yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jbfountain:
At first I thought it was the vulnerability in the Qualcomm chip that made Samsung lock down the bootloader here in the US, because Europe has Samsung Pay and unlockable bootloader. The Chinese market had the Qualcomm chip, but no Samsung Pay, but now the Chinese banking industry is beginning to allow Samsung Pay. None of this makes any sense since the Chinese have the largest cell phone market in the world.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Binary100100:
Nobody really seems to be bringing up the point that Samsung Pay doesn't support majority of the banks. Still waiting for Fifth Third and my Capital One. Plus a lot of people are doing credit unions nowadays. So for Samsung to hold out on root access for us just because of Samsung Pay is kinda stupid since only a small percentage of Galaxy S7 owners will actually be able to use it and an even smaller percentage will choose to use it even if they could. I would love Samsung Pay but given the choice between that or root... it's root all the way. I mean come on Samsung! At least give US the choice. It's not your choice to make! It ours because we bought it! It'll be like Ford saying that we can't add remote start and tint the windows because we're still making payments on a Mustang. What kinda sense does that make? I understand T-Mobile's perspective when it comes to SIM unlocking because they don't want to release the phone that isn't paid off to us for the purpose of using it on another carrier. But Samsung already got their money. What's the problem?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ShermCraig:
I find Samsung quite responsive when it comes to banks and CU's and have observed weekly additions to those that work with Samsung Pay. Obviously the roll-out takes time, and not even all of my institutions are supporting it, but like I said, I see more added almost daily. All-in-all, I'm very pleased with it, which is why I would NOT ROOT unless there becomes a way to un-trip knox.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Binary100100:
There isn't though. At least based on my understanding. It blows an efuse which is 100% permanent. There have been research on trying to reset it but based on my understanding it is a physical connection with the board itself somehow. I believe it'll be more likely to discover a way to "hide" that Knox has been tripped than to untrip it. But that's my guess. I'll be willing to bet that those devices with an unlocked bootloader don't have Knox pre-installed. That's really the only reason why I think we won't get an unlocked bootloader in my opinion. Unless a law gets passed stating that the owners of the devices should have full control over the data being stored and transmitted (using our own data by the way!) then I don't think that they're going to fold anytime soon.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Tiffany84:
The Note 4 and Note 5 T-Mobile variants did not have locked bootloaders.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Xileforce:
Edit:

Misread
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] sputnik767:
And neither did the S5. I can't speak for the S6, but the S7 is certainly locked. Blame whomever you want for the locking bootloaders, but it is becoming the norm.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Tiffany84:
S6 didn't either
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Bubba Fett:
The are three realistic reasons I can think of why we are so loxked down. 1: is so we cannot block ads easily. Lots of pocket cash there. 2: they want our info for targeting ads and tracking with their samsung/carrier crapware. And 3: they think we are too stupid to be the administrator of these devices. Granted, this may be correct in some cases,but it's insulting to not be able to go past the equivalent of the program files folder on my $800 hand held computer. It does seem illegal in a sense. What if Microsoft or apple did this? Oh wait apple does.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] id10terrordfw:
Still doesn't on Marshmallow either. I know, I just got and rooted this one. Still have my S7 edge with hopes that maybe someday the heavens will part and root and an unencrypted, unlocked bootloader will descend upon ius, and we will rejoice and be glad.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Xileforce:
Afaik none of the galaxies on tmo were locked. But he was responding to the guy he quoted who claimed that note 4 and 5 were locked as well. Which was not the case on tmo.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] gdmlaz:
Let's just pray a dev is able to find a vulnerability and be able to find a root hopefully to those that haven't updated their phone fixing security patches..... This device is never going to get bootloader unlocked from samsung we just have to live with that........ most of us will be jumping when something else comes out and I'm sure we will triple check before getting another samsung device from a carrier that the bootloader could be unlocked....... tmobile couldn't get apple to make them an iphone when they were running on the wrong mhz they are deff not going to get SAMSUNG to unlock a bootloader which wasn't designed to be unlocked to begin with.....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
The phone is rather nice in design, and functionality.... but it's totally boring without root, or being able to load other roms.... I'm enjoying my S5 more everyday..... too bad I have to carry two phones with me because of the situation....

Sent from my unrooted #BootLoaderGate SM-G935T
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Soufiansky:
I know root is something amazing but dont exagerate it doesnt make the S7 boring. I was always rooting and flashing roms on my devices ( LG G2 , S4 , S5...etc ) but now samsung have improved a lot and i dont see any reason to root my S6
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] gdmlaz:
Rooting = no ads on youtube, no ads on pandora, save videos from facebook, download songs, add those all up in subscription and you are paying over $40 monthly so yea root is greatly missed here no xmod blah...... I would have stayed with my iphone 6s rooted if I knew this phone was going to be so locked up and I hated my iphone first iphone I had owned since the s6 battery was the worse ever in history
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] bajasur:
I share your frustration. Anything is better than an iPhone though! [emoji1]
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ubigred:
Ads on YouTube is THE WORST!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] rmdeathwish:
I really wish we get root for this amazing phone.

I feel like ill go with with the next nexus device at the end of this year if that doesnt happen
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] cuezaireekaa:
They are. Absolute suxxor.

Yet, I don't think I've seen one ad on YouTube since I've owned the s7e. Idk if it's OGYouTube that I've installed...(2.0 is also the same/latest from playstore as of today) or if it's AdGuard pro, but I'm so glad I don't have to root for just that. It's the one thing I thought would keep me away from an Unrooted device on account of how much I use YouTube everyday. Phew.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] diligent7771:
rootjunky need to ask him to unlock the root it should work.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Soufiansky:
You can download songs without root , for the rest i kinda agree
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] AceDaMack:
I feel all of you guys. I need root to, I play a lot of games and I use a Playstation controller and the app(I paid for) you use to pair them requires root. Glad I kept my Oneplus!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Josh McGrath:
Search jellybombed Pandora. It's from Josh beach who makes the jellybombed domination roms. If you can't find it let me know. I've been using the same version for since the note 2 days and never had an ad. Works fine on my (strike two) T-Mobile unrooted g5 h830.

sent from my unrooted g5 cause T-Mobile and lg are jerks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] sputnik767:
I feel the need to point out that this very post is probably one the reasons for a locked down device. That's not to say that I have never done or would never do what you mentioned here, but Google, Pandora, and everyone else make money with ads or paid subscriptions. And with stuff like Xposed which allows you to have YouTube Red for free is technically stealing. But I do find it funny that we abuse the system to the max and then complain when the system fights back.

Of course, if all you want is Pandora with no ads and unlimited skips, you don't need root to get that. It is in fact incredibly easy. But you are on your own there.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] sputnik767:
It's a modified APK that you can download. Android allows you to install apps from outside sources without root, unlike iOS. I will leave it at that since I don't want to use this site to promote piracy.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] shoresteve626:
This won't help achieve root but it will get this thread locked down..... again. Having a discussion is one thing but when people take this stuff personally and start attacking others we all lose out on some really good ideas and collaboration to achieve said goals.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] the Doctor:
Also, we don't allow the discussion of piracy or pirated apps on the forum. This topic is best dropped right here.

^^^ This. :good:

The thread has been cleaned. Please be polite and show respect to other users when posting and keep your posts and the thread on-topic.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] lost_:
Just thinking out loud. Any thoughts on gaining root through Good Lock? It's able to replace the SystemUI apk (or is it Galaxy Apps?) Haven't looked into it though. Could be signed by Samsung, rendering this moot. I'm on rooted 930F if anyone needs me to grab anything related to Good Lock (I uninstalled it but can reinstall if needed).
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] KAsp3rd:
I'm pretty sure it is seen as an update to the systemui.apk and I would imagine the framework is updated as well. However you do have a good idea... with it being an update to those apks it wouldn't install if the signatures do not match, not sure if the old trick of using the original signature on a modified APK would work or not, also I'm not sure which users the apks are allowed to operate as. I do not have my Linux box setup at the moment so I cannot check buy I would assume the apk is encrypted and cannot be unpacked properly with apk tool. If someone wouldn't mind giving that at shot it could be worth it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] bio4554:
Unpacks fine on my PC, but I don't know if we can repack it with the same signature.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] diligent7771:
I knox anyway I can test everything that someone can help . let's do this the enemies of evil .
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] KAsp3rd:
My apologies, I did not mean just to unzip it as we all know .apk is just a zip. I was meaning decompile using apktool (backsmali)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] KAsp3rd:
Just another thing I've tried. I modified the persist partition in an attempt to disable dm-verity and flashed it through Odin...

Once Odin failed due to the signature of the .img not matching I decided to attempt to reboot anyway and I would get the emergency recovery screen which leads me to believe that even though Odin is failing something is in fact being written to the device.

To get out of the emergency recovery, instead of going through smart sync I just flashed the unmodified persist.img

Haven't had too much more time to play around with it though.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] bajasur:
Good to see you in here.... ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Tin_Man_0:
Just got my G935T from the store. I don't know if this means anything and maybe it's just nothing, or maybe someone can tell me what it means. But I did a factory wipe and then booted it into recovery mode. I was looking around through the logs and then went back to the main menu. Pressed down to "Reboot to Bootloader" option and set it down without booting. When I came back, I noticed that the highlighting of the menu changed to green. What is that?

** Update: I've found that sliding my finders on both sides of the edge while on the menu changes the color.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] KAsp3rd:
I did the same and attempted to to view the recovery logs. I was able to view them before doing the green menu thing now recovery just reboots every time I attempt to view the recovery logs. Might have to format cache and try again

Also, not sure what the difference is when the menu is green
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Tin_Man_0:
At first I though it was just highlighting things. I did the whole cache wipe and full resets and it still does it. Anyone out there with an older bootloader? I'm curious to see if this is something new.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] KAsp3rd:
Well, still not able to view recovery logs on mine. I'll have to flash the stock cache partition just to check if it was the green menu. Also, instead of sliding up/down on the screen you can just hold you finger anywhere on the screen for a few seconds and it will change to green.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Binary100100:
Hey guys,

Looks like there is some progress being made:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66852450&postcount=97

Let's just wait and see.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Binary100100:
So this seems to be happening:

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s7/help/lost-root-g930f-t3379683

It would appear that Samsung is taking root access back to the Galaxy S7 G930F (International) models. It appears that Samsung is releasing Security Patch upgrades and thus removing root access. So if I were you guys, I'd disable the security policy updates.

Anyway, I don't feel that Samsung is going to be giving us an unlocked bootloader anytime soon now. Let's hope that someone can discover an exploit and a clever developer can produce a custom rom which disables all of this crap by default.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] slaz13:
T-mobile just let me return my 935T for a full refund even though I had it since March. I purchased the Galaxy S7 International Flat version (930F) and have it rooted with a custom rom and have not ran into any root issues. So happy I made the switch!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] TheKnux:
Congrats. Wish I could do the same. Too bad I shattered the back the second week I got it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] bajasur:
Where did you find the intl version in store?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] guaneet:
Best buy sells the international models lol

---------- Post added at 09:01 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:00 AM ----------

How'd you manage that if you don't mind me asking
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] bajasur:
Last I checked Best Buy doesn't carry them in store, which would require me to go without a phone for a few days which I can't do. I need to find one in store.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] slaz13:
I sent John L. a tweet and asked if I could send him an email about the locked s7 edge. He replied and said "please do". Sent him the email and told him it sucked the s7 and s7 edge bootloaders were locked and asked if I was able to swap my s7 edge for an international s7. A few days later someone from T-Mobile called me (higher up in the company, office of the president of T-mobile or something like that) and said I could return my edge and purchase the international version from somewhere other then t-mobile. She was pretty awesome I could have talked to her about cell phones and carriers for hours haha. Anyways I purchased the phone off Amazon and need to call her back to get the return information for my s7 Edge. Despite this locked down s7 mess I still think T-Mobile is a great company!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Josh McGrath:
I agree T-Mobile is a great company. But.. This tells me two things, they know there will be no unlock OR they aren't even anywhere close.

Still great company, but bye Samsung forever!

sent from my unrooted g5 cause T-Mobile and lg are jerks
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] OriginxRambo:
No more Samsung and their BS hell I rather buy an IPhone at least there's jail breaks for it and on almost every firmware they have
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] 06ensar:
This samsung s7 edge SM935T phone for international rum root..::crying:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] BoiBundy:
And So, what begins?

---------- Post added at 09:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:40 PM ----------

Did you go get you s5 back? lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Rydah:
I was actually offered something similar in the same situation, Diana from T-Mobile called. Gonna all tomorrow if the offer still stands.

Sent Via My Samsung S7 Edge
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] slaz13:
Yeah that's who I talked to she was really cool about everything.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Rydah:
Yeah, she was so cool to chat with, I had to tell my fiance to relax, it was just Jake from State Farm. Haha well anyway, hopefully she will still honor that swap.

Sent Via My Samsung S7 Edge
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] lightninbug:
The cure for HIV can very well come before root on the galaxy S7?!? Who would have thought?!

http://futurism.com/scientists-find-a-new-weak-spot-in-hiv-for-vaccines-to-target/

LOL
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Rydah:
What was the process for them refunding you? Did you have to turn it into a store first or did you have a few days to ship it? I'm calling her today. LOL
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] TheKnux:
How would I go about getting a hold of her?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] vipercoyote:
Far from a cure. Not a cure although the cure is already out there
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jtford:
Is Safestrap not a viable option? Don't know exactly how it works just know my ATT Note 3 (locked bootloader) worked fine with it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] pantmunu:
It should but only after root .. I believe. The flashfire app should work fine too.

Correct me if I am wrong.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jtford:
Yeah, that's beyond my "know how". I would think someone has already looked into it. Maybe not.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jdidtht:
Has anyone looked into the Samsung app "good lock" that can replace system ui bits, notifications,recent apps etc? Maybe could be used as a way in?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] 70dad2:
Here we go again.

http://xdaforums.com/sprint-s7-edge/help/code-t3379915/page4
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jpcloudsurf:
Root on sprint s7 ey? Hmm
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
Seems to good to be true, but I really hope it's true.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] 06ensar:
root was a dream.... :crying:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] v8dreaming:
I think the guy in the Sprint forum is just another troll.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
Probably, or maybe someone who just doesn't know enough to know whether it's actually root or not.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ShrekOpher:
If he got a folder created in the system, then he should be able to get root. He might have just stumbled upon it and not know what he needs to do next.

I'm not holding my breath but I won't call him a troll untill I know for sure.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] lost_:
Discussed. Search the thread.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jdidtht:
Nah, I'm good, was just curious..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] fazzix:
Huh.. Everything Seems to good to be true like Donald Trump for 2016 eh?

Keep being negative u'll get nothing out of it.

---------- Post added at 03:44 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:37 AM ----------

I asked DES on periscope "any updates on the s7/edge bootloader?" he said didn't hear anything and don't know about it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jtford:
Bought an international version yesterday. Get it Monday. Still yet to be known if I stay with Samsung or not.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Lmax579:
If there's no Root for this phone I'm just gonna use my jump on demands on an HTC 10 or LG V10
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Josh McGrath:
Deleted
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] psych0r3bel:
Was it James Green? I did this same exact thing way back when I sent Legere and email about the issue on behalf of XDA. I felt a bit cheap for it, but he returned my email, thanked me for my patience and referred me to Green who let me swap to an HTC 10, which I just got today and spent pretty much my entire work shift rooting. It feels so good to have Xposed back. The audio quality on the 10 is amazing, too.The ATH-M50x was made for this phone lmao.

But I digress. It's good to know that there is, and will continue to be, an option for Tmo customers, even if it isn't with this device. The 10 will be my placeholder til Samsung releases a phone you can root and mess with, or until HTC releases a Nexus device with the sound libs and high-res DAC this thing has in it. That said, I totally prefer the S7 Edge. Battery life is leagues better, the screen is still champ (10's is nice, but the digitizer is visible if you look close enough), and I prefer the phone itself and the size.

Anyway, just my two cents, and adding my story so y'all know this **** works lol.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] 1iwilly:
signed
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
So if the method in the other thread did potentially work, and we could write to the system partition, how would we install something like superuser and still be able to boot up?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] TheKnux:
Do you think James Green will let me do the same even though the back of my edge is shattered?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Beefheart:
DM Verity in the boot partition would need to be somehow disabled. But with a locked bootloader and no method of flashing TWRP, I'm not sure if this is possible.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
CONFIG_DM_VERITY

https://source.android.com/security/verifiedboot/verified-boot.html

Sent from my unrooted #BootLoaderGate SM-G935T
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Lmax579:
If I were a developer, I definitely would be helping out to achieve our goal.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] system0verload:
With the bootloader locked, the sploit that enables root on any Samsung S7 phone won't work. Simply put, all known backdoors have been patched (not including any 0day) and there is no way to bypass/disable the System's integrity daemon. Not trying to burst anyone's bubbles
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
Looks like they might have gotten root for the Sprint variant of the S7/S7 Edge..... we'll find out the procedure later......

Sent from my unrooted #BootLoaderGate SM-G935T
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] OriginxRambo:
It's looking more promising over there. He's asking for firmware from all the US variants hopefully it's a working universal root.