yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Validation for what. Like you said I put out fake root and these suckers pay me millions of dollars just to think they have root. Man you busted me but could you quit saying that as it’s affecting my donations. I only made $5000 dollars today oh and the money I collect selling all these dumb peoples data I steal from using my fake root. I then sell it to China. I’ll gladly pay you to keep quiet

Sent from some device I modified
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] finessefigure:
After you take my dumb data to China, can you please tell me what you did to have magisk w/o restarting and receiving the unsigned boot image error

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Nevermind didn't see that you said it's not available

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I surely appreciate you jrkruse. Don't let these arrogant ****s starters make you believe the grateful ones are the same. You're a huge reason I'm fully engaged. Keep up the good work ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] atifmz:
Note8 950u install TWRP now next step is use Magisk or how can complete done ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] elliwigy:
you can always install magisk root given u install it into another partition like /data then bind mount it and that you have something you csn use that executes as root on boot to install it which i assume u guys have considering its similar to how SS works
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] elliwigy:
well if u cant read even a few recent posts then u then maybe u shouldnt mess with it at all..

i hope u r able to find them bcuz no one here is going to give to you yet lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Those pics were magisk installed as system root

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] elliwigy:
or that haha
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Blob Blobbed:
I honestly don't use any of those things and do online banking via my bank's website instead of their app.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] RKUltimatum:
I had to go route C on my Note 8, but so far when I try and run the recovery.bat it just hangs at version 2.10 and nothing proceeds from there.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] atifmz:
Thanks jrkruse phones is custom & Access Grant , please if you know N950U Final MIPI certi Fail with z3x or any other tool please share .
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
I tell you not too do this. You said you had to go this route. Im going to assume you couldn’t either get the combo firmware too boot because you didn’t wipe data or you couldn’t get the reboot edl bat to work meaning your computer is not setup correctly . So shouldn’t that have told you that if I cannot even get this part too work then maybe I should most definitely not try C method because I cannot even get the safe method to work. You have no choices now but too get the recovery bat to run. Hope you figure it out. I have this method in s8 threads as well so maybe reading through all my threads you will figure it out.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] RKUltimatum:
Yeah it's on me, but I appreciate the response none the less. :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
You need to find computer with usb 1 or 2 ports usb 3 doesn’t seem too work or its hit and miss. It can be done your phone is not ruined. Read my other threads what people have done

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] RKUltimatum:
Still getting Sahara communication failed, tried like 5 different cables so far.

Now the phone's just showing up as unknown USB device.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] VIPLightning:
Funny, I had no issues at all using USB 3.0 Ports unlike using USB 2.0. Everytime the recovery.bat was run, it would not proceed any further until i swtiched to USB 3.0. Then it was smooth sailing. I chose Method A and here's what I did and hope this helps people who went through the same route and are stuck.

1) I flashed the zeroed out bootloader through modded Odin to force it into EDL mode.

2) Unplugged and plugged back in my Note 8 to let windows 10 install Qualcomm HS_USB QDLoader 9008

3) Editted the *.bat recovery file by adding the line after [MENTION=8011874]Echo off[/MENTION] cd %Userprofile%/Downloads/N950U_Full_EDL_V6_Pie_Safestrap (or wherever you saved the folder at)

4) Saved it and ran the .bat file as administrator

5) Entered the COM number and waited for a few minutes before the flash programmer was complete.

6) Rebooted to Download mode

7) Flashed the the safestrap bootloader and Home CSC through modded odin!

8) rebooted to safestrap recovery,wiped /data, flashed prerooted Nougat (system.img), and the Nougat_ROM_CREATE.zip

9)Rebooted again and disabled safestrap

10)Profit!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] RKUltimatum:
Oh. Sorry, seems I need to let the battery go before trying again. Apologies for spamming the thread here.

*e* Yeah that did it, showing up back under comm ports again.

Happy to report the operation was a success and am now running the rooted system.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] elliwigy:
when this happens u need to hold vol down and power for a looong time until it resets..i sometimes have to hold for 5 to 10 mins before it reboots

youll think its frozen and it wont work n ur fingers might cramp but eventually it reboots..

this happens typically when loading the progs fails or flash fails etc... sort of like odin mode when it failsa flash u have to rebootbefore you try again or it usually will fail until it reads unknown usb.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Romreactor:
Hey JKRuse, unfortunitely for me I had to replace my phone for a new one through Assurant insurance because of Oled screen burn after a year and eight month, but now my replacement phone came with the most upto date firmware Version: N950USQS6DSH4/N950UOYN6DSH4/N950USQS6DSH4

Does this root method still work with this version and will I be able to downgrade back to Nougat? please let me know in your earliest convinience as the bugs and glitches in 9.0 are driving me nuts. I literally never experienced this amount of app crashes or just OS freezing up in 9.0 and would love to go back to 7.1.1.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Trimixer911:
user name is trimixer, all my pw's went with nmy phone and if i see another "pick all the palm trees" password reset i'm killing someone

So, ok. i was able to flash the combo file, reboot into EDL, qualcomm drivers picked phone up just fine, ran the recoverey.bat on the port it picked up, that went fine. it wrote the image, gave me the finished! message in the console, rebooted the phone into DL mode, and for the life of me i cant get the new BL/CSC files to flash in Odin. in any odin, on any port with any cable.

i am unable to boot into recoverey via key combos

What i CAN do:

Get into download mode via power/vol down/bixby

in dl mode i am getting:

CARRIER: (nothing here)

RPMB fuse blown

RPMB PROVISIONED

CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official

FRP LOCK: ON

RMM STATUS : Unknown

KG STATUS : Unknown

WARRANTY VOID : 0x0

QUALLCOMM SECUREBOOT : ENABLE

RP SWERV : B5(2.1.1.1.1) K3 S5

SECURE DOWNLOAD : ENABLE

DID : ill give this if asked, not sure what it is and dont want to give up anything super secret or whatever

What ELSE i CAN do:

from dl mode vol down + power exits to a black screen with the charging circle and lightning bolt on the top and:

CARRIER : ta partition, Status (not found)

and then everything else that the downlad screen had for information; RPMB status and whatnot.

on the computer end (win 10), the phone is picking up in device manager under modems (as samsung) and under usb devices (samsung) on either phone screen, and odin is picking it up.

this blows because i have no adb access

"fastboot devices" shows nothing (honestly I dont remember if it should)

ditto adb

windows is in test mode

firewall disabled

virus disabled

what i have tried:

name it, cables ports, different bl's. i cant flash stock, or the combo file anymore.

it was on th bl5 before i started

when odin fails it fails immediatly after "setup connection" with "succeded 0/failed 1" no other messages.

i might be missing stuff ive been at this 9 hours and my eyes are crossed, i have NEVER needed to ask for help from XDA, but im fried. Back to stock is fine, root is fine, safe strap is fine, but im in deep if i dont have a phone by monday.

Please help if you can.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] elliwigy:
flash full stock rev5 firmware in odin..

iuno wat files u used but if u can get to dl mode ur safe.. thats y i never posted edl stuff.. ppl dont kno wat it is or how to use it making it very dangerous for the average joe
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Trimixer911:
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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
I dont understand why if people that cannot even do the most basic thing like flash stock or combo firmware with odin why they would even try this whole process but it seems like the first thing they do is zero out the bootloaders then get on here and ask for help. I am really close too closing these threads
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Trimixer911:
hey guy, first of all every post i have made was defending you from fools. secondly if you read my op, i followed your diections to the letter. i flashed the combo rom, that by definition is your "safe" ,method, i also said that when i ran the .bat file it wrote everything correctly, and that device manager had the phone picked up (correctly) as qualcomm.

SO...i did NOT zero the f'ng bootloader, i DID read the instructions AND THE ENTIRE THREAD first, AND waited 4 months to make sure this exploit wasnt killing phones before i tried it AND im careful enough to have never had a probem rooting a phone, as i said in my op, since my vibrant 13 years or so ago, AND i am not blaming anyone else, i just bought my roommates old s5 and spent all day arguing with verizon about sim cards before i finally took the old one from my note 8, some superglue, and some old plastic and made the stupuid nano sized thing fit in the stupid micro slot thing in the s5 so i nhave a phone again.

i understand your pain, and have gone to bat on your side with the fools who dont pay attention, but im not one of them.

hows this, go read my op again, and YOU tell ME where i went of your path and zeroed my BL?

p.s. thank you for all your effort, i mean that. i know you dont own this phone, and i had given up hope on root altogether.

ditto my s7 that you also found an explot on and that along with stang5litres amazing rom kept me happy and smiling until i got this note 8.

i get paid next week and i plan to buy you a 6pack. like i said i take personal acoubntability for my actions and at the end of ther day this is on me, but you could at least read the post before you cook off, IM the one with the $1000 paperweight not you.

to put it anotgher way, can you reccomend a course of action to fix my phone? i am a paramedic, my phone strategy is the same as my medical strategy; so long as i dont make anything worse im down to try it and as far as i can tell this patient is dead, so bring it on, ill try it.

someone mentioned flashing the pit file, i have never had to do this (although it sounds familier from way back) because i DO listen to instructions and flashing pit is a huge nono so far as i know.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] thatsnailguy:
Hey guys, I am trying to install a system app via TWRP SS and I cannot get it to stick. What am I missing? I have tried copying it into system/apps/ via TWRP file manager and it never pastes. I have also tried flashing a zip.

Is it just not possible with PIE?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Calm down. I did not quote you and in no way was directed to you It was a general statement made in frustration to a full inbox of people complaining I bricked their phone and multiple post throughout this thread and my others of people saying they used the zero bootloader method because they cant get combo to flash or boot or they cant reboot to edl from there. So yes I get frustrated but if it was at you I would have quoted you
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Did you mount system before you did it and did you set permissions correctly?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] thatsnailguy:
Hi I always get "(succeed 0 / failed 1)" almost immediately everytime I use my win10 machine. Luckily I have an old win7 laptop that works just fine with ODIN

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System is checked in mount page. (is that right) the read-only check box is NOT ticked.

I guess I need to read up on permissions, not sure how to set those.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Trimixer911:
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your right i apologize. i have been at this so long im blind. im getting some sleep, if you think of anything i would really appreciate the input
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] thatsnailguy:
Okay, just redid the entire root method from scratch. Same scenario.

Attached is the .zip I am trying to install. My goal is to install google phone apk as system app.

I also tried copying using TWRP, mount /system and chmod 755 entire folder before and after copy. To system/app/googledialer/phonexxxx.apk

The files never show up in TWRP file explorer, or solid explorer once booted, after copying or flashing zip.

Ive got to be missing something stupid, any insight would be really helpful.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] GSM CHEN:
In the complete combi

using your method (I made some minor changes)

is easy to obtain root... Keep going! bro
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Trimixer911:
Ok so if it helps you help anyone else, I got back up and everything loaded ok for safestrap yesterday.

My motherboard has 2 usb headers for the front panel ports, I hadn't been using one of them because a pin was bent.

I was playing around with usbtreeview and realized that every port I had was high-number, 9+ or so.

I fixed the header and it worked on a USB 3.0 on com 2. Idk, maybe Odin barfs on high number ports.

The only other difference was I hadn't messed with the phone in a week because I moved, it might have been completely drained for the first time ever.

I hate Samsung for taking away the ability to bat pull phones.

Anyway, sorry again for going off.

Still donating for the good fight when I finish getting settled.

Aloha
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] louforgiveno:
Years ago i ran into issues with odin and lowering the COM number fixed the problem for me too.

Ever since then i always use "low" numbered port settings (5 or lower). And when i see people having issues with odin, its one of my goto suggestions

Sent from my God Mode 10+
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Trimixer911:
Well sir, I can personally validate the method. I was convinced I had fried this thing for nothing other than viper audio and because I can't stand owning something I can't control, it just makes me crazy.

I still had payments left. As soon as the Odin progress bar popped up I yelled so loud my cat is still under the bed.

It's weird, that successful upload was the same Odin that the combo burn worked fine on and the edl burn went without a hitch.

Odin is a funky animal. Computers are my thing, much more so than android, I'm going to decompile Odin or stick it into a hex editor (I have never tried to look at it, no idea of it's open source or I need to be sneaky) and see if I can clean up the USB 3/cable/com ports issues at all. It shouldn't be so random and I have never EVER seen a program that needs more verbose logging. If it hangs because of a port issue it should time out and report that. It's not even generating windows log files of any use in debugging.

A clean Linux port would be nice as well, if it doesn't already exist. I would never try to run this mess through Wine.

Anyway, thank you for verifying that, it'll help me when I try to figure out what's happening.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] elliwigy:
linux uses heimdall but doesnt work for long time now on SD devices.. odin will not work on linux even in wine..

good luck tho.. i suggest u read up on odin and heimdall before wasting ur time.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] twistedumbrella:
In 2019, you have to write guides like they will be followed by idiots. The current generation expects everything to come in the form of a YouTube video. If the warning comes after the step, you are already too late. If it doesn't specifically say it, then it will not be a consideration. It used to be that one in every hundred people asked a repeat question or something already covered by the guide. Now, that 1 in 100 is the person who read it before they started clicking buttons.

Thanks for providing your work. After reading through everything, I decided not to take the risk with a Pie device on a Mac computer (VMWare with Odin or heimdall are both unstable enough without introducing a delicate process).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
the method its self doesnt pose much risk its the people the zero there bootloaders to enter edl mode is the problem. Its a simple 1 step method but there is no undoing it unless you complete the edl process. You can enter edl mode without zeroing the bootloaders by running an adb command while running the combo firmware but alot of people complain ithe combo firmware wont boot and this is because they didnt wipe data as flashing combo firmware always requires a data wipe. You could always try the edl method from the combo firmware as if you cannot get edl to flash you can simple reboot out of edl mode back to download mode and reflash stock firmware with odin but if you zero the bootloaders you cannot do this. I have not really gotten any positive feedback though from running through vm enviroment
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] twistedumbrella:
TL;DR (looks like a repeat of previous posts). I was talking about the risk of using VMWare (random disconnections, virtual USB ports, shared connections) and heimdall (unofficial code, less safety measures, limited support).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Emperor_:
So the intro to this thread writes,

"This will install a pie rom with safestrap on your phone and give you the ability too flash zips and modify system with safestrap recovery. There is currently no root method for pie"

I'm a little confused. Is this a recovery like TWRP? Is so, why does it say that there is no root method available? Don't you root by flashing the root files through a custom recovery (like flashing magisk on a phone)?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] louforgiveno:
There's no root for Pie, using method in OP you can run Pie OR go back to nougat 7.1.1 which has the ability to be rooted.

Also from what i understand under both O.S's the rom slots don't work.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
That’s exactly what you do but root also requires a custom boot img to work on oreo and pie and thats not possible on locked bootloaders

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] b00.f0087:
Glad I didnt sell my note 8 time to tinker with this. Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] JavixKGD:
[MENTION=1949695]jrkruse[/MENTION] So, Im thinking about tinkering with this and make a TWIZtd version for the UI and many of the components I mod. But before I do, want to make sure, can users still flash a modified UI along with framework files etc, etc.?

Sent from my TWIZtd N8
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] b00.f0087:
Just finished installing this bad boy. I ran into a little trouble with the combo firm but my dumba** forgot to wipe. After that i was able to continue on and finish the setup. Great work man thank you.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jbusta:
Followed the instructions, got nougat pre-rooted rom installed but flashfire says "could not acquire root access, are you rooted?"
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] elliwigy:
are u using magisk su orsuper su?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jbusta:
supersu. was able to get it now... decided to re-flash one more time and it ended up working.

magisk su doens't work, correct?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] elliwigy:
ive had issues with magisk su.. prolly bcuz flashfire is so old
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Emperor_:
Curious Question

Firstly, I noticed that there is a Pie ROM w/ Safestrap available in this thread. The description also says w/ Safestrap you can modify system files and flash zip files, but simultaneously it says "There is no root method for Pie." I understand that root isn't achievable on Pie because it requires a custom boot image which isn't possible on the US locked bootloader. Consequently, my question is, what exactly would running Safestrap w/ Pie allow me to do? If you can't flash Magisk, the custom ROM slots don't work, and you cannot achieve root on Pie, what would be the point of having this custom recovery?

I also have another curious question based on some browsing I did on XDA. It appears that the Asian snapdragon models of the Note 8 have an unlockable bootloader. So in theory, would it be possible to use some sort of modified version of ODIN to flash the Asian software to be able to get the bootloader to unlock? If not then why wouldn't this work? Is a locked bootloader something that occurs at a hardware or software level?

Pardon my lengthy questions, I'm not very experienced w/ rooting and such :(
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] DroidisLINUX:
with pie safestrap recovery has root to modify a system.img or partition for personalization and letting you be able to do some things, but no one has tried tl do to much with it, becase you will still be running a stock boot and might give you soft brick if you change system to much. after the rom boots in pie there is no root just a normal ro system
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] purpleuser:
SO i was doing this process for the millionth time and this time after running the N950U.bat file my phone wont boot into download mode. Its stuck in upload mode saying unknown error. I cant for the life of me figure out what I did wrong or how to get back into edl or download mode. If anyone has any advice, its very welcome
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] mustaph12:
Directions

Safestrap Method

1. Extract system.img from the Rooted_N950USQS3BRB4.rar and copy to phone reboot to safestarp and flash system image reboot to download and flash BL_ENG_BOOTLOADERS_SAFESTRAP_N950U_V*.tar.md5 in odin

I've extracted and copied, how can I flash please?

And does this work on v6 bootloader? Because when I flashed the BL_ENG_BOOTLOADERS_SAFESTRAP_N950U_V*.tar.md5, it failed.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] dazemc:
Hell yeah I'm about to try this. I haven't had root since I updated to Pie and I've regretted it since! Can finally use Tasker for everything I want, thank you! P.S. Newest update increments bootloader to 7!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Johnny223:
Where do i find the Chimera rom that works on this rooted nougat?? Or the original stock firmware?? Any help is appreciated greatly,. :fingers-crossed:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Johnny223:
Well thanks allot fellas. I really appreciate the quick response to my question. I'm ready when you are. No hurry.!