yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Symphony0fLife:
What? Because English isn't his first language. He gave me proof and asked me to post it. He's since been contacted and they are working on root now. Be thankful. This is a thread about a bounty for root. Of course he expects money for achieving root and sharing it, that's the whole purpose of this thread. He didn't ask me for money on Skype, he asked how this works because he genuinely didn't know.

But again, yes, if root is achieved and he shares it of course he'll ask for the money. That's why the money is pooled together and offered as a bounty for rooting an AT&T S7 Edge and sharing it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] draexo:
I think because it's a work in progress. He's our best shot so far.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Symphony0fLife:
Exactly. He seems legit enough to at the very least not be calling a scammer or doing anything to put him off from helping. When I spoke to him last night he was genuinely having a hard time communicating in English. You could tell he was relying on google translate and a lot was being lost there. May well be that the forums intimidated him. His primary concerns when I spoke to him weren't about the money, in fact he only asked what the bounty was and how he claims it after we had already had a lengthy discussion on how he needs to prove it and who he should reach out to so that they can try to replicate it. It wasn't a "I have root give me money now plz" type thing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Demonith:
I am sry if i offended him wish hem grate success and i hope this will work on T Mobile
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] billa:
The issue we're having is flashing the rooted BOOT onto the AT&T S7 devices (G930A/G935A) which have an extra layer of bootloader protection than all the others variants.

We do know for a fact, that flashing is protected by a signature file in "meta-data/1.mf" located in the root folder of the factory/stock tar file. We're looking for a way to calculate the 1.mf file based on our rooted BOOT file to be able to flash it without the SHA-256 error, or some other way to bypass the checks.

Some people in various forums were able to bypass this check successfully but won't reveal it how. Maybe they can calculate the 1.mf file or perhaps flashed an engineering ABOOT (emmc_appsboot.mbn) first which would disable signature checking, followed by a rooted BOOT (boot.img)

Let me know what you think.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Chainfire:
(Please assume I am completely ignorant of all things S7/Qualcomm, which is pretty much the truth of the matter)

What I don't understand is how the original rooted boot is modified and why it works on non-ATT models. I thought they were all bootloader locked, and modified boot images cannot boot ?

Is that rooted boot a leaked engineering boot, or did a user here modify it ? And if the latter, how ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] draexo:
So it sounds like we have all the pieces except they're not in the hands of one person
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Demonith:
Yeah i been searching for root files over google and been in many forums but if i find something on other forums can i share links?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] draexo:
I'm the OP. I just tally the bounty. Wish I understood more. I'm hoping another Dev who was/is working on this can come up with some answers.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] XxCyberHackerxX:
I believe because someone acquired the leaked engineering boot image.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] draexo:
I need to check my private messages because I believe I received a message a while ago about that
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] KillaHurtz:
There is a leaked EngBoot floating around that works on all qualcomm offerings.

http://xdaforums.com/tmobile-s7-edge/how-to/engboots-devs-t3408220
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] griffinj01:
For what it's worth, I'm willing to play guinea pig for testing purposes with my g930a and screen record the process.

Full disclosure -

I'm not by any stretch a seasoned Android developer, especially at the kernel level.

I have however flashed hundreds of images across 14 different Android devices (3 Samsung) in the last 7 years. I know my way around most of the necessary development environments and I'm not afraid of the command prompt. I'm just throwing this out there because I know the first few attempts will be risky and likely produce some paper weights in the process. SU privileges are important to me for a number of reasons beyond the novelty of telling people I have a rooted device, so I am willing to take the risk.

.... Why didn't I just get a Nexus device?.... I have been asking myself the same question lol. Much to be gained from the s7 if this works though...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Symphony0fLife:
That's why I did. The hardware was just too tempting to pass up. If root can be achieved and the ability to put better ROMs on it comes around... This will be a hard device to beat.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rx8Driver:
It looks like we are almost there...question: why can't we just replace the signature of the engboot with the working stock signature and flash it?

Different file size? Thus different generated signature that won't match?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] br3w3r:
Sorry about last night, we are still working on it. I want to keep everyone in touch here. What we have so far is, the kernel root on ATT, and then by running iRoot it gives us su through adb. If anyone knows where to go from there let me know.

All credit goes to princecosmy btw! He is amazing!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] treepog:
Guys, im sorry to ask this here but, if i understand correctly the att versions are more difficult as they have an extra barrier. Does this mean that for the other qualcomm variants (sprint, tmobile, etc) that root is already possible??

This is AWESOME btw! Thanks to all the guys working on this.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] br3w3r:
Basically the Kernel root is released correct. But still need to get superuser permissions.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] draexo:
So..... what's the issue? I'm not a dev so I'm just trying to understand. Is it still the mf file?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] br3w3r:
No we are able to run that now I have su via adb but that is it. It sticks through a reboot and all. Just need to get SuperSu
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] draexo:
So we have root but no super user?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] br3w3r:
Correct, so through root checker I cant post confirmation.

But here is adb http://imgur.com/IKU3No9
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Symphony0fLife:
Step by step! That's awesome news. Big thanks to you and PrinceComsy and anyone else involved. You guys are amazing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] br3w3r:
Thank you im not sure how much progress will be made today seeing as I will be out of town with family tonight for holiday but i will try to keep everyone updated.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Symphony0fLife:
There's no rush at all. Everyone is thankful for whatever you guys do. Even if it leads nowhere for any reason, you're putting in the effort together which means a lot to the community!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] colormedroid:
Absolutely! I have the Sprint variant but if this leads to anywhere then put me down for $10.

Thanks goes out to everyone working on this!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Binary100100:
So why can't we use systemless root?

Also, what's the knox status? still 0x0?

Can we still use Samsung Pay?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] AceDaMack:
I want to know this also I'm on tmobile apb6
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] UnixSlayer:
Chainfire might know......

Sent from my unrooted #BootLoaderGate SM-G935T
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] TechBSwift:
What if you push flash fire to system via adb, then flash supersu through flash fire??
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] br3w3r:
Will attempt now, skype me?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] SinisterDev:
I'm so happy and grateful to see that a successful root and SU access is on the horizon! You guys are awesome!

I was just mentioning in another thread how bummed out I was when I saw how frustrated everyone was with Samsung pulling this stunt. I've been using the S5 for nearly the last 2 years, so Ive been out of the loop on what's been up with newer devices.

At&t gave my wife and I an incredible offer to buy one get one free with the S7/Edge and we jumped on the offer because it expired the next day!

We had just gotten our phones and the first thing I did was log on here to look for a root method and other custom mods and my heart sank when I saw that I couldn't even root our phones!

To all of you whom have been working so hard at cracking this device, you have my deepest thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] twe90kid:
As I understand, when rooted, you loose samsung pay.

This is something i'm contemplating right now because I actually like the convenience of using Pay.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] princecomsy:
system rooted

bypass the sha-256 error Done :o
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
With supersu?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] br3w3r:
We are working on su now! Princecomsy and I should have update by end of the night!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] XxCyberHackerxX:
Awesome! Keep us updated!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Symphony0fLife:
Awesome work you guys. Really appreciate all you're both doing. No matter if you bump into problems or if you get it done and succeed in bring root to the AT&T S7 Edge, we all appreciate it more than we can say.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] br3w3r:
I have to leave for a bit now if 2swizzle messages me back hopefully we can get it working!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] MegaNoob:
Im from the t-mobile side and i heard att has an extra hash or something that gets checked. Its great you bypassed that problem, but arent you in the same boat as us now? We could flash that engboot and have root in adb but cant flash supersu if im correct? Why is that? Im not a dev but from my limited understanding shouldn't we be able to remount system r/w And just push the file? Why can't we? And does this engboot have a different kernel then stock? Because if it dosnt then wouldn't dm-verity just throw an error even if we pushed supersu to system? As i said i don't really understand all the intricate details so im just curious!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Demonith:
Never give up !!! Keep going guys !
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] TechBSwift:
Sorry bro I won't be able to work on this until after the weekend. I don't have a computer as I'm out of town for the holiday. Flash fire requires root, since you have root and system status, I would think you could push flash fire apk into the system root. Run that program and flash the su.zip package. This may be incorrect but [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] would know since he created both applications. Again, if you have true root and adb access, you should be able to do this in theory
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] DHackley:
Same here, upgraded to the S7 from the S5 and had no idea everything was moving in this direction as far as Samsung devices and the ability to root.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] SinisterDev:
Just curious, is this being tested on the S7 with the June update? Because ? ?? I sorta updated when I got my Edge...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] br3w3r:
Pf2 correct.

---------- Post added at 06:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:25 PM ----------

Can yoy message me on here. Having a few little issues. I believe its in the correct spot but its not detecting it as root when opened.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] TechBSwift:
I'm happy to message you, just an fyi though it might go faster if you post the details in the thread. It's faster when we work together especially if you are trying to push the files in adb. Also did you set permissions chmod 777
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] br3w3r:
I will once im home. I can say its a custom odin not available. And im not shre if i can share it yet.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] jds3118:
I flashed the eng boot.img and I got the volte icon lol and I can get adb shell/root. The problem is the system is read only so pushing a file or app it comes back with no file or directory because the temp shell doesn't change system partition to read/write. If we can use adb to change the system partition then we should be able to push/ write files and apps and have full root and use flashify to flash recovery. Any ideas or thoughts on this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Raylon00:
Important: I could only get the Rooted boot to flash with Odin3_v3.11.1

Older versions of odin did not work. I am playing with the adb commands now, Trying to get functionality out of the flash. Did not brick my device 935T (Tmobile Varient).

Will post updates as able.

Raylon00
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] TechBSwift:
My understanding is they found a way to get full root including system root. There just having issues getting SU binaries to install. I also was able to get the boot image to install on my Verizon edge with no issues
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Raylon00:
I got Viper4Android to Install VIA adb, but I am still working on BusyBox, which is a requirement for it to operate.

Raylon00

---------- Post added at 02:26 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:34 AM ----------

I keep getting force reboots when I try to access system from the phone (Via SD Maid).

Also I cannot get the adb to uninstall anything for some reason (Not Even the V4A I put on there myself)

it is starting to get late and I am about to goto bed for the night.

Hoping to find some updates in the morning.

Raylon00
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] br3w3r:
How we achieved what we have so far is that we use the kernel img, after using that we run iRoot and it gives us su permissions through adb. I can change all permissions through out system with no issue just dont have access to su on phone yet. If anyone has any ideas or would like to test for me let me know.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Bless1:
Sorry for the noob question but if u can get iroot to function couldn't u just use the supersu me app after to install supersu and it's binary by pushing the app over threw adb
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] SkyAttacksX:
I dont mind testing , so long as it's low-risk . High risk , eh not so much .
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Demonith:
Oh man i nees root so badly i never use too have unrooted phone xD when is rooted i am happy
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] SkyAttacksX:
By the way , you said this was being tested on the latest update ? I'm still on PC2 (February 1, 2016 is the security patch) , so is it safe to update or would you rather me test on this firmware ? Going to sleep now to wake in a couple hours so just let me know if I should update or not (or if it makes no difference) .
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] gaww:
Ditto for TMo PB6 ? Never updated anything.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Demonith:
I have May 1 update and i have successfully unlock the FRP and working normaly but still waiting for root and bootunlocking
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Saito209:
Can't wait, been sad since I couldn't root my s7 edge but now it's almost here , but how do you check if it's been updated is it security patch if so mine is in February so I should be good since that's basically like out of the box no upda
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] TechBSwift:
Please stop asking what firmware update the method works on. As of now we don't have a working method. We are working on it and I promise as soon as we find a working method we will start testing it on different update versions.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Saito209:
I'm not asking what firmware it works on I'm actually asking is the security patch level a way to check if that is the firmware you are on because i dont really remember if I updated my phone or not
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] denpth:
What about using a similar process to safestrap? If you have adb root access, why not push a secondary recovery to the device and boot into it like the safestrap hook works. (Not exactly sure how it was done but I know it was used when kernel exploits were unavailable in the past.) If at all possible to perform the same steps, then just build a ROM without dm-verity and boom. Root achieved.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] jdidtht:
So installing flashfire via adb and then using it to install a recovery img won't work? Just causes reboots?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Honestly Annoying:
Wow, congrats on getting somewhere guys! It's nice to see someone getting past the extra security from the Nazi regime (aka Qualcomm)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] XxCyberHackerxX:
Lmao. I can't wait to see what comes out of this over the next few weeks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Honestly Annoying:
Yeah for real! If this is all legit I honestly might ditch the G5 and buy the S7 Edge...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] AlphaD1:
All good things to those who wait and never give up. All I can say is no matter if we get root our not, thanks for not giving up devs
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] br3w3r:
[MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION] Thanks for the help!

http://imgur.com/a/PMhbo

Coming soon!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] WW3:
Can't wait.... need it now !!!!

Appreciate all the effort u guys have put in this!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Chainfire:
I'm just going to leave this here...

SuperSU-v2.74-2-S7QC.zip

You will need:

- Engineering boot images

- Patched version of Odin3 (only AT&T models ?)

- Extract files, and run root.bat with adb on the path

This version of SuperSU is not officially supported. I recommend against updating the APK from the Play Store, or otherwise updating the binaries, unless someone knowledgable has tried before you and confirmed it worked.

If it breaks, you get to keep all the pieces.

Bounty info (if any) will be posted also by [MENTION=4911585]br3w3r[/MENTION]
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] br3w3r:
At least we werent fake :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Demonith:
Did some one test it ? And where i can get - Engineering boot images posted here earlier ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Beydt:
Will there be a tutorial on how to root the device? (I don't really know how what to do with the given files.)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] XxCyberHackerxX:
To be on the safe side someone should back up that boot image. In case it ever gets taken down
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] jdidtht:
Good job folks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Demonith:
I always keep files in my pc in any case :) Now Bootloader Unlock and we can sleep in peace :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] br3w3r:
http://xdaforums.com/att-galaxy-s7/how-to/g935a-root-t3410403

Here you go fam sorry for terrible instructions if anyone wants to make updated ones i will post them.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] bounxiong:
Good job!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] colormedroid:
Curious... how will the bounty be split for all of you involved?

I just want to make sure everyone gets theirs.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] br3w3r:
Chainfire didnt want bounty. I am splitting with princecomsy. It is actually his paypal. I am trusting him.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Symphony0fLife:
Absolutely awesome work guys! Didn't pledge to the bounty but I'll be sending a little something this payday. Awesome job, we really appreciate it!

Slightly off topic - Now that we have root, what is left to do before we're able to use different ROMs? This is my first Android device in ages, so I've forgotten a lot of how that works!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] jpcloudsurf:
This is great! Finally some good news lol i knew something was up when i had 100+ notifications.

Thanks to everyone who made this possible and put in hard work. We were all going to give up but here we are 3 months later, rooted. Everyone said it wouldnt happen.

One more thing. Would it be possible to create something like towelroot for the peoples who aren't familiar with this?

Definitely want to try this later
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] br3w3r:
Im sure it is but i do not have the experience or knowledge to do that sorry. Hopefully someone can help out here.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] brentsalinas714:
Will this work for the g891a

S7 active ? If so which second file should I use ?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Chocolatetai:
I've been literally stalking this thread for a couple of weeks now . is the root complete? Can I root my sprint s7 edge ?! Please let me know ! I'm dying to change my font and emojis
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] TechBSwift:
Reading is fundamental... Yes it works
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Chocolatetai:
Please DONT be an asshole about it. I've stated I've been stalking the thread so of course I've been reading. But my question is, does it work with sprint. Not just at&t .
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] colormedroid:
Many things are yet to be tested. I'm bout to test it on Sprint S7 edge. If you would to be the first to test it on the regular s7 I'm about to post up in the s7 guide section. Let me know if you want to try it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Chocolatetai:
I have the s7 edge too lolol , sorry I'm a newbie with this one. Will I need a computer to complete this as well? I never rooted before , sounds way complicated than jail breaking lolol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] colormedroid:
I haven't updated my phone at all since I got it just in case when this day came. What software version are you on?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Chocolatetai:
​

Ah, I'm not sure what verison I'm on. But I know I updated to the newest one. G935P? lolol 6.0.1? :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] o0adam0o:
Congrats guys. Awesome work
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] fnztakedown:
First off what is this.. EDIT- this is the RCS symbol. TIL..

Second.. I was successfully able to flashfire xposed on the T-Mobile s7e. ? Thank you!!

And last but not least. Yes, this will break Samsung pay.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
So can I update my phone to the newest update knowing that I still will be able to get root?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] JAYNO20:
This is a good question.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] DetoxVenom:
I got root and lost cell service...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] LeftyGR:
Try update profile and prl.

What firmware u on?