yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] onelowgto:
having the same problem as phantomliberty.get everything flashed will run good for a day or 2 then i get force closed apps try to restart and stuck at att logo only way i can get it back is to wipe and re install G930A_PF2_Stock_Modem_Recovery_Bootloader.tar then everything works great again any help would be great kinda bothering me love root access but it aint worth wiping every couple days
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] luv4sec:
Happened the same to me too. I think it might be the "Security Policies Updates" under Settings -> Lock Screen & Security -> Other Security Setting -> Security Policy Updates. The Automatic Updates and Wifi Only were always on.

I did the return to stock via Odin and turn off those settings. Then updates everything from Play Store before the root process. Look like it working good so far for past couple days. Will see how it goes.

ATT GS7 Edge.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] State.of.mind:
Systemless Xposed-Magisk

Has anyone attempted to flash the new Systemless Xposed by Magisk on the Verizon S7? If you have could you please let me know if you had any success? I've attempted to flash the 86.2 systemless version, but I couldn't activate it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Toonlinkmaster25:
Did you have xposed installed? This happened to me a while back and we think that's what caused it.

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I just unchecked those options to be safe. Did you have xposed installed too though?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] davidisflash:
I've been on V15 of psouza's image for 930V since its release date (nice work OP!). I'm lucky in that i still haven't had the issue some have with force closes and infinite bootloops. The ROM i'd say is "settled."...my phone can deep sleep but I wouldn't say battery life is "great" (I use a ton of data hogging apps). I'm using ForceDoze but giving exception to some apps like Pandora (or else it stops playing after each song when screen is off0. I don't use LeanDroid..too restrictive to me.

Would you say it's worth it starting over and going to the U firmware? Am I able to achieve the same benefits of the U firmware by simply freezing bloat or are there other things in that image that will make the ROM smoother / better battery? I notice with the 930V waking from sleep can be sluggish sometimes. OP and others, I'm curious about your thoughts on this one. Just wondering if there are more benefits to the U image than simply being bloat free "out of the box" when we can for instance just use package disabler.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] luv4sec:
I do have Xposed installed, Fixes_v15 scripts and LSpeed. Seem to be good so far. However, LTE on my phone is kind of slow and mms took a long time to sent out.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Toonlinkmaster25:
I'm pretty sure the issue was xposed. If you get another bootloop with that setup that's probably what's causing it. I'm hoping that's all it is because otherwise this root is pretty stable. Thanks so much OP for your hard work.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] craazy82013:
Has anybody been successful rooting PF2 and then running the fix and debloat zip? Tried running it 3 times and now stuck at verizon sceen.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] luv4sec:
Thanks for that info. I'm trying to nail down what caused the bootloop.

The weird thing is when I update the securities policy and everything before the root. I couldn't root the phone. It caused the bootloop upon reboot when I Odin the root boot.tar file.

Anyways, where do you download the U firmware for ATT GS7 Edge.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Skizzy034:
There is a thread in the att S7E forum.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] CVertigo1:
Systemless won't work. We are using an engineering kernel, not a patched kernel for systemless root.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] dirtmaster88:
I've got a S7 variant from a regional carrier, model SM-G930R6 (listed as LTE RURAL VERIZON). There's not a stock image available for this variant so I'm very hesitant to attempt rooting. I assume flashing the "standard" Verizon image (SM-G930V) onto my "LTE RURAL VERIZON" SM-G930R6 would be a bad idea? Where could I possibly get the stock image for my phone or am I S.O.L? Thanks in advance!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] TheLJH:
What is the diffence between a PE1 firmware and a PE2 firmware? Sorry for the dumb question, just wanted to learn before I do.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
PE2 is an incremental upgrade to PE1. The major versions are denoted by a letter (A, B, C, D, etc.) and the minor versions are denoted by the number (1, 2, 3, etc.). PA1 would presumably be a first release version.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] TheLJH:
So is that for the root firmware or the stock firmware?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Poss837:
Awesome guide! I achieved root and everything has been going smoothly until i tried to unroot. I followed all your instructions and downloaded all the links. ODIN opens just fine and recognizes my galaxy s7 (ATT g930A) as well as MD5 just fine. However, after i select the Ap, Cp, and CSC and press start, ODIN just stays at "Setup Connection.." . I figured it was just being slow so i let it sit for 6 hours yet "Setup Connection.." is still where it is at. I have reread the instructions and applied them many time yet keep getting stuck at the same situation. Has anyone come across this issue and can offer a resolution?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] RabonaKing:
after root my phone keeps restarting after the hands free activation it wont go away
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] 66gt350:
Hey,

I just picked up the s7 edge. It's currently on build .PD2. It wants to upgrade to build .PF2. I haven't rooted it yet. Should I upgrade and then root (I do want to do the fixes and debloats) or should I just use the odin file to go to .PE1 then root?

thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] freak69ize:
Try a different version of odin

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I don't believe it worked well with pd2. I would flash pe1 with Odin then root and install the fixes/debloat zip
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] colormedroid:
[MENTION=1599591]psouza4[/MENTION]

Saw a lot of issues with Snapchat when I searched the keyword in this thread. Just wanted to say that snapchat wouldn't log in for me when I used the fixes+debloater zip however, it logged in just fine flashing just the fixes zip. At least on the Sprint variant anyways.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] FoxyDrew:
Is there any way to root long enough just to remove bloat, then somehow unroot and switch back to the stock boot.img?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] HamBone625:
Just use package disabler pro from the play store if all you want to do is debloat
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] FoxyDrew:
Package Disabler Pro doesn't debloat, it disables packages (pretty obvious) I want to debloat my S7 not disable packages, or else I would do this. Thanks though, even though my question clearly went right over your head lol.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] HamBone625:
I do believe there's Uninstal options I totally get what you were asking but don't think there's a way to do so so I was offering the best advice I could sorry it wasn't ideal
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] LeftyGR:
Not possible. Once you root, that's it. To return to unrooted, u must odin back to stock. Which will add all the bloat back in.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] qwerfaseeh:
Any stable root method ? This method makes ROM unstable
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] 66gt350:
Thanks. Used Odin to go to .PE1, got it rooted and debloated.

Now I have something strange. Prior to doing all this, I could connect the s7 to the computer and it would recognize it and I was able to transfer files, but now when I connect and go to the notification and hit "charging" to changes modes, it does nothing. The computer is able to see it 'cause I can eject "samsung_android". What did I do? and how do I fix this?

thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Skizzy034:
Couldn't you just flash a stock bootimg?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] TheLJH:
Ok thanks for all your support but I just have one more question, so I have rooted and successfully done so, and my wifi passwords still are not saving when I reboot. I was able to install S7_or_S7Edge_Fixes_Debloater_V15.zip with no problems, and I am still getting this bug. Does anyone know how to fix?

P.S. Was I supposed to flash fixes and fixed_debloater?

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] 66gt350:
[MENTION=1599591]psouza4[/MENTION] I went into preferences, and under data location /storage/... there is not external SD card. Only 6639-3031, which shows a read-only version of the sd card, and TiBu doesn't even recognize the registration file. What else do I need to do?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] freak69ize:
Yeah it's a known bug. You have to go into developer option to enable it on every reboot.. can't remember where tho
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] HamBone625:
I believe it's one of two things highlighted with blue text which makes it easier to find
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Toonlinkmaster25:
Another thread thinks the bootloops are caused by updating the Samsung apps. I already updated them so I'll let y'all know if that triggers it for me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] State.of.mind:
Try going into Settings > Search >USB configuration & voila.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Ridl3y:
Looks like there is a new root method called Magisk. Anyone try it yet?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] neilwashere:
Anyone here use good lock and have taken the update? Not sure if that will have any effect on this, but if I'm using it now I assume it should be fine?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] freak69ize:
All good here with good lock
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] jayfried:
It works! I now have the best phone on the planet thank you! I have missed that beloved little hotspot icon.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] jayfried:
Well I for one will be trying it out, I'm tired of having to pop my sim into a Nexus 6 every once in awhile to get some rom flashing on.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] davidisflash:
Thanks for this guide. What else changed in V2 zip besides the hotspot fix? I'm specifically wanting to see if anyone is still experiencing the response lag and/or severe battery drain, even after changing governor to on demand or interactive and ensuring that mincpu speed doesn't equal max.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] djh816:
One minor issue I noticed, my themed in call screen from "Android 6.0" theme seems broken now :( Seems like maybe it's just using the stock contact text color (making it unreadable on my dark background from the theme) and uses a white menu bar (iirc it was dark from my theme). Is this something with the debloat script? I've tried applying stock theme and reapplying the Android 6.0 theme but no difference. Everything else looks great like phone, contacts and settings without any graphical changes. Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Gerr1985:
Awesome, so much excite for root! I did the procedures a while ago now, and my battery drain is bad. I'm going to assume it takes some time to settle.

Anyone keeping a list of items to debloat by chance? Otherwise I'll just await a recovery/rom that comes already debloated.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] morrowa2:
Thanks, man! That worked like a charm. With the exception of a still locked-down bootloader, the phone is now perfection!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Brickman221:
So I do understand that the bootloader is still locked, but what are the chances we can flash roms based off of the touchwiz software? Similar to how we had it back on the Galaxy s6. I'm just really hoping to see a debloated version of the software that I can load up on my Galaxy s7
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] chadhoard:
Any recommendation on getting better battery life?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Must4ngGT:
I flashed xposed then cleared cache and dalvik
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Blade22222:
I read somewhere someone is already built a rom and are debugging it before release. He said he's already running it and it was really fast and smooth. Hope battery life is good also.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] BDragonD24:
I'm having the same problem and I can't figure out what is causing it. I'm thinking that it was something in the script but I wouldn't even be able to begin to guess what exactly it changed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] djh816:
Looks like the debloat also replaced /system/priv-app/InCallUI/InCallUI.apk and /system/framework/framework-res.apk (maybe just for the menubar icon fixes). I'd bet one of those is causing the issue. Anyone happen to have the stock files for these? If anyone is either unrooted or rooted but has not applied the debloat, they should be accessible (with or without root).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
(a) I do and can provide them in a bit but (b) I'm working on my own version of framework-res.apk. The one provided for the Verizon S7 Edge may not be compatible with our non-Edge version, so I'm working on that. BTW, all it does is change /res/values/integers.xml to flip config_mobile_hotspot_provision_check_period from 24 to 0, enabling hotspot/tethering.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] djh816:
Excellent, no rush from me :) It's still perfectly functional despite the graphical difference. Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] DarkMidnight:
I have a thought in regards to ROM's being pushed out for this phone now that it is rooted; It was my understanding that the dm-verify "feature" of the Snapdragon CPU would prevent anything other than the stock from carrier ROM from booting.

For example, I read that even if we take a from factory ROM and just deodex it, dm-verify would not allow it to boot.

Is there a way to work-around that?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Be a guinea pig and help me test V3: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24591023225178038

It includes the correct (and modified) framework-res.apk for our device and also installs a startup script that adjusts ~70 /sys settings every reboot, mostly CPU stuff so you don't need Kernel Aduitor, etc. The settings adjusted were mirrored from a diff I took comparing before/after images.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] djh816:
Working well but does still have the graphical issue. Here's an example (black boxes added by me and the bottom is supposed to be white. just the dark colored text and menubar are different): https://i.imgur.com/JcWisYc.png
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Gerr1985:
I just tested it, removed kernel auditor, flashed that, reboot, and its no longer laggy at boot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] alexjbuck:
DM-Verity verification failed (after working for a week)

I looked back in the thread and saw someone else had this issue and just reflashed to get around it, but I wanted to bring it up again because mine was a little different (i.e. the device has been working, rooted, stable, for over a week and spontaneously this happened).

I followed the directions from [MENTION=1599591]psouza4[/MENTION] for flashing eng-boot and then rooting and debloating. I also followed his steps for battery tuning (was getting 3+ days standby time, amazing!). This morning, after over a week of stable good use I started getting a screen from the XDA Labs app (that I'd never seen before) something along the lines of "we've encountered a problem and the app crashed". Okay fine, weird but fine, I can restore the app or reinstall, no biggie. I first decided to reboot the phone because, well why not. Who hasn't cycled a device to see if the problem clears.

Then I get a bootloop that gets stuck at the white Verizon screen. I still have adb access however the system never progresses past. In the logcat, this keeps happening (parsed):

08-06 13:44:57.219 649 649 I ServiceManager: service 'batterystats' died
08-06 13:44:57.219 649 649 I ServiceManager: service 'appops' died
08-06 13:44:57.219 649 649 I ServiceManager: service 'power' died
08-06 13:44:57.219 649 649 I ServiceManager: service 'display' died
08-06 13:44:57.299 649 649 I ServiceManager: service 'user.xposed.system' died
08-06 13:44:57.319 649 649 I ServiceManager: service 'user.xposed.app' died
08-06 13:44:57.339 649 649 I ServiceManager: service 'media.camera' died
08-06 13:44:57.349 649 649 I ServiceManager: service 'media.sound_trigger_hw' died
08-06 13:44:57.349 649 649 I ServiceManager: service 'media.radio' died
08-06 13:44:57.349 649 649 I ServiceManager: service 'media.audio_flinger' died
08-06 13:44:57.349 649 649 I ServiceManager: service 'media.player' died
08-06 13:44:57.349 649 649 I ServiceManager: service 'media.resource_manager' died
08-06 13:44:57.349 649 649 I ServiceManager: service 'media.audio_policy' died

When I rebooted it into recovery (via adb) the bottom of the screen says "dm-verity verification failed".

I'm fairly sure I can fix this but I wanted to mention it since its a little strange to me this happened seemingly out of the blue. Is this something other people have seen? Or is there something causing it in my setup.

I attached the last bit of my output from adb logcat that I pipped to a file

Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] qwerfaseeh:
Any link ?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] freak69ize:
Got a link for this root method?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] dajmanjt:
Here is the link -

http://xdaforums.com/android/software/mod-magisk-v1-universal-systemless-t3432382

The problem is you have to be completely stock (aka no root) and then flash magisk from recovery. Well we have no custom recovery, and there only way to flash anything is with root using FlashFire. So no, I don't think this will work on our phones. But it does look super super sweet. Love the idea.

Sent from my Verizon S7E Rooted PF2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] LeftyGR:
From what I've heard you'll be stuck in bootloop city. The way we root places files in /system and /data. If you could remove those.... possibly. But you can't flash a boot.img with odin, because it resides in the ap file. Which needs to be intact for Odin to flash it. Then you couldn't flash the boot.img in flashfire without root.

Of course neither of those could matter and it will bootloop either way...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] lowelllllllllllll:
Downlaod links

Help. i need to unroot and the download links arent working. what should i do?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] mcp2009:
I just had this issue yesterday after having this rom up and running for 12 hrs. After ODIN and redoing everything last night I've used the phone all day no problems until now. Again apps started force closing and after a reboot it gets suck at "SAMSUNG" vibrates once real quick followed by 3 quick vibrates. The only thing I could think of was Security Policy Updates I turned automatic updates on and checked for updates before each bootloop occured. I just got done ODIN back to 935U and will root and try to update security policy

Edit: Alright rooted and and updated security policy and no boot loop. Guess I'll install xposed next and see what happens
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Toonlinkmaster25:
Did you have xposed installed?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] stang5litre:
Go back to PE1 my friend. [emoji106] [emoji3]. Good to see you on the s7e. My rom will be released very soon. PF2 is like OF1 on the s4 useless. Sorry for off topic.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ajthemacboy:
They work fine for me. If you can't download them I can put them on mega.nz for you to download.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] lowelllllllllllll:
That would be soooo cool man thanks!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Musein:
Help me plz

Girl friend is a better hacker than me and I'm almost 100 percent this crazy lady has Spyware on this phone is there anyone who can point me in the right direction of find and or preventing this from happening :confused::eek::mad:

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Also I have the s7 and I can only see device storage when I first bought the phone I could see SD storage and internal storage can't see any of that now
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] alexjbuck:
Yes I did. I was running Amplify, Greenify, ForceDoze and L Speed (per [MENTION=1599591]psouza4[/MENTION]'s battery life tuning thread, opted out of Lean Droid).

To fix it I did a factory reset and then re-rooted. I haven't reinstalled Xposed so we will see if this happens again. Still not sure why it happened in the first place...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] stang5litre:
I just run PE1 rom and have no issues with doze.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ^I'm_With_Stupid:
Anyone have a process called kswapd0 using the cpu alot? Does anyone know what it is and how to stop it?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Aiideron:
I ran across this issue as well. I thinks it's a bad download or an incompatible firmware version. I downloaded the files from sammobile for mine and it worked golden. Sammobile download speeds are horrendous but the files worked.

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Just wanted to say that I've been on the EngBoot rooted with xposed for a week now with virtually no issues. One bug in having is wifi dropping data connection, I have to turn wifi off and back on. I had 1 random reboot 2 nights ago. It was just sitting there next to me with Always on Display up and rebooted. Still works fine though. I see a lot of people are having issue that might be caused by the systems update, just go into titanium or a package disabled and turn off system updates. That should hopefully fix the issues. I have had and force closes or and bootloops after getting xposed and everything working. I did the v15 fixes with debloater and also followed the performance guide.

Galaxy S7 Verizon
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] SBrooks75:
Stuck on BootLoop

Hey guys,

I have a Verizon S7 Edge, followed the guide to a "T", yet Im stuck on a boot-loop right after flashing the .tar ? Any suggestions? Thanks alot!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] TugBoatTed:
Went back to stock following guide in the OP. Wondering why I am getting an error in Samsung pay and the OTA is failing. Phone is definitely no longer rooted and is otherwise running beautifully.

Just noticed the phone had the unlock boot animation. Perhaps that's a sign i didn't reset the flag properly? Only file I didn't flash was the BL file.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] LeftyGR:
Did you flash CSC or HOME_CSC?