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meanmini1

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been reading the posts about people not impressed with the 4. i have the 2 and love it. rooted and hot spotted. works flawless. but im a consumer and i signed up for the one up plan with sprint last year so i get the upgrade. but im holding off til somebody roots it. anybody break in yet? thanks if you know;)
 
Root yet? The thing was only just announced a few hours ago. Have patience! :thumbup:
It took them a few days and weeks to crack open the S5. Carriers can make root more difficult as well by locking bootloaders on their subsidised phones. Because they don't want their subscribers to be removing and disabling the pre-installed sports affiliate stuff, like Verizon and the NFL.
 
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Root and Knox trip are 2 different thing?
Not all Note 3s have Knox counters, but that might depend on country and carrier. But if you do it right you can get root without tripping Knox. But what does blow Knox though is flashing a custom recovery, like CWM or TWRP. Because you've compromised the secure boot.
 
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One of the few advantages of anything mobile up here in Canada is that practically every carrier sells their varients with an UNlocked boot loader! :).. In recent times there have been many US carriers with various high end phones that had the bootloader locked down but all of those phones came unlocked up here.. No idea why but we like it! I assume and hope that this N4 and more future phones continue to come with unlocked bootloaders...but won't surprise me if it changes some day.
 
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For the above post; there is a .zip to remove knox on the note 3. My wife has a 3 and never had issues rooting or with knox. Hot spot works perfect too. Now about 4 root. Yes, patience is in order for me. In the past, new phones have been given to some tech writers and others tech related. Of course, rooting would be worked on and ready prior, or at least perfected, but I digress. mskip creates toolkits for various android phones and tablets which I highly recommend. I have used his s4, note 2 and note 8 kits with no problems. The kit comes with tons of options. I emailed him about the 4 and he will be making a toolkit for at least the sprint version. His server is skipsoft.net and he may mirror it to goo.im. keep an eye out for it.:D
 
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Not all Note 3s have Knox counters, but that might depend on country and carrier. But if you do it right you can get root without tripping Knox. But what does blow Knox though is flashing a custom recovery, like CWM or TWRP. Because you've compromised the secure boot.

Every note 3 has knox, there is 2 layers of knox. the bootloader flag everyone cries over, and the syetms files. the system files are in place to help them secure it for business aspects so you can use it as a work phone and a personal phone. its a lot like you think of norton and you think of of antivirus but at this point its all inclusive protection.

For the above post; there is a .zip to remove knox on the note 3. My wife has a 3 and never had issues rooting or with knox. Hot spot works perfect too. Now about 4 root. Yes, patience is in order for me. In the past, new phones have been given to some tech writers and others tech related. Of course, rooting would be worked on and ready prior, or at least perfected, but I digress. mskip creates toolkits for various android phones and tablets which I highly recommend. I have used his s4, note 2 and note 8 kits with no problems. The kit comes with tons of options. I emailed him about the 4 and he will be making a toolkit for at least the sprint version. His server is skipsoft.net and he may mirror it to goo.im. keep an eye out for it.:D

remove teh system based files, there is no way to remove knox from the bootloader.
 
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if you have have a locked bootloader or dont want to trip knox then yea. if you dont care and have an unlocked model you just flash recovery and then flash whatever you want in it. i would be pretty surprised to find an exploit come out any time soon after launch, so those with locked bootloaders and those who dont wnat to trip knox may be SOL.
 
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