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[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] TommyilRomano:
As in don't uninstall anything for various reasons or I wont be able to?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] XsMagical:
Just in case the system needs something I would hold off till we have a way to restore

Stroked from my Dirty Nocturnal'd Nexus 4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] TommyilRomano:
Gotcha and thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] captawsm:
Not working for me and I don't feeling like completely wiping the phone to try again right now - maybe this weekend. I saw that someone said having busybox installed could cause problems; what about removing other system apps (i.e. ATT bloatware) via TitaniumBackup? I wonder if that could be causing problems.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dirt:
that sounds to me like it could possibly be the issue. these directions worked for me as advertised, but I did it all at once since I wanted to wait for a way to undo if required.

sent from my black sgs4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dbg11235:
Hmmm, I wonder if Titanium Backup is the culprit. It comes with its own little busybox doesn't it?

---------- Post added at 01:21 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:53 AM ----------

Strange. I just rebooted a day after going through step 2 without success and the lock icon is gone. I do still have Titanium Backup installed so I don't think that's the issue. This further supports my theory that my tech sometimes just likes to mess with me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] henryscy:
It works perfectly well :good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] XsMagical:
I still have titanium backup installed and all my other rooted Apps, it's just that superuser and busybox that I removed

Stroked from my Dirty Nocturnal'd Galaxy S4
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] PeterGuru:
Works on Rogers S4 ...

Greetings, everyone.

This method worked perfectly for me on my Rogers Galaxy S4 (Model SGH-I337M).

In addition, once I was completely unrooted, I performed a factory reset through stock recovery (hold down VOLUME UP and the HOME button while pressing and holding the POWER button). Once done, I was able to get factory up-dates again.

Why would I take a chance with a factory up-date, you ask? Well, my original configuration was extremely laggy, which drove me crazy. I thought that the up-date, which was available the moment I powered-up my device for the first time, would help the situation since it said is was mainly for performance improvements. However, as we all know, performing a factory up-date COULD stop you from exploiting existing rooting methods.

Anyway, I took the chance, and the up-date worked perfectly. Much of the lag is now gone. I then re-rooted the device using the method by djrbliss here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2252248

And now I'm fully rooted again, AFTER the factory up-date.

Just thought others would like to know.

Peter
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] howtomen:
Hey Peter! Good seeing you around

sgh-i747(d2att)(sgs3) on latest cm10.1 or ultimatum
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] henryscy:
Hm... Don't know what happen, my device status switch back to "custom" again. It was official tho.

i have followed the steps and got the "official" but it seems that it have switch back to "custom" :confused:

Anyone can give some recommendation?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JediSooner:
Wow, I had all but given up on getting rid of the unlock icon, but I just rebooted so that new mp3's I put in a Notifications folder in the sdcard would be available to choose and wouldn't you know it - the icon is gone! However, when I check the device status, it still shows custom. ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] David Dee:
Thanks XsMagical, exactly what I needed. Like Peter, I needed to unroot to get the ota, worked perfectly. I didn't even system reset, just searched for the ota after reboot and it was there.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dbg11235:
Same thing happened to me. My device status, however, says official. Don't understand it. It makes me wonder if it may switch back just as unexpectedly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] King Cole:
Every time I run Chainfire's Superuser, something goes wrong. Obviously, I have to update the binary. I tried doing this by giving it root permission through the Cyanogen Superuser, and even though I get the "Request Permission" pop-up and I accept, it still fails. SuperSU lets me get further, but still dies further down saying, "Making sure new su is working" to which it fails. I've tried manually placing the Chainfire Superuser APK in System/App/ and manually placing su in the right place, but still get the "Making sure new su is working" failure.

Any assistance would be much appreciated! I love Chaifire's more than any others.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Prodian:
-Rooted

-Installed SuperSU

-Uninstalled Superuser

-Reboot 3 times - Custom Unlock image still showing on boot up.

-Unplugged from USB, rebooted a 4th time, Custom Unlock Image gone!

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mu3g:
Damn! I can confirm this works. I have the STOCK AT&T S4 that I rooted when the exploit came out. I followed the instructions per the link to switch Superuser apps and after 2 reboots, the custom sign is gone! My device status also shows up as Official. That's awesome. Thank you OP.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Thermalwolf:
USB! Those of you who are still booting up as custom, are you connected via USB? After deodexing my system I realized that whenever my computer was interacting with the device through USB that I was registering as custom, but when I unplugged and rebooted, the phone rescanned and cleared as Official. I think it's ADB daemon tripping the device over to custom.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] henryscy:
I was initially under "official" but now I don't know what I have triggered, it became "custom" now. :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Thermalwolf:
Unplug your usb and leave it unplugged and reboot like three times, are you still stuck on custom?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Prodian:
Mine is back to custom after flashing stock ROM which is interesting , any idea?

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Update: Fixed after removing rooted per instructions then Re-rooting.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
I think it's pretty clear that installing SuperSU only temporarily changes things back. Clearly, the phone is scanning for "custom" changes everytime it boots. It seems that part of the time it detects changes and part of the time it does not. What will be needed is a way to modify the "findings" of the scan so it will always report "official" This is why one person has results but another doesn't or the fact that it works for a while and changes back. What this means for the short run is that just because one phone reacts a certain way to this method does not mean all phones will. Perhaps when /if the bootloader unlock finds the light of day, a DEV can isolate the code that causes the change between "official" and custom and modify it to always report "official". Of course, this is just my theory.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] henryscy:
unplugged and restarted umpteen times, result is still the same... :(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] TemporaryTester:
Huh, interesting.

So the "Samsung Custom" thing just checks for changes in /system/app then? I'm surprised that it's not a one-time flag.

Because when you change SU apps, it removes the one in /system/app and installs the new one in /data/app.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] deserthi:
Mine worked on the first reboot.

Many Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] _Dennis_:
Only way I can get official status and no unlock icon is when I have a miss match su binary and su program. So say supersu binary with superuser program from cyanogenmod.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] enigma4321:
I have tried everything to get it back to official and it is still custom. Factory from Kies and Odin and still custom. Any ideas?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Prodian:
Same thing happened to me. Try rooting then unrooting (delete busybox and su from system/xbin then uninstall superuser app).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] enigma4321:
Yup, I did all those steps too.. still custom
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dew.man:
problem resolved (at least in my case)

I was having a similar problem where the lock was still showing after uninstalling Superuser and several reboot.

After playing around with it for a bit, I got everything to work properly by doing 2 things:

1. Make sure your system partition is comletely stock. SuperSU needs to be installed to userdata. In my case, I found that I had a build.prop.bak file in system that I needed to delete. And by stock system, I mean stock, not deodexed!

2. Make sure to clear the Dalvik cache (I used Titanium).

One thing to point out, is that if you screw up your root, you can use motochopper again to get superuser back without loosing any of your apps/data.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Mr_Q:
In addition to the first post, thank you for the instructions, I have modified motochopper to directly use supersu instead of superuser. This prevents the Unlock Icon from showing up at all.

It can be found in the original thread of djrbliss
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] joeybear23:
The problem with most users still having the custom icon is this:

When you do the uninstall step, DO NOT uninstall SuperSU. Use Titanium Backup to uninstall the app called Superuser.

I think most people with the custom icon remaining are installing SuperSU then uninstalling it...

This should fix you.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] hamzer11:
Not in my case. I removed root to get the update, which failed any way, but when I re-rooted I followed all the steps again but this time 3 reboots so far and still says custom. Just to clarify, once I unrooted, after the second boot the custom icon was gone but now it's stuck. The first time I rooted everything went as posted and the icon went away after two reboots. I still have super su and superuser is gone so i didn't uninstall the wrong one
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] stangman:
I bit off topic. I unrooted to install the new AT&T OTA today following all the steps and verified I am unrooted. The update downloads but the install fails, I think it says at 30/ in the impossibly tiny print. Ideas? One thought I had and help me here, I did not put the tethering.apk back to the original. Thanks for your input.

Putting the tethering.apk back to original fixed this issue.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ndy4eva:
Thanks OP, it worked!!! :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daoom:
Rooted and recovery installed, worked great :good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cnewsgrp:
I got my SGS4 today and only thing I need to do is get root and remove junk apps from system/app. Questions

1) Assume you don't need a unlocked bootloader to do this. Just want to confirm.

2) Did you do anything different of just followed instruction in first post?

Appreciate the reply folks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daoom:
I'm in Canada, so no locked bootloader

And yes, I followed the instructions in the first post (except for running the batch file: I opened a command prompt with admin privileges, changed directory to where the batch file is and executed it)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jgruberman:
Worked for me, and I didn't go through the Unroot. I already had it rooted and the Custom icon. I just downloaded SuperSU and updated the binaries and updated twice, uninstalled, done.

Then I updated SuperUser, which I believe was on from the first root.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] daoom:
I didn't bother unrooting either. I also uninstalled SuperUser since I have the paid version of SuperSU.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] cnewsgrp:
Thanks.

Thanks. I will try today. I am in USA (AT&T) so I have a locked Bootloader. Assume based on your reply that I am root even if I have locked bootloader.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] JJ5150:
Worked for me. Thanks OP
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] geoldr:
Does this work on Windows 8? I was trying to root my friends Note i717 and Odin did not work on Windows 8.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] XsMagical:
It works on Windows 8, you just need to have the proper drivers and adb installed

Stroked from my Dirty Nocturnal'd HTC M7
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] geoldr:
Yup I tested ADB and it saw my device, so I tried the root method and it worked!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] XsMagical:
Good deal, glad you got it working

Stroked from my Dirty Nocturnal'd HTC M7
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] looneeii:
Worked on my new S4...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mocsab:
I feel like a real noob - I have followed the steps oultined in all of the posts - I watched the video and followed those steps too - and three or four times now, I still cannot get rid of the "unlock" with "Custom" that shows up when rebooting.

I have done everything per instructions - even unrooting - and going fully back to stock - so, there must be some remnant of something that I am missing that is keeping me from getting what everyone else seems to have gotten -

I did notice a few things - and wondered If I needed to delete these files too:

THe instructions say to use Root Explorer or some other file managmeent program and delete the "SU" file - which I did - I also deleted the Busy box file - I did notice a file called "SuLogin" do I delete that too?

Is there some step or somehting I am missing?

After removing root - uninstall Superuser - delete SU - delete Busybox

I use Odin and go back to the original stock non root version

Run UPDATE to add the latest update

Run the Root bat program

go to play store and install SUPER SU

Uninstall Superuser

then I reboot twice -

those are the steps I follow and like I said, I still get "custom" with the unlock icon on reboot -

What am I Missing?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] enigma4321:
I did everything you did and always ended up with custom.

When I did finally get official, I had used triangle away (while still rooted of course), then followed the steps for unrooting. Only then did I get official status!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mocsab:
You used Triangle Away? And it worked? My only concern is that you are on the Canadian Varient and I am on the US Varient - I am not sure I feel safe running Triangle Away until it is confirmed working on our version - plus you have an unlocked bootloader from what I heard -

I wonder how everyone else using the US Varient can follow these steps and get it to work while I can't?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] enigma4321:
Oh that's true. I didn't think about that. Have you searched to see if anyone else with a US variant have tried triangle away?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] highaltitude:
I've been tempted, lol but still haven't
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] enigma4321:
Try this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2265589

It seems that this version worked for someone with a ATT variant

Hope this helps
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] geoldr:
I used this unlock method, then changed SU to SuperSU and my phone status is Official and there is no lock icon on boot.

Running latest OTA.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mocsab:
Unless I missed something, those guys are all on the I9500 S4 - I am on SGHI337 - not sure I am willing to take a chance like this unless someone else has confirmed they have used triangle away on SGH I 337 successfully - but it may all be moot anyway -

I went thru the various steps agian for about a 5th time - and this time it worked. No Custom - Official - and no unlock icon on the boot screen. I didn't do anything different this time - but this time it worked. I guess that is what they mean by YMMV (your milage may vary) lol - anyway - it worked - so I am a happy camper now -
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] enigma4321:
Oh great! Ya I gave up after 5-6 tries then finally used triangle away. But good that it worked for you without having to use it :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mocsab:
No, I still haven't tried triangle away - I am not that brave - I did do waht the OP Suggested int his thread for the sixth time - and this time it worked. Go Figure - :laugh:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] enigma4321:
That's why I said good thing you got official without it (it being triangle away)

Sorry I worded it unclearly

The main reason I wanted official was so I Could return it to get a replacement. I got my new one today and it's sooo much faster!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mocsab:
I wanted official because somebody else got it and I am in flash withdrawel

I don't mean to go off topic - but as far as benchmarks - and overall responsiveness - there is no comparison between the ONE and S4 - S4 beats it hands down. I actually tried the one for a day - honestly,I hated it. NOt sure what it was about it - I guess it wasn't just any one thing - but I love my S4 - smooth - no lag - sweet even just Stock - can't wait to do more -I do wish you luck with the ONE - and hope you have a better experience than I did -
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] enigma4321:
You misunderstand me again. There's NO WAY I'd get a one. Had HTC before and always hated sense. And I too tried the new One and didn't like it. Great design but hate the interface. I like the touchwiz interface a lot. But I came from a nexus 4 so all I was doing was flashing rom after rom after rom lol. Spent so much time that it's nice now that I have a phone that's great stock!

I was mearly replacing my galaxy s4 for a new galaxy s4 because my first had terrible battery life and was slow. That's why I first rooted it in the first place to properly remove bloatware (which didn't change much). So I just got my new galaxy s4 today :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] mocsab:
Man was I off on my understanding of your comments - either I need to improve my perceptiveness or you need to be more clear and specfic in your writing - LOL - not a dig - but I really thought your comments said "I got a one" - and while it didn't specifically say HTC ONE - that is the implication I took from your commnents.

The only thing I liked about that phone was the feel of the phone itself - solid - strong - metal versus plastic and the quality of the sound - - but NOTHING else about that phone was good - in my opinion anyway. The S4 out performed it in every other category for me - inclluding photos, speed, responsivness, etc.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] enigma4321:
Haha too funny :P

Yup, I agree it out performs it by a long shot! And I'm really impressed with the camera! (obviously not better in lower light, but I didn't get an S4 for low light photography. Have a camera for that :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] yournamehere:
USCC Factory

My wife's S4 got the update today so I had to unroot mine to update as well. I used the motochopper to root it and have not installed twrp but thinking about it. It took a while but these were the steps I took.

1) Rebooted (gives a clean start)

2) Installed SuperSU from Chainfire via Google Play

3) Opened SuperSU and installed binary

4) Using App Manager I uninstalled superuser (make sure you don't uninstall SuperSU)

5) Installed ESFile Explorer via GP

6) Reboot

7) Open ESFile and clicked the top left menu, then clicked Root Explorer (Allow access)

8) In the popup menu select Mount R/W

9) Select R/W for all options

10) Press / on top of screen

11) Navigate to system then xbin folder

12) Long press Busybox and SU binary files and delete them

(If you are getting a message that you can not delete them reboot and then try again)

13) After the two files are deleted then go to About Phone and update the system. (Do NOT reboot in between deleting files and updating as su will reappear.)

Now your factory again and updated. I haven't rerooted but will do so next.

Just realized this is under the ATT thread please feel free to move to correct thread. Also pwn no longer works with the latest update for USCC so no root again.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] stevehkim:
I noticed the custom lock icon doesnt disappear if you are using themed systemui.apk or themed dark mms.apk. No biggie for me. Just a heads up.

ATT S4 Rooted. Beastin.

4.2.2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dr.pythagora:
Is there any way to use this technique in Linux?

Thnxs
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] paleman27:
After the update (DL) i went ahead and rroted with motorchopper and got root back. Then I followed the procesures to get the custom lock removed. It worked, but it only lasted for a few days. Afterwards, I keep getting the custom lock.

Any ideas? Thanx!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] johnus:
I uninstalled Superuser through TouchWiz, and didn't do anything with Root Explorer. On the second reboot, the "locked" icon was gone, and has been on every subsequent reboot. Root remains with SuperSU. Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] RabanJr:
Worked like a charm.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ronj1986:
Thanks OP. This worked for me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] SoCalScorpio:
Thank You

I had rooted my AT&T S4 and the custom screen was really bugging me. I performed the action you gave and the screen is gone. ThankYou!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ErasZhou:
Would it still work if I have installed a custom recovery?

Sent from my badass i337
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] XsMagical:
Yes it will.

Stroked from my Dirty Nocturnal'd HTC M7
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ErasZhou:
I ve already rooted should I reroot?

Sent from my badass i337
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] XsMagical:
It don't matter really

Stroked from my Dirty Nocturnal'd HTC M7
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ErasZhou:
Because I have already installed supersu and uninstalled superuser,the custom icon still show up

Sent from my badass i337
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jeffdroid361:
I have the same issue. Tried installing Superuser and uninstalling SuperSU and doing the process again but the custom lock is still there also.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] kleeman7:
Pretty sure you just prevented me from swapping my s4 for a One.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] highaltitude:
I have not gotten this to work ever. I have 2x S4s. Did everything just the way it was described. I would like to get rid of it, but I can live with it too.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dstech:
Okay, so I guess with the latest firmware "I3737UCUAMDL" you can't get rid of the unlock icon because Samsung updated the kernel to detect root. Thus what I posted below is not true. I still have the icon after a 2nd reboot.

I was getting tripped up after it says "installing binary" and I think others are too. The new "SuperSU" app will say it has detected another Super User app and wants to know if you want it to try to uninstall it. YOU MUST SAY CANCEL or NO (can't remember what it says). Anyway, it will say "installation success" after you select cancel. Then you need to go into the native TouchWiz Application Manager in under Settings->More and find the "SuperUser" app and unistall it this way. You cannot let the new SuperSU app automatically uninstall it for you. After I manually uninstalled SuperUser, the custom boot screen went away on the first subsequent reboot, probably because I had already rebooted around five times prior to this.

If you already let SuperSU uninstall the SuperUser app, then just use Motochopper to reinstall the "SuperUser" app again and follow the process all over again. I did this (I also unistalled SuperSU) and it worked the 2nd time around. Hope this helps.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dc41:
If this is true, then it needs to be added to the OP. My S4 is two days old and came with I337UCUAMDL, and I can't get rid of the icon. :mad:

Update-------------

FWIW... After failing to get rid of the icon, I followed the instructions to unroot. I then re-rooted using the motorchopper tool and rebooted.The icon was gone, and the status now shows custom. Go figure.