yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] QSquared:
Okay.

So I am not sure what you meant by that but!

What I did was: Loaded the FA71 BL again, and this time it rebooted into the FA71 Firmware as expected without me having to twek the pohojne for hours, it just did it automagically. GREAT

So Then I did the EDL Reboot and it came up Qualcome as before

So then I did the Remaining Steps 4/5

And the phone auto rebooted into recovery as expected.

Then I wiped it, and it come back and booted up into a Samsung auto-provision process.

NOW the device says that it was forced to be reimaged and I have to connect to the internet - it won't let me skip.

I connected to the internet and it started installing updates, which worries me! I don't like to use updated versions of the OS as I am ul;tra paranoid I will lose Root if I do.

So I immediately rebooted the phone to kill that process.

I just want to get back to a Rooted Factory Binary as I had on my last Note 8 under Samfail.

How do I do that?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
read post 2
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] QSquared:
I'm so confused as to why I had to go through all of the "Safestrap" stuff in the first one if it doesn't actually have SafteSrtrap installed and instead I have to flash a bootloader to get into Safestrap.

What would Safestrap gain me? It seems like a needless step, why not just skip the safestrap stuff and put in the nugate root?

couldn't we just flash combo, get into EDL and flash the boot IMG? instead of having the safestrap stuff?

What is the benefit of Safestrap?

If I put the rooted rom in place then I can install a "Safestrap App" to reboot to safestrap directly (if I read another thing correctly that links to the samfail article, and that would allow me to flash multiple roms, I guess?

Now that I read Post 2 I feel like maybe I only needed to do the above?

I will follow Post 2 and do the IMG dance it suggests, in case I misunderstand and the safestrap is really essential somehow, but, on reading htis I am not sure if it is, but I am long since into rooting and rarely had to do more than pwn or fail in the past, so my apology is I'm just completely Krueger Dunning this one.

IN any case, I would have to do Odin to load the Safestrap BL to do the safestrap thingy anyway, seems like the same effort both ways no? I will try that way first though as I am curious what all the hubbub about SafeStrap is. :)

If it's reauired why not just offer it as a pre-done option instead of having users mess with files, then you can just pick the right one for you and follow the steps for it.

I DID improve the CMD scripts you guys provided in these though, I woudl like to contribute that to the project, as the way it was done actually causes the system to limit cmd to 40 lines and that made my system not even report all of my com ports.

I have a v1 which is a slight improvement for review, but it could actually be turned into a simpler choice method with a little list to pick from.

We could probably also just check if the system has any Qualcomm drivers are loaded to warn if none are found, as I believe that should be doable under CMD.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
So I still need confirmation. If this works.

Safestrap allows you to flash zips or modify system without root which allows you to modify pie and oreo roms.

If you can improve method please post the stuff. I don’t have a note 8 or s8 so I cannot test stuff for those devices
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] QSquared:
So, I decided to finish logging into the pie rom that was there, okay, obviously no Safestrap reboot directly, so:

I got dev access

I set USB Debugging

I turned off the verify app over USB

I set the Default USB Configuration to Transferring Files

Authorised the Computer

Opened up Odin, device Added

Put BL_ENG_BOOTLOADERS_SAFESTRAP_N950U_V5.tar.md5 into the BL Option, flicked Flash, Failed a few times

Going to try to do it the EDL Method instead of the safestrap method.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
I know v5 edl and pie rom with safestrap works im looking for someone trying v6 to tell me if they had success
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] QSquared:
Doesn't work consistently, unless was I supposed to reboot to Factory to load that BL in step 1 of safestrap method? If So that was unclear, as not mentioned in the directions..?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] QSquared:
Okay can't get the factory rom to work by safe strap or EDL.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
You are wrong on 1 statement. It is 100 percent real root on nougat rom as it states.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] bambinattor:
Baseband N950USQU6DSH3

Hi: this work on N950USQU6DSH3 august patch?

I don't know this method and i wait long Time for that, i lost opportunity Sam fail too.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Then obviously you have no idea what real root is. To say that a rooted system that is rooted with supersu 2.82 sr5 zip is not real root is just a plain asinine statement too make. No one is arguing its not the most current. Why don’t you explain the software limitations of a rooted nougat rom on the s8 or note 8. Then I will concede my argument
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] enigma1400:
I had EDL and the pie rom working on V6, ended up switching to rooted nougat for the time being though. Everything working fine, same 80% battery bug and occasional screen glitch as samfail but since it's no longer my main phone it's not a problem. Phone calls work as well, I wasn't able to verify VoLTE though.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] QSquared:
The Method DOES work but is SUPER Finicky. I was on v5 Boot Loader and it took a lot of re-running the steps repeatedly to make it happen.

Also, I found that despite the OP's claims I could NOT use Safestrap to replace the system image with the Rooted Nougat image, I could only do that through the EDL Method.

Still this si definitely a viable EDL Method Root, and I kinda like the Safestrap backup and restore features, so it's worth having on there.

IF you don't run into a problem getting into Recovery due to a wonky flash of the Combo firmware then it's fairly straight forward once you know what all of the screens you should expect to see look like.

If you want Oreo or Pie Rooted, that is a No-Go unless you do a NON Samsung ROM, which to me defeats the point of buying a Note at all.

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Bty the way, once I flashed and wiped multiple timesin recovery things went more smoothly, dunno why the phone was SO finicky the first times they all passed too.

I was NEVER able to install the rooted Nugat System Image using SafeStrap though, but I was able to do so using the EDL method, although it again two loops of the same flashes to make it work correctly.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] gcounts:
Wow so disrespectful. No one forces you to use this. If you don't or can't appreciate the hard work put in to this don't use it. Who TF are you to come and bash? Move along nothing here for you.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Keep trolling threads you have no business being in and keep commenting on stuff you know nothing about. It really does make you look bad. I don’t have to justify anything. I guarantee you my opinion is more respected on this forum than yours is. Do us all a favor keep using and benefiting from people like me and give back nothing like you do. We all appreciate what you don’t do. Thank you!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Were you able to switch to nougat rom from pie by flashing rooted nougat image with safestrap?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
What did it do when you tried to flash system.img with safestrap?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Blob Blobbed:
Hey, so I just ran the COMBINATION_FA71_N950USQU5ARJ1_CL13942288_QB20391489_REV00_user_mid_noship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5, but accidentally skipped running the Reboot_EDL.bat step and forced a poweroff by holding the power and volume down button instead, rebooted into download mode, then ran the BL_ZERO_FORCE_EDL_N950U.tar.md5, and now my phone won't turn on at all.

Did i brick myself? Is there any hope? I see no signs of life.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] QSquared:
It woudl only give me a black screen after the initial Samsung/android screen where you woudl get into recovery.

I reflashed to Safestrap and applied system.img again and then again reflashed the loader to get me out of the safe strap boot loop, but it behaved the same way.

3rd time wasn't a charm, so I just did EDL, since I already had copied that system.img file to the correct directory and was pulling that copy of it, I know there wasn't a different one used but it worked just fine when I did it that way, I'd actually call it a smooth process.

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Hey Bob,

Read my previous posts on this.

the guide is incredibly bare-bones, so you don't know when things are wrong or right.

Essentially you have hit the same issue I had, of having a SUPER finicky time getting into the phone.

you need to get into the Recovery (See a previous post here where I explain all of the weird ways I was finding my phone behaving and how to deal with them)

Once in Recovery flash the original step's file again.

it should boot you into an actual PIE 9.0 ROM.

FROM THERE you need to run the Reboot to EDL and all following steps.

The initial flash is SUPPOSED to reboot you and have the phone come up in the PIE ROM, THEN run the ADB Reboot EDL command.

Crazy.

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Hey Bob,

Read my previous posts on this.

the guide is incredibly bare-bones, so you don't know when things are wrong or right.

Essentially you have hit the same issue I had, of having a SUPER finicky time getting into the phone.

you need to get into the Recovery (See a previous post here where I explain all of the weird ways I was finding my phone behaving and how to deal with them)

Once in Recovery flash the original step's file again.

it should boot you into an actual PIE 9.0 ROM.

FROM THERE you need to run the Reboot to EDL and all following steps.

The initial flash is SUPPOSED to reboot you and have the phone come up in the PIE ROM, THEN run the ADB Reboot EDL command.

Crazy.

I go into it i more detail in the other posts
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
You did exactly what those red letters tell you not to do. It tells you if you are not familiar with this or have not successfully done before and are confident your computer will recognize phone properly then do not use zero bootloaders method. Your only alternative now is to successfully do the edl process as your phone is stuck on a dead black screen until you run edl and put bootloaders back on the phone. So hopefully it works. If not you had better find a computer that will recognize your phone and flash the edl stuff properly
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Blob Blobbed:
... god i suck.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
I mean I appreciate you trying to help but you are giving out wrong info. You cannot boot to edl mode from a pie rom. The only way to reboot to edl mode is too flash the factory binary combination firmware I provide or zero the bootloaders which I warn you not to do if you are not highly knowledgeable in doing the edl process. I don’t have this phone. So it’s hard for me to find problems especially when no one will work with you. Hit me up on telegram if you would be willing to test somethings for me. You said you were successful in flashing edl so thats half the battle. The safestrap issue maybe my fault I may have added the wrong safestrap files to rom. The s8 and note 8 files are different and that would cause safestrap not to flash correctly. But it seems every time I get someone to help they bail on me when I tell them they need to wipe data.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Blob Blobbed:
Thanks for the tips and the glimmer of hope. I will look into it
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] enigma1400:
Yes I was.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
So when you flashed the zero bootloaders your phone should have rebooted to a dead black screen. Which is ok as it is in edl mode at this point. Now if you goto control panel on computer and system devices you should notice a qualcomn 9008 device under the ports if it has a yellow exclamation then the wrong driver is installed and you will need to google qualcomn 9008 edl drivers and try an older or newer driver. You may have to manually update the driver. If it shows normal and has a port number associated to it its probably ok. Then you can try and run the recovery bat in edl. If it doesn’t work try forcing phone to reboot. Try different ports cables, computers what ever it takes
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
And you flashed the pie image that had safestrap with edl from post 1 correct? Were you able to get pie with safestrap too boot up and run before you switched to nougat?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] enigma1400:
Yeah, I flashed the Pie safestrap image. At first I couldn't get it to boot but that was cause I didn't realize I needed to flash the safestrap zip as well lol, just kept booting to safestrap. Once I flashed the zip I had it up and running in pie and then flashed the nougat system.img in safestrap and did a factory reset and all was good.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
It kept booting to safestrap while on pie? On every reboot Or when you flashed the nougat system image then it would just constantly go into safestrap?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] finessefigure:
Hint

Hint hint, edl mode is a black screen and if you're on the

The engineer combo firmware

you should be able to use adb through terminal with the command (adb reboot edl) but if you don't have platform tools, theres a bash reboot edl you mentioned, or last resort you can flash the combo firmware, then flash the BL force edl. You'll know when youre in edl once your phone is black and your computer is reading it.

If its black and you have the QD hd-USB LOADER 9008 IN YOUR device manager under the ports tab COM4(EXAMPLE)

. Then you're pre set up to run the recovery and when you boot the recovery then type that number it displays above and press enter and let the numbers flow like lightening.

I've done this a hundred times and happened to me twice.

If everything looks normal but the program won't launch. just breathe and don't rush this and overthink,

if it gets stuck and doesn't count down just first try to uninstall drivers, let your battery drain and reboot after you re-install the qd loader driver, reboot again.

Make sure you have Samsung drivers for mobile devices installed and preferably the qd driver 9008 and platform tools just to be safe.

1 Flash the combo engineer md5

2 Let it boot up then run adb reboot edl

3 Run the recovery file, wait until it says finish

Hold Bixby, power and vol down and reboot download

4 Flash the second BL file, not the safestrap, with the HOME csc file together in Odin

5 Then it will reboot normal recovery, which then you factory data reset, then reboot system. Vahla you then will wait until your pie boots up

Ps, yeah pie is fresh and inflexible, but once you get comfortable, you can switch out the system in the edl files or flash in twrp for deodexed deknoxed rooted nougat but practically that's your preference young blood.

That's my first personal touch of instructional help.

Im new too but I only learned from trial and error, just make sure you followed instructions because youll fool yourself and give everyone a headache trying to explain it. Chao
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Now this a good post. Thanks for helping others out
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] finessefigure:
Thanks man!

totally went and simplified and scrapped the hundred typos ?

Really means alot though. I enjoy helping
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] ronpinoy253:
T-Mobile Update Notification

(Tmobile users) Anyone get the recent system update notification to move to N950USQU6DSH3, security patch August 1, 2019?

I have turned off Automatic System updates in Developer Options but not sure how to disable these updates and the downloads of them. Can the update be deleted somehow? I am on Pie using V5 bootloader following the process on this forum.

On another note, does a factory reset break anything on Pie V5 or can it be done to clean up the system again and start fresh. Seeing if I can avoid having to Odin a U5 firmware onto the phone again, then doing the whole EDL method if possible.

Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] DroidisLINUX:
You have to load into safestrap and format cache it might be saved to a different file location but usually updates are saved to the cache partition
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] ronpinoy253:
Thank you! I will try this when I get back home from work. Will report back my findings...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Use safestrap and delete the fota file from system apps I think thats the one. You can wipe data in safestrap and it will preserve your media files or you can wipe data in stock recovery and it will wipe everything. Even if the ota tried to install it probably would fail or even by some chance it installed you should not loose safestrap. I made it ota proof back on oreo. Also like other guy said wiping cache will delete ota
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] ronpinoy253:
You guys are awesome. Much appreciated for the tips. [MENTION=1949695]jrkruse[/MENTION] also thank you for giving these Note 8's an extended lifespan.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] ronpinoy253:
Hey so got access to a system and went into Safestrap. Found the OTA file and deleted it with Safestrap File Manager. THen wiped Dalkvi Art/Cache and wiped Cache.

Reflashed BL in Odin and went into system but nagging notifcation was still present. So flashed back in Safestrap, found no OTA file anymore, wiped Dalvik Art/Cache and Cache, then mounted System, went into file manager and into System/Priv-App and found the FotaAgent.apk...renamed that to FotaAgent.bak. Went back into my Pie system after Odin and voila...no longer have a nagging notifcation or even the option to do Software Updates anymore in the Settings menu. Problem solved I hope. :)

Update: Not sure if anything else gets broken by doing this. But the status notifcation no longer shows the nagging update notice...but strangely my Settings on the phone will say "An Update is Available" but if you click it, nothing happens, as I suppose FotaAgent isn't functioning as I renamed its extension from APK to BAK.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Clear data on the settings app

Sent from some device I modified
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] ronpinoy253:
Tried this just now. Using the "App Info" on the Settings App allows for Clearing of Cache to 0 bytes, however when I select the Clear Data option the Settings App closes with no change.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
[Root][SM-N950U/U1][Snapdragon][V6_Bootloader][EDL_Method][Safestrap]

First of all the safestrap flashing image probably worked you just simply needed to flash the nougat safestrap zip so you replace the pie safestrap files which are made to boot the phone straight to safestrap with the nougat safestrap files which give you the safestrap splash screen with option to enter or continue too system.

Now the edl method. After you flashed the rooted nougat image you just rebooted to download and flashed the BL safestrap tar. This is not the full firmware so your phone was missing modems and hlos partions etc. This is why I tell you to flash the BL pie bootloaders in the BL slot of odin and the BL enter safestrap file in the AP slot then the fingerprint fix in the CP slot all at the same time this will install everything in the right order to boot nougat . You will still need to probably boot to recovery and wipe data

Sent from some device I modified
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] bambinattor:
Finally work on baseband N950USQU6DSH3 with edl method

[IMG="one"]https://i.ibb.co/QpMHGqz/Whats-App-Image-2019-09-12-at-21-08-29-1.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG="two"]https://i.ibb.co/3pBwCFR/Whats-App-Image-2019-09-12-at-21-08-29-2.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG="three"]https://i.ibb.co/mqH0SCd/Whats-App-Image-2019-09-12-at-21-08-29.jpg[/IMG]

thankyou everyone, jrkruse great job men! really great.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] trimixer451:
Jrkruse: why do you do it man? All this work, trolls, guys going on for 1500 words over and over. I couldn't do it....idk, your my hero, first the s7e now this, I had given up hope completely on both phones.

Thank you so very very much.

You rock!

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Guy, you gotta stop. Your up to 9 million words because you keep doing it incorrectly. You have no business trying to help anyone at this point.

Reread the op, the instructions are just fine, you are the only person saying they are insufficient.

Then read EVERY SINGLE post in this thread. practice it about 1500 times in your head, and then do it. Write every step down if it helps.

You have not had one single issue that wasn't either addressed in the op or addressed somewhere else in this thread. As long as I've been rooting phones I still read everything unless it's 600 pages and then i still go until I can't take it anymore because I HATE bothering the devs unless it's something new.

But you have no business writing tuts, honestly, your going to make someone brick their phone, I can't believe yours is still working at all.

And fyi, this is one of the most complex exploits I have seen and I have been rooting since my vibrant, maybe you should just pass on this.

But please, all I have seen for the last bunch of pages is you helping people make all the mistakes you just made, knock it off.

Other people have questions as well.

Just slow down, read everything, be precise like your phone will die permanently if you make a single mistake, because it just might, and get it right.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Incognit420:
Okay so I'm having a problem. I flashed the combo firmware to get into edl mode but it would hange at note 8 logo with custom written at the bottom. So I decided to flash the zero bl firmware and that got me in edl mode and my computer see's it I get com port number when I run recovery bat file, but now it hangs at start recovery with some commands and version 2.10. it's been over an hour and it is in the same spot, also odin does not see the phone and it wont leave edl mode. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.