World First Galaxy S7 Qualcomm Root

[meraz9000]

well here's some proof of concept of my successfully rooted Galaxy S7 Edge. There's still lots of bugs but most root apps work.

Suck it Samsung

No ETA yet..

 

[eminem5055]

This is awesome! The future is looking brighter already.

 

[stevessvt]

Hasn't root been out for Exynos versions for a while now? If this is a SD820 version then awesome.

 

[meraz9000]

Hasn't root been out for Exynos versions for a while now? If this is a SD820 version then awesome.

SM-G935P...Sprint Qualcomm

 

[androfanatic]

Wow...this is amazing.....YOU ROCK Sir.....

 

[Nv1dia]

I think you should probably inform people of whether or not this method your working on requires no OTA to have been taken. I know a lot of people have been holding off, and other have been upgrading ASAP

 

[DarkFlasher]

I think you should probably inform people of whether or not this method your working on requires no OTA to have been taken. I know a lot of people have been holding off, and other have been upgrading ASAP

This is true. I literally gave up on hope for root two days ago and took the plunge. Fingers crossed! It's great to know that there are devs that go above and beyond to bring us root!

 

[rdeets]

Is this just root or did you actually get the bootloader unlocked? Don't get me wrong, root by itself would be amazing, but I dream of being able to slap an AOSP ROM on this device.

 

[hella356]

I've been looking to replace my 3 year old, battered, yet trusty and still excellent S4, and the S7 has been the only worthy phone which checks enough boxes in terms of features and physical size, but without root I won't do it. Perhaps Samsung will be getting some business from me after all. Ideally, unlocked bootloader would be the preference, but rooted stock will give me enough of what I need. Any idea if this would work on the standard, non-Edge S7?

 

[brendan802]

F@ck yeah looking great

 

[meraz9000]

Still locked bootloader

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[csimms]

should this be able to work on the tmobile variant?

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[canynballa]

Still locked bootloader

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Does the locked bootloader effect the phone after root?

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[OuncE718]

should this be able to work on the tmobile variant?

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It will be able to work later on since both the Sprint and T-Mobile variant share identical hardware.

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[treepog]

Holy sh** you are awesome!!!!!!

I am sprint s7 not edge and i have taken zero updates cant wait!

 

[gilbertoperezx1]

Looks great we now have hope getting root on this awesome phone?

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[Netconn]

Root would be good enough for me. I don't really care about loading ROM's at this point. S7 has been sitting in the box since I got it, waiting for root.

 

[brendan802]

Finally looks like good things are coming. Much appreciated and looking forward to rooting my s7

 

[Binary100100]

I'm still a bit skeptical but to be honest at least he's given some kind of proof. We shouldn't be bugging him for any information since we all know that Samsung is reading and doing everything that they can to stop this from happening. Let's keep it on the down low and just wait to see what gets developed. I would like to know if Samsung Pay still works, if we can flash a custom recovery, if root sticks after a reboot, etc but if the OP reveals too much... Samsung might get wise. Smartest thing here is to keep it to a small group for testing and then go from there. Rest of us just need to be a little patient.

 

[modoggs]

It will be able to work later on since both the Sprint and T-Mobile variant share identical hardware.

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Is there a chance that it will work on the vzw variant?