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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ajthemacboy:
I've done tons of stuff with Wakelock Detector, BetterBatteryStats, GSam, everything... I've disabled everything intensive in Amplify and it has helped with standby drain, but not screen on time.

I've of course followed your performance/battery guide and the Extreme Battery guides, disabled all bloatware with your deep debloat, etc. Nothing seems to help. I've downloaded some iffy battery apps which I doubt really do anything and they say the battery health is good too. Returning the phone is a last resort for me but I'm kindof out of options.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] mugsy77:
For those with text message issues, please see if on your lock screen it says Searching for Service. I have noticed when I am not able to send or receive text (when sending, it says pending), my lock screen will say that. When it seems to work, it says Verizon Wireless. Thanks for chiming in. (It has nothing to do with any tweaks by [MENTION=1599591]psouza4[/MENTION] btw, as issues exist before apply any fixes or tweaks, as well as after.)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] miketunes:
No luck with toggling secure booti and clearing the cache.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] The Amorphist:
Wificalling

Thanks for the great guide!

My only issue is Wi-Fi calling won't enable now. I did not use your "deep de-bloat" package, just the standard one. Any tips? I lets me open the screen and press "on", it just never does anything.

Cheers,

Amorphist
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
I'm not sure Wi-Fi calling will work... it's not a feature I use, personally. One of my scripts sets the CSC setting to 'TRUE' to enable the menu, but that doesn't really guarantee functionality, as you've noticed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] The Amorphist:
Thanks for personally responding sir. That's really disappointing; I'm awfully surprised that whatever changed were made disabled that.

My menu item to turn on Wi-Fi hotspots has also vanished, and Hotspot apps don't seem to do much. Am I missing something, or is this sort of a stripped down rooting procedure (I went through this largely to gain access to hotspots again).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] mugsy77:
Delete
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] marksibert:
I just wanted to add my thanks for documenting all of this! I just bought my S7 a couple days ago, and I had no trouble following your directions to root & tweak it. I haven't played with it enough to know how the battery life is going to be yet, but it was definitely easy to do!

One thing I've noticed (which may be intentional). When I go to Settings > System Updates, I get an error: "Unfortunately, Settings has stopped". Are system updates purposely disabled? Or did I screw something up?

If updates aren't disabled, are there any "gotchas" to be aware of when installing an update? Thanks!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Intentionally disabled! Since OTA always has the potential to deliver a new bootloader payload, it's possible we'll get a condition where we can't flash to downgrade and thus lose root.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] budmannxx:
[MENTION=1599591]psouza4[/MENTION], thanks so much for your work on this, and for answering so many questions in the thread. I'm hoping you can help with an issue I'm having. I'm on a Verizon G930v, PE1 firmware. I followed the guide to root, install xposed, and I ran the Verizon-specific fix+debloat V15 file. I'm noticing a weird error where some apps can't connect when I'm on a cellular connection. Everything works fine when I'm on wifi. I've noticed the weird behavior with the Play Store and the American Express app (but I have to believe it's not just these two). Other Google apps work fine (Gmail/Inbox, Youtube, etc.) on cellular. The error I'm seeing is a timeout of some sort. Google Play says "Connection timed out" and the AmEx app say something like "our servers aren't responding now, please try later."

I have reapplied the V15 fix+debloat file once since I noticed this issue, but that didn't fix the problem. The only xposed module I'm runnning right now is XPrivacy, but I don't think that's the culprit because Play works fine with XPrivacy enabled when I'm on wifi, but not on cellular even when I toggle off the restrictions.

I haven't seen anyone else on this thread with this issue besides one poster many pages ago (with no responses to that post). Other searches turned up people who had a similar issue when on wifi (opposite of me), and the fixes there seemed to be related to their routers, not their phones.

I have also tried with Advanced Calling disabled and enabled, and WiFi Calling disabled and enabled--no luck with any combination of these settings.

Any ideas? I know at some point someone is going to suggest flashing back to stock through Odin, which I can do, but I'd like to avoid that if at all possible.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] buradd:
I hope you find a match soon, that sounds daunting.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] davidisflash:
Haha. Oh for sure. Seeing a couple right now. It's a matter of choosing now lol.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] phantomliberty:
So I managed to root and everything was great. I ended up accidentally freezing the wrong service in Titanium Backup and I now I can't get past the AT&T logo screen on my S7. Booting into recovery mode and wiping data/factory reset doesn't work. I do it and reboot but I'm still stuck at the logo. Using Odin to revert to stock Android doesn't work either. I downloaded the appropriate version for my phone and I get a model dismatch error. What gives?

I looked around and saw that there is apparently a "universal" version that I'm not seeing anywhere. What is this and how do I get it? I really need to boot up my phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Use ADB (even at the bootloop) to unfreeze the package. ADB SHELL pm unfreeze com.whatever.the.package.is.

Nope, that only erases your user data for apps, it does not tell the package manager to unfreeze app packages.

Sounds like you didn't get the one for your phone afterall, but if you are sure you did, try the other version of Odin. As other AT&T users pointed out, if one doesn't work the other one usually does. Both versions are available from my guide.

It has lots of issues, I wouldn't recommend it and I don't have links for it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] thegameksk:
What's your screen time? I just flashed yesterday and am having awful battery life. Played Pokemon go for 30 minutes on the train and my battery went from 100% to 70%. I didnt debloat. I just ran the fix zip. Also my phone gets warm very easily and even my charger gets burning hot. I'm using the T-Mobile version.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Um, a lot.. here's about 50% of my battery use:

Turn off Google Location history reporting?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] HamBone625:
So I've tried returning to stock (latest update) currently on PE1 I believe I've also tried flashing the U firmware and none flash they just fail with somthing to do with the pit in which I can't seem to find a Verizon s7 pit file just s7edge I'm kinda at a loss cause as nice as it is to have root finally even after following the ops tweaks guide for battery and performance my battery just drains like crazy. It will even drain 20 to 30% over night thanks alot for your efforts however OP! Really wanted this to work ):
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] thegameksk:
My god. I think I am going to try everything again from scratch and this time ill use your indepth guide on battery saving apps. Should I revert to stock and then try everything all over again?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] tyoder87:
How do I know if I'm one PE1? I've never updated the firmware. Still original firmware from launch.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] wutangkillabee:
So my phone just rebooted & is hung up on the Verizon screen... Tried rebooting, tried shutting it off & when I hold power, vol down & home button I get Warning a custom is can cause critical probems... If you want to download a custom os press the vol up key. Otherwise press vol down to cancel.

Just to add, the led light is solid blue, even when I try powering it off... Solid blue, any advise would be greatly appreciated. Everything was going great for about a week or 2 maybe & then this... On the vzw s7, rooted with xposed & I didn't or wasn't doing anything critical or stupid b4 this happened...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] wutangkillabee:
Here's pic
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] qwerfaseeh:
Same thing happened to me last night on T-mobile and i found that this bug is faced by many of us as Eng Boot is not stable so i had to reflash the stock rom again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] deV14nt:
Not sure if it isn't obvious many have heat problems and battery issues just from the standard process. Regardless of wake lock detectors or anything else, it's noticeably worse on the engboot. In fact, it's quite possible to have your first experience with this process result in a phone that is overheating badly while stuck on the at&t logo. Hope you like permanently shortened battery lifespan. Amazingly, holding in the power button doesn't work, but the download mode combination does. Remember to throw your $700 device in the freezer off and on while you get your **** sorted, so it doesn't, you know, melt or explode. In the end, you get a phone that's mildly warmer, laggier, can't cope with v4a but at least it can use it, but you get root. Just not without its problems.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] deeje00:
I completely turned off all screen security. So I I'm pretty sure that's not the problem.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] thegameksk:
Last night when I went to bed at 12 my battery was at 80%. Screen turned off, wifi running, sync off. I woke at 630 to a dead phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] rjs987:
If I used the v14 fix Debloater file should I do it again with the v15 file?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] marksibert:
That's what I suspected... :) Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ajthemacboy:
I'm getting bad battery drain too.. people are reporting tons of screen on time doing things like Wifi browsing and my phone isn't getting anywhere near that, even with almost everything disabled, including location services, bluetooth, device scanning, etc. Nothing I've tried shows anything intensive happening to drain it and I'm really at a loss.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] TCPDump:
Sure, you will want to use flashfire: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.flash

Steps

Install Flashfire, open, grant root access.

Select the + button in the bottom right.

Select "Flash Zip or OTA"

Navigate to the .zip file and select it - probably in "Download".

Leave all default options, scroll down, and select "Flash".
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Rhubarbb:
Thank you so much. One last question--for editing the build.prop, how can I go about that? I see that there are several items with G935V instead of G930V. For instance, ro.product.model and ro.build.version.incremental
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Flash this version instead (or if you've already flashed the S7 Edge version) using FlashFire. This version is specific to the S7.

S7_PE1_Knox_Remove_Debloat_HotSpotFix.zip
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Rhubarbb:
Thanks! Hopefully this will solve the overheat issues and whatnot. Will post later in the day with results.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Ridl3y:
Looks good
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] TCPDump:
Off-topic.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Not here -- although it's funny you say something, the http://downloads.codefi.re/ site you uploaded to refuses to serve files if you don't view their ads, something I can't do because of my network DNS filter (I'm not hacking it up and clearing my DNS cache for one server's mirror). Appreciate your attempt at mirroring this for us, but it should probably live on a more friendly host.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] TCPDump:
Here you go: https://2048-bit.com/downloads/S7Edge_PE1_Knox_Remove_Debloat_HotSpotFix.zip

That is direct HTTPS from one of my personal servers. Let me know if it works.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Indeed! And fast! Are you wanting that put in the guide as a mirror, then?

BTW I think the original post you were looking for earlier was here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=67631705&postcount=3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] morrowa2:
I remember the brief time the Galaxy S6 had root, and there was a way to enable the native wifi tethering (disable carrier provisioning). Is there a way to do that on the S7 now that we have root?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Must4ngGT:
Su binary

The SU binary needs to be updated. Should i continue?

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I installed xposed and when i boot up i get the setup screen and stuck in checking connection. What happened? Flashed using flashfire
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Yes. See OP under recommended next steps.

Nope. Chainfire said not to -- unless you know what you're doing. Specifically: "This version of SuperSU is not officially supported. I recommend against updating the APK from the Play Store, or otherwise updating the binaries, unless someone knowledgable has tried before you and confirmed it worked."

Sounds like you maybe missed a step. If you ever make it past this, try flashing the fixup/debloat update package -- it's possible you're just having an issue with service, and that fixes it. If you never make it past the setup screen though, start over and follow the instructions again, making sure you flash the fixup script first before Xposed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] morrowa2:
I've done all the items on that list and still get the "you need to subscribe to activate the tethering" message.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Including flashing a new zip uploaded today? Verify what you've tried, please.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] morrowa2:
Rooted using the guide, kernel auditor, xposed.zip, then the apk, removed the app using TiBu to get rid of the "unauthorized warning" and pushed the apk to get rid of the Volte typhoons, did the build prop edit for WiFi passwords. Then flashed the s7-pe1-knox-remove-debloat-fix-hotspot zip. I think that covers everything. Have I overlooked something?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] CVertigo1:
I confirmed it.

Note: I didn't realize that I forgot to install the pro version of SuperSU until after I posted this lol.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
I feel like you did everything right (although maybe you weren't' on PE1 to begin with, that's the only thing I can think of offhand). You may want to ask [MENTION=1949695]jrkruse[/MENTION] if he has any ideas, as it's his script that's been patched for S7: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=67631705&postcount=3

Nice -- post back if it breaks anything. sometimes stuff like that isn't immediately apparent.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] morrowa2:
I initially rooted on the previous build, screwed some things up by deleting some vital apps with TiBu. Odin'ed to Official PE1 image, then did the whole rooting procedure again from scratch. Not sure if that process messed things up. I asked [MENTION=1949695]jrkruse[/MENTION] anyway. Thanks. Foxfi still works regardless

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Looks like [MENTION=1949695]jrkruse[/MENTION] updated the zip to fix the hotspot. Would you mind modifying it for s7, as you did before?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] CVertigo1:
All has been well for the past day. My ROM I'm working on is ridiculously fast and smooth. I have to iron out a few quirks with it before i release it as a daily driver for most everyone. I'm considering revamping it with the G930U firmware with WiFi calling and HD calling baked in.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Just did!

Check the OP for a 'V2' version for the S7.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] marksibert:
Okay, so I've got about a day's worth of post-rooting use on the phone now. Performance is really good - about 123k on Antutu. Battery drain was very dramatic on the way into the office today. Now, I was running Waze and and also streaming audio over bluetooth (iHeartRadio). By the time I got to the office, my battery was down to 50%. That includes about an hour at the house, and a 45-minute drive. I exercised for an hour in our gym, and the phone only dropped 4% during that hour - it was just sitting in the locker, I wasn't using it for music during my workout.

Anyway, is the battery drop while using GPS and/or playing music expected? Of course, looking at the battery usage, the biggest drain appears to be the screen. It's no big deal for me to plug in my phone while I'm driving. I purposely left it unplugged today to see how well it would do.

Also wondering if any of the xposed modules I installed might be contributing to the battery drain... Amplify, App Settings, CrappaLinks, ForceDoze, Greenify, Lockscreen Disabler (inactive), MinMinGuard, USSD Inbox (inactive), Wanam Xposed. For Amplify/ForceDoze/Greenify, I followed your tweaking guide except for the parts that required paid versions of the apps. (I'm just using the free versions.)

Battery usage so far:

Screen 30%

Android System 16%

Waze 15%

Android OS 12%

iHeartRadio 5%

Google Play Services 4%

Cell Standby 3%

...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] King Midas:
Is anyone else experiencing issues connecting to 4G? I switched the network to LTE/CDMA in Settings -> Mobile Networks but no luck. I'm not really sure what steps to take now at this point but I'd really prefer to get this back if possible.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] thanirs:
Great guide. Thank you [MENTION=1599591]psouza4[/MENTION]

Ran into couple of issues I would like to report:

1. I used your guide to root an AT&T S7. When I go into Mobile networks, the Network mode shows: Preferred network mode: GSM/WCDMA/LTE. I tried changing it to LTE only but the changes are not being saved. Reverts back to the original (GSM/WCDMA/LTE). How do I undo this? I am thinking this is part of the fix/debloater script which I ran after root.

2. When I flashed using the PrinceComsy version, I got stuck at the AT&T logo. I ended up unroot/going back to stock and then trying again, this time with the other Odin version. However, the Odin version gives an error with an ini file and quits. So I copied the ini file from PrinceComsy version to move forward with the root. I was successful with this method.

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] santiclaws:
It's in your settings, under lock screen and security/secure start up.

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Settings/lock screen and security/secure start up
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] buradd:
at&t s7 - rooted & xposed, v14 generic debloat/fix script ran

i think in the very first day or so, there was a little extra battery drain and heat..

but now like a week later, it seems to be normal.. to put it in context, I fell asleep last night with my phone off the charger at 54% and woke up 9 hours later it was at 50%..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] thanirs:
Hi [MENTION=3929819]buradd[/MENTION]

I also have an AT&T S7. I did exactly that (root, xposed, fix/debloater script).

Does your Preferred network mode also say: GSM/WCDMA/LTE? Is this an issue? I would imagine it should only say LTE?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] buradd:
[MENTION=5234343]thanirs[/MENTION]

From my understanding, LTE only is not recommended.. you'll want it on GSM/WCDMA/LTE so you have fallback options in the event LTE is unavailable in the area you're in at the time... LTE is not everywhere and our phones very much rely on being able to fallback to 4g, HSDPA+, 3g, and even 2g if need be...

And to more directly answer your question, yes mine does also say GSM/WCDMA/LTE under preferred network.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] thanirs:
Thanks [MENTION=3929819]buradd[/MENTION]

I understand what you are saying but isn't the mere definition of 'preferred' means just that? i.e., Prefer LTE but use others when LTE is not available. Maybe another way of asking is what does preferred network of GSM/WCDMA/LTE mean? Which of the three is preferred? :)

I am almost sure my previously unrooted S7 used to say LTE as the preferred network mode and it still used other modes when LTE was not available.

It is entirely possible this is a moot point as I do get LTE, no issues here at all.

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] buradd:
It should always start with the best and fastest of the list before falling back.. honestly like you said, it's probably a moot point
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Make sure that you've followed my recommended next steps in this guide (fixes+debloat) and are NOT using any CPU-tweaking apps to manually change anything (these will typically degrade performance; I haven't encountered any that handles our big/little CPU core clusters correctly). After that, also check my fine-tuning performance guide, which helps you control wakelocks, alarms, set up app dozing, etc.

Should? Nah. Could? If you want to. There's a changelog SEVERAL pages back (I'm out of room in the original post to add stuff like that) and it's really only a change that'll affect non-Verizon users and only if they want to flash multiple times (to re-fix CSC issues they've messed with). If that describes you, then go for it. If you're not sure, go for it (it won't hurt). If it doesn't, ignore it. :)

Thanks!

I'm pretty sure it did this for me on stock, but in either case it shouldn't be anything the patch does. The patch flashes a new IMS Service (imsservice.apk) to fix the icons at the top. Credits to the author are in the original post. It also installs startup scripts that patch build.prop, others.xml/feature.xml, and individual CPU settings under /sys -- none of the scripts should affect data network (caveat: potentially the CSC settings in others.xml, but most of the changes are enabling options and preferring network types by default, which you can override in device settings). I can post original files from a freshly-rooted PE1 firmware SM-G930V if you want to compare others.xml vs. what you have now.

Thanks for the tip! I may have to repackage the alternate Odin version with a fixed ini file. Could you be more specific about the error you saw?

Thanks for checking in and glad to hear your results!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] thanirs:
Unable to change/override the preferred network mode settings.

Attached the pop-up error window when trying to run Odin.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Mo_Nexus:
Stuck

I have a T-mobile S7 edge and after flashing the engineer boot image it says "pass" in Odin and the phone reboots. But then it just gets stuck at the T-mobile logo and vibrates intermittently at regular intervals.

Should i try reflashing the image?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Skizzy034:
Boot into recovery and factory reset.