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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] azq8ooz:
j got this email from singapre samsung
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deezy88:
i got twrp on,flash the bl and cp,the phone rebotted,and i got screw,smh,now i flash a stock rom via odin,i hope oem unlock will be there, and try again,i got the only allow official binary error

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figure how to tell him u tried put roms without let him know thayt,we all know it take 7 days
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kenpaci:
Why you not follow krabman menthod? Im not understand why you flash BL and CP? , your oem having missing again bro
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deezy88:
lightrom said to flash that b,i didnt think iit was going reboot,i flsh as twrp zip
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kenpaci:
Hmm..look like you need waiting 7days again
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deezy88:
i cant take this anymore
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kenpaci:
I feel you bro..small mistake make us going to jail again 7days
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] j3yps:
This just shows how much we want this phone to be perfect, we're all willing to go through all these trouble just to set it up the way we want to. Samsung really messed up the Note series 3 consecutive times now (starting Note 5's no sd card slot)

Other brands should start to implement an S-Pen type stylus to their phones now, i'll jump ship ASAP if ever.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kenpaci:
You trying renovate?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Andysmith71:
So Samsung have now confirmed that OEM is unlocked after being connected to a 'network'.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] azq8ooz:
i just call samsung singapore and i talk with castomer service and they use my phone by smart toutar and she donot know why it look because she said she has the phone in singapore and it is appearing oem unlouck so i think the problem with reigion lock
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
Nope. Not going to flash a room with a hidden OEM unlock switch. If it is only hidden for people with handsets that have to wait a week for OEM but visible to those with normal phone that would tell us a lot.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
Already been down this path, she has had it more than 7 days so she can get an OEM switch when she enables developer. A poster already tried to get them to do it with one out of the box and it didn't work.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] azq8ooz:
bad news they said the oem unlock if use the sim card for singapore for 7 days so i am thinking now to sell the phone
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
So what, this whole mess is a 7 day region lock? Haha

Not a 5 min phone call to lift region lock like in EU but you must use the phone for 7 days on a SIM from the origin country? If by chance that was true that won't be easy for everyone to do.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sun2sunny:
I have uk region locked phone

days so i am thinking now to sell the phone

but after using in asia pakistan with pakistani sim for exact 07 days i got oem unlock

but after binaries error after flashing twrp i flashed official firmware after that now i m on 9th days oem unlock doesn't show now.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] azq8ooz:
yes i think this is temporary thing so we should use it for 7 day to be always
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] wgpshadow:
I got my OEM unlock option today on my N950-F/DS. Turned it on. Went into download mode and installed TWRP. Rebooted straight into TWRP and did a wipe and tried to install Renovate Ice. Used the Magisk option. Went through everything and then asked it to reboot. Now I'm getting this message upon reboot after my Samsung logo:

'Verification failed. Unable to restart your device. The integrity verification has failed. You need to reset your device to factory settings. This will erase all your data'

I can reboot into recovery. I tried wiping and reinstalling Renovate Ice. No luck, same message. Do I need to flash back to the stock ROM and wait another 7 days?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] masri1987:
so what's the consensus behind n950f\ds models sold by never-msrp on ebay?

I see some yes i see some no which one is it?

TIA
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] pswin09:
Renovate ice hide the oem unlock option, so if you're able to reboot to twrp please try other roms like dr.ketan rom or light rom. Or it could be dm variety?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] fragtion:
I could be wrong , but the error message seems to suggest that you didn't flash DM Verify properly or that you flashed something corrupt. Try searching XDA for this error as it likely applies to other phones also. You could try to re-download the TWRP and ROM images and then flash with krabman's method. Install a ROM like Dr Ketan's or Nemesis if you want OEM toggle visible. Once ROM is installed and booted, be careful not to reboot. First confirm OEM is there

Edit: From ongoing discussions on the Telegram group, we think that there is a good chance that ROMS which hide OEM toggle (like Renovate) might actually be our solution, as strange as this may seem. Yes the OEM toggle will be purposely hidden, so if yours "goes off" you wont be able to see it or switch it back on - BUT it seems like no users have actually experienced problems resulting! It seems like if you flash Renovate, you'll be OK to reboot, so this OEM hiding might actually be the solution for us. Hopefully Dr Ketan can make such a variant of his ROM for us to test also.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] iunlock:
It's a no go. There's nothing more to say. Don't do it. :)

::iunlock::
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
I have read some users flashed rom which have hidden (removed) oem toggle also gets stuck if reboot so no meaning unless there are definitely reports.

I haven't removed as I believe it could be just cosmetic hide so better to keep so user at least can conform status. This is sure that when this auto appears, there is no issue flashing anything but if one make force appear like with safe mode, still experiencing same issue like it's disabled.

Anyway though in next version may try to give ar9ma option if required.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] j3yps:
That's awesome doc!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deezy88:
i bought my phone from them,their ds model got the same problem
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] maxaiken:
is it possible just to flash TWRP so we can backup the entire system? will it give an error still even if we dont try to root the phone? i have setup all my apps and contacts on my phone. i dont want to have to reflash if something goes wrong.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] MistahBungle:
If you flash TWRP then make a Nandroid without doing anything else, you'll probably be able to boot into system OK, but if you attempt to boot into recovery again (Or maybe even reboot full stop ?? Don't know for certain, didn't get that far first time) you'll bootloop & have to flash stock with Odin. I did exactly that & this happened to me the first time around.

You'll need to do the 'Install/initialise TWRP, flash custom rom & root' in one hit thing if you want no dramas.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] wgpshadow:
I went into download mode again and flashed TWRP again. Booted into recovery right away. Wiped and then flashed Dr Ketans ROM. I got the same error message about failed verification. The interesting part is the reboot menu shows Dr Ketan ROM, so some part of the ROM appears to be working but I cannot get past the failed verification message. So I rebooted into recovery and tried to flash the 'no verity opt encrypt 5.1'. I rebooted and it still has a failed verification message.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] maxaiken:
thanks for the info bro.. i'd probably wait for a sure solution to this.. im still getting used to using a non rooted phone, but i cant try flash everytime coz i have fully configured my phone as my daily driver. it would be too costly for me, time wise, to keep on resetting..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
Yes, several have reported issues with renovate crapping out after a day or two on a reboot or in flashing. There are a couple who have reported installing it and are waiting for 7 days before they reboot/flash but they are not out of the refractory period to report a result on that yet.

To me it looks more and more like those that start out with a hidden OEM unlock on the 7 day nominal timer have an OEM unlock switch that when not visible is setting status to off or is doing so intermittently. We already know that several guys have installed renovate and flamed with it hid. We know many have done nothing more than enabled it and had it come and go in visibility. Sounds crazy but there is nothing to contradict the concept and it serves to explain a lot of odd behavior across the board. I'm now on more than a week and have gone through three rom installs with my switch visible at all times while doing all the stuff I normally do except for installing a CSC. Last night for example I installed a magisk module that enables the GA on the bixby button. As to the CSC, it appears that this may be one of the things that triggers the binaries error and I'm not all that keen on giving up what I have while the native CSC doesn't give me anything I use. I install them just to make it all tidy.

Were it me and I just wanted the damn phone to work I would go with ketan and if he adds an aroma installer and the option to hide OEM unlock I would not enable it. I would keep that OEM visible. I would not install a CSC. I would definately format and follow all the other instructions to the letter in the TWRP installation. I would then stay in recovery and flash the rom exactly as I have already successfully done three times. I would not have my sims in the phone for any part and not put them back until completely done with the install and setup.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] wgpshadow:
This just fixed my issue actually... :)

I rebooted back into TWRP, went to wipe and formatted. The guide I was following from another user didn't mention the format part. I saw it in other guides, but I was sticking to the other user's guide because he said he was successful. With this phone, if you miss one minor detail in you steps, you won't be successful.

So after formatting, I installed the 'no verity opt encrypt 5.1'. Then I installed Dr Ketans ROM and rebooted.

So the key to this failed verification error is the formatting.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] mafioso345:
Hi Gents,

i just got my Note 8 N950F/DS, i am aware of the OEM option not showing up as i am in the same boat as most of you, the phone is booted up without a sim and also is not connected to WIFI, do i wait 7 days for it to show up??? obviously i want to root :)

thanks guys
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] wenjie1234:
You can use like a normal phone. It doesn't matter if you're connect to network or not. No matter what you do, OEM unlock will show up 7 days after setting up the phone
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
You have to format to decrypt on the first flash with any phone, glad to hear you're up and running.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] thegreenthief:
I'm throwing in the towel. I've been through two jail periods and last night I was free again -- I then flashed TWRP and DrKetans ROM. Seemed like everything was going fine except no OEM Unlock toggle but I was set to wait the 7 days for the OEM Unlock option to show up. Then after sitting with the screen off for a short period of time, the phone starts repeating a vibration, followed by display of the lock screen, and then a black screen. I tried everything I could to get out of that loop short of rebooting, and nothing worked. So, I had to reboot and then reflash stock after encountering the soft brick. I'm so frustrated. Ended up ordering the dual sim UK version from Clove which will hopefully solve the problem.

I'm selling my current phone, feel free to PM me if you want to continue to try to solve this issue but I'm done.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] masri1987:
i hear yall, so many conflicted end results... [MENTION=895544]w8wca[/MENTION] bought his from never-msrp and he has oem unlock . I'd do clove but the exchange rate is too high for me atm

What other options?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deezy88:
i just found a panther we work with and he going get me a F model today ,if i has oem unlock,i trade my fds note 8 and 100 bucks for it,cause i cant deal with this anymore,i was going give 100 bucks to who ever crack this,but i rather just get an F,no F model have this issuse
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] willcor:
i still echo # ravian29 findings in his

previous post.( in this thread.)

Each and every time If you do a normal reboot

OEM toggle disappears.

It will only appear again if you have a data connection

and phone can confirm that certain conditions are met.!

But what conditions, has to be met ?

I have done normal reboots with my phone and OEM disappeared each and every time and was not visible until i switched my data on and do a reboot.

Only then did OEM appear (immediately).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ZeroDefined:
After first initializing the phone, has anybody else (who hasn't soft-bricked before) successfully been able to flash twrp/root and retain the unlock condition following the 7 day wait period? I'm wondering if soft-bricking sets off a flag that makes subsequent attempts to keep OEM unlock off, simply fail. And if this is true then we may have 2 camps of ppl:

- those who haven't softbricked and can successfully keep OEM unlock disabled post 7 day wait period (Initialization)

- those who softbricked and are unsuccessful at keeping OEM unlock disabled post 7 day wait period (Jail Time)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
Nah, I did it like 10 times. When this started out we were trying various schemes to get the toggle to show and that meant flashing a lot of firmware as well as trying resets, a couple different apks and flashes one of our kind developers gave us, BLs, CSCs, etc. Tasted a lot of pain. Actually when I look back on it I might of popped the binaries more than ten times. I'm pretty sure it isn't a factor because I've been rooted, rom'ed from the time I gave up, waited what ended up being 5 days, and installed my first rom. Done it twice more since then, once with the update to the first rom and then I moved over to light rom. Still chugging along just fine.

I'm not sure why folks don't just follow the format that works? I would.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sun2sunny:
10th day started no oem unlock.....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] nelson04:
I did everything they told me and I could not do anything....I hope someone helps me to what I expect in my jail ???☹️??? Please help me help me
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Deezy88:
https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/galaxy-note8/SM-N950F/

download a firmware and flash via odin,you have working note 8 but still be in jail for lord knows when

yes guys i got my n950f with the oem unlock off the box,i going to swap it for this piece of crap dual sim tomorrow afternoon :D

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can one of guy tell me the firmware the dual sim comes with,i flash a F firmware and the boot animation is ugly,i need oem same boot animation

to download it and flash it so i can do this swap
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] masri1987:
found a n950n 64gb deepbluesea for 979 on ebay... haven't bought the one from never-msrp because seller won't respond to my question if the source is from singapore. would really hate to spend 160$ more to get the N korean version...

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screw it, bought a N950n 64gb deep blue sea from wondamobile uk for 868$
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Techvir:
Never-mrsp phones are from Taiwan.. They responded to my message last week
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] masri1987:
I have no idea if those are the versions of the 950f/ds that are legit or not, either way, went N for not having to deal with no bs with the disappearing act of the unlock OEM option
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
Their first batch of phones were from Taiwan & all who bought them reported having the issue. Then someone purchased one from their second batch & reported that they didn't have the issue.

Luckily their first batch was sold out whe. I was looking to buy mine & then came across those reporting the issue. I decided to avoid all this mess & went with tbe F from Clove. Well worth it. F will have more development but should be compatible with Ns.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] masri1987:
We'll have to see if that missing band makes a difference. I have 30 day return period with paid shipping
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
The phone will still work with TMO just fine, just not sure if that missing band affects speeds. Kalm_Traveler has a N on Tmobile & he is now having LTE speeds problem. I was going to ask in his thread if he might have thought it was related but he stated he didn't have the speed issue at first so I never asked. I'm not sure whatbthe AWS band actually is. Maybe some one else who knows will chime in.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] masri1987:
I saw that too and he was on the F firmware on a 950n.

His mod works on n firmware but doesn't bring WiFi calling which isn't a big loss.

Excited to get the device and return this paperweight TMobile note 8
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kenpaci:
7days and still no oem option, what is going on guy's
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] evangelionpunk:
Is yours Malaysian sourced?

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So Taiwan batches are a no go (was told by another seller OEM works..)? Where are their second batches from?

Why not just flash a different firmware for the same model? Wouldn't that fix the problem?

Are you able to use Samsung Pay just fine with your US cards?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
I have no idea if all Taiwan models have the OEM unlock issue. And I have no idea what the second batch of phones are from never-msrp, I avoided that seller so I have no info on them other than what I have seen posted by others.

Flash firmware? I'm not sure what you mean exactly, flashing firmware to try & resolve the OEM unlock issue doesn't work, it's been tried already, it's not a firmware issue. Or if you meant flashing firmware to resolve the missing band issue on the N, that wouldn't work either, that's a hardware difference.

Samsung Pay, no idea, I've got TWRP & root. Haven't kept up with what workarounds there are these days if any, I just remember tripping Knox breaks it & I have obviously tripped it. I have never used Samsung or Android Pay ever, never had a stock Android either. I don't care for the feature & probably never will. I don't use credit cards unless I purchase something online.

Sorry I can't be of more help, I don't even have the OEM unlock issue. I have the F from Clove UK. I'm just here in this thread cause I'm curious & hopefully see a solution.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] evangelionpunk:
The XSG firmware was tried?

Wasnt there a root that didnt trip knox released just recently?

Samsung Pay is quite useful.....You could use it wherever you want to use your card; shops, gas, subway, parking, groceries and so on. It does not require any dedicated reader or system and works on most any POS system regardless of whether it has tap and pay or not (unlike android pay/apple pay etc).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] shouren04:
No idea about the XSG firmware.

Yes there is a root that doesn't trip Knox but that's for Snapdragon, the same type of root for S8 snapdragon that uses the engineering firmware with 80% charge limit. We here are all Exynos & with TWRP installed it won't matter anyway if there was a root like that for Exynos.

Thanks for the "encouragement". I am aware of how Samsung pay works for the most part, sounds pretty cool & convenient but it won't benefit me. I don't use credit cards anymore to pay in person.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] igor.brasildroid:
I got a Note 8 Unlocked from O2 UK, but I actually live in Ireland so I was trying to get the XEU ROM/Version on it.. after trying several times my SW was still XEU/XEU/O2U. I din't know back then that many people have failed trying to get the third option changed. So I've decided then look for this "OEM Unlock" after seen someone mentioning it.. then flashed XEU and was still showing up XEU/XEU/O2U. I decided then would leave it that way and use it as it was.. but then I finish setup my phone and tried to setup Android Pay and it didn't work as FRP/OEM are both OFF and comes up with a message that Android isn't secure or something like that .. then tried to flash again, and again, and again and to get the damn "OEM Unlock" again (so I could disable it), cause right now isn't even showing up on my Developer Option anymore!

..so I am the team that think the isn't a pattern/standard on it, is has to be some crazy settings that Samsung might have confused during building up this Multi/Same CSC for everyone!!

So now I have "FRP/OEM (both OFF)" which should't void my warranty as I haven't tried rooting it or anything like that, but I can't simple use Android Pay, and I am afraid that this "OEM Unlock" will never show up again on my Developer Option so I can toggle it back OFF, and leave it the way it was before.

Even tried some adb comands, but hence Samsung uses Odin rather than adb, it makes life even harder!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ALEXRUSS55:
Finally got my OEM unlock option yesterday after 6 days... Tried flashing Ketans rom and all went well flashed fine booted great and installed all my apps with titanium backup. But then I rebooted and got only official binaries can be installed on red letters and got soft bricked.... Flashed a stock rom to recover my device, and now OEM toggle is gone, even though oem lock is OFF in recovery menu. Tried to flash TWRP again in this state and red letter show up in recovery saying I can only flash official binaries, so it's a fail in ODIN.... I guess I have to wait 7 days again and have a shot at it. If not then I will return it to Amazon.

I bought 1000 dollar device but am not going to flash whatever, and whenever I want? Then it's not truly unlocked...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] CACV:
ALEXRUSS55 we already advertise this in so many post, if you don't see the oem unlock toggle when you flash ketan's rom, you have to wait 7 days to show up again

Regards
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] FX-32:
I bought one from never-msrp on tuesday, arrived today and NO Oem Unlock. Taiwan version. What is the other version besides Taiwan does never-msrp has?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Huey85:
Just noticed it on mine today. Wasn't there before. Running latest XSA firmware.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] krabman:
Gents, make sure you follow the working instructions that have been posted several times already. While ridiculous in their many steps some of which must be unneeded (but we don't know which) that process works. No one who has followed it to the letter and installed ketan's rom has failed. For the time being do not install a CSC. Make sure your sims are out during the install.