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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
Not one post in the Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge development thread.....

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] v8dreaming:
It looks like the trolls are infecting this thread now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] chenxiaolong:
Prior research (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=60948100&postcount=62) seems to indicate that the Chinese model has 3 bootloader locks (CROM lock, carrier lock, FRP lock) as opposed to just 2 on the American models (carrier lock and FRP lock). We don't currently know if the Chinese bootloader respects the carrier lock or not. If it does, then we're out of luck, since CROM only unlocks the CROM lock, which isn't on our devices in the first place.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Son Rise:
Has anyone tried this??? http://wccftech.com/how-to-root-galaxy-s7-on-android-6-0-1-marshmallow/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
That's for non snapdragon models only. So all the international models that have an exynos processor. We're currently trying to figure out how to unlock the US snapdragon models.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Son Rise:
Whatever happened to this?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
It turned out to be an old update which did essentially nothing.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] cwalker0906:
So there is a Odin file for this update in the other thread. When you Odin it, it wipes the device. That is abnormal for Odin but very normal for unlocking a bootloader yet no one is paying it no mind. In that thread they are only r asking about how to get the update, I think it is well worth looking at...it leaves me wondering why they made it as it is not Ota, now the wiping after flashing...leaves me to wonder

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It's not a old update...the kernel is March 25 and security patch April 2....we are not talking about the Ota from 2 weeks ago...I think everyone keeps ASSUMING that and keeps overlooking it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
I've read through that thread a half a dozen times already looking for an idea. As far as these devs state.... there has never been an unlock for a bootloader since the S5. And they don't forsee one in any future Samsung phones. A kernel root exploit would be the only thing that will ever come out of it.....

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
Do you have a download link to this Odin file? Or a link to the post where someone talks about it wiping there device?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] cwalker0906:
here's the zip for you. This is the file for the update I'm talking about firmware ending in c8 not b8 as the last ota https://mega.nz/#!KVsyyZjJ
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] danon.brown:
the latest does wipe the device. i have a version of TWRP from tekhd , but it still fails on the latest C8.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] cwalker0906:
I posted the link and there is a whole thread on it in the question and answer section
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] LeftyGR:
So that would be a SafeStrap / BootStrap type of exploit? Or is that a different path...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] MegaNoob:
Let's say we get root without the bootloader being unlocked. Isn't that a bit dangerous?

What I mean is if we have root we will be able to modify system files right? And if we change even one bit on the system partition vm-verity will fail and your soft bricked until you flash a stock firmware. Isn't that how it works?

Vm-verity is there to stop "unauthorized " changes to the system. And us rooting is a change its self, not to mention things like removing system apps and xposed.

So if the above is true, without a unlocked bootloader root would be useless.

This is just a thought I had and I'm not saying this is how it actually would work out
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] v8dreaming:
Breathing is dangerous. Root would not be useless without an unlocked bootloader. You just couldn't flash custom firmware. In a way, it might actually be safer.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
Dm-verity should be in the HLOS, not in the Android level operating system. I had root on my AT&T Galaxy S5, and I was able to make changes as long as it didn't change anything to do with being above the bootloader.....

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] MegaNoob:
Only android 6.0 and up have this enabled I think

http://www.xda-developers.com/a-look-at-marshmallow-root-verity-complications/

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From the way I'm reading it at the link above. Dm-verity is there to prevent unauthorized root and you would need to flash a modified kernel or the phone wouldn't boot. And if the bootloader is locked you can't flash a kernel
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] WW3:
If that's true based on link above, root only won't help. I guess our days with rooting are over without unlocked bootloader.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] MegaNoob:
Yeah, I'm no expert but reading that link leads me in that direction. I hope I'm wrong!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Invisibility:
You can put me down for $25 for bootloader and root. Sprint version so universal.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Ghost Dragon:
You guys give up to easy ......
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] MegaNoob:
Not giving up. Just trying to get a grasp of our situation.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] stryver:
Didnt someone say theres something wrong with the snapdragon version of twrp? Should someone try the exynos and dmverity to see what happens?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
It's also possible to use your own keys for verifying the file system, neatly bypassing dm-verity's checks. The dm-verity basically helps in the prevention of any root software ... Only when you are able to bring about a change within the device kernel, you can bypass this safety guard.

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Take a look at this pdf from the Linux Foundation on dm-verity. It explains exactly what we are dealing with...

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...H_pFFPy6dSvwJdQ&sig2=aKzCT_-AVAQ1jfAP8YuegA

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] danon.brown:
I didn't know there was a public version of it. He sent it to me when the B8 update was released.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] dynospectrum:
Sell your snapdragons and buy the international variant! To hell with waiting for unlocked bootloader ;]
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jcadduono:
Since everyone seems to want TWRP for testing their bootloader lockedness, here is TWRP 3.0.1-0 compiled with the G930T/G935T/G930P/G935P kernel sources and I'm 99% sure if your device was unlocked it would be flawless:

Qualcomm S7: https://idlekernel.com/twrp/heroqlte/

Qualcomm S7 Edge: https://idlekernel.com/twrp/hero2qlte/

It is unified and has multiple variant support, so your device will show up as heroqltetmo (SM-G930T) or hero2qltespr (SM-G935P), or whatever it really is.

Device tree: https://github.com/jcadduono/android_device_samsung_heroqlte

Device tree: https://github.com/jcadduono/android_device_samsung_hero2qlte

Kernel: https://github.com/jcadduono/nethunter_kernel_heroqlte/commits/twrp-6.0

Until someone actually boots it on their device, it will be sitting here ready to push to official.

I am pleasantly not very surprised that the kernel configs for all the qualcomm variants of the S7 and S7 edge....are the exact same.

The only thing that differs between them are the dtb.img (S7 vs S7 edge)

They actually enabled the different panels for both devices in the configs, with their drivers picking the right one to use.

There really is no difference between the carrier variants except the bootloader originally loaded onto them.

That said, if you were to raw write the NAND, you could effectively put the one-day-unlocked T-Mobile bootloader on -any- of the other Qualcomm variants.

Not that anyone will come up with a device to write directly to the NAND... :)

Updated to 3.0.2-0.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] chenxiaolong:
The wiping occurs due to the flashing of the CSC package. The CSC package flashes a /cache image containing the following file at /cache/recovery/command

--update_package=CACHE:recovery/sec_csc.zip
--carry_out=csc_factory
--wipe_data

Immediately after the auto-reboot from the Odin flash, the device will boot into the stock recovery, flash the CSC, and wipe /data. To prevent this from happening, we just need to remove the meta-data folder from the HOME_CSC tarball, recompute the MD5, and flash that instead of the original CSC tarball. I just tried it today and it works just fine.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] stryver:
Just a theory, and before i start please note i am just a normal user that loves to flash custom roms and knows nothing about getting work done like those countless awesome devs here at xda, but would one who understands what is inside these updates be able to use them to understand what is being patched and use that as a map to detect security flaws on previous firmware?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Ghost Dragon:
You'd have to get ahold of the update patch itself which might be sent via ota if so we could use a proxy to get the file directly from the server that sent it along with possibly other things but the thing is what protocol is it using if it's using http/s were good but anything else and I'm done because FTP requires a login SSL requires a certificate SSH requires a login but I'm sure someone else can get it whatever protocol it is

Edit off topic
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Ghost Dragon:
Can we use this somehow

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-k10MX8t9TXeHlVQXcwVnUxOTA/view?usp=docslist_api
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jbfountain:
Thanks for finally responding; however I didn't rename any thing. I just used the files that came with what I got.

Using XDA to unleash the power of Android on my S6 Edge Plus, HTC One M9, and S7 Edge

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Also why does this screen appear if the bootloader is locked.

Using XDA to unleash the power of Android on my S6 Edge Plus, HTC One M9, and S7 Edge

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Sorry pic didn't post.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] gaww:
There are two versions - the very restricted mainland (restricted as to content - no Google) and the Hong Kong version which I was referring to. Do you know if per the above the locks are the same, but the guid to unlock th bootloader started with A CROM System so probably the same.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jbfountain:
Hopefully it shows now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] mrbigdrawsz:
Awwww hell. Here they go again!!

http://www.droid-life.com/2016/04/0...anced-voice-services-samsung-pay/#more-184392
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] 70dad2:
Oops! Sorry, really thought the guy didn't know. Just trying to be helpful.:)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] gdmlaz:
What are you talking about they are just updates if you are looking for a root method I hope you haven't updated your phone since probably any methods have been patched with updates,
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] dgriffin2013:
$50 through Paypal for any SD820 unlocked bootloader, T-Mobile or other carrier. So is this honor system once we get it, or should I be putting the money in a holding place?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Raylon00:
It is an honor system. I dont want to escrow the bounty, unless the dev wishes to remain anonymous and be paid in Bitcoin
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] system0verload:
If all units use the same chipset which seems like all are running off the same arch and assuming that all runs off the same Linux kernel, then yes it could be a general exploit
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Raylon00:
We are up to $650, Lets keep it going. This is an awesome phone, and unlocking it will make it so much better.

The devs should start getting really interested soon. We can almost say your efforts will pay for your device.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] guaneet:
Count me in for $30
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] system0verload:
Haha, that guy is just a troll; a good one at that lol!

BTW guys.. some do this for the challenge and retribution that comes with helping defeat established institutions' ill intent in mass control and financial greed.

Finding an exploit will take time, regardless of how talented one may be; collaboration among experienced Devs can definitely speed things greatly since this is not a one-man vendetta against an institution; in all honesty, it takes more than just analyzing a kernel source. The arch involved must be carefully studied in depth in hopes that an exploit is found.. this one will take time guys and will mostly be dependent on the contribution of many talents

It will take time and resources, much more than $[x] lol.. but this is not done for money, it will get done for the love of the community and to prove that united in one common cause we all can win
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jcase:
Thread cleaned, lets be adults
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Alarand:
I'm in for $50.

Would put up the same amount for a permanent (persists through restart) root of some kind
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] dldennis88:
Security policy updates

Security logger

Software update

Software update(2nd one)

Urgentfwupdatenfc

Urgentfwupdatetsp

Knox

Knoxappsupdateagent

I am not sure if they are all needed but it cant hurt :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] slayerh4x:
I would contribute $40.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] 2015Dthomp1:
I'm in for $25, my GF is also in for $25 so that's $50 from us. It'll be well worth it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] mocsab:
$100
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] lost_:
I pledge $80, but if HTC 10 fits my needs, then I'm jumping ship.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] unknownbeing:
$35 for bootloader unlock from me
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] dynospectrum:
$50 from me for tmo s7 edge unlocked bootloader
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] mikeyinid:
Impatient LOL. The phone has been out 8 days, Legere said he has his engineers talking to Samsung.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] chiikko561:
$25 for now
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] hella356:
I'm only guessing, but I would think getting unlock on the Tmobile S7 Edge would also work on the standard S7? Ideally a solution would be found for all US S7/Edge variants, but if it can only be accomplished for Tmobile, I would hope that applies to the regular S7, as well.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Raylon00:
I think it would, the only real differences are the battery, and the edge panel program
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Raylon00:
Any s7 owner can add to the bounty, just be sure to specify if your contribution is for the universal s7 unlock
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] mrbigdrawsz:
Nope, haven't updated, I know better. Just see this as another "fix" for any possible exploits to gain root.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
One of the fixes in that new update....

"The security of your device has been improved"

Yeah, right.....

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] gdmlaz:
Just disable the software update using package disabler, That's what I have done and you don't even get notifications anymore, BACK TO THE BOOTLOADER/ROOT TOPIC tho
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
What is that a picture of?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] 1991mustang50:
That is samsungs bootloader screen if hit up to continue then it take to the screen where you can flash stock firmware ( or twrp if bootloader was unlocked). And it show because if samsung needed to flash stock firmware to this device because someone bricked their device!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] gdmlaz:
Yea you will get that screen so you could flash regular samsung software, like stock FIRMWARE, Only problem is when you try flashing something that's not official that is going to deny it basically
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] 1991mustang50:
I know that i was just tell them that what that screen was and why it was there! But what you said is something i should of said too thanks!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] fazzix:
there is a new update: The stability of recording video has been improved.

Overall device performance has been improved.

Battery life has been optimized.

The security of your device has been improved.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] gleggie:
Which carrier?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Rydah:
T-Mobile

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] :
That update is very tempting, as my battery life and performance are trash, but I know better. I've only used dev-friendly phones for the past few years, but if we got the bootloader unlocked (Odin willing) would updating to this via OTA re-lock the bootloader?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] fazzix:
Should I update or nah?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
I wouldn't do it. Just one update kept people from using Geohot's Towel Root on the Galaxy S5. I'm glad i wasn't one of them.

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] OxyClean:
No idea on actual battery drain yet. Puts screen on as main draw now

Didn't realize the thread, off topic =/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] gdmlaz:
All up to you, If you feel your phone is slow or dying and don't care too much about rooting or unlocking the bootloader go for it, God knows how quick a root or unlock could come in, Could be tomorrow or 2 years from now or never, That's basically a risk you gotta take when you take updates in the situation we are in.......
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] fazzix:
ok wont do it then
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] goofwear:
Is there any way we can run a virtual machie/emulatore on the unrooted phone, and have it "break out of the vm" kind of like escaping froma sandbox, with root and have any control.

Another Idea

can we also take the official firmware and mod it on a pc so it will run and reigster as a developer build and then run fastboot oem unlock it in a virtual machine or something. then get the unlocked boot loader and then some how figure out or worry on who we will flash the unsigned boot loader
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] TechBSwift:
You guys realize the note 5 never got root for Verizon and AT&T.... The s6 only got root once and that was short lived. Most exploits found are turned into google before we ever had a chance. Not trying to be negative, just want you guys to realize the challenges ahead.

sent from deez
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] v8dreaming:
One article I read stated 29 vulnerabilities were patched in the newest update.

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Nobody cares. This is not the thread for that.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Far2great:
Can we get a link to that article?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] v8dreaming:
http://phandroid.com/2016/04/04/android-securities-patches-april/

http://phandroid.com/2016/04/04/t-m...h-video-battery-and-performance-improvements/

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-04-02.html
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
Sometimes the simplest thing is under our noses.... this whole thing should be treated like a rubix cube.... I'm reading up on my SELinux..... Dm-verity is also in Ubuntu....

https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/veritysetup.8.html

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/device-mapper/verity.txt

How KNOX, and the BOOTLOADER work....

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B59rnfMBPeQ-XzlPbDVTZDVqZGM/view?usp=docslist_api

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] EtherealRemnant:
Looking at that list of security updates, it looks like there are plenty of things to try to exploit as it stood before this new update. Anyone who updates is probably going to be in for a shock. Some of those privilege elevation patches are pretty serious, especially the Qualcomm patches. If a root exploit is to be found, I'd say the best bet would be to try to use the Qualcomm privilege elevation exploits...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jbfountain:
Does anyone have the correct partition layout for the Chinese Snapdragon version? Also a valid link to the Chinese odin flashable firmware?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] gaww:
I think you should use the Hong Kong version - the Chinese one is very restricted - no Google play, etc. probably due to the government there.

It is on Sammobile:

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/confirm/67085/G9350ZHU1APB9_G9350ZZH1APB9_TGY/
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] UnixSlayer:
Question.... when trying to Odin the Chinese version for the 9350..... should the re-partition box be checked in Odin since the partitions are completely different then the U.S. version?

EDIT: Beware.... this could brick your phone...

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[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] MegaNoob:
I believe you need to have a PIT file if your going to re-partition other wise it won't know how to set up the partitions. It would probably brick the phone without it.

Just did a search for odin settings and pit files and that's what it looks like to me.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jbfountain:
Thank you for the link! Now does anyone know where I can get the partition layout?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] MegaNoob:
Also if the Chinese firmware is signed with a different key it would be no different than trying to flash a custom rom. It will just fail at signature check.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] jbfountain:
Yes for this to have any chance of working I will have to repartition the nanda exactly as it is intetended or will brick for sure. May brick anyway, but I'm willing to give it a shot.