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[Q] 5,674,187 members and not one of you answer

I know I am new here and have been asking a question for a couple of days now and I would think with this many members at least someone would step up to the plate an offer some help or tell me where to go for being a newbie. Come on now I sure could use some help here. Please?

It would be a lot more productive if you actually posted what you needed help with...

At least someone out here is alive
pingstary said:
It would be a lot more productive if you actually posted what you needed help with...
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Thanks for the reply. I have for the past 2 days in a row. I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 mini SM-G730A with a locked bootloader that I need to figure out how to get unlocked so I can change carrier on. I love the phone and want to keep it but my patience has all but worn thin on. I have tried just about everything I can find out on the internet on and nothing has worked so far.

texasgoldbuyer said:
Thanks for the reply. I have for the past 2 days in a row. I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 mini SM-G730A with a locked bootloader that I need to figure out how to get unlocked so I can change carrier on. I love the phone and want to keep it but my patience has all but worn thin on. I have tried just about everything I can find out on the internet on and nothing has worked so far.
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If you searched through some of the threads regarding the SM--G730A you would've learned that it's bootloader is not unlocked yet, and there exists no way to unlock it as of yet. I don't think any active developers have that phone either, and to my knowledge only a recovery has been built for the phone (but you can't flash it because of the locked bootloader), only root has been achieved for your phone.
The phone you have isn't the S3 Mini here (the S3 mini here is the GT-I8190), Samsung's naming conventions are really stupid at times - your phone and the GT-I8190 have nothing in common outside of it's name. I think the GT-I8190 was marketed heavily overseas in Europe and such, whereas your model's only available in the States and Canada.

Thanks for the reply
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If you searched through some of the threads regarding the SM--G730A you would've learned that it's bootloader is not unlocked yet, and there exists no way to unlock it as of yet. I don't think any active developers have that phone either, and to my knowledge only a recovery has been built for the phone (but you can't flash it because of the locked bootloader), only root has been achieved for your phone.
The phone you have isn't the S3 Mini here (the S3 mini here is the GT-I8190), Samsung's naming conventions are really stupid at times - your phone and the GT-I8190 have nothing in common outside of it's name. I think the GT-I8190 was marketed heavily overseas in Europe and such, whereas your model's only available in the States and Canada.
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Well Thanks. Now I know what to do. I will get another phone and get rid of this pile of crap. That is why I switched to Linux I wanted my machine to do what I wanted not what some pencil neck billionaire told me it had to do. Thanks and I will go get me a new phone tomorrow....

texasgoldbuyer said:
Well Thanks. Now I know what to do. I will get another phone and get rid of this pile of crap. That is why I switched to Linux I wanted my machine to do what I wanted not what some pencil neck billionaire told me it had to do. Thanks and I will go get me a new phone tomorrow....
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Just a tip - search through xda to see if there's any active development on your phone, it'll save you a crapload of trouble, and I'd also avoid verizon and at&t phones in general because of their tendency to lock boot-loaders, I notice the google play edition of phones and the t-mobile versions tend to have unlocked boot-loaders and have better support.
Oh and google's dropped the price on the Nexus 5, about $320 usd for the 16gb, if you're interested and have the money.

Thanks Again
Exothermic said:
Just a tip - search through xda to see if there's any active development on your phone, it'll save you a crapload of trouble, and I'd also avoid verizon and at&t phones in general because of their tendency to lock boot-loaders, I notice the google play edition of phones and the t-mobile versions tend to have unlocked boot-loaders and have better support.
Oh and google's dropped the price on the Nexus 5, about $320 usd for the 16gb, if you're interested and have the money.
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I'm looking for a T-Mobile phone now. Thanks for all the replies and have a good one.

your best friend is google.
Sent from my GT-I8190 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

factorexh said:
your best friend is google.
Sent from my GT-I8190 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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+1 to this.
To OP =because not at all members active in this thread sometimes your question is on thread already and lazy to answer repeatedly. Sell your phone and buy another nexus or GT must prefer lot of dev using it
Sent from my GT-I8190 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

you can allways pm me i will help if i can. good luck

i personally see no point in helping some one who posts a thread like this
such a spoiled selfish approach demanding the community to reply to a thread
same goes for any thread posted about if this phone is worth buying

efaustino84 said:
i personally see no point in helping some one who posts a thread like this
such a spoiled selfish approach demanding the community to reply to a thread
same goes for any thread posted about if this phone is worth buying
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No one knows how to search ?

Note 8 Snapdragon - Unlocked Bootloader

Quick question. I know there is a roundabout root method for Snapdragon with SamFAIL, but I am curious if anyone is still working to acquire an unlocked bootloader for Snapdragon, for the full root/recovery experience?

knowzitall said:
Quick question. I know there is a roundabout root method for Snapdragon with SamFAIL, but I am curious if anyone is still working to acquire an unlocked bootloader for Snapdragon, for the full root/recovery experience?
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please use the search functionality provided by the forum mods. It can automagically provide lots of answers

myechophone said:
please use the search functionality provided by the forum mods. It can automagically provide lots of answers
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Nice canned answer. Don't you think anyone with a brain tries that first? I'm looking for today's updates. Not updates from Oct. 5th. SMH.

knowzitall said:
Nice canned answer. Don't you think anyone with a brain tries that first? I'm looking for today's updates. Not updates from Oct. 5th. SMH.
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It's simple, take a look at what has been done for current & past Galaxy S Snapdragons. Note phones follow just like the SamFAIL method. There's a reason why people go through the trouble of getting Exynos.
If a method happens to be found/released you will easily find it in a search or quickly in the development section cause it will be big news. Search does work well, if you don't find a method, it's cause it doesnxt exist yet. I personally doubt it will ever happen. The Note 8 is the first time I ever went with an international model for the very same reason.

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It's simple, take a look at what has been done for current & past Galaxy S Snapdragons. Note phones follow just like the SamFAIL method. There's a reason why people go through the trouble of getting Exynos.
If a method happens to be found/released you will easily find it in a search or quickly in the development section cause it will be big news. Search does work well, if you don't find a method, it's cause it doesnxt exist yet. I personally doubt it will ever happen. The Note 8 is the first time I ever went with an international model for the very same reason.
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Wasn't asking if it existed yet, already knew that. As mentioned, anyone with a brain does a search prior to asking to see if it exists first. I was asking if it was still being worked on. Is there any possible way to get Exynos version to work on Verizon?

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Wasn't asking if it existed yet, already knew that. As mentioned, anyone with a brain does a search prior to asking to see if it exists first. I was asking if it was still being worked on. Is there any possible way to get Exynos version to work on Verizon?
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Again the forums search can give the latest answer you are seeking. Please try it sometimes.

myechophone said:
Again the forums search can give the latest answer you are seeking. Please try it sometimes.
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Lol. I'll be sure to. You could have typed less words answering my question, than getting your panties in another wad over the forum search again. SMH.

For anyone without a brain.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/search/forum/6801?query=snapdragon bootloader

I'll post a real answer being that all the jerks seem to be chiming in. There has not been an unlocked bootloader on a Snapdragon Samsung device since the Note 4. That was kind of a unique situation because there were Developer's devices floating around at the time. It's never impossible for it to happen, but it is super unlikely for any exploits to allow an unlock at this point. I would even go as far to say that it is almost impossible being that most developers opt out of even owning Snapdragon Samsung devices now and there is likely only maybe a handful of people working on it at best.
To all the "use the search button" people, why not just ignore the post if you don't want to answer it? There is nothing to be gained by being a jerk.

The REAL answer is like @jal3223 says. There are a couple of us working on it. I think like 3...

Is there an Exynos variant that works on Verizon?

knowzitall said:
Lol. I'll be sure to. You could have typed less words answering my question, than getting your panties in another wad over the forum search again. SMH.
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It's cause of inability of people like you who do not seem to understand the simple fact that us versions of recent galaxy series have not had any unlocked bootloaders. But unlike any one, you choose to ignore the fact to do some basic search in xda or any other forums. If you feel you are technically sound and smart you should have bought yourself a non snapdragon variant and live happily. Also the dev forum section for note8 has the same q answered multiple times over and over again. Try to keep your pants on before being a sissy to others and ask meaningfully. Peace.

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Is there an Exynos variant that works on Verizon?
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Never

Your so disgruntled. This is not a big deal. It's really not. Dude didn't even ask if it was unlocked, but if it was still being worked on. Which is a legitimate question, even after using the search bar. C'mon guy, stop getting upset, and let's all have some pizza!!!

I appreciate all the REAL answers from those that responded! Glad to hear somebody is still trying, and understand it's a very long shot, but figured since there was a quick root method, maybe there a better chance of unlocking with this Note model.
myechophone may not have found a way to unlock the BL on the Note 8, but he has discovered a way to give himself a period every month, and he is on it right now. Best to ignore him while he has a hormonal meltdown about the forum search.

knowzitall said:
I appreciate all the REAL answers from those that responded! Glad to hear somebody is still trying, and understand it's a very long shot, but figured since there was a quick root method, maybe there a better chance of unlocking with this Note model.
myechophone may not have found a way to unlock the BL on the Note 8, but he has discovered a way to give himself a period every month, and he is on it right now. Best to ignore him while he has a hormonal meltdown about the forum search.
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Well the "quick root method" took advantage of the fact that the s8 and s8+ are very similar firmware and hardware wise. Therefore we were actually looking for exploits for 3 devices at once. It was first found to be working on s8. Then we tested on N8. Sure enough it worked. At that point I had been working on root for N8 for almost a month straight(got my phone early)

Sorry new here.. So am I to believe there is a root method for Carrier unlocked version snapdragon Note 8? If so what is it and does it trip Knox? Sorry for the dumb questions.

Bakeyf0x said:
Sorry new here.. So am I to believe there is a root method for Carrier unlocked version snapdragon Note 8? If so what is it and does it trip Knox? Sorry for the dumb questions.
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-8/development/root-samfail-galaxy-note8-t3685340

Hey guys, I'm an experienced developer and I just bought the note 8. I'm not sure who the main developers are around here or how Samsung devices work but I'd love to be some help. I'd love to bootloader unlock my phone.

Sparx639 said:
Hey guys, I'm an experienced developer and I just bought the note 8. I'm not sure who the main developers are around here or how Samsung devices work but I'd love to be some help. I'd love to bootloader unlock my phone.
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Welcome! Not 100% sure myself, but suggest checking the SamFail thread and maybe try getting in touch with partycyborg and me2151.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=74074361

Note 8 has no root or custom firmwares?

Does it have, got my Note 8 a week ago but just wondering has I have not seen anykind of movement for the US variant.

all sorts of threads and posts answer your questions..

Just search, do not be lazy

Oh wow, thanks before posting I searched and found nothing only for older versions using SamFail. Thanks anyways loooool glad to see a gooood comunity

PLUS I said that I didn't saw any kind of movement

@atrix_noob What firmware are you running ?

Alek7 said:
@atrix_noob What firmware are you running ?
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It's on 8.0 May 1 security patch.

atrix_noob said:
It's on 8.0 May 1 security patch.
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For the US 950U and 950U1 snapdragon there is no root for the May update. That is bootloader revision 4 and has no root at this time. Your best bet is to keep a eye on the samfail thread for updates.

If your past U3 were sol for now. I think theres only one guy working on a possible partial root. There are lots of apps for theming. Substranium and Good lock are great.

atrix_noob said:
Oh wow, thanks before posting I searched and found nothing only for older versions using SamFail. Thanks anyways loooool glad to see a gooood comunity
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Dude.
Just search around.
Don't give us the 'lmao such a good community, how about you go and suck it because I don't want to research' attitude.
It's not our fault you couldn't be bothered to check for any activity and read around.
Plus people are tired of having others ask the same question hundreds of others have asked related to root, it's all about searching or reading.
Don't you think if someone found a way to root the newest firmware there would be a lot more sites talking about it?
Sarcasm aside, no, there is no root for Oreo Bootloaders (U4). Only Nougat with U3 or below.

luisramon17 said:
Dude.
Just search around.
Don't give us the 'lmao such a good community, how about you go and suck it because I don't want to research' attitude.
It's not our fault you couldn't be bothered to check for any activity and read around.
Plus people are tired of having others ask the same question hundreds of others have asked related to root, it's all about searching or reading.
Don't you think if someone found a way to root the newest firmware there would be a lot more sites talking about it?
Sarcasm aside, no, there is no root for Oreo Bootloaders (U4). Only Nougat with U3 or below.
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Before posting I always use the search feature cause it's very usefull. Has you know there are multiple threads and forums and specifically a T-Mobile Model one and its pretty much dead. If YOU read above I said that I didn't see any kind of activity. Another one is that if you read more down below, I stated that all I could find is a SamFail one but it's pretty outdated. So I came here to the Questions & Answers area and posted this thread here to see if anyone had an idea of whats happening with the US models
I don't need for someone to come here and tell me
"Oh don't be lazy and use the search funtion"
Already stated on the first post. Sheesh
And yeah, thanks for the bootloader part.

atrix_noob said:
Before posting I always use the search feature cause it's very usefull. Has you know there are multiple threads and forums and specifically a T-Mobile Model one. If YOU read above I said that I didn't see any kind of activity. Another one is that if you read more down below, I stated that all I could find is a SamFail one but it's pretty outdated. So I came here to the Questions & Answers area and posted this thread here to see if anyone had an idea of whats happenind with the US models
I don't need for someone to come here and tell me " Oh don't be lazy and use the search funtion"
Alrready stated on the first post. Sheesh
And yeah, thanks for the bootloader part.
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The thing is theres not much firmware differences between models. They might have slight baseband changes but they're all based on the same thing. So root that would work on a Verizon Note8 would work on a T-Mobile Note8.
And yes, the only one we have is sadly the V3 for those unlucky to update.
And I imagine people would check the last section of the thread to be on standby since apparently theres a new exploit that might (or might not) help.
This is why I assumed you didn't check first, but since you did (I didn't see that part), I apologize.

Amos420en said:
If your past U3 were sol for now. I think theres only one guy working on a possible partial root. There are lots of apps for theming. Substranium and Good lock are great.
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Thanks for the heads up, I really like the root and all that stuff. Especially for getting rid of all T-Mobile crap on the phone. I'm a person that chages phone alot but I think I'll be giving this guy an exchange for another phone lol. I literally don't last a month with a phone has I like to test other brands and models

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The thing is theres not much firmware differences between models. They might have slight baseband changes but they're all based on the same thing. So root that would work on a Verizon Note8 would work on a T-Mobile Note8.
And yes, the only one we have is sadly the V3 for those unlucky to update.
And I imagine people would check the last section of the thread to be on standby since apparently theres a new exploit that might (or might not) help.
This is why I assumed you didn't check first, but since you did (I didn't see that part), I apologize.
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Don't worry, I searched everywhere but nothing found. Sometimes you know, people spread rumors or someone may know of something that's been on progress but it doesn't come up on public threads.
I been rooting my phones literally ever since I had an Android phone and always do my reaserch before posting on forums, cause you know there's always the people that come and say "Use the search feature" and always try to avoid that.
And yeah, all I read about was on Nougat. So I'll just asume it's dead.

atrix_noob said:
Don't worry, I searched everywhere but nothing found. Sometimes you know, people spread rumors or someone may know of something that's been on progress but it doesn't come up on public threads.
I been rooting my phones literally ever since I had an Android phone and always do my reaserch before posting on forums, cause you know there's always the people that come and say "Use the search feature" and always try to avoid that.
And yeah, all I read about was on Nougat. So I'll just asume it's dead.
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You switch phones a lot too? Same, heh. Went from having a Note 4 to iPhone 8 Plus, then Note 8, then iPX, then back to Note 8 (cause drawing), but to be fair, I do miss a little of Apple.
To be fair, it's not dead (yet) since the Oreo update landed pretty recently, plus the only tool we had for making it possible got executed pretty much, so I'd give it a little time.
And that search feature situation is a fair point.

Misterxtc said:
For the US 950U and 950U1 snapdragon there is no root for the May update. That is bootloader revision 4 and has no root at this time. Your best bet is to keep a eye on the samfail thread for updates.
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Thanks for the tip. I'll keep an eye on it

luisramon17 said:
You switch phones a lot too? Same, heh. Went from having a Note 4 to iPhone 8 Plus, then Note 8, then iPX, then back to Note 8 (cause drawing), but to be fair, I do miss a little of Apple.
To be fair, it's not dead (yet) since the Oreo update landed pretty recently, plus the only tool we had for making it possible got executed pretty much, so I'd give it a little time.
And that search feature situation is a fair point.
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Yeah, I have had literally all flagship phones by now except for the Huawei P20.
Last Apple Device I had was the iPX, very good device but the atmosphere of the OS makes it pretty boring to me and get bored at it pretty quickly has you can't make any changes to the look of it.
I got this Note 8, exchanged it for my iPX. The guy that maked the deal with me gave me around 200 bucks and the Note for the iPhone lol.
I love the Note 8, super fast and love the big screen.

What to know before buying used note 8 specially for rooting and ulocking bootloader?

Hi, I recently bought a sony xperia z5 which i saw later that its bootlaoder cannot be unlocked.Now i am planing to go with samsung note 8 (used one) so i just wanted to know what model number should i buy ( I am in india ) or what should i check before buying note 8? which can be rooted and unlock bootloader too ( i am planing to buy it from dubai)
Please suggest Thanks.

The best would be, that you start looking in the appropriate Note 8 sub forums or use the xda search function or use Google search. It won't harm you if you educate yourself a bit on this matter. The phone is 10 months old now, plenty of info out there.
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you must buy exynos for root.

Basically for model numbers... anything that ISNT N950U or N950U1 model numbers. So ones that work are: N950F/FD N950N N9500(there might be others but as long as its not N950U or N950U1 it should be fine.

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Basically for model numbers... anything that ISNT N950U or N950U1 model numbers. So ones that work are: N950F/FD N950N N9500(there might be others but as long as its not N950U or N950U1 it should be fine.
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Thanks :good:

Don'r buy a phone with snapdragon if you want custom rom. I don't care for custom roms because Note 8 is already strong so I bought SD Version for gamecube/wii emulation.

Cool Person said:
Don'r buy a phone with snapdragon if you want custom rom. I don't care for custom roms because Note 8 is already strong so I bought SD Version for gamecube/wii emulation.
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You mean i should go for exynos, only.( no matter what model number it is)
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In other words, No snapdragon can be rooted (Am I right?)

nicholes said:
You mean i should go for exynos, only.( no matter what model number it is)
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In other words, No snapdragon can be rooted (Am I right?)
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Yep any SM-N950F and SM-N950F/DS and SM-N950N are exynos and have bootloaders unlocked
The snapdragons from USA/Canada SM-N950U and SM-N950U1 and SM-N950W are bootloader Locked. But can be rooted but this is a huge but if your on bootloader v4 and up you CAN NOT root your phone.
Bootloader v3 and below CAN BE rooted. But no twrp recovery.
But there are snapdragons that have unlock bootloaders SM-N9500 which comes from China and Hong Kong.
Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk

Something i don't see many people talk about but i regret myself doing.
If you are looking for the dual sim option it is possible to convert SM-N950F to dual sim or just buy a SM-N950FD.
But if you are trying to mod/convert SM-N950F to dual sim it is easier to do it with knox 0, trying to do it with knox 1 will get you into more troubles. I regret triping knox before converting to my note 8 into dual sim as i have brought the equipment and it doesn't work with knox 1. Modding this phone is a nightmare with binary 4 (SM-N950F), 7 day oem unlock wait every flash/factory reset. The date change to unlock may not always work due to patch.
Personally i think this is a great phone but is a nightmare to work with. If your interested in intensive modding with this phone may not be for u.

bluecub1st said:
Something i don't see many people talk about but i regret myself doing.
If you are looking for the dual sim option it is possible to convert SM-N950F to dual sim or just buy a SM-N950FD.
But if you are trying to mod/convert SM-N950F to dual sim it is easier to do it with knox 0, trying to do it with knox 1 will get you into more troubles. I regret triping knox before converting to my note 8 into dual sim as i have brought the equipment and it doesn't work with knox 1. Modding this phone is a nightmare with binary 4 (SM-N950F), 7 day oem unlock wait every flash/factory reset. The date change to unlock may not always work due to patch.
Personally i think this is a great phone but is a nightmare to work with. If your interested in intensive modding with this phone may not be for u.
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The 7 day timer has a workaround to skip the waiting period (posted as a sticky here), as well as a fix that can be flashed but it also now included in most custom roms. Aside from that people shouldn't have any issues rooting or modding the Exynos variants.
Trying to convert a single sim phone to dual sim would require copying the imei which is illegal. That type of modding isn't supposed to be easy or encouraged, by design.

BluePhnx said:
Yep any SM-N950F and SM-N950F/DS and SM-N950N are exynos and have bootloaders unlocked
The snapdragons from USA/Canada SM-N950U and SM-N950U1 and SM-N950W are bootloader Locked. But can be rooted but this is a huge but if your on bootloader v4 and up you CAN NOT root your phone.
Bootloader v3 and below CAN BE rooted. But no twrp recovery.
But there are snapdragons that have unlock bootloaders SM-N9500 which comes from China and Hong Kong.
Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk
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very good info/post. All what I wanted in one post.
Thanks! :good:

would my att sim card work in the exynos models? whats the downfall if it does work?

Granted, people can/should do their research before posting questions that have been answered many times over. Or easily searchable. There is nothing wrong with asking a question(s) pertaining to their individual circumstance. It's not just as simple as "educating" themselves when they are asking other's opinions and validating the information they have come across. This site is not a Wikipedia... It's also a community where people can go looking for help or advice. Your response neither helps or adds anything to this subject. There are people out there who don't even try or make an attempt to search before posting questions that have been asked a million times over. I don't feel that this is one of those posts. As for the "community" part I mentioned earlier, we are community that "should" be helping inform and educate people. I know the site has grown a lot over the years in popularity, increasing the number of lazy users making redundant and unnecessary threads. This too sadly has increased the amount of unhelpful, rude and egocentric users. I wish you could have been a little more constructive in your reply. Or, even if sarcastically, added some kind of relevant help. If only just to help any future users that don't even try before creating those unnecessary threads you/I see all the time.
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The best would be, that you start looking in the appropriate Note 8 sub forums or use the xda search function or use Google search. It won't harm you if you educate yourself a bit on this matter. The phone is 10 months old now, plenty of info out there.
Sent from my Galaxy Note 8 using XDA Labs
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Granted, people can/should do their research before posting questions that have been answered many times over. Or easily searchable. There is nothing wrong with asking a question(s) pertaining to their individual circumstance. It's not just as simple as "educating" themselves when they are asking other's opinions and validating the information they have come across. This site is not a Wikipedia... It's also a community where people can go looking for help or advice. Your response neither helps or adds anything to this subject. There are people out there who don't even try or make an attempt to search before posting questions that have been asked a million times over. I don't feel that this is one of those posts. As for the "community" part I mentioned earlier, we are community that "should" be helping inform and educate people. I know the site has grown a lot over the years in popularity, increasing the number of lazy users making redundant and unnecessary threads. This too sadly has increased the amount of unhelpful, rude and egocentric users. I wish you could have been a little more constructive in your reply. Or, even if sarcastically, added some kind of relevant help. If only just to help any future users that don't even try before creating those unnecessary threads you/I see all the time.
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Agree fully. if you are going to comment, save the snide remarks

Why is there only ONE Galaxy Note 9 forum?

I assume this thread will be moved and if it is, then no problem.
I'm coming off of a Galaxy Note 4, whenever my 512 GB Galaxy Note 9 variant actually arrives later this month.
For the GN4, the forums are laid out a little bit differently. The Main GN4 forum and then for carrier specific variants. I also always thought it was confusing how Developer Editions were also lumped into the same areas.
With the GN9, I'm noticing chatter between the two different processors in the same area: Snapdragon and Exynos.
Things like accessories, I'm going to guess, will apply to both models and all carriers, whereas, any "tools" or MODs/ROMs, will not. So, in otherwords, I'll have the T-mobile version, so it'd be nice to see any GN9 accessories and only any compatible ROMs/tools/rooting methods, if applicable. It is to my understanding that such is not possible on this variant...at least, not yet.
That said, any chance the structure of the GN9 area of the forums might be changed up a bit in the future?

Look at the other forums and you will see your answer.

It's mainly to create more clutter and add to the ever increasing confusion that happens here on xda. It's not like the old days where **** got done quickly and answered fast because people had less **** to wade through. Those days are years in then past and never coming back. Get use to the 45 other countries and variants posts to wade through.

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It's mainly to create more clutter and add to the ever increasing confusion that happens here on xda. It's not like the old days where **** got done quickly and answered fast because people had less **** to wade through. Those days are years in then past and never coming back. Get use to the 45 other countries and variants posts to wade through.
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It because most things are the same between the versions (even more so when sperated to Qualcomm and Exynos).
But yeah probably because of your reasons. Which is funny since even with all the "confusion" you're still here, must not be that confusing.

i hope they never ever ever ever split by carrier again. its the most retarded thing ever and it dosent even cover all carriers.
By cpu YES
By carrier NO
carrier split causses
duplicate threads and topics. less visibility for cpu specific questions and so on.
if you have carrier specific comments or irritations etc, take it to your carriers forum so they can acctualy hear about your concerns and maybe do something about it!!

It took a while with the Note 8 and Note 7 to create the carrier specific threads. What the hold up is this year, I don't know.

It was done to help the moderators as the carrier threads rarely seen any action in last few years....Every one posts in the regular threads any ways and it became to much to move it all

bober10113 said:
i hope they never ever ever ever split by carrier again. its the most retarded thing ever and it dosent even cover all carriers.
By cpu YES
By carrier NO
carrier split causses
duplicate threads and topics. less visibility for cpu specific questions and so on.
if you have carrier specific comments or irritations etc, take it to your carriers forum so they can acctualy hear about your concerns and maybe do something about it!!
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I do wish this is how it was By CPU

TheMadScientist said:
I do wish this is how it was By CPU
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make it so #1

JOSHSKORN said:
I assume this thread will be moved and if it is, then no problem.
I'm coming off of a Galaxy Note 4, whenever my 512 GB Galaxy Note 9 variant actually arrives later this month.
For the GN4, the forums are laid out a little bit differently. The Main GN4 forum and then for carrier specific variants. I also always thought it was confusing how Developer Editions were also lumped into the same areas.
With the GN9, I'm noticing chatter between the two different processors in the same area: Snapdragon and Exynos.
Things like accessories, I'm going to guess, will apply to both models and all carriers, whereas, any "tools" or MODs/ROMs, will not. So, in otherwords, I'll have the T-mobile version, so it'd be nice to see any GN9 accessories and only any compatible ROMs/tools/rooting methods, if applicable. It is to my understanding that such is not possible on this variant...at least, not yet.
That said, any chance the structure of the GN9 area of the forums might be changed up a bit in the future?
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With all of the user we now have it makes it harder as their where 2 teams one for international samsungs and one for US carrier...
All the US users started posting in main threads, If something needed to be done from there we had to get a hold of moderators in that area. Now we all work together among all of the sections of samsung... I will leave this thread here as it is a valid discussion,I will make note of separate sections for Snap and EXY But prob not gonna happen at current devices
As to further this it would make sense to do by CPU architecture As all the US now are exactly the same just different firmware This was not always the case Each US carrier tweaked the device to their liking

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It took a while with the Note 8 and Note 7 to create the carrier specific threads. What the hold up is this year, I don't know.
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The S8s and note 8 are the last samsung device to get carrier threads

TheMadScientist said:
With all of the user we now have it makes it harder as their where 2 teams one for international samsungs and one for US carrier...
All the US users started posting in main threads, If something needed to be done from there we had to get a hold of moderators in that area. Now we all work together among all of the sections of samsung... I will leave this thread here as it is a valid discussion,I will make note of separate sections for Snap and EXY But prob not gonna happen at current devices
As to further this it would make sense to do by CPU architecture As all the US now are exactly the same just different firmware This was not always the case Each US carrier tweaked the device to their liking
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I've seen similar discussions on other sites,there's pros & cons either way.
Just about all differences can be cured by using the search feature,regardless of how the device forum is set-up.

I just prefer to read about threads that only pertain to my variant, that's how it is with the GN4 forums. For the most part, Accessories and general discussions are all the same, but obviously rooting and ROM usage differs. The Verizon VN4 forums weren't perfect, because it included the Dev Ed, but root was later obtainable so it ended up being ok. Hopefully the Tmo GN9 at see point gets root but I don't have high hopes. It's just a little frustrating having all of these non Tmo threads dangling in my face, talking about root. I feel like a hungry dog being denied a bone. Lol
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The S8s and note 8 are the last samsung device to get carrier threads
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woohoo!

KOLIOSIS said:
I've seen similar discussions on other sites,there's pros & cons either way.
Just about all differences can be cured by using the search feature,regardless of how the device forum is set-up.
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exactly

JOSHSKORN said:
I just prefer to read about threads that only pertain to my variant, that's how it is with the GN4 forums. For the most part, Accessories and general discussions are all the same, but obviously rooting and ROM usage differs. The Verizon VN4 forums weren't perfect, because it included the Dev Ed, but root was later obtainable so it ended up being ok. Hopefully the Tmo GN9 at see point gets root but I don't have high hopes. It's just a little frustrating having all of these non Tmo threads dangling in my face, talking about root. I feel like a hungry dog being denied a bone. Lol
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That too I have a S8 snap so locked bootloader and all these wonderful rom

JOSHSKORN said:
I just prefer to read about threads that only pertain to my variant, that's how it is with the GN4 forums. For the most part, Accessories and general discussions are all the same, but obviously rooting and ROM usage differs. The Verizon VN4 forums weren't perfect, because it included the Dev Ed, but root was later obtainable so it ended up being ok. Hopefully the Tmo GN9 at see point gets root but I don't have high hopes. It's just a little frustrating having all of these non Tmo threads dangling in my face, talking about root. I feel like a hungry dog being denied a bone. Lol
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are you aware that US carriers all have snapdragon chip for a while now. When and if root comes, it won't be for a specific carrier but for that snapdragon cpu.
the threads you are reading are from the exynos cpu variant. the quicker you realise this the quicker you will turn from an animal to a sentient being...

I sort of know how that works. VZW had a bootloader lock, that was exploited by a CID, I think. Can't remember the rest of the root process, it's been awhile. So now that I'm on Tmo, I assume there could be carrier related locks on the bootloader as well, much less anything related to snapdragon.
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are you aware that US carriers all have snapdragon chip for a while now. When and if root comes, it won't be for a specific carrier but for that snapdragon cpu.
the threads you are reading are from the exynos cpu variant. the quicker you realise this the quicker you will turn from an animal to a sentient being...
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JOSHSKORN said:
I sort of know how that works. VZW had a bootloader lock, that was exploited by a CID, I think. Can't remember the rest of the root process, it's been awhile. So now that I'm on Tmo, I assume there could be carrier related locks on the bootloader as well, much less anything related to snapdragon.
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I remember the cid root my S5 i think was like that I had one that could be rooted and one that couldnt
I still got the rooted one needs a screen
it had safestrap bootloader is still locked but their are a couple stock based roms but no aosp or such If im not mistaken Been a long time

JOSHSKORN said:
I sort of know how that works. VZW had a bootloader lock, that was exploited by a CID, I think. Can't remember the rest of the root process, it's been awhile. So now that I'm on Tmo, I assume there could be carrier related locks on the bootloader as well, much less anything related to snapdragon.
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on recent modern time devices its pretty much how i described it.