yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Cseay15:
Tried with no luck. I may just have to go start all the way over. It wouldn't be that big of issue, but it's me and my wife's primary method of contacting one another.

Question? Craz could any of your tweaks (I followed your guide to the T) make it so apps don't run in the background? My Gmail is still working, but it seems that's the only thing that is. Nothing else gives me a notification until I actually go in the app.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Craz Basics:
Kevtweaks....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] freeop:
Have you used any of the bloatware disabler apps? If so undo all of the bloatware disabled and that might help.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Thadanator:
Craz, I'm not seeing an attachment. Am I just a dumb-head?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Cseay15:
I haven't used any disabler apps. I think I found it in the Kev tweaks. There is a Google killer entry. I'm sure it's killing my hangouts from running in the background. I need to figure out how to app Google to a whitelist.

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I've figured out the whitelist, and I'm hoping this fixes it. Fingers crossed.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Thadanator:
Bluetooth won't enable, even after cache wipe

I am still not able to get bluetooth to turn on. Tapping the toggle switch makes it move right, but it remains grey and nothing happens. I am using a regular S7 (not edge).

I used FlashFire to wipe both "Dalvik Cache" and "Cache partition" at the same time, but this didn't seem to change anything. I also tried wiping the cache partition from recovery.

Also note that I have not applied the "Volte Icon" fix. Oddly, I have read in this thread from some saying that it breaks bluetooth, and other say it fixes bluetooth. Wth? It certainly can't do both!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Craz Basics:
Well, there was earlier lol...

Won't let me add it again so here: https://mega.nz/#!KVxXTIRL!BwYcS9CJoX1v4VqouCIC9aw0wQ_BSN1m_ClUVD06xAQ
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] mario6714:
can you shared how did you root?

sorry for the bad english
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] lt.anthonydelgado:
You're in the right thread
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Retr0Capez:
Damn, now my phone is getting super slow again.

I want to do what this guy said but don't want to loose my data. Should I unroot then backup, then update rom and apply backup?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Craz Basics:
Backup now, put backup on pc. Then flash stock and restore
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Retr0Capez:
OP says I can flash without loosing data, shouldn't I do that instead?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] carpboy:
Flash home_csc, you won't lose anything. Backup with TIBu as a precaution before flashing.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] lt.anthonydelgado:
Always backup.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Retr0Capez:
Okay, so I did a backup. Now I can't find my CSC file (G930 A is my firmware) that has home in it. The only firmware for nougat I can find for my phone (https://xdaforums.com/att-galaxy-s7/how-to/firmware-g930a-qe1-android-7-0-6-4-2017-t3617101) only has the regular CSC file. Is the home thing (where I can keep my data) a option in ODIN?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] dehnzel:
Kenel is not seandroid enforcing

So i basically ****ed up, didn't understand the instructions well (my bad), i just wanted to know where i ****ed up hahahahaha

1. Run the custom odin

2. Extract eng_root

3. boot the s7edge in ap

4. Flashed it (only the ap alone)

5. came across an error of frp lock

6. enabled oem unlock

7. Flashed it again

8. Went in to bootloop saying "Kernel is not seandroid enforcing"

9.went to download mode and knox counter says 1 or (0x203)

10. flashed to the original firmware with home_csc

everything went back to normal except for the knox counter, so what part did i do wrong? Thanks in advance :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] mario6714:
secure folder and private mode work?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Craz Basics:
Not sure about private mode, but secure folder doesn't
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Retr0Capez:
The edge firmware wouldn't work on it, would it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] mario6714:
what profile i need select?

or just restore and nothing more?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Craz Basics:
Just restore
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] slimcyril:
I have already taken care of bloatware apps that are of no relevance to me, please is there any script or mod to specifically uninstall Knox related apps?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Craz Basics:
Rooting does this...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] slimcyril:
Rooting makes it possible to uninstall bloatware and Knox apps but it doesn't uninstall automatically by rooting, there has to be a command or script that specifically does these.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] nev294:
Can anyone share ENGINEER boot kernel (ENG-Root-USA.zip) ? links in OP is not working.

Thanks in advance.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Thadanator:
KevTweaks screwed up my phone too. Did you use HOME_CSC? I'm wondering if that would cause issues from leftover files.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Craz Basics:
You have to edit the rib file in /data/data to fix most things...

Rib (Run in background) is a permission used by apps, that, you know... allows them to run in the background.

[MENTION=4819587]kevp75[/MENTION] has made it so all the package names in that file are ALOWED to run in the background.

The apps that you would like to add (i.e. instant messengers, tweaking apps, and apps that you have widgets for) you'll need to find the package names. You'll find these in one of the following: /data/app, /system/app, or /system/priv-app.

To add it, copy the package name and place it into the rib file in /data/data. Then save. This should fix most problems you have. If problems persist still, add the to the wake lock file in the same directory.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Skrilaz:
Is there any way for me to use galaxy app after root?

Some system apps only let me update through galaxy apps but i can log in my samsung account after root.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Retr0Capez:
I can't find any HOME_CSC for ATT. Is there a way to make my own?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] carpboy:
Nah, I was going clean. Playing a lot and I wanted to have as good a baseline as I could.

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I took the output of the script listing all the apps being affected and manually added every single one to the whitelist. I still had the problem with most widgets being broken.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Westen81:
Success!

Flashed to stock, let the phone get updates from T-Mobile. Rooted BQH7 firmware with comsy ODIN and [MENTION=1949695]jrkruse[/MENTION] root.bat with SU 2.82, installed the hurricane Icon fix. Good. To. Go!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] sir_poop_alot:
Help! Phone at the Samsung logo

I followed the instructions at the first page and the flash pass and it try to reboot but it stuck at the Samsung logo. Did i brick my phone? I can't even turn off the phone. I have the stock firmware, but i can't get the phone to go into the download mode. Guys, help me? Thanks.

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I am trying to use the method in the first page of this thread using the u firmware. I got the custom boot screen but stuck in a boot loop. Anyone got any suggestions?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] GuestX00320:
I am too scared to try rooting my phone. I wish there was just a one click way but none of those work on sm-g935t. Oh well, keeping it not rooted. Better safe than sorry.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] sir_poop_alot:
Success on a SM-G930A w/ the SM-G930U firmware!

Hi guys. This forum is great! Thanks for all the great work devs and contributors.

I recently got a refurbish Samsung Galaxy S7 (SM-G930A) AT&T unlocked phone from ebay. I am using this phone on the T-Mobile network. After I setup my phone, the first thing I noticed was all the AT&T bloatware. After searching thru this forum/site I come across the following thread:

https://xdaforums.com/att-galaxy-s7/how-to/how-to-install-g930u-firmware-sm-g930a-t-t3609300

I followed the instructions and was successful in put the the SM-G930U ("u") firmware on the SM-G930A phone. Not only did it rid of all the bloatware the phone feels faster, and also the battery life was better.

Still, i have to root this phone. I tried the chainfire's root method for the SM-G930U, but i kept getting the following error.

https://imgur.com/a/tFVoP

I was about to give up when i stumble onto this thread. I wasn't sure if it will work for the SM-G930u firmware, but i was desperate and just took the leap. My first root I encountered some problems, mainly the phone didn't reboot correctly and was stuck in the "samsung" logo. I panic and thought i bricked my phone. But later fumbling around with the phone's buttons i was able to put the phone back into recovery mode. I re-flash the AP portion from the "u" firmware. Root was successful, but i notice something wasn't right. Google's chrome URL entry won't let me entry text... kept type over the first character. Then I notice that the phone was only seeing 16GB total phone storage, which is half of the 32GB total. I used my phone in this condition for one full day. Then last night I decided to do a fresh flash of the "U" firmware files and apply root. After flashing all the files for the "U" firmware and restoring all my applications. I then followed the instructions (first page) on this thread and was able to successfully root the AT&T branded unlock phone (SM-G930A) w/ SM-G930U firmware. Yes there's very slight lag, not that noticeable, and overall the battery life has been fantastic. I had a full charge on my phone and left it on over night and it only drop 4% battery life, which was the same before the root. The "U" firmware is better on the battery life than the firmware supplied by the service providers (AT&T, TMobile and etc). My only problem is the VolLTE icon. I still don't know how to remove that. I know in the first page it's mentioned but the instructions are not very clear. Anyone can elaborate on the instructions, much appreciated. Overall i recommend flashing the "U" firmware first if you have a SM-G930A or SM-G930T.

Again thanks for the work put into rooting the S7. Awesome job!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] freeop:
Try using SystemUI Tuner. I use it all the time for just that thing and a few others display items on my phone. Works great and is free. No root needed.

You can get it from the playstore here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zacharee1.systemuituner

Hope this helps...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] sir_poop_alot:
I'll give it a try. Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] bigair360x:
I acquired a verizon S7 that I need to root in order to do my job. I've been working on achieving root for 2 weeks and I'm about to put the S7 aside and buy something different if I cant get something to work. I have rooted phones before and followed directions exactly. The engineering root causes the phone to boot loop until I flash firmware back. I have tried CF-Auto Root also but Odin fails with it. I have tried 2 different firmware versions from as far back as march 2017 and have confirmed others were able to root with the firmware I tried. I have tried 3 usb cables but none are original. Is it possible that this is the issue? Any ideas or things to look at are much appreciated.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Craz Basics:
Usb debugging and oem unlock ticked? And I'm super curious to know what your job is haha.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] bigair360x:
I can't tell you or I would have to kill you :p

Update: I was able to achieve root. I did it by installing the unlocked firmware as detailed by billa in the quote below. After that, everything worked as expected! If you are getting the quick bootloop, install the firmware detailed below and try again. Worked great for me!

Edit: the forum won't allow me to post the links so you will have to search for the original message.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] sramberg:
Root went smooth

Thanks to all the details here, I was able to root S7 Edge. I did jailbreaks back in the day on iPhones but had never done a root since moving to Android several years ago. It rooted fine and with the mentioned Adiutor, the heat and lag issues were easily fixed. Runs like a champ now.

However, the entire purpose of me doing a root was because I accidentally deleted 5 yrs of texts from my daughter and the backups I had do not restore. (xml) So I have been trying a ton of PC programs to recover. They find current texts at best, but on a rooted device they are supposed to pull deleted as well. I might add that they even find deleted files such as pdf pics etc.... just not the deleted texts. Anyone here run into this issue or maybe have some tips on what is going on? Thanks!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] slimshouki:
I guess if data was on internal memory, dont waste ur time. If its on sd card, you might have hopeif data partition wasn't overwritten
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] clickclickpc:
If you had to do it again, what steps would you have avoided?

Hey sir_poop_alot,

I noticed you attempted to run Chainfire's root method, which I'm assuming failed because the SM-G930A doesn't have an unlocked bootloader. However, do you think that you could have installed SM-G930U image onto SM-G930A device (https://xdaforums.com/att-galaxy-s7/how-to/how-to-install-g930u-firmware-sm-g930a-t-t3609300) and then just rooted right afterwards via the instructions in the OP (https://xdaforums.com/tmobile-s7-edge/how-to/heres-how-rooted-nougat-s7-edge-g935t-t3567502) and skipped the Chainfire part? Also did you get all 32GB of storage back?

Thanks man.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] :
Very helpful, thank u.trying to find a stable root for the g930 a AT&T running newest nougat update (bqj2) I may try flashing "U" firmware but I'm not sure if it's going to let me....what a pain
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] billdauterive23:
Hey guys so my buddy craz decided to team up with elliwiggy so that we can figure out any possible attempt to crack the bootloader, if any devs or really anyone who has any knowledge about the bootloader wants to help then join our telegram group https://t.me/joinchat/F7tVQwwAiSWDcHGDwx-GSg all help is appreciated :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Mrxyzl:
Finger cross. Having android without custom rom is really suck
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Craz Basics:
Sorry for the late reply, why why woudlnt it let you?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] :
It would not give me a pass to flash any older bootloader. Im on the newest at t firmware
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Craz Basics:
Make sure to grab the latest ufirm from sammobile.com
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] :
Ill try it soon thank u
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] HotTemper:
Problems with it finishing installing on my Device!

Ok, so I have a Galaxy s7 edge, at&t, and I followed all the steps, downloaded everything needed for my phone, and I got it all done, and got to the Command Prompt part, and when I injected the files into my phone, it blocked my phone from doing anything, it notifies me that, "Unauthorized actions have been detected." Can someone please help me? Thanks!

- HotTemper
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Craz Basics:
The blue screen?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] slimcyril:
Do I need to unroot when get software updates from Verizon?

How to update software on the rooted VZW S7 Nougat?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] josianjehu:
Thank you so much!!! it feels soo snappy unlike the supersu root.tar it feels really quick question though i cant use super su? or install kernel adiutor right?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Thadanator:
System Updates

I finally have my S7 working decently with root, and now it won't stop popping up a request for an update.

Two things:

1. Is there a way to update without having to erase and restore everything? The reason I ask is because I had flashed HOME_CSC with Odin a few weeks ago, and I'm pretty sure I used a newer version (from Updato) than what was already on the phone... didn't seem to cause an issue. Then again, I wasn't sure what I was doing. I have since re-flashed with the regular CSC and re-rooted.

2. Regardless of how to update, until I do, what would be the proper way to disable the update pop-ups? I think the pull-down notification should be easy to disable, but I think the pop up shows sometimes without me tapping that notification...or maybe I just don't realize that I'm tapping it. I just don't want to accidentally tap to start updating and then have the phone constantly trying to update and failing!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Craz Basics:
Why wouldn't you be able to? Sure you can

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Do you want to update or just stop the notification?

If stop the notification you can just use titanium backup and uninstall/disable the software update apps (I think there are two)

Not sure about if you actually wanna update though
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] fbolzoni:
Really important to note that despite these files are for Nougat, aren't for MM as well. I've searched the site and can't find a reliable post to root a G930T running MM. Please, would you advice one?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Thadanator:
I am running the 2nd latest official release, and now VZW says there's a security patch, including a "Krack" WIFI exploit fix. Depending on how many settings and such I have to restore, I'd like to update.

My problem is that I keep finding different sources of info for updating, each explaining different methods, some of which don't pertain to this root on S7.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Craz Basics:
I am not aware of how to take updates after rooting...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] mrbonine:
I'm stuck trying to apply the root.bat file. For some reason adb only sees the phone when it's booted normally, but not when it's in download mode. I've tried this in Windows but also in Mint, where all the contents of the phone become immediately available. adb devices command result in null in download mode but in normal boot (now thinks it's Verizon phone) it responds correctly. Any help would be appreciated!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Craz Basics:
You're not supposed to be in download mode when running the root.bat, boot up normally and run it
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] tacos129:
it does indeed work as long as you follow the steps properly

one thing to note though is to not enable secure startup before or after rooting, otherwise you'll end up at the boot screen, and locked out of your device, and having to flash stock-fw

(learned that the hard way)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] dethzord:
Used this method on an S7 Verizon model (SM-G930v) without issue. Root in a matter of minutes. Very pleased.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] mrbonine:
Ok, sometimes I feel dumb and sometimes the proof is self-evident. Thank You!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Craz Basics:
Haha, no worries man. Everyone starts somewhere.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] notobsessivejustcurious:
Probably another self-evident question, if you root phone, deny all su request, is phone still in 777/775 mode? is the phone constantly open? Is it open but has to go through su?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Shanasman450:
Please forgive me if this has been explained elsewhere in this post. I have not the time to go through all 200+ pages to find this info.

From my understanding to unroot I would only need to select the csc file to flash in download mode and then navigate to the unroot.bat and run it using cmd? Or do I need to fill in the AP, BL, CP, and CSC?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to take any risks with my phone as I can't replace it if I do. Thanks in advance.

Edit: Forgot to mention, I couldn't find the stock SM-930A firmware so I'm hoping I can use the SM-930U firmware. Would that be possible without rooting? Or do I have to find and use 930A?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Shanasman450:
Okay, so I've done nothing but research over the last few hours. What I've come up with is I need all four files (AP, BL, CP, and CSC) and running the unroot.bat file is unnecessary. Ps. The OP is great and mostly very informative. However, If I might say, the instructions for unrooting back to stock firmware needs a bit more detail for noobs like me.

So now the main thing I need to know at this point is if SM-G930U can be used as the stock firmware in the place of SM-G930A without having to root. I wouldn't mind going back to the AT&T firmware, but I still can't find a download for the 7.0 version anywhere.

Anybody who can answer this from experience? I would rather not trust a theory and risk a brick. Again, thank you in advance to those who are able to help.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] billa:
The G930A firmware is bit harder to find since it's not officially released by ATT, but the G930U will work just fine with the added bonus of no bloatware, being packaged with multi CSC, it will switch networks according to the inserted sim. Must be flashed using the "patched" Odin.

Here're a new root package, if anyone wants to try it and report pack.

Start with a fresh full stock system on something like UEU4BQGx/Hx, flash the eng-boot then run this root bat.

https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=962021903579491911

Also, there's a possibility that the new SamFail rooting method for the S8/Note8 could be adapted to the S7/+, we shall see...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Shanasman450:
One last thing I'm not quite sure I understand and I'll be done asking for a bit. Can G930U be used in place of the stock A without having to root? I finally managed to find an older version of G930A last night before bed, but if I can use G930U without a root then that's the one I'd like to use (for bloatware reasons).

Good lord, I just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out why I couldn't post this reply just to realize there was a link in the quote that was stoping me (I'm still under my 10 post minimum for new members)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] billa:
Well yes, that's the reason for using the stock "U" version, it requires no root and it comes bloat free.

But of course you can root it if you want to.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Di] Shanasman450:
More Problems!?!?!

Well I just tried to flash the stock firmware and realized I can't factory reset the phone. The OP says at the top that one method to unroot is to factory reset and reflash stock, so what are the other options? I'm sorry for all the nooby questions hopefully this should be it.