My mum went to the US and Mexico from Australia last year for my brother's wedding and a holiday. She bought an unlocked T-Mobile Galaxy S5 and prepaid T-Mobile SIM to use over there.
However now she's back in Australia there are a few issues with the phone such as the T-Mobile bloatware and US defaults on the phone.
I thought it might be possible to flash an Australian variant of the stock firmware from the SM-G900I and searched for instructions and thought I'd figured out how to do it with Odin only to get a Secure Check Fail: aboot error message.
Some research I've done suggests the problem is with the baseband of the firmware I found:
G900IDVU1CQB1_G900IXSA1CQB1_G900IDVU1CQB1_HOME.tar.md5
Apparently the baseband of my mum's phone is: G900TUVU1GQC2
I was hoping to flash an alternative stock rom without rooting the phone and tripping Knox since it's still within warranty.
Any help/tips much appreciated.
First of all you should never flash different software on to phones they don't belong to it would more likely brick it bt if your phone is TMobile you can easily not root it by going into the developer setting and hitting oem unlock so that unlocks the bootloaders​ from there you can you can use odin to flash TWRP (a custom recovery) and then easily root it and then flash debloat scripts made from devs on this website to get rid of bloatware
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I tried to find something for this specific question, and I apologize ahead of time if it's already answered.
I purchased a Galaxy Note 3 on Best Buy's website, and I got an unlocked N900w8 model. Seems to be the mexican variant, not the canadian version. Still has no kitkat update, and it has LTE.
I have T-Mobile, and would like Kitkat right now, and since the Galaxy note 3 T-Mobile version already has Kitkat, can I flash it with the T-Mobile stock ROM? Or will I run into issues?
From what I have found, both have the same feature set, including the same LTE frequencies.
If knox not already tripped, you can follow this guide to not trip it if you want to root, install custom recovery/rom , also you can go back to 4.3. Otherwise you can flash tmo firmware and there wont be any issue.
hey_joe said:
If knox not already tripped, you can follow this guide to not trip it if you want to root, install custom recovery/rom , also you can go back to 4.3. Otherwise you can flash tmo firmware and there wont be any issue.
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Ok so just to confirm, when you say "otherwise", so I can just flash a kitkat t-mobile firmware on this, and it'll work just fine without issue? Talking stock kitkat t-mobile firmware, here in the US on this hardware.
It's not currently rooted at all, no mods done period so far.
Hey people, I have an issue going on here.
I was going to unlock, but decided to reflash firmware and change the csc from rogers over to bell.
Kies recognizes the phone now as being a 'bell' phone, and have done an update just to confirm it but it still will not accept a bell sim. Every time I have inserted a bell sim it requests the 4 digit unlock code. The sim works just fine in my S3 and another bell S4, so that is not the problem.
All settings in the phone also show it to be 'bell', home screen and all, so the csc did take.
All the modems/firmware on sammobile are multi-csc, as i have tried to just flash the modem alone after I extracted it.
I could care less about being truly carrier free, as I am locked into a bell agreement through work.
Any suggestions on this, or do i have to purchase a code? I assume its locked now so I cannot downgrade to my understanding to a lower modem to use the service menu to unlock.
Thanks for the input.
I've flashed from a Bell 4.4.2 to Telus 5.01 without issue and the phone will remain sim-locked. The only difference I have seen between the Bell, Telus, and Rogers ROM are the carrier apps included with each ROM.
The sim unlock code is 8 digits long.
You should be able to downgrade the i337m's 5.01 stock ROM to a i337m 4.4.2 stock ROM. Then install the 4.2.2 modem, root the phone, run region unlock app, re-flash stock 5.01, and the phone will be sim unlocked. Doing this will trip the knox counter to 1 and void any remaining warranty.
I tried to downgrade, but it didnt take. I will try again. I know there was a discussion on booting the phone and not signing into google then reflash again. Is this needed?
Thanks for the reply.
Well, I got it to work this time. Much appreciated
You tried to flash a stock 4.4.2 rom from sammobile.com? Were there errors in Odin?
So my S6 had an unfortunate trip in the lake, and I'm going to resort to my sisters old S4 (I owned one too, but I totalled it).
Mine was rooted and had GPE loaded on it.
My old model was an i9505 and noticed that my sisters is a i9507 which is a strange variant (assuming its 4G+).
Anyway, when she had it, the phone constantly overheated and would constantly reboot. We returned for repair many times, each time showing no signs of issue.
What I would like to know is;
Would i9505 roms suit this phone? Or would I have to make do with stock.
And secondly, I am with telstra and the S4 is with virgin (OPS). Is it as simple as flashing a i9507 ROM from telsra on it, or do I have to do something else? This is for the CSC of course.
Is the phone sim unlocked? I recommend sim unlocking the phone before flashing any ROMs, especially custom ROMs as the unlock code needs to be entered using a stock Samsung dialler.
CSC doesn't really matter if the phone is sim unlocked.
Stock firmware is here: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/GT-I9507/
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Is the phone sim unlocked? I recommend sim unlocking the phone before flashing any ROMs, especially custom ROMs as the unlock code needs to be entered using a stock Samsung dialler.
CSC doesn't really matter if the phone is sim unlocked.
Stock firmware is here: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/GT-I9507/
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Hmm stock firmware is only 5.0.1 and not for the carrier that I want. It's been so long since I've modded (since I've had stock S6 since I bought it). Can I change the CSC on that rom, or would it be locked to Optus.
Anyway I've put in my Telstra sim and it seems to work for the moment, picking up the telstra network and changing the APN's to telstras (maybe there is a CSC in the phone for TEL too?).
Just would like to know now if I'm able to use a GEL or AOSP rom for the i9505.
Thanks for the response.
The firmware should not matter. The CSC files are a customization of app for a particular carrier. There are 3 carriers in Canada (Rogers, Bell, Telus) for the s4 and I can cross-flash the firmware with no problems. I would be surprised if the phone can't work with Telstra if it is unlocked.
According to these specs, the 9507 uses a snapdragon 600 chip which is the chip used in the i337m and 9505: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9507_galaxy_s4_with_s600_spotted_in_glbench-news-6571.php
Hello,
As the title says, I'd like to flash the tmobile stock rom or perhaps the tmobile variant of the SM-G935U on my SM-G935FD. Tmobile is my service provider and I'd like to be able to use wifi calling and samsung pay. I know I can flash these roms without issue, but I was wondering if it would be possible to revert back to stock SM-G935FD firmware, since the tmobile ones have locked bootloaders.
Would it be possible to either flash stock SM-G935FD again or do a hard factory reset?
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Hello,
As the title says, I'd like to flash the tmobile stock rom or perhaps the tmobile variant of the SM-G935U on my SM-G935FD. Tmobile is my service provider and I'd like to be able to use wifi calling and samsung pay. I know I can flash these roms without issue, but I was wondering if it would be possible to revert back to stock SM-G935FD firmware, since the tmobile ones have locked bootloaders.
Would it be possible to either flash stock SM-G935FD again or do a hard factory reset?
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You cant do it, odin will not allow the wrong firmware to be flashed.
And in the this case your talking about flashing firmware from a snapdragon devcie onto a exynos device.
That alone should have been enough to realize its not happening.
Your far better off with exynos anyway, locked bootloader on the snapdragon version...that is crap
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You can setup and use Samsung Pay on an international device -- check the Samsung Pay thread . I have the DBT (germany) CSC on my phone; before that I had XSG (Saudi Arabia); and both times I have successfully used Samsung Pay.
Wifi Calling won't work AFAIK.
Can I flash another firmware like tmobile or att on my s7 sprint ??? And how can I do that
Sorry for the noob question
Nobody knows about it???
if you have the actual "Sprint" sm-g930p, then your answer is yes as long as it's unlocked. well you can flash even if it's not unlocked, but if it isn't then you won't be able to connect to whoever your carrier is because the device will be sim/network locked to the original carrier. But honestly why flash any other carriers firmware when just simply flashing the "sm-g930u" firmware will pretty much give you all APN access and you can then connect to whoever your sim supports, with no carrier bloatware. Fully functional... Half the crap.. lol .. and a simple Odin flash should do the trick. use either prince's, or the newest build 3.12.7 i believe.. I've been using only that one and have rooted, flashed dif firmware and even tinkered with some bootloader ideas (unsuccessful) and was able to use the same odin for all.