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[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Kamikaze_Ice:
For AT&T, having "HD Video" provisioned for your SIM card is required for fully functional "enhanced LTE services".

My old grandfathered plan was "not compatible" (read: refused to add it to existing plan due to grandfathered contract status), and I needed to go to a new plan to get this provisioning.

Story:

I thought this was only for video calling or streaming ala netflix, but I never could get WiFi calling/VoLTE working.

When I spoke to the first dumb rep about getting my IMEI provisioned for WiFi Calling (don't care about their other services) we went back and forth a few times trying to get it working. While dealing with the dumb questions (yes it's off. Yes APN is set. Yes that is my IMEI and yes it's a "carrier unlocked" device... etc) I figured I'd check their plans fine print about data throttling (unlimited data = 3Mbps max, 1.5Mbps for video flagged packets... further throttling after 10GB used, or hit 75% of whatever max bandwidth your plan is and then you get ****ty 128Kbps.......). Discovered my 2GB grandfathered plan was just $5 more expensive than their current 10GB plan! I use about 5GB on average a month so I changed to a 6GB plan and saved $25 a month while gaining unlimited calls/text/voicemail/callerID/more data/"enhanced LTE features" like video calling... of course no rep told me this. They did try to get me to get the more expensive plans.

Anyways, had phone rep finish provisioning phone and adding IMEI after insisting that my Note 8 was a carrier unlocked device purchased directly from Samsung (did not mention model number or the fact that it's an Exynos). I had WiFi calling working but other features failed (VoLTE, no one to try video calling with), and by the end of the day I changed plans before the end of the business hours (this was a Friday).

Checked again the next day (saturday) and same thing. I worked weekends so I didn't feel like dealing with the stupid phone reps.

Next time I checked was after business hours on the following Monday, and boom everything works (account and billing information was also updated this day.)

There was a few posts on either XDA or Howard Forums where someone "in the know" mentioned that the HD Video service was what made everything work properly, but I can't find it again (originally found searching for stuff related to using USA Snapdragon firmware on a China Snapdragon variants).

PCas expensive at the 6GB plan rep a few timesand the first rep I spoke to did provision my SIM for it and was "working" on their end.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Kalm_Traveler:
I can offer that since I flashed back to stock while I figure out how to make a final version of this patch that will enable everything on both F and N variants, I found that HD voice is enabled if I enable everything in the IMS services menu (mind you i have tmobile not ATT). Video calling and VoLTE work too. The SK Telecom CSC doesn't enable IMS but it doesn't disable it either so I don't have to turn it on again after a reboot.

Really the only things I'm missing from the CSC patch are wifi calling and that spam call protection.

Granted, both of those are pretty important to some of us...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] LouK:
Hi guys been watching this discussion.

Thought I'd share my experience with At&t.

Spent the last 2 days trying to get them to provision my N8.

As soon as they put in my imei # I lost all internet no LTE nearly H! No matter what they tried they said "the system does not recognize my phone as an LTE capable phone. According to the system it's only a 2G phone!.

What they ended up doing was putting my Note5 imei# back in and at least I have 4g LTE and data back up.

But forget about HD voice, Wi-Fi calling, etc......
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] mikeymc:
I had a similar experience. AT&T system could not identify what this phone was. It was just an unknown device. When I went to the local corporate store, I even looked at it on the tablet as we were trying to mess with different APN settings. It just shows up as a generic greyed out 'device.' However, I stumbled on a solution by accident. Using PHONE where I used NXTGENPHONE and keeping all other settings the same give me HSPA+ speeds. I don't understand tho how you can use another device's IMEI to get LTE connection. Did you flash the ATT CSC? Which N8 do you have?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] LouK:
Yes. I'm on Dr.Ketan's Rom and flashed the At&t CSC. I have the N950F from UK.

The At&t guy was the one to suggest putting back my note5 imei! But he did warn at some point the system will recognize that and change it back.

Hopefully as more of these overseas phone will come online they will do something to recognize them.

Btw NXTGENPHONE is the correct APN and nothing I did on my phone was able to get it connected to data. It seems that this is all on the At&t side
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Kamikaze_Ice:
AT&T will flag all non-AT&T devices as generic. They want you to buy from them.

The easiest way around this is to simply give them an IMEI for another device with the same and supported network/data features when getting your SIM card provisioned (ex: Give them IMEI of an AT&T branded Note 5 to get its network features on a Note 8).

This is temporary, and will change back as they will periodically check the SIM card info to see if the device needs an OTA update.

Another way, and this is what I've done, is to ensure the rep/tech that the Note 8 is UNLOCKED, as in carrier unlocked, and was purchased directly from Samsung. If you tell the rep/tech that it's anything else you will be at the mercy of the rep/tech and will most likely straight up tell you that your device isn't compatible with AT&T network because <not USA phone/for another country/only snapdragon works/etc>.

Unless you have terrible luck, the rep/tech will add your Note 8 IMEI to their whitelist. It will still show up as a generic phone on your account, and can be ignored as it has no impact on functionality.

You can also ask the rep/tech to change this for billing/device management purposes. The rep I spoke with did this for me, and apparently they have received a LOT of calls on release week for non-at&t Note 8's and she was frustrated by the fact that she had to do this to begin with ("I don't know why we can't just get a complete list of all these phones from Samsung. Having to do this manually is a waste of time for everyone")
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] LouK:
So that's what the tech did ..

Put in my Note5 imei but the N5 I have is also an overseas unlocked version so the question becomes why would the n5 allow LTE service but the N8 imei shuts it all down?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ggonsalv:
I am interested in porting/tweaking this for my Samsung 6 Edge plus running a S8+ ported ROM. Looking to get Wifi calling and Hotspot working

Been awhile since I tweaked, so any direction would be appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Kamikaze_Ice:
Just cross posting this for relevance to this thread :)

[MENTION=4375750]Kalm_Traveler[/MENTION]:

I didn't go through them all, but I hope one has the lines for whatever features you're missing. Then you can just steal it out of the cscfeatures.xml (mostly, I think).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] DJC_SP:
Is that a way to do this without root and trigger knox?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] masri1987:
flash fire doesn't seem to work, so i'm gonna assume you won't be able to without TWRP which = knox triggered
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Kalm_Traveler:
Thanks again - I finally was able to take a look at that. It is very similar to the stock T-Mobile CSC stuff but I noticed it is missing a lot of lines, and some things are not enabled, like video calling and RCSe. Very interesting!

On an update note, I'm about 99% sure I finally figure out how to get this working on the N variants, per the Q&A thread here - but I need someone else on N firmware to test it just to be sure.

Basically it seems that somehow the DMB (Korean TV app/system) stuff was preventing T-Mobile's wifi calling from connecting. I've rebooted 10 times since making the changes in that zip, toggled wifi on and off, and made multiple calls both from and to the phone on my work and home wifi's and everything seems to be working properly.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] patuticci:
Can you upload again? Mega link gone

Thx
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] knives of ice:
Should this still work on a custom rom like Dr Ketan's? i would assume it would still work. yes - link is dead.

also, i use Tmobile towers on Straight Talk. i would think this would also work though they may not get some features?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Kalm_Traveler:
sorry for the delay - new version link: https://mega.nz/#!ljZhGSCB!k_XxwkOvZkuNdYnzoUX53VILN6ymZcgr73oBLxleCE4

This is version 9m1 and works on N950N base now as well, with the caveat that you still need a custom (N950F-based) kernel.

Yes it works on custom roms as well - I have confirmation of 3 different custom ROMs in the Q & A thread.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Kalm_Traveler:
yes I apologize - this is the current updated version that now works on N950N firmware as well: https://mega.nz/#!ljZhGSCB!k_XxwkOvZkuNdYnzoUX53VILN6ymZcgr73oBLxleCE4

I will update the main post.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] knives of ice:
i don't think that the Dr's rom has a custom kernel which is what i use. do you have a kernel that is recommended?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Kalm_Traveler:
I've been using Iron Kernel myself, but I am pretty sure any of them would be fine.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Deezy88:
i put this on the light rom,all i got was fc on every app to the point it reboot to recovery and restore a backup
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Kalm_Traveler:
Can you give me a link to the ROM? He might have removed something that is needed for wifi calling etc

I know it works on at least 3 custom ROMs and stock F and N firmware now.

*EDIT*

nvm I found it - downloading now and I will try to take a look tonight to see what he's done with it to break the wifi calling stuff. My guess is that he deleted something that it uses, but I will know more once I can tear into his ROM. I know that the patch works just fine with stock N950F, N950N, and 3 custom N950F ROMs so my first guess is that either he deleted something from stock that needs to be in place, or perhaps this is built from an S8/S8+ base and something within it is not compatible with the Note 8 versions. My patch is built 99% from Note 8 files (currently AQL2 N950F DTM firmware and BQLA TMB firmware).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Kalm_Traveler:
ok I took a quick look - Light Rom has a different version of:

/system/app/EpdgService

/system/app/vsimservice

/system/priv-app/SmartEpdgTestApp

possibly others but those for sure as the apk file sizes are different, which is probably why you were getting FC on some apps after applying this over a reboot. I'll see if I can bake deleting those apps data into the install script so you don't run into that issue with Light Rom.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] VICosPhi:
I have an S8 plus G955FD running ported Note 8 ROM (Ironman ROM) and tried using this on it but got com.sec.epdg has stopped error. Also had FC on IMS service. Any way that this would work on a Note 8 port? Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Kalm_Traveler:
Yes, I can look into it but to be honest if you are running an F-variant ROM from any Note 8/S8+/S8 you can use the existing S8+ F-variant-only patch from TEKHD here

I used that on NEMESIS ROM (Note 8 N950F/DS -based ROM) right when the Note 8 launched and it worked just fine. The main reason I have developed my own patch is that neither TEKHD's patch or the other CSC multi selection tools enable T-Mobile Wifi Calling on N variant devices (the Korean equivalent to F variants) and I wanted a simple and clean zip that any Note 8 Exynos user could flash.

Just out of curiosity, do those FC's/errors happen forever so you can't use the phone? Or can you click through them and try deleting data for both and see if that fixes it?

Off the top of my head, most likely what is happening is that you already had EPDGService and vsimservice apps from IronMan ROM, and their app data is not playing nice with the versions in my zip (currently they are included because neither of those system apps exists on N variant devices and they are part of what is needed for T-Mobile Wifi Calling)

This is still a WIP because I want to make it perfect across the board on any compatible TouchWiz-based ROM, so if you want to check back this weekend I will have a newer version up that wipes any pre-existing app data for those apps as well, as I am pretty sure that's what is causing the problem for you.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Deezy88:
ok thank you !
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] jcrompton:
Hey I saw all the posts here [MENTION=8569151]Kamikaze_Ice[/MENTION]

Good stuff

Could you possibly PM or tell me how you are making the CSC to work with ATT

I'm familiar with IMEI whitelisting and provisioning (I often get my working IMEI's from the phones in the ATT store ..lol)

But I'm not sure how you made the changes for this TMobile CSC to work with ATT

I've got a Snapdragon Note 8 but am getting Exynos on Monday

Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Deezy88:
U got that fixed?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] VICosPhi:
Thank you for the detailed reply! I did try doing a factory reset from TWRP after flashing these files but no luck so it maybe more than the previous data from those files. It constantly gives the error and the phone becomes very slow and does not respond to the unlock key(PWR). So I ended up just installing the Tkkg's N8 CSC and that worked great. Let me know if you would like me to do more testing...Thanks again!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] noahattic:
I am not on T-mobile, however, I figured that the switch to turn on VoLte residents in the CSC files??

I have modified CSC feature Enable VOLTE, and also, in customer.xml, turn on IMS settings too, (No self provisioning option tho), what else did I miss?? I just cannot get Volte to work and i have confirmed with my ISP that the settings on their end has been enabled.... damn
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Kalm_Traveler:
for AT&T I believe you have to call them and have them provision those services for your line, which seems to mean you need to give them the IMEI of an AT&T branded phone that supports VoLTE etc.

T-Mobile doesn't care about any of that which is nice for us haha :)

I haven't had time to look into the FC issue some of you are seeing on LightROM and IronMan ROM yet but I will try to tonight. Since a factory reset didn't fix it on IronMan ROM I need to look a little closer.

If someone on those ROMs can get a logcat log for me, might be able to figure out how to fix it based on that - you can run logcat from the computer with ADB shell while the phone boots up which might show us what is causing the problem.

I also had a thought that maybe I can remove vsimmanager.jar from the zip because it does actually exist already on N variants as as F (but the N is missing the matching apk to use it vsimmservice.apk).

Don't worry guys, this will be 100% perfect soon :) I also still need to figure out how to get the CSC part to actually enable 256QAM and 4x4MIMO since it is included in cp.xml now.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Viqsi:
For the (possible) benefit of folks with N950Fs who've had OEM Unlock jail issues but want T-Mobile USA features - I was able to get my phone working combining this CSC zip with some existing voodoo. Post here.

To [MENTION=4375750]Kalm_Traveler[/MENTION] - thanks for your work in creating and testing this zip! Much appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] jcrompton:
Thank you

I did explain that I was aware of the ATT IMEI whitelisting and provisioning, but there are a few additional things (apps) needed for ATT to work ..... That's why I was hoping [MENTION=8569151]Kamikaze_Ice[/MENTION] might be willing to share the " modified" version of the CSC they mentioned that they used for ATT
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] DenisEhm:
Did you ever get this to work? I'm really hoping to get VoLTE on Rogers and I'm not really sure how to go about it...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] noahattic:
It's very nice of you to give some hints on how to enable the VoLte settings on N8. However, I am currently out of the country and in china right now with China Unicom.

I actually called them and enabled the VoLTE feature that linked to my account. and:

1. CSC features - done

____________________

<CscFeature_VoiceCall_SupportEmergencyCallUsingVolte>TRUE</CscFeature_VoiceCall_SupportEmergencyCallUsingVolte>

<CscFeature_VoiceCall_SupportIPCall>TRUE</CscFeature_VoiceCall_SupportIPCall>

2. cscfeatures_network - done

____________________

<CscFeature_IMS_EnableIMS>TRUE</CscFeature_IMS_EnableIMS>

<CscFeature_IMS_EnableVoLTE>TRUE</CscFeature_IMS_EnableVoLTE>

<CscFeature_RIL_SupportVolte>TRUE</CscFeature_RIL_SupportVolte>

3. customer.xml - done

____________________

<VoLTE>

<EnableVoLTE>true</EnableVoLTE>

<EnableVoiceoverWIFI>true</EnableVoiceoverWIFI>

<EnableVideocall>true</EnableVideocall>

<EnableVoLTEindicator>true</EnableVoLTEindicator>

<Voice_Domain_Preference_EUTRAN>imspsvoicepreferred</Voice_Domain_Preference_EUTRAN>

<Emregencycall_Domain>ps</Emregencycall_Domain>

<SS_Domain_Preference>ps_only_psregied</SS_Domain_Preference>

<SS_PS_Control_Preference>xcap</SS_PS_Control_Preference>

<SS_CSFBwithIMSerror>true</SS_CSFBwithIMSerror>

<USSD_Domain_Preference>cs</USSD_Domain_Preference>

<EnableSMSoverIP>false</EnableSMSoverIP>

</VoLTE>

4. IMS settings - done

Enabled everything in IMS Service Switch

Where did I miss??

In the debug info section - IMS Information

everything is still false, which means Im not on VoLTE....

feel frustrated, I know there is something I just missed.

---------- Post added at 11:43 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:40 AM ----------

I think for Rogers it's easy. you just need to flash into the right CSC settings and check the IMS settings if everything is enabled. Then you are good to go.

Oh make sure your account has VoLTE enabled from Rogers end.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] bouloss:
can someone tell me the best kernel for this mod, can't find the nemesis kernel mention on this threat , can only find nemesis rom, I have a note 8 N950N
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Deezy88:
did you figure it out for N model or light rom,you said you can enable fm radio on the exynos version?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] shouren04:
There"s no "best" kernel but I'm running Smurf kernel & very happy with it. Also with Smurf kernel the VoLTE icon does not appear in the status bar like with the stock kernel. With other kernels the VoLTE icon does appear with I hate.

If I'm not mistaken, Exynos chipset doesn't support FM radio, only Snapdragon.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Kalm_Traveler:
I have been using Ironman kernel, but it shows the VoLTE and RCS icons.

As far as radio, I found that at least one Exynos from a couple years ago included an FM radio chip, and our Note 8 models definitely have settings for one already in the stock firmware, i just haven't had time to properly test to see if we have the chip or not.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] mailistman:
hello all,

thanks to [MENTION=4375750]Kalm_Traveler[/MENTION], i have been using his mod for couple of days and so happy to have many features in it. one annoyance, is there anything we can do to disable data swicthed off notification ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] shouren04:
Smurf & Aroma kernels are the only ones I have tried that do not show VoLTE & RCS icons besides the stock kernel. Ironman, Xceed, & Weta kernels are the others that I have tried but all show at least the VoLTE icon. I was trying to modify imsservice.apk to get rid of them as that is how it was done on Marshmallow but wasn't successful. I was surprised when I discovered certain kernels made them hidden. Why that is I have no idea but I'm not complaining.

There was a thread from last year about radio talk. It was stated that Exynos N8s did not support FM radio. Some with Snapdragons had Radio installed/working out the box, some (carriers) did not. Trying to install the native Radio app does not work. You have to push it to system/app, set permissions, to install it. Those with US Snapdragons could install radio apps & FM radio would work with nothing else needed. I tried it & that native Radio app won't even run on my F. Tried 3rd party radio apps & FM radio did not work either. I couldn't get FM radio working with my Note 5 either (Exynos).

If you can get FM radio to work on N8 Exynos that would be great but from what I found at the time, most everyone states that the N8 Exynos does not support FM radio.

Here's the native Radio app.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] jooniloh:
Found out earlier today that enabling wifi calling appears to be the culprit in the RILJ0 wakelock going ******* ham. Confirm and Amplify it up.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Z3R0-Gz:
Anroid 8.0 Oreo Firmware CRAP support

Thank you for your work amazing job. I had VOLTE and WIFI calling on android 7.0 because of you. However, I have made the switch 8.0 Oreo successfully. I understand Oreo has not been released in the U.S. and T-Mobile S8's do not have Oreo yet. Please!!! please!!! for future proofing would really like to see this on S8 8.0 and maybe 8.1 Oreo. Currently running firmware "CRAP" on SM-950F. Thanks again!!!! :good:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] crashmaster73:
This looks really awesome but it's way over my head. I got a Note 8 from Singapore and realized that it doesn't have T-Mobile's wifi calling on it. I've been trying to fix this since I spent a lot of money on the phone. It's an N950F so it didn't work with a fix I found online.

I tried to use this: https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-note-8/how-to/guide-sm-n950u-u1-t3685884

I would really appreciate if you could tell what to do with your files. I'm traveling soon and would like to use wifi calling to save some money on calls.

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Kalm_Traveler:
howdy - what model is the phone? If it's an N950F this zip should still work (a few reports of it breaking 2 custom 950F-based ROMs though).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ufukan:
I flashed this mod and restarted the phone. After the phone was booted successfully I get a stopped message. all the time so, I rebooted to recovery mode, did wipe Dalvik cache/Cache but, still I get ''com.sec.epdp was stopped.'' and '' Wi-Fi Calling was stopped.'' pop-up. Is this an issue? Has anyone a solution for this issue? I'm on Iron Rom, is the only way get out of it to dirty flash the rom again? Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] Kalm_Traveler:
Iron ROM has trouble with it but I'm not sure why yet.

Can you try to format data first?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ufukan:
I did dirty flash rom now it's fine again. Waiting for an update or a fix. Will give a try in other rom and give feedback. Has only Iron Rom this issue? Did somebody reported before?

SM-N950F cihazımdan Tapatalk kullanılarak gönderildi
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] crashmaster73:
Thanks for the response. I guess I don't know what to do after I unzip the files? Do I copy it to the phone and run the APK? All the files? Thanks. I'm such a blockhead lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] shouren04:
The zip is meant to be flashed using TWRP. It will install everything for you.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods] crashmaster73:
Thanks! I'll give that a try.