Hi guys,
Recently, I purchased an Unlocked Galaxy Note N7000 at J&R NYC. As there is no unlocked U.S. Model, the O.S. that came was Chinese or Korean. I checked the label behind the battery and I concluded the model was from some Asian country. Ok, after some time the screen along with the digitizer broke and I had to purchase a new one (as Samsung Brazil don't fix models from other countries not even paying for the repair).
I purchased one officially from Brazil that is also a Galaxy Note N7000.
I feel it strange though. I seems slower, the screen sometimes lags when scrolling and I don't remember this lag from my previous one.
The question is, can they have different hardware ? Both are N7000, one from China/Korean and the other from Brazil.
Thank you and best regards,
Amid
I can't say for certain, but I know there are different versions of the firmware for each region which could account for the differences you are observing, at least in part.
If they're both N7000 model than they have the same hardware ( unless one of them is a fake, which i'm sure it is not ). Any differences might be caused by firmware though. You'd have to flash the same stock or custom rom on both of them and then check.
Thank you guys. So, this also implies that the digitizer is the same for both so if I can purchase one digitizer from Samsung Brazil it will work in the other one, correct ?
amidsal said:
Thank you guys. So, this also implies that the digitizer is the same for both so if I can purchase one digitizer from Samsung Brazil it will work in the other one, correct ?
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Yes, you are correct
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hello everyone
i'm getting the galaxy note very soon, i know that the n7000 is the international model, i also searched to see if there is another model and i found the i9220,
i want the international model not any other model (happened to me when i bought the galaxy s ii i9100, and it was replaced with i9100G model), so i called
the salesman and asked him to ask what version does samsung provider in my country sell, he replied that it is the "n700", not n7000, "n700", and said that they may mean the n7000, i searched in google and it seems that "n700" is really there (i couldn't find any picture for it) so my question is what is the difference between these three models? does the n700 even exist? and can i use any of these model's' roms in the other two models?
thanks everyone
Hello darkelfa2,
The Samsung Galaxy Note is called N7000 or i9220.
Those are surely the same.
I've googled but the Galaxy N700 does not exist.
This is a mistake of the salesman.
If you want to go sure, that you're buying the right model, give a look at this:
amazon.com/Samsung-Galaxy-Unlocked-Android-Smartphone/dp/B0061YRDX6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326991931&sr=8-1
Sorry for my bad english...
Schnizel.
thanks for the fast reply,
so, you mean that n7000's roms 100% work on the i9220 and vice versa? is that right?
n7000 = i9220, so yes
i9220 is the prototype of n7000. all galaxy note's that can bought are surely N-7000
but i9220 can be seen as an alternative description/product code.
So, yes all Roms for i9220 ARE working on N-7000 and all N-7000 Roms an a i9220.
xD
darkelfa2 said:
thanks for the fast reply,
so, you mean that n7000's roms 100% work on the i9220 and vice versa? is that right?
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be careful i have a i9220 and it is not a note it does not have an S-pen which is what i wanted in the note, but, as far as the rom's i am not sure about that if they are compatable i would like to know so i can buy an S-pen and try to see if this will work on it
Hello.
I will be traveling to S.Korea on the 18th for a few days and i want to buy a galaxy note. thing is i live in israel and after googling about the device i saw that the korean version has different hardware and may not work in other regions..
plz let me know what can i do or where to buy if its possible for my region
GT-N7000 <--- only this model for Galaxy Note
you can always flash different firmware, depend on your country.
Refer HERE for all GT-N7000 firmware, or check my siggy for any latest firmware for samsung.
aka_katz said:
Hello.
I will be traveling to S.Korea on the 18th for a few days and i want to buy a galaxy note. thing is i live in israel and after googling about the device i saw that the korean version has different hardware and may not work in other regions..
plz let me know what can i do or where to buy if its possible for my region
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I am korean living here in Austraila and my suggest is not to buy it as Korean version of galaxy note is carrier locked !!. They don't have UNLOCKED version at all.
So, don't waste your money and buy international version of note .
Mustang2012, oke i wont buy the korean model but is it possible to buy the international version sim free in korea or they wont even have that model ?
after reading and watching the "screen issue" on the galaxy note i have decided to not buy the device.
aka_katz said:
after reading and watching the "screen issue" on the galaxy note i have decided to not buy the device.
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Issues Like what? Where u read?? Its working fine for me!!
coolcrab said:
Issues Like what? Where u read?? Its working fine for me!!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1336187
Bought a EK-GC110 off Amazon. Stated as "New, not refurbished" but price was more along the lines of a used / refurbished, so I was OK if it arrived refurbished (it did). However, it's a UAE "model".
Any caveats before I get too attached to it? Obviously there's no warranty regardless, but I don't want a month later to find out some feature won't work because it's a UAE model and I'm in the USA (not even sure what would be a problem, but...)
Thanks
wifi version has identical hardware worldwide.
even if someday you find a feature that doesn't work you could just flash the official rom for the US version, but I think the software is the same everywhere too.
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wifi version has identical hardware worldwide.
even if someday you find a feature that doesn't work you could just flash the official rom for the US version, but I think the software is the same everywhere too.
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Hey thanks for the reply. So nothing you can think of that may be 'different' - If I recall there's a few extra wifi channels that the rest of the world has that the USA doesn't - that's fine obviously, I just want to make sure there's not say frequencies this UAE version wouldn't have that the US would. Or some encryption or - I don't even know what else but if it's the same, no problem.
Thanks
I have the same camera.
Im looking to restore it back to factory after root but am not sure what firmware to use. Also, it seems i would benefit from using another regions firmware based on what you said. Is that correct?
Hello!
I've been interested in buying a Galaxy Note 9 for some time, but I'd like a Snapdragon version (from what I can tell by reviews and tests it's better than the Exynos in performance, heat and battery and I don't really want to install custom ROMs, so no problem about the locked bootloader). Today I happened to stumble across an offer on a retail website where a seller just 20 km away from me is offering a Galaxy Note 9 which he says is new and bought from Samsung store in the USA (so I'm assuming it's the N960U carrier unlocked USA version), but he's also stating that it needs to be region unlocked. I've been searching online and I don't really understand what that's all about. I know the first step in purchasing a phone from retail is asking for the IMEI, but what can I exactly do with it? Does it provide the phone's exact model? And what does region unlocking imply?
I'd be glad if anyone could help me with this situation, as it's quite a rare chance and I'd be extremely happy to buy it, but I firstly want to be sure I can use it.
Provided it's not CDMA, the GSM bands should be comaptible with my carrier (Orange), or so I think. Any information is much appreciated.
Thanks and have a great day!
Hello, Actually I'm residing in South Korea and I bought my phone from Morocco and I can't use Samsung pay neither other contactless payment app here. I already contacted the customer service here they told me to contact the one from where you bought the phone which I did but the service in Morocco told me that they don't have any answer for this problem.
I've read somewhere that's because of the firmware and I should change it to the country I'm in. I have a Samsung galaxy s10 SM-G973F (international version) and my question is would I have any problems if I install SM-G973N(Korea version) firmware on my phone (same processor Exynos 9820) ? and is it going to solve the problem ?
Thank you!
Hey, no expert here or anything just my 2 cents. I found a Reddit article that asks a similar question. Their Exynos device was in the US but Samsung Pay wouldn't work for them either. The comments seem to point to a change in the CSC needing to match the local region. You can read the article here. For the OP of that question they were hopelessly stuck because there is no US firmware for the Exynos version. You may have better luck since there is a version for your location.