- Hey guys, David from The Unlockr here.
Today I'm gonna show you
how you can root the Snapdragon version
of the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 Edge.
What that means is essentially all of the US models.
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So even though we have root for the Snapdragon models,
we can't flash customer recoveries or ROMs,
but that doesn't mean that we can't still enjoy root access
and that it's not worth it.
There is a couple of really cool scripts
that you can install right after rooting
that will debloat it,
get rid of all of the crappy software on it
that you don't need,
and anything that can be downloaded from the Play Store,
it will also remove that as well
so that you can choose to download it.
What a concept.
It also has optimizations in it
and it does a bunch of other really cool things.
For a list of everything, check out that video
after you're done with this one.
Besides that, you can also install Xposed,
which is a really cool system
for creating a lot of customizations
within your STOCK ROM
without having to flash a custom one.
So still probably worth it.
Up to you though.
If you are interested though, here's how to do it.
Okay, before you begin, this will erase your phone,
so be sure to backup anything that you might need.
I'm gonna use a Windows computer for this.
The programs that we need, like Odin, are Windows only,
so you probably need a Windows computer.
So this will give you root access,
but you're not gonna be able to flash a custom recovery
or custom ROM.
It's just not something that works
on the Snapdragon devices.
If you have an XnOS device,
there's a different method to root those
and that will allow you to do that.
It's just the Snapdragon ones we can't do that with yet.
It doesn't mean that there's not still though
cool tweaks that you can do once you have root access,
as well as use Xposed Mod to customize the phone.
It's actually pretty cool.
Next, just make sure that the Secure Boot in Settings
under Lock Screen is disabled,
or it will cause a big problem.
Now the first thing we need is we need the Samsung drivers,
and we need to set up ADB.
So first we're gonna click on those drivers
on the link beneath this video.
Click that as well, and save that to your computer.
Once it's done we can open that
and right click and extract all.
Once that's done, we can double click that EXE file
and follow the prompts to install the drivers.
After that we can click on
the How to Setup ADB tutorial link
I have here underneath the video on my site.
It takes two seconds to do.
I have a video in case you need it,
but it's basically just downloading this link here.
We're gonna do that and follow all of the prompts
to install it on our computer.
It takes about 60 seconds.
After that, we can download Odin
and save that to our Desktop.
We're also going to need to extract that
so that we have our Odin file inside.
Then you're gonna download
the rooted boot image for your device.
For any Galaxy S7 Snapdragon version,
you're going to click this link.
For any Galaxy S7 Edge Snapdragon version,
you're going to download this link.
So I have the S7 Edge, I'm gonna do that, and save that.
It will be a TAR file,
which actually looks like an archive
that sometimes Windows wants to extract.
Do not extract it.
Leave it as a .tar file.
Okay, on the phone we're gonna need to go to Settings.
Scroll all the way over to System, About Device.
Scroll down to Build number and keep tapping on that
till it tells you you are a developer.
Then hit Back and tap on the new
Developer options that's appeared.
Scroll down and turn on USB debugging.
And we're also gonna turn on OEM unlock just to be safe.
If it asks you for your PIN, put that in as well.
At this point we can plug the phone in via USB.
Okay, we're gonna turn the phone off.
And we're gonna turn it back on
by holding down Volume Down, Power, and Home
all at the same time.
It'll eventually give you this screen.
We're gonna push Volume Up to continue,
and it should be in download mode.
Then we can right click that, Run as Administrator,
and it should open up.
Then we're gonna click the AP button here
and navigate to our .tar file that we downloaded earlier.
Click on that, click Open, and click Start,
and wait for it to flash.
Eventually it will say Pass and the phone will reboot.
You can then exit Odin.
After that, we're going to install SuperSU
by clicking the link beneath the video here
to download the SuperSU installer.
Once that's done we can extract that and we can open that,
and you're gonna double click this root.bat command file,
and wait for it to do its thing.
Okay, then when the phone reboots
we're gonna open the App Drawer,
and we should be able to find SuperSU in there.
Tap that to open it,
and just make sure it doesn't ask for anything.
If it does tell you that the binaries are outdated
and it wants you to update, just ignore it.
Do not click it.
If you do, it could mess this up,
so never update the binaries if it ever asks you to.
And then we can check to make sure we have root access
by downloading Root Checker from the Play Store,
tapping Verify Root.
Should pop up a Superuser request.
We're gonna grant it.
And it should say congratulations, you have root.
You're all set.
And there you go.
You can move onto installing Xposed
and using that for customizing the phone,
or you can click the link below to be taken to my video
on how to debloat the Galaxy S7.
Worth it.
I think you should do it.
If you've gotten this far, you might as well.
Just saying.
But there you go.
If you guys have any issues with this tutorial,
please click the link in the description
to be taken to my site and comment there.
I'll try to help you as best as I can.
At least over there it notifies me when you comment
as opposed to here it does not.
There you go, though.
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and as always, thanks for watching.
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