[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] zerenx:
Success!

Hi Guys,

Reporting a success story with the bootloader here.

My device is a N950F/DS Galaxy Note 8 Duos 64 GB Exynos, CSC is XID (Indonesia)

Bought by pre-order from Lazada Indonesia, which should get their supply directly from Samsung Indonesia

Should be carrier unlocked.

This is my 14th day with the device. I only put in my Indonesian SIM card at the very first time at day 1 for a short time (+/- 10 minutes) without making any phone calls. After that, I took my Indonesian SIM card out and never put it back in again until 5 minutes ago, even at the 2nd time back in jail.

My first free from jail time on day 7, I flashed TWRP, wiped data, flashed no-verity, flashed magisk, but kept stock ROM.

And was immediately sent back to jail after the first reboot from stock ROM. Had to restore everything by Smart Switch to get the device boot back.

Method of what I did back then is in this post https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=74069793&postcount=441

Yesterday midnight was when my second term in jail expired, so I had downloaded and prepared all the necessary zips (no-verity, magisk, renovate ROM) inside a modest 16GB microSD card

After the timer was up, OEM Unlock is already set to ON with the description "Bootloader is already unlocked", which is in sync with what did get displayed in Bootloader (FRP OFF, OEM OFF).

(In hindsight, I regret I did not try to flash TWRP when I was in jail time even though FRP OFF and OEM OFF in Download mode, but posts here seem to indicate it was not working anyway)

For good measure, I rebooted and check if OEM Unlock was still there. To my relief, it was.

In the name of science, I switched off the OEM Unlock toggle, reboot to Odin/download mode, and status was FRP ON, OEM ON there

Boot back to system, OEM Unlock is still there, I turned it back on.

I flashed, generally following krabman's method. Details of my steps below.

TLDR is : TWRP, full-wipe with yes confirmation, No-verity, Renovate Ice ROM, Magisk, Factory reset (data+cache+dalvik) wipe, boot to system

While there were sweaty-moment snags, the end result is that the flash was successful without getting sent back to jail.

It has been half a day since then with some deliberate reboots, but it seems stable so far. I have just entered my SIM Card in with no trouble.

In my humble opinion, our problem with getting jailed back for 7 days has something to do with Knox still being active on a Stock ROM, it detected that something was not correct with the device, so it triggered something that results in the Red Jail Notice of Doom. So my suggestion is to NEVER boot even once to stock ROM after you flash TWRP.

Credits for the original procedure from these fine men's posts :

[MENTION=1230317]krabman[/MENTION] [MENTION=3931450]dr.ketan[/MENTION] [MENTION=2595672]j3yps[/MENTION]

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=74071348&postcount=1126

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=74036516&postcount=1048

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=74119181&postcount=1416

Detailed step-by-step procedure of my flash yesterday :

Sorry for the long post, I just hope my experience can help others who are in similar position as I am.