yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] pimpmaneaton:
Am not sure what is all means but I like the security mdpp= none flag and the sys.locksecured= false flag as well. Maybe a big step forward. Will wait to see what they have to say about it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] GSXeclipsePSI:
My stock dialer crashes over and over again.

2 ways it doesn't crash!

1- when in max power saving mode

2- when I choose or add a 2nd profile

other then that, it doesn't work at all, I'm using a 3rd party dialer
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] AddictedToGlass:
In other words, "Why don't you step into my office. We should talk."

Closes door.

We all wait patiently...
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] hazmad:
Did you skip the "Wipe" step in Flashfire?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Kendel-Google:
QUOTE=hazmad;73975809]Did you skip the "Wipe" step in Flashfire?[/QUOTE]

No. And I've re-rooted 3x after attempting to remove bloatware and finding the most we can remove and phone app crashes since 1st root.

I've attempted to remove everything to do with the app and even contacts and then reinstalled wit newest ones or older ones and still crashed and will only open in the ways I listed above.

I've been looking for ways to make it work and that's the 2 ways it will work for me. Maybe that will help.

The post I referred too I see that it was a problem there but never could find a reply to a fix or handle the issue besides a 3rd party phone app.

And I mean the call history or the phone/headset icon you'd click.

I am able to use the dialer keypad only if it's not thru the stock app. Normal rainbow screen pops up when I get a call and make one, the touchwiz style just can't open wit app in thumbnail bLow

Dial pad works sorry. Only if it's opened another way. But if I open the phone icon and it's on recents or whatever it just force closes it restarted force close

I've cleared cache nothing in recovery too I don't know if that helps but every now and then I clear it on my phone regularly and whenever I have an issue I go back and do it
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] 012345678:
Maybe its possible to rebrand the S8 G9550 to US version? Any Ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] hazmad:
I can recall this issue has happened to ppl in two situations. Either they didn't use or didn't have "Wipe" first when flashing a system.img with Flashfire, or they used the wrong firmware. There may be other Software related issues that also could cause this. If you're green on those two, then you'll have to dive a little deeper.

Do you still have this problem if you go back to full stock firmware? If you don't, I would try going through the part 1 process again, only using the sampwnd bl & ap files. then go on to part 2 however you'd like, all the while checking when the problem first occurs.

9 out of 10 times, problems ppl seems to have here are Layer 8 related issues.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Kendel-Google:
Ok. I will look into trying that. And yes WIPE was dragged to the top.

I used whatever files the OP had. I'm on AT&T does that matter?

Thanks for your help n suggestions.

I made a video I was gotta post up of the flashing process since I find it extremely difficult the first time sitting there trying to read everything so I screen recorded my computer while opening home Odin and adding the files and then going through the ADB command and what people will see on the screen and if the original poster finds it helpful and more than welcome to use it the video is not posted on YouTube it is not private and it's set to share all my so that way only the people on this form can view it via the link.

Side note / question

I don't mind going back and trying whole bunch of things and whatnot and to help the community and I figured some things out but I really miss using Smart Switch to restore my phone now I went into the build prop and tried changing the model number since Smart Switch says it's unsupported device I got rid of the one after the you but this didn't seem to change anything is it something more deeper as there's something else in the building props I can change her to recognize the device and smart switch cuz I really like to restore things that way.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] sd_N:
Probably something simple. Mine works fine. You'll get it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] V0idst4r:
Can I flash a signed bootloader from Flashfire, or must it be from Odin?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] hazmad:
Nope, I have an S8+ from AT&T too. I just used the "old part 2" process. Some others on AT&T have use the current process with no problems.

Smart Switch doesn't work for me either. I believe that problem is caused by the bootimage/build fingerprint.

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A Flashfire backup of the bootloader partition(s) will work, but a BL tar or tar.md5 file doesn't seem to take with Flashfire.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] V0idst4r:
Yes that's because the .tar is an archive containing the bootloader partition images
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] hazmad:
:confused: ...right, I know. you need all the signed elf and mbn files in the BL archive, except non-hlos, for your device to actually use the bootloader.

you can try it a different way, or test this if you'd like to. It's either going to take or not. All I'm saying is it doesn't work for me.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] lightninbug:
I've been successfully rooted for about a month now, my question is is how can I wipe my phone and still keep root? As easy as booting into recovery and factory data reset?

I still want to have root.. just want to wipe my system, data and apps. Is this possible?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] sabresfan:
Boot into recovery and factory reset. Root is retained.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] V0idst4r:
I have automated step 1.

https://mega.nz/#!k4QwSZzS!brpacMtj_dU0D_wwEccyhjchjj64xb71pmMbZCfab-8

Double click step1.sh after flashing the firmware. If there's any problems please contact me asap. Will be merged with OP soon.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] IJoxer:
I might tonight when I get home, thought about making a script myself, just haven't had any time lately.

Thanks a lot!
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] mopartonyg:
Sorry but I have to ask a potential dumb question. If you factory reset does that not put your phone back to factory firmware? If so how do you keep root? If not what exactly does factory reset mean and do? OK possibly 3 dumb questions.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] sabresfan:
Not a dumb question. You boot into the phones recovery. Easily done if your already rooted using any number of apps. Titanium backup has this ability. Factory reset in the phones recovery wipes all your data and apps giving you the fresh start you were looking for. Root is maintained cause it's a system wide root that survives a factory reset. If you flash your stock firmware with Odin then you have to reroot and follow the instructions in the op.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] elliwigy:
That is the beauty of a "System Root"... when you perform a data factory reset, it doesn't wipe the "System" and since root is installed to the "System" it survives a standard Factory/Data/Reset.

Now if you were to wipe something using ODIN or if you select the wrong wipe options in FF you could wipe your system.. It would basically have no OS to boot into and you would have to start over with Part 1 of the root method haha
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] elliwigy:
UPDATE

Part 1 of the instructions has now been SIMPLIFIED. [MENTION=7530226]V0idst4r[/MENTION] did most of the work, I just helped touch it up and upload and linked in the OP :) so thank him when you see him!

Basically you will simply unzip the SamPWND_Root.zip and after you flash the SamPWND 4 files firmware package in ODIN and boot up just make sure adb debugging is enabled and then click the "step1" bat file and wait about 30 seconds and viola!

NO MORE ADB ISSUES, NO MORE UNSTABLE ROOT SHELL, NO MORE SETSID SU BLAH BLAH (unless of course you're on a MAC or some other OS that can't run a .bat file?)
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] sabresfan:
Works great rooted and restored in record time.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] V0idst4r:
Does anyone know why / is mounted rw on boot where even non-su can write to it? Is it the kernel or one of the scripts that the custom rom adds to su.d?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] IJoxer:
I can also verify it seems to work perfectly, I browsed it over a few times first, definitely used the kiss method which I love.

Excellent work man, maybe now some of the rookies can get through the initial root process without asking 900 hundred questions. :good:
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] pcoiner:
Hi I had the same issue.

Tried a 128G (largest one that my store had on the shelf) then a 64G (why go any smaller).

I put in a 2G card and kernel panic went away.

I put in a 32G card and it was fine.

(One of the main reasons I went with the S8+ was so I could have a 256G card.

if I had to guess Maybe it has something to do with the img coming from a phone with that size card in it.

Can someone help me / give me instructions so I can let the original post of this thread elliwigy know.

I've only posted here a few times and don't want to be a rude dumb arse.

PC
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] mopartonyg:
Thanks OP and [MENTION=4467583]sabresfan[/MENTION] for the info, I rerooted a few times not realizing root would stick.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] pcoiner:
Hi I had the same issue.

Tried a 128G (largest one that my store had on the shelf) then a 64G (why go any smaller).

I put in a 2G card and kernel panic went away.

I put in a 32G card and it was fine.

(One of the main reasons I went with the S8+ was so I could have a 256G card.

if I had to guess Maybe it has something to do with the img coming from a phone with that size card in it.

Can someone help me / give me instructions so I can let the original post of this thread elliwigy know.

I've only posted here a few times and don't want to be a rude dumb arse.

PC

I posted this once but can't see it .

I'm doing it again sorry if I am creating a mess.....I can never get this site to work properly from some reason???

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Hi I had the same issue.

Tried a 128G (largest one that my store had on the shelf) then a 64G (why go any smaller).

I put in a 2G card and kernel panic went away.

I put in a 32G card and it was fine.

(One of the main reasons I went with the S8+ was so I could have a 256G card.

if I had to guess Maybe it has something to do with the img coming from a phone with that size card in it.

Can someone help me / give me instructions so I can let the original post of this thread elliwigy know.

I've only posted here a few times and don't want to be a rude dumb arse.

PC

I posted this once but can't see it .

I'm doing it again sorry if I am creating a mess.....I can never get this site to work properly for some reason???
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] studlyswissdude2:
I've had issues when initially rooting with SamPWND. Installing a newer combo firmware available on other forums fixed this issue for me though. Personally, installing the AQI1 COMBINATION Boot Firm fixed the issue for me. You can probably do a search in this forum or on xdadevelopers and should find what you're looking for.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Solarys:
Ok so I'm new to this side of Android so I have some questions to make sure I don't brick my 700$ black rectangle.

1. Assuming I follow these instructions down to the letter and Odin/my computer doesn't crash while flashing for some reason, is there any conceivable way that this procedure alone could brick the phone?

2. These instructions apply to the S8 (as opposed to the S8+) as well, right?

3. Could Substratum pose any risk of bricking?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] V0idst4r:
Thank you, does the one I linked in specific work to root? Mine is slightly different than the one in the OP with a new check to make sure you aren't already rooted as well.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Flashman2000:
Follow this to the tee, I've rooted and uprooted twice following this with no issues:

[youtube]5-ubrnWdGT4[/youtube]
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] DaftOdyssey:
Subtratum has worked perfectly for me. No hiccups :)
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] joshclouds:
Works great :)
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] elliwigy:
its only mounted for a short time after boot.. not sure why lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] elliwigy:
the one in op is the one that checks if ur already rooted lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] V0idst4r:
Huh no idea why the one in the OP is a megabyte bigger then
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] elliwigy:
im not sure if he changed any of the files but i updated the part 1, itsnow super easy compared to anything else
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] kclive:
Tried that and still got the same permission denied error

---------- Post added at 11:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:04 PM ----------

does it matter that I was on SM-G955U and now I flashed SM-G955U1 on Odin? I wouldn't think it would
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] boostnek9:
That's what I'm using. Anyways, it really does sound like there is an issue with the flashing as that's what provides the root.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] mdiaz33685:
I have the Tmo firmwares at my site, all of them are there... https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=devices&uid=9390248398092763634 just goto the s8+ folder.. :D

just finished reading everything since this afternoon, and copied all the little notes everyone put into a word document and also the OP instructions, copied all the files to my phone also...

to tired right now... will get to try after church 2morrow... I am expecting to see a few thousand more problems only cause 99.9% only read the OP then goto the last page then post something that was posted every other page...
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] britchel:
Thank you!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] boostnek9:
Stupid question, you've extracted the required files in your ADB folder?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] rogerandgina:
Can someone tell me how to extract systemroot zip to my and directory?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] kclive:
If you are talking about the systemroot folder, then yes, I have

Might try reflashing through odin again and see what happens
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jackie099:
did flash home csc from u1 and still not working
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jokono421:
Ok got through adb and it auto magically rebooted my phone. I got no messege about updating or having su though. Installed flashfire and said needs root access. Also I had su 2.82 apk on phone with out root access. Did having this on phone before adb commands

mess up the process?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] DarkXoa:
Well, that's lame... I guess the sd card will just have to have a permanent home in my tablet. Anyways, that definitely fixed it for me!

[MENTION=3812611]elliwigy[/MENTION], I might have just missed this in the OP, but if not, could we get a note about the sd card issue in there?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] lightninbug:
Can someone confirm that the settings page is supposed to look like this? (Doubles)

Everything else works perfectly!!!!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] TimelessPWN:
If your settings looks messed up flash your carrier csc yes, are you using the G955U_ADD_CSC jrkruse posted?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] BlackAlien92:
All I need is an unlocked firmware or a AT&T firmware. Not a Verizon firmware or a T-Mobile firmware. I can't seem to download from any websites because all of them are odin firmwares and they don't have the Image file that I need. Or Can I just Flash the CSC in odin for my Carrier
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] TimelessPWN:
the image file is pulled from the AP of the odin firmwares
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] BlackAlien92:
Ah thanks for that didn't know
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] TimelessPWN:
I have not had issues with my SD card however android 7.0 and root have issues with sd card apparently here is a link to supersuconfig made by chainfire it allows you to configure advanced flashing options, but the last step in the aroma installer is there to fix sdcard permissions and the sdcard itself idk if it will help but here you got http://download.chainfire.eu/1121/SuperSU/AROMA-SuperSUConfig-v1.00.zip

flash in flash fire as a .zip package don't worry about any of the options such as auto mount, and mount r/w, just add and flash, then go through installer. if you are going to mess with supersu advanced options do not enable systemless mode it will cause the device to not boot as it modifies the boot.img
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] astonat:
I do all the steps in the first process and my phone automagically restarts but is stuck on the T-Mobile logo
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] DarkXoa:
I'm on the step in part one where I'm supposed to be spamming mount until I get rootfs and /system to show as RW. I've got rootfs showing RW, but I'm not sure if I'm looking at the right thing for /system.

I attached a screenshot of adb. can anyone confirm that the line I circled is the line I'm looking for?

Edit: Wait I think I found the right one. Am I looking for a line that says:

"/dev/block/sda19 on /system type ext4 (rw,seclabel,relatime)"?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] lightninbug:
Yes i am, and i bought my device from tmobile
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] elliwigy:
im pretty sure it is anyways haha
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] SpiritBreak3r:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew cask install android-platform-tools
adb push systemroot /data/local/tmp
adb shell chmod -R 0777 /data/local/tmp/systemroot
adb shell setsid su <input
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] SpiritBreak3r:
For Mac users, of course.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] elliwigy:
oh lol.. i dont have a mac to test
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jrcdpm:
Will this work for the S8 as well?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] SpiritBreak3r:
It's fool-proof. Tested. The best way to install adb and run it. Should be executed from the SamPWND-Root directory
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Flashman2000:
Yea just make sure u have the right firmware... Don't use s8 firmware. If ur tryna root on the s8 go take a look at the s8 thread it'll be a lot more helpful
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] elliwigy:
the root.zip will but u need to use S8 sampwnd 4 file firmware
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] sd_N:
Seriously¿????????????
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] IJoxer:
Yea, worked for mine just fine, but I was also sure to be fully unrooted, no traces left. That hasn't occurred to me, nice catch, I'd definitely update it just to be safe.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Solarys:
does the new method apply to the smaller s8?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jawonder:
Read just 3 post above your post .
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] elliwigy:
haha i was just gonna reply sayin i literally just answered that question lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] gammaxgoblin:
Feel

Feel better about yourself? Chastising others is never useful, let the mods and OP monitor the thread please and thank you kindly.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] sd_N:
Sounds good...

No..I don't feel any better or worse.

FINALLY!

We Present To You

SamPWND!

Root for the USA Variants of the S8 & S8 Plus Devices!

(This thread will focus only on the S8+)

---This is the title of the thread.

I'll keep my comments to myself. Sorry...
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] elliwigy:
to answer your question if it wasnt clear and u didnt see my reply,

THE SamPWND_ROOT.zip WILL WORK BUT YOU NEED TO GO TO THE S8 THREAD TO GET THE S8 SamPWND FIRMWARE

It will most likely fail if you try to use S8+ files on your S8 but if it does work you will have all sorts of issues
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] LookAlive:
Words. I like all the the words in this post. If I'm understanding correctly, we're still looking for the value that's changed from 1 to 0 as referenced in the bootstomp write-up, and using the previous Qualcomm bl unlock breakdown in an attempt to see if that same value is all that needs changed here. Am I missing - or misunderstanding - any part of this breakdown?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] fLIck i7:
Big Thanks!

First time to actually post something on XDA; but have been following this forum for years. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone for their work in getting this done - pretty happy to have working Kali on my S8+ !!!
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] DaftOdyssey:
How you do that?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] fLIck i7:
Feel free to shoot me a pm and I'll let you how I was able to get it to work; but out of respect to the OP I won't post the steps (unless directly asked to do so).
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] elliwigy:
correct.. well i am while he is working on bringing his device back from a hard brick lmao.. hes more willing than I am to use his device but soon ashes successful with edl id be more comfortable joining him..

just b careful when you consider DD a BL file from HK haha..be prepared for a brick
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] elliwigy:
pm sent.. im curious as well haha
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] LookAlive:
Hurts my soul to hear he bricked. ****.

I won't flash anything myself. I know enough to be dangerous, and too little too be effective. This is my first device back to Android outside of a small stint with the s4 since the first Moto Droid. These things were easier then.

I understand my current limitations, but prefer to follow along (software dev day job), just my nature I guess.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Maurylucha:
PMed as well ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jrcdpm:
Thank you. That was the point of my question was whether the root zip would work on the S8 since those instructions have not been updated with the automated root zip file. I understand I should use all the other files from the S8 thread. Again, thank you for the clarification.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] craigschroeder:
Did anyone find a solution for this?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] LiquidT:
After I updated to the latest AQGL firmware this went away.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] elliwigy:
yea, dont root lol jk
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] elliwigy:
AQHD is the latest