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[Samsung Galaxy Mega] moudy:
I belive it was cleaned

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I believe I read somewhere that knox is part of the baseband. We dont remove knox bcoz we would mess with the phone functions. To remove knox correctly we need to rewrite bootloader. To rewrite bootloader we need to unlock it. If we bypass bootloader we cant remove knox but freeze it if im not mistaken. Correct me if im wrong with this. This is just super basic stuff nowhere near wat need to be done. To bypass bootloader we need to find an exploit maybe. Now the locked bootloader....I belive it is explained like this: imagine a door lock, one key locks it and another key unlocks it. The key that locks can only lock the door. So its a double safe. Its kinda like that. Haven't seen any one pick the lock on this yet. Bypass yes. I dont know what direction hopsin4444 is trying to accomplish this but if its a bypass and he found an exploit then hes probably fighting with knox or something that validates the recovery(flash). Also if hopsin4444 found something he worked hard on should be the one to get the credit. It sucks to work hard then to have someone claim ur work. Either we be patient or trade ur phone in J/K.

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[Samsung Galaxy Mega] hopsin4444:
This is all true but the reason why I keep coming back to Knox is cause Knox whether any one wants to believe it lol is a main issue for a sucseful recovery flash so we can have a sucseful ROM flash that works! My early progress I was able to get a recovery to go on the phone but the recovery would always be off like the touch or the color or the wrong buttons and then for it to flash a ROM the WiFi would not work or the data which is a Knox issue in order to have a completly functional phone Knox has to go bye bye and the recovery has to work correctly I really don't know what kinda screen shots you want I can take some pics of my work on the computer but that'll just give someone else to want something more my goal is to be able to work on this and have success with out being hassled and asked constantly for some new proof no one is paying me to do this this is not my job so as cap says practice patients and give it time as for boy Bundy or whatever if he post on any of my threads just ignore it I have not even been to his thread or if he had one half the crap he mentions in my thread before it gets DELETED makes no sense so if he wants to do some stuff up as well follow his work as well I don't care because honestly this phone is a b (word) to do anything on so I do not see anything in the near future coming from him and that's no disrespect at all to him like I said the phone is a b (word) as for me IDC what anyone says I've been working on this and have gotten further than anyone in my opinion and I'm not gonna stop because of immaturity I got a lot going on as of late with my pet and my own health but I promise you I work on it at least once a day usually 2 times a day for more than 2 hours at a time I am a man of my word and work and I promised all you a ROMable phone and I will not fail at allmay just take some time as it already has back to the screen shots though I'll try to get something together and show you guys what I've got brewing thanks for all the support and dedication guys

Hopsin4444
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] sashusmom:
No. Hi parrothead!;)

Keep at it hop and don't get discouraged. Remember....Therapy. Curiosity....Drive....Challenge....That's what makes life interesting. However, you have more than enough interesting things going on in your life right now!

As an Iphone 3gs owner that waited for jailbreaks, and the new iphone 5s's jailbreak that took 4-5 months for release to the masses, patience is one thing that those "that can't" like me need to have a lot of.

It'll happen when it happens, and for those that can't wait- there's always craigslist, ebay, or swapa to unload your Mega. I wanted the large screen and knew there were some trade offs getting the Att version. But I got mine for free- so no compaints here. If we could get root again I would be very happy.

Custom recovery would be nice, but not necessary for me personally. With root, at least we can freeze all the junk and knox can be frozen too. I read a lot about knox. Still don't understand it 100% or even 75%. I do remember reading if knox is removed from an official rom, and knox is tripped, you are frozen out of any more official att updates and your warranty is dead. And it can't be reset like triangle away can do. They will see that 0-1 and will send it back saying the warranty is void. For those that care about their warranty. Mine is only 5 months old so I'd like to have that warranty around for a while longer.

Knox is probably the stupidest thing Samsung ever put into their phones. They should have had a business version with knox and a consumer version without.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Opie Knievel:
I've read hopsin's entire recovery thread. I just got my Mega a couple of days ago and rooted it today. I'm really excited about getting a custom recovery. I want to extend my support and say that I'm available to help test if you need anymore help. I have a Galaxy S5 as my "main" phone. I hope your back is healing up good. Good luck and thanks for all the work you've put into this project so far.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] sashusmom:
towelroot apk

@ Opie- Hello and welcome to the BS thread!! :)

I tried geohot's towelroot apk and it doesn't work for our phone. However, he had an open invitation to send him a logcat with our phone info and he would see if he could make it work for those phones that are having trouble. So, I learned how to do that and sent him the info. Fingers crossed for those who upgraded to kitkat and lost their rooted status.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Opie Knievel:
Thanks for the warm welcome.

Fortunately for me, my Mega came with 4.2. I also tried towelroot without success. I had my S5 for about a month and a half and when I got it rooted so easily today I just had to root the Mega too. I used Kingo. The main reason I wanted to root it so fast was hearing about the OTA to KK that Kingo doesn't support. Now I'm rooted on both, running Titanium Backup Pro and I've got the AT&T update app froze on both phones just to be safe.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] BoiBundy:
Its nice to know more people have the i527. As far as recovery goes im in the midst of tearing apart the boot structure of this bad boy could take a day or a week or a year but who knows. I do know this Hopsin fella wont be coming out with zilch, because doing this a lone is not realistic.

I been told him id test out whatever he has but as always, shady responses and dodgy behavior. Aside from that...

There simply is no way around this bootloader and for the 100th time its not knox. Tripping the knox counter will void your warranty? Yes but to trip knox you would have first break the security which voids your warranty!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dont take my word for it..

Ask Adam Outler or djrbliss or halekdev. Without a serious collaborative effort theres no recovery coming

I need someone thats hardware friendly, preferably knowlege of uart, and physical memory and proccessor knowledge.

I have the right people but they dont have the device, so even tho theyve worked on this board before, a lot of the exploitation is going to be device specific, which means that someone here needs to learn that a collective effort is the only thing thats going to win the race. This is for everyone!! Nobodys tryna steal nobodys credit, theres no bounty and even if there was I dont want anyones money lol if hopsin pm'd me right now and say we figured it out, he could have all the credit and donations because I dont have a donate badge in my profile, I do this for the sake of developing.

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Oh for the critics that say I have no screen shot either, even tho I didnt make a promise to have a working recovery by end of last month!!!!!

I've disassembled my aboot and found the check sigs and the boot_linux_from_mmc was not present or im just looking for it in the wrong place either way, I chatted with djrbliss (one of the best developers here!)( No longer here!!!!!!! )He recognized vulnerabilities in the galaxy s4 bootloader and various other comparable phones including lg so he wrote a little tool called loki_tool (im not writing a detailed report about it go to the loki tool page if youre curious) either way he was patient with me and walked me through the aboot but hes intensively busy! And once again he doesnt have the device but he was nice enough to run the tool against my original aboot but lo' and behold the boot_linux_from_mmc was either patched or is in a different place.

Aside from that I have access to an unsecure aboot but the partitions are not for out device, I swear we need someone who understands kexec, zrom, pbl, sbl1, sbl2, sbl3 because that would be the first steps to having a slightly unsecure or fully unsecure bootloader. If you dont understand anything just ask... ...not me, but a ARM reverse engineering book. Jk but seriously great people already did 70% of the work for us, so its gonna take real effort to close this gap.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] moudy:
Im not quoting you too long lol. I hear wat ur saying but knox and bootloader are both problems here....its like ditching class but need to evade 2 security gaurds. I mean I cant agree that knox is not the problem my friend but I would say it plays a role. I too have been looking into loki and yea that file isnt there. Im hoping its somewhere else if not patched. I dont mind working together but u cant force anyone to work in a group. Some ppl work best alone. And accusations like him not coming out with zilch is not fair. This is a development community and we dont believe in impossible :)

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[Samsung Galaxy Mega] moudy:
If someone with knowledgeable information can answer my question I would really appreciate it. If the bootloader is unlocked...I said if....and I want to flash a different bootloader to it, would the other unlockable mega bootloader work for my sgh-i527??? I want jtag this device as experimental purpose. Thanks again

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[Samsung Galaxy Mega] hopsin4444:
Pm sent

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Hey all so I think I am going to put together a little group of devs that wants to all join in and help me out and see if more brains can help out so [MENTION=761080]moudy[/MENTION] and [MENTION=4470563]BoiBundy[/MENTION] let's get together and others
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] moudy:
Yea im down

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[Samsung Galaxy Mega] BoiBundy:
I been down!!!:good:

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We should take it to the thread I created not for credit but to avoid creating a new thread and all the non development posts.http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2781943 :highfive:
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] delock:
In
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] hopsin4444:
Ok i suggest we use boibundys thread no more arguing or sillyness lets just get this done my computer is down atm should be up and running tomorrow though
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] sashusmom:
Might I suggest that you put a request at the top of that developmental thread you will be using to please not post if you are not working on the project or testing the project? Unless they have info that will be helpful to the project??

Any discussion or questions should be on this thread- off topic for anything-?

If you guys have the time or inclination you can answer or ignore here and not be held responsible for up keeping the info here. If anyone wants particulars they can read your thread and question here?? Might help keep all the junk out of your dev thread.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] dparrothead1:
Awfully quite in here!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] azpatterson3:
Starting to think "red herring". We will see.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] sashusmom:
Towelroot v.2

I don't know if you guys have been following geohot's towelroot for androids- specifically for the GS5, and others with kernels written before jun 3rd, 2014- which we have (may 21st).

I tried it for version 1 TR and it didn't work- sent logcat to geohot as requested. He just released TRv2- just tried it and still does not work for our phones- those of us who updated to 4.4.2. Logcat sent to geohot again. Grarak (writes kernels for our mega) says even though our date is right, the exploit used to root by geohot in TR was closed in our kernel. So it will never work. So far, he is correct.

Just wanted to keep you up to date.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] captemo:
I was thinking about going to another device forum and acting like I had one of those...:cool:
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] dparrothead1:
All I have to say is that I'm glad I haven't updated!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] moudy:
Sup guys. I dont know if ur familiar with jtag. But wat im trying to do is jtag my device and reserect it as the other mega version

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I did brick an att s4 but brought it back to life. So im still new at this stuff so if jtag works ill post my findings.

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[Samsung Galaxy Mega] captemo:
Its not "frank-n-stine" its "fronk-n-steen"
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] icemikesr2:
att won

This is a wonderful phone but the development sucks I'll never buy another branded att phone in my life I think a recovery will never exist and if it does they'll be other issues such as no roms. Like I said I'm selling mines immediately so I can get rid of this phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] sashusmom:
Hope you feel better after sharing your frustration:p I hope you do well in your resale and get something you will be happy with.:good:

If you really like the phone so much you could always get a mega that has an unlocked bootloader. They have all sorts of roms to chose from.

Without a custom recovery development is just stalled for the att version. But they are still trying.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] icemikesr2:
Stalled or ran away from? This phone has made the best developers run away how is it that there was a recovery and now there isn't?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] captemo:
Who said there was a recovery for the ATT i527 variant?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] icemikesr2:
Hopkins said that it worked for two people if im not mistaken
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] dmxwyrw:
Been lurking around for awhile now and it seems that hes been saying alot of stuff. People are willing to send him phones and donate yet he has sent any proof of anything hes working on. Screen shot of a photo of the phone in recovery hasnt even been uploaded. Which is common place in an iphone jailbreak. Pots legal in denver. Argue that what ive said is incorrect all you want. I know you guys like me are excited to have our phones worked on but we should probably stop swimming in denial. This seems to happen alot. Put some screenshots where your mouth is. I as im sure others as others would, love to be proven wrong.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] sashusmom:
I just gotta say something. As someone who has no clue on writing code, breaking open locked bootloaders, replacing stock recoveries with custom ones, or making custom roms for all of our techie toys- I am very supportive of those people- who on their own free time- taking time away from their own personal families and other fun stuff to do in their spare time- Try to open our devices for their personalization and sharing their successes for our enjoyment of our techie toys. Along with successes, comes a lot of not so successful moments that are learning opportunities to fix and improve their projects and work.

I gladly sit and wait for any improvements they can bring to my devices with great thanks and small donations when I can. ;)

It's not easy- I looked into what coding is all about and it made my head scramble!! Definitely not my thing. So to the small group working their butts off to break the barriers, I thank you and please continue doing what you do.:fingers-crossed: And if you Happen to share your successes with us, Which as we all know, is not something you have to do, I will be very grateful and thankful.:good:
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] dmxwyrw:
Its spelled offensive. Yes what I'm saying is that you aren't actually doing anything. I think you got hung up on the pot comment which was the shortest sentence in the entire post. I do apologize for that remark truly. The rest of the post however I do standby. You really cant just take a photo of a mega being worked on or with a shot of it in recovery?

" So why make an effort to piss someone off that is trying there asses off to produce something that I don't even need to do? "

I've read everything that has to do with this project. You've been awful vague. I believe you aren't doing anything.

So lets say you really are "trying there asses off to produce something" (its their by the way) There is a couple of things you can do with a cynic like me.

1. Ignore me - why spent your time trying to answer a poster like me when you haven't updated your other thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2739011&page=42 "I'll throw some progress up here in a little while" said on jun 16. I wont post again unless you reply to me directly.

2. Use me as a distraction. - Seems like you're doing this. Just reply to this thread and forget about any of the points im making just like in the last one where all you read was "pot is legal in denver" and only made a reply about that.

3. Prove me wrong - You have nothing so you wont be doing this.

I dont know what it is but your getting something out of pretending to have this mega boot loader project.

To anyone else reading this dont boo hoo this are you really going to donate phones and/or money to this guy? Don't be a sucker.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] sashusmom:
I vote for number 1. Ignore.;) Keep your sanity and respect.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] hopsin4444:
Man this is the last thing I'm going to say I was fine with what you wrote until the last comment there has been one person that has donated a phone and I speak with him via text whenever I can or he can as for "my" progress you'll just have to wait and see what comes about it and to everyone else AGAIN as soon as my computer is back up and running I believe me and the three others that have talked will get together and try and bang this thing out I appreciate all the support Amd let's try to keep this thing clean so the mods don't have to come in AGAIN makes mega owners look like fools thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] kazempire:
Is there any AOSP based rom that supports APP to SD?
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] hopsin4444:
For the mega or? Man honestly I have not used app to SD 4 years ever since they started making phones with 8 16 32 and 64 gigabytes I don't even use an SD card lol

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Hey everyone I wanted to formally apologize to all the ones in this thread that use it for what it was intended for I am going to have a mod come and clean up all this garbage from:dmxwyrw and myself because I have a tendency I'm letting people piss me off lol but let's get back on track here Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] dmxwyrw:
Garbage? I'm calling shenanigans thats not garbage. You're pissed and now want it removed? :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] dparrothead1:
This is an "Off Topic" thread and doesn't need to be cleaned.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] lmarisy:
Install 4.4.2 on SGH-I527

I installed the Update about 5 days ago via an OTA using my Wifi at home, took about an hour more or less to download and a while to install, But I did notice when it had finished installing I had issues connection to the same Wifi I had used to download kit-kat with! and to make things worse I had either 1 antenna bar or a circle with a line through it no antenna what so ever, I called at&t nothing they can do for me, contacted Samsung they want me ship them my phone and will take at least 10 days before I get it back I cannot be without a phone for 10 days.

I started doing research online and to be honest I am kind of new to all of this firmware stuff and what not, someone mentioned to boot into the recovery and wipe the Cache partition a few times that it has worked for some folks, did not work for me, I have tried maybe to figure out using Kies how to reinstall it but cannot get it done, I did want to go back to JB but I was really that will not be possible because of Knox? im not sure, ok so maybe if I could find a download of 4.4.2 and install it again it might fix the issues im having? im at my wits end over here! hehe any help would be appreciated,

AT&T Samsung Galaxy Mega , SGH-I527

Thanks in advance..

Louie
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] sashusmom:
I agree Parrothead, but flaming will not be tolerated in this thread or any other. If the mods get wind of it they may shut down this off topic thread. Come on guys grow up and be adults. Or, if you are kids, get off my thread.:mad:

I may have to start singing in this thread:p And you don't want to hear that.....:D
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] sashusmom:
Do you have kies 3 installed?? Try to back up your phone completely. I have read that having JB leftovers could mess up your phone after KK is installed. I went ahead and reset to factory settings and started fresh. What a pain reinstalling.....But I realized I had that kies 3 back up and plugged it in and restored. All the data and apps, wallpapers, contacts, etc. restored pretty well. I also am used to wiping my phones pretty often, so no big. At one point in my hacking career I would almost panic if I had to start from scratch, but now it is 2nd nature. Just a pain sometimes. Especially with no Tit.BU.

I never did have those wifi problems that you seemed to have. But with my wifi I only have 2 bars due to a router issue on a separate floor. I am also running on a tmobile mvno, not my full time phone. I looked to clear caches on stock recovery, but only seem to get into Odin mode that doesn't have those options.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] lmarisy:
Backup with Kies 3

Thank you for that information, I did a backup with Kies 3 and I will do a complete factory reset this will be the 2nd time I do it, but thankfully I will have my backups that I can restore!

Have a great day will let you know what happens..

Louie
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] BoiBundy:
if anyone wants to help..?

Can someone who has updated to the new firmware send me the boot.img. im doing homework and im working on a new recovery waiting for [MENTION=4243514]Hashcode[/MENTION] to get back from his travels. Thanks a bunch:good:
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] sashusmom:
If you can send me "idiot instructions" on a " how to do it" I will give it a try.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Silesh.Nair:
If you are referring to roms for i527, no because there is no custom rom for i527. If you are referring to I9205/I9200, then Carbon / C-RoM / Slim support native apps2sd...
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] BoiBundy:
Sorry about that. Here you go:

$ adb shell cat /dev/mtd/mtd0 > /mnt/sdcard/boot.img

$ adb pull /mnt/sdcard/boot.img /newfolder/boot.img

that should do it!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] sashusmom:
Hahaha....You're funny!!! I hate adb. Is there another way? Not even sure I have all the adb stuff installed on this laptop. Last time I learned how to use it was 5 years ago on an old computer....

Will it work from the phone with that su emulator--box thingy??

I don't think it will since you need root to use it :(
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] BoiBundy:
I thought I had a sense of humor:laugh:

Anyway, this should work in TERMINAL EMULATOR(su emulator--box thingy):

$ su

shell@android:/ # dd if=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/boot of=/data/local/tmp/boot.img

shell@android:/ # chmod 644 /data/local/tmp/aboot.img

shell@android:/ # exit

shell@android:/ $ exit

boibundy@pc:~$ pull /data/local/tmp/boot.img
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] Silesh.Nair:
[MENTION=4470563]BoiBundy[/MENTION],

You can create a script and ask him/her to run it using SManager.