[RECOVERY][ROOT]TWRP 3.2.3-1 Galaxy A6+/A605

[DJBhardwaj]

Maybe it now works, however it failed to patch correctly last time I tried it.

Great! Thanks for the answer ashyx! I will use the one you provided.

 

[DJBhardwaj]

Hello.
I do not understand. With PIE, Samsung account and PIN LOCK do not work (with OREO it works perfectly).
I installed TWRP without MAGISK, and MAGISK without TWRP and it was always the same problem.
Thank you.

@ashyx Can you please answer this? I have the same question.

 

[ashyx]

@ashyx Can you please answer this? I have the same question.

It seems to be some sort of security measure.For some reason any custom or modified boot image(unsigned) causes the lockscreen settings to be unsaved.
Possibly a patched lockscreen binary is required.
The same issue happens on Gsi's, but a work around was found for that, but this doesn't work on stock Samsung roms.

 

[DJBhardwaj]

It seems to be some sort of security measure.For some reason any custom or modified boot image(unsigned) causes the lockscreen settings to be unsaved.
Possibly a patched lockscreen binary is required.
The same issue happens on Gsi's, but a work around was found for that, but this doesn't work on stock Samsung roms.

What about Samsung account?

 

[ashyx]

What about Samsung account?

Samsung account gets disabled as soon as Knox is tripped.

 

[ShaDisNX255]

I am not a kernel expert, but I remember on the J6 it had the same problem. Kernel devs acknowledged this as a keystore problem or I forgot the name. They fixed keystore stuff on the kernel and then Samsung account and lockscreen pattern/pin/password worked again

 

[ashyx]

I am not a kernel expert, but I remember on the J6 it had the same problem. Kernel devs acknowledged this as a keystore problem or I forgot the name. They fixed keystore stuff on the kernel and then Samsung account and lockscreen pattern/pin/password worked again

I think you maybe getting mixed up with the Bluetooth/WiFi password issue that required patched secure storage binaries to fix.
Unless you can point to a specific thread?

 

[ShaDisNX255]

I think you maybe getting mixed up with the Bluetooth/WiFi password issue that required patched secure storage binaries to fix.
Unless you can point to a specific thread?

No no, I remember before the J6 had a global launch of Pie I took another country's firmware and made a Pie zip.
I used the same old TWRP, stock kernel and a few edits on system, and I remember I had the exact same problem. Pin/Pattern/Password did not work and you could not log in to Samsung account. I could set up the PIN just fine, but whenever I input it, it would always return as incorrect. I'm going to try to find the commit made to the kernel, let me see if I can find it even though I don't know how much of this works xD

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Here we go: https://github.com/ananjaser1211/Helios_7870/commit/f1c62423175f5e5f1b4e27efefc0b0befecb5568

Again, I don't know how much of this works but I know, I am pretty sure I remember that ananjaser was helping me with this Pie build and he named this "Keystore bug" or something lol
But since I don't know much about kernels, I really don't know how all this works xD

 

[ashyx]

No no, I remember before the J6 had a global launch of Pie I took another country's firmware and made a Pie zip.
I used the same old TWRP, stock kernel and a few edits on system, and I remember I had the exact same problem. Pin/Pattern/Password did not work and you could not log in to Samsung account. I could set up the PIN just fine, but whenever I input it, it would always return as incorrect. I'm going to try to find the commit made to the kernel, let me see if I can find it even though I don't know how much of this works xD

---------- Post added at 11:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:35 AM ----------

Here we go: https://github.com/ananjaser1211/Helios_7870/commit/f1c62423175f5e5f1b4e27efefc0b0befecb5568

Again, I don't know how much of this works but I know, I am pretty sure I remember that ananjaser was helping me with this Pie build and he named this "Keystore bug" or something lol
But since I don't know much about kernels, I really don't know how all this works xD

Great. I'll look into that. Any idea where the original patches came from?

 

[ShaDisNX255]

Great. I'll look into that. Any idea where the original patches came from?

No, it was all discussed on Telegram

 

[DJBhardwaj]

Samsung account gets disabled as soon as Knox is tripped.

I didn't know that Samsung Account would be disabled as well. I thought only services like Samsung Pay and Secure Folder were affected once KNOX was tripped.

I also went through the comments below yours. I think what @ShaDisNX255 pointed out is worth looking into. Waiting to hear an update from your end. Many thanks!

 

[ashyx]

No, it was all discussed on Telegram

Just been looking into this, but I see all the changes got reverted. Any idea why? Did the changes actually work or cause another problem?

 

[ShaDisNX255]

Just been looking into this, but I see all the changes got reverted. Any idea why? Did the changes actually work or cause another problem?

Well, talking with Anan directly he said because it helped when he was porting Pie to older devices like J5 and J7. But then he noticed it actually did nothing, it seems the keystore issue only affects newer devices that have official Pie, but he wasn't sure exactly why.

 

[DJBhardwaj]

Just been looking into this, but I see all the changes got reverted. Any idea why? Did the changes actually work or cause another problem?

I went through a Galaxy M20 thread and found this comment that was posted recently regarding Samsung account on rooted Pie. Do you think this trick will work for the A6+ as well?

 

[ashyx]

I went through a Galaxy M20 thread and found this comment that was posted recently regarding Samsung account on rooted Pie. Do you think this trick will work for the A6+ as well?

No, tried it on J6.

 

[FuTChY]

So, there is still no way we can root it on Android 9 with samsung features wotking?

 

[pandavova]

So, there is still no way we can root it on Android 9 with samsung features wotking?

Doesn't look like it, there is prolly a higher chance of Android 10 (which is prolly going to be released 2020) working fine then getting a working method for this problem lol

You could also lurk/join the a605x telegram, there is some talk about gsis etc.

 

[FuTChY]

Doesn't look like it, there is prolly a higher chance of Android 10 (which is prolly going to be released 2020) working fine then getting a working method for this problem lol

You could also lurk/join the a605x telegram, there is some talk about gsis etc.

Yeah, that makes sense. I was thinking about that too. Thanks for the Telegram suggestion.

 

[pheraspu]

I went through a Galaxy M20 thread and found this comment that was posted recently regarding Samsung account on rooted Pie. Do you think this trick will work for the A6+ as well?

It works:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-a6/how-to/galaxy-a6-lockscreen-samsung-account-t4010211

 

[pr1jker]

This thread looks like it's dead!
Anyway, once again thanks to all those who helped rooting our device, specially Ashyx!

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