Rooting Note 8 SM-N950F without wiping data

[WillHouli96]

Rooting Note 8 SM-N950F without wiping data
Is it possible?
And if not possible, how to I restore from backup after the root? Cause I want to keep all my data after the root.
Someone told me that if I restore from backup after the root process, the data will be encrypted, what does that mean? That I will not be able to read or write anything I restored?

Thanks for whomever answers :good:

 

[kradcliffe]

I thought it was using the easy root method (no TWRP) but when I rebooted it had wiped the entire device.

Not possible by the looks of it.

 

[Team DevDigitel]

Rooting Note 8 SM-N950F without wiping data
Is it possible?
And if not possible, how to I restore from backup after the root? Cause I want to keep all my data after the root.
Someone told me that if I restore from backup after the root process, the data will be encrypted, what does that mean? That I will not be able to read or write anything I restored?

Thanks for whomever answers :good:

Unfortunately the samfail process is going to replace the system and when flashing the files will require a full wipe to complete it.

This is just the 1st time to get onto rooted cfw. Once there you can use safestrap twrp and make full backups or you can use flashfire.
Otherwise use smartswitch app and backup data to sd then restore that way, the pc smart switch route is broken once rooted.

 

[WillHouli96]

What if I would backup with Samsung cloud? Or Google drive?

 

[shouren04]

You have Exynos so SamFail is not for your phone. You would be rooting after installing TWRP. Unfortunately TWRP will require you to remove encryption initially which requires formatting the data partition.

What data did you want to backup? Like app data?

Internal storage won't get wiped but if you don't format to remove encryption after installing TWRP you will no longer be able to access it when trying to boot to system. Internal storage is easy to backup, just copy to dekstop or external storage.

To back up app data without root, I believe these days there are a few options now. Check out Helium. I don't have any experience with it but I hear that's a good one for app data backup without root. After you do root & get settled, Titanium Back Up has always worked great for me.