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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] superdarius13:
Please help - same problem

I have a Samsung SM-N950F, but mine does not have an OEM unlock feature... Can I still root my device? I am having trouble installing TWRP on my phone and I think it might be because of that? How do I root my device without it?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] rocketmail.com:
If you have setup your Samsung and Google Account, then OEM unlock will appear on 7th day after that.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
Every time you try and flash you are resetting the clock on getting your OEM switch to show up which is on a 7 day nominal timer. You need to stop what you're doing and wait. In more or less 7 days you will get your OEM unlock switch. At that point enable it and follow the instructions already outlined in the thread. Your phone must have connectivity because it contacts Samsung in the background and the process is required because you must get talkback from Samsung before your phone will show OEM unlock. Keep in mind that when Samsung hides the switch it also sets it to an off status which means you cannot flash anything but official firmware. There is a misconception that you must be signed in to Google, Samsung, or both in order to get the OEM unlock. This is not true, people have got it with either, both, and neither sign in's. It's all about Samsung phoning home in the background, that communication must take place.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] igor.brasildroid:
OEM disappeared on my case.. waited for 7 days (which should be today) without turning off, still no sign of "OEM Unlock"!

What did I do wrong?? I'm nearly going back to S7..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] godmode1970:
1 week ago I ordered my Note 8 (SM-N950F) from Amazon Germany.

The package had a label "Only for european Sim-Cards).

The OEM-Unlock Toggle was there out of the box.

Even after rooting with SuperSu and several reboots the option is still there.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] majid_10:
My phone still in jail since 15 days. No sign for OEM unlock. What is the solution?

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Techvir:
I got N950F from Handtec... I was fully rooted and on renovate rom... Had OEM unlock when I initially got the device.

Today I had to flash the official firmware to do some resets and Volia my OEM unlock has disappeared...

Did not realize that I could lose OEM unlock in the UK version of the device...

I guess the wait begins now.. What a **** show... Paid a lot of extra money just to get the UK version.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] orionpk:
Didn't know it's a timer thing. I'm on my second day.. Can't wait to flash renovate ice rom, let's see.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] azq8ooz:
Don't worry renovate rom hide this option and you can check in page
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Techvir:
Yes. but the option did not show up after flashing a stock full firmware...

I tried to flash modified file and it says cannot flash non samsung files.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
The good news is you will get it back in more or less a week, but yeah, it sucks that the UK phones (or any out of the box phone with OEM unlock) can have this problem if they revert to stock software. I'm not sure that I recall anyone reporting that one yet? There is no chance I'll get the S9 but I'll be thinking carefully about what would have been a sure purchase when the Note 9 rolls around. Samsung isn't winning any hearts and minds in this house.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] force70:
If someone had a solution we wouldn't have this issue still would we?

sent from my Note FE
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] nouraiz1990:
bootloop

followed all steps.

after oem unlock i reboted into download mode.

istalled twrp and opened twrp

format data

flashed dm no variety

flashed renovate 2.3 rom

flashed magisk

wipedata

flashed magisk again. rebooted but stuck on samsung note 8 logo. then i had to flash stock firmware. any idea what i had done wrong?

8 sm N950F
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Techvir:
This is the first time I have seen this happen too... But most people who flash custom roms dont have to go back to stock firmware...

So people should be careful about flashing stock firmware...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ALEXRUSS55:
After 4 jail periods, this is the only one that worked flawlessly!! Thank you so much, finally have a fully functioning phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] GeneStalker:
After format data, did you do a Reboot to Recovery back to TWRP, and another Reboot to Recovery after you've flashed renovate ?

The wipedata after magisk is not required.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] metzo32:
Now in 4th time jail!! After flash Reno 2 times face a problems with Magisk root ,so going to flash another Rom

Trying as usual change to another Rom ,No way fail in Red zone again!! Now I'm waiting want to flash this time

Infinity DX 3.0 Nougat 7.1.1(xxv) (Port Note 8)it is working super in my 8+ for now with a hill of customizes..Any one try it please ,

If it will work well after getting out of Jail ? Or the device stuck with Reno and Light only ? Thanks..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
I've flashed Reno, light, romaur, alice, ketan, and minatuarus. My method for subsequent roms has been reformat, reboot recovery, flash rom, factory reset, flash magisk, reboot. I've actually flashed most of those twice and reno 4 or 5 times because it was my fall back rom, The method described has been working for me.

Where does one find Infinity DX?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] metzo32:
thanks for your support,Appreciated.. I did the same but frankly without last 2 steps ( factory reset, flash magisk again) I was using super user.And I 'm used to just flash TWRP no root ,The root in Rom as always !

IS it allowed to put a link here?( cheek PM) Minatuarus was my 2nd jail by the way )))
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
Wow, that's a tough go, I wasn't able to adequately translate it so I'm gonna have to pass on it. I had poor luck with Minatuarus myself, I didn't loop but there were quite a few bugs and it's got only the lightest debloat. Potential there but better options are about for sure. I boot looped on Alice, thought I was in jail for sure but I hard commanded reboot to system and then was able to catch the window for TWRP on the reboot. Lucky on that one because I've had little luck hitting that window, at one point I missed it 4 times in a row when we were still trying to various crap to get OEM unlock to show.

As to root I've had poor luck with magisk "sticking" I've had to go back and reflash it every time but once in order to get root. Somewhere along the line I decided to simply flash it over the rom as a final step and that has usually worked to get root out of the box. One of the magisk versions, I think 14.2 (don't hold me to it) had a bug which kept it from working correctly but it's fixed in the latest version. I have also done a full wipe install on one of those roms but I cant remember which one now and that worked. I suspect it would work with any of them but it's faster to just reformat so I've been doing that as step one. It's no big either way for me because I can restore my user apps in Ti and it takes little to to redo the settings.

I would not skip the factory reset. It's good practice for any rom installation as it can prevent a lot of odd errors in system that people often fix by factory resetting after the fact. Doing it up front wont hurt anything and takes literally a few seconds. Is it necessary? I'm not sure. That's the truth. I am still up and running though and I haven't been skipping it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] rocketmail.com:
https://samsungvn.com/threads/dx-3-...-1-1-for-galaxy-note8-s8-s8-03-11-2017.33150/

Here you have it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] metzo32:
WOW,brave man you are ..:good: So did you try it as well or just know about it? it was my question in

the first place..If somebody flashed on Note 8 after jail of course..Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
Cool, looks interesting. Did you install rocket? I'm downloading now but wont get to trying an install until tonight. That is assuming no one steps in with a negative report between now and then...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] SimplyCity:
Guys, I get my N8 back from service. They wrote in description that main board was replaced. So Knox 00 and when I boot it up OEM was there. So turned it on, did every single step needed (Krabman's way) and finally have Echoe back in place. But what concerns me most, and actually is freakin surprise, that there is no OEM in dev settings! Right after flasH (Echoe rom does not hide OEM)… gaccount set, sammyaccount too, have magisk root, working system but no OEM… is it possible that I am somehow doomed? Now, that state is strange, devices is working. I'm afraid of reboot, I think I won't do that for some time…

Now, is there anything I can do? I mean to not end with stock rom? Is there something we/you can think that should be checked/replaced, anything, having root access, to bring OEM back? Or just wait for it to appear? And if wait, should I flash stock or stick with current state? Strange…

Echoe[emoji769] team member / S8+ powered by Echoe[emoji769]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] rocketmail.com:
I've downloaded it, but am yet to flash cos am locked up on LightRom for now, can't reboot. ( I changed kernel and OEM unlock has disappeared. )

I will definitely try it when am out, it looks good and has stock kernel as Renovate so won't give much trouble.

Am on his Telegram group as well.

---------- Post added at 07:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:48 PM ----------

Just don't reboot, wait for it to reappear.

Possibly 7 days.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
Some roms hide the OEM unlock switch, not sure if this is the case with echoe?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] SimplyCity:
Thanks guys. I will wait and see if it show up again. Echoe doesn't hide OEM.

:)

Echoe[emoji769] team member / N8 powered by Echoe[emoji769]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
Infinity installed using the usual procedures, OEM unlock immediately visible and on after boot. Too early to make any call on the rom but so far so good. I'll report back later when I get my Ti backup in and all that stuff. :)

Edit... No debloat done in this rom, not good. On the other side of the coin it has by a large margin the greatest amount of customizations available among the roms I've tried so far. An FYI, if you install things will be a little wacky until you open up their section in settings and give it admin rights.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] mputtr:
Currently on Renovate after finally getting out of jail twice.

What I did that works for me (I restarted 4-5 times last night as a test)

1) Wait for OEM Unlock switch to pop up (activate it)

2) Flash TWRP (uncheck reboot)

3) Flash Renovate (the previous time I got stuck in jail, I already formatted the internal drive) and choose a SU method (I went with Magisk)

4) restart the phone

5) Good to go.

Renovate provides the root method already which includes the removal of dm-verity, so I didn't reflash Magisk.

The one mistake that screwed me over previously was that I flashed TWRP then Magisk, then went back into the stock rom. I didn't wait for the OEM Unlock to pop back up again and restarted the phone which soft bricked me.

The main thing is to flash a custom ROM to stop yourself from getting into softbrick.

I think I will play around with a few more ROMs before I settle, but I would prefer to get a close to stock as possible. Renovate seems good so far, so who knows.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] rocketmail.com:
Thanks for the feedback, like i said before it looked promising.

My view for now is to go for Rom with stock kernel or change kernel to stock before rebooting to system.

I've always had problem when i use custom kernel on my Note 8, others don't, so am playing it safe.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
I haven't had any troubles with kernals but haven't installed any, in other words I've done a couple that came with the rom and it's been ok. For sure some guys have went down in flames installing them afterwords though, quite a few reports of that. I tend to agree with playing it safe, when you're accustomed to root a week is a long time without it. It would be nice if we could reach a solid foundation of knowledge so we just plain knew, love it hate it, doesn't matter. At least we're slowly getting closer.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] maheshhtc:
My OEM lock has appeared after a week now. This time I do not want to mess with OEM. Can someone guide with solid tutorial if I just want to TWRP & Root my SM-N950F & take a backup of my stock rom. Later to install a custom rom without loosing OEM unlock. NooB.....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
What you have described is what you absolutely can't do, you will get a binaries error and have to reinstall stock firmware. You must install a de-knoxed rom, it isn't optional. It would be a good idea to read at least some of this thread, you can't have read very much and came up with that question.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] metzo32:
Thanks, Good to know that there is no problem with N8, It's the same I used for S8+ for over a week now

Everything are fine working so smooth with Xposed as well! Will do after jail sure..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
I appreciate the heads up, I had not known it was available and I'd have to say it's now my daily driver for the time being. I've done pretty much everything I do with the phone at this point and I have no issues in my use. I'm still debloating and that takes a little time to figure out the various dependencies but like everyone else I've got a lot of practice with Samsung devices and I'll have that in hand soon enough. Outside of that the options available are nice and they all seem to work.

Do remember to go into the main settings sooner rather than later and enable root for the rom control, until I did that I had a lot of weirdness going on. I was actually going to flash out of it and go back to RomAur at first blush, I found the menus that had a wave animation added to them really awful.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] nouraiz1990:
Yes after format i rebooted back to recovery, but after flashing rom i didnt rebooted back to recovery. Is it necessary ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Accessories] MysteryEmotionz:
I'm a construction worker and I currently put my phone in one of the pockets of my tool belt. Because of this my screen protector is all scratched up cause of everything else I put in that pocket. My phone had also fallen out of my pouch while I was on a roof and feel to the ground. Luckily my phone survived.

Aight enough back story lol. I'm looking for something that had a belt loop not a clip and that can hold a s8+ in a life proof case.. the belt loop needs to be big enough so my told belt will fit in threw it as it's bigger then a standard belt.

Anyone have any suggestions?
[Desire 626 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Honeyotter:
So I have had this phone for about two years or so, and had acquired a different phone through a different service. So I just had this phone sitting around. Well I go to turn it back on out of curiosity, and it hits me with the message, "This build is for development purposes only" and includes different boot options. I've tried them all, but none of them work. So I'm looking for either help to fix it, or to sell it.
[Moto G4 Guides, News, & Discussion] flako72:
So from what I can see amazon was able to achieve what almost no smart phone company had done that is to avoid root to their teams, it is unfortunate what is happening with the moto g4 / plus teams that today have just given the bad news that they will not upgrade to 8. And if this is added to not be able to unlock the booloader and can imagine the disappointment that I have bought this equipment.
[Moto G4 Guides, News, & Discussion] Fede79:
G4 / G4 plus aren't candidates for upgrade to Android O. It's a shame, same thing happend with Moto G3 and Nougat.

Enviado desde mi Motolenovo G4
[Moto G4 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ytim08:
G4Plus is getting O...
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] waterbottle999:
I would very much appreciate some help, ive been searching for hours now.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] blackbuffalo:
https://romfirmware.com/2017/08/01/huawei-honor-8-frd-l14/

For you
[General Questions and Answers] anubhab metya:
hellow guyz its my first question

i have yu yu 5010a

i have install fun touch os but i forgot to back up my stable rom....

now i cant return on my stock rom

this shows os is not installed

what should i do??

plz help
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] AncientDeveloper:
Hi, I understand that the G-2PW2100s all share identical hardwares, but are the bootloader partitions interchangeable between the Verizon ones & non-Verizon ones? (<- This is question #1) i.e. Can I for example use NJH47F factory image instead of NHG47Q (Verizon) from https://developers.google.com/android/images#marlin on a Verizon marlin assuming the bootloader is unlocked? Or if the stock rom is already rooted and I can overwrite the bootloader partitions via dd? Or perhaps fastboot boot twrp and then dd the bootloader partitions?

If so, can one say there are then no differences between these G-2PW2100 variants? (<- This is question #2)

Update 1: Since everyone focuses on the unlockability and ignores what's asked above, let me state that I know there's currently no way to unlock the bootloader or root the Verizon Pixel, and the purpose of this thread is to collect information in order to help those stuck with a locked bootloader on Verizon Pixels. If you have such information, feel free to share; repeating "you can't unlock/root" is not helpful. I do not own a Verizon Pixel, and I have absolutely nothing to gain from this; I merely want to give back to the community.

Rooting gives one access to read/write the partitions on the eMMC, therefore gives the ability to overwrite the bootloader partitions, which allows unlocking the bootloader.

Unlocking the bootloader also grants read/write access to the partitions on the eMMC, therefore allowing one to overwrite the partitions on the eMMC.

Sneaking an OTA pre-rooted image may or may not be possible, so is finding another way to gain access such as disabling signature check.

The point is, it comes down to the ability to write the partitions on eMMC; once it's writable, you own everything that's on the eMMC. Most people tend to think it's only about the ability to root/unlock, which isn't exactly false, but it's not exactly true either.

Update 2: According to aboot.c, the last byte of the eMMC controls whether a device can be unlocked or not (assuming the compiled aboot in your device uses this logic) For future reference, code is attached.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] Nochis:
I don't think you can fastboot boot twrp img with lock bootloader.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] AncientDeveloper:
Right, but if there's a way to flash or write to the partitions, it should be able to convert a Verizon Pixel to a non-Verizon Pixel. That's what I'm trying to confirm.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] TonikJDK:
You can't overwrite a locked bootloader...that is the very definition of a locked bootloader. Yes, you need root. Root either temporary or permanent is what is needed to unlock the VZ phones. This has been covered a million times here.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] AncientDeveloper:
The question asked in the post was that if this was doable, then there should be no differences between the 2 variants? I have not asked if unlocking the bootloader is possible at the moment.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] martinez5241:
Go ahead, brick it. You can't. Same hardware doesn't mean same software, there's still a difference.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] AncientDeveloper:
The Verizon image is obviously different than the non-Verizon one. That's a proven as the checksums are different. The question asked was that by loading the non-Verizon image into a Verizon Pixel, does it effectively make the phone non-Verizon since the hardware is the same?
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] TonikJDK:
Lets clear up some misconceptions here.

The phones ship with exactly the same image. It is not until you put in a VZ SIM do you get the different image. And it is only changes to radio and some network settings. Don't matter where you bought it, and it has nothing to do with locking.

Verizon does not lock the phone. They all ship locked including Googles. When you start it up it phones home to Google and Google decides if the phone qualifies to be unlocked. If so it unlocks. Verified with packet captures.

You will not unlock this phone without root. You will not flash anything other than OTA's without root.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] chazall1:
If Rooted

yes on the first

NO on the second
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] AncientDeveloper:
Since we're on the "unlockability" subject, we know that once it normal boots with a Verizon SIM, it becomes not unlockable; but does anyone know if it's because the phone contacts Verizon/Google & received "you can't unlock" command, or the baked-in factory image is pre-programmed to do this once the phone boots with a Verizon SIM?

Technically, one would just need to gain access to write to the eMMC; rooting is one way to gain such access.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] toknitup420:
It has nothing to do with the sim. This has been covered a million times. Some think it's the cid. Others think it's the IMEI. Either way it's nothing you can get around without temp root.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] AncientDeveloper:
I don't have a Verizon Pixel to verify what you're saying, but according to this post, what you said is not true. Either way, I'm just trying to study the specifics and help the community, and I have nothing to gain or lose by either helping or not helping the community.

As mentioned, "rooting" is one way to gain access to write the system onto eMMC, unlocking bootloader is another; there may or may not be other methods. Saying one cannot get around without temp root is quite an absolute statement. And yes, I have also read most of the "million" threads.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] AncientDeveloper:
Thank you for your time and effort. I did not want to explain all that. I was attempting to collect information, but instead ended up explaining myself and replying replies that weren't related to the questions I asked.

Anyway, here's a minor update: According to the aboot.c code (and assuming the logic is not modified), the last byte of the eMMC controls whether the device is unlockable. Having root would be nice as it allows the user to write anything onto the eMMC, which makes this rather easy if it's a matter of overwriting one byte.
[Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers] npjohnson:
Which aboot.c are you analyzing?

1. Google uses its own lock/unlock mechanism, much alike many other OEM's.

2. msm8996 uses non-standard LK, so it the public LK logic isn't necessarily what we use.