Hi I purchased my s2 recently brand new from someone who unlocked on craigslist *he got refurb one, because he was buying s3*
I believe he unlocked it as well as the phone is rooted - Works with Virgin Mobile carrier (Bell) Canada (I am not sure if I need to unlock again after installing jelly bean)
My current version is gingerbread and I am wanting to upgrade it to jelly bean.
Samsumg kies is not working to upgrade, I am assuming due to the phone being rooted/setting changes by the guy who sold the phone.
I need to manually install jelly bean but I want to confirm its correct version ect.
NOTE: I have the box/manual for the phone, it states GT-I9100M not just I9100, but inside my phone it says my phone is I9100 , I am not sure if this is because the previous owner installed a different rom for gingerbread or not.
my CSC: I9100XEUKD1 (which appears the be UK- but I live in Canada, not sure if I need to change this or not)
I would appreciate a link to a tutorial and some of my questions answered, like my phone being i9100m vs i9100, It would make sense since I am Canadian, as well as my CSC code being uk.
I would highly appreciate answers/tutorial link for my situation
Thanks,
David.
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see this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179346
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Hi guys, I'm looking for the stock ICS firmware for my Virgin Galaxy S2 (i9100/m).
Went into the thread with the collaboration of stock firmware but the downloads have been removed for both bell and virgin. Can someone point me to the right direction for the stock rom? Or any rom that's close to stock?
According to my copy of Checkfus, there is no official/stock ICS for I9100M/Bell Canada. If you're after a copy of Gingerbread firmware for this carrier/country, search Samfirmware.com
The last and likely only firmware for Bell/Virgin/Sasktel GT I9100Ms was UGKG2 (2.3.3), if you want ICS you'd be better served by downloading a european stock or custom ICS ROM as Bell has never expressed any interest in doing further updates for this phone.
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yes there is an ICS 4.0.4 for the VM galaxy s2 in the US i can verify it cause i own one. but i tried to root it and now i can't get the firmware anywhere. every thing i find is either canadien arabic or UK. i need the US version . can any one help at all. btw VM galaxy s2's got that ICS update in march of 2012 just so you know...
wick3dxero said:
yes there is an ICS 4.0.4 for the VM galaxy s2 in the US i can verify it cause i own one. but i tried to root it and now i can't get the firmware anywhere. every thing i find is either canadien arabic or UK. i need the US version . can any one help at all. btw VM galaxy s2's got that ICS update in march of 2012 just so you know...
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As I said here, The Galaxy SII for Virgin Mobile in the US is NOT the i9100 or i9100M. It is the SPH-D710, otherwise known as the Epic 4G Touch. anyone looking for stuff for a Virgin Mobile US Galaxy SII is in the wrong forum.
I got tired of waiting for the UK to get Jelly Bean so I used Odin to flash the Polish unbranded Jelly Bean ROM to my Galaxy S3, and it's working fine. My only question is about the CSC. My CSC now shows as I9300OXFDLI1. This is presumably not a UK CSC. Will this affect my device in any way for future updates or any other way? The only possible thing I can think of is if I needed to bring it back to the Carphone Warehouse they may check the CSC and refuse me warranty service (although my custom binary count is 0). I have the Galaxy CSC changer but I can't remember what my original CSC was (unbranded UK Carphone Warehouse Galaxy S3) and there doesn't seem to be an appropriate one to change it to on the list.
Like I say, I can't think of a reason to need to change it at the moment, but it would be nice to know what it means for my phone, and if anyone incidentally knows the original CSC for my phone that would be brilliant.
Thanks very much for replying!
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I have the Galaxy CSC changer but I can't remember what my original CSC was (unbranded UK Carphone Warehouse Galaxy S3) and there doesn't seem to be an appropriate one to change it to on the list.
Like I say, I can't think of a reason to need to change it at the moment, but it would be nice to know what it means for my phone, and if anyone incidentally knows the original CSC for my phone that would be brilliant.
Thanks very much for replying!
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Hi there
You can always look on sammobile.com. It will be something like: I9300OXAALE8 I guess. From there you can download your original ROM and flash it to your phone if you need to return it too.
Need Stock ROM forSGS III of Bouygues Telecom France
Few months ago I bought an SGS III GT-i9300 with CSC of CHU running stock ICS 4.0.4 ROM (bouygues telecom). The phone was originally bought in France, and later on when I came back to my home country ie Pakistan, I got it unlocked so it could work on local carriers. The long of the short of the story is, last sunday I decided to update my SGS III to the leaked polish JB ROM I9300XXDLIB_I9300OXFDLI1_I9300XXDLIB_XEO. This resulted in loss of connectivity with my GSM network. Sadly, I made the cardinal mistake of not backing up the original ROM, in case I needed to go back. So now I am kind of stuck with a phone which at best is just like a small tablet ....
Can anyone please help me locate Stock ICS 4.0.4 ROM for the above CSC region? As so far I haven't been able to do that despite hours and hours of trying.
Also, can I install Stock ICS ROM for CSC PAK/WDC on it? If so, how can it be unlocked & made to work with it?
I hope that someone can help me in resolving this issue. Thank you.
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Need Stock ROM forSGS III of Bouygues Telecom France
Few months ago I bought an SGS III GT-i9300 with CSC of CHU running stock ICS 4.0.4 ROM (bouygues telecom). The phone was originally bought in France, and later on when I came back to my home country ie Pakistan, I got it unlocked so it could work on local carriers. The long of the short of the story is, last sunday I decided to update my SGS III to the leaked polish JB ROM I9300XXDLIB_I9300OXFDLI1_I9300XXDLIB_XEO. This resulted in loss of connectivity with my GSM network.
>>>>>>>>>>A wrong modem B user needs to input APN settings for their network .
Can anyone please help me locate Stock ICS 4.0.4 ROM for the above CSC region? As so far I haven't been able to do that despite hours and hours of trying.
>>> Use sammobile.com or samsung updates .com or easier use CHECKFUS .
jje
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Thanks alot JJE. Didn't knew about this checkfus tool, but it sure is one very handy util. I will let you know of the progress asap.
Regards.
Okay, I used CheckFus to locate the ROM, downloaded it, wiped/reset S3 before going ahead and installing the ROM. But unfortunately it didn't help. By the way CheckFus in Product Code field says 'Not Active'.
I was wondering whether I should get unlock code, will it help solve the issue?
In continuation of my previous post, here is an image from Galaxy S3 Sim Unlock.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/571/new123.jpg/
That "Not Active" against the product code is probably the cause. Any help will be hugely appreciated. regards
hello can someone please help me...
i am not the smartest when it comes to phones. I have a samsung galaxy s3 which i purchased from **** smiths (wellington, nz) and i use vodafone. however i havent received the jelly bean 4.1.2 update but everyone else has. how do i update my phone or how cani yell which country my phone my have possibly been imported from?
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hello can someone please help me...
i am not the smartest when it comes to phones. I have a samsung galaxy s3 which i purchased from **** smiths (wellington, nz) and i use vodafone. however i havent received the jelly bean 4.1.2 update but everyone else has. how do i update my phone or how cani yell which country my phone my have possibly been imported from?
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I think you must place your query in this thread - > Galaxy S 3 forum
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hello can someone please help me...
i am not the smartest when it comes to phones. I have a samsung galaxy s3 which i purchased from **** smiths (wellington, nz) and i use vodafone. however i havent received the jelly bean 4.1.2 update but everyone else has. how do i update my phone or how cani yell which country my phone my have possibly been imported from?
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you could start with this one: http://androidfact.com/how-to-update-galaxy-s3-to-jelly-bean-411-official-version/ (I know it shows 4.1.1 but its the same process for any update if your phone is not rooted)
The "About" section in your settings will also show you the firmware version, hence the region the firmware was made for.
aimee26 said:
hello can someone please help me...
i am not the smartest when it comes to phones. I have a samsung galaxy s3 which i purchased from **** smiths (wellington, nz) and i use vodafone. however i havent received the jelly bean 4.1.2 update but everyone else has. how do i update my phone or how cani yell which country my phone my have possibly been imported from?
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Flash stock rom via Odin after reading the basic faqs and guides all stickied in General section .
jje
It is very normal, it has to be updating one at the time, consider there are millions S3 out there,. If all of them start to update at once, no server on the face of the earth can stand that much of downloading stress.
Well, maybe they using BT or other P2P way to downloading update, but who knows, besides as you can get here around XDA, I am sure you will be able to flash the lastest update yourself
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Hi,
I am not brand new and have usually been able to find what I need on my own. This time it's not so easy.
I bought a GT i9100 from EBAY. It had a broken lcd. I replaced it, turned it on and noticed it had CLARO version of ANDROID. So I flashed with Odin to an official GT i9100 ROM from SAMMOBILE that I have used on many GT i9100's. Then I connected to KEIS(KIES) and was notified of a firmware update which put me on 4.1.2 baseband I9100xxms2. BUT it is sim locked??? I thought these were International versions with no locking?? I know I could probably use GALAXSIMUNLOCK which I used once before but would rather try to complete the FLASH to International version if my understanding of that is correct.
Does anyone know of a ROM/KERNEL that would achieve this?
Thanks, Steve
Claro's firmware are all branded and it's devices are all network locked to any carrier but claro (obviously).
Hence you need to root it and unlock it, you can do this with any firmware, stock or custom.
And stay away from kies, use odin.
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