yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TimelessPWN:
Usually auto download with purchase go back to the site and check
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] daddymikey1975:
Or it's a fake PayPal link etc...
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] djhotsauce:
i did that went back to the site and nothing..i emailed them and pm'd you.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mysticales:
100$ for the engboot file??

What am I missing right now? Someone trying to buy a dev to get us snapdragon root?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] meathammer386:
wow
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] nitroevo:
100 dollars for a file. No thanks. I'll go buy some pizza.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TimelessPWN:
Sent you hangouts request
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] JWnSC:
The link you posted shows paid. Has a link to download but you need to log in

Here. http://combinefile.com/index.php?a=browse&b=file-info&id=7682
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] sd_N:
yes

yes. should show up on site
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] djhotsauce:
this is what i get from the site..
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] CSYates_98:
What is the download center?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] sd_N:
to me

that looks like a 2 way transaction page. File isn't in your download center? I know you've looked there too. Cancel your payment or charge-back if you cant find it. And if you lose your money, I have 20 for you if that helps.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TimelessPWN:
Alright as I have mentioned if we are willing to do a combiination purchase I will host it. We will do it from Cosmy's site with PayPal so, as to ensure if the file is not what it says it is, we don't get anything at all, etc we will get the money back! I will then send everyone who pitched in for the purchase their funds back on PayPal, as stated this is all up tho you guys, just informing of how we would go about it and also letting you know that I am willing to host it since it was stated on an earlier comment that I should indeed do so :)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] sd_N:
here is what i got

i created account at that 100$ site ...says any purchased down load will appear in your homepage or purchased files category. I cant find that either... sooo.. let me know djhotsauce if you get you $$$ charged back or not, if not I'll send you 20 to help for trying.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] sd_N:
OK

Sounds good to me. I emailed Princecomys earlier today and still have had no reply. He apparently has the Eng Root Kernel for G950 listed. So, thats what we are going for?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TimelessPWN:
Yes that would be what we are going for, my reason for PayPal would be to refund money if it isn't what it is said to be so as we don't have to wait to the email response, also it has a well known reputation. But either way we are secure!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] asfau:
So are we just waiting on a reply before we all add to the fund or are we just pulling the trigger?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TimelessPWN:
As stated that is up to you guys do you want to pull the trigger, or wait either way we can get money back if it isn't what the file says, if we pull the trigger less wait time if we wait then we know and don't have to worry about refunds possibly?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] asfau:
I'm good with general consensus.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] sd_N:
well

if refunds aren't that hard then, I vote pull the trigger and find out. Lol.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TimelessPWN:
Well who is down to pitch in some cash?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Nv1dia:
Hell I'll pitch in.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TimelessPWN:
How much?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] guaneet:
Or you guys can wait a couple more days

https://xdaforums.com/tmobile-galaxy-s8/how-to/sm-g950u-t-mobile-g950usqu1aqd9-t3593658/post72121166
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] asfau:
Agreed. I'm in for $50.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] cadetprewitt1992:
How much more do we need? I'm willing to put in whatever we need if it means getting this rooted. As long as this is *actually* something that leads to getting rooted!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] sd_N:
me too

I'll do 30
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TimelessPWN:
right now 420 haha
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] cadetprewitt1992:
420? I thought I saw a post way ago that said it costs 100?

Ah well, bummer. I'll give $40.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Veganarchy:
I'll give the rest, whatever it may be through PayPal.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] sd_N:
pic

here's a screenshot of the post referred to above
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TimelessPWN:
We can wait or we can jump idc thats up to you guys as stands the $100 dollar version does not flash
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] kevkid:
Where are you guys donating to?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Triforce1001:
I want to say yes really bad, but I didn't contribute so really it's not my decision
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TimelessPWN:
We can get our money back if anything we have $120 and the guy that said he would do the rest but like i said it is up to you guys
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TimelessPWN:
The $100 firmware was G920 firmware not G950 if any Moderators see this please remove comment with link to $100 firmware, I think we should try the other one guys :)

Edit: All in say I with an amount
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Akumai:
**TO EVERYONE WHO BOUGHT THE FRAUDULENT FIRMWARE**

Please, chargeback, if paypal notices multiple chargebacks for the same item, we can easily win the chargeback. I saw someone else in the thread say they spent 100$. Chargeback with me, and together, we might be able to not only win our appeals easily, but do damage to the scammers.

EDIT:Not to mention, these guys are from Nigeria/pakistan after further research, so, to be honest, banks would credit us in an instant
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jovy23:
Well my honest opinion guys, i wouldn't pay no money for that eng root kernel file tar. The file name is cleary named (G950XXX) meaning they don't know what they are talking about and when i seened it i just seen red flags all over it lol. I will wait until [MENTION=1113488]JUSMEJOSE[/MENTION] releases the eng boot kernel since he has been doing this for quite some time now which actually is legit and works. I'll give you about a week and we will have root for snapdragon S8/S8+.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] djhotsauce:
I'm talking to them on whatsapp now
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Triforce1001:
Hope you get your money back
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Akumai:
Did you mention that the firmware is false/fraudulent and that you want a refund?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] djhotsauce:
I have no proof of it being a wrong firmware. Because I never received a link to even test.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Akumai:
Are they trying to claim you received firmware for the SM G950U? Tell them you know its fake, and that if you don't get a refund, you'll chargeback

Basically, they have no proof that they didnt send you the file, right?

Although, my bank is good with just knowing" I never have even came in contact with this merchant"

Point is, these guys'll probably try ripping you off if you try playing nice.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] djhotsauce:
They just refund me the money.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Akumai:
He just offered a refund too, gonna see if that happens. Easier than expected. I've played very dirty in the past, and believe me, my bank loves me, I've never lost a claim before. I'm glad you didn't have to go that route however, it's never easy.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jovy23:
You will not receive a link. It's a scam. Once i got into the site and made a search for "G950XXX" they have two listings with different file sizes 26MB and 28MB of the same exact file and it isn't firmware because it would of been over 1GB in total size. They are selling a boot.img for a high price which is a scam and it isn't a engboot kernel "boot.img" for our exact device so if they try to send you something through whatsapp and you flash it then you will end up with a hardbrick buddy.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] djhotsauce:
Where I'm from I seen people shot for less lol. I was giving them til the end of my work shift to refund me. Then that's when I was gonna put pressure on the situation.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Akumai:
I spoke to a lady earlier, when I prepped in advance, she blocked my card already cause I told her it was compromised, so, I have chargeback on standby.

Do you see the refund in your paypal account by the way? does it actually show up?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jovy23:
Great, wait until this week hopefully we will get s8/s8+ snapdragon rooted.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] djhotsauce:
Yeah i receive an email from PayPal I'll check it the morning when I leave work. I hope they dont get anyone else. I have a cousin who's a lawyer for the United Nations to see what are my legal option for charging them with fraud.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Akumai:
I'd like that, it's really satisfying to be honest, the thought
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ashyx:
Not being funny and I don't want to see anyone getting ripped off. But mistakes can be made 'genuinely'.

How about everyone just calms down with the fraud allegations and see what happens with your refunds.

It's not just the likes of us that can get scammed. Genuine websites offering genuine services are also subject to scammers. How do they know you're not trying to scam them?

Refunds take a little time. They seem to be forthcoming so far, so no reason to suggest there is an intent to scam anyone.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] suzook:
I know he has had eng kernels before, but hasn't he claimed to have some before, yet just disappeared with no explanation? Or am I thinking of someone else? This is great news if he truly does have it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Akumai:
I've gotten my refund as well, but it truly does tick me off that someone would take advantage of our current root status.

It's funny, I said yesterday I was willing to spend the 100$ so that nobody else would, but someone ended up doing it. Luckily, we got our refunds.

EDIT: And no intent to scam? Well, it took me far more convincing than the other person here who needed his refund, to get my own refund.

If Odin hadn't prevented it, me, or someone else could have been hard bricked.

Well, beyond that, now we know that we cannot trust that site anymore.

But what about Comsey's file? Is there any word on that yet?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] 954wrecker:
Said the guy who made all sorts of claims in my threads that never came true and then disapeared...
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ashyx:
Fair do's but my point was that making such allegations can seriously destroy someone's rep.

At least you got the refunds.

Now as for willy nilly flashing, rightly or wrongly claiming a particular file is what it is or isn't should always be taken with care.

If you're not 100% sure ask someone who can verify it for you before going ahead and flashing.

If you'd have posted it to me I could have verified its authenticity before taking any risks.

Remember, as every developer will tell you, it is YOU who is responsible for your device and YOU who is taking the risk.

Just be cautious and be sure about what you're doing and 99 times out of a 100 there won't t be an issue.

It's the willy nilly flashers that create problems.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] djhotsauce:
no it isn't a mistake they are actually scamming people. i just got home from work so i decided to see if they still have the file up. Seeing that two people that paid for it both asked for refund. the paid link is dead, but they have a new one up free to download right. so i downloaded it. site say 28MB (actual size 809byte) lol.

inside contain a "Eng Root Link (Read This).txt" file.

you be the judge on the legitimacy of this site now.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mr turtle droid:
Ok well don't fall for this.this is the easiest scam in the book odds are they didn't refund you..they will send you a fake PayPal receipt that looks legit and you'll never get your money..check your.spam filter..I had multiple people do this to me on eBay and I was so convinced the first time I almost sent my item..the big hint to me was they said to send it to Nigeria..
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ashyx:
Surely logging in to your PayPal account to check is what any sensible person would do? I would never accept some email as proof.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mr turtle droid:
I agree,I don't use PayPal much but when I did and that happened I didn't reallly know how it worked.now obviously if you see it in your PayPal it's legit lol just saying to be careful with the emails
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ethanscooter:
Is everyone here just going to ignore JUSMEJOSE who is trusted with these kinds of things said he's going to post the engineering kernel in a few days or are we all just going to continue to get scammed?

Maybe we can shift our focuses into finding the engineering bootloader now?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mysticales:
So question, with Jose posting the eng file. I assume thats for normal S8s? Or is that for S8+?

Also when we switch to that to gain root, Ill assume we wont be getting the new updates that the carrier is pushing out?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
no one is ignoring anything.. if ppl do not want to wait then let them be..

as far as the "scam", I do not know many scammers that would immediately refund $ when a person requests it.. it could be many things such as the source they pulled the file from as being incorrect..

also, prince comsey is also proven but he is asking 500$ on his site, so no one knows if his is legit or not so i wouldnt immediately say these sites are all scams..

not to mention [MENTION=1113488]JUSMEJOSE[/MENTION] might not have what we need for both variants so it is ok for ppl to still be looking for whats out there and not putting all of our eggs in one basket.

you can happily wait for jusmejose, from the looks of it nothing will come until then anyways

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he didnt elaborate.. and typically updates will not go through if system is modified in any way.. of course i always disable updates.. we need to get root first lol.. it also depends on if root when we ever do get it what firmwares itll work on
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mysticales:
Glad I havent updated via OTA yet. Im still on that March? Version. I dont even know if its safe to update yet in case I want to use the engboot stuff.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Maltego:
I am on day one/release update. I hold out for root and also Bixby remap works best pin this update.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] XBlackChaosX:
Root without tripping Knox..... Now that ladies and gents would be the Holy Grail to me!!! *fingers crossed*
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
typically a majority of all the recent sammy devices with locked bootloaders were rooted without tripping knox lol.. the only way to trip knox is to somehow odin unsigned tars or potentially some exploit thatll trip it for some reason lol if we get eng boots then the boot will not trip knox and neither should root..

if we manage a bl unlock however, thats another story lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] drew272011:
http://www.androidinfotech.com/2017/04/root-samsung-galaxy-s8-t-mobile-sm-g950u-nougat-twrp.html is this real
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TimelessPWN:
​

Downloading currently will update
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] drew272011:
If it is this guy should get the donation but seems to good to be true
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Silenus21:
Recovery was uploaded April 21st, if it was twrp baked in I'm sure we would have known sooner.

G950USQU1AQD9_Recovery_TMB.zip

And the author is jusmejose so I think that's the stock one.

It's the same file from here.

https://xdaforums.com/tmobile-galaxy-s8/how-to/sm-g950u-t-mobile-g950usqu1aqd9-t3593658
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
im 99% sure its bs lol.. tmo has a locked bl so u cant flash a modified twrp onto the device
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TimelessPWN:
Haha that's funny
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
there was another person who linked that same site saying it was an unlocked firmware they posted but it was sprint firmware lol

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and another from same site said it was eng debug firmware but it was just the combination firmware lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] drew272011:
So this guyjust on the internet lieing lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
lol wouldnt say lieing (could be lieing) but lots of those sites just auto generate garbage to get traffic..

some will take the intl exynos twrp for example and post that it works for all variants when we know it doesnt and ppl repost links or try it and it fails etc.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] denson9874:
After reading the article, there are several inconsistencies. They stated that the s8 comes with MM installed, which is certainly not the case, also that in order to reboot into recovery you have to press V+,HOME,and POWER, which is also incorrect. So, based on this and the aforementioned comment by [MENTION=3812611]elliwigy[/MENTION], I too don't believe that this article and method of root are legitimate. I would advice not attempting to install unless you are aware of how to flash stock WHEN, not IF, this fails to successfully flash TWRP.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] drew272011:
Agreed
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] YandereSan:
Yeah, it's a fake. The "TWRP" file points to the firmware uploaded here - https://xdaforums.com/tmobile-galaxy-s8/how-to/sm-g950u-t-mobile-g950usqu1aqd9-t3593658

And it looks like I missed the earlier message pointing this out.. but yeah.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ashyx:
Come on, when are people going to stop searching for, and realise there is never going to be, TWRP or any other custom recovery for the Snapdragon version of this device?

There's any one of a hundred devs that could easily compile TWRP for this device, myself included, but it's pointless.

Its unflashable and unbootable.

Any one that finds a supposed link to a custom recovery for it just don't bother posting it, as it's either fake or for the Exynos version.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
this guy lmao
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] this.guy.lol:
HINT #1 : N is real...revisit codes and scripts the keys for a working root lie within. take a page from the s7 edge SD. it will make sense soon....
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ashyx:
Make an eng boot? :confused:

Propose how?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ethanscooter:
The majority of us don't work for Samsung. One does not simply "make an eng boot"
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
thats what im saying lol he keeps posting these riddles like its easy and the only posts/threads i found from freddierice literally had 0 comments and he was asking random stuff such as how to get around secure boot when he flashed twrp to his s7 active but it didnt fail cuz of oem unlock because he turned it on lol

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not to mention the s7 active how to root thread directs you to some other site that makes you complete a survey to download the boot.tar as well as theres ads all over it and only 1 page so pretty much all of the instructions are missing lol i believe it is click bait and shouldnt even be on xda as well as i 100% woukd not trust it and dont recommend anyone goes there
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
yea.. seems like the same freddierice guy who doesnt know what hes doing or talking about and was posting threads asking the same type of questions and posting off xda links to survey sites with no instructions
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] kevkid:
Just a question, so the bootloader is a piece of software that tells the system where and what to boot. We want an unlocked loaded so we can tell it not to check the integrity of what we are trying to boot. The bootloader itself is cryptographically signed by samsung or our carrier. And in doing this if we try to change the bootloader the hardware will check the signature of the bootloader and if it isnt correct it will not boot. Does that all sound correct? Can anyone reference me to some more in-depth information about it?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
to be honest we cant even load a bootloader onto the device.. itll fail before it even flashes but essentially yes..
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] BIacklisted:
Let's just simply this for you [MENTION=6680601]this.guy.lol[/MENTION], the s8 compared to the s7 is a completely different beast with completely different hardware.

It's not the past where jailbreak and roots come out in short amounts of time security has upgraded.

If you're that confident go learn c++ and start rooting lol.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Thread cleaned up.

There is no reason to be rude, it is a discussion thread and should stay on discussion of the topic.

Secondly, soliciting donations in exchange of files is completely against the rules.

Kindly stay on topic and respect each other and their opinions.

Regards

Vatsal,

Forum Moderator.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] samman82:
You say don't be rude but allow an obvious troll with a history of what essentially amounts to misleading and directionless posts to make ridiculous claims about something he knows nothing about. Those who are serious about this topic are then sent on a goose chase. Either ban him, or let people say what they have to say so others know he's an idiot and everyone can stay on task.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Akumai:
On the debug firmware, it is there.

Only reason I mainly brought it up, is because for example on the S7 Edge I had, OEM Unlock was there, but it never made a mention of the bootloader, but the missing OEM Unlock, which is present in the debug firmware, specifically mentions the bootloader. If the bootloader was hard locked on this phone, then I imagine, why would the settings even mention the bootloader? I'm thinking with this firmware, it's possible to release a TWRP which can be flashed, and then afterwards, a rom can be created which overwrites the debug firmware. Hopefully, unlike the S7 Edge, this can be done.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] force70:
All that would be great and certainly a welcome surprise for many....but it would definitely be a surprise.

Security on devices is getting harder to beat with each generation and iteration of android not easier.

Time will tell.