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I updated my android to 4.3. since then I lost the root permissions. The phone shows as being unlocked when I start it up. when I have tried different programs or apps, I can't get the permissions back. One program I have tried, sorry, don't remember the name, said it was going to reboot the phone, but that never happened. I used it with my older version of android and it worked fine.
When I got into recovery mode, I the the android robot with the red !, saying no command.
I wanted to see if anyone knew what might be going on and what I could do to get back my permissions.
Thanks

jrwn said:
I updated my android to 4.3. since then I lost the root permissions. The phone shows as being unlocked when I start it up. when I have tried different programs or apps, I can't get the permissions back. One program I have tried, sorry, don't remember the name, said it was going to reboot the phone, but that never happened. I used it with my older version of android and it worked fine.
When I got into recovery mode, I the the android robot with the red !, saying no command.
I wanted to see if anyone knew what might be going on and what I could do to get back my permissions.
Thanks
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Android 4.3 contains security fixes that require root to be updated. Download the SuperSu v1.55 zip from http://download.chainfire.eu/346/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.55.zip and copy the file to the Nexus' internal storage. Reboot the phone to recovery and install UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.55.zip from Clockworkmod or TWRP, then reboot the phone. You should now be able to grant privileges to the apps that require root access.

BobWalker said:
Reboot the phone to recovery and install UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.55.zip from Clockworkmod or TWRP, then reboot the phone. You should now be able to grant privileges to the apps that require root access.
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The big issue I am running into is when I try to go to recovery, I get the dead android and "no command" error.

jrwn said:
The big issue I am running into is when I try to go to recovery, I get the dead android and "no command" error.
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you updated stock, so you now have the stock recovery, thats the "dead" android. flash a custom recovery via fastboot, then flash the supersu su binaries via your new custom recovery. youll be fine, make sure to stay away from root toolkits or you will nwver learn anything, like this. this is such a basic thing to know to do, yet people that use root toolkits dont know.

OK, I'll have to try that tonight or over the next couple of days when I have a chance. Thank you.

jrwn said:
OK, I'll have to try that tonight or over the next couple of days when I have a chance. Thank you.
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if you dont know how, read a little. its really easy. its a matter of typing one line into a command window

OK, I've tried it, but it doesn't seem as if the computer is communicating with the phone. I have also tried one of the auto programs to do it, but it gets stuck at "waiting for device." If I reboot the device and try to get into recovery mode, I just get a dead android saying "no command" I can't get any other options to try to reset the devices back to factory settings.
I have tried the reset option in the settings menu, but It still saves information and doesn't take the phone back to 4.2, which is what I first had.
I'm hoping someone has some ideas on what I can do. On the other hand, I am planning on upgrading my wife's phone. I might just get a new one, and give her this one, although I'm not sure if I want to get a nexus, maybe a different one this time.

jrwn said:
OK, I've tried it, but it doesn't seem as if the computer is communicating with the phone. I have also tried one of the auto programs to do it, but it gets stuck at "waiting for device." If I reboot the device and try to get into recovery mode, I just get a dead android saying "no command" I can't get any other options to try to reset the devices back to factory settings.
I have tried the reset option in the settings menu, but It still saves information and doesn't take the phone back to 4.2, which is what I first had.
I'm hoping someone has some ideas on what I can do. On the other hand, I am planning on upgrading my wife's phone. I might just get a new one, and give her this one, although I'm not sure if I want to get a nexus, maybe a different one this time.
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install the right drivers. and dont use one of those "auto" programs, thats why you dont know what you are doing now.

simms22 said:
install the right drivers. and dont use one of those "auto" programs, thats why you dont know what you are doing now.
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I did try to do it manually, the phone didn't respond. This is why I also tried a program. You are correct, I don't know what to do from this point.

jrwn said:
I did try to do it manually, the phone didn't respond. This is why I also tried a program. You are correct, I don't know what to do from this point.
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you need to get the driver installed to your computer, fastboot as well. when its all ready, open fastboot and a command window then and type.. fadtboot devices. then itll see your device(or not if the driver isnt installed). when it sees your device, you need fastboot flash your recovery.. fastboot flash recovery recoveryname.img. then you need to flash the latest su binaries via your recovery(latest supersu will work).

[Q] SGH-I337 Download Mode Problem?

Greetings everyone,
So will not try to type out a book here, but want to try to include all the info/everything I have done do this point. I recently purchased a Galaxy S4 ( SGH-I337) ATT model. My end goal was to have it rooted with CM 11 installed on it. This is only the second phone I have attempted to root ( First was Atrix HD which went overall fine). I'm basing my end goal off of it, in that I am wanting to have it rooted with CM 11 installed. I started off by downloading Odin and used towel and was able to get the phone rooted. That seemed to have gone without too many problems. I tried to do as much reading as I could, but I'm sure I either misread or overlooked where I went wrong next. I then installed TWRP in the hopes of getting CM 11 installed. This is where the problems start. After installing TWRP ( later reading I saw I probably should have used Philz soft touch??) and restarting my phone it would only go into " Download Mode" and would forever just sit there. I did some searching and saw how to get past this simply by just restarting and holding the volume up and selecting now that I did not want to enter into Download mode. At this point I decided to go download the stock ROM and start over. I downloaded and followed the instructions from
Greetings everyone,
So will not try to type out a book here, but want to try to include all the info/everything I have done do this point. I recently purchased a Galaxy S4 ( SGH-I337) ATT model. My end goal was to have it rooted with CM 11 installed on it. This is only the second phone I have attempted to root ( First was Atrix HD which went overall fine). I'm basing my end goal off of it, in that I am wanting to have it rooted with CM 11 installed. I started off by downloading Odin and used towel and was able to get the phone rooted. That seemed to have gone without too many problems. I tried to do as much reading as I could, but I'm sure I either misread or overlooked where I went wrong next. I then installed TWRP in the hopes of getting CM 11 installed. This is where the problems start. After installing TWRP ( later reading I saw I probably should have used Philz soft touch??) and restarting my phone it would only go into " Download Mode" and would forever just sit there. I did some searching and saw how to get past this simply by just restarting and holding the volume up and selecting now that I did not want to enter into Download mode. At this point I decided to go download the stock ROM and start over. I downloaded and followed the instructions from
androidrootz.com/2014/03/how-to-unrootunbrick-at-galaxy-s4-sgh.html . From that point is where things went to hell in a hand-basket. My phone will load but whenever I try to turn on Wifi to try to re-root I get a Security Information message saying that it has blocked Wifi from turning on. Quick Google search says this is built in security "Knox"? that is causing this. Posts say that I have the wrong firmware for this phone? The bigger problem seems to be that now when I try to boot into recovery, I get a background that says "No Command" and red lettering at the top that says " Android system recovery <3e>. I have options to reboot system now, update from ADB and others. At the bottom it says #Manual Mode# Successfully applied multi-CSC. So somehow I think i have corrupted the boot loader. Of course Odin will not recognize the phone in this state to try to push any kind of firmware or boot-loader to it. At this point I truley am clueless and lost. Not at all above saying I'm above my head and need some guidence or help from someone who knows a lot more about this then I do. I really thought I had read and done plenty of research before I tried this, but non the less I have a phone I can't get into recovery and once booted, I can't get wifi to work. Thanks for your time and insight. From that point is where things went to hell in a hand-basket. My phone will load but whenever I try to turn on Wifi to try to re-root I get a Security Information message saying that it has blocked Wifi from turning on. Quick Google search says this is built in security "Knox"? that is causing this. Posts say that I have the wrong firmware for this phone? The bigger problem seems to be that now when I try to boot into recovery, I get a background that says "No Command" and red lettering at the top that says " Android system recovery <3e>. I have options to reboot system now, update from ADB and others. At the bottom it says #Manual Mode# Successfully applied multi-CSC. So somehow I think i have corrupted the boot loader. Of course Odin will not recognize the phone in this state to try to push any kind of firmware or boot-loader to it. At this point I truley am clueless and lost. Not at all above saying I'm above my head and need some guidence or help from someone who knows a lot more about this then I do. I really thought I had read and done plenty of research before I tried this, but non the less I have a phone I can't get into recovery and once booted, I can't get wifi to work. Thanks for your time and insight.

Tl,dr sure looks like a book to me. If you just got an s4 I'm sure the bootloader can't be exploited and you can't use cm. Look through this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53758227
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jd1639 said:
Tl,dr sure looks like a book to me. If you just got an s4 I'm sure the bootloader can't be exploited and you can't use cm. Look through this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53758227
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Thanks for the link. Very helpful info. Problem I can't seem to get around is that since any ROM i download will not pass the signature inside the recovery mode, I don't know how to get to where I can flash any kind of ROM to it. Yes sorry for the book, I just see too often people don't ever post enough info on what they have or what they have done. In essence how do i use Odin if i can't get into download mode and recovery mode will not accept any file cause it says it fails the md5 signature? Thanks for the help

bryantjb said:
Thanks for the link. Very helpful info. Problem I can't seem to get around is that since any ROM i download will not pass the signature inside the recovery mode, I don't know how to get to where I can flash any kind of ROM to it. Yes sorry for the book, I just see too often people don't ever post enough info on what they have or what they have done. In essence how do i use Odin if i can't get into download mode and recovery mode will not accept any file cause it says it fails the md5 signature? Thanks for the help
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I don't want to give you useless information, but make sure you're using the right steps to get into download mode.
1) Power off your device
2) Remove battery for 10 seconds
3) Replace battery
4) Hold POWER + HOME + VOLUME DOWN until you see the "Warning" Screen
5) Quickly hit the VOLUME UP button.
Then you can connect to ODIN, and go from there.

D802: [720] Fastboot Mode Started

Hi All,
I realise you guys must be sick of these kind of posts but just thought that one of you would be able to point me in the right direction before I do something else wrong!
I was rooted on d802, Cloudy 3.3 with TWP 2.8.6.1 installed. I was trying to get magisk to work but after flashing the various zips etc I left my phone for a few minutes and a toddler came along and swiped the install superSU prompt on TWRP that comes up before rebooting :/:/:/.
So now I am stuck in this "[720] Fastboot mode started". When I plug it into my computer I get a few other things popping up and on device manager it comes up as "Android Bootloader Interface", Device type Kedacom USB Device.
Before messing around with all these things I made a full backup with TWRP so if I can just get back to that I am hoping I will just be able to restore it? At the moment I am unable to get to recovery mode, it just keeps rebooting quickly showing the LG logo and proceeding to fastboot mode. I have tried the holding down power and vol d button but it happens so fast and doesnt seem to do anything.
Where should I go from here? There seem to be a lot of different methods and various things, the more I search the more ways I find!! What is best in my particular situation?
Also could somebody definitively tell me if Magisk will work with cloudy 3.3? I can find no mention anywhere on the internet of someone saying they have done it/got it to work.

amishra123 said:
Where should I go from here?
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Hi!
This way > http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/help/fixing-fastboot-mode-started-t2930963
And if it doesn't work I would make this > http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/help/noob-friendly-recovery-download-mode-t3112805
And you can find a list with all fixes right here > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63327417&postcount=4
Good luck!

Thank you very much for your prompt reply !!
I kept trying with the power and volume down and managed to somehow get back into recovery, and then I recovered using the backup!! All back to normal now !
I've since updated to the latest twrp and that all went smoothly aswell.
Any word on whether magisk V9 will work with cloudy g2 3.3 ? I'm tempted to give it another go...
Use the unsu zip , uninstall xposed using the zip , then flash magisk , phh superuser and finally the cbump. I'm really tempted to try again but not sure if it was doing that , that messed it up last time or if it was twrp trying to install super su (Im quite sure it is probably the latter though). Any thoughts ?
EDIT: incase this helps anyone else, I think what I did was to keep the power and vol down held for a long time , if I remember correctly it seemed to cycle a few times through logo and then the fastboot screen until it finally switched off. Prior to this as soon as I thought it was off it would just start again. This time though it went through into the factory reset screen and then recovery.

amishra123 said:
All back to normal now !
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Nice to here that. :good:
amishra123 said:
Any word on whether magisk V9 will work with cloudy g2 3.3 ?
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That's a question for the CloudyRom-thread. I bet you're not the first with this question.

Phone Bricked Can Someone Help?

This method here seemed pretty straightforward to upgrade to Nougat: https://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/development/edl-emergency-dl-mode-twrp-unlock-t3553514
I was already unlocked so I figured I just need to flash the "Full" package then the "TWRP" package. TWRP is working, the bootloader still shows as unlocked in fastboot mode, but trying to boot just shows a Linux penguin and nothing else!
I just cleared everything in TWRP to see if that was somehow the issue then reboot, and TWRP says no OS installed! HOW?!
All this happened because I'm unclear on everything, and instead of a yes/no answer I get mocked. Someone please help.

Can you Boot in Fastboot?
When yes . load a Original Firmware update.zip and extract recovery.img from this . Do the recovery.img in Minimal adb and fastboot , open a command windows .
Type: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img ,before this boot the phone in fastboot mode.
After the flash recovery ,boot the phone in the recovery with Volume down (tick them 1 or two times ) reboot ist with power.
Put a SD Card in the Phone with the update zip in root folder of the SD Card.
In recovery tick with Volume down to the Point update via SD Card and wait the Process ist finished.

tester2017 said:
Can you Boot in Fastboot?
When yes . load a Original Firmware update.zip and extract recovery.img from this . Do the recovery.img in Minimal adb and fastboot , open a command windows .
Type: fastboot flash recovery recovery.img ,before this boot the phone in fastboot mode.
After the flash recovery ,boot the phone in the recovery with Volume down (tick them 1 or two times ) reboot ist with power.
Put a SD Card in the Phone with the update zip in root folder of the SD Card.
In recovery tick with Volume down to the Point update via SD Card and wait the Process ist finished.
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I have access to fastboot mode. However I'm still confused as to what is going on.
At least I've figured out where it goes wrong, at the TWRP step. The "no OS detected" made no sense so I tried flashing using the same method but just the "Full" package first. It eventually does boot and it appears Android 7 is working.
The bootloader shows as unlocked. However when I install the TWRP package after, TWRP is restored but then the phone is bricked and TWRP says no OS detected. I'm not sure if this is because I clicked "allow modifications" and if so why that causes it to go wrong and what I missed. I tried flashing TWRP manually using fastboot mode in case something was wrong with that EDL package, and the result is the same, after installing TWRP and clicking allow modifications the OS is no longer detected.
What am I missing? I must have missed a step.

ok. go to twrp and format data to ext 4 then flash new and restart.

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ok. go to twrp and format data to ext 4 then flash new and restart.
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When go to "Format Data", enter yes to allow it, it fails and says:
"mkfs.f2fs -t 0 /dev/block/sda9 process ended with
ERROR: 255
Unable to wipe Data.
Unable to format to remove encryption
Upadting partition details...
Failed to mount '/data' (device or resource busy)
... done"
Even if that went through I'm unsure what you mean flash new? Flash a new what?
When I enter repair/change it says the file system is ext4 anyway.

Well I tried starting at that point again since I didn't allow modifications in TWRP this time, and it actually booted Android but then asks for a password... what?
So something about allowing modifications in TWRP seems to be the culprit, but then I'm unsure why it would ask for a password to start the device when it boots after, it's obviously encrypted.
Flashing back to the "Full" package yet again to restore it working.
Edit: I thought double posts would be auto-merged...
Edit 2: "Format Data" left my device encrypted and the only way around it was a factory reset!
Edit 3: I read over the instructions in the TWRP thread again and I think I've found what I missed. If I don't update this thread again by tomorrow that means I've figured it out and everything should be fine.
Thank you everyone who tried to help.

Can you please give me instructions of what you did to upgrade to Nougat, I'm like you when started the upgrade on B29 Unlocked and rooted. I like the way of EDL process but It is a little vague and I don't want to brick my phone. Thanks in advance.

Cyrus D. said:
Well I tried starting at that point again since I didn't allow modifications in TWRP this time, and it actually booted Android but then asks for a password... what?
So something about allowing modifications in TWRP seems to be the culprit, but then I'm unsure why it would ask for a password to start the device when it boots after, it's obviously encrypted.
Flashing back to the "Full" package yet again to restore it working.
Edit: I thought double posts would be auto-merged...
Edit 2: "Format Data" left my device encrypted and the only way around it was a factory reset!
Edit 3: I read over the instructions in the TWRP thread again and I think I've found what I missed. If I don't update this thread again by tomorrow that means I've figured it out and everything should be fine.
Thank you everyone who tried to help.
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romeoh said:
Can you please give me instructions of what you did to upgrade to Nougat, I'm like you when started the upgrade on B29 Unlocked and rooted. I like the way of EDL process but It is a little vague and I don't want to brick my phone. Thanks in advance.
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Hi...I ran into your original issue and I believe it's related to dm-verify. For anyone that runs into this again, try flashing a dm-verify disabling zip and see if it'll boot again. This was the only way I could get the phone to boot after upgrading to nougat...not sure why this is an issue though as (I think) I had the stock bootstack in place along with stock System files.
Here is a link to the dm-verify disabling tool I used:
https://build.nethunter.com/android-tools/no-verity-opt-encrypt/

flyer_andy said:
Hi...I ran into your original issue and I believe it's related to dm-verify. For anyone that runs into this again, try flashing a dm-verify disabling zip and see if it'll boot again. This was the only way I could get the phone to boot after upgrading to nougat...not sure why this is an issue though as (I think) I had the stock bootstack in place along with stock System files.
Here is a link to the dm-verify disabling tool I used:
https://build.nethunter.com/android-tools/no-verity-opt-encrypt/
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This is clearly posted in the TWRP thread.

flyer_andy said:
Hi...I ran into your original issue and I believe it's related to dm-verify. For anyone that runs into this again, try flashing a dm-verify disabling zip and see if it'll boot again. This was the only way I could get the phone to boot after upgrading to nougat...not sure why this is an issue though as (I think) I had the stock bootstack in place along with stock System files.
Here is a link to the dm-verify disabling tool I used:
https://build.nethunter.com/android-tools/no-verity-opt-encrypt/
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Thanks, already read the TWRP thread and found what I was missing.
romeoh said:
Can you please give me instructions of what you did to upgrade to Nougat, I'm like you when started the upgrade on B29 Unlocked and rooted. I like the way of EDL process but It is a little vague and I don't want to brick my phone. Thanks in advance.
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I used the EDL method in the end. Part of the reason I set that up to begin with was just in case in the future I brick something, I'll have the ability to recover from anything prepared.
The step I missed which resulted in a brick was installing SuperSU (since I wanted root anyway, or you can disable dm-verity as the other fellow posted here) after allowing TWRP to be able to do modifications. Then I ended up with more bricks because I used SuperSU 2.79-SR2 and SR3, I thought it was fine since SR2 is what I was using with Marshmallow, apparently not, you have to use a non-SR version of 2.79 with Nougat.
So in summary, from EDL mode I:
1 - Installed the "Full" EDL package.
2 - Installed the "TWRP" EDL package, or you can flash it from Fastboot mode which might be more convenient since you'll have to restart EDL mode after flashing the first package to get it working/ready to flash in EDL mode again.
3 - Gave TWRP permission to do modifications and immediately (without rebooting/starting which would result in a brick) installed SuperSU 2.79 (non-SR), then rebooted (this could take a few mins as it says and can bootloop a few times).
If you said no to permissions for SuperSU and it's not giving you the option again you can reflash SuperSU then reboot to bootloader then reboot to recovery, that should make it show the option again. And in case you're not aware, to make changes to system files and such permanent when you have root, you have to enter a command in TWRP's terminal emulator or ADB shell. I think it was "reboot disemmcwp", it may need "SU" in front if you're doing it through an ADB shell in Windows, I'm not sure. Not quotes of course. Search the forums to find out for sure, it had to be in a guide somewhere.
Edit: Just to be clear, for step 2, when I said "or you can flash it from Fastboot" I meant TWRP in general, not the TWRP EDL package.

Cyrus D. said:
Thanks, already read the TWRP thread and found what I was missing.
I used the EDL method in the end. Part of the reason I set that up to begin with was just in case in the future I brick something, I'll have the ability to recover from anything prepared.
The step I missed which resulted in a brick was installing SuperSU (since I wanted root anyway, or you can disable dm-verity as the other fellow posted here) after allowing TWRP to be able to do modifications. Then I ended up with more bricks because I used SuperSU 2.79-SR2 and SR3, I thought it was fine since SR2 is what I was using with Marshmallow, apparently not, you have to use a non-SR version of 2.79 with Nougat.
So in summary, from EDL mode I:
1 - Installed the "Full" EDL package.
2 - Installed the "TWRP" EDL package, or you can flash it from Fastboot mode which might be more convenient since you'll have to restart EDL mode after flashing the first package to get it working/ready to flash in EDL mode again.
3 - Gave TWRP permission to do modifications and immediately (without rebooting/starting which would result in a brick) installed SuperSU 2.79 (non-SR), then rebooted (this could take a few mins as it says and can bootloop a few times).
If you said no to permissions for SuperSU and it's not giving you the option again you can reflash SuperSU then reboot to bootloader then reboot to recovery, that should make it show the option again. And in case you're not aware, to make changes to system files and such permanent when you have root, you have to enter a command in TWRP's terminal emulator or ADB shell. I think it was "reboot disemmcwp", it may need "SU" in front if you're doing it through an ADB shell in Windows, I'm not sure. Not quotes of course. Search the forums to find out for sure, it had to be in a guide somewhere.
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Many thanks body, As you said using EDL mode is great to unbrake your phone from any state plus it reminds me with Odin that's why I like this way it's very simple, but as you know this is not Samsung phone and it has so many complications. ???

romeoh said:
Many thanks body, As you said using EDL mode is great to unbrake your phone from any state plus it reminds me with Odin that's why I like this way it's very simple, but as you know this is not Samsung phone and it has so many complications.
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No problem. I threw in an edit to my last post to clarify point 2 in case you thought I meant you can flash the EDL package from Fastboot mode, I meant TWRP in general. In case you forgot the command to use in the ADB shell it's "fastboot flash recovery FileName.img" (twrp-3.0.4-1-ailsa_ii.img in my case).
If you already had the "reboot disemmcwp"/"SU reboot disemmcwp" step done you don't need to do it again.
And just some general information for you regarding my experience with Nougat so far:
1 - When I started it I selected Canadian English as my language. This apparently disables ZTE voice functions, or Nougat is missing it in general. It's missing from the menus and when I hold the back key it said "Only English and Spanish supported". Piss poorly done as usual, ZTE, since the pronunciation of Canadian and American English is nearly identical with very few exceptions, might as well have left American English enabled for voice commands. So I went into the menu and selected just "English" as my system language, and now the option to set Canadian English is missing entirely, and voice functions are still missing. Holding the back key just results in nothing now instead of the "Only English and Spanish supported" message. So I'm saying I don't know if ZTE voice functions are still there, someone else can answer this, or I guess you'll find out.
2 - Google's Timely alarm app (and possibly other alarms) still don't work properly and will be off by several minutes, so I'm stuck using the default sucky clock app until I find something else that works.
3 - The default apps are all still the exact same trash. If you really want to use the AKM "32 bit" (truncated to 16 bit output) Hi-Fi DAC and amp you're still stuck with the garbage laggy default music app, which now has some sort of bonus lag/stutter. People claiming that you can use the DAC with something like PowerAmp are sadly mistaken, that sounds so different and lower quality than when using the stock music app and even says it's using the SD 820's 24 bit DAC when set to Hi-Fi output. There's even a ridiculous rumour going around that the Axon 7 doesn't have the SD 820's DAC which is retarded, ZTE can't pick and choose components of SoCs supplied by Qualcomm, they just buy some of their stock of what's already made. It's definitely in there, whether or not it's enabled is another story.
4 - Battery life is worse, this is at least partly because there is no Xposed support for Nougat yet so I can't enable the Greenify module to allow really aggressive dozing and dozing on the go (which I thought Nougat was supposed to support?). It could also be partly due to my battery being rapidly degraded from Daydream mode being a firey hell inferno. It heated my battery up to 48C and over 42C in other cases even with my best efforts to keep it cool by enabling Ultra Power Saving Mode (which Daydream may be overriding) and shoving in aluminium foil to act as a heatsink. All phones from reports so far overheat horribly when using Daydream, especially the Pixel XL. It's not surprising that the Axon 7 rapidly overheats as well considering it literally uses the battery as a heatsink; a heatpipe carries heat from the SoC to the battery. I would have not bought the A7 if I knew this.
Edit: I forgot -
5 - ZTE locker no longer allows browsing all of their past content, only what they allow per day, which so far for me has only been the same crap and never anything new. Too bad, I liked some of their old content, though it was all 1080p and not 1440p. Oh well.

Cyrus D. said:
No problem. I threw in an edit to my last post to clarify point 2 in case you thought I meant you can flash the EDL package from Fastboot mode, I meant TWRP in general. In case you forgot the command to use in the ADB shell it's "fastboot flash recovery FileName.img" (twrp-3.0.4-1-ailsa_ii.img in my case).
If you already had the "reboot disemmcwp"/"SU reboot disemmcwp" step done you don't need to do it again.
And just some general information for you regarding my experience with Nougat so far:
1 - When I started it I selected Canadian English as my language. This apparently disables ZTE voice functions, or Nougat is missing it in general. It's missing from the menus and when I hold the back key it said "Only English and Spanish supported". Piss poorly done as usual, ZTE, since the pronunciation of Canadian and American English is nearly identical with very few exceptions, might as well have left American English enabled for voice commands. So I went into the menu and selected just "English" as my system language, and now the option to set Canadian English is missing entirely, and voice functions are still missing. Holding the back key just results in nothing now instead of the "Only English and Spanish supported" message. So I'm saying I don't know if ZTE voice functions are still there, someone else can answer this, or I guess you'll find out.
2 - Google's Timely alarm app (and possibly other alarms) still don't work properly and will be off by several minutes, so I'm stuck using the default sucky clock app until I find something else that works.
3 - The default apps are all still the exact same trash. If you really want to use the AKM "32 bit" (truncated to 16 bit output) Hi-Fi DAC and amp you're still stuck with the garbage laggy default music app, which now has some sort of bonus lag/stutter. People claiming that you can use the DAC with something like PowerAmp are sadly mistaken, that sounds so different and lower quality than when using the stock music app and even says it's using the SD 820's 24 bit DAC when set to Hi-Fi output. There's even a ridiculous rumour going around that the Axon 7 doesn't have the SD 820's DAC which is retarded, ZTE can't pick and choose components of SoCs supplied by Qualcomm, they just buy some of their stock of what's already made. It's definitely in there, whether or not it's enabled is another story.
4 - Battery life is worse, this is at least partly because there is no Xposed support for Nougat yet so I can't enable the Greenify module to allow really aggressive dozing and dozing on the go (which I thought Nougat was supposed to support?). It could also be partly due to my battery being rapidly degraded from Daydream mode being a firey hell inferno. It heated my battery up to 48C and over 42C in other cases even with my best efforts to keep it cool by enabling Ultra Power Saving Mode (which Daydream may be overriding) and shoving in aluminium foil to act as a heatsink. All phones from reports so far overheat horribly when using Daydream, especially the Pixel XL. It's not surprising that the Axon 7 rapidly overheats as well considering it literally uses the battery as a heatsink; a heatpipe carries heat from the SoC to the battery. I would have not bought the A7 if I knew this.
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5 - ZTE locker no longer allows browsing all of their past content, only what they allow per day, which so far for me has only been the same crap and never anything new. Too bad, I liked some of their old content, though it was all 1080p and not 1440p. Oh well.
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Omg bro, To be honest I hate the software experience on that phone. It is the only thing that turning me off from it. I played a little with my brother's S7 edge the other day, and believe me the software experience is extraordinary. However I noticed that the S7 edge overheats a lot too without even using the daydream. In my opinion I think Axon 7 lacks in hardware wise a bigger battery and the support of the new RCS messaging feature, and in software wise a whole new developed system.

Trying to install TWRP and Lineage . . . vbmeta is in the way

I've been trying for the last few days to root and install Lineage on a brand new S6 lite tablet. I've downloaded Lineage, Odin, stock rom, ADB/platform tools, Ls4 tool, the 7 whatever it is extraction tool. I've unlocked the bootloader (I can recite every option under developer options). I've installed Magisk hoping that it might help if I rooted the dumb thing (spoiler alert: it rooted, it didn't help). I've tried to install it using ADB (before reading that Samsungs don't play nice with it ). I tried to side load it with an SD card; tablet liked the card, poo poo'd the files on it. I've used ODIN in every way shape and form, it always says "Yay! You Pass!" then my tablet reboots saying "Boo! You Lose!". I then reinstall the stock ROM, try something else, reinstall stock ROM, try this solution, reinstall stock ROM. The latest and greatest hurdle: when trying to install TWRP I get the error message VBMETA Error verifying image, not signed (3), verification disabled bit is set. I found info on that here, downloaded vbmeta from my stock ROM, tried to use a blank vbmeta, even went overboard and did something with the PIT function in Odin (saw it in the internet, it HAS to be correct, right?). Nothing nothing nothing.
I've rooted and installed custom ROM on Samsung tablets in the past, but this is ridiculous. It would take me a LONG time to give all the details of everything I've tried, if needed I can. At this point it's the principal of the matter . . . I am going to make this happen one way or another, and any advice someone might have would be appreciated.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 tablet LITE, SM-P610, running Android 11, UI 3.1, WIFI only.

vstarjewel said:
I've been trying for the last few days to root and install Lineage on a brand new S6 lite tablet. I've downloaded Lineage, Odin, stock rom, ADB/platform tools, Ls4 tool, the 7 whatever it is extraction tool. I've unlocked the bootloader (I can recite every option under developer options). I've installed Magisk hoping that it might help if I rooted the dumb thing (spoiler alert: it rooted, it didn't help). I've tried to install it using ADB (before reading that Samsungs don't play nice with it ). I tried to side load it with an SD card; tablet liked the card, poo poo'd the files on it. I've used ODIN in every way shape and form, it always says "Yay! You Pass!" then my tablet reboots saying "Boo! You Lose!". I then reinstall the stock ROM, try something else, reinstall stock ROM, try this solution, reinstall stock ROM. The latest and greatest hurdle: when trying to install TWRP I get the error message VBMETA Error verifying image, not signed (3), verification disabled bit is set. I found info on that here, downloaded vbmeta from my stock ROM, tried to use a blank vbmeta, even went overboard and did something with the PIT function in Odin (saw it in the internet, it HAS to be correct, right?). Nothing nothing nothing.
I've rooted and installed custom ROM on Samsung tablets in the past, but this is ridiculous. It would take me a LONG time to give all the details of everything I've tried, if needed I can. At this point it's the principal of the matter . . . I am going to make this happen one way or another, and any advice someone might have would be appreciated.
About me!
Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 tablet LITE, SM-P610, running Android 11, UI 3.1, WIFI only.
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Stumbled upon the answer to get Lineage OS and recovery installed . . . AND IT FREAKIN WORKED! Happy Dance!!!!!

vstarjewel said:
Stumbled upon the answer to get Lineage OS and recovery installed . . . AND IT FREAKIN WORKED! Happy Dance!!!!!
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How did you fix? Just for a reader's curiosity sake.

Real_fakename said:
How did you fix? Just for a reader's curiosity sake.
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I believe he used LineageOS Recovery instead of TWRP (since the latter has been abandoned by the developer due to too many problems getting it working properly).

MJPollard said:
I believe he used LineageOS Recovery instead of TWRP (since the latter has been abandoned by the developer due to too many problems getting it working properly).
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What he said . . . still my hero!!!! Not sure if it matters or not, but I ended up using Heimdall/ADB to install Lineage. More key strokes but it worked the first time I tried it. Thumbs up for it

I'm hanging installing the recovery, see: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...s-on-galaxy-tab-s6-lite.4417629/post-86603873
How to reboot into recovery after flashing? I always land into Stock ROM

I mistakenly thought that Heimdell could get you right into recovery mode, but upon reading the instructions I sent you it says you need to boot into recovery manually . . . I apologize for the wrong info. I can say that I found that if you don't move them fingers FAST from the reboot mode to recovery mode buttons, you will keep getting plopped back to the stock ROM. Like the SECOND the screen goes dark you switch over to the power and volume up buttons, AND DO NOT LET GO! I do remember having a bit of a pause when booting into the Lineage recovery, and I thought I would have to start over when the recovery screen came up. I did a triple take, couldn't believe I got it to work.

vstarjewel said:
I mistakenly thought that Heimdell could get you right into recovery mode, but upon reading the instructions I sent you it says you need to boot into recovery manually . . . I apologize for the wrong info. I can say that I found that if you don't move them fingers FAST from the reboot mode to recovery mode buttons, you will keep getting plopped back to the stock ROM. Like the SECOND the screen goes dark you switch over to the power and volume up buttons, AND DO NOT LET GO! I do remember having a bit of a pause when booting into the Lineage recovery, and I thought I would have to start over when the recovery screen came up. I did a triple take, couldn't believe I got it to work.
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Did your S6 happen to show "KG STATE: Checking" constantly? After 2 hours, even though the console shows that there was success, the device itself appears to constantly be downloading, as per the instructions. But even after 2 hours, there is no notification on the tablet that shows the download is complete.