Hey guys!
Im new in the forum, and first of all thankyou for all the work that u guys do for the world! :good::good::good:
Well, ill try to be brief.
I was visiting the US, and i bought a NOTE 8. At the beggining was from xfinity. i got it unlocked b4 coming here, so i tried it with a t-mobile sim, and the whole OS turned into an t-mobile OS, but same thing, only emergency calls. but i was flying so couldnt do anything.
i checked if the phone was stolen or so, but its totally clear. so i came here, and its still the same, i took it to samsung, and they said that doesnt work because its an american phone and the frequency is dif. so i thought of flashing it to a dif region, but my phone got updated by mistake to bootloader v4.
so the question is, can i still flash if the rom is also bootloader v4? just a dif zone? i dont care if it has carrier official rom.
thanks
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So I bought the Galaxy Note international for my wife for her birthday. I full well knew that I wont be getting any official support from Samsung US. Those people are so incompetent anyways that its not really a loss. So I have a few questions for those of you who are using this device in USA.
1. Have you guys in US gotten the ICS update yet?
I ask because I am getting conflicted information everywhere.
2. If the hardware is international version, why does the country matter?
Very confused about this. I thought the good thing about having international version is that I wont need to wait for ATT to get off their backside to release updates.
3. Is there any way I can make my device simply talk to German or Indian servers to get the update?
I have rooted android devices before, so I am no stranger to the process. I would rather not do it on a device I am not using, simply because I want to keep getting official updates, without having to keep up with news on the device. So rooting to German ROM is the option only if Samsung has its head up its arse and update doesn't arrive this year at all.
Thanks for your help guys!
mandeep1803 said:
So I bought the Galaxy Note international for my wife for her birthday. I full well knew that I wont be getting any official support from Samsung US. Those people are so incompetent anyways that its not really a loss. So I have a few questions for those of you who are using this device in USA.
1. Have you guys in US gotten the ICS update yet?
I ask because I am getting conflicted information everywhere.
2. If the hardware is international version, why does the country matter?
Very confused about this. I thought the good thing about having international version is that I wont need to wait for ATT to get off their backside to release updates.
3. Is there any way I can make my device simply talk to German or Indian servers to get the update?
I have rooted android devices before, so I am no stranger to the process. I would rather not do it on a device I am not using, simply because I want to keep getting official updates, without having to keep up with news on the device. So rooting to German ROM is the option only if Samsung has its head up its arse and update doesn't arrive this year at all.
Thanks for your help guys!
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Your beat bet is to get a device from a region where ics is already released. It doesn't matter what country you're in, only if the country your device is from gets ics I believe. Not only is the updates better than ATT but I specifically got it for the hardware/ devs
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA
Thanks for the reply man. How do I find out what region the device was made for? It came with what I believe Russian documentation. Is there any way to know 100% sure? Using some serial number or something like that?
I want to say you can tell by the stock Baseband version that phone has, but I'm not 100% sure. Where did you buy this Note from? Amazon sells Brazil and Germany based ones for the most part I have heard. I bought mine on eBay and I THINK it is Germany, but not sure totally and I'm already custom and everything.
On the other hand, there might not be a way to tell what country you are on and how to get updates since you live in the states. I'm in the US too on ATT but ATT will have nothing to do with this Note. (They couldn't even recognize the IMEI number when I went into the store when I first bought it). Didn't know about the different model Notes until I got home and looked on XDA.
Andrew, I am on ATT as well but as my wife doesn't need a data plan (Wifi available everywhere we go), ATT doesn't even know that her line has a smartphone. Else they would push a useless data plan on us. Also, I got it from a third part seller at Amazon. Those people were as useful as a stick. Asked them where they get their stock from and never heard back.
If there is a way to find out country of origin, I would like to know. I've spent countless hours doing research on this, and for the first time, I have not been able to figure out a cellphone problem.
Also, I take it you already got your ICS update if your phone is German?
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Andrew, I am on ATT as well but as my wife doesn't need a data plan (Wifi available everywhere we go), ATT doesn't even know that her line has a smartphone. Else they would push a useless data plan on us. Also, I got it from a third part seller at Amazon. Those people were as useful as a stick. Asked them where they get their stock from and never heard back.
If there is a way to find out country of origin, I would like to know. I've spent countless hours doing research on this, and for the first time, I have not been able to figure out a cellphone problem.
Also, I take it you already got your ICS update if your phone is German?
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No, I didn't do an OTA update or Kies. I just PC Odined ICS, but now I'm on a CM9 build. If you are comfortable flashing and stuff, I would say just use PC Odin.
Hello friends. I have a simple question to ask. I am on At&t and up until recently was using the 717, however, being the android fanatic that i am it just wasnt good enough so i had to go out and buy a brand new N7000 off of ebay to see what all the fuss was about. Within the first day i knew immediately. Much smoother and more fluid then the 717. Who needs the LTE anyway right i mean wont be anywhere near me for awhile so just a wasted feature as far as im concerned. Anyways the baseband version is N7000UBKK1. Im on Att and the phone was new and unlocked when i purchased it. My question is how exactly will my phone be upgraded to ics under these set of circumstances? I know that samsung and att are working on an ics release for the 717 but what happens with my phone. Im not a noob by far as ive been doing this awhile and just cant seem to find any answers. Trying to stat away from the custom roms and leaks but will that be my only option. Any advice will be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.
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Jacknovercasher said:
Hello friends. I have a simple question to ask. I am on At&t and up until recently was using the 717, however, being the android fanatic that i am it just wasnt good enough so i had to go out and buy a brand new N7000 off of ebay to see what all the fuss was about. Within the first day i knew immediately. Much smoother and more fluid then the 717. Who needs the LTE anyway right i mean wont be anywhere near me for awhile so just a wasted feature as far as im concerned. Anyways the baseband version is N7000UBKK1. Im on Att and the phone was new and unlocked when i purchased it. My question is how exactly will my phone be upgraded to ics under these set of circumstances? I know that samsung and att are working on an ics release for the 717 but what happens with my phone. Im not a noob by far as ive been doing this awhile and just cant seem to find any answers. Trying to stat away from the custom roms and leaks but will that be my only option. Any advice will be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.
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Hello Jack, my N7000 had the same baseband and though I live in Venezuela, a few weeks back I only had to connect my note to Kies (this is the one I installed: Kies_2.3.2.12054_18_2) it downloaded and installed Stock ICS without any issues (even when my phone was rooted).
Hope it works for you.
Regards.
Kies ota update
Thanks for the advice however i have registered it on my computer through kies and was unsuccessful in finding an update. Upon setting my phone up for the first time on the network i got a system message saying that it was registering and then after it was done i noticed that at&t was branded onto the device. Had a little problem setting up the new apn but now everything working well. As you said though your device has already been updated through ota officially maybe this is somehow connected with the carrier your device is registered to. Being that mine wasnt technically designated to att because they had a different version of the model will mine now be left out in the cold because of this.
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Thanks for the advice however i have registered it on my computer through kies and was unsuccessful in finding an update. Upon setting my phone up for the first time on the network i got a system message saying that it was registering and then after it was done i noticed that at&t was branded onto the device. Had a little problem setting up the new apn but now everything working well. As you said though your device has already been updated through ota officially maybe this is somehow connected with the carrier your device is registered to. Being that mine wasnt technically designated to att because they had a different version of the model will mine now be left out in the cold because of this.
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Thats odd. As your my device is unbranded/unlocked, but never got "branded" after network registration, I work here with Movistar (a Telefonica subsidiary). Never got an OTA update, no matter how many time I checked for it and on june 11th, I plugged the phone to my PC opened Kies and it showed an update avaiable.
I think yours should also be able to get the update. Regretfully I can't try for now since I'm running Paranoid v0.4
Hope you can solve this easily.
Well i will certainly look up that software version for my note. I may or may not be running the same kies version that was previously installed with my at&t note so that may be my problem. From what you were saying there is no network logo on your lockscreen or drop down menu? I did notice that when i first turned my phone on it was set up in spanish along with all the included included accessories so it does make sense that this would be the south american version. Accordingly what version of the official ics update did you get? Would there be any potential problems with me doing a manual flash of this rom that you can forsee. All that talk about the infected ics roms and kernels has got me really worried about flashing anything unofficial ics wise but i am an impatient man when it comes to waiting on these sluggish carriers to release updates. With att there is no telling if youll ever see an update. Please provide me with the official version of ics that is designated for my version and i will flash it. Thanks
I'm actually having the same problem. I bought mine from the UK Amazon (I'm from the UK as suggested) and mine seemed to have been imported from Spain because it came in a Spanish box. The supplier was Samsung and many people had reviewed the product. I just don't seem to be getting an update for my phone. I've waited and waited, and now I'm hearing people are being updated to Jellybean :/
Hi guys,
I have been reading through the forum trying to understand everything related to the T-Mobile locked LG G4.
I've got a few questions.
My story in short.
Got a brand new G4 H811VK shipped to me from LG instead of a bricked EU version of G4 I returned. The new phone is locked for T-Mobile, my own fault (they asked me what operator and I choose T-Mobile out of the blue). So this phone has never been on the T-Mobile network and I don't have an account with them.
I contacted T-Mobile and they said they couldn't help me and asked me to talk to LG. LG said they couldn't help me and asked me to talk to T-Mobile. I'm in the center of some loop with a completely locked and unusable phone (I'm in Europe btw.).
So my questions are:
1. Is there any known way to unlock my phone? (I tried swiftunlocks.com but it didn't work)
2. If no to no. 1, is there any other way I can use the phone? Flash a custom rom etc.
All help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance and best regards,
p258 said:
Hi guys,
I have been reading through the forum trying to understand everything related to the T-Mobile locked LG G4.
I've got a few questions.
My story in short.
Got a brand new G4 H811VK shipped to me from LG instead of a bricked EU version of G4 I returned. The new phone is locked for T-Mobile, my own fault (they asked me what operator and I choose T-Mobile out of the blue). So this phone has never been on the T-Mobile network and I don't have an account with them.
I contacted T-Mobile and they said they couldn't help me and asked me to talk to LG. LG said they couldn't help me and asked me to talk to T-Mobile. I'm in the center of some loop with a completely locked and unusable phone (I'm in Europe btw.).
So my questions are:
1. Is there any known way to unlock my phone? (I tried swiftunlocks.com but it didn't work)
2. If no to no. 1, is there any other way I can use the phone? Flash a custom rom etc.
All help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance and best regards,
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Hey there's away you have to change imei number
p258 said:
Hi guys,
I have been reading through the forum trying to understand everything related to the T-Mobile locked LG G4.
I've got a few questions.
My story in short.
Got a brand new G4 H811VK shipped to me from LG instead of a bricked EU version of G4 I returned. The new phone is locked for T-Mobile, my own fault (they asked me what operator and I choose T-Mobile out of the blue). So this phone has never been on the T-Mobile network and I don't have an account with them.
I contacted T-Mobile and they said they couldn't help me and asked me to talk to LG. LG said they couldn't help me and asked me to talk to T-Mobile. I'm in the center of some loop with a completely locked and unusable phone (I'm in Europe btw.).
So my questions are:
1. Is there any known way to unlock my phone? (I tried swiftunlocks.com but it didn't work)
2. If no to no. 1, is there any other way I can use the phone? Flash a custom rom etc.
All help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance and best regards,
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am pretty sure you can unlock it but not sure wich place can do services for that.. for calls it must be sim unlock. even if you flash rom. search around in the internet you may find a place.
raptorddd said:
am pretty sure you can unlock it but not sure wich place can do services for that.. for calls it must be sim unlock. even if you flash rom. search around in the internet you may find a place.
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We're you located at
ced48 said:
We're you located at
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mexico. but unffortunatelly mine just got the imfamous bootloop. about 3 weeks ago. flashed 4 core twrp amd 4 cores kernel. will work for an hour and bootloop.
So instead of buying on swappa, I found a $400 mint S10 . Seller gave me the IMEI so I thought I was all good. After 8+ hours of troubleshooting with both tracfone and verizon, I read the tiny print on the back, stating its a live demo 973xu, but the phone says its a sm-g973u ( already flashed??) . It has a clean IMEI, makes calls and texts and even Verizon said it's unlocked, however the 4G is 'grayed' out and no data. I've been searching and reading through the threads here and this has not been resolved. Any help please? Will flashing get my data to work? Is there anything else that can be done?
Thanks in advance
You can try flashing a firmware again while keeping the sim inside the phone.
Maybe it's a csc issue. Just a guess.
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Live demo? The seller sold you a (probably stolen) demo unit that's used in stores. You're lucky that the IMEI is clean. I think the phone is using a demo firmware, if you flash it with normal sm-g973u firmware it should hopefully start working.
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More like they took a demo phone then assigned it an imei and converted it into a U variant. If he was on LDU firmware it would show as an XU not a U as well as he'd have a whole lot more service related problems (I've tried g975X firm on my g975u and had no service at all and it couldnt even read my imei.)
I'd say you're lucky to have got most of it working lol.. they could have just as easily sold you a straight up LDU device with no imei lol
How come the buyer didnt try it with a working sim in it?
So here's more to the story, with a happy ending. Stopped by walmart and saw a kiosk that buys phones, I may get up to $150, screw that! So I listed it on ebay @$300 for parts/ not working and a guy named 'thekongofallunlocks' bought it and thought it was a S10 plus, then backed out. I asked him if he planned to fix or part it and he said he could get it working with a flash, so I came here, started learning to flash, then gave up when odin3 wouldn't connect to the phone AND many threads said it may be missing components like antennas as it's a demo. The a friend told me about a local shop in Wilkes Barre 'the king of kings' (WTF is with these kings and phones?). He said he can't flash either. One last try at the Video Game store up the street on South Main St in WB. There is a guy there that is really good that changes screens. He said it was previously a Tmobile phone, but it boots as a verizon, said the software was changed to sm-g973u, but the data setting were still on Tmobile, he manually imputed them and ,viola, it works! He wouldn't take anything but I left him a $50 on his bench. So bottom line, always read the fine print, and yes the Galaxy S10 Live Demo Phones do work. Thanks to all above who tried to help!
Campfire Guy said:
So here's more to the story, with a happy ending. Stopped by walmart and saw a kiosk that buys phones, I may get up to $150, screw that! So I listed it on ebay @$300 for parts/ not working and a guy named 'thekongofallunlocks' bought it and thought it was a S10 plus, then backed out. I asked him if he planned to fix or part it and he said he could get it working with a flash, so I came here, started learning to flash, then gave up when odin3 wouldn't connect to the phone AND many threads said it may be missing components like antennas as it's a demo. The a friend told me about a local shop in Wilkes Barre 'the king of kings' (WTF is with these kings and phones?). He said he can't flash either. One last try at the Video Game store up the street on South Main St in WB. There is a guy there that is really good that changes screens. He said it was previously a Tmobile phone, but it boots as a verizon, said the software was changed to sm-g973u, but the data setting were still on Tmobile, he manually imputed them and ,viola, it works! He wouldn't take anything but I left him a $50 on his bench. So bottom line, always read the fine print, and yes the Galaxy S10 Live Demo Phones do work. Thanks to all above who tried to help!
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not sure how u get that live demo units work when in ur very own post you stated the guy told u it was a tmb phone booting as verizon and all he had to do was change the settings?
to me it sounds like u had a tmb g973u all along but didnt bother to check the settings and chng it to work on vzw?
confused...
The back of the phone says sm g973xu live demo unit, not for sale. The setting says sm g973u. Pretty sure the craigslist guy flashed it. The guy who fixed it said it was 100% on tmoblie, but the boot screen is verizon, and the sim I'm using is Verizon. I'm still confused too.
FYI, you got lucky then because most live demo phones aren't usable as anything but a wifi device if you manage to freeze and disable retail mode.
Here's a weird thing, I was at Walmart today and ran the meid on their demo S10+ 352687100958634. Comes up clean.
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Here's a weird thing, I was at Walmart today and ran the meid on their demo S10+ 352687100958634. Comes up clean.
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i have the same phone too it was sm-g973xu and now 973u and everything work fine and i have an official firmware G973USQU1ASD3 with ACTIVE CSC - XAA
i have only 1 problem that i didn't receive any OTA update some people say because i'm in belarus and it's not supported yet and others say that i can flash the phone with android 10 ROM but i'm afraid and i want to know which ROM will be good for my phone by the way it's Snapdragon Processor
S10 and above live demo units are easily repairable.
Campfire Guy said:
The back of the phone says sm g973xu live demo unit, not for sale. The setting says sm g973u. Pretty sure the craigslist guy flashed it. The guy who fixed it said it was 100% on tmoblie, but the boot screen is verizon, and the sim I'm using is Verizon. I'm still confused too.
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sounds like all u had to do was change the apn settings
now I know
elliwigy said:
sounds like all u had to do was change the apn settings
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yep, but then I had no idea what an apn setting even was.
sharjeel.019 said:
S10 and above live demo units are easily repairable.
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How? I have a S10+
Afternoon all. Haven't been on these forums in some time. Started on the galaxy nexus and eventually faded away from any tinkering a few years ago. Currently using an S21 Ultra that was t-mobile locked. Got it unlocked and switched to Verizon. Trying to research everything I can to get myself on the unlocked or VZW software to make sure I've got all that I should be getting from VZW.
I've so far found samkey to change ny CSC, unlocked software and a whole bunch of other **** and I'm completely lost
Any chance I can get pointed in the right direction? Nothing seems to make sense to me for some reason.
Sorry to come off as a bit stupid, I'm just very much out of practice.
It probably work better on AT&T I think.
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AT&T generally has better tech support although it may take a few calls.
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It probably work better on AT&T I think.
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AT&T generally has better tech support although it may take a few calls.
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The phone has all the radios needed, just have to update the software/csc to make use of them.
madzozs said:
Afternoon all. Haven't been on these forums in some time. Started on the galaxy nexus and eventually faded away from any tinkering a few years ago. Currently using an S21 Ultra that was t-mobile locked. Got it unlocked and switched to Verizon. Trying to research everything I can to get myself on the unlocked or VZW software to make sure I've got all that I should be getting from VZW.
I've so far found samkey to change ny CSC, unlocked software and a whole bunch of other **** and I'm completely lost
Any chance I can get pointed in the right direction? Nothing seems to make sense to me for some reason.
Sorry to come off as a bit stupid, I'm just very much out of practice.
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You're kind of in no mans land. Unless you have a very good reason to change service to Verizon, Tmobile would be the best option. Samkey won't change your Primary CSC to VZW. Verizon Firmware will remain in conflict with your TMO Primary CSC. Hard to say what compatibility issues this evokes. Samsung is making it more challenging to mix and match Firmware/CSC's. If you have a Multi-CSC device normally you SHOULD be able open the dialer and enter *#272*IMEInumber# (In the thread replace IMEInumber with your actual IMEI Number). Press the Dial Icon, you should see a screen with the list of available CSC codes for your device. Select VZW and tap the Install option. Another user with similar issues stated Android 11 eliminated Multi-CSC options so if you are bent on having Verizon as your Service Provider give it a shot and see what happens.
Circumstances changed and my reception has taken a serious downgrade. Add in the awful experience getting the network unlock done. I changed to VZW already.
madzozs said:
Circumstances changed and my reception has taken a serious downgrade. Add in the awful experience getting the network unlock done. I changed to VZW already.
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Well if you're fine being on "unlocked" firmware, just flash to G998U1
madzozs said:
Afternoon all. Haven't been on these forums in some time. Started on the galaxy nexus and eventually faded away from any tinkering a few years ago. Currently using an S21 Ultra that was t-mobile locked. Got it unlocked and switched to Verizon. Trying to research everything I can to get myself on the unlocked or VZW software to make sure I've got all that I should be getting from VZW.
I've so far found samkey to change ny CSC, unlocked software and a whole bunch of other **** and I'm completely lost
Any chance I can get pointed in the right direction? Nothing seems to make sense to me for some reason.
Sorry to come off as a bit stupid, I'm just very much out of practice.
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Honestly, I haven't flashed a phone since my galaxy s5. I'm in the exact opposite situation you're in. Was going to try flashing tmobile firmware, and saw this post. Curious if it all worked out for ya
Not hard at all. Fire up ODIN, use the XAA (Or whatever region you are) U1 firmware, flash the wipe CSC in ODIN, boot, insert VZW SIM when it asks. Done.
*Edit I flashed a Tmob to unlocked in about 5 minutes. Check the U1 firmware post for instructions. https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...1-firmware-links.4220223/page-6#post-85580269