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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] belloni:
Worked like a charm. You and Chainfire deserve beer money, thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] bilal91:
i heard that you have to flash xposed again if you use this method...is that true and if yes, do i have to reinstall all the modules inside xposed again too?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] poczynek:
Yes you reinstall xposed through FlashFire. You do not need to reinstall the modules as they are retained.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] bilal91:
good to know that modules are retained and can i just flash xposed using twrp, think that'll be easier
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] poczynek:
Yes can do through TWRP but FlashFire was just as easy!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] bilal91:
awesome, thanks for the help :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Bigleg75:
Updated the phone using this method, only flashed the AP file. All seems to be working but have very strange info in PhoneINFO app. All CSC info is now blank?? Should I install any of the other sections?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Jomari29:
I used this method and my device would briefly freeze for 1-2 seconds at random times, like when im typing everything would stop (even the capactive buttons would not light up when touched), like i would tap the keyboard and nothing will happen, but after the freeze stops all keypress registers in.

anyone else?

Im flashing the German firmware
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] neigo:
Okay I want to update my s7 edge too.

I downloaded flashfire and the newest Rom and my mom home is rooted with cfautoroot autoroot.

What options I have to check and wich of them I shouldn't?

https://goo.gl/photos/JdZ5oqu7eBct2A4b9

EDIT: and should i take the whole ZIP or extract it?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] poczynek:
Extract the zip and then it depends what you want to change. If you put CP in then that will change your modem for example. Usually all you need is the AP file. Do not untick any boxes - just leave the ones that FlashFire has ticked.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] neigo:
i just want to update the phone to the new rom without wipe like the old times on odin flashing the 1-file roms ;)

okay, and its a complete update? like 1 one file rom ?

(backing up right now) ;)

EDIT: worked =)

thanx
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] supersonictt:
[MENTION=4732713]poczynek[/MENTION]

Thanks a lot for this thread.

I wanted to search and ask about updates after root and I found your post, thanks a lot once again.

I am still not rooted, and I wanted to root the phone using the traditional TWRP and then SuperSU method as I really use TWRP for my backups.

Now you mentioned FlashFire, and from Play Store I can see that using the app we can backup and restore the whole system (1:1 image), am I right?

Another thing, is FlashFire enough for flashing files? I want to try the Audio mods (increase volumes and the front earpiece as a speaker...). So I can flash these mods using FF because you mentioned you flashed xposed using it.

One last question, in case of system not booting, TWRP was the way to restore the system or flash any ROM to get the system back and running. So, what is the solution for this situation? Using Odin to flash the firmware?

Sorry for these question, this is my first Samsung device :)

Thanks a lot once again :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Bigleg75:
You need to be rooted first of all, I would suggest you use this method...

http://xdaforums.com/s7-edge/development/recovery-official-twrp-hero2lte-3-0-0-0-t3334084

This will wipe your device but after you will be able to make a backup either via TRWP or FlashFire or any other method you wish and restore using them also, or, you could use odin, or even SmartSwitch
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] peachpuff:
I think its better to use cfroot first since it doesn't wipe your phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Bigleg75:
I first rooted using cfroot but some things wouldn't work, Viper for example, there is a fix but I just thought @#$! it and went the whole TRWP recovery root, remember cfroot doesn't change recovery, FlashFire can do most the things you need but for me, I like having custom recovery
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] peachpuff:
Its just that since twrp wipes your phone you're better off using cfroot first, then flashfire to backup your stuff and then twrp at the end.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] supersonictt:
So a good way to do that is:

1. Root using cf-auto-root.

2. Install FlashFire.

3. Create a backup using FireFlash.

4. Flash TWRP using Flashfire. (or is it done using Odin?)

Right?

The thing is, TWRP can recover the system from a backup in case of system failure, and if the steps above are valid, using TWRP will require flashing dm-verity from TWRP, right?

Another thing, and again if the above steps are valid, flashing a new firmware can still be done using FlashFire even if TWRP is installed, am I right?

One last thing (and sorry for those questions): if TWRP is installed and for some reason I want to go back to stock recovery, where can I find that and how to install it? Is it done using Odin?

Thanks again guys :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] peachpuff:
5. restore previous backup with flashfire, hopefully this would work, i haven't tried it personally.

You still need to flash dm-verify in twrp, flashfire doesn't care what recovery you have you just needs root to install firmware and ota's. Im pretty sure you can backup your stock recovery with flashfire otherwise you'll need to flash your stock firmware again.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] popophobia:
I just went ahead and install the firmware with flashfire. It works great. I didn't flash recovery since I have TWRP. Everything went smoothly, TWRP still works. FlashFire is awesome.

After boot check: only my baseband is still in the old firmware (not sure if that matters).

OT: The only problem for me now is to change CSC back to my home country (since the latest firmware for my home country wasn't available so I flashed the region's multi-CSC). Anyone knows if this guide would work for that purpose?

EDIT: it works.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] bengtc:
Did this method....worked flawlessly.

My phone is rooted w/ TWRP and Xposed installed.

-downloaded latest firmware

-used flashfire to update (left everything checked by default except I unchecked recovery as to keep TWRP installed)

-phone rebooted fine

-reinstalled xposed via TWRP

-everything working exactly as it was before the update ( ALL data/system settings/apps same as before update)

-verified new firmware was installed
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] blackg3cko:
Tried this for updating newest firmware for my s7 edge and after reboot it still has the old one... Successfully downloaded firmware and decrypted it. Took extracted AP-File and installed with flashfire. Is there a log what it did? I guess it's a problem with my adopted storage from the sdcard. I merged it with the internal storage. When flashfire boots it shows a very long time "waiting for internal storage". Any ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] P4R4DiSi4C:
Got a zip file from sammobile.

Flashed through Flashfire it keeps booting up to twrp...

Had to restore from twrp
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] dynospectrum:
I believe you unpack the zip and flash the files from the archive.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] cool_sid007:
Hi!

I tried flashing xposed framework using Flashfire and i am suck on boot screen for quite long.. is it normal? what should I do?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] P4R4DiSi4C:
I cant the AP file is too big.

I flashed the System partition and I got the update.

My haptic feedback is lower than before tho :(

Do you know why?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] kittiyut:
Can I flash Xposed module with FlashFire?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] supersonictt:
Yes you can.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] thiagodm:
I've just flashed Xposed (sdk23 arm64 version)using FlashFire. Sadly it is Stuck on boot.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] poczynek:
You need to flash the one from this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/xposed/unofficial-xposed-samsung-lollipop-t3180960
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] stremax:
Same issue, and no answer even if create a new 3d, [MENTION=3609751]Bigleg75[/MENTION] did you solve? My phone work except it doesn't "remember" Wi-Fi password
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] thiagodm:
Successs!(After Odin rescue of course).
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] biustech:
followed your steps and I was also able to update from APD1 to APDQ, so far working good.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] kittiyut:
Which is the latest; APD1, APD2, APD6, APD8, or APDQ ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] biustech:
APDQ (from Mexico)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] kittiyut:
Big changes from APD1?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] biustech:
Well, hard to say I've been using only for one night but accordingly to the changelog there are improvements.

What's new:

* May security patches (Samsung Android Security Updates)

* Stability Improvements

my battery life on APD1 wasn't so good, I hope It gets better on APDQ.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] thiagodm:
I'm really noob when it comes to samsung phones update(used motorola and htc all my life). Would you please spare some time to explain how i can update my firmware using flashfire. Like which files and need to put where.

Thank You!

Edit:

NVM, Saw your post about flashing only the AP file. I only selected system to flash(excluding boot and recovery).
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] biustech:
Cool! Glad you did it. Aproveita aew brother!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] fabbiotto:
Hi thanks to your guide I upgraded my s7 edge without losing data and root, the only thing you have failed to update the bootloader that I was to be protected, you have some advice to be able to update only the bootloader? I was thinking of using odin selecting only BL that you think might work?

PS. Thanks a lot for your guide.:good::)

Excuse me if I use a translator.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] poczynek:
Yes you can just flash bl through flashfire.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] fabbiotto:
unfortunately I can not
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] fabbiotto:
Ok i just installed the bootloader with Odin and it went well, thanks again for driving.:)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] ombadboy:
FlashFire looks like a great tool which makes TWRP obsolete really. Is there any reason why one would want to flash TWRP (given you also need to disable dm-verify, etc to get it working) and not do everything thru FlashFire?

Actually, does FlashFire automatically flash dm-verity and disable forced encryption or does it completely bypass it?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] supersonictt:
I don't have TWRP but I believe it is useful when your phone doesn't boot to the system, at that point you can boot to TWRP and restore from a backup if you already made one.

I am using FlashFire and am happy with it. Flashing zips is easy, backing up stuff is fast so i really l like it. I still haven't tried flashing a new OTA (firmware) as my phone still didn't get one.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] envy~:
That firmware is carrier specific (telcel) is it safe to put that on a international dual sim model? (SM-G935FD, Singapore)?

can't find my firmware on SamFirm and it's my first samsung phone, kind help will be greatly appreciated. :)

I'm rooted with TWRP recovery and have Xposed.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] biustech:
Have any one tried to flash only the modem file (CP)?

- EDIT -

Found the answer on the official thread "On Samsung devices, it is advised to flash modem and bootloader through ODIN. If you have a full firmware package, FlashFire can create a smaller package with just the bootloader and modem you can flash through ODIN, while you flash the rest through FlashFire and keep root during the upgrade."
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Mangtas_666:
If i use flashfire in rooting, will it trip knox counter?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] wegiwegi:
As far as I know, if you root, know will trip

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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Mangtas_666:
Thank you so much for the reply.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Cayotte Horison:
To solve Wifi problem you should flash the system and boot (excluding recovery).
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] nonoldw:
Hi did you use flashfire to flash both home_csc and csc in the original package?

because I saw from some other posts saying that if flash csc, data may be wiped.

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] nonoldw:
I also had the same issue. Do you think we should unpack it then flash or keep the original zip and flash?

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] mikeezy187:
Yeah but what happens if something goes wrong don't you think its still nice to have a custom recovery like TWRP to boot in to but i would love the full noobs tutorial on this flashfire if you have a link iv already bought the pro version simply to support chainfire but don't quite no how to use it im slightly overwhelmed by it so if ya have a noobs guide i would much appreciate it
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] ianmacd:
You can always flash TWRP onto the device later if you can't boot into the OS. No need to install it ahead of time.

Have you checked the app's web site? I seem to recall that Chainfire very recently added some documentation for the program.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] madhub:
I have flashed DBT G935FXXU1APF2 /G935FOXJ1APF1.

AP with Fashfire only system, because i have twrp, than rebooted in download mode and installed BL, CP and CSC_Home using Odin.

My phone only starts in twrp recovery now, no firmware boot.

Can anyone say me if i did something wrong, or if there is another way to install the OTA file easier?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] kobibz:
I flashed with flashfire the zip file.

Don't extract the files.

But, don't flash the recovery partition.

Just uncheck this in the options.

Everything ok, still rooted, and twrp is still installed
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Mangtas_666:
Hi i tried this method but i was stuck in twrp recovery loop..phone won't boot it goes directly to twrp recovery.

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I unchecked the recovery partition before flashing
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] madhub:
Same problem here, just flash cf auto root in download mode again, than your phone will boot correctly [emoji6]
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Mangtas_666:
So I'll flash the firmware i want to upgrade then before booting ill flash the cf auto root right?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] madhub:
Correct, flashed firmware package exclusive recovery, than I have hab a bootloop into recovery.

Booted directly in download mode using twrp reboot in download mode function.

Falsed cf auto root by using Odin again. Works fine for me...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Mangtas_666:
Hi can you send me the link of cf auto root i can't find it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] ianmacd:
Seriously? If you google it, it's the top result.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Mangtas_666:
Okay thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] flyinj54:
I used this method extracting firmware file and flashing ap file system and boot. For some reason it continued booting only into twrp and I had to flash supersu.zip to get system to boot I wonder why anyone know??

Also why couldn't we just flash the image files via twrp? You can extract the Ap file and you'll find system.img and boot.img. Couldn't we take those image files and flash via twrp? I wouldn't see why that wouldn't work since twrp supports image file flashing.

Is it needed to flash the update csc file? I'm going to go into odin and flash the cp and bl updates but once again I wonder if those could be extracted and flashed via twrp?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Ba7oU:
Just tried to flash my BOG S7 with recovery unticked and had bootloop, I flashed CF-Autoroot, the phone booted but 2 functionalities had disappeared (Whitelist and VoLTE calls). Had to reset and flash the phone again via Odin to recover an updated phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] micr0g:
Guys i updated from APF1 to APFG4 with flashfire,no wipes no fc or anything bad.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] kittiyut:
Care to elaborate how exactly you did it?

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] micr0g:
Nothing special I just flash the firmware zip with flashfire's flash firmware package option.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] kittiyut:
Did you flash the whole zip file (~2GB size) without unzipping?

What options did you tick or untick?

All your settings/data is intact and still have root?

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] micr0g:
Yes the whole zip,no option checked I left the default settings.Root/settings and data left untouched.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] kittiyut:
Did you use Firmware zip file that matches your original CSC?

My phone is originally from Thailand, but I'm thinking of using a UK firmware.

If I remember correctly, if you do that, you might have to untick some options in order for the phone not to be wiped.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] micr0g:
Dunno mate but I think the CSC'S was different the one I had was EUR APD1 and this one with latest APG4 is PHN APF1.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] kittiyut:
Did you put the .zip file in Internal Storage or External SD card?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] micr0g:
Internal storage
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] neonlite:
weird stuff

downloaded firmware from fw.updato.com, did not extract.

updated through flashfire. unchecked recovery, because I already have TWRP.

seemed to go well. after reboot now always boots into twrp.

tried flashing cf-root through odin (download mode). but stuck on NAND write.

anything else to try? I do have a twrp backup tho.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] flyinj54:
Flash root in two and it will boot

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Flash root in twrp

and it will boot
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] sielhadi:
Please how i can flash csc only when i extract it in firmware
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] flyinj54:
Flashing homecsc I always use Odin. Don't think it's possible with flashfire although I could be wrong
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] ralex76:
Hi, I would like to update my s7 edge , below see the details :

ap g935fxxu1apf2

cp g935fxxu1apeq

csc g935fwin1ape1

and I would like to install this one (the latest one):

ap (PDA)	G935FXXU1APGF

csc G935FITV1APE2 ( no brand instead of wind mobile operator)

How can I do by using flashfire without loosing root and other stuff?

Thanks

Alex
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] ralex76:
Hi, I uploaded the ap file for my s7 edge and flashfire shows three partitions : boot, system and recovery.

I unticked the recovery because I want to keep my twrp, my doubt is on boot partition . Do I need deselect or not?

PS: My s7 egde is already rooted
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] flyinj54:
Boot is the kernel like boot.img. I will say this. I have used flashfire twice both times extracting update and using ap file to flash unselecting recovery only and the first update went fine. The 2nd time I tried to update the same exact way the flash seemed to go fine but my device rebooted into a bootloop and after rebooting a few times the showed device corrupt encryption error. I could boot into twrp but couldn't see my internal storage. I'm positive that the device became encrypted which is why I couldn't see my internal storage any longer in twrp.I had to Odin back to stock and lose everything and reroot and reinstall twrp and unencrypted device. So I have read some have updated by not extracting the update file from sammobile but I am unsure if being unencrypted with twrp installed is an issue using this method but for whatever reason to my second time updating the same way you are trying caused me issues. Just giving you the heads up. Maybe if you are encrypted this is a good method and if you are unencrypted this method may not be best? Trying to find these answers before using this method again.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] ralex76:
Hi flyinj54, first of all, thanks a million for your detailed explanation. Thi is my experience gone bad :) and I had to re-install everything as you via odin .... . In particular read below what I did and caused bootloop and I might only go into recovery (twrp) :

1) I did a normal backup via flashfire

2) Stored on my pc via adb

3) Downloaded my latest firmware version

4) Unzipped and moved the AP file only into my S7 edge internal storage

5) Run flash firmware package flashfire option

6) Flashfire had ticketed boot,system and recovery

7) I only unticked recovery and hit flash button...

The result was bootloop and I might only get access recovery.... I also tried to restore the backup via adb sideload (twrp) ,but I failed..

This is my story.... Joining mine and yours I guess the right way is to select only system nor boot neither recovery.

Just a question, the first attempt ,whose result was fine, leaving ticked both system and boot.... did you get twrp on reboot?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] flyinj54:
On my initial flash I could only boot into twrp like you but flashing supersu.zip got me booting again. I read others needed to flash root again after updating with flashfire so I think in your case if you would have flashed root in twrp you would have booted. In my case the 2nd time for some reason updating just like I did the first time which is exactly thee way you did caused my device to encrypt and remove the decryption which is what caused My twrp to not see any files since twrp can read files when your device is encrypted. So you did everything right but for some reason apparently it doesn't work correctly everytime which is strange. Flashing boot.img may have been what encrypted me but that doesn't make sense because the first time I updated my phone I only unchecked recovery just like this time. But coming from the nexus 6p in order to unencrypt your device u had to have a boot.img modified so it doesn't force encryption to this new boot.img could have possibly been why I was forced into encryption. But sometimes the boot.img is modified on new firmware updates so this could be a problem booting if you don't keep boot.img checked when updating. Not sure hoping someone will chime in that has these answers lol.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] zuixian:
Hello ralex76 and flyinj54

May I ask are there any new findings on this issue?

Many Thanks in Advance.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] biustech:
have anyone tried using flashfire update to latest FW (BPH6)? and successfully root and keep TWRP?