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[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ianmacd:
You follow John Wu's instructions on how to patch the AP file with Magisk. You don't need to erase anything at all when you perform the firmware upgrade.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] TiTiB:
I'm an adventurous sort (check my sig), so if you ever have something that needs testing just let me know.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Diamand_Dragon:
Hi there,

Has anybody an idea why the bootloader unlocking isn't working with my sm-865?

I've checked OEM unlocking but the volume-UP button does nothing, when I press it. I've tried multiple durations from a few to 30 seconds
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ToruTora:
There's one part ya missing, which is holding both up and down while plugging it into a pc.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Diamand_Dragon:
Thank you, it worked :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] darkstego:
Do you need to load the recovery partition after every reboot of the device? I think the rooting is complete but I can't seem to boot from recovery partition. If I hold the volume up for any period of time it goes into recovery.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] cbb77:
Reading thru the root procedures for S5e and noticed some issues reported where wifi stops and magisk/root is not enabled till after another reboot. Does the S6 exhibit the same issues/behavior after rooting?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] deezid:
Is widevine still enabled after rooting (Netflix, Amazon etc. HDR)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ziotom2:
on new models, by booting, you have to switch on the device with on+vol up to start the recovery partition (not the actual recovery) in order to load magisk stored in such place. if you boot just with the on button, magisk is not loaded (thus not root on session). the secure storage of bluetooth and wifi connections are reset. So you have just to take care of each bootstrap.

by me no issues at all.

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[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] cbb77:
Hmm, sounds like a pain to deal with, however I will admit that I didn't really reboot my S4 much, mainly just quick power off/standby mode. Thus let me ask to follow up questions if you don't mind.

1. I assume once you do power on accordingly, root sticks such that power offs, meaning standby and not a full power down, retains root reliably?

2. Similar with Bluetooth and wifi, do the bluetooth and wifi stay functioning after correcting it upon reboot, meaning they stay functioning after each resume from standby? This would be my biggest deterrant on rooting if this was constantly unstable.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ziotom2:
1. confirm. root sticks.

2. I have no problems till now. You have just to ensure using the magisk module "libsecure_storage companion for rooted Samsung devices" to have the right retention. (this is necessary for note 10+. actually I didn't install in my tab s6 and my mouse and wifi is still sticking... so maybe is not necessary).
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] deezid:
Sounds like a solution I think.

Also does Netflix (or Amazon Prime) still offer hdr after root?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ptitjes:
Hi everyone!

I'm new here and also new to the matter of rooting android devices, so please forgive me if I ask dumb questions and don't hesitate to tell me so or point me to good reading resources. Thanks in advance for your kindness.

Some context: I mainly bought the Tab S6 to be able to use Linux and VSCode on it while still having Android (to Netflix and stuff...). As Linux on Dex is still not available for the Tab S6 (and maybe never will), I succesfully installed a prooted xfce/debian and VSCode. This works very well except that I miss some stuff from my laptop distro, mainly being able to change my inotify's max_user_watches (for VSCode to auto-refresh). Thus I would need to bind my /proc and use chroot instead of proot. And so I stumble upon this thread... :)

So I have some questions about this method of rooting and other methods:

0) Do I really need to be root to gain access to /proc and change the max_user_watches ? Or is there some less intruding (magical) way I could augment the watches count ?

1) If I understand correctly the waranty warning of the tutorial, this rooting method will trip the Knox Waranty Bit. Is that right ?

2) It was my understanding that there existed some other method to root Samsung devices without tripping the Knox Waranty Bit, by exploiting some Android vulnerabilities. Is this not possible anymore with recent Android version ? Or isn't there any known vulnerabilities yet for the Tab S6 and/or Android 9.

3) Would I potentially be able to install stuff like DBus on my chroot system (or use the one of Android if there is one installed) and thus be able to use Gnome on my linux distro ?

Again thanks to all for your help and kindness.

All the best,

ptitjes
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] jb44:
For me works great. Also all Apps what i have installed ( gl-tools, adaway, gameguardian etc.) are running normal. Thx :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] deezid:
Does Netflix still run in HD(R)? In case you have such an account. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] jb44:
I don't use Netflix, sry.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] louison542:
SE permissive ?

Worked fine on my S6 sm-t865 256GB.

But a question, someone know how to change SE for Android to Permissive?

With patching AP file with Magisk SE stay in Enforcing...

Need help please :)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] jionny:
I went to the sammobile site and while I did see the tab S6 firmware I did not see the United States listed, which am I suppose to download to root
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] TiTiB:
Took me a while to figure this one out, but the US is 'Cellular South'—XAR
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Khiven:
Helllo everyone. I did all steps as stated in the Wu's post, but after I flashed the patched firmware, it has no magisk, I manually installed the manager but it shows magisk not installed. I patched the AP file with magisk as indicated and everything went without an error, but it seems like something is missing...

Also checked with root checker and it is not installed.

Any ideas?

Thanks

EDIT: Wu's method was not completely working for me, what I did was follow https://xdaforums.com/tab-s5e/how-to/galaxy-tab-s5e-sm-t720-root-t3947806) and after that it worked

Probably it was working all the time but did not realized that you actually need to press vol up + power till red warning when switching the device on if you want magisk enabled.

All good now.

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Khiven:
I can't get Netflix to work... even with magisk hiding it, it will give the error "This device is not supported by the app"

Any ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Khiven:
I got it working somehow after many tries and different apks... however no HD even with Widevine L1
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ptitjes:
Khiven, did you try this magisk module ?

https://magiskroot.net/fix-netflix-error-5-2-magisk-module-netflix-enabler/
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ziotom2:
hi, on sm-t860 with Android 9 (samsung tab s6 wifi) performing a direct update to magisk 20 (from 19.3) with mm 7.3.5 causes a vbmeta partition damage. tried twice with same result. rolled back to 19.3. someone having same experience?

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[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChrisDos:
Yep, same experience here. Just had Magisk patch the boot image (recommended option) and have the resulting error:

partition vbmeta

Reason vbmeta: error verifying vbmeta image: O_O_INDIVLDVMT_EDRHS_IMTHSGAUEMSAC

I'm trying to recover right now. Did you just use ODIN to restore the BL partition? I extracted magisk_patched.tar and there is a vbmeta.img, boot.img, and recovery.img. Did you just select one of those to restore to BL?

I'm trying to figure out a way to get this bootable again without loosing my data.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] aramisathei:
Same issue as well. I ended up doing a clean install, although if you still have the old 19.3 magisk tar have you tried re-flashing that?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChrisDos:
I do still have that image. But one of the steps in:

https://xdaforums.com/tab-s5e/how-to/galaxy-tab-s5e-sm-t720-root-t3947806

is to do a factory reset after flashing using ODIN.

Researching, I came across: https://topjohnwu.github.io/Magisk/install.html

If you don’t need to patch the full firmware, you can manually create a tar file with at least vbmeta.img, boot.img, and recovery.img to let Magisk Manager patch your images in the proper way.

So I've extracted those three img files and create a tar archive and I think I'll flash that. I'm researching a bit more before trying this.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] aramisathei:
Tried that and it produced the same result. I think it's the change magisk makes to the vbmeta.img.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChrisDos:
You tried it with the patched 19.3 and it resulted int the same problem?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] aramisathei:
Oh no, sorry. I haven't had any issues with 19.3.

I tried flashing the full 20.0 and the stripped one and both failed.

19.3 was successful.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChrisDos:
Anyone that needs the tar file with the three image files from the August 1st, patch, here it is:

https://cloud.chrisdos.com/index.php/s/wfsNQmWxfbkPpHp
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ziotom2:
I reflashed the original pached (magisk 19.3) firmware (csc home to maintain the data),. btw asked to john wu (magisk father) on git hub. he is aware there is an issue opened. waiting for new patch.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] aramisathei:
Here's an updated one for Magisk 19.4 for the October 1st patch.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhWq8J871hmsgYtRhGhZosDWFZq3Sg?e=XUryFI

By all means someone feel free to make a mirror as I'll absent-mindedly delete it soon enough.

Edit: Unrelated, has anyone else heard of a services.jar patch that modifies reboot so it always goes into recovery mode? I thought I read something, but I haven't had time to look into it yet.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] belair56:
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Thank you for the files, got me up and rooted after a few frustrating attempts on my own with the new 20. Magisk.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChrisDos:
So now that here is the new October update. I'm still not sure about the upgrade procedure. Do I just download the update from Samsung, use Odin to patch it, then before rebooting, use the October tar file provided by aramisathei and Odin to patch it again? I'm not sure if using Odin ever overwrites the data or internal partition. I know with the Google Pixel Factory images I can remove the "-w' from the patch script and not overwrite my data.

When I was first rooting this tablet, I ran into an issue where I removed some of Bixby's apks and I messed up the boot of the tablet. I used Odin to flash the magisk_patched.tar file and I didn't do the factory reset step and I lost half of the space in the tablet. I ended up having to go through the process again and do the factory wipe step so I could get all my internal storage back. So now I'm wary about how to perform updates now.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] aramisathei:
My process has been to flash the full update in Odin, factory reset, then flash the magisk file in Odin (usually with the BL and home CSC, although I'm not sure that's necessary).

Your issue with the free space sounds like maybe re-partition or something was accidentally checked in Odin, maybe?

I'm not sure about the process if you're trying to preserve data. In that case you could try flashing the update, rebooting, and then just the magisk file without fomatting and try your luck. No harm no foul if you're prepared to factory reset if it fails.

I formatted my tablet after the issues with magisk 20.0 yesterday and played flashing games for a bit, and I think once or twice I did manage to boot without factory resetting, but it was while doing other things so I can't say for sure.

Edit: To answer your original post, I don't think odin formats the data partition. It may be that some changes magisk makes requires re-initialization which can create boot problems without a factory reset, but again, I was half-assing it yesterday so I can't say 100%.

Would recommend removing passcode/encryption when doing so to try and preserve data though. Never know if it might help, and it's easy enough to put back in place once your done flashing.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] rorymc928:
So to clarify this guys,

With a stock T860 if I flash a magisk 20.0 modified AP tar (all I have) , it will not boot but follow that with a flash of the magisk 19.4, 3 file tar (provided by aramisthei) a few posts back, it will then boot?

Ps. Regarding internal storage loss, flashing AP only can result in odin shrinking the data partition , not always, not sure what the trigger is but, flashing with the others loaded prevents it.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] olishoey:
thanks to all in this thread, I was bashing my head against a wall trying to find a 19.4 tar then ended up here. Quick question for you all, since rooting my tablet is taking an absolute age to boot, it sits at the first screen for a long time and then the samsung screen, then finally (about 5 minutes) i get into android. anyone else found this?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] aramisathei:
Haven't tried that method (only mess with 19.4) but in theory it sounds like it should work.

Far as the other post about it taking five minutes to boot, maybe for the first boot, but otherwise no.

That doesn't sound right.

10-20 seconds depending on if you could the initial boot screens typically.

Are you holding the power and vol up keys to set recovery so it boots rooted?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] mingkee:
Coming from T720. There's a "vbmeta error" after updating Magisk to V20.

We need developers to make custom boot image, vbmeta, and TWRP.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] rorymc928:
Went ahead and used the method above, it works. Just flash the triple file immediately after the 20.0 modified tar, and it's fine, the rest of the process was as described.

Obviously the second flashing is only necessary if you don't have the earlier magisk tar AP

Not sure of the boot time as I walked out the room once I got the pulsing Samsung and left it to finish.

Thanks for the triple file by the way, I always feel naked without having root established ?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] olishoey:
yeah something doesn't seem right at all. I am holding Power+Vol Up to set recovery but a blue android screen appears and says erasing data, then when i continue to follow the steps once I get into the OS i am not rooted and magisk is not there.

So i tried installing twrp and then installing the magisk zip but after that it's soft bricked and i need to use Odin again.

Any suggestions would be great, is the fact that blue android screen shows up and says erasing normal? i havent read that anywhere so i'm not sure it is.

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this appears to have solved the problem for me also. thanks :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] cbb77:
Ok, I finally attempted rooting after I upgraded to the latest firmware. Thus I was on ASJ1 update before I attempted to root. Took me 3 times before I was successful. The only way I was able to get it to work was to flash the magisk_patched_19.4.tar file that was provided by aramisathei immediately after flashing the one I created. Thus just for my sanity sake, as well as future updates, I like to understand what I did wrong / why this was required, if anyone know. Here are the steps I followed.

1. Upgraded via OTA from stock build to ASJ1 build

2. Downloaded ASJ1 firmware from Sammobile site.

3. Following directions for Galaxy Tab S5e, patched my own AP file. (Loaded Magisk-Manager v7.3.4 onto Tab)

4. Flashed via Odin the patched AP file along with the corresponding BL and CSC file. (Flash successful)

5. Rebooted and performed wipe and suggested.

6. Rebooted and received "vbmeta error".

I repeated these steps again, carefully reviewing each step to ensure that I did not miss something, but same error. Third time, still received error, but I went back into Odin and flashed the patch provided by aramisathei and then wiped and rebooted. This time it was successful in booting. Like to understand why this extra flash is required and what's special about this tar file? I was under the impression the one I would have patched extracted from the firmware would be good enough. Any thoughts would be appreciated as I assume, we may see another update in the coming weeks.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] aramisathei:
Sounds like you followed the steps properly.

The issue you likely ran into is that magisk 20.0 isn't compatible with the Tab S6 (hence the need for the 19.4 tar).

There was a change to how 20.0 implements root which results in the vbmeta error.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] comeandgetit11:
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[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] poiki:
Can anyone confirm if the Australian version of the tab s6 has an unlockable bootloader?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Aristo25:
ROOT Qualcom SM-T865 LTE

PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME IF THERE IS ROOT FOR sm-t865 QUALCOM PROCESSOR...

I try so many times, but cannot be rooted T_T
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Aristo25:
Root tab s6 without magisk 20.0

How to use magisk 19.4 instead of 20.0? Since it always use latest version , can u please help? Cause i got vbmeta error when using 20.0 but i dunno about 19.4 it might work(?)
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] vanydotk:
Just FYI for anyone looking, Magisk 20.1 works without any vbmeta errors. Flash away!

Question, in the future when Samsung releases monthly updates, will we have to wipe our tablet every single time in order to update?
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ziotom2:
if you flash home-csc you maintain your data.

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[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] vanydotk:
Thanks! Hopefully the December update fixes the fingerprint scanner, mine is horrible.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChrisDos:
Downloading Firmware

What tool is everyone using to download firmware? Firja and SamFirm both cannot find the SM-T860 XAR (USA) firmware.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] cbb77:
Hmm, works for me direct from Sammobile site, just tried it. Painfully slow though.

https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/galaxy-tab-s6/firmware/SM-T860/XAR/download/T860XXS1ASK1/300542/

Would be nice if there was another location / mirror for these files.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChrisDos:
Thank you. Yea, painfully slow for sure.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] TiTiB:
I used to use Frija 1.3.0.0 without issue for finding SM-T860 XAR firware, but just tried and it forces update to 1.4.2.0 and now it doesn't work, at least with 'Auto' mode. An example of 'improvements' breaking things?

I also did search for SM-T720 XAR (Auto) with success, so....idk
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChrisDos:
I worked with the developer of Firja and it seems that Samsung changed how to access the servers for certain firmware. He figured out what was necessary and said a big rewrite of Frija is coming in the next couple of weeks.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] TiTiB:
Thanks! Hopefully fixed by Android 10 update (expected April 2020).
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] kawaiichi:
Can someone help me?

After I unlocked bootloader and flashed twrp, I booted into recovery and installed WETA kernel, Disable DM Verity Force Encrypt, and Magisk 20.1 in order (not stacked as one install). After that everything seems to work fine, except now the internal sd seems to be a jumble mess of random string folders, and I cannot download file or save anything to the internal sd. Some apps in the playstore cannot be installed or upgraded. Right now the tablet is basically a viewer without the ability to save anything to its internal drive.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] darkphoenix2012:
I am considering buying this tablet. Are all models rootable, or should I avoid a certain one? I was considering both the carrier branded models from TMO and VZW and also the wifi variant directly from Samsung. I don't want to buy the tablet if I can't root, debloat and de-samdung it. I am HATING my Note 10 because it cannot be rooted. Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Daniel Hjelvik:
If customization is a thing for you, you should know that The samsung tablets doesn't support Samsung themes like the smartphones does therefor substratum and wings fonts doesn't work.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] darkphoenix2012:
I only want to use adaway and to uninstall I'm guessing about 200+ of the useless bull**** spyware preloaded apps Samsung drowns their devices in. As far as themes I can live without it. I'd prefer an unlocked bootloader, but that doesn't seem to be an option on any modern Samsung device with a Qualcomm CPU. It's too bad there's really not a lot of competition in the high end spec category Android tablets, I've grown to hate the brand in the last few years, but I need something powerful, not seeing any other option.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] UnicornKaz:
I "wished" for a brand new thread, with a fool proof step by step instructions....please ! :D (As this thread is getting "scattered of info") :confused:

Thanks.. :fingers-crossed:
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Extreemator:
Man why you want to buy sung if you hate it so much. Rhetorical question. And only thing you want after is "desamdung" it. And install adaway. What is the point of all this??? just root to do those things. This bloats just seats there, and adaway also doubtful, at least mention cracked youtube that's where it's actually makes it's less annoying. There is TB, well even not having to pay for something if you really want, some system tweaks that you might need at certain moment.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ianmacd:
Why would you be willing to use any device that you suspect of coming factory-installed with spyware?

Most Samsung devices with a Qualcomm SoC have an unlocked bootloader. It's only devices manufactured for the North American market that do not.

Perhaps hate is too strong a word, then; because you actually seem very forgiving. Most people wouldn't buy a device from a brand they hate, especially if it was loaded with Spyware.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] telamohn:
Ditto, I too have been lurking here for some time and am starting to feel confused over which instructions are valid and what kind of issues to expect.
[Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Guides, News, & Discussion] ToruTora:
Same here just too many to look at, there's one that even says don't do all the steps as well.