Ok so i'm rather new at all this but i was able to follow all of the steps posted for rooting the G982A with a V5 bootloader and i believe everything has worked successfully, but i'm running into some problems that im not sure how to fix, if the need to be fixed, or is even possible to be fixed. I'm really sorry if all of this stuff is to be expected and im fretting over nothing but i'm fairly new like i said.
So for one, Apps cant gain root access and SuperSU keeps popping up a prompt that says "SU Binary occupied" when i click "how to solve" the website pops up a 502 bad gateway. Also googleing the problem told me to go into settings and try to reinstall superSU and after clicking that option it just sits on "uninstalling" for about 20 minutes without doing anything after which i closed it. i tried to uninstall it from apps but i only have a "disable" option. I have also tried the Switch superuser app" option to the same result. -this may be related but xposed framework version 89 is active, but says there is an update available but upon trying to download it i get "there was a problem parsing the package". there is a line at the bottom of the log 'cannot load any modules because ....... modules.list was not found' not sure if related or not.
Second, before rooting i made a backup of my phone on both google drive and samsung cloud however my phone was running android 9.0 and this root downgraded me to android 7.0, i'm seeing a lot of things on google saying i can't restore backups from newer versions, am i really SOL? Is there any way to update to a newer version of android and keep root, or is that impossible? Also im rooted, can't i just spoof my android version number to at least get my damned messages back? I don't even have the "cloud and backup" option in my settings menu, there is nothing listed in my settings that have a 'restore' option anywhere, even third party apps cant get my backup data off google drive.
OH and third, the Build number shows "2ARA1" when i used the V3 files from page1, is this normal? I find it very strange that the baseband and build numbers don't match.
I'm going to be attaching my about phone menu as well and hopefully that will be usefull to someone