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Galaxy S5 (Sprint) running rooted stock Kitkat, KNOX flag is tripped, afraid to upgrade!
I really wasn't that eager to bother with Lollipop, since I've been happy with KitKat and wanted to keep my phone rooted. But as far as I can tell there's no way to protect myself against Stagefright and still keep the ability to exchange texts, although I've tried Blocker, an apps that is supposed to let you keep a whitelist of numbers you will accept texts from. I was able to go through the motions using the app, but it had no effect.) A different suggestion, given by monsieurms in another thread on here, is to disable automatic downloading of MMS messages. But on attempting to follow the steps, I find that there is no option to do this in settings. So at present I'm left with only two choices--either block incoming messages or leave myself open to Stagefright.
Since this vulnerability is supposed to have been fixed in Lollipop, I now think it might be worth giving up root for. Besides, I use the camera a good deal and I understand that Android 5.0+ has introduced significant improvements in low-light picture quality. But here's the rub: I don't know how to get there from where I am? I know that I won't see the OTA update because the phone is altered, and neither does it appear when I run Kies 3. I assume this is due to the fact that the KNOX flag is tripped, and from looking around on the internet it seems this is all but burned into the system and irreversible.
So, what will happen now if I try to revert to stock using Kies 3? Will I hard brick my phone? Or will the reversion itself be successful but with the tripped KNOX indicator still preventing me to do the upgrade? I don't mind the temporary inconvenience of losing my data and passwords, if I can get to the upgrade in the end. But if I can't, then there's no way I want to bother with this.
My device's current status is as follows:
Device status: Custom
SW Version: G900PVPU1ANK4
HW Version: G900P.04
Model number: SM-g900p
Android Version: 4.4.4
Basband Version: (same as SW Version)
Kernel Version: 3.4.0-3182645 dpi@SWDD3002 #1
Sat Nov 8 11:50:16 KST 2014
Build number: KTU84P.<sw version number as above>
SE for Android Status: Enforcing SEPF_SM-GN900P_4.4.4_0034
Fri Dec 05 14:36:30 2014
Security SW Version: MDF v1.0 Release 3
VPN v1.4 Release 1
It goes without saying that any help would be appreciated tremendously.
I really wasn't that eager to bother with Lollipop, since I've been happy with KitKat and wanted to keep my phone rooted. But as far as I can tell there's no way to protect myself against Stagefright and still keep the ability to exchange texts, although I've tried Blocker, an apps that is supposed to let you keep a whitelist of numbers you will accept texts from. I was able to go through the motions using the app, but it had no effect.) A different suggestion, given by monsieurms in another thread on here, is to disable automatic downloading of MMS messages. But on attempting to follow the steps, I find that there is no option to do this in settings. So at present I'm left with only two choices--either block incoming messages or leave myself open to Stagefright.
Since this vulnerability is supposed to have been fixed in Lollipop, I now think it might be worth giving up root for. Besides, I use the camera a good deal and I understand that Android 5.0+ has introduced significant improvements in low-light picture quality. But here's the rub: I don't know how to get there from where I am? I know that I won't see the OTA update because the phone is altered, and neither does it appear when I run Kies 3. I assume this is due to the fact that the KNOX flag is tripped, and from looking around on the internet it seems this is all but burned into the system and irreversible.
So, what will happen now if I try to revert to stock using Kies 3? Will I hard brick my phone? Or will the reversion itself be successful but with the tripped KNOX indicator still preventing me to do the upgrade? I don't mind the temporary inconvenience of losing my data and passwords, if I can get to the upgrade in the end. But if I can't, then there's no way I want to bother with this.
My device's current status is as follows:
Device status: Custom
SW Version: G900PVPU1ANK4
HW Version: G900P.04
Model number: SM-g900p
Android Version: 4.4.4
Basband Version: (same as SW Version)
Kernel Version: 3.4.0-3182645 dpi@SWDD3002 #1
Sat Nov 8 11:50:16 KST 2014
Build number: KTU84P.<sw version number as above>
SE for Android Status: Enforcing SEPF_SM-GN900P_4.4.4_0034
Fri Dec 05 14:36:30 2014
Security SW Version: MDF v1.0 Release 3
VPN v1.4 Release 1
It goes without saying that any help would be appreciated tremendously.
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