yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Honestly I haven't tried it out. My assumption would be no being that the AP images won't correlate and further result to breaking the 6.0.1 firmware every time. Like i said just a guess though if you unroot by flashing original 6.0.1 firmware and update to Nougat through Settings>System Updates..you only need to disable packages and flash engineer boot img. We all want a quick method but I don't think flashing from a rooted device will do you any good and ruin the pace you're looking to achieve. It takes less than an hour :eek:. Trial and error man.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] BobTheTenth:
Alright. I was just wondering out of curiosity. Coming from the PSP homebrew scene, upgrading to newer CFW was MUCH easier if the version you had was already a CFW. In other words, going from CFW to OFW just to go back to CFW added many more unnecessary steps.

Thanks for the reply.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
I know what you mean though another platform/model can't be related entirely which you know. It is possible that it might work but I am done rerooting and flashing until next nougat update rolls out. If your only reason for attempting the flash is time then its not worth it. These firmwares 6.0.1/7.0 seem to adjoin when downgrading back to 6.0.1 so maybe its a possibility- but you might run into errors and possible boot loops later into the actual root. Give it a try what do you have to lose?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] BobTheTenth:
Well doing this I triggered some kind of BS warning phone said I flashed to a firmware that wasn't supported by my phone or something. Could only boot into Bootloader.

Booted into bootloader and tried to install 6.0.1 and now phone is staying black and won't turn on. Now PC recognizes my phone (plugged in) as "RELINK blah blah blah 9008". There's no LED indicator. Hitting the buttons on the side of the device will not boot the device, while it's plugged in the PC will make random connect/disconnect beeps. I can't remove the battery (it's an S7 Edge); or rather, don't want to.

I found a guide for recovering from Qualcomm 9008 but haven't had a chance to try it yet. As of now, 800$ paperweight >__>
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Try holding Volume Down and Power for 10 seconds and see if any screens appear. If see anything try holding Volume Down home and Power to download mode. I wish you wouldn't of gone that route but don't give up hope..Im going to keep looking but connect phone to a different port and change cord if you can. Run command prompt and redirect to adb folder. Type adb reboot download and press enter.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] radink:
Did this as of yesterday. All working well. The only thing I noticed is that my signal/reception seems to be not as strong. Is that because I updated my prl while at work and not at home (an hour away) and I have a different prl than I had at home?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] BobTheTenth:
Qualcomm brick = phone does not boot. Will not boot to bootloader, will not boot to recovery mode, will not be recognized as any phone/sd device by windows.

So what I've found on how to fix this is this site: http://www.droidsavvy.com/unbrick-qualcomm-mobiles/

If you read that site I listed, my phone is the second option. No LED indicator, buttons unresponsive, etc. If I plug my phone into my computer it says "Installing new device drivers..." Then when I RUN devmgmt.msc I find it's listed as a "Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM 7)" under the 'Ports' section.

+ So I cannot use Odin since it doesn't recognize my device as a phone.

+ I can't use ADB or Fastboot cmd's because my PC doesn't recognize the phone as a phone.

Right now I'm stuck at the option where you have to take the battery out > I don't want to do this because it won't be waterproof anymore > I installed the drivers differently than the guide listed, I went into DEVMGMT and updated the drivers > update > have disk > choose location, instead of installing the way the guide said to. Now I can't find a "BACKUP.IMG" of my device anywhere. (Please read the site I posted before telling me where to find the files unless you truly already know what I'm talking about)

Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] izzibew26:
you'd have better luck moving your problem to it's own thread in q&a, your target audience for guidance is more likely to see it there. personally before taking it apart I would claim it against the phone insurance and get a new one.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
I specifically told you not to attempt because it might break your firmware. You don't have to belittle me when you have only yourself to blame. I know your phone is bricked and there are steps i read suggesting to do that even if it was bricked. I am trying to help you even though i have personally never bricked a phone. You say you don't want to go through with the extra steps to possibly fix your phone then i would report it lost and pay the $200 deductible..but thats just me. Or look upon these services like jtag or jig that can unbrick your phone with a cheap payment. From the looks of it, youre not going to be using it anytime soon. USB Debugging seems to be the causing issue here or what would you say?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] radink:
godpowerrr,

I redid the complete walkthrough again (2nd time). This time, when I go to tweak the Kernel Adiutor settings, it won't stick to the highest frq. of 2150MHz. I feel like the last time I did it, it stuck unless I wasn't paying attention. When I choose it, it says it, then drops down to one of the lower ones. Any ideas?

Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] BobTheTenth:
I wasn't trying to be rude. I had just tried it because why not? Lol. I'm just trying to fix it. Sorry if I offended. :(

So I'm going to say it doesn't work. Now I'm just trying to figure out how to get to stock again. Thanks for the help so far man, I do appreciate it!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
It's perfectly normal. The reason it changes is because that is the current frequency you are at...but when you select the Max and min it lets the app know that's how high or low the cpu frequency can reach.

My apologies it seemed bashful. But I would try to do whatever you can with the jtag or jig because asurion is not going to accept your device if you send it in for a replacement but you can report lost or stolen. Sorry this happened to you but we learn and advance from there. Hope everything works out good for you and stay positive.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] donbudafuko:
So what's the point in rooting these days besides trying to get better battery life an performance? Is there any mods or anything at all like the old days to customize the phone?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] BobTheTenth:
Yeah I am. Usually it takes me a few days but I figure it out. I was just posting here in hopes someone had found something useful or knew something I didn't know :D ...Speed up the process a bit lol.

I'll probably hang on to the device for like a week and if I can't fix it I'll just put a torch to it and say the battery blew up like on the S7 Notes ;D jk... But the lost/stolen is a good idea too. Dunno what my deductible is for that though, probably half. Thanks again for the help!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] aakid22:
I'm very sorry if this was said before, but does this method trip the knox counter to 0x1? I am interested in trying this method if the major issues have been addressed and the possibility to return to stock and use samsung pay again is an option.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] radink:
I've done it 3x and it's never tripped knox for me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Death Inducer:
I've been rooted for about a week, with no real issues. I am seeing quite a bit of lag and non-fastcharging seems like trickle charging now. With the optimizations it runs like butter for like 10min but starts to get laggy.

Update:

Trickle charge must be due to guy in dorm over is drawing all current from the outlet I normally use.

rebooted and opened up all of root apps like kernal auditor before anything else. Boot up seems to take a little time. Seems reboot is good to do every 4 hrs might be doze related. All cores running at 100% for about 10min on boot, but once she's up she runs like a dream!! Service also seems to have improved

I less than three root
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Supermav:
You can always try a Sprint repair center and tell them it happened when u upgraded to 7.0, it happened to me when i first got my S7 edge I went thru 3 phones trying to root on mm eng bootloader but every time i tried it even after a fresh install I lost all my phone info on Sim card no # no info nothing @ all and I couldn't restore to stock with custom odin bootloader wouldn't load up sucked so bad but that's what I did been stock ever since "food for thought"
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] DAE51D:
Backing up and restoring apps/data is my main reason. If you're not rooted, there's no way to get the data from one (old) phone to the new one. It sucks actually. Many apps are not cloud-based still. And tools like Helium don't work on every app still. I had at least half or more that Helium said some BS about "contact the app's author to have them support this". Samsung's own Smart Switch is a joke. Of ALL the apps out there that should be able to transfer from one Samsung phone to another, you'd think it'd be their own one. But it only does the basics like phone logs, sms/mms, and the apps themselves (not data shockingly!) And Google added a feature in 6.0 for apps to backup themselves to the google cloud "for free" if the developers enable the flag (it literally doesn't require any other changes), and STILL many apps don't do this! It's infuriating.

I'm amazed that other people don't have this problem, or at least aren't vocal about it. Do they just accept the fact that they have to lose all their data in these other apps and start over? Or people just not use any apps that aren't 'cloud' based? I really don't get it myself. This to me is critical.

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You are the F'n MAN! :good: I just bought these Samsung Gear IconX for a screaming deal of $80 the other day and it'd be a real shame not to be able to use them to their full potential without S.Health. When I get them I'll let everyone know how they work out with this. Should be any day now they arrive.

On a related note. I think I may have the old S Health from my Note 4 (the one I copied over from the TitaniumBackup which loaded up but didn't actually work properly. The About screen says I'm on Version 5.6.1.0003 (which is what my Note4 version says on it too). Can someone send me their S7 S.Health APK? using a tool such as APK Export tool? I'd hate to have to re-root and everything just to get this later version. I tried the Samsung App store, but it doesn't show an update. I'm pretty sure the S7 version is newer though right?

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Hmm... I didn't see that in the instructions and I thought you advised against doing the two .zip files? In any event, I downloaded Flashfire and chose "Flash ZIP or OTA", selected the "VVM_Volte_Wifi_Calling.zip" from my SD card, checked on "Mount /system" and "Auto-mount" and then let her rip. It did all it's stuff it seemed without errors. But after the reboot (it does for you), my WiFi calling slider tries to go "blue", and a "Loading" toast thingy pops up, then it just goes back to the off state again. Any ideas what I did wrong? (and yes, I am connected to my WiFi and Bluetooth still)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] aakid22:
Tried flashing this. Odin is stuck at system.img.ext4, hasnt failed but wont move
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Awesome thanks! Um prl has to do with really settings not so your location. Mainly i wanted you guys to update sprint zone so configs and service were updated and intact. Your prl wont n eed updating for several months and by then you are going to want to update to a new firmware anyways. As of now when you want mose recent prl and profile version, you will need to flash stock and root from there because the engineer img cripples sprint zone regardless if rooted or not. Sorry for late reply.

The point despite unlocking bootloader, is full control. Removing/Changing system. Linux is funny yet amazing and samsungs team might be skilled in their protection; not android though. But thats the beauty of Linux and this phone... varient models and several unique systems.

This is my 3rd replacement because this phone seems to slip a lot and i guess im clumsy lol but i wouldnt suggest it for anyone. Your deductible won't be more than 200 unless you asked for additional insurance. But basic insurance should cover lost, stolen, or device (factory).

That might be your box adapter for usb. I know i've seen my phone charge for an hour and realized charging was not 'Fast'. I have two fast charging adapters because of different phones but the cord has nothing to do with it because ive used after marker ones. The box might be an issue or maybe how it is plugged or if on an extension cord, who knows. For your lag try restarting im not too sure, the more apps you have the more problems seem to occur and i try to eliminate that for battery reasons. You can try rooting again but what is that going to solve if you're going to restore everything you've have before?

Glad it worked man, that method i sent just came out recently, so it was like its meant for you lol. I disagee with backing up because [not sure about newer models bought] when i had received my phone it came with a usb adapter that help & restored all data if you needed it. But i have restored data not with the usb, through settings, and i lose data so idk wtf it is with their update system but its not accurate. The WiFi calling is usally discarded because of the unimportance of it.... but idk to much about it so i recommend looking at the original topic with the zip
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
This is from my root/data/app/com.sec.android.app.shealth-1/ folder

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-KnmVEVgatrc2JJcVBkMnFnLW8/view?usp=sharing
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] DamageSource:
Dude you're awesome for posting this. This worked perfectly for my wife and I. No a single issue so far.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
No ty ;)!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] DAE51D:
Thank you, but how would I install this? Do I use Flashfire?

Would it be too much trouble to ask you to export a regular .apk file with a tool like this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ses.app.apkexport
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] richardjrdeal:
Can you not download S Health from Google play store?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] DAE51D:
TL;DR: I over-wrote the S7 one (that wouldn't load due to being rooted -- or so we thought), with the one that did work from my Note 4 (using TitainiumBackup). Then it was discovered how to change that setting in buildprop to make SHealth work. But no, going to the Galaxy Store, it will not "upgrade" the version I have on there now. This is why I'm asking for the APK from a real S7 so I can re-overwrite. My mistake was that I had TB set to only have one archive, so it blew away the stock archive I made with the older one. :(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
[MENTION=3357863]DAE51D[/MENTION]

S Health 5.6.1.0003.apk

Health Service 2.1.3.001.apk
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] menace211:
How is the performance with this? I had root on marshmallow and I had to switch back due to the lag. Is this any better?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] jtash01:
Yes
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Only way is to try ;) but it is way faster and smoother.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] diligent7771:
Few things:

-Is there any work still being done to get the bootloader unlocked? This dev thread no longer seems to be only devs, rather a bunch of "+1s", "thanks", and "tweet posts". All great posts, but not dev related.

- All devs on this thread are without a doubt better than I regarding android roms, unlocking, etc, but thought id throw a few ideas it here. (Im new to this type of dev). Maybe i can provide new hope? I just recently got the s7 and found out the hard way the current status woth no way to get custom roms. I know the chain of trust, verity, etc are a major buzzkill, but parts have all been hacked before so we can't Judy throw in the towel, can we?!

- http://newandroidbook.com this has a lot of good material, this guy is a genius, too bag he isn't working on this! (Download the book there & supplements).

Couple of actual ideas:

-He mentions in the book, with root you should be able to modify parts of partitions. Add long as you don't modify the entire partition it wont check for integrity on startup. Now that root exists, is Amy of this possible, to modify three partitions and unlock the bootloader?

- He also talks about how the chain of trust works using signed keys, and where to find these keys in the actual image file; since we know exactly where the keys are, and what's expected, can't we fake it with a custom image using a binary editor? He (in that link) also refers to his free tools to inspect, etc.

Remember when wet push via odin the phone isn't online so had no way to verify via internet if something is in fact legit. Hacks happen all the time with fake digital signatures and keys, certs, etc.

- In other words, now that root exists in the engineering kernel, Im thinking new doors have opened.

Thoughts? Hope?!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] radink:
So, I've been running stock 7 with all of my apps installed, normal use, etc... I started with the above step basically and ran through the rest and I'm running root with no issues. So it seems possible to do this to an existing running stock 7 phone. Not saying this would be true for everyone, but I thought I'd give it a shot instead of having to wipe and start fresh.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
I'd say with root it would make it a lot easier to do and it will be cracked sooner than later. I'm sure someone is working on it discreetly and once it's released ****s going to hit the fan lol. People will probably brick their phones because of the integrity. But it's possible no doubt... if I knew where to begin I would try but I'm not at that advanced level. Thanks for your post and just be patient because that's all we can do.

Yes sir I thought it be self explanatory if already on nougat. You don't need to wipe/flash unless rooted so there shouldn't be any faults. Thanks for your input.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] archlord112:
will it work for 930p? flat one?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] billa:
Just to add to the conversation, if you did a bit of research on the bootloader's AES encryption, you'd soon realize the practical infeasibility of trying to crack the keys.

The keys you'll find inside the firmware files are public keys (the function of some really large prime numbers), which are only used to calculate a hash to let you in, therefore the reverse calculations are totally impractical with today's computational capabilities. Still waiting for quantum computers... ;)

If there's any hope, it would be centered around some loophole/backdoor exploit instead of a brute force hack, unfortunately they are incredibly difficult to come by. Or perhaps through some other exotic method such as Row Hammer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer), etc.

For example, it's like trying to break into Fort Knox (KNOX pun intended) through its heavily fortified front door. As you can imagine it's next to impossible, but maybe through an underground hole or from above you might have a chance, just to find out that once inside there are other security measures to trip you up.

The beauty about the eng-boot is that they've officially given us a passage inside, though with some restrictions. It's up to us to exploit these privileges to best suit our needs.

With this, it might be possible to flash custom roms thorough FlashFire.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] aakid22:
So I have noticed that my phone will not automatically turn off the screen after inactivity, it just dims it. I can manually turn off the screen but it won't turn off by itself. Anyone else notice this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] ABDUDIVAN:
Reboot randomly after root

I rooted succesfully but its randemly reboot on nougat firmware
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
So I got the same error as JoJester had (IMS Service crashing every split second), except I did not flash the VM zip. Based on your response here, I believe that mounting the system during the S7edge fixes flash was the problem. I'm thinking about dirty flashing the engineering image and starting over from that step to see if it'll work, or if I'll have to do a clean flash, but I want to see if I can get everything backed up first. I came to this from the Nougat beta -> OTA updates.

It devoured my battery as well, so I've gotta wait for it to charge first.

I'm curious though, [MENTION=8142711]JoJester[/MENTION], what did you end up doing to fix that issue?

I just tried a dirty flash of the eng and it did nothing to fix it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Negative. If I'm correct you don't have a root for the S7 yet [sprint].

I didn't do any research because I'm not going to understand. You sound very impressive when it comes to security, why don't you give it a shot? I've heard of roms being flashed but ultimately crash the device.

Try enabling keep screen turned off In display settings. In developer options if stay awake Is enabled the screen will never turn off if charging. Try enabling device protection manager and devicekeystring in package disabled, Power off then power on. Maybe this will fix it not quite sure though.

Something hasn't been disabled properly. Wipe cache partition and try again.

If you wipe cache partition and repeat process without disabling ims before flashing boot img, it shouldnt be a problem for you anymore. I've had this problem occur once and force stopping or messing with the apk makes it worse. But with backing up I try to do it every day so like you, won't lose anything current. When that constant ims error happens the only way to do use the phone is by pressing ok and very fast hitting the next button which can really be frustrating and time consuming.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
I just tried enabling ims and then wiping cache and flashing boot img. No luck so far. Did you mean I had to start with a clean flash? If so, can you describe how to do that as well? I don't want to do something wrong on that point.

How do I even clean flash? Is there a particular stock image I need to go back to since I was already on 7.0? Or would I be okay just flashing the SamFirm firmware overtop of what I have right now? Also, will doing that wipe any partition? These are some of the questions I have for that.