Guys,
Eveyone seems to always struggle with the question "is this firwmare KXY newer or older than KYZ". After a long search, I found some parts of explanations from places to places and as I owe a lot to this community for helping me taking the better of my past phones, I thought it was finally the appropriate place to send back my gratitude and summarise them in one post. If moderators feel this thread does not belong to this part of the forum, feel free to move it in the appropriate one (but I really do think it belongs to this part as it is ROM related).
To know what is your phone *ware versions, type on the phone keypad (if you want them to work on GoDialer or any software that sits on top of phone keypad, you need to add "*#" without the quotes before the code and "*#*" without the quotes again after):
Firmware ver: *#1234#
S/W ver: *#1111#
H/W ver: *#2222#
My bonus: a code to test all your phone capabilities (screen, sound, sensors, ...):*#0*#
Now that you have typed the firmware version code and that you are on the screen, you get 3 different pieces of information. As an example, my phone shows:
PDA: N7000XXKKA
PHONE: N7000XXKK5
CSC: N7000OXAKK9
PDA is the operating system with its programs and settings included.
PHONE is the modem firmware file, parts of which are required to access the hardware.
CSC (for consumer software customisation) are the regional settings applied which may install additional programs as well as provider-specific settings (APN).
PDA AND PHONE CODE MEANING
What does N7000XXKKA means?
N7000(=model)XX(=Region)K(=Year)K(=Month)A(=Revision)
As you know your model, here are Samsung's complementary information:
REGION CODES
BD Cyprus, Greece
CP Finland
DBVietnam
DC Thailand
DD India
DT Australia
DX Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam
DZ Malaysia, Singapore
JA South Africa
JC Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia
JP Arabic
JR Arabic
JV Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey
MT Switzerland
XA Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom
XB Denmark, Norway, Sweden
XC Portugal, Spain
XD Croatia, Czech, Hungary, Slovakia
XE Bulgaria, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine
XF Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania
XW France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom
XX Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom
ZC China, Hong Kong
ZH Hong Kong
ZT Taiwan
YEAR CODES
A 2001
B 2002
C 2003
D 2004
E 2005
F 2006
G 2007
H 2008
I 2009
J 2010
K 2011
L 2012
...
MONTH CODES
A January
B February
C March
D April
E May
F June
G July
H August
I September
J October
K November
L December
REVISION CODES
1 = 1
2 = 2
3 = 3
...
...
A = 10
B = 11
C = 12
...
CSC CODE MEANING
For CSC, you can notice a different scheme: between the phone model and the release code, there is no 2 letters but 3, in my case OXA, it is simply a code explaining from which country and which operator this phone is. OXA is supposed to be O2 UK and I'm using it for SFR France (coude should be then SFR).
Conclusion, this is not harmful to your phone having a different CSC code than the one you are supposed to use. But if you want to properly change it anyway, you can do it using the code *#272*<your phone IMEI># (if you don't have it, your phone IMEI can be obtained using the code *#06#), the CSC menu is displayed and shows your current CSC and a list to change your phone CSC.
Once in front of that list find yours there (http://www.samfirmware.com/samsunglettercode.htm), in the Samsung official letter code section and pray to have in in you CSC list
If it isn't, then choose the X?? version (for France it is XEF), it is for retail code (i.e. not operator branded). But be careful, if you apply a new CSC, it is phone factory reset (all your data and settings are lost).
Voilà, I hope this post will explain almost everything about phone firmware versions and CSC. And more than everything, it will help a lot of people here to better enjoy their SGN
ADDITIONAL COMMENT (if someone can validate or undermine it, that would be nice)
Often, SGN users are wondering if using KK1 kernel on a KJ4 ROM or a KKA on a KJ1 will brick their phone. I think people are mislead by Samsung revision numbers more than the real technology behind the letters and numbers. As far as i have seen ALL ROM kernels are based on 2.6.35.7 or 2.6.35.14 (which includes very very insignificant changes to the Kernel structure, i.e. mainly bugfixes) which would mean that applying kernel on ROM has something like 99% to work perfectly fine and 1% to end in bootloop which can be avoided flushing cache and dalvik cache. The main point on kernels is the fact to loose CWM Recovery. But hopefully, some great minds like ChainFire release as soon as sources are made available, kernels with CWM Recovery in it.
isnt pda is the operating system phone is the modem
It does work in Go Dialer but you have to enclose the code in a additional *#....#*.
Ex:
Firmware ver: *#*#1234#*#*
@kromosto, thanks for noticing it. At least you read it thoroughly - I corrected it.
@mdalacu, thanks for the codes. Added the trick in my post.
Bonjour Steph
Fine... mais sais tu s il y a un moyen de mettre CWM justement sur un note en KK9 et KK5 ? pour l instant j ai l impression que non .....
falgard,
This forum is English only.
To summarise to non French members: you wanted to know if it was possible to add a CWM Recovery in any ROM and make it persistent.
As far as I have understood, recovery partition is not working the same way as in in HTC phones. In HTC phones, recovery has a partition that is not overwritten when a ROM is flashed. In Samsung phones it seems that recovery is in the Kernel partition.
It simply means that you need to compile kernel sources (hence being able to have them) to include recovery in it!! And today, I have only seen two people being able to do that: the venerable ChainFire (that has provided so many utilities, hacks and so on) and RiverSource. But if you are a kernel compiler master, get in touch with them to have CWM sources, look in Samsung's open-source repository for new kernel sources (KK9, KKA or whatever more recent) and bless us with a new CWM kernel that rocks... or wait for a kernel master to show us his magic
Of course
It 's an english forum, and it was just a blink as we are on the same country...
Yes I am aware about the way to install and compile Cwm but Chainfire will do it, I think, as usual...
Have a nice afternoon
Best
Hi,
Please check the attachment. It is the screenshot of my version on my galaxy note.
I bought my phone yesterday. I connected and and updated firmware using samsung kiew software. Now the screen is lagging while scrolling. Please check and suggest something.
Thanks
hey steph can you add [REF] before your thread title. Cheers, please read the stickies before posting.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium
@ gv.chaitanya8: this thread intents to explain Samsung's firmware naming convention not solving issues. Sorry. Anyway, try to move to Sheep ROM, it solved all my ROMs troubles (battery drains, lags and so on).
@tids2k: I added a REF tag and changed a bit the title.
my pda = n7000ubkk2 what country UB stands for?
Should be UB= Brazil
I have I9228 and want to flash to N7000, has anyone got the stock roms for both, and is it even possible?
Also my codes were KML4 and now are LB3 for China mobile if anyone knows anything about it.
I have I9228 and want to flash to N7000 as well, has anyone got the stock roms for both, and is it even possible?
AussieMatt said:
I have I9228 and want to flash to N7000, has anyone got the stock roms for both, and is it even possible?
Also my codes were KML4 and now are LB3 for China mobile if anyone knows anything about it.
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Don't! Do! This! Just my 2 cents.
Maybe you'll end up like the user underneath your post with this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1561316
He nearly successfully bricked his device. Read the thread, maybe twice and then decide if you really fancy this step...but feel free, it's your phone anyway.
Galaxy Note GT N-7000 - GB.XXLC1
i bought my Galaxy note. n7000 in Hongkong at Fortress. but when i do the code. it says " KOR " does anyone know what code to pick for HK because i am missing chinese on my keyboard selection.
And how does XXLPY fit into that scheme ?
I want to know why XXLPF says KoR and not CZ or CH
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A point has been made by Entropy512 on that point, for ICS, Samsung added an extra P in the scheme. I have planned to update the scheme for ICS soon
rp4k said:
I want to know why XXLPF says KoR and not CZ or CH
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Because it is not supposed to! XX as stated in my OP is for Europe.
Anyway everything is not lost, see in thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1424997 and get a ZS one. There is currently linked
N7000ZSLPF-4.0.3-2012 May-N7000OZSLPF-----------Hong Kong
N7000ZSLPF-4.0.3-2012 May-N7000OZSLPF-----------Taiwan
Pick your poison but I don't know that there is Chinese keyboard in any of them.
Related
Hi
There is this stock package for s5360 - S5360_XXLK1_OXFLK1_XXLH2. There is Polish language but there is no XEO. Can I use CSC from another ROM pack for example from this S5360_XXLH2_OXXLH2_XXLH2 ??
Why not try:
S5360_XXKL3_OXXKL1_XXKL3
European multilanguage build.
based on: S5360XXKL3_S5360OXXKL1_RST_S5360XXKL3_HOME.tar.md5
ro.build.date=Wed Dec 14 17:16:14 KST 2011
Supported languages:
XX = de,en,es,fr,hu,it,nl,pt(cs,da,el,fi,no,pl,sl,sv,tr )
Included CSCs: (Default is XEU)
ATO AUT COS CPW CYO CYV EIR EUR FOP ITV MOO PAN PHE SUW TPH XEF XEH XEO XEU XEZ XSK
After the flash, set your country/provider in dialer *#272*[yourIMEI]# (-> It will wipe your data, and rebrand the phone to specific country/carrier)
This build does not contais any provider specific bloatware
I think pl is polish language and XEO is there also in this stock firmware.
Also Doky73 is converting and releasing new firmware updates at present, he just did Polish T-Mobile stock ROM today so maybe you can check Sammobile for new firmware for yourself and ask nicely if he will convert it? :angel:
I would like to use newest ROM. The newest is S5360_XXLK1_OXFLK1_XXLH2.
Is this CSC setting really important ?
jurasjo said:
I would like to use newest ROM. The newest is S5360_XXLK1_OXFLK1_XXLH2.
Is this CSC setting really important ?
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I thought it was but apparently it is not so important at all. (See the Q&A Ask any questions thread). Just flash the latest firmware that you want which supports your language and you should be fine apart from having to set up your data network settings manually (APN settings). I have to do this anyway as my carrier is not major so I keep a list of the settings for when I change ROM, if you don't have those written down or cannot find them online get them from your phone before you do anything else.
Also, have you made a nandroid backup using CWM recovery yet? Always do this before making major changes, it could save you a lot of trouble if things go wrong! (I didn't and it caused me a lot of trouble lol). Also make a note of your IMEI number by pressing *#06# in dialer.
If when you have flashed the firmware you cannot connect to your carrier, then press *#272#(your IMEI number)# and it should fix it. If it doesn't (I am told this is very unlikely) then just flash the CSC file as you were asking about doing in your first post using Odin and it should all be good again.
I have been told that the CSC doesn't matter but have not had chance to test it myself yet as I only found out tonight!
Good luck :good:
N8010ZCCMB1
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/194949738/e70f3df/N8010ZCCMB1_N8010CHNCMB1_CHN.zip.html
N8000ZCCMB1
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/194942316/ea360bb/N8000ZCCMB1_N8000CHNCMB1_CHN.zip.html
Release Feb 2013
Same for the german market...
N8010XXUCMA8...
South Africa (XFA)
Hi
I'm in South Africa and it seems we are one of the countries last on the list of firmware updates.
Is it possible to install this chinese version on my XFA CSC tablet and still have everythin in English? I don't mind not receiving official updates in the future. My possible CSC codes does not include CHN.
Thanks in advance
rompelstompel said:
Hi
I'm in South Africa and it seems we are one of the countries last on the list of firmware updates.
Is it possible to install this chinese version on my XFA CSC tablet and still have everythin in English? I don't mind not receiving official updates in the future. My possible CSC codes does not include CHN.
Thanks in advance
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Sure it's possible, but you might not want to. I've heard that there are all sort of restrictions in the Chinese ROMs, such as no Play Store
Bulbous said:
Sure it's possible, but you might not want to. I've heard that there are all sort of restrictions in the Chinese ROMs, such as no Play Store
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Thanks
Other options are KEN (Kenya) and XSG (United Arab) on my multi CSC. Would it rather be advisable to change to them? Or do I just wait until an official one comes along
rompelstompel said:
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Other options are KEN (Kenya) and XSG (United Arab) on my multi CSC. Would it rather be advisable to change to them? Or do I just wait until an official one comes along
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Why not just flash the fimware for Germany or the UK? They will always be first available and most up to date. Here in Cape Town I use German roms on my N8000. Loaded 4.1.1 in early November and 4.1.2 in mid December. Wouldn't even think of waiting for an OTA here!
No issues at all. They even have Afrikaans if you need it and "South African English"!
pwatkins said:
Why not just flash the fimware for Germany or the UK? They will always be first available and most up to date. Here in Cape Town I use German roms on my N8000. Loaded 4.1.1 in early November and 4.1.2 in mid December. Wouldn't even think of waiting for an OTA here!
No issues at all. They even have Afrikaans if you need it and "South African English"!
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Thanks. That was exactly what I needed to know. Even better from a fellow South African. One more question... did you flash with CWM Recovery and how do I change my CSC to German (DBT)?
Gt-n8000-chn n8000zccmd2
presently i have the GT-N8000-CHN N8000ZCCMD2
it is having chinese options
so i would to change all in english language to
GT-N8000 EUR N8000XXCMA2 4.1.2
is it possible to flash pls it very urgnt pls need ur help
Hello Xda community,
Personally i own an unbranded GS4 i9500( currently i have Android Jellu Bean) and i wanted to know which version of kit kat is the best to update to, since there are many options in sammobile.
- Country: India
PDA: I9500XXUFNB3
CSC: I9500ODDFNB3
And the rest are from different countries(Trinidad and Tobago, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia) but they have the same PDA and CSC, unfortunately it isnt released in my country yet...
PDA: I9500XXUFNB7
CSC: I9500OLBFNB4
Thank you in advance
The best u can do for avoid problems is:
1- Conect it to Kies 3 for know ur code region. CSC are the 3 letters btw parenthesis. The list of codes for region is HERE
2- Wait the update for ur code region. Why? Each country is different (some have LTE, others only 3g, differents modems, etc).
3- If its try for try.... select the one u wish but take care of the step 2 :highfive:
Indian one is quite stable and battery friendly.
exynoss said:
Indian one is quite stable and battery friendly.
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Im from Argentina, is it ok if i flash the indian one? i doubt that the Argentinian firmware will be released any time soon..
Both are safe
Gab! said:
Im from Argentina, is it ok if i flash the indian one? i doubt that the Argentinian firmware will be released any time soon..
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As the i9500 does not have LTE, is safe to flash both. I did saw some improvments in phone calls and time to do the call in the indian version from the latest Omega Rom. The v18 was based on Russian version and v19 is based on indian.
Hope this help.
Okay so this is a newbie question, I realise that.
I'll just get right to it. Facts:
I have a S7 Edge bought in Sweden (I live here) from the operator Telia
If I look at samfirmware or updato I can see that two specific Sweden-firmwares, operator "Tre (HTS)" and and one just called "Sweden (VDS)"
I can also see a firmware, that has not been updated since july, called "Nordic Countries (NEE).
So. I gathered that being that Telia doesnt have a specific release in the lists, Tre is not my operator and I dont know what "Sweden (VDS)" means I'd ask what I should use and flash?
I dont care about OTA:s, I want to flash when I choose to and manually..
How should I think and choose?
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Go with Nordic Countries NEE. I've had NEE firmware on my S7E before I flashed custom rom. I don't know about VDS firmware but with HTS firmware you will get apps like Mitt3, Yelp and few more. Telia uses NEE firmware I remember when I got S4 from Telia I've had NEE firmware. Cheers!
Hi i have a 9500 S4 Exynos version, the international version, i recently upgraded to Lineageos but i want to go back to stock but i don't know which Rom to choose because of the region code. i live in dominican republic and i don't want to install the one for my country because it will probably be filled with bloatware from Claro (local carrier) and i don't know if it will probably lock the phone, the phone is factory unlocked by the way. Can someone can pass a link for a Stock rom running lollipop with the international csc?
Download CSC CAU from sammobile.com, but I cannot provide a link due to site rules. CAU is for countries in the Caucasus mountain range in Europe, and is probably your best bet to be bloat free. You may still wish to download the Dominican Republic firmware anyway, in case of issues with the CAU firmware.
I'll try that