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Help --- SGH-1337M --- Firmware Flashing

I have left my phones stock for a while now, so I might be outdated and to be honest, I don't want to take any risks.
I have a SGS4, SGH-1337M, and I would like to install the latest stock firmware that does not have any of the carrier garbage. I checked out sammobile.com for some firmwares, but they all seem to be locked down with the bloatware and useless stuff carriers like to include.
So my first question, are there any stock firmwares for my phone that are free of everything you don't want on a phone?
Second, I used odin to flash my phones before, however, I remember that firmware is one thing, but I would also need the carrier proprietary modem? If the firmware flash still requires separate files, where can I find Bell Canada's modem?
I know there are plenty of guides, and threads that can help answer my questions, though I must suck at searching... Besides, asking questions gives specific answers, and I know this community has always been very helpful

You would be better off asking in the forum for your phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s4-att

You're not going to find any stock firmware that does not have carrier bloat. You'll either have to root and get rid of it yourself or flash a custom rom
Sent from my Nexus 5

Knocturnal88 said:
I have left my phones stock for a while now, so I might be outdated and to be honest, I don't want to take any risks.
I have a SGS4, SGH-1337M, and I would like to install the latest stock firmware that does not have any of the carrier garbage. I checked out sammobile.com for some firmwares, but they all seem to be locked down with the bloatware and useless stuff carriers like to include.
So my first question, are there any stock firmwares for my phone that are free of everything you don't want on a phone?
Second, I used odin to flash my phones before, however, I remember that firmware is one thing, but I would also need the carrier proprietary modem? If the firmware flash still requires separate files, where can I find Bell Canada's modem?
I know there are plenty of guides, and threads that can help answer my questions, though I must suck at searching... Besides, asking questions gives specific answers, and I know this community has always been very helpful
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To get rid of bloat, you need to root, check chainfires CF-auto root for that, to flash a rom, any rom, you need a custom recovery, although you can flash roms from sammobile with odin. As for the bloat, it is suggested to freeze what you don't want in titainuum backup which will remove them from your apps drawer. This way you can make sure the phone still works. The modem for 4.4.2 is NC1 can be found here under a bunch of links, that is flashed with Odin. The Canadian modem is not carrier specific but your APNs are so you need to likely re-enter them if you cn't get data to work.

SM-N910F Baseband/Modem firmware for Android 5.1

Hi all, just updated the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 to CyanogenMod 5.1.1 ROM. Phone doesn't recognize SIM card (I live in UK) anymore, baseband is showing as "unknown" under the About Phone section. Please can someone let me know where I can download the Baseband/Modem firmware for SM-N910F?
Many thanks!

You could attempt to download the full stock firmware by either using 'Samfirm' or the website 'Sammobile'
Unbranded Note 4 CSC is BTU but it is currently still on Android 5.0.1 but the modem and bootloader will still work fine with Cyanogenmod ROMs.

Right, I did download the official Samsung firmware N910FXXU1BOC5 from a website, but when flashing with Odin 3.09 I was getting a error. So I ended up using the customized ROM which didn't seem to have the baseband/model inside. How could I extract the baseband from the official firmware in MD5 format?

kevin.jiang said:
Right, I did download the official Samsung firmware N910FXXU1BOC5 from a website, but when flashing with Odin 3.09 I was getting a error. So I ended up using the customized ROM which didn't seem to have the baseband/model inside. How could I extract the baseband from the official firmware in MD5 format?
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Bootloader
Modem
Put your phone in download mode manually (Pull the battery out and put it back in after 10 seconds and then hold volume down + Home button and power on the device) Then connect it to your PC and run Odin as Admin and flash the bootloader and modem.
Make sure you uninstall Kies if you have it installed.

Battlehero said:
Bootloader
Modem
Put your phone in download mode manually (Pull the battery out and put it back in after 10 seconds and then hold volume down + Home button and power on the device) Then connect it to your PC and run Odin as Admin and flash the bootloader and modem.
Make sure you uninstall Kies if you have it installed.
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Hi mate,
I have a quick question with which I hope you can help (if you have the time of course ). There is a newer firmware version for UK, which is COK3 (and O2, which is what I have), and I'd like to update to this one, but the only way I know would be to update the phone entirely and then root it again and install whatever mod rom I'm using from there. However, this would be a painful lot of work. Do you know (or mind sharing) how to extract the baseband from an official md5 release so as to update this only or as well as the bootloader? Is there any way to put the entire firmware md5 file on Odin and tell the software to update just one thing?
I saw that you did just that above and I'm having some trouble with the phone connection being lost quite often, so it would be of great help.
Many thanks in advance for your help mate!
Cheers

paieneso said:
Hi mate,
I have a quick question with which I hope you can help (if you have the time of course ). There is a newer firmware version for UK, which is COK3 (and O2, which is what I have), and I'd like to update to this one, but the only way I know would be to update the phone entirely and then root it again and install whatever mod rom I'm using from there. However, this would be a painful lot of work. Do you know (or mind sharing) how to extract the baseband from an official md5 release so as to update this only or as well as the bootloader? Is there any way to put the entire firmware md5 file on Odin and tell the software to update just one thing?
I saw that you did just that above and I'm having some trouble with the phone connection being lost quite often, so it would be of great help.
Many thanks in advance for your help mate!
Cheers
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You can check my signature for the latest modems and bootloaders.
Tutorial:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/guide-extract-bootloader-make-flashable-t2864264

Battlehero said:
You can check my signature for the latest modems and bootloaders.
Tutorial:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/general/guide-extract-bootloader-make-flashable-t2864264
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Thanks for the quick response mate! You are the man! I still have a couple of questions though. Firstly, what's the difference between the cp and bl files in the link in your signature? I take it that bl stands for bootloader, but not sure of what cp stands for then. In any case, the most important bit I need/want is the baseband, and since I'm in the UK and my network carrier is O2, I believe the XXU1COK3 (as per Sammobile) would be my best bet, is that right? Will it make much of a difference with the XXU1COJ3 that I have installed right now? In any case, is the bl-cok3.tar file in your link the same XXI1COK3 baseband?
Secondly, that other post that you included is for a galaxy s3 and within that topic they link to a galaxy s4 topic, will those files and guidelines also work for our note 4?
Finally, I have TWRP recovery and within advanced backup I can individually backup the boot (which I imagine is the bootloader) and the modem (which I suppose is the baseband as such). Do you know if I could I install a new firmware through Odin and, backup the modem and boot, and then restore everything but those two things from an different rom backup? Have you ever tried?
Thank you for your time bro! I know that these might be a little bit of a newbie's questions but for more thar I search, I can't find anything close enough to answer what I'm asking.

paieneso said:
Thanks for the quick response mate! You are the man! I still have a couple of questions though. Firstly, what's the difference between the cp and bl files in the link in your signature? I take it that bl stands for bootloader, but not sure of what cp stands for then. In any case, the most important bit I need/want is the baseband, and since I'm in the UK and my network carrier is O2, I believe the XXU1COK3 (as per Sammobile) would be my best bet, is that right? Will it make much of a difference with the XXU1COJ3 that I have installed right now? In any case, is the bl-cok3.tar file in your link the same XXI1COK3 baseband?
Secondly, that other post that you included is for a galaxy s3 and within that topic they link to a galaxy s4 topic, will those files and guidelines also work for our note 4?
Finally, I have TWRP recovery and within advanced backup I can individually backup the boot (which I imagine is the bootloader) and the modem (which I suppose is the baseband as such). Do you know if I could I install a new firmware through Odin and, backup the modem and boot, and then restore everything but those two things from an different rom backup? Have you ever tried?
Thank you for your time bro! I know that these might be a little bit of a newbie's questions but for more thar I search, I can't find anything close enough to answer what I'm asking.
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In the bootloader and modem folders I have included the latest Odin, if you use that the 'CP' and 'BL' will make sense.
CP= Modem
BL=Bootloader
The steps should still work for the Note4.
I don't back-up and restore bootloaders or modems using TWRP.

Battlehero said:
In the bootloader and modem folders I have included the latest Odin, if you use that the 'CP' and 'BL' will make sense.
CP= Modem
BL=Bootloader
The steps should still work for the Note4.
I don't back-up and restore bootloaders or modems using TWRP.
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Aah OK, that makes sense. But then the modem I am talking about is not in that list, is it? However, the bootloader is I think. Is there any chance you could extract the xxu1cok3 modem for the UK and O2 to add it to your list? ?? Pretty sure other people would appreciate it too, I know I would :good:

paieneso said:
Aah OK, that makes sense. But then the modem I am talking about is not in that list, is it? However, the bootloader is I think. Is there any chance you could extract the xxu1cok3 modem for the UK and O2 to add it to your list? ?? Pretty sure other people would appreciate it too, I know I would :good:
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The modem isn't COK3, only the bootloader was.
The modem was COJ3.

Battlehero said:
The modem isn't COK3, only the bootloader was.
The modem was COJ3.
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Yep, that's what I thought. And the coj3 is the modem I have now (not working so well ). As I said, Any chance you could extract the cok3 modem from the full firmware to add it to your list?
Thanks in any case mate!

paieneso said:
Yep, that's what I thought. And the coj3 is the modem I have now (not working so well ). As I said, Any chance you could extract the cok3 modem from the full firmware to add it to your list?
Thanks in any case mate!
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I don't see a point in doing that, it won't make a difference. The firmware does not have a 'COK3' modem. So I can't extract it if it doesn't exist. The O2U firmware had a bootloader of COK3, CSC of COJ1 and modem of COJ3.
If the modem isn't working well then you should flash a stock firmware for your region and apply the appropriate CSC.

Battlehero said:
I don't see a point in doing that, it won't make a difference. The firmware does not have a 'COK3' modem. So I can't extract it if it doesn't exist. The O2U firmware had a bootloader of COK3, CSC of COJ1 and modem of COJ3.
If the modem isn't working well then you should flash a stock firmware for your region and apply the appropriate CSC.
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Oooooouuuch! Sorry mate, my bad, I must ve read it wrong and only seen what i wanted to see. I was convinced I saw that that firmware release came with modem too.
In any event, thanks mate as you saved me a lot of time wasting with that last attachment

Update to Nougat without losing root

Hey guys,
since the first flashable firmwares for official Nougat roll out I'm intereseted in upgrading my S7 Edge. Alas I hold off updating in the past, so I'm on 6.0.1 G935FXXU1BPH1 from around september. I have root access and twrp installed and would like to remain that way. The instructions in the big odin firmware thread don't state wether root will be retained or not. Besides I'm on an older version which might result in problems ( I think).
What do you think would be the best way to upgrade?

Flashing firmware using odin would usually wipe data, though not always, and that means you will lose root. Not a big deal anymore as you can always reflash twrp and re-root the same way you obtained it.
It would be helpful to know which thread you're looking at in the first place to advise further.

Xp3riaXpr3ss said:
Flashing firmware using odin would usually wipe data, though not always, and that means you will lose root. Not a big deal anymore as you can always reflash twrp and re-root the same way you obtained it.
It would be helpful to know which thread you're looking at in the first place to advise further.
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Are you sure twrp works with official nougat? I flashed twrp 3.0.2-4 and it went into bootloop. tried 3.0.2-3 also, same issue. Even flashing cf-autoroot causes bootloop. :/ #g935f

Vivacity said:
Are you sure twrp works with official nougat? I flashed twrp 3.0.2-4 and it went into bootloop. tried 3.0.2-3 also, same issue. Even flashing cf-autoroot causes bootloop. :/
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I approached the OP's initial question on upgrading to Nougat, though it wasn't clear which way he wanted to go, hence the request for ideas on best ways to upgrade.
I've not tried flashing official Nougat using Odin and probably there isn't a need to do so at this time since upgrading from MM to Nougat is possible with the use of twrp and custom roms. It doesn't help that Nougat official firmware is currently only available for 2 regions (BTU and O2C).

Xp3riaXpr3ss said:
I approached the OP's initial question on upgrading to Nougat, though it wasn't clear which way he wanted to go, hence the request for ideas on best ways to upgrade.
I've not tried flashing official Nougat using Odin and probably there isn't a need to do so at this time since upgrading from MM to Nougat is possible with the use of twrp and custom roms. It doesn't help that Nougat official firmware is currently only available for 2 regions (BTU and O2C).
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Thanks for your reply. Maybe i will try those upgrades via twrp.

Vivacity said:
Thanks for your reply. Maybe i will try those upgrades via twrp.
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Thanks for sharing too. It's good to know 3.0.2-4 doesn't work with official Nougat firmware as per your experience. Version upgrades required perhaps. We'll know for sure when more official releases hit the road.

Xp3riaXpr3ss said:
Thanks for sharing too. It's good to know 3.0.2-4 doesn't work with official Nougat firmware as per your experience. Version upgrades required perhaps. We'll know for sure when more official releases hit the road.
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it's confusing though. i'm reading on other threads that they flashed twrp and it worked.

Xp3riaXpr3ss said:
Flashing firmware using odin would usually wipe data, though not always, and that means you will lose root. Not a big deal anymore as you can always reflash twrp and re-root the same way you obtained it.
It would be helpful to know which thread you're looking at in the first place to advise further.
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Flashing firmware in odin absolutely does not wipe data and never has.
If you factory reset using the stock recovery that will wipe your device.
Sent from my Note 7, S7 Edge or S6

force70 said:
Flashing firmware in odin absolutely does not wipe data and never has.
If you factory reset using the stock recovery that will wipe your device.
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Probably you have been using Home_CSC that's why it doesn't wipe your data. Put in the regular CSC tar file and it will wipe your data.
If flashing firmware in Odin doesn't wipe data, how then does the process help your phone recover from a soft brick, effectively returning the phone back to that 'fresh from the oven' state, with the need to re-setup from scratch and reinstall all 3rd-party apps.

I meant this thread, because it seems to be the only one linking to the official Nougat download. Another problem seems to be the HOME_CSC thing where the OP states that I should use the one from my own countries latest firmware (Germany) which isn't available yet for Nougat.

konsi said:
I meant this thread, because it seems to be the only one linking to the official Nougat download. Another problem seems to be the HOME_CSC thing where the OP states that I should use the one from my own countries latest firmware (Germany) which isn't available yet for Nougat.
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True that. Apart from the United Kingdom region (BTU) and Czech Republic (O2C carrier), official Nougat firmware remains elusive at the time of this post.
From some of the thread posts, it appears that there is no harm using OXA csc, which would mean flashing the entire BTU firmware package. Doing so, however, would wipe your phone data, afterwhich you can stay on BTU until new firmware is released for your region.

Xp3riaXpr3ss said:
True that. Apart from the United Kingdom region (BTU) and Czech Republic (O2C carrier), official Nougat firmware remains elusive at the time of this post.
From some of the thread posts, it appears that there is no harm using OXA csc, which would mean flashing the entire BTU firmware package. Doing so, however, would wipe your phone data, afterwhich you can stay on BTU until new firmware is released for your region.
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So you said in an earlier post, that upgrading via twrp is possible. How exactly and with which version?
Where did OXA csc come from?

hi guys do we know if if exsposed working? on 7.0

konsi said:
So you said in an earlier post, that upgrading via twrp is possible. How exactly and with which version?
Where did OXA csc come from?
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OXA csc is included inside official Nougat BTU firmware, downloadable from Sammobile.
You can learn more about TWRP for the S7 Edge from https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7...very-official-twrp-hero2lte-3-0-0-0-t3334084..
With twrp 3.0.2-4, you can then flash custom rom builds based on Nougat 7.0 firmware.
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hi guys do we know if if exsposed working? on 7.0
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Xposed for Nougat is currently works in progress. Subscribe to https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3034811 for more information and future updates.

Xp3riaXpr3ss said:
Probably you have been using Home_CSC that's why it doesn't wipe your data. Put in the regular CSC tar file and it will wipe your data.
If flashing firmware in Odin doesn't wipe data, how then does the process help your phone recover from a soft brick, effectively returning the phone back to that 'fresh from the oven' state, with the need to re-setup from scratch and reinstall all 3rd-party apps.
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I only ever flash the entire firmware package which is meant for my device/ region. Doing anything other than that may have mixed results and anything to do with altering the csc will wipe your device.
Depending on exactly how you soft bricked your device flashing in odin only may not recover your device and that is when a factory reset may be needed and as mentioned doing that will wipe your device.
It strictly depends on the circumstances.
I have been using odin for years and years across over a dozen devices and have never seen it wipe a device yet.
Sent from my Note 7, S7 Edge or S6

force70 said:
Doing anything other than that may have mixed results and anything to do with altering the csc will wipe your device...
It strictly depends on the circumstances.
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True that, and as I mentioned earlier it will wipe data USUALLY, except for certain circumstances, for eg. using HOME_CSC instead of a regular CSC tar, for which I must add that the inclusion of HOME_CSC in firmware packages is entirely device/version and region dependent.
Some firmware come in singular files to be flashed using the AP slot only while others are broken into separate files for multi-slot flashing. I'm sure the former will wipe your phone data no questions asked, and the latter if CSC (not HOME_CSC) is flashed in my experience with both package formats.

AT&T SM-G950U Stock Firmware Location + Question

I've looked on updato and sammobile for stock ATT SM-G950U Firmware to no avail.
Can someone please point me in the right direction. I need to flash stock back on mine to get it up and running again.
Also, I'm thinking about downgrading to another phone from AT&T any suggestions on which phone I should go with?
Possibly one that's able to root.
Thanks in advance.

Sanghilia said:
I've looked on updato and sammobile for stock ATT SM-G950U Firmware to no avail.
Can someone please point me in the right direction. I need to flash stock back on mine to get it up and running again.
Also, I'm thinking about downgrading to another phone from AT&T any suggestions on which phone I should go with?
Possibly one that's able to root.
Thanks in advance.
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Any luck finding this version of FW?

Unlike other carriers, AT&T firmwares are not available via official channels, so Updato doesn't collect them. Your best bet is to search these forums and Google third-party websites for the exact baseband that you're looking for. Hopefully somebody has made it available for free download.

Samsung S8 firmware - Questions regarding flashing

Hey guys, I have a Samsung S8 which I was running LinageOS on but now was to revert back to the stock android ROM.
The issue I have is it appears to be a South Koera (KTC) phone, but it always has this KTMobile crap on it when I flash it. So my question is can I flash another firmware?
I need some help understanding the different components made up in the firmware and what I can and cannot deviate from (to avoid bricking).
AP
CSC
BL
CP
Which of these HAVE to be the same? Im guessing bootloader (BL) must match otherwise I will brick it.
There is also a little confusion over weather it is a SM-G950F or a SM-G950N. I have seen the phone report both.
Is there a way or a firmware I can flash without all the KTMobile crap on it, or could I just flash a New Zealand firmware as I am based in New Zealand.
The firmware I installed currently is G950NKSU5DUA2, but it is buggy and is causing crashes. Can I deviate from this G950NKSU5DUA2 and chose a different firmware?
Thanks in advance.