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[Q] i9500 warranty back?!?

Hi all! I don't know if I am missing something/this is normal/this is new. I rooted my S4 android 4.2. Realised that triangle away doesn't work for i9500 So lost my warranty. Ah well... Yesterday I decided i would upgrade my firmware (as my provider just released one). Kies didn't work and just kept stuck at 0% so i copied the firmware file from temp folder and used odin.
Now I have 4.3 on my phone, tried to do something in root folders but it wouldn't let me as i don't have root anymore.... I checked my download mode and it looks like this:
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product name: GT-i9500
Current binary: Samsung official
System status: Official
Warranty bit: 0
If its been rooted (FOR i9500) and warranty is void it would say :Warranty bit 1 (right?), with a counter next to the current binary?
bottom line... my warranty is back for some reason? Or am i missing something...

[Q] Soft brick? Hard brick? Sort of firm'ish brick really

I've made a bit of a mess and I need help please. My s4 is softbricked, but as softbricks go, it's rather hard.
I have an early S4 i9505 bought from Carphone Warehouse (UK, unlocked, pre knox). I rooted it, installed TBackup, greenify and got it how I wanted it. Then I downloaded a stock firmware from Sammobile and tested to see if I could get it back to 'warranty' condition, which was a success.
Confident that I could obtain warranty if I needed it, I re-rooted it, installed TB and greenify, and it ran sweetly for months from that point onwards.
I read about the arrival of updates (and knox) and concluded I didn't need them. It was working, leave it alone.
Then out of the blue, my nice stable machine broke. I didn't change anything I was aware of to cause it.
No normal boot.
No recovery.
Download only.
Using Odin, I tried allsorts, eventually getting the same Sammobile firmware to run.
2 days later, it broke again, same as before, but worse!?
Then I tried all sorts of stuff downloading no end of things trying to get it to boot or even go into recovery. The most promising approach was to reload the firmware along with a .pit file, but still no joy. I've lost track of the other things I tried, but I've been doing it for a week, so a lot has been done. In desperation, I even tried downloading the latest firmware, so I now have signs of knox of the odin page.
I now have the following symptoms:
Booting into recovery brings up the blue 'booting recovery' message then just blackness.
Normal boot is exactly the same as above.
Unpowered conection to my laptop gives a 5 second boot loop featuring the buzz only.
I can reliably boot into download and download stuff with Odin and change the little Odin page status messages. After (foolishly) trying the latest firmware, these messages say
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME GT-I9505
CURRENT BINARY Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS Official
KNOX KERNEL LOCK 0x0
KNOX WARRANTY VOID 0x0
CSB-CONFIG-LSB 0x30
WRITE PROTECTION: enable
eMMC BURST MODE enabled
Please can anyone give me some advice on what else I could try?
Thanks
Steve

Wrinklespots said:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME GT-I9505
CURRENT BINARY Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS Official
KNOX KERNEL LOCK 0x0
KNOX WARRANTY VOID 0x0
CSB-CONFIG-LSB 0x30
WRITE PROTECTION: enable
eMMC BURST MODE enabled
Please can anyone give me some advice on what else I could try?
Thanks
Steve
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If anything else is not working (especially, if you're unable to go to recovery) I'd call sammy service center. Your download mode says that you did not rooted your phone, and knox is untouched either.

spamtrash said:
If anything else is not working (especially, if you're unable to go to recovery) I'd call sammy service center. Your download mode says that you did not rooted your phone, and knox is untouched either.
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Thanks for looking spamtrash.
I was wondering if I could get away with that. It does look good from the Odin display, but the flash counter must have a pretty high number in it by now! Won't that show up somewhere?
Do you think it does actually have a fault on it, rather than just some software that's messed up and needs tweaking?
Thanks
Steve

Wrinklespots said:
Thanks for looking spamtrash.
I was wondering if I could get away with that. It does look good from the Odin display, but the flash counter must have a pretty high number in it by now! Won't that show up somewhere?
Do you think it does actually have a fault on it, rather than just some software that's messed up and needs tweaking?
Thanks
Steve
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1. Are you able to go to recovery mode?
2. Assuming that your previous communicates were taken from the screen in download mode - you're clean.
If answer for 1 is: NO, and assuming 2: do not bother the flash counter. Flash counter does not means you messed with custom ROMs, it just means amount of the ROM update tries. As they are unable to prove that the counter was not increased by failed KIES updates, you're safe.
To go deeper, service will have to flash and wipe your phone.
One thing: remove your sd card prior to giving/sending it out.

Try a different usb cable.I was in same boat as you (after stupidly thinking mobile odin pro liked modems).
Luckily I had an unused cable off my tab 3.

Unrooting G900A AT&T usa

I rooted my phone two weeks ago with towelroot and disabled Knox with supersu.Note: my device status said official I'm still running stock firmware. Have to send my phone back for warranty problem so I unrooted with supersu and reset my phone. So now when I look at my device status it says custom (never flashed any roms or nothing) so I factory reset and notice unlock padlock and custom on my reboot startup screen. I also put phone in Odin mode the binary still said Samsung official but now the other say custom. And Knox says 0×0. I was told to use Odin so I installed odin3v3.09, drivers, stock firmware on the PC tried to flash it but got a Auth: Fail in the left lower box.
My replacement phone will be here today and will send the old back Monday to give me a couple more days to figure this out. What did I do wrong?
PLEASE HELP!

UPDATE
I just notice when I was using Odin I tried to flash G900AUCU1ANCE stock firmware. My phone says I'm running G900AUCU2AND3. I wonder if that's why I've been getting that auth: Fail
Where can I get the G900AUCU2AND3 stock firmware from?

Try going to the sammobile website (cant post link because I'm a new member). It should be there
Sent from my SM-G900F using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

tmadekush said:
I just notice when I was using Odin I tried to flash G900AUCU1ANCE stock firmware. My phone says I'm running G900AUCU2AND3. I wonder if that's why I've been getting that auth: Fail
Where can I get the G900AUCU2AND3 stock firmware from?
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Your warranty should be honoured because it still shows Knox 0x0. But it would be prudent to resolve the custom message as you are trying to do. It's showing custom because you disabled Knox. Flashing a full stock firmware should restore Knox and resolve the custom message.
Odin flashes can fail for many reasons e.g. trying to flash non-Odin versions of firmware, bad signatures, poor quality USB cables, wrong firmware version e.g. one meant for a different phone, et cetera.
Back up your files, then do a full system reset from the settings menu. Then put your phone into download mode and use Odin to flash a full stock firmware. Ideally use the latest firmware version for carrier that the phone originally came from (i.e. it should match the baseband). Google will find many firmware repositories e.g. sammobile, samsung-updates and this site.
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URGENT: Softbricked SGH-I337 AMF3 model.

I want to start off by saying that I kept digging my own grave because I'm stubborn. I have looked and tried everything and will try again after posting. There are messages and phone calls that I need to get to for college and this has really made me a bit stressed/ depressed.
I recently got an S4 SGH-I337 from AT&T and upgraded to 4.4.2 KitKat. I decided to root it and flash a rom (first phone I ever decided to flash a rom on, bad decision on my part). Everything was fine and dandy until I decided to install TWRP Recovery, it then killed all access to the recovery menu. I was still able to get into the phone via download menu (removing battery). I then decided to factory reset everything. I followed all the steps and images down to the letter.
I tried this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2502003 (Fails on Odin, every single time)
Afterwards, I would get the message: "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue..." (Kies does NOT work since it doesn't even appear on the list when I hit emergency recovery. I even tried Firmware Upgrade.)
Then I used this on Odin: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2404970
It worked but it gave me the message "System software not authorized by AT&T has been found on your phone." I decided to download and use this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49687770 due to him solving his issue (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52837496&postcount=203)... It voided my warranty and is back to "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue..." Still cannot use Kies as nothing shows up when I hit emergency recovery. What voided my warranty was a stock image.
Kies and Odin don't work. I have no idea what to do. I'm honestly scared to tell my dad and way too stubborn to actually tell him about it. Hahaha. Since I voided the warranty, I really have no idea how much AT&T will charge, I don't want him wasting money. All my money sadly went to school. These are the files that I accumulated during my googling: http://puu.sh/ayQwm/e8d232b4b0.jpg
Code:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SGH-I337
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
KNOX KERNEL LOCK: 0x0
KNOX WARRANTY LOCK: 0x0
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0x1 [B](Was 0x0)[/B]
CSB-CONFIG-LSB: 0x30
WRITE PROTECTION: Enable
eMMC BURSRT MODE enabled
If there are info you need, I'll do what I can to tell you. Note, I can't get into my phone, but what I can do is get into Odin mode... I appreciate it if you can help, I'm very new to this.
*I do NOT know what the 4.4.2 version is, so I have no power over that. I didn't memorize it at all and am just going by what the Box says: I337UCUAMF3

Read the return to stock section of http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2616221

I found it earlier and downloaded the NB1 Rom. It worked. Thanks for helping though. I'll find the thank you button somewhere. :good:

Is Knox tripped ?

Hello,I bought this phone like 8 months ago and 6 days later after I bought it I decided to install LineageOS.So basic stuff install drivers,USB debug all that stuff.Great.I flash TWRP with Odin and it all works great.I wipe everything and then I flash gapps and LineageOS.
I used the rom for like 3 hours before i decided that it's too buggy and it won't be my daily driver so I used Samsung Smart Switch and I used the code from the sticker to restore original rom.
Everything goes fine.I don't really know if my knox tripped because I didn't root,I still get OTA updates(but I won't install them),device status is official but S Health doesn't work.I don't have root access or a custom recovery.It's just like new.Did knox trip ? I don't care about the warranty because my carrier probably won't check if knox is tripped or not.

if you've flashed twrp and custom rom it's 100% clear knox is tripped, no other way

yaro666 said:
if you've flashed twrp and custom rom it's 100% clear knox is tripped, no other way
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Ah thanks anyway.If i ever need warranty hope they don't check it