Hi,
Hopefully getting my s6 tomorrow, but have a few questions:
1 I'm moving from the galaxy nexus, so I've become accustomed to the stock format. How is touch wiz? Ie is it a significant difference from the stock android experience?
2 I'd normally root the phone asap for backing up and flashing custom ROMs. Though I've heard rooting will trip KNOX, and currently there no way to restore KNOX status. As I'm concerned the phone may have issues with the screen (heard about discolouration etc), are Samsung likely to reject a phone when KNOX has been tripped?
3 as I haven't upgraded in quite some time, will the s6 automatically download my app and personal data when I log into google? If not, what's the easiest way to transfer the data without rooting?
Thanks!
Just install Google Launcher and you will feel right at home. Another thing is you will be extremely happy with the battery life compared to the gnexus. And yes google will automatically install all your apps once you setup your phone.
I came from a Nexus 5 so we are on the same boat.
1. The first thing I did after getting my s6 is to install Nova launcher because I feel touchwiz a little bit slow. Or if you prefer, you can download Google launcher if you prefer a stock feelling like @kojaraty said.
2. For the screen issue, I have no problem in this department.
3.Normally, your contacts, apps and pictures(if you did a sync with your gmail) should transfer automatically in your phone
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I'm also thinking of upgrading to the s6. Thank you mavers for creating this topic.
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mavers1985 said:
Hi,
Hopefully getting my s6 tomorrow, but have a few questions:
1 I'm moving from the galaxy nexus, so I've become accustomed to the stock format. How is touch wiz? Ie is it a significant difference from the stock android experience?
2 I'd normally root the phone asap for backing up and flashing custom ROMs. Though I've heard rooting will trip KNOX, and currently there no way to restore KNOX status. As I'm concerned the phone may have issues with the screen (heard about discolouration etc), are Samsung likely to reject a phone when KNOX has been tripped?
3 as I haven't upgraded in quite some time, will the s6 automatically download my app and personal data when I log into google? If not, what's the easiest way to transfer the data without rooting?
Thanks!
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I am coming from N6 and earlier had a S3, I am a pure android lover and I hated touchwiz. I flashed my s3 the very day I got it.. Never used touchwiz.. The touchwiz on s6 is a different deal.. It is bad ass. Its minimal and isn't laggy.. Install apex launcher.. Customize icons and you are good to go. Rooting isnt a big deal.. Knox can be removed with custom stock roms.. I am not even feeling the need to root right now.. Its that awesome.
Coming from a GNEX, every other cell phone screen is an improvement. That phone had the worst screen of any phone I've owned in the past 10 years!
Anyway the S6 has a beautiful screen.
Very nice firmware, I love it , but the Samsung S6 secret codes doesn’t work on the phone dialer and every time you have to turn it off /on the message SIM CARD IS NOT FROM VERIZON appears, so always have to force stop of Activation Agent app. Besides all, there is no way to turn off My Verizon app and much other app from Verizon . So time ago, I planning to ROOT my phone but :
Ping Pong tool , CF-auto root and much more, cannot root build G920VVRU4BOG7
When someone has the method to root this build number ( G920VVRU4BOG7 ) with or without tripping Knox, I will appreciate your information. I will keep watching the WEB for a solution.
Have a nice day,
Nicolas
Lol its not going to happen. Sorry
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I was debating between the HTC M9 and the S6.. as a previous M7 owner, i really wanted the HTC, but no one around had it, so I decided on the S6 ;\ lo and behold, came stock 5.1.1 with BOG7 ;\ sucks.
Lol its not going to happen. Sorry
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Really? Why will it not happen?
After two years and a half my loyal fellow Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300 decided to pass away and I decided to get a Moto G 2015.
I really would like not to void my warranty (I had already risked with S3's rooting it exactly the day after I'd bought it ) so I chose I won't root it at the moment.
The day I bought it I upgraded to M 6.0 from L 5.0.1. Sadly enough I realised (as I already was supposed to know) there is no AOSP browser because Google wants me to use Chrome.
I've got nothing against Chrome but I simply don't like it. Too heavy and ram/battery-drinking. By the moment I've solved the issue by installing a Chromium-based browser but I am not satisfied.
Surfing on the internet I have found some stock browsers I was supposed to be able to install on my unrooted phone. No need to say none of them worked properly, I got FC or installation was denied.
Is there really no way to port the wonderful lightweight material AOSP browser as a simple apk to install?
Otherwise: no other stock browser ported (LG, Sony or pretty everything else)?
I have already tried HTC and Asus ones but I suddenly got FC so screw it.
Thank you so much :laugh:
Hi all i own a Tab s 8.4 LTE for a good year or so i did not trip Knox due to warranty and stuff.. But a month or so ago i found out about Viper4Audio so me flashing Twrp to install viper4audio tripped knox, yeah i know i could have not tripped knox.. if i installed viper4audio apk but the dam thing wouldnt work until i flashed it. Anyway once i heard viper audio wow im blown away now when ever i listen to the S8+ the audio does not sound as good as the tab s. So im wondering is it worth rooting ? the ones who have rooted do you regret rooting ? or shall i wait will root ever come for the S8+ EXYNOS With out tripping knox or am i dreaming for that ?
There will never be a way to root without tripping Knox I'm afraid.
You just have to decide if it's worth it for YOU.
You will lose warranty. You will lose things like Samsung Pay, Samsung Health, other banking apps, though sometimes this can be worked around.
I owned the S7E before owning the S8+, and it was the first time I have ever owned a phone that I didn't root it. It's a hard choice, but warranty is more important for me, along with Samsung Pay, Samsung health etc.
Just root. Life is bet with root.
Sent from my S7 Edge+Rooted+Xposed
I chose to not root my S7 edge, and the only thing that bothers me is video ads on youtube. otherwise I can live just fine without it. Custom roms tend to be too unstable for me, anyway. I won't root my S8+, assuming it ever comes out for the SD variant (bought it for dolphin, and I got it from Samsung for $524).
No. Not until we find a way to not trip knox.
I don't recommend you to root your phone you will loose Samsung pay feature for good plus your warranty. I can tell you yes it's a bit boring without having the ability to modify your phone but you can live without it. I think the stock rom is quite good and satisfies my needs . So again don't do it
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No root for me. Root is history for me since two years ago.
Don't see the needs of it already. Maybe they is still one or two nice apps that need root. For the sack of that one or two apps really not worth to root and trip Knox.
I root for years any single device I have but yesterday I bought also a S8+ and I think this will be the first time not to root. So no root - vote from me
Same rooted my s7 edge just to play and get more out of it. I will leave my new s8+ Alone. Battery is great would love the customizations with root but its good enough as it is. Only thing i really miss is viperaudio. Anyone know of a way this can be installed without tripping knox??
I have the same question...
I always rooted my phone since Froyo.
I basically need it to: browse on internet "safe" and to use titanium backup.
I guess I can use some adblocked browser (any suggestion?), but I do not how to backup and restore the apps.. Any idea how to resolve it?
THank you!
e753 said:
I have the same question...
I always rooted my phone since Froyo.
I basically need it to: browse on internet "safe" and to use titanium backup.
I guess I can use some adblocked browser (any suggestion?), but I do not how to backup and restore the apps.. Any idea how to resolve it?
THank you!
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First phone since the T-Mobile G1 I haven't rooted and I've had 12 smartphones since. There's nothing as good as Adblock but I'm not rooting the S8+ and am using Blokada from XDA.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...da-fire-forget-root-ad-blocker-t3503374/page2
I'm joining the growing choir of new S8 Plus users who have decided to leave rooting behind them. It was fun and extremely useful for me up until this S8 Plus. My Note 5 will be the last device I root. It's just not worth the hassle any longer. Lately rooting has become too much of a chore on this platform for me, personally. I've kept Samsung as my daily driver for years because one of the reasons was that traditionally it was much easier to root compared to other devices. This was especially true when I was with Sprint as they never locked down their phones like Verizon and AT&T did.
At this moment, as far as rooting is concerned, I have the same feeling I did when I finally said, "Enough!" when I was jailbreaking my iPhones. Eventually I grew tired of the cat and mouse game between devs and the OEM. This feels the same and I think it's time to say goodbye to rooting flagships for me.
Now I feel that the combined hardware and software development on this phone has matured enough that I'm okay rolling clean and stock from now on.
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First phone since the T-Mobile G1 I haven't rooted and I've had 12 smartphones since. There's nothing as good as Adblock but I'm not rooting the S8+ and am using Blokada from XDA.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...da-fire-forget-root-ad-blocker-t3503374/page2
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Hey does blokada block YouTube ads ? YouTube ads are so annoying ?
100% definitely do NOT ROOT.
Matt
N1NJATH3ORY said:
Hey does blokada block YouTube ads ? YouTube ads are so annoying ?
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I have youtube red, no ads anyway, so I'm not sure.
I have been rooting since the beginning of Android, every phone I've had. I stopped using Samsung in 2013 and went to LG, then to Google (Nexus 6P, then Pixel XL), and now back to Samsung. I was honestly a little disappointed with the Pixel and how difficult it was to flash because of the dual partitions. I am in the US, and the US S8 was a no go, as I don't appreciate a phone that I buy outright being locked down. I ended up getting the SM-G955F, and rooted it the first day I had it. It was so simple, and so worth it. I feel like its 2013 again with how easy this thing is to modify. I have Viper installed, and customized to my liking, and my ROM is bloat free.
I have a Canadian S8 Plus and I've rooted all my Androids since the first Motorola. Like others I don't think at this moment rooting would bring me anything really exciting. I've installed Adhell 2 and got rid of the ads and backed up everything with the pc smart switch. I'm missing the volume warning disable mod because I found it annoying but even that one is not that bad if I don't restart the phone. Starting with S6 the best ROMs were always stock based and that became more and more evident lately so until something really new is coming up I'm going to stay unrooted. I'm with Bell and there are only 2 apps which I would not want them so basically no bloat. My 2c.
e753 said:
I have the same question...
I always rooted my phone since Froyo.
I basically need it to: browse on internet "safe" and to use titanium backup.
I guess I can use some adblocked browser (any suggestion?), but I do not how to backup and restore the apps.. Any idea how to resolve it?
THank you!
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You can get rid of ads with AdGuard.
I am hesitating to root also.
I used Titanium backup until now and if someone has an alternative I would be glad to hear it too.
Did you try Helium? The paid version has many features but it will only backup some apps vs Titanium. Because of missing root it will not be able to backup apps that have "backup disallowed" enabled.
EMJI79 said:
You can get rid of ads with AdGuard.
I am hesitating to root also.
I used Titanium backup until now and if someone has an alternative I would be glad to hear it too.
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But idf you root arent there supposed to be issue with it when it comes to the bootloader?
I've been on a Sprint Galaxy S5 for a few years now, Stock Marshmallow only rooted. I'm making the jump to the new Xfinity Mobile service, basically Verizon.
I have a Galaxy S7 (SM-G930V) that is shipping this week.
Doing some reading, from what I'm finding, when you root the S7 you run the risk of losing some things, Google/Samsung Pay, maybe some of the Fingerprint scanner functionality, and also have read a decent number of users reporting that after rooting the device just doesn't run as good.
The S7 on the way will have Nougat.
So, this puts me at a bit of a fork in the road. The last 3-4 Android phones I've had have all been rooted, so whenever I upgraded, I used a combo of Titanium and MyBackupPro to make the transition pretty seamless. Reading about all the potential negatives to rooting the S7, I'm trying to look for options to migrate all my apps and app data without ROOT. I've already looked at and tried backing up my S5 with Helium Backup,....but unfortunately it looks like it can only do about 30-35% of my apps. I'm not really finding any better non-root backup/migration options out there.
What about Samsung Smart Switch or Kies?
Another thought is how easy is it to un-ROOT after rooting on the S7? Maybe I just root the phone, use Titanium & MyBackupPro to migrate, then un-root? Any side effects to this approach? Anything that isn't reversible once you've rooted or that doesn't go back to normal?
Apologies of any of this is a bit noobie'ish.....I've been out of the custom Android game for several years since rooting my S5 right after getting it.
Thanks in advance for any information, advice, or pointers.
Looking at the Kies & Smart Switch options a bit more. Doesn't look like Kies is really supported on the more recent Galaxy phones, and Smart Switch really won't do anything more than Helium backup is going to do for me. :/