I currently have 920A with newest OTA 7.0.
I downloaded 920F ILO 7.0 from sammobile, but it has only one file. I'm using Odin 3.12.7 and when I put the one MD5 file in the AP section (I leave the rest of the sections blank) it fails.
What am I missing? I'm wanting to use a stock unlocked firmware to remove the ATT bloatware.
phatrabbitzz said:
I currently have 920A with newest OTA 7.0.
I downloaded 920F ILO 7.0 from sammobile, but it has only one file. I'm using Odin 3.12.7 and when I put the one MD5 file in the AP section (I leave the rest of the sections blank) it fails.
What am I missing? I'm wanting to use a stock unlocked firmware to remove the ATT bloatware.
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It wont work cuz the firmware you are trying to flash is not for the device you are trying to flash to. att s6 has a locked boot loader and only tethered root options available last time i checked.
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It wont work cuz the firmware you are trying to flash is not for the device you are trying to flash to. att s6 has a locked boot loader and only tethered root options available last time i checked.
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Is this true across the board? I also have a 920V with verizon's bloatware on it. So I won't be able to flash to an unlocked firmware like 920F to get a 'clean' OS?
idk on the 920v. i dont have one so i have not followed the forum for that device. as far as flashing a different devices firmware to a device not meant for it. its generally a bad idea. id look for answers in that devices specific page.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-galaxy-s6.
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It wont work cuz the firmware you are trying to flash is not for the device you are trying to flash to. att s6 has a locked boot loader and only tethered root options available last time i checked.
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Doesn't this thread prove otherwise?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/sp...m-tar-gs7e-unlocked-model-rom-update-t3412265
I realize that is for an S7 edge on Sprint network but isn't the concept the same?
its not for att. it wont work on an att s7 device. Att devices dont get love for most part. its a stock firmware from samsung that doesnt have carrier bloatware. for vzw, spr or tmo from the thread itself based off the unlocked usa model.. your device has a locked bootloader. so even finding the (6920f) firmware and flashing anything but samsung firmware for that device (6920a) is going to a. fail in odin or b. brick that phone. its your device. what you do is on you.
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I have a N950W (canadian model). Origina firmware BRA5 (latest Canadian release)
Used Odin to BRA8 then update to CRA5. Works good, however I need to go back to official Canadian release and I think it may not be possible since its BRA5?
Does BRA5 and BRA8 have different version bootloader?
Can I somehow downgrade to BRA8 but have the model go back to N950W and be recognized as a Canadian device? I am missing some needed carrier options.
Thank you for reading.
I did the exact same thing you did. Turned my W into a U model. I believe we were on 3BRA5, 3 being bootloader 3. That would mean you can flash back with no issues.
CRB5 is working great for me, but I did lose VoLTE and Samsung Pay on my Telus version (after I flashed it to a U).
Someone else chime in and correct me if I am wrong, but you should be able to flash back to W software any time without issue, as long as it's a bootloader version 3 version.
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I did the exact same thing you did. Turned my W into a U model. I believe we were on 3BRA5, 3 being bootloader 3. That would mean you can flash back with no issues.
CRB5 is working great for me, but I did lose VoLTE and Samsung Pay on my Telus version (after I flashed it to a U).
Someone else chime in and correct me if I am wrong, but you should be able to flash back to W software any time without issue, as long as it's a bootloader version 3 version.
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Yeah the lack of VoLTE is killing me at work. I can't flash BRA5 (I think bootloader is older). I am thinking I can maybe flash BRA8 with Canadian CSC and that will bring it back to N950W. I'm not sure though. Can someone confirm?
milan187 said:
Yeah the lack of VoLTE is killing me at work. I can't flash BRA5 (I think bootloader is older). I am thinking I can maybe flash BRA8 with Canadian CSC and that will bring it back to N950W. I'm not sure though. Can someone confirm?
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I just double checked. It's 3BRA5. That's bootloader 3, so you should be able to flash back to 3BRA5 with no issues. Again, a second opinion would be good. I don't want to be responsible for you bricking your Note, lol.
I don't think you can change the CSC of BRA8 to a Canadian CSC, as the multi CSCs in BRA8 are for USA carriers only.
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I just double checked. It's 3BRA5. That's bootloader 3, so you should be able to flash back to 3BRA5 with no issues. Again, a second opinion would be good. I don't want to be responsible for you bricking your Note, lol.
I don't think you can change the CSC of BRA8 to a Canadian CSC, as the multi CSCs in BRA8 are for USA carriers only.
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Thanks I will give it a shot. I don't think you can brick it. It just wont load if its a downgrade.
Update: Comes up with this error in Odin, not sure if thats an issue with bootloader version
<ID:0/008> FAIL! SHA256 is invalid
milan187 said:
Thanks I will give it a shot. I don't think you can brick it. It just wont load if its a downgrade.
Update: Comes up with this error in Odin, not sure if thats an issue with bootloader version
<ID:0/008> FAIL! SHA256 is invalid
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Use comsy odin
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jerrycoffman45 said:
Use comsy odin
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Great suggestion that worked.
Whats the difference between the two Odins?
milan187 said:
Great suggestion that worked.
Whats the difference between the two Odins?
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Not sure but comsy allows you to change models
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milan187 said:
Great suggestion that worked.
Whats the difference between the two Odins?
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How I remembered it as is Comsy Odin is for going to a non-carrier U1 firmware, while regular odin is for going back to a carrier firmware.
Comsy --> U1 Firmware > Success
Comsy --> Carrier Firmware > Fail
Regular Odin --> Carrier Firmware > Success
Regular Odin --> U1 Firmware > Fail
I am trying to install the official ATT Rom on my unlocked Note 9 SM-N960U1. I downloaded a rom and loaded it into Odin but every time I hit start it fails immediately. I need the features of an ATT phone because I live in a bad reception area and my micro cell keeps being reset on me. I am just tired of not having wifi calling and the other features. How do I find the correct version of the ATT SM-N960U that will work on my SM-N960U1?
You will not find At&t firmware as they do not post the U firmware. You can use any U firmware..Comcast..USC..Xfinity..Tmobile, they are all the same. As long as you have an At&t sim the firmware will provision. Make sure you are using the correct Odin and you have to flash the same firmware version the matches your current bootloader version. Meaning if your current bootloader is S4 or U4 you can't go backwards to S3 or U3 you can only flash the same or higher.
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You will not find At&t firmware as they do not post the U firmware. You can use any U firmware..Comcast..USC..Xfinity..Tmobile, they are all the same. As long as you have an At&t sim the firmware will provision. Make sure you are using the correct Odin and you have to flash the same firmware version the matches your current bootloader version. Meaning if your current bootloader is S4 or U4 you can't go backwards to S3 or U3 you can only flash the same or higher.
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I am using the patched odin you recommended in another post. This is my bootloader N960U1UES5ETH3. So I need an S5 any carrier? Will this one work, N960USQS5ETH5 it is a T-mobile one. This is the one I have been trying N960USQU1ARG6 it says it is ATT. This is why I am confused. Thanks for your reply.
Yes that will work. You can't downgrade bootloader
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Yes that will work. You can't downgrade bootloader
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I really cannot thank you enough for clearly explaining this to me. I just flashed it and everything worked fine. Got wifi calling and everything. Thank you for your help! :good:
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Hello everyone i've been really struggling with updating my phone that i got pre-owned It's a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 (SM-N960U) and I have not recieved updates since I got it the phone is still on Android version 8.1.0 and security patch from 2018 so i've been really wanting to update it to the latest version but I couldn't and i figured out that phones from AT&T only update via their own app or OTA thing anyway I thought of flashing it with a stock firmware VIA ODIN but i checked on sammobile that the note 9 AT&T csc only has 1 update and thats 8.1.0 also so i was wondering if i can use some other firmware to flash it or do i change csc? would that work if i changed the csc or am i gonna have baseband and signal issues? I tried KIES it said it didnt recognize my phone probably because the software version has never been updated and very old , i wanted to flash it to a different CSC than AT&T but i dont think thats a good idea, please help
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Hello everyone i've been really struggling with updating my phone that i got pre-owned It's a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 (SM-N960U) and I have not recieved updates since I got it the phone is still on Android version 8.1.0 and security patch from 2018 so i've been really wanting to update it to the latest version but I couldn't and i figured out that phones from AT&T only update via their own app or OTA thing anyway I thought of flashing it with a stock firmware VIA ODIN but i checked on sammobile that the note 9 AT&T csc only has 1 update and thats 8.1.0 also so i was wondering if i can use some other firmware to flash it or do i change csc? would that work if i changed the csc or am i gonna have baseband and signal issues? I tried KIES it said it didnt recognize my phone probably because the software version has never been updated and very old , i wanted to flash it to a different CSC than AT&T but i dont think thats a good idea, please help
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Kies is for older Samsung devices, Smart Switch is for newer Samsung devices.
Here is a list of firmware at Sammobile that has android 10 for your device. They are for T-mobile but I'm pretty sure it can be used on the AT&T Note 9.
https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/galaxy-note9/firmware/sm-n960u/tmb/
Here is a thread for AT&T note 9 where another user flashed their Note 9 with firmware from another carrier. Use the T-Mobile firmware and follow the steps from post #4 of the thread linked below.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-9/help/please-help-flashing-att-n960u-firmware-t4107287
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Kies is for older Samsung devices, Smart Switch is for newer Samsung devices.
Here is a list of firmware at Sammobile that has android 10 for your device. They are for T-mobile but I'm pretty sure it can be used on the AT&T Note 9.
https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/galaxy-note9/firmware/sm-n960u/tmb/
Here is a thread for AT&T note 9 where another user flashed their Note 9 with firmware from another carrier. Use the T-Mobile firmware and follow the steps from post #4 of the thread linked below.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-9/help/please-help-flashing-att-n960u-firmware-t4107287
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hey thanks for replying so basically i can flash my phone to any other csc because it's unlocked correct? i live in Saudi Arabia so is the reception or whatever gonna get messed up by chance if i flash to something other than AT&T? thanks again.
ep1kku said:
hey thanks for replying so basically i can flash my phone to any other csc because it's unlocked correct? i live in Saudi Arabia so is the reception or whatever gonna get messed up by chance if i flash to something other than AT&T? thanks again.
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Read post #4 of the thread that I linked, it will tell you everything you need to know.
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Droidriven said:
Read post #4 of the thread that I linked, it will tell you everything you need to know.
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yeah but my phone is sm-n960u not sm-n960u1 what should i be changing in the methods?
ep1kku said:
yeah but my phone is sm-n960u not sm-n960u1 what should i be changing in the methods?
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So, all the SM960U devices are the same. Just flash the T-Mobile firmware.
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Droidriven said:
So, all the SM960U devices are the same. Just flash the T-Mobile firmware.
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oh alright, tyvm im gonna go through with it and update you how it goes, ty for the help and response :highfive:
Hello people, having exactly the same problem, so its a SM-N960U phone, unlocked from AT&T. First to say, im not in the US, dont have AT&T sim, the phone is updated to android 10 with 2.0ui, with baseband ver. N960USQS3DTB1.
Now somewhere i read that bootloader must be unlocked in order even to begin thinking of flashind the device, dont know how accurate that is... Id like to ask the Owner of the post, if he was able to make it, to update his firmware. And if so did he indeed succeded from the link above from ep1kku ?
Denis95M said:
Hello people, having exactly the same problem, so its a SM-N960U phone, unlocked from AT&T. First to say, im not in the US, dont have AT&T sim, the phone is updated to android 10 with 2.0ui, with baseband ver. N960USQS3DTB1.
Now somewhere i read that bootloader must be unlocked in order even to begin thinking of flashind the device, dont know how accurate that is... Id like to ask the Owner of the post, if he was able to make it, to update his firmware. And if so did he indeed succeded from the link above from ep1kku ?
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No, the bootloader does not need to be unlocked before flashing if you are flashing stock software, unlocked bootloader is required to flash custom software, not stock software. There are some manufacturers that require unlocking bootloader even when flashing stock software but Samsung is not and probably never will be one of them.
You can flash your device with stock firmware any time you want, provided that the firmware is not a firmware that is older than your currently installed firmware and if the firmware is for your model number or an equivalent variant of your device with a similar model number and the same CPU series.
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No, the bootloader does not need to be unlocked before flashing if you are flashing stock software, unlocked bootloader is required to flash custom software, not stock software.
You can flash your device with stock firmware any time you want, provided that the firmware is not a firmware that is older than your currently installed firmware and if the firmware is for your model number or an equivalent variant of your device with a similar model number and the same CPU series.
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Wow didn't know that, well how to find out if the firmware on my device is stock or not, im trying to flash for a week now, odin keeps giving me error ... All threads succed 0/1 no idea whats up with that
Denis95M said:
Wow didn't know that, well how to find out if the firmware on my device is stock or not, im trying to flash for a week now, odin keeps giving me error ... All threads succed 0/1 no idea whats up with that
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You can boot into download mode and it should say whether the firmware is "official" or "custom".
As I said, you can flash stock firmware provided that the firmware that you are flashing is not older than your current firmware, you can't downgrade the firmware, you can only flash an equivalent firmware to what is already on the device or a newer, updated firmware. Your error may be due to this. For all Samsung firmware, the 5th character from the right in the build number is referred to as the binary version. Your currently installed firmware has a "3" for the binary version, this means you can only flash a firmware that also has a binary 3 or you can flash a firmware that has a number higher than 3 but you can not flash a firmware that has a binary that is lower than 3(you can not flash a binary 1 or 2 firmware).
Depending on the specific error that you got, this could be your issue. What was the specific error that you got?
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You can boot into download mode and it should say whether the firmware is "official" or "custom".
As I said, you can flash stock firmware provided that the firmware that you are flashing is not older than your current firmware, you can't downgrade the firmware, you can only flash an equivalent firmware to what is already on the device or a newer, updated firmware. Your error may be due to this. For all Samsung firmware, the 5th character from the right in the build number is referred to as the binary version. Your currently installed firmware has a "3" for the binary version, this means you can only flash a firmware that also has a binary 3 or you can flash a firmware that has a number higher than 3 but you can not flash a firmware that has a binary that is lower than 3(you can not flash a binary 1 or 2 firmware).
Depending on the specific error that you got, this could be your issue. What was the specific error that you got?
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I got you, well iv got into download mode many times, its say official, so in theory i can flash official release right, but keeps ending with that odin error, no idea ... Could it be because im in different region than the device's market, its a US market phone like i said, in from europe
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I got you, well iv got into download mode many times, its say official, so in theory i can flash official release right, but keeps ending with that odin error, no idea ... Could it be because im in different region than the device's market, its a US market phone like i said, in from europe
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When using Odin, in the box that shows the flashing process, it should say exactly which error you are getting. When I asked what error you are getting, I was not asking "why" you are getting the error, I'm asking what it says in that box. Post the exact name of the error. Try to flash the device, while it is flashing, watch the dialog box in Odin, when it gives the error, take note of exactly what the error is, you can scroll up and down within the box and read all of the output data in that field.
Yes, it could be due to being from a different region but I doubt it. It could also be because your device is a Snapdragon version but the firmware that you are trying to flash could be for a Exynos version instead, or vice versa.
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When using Odin, in the box that shows the flashing process, it should say exactly which error you are getting. When I asked what error you are getting, I was not asking "why" you are getting the error, I'm asking what it says in that box. Post the exact name of the error. Try to flash the device, while it is flashing, watch the dialog box in Odin, when it gives the error, take note of exactly what the error is, you can scroll up and down within the box and read all of the output data in that field.
Yes, it could be due to being from a different region but I doubt it. It could also be because your device is a Snapdragon version but the firmware that you are trying to flash could be for a Exynos version instead, or vice versa.
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Yes i know that i cant downgrade, well all software that i attempt to flash is downloaded from sammobile, my binary is v3, but one problem, all at&t release for that model is the original one, with android 8.1 ... So i try U1 model still didn't work, my software is official, says in download mode
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Yes i know that i cant downgrade, well all software that i attempt to flash is downloaded from sammobile, my binary is v3, but one problem, all at&t release for that model is the original one, with android 8.1 ... So i try U1 model still didn't work, my software is official, says in download mode
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You still aren't telling me the SPECIFIC error that you are getting in the dialog box in Odin. That has been the most important question to understand your issue but you keep dodging it. Flash the firmware, watch for the error, take note of exactly what error it says it is, then post exactly what it says the error is. If you can't post that then there is no point in replying.
If you are trying to flash the device in a different region, you may not need to flash the whole firmware from the different region, you may be able to flash just the modem.img from the alternative firmware. To do this, extract the firmware, find the modem.img then convert that modem.img into an Odin flashable .tar using 7zip with its highest level of compression, then flash the modem.img.tar via Odin.
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You still aren't telling me the SPECIFIC error that you are getting in the dialog box in Odin. That has been the most important question to understand your issue but you keep dodging it. Flash the firmware, watch for the error, take note of exactly what error it says it is, then post exactly what it says the error is.
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Sorry rigth in posting screen shot of the error.
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Sorry rigth in posting screen shot of the error.
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I added to my previous post.
Strange, your screenshot doesn't show an error, it just stops without giving an error.
I'm assuming that your firmware came in multiple parts with some CSC files? If so, try flashing without using the CSC files.
Droidriven said:
I added to my previous post.
Strange, your screenshot doesn't show an error, it just stops without giving an error.
I'm assuming that your firmware came in multiple parts with some CSC files? If so, try flashing without using the CSC files.
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Right tonight i will try when I'm home, could it be thoug because of wrong firmware ?
Denis95M said:
Right tonight i will try when I'm home, could it be thoug because of wrong firmware ?
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Give me a link to the firmware that you downloaded and I'll compare to see if it is supposed to work.
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Give me a link to the firmware that you downloaded and I'll compare to see if it is supposed to work.
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Alright, https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/galaxy-note9/firmware/#SM-N960U this is without the carrier, if you put at&t in search menu, you will see that only 1 is available, with android 8.1
So i tried U1, version at&t https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/galaxy-note9/firmware/SM-N960U1/ATT/#SM-N960U1 also didn't work, i tried T-mobile on same U1 model, also didn't work. Everytime same error/none error like on the screen shot
is there is any problem from changing my software using odin 3b patched from n960u to n960f?
and if not possible can i activate at&t firmware and get it's booting logo and volte and video calling without having at&t simcard because i'm in egypt??
abulnass said:
is there is any problem from changing my software using odin 3b patched from n960u to n960f?
and if not possible can i activate at&t firmware and get it's booting logo and volte and video calling without having at&t simcard because i'm in egypt??
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For sure you can't downgrade bootloader. I don't think you could change international unlocked version to US locked version. I'm not not sure though. Have you asked in the patched odin thread?
Rosli59564 said:
For sure you can't downgrade bootloader. I don't think you could change international unlocked version to US locked version. I'm not not sure though. Have you asked in the patched odin thread?
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i want the opposite.
want to change us version n960u to international version n960f..
abulnass said:
i want the opposite.
want to change us version n960u to international version n960f..
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/patched-odin-3-13-1-t3762572/page5
You can't change G965U to G965F. I guess it should be the same for note 9
1. You cant. YOU MIGHT SUCCEED TO FLASH IT with the patched Odin, but that will most certainly brick your phone. These are two different phones, PERIOD.
2. What you can do is FLASH SM-N960U1 firmware with XAA CSC to your phone, and have all the AT&T stuff away. This too needs the Patched Odin.