No knox status in ODIN mode? Need to warranty rooted i537

CaseyR22 said:

So I bought this i537 used a while back, the previous owned never registered it with samsung but I did when I bought it so I do have a warranty on it. I know it was previously rooted then unrooted before I bought it but I don't know if it ever had a custom rom on it. I have rooted the phone with activeroot (still on 4.2.2 stock rom).

When I boot into odin mode there is no KNOX status, is that normal for this device? Did 4.2.2 not come with knox on this device?

Also, I would like to reload stock 4.2.2 via ODIN just to make sure everything is kosher before sending it it, would this void my warranty?

My phone is also sim unlocked, i imagine this is okay as far as warranty goes? Would reflashing with ODIN break my sim unlock?

Thanks so much!

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• This phone came with MF2 (4.2.2), which was then immediately updated to MF3 (4.2.2). Both of these versions came with Knox enabled. If he just rooted then he probably didn't trip the Knox flag, but there could have been other things he did or tried to do that did trip the flag.
• If it is indeed the i537, I can guarantee he did not flash a custom ROM. The i537 has a locked bootloader which means no custom recovery and no custom ROMs. However there is the ability to use TouchWiz-based ROMs, if you want to learn more about this and how it works read about SafeStrap.
• We do not have official 4.2.2 stock firmware available to flash. We have a pre-release of 4.2.2, a pre-release of 4.3, official 4.3, and an OTA to go from 4.3 to 4.4.2. You can read more about the different firmwares in the i537 Firmware Thread.
• Flashing firmware with Odin will erase your SIM unlock, but you can either enter the unlock code again or there are other methods that can be used. I'm not familiar with SIM unlocking so you'll have to do a little searching.

CaseyR22 said:

Thank you for the quick response. I edited the first post to add more details but you must've already quoted me before I hit send.

Basically the problem is the screen will randomly detect 1, 3 or 5 nonexistent touches across the center of the screen (confirmed by enabling "show touches" in the developer options). While this is happening the touchscreen becomes unusable, rebooting several times will eventually fix it but the problem comes back randomly, sometime within a couple minutes and sometimes after several hours.

I did confirm my device is running MF3 and it is absolutely a i537. I'm using the phone on straight talk not ATT so I have not received any OTA updates beyond this point.

So,anyhow I understand I can fix the device status:custom with triangleaway but I don't understand why there is no KNOX counter in ODIN mode and how this may effect my warranty.


Also, if I did ODIN to 4.3 or 4.4 would this trip the knox counter? (Assuming it isnt tripped already).

Thanks for your input, truly appreciated!

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