A bit more than 2 weeks i had to flash the stock rom to my Note 8 (N950F), but because didn't wanted to go back to Android Nougat i flashed the Oreo XEF rom with Claro Puerto Rico CSC (because i live there) and at this time the OEM toggle still hasn't appeared. Its because the combination that i did? Thanks in advance.
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I just purchased this phone and would like to know if it is possible to change the firmware to the Globe Telecom (Philippines) firmware. This phone is for my Filipino girlfriend for her birthday to replace her Note 3. The phone is currently on Lollipop, so is it possible while upgrading to Marshmallow I can make the switch?
I have purchased the NOTE 8 and as it turns out, it was a Koren version. the N950N.
I am not in/from Korea and would like to have the normal stock version of the international rom with all generic features available. without the KT menus and stuff...
Is it possible to do so? i am not sure if i can return the phone to the store and other than that the phone works great...
thank you
Alon
i added a screenshot of the details of my phone... if needed.
I have a Korean N version and have been flashing F version roms for some time.
Never any issue. Go ahead
Hi i just wondering when we will receive oreo update in UK?
What carrier you on?
EE , UK
Vodafone UK.....
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I'm on EE but my device was originally an O2 one.
I had to manually install the France ROM via ODIN and I'm having no issues.
I find it a little bit odd that the Middle East was updated after France, and not the rest of mainland Europe, but ah well. The France ROM will suffice for me until a UK ROM is released.
Question: would there be much of a difference between the two?
France and UK I mean?
thedarkmunk said:
I'm on EE but my device was originally an O2 one.
I had to manually install the France ROM via ODIN and I'm having no issues.
I find it a little bit odd that the Middle East was updated after France, and not the rest of mainland Europe, but ah well. The France ROM will suffice for me until a UK ROM is released.
Question: would there be much of a difference between the two?
France and UK I mean?
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Nope, none, it's the same firmware file for all N950Fs
EE VOLTE
I'm with EE too, I wouldn't flash the French version because I would loose volte , I will be waiting for EE the firmware
dave6018 said:
I'm with EE too, I wouldn't flash the French version because I would loose volte , I will be waiting for EE the firmware
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I flashed it and still have the we WiFi calling available
lost patience a bit and flashed it myself this morning, just waiting for the backup/restore to complete, mine is unbranded OXM XEU uk/ireland and all went smooth, I did a factory reset first and used CSC instead of Home CSC so complete setup from scratch
eeleater said:
Nope, none, it's the same firmware file for all N950Fs
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I think AP is same, but different BL and CP, should be better if flash with original country BL and CP.
Thats not VoLTE, thats wifi calling. Without an official ROM you cannot have support for the VoLTE protocol.
I bought my note 8 sim free and got the oreo update yesterday. I'm on Vodafone but I doubt it matters when it's sim free.
Can you confirm what version handset your on
BTU or XEU I have BTU handset and still sat waiting for Oreo
Looks like XEU
BTU released this morning
Hello, XDA. How are you?
I am used to flashing Sony Xperia devices and It was easy to change country of firmware for the device.
I have purchased SM-SAMN950FDBLKEU from Amazon Canada.
It looks like from United Arab Emirates and it has 4g and other important dates of UAE in Calendar eg. ramadan
I want to Change Note 8 firmware's country environment to Canada or European Countries.
I have tired downloading firmware from sammobile and flashing with odin while OEM locking is unlocked.
Auto reboot and F.reset was checked during the flash.
It still did not change anything. TRA ID is still UAE. Calendar is Still UAE. Still 4g logo. I want LTE logo.
What am I not understanding or doing it wrong?
Thank you.
evei0326 said:
Hello, XDA. How are you?
I am used to flashing Sony Xperia devices and It was easy to change country of firmware for the device.
I have purchased SM-SAMN950FDBLKEU from Amazon Canada.
It looks like from United Arab Emirates and it has 4g and other important dates of UAE in Calendar eg. ramadan
I want to Change Note 8 firmware's country environment to Canada or European Countries.
I have tired downloading firmware from sammobile and flashing with odin while OEM locking is unlocked.
Auto reboot and F.reset was checked during the flash.
It still did not change anything. TRA ID is still UAE. Calendar is Still UAE. Still 4g logo. I want LTE logo.
What am I not understanding or doing it wrong?
Thank you.
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Welcome to Samsung where they use 2 different SOC(cpu's)!
One Snapdragon soc (North American and China) and the other their own Exynos soc(rest of the world)!
And their firmwares are not interchangeable because of the different SOC's!
Since your phone is sm-n950fd (dual sim correct?) which is exynos soc.. You can only flash any sm-n950f stock firmware on your phone.
You can't flash any sm-n950U/U1/W stock firmwares because of different soc, snapdragon.
So all (which I've seen so could be one that I don't know) sm-n950f firmwares will have only 4G instead of LTE symbol.
Without root:
You can use substratum and sungstratum add-on (paid app) and a substratum extra mod to get LTE symbol if you want.
Edit: here is the link for the substratum extra add-on for the LTE symbol.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ohayoubaka.statusbarsamsung
With root: but you'll lose Samsung pay and secure folder for good so make sure if that's okay with you first!
You can root your phone and flash your country's CSC file/or mod a file for LTE symbol (search XDA for that method).
Or don't worry about it since 4G(world)= LTE(North America)(maybe other places).
BluePhnx said:
Welcome to Samsung where they use 2 different SOC(cpu's)!
One Snapdragon soc (North American and China) and the other their own Exynos soc(rest of the world)!
And their firmwares are not interchangeable because of the different SOC's!
Since your phone is sm-n950fd (dual sim correct?) which is exynos soc.. You can only flash any sm-n950f stock firmware on your phone.
You can't flash any sm-n950U/U1/W stock firmwares because of different soc, snapdragon.
So all (which I've seen so could be one that I don't know) sm-n950f firmwares will have only 4G instead of LTE symbol.
Without root:
You can use substratum and sungstratum add-on (paid app) and a substratum extra mod to get LTE symbol if you want.
With root: but you'll lose Samsung pay and secure folder for good so make sure if that's okay with you first!
You can root your phone and flash your country's CSC file/or mod a file for LTE symbol (search XDA for that method).
Or don't worry about it since 4G(world)= LTE(North America)(maybe other places).
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Yep , explained very well.
Use the UK firm Ware.
Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk
evei0326 said:
Hello, XDA. How are you?
I am used to flashing Sony Xperia devices and It was easy to change country of firmware for the device.
I have purchased SM-SAMN950FDBLKEU from Amazon Canada.
It looks like from United Arab Emirates and it has 4g and other important dates of UAE in Calendar eg. ramadan
I want to Change Note 8 firmware's country environment to Canada or European Countries.
I have tired downloading firmware from sammobile and flashing with odin while OEM locking is unlocked.
Auto reboot and F.reset was checked during the flash.
It still did not change anything. TRA ID is still UAE. Calendar is Still UAE. Still 4g logo. I want LTE logo.
What am I not understanding or doing it wrong?
Thank you.
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Is it SM-N950F?
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evei0326 said:
Hello, XDA. How are you?
I am used to flashing Sony Xperia devices and It was easy to change country of firmware for the device.
I have purchased SM-SAMN950FDBLKEU from Amazon Canada.
It looks like from United Arab Emirates and it has 4g and other important dates of UAE in Calendar eg. ramadan
I want to Change Note 8 firmware's country environment to Canada or European Countries.
I have tired downloading firmware from sammobile and flashing with odin while OEM locking is unlocked.
Auto reboot and F.reset was checked during the flash.
It still did not change anything. TRA ID is still UAE. Calendar is Still UAE. Still 4g logo. I want LTE logo.
What am I not understanding or doing it wrong?
Thank you.
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Do the research about SM-N950F combination file. This is the only way to change CSC if yours N950F. Do it by your own risk.
Sorry for my English.
I got my device from Craigslist and it *was* a tmobile sm-f916u with tmo/tmo/tmo. I wanted to remove carrier bloat because I'm on Google Fi so I flashed the sm-f916u1 with the XAA csc after some research. Everything seemed to work fine except for visual voicemail. However after seeing that the u1 started getting android 11 and I found the xaa build for android 11 I flashed it and upon reboot I have a boot animation or the Thom Browne edition, and there was a wallpaper set or it. Also there was a post upgrade window that showed it upgrading some thom browne stuff.
When I searched phonedb for thom browne you can see an 'OEMID' number that has xaa in it, maybe that is what that csc was for. It also makes sense when you think about a special edition needing to be carrier agnostic, since its bought direct from samsung.
Samsung SM-F916U1 Galaxy Z Fold2 UW 5G Thom Browne Edition TD-LTE US 256GB (Samsung Top) | Device Specs | PhoneDB
Specs: Thom Browne Edition of Galaxy Z Fold2 high-end foldable.., 2020 Sep 26, Android, Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+ 5G SM8250-AB (Kona), 2020, 64 bit, octa-core, 32 Kbyte I-Cache, 32 Kbyte D-Cache, 2304 Kbyte L2, 4096 Kbyte L3, 7 nm, Qualcomm Adreno 650 GPU, 12 GiB RAM, 256 GB ROM, 6.2 inch...
phonedb.net
I flashed this firmware by accident twice now. Once on Android 10 and once on 11.
JagXK8 said:
I flashed this firmware by accident twice now. Once on Android 10 and once on 11.
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Which csc do you think we should use if we want an sm-f916u1 build and don't want carrier bloat?
josharmour said:
Which csc do you think we should use if we want an sm-f916u1 build and don't want carrier bloat?
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XAA. In the attached that looks like it may be the Thom Browne edition with F916U1TBU1CUA1. My phone build says F916U1UEU1CUA1
JagXK8 said:
XAA. In the attached that looks like it may be the Thom Browne edition with F916U1TBU1CUA1. My phone build says F916U1UEU1CUA1
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Understood, I think we both agree that xaa is the thom browne edition. Earlier you said that you accidentally flashed it twice now. I'm wondering that what other csc codes besides XAA are not carrier branded, given that you accidentally flashed xaa twice I'm wondering what was the csc code that you were actually going for?
I want an unbranded unlocked build that isn't thom browne.
Make sense?
The regular firmware is F916U1UEU1CUA1.
The region code XAA is samsung unlocked so you had that part right.
Here's what you need to download the non-Thom Browne
Model: SM-F916U1 CSC: XAA
Click Manual
Then enter these:
PDA: F916U1UEU1CUA1
CSC: F916U1OYM1CUA1
Phone: F916U1UEU1CUA1
If you notice in the CSC it says F916U1OYM1CUA1. OYM is the regular version of the firmware.
If you get one that says OYZ in it that is the special edition.
Thank you guys for the information! I always wanted to try and see what the difference is with the Thom Browne Edition and now that I flashed it, I'm glad I didn't spend that kind of money...lol...
Aside from the boot logo, homescreen theme, and the bookmark to Thom Browne's site, I really can't find anything else. I'd say the exterior on the Thome Browne is good looking but, at the same time I can't justify that.
Besides the pros/cons, thank you guys again for telling us about this and fulfilling my curiosity!
zimgir124 said:
The regular firmware is F916U1UEU1CUA1.
The region code XAA is samsung unlocked so you had that part right.
Here's what you need to download the non-Thom Browne
Model: SM-F916U1 CSC: XAA
Click Manual
Then enter these:
PDA: F916U1UEU1CUA1
CSC: F916U1OYM1CUA1
Phone: F916U1UEU1CUA1
If you notice in the CSC it says F916U1OYM1CUA1. OYM is the regular version of the firmware.
If you get one that says OYZ in it that is the special edition.
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Thanks!
I'll try to download the non-OYZ version.
Question, when I boot into download mode, it detects my devices as tmb/tmb/tmb even though I've flashed an xaa SM-F916U1 build on it and it works just fine. Originally I got this device from someone on Craiglist and it came with SM-F916U TMB build on it.
Now it works just fine, and it is unlocked and working with Google Fi too, but I think it is still actually tmb/tmb/tmb when in recovery or download mode.