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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] chiikko561:
Hopefully but it seems everyone is giving up. I still have faith though. I'd hate to see this awesome phone go to waste. Worst come to worst I'll trade somebody my tmo for a international.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] combatmedic870:
I'm curious about this as well. I now have hope about an un locked bootloader! Hopefully we can flash the signed unlocked bootloader and it doesn't trip Knox and you have the best of both worlds! Samsung pay and an unlocked bootloader!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Corwinder:
You need to remember it won't be the bootloader that will trigger Knox if that works but as soon as you root it.......
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Nv1dia:
I wonder if it would be possible to simply flash the entire image from a Chinese s7 Edge... Then unlock the bootloader and flash a US variant rom?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] chiikko561:
The bootloader is not unlocked but Samsung offers an app called Crom Service that unlocks the phone. It is device specific since it sends your imei to Samsung and voids your warranty. It shows in the video I posted on last page.

Only thing I can think of is somebody making the app think it's talking to Samsung when in fact it is not.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] OPGT:
You know what... that's not a bad idea.... hmm
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] WalkingHat:
Meh, root > Samsung pay

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Why not just the bootloader?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Alarand:
It's hilarious that we've spent all this time complaining at Samsung and they spend all their time saying they don't support unlocks.

Then we find out they provide an official unlock method in China...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] th3 game:
I'm not terribly good at rooting and such, but I have a day off tomorrow, and alot of frustration towards ole Sammy. I might delve into the apk and see what I can find. I have a very distinct feeling though that Samsung sends bank a code to the app which allows it to unlock your bootloader. Might need a code generator.

Pure speculation
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] chiikko561:
That is pretty messed up but it shows me what type of company they are and after this device if they don't start unlocking all phones I'm done and I'll start looking in to companies like huaweii and LG.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Alarand:
Yeah we should try to remind them they have already solved this and from the looks of things, years ago, for other regions.

The email support people I've been going back and forth with are still saying they can't do anything in the U.S. because of the carriers though.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
When somebody figures out root on this phone, I'm gonna have a good laugh on Samsung, and T-Mobile..... and it's gonna happen soon.....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Dr. Fed:
So...potential plan is to flash signed Chinese firmware that has unlocked bootloader, that would allow Odin flash custom recovery/root. Then, flash custom ROM...then wouldn't we have to flash a "US" bootloader in order for LTE to work (bootloader tied to LTE radio in the past)?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jakebake102:
Alright, I have been following this thread since it started. Just now decided to make an account lol. I'll be willing to do anything you guys need help with. Is anyone working on flashing the Chinese image?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] OPGT:
Check out https://twitter.com/TheWannaBeSport/status/711371034734166016?s=09

Please go retweet and favorite to get Johns attention!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] chiikko561:
The bootloader on the Chinese rom is not unlocked samsung offers an app that allows Chinese to unlock their bootloader
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] WalkingHat:
Yeah, so you flash the Chinese image, and use the app to unlock
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Shaffer678:
I was thinking the same thing. I dont think the app provides everything you need to unlock the bootloader
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] chiikko561:
And have to work around it sending your imei to Samsung. App communicates with Samsung for approval.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Shaffer678:
I don't think root will be the main issue. It will be the bootloader. There is always an exploit to get root it just needs to be found.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] MegaNoob:
I doubt samsung is that dumb. They had to think of this so it probably won't work for one reason or another.

Not that I'm discouraging anyone from giving it a shot.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] WalkingHat:
Ah, ok
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Tiffany84:
Someone that know what there doing code wise really needs to decompile that crom app. Because that looks very promising. This Is what it showed when I installed and got it to open.

It gives me an error once I select OK. Although, right before It gives me the error it asks if I want to use mobile data or WiFi only. So it's trying to communicate and verify something.

Probably checking imei or something. But there has to be a way to hack it. I just don't know how. Lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Tiffany84:
This is the error
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jdidtht:
Dwitherell
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Tiffany84:
Now that's the man we need on our team. Although now that I think about this it makes me even madder about this whole situation. Because Samsung could easily create that app to only work with T-Mobile imei's or any other carrier that was OK with it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Tiffany84:
Here's everything that app looks for

Model #, imei and storage identification number
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jdidtht:
If Devon wasn't too busy with life, app, and nexus stuff he at least could see what pokes where and why
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
That's the same error message you get when you try to use the Sim Unlock app.....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Dr. Fed:
Mmmkay, so flash Chinese firmware post-Crom, or engineer Crom to work for our device? Or, get Samsung to give us our own version of Crom...(yeah right).
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Nv1dia:
no i dont think so, im pretty sure the bootloader only boots the partitions and initializes the kernel. I could be completely wrong about this

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Im not so sure about this... i willing to bet that there are different people in charge of this. It's possible Person A is in charge of chinese market and person B for US and it's possible that samsung used 1 hardware variant for the 820 to save on production costs.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Alarand:
Well it would be the same as any unlock for void warranty app right?

How hard has it been in the past to exploit such apps for use in other regions? I wonder.. I haven't looked into the subject much but wasn't there a region specific LG unlock released sometime ago? I wonder if anyone was able to use it on a different region or if it was deemed impossible

It would essentially be a "cracked" version of crom service that's compatible with our device. Seems equally as difficult as getting an official Samsung supported version for the U.S. lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] MegaNoob:
So where is this Chinese firmware so someone with a huge set of balls or an extra $800 can give this a shot? Lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Dr. Fed:
Well, I don't know shiz, so...:silly:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] NZnewbie:
I cant find the sm-g9300 firmware... ??
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ice5192:
Ice is taken a break for the evening im currently waiting for London has fallen to start. Ill be back to the grind in the morning
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jakebake102:
http://xdaforums.com/android/software-hacking/samsung-factory-bootloader-unlocker-apk-t3086609/page8

This is the s6 crom thread. I read through it and it looks like it's not going to work. For the s6 the Chinese version had a different bootloader that allowed crom to unlock it. They also found out that the samsung server that the IMIE is sent to signs anything sent to it. It is just for counting purposes.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] th3 game:
Its having issues find the other parts of itself when its installed. the actual error is "No Implementation found for int com.sec.android.lib.kwb.LibKwb.getCustomBinStatusFlag()"

I will work on this throughout the night and see what i can find.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Alarand:
Really? The imei wasn't for verification? That's interesting.

From the Chinese thread that was linked there's clearly a version available for the S7/edge
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jakebake102:
Look through the s6 thread. They went through the whole code and know exactly what is happening.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] MegaNoob:
Well, I guess flashing the Chinese firmware if it let's you and then getting the s7 version of crom is the simplest solution to try if you don't mind taking the chance of making a paper weight.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] th3 game:
http://xdaforums.com/android/softwa...locker-apk-t3086609/post60948100#post60948100

Blehh i guess its fairly useless to us, though it does look like we can possibly still use the CROM app to have stuff signed by the samsung server maybe? A bit beyond my coding levels though

EDIT:

Im not horribly familiar with how this would work, but would it be possible to send some sort of data to the server with this CROM tool we have, and pull the signature off if, and apply the signature to whatever we are trying to flash in the bootloader?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jakebake102:
I guess it would work if we had the Chinese bootloader but who knows if we could flash that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] MegaNoob:
From those s6 posts the Chinese have a slightly different partition layout if I'm reading it right. So flashing might not be a good idea.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] th3 game:
Not necissarly a different layout, just that the CROM bootloader apparently checks a part of the partition for a string called KIWIBIRD, which when present, allows the s6 bootloader to unlock. Im more curious about if we can get a dump/image of a chinese s7 to flash. Do we have any one with a chinese s7 or someone with contact with someone who does?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jakebake102:
Is there any way to verify that this is the case for the S7?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ahrion:
I can understand the talks about how we can't do it on our devices and what have you. However if we get a hold of the Chinese firmware we can try.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jakebake102:
Even if we get the firmware we still need someone to risk flashing it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ahrion:
It's signed so. . .

Worst that can happen is it will fail. I'll risk it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Nv1dia:
exactly. We can not just assume that the S7 operates the same as the S6. Hell, the S6 didnt have an 820, It could stand to reason that the paritions are completely different. and the bootloader is more than likely different as well. The real question though, isn't how different the S7 and S6 are. the REAL question is how the chinese S7 variant differs from the US variant!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jakebake102:
Should I work on translating a message to try and get someone from the Chinese form to send me the firmware?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] MegaNoob:
Your going to think you asked for firmware but in reality you asked if you can have sex with there goats lol j/k.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Xileforce:
Isn't this the firmware? http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/67085/G9350ZHU1APB9_G9350ZZH1APB9_TGY/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
Maybe a person who is already to return their phone can flash it. Wouldn't make a difference on a phone going back.....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] system0verload:
It varies.. the BL has another flag on top of the carrier lock flag and reflash lock flag; obviously, there is another register in there that it is not present, at least structurally.. I'm just doing an apples to apples comparison.. the s7 is an entire different arch

Edit: never mind; wasn't reading your question properly... this has nothing to do with the question asked but structurally, it could still be different maybe. I need another beer and go to bed hah
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Relys:
Even if it could brick I could hook up JTAG to talk to the eMMC. I had someone do that for my S4 when I overwrote the TrustZone partition but I have the tools to do it myself now. Has anyone done a breakdown/board trace of the S7 yet? Only thing I worry about is messing up the water resistance and putting it back together. XD
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] chenxiaolong:
It would be fantastic if they used the same hardware variant for all Snapdragon 820 variants, but it looks like they only used the same hardware for the US variants. Our board is labelled for SM-G935A/T/V/P/R4 (see top right): https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/OpHPuo5lMhQBelaF
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] namlas:
I have an unopened, S7Edge that tmo sent by mistake because they couldn't cancel my order in time (I picked up a phone from a local store). I'd be willing to flash the firmware, but isn't this useless w/out the crom service app for s7?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Nv1dia:
And what is the chinese variant labeled? It's possible maybe this motherboard supports/lacks support for something such as the dual SIM, thus the need for the different revision? Guess all of this is complete conjecture until someone takes the leap to see if we can flash a chineses bootloader to the device.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jakebake102:
Anyone willing to try?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
The reason why the bootloaders are locked like Verizon, and AT&T... T-Mobile, Sprint buyers got screwed because they used a universal board for U.S. phones.....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] hutson23:
So then possibly... if we can unlock a T-Mobile bootloader we could unlock all US carriers..maybe... I have T-mobile but I am sure others would be happy to hear that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jakebake102:
We have the crom service app it just won't work on our firmware.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ahrion:
Does Odin work out MAC?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jakebake102:
I think there is a version specifically for Mac called JOdin3. I assume it works the same as the one for windows.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ahrion:
Not installing properly.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] lightninbug:
Are there any major devs confirmed to be "working" on root for this device? If not, I got the rest of the night to myself and I guess I'll get to work. Not a "major" developer, or anything like that, but I know my way around code, and I'll have a look at everything.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ahrion:
Downloading now, but I can't get Odin to recognize my device in downlaod mode.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jakebake102:
I haven't heard of any. A few of us just thought about flashing the Chinese firmware then using the crom tool to unlock the bootloaders. If you need me to do anything I'll be up for a little.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ahrion:
I'm downloading the firmware right now. it says I have 2 hours left. Anyone have a better link than sammobile? I have 200mb/s so it's not my net.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] lightninbug:
That's weird that no one is confirmed to be working on anything. Especially with 171 pages.

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Links from them always download slow. It's definitely not your net!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jakebake102:
There has just been a lot of speculation and talk about the tmobile ceo looking into the issue.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] system0verload:
The phone is so locked down that short of a miracle for an unlock, the best thing will be a group of talented individuals working together to get this done. Not a one man vendetta for sure but may the better odds ever be with you man
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] killer5000:
Bootloader is locked to each carrier the phone is for. the reason why I know this the Samsung Galaxy 4 AT&T Auntie mobile use the same motherboard but the AT&T was bootloader locked and T-Mobile wasn't and you couldn't flash their bootloader on to it because the efuses in this CPU we're blow for each carrier. So they can unlock the bootloader only for T-Mobile if they want to the same way they did China's they would have to update the phone first then give us access two app unlock the bootloader and void our warranty
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] chiikko561:
Here is the firmware and recent Crom app from Chinese user. He is willing to share information from his phone.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=65939546
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Beefheart:
Ignore................
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] wolf5150:
You are my hero. I miss having a rooted device less and less when I stumble onto this kind of post. 'Thanks' given... and thanks again!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] namlas:
Tried flashing this. Results in a 'SECURE CHECK FAIL : PIT' error on the phone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] MegaNoob:
Well I know pit stands for "partition information table " so our bootloader must have picked up that the partitions are different. This is an old post but it gives a quick explanation.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1916936
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] destructionj:
After days of reading it seems obvious and clear...Samsung in conjunction with U.S. carriers are not allowing Americans to develop for these devices.

This should be taken seriously as it promotes a way of technological decline for our country as a whole.

These manufactures are using american based software engineering that is open source and drasticaly limiting the ability for Americans to develop for it.

AMERICANS ARE ASKING TO BE PUT ON THE SAME PLAYING FIELD AS THE REST OF THE WORLD.

If Americans dont pull together on this one we could all be screwed as time moves on.

Have a good day everyone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] namlas:
Who knows at this point. I'm about to give up. My N6p gets here today, so this and my BOGO unit are going back once I have that phone setup.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ice5192:
Hmmmm looky what i found... sound mod... in tw... i never knew this i still miss my root this does add a huge change to sound... i was going through the phone and found it...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ice5192:
No TI means this
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] system0verload:
Yeah.. Next Nexus, HTC 10, and maybe G5 may be good picks of telling Samsung "screw you bihhhhhhh" if these devices are not locked down; I know the Nexus won't be and it will be running on the same arch :o
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Schiaboner:
If there's no update from John by tomorrow I'm returning this phone. No root is unacceptable and I can't stand it. I'll be buying a Nexus and hopefully that can tide me over til the new one comes out.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] diosjeremy:
Is there a way to make that floating toggle button invisible for the switcher app?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] chiikko561:
Hey tomorrow is Monday you can call the Legere Goonies and tell them we need Crom Service and that it is already released in the Chinese Samsung store.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] messiahfreedom:
I was thinking about selling my phone and trying to get a Nexus 6P. Is this a good idea or should I continue holding out hope? It seems every bit of hope that comes up gets shot down and I JUST passed my return period on friday, so now I'm stuck with this phone I can't root.

This whole situation is really depressing.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Schiaboner:
I'm switching to a Nexus 6P so you're not alone
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Lmax579:
These phones need to be returned to Sammy so they can know were not putting up with their B***$**t !!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ice5192:
I just recorded my note 5 im done. The phone is very laggy i cant take it any more monday ill have my new one and shipping this peace of **** off

EDIT they have not gotten my NOTE 5 yet so i have to wait ughhhh
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] gdmlaz:
I swear this is like living in a nightmare with this phone
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] chiikko561:
How do I turn off automatic updates again?

And guys still the same as before if you are leaving just leave don't rage here some of us are still working on things. Let's keep it professional please and thank you.

To all that helped Major Thank You especially Ice5192