[Samsung Galaxy J7 Guides, News, & Discussion] thereallinkieishere:
**CREDIT GOES TO messi2050 FOR THE WORKING RECOVERY AND TO paco_1 FOR HIS GUIDE TOO

ASHYX FOR THE DECRYPTION BREAKER AND Walkerblue2030 (??) FOR AT LEAST HAVING A STABLE ENOUGH ROM TO FLASH THAT'S ACTUALLY WORTH YOUR TIME. AND ALSO CREDIT TO fullofhell (??) FOR WHO EVER HE DESIDES TO ENROL FOR THE BETA FOR THE MOST BATTERY EFFICIENT ROM ON THE DEVICE**

--Make sure y'all slap a thanks to these people because without them, unfortunately, any excitement on the J700T devices wouldn't be possible.--

<<DISCLAIMER>>

I NOR ANY OF THE CREDITED PEOPLE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE DONE TO YOUR DEVICE AFTER FOLLOWING THIS GUIDE. YOU'RE ON XDA SO YOU SHOULD ALREADY KNOW WE LIKE TO SH*T ON OUR WARRANTIES LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW. IF YOUR DEVICE BECOMES A BAKED POTATOE OR BLOWS UP YOUR HOUSE FOLLOWING THIS GUIDE OR FLASHING ANY OF THE CREDITED PEOPLE'S WORK, DO KEEP IN MIND THAT YOU HAVE ACCEPTED THIS WARNING AND EVERYTHING AFTER FOLLOWING THIS GUIDE IS BECAUSE OF YOUR ACTIONS.

-------YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED-----

(as scary as I made it sound, I've done this COUNTLESS times and it has worked for me just fine, so nothing to be scared of here if you do this step by step! If you do mess up, try finding the stock firmware and flash back to stock with Odin! Though do take note that Odin has never worked for me unless it was flashing a recovery. I will be making a post on how to flash back to stock soon, so definitely keep an eye out for that!)

Okay so many people are asking how to root the J7 and I wanted to post this small simple guide on how I did it successfully. Without further delay, let's begin.

1- You get yourself them Samsung drivers

2- Get Odin. Duuh.

3- download TWRP (this is messi2050's TWRP, so go give 'em a thanks won't ya?)

4- have a micro SD ready because once you're in TWRP, internal storage won't be mountable.

Okay, so after you've got those things ready, start by enabling OEM unlock. And then USB debugging.

Then you want to move the SU ZIP to your SD card.

(Link for the one I used down below)

Then, power your phone down. Boot into download mode (volume down+home button+power button)

Have that TWRP on your computer, you'll need it on there

Then you'll want to open Odin, select the TWRP.img

(or .tar, I forgot which it is but if .img doesn't show get the .tar from messi2050's post) THROUGH THE AP SLOT

Open the back cover of your device

Plug in your device. When your Odin displays "Added!' you'll know you're ready.

Then click "start" or whatever the button is to begin the flashing process. It should flash and end with a "PASS!" on the top left box and it should be green.

Now, on your device, when you see the Samsung Galaxy J7 logo, IMMIDIATELY unplug the device and remove the battery. I don't know if there is a setting to disable auto reboot, but this is how I personally got it to work.

Then put the battery back in, hold the volume up, power and home buttons untill you boot into TWRP.

Select "install" and then you'll have to select your external storage. Then find the SU zip you should have and then flash it. If it doesn't work you might need to format your internal memory through the WIPE category, then you'll reboot into TWRP again and try again. But make sure you back up before that. And if you do end up formatting, flash SU and the encryption breaker down below.

You should be done! You should be rooted and ready to go! Ahead lies a huge mass of S8/N7 ROMs you should try (they're kinda the same but one in particular has amazing battery life, you'll need to ask " fullofhell" for it, though .-.) a somewhat S5 ROM you can try, just DONT expect any AOSP ROMS to come because from the looks of it they end up broken. And don't try to flash any of the other J7 ROMS (J7 2015-2016, etc.) Because they don't work. Trust me, I've tried.

LINKS

TWRP.IMG: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ehygrybdq7a2j8e/

TWRP. TAR. MD5 (Odin format. To flash this one, you'll need to select it from your PC in the AP slot on odin)

http://www.mediafire.com/file/4f5sz13cz5gy466/

SU ZIP:

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24591000424939898

DECRYPTION BREAKER:

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24591000424951049

Use this after you format your data, flash SU or another ROM. Flash it every time you after you flash a ROM so that you can mount internal storage so that you can flash internal zips and images or so that you can create backups and be able to restore. You know, in case you wanna play dirty and all ?)

A ROM TO BEGIN WITH:

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-j7/j70...lkerblue-v1-notexperienceromv3-t3575377/page2

(even though the people of this ROM LOVE to bash opinions, this is definitely the ROM to start with. Most stable of all the N7/S8 clones and is kinda battery efficient though id still ask [MENTION=8146955]fullofhell[/MENTION] for a beta tryout. Also keep in mind that VIDEO CALLING and WIFI CALLS along with NFC are only a FEW OF THE THINGS YOU WILL BE SACRIFICING TO FLASH ANY ROM ON THIS DEVICE!!!!! DONT ASK ME WHY, ASK ANY OF THE CREATORS OF THE ROM YOU CHOOSE)

I don't use this phone but I can still help out who ever needs it and who ever isn't willing to bash my balls out for my opinions so if you ever need help with things like this, do PM me as I love talking about Android!