Making use of this opening, users unlock their device bootloader and step into the world of custom development. This allows them to install custom ROMs, flash custom recoveries, gain access to the system partition, and flash mods such as Magisk Modules, Xposed Framework, Substratum Themes, etc. However, when it comes to Samsung devices, unlocking the bootloader isn’t the only gateway that you need to bypass. It has put in place some other stringent security measures that end up conflicting with the flashing of custom binaries. These include the likes VaultKeeper, Prenormal RMM State, DEFEX, and KNOX. In this guide, our focus will be on the Prenormal RMM or KG/RMM State and the steps needed to fix it. So without further ado, let’s get started.
When Does the Prenormal KG/RMM State gets Triggered?
This issue arises when the device’s KG/RMM State is set to Prenormal. As soon as that happens, your device wouldn’t allow you to flash any custom binaries. In other words, you wouldn’t be able to unlock the bootloader for a certain time period, flashing TWRP or custom ROMs wouldn’t be possible and neither could you root your device. Taking a real-life example, one of our readers recently flashed the TWRP Recovery onto his device. Right after flashing, you directly need to boot your device to TWRP via hardware key combinations. However, he messed up the button combinations and his device instead attempted to boot to the OS. At this stage, the KG/RMM got triggered and his device got stuck in a bootloop. This is just one of the many examples when you might face this issue, there could be many others. With that said, let’s now make you aware of the steps to check if Prenormal RMM State has been triggered on your device. After that, it will be easy for us to fix the Samsung bootloop issue due to the KG/RMM state.
How to Check if the Samsung Device has KG/RMM state Enabled?
There exist three different types of signs that could help you to verify if Prenormal RMM has become active on your device or not. Let’s check them out.
First off, if the OEM Unlock toggle has been greyed out or is missing from the device’s Developer Options.Secondly, if you see the ‘KG State: Prenormal‘ message when your device is booted to Download Mode.Third, when you see the “Only official released binaries are allowed to be flashed” message while flashing custom binaries via Odin Tool.
Even if your device checkmarks any one of these three signs, then it signifies that Prenormal is now active. So your next course of action should be to fix the KG/RMM state and avoid bootloop on your Samsung device. Here’s how it could be done:
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How to Fix Prenormal KG/RMM State on Samsung device
There’s only one fix for this issue: you will have to download Stock Firmware via Frija/Samloader/SamMobile and flash it onto your device via Odin. To do so, you may refer to our comprehensive guide to Flash Samsung Stock Firmware via Odin. Once the firmware is flashed, boot up your device, sign in with your Google account and wait for a period of seven days. Once a week has passed by you may unlock the bootloader and try flashing the custom binaries via Odin, it should be completed without any issues. However, if you are still facing this issue, then here is another workaround that you could try: With this, you would have successfully fixed the Prenormal KG/RMM State on your Samsung device. Let’s now check out how you could prevent it from happening in the first place, in future.
How to Prevent Prenormal KG/RMM State on Samsung
So by now, you are acquainted with the instructions to fix the KG/RMM issue. However, it doesn’t mean that you wouldn’t face this issue ever again. Therefore the best bet is to carry out the below-mentioned instructions and prevent the Prenormal KG/RMM State from getting triggered again in the future.
Unlock Bootloader
To begin with, you will need to have the device’s bootloader unlocked. If you haven’t done so, then you may refer to our guide to Unlock Bootloader on any Samsung Device [New VaultKeeper Method].
Install TWRP Recovery
Next up, you shall have the TWRP recovery installed onto your device. To do so, please refer to our guide to Install TWRP Recovery on Samsung via ODIN.
Transfer KG/RMM State Bypass ZIP to Device
Now download the KG/RMM State Bypass v3 zip and No Verity ZIP file and transfer both 0f them to your device. On the other hand, if you are stuck in TWRP and can’t boot to OS, then you would have to take the help of ADB Sideload, Mount, or USB OTG. You may refer to our guide to Transfer or Install Files via TWRP Recovery- 3 Methods.
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Boot Device to TWRP
Once both the files have been transferred, it’s time to boot the device to TWRP Recovery. You may either use the hardware key combinations or try out the below fastboot command:
Prevent Prenormal KG/RMM State via TWRP
So this was all from this guide on how to fix the Samsung Bootloop issue due to Prenormal KG/RMM state being triggered. The KG State will now show Checking whereas the ‘RMM State’ should spell ‘Normal’. With that said, do keep in mind that after performing the aforementioned steps, the first boot might take up some time, it is completely normal. Apart from that, if you have any other queries, do let us know in the comments section below. We will get back to you with a solution at the earliest.
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