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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
pm sent.. not sure if theyre right ones or if i could post the guide im usin on here so i just pmd to you
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Maltego:
My z3x and EDL cable should be here on the 20th (I'm in the middle of dead ass nowhere Wyoming, USPS is s..l..o..w to get here).

I'll take requests on ideas...or files to try [MENTION=3812611]elliwigy[/MENTION]...*cough*...or I can just wait for z3x to post their big surprise update (check their Facebook page), which is expected to have more support for the 950U/955U.

They already have unlocks and some simple repair. We'll see what they have when they get back from vacation. (I messaged them directly, they are out of town till the 26th).

Anyways, thanks for all who share their findings and files. Thanks to all for putting in your time and effort. Many minds work better than 2 or few... [MENTION=8296988]GSM CHEN[/MENTION] *cough*...

Cheers!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mweinbach:
Lol. Bixby voice beta for us is up. https://sso-us.samsung.com/sso/profile/bixbyepa
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
so u dont need an edl cable. standard usb works lol.. uninstalled mobile, put pc in test mode then adb reboot edl and it shows up in qualcomm 9008 mode
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mweinbach:
Does this mean we can deep flash?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
still lookin into it
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mweinbach:
Thanks for looking into this.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Cameron581:
Did some research and it appears that MIFlash appears to work with any qualcom device so we do have a feasible means of possibly following the same way that [MENTION=5672995]jcadduono[/MENTION] appeared to install the axon 7 possibly.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
QFIL the official flasher looks for firehose programmer fileslol
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] BotsOne:
I didn't download any special drivers, nor did I put the pc in test mode, just typed adb reboot edl and got 9008 mode.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
You're kidding me right? It was legit that easy? So I went through a days worth of hell for no reason. Face-palm......

Samsung isn't suppose to support reboot edl...

AND CHEN SAID YOU CAN'T USE THE REBOOT EDL COMMAND BECAUSE IT DOESN'T WORK AND HE TRIED IT...........

Now you see why I don't like the guy
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
yep.. u just install drivers the adb reboot edl lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
I always say 50 percent of software development is getting mad and wanting to punch things....
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] BotsOne:
Can someone who doesn't have an edl cable try this and confirm it? Just "adb reboot edl" in windows, and see if it shows up under com ports in device manager in 9008 mode. Works every time for me, but I'm not sure if I somehow "unlocked" edl mode with this cable or not.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Cameron581:
Nah I tried it myself and never used a cable
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
The edl cable wouldn't unlock the adb command. The reason for an EDL cable is for when manufacturers disable the ability for the reboot edl command to be received by the phone. If you're able to adb reboot edl, then it should work with any USB data cable.

But I'm letting my dogs out right now. I'm going to test this once I go back inside

For new people trying

REMEMBER: IF YOUR PHONE DOESN'T HAVE THE QUALCOMM QDLOADER DRIVERS INSTALLED, DEVICE MANAGER WILL SHOW IT UNDER OTHER DEVICES WITH A NAME SIMILAR TO "QSHUSB BULK"

And don't forget to refresh device manager after the reboot haha

Refer to my post 2 pages back

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Update: adb reboot edl works like a charm.

I hate my life. An entire day spent borking my computer and trying to unbork it, working on an EDL cable. Research. Etc. I'm gonna go ahead and start drinking now.

Going to download the z3x software. Just need to see what I can do in way of firmware. As I'm sure you can flash any firmware while in edl. Not sure if the bootloader will allow it to boot without being signed
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] BotsOne:
Yeah I know it won't unlock the command, but i remember when I was mucking around with the cable after rebooting into edl mode at first I had "qshusb bulk" mode at first in device manager and after I shorted the 2 wires it showed up as 9008 mode. Could have just been a timing coincidence though, that's what I was trying to confirm.

Another thing - I never installed any qdloader drivers and i get 9008 mode

Also - whoever bought the z3x box - can you download the "SamsungToolPRO_28.2.exe" and post it here please?

EDIT: Appears that was just a coincidence, apparently there is no need for an edl cable

EDIT: I downloaded the shady russian chrome extension from the z3x box site so I can grab the file myself :eek:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
A lot of times if you have windows updates set to install updates for other devices on your pc it will get them automatically as when your phone is connected with proper phone drivers installed, windows will recognize all the device needs and add it to the update list.

As for the Samsung tool, [MENTION=5860406]Maltego[/MENTION] should have that. If not, I can get it here shortly.

Psa, don't talk about getting paid software for free otherwise the mods will get you! Warez is a big big no on the forums
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mweinbach:
Yep. Now we need to see if we can flash any files from here. We could probably also flash a unlockable bootloader, I don't know if that's a thing. But if we can make this work than we could get root. I think we could do it without triggering knox.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Maltego:
It's on my server now. Just know it requires the box to even open after accepting terms.

-->LINK<--

I'll post back when my box arrives about what the next update holds for us.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
At the moment, the only way to get an unlocked bl is for one of us to find a stock bootloader and modify it. Until a company like zx3 comes out with the files for it. As they support our phones now, but they have minimal files for it yet. But if anyone knows where to get a bootloader, I'd be happy to work on it
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Maltego:
It's not paid, all of their files are free. It's just that their box is required to use it. You can go through most of the files they have here. I say most because they don't update the site as often as the application itself.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
Wahhh. Everyone that wanted root would need the box then... Unless you uploaded the box firmware and we emulated it on the computer to make the software think we're using it.

Might have to go a different route and use a different software. However, we would need the exact boot partition tables to modify a different software with correct info, such as the MIflash software
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Maltego:
Well, if they post a working root solution, I will just download the files through the application lol. They allow a "manual mode" for anything that requires flashing. Plus, like I said before, the files are free to access on their site. Just gotta wait for them to care to update it so the files are on the site and not just on the application db. I'll let you know when I get the box and also what the big surprise update holds.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
its normal lol.. i think everyone was tryin so hard to find how to get to it that all we had to do was type the adb command haha.. we did it before but didnt know until eventually looking in device manager n seeing it was n edl more.. it works every time

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you still need a username/pswd i believe to use it lol

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why? if this works i saw on the axon 7 they could have a locked bl with twrp lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
OMG I just realized. I'm part of wicked. And my buddy just told me he got the axon 7.im going to ask him that process
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
You must have missed the entire last 5 pages where we took your "tested theory" of needing a special cable for edl mode there pumpkin. As you don't need one, and getting into it is super simple, as opposed to what you said. Given we have all gotten into EDL mode with a standard USB cable and a simple adb command

Dude, you're full of ****. Stop pretending to be someone you're not. Random Jr member out of nowhere that thinks he has something ON A SITE FOR HELPING OTHERS, and is trying to be Mr superhero savior and do it himself.

The only thing you're doing, is pissing people off, delaying what were trying to accomplish, AS A COMMUNITY, and ruining your reputation on here before its even started. Given us as a community, have gotten further in the last 2 days than you have since claiming you had the proper eng boot.

Guess what. If you flash this "real" eng boot from edl, and it didn't give you system write access, it's not a true eng boot. Deductive reasoning here Deborah

BTW, Deborah is your new name until you decide to actual be a community and work WITH us instead of being selfish.

Be@n =Debbie

GSM chen= Deborah
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
[MENTION=8296988]GSM CHEN[/MENTION] YOU ARENT EVEN WORKING ON THE RIGHT DEVICE BASED ON YOUR FACEBOOK. Thanks to [MENTION=5860406]Maltego[/MENTION] for pointing this out

The g9500 is the Chinese variant. Not equal to the G950U! Smh. [MENTION=3812611]elliwigy[/MENTION] were you aware of this?

Dude, like it even says CHN right after it.. Common. No wonder it didn't work on our phones when you "tried" it.

THIS IS WHY I DISREGARD JR MEMBERS THAT DON'T PUT IN ANY ACTUAL CONTEXTUAL HELP. time wasted
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
huh?? im workin on g955u
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
Chens file is not for the G950U. It's for the g9500. Look at the pic. His phone is also the g9500. These pics are straight from his Facebook. Whatever file he gave you, is not for our phones. It's for the Chinese variant
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
what r u talking about?? he clearly showed pics of the correct firmware and clearly sent me the eng root files for the G955u lol.. just bcuz u dont see the pics on his fb or see some other pics dont mean he only has a g9500 lmao.. he fixes phones obviously so he comes across various devices n firmwares
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
to add:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
You know how easy it is to change a file name? I'll send you a gs6 firmware and make it have that exact same name.

Have you taken it apart and made sure the model number fits?

All I'm saying is, would you work on root for the exynos right now while holding the snapdragon? If your answer is no, then I'd apply that to Chen. And given he's not English native, and probably just getting into android/phone dev, probably doesn't know the difference between the phones and thinks he's working on ours, but is just working on his.

It's easy to sound like you know what's going on if you already know programming. But that doesn't mean you know phone development programming

I don't think he gets multiple devices... Why would he get a 950u over in China? And again, he's posting his updates to the fb page. Not much has been posted. Except only for the g9500. I don't think that's a coincidence

"don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time on it in the first place"
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] GSM CHEN:
I don't want to have any communication with you

elliwigy

He knew what kind of documents I gave him

Just let it be

bye
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
Why? Because I'm the only one calling out your misinformation on assuming your device is the same as the US variant?

His "new" Facebook, for everyone to check on. And verify facts. It's in his profile, but this is just easy access

https://www.facebook.com/GSMCHEN.up
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
you should quit while youre ahead lol... its 100% the correct device/files.. you just have it out for him so youre taking every shot at him u can get smh

instead of focusing on him and what hes doing and bashing his english why dont we figure out rooting this bad boy?

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they are the correct files for our device lmao, tf u talking about?

and thats real stellar of you to blast someones fb on a forum when you are completely wrong in your accusations... dont u have anything better to do?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
ANYWAYS

Back to the issue at hand. Talking about the axon method, there is an issue

to get twrp to boot, the bootloader has to be unlocked. Even if you flash it from edl, it won't boot into twrp while the bootloader is locked.

This is where axon is different as it allowed oem unlocking from dev options. I have read that trying to issue the oem unlock command from adb without the dev option checked will soft brick your device. Not 100% on this as I haven't tested it yet. Writing all of this for everyone to see and use before I possibly brick my phone..

I was told by my buddy with an axon 7 that without the ability, you would need to modify the bootloader source to be unlocked, then flash that in edl to have an unlocked bootloader. But at that point, we wouldn't need edl mode anymore as we could use odin with an unlocked bl to flash twrp or anything else. But I believe doing these things from edl will avoid tripping Knox. Something I will test when the time comes

My first plan is to check if there's still the option in the dev menu for oem unlocking and maybe Samsung just removed the display box for it and hopefully an adb secure or system command can enable it. But, I feel like this will not work. So it would be to getting the bootloader source file.

And if anyone knows where to get the bootloader source, let me know. [MENTION=5860406]Maltego[/MENTION] not sure if you have access to that with your z3x software

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It's not his personal Facebook man. It was made a month or so ago. Specifically for this. It's in his bio. So it's not like it's not public info. And yes, I am doing these things. Such as the whole comment I posted. Because I'm trying to HELP others that want to tackle this as well. So I share everything. Because I'm not selfish or greedy.

But honestly, don't try that "if I shared this, no one in the forums would trust me anymore" stuff. Because it's not like it's files from another recognized member. It's from someone that refuses to share, aid, or help publicly, that came out of nowhere. Honestly I figured better from you as a recognized. The goal is always to get it done, regardless who finally does it. Credit is due where ever it is needed, that's how this stuff works.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
your friend is mistaken.. they have twrp on locked bl on the axon 7 using edl. i believe we need an edl rom tho before we can do anything lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
They did it with an exe application someone made specifically for the axon 7. That we don't have
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
yea, [MENTION=540283]tenfar[/MENTION] lol.. i hit him up on HO but no response yet.. we are so close yet so far lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
I wonder what would be easier honestly.. Modifying bl source or getting that exe made. Idk. Once I'm done eating I'm going to look into the oem unlock missing from dev options

I was told twrp setting don't stick on reboot with locked bootloader though. Can't verify that, but throwing it out there
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] NEMES|S:
Quick Hint

I believe the verizon firmware has the OEM option... (maybe switching to verizon firmware...)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] buttsak:
Wow just read 4 pages and all this edl talk is really getting me excited that we are getting closer and closer. Keep up the good work guys. And thank you for all your hard work
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
Hmmm. That would be awesome. Technically all stock firmwares for the US variant are the same. Just different csc profiles to enable or disable apps/options. So it would still be there on all others and available through an adb command.

Can anyone with a Verizon firmware confirm!?

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Apologies for the page or 2 of my massively long anger comments towards Chen that you had to go through haha
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
arent the unlock commands fastboot commands?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] NEMES|S:
Sorry, don't waste time with verizon...

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=71956382&postcount=5

but, I am almost 100% sure I saw a firmware with OEM Unlock and it was a U variant) Maybe it was the Canadian firmware? Again... sorry.

Edit: or was it the original firmware that came with the phone before the updates started to roll... not sure.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
they are. but technically reboot edl is also suppose to be a fastboot command. I cant remember how I did it on my s6 edge as I know i had to enter a command after checking allow oem unlock.

searching for that real quick and will update when I find it

however, i did find this thread about the samsung unlock apk, that you actually posted in! haha. Idk if any leeway has been made or we can use this, but worth a look

https://xdaforums.com/android/software-hacking/samsung-factory-bootloader-unlocker-apk-t3086609

UPDATE- looking back at previous samsungs with locked bl, (the s6 edge) we had to flash a rooted kernel after checking oem unlock to make anything work

its all good man. we will situate it in time. But canadian phones usually allow the ability to unlock them . But usually carrier unlock. Thats actually going into law in canada as of next year, all phones and carriers have to allow free unlock upon phone purchase
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
lol all i had to do to root my s6e was use ping pong root..

and the crom.apk is a waste of time lol.. i believe it was for chinese devices or something but some files were missing and we needed root to put them in the system and it still failed because it connects to samsung servers or some jazzy stuff lol dunno if they even still use crom
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
I had the s6e too man. I remember haha. Just bringing it up though

But, [MENTION=5860406]Maltego[/MENTION] just informed me of the next release of Magisk, and it's capabilities (refer to pic below)

So I went ahead and messaged topjohnwu to talk about the files being used for this and if they can be used to aid in our bootloader at all. If this can help at all, it's a big step
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TimelessPWN:
The factory binary firmware has OEM unlock in developer options
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Quickvic30:
Received the cable, looks pretty generic, gonna mess around with it in a little bit here.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
I'm on factory firmware. Hasn't changed since the day I took it home from tmobile. I do not have the option to oem unlock

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The cable's only job is to short the data+ wire to ground until after the phone is connected to the computer, then open it back up
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Cameron581:
Yes and no, since about early nougat they are both commands and a setting in the settings app and [MENTION=6316811]Acoustichayes[/MENTION] no go on vzw 955u
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Maltego:
The factory combo is what [MENTION=8034635]STF_TimelessGoD[/MENTION] is talking about, there is indeed OEM unlock in dev options. He's not talking about day 1 firmware
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] suzook:
I believe he means the eng boot/firmware????
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TimelessPWN:
The firmware I am talking about is the combination firmware that is what started this thread. It has a build date before the Galaxy S8/S8+ release and has a Feb 1st Security Patch, OEM Unlock, and Permissive SELinux status, but so far has no purpose towards root. It is meant for FRP unlock of devices as well as a few other purposes but it has OEM unlock in Dev options
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
Ironic that the thing that started this thread is going to be part of the reason we are able to get root 190 pages later haha.

Now we just need to situate twrp for our device to use the oem unlock and frp disable in the combo firm.

So, question though. I'm assuming someone flashed combo and played with it right? I honestly haven't touched it yet.

Edit- I see. Now I remember all about it. It's essentially only able to be used for the purposes of what we need to do and wouldn't work as a daily. Which is completely fine.

Hoping for a reply soon from topjohnwu
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] suzook:
Damn, this would be awesome.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Quickvic30:
Does anybody know the adb command path to oem unlock? I've used

Settings put global OEM_UNLOCK true

It doesn't say failed in adb, it just simply goes to the next command line. Then if you check it

Settings get global OEM_UNLOCK is does come back with true.

Just would like to know the correct path or if it's even possible to enable that without read write.

I do most of my adb stuff while using the eng.boot.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Quickvic30:
I guess I jumped the gun on the edl cable, oh well....could have spent that money on worse things lol.

Here's the inside of the optimus switch cable I have left over from the octoplus box.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] thatotherguy..:
I have z3x if you guys need to try anything
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
z3x doesnt have the needed files unfortunately at this time

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ot tryna burst anyones bubble but thats a waste of time lol our best bet is edl now lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Maltego:
I'm looking forward to the big update for z3x. Fingers crossed for more support on our models. :fingers-crossed:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Acoustichayes:
I'm about to look at the settings database file on my s6 to see what and where the value is for it.

the developer options are located in /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db

the issue is to change a db file you generally need to use squlite commands from shell. and the s8 doesnt have access to use squlite. I tried this earlier for a simple automation task. Will report back in a few
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] c-prodigo:
Sorry but just a quick question, so basically I could buy s8 us or international version unlocked and if I flash the at&t data, volte and wifi calling will work?