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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] TeRRoR:
I need some advice. I was on non rooted PC5 and upgraded to QC1. Followed the process and did the root. right after root when I was installing Busybox the phone froze so had to restart. When it came back up it just showed the background and would not do anything. So I reflashed QC1 via Odin without Home_CSC file and started the process again. Everything worked fine this time and I even did all the tweaks. Now phone runs fine but when I reboot the phone it tries to boot 3 times before it boots up successfully. Once it's up everything is working great.

So it boots up shows me Black galaxy screen with the unlock logo, them boots to Sprint LTE logo and the boots again. It does that like 3 times and then successfully boots.

Any idea what could be causing this issue? I did go to recovery and wiped cache 3 times so far but it still does the same thing.

Should I reflash QC1 and do the process again.

Also QC1 zip file does not have Home_CSC file but QAA does.

Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Sounds like your PC5 is still intact. I mean your device is so vulnerable right now i wouldn't flash anything else. The only thing that sounds logical to me is to flash stock PC5 firmware and hope you don't brick.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] TeRRoR:
That is really scary. So the best thing to do is flash PC5 all the way and hope for the best. Should I just leave it where it's at? Or do the PC5 flash. I am really sacred now.

Thanks
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Septaric:
Never mind. Somehow it fixed itself. lol.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Try flashing QC1 stock again. If it keeps resetting lmk.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Azyure:
So I just finished the tutorial, rebooted and everything was great! First try through and 100% everything was working as intended.

I made sure to follow the steps to a T and confirmed that I could make calls / send a text to myself.

After completing the preliminary steps (installing the other 3rd party apps and rebooting), my phone no longer is able to send/receive texts, and cannot make calls. I've tried doing the Self-Service Activation through the Settings, but it fails and directs me to Sprint support (I'm guessing that's because it's an eng rom.) Internet still works though, through WIFI and LTE without issue.

I went back and checked the BuildProp and found that both values were renamed to Sprint from Chameleon, and the 310000 was still saved to the updated value.

I did a quick search in the thread and couldn't find anything. I'm going to keep looking, but any direct advice as to why it would work fine, then suddenly break, would be great!

Sprint Galaxy S7 Edge

Nougat (QAA) 7.0.0

EDIT: I found a post from [MENTION=3054224]dmbstyle[/MENTION] on page 15 that was having the same issue as me; no service after rebooting, phone number changed to 000-000-0XXX and unable to make calls, but with working internet.

I cleared my cache/dalvik, power cycled, then started from the BusyBox steps, confirmed disabled apps, and followed the 'for dummies' guide on pg 16/17, but seems like it's still not working. I'll try starting from scratch once more and see what happens.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] frankrendon:
breaks visuals

I attempted this. it did work! with every audioplayer i have tried it on. the one issue i see is that it breaks the audio visualization??Audio bars, muviz, and audio glow all fail now. anyone else that has Viper working with this mod having same issues?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Azyure:
No idea what wound up happening. I went back, re-did the tutorial from the same place I started originally (didn't bother flashing back to stock, just wiped caches) and it's working without issue. I'm about to start installing the tweaks and kernal tools, but I'm confident just starting fresh fixed me issue.

I'll leave my post up in the event that anyone else has the same issue. :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] Septaric:
Is it really necessary to disable "Sprint Zone". I kinda liked it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] weichengjlkd:
I just found out I can't update my profile or PRL, it says initializing application and nothing happens. Isnt this related to an app that is disabled? How can I fix this?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] TeRRoR:
Thanks godpowerrr, I reflashed QC1 via Odin, all 4 files and its working now and the reboot is fixed. Its factory fresh now. I am kinda scared now so will skip root for now.

Thanks again
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
Quick question. If I flash the eng img in my current state (post-everything in the guide), would that be fine or create problems?

I unchecked the root option (not the full unroot, just turned off the enable supersu) in supersu in order to try to fix login problems with Snapchat. Well, I still can't login, but now when I try to recheck that option it it doesn't succeed.

Clearing cache and rebooting didn't work either. I'm not certain if this is why, but when I opened supersu with that option off, it asked me to update the binary. When I was trying to re-enable root, I hit yes to that popup.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] lvpre:
You disable the package when rooting. On mm, if you enabled it, your phone went into a boot loop. Trade off for having root. Any particular reason you are rooting?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
;)[]D.[].[]\/[].[]D.:D

No man.. i wouldn't even dare to do that. For one,SuperSU is beyond critical. Tampering with those options come with a cost. I hope you read the post in this thread about getting hard bricked because of flashing directly to eng, instead should've been factory image. It's difficult for me to give you answers unless i try it myself. But when you disable supersu.. it completely disrupts your device[on certain strings that may act up], forcing you to flash ultimately.

That being said, Flash QC1 or QAA whatever firmware you were on before root and wahlah start root for the 1000th time ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Sorry for late reply but the boot img disables this service to maintain root.. hence the reason being no prl/profile/device upgrading zero, zilch, Nada. If you want Sprint Zone you have to be stock as far as I'm aware.

If you're speaking of being rooted and updating any of that its not going to work relentlessly.

If you're speaking of initial setup and this happens its not a big deal because it will usually be up to date. I wanted you guys to do everything correctly and not leave any loose-ends..in some cases this can alter a procedure, corrupting the root. I'm only talking from MY experience. But restarting your phone or waiting 10 15 20 mins the loader will recuperate and install magicly.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] izzibew26:
Fwiw I don't think the brick was from that particular scenario. This guy already has the boot image running, it would basically be just copying over what he already has. It sounds like what I've done a bunch of times already and probably you too. I believe the brick came from getting to go from mm to N. I would say it's perfectly safe but as everything we do here it comes with an inherent risk of losing your device so if you can't afford it you shouldn't be doing it anyway. Summary : it should be just fine to reflash boot images and reroot.

Sent from Uranus, the only planet with a ring on the inside
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Yea I mixed it up but like you said it's possible especially if his supersu is damaged. I'm sorry if I skimmed through it too quickly, I should've told him to run root.bat and see if supersu repaired.

-So you've flashed eng after crippling supersu?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] izzibew26:
I've flashed the eng boot image and run root just about every time I tinker and mess something up so somewhere around 30-40 times.

Sent from Uranus, the only planet with a ring on the inside
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Well I feel dumb
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
Alright, well I'm gonna flash eng and give it the root.bat treatment. See you on the other side.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Moment of silence for this brave soul lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] quantemplation:
Spent a little time backing up files again just in case, but it looks like trusting the words of an unknown stranger on the internet still works!

(from SuperSU uncheck enabled) Powered Off > Wiped cache (for good luck) > Powered Off > (Download Mode) Flash AP S7edge_Qualcomm.tar > (after booted & settled) ran root.bat

Back in action, and no perceived negative repercussions.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] manson1994:
Awesome job! Worked 1st time. Great job with walkthrough.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] DAE51D:
How do I make a bit-copy of my phone after all these countless hours of work? Before with TWRP I could boot into that and do the nandroid (or whatever it is) backup. But here since we don't have that option, what should I use? Should I fire up that SamFirm tool and make another copy or is there a better way to do this. Basically I'm about to try all the optimizing modifications in the 2nd part of the first post, but I'm nervous if things get worse or something, I want a good point to restore back to since I have all my apps, data, background, sounds/tones, wifi, BT, etc. etc.. setup now.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] DAE51D:
I just went through the optimizations as per the bottom of the first post. At first I was getting worried I hosed up my phone. I mean, it was working okay before this for the past week, but definitely I was feeling some lag here and there compared to my trusty rooted Galaxy Note 4. Things seemed to stutter or take a noticeably long time to load. It was usable for sure, but definitely felt off. I figured I'd give those tweaks a try and see. Well, at first it made things worse. The phone became very slow and frustrating. But I went through them anyways despite my growing fear. After the reboot and once the phone settled down -- which seems to take maybe 10 minutes (so be aware that reboots are going to suck, but well worth it) -- there is a substantial and noticeable difference in the phone's performance, responsiveness and heat. I can tell the phone is running cooler almost immediately. I think this was the final piece of my puzzle till I'm ready to commit to this S7 Edge and switch to it as my daily phone. I'll play with it tomorrow for a few more hours just to be sure, but it feels really good so far.

So long story longer -- take the time to run through those tips even if it seems like the phone is getting worse. Once you reboot and it settles down, it will be radically better.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] xly15:
I don't know if this is the proper place for this, but is there a way to run Pokemon go on our phone under root?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
<3

Hopefully a new eng boot can be produced, the reason for the stuttering and slowness. But if you dont boost your phone to the max, it will always hold charge...atleast for me. Thanks man!

I believe you have to have xposed/magisk running, which our varient doesn't allow.

https://xdaforums.com/sitesearch.php?q=pokemon go root
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] DAE51D:
Anyone know how to get the soft button lights to stay on when the screen is on. The fact that Samsuck removed this setting is astonishing and asinine to me! Why would you take away features you already built!? Anyways, I know there is an app I can download to do it, but it seems overkill when I'm sure there is just some setting to tweek (also if you set the app to turn them on, then uninstall the app, it stupidly resets to default again!). I tried to add this buildprop from here but it doesn't work sadly...

ro.mot.buttonlight.timeout=0
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] !Led*Eyes!:
I noticed in the awesomely detailed how-to it says to make sure PRL and Profile updates succeed... Does that mean this cannot be done on a device without sim or service?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] jtash01:
Galaxy Button Lights app from the Play Store does what you want.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] :
Use Galaxy Button Lights 2 from the play store. Works flawlessly and it's free.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
It can be done by skipping this part. Technically you can disable apps, run root.bat for supersu..and you should be good to go.. But if you are going to receive service soon then the BuildProp settings need to be edited and restart. PRL+Profile was only to make sprint service stick, but in reality it doesnt need to be updated at all.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
That galaxy button light app is usually for those already with the lights functioning properly. It's funny you asked for a fix because I've been having the same problem.. But this happens to me stock too.. Just outta no where.. I can't seem to find a solution without rooting again. My guess on the beginning I thought was a disabled appx, though I enabled all that I could and restart.. Still no fix. I think it has something to do with security features not so the root.

0h and certain cases will cause the soft key lights to seem disabled. So first check if it's your case.

Edit: [MENTION=3357863]DAE51D[/MENTION] I used your ro string and pasted it in buildprop editor at bottom... saved,saved,saved and exited. Close recent apps. Go to / device main directory..open buildprop file and add ro.mot.buttonlight.timeout=0 at bottom..save and close recent apps. Power off. Power On. I was booted in safe mode twice for some reason so i kept restarting and the third time regular boot with lights working :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] ftc_osiris:
I am losing mobile data after running the SuperSU root.bat or at least between restarting after Disabling packages and before trying to install busybox

In any case, after this, I cannot install BusyBox and continue without enabling WiFi

What am I doing incorrectly?

_________________________

I decided to install all three apps when installing PackageDisabler

This time, it worked.

Thanks for the ROOT!!!!!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] izzibew26:
Start back at the beginning, you missed a step.

Sent from Uranus, the only planet with a ring on the inside
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
You lose data after flashing Eng boot [ S7edge_Qualcomm.tar ]. Have you tried downloading BusyBOx on your PC and transferring it to sd or device? I don't understand why you need WiFI for busybox unless you're downloading it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] ftc_osiris:
I couldn't find an APK for busybox

There is no apk link in the original post that I could find

Also, as said above, I just installed all three from Play store when installing package disabler
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] dmbstyle:
Anyone know how to get Snapchat to work after rooting
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] DAE51D:
You just get it from the playstore. I personally paid for the Pro version as I like to support all these guys that are giving us the ability to root :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=stericson.busybox

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=stericson.busybox.donate

---------- Post added at 01:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:36 PM ----------

To be clear, my button lights do work fine. They just timeout after a couple seconds. This is "by design" in the 7.0 TouchWiz. It used to be in 6.0 that you could set the duration time to different settings including stay on while screen is on. That app works, but I just feel that having an app seems overkill for something that has to be a setting somewhere (such as that buildprop). Maybe I'll try the prop again, perhaps it didn't take or something...

Hmmm.. I just noticed something. I see that "ro.mot.buttonlight.timeout=0" listed under "Motorola" in the buildprop app. That probably explains the "mot" part. I wonder if there is a similar setting for Samsung?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] radink:
Just saw the QC1 update. I'm assuming that if Im rooted now with QAA I need to go back to stock and start over?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] aakid22:
From rooted QAA, I flashed to stock QC1 then rooted QC1, worked for me first try.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] radink:
So you just used odin to flash over top and then re-rooted? Didn't have to re-disable packages, etc? Thx!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] aakid22:
What do you mean re-disable packages? Follow the instructions given on the first page after flashing the new stock update, disable same packages.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] radink:
So, I've been running root for about 2 weeks now. I haven't been installing apps very much. just normal use basically. It seems now like the phone has been slowing down. The screen doesn't seem to respond as quickly, or if I hit the show open apps button ( forget the proper name), it's pretty slow to show them. even now rendering web pages is slower than it used to be. Anyone else having this issue? Any solution? All of my kernel apps/lspeed/etc are running per this tut.. Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] hotelmariofan:
Could you further explain what you mean when you say this variant doesn't allow xposed/magisk?

I am also experiencing some slow down, even after the optimization tutorial provided. I have no fix, but thought I should point out that I'm experiencing the same for the dev.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] DAE51D:
Yeah, I've been using this S7 edge for basic stuff like Facebook and Chrome web browser, LinkedIn, etc. -- basically anything internet related -- for the past week or two just to see if it was "daily-driver ready". And I have to say I'm pretty disappointed at how laggy and slow it is compared to my Galaxy Note 4 (rooted). I had hoped i could switch over phones by now, but it's really just unusable for day-to-day use. It's strange because sometimes it feels smooth and snappy for a few minutes and then it just stops doing that. I notice that if I'm in an app (such as Facebook) then the app itself works okay while I'm in it (or at least tolerable). But if I switch to another app then it seems to get crappy again. I've done all the suggested optimizations too.

Is this because Knox is disabled and it's constantly trying to access some service/library and failing?

Is it because the engineering build does some extra logging or something?

I'm so pissed at Samsung for locking this boot-loader. :( I'm seriously done with them after this unless they unlock it. I really don't understand why they would care if we root or not. I have admin on my Windows notebook. I have root on my Linux box. Why isn't root just an option to enable like Developer Mode? Hell, they can even void my warranty if I enable it -- I don't care -- just let me do it!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] bradreeves94:
Device not being activated after rooting, using the tutorial on xda & a youtube video

I recently rooted QC1, everything is perfect. But when trying to dial out or send a message to myself it says that the device is not activated? Any help would be much appreciated.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] epdp14:
I am also receiving this error. Any ideas?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] godpowerrr:
Ok so try enabling performance in GovTuner, by entering 3 as the profile you would like. Also, in L Speed change profile to performance as well. But i don't have any of these problems, i would suggest rerooting and go from there. Try puttin the device maintenance widget by holding on home screen>widget> device maintenance tool, and optimizing here and there. If you're totally unsatisfied you can always go back to stock ;).

Yes it means that our variant[Snapdragon] (other one being Exynos) doesn't have the possibility(as of now) to unlock the bootloader. Think of it as the "Ultimate Root". The bootloader is like that mother of security, and without tampering with it or unlocking, we can't reach our fullest potential of tweaking. Until an experienced member unlocks the device, the ability to perform these tasks will remain at a standstill.

Try changing your profiles in L Speed also GovTuner to performance and restart phone. Or go back to stock if you're completely unsatisfied with everything. The thing with performance profiles is that they drain batteries rather quickly. The thing with balanced profiles is that they aren't usually as fast as you want/need them to be.

You messed up during the BuildProp Editor phase. Try rerooting. The only time activation should be necessary is during the initial account setup after Flashing QC1 firmware [before google account setup].

^^^^^
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] epdp14:
Thanks for the outrageously fast response. I reflashed and re-followed the entire guide. I am reinstalling all of my apps now. Has anyone had any luck restoring from a Samsung backup or does that cause issues?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Disc] hotelmariofan:
Should we be using both Gov Tuners (L Speeds Govtuner and GovTuner mod) together? It seems on their page, they explicitly say not to do this as they will conflict. Another note, upon loading GovTuner in Terminal Emulator, GovTuner only seems to be active as long as I do not reboot, and Init.d shows as "NOT WORKING". Now, it does then say

"If you use 3rd party init.d emulators, as Kernet Adiutor in it.d emulator, it's fine as well, it just won't show up here as active."

However, I am not sure if this all applies. Though I suspect it does since you note that we can uninstall init toggler since it's "registered in Kernel Aduitor". Though, I don't quite understand what that means exactly.

Either way, GovTuner mod does not seem to have added anything to my init.d directory. I only seem to have "00test" and "99SuperSUDaemon" in init.d. Thanks for your ongoing support.