Hey everyone!
I bought a new S6 Edge from Amazon. Upon receiving the phone, I've noticed that it seems to have been made for the UAE.
Model: SM-G925F
Andriod: 5.0.2
BB Ver.: G925FXXU1AOC1
Kernel: 3.10.61-4260274
BUILD: LRX22G.G925FXXU1AOC
I currently live in Canada, and use Freedom mobile (AWS - B4 1700/2100) and this phone is not picking up service.
I'd like to know, is it possible to configure the modem to accept this frequency band? In the past I hacked the Qualcomm modem in my GS4 to accept this band.
I am unsure if this is a software or hardware limitation for this model, as I have tried dozens of times to root (in hopes I can modify baseband) - and have soft bricked 6 times. I've also looked into changing the CSC with Odin, but every time I try to flash anything but stock ROM I get soft bricked again...
I've been working on this for about 5 hours now, with no luck. Anyone able to enlighten me if I'm wasting my time?
Thanks a million in advance.
Edit: Looks like it's going to be easier to switch to literally ANY other carrier. This model supports every other band except UMTS B4. Maybe I can jump back on Freedom/Wind once they release LTE in the fall.
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Hi, don't really know where to go with this.
A company I work for bought a huge shipment of miscellaneous gadgets from China for cheap and one of the items was for a AKAI Android Note with a model number of HD98+.
Looks like a Note, can't tell what "version" really. No pen. Seems to run well. Wanted to try it out - I am on a WIND plan with an old S3 - pull out my sim card and try and it wont connect to any towers just the "WIND Away" ones. I grab a friend who has an S5 I believe who is on ROGERS and it works just fine and I thought that was weird since Rogers and wind both use the WCDMA 2100 freq.
Anyways maybe it's locked, I don't know. Says its running Android 4.2.2 and when I plug it into the computer it's trying to load the MT65xx drivers. I would like to try to unlock it or root it or downgrade to 4.1.1 but I don't know where to even get the firmware. Searched for AKAI HD98+ and all I get are chinese sites butwont translate for me. Might be a real Android, it's fooling me. Want to see if I can get it to run on WIND. Don't really know where to start, if I even can. Tried the unlock code from the dialer and it did nothing.
SPECS:
AKAI HD98+
WCDMA 850/2100 GSM 850/900/1800/1900
Android 4.2.2
Baseband MOLY.WR8.W1315.MD.WG.MP.V21
Kernel version 3.4.39
Build 2706_v92_jbla_hd_20140106_akai
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Hi i have a Samsung Galaxy S6 edge Sm-G925R6 that im trying to return back to stock firmware.
The phone is from a cell phone service provider called CellCom out in Wisconsin. Cellcom uses Verizons towers to get LTE out in rural areas of Wisconsin
I purchased the phone and thought it would be an easy fix returning back to stock. The previous owner did not know what he was doing as he loaded the rom and forgot to make a back up of his Stock Firmware
The full model number of the phone is Sm-G925RZWALRA on the back sticker of phone with imei
on the box sleeve model number: SMG925RZWAL
which from my understanding the last 3 letters "LRA" stands for LTE in Rural Areas
The Fcc ID:A3LSSMG925V
Baseband Version G925R6WWU2AOF2
I am currently running CleanROM 1.5-Edge OE2 for the Verizon S6 edge with no issues besides having to sign back into my wifi
and all other Verizon Roms work fine on the phone as well.
Im currently using T-Mobile in Chicago on the phone with no issues and full LTE speeds working
But i would like to use The android pay app as sometimes i am forgetful and tend to forget my wallet. And with custom roms the android version can not be verified
I have tried using the stock firmwares for verizon both 5.1 and 5.0.2 to try to return the phone to stock but it fails in odin.
I have also tried using US Cellulars Stock firmware since theyre model number the galaxy s6 Edge is SM-G925R4 pretty similar to mine as mine is Sm-G925R6 but that has also failed in Odin.
I do like the debloated Rom but would rather have Android pay just in case of emergencies .
Thanks in advance for any help.
Omg glad that I'm not the only one with the cellcom version, I have been looking everywhere for what to do since I didn't want to install the wrong firmware and brick my s6 edge I have the same model number but I updated mine the day I got it which didn't change the android version. Finally, 5 minutes ago found a stock rom it's for a appellation wireless, same mode number "smg925r6wwu2aof2" as me. LINK
----------------- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwna7hZykYnnZzJOVDI4X3I5b2c/view -------------------
Where did u find ur rom? Can i just use any rom for s6 edge? I want to ask before I take my chances and mess up my phone, since I see you are more brave than me, I rely on having a phone.
ohseriously? said:
Omg glad that I'm not the only one with the cellcom version, I have been looking everywhere for what to do since I didn't want to install the wrong firmware and brick my s6 edge I have the same model number but I updated mine the day I got it which didn't change the android version. Finally, 5 minutes ago found a stock rom it's for a appellation wireless, same mode number "smg925r6wwu2aof2" as me. LINK
----------------- https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwna7hZykYnnZzJOVDI4X3I5b2c/view -------------------
Where did u find ur rom? Can i just use any rom for s6 edge? I want to ask before I take my chances and mess up my phone, since I see you are more brave than me, I rely on having a phone.
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So I learned the hard way that you can't have it all.
I travel for work quite a bit and I was in the Middle East working when my Verizon S7 Edge started to have problems. I looked for a replacement in Dubai and was happy to find the S9+ at a reasonable price and with the 256GB option (which I wasn't finding in the US). I popped in my Verizon sim and life was good.
Then I returned to the US and. nothing. worked. I had forgotten that Verizon was strictly CDMA in the US and this phone had no CDMA radio.
I also was noticing that the samsung pay app was locked to the UAE version which was annoying but not a huge issue...I couldn't add American Express credit card which may or may not have been due to that region setting.
So in order to actually get service I switched to T-Mobile and have had decent data rates. However the phone doesn't use volte or wifi calling which is very bad since where I am staying is somewhat of a dead spot for mobile coverage. I basically can't receive phone calls here and making a call requires me to wait about a minute for the phone to figure out what protocol to connect to (dowleveling to either a 3g or H to actually connect and dial).
My initial research tells me that I don't want to root the phone and lose all ability to use samsung pay, but I would love to do as much as I can to the phone to get it working as best as possible.
Can someone chime in here to let me know what's possible? I don't want to experiment too much, and it's been rare over the years for me to keep up with all the root/firmware/rom etc. that has become available. My last real era of rooting phones was many years ago with iPhone and even then it was a lot to keep up with.
thanks in advance!
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Anyone?
I had the same issue. I ended up rooting to get TMobile volte/wifi-calling. Also, by rooting you can also use Verizon Wireless; however, only with LTE.
You could use Google Pay lol.
Furthermore, I suck at giving reasons, but that's what I did.
Don't quote me on this, but from what I understand, you can use the patched ODIN and flash the firmware's CSC outside of it's region and change it to XAA. There is also a guide to changing CSC without root that may work as well.
From what I understand, the G965F is unable to load the XAA csc without root since it is only for the Snapdragon version
I ended up using Tekhd's tmobile detonator after I bricked my G965F/DS atleast 3 times. It works great now.
The way to change csc without root is via a combination rom and using Realterm. Using TMB CSC on a global G965F/DS ROM will end up in a PUK code lock. I tried ALL the US CSC on my G965F to confirm this.
I recently moved tmobile to usmobile CDMA/Verizon. Tmobile unlocked my phone without any issues.
I was expecting the next security update to be a fresh/vanilla samsung rom.
This didn't happen. I have read multiple things about people having issues with non-tmobile bands working on the device if the CSC is wrong. USMobile has me manually set the APNs and the phone connects to 4g/5g without issue. However the ultra wide band does not seem to want to work.
Is there an issue here? It's really hard to tell. Should I wipe the device? I really don't have the means to install a downloaded firmware at this moment. At the end of the day, I don't care that it's branded - just that it functions on the CDMA network fully. If it wont, then I will jump over to the GSM side of USMobile.
Hey guys,
I got my hands on a Galaxy S21 Olympic Edition (Android 12, SP1A.210812.016.G991QOPU1BVH1), but unfortunately my LTE reception here in Germany is rather crap.
Ever since I became a dad and fulltime worker, the days of me rooting and flashing custom stuff are long gone. So I'd prefer to have it run 'untouched' and would like to ask for your advise regarding my options on what can be done about the band limitation.
I read through several similar threads and this is what I came up with:
- Enable bands in the service menu: Does not work, my device does not accept the codes. I read that the service menu is available in an earlier Android 11 build and settings are not overwritten when upgrading. So could I downgrade, enable all LTE bands and flash the current firmware again?
- Could I flash a different S21's Snapdragon firmware that supports Germany's bands? (Europe usually has Exynos)
- Try something with SamFw? I tried running the 'Unlock Verirzon' Option, but that just sat there and seemingly did nothing for 10 minutes. Any other ideas if I get fiddle around with it?
Any help is much appreciated, I really like this device and would like to be able to continue using it with its full capabilities.