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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] KillerClaw321:
Are there any snapdragon roms out?

I'm just curious to see the development on the exynos vs the snapdragon..., because if it's somewhat dead I think I'll switch to exynos.

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Or would you recommend that I get the HK or Canadian model?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
This thread is for snapdragon. But US models can't use it because of the locked boot. Personally I paid extra to get this HK edge in Canada, I wanted snapdragon and root :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] CMCDragonkai:
Progress Update

Just wanted to update on the progress.

I successfully used Odin 3.12.7 and the Samsung USB drivers to flash my Mainland Chinese NRD90M.G9350ZCU2BQH4 to the Hong Kong MMB29M.G9350ZHU2APL1 with the target firmware provided by sammobile.

I used Odin 3.12.7 from this thread: https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2711451 and I flashed with BL, AP, CP and CSC all pointing to the provided files by sammobile. I did not use `HOME_CSC...`.

According to some other threads, reflashing the CSC to a different country means I needed to enable "Re-Partition". Since I was previously on the Mainland Chinese CSC, and this is a Hong Kong CSC, then I enabled this option. There was also some thread that warned about "Multi-CSC" and I didn't think that applied to my situation. I did sideload the `org.vndnguyen.phoneinfo.apk` to look at the CSC and see if there was anything fishy, but there wasn't anything that implied multi csc. So I proceeded to recovery mode, then to download mode, then started the Odin process. Also note that I used the gplaycli to download the APK from playstore since the Mainland Chinese firmware does not have the play store enabled. The sideloading process involved using adb and Universal ADB from clockworkmod (beware of having to enable and confirm things on the phone whenever you initiate something using adb).

Afterwards the phone rebooted (it took possibly a few minutes), and I have the 6.0.1 Hong Kong firmware! After proceeding through all of the initial setup prompt, when going into the phone settings and developer options, there is suddenly the OEM unlock option that didn't exist on the Mainland Chinese version. So I have now enabled both OEM Unlock and USB Debugging.

I am now proceeding to the next step of:

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2. Install the s6-crom.apk listed on this OP (is this the same as the CROM service apk available on the internet?) using adb.

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However if one only wanted to get access to the play store, then one can stop now and just use the Hong Kong firmware.

On a side note, this seems only possible because both Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese firmware use the same phone model of G9350. I hope this trick will be available to future phone firmware released in China.

One question, where does the s6 crom apk come from? Is this the same crom service apk listed on apk mirror? Also I think odin releases should really be centralised at the odin thread, but nobody has updated the OP with the new 3.12.7. If apk mirror is considered a legimate source, shouldn't all the apk links point to apkmirror resources?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] CMCDragonkai:
In step 2, I got the CROM service APK. Side loaded, and unlocked the bootloader by running the application with WiFi on. This apk is actually the 1.0.4 listed on the apk mirrors site. Then also enabled OEM unlock and USB debugging. I then flashed TWRP using the same Odin. I got the new TWRP directly from the TWRP website. It's version 3.1.1.

Then holding power, home button and volume up, I got into TWRP mode. I did the standard "Format Data" wipe (not the advanced wipe) that wiped Data, Cache and Dalvik.

Then I downloaded both supersu 2.82, and no-verity-opt-encrypt 5.1 (this was suggested in the other thread on TWRP) that apparently allows booting into the stock kernel instead of always using a custom kernel. This was done by plugging the USB in, copying the 2 archives into the internal storage of the phone and using TWRP install to install them both.

After this was done, I headed to reboot -> system and did not install the TWRP app.

So now it booted into the stock 6.0.1 ROM as usual, however I noticed that WiFi no longer works. There's no way to enable it, it just gets stuck. I noticed some other replies here in this thread that WiFi didn't work either, but none were resolved.

Do we need to use a custom ROM then like Aurora v22? Will this interfere with the no-verity-opt-encrypt that I installed?

The baseband version is non-existent, it appears the network modem gets broken at this stage.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Great update!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
I never had that problem . Just flash the CP (baseband) and BL (bootloader) for N, then toxic v23 in OP
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] rascal9:
No ****! Its actually a simple Odin flash to Root my Sprint S7 Edge (SM-G935U) Running G935UUE4BQH3

Thanks for this!!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] danielnorkin:
Hey guys. I am looking to go from root mm to root N. Am I using the right guide? Sorry for the newbie question, been out of the game for a while
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] CMCDragonkai:
I flashed the CP and BL provided by this post, the version is G9350ZCU2ZPJL (which isn't listed on the sammobile website) appears to be some sort of beta version firmware.

The autoreboot from Odin resulted in a bootloop, the bootloader had Chinese text and a yellow triangle. Then I went into TWRP mode, and wiped everything and then installed Aurora v22 ROM flashable zip.

Then after a couple minutes, the Aurora ROM completely installed and booted (booting took a while), and now I have WiFi again! The Aurora rom provides an S8 experience on S7 edge!

I wasn't able to find extra info about the toxicrom, what's it all about and what does it provide?

Also I'm curious whether the CP and BL version matters here, could I use a different Nougat CP and BL provided by sammobile, will it provide some extra features?

Thanks davecotefilm for all your help!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] CMCDragonkai:
Does the CSC matter to G9350? I used the provided BL and CP before installing Aurora ROM, but I'm wondering if I wanted a later BL & CP (because updating the modem firmware can be useful), would the CSC need to be changed? What does the CSC provide to a SM-G9350? I read on another thread that CSC allows one to access carrier specific features like "WiFi calling", but I don't even know which carrier I'll be using, and that SM-G9350 model only has 2 carriers the Mainland chinese and Hong kong.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] rollingscissors:
The only Chinese word you'll need to know is wumao.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] rollingscissors:
Has anyone found the app (or apps) creating the baidu folder? I've finally gotten this ROM to work with Google, evade China's great Firewall, and otherwise not f*ck with my internet - except for that baidu folder coming back each time the system establishes a connection. I froze "Root Explorer" and so far the folder has not come back.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] gamekill:
This is interesting. Did you (kind of) confirm Root Explorer was the culprit?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] mitsuji26:
My videos over 1 minute wont play on default video player on latest toxic rom, does anyone know how to fix it?

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Has the 1 minute video wont play fixed?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] tuyenlc52:
Google contacts not sync

Hi all, I've just flashed Toxic V23 - Aug 15, 2017 rom, but I have a big problem, the Google contacts do not sync to my phone. In Google Accounts Setting, I do not see "Sync Contacts" menu option.

I also downloaded and installed Google Contacts Sync V8 apk but it did not help.

Please, anyone help me.

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] rollingscissors:
The folder is back, so I no longer suspect Root Explorer. <grin> I'm still on the hunt for the culprit. I guess my networking activities are at a slow enough pace that the folder returns days after I delete it, usually after breaking and reconnecting to the net..

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This is a decent ROM actually. I had a really hard time getting it to work well from inside China, with services blocked by those damned dictators. After freshening the Google software, deleting a number of apps I don't use, and generally killing any nonessential running services, the ROM is pretty snappy indeed.

I'll find that Baidu spammer yet, and get my DNS off of the dictator's ISP and the ROM will be not just slick, but free (as in freedom) and slick.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] codei5503:
Anyone have bootloader and modem for g9300 nougat?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] usman.butt05:
Is anyone have solution for the front selfie cam is take picture black and red.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Yooperjusty:
Hey guys,

I wanted to ask before rooting and installing this rom, does this increase the speed of the s7 edge? I moved from an s7 to the edge and it's lagging a lot. Also, apps seems to not be opening as fast as I think they could/should. I am hoping this rom is the solution. It seems only this and the HKrom are our 2 options. Thank you all!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Toxic is very fast, and great battery life
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Yooperjusty:
Ok, I will install this when I have the time! Also, if this is the right place to ask, does you guys' g9350 also have the Sony IMX260 sensor and not the isocell and is there anyway to make the Sony similar to isocell through root?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] HaxUrMom69:
Can someone please help me before I try this. My phone IMIE and on the back of the phone says it's the P version but the model in settings say it's the U version. Will this method not work if the firmware is not the same as hardware?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Yooperjusty:
I just flashed the toxic rom and have a few questions I want to know:

1. is it normal that 8.92 out of 32GB is taken up on the internal storage?

2. Is this toxic rom faster than the MM rom? I was so frustrated with how slow the edge was after updating from MM to N!

3. ANYONE know how to successfully change the UGLY White notification drawer?! I will be using xposed to try, but I tried the other day with the gravity xposed and after changing in xposed, the notification bar/drawer remained white!

Thank you!

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Go to applications, find google play services, then give permission to/for contacts! I had this same problem and clicked this to on and it worked!!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Yooperjusty:
Hey, could you enlighten me on which nonessential running services you killed and how you went about changing your dns please?! I had to use my expressvpn to get google up and running, but am still new on changing DNS!

Also, I have noticed this Toxic rom opens things a bit faster, but there are still stutters in animations throughout....even with everything set to 0.5x.....is this perhaps because I'm in the process of downloading and syncing things? I'm hoping it'll settle down after a few days use and become faster!!

Thank you!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] xmanz:
Turn animations etc to off much snappier.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Yooperjusty:
Hey guys,

I have been running the toxic rom and didn't realize until now (I don't use phone to actually make calls often haha) that I can't make or receive calls. I can't change/modify/add apns either. Any solutions? Also, can I downgrade to the aurora HKrom with MM from the toxic N rom by using odin and flashing the CP and BL files? I want to try, but I keep hearing problems about the camera......any thoughts?

Thank you for any thoughts! I've been trying everything to get the phone to work!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] hilary trump:
try other roms, simply brush rom via TWRP
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Sounds like a baseband issue. Find your stock CP and flash in twrp
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Yooperjusty:
You mean from my current toxic rom, just download the latest firmware for my phone and flash it in twrp?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Yes but just the CP
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Yooperjusty:
I don't know what just the cp means... Could you help enlighten me? Also, coming from tomato rom, can I just flash the toxic zip file and try again, or do I need to use Odin? Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Yooperjusty:
[MENTION=5858137]davecotefilm[/MENTION], thank you! I just used odin and flashed your BL and the latest CP and it worked! As someone who has flashed many times, I still am unfamiliar with many aspects of android and ROMS, though I love flashing, I want to ask, this doesn't in any way affect the stock samsung camera in any way, correct? I'm happy to finally be able to test this ROM!! Thank you again for taking the time to help me!! Also, will xposed work on this ROM? I had tried it before and after installing one of the modules, I was stuck in a bootloop!

Thank you!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
No xposed doesn't work yet, but you'll find the rom implements the best features already (very good battery life, performance, status bar mods...) camera is fine with the latest CP.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Yooperjusty:
Yes, the phone is much better I agree. I had installed xposed for just using the XUI mod, as the only thing I want is the listview animations, and it was working! It wasn't until I added on more mods that I got stuck on bootloops. So, xposed won't work on this rom? I read/saw that it is supported for Nougat!

Second question, this rom is the stock/unmodified camera, correct?

Lastly, the MM and N roms both get high benchmarks, yes? I was contemplating between the MM rom and N rom! I believe N is better for the edge though....is that the same experience with most other edge users?!

Thank you again for your time and wonderful ROM!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
If you had xposed working, then that list anim mod and maybe a few others will work. MM has stock, N is slightly modified but better battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Yooperjusty:
Hey Sosjadd, I just found this a year after you posted it. I have the Toxic rom on my s7 edge and have debated between the N and MM rom versions here. Also, this particular bit you posted above I"m curious about, as I can't hit 150,000 on antutu, but I've been looking how to get the overall fluidity of my phone improved. Will this work currently and/or, what is the current easiest way to implement this in a stable way?

Thank you!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
AOD Mod

For those of you on Toxic, with AOD (always on display) v20, here's a mod that gives [better] AOD backgrounds. Just use file explorer to drag it into /system/priv-app/AOD_service/ and replace the existing file (BACK UP YOUR ORIGINAL IN CASE YOU DON'T LIKE IT!!!) I'll post it in the OP as well.

And for those inclined, it's very easy to mod, just take your /system/priv-app/AOD_Service/..apk, to your desktop pc, open the apk with winzip or most any archiver, DON'T UNZIP IT, just navigate to the /res/drawable-xxxhdpi-v4/ folder and edit the corresponding aod_image_01...02...03 etc png's, or the aod_wallpaper_01..02.. etc png's, then also edit the previews for them in /res/drawable-xxhdpi-v4/ folder, simply drag out the png images, edit them in photoshop or any png editor, then save them with the same name and drag back into the open winzip/archive (remember DON'T UNZIP!) ..there you go! Enjoy:)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Yooperjusty:
This may be an obvious question, but I'm a bit OCD and will be taking a trip soon.... This rom doesn't affect the shutter speed or quality of taking pictures and video does it? I've been searching around and what I've found is that, since this is a touchwiz based rom, looks like the camera is untouched and completely stock. I just wanted to check with more intelligent people than myself!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] xmanz:
No pic or video problems for me..
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Angcrad:
Hello everyone, my SM-G9350 keeps booting into recovery (TWRP 3.2.1-0)

I performed the following steps:

Wikped Dalvik Cache, just in case, Formatted data and flashed SuperSU from microSD, no errors displayed in log (I'm assuming because there was no red text anywhere)

Tried flashing both files at the same time, BL first then CP and CP first then BL, Odin displayed the "PASS!" message each time

Flashed this file from microSD, again, no errors displayed, formatted data

This is where I cannot go further, in TWRP I go to reboot->system, screen goes black for a few moments then at the top left I see "Recovery booting..." in blue and just below "set warranty bit: recovery"

am I missing something? Any help would be greatly appreciated
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Try formatting data. And make sure you unlock with crom before anything.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Angcrad:
Thanks for the reply, CROM unlocking was successfull, if it couldn't be done TWRP wouldn't have been installed in the first place, I went to wipe->format data every time the guide said so, now I did something different, I wiped everything with Advanced Wipe and started from scratch, same result
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Did you flash the correct BL/CP?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Angcrad:
Yes, I used the ones from the links I quoted:

BL_G9350ZCU2ZPJL_CL9644984_QB11373676_REV02_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5

CP_G9350ZCU2ZPJL_CL9644984_QB11373676_REV02_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5

Edit: Just to make sure, I flashed a stock ROM and ran CROM again

At least my phone is working again and I have a Batman theme now

There must have been something wrong with the factory ROM (HK model being sold in Mexico, go figure)

after reflashing a stock ROM (G9350ZHU2BQK3_G9350BZH2BQK3_TGY) and going through the steps again, I'm successfully running Toxic.

Now, for a final question. How do I get rid of the Chinese texts? I'd like everything to be in English
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] nsnobel2:
I am facing a different problem after root, imei and baseband bceame unknown, Imei recover after flash stock rom, any tip to overcome this issue?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] xmanz:
Are you sure on your model number ? These roms are for the Hong Kong /Chinese qualcomm chip phones.. See if your has another letter after g9350
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] hilary trump:
Oreo rc4 for G9350 has been released. Anyone tried ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
I've been waiting for that, send Me the download link and I'll get to work on it! Also is the a new BL/CP for it?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] hilary trump:
I will mirror link tomorrow, bro. It's midnight here. Np, that is leaked version and someone dump system and shared

Original thread: http://bbs.gfan.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=9279569
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
I'm downloading from Baidu cloud..
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Okay so my DRK is broken so I'll need to wait for a deodexed zip. Are you able to deodex it as a zip?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] hilary trump:
Here we are, bro. It's deodexed zip

G9350 Oreo RC3

OTA RC 4

As that chinese forum said, thanks to Google translate :D

1. Fully charge your mobile phone

2. Back up all user data (copy to PC or external memory)

3. Copy Oreo RC3 & OTA RC4 to an external SD card ( Brushing the official firmware will clear all the data in the internal memory)

4. Brush an official firmware with odin ( latest G9350ZCU2BQL3 recommended)

5. Enter to the official recovery mode, find RC3 in the external SD card and brush into , Swipe back to restart....(It will take about half an hour, please be patient...). Reboot, come back to recovery mode, brush OTA RC4.

6. Restart the phone and enter the system, experience it yourself...

I concern whether to brush it, due to GApps included in this beta version or not, china csc causes sms issue, GPS accuracy.... Please have a look on them. Many thanks

Update: GApps, Play store work well as it was said in bbs forum
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Thank you! So I should flash the OTA then the CRC3, do you think I need to flash new BL/CP first?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] hilary trump:
Exactly, latest ones recommended. I'm so excited but don't want to get risk :confused: lol
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Okay I'll report back..
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
I might wait for Aurora rom to see users experience, I'm not sure. I get such amazing performance on my current Toxic rom
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] hilary trump:
Oreo RC4 can be rooted

http://bbs.gfan.com/android-9280578-1-1.html

I will give it a try :D so excited
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Okay please let me know how it runs
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Okay I've installed Oreo and got it working, I'll post all in OP once I've figured it all out :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Update: it's garbage, OREO installs, got root, got xposed, but system has Play store as phonesky.bak, and if you change it, system switches it back to .bak, so there's NO PLAY STORE, until we figure this out.. also, every boot re-encrypts DATA partition, no matter how many times you format DATA. Let me know if you make any progress. ps - I had to edit the RC3 and RC4 updates meta info google update script and put ' assert if ro.secure==0', then updates will install.