Knox - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

If i flash 4.4.2 rom, and i want to go back to 4.3. It is safe to flash or is imposible to revert to 4.3?
I read that note3 is imposible to revert to 4.3 because of knox.
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kroata said:
If i flash 4.4.2 rom, and i want to go back to 4.3. It is safe to flash or is imposible to revert to 4.3?
I read that note3 is imposible to revert to 4.3 because of knox.
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You are right. Once you flash any 4.4.2 firmware containing the Knox bootloader you will not be able to downgrade to 4.3 without triggering the Knox counter and once it is triggered your warranty is void forever (as of now). There is no means to reset the Knox counter as for now like you reset your binary counter using Triangle Away. But if you like 4.4.2 firmware you can still flash it but without the Knox bootloader. Don't use Kies or OTA to update. Download the firmware from www.sammobile.com and extract the rom .tar.md5 file and remove the Knox bootloader and repack it again to .tar.md5 file and flash it using Odin.
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Ty for ur answ. I have S3, i just read about note3.
So, if i flash ex. Omega 4.4.2 i can go back to ex. Omega 4.3?
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Galaxy S3 does not contain KNOX. And according to Samsung it will never do.

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Ty
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JustArchi said:
Galaxy S3 does not contain KNOX. And according to Samsung it will never do.
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Just to be sure. Does this mean it has no traces of Knox including boot loader and the warranty flag? If so, the second last line in download mode. This was on my GT-I9305
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Hazerm said:
Just to be sure. Does this mean it has no traces of Knox including boot loader and the warranty flag? If so, the second last line in download mode. This was on my GT-I9305
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Ur gs3 is the lte one. I believe tat has knox. Go to the forum tat belongs to ur fone model and ask.
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JellyYogurt said:
Ur gs3 is the lte one. I believe tat has knox. Go to the forum tat belongs to ur fone model and ask.
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I'm very sure it has Knox, even rooted it but Knox prevented the super user app from gaining root access. But very weird on Samsung side, both identical to each other under the same name except for the LTE and one will have and the other doesn't have.
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Hazerm said:
I'm very sure it has Knox, even rooted it but Knox prevented the super user app from gaining root access. But very weird on Samsung side, both identical to each other under the same name except for the LTE and one will have and the other doesn't have.
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But flashing anything different from ur model will end up with a brick. Recommend u to go to the correct forum.
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JellyYogurt said:
But flashing anything different from ur model will end up with a brick. Recommend u to go to the correct forum.
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Yeah, thanks for the advice, I make sure I flash stuff that are meant for the i9305. Sorry for coming here cause I previously had a i9300 and haven't unsubscribed it in my tapatalk.
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Excuse me back but after comments I saw that it could be in / dev / block / but how to extract as adb pull / dev / block does not work because it said special system file
So how to copy or directly modify mmcblk?
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Hazerm said:
I'm very sure it has Knox, even rooted it but Knox prevented the super user app from gaining root access. But very weird on Samsung side, both identical to each other under the same name except for the LTE and one will have and the other doesn't have.
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Your phone is the LTE version of SIII. And as per your screen shots, it has the KNOX bootloader. If you try to flash anything, note my words, anything then the KNOX warranty will be void forever. It now there is no way to reset the KNOX counter. Don't try to flash anything if your phone is still under warranty. Forget about flashing custom ROMs even rooting will trigger the KNOX counter.
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