yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
After erasing and bootloader reboots, continue to boot again and follow the instructions. It's not likely a chip if it boots to bootloader. Maybe try:flash twrp, then format system data and cache ext4, then odin my fw in op, follow instructions through to root. You could have old/bad sectors on ssd, so format should fix.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] kwauhk:
How can I remove the Magisk Manager after install the Kernel?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Medvesthekiller:
Does this World for Galaxy S7 Edge G935F?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] eddy_sone:
5) Reboot. It might take a while on the first boot.

I have already waited for almost 2 hours and it still stuck at this point.

Is it normal? Should I keep waiting?

First time to root my phone, please help, thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
LOL. Yes that is too long. Try reboot.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Mrmousser:
Sm g935v

will it work with SM G935V? Im on oreo update 8.0. This is my first time asking for help usually i can find it myself but im also now a member of XDA so gott ask :p.

my current devices

SM G935V

SM J737V

SM N910P

LM V350A

LM Y47V

i need help with all these^^^

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Im using SM G935v oreo will it work with this model? if so which method do i pick?

1. CROM apk?

2. Download odin and flash firmware files (Bl, AP, CP, hom_csc.) download mode

3. Then flash twrp

4. Flash toxic rom zip in twrp done??

will this work with G935VVRS8CRK1?? if method is wrong please let me know order
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] apexthe31:
I'm on latest oreo cta1 and have trada rom v12. I have tried 3 roms till now but my phone is not running smoothly in any of them and when i tried to install your kernel phone just stuck on boot screen then i installed your rom still same. Is it not compatible with latest oreo? Or may be i'm missing something.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
It may not be compatible with the latest. Sorry I'm not going to be updating it anymore, newborn baby, and phone is getting old.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] apexthe31:
Well congratulations for new born. I was not able to flash your rom but, my problem of slow phone has gone now. I have uninstalled magisk today and all of sudden all glitches gone. I think magisk or hide magisk was the main problem.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] eiPeiDweP:
Wait. Does this work on the latest oreo right now?

G9350ZHS5CTA1. Or am I literally stuck at stock everything?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Root long method still works. Or use tomato rom
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] eiPeiDweP:
I have no idea what root long method is, sorry. I'm new to S7e forums. I wanted the extra clocks cause it might fix the sluggishness of this device at latest stock. Anyways, can I still do the long method of root and/or install Tomato ROM on a locked bootloader? I'm pretty certain my aunt kept this device updated so probably no go on downgrading.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] eiPeiDweP:
i really hate samsung for sending an update that hinders the performance. i don't feel like im even holding a former flagship phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Yeah they're ****ers, seems common practice now days..
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] eiPeiDweP:
Hi sir. It's me again. I'm one step closer to rooting. I've successfully unlocked my bootloader using the CROM service. What might be the next step I should do? I really want your overclocked kernel or at least the magisk root so I can control a bit of the governors and etc... (Also it said I can now flash custom OS on the CROM app, does that mean I can flash other bootloader versions like the ones on marsh or nougat?)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Just flash latest TWRP and magisk, that's it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] eiPeiDweP:
Should I worry about the dm-verity-thingy?

Also just making sure. https://twrp.me/samsung/samsunggalaxys7edgechina.html I see two files every version. An md5 and a tar (which one and which Odin slot? I'm such a noob).

The other guide opts for SuperSU for root but I want the magisk, if I'm understanding it correctly, if I flash Magisk, I also flash dm-verity after? And perhaps also reset data? (Kinda don't wanna reset data :c)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Just flash the tar as AP in odin, then magisk framework through twrp. Then install magisk apk once booted. Shouldn't need to clear data but it will remain encrypted. Just google how to do it, lots of guides out there.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] eiPeiDweP:
so no need for the dm-verity-opt thing. Okay okay, but just to be sure(cause one can never be too sure), I'll download and put dm-verity zip on my internal storage. So flashing TWRP and magisk through TWRP will immediately boot up if I'm understanding it correctly(?) without flashing anything after? Anyways, thank you so much for enlightening me. I've never been the one to take the risk on anything beyond unsure.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Yup and if no boot then flash dm-verity
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] eiPeiDweP:
yeah, system won't let me boot. "Verification failed, unable to restart the device..." upon looking it up, to my surprise, it is the dm-verity thingy. I sideloaded the dm-verity version 6.1 and the message persist. it's telling me to reset my phone which I would prefer not to do. What should I do now
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Try flashing toxic kernel in op. Else try everything else in op.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] eiPeiDweP:
which partition does it modify? so I can take a backup just in case it doesn't work as well. Also I cannot format data in twrp as the built in keyboard can only type the character "e" and "s" and I need to type continue

im a dummy. it actually says type "yes" not "continue". My bad.

my second to last resort was taken. i formatted data T^T
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] eiPeiDweP:
My S7e was successfully rooted but at the cost of formatting the data. Thanks to dave for clearing some matters in my head. This device is ready to flash custom roms like Tomato right?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Yep. Make a twrp backup first.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] eiPeiDweP:
I also tried your kernel, before even downloading ROMs. Tho I did back up boot partition before flashing toxic (fortunately). But yeah, it was just infinity boot animation of the xray thing. Been waiting for like straight 20 mins. I restored my boot and the boot animation presisted but it's running again so it doesn't bother me that much. I took a whole back up of the /system, /boot, /recovery and /efs (hopefully will be enough to rescue my phone from dying) and made multiple copies on my computer. Thanks a bunch though. Bummer I couldn't use your kernel :C
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] eiPeiDweP:
My antutu score makes me wanna cry. It's so under average when I see other snapdragon variants around 150k-180k compared to my measly 135k
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Rockmyworld11:
Can i use toxic kernel in trada rom?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Yoel9871:
Can you explain the steps for dummies? Specifically for 'To correctly format DATA and install without encryption'. So I have an s7 edge and want to root. Following your steps do they need to be done through my pc or from the phone. Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] min13th:
How upgrade to android 8.1 or 10
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Then remove prebuiltgmscore.apk from privapp. I think i only have framework, and playstore.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Wipe data and cache in recovery
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Aha! Sorry I forgot completely! You just need to give play services and the Google apps permissions! Goto the application manager and give all permissions.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Sorry I forgot completely! You just need to give play services and the Google apps permissions! Goto the application manager and give all permissions
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Sanfasteryler:
OK after testing for some time.

I think that Google play service is the problem.

As I cannot clear dalvik cache in recovery (blocked by the aurora zip thing)

I used lucky patcher to clear it instead.

No luck.

Still crashes from Google plays service.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] mlkemac:
I would install open gapps.

http://opengapps.org/

the micro package is fine. flash it in recovery. It will delete any old gapps

on first boot, go to settings/applications/

clear cache and data on google play store/google play services/

reboot
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Sanfasteryler:
I tried different packages.

'Setup wizard has stopped working' literally 3-4 times a second
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
You must give the apps the permissions they need. Google services requires location for example, or it will crash..
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Sanfasteryler:
I found out the problem.

Aurora rom seems to be not able to wipe dalvik cache

Failed the mount /data (invalid augment)

So I need to do it on lucky patcher.

The setup wizard crash is due to gapps disable its permission (Idk why)

Google Apps has the permission it needed when you installed them.

Thanks for the help.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] travis82:
HK Kernel V2: Changelog:

Enable LZO/4 compression, Remove useless Govs, CPU Boost, LZRAM, Thermal Gov,CPU, Remove Samsung MTP and SIDESYNC

DOWNLOAD: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=457084094631642505

It's stable for me, so I would like to have the G950 users to install and play with it and let me know of any bugs you encounter that are kernel bugs. Myself and MSDX the original author of the rooted kernel you are using with aurora rom in the main topis will try and squash these. This will help us cleanup the kernel also for Cyanogenmod.

Enjoy!!

Travis
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Amazing! QUESTION: are there any mods for better battery in this kernel? I've been helping test V1, and I'm excited to help you text V2:)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] travis82:
Im checking a few things also to help with battery drain. I have switched to ondemand and downclocked the gpu one notch and switched the gpu gov to simple ondemand to see if that helps. So far it helps a ton with heat.

As for the topic of Cyanogenmod we are having issues getting ramdisk booting through because of the samsung code we have to strip out, but its moving along.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] travis82:
Well I have been getting great battery life and no heat. Just if you are having cell standby drain than turn off VoLTE. How is everyone else's experience so far? I dont know if the device community is small or if I need to make my own thread so I do not spam Dave's thread here to get some more feedback.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
I think it's quite a small community.. most get root then don't want to mess with anything.. I wanted to try your kernel on the stock root HK but that rom was giving me duplicate texts and I just cannot live with that, so I will give your kernel a try later on my Aurora backup if that goes well. Meanwhile tell me: with normal use, how many hours you get on battery? And what score with antutu benchmark? And finally let me know if you do any battery tweaks! I know from before the kernel was pretty stable:)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] travis82:
I only have to charge once a day I'll do a screen on time test tomorrow because I am curious myself. Antutu 140k average give or take. Try just flashing stock HK firmware than twrp/kernel. Than turn your Aurora rom in to zip format so Odin isn't required. That should make life easier for the community. No pc required like normal devices. I can keep monthly system updates going or you can dave and I can soley work on the kernel for just stock users if you are up for it.

:)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Unfortunately I don't maintain the aurora, it's just the first rooted rom for our device, was only avail on Chinese site so I brought it here for English speakers. That said, please do updates here :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Hok:
Watching and waiting bated breath
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Alright so until I can get the stock root HK rom to work without the duplicate text issue, I'm running your Kernel v2 on a debloated Aurora, and so far: the battery time appears great though I need to use it for a day without flashes to confirm, and Antutu gets a strange range of 93,000 to 135,000, though it's usually around 100,000.

That said, if the battery life turns out epic, then I'll report back! As for the low Antutu scores, I can also confirm that Gear VR was quite stuttery, so something in your performance tweaks doesn't play well with Aurora at least. Wish we had some testers to try on the HK ROM!

Now.. if you can advise me on how to get HK rom working without the duplicate texts, I'm all ears. Suggestions to flash odin stock, set up, then flash SU.. didn't work. Neither did a format of partitions with install. I'm on Mobilitity network provider that gives me 3g / 2g, so maybe that has something to do with it.. ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Where are you at with CM on sm-g9350?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] travis82:
Kernel V4: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=529152257862664556

Changelog: https://github.com/travismills82/android_kernel_samsung_hero2qltechn/commits/tw-6.0 (28th-30th) some cve updates

I have stock roms booting only issue is if the kernel isn't permissive wifi won't start that is my only hangup currently. Cyanognemod myself and msdsx will get to work on it after chinese holidays for him over here are finished.

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Also if I keep seeing people struggling with simply flashing a freaking rom I will put out my rom but you have to flash my kernel or no wifi as I mentioned earlier. (Secure storage)

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PSS: Yes the kernel works with wireless chargings no probs. Been using it with my sview case. I currently get about 1% drain an hour and to me that is not acceptable for these 14nm devices.

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I have never ever had a duplicate txt issue ever. I am running HK rom I dont touch the CH firmware roms. Dude do you need to start clean with stock HK FW format wipe scrub whatever... ??? Flash HK FW get it all setup pretty make sure you do a factory reset also just to kill encryption for now. Boot in to twrp format data than reboot. Make the rom all how you like it stock wise than use twrp to backup the rom. Than flash my kernel or someone else's to beable to root. Than flash new supersu.

Like I said above if this is a pain in the ass method I can release my rom + kernel it will just install and boot done and done.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] travis82:
Kernel V4: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=529152257862664556

Stock Rom Aug: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=385035244224381668

no-verity-opt-encrypt-2.1: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=385035244224381666

Flash Stock rom in twrp if you do not want root than also flash no-verity-opt-encrypt-2.1. If you want root flash Kernel V4 also.

This I hope makes things a bit easier for this small community here.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Nice
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] travis82:
The kernel you use in Aurora, you can flash via twrp right here. https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=385035244224381679

That should make us not need Odin anymore for a good long while. Now Dave you can update the main thread to reflect this if you want to do so.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Yes! I haven't used odin for much other than fresh installs, but I'm leaving it in the OP because it's the initial root..

I'll test your hk rom&kernel then update the OP :) Did you figure out the 1% per hour battery drain ???? Agreed should be fixable on 14nm, I'm thinking it needs deepsleep / hibernate..

Also I'm PMing you with a Q related to rom dev.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] travis82:
Its deep sleeping fine. Np. Most likely apps.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Aight. Hmm. Also I see you disabled silabs radio driver in changelog how come?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] travis82:
Scripts call for iris module
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
ok
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
I tried the hk rooted stock rom. To be honest, didn't like it. Google services ran smooth but various things bothered me: the modem doesn't play well with wifi to data handoff, not great performance, and some things just not as customizable. I'm back to Aurora as it just kicks ass for a rom. Until i can build one, or perhaps get cm.. I'm sticking with Aurora. Looking forward to kernel updates though, particularly battery optimization :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] xmanz:
Hi ? dave. Where is Aurora rom up to is it the 6.0 with english aroma ? May try myself after my trip to Hawaii…. This hk rom is ok with xposed for a few treats but does feel too stock. I guess it is stock… .but on your comments Aurora sounds good?

Sent from g9350
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
I'm still on v3, but yes the 6 is up :) And, a little unknown secret: the china samsung cloud (https://cloud.samsung.cn) on the phone gives us 10 TB (Terra-bytes!!!) of free storage WOWO!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] travis82:
there is no difference between the hk rom and the ch rom except language and csc. That aurora rom is stripped some and modded if you do that the HK rom you will have the same effect. I think you are experiencing placebo effect. Why not take that HK rom and mod it like you want or debloat it A LOT and re-release it under yourself.

The HK rom is newer firmware too.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Aurora does have some great mods. As for the hk rom not handling WiFi to data handoff I wouldn't know where to start. I'll see if I can make my own rom :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] travis82:
Do you want a stock Chinese firmware version to compare with?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] xmanz:
Geez that's a bonus. Thanx

Sent from g9350
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] travis82:
Sep security update Chinese firmware + debloated: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=457095661767098882

no-verity-opt-encrypt-2.1: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=385035244224381666

Wan't a permissive kernel?: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=385035244224381679

Now you guys have both firmware versions.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] xmanz:
Thanx so it will be gapps less ?

Sent from g9350
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] travis82:
Yea Chinese firmware doesn't include gapps.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] mlkemac:
Here is the latest Aurora 9, with english Install.

works great!

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=457095661767099142
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Awesome!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] travis82:
I have a complete debloated HK FW rom with my newest kernel. I'll upload it shortly and you can compare with Aurora and you guys can let the dev know what you prefer and not prefer with each rom.

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SM-G9350-Travis82-AUG-HK + Kernel

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=385035244224382268

Instructions:

Boot in to TWRP

Flash rom and reboot

profit!!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] randomhkkid:
This sounds great! What sort of stuff did you remove? I use GearVR a decent amount and sidesync is occasionally useful.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] xmanz:
Does this need an earlier Aurora install. Or is it complete package? Thanx excited

Sent from g9350
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] mlkemac:
Nope it's a complete package, all you need to be running is TWRP.

do the typical backups prior to flashing!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] xmanz:
Thank you Mike. much appreciated?

Sent from g9350
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] davecotefilm:
Awesome! Is this kernel v4 or a new one? If new, what's added? :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] travis82:
HK rom needs camera fixed its crashing on me probably I removed some "bloat" I should not of. I'll fix it up by tonight, I'm just a bit lazy today. Kernel is as good as it gets unless you want under/overclocking and or voltage control. I dont know what else I could possibly add.

Ok Im going to get me some more coffee and get this device building with cm14 the rest of the way.

Trav
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] Mercyisfortheweak:
sorry just confused, do you mean we can you the v3 because that's how i got the TWRP working. :confused:

can u please make a guide on this please.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion] sosjadd:
Trav, first of all, thank you for the dedication into this awesome rom. Compared to the Aurora V9 rom which just came out, your setup scores pretty close without all the crazy applications that comes with Aurora V9.

Using Antutu on my SM-G9350, I got the following scores--

Aurora V9 rom: 147696

Your HK rom: 136242

I think there might be some slight overclocking going on in the new kernel that Aurora uses, but non the less the amount of bloatware that the V9 comes with is insane lol. Also slightly difficult due to not being able to read Chinese at all. :)

Your rom on the other hand is clean. Very minimal applications installed. Saw the flipboard application is not there anymore as well when swiping to the left screen from home, which some people dont use, but I think others may miss.

Camera definitely crashes for me as well when trying to launch it. The only other issue is the sound is distorted (high pitch) when using facebook messenger/line/whatsapp or any other internet based audio communication application. Otherwise works very well and would rather use this due to the fact that its all in english and only has the essential applications from the start! If anyone really need anymore applications, they can just pick it up from the app store or side load them.

All in all, great work! Just needs a functional camera and a fix for the audio distortion during internet calls. :)

Regards,

Sosjadd