yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Slow down. Back up what you need to first. Anytime you flash, in our case Odin, you are going to have to start with factory firmware. But If you're on nougat already you don't have to flash firmware..power off wipe cache partition then you can reformat through settings. Then once you follow the steps, disable packages and Power off. In download mode Flash engineer boot through odin under ap, install SuperSU through cmd..install busybox/buildprop and Power off power on. It shouldn't be a problem anymore even if you have ims disabled. Hope this helps
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
Okay, so you're saying I start with a factory reset through recovery? Or through the settings app on the phone? Or either one/doesn't matter?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Either one it doesn't matter :svetius:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
[MENTION=5148630]quantemplation[/MENTION] sorry man I had a brainfart..you will need to flash stock firmware.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
Ok lol. So which one is that?

G935PVPU2APH7_G935PSPT2APH7_SPR.zip - 6.0.1 via http://www.theandroidsoul.com/download-galaxy-s7-edge-firmware/#jump-model-no-sm-g935p-sprint

or just

SM-G935P_1_20170202085813_0zvwc3zm4v_fac.zip - 7.0 via SamFirm
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
The one with samfirm..but there's a new update and I haven't tried rooting that one yet. So if you can find the firmware ending in qaa. If you can't find it I'll upload it on my drive.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
I downloaded it yesterday just in case. So I do have it.

SM-G935P_1_20170202085813_0zvwc3zm4v_fac.zip, and it looks like all the files inside are QAA.

If I can get my sdcards backed up successfully today, I'll give it a go tonight. I'm probably overdue for a clean flash anyway. :highfive:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Yea the samfirm tool searches for most current version put out so it's good you did That! You should've done a clean install in the beginning, maybe that's why you ran into an obstacle. But I'm here to help as much as I can. Good luck broski.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Succesfully rooted version G935PVPS4BQC1 with same process, disabling these apps initially:​

BBCAgent

bootagent

Carrier Setup Wizard

Chameleon

Com.android.carrierconfig

com.android.sharedstoragebackup

com.sec.bcservice

MobileInstaller

Device Protection Manager

DeviceKeystring

DeviceTest

IMS Settings

Knox

KnoxAppsUpdateAgent

Mobile Installer

OMACP [com.wsomacp]

SAE

Samsung DLP Service

Samsung + /optional

SCPM Client

Security policy updates

SecurityLogAgent

Setup Wizard [com.samsung.sprint.setupwizard]

SharedDeviceKeyguard

Sprint Zone

tuiService
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
Well this is unfortunate. Everything's back up and running fine. Except every single one of my titanium backups is corrupted somehow. Like, they're all question marks on the app version, so when I did a batch restore for like 60 apps, most of those apps now won't even open, even if I clear data on them.

Edit: Found the issue I think. The backups somehow all got turned into 0 file size items. Fortunately, I had backed up all of the data on both sdcards to my computer, so I'm copying them back over now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] DamageSource:
what would be the easiest way to return to stock? I'm having a ton of issues rooted with freezing, apps force closing (camera especially) and the finger print lock took 10 minutes to actually unlock the phone. Any help appreciated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
If you don't mind starting from scratch, simply do step one. That is,
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] promega:
How to address thermal throttling?

I think the main reason for lag is thermal throttling, is there a script or a setting that we can change the thermal throttling trip points. Run 3d mark, then run it with your phone in a glass of ice water, and you'll see what I am talking about. If we can set the trip points to a higher temp, we should be running at full speed zero lag.

3D Mark Sling Shot Extreme Android benchmark test results:

No ice: 1549 (I got around this number every time without ice)

With ice: 2627

Please, nerds only, no speculation. It is what it is.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] DamageSource:
I did that but wasn't 100% sure it would return em to stock. I'm used to using recovery and flashing zips and such. Thank you though. Its all good now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
This is exactly why I don't use titanium backup anymore. My problem is I like to permanently delete system apps. I end up over doing it and having to reboot. There are better apps than titanium.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
Well, I don't really mess with the system much anymore. But after restoring the correct backups, things seem to be in order. I'm curious though. Even after doing all the speedup and optimization settings that you posted at the end, my device remains sluggish. This time I didn't flash the S7edge fixes, but do you think that might help, if it doesn't cause the ims settings error again?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] izzibew26:
honestly I know I'm probably in the minority but my device has been relatively lag free. When It does get sluggish I simply put apps to sleep and get my performance right back. I know the expectations with this hardware is pretty high but I don't see much difference at all between rooted and stock performance. Maybe some of your apps are having issues. Just my 2 cents
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
Okay maybe I was underexaggerating. We're talking, like total phone slowdown. It takes minutes to accomplish anything because getting from any menu to another menu to be able to traverse the next menu is a belabored process. I've slept just about everything that's not currently in use. I also have it hooked up to a wall charger but it's slowly losing battery power. So it's slow and overworking itself.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] izzibew26:
Flash stock with home csc. Check your lag and root again if it's okay.

Sent from Uranus, the only planet with a ring on the inside
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
I don't think he wants to root again lol. Turn all animations off in developer options. Try enabling Do not keep activities.. but this closes apps aggressively. In terminal emulator redo su, governtuner and when asked for profile enter 3 this time for performance. And the lag your speaking of sounds like you have way too many processes going at once. S7 edge fixed worked me but not guaranteed for everyone it seems. After govtuner profile is applied try raising the minimum frequency to a higher output for all cores. In L speed change balance to performance profike and tweak as you go. You couldn't always root again lol **** I did it yesterday and I don't get any lag.. maybe some loading time but that's going to occur if using balanced. Oh and reboot.

Do this too:

https://xdaforums.com/android/general/guide-build-prop-tweaks-t3376962
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
lol how'd you know?

I did a complete power cycle and it's helped a little bit. I'm still a little hesitant to run the S7 edge fixes after what happened. When you flashed them, did you do anything special? You only checked mount system? or you didn't check anything?

Also, when I just booted up GovTuner, its status said INACTIVE before I applied the new one, and Init.d showed NOT WORKING. Both of those seem odd since I did those tweaks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Androidwarrior:
Wait what?!?!? We have root now?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] wangxiantaoye:
it's official kernal?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Restarting is always good but we both know thats not the issue. Have you tried to wipe cache? Such a beautiful tool...sometimes it will clean up all those junk errors and complications and maybe even lag. Um according to the T-mobile thread the VM has to be mounted but S7 fixes doesn't, but i did anyway so it would wake up the system and integrate itself. But i think you're worrying way too much about these zips because they aren't necessary. I have too had this error with GOV, the key is to change SuperSU default access to prompt and reopen terminal emulator. Or it could be Init.d toggler not sticking so toggle that on and off to register. Check if Selinuxmode is still permissive, sometimes it turns off. And if all else fails re flash it without mounting or vice versa if you didn't. Sometimes it takes it twice to work but don't worry but the init.d being inactive its normal but gov tuner should be active and green. You'll figure it out.

I completely understand lol only been three weeks now :P

Official kernel for what? QC1/QAA root method/guide, whatever you want to call it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Krytoan:
Well poop.....

Security Error: This phone has been flashed with unauthorized software and is locked. Call your mobile operator for additional support. Please note that repair/return for this issue may have additional cost.

Haven't had the phone for more than a week and this "root" has cost me a $200 replacement cost.... First time this has happened.. laaaaaame
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Nexus85:
Hey man, Don't panic. I just rooted last night and the same happened to me when I rebooted. I just booted into recovery, cleared cache and plugged it up to my computer and reflashed the engineer boot img (ap in odin) and it booted back up. Happened 3 times after a reboot but I fully charged it so i will have to reboot to see if I fixed it. That's how you fix it at least it worked for me...hopefully this can help you. Good luck! ?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Krytoan:
Yeah I'm in the process of doing the same thing. It's a bummer I lost all my pictures saved to the phone though... =\
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] aakid22:
I used to be able to shoot photos in raw in Camera-fv5, but it wont recognize raw anymore.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Nexus85:
How did lose pictures? U didn't factory reset did u?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Krytoan:
I guess so.... =\ dammit..

Edit: oh well... at least it's workin
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
[MENTION=7523343]godpowerrr[/MENTION] Do you know if I need to keep Speed Up Swap installed for its changes to persist across reboots? If so, is there a way to stop it from launching its interface every boot?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Yes everytime you restart open and launch, so uninstalling it would do no good. This app really does work. You can try turning notifications off in system settings.

Edited
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] weichengjlkd:
Damn man, thanks for the post. I tried to root my phone (Boost Mobile SM-g930p) like 10 times now and all of them failed. This post was the only that got it working. Will it drain more battery life if I use all the tweaks you provided (SELinux, Kernel, LSpeed)?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Thanks :D It took me half a week to even figure out most of it. At least you have it now. I would say constantly boosting cpu, auto task killing, and running on performance will ultimately do that.

Check this out https://xdaforums.com/apps/l-speed/l-speed-share-setup-t3561854
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] aakid22:
How is performance with the new update compared to the original one?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] weichengjlkd:
What settings should I change on Kernel Adiutor to save more battery? Should I keep the ones you mentioned?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
I dont use this but what youre asking for:

CPU>Maximum Frequency 1996MHz

-CPU Governor>conservative

CPU>Maximum Frequency 1401MHz

-CPU Governor>conservative

Disable>Schedule workqueues on awake CPUs to save power

Virtual Memory>Disable zswap

But L speed is what you really should change.. try seeing whats best for you.

Its a lot faster for me. But the battery can be drained if you go full throttle. Just my opinion.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] weichengjlkd:
Thank you
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] aakid22:
Did you wipe the phone and flash the update? Will titanium backup allow me to backup app data and import into new update after flash?

Also what do you mean by full throttle? I am getting 3 hrs with your suggested settings.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
No I flashed QAA Firmware, went to system updates and manually updated to QC1. I'm not sure if it's on SamFirm yet but at the time the Firmware wasn't available to download. Then after loading up QC1, I powered off, recovery mode, wipe cache partition, power on and start root. Yes it will save your data but files on sd cards tend to erase when reformatting...so save it to your drive, computer, ext. HD. When you get everything set up then import from titanium. Make sure you have apps you had before. I mean full throttle as in cpus, ram, display, etc. being pushed to the maximum.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] jsmcmahon89:
I know probably not the best place to ask but does anyone know what packages Max Power saving requires? Mine won't turn on I hit apply and nothing happens. I imagine this is caused by some of the bloat I deleted or disabled, need to figure out what to install back to get it to work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Nexus85:
Can someone PM me the "AP" Tar from the nougat firmware? I can't extract that portion myself for some reason. Thanks in advance.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
Just want to let you know that GovTuner has released an update to version 3.9.1. It adds a couple options, including a "Power efficient" enable/disable setting. Not sure what it does, but just putting that out there.

Here's the changelog:

[B]v3.9.1[/B]
Added Cluster support universally for all Android devices (cannot give 100% assurance as we don't own all the devices)"
Reworked UI
Added option to change governor from main menu
Added option to enable/disable power efficient workqueues
New Dynamic method for assigning target load frequencies , now the frequencies specified will not be out of range for your device
New Dynamic method for assigning hispeed_freq and go_hispeed_load
Interactive governor - major update, values updated for all Profiles
Fixed many errors and bug messages

Also, I think I fixed most of my issues. It seems I had another kernel adjusting app installed, probably from when I was last rooted or something. In any case, after uninstalling that, uninstall/reinstalling a problematic app, and updating and rerunning govtuner and applying the power efficient mode, it's working great so far. That last step seemed to make my charging cable work again lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Usually when a system app or service is damaged like that, it might be beyond repair. Your best bet is to reroot without disabling those apps first because when you flash engineer img, the probability of an app that was disabled being enabled is slim to none. Though it doesn't sound that bad of a problem. Try enabling each app you disabled and restart. Wish I had better answer for you.

QC1

https://xdaforums.com/sprint-s7-edge/how-to/sm-g935p-stock-odin-firmware-t3582821

QAA

https://xdaforums.com/sprint-s7-edge/how-to/odin-stock-nougat-firmware-s7-edge-t3569834

Really glad to hear that. Sometimes we have to take initiative and do things ourselves. Thanks for the update notice, sounds like a long awaited one. Lol you couldn't charge your phone..this device is full of wonders isn't it.. anyways GJ :cyclops: I'm going to flash that zip asap.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
Well I was being a little sarcastic. It did charge, but was painfully slow. I also uninstalled a lot of seldom used apps, so it's probably not just one thing that fixed it. I'm still going to work on tweaking things, but at least it's usable.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
I got the driver to install no problem without it being a system app, but no matter what I did (disabling SElinux in Viper settings and uninstalling, reinstalling, etc) it wouldn't turn on processing. I ended up making it a system app anyway, and that didn't help on that end either. Turns out I needed to disable the SoundAlive system app.

For some reason, in Nougat you're no longer able to select which equalizer you want to use in the settings. But if you disable SoundAlive, with V4A set-up (might have to be a system app but not sure), clicking the sound quality and effects setting takes you to Viper.

Ultimately, even with that, I was still unable to get the processing to turn on. I've had to settle for compatible mode, which does appear to work, but I think there're some limitations.

Hmm. well now I read the last post in the Viper thread, and he said that closing the apps helped. So I backed out, closed all recent apps, reopened Viper, still processing=no, so I force closed it, reopened it and opened a music app and it's now showing as processing.

So long story short, I was able to get it working, via multiple installs and system app changes, compatibility mode, downloads of the play store version, etc. Ultimately, in order for it to work all the time and without compatibility mode, I have to check Force Enable V4A, which for some reason I cannot find in the most recent version of the app, so I installed the one from the play store, then did a check for updates, and installed that one. It has an "older" interface and also has the option to Force Enable V4A. It is now working fine. SElinux never seemed to be an issue for me. It is interesting to note that if I had the driver installed for the latest xda version, then opened the play store / updated play store version it would ask me to install the driver, and even with it being a user app, the changes would stick over reboot. But once I uninstalled the driver and the system app and tried installing the driver again, I encountered the error you experienced.

I would be interested in the updated app, but I can deal with an older one if it allows me to have it active all the time without changing settings each time I want to listen on a different app.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
VIPER ZIP [DOWNLOAD]

First uninstall everything.

"1.Open up V4A FX (and xhifi), go to menu and choose “Uninstall driver”.

2. After that, uninstall V4A FX (and xhifi) app itself.

3. Reboot. Done. Bye-bye V4A."

Disable SoundAlive and SplitSoundService.

Download

Init'd Toggler

SELinuxModeChanger

Enable Init.d and Permissive for SE if not done so or have already.

ZIP:

Put audio_effects.conf in device/system/vendor/etc.. renaming the other one to audio_effects.conf.bak

If it isn't in there, put in directory anyways.

Download apk from my zip and use ES FILE EXPLORER[enable root explorer in menu tool] to move apk to device/system/vendor/etc.

Once moved hold select>menu>properties.

Click change to the right of permissions. Select the following:

Read | Write

Owner Owner

Group

Other

Press Ok

With flashfire *mount to system when flashing zip.

When device restarts go to device/system/vendor/etc and install app.

I cant remember if i installed app before or after flashing, but if its not working this way then install app before.

In app if everything installed correctly change,

Menu>Enter Developer Mode

Disable SELinux

My FX Compatible Mode is Normal.

I had similar problems like you but mine were due to permissions.

Let me know if this helps. Should be the trick you need.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
Your walkthroughs are the bomb.

I ended up finding an audio_effects.conf file in /system/etc, but I still followed your instructions to the T.

Great success! Now it's not dropping out during Spotify either.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Haha its because i don't want to keep replying :p jk but awesome you got it working i wasn't too sure if it would. I love that mod i use it for my car and the decible amplification is incredible.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Septaric:
If I have the OTA QAA do I have to start from the beginning of the instructions or can I come in at the mid point?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Make sure you power off into recovery mode first and wipe cache partition.

Start from Here

But i haven't done it this way...

Theoretically you could start without flashing stock or factory reset, but i wouldn't because I like to start fresh,

From that point you would disable apps and flash boot img.

Home Screen

SuperSU[reboot]

BusyBox/BuildProp

Reboot

:)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Septaric:
Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Pyr0TeK:
I am on QAA rooted using your method. I want to wipe and start over with QC1 but one of the first things on the instruction page says "If you flash on a rooted device it will most likely hard brick your phone and there's no reversal so be careful!!" Does this apply? Just confirming what steps I need to take as I can't afford to have a brick. :)

So I guess my question is... can I extract the 4 .md5 files I downloaded with the QC1 zip file and flash them with Odin without issue, which will put me back to "stock" running on QC1 and then follow the rest of the root steps? All I am really trying to accomplish is to run the latest and also have the ability to use my hotspot, which I assume requires root.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Yea meaning that if you're rooted on 6.0.1 or nougat already, there is a possibility that flashing the boot img will break your device. So flash QAA factory stock zip then upgrade by flashing QC1 zip with ODIN or in system settings. You can go right back into bootloader once you flashed QAA and immediately flash QC1. :good:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Pyr0TeK:
Sorry for asking but can you explain in detail? Flash .zip with Odin?... you mean the individual .md5 files in each slot from the extracted .zip (BL, AP, CP, CSC) correct?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Dont worry thats why im here. But yes extract the stock QAA zip and put bl in bl, ap with ap, etc. Do the same with QC1 or update in system settings after you flash stock QAA.