Hi,
I bought an S4 which was previously rooted. Last owner unrooted it and used triangle away to make sure all was as stock looking as possible.
Last week I did a factory reset on the phone as I was having issues with it. After the reset it shows all the stock apps and standard Rogers bloatware. BUT it now has a couple of Bell Bloatware apps as well!!!
I need to send the phone in for repair as I am getting "intermittent SIM card not detected, phone is restarting error". Should I be worried that Samsung will detect that the phone was at one time rooted?
What should I do?
Thanks
rezadue said:
Hi,
I bought an S4 which was previously rooted. Last owner unrooted it and used triangle away to make sure all was as stock looking as possible.
Last week I did a factory reset on the phone as I was having issues with it. After the reset it shows all the stock apps and standard Rogers bloatware. BUT it now has a couple of Bell Bloatware apps as well!!!
I need to send the phone in for repair as I am getting "intermittent SIM card not detected, phone is restarting error". Should I be worried that Samsung will detect that the phone was at one time rooted?
What should I do?
Thanks
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When the last owner unrooted the phone, they likely used one of the odin files from here which are all Bell based for I337M (Canadian S4). There is a thread in here where this happened to another user and they returned the phone to stock Rogers instead of Bell, you will need to search for that thread. The bigger concern is Knox is probably tripped on the phone, when it boots up there will be some tiny text it the top left corner, yellow and red I believe, there is a thread about that here too.... If Knox is tripped (pretty sure it is) then all you can do is try to get it repaired by Samsung, I wouold be interested to find out if they do it or not.....
Thanks for the reply.
I shut the phone down and then turned it back on, paying close attention to evenrything. There is no small text in any corner. What is odd id that the phone goes through its boot sequence, gets to the lockscreen, and then goes through the boot sequence again a second time.
And for clarification, I have all the Rogers bloat, but I have three Bell bloat apps too!
I will do a search again to see if I can find the threads you have mentioned.
Gage_Hero said:
When the last owner unrooted the phone, they likely used one of the odin files from here which are all Bell based for I337M (Canadian S4). There is a thread in here where this happened to another user and they returned the phone to stock Rogers instead of Bell, you will need to search for that thread. The bigger concern is Knox is probably tripped on the phone, when it boots up there will be some tiny text it the top left corner, yellow and red I believe, there is a thread about that here too.... If Knox is tripped (pretty sure it is) then all you can do is try to get it repaired by Samsung, I wouold be interested to find out if they do it or not.....
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rezadue said:
Thanks for the reply.
I shut the phone down and then turned it back on, paying close attention to evenrything. There is no small text in any corner. What is odd id that the phone goes through its boot sequence, gets to the lockscreen, and then goes through the boot sequence again a second time.
And for clarification, I have all the Rogers bloat, but I have three Bell bloat apps too!
I will do a search again to see if I can find the threads you have mentioned.
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You have to go into download mode to see the text.
Sent from Black<3's I337 running Foxhound ROM
Put the phone in download mode and no small text.
Now that the phone is not rooted, can I put it in download mode, attach it to a PC and flash a stock Rogers 4.3 ROM via ODIN? Do I need root for this?
rezadue said:
Oh, and one other question. Now that the phone is not rooted, can I put it in recovery mode, attach it to a PC and flash a stock Rogers 4.3 ROM via ODIN? Do I need root for this?
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Not to ODIN it no. Root not required.
Found the other thread, you have spoken of. It seems like that guy got bloatware from Bell INSTEAD of Rogers. I have blaotware from Rogers(ok
) AND Bell(Not ok).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2422497
Almost same issue here on my N900W8. My phone is working fine and rooted, except I got the Rogers AND Bell apps too before rooting and flashing CWM (only way I knew of at the time to force boot following seandroid enforcing error). I data wiped, downloaded and flashed the labeled "Rogers" stock ROM from SamMobile, and first time I ever saw bloatware from two carriers on any phone.
I disabled the Bell apps thinking that was all, but instead of 4G, I get H+. LTE connects fine outdoors, but H+ seems slightly slower than the 4G I'm used to. Which makes me wonder if LTE speeds are impacted too, hope not. Anyway, it's a bother because I am rarely in an LTE zone.
Tomorrow, I will try unrooting with SuperSU (is this even important if I'm wiping & flashing?), data wiping with CWM, re-flashing same file from SamMobile and not flashing anything more, and trying emergency recovery with Kies. Anyone know if this will work or change anything in the end? Or is Kies 3 also affected by the Knox counter? CSC (OYA) is the same as the non-rooted up-to-date S4 in the house.
Thanks
OP, have you tried using someone else's SIM card? Just a thought.
So my brother has an att galaxy s5 and out of no where, his camera pictures are very blurry and horrible. It seems like the camera has a problem focusing.
He tried restoring the phone, and updating to the newest software, but still the same so we're figuring it's some failure with the sensor? He has an appointment with the att device center on Tuesday so hopefully they replace it.
One problem though.. His phone says "custom" and has an open padlock whenever it boots up. He did have a custom rom on it before, and used safestrap to install it,but now he's back to stock. The padlock wasn't there when he had the custom rom on it, but when he flashed back to stock and updated it, it appeared. He's no longer rooted so I have no idea how to get rid of that for him. Any idea? Knox has not been triggered according to the service menu.
I can no longer reroot as it autoupdated to the latest ATT OTA which is 4.4.2
Thanks in advance!
ATT Note 3 n900a
I had upgraded to lollipop but had gps issues so i
downgraded to 4.2.2 kitkat (works fine except no GPS lock)
rooted with kingo successful
installed safestrap 3.75 (Safestrap-HLTEATT-NC2-3.75-B03.apk)
flashed with knoxraid 5.6
phone starts
shows "google"
then gets stuck at the startup animation.............
Im relatively new at this so im guessing im doing something wrong ?
repsolal said:
ATT Note 3 n900a
I had upgraded to lollipop but had gps issues so i
downgraded to 4.2.2 kitkat (works fine except no GPS lock)
rooted with kingo successful
installed safestrap 3.75 (Safestrap-HLTEATT-NC2-3.75-B03.apk)
flashed with knoxraid 5.6
phone starts
shows "google"
then gets stuck at the startup animation.............
Im relatively new at this so im guessing im doing something wrong ?
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Tried Xnote
flashed okay
at bootup it just shuts the phone off completely and i have to remove battery to restart it...
I have a Verizon s5 on NE9 (4.4.2), and I'm rooted or so I thought.
The last couple times I've restarted my device, I haven't seen the unlocked image rift before the red Verizon splash screen.
I'm just wondering if something has happened to my root? Why would it just revert back to the non-rooted boot image?
I also secretly like the unlock image more than the plain Jane image, but I am wondering what happened.
Thanks in advance.
Brett
P.S. root checker still tells me I'm rooted.
was on stock 4.4.2 and used towelroot to root which went fine. used supersu i think 2.45 or 2.46 and it hung on shutting down knox. i restarted phone and i get custom status boot screen and it also says custom status in about phone status area.
is there an easy fix to get rid of the custom boot screen and also fix for custom status in about phone?
what rom is best for a pure aosp experience? CM isnt avail for this device?
1 more thing.
i believe this is a pure untouched stock verizon note 3 but i was able to do the *#27663368378# and get into hidden menu before i ever rooted.
anyhow that custom boot splash screen is really annoying.
knox = 0x0 still so thats good
i was able to get rid of the custom boot animation screen with triangle away.
i still get custom for device status in about phone.
im not using phone with verizon but instead with pageplus.
how do i disable the voice mail update notification?
i have titanium backup pro and am rooted and i also have es file manager installed.
is there a service i can freeze or apk i can rename to fix this?
thanks