[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Absolon:
YES! I've used the search until my head started to spin and got no real answer to this.

I've read and read about the "Knox thing" and that it trips the flag, and so did it on my phone when I did an upgrade.

How how does tripping the Knox affect my phone?

In what way does it change it?

I know, you have no warranty, but that is always a risk you have to take with any phone/hacking. That is my decision to take.

But any REAL implications? I tried to read and read up about it and I don't see the "thing" with it?

I read and read posts about how to not trip it so I really wonder if it does something that affects the phone in a negative sense?

Does it hinder me to have root and load custom roms?

Does it hinder me in side-loading things?

What does this damn flag really do with the phone???

I read that I can't downgrade my roms from 4.2.2 to an older version but then, why should I?

I want the newest, coolest, best roms that I can get here by the amazing devs!

When I had my HTC One X I had to register on HTC-Dev to get a key to unlock the phone, so I knew what I was doing.

I was breaking the warranty and I was willingly doing that because I wanted to have custom roms.

I like to hack around and I soft-bricked more phones and times then I can remember.

In the Samsung world there is/was the Triangle away since Samsung has the counter for how many times you flashed

(but it doesn't seem to affect the phone in anyway, as far as I have read or does it?). So you might have been a bit spoiled ;)

If this is "just" about warranty then I read that some tripped it with a normal Kies upgrade so I doesn't seem perfect.

Please, enlighten me. I can't find any good answers on this. :confused:

As a matter of fact I actually will get a new S4 soon and I'm very curious what firmware it will contain?

And this is why - Off-topic (I tend to be that).

I got a post-anesthetic amnesia after a surgery. What they told me was that I tried to start up my phone but it didn't want too (BAD Foxdoggie! ;) )

so I threw it in the wall 2 times and then I broke it in half when they forbid me to throw it anymore.

No recollection at all, but I wish I had since breaking a phone in 2 parts isn't something you do every day :p

The insurance company wanted me to send in the phone for repairs and it was in at least 512 parts.

Was quite fun to go to the store and ask them to send it to service. :laugh:

Btw, keep away from the glass if it breaks! It gets razor sharp. The next day I have to pull out micro-parts from my hands that was lodged in the skin and my hands was cut all over, but then I'm good with a scalpel :D

So again, can someone please explain to me the negative implications of Knox?

If there are anything that will make my phone function in worse way I will make a formal complaint to Samsung here in Sweden since

I didn't buy a car to find that after a routine service, suddenly had the speed limited to 70 km/h...

I talked to my phone-company and they didn't knew what Knox was? AT ALL.

He just told me to use Triangle Away if it would break (or the same if I would jail-break my iPhone)!

So you even get instructions on what to do to make it "look" ok from your own provider since they are so well aware that people hack/root their phones.

Someone said in a post that only 1% root/jailbreak. I call that bull. But I think that more people jailbreak their iPhones then root their Androids.

But 1%? Just the fact that your cell-provider informs you how to "restore" your phone (and even asked me what rom I'm using!?!).

So maybe hard-core freaks are 1% but "normal" rooters/jailbreakers are way way way more.

It's the same with internet. Right now I have 500 Mbit and do the provider REALLY think I use that to browse Facebook faster?

So they all play a double game. At least in Sweden but I think that is quite universal?

This is my first Samsung. I'm a HTC-guy and if this Knox hinders me while other companies open up theirs instead, it will be my last.

I got a great deal on this phone and thought that since Samsung has the largest base it would be nice to see the awsome devs here.

And WOW. I was not wrong :)

Btw, Foxie, I love your rom, but it's just not post-surgery safe. You should add that as a warning :D

/Absie