Hi all,
I bought my S5 (SM-G900F) online and am now unsure if it is the right model for my area (Australia). Are the models roughly similar enough for me to download a ROM or baseband even for something closer my region or carrier (Telstra) would I be more likely to brick my phone?
aerospyke said:
Hi all,
I bought my S5 (SM-G900F) online and am now unsure if it is the right model for my area (Australia). Are the models roughly similar enough for me to download a ROM or baseband even for something closer my region or carrier (Telstra) would I be more likely to brick my phone?
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You can flash firmware from another models but it is safer to flash firmware for your own model.
Install Phone INFO ★Samsung★ app > Menu > 'Firmware Browser' to download firmware for your device and flash via Kies/Odin.
You can ask your service provider for the supporting frequency bands of your network, and compare with available bands of your phone (see this link or check with *#2263#). If you want, you can even add more bands to your phone.
So there shouldn't be a problem with flashing my SM-G900F with SM-G900I firmware? I just have a slightly lacklustre reception with my 900F and want to see if flashing Telstra's version of the firmware would help in the slightest.
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My cellphone is samsung s4 1337m canadian version. Operator is MTS(manitoba). I went to China last year and to unlock my cellphone, I have to flash the HongKong Model firmware. After I got back to Canada, I reset my cellphone to factory and the model number ends with 1337M, which I believe it got back to canadian version. But occassionally my phone says unregistered with network. Could it caused by the flash in China?
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Thanks.
Good day teams
I want to load a stock firmware for my S5, and I have seen many different links and images. On the firmware details I see specs like model number (which I know is very important) but I often see region or country. Is this a critical aspect to consider? I am in South Africa on the Vodacom network and I have not yet seen a link for firmware for lollipop for this country. Does it HAVE TO BE matching my country as well or can I use any lollipop image for SM-G900F?
Any one have a link to a thread for stock firmware lollipop, (or kitkat will do as well) for my SM-G900F, and maybe can answer my concerns about country spec.
thanks
Links not allowed to the site, but search for "sammobile"
You can install any ROM for the G900F afaik
Firestarter37 said:
Good day teams
I want to load a stock firmware for my S5, and I have seen many different links and images. On the firmware details I see specs like model number (which I know is very important) but I often see region or country. Is this a critical aspect to consider? I am in South Africa on the Vodacom network and I have not yet seen a link for firmware for lollipop for this country. Does it HAVE TO BE matching my country as well or can I use any lollipop image for SM-G900F?
Any one have a link to a thread for stock firmware lollipop, (or kitkat will do as well) for my SM-G900F, and maybe can answer my concerns about country spec.
thanks
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It is my understanding that if you want stock then goto sammobile. match your model number and your build number to the stock roms that are available. Then wipe and flash the stock rom to your device.
im from the philippines and as you can see samsung didnt release stock 6.0 marshmallow in our country so im stuck in 5.0 lollipop... so can i flash stock 6.0 marshmallow from other country (branded or not) will it affect my signal? can i still use 3g 4g lte? by the way my phone is sim unlocked... thank you in advance..
what model of S5 do you have? example: G900F
youdoofus said:
what model of S5 do you have? example: G900F
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sm-g900f
ok, you should be able to flash any G900F tar.md5 file from any country on it. You have the international verison of that phone and it has TONS of tar.md5's for it that will all work just fine. only signal difference you will notice is in the different radios that are in the different tarballs, other than that, they should all work the same
I'm seeing conflicting information on how to flash our phones with official software and have a few questions:
Where is the carrier-free US S8 (not plus) variant firmware? I've searched, what even is the CSC for it? XAS, TMK? XAA?
I found a thread that seems to have the EXACT process for flashing any carrier firmware, it says to download the G950/G955W firmwares, which ones? There's some for Bell, Fido, etc. The op failed to provide links.
Has anyone actually successfully debloated their US carrier S8 with a non-carrier firmware, a firmware simular to what we had on the G930U? If so, could you post your EXACT process, down to the very download links you used?
I'm using a T-Mobile US Galaxy S8, and my friend has a Sprint Galaxy S8+, we both want the carrier-free firmwares flashed, but things seem to have changed a lot in the many years since we've flashed phones (the last phone I used Odin with was the Note II!)
Thank you
I'm not too knowledgeable when it comes to the US variant of the S8, but I can tell you this much, the SM-G950W is the canadian model it seems, and XAC is the unbranded non carrier firmware for that model.
Hello
I have a India Region S8 which is not locked by any provider. As I am in Australia I wanted to install the Australian version so that I get the Samsung Pay options for Australia.
Does anyone know how to update the Samsung Pay or entire OS to Australia?
Will installing official samsung version of Australian rom trip my knox?
Please help.
Anyone??
hellobye80 said:
Anyone??
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Since urs is an Indian model of the s8.. It will be the Exynos variant.
If Australia also sells Exynos variant (which I think it does), then u can directly download the Australian firmware from sammobile for ur model and flash it with odin.
Make sure u download the firmware of Exynos itself.
And flashing this wont trip Knox.