[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Binary100100:
Absolutely none. Unless of course you don't include that 1% gloating about all of the perks of being rooted and countless articles showing how simple the process is and what the user can be capable of. I've been rooted since JesusFreke on the G1. Then since I've convinced four people to root their devices and they are active here on XDA. That's just me and I don't frequently boast about having unlimited wifi tethering, an AOSP rom, custom themes or removing bloat. But how many of us do? Just the 1% of those users that have root do tend to gain popularity. When rooted devices become popular, as do apps from unknown sources and exploits from those devices which can cause problems for the 'rooted but not very android savvy customers' which end up calling T-Mobile for help. That's just one example. Other reasons would be that T-Mobile does want control over their phones. Whine to them all you want about how it's "your phone" and you should be able to do what you want on it and how they are very pro "uncarrier" but if that was the case they wouldn't include so much bloatware and encourage everyone to use JUMP and to lease their equipment instead of owning it. Frankly, I'm surprised the phones don't have the words "T-Mobile" etched into the devices anymore. So if you root the phone and remove all of the T-Mobile bloatware on it, they can't collect diagnostic data and send personalized offers to YOUR handset. That hurts T-Mobile. They also want to be able to send out OTA updates when they feel that the device(s) that you're using whenever THEY are confident and ready. If you do have a rooted device with Android N on it and have difficulties connecting, how can T-Mobile help? Then there are the issues that I had mentioned earlier. With my rooted S5 I can peak at over 100mb/s download speeds. With this S7 Edge, the most that I've acquired has been 55.49mb/s. That's pathetic by comparison. But perhaps that is just hardware related and has nothing to do with comparing it to a rooted S5. I also haven't been successful in tethering with it either. In other words, I haven't been able to abuse T-Mobile's network. Should they give us root access... what are the odds of it staying that way?

Examples of them taking an offensive stance against abuse from rooted devices:

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story...obile-hotspot-data-allowance-tethe/2015-08-31

There we have T-Mobile stating that they were going to crack down on the small amount of customers abusing their network and with the possibility of phasing out the unlimited data option altogether. So they opt for services that they can control such as BINGE ON (activated by default) to limit our data usage.

Those that abuse their network are also a very small majority. Yet... don't they make a difference? They seem to be making a large enough difference for T-Mobile to act upon it. How is preventing us from rooting any different?

So in conclusion, as much as I would absolutely love for root access... I'm not holding my breath for T-Mobile to hand it over to us.

Now... the only bit of optimism that I do have is that we have indeed come a long way. T-Mobile has made it easier for us to SIM unlock our devices. Knox doesn't come pre-installed anymore and the T-Mobile My Account app isn't all in my face like it was on the S4 or S5. (Skipped the S6.) Of course there is also the feedback that we are (or were) receiving from T-Mobile officials. They hear us... probably even discussing the pros and cons of giving us the unlocked bootloader. I'm hoping that they don't think the way that I do because if they do, we probably won't get it.