yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] BladeRunner:
Yes, the bootloader is stil v1 so you can still go back to Oreo if need be.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] SkylerMews:
Is this update safe too?

Am I good to update?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] sacnotsack:
Yep
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] SkylerMews:
Update

How many updates can I do before root isn't possible for me? After updating from that last update, I now have another update.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
who knows. might be 0 might be 10
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] SkylerMews:
Well, I'd hate to post an image every time I get an update xD

What should I best do?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
dont think anyone really knows yet. if ever there's a proper root method using stock firmware, upon the next patch cycle it would probably be adressed. does it mean that any updates till then can be done? maybe. alot are saying that aslong as the bootloader isn't incremented you should be good. but since the root method is not yet 'public' , i fail to see why it would stop anything. the minute root is made public then yeah but as long as its not then bootloader could be v3 and i dont see why it would be an issue. again as long as the method is not made known, they can't patch the flaw beforehand without knowing/seeing it.

anyways just my thoughts.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] SkylerMews:
That seems fair enough, and sorry for the newbie questions, but how would one go about seeing if the bootloader version was increased before paying the update? If there's no easy way, then I'm fine with not updating until root is achieved and made public.

Just as a note, I soo appreciate you all and what you do. Hats off to all of ya!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
easy just check that the number in the picture isisnt incremented. typically the 5 th number starting from the right
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] SkylerMews:
Awesome! Thank you! I'm sure this will help others in the future too!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
If we could get someone with the snapdragon 9600 version to do a dump of boot/oem/vendor/system (possiblt TOS) partitions images I could help a bit. Would love to dig into the bootloader side of things. I found quite a few hidden commands on the pixel 2 when I was still using it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
wouldn't extracting it from stock firmware work?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I want to see theirs to see the lines that differ between theirs and ours, and do a comparison of files. I don't think you can pull the images without being bootloader unlocked either, at least we couldn't on the pixel.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Thanks by the way, these did unpack into useable images where typically on pixel firmware for example you couldn't extract them this way. I'll going to have a peek though

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Now unfortunately, there are still files I need that are missing. When someone pulls from their device, files that are not in the "fota.zip" when I try to look into the firmware are there when someone pulls their partition. Would still end up being a huge help for me and potentially leading towards something regarding bootloader unlock (not making any promises)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jammol:
This needs to be done from a N9600 that is unlocked already?

Edit: Never mind. My buddy who has an N9600 said he got rid of his. Sorry.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] lincolnsxda:
Made a thread in snapdragon asking for said file dump
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Good idea I'll ask in one of the Snapdragon root threads
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] SkylerMews:
I've got a SM-N960U Snapdragon Sprint model. Would that be helpful at all? And if so, how would I go about dumping those said files, would I need to dismantle the phone ... ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Yours is 960U which means it's a locked bootloader. He needs the 9600 that has the unlockable bootloader :/
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxspokiixx:
I have an n9600 with the bootloader unlocked, let me know what do you need
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] RogueList:
But he is rooting the 960u so how would 9600 help?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Aaren11:
as stated:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] SkylerMews:
Sorry about that! Thanks for the clarification!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Well, since the bootloaders on both devices are similar except ours is locked with some key and tied to Knox and all that crap, he wants to take a look at the unlockable one (you know, the one that isn't locked with a key) and tries to compare the two and see what key points he might find from the unlockable one to try to apply to or change on ours and, hopefully, unlock it. That's the simplest explanation I can come up with. LOL

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Not a problem, bud. If you have any other questions, I'd suggest that you take them to my thread. I've created a whole new "everything thread" for any questions people have so they don't clutter important threads like this one with things that are off topic/don't help with root. Feel free to talk about anything you want there :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
A full partition dump would be amazing if possible. I need to go through the vendor, boot, system and tos partitions in particular.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] xxspokiixx:
Sure, but can pm, no idea how to dump and also I have installed a custom rom (WETA).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] mustasusi:
I have a rooted N9600 with TGY (Hong Kong) firmware on it. Is it helpful?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
Any unlockable will help, I believe. And it has to be the snapdragon variant, too.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] mustasusi:
It is. A dual SIM though.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
I don't think that that matters. As long as it is a Qualcomm powered phone. Because they're the ones who lock the bootloader with their "secure boot" process.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Yess would be fantastic.

Here's some info how

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2450045
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] mustasusi:
PS B:\Android\Sammy> adb shell
crownqltechn:/ $ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

1 0 8192 ram0
1 1 8192 ram1
1 2 8192 ram2
1 3 8192 ram3
1 4 8192 ram4
1 5 8192 ram5
1 6 8192 ram6
1 7 8192 ram7
1 8 8192 ram8
1 9 8192 ram9
1 10 8192 ram10
1 11 8192 ram11
1 12 8192 ram12
1 13 8192 ram13
1 14 8192 ram14
1 15 8192 ram15
253 0 2097152 vnswap0
8 0 499781632 sda
8 1 2048 sda1
8 2 2048 sda2
8 3 4 sda3
8 4 8 sda4
8 5 32768 sda5
8 6 20480 sda6
8 7 10240 sda7
8 8 1024 sda8
8 9 512 sda9
8 10 30720 sda10
8 11 21504 sda11
8 12 512 sda12
8 13 4096 sda13
8 14 16384 sda14
8 15 6144 sda15
259 0 97280 sda16
259 1 87040 sda17
259 2 32768 sda18
259 3 8192 sda19
259 4 65536 sda20
259 5 70644 sda21
259 6 4901888 sda22
259 7 841728 sda23
259 8 204800 sda24
259 9 328704 sda25
259 10 5120 sda26
259 11 10240 sda27
259 12 10240 sda28
259 13 492967772 sda29
8 48 61440 sdd
8 49 1024 sdd1
8 50 2048 sdd2
8 51 2048 sdd3
8 52 512 sdd4
8 53 512 sdd5
8 54 16 sdd6
8 55 512 sdd7
8 56 4096 sdd8
8 57 4 sdd9
8 58 1024 sdd10
8 59 384 sdd11
8 60 512 sdd12
8 61 512 sdd13
8 62 512 sdd14
8 63 256 sdd15
259 14 256 sdd16
259 15 4 sdd17
259 16 4 sdd18
259 17 128 sdd19
259 18 512 sdd20
259 19 64 sdd21
259 20 64 sdd22
259 21 2048 sdd23
259 22 2048 sdd24
259 23 2048 sdd25
259 24 40136 sdd26
8 32 4096 sdc
8 33 3328 sdc1
8 34 612 sdc2
8 16 4096 sdb
8 17 3328 sdb1
8 18 612 sdb2
179 0 500072448 mmcblk0
179 1 500071407 mmcblk0p1
7 64 65536 loop64

the /dev/block/platform/ however is empty. I have only one folder called "soc" and 2 irrelevant files there. Do I need to force mount it somehow?

Or maybe because I'm running WETA custom ROM?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
just type mount.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] mustasusi:
I get "no such file or directory"View attachment 4745585
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
not sure through adb but locally through a term and typing just 'mount' nothing more, ull get a ton of results
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] mustasusi:
Yup, I've got that many out of it

View attachment 4745815

What next?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
lol i dont know you tell me
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] lincolnsxda:
Thanks.

It is truly appreciated that you're helping out when it's not any benefit to you.

That says to me that your a person with great character. The respect you have for the community-at-large, and to the ideal that people should help when they can, ask for it when needed. And know that the likelihood of both of those things are great.

That's what our world needs to find it's way back. You sir, inspire hope for us all.

Thank You

Lincoln
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] iPwnKota:
Little update warning if it matters. This update TRIED TO FORCE ITESLF ON MY PHONE. I had deleted this update a total of 4 times now with auto updates disabled (I also have no sim in my phone). The 4th time it tried to sneak up on me and download/auto install over night with no warning like a windows machine (very luckily I caught it before it happened). The 5th number from the right in the update title is still 1 so hopefully it's not patched but I'm going to try my best to steer clear of this one.

[IMG="update"]https://i.imgur.com/6HHASdq.jpg[/IMG]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] SkylerMews:
Looks like the bootloader version wasn't incrimented so it should be okay if I remember correctly.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jammol:
The bootloader is still v1 so you're good to update if you want to. To avoid any further updates, flash the CP file of a lower firmware for you model device. Just make sure it's from the carrier firmware you're using. It will break ota and you won't have to worry about updates anymore.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] cartoonmonkey:
I got a forced update as well recently.

I’m on N960U1UEU1CSC2

How can I easily tell if I have a locked bootloader?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
if you own a n960u, n960u1 or n960w.

also most likely if you bought your phone from a north american carrier, from samsung us/canada or any large large NA electronics chain like best buy and such.

edit

in this case you own a n960u1
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] RogueList:
Just go to developer settings and check if u have oem unlock if u dont ur device is locked if ur phone has it then u have the option to unlock it
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] JOSHSKORN:
Is this update safe to take?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] The_Keeper86:
Definitely keeping an eye on this thread. Thanks for your hard work! I really miss root.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] /laron.m.s.08:
Had my hopes up lol.i have 2 of these bricks rt now ?? dying for su
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
its slow moving doin it alone along with everyday life lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] jkt97401:
Elliwigy, thank you so much for your work and time you spend for the community! Do you have a donation link? I'd love to buy you a beer/coffee/tea!

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mr. Orange 645:
You are under appreciated for sure!

I'd like to buy you a water. But not like a bottle of water. Like a cup of water. You know like when you go to McDonalds and you say, I'd like a cup for icewater, and they give you a paper cup that says "water" on it, and you have to go fill it yourself? Yeah, I'd like to buy you one of those waters. ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] /laron.m.s.08:
any thing I. An do to help .plz let me know.like I said I have 2 of them
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] FtaWolf:
It'll be nice if this happens.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] keaheng:
How to avoid installing rev2 firmware? Im so confused.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mr. Orange 645:
If you're talking about the bootloader version, so far all the Snapdragon models are on bootloader v1 still. When you look at the build number, the bootloader version is the 5th number from the right. I.e. N960USQU1CSAA is bootloader v1.

Unknown when Samsung will update to bootloader v2.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] butchieboy:
Freeze software updates with Package Disabler.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] keaheng:
So whats software version that contents the rev2 firmware?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] JOSHSKORN:
What does this mean for my Note 9 that I bought from T-mobile? Are we talking about unlocking the bootloader and rooting?

BTW TY for your hard work and assistance with my former device: Note 4.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] BladeRunner:
None yet, but I wouldn't install any future updates until it is confirmed they are REv1 not Rev2.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mr. Orange 645:
As I said, it's unknown when Samsung will upgrade the bootloader to v2. So if it's unknown WHEN, how would we know what build will upgrade it?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] jameslapc2:
Likely they'll push it as soon as root is out but I'm just speculating. With Samsung you never know they do as they want.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] butchieboy:
[MENTION=5132260]keaheng[/MENTION]

If you have more questions feel free to ask me in a PM. I dont want to clutter Elliwigy thread. If I dont know the answer I will ask Mr Orange...[emoji106]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
and an other life long friendship was made thanks to the magic of xda!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jammol:
But what about me???

They should add that to the website motto.?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
yeah that and: did you use search ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] RogueList:
Yes its still U1
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jammol:
Guys, please go to the Everything Thread to ask your questions concerning updates and bootloader versions. Please let's keep this thread to being only for the actual discussion of root progress. [MENTION=5300329]K-alz[/MENTION] setup the Everything Thread for such questions. ??

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-9/how-to/everything-thread-t3915796/page28
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Venom0642:
Yes it's with bootloader v1
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] sacnotsack:
Search function "update" works well......
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] gwest04:
So has anyone tested the safestrap and root method?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Sorry been crazy with Easter.

22, 23, and 24 would really help!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jammol:
It's still being worked on
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] lodk:
I am not a dev and know nothing about programming android at all, so first I want to thank everyone here that has donated time and or their devices. I truly appreciate it.

Now with that out of the way I was thinking of something out of the box. I noticed there are codes that you put in your dial keypad like to pull up your imei number among others. This is not new I understand but my though is this.

Is there a code that can bring you to the bootloader lock? I am talking like where you can actually put in the unlock code for the bootloader.

Now my other thought is if this keypad code is not an option is their anyway already known to access the actual lock and maybe brureforce it.

Just thoughts i have had, not sure if any of it is even possible or if already tried.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I actually am looking through this exact thing. Here's a few I've found but they don't all seem to work.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
if only it were so simple.

I'd doubt that they would have left such an easy thing to find unencrypted. more over since the bootlaoder is not unlockable, the system wouldint have such a 'switch' like the other international phones have(OEM unlock).

( and if ever any of this were possible, i dont think in 2019 it would still exist. they would have learned their lesson. lets not forget people have been tring to crack this for years and years.)

knowing this, devs trying to gain root, dont even want to try and waste time trying to unlock the bootloader but instead use flaws and exploits to trick the system into loading the custom scripts and to push a payload of hacked files/more scripts and get root.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] lodk:
Thanks that make perfect sense now that I read your reply. Hey it was worth a mention none the less

Again not knowing much about android programming but i my understanding of how a computer loads is this.

You push the button and bios starts this gives the instructions to load the software on a hdd for that system. With that knowledge I also believe that each system has it's own bios for its chipset. This is my basic understanding anyway.

Now bear with me, if this is the same thing android does, starts the bootloader that instructions the system to load the software. Would it be possible to flash a unlocked bootloader from say exynos. I understand that snapdragon is a different chipset then the exynos but thinking this.

If the exynos bootloader is unlocked can it be reprogrammed to meet snapdragon systems or is it also encrypted. Like I say I have no experience in programming or developing so maybe it's not even possible either.

Sorry if this is all just a waste of time just trying to help.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
the system is made so that the minute any of the partitions are modified to be written to, kernel panics and everything stops. that's one of the main hurdles if i understand correctly right now(hence why dev is using combination firm and or maybe eng boot). also unfortunately since the exyno cpu and snapdragon cpu are so different , bootlaoders arent swappable between each other( think of intel vs amd) although there is a version of the snapdragon that has an unlockable bootlaoder much like the exynos.

but again, people arent working on getting the BL unlocked but how to hack the system instead thus keeping BL intact. this seems to be the easiest way since you are working with a system that is taking commands, you can get a sense of what is going on and work with the system via trial and error versus trying to reverse engineer the BL and crack its inner working without being able to actualy work with it/communicate.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] teknowiz23:
It's worth mentioning.. in one of ell's screenshots with root, battery life was 100%.. or above 80%. Above 80 for sure but 100 if I remember right
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] mustasusi:
I know you need the ODM, vendor and system parts and I'd love to share with you all, but I can't seem to locate them on partition list table, where I'm supposed to see at least 12 - I get only one.

View attachment 4747138
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
didint they get around that limitation? i swear i read somewhere that they can finally charge to 100% now...

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we dont see the whole output...

edit looking at the post i asked you to output the results for mount:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=79371516&postcount=371

vendor is sda23

system is sda22

odm is sda24

they are literally right in the middle of your screen shot right one underneath the other ...lol

btw ODM is just the csc directory where the carrier specific files are. it is probably useless in the optic of gaining root.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
Yes.

So far I can get splash but black screen and hangs pr kernel panics from there.

I can also use FF which flashes but so far system and vendor report success but nothing is changed (FF can't flash odm partition)

Long story short, some progress was made but still no cigar.

Also, I am interested in a backup of all the images/partitions on a N9600 variant that is unlocked that are NOT in the normal firmware packages i.e. misc, steady, param you get the idea.

I can even write them to my device for testing using FF and/or dd.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
In adb shell you can type "ls -lZ /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name" and it will list all the partitions by name as well as which blocksthey are on /dev/block...

Odm and vendor we do not needas we can always get that from stock firmware.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
I mean odm has an init.rc script and a build.prop which could help with root but unfortunately we cannot modify it due to write protect but yes, it can be obtained from stock firmware so it's not needed
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Something else popped into my head today as well: now that we have "linux on dex", I'm wondering if this could be exploited in any way?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] dwertz:
Or even the work profile ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] mustasusi:
This is what I get out of it:

View attachment 4747873

Now I have ODM, vendor and system out. Are folder sizes reasonable?

View attachment 4747874

I have some TWRP backups for stock as well as custom ROMs for both Oreo and Pie versions. Just let me know if you need any.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] /laron.m.s.08:
id mentioned this a while back...i think it would work.u can get the key in your build .i found mine ..pretty shure thats how erizion is able to inject updates..with no sim and .download agent diactivated
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] RogueList:
Is it possible just root the phone using a custom server and update it though ota
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] /laron.m.s.08:
i dont think thus thread would be here as long as it has been if it were that easy..but!! ive reasently been talking with a lot of people that use termux and gaining root seems much more achievable now..its a verry different os..i think its great lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] K-alz:
This thread is turning into a "please help" section.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] OPGT:
With constant comments like this, I think it's turning into a complaint thread. Ignore it and move on.