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Discussion of the merits of rooting or not rooting. Please go here for that.
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Rooting method for the Exynos 8890-based global devices including SM-G935F/FD/X and Canadian SM-G935W8:
[Recovery][Exynos][G935/F/FD/X/W8] Official TWRP for hero2lte (3.0.0-1)
WARNING: This will trip Knox and potentially void your warrant. Knox cannot be reset.
Rooting method for the Snapdragon 820-based models in the US including SM-G935A/T/P/R/V/U
Main thread: Root s7 at&t g930a & g935a. There are other threads in device-specific sections.
This root method involves using an engineered boot image that doesn't trip Knox if you do it right, however the bootloader is locked so flashing custom ROMs is still not possible.
The OP here will be updated as news develops...
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John Leger responds to XDA spamming his Twitter account over locked bootloaders on the S7/S7E:
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Can T-Mobile convince Samsung???
Here's a blow-by-blow description of events if you need it:
Galaxy S7 Bootloader Lock Explained: You Might Not Get AOSP After All | XDA Developers
g935a unlocked boot loader
if I were to unlock my attached g935a and go to a different carrier, would unlocking my phone unlock my attached locked bootloader? thanks.
xSharkpunchx said:
if I were to unlock my attached g935a and go to a different carrier, would unlocking my phone unlock my attached locked bootloader? thanks.
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Nope..... i have an unlocked phone from TMobile, and I'm using it on AT&T network. Bootloader is still locked....
Sent from my rooted Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge - SM-G935T
the Doctor said:
John Leger responds to XDA spamming his Twitter account over locked bootloaders on the S7/S7E:
Can T-Mobile convince Samsung???
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This is late, but John Legere was lying through his teeth - this was entirely a TMo decision. Got an international version (without snapdragon) which is working good. Will never by another device from TMo US.
gaww said:
This is late, but John Legere was lying through his teeth - this was entirely a TMo decision. Got an international version (without snapdragon) which is working good. Will never by another device from TMo US.
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No U.S. phones will be unlocked. When a phone is rooted, the government can't get metadata from your phone.... and they want to be able to spy into everything on your phone. The government loves Facebook, Dropbox, and any other collector of information, pics, and emails....
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Few months ago, i buy a galaxy edge g935Fd(used), after some days i realized that the imei was changed (shows diferent imei in the back of the phone) and its rooted...no problem the phone works fine.
The problem is that i cant recive updates from samsung...I'm afraid that using ODIN i wont be able to use my phone anymore...What should i do?? i didnt use factory reset to =(
The seller never showed up again when i tried to contact
Thanks
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I'm getting a SIII for work this week and want to root it but im concerned with being able to setup the enterprise email again. Is the certificate server side? Anyone know if I will just be able to re-enter my settings?
mine works fine. some roms out there actually have the security checks removed. im using one and exchange works great.
rooted, with zero issues in exchange. Only concern and I use the word concern loosely, is that when I reboot I get the unlocked padlock symbol with the word CUSTOM on the first splash screen.
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If you ever have to turn your phone in you can just Odin the stock kernel image and factory reset to remove the unlocked padlock. Hope this helps.
cosmotrkr said:
rooted, with zero issues in exchange. Only concern and I use the word concern loosely, is that when I reboot I get the unlocked padlock symbol with the word CUSTOM on the first splash screen.
If you ever have to turn your phone in you can just Odin the stock kernel image and factory reset to remove the unlocked padlock. Hope this helps.
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I have never seen that unlock padlock even tho I'm unlocked and rooted obviously.
galchristian said:
I have never seen that unlock padlock even tho I'm unlocked and rooted obviously.
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seems to be fairly common:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1830453
galchristian said:
I have never seen that unlock padlock even tho I'm unlocked and rooted obviously.
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I never have either.
cosmotrkr said:
rooted, with zero issues in exchange. Only concern and I use the word concern loosely, is that when I reboot I get the unlocked padlock symbol with the word CUSTOM on the first splash screen.
If you ever have to turn your phone in you can just Odin the stock kernel image and factory reset to remove the unlocked padlock. Hope this helps.
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Is ur bootloader unlocked?
Sent from my unlocked VZW Galaxy SIII
Use ez unlocked from the market to unlock your bootloader and that unlock screen will go away.
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I am not worried about the padlock. Just describing my experience for the OP.
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vdChild said:
Is ur bootloader unlocked?
Sent from my unlocked VZW Galaxy SIII
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No bootloader is not unlocked.
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I wouldn't be worried about reverting back to a non rooted state. I'd worry about if your employer is ok with that.
They're providing the phone, it is their phone. While you might see this as a simple thing to do with little to worry about they may see as you altering their hardware without their permission and their perception of rooting and their reaction may be quite different from your own.
If it's their phone, don't do it. Support usually doesn't have work arounds if you have issues with the device. If it's yours, you can. Exchange usually is server side. I have full access to all my work emails after every flash I've ever done. Check with your employer to see if their email system works that way.
Got it today. Unlocked and rooted it and installed paranoid android. Got it running great and getting exchange emails no problem. I can relock if need be.
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Possible and ethical are two different things. Company policy may prohibit it explicitly or implicitly. For instance, our corporation uses Good and it often will not work with Rooted phones, but even if it did work, policy forbids it. Our company only issues BlackBerry phones, and if you want to BYOD, you use Good and may not root your personal phone.
I just root mines : P but leave stock for demonstration purposes.
sent from the iPhone's pimp, dont make me have to slap a B
Ok guys, my mother bought me a prepaid galaxy s3 for christmas.
Once I got it I updated from 4.3 to 4.4.2, like a complete uttere idiot (Didn't know about towelroot or saferoot at the time....... Learned my lesson)
I have been searching for hours on how I can root this thing I have tried:
Towelroot
saferoot
Causual
Cf autoroot
and probably many other things...
Please for the love of god, help me guys. I am ready to go on a mass murder. (not really but I am very upset_
Device info
h t t p :// i .imgur . com / MimIE9y.png
Sorry for butchering the link, new members cannot post links.
Please guys I'm really pissed, frustrated and sad right now.
OpenSourcererSweg said:
Ok guys, my mother bought me a prepaid galaxy s3 for christmas.
Once I got it I updated from 4.3 to 4.4.2, like a complete uttere idiot (Didn't know about towelroot or saferoot at the time....... Learned my lesson)
I have been searching for hours on how I can root this thing I have tried:
Towelroot
saferoot
Causual
Cf autoroot
and probably many other things...
Please for the love of god, help me guys. I am ready to go on a mass murder. (not really but I am very upset_
Device info
h t t p :// i .imgur . com / MimIE9y.png
Sorry for butchering the link, new members cannot post links.
Please guys I'm really pissed, frustrated and sad right now.
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If you've tried them all you might just be out of luck. Towelroot was once known to work best on the VZW S3 contract version
From my S3 running BlissStalk
What's the model number of your phone? It sounds like you have a locked bootloader and you might be SOL.
What is it that you are trying to do if you don't mind me asking?
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What's the model number of your phone? It sounds like you have a locked bootloader and you might be SOL.
What is it that you are trying to do if you don't mind me asking?
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Based on the screen shot it's a VZW prepaid S3
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Its on a locked bootloader which sucks
From my S3 running BlissStalk
Well I can't help, I've avoided locked bootloaders like the plague!
samsgun357 said:
Well I can't help, I've avoided locked bootloaders like the plague!
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There are now only a select few phones which are bootloader unlocked, G3, M7, M8 and the N6 purchased through the play store. If you didn't unlock it prior to a patch your out of luck
From my S3 running BlissStalk
well what can i do guys? I think i remeber reading something about jtags?
thanks for replying everyone
samsgun357 said:
What's the model number of your phone? It sounds like you have a locked bootloader and you might be SOL.
What is it that you are trying to do if you don't mind me asking?
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I'll be happy with root and busy box at this point.
A handful of people are dying to root this phone. Unfortunately, it may never happen.
This thread is collecting a few, might want to check in there sometime later.
Have any of you with a Sprint Note 5 been able to update to Android 6.0 and keep your unlock? I got my phone unlocked today by onlineunlocks and im using it with cricket and dont want to update if im going to lose my unlock and possibly not be able to get it unlocked again.
Updating to 6.0 should have nothing to do with sim unlocking. Rooting yes. You should be fine.
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0verwatered said:
Have any of you with a Sprint Note 5 been able to update to Android 6.0 and keep your unlock? I got my phone unlocked today by onlineunlocks and im using it with cricket and dont want to update if im going to lose my unlock and possibly not be able to get it unlocked again.
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I'm pretty sure you will lose lock because of the way it formats the phone partitions.
It really depends on how it was unlocked...... I'm unlocked and updated everything went well. I'm unlocked and on AT&T with LTE.
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Not very good speeds. Notice the signal bars that are at zero. This the the thread how i updated. http://forum.xda-developers.com/spr.../possibly-marshmallow-6-0-odin-files-t3342800.
tdunham said:
I'm pretty sure you will lose lock because of the way it formats the phone partitions.
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I think you might be right. I'll wait until i hear more about others experience.
rogerandgina said:
It really depends on how it was unlocked...... I'm unlocked and updated everything went well. I'm unlocked and on AT&T with LTE.
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How was your phone unlocked? And how did you get lte? Guessing you got your msl?
I got my phone unlocked from here: thewireless proffessional.com. Yes I have lte.
How about gsm unlock done for sprint note 5 using UICC method?
Will it remain unlocked?
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I got my phone unlocked from here: thewireless proffessional.com. Yes I have lte.
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Can you upload a screenshot of your APN settings so I can make sure I have mine right?
I have my sprint note 5 unlock and I just updated via odin to 6.0.1 and the unlock still remains just have to redo the APN. And is rooted to.
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0verwatered said:
Can you upload a screenshot of your APN settings so I can make sure I have mine right?
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I also did this http://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-galaxy-note5/general/remove-handsfree-activation-t3260750
the guys at fastsprintunlock . com can help you as well.
http://bbs.romup.com/forum.php?mod=v...extra=page=1
This post said the Their method is applicable to all of the Samsung machine locks BL.
They are already do this,and will not share the way..
It is said that ,the G935A,G935T,G935P,G935V cross bootloader flash Chinese Version ,and support ALL band(gam,cdma,wcdma ,tdscdma,lte) ,all carrier,all
country..
And I get a S7 EDGE G935V, It unlock and flashed, following the picture
I think there are three possible ways to achieve this effect.
1.、use odin flash the eng kernel,and root. then use Z3X or other box to change the Bootloader Recognized identifier
2、Making a special data line, to achieve strong brush the other version of the firmware. (The other phone use this way..)
3、Modify other editions Samsung firmware identifier,To achieve the bypass bootloader to flash the other version.
【I think this is the highest probability】
There are many experts in the forum, I'm sure you'll find interesting
I hope someone can share the way when he successful
Ignore my bad English...
by jnsday
2016-8-4
I am very pleased to see so many reply.
I see the reply ,and generally do some answer.
1、The phone is T-mobile,It seems that it flash the Version Version frist
2、After flash Chinese version, the bootloader is still locked
This is really strange, the S7 and S7 EDGE ,US version in the US no one cracks, but it cracked in China and they started to do Paid services..
In ShenZhen ,they flash a phone ,charge $ 20
2016-8-8
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http://bbs.romup.com/forum.php?mod=v...extra=page=1
This post said the Their method is applicable to all of the Samsung machine locks BL.
They are already do this,and will not share the way..
It is said that ,the G935A,G935T,G935P,G935V cross bootloader flash Chinese Version ,and support ALL band(gam,cdma,wcdma ,tdscdma,lte) ,all carrier,all
country..
And I get a S7 EDGE G935V, It unlock and flashed, following the picture
I think there are three possible ways to achieve this effect.
1.、use odin flash the eng kernel,and root. then use Z3X or other box to change the Bootloader Recognized identifier
2、Making a special data line, to achieve strong brush the other version of the firmware. (The other phone use this way..)
3、Modify other editions Samsung firmware identifier,To achieve the bypass bootloader to flash the other version.
【I think this is the highest probability】
There are many experts in the forum, I'm sure you'll find interesting
I hope someone can share the way when he successful
Ignore my bad English...
by jnsday
2016-8-4
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Can even see the images?
Sent from my SM-G935P using XDA Free mobile app
Per the forum rules:
5. Create a thread or post a message only once.
As a large forum, we don't need unnecessary clutter. You're free to edit your message as you like, so if you do not receive an answer, revisit your message and see if you can describe your problem better. Not everyone is online at the same time so it might take a while before you receive an answer.
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THREAD CLOSED
Please continue here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-s7-edge/how-to/g935v-cross-bootloader-flash-chinese-t3432190
It's still the early days before many people get these phones. I figure I'd ask the question: Which models, if any, will be able to unlock the bootloader?
Previously, I was told the USA models (even if carrier unlocked) could not unlock the bootloader, while the S. Korean models actually *could*.
Veiranx said:
It's still the early days before many people get these phones. I figure I'd ask the question: Which models, if any, will be able to unlock the bootloader?
Previously, I was told the USA models (even if carrier unlocked) could not unlock the bootloader, while the S. Korean models actually *could*.
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Typically, Samsung devices with Qualcomm chipsets marketed in the United States are not bootloader unlockable. Exynos on the other hand usually are. No idea if this has changed in regards to the S23.
V0latyle said:
Typically, Samsung devices with Qualcomm chipsets marketed in the United States are not bootloader unlockable. Exynos on the other hand usually are. No idea if this has changed in regards to the S23.
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No changes at all. The ability to unlock the device doesn't depends on the SoC but rather to the region of the device. The international variant of the phone can be unlocked without any issue
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No changes at all. The ability to unlock the device doesn't depends on the SoC but rather to the region of the device. The international variant of the phone can be unlocked without any issue
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77% of us in the UK in the S23U poll are unable to unlock
just in case none of you guys haven't figured it out the S23s are all unlocked, but are temporarily networked lock depending on how you got your phone. I know this because Samsung told me both the american samsung and the Korean Samsung also my program are it has roots for the devices.. It just don't have a way to network unlock them
CharmedWhovian said:
just in case none of you guys haven't figured it out the S23s are all unlocked, but are temporarily networked lock depending on how you got your phone. I know this because Samsung told me both the american samsung and the Korean Samsung also my program are it has roots for the devices.. It just don't have a way to network unlock them
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To clarify: you mean all s23s are bootloader unlockable and able to be rooted, install custom recoveries/ROMs, etc?
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To clarify: you mean all s23s are bootloader unlockable and able to be rooted, install custom recoveries/ROMs, etc?
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Yes, they can all be rooted and more. You just have to be the one to download the firmware you want and use the method that you want this program supports Magisk root. you can also technically flash firmware as if you are using Odin
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Yes, they can all be rooted and more. You just have to be the one to download the firmware you want and use the method that you want this program supports Magisk root. you can also technically flash firmware as if you are using Odin
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Just to clarify - approx 50% of us in the UK are unable to unlock the bootloader as Samsung chose to enable Knox Guard active (01) meaning OEM unlock does not show
Samsung is ambivalent about the issue
UK ONLY - do you have oem unlock available?
As the titles states, it'd be good to understand how many people have the normal oem unlock available in developer options. A couple of us have received various s23 models with kg status active and no oem unlock available in developer settings...
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