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[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] ChrisM75:
The problem with this is that EVR seems to get only very occasional updates compared to BTU, sometimes only once in 6 months compared to at least every 2 on BTU. As a long term EE Samsung user I rarely saw updates on my S6Edge+, indeed it only got 7.0 a week or so ago, when almost all other regions got it a 1 or 2 months earlier.

EVR has already skipped an update for the S8+, and its not got the newest status bar changing update yet either. BTU has got it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] gr4z:
Sorry resurrect this old thread. Are we saying we can flash BTU and only use the carrier's CSC? I am with Three in the UK and have downloaded their H3G firmware ready to flash my unbranded S8 to get VOLTE and VOWIFI. Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] radii:
try it and let the community know
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
I can obviously only comment from my own experience, on my S8+, and that worked just fine for me. I am on EE, and I grabbed the DBT firmware of AQF7 and flashed the EE CSC from the latest EE firmware at the time (AQDG) and it works great. I suspect as long as the OS version is the same (i.e. Android 7.0) then this should work ok. For major OS version update it probably won't be, i.e. I expect I'll have to wait for EE's Android 8 update whenever those start rolling out, and EE aren't the fastest with their updates.

I've downloaded a few firmwares for the S8+ with different CSCs and for the exact same version (e.g. AQF7) the only differences are the CSC and HOME_CSC files - the rest have (so far) always been identical, including the modem (CP) and boot loader (BL).

The July update (AQG5) is already available for DBT and I plan on doing the same again when I get the chance. Might be tonight or tomorrow, but not 100% decided.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
It's probably bad form replying to your own post, but I did the above - downloaded AQG5 DBT and flashed the following:

BL: BL_G955FXXU1AQG5_CL11814589_QB14182672_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5 (from Germany DBT G955FXXU1AQG5 with OXM CSC)

AP: AP_G955FXXU1AQG5_CL11814589_QB14182672_REV00_user_low_ship_meta.tar.md5 (from Germany DBT G955FXXU1AQG5 with OXM CSC)

CP: CP_G955FXXU1AQG5_CP6916883_CL11814589_QB14182672_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5 (from Germany DBT G955FXXU1AQG5 with OXM CSC)

CSC: HOME_CSC_EVR_G955FEVR1AQDG_CL11284207_QB13365167_REV00_user_low_ship.tar.md5 (from EE UK's latest firmware G955FXXU1AQDG with EVR CSC).

It rebooted twice, re-installed some apps and then was back up and running -- no data lost due to HOME_CSC. One thing I learnt last time I did this is that flashing no CSC will wipe your device, so do remember to flash your HOME_CSC of choice even if it is the same one.

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[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] merewood bebox:
im on vodafone but my stock CSC is XEM ( i think), just tried flashing the home_csc for vod and no change. im not sure you can change natural CSC without wipe

edit: OMG IT WORKED WITHOUT WIPE!! just flash the home_csc like the thread said! thanks incarniac, thanks everyone else too

edit2: everything changed but no wifi calling setting :(
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
Remember that the WiFi calling setting is in the Phone/Dialer app, not in System Settings: Phone -> Top right three verticals dots menu -> Settings -> Scroll down to the bottom and 'Wi-Fi calling' should be there (unless VOD doesn't provision it for some reason).

(There is no setting for VoLTE, this is either active (icon in status bar) or not and can't be toggled.)
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] merewood bebox:
tried it again with full wipe, still nothing, very sad, will try again when i move to ee this christmas
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
There are some threads over at Vodafone's forums about the S8/S8+ and wi-fi calling not working - perhaps worth taking a look.

This thread over at Vodafone's forum implies that you need to be on either the Red Extra or Red Entertainment plan for Wi-Fi Calling to work (on page 1) and/or that you need Vodafone to activate Wi-Fi Calling on your account (last page / page 10). I don't know if either of those are actually true.

This page ("Vodafone Wi-Fi Calling") at Vodafone themselves doesn't actually list the S8 as a compatible device at the moment. This page does state which plans are eligible or not (seems most are except "One Net" and "Red Sharer", but I don't know the ins and outs of their current or previous plans.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] merewood bebox:
UPDATE

so thanks again incarniac, it looks like the second link that took me to a vodafone page was legit. just had to call up vodafone ( at 1am lool ) they picked up, 3 mins and the activated the wifi calling. did a reboot this morning and the wifi calling option was here and just made a couple wifi calls. happy dayssss
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
For anyone still interested in this, I combined the DBT August update (AQH3) with the EVR CSC from EE's July update (AQG6) and I'm now running that combination just fine. Flashed HOME_CSC and no loss of apps or data.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] f1x777:
Been following your posts on this topic with interest and decided to try for myself. I had an EE (UK) supplied S8+ with their EVR firmware on. When I got the phone I flashed it to BTU and all was fine - received updates etc. However I didn't get the ability to have VoLTE because I didn't have the EE CSC file on my phone. I have now flashed back the EVR firmware and I have it working... all good. However before flashing it back, I tried as you suggested leaving the first 3 (BL, AP, CP) as BTU and the 4th CSC as HOME_CSC but the EE version of that file. Odin kept failing it pretty much straight away..... I wanted to do it that way so I didn't lose any data, as I know from what you said just flashing CSC (not the home version) doesn't retain your data.

So my question is, how do you get it work then - ie retaining your data when you flash? In the end I had to flash the standard CSC (not HOME_CSC) to get it to work. Is it because I mixed BTU with EVR - I see you didn't do that - you mixed DBT with EVR and that worked for you. I had the re-partition option enabled at the start, maybe I shouldn't have done that....? Anyway, over to you!

PS also what's the benefit of mixing the DBT and EVR flash.... I'm assuming you won't get automatic updates? So why not just have all 4 EVR firmware files rather than mix...? Would be grateful for your comments! :)
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Arzee08:
I use this method successfully everytime. The thing I think you are doing wrong though is having re-partition ticked as I don't, I would retry without that option ticked. And on benefits is mainly because other carriers release the latest firmware faster than others... mine for example is three UK and I think they've only release 3 updates one of them not being a security patch, so to be on the latest firmware these are the things you have to do. Mixing csc is mainly to keep carrier related features e.g Wi-Fi calling , volte etc
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
I'm pretty sure [MENTION=5194438]Arzee08[/MENTION] is hitting the nail on the head about not having re-partitioning enabled: I don't have this on when updating this way.

I think the reason it fails when flashing BTU + EVR CSC with re-partitioning is that EE's partition layout is a little different and requires one of the partitions to be a little larger, or the CSC won't flash - and doing this makes it pick up the BTU partition layout. The EE partition layout works fine with full BTU/XEU firmware so once the full EE has been flashed (with re-partitioning) there's no need to re-partition again

I did flash full EE with re-partitioning a few months ago just after getting the phone, but not since) - partly because I suspect/suspected the partition layout might impact things (I could be wrong on that, but on the Note 4 it was the case) but mainly because I needed to flash the full EE firmware to verify that VoLTE was working before trying to mix and match so I had something to compare to.

So, in short, I do:

AP, BL and CP from latest DBT

HOME_CSC from the EE's latest EVR (doesn't have to match version with the above)

No re-partitioning, with (as far as I remember) all Odin options set to default

This works without issues for me and retains VoLTE and keeps apps, data and settings (i.e. no factory reset). I chose DBT purely because it tends to be (one of) the first available, and as mentioned in previous posts the only difference between updates for the exact same version number between carriers is CSC and HOME_CSC (since verified for EE with the latest EE updates).

As [MENTION=5194438]Arzee08[/MENTION], the benefit is purely speed of update. You're correct that you won't get automatic updates: It gives me the latest update as soon as possible, while keeping carrier specific functionality (VoLTE, Wi-Fi Calling).

To be fair to EE, they seem to have sped up their updates for the S8+ and have released both the June update (though it was in July) and the July update (though it was in August) in full EE firmware version, so they've not been too bad. Prior to this they had not released any update since the very first EE firmware that shipped on their phones in April/May.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] f1x777:
Thanks for both of you for the helpful replies.... I will try as you suggested. One other thing to check, prior to putting the EVR CSC on (when I had the BTU CSC instead) my 4G indicator at the top would show 4G+ when I was in a 4G+ coverage area - around where I live, however since going back to the EVR CSC it only shows 4G never 4G+. Do either of you get the 4G+ indicator with the EVR CSC...?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
Interesting question, I didn't realise there was a '4G+' icon and I can't say I've ever noticed it, but then I'm mostly on wi-fi (at home, at work or friends & family) where the icon isn't showing. I'll see if I remember to check at work (London) tomorrow as I think that should have LTE-Advanced enabled whereas I don't think where I live has it enabled.

What EE plan are you on? I am on a 4GEE Max plan so I should have LTE-A/4G+ in areas where it is enabled. It is possible that EE's CSC changes which icon is being shown and it only ever shows '4G'. The only way to check that is probably to do some speed tests and see how they work out (but many other things affect speed so might be tricky to verify completely).

I realised I forgot to directly answer this:

What I was implying with my previous post (picking DBT due to the speed / availability) is that it you should be able to mix and match BTU just as readily as DBT with EE's EVR CSC.

Also, regarding this:

Are you now running BTU (AP, CP, BL) with EVR CSC (since you say you used CSC instead of HOME_CSC)? If you are, I think you should be fine trying to match DBT with EVR HOME_CSC but just ensure re-partitioning is not enabled. Which should avoid another factory reset for you.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] f1x777:
That would be great if you'd have a look tomorrow in London.... it will be interesting to see if it shows. If not, as you say, you'll obviously be in a 4G+ area so it would be a case of EE not enabled the showing of it in their CSC file. I am on a 4GEE Max Plan so it should show and indeed it has done about a week ago when I using just the BTU firmware, but not since changing to the EVR CSC part.

Because I had that Odin error I'm now running with all 4 files based on EE's EVR configuration, however from what you have said I will try and go back to BTU and then the EVR CSC part... will try that later without re-partitioning and i'll report back.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
What version of the EVR CSC are you using to check the 4G+ icon? I was using AQDG until yesterday when I updated. That's a comparatively old one - I think it's what shipped first on EE's S8+ and the CSC wasn't updated for a while, even in the June firmware (AQF7) update the EVR CSC itself stayed at AQDG. I'm now on EVR CSC AQG6 that came with EE's July update (AQG5), but I've not been at work since then obviously.

At the moment, the latest EE firmware update is the July update (AQG5), which is exactly the same as the latest BTU (also AQG5). So mixing and matching BTU with EVR for the July update doesn't give you anything different (it'll be the very same as EE's July update).

This Updato.com list filters by most recent first by date, for DBT, BTU, XEU and EVR. Even though the EVR is released later it is still actually the July update (AQG5) whereas the latest DBT is August (AQH3).
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] f1x777:
I put back on the BTU CSC last night and the 4G+ icon definitely shows using BTU, it doesn't on the EE CSC so they must have disabled it.

So in summary, with BTU you get Wifi Calling, 4G+ icon but NOT VoLTE

and

with EVR you get Wifi Calling, VoLTE but NOT the 4G+ icon

I'm sure 4G+ speeds work with the EE CSC however you can't see it at a glance. I think out of preference i'll stick with the BTU CSC as i prefer the 4G+ to show as opposed to VoLTE which i wouldn't really use anyhow.

Attached a pic to show the 4G+ icon working on EE.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
Looks like they have. I don't have a 4G+ icon but I definitely have LTE-A/4GEE Max speeds: Speed test shows I'm getting 94Mbps at work (non-LTE-A/non-Max speeds are capped at 60Mbps with EE).

Interesting - I find VoLTE voice quality vastly superior, and the speed at which it connects the call incredibly fast (I think primarily because it doesn't have to drop the 4G connection to make the call). Personally I prefer to not see the 4G+ icon knowing that I get LTE-A speeds anyway, but different strokes for different folks, as they say :)
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] lynxblaine:
Getting an issue with it failing putting on the newest firmware with older CSC. G955FXXU1AQI7

Annoying, I hope that it either gets fixed with the XEU firmware or we will need another method to do this.

Failure is something to do with an ASKS token.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeDaZzAlAnD:
Problems with Amazon.IT S8+

Hi there

Anyone got any ideas why a Amazon.IT bought phone flashed with EE H3 UK firmware (AP, BL, CP and CSC) wouldn't allow WiFi calling or VoIP? I can select WiFi calling in the dialler but it doesn't work!

Cheers
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Simbalage22:
I have the s8 plus bought off eBay week before they came out. Using Text now for now and was told this is UK. Outraged I checked this and see a lot of people upgrading their firmware. Where to get it and what benefit? Will I get updates sooner? I can flash as I do I.t and am familiar to the extent of cloning and such so this should not be hard bit phone was expensive and don't want to brick I.t.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Gubro:
Hello,

I am new to the Samsung world.

I bought an S8+ DS with SIN CSC.

Since I am on EE, I thought I flash the EVR fw on it to get VoLTE and WiFi calling.

I have Odin 3.2.17 and G955FXXU1AQH3 on my computer.

Do I have to re/partition? Which CSC do I flash? The CSC or the homeCSC?

I understand this will not trigger knox, so the Samsung Pay should remain active.

Thanks

---------- Post added at 04:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:16 PM ----------

Update: thanks, all sorted.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
As far as I know there is no such thing as an "EE H3 UK" firmware -- H3 is Three UK and EE is, well, EE UK and each have their own firmware. To get working Wi-Fi Calling and VoLTE you'll need the correct firmware (though primarily only the CSC) so if you're with EE you'll need the EVR CSC and for Three you'll need the H3G CSC. You should be able to flash the HOME_CSC file for this to retain user data and settings, although this may not work if you're not already on the correct firmware/CSC (it may require a full wipe & re-setup from factory defaults).

---------- Post added at 00:39 ---------- Previous post was at 00:33 ----------

Been too busy in the past few months then on holiday for a few weeks, so haven't tried this for a while.

Today I got a notification on my phone there is an update available for EE (EVR AQJ1 CSC + AQJ5 firmware) which I've just installed. This was released end of November by the look of it (available on updato.com). Just installed this via the phone update functionality just fine, but not tried the December / AQK7 updates with the latest EVR CSC so can't comment on whether that works yet or not.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but an update: Did this using Oreo firmwares and it works just as well. AP, CP and BL from DBT's G955FXXU1CRD7, with HOME_CSC from EVR's G955FXXU1CRB7 using Odin 3.13.1. VoLTE present and working (which is what requires the EVR CSC to work. I had already upgraded to Oreo using EE's official update (CRB7).
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] lynxblaine:
Just to note stock XEU firmware CRC7 onwards has volte built into it. No need for EVR firmware.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
Woha, really? I didn't know that, so thanks. I'll give XEU a whirl at some point then, and hopefully receive faster updates (although EE hasn't been too bad, still lagging a little behind at times).
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] lynxblaine:
As attached for you to see. Can provide more screenshots if required.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
Thanks, and sorry, didn't mean to imply I didn't believe you :)
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] lynxblaine:
Yeah I didn't think you meant that! Its just very surprising it's actually been implemented, so thought a screenshot would be useful.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] fridaycider:
Is this confirmed?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] lynxblaine:
Yeah it is, I have it running with volte no issues for over a week now.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] fridaycider:
Well I've just installed it and it's not there on mine
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] lynxblaine:
I'm

How does your software look in settings?

A bit of background, I was on XEU during the beta firmware, afterwards I put the CRB firmware from DBT on and then CRC7 from XEU on again without wiping. I never had voLTE until then.

Have a look under settings > mobile networks > 4G calling

What carrier are you on?

Mine looks like this:
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] fridaycider:
It wasn't there on install but I had a software update . Only a small one and then it appeared .
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] lynxblaine:
Fantastic news!
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] fridaycider:
Like this but confused as my phone language was Dutch by default
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] fridaycider:
Soo much better than crap firmware
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] alexcazacu01:
I have a Galaxy S9+ (single SIM), unlocked bought directly from Samsung website(BTU firmware). I'm on EE and really wanted to use the VoLTE service.

To enable I downloaded the latest firmware BTU and EVR from Sammobile website and first flashed all the files from EVR

(BL, AP, CP, CSC NOT Home_CSC! .After restart I flashed again with the BTU files but just BL, AP, CP and NO CSC!

All works fine, latest BTU firmware with the EE CSC and VoLTE and VoWIFI works fine!

Probably OTA updates are disabled but I can still do it this way next time without losing any data. By the way, I did not touch the re-partition settings in Odin, it remains disabled.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
Yeah, I'm doing the same on my S9+ now with EE and latest DBT currently, but this is the S8+ forum :) Have a look in the Official Stock Firmware Thread in the S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion forum.

The (non-home) CSC contains the partition (PIT) file and it will repartition regardless of the setting. The HOME_CSC doesn't contain the partition file and won't repartition unless you tick the re-partition setting - as far as I am aware that's the only difference between the two CSC files and the reason why you don't lose user data when flashing HOME_CSC.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] alexcazacu01:
Hi Incarniac,

So if a new update comes for BTU and I flash to the phone the AP BL CP but nothing to csc it will work and I don't loose data, right?

Do the EVR csc need to be updated ever if it will be any updates for it?

Thank you!
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
I don't leave the CSC field empty, I always flash the latest available EVR HOME_CSC (even if that mens re-flashing the same HOME_CSC I'm currently using), and don't lose user data. I grab EVR firmware updates when they arrive and use the latest HOME_CSC with AP, BL and CP from usually BTU, XEU or DBT (depending on which is the latest version, usually quite a bit ahead of EVR).

(This is an S8+ thread, let's take this to the S9+ forums, linked above. On the S8+ now you can just flash CSC/HOME_CSC from XEU and get VoLTE on EE as they removed the restriction of requiring the EVR CSC for that.)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Questions and Answers] rod_gomes:
Hi,

I was a big user of popup window in MM and recently I upgraded to nougat to see that it was changed a lot.

Some changes don't bother me, but one broke almost all my use. Before, when I played some game or had an app working I could open one popup app and the app in background (but open) would still working like it were in the front. Now it seems that when I focus on the popup everything in background app is stopped. Any loading in game stops, facebook stops video, etc.

Is there any way I can use the app in popup with full multitasking like it was in MM? It's not just a popup issue.. the same thing happens with split screen.
[Huawei P9 Questions & Answers] Speaka:
Hello guys,

i just upgraded my l09 to firmware version b383. Everything including root seems to work fine except my adaway app. It cant edit the hosts file.

I already changed the hosts path to "/vendor/etc/hosts" but it wont work. If i open fx explorer in root mode i am able to edit the hosts file properly when mounted rw. Does anyone know how to fix that problem or workaround?

Thanks in advance!
[Huawei P9 Questions & Answers] lostunsunghero:
Which version of busybox do you have installed, if it's jrummy's ensure its installed to /system/xbin/busybox

If that's already the case then make sure you set the target hosts file in adaway preferences to /system/etc/hosts.

If not then uninstall your current busybox, install jrummy's busybox and follow the second step and you should be good to go.
[Huawei P9 Questions & Answers] jonezie:
I'm on B383 and this guide worked perfectly for me http://www.theandroidsoul.com/make-system-writable-android-7-0-nougat/amp/
[Huawei P9 Questions & Answers] Speaka:
Thanks for your responses! The trick with the busybox installation worked for me. I didnt even changed the hosts path back to default. Don't know if this also works. I'm happy :P
[Huawei P9 Questions & Answers] zgfg:
Busybox is not needed for AdAway, only root. You would need BusyBox for eg Viper4Andrroid

I have L09 c432 b383, TWRP 3.1.0-2, root by SuperSU-v2.79-201612051815-EMUI5.0.zip, and AdAway-v3.2-Feb.08.2017.apk works perfect.

No Busybox, AdAway hosts file as per default to /system/etc/hosts, no special mounting or whatever

See: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=71761747&postcount=167