[Q] Reset KNOX bootloader binary - Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help &

Dear all,
I am just rooted my S3 I9305 and the KNOX warranty void shows 1 instead of 0.
I did some research in the logs stored in my device and I found a file recovery_log.txt
When I scrolled through the file I could see what exactly happens during booting and when the warranty binary had been changed. (see the attachment)
Unfortunately I am not a developer. It would be nice if somebody could look into the file and try to help release a fix.
Thanks a lot

See multiple Knox posts , No fix available and that is the current situation until whenever .
Its an efuse that gets burnt out .

On the I9305, the Knox flag is an eMMC RPMB field (a new kind of hidden partition), not sure about other phones. It should be resettable, but possibly only with JTAG - it's still being investigated.
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.NetRolller 3D said:
On the I9305, the Knox flag is an eMMC RPMB field (a new kind of hidden partition), not sure about other phones. It should be resettable, but possibly only with JTAG - it's still being investigated.
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If it is an efuse the you can only bypass it via software or do a hardware repair, no real software fix will ever come out (you ca fix a hardware problem with software).
I'm hoping for a way to disable or un install knox after you flash it but you didn't modified the counter.:highfive:

On the I9305, Knox is ddefinitely not an efuse.
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What do you say,don´t understand,please explain man!

.NetRolller 3D said:
On the I9305, Knox is ddefinitely not an efuse.
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Just said efuse as that was what Adam Outler said '
https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/ZKuMQ3fNzuN
>>>What do you say,don´t understand,please explain man! <<<
Well boy it like this whatever is changed is changed for good and there is no way back yet .

Hi guys,here we have forgotten something:http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x-hacks/1314-we-haz-rootz-2.html
Isn´t SGS3LTE,but the same problem-exploit eFuse .

.NetRolller 3D said:
On the I9305, Knox is ddefinitely not an efuse.
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Hey man, thanks for the great info!
You seem pretty knowledgeable... any chance you know if it is possible to downgrade 4.3 bootloader to 4.1.2 bootloader or if this will fail/cause brick?

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[Q] Hide BadFlash for samsung service

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chrgun93| said:
Hello XDA.
I have a samsung galaxy II, which I've broken so it must Jtag to fix this.
I was wondering if samsung service finds out that I have a bad flash.
If what can be done to hide this.
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Christopher
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Just go to the service center and say that you try to update your phone trough odin but it turns off and never starts again .. So many bricks because odin
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Jonboy2011 said:
Just go to the service center and say that you try to update your phone trough odin but it turns off and never starts again .. So many bricks because odin
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Yeah, but then i have to pay by my self.
chrgun93| said:
Yeah, but then i have to pay by my self.
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No -» warranty
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Jonboy2011 said:
No -» warranty
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The warranty does not work if I have flashed my device, its my own fault i think
chrgun93| said:
The warranty does not work if I have flashed my device, its my own fault i think
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yes but you say that kies breaks your phone samsung replace the main or give you a new device they dont use jtag so they never knew that your device was rooted
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Jonboy2011 said:
yes but you say that kies breaks your phone samsung replace the main or give you a new device they dont use jtag so they never knew that your device was rooted
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Nice information, thanks alot man :laugh:

Hey guys, gt-i9305 4.1.1 lte owner, tried to root with exynos

I tried rooting with exynos abuse and hit one click security patch, How do I undo /reset the patch
Cheers FORBARO
Anyone have any ideas plssssss
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Sv: Hey guys, gt-i9305 4.1.1 lte owner, tried to root with exynos
I have no idea. Reroot your phone and root it with Odin. There are some great guides in the development section.
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It's against the rules to bump a thread more than once every 24 hours
Am I understanding you correctly if I think you accidentally disabled the exploit before using it? If that is the case then you are indeed out of luck, you can either restore to stock and re-use exynos abuse, or root via Odin.
Glebun said:
It's against the rules to bump a thread more than once every 24 hours
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Too bad we don't have a report button so we could avoid extra unnecessary off-topic bumping in these cases...
the report button won't tell the poster not to do it again, unfortunately

Updating 4.3 via ODIN. What about KNOX?

Hey everyone
I searched and found no answer, so if someone can confirm i would be happy
I flashed 4.3 via ODIN, bootloader was updated and now i have knox. I want to know if i flash another 4.3 official will trigger knox flag or not. I want to cknfirm that before attemp it, i actually do care with warranty and if someone who dont care about it could test it.. or just confirm if trigger or not
shucrut said:
Hey everyone
I searched and found no answer, so if someone can confirm i would be happy
I flashed 4.3 via ODIN, bootloader was updated and now i have knox. I want to know if i flash another 4.3 official will trigger knox flag or not. I want to cknfirm that before attemp it, i actually do care with warranty and if someone who dont care about it could test it.. or just confirm if trigger or not
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I don't think it will trigger knox, check this post i have found. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48590191
Edit/update : check also this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2552982
You cant go back. Knox is not a counter its a flag. Now if you flash anything custom your warranty is void i.e recovery, kernel etc.
Official 4.3 is now the only thing you CAN flash without voiding warranty. Root etc will now void it. You should have waited for reports before flashing
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I had flashed official 4.3 to my i9305 and nw i'm stucked on New bootloader with Knox
Can i flash this rom to my phone is updated already and now is on 4.3 with knox bootloader. Is there any solution to downgrade the bootloader. Please help.
That wont work once you trigger Knox as per all the posts you are stuck .
The future may bring a fix or not
5. If you try to downgrade to earlier firmware / bootloader it will set the knox flag to 0x1 i.e. void.
6. once the knox flag gets set to 0x1 there is no way to set it back (that anyone has found yet anyway!).
hemalhpc said:
Can i flash this rom to my phone is updated already and now is on 4.3 with knox bootloader. Is there any solution to downgrade the bootloader. Please help.
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your are stuck with official 4.3 you cannot downgrade the bootloader now, flashing any rom (other than official 4.3), custom recovery.... will trigger knox count thus voiding your warranty
LucasBass said:
your are stuck with official 4.3 you cannot downgrade the bootloader now, flashing any rom (other than official 4.3), custom recovery.... will trigger knox count thus voiding your warranty
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So if i flash another official 4.3 will not trigger knox flag? I already knew that if we try to downgrade os version will trigger, but flashing another official 4.3 will also trigger it?
All posts i have found on xda shows that knox counter will not change... See the links from the my first comment.
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LucasBass said:
All posts i have found on xda shows that knox counter will not change... See the links from the my first comment.
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Sorry...keep seeing people say this...its NOT a counter. It only has two values 0 and 1.
But yes...flashing official is fine. But root it or flash recovery etc will make flag 1
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I have flashed official 4.3 twice and Knox remains 0x0.
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shayind4 said:
I have flashed official 4.3 twice and Knox remains 0x0.
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Well yeah...obviously. Its official!
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Goldie said:
Well yeah...obviously. Its official!
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Still there must be something in the official rom , that we can use to make knox think that when we flash another official rom when we flash a custom rom, just need to find it. (Everything can be broken !!).
fotbal5 said:
Still there must be something in the official rom , that we can use to make knox think that when we flash another official rom when we flash a custom rom, just need to find it. (Everything can be broken !!).
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Its an efuse .
shayind4 said:
I have flashed official 4.3 twice and Knox remains 0x0.
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Correct. Knox flag will only change to 1 when you are going to flash unofficial thinks like custom roms, kernels, recovery, ect.
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basvanasperdt said:
Correct. Knox flag will only change to 1 when you are going to flash unofficial thinks like custom roms, kernels, recovery, ect.
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also if you root the phone
Does Knox activate if you flash from 4.1.2 to 4.4?
zerox_100 said:
Does Knox activate if you flash from 4.1.2 to 4.4?
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knox is only present in bootloader of 4.3 stock.
Can I downgrade bootloader?
GR0S said:
Can I downgrade bootloader?
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no, you cant
JJEgan said:
Its an efuse .
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I understand that but if you flash a new official rom from one to another, how does it know that the new flash rom it is not a custom rom and don't change the counter.
I think that is were we must look for a solution. If Samsung can make new roms that don't change the counter the we ca do it to or !!!

IS the galaxy s5 going to get root anytime soon?

Is the galaxy s5 going to get root? If so how long? Can't wait to root this device!!
nbrent1007 said:
Is the galaxy s5 going to get root? If so how long? Can't wait to root this device!!
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Odin root may or may not be possible on the ATT variant, only time will tell.
It time to return s5
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I saw a post from Chainfire indicating he was releasing auto-roots for a bunch of variants today(he didn't mention which ones but I've got my fingers crossed). Apparently the current bottleneck is Sammy's crappy d/l servers.
Looks like no dice with Chainfire, at least for now. https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/JVxv5298wdU
Apparently he needs the recovery extracted from the firmware. I checked sammobile.com for our firmware and they haven't put it out yet. I sure hope they do.
johnnyutah22 said:
Looks like no dice with Chainfire, at least for now. https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/JVxv5298wdU
Apparently he needs the recovery extracted from the firmware. I checked sammobile.com for our firmware and they haven't put it out yet. I sure hope they do.
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Yeah thats the part I'm not following. Can't I pull this from the Phone with Odin and send it to him or does the dump function not work on the S5?
cciechad said:
Yeah thats the part I'm not following. Can't I pull this from the Phone with Odin and send it to him or does the dump function not work on the S5?
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You can't usually dump the recovery partition without having root...usually a custom recovery is needed...hence he needs the firmware which contains the recovery partition.
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cciechad said:
Yeah thats the part I'm not following. Can't I pull this from the Phone with Odin and send it to him or does the dump function not work on the S5?
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Chainfire has already said more than once that it can't be dumped.
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Just curious if we will be able to root without a unlocked bootloader. With other devices I don't recall that being an issue. But then again this is the first one I've had that's been this locked down.
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jayv81 said:
Just curious if we will be able to root without a unlocked bootloader. With other devices I don't recall that being an issue. But then again this is the first one I've had that's been this locked down.
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CF root likely won't work if the ATT BL is locked, but the only definitive way to check is to get the firmware and extract the recovery, send it to CF and have him package something up and then have someone flash with Odin, if the BL is locked, then it will either fail to flash, fail to boot, or worse, also once you flash anything not deemed official you trip the knox warranty flag and your without a warranty..
djkinetic said:
CF root likely won't work if the ATT BL is locked, but the only definitive way to check is to get the firmware and extract the recovery, send it to CF and have him package something up and then have someone flash with Odin, if the BL is locked, then it will either fail to flash, fail to boot, or worse, also once you flash anything not deemed official you trip the knox warranty flag and your without a warranty..
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The only thing that worries me is the worse part. Really don't care about warranty. Just don't want a brick
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I'm pretty sure root will break some things. I was able to sign up for Isis and get the $50 credit, but my wife wasn't able since her Note 3 is rooted. Google Wallet might still work though. Ready to root though.
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cerobles1 said:
I'm pretty sure root will break some things. I was able to sign up for Isis and get the $50 credit, but my wife wasn't able since her Note 3 is rooted. Google Wallet might still work though. Ready to root though.
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Do you have xposed framework installed on her note 3? If so use rootcloak and your problem is solved.
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nbrent1007 said:
Is the galaxy s5 going to get root? If so how long? Can't wait to root this device!!
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SG i9305 Towelroot problem

Hi! I've just tried towelroot and it shoved in my face that my phone is not supported. I have tried the different modstrings and my kernel date is 28.11.2013 (should be supported). Any thoughts and ideas would be appreciated. Thank you!
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VankaMa said:
Hi! I've just tried towelroot and it shoved in my face that my phone is not supported. I have tried the different modstrings and my kernel date is 28.11.2013 (should be supported). Any thoughts and ideas would be appreciated. Thank you!
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Use odin to root your i9305. check the odin guide below in my signature and follow the steps to root your device, very easy
Thank you! I was thinking about Odin but yet again I was curious why the towelroot was not working uder those conditions. But I guess root is root no matter how you get it
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VankaMa said:
Thank you! I was thinking about Odin but yet again I was curious why the towelroot was not working uder those conditions. But I guess root is root no matter how you get it
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yep, you got that right
This is the easiest way in my opninion
MaHo_66 said:
yep, you got that right
This is the easiest way in my opninion
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I have also rooted my phone by flashing Philz recovery using stock recovery
Then, the way opened to Custom World.
Towelroot
VankaMa said:
Hi! I've just tried towelroot and it shoved in my face that my phone is not supported. I have tried the different modstrings and my kernel date is 28.11.2013 (should be supported). Any thoughts and ideas would be appreciated. Thank you!
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Somehow the new towelroot is not compatible with the i9305. knowing this because it happened to me too . until i decided to try the version 1 and version 2 . and version 2 worked for me. Now i don't see any difference whether you root with odin or with towelroot. Unless you don't want your knox warranty void.. that's the only difference. if you did upgraded to 4.3 and you rooted your device with a different method other than towelroot, it will void your knox warranty.
Hbohd said:
I have also rooted my phone by flashing Philz recovery using stock recovery
Then, the way opened to Custom World.
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I tried the tr v2 and v1 but no success whatsoever. Guess it's time to Odin my phone thank for the help!
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Hey guys do you think that the towelroot method will be available for the gt 19305 soon ? Have been wanting to root this phone for quite a while now would like to keep knox happy if you know what i mean.
just one more question does anybody know when the kitkat update will be available ota in Ireland?
CHEERS.

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