yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] cautious911:
Was your screen unresponsive?

My screen was unresponsive, still had video...went back to full stock tmobile, the problem went away, but then it came back and went away on its own. dont know what happened but I ordered a replacement tmobile s8.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] daddymikey1975:
My screen still responded. After a restart it went away. If it comes back I'll restore back to stock and see if it still happens. If it does I'll request a replacement as well.

Mine didn't have a colored overlay, mine was like a bad betamax vcr movie with the tracking all screwed up. It was a colored wave scrolling slowly from top to bottom with the whole screen colored behind it slightly... It was weird.

If it happens again I'll see about grabbing a Screenshot.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] swoley:
For those with the 80% bug, do you think its just a visual thing or can you actually feel that you've lost 20%?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] HighOnLinux:
You actually lose 20% battery.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Saythis:
Nah, it seems to be that it's just rescaling and that you aren't actually losing 20%.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Cmon meow:
Step2 resulted in a kernel panic, phone said it had been unauthorized wiped, now installing super su says the phone isn't rooted, Bixby home is repeatedly crashing, think I'll restart from the beginning and not do step 2 I followed it to the t, battery was 100% in the eng system, and showed charging, but in the step2 system its dropping, so far 85% and isn't charging.

Thank you STF_TimelessGoD, and team, I like the eng system better anyhow, just glad to have root, hopefully someone will find a way to break the secure check by flashing 0 or something cleaver.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Wagedroid:
Sorry for asking such an unrelated question but this is my first Samsung and though I'm super experienced with rooting, modding and flashing, Samsung and Odin is all new to me. Anyway, my question is, what does flashing the cp do? I've gotten my s8+ how I want it, almost. It's rooted on latest TMobile firmware with July security patch.

It's to my understanding that the CSC provided me with the correct radios and what not for TMobile network.

I'm only asking because there's a few things that bother me since rooting and it will also present my next question. Since rooting I've got this weird rcs icon with voLte icon in status bar. The rcs icon is hella ugly and bulky. Not a deal breaker I know, but also, my rcs settings are gone. That, with the limit to 80% battery has made me think about going back stock until things get worked out. So, my question is, if I wanted to return back to stock, do I just flash the files I pulled the system image from in Odin?

Again sorry for my inexperience with samsung and thanks in advance
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] sorcerer86:
Anyone else getting this error when hooking phone to computer to transfer files? After I tried flashing the system.img in ff from the sd card my phone rebooted to a kernel error. Had to restart whole rooting process over again. That's when I checked the s8+ forum and saw that ff don't like flashing from sd card. So flashed it from internal and it worked great. But then my sd card wouldn't let me copy files to it while in the s8 when connected to computer. I tried formatting it in the phone and on the computer. Nothing helps. Phone hates my 128 samsung evo select card. I have tried a 4, 32, 64gb and they all work fine when in the s8 and transferring files to the cards. The 128 evo card works in the computer, and in some old phones I have laying around. It's like the s8 hates it now....

Also, I still get that message after a minute with any sd card inserted in the phone, but the other cards still transfer data to and from just fine.

im starting to think my sd card went bad. sd card monitor reported 17 bad disconnects within about 20 minutes... but why does it work fine in other devices. and it worked fine until the kernel error while trying to flash with ff.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Kjc99:
It's actually 80%...ive gone back to stock twice.... Love root but the battery is definitely 20% less... The screen bug is because of the Eng firmware/boot used.... It will turn green/yellow until you turn off screen then back on

Edit* That popup is normal... Just press ok and continue... If it only shows internal storage your Sd card might be corrupt
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] bigdog1459:
I'm an idiot and didn't read the last page. The screenshot has nothing to do with my issue.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Kirbocolypse:
[MENTION=280821]elliw[/MENTION]igy yeah u were right i checked off the wrong boxes in Odin and checked the same ones as the root method im so dumb and lucky i didnt break my phone. thank you cuz now i flashed stock and am now going to update to the latest version. appreciate all the hard work you and your team put into all this.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] elliwigy:
if root is detected and installed properly as you stated the phone will only charge to 80%.. that is normal...

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it has absolutely nothing to do with the blue light filter, not sure where that came about?? we are using a factory binary permissive boot.img on a stock rooted system.img, its not perfect lol

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a screenshot will show absolutely nothing haha.. itll look perfect in fact so thatd be pointless
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] txtmikhail:
To use samsung health download a build.prop editer app or manually go to it...

In the build.prop file look for
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] AngelIsL33T:
Any future news about making this bad ass root even more better? Or any projects that we could benefit from in the future? :)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] elliwigy:
lol look for what??

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no..

i am still looking at bootloader.. however roots been released so what other ppl on xda are doing i have no idea
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] AngelIsL33T:
Alright np
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] txtmikhail:
To use samsung health download a build.prop editer app or manually go to it...

In the build.prop file look for ro.config.tima=1

Change this line to ro.config.tima=0

Reboot phone
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] elliwigy:
lol i thought pplwere already disabling time
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] swoley:
Good to hear that. Also unrelated but hopefully one day devs can find a way to tinker with the IR blaster so we can use galaxys as tv remotes again now that we achieved root!:good:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] rm501:
Huh??! That guy is WRONG. Read the op and rest of thread. You actually losing 20% charge!

And there is no physical IR blaster on S8.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] swoley:
There's an IR blaster connected to the iris scanner
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] rm501:
Source?

AFAIK that's only capable of lighting up iris for scanning in dark.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] HighOnLinux:
Wait so going back to complete stock still limits the charge to 80%???
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] yoyoche:
This was posted by jrkruse in the S8+ Root thread. Hillbilly way to charge your rooted phone to 100%
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] jimmydee62:
Has anyone had trouble connecting to bluetooth devices? I root yesterday and everything went fine then today I connected to my bluetooth earbuds with no trouble. After that I tried to connect my LG Urbane to my phone and never could get it to work is there a way to make this happen?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] HighOnLinux:
Weird. I connected to my school's mac computer (since you know, i'm in high school :/) but i had no issues transferring files from my phone to the mac. Just unpair and re-pair on the lg device
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] sparky2029:
Does anyone know if the dual speaker mod would work?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] txtmikhail:
Doesn't work.. our uses different mixer_paths values
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] jimmydee62:
I paired and re-paired 4 times already same thing.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] sparky2029:
Alright. Thank you for the reply
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] txtmikhail:
Tried it but didnt work.. only got to 84%..
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] HighOnLinux:
Okay now im experiencing major screen issues. It turned where everything is monochrome and lines everywhere, rebooted then 45 minutes later, everything turns red, currently rebooted it and now its normal for now. Weird how this randomly happened

Edit: Somehow the always on display caused these major issues so i decided to fully turn it off and not an issue since :)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] swoley:
Same lol:(
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] muzicman82:
I haven't done root yet... still waiting on a fix for the battery charging... but I am getting firmware update notifications for AQGL. Is that safe to do so as to not ruin my chances of doing root later on?

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] d33dvb:
probably not, but always a chance, dont do updates
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Silenus21:
Now that Adhell 2 is working, I might go stock for it.

20% battery loss is a lot for my needs and with adhell I can get a good adblock and disable packages with that or another app.

I'll wait till next week, maybe there's a mod that makes me stay.

Anyways thanks to devs that worked on this.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] xVictorianx:
Is there a way to do this without odin? i am on linux and closest i can get would be to use Heimdall and help would be amazing
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] stmims1124:
I'm not sure if it would work, but maybe try a virtual machine? Probably slower than all hell, assuming you can get the VM to see the phone when it's hooked up w/Odin. It's probably a massive pain in the ass, but maybe it could work?

Edit: That would be a lot of set up and of course you'd have to make a folder you can share between Linux and the Windows VM to transfer files, etc. Might be easier to find a friend with a decent Windows machine
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Helios801:
I'm not able to get odin to flash my phone. It either fails outright whenever it comes to the part about installing the .pit file or Windows says my device malfunctioned. I've read through other people's posts who have had this issue, but have yet to be successful in solving this problem. But a pending OTA update (NRD90M.G950USQU1AQGL) wouldnt stop me from flashing anything, right? Even after numerous factory resets it still tries to install that update first thing whenever accessing the rom or recovery. Sorry if it's a dumb question.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] HighOnLinux:
This may be random but don't follow my footsteps with going back to stock (not like that, but the step by step procedure going back to stock). I accidently put nandroid erase all on odin and well it erased everything then gave me the fail message with model mismatch and i got into a fatal bootloop for 2 hours not knowing what to do. So i decided to do part of the procedure that was explained in the OP and i got it through all i had to do was check re-partition, and f time reset whatever it is and boom i got out of my fatal bootloop issue and everything's stock now.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] txtmikhail:
Does samsung pay load up now that u back stock?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] HighOnLinux:
Yes it indeed does. It will keep on popping up that circle 2-3 times on the initial launch but afterwards, you're set.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] billa:
I've had a similar problem with a Samsung 64 EVO Plus SDCard, and after reformatting it with Rufus in exFAT format it worked fine.

First use the hidden command Alt-Z which wipes the entire card with zeros.

Then choose "exFAT" from the drop down menu, and do a format.

Once that's done drop into cmd and verify the volume by typing:

vol <your_sdcard_drive_letter>:

ex. vol d:

Rufus:

https://rufus.akeo.ie/

Download link:

https://rufus.akeo.ie/downloads/rufus-2.16.exe
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] t-mobile_mda:
hey..

anyone has tried this solution on G950w..?

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hey..

anyone has tried this solution on G950w..? did u try it..?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] yoyoche:
This did not work for me either. will try again to test it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Smithfolk4:
I had the lines on the phone when I was doing the root process. Hasn't happened since. I did have the screen go red. Looked pretty cool, but hard to read. All I had to do was turn off the screen and then back on and it was fine. I was NOT using AOD at the time. though.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] EnduringGuerila:
I am wondering the same. I really want root and we don't even have an S8 Active section on XDA
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] asianspice:
ADB without USB?

So I stupidly fried my USB port by taking my phone into the ocean for like 30 minutes right after I got it. Is there a way to get ADB running without using USB? I know sometimes you get it working over WiFi or Bluetooth, but I don't want to start this process without being sure that that'll work here. Scared of bricking my phone, especially this is such a new development hehe. Any ideas? :)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] partcyborg:
Yes and no. You need Odin but you can run it on win7 in parallels and it works flawlessly. I've flashed dozens of times this way
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] HighOnLinux:
Pretty weird but awesome somehow lol

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Well the thing is you could do part of the procedure via adb wifi but the parts to flash from a windows machine you cannot do wirelessly. You need to plug it in.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] TT_Vert:
So you've done nothing? YOu need USB for odin but you can do wireless adb for any adb stuff.

Dave
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] sorcerer86:
Thanks, Ill give this a try.

I've had one go bad before, but it kept disconnecting in any phone I put it in and the computer would freeze when inserted. this card only acts strange in the s8.

EDIT: no go, still doing the same thing. constant mount and unmount over and over when in the phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Reechings:
Salt water enough to do to that? Or did you try charging it or something?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Wagedroid:
I went back to complete stock but booting my phone still shows unlock symbol meaning custom?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] elliwigy:
it should theoretically work if you have the same type of eng firmware for the S8 Active.. if not i highly doubt it will work as they are two different devices altogether..
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] asianspice:
Yeah I haven't done anything yet, not going to until I find a viable method (if that ever happens for me.) There's nothing like mobile odin that I can use without plugging in? That's a serious buzzkill :/

I'm pretty sure it was the salt water. It turned green haha, I think the main problem was that I didn't try drying it off at the time until a couple days later, so the salt just stayed there, corroding it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] augk:
I'm having an issue with step 4 that hasn't been answered yet. (Answered by #513 below)

When checking the boxes for Comsey Odin, the box for "Phone Bootloader Update" is greyed out and disabled. I can edit the .ini file and force it to be ticked. Would that work? I have adb, and all the requirements.

Edit:

Looks like it didn't matter. I did a flawless root. Thank you to the entire dev team!
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] elliwigy:
that steps not a required option, just what we select in the process...

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meaning the options are not required.. only need auto reboot and f reset time..

if u have issues then select the otger options listed in op
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] TT_Vert:
That option is not mandatory. It is stated in the OP or shortly after I believe.

Dave
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] davidisflash:
For those few who have experienced the random screen issues...have you tried any of the options in developer options like forcing graphics rendering, etc, to see if it resolved the issue? I'm not rooted yet but just an idea.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Haswell4200:
So I just performed root today and got everything set up. It seems to be working flawlessly, however it shows that my model number is a g955u1, not a g950u1. I have the S8. I do not have the S8+. Is this supposed to happen? Did I mix up something?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] nationalicon:
Yes, this can work. You need to use usb device passthrough, and install the Samsung drivers in the vm. I was able to get Odin to detect my S8 in the vm.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] HighOnLinux:
I think you grabbed the s8+ firmware instead [Edit: was told misleading info and shouldn't of said it, edited out of post to not confuse others]
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] FH.1989:
Great job
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] HosainH:
any idea how rom updates work after installing stock rom?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] HighOnLinux:
Assumingly you have any branded (U) or Unbranded (U1) firmware, all you need to do is just do an ordinary software update check and if you got one, let it download and you can then install it lol its just a normal procedure so nothing abnormal happening to your phone
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Tugs4life:
Has anyone confirmed of snapchat is working or not after rooting??
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] TT_Vert:
Confirmed working
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Tugs4life:
Fantastic! Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Haswell4200:
I'm 99% sure I grabbed the S8. The only confusion that could have happened is maybe the post made on page 93 of the 955u thread that I followed in order to get carrier specific stuff. I'm also having another issues where all apps are rotation opposite of what they should be. So I'll open camera in portrait orientation and it rotates to landscape, even with rotation lock on.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] HighOnLinux:
Interesting. I never had that issue before
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Aruku:
What do you mean by branded?

Isn't the G950U unlocked?

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Dumb question here, but I haven't been able to google a definitive answer...

By "end firmware" you mean an English firmware or an engineering firmware?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] otis_bartleh:
Someone was having this issue earlier in this thread, and I'm pretty sure it turns out they had grabbed the S8+ firmware. IIRC, they fixed it with the proper files, search this thread, you'll find the solution.... :good:
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] elliwigy:
well if you grabbed files from the g955u root thread then how are you 99% sure you used s8 files haha.. sorry but after your comment im 99% sure you used s8+ files

the s8/s8+ are not universal and not the same and the issues you are describing uis what happens when you use s8+ files on s8

start over with part 2 but use files for your device, not for s8+ and you should be fine

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they are NOT universal... different screen sizes, battery sizes and im sure a few other items are different.. s8 users using s8+ files have had a nunber of issues especially with screen rotation and such
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Haswell4200:
Over in the 955u thread you told me they weren't modified. I was grabbing the files from the post on page 93, and asked if they would work for the S8. You said that they weren't modified in post #2217 on that thread so I used those files for my S8. Once again, are those files compatible for the S8 or not? I never got a definitive answer last time I asked.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] HighOnLinux:
It depends if you did a network unlocking method or not. If you did do network unlocking, congrats its unlocked to other carriers but originally U firmware is branded to t-mobile, sprint, verizon, etc. etc. Which contains bloatware from them. U1 in the other hand, is already network unlocked obviously, while it does not contain any carrier bloatware what so ever.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] zdog7:
Samsung S8 Snapdragon Root & Repititouch

Hello All,

Is there anybody out there that has tried using Repititouch root after rooting your S8 and it worked without any issues?

Please advise
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] HighOnLinux:
Thanks for the clarification. But lets just say if someone else accidently flashed the s8+ fw on the s8, this may be a dumb thing to say but to prevent those screen rotation issues, couldn't they just change this in developer options?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] skynetglobal:
Did anyone else loose usb OTG or Samsung smartswitch when they rooted? Mine no longer works but it also might be caused by a service I stopped or uninstalled. Any help is appreciated, thank you.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Aruku:
Thanks, I've been wondering what the difference between the two firmwares was for a few days now.

I guess that explains why I got all this AT&T crap after rooting.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] partcyborg:
As said earlier (I think?) I have flashed probably 30+ times using stock win7 stick parallels land the USB drivers from Samsung. Never once have had an instance of corruption or errors.

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Check adb logcat while you plug in the phone up uoutthere should be an errors somewhere there
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] machx1111:
Besides not being able to use Samsung Knox apps and battery only charging to 80%, can anyone comment on overall performance / stability? Seems good? I may attempt this tonight... Just need to use up some gift cards in Samsung Pay
[Samsung Galaxy S8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] MrBoston96:
Subsystem Crashed: Modem

I keep getting this error and my phone keep crashing

Task: mll_mgr

File: trm_rfm_patch_srch.cpp

Time: 1916

Invalid Combination for LTE VCO.cpp

Num Rx: 3, Num Tx: No integer there

last_ns: 0x0

I would take a screenshot but I can't and I have no other phone or device to capture it.

Any help would be appreciated it.