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what is my Galaxy S4 variant? HELP PLEASE!

It is Samsung Galaxy S4. When I go to Settings>>About it says its "i9500" (so it is i9500 right?) but the problem is when I wanted to flash a custom recovery, I turned off this phone and opened the download menu (by pressing vol down+power+home button) and the download menu which opened was in CHINESE LANGUAGE . I press the Vol Up button and then odin menu opened saying this:
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PRODUCT NAME: SHV-E300L
CURRENT BINARY: CUSTOM
SYSTEM STATUS: CUSTOM
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 1
AP SWREV: A2
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Now it says that my device is "SHV-E300L"..... wat da ****!!
Now please tell me which one is it. because i searched a lot in google, youtube, xda and everysite that I could and found that I may have korean variant.... !
BUT HERES ANOTHER PROBLEM.
• if I remove case & battery then i can see "GT-i9500" label in back of the phone!
• I have no chinese app in my stock rom. All apps were from samsung (yes knox is there.
• Everything is in English except Samsung Apps Store (because it is in chinese or korean... idk) and Download Mode...!!
• I have installed CWM Recovery of i9500 variant and it worked fine.
• I used tons of apps and every app says that it is i9500. Even IMEI.info says it is S4 i9500!
• CPU Z says that I have everything of GT-i9500 except CPU because my phone cpu is "PowerVR SGX544MP" while S4 i9500 CPU is "PowerVR SGX544MP3". Other specs are totally same (including Chipset: Exynos 5410 Octa,CPU: Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A15 & quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7, 2GB Ram, 32GB internal mem, 1080p display etc. I have even attached pics which might help you!
• Genuine Galaxy App confirms my galaxy s4 is genuine and original (a famous playstore app to check fake and original galaxy phones)!
• Antutu Score was 10,000 first time and 20,133 second time.....
• Even antutu says it is GT-i9500
I am very very embrassed... Its first time I bought samsung mobile and it is so bad experience... I have used LG and China mobiles before... they don't have such problems!
Any help will be appreciated...
So my main question is " is it GT-i9500 or SHV-E300L" !!! :') don't forget to see attachments (pics)!!
UPDATE:
• it is korean version of Galaxy S4... fml

ToXiC said:
It is Samsung Galaxy S4. When I go to Settings>>About it says its "i9500" (so it is i9500 right?) but the problem is when I wanted to flash a custom recovery, I turned off this phone and opened the download menu (by pressing vol down+power+home button) and the download menu which opened was in CHINESE LANGUAGE . I press the Vol Up button and then odin menu opened saying this:
"
PRODUCT NAME: SHV-E300L
CURRENT BINARY: CUSTOM
SYSTEM STATUS: CUSTOM
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 1
AP SWREV: A2
"
Now it says that my device is "SHV-E300L"..... wat da ****!!
Now please tell me which one is it. because i searched a lot in google, youtube, xda and everysite that I could and found that I may have korean variant.... !
BUT HERES ANOTHER PROBLEM.
• if I remove case & battery then i can see "GT-i9500" label in back of the phone!
• I have no chinese app in my stock rom. All apps were from samsung (yes knox is there.
• Everything is in English except Samsung Apps Store (because it is in chinese or korean... idk) and Download Mode...!!
• I have installed CWM Recovery of i9500 variant and it worked fine.
• I used tons of apps and every app says that it is i9500. Even IMEI.info says it is S4 i9500!
• CPU Z says that I have everything of GT-i9500 except CPU because my phone cpu is "PowerVR SGX544MP" while S4 i9500 CPU is "PowerVR SGX544MP3". Other specs are totally same (including Chipset: Exynos 5410 Octa,CPU: Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A15 & quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7, 2GB Ram, 32GB internal mem, 1080p display etc. I have even attached pics which might help you!
• Genuine Galaxy App confirms my galaxy s4 is genuine and original (a famous playstore app to check fake and original galaxy phones)!
• Antutu Score was 10,000 first time and 20,133 second time.....
• Even antutu says it is GT-i9500
I am very very embrassed... Its first time I bought samsung mobile and it is so bad experience... I have used LG and China mobiles before... they don't have such problems!
Any help will be appreciated...
So my main question is " is it GT-i9500 or SHV-E300L" !!! :')
don't forget to see attachments (pics)!!
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The SHV-E300L is a Korean GT-I9505.
Usually the model displayed on download mode (Odin mode) is the true model of your phone.
And a score 10.000-20.000 seems very low to me. My GT-I9505 can get 40.000 with a custom ROM, but even with stock it gets around 35.000.
I highly doubt the Exynos variant is so much weaker compared to the Qualcomm variant.

GDReaper said:
The SHV-E300L is a Korean GT-I9505.
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GT-I9505 doesn't have any local version in Korea. It's a Korean version of GT-I9500.
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It's might be a SHV-E300L that faked with I9500 identities.
Sent from my ASUS_Z00A using XDA Labs

GDReaper said:
The SHV-E300L is a Korean GT-I9505.
Usually the model displayed on download mode (Odin mode) is the true model of your phone.
And a score 10.000-20.000 seems very low to me. My GT-I9505 can get 40.000 with a custom ROM, but even with stock it gets around 35.000.
I highly doubt the Exynos variant is so much weaker compared to the Qualcomm variant.
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so I can't install any rom in this device because this (korean variant) has no roms! right?

krasCGQ said:
GT-I9505 doesn't have any local version in Korea. It's a Korean version of GT-I9500.
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It's might be a SHV-E300L that faked with I9500 identities.
Sent from my ASUS_Z00A using XDA Labs
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so SHV-E300L is not an official variant of Samsung GS4? right? because I can't find any official page for this phone. no roms support etc!

krasCGQ said:
GT-I9505 doesn't have any local version in Korea. It's a Korean version of GT-I9500.
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It's might be a SHV-E300L that faked with I9500 identities.
Sent from my ASUS_Z00A using XDA Labs
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I saw some stuff about converting SHV-E300L to a GT-I9505 international, so I assumed it was a Korean I9505...
That explains why I9500 stuff worked in his device.

GDReaper said:
I saw some stuff about converting SHV-E300L to a GT-I9505 international, so I assumed it was a Korean I9505...
That explains why I9500 stuff worked in his device.
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i9500 and shv-e300L has all specs in common except gpu.... shv-e300L cpu is " PowerVR SGX544MP" while GT-i9500 gpu is " PowerVR SGX544MP3"!!

ToXiC said:
so I can't install any rom in this device because this (korean variant) has no roms! right?
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Maybe you could try DefyROM by @hahagu, but I don't know if his ROM will work on your device.
ToXiC said:
i9500 and shv-e300L has all specs in common except gpu.... shv-e300L cpu is " PowerVR SGX544MP" while GT-i9500 gpu is " PowerVR SGX544MP3"!!
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The only thing that differs Korean version compared to the international one is LTE support, where it's only present on the Korean version.
Sent from my ASUS_Z00A using XDA Labs

ToXiC said:
so I can't install any rom in this device because this (korean variant) has no roms! right?
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My ROM is not for e300l.
The reason why there are so few ROMs for the device is because it has a different architecture then the rest of the S4 series.
There are some stock-based ROMs such as this or this or this.
I have never tried these ROMs since I have e300k, so yea can't guarantee
And btw thats not chinese thats korean

hahagu said:
My ROM is not for e300l.
The reason why there are so few ROMs for the device is because it has a different architecture then the rest of the S4 series.
There are some stock-based ROMs such as this or this or this.
I have never tried these ROMs since I have e300k, so yea[emoji14]can't guarantee
And btw thats not chinese thats korean
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But specs of s4 i9500 and shv e300L are same,,,,!!!!
Sent from my GT-I9500 using XDA-Developers mobile app

ToXiC said:
But specs of s4 i9500 and shv e300L are same,,,,!!!!
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Technically different. Both of them have different RIL drivers. Insisting to install i9500 ROM inside E300x phone will break RIL functionality and WiFi.
Sent from my ASUS_Z00A using XDA Labs

The same problem.
No custom ROMs available for this model.
Although the native system works good, one needs to discover more ROMs, with better features.
Well, let's hope someone will do CM or something for this model.

we have all of you guys to help n900 developers

we have to your help guys in our exynos device to get marshmellow n9005 gets 6.0.1 from afar time cose its have SD800 but n900 have exynos 5420 and it was closed sourece but now samsung update the tab s thats have the marshmellow that used the same cpu of our n900 device
but there is no developars for n900 ? we still on lolipop roms
and n9005 start to get 7.0 ??? there is asome dev start to work in ateam but they have abugs and they dont know how
to compaile lolipop kernell with MM can any one help them
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...d-development/help-implosion-project-t3457218

sorry for bad english

no help ...?

ahmad_rh2010 said:
no help ...?
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Allah help you / replace your phone

Buying the SM-N910G, what should I expect?

Hi everyone;
I'm buying the N910G from a friend of mine and I've just noticed that this device specifically is not supported by any of the ROMS I've come across and liked so far. With the Note 2 it didn't really matter that much, I installed AT&T ROMS on my N7105 and they worked perfectly fine all the time. I don't know about the process here, do Snapdragon ROMS work on Exynos based phones? Do Exynos ROMS that don't support the N910G work on the N910G?
Worst case scenario with the Note 2 when I soft-bricked it I would just plug it into the PC and use Odin to flash the official ROM for my phone and it'll fix any issues, then I'd auto-root it, install recovery, and go back to doing what I was doing.
Anyway, if anyone can help me out here, that would be great. What ROMS can I actually install on it? What are the worrying things I should be avoiding? etc...
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Blackfyre said:
Hi everyone;
I'm buying the N910G from a friend of mine and I've just noticed that this device specifically is not supported by any of the ROMS I've come across and liked so far. With the Note 2 it didn't really matter that much, I installed AT&T ROMS on my N7105 and they worked perfectly fine all the time. I don't know about the process here, do Snapdragon ROMS work on Exynos based phones? Do Exynos ROMS that don't support the N910G work on the N910G?
Worst case scenario with the Note 2 when I soft-bricked it I would just plug it into the PC and use Odin to flash the official ROM for my phone and it'll fix any issues, then I'd auto-root it, install recovery, and go back to doing what I was doing.
Anyway, if anyone can help me out here, that would be great. What ROMS can I actually install on it? What are the worrying things I should be avoiding? etc...
:good::good::good:
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Are you crazy , n910g has a good development .
The most supported device is n910f , and n910f roms can be used on n910g .
Exynos roms are limited and you won't see any nougat rom on exynos devices , n910g is snapdragon, if you like roms from exynos development, trust me snapdragon roms are better , the snapdragon community is 20 times larger than exynos community .
Snapdragon Is open source.
Go search something on Google .
Infact the latest note 7 ported roms are made on n910g base .
N910g is best.
On top of that , The renowned issue of note 4 "emmc failure" , has been fixed for n910g .
There is a debrick.img made by me, which can recover your phone even if it is completely unresponsive.
This device is best . Dont even consider any other variant , if your purpose is to flash toms .
It is well supported.
Reporting Via N910G

yashthemw said:
Are you crazy , n910g has a good development .
The most supported device is n910f , and n910f roms can be used on n910g .
Exynos roms are limited and you won't see any nougat rom on exynos devices , n910g is snapdragon, if you like roms from exynos development, trust me snapdragon roms are better , the snapdragon community is 20 times larger than exynos community .
Snapdragon Is open source.
Go search something on Google .
Infact the latest note 7 ported roms are made on n910g base .
N910g is best.
On top of that , The renowned issue of note 4 "emmc failure" , has been fixed for n910g .
There is a debrick.img made by me, which can recover your phone even if it is completely unresponsive.
This device is best . Dont even consider any other variant , if your purpose is to flash toms .
It is well supported.
Reporting Via N910G
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+1 this reply.
I have n910p, and even use G and F roms with some fixes.
You can't go wrong with snapdragon. You can almost flash all the roms for snapdragon version. But you don't want to try to flash any exynos roms.

Damn! I have been roaming the Exynos section of the forum this whole time thinking it has an exynos chip as the guy I am buying from said it's exynos. And I was wondering how come it has no support and there is no roms for it. I am so glad it's the snapdragon edition. Thanks guys, I'll go check the snapdragon sub-section now!

Can I use SM G360H roms on SM G360T1?

I have noticed that a majority of all the roms belong to SM G360H variants, why is that. Does it matter if the phone is SM G360T1 when flashing a G360H rom that much. Finally, since all the phones are a Galaxy Core Prime variant, with little differences among all, the same processer architecture, and the same amount of ram, they all should work, right?

H4ck3rz said:
I have noticed that a majority of all the roms belong to SM G360H variants, why is that. Does it matter if the phone is SM G360T1 when flashing a G360H rom that much. Finally, since all the phones are a Galaxy Core Prime variant, with little differences among all, the same processer architecture, and the same amount of ram, they all should work, right?
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No it won't work. Yeah we almost have the same specs, but it's not identical. Come to think of it why would Samsung gave us different Model numbers if we have identical devices right?

processor

Move if needed, I have a Samsung galaxy s7 Qualcomm. I already know that I do have a Qualcomm processor from rooting , and firmware files I have used , but still I get some apps thinking that my processor is an exynos processor , but shows as this after I am rooted ,any ideas or ways we can use exynos firmware as we still may never get our bootloafers unlocked or some way of installing other roms or firmware by dual boot or multiboot