Root Now possible-U.S. carrier S7 models have locked bootloaders and no rooting

Willie0325 said:

Just find it in the most correct developer page, xda-developers.com

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1. Hi all! I just got a galaxy s7 edge like a month ago. And I bought the phone outright from a friend for get this! $300! I know that was a great deal for that phone! But he is a good friend! So I'm not on a device plan. Now my phone carrier plan is prepaid verizon plan. So I'm with verizon. So since I fully own the phone. It's my phone. So I should be able to do what I want with my phone? So I want to root it. I'm fully aware of the risks of rooting a phone? And that it voids the warranty. But first of all? There are some factory apps on my phone that I want to uninstall? I don't care if samsung wants them to stay on the phone? I own the phone! Samsung don't own my phone. I do! So I tried and tried and tried to root my phone over the last few days? With no avail? Then I find out that I have to unlock the bootloader? And well I have to say that this is bs! Why is samsung like this? When I own this phone? So I would appreciate it if anyone here could give me advice on how to accomplishing rooting my phone? Now also I don't have a pc? But I may be able to use a friend's pc to root my phone? But I would prefer not to have to use a pc to root my phone? Thanks! God bless you all!

Hadron said:

If you are interested in rooting you should actually prefer to use a PC: on any phone that's the cleanest and safest way. But preferences are pretty irrelevant now, since the security holes those "rooting apps" used have been closed in the last few versions of Android, so if it's possible at all with your phone I'm sure it will need a PC.

As for locked bootloaders, if you read the earlier posts you'd know that it's down to the carriers rather than Samsung. I advise you not to waste your effort arguing with Verizon (or Samsung) that it's your phone so should be unlocked: the carrier sold it to your friend with a locked bootloader, and if your friend sold it on to you then that's between you and him/her, and you'll get nowhere with that argument.

If it's bloatware you are concerned about there is a package disabler app for Samsung phones (mentioned 2 posts above yours) that doesn't require root. You can find it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ospolice.packagedisablerpro

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Hadron said:

If you are interested in rooting you should actually prefer to use a PC: on any phone that's the cleanest and safest way. But preferences are pretty irrelevant now, since the security holes those "rooting apps" used have been closed in the last few versions of Android, so if it's possible at all with your phone I'm sure it will need a PC.

As for locked bootloaders, if you read the earlier posts you'd know that it's down to the carriers rather than Samsung. I advise you not to waste your effort arguing with Verizon (or Samsung) that it's your phone so should be unlocked: the carrier sold it to your friend with a locked bootloader, and if your friend sold it on to you then that's between you and him/her, and you'll get nowhere with that argument.

If it's bloatware you are concerned about there is a package disabler app for Samsung phones (mentioned 2 posts above yours) that doesn't require root. You can find it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ospolice.packagedisablerpro

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Hadron said:

No, disabling won't delete, but bloatware that is pre-installed lives in a different partition so removing it won't give you any more space (the partition your stuff lives in won't get larger just because there is more free space in the system partition).

If you can uninstall any updates to the bloatware apps and clear their data that will recover as much space as you would get by uninstalling them. Then disabling will prevent them storing more data or updating again (updates to system apps do use the same space as your own apps).

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Part of the way said:

Yea that's another thing I want to do? I don't know if it's possible on a smart phone like on a pc? But I would like to partition the phone hard drive? To put a restore for the phone is on the partition?

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Part of the way said:

I meant the phone os

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Part of the way said:

That way if I did get maleware virus? I could delete the whoke os? And restore the os stored on the partition? Or I could back up the os on an SD card? If either of those things are possible to do?

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