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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] BarbbasKid:
Whelp, I Messed Something Up

Hello All,

I attempted to run the Permanent Root on my 930A (running 930U firmware) per the steps on the first page. I had no trouble unlocking OEM, adb wait-for-device, reboot to Download, Comey, install AP.

Now, however, my phone seems to be bootlooped - it flashes the "Samsung Galaxy" screen for a second, then off, then on again.

I figured I would try and simply return it to stock, but my computer (64-bit Windows 10) no longer recognizes the phone (no lovely "ding" when I plug it in, no Device in Device Manager, no Comey recognition).

I am able to access Download Mode and the stock Recovery (though before I get to stock Recovery I get "Installing System Updates" with the "refresh" logo spiraling inside the android on a blue sreen, then to "No Command".

Any idea on how to return this to Stock, or at least so it can be recognized by my computer? Any thoughts most welcome! Cheers.

EDIT - When running adb wait-for-device the Daemon starts on the correct port, but it never reads the device.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] jrkruse:
You guys do know that this thread has been outdated since marshmallow. Everything here pertains to Marshmallow roms.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] BarbbasKid:
I certainly recognize that now - I haven't used this Galaxy in a few years, wanted to give it to a friend to use while they wait for a replacement battery for their phone.

I should have read more carefully, but there the fault is mine.

I don't care, at this point, if it just flashes back to stock marshmallow. I don;'t intend to try and root it again, just hand it over.

Is that in any way possible, or have I bricked the thing?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] bazoo915:
Is anyone on this thing still? lol... I tried rooting my GS7 Sprint on 8.0 and it's stuck in a boot loop. I tried using some kind of root that flashed the AP in Odin and it went into the boot loop now I'm trying to do this... I've done this before, I don't know what's going wrong so... Help Please.

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Okay so I tried rooting my GS7 Sprint G930P and now it's stuck in a boot loop. I do want to root it but I don't care if I go back to stock. Just need it working again.. Someone help Please <3 :) Not sure what went wrong besides it most likely being a bad flash I used.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Gregbmil1:
I would suggest not installing Xposed. I tried 3 times and bootlooped everytime. I have a G930T. No SafeStrap, no Xposed, but I'm glad it has root for Oreo. There was a senior developer that said its working fine for him on a few different S7's. He may be a developer but I got a ton of trial and error.........Tons!!:silly:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] bazoo915:
Okay but uh.. currently my GS7 is ****ed? It's only booting into download mode and I can't flash it with anything I've found so far... :/ I'll flash it with anything at this point....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Gregbmil1:
hold on. I'm searching fire you. Who is your carrier? I see that its Sprint, give me a few minutes

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Would you happen to know your Bootloader version? When looking at your current firmware it's the number 5th from the last, lol if that even makes sense.

Example: I have an S9 if I go to "Settings" then "About Phone" then "Software Information". I look at the Baseband Version it is G965USQU2ARF9. See the only number 2 in there? That is my Bootloader version. It's important when searching for firmware. Oh, crap. I wrote that all out and just remembered you have a bootloop.

Turn your phone off then hold down "Volume Up" "Home Button" and "Power Button" all at once. Keep holding until you see a blue screen then you can let go. Once it's in recovery you will see your firmware version towards the top, what is that number?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] andretropical:
Galaxy S7 Edge with Oreo could not be rooted

Hi Guys, UI bout a S7 Edge with Nougat, I then upgraded to Oreo, everything fine except that still had to be rooted. I then started the process you described and after I finish uploading the TAR file it went on a bootloop. Maybe the firmware wasn't updated? Any suggestions?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ezee96:
Fixed Debloated

Bootloop in my s7 g930A with the zip to fix and debloat
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] landshark68:
This thread is only for rooting if your phone is on Marshmallow 6.0. There is currently no root for the S7 on Oreo 8.0.

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The debloat script no longer works. It hasn't worked since early builds of Marshmallow 6.0
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ezee96:
How can I debloat my s7 g930a with nougat without problems and bootloops?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] landshark68:
Manually by disabling all the bloatware apps that can be disabled one app at a time through the app manager.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ezee96:
I have root. With link2sd the apps doesn't remove and with titanium backup my g930 froze in the bootimage. Do you know a way with root without problems? I want to remove the bloatware, no disable it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] General_Mayhem:
Yes there is. jrkruse posted a working method 5 days ago for all S7s. The thread is 20+ pages.

I just couldn't get Xposed flashed without hosing my S7. Fortunately I was able to nuke it and start over.

Edit: https://xdaforums.com/verizon-s7-edge/how-to/root-s7-s7edge-oreo-nougat-t3819616
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] landshark68:
I stand corrected. I don't read the S7 edge forums because I have an S7, so I wasn't aware of this.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] protivakid:
FYI in case it has not been posted. The free version of Flashfire seems to crash on load. If you manually set your date to 2013 as per the below thread it will still work!

https://www.reddit.com/r/androidroot/comments/8f83dc/flashfire_crashes_in_load_screen/
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Thunderheart221:
Forgot to enable usb debugging, infinite bootloops now

Edit: Deleted
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] MoRaffers:
Hello Folks, can anyone confirm whether or not the above methodologies will work on a model SM-G935U (Snapdragon 820) with updated Android 8.0. Cheers.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Archangel:
I was able to get xposed up and running but one of the apk's in jkruse's post caused my systemui to f/c,,,it was the exstended settings something,,,I have steered clear of that one
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] RockosaurusRex:
Hey, everyone! I used this method 2 years ago to root my phone so I could use it as a hotspot on my grandfathered unlimited Verizon plan. I disabled any kind of updates and am still rocking Android 6.0.1 on Kernel 3.18.20-eng. I really want to update to something newer/faster, but I read that depending on how I rooted my device, there is a possibility of bricking it if I do something wrong.

How do I go about updating my phone now? I used the method exactly as described in the first post. Keeping root would be preferred, but it's not necessary.

Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] cadtekk:
Now I have to Flash Back to Stock

After using the debloat, "IMS App Stopped Working" popup is persistent and requires a reflash to stock and then re-root. I'll NEVER trust this guy again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ag346:
Guide Clarification / Request for Update

Not sure if it's just me, but the download links for SM-G935V don't seem to download the complete files. Is it ok to just download from sammobile.com, if so, can I use the lastest one or does it have to match what's currently installed?

Is there any benefit or difference when using PrinceComsy version? I couldn't find a download link or much info about it.

Also, just wanted to confirmed what I read else where:

Flashing firmwares which contains more than one *.tar.md5 file will wipe all data on internal storage.

Flashing official/stock firmware won't increase the binary flash nor KNOX WARRANTY VOID counter and won't cancel the device's warranty.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] jrkruse:
You realize everything in the OP of this thread pertains to Marshmallow android 6.0 which you cant even flash on this device anymore unless you are still on a 6.0 firmware. This thread is seriously outdated
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ChinDaChin:
Hello! I got my at&t s7 when this thread went live, and have the original root/engineer rom from OP. I want to wipe the device, install the certified at&t rom, then update the phone. Are there steps for this somewhere? How do I know which updates to give the phone? I do not have the at&t sim card anymore.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Najeeb Baba:
Needed G935t 8.0 Oreo Root File

Plllzzz Replay Fast Bro
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Genadmm:
Alright I'm pretty new to this and after successfully rooting my Galaxy S7 running oreo, I came across this thread and I accidentally followed it and used flashfire with the S7_or_S7Edge_Fixes_Debloater_V15.zip file and did not read that this was strictly for nougat (my bad). After rebooting the phone I was met with an extremely laggy experience. The phone was also heating up quite a bit for just idling on the lock-screen. Upon swiping into the phone the message " IMS service has stopped" with an option to close app or send feedback. Regardless of what option is chosen the message is spammed repeatedly without end. I've preformed a hard reset, wiped my cache partition, factory reset the phone, and I've tried the most common fixes aimed to fix "IMS service has stopped". The only other option I can think of is to try to re-flash the phone to stock. Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated.

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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] whodisname:
Too broke to pay attention. ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] saf4xdadev:
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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] b0b88:
really ufkd up

I used this guide and loved my rooted s7 for over a year now, today like an idiot I decided to flash stock 8.0 firmware, when I boot I still have the custom unlocked logo and the operating system is still laggy like 6.0.1... is there any way to undo the mess I just made?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] University of Pi:
Should be simple enough

IIRC flash an old image and OTA update it

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That's always the way
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] BeanTinker:
Flashfire just crashing before it opens all the way

Ive been trying for a while now to load flashfire and it just wont work, i even tried to use an older version and it worked even less. i was gonna just use flashify, but i dont think this all comes installed with recovery. if amyone has a solution please help. my battery is draining SO fast now lol.

so i finally found the solution just after my post. change the date to before april 2018 and it loads perfect. such a strange fix XD
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] BeanTinker:
the funny thing about this is that i started doing this all while on 8.0. I was origionally trying to get sm-g935u on sm-g935a and it got stuck in a loop. then i found this:

https://xdaforums.com/att-s7-edge/how-to/firmware-pi2-s7-edge-sm-g935a-10-03-16-t3477246

and then followed this guide to get root. i did think it was weird when i found out i had installed older firmware with no issues, but im not complaining.

also just thought i would point out that the xposed apk link is dead
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] jerequan:
My sprint gs7 edge is on android 8.0.0 and bootloader v9 i believe... if i flash the "return to stock" files in this post will I then be able to root??? Or is hope lost now that i've taken all the OTA's????
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Orthok:
V9 bootloader compatible?

Is this method v9 bootloader compatible? im on G930VVRS9CSc1.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] aliyahia:
What about my device can it be rooted sm g935vvrs9csc1? Please answer me
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] mtbyte:
I realize that this is an old post, quick question as I don't replace my phone often and have only upgraded the OS once prior.

I just ordered a Samsung S7 G930VL from StraightTalk, for the Verizon network.

Since this is an out of the box OS, does this change your directions regarding unrooting and such? Am assuming that it should still work on the StraightTalk prepaid plans on Verizon. Sorry if I sound like a novice. I am . :)

Thanks.

Mark
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] breadoftruth:
Hello, i recently followed your guide on rooting my samsung s7 edge sm-g935t and it work great, ive been trying to download the fixes and debloat file but it seems like the link has broken down? could you help e out with that file? i'd really appreciate it, thanks in advance
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] bodyshop:
Hello, anyone have the latest PRL file that can be flashed?

Or know how i can update the PRL manually without loosing root?

Thank You
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] C_King_Of_Languages:
Oof- the one in depth s7 rooting guide and the files are no longer available 🥴
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] billa:
Follows this step-by-step rooting guide.

https://xdaforums.com/posts/81410291/show
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] C_King_Of_Languages:
Thank you for the link. It seems that the issue I repeatedly run into is during the Odin flashing stage. Namely, the "NAND write start!!" error.

From what I've searched, it is most likely due to a bad usb cord or outdated drivers. However, I'd tried installing and reinstalling the samsung usb drivers and also swapped out to several cords. I can connect through adb with the device fine, so am not sure why it would have issues in download mode.

Ever encounter this error and know what the solution is?

Ahh. You may have cleared something up here. "If your current firmware has a bootloader Rev.B/11 or higher (ex. G930UUESxCSI1 "x" is the 5th digit from right to left is "B-Z"), then there's no way to root it or downgrade it, don't waste your time you'll just have to wait till a solution comes out"

So a BCTA3 in G930UUESBCTA3 is letter "B" which actually stands for the revloader version 11, like B in hexidecimal. In that case, I guess this particular phone is unrootable. Can you clarify this seems to be the case?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] natedog1528:
Were the fixes + debloat files part of them? If so I'd be fine going to the original site to get them unless you have them somewhere else. (Yes I know this is old but I only starting rooting this now)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] billa:
That's correct, it's one boot-loader version too high. You can get another S7 off of Ebay real cheap, or even just a main board with an older firmware.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] torr310:
Notification bar icons

Does anyone see any extra icons appear on the notification bar? One is the big white icon as my picture and the other is the "Vo LTE".

Can they be removed to keep the area clean?

Thank you in advance!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] freak69ize:
Flash V11.zip a page or two back
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Go back and read the Recommended Next Steps from the very first post.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] JAYNO20:
How did you trip knox?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] davecotefilm:
Flashed Aurora rom 3 months ago. Just wondering if it's reversible?

Aurora :

http://xdaforums.com/s7-edge/how-to/guide-sm-g9350-s7-edge-qualcomm-sd820-t3410969
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Try the unroot method here, except when you are Odin'ing images, also re-flash the bootloader (BL image). Maybe you'll get lucky. Naturally, perform a full backup of your data and copy it to an external SD or computer first.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] junkmail9:
Please let us know here if it works to reset Knox. I am certain that many people will be very interested to know the answer. The theory is that 0x1 is an efuse and not reversible. Disproving that would be awesome.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] JAYNO20:
Would this root method work for the US carrier phones? If so, that would be awesome to get the bootloader unlocked.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Doubtful, it looks very specific to the Chinese variant SM-G-935O, but if they're exploiting a vulnerability that's common to the other Qualcomm S7/S7 Edges, then it's not a hard 'no'. I recommend starting a new thread to discuss it, though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] davecotefilm:
By

My thoughts exactly. Will someone who understands this stuff start a thread? I don't know anything about bootloader vulnerabilities :/

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Ooohh, I'm a little scared I'd get stuck with a locked bootloader :/ my sm-g9350 bootloader isn't locked.. And technically I am not affected by 0x1, since I'm in Canada (no Samsung / Android Pay yet)

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[MENTION=5270875]mlkemac[/MENTION] would you be willing to try this?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] torr310:
Your help is much appreciated! I am sorry I missed that they are part of the debloated file since I used Titanium Backup to remove most of apps I don't want already.

The debloated file worked flawlessly! Thanks for all your time and effort! Also kudos to all users reporting issues to make it awesome!:D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
First few posts say it's not available for US anyway -- apparently the G93x0's came with unlocked bootloaders in China.

Thus, this is not a bootloader unlock.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] freak69ize:
Scrolling in apps is a bit sticky on V11 for me.. Lock screen takes awhile to come on too after pressing power
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] davecotefilm:
But if [MENTION=5270875]mlkemac[/MENTION] is into trying to flash your guy's bootloader to have your guys root, and verifies the efuse actually isn't an efuse... Would be a HUGE breakthrough :) I might try it once the USA variant root makes a rom with fm radio..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
That's just the phone in general. Give it about 60-90 seconds after any reboot (especially since the update zip adds a few startup scripts that it's running). If you continue to have any performance issues, I'd check to see what you have or haven't frozen to debloat. My SM-G930V is screaming. :D
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] downhillvinnie:
WOW, I am so impressed, followed everything, works like a charm! I have a dumb question, any work around to remove the pin lock when using email exchange?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] SanguiniusWept:
Just took the leap and everything seems to be working fine...except Busybox isn't working. I tell it to install and it says it didn't work and I should try installing to a different location. I searched this thread and a few other people had issues installing, and no one had any fix for it. Has anyone been successful in getting it to install correctly?

Alternatively, is Busybox necessary for things to work right? On previous devices, I was always told to make sure to install Busybox after rooting. But if it's not a necessity anymore, I'll just uninstall the app.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Skizzy034:
I got Wifi Calling to work also. You can edit it in the same xml.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Tikerz:
On AT&T?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Skizzy034:
Yea, check the U firmware thread in the att edge forum.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] guaneet:
Sorry for the late status update for v11 but just want to say thank you once again for this awesome scripting!

3 things.

1. Secure storage change did let WiFi passwords be remembered upon reboot.

2. The RCS icon and VoLTE were still persistent even after v11/v12.i don't mind tho, I just swapped out the immservice files and now I'm good

3. For TCP congrstion, is BIC default in Stock kernel? I thought cubic was default for 3.1 based kernels. Just curious. Once again thanks for the script! Really has improved the root experience!

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Look for an app in the play store called "busy box on the rails." I believe that is the only version that works at the moment
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
One of the CSC values does it I believe, which means there's probably an Xposed module that will toggle it off for you. Install Xposed if you haven't yet, then search for modules that mess with Exchange.

I used JRummy's BusyBox installer after another one also had the issue you described:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.busybox.installer

Seemed to run fine for me with this one.

Titanium Backup will use (but not require) BusyBox as well a number of other root apps. Just depends on what you're using your phone for, really.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] k33f:
First of all, thank you so so much for putting this guide together. I am so grateful to be rooted. I'm having trouble downloading the bloat script. Are the links for the bloat fix down?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] psouza4:
Nope, but it's possible that you have the guide opened from earlier and haven't reloaded it in a while. V12 is the latest version and I've removed the earlier versions from my file host so nobody flashes any versions known to have issues or that are outdated.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] SanguiniusWept:
I honestly didn't realize there were multiple BusyBox installers. I'd always used BusyBox Free (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=stericson.busybox), thinking that was the one to use. The JRummy one works just fine. Thanks a lot!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] k33f:
Yup, that was totally the case. Got it now. Again, thanks for all the work. :good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] cuezaireekaa:
I'm curious about question number 3 as well..

I have left it on bic but still noticed lots of heat and stuttering when WiFi was pushed to it's Max, including downloads. Gonna do cubic tonight and run same downloads to see if heat persists. Streaming doesn't generate as much heat at all.

But the temp has really improved with all the CPU tweaks this script gives. Amazing really how much better of a root experience this gives you after initial root. Thank you for your contributions.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] freak69ize:
I have over 10 modules running too. Gonna try disabling them when I get home and see if that helps... then enable one at a time.. Thanks for evrything
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] jsanta11:
I did the changes and have the options, now how can I test them to see if they actually work? I have AT&T service.