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[Q] To Kitkat or Not to Kitkat

Hi Guys,
I have spent quite a bit of time reading about the officially released KK roms for the Note 3 and really just wanted to know if i was to flash, say, the Polish rom to my device through Odin, would i be able to flash the official UK release when it finally gets released? Are there any downsides to flashing a non UK based rom in this way? My phone was bought from Phones4u in the UK but i believe it to be Sim free phone, IE no Vodafone Bloat.
Whats the general thoughts, wait for the official UK rom or go for some Kitkat goodness?
Thanks guys

Bigguss said:
Hi Guys,
I have spent quite a bit of time reading about the officially released KK roms for the Note 3 and really just wanted to know if i was to flash, say, the Polish rom to my device through Odin, would i be able to flash the official UK release when it finally gets released? Are there any downsides to flashing a non UK based rom in this way? My phone was bought from Phones4u in the UK but i believe it to be Sim free phone, IE no Vodafone Bloat.
Whats the general thoughts, wait for the official UK rom or go for some Kitkat goodness?
Thanks guys
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theres not alot of difference i would wait it wont be long for uk release
and yes if you got from phones4u it is sim free all there phones are

Bigguss said:
Hi Guys,
I have spent quite a bit of time reading about the officially released KK roms for the Note 3 and really just wanted to know if i was to flash, say, the Polish rom to my device through Odin, would i be able to flash the official UK release when it finally gets released? Are there any downsides to flashing a non UK based rom in this way? My phone was bought from Phones4u in the UK but i believe it to be Sim free phone, IE no Vodafone Bloat.
Whats the general thoughts, wait for the official UK rom or go for some Kitkat goodness?
Thanks guys
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Ok, so:
Firstly you need to check if your phone is SM N9005 or SM N9000. If it is, good. Than it is international version of the Note 3.
You can go to sammobile.com and look for FIRMWARES not ROMs that are 4.4.2. First you have to download those stock firmwares and flash via odin (if it ends with .tar.md5) or simply via recovery if it is .zip.
You don't have to worry about the country you download (I think there is UK too) because it makes absolutely no difference.
When done with that, you can look for ROMs to flash or you can use the phone as stock.
YOU CANNOT FLASH KITKAT ROMS IF YOU DON'T HAVE STOCK KITKAT FIRMWARE !!
ONCE YOU GET ANDROID KITKAT, THERE'S NO TURNING BACK TO JB.
So, I hope you understand me. If you don't, feel free to ask
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk

It'll be an N9005 If from Phones4U in the UK -- that's all they stock.

aleksa6767 said:
Ok, so:
Firstly you need to check if your phone is SM N9005 or SM N9000. If it is, good. Than it is international version of the Note 3.
You can go to sammobile.com and look for FIRMWARES not ROMs that are 4.4.2. First you have to download those stock firmwares and flash via odin (if it ends with .tar.md5) or simply via recovery if it is .zip.
You don't have to worry about the country you download (I think there is UK too) because it makes absolutely no difference.
When done with that, you can look for ROMs to flash or you can use the phone as stock.
YOU CANNOT FLASH KITKAT ROMS IF YOU DON'T HAVE STOCK KITKAT FIRMWARE !!
ONCE YOU GET ANDROID KITKAT, THERE'S NO TURNING BACK TO JB.
So, I hope you understand me. If you don't, feel free to ask
Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk
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Thanks very much for the reply, its been very helpful. If i was to update to one of the international version, say polish, when the UK version comes out would that be a OTA update for me or would just not see there was an update available?
Thanks again.

Bigguss said:
Thanks very much for the reply, its been very helpful. If i was to update to one of the international version, say polish, when the UK version comes out would that be a OTA update for me or would just not see there was an update available?
Thanks again.
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Not an OTA update no, you'd get Polish OTA's -- however, soon as UK BTU version is out, grab the ROM from Sammobile or here and flash it and you'll get UK updates (not a great deal different in most EU ROMS - CSC's are multi etc

radicalisto said:
Not an OTA update no, you'd get Polish OTA's -- however, soon as UK BTU version is out, grab the ROM from Sammobile or here and flash it and you'll get UK updates (not a great deal different in most EU ROMS - CSC's are multi etc
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And if I flash the Polish Rom am I pretty much guaranteed not to trip Knox? My warranty is important to me.

Official ROMs won't trip Knox no.
Sent from my CM11 Kitkat powered N9005

radicalisto said:
Official ROMs won't trip Knox no.
Sent from my CM11 Kitkat powered N9005
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one last question..if you don't mind
Is this download the correct one for my device?
sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=25440
My device is SM-N9005
Baseband N9005XXUDMJ7

Bigguss said:
one last question..if you don't mind
Is this download the correct one for my device?
sammobile.com/firmwares/3/?download=25440
My device is SM-N9005
Baseband N9005XXUDMJ7
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Here is a link from my Mega account, its the latest XEO NB3 update and you'll be able to download it fast
https://mega.co.nz/#!shYCWKJD!P9a9DOJh9Oghre__drG4_xiUr4jOC1YPVCfr6mKSsQE
Sent from my CM11 Kitkat powered N9005

radicalisto said:
Here is a link from my Mega account, its the latest XEO NB3 update and you'll be able to download it fast
https://mega.co.nz/#!shYCWKJD!P9a9DOJh9Oghre__drG4_xiUr4jOC1YPVCfr6mKSsQE
Sent from my CM11 Kitkat powered N9005
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Many thanks again. Very helpful.

No problem. Don't use Odin 3.09 - use 3.04/3.07 or 1.85
Sent from my CM11 Kitkat powered N9005

One last thing, if you do try to flash a JB rom through ODIN after going to KK you will trigger Knox warranty void...
You are trying to flash a bootloader the Note 3 no longer looks at as Stock so you will trigger Knox. This has been reported by a few people....

UPGRADE to KitKat, it is better than JB. Cheers!

Bigguss said:
Thanks very much for the reply, its been very helpful. If i was to update to one of the international version, say polish, when the UK version comes out would that be a OTA update for me or would just not see there was an update available?
Thanks again.
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Hey sorry for the late. There will be OTA updates, everything will work just fine. That's why it's callled STOCK ROM. Everything is made by Samsung. ROMs are custom, other developers make those.
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Bigguss said:
Thanks very much for the reply, its been very helpful. If i was to update to one of the international version, say polish, when the UK version comes out would that be a OTA update for me or would just not see there was an update available?
Thanks again.
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Sorry, I didn't understand you at the first answer... If the update comes, it will probably be available in USA, and then in GB and EU etc... So you can visit that site sammobile.com again and seek the new firmwares. It is the same (I'm from Serbia and I use polish as it came out first). Good luck! ☺
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N9005 running X-Note 11

Please help-I think i bricked my S4

Hi guys desperate for help.
Did flashed German 4.4.2 official rom to my I9505.
All went well but decided to go back to stock UK rom.
Found correct firmware, started flashing with odin, got FAIL message
Now my S4 stack on Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again
what to do next

bakili said:
Hi guys desperate for help.
Did flashed German 4.4.2 official rom to my I9505.
All went well but decided to go back to stock UK rom.
Found correct firmware, started flashing with odin, got FAIL message
Now my S4 stack on Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. please select recovery mode in kies & try again
what to do next
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just flash the 4.4.2 firmware that you had before, i am too stuck now with 4.4.2 and cant go back to 4.3, sadly

Thanks
Phones back to life )))
So there are no way to downgrade?
Sent from my iPhone

bakili said:
Thanks
Phones back to life )))
So there are no way to downgrade?
Sent from my iPhone
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sadly no

I am being curious.. why you dont like the 4.4.2 guys?? i am on stock UK 4.3 too, but was wondering about flashing this German 4.4.2....

4.4.2 German is fine. Just dont like build in german apps. Will wait until UK 4.4.2 will be out and flash it then.
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SM-N9005 International Note 3 4.4.2

Hey guys.
Got an N9005 and just getting really impatient waiting for the Australian XSA rom to be released. It's so close I'm sure but, was wondering if I could perhaps flash a Poland firmware for now then flash an Australian one when it's released with no problems?
In my knowledge, a few years of flashing roms etc, it seems this would update everything including my bootloader, which is fine. Heard also that you cannot go back to any previous version of android after this procedure. Which I find weird, as what if I flashed a 4.3 firmware, wouldn't this revert everything back? Including bootloader?
Anyway, not that I'd want to go back, that was more just to see what the final say was.
Moving on, so I should be able to flash a Poland room for example then update to Australian? As they are official firmware, I shouldn't trip Knox either?
Thanks heaps in advance guys.

Anyone??
Thanks!!

Lambetts said:
Hey guys.
Got an N9005 and just getting really impatient waiting for the Australian XSA rom to be released. It's so close I'm sure but, was wondering if I could perhaps flash a Poland firmware for now then flash an Australian one when it's released with no problems?
In my knowledge, a few years of flashing roms etc, it seems this would update everything including my bootloader, which is fine. Heard also that you cannot go back to any previous version of android after this procedure. Which I find weird, as what if I flashed a 4.3 firmware, wouldn't this revert everything back? Including bootloader?
Anyway, not that I'd want to go back, that was more just to see what the final say was.
Moving on, so I should be able to flash a Poland room for example then update to Australian? As they are official firmware, I shouldn't trip Knox either?
Thanks heaps in advance guys.
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You can flash the Poland firmware while you wait. Almost everybody ran Poland Kitkat when it was first released.
The updated bootloader prevent from downgrading. If you try to do it via odin, the update will fail.
Official firmwares from any region will not trip KNOX.

Lambetts said:
Hey guys.
Got an N9005 and just getting really impatient waiting for the Australian XSA rom to be released. It's so close I'm sure but, was wondering if I could perhaps flash a Poland firmware for now then flash an Australian one when it's released with no problems?
In my knowledge, a few years of flashing roms etc, it seems this would update everything including my bootloader, which is fine. Heard also that you cannot go back to any previous version of android after this procedure. Which I find weird, as what if I flashed a 4.3 firmware, wouldn't this revert everything back? Including bootloader?
Anyway, not that I'd want to go back, that was more just to see what the final say was.
Moving on, so I should be able to flash a Poland room for example then update to Australian? As they are official firmware, I shouldn't trip Knox either?
Thanks heaps in advance guys.
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How did you go with this???? I am having same problem.. I flashed my stock optus note3 to polish 4.42 and now sim won't work any suggestions?

lucidpromise said:
How did you go with this???? I am having same problem.. I flashed my stock optus note3 to polish 4.42 and now sim won't work any suggestions?
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AFAIK Optus Note 3 is N9007, not N9005. So may be this is your problem?

vndnguyen said:
AFAIK Optus Note 3 is N9007, not N9005. So may be this is your problem?
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Are you sure?! Under the battery it says n9005......

lucidpromise said:
Are you sure?! Under the battery it says n9005......
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Ohh sorry, I mean there is a separate model for Optus operator.
In fact there is N9005 that has CSC code is OPS for Optus, and there is N9007 specific for Optus.
May be you have the 1st one.
You can get your Model and CSC code by using Phone INFO ★Samsung★ app.

[Q] Problems with ROM install

Hello I would like to ask you... I have SM-N9005 (baseband) - N9005XXUBMH9 and I cant find any ROM for it, can you tell me whats the problem? Do I have any kind of testing model or what? Thank you for your answers... I really would like to install Lollipop on it, but I am afraid, because of my baseband... Thanks.

Baseband is the Modem its not the firmware .
Development is full of N9005 custom roms as is sammobile with stock roms .

JJEgan said:
Baseband is the Modem its not the firmware .
Development is full of N9005 custom roms as is sammobile with stock roms .
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Ahh sorry, so do you think that I can install any firmware on that XXUBMH9?, because i didnt find any on sammobile. I have found that XXUBMH9 was something like pre-release version or something like that...

Download and run Phone Info from play store .

JJEgan said:
Download and run Phone Info from play store .
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And what do you need from this app ?

List everything in these tabs: General, CSC Code, Firmware
(actually, don't need all, but simpler to just tell you that than each specific thing). Easier still, take a snapshot of your screen and post them on here.
General will tell us your exact phone model, and CSC will let us know which country specific firmware you need. Firmware will let us know which version you have, so you don't downgrade bootloader and mess things up.

Many thanks to everyone who contributed

Darkwolfec said:
Hello I would like to ask you... I have SM-N9005 (baseband) - N9005XXUBMH9 and I cant find any ROM for it, can you tell me whats the problem? Do I have any kind of testing model or what? Thank you for your answers... I really would like to install Lollipop on it, but I am afraid, because of my baseband... Thanks.
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A word of caution. It may not be so but your confusion about baseband says you don't know much about ROM's, flashing and software components. I'd suggest have a read of the stickies (at top of each section such as Android Development) and learn what gives. You need to know the difference between Recovery and Download modes among other things.
Chances are you will want to root you phone so you can play more, but if all you want is LP, you can DL the Stock firmware for your phone (which is why the guys want the details from Phone INFO) and then flash it using Odin - a program you run on your PC that runs the firmware onto your phone.

N9005XXUBMH9
Feedback on that is that it was Jelly Bean Test firmware .In which case it may not be a genuine Note 3 but a sample .
SM-N9005: Android 4.3 Jellybean
(Current test firmware: N9005XXEBMH9/N9005OXABMH9/N9005XXUBMH9)

[Q] Flashing stock rom

This maybe a very stupid question but ive looked everywhere for an answer but i cant find one. Is it possible to flash the stock lollipop rom over an unrooted o2 lollipop rom. Only reason im asking is i haven't much experience flashing Samsung phones and i want to make sure i don't brick the thing lol. any advice would be great. If it all possible could some one post me a link to which of the unbranded roms is best to use thanks.

enemyrex said:
This maybe a very stupid question but ive looked everywhere for an answer but i cant find one. Is it possible to flash the stock lollipop rom over an unrooted o2 lollipop rom. Only reason im asking is i haven't much experience flashing Samsung phones and i want to make sure i don't brick the thing lol. any advice would be great. If it all possible could some one post me a link to which of the unbranded roms is best to use thanks.
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Go to sammobile and find your firmware. Try to search by name e.g SM-N9005 and country. When you download from there you will see instructions or all over xda on how to use ? odin.
All you need is ? odin. No risks if you follow the instructions.

Thanks for the reply but it still doesn't answer my original question can I flash a unbranded lollipop over the O2 lollipop and I have yet to find a unbranded UK lollipop rom yet so which version do I down load?
Thanks

enemyrex said:
Thanks for the reply but it still doesn't answer my original question can I flash a unbranded lollipop over the O2 lollipop and I have yet to find a unbranded UK lollipop rom yet so which version do I down load?
Thanks
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You should flash the good firmware for your CSC (device country code). You can find it installing this APP and going to Sammobile.com then for download the correct firmware.

mine says o2u and i cant find an unbranded firmware. ive included a screen shot.

enemyrex said:
mine says o2u and i cant find an unbranded firmware. ive included a screen shot.
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You shouldn't flash unbranded firmware to one branded device. You should flash one of this ONES then.

is that the branded version of the o2 firmware? as i have that one installed already.