Most clearly and completely delivered root instructions I have ever had the pleasure to follow. Your smooth/steady manner of speaking facilitates trust and confidence in the listener. I was compelled to pay my compliments, as well as my thanks to you for a (literally) remarkable experience.
dang i just tried it thinking it was unlocked by just clicking the oem unlock feature and now im stuck in odin on the userdata options no i have to unbrick i believe
Happy to help out :) I will be writing up the article with links and everything tomorrow (afternoon time), but you (or anyone) can reference recent Samsung root tutorials I have on AndroidExplained.com as the process is the same for the Note 10 (just make sure you're downloading the S10 firmware to patch)
I have a few inquiries prior to rooting my device. If I followed the steps shown in the video: Would I lose all the pre-existing data? Would I lose all the essential applications the device comes with i.e, Samsung Health? Would it make my OTA updates any more complicated? Would it pose a threat to the overall security of my device? I am new to rooting and hence would want to make sure everything that I do doesn't screw up my device. Thanks for taking out your time, I appreciate the effort you've put in making this video.
- Yes, all of your data will be initially lost (so backup first) - You will lose some Samsung apps like Samsung Health, Samsung Pay, Secure Folder (more details will be included in the full tutorial that I'll write up today) - Yes, when rooted, you will not be able to download OTA updates normally. We can install these updates with Odin though, so you're still able to update (with a PC) - Rooting always adds a new vulnerability layer onto your phone. but how important this is will depend entirely on how responsible you are. don't install pirated/hacked apps is a good example here as doing so with root could mean you install malware that runs rampant
Yo Im currently rooting my phone and im almost at the finish line. What im currently doing is these activating Magisk but for some reason when pressing those 3 buttons and seeing those 3 images. Im always taken to the recovery mode rather than the phone being booted up
@@ExplainingAndroid Im doing the following 1. Shut down the Galaxy S10 2. Wait a few seconds after it has turned off 3. Then press and hold the Power, Bixby, and Volume Up buttons to turn on the smartphone 4. Continue holding these 3 buttons down during the first 3 boot screens Its what youre doing at 16:33 I mean the phone is not booting up like yours, it just keeps taking me to the recovery mode after flashing the images 3 times when I press this button combination but if I dont it will boot up normally.
@@ExplainingAndroid I get the same result even if I let it go in the very beginning after just having pressed it @EDIT I figured it out. While installing Magisk, I had unchecked the recovery mode off in magisk and I used the firmware AP file instead of the patched one.
PLEASE HELP - when flashing with ODIN ,it gets stuck on system.img ,and wont flash no matter how much time passes. It doesnt fail the flash ,it just remains at that point
have you tried re-downoading the firmware file? join the channel community if you have any additional questions ru-vid.com/show-UCnowc_KHgjVNj3Y-E-oQ8awjoin
you can use this tutorial to find the CSC region code of your specific device - www.androidexplained.com/find-samsung-csc-code/ This way you know which firmware to download (and if it's even rootable)
I just bought an s10 international version. Therefore, i have no clue which firmware to search for. It came off amazon. Security patch is Nov 1st 2019 and i have not updated it at all. I have no data that i'm concerned about. I just want to root this thing. OEM unlocking is turned on. UI 1.1 Android 9 G973FXXS3ASJA - baseband SM-G973F I've done nothing else to the phone apart from turning on OEM unlocking. These tutorials are confusing me. I'm on Exynos and i don't want to update if possible. This also isn't my daily driver, i just want maximum efficiency for running COD mobile. Update: i successfully unlocked the bootloader.
@@ExplainingAndroid Thanks for your reply. Root was successful a few days ago. Now i need a list of safe uninstalls for the phone and my life is complete... at least until the electronic parts age and I'm forced to upgrade again. 😁 Also, i want to note that i can no longer charge the phone while it's off. Plugging it in turns the phone on
Hello can you help me please? i have a galaxy S10 plus with a Android 10 but i just found a firmware on samsumg website for android 11.. i have checked the PDA and CSC number and dont match for same model.. i try update my phone as well and no updates availale..
you can technically switch to a different CSC firmware and the core phone functions will work (just make sure the two versions at least match hardware - snapdragon vs exynos). now, if there are carrier specific apps/features tied to the firmware you're switching FROM, then you will lose those. but whether or not that's the case for you, I can't answer that for example, AT&T, a carrier in the US ships voicemail, account, support, messaging apps tied to its service. if i were to switch from the at&t firmware to another, then I would lose those at&t apps but, I know many people switch to the OXM CSC firmware cause it gets updates faster, or has less bloat? I dunno. I just know there's a popular 'universal' one out there. I just stick with TPA for all of my Exynos phones
Great video. I followed it to the letter, and rooted my S10 plus (SM-G975F).... ...but I've found that the internal storage capacity has fallen from 128GB to ONLY 32GB! (THIRTY TWO). A) Is this meant to happen? B) Has anyone else experienced this?
I've heard of this happening when you only flash the modded AP firmware file. If you flash all 4 files as instructed, it shouldn't change your internal storage numbers at all
@@ExplainingAndroid Thanks for the quick reply. I always flash all the firmware files (BL, CL, CSC, and the patched AP files, together. Never just the patched AP file. I bought my S10 plus 6 days ago, and have spent at least 3 hours each day trying to root it. For me, it's unusable until it's properly rooted. So for nearly a week I've tried every day to root it. I Fail. I put the phone back in the box until tomorrow. I'm still using my old S8 plus, as it's fully customised, and I have loads of Tasker (and associated plugins like AutoTools) projects\profiles for automation. There are so many YT video's on the rooting the S10 series - and just as many contradictions between each one. Some video's actually show the flashing of the patched AP file ON IT'S OWN via Odin. I'm now going to, for the last time today, flash the original SM-G975F Android 9 Firmware, then follow your video again TO THE LETTER. I'll let you know how I get on. Once again, great video. Keep up the good works.
Hey man! It was a very helpful video. But I had one question. I am going to try this out on my J7 Duo. It has physical home button and I know how to get it in the recovery mode. What I am asking is that why do I need to wipe my internal storage? I mean we can just flash a patched boot IMG file too. Also do I need to press the 3 buttons everytime I restart my phone to activate magisk?
What if I wanted to update firmware/security patches and already rooted using this method, how would I go about doing that? Do I lose data? I remember being able to do it on my Galaxy S7 but I had to only flash AP via Odin if I recall correctly.
I'll need to break out the S10 I have laying around, but what changed with the recent update? do you have a link or anything to reports of why it doesn't work on this firmware?
I have Samsung S10 Android 10, and got stuck at around 80% with Odin. The status bar showing "USERDATA. On my phone I am getting "Custom Binary (VBMETA) blocked by OEM lock" in red text. Anyone can help?
Dear Author, Thank you for your amazing videos and I did root my note 10+ using your method and everything works fine. But in magisk manager safety net check gives false in ctsProfile. is it an issue for using? please advise. Samapriya
Noob question , when you say we have to have the boot loader unlock you mean the ability to go to devs options and unlock the bootloader?(oem unlocking ?)
OEM Unlocking is part of the "unlock the bootloader" process. check this tutorial to see exactly how it's done - www.androidexplained.com/galaxy-s10-unlock-bootloader/
Will this work for the Qualcomm snapdragon 855? I've been racking my brain trying to unlock the bootloader but there is no OEM UNLOCK setting! It's driving me INSANE!!!!!!!
Yes and no. The OEM Unlock feature will show up on Snapdragon versions of the S10 series, but only those sold in very few regions (China, and a few latin america countries iirc). The vast majority of them though, are not ever going to have this OEM unlock feature. What does sometimes happen though, is we get an exploit or an engineering kernel leak (a kernel leak is a stock kernel the developers used when building the phone, and they typically allow for Magisk to be installed). It's rare, but it does happen. I'll be sure to write up an article about it on AndroidExplained.com if something ever comes out of for the bootloader locked Qualcomm S10 phones
@@ExplainingAndroid I do the combination of the buttons when i have download finished, but nothing happens and i have returned at the download screen, and after that as i know its impossible to do that again and i need to reroot.
so, it looks like there was a bug with the S10 and Magisk? see this tweet from the developer himself - twitter.com/topjohnwu/status/1313452842993111040 after using this latest version, it may fix the issue you were facing
I can't guarantee that I can find you a solution, but Patreon offers a better platform for dedicated support requests - www.patreon.com/AndroidExplained
sadly no. due to encryption, we need to format the /data partition so that our mod (Magisk) is able to access the data on it join the channel community if you have any other questions ru-vid.com/show-UCnowc_KHgjVNj3Y-E-oQ8awjoin
I always have trouble with oem unlock not being inbdev settings and tried the methods online any tips to getting it my android is from Amazon carrier unlocked
no, you need to manually update it with Odin as shown here - www.androidexplained.com/galaxy-note-10-update-root/ that tutorial is for the Note 10, but the process is the same (just download the S10 firmware and patch it with Magisk before flashing it with Odin and that will update it for you)
Is there a way to root the phone while keeping the information sitting on the device? The reason for me to root is to get access to certain areas of the phone to search for data, so a full reset of the device will undermines such purpose...
The recommended method is to wipe the data. I don't know the specific reason, but it's included in the XDA thread. You can head over there and ask them (they're much more knowledgeable than me). Someone active in that thread may be able to tell you why. The last time I remember inquiring about this there was mention of the internal storage not being reported properly (if you didn't do the factory reset). so, a 128GB device would 'lose' X amount of GB (I forget how many) if you didn't do the reset). that may be the case here too, but I can't say for sure
i need the entire error message, letter for letter. where did you get the error? in odin? on the download mode screen? i need more information to help troubleshoot the issue
you can't. you have to do the factory reset as mentioned. back up your data ahead of time so you can do a restore with something like samsung smart switch
Plz help... does it matter what the build id/ bootloader when you root..? Because cant find any one that matches my region and bootloader??.. Plz help I dont want to break my phone
@@ExplainingAndroid nvm. But the files i downloaded from sammobile, was from another phone operator ... Is it going to work?, I dont want to brick my phone
Yooo man, I wanted to know if this gets back my lost files/Samsung Notes??? The app had an "appcrash" and I lost my important notes, does this get em back??? Or not...🤔🙏
Correct. The only root methods that I'm aware of that doesn't require a PC is thanks to an exploit. You must use a PC to root the Galaxy S10 series of phones using the official method (I'm not aware of an exploit for the phone yet)
An English narrated root video with proper audio and articulation. I thought I was going to drown in all the Indian videos. No offense but those people need to step up their game.
This VolUp+Bixby+Power combination doesn't work for me. :( When I press it shortly it starts a regular system (without Magisk) and if pressed a little longer it goes into recovery mode.
@@ExplainingAndroid the best way i can say it without confusing you is around 16 minutes but without having to press the buttons and have it automatically be rooted after restating phone :) also if i root my phone with this method does small patcher work? I'm trying to play pokemon go from home lol thank you for your time buddy
@@yessir-pi9fz you're more than welcome to try and see how it goes. all talk I've seen about rooting the phone includes the 'press buttons to boot into recovery mode so you can do a factory data reset' step. if your way works. let me know :) if it doesn't work, you can always follow my unbrick/return to stock firmware tutorial and start from scratch
@@ExplainingAndroid i dont have a way i was hoping you knew a way to root without having to press the 3 buttons everytime you reboot your phone lol thank you for your time
@@yessir-pi9fz Oh, I now see what you're talking about. You can flash a custom kernel via Odin to bypass that three-button combination at boot up. Check through XDA's S10 forum. there should be plenty of kernels that offer this feature
This sounds like you installed a version of the firmware that didn't match the one you have. Are you certain you grabbed the correct CSC region/carrier firmware?
@@ExplainingAndroid yes correct region but ı flash current firmware. I guess when ı flash it the imei file deleted becase it is not belong original phone. I need to repair imei but ı dont know how to do this.
