I'm reading post about not being able to Root an AT&T Note 5, and I read people mentioning the Knox Counter. What is the Knox Counter? My phone is already out of warranty does it have something to do with that?
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Knox is an app that Samsung has developed to keep business and private apps and data separate. What comes with the phones (AT&T and Verizon Samsung phones) is a stub - just a "hook" to hang the whole Knox system on. (It has to be downloaded and installed.)
But if you play with the phone too much (like rooting it), there's a non-resettable counter that increments, and it can be read if you start in recovery mode (volume up/home/power). That usually voids the warranty. (Not always - sometimes they don't notice it, or even look for it.) It doesn't do anything else - it just says "someone did something to this phone that we don't allow". That's not why the phone can't be rooted - it can't be rooted because no one has figured out a way to root it yet. (Each phone, and each version of Android running on it, has to be rooted differently.)
There's a thread about rooting the phone on XDA. As of 21 March 2018, it's still being worked on.
But if you play with the phone too much (like rooting it), there's a non-resettable counter that increments, and it can be read if you start in recovery mode (volume up/home/power). That usually voids the warranty. (Not always - sometimes they don't notice it, or even look for it.) It doesn't do anything else - it just says "someone did something to this phone that we don't allow". That's not why the phone can't be rooted - it can't be rooted because no one has figured out a way to root it yet. (Each phone, and each version of Android running on it, has to be rooted differently.)
There's a thread about rooting the phone on XDA. As of 21 March 2018, it's still being worked on.
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