I bought the above mobile direct from China. It worked properly with a Firmware inclusive the Google Things
like Play store etc. and the language was German.
So I guess that there was a special Firmware for selling this Item in Europe.
My fault was that I looked in Kies for an update. I made it without a back up before. A factory reset was without
any change.
Now I have a China Handy branded Unicom and it is more or less worthless.
Google PlayStore etc. are blocked.
The Firmware now is G3606ZNU1AOH2
Is there a chance to become again the described European Firmware which I lost during
Kies update?
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Dear all,
I am trying to flash my GT-i9300 from stock Hong Kong firmware to stock Chinese Firmware because Hong Kong version has traditional chinese input whereas I need simplified Chinese Input which may be available in Chinese version. When I bought the mobile in China, it already had Chinese firmware but I installed Cyanogenmod and other things but now I want to revert back. The problem is every firmware I tried works when I flash using Odin 3 except the CHU firmware. While flashing as soon as the process comes to Modem, Odin displays Fail and I have no option but to flash back to other firmware which installs without a problem. Any clues why the phone doesn't accept CHU firmware? I have tried all the four firmwares available on Sammobile website for CHU (China) but non of them installs (all fails at the Modem step). I also downloaded from other sites but the same problem. By the way, my mobile is not Chinese, it was made for the European market, I am not sure but I think it was Croatia or something, dont recognize the language on the packaging.
Another tiny problem: My mobile doesn't responds smoothly when it is plugged for charging, the touch seems not to work. I have to touch an icon two or three times to open it. Don't know why.
Thanks all.
Could it maybe have something to do with different network used in China? I mean doesn't the Chinese networks use different technology from Europe? That would maybe explain the European version not accepting Chinese modem?
Dear Juahan,
May be... I think I should give it a try but installing a few firmwares from around the world and let you know. However, when I bought this mobile, it was European model having a chinese firmware, I think they shop sellers in China had already installed a chinese firmware on it, so how come they could do it while I can't. Well to be honest I don't exactly remember the firmware which came installed but I know that it had Simplified Chinese, which is used not available in Hong Kong version. Anyhow, I have to get certain so I will try some new firmwares on it. May be you are right. Thanks any way.
Have you tried Kies initialization procedure? It should help you to determine your phone's factory firmware and even flash it if you wish.
Don't remember exactly location of this option in menu (don't have my laptop turned on now) but it was something about initialization and restoring in Kies menu. All you need is to enter your phone's serial number (located under battery or in setting menu) and model number (GT-i9300). Kies will check those data in Samsung database and ask what to do next, flash or not.
I don't know why but, sadly, it sometimes doesn't work with some models.
Problems with touchscreen while charging is due to unstable power source or faulty AC charger. Try charging with USB port in your computer and check if problem persists.
i9.0.1.3k galaxy imperator
"Erohibit update as a result of checking version or base sku" - X.T.S. SGTP122
Good day!
I came here to ask for help.
Here's my story. I live in Colombia (South America), and 3 years ago, I bought this Xperia Tablet S 32GB. It worked well, but, after a year, it did not want to connect to Wi-Fi networks. I tried everything, flashing firmware, restart, but, then, i realized that it was a Hardware issue. So, i took it to Sony's Approved Tech Store near to my town, they fix it....
FIX IT....
When i got my tablet back, the screen was weird.. but still 100% funtional. Of course, before i had the latest sotware update from Sony 4.1.1 R5. But, when i looked, i had 4.0.3 R3. So i thought, "ok, let's update and have a root like before".
BUT it did not happen. It said "You have the latest software available" I was...OK. Maybe I could perform a factory reset.
I did, ( you must remember that i live in Colombia, when sony shipped my tablet, and had the first boot, it asked me to select a Country - CO-AR-CH-MX-VN, well, all the Latin American countries WERE there) But, after the factory reset, the two options available for me were US or CANADA....
My tablet is a WIFI-Only version, no 3G. I want to update it to 4.1.1 but i can't. I've read about changing region or something like that but i'm not sure how to do it.
Please guys, help.
I purchased a 2nd hand Galaxy S7 Edge from someone on Facebook Marketplace. It's a dual sim model (which is not directly available in South Africa) - When I collected the phone the old owner manually removed apps which I found to be strange as I was planning on doing a factory reset anyways, but he said I first had to update the phone before I can do a reset. Once I got back home and put the phone of WIFI > Software update I got a message saying that the software was not verified (leaning towards the phone being rooted). I also saw that he had multiple copies of Whatsapp which I knew was not possible with a normal ROM.
Not wanting to constantly see his personal info, I decided to reinstall the base S7 Edge software I found sammobile.com - Using odin this worked and I was able to reset the phone, but now there is no network coverage at all. I have tried everything, even downloaded a different version (both XDA and XDE) but no luck. I took it to a cellphone shop and they say they think the moterhboard is faulty which I doubt, when I got the phone and put in my simcard the first time around there was no network issue at all, this only started once I reinstalled the original rom from Samsung.
My understanding now is that the phone was likely purchased in UAE or Dubai and the network was unlocked (not sure how this works) - When I reinstalled the default samsung rom the network lock is back and I can now not use the mobile device with my local provider.
What options do I have? Is there another rom (even if it's not samsung, happy with anything) I can use on the device? I presume they had a different rom installed anyways to get it working in the first place, but I was stupid and never made a backup of the rom so now the phone is nothing more than a wifi device.
Any assistane would greatly be appreciated!
Hi, in October I bought this Samsung Galaxy S9+ second hand from a guy. I verified it to be original and be in good working order, lots of screen tests, speaker and camera tests aswell and all checked out. I didn't check for the software updates because I thought I can get them anyway since this guy told be he bought this phone from a local carrier (Telekom Romania), I'm from Romania btw. Recently I found out that Android Pie started rolling out for Note 9 and S9/S9+ so I searched for an update aswell, the only problem is that the software update menu says that my phone is up to date (Android 8.0.0) and my security patch is from August 1, 2018... Last night I looked up my IMEI on a site that I don't know if I can mention and it said that my phone is from the UK and the carrier is: OPEN United Kingdom. I haven't had any problem with my SIM card or WIFI or anything except bad signal outside big cities but I think that's normal. I also tried hooking it up to Samsung Smart Switch on my pc but found no update. If any more details needed leave a reply I will answer ASAP.
My baseband version is: G965FXXU2BRG8
Thank you.
You have an international unlocked model. The OTA updates are are distributed by region via your carrier. It's ultimately up to your carrier when they push your phone the update, however you maybe able to use Samsung's smart switch to update it. Pie was released to the UK region and the Romania region carriers may not have pushed the update yet.
Ok but what about the security patches then? The one I have is from August 2018. Don't they update OTA aswell?
Yes. They come from the same servers as firmware updates, which are distributed by your carrier. If you're not getting OTA updates, you can try removing the Sim card and doing a factory reset. After the initial setup, your sim will reinitialize and reset the CSC group your phone is tied to to ensure its actually requesting firmware for the correct region.
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Sounds like the phone was previously setup in the UK, factory reset, sim removed, and sold to someone in your country. In that case, because of the order the phone was decommissioned before being sold, it's requesting firmware for another region that your carrier cannot provide. If you remove the Sim and factory reset, that will change your CSC region back to "unknown" and reinserting the Sim will automatically tie the phone to your carrier and region.
hyperblu said:
Yes. They come from the same servers as firmware updates, which are distributed by your carrier. If you're not getting OTA updates, you can try removing the Sim card and doing a factory reset. After the initial setup, your sim will reinitialize and reset the CSC group your phone is tied to to ensure its actually requesting firmware for the correct region.
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Sounds like the phone was previously setup in the UK, factory reset, sim removed, and sold to someone in your country. In that case, because of the order the phone was decommissioned before being sold, it's requesting firmware for another region that your carrier cannot provide. If you remove the Sim and factory reset, that will change your CSC region back to "unknown" and reinserting the Sim will automatically tie the phone to your carrier and region.
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Literally tried everything you said step by step, also contacted Samsung (they did nothing) and I'm still stuck on Android 8.0.0 and with an old security patch update. I'll try to update using the sammobile firmware even though my phone is not rooted. I searched my CSC on sammobile and there's no firmware for it
It sounds like Romanian carriers are slow about pushing frequent updates then. I was able to find your firmware on sammobile specifically for your csc, but none of them showed the latest. In this case, you won't receive timely OTA and must circumvent your carrier and do them yourself. Can you confirm if your csc has changed since removing the sim card and performing a factory reset? Or is it still tied to UK region?
I have been at this issue since Saturday and gone through a lot of possible solutions but to no avail. So first of all i am in Ghana. A friend came to me with his s6 edge that he had some issues with his phone going off when he unplugs the charger and getting stuck in a bootloop when turning it on unless he plugs a charger in before it boots up fully(even with full charge)
So first of all he wanted to do a factory reset(phone was not rooted). Factory reset completed successfully but issue still persisted.
Specs of the phone was:
android 5.0.2
model number = SM-G925F
original csc (i wasnt able to note that down because downloading stock firmware was going to be the last ultimate weapon. first i was going to try some custom roms to see if it fixed the issue. Besides it was working fine here in Ghana.)
So that's when i flashed a twrp and i dont exactly remember but i think i might have tried to flash a lineage OS or something. But long story short, when u try booting up, the samsung galaxy edge screen with powered by android came on and stayed there. and it did not go on to boot up.
After trying through the night i then decided to use the ultimate tool and flash a stock firmware. Try as i might none of them got past the "Repartition Operation Failed" portion of flashing it. The Pit File was becoming an issue. Tried firmwares for my country, countries nearer to us, contries in africa and finally even european firmwares. And since from reading from here and other forums that the F variant was an international version the international pit files should work but they werent.
All this while whenever i go to Odin Download mode on the phone, the product name there was SM-G925D. This started the confusion because at that point i had looked through alot of firmware and that was not an option. When i searched google for that, the search results mostly correlated it to SC-04G, which looking at it was a Japanese firmware. I didnt want to use a japanese Firmware for obvious reasons. At least i wanted a firmware that was by default in English. But after about 2 days and seeing a lot of answers saying stuff about going to settings and checking stuff there plus me wanting to see an interface and work my way from there i succumbed.
And lo and behold, it flashed on the first try(i used the 4-part files firmware. It was android 7.0). But when it came to booting up, the splash screen had changed from samsung bla bla bla powered by android to NTT DOCOMO powered by android. But it booted up and i skipped through the setup. i had to change the language to english but there were a lot of japanese bloatware that came with it. But as i expected when i popped a sim card into it, and restarted the phone, there was the not available symbol(circle with a bar across) where the network bars were supposed to be.
Seeing that this was not going to do, i went to the settings this time to check on any important details and this were the new details
android version 7.0(January, 2018)
model number=SC-04G
build number was now SC0.....(cant write the full code as im currently in odin mode)
But obviously it was the japanese network. After this i have downloaded more firmwares and they all fail at "Setting PIT...Re-Partition failed". Somtimes i try to mix the 4 files up using maybe the CSC portion of the Japanese firmware but BL, CP, and AP of firmware from my region. This time the error is "sboot.bin failed".
And that has been my grind till now. Downloading likely firmwares and all failing to doing extremes like the mix and match. When the mix and match with BL, CP, and CSC of Japanese with AP of my region works and eventually boots up, there is no touch input. The touch does not work. When that happens i just have to start all over with the SC-04G, which never fails to work.
I have even seen some things about changing csc files in the file explorer with root so i flashed the Japanese FW and rooted it. Went through the processes but to no avail.
PS:
The first part of the Odin screen where you choose to continue or reboot is now completely in Japanese whiles it was formerly in English.
And there is no indication on the phone itself that it was from Japan. The back says Samsung and below it says Galaxy s6 edge. Friend bought it from a shop in Ghana here brand new.(not from a carrier)
****So here lies my confusion. How come a phone with an original model number of SM-G925F have a Product name of SM-G925D in Odin and hence only Flash Japanese Firmware SC-04G(CSC code = DCM) but would not flash any of the international variants. Even if i can eventually get the Japanese firmware to read the sim card we can manage it that way. But thats for when there are no options left.
So please i would like to know your ideas as to how this is happening and any possible solutions that might be different from what my batallion of open tabs are telling me. You can also let me know if you want any more details i might not have included. Looking forward to hearing from you guys.
Update On Issue
I ended up using the japanese firmware in the end because it wasnt picking anything else.
This time after the setup process, it picked up the sim card and the imei is available. So since network is now available i just rooted it with cf autoroot and removed the japanese bloatware and everything looks normal now.
Except the original issue of going off randomly whn power cable is pulled out even when having full charge.
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