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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] meyerweb:
I'm using a host-file base ad-blocker without root. And while I agree the xposed framework adds lots of features, it also tends to add lots of instability. Yes, I'm missing some things by not rooting, but I'm also enjoying the stability and reliability that I never seemed to have on my rooted devices.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] maroc84:
So would you tell me how you manipulate /etc/hosts without root access? Too late but if I would have known a way without rooting I would have stood unrooted (maybe a bit ????) longer.

Yes, if you have root access you are responsible for your actions. You can't rely on others to fix your fault or mistakes from others (e.g. bugs, misleading how-to's). But with great power comes great responsibility bla bla.

I'm the Linux type of guy, you know...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Ausboy 2011:
i was going to root for adblock but i flashed xrt fw on my r7000 router and added a script that blocks the ads at a router level. problem solved
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Beefheart:
Xposed doesn't mean instability, using badly coded modules or modules that aren't compatible with your Android version does that, so the user simply needs to know how to avoid that. I'm using 5-6 modules and have no instability whatsoever. And as for enjoying the overall stability, my phone is no less stable than it was before I rooted it. More so I'd say given the superior control I have over every aspect.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] maroc84:
And outside your building? VPN to home router (with adblock)? Then what about a separate vpn in terms of privacy/avoid regional blocking? Setting this up in the router and route mobile traffic through it, would slow things down.

100% agree
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Beefheart:
Unless you're out the house and need to use your data instead of course. Personally, I get 15gb of data a month and commute and work over 50 miles from where I live, so I do most of my browsing and online activity through my phone data. Your solution wouldn't work for me.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] adamo86:
Can someone help I sent a pic is my knox tripped
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] souljasteve84:
It appears as if it has been tripped.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] luxandroid:
Yes
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] samteeee:
My daily driver has been an iPhone 6S+ but always have had an Android phone starting with Nexus One.

The only reason I joined Android was & has been Root & Modification! So although I appreciate

the fact that this phone is almost perfect the way it is, But I will Root as soon as it is possible!

Thank you.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] konoplya:
i ordered a dual sim version of the S7 (non edge) and am on the fence of rooting. right now have the tmobile version. is xposed really worth the root and losing warranty and some features?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Brava27:
If you're asking that then no. It's not worth it.

Sent from my Pebble Time
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] konoplya:
I'm asking because I've never used xposed. I upgraded from my old nexus 4 lol
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] meyerweb:
I think the answer is still the same. If you can't say why you need Xposed, or root, then you probably don't need it. If you look into the available Xposed modules, and find something that's more important to you than warranty, Samsung Pay, and the other things you lose, then you'll be able to decide for yourself.

What makes root important to someone else may not matter to you at all, so you really need to decide what's important to you.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] konoplya:
very true. thanks for the response. one thing i'd love to root for is to put an aosp rom on it, but i guess that's not possible for the galaxy even with root. yes, true i could have got a nexus, but no sd card for me is a deal breaker among other things. another thing i'd root my phone for is to be able to remap the screenshot key combo to power + vol instead of home button for one handed operation. didn't know samsung had it different than other android phones. but again, from what i searched recently i don't think i'll be able to do that with root either (unless i'm wrong).
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] meyerweb:
The easiest way to do a screen shot on a Galaxy is to swipe the screen with the edge of your hand, left to right (and maybe right to left -- never tried that). Still can't be done one-handed, though.

Settings / Advanced features / Palm swipe to capture
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] konoplya:
a kind fella told me about an app called All in one gestures that you can map functions to buttons. I mapped a long press to a home button to take a screenshot, works like a charm. no root required.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] farfromovin:
Besides hardware and software getting more "beastly" negating the need for some to root and ROM, there's also the fact that Samsung Pay will be broken forever if Knox is tripped even once. Good reasons to keep new Sammy phones stock.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] TCPDump:
Aside from updating host files I have no reason to root. I'm happy with everything else. I'm not even wanting to change hosts to block ads my ASA takes care of that.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Error404html:
Me Me I like everything at the moment.

keeping there galaxy s7 edge as stock with no root.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] hardik190:
The grace UX hitting the stock in august wohoo ? whole shstem update
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] the Doctor:
From what I've read it's only rumored to be making a debut on the Note 7, and there's no word of it coming to any other Samsung devices ATM.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Ati75:
I didn't want to root my s7 edge, but i made the mistake of flashing dbt csc (Germany unbranded single csc). Wifi calling will only work with the csc of my provider (T-mobile Germany DTM). But since this is a multi-csc, and the default csc of this is dde (no volte, and no wifi calling) and i can't seem to get back to dtm, i will have to root. Major bummer. Should have read more before going this route... But then again, i don't plan to use features like samsung pay. Anything else i will loose when rooting (apart from tripping knox)? No official OTAs anymore, but i can just as easily flash the newest firmware using odin, or is this not possible? I was/am quite happy with my unrooted s7, and i am still holding out for another way of achieving this.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] biggiebro:
start tinkering with nokia then windows mobile. when android first come out the phone was rooted as i am testing at the shop. its a hobby that is so addictive that the cycle is always new things today then spend the rest of the week modifying it. them restart the cycle.

however, after opo, i decide to go stock therefore after careful consideration i chose s7e. admittedly it will not go to its optimum level, but the stock is good enough aesthetically and the phone is powerful enough for my needs... as of now 7days
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] drummerman:
I do sometimes wonder if the performance issues folks experience over time have something to do with constantly changing their roms/flashing and playing around with every conceivable variant.

I take complaints posted on here with a pinch of salt. Having said that, there are issues that affect all and it is good to solve them as a group.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] M@rtyn04:
Maybe some day in the future (when the warranty has run out), I might root mine. But until then it's remaining stock.

Flashing and rooting just for the sake of it doesn't do it for me any more. Had (and actually still have) the HTC HD2 which I flashed with just about everything that came along...... Windows Phone, Android, Ubuntu and even Windows 95. That was a colossal device! Rooted some of my previous Androids too. But since my last phone, the Note Edge, I've not bothered even rooting. Have i missed much? No, because Samsung and PlayStore offer nearly everything my heart desires. And I don't have to worry about tripping Know and losing my warranty.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] sahil sharma:
I would love to root and install a debloated rom, but given no source codes are available for exynos chips, it doesnt make sense. I had the hTC one m7 and flashed it with so many roms to finally settle with MiUI / viper rom.

But no such luck with samsung. I dont want to simply flash another TW based rom.

And i am sure not buying a high-end phone again, because they dont release the codes etc.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] miyuru4u:
Tried to stay with stock but bloats are sucking the battery.so i root and install debloated rom now it feels good and batt life is awsome.. now my SOT is 3.15 hours and batt left 60% medium usage with utube and gaming... feels awsome
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] drummerman:
I am surprised. I got the exynos version on stock TW and have superb battery life (stats posted previously). There are numerous options to disable any Samsung ware if needed anyhow.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] sangreal327:
Count me in!

I rooted my device and sold it. Bought a new one and I'm fine with it! :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] yusufkursun:
Hello friends, I have rooted my S7E several days ago. However, most apps are not working. Again and again I get a warning that the device is not rooted or has the app installed as SystemApp.

I have moved all the apps as system application with using another root app. Unfortunately, no success. The app "Root Checker" confirms that my phone has root access. I have Busybox installed because some root apps Busybox need. This method was unsuccessful. I use the latest version of TRWP and Busybox.

The "no-verity opt-encrypt" Zip is also installed.

The root process I have completely put back to secure the device to run without Problems.

pls, help
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Kiro Wagih:
My device is working flawlessly. I would like to root it once the warranty period is over.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] drummerman:
'Bloatware' doesn't suck battery. You can adjust what of the ware is active.

Usual misconception and user error.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] miyuru4u:
Some bloatware is starting with phone boot.. then it slows down the device and processor needs more power so it sucks battery up
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] drummerman:
You have 4gb ram and processor cores at over 2ghz.

C'mon :D
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] miyuru4u:
Yeah thats the problem.. bloatware using the processor so it will drain the battery...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Geoz:
You can disable as many bloatwares you want
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] beastmode206:
Iv been using package disabler from the app store and it seems to help. I would like to root my s7e but reading all the problems people are having im good..
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] bala_gamer:
Wow, I'm still unrooted after 3 months, unbelievable. First of a kind for me
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Goku80:
I still can't believe you are still around my man. Remember you from the galaxy s2 days. And yes I am still un rooted. Don't see the point to be honest anymore.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] troxter:
I would love to tests different roms,roots etc. But I use mobile banking 3-5 times per day. Only stock rom allow to do that...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] schn1tt3r:
AdAway alone forces me to root phone. I see no benefit from staying stock. Other than OTA and if you need Samsung pay.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] meyerweb:
There are non-root ad blockers available.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] oxxshadow:
nice to see you man, I remember your name on the I9100 threads
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] farfromovin:
Right, which require setting up ad hoc's every time you enable it. They seem to be battery hogs to me, compared to root available alternatives. That being said, the ad blocker for the Samsung browser works well enough for me (non rooted) and I'm happy with the device performance!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] meyerweb:
No, they don't. Search the forums.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] jnsday:
Samsung Pay is very useful , It can kill the apple pay...

haha
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Life Engineer:
I am still unrooted too... Dunno how much that will last... probably till next June when my Warranty expires.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] megatooth:
First unrooted Samsung phone, almost 5 months. Even I find it hard to believe.

But with the new Note7 ROM port, it's hard for me to stay unrooted...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] galenlau:
stay in stock too. (forced to)

my device is 9350, will root immediately if root is available
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] floopyb:
Trying to stay stock too! Its great!

Only thing im missing is skipping tracks with the middle button on my headset :(

Using Smart Pocket app to have double press volume up to skip tracks but isnt perfect.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] drummerman:
Stock here and it all works superbly
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] alehawk:
I am unrooted by force, I cant root it... i would like to add xposed and restore my other gallery app from the note 4 to recover the sync picasa option but I cant.. ill have to w8 till someone find how to root it :/
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] bala_gamer:
With note 7 rom ports coming up its gonna be hard to stay unrooted, will be rooting soon. Rooting only for the reason of trying note 7 rom amd grace ui
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] brouwerchris:
Read the thread of N7 port twice before you root,you're better of with stock and Grace UX or New UX theme......
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] teksin:
I just installed stock lastest PGO and rooting. YOu think an custom kernel can improve battery life ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] JohnGReco:
I root, regret it & went back to stock.

Now I can't use "My Knox" or "Samsung Pay".

Someone lend me a time machine.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Ati75:
I also rooted my phone, just to get my original csc back. But still didn't put a custom rom on it. Rather have the otas working, as i am quite happy with the stock rom. As im not going to use samsung pay or knox almost all is good...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] HeatOfLisboa67:
Don't blame you
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] stargateeer:
Problem with rooting S7 Edge

The main issue i have with rooting is that i will not be able to use Samsung Pay or Android Pay. Is there a way to to this on a rooted device?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] bala_gamer:
I beleive there is some xposed module to make it work again
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] dogredwing1:
I'm keeping mine stock as the US model use the engineering kernel for root and make my phone very laggy and has bad battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] FsocietyXDA:
why would you want to keep it stock, first of all. and second, that was a while ago. is it still stock, or have you rooted it now?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] McHale:
My unlocked Galaxy s7 Edge (935u) arrives today. I plan on keeping it stock, no root. It will be a first for me as well. I will add that had I known the 935u firmware could be easily flashed on the AT&T s7 Edge, I'd have done that (only to get a black phone instead of the silver that's the only color offered).

-Mc
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Root = lost warranty

So, no.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] dogredwing1:
Rooting doesn't void your warranty as long as you don't trip Knox your warranty will be fine.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] liquidguru:
And how do you do that then?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] dogredwing1:
Use the engineering kernel to root your device
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] liquidguru:
Please link to where I can do that with my Exynos S7 Edge
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] jankro:
Two hours after getting my S7 edge, I rooted it. Before that it was good and after rooting, it's nearly perfect!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Tripledrop:
So I didn't think this was possible, so please provide further info!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] AbuYahya:
I am having trouble having both adblock and firewall together. I can get an apk for each which both use a vpn service. Then the difficulty is running two vpn's simultaneously.

Any ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] liquidguru:
I use Adguard. It has a built in firewall
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] meyerweb:
There are some workarounds for Android Pay, that work for some phones and some root methods. There is no work-around for Samsung Pay. Once Knox is tripped, Samsung Pay will never work on that device.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Galactus:
Engineering kernel is for Snapdragon only and performance is horrible after using it.

Android Pay should work still with Systemless Root

Samsung Pay is dead unless the mainboard gets changed
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] mikeesch:
Stock toooooooo
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Tripledrop:
It does.. I use Magisk and just tried in Subway with no issues

And just to point out, I decided to stay stock since March when I got my s7 edge.. Rooted a few days ago, can't believe I didn't before lol

So many things I missed having, and just put up with! Will never not root again :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] StonedPanda:
Everything work flawlessly with the Magisk root? There's always seemed to be issues using non-modified roots for Sammy, and have you had a go at using the Xposed?

Wanting a little feedback before I make the jump, because currently I'm rooted and Xposed, just wanting some system updates!

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] nitrous²:
No, an engKernel for the Exynos variant is available, thanks to [MENTION=293193]billa[/MENTION] and people already started working on it. Performance is, as people reported, very good after the Kernel has been tweaked. They pretty much achieved root, like, you have root via ADB but because of dm-verity, you can't keep SU binaries in /system or anywhere except user storage. So, no SuperSU right now. The last hurdle is to disable dm-verity without tripping Knox, which I personally think the chances for that are very, very low.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Tripledrop:
Yeah, I'm freshly rooted, using xposed and Magisk..

I quickly toggled Magisk in the ship yesterday, and Android pay worked as usual

Only issue I had was when I installed my latest Rom (superman 1.12) I lost root, so had to manually flash phh root

Anything else you wanna know?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Hani88:
CF. Lumen app is a big reason for me to root
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] brouwerchris:
S7Edge lasted 6 months without rooting.

First phone to last that long non rooted.

Could not resist the temptation of Jesec N7 port.

At the moment no regrets,maybe in the long run if S7 stock gets the N7 / Grace system UI.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] nitrous²:
Ho could you...man, I've been burnt more than one time by rooting a Samsung device, the device breaking and then being denied repair under warranty. I hate consumer laws in Europe. I've never heard a US user having his warranty denied because of root or a tripped Knox counter. Only in Europe you deal with this kind of sh*t. Thinking of moving to the United States just so companies stop screwing me.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] swiftfury:
Will be staying stock until warranty expires, only reason to root for me is to get rid of those annoying YouTube and App ads.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] nitrous²:
I'm using AdGuard (11 day free trial. After trial period you have to buy limited or unlimited license). It blocks ads system-wide using a local VPN. Alternatively, you can use "Block This" which uses the same local VPN method but is, AFAIK, free. For YouTube, though, you have to use YouTube App Ver. 11.13.56 arm64 in combination with aforementioned ad blockers. Newer versions of the YouTube app still show ads.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Michiel0912:
Where in Europe do you live? Samsung will not deny a warranty claim for hardware malfunction even if your KNOX is 0x1. What happens sometimes is that you go back to the store and they send it to "a repair store", not an official Samsung service center. I never had any problems with tripped knox devices and warranty claims.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] nitrous²:
Germany

Samsung has authorized repair workshops. I've always been denied repair under warranty on devices with tripped Knox flag, every time it was a hardware defect/malfunction. We're talking about W-Support. Go ask them on Google+. They're gonna tell you exactly that. If I go directly to Samsung, they ask me to send my device to W-Support.

The reason they denied warranty (Garantie and Gewährleistung) was always the tripped Knox counter always with a screenshot of the download mode screen attached.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] forthtun:
Atleast in Sweden, there have been some problems with warranty with Knox. However, we have something called "Reclamation" besides the warranty. Its for the customers safety when you're not agreeing with the reseller (in this case samsung). While they're not bound to follow "Reclamation" they do it to 99% to not get a bad reputation which they do if they not follow it.

So, what happens is that you send in the rooted device to your reseller, if you are unlucky, they send it to a angry technichan at Samsung which will deny your warranty because rooted. However, in atleast the swedish reclamation rights a customer has, your are ALLOWED to change the software of your device (included rooting). So therefor you should threat with submitting the case to reclamation. They might still not do the warranty, so then proceed and submit the case to reclamation and tell Samsung about it and submit Samsung with a case id. Then they will "kind of forced" to fix the issue.

I have seen this happen in multiple forum threads on swedish sites. So lookup this in your own country what applies in reclamation.

Seems this could be a thread for all europeans, looks almost the same as the swedish

https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/legal/flashingdevices.en.html
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Hunkman:
Staying stock still but there's much of bloatware which drains the battery and taking the RAM away.

Planned to wait till Nougat.