Is your note 8 rooted ? If not should you do so before you update to 4.4 when it arri

[livis n fur]

I'm asking for every ones input and thoughts to help those who have not yet rooted and are still thinking about it. Should they root there note 8 before OTA 4.4 and not have to worry about the knox boot loader, and should they even be worried?

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[rageguy]

There is no concrete/definite ETA on 4.4. It could be April, May, who knows it could be September. Why won't you root then?

 

[livis n fur]

Most likely 4.4 will come with knox , so an alternative root method would be required. Versus if rooting before you wouldn't have to worry about. But I believe knox would would need to be removed from the rom if 4.3 and above.

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[statum2013]

Before

I could see how Knox might make a sticky situation when it comes to rooting, and rooting now would save you from potentially having to downgrade and then upgrade.

 

[livis n fur]

I could see how Knox might make a sticky situation when it comes to rooting, and rooting now would save you from potentially having to downgrade and then upgrade.

I've tried reading up on this and it seems that once you have upgrade there's no turning back being that your stuck with the Knox boot loader. Which just means you voided your warranty and can't hide it.

 

[gooberdude]

Most likely 4.4 will come with knox , so an alternative root method would be required. Versus if rooting before you wouldn't have to worry about. But I believe knox would would need to be removed from the rom if 4.3 and above.

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I rooted with a new universal rooter tool that does disable Knox before rooting. Easy peasy and safe to boot! Look up saferoot.zip

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I've tried reading up on this and it seems that once you have upgrade there's no turning back being that your stuck with the Knox boot loader. Which just means you voided your warranty and can't hide it.

I use root cloak and root cloak donate. Kies detects no issues with safe root installed, as it disables Knox.

I will wait on any 4.4 load, as there always will be bugs with developed apps in Xposed. Gosh, I am still waiting for 4.2 bug fixes on some Xposed apps. I rather have a fully working device than a half baked device you can get from any vendor. I get so irritated at official released updates that break things, let alone get a new device out of the box to find out it was not fully tested. I guess Microsoft has made peeps give in to poorly developed function. Just reboot,or patch and you will be fine. ( A poor excuse for releasing something too soon. Just look at Xbox and other game consoles being push out in a rush to gain sales. Bah!!!!

 

[livis n fur]

I rooted with a new universal rooter tool that does disable Knox before rooting. Easy peasy and safe to boot! Look up saferoot.zip

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I use root cloak and root cloak donate. Kies detects no issues with safe root installed, as it disables Knox.

I will wait on any 4.4 load, as there always will be bugs with developed apps in Xposed. Gosh, I am still waiting for 4.2 bug fixes on some Xposed apps. I rather have a fully working device than a half baked device you can get from any vendor. I get so irritated at official released updates that break things, let alone get a new device out of the box to find out it was not fully tested. I guess Microsoft has made peeps give in to poorly developed function. Just reboot,or patch and you will be fine. ( A poor excuse for releasing something too soon. Just look at Xbox and other game consoles being push out in a rush to gain sales. Bah!!!!

So is the boot loader just disabled completely removed? Thanks for the feed back much appreciated.

 

[gooberdude]

So is the boot loader just disabled completely removed? Thanks for the feed back much appreciated.

You would have to search the forum for Saferoot... and contact the developer. I am just a user and do not know what he does with his script.

I do know that is loads Busybox, Root, and I think ADB. Not sure about the last for terminology, but it does three things besides disabling Knox before installing root and tools. I think there is a video but may not cover all the details.