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Need to send S4 back to Samsung, What is required to make sure my warranty is valid?

So, my S4 wont read my simcard anymore, and I have to send it back.
What do I need to do to make sure that Samsung accepts and replaces my device.
It's Rooted, has a custom recovery and ROM.
Thanks.
EDIT: Its a Canadian S4.

Remove flash back via Odin find stock factory image for YOUR DEVICE (I337m) I take it you didn't update it so find the Odin files that correspond with the fw that your phone officially came with
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Supreme Dynamite said:
Remove flash back via Odin find stock factory image for YOUR DEVICE (I337m) I take it you didn't update it so find the Odin files that correspond with the fw that your phone officially came with
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So I went back to the Official Samsung firmware, and used triangle away. Now when I boot into download, both say official. However, when I check device status, it still says custom.
I have removed Root and have a custom recovery installed. Found a Sprint S4 recovery, but I can't find the Canadian. Will the sprint one work?

Only other method I could think of is using Kies (if you don't have it downloaded it) to restore it completely.
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Supreme Dynamite said:
Only other method I could think of is using Kies (if you don't have it downloaded it) to restore it completely.
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Well, Can I not just flash the stock recovery with ODIN?

I'm not too sure. You could search it
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QuickSkope said:
Well, Can I not just flash the stock recovery with ODIN?
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If you have an i337m you can flash the stock firmware with odin.

jd1639 said:
If you have an i337m you can flash the stock firmware with odin.
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See, I cannot go back to stock and do the triangle away method as SIM card is required to activate the phone, which currently won't read a simcard. Can I not just flash the recovery? Or is there a way to bypass simcard activation? Thanks

[Q] Re-Flashing stock rom on rooted device

I have a rooted N900 running stock rom, I want to reflash the stock rom, the question is; do I have to unroot first? Or I can flash it right without unrooting
I'm not concerned about warranty and reseting flash binary, I just want to get a clean stock rom again
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SlmAlslm said:
I have a rooted N900 running stock rom, I want to reflash the stock rom, the question is; do I have to unroot first? Or I can flash it right without unrooting
I'm not concerned about warranty and reseting flash binary, I just want to get a clean stock rom again
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Just flash stock rom with odin root will be gone and back to the day you got it

jaythenut said:
Just flash stock rom with odin root will be gone and back to the day you got it
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Thanks, I have a custom recovery (CWM), will it be gone after flashing the new rom?
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SlmAlslm said:
Thanks, I have a custom recovery (CWM), will it be gone after flashing the new rom?
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Yes everything will be gone
If you got CWM knox will be tripped
Have a look in download mode

I don't have knox counter in download mode, and I dont care if it is tripped or not, just want a clean stock rom again without bricking my device
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SlmAlslm said:
I don't have knox counter in download mode, and I dont care if it is tripped or not, just want a clean stock rom again without bricking my device
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Just flash stock rom and your be done

camera stop responding

Hi guys i'm using galaxy note 3 9005 bought this phone already rooted. Dont know what kind of firmware since this is my first time using an android phone. My problem is my camera suddenly will not work when i open the camera its just pure black on the screen you cant do anything then it will have an error of camera stop responding. And i noticed that my phone os getting hot and it drains the battery. I need to restsrt the phone in able to use it properly. Any idea guys? Thanks

blinkerwerkz said:
Hi guys i'm using galaxy note 3 9005 bought this phone already rooted. Dont know what kind of firmware since this is my first time using an android phone. My problem is my camera suddenly will not work when i open the camera its just pure black on the screen you cant do anything then it will have an error of camera stop responding. And i noticed that my phone os getting hot and it drains the battery. I need to restsrt the phone in able to use it properly. Any idea guys? Thanks
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Factory reset your phone via recovery, or flash official firmware via Odin

bekasulaberidze said:
Factory reset your phone via recovery, or flash official firmware via Odin
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Thanks sir for the response.. can you help me how to flash the official firmware? And also i checked on the knox my knox was tripped 0x1 will it be back to 0x0? Sorry newbie question.

blinkerwerkz said:
Thanks sir for the response.. can you help me how to flash the official firmware? And also i checked on the knox my knox was tripped 0x1 will it be back to 0x0? Sorry newbie question.
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Your KNOX will always 0x1, so at first download official firmware from sammobile.com than download odin, in AP choose your extracted firmware md5 file and flash it after successfully flashing it must say PASS! when your phone finishes booting go to recovery and factory reset.
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bekasulaberidze said:
Your KNOX will always 0x1, so at first download official firmware from sammobile.com than download odin, in AP choose your extracted firmware md5 file and flash it after successfully flashing it must say PASS! when your phone finishes booting go to recovery and factory reset.
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Is there a selection of firmware which I will download or I will just select for the Note 3 9005? Since this is the first time doing that kind of flashing and rooting.. BTW after I flash the firmware and factory reset I can proceed in rooting?

yes go to firmwares and choose what region you want I have n900 but on n9005 I preffer BTU britain firmware, after that you can root your phone using cfautoroot
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bekasulaberidze said:
yes go to firmwares and choose what region you want I have n900 but on n9005 I preffer BTU britain firmware, after that you can root your phone using cfautoroot
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Can I flash directly for Kitkat? Or do I need to flash the original firmware first before I update to kitkat. Sorry for asking too much question newbie here Lol!

no problem if I know I share my opinion you can flash whatever you want, if you want KK or JB but you must know that you can't downgrade kitkat to jellybean so you choose
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Device status remains custom after flashing stock ROM via ODIN

Hey peeps.
Having a small issue,
So I decided to go back to stock, I download the latest firmware from Sam firmware.
After flashing the firmware I go into the stock recovery to clear cache and wipe data factory reset. I then setup my phone like I would and after checking the status it says that it's custom.
Some background info - I was using a AOSP ROM before flashing the stock firmware and had my SD card during the flashing process.
Anyone have issues like this? Or any solutions?
Thanks.
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I had it after updating from German stock rom (DBT) to Xuenc2 (ETL). When I installed the Xuend rom, status came back to official.

So do I have to root and install a NB7 custom ROM before flashing the stock BTU NB7 firmware?
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shaazzaarr said:
So do I have to root and install a NB7 custom ROM before flashing the stock BTU NB7 firmware?
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No need.
Just flash back again. Sometimes like that if u came from aosp.
Btw, latest firmware is not nb7... it is nd3.
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try with your SD Card Unpluged
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Try Traingle away app then after reseting the counter and binary to official boot directly to download mod then flash stock rom via odin. if didn't work factory reset your device and flash the rom one more time. Hope it helps
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Stuck at booting screen after rooting

Hi,
I was trying to root my N9005 according to the video tutorial posted above, Everything went OK, except the point where it says "Recovery Booting... Recovery is not seandroid enforcing Set warrenty bit: recovery" and it just stays there, it's been there for around 10 minutes now. I checked the Auto Reboot option on Odin.
Any ideas?

Try flashing recovery from odin of kitkat.It might have flashed recovery for 4.3
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hope this usefull
blaqq said:
Hi,
I was trying to root my N9005 according to the video tutorial posted above, Everything went OK, except the point where it says "Recovery Booting... Recovery is not seandroid enforcing Set warrenty bit: recovery" and it just stays there, it's been there for around 10 minutes now. I checked the Auto Reboot option on Odin.
Any ideas?
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maybe u can check on this thread. coz, chainfire make a different cf auto root, for 4.4 and 4.3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2466423
SM-N9005 (International Qualcomm): CF-Auto-Root-hlte-hltexx-smn9005.zip
(only works on 4.4 bootloaders, if you're still on 4.3 use the old version which you can find here: http://d-h.st/J32)

RISHI RAJ said:
Try flashing recovery from odin of kitkat.It might have flashed recovery for 4.3
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The phone was running 4.3 before I attempted to root it. I rooted it with the 4.4.2 link, is there a way to go back? Do I just repeat the process again with the 4.3 root?

blaqq said:
The phone was running 4.3 before I attempted to root it. How do I do this?
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try on this
maybe u can try cf auto root for 4.3 firmware. look on chainfire thread for note cf auto root

The phone was running 4.3 before I attempted to root it. I rooted it with the 4.4.2 link, is there a way to go back? Do I just repeat the process again with the 4.3 root?

blaqq said:
The phone was running 4.3 before I attempted to root it. I rooted it with the 4.4.2 link, is there a way to go back? Do I just repeat the process again with the 4.3 root?
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may opinion, maybe u try to flash new firmware using odin. download firmware from samsung update or sammobile.

Working?
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begin_android said:
Working?
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Nope What firmware should I update?

Your note 3 N9005 or N900? After that go to samsung update website or sammobile to download your firmware; refer to your phone 1st.
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begin_android said:
Your note 3 N9005 or N900? After that go to samsung update website or sammobile to download your firmware; refer to your phone 1st.
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N9005, but I fixed it, I simply used Odin 1.87 to flash the phone again with the 4.3 rooting firmware, and everything was good.
Thanks for your help!