A Few Important Thingsīefore you go ahead and follow the instructions, take a look at some important information below to debrief yourself with the method that will follow. Developer jrkruse further adopted the Extreme Syndicate root method to work on the Snapdragon Note 8. This is the same group that developed the rooting solution for the Snapdragon Galaxy S9, S9+, and Note 9. XDA Recognized Developer elliwigy is the one who found the original exploit and further contributions were made by other members of the team. With the latest bootloader revisions, that is V7 and V8, the old method didn’t work.īut thanks to some talented minds out there, it is now possible to root the Snapdragon Galaxy Note 8 on the latest V8 bootloader. However, the old method used EDL (Emergency Download) mode and was only limited to devices with V5 and V6 bootloaders. In the past, Recognized Contributor jrkruse brought us a rooting method for the Snapdragon Galaxy S8, S8+, and Note 8. And hence, the generic method of flashing TWRP via ODIN and then rooting through Magisk is bound to fail. That’s because, unlike the Exynos variants, the bootloader on the Snapdragon variants is not unlock-able.
We already have a tutorial published on our blog to root Exynos Note 8, and it is much similar to our day-to-day rooting method that involves installing TWRP recovery first and then flashing the Magisk zip via it.īut things are actually very different, and difficult at the same time when it comes to the Snapdragon variant of the phone. Rooting the Galaxy Note 8 Snapdragon Variant
It has been the same since the company launched the S7 and for the Galaxy Note 8 as well in this case. Samsung has been readily processing its flagship devices in two different variants – Exynos and Snapdragon.