I spent the last 48-72 hours crawling down the android rabbit hole once I found out some beautiful soul had discovered a root option for the SM-G950U v7 bootloader using Nougat. Essentially I had to rewrite the NfcNci.apk but since I’m working with the locked bootloader I have to save the old apk and the new apk to the SD card and use Tasker to essentially swap them out at boot and at shutdown. Leaving the modded apk in the system folder during reboot/shutdown prevents it from working. From there I just needed to setup Tasker to unlock the phone. The only thing is the native Tasker NFC feature isn’t working with the Spark 2. It looks like it’s grabbing different keys everytime I scan or it just wants to open the profile instead of simply unlocking the phone.
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