[KNOX] S4 mini and Knox

rulex231 · Mar 8, 2015 23 7 0

Help

Hello,

I have a I9192 duos S4 mini thats bricked and its knox warranty voided, all this because I flashed 4.4.2 using odin not knowing this would happen :crying:

What I want is to get my device working again, when I try to access recovery mode its stuck on the boot screen with the 'RECOVERY BOOTING...' text and no response.

I've tried to flash back 4.2.2 JB but odin shows fail because of KNOX.

What I want is if there's any way I can get my device unbricked with or without resetting the KNOX flag if possible, any other information required to help feel free to ask.

Also I want to ask if having the KNOX warranty flag to 0x1 caused my device to get bricked or not accessing recovery mode, because im not really sure what caused my device to get bricked.

Thanks in advance.

Chamelleon · Mar 9, 2015 at 7:08 AM

rulex231 said:
Hello,

I have a I9192 duos S4 mini thats bricked and its knox warranty voided, all this because I flashed 4.4.2 using odin not knowing this would happen :crying:

What I want is to get my device working again, when I try to access recovery mode its stuck on the boot screen with the 'RECOVERY BOOTING...' text and no response.

I've tried to flash back 4.2.2 JB but odin shows fail because of KNOX.

What I want is if there's any way I can get my device unbricked with or without resetting the KNOX flag if possible, any other information required to help feel free to ask.

Also I want to ask if having the KNOX warranty flag to 0x1 caused my device to get bricked or not accessing recovery mode, because im not really sure what caused my device to get bricked.

Thanks in advance.

Flash Your phone with Odin using this PIT and latest official firmware for Your phone.

defaultwpuser · Feb 15, 2015 5 0 0

Is it true that flashing to lollipop with no knox bootloader will remove it? I have read that some people were able to reset from 0x1 to 0x0 just by flashing to newer fw, can anyone test these methods:

- flash no_knox latest fw to a phone with knox installed
- flash latest fw to a phone with 0x1..

sasank360 · Mar 11, 2015 at 3:05 PM

defaultwpuser said:
Is it true that flashing to lollipop with no knox bootloader will remove it? I have read that some people were able to reset from 0x1 to 0x0 just by flashing to newer fw, can anyone test these methods:

- flash no_knox latest fw to a phone with knox installed
- flash latest fw to a phone with 0x1..

DO NOT TRY THAT. You cannot remove knox bootloader. Just try to live with it.
Think of it as your evil twin brother who is as intelligent as u.

There is no official lollipop for s4 mini. Only custom roms which do not come with any bootloader.
Flashing old firmwares will not remove knox. It is impossible.

rogier666 · Mar 11, 2015 at 5:23 PM

defaultwpuser said:
I have read that some people were able to reset from 0x1 to 0x0 just by flashing to newer fw

Nope.

Tripping the knox flag is a hardware change (like blowing a fuse) which no software can repair. The only way to go from 0x1 to 0x0 is to replace the chip with the blown fuse.

rulex231 · Mar 8, 2015 23 7 0

Chamelleon said:
Flash Your phone with Odin using this PIT and latest official firmware for Your phone.

Thanks for the idea but unfortunately it didn't work :/

Chamelleon · Mar 12, 2015 at 7:06 AM

Then try to install TWRP and format all partitions and next flash stock with PIT.

rulex231 · Mar 8, 2015 23 7 0

Chamelleon said:
Then try to install TWRP and format all partitions and next flash stock with PIT.

How do I go about doing this? My recovery is also bricked and im not sure how to flash a custom one using odin.

Chamelleon · Mar 18, 2015 at 7:06 AM

Exactly the same as You flash firmware.

Sent from Samsung GT-i9195BE

rulex231 · Mar 20, 2015

Chamelleon said:
Exactly the same as You flash firmware.

Sent from Samsung GT-i9195BE

Ok I tried that aswell, I got TWRP from this link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2678420

After I flashed it same stuck logo screen however under RECOVERY BOOTING theres a yellow text that says Set Warrenty Bit: recovery.

I guess I should ignore that right?

marcooleo · Jul 16, 2014 145 7 0

Not sure where to ask but i give it a try here.

1.) I have used Titanium Backup, Online Nandroid Manager for restoring the entire system (except for the external SD-card)

2.) I have performed a full system backup both via CWM or TWRP and saved to external SD-card

3.) I always get the errormsg while doing the backup from CWM: Android Secure is missing skipping backup program or Apps. How come it´s missing and not doing the full backup?

4.) When doing a factory reset, flashing stock ROM via Odin with success, i flash the rootkit V2 etc from Odin, then reboot and installing Busybox Pro properly, and update to SuperSU Pro without any issues. System works just fine. But i can never do a properly backup of the entire system correctly. And i cannot restore the entire system with Nandroid Manager or Recovery either. So my question is:

How do i make a properly backup of the entire system except the external SD-Card and then restore it properly as it was before?

jimbomodder · May 25, 2015 at 9:35 PM

marcooleo said:
Not sure where to ask but i give it a try here.

1.) I have used Titanium Backup, Online Nandroid Manager for restoring the entire system (except for the external SD-card)

2.) I have performed a full system backup both via CWM or TWRP and saved to external SD-card

3.) I always get the errormsg while doing the backup from CWM: Android Secure is missing skipping backup program or Apps. How come it´s missing and not doing the full backup?

4.) When doing a factory reset, flashing stock ROM via Odin with success, i flash the rootkit V2 etc from Odin, then reboot and installing Busybox Pro properly, and update to SuperSU Pro without any issues. System works just fine. But i can never do a properly backup of the entire system correctly. And i cannot restore the entire system with Nandroid Manager or Recovery either. So my question is:

How do i make a properly backup of the entire system except the external SD-Card and then restore it properly as it was before?

Twrp works better than cwm

Sent from my GT-I9195

dedq · Jun 1, 2015 at 8:32 PM

I have Knox problem.When I open it,Ijust says "creating knox mode" and exits,"failed to create knox mode".

matesurano · Jun 2, 2015 at 4:16 PM

marcooleo said:
Not sure where to ask but i give it a try here.

1.) I have used Titanium Backup, Online Nandroid Manager for restoring the entire system (except for the external SD-card)

2.) I have performed a full system backup both via CWM or TWRP and saved to external SD-card

3.) I always get the errormsg while doing the backup from CWM: Android Secure is missing skipping backup program or Apps. How come it´s missing and not doing the full backup?

4.) When doing a factory reset, flashing stock ROM via Odin with success, i flash the rootkit V2 etc from Odin, then reboot and installing Busybox Pro properly, and update to SuperSU Pro without any issues. System works just fine. But i can never do a properly backup of the entire system correctly. And i cannot restore the entire system with Nandroid Manager or Recovery either. So my question is:

How do i make a properly backup of the entire system except the external SD-Card and then restore it properly as it was before?

Hi there. I used both TWRP and CWM. TWRP is fully touch based and looks beautiful. But many times TWRP gave me errors while backing up or restoring. It used to give me graphical glitches on display. I had to take out my battery to restart my phone.On the other hand cwm interface is hardware button based and it does not look as good as TWRP. But so far it has not failed me and works very well. I flashed CWM v 6.0.5.1 through Odin 3.09... All good........... Just my views.

My device: s4 mini GT-I9192.

brillao · Sep 19, 2014 3 0 0

downgrade with 0x1 -> no MODEM

Hi,
i've downgraded from 4.4.2 UC (with knox 0x1) ... to 4.2.2 UB using :
PDA: I9192XXUBMK4
CSC: I9192SERBMJ3
MODEM: I9192XXUBMK4

only AP and CSC are displayed when checking version with *#1234#
and thus both SIM are NOT working, knox 0x1 still there.
I'll go back to 4.4.2 UC and not buy another $am$ung

erdeiv · Dec 1, 2008 3 0 0

Aronuser said:
Check my downgrade thread in the general forum

I could not find this downgrade thread in the general forum.
Could you please send me the link to this downgrade procedure, because I would like to downgrade it back to the 4.2.2. from the 4.4.2.
Thanks a lot.

V.

Aronuser · Sep 9, 2015 at 6:04 PM

erdeiv said:
I could not find this downgrade thread in the general forum.
Could you please send me the link to this downgrade procedure, because I would like to downgrade it back to the 4.2.2. from the 4.4.2.
Thanks a lot.

V.

It took out this doesn't really work. I'm sorry for confusion. It wasn't tested.

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Ghazwan Salih · Sep 7, 2015 13 0 0

thanks

thank you dear that is great work

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