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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] mahdibassam:
This is getting stupid now. I flashed twrp and iron rom, everything was fine, oem has disspaeared from the menu but i didnt restart for about 8 days (past the 7 day jail), and restarted a few times and everything was fine. Then I turned the note off and used my iPhone X for a few days, and when i turned the note back on, the damn "official binaries" error showed and i had to flash stock rom, and back to jail again. im ****ing fed up now.

and FYI i flashed s8 XSA csc when i flashed iron rom.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] white7561:
[MENTION=3931450]dr.ketan[/MENTION] Eh read my telegram please [emoji4] possible way to fix this i think
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jimbo77:
So as Expected.... A few minutes ago I got the EOM option enabled, what should I do now?

All I want is to root and be able to use with Magisk... For what I've read there is a chance that the phone will kind of relock again and I'll need to flash stock from scratch removing the custom ROM and Recovery correct??

Has anyone tried to flash Minotaurus ROM? It's my understanding that ROM works with N8 too...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Mentalmuso:
What makes you say that rom works with note 8,? It's an S8 rom right? Based off s8 firmware? I'm interested for reasons associated with oem lock
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kilayo:
Still looking into 950n version for canada. Just doing some research online to 1000% sure no oem issues
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jimbo77:
It's for the S8 plus (which I had just before my N8) but it's based off N8 AQI1... See attached screen, should i try with this ROM??
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kennyboyismr47:
I'm on the Mino Rom V8 for the N8, have been since V1, been to jail twice while.on different versions.

First time I flashed Dr.Ketans file for N8 csc he provided with a new Rom and second time was with another N8 csc zip.

I'm now using the S8 csc modded flash file and I flash this after flashing the Rom then rebooting back into twrp. No issues and Magisk works fine.

Only thing I don't like is oem unlock toggle is hidden in this Rom.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] jimbo77:
Great! Do you happen to have a link for the S8 csc? Have you ever been into the error that only allows official binaries and had to flash stock loosing everything?

How long you've had the ROM without issues and can you reboot at any moment?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] giusemc:
I just got my OEM back, anyone knows which rom is the best and what is the best way to maintain the OEM buttons? And not getting into boot loop again!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
Your is updated to KG and flashing anything custom, you might lose OEM button and on reboot it will throw binary error untill you get button back on next 7 days

Seems your is Nov security patch and you can flash s8 csc after desired rom to keep OEM

Check base of Mino ROM, If it is earlier than Dec security like QI* then flashing S8 csc will retain OEM

Any ROM based n QI* or earlier + S8 csc (get link from OP of thread)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] giusemc:
There are 2 file XID and XSA, which file should I flash ?? My carrie is XME
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kennyboyismr47:
It was tkkg1994's csc file for the S8÷ then I modded the file so it would flash on the N8.

I have rebooted many times and no problems.

And yes every time I went to jail for 7 days it was because I got the official binaries message while rebooting a second time after flashing a N8 csc file.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Timtown:
As is clear for all to see, I've been an XDA member for quite some time. Long enough to know better than to quote an entire lengthy post. But, as a long-time reader, sometimes poster/helper, I feel compelled to quote the entire post because it is, by far, the best instructional post I've seen in any of the forums in which I've participated over the last....seven years.

I'm new here. Just graduated up to the Note8 from my workhorse Note 4 Exynos and that forum. Bought the Exynos Note 4, by a lark off of Craigslist, brand new, in-box, from a young lady whose parents had vacationed in Dubai and bought N4s for all the kids. She was an iPhone aficionado and sold it for $500. What a lucky, lucky find. Note 4 was a beast, I can't remember having a better device. Nor can I remember having better "cooked" ROMs for said device. Looking forward to what the Chef's here concoct.

Anyhoo....back to now. Followed [MENTION=1622071]btyeh[/MENTION]'s and [MENTION=2595672]j3yps[/MENTION] instructions to the letter and the flashes went perfectly.

I had some very minor anomalies but nothing even close to a bootloop.

I came-up through the XDA ranks of yesteryear, when this was by far the most helpful, but harsh, forum to which I subscribed. Read, read, read, search, read... rehearse...rehearse again...Power down.

Think it through

Begin the process. If things go to ****, which if you've done the above, it will not, then search the thread, search it again, and if, after that, there's no solution...THEN post. But, 9.5 times out of ten your "crisis" will have already been encountered and SOLVED.

My stats:

Bought outright, unbranded. Almost certain it's from Singapore, exact same firmware as posted above.

I'm a T-Mobile customer here in the US. In "jail" for 168 hours, exactly. I postponed a firmware update for the seven days of hell just to be sure I could root and flash.

Happy to help with any Dev's that need a tester.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] j_hansen:
I have both single and dual sim European models and both have OEM unlock available out of the box.

the F/Duos I bought on amazon and believe to have originated in Italy, the single sim was through Vodafone Ireland.

just in case that info is any use to anyone.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] and2:
The worst thing for me that there is no word about it from Samsung side, like we did this bc of this... but nothing. Then I can decide to buy the phone or not but not like this. If I can't play with my toy I don't need it. I don't have fun with this great phone so I'll sell it. Again if Samsung decided to go this way is it ok - but not behind the back.

Gesendet von meinem SM-N950F mit Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] PivotMasterNM:
great guide! 2 questions though:

1. Regarding the first period wehre you have to be connected to the internet for 7 days, does that mean continually without interruption?

2. What do you mean by jail? I am currently unable to join a mobile network on my Note 8 because I don't have a SIM for it right now, will this guide probably still work?

thx anyways!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] btyeh:
Thank you very much for the kind words! I am however, only willing to accept 1% of the thanks for making this whole thing work. The remaining 99% was all on actual developers and seasoned community contributors. I, like you guys, just read... read... read... and try... try... try...

I am lucky to have found a stable mash of software that works for my setup. But I am still actively reading the thread to see if anything new pops up.

In fact, I've just solved another issue I had; that bluetooth devices would be lost upon every reboot. Right now, I'm monitoring my device for any other anomalies, and I'll be posting them in the relevant threads as well.

Happy flashing! :fingers-crossed:

Being "in jail" is the colloquial (humorous) way for us to describe having a device without the OEM Unlock toggle!

I personally wasn't permanently connected to the internet for the 7 days (168hrs uptime). I've been in in flight mode during some of my jail times, always connected to Wi-Fi others, and even rebooted within one jail period, or fresh boot > login > connect to internet > turn OFF device until after 7 days > boot up again > and OEM appears. I've pretty much tried every random combination that could possibly "delay" the 7 days / 168hrs needed, and OEM still appears every time. That's why now I think it is a little misleading to say 168hrs uptime. It should be 168hrs from the first internet connection.

So as a summary, this is what I did during each jail time: Factory reset > connect to Wi-Fi > sign into Google AND Samsung > then do whatever until OEM Unlock appears.

Yes! My 1st and 2nd jail time were without SIM cards. You just need an internet connection to connect to a Google / Samsung account, so Wi-Fi will do.

p.s. Let me just say it REALLY helped that I had another phone as a main phone while this whole fiasco was going down. For those who are coming from another phone, I HIGHLY recommend staying with your old device, until your new Note 8 is stable. After that, stress-test the Note 8. Reboot multiple times. Update Xposed. Update Magisk / SuperSU. Etc. Etc. You'll be suprised at what other issues pop up after this whole OEM thing.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] RamHa:
Yes, well... U r right, but ... Quote:

Originally Posted by LGSilva

Just some information I got from a different forum (gsm forum) about knox on other samsung devices. It appears that devices with snapdragon chips use e-fuses and once blown they can not be reset but devices with exynos store that information in a special partition that can be erased and reprogrammed with special software AND hardware.

OEM will be fixed soon, i hope... Hope is lack of knowledge, but it is OK, i do not have sufficient knowledge, yet ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Techvir:
It will be amazing to figure out how to erase the Knox triggered info for Exynos devices
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] RamHa:
KNOX is related to bootloader and CPU, so, my best ques would be NAND erase ALL and re-write it with flash dongle aka BOX...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kilayo:
Don't know what this is
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] RamHa:
http://www.razagsm.com/ShowProducts.Asp?Pid=187

Flash Box and dongles for service repair etc...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] irsemoticon:
my base rom BQKG (last stock rom for n950f-XID), i want flash ironman rom that base rom is BQK6

is it safe to flash your S8 csc?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pashamangl:
"KNOX is related to bootloader and CPU, so, my best ques would be NAND erase ALL and re-write it with flash dongle aka BOX..."

I already tried this!Nand erase all and flash with z3x but still in jail.I must say that i use N950x(demo unit) transformed in N950F.On 950X I was born in jail and I think I'll die in jail because no network

The only chance for me and perhaps for rest is ENGROOT file.If somebody find all of this will be solved
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kilayo:
Crap, so can you put twrp on using this method if you can wipe everything using this dongle

---------- Post added at 02:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:13 PM ----------

I didn't know theses dongle existed. Would it be possible to use them activate oem or change csc to all there being identical xsp,xsp,xsp. If someone has the expert know how but don't have the resources. Then why don't we back this person with a few dollars to get this going? If you can back up iemi file remove Sammy security. Wipe internal sd clean and start over. It this possible?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] white7561:
The thing is we don't really know if that would help. Samsung can just blacklist some csc so if you're using it. Then no. The ROM will just disable the button....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kilayo:
I really like this phone. I've 2 of them. 1 snapdragon under contract and exynos. The plan was to sell snap for a profit and keep exynos. But now i might sell both and get N version but i need to make sure it's no oem issues. My snapdragon version says custom now and i didn't do a anything to it other than use substratum theme. Maybe login in to sammy so often with exynos version did something. My exynos version don't show any csc in about phone. I'm using met firmware that was posted earlier by doc. Ive tried so many things. Even waited the 168 hours
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] thankhanh:
i'm wait 168h for oem and now it's not show??? what should i do??

Gửi từ SM-N950F của tôi bằng cách sử dụng Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Mentalmuso:
There are reports of oem lock jail on the s8 with Oreo. I'd be confident in saying, every Samsung device that will get updates going forward will eventually have the same issue. But I could be wrong.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kilayo:
I was thinking the same thing. I always avoid updates. There security is to keep us out while allowing themselves in
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] godmode1970:
If thats true, than many Samsung user will be pissed off.

On the other hand there will be more devs involved to find a solution against the Samsung Lock.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Mentalmuso:
Exactly.

Also I'm pretty sure it's not advertised by Samsung anywhere that the F model devices are bootloader unlockable. So it's not really that surprising in this day and age. This device should last a year with development, but next Samsung device may be out of the question.

Lineageos needs to become a daily driver haha.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] force70:
Would not surprise me at all...a total lock down from them has been coming for awhile.

Im done with Sammy at this point if this continues.

sent from my Pixel 2 XL or Note FE
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] FredyG:
Root Wars !!!

Root Wars

Episode Note 8

The rebels continue their fight for have a nice Galaxy note system. Dr Keitan, Lineage, IronMan, Ice, Minotaure and others devs-Jedi resist face to firmware Samsung Empire.

But this story start with me. Normal consummer who starts with android and the Galaxy Note 2. Nice phone and long life with the help of XDA developers :good:. I change these phone for the LG G4 rooted too but with less nice android modifications.

Now. I take a Note 8, born in jail, from dark sith firmware in Chinese. I talk in French, and I change the language and some times I see strange Chinese symbols. I start the lecture of this post one month ago and understand the jail joke, i wait my first 7 days.:angel:

First week. I have the OEM toggle but the phone restarts and I have a strange Chinese question. I validate and after see the download screen with official firmware only. Return to jail. I take the time for change the firmware to French (XEF) and I restart the prison.:(

Second week, the toggle OEM not present. I restart the phone for are sure obtain toggle and when I see the state. The phone show only 5 minutes running!!! So far for the 168 hours ?. I'm are in the jail.

Third week, few hours again! In these moment I'm at 162 hours. I travel in these moment, I sleep in one hotel. The hotel's Wi-Fi are slow. I take my own plan data and I download other firmware juste in case if I do try other CSC. I charge my phone and go to the bed. Lights off! Tomorrow is the root day,:victory: I will go out of the jail, maybe I see the skyes or all the Galaxy!:fingers-crossed: The next day I see my phone turn off. WTF!!! :confused: And I understand after, at these stupid hotel when you turn off the lights ... you turn off the switches too (and the phone charger). The download emptied the phone charge.... the counter wait returned to zero. Welcome to the jail ...

This story to be continue in 2018

Thanks to developers. I read every day the evolution of the thread.......from jail ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] guillemoka:
That was a very good friend, you really made me laugh. At least you take the wait with humor. I hope that you will soon get out of jail and you can root your cell phone. Regards!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Fen-X:
Lots of Laughing. Keep c:);)l.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] j3yps:
i'm glad to hear that you're successful with your "OEM-Journey" It's a huge PITA that samsung gave us.

From the looks of it, this issue will be included in all future samsung devices. they're lucky that there are devs that still makes awesome rom that bypasses this BS if not they will see an even greater depreciation in sales soon.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ananjaser1211:
Some Findings.

I dont own a note 8 personally, but ive been digging in the firmware to see what hides OEM . after some searching ive found some interesting stuff that i think should be disabled by rom makers to prevent people from suddenly loosing their OEM unlock this random thing from samsung.

First is framework jar

.field public static final DISALLOW_OEM_UNLOCK:Ljava/lang/String; = "no_oem_unlock"

Can be found only on Note 8 firmware inside Android/os/usermanager.smali

Now the other lead is in services.jar a method called enforceUserRestriction it checks for const-string/jumbo v1, "no_oem_unlock" that gets thrown from usermanager.smali in framework.jar , i have no idea why

that method "enforceUserRestriction" can be found in com/android/server/pm/UserManagerService.smali

I remember i read few other mentions to the no_oem_unlock and dissalow_oem in some other places that i cant recall now. maybe this gives an idea why in note 8 firmware OEM gets lost (in my Note 8 port for my J5 it was lost aswell :laugh:)

i dont think this can get back OEM to those who lost it, just figured id share here for rom makers.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
There are about 10+smalis I could find but hight is not a single from it has any difference from previous base. That's fact that before Dec patch we can use s8 csc to stick oem while since new base (Qkg) it's no more working, we need to look further where is this difference lying.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ananjaser1211:
Ive did my diggings on AQI base so alot has changed, ill do the same for newer base and see what changed.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Riyal:
Can't anybody that has yet to update use wireshark to capture the download URL of the patch and unpack it to know what files were changed?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Fishpig:
How does one check the hours of jail time?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Androidwizzard:
settings - about phone - status

btw: I lose oem toggle on reboot but get it back after simple Odin flash of my carrier HOME_CSC immediately :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
Yep. Not a chance I do this again. In many respects I like one plus better and while the pen is useful for work it's not enough so that I'd put up with this again.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] mailistman:
did you just dirty flash it ? or did you have to perform factory reset before adding it ?

i am wondering how can i get back to my original carrier id csc XSG/XSG/XSG. anybody can help ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Androidwizzard:
HOME_CSC doesn't wipe anything so you might call it dirty
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Techvir:
There is truly no way of knowing it.... Usually Samsung sends a mail when you login to the device first time.. You can check thst...

The time that u see in about phone section is only the uptime.. It resets everytime u reboot.. It can only reflect jail time if u never rebooted.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] mahdibassam:
I think someone should create a new thread and consolidate all the workarounds and info for everyone, or even the OP for this thread can add it to the first post. This thread is now crazy long and way too hard to find any info.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
There is only one workaround to stick OEM Toggle, Link to workaround is already added to OP by moderator long ago.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] puddingoz:
Here Samsung you love encryption, unencrypt this......

OG KUFC RUOYSEVLES, my loyalty HAS EXPIRED.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kanamor:
Same for me...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] mahdibassam:
I was on Ironman rom and everything was fine, and i rebooted multiple times and everything was still fine. then one day randomly after i rebooted i got the official binaries error and had to flash stock and wait for 7 days again.

After my OEM Unlock appeared again, i followed your instructions and flashed XSA s8 csc and everything was still fine, rebooted multiple times and everything was fine. Then i turned off my Note 8 for about two days while i was using my iPhone X, and when i turned it back on, bam, the error again. So now im on stock again waiting for OEM unlock.

am I missing something here? im losing hope :(
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
Samsung have patched new base (Ironman is based on latest) and no more s8 csc trick working.

To keep oem option, use rom based on Nov security patch or earlier
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] giusemc:
So the iron man rom with BQK6 wouldn't work with s8 csc trick?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] puddingoz:
Ironman has November security patch BQK6 as I tried it today with S8 CSC XSA as I thought it would be fine but after reboot, JAIL. BQKG is December patch I think as I tried to avoid it,tired of this ****,should've tried your rom but bad luck hey.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
If ROM based on Nov security patch then S8 CSC (I have posted in this thread) should work, at least it's reported working fine on my Nov security patch ROM. (N6 + OEM Patch in aroma)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] puddingoz:
A couple of people reported that it worked on Ironman as well but maybe certain CSCs don't, but that's just another guess in this Samcircus.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] JeremySS:
Interesting update from jail that may have been reported already but I didn't see it. Quick history: Began life in jail, got out and enjoyed freedom from a month or so on several customer ROMs. Flashed baseband update and BTU CSC, got thrown back in jail. No OEM unlock after 7 days so I reflashed stock again through Odin, this time OEM Unlock showed up in 5 days. Was busy with holidays so I did nothing. On day 10 now and rebooted phone due to some wifi issues. I'm on a stock ROM, and after reboot, OEM unlock is gone. I'll wait and see how long it takes to come back this time.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Androidwizzard:
if your stock has oem toggle by default try to flash HOME_CSC only - it won't do any harm or wipe except extend time in jail, probably if you have past some days already. For me it gave oem toggle back immediately.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] JeremySS:
Unfortunately mine was originally in jail so flashing the Home_CSC would most likely just reset the clock. I'm confused why the OEM toggle disappeared after reboot though. I'll check Download Mode and see what it's showing in the bootloader. Samsung is severely testing my loyalty on this one though. I've about had enough... I have a nice Note 4 in the drawer that already has a good working aosp build that is whispering my name.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Wahaj_Alden:
Hey everyone!

If i insert a UK sim card and flash UK firmware, will OEM unlock option appear immediately ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] LongGer64:
Guys, many roms do not show the OEM unlock toggle before the 7 days timer after flashed. Been thrown in jail for several times. The toggle switch shows immediately after flashed is the Lightrom. I installed the earliest version and it stays until now. Something must have done correctly for this rom. I am sceptical to flash another rom or do another update to the new version.. Lol. Too many time jailed and I am a phobia.