yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] CyanideHD:
Chainfire recently released a site with stock firmware, it's firmware.mobi
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] 000Nick:
Will there ever be a way to get root on a stock rom (no eng boot) like this? I was looking at the S8 root and they somehow did that. Would definitely give up safetynet/knox for stock rooted rom.

Edit: Could I add in a few lines in the updater-script to install SuperSU? I'd be willing to help test.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] scorpic1978:
The G935VVRS4BQH1 is out, will this rom be updated? thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] CVertigo1:
I'm not bugging about whether there will be a new ROM or not, but if there is I have a feature request for the Verizon build. In the U-firm, there is a feature for limiting the amount of icons in the notification bar to three icons so it's not cluttered. If there was a way to implement this feature on the Verizon build, it would be definitely clean things up.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] Azuma73:
I was on OH1 for schnittzengiggles & QF2 flashed just fine for me man!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] kpirnie:
[MENTION=1168000]jkru[/MENTION]se

Hope all is well mate.

Question for ya.

http://prntscr.com/gr7t46

Is one of those the replacement for the Eng_Boot image?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] SirDoogieHouserMD.Esq2000:
Boot images and Recovery images are in AP files.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] kpirnie:
Any one have one that is just the stock boot image?

I know I can "unroot", but the only thing I have that's stock boot image instead of the Eng_Root needed for rooting, is the full system image.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] SirDoogieHouserMD.Esq2000:
Use 7zip to unzip the AP file.You will see boot img.

Compress the boot.Img alone into a tar. file,then flash it.

Its easy.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] kpirnie:
will let ya know if it worked :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] aarontbrooksjr:
I flashed back to Stock and still have the Pixel Boot on top of VZ Boot, need to send my phone in to Samsung for The pink Line, anyone know how to get ride of the pixel boot..'

Edit

Disregard it turns out its the stock VZ boot, im a Tard
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] 000Nick:
Were you able to get it to work?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] jsminnis:
Actually qh4 just came out
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] kpirnie:
havet tried yet. probably tomorrow

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workin on seeing how to keep my init.d scripts running without root first
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] KjK89:
I am still on QC9 but am starting to have some issues. I am thinking its time to upgrade, but with QH4 out I think Ill wait for this rom to be updated so i dont have to set my phone up twice. Any news on whether this ROM will be updated? (not asking when, just IF it is going to be)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] SirDoogieHouserMD.Esq2000:
Did you make a separate flashable zip, and flash it with the rom with the order being AP,rom,your zip,wipe?Ive done that and still passed safety net.

Currently I cant pass safetynet because i took knox out of the rom because substratum has to be a pain in the ass.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] kpirnie:
i cant flash bl's with the way verizon locks their phones down.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] ihuntinde:
Anyone else notice that their proximity sensor doesn't work during a phone call? Or did I miss something when I was going through the process? Is there a setting in the Rom Control that will let me set it?

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So, after a reboot to see if that fixed anything... I seem to be having a new problem. I can't get the phones unlock screen to come on. All I see is a black screen with the little "Edge" bar on the right side. After a few seconds it disappears and the Always On screen (with the date, time, and battery charge %) shows up. As soon as I hit the Home button, the screen goes black and the only thing I can see is that "Edge" bar again. I can pull the bar out and interact with it, but nothing happens if I touch one of the icons...

So, I guess it's back to reflashing everything?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] ihuntinde:
So, I did a Factory Reset and it seems to be working now.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] 000Nick:
I'm pretty sure you don't need to flash the bootloader. As far as I know, aren't there only 2 release bootloaders for the Snapdragon models (2 & 4, with 2 only being used in Chinese models) (could be wrong though)?

The engboot is just the boot.img (which is just the kernel & ramdisk, correct?)

I dug into the files packed inside the stock boot.img vs the engineer boot.img and found the ramdisks to be almost the same (with slightly different binaries under /sbin, notably), with some slight variations in other files (including ro.secure=0 & ro.debuggable=true). Also, the kernel (zImage, correct?) is about 10% larger than the Verizon stock kernel. Could be due to both variances in the compiler, carrier differences (AT&T engboot vs Verizon stock boot.img), but is probably the cause of the poor performance.

So theoretically, all we need to do is switch out the kernel (both would be signed by Samsung anyway) when rooted? Or we could use this ROM's method of flashing the system.img.ext4 persist.img.ext4 recovery.img & (stock) boot.img. For the former, I have no clue if it's possible to push or flash or whatever a (signed) kernel to the device without the rest of the boot.img (retain the ro.secure=0 ramdisk). I could try out a variety of methods this weekend, as I have figured out how to create/sign zip files that work fine with FlashFire.

I wouldn't say I'm too knowledgeable, so correct me if I'm wrong.

Do you mean you flashed his performance tweaks zip? Do you still have root?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] kpirnie:
aye... im still stuck on calling the kernel the bootloader lol

ive attempted some mods in engboots ramdisk... minor stuff like trying to inject init.d support. (check my profile... been there done that ;) )

all end in a softbrick... and of course without a recovery its impossible to grab even a logcat...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] SirDoogieHouserMD.Esq2000:
No, a zip to add system level features or apps.Instead of adding them into the Rom zip,flash in sequence when installing the rom.Order in flashfire being AP,Rom zip,Your Zip,wipe.

I add my fonts and Dolby Atmos and still passed safety net.

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I guess the APs stock boot.img(.tar) didn't help for what you're trying.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] 000Nick:
Hm, are you sure you can edit the boot img? I think it would have to be signed.

Edit: Created a flashable zip, will try kevp's recommendation of flashing the zip (containing SuperSU) after PS-ROM zip in the specified sequence tomorrow or the weekend.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] SirDoogieHouserMD.Esq2000:
Why would you put SuperSu in a zip?I think you misunderstood my post, respectfully.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] kpirnie:
Nope.

Flash in odin fails... flash via zip results in softbrick.

probably signature...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] SirDoogieHouserMD.Esq2000:
Idk,i've never had a stock boot.img.tar fail in Odin.I meant put your init changes in a zip for flashfire.Anyhow,I hope you succeed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] kpirnie:
It's probably because I've modified the boot.img, breaking samsung signatures
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] mocilicious:
Hi guys why I can check samsung test such as *#0*# in this rom?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] iatros56:
Been having an issue over the last two weeks. I'm losing Bluetooth. It's greyed out. I can move the switch to the right but it stay grey and can't be detected. When I factory reset it works for two days and then stops. I have any and all updates turned off but suspect something is still being updated and killing Bluetooth.

Any suggestions? I'm on QF2.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] 000Nick:
Not sure if it is related to this ROM specifically, but I do know that Verizon has edited Touchwiz, including removing almost all phone codes (like the one you provided), Samsung Cloud, etc. Annoying, but maybe someone can figure out how to solve this. You can try using an app like RomControl or another app from the PlayStore to open some hidden menus.

EDIT: To the others in this thread, I tried flashing the stock boot.img from QF2 AP file (I was on the BL/CP/AP/CSC from QF2) but that just resulted in dm-verity error and a bootloop with the text "Custom" on the bootscreen (tried erasing data/cache, no dice). *I was able to recover easily by just flashing engboot again, without re-flashing all of the other firmware packages in Odin.*

I extracted the boot.img (/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/boot) when running engboot, and that gave me a 76 MB img that has identical ramdisks and kernels as the the engineering boot.img (22 MB). There must be another partition or something inside the extracted boot img as it's much obviously much larger. I glanced at the beginning and ends of both images, which showed they were identical, but I'll have to find what differentiates them. I'll try some other things and update this post again later.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] CVertigo1:
I just want to make sure I understand what you're trying to accomplish. You want to run init.d scripts without root? I'll be the first to admit that my knowledge base is very limited when it comes to these things, but I've always been under the assumption that they can't be executed without persistent root. I did some light research and found that custom scripts can be executed without root, but the ones that call for root need to have root.

This post wasn't meant to sway you away from your goal. I just want to make sure I'm understanding correctly.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] 000Nick:
Trying to get SuperSU to reliably work on this rom. I know there's an option for no wipe/wipe but preserve SuperSU, but I've tried both and SuperSU still gets nuked. Now I'm switching between the AP_Boot_Recovery zip (stock) and engboot (engineering) to try and flash various things to get SuperSU working, but that has yet to happen. I couldn't find anything on this thread or online how to get it working but didn't find anything, which is why I am posting on this thread in case anyone could help or has answers. So basically rooted stock rom (stock boot.img without the horrid engboot kernel) (I don't care about SafetyNet or anything like that).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] kpirnie:
As stated in the OP this Rom is unrooted

Ive flashed 5 or 6 times now, and after flashing it have followed his Root for Nougat thread. each and every time it works.

so... not sure why you are trying to complicate things mate... but is is pretty simple to do...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] 000Nick:
Rooting with engboot is no issue. I can get that working every time, as well. I also know that this rom is unrooted, but I want to try and have this stock rom rooted with no engboot. Engboot has a poorly optimized kernel which leads to MAJOR performance loss, which is why a lot of people have ignored the root for the Snapdragon S7 devices. The S8 root for Snapdragon devices looks to be very similar to ours, except they have a zip that they flash that flashes their firmware back to stock (like this rom) and then flashes SuperSU (essentially just using the engineering build as a way to use FlashFire) for a stock rooted experience. It may not be possible, but I can flash ROM's with root support on my bootloader locked Amazon Fire tablet, as well, so I'm sure there is at least possibility. Of course I would lose SafetyNet (a feature of this ROM), but my focus is root, not just a modified rom.

Edit: I have tried the SuperSU from the S7 root, regular SuperSU, and SuperSU from the S8 root, and none of them work. The ones other than the S7 version just give me a softbrick until i remove them via adb, and the S7 SuperSU doesn't work without engboot.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] kpirnie:
theres a reason why you CANNOT root without EngBoot mate.

the dev kernel allows writing and partition mounting that stock kernel cannot.

Blame Verizon
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] iatros56:
Finally tracked this done. The Enhanced Features update kills Bluetooth after the phone reboots. I simply disabled it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] kpirnie:
[MENTION=6801459]Craz Basics[/MENTION]
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] 000Nick:
You may be right, but why? Why do other bootloader locked phones get the ability to use SuperSU on stock, particularly the S8?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] DildoMaster:
Went back last night and installed QC5 since QF2 started getting laggy for some reason. Damn, it does seem to be the best. I went into developer settings to double-check that the animation scale wasn't set to 0.5x by default.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] studiorat:
You sir are the one complicating , He stated the rom is not rooted, but allow me to ask you a question?, Why do you need to root , is the rom not doing it for you?.and what are you hoping to accomplish, Just curious but u are referring to His root for nougat thread if its JKs the root is not this rom so rootibg will undo everything you do to install this
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] kpirnie:
why would it undo anything mate?

i prefer my devices rooted... plain and simple

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i dont work for samsung... so i cant tell you.

and honestly the last bootloader locked phone i had was back when SuperSu did not modify the kernel or flash a partition image for it. (the at&t galaxy s4 i got when it first hit)

my suggestion to you is either read and follow instructions for yourself (before you destroy your phone) and google around... maybe you will find your answers

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p.s.

I flash this rom for the s8 baked in features... its smoothnesss.. customizations... and battery life.

i root it because there is extra bloat that I like to remove... other tweaks I like to apply... among other things I like to so to my device.

if you cannot see that... troll somewhere else
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] 000Nick:
Right now I am wondering why SuperSU works for pretty much all devices, including one modified a little for the S8, but none work on the S7. I tried various ways of flashing the regular SuperSU zip, but it always softbricks the device. When looking in adb, it seems to get stuck on Atfwd-Daemon service not launching correctly, which yields no relate-able google results and also doesn't make a lot of sense to figure out what to do (removing the su binaries from the filesystem immediately fixes it). This is with the stock boot.img (no "root") and even with the engboot (still softbricks)! I'm probably going to PM jrkruse about his findings and why/how they created the custom SuperSU installation for his Nougat Root thread.

I have googled around which is why I've been trying everything myself, because I did not find results for what I am looking for (stock boot.img w/ root). But "destroying my phone" is not a valid statement - I mean, I'm modifying the system partition and also flashing a boot.img back and forth - worst case scenario I go into bootloader and re-flash the firmware via Odin. It's not like I'm playing with recovery or bootloader firmwares. Most of the time I can just flash back and forth between the AP_BOOT_RECOVERY and AP_EngBoot zips without needing to wipe
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] mocilicious:
do you have qc5 URL / link i can download? same here qf2 is laggy. I dunno why.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] DildoMaster:
You can get it all here.

Just Ctrl-F for "QC5" and get the Firmware, V4, and the hotspot fix. Install instructions should be same as OP.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] mocilicious:
thanks dude :good:

i will just flash zip hotspot fix in flashfire isnt?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] DildoMaster:
No problem. Yeah I just flashed it after the Firmware and ROM flash.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] kpirnie:
search the differrnces between stock kernel and EngBoot kernel.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] Bsober:
Yeah, for whatever reason it always seem to run the best for me too. I'm on the note 8 now. Wish Jrkruse was too.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] CVertigo1:
From what I recall, the root kernel is slam packed with debugging binaries that aren't available in the official(stock) kernel, including the ability to run as root through adb. The root kernel can also bypass the DM-Verity scan and allow it to boot in a modified state, which the stock kernel doesn't have the ability to do. When the phone boots in a modified state with the stock kernel, it goes through the verity check and throws a red flag to keep it from booting into Android. When the phone is rooted with the root kernel, verity is disabled, so the phone continues to boot into Android. When Marshmallow first launched, verity was a MASSIVE deal, and it was thought that root was impossible without an unlocked bootloader. The fact that the bootloader locked S7 was able to be rooted is still a huge feat. Since Marshmallow, systemless root has become the new standard, where SuperSU can run without it being embedded in the system partition, which keeps verity from being flagged while using stock kernels. For systemless root to work, the kernel is patched with the SuperSU.zip. The problem lies that the kernel is modified when it gets patched, so it does not pass the verity system scan, and it is not allowed to run. The SuperSU for the S7 was created specifically for the S7 to make use of the root kernel without the need for an unlocked bootloader.

I don't have the S8, so I am not sure how it gets rooted, but I'm going to do some more research to find out.

Everyone who has tried to find a way around having to use the root kernel has failed, but that doesn't mean that it isn't possible. I believe it was the Note 4 that had the bootloader unlocked years after it was released, when most thought it was impossible. The entire point of development is to make things better by trying new approaches where the old ones were inefficient or plain didn't work. Sometimes it takes a different set of eyes and thinking outside the box to make it happen. I say keep going if it's what you want to do. If you succeed in rooting the phone on the factory kernel, then everyone can benefit from your trials. As long as you don't end up hard bricking in the process, then really all you lose is time. My knowledge is very limited, but let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] Blade22222:
The s8 has a permissive kernel and uses system root.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] 000Nick:
It's not like root only exists in the engboot. Technically someone could come out with some chain of kernel exploits for root, which is why root has to be possible (even if under some limitatations like SELinux). Sure a person on stock can't do anything to the system to make it unsecure, but what about someone with root access that can modify the system and data partitions freely (and then flash stock boot.img back without wiping)? I mean I can add binaries, remove binaries, modify/replace binaries, or files, or scripts, or anything.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] mymax:
Guys on what version of the firmware that USSD codes works ?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] studiorat:
Un related.....so sorry ....Hang me from a tree and beat me if ya can catch me.....My adblocker built into Rom is affecting Browsing on all Browsers ....Can I disable it .....if so where do I find those?.....I chose the 3rd option when installing rom....for ad blocking
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] Fire&Forget:
Trouble with Advanced Calling

I'm trying to figure out how to enable advanced calling (HD Voice).

I tried to activate when I initially installed the ROM a month ago, but hit a roadblock and am just now getting time to come back and troubleshoot. I recall that at the time - the workflow that the phone took me through required me to install MyVerizon in order to activate the feature. This is the state I am in now:

1. In Advanced Calling menu, tap "Activate Advanced Calling".

2. Takes me to a screen with a red title bar that says "Advanced Calling" and it has an Activate button. I assume that is some part of the MyVerizon app. It's definitely not native to the OS and has links to Verizon on that screen.

3. I click Activate and it says "Advanced Calling 1.0 already exists on your line. Please completely turn off your phone and turn it back on..." (I have done this)

4. After booting, Advanced Calling is still off.

I have also dug into the IMS Settings

1. Under IMS Service Switch - everything ON

2. Under IMS Profile, the following are listed:

VZW VoLTE

VZW E911

TFV VoLTE

And under the MDMN Service heading - SamsungMdmn

3. Now the interesting part. Under Debug Info/IMS Information:

IMS Registration = true

Voic Over IP = False

Video Over IP = False

SMS over IP = True

IMS Framework Version: 6.0

4. Under Debug Info/IMS Info/Registration Information/VZW VoLTE:

Services: [smsip] (I assume others should be showing here)

Preferred IMPU: (this is filled out with my [MENTION=4451643]vzim[/MENTION]s.com)

IMPU: (filled out with what looks to be correct info w/ my #)

IMPI: (A long number that I don't recognize [MENTION=4451643]vzim[/MENTION]s.com)

Domain: vzims.com

Framework Version: 6.0

So, I'm stumped on what to try now. According to the MyVerizon app screen, Advanced Calling is activated on my line. Every time I turn it on, it turns itself back off.

Does anyone have any ideas?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] DildoMaster:
Had the same problem. My solution is a ***** but it should work.

1. Odin flash the second newest Official Firmware. (You'll lose ALL your stuff including Internal Storage so BACK UP YOUR STUFF EXTERNALLY).

2. Go through the setup BS and go into Software Update in your settings.

3. Let the phone update (I think I get an error message somewhere along the line , maybe after the update installs in recovery but it was fine. I think I had to hold every button to get to the maintenance mode screen and I just rebooted as normal.)

4. After the phone reboots, go into settings and Advanced Calling should be enabled.

5. Go back to the OP, re-root and install the ROM folliwing instructions and Advanced Calling should still be enabled. Some of us have found QC5 V4 is the best running firmware so you may wanna go with that.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge ROMs, Kernels, Reco] CVertigo1:
Read the second post in this thread, but you'll need to find the correct files for the firmware you are on. I believe they have been posted in this thread.