When I first got my Note8 I flashed the unlocked ATT firmware to get rid of carrier bloat. If the Oreo update is pushed by ATT will I still get it or do I need to revert back the actual ATT firmware?
So you are currently running the U1 XAA firmware?
I'm on the N950U1 US Unlocked. My carrier is ATT. My phone is not factory unlocked just flashed.
Ok, unlocked or not doesn't matter. It's the firmware you're running. If you're on the U1 firmware, then you will get the Oreo U1 update via OTA when it's pushed by Samsung (Not Att) to the other U1 phones.
Ill put a screen shot so you can see. I feel like I'm wrong.
Ok. So being on this firmware even though I bought the phone at ATT I will have to wait for Samsung to push the update? If that's the case I guess Ill see it in a few months from now lol.
Exactly. But I have a feeling it will be pushed approximately the same time as the carrier firmwares.
I'm guessing that ALL S8/S8+/Note8 will have Oreo BEFORE S9/S9+ reach it's first preorder customer.
Samsung has been pushing fairly hard on updates for s8/s8+/note8 on all fronts since beginning of the year and it would just be to embarrassing for the to release the s9 line without the Note getting it before
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I've just purchased a new S6 with the same model number as the T-Mobile version but it's unlocked and unbranded. Does anyone else have this phone and when do you think it may get marshmallow?
www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-galaxy-s6-4g-with-32gb-memory-cell-phone-unlocked-black/4667100.p?id=1219794340074&skuId=4667100
You will get the update anyday now. It would be awsome if you could get a system dump for that firmware youre running. we could reallydo some development witg that and be able to get marshmallow along with you.
I have the same phone, also purchased unlocked though Best Buy. Will we be getting a separate software update from T-Mobile? Once released, how can I get that system dump? I can see how it would be usefull for development. Haven't rooted because I don't want to trip knox and loose warranty. Impatiently waiting on the update. Didn't know if I had to wait for the T-Mobile update to roll out first.
To my knowledge our phone is just a different CSC under the G920T variant... For G920F, which is the international version, mostly European, different CSCs mean different regions and/or carriers. Likewise, for G920T, there are two CSCs: TMO (which is T-Mobile) and XAR (which is our bloatware-free version). That said, if the TMO firmware comes out first, we'll be able to flash it manually with Odin but we'll not receive OTA. The downside is that we'll have to bear with the bloatware until we flash back to the XAR Marshmallow after it's released. As for Knox, as long as we're flashing official stock firmwares from Samsung Knox won't be tripped.
Hey guys...
Just got a used note 8 and I flashed it to Android pie with one ui (N950USQU5DSD3). Now the problem is that I can't update the phone via OTA. When I click software update its sticks at "registering device" with a spinning circle. Now I suspect that it's a U950W (my friend said it was locked with Bell and unlocked after the the plan ends). Now on sammobile.com the lastest firmware for note 8 (N950U) is N950USQS5DSF5. And I don't want to flash back to the Canadian version (n950w) because it doesn't get update as often as the n950u or n950u1 and it comes with a lot of Bell bloatware.
So for me to get a OTA without any bloatware, which version should I flashed?
Many many thanks.
Please excuse any mistakes I make as this was my first time flashing firmware. So anyway, I have a Verizon S10. I got tired of Verizon’s bloat and all the missing stock features so I flashed the Unlocked Firmware from Sammobile. As I had no prior experience, I did research and came to download the latest U1 firmware with the XAA CSC. I know there’s a U1 version with the Verizon CSC, but I decided to use the XAA version because I knew it was universal. Now I could be totally wrong on this, but isn’t at least one of the three CSCs supposed to be XAA? All mine are still VZW, just like it was on the original carrier fw. I even tried taking the Sim out and reflashing, but no luck. The phone is still locked to Verizon, could that be why? The problem is, can I still get OTA updates? How can I stay on unlocked firmware and get them? Did I mess up and should’ve flashed the VZW U1 fw? Is this fw all vzw cscs too and I just messed up somewhere else? I have the pda of the xaa version with the csc of the vzw version. I don’t know what to do. I would’ve loved to install the one ui beta now that I’m in unlocked fw, but I can’t because my active csc is version, who blocked it
cggamer1 said:
Please excuse any mistakes I make as this was my first time flashing firmware. So anyway, I have a Verizon S10. I got tired of Verizon’s bloat and all the missing stock features so I flashed the Unlocked Firmware from Sammobile. As I had no prior experience, I did research and came to download the latest U1 firmware with the XAA CSC. I know there’s a U1 version with the Verizon CSC, but I decided to use the XAA version because I knew it was universal. Now I could be totally wrong on this, but isn’t at least one of the three CSCs supposed to be XAA? All mine are still VZW, just like it was on the original carrier fw. I even tried taking the Sim out and reflashing, but no luck. The phone is still locked to Verizon, could that be why? The problem is, can I still get OTA updates? How can I stay on unlocked firmware and get them? Did I mess up and should’ve flashed the VZW U1 fw? Is this fw all vzw cscs too and I just messed up somewhere else? I have the pda of the xaa version with the csc of the vzw version. I don’t know what to do. I would’ve loved to install the one ui beta now that I’m in unlocked fw, but I can’t because my active csc is version, who blocked it
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Some answers to your questions:
1. I don't know, it should flash a data partition that's for the unlocked firmware. I remember reading that somewhere here in the forums.
2. I think Verizon phones are more locked than the others, but I could be wrong.
3. You can get the OTA updates on the unlocked firmware, you just have to have a SIM inserted.
4. You may have, do a factory reset in recovery and try flashing this with that special version of ODIN:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=1899786940962609128
5. U and U1 firmware are different, sort of. U is carrier and U1 is unlocked.
It's an unlocked Galaxy S10 AT&T G973U..
I am using it internationally and not with an AT&T sim, so I don't try to upgrade it OTA anymore..
I tried Smart Switch, it says it's up to date. But last security patch was April 2019 and it's running Android 9.
Build and Baseband: G973USQU1ASD7 (According to SamMobile) there's no Android 10 for this baseband.
But my question is, can I flash let's say USA (Android 10) G973USQU3CTB1 or would I need to wait for the baseband for my model?
If I missed something, feel free to correct me.
Thanks!
Having a "U" model means Universal. You can flash any U.S. carrier stock firmware to it. If you have AT&T firmware and want to use T-mobile firmware instead, you can do it by flashing it with Odin.
You can get most firmwares off Sam mobile (Verizon, Sprint, T-mobile). AT&T firmware is hard to come by and you will usually have to pay to get it from a pay site like www.gsm2file.com
Just download an Android 10 firmware and flash it. No matter what it is as long as it's for the U model line.
StoneyJSG said:
Having a "U" model means Universal. You can flash any U.S. carrier stock firmware to it. If you have AT&T firmware and want to use T-mobile firmware instead, you can do it by flashing it with Odin.
You can get most firmwares off Sam mobile (Verizon, Sprint, T-mobile). AT&T firmware is hard to come by and you will usually have to pay to get it from a pay site
Just download an Android 10 firmware and flash it. No matter what it is as long as it's for the U model line.
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Ok, thank you very much.
And is "USA" only unbranded? I don't want any bloatware since I am international and I don't benefit from anything they offer.
The G973U phone will only accept U.S. firmware (Verizon, Sprint, At&t, T-mobile, Spectrum, Xfinity, and unlocked U1 Samsung firmware). So if you flash the U1 unbranded firmware you will get rid of carrier bloatware.
StoneyJSG said:
The G973U phone will only accept U.S. firmware (Verizon, Sprint, At&t, T-mobile, Spectrum, Xfinity, and unlocked U1 Samsung firmware). So if you flash the U1 unbranded firmware you will get rid of carrier bloatware.
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Say I wanna get rid of the bloatware, what firmware do I select from the U1 variants? Because I see all of them have carrier names.
If you get it from sam mobile it's XAA from Unknown. The latest is the CTB5 bootloader. I think there's also a thread in the forums here that contains Odin firmware.
jannamain1 said:
It's an unlocked Galaxy S10 AT&T G973U..
I am using it internationally and not with an AT&T sim, so I don't try to upgrade it OTA anymore..
I tried Smart Switch, it says it's up to date. But last security patch was April 2019 and it's running Android 9.
Build and Baseband: G973USQU1ASD7 (According to SamMobile) there's no Android 10 for this baseband.
But my question is, can I flash let's say USA (Android 10) G973USQU3CTB1 or would I need to wait for the baseband for my model?
If I missed something, feel free to correct me.
Thanks!
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Here is the latest SM-G973U Android 10 firmware. It was just released yesterday morning. https://samfrew.com/download/Galaxy__S10__/f6o3/VZW/G973USQS3CTB5/G973UOYN3CTB5/
Anyone seen or have the new U1 Firmware G998U1UEU5BULH?
None of the baseband 5 firmware's have been posted yet. I'm still waiting for something to come up cause mine is stuck in a boot loop from when I tried to downgrade to 4AUIP cause I didn't know my phone updated in the background to the new baseband.
I now have a brick until a 5xxxx firmware is posted. However, 5CVAx is rumored for February 9th, but I've still been checking Frija every morning haha
The OTA's have been around for about a week now, my AT&T S21 Ultra have received it from BULE -> BULH. However, I haven't seen a standalone anywhere.
I was thinking it was probably only available via OTA right now. I am wanting to flash my VZW to U1 firmware, but I have already been bumped to the #5 BL. I will wait patiently until it appears.
I have BULH on my u1 s21 ultra with a t-mobile sim card in it. I got it about a week ago, I really haven't noticed much of a difference.
I'm with VZW and on BULJ
I'm on BULJ as well, but I like the U1 Firmware better to be honest. Just waiting on it to be posted somewhere so I can flash the U1 on my Ultra.
FYI...it's out today!