Hi,
I'm going to get a Note 5 SM-N920C.
I'm planning to use it in Germany, because the C variant covers all LTE-frequencies for T-Mobile Germany.
But I'm wondering, which of the many country variants of the firmwares available for the N920C is the best to use in terms of:
- integration of german language
- no preinstalled bloatware/carrier or country specific apps
- and last but not least: which is the most current one that matches my two criterias above.
Thanks
Are you going to root?
Sent from my SM-N920I using Tapatalk
No, I want to use it stock
I purchased one for myself at Doha airport, and been using it with the shipped firmware (OJ5) without any problems in Norway for like 3 weeks now. No carrier junks or anything...This is the first device in long long time, I am actually considering to use without root (i normally root the first day)!
Which country variant is your firmware?
UAE
and what csc version is it? xsg?
I have the UAE variant too and I'm in the United States. I tried a lot of firmwares from the sammobile and what happens is that the rom number will change but the baseband stays the same. However, if you go to the service menu(*#*#2263#*#*), you can choose the bands that are available on the phone.
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Thank you for your advice, so your xsg Firmware is without Carrier- and/Or bloatware?
Yup! This was not bound to any carrier, and i was surprised how much bloatware samsung has reduced compared to Note 4.
Ok, thank you. So I'm going to Flash the XSG version if it's not already preinstalled. Note 5 should arrive by the end of the week.
Related
Hi all, looking to get a Galaxy S, saw this post. Should I wait and see whether they arrive here?
"Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and US Cellular all decided to give their respective versions of the Galaxy S fancy trademarks, but not lil' Cellular South: the regional is just sticking with Sammy's original name for a change of pace. This would also seem to be the closest North American Galaxy S to its European cousin, featuring the standard industrial design and what appears to be a fairly stock TouchWiz load (if you can really call TouchWiz "stock") atop Android 2.1. Oh, there is one nice bonus, though: this version's got an LED flash for the 5 megapixel camera, a feature many variants left out. It includes a 16GB microSD card pre-installed to complement the 2GB of internal storage, and it's available right now for $199.99 on contract after a $50 rebate. Follow the break for the full press release."
hxxp://mobile.engadget.com/2010/11/19/samsung-galaxy-s-hits-cellular-south-for-200
Ken
Verizon's Galaxys S model also comes with with flash so will only be availble on their network, but afaik verizon don't offer a mobile network in the UK??? Best bet is buy an unlocked version on ebay. Also a big thing with the Verizon model is that Microsoft must have paid them some big bugs as the default search widget uses Bing
Also if you look at the image below of verizon "Samsung Continuum a Galaxy S phone" notice the ticker display the only and first phone to ever offer such
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http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/...reList=false&contracTerm=2&deviceCategoryId=1
Hello everyone,
a while ago carrier IQ was detected as a huge privacy problem in lots of Android distributions. Thanks to many developers there are methods to detect it quite easily.
checks with e.g. the voodoo carrier IQ detector say that the Samsung Galaxy Note isn't affected.
However as I detected with the "Androids secret" app (currently on the front page of XDA), there are classes on the device suggesting that carrier IQ is on the Note.
So is the software just not active or is it active and the detector apps are just not able to detect them? Attached is a screenshot of the app "Android secrets" showing the presence of carrier IQ classes on the SGN.
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Does anyone know more about this?
bump for good question. where did you source your note?
I should add: it's stock ROM LB1 DBT, no carrier restriction.
Depending on the model it may or may not have the OTA installed. It might have the firmware installed at the chip level just not the OTA agent, so it doesn't show up wit the detectors. Of course the carrier could simply push an update to install the OTA at any time. They could also remove an agent as well like Sprint did. Great PR move on their part, but putting the agent back is just as easy.
@sanchanim: Thanks for your reply.
Since this is an original Stock ROM without any carrier restriction it is Samsung who put Carrier IQ onto the device. The question is: Is the software just a relict of old times or is it indeed active?
If that's the case, a lot of people are affected (again)..
On my S4 mini I get the firmware for the Three network, since the phone came from Three and so I use the Three firmware. I have ordered an S5 mini and I want to know which firmware I need to download, since presumably it should not be network branded and be a purely virgin S5 mini from samsung. I am checking on here: http://www.sammobile.com The particular one I ordered is SM-G800F.
Can anyone help me with what firmware I would need to download for when/if I need to odin it back to factory firmware?
Thanks
You can use the unbranded firmware from Samsung with evry brand's! But ,if you want the three one (in my opinion stay with unbranded and set the correct apn) just download if from sammobile and flash with Odin. .I'm Italian too,sorry for bad english
matbo said:
You can use the unbranded firmware from Samsung with evry brand's! But ,if you want the three one (in my opinion stay with unbranded and set the correct apn) just download if from sammobile and flash with Odin. .I'm Italian too,sorry for bad english
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Yes, but I am not sure which one. There are specific 3 letter acronyms for different things like H3G or . I do not know which firmware I would download.
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Are you saying I would need to get the EE network's firmware? I am confused. What is EVR?
Can someone help me with explaining this? I am hoping my S5 mini will arrive tomorrow or next day. I would like to make a new S5 mini folder and get everything ready.
Hi I bought the s20 Fe(SM-G781U1) from the United States through a friend as I wanted the Snapdragon variant of the phone. I currently reside in India and I'm having network issues with my local sim provider not to mention the lack of call recording features the Indian s20 fe enjoys. Recently samsung has launched 5G Snapdragon varaint in India as well. I was hoping get some guidance and help from the forum on how to switch the ROM to the Indian Snapdragon variant. Thank you!
You can't flash a different ROM on your phone. Get rooted with Magisk, install edxposed, there's modules that can enable call recording features. Info is out there in the forums here. Use search.
he bought an American version of the phone so (currently) he'd need to pay someone running a bootloader unlock service before he could root it.
it might be worth contacting Samsung about your problem if you can prove the sale with a receipt. they might take mercy on you and arrange for it to be flashed to Indian firmware, no guarantees but worth trying. find out from your network which frequencies you need with them. I've never tried it but back in the day there was some method thru which you could activate frequencies
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maybe one these dialer codes can help, I'm not gonna pretend to know what they mean.
copied from Quora "you can try *#*#4636#*#* dial this and go to phone settings(phone info or 1st option ) then select on three dot at right upper corner there you will find find radio frequency option select on it and choose any.may be it work because smartphone itself decide better frequency you can choose it"
I purchased a Samsung Galaxy FE unlocked, in Mexico, from a legitimate seller (Amazon). Of course, I was aware of the 4G only and Exynos processor situation, but still, it was fine for my regular needs.
The S20 FE was wrapped in the original sealed packing, so it looked well. However, when I opened it, the charger was not American type but European. That was weird... I initialized the phone and was fine. I started to install all my stuff, but when I tried to configure Samsung Pay, it said that the service was not supported on my phone (see picture 1).
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It was wrong because, in Mexico, we have Samsung Pay. So I did some research, and I found that my phone was from Chile looking at the service provider software version (see picture 2).
The CHO code is for Chile.
Since asking for a phone change will take a long and, besides that, the phone works fine, I prefer to change the service provider software version to a Mexican one. Is it possible to do that? If so, does it make my phone "Mexican", so I can use SamsungPay? Please let me know.
¡¡Gracias!!
did you find any solutions?
It is totally possible to just download the correct firmware and flashing it with Odin, should hopefully fix problems like this. The OP was right, the phone was grabbing Chilean CSC and applying its regional configurations.
@abaceromx21 boot into download mode and take a look at the Knox counter.