Im trying to root the phone and install some brick prevention. I used helium backup already, is that enough?
And is it possible to turn on oem unlocking yet on the US models?
Also fastboot wont work.
No such thing as fastboot on Samsung phones.
There's plenty of information in these Note20 Ultra forums on the ins & outs of rooting, use the search function to locate the appropriate threads.......
A $1G paper weight.
Why do you want to root it?
These phones can run well, stock.
If it seems like a bad idea, it probably is.
blackhawk said:
A $1G paper weight.
Why do you want to root it?
These phones can run well, stock.
If it seems like a bad idea, it probably is.
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What a smug response. I'm loving this phone, I just want Linux on it and don't want to turn it into a $1000 paperweight.
And I also just want to know if helium is enough to prevent a brick.
Mwezi66 said:
What a smug response. I'm loving this phone, I just want Linux on it and don't want to turn it into a $1000 paperweight.
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Android is a modified Linux kernel.
There's always risk to rooting especially if you are inexperienced.
blackhawk said:
Android is a modified Linux kernel.
There's always risk to rooting especially if you are inexperienced.
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Do you know if helium is enough to prevent a brick? Cus if not ion wanna hear it
Mwezi66 said:
Do you know if helium is enough to prevent a brick? Cus if not ion wanna hear it
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I don't think enough people use it to get an honest reply, aren't these features that Titanium Backup can do?
Don't try my friend
US devices cannot be rooted because they come with a locked bootloader from the source
windows4droid said:
Don't try my friend
US devices cannot be rooted because they come with a locked bootloader from the source
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You are misinformed. 9 series to nearly current anything one ui 3.0 and lower can be bootloader unlocked and rooted.
Nothing is enough to prevent a brick. There is no oem unlock. No fast boot.
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Looked at some threads and still wondering if they still works on unlocking bootloader. Seems like it tooks so much time for Devs, have anyone knows whats happening? Is it seems unlockable or not? :/
bdogan1912 said:
Looked at some threads and still wondering if they still works on unlocking bootloader. Seems like it tooks so much time for Devs, have anyone knows whats happening? Is it seems unlockable or not? :/
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The T-Mobile US version comes unlocked. No one knows yet whether the other G3 versions will be able to be unlocked. The G2 was never unlocked but a work around where you could install custom Roms and kernels was eventually found. Its very much wait and see.
Batfink33 said:
The T-Mobile US version comes unlocked. No one knows yet whether the other G3 versions will be able to be unlocked. The G2 was never unlocked but a work around where you could install custom Roms and kernels was eventually found. Its very much wait and see.
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Looked at many forums that people opened about 1-2 months ago. It seems like very very difficult to unlock it. I have much respect developers whichones tries to unlock it. Hope they can be successful on this. I'm glad to have stock rom this is very smooth i can admit it not like laggy touchwiz. But want to give a try to CM or PA or any AOSP ROM's like this, because back in time i was used AOSP based rom on my S III I9300 and loved it. Only reason that i want AOSP ROM is i think im loving pure Android it gives me ultra-smooth performance and simple UI.
The Verizon and AT&T threads have a bounty over $5700 and it looks like a few devs are close to having a solution.
what about the sprint ls990
Any word for Tge sprint ls990 at all I know it might be wrong section but might as well post somewhere
i can try
If someone can point me into the direction required to do bootloader unlocking i will give it a shot. Am a developer but have never attempted to do a bootloader unlock.
crqzyvonzipper said:
If someone can point me into the direction required to do bootloader unlocking i will give it a shot. Am a developer but have never attempted to do a bootloader unlock.
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Well we have to ask it to developers whichones pro. on this.
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Well we have to ask it to developers whichones pro. on this.
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If only someone could tell me how to get to debug the software then ill be able to go from there because google isnt your friend when trying to find out.
[email protected] said:
Any word for Tge sprint ls990 at all I know it might be wrong section but might as well post somewhere
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Devs in the AT&T bounty thread are working on an unlock for ALL variants besides the T-Mobile one.
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Yes. I know about that but it seems ike they are tking quite some time and I am not sure if they have given up?
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Devs in the AT&T bounty thread are working on an unlock for ALL variants besides the T-Mobile one.
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Hope they can unlock soon. Phone was out on May and we're on September. Almost 4 months since released. And i know its hard but we have to wait. I wish i have money to donate/bounty 20 more dollars :/
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Yes. I know about that but it seems ike they are tking quite some time and I am not sure if they have given up?
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It's giving them hell, there not sure they are gonna be able to, but there's always Loki to try, which is kinda like going around the boot loader.
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joeyhdownsouth said:
It's giving them hell, there not sure they are gonna be able to, but there's always Loki to try, which is kinda like going around the boot loader.
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Locked bootloader is like hot beer. Seems and tastes awfully. I wish companies sends their flagships with unlocked bootloader like T-Mobile did. Without custom recovery we're not able to even do a simple tweak (The tweaks who requires recovery such as modified frameworks and SystemUI's) Otherwise there is another option G3 Tweaksbox. But it shows very limited options if you're poor to buy it.
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It's giving them hell, there not sure they are gonna be able to, but there's always Loki to try, which is kinda like going around the boot loader.
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HMMMM well ill have a look at what i can do tomorrow. Maybe i can find a small window here. I almost want to say that the abswer would be to adjust the bootloader to simply allow multi boot possibilities with partitions (at least in my mind that would be pretty cute).
I dont even really want the money. I just want to be able to do what i need to do. Multi OS's on one device.
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Locked bootloader is like hot beer. Seems and tastes awfully. I wish companies sends their flagships with unlocked bootloader like T-Mobile did. Without custom recovery we're not able to even do a simple tweak (The tweaks who requires recovery such as modified frameworks and SystemUI's) Otherwise there is another option G3 Tweaksbox. But it shows very limited options if you're poor to buy it.
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I've tried modifying one line in build prop, ended up softbricking. I won't change a thing until unlock, at least then you can have nandroids.
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If only someone could tell me how to get to debug the software then ill be able to go from there because google isnt your friend when trying to find out.
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Also it's good to someone has interest about it. But it's ultimately hard job that they cannot solved in past 4 months. I appreciate all the tries/works on this job. Developers, you da real MVP! Well, other than that small joke we're still waiting. Not only international model D855 other models such as AT&T is waiting to unlock bootloader. T-Mobile users lucky that they got unlocked G3. I hope they will find a cure about it. If you can afford http://forum.xda-developers.com/att-lg-g3/general/bounty-att-lg-g3-bootloader-unlock-t2820785 go this thread and give some bounty (You're not have to do that its only suggest and saying thanks to hardwork)
yeeeeeepppp
joeyhdownsouth said:
I've tried modifying one line in build prop, ended up softbricking. I won't change a thing until unlock, at least then you can have nandroids.
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Hehe ive also bricked this baby a few times now but lg has a cool restore tool that fixes all the issues.
Why cant we just copy the unlocked bootloader and overwrite the locked bootloader?
But nontheless. Maybe ill end upnrewriting a boot loader to work. But that might take some more time.
joeyhdownsouth said:
I've tried modifying one line in build prop, ended up softbricking. I won't change a thing until unlock, at least then you can have nandroids.
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So you can say, i tried to modifiying build prop and ended with softbricking but so i got nandroid which is nice to me. Me neither. On my Note 3 i was tweaking build prop without any problem i've even enabled softkeys (I wondered a bit about how it will look etc.) But not gonna touch until this thing unlocks fully. Using stock rom & root with bloatware removed. With helper programs such as Greenify+Coolify. It's like science it's all about develop, try, fail, develop (or fix/debug),try, fail, develop try, success. It's alla about to hardwork and i appreciate all the efforts that developers given on this topic.
crqzyvonzipper said:
Hehe ive also bricked this baby a few times now but lg has a cool restore tool that fixes all the issues.
Why cant we just copy the unlocked bootloader and overwrite the locked bootloader?
But nontheless. Maybe ill end upnrewriting a boot loader to work. But that might take some more time.
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Variants have different bootloaders. So we cannot do a copy/paste on it. If it works like this the devices will be unlocked in 10 min. I almost softbricked too but won against my wonder and didn't touched anything. It now works good. I love G3 even its bootloader locked lol
crqzyvonzipper said:
Hehe ive also bricked this baby a few times now but lg has a cool restore tool that fixes all the issues.
Why cant we just copy the unlocked bootloader and overwrite the locked bootloader?
But nontheless. Maybe ill end upnrewriting a boot loader to work. But that might take some more time.
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Why don't you go to the irc chat room where all the devs hang out and do their work? You can talk to them there and see what they've tried or what they haven't. Believe the channel is: #lg-g3
My son wanted to root his brand new phone. i have rooted 8 phones from different phones before with success..... but this time i f***d up...
Accedently installed this on his phone.
http://wccftech.com/flash-and-root-nexus-5-on-android-6-0-1-mmb29k/
executed flash-all.bat and it flashed the bootloader.
For the wrong phone...
It should have been this one..
http://wccftech.com/flash-and-root-nexus-5x-android-6-0-1/
Missed the X......
Now the phone will not even boot any more at all....cant enter bootloader.......does not power up at all.!!!
Jesus...what have i done.......
It here any chance at all to fix this somehow?
Hello and thank you for using Q/A,
because you can't enter bootloader, you can't do anything. You can try to send the phone to Google. Say: It didn't boot after OTA Update.
Kind regards
Trafalgar Square
Yeah it's most likely a paperweight. Try sending it to Google. Flashing the wrong firmware destroys a phone as you probably already know
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hopesrequiem said:
Yeah it's most likely a paperweight. Try sending it to Google. Flashing the wrong firmware destroys a phone as you probably already know
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I am totally aware of that....
but somehow one must be able to flash the bootloader from scratch....
Normally via special software etc.
That´s what i was hoping for....
Only thing I know to use is a riff box to jtag it. Not sure if they have one for 5x.
crowhater said:
I am totally aware of that....
but somehow one must be able to flash the bootloader from scratch....
Normally via special software etc.
That´s what i was hoping for....
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Your use of the period seems rather condescending. And no, you as the end user cannot fix that. You did one of the few things that is unrecoverable unless you manage to get the bootloader to accept adb commands somehow.
crowhater said:
I am totally aware of that....
but somehow one must be able to flash the bootloader from scratch....
Normally via special software etc.
That´s what i was hoping for....
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Didn't you say the phone won't turn on? The above scenario is not possible.
Well
bobby janow said:
Didn't you say the phone won't turn on? The above scenario is not possible.
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Well. the bootloader is flashed into the phone from the beginning aswell during manufacturing. I work with electronics and software and i know there is always a way to reflash the bootloader. All the electronics comes in the beginning with no software at all, one only needs the proper software/hardware. Most probably by jtag....or if they have some other special tool for snapdragon 808.
Stupid of me not to see that the version i flashed was not for nexus 5X...and only for nexus 5
sight...
Good luck. Will Google not rma it?
Hey all!
I'm new to Samsung completely, I have experience rooting, as I've had multiple Nexus devices, and other rootable phones. Just never had a Samsung. I recently took the Oreo OTA update, and was wondering about the best rooting method? Ive read that you lose secret folder. Is there a way to keep that?
Basically I just want to debloat more and theme without having to use Andromeda, as that is annoying.
zakkyzombie said:
Hey all!
I'm new to Samsung completely, I have experience rooting, as I've had multiple Nexus devices, and other rootable phones. Just never had a Samsung. I recently took the Oreo OTA update, and was wondering about the best rooting method? Ive read that you lose secret folder. Is there a way to keep that?
Basically I just want to debloat more and theme without having to use Andromeda, as that is annoying.
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At this point in time there is no root for the Verizon Samsung S8+.
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At this point in time there is no root for the Verizon Samsung S8+.
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Lame.
Thanks I appreciate your help.
Rooting for Verizon is not happening as of now as they Lock the Boot-Loader and just Phones aren't as easy to Root now
Yes it will work fine on oreo, as long as the 2nd to last number of the version you are on isn't a 3. Example:
Good: G950USQU2CRB7
Not Good: G950USQU3CRC6
^-- That right there is a no no for now
But afaik there is so rom in existence for 950u with a 3 there. Just something to watch for in the future.
You don't need to flash back to nougat stock first either. Your should be able to go straight to pcr. If you have trouble with the first step you can try flashing part 2 first, followed by 1 then 2 again, but i fine expect you will have any issues.
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If you have nougat or a specific type of Oreo root is still possible with PartCyborgRom (https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...root-partcyborgrom-aqk3-samfail-odin-t3717702)
ikoyhn said:
If you have nougat or a specific type of Oreo root is still possible with PartCyborgRom (https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...root-partcyborgrom-aqk3-samfail-odin-t3717702)
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But this will take you back to Nougat QL1. There isn't a root for our phones in Oreo yet. Darn Verizon.
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If you have nougat or a specific type of Oreo root is still possible with PartCyborgRom (https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...oot-partcyborgrom-aqk3-samfail-odin-t3717702)
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I have a 2!
So basically what I'm gathering is, it downgrades the bootloader or kernal to a rootable state, then with wizardry I can flash a Oreo rom?
zakkyzombie said:
I have a 2!
So basically what I'm gathering is, it downgrades the bootloader or kernal to a rootable state, then with wizardry I can flash a Oreo rom?
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Not exactly, this is a root/rom combo. So it will downgrade you back to Nougat version 2 bootloader firmware, root your device, and flash a ROM all at the same time. So there is no way to flash a different ROM since the rooting process and ROM flashing is built into one step.
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OneoftheRabble said:
But this will take you back to Nougat QL1. There isn't a root for our phones in Oreo yet. Darn Verizon.
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True, but if anyone is still lucky enough to be on version 2 bootloader on Oreo they still can downgrade to Nougat version 2 bootloader and use that Root/ROM combo to root their device since it works on ver. 2 bootloader but not 3. And yeah, screw Verizon!
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Not exactly, this is a root/rom combo. So it will downgrade you back to Nougat version 2 bootloader firmware, root your device, and flash a ROM all at the same time. So there is no way to flash a different ROM since the rooting process and ROM flashing is built into one step.
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True, but if anyone is still lucky enough to be on version 2 bootloader on Oreo they still can downgrade to Nougat version 2 bootloader and use that Root/ROM combo to root their device since it works on ver. 2 bootloader but not 3. And yeah, screw Verizon!
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Ahh. Makes sense. Basically flashing a modded factory image?
I want to but am wondering what happens to the secure folder?
zakkyzombie said:
Ahh. Makes sense. Basically flashing a modded factory image?
I want to but am wondering what happens to the secure folder?
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Yeah its flashing an engineered firmware, and it trips knox which is needed for secure folder I think. I looked on my S8+ and couldn't find secure folder anywhere, so I'm guessing the ROM removes it.
Wrenerry said:
How is your battery life... ?
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I get about 6Hrs screen on time
nougat so it kinda sounds like i should not take the oreo update if i want to root / mod my s8+is that true or not? Thanks (my 1st samsung from htc)
Dayliter said:
nougat so it kinda sounds like i should not take the oreo update if i want to root / mod my s8+is that true or not? Thanks (my 1st samsung from htc)
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Yeah, I'd stay on Nougat.
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Yeah, I'd stay on Nougat.
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Man, I miss the days of flashing roms. Back on my note 3, i used to flash a new rom weekly and had a ball customizing things and seeing what new roms were comming out.
TomNJ3256 said:
Man, I miss the days of flashing roms. Back on my note 3, i used to flash a new rom weekly and had a ball customizing things and seeing what new roms were comming out.
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Whatever happened to those days. S**t, the last few ROMs I was flashing on the N6 were all pretty much the same. I miss being pissed off that one rom had all the things I wanted but looked hideous. Then everything got CM based and themes were everywhere. Then it all just got the same. Then it all got locked down. Almost like Android and Google were playing the devs getting them to make the mods, then them steal them, and incorporate them, then lock it down.
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Whatever happened to those days. S**t, the last few ROMs I was flashing on the N6 were all pretty much the same. I miss being pissed off that one rom had all the things I wanted but looked hideous. Then everything got CM based and themes were everywhere. Then it all just got the same. Then it all got locked down. Almost like Android and Google were playing the devs getting them to make the mods, then them steal them, and incorporate them, then lock it down.
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yeah, by the time the N6 was out things were pretty bad. But back in the N3 days - they were good.
ikoyhn said:
If you have nougat or a specific type of Oreo root is still possible with PartCyborgRom (https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...root-partcyborgrom-aqk3-samfail-odin-t3717702)
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I'm sorry for this basic question, but does the phone being carrier unlocked make any difference? I know that has nothing to do with the bootloader; I'm simply asking if the phone not being Verizon-specific has any effect on rootability ... I was just about to purchase an unlocked S8+ when I saw this thread and almost spewed Mountain Dew all over my monitor. I had no idea Verizon had squelched root, although no surprise there, right?
hunteditor said:
I'm sorry for this basic question, but does the phone being carrier unlocked make any difference? I know that has nothing to do with the bootloader; I'm simply asking if the phone not being Verizon-specific has any effect on rootability ... I was just about to purchase an unlocked S8+ when I saw this thread and almost spewed Mountain Dew all over my monitor. I had no idea Verizon had squelched root, although no surprise there, right?
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if its unlocked and international version, and you use it on verizon, you can still root without any problems from verizon. only verizon variant there is that crappy problem
hunteditor said:
I'm sorry for this basic question, but does the phone being carrier unlocked make any difference? I know that has nothing to do with the bootloader; I'm simply asking if the phone not being Verizon-specific has any effect on rootability ... I was just about to purchase an unlocked S8+ when I saw this thread and almost spewed Mountain Dew all over my monitor. I had no idea Verizon had squelched root, although no surprise there, right?
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Yeah there is root for all carrieres (verizon, tmobil, sprint, att) but its limited and the bootloader is still locked. I would still get a the international version, better root, more Roms, etc...
Unlocked vs International?
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Yeah there is root for all carrieres (verizon, tmobil, sprint, att) but its limited and the bootloader is still locked. I would still get a the international version, better root, more Roms, etc...
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When you say international version, is that simply the carrier unlocked version? And do you know if there is a certain model number or letter designation after the model number I should be looking for? I'm shopping on Swappa and eBay and need to be really careful. Thank you for the help, by the way.
Would it be possible to inject something into a kdz and root that way? I know JOSH1X posted that pie kdz for all variants regardless of locked or unlocked bootloader.
I apologise if I'm completely wrong just trying to get some insight on this
Joe199799 said:
Would it be possible to inject something into a kdz and root that way? I know JOSH1X posted that pie kdz for all variants regardless of locked or unlocked bootloader.
I apologise if I'm completely wrong just trying to get some insight on this
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The problem is that every kdz has an RSA Certificate witch will break if the kdz was edited. I do have a plan that can work but I'm still not sure and it's possible to completely lock the phone because it detected an edited boot (where magisk goes). It's possible to get system root too actually but I'm not sure if it's even going to get flashed.
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The problem is that every kdz has an RSA Certificate witch will break if the kdz was edited. I do have a plan that can work but I'm still not sure and it's possible to completely lock the phone because it detected an edited boot (where magisk goes). It's possible to get system root too actually but I'm not sure if it's even going to get flashed.
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If you can figure it out I'll throw you some cash I'm almost about to ditch this phone for a 6T because I'm carrying around 2 phones at the moment, this and a rooted ZTE Zmax.
thanks for the insight I appreciate it
Joe199799 said:
If you can figure it out I'll throw you some cash I'm almost about to ditch this phone for a 6T because I'm carrying around 2 phones at the moment, this and a rooted ZTE Zmax.
thanks for the insight I appreciate it
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I just need someone to test it since my bootloader is unlocked and it has disabled security. If you want I can tell you how to do it but again. I'm not sure if it will trigger security but even if it does you should (not 100% sure) be able to go back with LG Up.
Again if it fails I'm not completely sure if it's possible to go back without LG service. (I'm saying that because I don't want to brick someone's main phone)
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I just need someone to test it since my bootloader is unlocked and it has disabled security. If you want I can tell you how to do it but again. I'm not sure if it will trigger security but even if it does you should (not 100% sure) be able to go back with LG Up.
Again if it fails I'm not completely sure if it's possible to go back without LG service. (I'm saying that because I don't want to brick someone's main phone)
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This is my main phone or I would try it out I can't brick it because I lease it with T-Mobile I'm sorry homie
Joe199799 said:
If you can figure it out I'll throw you some cash I'm almost about to ditch this phone for a 6T because I'm carrying around 2 phones at the moment, this and a rooted ZTE Zmax.
thanks for the insight I appreciate it
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WOW, I'm in the same boat. I'm carrying around two phones too.
This and a rooted G5. and samee, i'll throw some money to whoever can get this rooted, I'm about to ditch the G7 for a OnePlus7 at this point.
Good bye LG!
Has anyone tried this method with success? I need to know.
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Hey guys, so i own a galaxy s20+ SM-G986U BL LOCKED and i was curious, if we can tell the hardware to boot from sdcard couldnt we burn an image with root to the sdcard and just not use the eMMc memory on the board??
kar0l-bask1n said:
Hey guys, so i own a galaxy s20+ SM-G986U BL LOCKED and i was curious, if we can tell the hardware to boot from sdcard couldnt we burn an image with root to the sdcard and just not use the eMMc memory on the board??
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Wow very good question, honestly it doesn´t sound to easy.
That would be wonderful if possible, and then use the eMMC as SWAP.
Yeah, that'd be ideal! I already took apart an A21 SM-S205DL and am researching to see if there's any similar chipset this has been achieved on..
kar0l-bask1n said:
Yeah, that'd be ideal! I already took apart an A21 SM-S205DL and am researching to see if there's any similar chipset this has been achieved on..
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That's amazing! Heck yes. I was thinking about this for my Sprint Galaxy S3... so not quite on the same level, haha.
Most of my devices are elderly ones I want to breathe fresh life into!
The last SD-card-booting phone I had I think was the HTC HD2!!!!
EirikrHinnRauthi said:
That's amazing! Heck yes. I was thinking about this for my Sprint Galaxy S3... so not quite on the same level, haha.
Most of my devices are elderly ones I want to breathe fresh life into!
The last SD-card-booting phone I had I think was the HTC HD2!!!!
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Yeah I'll bet there a switch on the motherboards. From my research this has already been exploited in the past on even newer models than the S3, you should look further into it, let us know what you find!
kar0l-bask1n said:
Yeah I'll bet there a switch on the motherboards. From my research this has already been exploited in the past on even newer models than the S3, you should look further into it, let us know what you find!
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Unfortunately my 3 days off are over and I'm back to "front line work" at a hospital in Southern California... so my time going forward is going to be super limited
I wish I could though!!!!!
kar0l-bask1n said:
Hey guys, so i own a galaxy s20+ SM-G986U BL LOCKED and i was curious, if we can tell the hardware to boot from sdcard couldnt we burn an image with root to the sdcard and just not use the eMMc memory on the board??
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You will need some files to flash the bootloader of the device to let it possible, Just like HTC hd2, but need great dev work
EirikrHinnRauthi said:
Unfortunately my 3 days off are over and I'm back to "front line work" at a hospital in Southern California... so my time going forward is going to be super limited
I wish I could though!!!!!
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well thank you for your work!!
jjgvv said:
You will need some files to flash the bootloader of the device to let it possible, Just like HTC hd2, but need great dev work
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what files do you think i would need? firmware stuff?? binary data?? im really new to development at all, im going to school but id really like to hack this one...
also, do you think id have to get my hands on some firsthand knowledge? like how the motherboards are put together, which pins to reroute??
nope sorry, it is just A theory, i will try ask mods about this
So I haven't been able to find much relative documentation on the exynos chipset. Am going to start looking into snapdragon considering my s20 is a snapdragon model. My test subject is a exynos... I took some photos of what I believe may be relative pins and will attach the files on this post. Any input would be greatly appreciated! Sometimes, old methods and exploits will come back into relevance. This could be a Golden opportunity to skirt Samsung's bull**** BL! Concerning my photograph, this is the side of the board opposite the sim/SD card storage. Don't know what the pins are for. Let me know!!
maybe someone can have A file to flash A BIOS-look BL like HTC HD2 had done?
jjgvv said:
maybe someone can have A file to flash A BIOS-look BL like HTC HD2 had done?
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My main concern is finding out how to make the hardware recognize scary storage as the only storage..
[HOW TO] BOOT FROM SD CARD [SUCCESSFULLY] on QMobile Z8 with BRICKED/DEAD eMMC
I'm a mechanical engineer, not an IT guy. I can fix machines, perhaps, but not bricked phones. So try anything at your own extreme risk. This is NOT a step by step guide. DEVICE: QMobile Z8, same as Wikio Ridge 4G, (MSM8916). Running Android...
forum.xda-developers.com
↑see , it is possible.
jjgvv said:
[HOW TO] BOOT FROM SD CARD [SUCCESSFULLY] on QMobile Z8 with BRICKED/DEAD eMMC
I'm a mechanical engineer, not an IT guy. I can fix machines, perhaps, but not bricked phones. So try anything at your own extreme risk. This is NOT a step by step guide. DEVICE: QMobile Z8, same as Wikio Ridge 4G, (MSM8916). Running Android...
forum.xda-developers.com
↑see , it is possible.
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Bookmarked that! Thank you for the link!
These guys were working on devices that already have bl unlocked even before they start to think about booting solely from micro SD. I'm working on a s20 model that's infamous for having a LOCKED bl. My main objective is to modify the motherboard to detect the SD CARD in place of eMMc. I'd like to see one of these have root without any firmware upgrade or flashing NAND, just like having a second SSD for a laptop. Just swap it out.