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[REF] Samsung firmware naming convention and explanation

Guys,
Eveyone seems to always struggle with the question "is this firwmare KXY newer or older than KYZ". After a long search, I found some parts of explanations from places to places and as I owe a lot to this community for helping me taking the better of my past phones, I thought it was finally the appropriate place to send back my gratitude and summarise them in one post. If moderators feel this thread does not belong to this part of the forum, feel free to move it in the appropriate one (but I really do think it belongs to this part as it is ROM related).
To know what is your phone *ware versions, type on the phone keypad (if you want them to work on GoDialer or any software that sits on top of phone keypad, you need to add "*#" without the quotes before the code and "*#*" without the quotes again after):
Firmware ver: *#1234#
S/W ver: *#1111#
H/W ver: *#2222#
My bonus: a code to test all your phone capabilities (screen, sound, sensors, ...):*#0*#
Now that you have typed the firmware version code and that you are on the screen, you get 3 different pieces of information. As an example, my phone shows:
PDA: N7000XXKKA
PHONE: N7000XXKK5
CSC: N7000OXAKK9
PDA is the operating system with its programs and settings included.
PHONE is the modem firmware file, parts of which are required to access the hardware.
CSC (for consumer software customisation) are the regional settings applied which may install additional programs as well as provider-specific settings (APN).
PDA AND PHONE CODE MEANING
What does N7000XXKKA means?
N7000(=model)XX(=Region)K(=Year)K(=Month)A(=Revision)
As you know your model, here are Samsung's complementary information:
REGION CODES
BD Cyprus, Greece
CP Finland
DBVietnam
DC Thailand
DD India
DT Australia
DX Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam
DZ Malaysia, Singapore
JA South Africa
JC Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia
JP Arabic
JR Arabic
JV Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey
MT Switzerland
XA Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom
XB Denmark, Norway, Sweden
XC Portugal, Spain
XD Croatia, Czech, Hungary, Slovakia
XE Bulgaria, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine
XF Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania
XW France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom
XX Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom
ZC China, Hong Kong
ZH Hong Kong
ZT Taiwan
YEAR CODES
A 2001
B 2002
C 2003
D 2004
E 2005
F 2006
G 2007
H 2008
I 2009
J 2010
K 2011
L 2012
...
MONTH CODES
A January
B February
C March
D April
E May
F June
G July
H August
I September
J October
K November
L December
REVISION CODES
1 = 1
2 = 2
3 = 3
...
...
A = 10
B = 11
C = 12
...
CSC CODE MEANING
For CSC, you can notice a different scheme: between the phone model and the release code, there is no 2 letters but 3, in my case OXA, it is simply a code explaining from which country and which operator this phone is. OXA is supposed to be O2 UK and I'm using it for SFR France (coude should be then SFR).
Conclusion, this is not harmful to your phone having a different CSC code than the one you are supposed to use. But if you want to properly change it anyway, you can do it using the code *#272*<your phone IMEI># (if you don't have it, your phone IMEI can be obtained using the code *#06#), the CSC menu is displayed and shows your current CSC and a list to change your phone CSC.
Once in front of that list find yours there (http://www.samfirmware.com/samsunglettercode.htm), in the Samsung official letter code section and pray to have in in you CSC list
If it isn't, then choose the X?? version (for France it is XEF), it is for retail code (i.e. not operator branded). But be careful, if you apply a new CSC, it is phone factory reset (all your data and settings are lost).
Voilà, I hope this post will explain almost everything about phone firmware versions and CSC. And more than everything, it will help a lot of people here to better enjoy their SGN
ADDITIONAL COMMENT (if someone can validate or undermine it, that would be nice)
Often, SGN users are wondering if using KK1 kernel on a KJ4 ROM or a KKA on a KJ1 will brick their phone. I think people are mislead by Samsung revision numbers more than the real technology behind the letters and numbers. As far as i have seen ALL ROM kernels are based on 2.6.35.7 or 2.6.35.14 (which includes very very insignificant changes to the Kernel structure, i.e. mainly bugfixes) which would mean that applying kernel on ROM has something like 99% to work perfectly fine and 1% to end in bootloop which can be avoided flushing cache and dalvik cache. The main point on kernels is the fact to loose CWM Recovery. But hopefully, some great minds like ChainFire release as soon as sources are made available, kernels with CWM Recovery in it.

isnt pda is the operating system phone is the modem

It does work in Go Dialer but you have to enclose the code in a additional *#....#*.
Ex:
Firmware ver: *#*#1234#*#*

@kromosto, thanks for noticing it. At least you read it thoroughly - I corrected it.
@mdalacu, thanks for the codes. Added the trick in my post.

Bonjour Steph
Fine... mais sais tu s il y a un moyen de mettre CWM justement sur un note en KK9 et KK5 ? pour l instant j ai l impression que non .....

falgard,
This forum is English only.
To summarise to non French members: you wanted to know if it was possible to add a CWM Recovery in any ROM and make it persistent.
As far as I have understood, recovery partition is not working the same way as in in HTC phones. In HTC phones, recovery has a partition that is not overwritten when a ROM is flashed. In Samsung phones it seems that recovery is in the Kernel partition.
It simply means that you need to compile kernel sources (hence being able to have them) to include recovery in it!! And today, I have only seen two people being able to do that: the venerable ChainFire (that has provided so many utilities, hacks and so on) and RiverSource. But if you are a kernel compiler master, get in touch with them to have CWM sources, look in Samsung's open-source repository for new kernel sources (KK9, KKA or whatever more recent) and bless us with a new CWM kernel that rocks... or wait for a kernel master to show us his magic

Of course
It 's an english forum, and it was just a blink as we are on the same country...
Yes I am aware about the way to install and compile Cwm but Chainfire will do it, I think, as usual...
Have a nice afternoon
Best

Hi,
Please check the attachment. It is the screenshot of my version on my galaxy note.
I bought my phone yesterday. I connected and and updated firmware using samsung kiew software. Now the screen is lagging while scrolling. Please check and suggest something.
Thanks

hey steph can you add [REF] before your thread title. Cheers, please read the stickies before posting.
Sent from my GT-N7000 using xda premium

@ gv.chaitanya8: this thread intents to explain Samsung's firmware naming convention not solving issues. Sorry. Anyway, try to move to Sheep ROM, it solved all my ROMs troubles (battery drains, lags and so on).
@tids2k: I added a REF tag and changed a bit the title.

my pda = n7000ubkk2 what country UB stands for?

Should be UB= Brazil

I have I9228 and want to flash to N7000, has anyone got the stock roms for both, and is it even possible?
Also my codes were KML4 and now are LB3 for China mobile if anyone knows anything about it.

I have I9228 and want to flash to N7000 as well, has anyone got the stock roms for both, and is it even possible?

AussieMatt said:
I have I9228 and want to flash to N7000, has anyone got the stock roms for both, and is it even possible?
Also my codes were KML4 and now are LB3 for China mobile if anyone knows anything about it.
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Don't! Do! This! Just my 2 cents.
Maybe you'll end up like the user underneath your post with this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1561316
He nearly successfully bricked his device. Read the thread, maybe twice and then decide if you really fancy this step...but feel free, it's your phone anyway.
Galaxy Note GT N-7000 - GB.XXLC1

i bought my Galaxy note. n7000 in Hongkong at Fortress. but when i do the code. it says " KOR " does anyone know what code to pick for HK because i am missing chinese on my keyboard selection.

And how does XXLPY fit into that scheme ?

I want to know why XXLPF says KoR and not CZ or CH
Sent from my GT-N7000 using XDA

A point has been made by Entropy512 on that point, for ICS, Samsung added an extra P in the scheme. I have planned to update the scheme for ICS soon

rp4k said:
I want to know why XXLPF says KoR and not CZ or CH
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Because it is not supposed to! XX as stated in my OP is for Europe.
Anyway everything is not lost, see in thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1424997 and get a ZS one. There is currently linked
N7000ZSLPF-4.0.3-2012 May-N7000OZSLPF-----------Hong Kong
N7000ZSLPF-4.0.3-2012 May-N7000OZSLPF-----------Taiwan
Pick your poison but I don't know that there is Chinese keyboard in any of them.

New CHN GT-N8000/8010 4.1.2 firmware

N8010ZCCMB1
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/194949738/e70f3df/N8010ZCCMB1_N8010CHNCMB1_CHN.zip.html
N8000ZCCMB1
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/194942316/ea360bb/N8000ZCCMB1_N8000CHNCMB1_CHN.zip.html
Release Feb 2013

Same for the german market...
N8010XXUCMA8...

South Africa (XFA)
Hi
I'm in South Africa and it seems we are one of the countries last on the list of firmware updates.
Is it possible to install this chinese version on my XFA CSC tablet and still have everythin in English? I don't mind not receiving official updates in the future. My possible CSC codes does not include CHN.
Thanks in advance

rompelstompel said:
Hi
I'm in South Africa and it seems we are one of the countries last on the list of firmware updates.
Is it possible to install this chinese version on my XFA CSC tablet and still have everythin in English? I don't mind not receiving official updates in the future. My possible CSC codes does not include CHN.
Thanks in advance
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Sure it's possible, but you might not want to. I've heard that there are all sort of restrictions in the Chinese ROMs, such as no Play Store

Bulbous said:
Sure it's possible, but you might not want to. I've heard that there are all sort of restrictions in the Chinese ROMs, such as no Play Store
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Thanks
Other options are KEN (Kenya) and XSG (United Arab) on my multi CSC. Would it rather be advisable to change to them? Or do I just wait until an official one comes along

rompelstompel said:
Thanks
Other options are KEN (Kenya) and XSG (United Arab) on my multi CSC. Would it rather be advisable to change to them? Or do I just wait until an official one comes along
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Why not just flash the fimware for Germany or the UK? They will always be first available and most up to date. Here in Cape Town I use German roms on my N8000. Loaded 4.1.1 in early November and 4.1.2 in mid December. Wouldn't even think of waiting for an OTA here!
No issues at all. They even have Afrikaans if you need it and "South African English"!

pwatkins said:
Why not just flash the fimware for Germany or the UK? They will always be first available and most up to date. Here in Cape Town I use German roms on my N8000. Loaded 4.1.1 in early November and 4.1.2 in mid December. Wouldn't even think of waiting for an OTA here!
No issues at all. They even have Afrikaans if you need it and "South African English"!
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Thanks. That was exactly what I needed to know. Even better from a fellow South African. One more question... did you flash with CWM Recovery and how do I change my CSC to German (DBT)?

Gt-n8000-chn n8000zccmd2
presently i have the GT-N8000-CHN N8000ZCCMD2
it is having chinese options
so i would to change all in english language to
GT-N8000 EUR N8000XXCMA2 4.1.2
is it possible to flash pls it very urgnt pls need ur help

G900 which version

as above
looking at getting a Samsung Galaxy S5 and have noticed that they are not the same models. ie. G900I, G900F etc. could anyone explain the difference please. i am in Australia by the way. thanks

Basically the region and/or the cell provider. There's a list somewhere on XDA that goes over each model.

adventure_of_link said:
Basically the region and/or the cell provider. There's a list somewhere on XDA that goes over each model.
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thanks
which will work in australia?

okle001 said:
thanks
which will work in australia?
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I believe all the ones that aren't CDMA?

From GSMArena:
Samsung Galaxy S5
Available as:
Samsung SM-G900F - for Europe
Samsung SM-G900I - for Asia
Samsung SM-G900K/G900L/G900S - for Korea
Samsung SM-G900M - for Vodafone
Samsung SM-G900A - for AT&T
Samsung SM-G900T - for T-Mobile
Samsung SM-G900V - for Verizon
Samsung SM-G900R4 - for US Cellular
Samsung SM-G900P - for Sprint
As for which one for Australia, I have no idea. I believe that for other devices Australia uses the EU model, so it's likely that one. But I can't guarantee it.

I'm from Malaysia but here have f version only and in Indonesia only version h
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okle001 said:
as above
looking at getting a Samsung Galaxy S5 and have noticed that they are not the same models. ie. G900I, G900F etc. could anyone explain the difference please. i am in Australia by the way. thanks
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The official australian version is G900I since G900F doesn't support some of the LTE frequencies (700Mhz and 2300Mhz).

Sincci said:
The official australian version is G900I since G900F doesn't support some of the LTE frequencies (700Mhz and 2300Mhz).
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Hi
I have a follow question , but till now i did not found the ansfer for.
I have G900W8 but shortly will migrate to Europe, and would like to use my own language, that is currently not supported by W8 firmware.
Is it safe to use G900F firmware and flash it to G900W8 model ? or i will kill it

Change model number
May I know how can I flash SM-900F firmware on an SM0900I Galaxy S5 as the Australian SM-900I firmware has some limitations?

aazznn92 said:
May I know how can I flash SM-900F firmware on an SM0900I Galaxy S5 as the Australian SM-900I firmware has some limitations?
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Search for 'Odin' in the forums and download the firmware from www.sammobile.com.
Sent from my SM-G900I using xda app-developers app

People really shouldn't flash firmwares that are not meant for your phone. While they might be 99% identical, there are some differences like the 3g/4g bands that the device supports.

okle001 said:
as above
looking at getting a Samsung Galaxy S5 and have noticed that they are not the same models. ie. G900I, G900F etc. could anyone explain the difference please. i am in Australia by the way. thanks
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G900I will work in AU.

hemander said:
G900I will work in AU.
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I bought the G900F in Hong Kong and works perfectly well in Australia on Vodafone 4G. I also flashed the UK BTU firmware over the stock ZHU firmware and simply brilliant.
I think you limit yourselves buying the G900I version as the G900F has far more options for flashing stock firmwares, and works perfectly well in Australia. The G900I version reminds me of the S4 Mini (i9195T version) which was Vodafone/Telstra only and never received the 4.3 update, or any others for that matter.... Better to get a phone that has world wide coverage, than one that's limited to Australia if you care about timely updates.
FYi, if you check www.samfirmware.com, you'll see that the listed G900I is only Australia and Taiwan... G900F is everything from Europe to Asia.

I have the G900H in south America.

I bought S5- SM-G900F from Dubai airport and wanted to know if it will work in India/US

thanks for info
am just wondering if compatability of different models and 4G coverage
Thanks

I have a SM-G900F phone in Australia for last 2 years., and have no problems whatsoever.

S7 Edge International on AT&T

Hey y'all,
I've had this S7 Edge International version for a while, and I was wondering if there is any way to improve signal. My internet is slow when I'm not on WIFI, I notice that in certain areas it is good, and most areas is just 1 bar which is meh. Any way to change some settings on the phone to fix this?

what csc are using? I got a France 935 and xfe works OK on AT&T. I did read you don't want to use an AT&T csc as it would be for a snapdragon and mess up a exynos based phone. maybe try BTU

UberBock said:
what csc are using? I got a France 935 and xfe works OK on AT&T. I did read you don't want to use an AT&T csc as it would be for a snapdragon and mess up a exynos based phone. maybe try BTU
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how do i check which CSC it is?

*#12580*369# in the dial section on the phone app it will list it. it's the 3 letters after G935F

UberBock said:
*#12580*369# in the dial section on the phone app it will list it. it's the 3 letters after G935F
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it says UUB

I think that is a multi csc for Latin America. might look around xda about using a different open multi csc. also are u updated to latest firmware. maybe since it is an international grab one from UK that has an updated modem (cp) file.

UberBock said:
I think that is a multi csc for Latin America. might look around xda about using a different open multi csc. also are u updated to latest firmware. maybe since it is an international grab one from UK that has an updated modem (cp) file.
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How do I do this? and does it trip knox?

if you update to an official Samsung version Knox will not trip. look for entries about official Samsung firmware and Odin. I assume that this international s7 edge will not be back in it country of origin. if it was and on a network there you'd get updates. if it is in the United States on AT&T then no updates would be pushed to the phone since they would be for the snapdragon version.

UberBock said:
if you update to an official Samsung version Knox will not trip. look for entries about official Samsung firmware and Odin. I assume that this international s7 edge will not be back in it country of origin. if it was and on a network there you'd get updates. if it is in the United States on AT&T then no updates would be pushed to the phone since they would be for the snapdragon version.
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I get updates, it's just software updates though, nothing AT&T pushes afaik.

I meant firmware updates from either Samsung or your carrier. if you use *#12580*369# the first two lines should end in BPHJ. That would be an updated firmware. what do the first two entries say

uberbock said:
i meant firmware updates from either samsung or your carrier. If you use *#12580*369# the first two lines should end in bphj. That would be an updated firmware. What do the first two entries say
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ap: G935fxxu1bph8
cp: G935fxxubph1

changing CSC from carrier to country generic

does anyone know if there is a benefit or downside to changing my csc from my carrier bell canada ( CSC: BMC) to canada generic (XAC)? thanks

ansamech said:
does anyone know if there is a benefit or downside to changing my csc from my carrier bell canada ( CSC: BMC) to canada generic (XAC)? thanks
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The benefit is that you don't have to wait for your carrier (testing and aproval) to receive OTA, the only "downside" is that you don't get any bloatware apps from them.

Donald K. said:
The benefit is that you don't have to wait for your carrier (testing and aproval) to receive OTA, the only "downside" is that you don't get any bloatware apps from them.
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The bloatware was what I was trying to avoid by switching, awesome. But it won't brake anything? Like Volte or wifi calling?

Donald K. said:
The benefit is that you don't have to wait for your carrier (testing and aproval) to receive OTA, the only "downside" is that you don't get any bloatware apps from them.
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That's not true, bmc gets updates before xac and rogers, in fact rogers is usually dead last in some instances. I specifically changed mine from xac to bmc to get updates a few days earlier, the two bell apps i simply disabled.

peachpuff said:
That's not true, bmc gets updates before xac and rogers, in fact rogers is usually dead last in some instances. I specifically changed mine from xac to bmc to get updates a few days earlier, the two bell apps i simply disabled.
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Here in Holland I've had TNL (T-Mobile Netherlands branded) and I changedit to PHN (Netherlands unbranded) and while I received the december patch on 28-12 while TNL was still stuck on october.

Donald K. said:
Here in Holland I've had TNL (T-Mobile Netherlands branded) and I changedit to PHN (Netherlands unbranded) and while I received the december patch on 28-12 while TNL was still stuck on october.
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In Canada it's the opposite for some reason, bell/telus/koodo get it first while Rogers and unbranded xac get it last.