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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Fishballs:
Only official binaries blah blah..

Tried both methods today, Without twrp gave me a Only official binaries are allowed to be flashed (Boot) and with Twrp method giving me the same but with (recovery) instead

How do i solve this?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] iamkani:
Chk in YouTube. There is a video for how to get root.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Fishballs:
Thanks, but not very helpful.

I already said that i cannot get past flashing TWRP & a Magisk Patched AP, OEM Unlocked and KG Status stuck on Prenormal.

Don't even mention youtube unless it matches those Criteria.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Myrmeko:
Why do i have to reinstall the stock firmware if i just bought the phone and it's basically new and fresh outta the box?

I have the latest stock firmware installed.

I've never seen this being necessary on any other phone.

Edit: Can any of y'all answer me this? Somebody in this forum got his Note bricked after installing a stock firmware then installing TWRP.

I've seen some tutorials on YouTube in which they just unlocked the bootloader (wiped the phone), booted into dowload mode, installed TWRP, formatted /data and then just installed Magisk.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Haxornator:
Did you ever get an answer to this?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] GhanemGh:
i expect here xda-developer i'll get answer other than "skip the root its harmful".
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] GhanemGh:
@Montero7o @Zer0De8th

hello hope you are doing fine. I am a new user for root i've just install twrp on my note 9 exynos android 10 and am confused about the files that i have to flash with twrp. Confused because posts that list the way for root was in jan24. Well now in mega there's no magisk canary and also different types of twrp as well as disable verity. any help please? ( I want to root to practice more about commands and learn how things worked out especially that i have a course learning ubuntu for a master degree in mechatronics.)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Zer0De8th:
I have update the links, Currently I don't have Note9 so I am not able to test much. PM me if any help needed.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] g1ya:
hello ! If I root my phone with this method , will the region lock be reactivated ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Archie_Arch:
Hello :) I am looking to flash a custom ROM and I'm following this guide. I think I flash the custom ROM at step 2 instead of flashing the stock firmware. Can I use TWRP to flash the ROM instead?

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] zd21:
Would this work with the latest update release one UI 2.5 Android 10 released on February 2021? Thank you!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] oldman20:
same question! thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Zer0De8th:
Yah it may work
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] forserg:
Hi everyone,

I used this method to Install TWRP, root my N960F and after that I flashed custom ROM.

Just wondering, can I flash back the stock rom after all?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] BamBamDyno:
which magisk version did you use ? I did the same with magisk 22.1 but now when i go into twrp recovery i am not able to backup the DATA section it shows 0 MB and when i try to wipe DATA for installing custom ROM it says "could not mount data and unable to find crypto footer". I am not sure if these are co realated or not ? what could the possible solution ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] oldman20:
I think if format data first (you need reinstall rom) then data can mout success
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] BamBamDyno:
I started again with the stock ROM this time that solved it.

Still thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] joecool666:
hi guys can someone please tell me what does not work after root tripp knox..

redards joe
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] ecnslsss:
Can I lock the bootloader and unroot my device after unlocking the bootloader and rooting the phone?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] dragvandil:
worked perfectly, thanks a lot for the detailed guide!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] x7nofate:
hi guys can someone please tell me what does not work after root? Battery not charging to 100%, secure folder, mobile banking, biometric etc?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] darkriff:
Everything works no issues
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] x7nofate:
Even banking application and secure folder and Samsung pay/samsung pass works without issue?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] zulu88:
@x7nofate

Secure folder not work

Samsung pay not work

Samsung pass not work
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] x7nofate:
Thank you for your reply.

Beacuse Samsung pass is not working did anyone check does other autofill services work with this root method? Samsung pass is very useful feature and it could be great if we could replace Samsung Pass with other autofill app.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] usman.butt05:
When i flash twrp i get this error "only official released binaries are allowed to be flashed" please help
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] J3SS33:
Hey, so I got TWRP flashed on my Note 9 successfully, and I wiped the Data, then rebooted but the phone will not accept Magisk 23 zip file and so I proceeded with the Disable ForceEncrypt thing as instructed and although it seems to have "worked" (I received only 1 error pertaining to odm not mounting), when I boot up my Note 9 now it's stuck at the Samsung logo and is in a boot loop. I've been thinking of trying to flash a custom rom just to see if that'll get me booted up but I also can't seem to get my computer to connect to the phone via MTP. The Note 9 shows up on my computer but when I click either Internal or SD storage it says it can't access the information on the computer.

Any ideas/suggestions?

EDIT: I was able to get some custom ROMs on my SD card and then flash 1 onto my Note 9. The Note 9 boots up into the custom ROM now (which I did not anticipate would happen when flashing, I thought I'd get several errors). My goal, perhaps ironically, is to keep Samsung's software on the phone and rid it of bloat.

EDIT #2: I decided to reformat my phone to Samsung's software for one more go at rooting my phone with the official software. Initially, like the first time, it appeared that the device was in limbo and wasn't doing anything. After what felt like a solid 20 minutes I got a setup screen 😁 Apparently I'm very impatient or anticipatory (take your pick). Any way, my Note 9 is rooted with the official Samsung software now and seems to be stable.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] prazcon:
I have the same issue.

Just tried, did not work. As soon as I press start to flash the TWRP within a few seconds I get a FAIL! Message and my phone shows in red "Only official released binaries are allowed to be flashed(Recovery)".

This is the output in Odin:

<ID:0/004> Added!!
<ID:0/004> Removed!!
<ID:0/006> Added!!
<ID:0/006> Odin engine v(ID:3.1401)..
<ID:0/006> File analysis..
<ID:0/006> Total Binary size: 41 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> recovery.img
<ID:0/006> RQT_CLOSE !!
<ID:0/006>
<ID:0/006> Complete(Write) operation failed.
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

Any ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xyon:
Hi all.

I'm just catching up on this information. But I hope to confirm what I'm thinking on something.

My Note 9 is Androd 10 Q and has the date of Aug 2021 for the latest update. Model N960F (Dual SIM). I do not have the "OEM Unlock" option in Developers Options. Does this mean that I cannot Root this device at all? Or at least, not Root it successfully or without issues?

Any information about this would be really appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] J3SS33:
From my understanding your model (which I too have) is supposed to be OEM Unlockable and if that option in the developers mode does not show up it means you are in "OEM hell", which means that it's a timed unlock, some say you have to wait 1 week to a few days before the option becomes available. Some also say you can trick your phone into thinking it's been a week by manually making your date and time go a week forward beyond whatever it currently is.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xyon:
Thanks for the reply.

I did actually wait the week...probably a few days more...and I've tried to push the date forward. Unfortunately it didn't change anything.

Would there be anything else that you know of that might work? Or would I have to look into another version of the phone?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] J3SS33:
This article pretty much sums up everything I mentioned and added a bit more detail.

Fix Missing OEM Unlock Toggle on Samsung Galaxy Devices (Guide)

Are you facing the missing OEM unlock issue on your Samsung Galaxy device? That’s because your phone has entered the Prenormal RMM/KG state. However, if you’d like to bypass it, then you can follow…

www.thecustomdroid.com

What you could try to do is download another firmware and maybe that'll get the clock ticking again or it'll reconfigure something amiss in the phone's firmware/software.

I haven't had my phone for more than a month, I turned it on, went to the about phone section, turned on dev mode and the OEM option was there, it warned me that the phone would be wiped and that the "security" of the phone would be frozen so no more security or software updates.

Personal opinion - the "security" that Samsung has for their smartphones is absurdly high and I don't think it's necessary other than to persuade the illusion that they really care about their customers and by extension their customers data. If you buy a device, it should be yours to do as you please with without a corporation's interference because lets face it, this is more about control than security or privacy. One group trying to control the other. Don't believe me? When you go to download mode on a Samsung device they are incessant about telling you that if you don't use their software that you are putting yourself in danger and to a point they are agreeable but they go to the point of fearmongering which again, is being controlling of a situation to dictate the outcome in a desired manner (i.e. you aren't going to want to remove Samsung's software because you are scared s***less what "custom software" will do to your device).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] x7nofate:
Hi, I do not understand this part:

'Copy the patched file to your PC with adb pull /sdcard/Download/magisk_patched.tar. Do not use MTP as it is reported to corrupt files.'

What is adb pull /sdcard/Download/magisk_patched.tar.?

Adb pull ?

From where I can get Adb pull?

Please help
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] zulu88:
@x7nofate Just move that file to the card, and that's it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xyon:
I just saw this (thank you...I appreciate your help thus far) a few hours ago and dove in...

It unfortunately did not work for me. The (stock) flashing went fine, phone started fine, but no OEM Unlock to be seen. I've tried changing the date again afterwards according to how it was mentioned in the link (and other connecting links, here and here, within) you gave me but it hasn't worked. I even attempted this here, but the device would not accept it, so I flashed stock again just to be sure nothing was screwed-up.

*side note: I am presently using a different device until I can get this situation figured out with the Note, and I don't have internet at the house. I use the phone's cable-connected hotspot*

From reading, it seems to suggest that I might have to leave the phone powered on and connected to data and leave it alone for the 7 days. But I don't know if it needs to be a SIM card for connecting, or if connecting via WiFi would work for this.

I purchased this phone from someone on ebay (phone itself is fine and works properly) and only have until the 16 of next month to return it. Thats why I asked about the possibility of having to try a different model (IE: the N960N).

I'm really at a stand-still with all of this and it is incredibly frustrating.

Any other thoughts/suggestions/ideas are very much welcomed.

PS. I completely agree with your sentiment in that last paragraph, and have thought the same thing for years now.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] J3SS33:
I see.

Well since your model is the same as mine and I've been able to OEM Unlock my phone, my best advice to you is to return your device if rooting your phone is a vital criteria for having your phone. Return it, find another one of the same model sold by someone else and try again. Or, probably not what you'd prefer, buy an older android/samsung device that is easier to root and use it instead.

I was a bit scared to get mine for the same scenario you are going through. I wasn't sure how easy or hard it would be to root the device. It took me collectively a few hours over the span of a week to get mine rooted and content to use it as a daily driver. Somewhere in this thread I have actually summarized my journey.

As far as Mobile Data and WIFI go, they are different radios that achieve the same goal, connecting a internet-enabled device to the internet. Providing you don't have auto-updates on or anything like that in the play store, you could in theory leave your data on and it would not use up all of your data in the process. You'd just need a week to go by and then, again, in theory the OEM Unlock option would appear.

Personally I'd return it and get another one, I'd rather get rid of the problem and replace it with a possible solution. When I got my phone the OEM Unlock option was readily available once I unlocked the dev mode so if it isn't in the dev mode as soon as you unlock the dev mode chances are pretty high (I'd say) that for whatever reason (I really don't know) the phone cannot be OEM unlocked by mere mortals. 😂
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] x7nofate:
Hi, dear experts I have very important question.

When I root note 9 Samsung pass won't work. If I do full wipe and upload fresh Firmware will I get back Samsung pass functionality? Or if I trip knox once I will never be able to use Samsung pass any more? Please help
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xyon:
Error. Actual reply below.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] x7nofate:
If I unroot note 9 by installing firmware from odin will I get back Samsung pass functionality?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] zulu88:
@x7nofate If I remember correctly, Samsung Pass doesn't work on devices with unlocked bootloader.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xyon:
I will have to consider your suggestion. I'll try the week sitting on someone's WiFi and see if that does anything first. A last resort effort, I guess.

I prefer a rooted device. I'm sure you do too in many ways.

The device thats my daily-driver isn't the Note, currently. I was on an older Note, the same one for years. AT&T notified me that that model will no longer work on the new network. In fact, they kicked my phone off the network after they sent me a bargain-basement replacement. The Note 9 is technically the oldest of the Notes that will work on the network. I like the Note line.

I've rooted other devices in the past. Quite a few of them. But its been a while since I've wanted/needed to. All the new barriers are surprising...and frustrating.

Also from reading around, it seems that it is not possible to downgrade/flash to Android 9 or 8. I would be okay with that. What are your thoughts on that?

Mine states the date August 1st 2021 for the Security Patch. The date that the system thinks it is (no connection to the internet presently on it) is October 4th 2021. Do you think that would make any difference compared to yours and what it said when you first went through the About menu?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] x7nofate:
Thank you for your message and really apologies if another question will be the stupid one...

Can lock bootloader back again hence Samsung pass would be back working again?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] J3SS33:
Root is best, if you ask me. I do not, at all, like the fact that these empires keep locking down their devices each year more & more.

The Note 9, for me, is the last in the Galaxy Note line up that I'm prepared to buy or for that matter use. After the Note 9 the design language that Samsung has chosen for the newer line up's, to me, is not only stupid but really is a smack to the face for privacy. I'm one of those people who puts tape on their cameras because I believe that people can and most likely are being watched through their cameras if not 24/7 often enough that tape is necessary for privacy.

I'm going on tangents 😆 I don't know a lot about downgrading the phone since I just got mine less than a month ago but from past experience with Samsung devices it would make sense to me in a murky way that downgrading isn't possible on newer devices due to Samsung tinkering with the bootloader in a such a way that once you have the "latest" bootloader you wouldn't be able to put an earlier bootloader on the device because the phone wouldn't accept it. And to get android 9 or 8 would also mean you need an earlier bootloader version from those versions. There is a workaround to this madness, although in your current situation I suppose the idea is useless. If you were to sideload a recovery onto your phone like TWRP you could flash a custom ROM that uses android 9 or 8 as the base. This is the only thing I can think of to get an earlier version of android with sacrifices (as usual) and perhaps, there's a developer out there whom has ported a Samsung firmware that is android 9/8 for the Note 9 in one of the Note 9 threads. There's a few I've seen that claim to have some debloating (I've tried at least 1 install unsuccessfully).

I vaguely remember when I got mine before I connected it to the internet I wanted to look around the software and see what I was getting into. The time and date were based on Greenland and I'm pretty sure the OEM Unlock button was there for me but grayed out. I had to connect to the internet and change my time zone to Canada before the OEM Unlock was pressable.

If I were you if you don't want to return it just yet, I'd connect it to the internet and check your Dev mode, if the OEM Unlock option isn't present, restart the phone, tinker with the date & time, and as a last resort wait a week. Given that the phone itself is some years old at this point, I don't see why the option wouldn't be readily available other than some bs technicality on Samsung's end.

My main reason for rooting, almost every time I've gone through it, is to put a custom ROM on my phone. I won't really criticize developers because most if not all of them make LineageOS/various other ROMs for free (or donations) but lets just say most custom ROMs I've tried aren't exactly stable or there's always something not quite finished/right so I prefer to stick with software given by (in most cases) Samsung and root allows removing un-removable apps, which is to me a half measure but not much can be done. I'm not a developer and I don't know programming.

I write too much 😅😂
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] zulu88:
You can lock the bootloader again, but Samsung Pass probably won't work if the phone was rooted previously. I am not 100% sure.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xyon:
I agree. Root is best.

Yeah, it sucks that they keep locking things down so much.

Ya' know, I do the same with the cameras. Always covered here too. 8-)

I don't particularly need Android 8 or 9. To have either 8, 9 or 10, it doesn't really matter to me. I was thinking that if it were possible to downgrade then I would have the OEM Unlock option available, and be able to load TWRP and possibly a custom ROM. Do you think that I would be able to load TWRP anyway, even if I don't have the OEM Unlock option without issues?

Originally, (I think) mine was based in Thailand. I flashed files that are based in England. Phone works fine (stock) either way, but obviously the issue remains. What I had, and still have, is N960FXXS9FUH1. The CSC went from OLE to OXM. That's really the only difference that I could see. Do you think that trying a different set of files would change anything? I'm trying to exhaust all the options with this before giving up.

I might have to do that. Connect, date and time, see what happens, then wait the week.

You're right...Samsung BS.

I've thought and done the same. Root for a custom ROM. Or at least just root to be able to remove all the garbage they load it with, and mod some things and prevent ads and junk. My old Note2 would randomly shut-off. I had to pop the battery and restart. But it was custom, so I delt with it because it was just what I wanted otherwise.

I guess I write too much too then. ;-) All good though.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] x7nofate:
Thank you for your answer. How about mobile banking app? Barclays, halifax, natwest etc are they working fine with this root method?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] J3SS33:
If you take a look at samsung devices >2019 onward, they lock the bootloaders and on the devices with unlockable bootloaders, you can go to the download mode where they'll tell you that if you do anything to the phone they disable X and Y for your "security".

Apparently people who pay over $1,000 for a device cannot be trusted with their own device. 🤨 Alas, I did not pay $1,000 for my Note 9 nor would I ever pay that for a brick.

So the way I understand samsung devices, especially the new devices, is that you cannot flash TWRP onto your device with a locked bootloader because TWRP requires an unlocked bootloader (TWRP messes with certain system files/etc which necessitates an unlocked bootloader). And maybe I'm explaining this a bit backwards but you cannot downgrade your OS if that OS has an earlier bootloader version than your current OS 😂. A silverlining to this, if one could even call it that, is that on these particular models you actually need android 10 to root the phone because android 8 and 9 do not have the same exploit as 10 does. (at least is the case for S8/S9, same CPUs as Note8/Note9)

As far as I know the firmware just needs to match your current bootloader version to work properly and nothing else really matters. Each carrier version just adds their own bloatware and the cellular bands are all the same (pertaining to that specific country/region). I don't even know what firmware my phone came with when I first got it because I never checked. Then I rooted the phone and put custom ROMs on it, didn't care for any of them, so I downloaded a random firmware off samfw that pertained to the SM-N960F model and my phone works fine, it's got Samsung's official firmware on it, it's rooted and I've debloated it.

Funny you mention a Note 2. I also have a Note 2, North America version. It's rooted and debloated and it doesn't restart on me. 😂

For the average person I don't think they'd care too much to read paragraphs and paragraphs. I'm a thorough person and you can't detail complex things in a few sentences and be clear & concise all at once.

Cheers 😋
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Xyon:
I understand what you're saying now about the bootloaders and downgrading. Makes sense. And, I see what you're saying about the fact that 10 has that certain exploit.