter...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1494114
Jake
T-Mobile & SGH-T999V
Hi,
Can we use the T-Mobile stock recovery on SGH-T999V?
flyerspat said:
Hi,
Can we use the T-Mobile stock recovery on SGH-T999V?
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If your trying to go back to stock, just download the stock rom from sammobile, it has everything you need like stock recovery, and then just flash it via odin.
htc fan89 said:
If your trying to go back to stock, just download the stock rom from sammobile, it has everything you need like stock recovery, and then just flash it via odin.
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Hi,
The only downloads availables are the firmwares, does it include the stock recovery in it?
flyerspat said:
Hi,
The only downloads availables are the firmwares, does it include the stock recovery in it?
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Yes it should be the full fw which includes radio, recovery and more.
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Thanks!
I'll test it tonight, wouldn't look good to download a 700 mb file at work!
I tried a few firmwares, but for some reason they all said "unsupport dev_type" when trying to use odin to return to stock non root (from stock rooted) In the end, the easiest way to remove root was to just let Kies update my gs3 to Jelly Bean (sgh-t999v). Painless, no data loss, took about 30 minutes with the firmware download.
Good luck
You will likely also want to triangle away. I won't link because it's extremely dangerous software that requires you to read up on the risks.
But that will reset your custom flashes assuming you have some on your counter you can check easily by going into download mode.
i recently lost my stock rom backup.. deleted it off clockworkmod touch by accident, so i only have the cm10.1 nightly i was running when i deleted it.. now i'm assuming i will lose root if i flash the stock firmware through odin? is there another way to get my stock rom back without losing root (and cyanogenmod rom backups)?
hey guys im having trouble with triangle away on my sgh-t999v with the baseband version: T999VVLUFNF1
after I used triangle away and I go into download mode it says:
current binary: Samsung Official
System status: official
qualcomm secureboot:enable
Warranty Bit:1
Bootloader AP SWAEV: 2
Although the current binary and the system status have changed the warranty bit is still at 1
Please help!
There is no way (and never will be a way) to change the Warranty Bit. Sorry
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There is no way (and never will be a way) to change the Warranty Bit. Sorry
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I guess im screwed for warranty..I thought it might be cuz I have a custom kernal installed that triangle away didnt work..but thanks anyway and sorry about posting in multiple threads, im kinda new to this
No problem, thats why i mention it, so you know for the future.
Tecnically, with the warranty bit tripped, the warranty is void. However, i have seen a lot of posts where people sent it in anyway and their warranty was still honored. Its not a guarantee, but there is hope it can be used if needed. The good thing though, is you most likely will never need to use it anyway!
I just bought this. I'm not too familiar with T-Mobile's LTE version. Does this come with a locked boot loader? I use to have this phone on Verizon. But I feel like a noob again because it's a different carrier variant lol.
What's the easiest & latest way to root & also UNroot the phone? Flash recoveries, and reset binary count.
T-Mobile bootloaders are not locked. All other answers can be found in my T999L thread.
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Sweet thank you doc!
nope
no sir!! the bootloader is not locked at all!
I bought this phone off of swappa. The dude who owned this before had it modded. He flashed the Rom back to stock but the binary count isn't reset. I attempted to reset the binary count with "Triangle Away App". It goes through and does it's thing. After I reboot/restart the phone, it tells me the binary count is 1. So I try to flash the stock kernel, and then I flashed stock recovery in Odin to see if that was the problem. The binary reset still won't stick. Can anybody help me out?
I want to go back to complete stock, no root. Stock TouchWiz, stock recovery, stock kernel, reset binary count incase the phone messes up or something and I wanna take it back for warranty/issues. That's my goal here. Can anybody help me out? Not just links to what I need but actual step by step instructions because what I'm doing is not working.
Thank Me Later said:
I bought this phone off of swappa. The dude who owned this before had it modded. He flashed the Rom back to stock but the binary count isn't reset. I attempted to reset the binary count with "Triangle Away App". It goes through and does it's thing. After I reboot/restart the phone, it tells me the binary count is 1. So I try to flash the stock kernel, and then I flashed stock recovery in Odin to see if that was the problem. The binary reset still won't stick. Can anybody help me out?
I want to go back to complete stock, no root. Stock TouchWiz, stock recovery, stock kernel, reset binary count incase the phone messes up or something and I wanna take it back for warranty/issues. That's my goal here. Can anybody help me out? Not just links to what I need but actual step by step instructions because what I'm doing is not working.
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I'd flash Root66 image (which is rooted stock TW) to the phone via ODIN. That typically also flashes Stock Recovery. Confirm that has happened. If not the counter will trip each reboot despite Triangle away resetting it.
If you are now in a position with Root66 plus Stock recovery, then reset the counter and then reboot to confirm it has. If it did, uninstall Superuser/supersu app, Triangle away and Voila! you are ready for warranty exchange.
P.S. - Check if the phone still gets bars. We have heard some horror stories of people selling their phone and then reporting it stolen for free replacement.
Perseus71 said:
I'd flash Root66 image (which is rooted stock TW) to the phone via ODIN. That typically also flashes Stock Recovery. Confirm that has happened. If not the counter will trip each reboot despite Triangle away resetting it.
If you are now in a position with Root66 plus Stock recovery, then reset the counter and then reboot to confirm it has. If it did, uninstall Superuser/supersu app, Triangle away and Voila! you are ready for warranty exchange.
P.S. - Check if the phone still gets bars. We have heard some horror stories of people selling their phone and then reporting it stolen for free replacement.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!! This method worked. I did the triangle away app. Went to download mode & flashed Root66. Everything seems "stock" right now. Gonna do a factory reset & leave some feed back on what happened.
Custom Binary Download: No
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Official
Qualcomm Secure Boot: Enable
Had my baby momma send me a text & I got it. Am I considered back to complete stock out the box? No troubles sending it back to Samsung/T-Mobile if I have issues? I did the "Full UnRoot" in the SuperSU app and it disappeared on it's own.
Is it normal for this T-Mobile bloat/crap notification to be in the notification bar/menu on stock? And is there any way to uninstall or disable them without being rooted?
Thank Me Later said:
Custom Binary Download: No
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Official
Qualcomm Secure Boot: Enable
Had my baby momma send me a text & I got it. Am I considered back to complete stock out the box? No troubles sending it back to Samsung/T-Mobile if I have issues? I did the "Full UnRoot" in the SuperSU app and it disappeared on it's own.
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Appears you are full stock, uprooted, with a 0 flash count.
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Thank Me Later said:
Is it normal for this T-Mobile bloat/crap notification to be in the notification bar/menu on stock? And is there any way to uninstall or disable them without being rooted?
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Pretty much normal. Some you can configure to not bother you, some you can disable in app manager, some you can just turn off notifications by in checking the box in app management.
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"New T-Mobile Offer" keeps popping up in my notification bar. It's annoying.
*Edit*
Alright, I disabled this T-Mobile my account app in application manager. It went away from the notification bar for now.
How do I turn on "Multi-Window"? I'm on 4.1.2 Baseband: T999LUVAMB7
Long press back.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Long press back.
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That doesn't work. I don't see a multi-window option anywhere. I checked in the notification toggles when you pull down the notification bar. I checked in "display" in settings. I don't see anything for multi-window. Am I on the latest OTA? I have the LTE version of the S3 for T-Mobile, I don't know if that makes a difference or not.
Do the pull down, then scroll to the right, enable multi-window, then the long press back will bring up multi window panel on the left
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Do the pull down, then scroll to the right, enable multi-window, then the long press back will bring up multi window panel on the left
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There's no "Multi-Window" option in the window panel. I have the T999L. Would that make a difference? I flashed the Root66 earlier today. Is that the latest OTA?
Scroll to the 'right' after pull down
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but if you don't have the option in settings / display then you may not have the current version of jelly bean I don't know.
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Thank Me Later said:
There's no "Multi-Window" option in the window panel. I have the T999L. Would that make a difference? I flashed the Root66 earlier today. Is that the latest OTA?
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Good job going back to Stock. On Multi Window, if in the notification shortcuts, there's no button, then check under Settings > Display. Can't remember the exact option.
I don't remember for sure, but I'm thinking the T999L doesn't have it.
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I already checked "display", still nothing. I just wanna make sure I'm actually on the latest ota. Maybe there's a glitch or it's missing in the root66 file I flashed?
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Is there a root for the stock 4.3 CMK7 ? Will the current methods work on new firmware?
I'm looking for the same thing I hope we can get that answer soon
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kingnarkissos said:
Is there a root for the stock 4.3 CMK7 ? Will the current methods work on new firmware?
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Haven't tried it yet but here a link which has step by step instructions on how to root SGH-T889 running android 4.3.
http://honai-android.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-to-root-galaxy-note-2-t-mobile-sgh.html
Please Note: This method will most likely trip the KNOX/Warranty Bit counter so try it on your own risk.
Rooting is not the same on 4.3.
ciphercodes said:
Haven't tried it yet but here a link which has step by step instructions on how to root SGH-T889 running android 4.3.
http://honai-android.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-to-root-galaxy-note-2-t-mobile-sgh.html
Please Note: This method will most likely trip the KNOX/Warranty Bit counter so try it on your own risk.
Rooting is not the same on 4.3.
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Yeah, I just ran chainfires method and something odd happened. I have superuser but I can't actually use it. That KNOX BS prevents it from running and issues a security warning that reads "Unauthorized access to a secure area has been blocked tap to learn more" .
kingnarkissos said:
Yeah, I just ran chainfires method and something odd happened. I have superuser but I can't actually use it. That KNOX BS prevents it from running and issues a security warning that reads "Unauthorized access to a secure area has been blocked tap to learn more" .
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You can disable KNOX... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2482306
kozmo21 said:
You can disable KNOX... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2482306
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This only disables the notifications from KNOX and not the KNOX itself.
I think notifications can be disabled within KNOX settings.
kingnarkissos, can you go in download mode and let us know what the Warranty Bit shows ?
Here's how to root or at least should work. Another user posted link in Mr R root that
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47694353
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ciphercodes said:
This only disables the notifications from KNOX and not the KNOX itself.
I think notifications can be disabled within KNOX settings.
kingnarkissos, can you go in download mode and let us know what the Warranty Bit shows ?
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In download mode it showed KNOX was tripped. 'Knox warranty void: 1" I ended up bricking it, which is all the same, I don't like KNOX bs anyway. I spun a good yarn to T-Mobile so I'll have another Note 2 tomorrow hopefully on something below 4.3 lol.
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In download mode it showed KNOX was tripped. I ended up bricking it, which is all the same, I don't like KNOX bs anyway. I spun a good yarn to T-Mobile so I'll have another Note 2 tomorrow hopefully on something below 4.3 lol.
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Sorry to hear that, can you elaborate how it got bricked ?
Did you try to downgrade ? Flashing it back to 4.3 worked for S3 phones.
I mean once you are on 4.3 you cannot flash back to an older version (4.1.x) easily. There must be a way via CWM or TWRP.
Some of us can use this information to NOT brick our phones.
kintwofan said:
Here's how to root or at least should work. Another user posted link in Mr R root that
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=47694353
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Just a quick update on this. I used the vroot method. I am now rooted with xposed and titanium backup confirmed (I factory reset after ota. .... Much smoother! !) Oh and Knox is still at 0!! Hooray for new
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ciphercodes said:
Sorry to hear that, can you elaborate how it got bricked ?
Did you try to downgrade ? Flashing it back to 4.3 worked for S3 phones.
I mean once you are on 4.3 you cannot flash back to an older version (4.1.x) easily. There must be a way via CWM or TWRP.
Some of us can use this information to NOT brick our phones.
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So...I decided to take a chance and try to some things on my own, you know, show some initiative. I wont be doing that again and have gained even more respect for what you devs do. Here's the story. I tried to root the 4.3 using chainfires method, after being warned by psycho4us4 that it prolly wouldn't work. It did work, sort of... I had superuser and with root explorer was able to access system files. However, I could not alter or change any of the files. When I attempted to, the explorer would stop responding. It's also important to note I was never asked to grant SU permissions. That dialogue was replaced with the notification bar warning (apparently issued by KNOX) that an app was trying to access a restricted area of the device (lol) which I ignored. So now I have my Note II with SU and KNOX tripped showing warranty void 1 in the download mode So I'm thinking "Ok I'll flash back to MD1 with ODIN" Into download mode I go and start up ol ODIN I load the firmware and let it run. After going through the entire process it fails at the end. Now I have the Keis firmware failed screen....a brick.
kingnarkissos said:
So...I decided to take a chance and try to some things on my own, you know, show some initiative. I wont be doing that again and have gained even more respect for what you devs do. Here's the story. I tried to root the 4.3 using chainfires method, after being warned by psycho4us4 that it prolly wouldn't work. It did work, sort of... I had superuser and with root explorer was able to access system files. However, I could not alter or change any of the files. When I attempted to, the explorer would stop responding. It's also important to note I was never asked to grant SU permissions. That dialogue was replaced with the notification bar warning (apparently issued by KNOX) that an app was trying to access a restricted area of the device (lol) which I ignored. So now I have my Note II with SU and KNOX tripped showing warranty void 1 in the download mode So I'm thinking "Ok I'll flash back to MD1 with ODIN" Into download mode I go and start up ol ODIN I load the firmware and let it run. After going through the entire process it fails at the end. Now I have the Keis firmware failed screen....a brick.
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Not really bricked. Odin the 4.3 ota again and you'll be right back up and running
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kingnarkissos said:
In download mode it showed KNOX was tripped. 'Knox warranty void: 1" I ended up bricking it, which is all the same, I don't like KNOX bs anyway. I spun a good yarn to T-Mobile so I'll have another Note 2 tomorrow hopefully on something below 4.3 lol.
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Just curious how you say to have gotten one by tomorrow ive been with tmobile/voicestream for 13 years and have yet to see a phone overnighted, also to fix your problem just odin it again with new 4.3 phone will work
kintwofan said:
Just a quick update on this. I used the vroot method. I am now rooted with xposed and titanium backup confirmed (I factory reset after ota. .... Much smoother! !) Oh and Knox is still at 0!! Hooray for new
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I'm having trouble deciding which route I want to go. Don't know if I want to use the link with the Warranty Safe Root way(have already cooked the rom per it's directions) or if I want to go the cf-auto root way. I don't know anything about the vroot method. Any thoughts or insight would be appreciated.
I thought I'd be clever too and do a factory reset from the phone and it hung on the tmo boot screen, but I ended up downloading the stock 4.3 tar file and ODIN back to 4.3 and it works again.
The Chainfire root way is definitely not the way to go as it does not work.
Going to try the vroot way to see if I can get root back.
With vroot download supersu before starting them make sure as soon as the phone boots up after rooting open supersu update binary and let it delete the other manager.
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where is the link for vroot?
solidmac said:
where is the link for vroot?
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There isn't one. All links were removed from xda because some suspicion of the program as a virus. If you followed the link I posted you would see that. Now there are tons of positive reports and I used it. My antivirus didn't report it either. However, if you feel comfortable using it you will need to Google it
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Honestly is probably best for most users to hold tight until mattlowry gets the knox free and rooted version released
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There isn't one. All links were removed from xda because some suspicion of the program as a virus. If you followed the link I posted you would see that. Now there are tons of positive reports and I used it. My antivirus didn't report it either. However, if you feel comfortable using it you will need to Google it
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Honestly is probably best for most users to hold tight until mattlowry gets the knox free and rooted version released
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I dont have a custom recovery installed, so i need to do this. I see lots of different versions of vroot, is the latest version?
EDIT:nvm its been awhile since ive been in the rooting scene. Im coming from an N1. XD
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2562994
How can i root my device?
Noob here ty and merry xmass.
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Try this post, easiest way is option 2, after installation, try to update SuperSU from Play Store and you can disable Knox when it asked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1955423
Mynameisbruce said:
How can i root my device?
Noob here ty and merry xmass.
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Please keep in mind that if you already have the factory 4.3 update you already have KNOX. If you root you flash custom firmware onto your device you will hit your KNOX warranty counter and at this time there is no way to reset it. Just looking out for you since I did not do enough research before updating and am stuck with no warranty. Good luck.
i already tripped my knox.
Sad day man. I tripped mine yesterday knowing what would happen. I just couldn't stand having stock firmware anymore. Running SlimKat now and loving it. Hopefully our wonderful devs figure out how to get past this.
The sad thing about Knox tripping is that it actually diminishes functionality.
The old flash counter that was there before merely told Samsung that you have been messing with the device. Tripping the Knox counter removes potential functionality from the device. If at some point in the future you do need it, you are out of luck.
I understand the rationale behind doing it that way. It doesn't mean I have to like it...
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
Knox is nothing more than Sammys new way of saying you unlock its yours but your warranty is gone. I hope the great minds here on xda figure out a way to reset the knox counter but Sammy obviously threw a ton of resources into this.
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So I assume that Knox is part of the new bootloader? And replaces the old flash counter?
So I'm going to trade the phone in for a S5 and was wondering how I can switch everything back to default Tmobile + lock the root. I am sure this information is already on this forums but smaybe it's due to the keywords using, I can't seem to locate the information. I would greatly appreciate the information.
Run triangle away to reset flash counter just in case, Odin stock firmware and factory reset.. That's about it, even with Knox bootloader, but of course you can't reset the tripped flag on it
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serio22 said:
Run triangle away to reset flash counter just in case, Odin stock firmware and factory reset.. That's about it, even with Knox bootloader, but of course you can't reset the tripped flag on it
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so that means tmobile buy back will probably not accept it, correct?
If they check they might not
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