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Root Unrooting Note 4

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I rooted my phone a while ago, but I want to now unroot it. I have read somewhere that if I am returning it to stock, from stock firmware that I wont have to reset to factory settings. Is this correct?

I have rooted it but never changed the ROM so it is still running the stock firmware - of which I updated last week via kies.

Also, will it reset the knox counter?

Many thanks in advance
 
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The Knox counter stays tripped once it has been rooted prior. As far as unrooting if you updated the device to a newer firmware version then it should be unrooted. If it was just a small update then you can flash a stock tar via odin from sammobile. Doing a firmware flash in general does factory reset the device.
Or back the device up using Samsung smart switch to unroot and flash firmware.
 
Do you know how i would go about resetting the knox counter?

How can i find out for sure if it is definitely unrooted?
 
As far as i know there is no way to reset the Knox counter. Well there are a few ways to check if the root is intact or not.
Opening SuperSU and getting a error would be one way to know. The easiest way would be to download root checker by Joey Krim and running it.
 
It appears that i have unrooted it :). Now just need to find a way to reset that counter
 
You tripped a physical fuse inside the phone, that Knox counter is staying that way for good. There is no known way of resetting it.
 
Aah right ok. I thought there might have been a way as after lots of research i have come across a few possible solutions but didnt know if they were for the note 4 or a different phone
 
It's that way for any Samsung phone with Knox AFAIK, where did you see that it was possible?
 
On the xda forum. I may be barking up the wrong tree though. Theres a program called triangle away but that may be for the older samsungs, but thinking about that, if they didn't have knox then they wouldnt need to be reset.
 
Triangle Away will reset the flash count but the catch is that you have to have Root to use it. As already stated if Knox is tripped there is no way to reset it.
 
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