yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] dajmanjt:
I'm gonna post this here so hopefully some dev will see it....

Here is something interesting.... wonder if this exploit could give us root without having to use the engkernel..... that would be awesome

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/175146-samsung-galaxy-s7-has-quadrooter-vulnerability.html

Just performed a scan using quadrooter scan app and it looks like on the latest Verizon firmware we are still good to go on three of the four vulnerabilities. I hope a dev uses this to get us legit root....

Sent from my Verizon S7E Rooted PF2
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Edge4President:
My s7 edge g935u keeps doing random reboots after root and Xposed help?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] TugBoatTed:
I'll have to check on this. What's the difference? Happen to know whether flashing CSC wipes the phone?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Exodusoffg:
Sorry im not offering anything here just reporting my bootloop experiece. Hoping it might help some how.

On a t mobile s7 with PG1. Rooted twice ran for a few days fine then ended up in boot loops on a restart. Had to flash back to stock. Followed the rooting guide to a t and flashed the v15 generic fixes..no debloating. For some reason i had to manually freeze the security log agent though. The boot loops happened shortly after installing xposed. Not saying it was exposed just seems odd. The second time it happened i had no modules enabled in exposed. I was preparing to follow the battery tunning guide the op has. Woke up next day and xda labs had crash report and kept looping into crashing so i rebooted and bam boot loop. Tried flash csc home to retrieve data and still bootloop. Been watching thread to see if anyone has similar experiences...seen a couple. Some suspect xposed or security updates. Im waiting to see what comes of it. Been to busy at work to step thru the various scenarios.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Soooperstar:
Csc home doesn't wipe data. You need csc if you want to go all the way back to stock
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] LeftyGR:
+1. CSC has the .pit file the wipes/repartitions everything. CSC_HOME will not. So any additional files in whatever partition (including system and user data) that does not get overwritten by the odin install process, will remain.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] TugBoatTed:
I was able to check my files. Looks like I flashed CSC previously and did not flash CSC_HOME. Do I now need to flash CSC_HOME? I assume not and this probably means my issue lies elsewhere...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Soooperstar:
Factory reset and Odin the whole package again with the csc file (not csc_home)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ironbesterer:
After completing this root (this was a couple weeks ago), I got tired of the constant lag. So I restored back to stock using the CSC and not the HOME_CSC. Well, something happened, even after reflashing the CSC again and several factory resets.

I would get no 4G, the "Roaming Indicator Off" would constantly show, No service, and it was laggy and unstable. So I took it into Verizon. THey gave me me a new SIM card, which seemed to fix the 4G issues. But I still did not get service (it WORKED, but it didn't work all the time. It would sometimes disconnect and it would require a number of reboots and phone calls to get working again) and the Roaming Indicator Off was still showing in the carrier info. So I decided to try an ODIN restore one last time before I sent it off for repair. This time I decided to use the HOME_CSC file.

After doing that, the phone works flawlessly. I don't know what it is, but I guess HOME_CSC repairs some of the Verizon partitions that the normal CSC file would not do.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] JonandRoid:
Does anyone have any information on the G935u? I purchased the g935f not knowing it wouldn't work on Verizon so I got the g935u instead. Working so far so good on Verizon. Was thinking of rooting but on my g935v the battery life was BAD. Any pros to having the U?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ANTLAY:
Just got a new s7, and was really hoping to root it shortly but it seems as if there is alot of side effects atm from browsing the last few pages of this thread. Would I be best to hold off? Seems there are as many with problems as there is successes
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] freak69ize:
Same here. Google says it will be fixed in September
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] ickedmel:
I love having the u firmware stock unfortunately it doesn't have visual voice-mail but I still use it feels better then Verizon firmware and it's already debloated. I tried root on ufirmware but I ended up running into issues and getting forced into bootloops I believe it was an xposed module that did it. For now I'm sticking to stock ufirmware. I'd actually like to know from psouza I know his fixes script adds call recording to the dialer, I was wondering if it's possible for me to add call recording to the dialer without root.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] HolyGhostBoy1:
I noticed it too so im waiting till everything gets straight.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] j0hnh0lmes:
The boot loop issue people keep saying is Xposed, it's not. It's not an app or the firmware. Quit updating the security policy! It's what causes the boot loop.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Toonlinkmaster25:
How sure are you? So all we have to do is have both of those options unchecked?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] supesandroid:
alternate download site for s7_fixes_v15?

can someone please provide an alternative download link for: S7_or_S7Edge_Fixes_V15.zip

S7_or_S7Edge_Fixes_Debloater_V15.zip

the ones on psouza4.com don't work. Thanks!!!!! :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] j0hnh0lmes:
I'm 100% sure. I tested this weekend. Rooted and updated policy and rebooted. Every time it boot looped regardless of what else was done to the phone.

---------- Post added at 06:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:20 PM ----------

Just tested links, they work fine.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] santiclaws:
Has anyone who had problems installing Xposed figure out the issue? Everything works well on my phone except battery life is not great and I would love to install the battery optimization apps, but need Xposed for that...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] supesandroid:
When I click on the links it says "waiting for psouza4" and doesn't do anything. Thanks. Maybe someone can email them to me? superlativecritic at g mail - much appreciated!!!!!!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] j0hnh0lmes:
Which do you need?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] j0hnh0lmes:
Nevermind, attached.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] supesandroid:
both please. Thanks!!

S7_or_S7Edge_Fixes_V15.zip

S7_or_S7Edge_Fixes_Debloater_V15.zip
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] raymond016:
first of all, thank you for what you have done. I want to ask if i can install exynos CSC for stock ROM? I bought a Sprint phone and i live in Vietnam. I want to change CSC to Vietnam so that i can use some of Samsung Vietnam service. Is it possible to do that?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] j0hnh0lmes:
Post right above yours. [emoji6]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Exodusoffg:
So besides disabling security policy updates in the security settings what is the package name we should disable in TB?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] j0hnh0lmes:
Com.policydm should be it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Cox3jo:
Thanx a lot that worked. [emoji1]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Toonlinkmaster25:
Is there any chance it's both xposed and security updates? I think I remember playing around with settings and disabling those anyway but I can't be too sure. I'll probably add back xposed next week if it's not caused any bootloops. Thanks for testing!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] j0hnh0lmes:
I'm not saying a certain module won't cause problem. But I am certain most people with this problem is due to updating their security policy either automatically or manually and not thinking about it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] TambourineMan:
My S& was supposed to arrive yesterday but they are backordered, so I don't know what firmware it will have. I am trying to gather all the files needed to root it using colormedroids method. He says I should be on PE1 in post #296 and referred me here to find it. http://xdaforums.com/sprint-galaxy-s7/how-to/sm-g930p-root-t3410604/page30

I have searched many threads for PE1 and find many for a Verizon, but I need Sprint's. Everyone posts as if official firmware was readily available and there is no need to provide links to download it. Is this because all firmware versions are available from the phone update screen itself (which I do not yet have)? If not, can someone give me a clue as to where I can find G930PVPU2APE1 ?

TIA
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Psychlone:
So I haven't been in here for a couple weeks since everything was going fine, but out of nowhere yesterday my phone started a random reboot sequence that occurred 7 times before I went to bed at midnight and again another 5 times today. I haven't added or removed anything at all so I can only guess that an update to an existing app is causing a problem somewhere.

It seems random but I know there's no such thing as "random" in code - I simply cannot figure out the actual cause because it seems I'm either never doing the same thing when it freezes and reboots, or it's just sitting on the counter and decides it's time.

I remember back when root was first released for the s7 that there were some people having this issue here and there but mine quit doing it after starting from scratch after a factory reset, installing the fix + debloat v15 and installing my apps from scratch and not TiBU - and this has worked beautifully for almost 2 weeks, but here we are again and for literally no apparent reason.

Ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Skizzy034:
Did you try Sammobile.com?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] LeftyGR:
Being on PE1 to use his stuff is only important if you're on vzw. Any other carrier doesn't matter, because vzw has a specific file to flash.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] live2playloud:
Root has been working great for me. Also I only have very minimal lag and that is only on the system apps like phone messages and settings.. I put it up against my wife's stock s7 and you couldn't really see a difference
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] davidisflash:
Guys, I just moved to the unlocked firmware and made sure to factory reset a few times after. I then applied the V15 VERIZON scripts in the op after ensuring of course in supersu that boot scripts can run. I still have those extra icons at top that disappeared on Verizon firmware plus the v15 patch. Was I supposed to run the generic scripts instead? After this I ran the v2 debloat script. Maybe it isn't needed on U firmware...

After flash fire zip is applied, they seemed to run fine at boot. However, when waking sometimes I still get heavy lag. I am using force doze and enabled aggressive hibernation in greenify. That's it.

If I set my phone aside for an hour, deep sleep is incredibly awesome. 95 percent. Did I do something wrong or is lag currently expected from deep sleep? I set governor to interactive btw.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] raymond016:
I got S7 Sprint. I rooted it and decided to return to stock by your instruction. But there are some problems:

- it keep showing "Security notice" notification

- Everytime i turn off Wifi, it forget all the wifi connection

- I cannot update OTA

Can anyone help, please?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] mcholly7:
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this question, but I don't see any forums that seem more closely related to this question so I apologize in advance. I was wondering if anyone has tried the root methods available on an S7 Active, and if so was it successful. Also, if it was successful, would you mind pointing me in the right direction? Again, I realize this is a thread for the flagship variants, but I don't see why the methods I have heard of wouldn't work on the Active model. Please talk this one up, because I've found a lot of people asking this question.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] meblah741:
Hello everyone! Earlier when I read this thread you had to be on PE1 to get root. It's been a few weeks since so if I understand correctly, if we upgraded to the latest Verizon updates then this will still work? Just need to use the v15 instead of PE1 files. Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] King Midas:
I'm still getting no LTE/4G usage at all. I tried both the PE1 (on G930V obviously) and universal fixes, neither helped. Preferred network type is LTE/CDMA (auto) currently, and other settings haven't helped. Out of curiosity I set it to LTE only and had no service. This is literally the only thing wrong (for me) with this root after the fixes but it's killing the whole thing for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Also, I tried pushing the imsservice.apk and it also didn't help at all.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] davidisflash:
I flashed the s7 or s7edge V15 scripts that are generic for any device, not just Verizon.

This got rid of my extra icons at top. So far I'm still seeing lag. The biggest lag is when you begin wireless charging. When the screen turns on and the blue halo fades in, it's incredibly slow.

I'm thinking of just starting over with 930U firmware, factory resetting immediately, and not rooting for the time being. If anyone has tips on minimizing lag with 930U firmware, the PE1 image and root using V15 scripts, please let me know.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] kascheri12:
G930V PF2 Wifi tether not work

After successfully gaining root but not having wifi tether work, I unrooted and upgraded firmware through Verizon support app. I'm now on PF2 firmware, rooted successfully but seem to have the same issues I had before.

The Verizon fix+debloat for PE1 doesnt seem to effect at all.

The standard fix+debloat seems to work, except the wifi hotspot still doesnt work.

Are there/will there be new fix+debloat files for PF2 firmware? If so, where can I find them?

Is there a workaround currently for using wifi hotspot?

Thanks!

Kenny
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] freak69ize:
Flashed U firmware on my Verizon phone yesterday and rooted today.. Battery drain still seems to be a problem.. Even after flashing fixes and deep debloat. Gonna leave as is for a week and see if it gets any better. Charged battery to 100 before bed last night an only had 2 percent battery drain for 8 hours
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] torr310:
I had a lot of trouble on the rooted PE2 firmware, so I guess the root only works well with the PE1 firmware.

I am running on the 930U firmware. No root, but everything is wonderful so far for the past 4 days.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] davidisflash:
This suggests I should restart without root on U. If U firmware is already debloated and battery is bad with root and sluggish, then there's no point for me really. Thanks for your guys' feedback!

To be honest, if battery is already good, at this point the only thing root achieves me is the custom battery icon via 3 minit battery mod lol...but that will take some work modifying the SystemUI.apk. Done it in the past. Not worth all the hassle now.

Plus, with forcedoze, without root you can still use adb to grant it permissions. With forcedoze and greenfiy's default hibernation, I'm pretty sure without root, I can get the deep sleep I was getting already with root.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Adaken13:
if i want to go back to stock and revert back to straight talk which is sm-g930vl , where is the file i need to do this? i dont see it on the links
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] btort1:
Hey man I got a quick question, does your guide help prevent google play store and all the apps from crashing? I'm on tmobile s7 and I am on the latest firmware and successfully rooted with the tweaks for force gpu/interactive. My phone is usually fine for the first week but after that I get app crashes, I tried everything to deleting cache/app data/disabling/enabling. So basically when I restart my phone, it just goes on the carrier screen and gets stuck and vibrates. I seen other people have this issue but no real fix.

Do you know what the cause of this?

I mainly only root to switch the left and app switch to the regular android layout. I heard of this app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.phoenixstudios.aiogestures but it asks you to enable it on accessibility settings and gives you a warning of privacy risk... the dev isn't really well known and don't really wanna trust it. I would love on screen buttons too but it's just too much to ask for, samsung should just give us more options to CHOOSE
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] davidisflash:
I know this question is addressed to OP but I wanted to add my two cents.

I'm one of the only ones I know where with the V15 scripts, even after running them straight for two weeks, I wasn't getting any FCs / constant reboots like others. From the other posts, it sounds like it may have to do with Greenify, perhaps people freezing system apps they shouldn't. I never did that. I just simply enabled auto hibernation, aggressive doze, and very conservatively set some wakelock values in Amplify. I also used ForceDoze on top of it and never had these FCs. I don't quite remember, but I may have not flashed the debloat scripts (V2).

With this combination, my phone was deep sleeping amazingly but was sluggish to wake up from sleep. Hope this helps. Check if you are doing something with greenify. Maybe try this?

1) Start over by Odin-ing boot image.

2) Flash the PE1 image, apply the V15 scripts. Don't apply the debloat scripts, just OP's V15 fixes.

3) Install Greenify. Just enable Aggressive Doze, that's it.

Let it settle, use it as normal for a week or two. See if the issues come back. If they don't, it's the additional config causing your problem. After a week or two, perhaps just flash the debloat scripts and only that. Nothing else. Wait a week.

Battery life is already bad so I don't really think you are missing out much on these minimal steps here. If you want superb battery life it sounds like we all need to just not root. It sucks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] DIVINExJVY:
NEED HELP!!!

So i tried rooting my s7 edge (at&t) but root checker says that I dont have root and when I boot up my phone i get the custom lock logo. My phone is very laggy and I am having the wifi issue. At this point I just want my phone back to how it was when I bought it with stock everything. In recovery it says dm verity failed and I cannot flash anything from adb or sd card cause it says external storage disabled. Help me please! I want my phone back :crying: lol. Also I tried the unroot exactly as it says and the first odin doesn't open and the second one says FAIL! Model dismatch fail when i try to flash everything.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] shootind5nukes:
stock kernel

I haven't read the entire thread but I did do multiple searches where the only thing I found was my question asked with no real answer.

I guess we can't install stock kernel because stock kernel checks /system when it boots correct? So flashing the stock kernel would cause a brick I'm guessing? Otherwise no one would be using this eng kernel right? I'm only asking because the v15 does nothing for me and I'm on verizon pe1. I had to do everything manual and the lag even with kernel auditor is just terrible. Apps like maps, phone, and google search couldn't be any slower.

Any advice would be appreciated. I feel like I've tried everything. I mean I'll take a laggy rooted phone over a faster locked up phone any day. Thanks in advance for any help.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Toonlinkmaster25:
Try disabling system security updates in settings. That's one of the possible culprits. I'm also not on xposed right now just to be safe but I don't think that's what's causing it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] MrBaltazar:
Have you figured out how to unlock band 12 on the Verizon S7?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] btort1:
This fc happened to me twice in two weeks, and one time I never even installed greenify. I also never installed xposed and I never disabled anything other than the security log agent and facebook and usual bloat. My phone was almost stock, and still did this. The only reason im rooted is because I switch my back button and recent apps...selling this phone and pretty pissed even the tmobile one has a locked bootloader. Looks like our rooting days are almost over for now :crying:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] Toonlinkmaster25:
Dude just disable security policy updates in settings. Honestly the better route is probably to go with the Nexus 6P. Far less bloat and easily customizable.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] TambourineMan:
I got it (slowly) from sammobile.com

Where do I find the hash comparison files for sammobile downloads?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] srish2:
Xposed v.86.0

FWIW, there's a newer version (v.86.0) posted on [MENTION=3562083]wanam[/MENTION] thread: http://xdaforums.com/xposed/unofficial-xposed-samsung-lollipop-t3180960 that seems to be working for me:

xposed-v86.0-sdk23-arm64-custom-build-by-wanam-20160709.zip
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussi] davidisflash:
Thank you. Flashing the V15 scripts for all phones, not the VZ ones, seemed to help. The ROM settled and I get no more lag. I wouldn't say it's as fast as stock 100% of the time but no more of those blatant stalls from sleep. Standby drain is still excellent since the phone sleeps. But, it still sounds like the main adavantage here with restarting and not having root (I'm still rooted) is the better SOT.

Can people kindly post their SOT stats with the unrooted 930V / 935V firmware? I'm trying to see how much battery improvement I'll get with SOT if any. I'm a very heavy user and so it makes it harder to tell. I constantly leave wifi and BT radios on, listen to BT music on and off throughout the day, location services always on, texting on and off a ton, and several data hungry apps run like FB / Messenger / dating apps / Chess / etc. If you are posting your stats please indicate your config (which radios are on, location services on/off etc) since simply looking at the raw numbers aren't telling enough.

Now that my ROM speed has settled, I'm reconsidering if starting over and not rooting is worth it. I like titanium backup and so restoring my data without root doesn't seem so pleasant.