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I bought my Note here in Switzerland via a very successful online retailer known as Digitec. Now I don't know where they got their Notes from but the system info in Android said XXKJ4 for for baseband, kernel and build. With my very limited Samsung-knowledge at the time, I jotted that down and believed to exactly know what kind of Note I have. As XX stands for Well, I dont.
I flashed back and forth and stuff and when recently my Samsung-keyboard only spat out "nullnullnull" instead of actual text I was told to flash the correct CSC. Well, earlier, I got myself a virgin Samsung firmware which I found here on xda in the Android dev thread to the Note and used MobileODIN to flash it. Firmware is N7000XXKKA_N7000OXXKK5_AUT, so it should be made for Switzerland, I believed. And since it's a full complete stock ROM why would the CSC be somehow wrong? I did some digging and found some stuff:
My devices Product code is GT-N7000ZBAKOR
The PDA is N7000XXKKA
The Phone is N7000XXKK5
CSC is N7000OXAKK5
This raised some questions I wasnt able to answer myself until now. First, ZBAKOR, do I have a Korean Note? Or what does the product code actually mean? Does it differ or is KOR the same for every Note on the planet? What does the product code influence? KIES-updateability?
Then, the CSCFiles.txt in /system says /system/csc/KOR/... instead of /system/csc/AUT/... what I want it to say. Is this due to the product code? How can I make my Note Swiss instead of Korean?
Further, what does OXAKK5 in the CSC string mean? I get KKA, KK5 etc is the version naming Samsung uses, KK5 or KKA would be 2011, December (November?) and 5th or 10th revision, respectively. But what does OXA mean? I could find any info related to that anywhere.
Staying at strings, what does XXKKA actually mean, if its the product code or the CSC which controls everything region and/or language related?
Its all just so damn confusing. Having a KOR Note, flashed with a stock AUT ROM, the CSC is OXA and everything else XX. What the heck...?!
Hi All, I really need some help. First post. I bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 8 SM-N950F/DualSim from eBay in mint condition for £285 a few months back. Works perfectly. Waited until end of March but no Android 9 One UI update. Realised I hadn't got ANY updates what so ever since I got it. Contacted Samsung and they say because it is from a different region it can't be updated in the UK. I find this extremely unfair. I use a Blackberry Key2 as my main phone and Note 8 as a second phone which I don't always carry. Use it more to surf and watch videos with once I get home.
I have never rooted or Odined or anything else before so am not too excited about any of that stuff. I just need the simplest tutorial there is to get my phone to update and to continue to update if that is possible. I am currently on Android Oreo 8.0 and security patch August 2018!
Thanks in advance for your help.
P.S I have no idea which region it's from but the serial number is R58J944Z7HT
Bilal81 said:
Hi All, I really need some help. First post. I bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 8 SM-N950F/DualSim from eBay in mint condition for £285 a few months back. Works perfectly. Waited until end of March but no Android 9 One UI update. Realised I hadn't got ANY updates what so ever since I got it. Contacted Samsung and they say because it is from a different region it can't be updated in the UK. I find this extremely unfair. I use a Blackberry Key2 as my main phone and Note 8 as a second phone which I don't always carry. Use it more to surf and watch videos with once I get home.
I have never rooted or Odined or anything else before so am not too excited about any of that stuff. I just need the simplest tutorial there is to get my phone to update and to continue to update if that is possible. I am currently on Android Oreo 8.0 and security patch August 2018!
Thanks in advance for your help.
P.S I have no idea which region it's from but the serial number is R58J944Z7HT
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Dial *#1234# in phone dialer. Look at the CSC line and look for "OXM" in the line eg. N950F"OXM"5CSA2. If you see that then:
Read page 1:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-8/how-to/official-stock-firmware-update-odin-t3677072
To find your CSC:
You can go to system settings/ about phone/software information/ service providers SW ver. (Look for something like this example TPA/TPA/XEU , should be last line in that section. Yours might be different but it should be in this format CSC/CSC/CSC .)
2nd spot TPA is the your carrier CSC (set by your sim card.)
3rd Spot XEU is where your phone is from.
So look at the second spot for your CSC code.
So know you have the:
Model of note 8 : SM-N950F or SM-N950F/DS (doesn't matter firmware is for both phones.)
The multi-CSC firmware OXM
And your CSC code.
Now you have 3 choices:
1) Connect phone to PC and use smart switch to update phone (if there is one for your csc). This will keep data intacted!
2) You can use samfirm.exe on PC to download the firmware for your model phone and CSC and use the latest Odin to update.
Use "Home-CSC" file to keep data intacted!
Warning DO NOT use "csc" file this DELETE DATA! (Or you
want to delete data.)
3) Use samfirm.exe to download the firmware for any CSC that's in that multi-CSC OXM that's listed in that thread I posted and latest Odin.
Use "Home-CSC" file to keep data intacted! This will keep
your CSC the same!
Warning DO NOT use "csc" file this DELETE DATA! (Or you
want to delete data.)
Now you might need to Odin everytime the new update or you might be lucky and you'll get the OTA.
I have the N950F in Canada and I get OTA update here, maybe because my 3 csc code is XEU/XEU/XEU(your will be different! )(because the multi-CSC oxm doesn't support my carrier csc so it stays default XEU/XEU/XEU. )
Your case maybe different so I would get used to using Samfirm.exe and Odin to update your phone.
Or you can always wait and see if you get the OTA, your choice!
If you don't have the OXM or do you can go to
https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-note8/SM-N950F/
To look what country the CSC belongs to (CSC in this case is the 3rd spot in this eg. XEU/XEU/XEU)
Eg XEU is UK/Ireland
XSG is United Arab Emirates
Hi,
I had exactly the same issue; bought a Note 8 on ebay last year (also in mint condition) - it's a Dual SIM model also. But mine had not had a security update since March 2018. Like you I contacted Samsung support and was told that there isn't anything they can do. One suggestion was to send the phone to its country of origin so that it can pick up security updates OTA - not really an option for me...
I bit the bullet today and followed the procedure set out by BluePhnx. The whole process took about 1 hour. I was taking my time because I have never attempted anything similar before. Everything worked great and I now have Android Pie with Samsung One UI More importantly the security version is March 2019. All my apps and data are intact and S-Pen continues to work great.
Thanks BluePhnx for the guide.
Best,
TB
Preface: Bought my S21 Ultra from an eBay seller with the assumption it would be UK based as it came from within the UK. However, it might be from Bulgaria as per the CSC code being set to BGL. At the moment this hasn't resulted in any major errors sans one.
I am unable to use Samsung Pay as I'm assuming the apps things it's a Bulgarian phone and as a result doesn't support Samsung Pay.
What's the best way for me to go about changing the CSC to BTU? I've already attempted this once by flashing an OXM build via Odin but this didn't change it as I expected it to.
Thoughts or suggestions very welcome!
I suggest trying to flash a BTU or OXA firmware as they are UK CSCs.
Also, try flashing firmware that's aligned to your network provider. This method worked for my Note 8 and I was able to enable the VolTE and other functionalities.
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Preface: Bought my S21 Ultra from an eBay seller with the assumption it would be UK based as it came from within the UK. However, it might be from Bulgaria as per the CSC code being set to BGL. At the moment this hasn't resulted in any major errors sans one.
I am unable to use Samsung Pay as I'm assuming the apps things it's a Bulgarian phone and as a result doesn't support Samsung Pay.
What's the best way for me to go about changing the CSC to BTU? I've already attempted this once by flashing an OXM build via Odin but this didn't change it as I expected it to.
Thoughts or suggestions very welcome!
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flashing BTU rom won't chnage your CSC. you have to use SAMKEY app. search for it in google and learn how to use it . there are couple of threads here in xda.
Good Luck!
Hey everyone,
I bought a s20fe on amazon france last month.
Back then the CSC was XEO/XEO,XEO/EUX/XEO (whatever that means).
All worked including the microsoft stuff integration & RCS on samsung messaging.
When Android 12 started to roll out, one of the first country to have it was turkey so i flashed a turkey rom right away with odin.
My CSC changed to TUR and i lost some microsoft integration stuff & RCS on samsung messaging. However, it still worked with google messaging so i didn't mind and i'd figure i move back to a french rom whenever it was released.
Then, a few days back, a XEF (French) rom was released. I flashed it and my CSC stayed on TUR. I tried things for many hours (refrash, calling code in dialer to change it, ...) but no dice.
Eventually i bought a samkey token to change it to XEF and i got everything working again, including samsung messaging with RCS on android 12.
What is bothering me is that i do not understand what happened. Why could i move the CSC to TUR with Odin with no issue while on the other hand, i could only move back out of TUR with samkey.
It's not a big deal, but it bother me that i can't understand what happened there.
So if anyone had any understanding or CSC and how it works, i'd be grateful !
if you could search this forum and type in CSC there'd be dozens and dozens topics all saying the same thing.
the answer to your question is because Samsung.
flobo09 said:
Hey everyone,
I bought a s20fe on amazon france last month.
Back then the CSC was XEO/XEO,XEO/EUX/XEO (whatever that means).
All worked including the microsoft stuff integration & RCS on samsung messaging.
When Android 12 started to roll out, one of the first country to have it was turkey so i flashed a turkey rom right away with odin.
My CSC changed to TUR and i lost some microsoft integration stuff & RCS on samsung messaging. However, it still worked with google messaging so i didn't mind and i'd figure i move back to a french rom whenever it was released.
Then, a few days back, a XEF (French) rom was released. I flashed it and my CSC stayed on TUR. I tried things for many hours (refrash, calling code in dialer to change it, ...) but no dice.
Eventually i bought a samkey token to change it to XEF and i got everything working again, including samsung messaging with RCS on android 12.
What is bothering me is that i do not understand what happened. Why could i move the CSC to TUR with Odin with no issue while on the other hand, i could only move back out of TUR with samkey.
It's not a big deal, but it bother me that i can't understand what happened there.
So if anyone had any understanding or CSC and how it works, i'd be grateful !
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I'm in the same situation, I have the TUR version and I can't put ITV (Italy)
Samkey now works for FE models to switch CSC.
3mel said:
Samkey now works for FE models to switch CSC.
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it is not true!
mau3o said:
it is not true!
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people in the FE group I'm in have used it.
So, I've been researching about the subject, specifically for the s20 fe 4g snapdragon (G780G), but the there's information all over the place.
I've got a ZTO phone, unbranded, and I wanted to change it to BTB, since it's been kind of a joke that until now it didn't got the oneui 5.0 update, meanwhile some are getting january security patch.
So I wanted to switch my csc to get OTA from a region which gets faster updates, while not unlocking the bootloader.
The thing is, both are in different multi csc, OWO and OMX respectively. So dial pad method doesn't work.
I've checked samkey website, but they don't support South American phones, in other words, mine.
So through research, I didn't found a conclusion, so I'm asking here if someone ever tried.
Does full firmware install, in my case BTB files, using home csc file, which I'm aware will wipe the phone, will change the csc and enable ota updates? Or is the s20 fe one of those models which this method doesn't work anymore?
Any insight on the subject is welcome, so thank you for reading till here.
Yes, it will work. I also got a ZTO phone, which I've changed to Russia's CSC, and everything worked fine. But if you're trying to update to OneUI 5, you can download the firmware from the TPA csc, which is multi region (OWO), so your phone will be in OneUI 5 but will be recognized under the ZTO csc, with future OTA updates already enabled.
I actually went through it before yesterday. I guess I'll leave my experience just in case someone ends in this thread looking for something similar.
As a tldr, it indeed worked, as mateushonorato, which I thank for taking the time to share his experience, shared.
In my experience, I wanted to keep OTA working, so I went with the 1st firmware available of the region I wanted to flash, G780GXXU3DVK5 was the PDA, and the BTU was the CSC.
I ended up using Samfw site and tools for everything.
So since I wanted to change my multi region, it ended wiping the data as expected. But the moment the rom patching process ended, I saw that something was weird, cause it I was greeted by cyrillic text. I went through the initial process and indeed confirmed patching did change my muilti region for OWO to OMX. But I wasn't in BTU, but on SEK. Just to be 100% sure, I enabled dev tools and checked through sawfw tool my CSC list, and it was indeed OXM.
Afterwards I checked OTA to see if it was working, and it immediately caught that it had an update avaliable.
Being Honest, I could've finished here, but having came this far, I wouldn't settle on compromise. So I just, once again, used samfw tool to change my CSC to BTU, and I did a factory reset using the automation through the tool.
After the process got done, I got it to BTU. I've seen people having problems with getting the right CSC in those cases, but my was on the first try.
After that the usual, set up the phone, and check for OTA, which was working, and just to be sure, I went through both updates, G780GXXS3DVL1 and the current G780GXXS3DWA3.
So far, seems everything is working as it should, on the CSC tab it still mentions ZTO, but I think it's supposed to be this way, I'm not entirely sure tbh. I was with the impression my phone wasn't fast charging at first, but after looking into the system and it says it was fast charging, and looking at my brother's s20fe exynos model, they are both charging on the same speed, even after interchanging the chargers, I think it was prolly just my impression.
Anyway, I hope that this is of some help to anyone in looking, for whichever reason, into CSC change while maintain OTA updates. Just always keep in mind this was my own experience, using a G780G model phone.