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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] yabbie:
Is there another way to unroot please (back to stock boot without flashing stock firmware)?

I just need temporary root to modify some system files, but the engi boot does cause overheating.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] SinisterDev:
Well, I don't know what happened today, but now my S7 is stuck on the AT&T logo upon startup. Its been fine this past week. I have auto updates disabled. Didnt change anything since yesterday. I was using it early this morning and all was well. Went to use it a few mins ago and kept getting popups of services crashing( google play and a few others) . I tried to reset it and now its stuck... Had to go into recovery mode and shut it down from in there. Was getting very hot. Not sure what to do now... Since I performed the tweaks in this guide it was working pretty well.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] :
Give this a try for init.d. It looks like it's working for me.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Schism169:
Hi I got a question I have the pf2 update from Verizon currently installed on my phone. For the "recommended steps" do I still install the pe1 fixes or go with the other file?

Also for the debloat version does gear vr still work on it if I use the debloat or is it better if I just use tb to freeze the bloat?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
The PE1 will abort with an assert fail preventing you from installing on PF2. Use the universal one. The framework-res.apk in the PE1 version isn't compatible with your firmware and the only difference is suppressing Verizon's provisioning for Wi-Fi hotspot tethering. Otherwise they're the same.

The debloat script in this post doesn't erase anything vital, just mostly Knox plus other very obvious bloat. There's a full list if you click all the spoiler buttons that are hiding text. There's also another guide where I do a deeper debloat -- that guide will remove safe bloat and freeze the rest. The debloat from this guide won't touch your Gear VR stuff.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Skizzy034:
Yea, it's weird tho. Most of everything like that is done under routines. It's an odd implementation of a color picker. I would rather have just solid colors to choose from.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] darkdragone:
AT&T S7 Active

Will this work with the S7, I'm getting a Secure Check Fail: boot on the phone while trying to flash with odin. I disabled the secure boot in security settings and enabled oem unlock in developer settings.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] hella356:
Did you enable USB debugging?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] darkdragone:
yep, first thing
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] santiclaws:
OK, so I went through the root process, everything looked good. When booting up, I get a little "custom" icon on the boot up screen, with an unlocked lock icon - but I do not have root. Flashfire said so and rootchecker did as well. Any ideas?

TIA
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] mhill1986:
The first thing is to check and make sure that secure startup is turned off in settings/Lock screen and security. Root won't work if this is enabled.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] zelfez:
I'm guessing that there probably will not be a root method or a fix for the secure storage stuff then?

I'm also guessing that since flashing root breaks secure storage that anything in private mode is basically in limbo and not able to be recovered?

Also, I've flashed the fix+debloat for the att S7, and I still have the VO LTE icon visible. Do I need to try reflashing the fix, or do I need to start fresh and go back to stock and try again?

Thanks for the help!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] santiclaws:
Secure startup is off.

EDIT: Just went through the process a second time, and this time it worked! *Shrug* Thanks for your help.

OK, I'm rooted and everything appears to be working as it should, but I keep getting this notification popping up:

Everything is working well, but I'm getting this notification every couple of minutes:

"com.tmobile.pr.adapt has stopped"

How do I keep this notification from appearing? Thanks.

EDIT 2: If anyone has the same issue, uninstalling the updates for the tmoblie Name ID app and searching for com.tmobile.pr.adapt in Titanium backup and freezing it seems to have worked.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] flawedkaos:
I follow the guide and did a clean root. I am still having reception issues. I tried searching and couldn't find anything. My phone will bounce between 1x extended to 3g. Sometimes I get lte but, it won't last long. I also usually only have 1 or 2 bars. Before I did any of this I would hav 3-4 and lte all the time. Did I do something wrong? Phone is a vzw s7 on pe1. I tried going back to stock and then rerooting and it still happens. Is this something I will have to live with?

Also is there a start up manager that works? I have tried ES Taskmanager, Boot manager for xposed, and autoruns pro but nothing seems to stick. I can disable the apps but, when I reboot the settings don't stick and those once disabled apps are reenabled.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] santiclaws:
I installed Xposed, but now it is telling me that I don't have the framework installed and asks me to flash the latest zip manually via recovery. I can't seem to be able to find the right option to do it via stock recovery and the TWRP recovery seems to not want to play nicely with this phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Honestly, it sounds like you've perhaps skimmed and skipped a step. You shouldn't be having any of those issues at all. I am also on a Verizon Galaxy S7 on PE1 and don't have or heard of having the problems you are. Make sure you flash the exact right files (there's two CSC files during unroot, for example so don't choose the wrong one) and perhaps try again.

Our phones have a

locked bootloader

so you must flash via FlashFire. Follow the instructions in the guide to install Xposed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] flawedkaos:
I thought the same thing at first which is why I rerooted just now and I still have the exact same issues. I restore to stock my reception is better no jumping between 1x and lte. Followed the instructions exactly and the reception issues start up.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] santiclaws:
I did follow the instructions and used FlashFire to install, and it seemed to work at first, but then I got the message about the framework not being installed. Just tried it again, still getting the same message. FWIW, the install did not take anywhere near the time it said in the instructions, it was very quick.

EDIT: Uninstalled Xposed and tried to do a clean install, and now it won't install at all. Looks like it is installing, I get the black screen with the scrolling white text, but after it all goes through, Xposed is not there.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] billy06107:
E:\New folder (3)\G930A\SuperSU-v2.76-S7QC>adb shell mount -o rw,remount /system

mount: Permission denied

E:\New folder (3)\G930A\SuperSU-v2.76-S7QC>adb shell mount -o rw,remount rootfs /

mount: Permission denied

E:\New folder (3)\G930A\SuperSU-v2.76-S7QC>adb shell rm /data/su.img 1>NUL

E:\New folder (3)\G930A\SuperSU-v2.76-S7QC>adb shell mv /data/su.img /data/su_old.img 1>NUL

E:\New folder (3)\G930A\SuperSU-v2.76-S7QC>adb shell rm /data/su_old.img 1>NUL

E:\New folder (3)\G930A\SuperSU-v2.76-S7QC>adb push SuperSU-v2.76.img /data/su.img

failed to copy 'SuperSU-v2.76.img' to '/data/su.img': Permission denied

E:\New folder (3)\G930A\SuperSU-v2.76-S7QC>adb push launch_daemonsu.sh /system/etc/launch_daemonsu.sh

failed to copy 'launch_daemonsu.sh' to '/system/etc/launch_daemonsu.sh': Read-only file system

anyone know how to fix this??

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never mind i fixed it
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Part of the install steps are instructing you to perform a dalvik/art cache wipe -- which should trigger the OS to perform the "Optimizing apps" on startup, which does take a very long time. If that's not happening and you are positive you are following the instructions correctly (which tell you to wipe that cache), then you are probably just not rooted. Did you check SuperSU to see if it's got any issues? Check su on boot setting? Try a root-checker app to verify root access? Try 'su' from adb shell or terminal emulator?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] cjlopez213:
Thanks for all your hard work! I've followed the whole guide down to the last tweak and everything is working perfectly! I have a quick question for you. I keep reading about Zipaligning apps, would you recommend doing that or is there no benefit to it? Thanks in advance!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
In theory, we've already been shipped APK's with proper ZIP alignment. This StackExchange answer gives a good summary of what ZIP alignment is and why you should care:

http://android.stackexchange.com/qu...es-it-fit-into-how-we-use-our-android-devices

I have not ZIP-aligned any apps on my phone and I really don't intend on doing so. People making custom ROMs often theme apps, which modifies them -- under those circumstances, they should zipalign them before releasing (and since so many mod authors haven't, zipalignment as a catch-all tool has become somewhat popular). In our case, I'm betting we don't need it but I haven't personally given it a close look for the S7.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] santiclaws:
Thanks for all your help, first of all. This time, after I uninstalled and did the reinstall, it did take a long time on "optimizing apps." And I double checked that I'm rooted - when the root did not work the first time because I had secure startup enabled, FlashFIre did not work at all and told me I wasn't rooted. Now it works fine, root checker says I'm rooted, su says I'm rooted, I've installed apps that require SuperSu to grant root access and they asked for it to be granted, and then installed happily and work fine when root access was granted.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] raze5115:
all this root stuff still works on latest update aka pg1. but thank you op for the simplified root guide
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] deeje00:
Nvm
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] outpost785:
I'm having trouble with camera focus on v15 debloat, any suggestions,

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By the way great work
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] deeje00:
So did you get xposed working? I'm having the same problem I've tried wanam's exposed and the one from the OP. Neither work. They both get through the long ass app optimizing screen but then it says framework not installed. And my root is working just fine.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Syn Ack:
That wasn't my question. Your post has a lot of links and info about PE1 but no mentions of PF2. I am considering switching back to PF2 from PEH if it gives me MMS back.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] buradd:
while rooted with xposed, anyone else notice the progress spinner animation is abnormally fast? like when an app is loading or something, it spins so fast its like it's flashing.. and the small spinner animations dont move at all like the one when you send a text message before the little spinner turns into the 'sent time'
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Adaken13:
will I be able to use this method root for sm-g30vl . its a tracfone straighttalk s7
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] miketunes:
Got the root and tweaks working on my phone, but it was too slow for me so I went back to stock. How can I update my phone now, it says software update failed? Would one of the tweaks blocked that, even if I flashed the stock images? It did reset everything.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Gotcha -- well, I really can't confirm if you will or won't as I have only touched PE1 (and earlier) stock images on my device and I don't see a lot of traffic here with people mentioning PEH. However, if you have root under PEH then it's reasonable to suggest that you simply make some backups and give it a try, time permitting. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but "I really don't know on this one" is the best answer I can give.

Hmm, not here.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Probably, if it's a Qualcomm Snapdragon variant and not Exynos. Verify beforehand. Also, unless you know where the stock images for your device are, you risk not having a safety net to fall back on if there's a problem or if you need to revert to stock for any reason (like warranty, root instability, bootloop, etc.).

Perhaps you didn't flash everything during the unroot process. Also, if it was too slow, you most likely missed a step somewhere in the root process (such as not starting with the unroot guide first even while unrooted). Seems most people with performance issues clear it up either with a factory reset or a full unroot/re-root.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] thegameksk:
How long should running ADB take?

I keep getting stuck on pkg: /data/local/tmp/SuperSU-V2.76.apk

It just seems to stay there.

Edit: I got it working. Now i'm having a hell of a time getting Flash Fire on my phone.it took 10 minutes to download and now it shows 10.95 MB/10.95 MB downloaded but its not installing. Its just staying on the Flash Fire page.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] miketunes:
Hm, yeah I didn't do return to stock first (just did factory reset). I'll try the return to stock procedure again, see if that let's me update.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] santiclaws:
No, no luck.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Silkmeister1:
If you reread what i wrote i said we could only flash TouchWiz based roms. Much like hashcode's safestrap for s5
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] kostasswiftakias:
big problem

goodmorning

i try this guide but first i make one other guide that i stop cause something goes wrong.now i make the steps till odin pass the mobile but now i cant restart

first message is <<kernel is not seeandroid enforcing>>

secon message

<<bootloader exception .......>>>

plz help me my phone do not open i have big problem now
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] LeftyGR:
If you're not on a Snapdragon Device, this will not work for you! Odin back to stock and stick to Exynos processor rooting.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] downhillvinnie:
Yep did that for me, reset after rest still nothing. Something in the root process jacks it up
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] miketunes:
Hmm, yeah I just reloaded the stock files and reset everything again - still can't update. Does that mean we have to wait for a flashable tar of the update?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] downhillvinnie:
I dont know, I ended up getting a new one. I tried everything to get it to update, it did not trigger knox, just something weird in the process of rooting
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
The person who had issues getting Xposed working messaged me privately, IIRC and the issue was that secure boot was accidentally left enabled (my guide does say to disable it). Leaving it enabled prevents the su binary from granting apps root, including FlashFire, so make sure you don't skim over critical steps in the guide.

f you only performed a factory reset, it will not return them to stock. I've had several people incorrectly believe that that's the case and it's not, so just beware. The unroot section of my guide has you flash images that overwrite the entire /system and /data partitions with a signed image from our manufacturers, so it's impossible for something in the root process to "break" it. These are the same images your service center technicians would use to fix your device, as well.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] downhillvinnie:
Your root process worked great, just didnt like the battery life, so I followed your unroot process, worked great, it unrooted, removed the custom icon, tried to update, failed at 32%, performed factory reset, failed again at 32%. Took it to Best Buy and used their super software still failed at 32%...I dont know why
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] miketunes:
I used odin and flashed the AP, CP, and CSC files listed in your unroot section. It said completed and reset my device. I've tried this twice and double checked all the file names to make sure I got them. I did not flash the BL or Home_CSC files that were in the tar file. The update still fails at 32%.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
I have a tweak guide, if you haven't taken a look yet, for battery improvements. I get about 2 to 2.5 days of battery per charge, personally.

As far as the update failing, it's anyone's guess. Try turning off secure boot, rebooting into recovery, clearing cache, booting up, turning on secure boot, and rebooting again. I'm just throwing out random ideas, but there's literally nothing left on your device that's indicative that it ever had root -- no data on any of the partitions is left during the unroot process (one exception: you could potentially have flashed the HOME_ version of the CSC file instead of the non-home version, which will leave your userdata, don't do this).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Syn Ack:
No problem, thanks for the reply.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] torr310:
I searched this thread for "screen overlay" without any results.

Have anyone seen this "Screen overlay detected" issue?

Everything was fine for the PE1 firmware then I updated to the latest PF2 firmware and was able to attain the root again. But this screen overlay issue has been plagued me which prevents many apps from getting the access.

Could someone please help me? Thank you so much in advance!

Edit #1: I applied both "fix" files (one for general S7 and one for Verizon S7) from the OP but didn't help.

Edit #2: I had to put the phone under the "Safe Mode" and turned on the permissions for each apps. It's truely a pain in the axx. #_#
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] n4noAbyss:
I put my phone in airplane mode every night, and this morning when I took it out of airplane mode the black VOLTE icon appeared on the bar.

When I checked the advanced calling 'turn on/off hd voice and video call' in my settings it was turned on. When I switch it off, then when I make a call I get put to 1x and have no data.

I think I'll leave that setting on and I don't mind dealing with the black volte icon, I hate having random things happen to my phone though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] CVertigo1:
Forgive me, I must have read through it too fast. I interpreted that as we can't flash anything non-TW until we have Safestrap.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] davidisflash:
Awesome.

I've been using V15 since it was released. Not a single damn issue. Phenomenal daily driver. psouza, you rock brotha!

Everyone follow his other guides on battery tweak, etc. My phone is actually deep sleeping when before it wasn't. I tend to average 50-60% deep sleep, but I leave bluetooth on 24/7, have facebook installed (uses a lot of data), chess.com (more data), and 4 different dating apps (tons of data lol). The fact it's sleeping this much I feel is a win. I'm using all of the recommended apps like ForceDoze, etc. I bet I could save even more if I try to control how often the wakelocks fire in Amplify but haven't felt the urge to.

Keep it up.

:D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Seems like an issue not at all related to root. Try googling for "screen overlay detected android" and you'll get lots and lots of results.

Something like LeanDroid or Tasker can easily automate putting you in airplane mode every night (my vote is for LeanDroid and I have a guide that helps you set it up).

As far as the connectivity issue, other people have also reported data loss when placing calls and the VoLTE icon. You could try freezing the IMS Service package and see if that helps or reapply the v15 patch that overwrites it. Good luck!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] santiclaws:
I made sure secure boot is disabled; when I made that mistake, root wouldn't take at all, so I double checked to make sure. No go; in fact, the last two times I tried, Xposed didn't install at all despite it taking several minutes and going through the application optimization process.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Try contacting Wanam in his Xposed thread and see if he has any ideas. Before you do, you may want to check FlashFire's log on your internal /sdcard and possibly also verify that the binaries got written to your /system for hints where the process may be sticking for you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] santiclaws:
I'll try that, thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] torr310:
Thank you for the reply. Sorry that I didnt mention about I alreay did the research and did clear the cache and also factory reset. I just could not get the issue pinned down and am not sure about where the issue came from. I know the OP is only tested on the earlier version of firmware, and I suspect it could be the new firmware thing.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Not at all -- look through this thread and you'll see several people who've reported this on PE1 and earlier firmwares. It's almost definitely related to IMS Service, so I'd start troubleshooting there.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] torr310:
I am fine now by going to the Safe Mode and turned on every permission I need, but some other people might run into the similar issue and didn't know what to do.

Appreciate for taking your time looking at this!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] miketunes:
I'll give this a try, I'd really like to have the ability to update back. How do I turn off secure boot?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ajthemacboy:
I'm still experiencing hefty battery drain problems on my G930V, both rooted and unrooted. I'm considering returning it to see if it's perhaps an issue with the phone itself, although I doubt Verizon will be willing to admit that could be the problem. I've followed every guide out there and disabled everything that could possibly drain battery quickly and I'm still not getting anywhere near the screen on time others are reporting.

If I return to stock with the guide in the post, they won't be able to tell I've rooted anything right? There's no flash counter or anything that could give it away?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Go into Android's settings and scroll down to the Personal section. Tap on Lock screen and security. Tap on Secure startup. Make sure it's disabled.

Have you done any research why? Checked GSam stats? Used Amplify or Wakelock Detector to track down wakelocks and alarms? Check the logcat for an excessive amount of error entries? Everything has a reason.

The Knox eFuse does not get tripped in this root method, so you can return to stock using the unroot section of my guide and it will be as if you've done nothing at all to the phone. It will still be valid for warranty so long as you haven't gone and done something from other guides/threads (there's one that flashes a Chinese image that busts Knox, for example). I'll assume you haven't. :)