so i recently towelrooted my att gs5 and superusersu asked to diable knox so i did, later i had some issues so i factory reset the phone. however it says knox 0x0 so it is not tripped. However it says in application manager that knox has 0.0 mb of data. i just want to re install, or re enable knox. can someone tell me hoe to do that or if its even possible. I thought that sense it was not tripped i should be able to still recover it so i can use private mode and art runtime. THANKS!:good:
I factory reset my stock S5 using the recovery menu to try and fix battery drain issues after upgrading to Marshmallow, however after reset it asked me to enter my Samsung account details due to "Abnormal factory reset" to prove I was the device owner.
After entering the correct details, it then gives me the message "Processing failed" and won't continue.
My account details are definitely correct (changing the password by one character gives a different message), and I've never logged into the phone using any other Samsung account. I've had the phone since new.
Is there any way to regain entry? I can log into the Samsung portal on my computer.
Flash a stock KitKat ROM and try logging in again, if it still fails, you'll need to factory reset from recovery (Still with Kitkat) and then upgrade back to MM
Next time, disable "Reactivation lock" before resetting the phone
Would that invalidate my warranty?
No, flashing stock ROMs doesn't invalidate it, only if you flash custom (Warranty is determined in some regions by the KNOX flag, if KNOX is 0x0, warranty is valid, if it is tripped to 0x1, it is invalid) flashing stock ROMs leaves it valid with 0x0
Last ROM I had that was working was Lollipop. Should I try that, or do you still recommend KitKat?
Has to be KitKat, the exploit was patched in Lollipop, best to go for an early build, pre-June 2014, basically just choose the first one available from sammobile .com or wherever you download them from
Exploit? Will logging in directly work on KitKat then - or do I have to do some workaround?
I've told you how to do it, read some threads, that's how you fix it when you mess up by leaving reactivation lock enabled
And I really appreciate it. Thanks!
Hello, I have a Galaxy S5 G900F, updated to Marshmallow 6.0.1, being using it for a year now and it seems that I had the reactivation lock on for so long, but the samsung account associated with it was deleted by me a couple months ago.
A few days ago, a friend just as a stupid prank went into recovery mode and wiped my phone, and now i can't get it to work because of the reactivation lock. I cant sign in with my account because it no longer exists and I tried taking it in for service as it is still in warranty and the Knox is 0x0 and everything but they said that it says specifically on the device that before taking the device in for service you have to disable the reactivation lock. So they said that the only way i can get it to work is pay $200 for them to replace my motherboard. And i am not going to do that.
Can you please tell me if I can do something to force bypass or install another ROM or ANYTHING at all in order to get past the lock? I would greatly appreciate it. I don't care if i flag the Knox system, i just want my phone to work. I only have a medium level knowledge of installing custom ROMS, rooting and using ODIN i've been doing it on my old samsung S3 for a long time. Can you please please give me a tutorial or something i can do doesn't matter if it takes long or if it's complicated or risky as I have nothing to lose. Thank you so much!
Flash a stock KITKAT ROM
Boot into recovery, factory reset, see if you can get back in
Or Create that Samsung account with the same email address again, if it's been deleted, it should let you create it again, log back in with that
It's not a password problem if it was it would say invalid ID or password. It goes through the process of signing in then it says Process failed.
findmymobile.samsung.com is able to RING MY DEVICE but I an unable to get past "This phone has been locked because of an abnormal factory reset. Sign in to the Samsung account that was previously used on this phone. Is there any hope for this phone? Knox is tripped because the phone had previously been rooted.
problem solved
I Odin to 5.0.1-N910VVRU2BPA1 and was able to sign in to remove the Reactivation lock then I upgraded to 6.0.1-N910VVRU2CQF2.
The ROMs I use came from SamMobile
My S8 screen died - no damage, just random artifacts and touch activation, then nothing at all. I'm trying to access my Google Auth to get the backup codes I don't have saved. Vysor and Teamviewer both show only a black screen. The same shows for other security features, like getting rid of my pattern lock. Google says this is a Knox security feature.
How can I get rid of Knox most easily without losing device data? is there another way to solve my issue?
Samsung S8 SM-G950U
Android 9.0
Knox v3.2.1