yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jcrompton:
I understand for sure .....

I am thankful for sure and I consider myself a power user ..... But like I've said before ,, I've never had a reboot with this phone

Nougat, Root, Oreo , etc

I guess I'm lucky
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] pcriz:
That's why I mentioned the part that I wiped, started completely fresh, I'm also not the only one. If it's an app it's not one I installed. I mean I'm no power user or anything but 15 Android devices and I feel I'm more than well versed enough to say it's nothing I did. Well besides flashing the leaked build.

I dunno why some users seem to be getting defensive about this or thinking people with reboots have to quantify their problem or it's user error. More than a few people posted asking about possible issues with the leaks. So that seems like a super relevant statement that some people are having reboots.

Brand new phones out the box perform differently, why does it seem like it needs to be an act of God for it to happen now with leaked builds.

/Rant
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] guaneet:
been stalking this thread since the start. finally got around to flashing oreo and WOW! its so nice! granted im on CLQB, but its everything i was expecting and more! thank for your hard work gents!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] tongueman87:
Deleted
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riveralc:
CR2 here and 0 reboots...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] LordGeek:
CRA2 here also with zero reboots .. only issue I seem to be experiencing .. loosing connectivity to SD Card !

Anyone have that problem ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Wacky2bakky:
Yeah I'm on CRA2 as well and I get the SD card issue every now and again. Reboot normally fixes it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mcgleevn:
Looking for what is probably a simple fix: I'm on sm-n950u US Cellular currently running CQL1 (N950USQU2CQL1), I'd like to go back to stock AQI9 but I'm having trouble doing so... specifically, Odin failure saying something along the lines of model mismatch...

Anyone willing to provide back-to-stock instructions? Thanks in advance...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] shag_on_e:
I'm getting occasional reboots and "corrupt" sdcard. Definitely wish I was a bit more patient, but I do really like the Oreo touch on this phone. Came wait to see a stable build I can flash.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EddiePR:
I'm on cra4 and i have zero critical bugs. Only corrupt sd when upgrading. Just dismount and mount agin.. some refinish bugs and some apps always run in backgroung and minor bugs , but, the official nogaut have bugs too, so?.. all alredeary solved. My battery life is more decent than nogaut.. its true
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Y0sHii:
Hello, I've been off this thread for awhile now and i'll greatly appreciate if someone can give me a few quick answers (or point me in the direction to find those). I'm currently on what i believe to be the first leaked build for Sprint Ver. N950USQU2CQL1

My Questions: is there any substantial boost in performance or features in the newer builds?

-Hows battery life?

-Do i have to downgrade to flash the newer releases?

-Would it be better to wait for an official release vs flashing the newer leaked builds?

thanks in advance
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] LordGeek:
Looks like there is one more release out there somewhere .. N950USQU3CRA7/N950UOYN3CRA7
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mr. Orange 645:
-Yes

-CQLB was worse battery for me

-Come on...30 seconds of reading the first post would answer that question

-Thats a matter of opinion. If you read the thread, theres plenty of pros and cons listed. If you upgrade to CRA2 or CRA4, you will be stuck there.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChadH42:
Where did you see this release? I can't find it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] LordGeek:
ssshhhhhh .. that's a secret :cool: .. if I told you, you'll have to be terminated :eek:

FOTA Firmware list
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mr. Orange 645:
Interesting, it lists it as an XAA CSC, which would indicate the unlocked firmware, but the build number starts work N950U, not N950U1, so it sounds like a carrier version. Is that normal?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] LordGeek:
In the link I provided .. change out the 'XAA' to any other carrier .. ATT, TMB, VZW etc etc .. you can also change the model # of the phone being looked up .. so instead of the 'SM-N950U' .. change to SM-N950U1 .. will show the new information.

It appears this is only for the U.S. variants.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ekerbuddyeker:
Does that link to an UPDATE file to flash?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] pcriz:
You could ya know, click it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mr. Orange 645:
Click it and find out.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] LordGeek:
No idea .. if it does, I wouldn't know the naming structure of what the OTA's would be.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] DubSolo:
Need Files Please!

Looking for a CRA2 or CRA4 download link??? Other links are down, figure someone has to have it saved to their hard drive that they can upload..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ekerbuddyeker:
I did was just a list of filenames. From my phone anyway.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] LordGeek:
It's posted throughout this whole thread !

https://samsung.firmware.science/
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] themisterwilson:
I don't see anything newer than CRA4, unless I'm missing something
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mr. Orange 645:
No, so far CRA4 is the newest release.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] shagy38:
Anyone one tried BRA8
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] cam30era:
Well, FWIW BRA8 is Nougat (7.1.1)...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] shagy38:
So that's the bootloader 3
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Venom0642:
Yes bootloader 3, Nougat 7.1.1

Most likely this might be AT&T Official OTA that they didn't release, someone if they are on it check Playstore see if it says Certified.

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And if that says Certified on Playstore then once AT&T rolls it out OTA it we will have odin files for it and anyone that updated to bootloader 3 on Oreo can roll back to Nougat.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] pcriz:
Assuming I don't need an attachment device right? Like the other builds
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Venom0642:
Huh sorry you lost me , can you explain what the question is lol.

Running On My Samsung Galaxy Note 8 SM-N950U Wicked Venom
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] pcriz:
Lol att got auto corrected to attachment
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] kurrupt_1:
Is it safe to assume that any update well under a GB would be an update.zip and files over 1GB+ is an Odin job?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jerrycoffman45:
Not if it is a system update like nugget to oreo. Odin will be around 2.5 to 3.0
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] pcriz:
Yeah the update zip for Android 8 is about 1.4gb

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Anyone having reboots on the newer bootloader, do you recall if your WiFi is on when it happens?

Usually my WiFi is always on but only connected to a network in the evenings. Most of my reboots are over night.

So last night I had the wifi turned off on my phone because of my router taking a dump and my phone connecting to some random network. So I woke up this morning to no new reboots and zero while at work.

Worth a try of anyone is curious to shut off wifi at night or whenever you may see them happening the most.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] :
No reboots for me on CRA2 with WiFi on 24/7 for the most part. As said a few posts ago I think it's a app that needs to be updated that is causing the random reboots.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] pcriz:
So if I wiped my device and installed nothing from the cloud, no apps besides stock and I still reboot could you then further explain your theory? Did you specifically side load updates or downgrades to any apps? Besides maybe Gear.

Plus how many apps cause reboots in lieu of simply FCing or not responding.

Also this was obviously for people experiencing reboots, which you are not so I don't even know why you responded to me other than to push your theory..

An app needs to be updated. Thanks, problem solved guys. I'll let all the guys on discord with the same reboot issues know "it's a random app no one knows needs updating..... I guess".

I'll go ahead and ring that law and order bell now...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mr. Orange 645:
Have you tried wiping and not installing anything?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] _Dennis_:
It could still be an app that is on /system that's causing it.

My phone doesn't fully reboot, it hot boots (basically like the old days when trying to update a theme or something that applied to SystemUI).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Your welcome.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] pcriz:
Yeah. I wiped and went 3 days before installing my usual apps. Had two reboots over night

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M

I get that it could be an app but the three times I've seen that response it was under the context of something the users installed that is causing it.

If it's a system app that leads me back to the original gripe that a system app is a part the system, so in turn the build itself.

We are back where we started.

I made the statement a few pages back that if it is an app its not anything I personally installed. So it's the system.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] guaneet:
Do you happen to have an SD card? From what I've seen many of the people with issues have SDs inserted and the whole mount issue. Not sure if its correlated but it seems like it. I took mine out after the oreo install and haven't had a reboot.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] pcriz:
I do have a card, I also get the mount issue as well. I figure the hot boot knocks it out when it reboots. In another forum Ive seen at least one person mention that they lose their sdcard but aren't experiencing reboots.

Can you turn off the requirement for pin/patter after reboot? Frankly that is the only way I know I rebooted is because of that. Ive never actually seen one happen on my device.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Venom0642:
I have heard that, if so then remember Oreo is basically for the Notes a beta , so i am sure it will get fixed on a Official AT&T Oreo since basically this isn't and official built.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Wacky2bakky:
That would be nice cuz I'm currently stuck on CRA2 on my note 8 and would like to be able to roll back so I can flash newer updates :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] pcriz:
I'm not stressing too bad, I figure it will get fixed like you said. Its mostly an annoyance in those seconds when I cannot figure out why my finger print isn't working.

So far I haven't had a rebooted since turning off my wifi. I even considered maybe it was my cast enabled devices over whelming my phone since I have three and the whole packet flood thing they have been doing but Im sure I have rebooted even when I wasn't at home.

Its really all moot though, like you said it will likely all come out in the wash with the official ota/odin files
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Venom0642:
Well no one yet has confirmed this yet hopefully i am correct and BRA8 Is official OTA , So if anyone has installed Nougat BRA8 can you please check settings on Playstore and scroll down and see if it says Certified.

Running On My Samsung Galaxy Note 8 SM-N950U Wicked Venom
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Wacky2bakky:
+1
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] gforceriders:
Something new?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] kloudgun:
is it safe?

is it safe to do this on verizons note 8? Also if I brick my phone can i fix it 100 percent using odin or will I have to cross my fingers?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] rquinn19:
CQL7 would be your safest bet. But nothing is guaranteed
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dan96815:
Wish there was something to flash on CRA2
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] riveralc:
Ditto..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mr. Orange 645:
Not being a prick, but seriously read the thread. At least use the search button. Any and all answers you seek are in here. Most of them on every page, because people keep asking same two or three questions over and over again.

It's a matter of respect. A lot of people put a lot of time and effort into finding these leaks, putting this post together, testing them out. We have all worked hard to test each leak and share our results.

The LEAST you can do is spend the time abd effort to read the information thats already here, then contribute to the thread if/when you decide to flash.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] kloudgun:
But if I brick the phone will I be able to unbrick brick it using Odin? I'm scared about that
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TRoN_1:
You know, people who are scared of jumping out of a perfectly good airplane..... don't go skydiving.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] themisterwilson:
Yes. As long as you don't update the bootloader, you'll be fine. As for myself, I've been running CQLB for a good 2 weeks. I had to flash back and get back to be cause some theme made my system UI go ape****, but I'm back to it. Ez-pz
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ad44891:
Yup
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ad44891:
The new update zip is on Reddit also
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Wacky2bakky:
I agree! Being stuck here sucks!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] drew272011:
Well maybe a odin files will come for bra8 soon

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From what i heard its 7.1.1 with bootloader 3 ,tried finding with no luck?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Wacky2bakky:
Nice, but what exactly does that mean for us? It's still bootloader 3
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] drew272011:
Good point i was thinking maybe you could upgrade to cra9 but guess im just having a update attack
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Venom0642:
BRA8 been up in science link waiting for someone to install and check Playstore to see if it's Certified.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dazemc:
CRA2 users, how smooth was the update to CRA9? I heard the random reboots are gone. Lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] pcriz:
You can't
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] cam30era:
You really shouldn't do any of this until you've studied EVERYTHING and read EVERYTHING and are 100% comfortable and confident.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] drew272011:
Hes being a jerk !
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] pcriz:
I completely missed that.

I guess if you can't be useful to the community, you can always do whatever he is doing instead..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Wacky2bakky:
If your already on bootloader 3 which is CRA2 or CRA4, you cannot update further because you can't go back being that your on bootloader 3. Trust me, I've been wanting to upgrade but supposedly it can't happen :(
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ekerbuddyeker:
Anyone tried the newest ROM?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Whsxc12:
Will you be able to update when an update with the odin files for the new bootloader comes out?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] drew272011:
Sure will
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dschachm:
I'm going to load CRA9 now. I'll report back tomorrow. I am not on the new bootloader yet.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] kurrupt_1:
Quoted "If your already on bootloader 3 which is CRA2 or CRA4, you cannot update further because you can't go back being that your on bootloader 3. Trust me, I've been wanting to upgrade but supposedly it can't happen [emoji20]"

Contradicting, you can't update because supposedly you can't?

Less confusion when dealing with just facts.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jcrompton:
???

What does this mean
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] themisterwilson:
Cool, thanks. I'm interested to know
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EddiePR:
Can i downdrade crq4 to bql5 flashing only the AP an then flash cra9? On note 5 i downdrade to bypass google account from marahsmallow (last release) to lollypop using only the ap??
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jcrompton:
There has been mention of doing some partial flashes like this ..... Might could work but I think everyone is afraid because if it doesn't not work then can't boot and no way to recover

But if you try and it works please let us know. I've been afraid to try
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EddiePR:
no recover because there is no oreo firmware yet, no? Or the phone can hard bricked?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dazemc:
The hard part is there is no official Oreo system image yet. I've been working on trying to build one that uses the blq5 bootloader. But, it would be unofficial and would have to utilize SamFAIL method. The Oreo bootloader patches out SamFAIL so it won't work. However, I've said this before, there should be no reason you can't flash non system images. Like the boot image. Someone had suggested that it could be a potential kernel bug that was causing random reboots. I'm not at home right now but, it would be worth it to extract update packages and compare differences in the images checksums to see what has been altered. There really isn't any benefit to partial flashes either. Honestly, if you are on rev 2 or rev 3 bootloader I would just wait for official Odin release of Oreo.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dazemc:
Double post
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EddiePR:
my note 8 have insurance anyway, but if i damaged the phone maybe i can lose 45+ shipping (whitedome glass) you know,....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dazemc:
Phone can hardbrick ask [MENTION=4591212]me2151[/MENTION] and if softbrick you have to flash a firmware that is on rev 3 of bootloader because it is incremental.

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What are you trying to do exactly? What outcome are you looking for?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EddiePR:
:laugh: waiting for answers from those who know. I'm fine at cra4 only minor bugs but I always like to update but i can't
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dazemc:
You'll be able to update eventually, it's not like you are permanently stuck. It seems these Oreo builds are being pushed much more frequently. I would assume that an official build should be released soon. Much more likely that a Nougat version on rev 3 will happen much sooner. I would then guess that all future oreo builds, official or not, will require that firmware to update.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] me2151:
You are currently stuck at cra4. NO WAY to change atm until odin files for u3 bootloader are released. If you try something theres a good chance you will softbrick(wont be able to boot but you wont be able reinstall either.) you MUST wait until odin files for u3 are released.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dschachm:
Cra9 feels very smooth. No rebooted or anything yet. Playstore crashed once when I first loaded. Been fine since.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] _Dennis_:
No....I tried. Failed for load /system due to fused 3 > 2 and now stuck at "Samsung Galaxy Note 8" boot screen(the very beginning with the black background and white text).

:Looks like I'll be using my Pixel for a bit lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] sparky2029:
When I go to apply update from sd card I get "couldn't mount sd card" is anyone else having this issue and able to resolve it? I searched for a solution but couldn't find one that fixed it
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] JonathanRAZ:
What carrier you on?

I think i might jump to it
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] EddiePR:
ops.. sorry
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] _Dennis_:
Not your fault, I was the one who tried flashing even though I knew it wasn't smart.

Now I find out my Pixel won't connect to WiFi though........so this is a great night lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dazemc:
Any noticably new features?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jaceypoo:
So even if I were to bring my note 8 to a Samsung kiosk in Best Buy, they wouldn’t be able to downgrade the boot loader either with their machine? I’ll be checking tomorrow. Just wanted to see if someone has tried that yet.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dazemc:
Why ask? Try it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] LordGeek:
That's a very good question .. use to have a Samsung Kiosk at my local Best Buy. They got rid of it about 4 months ago :(

Let us know if this works .. I have other locations in the area that I know might still have kiosks available.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] HACK3DANDR0ID:
yes
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] renegaderon:
Yes hotspot works fine for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Wacky2bakky:
Flashed to Oreo on my Sprint Note 8 successfully. Had some errors at the beginning but used BK package disabler to get rid of those. Running great so far. Gonna be my daily driver! Thanks again OP!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] chowdarygm:
Only other problem I encountered is that Gear S3 is not connecting to it with compatibility error. Probably need Oereo compatible Gear S app
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] adl008:
Is there anyone who has tried this on the n950u1 and how the way

I am tired and am trying to install it via SD card on recovery ?? pls help me
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] pcriz:
I would but I'm driving but maybe check s8 forums because they had the beta or maybe apk mirror.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] rudeboy87:
what steps did you take to install this. I also have the sprint variant
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Wacky2bakky:
What fw you currently on?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rick1221:
I tried using BK and I could not get it to work, I wonder if it has to do with the model of the phone, I am on a Tmobile note 8 and there is also another user who reported the same with an AT&T variant.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Wacky2bakky:
What kind of security or error message you getting?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] rudeboy87:
my only problem is flashing the downgrade file with odin. How did you do that?