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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
does any one else have to enable the " mobile data always active " option in dev options to send or receive pictures in text/mms messages while wifi calling is on?

if i remove wifi calling and test, i can see the data radio kicks in while the picture is sent while still on wifi and then LTE logo disappears once the task is completed.

so i know the culprit is wifi calling.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
hey i can access ims activity again

nothing is blocked and all sub menus are launchable.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
using samsung phone info app
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Is this true for the rest of the secret menu options?

Just tested updated shortcut master lite app. True it works for ims, and nothing else.

Sent from my phone
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
give me an example of an other desirable menu
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/samsung-gear-360-white-spherical-camera/6000196512653
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
its y2k all over again:

https://mobilesyrup.com/2019/04/02/bell-gps-rollover/
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
so i bought it.

80$ delivered to my front door. brand spanking new not an opened box.

i can say that I'm happy to not have bought it full price( 400$!). yeah its an older model.

and yeah its completely useless!

dont know what i was thinking. or maybe i wasn't!?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/how-to-get-rcs,news-29144.html

1- i didn't know this.( i knew apple had it but not that android/google was working on something...)

2-aparently in canada( at least wind mobile) has it active

3-can any one confirm it actually works with the google messages app?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
I saw it enabled in IMs settings with virgin... I used the google messages but could not tell any difference than regular messaging... How can I know it's actually working...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
that is also a very good question.

edit

well not sure if it has anything to do with it but on stock messenger when wificalling is active i cant send images. they just sit there and eventually message sent failed.

if WC is not active it works fine. BUT WC on and using google messages app then everything works!

so looks like its time to ditch samsung sms
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyclops1055:
I don't know about RCS working with Android Messages (I think it does work with Rogers). I'm on Virgin Mobile and I'm using Samsung's text messaging app and RCS does work when I'm messaging my friend that is with Bell, it shows when the text meesage is deliverd, read and shows when the other person is typing.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
really? and we are talking about samsung messages and not google messages?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyclops1055:
Yes, I'm talking about Samsung Messages, see my screenshot.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
did you have to activate read reports in the apps settings?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyclops1055:
No I didn't, it just worked. Who's your carrier?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
bell
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyclops1055:
Is the person you're messaging also with Bell?

Out of all the people that I text, it only works with one person and she's with Bell and has a Samsung S9+ and I'm using a Note 9.

I found this link on Bell about Advanced Messaging (that's what Bell calls it)

Advanced Messaging
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
great info thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Modem settings, master menu. Used to be 197328640, but that got relegated to just info. The root of that menu till last year was 27663368378

Sent from my phone

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Bell and flanker support samsung rcs. Obviously other side has to be on bell and on samsung phone with rcs enabled.

Rogers and wind support google jibe version. Obviously google messenger only. Users of phone models not sold in Canada, don't get to connect to google version on Rogers or wind (Freedom).

Basically google makes deal with provider, who then has to implement it on the account, then Google whitelist only models that are either sold by said provider, or the providers country/region.

So yes still a cluster**** wild west, combined with the fact that you can't backup/restore rcs, makes me want to stick to plain sms for years to come.

Sent from my phone
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] AndrewNT219:
Question about Frequency

Will a note 9 bought in Korea work fine in Canada?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
To a good extent, yes
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
no issues here. after root, im on a Canadian CSC with all of the features working.(since bell dosent blacklist non carrier bought international phones)

but even if they did, data and making phone calls would have worked.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] AndrewNT219:
I'm sorry but what is CSC? And is rooting necessary? Is Bell the only carrier that allows such?

P/s: where is the thank you button? I'm a newcomer.

Edit: found it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
nope as i said, the extra features that a carrier offers like wifi calling and volte are the features I'm talking about(CSC).

again, even with out those working, by default, any canadian provider's sim will work in that phone.

edit

root is required only to have more fun!.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
Finally got April security update
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
so here is the latest installment of the csc pack:

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AhXVLDDj8g3AgeA6IyH1iTzQAGB4MA

originally created by [MENTION=5899304]Tkkg1994[/MENTION], ive added support for note 8 AND note 9. some mods were added to cscfeature.xml.

like: call recording, camera shutter sound toggle, samsung network speed indicator, data usage in notification drop down, some QS tiles ...etc).

Lately I've completely re-worked the install scripts to add xml csc mods on the fly. makes it much easier to update csc files. I'd also like to add that [MENTION=4280397]djb77[/MENTION] from tgp rom was nice enough to allow me to use a very big part of his install method and use it in this csc pack. So a big thanks goes out to him.

Right, now only Canadian and US multi cscs are available. gradually, I'll probably add more. but the goal was to add csc from devices that arent flashable on our international devices. So meaning that F csc isn't present right now since you can very easily flash csc home.md5 from a desired F variant and get your desired international csc like that.( but down the line i might add more. but since this is a Canadian discussion thread, the main goods are already in the pack and are ready to be flashed!)

As usuall, it is always recommended to make a full twrp backup before flashing this .zip

by flashing the zip, i cannot be held responsible for any issues that you may encounter by doing so.(booting issues, signal loss, sim card locks...etc. So again, do a FULL nandroid backup before!)

one thing to note is that i am now backing up both EFS and ODM(csc) partitions in .img format.

these backups are located in your:

internal storage/EFS_ODM_bak

folder and are time stamped. the note 9 will have odm and csc archives where as the note 8 will only have the efs image backed up. these .img archives are only restorable via adb or terminal in twrp. you can't flash them using

the twrp image installer button. these are used incase of emergencies and if you forgot to backup. but this is NOT a full system back, so beware!

if there are any suggestions or requests, i would gladly consider them.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
i just noticed that now when pluggin a quick charger to phone its says "advanced" chargin on a notification pop up. but when i pull down the notification menu it says fast...

and now that i want to take a screenshot of it, i can nolonger have it pop up the notification. i saw this a couple of days ago and didint think anything about it. now just saw it again.

edit

so its written on the AOD screen. wasn't a pop up like originally stated.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
does anyone know what system file to edit to get rid of the rotation lock icon?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] dakore:
"adb shell settings put secure icon_blacklist rotate"

https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS8/c...thout_root_using_adb/?st=jcwmahw0&sh=a506db69
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Aakash Kaushal:
How did you change status bar icons?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
im on rooted phone using bodhisattva 5.3 theme
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Aakash Kaushal:
Root on note 9 snapdragon? How??

I mean you will lose cellular isn't it?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
no no on an international exynos.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Adb as mentioned, or tasker.

Sent from my phone
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
When people tell me how Freedom coverage and reception suck. They tell me to try going to the movies and see that I get no reception in the screening lounge (fail to think why I should have need for phone there but oh well), to which I politely ask them to try calling from lower level racks in Ikea Etobicoke with Robellus.

Caledon, Brampton, Guelph, Newmarket

As compared to Rogers (second sim) , as well as Freedom Roaming on prolly Bellus in ravine, God's country in Caledon

That being said, this is not attack on big 3 per se, as I can vouch that despite screenshots, in lots of locations, rogers, with one bar less, will match speed of freedom (more bandwidth for most frequencies), but getting fed up with people who are not customers, perpetuate past perceptions of former Wind and their abysmal 3g performance.

Rant over ?

Sent from my phone
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
woohoo Raptors won.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5173641

anyone knows what the bandwidth cap is after the first 10 or so gigs?

if its 5 megs than not bad but from what i get about : "sufficient enough for email and web pages "

i wouldint be surprised if its under 1mbps and that would stink.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Same as freedom. Up to 256k. Except that for my 10gb lte + 4gb lte + 100gb lte overage data bucket + 256k thereafter, I'm paying $32.25 + tax for my line (35% f&f with 5 multi-line discount on my account, every one of my lines has either 25% 3 lines or 35% 2 lines). Hoping for another run of 35% f&f with back to school drive, so I can convert rest of my 25% discount plans to 35%.

Half the speed of 2g edge, but technically minimum speed that it can be called 3g for legal purposes.

Sent from my phone
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Night mode baby.

Was getting sick of using my phone for videos and wife's for photos in low light.

Off to test, heard great things about it, comparable to anything gcam has to offer for pixels.

Sent from my phone
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] dlshadow:
What carrier are you with?? I jist got my phone today thoight no new firmware with night mode :(
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] ma678:
[MENTION=2760104]Idan73[/MENTION], do you get VoLTE or WiFi calling on Freedom Mobile on your dual SIM Note 9?

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Freedom, exynos, dual sim, dbt firmware. I assume you're on Canadian model? In that case, not yet, but you'll get it eventually.

Sent from my phone

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Yes, thanks to [MENTION=8132601]bober10113[/MENTION] and his Canadian csc package. I keep it on XAC csc for broadest compatibility between carriers (at least those that don't whitelist imei for these features for only their phones), without carrier bloat.

Tested these features working on Freedom, Telus, and T-Mobile US. They all get VoLTE and VoWiFi. I think Bell is also working but never had anyone with Bell sim to test with XAC. But bober is on Bell with international phone as well. So yes.

Seeing from your signature, sadly one plus will not work.

Sent from my phone
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] ma678:
Did you have to root your note 9 before flashing Canadian CSC? I am thinking of selling my OnePlus 6T to get a note 9.

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
custom recovery/root is a requirement to flash the csc selection pack unfortunately.

but i mean if you get a canadian n960w youll have all of the csc bells and whistles without needing to root( nor can you on that model anyways)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] ma678:
I need a dual SIM model, though.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
oh yeah. well appart from the F variant the chinese or south American n9600 also has a dual sim model. ive never owned nor had a look at its internals so the csc pack wont work with it. but i mean anything is possible with some trouble shooting on helpfull user's part. id just need to know certain mount points. i could probably deduce 99% of this info just by opening a custom rom other zip destined to be flashed on n9600
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
I think there is no South American 9600 model. Only Chinese this time around. While note 8 had indeed had south American snapdragon model, 9 series in South America got exynos. And even 9600 would have to be rooted to flash Canadian csc, so I think he would be better off just getting exynos dual sim since lol the 3 of us still standing here, can help, rather than having to support the unknown that is 9600

Sent from my phone

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] ma678:
Why do you guys keep saying Freedom Mobile do not whitelist devices? My OnePlus 6T cannot get VoLTE or WiFi calling even its hardware is capable of both.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Well they do and they don't, depending on point of view. See, when I was on Rogers, with my s8, and bober with his note8 and note9, we were routinely kicked off advanced features, even though we made our international models, pretty much 100% compatible, and indistinguishable from rogers phone, cept for imei. People with phones bought from bell, telus and even Canadian Samsung store, faced the same hurdles. Maybe they still do, haven't followed up. I'm sure they do, cause I haven't heard otherwise.

Now, others while they don't offer support, and officially discourage people like us, they don't actively deny us. Which is why, when note 9 was launched last year on freedom, with VoWiFi but without VoLTE, with bober's csc and ims settings access with root, I was able to have that feature, full month before Freedom released firmware for their phones that enabled that feature.

Now what you are talking about is advanced features for the phone that was never sold, or officially supported by freedom, and especially not for advanced calling features, so while one plus, Huawei, ph1, etc do have android generic prerequisites for ims, don't know enough about mechanism for enabling it for them and pixel for that matter. What I do know is, that it is different from Samsung, which is different from LG,... Etc.

Now I don't know if someone had tried spoofing their one plus to report as pixel, and whether that would work.

What we are sure about is, if freedom, or bell, or whoever sell the phone, and have the advanced features for it, we can, with help of Mr root, make it work. With rogers/Fido, not so much.

Sent from my phone
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
ive never owned any other devices other than samsung, so i dont know how they're (oneplus for example) software has anything to do in relation with the carrier's advanced features.

for samsung, hardware is not enough. u need csc specifics settings.

so that oneplus device u have, where is it from? whats its target audience? because even if a provider dosent block ure imei, u might be missing something on the software side which i know nothing about in other devices. but we are on the note 9 forums so regardless of ure oneplus device, i reckon ure planning on getting a samsung right?

regarding black listing, telus,rogers and any subsidiary of these big 2 ( ie: fido) practice black listing of the non carrier bought devices imei.

so just buy international and don't put it on those carriers.

or wait till i get an note 10 and ill sell u mine...lol it will come pre flashed with a nice rom full of custom settings and csc that matches ure carrier....lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] ma678:
Thanks for you guys!

I cannot root my phone because work and bank do not allow root. Few months ago the same device did get VoLTE from Rogers, and it disappeared after a recent firmware update. It never picked up either VoLTE or WiFi calling from freedom mobile, though.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
So, you can't root, want dual sim, want advanced features.... IPhone
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
i updated cscs with latest available bases.

also added a bit more info in the read me text file created in EFS_ODM_bak folder that explains how to restore .img via terminal.( for emergency purposes)

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AhXVLDDj8g3AgeA6IyH1iTzQAGB4MA

i sure wish carriers posted what they update when they update csc. a couple months ago carriers were added that i saw in the files and i adjusted scripts to show them.

edit

OVY_OYN_CSCSelection_SM-N9x0X_V1.518

removed pesky NFC icon from status bar
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] prince_72:
Does anyone know if the W model supports Band 71?

I know the US model support it but I am not sure for the Canadian one
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
right off the top of my head id say since they are the same device yeah but i could be wrong. dosen't phonedb or frequency check have this info?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] prince_72:
It does not have the W.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
hum. check with the s9 W, should the same specs
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] gabrieludrea:
Flash U1 unlocked firmware on N960W

I'm sory if this question was asked before, I was searching all day for an answer but I couldn't find one.

So, please enlighten me, is it possible to flash a U1 unlocked firmware on the N960W, without causing any issues? After all they seem to be the same, harrdwarewise.

Thanks, my best regards!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
well i wouldit try but some say with patched oding 3.13.x b it might work. but id only flash AP.md5 if i were you, skip BL.md5

any reason why you want to attempt this btw?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] gabrieludrea:
Well, I got my hands on a N960W but I am using it Europe, and there are some things that are bugging me off even with the unbranded XAC csc.

1) No data and hotspot toggle. I recon this is an issue specific to the Canadian firmware, no matter what csc you select.

2) Network mode selection in the settings, introduces some other categories than the standard ones used in Europe. So I'm expecting to find something like that:

WCDMA/LTE/GSM (Auto)

WCDMA/GSM (Auto)

WCDMA only

GSM only

But this is what I actually have:

CDMA

LTE/CDMA

GSM/UMTS

Automatic

which is not cool because in this area we don't even have CDMA networks, plus I would like to have the option to select WCDMA only or GSM only for signal stability purposes.

3) The phone shows 4g connection when it should show H+ which is misleading

So I was thinking to try the unbranded U1 firmare for the US, hoping that I would get rid of those issues.

What do you guys think, is there another way to achieve the desired results, or I just have to live with those downsides?

I would like to keep the phone and not switch to the european version because I like Snapdragon variant more, the battery holds incredibly well.

Sorry for the lengthy post and thank you in advance for your suggestions!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
so you dont really have any issues and if so mostly cosmetic. and you want to risk bricking the device for that?

there are apps to add quick tiles.

if i were you I'd stick to the current firmware.

good luck
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] gabrieludrea:
The issues are not only cosmetic. If it's possible to improve my user experience, I would just like to experiment but without taking any chances, of course. This is the reason I'm asking your opinion, I'm new to the Note 9
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
well on a non rootable device, your options are next to none.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Other than quick tiles which is cosmetic, and bober pointed out there's apps, your main issue is band choice.

Well... *#2263# is your friend. You'll be happy to know w model still has that working, for fine radio control.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
you guys on the F models,

can you get wcdma to work?

edit:

funny enough, gsm dosent work.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
I can force wcdma (which shows as 3g,h,h+,4g depending on provider, tower, and loaded csc (explaining 4g crap). I can force GSM on Rogers (borrowed sim) and working, obviously not on freedom, since it just does not have it.

You're with bell... You do know that bell and Telus went from CDMA to wcdma (GSM), so same applies as with freedom.

Only rogers/Fido have GSM 2 and 2.5 g network.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
thanks for the detailed explanation. it prompted me to go read a bit more on the subject:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/300986/cdma-vs-gsm-whats-the-difference
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] ma678:
Do you guys use 960f/ds or 9600? Which variant has better battery performance? Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
I'm on n960n which is virtually identical to the n960f.

aparently the n9600 would have better battery
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] ma678:
Does n9600 come with a locked bootloader? Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
they all do come locked.

the question is which are unlockable, these:

n960f

n960n

n9600
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
so i guess it might be implied but i wonder if 5g phones Will be backwards compatible with the current lte networks.

again, I dont see why it wouldn't...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] force70:
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Yes i would think for sure, the s10 5g absolutely is at any rate.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
lol so its a hard yes!

just love xda and its sql quirks ( or its fabulous xda app that is just marvelous at handling refreshes...)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] force70:
Yeah it does that alot, you would think they could get the damn app to work properly considering its content lol