SUCCESS !!! Knox 0x0 with Mobile Odin Pro 3.85 !!!

[joytest]

I would like to report that at least we have SUCCESSFULLY flashed and rooted MJ7 UK firmware using Mobile Odin Pro 3.85.

This is for the SM-N9005 Qualcomm Snapdragon model.

We were originally rooted on MJ1 by using Root de la Vega, with Knox 0x0, which made the Mobile Odin flash possible.

SUCCESSFUL FIRMWARE VERSIONS ROOTABLE: MI7, MJ1, MJ3

UNSUCCESSFUL ROOT :MJ6 and later

NOTE: THIS DOES NOT RESET YOUR KNOX if it is 0x1.

Originally reported in a Malaysia forum here: - XDA user williamyi (WiLyi on Lowyat.net forum) was the first user to report trying this method with success. Thank him in post 2 !!

Success 1 - williamyi
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=3020868&view=findpost&p=64477527

Success 2 - joytest
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=3020868&view=findpost&p=64477946

Success 3
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=3020868&view=findpost&p=64482052

Success 4
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=3020868&view=findpost&p=64493286

Success 5
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=3020868&view=findpost&p=64494080

Knox remains 0x0

All we need to do is to to reinstall Xposed and its mods.

Thanks @Chainfire !!!!!

Many other XDA users are also now reporting success by flashing to MJ7 using this method.

Steps: (thanks to WiLyi of Lowyat.net forum) aka @williamyi in XDA

1. Download UK MJ7 firmware.
2. Extract the tar.md5 (I placed in internal SD - not sure if this make any differences)
3. Open the tar.md5
4. Check:
i. Everroot
ii. Inject SuperSU
iii. Inject Mobile Odin
5. Flash

NOTE: Mobile Odin will throw a standard warning about tripping Knox. That can be ignored (we did). Remember to tick Everroot so that you will be rooted immediately upon flashing.

NOTE: Mobile Odin "A compatible device was detected, but with an unexpected partition layout. Mobile ODIN cannot operate. This is a common error on CM and MIUI ROMs on some devices."
This can be solved by uninstalling and reinstalling SuperSU or its updates.

 

[williamyi]

I would like to report that at least 2 users have SUCCESSFULLY flashed and rooted MJ7 UK firmware using Mobile Odin Pro 3.85.

More to come as it was reported in a Malaysia forum here

Success 1
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=3020868&view=findpost&p=64477527


Success 2
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=3020868&view=findpost&p=64477946


Knox remains 0x0

All we need to do is to to reinstall Xposed and its mods.

Thanks @Chainfire !!!!!


Steps: (thanks to WiLyi of Lowyat.net forum)

1. Download UK MJ7 firmware.
2. Extract the tar.md5 (I placed in internal SD - not sure if this make any differences)
3. Open the tar.md5
4. Check:
i. Everroot
ii. Inject SuperSU
iii. Inject Mobile Odin
5. Flash

You beat me on posting this. Hopefully this could help those who which to update to latest firmware without tripping the Knox. Happy flashing everyone

 

[Drizzy xS]

But you can't run mobile odin without root it says?

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[joytest]

But you can't run mobile odin without root it says?

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I had initially rooted with the Root de la Vega method, and Knox was still 0x0. I wanted to test a newer ROM MJ7 so after @williamyi had succeeded I tried as well.

We're all happy campers now.

 

[williamyi]

But you can't run mobile odin without root it says?

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I have rooted the firmware using Root De La Vega since day the early days and gotten the root access without tripping the knox.

This time I flash the UK's MJ7 firmware using Mobile Odin Pro 3.85 and successfully update the firmware from the first MJ1 to the latest MJ7 without tripping the knox as shown in the first link in the first post

 

[Drizzy xS]

I had initially rooted with the Root de la Vega method, and Knox was still 0x0. I wanted to test a newer ROM MJ7 so after @williamyi had succeeded I tried as well.

We're all happy campers now.

Dam is there no way to root mj7? I tried to root it using odin and URDLV but every time I try I get the odin fail error and it doesn't work

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[nags92]

*realised you need to be rooted first to be able to flash via mobile odin

 

[joytest]

Dam is there no way to root mj7? I tried to root it using odin and URDLV but every time I try I get the odin fail error and it doesn't work

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Maybe this guide will help

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=3020868&view=findpost&p=64362662

credits @antt00

 

[geek78]

Will work only for people with old bootloader and yet rooted

 

[williamyi]

Will work only for people with old bootloader and yet rooted

Which firmware are you in now? As far as I know firmware later than BMJ1 comes with a new bootloader.

You may try to root it using URDLV first before flashing to later firmware using Mobile Odin. Alternatively you may try method in post 8

 

[geek78]

Which firmware are you in now? As far as I know firmware later than BMJ1 comes with a new bootloader.

You may try to root it using URDLV first before flashing to later firmware using Mobile Odin. Alternatively you may try method in post 8

Thanks but it was not a question

 

[um009]

For SM-N9005 only

Please do mention that it is only for SM-N9005 only. I hope that N900 gets some good stuff as well

 

[joytest]

Please do mention that it is only for SM-N9005 only. I hope that N900 gets some good stuff as well

Ok done.

 

[antt00]

Ok done.

Also add that this is tested on MJ1 bootloader only. URDLV will definitely trip MJ3 bootloader and above. Dunno about MOP.

 

[RavenY2K3]

Add another to the success stories, still had/have the MJ1 bootloader, now up to MJ7.

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[zroice]

awww I was actually hoping you mean like flashing a recovery or kernel with mobileodin and keeping the knox 0x0 ;P... too much wishful thinking I guess.....

 

[MCube74]

I was running MI7 firmware with root but after flashing to MJ8 firmware, I lost root. Knox is still 0x0

Can I downgrade the firmware back to MI7 and root it again with RDLV method and then use mobileodin to update firmware?

 

[williamyi]

I was running MI7 firmware with root but after flashing to MJ8 firmware, I lost root. Knox is still 0x0

Can I downgrade the firmware back to MI7 and root it again with RDLV method and then use mobileodin to update firmware?

MJ8? Are you using HK firmware? Not sure if the bootloader is the same in MJ7 or not, but if they are using a new bootloader, then I believe there is no way to downgrade the bootloader

 

[waveweaver]

I was running MI7 firmware with root but after flashing to MJ8 firmware, I lost root. Knox is still 0x0

Can I downgrade the firmware back to MI7 and root it again with RDLV method and then use mobileodin to update firmware?

No..you cannot as you already have new bootloader when your flash the MJ8 firmware. Even if you use RDLV..you will still trip your Knox as RDLV meant to those who still on the old bootloader.

 

[RavenY2K3]

I was running MI7 firmware with root but after flashing to MJ8 firmware, I lost root. Knox is still 0x0

Can I downgrade the firmware back to MI7 and root it again with RDLV method and then use mobileodin to update firmware?

If you flashed the MJ8 file as it comes straight from Samsung then no, you can't downgrade without triggering the Knox counter.

If it was a URDLV version then yeah.

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