Gone are the days where it was easy to root and even encrypt androids. Now with these locked boot loaders, not no downgrade its becoming a hassle. Thankfully, its becoming obsolete to root.
Ive been trying to root and encrypt an s7 edge but its near im possible always push one thing and another pops out. Iv tried various roms on nougat, tried a few when i was on MM but i flashed the BL and now downgrading is a hassle. The idiots even use solidrars so you cant modify the roms to use different sets of BL.
Ive not come across ANY s7 edge thats rooted and enrypted even on custom roms.
Its either become rooted with the risk of data in rong hands through flashing recovery, should it get stolen or no root but stay completely stock which is just as bad.
Anyone have a guide or anything that will make the s7e encrypted and rooted? I not bothered about not being able to flash throu twrp as lng as it cant decrypt it. even better if twrp could decrypt with password but thats probably asking too much lool !
I dont want to go on 8.0 yet, as it could flash BL and no more nougat.
Any one have a guide or anything thatl make it encrypted with root ?
This custom ROM is as close to stock as possible less the unnecessary bloat, with root AND has the ability to encrypt. There is an earlier version (5.4?) which is Nougat and the current version is Oreo. Make sure you follow the instructions and then you'll have an encrypted rooted phone running Nougat or even Oreo:
[ROM][G935F/FD][ALEXNDR] * U2ERF4 (Oreo) * DevBase v5.8 * Encryption support [Jul-03]
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/development/rom-dqd1-devbase-v4-1-multi-csc-safe-t3591647
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Hi,
Ok guys so a friend of mine wanted root on his S4 Gt-i9500, which I got for him using towelroot, no problems there and for a while he was happy with the root access and getting his phone debloated and a few other bits and bobs. However now he wants to try a couple of AOSP roms, and has asked me to help, which Im happy to do.
If it was my phone I'd take my chances and see what happens but with someone elses device I feel like I should be a bit more responsible, although I have made the dangers clear.
So what I want to do Is add a custom recovery, I've done a bit of googling and I can find out how to do it easy enough when rooted the traditional way, but my concern would be will I run into any problems with the Bootloader still being locked if I just flash a twrp .img with Flashify?
Maybe I should do a full unroot, and root via CF-Root Method and then find a TWRP .tar and flash with Odin.
Not used to having the Bootloader Locked issues as I use a HTC so is an easy unlock.
Any advice people can give would be helpful, hopefully I can just use Flashify and keep it as simple as possible
Ok, just to make things crystal clear, there is a big difference between a locked (i.e. encrypted) bootloader as found on AT&T and Verizon phones, and a SEAndroid Enforcing (aka Knox) bootloader. With the former you cannot customize the firmware that came with the phone, but developers have found workarounds. With Knox, you're still able to root and install custom ROMs if desired. You simply lose the ability to use Knox, which most of the userbase doesn't care about. In HTC speak, all Galaxy S4 bootloaders except the AT&T and Verizon models are equivalent to S-Off.
For installing TWRP, downloading an image and installing through Odin will work. TWRP Manager from the Play Store can also do the job, and do it without you being connected to the PC. Once you have TWRP installed, installing a custom ROM is quick, easy, and painless. Custom ROMs are usually pre-rooted, i.e. including SuperSU or Clockworkmod Superuser. This means you won't have to root again.
I have decided to try official nougat on my Moto G4 Plus. I am currently on custom Rom MM but when got the phone I installed TWRP and Super su and made a backup using twrp and full flashfire backup. If I install Nougat after going back to stock can I downgrade to MM when I want and maybe using the flashfire backup? Will I be able to relock the bootloader after going to nougat?
Once you go nougat, there's no going back as far as your bootloader is concerned. You can get back on MM via fast boot (there's a guide to do this in the guides section), but you don't want to flash a MM GPT or bootloader image after upgrading to nougat or you may hard brick it. I wouldn't risk flashing a MM flashfire backup after upgrading to nougat, personally. You'll want to do it manually with adb to make sure nothing gets funky. My advice would be to check out the several threads in the guides section to make sure you understand what you need to do to get back on marshmallow should you decide to revert.
I am on OOS 4.5.13 "stock", i used the engineering mode exploit to get magisk root while my bootloader is still locked, now i want to upgrade to latest OOS oreo but i am afraid that this exploit might end up bricking the device. My bootloader is still locked and i have stock recovery (sorry if stating the obvious) and i have no problem losing my data to upgrade to oreo, but i would like to get magisk on oreo when i upgrade, any tips/precautions or a link to a guide would be very helpful. I don't need to root right away as i might like getting OTA updates but i don't wan't to wipe the device another time for some special procedure.
Should i unlock bootloader then upgrade or reverse the order? I keep getting these prompts to upgrade with a disclaimer that full system needs to be downloaded, should i just do it OTA?
PS: i have titanium backup working and can backup the apps i need.
yohouse2 said:
I am on OOS 4.5.13 "stock", i used the engineering mode exploit to get magisk root while my bootloader is still locked, now i want to upgrade to latest OOS oreo but i am afraid that this exploit might end up bricking the device. My bootloader is still locked and i have stock recovery (sorry if stating the obvious) and i have no problem losing my data to upgrade to oreo, but i would like to get magisk on oreo when i upgrade, any tips/precautions or a link to a guide would be very helpful. I don't need to root right away as i might like getting OTA updates but i don't wan't to wipe the device another time for some special procedure.
Should i unlock bootloader then upgrade or reverse the order? I keep getting these prompts to upgrade with a disclaimer that full system needs to be downloaded, should i just do it OTA?
PS: i have titanium backup working and can backup the apps i need.
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if you are ok with loosing data then i suggest you to unlock the bootloader then flash the latest oos build from the official website ( that makes it easy for you to switch roms easily in the future )
if you need your data then just accept the ota ( obviously you will lose root access and magisk features )
but imo no harm can be done accepting the ota as oneplus itself know that most of users are rooted so they send you the ota as a full build that replace the firmware parts previously modified
the choice is yours
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Hello,
So I got the PH1 and I must say I'm head over heels for the phone!!! I had a few custom roms downloaded and ready to go for when I picked it up...but decided to run stock Pie (bl unlock, TWRP, magisk installed) my question is this, as Pie is fairly new and I imagine it will receive Alot of updates, is it possible to flash these OTAs via TWRP? I understand most if the time I need to flash stick recovery back to take OTAs and I don't mind making a /data backup to preserve my settings, but I'm hoping this is not the case? Is there a more simplified way of taking pie OTAs on this phone? I'm asking cuz it's telling me there is a new OTA available( 9.0.0 build ppr1.180905.036) as of 9/18/18 and I obvs want to install it!!! Any guides available that someone can point me to would be swell!!!
Thanks
Ok so I'm dumb, I should have searched a bit first, and I also should have clarified....I really don't need TWRP for anything, I didn't know you could have magisk without TWRP, but can you restore a /data backup without it?
I really try to do stuff on my own without having to make other people repeat themselves a million times but this process is just so complicated and confusing that it's giving me a headache.
My goal: Be able to boot up LineageOS 16.
Code:
httpsforum.xda-developers.comnote-4snapdragon-devrom-lineageos-16-0-t3900807
It says it requires MM firmware and TWRP 3.2 or higher.
I have the retail 900V Note 4.
So far I have managed to downgrade to 5.1.1 and unlock the bootloader. (It says MODE: Developer)
From there I was able to install TWRP 3.0.2.
But now what?
Right now I have a phone that won't boot because there is no OS on it.
1. I can't get Odin to flash any other TWRP besides the 3.0.2 version. Odin just freezes halfway through and never completes. I'm assuming this might be because I'm not on an unlocked MM build yet. Currently still on LP.
2. I'm unsure how to get root back once I upgrade to a MM build. (I only have access to WiFi atm and this guide says it will disable it.)
Code:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-verizon/development/howto-bootloader-unlock-upgrade-to-t3398144
Any help is greatly appreciated.
I'm no expert so some of the things I'll suggest may not work.
As a first thought have you tried installing Lineage from TWRP 3.0.2
I'd suggest
1. downloading the OEM MM ROM from Sammobile and install that first so at least you have an OS to start with.
2. after setting it up install the official TWRP App update to the latest version of TWRP
3. ensure SuperSU is on the internal drive although I've not had problems installing it from a MicroSD and install it from TWRP Recovery. You should now have a rooted phone on the latest version of TWRP
4. put the Lineage ROM on the internal drive although again I've not had problems installing from a MicroSD (although it does take longer) and after 'Wiping' the system (it should tell you what steps are required from the Lineage guidance) install it.
5. After setup you will probably have to install SuperSU again or Magisk assuming there's no trace of SuperSU left on the system.
Hopefully someone will jump in and comment if I've missed something obvious or got it all wrong. Although I've rooted all 3 of my SM-N910Fs and SM-N910C at least once and installed various ROMs I don't consider myself particularly knowledgable. So far I've not bricked any of my phones or Tablets.
I really appreciate the reply.
Currently I am trying to flash 5.1.1 stock onto the phone and Odin just freezes about 25% into system.img.ext4
I have tried a dozen times.
I believe what makes my phone so difficult to flash is the stock bootloader is locked.