Quick pre-emptive defence - I'm SURE this has been asked elsewhere, but:
1) This is about Samsung which means...
2) I'd like to be able to do it without tripping KNOX.
Hopefully this is simple, but the question is - I bought my phone from O2 on a contract. I'd like to sell it, but it has that (very presumptively installed) O2 splash screen on startup, which is only helpful if the buyer wants it (unlikely). If I flash a stock firmware through ODIN, will it remove the splash screen and not trip knox?
Thanks :s
tmorterlaing said:
Quick pre-emptive defence - I'm SURE this has been asked elsewhere, but:
1) This is about Samsung which means...
2) I'd like to be able to do it without tripping KNOX.
Hopefully this is simple, but the question is - I bought my phone from O2 on a contract. I'd like to sell it, but it has that (very presumptively installed) O2 splash screen on startup, which is only helpful if the buyer wants it (unlikely). If I flash a stock firmware through ODIN, will it remove the splash screen and not trip knox?
Thanks :s
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Flashing the stock firmware definitely will not touch Knox. As for removing the boot animation you should test it out yourself
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Hello,
I am leasing the Sprint S6 edge and when my lease is over, i will have to give the phone back to sprint. Anyways, my question is ..... should i not root this then? Is there a way to completely revert to stock and leave no trace that i rooted?
Thanks!
Yes
jkt97401 said:
Hello,
I am leasing the Sprint S6 edge and when my lease is over, i will have to give the phone back to sprint. Anyways, my question is ..... should i not root this then? Is there a way to completely revert to stock and leave no trace that i rooted?
Thanks!
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You will also have the option to buyout the balance on the phone and keep it at the end of your lease.
jkt97401 said:
Hello,
I am leasing the Sprint S6 edge and when my lease is over, i will have to give the phone back to sprint. Anyways, my question is ..... should i not root this then? Is there a way to completely revert to stock and leave no trace that i rooted?
Thanks!
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You can root via pinpong root and you won't trip knox. You'll only trip knox once you flash custom recovery.
jkt97401 said:
Hello,
I am leasing the Sprint S6 edge and when my lease is over, i will have to give the phone back to sprint. Anyways, my question is ..... should i not root this then? Is there a way to completely revert to stock and leave no trace that i rooted?
Thanks!
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Knox will be tripped but Sprint doesn't check that anyway, as I've turned in about 3 Samsung devices with knox tripped in the past with no problems
Thank you guys. I'm the past has there been a way to reset knox? What exactly is knox? I have never owned a Samsung.
I'm a former HTC fanboy lol
Edit : I'm sure glad i researched what knox is! Someone give me the scoop, how do you Samsung flashaholics do it? Is it possible to flash a custom rom without tripping knox?
jkt97401 said:
Thank you guys. I'm the past has there been a way to reset knox? What exactly is knox? I have never owned a Samsung.
I'm a former HTC fanboy lol
Edit : I'm sure glad i researched what knox is! Someone give me the scoop, how do you Samsung flashaholics do it? Is it possible to flash a custom rom without tripping knox?
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The whole knox thing is worse than it sounds. As @Soooperstar mentioned, Sprint may not really enforce it as some may think. Rooting has become much more prevalent these days. Sprint knows it. I hear lots of guys mention that they've turned in knox tripped devices without incident. As of today, you need a custom recovery in order to flash a rom. Come on in, the water's warm.
I am into flashing since about 4 years, but I never touched Samsung, only HTC. Due to a postal strike in Germany I have to wait since 2 weeks for the device. So I want to be best prepared for my first Samsung device.
Now I read that your warranty is void if you root the device. That makes up a few questions:
1. Is it possible to root and install a custom recovery (like twrp) without loosing warranty?
2. What do I need to know?
3. Is it possible to unlock your boot loader? If so, is it worth it?
4. If all goes wrong, is there a way to get back and claim warranty?
Thanks for help and advices.
So if I don't flash a custom kernel, I am good to go?
Hey guys, thanks in advance for your help.
I am not new to rooting, but I'm new to T-Mobile S6 G920T, so I had few questions.
Some info about the phone:
Knox status is 0 (not tripped)
SIM Locked to T-Mobile
Firmware: DOJC (g920tuvu3dojC)
I recently bought this phone refurbished, and I have hard time finding the answers I'm looking for in the forums (I've spent about 4+ Hrs in searching so far)
So my questions are:
1) Is there a "non-root" way to SIM unlock this phone? I tried using the "cable" method from unlockbase, but it looks like they can't implement the temp root method, and therefore it doesn't work
2) It doesn't look like there is currently a way to root the phone with this firmware without tripping KNOX, is this correct? Can I downgrade?
3) Is the bootloader of this phone unlocked? I see that there is an OEM Unlocking option, but some users are saying that this doesn't do anything on DOJC (The primary reason why I bought this model was the notion that T-Mobile has unlocked bootloader)?
4) What happens if I trip KNOX, it looks like I can still flash the original firmware, but the counter will still show 1+ instead of 0 - is this correct? Or rather - is there a fool-roof way to flash new firmware and reverting back to the old one with clean KNOX if needed?
Bonus Question) What is a good 6.0 Rom to flash in my case? Are there SIM Unlocked ones? What about CM13 - if I flash it, I lose TouchWiz along with some of the apps and possibly the FingerPrint scanner?
Thanks for your attention,
A.
hi
ad.4 Knox show +1 so You broke warranty - Im new on s6 (I will buy soon) so I don't look about it yet but I think You have to try find KNOX reset (De-Knoxer) or something like that.
Look on the threads about ROOT or Recovery - maybe into is the KNOX subject.
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Try it from THIS thread. Maybe works.
Sorry for my bad En.
No known way to revert Knox to 0, once it`s triped, there was a ping pong root available on 5.0.2, which didn`t trip knox, but 5.1.1 and later root methods always trip knox, and there is no successfull way of downgrading to 5.0.2 that I heard of.
Will it and how will it be possible to remove the branding of any service right from the start without voiding any warranty? Sorry if this is still unknown or basically the same for every Android phone...
Not clear on what you're asking. Do you mean remove the boot logo and pre-installed apps for a particular carrier? Both of those will require you to flash a different ROM or parts of a ROM.
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Not clear on what you're asking. Do you mean remove the boot logo and pre-installed apps for a particular carrier? Both of those will require you to flash a different ROM or parts of a ROM.
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Yeah like in Germany installing a DBT on a phone shipped with ATO (which is quite a common situation in Germany). Are there any ways?
Not until more people get then in hands and we see if we can root and flash them.
The we will know
I am sorry to tell you although I was asking you but I found out that you seem to not be right. Several threads are about this subject (well not concerning S8+ but any other Samsung Galaxy) and if you flash another official ROM via Odin it (OF COURSE as they say) does not void your warranty and does not trip the KNOX counter. If you know anything else to pay attention to in this subject, well, feel free to enlighten me :good:
Mystixor said:
I am sorry to tell you although I was asking you but I found out that you seem to not be right. Several threads are about this subject (well not concerning S8+ but any other Samsung Galaxy) and if you flash another official ROM via Odin it (OF COURSE as they say) does not void your warranty and does not trip the KNOX counter. If you know anything else to pay attention to in this subject, well, feel free to enlighten me :good:
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That would be flashing a different ROM as I stated in the first answer...
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That would be flashing a different ROM as I stated in the first answer...
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Yes excuse me I wasn't referring to you but you do agree with me on the warranty not being voided?
Hi there. I haven't been in the xda scene since the Galaxy s 2. I was wondering what the status is of the safetyknox and whether or not the 'corrupted' logo indicator was reversable yet. Back in the old days I was able to just factory data reset to the stock rom and submit a warranty claim no problem.
I would love to hack my pixil 2 but I use Netflix and Android pay regularly so that may be a problem..
aspen1135 said:
Hi there. I haven't been in the xda scene since the Galaxy s 2. I was wondering what the status is of the safetyknox and whether or not the 'corrupted' logo indicator was reversable yet. Back in the old days I was able to just factory data reset to the stock rom and submit a warranty claim no problem.
I would love to hack my pixil 2 but I use Netflix and Android pay regularly so that may be a problem..
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Knox is a proprietary system by Samsung - Pixel users don't have to worry about that.
If you unlock the bootloader, you'll get a warning on (re)boot that the device is potentially insecure, which is pretty standard. There is no loss of features from unlocking the bootloader. And you can always relock it and flash a factory image to return it to stock state.
On the other hand, custom kernels and some root solutions will indeed trip Safety net, which will in turn disallow applications that depend on them. But there are plenty of threads on those issues.