ANDROID 5.1.1 TURN OFF PICASA SYNC UPDATE
ANDROID 5.1.1 TURN OFF PICASA SYNC UPGRADE

So yeah, it boils down to the classic issue of buying a device that ends up not being yours completely without scraping the included warranty and service, just like car dealerships will try to convince you that your car is not eligible for covered repairs because you made an oil change somewhere else than where you bought it. No insult intended, I just think it's both clever and low-level marketing by Samsung. It's easy to get excited about better security on your device, and it's even easier for Samsung to rally up Americans and look like the good guys by playing on their patriotism and using some buzzwords such as KNOX (in reference to Fort Knox) or US Department of Defense (Whoa!).

ANDROID 5.1.1 TURN OFF PICASA SYNC UPDATE

You can read more about KNOX, SE and TZ update directly from Samsung here: On the other end of the scale, you have Oppo brand releasing a phone with Cyanogenmod preloaded and opening up their devices completely. To me, and I think to quite a few other people, it looks like Samsung being even more closed to the open-source community as times goes by.

One thing is sure though, they can know now whether or not your device has been tampered with in the past, no matter the precautions you take or the state of the device when you return it if the need arises. Sammy goes as far as 'void' a 'warranty' if you try to mess with KNOX and trip the counter (in their own words, Knox Warranty Void) and although I haven't read anyone getting denied device warranty because of this yet, who knows if/when Samsung decides to take another stance about this in the future. Unless you have a tendency to blackout completely at times and never know whether your phone has been tempered with during your beauty sleep and feel paranoid about someone who might have saw your snapchat contacts. There doesn't seem to be any valid reasoning behind the lack of possibility to go back, so I'd be inclined to think it's simply a bold and dirty move by Sammy to thwart attempts of people to mess with their system by enforcing KNOX and SE outside of the corporate world which is really the only use of KNOX and SE. If for whatever reason you'd like to restore your system to a prior than 4.3 state, you'll hit a brick wall. The 'real' issue stems mostly from being unable to go back to absolute stock TW older than the 4.3 release like it used to be possible.

ANDROID 5.1.1 TURN OFF PICASA SYNC UPGRADE

To take note TW 4.3 roms will necessitate a modem upgrade to have data but should not necessitate a bootloader upgrade by any means.

Most if not all of current roms will have newest bootloaders included as well as some of the older ones IF they do have a check for it. Custom roms don't really matter because you can always modify the checks for bootloaders or any other piece of information nearly effortlessly.

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