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Xposed for Samsung Galaxy J3

Hey! So recently I got a Samsung Galaxy J3 and was wondering if it was possible to get Xposed on it? Flashing a Zip is not an option, by the way.

Hey man, I'm right there with you, I want to know as well. I hope this thread gets more attention! I got this phone recently myself and am so far very sad at the lack of ability to do things with it root-wise, such as getting root to frickin stick and getting things like Xposed installed (with-out boot looping your device....).

Hi,
If you're on 5.0.x, flash Xposed by arter97.
If you're on 5.1.x, flash Xposed by wanam.
Find both on Xposed General thread.
Sent from my ASUS_Z00AD

krasCGQ said:
Hi,
If you're on 5.0.x, flash Xposed by arter97.
If you're on 5.1.x, flash Xposed by wanam.
Find both on Xposed General thread.
Sent from my ASUS_Z00AD
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The problem is that I don't have custom recovery either, and I'm not yet experienced enough to know how to flash something like xposed without it, without bootlooping. I actually already have the xposed you're talking about, wanam is what I need since im on 5.1, so if someone guides me on how to flash it or at least points me in the right direction, maybe that'd help.
Also as a side question, somewhat related to this, anyone know what I should do about custom recovery? There are models close to mine but not the exact same that are covered by TWRP or CWMR, but I've been very strongly advised against such a course of action.

darknaio said:
The problem is that I don't have custom recovery either, and I'm not yet experienced enough to know how to flash something like xposed without it, without bootlooping. I actually already have the xposed you're talking about, wanam is what I need since im on 5.1, so if someone guides me on how to flash it or at least points me in the right direction, maybe that'd help.
Also as a side question, somewhat related to this, anyone know what I should do about custom recovery? There are models close to mine but not the exact same that are covered by TWRP or CWMR, but I've been very strongly advised against such a course of action.
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I'd recommend TWRP, actually. If your device doesn't have a custom recovery developed, it could be a pain. Just hoping if someone could develop it one for your device.
Sent from my ASUS_Z00AD

krasCGQ said:
I'd recommend TWRP, actually. If your device doesn't have a custom recovery developed, it could be a pain. Just hoping if someone could develop it one for your device.
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I would agree with you, as I had TWRP on my last phone and liked it quite a bit. I just don't know which phone's TWRP to try and how to try and flash it on there. Do I do it through Odin? Theres (if I recall correctly) a TWRP for the Samsung Galaxy J2 and J5, on either side of my J3 (Which it's so odd that the newer phone came out with a "series" number in the middle like that). Which would you suggest I do, J2 or J5, or neither?

darknaio said:
Hey man, I'm right there with you, I want to know as well. I hope this thread gets more attention! I got this phone recently myself and am so far very sad at the lack of ability to do things with it root-wise, such as getting root to frickin stick and getting things like Xposed installed (with-out boot looping your device....).
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Me being dumb, I tried manually installing the required files for Xposed a few weeks ago and it bricked immediately. So I had to get a replacement. I'm not sure if it's because I did it wrong but based on that I don't think we'll ever be able to install Xposed which really sucks. Coming from my previous phone which had a lot of tweaks from xposed it just feels weird using a normal phone.

darknaio said:
am so far very sad at the lack of ability to do things with it root-wise, such as getting root to frickin stick
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I know what you mean. Every time I restart my phone I have to re-root it if I want to do something with it. Luckily I don't really need root on this phone. Mainly because of the lack of things you can do with it. Hoping to see something come out of this though

EqiiKxDude said:
Me being dumb, I tried manually installing the required files for Xposed a few weeks ago and it bricked immediately. So I had to get a replacement. I'm not sure if it's because I did it wrong but based on that I don't think we'll ever be able to install Xposed which really sucks. Coming from my previous phone which had a lot of tweaks from xposed it just feels weird using a normal phone.
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I know exactly what you both mean. My previous crappy phone had loads of things from xposed on there that I missed. However the good news I guess is since I don't need certain UI tweaks because I'm satisfied with what this phone comes with I'm not missing out on too much. And thus far every time I get bootloop I just use Odin to flash a copy of the original firmware and somehow it doesn't reset everything so I can still keep trying without losing all my apps. Just haven't found anything that sticks. Maybe one of us should try a custom recovery from a different Samsung Galaxy J Series like the 2 or 5.

darknaio said:
I know exactly what you both mean. My previous crappy phone had loads of things from xposed on there that I missed. However the good news I guess is since I don't need certain UI tweaks because I'm satisfied with what this phone comes with I'm not missing out on too much. And thus far every time I get bootloop I just use Odin to flash a copy of the original firmware and somehow it doesn't reset everything so I can still keep trying without losing all my apps. Just haven't found anything that sticks. Maybe one of us should try a custom recovery from a different Samsung Galaxy J Series like the 2 or 5.
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Yeah I mainly used Xposed on my previous phone to make it look more like Lollipop but since this phone comes with it I don't need it as much. And I didn't know you were able to unbrick this phone? I would have saved about $40 if I knew that ? well then yeah we should probably try one of them. I think we should go with the newest one though

Thats what I was thinking, but I don't know which J series came out before the J3 this year or I'd try that one. And yep, luckily able to unbrick it thanks to Odin. Actually unbricked it from even worse than a boot loop, I accidentally destroyed my recovery somehow so I couldn't even boot into that and do a factory reset, but thankfully Odin's separate from the recovery so it still worked. End of the day if you can at least get your phone recognized by your computer and can flash something onto it, flashing stock = unbrick (usually).

I own the J3 also. Have gained temp root via king root so I could debloat the system. We need a cf auto root option. Our device is 5.1.1 and I think the kernel has to be modified for true root. Then development can start. As for xposed,you need full root for that to work properly. I suggest to you all to get a copy of the device firmware,install odin on pc so you can reinstall firmware if you decide to use temp root and end up boot looped after debloating to much or making other potentially harmful changes.

Curtis1973 said:
I own the J3 also. Have gained temp root via king root so I could debloat the system. We need a cf auto root option. Our device is 5.1.1 and I think the kernel has to be modified for true root. Then development can start. As for xposed,you need full root for that to work properly. I suggest to you all to get a copy of the device firmware,install odin on pc so you can reinstall firmware if you decide to use temp root and end up boot looped after debloating to much or making other potentially harmful changes.
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I have the same thing, temp root that's lost when I reboot. I've already had to go the Odin route with the original firmware so I've got my backup covered. I'm also working with the dev behind Super Sume and he thinks he has the issue resolved, if not he's going to teamview with me to try and get past this. If we manage to solve the problem I'll post the results and subsequent steps here. Hopefully this will lead to root sticking through reboot. If so then at minimum may be able to solve -some- of the problems. Though I don't know if this will fix Xposed not working, as it always caused me to boot-loop in the past (only solved by going into TWRP and rebooting from there) and even if root sticks the only way to flash Xposed according to current theories is to do so from custom recovery, which I haven't found one for this device yet.
Have you been able to get a custom recovery on your J3? If so that would be the other key part to solving a lot of these problems. If I get the Super Sume to work and someone else can manage to get a custom recovery working, maybe that'll be the start of this device's support here =D.

No but I believe by repacking an edited firnware you can add xposed that way.

Curtis1973 said:
No but I believe by repacking an edited firnware you can add xposed that way.
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Unfortunately I wouldn't know the first thing about editing a firmware, much less be able to add Xposed lol. Could that be a way to manually add custom recovery? Or are we still dependent on someone making a version compatible with this phone?

will need a custom recovery built for the device. with proper root you could then use flashify to install it to the device. root opens the door for everything. temp root will never get much except ability to debloat the device.
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i reached out to chainfire in hopes of cf auto root for the j3. but have not heard back. but does not mean i wont. will see. otherwise i will keep on trying what i can.

Quick question. Has anyone updated their J3 yet? I keep getting a notification for a Software update, is it safe?

EqiiKxDude said:
Quick question. Has anyone updated their J3 yet? I keep getting a notification for a Software update, is it safe?
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Ive been seeing that too and ignoring/swiping it away. Not sure what it is though.

my system is edited so im not getting update pushes. probably nothing significant.

Curtis1973 said:
my system is edited so im not getting update pushes. probably nothing significant.
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Your J3 is modified? Temp root, or something else?

Need a little confirmation....

Hi all,
It's been a few yrs since I've flashed a phone (the last being my SGS1 variant) and I'm very out of practice. That being said, I just need a little help in understanding how to flash my SGS4. So far, I've had this phone for yrs and I would've jumped to custom roms as I did normally but there was the whole KNOX debacle and I didn't want to do anything to damage my phone - while within warranty. I've been out of the loop for awhile, so I need a little help in my choices here.
My phone is still running on it's original software (that's right, I completely haven't updated in yrs), so it's a 4.2.2 and the build is I9505XXUBM4 (pre-KNOX). If I am going to root, I was thinking that I should use the method from this thread: [GT-I9505 + GT-I9505G] CF-Auto-Root. Would I be right in using this method or is there something better?
Secondly, I've only ever used CWM. I'm assuming the recovery to use currently is TWRP since I've seen it brought up in a good number of threads. Can I make a nandroid with TWRP the same way it was done with CWM or do I need to find another way to backup my data?
Lastly, this is the rom I'm leaning towards; [JDCTeam][6.0.1][9 July] The Android Open Source Project MOB30M. Could I just flash this on top of my stock or do I have to update first and then flash this?
TIA for your responses.

Oniyuri said:
Hi all,
It's been a few yrs since I've flashed a phone (the last being my SGS1 variant) and I'm very out of practice. That being said, I just need a little help in understanding how to flash my SGS4. So far, I've had this phone for yrs and I would've jumped to custom roms as I did normally but there was the whole KNOX debacle and I didn't want to do anything to damage my phone - while within warranty. I've been out of the loop for awhile, so I need a little help in my choices here.
My phone is still running on it's original software (that's right, I completely haven't updated in yrs), so it's a 4.2.2 and the build is I9505XXUBM4 (pre-KNOX). If I am going to root, I was thinking that I should use the method from this thread: [GT-I9505 + GT-I9505G] CF-Auto-Root. Would I be right in using this method or is there something better?
Secondly, I've only ever used CWM. I'm assuming the recovery to use currently is TWRP since I've seen it brought up in a good number of threads. Can I make a nandroid with TWRP the same way it was done with CWM or do I need to find another way to backup my data?
Lastly, this is the rom I'm leaning towards; [JDCTeam][6.0.1][9 July] The Android Open Source Project MOB30M. Could I just flash this on top of my stock or do I have to update first and then flash this?
TIA for your responses.
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For first you MUST update your phone, if you have root, update with odin on the latest firmware version and then flash flash recovery(cwm, twrp, philz) and flash the rom, because firmware request of the rom is android lollipop stock. Try cyanogenmod 13 nighty for this smartphone

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For first you MUST update your phone, if you have root, update with odin on the latest firmware version and then flash flash recovery(cwm, twrp, philz) and flash the rom, because firmware request of the rom is android lollipop stock. Try cyanogenmod 13 nighty for this smartphone
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Ok, so after I root the phone, can I go straight onto CM13 or do I still have to get lollipop first and then flash CM?
I'm still trying to avoid getting KNOX on the phone.

Oniyuri said:
Ok, so after I root the phone, can I go straight onto CM13 or do I still have to get lollipop first and then flash CM?
I'm still trying to avoid getting KNOX on the phone.
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Then you install lollipop stock, make root , flash recovery and then flash cm13

Oniyuri said:
Ok, so after I root the phone, can I go straight onto CM13 or do I still have to get lollipop first and then flash CM?
I'm still trying to avoid getting KNOX on the phone.
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Knox does matter once you're on a custom ROM.
Most content creators recommend to use the latest modem and bootloader in order to avoid problems.
You don't necessarily have to update the whole ROM to have the newest modem and bootloader, there are Odin flashable packages.
I don't know if CF-Auto-Root works with 4.2. I know it works for 4.4 and above.
As long as you do your wipes (this means system, data, cache, dalvik) you can flash anything over anything.
Yes, you can do nandroid backups, but TWRP and CWM backups are not compatible with each other. Also, TWRP has a problem with TouchWiz backups, meaning you can make and restore a TouchWiz backup, but it either won't boot or will give you lots of errors.

GDReaper said:
Knox does matter once you're on a custom ROM.
Most content creators recommend to use the latest modem and bootloader in order to avoid problems.
You don't necessarily have to update the whole ROM to have the newest modem and bootloader, there are Odin flashable packages.
I don't know if CF-Auto-Root works with 4.2. I know it works for 4.4 and above.
As long as you do your wipes (this means system, data, cache, dalvik) you can flash anything over anything.
Yes, you can do nandroid backups, but TWRP and CWM backups are not compatible with each other. Also, TWRP has a problem with TouchWiz backups, meaning you can make and restore a TouchWiz backup, but it either won't boot or will give you lots of errors.
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Ok, so is there a way that I could at least get to lollipop w/o getting KNOX and have a nandroid that would work or should I just OTA all the way up to current and then root and flash?

Oniyuri said:
Ok, so is there a way that I could at least get to lollipop w/o getting KNOX and have a nandroid that would work or should I just OTA all the way up to current and then root and flash?
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Why are you so obsessed with Knox? I just told you that it won't be an issue on custom ROMs. There is no knox on custom ROMs. Knox is a Samsung thing. So, unless you plan on staying stock, there is no reason to be concerned about it. Even if you stay stock, there still is no reason to be afraid of it, it's just some security crap, and it won't affect you in any way. Why are you so afraid of it?
My device came with Knox pre-installed and it didn't do jack.
Just update if you want to update or flash a recovery (flashing custom ROMs doesn't require root, just a custom recovery) and flash your desired ROM.

GDReaper said:
Why are you so obsessed with Knox? I just told you that it won't be an issue on custom ROMs. There is no knox on custom ROMs. Knox is a Samsung thing. So, unless you plan on staying stock, there is no reason to be concerned about it. Even if you stay stock, there still is no reason to be afraid of it, it's just some security crap, and it won't affect you in any way. Why are you so afraid of it?
My device came with Knox pre-installed and it didn't do jack.
Just update if you want to update or flash a recovery (flashing custom ROMs doesn't require root, just a custom recovery) and flash your desired ROM.
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Well, I've been out of the loop for a while (the last time I was active was circa late 2013/ early 2014), but I do remember there was a lot of concern regarding warranty and the flags. I do admit that there was a lot of speculation from losing a section of memory from tripping the flag to actually burning the motherboard. I originally decided to wait until the dust settled but life took over and I ended up only sporadically checking the forums before disappearing for long periods of time. I actually don't know what the end of the story is to be honest.

Oniyuri said:
Well, I've been out of the loop for a while (the last time I was active was circa late 2013/ early 2014), but I do remember there was a lot of concern regarding warranty and the flags. I do admit that there was a lot of speculation from losing a section of memory from tripping the flag to actually burning the motherboard. I originally decided to wait until the dust settled but life took over and I ended up only sporadically checking the forums before disappearing for long periods of time. I actually don't know what the end of the story is to be honest.
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The only concern is about the warranty. Since your phone is some years old, I doubt that is an issue for you anymore.
By losing memory you mean losing data or actually losing storage space?
Either way, I haven't heard of anyone with such a problem around here.
Nor about somebody with a fried motherboard.
There might have been some unfortunate cases, but this is to be expected when you modify your device. There always is a risk of damage, it doesn't matter if it's by rooting or by flashing a ROM.

I meant lose storage. As I understood it, KNOX worked like a container and once the flag was tripped, you'd lose whatever it contained - as in never being able to access that bit ever again.

Oniyuri said:
I meant lose storage. As I understood it, KNOX worked like a container and once the flag was tripped, you'd lose whatever it contained - as in never being able to access that bit ever again.
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You have to use the knox app first for that to even be considered a risk.
Knox will not put anything in that container without user input.

GDReaper said:
You have to use the knox app first for that to even be considered a risk.
Knox will not put anything in that container without user input.
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Ok, so to get the steps straight:
1. I'd need to get a lollipop bootloader & modem
2. root + nandroid (CWM) + titanium for app data (non-system app data)
3. change recovery to TWRP
4. flash rom + gapps
....and then I should be ready to go, correct?

Oniyuri said:
Ok, so to get the steps straight:
1. I'd need to get a lollipop bootloader & modem
2. root + nandroid (CWM) + titanium for app data (non-system app data)
3. change recovery to TWRP
4. flash rom + gapps
....and then I should be ready to go, correct?
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1) Is not mandatory, it's just recommended. The only exception is if your device is a Verizon or AT&T phone, then don't - and I repeat - don't update or you risk losing the possibility of any custom ROM flashing or rooting due to the locked bootloaders.
2) and 3) CWM and TWRP backups do not have cross-compatibility. If you backup with CWM you have to restore with CWM.

Please tell me you haven't flashed anything yet. I can help with the entirety of the procedure.

robcore said:
Please tell me you haven't flashed anything yet. I can help with the entirety of the procedure.
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No I haven't done anything yet. I found something else to occupy me for the last few nights - a chromecast that seems to hate me.

Oniyuri said:
No I haven't done anything yet. I found something else to occupy me for the last few nights - a chromecast that seems to hate me.
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Haha I hear ya. I've been building a kernel for about a year now and finally (knock on wood) arrived at something I'm happy with. Lesson learned, electronics are definitely conspiring against us.
That said, please feel free to pm me when you're ready for the flashing process. Though it's a silly skill, it's become second nature to me and something about your situation flipped a helpful switch in me : P what's the Chromecast like?

robcore said:
Haha I hear ya. I've been building a kernel for about a year now and finally (knock on wood) arrived at something I'm happy with. Lesson learned, electronics are definitely conspiring against us.
That said, please feel free to pm me when you're ready for the flashing process. Though it's a silly skill, it's become second nature to me and something about your situation flipped a helpful switch in me : P what's the Chromecast like?
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Well, so far, the chromecast is only plugged into my tv and basically did the setup by itself only for the google cast app on my phone to not recognize it when it said that it's ready to cast. I've ran out of things to do aside from going to the google forums (which I've already done). I'm starting to wonder if it's my phone that's causing all the issues.

Side effects of going back to stock?

I've decided that I'm not really ready for Oreo on this phone until Lineage 15.1 is final with all features ported. I'm going back to stock and I'm wondering - are there any side effects to doing so? I've heard that people have permanently lost VoLTE, had IMEI issues, etc. I'm very wary of trying anything that I'm not sure about... does anyone have information on this?
Many thanks.

Make sure you use latest software for your region, also whether retail version or not.
Other than that good luck
Ray

I flashed the stock ROM for my device and it's running just fine with no errors. I pass SafetyNet and my bootloader says I'm on the official firmware.

The IMEI issue seems to be related to stock fastboot.
So you can either skip flashing that or flash a TWRP flashable stock ROM.

bornlivedie said:
The IMEI issue seems to be related to stock fastboot.
So you can either skip flashing that or flash a TWRP flashable stock ROM.
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By saying "skip flashing that" what do you mean?

Jrhotrod said:
By saying "skip flashing that" what do you mean?
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Fastboot ROM, I think

If you fastboot flash stock rom and have Oreo 8.1 as your system now, don't do it!. You will lose voLTE and will most likely lose 4g (avoidable by skipping the two modem wipe commands). Until official Oreo, there may be no way to get voLTE back for those (myself included) who lost it. Unfortunately, even official Oreo may not fix the voLTE, it could be borked forever.
As said above, right now, safest way to go stock is to flash the twrp version, however, you still lose 4g unless the modem commands are removed from the updater-script or, you backup your efs partition in twrp of your current working system, restoring it over stock rom.

I didn't notice any side effects. Though I probably lost VoLTE, but since I didn't even know it existed or that people used voices to communicate on these things, it didn't really affect me I guess.
Yesterday though, I went like this -> Unlocked Stock -> Pixel XP -> OmniRom - Unlocked Stock NO IMEI -> Pixel XP -> Locked Stock. And I think I'm going back to Pixel XP today lol.

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I didn't notice any side effects. Though I probably lost VoLTE, but since I didn't even know it existed or that people used voices to communicate on these things, it didn't really affect me I guess.
Yesterday though, I went like this -> Unlocked Stock -> Pixel XP -> OmniRom - Unlocked Stock NO IMEI -> Pixel XP -> Locked Stock. And I think I'm going back to Pixel XP today lol.
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Wait - so locking your bootloader after flashing stock fixes the issue?

Fixes what issue? The IMEI thing? There's a whole thread on it. And one way was to flash Pixel, then flash stock. It's a little more complicated than that, but that's the gist.
I think VoLTE is not getting fixed, if that's what you meant.

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Fixes what issue? The IMEI thing? There's a whole thread on it. And one way was to flash Pixel, then flash stock. It's a little more complicated than that, but that's the gist.
I think VoLTE is not getting fixed, if that's what you meant.
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You may be about to save me. You got a link to that thread?
Edit: And no, I really don't care about VoLTE. Only reason I would is if I sell this phone to some Indian (which I won't, this phone is amazing)

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You may be about to save me. You got a link to that thread?
Edit: And no, I really don't care about VoLTE. Only reason I would is if I sell this phone to some Indian (which I won't, this phone is amazing)
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Here ya go:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/g5-plus/help/restore-imei-0-moto-g5-xt1687-t3739808

Even the TWRP Stock ROM destroyed my IMEI. Don't try

(Lots of words) I want to understand why I lose root instead of just flashing to fix

Let me start by saying I never gave rooted phones much though. I knew of them but never even knew anyone that ever had one. I figured the Galaxy S8 (G950U) would be a good phone to start with:laugh: Since it was my first rooted phone I couldn't resist experimenting, a lot. So I would flash this flash that, whatever I thought had a very small chance of working i flashed, lol. I usually would end up having to fireing up Odin and flashing the most important files on my PC, Partcyborg's awesome work, which I can flash with my eyes closed basically by now :laugh: Some things I would flash would just cause me to lose root though. It's driving me nuts not to be able to get it back without Odin. I could use Odin+Partcyborg's rom and have it back in 15 minutes, but I'm tired of being feed I'm ready to hunt, lol.
The thing is, I still have TWRP Safestrap custom recovery that I can access. I flash Supersu, it appears to flash fine but changes nothing, not even an SU icon in the app drawer. I did make SupoerSU Pro a system app a while ago, was that a mistake? I see it in the Apps list in Settings but I can't do much there except disable it and enable it (no it's not disabled,lol)
How can I get root back using custom recovery only? What should I have checked in Safestrap when flashing SuperSU?, Cache, System, Modem, etc? If anyone would care to explain some of the reasons I lose root but not custom recovery it would really calm my curiosity . I'm sure it would help a lot of other noobs also.
Boot animations is another thing that I find very interesting. Trying to change it has been the cause of at least 10 factory resets
I go to /system/media/ and swap out Booitanimation.zip, change the permission then I either get no change or I have reflash with Odin. What is all the files labeled Battery _000 Battery _001 Battery_002 all the way to Battery_100? Does the resolution need to be exactly the same as stock?
Is my rooted S8 not as rooted as other rooted phone? Lol, does that sentence make sense? Because of its locked bootloader and lack of custom roms is why I ask. Am I an idiot for buying a S9+ (G965U) since I love having root? I was hoping someone "cough...Part...cough cough...cyborg would be on it. If not though, no big deal. I do still have the S8 and still use it a lot even though it has no service, lol. Amazing phones not so amazing bootloaders though:laugh:
Thanks for reading. If you only skimmed it, thank you also. I know it's very long, lol. I just found something called a Combination Rom. Since I still have Safestrap I'm gonna do what I usually do, flash it and ask questions later:laugh:

Gregbmil1 said:
Let me start by saying I never gave rooted phones much though. I knew of them but never even knew anyone that ever had one. I figured the Galaxy S8 (G950U) would be a good phone to start with:laugh: Since it was my first rooted phone I couldn't resist experimenting, a lot. So I would flash this flash that, whatever I thought had a very small chance of working i flashed, lol. I usually would end up having to fireing up Odin and flashing the most important files on my PC, Partcyborg's awesome work, which I can flash with my eyes closed basically by now :laugh: Some things I would flash would just cause me to lose root though. It's driving me nuts not to be able to get it back without Odin. I could use Odin+Partcyborg's rom and have it back in 15 minutes, but I'm tired of being feed I'm ready to hunt, lol.
The thing is, I still have TWRP Safestrap custom recovery that I can access. I flash Supersu, it appears to flash fine but changes nothing, not even an SU icon in the app drawer. I did make SupoerSU Pro a system app a while ago, was that a mistake? I see it in the Apps list in Settings but I can't do much there except disable it and enable it (no it's not disabled,lol)
How can I get root back using custom recovery only? What should I have checked in Safestrap when flashing SuperSU?, Cache, System, Modem, etc? If anyone would care to explain some of the reasons I lose root but not custom recovery it would really calm my curiosity . I'm sure it would help a lot of other noobs also.
Boot animations is another thing that I find very interesting. Trying to change it has been the cause of at least 10 factory resets
I go to /system/media/ and swap out Booitanimation.zip, change the permission then I either get no change or I have reflash with Odin. What is all the files labeled Battery _000 Battery _001 Battery_002 all the way to Battery_100? Does the resolution need to be exactly the same as stock?
Is my rooted S8 not as rooted as other rooted phone? Lol, does that sentence make sense? Because of its locked bootloader and lack of custom roms is why I ask. Am I an idiot for buying a S9+ (G965U) since I love having root? I was hoping someone "cough...Part...cough cough...cyborg would be on it. If not though, no big deal. I do still have the S8 and still use it a lot even though it has no service, lol. Amazing phones not so amazing bootloaders though:laugh:
Thanks for reading. If you only skimmed it, thank you also. I know it's very long, lol. I just found something called a Combination Rom. Since I still have Safe-strap I'm gonna do what I usually do, flash it and ask questions later:laugh:
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so the boot animations off top of my head are now located in something something and your carriers folder...The can be changed
Is it actually not rooted or is su just not responding
I have had it where the prompt never comes up and granting all just never works either normally a few reboots later it starts....
the custom rom thing is most def cause of locked boot-loader....
Up til boot-loader revision 2 is all we have root for and cannot be downgraded 3 and up....
I have myself tried flashing stock system img and then su and busy box from safe strap and up til now even this has been a no go...
Safe-strap is cool but basically No better than flashfire.IMO.
I am working with the possible bluetooth fix right now and have bricked and flashed 20 times over in the last 12 hours...

It actually is not rooted anymore after I flashed what claimed to be a boot animation for the G950U. If I open the SuperSU app it points me to a non-working site that has directions on "How to root". Plus all of the apps I have downloaded that require root all tell me I'm not rooted. Oddly enough though I was able to flash Xposed and had a green light once I opened it, (remember I still had SafeStrap recovery) it could only be accessed manually. I was shocked and yet even more confused, lol. I only tried out 2 modules before I reflashed Partcyborgs files again. Again, I was very confused as to why the modules actually worked but root only apps would start , only Xposed modules. I did only try 2 though AdBlocker Reborn and SpeedUp, both acted as if everything was normal . I wonder if it had something to do with making SuperSU a system app, which it no longer is since I reflashed with Odin.
Thanks for the info on the Bootanimation, but still I can't even delete the one I have now, for educational purposes only, Haha. It is a pretty freaking sweat bootanimtion Partcyborg included. I can't find it though T-Mobile (G950U) btw

Can I Install A Recovery Besides TWRP?

I am running the latest Android Q, which I really like. Super smooth, fast, and all that. I'd like to sit with it for a while before switching to a CustomROM, but I'd still like to root it, which is where TWRP would come in handy. However, TWRP, last I installed it, had completely encrypted my phone, even with the January patch flashed, with no actual decryption password, thus softbricking it, because I could no longer start into Android. I've restored it, and it works just as well as it used to, but I'd like to root my phone. So, here's my question: Is there any recovery, besides TWRP, that works on the Essential? I've seen Orangefox, which supports treble phones, but I can't seem to find any threads that are about the compatability on other devices. A response will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading.

TipTopHiatus said:
I'd like to root my phone. So, here's my question: Is there any recovery, besides TWRP, that works on the Essential?
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Hey, you don't need a custom recovery to root your phone. I mean, people have good reasons for using it, but you can still have root without it, if that's enough for you. I never installed TWRP on my PH-1, but still have it rooted since I bought it.
Just use Magisk to patch the boot.img, and you are done. I listed all the steps responding to another thread, so you can check it here.

kt-Froggy said:
Hey, you don't need a custom recovery to root your phone. I mean, people have good reasons for using it, but you can still have root without it, if that's enough for you. I never installed TWRP on my PH-1, but still have it rooted since I bought it.
Just use Magisk to patch the boot.img, and you are done. I listed all the steps responding to another thread, so you can check it here.
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Thanks for the help, but I'd like to flash when I'm away from my PC, so a recovery is quite important to me. Nevertheless, thank you for the help.

TipTopHiatus said:
Thanks for the help, but I'd like to flash when I'm away from my PC, so a recovery is quite important to me. Nevertheless, thank you for the help.
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OK, fair enough. ? BTW, I just responded to you in another thread about downgrading to Jan 2020...