Chainfire, one of the legendary names in Android aftermarket development and maker of the popular root access manager app SuperSU, took to his Google+ account to say that SuperSU will have problems with the way Samsung has coded the kernel of the new Galaxy Note 7. SuperSU, through some good work on the side, is working with the Note 7, but is not without problems.
Here is what Chainfire had to say about the issue:
“As isn’t uncommon with Samsung, they’ve built-in some new (and arguably ineffective to actual exploits) protections directly to the kernel code, that cannot be turned off by just modifying the boot image ramdisk. This time, they’ve decided to kernel panic in case a ‘priviliged’ process (uid or gid below or equal to 1000, so this includes root and system processes) creates another process that isn’t stored in /system or rootfs. SuperSU itself does this, but so do a great many root apps. Any time this happens: immediate reboot.”
This issue also manifests itself in the Samsung Galaxy S7, which is very close to the Note 7 in terms of kernel code. So far, Chainfire’s popular rooting app CF-Auto-Root has not been successful in achieving root access to the Note 7, so Chainfire has said that he will stop development until he can get a unit for testing, as the Note 7’s release has been delayed in some countries.
Chainfire says that the long term usage of SuperSU in the Note 7 depends on how Samsung reacts and pushes software updates to the current process that the working SuperSU does. If you want to try SuperSU for the Note 7, you can look at the official XDA thread here.
SOURCE: XDA
Root is dying… I wish they would just release developer editions of the phones, but the fact is as more and more feature get integrated into the system and will not work with root active, the cell phone companies have won. Now that themes, display scaling, ad blocking, etc are built into the stock software most users will have no need to root anyway…
Personally I only have one reason to even want root… I’M LOOK AT YOU VIPER4ANDROID. Maybe it can be built to not need root access anymore, or maybe Samsung can just buy those guys up and put it on all of there phones!
Not exactly, hell even LG shipped some of their G5’s with unlocked bootloaders. Albeit, there’s a lot more apps that are cracking down on the use of root privileges.