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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] supertac:
[MENTION=4506008]miniminus[/MENTION]

thank you so much, I finally got it to work. I love seeing this phone clean from AT&T bloatware...

my unit is acting weird... the signal strength is ok a best... really good sometimes... and weak in others... sometimes weaker with my fido sim card in.

I call some people... they report a bit of cut out but it was otherwise clear... I think my unit is messed up... a shame... I may have to return it

sadly I notice the battery drain... . its alittle slow but pretty good. tried some things in the forum... it works ok but still drains :(

love the active button! flashlight right from active button is awesome, dual speaker mod is awesome. call recording is an awesome addition. I love these things about this rom.

is it possible to make this work? https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/samsu...28-release/radio-2-1-28-android-apk-download/ nextradio works fine but Ive always wondered if this can work... maybe not cause of the snapdragon processor?

a step up from my S3 in some ways... but I'm just to used to android 4

I set up a lock and have it lock after 15-30 min... but in this version the swipe from front screen won't go away with the lock on! any way to remove this?

post use edit:

well so I've used it for a few days... the phone is fine and fast... but the battery life is absolute trash for a new 4000mah... I'm getting 12 hours... that only moderate use. even with device control optimal settings... I can get it fast no problem! but it won't stay on charged for long... and I've seen people claim to get nearly for 4 days of battery life... granted that was android 6... I here nogat sucks battery from the s7 series.

that would cut it for the galaxy s3,s4,s5 since they are user removable.... but this s7 is not.

what else can I do? unroot the phone?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] okyourabeast:
[MENTION=4506008]miniminus[/MENTION], first I want to thank you for your efforts on the development of this phone. After a couple of days of fiddling, I finally have everything set up and working. Thank you so much for enabling all of this for our devices. I'm looking forward to your Magisk how to.

As for the battery drain issues, I want to say that there was a tip in this thread https://xdaforums.com/s7-active/help/samsung-galaxy-s7-active-root-t3473649

About how to control that. Get root and then download Device Control (Root). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.namelessrom.devicecontrol&hl=en

Inside, there's a processor speed control and governor.

While they say in that thread to set it to performance, I decided to do the opposite. I set mine to conservative and then locked the processor speed between 400-500mhz. Everything worked the same without any changes. Don't be intimidated, the device is still as functional as everything running full steam. I can easily switch between everything, scroll, surf, or whatever and it doesn't slow down.

The battery life has definitely expanded. Well worth the 5 minutes to download, install, and configure the app.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] supertac:
locking the processing speed so low sounds awfully dangerous... I've been using device control to no real sucess

this is frustrating guys... I love this ROM and everything about this phone stock- the torch toggle, call recording AND I just got the stock fm radio working on this unit!

but... battery life stock is 18-20 hours with sloid use... and about 10 or 12 with this modded karnel :(

I'm seriously backing up and thinking of switching back to stock. smoother and superior battery life. I'll miss some features though and root as trashy as it is

after trying crazy karnels tweaks its getting better.... battery life is all over the place with this device...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] okyourabeast:
I've been over and underclocking processors on mobile devices for well over a decade now. The only time anything dangerous has occurred was when an overclocked device crashed and needed a hard wipe.

I can etch out a whole day of use with my galaxy s7 active using device control. Try interactive if you want something a bit more flexible instead of conservative.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] supertac:
I find the frequencies won't lock...

such crap... the other day I got 14 hours... then today I got almost 10... 4hours and 12 min of screen on time though... I know it can do better! my battery is at 89 percent useage (3566mah) and I bet because of the actives bigger battery its still enough to get a good juice.

damn I my go back to stock to retest how good it can be... hate to lose native call record (WHICH ALWAYS works better then apps), root, adaway and torch toggle... I don't use root for much and if I can replace the apps and use package disable pro to remove the bloat I'd be happy with stock.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] norbigomba:
AT&T relased Oreo for s7 Active?

I m curently using this:

What are you guys thinking?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Jerryvail924:
How in the world did you get that. Down load or ota?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] norbigomba:
Oreo on S7 active!

Oreo on S7 active!

Hello!

I dowloaded it from that russian site.

Than installed it from SD card from recovery mode.

Of course i was install previous ota updates first.

By the way I noticed two "problems":

1.: In S health i cant measure BPM and SPO2 any more. Even if i manually grant all the permision for s healt app. ( Its still not working even after factory reset, ar app update. )

2.: There is no high performance option in Device Maintenance / Battery.

Othervise, everyithing is fine and working 100% percent.

Sry for bad english. :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] bjoeg:
OTA Updates (and Oreo) is available from https://cloud.mail.ru/public/BGy7/gKs4xzhRE/

Be aware on the filename convention, which shows which updates you need to install in which order.

You can either run the updates from sdcard or adb using Android recovery system.

Be aware, running the updates unattended will delete everything and put your phone to factory reset state, so be sure to do a backup.

However there was a guy who posted a way to avoid this factory reset, by using a button combination at certain part of the finishing steps of the update. Unfortunaly I cannot find that specific post at the moment.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] berniesteven:
Here

https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?ur...share_tid=3540866&share_fid=3793&share_type=t

Se​nt fr​om my SM-G891A

* Peace

---------- Post added at 07:27 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:21 AM ----------

Oops, here

This is discussed in this thread and then repeated throughout. You can prevent the wipe by pressing and holding power+home+volup+voldown during the update when "script succeeded: result was [/system]" shows on the screen. If you use Samsung Cloud backup setting up your phone after wipe isn't terrib

Se​nt fr​om my SM-G891A

* Peace
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] zsolti256:
But I think these are beta, banking apps and so on will not because of safety net failing work , correct?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] BobbyXDA:
flashfire crash

flashfire continues to crash on checking for pro,

i have uninstalled and installed the new one

I have reset the device

tried a factory rest

unrooted and rooted again,

i am going insane here i feel like I got cut out on the last step here, please help
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] supertac:
weird... that just started for me too

report it to flashfire... looks like timebomb trigger April 1st.... workaround is turn off auto update and set date to march. should be good to go.get pro later and support flash fire... but looks like chinfire is stepping out of the game.

hey guys! would you know how to remove "swipe to unlock" part WITHOUT removing password? I see this work fine on my nanas S8 but not on S7

how is battery for Oreo?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] ThunderingLight:
The battery is a little better. I normally can be unplugged for 13 hours on Oreo and close to 11 hours on Nougat so there is a slight improvement there.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] zsolti256:
Guys, anyone tried the latest release SS-G891AUCU2BRB5-to-U3CRD4-UP.zip is it official yet or still beta?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] dothanhanloc:
Hey guys, I can also use this Link to a Russian download .

Fisrt, i odin to RA7 (7.0 ) stock .After,I flash to RB5 => RD4.I want to downgrade android 7.0. i odin to RA7 but it's fail .SW REV CHECK FAIL : [aboot] Fused 3 > Binary 2. I see youtube.They say don't tick file BL on 4 file of rom stock. I did this. Box saying " PASS'' but i lost recovery .my phone was brick. I need rom stock firmware 3 as rom RD4(8.0).

I need rom (.tar.md5)what upgrade 8.0( beta or offical) by odin . Please ? My phone was brick.I need it !

Example : U3CRD4.tar.md5

I flash SS-G891AUCU2BRB5-to-U3CRD4-UP.zip .After, my phone was brick . Cause need rom U3CRD4.tar.md5 What I can odin by my PC. Please help me !
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] miniminus:
SS-G891AUCU2BRB5-to-U3CRD4-UP.zip file didnt bootloop your phone, i expect it didnt wipe or you are not waiting long enough, or was a bad download maybe ..... but U3CRD4.tar.md5 file will not fix it either

redownload a full odin of v7 and start again ... then redo the OTA upgrades from there ....

and you REALLY did not need to quote the whole of the first post !!! it seriously does not help your course....

EDIT now looking at the files... it seem they have updated the bootloader from v2, to v3 !!! so yeah thats why you can no longer downgrade/try v7 !!! oops ...

you will just have to wait for a full odin v8 is out ... (as that will have the v3 bootloader !) of ifthe bootloader is unlocked (unlikley!!)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] dothanhanloc:
Sorry my bad english!

I think reason made my phone brick as i did same clip in youtube.This clip they fix fused 3> binary 2. They pass cause I did same them. I didn't tick file BL when i upgrade 7.0.

Box saying " PASS'' but i lost recovery .my phone was brick. I need rom stock firmware 3 as rom RD4(8.0).

So I must upgrade by odin because I lost recovery .

What method you help me take my recovery mode come back to me ? i can flash RD4 by recovery mode .

Now my phone don't use. It's warning recovery booting .I didn't use it .

Help me ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] CesarLucker:
I need help, please!

I have the Build number: G891AUCU2BQF2 and I want to downgrade my S7 active because i tried to root it and I couldn't (but a few apps like Samsung Pay say that it is rooted and I can´t install updates with the original recovery from the external SD card because it says that is disable) for that reason I would like to know if I can downgrade it from BQF2 to BQD4. Anybody can help me? Please.:eek::eek::eek:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] u07av8:
Any updates on the Qualcomm Snapdragon rooting method from OnePLus?

Would be very interested in trying a proper full-method if at all possible!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] dothanhanloc:
You download rom stock in link : https://cloud.mail.ru/public/BGy7/gKs4xzhRE/firmwares/Nougat/G891AUCS2BQD4_7.0_all.7z

Then you odin this rom BQD4. Good luck to you .
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] CesarLucker:
Thank you!

I'm going to try it. Then I'll post my results.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] NightKidNZ:
Well Done from New Zealand. I have to say, you did a great job! I would suggest adding "debloat" to the thread title because this is the solution most TouchWiz users will want to do!

Great job again!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] harbnger:
This thread needs updating. There's a latest full Rom for nougat on bootloader 3
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] patel21:
Can you share the links, how is the battery life with that bootloader? This one had pathetic batter life.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] harbnger:
Check out the s7 active ota update thread in the s7 active section of the xda forums

Ever since I updated my nougat the battery drains faster when phone is in use. However, when my phone is on standby it can last for a ridiculously long time.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] ThunderingLight:
Which version number and Android Version are you on?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] harbnger:
FIRMWARE G891AUCS3BRD1 android version 7
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] miniminus:
Thats always been the case (decent batt. life in standby) i will have to upload a pic from my dev phone, got a screenshot of it in standby for 20 days or so !! As it just sits there oon standby....

Not really sure what's new in the v3 bootloader. I've not been updating mine. Just in case there is a way to unlock v2, and that's why they rolling out a update!!

This ROM/debloater etc will be updated soon...

Want to get a stable oreo before release a stock modifiable rom...... just time is not something I have much of lately sadly :(
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] ThunderingLight:
Miniminus,

How are you getting such good standby time? Accubattery shows my battery at ~3100mAh and I can never go past 12 hours per day even without using the phone. Also with the updated ROM and debloater will the battery be better than stock or will it be like the current debloater where the battery drains faster?

Harbnger,

What is your S7 Active's estimated battery capacity? (You can download Accubattery app to estimate the battery capacity) and how many hours on average can you be off the charger?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] harbnger:
It estimated my capacity is at 3632 mAh...but this is the first time I charged it with this app installed from 55 % to 83 %
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] CesarLucker:
Help Please!

I Tried to root my S7 active with this method but when it finished, I open the Super SU app and appears this message: "SU Binaries Ocuppied" and I can use FlashFire. My S7 Active runs android 7.0 Nougat with build number BQF2. If somebody can help me please.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] ThunderingLight:
So what is the issue?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] CesarLucker:
Sorry, there was a little mistake, when I opened Super SU appears "SU Binaries Occupied" and I couldn't get Super SU permissions. I need to upgrade the binaries but I can't. Do you know what can I do to solve this issue with Super SU?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] ThunderingLight:
I'm actually not sure, maybe download a newer version of SuperSU either from the Play Store or from an APK? Also, FlashFire has hit a timebomb for free version users. If you didn't purchase the Pro in app purchase then FlashFire will crash every time you try to open it. Basically this root method is obsolete. We need to wait for Minimus to update the root method.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] CesarLucker:
Ok, thank you, anyway I didn't want to wait for it and I installed Oreo on my S7 Active I know that I can't get access root on Oreo but at least I can use Samsung Pay or S health. (I couldn't before because I tried to rooted my S7 and these apps didn't work).
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] miki_01:
Hello,I recently ordered S7 active on eBay.Because I'm in Europe I had to look for files to upgrade the firmware. After while I found I think latest Nougat stock firmware G891AUCS3BRD1_CL13107193_QB17619845 what I expect it's currently the most stable one. I wanted to root and I luckily found the modder. But phone freezes when under the stress end then often spent in loop until stoped by e.g.. hodling buttons pressed during boot. First it happened when I spent long time in Aroma - if I set everything quckly it worked well. Then it happend once booted with minimum debloating (it spent long time compilig packages during first boot). When significantly debloated it booted succesfully and worked but often when installed new application it got frozen when app started first time often with few lines disordered (like short signal loss in analog tv). I got angry and flashed the stock image only - it booted first time without issue and worked relatively fine while it wasn't stressed much. But even with stock firmware when I started Antutu I get frozen and boot loop again. Is it normal or I have no luck and bought faulty one? No luck because even I can return I'll loss $50-70 for shipping and import charges :(
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] u07av8:
Hey man,

I did the exact same thing as you, ordered 2nd hand on ebay from US and paid postage and import charges, I did not root the phone though as I read it was unstable for now, I am also on the latest nougat firmware updating it manually from the OTA files located at that Russian cloud, updated all the way to Oreo and the performance improvements and buttery smooth scrawling compared to Nougat is night and day, could not recommend enough an update to OREO for everyone with an S7 Active!!!

All-in-all I could be happier with the performance,I expected more from this device, but I got it at a good price and was refunded half of what I paid for it because the bottom speaker was broken on arrival. If I were you I would also ask for a partial refund and get a 2nd hand motherboard on eBay, they are going for a starting price of around $50
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Zwornik:
Hi Guys,

Does Ufirm_Hybrid rom still drains battery or was it fixed. I'm thinking about rooting my G& Active to extend battery life, but is it worthy?

Thanks

Zwornik
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] miniminus:
If you looking to root, only to improve battery life, then you will be very dissappointed...

Especially as it it at the moment....

Would be best to just update to oreo,

Or wait for the next update release, and do a hybrid debloat (with root switch)...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Zwornik:
Thanks minimus.

I'm not very familiar with this stuff. Just want to get rid of AT&T bloatware.

Can you please advice which steps to apply from your original mail starting this thread to achieve this?

Thank you very much
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] scotty-k:
How does one go back to Nougat after having Oreo on the phone? I tried for hours but the phone won't let me install an older operating system. Always get an "Auth" fail in Odin.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] u07av8:
Don't think you can if you updated to Oreo with bootloader 3, I believe you risk bricking your phone. Unsure though, Oreo is 10 times smoother than Nougat, why in the world would you downgrade?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] scotty-k:
#1 reason is no more personalized notification sounds for contacts. You can only have one sound for anyone that texts you. #2 reason is the gif button on the texting keyboard that was added not too long before the Oreo update. Plus, a few apps don't work right anymore. Why is it so fricken hard to roll back an update if you don't like it?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] supertac:
hey guys... lookin at the firmwares on the russian site..

don't want to **** with OTA it takes too long... would rather flash from ODIN and be done with it

the Sole Oreo... U3CRE7... is it stable? does this contain bootloader v2 or v3? can I flash it and flash back to nogat if it sucks?

is U3 before the firmwire bootloader v3 and u2 v2?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] staffeyx:
You should be able to go back to BRD1 with Odin (which is the latest Nougat version before Oreo was released). BRD1 also runs on bootloader 3.

Yes it has been reported stable and working well. It is running on bootloader 3, and yes the number before CRE7 shows that.

You can only flash back to Nougat version BRD1 afterwards, since it also runs on bootloader 3.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Bytecrow:
CDMA

Would an OREO upgrade make the S7 active cdma/wcdma compatible? :confused:

I'm kinda desperate to make it work with 3G as my service provider has poor LTE 4G coverage. :rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] thihanlin:
Hi there,

My mobile is currently running 6.0 . Can i update to oreo directly?

Do I need to update one by one?

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] bjoeg:
A small note, AT&T have modified the firmware for the S7 Active so you will never see a 3G or UMTS logo in the status bar. 3G is marked at a 4G logo, and "real" 4G is marked with a 4G LTE logo.

This is just in case you were not aware of this, and you might in fact believe you have poor 4G coverage where it actual may be poor 3G instead.

Also as a tip, you can force the phone to use only 3G cell and disable 4G entirely. While this is not available through standard android method you can dial *#*#4636#*#* and select device information.

In the drop down menu for Set preferred network type I would try network with UMTS where LTE is not listed.

Now for your original question, I am not expert on these US Carriers and networks, but all technical information says the S7 Active is a GSM based phone. Adding CDMA would require a different kind of modem, and therefore a firmware update would not magically activate this feature.

However I and many sites may be incorrect since there are several references to CDMA and WCDMA in the device information menu mentioned earlier.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] blade2577:
Unroot

Hi there~ I was wondering if anyone knows how to fully unroot? Without wiping. Unroot.bat removes root access but it does not remove from root being able to be detected. I looked over the bat files and while I can revert everything I'm not sure how to revert every step of "supersu.cmds". Opened it with a text editor but it's beyond my knowledge. Any help would be greatly appreciated, or if anyone has made .cmds to uninstall that. Or if there's anything else I can run that would

completely remove root without wiping

EDIT: After taking a break I finally got it to work, I am not super android savvy but more than normal I would say. The "NUL" command on the Unroot.bat leaves the files just at 0kb meaning empty files but they still keep the name, so some anti roots see that. Ran the normal Unroot once and then Changed these 3 lines to this:

adb shell mv /data/su.img /data/wakalaka.img

adb shell mv /system/etc/launch_daemonsu.sh /system/etc/wakalaka

adb shell mv /system/xbin/su /system/xbin/waka

basically renaming the files. and it worked fine.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] Vengeance1020:
Is it possible to fully flash LineageOS onto the GS7 Active via flashfire?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] miniminus:
Not that I'm aware of, due to the locked bootloader...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] 01r6cle:
Been a while since I have rooted anything, this was a bit difficult to follow at times, but loads of useful information and files. Thank you for the time and effort put in to making this thread, I am no the proud owner of a Rooted S7 Active!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] staffeyx:
There are also apps that can do this (instead of using dial option). I use Network Switcher from SamSeen and it works fine. I use "WCDMA preferred" for 3g only, and "UMTS/LTE Auto" to enable 4g whenever it's available.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries] u07av8:
I use "ForceLTE" from the Google Play Store, it works with all Samsung devices on both Nougat and Oreo...