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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sun2sunny:
but failed now fone restarted with messege of security threat

rooting done after oem unlock appeared with message of bootloader already unlocked

fone restarted with security threat message and immediately it stuck at red line of only official binaries bla bla bla...

now flashing firmware ... again.

Finally After Exact one week got the option. Uk bought fone.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pswin09:
Will you try to root again??
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] j3yps:
I'm starting to lose hope with this phone :(

(I know it's still a new phone, but this is the longest new phone that i had without root and a custom rom)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] j3yps:
hoping [MENTION=1467934]jpinoy[/MENTION] has time to spare (fingers crossed)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] turilo:
Yep... I feel the LG v30 calling my name..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] force70:
V30, pixel XL 2 (well not for me if only 128gb storage) or HTC U11 plus.

Gotta love options.

sent from my Note FE
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] CACV:
Hello, I receive my n950F DS last week, 7 to 8 days later, i have oem unlock, hope it helps.

SG edition

Regards!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pswin09:
I want to participate doctor but my phone will be out for 5 days to appear oem unlock option again. [emoji29]

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I want to participate doctor but my phone will be out for 5 days while waiting for oem unlock option to appear 2nd times. [emoji29]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jpinoy:
Unfortunately, my phone doesn't fall into the issue everyone is seeing here. My phone came from Clove UK had OEM Unlock from the time I open the box and enabled Dev Options. It has never disappeared, atm, my phone has TWRP and rooted.

Someone else has to volunteer for this issue.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] rocketmail.com:
Hehe,

you are right.

It should be someone with the OEM UNLOCK issues.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ZeroDefined:
This situation is such a damn buzzkill. I've been rooting and modding my phones without issue since the LG Optimus 2X. Sold my CDN (SM-N950W) for the international variant (SM-N950F/DS) just so I could the unlock bootloader and enjoy the benefits of rooting. Still waiting for OEM unlock to appear (hasn't been 7 days since activation), but now I'm wondering if there's even a point. B/c flashing anything on these variants simply results in a soft brick either way...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sansnil:
Hi, would you mind sharing if you went with SuperSU or Magisk? Did you flash the dm-verity/forced encryption disabler or not? Thank you!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
I also got mine from Clove UK. I've had mine since 9/25. First thing I did after powering on (with no SIM installed) was go to the developer settings & confirm the OEM unlock was there. I toggled in on immediately.

Installed the SIM & used it for a couple of days before installing TWRP & root. I even updated the firmware OTA before rooting, OEM lock has never disappeared. I bought from Clove after seeing a couple of people here confirmed OEM lock was there. After seeing all these stories about OEM lock disappearing I didn't want to take any chances so I bought from Clove. I don't even worry about it disappearing.

I went with Super SU & I did install the dm-verity. Have absolutly no issues & couldn't be happier.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] WizP:
Okay, I've just come over here from the HTC 10 thread. I'm still waiting for my device to arrive so I've been trawling the forums trying to understand the situation and understand the Samsung scene.

I was looking to see how this may relate to changes in the Factory Reset Protection, but then started wondering if anyone has tried the unlocking using the ADB route?

https://www.androidsage.com/2017/06...w-to-enable-oem-unlock-on-any-android-device/

It would be interesting to see if we get any mileage from this. And also if we disable the FRP before doing the flashing.

Unfortunately I can't test this yet as it will be a couple of weeks before I receive the phone, but I think there are plenty of people here who will want to try.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
I finally got my OEM unlock button a few hours ago and I've successfully rooted/TWRP/installed your ROM on my Singapre FD. I've restored my Ti backup, booted to TWRP several times, rebooted the phone several times, root applications work, etc. Fingers are still crossed but everything seems to be working. I'd like to go over the process I used with you and I can gather whatever data you wish. Message me.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jpinoy:
SuperSU, as you can see in the attached photo on my previous post, and yes, I did dm-verity/forced encryption disabled. No issues so far.

I pretty much did what you did, but didn't wait at all.. lol.. did everything within a couple of hours after installing the update as well. :highfive:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] rocketmail.com:
Good to hear that.

Please keep us updated about the steps so that others would try as well.

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
That was the longest I've ever waited to root any of my phones. I tried to wait & see how long I could go without rooting. That didn't work, by the morning of the third day I was rooted. What was I thinking! :D
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] turilo:
This is interesting, so yours is the f/DS and all rooted fine after OEM appeared? What files and steps did you take? Be great if you did something differently and got it working
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sansnil:
Sorry one more question for [MENTION=1467934]jpinoy[/MENTION] and [MENTION=5129886]shouren04[/MENTION]: did the dm-verity/disable forced encryption wipe your data partition automatically? If not, did you wipe it yourself before rebooting after flashing? Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jpinoy:
I followed exactly the steps for installing TWRP:

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-8/development/recovery-twrp-galaxy-note-8-exynos-t3674036
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sansnil:
Those steps have mutiple options, (e.g. Magisk vs SuperSu) so saying you followed the "exact" steps isn't clear, nor does it answer if your data patition wiped automatically, if it didn't if you wiped it yourself.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
Yeah, dual sim, Singapore/M1, root/TWRP/Rom installed, everything working. I'm trying to figure out exactly which steps (among the many I took) were needed and which might be bad for someone else to try. As soon as I get some feedback from someone more knowledgeable I'll post up what I did. I've been in and out of TWRP 3 times now and made as many flashes after installing the rom, lots of reboots for adaway and all that stuff. It really looks like I'm rolling and I say that with a large knock on wood. Lets hope it's game on...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] turilo:
This would be awesome! Same device I have. All I did so far was enable OEM and waiting.. This gives me some hope and maybe keep my note 8
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] fragtion:
The guys over at the Snapdragon ROOT forum seem to be developing a new root method for that variant as we speak. According to the wildermjs8 (who seems to have discovered this method), it "should work on almost any Samsung device" ?? Should this be taken seriously yet? Honestly, I care more about root than custom ROMS, so perhaps this could be our saving grace too (for some of us, at least) ... Your guys' thoughts?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
Not exactly. I had to format. I know it's frowned upon but with my past Notes, anytime I'm just updating the firmware I just dirty flash. I only format if installing a new custom ROM. I'm lazy & hate reinstalling all my apps or loosing data.

So when I installed TWRP, flashed the dm-verity thing & Super SU I did not format the data partition. It wouldn't fully boot, it wasn't a bootloop, just wouldn't get past the lock screen. I forget what the error said but it said something like something wasn't configured properly or corrupted. I figured it had to be because of the dm-verity thing. So I went back to TWRP, formatted data, reflashed the dm-verity thing & Super SU, then it fully booted fine.

My last phone was a Note 5 & I stuck with Marshmallow so I'm not familiar with this dm-verity & force encyption disabler thing. Which I have been wondering, in the future, anytime I odin an updated firmware, do I always have to reflash the dm-verity thing?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Joe237:
I have soft brick my note 8 dual sim Singapore, any one know where I can get the stock firmware for Singapore version?

Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] white7561:
From updato.com
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Andysmith71:
https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-tab-s/general/tool-samfirm-samsung-firmware-t2988647
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jpinoy:
If you follow the steps, part 2 of setting up TWRP:

3. Go to "Wipe" menu of TWRP and you will find "Format Data". Press "Format Data" and type "yes" to continue.

4. Go to "Reboot" menu and Press "Recovery" to reboot TWRP.

Whether I did it manually or it did it automatically, really doesn't matter as Data partition was formatted per step 3.

The multiple option for root, Magisk vs SuperSU, that's your personal choice, if you saw the post where I posted screen captures, you would see I went the SuperSU route.

If you follow the steps, you shouldn't run into any issues.

Only issue I had was I was connected to my PC via USB 3.0 hub, and Odin couldn't communicate/open the com port after I hit start. After I connected directly to my PC, it was fine. As soon as you hit start, make sure you are hitting the buttons to get back into recovery as it goes by fast.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Joe237:
Thank you :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] j3yps:
You're the light at the end of the tunnel!!!! [emoji2] [emoji2] [emoji2]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ep3:
How did you return it? Did you buy it from Samsung?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] mahdibassam:
Hey guys, my OEM unlock appeared exactly after 7 days , and i just flashed Renovate 1.1 and all is well, however the OEM Unlock option is now gone from the settings when i booted up with Renovate. does this mean that if i reboot the phone or enter twrp it would brick?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] force70:
No of course it wont brick...no one has bricked their device lol.

It just wont boot and you will need to flash the stock firmware in odin.

That seems to be the trend for now although one person seems to be fine with rebooting...no one else has been.

This applies only to those who had to wait the 7 days for OEM unlock to appear

sent from my Note FE
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] mahdibassam:
Yea that's what I meant by break, I would lose everything when flashing stock firmware, that would suck [emoji53]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] white7561:
Okay. Since youre already on Renovate. Here. Try this. Wait for a week. Until the oem unlock appears on Reno ROM. Disable and reenable it. And reboot. If it passes just fine. That means I just found a workaround. And obviously don't turn off or reboot your phone until then [emoji23] or it would just stuck at boot
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sun2sunny:
Yes
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] force70:
Unless your out and about and get a random reboot then your SOL and will have to wait until home to flash with odin lol

sent from my Note FE, S8 plus (exynos) or S6
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] white7561:
Lol. Well it's worth to try this possible workaround. If it works. That means u guys can root just fine. Well I suggest not using any root apps while it's in the week period. To minimise the chances of getting any random reboots.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
I guess if one of the smart guys doesn't get back soon I'm going to have to type a ridiculously long post describing what I did. I'm certain not all of it was needed to get here but some cant ruled out because I'm not knowledgeable enough. Anyhow, just booted to TWRP and came back to the system just to check. This thing can be fixed, I'm starting to believe it now. I'm not sure if I'm there yet because I haven't gone into the bootloader or enabled developer options. The reason for that is I figured either might be setting flags which caused the check at boot. Might have nothing to do with it, we need a smart guy. Or I suppose more of us dumbassez beating our heads against the wall until we sort it out.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pswin09:
I want to know your flashing step. I read that you've flashed dr.ketan rom. Did you flash the rom straight away after flashing twrp or after system reboot & reboot again to twrp? My N8 also from M1 which already soft bricked after twrp flashed and waiting for oem unlock option. I want to follow your flashing steps to test it's work around method or not. ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] turilo:
I may give this a try myself as I have enabled OEM just curious what be best Rom to flash and wait a week?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] white7561:
Tbh. Renovate [emoji3]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sun2sunny:
you cant hold it for a week

bcoz security threat error will come and it will restart by itself ...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] white7561:
Tbh if u use Renovate or some ROM. I assume the ROM Dev already removed Knox stuff. So yeah
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sun2sunny:
i didnt tried with custom rom but

many tried with custom rom u can see in rom thread ... it get soft bricked bcoz roms are not cooked without this oem unlock thingy
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] white7561:
Yeah soft bricked cuz they rebooted.i think my method could work
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ZeroDefined:
Not necessarily. If you check the changelog you'll see that the dev "Removed OEM unlock toggle from settings to avoid accidentally re-locking device." So in your case it might not be bug related at all. But I can't say for certainty that it isn't. If you want to be the guinea pig, reboot your phone and let us know how it goes :p
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] turilo:
OK so let me get this straight. So flash TWRP, boot to recovery, flash latest no-verity-opt-encrypt.zip, format data, reboot recovery, flash Rom and reboot should work then don't reboot for a week?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] white7561:
Yeah. Tbh u could skip the noverity and the no encryption thinggy. U can just flash magisk. Magisk have those already.... And yeah. After first boot. Don't reboot for a week. Until the oem unlock button appears. After it appears disable and re enable the option. Now try rebooting. If you can reboot just fine. That means I've found myself a workaround. Good luck [emoji3]

PS : if you can or you have app for force disabling system apps. I suggest disabling Knox stuff etc so it will not interfere in anyway.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pswin09:
Yes, this would be work around i think.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] j3yps:
Thanks for doing this! It's helping a lot of people, and now i am going to follow your posts more than i did GoT!hahaha

(Just to let you know, i'd try myself but i don't have the OEM Unlock option yet)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
When I kept getting those notifications my phone never restarted by itself, it just prompts you to restart. You can just dismiss the notification but it eventually comes back & is annoying. Disable SecurityLogAgent & it will go away.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] LouK:
Great post a Suggetion...in Odin undtick the "autoreboot" box so when Odin is finished it won't reboot by itself.

Then, easy to do the 3 finger reboot sequence.

Just a thought.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
NO absolutely do not do that. If you do you will not be able to go directly to recovery because you cant go directly by holding the three down while still in bootloader. No matter how long you do so it will not do anything, you'll stay stuck in bootloader until you volume down/home to reboot. There seems to be no other way to leave bootloader now. At that ;point no matter how hard I tried I could not go to the three fast enough to prevent it from booting and that was a failure for me every time. Hold them down while its flashing with the reboot ticked or you're asking for a week with your nose in the corner. :) You must go directly into recovery and not leave it until the entire process is done.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] mahdibassam:
Ok I flashed renovate and then the oem unlock option was gone. Left the the phone and went to bed, next morning I woke up and my root is gone? Phone is not rooted anymore! And I'm afraid to restart and flash magisk again lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
Did you run any root apps to determine if it was actually functioning before you went to bed? I didn't have root and had to go back and flash it again which went without any problems. I did not enable developer though and there has been some conjecture that enabling it or going into bootloader may set a flag...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] j3yps:
Great post Darnel (krabman) haha

I will follow this on the dot as soon as i the elusive OEM Unlock decides to come out in the open.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pswin09:
Only difference is flashing rom straight away after twrp flash. What happened to me was I've booted to system after successful twrp and root flash. Look like our stock rom included something to detect non official binary flash and it triggered when we reboot 2nd time to boot into twrp or normal boot. Next time I will try to flash custom rom without booting to system. Most of the custom roms debloated knox features, not sure this problems related to knox or not. Thanks bro for your information that's really helpful to us.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] mahdibassam:
Ok I am relieved to report that i rebooted and reflashed Magisk 14.2 and all went well. so to recap:

1) Received my brand new Note 8 in New Zealand (2Degrees carrier device)

2) OEM Unlock option appeared exactly 7 days after turning the phone on, to the hour

3) Turned on OEM Unlock, however i waited 4-5 days before flashing anything as i was busy and scared!

4) Flashed twrp Yesterday, and then Renovate 1.1

5) booted up fine and set everything up, root working, magisk hide, etc, backups restored from samsung account. left the phone charging and went to bed

6) This morning I woke up to my phone working all fine, but root was gone for some reason. OEM Unlock was also gone

7) After sweating heavily and going into a mental breakdown and contemplating life and whether I should reboot the phone to recovery and flash magisk again, I went ahead and did that

8) Phone booted into recovery just fine, flashed magisk again and root is back. Booted up just fine and everything in working order, OEM Unlock missing though.

So at this stage OEM unlock is missing again but im on renovate and rooted and all is well, so not sure if thats an issue or not?

Thanks

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Oh and just FYI, have rebooted many times now after making rom tweaks and etc, and no issues so far.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pswin09:
That is great news to us. Thanks bro.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] turilo:
Followed your instructions and now currently on custom rom and root verified there, As for rebooting haven't tried as i feel chicken :D
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] LouK:
Oops!

Nevermind then..:o

That's why I sent back my Singapore Note8 and got one from Clove UK. No OEM headaches!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] rocketmail.com:
So basically we don't even need to wait for a week without rebooting device. Maybe you have to rather go back to recovery, clear cache and re inject magisk 14.2.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] mahdibassam:
I simply booted to recovery and re flashed magisk 14.2, didn't wipe anything.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] thegreenthief:
Alright, here's where I'm at after some experimentation.

I received my phone on the 19th, and when I looked in "Developer options" for the "OEM Unlock" option it was not present. A week (7 days) goes by and I look in "Developer options" again and I see that "OEM Unlock" is there. I enabled the toggle that day, and then in the evening I successfully flashed TWRP and noverity. After this I rebooted, according to the instructions, and I encountered the "Only official released binaries are allowed to be flashed" message along with a soft brick. Reflashed stock firmware to get out of it and "OEM Unlock" had vanished from "Developer options".

Now, a week goes by after this (7 days again) and I check for "OEM Unlock" on the 26th. Just like clockwork it's there. This time I flash TWRP, skip noverity, and flash Magisk. I'm able to successfully root and I boot into the system -- I check "Developer options" for "OEM Unlock" and the toggle isn't there. For whatever reason after a while I decided I would reboot to see what would happen. I went into a soft brick with the same "Only official released binaries are allowed to be flashed" message. I'm kind of kicking myself, because now I need to wait another week for the toggle to show up so I can make another attempt.

Next week I am going to flash TWRP, flash Magisk, and then let the phone sit there for another week while I wait for the "OEM Unlock" toggle to show back up. Once that happens I am going to see if I can reboot freely or if I encounter another soft brick situation. If I soft brick again I'm fresh out of ideas as a phone that is rooted but can never be rebooted without flashing back to stock is a non-starter.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
I have rebooted mine a dozen or more times as I have gone through the process of getting all my old stuff on, also been in and out of TWRP several times. I have not been back into the bootloader or developer options. Folks that stayed in TWRP through flashing a rom with knox disabled and pre-rooted can probably rest easy based on the recent posts. Then again maybe not, some of you guys have to bite the bullet to flesh that out. Can we just flash a rom? Does it have to be pre-rooted but Knox is ok or vice versa? We need both? C'mon, it's for the good of the community!

Having talked a good game in the last paragraph I have to admit I finally have the phone I've been wanting through weeks of rootless suffering and I'm scared to answer a text lest something go wrong, let alone experiment any more. O_o :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Andysmith71:
Still laughing from your post! This is good news, now all we need are for some other users to try this method and report. I'm a few days away now from getting out of the naughty corner after the dreaded 'unofficial binaries' fiasco, so will report back when I'm out of jail.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] rocketmail.com:
Lol.

You are not alone in that 7 day jail.

I still have 5 days left .
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pswin09:
Oop... very sorry to hear that. I think only solution we can bypass is flashing knox disabled custom rom.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] white7561:
I already said this a long time ago. To try this lol