Do not take APH1 Update!

[FoxyDrew]

After taking the APH1 update on my phone, I can no longer downgrade to PG5, and I also can't flash the PG9 U firmware. I don't know what Samsung/Verizon did, but it's ridiculous.

I'm now stuck on the APH1 firmware and can't get on the U firmware at all.

I haven't tried rooting, but there is no Odin firmware for APH1 yet, so I'm not going to try until there is, so that if I mess up my phone I can fix it.

 

[DarkMidnight]

After taking the APH1 update on my phone, I can no longer downgrade to PG5, and I also can't flash the PG9 U firmware. I don't know what Samsung/Verizon did, but it's ridiculous.

I'm now stuck on the APH1 firmware and can't get on the U firmware at all.

I haven't tried rooting, but there is no Odin firmware for APH1 yet, so I'm not going to try until there is, so that if I mess up my phone I can fix it.

It probably incremented the bootloader. I upgraded to it because I am just losing interest in root all together. Somebody will chime in with a more technical explanation.

 

[nynativ]

It probably incremented the bootloader. I upgraded to it because I am just losing interest in root all together. Somebody will chime in with a more technical explanation.

Agreed. For some reason I just don't really care about rooting the S7. Maybe I've just rooted too many phones and lost interest.

 

[Illogi.xbone]

Agreed. For some reason I just don't really care about rooting the S7. Maybe I've just rooted too many phones and lost interest.

For me a lot of it is this is not the most conventional root, not very stable for me and battery life suffered a lot compared to stock, and flashing U firmware has not been very cooperative for me.

 

[JediDru]

So thoughts.... I am on the latest U firmware on my 930V. Should I consider flashing back to the stock Verizon rom? Everything is working great. I do plan on jumping ship from Verizon in the next year or so. I am blown away at how well this phone runs stock and only flashed the U in preparation to take it to another carrier afterwards. Is this a bad idea?

 

[MArtyChubbs]

Tried to live with root, but the battery and stability was horrible. Now, I am using the engboot to do any data back up or restore tasks in TiBU then flashing the AP again to unroot. Data is maintained, but now I have to live with ads. I use adguard, by it feel like it hurts battery life. Will try and quantify that soon.

Being able to count on my phone to make a call and hold a charge is too important to me. Rooting the phone to set it up after a reset saves me time. Unfortunately, rooting with our current method is too prohibitive for daily use.

 

[abbazaba]

Agreed. For some reason I just don't really care about rooting the S7. Maybe I've just rooted too many phones and lost interest.

Same here.

 

[nrage23]

I have a 930U that I use on Verizon. I use the 930V firmware because I like having visual Voicemail. I have rooted 3 different times and gone back to stock everytime. I suppose it because of the engineering kernel but root with the S7 is just not stable. The battery life sucks and you have to do so many things to fix the lag it has just become not worth it. Also the 2 latest updates from Verizon have been good on battery. I do like not having Verizon logos all over my phone.

 

[craazy82013]

I have a 930U that I use on Verizon. I use the 930V firmware because I like having visual Voicemail. I have rooted 3 different times and gone back to stock everytime. I suppose it because of the engineering kernel but root with the S7 is just not stable. The battery life sucks and you have to do so many things to fix the lag it has just become not worth it. Also the 2 latest updates from Verizon have been good on battery. I do like not having Verizon logos all over my phone.

Give stang5liter rom a whirl. Been on it since it was released and have no issues besides nearby devices not working for me.

 

[torr310]

Give stang5liter rom a whirl. Been on it since it was released and have no issues besides nearby devices not working for me.

Been using the same ROM for almost a week with xposed and everything is fine. I feel great without seeing the ads again. haha! BTW, I didn't try the nearby devices so no comment on that.

 

[dBunny]

I have the G930V and am running APH1 with root no problems. The lag was horrendous but after changing the CPU governor to "interactive" on BOTH CPU's (little and BIG) it's been running smooth. I'll run like this for a bit... but stang5liter looks like it will be my next move.

 

[craazy82013]

Has anyone with ph1 tried flashing another rom such as stang5litre?

 

[bart77]

I have the G930V and am running APH1 with root no problems. The lag was horrendous but after changing the CPU governor to "interactive" on BOTH CPU's (little and BIG) it's been running smooth. I'll run like this for a bit... but stang5liter looks like it will be my next move.

So how did you root if you can't downgrade like the OP stated?

 

[FoxyDrew]

Has anyone with ph1 tried flashing another rom such as stang5litre?

Yes it works just fine.

So how did you root if you can't downgrade like the OP stated?

PH1 doesn't break root. You just can't downgrade to older firmware's or flash any U firmware's. PH1 is still completely rootable.

 

[bart77]

So you can't Odin flash back to a stock image if you get in trouble or want to unroot. I guess I'll stay on PG5 for now.
I'm not rooted now, but was able to disable system update notifications using

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hecorat.packagedisabler

By disabling:
System updates (com.samsung.sdm)
System updates (com.samsung.sdmviewer)
and securitylogagent

 

[dBunny]

PH1 doesn't break root. You just can't downgrade to older firmware's or flash any U firmware's. PH1 is still completely rootable.

Thanks @FoxyDrew for clarifying that... and I agree.

I used the following GUIDE to root APH1 on my S7 Flat: http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-s7-edge/how-to/verizon-root-knox-t3410624

 

[craazy82013]

Im somewhat confused. Your saying you cant downgrade from ph1. Are you talking only with odin? Reason i ask is stang5litre rom is APE1. And as was stated a few posts up, this rom can be flashed on rooted APH1. Which would take you back to APE1. Therefor downgradable? Any help is appreciated.

 

[bart77]

Im somewhat confused. Your saying you cant downgrade from ph1. Are you talking only with odin? Reason i ask is stang5litre rom is APE1. And as was stated a few posts up, this rom can be flashed on rooted APH1. Which would take you back to APE1. Therefor downgradable? Any help is appreciated.

Ph1 upgrades the boot image therefore you cannot Odin flash back to stock pe1 which is the older boot image.

You can still root and flash stang5litre which is the pe1 rom, but you still have the ph1 boot image.

Sent from my VS987 using XDA-Developers mobile app

 

[thefirst__noel]

Ph1 upgrades the boot image therefore you cannot Odin flash back to stock pe1 which is the older boot image.

You can still root and flash stang5litre which is the pe1 rom, but you still have the ph1 boot image. So if something goes wrong, you have no means of recovery back to stock since there is no ph1 stock Odin image.

Sent from my VS987 using XDA-Developers mobile app

The ph1 image is available at this link (http://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model?record=78F84FCD811E11E69B2DFA163EE8F90B). I have flashed with these files and they work perfect.

 

[aromerblz]

Seems bootloader was uograded to version 3. So may be possible to flash between tmo and vzw and vice versa. Both now have v3 bootloader.