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Galaxy J7 Pop/Galaxy Halo

Hi, I'm trying to dive into the J7 community and have the new Galaxy Halo on Cricket in the US. It's manufacturer name is the J7 Pop, but Cricket branded it as Halo. The internal model is SM-J727AZ. I'm looking for users who have this phone and if there has been any support yet, even if just some threads talking about it. I can't find a single thing.
Hope this helps people find this forum, too! Thanks.
EDIT: www.mobosdata.com/samsung-galaxy-halo
More info on this phone.

EnragedPopsicle said:
Hi, I'm trying to dive into the J7 community and have the new Galaxy Halo on Cricket in the US. It's manufacturer name is the J7 Pop, but Cricket branded it as Halo. The internal model is SM-J727AZ. I'm looking for users who have this phone and if there has been any support yet, even if just some threads talking about it. I can't find a single thing.
Hope this helps people find this forum, too! Thanks.
EDIT: www.mobosdata.com/samsung-galaxy-halo
More info on this phone.
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I guess there aren't many Cricket users? IMO best deal. I hope to see this phone get root soon also.
The only thing I've found so far is a firmware download. I don't know if website is any good.
http://gsm-firmware.com/index.php?a=browse&b=file-info&id=23260

Tesla74 said:
I guess there aren't many Cricket users? IMO best deal. I hope to see this phone get root soon also.
The only thing I've found so far is a firmware download. I don't know if website is any good.
http://gsm-firmware.com/index.php?a=browse&b=file-info&id=23260
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Good to see a response! And I agree, best service deal and this phone is fantastic. I've run the one-clicks and submitted requests for it, too, although I'm not sure how well that's gonna go over with Nougat.

EnragedPopsicle said:
Good to see a response! And I agree, best service deal and this phone is fantastic. I've run the one-clicks and submitted requests for it, too, although I'm not sure how well that's gonna go over with Nougat.
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I don't have the phone yet. Did you try this one?
https://www.oneclickroot.com/samsung/samsung-galaxy-j7/
Edit: Careful.. the "Start Download" is an ad. Not clear if this is free or a paid service.

Yes, it doesn't work. It's not for the same phone either.

EnragedPopsicle said:
Hi, I'm trying to dive into the J7 community and have the new Galaxy Halo on Cricket in the US. It's manufacturer name is the J7 Pop, but Cricket branded it as Halo. The internal model is SM-J727AZ. I'm looking for users who have this phone and if there has been any support yet, even if just some threads talking about it. I can't find a single thing.
Hope this helps people find this forum, too! Thanks.
EDIT: www.mobosdata.com/samsung-galaxy-halo
More info on this phone.
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it is also the j7 perx thru sprint...and there is a root available for the perx, it should work on your phone. Of course verify that yourself, here is the link https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j7/help/root-sm-j727p-galaxy-j7-perx-galaxy-j7-t3598117. People are also working on a twrp recovery (I myself am trying, but it will probably be obsolete by the time I get it to work) definitely check your chipset...some list as msm and others as exynos chips

RS.85243 said:
it is also the j7 perx thru sprint...and there is a root available for the perx, it should work on your phone. Of course verify that yourself, here is the link https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j7/help/root-sm-j727p-galaxy-j7-perx-galaxy-j7-t3598117. People are also working on a twrp recovery (I myself am trying, but it will probably be obsolete by the time I get it to work) definitely check your chipset...some list as msm and others as exynos chips
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Awesome! I'll give that a try and report back. If it works I'll make a guide for it.

"Unfortunately as far as I know that device has a locked bootloader and there are no known methods as yet to root bootloader locked devices running NN. " is the response on that thread
Guess no root for us. No way we're getting this bootloader unlocked anytime soon.

I have just purchased a SM-J727T, which is labeled as a J7 Prime, but i believe it is also a J7 Pop. Looking for Recovery and Root as well...

From what I'm seeing, if the bootloader is locked and you can't access "OEM Unlock" in developer settings, it's not happening. Hell, they still haven't unlocked the S7 or S8...

EnragedPopsicle said:
From what I'm seeing, if the bootloader is locked and you can't access "OEM Unlock" in developer settings, it's not happening. Hell, they still haven't unlocked the S7 or S8...
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The instructions are in the post, enable dev options and unlock is there. You also have to wipe data to fix encryption

I read the entire post, our bootloader is locked. There is no "OEM Unlock" even after turning on USB debugging in the dev menu. It just isn't going to show. Cricket locks bootloaders the same way AT&T does.

After doing a lot of research, it looks like it isn't going to be easy to root phones that don't have unlockable bootloaders with Nougat and beyond. For Cricket users we have three options. Buy an older phone such as the Alcatel Idol 3. Not too bad of a phone. Buy a phone like the Moto G5 Plus that has a bootloader that can be unlocked and buy a Cricket sim for it. Don't buy Amazon Prime version. And lastly live without root.

Are sure yours is a 727t, (with the 13mp camera)? TMobile vehemently denies that the 727t Pop exists! I get the impression that they are trying to get rid of the old 8mp Primes which they have in stock before they release the Pop or Max

licensedtoquill said:
Are sure yours is a 727t, (with the 13mp camera)? TMobile vehemently denies that the 727t Pop exists! I get the impression that they are trying to get rid of the old 8mp Primes which they have in stock before they release the Pop or Max
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Mine is the j727t but what I can't get is the oem unlock option in the developer setting. Read couple places done factory reset and reflash with Odin but can't get the oem option to appear, any one with a suggestion?

Has there been any progress for the J727A?

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Virgin mobile Galaxy j727P
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Can you flash firmware files on your phone an if so has anyone tried to switch bl file in Odin ?

I guess it's pretty much useless chat without the CPU-Z info. From what I see about these J727 series, it's mandatory to know what CPU does the device have - they're all different. If it's Qualcomm-based thingie, maybe this will work... If it is Exynos - then perhaps someone will do something about it, since Exynos 7870 is nothing new...
There's big and one "but": it's the useless chat if the bootloader in Galaxy Halo is really under lockdown (means Samsung has put the signature check enforcement in the Download Mode). If it's unlocked like the J7 Perx or Galaxy Wide 2, we're lucky...

Stock Firmware/ .md5 file to flash via Odin for SM-J727AZ?
I can't find the Stock Firmware/ md5.tar file to flash via Odin for SM-J727AZ that doesn't look like a bogus website or you need a VIP membership.....phone wont boot, only goes to download mode...I tried looking on the usual places like SamFirm program, the sammobile.com, etc...Can anyone assist?
Model: SAMSUNG-SM-J727AZ
Android version: 7.0
Product code: SM2J727AZKZAIO
Phone version: J727AZTUU1AQE1
PDA version: J727AZTUU1AQE1
CSC version: J727AZAIO1AQE1
CSC country code: USA
CSC sales code: AIO
HW version: REV0.7

ROOT & Stock ROM for SM-J727S Galaxy J7 May 2017

Hi guys,
I was hoping someone could help me out. I have rooted before (long time ago) but I can't seem to find a lot of information on this specific phone (SM-J727S). I have been searching online (and across many dodgy looking websites, thanks No Script!) and this is about all that I have found:
The Galaxy J7 is also known as the Galaxy Wide 2 in South Korea
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=device&id=11601&c=samsung_sm-j727s_galaxy_wide_2
It was released on May 2017, runs Android 7.0 (Nougat) and uses the Exynos chipset
TWRP has a release for the J700 series but I'm not sure if it would work on the J727S
https://twrp.me/devices/samsunggalaxyj7exynos.html
The source code for the system has been released, but I couldn't find a stock ROM (which made me reluctant to try TWRP)
http://opensource.samsung.com/reception/receptionSub.do?method=sub&sub=F&searchValue=j727s
This is the closest I got to a Stock ROM but I don't trust the site, is this site trustworthy? (again, I came across too many dodgy sites to just download anything)
https://stockromupdate.com/2017/07/26/stock-rom-sm-j727s-samsung-galaxy-wide-2/
The KingRoot method currently will not work and is asking me to wait for an update (phone is probably too new to root?)
The closest thing I can find on this forum are these posts (but none reference the J727S model)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j7/development/root-sm-j727p-galaxy-j7-perx-td-lte-t3611202
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j7/help/root-sm-j727p-galaxy-j7-perx-galaxy-j7-t3598117
So, I'm hoping someone could point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance

I'd thought I'd mention that the bootloader is unlockable in this phone. I had read elsewhere that other people cannot access the 'OEM Unlock' option on their version of the J7. It isn't the case with this phone
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-j7/help/galaxy-j7-pop-galaxy-halo-t3647805/page2
I also got a message from Google talking about my accounts being accessed by a 'J7 Pop'. I guess the Galaxy Wide 2 is also known as the J7 Pop?

So, I'm still on the track of rooting this device. I'm just gonna update any relevant stuff here.
The closest TWRP that I can find is for the 2016 version of this phone, it has the same Exynos chipset.
I'm thinking of trying this, but are there any problems with flashing the wrong version of TWRP? (Will I brick the phone? Or will it just error-out on recovery and boot normally?)
https://twrp.me/devices/samsunggalaxyj72016exynos.html
I also found (what I believe to be) the Stock ROM for this type of phone, you have to sign up to the site in order to download it. It is specific to SK Telecom (Korean telecommunications provider)
https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/samsung-galaxy/SM-J727S/SKC/download/J727SKSU1AQD6/172065/
If someone can advise about going forward with the similar TWRP version I'd appreciate it. Cheers!
EDIT: Kinda answered my own question, from the TWRP download page https://dl.twrp.me/j7xelte/
Downloading an image for a different device, no matter how similar, usually does not work.
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Any way to request an TWRP version?

I am Korean, and it's very hard It's angry me............................

XDDDD I'm from South Korea too and the J727S is customized with the Knox Enrollment Service that blocks the wifi and cellular data AND apk installization. (trying to uninstall it )

I found this: https://www.androidinfotech.com/2018/02/root-samsung-galaxy-wide-2-sm-j727s-nougat.html

anyone habe twrp for this model ????

Hi.. I've this model also.. tried to downgrade..but it can't..always failed

My friend was installing the twrp to root a J7 metal.
Now the cell phone does not restart, and I do not know what the **** it did KKkkkkkkkkkk
It wants to remove the twrp without formatting the device.
If installing the original rom by Odin using home_csc does it return to normal without formatting?

Restore
CPI Justiceiro said:
My friend was installing the twrp to root a J7 metal.
Now the cell phone does not restart, and I do not know what the **** it did KKkkkkkkkkkk
It wants to remove the twrp without formatting the device.
If installing the original rom by Odin using home_csc does it return to normal without formatting?
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If you have the firmware file the phone was on at the time he tried to Root it just flash the files using Odin an you should be good !

peter couniaz said:
If you have the firmware file the phone was on at the time he tried to Root it just flash the files using Odin an you should be good !
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This is will make a clear data???
He canoot loose the data from the phone..

Home CSC file !
CPI Justiceiro said:
This is will make a clear data???
He canoot loose the data from the phone..
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If he flashes the Home CSC file it may restore data but he may have to start from scratch ! Sorry an good luck !
P.S did he have it backed to Google if so Google will give the option to restore when you sign in !

Very hard to find twrp or cwm foe this model..also the combination file..and upgreded to android 9..

Leagoo S8, ROM and rooting

Hello
So i will get a Leagoo S8 phone next week, switching from a redmi note 3, and i am planing to root it instantly becouse i heard there are some bloatware apps and i will instal a custom rom onto the device.
Upon searching the forums and the interwebs i found no tutorials / resources that would lead me in the right direction. I did find a tutorial for Leagoo M8 ROM on here but will it work on S8?
So i hope anybody here can help me.
Cheers

Bootloader is locked. There are no solutions to grant root now.

Rokotx said:
Bootloader is locked. There are no solutions to grant root now.
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Ty for this. Hope they will figure something out soon.
I only found a tutorial on how to instal Official Stock, here.

Last ROM with instructions is here.

bootloader
Rokotx said:
Bootloader is locked. There are no solutions to grant root now.
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in the developer options there is unlock bootloader option..is that not counted? i really want to root this thing..

SarangKojin said:
in the developer options there is unlock bootloader option..is that not counted? i really want to root this thing..
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I have a Leagoo T5c, and I found that option in Developer settings too, so if it is self-explanatory, then bootloader should be unlockable, right? I too would like to root my phone, but contrarily to the S8, that uses a MediaTek SoC, mine uses a brand-new SpreadTrum chip, and I'm not sure it can rooted at the moment.

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Rokotx said:
Last ROM with instructions is here.
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updated mine from LEAGOO_S8_OS4.0_20171107 to LEAGOO_S8_OS4.0_20180227 and its working fine.
less heat, less lag, camera less grainy indoors (before was grainy but great outdoors, now its both great) curved display was fix(no need for rounder apps) but i was still unable to root the phone (would be great if it was rooted so i can remove apps rather than disable them and tune things up)

TheModMan said:
Hello
So i will get a Leagoo S8 phone next week, switching from a redmi note 3, and i am planing to root it instantly becouse i heard there are some bloatware apps and i will instal a custom rom onto the device.
Upon searching the forums and the interwebs i found no tutorials / resources that would lead me in the right direction. I did find a tutorial for Leagoo M8 ROM on here but will it work on S8?
So i hope anybody here can help me.
Cheers
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hey i found this in the internet. i havent tried it yet and its in different language but manage to translate the page. here says about rooting the leagoo s8 by super su or magisk. do you know someone that can know if this will work? here is the link http://www.androidiani.com/forum/leagoo-modding/543988-leagoo-s8-modding.html
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TheModMan said:
Hello
So i will get a Leagoo S8 phone next week, switching from a redmi note 3, and i am planing to root it instantly becouse i heard there are some bloatware apps and i will instal a custom rom onto the device.
Upon searching the forums and the interwebs i found no tutorials / resources that would lead me in the right direction. I did find a tutorial for Leagoo M8 ROM on here but will it work on S8?
So i hope anybody here can help me.
Cheers
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hey i found this in the internet. i havent tried it yet and its in different language but manage to translate the page. here says about rooting the leagoo s8 by super su or magisk. do you know someone that can know if this will work? here is the link http://www.androidiani.com/forum/leagoo-modding/543988-leagoo-s8-modding.html

resolution
hey i have tried to change the resolution of leagoo s8 to support 1080p playback in youtube and works great so far no issues. i use adb shell and change it to 1440 x 2960.
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TheModMan said:
Ty for this. Hope they will figure something out soon.
I only found a tutorial on how to instal Official Stock, here.
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will this work for unlocking the bootloader? https://www.technoprotocol.com/unlock-bootloader-android-device-using-adb-fastboot/

will this work for unlocking the bootloader?
no

If a root solution is found for Leagoo S8 will it be possible to applied it to the Leagoo S8 Pro?

Unlock bootloader
Hi to unlock bootloader press power + volume up key. When no no command appears

Giuseppecaputo98 said:
Hi to unlock bootloader press power + volume up key. When no no command appears
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but rebooting to bootloader is not working so it stay as it is
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nikyredgm said:
If a root solution is found for Leagoo S8 will it be possible to applied it to the Leagoo S8 Pro?
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found this but not sure if this will work on our devices (leagoo s8,s8 pro) but if you have downloaded the firmware you may flash again if you bricked it. try at your own risked. it says there how to back up root and port twrp for ur device.
http://www.chinaphonearena.com/foru...STOM-RECOVERY-AND-ROOT-FOR-MT67xx-SMARTPHONES

http://www.chinaphonearena.com/foru...STOM-RECOVERY-AND-ROOT-FOR-MT67xx-SMARTPHONES
can someone verify if this will work?

patch image magisk
Rokotx said:
will this work for unlocking the bootloader?
no
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can you confirm if the boot-verified.img
inside the firmware of leagoo s8 that i download can be used for magisk to be patch and flash it through adb? thanks

From what Ive found, modifiing any of the boot or recovery files will screw up some verification, then youll have to format and flash the whole rom again possibly getting a NVRAM Warning error. So, does anyone know a way to verify(?) the edited files (boot.img -> build.prop(or default.prop?)), or any workaround? Also, I think that the bootloader kind of worked in the Leagoo OS version that came with the phone (althrough, I tried to unlock the bootloader then, it showed YES/NO and warnings like on any good phone, except that the YES selection did NOTHING, the bootloader stayed locked no matter what), havent you guys by any chance updated from Needrom?(I did) I think that the newer version had removed the bootloader completely. Someone should post the first stock rom version if you have it.

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Syrček said:
From what Ive found, modifiing any of the boot or recovery files will screw up some verification, then youll have to format and flash the whole rom again possibly getting a NVRAM Warning error. So, does anyone know a way to verify(?) the edited files (boot.img -> build.prop(or default.prop?)), or any workaround? Also, I think that the bootloader kind of worked in the Leagoo OS version that came with the phone (althrough, I tried to unlock the bootloader then, it showed YES/NO and warnings like on any good phone, except that the YES selection did NOTHING, the bootloader stayed locked no matter what), havent you guys by any chance updated from Needrom?(I did) I think that the newer version had removed the bootloader completely. Someone should post the first stock rom version if you have it.
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I think that in order to flash any modified files, we need to generate/verify all of the files.
Anyone any ideas? What file/s is/are the key to verifying flash files? Or is there a code somewhere in every flash file (recovery-VERIFIED.img, boot-VERIFIED.img)?
Why is Leagoo so damn good at making those things hard to unlock. As I said before, in the 1. version you could at least access (broken) fastboot, now the phone just turns off when accessing fastboot.

latest firmware with user debug possibly can extract root
latest firmware userdebug..possibly root solution can be extract..
https://irequirerom.blogspot.com/p/leagoo-s8.html?m=1

Any news?

I need help with RMM state bypass on S8+

So I wanna root my S8+ SM-G955F and I wanna know which RMM_state_bypass_Mesa should I use a video I saw (published in 2018 octomber I think) was using the vol. 1 version and mentioned that RMM bypass is very important to not get into a OEM lock bootloop, anyways. As I said It mentioned that it was very important so I searched a bit more and I found out a newer version the RMM_state_bypass_v2
Here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=75360965&postcount=22
I wanna know if I should use the vol.1 (the guy in the older video uses) or the newer one I found (the vol.2) with TWRP recovery so I won't get into a bootloop.
Any help would be appreciated.

xB0lt said:
So I wanna root my S8+ SM-G955F and I wanna know which RMM_state_bypass_Mesa should I use a video I saw (published in 2018 octomber I think) was using the vol. 1 version and mentioned that RMM bypass is very important to not get into a OEM lock bootloop, anyways. As I said It mentioned that it was very important so I searched a bit more and I found out a newer version the RMM_state_bypass_v2
Here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=75360965&postcount=22
I wanna know if I should use the vol.1 (the guy in the older video uses) or the newer one I found (the vol.2) with TWRP recovery so I won't get into a bootloop.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Version 1 and 2 do the same thing. Version 2 is more up to date so use that version

SM-A205U (MetroPCS) OEM Unlock

Hello,
Just wanted to share this with the community as I found this just yesterday. If you goto your settings and click connections then "More connection settings" towards the bottom there is an option for "Network Unlock". I did this like I said yesterday and it permanent unlocked the phone. I don't have any other SIM cards to try and see if it will go on a different network but just wanted to point this out to the community!
~DJ

djdeath15 said:
Hello,
Just wanted to share this with the community as I found this just yesterday. If you goto your settings and click connections then "More connection settings" towards the bottom there is an option for "Network Unlock". I did this like I said yesterday and it permanent unlocked the phone. I don't have any other SIM cards to try and see if it will go on a different network but just wanted to point this out to the community!
~DJ
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That's not an OEM unlock, you've only unlocked the SIM card lock.

Into the sun you go

I wondered if this was either effecting, &or blocking or stopping oem unlock from showing or being visible? Just a thought.

ATGkompressor said:
I wondered if this was either effecting, &or blocking or stopping oem unlock from showing or being visible? Just a thought.
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It's our specific model.
There are no 205u units in public domain that exist with an oem toggle.
It's disabled by default in the 205u source.

The only way this might be possible is with combination firmware but in all my searching so far i have yet to find bootloader 5 combination firmware ...
If anyone can find me a bootloader 5 android 10 combination firmware for the 205U varient i would be willing to see if there would be a way to get this rooted and bootloader unlocked

https://www.full-repair-firmware.com/2019/08/Combination-a205u.html

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https://www.full-repair-firmware.com/2019/08/Combination-a205u.html
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Has everything except binary 5, probably gonna be waiting on that for a while

ninjasinabag said:
Has everything except binary 5, probably gonna be waiting on that for a while
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Bin 4 won't work?

physwizz said:
Bin 4 won't work?
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It would help for anyone still on pie if we could flash it.
Anyone who upgraded to Q would be in the cold for now.

i cant use bin 4 on my device because i upgragded to android 10 already on it so i couldnt even test to see if it was possible thats why im looking for combo firmware bootloader 5

ninjasinabag said:
It would help for anyone still on pie if we could flash it.
Anyone who upgraded to Q would be in the cold for now.
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Yo I got this phone and figured it's a paperweight until root aka on Android 9 installed magisk manager , zarchiver and combination file matching numbers. Here is where I'm at a lack of expertise cuz magisk won't install enough to feed it the boot.img. Please Help Anyone:silly:

ddougg said:
Yo I got this phone and figured it's a paperweight until root aka on Android 9 installed magisk manager , zarchiver and combination file matching numbers. Here is where I'm at a lack of expertise cuz magisk won't install enough to feed it the boot.img. Please Help Anyone:silly:
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The combination file is from an older bootloader, so it retains the most recent bootloader to maintain integrity of the Qfuse.
That's kinda why we want the combination file for 10, the bootloader hasn't changed which means the file would be universal for anyone who updates.

ninjasinabag said:
The combination file is from an older bootloader, so it retains the most recent bootloader to maintain integrity of the Qfuse.
That's kinda why we want the combination file for 10, the bootloader hasn't changed which means the file would be universal for anyone who updates.
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yo Ninja I found the latest firmware with the u5 bootloader . It won't let me upload , bummer. I'll try again tonight. help

ddougg said:
yo Ninja I found the latest firmware with the u5 bootloader . It won't let me upload , bummer. I'll try again tonight. help
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Do you have a link or anything to the source? I'll check it out and test when home

Ninja Do you have an email I could send the files to? Mega is being itchy bout an account from 3years ago and drive wants to copy my entire laptop,

I have the 205U as well I never could get antything to work I tried Odin and Magisk did not work I do have Android 10 as well I just look at the fix website I dont know what to do there or it would work with my latest vversion of my phone willl shoud I try to use it and would it be done it hasd 5 fixes that need to be installed ?

U is Unrootable

techmanc said:
I have the 205U as well I never could get antything to work I tried Odin and Magisk did not work I do have Android 10 as well I just look at the fix website I dont know what to do there or it would work with my latest vversion of my phone willl shoud I try to use it and would it be done it hasd 5 fixes that need to be installed ?
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At the moment, all U devices are unrootable.

Try this
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-a20/how-to/a205-bootloader-unlock-twrp-root-t4189197