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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Binary100100:
That's a very accurate description as to what I've been saying within a week of the release.

Begging and pleading with T-Mobile and/or Samsung is a complete waste of time. Time would be better spent exploring other options of gaining root or exploiting the bootloader. However, we run into the problem of Samsung seeing it on here and then fixing it before the majority of us could take advantage of it. Samsung did their job right this time. Let's face it. Sooner we accept that, the sooner we can move on. If a method comes around for unlocking the bootloader or finding root then okay. Great. But let's just accept the things that we cannot change and pursuit other methods of getting what we're seeking. Being a different device or a method of gaining what we're seeking. For many of us, this might be our last Samsung device but ask yourself, "Does Samsung care enough to at the very least compromise with us?" By now, most of us would say no. If you're still saying yes... I have a moon to sell you for cheap. PM me for details.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
I've also came upon these two programs hidden on the phone. Looks like they can force a firmware upgrade with us not even knowing about it......

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ali87va:
As far as the CROM service apk goes, I believe China has it also and they launch the app and it automatically unlocks their bootloaders,I was actually researching this last night. I found two different CROM apk files one of them force closes immediately and the other gives you a prompt that your bootloader will be unlocked but once you hit OK, it returns an error message.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jdidtht:
Yea I believe it was discussed in a older closed thread that one had to input imei and some other junk in crom and it verifies correct model and region or something like that and has some other checks that allows the unlock. I remember it being talked about but far above my pay grade, there was a few threads about it back for the s6 or s6 edge I want to say they were messing with crom in depth
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] 2nutz4u:
So I downloaded Xray for Android and says it is vulnerable to CVE-2015-7888. Anyway to exploit this and gain root?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ali87va:
I'm not a dev by any means but I do know my way around. I'll be looking into this,just got home from a night out with the guys. [emoji12]
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
It doesn't work without an Internet connection.... it all comes down to the CARRIERS, not Samsung... if they want to unlock the bootloaders, the carriers hold the key.....

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] stryver:
Have you tried this with oem unlock checked in dev settings?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ali87va:
That's actually the first thing I did,post above yours is right,has to do with Internet and carrier.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] stryver:
Maybe we should ask Legere about these findings?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ali87va:
He's not gonna do jack except ask samsung/tmobile to patch these findings lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] TechBSwift:
So they rooted the Chinese qualcomm 820 s7. Anyone willing to try this method? It does trip knox

http://bbs.gfan.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=8314207&extra=
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Binary100100:
Even with Google Translate it doesn't make a lot of sense. Basically it seems to say that flashing the older firmware (ZCU2APD1) (which I wasn't sure that we could do) allows us to flash a custom recovery and then flash superuser.zip followed by a no-verity-opt-encrypt.zip. It's mentioning something about a "black video" so whatever that means. Worth a shot maybe.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] diligent7771:
I think you need to try to ask the Chinese how he did it maybe he will help our developers to make Root.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] seanvree:
Already been investigated. Doesn't work at the moment.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
I just had my phone fixed at the Samsung Service Center.... my screen had a green line, and was overheating the battery. I have had this phone for less than three months, and already needed service. Well, even with my updates disabled, and Firmware update disabled.... when i got my phone back, they updated my Firmware without my permission. I tried to confuse the girl behind the counter, and i told her my phones bootloader was unlocked, and now it's locked again. She thought i had a 935F version.... i almost got it unlocked until the tech came from the back, and said it's a 935T, and is locked in the U.S.... i tried but to no avail....

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] LuigiBull23:
I commend you for trying but did you actually think you'd get away with that?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
What annoys me is no one asked to update the firmware. They act as though they own the phone.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] joe187xx:
You should be able to downgrade your firmware, i went form PD7 to PB8. I have not tried the latest one yet
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
I think you have it mixed up. PD8 is the newest. I had PD6....

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] joe187xx:
PD8 is the newest PB8 is the first update from the original PB6
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
PD7 was the update to PD6... PD8 is the newest, and i can tell you it does nothing for battery power savings, or wifi improvements.... those updates were totally for fixing security issues....

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Dr. Fed:
BEEE is not DEEE

Just to review basic English, B is not D. So PB8 is not the same as PD8. PB8 was from March or April. PD8 is the latest version for the T Mobile S7e.

What I want to know is how did anyone downgrade their software from PD6 to PB8?

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How did you do that? I thought that was impossible (said with a French accent for dramatic effect).
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] joe187xx:
I was on pd7 and just tried flashing back to an older one and the oldest one i could find was pb8 and i dont know why it worked , but i tried it just now from pd8 back to pb8 and now i get a fail in odin aboot is fused binary 2 , so i guess you cant go back from the latest one
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
I wonder what Knox Key Guard is, and why it's not installed......

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] fazzix:
Credits to Google: KNOXKeyguard basically refers to the code that handles the unlocking of the phone. it's like the keypad lock on your nokia phone a few years back just with the utility on a touchscreen. you can find more info it you look in android/app or com\android\internal\policy\impl.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
I hope just incase people have saved the stock G935TUVU1PD6 firmware the phone was released with. I had a heck of a time finding it online. Since the Samsung Service Center took it upon themselves to update my firmware without my permission while getting my screen replaced... i will be using Odin to go back to the stock firmware.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] stryver:
Care to share? ;)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] fazzix:
They rolled out June security update in spain
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] AceDaMack:
Well I think an exploit has been found,but Samsung is lurking in xda. They said it safe for all, they're just waiting to do a tutorial for it and avoid samsung from patching. The newest update seem to have patched this certain exploit so don't update.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jpcloudsurf:
If you're gonna be that guy you should at least quote him correctly as he said that "once it is safe for all" he will release a tutorial. No mention of who will get root yet as he's on a sprint device.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] AceDaMack:
My bad just read the post quickly but still good thing to kno.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] sputnik767:
I can't speak from personal experience with this device but I know with my old GS5 on Sprint and my old Galaxy Note 8 tablet, you can not go back to an older version of the firmware with ODIN. It will error out. I suspect it has something to do with KNOX, but regardless, I don't expect you to be able to ODIN back to any older firmware on this device either.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
If that be the case, this phone is selling cheap..... they are selling the Chinese 9350 Snapdragons on Amazon.....

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Android_noob17:
I don't know if this will help you guys, but someone was able to extract the qualcomm trustzone keymaster keys...

https://twitter.com/laginimaineb/status/737051964857561093
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] stryver:
Does this mean what i think it means?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Pneumatic:
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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] TechBSwift:
this may take root to a whole new level, only time will tell
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
What would this possibly give us the ability to do? How would this help us?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] TechBSwift:
Well if we have the keys to assigned programs to system level, this will grant us root. It simple terms
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
If this is true, I think it means unlocking the bootloader will be really easy as well.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
Just what i stated previously.... whatever man created, man can hack it. Besides, Samsung deserves it after being underhanded to their customers.......

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This should be able to break these.....

https://twitter.com/laginimaineb/status/737616849072836608

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
Oh wow this is big. So basically now we can unlock the place where the encryption keys for root/bootloader unlock are stored, allowing us to possibly unlock the two or make it much easier to unlock the two depending if Samsung has other stuff stored elsewhere on the phone. Very interesting, could make all snapdragon phones everywhere unlockable in every way. Basebands, root, bootloader, user encrypted data now all accessible. So both a good and a bad thing. I wouldn't update your phone any time soon since there definately gonna patch this asap.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Android_noob17:
Yes, very much so, but even worst for those who get their phones stolen.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] system0verload:
Well, not just that... I am glad (in a way) about the news but then an entire pandora box opens because that means that the notion of ***Secuirty*** we had until now has been thrown out the window once again.. just think about the Pro's (like rooting, etc.,) and ALL the negatives implied by this latest backdoor hack! This transcends rooting.. it means that if I am a rogue black hat, I can get out of your phone the intestines along with the kidneys!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
Well, as has been said before, it was a really good thing this exploit was found now by a guy who was nice enough to share it with everyone else. Chances are some blackhat groups have known about this exploit for awhile and just sold it to the highest bidder to be used however they pleased. Now we can actually address the flaw and do something to protect future snapdragon phones.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Binary100100:
Samsung is shooting themselves in the foot by locking the bootloader.

Locked bootloader means clever attempts to unlock it which means exploits to be discovered.

If they would just give us what we ask, we'd be happy about it and simply be on our way. Now we see all sorts of efforts going into hacking into this and from doing so we discover all sorts of possibilities. No way am I updating anytime soon now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jdidtht:
Yea when they lock their most popular successful devices some guys take it as a personal challenge and will stop to no end to crack it until it's wide open.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] DarkFlasher:
At the same time, Samsung benefits from this because they will see where their vulnerabilities are and patch them, something they probably wouldn't find if they allowed bootloaders to be unlocked in the first place.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jdidtht:
Also very true, is a win win
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
Samsung should still give owners of their phone to make the choice of unlocking, and rooting. Like HTC, and Nexus phones.... This is most probably the last Samsung phone I waste my money on.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jdidtht:
Well, it will be the last samsung I pre-order without knowing if it's bl is unlocked that's for damn sure.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Binary100100:
You're thinking there's a chance that the next device will have an unlocked bootloader?

Personally, I have my doubts.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] DesignGrits:
Same, this will be the last Samsung phone I buy if I don't know for a fact that its unlocked through the carriers ahead of time. I've been tempted to jump ship to the HTC 10, while I love the phone I slightly feel like its a downgrade in many areas. Battery, camera and the big one...the screen. Almost makes me want to jump to OP again if the OP3 pans out at a good price.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jdidtht:
Oh man imo it's almost guaranteed they all will be locked from here on out, but I'd be silly to say there is no chance of it. It's possible, it's not likely, but it's possible.. but they definitely alienated me big time from blindly jumping on their devices.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Binary100100:
Yeah. Me too. But Samsung doesn't care. This has proven to be their most popular device to date. They don't care about anything that doesn't effect their profits. :( It seems as though Samsung is becoming the new Apple. Next thing you know they'll start suing other companies for stupid crap like they are. I refuse to give Apple my business and it seems as though I'll be blacklisting Samsung as well. Which sucks though because I love my Gear 2 watch and I DO love my Edge. But there are alternatives and that's what they need to realize. (If they cared.)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jdidtht:
Yea so many new oems with top specd devices for 1/4 of the price of samscum coming up. they definitely have been taking notes from apples playbook for awhile now, I had always hoped they would allow users free choice with their units if one so decided to do so. But, at least their is options out there.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] v8dreaming:
Those master keys do Jack squat for us. That is for a nexus 6, with a different processor. I doubt it does anything for anyone trying to do something for this phone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
From what I've heard from others, and from what I can deduce, this should work for all snapdragon powered phones. Even according to the guy who found it, it works with other snapdragon phones: https://mobile.twitter.com/laginimaineb/status/737186295655596032
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] system0verload:
I believe the majority here cannot see the implications of this hack.. Root is not guaranteed with this hack yet since a significant retooling of the hack will be needed to root the phone. However, since most are concerned with only root here and can't see the big implications of the hack, that means that ANYONE with the knowledge of GitHub bing this backdoor can quickly unpack a legit system app and make out of it a heck of a trojan horse, cloaking itself entirely as a System App... This is what I am referring to; but I get it, root at all costs right? Well, you pick your own poison.. be careful what you guys install in your phones from now on!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jdidtht:
Well everyone wanted an exploit, everyone wanted that back door to be there, well, here it is. Make sure in the future if a method of root trickles in, make sure it's from a reputable source as always. That's always been the risk, and with no other way other than a security exploit then so be it. Everyone wanted it, well, here it is. I'm not a dev by any means but it is what it is
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] system0verload:
I'm not sure who everybody is that you are referring to but look, this is not a pissing contest.. it is what it is as you stated! The exploit has nothing to do with root. You need to learn how to digest information and don't take this as an insult. In dropping the subject because we only agree to disagree on the subject, there's much more at stake here than just root. And I hope that this person does not release this hack in the open at all because, once again, this goes WAY beyond of merely unlocking the bootloader or rooting a phone!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jdidtht:
?? I was just stating that this has potential for the sky's the limit for a talented dev, that is all. Not sure why you bring pissing contest into this. I just stated everyone in these threads has been awaiting a way to root, and this allows a doorway into our device if one knows how to use the exploit.. That is all nothing more nothing less.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] TechBSwift:
My apologies I did not mean to give you a thumbs up here. Let's be honest we are here because one reason, we want to free our phones. We pay the money for our phone, will should be allowed to take the risk and root if we choose to do so. It's no different than buying a motorcycle, if I want to take the risk and drive 100mph then its my decision to do so. The big boy hackers of the world already knows methods to hack our phones. If you look at the monthly security updates, you will see most of the exploits found are from non Google companies.... #freeourphones
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] TheKnux:
Well apparently Google is cracking down on OEM's and their "timely" updates and now Samsung is bribing people with pizza if they keep their phones up to date.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] stryver:
[MENTION=4107827]TEKHD[/MENTION] i want to hear it from a seasoned dev, what this may mean for the s7 since there are so many different opinions. And will you be looking into this sometime after the exploit is released?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Binary100100:
Did you notice that UnixSlayer had his phone updated without his consent?

They really want us to keep up our phones up to date. Kinda makes me paranoid because they are so insistent and persistent.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jpcloudsurf:
Come on though. The workers their are usually people who just know enough about the product and specs. These people don't look at you and see the 1% of people who modify their phones. The average customer or other 99% are usually up to date and take every update. They all dont want that annoying notification every hour or so asking to update so logically most update. If you didn't want an update should've told the person. That's literally you're fault lol. Now, if they were a mind reader that's a totally different story. Shame on them. This conversation lead to conspiracy tin foil hat area and it's just not that deep.

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Also though, lmao at "confuse the lady". You think a Samsung store would have keys to unlocking a bootloader that Samsung higher ups say they won't unlock or can't be unlocked? That's really ridiculous if you thought that would have any sort of positive outcome. Gave me a good laugh tho.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
I do have to say when i got my phone back from the service center, it had the smell of "ROOT" on it. Just like a girlfriend, or a wife can smell another woman on you. There were programs utilized that i couldn't run, or get to. The tech forgot to reboot the phone, and i looked through my task manager. I was not allowed to run the programs the tech already ran. So if you really don't think they can root, or unlock the bootloader at anytime.... you are clearly mistaken.... (while they laugh at us while our backs are turned)....

EDIT: oh.... i also had "UrgentFWUpdate.tsp", and "nfc" disabled. When i got the phone back, they were inabled..... this is not needed just to replace a screen, and battery.....

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But since they used some G935F parts, shouldn't i now have root automatically? ; )

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jpcloudsurf:
So, what ended up happening to you're phone that it needed to be reconfigured at that level? Could they give you an answer?

I just highly doubt that they would have keys to unlock a bootloader to a phone they don't want to unlock. What would be the point of some low level employee having those keys? Cause if that's all it takes to unlock my phone then I'm going to apply for a tech job at samsung tomorrow morning. You get what I'm saying? It's ridiculous.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
They do need to be able to root, or unlock the bootloader. When i dropped off the phone, they asked me if i backed it up. They stated that if necessary, the tech might have to reload (wipe/erase) Android... and all my data would be unretrievable... apparently when they install a new lcd screen, they run a test program to make sure either the old one is bad, and the newly installed screen is good. I could not run the program when i clicked on it, and it would not run stating no root access.....

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] combatmedic870:
I've recently talked to executive customers relations at t-mobile and they are allowing me to move to another device without using my jump and they are going to refund my down payment I put on the S7 toward my next phone. Great customer service.

I talked with a guy named Alberto. I've been very vocal on twitter though about my dissatisfaction about the locked bootloader.