yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] MeltdownSpectre:
For those with Sinagpore Note 8's, there probably won't be a way around it, if you take a look at the service provider section in the About Phone menu, it'll show your CSC in the format XXX/XXX/XXX where the first 2 will show your current active CSC, and the last one will show the original CSC that the phone shipped with and/or the CSC of the country of origin. Singapore's CSC is XSP, so mine does indeed show PAK/PAK/XSP, and because the last CSC is hard coded in to the phones flash memory, it can not be changed, so no matter what CSC you try and change to, it'll still check the origin CSC, which in my case is XSP, and won't show the OEM Unlock option.

Doubtful the Service Center guys will be able to get around this since it's a feature implemented by Samsung.

Only way is to get your Note 8 from somewhere else.

I won't be returning mine since, as I said earlier, I won't root, so I'm perfectly content and very happy with my brand new Orchid Gray Note 8.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Brava27:
Can someone try this?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] white7561:
Source?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pswin09:
Do you mean that they're just offering for others model like s8 or S7 only? Look like they're just implementing software to lock down in future devices. Let see how on tomorrow. If there is no solutions or no support from Samsung, I will sell it back or just refund if they accept refund. This will be a big lost to me. I bought it from my friend who recontract from M1 with discount and its cost S$1250. [emoji23]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
Just thought, it is not like that so updating latest firmware removes this option (oem unlock)?

May be it remains there if already enabled before updating FW. Some users Here who have had latest sw installed and yet oem option there which was not activated earlier.?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Brava27:
Echoerom.com forums.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] rocketmail.com:
It's not notification, you go to developers options and it's there.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deezy88:
**** i work for samsung repairing their usa phones,but they know **** about international phones,they all mostly think that all samsung phones have the same internal. lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] iunlock:
Hey guys so I'll have my Clove UK one soon and so will [MENTION=2996598]DeeXii[/MENTION] ...

Will keep everyone posted.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sansnil:
I feel like we need a Google sheet where we can collect everyone's device info to discern the pattern. Like model, country of origin, region locked, oem unlock available upon receipt, oem unlock wait time, etc.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Techvir:
Could buy a north American version for around 300$ less than UK version. F**** this addiction to flashing...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] iunlock:
Fully aware of that. I don't think making such assumptions of someone not knowing that a phone could be bought cheaper is relevant to this thread.

If you're so fed up with everything, then why are you even in this thread?

Makes no sense. This is XDA after all. Not for those wanting to stay bone stock.

:confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Techvir:
Wow!!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sun2sunny:
Oh ****....... i just checked my s8+ oem unlock is missing ... even i m on batman rom custom twrp recovery but oem unlock missing .... its not just n9te 8 s8 is also haunted wd this oem thingy
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] force70:
Lol....probably removed by the dev on purpose that rom, they do that so dummies dont turn it off then soft brick and whine and cry as to why.

This oem unlock crap is not an issue on the s8 plus.

sent from my Note FE
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Fen-X:
bad news...very bad news....i'm sorry for you my friend....be patient. something will happen sooner or later....We are on Xda, be confident.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
It's disabled in that ROM for the same reason it's disabled in the Renovate Ice ROM.

If it truely did disappear, your S8 would not boot after a restart, but that's not an issue with S8s.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Fen-X:
maybe you're right, because it's the firt time i heard that the oem unlock option was missing from the s8 or s8+. Maybe the rom.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sun2sunny:
No it was there a week ago i checked it n tkkg never removed it from rom.... i think its a online system from sammy for screwing users...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
Once more, the EEU region lock is meaningless to us and it has nothing to do with our situation. Nothing. I know we all want to grab onto something and pray it's the answer but the lifeline you are looking to grab onto is one of the few things we know we can rule out. Again, we had to debunk this for days last time it came up in the thread and it did nothing but sidetrack people from finding what might actually be a solution.

If nothing else will serve to convince consider what we already have seen here on this very thread... We have a number of verified owners who do not have OEM unlock that purchased and used their devices only in their own regions with sim cards from local carriers. Doesn't that imply that maybe it's something else? If you just needed to stick a local SIM in from the area of sale and make a 5 minute phone call wouldn't they be the proud owners of fully OEM unlock capable phones from the start if the above theory is true? lol I'm honestly not understanding why folks are finding this one so hard to grasp.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sun2sunny:
No its not from rom its confirm
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
Tkkg does mention in his S8 batman rom thread that OEM unlock is removed to prevent accidental turning off. I didn't see him mention that in his S8+ thread but I assume he would have done the same. Maybe ask him in his thread?

But if your oem lock did disappear like it does for some N8s, it wouldn't boot after restart.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sun2sunny:
searched all thread no talks about OEM unlock.........

i had asked waiting for the answer from that thread.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
Here are 2 posts in the S8 (G950F) thread where he mentions it:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=72587417&postcount=11

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=72634015&postcount=66

---------- Post added at 11:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:22 PM ----------

Looks like he also removed it in his Superman ROM for the S7, looks to be the norm for him & his ROMs.

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=73107920&postcount=10532

Seems to be a lot of people turning OEM lock back on after installing his ROM & then asking why their phones won't boot. Haha. I guess he got tired of that so he removed it.

Again, if yours truely did disappear like it does on some Note 8s, you'll no longer be able to boot after a restart. This obviously doesn't seem to be the case as you would have definitely mentioned that part.

So don't worry about it & please don't continue posting what you did here. It's not doing any good here for the people that actually are having the issue with their Note 8s & is totally unrelated. Just saying....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] chloeleedow:
Its a no from me mate lol Im back in jail for a week :( ill be going the custom recover zip method with a tonne of CSCs next time I try but would of love to have a crack at what you mentioned if I wasnt too over eager :)

In saying that flashing CSC with Flashfire did work but still had no VoLTE (maybe a rom issue) but lost oem unlock in dev options then silly me thought id reboot and got soft bricked so you can do it but must not reboot for a week after would be my guess bud!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Comp1demon:
I am on Nemesis Rom with TKKG CSC tool and flashed the ATT SCS to get VOLTE and WIFI calling/video to work and my OEM unlock is gone.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] j3yps:
Same here bud(back in jail)! :(
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
Deleted.....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] fragtion:
Agreed!

Someone's gotta set that up though, wanna volunteer? ;)

Wait... didn't you flash your device yesterday using krabman's method, step for step? I'm guessing you didn't reboot once since booting into custom ROM until now? Seems like the method didn't work after all then?

At what point did your OEM go missing? We need feedback on that method.

As it stands, I still plan to follow krabman's method when my jail time is up, because it seems to be the only hope of maybe dodging the missing OEM immediately after flashing. But if my OEM toggle then disappears, I'll just wait for another week without rebooting, so that it appears again (as I was supposed to last week, but got too excited and caused phone to reboot - wont happen this time). I find it quite interesting that nobody here has reached this point yet of waiting a full second week after rooting, so that we know if that method would work or not. Yeah it means a full week of no rebooting - but if it works, then at least that's a working method we have for now. But we still can't say because nobody has confirmed yet

PS I completely agree with krabman about this not having anything to do with Region Lock. My previous Note 4 was a SM-N910T (T-Mobile) which I purchased in the US. Back then, the T-mobile note 4 was one of the only variants which had unlocked bootloader and could flash anything. The problem was, it was region locked. I had to buy a T-mobile sim while I was there and make a 5 minute call, before I could bring the phone back to my home country and use any sim in it. That is not the case with my new note 8, which is working in my region out of the box.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pswin09:
Ohh... So sorry to hear that you're in 7 days again. This oem unlock thing is so annoying. I even dare not to reboot without oem unlock option appear.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] j3yps:
So i called Samsung in our country regarding the OEM Unlock issue, according to the one i talked to i should be getting a call from their head office soon regarding this matter. I was actually asking for a refund or replacement for my phone. I hope that Samsung here could shed some light on this. I will report as soon as i get the phone call. I'm not really expecting anything, i'd rather put my faith on Dr.Ketan hahaha but maybe by some miracle they do have a fix for this.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] chloeleedow:
It was working flawless with reboots to recovery and download mode until CSC flash bud, I just wanted my VoLTE so took a risk and it rebooted fine first time out of flashfire with correct CSC changed as hoped but still no VoLTE so think I decided to try something else then soft bricked after one more reboot. SO to answer your question mate I lost OEM unlock in dev options right after flashfire CSC flash so could of stayed online if I didnt reboot but was over anxious, im thinking if I flashed CSC in part of the rom flash factory reset steps it might prevent it. So that will be my next go :) Hope that helps... Krabmans method was fine other than my extra steps to change my CSC after already setting up new custom rom! Still a fine work around for now in my opinion anyways if custom rom keeps your current CSC or if you dont care what CSC you are on :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] fragtion:
Your device was able to reboot after flashing custom ROM, without the official binaries error, until you flashed CSC....

So in other words, we can confirm that OEM Unlock toggle's tendency to become hidden, is directly related to something to do with CSC / CSC changes?

Edit: nevermind, maybe it has something to do with flashing steps, like you said. Clearly something about krabman's steps is working. There must be some small step we need to ensure... something so obvious that we might all slap ourselves when we figure it out ! Perhaps something to do with the factory reset patterns?

It would be very interesting if you could successfully implement your CSC flash into the existing steps without resulting in softbrick. Then we know it is the order of flashing steps which is critical, not the CSC
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] azq8ooz:
but on my phone show that oem lock on so i think we should have code to unlock oem
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sun2sunny:
after eight days in jail still no oem unlock option

what can i do please suggest... for oem unlock option.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] MistahBungle:
Nothing. For now, you're SOOL without OEM Unlock appearing of its own accord, whatever it is that actually triggers its appearance in developer settings; several theories abound at the moment...

Patience is your best bet.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Sean_FD2R:
Anyone can confirm krabman's steps works?

After my initially only official binary issue, I'm dreaded to flash anything again. My device N950F/DS

If possible, anyone can do a guide?

Thx in advance

Soft bricked once... [emoji23]

Sent via K20A + 120BHP NOS Kit
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sun2sunny:
You got out of 7 days jail after first binaries error ?

If yes then tell me how much time it took again for oem unlock appeared.

Anything special u do other than flashing stock by odin.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] MistahBungle:
Search Krabman's posts ? These steps have been posted multiple times by multiple people over the past week or so in this thread.

They have worked for a number of people & they should work if you follow the TWRP install/initialisation & other steps to the letter.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] j3yps:
Okay people, this is the second time that i made the OEM Unlock toggle appear in Safe Mode. But it seems like even if you make it appear it doesn't really work properly.

After this appeared i toggled the switch off and on again, took a screenshot and rebooted straight to Download mode (unlike before) to flash TWRP. but still Odin failed to flash TWRP (it's like flashing TWRP without the OEM Unlock toggle)

[IMG="Note 8 OEM Unlock Safe Mode"]https://i.imgur.com/h9X5PZI.jpg[/IMG]

Thanks to FDM over at the Telegram chat group. for reminding me to try once more haha.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kenpaci:
FDM it's me?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
I've moved on to light rom now which required flashing BL and CP in odin before the install proper. I did it by flashing BL first with reboot unticked, resetting odin and flashing CP with reboot unticked, resetting odin and flashing TWRP with reboot ticked while holding the reboot to recovery keys and pressing start on odin with the pressed and held all the way until the phone booted into recovery. From there I followed the same steps as the previous installation including the format. When installing the rom I did not change CSCs in aroma because I've been thinking it may possibly be a trigger for the binary. Since I already was adding one new thing to the process (flashing BL, DP) I wanted to be able to know what caused the flash failure if one occured rather than have multiple possibilities.

Were it me and I was going to flash a CSC I would do much as described above. I would do at as part of a rom install in odin and then go on to flash TWRP and the rest of it. I have no idea if that would work but it would give you a single point of failure since a number have now done the base install successfully.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deezy88:
their gotta be like a tar or csc file to flash in odin to force oem unlock to put roms,i thought if you got to twrp you be alright,i guess not,i think on more day left so i can become either 70% in jail or 30% good to go

ANYBODY THAT WILL FIX THIS BY SUNDAY,I GOT 50 BUCKS FOR U,I DONT WANNA RESELL THIS DEVICE,BUT I AM GOING TO HAVE TOO
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] amk:
hi,

i have just got Note8 Dual Sim Stock EU, it is brand new but i do not see OEM unlock at all. does it mean my note8 was rooted before?

is there any way for me to flash the [29.09.17] Dr.Ketan ROM I Jio VoLTE I N1 ?

i am now stuck at

If you are on stock ROM/Recovery, follow below said steps

1.Enable Developer Option (settings - about phone - Software information - Tap 7 times on build number to activate developer option in settings menu)

2.Enable OEM Unlock from developer option (Currently no workaround for those who doesn't have this option)

sorry couldnot read full 29 pages before asking...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sansnil:
So I got a second Note8 today (I'm a glutton for punishment). The first one was a dual-SIM from Singapore, which had no region lock but does have the OEM unlocker from hell issue. The second dual-SIM I ordered from a UK merchant and it was region locked but they did the 5 min UK SIM card trick prior to shipping and had the OEM unlock option available from the second I turned it on like all the UK phones do. I haven't tried to flash TWRP on the second UK Note8 yet and I'm not sure I will but my theory is now that:

1) The OEM unlock from hell issue seems mostly to affect the dual-SIM model phones which are NOT region locked

2) Dual-SIM model phones region locked to the EU appear not to have the OEM unlock from hell issue once they are region unlocked
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] thegreenthief:
Well, I just got out of my second jail period about 30 minutes ago. Proceeded to flash TWRP and DrKetanROM_N950FD_N2_XDA according to krabman's instructions. After going through all of the setup steps and enabling developer mode I checked for OEM Unlock. No toggle! Looks like I will be attempting a week of usage with no reboots and hoping that the toggle eventually shows up.

What a hassle.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deezy88:
guys if you have a ROM and you dont see it its cause the dev took it off,the problem would be if you rebooted,making it soft brick

i envy you,im waiting for my oem unlock

has any one that speak Chinese or have called Singapore or china to address about this issues?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
That is not with my rom. I haven't removed it as it will cause more confusion for those who have device with oem issue. On my rom if it's not available then must be a oem mess and not rom.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
I don't understand why devs remove the OEM unlock toggle. Well yes I do understand why they do it to prevent people from making the mistake of turning it off, softbrick, then complain in the thread.

But like Dr. Ketan said, with all this drama with OEM lock disappearing I wouldn't want it hidden. I don't have the disappearing OEM unlock issue but I still would not want it hidden. Not to be a ****, but with my past phones, I've never accidentially turned off OEM unlock & soft bricked. I just can't understand it myself, if they went & messed around by "accidentially" turning it off, that's their own fault. Just my opinion though, I know others may disagree.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Sean_FD2R:
No I didn't stay in jail (I got myself a good lawyer) [emoji3]

I reflashed stock FW and boot into stock recovery after multiple failure. Then wipe everything.

Nothing special. OEM still appear.

Sent via K20A + 120BHP NOS Kit
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deezy88:
this is first time this happen EVER.i personally dont care if it out or on package in roms,as long i can put roms on my phone and or mods,that all i care about
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] force70:
No need to read all that. Theres a search button.

I suggest using it.

sent from my Note FE
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Superduper01:
Atm no dev can remove oem toggle because apktool does not allow recompiling of secsettings2.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
Is it not removed in renovate? The description says it is and people here who have flashed it do not have it. Can anyone confirm it's available on an F variant that had it out the box OEM? This could be huge.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
tkkg1994's also states it's removed in his ROMs
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deezy88:
i dont think this theard is about what roms that have it or not (oem unlock),frankly that doesn't matter,what matters is getting oem on stock without waiting 7 days and how to get Roms on it with no issues after
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
True that! Tell that to the guys who bring up all this stuff. Almost half the stuff in the thread lately has been unrelated but that happens a lot on forums. I know I'm not helping by replying though but at least I try to squash some it.

I'm not sure why I even keep up with this thread, I'm not affected. Just bored & really curious to hopefully see a solution I guess.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kenpaci:
You mean your oem not missing after odin stock FW?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deezy88:
i just got mines....ahhh man.im flash a rom asap.im scare but i wanna know if im im 30% good or 70% all bad
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Techvir:
Sorry for an offtopic question.

I have decided to go with the korean verison, single sim. From all the reading this seems not to have any OEM unlock issue.

Is there any disadvantage of getting the korean version?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deezy88:
no reallyt,make sure it a exynos and flasha rom asap
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kenpaci:
You get oem after 7days?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
So far it seems like none of the N950Ns from Korea have this issue. Well from what I have seen. They don't even have region lock. No disadvantage besides carrier stuff but you can take care of all that anyway after TWRP & root.

Do a search for SM-N950N in this thread & the TWRP thread.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deezy88:
6 days, 153 hours, i downloading lightrom rom right now,wish me lucky ,i hope don't get jail for 7 more days
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kenpaci:
Hope everything okay..you want flash renovate?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] iunlock:
The Korean (950N) variant doesn't have the 1700 for T-Mobile. That variant would work better (as in more thoroughly) on att since they use 1900, which the phone has. The phone will still work and as long as you're connected to the other bands, it'll still be usable. The other thing is that the N variant won't have much dev support, if at all.

Correct. The Korean variant doesn't seem to be affected from the OEM unlock nightmare.

However, on the bright side you'll have a monstrous 256Gb of internal storage if you went with the Emperor Edition. Marry that with a 256Gb Samsung Evo Plus and enjoy your 512GB Beast. :)

::iunlock::
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deezy88:
256gb got a snapdragon, you be most definitely screw, the exynos model only come in 64gb
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
N950N 256GB is Exynos & you can flash N950F firmware on it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] MeltdownSpectre:
The Snapdragon 256GB is the Chinese variant (N9500), and the 256GB Exynos variant is only sold in Korea under the N950N model number.

The 950F however only comes in 64GB.

Sent from my SM-N950F
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deezy88:
i only seen sd version of 128 and 256,but if its eexynos,i dont see a problem flashing roms,if u get oem unllock off the box,im try flash this right now,if i get jail ,im going sell this and get a F model
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kenpaci:
Not work?