[HELP THREAD] Samsung Galaxy S8 SM-G950F - Looping in "Erasing" after Root. - Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers

Hi Guys.
I just tried to root my Samsung Galaxy S8 SM-G950F. I followed this tutorial: https://www.skyneel.com/root-samsung-galaxy-s8-sm-g950f
So everything looked fine, Odin gave me a "PASS" and I disconnected the phone. Phone restarted and started installing CF SuperSu.
After next restart, it said "Unable to restart your device. The integrity verification has failed. You need to reset your device to factory default settings. This will erase all your data"
After pushing the Erase the phone is not restarting/looping multiple times and is going to "Erase"
One time it stopped looping and just got stuck on "Erasing" for an hour so I thought I should try restarting it again, after restarting its just looping again.
I checked out this https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/stuck-on-erasing-while-doing-factory-reset.441143/page-2 where they tell to just wait after its stuck?
Please assist me.
EDIT:
I have now been able to install TWRP, will try to install stock ROM and then root it. Does anyone have a quick guide on this?
EDIT2:
Finally! Got it back to stock state again with Odin. Will give it a second try to root it. Anyone has any root to recommend?
EDIT3:
So i was able to install TWRP again after flashed to stock, and the installed Magisk. So everything is working fine, Hence close / delete thread.

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I need extremely technical help as no longer know what to do.
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I really have no idea what to do anymore, would be very grateful if someone could come up with a solution.
BTW: Is it possible to flash CM13 without using custom recovery by using stock recovery?
Greetings
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Khalitas said:
Hi,
I recently got me a Galaxy S5 (SM-G900F) and the first thing i wanted to do was installing CM13 as I always do with my new phones. However, when i followed te steps on CM wiki using Heimdall to flash TWRP the blue bar of the downlaod mode increases a small bit, then stops and in the command promt it says something about error with finding PIT. After trying this for three times i decided to go with Odin, which I do prefer anyways.
I tried flashing TWRP , the blue bar is filling to 100% but then on the little screen where Odin usually states FAIL! or PASS! it just says RESET! and my phone is restarting. Shortly after it restarded you can see the RESET! turning to PASS!, but when I tried checking in TWRP is installed, it wasn't. I tried it again and then Odin suddenly says FAIL! After restarting my phone it says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again". I couldnt even enter download mode anymore till I tried if getting out the battery would work. I could enter download mode again and flashed the same TWRP on my phone again, and aigain it says RESET! but after that my phone worked again. I tried flashing with another version of Odin and TWRP but same thing happened - First run it said RESET!, second run FAIL!.
I thought maybe rooting the device and installing TWRP via their app afterwards could do the trick. So i tried flashing Autoroot with Odin but it made my phone showing a screen with Samsung logo and in the upper left corner something about recovery mode, seemed to be a loop/freeze. So i took out the battery again and flashed TWRP and that solved the problem again. At last I tried rooting by using TowelRoot but it says the service is not available for my device, even though S5 is listed as a supported device.
I really have no idea what to do anymore, would be very grateful if someone could come up with a solution.
BTW: Is it possible to flash CM13 without using custom recovery by using stock recovery?
Greetings
Khalitas
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RESET! is basically the same thing as PASS! What version of TWRP are you installing? The keis screen you got is the same as download mode. Why are you using heimdal? your idea to go with Odin was a good one. Anyways, download TWRP 3.0.2 (not 3.0.2-1 or 3.0.2-2 as they are buggy) and flash it in Odin, reboot to recovery and install the ROM you like, of course following its specific install instructions. No, you cant install a custom rom with stock recovery
Thanks for your answer, meanwhile i managed to fix this problem. Had to flash the latest Firmware because twrp (could just install the oldest version otherwise I had no option to boot into recovery at all) said no OS installed. After rooting via Odin worked like it's supposed to.
Why did I use Heimdall? Because I wanted to stick to CM-wikis instruction and they used Heimdall.

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