Pretty much the title. I've used the newish method. Using the engineer eng_usa AP. I've used the original supersu download that floating around. And also the one that's from aole..something? I forget what it's called.. it was on page 664 or something of some verison s7 thread. No idea where it is now.. needless to say in both adb supersu commands, I get it to work, it roots. But continuously loses root after a few hours, if that. It tells me to update the binaries and the only way that I can find to fix to get root to work again, is a complete reinstall process of the original stock, then modified Ap, the adb su command. I'm so tired of this. Please, why is it losing root? I've reinstalled this b.s. so many times. The only thing I can narrow it down to is (probably nothing) the very last thing I did was change my theme and icons though the Samsung store. Why does it keep losing root? I'm using 7.0 N
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Hi I need serious help with rooting my phone.
2 weeks ago, samsung released a firmware update for the galaxy s4. The new firmware is called "KOT49H.I9505ZHUFNK2", which i believe is only available for hong kong galaxy s4 after doing a bit of research online. (My phone was bought in hong kong) I did the firmware update as I saw that it was nothing major and the phone would still be on Android 4.4.2. Little did I realize, this new update would not let me use towelroot anymore. Before the update I was able to use towelroot to root the phone. However the new firmware update made towelroot unsupport the phone. Now I cant figure out a method to root my phone
The reason why I need to root the phone is because there seems to be a problem with connecting to the playstore. Everytime I try to log in, a message that says "cannot make reliable connection with..." appears. It seems that in order to fix this problem I would have to root and fix the host file in my phone. I tried a factory reset (power +volume up method) and still does not work.
Someone help me pls?
Sorry for the long post, just trying to give as much detail of my current situation.
bump. someone help me please?
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I have the same HK variant of the i9505 with the same build number. All root methods seem to fail and an incomplete superSU shows "there is no SU binary installed, and superSU cannot install it. This is a problem!" Please help..i'm just an amateur programmer and can use some guidance. The cost of this phone was 300 dollars...cost to my sanity, immeasurable and now can't gain root access for full functionality of the device...
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I have the same HK variant of the i9505 with the same build number. All root methods seem to fail and an incomplete superSU shows "there is no SU binary installed, and superSU cannot install it. This is a problem!" Please help..i'm just an amateur programmer and can use some guidance. The cost of this phone was 300 dollars...cost to my sanity, immeasurable and now can't gain root access for full functionality of the device...
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Can you install a recovery (cwm, twrp)?
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Can you install a recovery (cwm, twrp)?
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I can install twrp but it is no use flashing the SU. I tried flashing SU, SU update, Adam kernel. I am wondering is the problem because CM security detects "Broad Anywhere" and "towel root" and then these two are deleted that that's why the root is never completed? SU is installed, just no binary, updates from google play any 1mobile market do not work. BusyBox detects an error while opening the "shell". I'm trying to explore other possibilities...also updated to new firmware NL1 build released Dec 05, 2014. Will keep trying.
have you tested srsroot ?
Warning : I do not know this software but a google search "KOT49H.I9505ZHUFNK2" find it recently.
i tried srsroot, kingoroot, manually odin flash but none work.. at this point i might go to a root service provider somewhere around here (guangzhou, china) and inspect the software they use to test for any exploits before the rooting process (if they let me), or not agree to it....for $10 very well worth it..another alternative is to stick with non-root...after flashing the new firmware NL1 (December 5 2014 build) antutu x benchmark increased 4000 points to 28k and cpu identifier (bartoloni) increased 10k points to 37k....for now the device seems quite good...
SOLUTION: Disable secure startup, found in Settings > Lock screen and security
I have a G935V Verizon GS7e. I rooted it using root.bat from SuperSU-v2.74-2-S7QC that multiple guides seem to call for (after flashing whatever it was, I don't remember what guide it was). I already had PF2 firmware when I started.
The guide I used didn't say not to update SU binary, and nothing works with root, and it wanted to (only "needs to be updated" -- it wasn't saying it wasn't installed at all, so that's good), so I tried several times and it failed. I re-did root.bat in case that caused any issues.
Root Checker by Super User says I'm rooted and SU binary is present.
Root Check by JRummy Apps says I'm not.
and I can't run anything as root (FlashFire, Build Prop editor from JRummy).
What should I do? What's going on? I did notice my phone got a little laggier
Also, the VoLTE icon(s) appear at the top now, and they didn't used to before.
So I've been rooting me phone for a while and have managed to never f*** up, till now, and I sincerely hope you guys can help me.
After rooting my S7 a while back, I just recently noticed SuperUser telling me that I didn't have root anymore, so I decided to follow these instructions to re-root my phone:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ve...-to-notes-root-install-xposed-unroot-t3411039
I successfully followed all the steps to get root, but when I opened Flashfire it told me I could install a new update while maintaining root, so since my android is at 6.0.1, I did that and it bricked my phone.
On boot it says "Startup Failed - Use the Verizon Software Repair Assistant . . . " and on top it also says "Custom binary blocked by SECURE BOOT." I have tried going into recovery mode and deleting the system cache, but that doesn't do it. So is there any way to get the phone to properly boot while not deleting my data? I was rooting my phone precisely so I could use Titanium Backup again, so I don't have any backups stored anywhere. I have heard that flashing a recovery image with Odin can work, but would that delete my files? Someone please lend me your expertise.
My phone is a Verizon S7.
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I am surprised that no one responded to me, but what's important is that, miraculously, I managed to un-brick the phone myself without losing any data! What I did was, as my last hope (since Odin wasn't able to flash the stock image, a la the traditional soft-brick fix), decide to follow the on-screen instructions my phone was giving me and to download and run something called the "Verizon Software Repair Assistant," which can be found in the top google results after searching for the quoted name (xda doesn't let me post the link).
After putting my phone into download mode, I plugged it in, ran the software and let it work overnight. Checking on it in the morning, I found my phone, not only completely functional and working, but updated to Android 7.0 (it was 6.0.1 previously before the failed Flashfire OTA update) and still holding all of my data intact.
So, the interesting thing that I learned is that flashing to stock via Odin to fix a soft-bricked phone should not be the default resolution for potentially most people, as the carrier's default (in my case, Verizon's) repair utility managed to completely fix my phone without any side effects or data loss.
Is there anyone who could chime in on why the Repair Utility did not wipe my phone's memory, even though it warned it would?
**Note**
Verizon links to the Windows version of the repair assistant on their site, but to get the Mac version (which I used), the only way you can get it is by changing the end of the url they mention within the thread from "Win" to "Mac."
Pleased you managed to fix it, and thanks for posting the method for others
As for replies, if you stick around XDA you'll see replies can take days sometimes, patience is the key here
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Pleased you managed to fix it, and thanks for posting the method for others
As for replies, if you stick around XDA you'll see replies can take days sometimes, patience is the key here
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I guess I am not acquainted with this forum enough then, thanks!
Most likely the cause of the fault would be updating via FlashFire and keeping root. When the update was flashed, it most likely flashed the stock kernel and patched it for root, which is not a compatible root for our devices. Flashing the root kernel with Odin probably would have made the phone boot normally.
The stock firmware includes a binary called tcpdump that runs as root. It is *somewhat* hidden in the stock FW, so I feel Samsung may have forgot about updating it, and I'd like to have a go at trying to exploit it. Problem is, I updated my phone to Pie and didn't realize there was no root method for it, and I'd rather not try to downgrade because Odin flashing seems very flaky.
Can anyone with root access find it in their phone?
Hi!
I have issue with app on my S7 Edge that demands me to unroot. I rooted my phone 5 years ago or more and I don't remember a thing about it. I did this to permanently remove bloatware. Only way I know to unroot is to flash stock-rom again but I don't want to loose my hard effort on debloating + data and so on. Is there any tricks for that? Like hide/remove su binary? I really don't remember where to start. Also with factory reset or something I cant remember I lost root access partially - that is apps can still tell that phone is rooted (root checker tells that root access is available but then also orange warning that root access is not properly installed on this device). But they can't request root privilege for some reason. But I still have this custom recovery rom installed where I have basically root access to phone - do you think I could use this to somehow hide temporarily root from my app that is complaining about it and then later restore root to the full - that is to make apps able to request root access again? I would like to keep my apps/data and I remember them getting lost in process of rooting due to some samsung encryption crap - not sure how to check data/app loss would be case now since I did it so long time ago. Could anyone help me out?
For documentation purposes. So in my case I had lost root with factory reset. I had to boot into TWRP and re-flash super su. Difference from official tutorial: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...ial-twrp-for-galaxy-s7-edge-hero2lte.3334084/ was that in step 9 my phone did not complain about dm-verity,. I did not have to disable encryption and I did not loose my data. Someone may correct me but it was because I had already rooted in past and the most likely cause for "loosing" root was doing factory reset. PS I have european model so I am not sure how much it makes this tutorial different.
Now what is left to do is come up with ideas how to hide root from 1 specific app in Android 7.