yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] pvc_:
What sickens me is that they disable perfectly fine features to replace them with their crapware. I like their network coverage, but I'm really doubtful if I would/should stay with At&t anymore. I personally don't care much about the bootloader, but the fact that they are doing this sort of thing without facing any sort of push-back, is what annoys me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] glm0025:
I get what you are saying 100% but the only problem for me is that a locked down Android device does more than a jailbreaked iPhone any day of the week.,at the end of the day Android is still more open than IOS. As of right now Marshmallow has proven good enough for me that I'm not missing root or custom roms, that I would root and unlock if I had the chance you better believe it but even 6.0 Touchwiz is bearable right now.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sireniankyle:
It heavily depends on how well you know Cydia. . You can change everything about the layout in an iphone through winterboard or dreamboard. You can customize power options, and assign on screen and button shortcuts no matter where you are on the device (app, home screen, locked). Ad blocker, free spotify premium, a youtube downloader built into youtube, custom carrier logos, system wide night mode, keyboard sub symbols, finger print locked apps, remove the media cap in imessage or text messages, enable zedge ringtone downloads, kill all background apps, pop out video for any app, and custom folder sizes.

I can agree that a few of those are just catching up with Android, but a system wide on or off wifi ad blocker is something that only root can do. There are some things, like the no media cap in messages, that even a rooted android device can't technically do (depends on the carrier I suppose), because they don't go through Apple servers.

This isn't me crapping on Android. I love Android. I just needed a place to hold up until Samsung gets it together. I refuse to buy their locked up garbage anymore. The htc 10 is looking pretty good, too, but I was hoping for something with amoled.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] jcase:
Just so everyone is clear, we dont discuss piracy or fraud or such on XDA.

App developers work hard for their money, trust me it is hard to earn a living at 99cents a pop. Lets support our developers instead of supporting theft.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Vultorus:
You're dumb. You're *****ing about a $600 term fee which is impossible for a single line. Buy your phone international or unlocked if this is such an issue for you and stop whining. The ATT model of phones are NOT for power users. Plain and simple. I'm surprised so many people are taking the time to read you *****ing.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] HNIC215:
This post is so funny...

You are all over the place with your words, your thoughts and your anger.

Why would you purchase the S7 on AT&T if you already knew all of this?

Especially if this has already happened to you with your Note 4?

End of the day, most of the customers who use AT&T have no idea about root. They have no care or concern about these things.

People like us, on XDA, who love to root and customize our phones have to understand that there is a paradigm shift in Android (particularly in regards to Samsung devices) that focuses on security rather than customization. Especially when dealing with Carrier phones. The bloat, the locked bootloader, the restrictions all have their reasons for existing.

Especially when Samsung is amidst a global (albeit slow) roll out of Samsung Pay. Trying to align themselves ever so closely with Apple in terms of quality and brand recognition.

Samsung Pay will NEVER work on a rooted phone, EVER! Doesn't matter if you restore stock firmware etc...

Carriers also have their reasons as well...

There are plenty of reasons why they both do it, most of which I don't want to sit here and write out one by one. Like you said in your post... Google it.

End of the day, if you want to root or customize your device then you should do your research before dropping $700+ on a phone.

Plenty of bloat free, bootloader unlocked, international and non carrier phones available for you to achieve root and enjoy Android.

Coming on here and posting a wall of whine just makes you look silly and childish.

Yes, it sucks... I share your annoyance as I'm sure many other AT&T/XDA members do as well - for years now.

End of the day, these mega corporations don't care about you or what makes you happy. It's a business, their business, deal with it. We all have to... If you want to protest, protest with your wallet.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] garyd9:
While I tend to agree with the majority of your post, I think this one statement I quoted might be a bit too absolute.

My understanding of SPay is that it relies on the KNOX fuse to determine if a phone is modified. If true, then if an exploit is discovered and implemented which grants root without tripping KNOX, then SPay could possibly work on a rooted device. (Hiding root is doable, and supersu has been playing the cat/mouse game with Android Pay for several months on this...)

The galaxy S6 was rootable without tripping KNOX when it was initially released...

Of course, it's possible that there's something in the samsung firmware that will immediately trip KNOX if root is even detected. If so, it's something new that hasn't been there before. Previously, tripping KNOX required an action at the bootloader level - and usually occurred when an image not signed by samsung was flashed via ODIN.

Moving slightly off topic...

The problem, in my opinion, isn't that root can't be gained. There are plenty of exploits for gaining privileges that either Samsung takes too long to patch, or that the carriers (specifically AT&T) take too long to release the patches for. (AT&T is already 2 months behind on the S7's security patches. Those are patches for security concerns that are now publicly announced and should be easily exploited by reverse engineering the fixes that google publishes.)

The real problem is that people who would develop and publish a root method for hobbyists don't care anymore. Those people aren't going to buy a bootloader locked S7. Either they'll buy a different phone entirely (from a manufacturer that's more dev friendly), or they'll buy a non-carrier model that isn't bootloader locked. (Actually, there's another group, but it's very small: Industry insiders who are constrained by legal agreements (such as NDA's) preventing them from releasing anything they might come up with.)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] HNIC215:
That's what a Samsung Rep told me when I had the international Note 5 and wanted to know if I would be able to use Samsung Pay here in the states.

First, they said Samsung Pay would have to be available in the device's country of origin.

Second, they said the device can NEVER be rooted. If the device is rooted, it will NEVER be able to run Samsung Pay on it for the remainder of its life. Regardless if you restore with stock firmware and unroot.

Which makes sense actually when you think about it.

Apple is and has been synonymous with security and safety - in general but especially in regards to Apple Pay.

Samsung has always been considered the "Apple" or "iPhone" of the Android world - this statement holds true now more than ever before.

With Samsung Pay being released globally (slowly but surely)... Samsung will not risk the security of their platform by any means at all.

Letting users gain root access to their devices can potentially expose parts of their secure Samsung Pay platform and risk a major security or privacy incident that would lead to global fallout regardless of where the incident took place.

They will never allow this - especially with the progress they have made over the years to build a premium brand.

With the S7 and S7 Edge - they further that tradition and bring more security than ever.

Don't take my word for it...

Samsung Knox recognised as the strongest mobile security platform

Source

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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/samsung-knox-recognised-strongest-mobile-security-platform-1554836
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] garyd9:
Okay.. I wonder if he's related to one of the "samsung reps" that work in Best Buy stores.... or the ones that come visit AT&T stores on occasion. For the most part, they are really good in reciting the marketing material, but when it comes to details, they are clueless. In fact, at least as bad as Radio Shack sales people.

"KNOX" is a confusing term.

First, there's "KNOX" as a software security suite that is very closely related to what google calls "Android for Work." Both are basically a "secure" and private container/sandbox. The idea is that you take a personal smartphone to work and can run "work" apps that are completely sandboxes from personal apps. This has nothing whatsoever to do with SPay. SPay doesn't make use of this element of KNOX.

KNOX is also the name of a fuse in the device (which is likely a qualcomm "qfuse" in the SD820 S7's) that trips when the bootloader detects an unsigned kernel/recovery. _THIS_ is the KNOX that relates to SPay. Real human beings (not samsung sales or support reps) have confirmed that once the KNOX fuse is tripped, it prevents SPay from working. (It also prevents KNOX, the software suite mentioned above, from working.)

Now I need to express things in strange ways, and I hope you'll forgive the odd phrasing:

As far as devs on XDA and other sites similar to XDA have been able to determine, "root" does not prevent SPay from functioning. In fact, my understanding is that there are people who rooted their Galaxy S6 without tripping the KNOX fuse, later reverted to factory firmware, allowed the phone to OTA to newer firmware that included SPay, and SPay worked fine. However, there are others who have tripped the KNOX fuse while rooted who can no longer use SPay. The key here is that KNOX fuse...

I can say with a very large degree of confidence that SPay will work just fine if you happened to had a device that somehow had a working "su" binary in the path AND KNOX wasn't tripped. That might happen if the bootloader was designed to not trip KNOX... such as someone who developed software for preloads might have on a test device. Based only on information in the public domain, it might also happen if an exploit was found that didn't require flashing a custom kernel, recovery, etc.

It's POSSIBLE, and I actually don't know this, that the firmware released on these devices publicly has code to force tripping the KNOX fuse if root is detected. The galaxy S6 did NOT have this mechanism when towel root (or whatever root method it was) worked on it. I somehow doubt that samsung would have added this to the firmware, as there's too great a chance for a false positive, and tripping that KNOX flag is permanent.

In android user terms, a "rooted" device is merely a device that has a working suid "su" binary in the path owned by the 'root' user. (Later versions of android also require some sepolicy changes, but that's outside the scope of this thread.) That binary might be on /system or it might be in the kernel partition. However, neither is a permanent change to the device, and therefore it can be removed with no trace.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] HNIC215:
No this wasn't in person... Nor was it someone from the states (from what I could tell).

It was with a technician over the phone because the first customer service rep had no idea - so she transferred me to a technician.

Regardless, there is no point in discussing this endlessly.

There are already plenty of folks out there who are trying to solve this issue, only time will tell if they can succeed.

Let's see what happens.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sireniankyle:
I agree. I will never advise that someone should steal an app. If anything I said suggests otherwise, I apologize.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kelentaria:
For those of you who think I am just being whiney, I jumped ship from the note because I couldn't root it. I tried. I succeed/failed. I was successful because it was permarooted, but I tripped a defensive mechanism when I finished flashing all the stuff that I needed. It is something from Samsung that keeps people from messing with your phone. Really screwed it up. It still isn't fixed. I never sent it in. After my post all hell broke loose and I moved 8 times in 3 months, and they said it would take a while, but I didn't know how long I would be somewhere, so...

Moving on, the main reason I want root is not for space saving, or customization or anything like that, but to delete the apps that I don't use so they stop suffocating and debilitating my phone. It is supposed to be the greatest thing since sliced bread (when it came out), now it's just ok, and no matter how many times you force stop or use an app cleaner it doesn't work. You have to remove them. Even a factory reset only works for so long because happens once you got all your apps back on it? You are right back where you were. Removing the unused system apps gets rid of so much trouble.

I just wanted everything one to know my point wasn't to "be a whinny bitty". My point was to SHOW MY FRUSTRATION. Now I find there is a root for the s7, but it is unclear at to whether or not it works with the newest build (pj4?) Only time will tell, but until that question is answered I may not be able to try. As for the people gripping about me not jumping ship, not everyone has that ability. Sprint doesn't exist out here, t-mobile is ****ty, and Verizon has just moved in late last year. Just so you all know those maps they show you showing coverage, the reason why they can say they have coverage they don't is because they rent coverage from the other cell phone companies. They may say that they have coverage everywhere, but think again. Take sprint from Idaho to Oklahoma. It doesn't work. Take us cellular from Oklahoma to Colorado doesn't work. The only thing that I have found that consistently works (so simple sadly) is AT&T. And I have been with them for over 13 years. The first phone I had was a flip phone, then another and another, then an LG shine(more than one, traded in), LG xenon (more than one, last one in very rough used shape), Motorola Atrix 4g(rough used shape), Samsung Galaxy s3(more than one, sold), Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (softbricked), and Samsung S7(currently in use). I am sure I might have missed one or two in there and I can't remember the name of the flip phones been too long. I have remained loyal to AT&T for awhile, but my support has wavered in the last few years due to sinking customer service and rising prices.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kelentaria:
Apparently you haven't been looking at an etf on a brand new phone. On my note4 it was even higher (750$). Next time do your research before opening your yap. It just makes everyone realize how retarded you are. For the rec I wasn't "*****ing". I was merely stating my opinion you should have read that. Oh wait obviously you didn't, if you just thought I was whiney. Read the whole thing then make an informed reply.

Oh and as for the bit about "power users", maybe I want more of a challenge, or maybe I wanted to be the next ChainFire. All I am saying I bought the phone, what I do with my money is none of your goddammed business, and where I got should be make no nevermind to you. Your jealousy is unbecoming.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] cerobles1:
Hey here's an idea... STOP BUYING THEIR F#$ING PHONES!!!! AND ANY OTHER SAMSUNG FOR THAT MATTER!!! As a ex-Samsung user, I gotta say that I was done after the S5. S3 was good all the way, S4 was able to be unlocked bootloader until they locked it with an OTA. S5 never saw bootloader unlock but got root after a couple of weeks.

After that my friends, I jumped ship to phones that are not only bootloader unlockable, and that are also SIM unlocked.

I ended choosing a Moto X Pure Edition. And man oh man I am a happy customer. Yes you have to compromise in a couple of areas, like maybe second best camera, no LTE calling, etc. But IMO being able to unlock the bootloader is way worth it.

Dude, My f#$ing washer and dryer were Samsung at some point, paid almost $2500 for that combo from Best Buy.

All I'm saying is, do Samsung what they did to Qualcomm, don't buy their product and then hopefully they'll listen.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jakeuten:
Many people don't have the ability to drop $700, let alone $400 on a new phone at one time. Monthly payments do alleviate this for many people.

The MXPE is a pretty good phone... but to many people VoLTE and other features like WiFi calling are important. And calling the MXPE camera second best in 2016 is laughable... let alone top 10.

The Galaxy S7 sells in the amounts it does because it is an excellent phone with flagship specs and features. This is no excuse for AT&T's actions.... but most people plain don't care about things like an unlockable bootloader and root access.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] brianray14:
OP, I'd love to hear your opinion on the additional bloat packed in with the oct security patch
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] the Doctor:
THREAD CLEANED:
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] 4kki94:
Nice, Now try It

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[Galaxy Note II Android Development] szunyi77:
WOoowwww new rom! Thanks! I'll try it! Ivan the base cm13?

Galaxy note 2 n7100
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] Taker18:
CM13 Base

Regards,

Taker18
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] ceomaverick:
1. No wipe. Nothing? Flash just like that?

2. Screenshots?
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] j santi:
testing the rom to see that this will
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] Taker18:
edit first post, wipe data

Regads,

Taker18
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] 4kki94:
Bluetooth work √

Auto rotation work √

WiFi work √

Another good ROM :)

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[Galaxy Note II Android Development] Taker18:
Thanks for Feedback!

Regards,

Taker18
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] dmroopesh:
Whoa! man another rom. Roms are just showering on us.

Never expected this much CM13 roms for N7100. Kudos to the developer. :)
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] Taker18:
HOPE YOU GUYS ENJOINING THIS ROM!!!

Regards,

Taker18
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] Yingmu:
Project crDroid - closed or will be updated?
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] Taker18:
Updated

Regards,

Taker18
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] 4kki94:
Sometimes nitification bar show when i push in bottom of dispay, its a feature or bug ?

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[Galaxy Note II Android Development] 4kki94:
Bug in lockscreen, shortcuts show in launcher when and not in lockscreen...

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[Galaxy Note II Android Development] ceomaverick:
First Impressions:

1. Everything important to me is working: 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth and Video Player.

2. As good as advertised.

3. I just did a factory reset on TWRP and flashed the ROM (Without flashing Gapps, SuperSu). Surprisingly enough, I have both Gapps and root access . Maybe because I came from RRemix ROM. No boot loops, etc

4. The recent apps panels lags a bit as it did in RRemix.

5. All the rest is great.
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] silentvisitor:
A new star :good: BEANSTALK [MENTION=3400932]Taker18[/MENTION] :good::good::good:
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] Taker18:
Thanks Mate!

Regards,

Taker18
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] silentvisitor:
[MENTION=3400932]Taker18[/MENTION]

Wow....you're once again on roll ;):good:

Any chance you can cherry pick Power Menu QS tile?

Thanks !
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] andymg:
I installed the 26th April version. Now my lockscreen does not activate. I use the vanilla Android swipe lockscreen. But when I press the Home button, my home screen is displayed. No lock screen. Any help?

Andy
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] brokenaxe:
YouTube keeps crashing for some reason, anyone having the same problem? Video loads awhile and then crashes. On 26th build. Dirty flashed over last build. Thanks.
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] Trafalgar Square:
YouTube known problem.

Will be fixed in the next version.
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] Malaquai:
Hi, I've problems with some themes. After apply, phone signal is lost, then come, and lost again, then freeze phone and finally reboots. The only way to recover the control is change quickly to system theme after reboots. Any idea?

Edit, now, while downloading new 4/26 version and write this main message, occurs the same. But the theme was applied yesterday, the only way to recover the control of the phone and stop the boot loop was change theme and wipe caches from recovery.
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] silentvisitor:
[MENTION=3400932]Taker18[/MENTION]

"Remove cyngn dialer" What's different, buddy ?
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] Trafalgar Square:
Lol.

You can't say big change log. It's not big [emoji23]

Thanks for update, everything working
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] Taker18:
haha this is my template bro :D that's way [emoji23]

:good:
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] jer194:
Thanks as well.

However: "Everything working" is really hard to achieve, for something as complex as an Android OS..

Eg what about Screenrecording App?

It is possible to record, however the files created cannot be played, they are corrupted.
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] Roosterno1:
Hi, I installed this ROM at the weekend, and it worked fine,but today I turned my phone on and I have zero sound on phone calls ! Even speaker mode is silent....

No dialling tone, or voice is heard...the other end can hear me however...tried all the volumes to no avail.

Tried my sim in another phone, and that's fine.

Any ideas please ?

Thanks
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Dear Taker,can you name the microsdcard to sdcard1 or some thing like just as in Trafalgar's Temasek ROM.(Dear Trafalgar,please don't feel offended).
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] Trafalgar Square:
Lol :D

Man it's a proper request. No Problem :)

But it's Temasek feature and only the developer of this ROM can pick it.
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] brokenaxe:
try this in Terminal.. Might work

su

pkill mediaserver
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] pnsdhrn:
Thank you Trafalgar Square.Then it is a Temasek trade mark. Isn't it?He should be admired for this unique feature.It is because of this feature mainly I am adhered to your ROM.This helps me adapt several apps such as Snap Camera HDR,BoldBeast,Social Videos etc without any readjustments.Once again quidos to you and Temasek.
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] Roosterno1:
Sorry guys..dumped this ROM - I needed my phone working !:rolleyes:
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] cidxtc:
Got it installed on my wifes s4 now to just get it on my note 2.

Edit: if only I could get bs compiled for d851 (my tmobile g3) then it could be on every device I have. Lol
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] hellercz:
Hi,

pls can you help me, how to disable camera sound ? :) I have built google camera from Gapps.
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] evilpacer:
Do you know when the sd card format as internal memory as been fix ?

Thank you
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] hellercz:
Another question. It isnt google camera. Its built cm camera. When i want to install and run google camera, app crash :(
[Galaxy Note II Android Development] silentvisitor:
Good update [MENTION=3400932]Taker18[/MENTION] :good:

Thanks !