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SamPWND Brings Root to the Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ Snapdragon Variants
Developers of SamPWND are sharing their resources on how they achieved root for their Snapdragon-based Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+. Read on to know more!
A few days ago, news broke of root status finally being achieved on the Snapdragon variants of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+. The posted news was a progress report on the months of work that culminated in getting root access on the US variants of Samsung's flagship. Unlike their Exynos counterparts who could unlock the bootloader of their devices, Snapdragon-based Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ devices could not do so, leaving them without any real options except waiting on the community to work up its magic.