For example I'm using sm-g900i can I switch to sm-g900f? Also I plan to stay on stock ROM.
Sorry if its been asked before..
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May be not.
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Sorry if its been asked before..
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It's been asked and answered so many times before, that we can safely presume that you didn't bother searching to see if it the question had been asked and answered before.
In short, no. It inevitably fails and often brick your phone as well. You can do it, with various cavets between nearly identical varients e.g. 900W8 and 900T. But installing 900F firmware on a 900I seems rather implausible.
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drosemvp2011 said:
For example I'm using sm-g900i can I switch to sm-g900f? Also I plan to stay on stock ROM.
Sorry if its been asked before..
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It's been asked and answered so many times before, that we can safely presume that you didn't bother searching to see if it the question had been asked and answered before.
In short, no. It inevitably fails and often brick your phone as well. You can do it, with various cavets between nearly identical varients e.g. 900W8 and 900T. But installing 900F firmware on a 900I seems rather implausible.
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My answer is YES in some particular case.
I can use G900F firmwares on G900I devices and I tested it by myself (using Mobile Odin, can't flash with Odin Desktop). The just & only one thing won't work is NFC (G900I NFC module is different with G900F) if you're planning to use G900F stock kernel. But this could be fixed easily with custom kernel.
fffft said:
It's been asked and answered so many times before, that we can safely presume that you didn't bother searching to see if it the question had been asked and answered before.
In short, no. It inevitably fails and often brick your phone as well. You can do it, with various cavets between nearly identical varients e.g. 900W8 and 900T. But installing 900F firmware on a 900I seems rather implausible.
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it seems there isn't a solid answer for this, i have been searching for the answers and it appears to be scattered in multiple threads in which its not the main topic. You say it doesn't others say it does.
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drosemvp2011 said:
it seems there isn't a solid answer for this, i have been searching for the answers and it appears to be scattered in multiple threads in which its not the main topic. You say it doesn't others say it does.
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No, I said that most people will simply tell you it's impossible.
In actual fact, it's complicated. It will fail in most cases, but will succeed in a minority of specific situations. In short, it's risky and will usually fail. But if you understand why it usually fails or simply gamble - it sometimes works.
I don't have a 900I to test directly. An earlier poster said that he was able to install 900F firmware, but some things e.g. NFC were not supported. He didn't provide much detail, but likely the baseband remained 900I and in due course he will probably find a number of other anomalies. Also having one flash apparently work in no way guarantees that all firmware versions will work between those variants.
Since few people risk bricking their phones to try this, fewer still understand the nuances and an abundance of assumptions and misinformation, it's difficult to find trustworthy information on what can or can't be done.
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So tomorrow I will be probably going from the n900a to the n900. One issue I'm having is how the n900 and n9005 are halfway mixed together on here, and I don't know which roms and kernels I can safely use. On top of that I don't know what to expect when running it on AT&T (other than a lack of LTE). I go on sammobile and don't know which stock rom I'll need in case of an emergency.
So if anyone could help with guiding me through all of this, I'd appreciate it. I'm 99.99% sure that LTE is out the window. I just want to know what I can do on here. Usually these forums are cut and dry as far as models getting their own section, but international is so different.
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So tomorrow I will be probably going from the n900a to the n900. One issue I'm having is how the n900 and n9005 are halfway mixed together on here, and I don't know which roms and kernels I can safely use. On top of that I don't know what to expect when running it on AT&T (other than a lack of LTE). I go on sammobile and don't know which stock rom I'll need in case of an emergency.
So if anyone could help with guiding me through all of this, I'd appreciate it. I'm 99.99% sure that LTE is out the window. I just want to know what I can do on here. Usually these forums are cut and dry as far as models getting their own section, but international is so different.
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After you get your phone simply go into settings then go to "about",
there you will see the exact model number of your phone.
Once you have that then go to sammobile.com and download
the odin flashable stock official rom for your phone's model.
When looking for a custom rom to flash make sure that it's
compatible with the model number of your phone.
Good luck!
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Once you have that then go to sammobile.com and download
the odin flashable stock official rom for your phone's model.
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Thanks for the reply, but when I go on sammobile there are so many different stock roms from so many countries. None of which are mine. So I don't know if it matters which one I choose. The n900a just had one.
And it really makes it more difficult, for me anyway, when they make n900 and n9005 share a section. I know that n900 has a separate "android development" section, but everything else is combined, and it only serves to confuse.
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Hello everyone,
So, I have been doing quite a bit of reading and I am trying to figure out if my version of the Note 3 is a rootable device. I have the NC4 bootloader from KK 4.4.2, but I can't tell if people are working on this or just on new versions of the NC2 version.
Sorry if I am totally out of place here or there is already another thread on this issue.
Much obliged,
Austin
stinletcha said:
Hello everyone,
So, I have been doing quite a bit of reading and I am trying to figure out if my version of the Note 3 is a rootable device. I have the NC4 bootloader from KK 4.4.2, but I can't tell if people are working on this or just on new versions of the NC2 version.
Sorry if I am totally out of place here or there is already another thread on this issue.
Much obliged,
Austin
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Check out the CF-autoroot thread there's alot of info there
stinletcha said:
Hello everyone,
So, I have been doing quite a bit of reading and I am trying to figure out if my version of the Note 3 is a rootable device. I have the NC4 bootloader from KK 4.4.2, but I can't tell if people are working on this or just on new versions of the NC2 version.
Sorry if I am totally out of place here or there is already another thread on this issue.
Much obliged,
Austin
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First of all don't be scared posting a question the threads are pretty full of nonsense but as a noob you can't know everything (it's in the xda rules 2)
Second you need to state the model (n9005/n900t or like that) which you find in settings/general/about device as well as if you want to root keeping your phones guarantee or not.
@4aces
Thanks for your reassuring words. My Model is N900V and the Build VRUCNC4.
I am not really concerned with keeping my warranty, although it would be nice ... I just hope to find a reliable and safe method for rooting this device. I hear the Note 3 is a powerful tool when unrooted.
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@4aces
Thanks for your reassuring words. My Model is N900V and the Build VRUCNC4.
I am not really concerned with keeping my warranty, although it would be nice ... I just hope to find a reliable and safe method for rooting this device. I hear the Note 3 is a powerful tool when unrooted.
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OK i think that would be the Verizon galaxy note 3 not the international one. Look here if I'm correct
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2518808
I wish to ask that the new firmware that has been released in Poland for Galaxy s5 sm-g900f. Is it compatible with my sm-g900f in South Africa? Can I load this firmware on my device and will it work. Or will it give me trouble?
philipino07 said:
I wish to ask that the new firmware that has been released in Poland for Galaxy s5 sm-g900f. Is it compatible with my sm-g900f in South Africa? Can I load this firmware on my device and will it work. Or will it give me trouble?
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if its a 900f it can be flashed, next time search the firmware thread and post questions in the Q&A forum
philipino07 said:
I wish to ask that the new firmware that has been released in Poland for Galaxy s5 sm-g900f. Is it compatible with my sm-g900f in South Africa? Can I load this firmware on my device and will it work. Or will it give me trouble?
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If it's the same model number, yes it is. Though you may want to be careful, because like flashing any firmwares from other regions, there is a risk that you may lose your IMEI.
Paolonicus said:
If it's the same model number, yes it is. Though you may want to be careful, because like flashing any firmwares from other regions, there is a risk that you may lose your IMEI.
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Call bs on that. Never happened to me, and I've flashed hundreds of times. But if you still want to scare him for no good reason you might as well link to an imei backup app instead of being a waste of space. "being alive holds the risk of diyng" same bs
lingowistico said:
Call bs on that. Never happened to me, and I've flashed hundreds of times. But if you still want to scare him for no good reason you might as well link to an imei backup app instead of being a waste of space. "being alive holds the risk of diyng" same bs
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You said you flashed hundreds of times? From what Galaxy Phones did you do that? I know what Im talking about because I am a flashaholic since the days of the Galaxy S GT-i9000 back in 2011. Flashing a firmware always carries a risk. Consider yourself lucky if for those hundreds of firmware flash you've never encountered a single null IMEI, Bootloop and Softbrick.
Paolonicus said:
You said you flashed hundreds of times? From what Galaxy Phones did you do that? I know what Im talking about because I am a flashaholic since the days of the Galaxy S GT-i9000 back in 2011. Flashing a firmware always carries a risk. Consider yourself lucky if for those hundreds of firmware flash you've never encountered a single null IMEI, Bootloop and Softbrick.
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null imei and bootloop/softbrick are completely different things. if you always carefully follow the proper procedure there shouldn't be any problems. people with imei problems usually rush into things and miss one or several of the needed steps. i've had tons of bootloops and softbricks and even hardbricks which i've fixed, been flashing since motorola razr v3i
Hi I recently got a T-Mobile Galaxy S5 and I despise Touchwiz. It looks ugly and more importantly it makes my phone extremely sluggish (it feels like my Moto G when it would run out of RAM). I want to root and put a ROM that's as near stock as possible (I'm assuming CM12.1 is the best option for that) but I haven't rooted since the Galaxy S2 so all the information I'm reading is super overwhelming. All these stickied posts seem rather outdated coming from like 2014 and such. I'm on 5.1.1 and I honestly just want as lagfree of an experience as possible. Can someone here please help me acheive this? I've been researching for 2 weeks now and I'm horribly confused. I keep reading about custom kernels and all that but all I want is my phone to not suck.
You'll get more answers in the correct forum
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/help
Have you tried a different Launcher first though? TouchWiz Launcher is terrible, Nova Launcher is what a lot of people use, myself too, super fast, smooth with 100x more customisation options
*Detection* said:
You'll get more answers in the correct forum
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/help
Have you tried a different Launcher first though? TouchWiz Launcher is terrible, Nova Launcher is what a lot of people use, myself too, super fast, smooth with 100x more customisation options
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I use Nova, it's not enough to stop the dumpster fire that is Touchwiz
What are you confused about? Are you rooted?
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pnut22r said:
What are you confused about? Are you rooted?
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I'm not rooted. I'm confused because when I try to figure out how to root and flash my phone all I see is a bunch of different guides and I'm not sure which is the one I should do.
Not sure if the T-Mobile bootloader is locked, I know the Verizon one is, and another US carrier, if it is locked, it's a PITA
If it's not, flash CF Auto Root for the G900F with ODIN
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Not sure if the T-Mobile bootloader is locked, I know the Verizon one is, and another US carrier, if it is locked, it's a PITA
If it's not, flash CF Auto Root for the G900F with ODIN
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T-Mobile S5 doesn't come with a locked bootloader which is good. I have the G900T would that work?
Abu_The_Unicorn said:
T-Mobile S5 doesn't come with a locked bootloader which is good. I have the G900T would that work?
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If you're sure it's not bootloader locked, just flash this with ODIN
http://download.chainfire.eu/407/CF-Root1/CF-Auto-Root-kltetmo-kltetmo-smg900t.zip
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If you're sure it's not bootloader locked, just flash this with ODIN
http://download.chainfire.eu/407/CF-Root1/CF-Auto-Root-kltetmo-kltetmo-smg900t.zip
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How do I flash something with Odin? And will this work on 5.1.1?
Best do some reading before messing if you don't know how to use ODIN
And no, I don't believe it works with 5.1.1, there is a thread about rooting 5.1.1
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Best do some reading before messing if you don't know how to use ODIN
And no, I don't believe it works with 5.1.1, there is a thread about rooting 5.1.1
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Now do you see why I'm confused? There's so many things that I don't know but I can't find anyone to teach me
Abu_The_Unicorn said:
Now do you see why I'm confused? There's so many things that I don't know but I can't find anyone to teach me
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Was the same for me when I got mine, I spent 2-3 weeks reading every single thread I could before I decided I knew enough to root and be confident I wasn't going to brick it
And that was after I was already well experienced with Android, just a different device
Don't try taking shortcuts is my advice, asking for help and guides is one thing, but reading absolutely everything you can first is the only sure way to not kill your phone
Read this entire thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/warning-root-install-recovery-t-mobile-t3140807
And then
http://forum.xda-developers.com/tmo...t/root-kernel-root-method-fof6-5-1-1-t3158005
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Now do you see why I'm confused? There's so many things that I don't know but I can't find anyone to teach me
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You can ask me questions if you get stuck at one point I'd love to help a fellow android user. Just either post here or send me a private message of where you're at and we will go from there.
Hi after flashing a rom not on xda my phone's IMEI became erased. unfortunately the EFI backup that I had wouldn't fix either. I tried going back to stock using SmartSwitch emergency recovery. Still no fixes.
Please help my phone cannot use cellular service!
Any idea Im all ears. I tried various methods for older Galaxys around the xda, none worked.
I know my IMEI and S/N how can I fix it.
Please help!!!!
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Hi after flashing a rom not on xda my phone's IMEI became erased. unfortunately the EFI backup that I had wouldn't fix either. I tried going back to stock using SmartSwitch emergency recovery. Still no fixes.
Please help my phone cannot use cellular service!
Any idea Im all ears. I tried various methods for older Galaxys around the xda, none worked.
I know my IMEI and S/N how can I fix it.
Please help!!!!
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My all means come here and ask for help but whatever happened on a different forum stay's on there please.
If people don't want to help fine but we won't have developer bashing or user flaming on xda. Everyone be nice to each other please or action will be taken
Regards
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Have you tried flashing stock in Odin?
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Yes, I tried Stock flashing in odin, as well as using samsung emergency recovery
sawdoctor said:
My all means come here and ask for help but whatever happened on a different forum stay's on there please.
If people don't want to help fine but we won't have developer bashing or user flaming on xda. Everyone be nice to each other please or action will be taken
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With all do respect.... I don't think he was bashing anyone....he was just saying he flashed a ROM that wasn't posted to XDA...more than likely there wasn't any other option to ask for help elsewhere since XDA is very helpful with responses from developers and others.
I was wondering if anyone that is overseas (outside america) could share an EFI backup partition with me so I can fix my phone. Maybe that would fix.
keep watching the echorom thread someone else had the issue as well.
I cant they banned me from seeing their forum when I reported the bug.
O I see. If something gets posted that might help I'll let you know. But 1 thing I saw already is trying to flash multiple times with Odin
It might not work the first time. Or the second... or the third. Try like 10 times in the mean time until someone can help. If all else fails there has to be a way to make a working imei again since you know it anyway
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stormonya said:
With all do respect.... I don't think he was bashing anyone....he was just saying he flashed a ROM that wasn't posted to XDA...more than likely there wasn't any other option to ask for help elsewhere since XDA is very helpful with responses from developers and others.
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The post was to everyone as I had to clean the thread that's all
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sawdoctor said:
The post was to everyone as I had to clean the thread that's all
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By the way I'll have to upload screenshots of what I see in my phone settings. Maybe that will help?
Hello
it seems like you tried to unlock it
if you tried to unlock than there must be an backup write that backup imei will back same
Next time when need unlock better click read codes
jayshaa said:
Hello
it seems like you tried to unlock it
if you tried to unlock than there must be an backup write that backup imei will back same
Next time when need unlock better click read codes
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It was not because of unlock. My phone was already unlocked. It happened after flashing a bad rom.
solrazr said:
It was not because of unlock. My phone was already unlocked. It happened after flashing a bad rom.
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write stock rom
This happened to me before in a old Tmobile S3 (T999) I had only edge network...
It was a headache and I was only able to put it back working going to a store that had BOX for flashing and do it myself with their box
and rewrite my IMEI manually during flash, as they were not able to do it (more say didn't have patience) .
I dunno if there is a easier way to do it... but this was how I fixed mine back then. But one thing is true, I lost a lot of time back then trying to fix it and if it happens me now again I would do a quick search and if not quick solution, try to find a guy that owns a box as it will literally save you days and sleep. However there are excellent devs around so they might be able to help..
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This happened to me before in a old Tmobile S3 (T999) I had only edge network...
It was a headache and I was only able to put it back working going to a store that had BOX for flashing and do it myself with their box
and rewrite my IMEI manually during flash, as they were not able to do it (more say didn't have patience) .
I dunno if there is a easier way to do it... but this was how I fixed mine back then. But one thing is true, I lost a lot of time back then trying to fix it and if it happens me now again I would do a quick search and if not quick solution, try to find a guy that owns a box as it will literally save you days and sleep. However there are excellent devs around so they might be able to help..
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Would u have any suggestions on where I could go to fix?
Quick question. What csc is in your phone now? Have to tried changing it again with a new one or the one that was originally on it when you got it? Like a flashable zip? Cos it looks like somehow the one you used must corrupt something in the efs... which is bizzare
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Would u have any suggestions on where I could go to fix?
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I went to local store that usually unlocks/fixes phones, but I had a friend connection around.. hence they allowed me to go inside and do it myself.
Try to search 1st around if there is a solution, as it might be... I can't remember how it happened to my phone, but I was flashing lots of ROM without a problem and then it happened for some reason. There is a reason for it, however I couldn't find it as my knowledge is limited. I do remember that I tried, stock, odin, kies, whatever... and nothing worked until I went to try with a BOX.
IF you can't find a quick solution try to search around physical stores that flash phones, as they usually have a BOX and probably they might pull the S7 image already for their box... try to search a friendly one and take the purchase papers with you as most are not very comfortable with anything that might involve IMEI if you odn't know anybody.
MRDOCA said:
Quick question. What csc is in your phone now? Have to tried changing it again with a new one or the one that was originally on it when you got it? Like a flashable zip? Cos it looks like somehow the one you used must corrupt something in the efs... which is bizzare
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It was the German based CSC
G935FDBT1APC5
However I flashed back STOCK which has
G935FNZC1APAX
The bizzare thing is my phone appears to still get a signal, but emergency calls only. When I #06# It shows 00000000000000 for 2 MEIDs. Which is weird as I don't have a dual sim model. This is even after Odin stock, no root.
insaned said:
I went to local store that usually unlocks/fixes phones, but I had a friend connection around.. hence they allowed me to go inside and do it myself.
Try to search 1st around if there is a solution, as it might be... I can't remember how it happened to my phone, but I was flashing lots of ROM without a problem and then it happened for some reason. There is a reason for it, however I couldn't find it as my knowledge is limited. I do remember that I tried, stock, odin, kies, whatever... and nothing worked until I went to try with a BOX.
IF you can't find a quick solution try to search around physical stores that flash phones, as they usually have a BOX and probably they might pull the S7 image already for their box... try to search a friendly one and take the purchase papers with you as most are not very comfortable with anything that might involve IMEI if you odn't know anybody.
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Fair enough, I still have the original purchase, I got it from overseas, receipt, and sticker still on the phone. Even the box. at the same time i was wondering if anyone overseas, (not in the usa) would be willing to backup EFS and PM me with a G935F because I could use that meid in the usa. I have no intentions of going overseas to Europe anytime soon but I might go abroad if its oceana or Asia.