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[Galaxy Tab S General] Yokobln:
ashyx method confirmed working on Samsung Tab S 8.4 LTE!

It is damn late so I will be brief.

I was so ready to test out the iroot method or go full warranty void on my Tab S but before I did I just hit that ROOT button (KingRoot-4.1.0.524.apk) once again while casually enjoying a glas of red wine with my wife.

And there it was - Rooted - success!

I could not believe my eyes. Evening with wife was over and I started the whole process.

Beeing the 40 year old total idiot that I am I wiped the cache and did a factory reset after the whole ordeal was over and before saving all the screenshots I made for you guys.... I have only one shabby foto i just took to prove that knox is okay on a 705 - nothing more.

I am willing to answer any questions, but I basically followed ashyx instuctions down to the last word.

I thought about flashing the modem/radio part in Flashfire but chickened out when Flashfire gave a "it's risky dude!" message.

I could still Odin flash it if I am not mistaken...

I used THESE instructions to TAR up the sboot.bin.

I uploaded the sboot.tar.md5 with that posting in a zip container.

I extracted the sboot straight from that image: "T705XXU1BOD5_T705DBT1BOD1_T705XXU1BOD5_HOME.tar" which I downloaded a couple of days ago from samdownloads.de (free registration required for downloads, 200kb speed).

"Flashing sboot" screenshot with Odin is included for other noobs like me.

Thanks for the great guide ashyx it worked - at last! :good:

Best regards,

Yoko
[Galaxy Tab S General] idoit:
System Status is custom?
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Congrats any idea what you did different to get it working?

I will add the bootloader to the op.

Thanks
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Of course, the system partition has changed.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Yokobln:
Honestly, if no idea whatsoever why it did work this time.

Kinguser counted rapidly upwards to the 16% mark as always, took it's time around 20something and than rushed through the rest.

As I have seen this behavior before I did not even look any further and was about to turn the damn thing off.

I was really contemplating to install iroot but I when I finally looked at it the tablet was just sitting there claiming to be rooted.

I can not give any better information as much as I'd like to....

No reboots before my last try, tablet was laying around for a day on standby, no fiddling with other tools, nothing....

Btw, my LTE modem was also maintaining that no sim card was installed... Flashing the modem.bin through Odin corrected that. (Screenshot for the uninitiated like me included, just extract the modem.bin from the firmware you downloaded)

Right now I am reading up on what parts of Knox to freeze / uninstall.

Is there a more comprehensive list than the one in posting #15 on this thread here?

Is there any danger of accidentally making Knox aware of our betrayal and to make Knox trip by

starting some (Samsung) app

on the phone?

(I realize that we at least need Stock BL and Kernel!)

Regards,

Yoko
[Galaxy Tab S General] northender:
I got to this point on my SM-T700:-

13. After reboot it should boot directly into DOWNLOAD mode.

Now we need to flash a Lollipop BOOTLOADER.

I flashed the extracted bootloader from my lollipop ROM using Odin, which completed with a PASS, but I'm stuck in download mode with the blue line completed.

Despite pressing the Power button for over a minute, the tablet won't reboot.

Any advice please?
[Galaxy Tab S General] Yokobln:
I'm no expert, so be careful with my advice....

If it says "Passed" i would reboot the tablet by holding down "Menu" "Power" and "Volume -" at the same time for ~10 second.

That's how I got out of the download mode anyway.

Does Odin look like in my screenshot HERE?

Regards,

Yoko
[Galaxy Tab S General] northender:
Cheers ...that worked fine.

Now on a rooted Lollipop ROM.

Also thanks to the OP.
[Galaxy Tab S General] tarbos00:
Everything ok here with a SM-T700. I used Spanish ANF7 for rooting and Kingroot worked on the first try. Thanks a lot for your guide!
[Galaxy Tab S General] 3DSammy:
Firmware upgrades question

Using your guide I'm currently rooted on v5.0.2 B0E2 with the B0CC bootloader. A few days ago a B0E3 update has become available for my country. The regular Samsung OTA cannot be used due to my system alterations but I'd like to upgrade anyway.

ashyx, please verify that I can update to B0E3 without tripping Knox and retain root if I follow these steps:

1) Make a bootloader tar out of sboot.bin found in the B0E3 zip file (yes I know there is already a link in the OP)

2) Copy the .md5 or zip B0E3 firmware file to the Tab S

3) Using Flashfire (in one session):

Flash the Boot, Recovery, System images using the B0E3 firmware file

Clear Dalvik cache

Boot into Download mode

4) Flash the B0E3 bootloader tar file with Odin

If I'm missing any steps or have redundant steps please indicate. Confirmation on how to update our rooted installs will be appreciated. I'm sure users of this guide will like to apply updates as time goes on.

Thanks
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Yep that sounds good, you can set Flashfire to boot to download mode after flashing.

Also the BOCC bootloader works fine with BOE3 firmware.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Darelica:
Can i flash xposed module? Without tripping knox?

---------- Post added at 09:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:25 PM ----------

It worked thanks
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
I don't see why not.

Just remove or disable everything Knox related first.

You will need to flash the zip with Flashfire.
[Galaxy Tab S General] leapinlar:
Why does one need to flash the lollipop bootloader with odin if you flash the complete lollipop rom with FlashFire? Does FlashFire not install the bootloader?
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
If you'd have read the thread then your answer would have been no.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Yokobln:
Does anyone have any knowledge to share regarding my earlier question?

I realize my question is not precisely within the main scope of this thread, but as ashyx' rooting method is the only one where Knox is kept untriggered, I think extra care might be necessary not to trigger anything afterwards. . .

Thanky in advance,

Yoko
[Galaxy Tab S General] leapinlar:
Thanks, but I have been reading the thread since you started it. I must have missed it.

Edit: Ah, I found it, one sentence in your June 10 post. Since I was not looking to put lollipop on my device, I skipped that step to flash the bootloader and just reflashed the KitKat rom. You might clarify your OP to make it clear why you tell folks to make that step and say it is not necessary or desirable staying with KitKat.
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
I will update and make a note. Regarding it not being desirable, the lollipop bootloader is backward compatible with kitkat, so shouldn't present any issues.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Darelica:
Thank you, this is the most useful thread ever, fast response as always, you are the best dude! I disabled the 4 knox apps with titanium backup, will that suffice?
[Galaxy Tab S General] mathurmatt:
Did that but now it's stuck on samsung tab s logo i flashed lp bootloder and lp kernel(boot.img extraced from lp frimware) but still stuck on same....
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
You probably have the wrong boot.img. Which iron Rom version are you using and which boot.img did you flash. Your boot.img needs to match the Rom base.

Also it takes 10 minute to boot after you wipe data.
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
There's a couple of others you need to remove, but can't remember the names as I haven't got my tab with me. Will post what they are when I have my tab with me.
[Galaxy Tab S General] mathurmatt:
ironrom v2.0 i extracted my boot.img from the latest t705 frimware xxu1bodc and it is not reaching the boot screen it just stuck at the startup logo of the tab
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
I've just looked and iron Rom is using a BOD3 base, so I would have thought it should be ok to use that boot.img.

Have you installed the lollipop bootloader?

Maybe try a bod3 boot.img
[Galaxy Tab S General] mathurmatt:
[MENTION=4899305]ashyx[/MENTION] I am flashing the kernel and bootloader via odin is it make any diffrence... or i should flash the kernel via flashfire
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Odin is fine.
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
I think you misunderstand the concept.

You can root kitkat with an anf8 or earlier firmware with kingroot, but if you wish to upgrad you need to follow my root guide.
[Galaxy Tab S General] alialexali:
im on t805 lollipop

1 so u mean if i downgrade to kitkat , i can root with kingroot without tripping knoax, im i right?

2 if a downgrade to kitkat and root by kingroot without tripping knoax , letter on i can not update to lollipot, by odin or online update.?

sorry i am new in anderoid
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
If you downgrade to root then you have to use Flashfire to upgrade to keep root and Knox at 0.

You cannot ota or use Odin and keep Knox at 0.
[Galaxy Tab S General] 3DSammy:
Upgrading from B0E2 to B0E3

ashyx kindly review these steps to upgrading your rooted, Lollipop, KNOX 0x000 install. Yesterday I performed the upgrade so wanted to pass on my experience. Coming from Nexus devices to the Tab S I was used to flashing upgrades in a no muss no fuss manner no matter how much I had changed "/system". I'm happy to say this was an equally smooth experience.

Your apps, settings, root and KNOX counter remaining the same after you use FlashFire to flash Boot, System and Recovery images. This includes the Nova Launcher desktop(s) and widgets.

Any disabled apps including those KNOX related that you disabled or froze (TiBu) remain disabled

All SuperSU permissions remain intact

Work that needed to be done after the update:

Any bloat or KNOX apps you removed will need to be removed again. I've now switched to TiBu freezing apps as that survives an update. I did remove two unused bloat apps to make room on /system for Viper4Android and Busybox.

Any SuperSU policies you installed need to be reapplied (/system/su). For instance the Viper4Android SuperSU policy needed to be flashed again.

Any /system apps such as Busybox and Viper4Android need to be flashed or installed again

Universal init.d needs to be re-initialized and your /etc/init.d scripts need to be re-installed (/etc/init.d)

The RW access to extSD for Titanium backup needs to be reapplied. TiBu's settings to backup to the extSD were unchanged but RW access was lost after the upgrade..

Update: I eventually flashed the BOE3 bootloader more for completeness than anything else. Also in anticipation of a future update that will require a new bootloader (maybe v5.1.1).

I did not use Odin to flash the BOE3 bootloader as ashyx wrote the BOCC bootloader would work and of course it did.

I hope that helps anyone hesitant in applying an update after following the OP guide.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Tinderbox (UK):
Simple question.

Ok, I rooted my kitkat T800 with kingroot, and when a app asks for root permision, is it kinguser that pops up and you select if you accept or deny, A simple question is there any way to have this show up in landscape mode instead of portrait mode, as if i had an phone and not a tablet, I have to keep spinning the tablet around.

John.
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Install SET ORIENTATION from Playstore. Then set it to Automatic(full). All apps will then display in whichever orientation you have the tablet.

EDIT: Infact this one is better as it allows auto start at boot. https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ite&pcampaignid=APPU_1_5ruRVcOpI-XP7QblvK3gAg
[Galaxy Tab S General] alialexali:
can u help mi online by skype or other program to do rooting my device?

thankx
[Galaxy Tab S General] Cookiekiller:
HI @ all :)

A Quick Short question. My tablet is on 4.4.2 (T805XXU1ANF8_T805OXA1ANF5_T805XXU1ANF5) and I want to stay at 4.4.2.

What steps are mandatory to stay on 4.4.2 with Super SU.

My SM-T805 is now in Downloadmode after flashing T805XXU1ANF8_T805OXA1ANF5_T805XXU1ANF5_HOME.tar.md5 (BOOT, RECOVERY, SYSTEM).

Step 12 is done. I'm unsure what to do next. (step 13)

Should I really flash a Lollypop Bootloader?

Regards,

Cookie :)
[Galaxy Tab S General] Tinderbox (UK):
I rooted my stock UK T800 running KitKat v4.4.2 Build Number KOT49H.T800XXU1ANFB with the KingRoot 4.1.0.524.apk , and Knox says it`s still valid.

John.
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
No need to flash the lollipop bootloader if you are staying with kitkat.

You are now done. Just restart with POWER + VOL DOWN.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Cookiekiller:
Hi,

thx 4 answer. The reason why I asked was that in the first try i lost root after reboot.

Now it worked root still exist. I have no idea why.

Have a nice day.

regards,

Cookie
[Galaxy Tab S General] rajhot:
Ashyx,

Need help with flashfire part. I'm trying this on SM-T700 tab s8.4

I was on lollipop. Downgraded to 4.4.2 (XXU1ANF8) .Rooting went well and first 10 steps I didn't face any problems.

WHen it came to flashing ROM i wanted to flash TW Detox rom LINK . There is no system.img file in it . As you mentioned in one of your previous posts I removed the boot.img and created another zip file using 7-zip.

So then I flashed the rom and showed some huge list of files running and it went to download mode and I flashed the LP bootloader with ODIN.

Tablet restarted and came up but it was showing 4.4.2 only and root is gone now. What to do?
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
It won't work that way.

Open the zip with 7zip, select open archive, do not extract it.

Then drag the stock boot.img into the window and overwrite the existing boot.img in the zip.

Use Flash zip/ota in Flashfire.
[Galaxy Tab S General] rajhot:
Thanks for the reply will give it a try.

Regarding root - do I need to again repeat from 3rd step onwards ?
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
No you should already have root. All you need to do from now on to keep root is to use Flashfire.
[Galaxy Tab S General] Yokobln:
Last night I hooked up my newly rooted Tab S 8.4 to a Samsung Charger I always use for my Samsung Note 8 and let it charge overnight as it was down to 10% battery last evening.

Today I unplugged it and went off to work. I scanned through my emails while in the car and noticed that the tablet was only charged up to 56% ?!

Anyone else having that issue?

I will shut it off tonight and let it charge over night again, but I don't have an explanation for that behavior.

Is there any way to reset the battery stats on the stock kernel? Or any other way to reset the stats?

Thanks in advance,

Yoko
[Galaxy Tab S General] teradark:
So i got this working, im on lollipop and rooted. but now cant connect to my 5 ghz connecton on my wifi. anyone know a solution for this?
[Galaxy Tab S General] newbie4258:
Need lots of help so hopefully i dont brick this thing

Hi everyone let me introduce myself first... im Kris and very new to the android world... been a dedicated ios user since iphone 1 all the way to a 6 plus but so tired and burntout with apple I switched everything over to android... Note 4 and tab s 10.1 so I am as green as you can get with android although I have jailbroken almost all of my iphones and somewhat computer literate.

Anyhow on to the help needed part... I am using this tool on my tab s (since no unlocker for sm-910v) and followed this thread and many others since 6pm yesterday. I got it back to the kitkat and am at the point of using the flashfire app but that is where I am stuck and have tried to read and reread to continue but im lost. I wanted to use the ironrom since isn't that the point of this to customize the os... but tried just doing basic stock but cannot seem to find the stock package to use. I went to all the links but on here and the Samsung link I could not find a lollipop firware package with the US as the region everything was Canada france etc so I really need direction hopefully from the OP since they seem so well versed on all of this but no offense with what little knowledge I have some of the responses leave a lot out. Please if anyone has time walk me through taking the ironrom downloaded to my tab s deleting whatever out and putting whatever in to flash then how to not let it boot so I can hook it up to my laptop and get the correct bootloader file ( which I have from the original post BDOE or something) odin into my tab s. If that is bad idea or risky Im fine with using stock stuff but need same direction plus help in getting correct file (im in US bought at bestbuy in US)

Thanks in advance and please forgive me without too much flaming for this... trying to learn as I go and have been using the search function and reading all night. If anyone is online now escpecially the OP please help ive been at this all night.

Thanks

Kris
[Galaxy Tab S General] newbie4258:
Pretty sure it's bricked now

Used the tar package here on XDA for cellular south and then went to odin and did the bootloader and when it rebooted it just brings up the first Samsung screen that has the powered b. Android and just cycles that. Can't turn off can't get to recovery or download. Can't do anything. If anyone can help please do I saved up for this tablet and hope it's not a paperweight
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Which model of tab s do you have?

Which firmware did you flash?

Did you wipe data/reset in recovery?
[Galaxy Tab S General] newbie4258:
Help

I downloaded the cellular south region firmware off this site (latest) (link in ironroms thread). I have a wifi tab s sm-t800. I followed your directions exact... Used flash fire to flash the firmware and had it reboot into download mode then hooked up to my laptop and used Odin and used the bl file in the start of this thread and when that rebooted it just shows the first Samsung screen where it says powered by android and it just keeps reloading that screen. When I try to hold the volume up key or any key for that matter it does nothing except every once in awhile I see the little android robot with "no command" underneath for a brief second then it's black screen and the Samsung logo powered by... Screen again. When I leave it alone for a while it stops but as soon as I try to hold powere home and volume up to go into recovery and wipe data it just starts this all over again
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
It's no good Just saying you flashed blah blah. I need to know the exact firmware you flashed, so either link it or post the build number here.

Did you flash the BOCC or BOE3 bootloader.

Also is your tablet an international version?
[Galaxy Tab S General] newbie4258:
Info

Model	SM-T800

Model name	GALAXY Tab S 10.5 Wi-Fi

Country	Cellular south

Version	Android 5.0.2

Changelist	4403645

Build date	Tue, 17 Mar 2015 02:54:52 +0000

Product code	XAR

PDA	T800XXU1BOCC

CSC	T800XAR1BOC5

That is a copy and paste from the page I downloaded from here on xda and the file on your op from duhasian listed as latest boot loader is what I downloaded and used Odin to flash boot loader and not sure how to figure out if I have international version as I cannot get into the tablet using my old ass iPad 2 to talk to you but on the back of the tab s it has a sticker that says model Sm-t800 s/n rf2g405hdjt. I have the box if there is something on it that will help figure that out. Is what I'm experiencing something you have seen before and have some hope of getting it working or did I completely brick it. I'm more than happy to donate or whatever helps for you helping me. Trying to be explicit as possible typing wish there was a voice app we could communicate through. Thanks again for looking into this
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
No you haven't bricked it.

You've actually flashed an older version of the Lollipop firmware, so you've flashed the wrong bootloader.

Flash the BOCC bootloader and you should be good.

This is the latest firmware which uses the BOE3 bootloader.

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/48538/T800XXU1BOE3_T800XAR1BOC5_XAR/
[Galaxy Tab S General] newbie4258:
How

How can I flash anything when the tablet won't respond to anything. No matter what combo of buttons I press it just cycles that screen and without getting to download mode my laptop (Odin) doesn't see it. Thanks
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Just hold these buttons until you boot into download mode, whether it's bootlooping or not is irrelevant.

POWER + HOME + VOL DOWN.
[Galaxy Tab S General] newbie4258:
Progress

Ok. I got it into download mode then went back to the op and downloaded the bocc bl file and used Odin to flash it but still just loops the same screen. Tried holding down home power and volume up to go to recovery and do wipe... But no luck all I can do is the volume down to go to download. Do I need to download the latest firmware you just posted and flash it somehow with Odin and start all over as I assume if that works I'll have a completely stock tab with no root and have to down grade and everything? Also thank you so much for helping is there a Better forum to have you help me on ie if I have to start over and you are willing to help me through it I would like to get to have the ironroms rooted when complete... Thanks again

Edit: so in future if I'm getting firmware the cellular south reg is the right one for tablets bought in the U.S.?
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
What I would do right now is go back to download mode then flash the whole lollipop firmware you downloaded with Odin and see if that boots.
[Galaxy Tab S General] newbie4258:
Ok

Ok I downloaded that to the tablet for flash fire to flash so I can redox load it to my pic and flash with Odin? So sounds like I'll be all stock again and starting over so I guess I need to start this process over by downgrading to kick at? Anyway possible you have time to help me get it right this time? I know you have posted a great guide here but somehow I fudged it up
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
Yes you will be back to stock. First you need to flash with odin so we can at least ascertain that the firmware you have actually boots.
[Galaxy Tab S General] newbie4258:
q

OK I'm back using my tab I chose the wrong firmware but it booted :) I flashed the kit Kat Rom so when it booted I think I'm in rooted there is no super su or king root but tell unis tall and root validated are still here so what next how do I use the ironrom? Can I download it in its original firm and flash with flash fire and then reboot into download and Odin a certain bootloader or do I have to change the package I download from ironrom which means I have to download to my laptop change files in zip and rezip and somehow get that to the tablet and flash that with flashfire which brings up another question the guide says to hit red plus and choose Something like flash package which when I tried that before it shutdown the program but if I used the option to flash zip it worked but no choice of what to flash. Sorry if I'm not making sense
[Galaxy Tab S General] ashyx:
No wonder it didnt work if you used flash zip for stock firmware. You need to use the flash firmware package for stock.
[Galaxy Tab S General] newbie4258:
Ok

No I used the thing u said with the stock firmware I couldn't use the thing u said with the ironrom that I downloaded. Ok here is where I really need your help not that you didn't do a great job with the guide but I'm lame with this. I am at step 12 I think I have kitkat rooted and checked with root validate everything is green except selinux which is blue. What do I do now ? Can I use the ironrom? If so how if not what do I download the link u gave me a little bit ago sent me to sammobile and couldn't find download when I clicked on download it was trying to make me start an account??
[Galaxy Tab S General] newbie4258:
If anybody can help that would be great I have finally got the stock firmware downloading from the link provided today but I like what I see of the ironrom but don't know how to use it without tripping knox ( not sure I could get it work with tripping knox) but anyhow the point is I assume with this stock download all I will have is stock lollipop with the ability to improve it but I don't know what to do to it as this is my first Android based machine so that's why I was trying to use ironrom (or any Rom you guys says is good) thanks