Android ecosystem has evolved so much that any desired feature is available in the form of an app or a tweak. But there are still a lot of fans out there who would like to root their phone to take full control of it and install customs ROMs of future Android versions when the manufacturing company abandons the phone. I run Android marshmallow on my Galaxy S3 with the help of a custom ROM and the official version still lingers on Android 4.3.
Now we are receiving latest reports that the carrier-locked version of the Galaxy S7 has been rooted.
We have seen in the past that the carrier locked phones are the hardest to root but there is a passionate community of hackers and developers who always search for the solution and hardly any company has a chance against them.
The rooted phone is the AT&T version of the Galaxy S7 but the tech experts have pointed out that the root method can technically root other carrier locked S7 phones. The root method is also available for the edge variant of the S7.
“the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, which were both rooted by XDA member br3w3r in collaboration with princecomsy and root legend chainfire. The root method implies flashing “engineered boot images,” a special version of the Odin tool, and knowing your way around rooting methods. It’s not newbie-friendly, in other words, but several users have successfully applied it already.” Android authority reports
Loads of people have successfully rooted their phones and have installed custom ROMs. Check out the Android forums for more details.
But rooting your phone comes at a price. Samsung has mentioned that Samsung pay will be disabled for security reasons and the security measures that Knox has placed will get tripped.
For more information on rooting the S7. Follow this link.