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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] treepog:
Totally tubular and absolutely...and hence the reason we are still waiting. Back to the original discussion of the thread. What are the benefits (if any) to doing the ##BRAND# procedure? and are the steps in post #211 correct? :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] th3 game:
There are particular parts of the phone that get locked up when the phone figures out what carrier it's with, as well as bloat from that carrier. Being with Sprint, I can tell you that the Sprint branded apps will be gone (if you do this after a factory restore I presume). As well the APN settings are locked or straight up not available on some carriers versions. At the end of the day, it sounds like the code makes the phone like it was when it came out of the box (not connected to any carrier).

I've not tested it but I might since I have my trusty Nexus as a backup device and this one is already giving me fits
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] TechBSwift:
Does all the U.S have the same built in radios? I'm wondering if you do the ##brand# if that will allow you to use the phone on any carrier.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] th3 game:
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My friend, I was wondering the same thing. I don't believe they do. Hence why it's so hard to move phones around on carriers. I know sprint can't take am s7 from any other carrier, same with Verizon and so on. In theory, an s7 with TMO could swap right over to AT&T (both use GSM) after doing something like this, provided those radios are updated/installed. Wouldn't be a problem if we had our recovery mode ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] CVertigo1:
I disagree with this statement. Even the elite developers started off as a nobody before they made their claims to fame.

---------- Post added at 10:07 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:04 AM ----------

I have been extremely busy with work and a friends wedding, but most importantly his bachelor party lol. I haven't had a chance to test the OP's method, but I will as soon as I find the chance to play with phones. I have looked over his method and it looks like a dead end, but I'm willing to explore it in the off chance that it is helpful.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] magoo5289:
Wasn't directing that at you by any means, hope you had a blast at the bachelors!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] CVertigo1:
I didn't think it was directed at me, so no worries. I just don't rush to discredit someone because they aren't well-known.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] Bubba Fett:
We also should not speak badly of the OP. He found something interesting and shared it. He never claimed to be able to full develop it. Maybe all of these "interesting " things brought into the light can work together and get real progress. If anyone is upset by another possible dead end, then go get a masters in Android and come back and do something yourself.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] fazzix:
What happened to the guy said he found root? was that a lie?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] meyerweb:
Read the 6 or 8 posts above yours.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] CoogiMane1996:
I'm on the edge but still reading if someone did it yet. I don't mind trying it on my S7 Edge T-mobile variant
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] brendan802:
With how complicated things are its damn near impossible for a newbie to find root. The only way I forsee someone new to deving finding s7 root would be purely luck.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
I really don't think this guy is new to this. I think he's just new to this forum in particular.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] TechBSwift:
also there's thousands of programmers in the world who are not on XDA or any site for that matter. It's very possible that someone new steps on the scene and does something amazing. The OP has been on XDA since 2011. If he did lie, I'm not sure what he has to gain from it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] jdidtht:
Furthermore he wasn't working by himself either. So, again, everyone needs to just sit back and relax bickering or debating ones credit in ops own thread is disrespectful and pointless. Patience is a virtue
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] v8dreaming:
I volunteer my phone if needed. If it bricks it, there are ways to get a new one. I'm on T-Mobile with PD7.

Also, start banning people that are constantly posting off topic.

Maybe people will finally get the hint.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] TechBSwift:
I mean no disrespect to the OP, however it's polite to update the tread where he/she stated root has been obtained. If he thought he found root, but turned out to be false it's okay. It's not his sole responsibility to find root, we all knew when we purchased a samsung device that they are extremely locked down.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] rdeets:
They could be keeping mum to prevent Samsung from patching the exploit before they can release a method.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] the Doctor:
THREAD CLEANED

In particular, I've deleted all the requests to close the thread. We don't close threads just because they don't turn out the way people want them to.

We will allow discussion to continue here on the original topic. Please review the OP carefully to see what that is. Further off-topic posts will be deleted and users dealt with accordingly.

Carry on...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] ali87va:
As far as the CROM service apk goes, I believe China has it also and they launch the app and it automatically unlocks their bootloaders,I was actually researching this last night. I found two different CROM apk files one of them force closes immediately and the other gives you a prompt that your bootloader will be unlocked but once you hit OK, it returns an error message.

EDIT: I've also posted this in the tmobile s7 edge forum for more research if developers can help.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] fazzix:
download link?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] rockspin:
Is this method only for The Chinese variants? Says snapdragon 820... http://bbs.gfan.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=8314207&extra=
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] fazzix:
It seems like they got root for chinise versions ugh I miss root.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] billydroid:
They do hace a qualcomm 820 variant. Bit who knows how they actually got the unlock. Could be a fault in the Chinese build and probably won't help at all. But also it might, certainly worth looking into.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] UnixSlayer:
Except it won't work without a internet connection..... it all comes down to the carriers, not Samsung.....

Sent from my unrooted #BootLoaderGate SM-G935T
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] rdeets:
So... Would a VPN be able to route the outgoing connection to a Chinese IP, tricking the device into unlocking the bootloader?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] ali87va:
Don't think so since the servers check the phone or something. Definitely wouldn't hurt to try though.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] TechBSwift:
I just read through the instructions and they seemed almost too easy. They are doing the following....

1. Brush to step <br /> Setting: Developer options open ---- OEM unlock open ---- USB Debugging open

2.Simple Steps Official ZCU2APD1 firmware wire brush into the system -OEM unlocking - wire brush recovery- enter REC Shuangqing restore the factory - tick data and mount the sd card - brush into the BETA-SuperSU-v2.71- brushing clear cache / dalvik- return to re-enter the card recovery- brush no-verity-opt-encrypt.zip- reboot into the system!

Could it really be this simple? Oem unlock, flash pd1, flash supersu and profit?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] stryver:
Edit: Whoops, misunderstood.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] Xileforce:
The Chinese variant is bootloader unlocked. So yes...it is that easy...but only for them[emoji14]
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] diligent7771:
I think you need to try to ask the Chinese how he did it maybe he will help our developers to make Root.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] canynballa:
Is there anyway to deconstruct their bootloader unlock apk to make to work with ours?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] ali87va:
Don't think so,I have one of the apk's to unlock the bootloader that has been modified to run here but it still gives an error when it pings back to the servers....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] canynballa:
So there's something that has to be done on the carrier's side? that sucks but thank you for the answer.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] ali87va:
Carriers blame manufacturers and vice versa,you're welcome man. I'm doing research on my end whenever I have time to see what I can do also.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] stryver:
So i can trick it to get past the fact that i have no connection but still fails to open app. Honestly it seemed to make no difference as to whether i had a connection or not. Seems like its not even trying to communicate before giving up.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] ali87va:
Yea, I already tried that lol. I've been tinkering with it for a while now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] AKW:
Regarding the CROM Service app, I think it's a dead end.

From what I understand this app only unlocks a specific layer of the bootloader (or something like that) that our phones simply do not have. The Chinese phones have a CROM lock, which is what this app unlocks, but the problem is our phones don't have this lock, so even if we manage to spoof the app somehow, it'll attempt to unlock a lock that doesn't exist. Our phones are locked differently than theirs are.

Again, this is just my interpretation from the info I read. This is way above my head, so I could definitely be wrong.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] MegaNoob:
That how i see it also
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] 1991mustang50:
Have you tried to pull logcat while hitting ok see what might be missing or what its looking for? But i think i read in a different thread some people/delevoper tried this but dead end! Cause i thinks was a something missing. I wonder if we if t mobile 7 edge could flash chinese rom? Then maybe crom would work and unlock but if it was that easy i think some develope would of figured it out already!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] fmmatrix95:
Ok, so I've done research on some GSM forums and I found an interesting thread. They were able to carrier unlock the SM-935P and SM-930P without root or bootloader unlock using NCK dongle and app. I know the topic here is about root and bl. unlock but this might be helpful too. I'm kind of beginner on those stuff, so sorry if this has nothing to do with this topic. this is the link http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f826/nck-dongle-samsung-module-v0-8-3-update-released-featuring-galaxy-s7-24-5-2016-a-2094421/#post11836248
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] Chrisxxx123:
Anyone here tested that link? /tried it on their phone?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] canynballa:
It's to us your phone outside the US. I don't trust GSM forum after the last thing I downloaded (falcon box) had a trojan virus.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] fmmatrix95:
all of them will say they have viruses and that is because the applications are cracked not really bought. however if u see what they have written on that forum, they say just disable it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] rotondo2k:
This sounds pretty legit to me someone should try this out if the sprint s7edge can be unlocked then tmobile definately has a big chance
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] canynballa:
I thought it says it just unlocks the sim not the bootloader.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] fmmatrix95:
just to clarify. this method will unlock the carrier so that you can use your device outside the US not inside. However, I'm interested in the method they use which might lead us to an exploit they found somewhere.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] v8dreaming:
The partitions are different. The Chinese Rom can't be installed on our phones.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] diligent7771:
the program can't put on the computer already visited the windows 7, and windows 10 not getting error what could be wrong or it's corrupted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] Son Rise:
What about Windows XP?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] fmmatrix95:
If you install the app it will not work untill you plug in the NCK dongle that is fully activated, same thing if you have the NCK box. However some people got it to work without the dongle but they have done it for previous versions that will not support our device.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] hellsgods91:
ran into a giant fking problem and the pe1 update really fked everything up.....it looks like sprint and samsung are active members of this fourm and the latest patch counted out exploit and actually killed them we just now today go them back on and working...one we can confirm this is safe for everyone we will post full tutorials and all the rest just relax everyone not
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] TehPirate_:
Any progress is good news to me. Keep us posted. My S7 is still on release software so your progress is great to hear.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] treepog:
Thanks for the update!! My sprint s7 is also original. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] milojoseph:
This is what I liked to here
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] FNGHobo:
Same here I am waiting patiently. I thank you for all the hard work
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] fazzix:
Hope it works on tmobile versions too
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] UnixSlayer:
People better make sure these two are disabled.... the firmware can be updated by them at anytime, even though you have updates disabled.

Sent from my unrooted #BootLoaderGate SM-G935T
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] bearklaws:
thanks ...did not know about them two
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] fazzix:
[IMG="Just disabled it"]http://i.imgur.com/SL2Z6V8.png[/IMG]
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] stryver:
I have security patch may 1st tmobile pd7 firmware, am i in the clear?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] beachbumsurfs:
How do you disable?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] stryver:
Package disabler pro. Should actually be in the playstore. You have to allow administrative privelages
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] v8dreaming:
Spies everywhere, man. All the carriers and manufacturers are on here.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] treepog:
How do I disable those two??
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] modoggs:
I don't see either of those two updates on my vzw s7 edge. This is what I have disabled using package disabler below (I didn't disable ConfigUpdater. Am I in the clear?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] v8dreaming:
I don't recall seeing those before T-Mobile's PD7 update.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] treepog:
Just installed package disabler pro and im trying to activate it. I am getting a message from klms agent and i have to agree to terms before it will activate. Is this correct? Do i agree to this klms agent? Thanks in advance
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] stryver:
In package disabler search "urgent"
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] UnixSlayer:
Yes...

Sent from my unrooted #BootLoaderGate SM-G935T
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] stryver:
That just proves they will never willingly unlock the bootloader. Likely xda is being used as a guiney pig and an example of samsungs ability to keep hackers at bay.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] KaptainRandom:
Are these the only 2 need to disable on sprint?

I've seen others (5 or more per carrier) on other threads, which I could not id on my sprint carrier phone.

I'm still on PB5.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] sirslipzalot:
Is it plausible to Odin back to PB5?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] Son Rise:
I was wondering the same. I doubt it tho
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] stryver:
Actually i think you can since there was no firmware version change.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] KaptainRandom:
what about security policy updates?

others?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
I exported an xml of my current setup which has the right update packages disabled along with a couple other apps that are worth disabling. If you can't find an app after importing the xml, search for it and undisable it.

The link for the xml is here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_N52PsA2pXpWVhGbWZ2MTJCdTQ/view?usp=drivesdk

Here's how to import it after you download it.

Open package disabler pro (or any package disabler app should work I think)

Then open the menu

Then select "import from xml"

Select and import the file you just downloaded

Press "ok" when this prompt comes up
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] Son Rise:
The full firmware with odin?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] jdidtht:
Should
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] stryver:
It should, if you can find the firmware.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] KaptainRandom:
There's some 'tmobile' specific items in there,

and others which I don't find at all or corresponding 'sprint' items,

and they seem to be possibly carrier update specific.

I'm only looking to block system firmware updates.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
I think the only tmobile specific package disabled is "tmobile name id" and some bloatware. According to another thread, the update specific packages are the same for each device despite the carrier. This should work with sprint devices too.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] treepog:
To stop updates... Should these be disabled as well?

com.sec.android.soagent

com.samsung.sdm

Thanks in advance
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
I don't have those disabled and I haven't gotten any updates, so I don't think you have to disable those.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] jpcloudsurf:
I haven't been forced an update either. Ever. Idk how that happens and I've had 3 different carriers. I also haven't had any packages disabled because disabler pro made my phone act weird.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] treepog:
Thanks for the replies. I had a couple notifications to update when i first got the phone (early May). I declined them and it has not happened again. Im just terrified of waking up one day and finding the phone updated without my permission. Especially when it seems like root may almost be at hand!! :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] meyerweb:
Make sure you select to display System apps in the settings menu.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] th3 game:
Quick reply to this:

The chinese varient has a different kernel than our US variant. This was discussed heavily in the TMO edge forum (the grand-daddy of all these root forums). There is a partition (if i recall) in the device that allows this to work and ours doesn't have that, so CROM will do nothing to our device.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] canynballa:
I'm not sure if this is off topic but if someone finds a root method for the S7 will there be hotspot hack?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] TechBSwift:
Well considering the conversations in thread have little to do with the OP, your good.

To answer your questions, once root is obtained, achieving the Wi-Fi hack is pretty simple. Now with that said I can not, and will not guarantee that your carrier can't tell your using a hack. Most of the time carriers don't care as long as your not abusing it, like those who use 100gb a month lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] canynballa:
Well before my S7 I had a rooted S5 with unlimited data, unlocked hotspot and I abused the hell out of it. Now I miss it lol.

Thanks for answering my question.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] stryver:
Looks like someone was able to extract the qualcom keymaster keys. Not sure what this means for the s7 cause im not a dev, but this sounds like a big deal.

https://mobile.twitter.com/laginimaineb/status/737051964857561093
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] Studio1b:
hope something comes from that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] sirslipzalot:
[MENTION=4098325]hellsgods91[/MENTION] Hey man, is this anything that could help development at this point? Not sure if pertains at all to the Edge, but maybe it can help move forward on the bootloader? Wanted to make sure you see this.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] billydroid:
This compromises encryption.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] UnixSlayer:
And should break the following....

https://twitter.com/laginimaineb/status/737616849072836608

Sent from my unrooted #BootLoaderGate SM-G935T
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] th3 game:
http://xdaforums.com/sprint-galaxy-s5/general/how-to-enable-native-hotspot-version-tw-t3196917

I used this before when i first got my s7. it worked then, though i havent used my hotspot since, so i've got no idea if it still works or has been patched. Check it out
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] Son Rise:
What does it dooo.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] th3 game:
It unlocks the native wifi-hotspot feature of all phones running TouchWiz post 5.0 (Lollipop).

Anyway, this is off topic of the OP's post.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] konoplya:
thanks my man! the first two on the list disable the software update in the about device menu. it used to notify my ten times a day and now it's gone. even when I click on software update nothing happens. this is great!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] spyderdreams:
Not for the S7.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] pantmunu:
The said exploit should work for devices running Qualcomm processors.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] canynballa:
Well he said he did it on a old nexus 6 but I still have mu fingers crossed I've been holding out for the S7 to get a root method.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions & Answers] stryver:
It all depends on whether a dev wants too do the hard work of getting us started with this exploit. Im sure an update will be coming soon to patch it, though all devices that have a snapdragon are vulnerable to this exploit as of now. Now we just play the waiting game for this exploit to be released. If you look at the twitter account of this guy:

https://mobile.twitter.com/laginimaineb/status/737051964857561093

He mentioned in a week the exploit will be released.