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[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Hi XDA people,

Just found this workaround for rooting latest 4.4.2 stock firmware without tripping Knox.

This method downgrades the firmware(System & Kernel) on your device to N7100XXUEMK4 except for the bootloader.

Dont even try to downgrade the bootloader as this isn't possible.

What you need:

1.Odin v3.09

2.Stock official N7100XXUFND3 firmware on your device.

3. A device with Knox Warranty Void: 0

Procedure:

1.Download N7100XXUEMK4 Stock Rom from HERE

2. Open the downloaded file.You will find 4 .tar.md5 files and an Odinv3.09 zip file inside.

3. Extract the Odin file and setup Odin on your PC.

4. Next extract the file named AP_N7100XXUEMK4_2099172_REV04_user_low_ship.tar.md5

5. Load this file into AP tab on Odin. Connect your phone in Odin mode and flash this file.

( Note : You have to flash only the AP file from Odin. Do not flash the other files namely CP, CSC, BL)

6. Now once the phone has rebooted go back to download mode and check if Knox has tripped or not.

7. Next use Saferoot from HERE to root your device.

(You would find the guide on how to root using saferoot easily over HERE

8. Now if saferoot was able to root your device then you must be rooted without tripping Knox. :) :good:

9. Now you can easily flash your official firmware through mobile odin. Select Everroot option on Mobile odin while flashing the new firmware. In this way you wont lose root access.

Known Issues:

If after rooting you want to flash custom recovery via mobile odin, or via DR.Ketan's utilities app please note that it will trip knox.

Knox remains cool until your recovery is stock. The moment a custom recovery is detected knox goes 1.

Credits:

[MENTION=3940199]k1mu[/MENTION] for saferoot :)
[Galaxy Note II General] robalm:
Cant you just do this?

Use Mj5 bootloader and any rom 4.x

Flash Kitkat 4.4.2 via mobilOdin and root.

Make sure status is ok (use triangle away if not)

Flash latest 4.4.2 bootloader via Odin (pcOdin)
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Surely it can be done that way.

This is for those who already upgraded to the newer builds.

Edit: FYI Triangle Away cannot reset Knox.

Sent from my Galaxy S5 GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II General] robalm:
Ok.

What i mean was use Triangle away before you flash the 4.4.2 bootloader to get official status and binary count 0, the knox in MJ5 always stand 0.
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Okay. :thumbup:

Sent from my Galaxy S5 GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II General] romdroid.:
can u do this with 7105 also?
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
No idea about N7105

Do you know any N7105 stock firmware which is root able by saferoot/kingoroot without tripping knox?

Sent from my Galaxy S5 GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II General] singhpratik87:
But wouldn't flashing 4.4.2 BL trigger Knox? I got bit confused with [MENTION=5471229]robalm[/MENTION] method

[MENTION=5686657]smeet.somaiya[/MENTION] didn't some guy over at general forum under galaxy note 2 india told us that he downgraded from official 4.4.2 to stock 4.3 and his bootloader was downgraded as well?
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
I don't think flashing ND3 BL will trigger knox.

Most of the users already flashed ND3 BL from MJ5 while they were on DN3. It doesn't trigger that way.

And yes about that guy, he never mentioned any detail that he downgraded from ND3 to which firmware of 4.3.

Sent from my Galaxy S5 GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II General] singhpratik87:
I don't think you kept up with haybill and paarkhi's comments in DN3.They were on mj5 and upgraded to ND3 BL and they got Knoxed

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infact you were the one who brought it to mine and haybill's attention that upgrading BL to ND3 triggers Knox ,i'll just ask haybill to send me a screenshot from phone info
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
I did read them. They got knoxed means they got a BL with Knox warranty Void 0. And [MENTION=3484543]paarkhi[/MENTION] confirmed it to me :)

And I really don't think it would trigger knox that way because the bootloader doesn't check the integrity of the firmware on your device when you're flashing the bootloader itself.

Also it doesn't trigger Knox while it boots up the system and finds unauthorized firmware.

Because we don't have Kernel lock and secure boot like on Qualcomm based N3. ;)

Sent from my Galaxy S5 GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II General] singhpratik87:
Okay this is all too much for my brain to absorb at this time of the night ,i don't think i actually understand the difference between Knox warranty void and being Knoxed ,i guess since we install de-knoxed ROMs we can't get Knoxed ,just that our warranty goes out the window and we cannot downgrade beyond a certain OS right? If what i stated is wrong then i'll go to bed and dream of knox :D
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Lol. It's paritally right.

Don't worry buddy I'll help you learn Knox :D

Being Knoxed is getting that extra line in the download mode.

But this doesn't throw away your warranty. Warranty is lost only when this extra line in download mode ends with 1 instead of 0 :D :P

Sent from my Galaxy S5 GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II General] robalm:
I cant say for sure if flashing only the new 4.4.2 bootloader via odin will trigger knox, i have not tested it myself.

My post was more of a question from me.
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
In my opinion that shouldn't trip Knox.

Let us know if you test it. :)

Sent from my Galaxy S5 GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II General] robalm:
Have you got any feedback yet?

I do not have the balls to try it, my warranty is still valid and i may need to have it on service in future.
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
No feedback yet. But one thing i can say for sure that even if this method fails it won't hard rick your phone because we ain't downgrading the BL here.

And I found a similar method on S4 active forums. It seems it works very well.
[Galaxy Note II General] robalm:
Ok.

But KNOX will trigger by flashing anything that is not samsung official? (same as the binary counter)
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Yes it would trigger by flashing unofficial firmware.

But here we ain't doing that too.

We're just flashing a older kernel+system partition (the whole PDA from MK4) that was vulnerable to root without tripping knox. ;)
[Galaxy Note II General] Droiderr:
I have DDUFND1. Even kingo doesnt recognize it. How can i get a one click root solution :crying:
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
There isn't any one click root other than Kingo.

You can use CF autoroot if you want.

Or even this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=52181603

Or the 1st post in this thread itself ;)
[Galaxy Note II General] robalm:
I have not been able to get everroot (from MobilOdin) working on n7100 4.4.2.

"no su binary installed" when you open SuperSu.

So i guess if you use the new "KNOX bootloader" you need to tripp KNOX if you need root.
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
So do you mean you tried this method?

Maybe chainfire needs to update mobile odin. Our maybe you can flash a pre-rooted rom.
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
[MENTION=5471229]robalm[/MENTION]

Are you using SuperSu from chainfire or Superuser from the developer of clockworkmod?
[Galaxy Note II General] mun_tez:
Could u downgrade your firmware to mk4 ? If yes what about knox counter ?
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Read a few previous posts by me on this thread.
[Galaxy Note II General] robalm:
Hi!

I have not tested with 4.4.2 bootloader. (still use MJ5)

Did a MobilOdin flash from ND3 to NE1 and chose everoot and inject SuperSu from MobilOdin (v4.20)

Results "no binary installed"

So I suppose it would be the same if it was running 4.4.2 booloader and MK4 firmware, but as you say i think a fixed version of MobilOdin can do the trick, because everoot works on Jelly bean firmwares.

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Follow the steeps from first page. Cannot say for sure it won't tripp the knox warranty, but i shouldn't because you use samsung officiall stuff :)

But no way to downgrade the bootloader if you use a newer one then MJ5.

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I did not test Superuser, only SuperSu.
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Okay. So the only solution is Mobile Odin update.

But hey wait. Dr.ketan has made an app to flash recovery from the phone itself.

So I believe we could root via this method and then flash recovery ( without tripping knox) from dr.ketans app and then flash the zipped version of the stock rom through recovery.

Cool I think. How about it?
[Galaxy Note II General] M.abdo:
Sorry [MENTION=5686657]smeet.somaiya[/MENTION] first i am on DN3 V5 with Mj5 Bootloader, What do you say that if i upgraded my bootloader it will make my phone knoxed but will not trigger knox to 1, so what the mean of being knoxed, and can't we remove it from bootloader like we did with roms ??? and why alot of people afraid to update botloader if it will not trigger thier Knox what is the disadvantages to be knoxes ??

Thanks :cowboy:
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
By the time I answer all your questions please make a quick read of the previous 2 pages of this thread. I am sure the answers are there :)
[Galaxy Note II General] M.abdo:
Already did but confused can't we remove knox from bootloader like we did with roms, and if I update bootloader and I was on custom rom not stock will this trigger knox or not

Thanks :D
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Okay so you want only ND3 BL right?

First flash stock recovery. Then flash ND3 as far my knowledge goes this should keep knox cool ;)
[Galaxy Note II General] grubber24:
I am from India and on the latest firmware N7100XXUFND3 officially updated. I have a question: If I just root the phone via odin and keep the same stock Rom, will my knox bit change? I want to just take Titanium Backup and unroot phone again. Kindly help me solve my querry. Thanks in advance.

Sent from my GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
You just want to root for backup of your app data?

Use helium. You can backup your app data by connecting your phone to pc. No root required.

If you still want to root then yes it will trigger knox.
[Galaxy Note II General] grubber24:
I wanted to take a backup of my EFS folder too. I guess that wont be possible without rooting. If I root and knox is trigerred, will I receive future official updates for the phone? I mean the stability updates from samsung?

Sent from my GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Yes. You will receive updates. Only thing is that you won't be able to use knox.
[Galaxy Note II General] grubber24:
Ok thanks! Then I wont root it because I use knox for my business. My warranty is as it is over. I dont think my Efs will be endangered unless I root and play with custom roms etc.

Sent from my GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Nope. Nothing would happen the efs unless you root.
[Galaxy Note II General] izz.amizan:
hi [MENTION=5686657]smeet.somaiya[/MENTION] bro..

do you have stock recovery zip file flashable via philz/twrp recovery?

im preparing to test your theory;

1. 1st, flash stock recovery

2. theh, flash BL ND3 via pc odin...

* info: my device is knox 0x0, current BL is MJ5... dont worry, my warranty period is over... this is only to prove the theory... tyvm in advance...
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Sorry I do not know how to extract stock recovery from .tar.md5 stock rom.

Maybe you can search xda you will find one. :)

And thanks for wanting to try my method. Do let me know the results :)
[Galaxy Note II General] singhpratik87:
Fear not when Pratik is here. Stock Recovery ofcourse credits to [MENTION=3931450]dr.ketan[/MENTION] for making it available.Flash this via pc odin
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
I was going to say that only that dr.ketan would have uploaded somewhere..

And yeah thanks for linking up pratik ;)
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
[MENTION=5434114]izz.amizan[/MENTION]

Remember first flash recovery then BL. Don't flash both together.
[Galaxy Note II General] singhpratik87:
Smeet , although off topic from this thread but still concerns our note II. Any idea why many users are facing WiFi issues after flashing stock KK ROM or switching to custom KK ROMs even though they are on ND3 ?
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Wifi issues like what?

Actually I do not have a wifi connection at home. So I don't use wifi much hence I have little idea about wifi problems.
[Galaxy Note II General] singhpratik87:
Same here no wifi at home only tata photon plus usb internet so can't reproduce the issues.What most users are facing are wifi connection drops every few minutes or the wifi range has decreased ,like one needs to be close to their router compared to when they were on 4.3
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
For me the range is better. My friend has a wifi connection and he stays in a neighbouring building.

I can connect to that wifi from my home :D
[Galaxy Note II General] sina91h:
My knox already counted to 1. Is there any way to reset it?
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Not yet
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
[MENTION=5471229]robalm[/MENTION] [MENTION=2935120]singhpratik87[/MENTION] [MENTION=5697564]KNIGHT97[/MENTION]

OP updated. Tested this method myself yesterday and it's working like a charm :)

No issues in downgrading whatsoever.
[Galaxy Note II General] sukhwinder89:
Can I downgrade 4.4.2 to whatso ever version ..without tripping knox
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Yes. Except for the bootloader
[Galaxy Note II General] lordk1:
MK9 Rooted Knox 0

Hi, i've a MK9 rooted stock with knox void 0

if i flash FND3 or FNE1 with mobile odin it's should be safe???

or, the bootloader MK9 isnt good for this procedure...

thanks in advice
[Galaxy Note II General] sukhwinder89:
How to delect the bootloader ....there is only one file present in 4.1.2 ....
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
What do you want to do exactly? If you plan on avoiding knox warranty bit then don't upgrade bootloader. Flash ND3 or NE1 via mobile odin. It will be safe.

You can't go back to 4.1.2

I mean you can but your efs wouldn't be readable by 4.1.2 kernel then you need to flash patched modem and for that you will need recovery and that will trip knox. So avoid it. Just follow what OP says.

The MK4 firmware has 4 different files (AP BL CSC CP).

Download it. Extract only the AP file and flash.
[Galaxy Note II General] sukhwinder89:
Smeet Bro my data is not left much so request u ...if guys can provide me just ap file pls ....if I need ap file then whats the need of other three so pls a request to provide me ap file ....and is there any way to install dito note 3 rom without custom recovery as u said it trip the knox ........pls provide me the instruction pls
[Galaxy Note II General] sukhwinder89:
But ifi instal custom recovery...that wil trip knox ? Uff then whats need of root without custom recovery .......but anyway provide me the ap file pls smeet
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Yes. Custom recovery will trip knox. But it's that way only, no workaround for this.

And why don't you read OP. The link to AP file is given there.
[Galaxy Note II General] sukhwinder89:
Lol that ap file is of 1 gb uff
[Galaxy Note II General] surfingdude:
Please anyone post just the "AP_N7100XXUEMK4_2099172_REV04_user_low_ship.tar.md5" file. Cuz my Internet plan short to download the whole stock rom
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
The file sizes are

AP- Around 1Gb

CSC- 200MB

CP- 12MB

BL- 4MB

So doesn't really matter if you download only AP or the whole rom. It's just 250mb extra.

I am not going to upload the 1GB of AP file. Don't have that much bandwidth.

If someone wants to add a mirror then please do it on MEGA and PM me with the link, I will add it to OP.
[Galaxy Note II General] sukhwinder89:
Then its ok smeet .....it doesnt matter .....with 250 mb ......I thought ap size is smal so jus asked fot ap ....
[Galaxy Note II General] squall0833:
so, did anyone try this? works?

I have a note 2 nt-7100 updated to official 4.4.2, knox flag still 0

I'd like to root but still stay at its stock rom, recovery

and best if not tripping the knox flag
[Galaxy Note II General] sukhwinder89:
Yup tried ......everything works well
[Galaxy Note II General] squall0833:
just noticed my note 2 is FND4 build

so this isn't for me :(
[Galaxy Note II General] sukhwinder89:
It wil work on all build ....of 4.4.2
[Galaxy Note II General] squall0833:
really? but thread starter did say device need to be FND3 firmware :o

Here are my phone info:

GT-N7100

Android Stock 4.4.2

Buildnumber: KOT49H.N7100XXUFND4 (dont know if works with this build)

Baseband : N7100DXUFND2

Knox Flag: 0x0

What I want:

Stick with stock 4.4.2, Stock Recovery, Rooted, Knox not tripped if possible

what OP said by downgrading system&kernel to MKx, does that mean after root, those still remain the older version? will that cause some kind of problem and incompatibility with latest 4.4.2 ?

another question is, if you rooted, and have SuperSU, Knox services has to be disabled from blocking SuperSU right? So I cannot use Knox services after rooted. (doesn't really care but still prefer my knox flag remain at 0)
[Galaxy Note II General] sukhwinder89:
First .....system & kernel .....well I havent seen any difference ...not causes any stability ......yup by this method ur knox wil calm ..dont worry
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Will work on NDx firmware. Not sure about NE1. And after rooting you need to flash back 4.4.2 stock rom via mobile odin.
[Galaxy Note II General] squall0833:
I used to heavily mod my LG Optimus 2x P990,

I'm new to Samsung galaxy devices, have done research on stuffs like knox bootloader and odin, hopefully it's not that hard.

so it just temporary flash the 4.3 MK4 "system and kernel" only for allowing saferoot to root successfully without tripping knox (saferoot supports MK4), gained root access, then flash back again (With the Mobile Odin) the stock 4.4.2 rom? the file I update my note 2 from 4.3 to 4.4.2 before?

now that make things clear :)

oh and the file mirror links at Samsung updates for INU-N7100XXUEMK4-20131119175336.zip you gave, one is dead and another one really slow for me,

I found one that's from google drive, is it the same file? (about 1.15GB)

---link removed, confirmed it has only single tar file, not separate files---

So let me to make sure the steps:

- download INU-N7100XXUEMK4-20131119175336.zip extract it

- use Odin 3.09, take only the AP file and flash, then phone restart, I got back the older 4.3 rom

- back to download mode check status if knox is not tripped

- back to phone, use saferoot to root my phone with my pc, done

- get mobile odin from playstore, put my official rom file, flash back my Official 4.4.2 (FND4) rom ? it will not kill my root because using mobile odin?

- oh and, will I lost my data on phone and internal sd? I'll backup anyway

- after gain my root access, should I backup my EFS first? in case anything mess up my EFS later time..

please correct me if anything wrong or I misunderstood, I'll wait for reply and 100% sure it's correct before start rooting my note 2 4.4.2 :)

final question, if I need to unroot and restore everything back to stock 4.4.2 for a reason, is it possible? without tripping knox
[Galaxy Note II General] sukhwinder89:
Lol why u want to root if u dont wana instal custom rom .....yup ur t procedure is right and it wil not trip ur knox ...for 4.4.2
[Galaxy Note II General] squall0833:
there are many apps and something that i really need require root access

I just want my note 2 to stay stock and root :P, some features only stock rom has

i have 2nd old dual core phone and it's custom rom CM11 :good:
[Galaxy Note II General] smeet.somaiya:
Yes your procedure is correct. However I am unsure about just one thing. Does flashing anything through mobile odin trip knox? 99% it wont but not sure what samsung has done in its newest firmwares NDx
[Galaxy Note II General] squall0833:
alright, I got that

will try to root soon, if knox tripped, so be it,

if it works fine on FND4, i will report back :D
[Galaxy Note II General] squall0833:
Hi, again

I've just checked the file INU-N7100XXUEMK4-20131119175336.zip I download from other links

it has only two files inside:

N7100XXUEMK4_N7100ODDEMK1_N7100DDEMJ9_HOME.tar

SS_DL.dll

it is single file, which is different and cannot be used to flash for downgrading,

so I am now downloading the file again from the link OP gave that has multiple files separately, but it's extremely slow need 12 hours :(

any other links for the correct INU-N7100XXUEMK4-20131119175336.zip file ?

if anyone here has the file, if you have the bandwidth, would you mind to help upload it to server like mega.co.nz? that would be best :)
[Galaxy Note II General] robalm:
The link go to: N7100XXUEMK4_N7100ODDEMK1_N7100DDEMJ9_HOME.tar.md5 "samsung official version"

Here is: AP_N7100XXUEMK4_2099172_REV04_user_low_ship.tar.md5

Download-> 15min left....
[Galaxy Note II General] squall0833:
Yes, there are two different MK4 firmwares out there

one is with multiple files separately

one is with only a file that has everything in one,

what we need here is separate files because we only flash "AP"

we CANNOT flash with the single file that has 4.3 older knox bootloader and may brick our device. ( bootloader downgrade is not possible)
[Galaxy Note II General] robalm:
I have the "AP_N7100XXUEMK4_2099172_REV04_user_low_ship.tar.md5" and im uploading it now go mega, 20 min left size 1.52gb. (i shuld have compressed it to slim size down hope its ok any way guys)
[Galaxy Note II General] squall0833:
Thank you very much, that really helps,

size is not a problem as long as I can download it at high speed :)

now I have a question, will I lost my root by doing factory reset? I think SuperSu will be gone by doing that
[Galaxy Note II General] robalm:
No problem.

factory reset, no problem. Install SuperSu (convert) to system app before you do a reset to keep your supersu version.

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Mega upload failed (as usual) :(

Im testing google drive.. (917mb)

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByGZ52Krjat1ZlFFZ19fc1hDSmM/edit?usp=sharing
[Galaxy Note II General] squall0833:
Thanks,

and Google Drive is good too :)

Edit: Downloading :D Thank you very much!
[Galaxy Note II General] lordk1:
one question...

i'm on stock rom 4.3 MK9 (rooted with knox 0x0)

i want to upgrade to stock (rooted)FND3 or eventually FNE1... with knox 0x0

can i flash FND3 directly from my device via Mobile Odin with everroot active (without flash MK4 kernel etc etc)

or i must downgrade the kernel to mk4...

in short words, if i flash ND3 on rooted MK9 bootloader with mobile odin pro.... should be safe for knox?? (0x0)
[Galaxy Note II General] squall0833:
Update:

Alright, that's what I did

load AP file to AP tab in Odin, flashed, the log shows success and no fails

phone auto rebooted, shows text Samsung GT-N7100, Samsung music and animation, and it seems is now boot loop at Samsung logo animation, leaving phone there for about 5min now it's still booting :p

should I wait longer? what should I do next?

btw if I go download mode again, knox isn't tripped and still official status

Update 2:

Ok, now my phone is booted, have to do a factory reset to get it work :P

im now on 4.3 MK4 :D

Update 3:

Got my phone rooted successfully, double checked knox status is still 0 and official, now flashing back to official 4.4.2 FND4, hopefully knox isn't tripping
[Galaxy Note II General] sukhwinder89:
Yup u can do .....and try safe root method

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And after rooting dont mess up with system partition as it wont alow u to do ota upadates

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@smeet is there any way to put clock in centre ...........? Or just I hv to do gravity box to do so