Interesting. I also just realized superuser is installed on here as well.
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Actually just followed your Unroot guide and now I'm just finishing and starting to accept the system updates and waiting for the JB update to get pushed since I'm back to 4.0.4. Gotta say though I really love that guide. I've been easily frightened by all things root and hack and was really freaked out when it got stuck on the Samsung screen and thank god I read further and did the factory reset or I would be killing people and hiding in the corner clutching my shiny broken toy. THANK YOU
Peace of mind for sprint store trips basically. They've tried enough times to screw me over
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so I did this also and mine says it's Samsung official and no custom binary but at the bottom of the list it said custom. so when 4.2 comes out will I be able to update to it.
under my device status it says modified. It's my understanding this can't be changed. is that correct
You have to run triangle away before unrooting to reset the binary counter. Or there is a method on xda that unrooting and resets everything with a Odin file I believe. Don't go into recovery mode after using triangle away or it will trip the counter again. And if you are only worried about updating when the new premium suite update comes out, you should be able to update fine if you have stock recovery. The new update is going to be 4.1.2, 4.2.2 is a ways off for our phone still.
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My understanding was that if you followed the unroot procedure completely it would no longer say modified. But I've never tried it, so I'll let Skunk chime in when he gets a chance.
There is a mod posted on XDA that resets this value from Modified to Normal. Unfortunately, you'll need to be rooted with custom recovery to apply the mod. So if it's really important, you could re-root, apply Triangle Away and this mod, and unroot again.
[MOD] Device status = "Normal" - xda-developers
I'm not sure I can recommend the mod below. I ran it, out of curiosity as much as anything, and after flashing it I discovered it changed more than just he Modified indicator. The About device page said I was on some ROM that I never downloaded (People's ROM, maybe? I didn't pay that much attention), a lot of icons changed throughout the Settings menu, and, worst of all, my phone wouldn't connect to my computer as an MTP device. I ended up having to do a factory reset and restore from a Nandroid backup.
I think that's because the developer of The People's Rom was the one to make this mod a flashable .zip. He incorporated it into the latest version of his ROM.