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[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] fordarm:
Thanks so much for your quick answer~

I will try on my SM-T725 right away~

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When I went to download mode after usb plug, I can't see the long press volume up menu on my screen.

Then I just tried to press long or with power but can't go to the bootloader unlock menu. Any one can help me this?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] TiTiB:
This a hardware key action, VOL+ and PWR at same time.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] Lord Sithek:
Is there a way to disable encryption on stock OneUI ROM?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] louvass:
I have been flashing devices for quite a few years now. I have performed these instructions about 20 times. Only once was I able to get the magisk file to flash using different odin versions. I was able to install TWRP(without issues) and custom ROM. I went back to stock to try this again, Magisk patches the stock firmware sucessfully. My problem occurs once I have patched and try to flash, odin just sits there analyzing the patched file the flash process never really begins. I am in d/l mode and connected when Odin is running. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I feel its a version things between magisk and odin. Has anyone else had these issues. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you for work on the instructional tutorial.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] TheTofu:
Don't patch twrp with magisk, it doesn't work on s5e regardless of Odin or through magisk app.

Workaround is rename magisk apk to zip and flash that in twrp, see here https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-13-official-crdroid-9-4.4541563/post-88458655
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] louvass:
I finally used another method together droid ROM installed and working.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] caolfin:
Hey

Can you explain ? I'm having crazy problems with mine

- Boot Looped

- Bootlocker is locked

- I can get to Download screen but Odin can't flash TWRP (I want TWRP on there) cos the bootloader is locked ;(

- no ADB because debugging is not enabled

I've tried the "hack" where you try to flash the recovery without the bootloader unlocked - basically do it quickly after rebooting into Download - doesn't work for me

Any ideas ? Anyone
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] louvass:
I sent you a messsge
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] eried1:
Just went though the whole rooting process. Puh. Thought I was experienced in flashing but geez, that's a lot of details. One of the best guides I've read for years.

To have Magisk enabled after each reboot, is there yet no workaround for the necessary power + volume up combination?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] Lord Sithek:
I wonder if recent Magisk versions are able to detect that and boot to rooted system by default, have you checked this? If not, there is an LSPosed module called FireFds Kot, which does have this feature
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] ExTall:
The older versions of magisk used to do this. My tablet starts in rooted mode always unless I do restart
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] DHGE:
Well some of my devices do not need this ...

Pattern? I do not know.

A sure way is to start the reboot from the Magisk app menu.

On SAMSUNG devices you might have to reboot "to recovery" but a normal reboot from there works fine on my SAMSUNGs.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] eried1:
I have never been able to flash TWRP through Odin. Am on LOS right now. Any ideas?

I will reflash stock and try the process from scratch again. This time also with the guide by Luke1337 from the LOS16 thread in mind.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] eried1:
Hm But upgrading to A12-A13 through LOS recovery and then flash TWRP should work, yes?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] eried1:
Back on stock. I have located the error which prevents TWRP flashing: Acc to the log Odin gets stuck at 'SetupConnection'.

Any suggestions?

Edit: Finally solved it. Took most of the evening. The solution is to 1) turn off the device and then 2) turn it on by going into download mode via usb button combination, meaning the USB cable should not be connected until volume done + volume up is pressed.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] eried1:
Mine is analyzing I write this. Prior to ODIN 3.14 I flashed Magisk via TWRP and created the patched file via Magisk using recovery mode.

Had to reflash TWRP afterwards but that went smoothly. Problem is, the patch forces you to reinstall LOS + Gapps.

Still not getting Magisk to work with TWRP.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] ExTall:
This is what I have working on my s5e

Magisk v20.4(20400).zip

Magisk manager v7.5.1.apk

Twrp 3.4.0-2 gts4lvwifi

Android 10 T720XXU1BTG3 UK Version
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] Lord Sithek:
And you are the only one as far as I remember 😅 Unfortunately at some point it's not possible to downgrade to Android 10 because of the bootloader update, I've tried it
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] eried1:
Maybe a helpful link: https://xdaforums.com/t/magisk-25-2...galaxy-tab-s5e-sm-t725.4471479/#post-87252995
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] eried1:
Finally I have a correct setup with TWRP, LOS and Magisk. Samsung multidisabler was the last piece of the puzzle. Now I need a long vacation :D
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] Zamperl:
Great description! Unfortunately it ended up with a bootloop. Maybe I have to give up and use my tablet without root (missing Adaway and switching off some autostarts).

I tried it several times with LOS+MicroG and its recovery. Whatever I have done with Magisk it ended up with bootloop.

Any idea for further actions?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] Zamperl:
I'm using always LOS (+MicroG), TWRP and Magisk. Could you please explain how you did?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] eried1:
Unfortunately have no particular instructions to give you. I did it like you described it in the other thread. A small detail might be missing but can't come to think of it on top of my head. This device can be difficult to use if having TWRP and Magisk installed - doesn't resemble any other device I've come across during my many years of rooting.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] Zamperl:
Thanks so much. I know now that SM-T720 is difficult. All of my other devices (S4, S5, S9+) were working fine with TRWP and Magisk.zip flashing.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] Lord Sithek:
On this tab it's actually impossible to get TWRP along with Magisk on STOCK ROM, but if you want to use it with custom ROM like LOS or crDroid, it's easy. You have to flash TWRP in Odin (probably first custom vbmeta file), boot to TWRP, remove the stock ROM, flash custom ROM, flash Magisk and boot to system. Depending on a Magisk version, you may be asked for additonal setup, but that should be it.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] Zamperl:
I never used stock rom. Always TWRP and different OS with Magisk. My fault was updating Magisk app from 26.2 -> 26.3. After installing Magisk with patching image and reboot I got bootloop.

Now I have TWRP, LOS+MicroG and Magisk 26.2 and everything is working. See my help thread here.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] Lord Sithek:
Ah yea, 26.3 is known for breaking things on many devices. I use Magisk Delta 26.1
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] mingkee:
I had Magisk updated to 26.3 including boot when I brought mine back to service and everything is fine
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] snozski:
Thanks for the great guide

For section SECTION FOUR - UNLOCK THE BOOTLOADER

I had to enable USB debugging first else I never got option to long press to unlock the bootloader just would go into download mode by pressing up volume

Had me stomped for a while, outside of that was flawless and running linageOS magisk with root
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] MrMagic:
I have a Tab 5Se Wifi and cannot seem to get root working. I'm running the latest Android 11 stock firmware and tried to follow this guide. Unfortunately I get stuck when trying to flash the magisk_patched.tar with Odin. It just stays stuck at "file analysis" and nothing happens.

Did something change that requires new instructions?

EDIT:

@snozski Could you write down the steps that you followed to get this working?

I've tried a lot of different ways now with a lot of different versions of Magisk, but until now I either get a boot loop or the flash process finishes successfully but I don't have root. I'm quite stumped.

EDIT 2:

Never mind, I got it working. Turns out I did the final step wrong (keeping the Volume Up button pressed until the red warning text appears).

I did notice that once Magisk has done its thing, root stays active even without pressing that button.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] mrdreamers:
I'm on LineageOS, whats the best way to root this rom?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] PromethiumFire:
Hello, I've already messaged the creator og this thread but if somebody can help that would be great. I've followed this guide to root my Samsung Galaxy S5e Tablet. I've successfully unlocked bootloader, but I'm having problems Injecting the Magisk_patched.Tar via Odin onto the tablet. I have included photos of the issue.

This is also the log from Odin, incase you can spot something I have done wrong.

<ID:0/006> Added!!

<ID:0/006> Odin engine v(ID:3.1301)..

<ID:0/006> File analysis..

<ID:0/006> Total Binary size: 133 M

<ID:0/006> SetupConnection..

<ID:0/006> Initialzation..

<ID:0/006> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/006> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/006> NAND Write Start!!

<ID:0/006> SingleDownload.

<ID:0/006> boot.img

<ID:0/006> recovery.img

<ID:0/006> Complete(Write) operation failed.

<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

<ID:0/006> Removed!!

<ID:0/006> Added!!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] mrdreamers:
I tried this too and failed, the way I rooted mine is installing LineageOS21 exactly the way they said and flashed Magisk.apk in recovery.

[ROM][OFFICIAL][gts4lv|gts4lvwifi][14] LineageOS 21

LineageOS is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 14, which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device. LineageOS is based on the Android Open Source Project, with...

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[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] fordarm:
I tried that but no effect even waited over 30seconds...

I got this download page as attached when I push vol+ button...
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] busdonic:
TiTiB, do you just place the stock firmware obtained thru Frija in AP slot in Odin? Thanks in advance!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] TiTiB:
IIRC, I used three of the four files *extracted/unzipped* from the download (AP, BL, and CSC). Almost 100% sure.

I did that because I read about it 'somewhere' I can't remember.

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Hmm, I don't know what to say. The instructions/steps have worked for me, and others, multiple times. I had to follow them three different times because of my overly-aggressive debloating attempts (my nickname is TiTiB—Tweak it Til it Breaks—for good reason).

All that I can suggest at this time is to be sure you're following the steps carefully, and other than that start from scratch.

Maybe someone else has a suggestion, but that's all I have.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] fordarm:
Thank you so much for kind answer.

I think it can be relating with region. My tab has one more digit as N at the last of model name SM-T725N.

Anyway I will try again this weekend and post here. Thanks again~
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] RagingHarry:
Lolz0rz, went on holidays the 20th last month and accidentally dropped my S5e from my backpack into the back of my car, noticed it 30 minutes before my flight was about to leave Schiphol AMS, came back home today, tablet was still on while residing just in front of the backseat, 8% battery left.

With minor tweaks idle drain is really awesome on this device, no naptime installed, just over 3 weeks on 1 charge.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] Hodelot:
Very nice how-to!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] NSD:
Any thoughts on how to return to stock would be greatly appreciated since the device doesn't boot any more (stuck at samsung logo).
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] suzook:
Odin flash stock files. Simple as that.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] AHE_XDA:
[MENTION=304945]NSD[/MENTION]

Are you able to provide ANY details as to how you got stuck at the 'Samsung' logo?

E.g., What were you doing before?

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] suzook:
Frija not find software????

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Tried rooting...during boot, tab restarted. Now i am facing the only official binaries are allowed to be flash. Tablet will NOT boot

Anyone got a copy of the stock boot?? I am still downloading. FRIJA not working for me

Got it going again. Thanks for nothing guys....LOL. JK.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] ivanox1972:
Maybe to try combination file flash?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] LuK1337:
hi https://github.com/luk1337/android_...ag/c-eb495559a4f7154b80f09aee17b74b729c455b09

[ lmk if decryption works on stock rom ( I know it works on Lineage ) btw. I'm just being curious, it's not like I know how to fix it lol ]
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] ianmacd:
I don't own a Tab S5e, but I have had a lot of Snapdragon-based Samsung tablets over the years, so I'm curious: What is the difficulty in producing TWRP for this device? Or is it simply that no-one has tried?

EDIT: I see now that, by coincidence, the problem may have just been fixed today in the posting above mine.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] suzook:
Hopefully someone can figure this out. Root is nice, but twrp would be nicer.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] LuK1337:
... hopefully.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] RagingHarry:
Flash both the files with odin?

And is there a minimum version of rom required?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] RagingHarry:
Decrypting on stock isn't working for me

Added screenshot on the firmware I'm on.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] LuK1337:
But hopefully it's not getting stuck on splash screen?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] RagingHarry:
No it doesnt get stock on splash screen, installed the recovery with odin, booted to recovery, tried entering the pin, decryption unsuccesfull.

But it boots just fine into Stock Samsung "PDA	T720XXU1ASF1 CSC	T720OXM1ASF1"

Tried rooting it but wasnt succesfull at that either.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] NSD:
That's the thing - I wasn't doing anything at all. The tablet sat on my nightstand for a good week unused (during which time the battery died). Prior to that I was playing one of the Layton games. Also after rooting I'd rebooted the device many times successfully.

So I suppose I now need to grab any version of the Canadian model's AP, BL and CSC files and just flash them in Odin?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] suzook:
[MENTION=4899305]ashyx[/MENTION] should be able to help. He is very good with Samsung and twrp.

Or [MENTION=4553200]Mentalmuso[/MENTION], he got it working on tab s4
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] grävling:
I too have now successfully rooted my SM-T725 tablet. :)

Thank you very much AHE_XDA for the guide.

I ran into a problem. Since I live in Sweden, My CSC is NEE. But there is something weird going on with that 'Nordic Europe Edition'. Frija cannot find it. When you go to a site like samfrew https://samfrew.com/model/SM-T725/ it is filed, not under 'Europe' but in a special section called '--' along with "Baltic Europe" and "unknown Region". So I downloaded the German (CSC is DBT) version instread. According to Frijya the version string was *exactly the same* as the NEE version. I don't know what is up with this problem, but if you are in Scandinavia -- the German version works.

Also, you have to be very, very patient with the operation. Several times I got that 'this is taking too long, I must have done something wrong' feeling. Ignore the feeling. Be more patient instead.

Edit: My service provider SW version. in device info still says NEE/NEE/ after rooting, not DBT// as I expectred. NEE/NEE/ (with the repeat between the slashes) is exactly the same CSC code as I had before I flashed the new rom.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] LuK1337:
uh, are you blind or something?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] suzook:
No, just making a suggestion. They could help with the decryption
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] LuK1337:
Yeah I don't really care about stock decryption. It'll work everywhere else.

Also I doubt that there's a single TWRP image that can decrypt Samsung's stock ROM userdata.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] suzook:
Does this have a recovery partition? Or is recovery in the boot partition?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] grävling:
There is a recovery partition. Indeed, as it stands now you have to reboot into recovery every time you power off your tablet if you want to retain root. A regular boot from the boot partition gives you a magisk-free unrooted experience.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] AHE_XDA:
Working on a TWRP solution currently.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] bodhisattvah:
Just read through the whole thing and wanted to say thanks for all the hard work on this one! Just bought a 720 last week ($419 at Costco for the 6/128GB+128GB card included {strangely sandisk instead of Samsung}), and can't wait to get on with my normal, ad-free Youtube experience. It's quite jarring to live this way after years without! Like using someone else's phone.

Anyway, THANKS!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] suzook:
I would like to thank the OP here for root, and Luk for TWRP recovery.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] TiTiB:
Yes! [MENTION=4786941]XHE_XDA[/MENTION] put a LOT of time and effort in to making root accessible for anyone who wants it. Many, many thanks for that. And [MENTION=5075128]LuK1337[/MENTION] took us all the way to the promised-land! Very appreciative of their works, without which I would not have complete ownership of my tablet.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] suzook:
Looking forward to the release on lineage. Can't wait to dump Samsung fw.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] RagingHarry:
https://xdaforums.com/tab-s5e/development/rom-lineageos-16-0-t3960528
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] TiTiB:
You're right on top of things!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] grävling:
I'm not. Where do I go to get a TWRP recovery for my now rooted SM-T725 ?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] RagingHarry:
Read a few pages back, [MENTION=5075128]LuK1337[/MENTION] posted them uhh just 2 pages

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Well not exactly, I was lucky that I read [MENTION=5075128]LuK1337[/MENTION] post better then the rest here and noticed what was coming up by a dev I knew from previous tablets, just jumped in the wild and wanted to test twrp, then the fun started.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] LuK1337:
The link I posted earlier is outdated now that you can just download TWRP from the official website.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] RagingHarry:
https://twrp.me/samsung/samsunggalaxytabs5ewifi.html
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] elliwigy:
recovery is there.. boot is also.. but the ramdisk is also in recovery partition.. boot only contains a kernel now and recovery ramdisk is loaded on top of system when device boots hence the need to boot device a certain way as magisk is primarily installed to the recovery partition.. seems to b the way sammy will b doin it from now on..

i believe theyre all A Only System As Root with ramdisk in recovery.img unlike pixels for ecample that use AB setup
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] grävling:
Great news. Now, I have the SM-T725 LTE version of this tablet, not the wifi-only version SM-T720. Can you tell me if the official TWRP version for gts4lvwifi will also work with the T725 or if I need to wait until an LTE version is available? Thank you.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] ianmacd:
Luke, is your Tab S5e kernel .config available on-line?

I'm trying to bring up TWRP on the brand new Tab S6 (gts6lwifi), but my custom kernel won't boot the machine. I wanted to compare my kernel config with yours to see if yields any clues.

I based my config on the one I made last year for the Tab S4. That kernel booted on the first attempt, but the Tab S6 is proving much more difficult. This is the first 4.14 Qualcomm device I've built for, so maybe I'm missing something. Or maybe there's something wrong with Samsung's kernel source. It needed a lot of fixes before it would even compile, but that's always the case.

Anyway, if you could share your Tab S5e config with me, that would be convenient for the purpose of comparison.

Cheers.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] LuK1337:
Current one is using Lineage kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] ianmacd:
I'm looking at the Lineage sources on GitHub, but I don't see where each's device's individual kernel config is stored. Could you give me a quick pointer? Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] LuK1337:
Well you need to try bit harder. Hint: devices have their own kernel repos.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] ianmacd:
I see that devices have their own kernel repos, but there are 2,000 repos under LineageOS on GitHub.

If the device's kernel repo had been named consistently with those of other devices, it would be called android_kernel_samsung_gts4lvwifi, but there is no such repo. So, if it's there, the naming isn't obvious. I tried a few other obvious filter strings, but couldn't find it under those, either.

But never mind. I thought a simple, polite question might yield a simple, polite answer, but that's evidently not how you want to play this, so thank you for the answer and sorry for troubling you.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] Lovelyven:
Can someone please explain to me how to install TWRP for root. I keep getting only official recover. The when it finally went through the tablet keeps rebooting back to download mode with an error
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e Guides, News, & Discussion] jackspeed:
I installed TWRP according to the directions in this thread:

https://xdaforums.com/tab-s5e/development/rom-lineageos-16-0-t3960528

But since I installed LOS, I don't know whether the stock rom is still bootable after installing TWRP.