Sorry, this is probably a dumb question, but just want to be safe. Need to take in for service. Running Tri-force 3.1(MF9). Can I unroot to stock and avoid the knox flag since I didn't upgrade to MJA yet. If so what is the best way? Thanks
Just follow this Guide and video un how to unroot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2257101&highlight=unroot
It is safe to downgrade then? Don't have to worry about the knox flag??
Cuse Rocker said:
It is safe to downgrade then? Don't have to worry about the knox flag??
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If your on MF9 and never updated to MJA then you have no Knox to worry about. Just follow the link that the previous post has and make sure to follow it to a tee...
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BIGSAMDA1ST said:
If your on MF9 and never updated to MJA then you have no Knox to worry about. Just follow the link that the previous post has and make sure to follow it to a tee...
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Thank You Both
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I've been searching around as much as possible but the XDA search function seems to be broken because no matter what I put in the search field it returns no results.
I updated my S4 to the latest OTA and am now on MJA. I rooted it and installed TWRP. Reading all this stuff about MJA and Knox has me worried I might screw something up so I want to make sure before I proceed with flashing roms. Can I flash roms now without worrying? Can I flash 4.4 and not brick my phone? I don't really care about tripping counters or voiding warranties.
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I've been searching around as much as possible but the XDA search function seems to be broken because no matter what I put in the search field it returns no results.
I updated my S4 to the latest OTA and am now on MJA. I rooted it and installed TWRP. Reading all this stuff about MJA and Knox has me worried I might screw something up so I want to make sure before I proceed with flashing roms. Can I flash roms now without worrying? Can I flash 4.4 and not brick my phone? I don't really care about tripping counters or voiding warranties.
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Well first off, I don't think TWRP is playing nice with the MJA update at the moment so I would recommend using Philz Touch CWM recovery, Then just head on over to the rom threads,and check them out to see which one would best suit your needs. I myself am running Stock Rooted but it's just my personal preference..:thumbup:
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BIGSAMDA1ST said:
Well first off, I don't think TWRP is playing nice with the MJA update at the moment so I would recommend using Philz Touch CWM recovery, Then just head on over to the rom threads,and check them out to see which one would best suit your needs. I myself am running Stock Rooted but it's just my personal preference..:thumbup:
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Thankyou, there isn't much concise info on the MJA update and what we can and cannot do with it.
Ephemeralness said:
Thankyou, there isn't much concise info on the MJA update and what we can and cannot do with it.
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You can check this out : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2498397
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I am rooted on MF9 and didn't accept ota. Is it possibe to update to MJA keeping MF9 bootloader without doing a clean wipe system/data?
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cooldroidxda said:
I am rooted on MF9 and didn't accept ota. Is it possibe to update to MJA keeping MF9 bootloader without doing a clean wipe system/data?
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A little searching would've brought you here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41384294
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BIGSAMDA1ST said:
A little searching would've brought you here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41384294
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Thank you for taking the time to assist. I've been following that post since it started and always search and read. I don't have access to post the question in that thread but step 5 is the issue. I don't want to perform the complete wipe below. I will if I have to but I wanted to know if there is way to upgrade to MJA with MF9 boot loader without the full wipe.
5. Boot into Philz recovery. Choose "Clean to Install a New Rom for a complete wipe."
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Thank you for taking the time to assist. I've been following that post since it started and always search and read. I don't have access to post the question in that thread but step 5 is the issue. I don't want to perform the complete wipe below. I will if I have to but I wanted to know if there is way to upgrade to MJA with MF9 boot loader without the full wipe.
5. Boot into Philz recovery. Choose "Clean to Install a New Rom for a complete wipe."
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Oh ok.. I see exactly what you mean..:thumbup:
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I've been using custom roms for a while but I want to just go back to completely stock, except for root of course. I'm not exactly sure how to do that though, could someone help me?
nelsona96 said:
I've been using custom roms for a while but I want to just go back to completely stock, except for root of course. I'm not exactly sure how to do that though, could someone help me?
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What are you currently on? MDC, MDL, MF9 Or MJA?
You can always head on over here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42044738 and download the stock rom of choice and reroot with CF-Auto Root..
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BIGSAMDA1ST said:
What are you currently on? MDC, MDL, MF9 Or MJA?
You can always head on over here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42044738 and download the stock rom of choice and reroot with CF-Auto Root..
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I'm on Cyanogenmod 10.2 and MF9. Can I also get the stock kernel?
nelsona96 said:
I'm on Cyanogenmod 10.2 and MF9. Can I also get the stock kernel?
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Everything is included in the link I posted..
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BIGSAMDA1ST said:
Everything is included in the link I posted..
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Yeah I realized that after I said that lol Thanks man!
im in the same position and im downloadin the rom right now but will this give me the battery life i had before now it seems the phone cant hold a charge and its drainin pretty fast
So I decided to take the update to 4.3 and since doing so I went from 3 to 5 bars of 4G to none. I either have 3g or no data at all. I'm not rooted yet and did a factory reset but nothing changed. My question is could I root and flash the last modem before mja or should I just go back to 4.2? Thanks for the info!
vertigosrs said:
So I decided to take the update to 4.3 and since doing so I went from 3 to 5 bars of 4G to none. I either have 3 or no data at all. I'm not rooted yet and did a factory reset but nothing changed. My question is could I root and flash the last modem before mja or should I just go back to 4.2? Thanks for the info!
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There is no going back to anything else once you update to 4.3. Trying to do so will most likely result in a non working phone. Try updating the PRL abs Profile see if that helps any.
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Updating prl and profile had no effect. Would it be possible to root and stay on mja but use the mf9 modem? Thanks for the help btw, I appreciate the info.
I also tried updating to mk2 but that still didn't solve the signal issue. I may just take the phone to sprint and see if they'll do anything about it.
vertigosrs said:
I also tried updating to mk2 but that still didn't solve the signal issue. I may just take the phone to sprint and see if they'll do anything about it.
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Hmmm...Isnt MK2 AT&T? Do you have Sprint or AT&T?
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I'm on sprint. I woke up this morning to the notification for mk2. It was only a 26mb file so I doubt the update was anything too major, I just thought I may as well update to see if it would fix my signal issue but no luck.
vertigosrs said:
I'm on sprint. I woke up this morning to the notification for mk2. It was only a 26mb file so I doubt the update was anything too major, I just thought I may as well update to see if it would fix my signal issue but no luck.
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Ok.. I just saw it.. lol it is an update that is being rolled out as of today..
http://support.sprint.com/support/a...msung_Galaxy_S4/WServiceAdvisory_542_GKB51952
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My last phone was a nexus and I could flash different radios with no problem but I wasn't sure if it's doable for the galaxy as well. If I could stay on mja and use an mf9 modem that should fix my signal issues but I thought I'd check here before attempting so I don't brick my phone lol.
vertigosrs said:
My last phone was a nexus and I could flash different radios with no problem but I wasn't sure if it's doable for the galaxy as well. If I could stay on mja and use an mf9 modem that should fix my signal issues but I thought I'd check here before attempting so I don't brick my phone lol.
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The thing is that with the new update, they incorporated Knox which not only makes it difficult but can brick your bad boy if you try going back to an older build... Once you take the OTA 4.3 you're basically stuck there. The only way was to not take the update as there were ways to update minus the bootloader...
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BIGSAMDA1ST said:
The thing is that with the new update, they incorporated Knox which not only makes it difficult but can brick your bad boy if you try going back to an older build... Once you take the OTA 4.3 you're basically stuck there. The only way was to not take the update as there were ways to update minus the bootloader...
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Well I meant do you think it would be possible to stay on mja, jand ust flash the mf9 modem to fix my signal issue. I wasn't sure if that was possible with our phone or not. I never should have taken the mja update in the first place.
vertigosrs said:
Well I meant do you think it would be possible to stay on mja, jand ust flash the mf9 modem to fix my signal issue. I wasn't sure if that was possible with our phone or not. I never should have taken the mja update in the first place.
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Like I said once you apply the 4.3 MJA that's what you're stuck for the moment. I dont think you can use anything from any previous builds..
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BIGSAMDA1ST said:
Like I said once you apply the 4.3 MJA that's what you're stuck for the moment. I dont think you can use anything from any previous builds..
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Damn. Well thanks for the info, I appreciate it!
vertigosrs said:
Well I meant do you think it would be possible to stay on mja, jand ust flash the mf9 modem to fix my signal issue. I wasn't sure if that was possible with our phone or not. I never should have taken the mja update in the first place.
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Yes, you can flash the mf9 modem. Are you sure they aren't just working on the tower near you? I would drive to other areas and make sure before you just start flashing things when it turns out to be a tower issue and not a phone issue. Sprint takes towers offline for maintenance all the time.
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So it ended up being the sim card. I went to sprint and left my phone with them for an hour and a half and they figured out the update corrupted my sim card, replaced it and I've got 4g again.
anyone has a workaround on the knox issue??? i figure that if you can flash a stock rooted rom and have supersu and hit full unroot you dont have root access no more. i just need to find a way to fix the seandriod enforcing problem.
please help
What is it exactly that you would like to do?
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What is it exactly that you would like to do?
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So wait i can still root and rom my fully stock knox MK2 ? Please someone tell me yes! Please tell me I'm not F#@$%ed .It just trips counters? I can't find any1 saying they have done this fully unrooted stock 4.3 mk2 with knox!
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What is it exactly that you would like to do?
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what i want to do is go back to stock but knox 0x0 0x1 pop out so i tried everything and no luck. i was wondering if someone can change that?
Goat1378 said:
So wait i can still root and rom my fully stock knox MK2 ? Please someone tell me yes! Please tell me I'm not F#@$%ed .It just trips counters? I can't find any1 saying they have done this fully unrooted stock 4.3 mk2 with knox!
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if i was you i will just wait and see until a dev finds a workaround on it. i dont want you to risk it. just stay in 4.2.2 in my opinion
Goat1378 said:
So wait i can still root and rom my fully stock knox MK2 ? Please someone tell me yes! Please tell me I'm not F#@$%ed .It just trips counters? I can't find any1 saying they have done this fully unrooted stock 4.3 mk2 with knox!
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Yes you can.. Then head on over to the Android Development Thread and check it out..
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DjMizzTikk said:
what i want to do is go back to stock but knox 0x0 0x1 pop out so i tried everything and no luck. i was wondering if someone can change that?
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Thers is no changing that.. The only thing you can do is flash a stock 4.3 rom, either MJA or MK2.. There is no flashing of any other previous builds..
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DjMizzTikk said:
if i was you i will just wait and see until a dev finds a workaround on it. i dont want you to risk it. just stay in 4.2.2 in my opinion
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Theres no staying lol i hard bricked my last one so i had sprint send me a new 1 for a not so small fee needless to say it came fully MK2 with knox. Ive been looking but no one flat out says they have rooted and rom in this state. Atleast i haven't seen nothing and I've been looking for 2 days now.
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Goat1378 said:
Theres no staying lol i hard bricked my last one so i had sprint send me a new 1 for a not so small fee needless to say it came fully MK2 with knox. Ive been looking but no one flat out says they have rooted and rom in this state. Atleast i haven't seen nothing and I've been looking for 2 days now.
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Tho i do miss my old bad ass rom i must say battery life on this MK2 i find to be pretty good. I just hate this Knox $h!t
Im still on MJA just stock rooted... Not so much into Custom Roms,although I do admit that there are a lot of great ones out there. These Devs do put out some great work.. I really give them a big thumbs up.. My setup is just for little knick knacks like the HotSpot Mod and Transparent Weather Widget..and a few other tweaks....
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I just rooted my galaxy s4 using the method on the Verizon page, is there anyway to flash the stock rom, if for some reason I get a brick?
SirPinchaLoaf said:
I just rooted my galaxy s4 using the method on the Verizon page, is there anyway to flash the stock rom, if for some reason I get a brick?
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Why would you use the method from the Verizon page?? I'm a noob when it comes to Android and even I know that I must use the instructions for my specific carrier.
Or did you by mistake post in the wrong forum and have a Verizon S4 and that is why you stated you used the Verizon method?