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[Q] Knox and Custom Roms

Hi Folks,
Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask...
I would like to Custom ROM my S4 and have been reading through this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2447832 about Knox. It would appear Knox hasn't been activated on my phone yet as there's no mention of it in Download mode, here are the details gained from Settings and Download mode:
Android 4.2.2
Baseband: I9505XXUBMF8
Build: JDQ39.I9505XXUBMF8
SELinux: Permissive
Secure Boot Status: Type: Samsung
Device Status: Custom
Odin Mode:
Product Name: GT-I9505
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Official
CSB-CONFIG-LSB: 0x30
Write Protection: Enable
I am rooted but have used TriangleAway to set status back to official without any problems, my question is am I safe to install Custom ROMS/Kernels without triggering Knox warranty void? If so and I wanted to install a modded Samsung ROM will this still be safe or will it trip Knox?
Thanks for any suggestions, I'm never normally this cautios about flashing, but I really don't want to screw up my warranty.
Many thanks,
R.

If theres nothing about knox warranty 0/0 in download then u are on old bootloader and safe. Dont know about the custom roms I guess stay away from any mh8 mh5 mgg fw. Im pretty sure they are they fw with new bootloader. But just keep searching round.
Sent from my GT-I9505 using xda app-developers app

I've just bought a new S4 and it will arrive to my home in this week.... I hope it will arrive without Knox feature so I'd like to understand too what to do and what to not do in order to prevent Knox problems.
I think I'll flash the Google Edition ROM... any suggestions?

Thanks Buddy

[Q] What's next on my rooted N900V/build MJE

Good morning, all,
First off, thanks to all the hard-working devs out there who let me make my new wonderful Note 3 an even more enjoyable product. I'm now asking for some assistance, after not concretely finding answers to my questions here on XDA. Hopefully the kindness will be extended!
- Have a new Verizon SM-N900V with build MJE on it.
- Rooted with Kingo
- Disabled KNOX with SuperSU
When the Note 3 boots, I get an unlock icon with the word "Custom" on it. From my Galaxy Nexus 7/Nexus 7 experience, this usually means the bootloader is unlocked. So to check, I boot into download mode and see:
Current binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Custom
Knox kernel lock 0x0
Knox warranty void: 0x0
Qualcomm secureboot: enable (CSB)
RP SWREV: S1, T1, R1, A2, P1
Write protection: Enable
Essentially, my question is this: do I just safestrap now and flash away ROMs? I'm assuming I'd use these instructions to do safestrap: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2517610
Or is there another course of action I can take, such as directly flashing a recovery? I'm just a little confused about what my next best course of action would be.
Again, thanks in advance for any insight!

fonixmunkee said:
Good morning, all,
First off, thanks to all the hard-working devs out there who let me make my new wonderful Note 3 an even more enjoyable product. I'm now asking for some assistance, after not concretely finding answers to my questions here on XDA. Hopefully the kindness will be extended!
- Have a new Verizon SM-N900V with build MJE on it.
- Rooted with Kingo
- Disabled KNOX with SuperSU
When the Note 3 boots, I get an unlock icon with the word "Custom" on it. From my Galaxy Nexus 7/Nexus 7 experience, this usually means the bootloader is unlocked. So to check, I boot into download mode and see:
Current binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Custom
Knox kernel lock 0x0
Knox warranty void: 0x0
Qualcomm secureboot: enable (CSB)
RP SWREV: S1, T1, R1, A2, P1
Write protection: Enable
Essentially, my question is this: do I just safestrap now and flash away ROMs? I'm assuming I'd use these instructions to do safestrap: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2517610
Or is there another course of action I can take, such as directly flashing a recovery? I'm just a little confused about what my next best course of action would be.
Again, thanks in advance for any insight!
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Welcome to world of a rooted phone. Since you're on MJE you'd need Safestrap 3.65. Most roms have updated to the NC2 KK leak. It's been advised by Beans and Hashcode to update to it as any further updates may lock us down completely. Safestrap is alittle more than flashing roms in Amonra or Clockwork Mod. It's kind of like dual booting on a computer but it's your phone. The only problem is Hashcode hasn't fully updated the new KK Safestrap for multipe rom slots yet so it will be one at a time for now. Read thru the Safestrap thread and look at a few youtube videos to get a feel for it then once you have the Jellybean version working and you know your way around go here for the KK NC2 leak upgrade.
Link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2740466
Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KibHLs0l9hs
Don't worry about upgrading as the best part about the leak is if anything goes wrong with your phone we can downgrade back to unrooted MJE for warranty returns, etc. Just take your time, read and follow any videos that may be listed. If my dumb ass can do it anyone can...

fonixmunkee said:
When the Note 3 boots, I get an unlock icon with the word "Custom" on it. From my Galaxy Nexus 7/Nexus 7 experience, this usually means the bootloader is unlocked.
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Our bootloader is locked. That just appears once you have root, some ppl have gotten rid of it with wanam and xposed if that doesnt work you can use triangle away "Reset Flash Counter" to get rid of the icon
If you are going to upgrade to kitkat DONT take the OTA follow a link on here and get NC2

Thanks everyone! I followed your links, and also used the following videos to:
Safestrap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C7OKDsfM-Y
Then,
Install Kitkat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KibHLs0l9hs
The videos do a fantastic job explaining what Safestrap was...that was confusing initially for me.
THANKS buttons hit appropriately.

[Q] Rooted Galaxy s4

Hi I'm not sure which galaxy s4 I have. I see i95.. and don't see that anywhere in my settings.
This was rooted a long while back and now with the OTA update I have i545vrufnk4 baseband version but I can't install lollipop. I don't care about lollipop I just don't want to be prompted to install it when it doesn't work (thanks knox).
What are my options? Odin? Rooting? I tried towelroot and it didn't work this time around. please help

thisdarnphone said:
Hi I'm not sure which galaxy s4 I have. I see i95.. and don't see that anywhere in my settings.
This was rooted a long while back and now with the OTA update I have i545vrufnk4 baseband version but I can't install lollipop. I don't care about lollipop I just don't want to be prompted to install it when it doesn't work (thanks knox).
What are my options? Odin? Rooting? I tried towelroot and it didn't work this time around. please help
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Boot into the download mode. There it will say your model.

Lennyz1988 said:
Boot into the download mode. There it will say your model.
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All I see when I do that is
ODIN MODE
Product Name SCH-I545
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Custom
CSB-Config-Lsb 0x30
Write protection: enable
emmc burst mode enabled

You have a Verizon S4 and need to go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-verizon for assistance.

[Q] About kernel and ChainFire auto root

Hello
i have the SM-N910C running the official lollipop firmware,
days ago i've rooted it using CF auto root through the odin,
And it was successful, but the question is the CF auto root
replacing the stock Kernel to another one while flashing ?
cause when i reset flash counter using triangle away even without restarting the phone it still shows in triangle away:
counter: 1
Binary: custom
system: official
but in bootloader it says:
current binary: samsung official
system status: official
secure download : enabled
knox warranty void: 1
rp swrev: 1
and the reactivation lock is off in the settings and the bootloader
i just need the software updates after root
and resetting the flash counter to Zero
and to know the kernel is it stock or custom
anyone could help ?
and sorry for any bad english, thanks.

Mr.3bood said:
Hello
i have the SM-N910C running the official lollipop firmware,
days ago i've rooted it using CF auto root through the odin,
And it was successful, but the question is the CF auto root
replacing the stock Kernel to another one while flashing ?
cause when i reset flash counter using triangle away even without restarting the phone it still shows in triangle away:
counter: 1
Binary: custom
system: official
but in bootloader it says:
current binary: samsung official
system status: official
secure download : enabled
knox warranty void: 1
rp swrev: 1
and the reactivation lock is off in the settings and the bootloader
i just need the software updates after root
and resetting the flash counter to Zero
and to know the kernel is it stock or custom
anyone could help ?
and sorry for any bad english, thanks.
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Hi, cf autoroot doesnt replace your kernel, so u should still have stock kernel.
and also as far as i know, triangle away doesnt work on note 4 ... so right now there is no way to reset the counter to zero.
and 1 more thing is you may have posted this question in the wrong thread, you should have posted it in the Q&A thread. ^^

randykzc said:
Hi, cf autoroot doesnt replace your kernel, so u should still have stock kernel.
and also as far as i know, triangle away doesnt work on note 4 ... so right now there is no way to reset the counter to zero.
and 1 more thing is you may have posted this question in the wrong thread, you should have posted it in the Q&A thread. ^^
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Thanks a lot , i'll try different ways to reset it, if i succeed i'll wrrite a thread about it

Mr.3bood said:
Thanks a lot , i'll try different ways to reset it, if i succeed i'll wrrite a thread about it
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Good luck trying to figure out how to reset that counter permanently - so far no one managed to find a way to do that since the introduction of KNOX back in 2013.

N9005 Cannot Flash Stock ROM

HI,
Im trying to load a stock firmware onto my 32GB N9005 Note 3, but its failing when the flash starts.
I downloaded a HK version of 5.0 ([247616]»˝–«_N9005_N9005ZSUGOL1_÷–π˙œ„∏€(TGY)_5.0.20160317183141.tar) , and it fails at some security check at the start ( Fail(Auth).
Id like to do one of 2 things:
1) Figure out how to fix the security problem so i can load the stock 5.0 on to it
or
2) I also downloaded the stock 4.4.2 , but its not in a tar.... its come in a folder with 6 files.
AP_xxxxxx.tar
BL_xxxxxxx.tar
CP_xxxxxxxx.tar
CSC_xxxxxxxx.tar
HLTE_HKTW_OPEN_16GB.pit
HLTE_HKTW_OPEN_32GB.pit
Can i use odin to flash the 4 files in 1 go to update to the stock version?
The phone was bought from China about a while ago, and its currently running a version of 4.4.4. It looks to me like its running a custom ROM, which was preinstalled from the dodgy place i bought it from, details are below:
Baseband: N9005XXUGNG1
Build Number: DONGCHAO.A429
Kernel Version:
3.4.0-2593013
[email protected] #1
Friday Nov 28 14:31:10 KST 2014
Hardware 1.06
Philz Touch also installed.....
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
G

In donwload mode is there reactivation lock: on?
Sent from my GT-N7000

Rosli59564 said:
In donwload mode is there reactivation lock: on?
Sent from my GT-N7000
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Im not sure how to tell.
When i enter download mode i see:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SM-N900P
CURRENT BINARY : CUSTOM
SYSTEM STATUS: CUSTOM
KNOW WARRANTY VOID: 0x1 (2)
QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE )CSB_
RP SWREV: S1, T1, R1, A3, P1
SECURE DOWNLOAD: ENABLE
UDC START
Its interesting the product name is not matching my expectation. do all sm-n9005 show sm-n900p in download mode?
G

I guess the mb has been changed. It's not n9005 anymore.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3382039
Sent from my GT-N7000

It's not an N9005. It's an N900P therefore download an N900P version of the firmware.

In case anyone wonders in the future what happened with this.... I basically gave up. Something has obviously been reworked on the phone, into a state that i'm pretty unhappy with messing with. I don't need to update it enough to push on, seems like the chances to kill it, or find myself with a phone that no longer supports lte, are too high.
Top tip: When you're buying from China.... you never get what you expect.
G

Rosli59564 said:
In donwload mode is there reactivation lock: on?
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If lock is on, there is no chance to flash new recovery? I stuck with one phone, buddy of mine gave me some old note3, with samsung account and reactivation on, so I wonder if this is new shiny door holder or I can actually install something?

Did you try installing a stock ROM from sammobile.com? Not sure if flashing an older or newer ROM will make a difference.
Apparently, there are methods to bypass the lock.