Finally root for Verizon Note 5!! (Update: False Alarm)

[Icetech3]

Darn, Does Chainfire still post here on XDA? It would be good to know what this particular autoroot was about. I see since posting about it here last night when there were only 11 downloads of it that it now has 84 downloads. If this storm passes I'll give it a try but the thunder was so close it knocked a picture off my wall so I'm waiting for a better time as a power surge from a lightning strike wouldn't be a good plan while flashing

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Lots of apps on the playstore to show more info about your hardware - I usually use this one: Phone INFO ★Samsung★ from vndnguyen.

Ran phone info. mine is exynos5 on the correct nougat build.. i think something got uploaded to chainfire by accident honestly..

 

[droidzer1]

Ran phone info. mine is exynos5 on the correct nougat build.. i think something got uploaded to chainfire by accident honestly..

It would be good to hear from Chainfire. I would assume he is the only one who can upload to his site but at this point it's all assumptions

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It would be good to hear from Chainfire. I would assume he is the only one who can upload to his site but at this point it's all assumptions

I'm guessing Chainfire is an incredibly busy guy but I did just send him a PM asking if he has any more info on this CF auto root for this VZ Note 5.

 

[Freakyd9984@gmail.com]

So is this download link that was posted will it work on this version of my phone

Sent from my SM-N920V using XDA Free mobile app

 

[Icetech3]

So is this download link that was posted will it work on this version of my phone

Sent from my SM-N920V using XDA Free mobile app

Information is all in the last 2 pages.. and also on the chainfire download link..

Sorry.. in a **** mood.. A: your phone is on 6.0.. b: it doesn't even work....

 

[Freakyd9984@gmail.com]

Information is all in the last 2 pages.. and also on the chainfire download link..

Sorry.. in a **** mood.. A: your phone is on 6.0.. b: it doesn't even work....

I was talking about just updating to Nougat 7.0 I downloaded a tar. File and was just wanting to make sure it's ok to update my phone from Odin with that file

 

[droidzer1]

So is this download link that was posted will it work on this version of my phone

Sent from my SM-N920V using XDA Free mobile app

I believe that would work but until someone confirms the CF auto root works for this phone or what Chainfire has going on with this I'd stick to the ROM you have. You may want to look in over here where it's more likely we will here from Chainfire about this:
https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1980683&page=196

 

[Icetech3]

I was talking about just updating to Nougat 7.0 I downloaded a tar. File and was just wanting to make sure it's ok to update my phone from Odin with that file

Ahh there are alot of links in this thread.. figured you meant the CF one.. sorry

 

[droidzer1]

I decided to try this CF auto root on my BQB1 Marshmallow with Odin. That .tar file is huge - about 300 Megabytes. I let it run for around 5 or 6 minutes and then Odin said 'Fail'. Rebooted and everything was okay - no loss of Apps or data. I used the Odin and the Odin.ini file included with the CF auto root as I could see some settings were different from the typical Odin.ini file. But no luck yet. I am not really wanting to update to Nougat just to try this until I see if anyone else succeeds or we hear from Chainfire what this is about - being that this is one of the only CF auto roots offered for the typical Verizon locked bootloader. Maybe he found some exploit in Nougat that wasn't available in MM but I'd like to know first before updating.

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I was talking about just updating to Nougat 7.0 I downloaded a tar. File and was just wanting to make sure it's ok to update my phone from Odin with that file

As long as you definitely have the SM-N920V phone that should be good to go. Just make sure to check the MD5 of the Nougat download so it matches this: 9fad2bd49f468542a54ffb41047acb97 for N920VVRU3CQB9_Nougat.zip. Free MD5 checkers are easy to find if you don't have one - just Google it.

 

[ramiss]

Mine it rooted with proof

It's been long enough that this guy could have shared his method, or at least offered enough detail to explain it. So I'm calling this a lie.

 

[dourah]

Hi guys,
Someone can help me to get a custom recovery for N920V ? like TWRP or Philz Touch. I have tired to search it since a month. Sorry if am in the wrong thread annd sorry for my bad english too.

 

[Riden44]

Hi guys,
Someone can help me to get a custom recovery for N920V ? like TWRP or Philz Touch. I have tired to search it since a month. Sorry if am in the wrong thread annd sorry for my bad english too.

bootlooder of N920V is locked. Without bootloader unlock we can't flash any recovery.

 

[ramiss]

Maybe we can use this to get control of our phone
https://cybercecurity-mitch-tanenbaum-blog.com/dont-turn-on-wifi-on-your-phone-until-you-patch-it/

Sent from my SM-N920V using XDA-Developers Legacy app

 

[droidzer1]

Maybe we can use this to get control of our phone
https://cybercecurity-mitch-tanenbaum-blog.com/dont-turn-on-wifi-on-your-phone-until-you-patch-it/

Sent from my SM-N920V using XDA-Developers Legacy app

I checked my Note 5, Note 2, Note 4 and a few others with this app ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.vndnguyen.wifichipset&hl=en ) which is made by vndnguyen (a member on XDA) to check for the vulnerability. UNFORTUNATELY - if you read to the end of this thread ( https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/wifi-chipset-info-t3647602/page2 ) you will see that this App apparently fails to check properly for the vulnerability. So FORTUNATELY this might be a way to gain root but I somewhat doubt it.