yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] iamnotkurtcobain:
Someone said CRLO Firmware is out too.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] kekela:
It's the same as Israel CRLN, but for Hungary.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Sigh... all that effort of uploading CRLN only for Samsung to upload another build shortly after.....

Download links for CRLO:

MEGA

AndroidFileHost
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] madvinegar:
Is there any point of flashing CRLO if you are on CRLI ...?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
If you want to be on the latest release, then yeah sure.

Newer kernel and security patch, surely a few bug fixes thrown in there as well.

Sent from my SM-G965F
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] madvinegar:
Oh, ok. So CRLO has the January 2019 security patch? I though it had the December patch, but it was just an update for different CSCs.

I see we have the same phone (s9+ DS) and your signature says you are on CRLI. Did you do the update to CRLO?

To be honest, I want to flash CRLO but I think that it might be best to wait and see if I will get the OTA as expected. I want to see that all has reverted to normal as regards receiving OTAs (after sideloading all the pie betas via SD card and finally flashing CRLI via ODIN). What do you think?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Yes, CRLN and CRLO both have January security patch.

I haven't updated to CRLO yet, I'm still contemplating on whether or not it's worth the jump or I should wait for a CSxx build to be released.

You will receive OTAs if you flash a Pie build that's eventually released for your CSC, but since the S9+ isn't my main phone and I experiment a lot with it, OTAs aren't really an issue for me.

Sent from my SM-G965F
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] kimLJT:
btw I am in first final Pie build. are these CRLN/CRLO are safe to flash via sd/sideload without reformatting? Coz I'm not sure if this wont reformat my phone since both files are more than 4gb each. thank you.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
CRLN and CRLO aren't OTAs, so they can't be sideloaded through ADB or SDCard.

They are full firmware files, you have to flash them with Odin. If you use HOME_CSC instead of the normal CSC file when flashing, it won't wipe your data.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] kimLJT:
really thank you so much for clarifying. my doubt is right. I almost sideloaded it. will proly flash it sooner without the full wipe. but by the way do i need to do it like OTA that I need to flash the CRLN first before the CRLO or can I directly flash the CRLO? really sorry for these questions. thank you.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
With Odin, always remember, you never have to be on a specific firmware to flash a newer one. You can upgrade from any firmware version.

You can flash directly from CRLI to CRLO. I just did exactly that, and my phone booted up just fine with all my data still on it.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
I updated to CRLO last night. It's running just fine (as expected), and I haven't noticed any differences (also expected).

On a completely unrelated side-note (because this started happening yesterday on CRLI before updating), my Barclaycard payment app now seems to be running correctly again, after playing around with switching payment app in settings. Don't yet know if it will stay this way, will check at lunch time today to see how it behaves.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] kimLJT:
now every questions and doubts finally answered. thank you so much for clarifying everyrhing. will remember now that ODIN can flash any ROM while OTAs must be inorder. really thank you.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] madvinegar:
[MENTION=1149541]Incarniac[/MENTION] and [MENTION=5063250]MeltdownSpectre[/MENTION], since you updated to CRLO, can you please check if this bug of "device care" has been fixed?

If you recall, when you opened device care, it took a lot of time (stuck at 95%) till it showed any results.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Still happening here.

Samsung just needs to push an update to Device Care through Galaxy Apps to fix it.

Sent from my SM-N960F
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] iamnotkurtcobain:
Had the same. Went back to Oreo. The new Base seems even laggier than the other one... Damn.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] amosolidu:
For device care open options and disable auto optimization !!! It work ok after that ! :p
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] UsualSuspectReaL:
Πατρίδα, with clean install, CRLO doesn't have device care problem anymore.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] iamnotkurtcobain:
Waiting for CSAx builds.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Same here. They'll probably roll out CSAx for all the other regions that don't have Pie yet.

CRLO doesn't seem that bad for me though, battery life also seems better than CRLI, but it's only been a few hours so can't say anything solid.

Sent from my SM-N960F
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] SPYRO80:
About "device care" stuck at 95%, i had that also with CLI, just fixed it with deleting app data and force stopping it.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] iamnotkurtcobain:
Just wait. Comes back.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
Yup, also happening here.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] XmlNode:
Is this really a bug? I don't think so. :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] iamnotkurtcobain:
What else? This is not normal behaviour.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] XmlNode:
It can be a simple algorithm change as well - intentional.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] iamnotkurtcobain:
Lol. No.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Incarniac:
I would say that seems unlikely. It keeps spinning, and is stuck at 95% while saying "Checking device....". If it's intentional, it is bad design as it is simply not what you expect to see.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] vuoshino:
Im on the last beta CRLF updated throw the uk official beta program and there isnt any update yet to the official version... What i have to do? It will arrive for the beta users or we must to flash the eu firmware with odin? Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] demmo81:
Actually device care is working fine and not getting stuck if u delete data and clear it then force stop it. It works as intended

Try it guys
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] rosu22:
I tried. It works one time. When you close the app and enter again.... it gets stuck. :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] _Usama_:
CRLO still doesnt fix that glitchy recents animation when triggered inside an app using gestures. Why cant they fix this it has been like 4 betas + 2 stable builds yet their recent animation is like a sub 200$ device.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] XmlNode:
You are right, it jumps to 95% immediately and stays there. I would call it a bad design as well, not a bug. Anyway, it is different than it was before for sure.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] acemarco:
Don't worry. Once the official Pie is out all of the bugs you're all having will magically disappear!

I've written here about what the Samsung developers wrote to me (being an official UK testers) at the beginning of the beta programme but was totally ignored and worse, treated like an idiot.

To make it short, the devs inserted some special coding in the betas which prevents the beta from functioning properly on those devices whose IMEI is not included in the official beta programme list.

Don't worry about certain bugs not disappearing after all the updates. They certainly will once you get the official Pie!
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] iamnotkurtcobain:
Tbh CRLO still runs WAY WORSE than Oreo.

Janky animations, slower App switching, laggy Statusbar pulldown and overall not as snappy as Oreo.

If that stays this way my S9+ will stay on Oreo forever.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] acemarco:
Read the comment before yours... ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] iamnotkurtcobain:
Are you kidding? CRLI, CRLN and CRLO are OFFICIAL builds. Not Beta builds.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] acemarco:
Correct. But as explained earlier, if a device hasn't received the official Pie update message (only a few countries have received it so far) the official build installed manually won't work properly.

Ah, forget it. I tried over and over to explain why none of the bugs and issues you are all having in this forum never occurred to official beta testers but i keep getting misunderstood.

Sorry for wasting your time.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Nyny569:
Not to start anything but I have to disagree. I'm an official beta tester and I have the device care bug .
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Genebaby:
Where is it found?

---------- Post added at 09:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:18 PM ----------

I can't do step 8, it has a message about the binaries being mixed up and won't enter Recovery. Any ideas?

It will go into download mode, luckily, so I might just try and get it going back on it's original carrier FW and move on, it's doing my head in.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MobFreak2799:
I don't know the location of the file but i need it for magisk to root via magisk manager
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
You sure you know what you're doing?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rql7arjga58ob1e/boot.img?dl=0
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MobFreak2799:
Can you tell me where is boot.img located? Thanks for the file:good:
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
You asking it's location on the phone or in the stock ROM file?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] yourmajesty514:
I'm not sure if this question was asked already, but is it possible to flash this on to a SM-G965U device ? The option for OEM Unlock isn't present in my device.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] gaww:
Why does latest ARD1 firmware only have ARCC modem rather then ARD1 CP ?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] ratsalad:
Think it's just a security update to April 1st
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Not being aggressive, but please don't quote the entire main post. It makes scrolling through the thread quite difficult.

You can not flash this on a 965U. Completely different device. The main post clearly states which devices this is compatible with

OEM Unlock is not and will never be present on the 965U.

Because Samsung is still working on a new modem to come with a future update. This update brought no kernel changes, was merely just a security patch and an attempt to fix the colour banding.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] yourmajesty514:
You can not flash this on a 965U. Completely different device. The main post clearly states which devices this is compatible with

Ok sorry I'm new to this. Thanks got the speedy reply.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MobFreak2799:
On the phone
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] taiseer999:
G965FXXU1ARD2 is out, same changelist with a new build date 17.04.2018

out for ECT (Nigeria) and Spain (movistar)
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Errr, forgot how to do that. There was a terminal command or something to list all the partitions and then onwards trying to figure out which one was the boot partition.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MobFreak2799:
I am referring to boot image file location not boot partition
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] henklbr:
Isn't this becoming way OFF-TOPIC for this thread, [MENTION=5063250]murtaza02[/MENTION] ?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
A lot of this thread is going off topic but as long as it's not completely irrelevant, I don't really mind.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] pinoy_ako07:
How/Where do you check to see how long your phone has been running since your last rom flash so I can get the oem 'something' in the developers option?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Settings > About Phone > Status > Uptime (in hours)

Before you do anything and trip Knox, make sure that there is a flashable CSC selector for the GS9.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] pinoy_ako07:
What do you mean?

Thanks for the instructions. Found it. How long do you have to wait until I can flash a custom recovery?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
You're rooting to flash a CSC right?

It takes 7 days of uninterrupted up time for the OEM Unlock toggle to appear. No reboots, no powering off, nothing at all during those 7 days.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] bdwilk:
I have to agree. I'm not an official beta tester and my phone runs fine. Other than the device care bug. If that's what the devs decided to purposely give issues to then they need to try harder next time. That's lame. I believe if a dev said they did that stuff then it's more of a scare tactic. Nonsense.

If anyone willingly gives out information.......question it. Especially if it puts a bad light on themselves or their company.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] stickydonkey:
I'm not an Official Beta tester and I have no issues. I don't have the Device Care bug. Had no issues with Betas either other than the one in Dark mode where the long press popup was blank.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] acemarco:
The world of software and coding is very unpredictable. If you run a programme on different devices of the same make, sometimes you get different behaviours that do not occur to all of them.

In the same way, not every beta tester had the same issues and bugs that other beta testers had or keep having.

Just like it's always been with all the previous Samsung firmwares, the official Pie will run flawlessly for every device.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] bdwilk:
You contradict yourself in that paragraph. In the beginning you say it's very unpredictable and different for each device yet at the end you say, confidently, that it will run flawlessly for every device. Please don't be so naive. My post you quoted was about the developer who purposely made the software buggy for non matching devices running beta. I believe that's silly. My final word on this subject.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] baresp:
Nice trolling, man :)

When you started with that during betas, I was thinking "can he be right?" Now it's clear and I am laughing how others take your bite and try to argue.

Anyway, I believe it was just enough, you can come up with another topic later on.

All - please don't feed the troll anymore, keep the thread useful.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] nicholas64:
Using DeX with type-c to hdmi cable, streaming video in Netflix and Amazon does not work, i think the apps check the phone as rooted, anyone can confirm?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] exocetdj:
apologies if this is a silly question (and also for the inevitability of this)

i just wondered why OTA update.zip files aren't also available as well as the odin files?

is it because theyre a pain to get or odin is the only way from now?

cheers all :) just seeing whether i should go back rooted with TWRP or not :good::good::good::good::good:
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Since the possibility of getting Odin files during a beta is zero, everyone reverts to making an effort to get update.zip files pulled from the device.

With stable releases, the effort required to get the whole ROM is so minimal that it's unnecessary to even bother to get update.zip when you can just flash the whole ROM instead.

Aside from there also being a huge advantage of Odin files, which would be it doesn't have to be flashed in any specific order.

Sent from my SM-N960F
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] exocetdj:
thats a pretty comprehensive explanation. cheers mate.

i like to flash on the fly so will attempt to re-root later as thats going to be the more suitable option in updating without the need for a PC when new firmwares come out (soldier and alexandr are hot with keeping up with updates)

There's OTAs of course but that is at Sammy's discretion by region lol
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] dachakragujevac:
I am on CRLI. What CRLO will give to me? Should I update to the latest version?

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[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
New kernel and January security patch.

Battery is slightly better for me.

Sent from my SM-N960F
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] dokibull:
my device is is sm-g965FD, from t-mobile Hungary. updated to CRLI with Odin. my csc is xeh/xeh/xeh/tmh, shouldn't i get ota for CRLO?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] vperriceli:
Question, I feel like a noob all over again.... i have been rooting since the Epic :) but work changed that... I have a Verizon s9+ 965U and am trying to flash CRLO. I want to keep wifi calling and video calling, what files do i flash in odin to do this....
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] neutraltech:
Are you sure? I feel the reason I've been having so many issues with the official builds was that I had done a dirty flash instead of a clean flash. If what you said is really the case, then I'll just continue dirty-flashing new official builds until it gradually becomes more stable
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] skye420:
I'm on CRLO right now, i checking around is more good than CRLI i think, and device care works perfectly on mine. Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
No because CRLI was never released for Hungary, so a CRLI > CRLO OTA file doesn't exist on the server.

Once you flash CRLO manually on your phone, you'll get future OTAs for Hungary.

Please read first post carefully. This thread is only for 965F (Exynos).

The Verizon (965U) has a Snapdragon 845. The builds in this thread won't work on a 965U. There's a completely different thread for your variant which includes all the files required to flash Pie.

Sent from my SM-N960F
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] dknugr:
Thank you for the thread. After following the steps, I successfully flash the CRLO (Hungary; XEH) firmware to change my original BRI firmware. I read the FAQs 3rd point but it only stated if I want to get the OTA from my CSC, I need to flash the original firmware (BRI). The case is a bit different. What if I DO NOT want to flash my original firmware (BRI) and keep using Hungary (XEH) firmware, still I get the OTA? and if yes, would it be OTA for Hungary?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Go to settings > About > Software Information > Service Provider SW Ver

Post a screenshot of that here.

Sent from my SM-N960F
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] dknugr:
here.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
You won't get OTAs unless CRLO is released for BRI.

If another Pie build is released for BRI, you will have to flash that to continue getting OTA updates.

Sent from my SM-N960F
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
G965FXXU2CSA2 is seeding to Malaysian (XME) devices now.

Sent from my SM-N960F
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] rosu22:
So this means that samsung wil deliver only CSAxx for the rest of the countries that didn't received Pie yet?
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Yes that's very likely.

Sent from my SM-N960F
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] diam_84:
Are you sure about this? Because me i was one DBT (Germany) i updated to CRLI and after i made format with my sim inside. And now my phone csc is EUR (GREECE) if CRLI won't be out for EUR I don't be able to update ota? I don't flash nothing. This is how Samsung works. I think something is missing here.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
CRLI was never released for EUR, so you'll have to wait for EUR to get a Pie build and then flash that to continue getting OTAs.

Sent from my SM-G965F
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] diam_84:
Sorry you don't understand me. I buy my phone in Germany. It was DBT. I was never format it. I updated to CRLI Ota. And make format with my sim inside. Then my phone csc become EUR as my sim is. This is samsung works. It takes sims region after format with sim inside. I don't think that we all have to odin after hard reset with sim inside.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
Please post the CSCs written under Settings > About > Software Information > Service Provider SW Ver.

There will be 3 or 4 CSCs mentioned there in the format XXX/XXX,XXX/XXX.

Sent from my SM-N960F
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] diam_84:
EUR /EUR /DBT/DBT active csc is EUR. After format with sim. I mean that samsung probably knows that csc change with sim regional. In case of that someone buy a s9+ for Italian Market. Open the phone and get Ota 9.then insert his sim from Hungary and hard reset. Then the active csc become Hungarian. It won't get otas anymore? Except if he odin? It's very strange. Probably 50 %0f samsung won't get ota
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] MeltdownSpectre:
EUR is active, CRLI was never released for EUR, which means your phone is stuck on CRLI until you either flash the latest build with Odin, or connect your phone to the PC and use Samsung Smart Switch.

Smart Switch checks active CSC and prompts you to flash the latest build for that CSC to continue getting OTAs.

This is the suggestion that Samsung will give you if you tell them you aren't getting OTAs.

Sent from my SM-N960F
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] diam_84:
I know CRLI never released for EUR. The phone was DBT wen takes it. After format with sim inside. Become EUR. Because samsung phones take sims region csc if you format with sim. This is how samsung works. It's strange that after samsung properly action. Lose Ota. Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] nymphetamine88:
I am from Malaysia. Am currently on CRLO but am reverting to BRJ6 to get the ota. Will update again to see how it is :good:
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] CovasPs:
can u downgrade??
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] natworks_88:
Yes using odin and downloading BRJ6 from the first post. Am downloading Pie update for XME now. it is 1756.19MB through OTA
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] CovasPs:
i have RBK3 files.. are ok??
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Sebastien1984:
Hi guys,

Is there a way to update to CRLI with sdcard?

Im having issues connecting my phone via USB, it's not getting recognized since I got the beta. I tried everything. Even smartswitch doesn't work.
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] dachakragujevac:
You must flash it with odin,odin is on computer. How!? [emoji848]

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[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Darbar1701:
I changed my csc to XME and downgraded to brj6 but my phone said no updates were available, any ideas why???
[Samsung Galaxy S9+ Guides, News, & Discussion] natworks_88:
I am not sure why you can't upgrade but what is the original CSC of your device? Mine is original XME. Perhaps a more expert opinion from anybody? :confused::good: