yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Kidmet:
I dont even have hotspot in my settings. :( wonder why....

I did flash PE1 in odin. There were 5 files. Crc and home crc. I didnt do the home one. Wonder if thats part of it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] izzibew26:
i'm assuming youve gone through the entire rooting process, so I don't believe it would hurt anything to reflash the other csc.

What process did you use if you did root, i know you're setting apns up, did you disable the apps before you flashed the eng boot?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Kidmet:
I have. Not worried about having to go through again if i have to.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] xhaui:
Did you un-check auto-reboot in odin? That's caused issues for others.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Kidmet:
Left it checked

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Disabled apps, followed directions to the T. Everything is great except I don't have native hotspot. Boo.

Odd thing just happened. I flashed a stock firmware.... Nothing changed. Still rooted, everything. Now I'm even more stumped. If anyone knows hot to get native hotspot, I'd be super happy. That's the only reason I rooted/flashed engboot. haha

Last update. hard reset the phone after I flashed PE1 and it was back to stock. Went through the root process but didn't have to activate. All is good! I'd like to add the rest of the APNs that used to be in my APN list. Anyone have them?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] :
Apn

When I try to enter both apns from the 2nd post in op, one will erase and other will replace...I cant have them both. Is there a way to fix this, do you need both?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] izzibew26:
with the limited information i have i'd say since you have the time,wipe, re-flash the pe1, activate and take the ota . check your settings and make sure you have your hotspot + tethering available, then proceed with the appropriate steps for root. I won't be awake when you finish but good luck. Also, unsure how experienced you are, you might look into the CSC features for any extra tweaking, just be careful changing them if you don't know what it'll do. Don't hesitate to google it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] colormedroid:
Hmm.... are you sure about this? Because according to this http://www.credomobile.com/coverage/ just about everyone is on the CREDO network. Not to say that we're not but not so sure about those steps.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] dhonzik:
Has anybody figured out how to bring back network mode that was under Mobile Networks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] ryan2202:
Did you uncheck auto reboot on ODIN? are you also missing System Update, Activate, and APNs in Settings?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] jsmcmahon89:
Has this caused anyone else to lose people/apps edge? I flashed 935.

Nevermind got debloat happy and clipped cocktailbar service.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] jtash01:
Yes. I used to be on Sprint then switched to Credo Mobile. The Sprint APN settings do not work if the phone's SIM has been provisioned for CREDO. I also checked the APN settings on the phone before I started the posted root process using ##DATA# to confirm that the APN is n.w1.ispsn for CREDO mobile. This has been the same ever since my first Galaxy S4 that I had on CREDO.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] colormedroid:
OHHH, CREDO is a MVNO.... I see now. Face palm. My bad, haha.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] dhonzik:
No, I left it checked. System Update, Activate and APNs were still there. I have since gone back to stock will play with it again on the weekend
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
Those who rooted, did you lose the ability to use Samsung Pay?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] cuezaireekaa:
Yeah that will always happen.

There's always root cloak. You could try that. Maybe report back if successful
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Soooperstar:
Root cloak won't work for Samsung pay, but if you ever decide to go back to stock, it will work
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Son Rise:
Hey guys. I know I might be out of line for this question since root isn't really fully stable for us. But I was wondering about the bootanimations. Since they had it for the s6 edge? Will it be possible?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Son Rise:


http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6-edge/themes-apps/boot-animation-stylepas2001-t3116925
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] makane716:
I have the same problem here. However, my hotspot toggle disappeared about a month ago. Sprint hid it. I know that because when my hotspot toggle disappeared, I started using Pdanet/Foxfi. When I would activate wifi hotspot with Pdanet, through the notification bar pop-up, I could configure hotspot with the native settings. They were there, I just couldn't access them through my settings menu. They were hidden.

Now after the rooting process, "hotspot and tethering" is just gone.

I tried Pdanet yesterday and it seemed to start a wifi hotspot however, shortly after, (possibly unrelated) I started a bootloop cycle with dm verity check fails, which led to a factory wipe. I'm hesitant to try Pdanet again but I just may for the sake of testing.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] izzibew26:
Pulled a couple files if anyone wants to play with their apns a little bit, these are both buried on your device.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] :
Signal

My signal keeps droppin out with this root method or should I say chop shop dance. We need some real dev action on this.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Kidmet:
I reflashed PE1, hard reset and native hotspot came back.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] makane716:
Did you have to reflash the engineering boot img. and then adb supersu?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
As long as Knox was never tripped, right?

And this root method doesn't trigger Knox?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Soooperstar:
Correct on both
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] ryan2202:
Finally got this thing sorted out. Running pretty nicely right now but there is a hint of lag here and there. I will probably keep it like it is for now and hopefully some devs can come along and tweak it to make it better. Also want to stop messing with it for a day or so and see how battery life is.

Here are some screen shots for reference.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Kidmet:
yes.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] danweb66:
So I I got it rooted I had all the bells and whistles even got rid of lag. And thenvout of no where it just non stop started rebooting. And nothing could stop it. If you look at my SIG I've made quite a few mods and ROMs. Anyways like I said everything was great and then after a full day of use it just started rebooting non stop. I even in between reboots disabled everything I added and still reboot. I would say that this is not intended for daily use at all. Im going to wait a little bit. If this the only root option we have then I will redo it and start pulling log cats to try and fix it. I just feel that's too much effort when an easier more stable solution comes around.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] xhaui:
I fixed my lag issue by grabbing one of the CPU tweaker apps from the play store (I happened to have previously purchased a copy of FauxClock), setting the CPU governor to Interactive, and setting the minumum and maximum clocks to the 307Mhz and 1.59Ghz, respectively.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] makane716:
Ya. Happened to me about 36 hours ago. Bootloop with about 1 minute between loops. Not much time to try and disable things. Add in automatic software update attempts when booting to recovery followed by dm verity check fails. Staying with it for now though. This whole "locked bootloader by Samsung" thing makes my anus hurt.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] mhill1986:
Well, I think the journey's over for me for now. I've rooted successfully several times, but have kept running into problems that have required me to restore to stock, then start the process again. Now, when I go through the process, I run the root.bat command, everything seems to work, the device restarts, and...no root access. I've tried it several times, and still no root access. Anyway, I'm giving way too much time to this, and my wife is (rightly) starting to get really frustrated with it all. Time to move on. Hope you all can work the kinks out!

Not sure if it helps, but I started getting something new on restart. Before the lock screen, it prompts me to put in my pin unlock the device. Upon doing this, it removes some kind of encryption. I didn't set any encryption as far as I know, but since I started seeing this screen, root doesn't work. Not sure if is a new security update or if I just accidentally changed a setting.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] ryan2202:
Thanks. Installed 3C Toolbox, and Greenify. Will see how things go.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Eyezayah:
Doing this seems to have fixed the lag for me as well. Been rooted for a little over 24 hours. Hopefully I don't see the endless reboot that a couple guys started seeing after a day and a half.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] ryan2202:
I havent seen a single reboot yet since my latest root attempt. Had all kinds of issues during previous attempts (my own doing) but so far the last go-around is solid. The CPU tweak has definitely seemed to speed things up. The main places I was seeing lag were when pressing the home button if the screen was off, and then the fingerprint reader was slow. It was also slow when opening Settings and it would take a minute for sync to start after opening Email app. But right now its nearly instant response with no hesitation or jerkiness.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] themisterwilson:
Man, thanks a ton. This works great. The lag when unlocking was starting to get to me and this cleared it up instantly. Super easy fix. Not the cheapest app but it worked great. Appreciate this!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] xhaui:
I guess I should clarify - FauxClock is not the only app that will correct the lag issues, it just happens to be an app that I paid for in the past. Most other kernel tweakers should allow you to accommplish the same result for cheaper/free.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Eyezayah:
So far, the only thing I'm seeing that concerns me is my battery usage. Looks like Android System and Android OS are taking huge chunks of battery again. Going to give it a few days to settle down though. So far every root app I've tried is working. Thanks to the CPU tweaks my phone is running lag free now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] colormedroid:
Yup, I can definitely say this has fixed my lag. Not all of it mind you but a lot of it. I downloaded Kernel adiutor from the play store and change the CPU governor to Interactive. Read about this in another thread and was just trying this out before I posted it up in the FAQ's because I read somewhere someone started having problems after a day with it. I think I'll go ahead and put it up on the FAQ section
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] colormedroid:
Yea, the engineer boot.img is definitely not a daily driver. It's the way root has been achieved so far though. Sorry you're having so much trouble =(. Some of us have not had the same issues you and others have had. I for one have not had any reboots and I've been rooted since the root method came out. I guess your mileage may vary.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] makane716:
24 hours after 2nd rooting and no reboots. Running pretty smooth after cpu governor tweaks. [emoji2]
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] ryan2202:
Question: Has anyone gone into a Roaming area yet? Did you have calls, text and data service?

Just curious because I actually had roaming data issues on my stock S7 and wondering if I'll still have issues now that its rooted. I didnt manually update the APNs after rooting, just did the Activate method. So far LTE is super solid and fast. I have seen 3G come up a few times depending where I am at but have not yet seen the "R" come up for roaming. Can anyone confirm?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] rtarv321:
Newbie question:you recommend backing up before attempting the root process, using flashfire. I installed flashfire but it requires root. I confused. I also see later on in the thread where another user had ask about backing up, but I didn't see a response. Thank you for your hard work & dedication.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Soooperstar:
I don't think that you can being that flash fire requires the bootloader to be unlocked. Not sure if it's actually unlocked or not but won't hurt to give it a try. If you do..... Please report back
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] rtarv321:
What app would you use to backup before attempting root process. In the FAQ section it says to backup first using flashfire, but it requires root?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Soooperstar:
Can't really do a thorough backup without root, but I always backup everything to my Samsung account in settings. It will restore almost everything
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] makane716:
FlashFire does not require unlocked bootloader. It only requires root. This method of rooting being used does not unlock the bootloader.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Soooperstar:
I meant it requires unlocked to backup and restore according to chainfire, the developer that made it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] makane716:
Backup via sync settings with samsung account or google account. Samsung Kies(still working?) on pc. Wondershare has a nice pc backup program as well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] colormedroid:
Backup your device like your photos, text messages, music, etc lol. You can use smart switch to do just that actually.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] makane716:
To create a fastboot flashable backup, yes, you need an unlocked bootloader. You can still make user data backups with only root.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Soooperstar:
Right.... Thats what I told the guy asking. I use my Samsung account to backup data , but need a unlocked bootloader to do a full backup
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Chanman:
Has anyone confirmed that Titanium Backup works and you can wipe out all the crapware that Sprint pre-installs on the phone?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] LeftyGR:
Yes you can. I have only frozen stuff to start, just to be sure I didn't break any functionality I need. But I have been fully uninstalling stuff as I know I didn't break something.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] 70dad2:
Happened to me to twice. Both times it occurred while editing build prop for the WiFi fix. Second time it got stuck in boot loop.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] 1991mustang50:
Can and would anyone pull and post voicemail.apk and wificalling.apk that is rooted?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] ryan2202:
So it looks like for me I have no roaming data. LTE/3G are fine but it is not going into roaming mode. I made sure roaming is enabled and roaming guard is off. You can see I am not getting the "R" for roaming near the signal bar. Is this controlled by the APNs? Thoughts?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] makane716:
That might help explain why it happened to me then. I was trying to setup Pdanet/Foxfi.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] ryan2202:
Same happened to me when editing the build prop. Didnt go into a boot loop though. Once it came back up it was fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Eyezayah:
Anyone having issues with the phone heating up a lot after root? Also is fast charge slow for you?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] ryan2202:
No and no. If my phone sits a while its ice cold. Fast charge seems fine.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] makane716:
Same here. No and no.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] colormedroid:
Also no and no. Sometimes I do have to unplug my phone and replug my phone in to get fast charge going but that was the same as before root.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] mhill1986:
Hmm...has anybody tried rooting with the "secure startup" feature checked? This makes the user enter a pin to decrypt the phone before it will boot. I think this may be what has been making my root fail (it looks like it succeeds, and su is installed, but it doesn't end up with root permission) my last couple times. Maybe I'll try giving it a go tomorrow one last time. I just don't want to reflash stock and factory reset again if it doesn't work...:eek:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] omnirok:
I am having the issue that no one else seems to have. flash of boot.img goes fine, keep LTE settings, adb supersu and with root checker no root access. Can't use root only apps. Kind of sucks. I have factory wiped and restarted 5 times now with no luck.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Eyezayah:
I'll chalk it up to being a one off thing for me then.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] mhill1986:
Same here (see previous post). Are you using the "secure startup" feature?

Edit: Aha! Saw this confirmed as a bug over in the att thread. Secure startup prevents supersu from mounting correctly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] omnirok:
Seriously in love with you right now. It is now working.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Eyezayah:
This should be added to the instructions on post 2.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] colormedroid:
This was my thinking as well.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] colormedroid:
Alright, after knowing I can set up everything the way I like it's now time to try out the G935U firmware. Yes, this is the unlocked firmware =). I will post back with results and what not.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] ryan2202:
Ill probably be taking that plunge today too. Still not sure about my roaming issues on this one though.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] :
This is a joke!

Everything works with this method, except my signal keeps dropping. I know all you guys are expierencing the same thing. I manually put in my apns, tried methods in OP. Going back to my lovely Moto X Pure, purity is quality. Oh yeah did I say unlocked bootloader...lmao.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] themisterwilson:
I had an issue initially with my APNs completely vanishing during the whole rooting process, but after entering them manually.. Zero problems. Still get consistently great speeds and stability while at home, in transit, at work, and anywhere other than known trouble spots scattered around town. It's not the "one click root method" I grew accustomed to with my Note4 R.I.P. ? But it's a daily driver for me, and it's my only phone/internet/means of communication other than face to face.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] nrzhfirfn:
Just use cf auto root via odin
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] themisterwilson:
Is that available for this device now? How did I miss that?

If you mean for the Note4, that is what I meant i grown accustomed to. Only reason I have the s7 now is because I hosed the display when I dropped my Note :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] :
Apn

The apns dissapear because of the engineering kernel, theres only three apns listed, so I took the original apn.xml and replaced. Everything showed up 5 apns as the original stock ROM has and I still get drop outs on my signal.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] colormedroid:
Try Method B. I tried 935U firmware last night and went back to PE1. Rooted with data. Hang in there. You'll get it eventually.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Kidmet:
I believe it is in the APNS. I want to get the other 2 or 3 apn settings posted. I think I have one of them.

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Mine gets warmer.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] 1991mustang50:
Can you pull and post voicemail and wifi calling apks please?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Eyezayah:
Anyone found ways to make the battery better? I can't seem to make it through a day without having to charge since root. I have Greenify running, but it seems like Android OS and Android System are huge battery hogs right now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] jsmcmahon89:
I seem ok but I am running greenify and amplify. I know this isn't great but this is heavy usage by my standards.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] colormedroid:
Helped a lot after changing governor from performance to interactive.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Eyezayah:
I did this, but phone battery still isn't great and phone send to run hot. I might revert back to unrooted sadly. If I go back, will it cause me to lose everything?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] jonathanrvs15:
Hi any suggestion I tried to unroot but my phone is a loop from recovering boot and it doesn't let to go to the part that I can make a factory reset. I tried holding home + power + vol down and hit up vol as soon as I see the recovering boot words in blue color but keep booting. Plz any help
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] :
Hold power volume down and home till you get to download mode flash stock rom, that will wipe it but jus to be extra sure...after flashing reboot back to recovery to factory reset if you wanna really really make sure its factory stock.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] jonathanrvs15:
I already flash the stock rom and after I install the stock rom it dont let me get to the part of menu for factory reset and what it keep showing is the screen is the lock open and after that the goes to the blue screen with the android robot showing (Installing system update...) and after goes back to (Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge logo with the open lock).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] LeftyGR:
Which firmware Rev are u flashing? Also possible the one u are using is corrupt...?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] jonathanrvs15:
Samsung_G935P_VPU1APB5_v6.0.1_AP

This firmware

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I download another firmware as a zip file do I have to unzip or convert the zip file to tar.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] LeftyGR:
You extract the zip to flash in odin. Then, to make things easier, rename each .tar.md5 . Delete the .md5 from the name, so they're just .tar files.

I've heard reports that pb5 has problems unless you're already on it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] optimummind:
You can't go back to PB5. Security measures. You can flash other roms released after PB5 though.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] jonathanrvs15:
Thank you for your help. I fix it thanks to you... It was the firmware version that I was I using for first. It was corrupted.