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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
That scenario mentioned on changelog N7 too. Even oem unlock option is visible and ON on QKG based rom (Like N7), still you can stuck with binary error any time. Samsung made it worst on latest base.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] force70:
How much would you wager we see this same exact issue on the S9?

sent from my Pixel 2 XL or Note FE
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
Seems this going to continue, may be we may find better option to encounter rather expecting sammy to do a favor.

I have stop working on this till Oreo come out. First thing, I don't have such issue that makes things complicated to work. Secondly, Failed trial puts you in jail for 7 days so many users refrain from testing and follows available 'better option' third, samsung keen to fix our 'patch'

so let's wait and watch.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Motawa88:
so if I understand this right, with ketan n6 I can even reboot again without getting into jail again?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] madmack:
yep
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] babilonmen6:
good evening....i have a new note 8 n950f...oem unlock in on...and not visible in setting.....i coudn t instal twrp or aniythink,,stock recovery in phone...no option there flash zip file...what can i do< what i have to do first....thanks for every help
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Techvir:
Just wait 7 days without flashing anything
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] fkofilee:
Hi Guys

Need to update to N950FXXU2BQKG - Had OEM Unlock from day one.

On Launch day Firmware.

If i flash the Odin Files - Will i lose OEM Unlock? I currently have root and TWRP etc.

May seem like a Dopey question but i wonder if the OEM Unlock toggle gets reset with a new flash...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Techvir:
For anyone in the jail for a long time now can u gyys try this https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=75237262

You will have find a factory binary for Exynos
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kilayo:
This is for snapdragon though?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Techvir:
Yes. Worth trying for Exynos
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Mentalmuso:
Obviously, you do not want to flash a factory binary from a Snapdragon device on exynos. There are exynos factory binaries floating around though if this method wants to be tested. I downloaded one a while back but deleted it as no one seemed interested in testing my theory.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kilayo:
We are out of options. I'm willing to try your method. Can you give intstructions as what we should do and provide this factory binary ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Mentalmuso:
What I'm talking about is a "combination firmware" for an sm-n950f. I'm not going to look for it, but if you Google you should come across it.

I've only ever flashed one of these firmwares once. When trying to recover an s8 that lost its efs. It didn't work for that application, though because it's such a stripped down basic version of Samsung firmware, it may show an oem switch. Though once you flash stock firmware again, you may just be right back in jail.

Though is lineageos ever becomes a daily driver, then that's a route that can be taken to avoid ever being in jail, but then you'd be sacrificing a lot I suppose.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kilayo:
Anyone tried the combined binary
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] babilonmen6:
so...just in case....

dont turn on 7 days?

or dont turn off 7 days??

thanks a lot

have a nice day
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Fen-X:
Hi all.

My note 8 dual sim is not affected by the oem issue. I already flashed reno and a month ago i ve flashed the bkqg bootloader and modem to flash iron man and all was good. Now i want to try stock samsung rom on lastest firmware with magisk root and xposed. Do you think it s possible to root and use the stock rom without issue? If yes do you think my device which isn t affected by this oem issue could be affected after flashing the latest samsung firmware (the full package : AP, CP, CSC, CSC OXM HOME etc...)

Thanks for your help.;)

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Dont reboot the phone for 8 days to be sure until the oem option appear again under developper settings. Don t install something requiering a reboot.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] JoeOIVOV:
So I flashed N7, then magisk 15.3, then TMobile CSC then waited 1 week for OEM to reappear and it did. I rebooted twice an it worked.

Then I added viper module for magisk an when it came back up after a restart OEM unlock is missing. It seems like installing magisk modules on N7 w/ oem afflicted devices retriggers the lock?

I haven't rebooted without the lock as I don't want to reset to non tmobile csc yet. Anything I can check or try at this point I'm willing to help out if I can.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Ferbee:
Hey Dr.

I've looked through the csc files, and i'm unable to find mine

I'm on an Australian Note 8 with Vodafone

In the settings it says "VAU" which i presume is the csc.

Thank You Dr.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
Csc provided here are safe csc for oem issue device and not a collection of csc

Also this trick no more working on latest base. For Note 8 csc you can look on my rom thread first page.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] vibrantliker:
That's confusing to me. I flashed your N6 rom after my oem unlock appeared and my csc shows Vietnam. I'm in the U.S on T-Mobile. Is there anything I can do?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] SimplyCity:
Hi. For first part: I don't think V4A module breaks OEM. I know, you obviously can think that way, but... My device is OEM affected; I was in jail many times; last time I got out, I chose to flash doc N7. Of course that broke my OEM. Exact 168hrs later its back again. It was ca 10 days ago when OEM reappeared. I've flashed many modules, including V4A, and no one puts me back in jail. That's why I thing the module was not a culprit. After all, I get rid of V4A module, bc Viper doesn't want to processing with streaming apps I used to use. And that is happening with me only when I additionally install Sauron module. Well, Sauron is great, I like to have it. So I write my own sound mod (which is a set of V4A, Dolby, AM3D and dual speaker mod), it is system mode mod. But it is working for all devices I've flashed it to (N4, S7, S8, N8, P9lite, P10). Pretty universal. All I want to say is that I can share it if doc wouldn't mind.

Now, for the second part: more I think about OEM issues, it brings me to conclusion, that it may be some kind of reversible fuse somewhere inside hardware. For me this is the cause no one can find a software workaround... It may be connected with internal timer or cloud Sammy timer, whatever, and if so, there wouldn't be any software differences between device with OEM in place and without it.

And one more to your case: I've lost OEM once without any action (flash, install, anything) from my side. Just like that... It was there in the morning, but in the evening its gone. I was pissed only on me, bc I haven't checked if it's there b4 restart...

Doc, I am very satisfied with N7. Rom is just great. Everything is working. OEM is in place. Many restarts, flashes, etc.

Thank you again.

:)

Ps. If you like me to test anything, just say.

Cheers!

Echoe[emoji769] team member / N8 powered by Echoe Ael[emoji769]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] JoeOIVOV:
Yeah, It definitely was the culprit for me. I installed the module and rebooted and OEM unlock was gone. Worst part is Viper didn't even work, it said Viper driver missing would you like to install, and I click Yes but it fails, something about needing specific version of Busybox. Magisk also started saying it wasn't installed even though my root was working.

I just backed up my data with smart switch and reboot and sure enough "Only official binaries are allowed to be flashed" So back to stock bs for a week. When I restored back to stock I didn't install any CSC file and I was thinking maybe my TMobile CSC will make it through and it seemed like it did, it says Multi-CSC: TMB but when I checked the software information it said //TPA that's all, the only code. Very strange. My calling and LTE worked but I couldn't use my video calling which is what I really need... So I just wiped it again using the OXM CSC and did a factory reset immediately to kick off the timer. I found that if you don't do a factory reset, sometimes you can wait 168-200 hours and OEM unlock still won't show. Just do factory reset and that will start the timer.

Hmm, need more ideas, I like N7 but just don't think its going to work on OEM afflicted devices. N6 with OEM Patch works great, I can reboot right after installing it but N7 way too touchy, I waited the 168 hours and I was able to reboot a few times, I installed 1 module and back to jail for me. I need to sell this POS I seriously have this phone posted on OfferUp! and Craigslist, lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] i7mmodi:
Same thing happened to me, just after update Magisk manager and reboot, I got to jail, anyway Dr.Ketan said if you have OEM issue you shouldn't flash N7, even if you have tried before and the OEM option is visible and ON, soon or later you probably get stuck if you on QKG based ROM, I'm waiting 3 days more until I can unlock on again, and I'll flash N6.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] JoeOIVOV:
Yeah. I'm going N6 as well. Next Sunday 8pm. Lmao!

I needed to test it out N7 just to learn about this.

It seems to have some AI to detect modifications an react to them on the new base. It's nasty lol. One minute magisk is working great 2 minutes later without any user modifications it tells you the apk is missing. It's like it's running a virus\malware check an getting rid of it automatically. My device stays rooted when this happens but still annoying.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Mentalmuso:
Do you have play protect active in the play store? Try disabling it. I was using a pixel and play protect was pulling up my v4a app that was installed via magisk module. Play store may be messing with this.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] JoeOIVOV:
No but good idea I didn't even know that was in there. Both switches are off by default.

It's weird. Installing an removing a driver cause mine to jail.

I'm on stock b.s. waiting for my timer to come up then going N6.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] kanamor:
Anyone have the oem unlock problem with NOTE8 single, not dual? I think this problem only affect to dual sim phones, it's that possible?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] JoeOIVOV:
Yes I read about it. Start reading this from the beginning, there are reports if this affecting ds versions. The SM-N950N is not afflicted as I've read.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] rolear8:
If my security patch is from August 1 2017 that means that I can flash any rom after passing the 8 days? Better play it safe and use N6?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] rolear8:
Oh boy the oem option just appeared, and it did not completed the 8 days?? I checked a couple of days before and I am sure the oem option wasn't there, so considering my firmware what rom should I flash to avoid any issues or the binary error since I am going to travel and need my phone solid, or better not flash anything but I miss my root apps and viper4android
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] rolear8:
I didn't even switched to the position of unlock that is right now, that's also normal? I guess it should have been off???
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] JoeOIVOV:
As far as I know you can always flash N6. I have December 1st an N6 installs just fine. Twrp doesn't care about that as far as I know.

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Should probably crop your serial number out to avoid people doing stupid stuff with it.

N6 with OEM Patch from twrp.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] rolear8:
Yes thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] NeroCat:
Can anyone please suggest a good seller for N950FD without the OEM unlock issue?

I bought N950F/DS from amazon.. Apparently, it was from Singapore.

So I'm returning it, and hoping to find somewhere to buy a replacement that's not afflicted with this bull**** issue..

I'm in Oxford, UK.

Thanks in advance!

;·]
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Zayatoshi:
Hi guys.

I got my note 8 mid November.

The OEM was missing for nearly a month despite several flash etc ...

Mid December I'm going to the last update of December with the patch of 01 December. I am in CSC Xef.

The day after the update my OEM is visible for the first time.

I turn off I turn on my note 8, the OEM may disappear, but it reappears at the next start.

This morning I get a MAJ OTA, for the version with the security patch of January BRA2 and I tell myself that I will be in jail for a period of 07 days, and after the update my OEM is missing.

I extinguish and turn on my phone and it is clearly visible.

He appeared after a month, and despite an update he is still present.

Here is my little experience.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Fen-X:
Don t know if my answer will be a good one for you but for my part after followed this thread since the first day, i ve decided to by mine from samsung shop in my country over internet. It is sold 1009 euros but many times there were discounts and i ve bought it 809 euros with a 256gb micro sd. And no oem issue. I recommend you to buy it at samsung shop in uk. But it was indicated that the clove.uk website models are safe but expensives.

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For my information...please...can you tell me what s your country and from what seller did you bought your phone and finally, is yours affected buy the oem issue in the past?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] NeroCat:
Samsung shop in person?

Or samsung.co.uk?

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Fen-X:
Not in person. On internet (samsung website) because it was said that this oem issue is related from something like location, csc and other thing but no one know exactly. I live in france, i ve ordered in french samsung website and i m on XEF/XEF/XEF. It is said in phone info app made in vietnam. My two sim cards are on french operators and never had this issue. That why i recmmended you to buy it at samsung in england. I dont thing there was a difference to go to samsung in person or ordering by internet on their website. I m so lazy that i ve ordered by internet. Sammy shipped the item in one day.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Zayatoshi:
My phone was bought in UK on Ebay and it had a CSC BRI (Taiwan)

I flashed a Xef ROM being in France.

And yes I had missing OEM problem because I did not have this option visible for a month.

December firmware released the next day my OEM.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Fen-X:
Good news. I m very happy for you and thanks for sharing your experience.

Now you can enjoy your new life;)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Fen-X:
Up....nobody in this thread can bring his experience? ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
If your device is not affected then it won't cause oem issue by flashing anything,provided you are flashing in same conditions.

Example - My Device bought from India and have no oem issue, I can flash whatever I like without having oem issue, but.. If I move to another country, insert different SIM (probably same sim too) and factory reset - I will get oem issue
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Fen-X:
Many thanks to you Dr. KETAN.

Regarding the stock rom, can you confirm to me that i can flash twrp, magisk and xposed on stoc rom (not custom) without issue like pop up error window or anything else (i saw a thread on that but not sure it will work well)? Fnally, i ve read your great thread "hw to root exeynos" : when il perform a wipe before flashing, i do format data and type "yes"; i do wipe and select everything except usb, micro sd, and internal storage. Is it possible i add internal storage to the wipe because on some custom roms threads it is said everything except internal store and on others they include internal storage. When i was on oppo find 7 i ve wiped everything except micro sd without issue. I m new on sammy world (sorry)

Thanks...many thanks again and sorry for disturbing;)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
When you flash TWRP over stock recovery, you need to wipe Internal storage (Option with typing 'yes') and that's only needed. No need to wipe anything other than this.

When you are already on TWRP and going to flash a new custom ROM, simple data wipe (Factory reset) is enough. That doesn't wipe internal storage but just only non media data (to preserv media files)

In either case nothing requires to wipe more than data wipe (Factory reset/Full data wipe with typing 'yes') depend on your current recovery.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Fen-X:
Ok. It s more clear for me now. I will give a try immediately.

Again, thank you. Thank you because although your device is not affected by this issue, you take time to hepl those who have this oem problem by answering, investigating, cooking tools to improve that...thank you ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] bigpapa007:
Someone of the guys who are devs or techy should take a look at infinity rom, it's from a Vietnamese site. Because I've tried multiple roms from here and the oem fix flash and i always end up in jail or waiting for the oem toggle to show up, i think i've been more time in jail that rooted lol and with this rom from the moment i flashed it i immediately got the oem toggle on and i've flashed loooads of things from twrp now and no problem at all with the toggle.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Motawa88:
Same here. Flashed infinity. Restored my stock rom in twrp and bam...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
Nothing new. It's been lot time discussed, You can flash any custom ROM based on nov security base or earlier + safe S8 CSC without loosing OEM.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Mentalmuso:
^^^ This is true. That's why we provide Nov and Dec versions of our roms. There are still a whole lot of people that have no issue flashing things. That's why there are versions with latest Dec security etc, all users just need to know what group they belong in and flash the appropriate firmware/rom versions.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
This thread have lot informations but still many users find it hard to read / lazy to go though and wants spoon feeding.

That's also unfortunate that op of thread is inactive, if first page get updated with some basic info about oem mess and latest information about workaround may prevent cluttering of development section threads.

I request moderators to handover thread to one of active user who can update regularly.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Mentalmuso:
I suppose we could start a new thread with info only.

Edit.. I'm going to use my post 3 or 4 in my room thread to try and outline what info there is. Or at least link to a good post in this thread. It's about catching the new users/owners before they flash anything.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] and2:
Maybe not at all. I was on QKG (DBT) and flashed IronMan Rom (QK6) with the S8 CSC provided by you. After boot i did not have the OEM switch and no CSC just //DBT. All stupid and Samsungs is Samsung. The girl from the live chat asked me to write an email to Samsung Hotline. The answer was "we don't support developer options" and gave me a link to developer.samsung.com/home.do. So, again stupid.

Cheers.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] JoeOIVOV:
Why, who cares if users flash the wrong one and end up in jail.. It's their choice... the info is in the thread an when they post in here about their bad results sometimes there is something for developers to take from them. How else are they going to learn from their mistakes an it makes them lazier in the end.

Its more confirmation to the rest of us about which one to flash. Also sometimes someone random discovers something in the point of soft bricked that helps everyone move forward.

Other people's mistakes are eventually good for the whole in my opinion.

Its one thing it it was damaging the device or something permanent but it's not.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dr.ketan:
There are two possibilities

1.Rom you have flashed have hidden oem switch by developer unless you select specific option in aroma

2.I have removed some csc from safe list as some of it reported issue. May be you have used which I have removed from list.

My N6 rom reported safe by lots of users and it working on same theory
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] and2:
1. I flashed the stock settings bc in the modded settings the switch is hidden as you said. And it was not just hidden bc after a reboot (I played to much in the system) I had the famous red line.

2. I flashed the XSA csc, also bc this is not encrypted.

Btw since the cscfeature is mostly encrypted has someone tried to use csc/ others.xml (or feature.xml) and maybe delete the cscfeature.xml. Because csc/ others.xml is still linked in the framework.

And I'm still thinking the RMM state as culprit maybe together with the rlc.apk. rlc said if the phone is fully paid or not. And in the ramdisk/init are 2 entries with rmm but not in S8. Or this all means nothing. Thanks for your answer mate.

PS. Your N6 will be the next rom i'll try. IronMan rom is really good, i like it but no oem switch. We will see.

Cheers

Gesendet von meinem SM-N950F mit Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] 2coolium:
So for the record, if someone has a OEM affected phone and flashes n6 but wants the att csc, for volte etc, is there a safe option at this point?

Sorry I know this has been discussed here but after four months of reading this thread, its still not clear.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] bigpapa007:
Exactly, i tried both superman and i can't remember the other one and flashed with s8 oem fix and nothing, still ended up in jail. that's why when they recommended me infinity rom i was skeptical but i tried it and perfect, no problems at all and had more features than any rom in here (not to say roms in here are bad)

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Of course, this thread has over 350 pages, for someone who just got a note 8 imagine trying to surf and read the amount of pages in here to find the information he's looking for.

The best would be for someone to make a sticky post just like the one you made for rooting the note 8 which is perfect and to the point without having to check hundreds of pages to find something.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] sefrcoko:
Troubleshooting is best when it's specific and targeted....hard to do with 3500 posts...repeat questions, confusion, misinformation, etc. A new thread with a proper/updated OP can help everyone too.

I don't necessarily disagree with what you said, but there's another perspective to consider in my view (i.e. one that isn't about laziness or spoon-feeding per se...it's more about clarity and consistency in the hope of ultimately solving the issue at hand).