yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Skizzy034:
Lol. I don't know if it's an app that enables it or an edit for an xml. I just restored to af2 so I'm not on U anymore. All I remember was that it was a setting in Settings>Display. I'll try to find out. Does your Verizon one have it?

Edit: Found out its a feature on all the S7's and S7E's but Samsung hides it on some carriers. It was hidden on AT&T until this latest update, but since there is no fw released to restore back to stock yet, I'm still on apf2. There is an app in the play store called "Display Scaling" that adds the menu to settings and you can use Nova I guess to access it also if you want but I would rather not download another app just for that. So I'm guessing it's something in others.xml.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] santiclaws:
I tried contacting winam, but never heard from him. Everything else works well, but I'd like to use your guide to improve battery life, and that needs Xposed to be installed. Do you have any other thoughts as to what I could try (other than returning to stock and starting over?) Thank you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] HamBone625:
Textdroid from the play store works well for changing DPI that's what I use on my nexus6 for my s7 I'm still on U so its native
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] xShotty:
AT&T SG7 Can't Send Texts Now

I just got an AT&T Galaxy S7 yesterday and I've run into a snag.

I can't send text messages or mms from the phone. The odd thing is that I can still receive texts from people. I can still send them from my Gear S2 when it is standalone.

I rooted last night, installed xposed, and ran a script to debloat and fix common bugs. I feel like the script is the issue, but I'd like to explore other options too.

If you guys have any ideas, please let me know and I'll keep you updated. Thank you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] LeftyGR:
[MENTION=1599591]psouza4[/MENTION]

Whenever you get around to an update for your zips, here are a few apps that currently do not get debloated via your scripts. This is with the Sprint S7E, and I'm not sure if it affects any other models:

/system/app

AmazonInstantVideo

AmazonKindle

AmazonMP3

AmazonPhotos

BasicDreams

Drive

FBMessenger_stub

Photos

YouTube

And this appears to be knox related:

SamsungDLPService

/system/priv-app:

AmazonShopping

HancockOfficeEditor_New_Hidden

Lookout

All folders are as exactly written.

And I don't think you need to update just for this, but next time you do.... thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] :
You replaced the imsservice.apk with the Verizon one when you flashed the fix.zip. You will need to pull the original from the firmware version you are on and replace it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] xShotty:
Alright, thank you. I will give that a shot.

Edit: Just replacing the file doesn't fix anything. Kept saying com.android.phone had crashed. Throwing the one I had installed back in didn't help either and had the same issue. I had to re-flash the debloat script zip.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] IHurricaneFloyd:
I must be overlooking something here but I've gone through the steps and my phone will not communicate with Odin in download mode whatsoever. It will communicate with Odin otherwise though. I have Uninstaller and reinstalled drivers, add, tried re-downloading Odin, tried other cables and USB ports. It seems everything goes as it should until trying to flash it. I am using the tracfone galsxy s7 sm-g930vl
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Rhubarbb:
So I've read through the thread and I've seen different suggestions concerning what to do if unrooted on APE1 versus PF2. What is the general consensus? Wait for zip to tether? Or just root regardless?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
I replied to your PM about this.

Thanks for the notes! I believe Photos and YouTube is in one of my two unbloats, but if you've updated the app from the Play Store, it can't be deleted from /system until you uninstall the update. The rest I'll check up on. :D

The IMSService.apk included in my guide is universal to all models and firmwares of our phone, not exclusive to Verizon.

Have you tried both versions of Odin posted in this guide? Some have better luck with the other version.

If you care about free tether and have a Verizon device, then you may want to stay on PE1, otherwise you're free to use any version (firmware PE1 or later for best compatibility).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Illogi.xbone:
Go get nova launcher, add a widget (nova activities), find settings in the list, find display scaling, click and hold it. Profit. Works on any s7 even without root

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If they wish to tether the checks are not on u firmware. I wanted stock kernel and tethering and got exactly that
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] LeftyGR:
Neither are in v 15. Amazon MP3, Amazon Store, and Hangouts are there, but spelling is slightly different. Basic Dreams is in there with exact spelling, which makes no sense...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Skizzy034:
Yes, and there is also an app called Display Scaling that does it. However, I want to enable the setting in the actual settings app like on the newest FWs. If those apps can access it, then it's gotta be in the phone somewhere.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] airos4:
Mine was laggy as hell and had poor functionality when I did it over the existing structure. I did the flash back to stock, factory reset, and then installed everything and it's much better. I also specifically whitelisted the camera app in ForceDoze and Greenify. It still takes a couple seconds to "wake up" when it's launched, but nothing unmanageable.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] thegameksk:
Some observations after running this for a few days:

1) My mms/picutre sending only works on lte not wifi

2) My speed is good. The issue im having is when I turn the screen back on sometimes it freezes. Ill turn it on and sometimes it will just hang there for a 30 or so seconds even when I hit the screen off button. Than after sometime the screen will turn off. Than I turn it back on and it proceeds as normal. Other time it will let me input my lock code/fingerprint and than hang at the next screen right after. Sometimes when its really bad I have to restart.

3) No button for HD calling (t-mobile variant)

4) SOT about 4 hours but with that my phone battery is just about dead. 1% remaining or dies on me.

I didnt run the fixes zip. I downloaded a cpu app and changed the governor as well as the other fixes. I want to try to run the zip and see if it helps me. Do I have to change my governor settings or do anything else before running the file? Also is there a list of what was debloated in your debloated file? Lastly if I run the fixes file do I have to backup my phone first?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] thefirst__noel:
All the information you are wanting is available in the first post. As far as governor settings, the fix zip takes care of all of that, you can uninstall the cpu app. The list of debloated items and fixes is clearly stated in the OP so I won't type them out again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] thegameksk:
I didnt realize the list of debloated apps was linked to a different page and not in OP. Thanks for the help!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] CVertigo1:
I realize it says Verizon G935, but it does work for the Verizon G930 as well. I personally flashed this on my phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] thegameksk:
After rooting my free ram has dropped down to only 243 mb out of 5.01 gb according to titanium backup. Is it supposed to be this way?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] localceleb:
Nevermind
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] thefirst__noel:
The S7 only has 4gb of ram. So I think TB isn't showing the correct thing.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Aiideron:
Awesome guide! Thanks so much for this. Fixed all my problems. Followed the performance guide as well. Now my Rooted Verizon S7 is running smooth and lag free.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] zelfez:
Finally got my phone back to stock. Using a different version of Odin solved the problems, however, the latest update from ATT refuses go get passed 32% before failing and rebooting. Has anyone got a fix for this? I didn't see anything in the thread, but maybe I missed something.

Thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] freak69ize:
Install BL package in Odin too

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Install BL package in Odin too
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] freak69ize:
As far as I know it's the csc file that erases the phone. I flashed all four BL AP CP and CSC files and my phone took the update
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] zelfez:
I'll have to wait to try to get the update again apparently, but the BL flash took so I'm guessing it's fixed.

Thank you!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] HeavyLevi:
So apparently I locked myself out of my device? after I did the initial Unroot I went to setup my phone and keep getting please sign in using one of the owner's account for this device every time I try to log into my google account. Can I bypass this somehow? I changed my password last night and factory reset my phone ~30 minutes ago
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Shorrrt:
Re-enable all packages before attempting root.

Title. It seems that if certain packages are disabled when attempting root, you'll end up with a boot loop that can only be fixed with a Factory Reset. I don't know which packages they are, but this seems be be a common enough problem that people have posted a bit about it.

Here's the reason I'm mentioning this: I didn't follow directions to backup my apps, and thought I'd be alright while performing root. Once flashed, I couldn't get past the boot loop by clearing cache (a suggested solution). So, now I need to reinstall all my apps and whatnot.

*I REALIZE THIS IS MY FAULT* I'm only posting to suggest that the OP creates a specific notice (like the green colored notices they currently have) to warn people to re-enable all packages before rooting, else a factory reset is a much more likely outcome.

The root did work, by the way, so that's not an issue.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] xShotty:
How would I go about uninstalling the xposed framework for a moment? Could I just use any generic xposed uninstall script?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ajthemacboy:
I used it once no problem, but make a backup first if you're worried.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Toonlinkmaster25:
So a few apps were force closing when I woke up so I rebooted and suddenly it won't boot past the T-mobile screen. I've had it running just fine for a few days. The only thing that I think could have possibly triggered it is deleting all my figure prints suddenly triggering secure boot. What's my next step? I'd prefer to not lose my data if possible.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Soooperstar:
I'm on SprintFreeMsg and the same happened to me. I tried everything possible and ended up starting from scratch
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Toonlinkmaster25:
Do you have an idea of what triggered yours?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Soooperstar:
No idea, I hadn't added or changed anything. It was just random
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Toonlinkmaster25:
That stinks! Did you try doing a dirty flash to recover files before going back to stock?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] WarAxe:
Same here. Just happened yesterday morning. No warning... everything was fine... then suddenly Play, Instagram, and a few others were force closing. I rebooted thinking nothing of it and got the eternal splashscreen. Tried wiping cache, factory reset, reflash eng boot image... nothing worked.

I had to ODIN a stock image. Fortunately I've only had my S7 for ~10 days so I had recent backup data to migrate from my S5. I also now own Helium so I could get app settings over the S7 without Titanium.

Long story short -- I made the decision to go forward

unrooted

. I simply cannot risk losing my phone suddenly at any time, especially if I'm on travel... say nothing of the terrible performance of that engineering kernel (even after tweaks).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Toonlinkmaster25:
I was thinking the same thing I can just simply go without rebooting for the mean time, but I might have to do the same if I have to be away from a computer for a prolonged time. Hopefully there'll be a more stable root in like a month.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] JustMatt:
Same thing happened here. What this really does for me is tarnishes my confidence in Samsung products. I really wish I could keep my root and mods, but not at the risk of losing all of my data on any given day for no apparent reason.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Toonlinkmaster25:
Same! Wish I went with the Nexus 6P. I'm pretty sure there's a petition online for them to unlock the bootloader and stop all of this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] nwg5817:
Same thing here. Has anyone tried re enabling all the disabled services before applying the misc fixes file? I'm wondering if that would stop the eventual bootloop
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] MrWhite0429:
Ive Found that the Endless splash screen only happens when I install the Xposed Framework. If i just run the EngBoot and Root the device its fine. Perhaps the Xposed framework doesnt agree with some of the changes? This is coming from me, a guy thats had to deal with the Force Close and Endless splash 7 times now. It ONLY happens when I install the Xposed framework. Other than that it works great.

Device : G-935A

GS7 Edge ATT Variant.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] toxicpaulution:
any way to flash stock kernel after I root? I am asking because I really hate the engboot and needed to restore a backup from flashfire but really don't want root or anything more because I am getting crap performance and whatnot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] nwg5817:
Did you wipe dalvik/cache partition in flashfire + when installing the xposed framework?

Launch FlashFire on the phone and click the (+) button in the lower right to add a step. Select a 'Flash ZIP or OTA' flash step. Locate the Xposed flashable ZIP package and select it. For options, check on 'Mount /system read/write' and leave the rest of the options unchecked.

Click the (+) button again to add another step. Select Wipe and only choose to wipe the 'Dalvik cache' and the 'Cache partition' (format method not required, but it won't hurt, either).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] MrWhite0429:
Did you flash the Debloat and Performance Package in the OP?

I flashed those and it restored blazing performance to me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Toonlinkmaster25:
I'm gonna try that then. Don't really need xposed. Let me know if you get a bootloop at some point
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] MrWhite0429:
Yes I did. Plus the Install Script includes a Clear of the cache as well. It will work great for days after install. Then eventually it will start force closing random apps. Instagram always being the first one to force close for some reason. Then the device will decline in performance greatly. Then like others once i reboot i get stuck at the endless splash and must factory reset to escape.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Toonlinkmaster25:
That is word for word what happened to me so it looks like that's probably the culprit.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] MrWhite0429:
I can root the device and be just fine. Its only when I install Xposed that the Device freaks out after about a solid week or so.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] WarAxe:
Ditto.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] davidisflash:
I've been on V15 since release date and installed xposed maybe a day or two after. I haven't yet had FCs / reboot issues. I'm really hoping I'm not next.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Toonlinkmaster25:
It might have to do with Greenify but I'm just going to stay away from xposed all together.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] thanirs:
My main issue I noticed the last few days was severe battery drain. Didn't have time to trouble shoot. So I went back to stock / unroot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
I didn't have greenify installed and the same thing happened to me after I installed the script. Working amazing, then apps crashing like crazy and then stuck on the splash screen after a reboot. So far I've done some testing and it has something to do with an xposed module, but I can't figure out which one. I think I'm going to try installing all the usual ones I install one by one until I figure it out. Next time one of you encounters all the apps crashing, can you try to capture an adb log while they're crashing so we can find out why theyre crashing?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] WarAxe:
From memory, I think these were the ones I had installed installed...

- XTouchWiz

- YouTube Adaway

- Xposed Torch: Physical keys

- Xposed Additions

- Greenify

- BootManager

- Zoom for Instagram

- Play Store Changelog

- YouTube Play In Background
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
I had boot manager installed from what I can remember. That's it I think. Maybe ad away too. I can see boot manager being responsible for not booting up, but I don't think it would cause the fcs. If someone can just get an adb log of the apps crashing I'd be able to figure out what's causing this pretty easy.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] luv4sec:
I think the culprit would be the "Security Policy Updates". I you checked it, it was always turn on automatically update via Wifi.

I had that problem and return to stock via Odin. I tried to update the "Security Policy Updates" before root again. However, during the root process (flash the kernel via Odin PrinceCompsy). It just stucked on the ATT logo again.

Right now, I'm trying to reflash back to stock. Will try to root again before apply the "Security Policy Updates" again.

Can someone look into this???
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ykjae:
Had my phone rooted since the method was developed and am now starting to experience bad lag.. Wonder if it's worth starting over? I've reflashed v15 just about once a week.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] DJ XtAzY:
No issues with my root so far. Have Xposed with Amplify, Greenify, YouTube AdAway, Youtube Background Player. Also followed the tuning guide, so I also have Forced Doze and L Speed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ssl-3:
Works so far.

Took two tries. S7, VZW, brand new.

First time, I started by flashing the stock ROM in ODIN (see: "Unrooting" in the guide) to get things to a known, square-one value. I then turned the phone on, logged with my Google account, and told Google to restore all of my apps and settings. This didn't help anything because it kept the phone busy. I then went through the rest of the steps.

I had problems with ADB, perhaps because I already had an older version ADB installed (even though I ran the linked installer, per the guide), so SuperSU failed to install correctly -- SuperSU's root.bat was doing a lot of complaining about ADB being an old version, killing and restarting of ADB, and lots of other stuff.

Meh -- multiple failures out of the gate is no way to start things off.

Second try, I again started with a stock ROM. On first boot, I skipped as much initial setup as possible. I then followed guide step-by-step, and made sure that SuperSU's root.bat was using the supplied copy of adb by copying c:\adb\* to the same folder that I'd extracted SuperSU-v2.76-S7QC to.

After that, I signed into my Google account, installed Flashfire, and things seemed to be going fine.

And then I applied the generalized fix .zip using Flashfire, and...things still seem to be going fine.

No idea on battery life or performance, because the first thing I did with this phone after getting was attempt root. Time will tell?

Thanks, all involved, for your hard work toward getting this working. I needed a new phone, and was about to get another S5. *Hopefully* this was a good move. Next step: Xposed.

That said, my issues with ADB could have been prevented if the installer took better care to look for existing versions, or if it were more forthcoming with information about what -- exactly -- it was doing.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Yeah I have been on the same engboot flash since July 5th without any real issue. Last week the phone rebooted on me when I was using the flashlight (it rebooted while turning my phone back on and swiping away the lock screen so I could turn off the flashlight). Can't really say that's related to anything specific.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Zram310:
Does anyone know how I can get past the PIT Failure? I've been trying to flash the latest PE1 update and then reroot but I keep getting the PIT failure when trying to flash through Odin. I've tried two PCs so far and have the same problem..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] HamBone625:
I mean no offense by this but are you attempting to flash the correct firmware? I only ask because i just had this same issue and it was due to me trying to flash 935 firmware onto my 930 and got the pit failure simple but easy to miss one i had the correct model firmware flashed fine.. hope it helps in anyway
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Zram310:
No offense taken. In fact... That was the problem!! I swear I chose the 2nd to last option for the VZW S7 but turns out I didn't... I also didn't bother to check the file names afterwards. I flahsed my last phone so much I stopped double checking things which could be dangerous. Anyways, thanks for the help!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] gdmlaz:
After I flashed the dobloater fixes when i use ex kernel manager i noticed that it doesn't let me by big cores over 1593 before I was able to go to 2150 ??? any reason to this or any way to fix it ?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] airric00:
I was able to get snapchat working on my s7 edge by flashing this rom over top. Snapchat fired right up.... http://xdaforums.com/verizon-s7-edge/development/rom-t3429338
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] phantomliberty:
After having root and following your battery life guide for a little over a week I started getting messages that the play store has stopped working even when in other apps. I figured restarting the phone would fix the issue. Nope, now it's stuck in a boot loop. Any idea why this would happen? I never messed with any services or anything. After regular use it went to crap for seemingly no reason.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Skizzy034:
Anyone know if the xposed zip from the OP will work on other devices? I wanna get xposed on my LG GPad 8.3 but all we have is root.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] stang5litre:
I would be curious to see this as its never gone that high. 1593 is max for this eng kernel. Even on stock non rooted 1593 is top.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] LeftyGR:
No, it's specific to Samsung.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Skizzy034:
Damn, ok thanks.