Hey guys,
so I tried to root my S10+ which did not work out. I never got past unlocking my bootloader. Now I flashed an original Samsung Stock Firmware and I relocked the bootlader. But now when I tried to use Samsung Pass for instance it told me, that I couldn't use it since my device was rooted, which it wasn't and isn't.
Do you guys know a way around this or am I doomed?
Regards
thomas333 said:
Hey guys,
so I tried to root my S10+ which did not work out. I never got past unlocking my bootloader. Now I flashed an original Samsung Stock Firmware and I relocked the bootlader. But now when I tried to use Samsung Pass for instance it told me, that I couldn't use it since my device was rooted, which it wasn't and isn't.
Do you guys know a way around this or am I doomed?
Regards
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You need to check knox in download mode. Anything other than 0x0 will break Samsung pay, secure folder, and Samsung pass. Nothing you can do if you tripped knox.
After doing OEM unlock in developer options, did you confirm in the menu right before entering download mode?
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Just like the title says
Do you guys think the ATT S6 Edge variant would be root able? I'm trying to decide if I should just over to T-Mobile and have less coverage for a more friendly rom experience or stick with ATT and pray to the gods for root /unlocked bootloader.
Have to wait and see if the guys that got their phones today have locked bootloaders. Ive been waiting for someone to confirm this all day
My phone arrives Wednesday, and even if it has a locked bootloader, it can still be rooted (see below, S5 is locked and rooted), but I'm still curious about being able to root this thing.... Has the AT&T Note Edge been rooted? Haven't found anything saying it has yet, so that puts added pressure on finding out about this phone, theoretically
I have my Edge... The recovery log says it is bootloader G925AUCU1AOCE. Isn't that the same as the G4?
Any one been able to validate this yet?
doug0365 said:
Any one been able to validate this yet?
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I can post a screenie if that will help...
Att s6 bootloader
jroyalty7 said:
Have to wait and see if the guys that got their phones today have locked bootloaders. Ive been waiting for someone to confirm this all day
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just to let everyone know that when i went into bootloader it gave me a warning about running custom roms to but the text in the bootloader says this
odin mode red letters
product name sm-g925a
current binary samsung offical
system status offical
reactivation lock on
Secure Download Enabled Blue Letters
knox Warrenty Void 0 (0x0000)
ap swrev: 1
Kernal AP SWREV: 1
dont know if this will tell if the bootloader is locked or not
daphantoms said:
just to let everyone know that when i went into bootloader it gave me a warning about running custom roms to but the text in the bootloader says this
odin mode red letters
product name sm-g925a
current binary samsung offical
system status offical
reactivation lock on
Secure Download Enabled Blue Letters
knox Warrenty Void 0 (0x0000)
ap swrev: 1
Kernal AP SWREV: 1
dont know if this will tell if the bootloader is locked or not
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I dont think it does tell us. But im concerned about reactivation Lock ON!!
raineyland said:
I have my Edge... The recovery log says it is bootloader G925AUCU1AOCE. Isn't that the same as the G4?
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Obviously I meant the S4...j/s
The reactivation lock is set by US when we setup phone. You can turn that off.
Hello guys i would like to ask for a solution for this .. im using twrp recovery and super su to root my phone which it rooted successfully , but my problem is that after i turn off my phone and on again it says "Custom Binary Blocked By FRP Lock" and cannot do anything but to install new firmware..
i really want to root my phone but im afraid it will just turn the same thing frp lock and im tired installing another firmware.
is there another option to bypass the frp for example in Android Device Manager which there is a key to unlock it or in My Samsung Account? other than installing new firmware.
my phone info:
samsung sm-j106b
google account was active while rooting
samsung account was active while rooting
jaguarmoves said:
Hello guys i would like to ask for a solution for this .. im using twrp recovery and super su to root my phone which it rooted successfully , but my problem is that after i turn off my phone and on again it says "Custom Binary Blocked By FRP Lock" and cannot do anything but to install new firmware..
i really want to root my phone but im afraid it will just turn the same thing frp lock and im tired installing another firmware.
is there another option to bypass the frp for example in Android Device Manager which there is a key to unlock it or in My Samsung Account? other than installing new firmware.
my phone info:
samsung sm-j106b
google account was active while rooting
samsung account was active while rooting
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Did you enable oem unlocking? On most Samsung devices enabling oem unlocking removes frp lock.
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RealWelder said:
Did you enable oem unlocking? On most Samsung devices enabling oem unlocking removes frp lock.
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yes before i root my phone i enable oem.. and after i succesfully rooted it i disabled it .. which i think cause the frp lock
jaguarmoves said:
yes before i root my phone i enable oem.. and after i succesfully rooted it i disabled it .. which i think cause the frp lock
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Yep. Gotta keep it disabled.
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Yep. Gotta keep it disabled.
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oh wait .. so you mean before i root my phone i should disable the oem?
jaguarmoves said:
really?? omg thanks for this info
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Do you feel better now? Good luck with your phone.
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Do you feel better now? Good luck with your phone.
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no man im not satisfied yet i need to do some research before applying this thanks for the time :good:
I have the same problem here
my device G6100 with U5 securty and I don't have oem
but after root when I add google account and restart the device it lock custom kernal and recovery and boot with frp lock I need help
I know that there are a lot of the missing OEM Unlock posts, but this isn't about how to force it to appear.
What I would like to know is that if I want to stay on the stock ROM, but I don't have the OEM unlocked option, would I be able to factory reset to clear out encryption and then root with Magisk?
The guide says that I need to have OEM unlocked to be able to root, so I'm curious what would happen if I tried to root with the OEM still being locked? Would I soft brick it?
This is quite different from the other phones I've used and it's extremely frustrating that Samsung decided to pull this kind of bs on everyone and so far, there's no solution to it.
Thanks
If the OEM switch is not visible and switched on, then you cannot flash any non-official binaries, which means you can't flash TWRP or Magisk, which at this point means you can't get root. That's why everything boils down to the OEM switch being enabled. Please contact Samsung expressing your dissatisfaction about this OEM issue. All of us should, until they react to remedy this.
If we can get to fastboot, why can't we boot TWRP, install Supersu/magisk and dm-verity thus gaining root.
This wouldn't replace the stock recovery.
I believe this was how the Axon 7 was rooted prior to bootloader unlock being presented/found.
I do this on one of my phones (not Samsung) as I only want root access and still be able to get OTA updates.
Would booting TWRP instead of flashing it trip Knox and would root be gained or would you find the boot partition or other system files be altered and you get the error that seems to popping up on these devices?
Just throwing this out there as food for thought.
ultramag69 said:
If we can get to fastboot, why can't we boot TWRP, install Supersu/magisk and dm-verity thus gaining root.
This wouldn't replace the stock recovery.
I believe this was how the Axon 7 was rooted prior to bootloader unlock being presented/found.
I do this on one of my phones (not Samsung) as I only want root access and still be able to get OTA updates.
Would booting TWRP instead of flashing it trip Knox and would root be gained or would you find the boot partition or other system files be altered and you get the error that seems to popping up on these devices?
Just throwing this out there as food for thought.
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Having an unlocked bootloader is what would allow us to use fastboot to boot or flash an image. Just because we can access fastboot, doesn't mean we can get it to write to partitions, even temporarily. I haven't messed with a Samsung phone for years, so I could be wrong. This has been my experience with google bootloader in general.
fragtion said:
If the OEM switch is not visible and switched on, then you cannot flash any non-official binaries, which means you can't flash TWRP or Magisk, which at this point means you can't get root. That's why everything boils down to the OEM switch being enabled. Please contact Samsung expressing your dissatisfaction about this OEM issue. All of us should, until they react to remedy this.
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From what I did read from other threads, if you don't see the option in the Developer Option Settings, then you shouldn't need to enable it
77Eric77 said:
From what I did read from other threads, if you don't see the option in the Developer Option Settings, then you shouldn't need to enable it
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I was reading about this as well and what I got from that was in regards to custom roms, the oem unlock option is default to unlock and hidden. but for the stock rom, it's locked by default unless visibly given the option. otherwise when you go into download mode, it'll show FRP Lock: On.
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di11igaf said:
Having an unlocked bootloader is what would allow us to use fastboot to boot or flash an image. Just because we can access fastboot, doesn't mean we can get it to write to partitions, even temporarily. I haven't messed with a Samsung phone for years, so I could be wrong. This has been my experience with google bootloader in general.
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Ah, but if I want to just root and nothing else, would I still need to have the bootloader unlocked? I'm used to rooting stuff but the technicalities and mechanics of the process escapes mr.
my hope is to atleast root the stock rom and factory reset including wiping the internal sd to start fresh. but if I factory reset on a stock rom, the internal storage would still be encrypted right?
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mputtr said:
Ah, but if I want to just root and nothing else, would I still need to have the bootloader unlocked? I'm used to rooting stuff but the technicalities and mechanics of the process escapes mr.
my hope is to atleast root the stock rom and factory reset including wiping the internal sd to start fresh. but if I factory reset on a stock rom, the internal storage would still be encrypted right?
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This is why I want to know if we can boot TWRP. It boots TWRP but leaves the stock recovery.
However, I'm not sure if the boot image is altered when flashing root. I know Magisk seems to alter the boot image but not sure if SuperSU does.
Would this trigger KNOX?
If it does trip KNOX, it's not worth booting into TWRP, might as well just bite the bullet and install but only if bootloader is unlocked 1st... Too expensive to just brick it for an experiment...
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This is why I want to know if we can boot TWRP. It boots TWRP but leaves the stock recovery.
However, I'm not sure if the boot image is altered when flashing root. I know Magisk seems to alter the boot image but not sure if SuperSU does.
Would this trigger KNOX?
If it does trip KNOX, it's not worth booting into TWRP, might as well just bite the bullet and install but only if bootloader is unlocked 1st... Too expensive to just brick it for an experiment...
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personally I don't care about knox. I just want to be able to root and restore my apps so I can transfer my stuff from my s7 to the note 8 and freeze all the bloatware like touchwiz and stuff.
from what I gleaned from reading the threads is magisk makes a copy of the boot image as a backup.
but again I just want root and I can wait for a longer term solution in how to fix this moronic 7 day jail bs.
but I think knox will get tripped the moment you root
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mputtr said:
I was reading about this as well and what I got from that was in regards to custom roms, the oem unlock option is default to unlock and hidden. but for the stock rom, it's locked by default unless visibly given the option. otherwise when you go into download mode, it'll show FRP Lock: On.
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I didn't have OEM option as well (FRP lock was ON), I just followed me2151 guide but I was getting the partition error, so in first part I also added BL and after that everything went smoothly.
KNOX wasn't tripped, it's rooted as of this moment and tomorrow I will be installing custom rom.
PS: And yes it was an experiment but I was willing to take the risk because after reading half a day about no OEM option in developer options everyone was saying if it's not there you don't need it, I wasn't 100% sure but I was 98% sure I'm not going to brick it. btw I'm using Telus N950W note8 (locked)
I think you might want to be careful on that. I'm not sure who "everyone" is but the others like Dr.Ketan did not even recommend rooting without unlocking the option first and it seems to me that the general gist of the other thread (the 150+ page thread) was that you need it explicitly unlocked.
The ones who talked about not seeing the option means you probably don't need it are talking about custom roms (like renovate) that purposefully hid the option since it's already defaulted to unlocked on that rom.
I haven't used any custom roms yet, but that seems to be what I'm reading.
77Eric77 said:
I didn't have OEM option as well (FRP lock was ON), I just followed me2151 guide but I was getting the partition error, so in first part I also added BL and after that everything went smoothly.
KNOX wasn't tripped, it's rooted as of this moment and tomorrow I will be installing custom rom.
PS: And yes it was an experiment but I was willing to take the risk because after reading half a day about no OEM option in developer options everyone was saying if it's not there you don't need it, I wasn't 100% sure but I was 98% sure I'm not going to brick it. btw I'm using Telus N950W note8 (locked)
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just following up. Were you able to root and flash a custom rom with OEM Unlocked checked after all?
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mputtr said:
just following up. Were you able to root and flash a custom rom with OEM Unlocked checked after all?
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I was able to root it but the boot loader is still locked. It's faster without the bloatware and what not. KNOX is disabled. There is still no twrp and custom rom for Snapdragon to the best of my knowledge. It did change the model of the phone from N950W to N950U1.
finally got the OEM Unlock option and rooted + stock recovery... i had to restart my phone to bring my android ID back to the one I always used.. and got locked out...
so 7 more days for me. And all I wanted to do was to have Titanium backup up and running so i can transfer my phone over....
i am hating what samsung has done
Hi everyone..
Bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 SM-T510 online... I believe that this tablet is from an Online News Subscription. The previous owner decided not to renew the contract and the devices got locked.
Is there any way for me to re-use this device? any way to bypass the lock of re-set it. thanks...
mikel2006 said:
Hi everyone..
Bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 SM-T510 online... I believe that this tablet is from an Online News Subscription. The previous owner decided not to renew the contract and the devices got locked.
Is there any way for me to re-use this device? any way to bypass the lock of re-set it. thanks...
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I don't know if I could answer your question, but have you read this both comments:
OEM vs Bootloader lock.
The guide to unlocking the bootloader on the newer Samsung tablets seems to cause confunsion about what the OEM Enable switch does. First of all, the OEM switch has no direct bearing on the Bootloader lock. That switch has been around for quite...
forum.xda-developers.com
anyway, if you're able to get it running, be aware to *NOT* update the Tab to the lastest stock rom (5BUC4)
cause your are then unable to flash stock rom lower the 5 what is sometimes needed to flash custom rom's based on 4.
mikel2006 said:
Hi everyone..
Bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 SM-T510 online... I believe that this tablet is from an Online News Subscription. The previous owner decided not to renew the contract and the devices got locked.
Is there any way for me to re-use this device? any way to bypass the lock of re-set it. thanks...
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The previous (and current) owner of the device, is the Online News co. The subscriber that was using the device was merely "renting" it. I doubt seriously if you can find a way to bypass their lock without their permission. It probably has a proprietary bootloader, just like a phone that is locked by the carrier.
is there any way to flash a custom ROM that will reset / remove the lock?
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is there any way to flash a custom ROM that will reset / remove the lock?
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No. In order to flash anything, you have to enable Developer Mode. And if you can't get past the lock, you can't enable it.
mikel2006 said:
is there any way to flash a custom ROM that will reset / remove the lock?
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I would try to get in contact with company of the News Subscription and/or the lastest owner of the device.
if the company is able to lock the device, they're able to unlock it.
maybe another way (maybe !):
I would try to flash @Magendanz TWRP recovery and then format the partition.
I'm no expert, but I doubt that there is an additionally lock on top of Samsung, google, ..., what-so-ever .
I guess the lock is in software somewhere, but you gave to few info's of your device, e.g. what you're able to do and what not.
Why I'm thinking TWRP is installable (if the requirements for this are fullfilled !):
I mistakenly flashed the lastest FW with binary version 5.
All my attempts to flash a custom rom where denied cause a downgrade of the bootloaders binary from 5 to 4 was involved.
But I was able to flash the above TWRP and could format partitions and more.
Obviously the bootloader wasn't touched doing so...
and with TWRP installed I was able to flash CaOS.
Obviously it doesn't care what stock binary version was installed.
Have you already read all the stuff regarding "unlock" and such ???
are you able to get Developer Mode ???
Hi all,
Is there a way to root the zenfone 8 without tripping knox? Reading about the ramdump issues has made me want to keep the device in a state that I can reverse and send back if need be (at least for a while).
Cheers
Knox in an Asus phone? It's a Samsung thing.
There is no KNOX.
But if you unlock your bootloader - then ASUS will receive your s/n of motherboard and you will loose your warranty permanently. I heard that in some EU countries it should'n be a problem, but personally I have never had such law practice.
So wait for other replies or contact your area ASUS support.
Ah, okay thanks. Am I correct in thinking there is no root that can be done without unlocking bootloader and flashing a patched boot img? Sorry if these are silly questions, it has been a while for me!
lilfellabob said:
Am I correct in thinking there is no root that can be done without unlocking bootloader
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That is correct. From what I understand; without an unlocked bootloader, nothing regarding boot images or system files are accessible.
Since Android 6 'regular' rooting requires an unlocked bootloader. There are exploit solutions like Kingoroot, which maybe still might work (not sure a bout this), but the problem with these dubious tools is, that you don't know what they really are doing, and how they possibly modify and monitor your phone and data from then on..
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Since Android 6 'regular' rooting requires an unlocked bootloader. There are exploit solutions like Kingoroot, which maybe still might work (not sure a bout this), but the problem with these dubious tools is, that you don't know what they really are doing, and how they possibly modify and monitor your phone and data from then on..
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Okay, thanks. Yeah, I don't think I want to travel down that road!