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[Q] Is there a way to re-enable Official OTA updates?

Just to know if there is a way to re-enable official OTA updates after rooting the GT-I9505 with CF-Auto-Root-jflte-jfltexx-gti9505.zip..
I would like to avoid downloading 1.8GB of the stock firmware and re-flash it, since I still have made no modification to my stock rom.
I've just rooted the phone, installed Triangle Away, reset the counter status to "0". That's it!
Still no custom recovery installed, still no ROMs.
In Odin mode the phone says:
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Official
CBS-Config.lsb: 0x30
Write Protection: Enable
Now if I go to About Device, Software Updates it tells:
The device has been modified. Software updates are not available.
Thanks in advance for your kind reply.

SeaFargo said:
Just to know if there is a way to re-enable official OTA updates after rooting the GT-I9505 with CF-Auto-Root-jflte-jfltexx-gti9505.zip..
I would like to avoid downloading 1.8GB of the stock firmware and re-flash it, since I still have made no modification to my stock rom.
I've just rooted the phone, installed Triangle Away, reset the counter status to "0". That's it!
Still no custom recovery installed, still no ROMs.
In Odin mode the phone says:
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Official
CBS-Config.lsb: 0x30
Write Protection: Enable
Now if I go to About Device, Software Updates it tells:
The device has been modified. Software updates are not available.
Thanks in advance for your kind reply.
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Try this, go to supersu u use permanent unroot, after that set phone back to factory settings

See this thread also for further information. Note that the latest firmware has enhanced KNOX security features that will stop OTA and connectivity with Kies, even if you unroot. See last few pages of Linked thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=278
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Triangle Away and allow tracker to run
HANDSY said:
See this thread also for further information. Note that the latest firmware has enhanced KNOX security features that will stop OTA and connectivity with Kies, even if you unroot. See last few pages of Linked thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=278
Sent from my GT-I9505 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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Thanks Tunestwo and thanks HANDSY
Indeed the unroot doesn't help. But I find a way that seems work:
The Triangle Away app has an option to "allow tracker to run", wich cause the system status under settings to become normal, even if that may also cause the bootloader status to become custom.
In any ways, with this option turned on, the OTA seems to work and seems perfectly able to download future updates. The OTA says now that I already have the latest updates.
We will se at the next official update

Triangle Away is not working on my MH8 firmware. The counter is not working. I'm on custom rom Echoe 2.1.1

greeny2010 said:
Triangle Away is not working on my MH8 firmware. The counter is not working. I'm on custom rom Echoe 2.1.1
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Is written somewhere that Triangle Away needs stock rom (even slightly modified) and (maybe also) stock recovery in order to work...

[Q] i9500 warranty back?!?

Hi all! I don't know if I am missing something/this is normal/this is new. I rooted my S4 android 4.2. Realised that triangle away doesn't work for i9500 So lost my warranty. Ah well... Yesterday I decided i would upgrade my firmware (as my provider just released one). Kies didn't work and just kept stuck at 0% so i copied the firmware file from temp folder and used odin.
Now I have 4.3 on my phone, tried to do something in root folders but it wouldn't let me as i don't have root anymore.... I checked my download mode and it looks like this:
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product name: GT-i9500
Current binary: Samsung official
System status: Official
Warranty bit: 0
If its been rooted (FOR i9500) and warranty is void it would say :Warranty bit 1 (right?), with a counter next to the current binary?
bottom line... my warranty is back for some reason? Or am i missing something...

[Q] Soft brick? Hard brick? Sort of firm'ish brick really

I've made a bit of a mess and I need help please. My s4 is softbricked, but as softbricks go, it's rather hard.
I have an early S4 i9505 bought from Carphone Warehouse (UK, unlocked, pre knox). I rooted it, installed TBackup, greenify and got it how I wanted it. Then I downloaded a stock firmware from Sammobile and tested to see if I could get it back to 'warranty' condition, which was a success.
Confident that I could obtain warranty if I needed it, I re-rooted it, installed TB and greenify, and it ran sweetly for months from that point onwards.
I read about the arrival of updates (and knox) and concluded I didn't need them. It was working, leave it alone.
Then out of the blue, my nice stable machine broke. I didn't change anything I was aware of to cause it.
No normal boot.
No recovery.
Download only.
Using Odin, I tried allsorts, eventually getting the same Sammobile firmware to run.
2 days later, it broke again, same as before, but worse!?
Then I tried all sorts of stuff downloading no end of things trying to get it to boot or even go into recovery. The most promising approach was to reload the firmware along with a .pit file, but still no joy. I've lost track of the other things I tried, but I've been doing it for a week, so a lot has been done. In desperation, I even tried downloading the latest firmware, so I now have signs of knox of the odin page.
I now have the following symptoms:
Booting into recovery brings up the blue 'booting recovery' message then just blackness.
Normal boot is exactly the same as above.
Unpowered conection to my laptop gives a 5 second boot loop featuring the buzz only.
I can reliably boot into download and download stuff with Odin and change the little Odin page status messages. After (foolishly) trying the latest firmware, these messages say
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME GT-I9505
CURRENT BINARY Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS Official
KNOX KERNEL LOCK 0x0
KNOX WARRANTY VOID 0x0
CSB-CONFIG-LSB 0x30
WRITE PROTECTION: enable
eMMC BURST MODE enabled
Please can anyone give me some advice on what else I could try?
Thanks
Steve

Wrinklespots said:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME GT-I9505
CURRENT BINARY Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS Official
KNOX KERNEL LOCK 0x0
KNOX WARRANTY VOID 0x0
CSB-CONFIG-LSB 0x30
WRITE PROTECTION: enable
eMMC BURST MODE enabled
Please can anyone give me some advice on what else I could try?
Thanks
Steve
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If anything else is not working (especially, if you're unable to go to recovery) I'd call sammy service center. Your download mode says that you did not rooted your phone, and knox is untouched either.

spamtrash said:
If anything else is not working (especially, if you're unable to go to recovery) I'd call sammy service center. Your download mode says that you did not rooted your phone, and knox is untouched either.
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Thanks for looking spamtrash.
I was wondering if I could get away with that. It does look good from the Odin display, but the flash counter must have a pretty high number in it by now! Won't that show up somewhere?
Do you think it does actually have a fault on it, rather than just some software that's messed up and needs tweaking?
Thanks
Steve

Wrinklespots said:
Thanks for looking spamtrash.
I was wondering if I could get away with that. It does look good from the Odin display, but the flash counter must have a pretty high number in it by now! Won't that show up somewhere?
Do you think it does actually have a fault on it, rather than just some software that's messed up and needs tweaking?
Thanks
Steve
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1. Are you able to go to recovery mode?
2. Assuming that your previous communicates were taken from the screen in download mode - you're clean.
If answer for 1 is: NO, and assuming 2: do not bother the flash counter. Flash counter does not means you messed with custom ROMs, it just means amount of the ROM update tries. As they are unable to prove that the counter was not increased by failed KIES updates, you're safe.
To go deeper, service will have to flash and wipe your phone.
One thing: remove your sd card prior to giving/sending it out.

Try a different usb cable.I was in same boat as you (after stupidly thinking mobile odin pro liked modems).
Luckily I had an unused cable off my tab 3.

N910F IMEI recovery

Hey, I just bought used Note4 N910F model for very cheap price - 230 euros. Phone used just about 5 month from buying, I have warranty paper to prove and IMEI on warranty paper is the same as on behind phone battery but... Seller told me, that warranty was voided because, he got some virus that blocked his phone, then he went to not authorized service and flashed ROM but IMEI changed.... and know KNOX settings not opening, on phone info from google play says Knox warranty void: 0x1. when trying OTA update I get error that phone was modified unauthorizaded way and cannot update. So is there any way to flash stock with original IMEI and I can get KNOX settings working and OTA updates :/ and noticed that TWRP recovery was installed... maybe some wipe could restore IMEI? and when booting I can see "set warranty bit: kernel" yellow sentence on top of screen

Knox will not work anymore, you can install stock firmware trough odin. Go to sammobile and flash latest stock

nemesis.sisemen said:
Knox will not work anymore, you can install stock firmware trough odin. Go to sammobile and flash latest stock
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stock firmware should restore my IMEI or not very possible ? :/

Problably will

Phone won't reboot after rooting (Samsung Galaxy J5)

Hello, um, I need a li'l help here
I just rooted my phone(Samsung J500H) and after it said "PASS" the phone is supposed to successfully restart but mine didn't. There are even yellowish-green lines on the screen. I used Odin(v.10) btw
I was about to try factory reset but I can't access recovery mode. Every time I try to it just goes back to the yellowish-green lines.
I can still access the download mode though. These are what's on the upper left of the screen:
Odin Mode
(Product Name)
Current Binary: Custom
System Status: Official
FRP Lock: Off
Knox Warranty Void: 0x1(4)
Secure Download: Enable
I downloaded Samsung Kies(I saw this tutorial on youtube on how he recovered his phone using Kies. There are a lot of comments saying it worked for them). It was fine until it asked for the s/n of my phone. I typed everything correctly and it would still end up saying "The S/N you have entered is incorrect". I even downloaded both Kies and Kies3 just to make sure and both has the same result.
That's it. After that I'm stuck. Heeeeellpp

scarystarrynight said:
Hello, um, I need a li'l help here
I just rooted my phone(Samsung J500H) and after it said "PASS" the phone is supposed to successfully restart but mine didn't. There are even yellowish-green lines on the screen. I used Odin(v.10) btw
I was about to try factory reset but I can't access recovery mode. Every time I try to it just goes back to the yellowish-green lines.
I can still access the download mode though. These are what's on the upper left of the screen:
Odin Mode
(Product Name)
Current Binary: Custom
System Status: Official
FRP Lock: Off
Knox Warranty Void: 0x1(4)
Secure Download: Enable
I downloaded Samsung Kies(I saw this tutorial on youtube on how he recovered his phone using Kies. There are a lot of comments saying it worked for them). It was fine until it asked for the s/n of my phone. I typed everything correctly and it would still end up saying "The S/N you have entered is incorrect". I even downloaded both Kies and Kies3 just to make sure and both has the same result.
That's it. After that I'm stuck. Heeeeellpp
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Go to the link below and download the firmware for your phone and flash it via odin.
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
http://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model
You can also follow this guide to install firmware and rooting further if you want.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j5/how-to/tutorial-upgrade-j5-2015-to-6-0-t3443904

rjrulz007 said:
Go to the link below and download the firmware for your phone and flash it via odin.
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/
http://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model
You can also follow this guide to install firmware and rooting further if you want.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j5/how-to/tutorial-upgrade-j5-2015-to-6-0-t3443904
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I got a problem about the firmware though. I'm not quite sure which one...

scarystarrynight said:
I got a problem about the firmware though. I'm not quite sure which one...
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On which firmware did u root? Lollipop or marshmallow? The greenish yellow screen is because u didnt flash the correct twrp recovery via odin...twrp for lollipop will not work on marshmallow
However if u need d link to the firmware, i ll send u as its there in my online files...download has unlimited bandwidth

scarystarrynight said:
I got a problem about the firmware though. I'm not quite sure which one...
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Just download any country's firmware for J500H and flash it using odin. All country's firmware will work on your device as long as it is for J500H. Just dont use any other model's firmware like J500F.

scarystarrynight said:
Hello, um, I need a li'l help here
I just rooted my phone(Samsung J500H) and after it said "PASS" the phone is supposed to successfully restart but mine didn't. There are even yellowish-green lines on the screen. I used Odin(v.10) btw
I was about to try factory reset but I can't access recovery mode. Every time I try to it just goes back to the yellowish-green lines.
I can still access the download mode though. These are what's on the upper left of the screen:
Odin Mode
(Product Name)
Current Binary: Custom
System Status: Official
FRP Lock: Off
Knox Warranty Void: 0x1(4)
Secure Download: Enable
I downloaded Samsung Kies(I saw this tutorial on youtube on how he recovered his phone using Kies. There are a lot of comments saying it worked for them). It was fine until it asked for the s/n of my phone. I typed everything correctly and it would still end up saying "The S/N you have entered is incorrect". I even downloaded both Kies and Kies3 just to make sure and both has the same result.
That's it. After that I'm stuck. Heeeeellpp
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i got the same problem... my phone showed that smart switch emergency thing but i was like "meh, let me reboot this" and received this, even if i charge this i see blue lines if i boot i see yellow lines and making the screen bright with green color, downloading these files tooks like 5 hours, like are you kidding me? so i think my phone is corrupted forever... does still has someone this problem and already fixed it?
UPDATE 2022.01.13
So i changed the rom to lineage os, firmware was absolutely mission imposibble for me, so i decided to change the rom, actually it works better tho.