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[Galaxy Note 3 General] cryostasis25:
There was a post on a site that when they used jtag in rendered the device unfunctional.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] blackcat67:
Galaxy S4 GT I9500 how to reset knox woid ?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] bigbabo:
They havent used jtag made for their device

MY NOTE 3 BETTA THAN YOURZ ?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] istperson:
Here's a solution for the S4 Active, but it will work for you too:

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] onemustang:
knox the knox

Well if knox can ever be reset . It doesn't matter to me as I rather have my phone die fighting with root n custom roms operating than on its knees due to knox warranty void. My phone will meet mr hammer if it breaks beyond my capabilities of fixing it.

Just saying
[Galaxy Note 3 General] bigbabo:
+1

if i helped you hit thanks or i will find you and make you press it ?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] sajjjjjjad:
it works on i9500 android 5.0.1??
[Galaxy Note 3 General] :
Reading though some files of aboot and stuff. There is a MBR PARTITION (master boot record) which I ain't sure if it has relation to Knox but it's has something's to do with the bootloader.

There's also some modes we can't access trough a key combination. Specially Qualcomm usb mode.

There is some more modes called test mode (might be the device test)

I haven't gotten much info about it but I know there's a file generated called __properties__ which has the data info about Knox warranty but it is useless to play with it. If there's a way to look at the bootloader for the note 3 which has Knox reset and an original bootloader it'll do things good for sure

see the attached screenshot

:rolleyes:
[Galaxy Note 3 General] oran3e1:
Lol knox isnt going to be cracked... its just a matter of who is gunna grab the money ;) haha, the best thing to do is prevent the trigger of knox switch which is already possible
[Galaxy Note 3 General] bigbabo:
Anything man made can be unmade remember that whoever came out with knox is not the only smart brain out there one of a kind so to speak i am willing to bet therere is a 18 year old somewhere in wisconsin that has flip phone that if you give him the comp and phone with knox he will figure it out im paraprasing but you get the the point.

IF I HELPED YOU HIT THANKS OR I WILL FIND YOU AND MAKE YOU PRESS IT ?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] :
Lol n3 already has it. So u lie ;)

Everything can be cracked
[Galaxy Note 3 General] oran3e1:
Well unless you or that kid knows how to repair an electronic blown fuse using only software let me know :L he must be a wizard monk
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Sudo77:
Just caught up on some interesting discussions I want to reaffirm and give opinions.

True, the keyword here is "info". Files can hold information used by programs. But in this case, they only act as a presenter of the information which is useless. The information is relayed from most likely the bootlooder and

displayed

the properties file. You tell me now, what good is it to get root access and modify the file? (Or even if the existence of the file matters?) The warranty bit is fetched at boot time, the system will continuously rewrite the values to 1 in that file after system boot, if the bit is not properly changed. People must understand that if they wish to tackle a problem, it is often good to start at the source.

I thought like that as well. The BL is a great place to look, however, due to encryption (signatures) it is to no avail. It is not like the keys needed to bypass the BL's verification checks is written in plain ASCII for the eye to see. LOL The most troubling feature is Samsung's BL has a list keys it checks against (you should see it in the code). It is constantly updating and blacklisted with every new BL you flash. Also, modifying a single character in the BL code changes it's checksum hashes and will fail as well. I fear comparison and trial and error does not work here and I must retract the idea. The Note 3's HA3GZS was a nice discovery, but since we don't really know who actually signed it, or how it was signed is not helpful.

Nothing was ever reported being "cracked" in terms of Knox, and I think it is the only possible software-based solution we have left. True, anything man made can be cracked, but the encryption process is done by computers, a device designed to surpass our own mental capabilities. It will take years before it can be cracked, and I understand why no dev is willing to devote the time.

I'm still very confident, the warranty bit is stored in internal memory, the heart of the problem. But even in the world of JTAG and service boxes, the area where the bit is stored has the ability to deny all manner of write access making it un-resettable, which makes sense. If things stand the way it is now, oran3e1 is correct:
[Galaxy Note 3 General] abelavila:
brilliant
[Galaxy Note 3 General] yusuftr5589:
Okay, if the knox detector tries to verify a certain sector or sectors at each partition the stock rom creates, and by saying this I'm thinking about bad sector situation at memory drives... And when you get root access, knox detects it first and flags it. I don't know is it possible to deceive knox that the sector it burned is still healthy... Just an idea, I didn't really look over thousands of reply :) Just thinking.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] brito300:
I figured it out!!!
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Beefheart:
Pffffffffffffffft.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] gazeddy:
Not saying you haven't brito300 but without repeatable proof I find it hard to believe
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Beefheart:
I don't wish to be rude but let's not beat around the bush here, everyone reading this knows he hasn't. If it is possible to do (and this still isn't known for certain one way or another), it's unlikely to be by someone with 39 posts who joined XDA 3 months ago. Perhaps, like others have done in this thread, he's confusing resetting the knox flag with something else.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] brito300:
It was supposed to be a April fools joke calm your horses.. I've been using XDA ever since I had a HTC hero.

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] BCSC:
i will first clarify that i have no idea whatsoever how this happened, but somehow my knox got reset no my note 3. I am redoing all the steps i have done lately to see if I do it again. As a bit of history the note has been flashed with kernels, recoverys, bootloaders, and all sorts of knox tripping goodness. yesterday while trying to update to bell LP, i realized the counter was back at 0x0 After reflashing recovery it jumped back to its standard 0x1(4). If I discover anything I will re post with what it was.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] BCSC:
Here are pictures I took of it.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] bigbabo:
Weird and at same time promissing

IF I HELPED YOU HIT THANKS OR I WILL FIND YOU AND MAKE YOU PRESS IT ?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] WhateverMan2:
Well that's a SM-N900W8 (Canadian version) whose KNOX bit can easily be reset.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] BCSC:
How do you go about doing that on the W8? I've done nothing more than jump around 5 ROMs and a few kernels in the last couple weeks. I'm curious how it was done?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jsprouts:
Idea

I'm no coder at all, but I have an idea. assuming this is an efuse: some sort of software somewhere in the phone has to read said efuse to tell whether it is still functional or not. What if instead of trying to reset the fuse, it just inverses the detection system. So if the fuse is disconnected it would think the Knox code is 0x0 and when it is connected it would be 0x1 instead of the other way around.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] P3lUZa:
Heimdall flashing doesn't increase knox

Ok, I posted the same message in the "Research thread", reposting here just in case someone didn't see it

Well, I had Stock 4.3 with Knox 0x0 on my n7100 , I discovered that flashing modem via heimdall (heimdall flash --RADIO modem.bin) DIDN'T increase knox, so knox stays 0x0.

So here is my idea: Try to flash system only (heimdall flash --SYSTEM system.img) and check whether that increases knox (Flash it without flashing the other partitions, specially without recovery)

Unfortunately, I can't test it anymore since i flashed recovery and now I have Knox 0x1
[Galaxy Note 3 General] mielletseed:
knox flag is NOT triggered while flashing but when the boot loader is starting a not singed kernel or recovery...
[Galaxy Note 3 General] P3lUZa:
Yup, that's right. So, I want to prove that we can flash a curstom rom if we leave stock recovery and kernel :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy Note 3 General] JJEgan:
Read the forum Android Development for no Knox trigger roms .

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2649176
[Galaxy Note 3 General] moramo83:
plz. help

I am still waiting for a good news from you. How to reset knox counter
[Galaxy Note 3 General] mielletseed:
Good to know that at least one person is still waiting :)
[Galaxy Note 3 General] moramo83:
Is that mean there is no any hope!!!!
[Galaxy Note 3 General] JJEgan:
If it was anything but difficult then it would have been done by now ( see the relevant guru threads on xda ).
[Galaxy Note 3 General] themetapirate:
http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s4/help/knox-warranty-weird-situation-t2993794

you may take a lot at this
[Galaxy Note 3 General] i360droid:
I don't know how,, but I reset knox without a jtag box on s4. I think when I deleted the everything on the sd (excluding data) and redid a flash after ok had a bug where apps wouldn't close
[Galaxy Note 3 General] JJEgan:
I had seen that and its still not a method of reverting knox .
[Galaxy Note 3 General] i360droid:
Nevermind, I didn't. My knox is still 0x1
[Galaxy Note 3 General] akshayp03:
is there md5 to reset counter for note 4 sm-N910G...snapdragon variant:confused::confused:
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Dral29:
Hi.

Can I ask you why do you say it the "KNOX bit" is resettable?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] kepiro:
galaxy alpha

can anyone tell if there is a chance to reset knox waranty void from 1 to 0 in my galaxy alpha g850f (exynos) ???

i would appreciate

i have rooted my alpha (just rooted, no custom rom, no custom bootloader) and after a while reverted to stock, and in odin mode it shows KNOX WARANTY VOID 1 and i think before was 0 but i'm not sure, i dont remember.... :D - anyway the phone was new from store...

anyway, if someone could help...

maby there is some tool

thanx
[Galaxy Note 3 General] senectus:
Knox hasn't been proven software resetable on any model.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] mielletseed:
really? that's news to me. Can you provide links to more information?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Spere:
Wrong.

Here is some info about Note 3. That's kinda old topic and I haven't been following all this Knox reseting hype for a long time now, so can say where it is going nowadays.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] alom5:
I remember when this thread started and there was hope of getting the counter reset. I think most people have given up on this and This thread has run its course lol.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] BROKEN1981:
Lol there was never hope. Just a wish.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] thelous:
Is knox a virus? Some one in XDA said it would be, however you should ask yourself what the hell you are doing in XDAforums if you dont want to lose warrantly. (No offense to any one) And theres tutorial how to freeze/remove knox running bsckground and draining battery.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jimbomodder:
Knox is Samsung security software buried deep within. Comes with 4.4.2 firmwares. U can freeze it yes. Just get terminal eluminator from play store, and enter the command posted in the above forum.( my prev comment) u must be rooted for it to work. I have i9195 rooted custom ROM the lot, but I had stock firmware, flashed twrp via Odin the flashed su zip in recovery, then booted and used the tc and input the command and Knox has never popped its head.

Sorry this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2493718

[HOW-TO] disable Knox security shield

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] thelous:
Yeah so after this knox wont be backupping device to anywhere? I guess i am getting knox with my lollipop OTA... must be sure i can stop it drain battery b4 installing. I dont care about warrantly because it will actually only help if you need flash back to stock (which you can do from home also), atleast in finland repairing your screen costs like half of device's full price even you had warrantly on device. I think screen replacing should cost 20 dollars or so.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jimbomodder:
Well If your not bothered about warranty then happy flashing. Just disable Knox in the terminal eluminator and it won't work again( Knox that is)

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] mielletseed:
you are far far from topic...
[Galaxy Note 3 General] thelous:
Thanks for answers! Got just a little bit confused when other XDA member said it would be spyware.... didnt thought so that samsung would sell devices with spywares because that would be kind of evil....
[Galaxy Note 3 General] andnote:
One of my friend named praveen having knox 1 had some issue with his s5 900h.After going to samsung centre his knox is 0.

His motherboard is not changed as headset counter and charger counter shown by samsung info app is more than 500.

but samsung info app is showing his set as refurbished now.

so i think there is some way to reset knox.

Wish some xda developer got the way to reset it.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] :
As it seems its is a signed bootloader. That resets it.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jimbomodder:
So how do we get a signed bootloader?

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] :
Get in touch with someone who works in a repair center or with Samsung? If they can reset it they'most likely have the needed file.

Read that a signed bootloader from N3 Exynos was leaked. And it was signed so it reset the bootloader. It was good for thus who had their device since it said to reset knox flag in bootloader though if they were able to use the knox apps again is nothing that I Read any reports about.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Schrotty35:
Why not closed this thread? Never need this thread.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] idoit:
It's easy: you can always unsubscribe! :)

This might not be informative thread for you, but it doesn't mean it's not for others! duh... ;)
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Lt1streconbn:
I'm unclear as to why you freeze Knox instead of doing full uninstall of all 4 of the primary apps associated with it. Yes, I still work on Knox in my spare time as evidenced by the two bricked S4s in my desk... I'm glad they were blacklisted devices from eBay and cheap. Bootloaders are tricky. Back to the point... It is super simple to uninstall these apps and very low clean up of files uninstall left behind. It also interfere with tima when you do this and allows for more access to the device at the system level at least. Also, why use term emu? Just use TiBu, and it's a lot less typing lol. I need one of you guys to tell me how exactly to throw a Knox flag. Oddly enough, since I threw one, which apparently was a false positive since the same action won't throw it again, I've yet to figure out a way to hit 0x1. If I'm successful next time, I need to have the device 0x1 or I simply can't verify I done any good with regard to Knox. I finally found the bootloader I needed to see which was in the S3 and 'hopefully' I can get it right this time. I have a red S4 on the sacrificial alter this time lol. If this is the right bootloader with I need, it explains why AT&T was investing so much trying to get UCDLK3 pulled from everywhere right after KK 4.4.2 was released. If its not utter disaster I'll let you guys know how it goes.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jimbomodder:
Well I tripped my Knox after flashing cwm via Odin, after which I used the S4 mini root kit and then flashed twrp. After this I booted up and opened term emu and disabled Knox. Then using root explorer I searched for everything that said Knox, zipped all the files into a zip then deleted them all. Still tripped but it opens the phone to any ROM made for it. Also I'm on S4 mini I9195 version.

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] Lt1streconbn:
I don't have anything pre NB1, and I'd keep it for personal use if it had loki lol, so the cwm flash alone would/could brick any of these right off, so Knox counter wouldn't be an issue. I'm wondering if I flashed with cf autoroot to nb1 if it'd be enough to trip on without bricking it... I keep hoping I'll get a tester on eBay that's already tripped, but none yet. Thanks :)
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jimbomodder:
Yes most likely is a custom recovery. But I've heard even flashing a totally stock ROM via Odin trips it. Apparently keep kingroot doesn't trip it and then enables you to remove Knox but I'm not sure.

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] :
I've done it twice after rooting phone in the past, I'm no Android expert I just used common sense
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jimbomodder:
So how'd u do it?

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] :
I deleted everything on the phone while rooted related to knox, everything and then flashed it with Odin. Once flashed I deleted the cache before allowing the fresh image to boot just to make sure.

EDIT: Use 'ES File Explorer File Manager' to search the phone everything related to "knox" to make sure its all gone
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jimbomodder:
I've deleted all of Knox but still hasn't reset

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] :
Well I've had cyanogenmod on mine and the official rom rooted and got it back to 'official' by doing that, in fact it's gone from 'unofficial' to 'official' twice
[Galaxy Note 3 General] mielletseed:
You're mixing things and confusing people, please stop writing.

System state "official" or not has nothing to do with a triggered knox flag that you will see in the download mode ...
[Galaxy Note 3 General] :
Please enlighten me then because I thought installing custom roms and rooting triggered it
[Galaxy Note 3 General] mielletseed:
Yes of course, it is definitely triggered! But you will not see this in the about screen of your phone. Every time you flash a whole stock rom with ODIN you will get "official" (this has nothing to do with knox).

You have to go to the download mode (the mode you have to enter, when you flash with odin by pressing three buttons on power on) and there you get the information about the knox flag. I'm pretty sure it's NOT 0x0 ... ;)

So when you even don't know what the knox flag is and where you can check it's state why do you give advices here?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] :
Strange that because it shown as 'unofficial' when I tried what you said after moving from cyanogenmod back................anyway I'm happy with the warranty being back!

I bow to the expert though
[Galaxy Note 3 General] mielletseed:
So, be unhappy again. (don't you want to understand?)

"official" in that dialog doesn't mean you have your warranty back.

You lost you warranty by triggering the "knox flag" while you installed CM.

The knox flag can always be checked in download mode, they will probably refuse warranty.

But that's enough, I don't know, how to explain it other ways to you.

So feel free to believe you resetted you knox warranty void but please stop writing about it here - or post a photo of your device in download mode with knox flag 0x0...
[Galaxy Note 3 General] :
Nothing showing in download mode either
[Galaxy Note 3 General] mielletseed:
Then you never had knox enabled boot loader on your system or didn't look carefully enough.

But what you are posting is absolute rubbish and maybe you will confuse some people.

You still not seem to know what the knox flag is ("nothing shown in download mode") because when you have the knox flag we all talking about here it's state is always shown in download mode.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] mielletseed:
[IMG="knox flag"]http://www.android-hilfe.de/attachments/bildflag0-png.256354/[/IMG]

This is an example how knox flag looks like in download mode. You described how to reset you system state to official by flashing a stock rom with ODIN. This has absolutely nothing to do with resetting the knox flag we were talking about here in this thread. The information you are providing is wrong. I kindly ask you to stop providing wrong information about resetting the knox flag ...

So why are you thinking I'm trolling? It seems to me you are trolling here when you do not stop with this.

(and thank you for giving offense that I was obtuse - please read about what the knox flag is an than you can work it out what is wrong with your posts)
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jimbomodder:
OK people chill time. As soon as I flashed custom recovery (cwm at the time) it tripped Knox to 0-1.

System status - custom

After I flashed full stock again I still had custom on status but custom on binary. Never has reflashing a stock ROM with the Knox bootloader reset Knox on any way. Also varys device to device. Mine is I9195 and once It went 4.2.2 I think ( correct if I'm wrong) that had the Knox built into bootloader. Unless u edited and removed this then Knox is present and for now none resettable.

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[Galaxy Note 3 General] mielletseed:
Even for flashing with ODIN to getting official this sounds like voodoo to me since while flashing a full ROM with ODIN the /system and the /cache partition were completely overwritten so it should make no difference if you delete some files before or after flashing since there is nothing left (or did you delete from /data, then you could just wipe instead of deleting single files). U don't doubt that you got official but I doubt that it has to do with this procedure... :)

But this is off topic, sorry @ all.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] KennyG123:
Thread cleaned and posts edited

I would advise making another thread to discuss results and methods

In this thread should only be pledges and the OP updated to reflect that

Thank you for your cooperation

Friendly Neighborhood Senior-Mod
[Galaxy Note 3 General] candask:
Can the counter be resetted or not? Thank you
[Galaxy Note 3 General] _Sofos_:
This question in this specific thread is wrong in so many ways.

Anyway No, it's a flag, not a counter and there's no way to reset it ("yet").

Edit: Only in some Note 3 Exynos only cases it's said that flashing a specific bootloader does bring it back to 0x0.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Lt1streconbn:
Its not stored in system partition; I don't think anyway, or simply formatting system would clear it most likely. I'm having trouble following what you're saying. Can you be specific and linear in your steps do it might be more helpful please. I mean no offence. I can make my device show as official in Odin mode but the Knox counter remains 0x1. If you were saying that'll reset Knox, your incorrect. Also, removing Knox apps from system has no impact on the Knox bit/prop, or whatever you wish to call it. Run a getprop in term emu and it shows two props for the Knox bit. Those properties are relayed to /dev/_properties_. You need to mount /dev to rw to see the file. The file can be modified without corruption with hex editor, but upon reboot it'll change back to 0x1. The file is just there to run system for the most part. It doesn't show where the properties are from though like buildprop in /system does. The props for Knox can not be modified in term emu or thru buildprop because they're not actually located in a mounted partition, meaning it can not be changed while booted in system. Reflashing stock firmware does not change the property because the bootloader is not reflashed in Odin mode... Therefore it is located in a partition not mounted to be formatted and reflashed. I've been working on this for months and haven't found it yet. I have narrowed it down a lot though. Its quite challenging actually lol. I love it I've bough devices I'd have never bought just to work on this because I love the difficulty. I think I've explained this pretty well. Unless there's a random glitch, which does seem to occur, you can not reset Knox by formatting system and reflashing. I think many will agree with me on this.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] jimbomodder:
Ive formatted everything bar internal SD card and ext SD card, then flashed stock but never got official back nor reset Knox.

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