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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Louisianacajun:
I didn't get anything first time with data still on phone and governor was set to optimal. It ran horrible said it was not rooted. Yes lag. Ran unroot did factory data reset. Had to manually turn off enhanced LTE "volte" something in the root.bat file. Ran odin then root.bat govenor set to untweaked. Gained root access ran smooth. I just needed it to make a system app. Wish i could keep it but i ran unroot manually deleted all the stuff it didn't. Phone seems like it is running laggy uprooted. Could be my GPS settings.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] FandangoMcGee:
Can confirm working on QJ4

My process was as follows:

Update to QJ4

Flash " G891A_7.0_ENG_ROOT" with Odin in AP mode

Extract "Nougat_S7_Root_2_82_All_Carriers_V2". Open a command prompt window in that folder (shift+right click, Open Powershell window here), then type in "root.bat"

Follow instructions in command window. I chose "1 Install FingerPrint Fix " and "1 Install Root No Tweaks ". If it gives you errors about not being able to find XXX.apk, then make sure your Command Prompt is set to the right folder, as per step 3

Set up phone through wizard to get to home screen.

Flashfire kept crashing so I uninstalled it and redownloaded from Play Store.

Install "Ufirm_Hybrid_S7active_Nougat_V3f" as outlined in OP

When going through Aroma, interface is very friendly so you should have no problems. I chose to debloat and only install base Google apps which came to bite me in the arse.

Set up phone as per normal again.

Issues:

Live wallpaper apps seem to crash (Tried HexShaders and AMOLED LiveWallpaper FREE)

Camera NX crashes when trying to shoot in Slow Mo.

To fix the camera, had to reinstall the Samsung Camera app. I downloaded version

6.5.63 from here . More recent versions are for the S8 and crashed on my device. You may be able to use newer versions but this is the one that worked for me. You also have to reinstall the default Gallery app to access the camera roll from the camera unfortunately.

This gave me another problem in that I couldn't just install the APK due to an error "App package conflict when install."

Fortunately, this solution worked for me. I have no idea why it would but it did.

And with all that being said and done, I now have a rooted S7 Active on baseband version QJ4, fully functional and debloated. Many many thanks to [MENTION=4506008]miniminus[/MENTION] for this :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] DiArea:
Initialyy everything looks good (flashing and rooting Nougat, steps 1-3 successful) but after first reboot SU starts throwing "SU binary occupied" error and I'm losing root access. This happens with and without OTAs (QD through QJ) and with any version of SU (2.x-3x), standard or Pro.

Minor problems, which I don't really care about include permanent RCS icon, Samsung Pay disabled, Samsung Health disabled (throwing kind of knox related messge 0x100010521, even though status of knox is 0x0), dm_verity error in recovery mode.

Any idea how to prevent loss of Root after reboot?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] _LEM_:
I followed all the steps from the beginning and I'm also experiencing lagging and poor battery life after rooting. I spent the whole day trying things until I saw in the thread that it was normal. I had to go back to stock.

I really appreciate miniminus for creating this thread, perfect explanation for each step, providing all the files but I think he should update the first post warning the users about this problem (maybe I missed it, but I couldn't find anything). I didn't think there was anything wrong when rooting using this method, so I didn't read the comments until later when I didn't know what was going on.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] leffetripel:
Thank you for this great work!

The process was fast and painless :highfive:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] gsxrfan5:
After rooting and flashing the rom, has anyone been able to get WiFi calling to work on AT&T network?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] dthowell:
Lag after unroot

Hi, Great work!

I removed the root with the unroot.bat The phone still feels laggy, do I need to do a factory reset (wanted to avoid this as it's so painful resetting up everything)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] jjta:
Just a heads up you have to Odin, unzip the folder, run the root BAT, and also finish installation of SU before another reset after Odin. Otherwise you will have to repeat all the steps again to keep root.

Now I've de-bloated and uninstalled a lot of system apps trying to speed up the device. I did not install a CPU governor because I was unsure how effective it would be.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] WeirdoSarah:
I keep losing root after rebooting. I'm not sure what's going on. The SU just says it's occupied after every doing everything from step 1. (Excluding firmware update)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] shlomc:
hi,

having the same issues you have mentioned, i decided to go back to stock..

can you please detail how to do it? i'm kinda new to this world...

thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] gopacic:
Why to stock? Just unroot it with unroot.bat. I love that I can root it whenever I want for example to backup with Titanium Backup and restore phone. I am also happy that I removed all AT&T, Samsung and Google apps I didn't want. I can't use knox because I don't have american SIM card and don't live in USA. So I removed all knox stuff. I didn't install NROM control because to work it need to restart system UI after every restart. I have all new updates of apps for Nougat from apkmirror.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] shlomc:
will unroot resolve the lagging issues?

it was previously mentioned here that the problem is due to a use of engineer kernel. does unroot use diffrent one?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] TopGun2000:
Hi, has anyone successfully flash a Verizon or Unlocked firmware onto AT&T Active? Just want to take advantage of more LTE bands that I want to use with the large battery capacity. Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] gopacic:
No lagging when you unroot it. The same speed like stock.

Here is my newest essential workin Samsung apps and services collection from apkmirror till this day, just remove spaces between letters: h t t p s : / / i m g u r . c o m / a / h 0 U Q P

Can't post links cause I don't have 10 posts yet.

If it won't install any of this apps just enable Settings/Lock screen/Unknown sources, enable PIN lock in Settings/Lock screen/Screen lock type and in Settings/Lock screen/Secure startup enable Required pin for startup, then restart phone. Now you will be able to install all apps from unknown sources. Be careful when installing newer versions from this cause it probably won't work if on apkmirror in description says for 7.1 or 8.0 android Samsung phone. Put only Samsung in search in apkmirror and it will show you latest updates.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] shlomc:
do i have to reset my phone for unrooting?

is there any "how to" guide for it?

i rooted the phone and installed everything following MINIMUS instructions in the OP.

thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] gopacic:
Unroot with unroot.bat just like you did root with root.bat within folder provided in first post of Minimus. It will automaticly restart. Then manually uninstall supersu, flashfire because you will not need it till next rooting. For rooting again just follow rules for rooting on first post.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] shlomc:
update:

unrooted using unroot.bat from minimus directory. device has gone terribly slow. rooted again with the root.bat file from the same directory, only this time i chose "on demand" governor instead of "conservative". well... the device looks way happy now. all lagging issues are GONE! battery life is much much better... (14 hours use - battery meter is now on 60%).

3 months of lousy device are now history. thanks for the help!

BTW

unrooting\rerooting was performed by connecting phone to PC , double clicking root\unroot.bat in the directory, and continue with instructions on CMD.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] illtww:
I need to get this thing back to old speeds.. battery is terribly now and phoen is lagging. ALL STOCK. QF2 build
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] zsolti256:
solved,, sorry
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] UnableToResetOldProfile:
My Wife and I have the S7 Active G891A.

Mine is running 6.0.1 - G891AUCS1APH1

Hers is 7.0 - G891AUCS2BQH1

The difference is negligible in the OS, everything is pretty much there, just organised a bit differently.

The 1 big difference is the ringtones and alarms, I cannot figure out how to access the new tones added to her phone.

Unlike mine, when I add to her internal storage, ether Alarms or Ringtone I cannot figure out how to access them. in the apps.

Can someone help me out here?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Droid_Razr:
How do I delete my post lol.

...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Droid_Razr:
Where is Everroot?

Never mind.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] swpointer:
Took a whole 15 minutes to flash and root. Now for a non pink screen... :silly:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] swpointer:
Well, I hope by now you have figured this out. But if you go to: //Settings/Sounds/Ringtones you'll see at the bottom of the list "add from storage". (Directions are approximate.)

It would have probably been a quicker answer if your question was posted in the correct thread too. :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Droid_Razr:
Settings> device maintenance> storage> upper right corner. "..." > storage settings> sdcard
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] zsolti256:
Hey Guys, any way to update without letting it wipe my whole phone? Every update wipes it for me

Or any very good backup apps?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Droid_Razr:
Titanium Backup works pretty decent been using that for years.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] bjoeg:
+1 zsolti256.

Putting the updates on sdcard wipes the phone, "adb sideload" updating wipes the phone as well (despite all other guides saying sideloading OTA updates will not wipe your phone).

Could someone shed light if there any commands from the update scripts in the OTA zip files we can REM out so we do not have to do a complete restore every single time?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] gopacic:
You have this guide on XDA from Mike:

I can 't use sideload because I rooted phone, (removed root but still) and my recovery adb says external memory not accesible. It must not be rooted ever, to adb sideload or update from SDcard from recovery to work. So I didn't try this.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Nelson.R:
Hello, I followed the complete instructions in this post. It worked great and I really like it. This is the first time I root a phone so I have 2 questions.

1. Does this kernel support overclocking? I've tried M Tweak but it doesn't seem to work the way I thought it would.

2. I can't seem to get my Wifi Tethering to work. It was working fine when I was on stock marshmallow. Any Ideas?

P.S. All the instructions worked perfectley. I did a playstore debloat and installed s8 camera and gallery and most of google's apps. The pixel Launcher seems to make my phone slow so I will try the Google now launcher. Although it's a little less "Pretty" it seems to be faster.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] gopacic:
For CPU overclocking you need unlocked bootloader and there is no such thing for S7 active yet.

For me Wifi tethering is working, here is screenshot. I don't know what I did. In my previous posts you will see that I updated all samsung apps from apkmirror I could find compatibile with phone. Maybe TetheringAutomation 1.01 or some other app there did the trick. I never know it is not working for all of you until I tested it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] miniminus:
welll not been able to spend much time on this for a bit ..

but have had a little time recently, plus my daily s7active been getting embarrassingly slow so prompted to get back on it ...

so an update on where i am at the moment ...

ive manage to get myself a dev s7active from the USA, was cheap, and via the donations ive had (thankyou to all of you, willl name and update OP) didnt need to put much in, its got a smashed screen and is FRP locked ..

FRP lock is striaght forward to get out of (plus i can update the tuturials on getting rid of that in the quicest best method), and the screen and touch is 'usable' to dev on ..

user of [MENTION=6801459]Craz Basics[/MENTION] released a better kernel tweaks his thread here ... of which makes a MASSIVE difference ! (is for s7edge but seems to work fine on my active)

a newer root method has been release by jrkruse, which INCLUDES magisk ive not installed, or tested it as yet .. but you can find that thread here

again this is for the s7edge so may need a little converting, and of course the engboot is totally different, so if the magisk uses that it totally wont work on our actives !

i will of course incorparated these into my mod, and have it release soonish, now i have my dev phone to mess with...

files can be found on my mega folder too (listed in OP)

also have been getting jrkruse method of have mods, AND stock kernel too, PLUS looking into a new root mthod too, brought to light from the oneplus qualcomm engineermode apk leak :)

so ive not forgot about our actives :) and there WILL be new stuff soonish :) ...

and ifyou want to go ahead and try those new links... let me know how you get on :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] slimshouki:
Gd luck.

Cant wait really
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Yunero:
How can i root my s7 active to flash this tom??
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] TheMadScientist:
Please read the OP
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] TheMadScientist:
If you ever need any help shoot me a PM I got one of these and its of no use bought it at a police auction and I bypassed the frp on it But my daily device is a S8 so no loss at bricks here lol....It will just sit here in my android scrapyard lol
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Yunero:
after install the rom i can’t sign in to my samsung account.. help cuz alot of information i back up in that account
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Username5.2:
Followed op directions and all went well but I am having trouble with it being super laggy. Also battery is draining really fast. Anyone else having this problem?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] miniminus:
Yes that's been mentioned on here before... I think you need to update the app before it will allow login... ?

Sure someone mentions fix further back in thread...

Either way will be fixed on me next version...

Yes, it will settle a little after a few hours etc ...

But sadly due to this root method, it WILL be laggy..

Next version it will be improved (using crazy basics kernel tweaks) but it will never be as good as stock , all due to this type of root method ....
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Username5.2:
Dang I really appreciate your willingness to jump on here and answer noob questions like mine. Thats what makes this community so great is people like you willing to help out instead of saying something like "dam noob go back and read the first post". But, now that I have read it again I realize you did put that in your FAQ in the first post.

So thanks again for the help. I will for now run this setup and hope for another root method or just wait for stock O. Hopefully one or the other will be released soon.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Crazy Chuckster:
Just got an S7 Active and I am interested in the network debloat. If I were to run it could I still do OTA's with no problems? I would root it for ad blocker but dont want to deal with OTA issues.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] amonsternut:
What about exposed though?!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] supertac:
how does this NOT trip knox?

so samsung pay can be used?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] miniminus:
This Won't trip knox, but this method relies on a rooting method that won't allow Samsung pay to work anyhows (so not a knox issue)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] supertac:
becuase it doesn't mess with the bootloader it won't trip?

but then why won't samsung pay work?

so if I just install todebloat but leave the root out of it samsung pay should work?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] khaliullov:
As I understand,

Samsung Pay, Samsung Health and some other software are using Knox containers (special Samsung platform for storing sensitive/private data).

Knox containers are not working on engineer bootloader. This feature is disabled for security reasons.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] MachRc:
s7 active on verizon

Thank you for the guide!!

I flashed 7.0 with odin, flashed the boot.zip in BL, then ran the root batch file for root on the 7.0

This worked better after new flash. I was not able to directly flash boot in BL then root it. I Had to start with brand new odin flash on 7.0

I then flashed the rom via cdcard and flash app installed with root.

I used verizon baseband and had the sim card already in the phone.

Now the ATT s7active is shown as verizon s7 edge. I did not have to change any settings or delete carrier settings. It automatically loaded in all the information.

Thank you , finally after like 3 days of constant flashing. I got verizon on att s7 active!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] huuur:
Hi, this is my first time on S7 active, updated to QL6, then each time I run "root.bat" I ended up with below adb fail message, I can confirm that abd server is running before running the batch, tried on different pc with same results. I wonder if someone been through the same issue. Thanks..

ADB server didn't ACK

* failed to start daemon *

error: cannot connect to daemon: No error

Edit: Fixed by: run CMD as admin, browse to the root folder (extracted from zip) and if different adb versions used before it's better to try on a fresh pc.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] swpointer:
Deleted. I read it wrong...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] huuur:
Thanks anyway!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Yunero:
I have a problem when I call using messenger or discord people can hear me but i cant hear them... help plz
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] supertac:
does stock nogat clean up the At&T apps?

is that what is meant by stock? or do you have to go further?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] sgiacomel:
Thanks

I'm in Canada, I bought an S7 active (they don't sell it here) from the US loaded with AT&T garbage. I was able to clean it up following this tutorial! And by the way, it's my first Android phone, I always had iPhones before.

Thanks a lot
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] redsrule2500:
wow shocked that this was actually implemented. Not sure if worthwhile, though, since it can be slower. Wish I Could try performance to see, without the hassle.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] norbigomba:
Where to from G891AUCSBQL6?

Dear Active Users!

I was used this method to update my phone with the zip files.

Now my phone Baseband version is G891AUCS2BQL6.

In that russian link: cloud.mail.ru/public/BGy7/gKs4xzhRE/OTA/Nougat/

There are multiple fresh, newer (?) files. But its a little confusing for me.

Can someone could tell me, which files should i download and install, and in what order?

Or / and it would be nice to update the first post, so we can update further our phones.

Thank you for your cooperation!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] spthimmelving:
You can read about it here https://xdaforums.com/s7-active/how-to/s7-active-sm-g891a-ota-updates-firmware-t3540866/post75547050
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] supertac:
help I'm totally stuck on step 3 its not clear enough

what do I have to do with step 3 folders exactly...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] patel21:
Hi [MENTION=4506008]miniminus[/MENTION]

I have got S7Active as gift from USA and I have tried all the methods to make a local carrier "Jio"'s Volte to work on it.

After rooting the phone based on this guide, I tried flashing "CSC Selection v 2.5.zip" by FlashFire, but it said the tool doesn't support this phone. So I flashed UFirm_Hybrid....V3f.zip again after replacing the CSC files of sprint folder with INS (Indian CSC) from CSC_Selection Tool. Now the PhoneInfo app shows that I have CSC of INS, but still it volte doesn't work on my carrier. So I am unable to make/receive calls as its volte only network, internet works fine though.

If you can help me in any kind, or point me to something that I am missing, I would really appreciate it.

Please check the Phone Info Screenshot:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/FozrhNaXVXSHjjRr2

https://photos.app.goo.gl/JeevMi7JGlH01J6C2
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] swpointer:
Why does the first screenshot show that you're using an s7 edge ( not active )

If this is the case you may be using the wrong firmware possibly.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] patel21:
[MENTION=7968710]swpointer[/MENTION] I also noticed that, but I really don't know why it says s7 edge. I have just flashed with Ufirm image v3f for S7 active provided by [MENTION=4506008]miniminus[/MENTION] in this thread.

But my guess is that my using tmobile csc option in the aroma comfiguration once might have changed the model name.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] NavyYNCS:
Thanks for your work here [MENTION=4506008]miniminus[/MENTION]. I am also having the issue with my Samsung Account, and my Gear S3 is a brick until I can use my Samsung account. I've tried everything I know, short of going back to stock and seeing if that will work. Do you think the wait for the next release will be soon, or should I revert to stock so that I can get my Gear running again?

Once again, I (and many others on this thread) really appreciate what you've done with this.