[Galaxy S 4 General] Absolon:
ATTENTION. Look 3 times before crossing the street!

Got a call from my friend. They air-PUSHED an upgrade to her phone.

No question. Nothing. Rebooted by itself but apparently the BL got ducked up or it failed. Phone bricked by itself!

Need to try and make a copy of it tomorrow. It just stands on an error message. Won't boot. Theory?

Mine: The certificate check. Like the White paper said. I think that if I install a Knoxed BL tomorrow it will run just fine.

They just ACTIVATED Knox. Knox has been on the S4 since the start.

This is so well planned. Google releases 4.3. Wow, we get a leak for THE ROM! From Samsung! A leak! Unprecedented!

Want it? Of course you do! DING! You got an upgraded bootloader as a bonus.

To do something like this takes TIME. Preparation. They have been working and planning this for a long long time.

So I sat down and did some checks now. I had some strange things but I used my Note 3 more to get a feel for it.

I have 3 phones lying next to each other.

1) HTC One X - Rooted

2) Note 3. Plain vanilla. Not rooted. Untouched.

3)

I9506, rooted, Knox tripped. Nothing more.

Before I rooted the I9506 it worked like a charm.

Unix was my bread on the table for many years. I worked as a consultant, Unix specialist for almost 10 years.

Now it's more a hobby but I still have more Linux/BSD machines at home then Windows.

Changes after rooting that I see

so far

. I must have pissed off Samsung REALLY bad...

1) Play stopped working. It says I have no space left. It has plenty. It updates the pre-installed just fine. Refuses to install anything else.

2) It removed some programs on the phone. Just checked. I don't recall all but I have a directory that I always install after a re-flash.

And especially now since we started to compare the phones to try to have some skeleton to work with for future custom roms.

I KNOW I had those (probably some more) installed.

System-related apps removed from my phonel

Kernel Tuner - GONE

Sysctl Config - GONE

Android Terminal - GONE

Build Prop Editor - GONE

Partition tool - GONE

/system/app mover - GONE

Pimp my Phone - GONE

Rom Customizer - GONE

Mobile Odin Pro - GONE

Trickster - GONE

Root Logger - GONE

AppExtractor - GONE

Mount system r/w - GONE

My Android Sensors - GONE

Real Root Uninstaller - GONE

Ramdom programs (also from dir. Not 100% sure of 2 but they are like the standard batch if not using TB)

Go Sms Pro - GONE

RxDrugs - GONE

QxMD Calc - GONE

Lab values - Medical references - GONE

FASS (Swedish medical database) - GONE

Medline (Mobile) - GONE

WTF?

Really funny? NOT.

Kaspersky (that I have bought) - NOT INSTALLED. But all my phone calls are routed through it?? I see that when I call. Not in program menues.

3) It refuses to sideload certain APK's. Some are fine, other just fails. No explanation to why.No correlation either. LuckyPatcher installs fine??

4) Android Tuner behaves just strange and I know it by heat since I know the developer and have made requests on functions, beta-tested etc

5) My network connection is unstable. WIFI got suddenly very show. The other get about 5-7 Mbit/s. This doesn't even get ONE.

6) As said above. All of the sudden all my calls goes through Kaspersky(!?). I have NOT installed that. It's not in my list of installed programs.

And the one that still think that Knox doesn't do anything is just plain stupid, The phone is CHANGED. Do I have trolls running around my house installing things?

Believe me or not. I HAVE NO PERSONAL GAIN. Quite the opposite. It's 2:30 am and I sit here and write a post to you while I should be asleep.

I don't get a free ticket to Disney land, nor do I make any money of this. I've been regged here as a silent participant for years without the need to start to voice myself.

Those who had the chance to get to know me know I don't bull**** and why would I on earth invest my time on this if I don't think it's something that is affecting

me and in the end YOU?

I'm not an attention seeker, quite the opposite, but there come a line where enough is enough and that line has been passed and I can't sit still and just

watch this invasion of MY privacy and in the end yours as well. Because if Samsung succeeds who says the other companies won't follow suit?

If they see that there is money to make we end up with yet another closed system where we have to send in whatever we write for permission to release it (Read Apple).

The Swedish Television was denied by Apple to release their app (it sucks but still) just because it had a better picture quality then Apples own!

Do you want that?

I've been on the Internet since around 1991, when almost nobody even knew what it was. Just to explain that you could sit and chat in real time with someone

in USA was considered as something so unbelievable. I've seen so many people, forums, technology come and go.then I remember.

I've had more admin/ops/moderator functions that I don't recall as well. When DC flourished I had like 50 ops in hubs all over the place (idling is my real me)..

So again... I have no prestige in this and I don't gain any money on voicing my opinion or like tonight the findings that both my friend and when I sat down

with my phone me noticed.

I could just shut up, as someone here suggested, and buy me a new phone of a different brand and leave it be. But believe it or not. Altruism still exist.

I care about my fellow rom hackers here and would hate to let Samsung get away with this and win.

I wouldn't waste my time with this. Really. But my pathos for the right of privacy is too strong for me to be silent on this matter. As I said in other posts:

It's YOUR choice. You have the power. I'm a nobody. Just a single person. Please check your phones. Had similar experieces? Voice it!

Either put pressure and force Knox off our consumer phones or let it be and get a totally integrated chip-version of the Knox on the S5.next year.

Even though I think the chances are slim to succeed, if I can piss them off, so can you. I really hope they crippled more phone last night.

Guess who I will call tomorrow?

So many people that don't seem to grasp the consequences of this. Pushing out things to people? Deleting programs? And this is Sweden.

I fear what their sinister plan have still to offer?.I doubt it's any gain for us.

I will try by a cable tomorrow.

As said. I must have really really really pissed of Samsung.

Still feels OK, nice and cozy for everybody?