Changing device status from custom to official - Samsung Galaxy J5 Questions & Answers

Hi to all passing by this query,
I wanted to know if reflashing my stock lollipop rom for J5 again will change my device status from custom to official, as it is currently custom - rooted my phone and now I want to get it back to normal whatever it takes.
Thanks in advance.
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Yes, just flash stock firmware and everything will go back to official.

Look at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bryancandi.knoxcheck&hl=pl

My phone samsung J5 SM-500F the device status has been modified to custom, so if I reboot or reset my phone will it change to official

Brandon brivel said:
My phone samsung J5 SM-500F the device status has been modified to custom, so if I reboot or reset my phone will it change to official
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I think you need to reflash the entire ROM from factory reset.
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Device status and OTA help

Hey everyone,
I flashed the leaked 4.3 firmware with the 4.3 kernel and everything worked well except it drained battery way too quickly. I just flashed back to stock XXMEA firmware and did a factory reset. Everything is working perfect except under Device Status it says 'Custom' and when I plug the phone into Kies it won't check for updates. It says something about the device unable to initialize or something .
Does anyone know how I can get the firmware back to 'official' status and receive OTA updates?
The CSC is back to normal (XSA), the Kernel is back to nornal and obviously the firmware is back to normal. Any help appreciated immensely!
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Simmo3D said:
Hey everyone,
I flashed the leaked 4.3 firmware with the 4.3 kernel and everything worked well except it drained battery way too quickly. I just flashed back to stock XXMEA firmware and did a factory reset. Everything is working perfect except under Device Status it says 'Custom' and when I plug the phone into Kies it won't check for updates. It says something about the device unable to initialize or something .
Does anyone know how I can get the firmware back to 'official' status and receive OTA updates?
The CSC is back to normal (XSA), the Kernel is back to nornal and obviously the firmware is back to normal. Any help appreciated immensely!
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There are couple of people i have seen including mine saying custom after flashing the Stock however try to reset once again and see, if not again flash a firmware and reset u will get Official
U may also use Triangle away to reset the binary Counter & Custom status it works for I9505
123hiten said:
There are couple of people i have seen including mine saying custom after flashing the Stock however try to reset once again and see, if not again flash a firmware and reset u will get Official
U may also use Triangle away to reset the binary Counter & Custom status it works for I9505
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Thank you. I flashed the stock firmware again and another reset and its back to official.
Thank you so much
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Simmo3D said:
Thank you. I flashed the stock firmware again and another reset and its back to official.
Thank you so much
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Ooh thats great

[Q] Your device has been modified..

Hey People,
i previously rooted my phone on stock firmware along with changing the kernel. I have no restored and removed root back to stock but i get this message when doing a OTA update as i need the latest update to enable 4G on my phone. It says Your device has been modified. Software updates are not available. How do i go about fixing this? I have done some research and used the triangle app to reset the flash counter which now says Official rather then Custom In download mode? If i flash the firmware does it automatically Re flash my Kernel or is that separate? I have looked for the stock i9505 kernel i Just cant seem to find it.
Will appreciate the help
Thanks
jeezy85 said:
Hey People,
i previously rooted my phone on stock firmware along with changing the kernel. I have no restored and removed root back to stock but i get this message when doing a OTA update as i need the latest update to enable 4G on my phone. It says Your device has been modified. Software updates are not available. How do i go about fixing this? I have done some research and used the triangle app to reset the flash counter which now says Official rather then Custom In download mode? If i flash the firmware does it automatically Re flash my Kernel or is that separate? I have looked for the stock i9505 kernel i Just cant seem to find it.
Will appreciate the help
Thanks
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flash stock firmware, stock kernel included
It's normal that it says that. Just install Xposed framework, then Wanam Xposed, there is an option to fake the system status as official and thus you'll be able to update firmware OTA.
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samersh72 said:
flash stock firmware, stock kernel included
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i have flashed stock firmware 2/3 times now doing another 1 as we speak it still says i cannot update ota..
any other ideas what could be causing it to be modified?
Have you ever find a way to fix this?
jeezy85 said:
i have flashed stock firmware 2/3 times now doing another 1 as we speak it still says i cannot update ota..
any other ideas what could be causing it to be modified?
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then try to update using kies
svd1977 said:
then try to update using kies
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Thank you for your answer, but unfortunately I can't use Kies since I use Linux and there is no Kies for Linux. May be another solution like adb?
Have u tried factory reset in stock recovery. I had this when I flashed official fw with odin. Was not untill I reset that the prob went away
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l8erz said:
Have u tried factory reset in stock recovery. I had this when I flashed official fw with odin. Was not untill I reset that the prob went away
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Thank you!
I wiped the data, without success, then I flashed everything again with Heindall 1.4.0, then wiped everything again. Now I have official status and should receive OTA updates.
Edit: but after rooting the official status is lost. Now I think this may be normal.

[Q] Triangle away doesn't reset flash counter. Please help

I have galaxy s4 and wanted to reset flash counter with triangle away . After doing all the steps and I rebooted the phone the triangle away flash counter still show 9 . How come ? Why does it still show 9 and not 1 ?
Any help will be appreciated .
It will most likely be because you're not using stock recovery or kernel
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symondo12 said:
It will most likely be because you're not using stock recovery or kernel
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So it means if I go back to stock rom and kernel ,it will reset flash counter to zero and not if i am trying to reset on a already custom rom ?
ricky0001 said:
So it means if I go back to stock rom and kernel ,it will reset flash counter to zero and not if i am trying to reset on a already custom rom ?
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It won't work you must have stock kernel, stock recovery
You need to flash pre-rooted stock fw with odin, then use triangle away to reset counter. After that you can flash non rooted stock fw with odin to get your phone back to stock, if that is what you want.
vesu said:
You need to flash pre-rooted stock fw with odin, then use triangle away to reset counter. After that you can flash non rooted stock fw with odin to get your phone back to stock, if that is what you want.
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Sorry for noob question . But what is pre rooted stock ? Isnt it same as samsung stock firmware which I can flash to overwrite custom rom ?
ricky0001 said:
Sorry for noob question . But what is pre rooted stock ? Isnt it same as samsung stock firmware which I can flash to overwrite custom rom ?
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Yes, its stock samsung firmware but it is already rooted, so you can use triangle away.
vesu said:
Yes, its stock samsung firmware but it is already rooted, so you can use triangle away.
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So i need to be rooted to have triangle away working ? I have already downloaded stock firmware but where do I get pre rooted stock firmware ?
ricky0001 said:
So i need to be rooted to have triangle away working ? I have already downloaded stock firmware but where do I get pre rooted stock firmware ?
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Make sure that you absolutely know what you are doing, I dont want you to brick your deivce or trip knox flag.
If you are still with fw that has OLD bootloader without knox flag, then you can use this one: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23050663588004454
But if you already have bootloader with knox, then I am not one to help you. After reseting my counter and flashing stock fw, I ota updated my phone to newer fw that has knox bootloader and I've been with stock since then.
Oh and btw, you have i9505 right?
vesu said:
Make sure that you absolutely know what you are doing, I dont want you to brick your deivce or trip knox flag.
If you are still with fw that has OLD bootloader without knox flag, then you can use this one: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23050663588004454
But if you already have bootloader with knox, then I am not one to help you. After reseting my counter and flashing stock fw, I ota updated my phone to newer fw that has knox bootloader and I've been with stock since then.
Oh and btw, you have i9505 right?
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Yes I have I9505 model. I am on new bootloader as I updated my phone with MH8 firmware and got 0x1 knox warranty void. Doesnt really care about losing warranty because I have always handled my phone carefully.
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Which baseband do you have ?
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I have reset it now to 0.
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[Q] Custom Device status

Hi All,
My S4 is indicating custum device status, while I'm using official Samsung firmware, I've just updated it to 4.3 using Kies.
Does anyone have idea concerning this issue.
I saw in some threads that this is due to SD card, but I'm not using any sd card.
Thanks.
You have Custom rom, or Custom recovery
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Hagster said:
You have Custom rom, or Custom recovery
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Thanks Hagster, sorry but I'm novice, I personally unpack the phone and the only updates I've made are using kies, and don't know why the device was customized
safiezzina said:
Thanks Hagster, sorry but I'm novice, I personally unpack the phone and the only updates I've made are using kies, and don't know why the device was customized
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If your getting annoyed with this one try to flash a pre-rooted rom from djembey's thread and once your done install the triangle away to reset the binary and that should fix your problem and if you really want a stock rom then flash the stock rom from samsung and everything should be fine. have a nice day.

[Q] Flash My NOTE 3 to STOCK??

I recently bought Samsung Galaxy Note 3 LTE [N9005] and it came with supersu installed.. when i checked it was rooted.. and kitkat 4.4.2 installed..
I just want to unroot and flash in to stock.. how can i do that. im new with samsung.. actually first timer for samsung phones. please help...
Also when i try to check updates it says my device is modified and cannot check updates.. also device status shows as custom..
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lahiruchamikara said:
I recently bought Samsung Galaxy Note 3 LTE [N9005] and it came with supersu installed.. when i checked it was rooted.. and kitkat 4.4.2 installed..
I just want to unroot and flash in to stock.. how can i do that. im new with samsung.. actually first timer for samsung phones. please help...
Also when i try to check updates it says my device is modified and cannot check updates.. also device status shows as custom..
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Try to switch of your phone and boot to download mode.(press vol down+home+power button and after that vol up to continue)
see you knox status 0x0 or 0x1. You said its been modified means you knox is 0x1-warranty void.
It is useless to flash stock rom when your knox is 0x1, it will stay like that until a developers can figure it out.
Alternative way is to install wanam exposed, it can set your phone from custom to official.
By the way, are you buying new phone or used phone? if it new its weird coz been rooted.
Did you buy it in a store? We`re the seals intact or broken when you got it, maybe they gave you a refurbished one that still had root? As said above you`re warranty is gone anyway so flash away bro
Nope I didnt buy from official store. and knox status is 0x1. Im not worried about the warranty because I have 2 years from the place where i bought it.. They have to deal with the place they have bought it to resell. I just want to flash this device and remove the root.. how can i do that? Thanks
Just flash a stock ROM... Make sure to do a complete wipe..
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can i flash a jelleybean rom? instead of kitkat.. im currently having kitkat
lahiruchamikara said:
can i flash a jelleybean rom? instead of kitkat.. im currently having kitkat
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No, impossible as you have KK bootloader. It will just hang at the samsung screen and get REALLY hot if you flash a JB rom...
Thanks for all the help.. device flashed and root removed. CHEERS!!!
PS: Can i Flash any kitkat rom available ?
lahiruchamikara said:
Thanks for all the help.. device flashed and root removed. CHEERS!!!
PS: Can i Flash any kitkat rom available ?
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Yup, all N9005 compaitble roms.
Thank You....
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