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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] canynballa:
is there a eta when root for the S8 comes out?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] teknowiz23:
It's available in the s8 Rom kernels dev section as of last night
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] canynballa:
Sweet thank you, I had a hard time finding it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Has anyone been successful in getting viper4android to work? It doesnt for me, the app installs fine, driver installs fine, driver status is normal but when i play music whether through the speakers or headphones processing status is on "No" and so v4a fails to work for me....anyone that can help?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Granted I haven't rooted the phone yet, but with experience with rooting other phones download this app and check that you are set to permissive. Again, I haven't rooted this phone yet, but usually rooted phones are still set to SELinux Enforcing which means v4a won't work. It needs to be permissive. This app and others like it will set it to permissive for you. . https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-selinux-switch-t3656502
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Appreciate your reply Synthio! SELinux is already set to permissive for me, i should have mentioned that previously, thank you though!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] AngelIsL33T:
Quick question, if i reboot my phone, will i still have root(Snap. S8 version)? Or do i need to do the whole thing again? (Sorry, new root user, but smart enough to not do stupid **** :) )

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Im pretty new to root (Was a Apple Jailbreaker), but i do follow instrustions/things not to do. Any suggestions on root apps? I have titanium back already, lucky patcher & uninstall system apps.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] teknowiz23:
Titanium backup and viper4android guitar dude edition are a couple of just haves in my book
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] partcyborg:
If you followed the directions root will persist
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] AngelIsL33T:
Ok. I'm successfully rooted. But thread doesn't say anything about rebooting or steps required if it doesn't.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] partcyborg:
That whole business you did with making /system rw and then flashfire and the ext4 image was to solidify a rooted writable system image.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] AngelIsL33T:
Ahh ok. So, if I reboot, I'm still rooted? Simple yes or no lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] partcyborg:
Yes
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xshooter726:
Make sure you also flash Deepbuffer remover zip. This will enable v4a with 3rd party apps like spotify.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] progro420:
Is it ok of i extract the system img from sprints latest update that enables VOLTE and puts "advanced calling" in Settings and use Flash Fire to flash it? Or should i do so.ethi g different? Used [MENTION=1949695]jrkruse[/MENTION] method but data seems really slow and i do t have the features mentioned above that came in the newest update.

Or should i just flash the csc from the newest update?

Thank you in advance

READ some more and answered my own question
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] XBlackChaosX:
I extracted the system img from the latest sprint update and i dont see any options for volte......if you figure it out let me know :)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dirtdawg57:
I have been doing a lot of reading but haven't seen anywhere, does this root slow down performance at all from stock like the S7 root? Has anyone run any graphics test before and after root? Root slowed down the S7 by like 20 or 30% I thought from the benchmarks.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jhofseth:
We have to figure out some way to successfully flash the rest of stock ROM to rooted US Snapdragon S8/S8+--not just system.img.ext4. I have experimented with flashing a hex-edited custom recovery for S8+ and it still successfully booted normally into the 2 stage rooted ROM, it just would not boot into modified recovery (said something about flashing in an unofficial way, but only prevented recovery and did not ruin root). What did ruin root was individual flashing of other stock files, as it caused an unfixable boot-loop. So, I went through the 2 stage root process again and it runs smoothly again. There may be some way to successfully flash everything but rooted stock system back to stock (i.e., to possibly solve 80% charge issue). :)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] progro420:
No sir. Seems legit
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Char_G:
Lucky Patcher is used to pirate apps, support the developers.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] AngelIsL33T:
I have really no intention of doing that. I just wanna use it for custom patches, like how it is on iOS. But it seems there're outdated.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jhofseth:
6,000 better on Antutu, US Snapdragon S8+ 2 stage rooted

Because you asked, I tested to compare and it was about 6,000 higher now 2 stage rooted on Antutu. Maybe there were more apps running back then, not sure. I would think SELinux permissive might just perform better than enforcing, but I haven't looked it up. I should also note that I have not debloated, have near exactly the same user apps installed and the system partitions are otherwise identical.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] teknowiz23:
Keep on fightin the good fight homie. i'm rootin for ya
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Reechings:
Rootin for you, good one :laugh:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hack.causality:
Having just got my S8 a few days ago, I'm hoping there will be some root method to tweak the curved parts of the display. I've found that viewing content that calls attention to the edge of the screen (reading text, gaming, pictures with straight lines) makes my eyes go funny and consistently gives me a headache after ten or fifteen minutes. I don't know if it's the shape or the way the colors distort slightly toward pink and then dark at the edge but I don't seem to be getting used to it. I think maybe my eyes are expecting the surface to be flat and trying to mentally correct a mis-perception that isn't a mis-perception.

This phone is so otherwise-amazing at this point I'm hoping there's some way to just crop off the curved edges entirely and have all content rendered solely on the flat portion.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TheLastSidekick:
Perhaps a concept similar to this?

Check out "Rounded Corner" - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thsoft.rounded.corner
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dirtdawg57:
Awesome! Thank you!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] xterminater07:
So i flashed the u1 firmware and got root, but it is the april security update. How can I get the latest august or july update and still be rooted?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] unitz0mbie:
this is the only firmware that has root for now, u will not get any sort of update
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] xterminater07:
Is that true? What happens if I flashed a stock latest att one?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HighOnLinux:
I tried reading a couple pages back to back and i had an issue with that. I tried giving viper4android a go for the first time...ever (suprisingly) and well it gave me an error while trying to install drivers. "Error installing driver: I/O error. Please reboot your device and try again."
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] unitz0mbie:
theres a chance u might brick your phone, if you want to experiment thats up to you but just dont blame anyone. if security patches are that important to you i suggest you just go back to stock for now until the community expands on this root method and improves in the near future
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] xterminater07:
Well, the guide said to flash a stock image of our choice, so I am wondering if there is a leaked att firmware that has the latest updates? The u1 seems have leaked only the april updates right?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] MrBriggs:
Are we talking about "Android security patch level" on the "Software information" screen? Mine is May 1, 2017, am I screwed?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] AngelIsL33T:
Im on the July 1st security patch, and i've successfully rooted. LOL!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HighOnLinux:
Yeah i flashed stock image of U1 firmware and have april's security patch.

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No you're good lol as long as you obtained root, you did it correctly. Monthly security wouldnt matter too much unless you really want your phone to be secure.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hazmad:
Nope, I'm on July for AT&T. Root seems to be working just fine.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] geoff5093:
Did you flash the July U1 firmware?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] fever308:
Based on how you can flash any stock rom at the end with flashfire, I wonder if this will work for the oreo update?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hack.causality:
Unfortunately that's just a black overlay and that method would obscure content, not move it aside. I really need something like this, except I have no idea how applicable this technique is to the S8. This is a way used by some people with damaged screens to crop out the unusable portions.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hazmad:
possibly, if oreo isn't too much of a change. They'll probably throw a new bootloader at us or something
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HighOnLinux:
Nah i kept it as is. It doesn't bother me having april patch. I downloaded the firmware off of the carrier switching thread and haven't gotten the updated one.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] xterminater07:
Right now I have U1, if I flash att one... will it screw up anything.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] akiraO1:
No it will not screw anything up, in fact the ENG firmware supports every single CSC code that exists, you can make your phone into any variant you want and if you follow all the I instructions, will be the best experience using a phone that you could possibly imagine.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ilikebigjugs88:
:good::good:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hazmad:
Not necessarily. but it might be better to find the one for your carrier. Your device is U1? on which carrier?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TURBO2012:
Gents. Anyone noticed, if you debloat and reset phone, play store crashes and you can't finish setup?? Strange.....
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hazmad:
huh? I didn't get that. what did you debloat?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TURBO2012:
Lots of garbage. If you debloat and reboot, everything run fine. Problem is, if you reset..... something from data partition is needed for Google to successfully continue.

Now that you are rooted and happy, if you decide to reset, google setup wont finish and you will have to start over. Strange..... This happened with all rooted stock roms using this method......

I tried them all. I had to go back to un-rooted U1. I am on the road, but I will continue testing later on...

T.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hazmad:
you should be able to flash your system.img.ext4 and HOME_CSC (without wipe), and be fine.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] daddymikey1975:
Never mind. I'm that guy. Smh
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TURBO2012:
Hi. Yes, If I flash ext4 system, works fine. Problem is, after you have the ext4 system installed and wipe data via flashfire or recovery, google wont finish the initial setup.

T.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] xterminater07:
The original device is a ATT S8, but I flashed the July 2017 XAA version of U1 on it now.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] hazmad:
ya, you should be fine then. take a backup for sure though.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] xterminater07:
Everything is good, except sometimes getting dim display, weird color tint, and horizontal lines. Elliwiggy suggest start over
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ngdskier:
I just got home from camping today (My family went with some friends to stay at another friend's ranch in Central Oregon, just 1 mile off the center line of Totality, for the eclipse... It was awesome.) and we didn't really have cell coverage out there (AT&T rural coverage is spotty at best), so when I get home and connected to WiFi, I just happen to notice my phone is downloading an update (Nooooo!!!!!), so I immediately disabled WiFi and went into Airplane mode. The update told me to enable WiFi to finish the update, but I ignored it, but from that message guessed that it might not update over cell data, so I disabled airplane mode, bought BK Package Disabler Pro, and disabled one of three "Software Update" system apps (com.ws.dm) and then enabled WiFi (prepared to disable again, if I get another update notification), and so far, I've not seen any attemps at updating...

Now, at least I have time to go fully read the root thread and take my time to do it right. :)

P.S. The "Software Update" items that I didn't disable were com.sec.android.soagent and com.wssyncmidm... Anyone know if I should also disable those as well, or is com.ws.dm sufficient to prevent OTA updates, as it seems to have been so far?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] bill10:
Now that roots been out for a few days and most of you have had enough time to tinker with it are you going to stay rooted or go back? I'm on the fence right now as I'm pretty happy with this phone the way it is. Ive rooted every phone I have ever had and this is the first time I've had to live without it and don't even know if it's worth it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HighOnLinux:
Its pretty awesome having root but i noticed not from myself but from other people that if you uninstall certain unnecessary things from the system, you're stuck in a bootloop :/ so take precaution from that. Scripts from certain apps like Lspeed work good but for me i think this is a issue only affecting me but with greenify if i go to the settings its unresponsive and have to hard restart the phone, which means it goes to upload mode then i have to hard restart it again and it goes back to the system again. Other than that root's been fine imo
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] codman2728:
I think I have Viper running. If you go to the site and download the zip for FX, there are two APK's in it. One is to alleviate that problem there, and it is titled so.

Also, I'm not sure if this matters or not, but I followed this later: http://www.droidviews.com/install-viper4android-on-samsung-galaxy-s8-and-s8-plus/

Just the parts about freezing Sound Alive and adding the audio_effects.conf file, not the parts about magisk or the apk (get the apk from their actual site to be safe).

Viper is reporting as running and processing, and appears to alter the audio when enabled.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dlinfiniti:
Does this method still break things like shealth and Samsung pay?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HighOnLinux:
Yes it does

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A question to anyone out there willing to help me out.

Would it be possible to change the way our soft keys look by using an app called softkeyz been wanting to know this cuz if its possible im switching the look immediately
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jazz995756:
I don't know about that specific app but I know I've done it with substratum
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] XBlackChaosX:
[MENTION=7027233]DaNamesFrank[/MENTION] you're not the only one experiencing the issue with greenify and other apps have caused lockups for me. The phone becones completely unresponsive and I too must hard reset. It's frustrating me. I've uploaded a log at of all of the errors that are popping up. I honestly don't understand logcats so if anyone can help me get to the bottom of this I would appreciate it.

https://pastebin.com/02iMxwTD
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kjc99:
Definitely nice to have root....

.. Does any know of a battery app that let's you rest the stats? Apparently our battery stats won't reset cause it only charges to 80%

I've tried BBS(better battery stats) latest version but it keeps saying no stats being collected
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] robinabdullah:
how can i unlock the network after following the rooting method. Already completed the whole process but stuck in network unlock.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HighOnLinux:
You're gonna have to contact your carrier to do such thing. Unless you have the device unlock app you could try it out if you're not eligible just be patient soon you will be
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] thebeardedchild:
Hey guys,

I'm really interested in getting the S8 (may pull the plug tomorrow at Costco, not sure yet...). I've never owned a Samsung device though, and have always had a device with an unlocked/unlockable bootloader and is rootable and good development, and all that good stuff. I've been researching how to live without some of my root apps (AdAway, Titanium Backup, etc) in the event that I get an S8 that can't be rooted.

But I just popped in here to ask, is it even possible for rock solid stable root in the future, even if it's down the road a bit? Something that allows full battery charging, Samsung/Android Pay, etc. etc, or is that just not a thing with newer Galaxy devices? With the current root method, I just wouldn't be comfortable using it yet. I think I could find non-root alternatives to the root apps I've used in the past, but it'd be nice to know sometime in the device's lifespan I could root it if I ever wanted to again. Thoughts?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] robinabdullah:
i brought this device from USA intact. i thing there is no possibility to be unlocked it by the carrier T-mobile. As they have some rules.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HighOnLinux:
It's gonna take a long, long time if you want magisk to be installed onto your S8

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Yeah but as long as the phone isnt flagged as stolen or blacklisted and had 90 straight days of service (no terminations/suspensions onto your line), you'll be gold
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] thebeardedchild:
Thanks for the respons! What's the reasonable "best case scenario" for root quality then on a phone like this, even if it's not magisk?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kjc99:
The US models have root... The firmware does have a few bugs but it's definitely better than no root... If your buying the phone straight out then I would get the international which has root and you can flash recovery/roms

Edit*... 955U1 & 955U root bugs

Sometimes screen turns green randomly.... Only charges to 80%

Occasional freezes
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] shaggyskunk:
If you're talking about Carrier Unlock - sammobile.com and several others offer Carrier Unlock codes - I think that the average price is around 20 - 25 dollars.

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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] robinabdullah:
the will provide me network unlock code. But mine is app lock (T-mobile). no place to insert the network code. I am seeking a method for unlocking the device. the method may be eng firmware. but i dont know how to do that. help me i will appreciate.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] shaggyskunk:
Google is your friend ?

http://www.cellunlocker.net/t-mobile-device-unlock-app.php

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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] robinabdullah:
Tried that. service for s8/s8+ is down.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] shaggyskunk:
Then I guess that you wait or search for an alternative.

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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] janver22:
Anyone with rooted S8/S8+ exynos have improved their standby time with tweaks like greenify, etc?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] alex2003super:
I strongly recommend Ice Box
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] partcyborg:
Cool. Why?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] alex2003super:
UI is very nice and easy to use, when you open the app you see the list of all disabled packages, tapping one re-enables and opens it. You can configure it to eventually re-disable all packages enabled that way upon locking the screen. It has some features that I found totally useless (like passcode/fingerprint to access the app) but they're off and semi-hidden in the settings of the app, so no bloatware. So far the best app I've found to freeze/disable apps. Works with hidden ones as well

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Guys, if you wish to remove the annoying triangle with exclamation mark notification saying that unauthorized changes have been made to the system, you have to disable com.samsung.android.securitylogagent (named securityLogAgent, located on system partition) using any package disabler.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] biotoxin:
is there a progress thread for unlocking bootloader? (us snapdragon variants)

it feels like I'm still fighting the system, PITA trying to netflix, gear vr, prime video, etc

not sure if it's worth it just yet, might go back to stock until it's had time to mature with more rom's like lineage or viper
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] partcyborg:
No
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] XBlackChaosX:
All this talk about different package disablers but isn't titanium backup enough? I use it and I see nothing wrong with it.....do these package do certain things that titanium does not?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HighOnLinux:
Guessing it's just preference about simplicity. Some people may find titanium backup very complex. But let it be.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] thenessus:
They can also disable services
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] BlackAlien92:
Would this and install method work for us? Since we don't have an unlocked bootloader.

https://www.xda-developers.com/magisk-v14-receives-update-install/
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] shaggyskunk:
Read what's in the OP of this thread linked below - Pay particular attention to the "what doesn't work" ?

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=73455543

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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] geoaka911:
G950f stock rom on G950fd

I have exynos model, it's duos but I have only one sim inserted but sim1 icon in call logs and in sms conversations is driving me crazy. Can I push G950F stock rom to my G950FD phone? :eek:

I don't need the second sim.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] shaggyskunk:
Yeah that's not a good idea! And if you try to use Odin it should / will fail... if you're lucky enough for trying something really unwise!

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[Samsung Galaxy S8 Guides, News, & Discussion] akiraO1:
Well lets think about this, where is your sim card reader information located? More than likely in your modem/radio. I wouldnt flash the whole stock rom but try flashing just the CP file, if it doesnt flash due to rev check then in odin check the t-flash box and use the appropriate pit file with repartition checked and always remove your ext sdcard first. Always use a pit with t-flash. Happy flashing!