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[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark1800:
Hey all,

My S4 Mini LTE got a bit water damaged. Was booting up fine for a while, but now is not getting past the splash screen (using Ressurection remix v. 6.0), just keeps splashing on and on, and I can't seem to successfully connect to my Mac to fix it.

TWRP is acting weird: not letting me wipe caches ('unable to mount storage') not showing any internal storage (0mb), only showing SD card at 15mb, and some buttons like reboot option are just freezing. It seems to be able to format (with some errors), but then acts the same way after.

On my Mac Fastboot is not showing any devices.

Similarly, I can't get OS X to recognize the phone with android file transfer.

The only thing that seems to recognize it is connected is Jodin, but it gives an error when trying to obtain my PIT!

edit: Heimdall ALMOST seemed to let me flash the kernel and recovery, but then gave some error right at the end.

Might be new motherboard time?!?!

Please help!
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurtn:
Motherboard change is easy
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mark1800:
Yeah just replaced it... now power seems to turn off randomly in my pocket and mouthpiece doesnt work... eh probably just buy new phone
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] mike710_0:
Got a rooted op7p & various versions of my favourite apps installed that I don't want to update. Because there not the latest versions they stay stuck in my update list in the play store!

Is there a magisk module or app I can run to remove them from the list so I'm not constantly told to update or accidentally update it?

Think I might have solved it!

Went into Titanium backup pro, found the app, scrolled across to 'special features', then 'detach from the market'! There no longer in the update list now anyway ?
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] rickysidhu_:
Detach is one that is for this

Titanium Backup like you found is another option

However, in my experience, both apps don't keep apps removed. After some time, they will show up again
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] mike710_0:
Yeah your right, already popped back up!

Any idea how to permanently get rid of them?
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] darkandshadow:
You can turn off updates from the google play store itself, and it never notifies you.

Go into google play > Settings > Auto-update apps | Set to Don't auto-update apps. If I want to update something, I go in manually and choose what I want to update.

As for Magisk modules, also under settings, turn off Check Updates.

Titanium Backup was my first play store purchase for those features as well :)
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] Bengemin14:
Hi there, I have found a work around for this.

Go to (https://github.com/yuk7/playstore-excl-upd)View attachment 5666533 then follow the instructions on the page.

Make sure you create a txt file named as peulist.txt under root directory /data/cache/peulist.txt... once done reboot after flashing the file and include the apps with there package name that you want to exclude from the update list. View attachment 5666537View attachment 5666539
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] Ofdas23:
Thank you a lotttt, worked perfectly! :3 <3

Also hiding YouTube, so it won't override YouTube vanced, hihi 🤭
[OnePlus 7 Pro Questions & Answers] Alonso_Quixana:
Um... any idea how you can UNDO this, so all available updates will show up again? I've tried disabling the module and rebooted, but the changes seem to stay...

Does anyone know what exactly this module does/changes? It does not seem to be really well documented...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
New Root Method For Note 8 SM-N950U/U1 V7 Bootloaders​
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Rooted Nougat Rom​

This is last nougat rom made for note 8 it is prerooted with flashfire and safestrap preinstalled. It has CSC stuff for all carriers added. Its debloated slightly with knox removed. Some stuff may not work but im not sure as I cannot test but this stuff may include fingerprint and or face recognition. If stuff doesnt work it probably related to using pie modems and non-hlos on a nougat rom which you have no choice.​

Downloads

Rooted_N950USQS3BRB4.rar

BL_N950_NOUGAT_V7.tar.7z

Includes Fingerprint and Face Unlock fix for above nougat rom. Just flash in BL slot in odin after everything else

Safestrap-4.10-B03-GREATQLTE-PIE.zip Will boot straight to safestrap only for pie roms

Safestrap-4.10-B03-GREATQLTE-NOUGAT.zip Will Give you the safestrap splash screen on boot

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_N950_NOUGAT_V7.tar.md5 in odin
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] me2151:
Good luck testers.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
tested and confirmed working!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] pbedard:
Now bring to n960u :cyclops:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Jammol:
Wow that is amazing. Good work on getting this going!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] elliwigy:
Already did one test with an unmodified system in edl and it failed like all the other times i tried it lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Delgoth:
[MENTION=1949695]jrkruse[/MENTION] Was there a particular reason RJ1 was chosen as the base combo instead of RG2?

The only difference I heard of was that RG2 actually was the DRK repair, where RJ1 did most of the other stuff.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
it doesnt matter what v5 combo I am only using bootloaders on rooted rom and you just flash full combo system to be able to reboot to edl mode. The goal was to get root so safestrap can be used on Pie and thats been achieved.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] iunlock:
This is excellent! Thanks guys!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] NU5002S:
I have been waiting for this for quite some time. Thank you!

can we add note 8 to description in batch file?

When flashing "COMBINATION_FA71_N950USQU5ARJ1_CL13942288_QB203914 89_REV00_user_mid_noship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5 "

should I press BL+AP+others or just BL?

similar question, when flashing COMBINATION_FA71_N950USQU5ARJ1_BOOTLOADERS.tar should i select BL only or AP?:confused:

My baseband version is N950U1UEU1AQ15 build number NMF26X.N950USQU1AQ15 but I see different versions from romreactor below, am I still ok to flash?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Romreactor:
One main question, which V5 firmware version is best for this root method, as I am still on firmware N950USQU2BQLA.

The V5 firmwares range from android 8.0 Oreo to 9.0 Pie and thus my question is out of all the V5 bootloader versions below which one is best for this root method for me to update to from my current version.

N950USQU5CRG7,

N950USQU5CRIA,

N950USQU5DSC1,

N950USQU5DSD3,

Also, couple newbie questions, 1. pre rooted firmware means Android Pie or Oreo with root access enabled right?

2. Does this root method allow you to flash custom roms of pie?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] bantzt:
Ok, so I have been out of the rooting game for a couple of years now due to needing an engineering kernel and then losing 20% battery capacity. With this I am interested as I am running 5DSF6 currently. With this, are we only able to do the initial rooted ROM and have root access and customize from there or can we load different ROMS? Also, are kernels still out of the question with this method as well?

Also, congrats on getting this to work.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
There is only root available for nougat. The whole reason for all of this was to get people a pie rom that has the ability to boot to safestrap. Now this isn’t root but in safestrap you can flash zips just like you can with twrp or flashfire you can backup data or delete apps or modify system files and most everything you do you will still pass safetynet . Of course you can run a prerooted nougat rom or make your own but you would have to run the combo bootloader and boot img so your stuck with those limitations. Nothing has changed since this phone was first rooted with samfail method.

Sent using some kind of device I modified
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
People on v3 v2.5 or v2 or v1 bootloaders there is really no reason to stay on those older bootloaders since this method works for v5 if you choose to use this method you will be updated to v5 bootloaders

Sent using some kind of device I modified
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] iunlock:
Ah ok... so to be clear and for those who may be seeking the same question:

Is the battery still stuck at 80%? (Unless one charges to 100% in DL mode.)

Also to add, for those who are on 7.1.1 Nougat like me and several others who want to preserve the BL, just know that once you roll up you can not roll back. I think it's important to emphasize this..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Just curious whats your reason for not updating bootloader to v5 now that you can root it as well

Sent using some kind of device I modified
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] iunlock:
Because newer isn't always necessarily better. I'm of the minority and there are others like me who prefer to stay on the earlier firmwares.

The hopes of getting a full root early on was another reason, where had we blindly rolled up to the latest, it could have locked us out from taking advantage of a possible working root on an earlier BL. One rule of thumb is to never just jump on updates. We call them lock outs...and we kind of saw this with the original samfail root where those who updated could not roll back; but of course now it's possible which is great. Thanks again for making this happen and saving those who jumped early that never thought they would see a form of root.

There of course other reasons I like to stay put on earlier firmware versions, but that's for another conversation. [MENTION=4496829]butchieboy[/MENTION], [MENTION=3125148]KennyG123[/MENTION] and I go way back and they know....:) We enjoy our Note 3's on 4.3, Note 4's on KK 4.4, Note 5 on MM etc...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Each too their own im always just curious why people refuse to update and not fully utilize the potential of their phone but like you said newer isn’t always better

Sent using some kind of device I modified
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] butchieboy:
[MENTION=1949695]jrkruse[/MENTION]

You are a true rock star. And I too thank you for bringing this to us[emoji106][emoji106]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] VanillaVampire:
will this work on v5
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Yes
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] enigma1400:
I've flashed the combination file to the AP slot in Odin but I never make it past the "factory binary" animation, it's been on it for hours now. Is there something different I need to do in order to get it to boot?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
wipe data in stock recovery
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] enigma1400:
Awesome, that got combo firmware working great and the safestrap pie image works too. I was running into a bit of a snag trying to get the rooted nougat image to boot though. I flashed it in safestrap and flashed all the stuff in Odin but it only seems to want to boot into safestrap now. Any ideas?

Thanks for your help!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
If it boots back to safestrap every boot running nougat flash this in safestrap View attachment Safestrap-4.10-B03-GREATQLTE-NOUGAT.zip
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] finessefigure:
I downgraded from pie to nougat 7.1.1 on a BL v6

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But thank you for the v10 safestrap and fingerprint fix. Rom bless you :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Safestrap updates are always provided by [MENTION=4770483]afaneh92[/MENTION] make sure to give him a thanks as well
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] afaneh92:
Safestrap latest version is 11 but never got the chance/time to build and upload for all devices!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
10 works just fine. So its all good.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] finessefigure:
Oh no I mean there's much appreciation for sure like mad respect for both of you. I'd like to try version 11 for the note 8 if you wouldn't mine let me test it and any of you guys would like a tester I'd love 2 be The experience is like I'm still learning and all this is new to me and I'm learning a lot going through all of this so it'd be nice to have an opportunity 2 get to learn my device more by implementing what I originally would want but also getting a chance to the bug if such an error with someone that is well knowledged
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
You probably would not even notice a difference in safestrap from version 10 to 11. The safestrap I use is a little different version than the normal as I had [MENTION=4770483]afaneh92[/MENTION] make a special one that I use that installs the files to a different location which is handy if trying to update with an ota which anymore is really not necessary. So if you flash or change safestrap make sure you get what I post as its specifically for my stuff. [MENTION=4770483]afaneh92[/MENTION] will make me an updated version one of these days specifically for my system images when he has time. He supports alot of devices other than note/s8. Like I said v10 works great so I really am in no hurry to update. Its good to see you take an interest in learning about stuff. Safestrap is a great tool to help you do so. I say this every once in awhile and now is as good as any. Anyone thats new or continues to use safestrap please consider giving [MENTION=4770483]afaneh92[/MENTION] a donation for the literally hundreds of hours he has put into safestrap development he has kept s8/note8 and many other variants development alive and possible.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Strategikqc:
it is possible to convert my note 8 to treble partition with this method ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] bradical711:
No.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] finessefigure:
I feel that one hundred percent bro. I donated 5 bucks so far, like honestly I deliver pizza so my money is up in the air at most times but I sure if anything feel at ease tossing that money id use for a red bull for someone else's coffee. And yes ivee been sticking to your uploads because I feel the systems you made for s8 and note 8 for nougat have the most fluidity. Had no prob dl Xposed on the s8 but sadly still have this goofy problem with the note. I read on the Xposed devs issue thread about it and it doesn't lead to anything. Like I'm pretty sure I saw they figured it out for v90 on Oreo. But 1, I don't feel I'm succeeding by upgrading to Oreo to lose root. And to have v90 I think you need the magisk route and that's unfortunate like I'm left at a deadend
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Flash the s8+ rooted nougat image in safestrap then flash the nougat safestrap zip in post 2 immediately after you flash s8 sytem image and see if it works. The note 8 nougat system image will boot on s8+ so I don’t know why the s8 image would not boot on note 8 and xposed works on s8 nougat
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] krusherkills123:
would i be able to install this on my note 8 with v6 bl and have the csc mods on a pie rom? i noticed it says i could modifiy the system partiton using safestrap but i havent seen anyone actually mention using the csc mods with a pie rom only with nougat roms.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
I have a mod zip for csc on s8 pie rom but isn’t the note 8 csc xml files encryted. If so they would need decrypted before flashing mod zip
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] krusherkills123:
yea there is a tool to decrypt the csc files posted on here it worked great for me before i updated my phone and got stuck on v6 bl. from what i recall u could replace the encrypted csc file with a non-encrypted file and it would function just fine. i just wasnt sure if i could flash a modded csc file in safestrap and everything boot without any issues
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] finessefigure:
I'll give that a try. Never though of that ,:)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] krusherkills123:
ok please let me know after you try it, i want to enable to samsung caller id/spam blocker and native call recording via csc if possible
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] finessefigure:
Never crossed my mind, sounds reasonable. I'll let you know how that goes, thank you. :]

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Wrong message I think lol that was my bad, didn't quote.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Yes decrypted files will work just fine. You can make a zip to flash them in safestrap or manually change the file with the safestrap file manager
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
The factory binary screen is boot animation if you are stuck there you need to wipe data in stock recovery
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] QSquared:
I think that allowed me to boot into "EDL" Mode, it's a really neat looking screen anyway.

What is weird though is that I don't see the Phone comming up as a Qualcomm on my Laptop, will try a reboot.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
No it didn’t. EDL doesn’t have a cool screen its a blank screen that makes you think phone is dead
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] ajent:
I did this on my sim unlocked note 8 from sprint.

After putting in my verizon sim it just shows the phone as roaming the entire time and isn't working great for calls/texts. Is there a way to use root to change some setting so it thinks its the XAA version?

Edit: I think it auto changes settings from oreo up, I'll try flashing the pie image you posted, let the phone boot with my vzw sim, then just flash nougat again.

Thanks

Edit 2: it worked as expected.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] QSquared:
Okay, then what IS this mode?

It's a 7.11 Nugate Rom of some sort with all sorts of neat phone tests on it, is this the "Safe Strap"? I only find VERY OLD posts about safe strap being in development for nOte 3, and then yours on how to add it to S8+ and Note8, none of them really make it obvious what I should see at each step, so when I see something you guys don;t expect me to see, I don't know it is the case.

If you know a good guide that shows what things should look liek please link me to it, I'm more visual a lot of times.

I haven't rooted my phone since a Note 8 with Sam Fail and I can't find anything on what these new methods should look like when I search.

I can say the only thing I did was use Odin to flash the BL: "COMBINATION_FA71_N950USQU5ARJ1_CL13942288_QB20391489_REV00_user_mid_noship_MULTI_CERT.tar.md5" which is there only content inside "COMBINATION_FA71_N950USQU5ARJ1.rar"

I looked at the about phone and see its FA71_N950USQU5ARJ1. So I guess I should just get that authorized on ADB and then "reboot EDL" and then see if it comes up in Qualcomm??

I have also purchased an EDL Cable, and it's arrived, so I could try that too.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] QSquared:
Okay so On the hunch that that mode was the expected one I got ADB running, and authorized, gave the Reboot to EDL command and it did.

i got the phone to show up as qualcom, I ran the recovery.bat script

The batch script dind;t seem to work to me, but then I get the impression thats normal, IDK, after a while it finally cam eup finished.

so I flashed the next set of files as described

that did reboot me to recovery

sO I ran the wipe

and now I get to the samsung screen and then everything goes black.

3. Once the phone is recognized by the computer as Qualcomm 9008 device run the N950U_Recovery.bat you will have to input your com port number it should tell you the com number in command prompt dialog at the top if it does not tell you you are probably not connected correctly. Enter the number when it ask you not the COM letters just the number. The process will take a while and may seem to hang for a few minutes just let it go unless it hangs for hours.

4. When it says finished on command window reboot your phone to download mode by holding power+vol down+bixby buttons

5. In odin load BL_N950USQS5DSF6.tar.md5 in BL slot and HOME_CSC_OYN_N950U_CACHE.tar.md5 in CSC slot and flash when done phone will reboot to recovery.

6. In recovery you will get an error this is ok just wipe data in recovery and reboot and enjoy your Pie system with safestrap <---- Nope now I just get a Samsung screen then everything goes black, and the phone does not get recognized as a Qualcomm or anything.

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Further, I am able to boot to Recovery easily from the Samsung Android screen, tried wiping the phone and I have the same boot scenario.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
If you flash the BL Safestrap file can you enter safestrap?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] QSquared:
llHow can I do that from the recovery screen

The phone foes not boot passed the android samsung screen it just goes black after,but I can get to the recovery screen which lets me wipe the phone, as mentioned.

I don't know how tonuse odin from the recovery screen, is that possible?'

I tried the EDL cable but it had no instructions s9 I dot know how to get it to cause EDL mode correctly.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
Hold the buttons too boot to download mode or from recovery you can reboot too bootloader
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] QSquared:
Thanks! I wasn't aware that woudl allow an Odin flash!

Okay so I got that to work I reflashed the last step, same thing, should I go back and reflash the combo firmware again?

I found that the Recoveryscript failed when I ran it even though the phone was showing as Qualcomm, I'm guessing maybe that is the cause?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
If you can get to safestrap reflash the system image in safestrap
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] jrkruse:
It would be nice too know if one person has gotten this to work on v6.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] QSquared:
Thanks! I wasn't aware that woudl allow an Odin flash!

Okay so I got that to work I reflashed the last step, same thing, should I go back and reflash the combo firmware again?

I found that the Recoveryscript failed when I ran it even though the phone was showing as Qualcomm, I'm guessing maybe that is the cause?

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How would I get to Safestrap? That is not clear.