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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Comp1demon:
OK very good news...

I am not 100% sure what did it for me.

But I traveled far from home to a whole new cell area.. about 3 miles from my home to get white castle. I brought my note 4 with me and my note 8. I speed tested my note 4 a few times and it maxed out around 45MBs download with 20MBs upload on the speed test and did it 3 or 4 times and speeds were consistent..

So pulled out the note 8 (4/5bars - flipping back and forth on the white castle drive through line. Opened the speed test and crossed my fingers..

HOLY KOW BATMAN!!

I am convinced my 4g Volte is working as it should and my home just sits in a really crappy area....

Here are 4 test back to back.

https://ibb.co/ktyNgG

https://ibb.co/mgCtow

https://ibb.co/idsMab

https://ibb.co/gUaw8w

I am convinced I am good to go. I think something along the line did it.

I did the Nemesis rom, att csc (with modded line from RED FLAME), Called at&t and associated a IMEI of a VOLTE / WIFI calling/video phone, and I did Xfaega's trick in his thread (Factory Unlocked note 8 and having slow LTE+ speeds?) Thread.

Now, if I can figure out how to get pokemon go or samsung pay to work I would be happy (OEM unlock needs to be relocked somehow).

But LTE speeds looking good.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] tokoam:
Thats good but im not entirely convinced that its fixed mine was working @ full speed as well but only for a certain amount of time.I think the modem on our phone either has issues or a hardtime figuring out which band to use ,cause im constantly on band 5 gives me crappy speeds but at 1am band 2 gives me near 100mbs
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Comp1demon:
Well my Note 4 and my wife's S8+ both at&t phone - get the same crappy LTE speeds in my house. So I know I live in a crappy spot. My Wifes phone sometimes can leverage a good speed boost when she gets 1-2 bars in the house, but I have yet to see anything in my own home on LTE over 3MBs on my note 4 or Note 8. I even walked around my neighborhood at 2am and nothing.

But seeing 100MBs only 3 miles from home makes me feel good about keeping this phone. I am most definitely not going to use the 64GB note 8, if they ever come out with a US version with 256GB I might buy one just to compare and see if it would be worth selling the sea blue Note 8 N950N to someone else. I very much doubt we will see a 256GB model in the USA any time soon even with APPLE coming out with a 256GB model because we have the MicroSD slot. Everyone I speak with is SO NAIVE about it. They are like - why do you need more than 64GB on your phone before microSD. They don't understand that the internal memory is alway be top quality and will always be faster than even a Class UHS-II microsd card. So with my 256GB or my 400GB Class 10 MicroSD card - I can load that up with Music and videos to play back on my phone, but the 256GB onboard will always be for APPS and for recording 4K video from the fantastic N8 camera. I plan on doing some really awesome content with this camera on 4K.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dec3169:
I just wanted to offer up a quick tip I learned while getting my 8 from South Korea registered onto AT&T. I followed most of Flame Red's instructions (thanks) but I didn't want to call AT&T. They tend to drain the life from me. My phone is rooted, has TWRP, the CSC AT&T thing, and the ice rom. LTE worked and was fast enough, and for whatever reason my wifi zooms. I have a 500MB fiber at home and actually get around 460 down and 495 up whereas my old note 4 got half that. Now for calling AT&T to register your sim - no need. You still need an IMEI from a current phone, but you can simply go here: https://www.att.com/shop/easyactivate/coamoffdevice/deviceinfo.html and it works just the same. Hope this helps, and thanks again for the direct and indirect help. This thread is good.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] d.cortez:
[MENTION=5627237]dec3169[/MENTION], Is VoLTE, WiFi calling and video calling working for you after using this website? Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dec3169:
I haven't tried video calling yet (but it is there and active), but the other stuff all works.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] borijess:
So did you have to add the csc? Or would it work with the aim activation u linked. So basically I have to use another AT&T phone to get this working? Can I use my wife's iphone?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Comp1demon:
I used my wife's phone's IMEI worked flawlessly.

Call 611 - tech support. Tell them you got a new phone and want to activate the advanced features by updating your lines IMEI - Tell them you were getting slow speeds and no wifi calling and such when you took the sim out of your old phone and put it in the new one and doing research why it was slow, you read online that a quick call to at&t tech support would fix this. Make sure your phone is off. (you can tell them it is on, they will make you turn it off eventually, but just have it off) Give them the IMEI of a real at&t branded phone (your wife's) and they will work the magic on their end. (make sure they understand it is not the number your calling on, one agent made that mistake. Make sure they know the phone number of the line your talking about) Then they will Tell you to shut down. Wait a sec, and reboot. Your LTE and WIFI calling / Video calling should be good to go.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] borijess:
Question, but isn't your wife's imei already registered? They will do it again? Do you have the sim you want updated in your wife's phone? So no need to flash any firmware on your unlocked Note 8?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] johnpjackson:
Why be such an obvious troll? :rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Comp1demon:
Answered multiple times throughout the thread..

Yes... IT works, no they do not care about double IMEIs. I edited the very first post and made sure to put this in there so there is NO confusion about this.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] borijess:
I am on carrier unlocked N950U1. Do I still need to flash the CSC? Or just call AT&T? Can I use the imei of an iPhone even though it's not android?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Comp1demon:
My understanding is it Must be a phone with similar features. If the IMEI you give them does not support VOLTE or wifi calling or video calling, then it will not work. I would use a similar phone. S7, S8 ect.....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] johnpjackson:
Did you have any luck getting things back to where you could use Samsung Pay, etc. again?

I am working hard to figure out a whole plan, from A to Z, for getting a 256GB Note 8 and using here in the US. Like you, the idea of having to deal with only 64GB of internal storage AGAIN, for another product cycle, is stupid, obnoxious, and completely inadequate - given that half the rest of the world is being given the 256GB device.

Anyway, my goal is to get the 256GB device and use it here in the US, and have Samsung Pay working. I'm thinking there's no way to do that if I put anything other than Samsung released operating system components on it. I know you installed custom ROM stuff, so I'm very interested to find out if you get Samsung Pay working with it, or not. Thank you, too, for starting this thread, and sharing your progress on things.

PS - I'm sitting on a brand new 64GB Note 8 too, than I got from Samsung direct, with the discount for my purchase of the Note 7 last year. I'm hoping I can sell the 64GB Note 8 to help fund a 256GB one :)

:good:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Comp1demon:
Not yet.... I am waiting for a solution. Gonna have to deal with android pay for now.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] tokoam:
My fellow brothers that have a N950N dispite all the issues we have had I'm very happy with my purchase things will take time to get worked out but its all part of the process .It's actually fun as I'm learning things I have not known about and I have been a XDA member for a very long time.However this is my very first international phone and I love it !
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] mc_plusplus:
Would I be able to use the IMEI from an S6 Edge? I don't have anything newer.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Comp1demon:
Should be fine

NEW PROBLEM!!!!

SO new Problem and this one KIND OF PISSES ME OFF... My netflix does not work on this phone. If I install an older netflix that does not have the 18:5:9 or the HDR update 5.04v it works. But if I want to take advantage of my screen in HDR.. I get a 5:2 error every time I start a HDR tagged show (like daredevil or jessica jones) Actually anything on this version does not work. From what I read - Not only does netflix dislike root.. but OEM unlock breaks it as well. I need to figure out how to relock my OEM unlock in developer options. THe option is gone since I did Nemesis rom and ATT CSC flash.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Kamikaze_Ice:
Netflix has indeed become an asshat for not working if rooted.

I've seen a few posts with things to try. I have no clue if they work, and have seen no reports confirming or denying them.

I've also heard older versions of the netflix apk will work, but they won't work forever.

Tkkg1994 has mentioned on grifodev forums:

"Delete the following file:

/system/lib/liboemcrypto.so"

Note: As far as I know, this is some DRM detection stuff. Probably best to rename or move it just in case you need it for some reason in the future.

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*Note: Download at your own risk (no offense to Spartacus500).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Comp1demon:
SO I can't seem to copy into the folders you specify. I am NOT ROOTED. I had no idea that OEM unlock (to flash the nemesis rom) would break the programs (netflix, pokemon go, samsung pay) the same way as root. So I only OEM unlocked but did not root. So everything in the system folder seems to be file protected. Do I need to root to use that Spatacus500 Download and to delete that file?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Kamikaze_Ice:
I don't know about the file at all, which is why I put the note there. It may have been for something else, I don't know.

I'm no expert on this, or even "redneck right", but the OEM Unlock shouldn't matter for apps. I think it's the rooting, which trips Knox, that causes such problems. I've seen the term "safteynet" in a few threads, so I guess passing this check and using Magisk Hide is one way to deal with some of these annoying programs (but doesn't work for all, like Netflix).

Aside from Samsung Pay, I think you can work around the other issues by googling threads here.. I'm not trying to be snide here, but I really don't know any more beyond this.

I don't use the apps nor have a reason to so I have no experience with any "known" issues that may or may not be common.

I'd love to use Samsung Pay, but not if I can't root the device.

I hope someone else can give you better/more advice.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] hhoffa:
Att couldn't get it right

I have n950n. Att couldn't set up correctly

Apparently the imei needed to be appropriated into their system? They got visual voicemail going only to knock out sms texting. Got sms up only to lose 4g and data and mms . They couldn't get everything to work at one time. Spent a week trying finally all was working and the system would reregister phone when ever rebooted or lost signal. They had non matching imei for different services. T Mobil. Five minutes 100% on services. No flashing no rooting no changes just the SIM and go. However there is a preprogrammed issue with call rejecting. The system is setup to speed dial or forward to *88 instead of our protocol *123 or 123

So a caller can ring through to voicemail. But if you reject the call they get a busy signal. If any one can figure out how to correct this please post it. No luck with samsung .. Or Samsung korea. Or kt. (Carrier)' small annoyance. To have 256GB and 400 GB micro SD card setup.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Kamikaze_Ice:
They didn't have any problems with mine. I simply asked for them to enable provision flags for the IMEI of my new phone. The rep even changed the model on record to N950N instead of giving me a generic unknown device.

Once I flashed an AT&T CSC I had the proper dialer for Wifi+face calling, VoLTE, and was able to setup a 911 address to actually use wifi calling.

Just about everything works, only I can't test face calling cause no one else I know has it, lol.

If you left AT&T for T-Mobile, then :good: (I'm stuck with them due to work requirements).

You might want to ask Kalm_Traveler in one of this CSC threads if he has that voicemail issue as he has the same phone and carrier.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Kalm_Traveler:
Wish I could help but I've never used my tmobile voicemail... Always Google Voice which still works properly. I'm actually not even sure how to set up tmobile voicemail since disabling it 6 or 7 years ago.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] johnpjackson:
Have you guys by chance tried Samsung Pay, to see if it works for you? If it does not, have you tried side loading the US version, to see if that provides a working setup for it? I'm aching to get myself a 256GB Note 8, just hoping to have my cake with Samsung Pay, and eating it, too ;)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Kamikaze_Ice:
I'm rooted, so obviously it doesn't work because rooting trips the Knox flag, which cannot be reset by taking your phone back to 100% stock. It's like the tamper coating some electronics have on screws because stickers aren't enough lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ajm786:
Can you tell me how you did this? Is there a guide or something I can follow?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Kalm_Traveler:
IMEI, just to make sure people don't get confused :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Kamikaze_Ice:
Dyslexia my enemy!

:silly:

Once I started saying like "Emmy" I can't read it any other way.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] DeeXii:
Where can we get the proper CSC?

We can't use the CSC from a USA based FW can we?

This defo seems to be the case.

Tons of people on T-Mobile have this issue.

It all makes sense now.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] MeltdownSpectre:
I believe you can flash the TMB CSC if you use a custom ROM and the CSC selector tool.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] mc_plusplus:
Does AT&T's Carrier Aggregation (CA) work on your rooted N950N? I'm really concerned about this and can't seem to glean a definite answer from all of the postings. If I can't be certain that CA works on the N950N with AT&T, I'm pretty sure that I won't want to take a risk on purchasing an otherwise awesome phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] duhadookiey:
Trying to get LTE

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] hhoffa:
N950n status?

Enter. 319712358. From phone dialer...

Then password. 774632 (kt) carrier

Select volte

Turn on all options.. Including video call.

Exit. Hd symbol appears in dialer.

No flashing csc required.

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From phone dialer type in 319712358

Then enter password

774632 for kt

996412 for sk

0821 LG

Select bolts

Turn on every. Option. Including video calling

Exit.*

There are a ton of customizable features under this menu with out flashing or rooting...

Dialer will now show hd calling and video calling

EDIT: for those reading this thread for the first time. As of 10/9/17 I was able to get good LTE speeds as well as WIFI calling and Video Calling on my N950N note 8 Korean Exynos model. In a nutshell here is what I did to make it work.

Flash nemesis n950F rom to my phone.

Flash AT&T CSC to the phone using the CSC tool and you do have to modify one line (user RED FLAME) has this in the CSC thread.

Call at&t and give them the IMEI of a VOLTE wifi calling/video calling capable cellphone (I used my wifes S8+ - and yes you can DOUBLE USE IMEI on the same account)

I also did one other thing - Check page 14 for that information.

I just wanted to give a synopsis of this thread so new N950N and at&t owners don't feel like they are wasting their time searching XDA and google. I only wish other people did this when their problem is solved so people can easily see they are not in the wrong place and don't have to read tons of pages of stuff.[/QUOTE]

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From phone dialer type in 319712358

Then enter password

774632 for kt

996412 for sk

0821 LG

Select bolts

Turn on every. Option. Including video calling

Exit.*

There are a ton of customizable features under this menu with out flashing or rooting...

Dialer will now show hd calling and video calling
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ajm786:
Wanted to add my 2 cents to this thread.

On Tuesday, I got a Note 8 256GB N950N. It was a SK Telecom phone.

I am on AT&T Prepaid. Without messing with anything, I put my SIM in and just started to use the phone to see if I could get it to work.

I can confirm that without doing any software changes, just sticking in the SIM, AT&T registered the phone and it worked perfectly for me. I got 66Mbps down, 24Mbps up. Nevertheless, there were some things I couldn't do, so I just went ahead and rooted the phone.

Ultimately, I did NOT have to install the CSC file linked in this thread, because I installed the Renovate ROM. The Renovate ROM already has options for customizing and setting the CSC appropriately, already baked into the Aroma ROM setup options.

So I have it completely set up and everything works great. I'm happy. I'm 100% sure that if I move to postpaid AT&T, I will have to do the IMEI provision procedure, but for now I don't have to.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] johnpjackson:
You just described what I'm hoping to do, but I don't even want to root. I just want to get the 256GB Note 8 and have as close to an otherwise normal 'US customer' experience as I can get.

What were the things you couldn't do? SamsungPay? Or other things?

What geographic locale are you in? I'm thinking that can be a factor in carrier support, because my understanding is none of them have a completely uniform distribution of coverage, in terms of radio frequency bands and communication protocols, throughout their entire networks?

Thanks for posting!! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ajm786:
You don't have a choice, you HAVE to root. The phone has SK Telecom software on it, and expects a South Korean SIM, so some services won't work at all. That includes Samsung Pay.

For me, I don't use Samsung Pay, nor intend to. I am rooted and using Android Pay with no problems. I highly recommend that you do the same. If you are dead set on using Samsung Pay, you'll have no choice but to grab a Qualcomm variant.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ajm786:
Can you all help me out here?

I just noticed something: no dial tone is played in-call when you press the dial pad. I tried everything in the book and cannot get it to work.

Can someone please press the numbers on the dial pad while in-call and see if you get a tone?

Edit: Figured it out. It's the CSC. Apparently, it doesn't work properly with the N950N. I had to use the Flashable CSC Selection V1.2.5 from Tkkg1994, manually add the greatlte line into it, and once flashed, I got all the options in the dialer for TTY (I think which relates to DTMF), and most importantly, sound feedback when pressing the dialpad while in-call.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ajm786:
Just wanted to reply to this. I can confirm that my N950N is using Carrier Aggregation on AT&T.

I was trying to figure out why speeds were abysmal at work. At home, I started doing experimentation.

Here are the LTE bands available to me:

2

4

12

17

2 is the weakest in signal, and what the phone seems to always want to default to. 12 and 17 are the strongest.

I noticed that even I was on Band 2 and started to run speed tests or things that required a lot of bandwidth, the LTE icon would switch and would turn into LTE+. When that happened, I got almost double the speeds. From around 20Mbps to around 50Mpbs, and sometimes faster.

Now all I have to do is experiment at work and see what is the best band. AT&T in my area hasn't always been the best, so there is that factor.

Hope this helps those of you who are wondering if this phone does CA on AT&T: it does.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Kul_dood:
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Would you mind providing the links to the CSC and the modification?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Comp1demon:
Are you on the stock Firmware? Or did you flash ROm and CSC?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ajm786:
Doesn't matter, because CA worked out of the box on the stock CSC. Currently, I'm on Renovate ROM and custom CSC. As noted previously, I only had to flash custom CSC because I needed to get DTMF tones which don't work on the Renovate ROM.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Comp1demon:
I am on the nemesis rom. I tried renovate, Not sure it was good for me.. But I have att CSC from TWRP.

I am happy for the most part, but can't relock OEM unlock on this rom, so no netflix, pokemon go and samsung pay.. kinda sucks for a $1300 phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] ajm786:
I wonder about that, because Renovate ROM says that Knox is 0x0 by default on startup, so technically we should be able to use those apps. I haven't tried.

But I'm using Magisk, so it really doesn't matter, and I don't use Samsung Pay, I use Android Pay, and it works great.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] SG2:
I've read all 18 pages thus far and am hoping to confirm something. I've been with ATT forever and would like to upgrade one phone to a Note8. I can certainly go with the store version (64G - US version) but would love more storage and have struggled with buying the SM-N9500 256GB. I'm not worried about not having Samsung Pay (use it, love it, can live without it), but is this an "out of the box, add a sim and move on with my routine" or must this be rooted or otherwise? Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] LouK:
I too have been on At&t forever.. .....

I have 4g LTE but otherwise nothing else. No wificalling no Volte no HD voice.

And the only way they got the 4g LTE working was by using my Note5 's imei # !

When they put in the N8 imei # the system thinks it's an unknown 2g phone. Which means no data!

I told them I bought the N8 from Samsung and since they have a "bring your own phone" policy they should allow the N8 to work with all the features.

They have opened a CASE on this and I hope they will get it resolved.

Oh btw I have the n950F model. The 950N might be different who knows.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] dgl36:
I'm considering getting a non-canadian Note 8. I'd like to have more than 64GB. However, I don't want to root it. Can I flash the firmware from sammobile.com for my carrier to a Korean, Chinese, or International Note 8 without rooting it? Also, which would make a better phone for Canadian carriers, the Korean, Chinese, or International version. Is the Korean, Chinese, and International model, N950N, N950F, and N950F/DS respectively. If I need to root it I guess I will do it.

How are the non American 256GB Note 8's performing in the North American market?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] cgb_seg:
Hi,

Note that the N9500 still uses Snapdragon processor in case you wanted to buy a Note 8 running the Exynos processor like the 950N.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers] Comp1demon:
HUH???
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mistrall:
Hello,

I've red that non-stock ROMs can't offer the same quality or feature of camera. But is there a big difference ?

For those who have migrated to non-stock, do you think (or have decided) to come back to stock because of that ?

Thanks