I have a G960F/DS, I tried to root after the 7 days waiting so when I had the option I enabled OEM unlock, BUT it asked me to do a factory reset so I did, but I didn't know that I should have to enter download mode before rebooting, so now I have OEM lock and FRP on OFF, but I've got the RMM state again in prenormal. I waited again 7 more days but the OEM unlock option is not showing again, what should I do? Wait more time? Do another factory reset? Install again the stock rom?
That's weird. Maybe re-flash stock firmware, wait 7 days. When enabling OEM unlock and it requests to factory reset, once it reboots go straight into download mode and flash TWRP. From there in my experience OEM unlock will always then be there, even when I did re-flash stock ROM at a later date.
InteliDroid said:
That's weird. Maybe re-flash stock firmware, wait 7 days. When enabling OEM unlock and it requests to factory reset, once it reboots go straight into download mode and flash TWRP. From there in my experience OEM unlock will always then be there, even when I did re-flash stock ROM at a later date.
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Should I flash CSC or HOME CSC?
Legasx said:
I have a G960F/DS, I tried to root after the 7 days waiting so when I had the option I enabled OEM unlock, BUT it asked me to do a factory reset so I did, but I didn't know that I should have to enter download mode before rebooting, so now I have OEM lock and FRP on OFF, but I've got the RMM state again in prenormal. I waited again 7 more days but the OEM unlock option is not showing again, what should I do? Wait more time? Do another factory reset? Install again the stock rom?
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When you first had the OEM unlock, did you ODIN install TWRP and then flash the NoVerify file immediately after doing the Factory reset. I waited the 7 days, did the above and OEM unlock always shows up now in developer options even after trying other ROMs and just going back to stock rooted setup.
Docmjldds said:
When you first had the OEM unlock, did you ODIN install TWRP and then flash the NoVerify file immediately after doing the Factory reset. I waited the 7 days, did the above and OEM unlock always shows up now in developer options even after trying other ROMs and just going back to stock rooted setup.
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I know that I should have installed twrp and the fix before rebooting, now I have unlocked bootloader but RMM state is prenormal again.
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Should I flash CSC or HOME CSC?
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I'm pretty sure everything I just read there was wrong... W. R. O. N. G.
Firstly.. If you're unlucky enough to have a phone that's going to have the RMM state.. It's a 2 week wait MINIMUM.
When you first get the phone, select the OEM unlock and be prepared for it to reset the phone and reboot... This is NOT OPTIONAL... And at this point if you see the RMM state as PRENORMAL you can forget about flashing twrp or anything else for at least another 7 days.
Anybody that tells you that you should have flashed twrp before you restarted the phone doesn't know what they are talking about.. When you press that OEM unlock button for the first time.. That bloody phone WILL REBOOT, It WILL RESET... There is no way to get to ODIN MODE and even if there was, the RMM state is triggered straight away if you have one of those phone.
I have an S9 that had no RMM state period.. I was able to to flash twrp straight away.
I also have an S9+ where the RMM state was triggered the moment you accept the phones request to restart after selecting the OEM unlock.
Secondly, after you've selected OEM unlock and the phone has reset and restarted, I'd suggest leaving it on for 7 days... Some people say it doesn't matter if you turn it off, but to be safe.. Just wack it on the charger and leave it.
Once the 7 days is up, the OEM option will reappear... Ignore it.
Boot the phone into ODIN MODE and see if the RMM STATE has vanished.
Understand... It's a 14 day wait... Not a 7 day wait.
Wait 7 days from purchase for oem option.
Unlock oem.. Reboot/reset phone.
Wait 7 more days for oem option to reappear.. Ignore it and boot into Odin mode.
Flash TWRP... For the love of God turn off the Auto restart in Odin.
Prepractice the art of restarting the phone into TWRP manually.. If you miss your window of opportunity and it restarts into android one of two things will happen.
Best case scenario.. You have to reflash TWRP.
Worst case scenario.. The RMM state comes back for another 7 days.
To get out of download mode
Hold volume down and power for 7 seconds.
The moment you feel the phone vibrate (a fraction of a second before the Samsung logo appears) boot into TWRP by
Quickly releasing all the buttons then very quickly press the power, up volume and bixby... And you need to do it BEFORE the screen initialises.. If you see the Samsung logo and you haven't got those buttons down.. You've missed it.
Make sure you have all your files ready to go... With this phone being so *****y I had all my files on both the sd card and a usb with OTG.
RMM STATE BYPASS
N96X ROOT FOR OEM ISSUES.
MAGISK (I'm using the Lineage AOSP 16.4 version, it works on Samsung touchwiz)
A selection of firmwares
Flashable modems.
With this phone you have to be prepared.
batfink1 said:
I'm pretty sure everything I just read there was wrong... W. R. O. N. G.
Firstly.. If you're unlucky enough to have a phone that's going to have the RMM state.. It's a 2 week wait MINIMUM.
When you first get the phone, select the OEM unlock and be prepared for it to reset the phone and reboot... This is NOT OPTIONAL... And at this point if you see the RMM state as PRENORMAL you can forget about flashing twrp or anything else for at least another 7 days.
Anybody that tells you that you should have flashed twrp before you restarted the phone doesn't know what they are talking about.. When you press that OEM unlock button for the first time.. That bloody phone WILL REBOOT, It WILL RESET... There is no way to get to ODIN MODE and even if there was, the RMM state is triggered straight away if you have one of those phone.
I have an S9 that had no RMM state period.. I was able to to flash twrp straight away.
I also have an S9+ where the RMM state was triggered the moment you accept the phones request to restart after selecting the OEM unlock.
Secondly, after you've selected OEM unlock and the phone has reset and restarted, I'd suggest leaving it on for 7 days... Some people say it doesn't matter if you turn it off, but to be safe.. Just wack it on the charger and leave it.
Once the 7 days is up, the OEM option will reappear... Ignore it.
Boot the phone into ODIN MODE and see if the RMM STATE has vanished.
Understand... It's a 14 day wait... Not a 7 day wait.
Wait 7 days from purchase for oem option.
Unlock oem.. Reboot/reset phone.
Wait 7 more days for oem option to reappear.. Ignore it and boot into Odin mode.
Flash TWRP... For the love of God turn off the Auto restart in Odin.
Prepractice the art of restarting the phone into TWRP manually.. If you miss your window of opportunity and it restarts into android one of two things will happen.
Best case scenario.. You have to reflash TWRP.
Worst case scenario.. The RMM state comes back for another 7 days.
To get out of download mode
Hold volume down and power for 7 seconds.
The moment you feel the phone vibrate (a fraction of a second before the Samsung logo appears) boot into TWRP by
Quickly releasing all the buttons then very quickly press the power, up volume and bixby... And you need to do it BEFORE the screen initialises.. If you see the Samsung logo and you haven't got those buttons down.. You've missed it.
Make sure you have all your files ready to go... With this phone being so *****y I had all my files on both the sd card and a usb with OTG.
RMM STATE BYPASS
N96X ROOT FOR OEM ISSUES.
MAGISK (I'm using the Lineage AOSP 16.4 version, it works on Samsung touchwiz)
A selection of firmwares
Flashable modems.
With this phone you have to be prepared.
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I have done that, activated oem unlock, it asked to do a factory reset so I did, got rmm state prenormal again, then waited 7 days again but still no oem unlock switch for the second time, now I've tried the method that involves changing date and checking for new updates without results, now yesterday I've re installed firmware, bl, modem and CSC, factory new, and still no oem switch, still prenormal
Ok, I went through the same thing determined to find a way around the 14 day wait period... That included downloading 9 different Samsung firmwares from Sammobile all different versions from different counties.. It didn't work, and each time I installed a new firmware it reset the 7 day RMM state counter... I lost 3 days trying that on the S9+.
After the first OEM unlock /reboot /reset did you just leave it on, not touch it except to check the uptime in the settings... I know other people said you can turn it off, but I've been through this on an S8+ and s9+ and it definitely worked better just leaving it on and making sure it got charged occasionally.
I can tell you now, installing that new firmware just reset the RMM state back to 7 days.
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I mean some people cant wait and reboot into ODIN mode to check before the time is up... Did you wait the full 168 hours.
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Ok, I went through the same thing determined to find a way around the 14 day wait period... That included downloading 9 different Samsung firmwares from Sammobile all different versions from different counties.. It didn't work, and each time I installed a new firmware it reset the 7 day RMM state counter... I lost 3 days trying that on the S9+.
After the first OEM unlock /reboot /reset did you just leave it on, not touch it except to check the uptime in the settings... I know other people said you can turn it off, but I've been through this on an S8+ and s9+ and it definitely worked better just leaving it on and making sure it got charged occasionally.
I can tell you now, installing that new firmware just reset the RMM state back to 7 days.
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I mean some people cant wait and reboot into ODIN mode to check before the time is up... Did you wait the full 168 hours.
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The first time, before ticking oem unlock switch, I even turned it off some times and checked download mode to see rmm state, even after that I got the oem unlock switch after 7 days, then I switched it and now I got oem unlocked but rmm state prenormal again, but I have waited 7 days again with no results, yesterday I reinstalled firmware, CSC and everything, guess I need to wait 7 more days without turning it off.
Could it be that I bought my phone from ebay and my service provider and CSC are AFG (Afganistan)? But my phone is unlocked, I use it in Mexico
Legasx said:
The first time, before ticking oem unlock switch, I even turned it off some times and checked download mode to see rmm state, even after that I got the oem unlock switch after 7 days, then I switched it and now I got oem unlocked but rmm state prenormal again, but I have waited 7 days again with no results, yesterday I reinstalled firmware, CSC and everything, guess I need to wait 7 more days without turning it off.
Could it be that I bought my phone from ebay and my service provider and CSC are AFG (Afganistan)? But my phone is unlocked, I use it in Mexico
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My phone is SAME as yours except I use Tmobile in US. My phone is an S9. Unlocked from a third party Net I purchased from as new and it has the same AFG CSC. I waited exactly 7 days. But installed TRWP immediately by holding Pwr Vol dwn and Bixby from the Format data answer yes etc after seeing the OEM unlock after that 7 days. This was my experience all I can say.
Docmjldds said:
My phone is SAME as yours except I use Tmobile in US. My phone is an S9. Unlocked from a third party Net I purchased from as new and it has the same AFG CSC. I waited exactly 7 days. But installed TRWP immediately by holding Pwr Vol dwn and Bixby from the Format data answer yes etc after seeing the OEM unlock after that 7 days. This was my experience all I can say.
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So did you not format the data and just reboot into the bootloader after clicking OEM unlock?
jal3223 said:
So did you not format the data and just reboot into the bootloader after clicking OEM unlock?
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When you toggle OEM unlock it will ask to reboot. At that point power down the phone, DO NOT REBOOT IT. Then hold volume down, bixby and power to get into the bootloader. Once there, you will see your RMM state is NORMAL. Now confirm by pressing volume up or whatever it was and you will be able to flash TWRP with ODIN.
This is where it gets tricky. Once the flash is complete the phone will reboot. You will need to hold volume up, bixby, and power for about 5 seconds to boot directly into TWRP. Once there you will need to wipe, then reboot recovery and flash no-verity, then reboot and flash RMM fix.
If you don't follow above, and the phone reboots you are screwed into waiting another 7 days if your lucky, otherwise you will need to flash stock firmware again and the whole process starts over.
shiftr182 said:
When you toggle OEM unlock it will ask to reboot. At that point power down the phone, DO NOT REBOOT IT. Then hold volume down, bixby and power to get into the bootloader. Once there, you will see your RMM state is NORMAL. Now confirm by pressing volume up or whatever it was and you will be able to flash TWRP with ODIN.
This is where it gets tricky. Once the flash is complete the phone will reboot. You will need to hold volume up, bixby, and power for about 5 seconds to boot directly into TWRP. Once there you will need to wipe, then reboot recovery and flash no-verity, then reboot and flash RMM fix.
If you don't follow above, and the phone reboots you are screwed into waiting another 7 days if your lucky, otherwise you will need to flash stock firmware again and the whole process starts over.
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This has got to be the most concise write up of the situation. Thank you for clearing it up!
I've been RMM Prenormal with OEM unlocked for about 10 days now; no new firmware or wipes or anything, just waiting it out. I have no idea when it will be back to Normal; should I wipe it to reset the counter to wait the 7 full days anew, or should I just continue to wait, checking the recovery every day until it is Normal?
There is only one thing I can say... THANKS a lot, Samsung... This was my last SAMSUNG phone !
batfink1 said:
I'm pretty sure everything I just read there was wrong... W. R. O. N. G.
Firstly.. If you're unlucky enough to have a phone that's going to have the RMM state.. It's a 2 week wait MINIMUM.
When you first get the phone, select the OEM unlock and be prepared for it to reset the phone and reboot... This is NOT OPTIONAL... And at this point if you see the RMM state as PRENORMAL you can forget about flashing twrp or anything else for at least another 7 days.
Anybody that tells you that you should have flashed twrp before you restarted the phone doesn't know what they are talking about.. When you press that OEM unlock button for the first time.. That bloody phone WILL REBOOT, It WILL RESET... There is no way to get to ODIN MODE and even if there was, the RMM state is triggered straight away if you have one of those phone.
I have an S9 that had no RMM state period.. I was able to to flash twrp straight away.
I also have an S9+ where the RMM state was triggered the moment you accept the phones request to restart after selecting the OEM unlock.
Secondly, after you've selected OEM unlock and the phone has reset and restarted, I'd suggest leaving it on for 7 days... Some people say it doesn't matter if you turn it off, but to be safe.. Just wack it on the charger and leave it.
Once the 7 days is up, the OEM option will reappear... Ignore it.
Boot the phone into ODIN MODE and see if the RMM STATE has vanished.
Understand... It's a 14 day wait... Not a 7 day wait.
Wait 7 days from purchase for oem option.
Unlock oem.. Reboot/reset phone.
Wait 7 more days for oem option to reappear.. Ignore it and boot into Odin mode.
Flash TWRP... For the love of God turn off the Auto restart in Odin.
Prepractice the art of restarting the phone into TWRP manually.. If you miss your window of opportunity and it restarts into android one of two things will happen.
Best case scenario.. You have to reflash TWRP.
Worst case scenario.. The RMM state comes back for another 7 days.
To get out of download mode
Hold volume down and power for 7 seconds.
The moment you feel the phone vibrate (a fraction of a second before the Samsung logo appears) boot into TWRP by
Quickly releasing all the buttons then very quickly press the power, up volume and bixby... And you need to do it BEFORE the screen initialises.. If you see the Samsung logo and you haven't got those buttons down.. You've missed it.
Make sure you have all your files ready to go... With this phone being so *****y I had all my files on both the sd card and a usb with OTG.
RMM STATE BYPASS
N96X ROOT FOR OEM ISSUES.
MAGISK (I'm using the Lineage AOSP 16.4 version, it works on Samsung touchwiz)
A selection of firmwares
Flashable modems.
With this phone you have to be prepared.
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I face the same problem. 7 days are not sufficient on my phone. Have been waiting 169 hors and do NOT see the OEM unlock at all. So will have to wait 7 more days... I doubt it will then appear
Then I have to reboot to odin-mode, see the RMM state and reboot and wait againe 7 (or maybe 14 ??) days ???
GREAT feature from Samsung...
If it is not possible to root the phone, I will sell it and never again buy anything from Samsung..
after the 7 days or 168 hrs, just reboot and check again on dev settings. That worked for me.
Two oposing instructions
1st.
shiftr182 said:
When you toggle OEM unlock it will ask to reboot. At that point power down the phone, DO NOT REBOOT IT.
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batfink1 said:
select the OEM unlock and be prepared for it to reset the phone and reboot... This is NOT OPTIONAL.
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Could somebody clarify?
Sure, I'll clarify in about 1 week when my Note 9 512 gig phone arrives.
I'll try his way first, however what I stated about being ready is vitally important.
Make sure you have everything you need on an SDCARD AND on a USB stick if you have an OTG adapter.
You can't put any of it internally on the phone because to remove the encryption you need to wipe the internal storage completely.
So make sure you have
no-verity-opt-encrypt-6.0-star.zip
RMM STATE BYPASS
A selection of custom firmwares.. Alexandr's excellent devbased roms have RMM STATE BYPASS built in, they also have Xposed built in by renaming the rom slightly such as N960Fxxx_DevBase_v6.x_xposed.zip
Will install Xposed framework.
Renaming the rom as N960Fxxx_DevBase_v6.x_noroot.zip
Will install the rom without root or Magisk being installed.
I use his rom on both an S9 and an S9+ and they work perfectly.
So read and read and read, and when you've collected everything you need on two different media.... READ SOME MORE.
I'll update this thread when I try out shiftr182 method.
Most importantly, before you do anything.. Practice booting into recovery and Odin mode till you get it down pat.. You really only get one go at it.
Now mind you, I'm really cavalier, I'm a computer technician and I can't sit around wringing my hands together worrying about what's going to happen or I'll never get anything done, so to do this you do your homework, lots of homework and then you take your balls in your hand and do it and accept that if it all goes arse up... Well you tried.
It's actually pretty hard to totally brick these phones.. It just means more waiting, more reading and more asking questions.
I hope this has not only qualmed (not the urban dictionary meaning) your fears but also put the fear of God in you.
DO YOUR RESEARCH :angel:
Hey Forum! Hopefully y'all can help me. I have a S9 from Rent A Center and so does my wife, well her phone updated to Pie(9.0) 3 weeks ago and we're both on Cricket Wireless. Well mine hasn't updated and I've even went in and manually checking for updates and it says my phone is up to date so I downloaded the firmware from Sammobile and it failed cause i forgot to turn on USB Debugging in the developer options. So I restart my phone and go to settings and hit the build number and it says that developer options has already been turned on. But back in settings the options are nowhere to be found. So I figured doing a factory reset would help, but when i reset the phone and booted it up and went back to the build number and pressed it 7 times instead of saying developer options had been enabled it backed completely back out to my home screen and so i went back to settings and hit the build number again and it said that the developer options had already been turned on but again nowhere to be seen. So my question is is there a way to remove RAC from the phone or is there a way to remove knox where rac is on the phone? I need help cause I want the update, but it seems there is no way to do it with RAC on the phone.
USB debugging has nothing to do with flashing firmware with Odin
Ok then. I get a mdm mode cant download when I try flashing the firmware in download mode
Bamablood94 said:
Ok then. I get a mdm mode cant download when I try flashing the firmware in download mode
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Not sure if it still works with the S9, but there was a trick where you set up PIN security on the phone, but also enable the setting where if the wrong PIN is entered 10 times it factory resets the device, this supposedly removed the Rent-a-Centre crap after the reset which you cannot do while it is still active
Then enter the PIN 10 times wrongly
*Detection* said:
Not sure if it still works with the S9, but there was a trick where you set up PIN security on the phone, but also enable the setting where if the wrong PIN is entered 10 times it factory resets the device, this supposedly removed the Rent-a-Centre crap after the reset which you cannot do while it is still active
Then enter the PIN 10 times wrongly
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So it's a different factory than going into the settings and doing a factory reset?
Bamablood94 said:
So it's a different factory than going into the settings and doing a factory reset?
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No, same one but supposedly you do not have access to that with Rent a Centre software on the device, nor can you do it from recovery (As far as I am aware from reading others with the same phones)
Oh so basically I'm screwed until they come out with the update for my device
Bamablood94 said:
Oh so basically I'm screwed until they come out with the update for my device
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Do you have the ability to factory reset your phone as it stands right now?
If no, follow the above instructions...
*Detection* said:
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Do you have the ability to factory reset your phone as it stands right now?
If no, follow the above instructions...
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Yes I can and have reset my phone. But when I set it back up it shows up rent a center in the Knox portion of it and I guess reinstalls them. So to speak
hello guys before I’m be crazy I want ask something for you, so I bought A5 2017 for training purposes, but this Sh1t never show me OEM unlock mode, Trying all ways from internet like, set date back, waiting few days, flash anothers roms, trying also fastboot, but “Android”doesn’t appear on my computer, so I’m really lost, someone have this issue before? please my head is nearly to colapse.
Do factory reset and when it asks for date roll it back a few years.. keep wifi off.. reset tablet and when it boots up.. do second factory reset.. don't enable wifi till tablet is done setting up.. turn on wifi and bobs your uncle.
sedablaze said:
Do factory reset and when it asks for date roll it back a few years.. keep wifi off.. reset tablet and when it boots up.. do second factory reset.. don't enable wifi till tablet is done setting up.. turn on wifi and bobs your uncle.
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Oh and keep location off too