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Looking for Testers with the T817 model to test new root hack.(tested and working)

NOTE: NOW CONFIRMED TESTED AND WORKING FOR THE T817T/W AND T817P MODELS.
Looking for testers with the T817 model (no ATT or Verizon models) to test a new hack to get root on Samsung stock SElinux Enforcing kernels running Android 5.11 or Android 6.0.
This means the kernel will be stock, so LTE will be unaffected.
Basically what this is about:
Chainfire has released new beta's of Supersu, the latest is 2.52. This new release can root Samsung 5.1.1 roms and Android 6.0 Marshmallow roms.
However to accomplish this a patch needs to be applied to the kernel Ramdisk to allow root with stock kernels.
What does this mean? This means if you have a T817 running Lollipop 5.1.1 then you can gain root and retain LTE connectivity as it uses the stock kernel instead of having to flash a permissive T810 wifi only kernel.
I need someone willing to test the patched Ramdisk and kernel on their device which has 5.1.1 installed.
The procedure is fairly simple all that is required is to flash the new boot.img, then root with Supersu v2.52.

Here is the patched boot.img for anyone that wants to test it.
*It goes without saying make a back up with TWRP first! *
FOR SM-T817T/T817W
Extract the boot.img from the zip then Install with TWRP:
Tab_S2_t817_boot.zip
FOR SM-T817P
Extract the boot.img from the zip then Install with TWRP:
Tab_S2_T817P_boot.zip
Then root with BETA-SuperSU-v2.52 using TWRP

I have a t817p I would be happy to test, how do I install twrp without root though?
Sent from my SM-T817P using Tapatalk

saramon said:
I have a t817p I would be happy to test, how do I install twrp without root though?
Sent from my SM-T817P using Tapatalk
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If you have an SM-T817P I will upload a specific boot.img for you.
You dont need root to install TWRP, just install with ODIN.
Install with TWRP: Tab_S2_T817P_boot.zip
Stock Recovery if required: T817PVPU1AOH6_recovery

Flashed it, and I'm getting LTE

saramon said:
And I eagerly await the upload, I got TWRP installed
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Important: make a full back up with TWRP first!

saramon said:
Flashed it, and I'm getting LTE
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Do you have root?

Yup, sure do, got xposed installed too
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saramon said:
Yup, sure do, got xposed installed too
Sent from my SM-T817P using Tapatalk
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So we can say we have success?
You are the first one to have root and LTE on a 5.1.1 S2 tablet!

Just to be sure, this does work with the Tmobile T817T, correct?
Edit: found answer.

graysooner said:
Just to be sure, this does work with the Tmobile T817T, correct?
Edit: found answer.
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No idea. Nobody has tested it yet and come back with the answer.
Still waiting...

ashyx said:
So we can say we have success?
You are the first one to have root and LTE on a 5.1.1 S2 tablet!
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I'd say so, great job!

Willing to try, but a question. If I flash with Odin, is TWRP installed also?

graysooner said:
Willing to try, but a question. If I flash with Odin, is TWRP installed also?
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You have to flash twrp first. You will find my builds of TWRP in the development section.
Flash the 5.1.1 t810 version.

can't get into twrp
ashyx said:
If you have an SM-T817P I will upload a specific boot.img for you.
You dont need root to install TWRP, just install with ODIN.
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i flashed the boot patched file odin is successful it says but kernel is not seandroid enforcing and will not boot into twrp, boots into stock recovery still

Aikavaras2015 said:
i flashed the boot patched file odin is successful it says but kernel is not seandroid enforcing and will not boot into twrp, boots into stock recovery still
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That message is normal.
What you have to do is after flashing twrp you need to directly boot into twrp to prevent the stock recovery overwriting it.
Flash twrp again but disable auto reboot in Odin.
After flashing reboot by holding POWER + HOME +VOL DOWN then as soon as the screen goes blank immediately change to VOL UP whilst still holding the other buttons.

i did that, still booted into system not twrp
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That message is normal.
What you have to do is after flashing twrp you need to directly boot into twrp to prevent the stock recovery overwriting it.
Flash twrp again but disable auto reboot in Odin.
After flashing reboot by holding POWER + HOME +VOL DOWN then as soon as the screen goes blank immediately change to VOL UP whilst still holding the other buttons.
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still no twrp. just goes to stock. I have tried both times with autoreboot off, once with f reset checked and another with f reset unchecked.

Aikavaras2015 said:
still no twrp. just goes to stock. I have tried both times with autoreboot off, once with f reset checked and another with f reset unchecked.
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Don't mess with f.reset
Honestly this is purely about timing. Plenty have already done it with the same device as you.
As long as you are flashing the correct twrp file then you should be good after following the advice above.
Can you flash twrp then post me a screenshot of odin?

How did you get xposed working?
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saramon said:
Yup, sure do, got xposed installed too
Sent from my SM-T817P using Tapatalk
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I have the T715 but can't get xposed to work

LeeLongLang said:
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I have the T715 but can't get xposed to work
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Please, this thread is only for testing the above kernels.

Do I need to unlock the bootloader?

Hello!
I want to finally install a custom rom for my phone (GT-I9301I) but to do that I want to install TWRP. Every tutorial on how to install TWRP just use odin and phone in download mode despite the fact that in a lot of places it is said that you need to have an unlocked bootloader to flash a custom recovery. (Also in CF-auto root webpage it is stated that bootloader needs to be unlocked). But do I really need to unlock the bootloader (yes, I am new to this) to flash a custom recovery when using Odin? And after the TWRP is installed I can just use CF auto root and then install the ROM, right?
I would greatly appreciate your help !
Thanks in advance,
TheKiloOhm

I'm pretty sure, that S3Neo+ has an unlocked bootloader.

There is a way to flash a recovery without a PC. Use Flashify just from the Play Store.
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sasd123 said:
There is a way to flash a recovery without a PC. Use Flashify just from the Play Store.
Sent from my GT-I9301I using Tapatalk
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But I need root access which I can get by flashing CF auto root.
Is Towelroot considered as a common rooting tool?
RometVinnal said:
I'm pretty sure, that S3Neo+ has an unlocked bootloader.
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Is there a way I can check it? When I boot into recovery it doesn't show anything about lock/unlock state.

TheKiloOhm said:
Is there a way I can check it? When I boot into recovery it doesn't show anything about lock/unlock state.
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Well.. Try booting to download mode. (Vol. and center button down on boot). If you want to root you should download custom recovery. I recommend TWRP.

Ok, first of all..
I AM REALLY HAPPY SOMEONE MENTIONED THIS AT LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAST
Now.. I have this device.. and mine is bootloader locked
our s3ve3g is definitely locked...
and I tried to flash TWRP using ODIN and I ended up looping (Read)
So Take Care ...
Been trying to find a way to unlock this thing for a while now... will post my findings here or on my blog if I ever find anything
Edit: Did I mention that some variants of our specific device are locked and some are not !!
and I can't figure out the difference...

Found this
and it pointed me to this
but I don't have time to test now...

OK... I think I found the answer...
According to IanWorthington
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=66377330#post66377330
FIXED: This TWRP requires 4.4.4. It does NOT work on 4.3.

Samsug bidn't lock bootloader for s3 neo i have a i9301i and i can do anything with it recoevry root vustom rom kernel flashing. ANYITHING. So i think it deneds on serial nunber or something

boot loader unlock and root

please any body suggest me an easy way(any way) to unlock boot loader and root my device,my ultimate wish is to root my device to remove bloatware. I searched the entire forum for a way to root my device but there are lot of conflicting opinions some say unlocked boot loader is a must for root , some threads say root is required for unlocking the boot loader,i am confused ,please give some advice by witch i can ultimately root my device
my device- ZE550KL
OS - MARSHMALLOW 6.0.1
with locked boot loader and unrooted
2GB ram
I will be grateful to you and ill be glad

I don't know if you can get root if you are on MM without fully switching to CM13.

I think it's pretty "easy", it's depend from the person to person though
There's already thread to unlock BL (no relock atm), and getting root is simply flash supersu.zip
It's just my thoughts, I'm not saying you must do what I'm going to write down here, so I'm not responsible if anything happen
* You need, say TWRP, to get root, how to get TWRP? "flash" recovery right?
* flash custom img (recovery) only possible if BL unlocked, you got bootloop if still locked
* so what if we just boot to twrp? Leave that stock recovery? We don't need that unlocked BL right?
* then the problem come from supersu, default su installation on M+ come in "systemless" mode, which modifying the boot.img, as point 2 above, we can't have non-stock img flashed on locked BL
* so how about make supersu "system", it did work on L with locked BL anyway, it's not modifying any boot.img,
* you could got root w/o unlocking BL by booting twrp, and flash su in system mode
Personally I'm not able to test this, because I love breaking things :silly:
Sent from my ASUS_Z00RD using XDA Labs

testeraphy said:
There's already thread to unlock BL (no relock atm), and getting root is simply flash supersu.zip
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Can you point me to this? I can't seem to find it
THanks

Brett8187 said:
Can you point me to this? I can't seem to find it
THanks
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Really? I don't even need the search function to find this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/zen...de-unlock-bootloader-asus-unlock-app-t3405850
*ooh, I should studying using forum tags
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Sony Xperia Z2, lost root and custom recovery.(sorry i'm new to rooting)

I'm currently running 6.0.3 paranoid version. And I did obviously have root before installing this ROM. I have tried looking in the developer options to see if it wasn't turned on, but the option isn't available anymore. I'm not sure what information i need to supply. Will I need to root again?
Thanks for reading,
Evitov.

The ROM doesn't ship with root. It isn't needed for the ROM to work.
If you want to root it, just flash SuperSU zip in recovery.

Pirateghost said:
The ROM doesn't ship with root. It isn't needed for the ROM to work.
If you want to root it, just flash SuperSU zip in recovery.
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It made me lose my custom recovery which was twrp. Which is why i cannot flash it.

Evitov said:
It made me lose my custom recovery which was twrp. Which is why i cannot flash it.
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You should go ask in your device forum. I've never heard of recovery being removed after flashing a ROM

Pirateghost said:
The ROM doesn't ship with root. It isn't needed for the ROM to work.
If you want to root it, just flash SuperSU zip in recovery.
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Pirateghost said:
You should go ask in your device forum. I've never heard of recovery being removed after flashing a ROM
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Okay thanks for your help anyway, i'll try that then.

@Evitov
There may be two reasons for losing recovery:
1.You had dual recovery for stock locked bootloader.
2.You had kernel with built in recovery.
And to get recovery:
Just download twrp for z2
And flash through flashtool.
Thats it

Evitov said:
It made me lose my custom recovery which was twrp. Which is why i cannot flash it.
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Did you have the latest marshmallow stock build(.291) before this? If so , then connect to computer in fastboot mode, download twrp image for your phone, copy to fastboot folder and type,
Code:
fastboot flash recovery (the twrp image name).img
To get into recovery, hold power and vol down buttons together until sony logo.
I cannot be sure if this will work with your device bc i have a z3 compact
but still, try!

How to remove "Kernel not seandroid enforced" and Custom Padlock icon??

I have a verizon S5 G900V. First it was marshmallow. i wanted to root it and unlocked bootloader. i got back lollipop and rooted, then unlocked bootloader with the help of this forum. After that I installed twrp recovery and flashed a marshmallow rooted rom. Everything just worked fine without one, my bootscreen show "Kernel not seandroid enforced" and a custom padlock icon. I tried to install root triangle away and reset flash counter. But it didn't work. If anyone know how to get rid of this problem, please share. I search a lot, but didn't find. (sorry for my bad English)

It's not a problem, is a badge of nerd honor

Bryanx86 said:
It's not a problem, is a badge of nerd honor
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I know, it's not a problem. But is there any way to remove this symble of unlocked bootloader???

Ripon Raihan said:
I know, it's not a problem. But is there any way to remove this symble of unlocked bootloader???
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Only by flashing full stock tar file to flash bootloader, because on 6.0 "download mode" has to display official to be able to flash bootloader.

Bryanx86 said:
Only by flashing full stock tar file to flash bootloader, because on 6.0 "download mode" has to display official to be able to flash bootloader.
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If I flash full stock tar file, then my bootloader will be locked again. It's mean there's no way. right??

Ripon Raihan said:
If I flash full stock tar file, then my bootloader will be locked again. It's mean there's no way. right??
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No way except go stock with locked bl

Bryanx86 said:
No way except go stock with locked bl
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That's mean people who have unlocked verizon s5, everyone have this Kernel not seandroid enforced in their bootscreen??

Ripon Raihan said:
That's mean people who have unlocked verizon s5, everyone have this Kernel not seandroid enforced in their bootscreen??
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Dude, you can't get rid of it, give it up. It's 3 seconds even you boot, there are more important things to worry about

Ripon Raihan said:
That's mean people who have unlocked verizon s5, everyone have this Kernel not seandroid enforced in their bootscreen??
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You can get it to say kernel seandroid enforcing depending on what ROM you're on and what kernel you're using. What custom ROM are you on?

Bryanx86 said:
You can get it to say kernel seandroid enforcing depending on what ROM you're on and what kernel you're using. What custom ROM are you on?
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I m on stock mm unlocked rooted rom.

Ripon Raihan said:
I m on stock mm unlocked rooted rom.
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Are you using a custom kernel?

Bryanx86 said:
Are you using a custom kernel?
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No, I m on stock kernel. Build number pf4.

Ripon Raihan said:
No, I m on stock kernel. Build number pf4.
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OK, try this, download terminal emulator from play store, open, type su, grant root. Type " sentenforce 1" without quotations, it will change your selinux to enforcing but I don't know how that will affect root so you might want to make a backup first

Bryanx86 said:
OK, try this, download terminal emulator from play store, open, type su, grant root. Type " sentenforce 1" without quotations, it will change your selinux to enforcing but I don't know how that will affect root so you might want to make a backup first
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Tnx, but didn't work. Ok, I don't need to remove that message. help me to remove "custom" padlock icon.
when my bootloader was locked, root triangle away worked. but after unlock bootloader it don't work.

Ripon Raihan said:
Tnx, but didn't work. Ok, I don't need to remove that message. help me to remove "custom" padlock icon.
when my bootloader was locked, root triangle away worked. but after unlock bootloader it don't work.
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No, refer to my first post, and all posts thereafter. When done, refer to this post.