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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
but im still ibit curious about of that 4g+ i saw...lol but again i think ill leave that one alone.

anyways i like tinkering a breaking stuff so its all good!

ive tried other European csc s and did not get into any trouble so thats why i went for the usa carriers.

guess we live and learn....

right now im trying to exorcise the device. ive enable encryption and then removed it. ive also disable oem unlock and enabled it.

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oh and if anyone could tell me if they have the RMM sate: ??? or KG state: ??? (i have KG)

right now my state is: 'checking' which i think is odd. When i get the binaries issue its at prenormal and people on the n960F that also get the binaries issue when at RMM: prenomal.

my question is what the normal state for KG: normal?

edit:

i guess it is. When on 'checking' status, if i reset/ wipe the phone, it automatically goes back to prenomal state.

so even though OEM is visiable and bootloader is unlocked, it is useless since state is not at normal. So i guess for now ill just flash back custom stuff and use the 'black mesa' exploit and check back in 7 days in dl mode if status ever changes back to normal.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Funny, our states are reversed.

I always had to trick the rmm to show oem unlock before pie. I would have to go back in time one week and try software update then set date back to proper.

With pie csa2 i noticed that build prop in system and in vendor don't have the rmm trigger. So tried to skip patching kernel i took from csa7 today, just flashed kernel and rooted with magisk directly (that patches for dm verity), and the phone booted fine, with oem unlock option working and togleable.

Did not check build props of system and vendor for csa7 yet, was just playing so flashed only modem and kernel from that one. I'll check it tonight when family asleep.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Aakash Kaushal:
Just a question, Im on AT&T CSAA firmware (n60u) on my Canadian (n60w, rogers). Should i go back to Canadian version of pie or should i stick with this firmware? Everything is working superb on U firmware.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
if volte and wifi calling are working, then why not. only thing I'm wondering is OTA. since you flashed manually, I'm wondering if you are from now on going to have to manualy update your device. which in the long run might be a hassle.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Aakash Kaushal:
Ota is the only problem for me.

Are pie odin files(Canadian) out?

Anybody have the link for that?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] DAGr8:
Samfirmware. I've got mine from there. All Official are there just takes forever to download
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] TRoN_1:
Samfirmware? Fuggedaboutit! Try here...

https://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model?exact=1&q=SM-N960W

or download SamFirm_v0.3.6
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Iain_S:
Use SamFirm, latest version, downloads in less than 2 minutes on a good connection.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
so I switched over to Bell. got a new galaxy watch LTE and Bell/Telus were the only providers offering the service.

As expected on Bell, was able to use the csc pack to get fully working wifi calling and volte on a n960n.

CarrierAgregation is still not 'working'. I do see neighbouring cell connections. so phone seems to be aware of other bands but simply isint connecting to them concurrently. I can manualy force connection to each of them but CA is simply just not kicking in and adding them together.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] WorldIRC:
Has anyone had their WiFi logo flash on them after updating? The connection appears to be fine and toggling resolves the flashing. It has happened twice now.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
others have reported this on international phones. cant remember which thread but it was recent though... sometime within last week or so.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Had it happen once or twice last month. Don't really know if I was on oreo on pie at the time though.

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Just for info. Few days back, I talked about being able to flash stock kernel and not having to patch it with latest oem patch from [MENTION=3931450]dr.ketan[/MENTION] root package. Originally on oreo stock kernel would cause 'no network' issue, and no one really talked about or mentioned anything on pie in that thread. Since there is no build prop rmm security trigger on pie, just an app which I deleted.

Since I had no network issues after flashing stock and only using magisk root, had not bluetooth problem etc. I assumed everything was fine, and I had togleable oem unlock.

Wrong. Stock kernel, unpatched and only rooted and verity patched (magisk does both), leads to huge battery drain. Tried everything in these past 3-4 days. I mean everything.

It was the stock kernel domass

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
I think there's an issue with the final release of pie. on the beta releases, performance and battery were great.

since, alot of custom roms have updated their base and regardless of using the stock kernel or custom(endurance)

I have experianced battery drain. I think the issue is deep sleep.

my phone cant even last overnight. two times now I've woken up to a dead phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Last thing I did couple hours ago was flash stock kernel, went to twrp, flashed dr.ketan root package, used oem patch, magisk you have to flash anyways, but promptly flashed 18.1 over that. Rebooted charged up. Man.... Since I had all the other optimizations done in past days including enabling doze for Google crap.

One hour on battery, screen time last half hour since posting here, lost 3%. That's it. No android system, gpm, android os... Nada.

Could get used to this.

But my phone always reported sleeping fine, with majority reported in deep sleep. Problem was that android system was eating 2% per hour standby, my cpu clock was pretty much always on highest frequency 95% of time, even when on power save mode. And while using prone it would show exactly double that of screen time. So 5% screen on, 10% of Android system, without any app installed, most **** frozen etc.

Listened to 2 hours of audiobook yesterday and lost 50%.

Wanted to chuck the phone in the ravine lol.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
new endurance kernel alows you to boot without magisk.

speaking of magisk, I'll revert to v18.0 just for fun.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
I can boot stock without magisk. Just verity patched. But if the battery is as bad as you say, and/or what I just went through. Thanks, I'll stick with stock oem unlock patched with magisk sprinkled on top.

So Bell? You're on a roll. Didn't you switch to Virgin just recently. Guess it's same network and all.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
went from virgin to bell cause of the watch.

and got into my first fight with them that same day. they are seemingly charging me 35$ x 2 since I got the phone and the watch activated.

I called and did the switch over the phone. since I'm an impatient guy, instead of waiting for the sim card to come in, I asked the rep to point me towards the closest Bell shop to get my sim and at the same time activate the watch on a new line.

obviously shop charged me 23$ for the sim. should have been 12$ but hey, I wanted it quicker. so no biggie.

the guy at the shop told me that by the way my first bill would contain two times a 35 dollar activation fee. I remember clearly that no 35 dollar charge was discussed when I was on the line with the bell rep earlier.( and since no documents are signed over the phone I can fight it and get it credited for sure, at least one if not two of the charges)

so got back home and called bell and got into an argument with a lady, she even hung up on me! first time a company has ever done that lol

I work as a tech support guy so I know how things work and I may have gotten under her skin abit but I was barely scratch the surface of my arsenal... anyways called back and talked to some other dude this time and told me that since no bill has been sent yet that I'll have to wait for it to generate and then call back to get what ever credits I want because right now since its day 1, no charges are appareaing on my account.

so apparently the 1st rep didn't even bother looking up my profile and just didn't want to be of any service. they kept on saying that 35$ charges are normal and is part of any company procedure to which I replied that if I had a family of 5 and added 5 devices, I would be charged 5 times 35 dollars?

I also replied that the activation fees are often waved and that 1 month prior I got the activation fee waved from my virgin enrollment. and I pointed out that bell owns virgin and that if her theory was religiously irrefutable about wavers of 35$ was true and that all companies had them no matter what, then how was that logic possible within the same mother company( that was the basis of her argument 35$ fees for everything no matter what). shortly after I asked to be handed over to customer retention since I told her that her views was one thing and that I needed to speak with some one else that had the company's interest at heart and at which point I was greated with silence and the eventual line being dropped.

anyways lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] blyndfyre:
I have a Pixel 2 XL that has been stuck in the RMA process for the last 5 weeks. Just sent back the third refurbished replacement they've sent me. Google support has been absolutely horrendous. I'm so tired of the exact same generic response that doesn't even come close to answering my questions about the quality and issues I'm facing on the replacements.

Was a previous Note 5 owner and must say I loved it, minus the battery longevity. There is a promo on for the Note 9 512GB right now and I'm wondering other Canadians thoughts on this? Is this one the Snapdragon or the Exynos version?

Samsung Promo: https://shop.samsung.com/ca/getmorepromotion

There is a further 10% off with SPC.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
[MENTION=8132601]bober10113[/MENTION] lol. That is why they're winning every year.

Worst customer support, most complaints to ccts, most billing errors. Gold in 3 disciplines.

They consistently beat out freedom that's known for meh support (great promos though).

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
makes me remember when Charlie Sheen was 'winning' at everything.

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its Qualcomm for sure. you can't order a exnynos phone from samsung and make it deliver to Canadian soil.

I tried. took me 1 month after launch for them to contact me and send a refund explaining that I have to order from the 'right' web site.

I knew exactly what and where I was ordering from.

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and now to top it off something got screwed up in the watch so I just reset everything. this time when I go through the pairing procedure it says: new esim profiles are 10$ lol.

when I did it the first time at the shop there was no such prompt.

guess when I get the bill I'll have a 3rd charge to complain about.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
This is funny.... Given that new rom flash to phone sometimes requires resetting the watch to pair again, there will be lots of $5 ready to be billed...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
bell are evil.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
Heard and experienced.... Unbelievable how they are surviving..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
https://mobilesyrup.com/2019/02/15/telus-volte-wi-fi-calling-non-telus-devices/

I just actually read the article and its BS.

only certain models. and of those models only other Canadian carrier's will be eligible. so no international devices... initially it looked promising...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
?

Oh, BTW, all my bs and conjecture about stock kernel turned out wrong. Again using stock oem unlock unpatched kernel, yet good battery.

Now perhaps related to the battery issue, perhaps not (don't want to jump the gun yet again lol) , but you might have to redo the csc pack. You said you copy pasted some stuff, might have sneaked in at least one bug.

I couldn't for the life of me turn on or use Nfc with latest csc pack. Forcing it just crashes settings app. Tried several times, reflashing between XAC and freedom.

Only flashing your oreo test version for pie works fine to turn on Nfc and go into payment services.

Can you please test and confirm or deny. All my latest tests from last night were on fresh formated rom and data.

Sent from my phone

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That might explain [MENTION=537184]Techvir[/MENTION] issues. Perhaps renaming his phone model in build prop might help him finally connect.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
the 'problem' was that there are 2 or more line breaks In the xml right before the actual quick settings entries.

but it shouldint cause any issue...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
and yeah you're right it is broken. I'll try to repalce the original xml to see if it fixes it. because apart from having added QS tiles and leaving the file unencrypted, that's the only differences
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
dont know when exactly in March tho..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
Telus already supports out of network devices....

My n960f worked, both volte and wfc
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
oh cool!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Just got it. Happens after reboot for me, very rarely, no worries. As you said toggling fixes it. No other inconvenience, other than visual.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
I just tested with stock original .xml and it works now.

what I'll do is do a test run with the same modded .xml but encrypted this time.

because removing the Space didint fix the issue so it's either the fact that the quick tiles have been edited or an issue with the .xml being non encrypted.

thers 1 thing also, I did change the number of QS entries....

I'll do more tests and report back

edit

so I dont know what state I was when I did v1.401 but nothing matches with the 960w firmware I just redow loaded.

either I screwed up and used the wrong device csc or there was an other update...anyways no wonder there were issues...I'll make a new version
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
so its fixed now. dunno what happened....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Is there a new link?

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
last 1 drive link should work

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this
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Thanks i saw it was edited 6 hours ago, but wanted to ask first.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
both xmls are unencrypted now
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
[MENTION=8132601]bober10113[/MENTION] View attachment 4708010
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
seems it's for AOSP not touchwiz?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
That's my phone.... Minotaurus rom

:)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
lol

ok I'll flash like right now!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
not many modules are compatible though...

Fsbi does not work...

Will try gravity

Edit : oops gravity does not have pie version
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
I'm having difficulty installing it..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
Did u install all the 3 files ( 1 apk install and the 2 zip files via magisk)?

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=78930102

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Also u have riru-core is v11... New one is v13
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] enroh:
hi team...I need some help. I have a Note 9 from Rogers. (Had it since Nov/2018). Anyways In short, in Dec I wanted to enable wifi calling. Option was not there. I went thru their hoops to enable wifi calling but it still wasnt there. Needless to say Rogers support was next to useless. I determined myself that the FW was bad and I should get a new phone. (I Know this as I installed my SIM into an unlocked 6 Plus I have and wifi calling was available.)

Rogers didnt get back to me in 48hrs back in Dec so in early Jan I called in to see whats up. They reset some stuff in back and told me to reset my phone, so I did. It did not work as I knew it would not. They say they will escalate the issue and someone will get back to me. 3 weeks pass. I talk to Rogers again, and looks like it was not escalated. They will escalate now and get back to me. This past Monday a full week and a half after that last chat they send an email saying the ticket is closed as fixed lol. I talk to them again today to essentially say wtf? I explained I know what the problem is and they should send me a new phone and I will send the old one back once I determine that dropping my SIM In there works as it should. I should point out that volte has also never appeared as an option.

Anyways 3 people later nobody wants to make me happy and acquiesce to my request. They want me to go in person to a store to have another tech confirm this (I did confirm with a tech over the phone previously) and I said no as they will give me a loaner while they send my phone for repair. I said no I want a new phone. The "manager" then says he can cross ship me a phone but it would be a refurnb. I told him no, and if he cannot make my request happen then he is to find me someone who can. Needless to say I am at the office of the president (w/e that means and does it really mean anything?)

:

TL;DR - I am looking for the Rogers firmware from Feb 6th thats not on sammobile bc I am in an endless sign up loop and samfirm isnt working for me as I vget this error

Checking firmware for SM-N960/CANADA/CA/N960WVLU1CSAA/N960WOYV1CSAA/N960WVLU1CSAA/N960WVLU1CSAA

Error: Could not send BinaryInform. Status code 200/400

Request was invalid. Are you sure the input data is correct?

Yes I amsure the data is correct - though what region should this read? CA? Canada? CAD? What? I have tried all those btw

So if someone can host me the latest Rogers FW it would be appreciated.

thanks

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I am going to flash this myself becuase **** sending this phone in for a refurb or a ****ty loaner while I wait for this one to come back,

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Figured out the region portion of samfirm...it wanted the carrier code. In my case, RWC for Rogers. Talk about trial and error methodology.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Squishie:
So I'm currently at a bit of a toss-up. Perhaps I can pick a few brains.

What I've been able to gather is as follows:

9600 = Chinese, Snapdragon, Rootable, Dualsim, Questionable band support in Canada, Poor rom/development support. Available on Amazon.ca.

960f = Korean, Exynos, Rootable, Dualsim, Decent band support in Canada, Solid rom/development support, absolutely zero warranty whatsoever. Available on Amazon.ca.

960u = Seen it mentioned everywhere, but I have no idea what specific model it is.

I'm currently running a 100% Stock Essential phone, and I'm ready to upgrade. I love this thing but the digitizer makes me want to stab a kitten.

I'm not looking to go the whole crazy rom-flashing business I used to do years past. I'd like the possibility of root/magisk to get rid of the crapware, but otherwise just be happy with it as-is, running stock.

If I don't unlock the bootloader, I would also be satisfied with simply "user-uninstalling" crapware via ADB, provided that's a viable option. I've heard using AdHell with Knox is pretty solid.

I'd like to use Google Pay alongside Magisk where possible.

I'm just writing down my thoughts for the most part here, but is there a more fleshed out pros/cons list between the 2 models? I'm currently with Telus.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
[MENTION=541710]enroh[/MENTION]

Looks like you have figured it out.

So yes.. RWC is rogers...

If the device is from rogers then it should work to get volte and wfc calling work with no issues.

If it is still not showing up, make sure you look in settings> about phone> status> ims registration . It should say registered. If not rogers has not provisioned ur device.

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Both n960f and 9600 is rootable and Bl unlockable. You should get full band support in Canada. However, carrier aggregation does not work. You may not notice a difference.

N960F has better developer support for roms but [MENTION=8132601]bober10113[/MENTION] has the 9600 \and most of the roms work on his device.

From reports 9600 device has better performance.

N960u is the USA device. Exactly same as Canadian device and you can odin flash n960u and n960w firmware on each other. Both are not rootable or Bl unlocked, atleast for now.

Since ur with Telus all these devices will work well for you and get u volte and wfc.

Magisk will work with playstore and no issues.

Xposed is not available for pie but edxposed works well but only few modules are compatible with pie for now.

hope this helps
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
actually i have the N960N

:)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
Oops... My fault....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Squishie:
Sounds like I should take a look at the Exynos 960F over the SD 9600.

Thanks for the input!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] enroh:
[MENTION=537184]Techvir[/MENTION] if I understand you correctly. It seems like no matter what I do to my phone it will never be provisioned on the backend unless Rogers does something correct? BTW, Office of the president called me and treated me like dirt. Shouted at me. Talked down to me. Talked at me. Still refused to give me a new phone rather than a refurb. Such utter bull****. I have never been treated so badly by any company, If I treated my customers like that I would be fired.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
who's the president of the office?