Hello everyone. I just got a Verizon s7 edge and I am loving it. I have been away from the rooting screen for a few years. Is there root for it and if there is is it worth it? Are there roms and stuff like that? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Matt
There is Root available, DO NOT DO IT! Our Root is more of a workaround and it severely impacts performance and battery
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hey guys wondering if anyone has some awesome root apps though might be worth me gettng my hands on
Hello,
I'm considering picking up a used Verizon GS7 (or GS7 Edge) until the Pixel 2 comes out. I absolutely need root (I use WiFi Hotspot Tethering, Xposed, AdAway, Titanium Backup, and several other root-required apps heavily.)
I have not been keeping up with the Verizon Galaxy S7 / S7 Edge rooting threads recently, but I just looked through the OP in this thread --- rooting, flashing the optimizations / fixes, and flashing Xposed all look quite simple compared to some of the other phones I've experienced.
Questions:
1) Is the method in the thread linked (above) still the process to root and optimize the Verizon variant, or are there preferable ways that will get the phone working better?
2) How much does the performance and battery life to stock after rooting, flashing the fixes and Xposed? (Please try to be as objective as possible - I know owning a you naturally are inclined to oversell it, but I need to know how much my performance and battery life will suffer from rooting, etc, because I use my phone almost constantly.
3) Besides Samsung Pay / Android Pay, does rooting break or negatively affect anything material? (Bluetooth, wifi, radios, sms, mms, calling/dialer, camera, sensors, software functionality, fast charge, fingerprint reader, or anything else?)
I figured you guys are probably the most knowledgeable about this subject, so I wanted to ask as many questions as I could before picking up a used Verizon S7 / S7 Edge.
Thanks!
I just bought an S7 for my mom, but she needs tethering also, so I am still reading and trying to figure out if I made a mistake buying it. So I feel ya man. Like to know also.
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IMHO, performance and battery life on the S7 with root are abysmal. I've been rooting my phones since 09 and I can't believe I actually use stock, unrooted Android on my S7. Root is that bad. The fixes made it slightly better, but it was still awful.
Buy an unlocked version or pass on this phone. I can speak for others but the lag and quirks on this phone after root suck.
The hybrid rom unrooted provides tethering and a clean rom base without a lot of bloat. You are SOL if you're wanting to run xposed and such unless you try to take all the steps from the tips and tricks to make a rooted s7 usable.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-galaxy-s7/development/rom-t3576124
Hello everyone,
I just bought an unlocked G935A (AT&T) s7e this morning, to use on Tmo. Not a fan of the bloatware, so I tried rooting it. Didn't work out, and I ended up flashing back to ATTs firmware circa September 2016 (goo.gl/ZwXTwX) (Baseband version: G935AUCS4API2, Build number: MMB29M.G935AUCS4API2)
My question is, where should I go from here? Is there a benefit to trying to flash to the unlocked or tmo variant? Is it worth it to update to Nougat, I've heard mixed reviews about the camera and battery life. Is there a way to get this horrible bloatware off, without ending up in a bootloop like I was stuck in before... I don't think I want to root the phone anymore, considering the solutions have a unstable disclaimer (https://forum.xda-developers.com/att-galaxy-s7/how-to/root-s7-att-g930a-g935a-t3410538). Overall phone stability, battery life, and camera consistency is super important to me, I'm going to be travelling all summer without access to a computer, and with limited electricity.
Also, I just gotta say I hate that Samsung doesn't host official firmware anywhere. I feel dirty having a random install on my phone now, and I didn't even get rid of the bloatware.
Anyway, thanks for the help!
Looks like you have an S7 edge, you might want to navigate over to the edge forum. This is the s7 regular forum.
dirtydodge said:
Looks like you have an S7 edge, you might want to navigate over to the edge forum. This is the s7 regular forum.
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Sorry, thank you!
Hey guys,
Exams have been killing me, and although I graduated I haven't been able to keep up with the scene at all.
I have factory reset my S7 Edge a while ago and basically have a stock;
SM-G935F
Android 7.0
How do I go about rooting and flashing it? I see so many methods and can't decide what the right route is.. I don't feel like bricking my phone again only to have to spend a whole day fixing it.
Thanks!
What is your reason to root
Looking to root my S7 Edge that is running on Total Wireless. The phone was a VZW phone. How much trouble is it root and what is the best non bloated rom to run on it.
Thanks in advance.
1fb17 said:
Looking to root my S7 Edge that is running on Total Wireless. The phone was a VZW phone. How much trouble is it root and what is the best non bloated rom to run on it.
Thanks in advance.
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The rooting is not very difficult if you're comfortable with using Odin or have used another image flasher before. The thing that sucks about it is that the current root is somewhat of a work around and has a huge performance and battery life issues. That being said, there are many "fixes" for this floating around. I say this in quotes because there seems to be a lot of mixed reports on these fixes working. Some have gotten their phones to be better than stock, others have close to stock performance/battery life but are left off a tad worse, others have phones that are left essentially unusable because of how slow the phone is and have to go back to stock. The silver lining is that I haven't seen anyone mention issues of bricking.
So while the root itself is fairly easy, it could be considered hard/annoying if you factor in all the CPU behavior tweaking you will have to perform afterwards to get the device to be usable again. Unfortunately this is all tied to the kernel so as far as I'm aware no change in ROM will help with these issues other than a tad of relief from the slowness if you use a debloated and optimzied ROM. So they don't directly fix the issue is what I'm saying.
I actually just made a post inquiring as to why this is, but otherwise if you just look at the "Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Guides, News, & Discussion" section of the forums you will quickly get a good idea of the situation.
Can the Verizon S7 Edge with U firm be rooted successfully with the 8 in this build number?