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Please help with SM-N9005

Hey people
i recently purchased a note 3 off ebay which works fine for me in the UK, however the only problem i have is the phone is flashed with chinese firmware. i basically want to reflash the firmware to the uk BTU firmware. i have downloaded
SM-N9005 Galaxy Note 3
PDA: N9005XXUBMJ3
CSC: N9005OXABMJ3
MODEM: N9005XXUBMJ2
from sammobile.
but for some reason when going to flash in Odin, it ends up with a fail error saying the image4 invalid.
Could someone please point me in the direction to fix this?
Thanks

jeezy85 said:
Hey people
i recently purchased a note 3 off ebay which works fine for me in the UK, however the only problem i have is the phone is flashed with chinese firmware. i basically want to reflash the firmware to the uk BTU firmware. i have downloaded
SM-N9005 Galaxy Note 3
PDA: N9005XXUBMJ3
CSC: N9005OXABMJ3
MODEM: N9005XXUBMJ2
from sammobile.
but for some reason when going to flash in Odin, it ends up with a fail error saying the image4 invalid.
Could someone please point me in the direction to fix this?
Thanks
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i think it means that firmware is not compatible ,but i may be wrong

jeezy85 said:
Hey people
i recently purchased a note 3 off ebay which works fine for me in the UK, however the only problem i have is the phone is flashed with chinese firmware. i basically want to reflash the firmware to the uk BTU firmware. i have downloaded
SM-N9005 Galaxy Note 3
PDA: N9005XXUBMJ3
CSC: N9005OXABMJ3
MODEM: N9005XXUBMJ2
from sammobile.
but for some reason when going to flash in Odin, it ends up with a fail error saying the image4 invalid.
Could someone please point me in the direction to fix this?
Thanks
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I started a simlar thread a few days back asking similar question. I am trying to flash ROM from different region and without success. so far no one has replied a way to do it. I have Vodafone ROM on my N9005 and I have managed to flash it with BTU ROM but not TGY ROM. Apparently any european ROM I can probably flash but not asia. So you is the other way round.

CSC question

Hi. Just a bit confused about my CSC. Currently my phone is on AP: I9505XXUEMKF with CSC: I9505BTUEMK5. As far as I was aware, this is an unbranded CSC for the UK and Ireland? (I am in Ireland). Now my phone was locked to a network but I got it unlocked and the CSC is now this. According to Sammobile, the latest firmware for BTU is I9505XXUENAA but when I connect my phone to kies, it says i have the latest update? Am I missing something big here?

juzzy16 said:
Hi. Just a bit confused about my CSC. Currently my phone is on AP: I9505XXUEMKF with CSC: I9505BTUEMK5. As far as I was aware, this is an unbranded CSC for the UK and Ireland? (I am in Ireland). Now my phone was locked to a network but I got it unlocked and the CSC is now this. According to Sammobile, the latest firmware for BTU is I9505XXUENAA but when I connect my phone to kies, it says i have the latest update? Am I missing something big here?
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1. The CSC appears close to ur firmware in Kies 3. Like in the 1st pic the CSC is XEU.
2. I9505XXUENAA no is an official update recognized by Kies how u can see in the 2nd pic. Kies 3 recognize that u have the latest update installed. If you want update ur phone by Kies you will have to wait new official update or u will have to use ODIN for install I9505XXUENAA otherways (SamMobile).

I tried that csc the other night, and it loads the Austria/Switzerland stuff on my phone by default......very useful here in the uk.
There is option to select uk/btu but it resets the phone, so Im not spending 3 hours setting up my phone.
Oh, and the mobile data speed seems so crap on that modem compared to mk9....

Thanks for your reply. Do you know whether unbranded phones get updates before branded??

juzzy16 said:
Thanks for your reply. Do you know whether unbranded phones get updates before branded??
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Yes normally.
- Branded phones have to have custom firmware (coz they install their own apps/mods/rebuilts)
- Unbranded handsets can apply new firmware as soon as Samsung releases it (without changes).

Nougat Firmware with MM CSC?

Hi...as the title says: Is it possible?
So to flash BTU and after it the CSC for my provider (it's from a MM Firmware)?
Tried the search function but couldn't find a statement.

it works, mine has xeu csc and I have flashed btu without a problem

Yeah...I'm also on BTU now. But I wanted to know if I could flash a 6.0.1 CSC now without problems.

yes, tested by me, downgrade is safe because bootloader binary is the same

Thanks!

@Pet1981 hey there? did you try to flash the marshmallow CSC? I'm thinking of doing so since Samsung Pay has been rolled out in my home country but I'm currently in Switzerland, using the BTU nougat update

Yep! Works without problems

Tried the MM csc for T-Mobile Germany (DTM) in Renovate 7.1.0 (Nougat) and it doesn't work properly, needed to switch back to the german unbranded csc (DBT)

what is my stock ROM and kernel and modem please help

Hi I am using Note 4 N910F and I installed custom ROMs and flash my kernel and modem also but I forgot what was my stock ROM and kernel and modem and my oculus for gear VR no more works now and after searching about I found that I need my stock ROM kernel modem to make my gear VR work again please guide where do I find my custom rom and hard and posting images of my phone info please help and sorry for noob question

just goto sammobile, dl latest fw for ur phone model(whats printed under battery) and carrier, flash w/odin, then factory reset w/stock recovery

vincom said:
just goto sammobile, dl latest fw for ur phone model(whats printed under battery) and carrier, flash w/odin, then factory reset w/stock recovery
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Looks like my phone is n910f and is from UK .am I right?
Also on sammobile I found united Kingdom EE, H3G,VODAFONE ETC.
One is plane only united Kingdom and I assume it should be mine
Please anyone confirm

Can I download it from Samsung firmware.Org as server is down today at sammobile
Also I am confused what is my firmware as united Kingdom has
BTU
VOD
O2U
H3G
EVR
What is mine here

nicholes said:
Can I download it from Samsung firmware.Org as server is down today at sammobile
Also I am confused what is my firmware as united Kingdom has
BTU
VOD
O2U
H3G
EVR
What is mine here
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idk about .org
try to match fw w/ur carrier, what is ur carrier or the phones original carrier/country ? those 3 letters match up to a specific carrier.
not that critical as all are almost exactly if not all the same fw, bloatware will be installed as to ur phones carrier csc

CSC Code Won't Change After Flashing Stock Firmware

Hey guys! So, out of curiosity, I've downloaded and flashed the most recent Oreo from Russia (CSC: SER) thinking that I would like to try out the new Oreo software. After I've tried it, I decided to go back to Nougat by flashing the stock firmware (CSC: XME) I downloaded from sammobile.com. After completing it, someway, somehow, the device is now stuck in the Vietnam CSC (XXV). I've been downloading various of XME firmwares from the past and everytime it finish flashes, it will start up in Vietnamese and I'm stuck again with the Vietnam CSC. Nice that I'm able to get oreo with a Vietnamese CSC, but I don't want to use it because the Samsung Pay works different in Vietnam in comparison to Malaysia. And, I've no idea how flashing a SER and then XME would come out with a XXV CSC is beyond my imagination. Is there anyway for me to return back to my stock CSC without rooting and tripping Knox?

Opening the stock recovery completes the CSC installation, give that a try. It's expected to show "Updating 0-100%".

jereyeap said:
Hey guys! So, out of curiosity, I've downloaded and flashed the most recent Oreo from Russia (CSC: SER) thinking that I would like to try out the new Oreo software. After I've tried it, I decided to go back to Nougat by flashing the stock firmware (CSC: XME) I downloaded from sammobile.com. After completing it, someway, somehow, the device is now stuck in the Vietnam CSC (XXV). I've been downloading various of XME firmwares from the past and everytime it finish flashes, it will start up in Vietnamese and I'm stuck again with the Vietnam CSC. Nice that I'm able to get oreo with a Vietnamese CSC, but I don't want to use it because the Samsung Pay works different in Vietnam in comparison to Malaysia. And, I've no idea how flashing a SER and then XME would come out with a XXV CSC is beyond my imagination. Is there anyway for me to return back to my stock CSC without rooting and tripping Knox?
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So, I have done some digging around the internet and found this link from the Sammobile forum. I've tried the methods in that forum, and it works!
If any of you have suffered the same problem as me, you could perform troubleshoot using this method. It seems that firmware for XME is actually multi-CSC and includes other CSC such as Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Myanmar and etc.. The Vietnam CSC is the default CSC.
So, here you go. This is the link: https://www.sammobile.com/forum/threads/39155-How-to-change-CSC-with-a-combination-file