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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] hkalltheway:
Just confirming to report that this worked! I can confirm VoLTE working on my device now. When I make a call, it sticks to VoLTE.

Now, I want to figure out if there's any way to get this working on Fido, since I have a dual sim device and my second sim is Fido. We all know about their whitelist. I previously proposed changing imei to a Fido device on a rooted phone, but were informed we cannot talk about that here on xda. I didn't do much with that then. Now, that I have had visibility to IMS settings for the first time, I have a few thoughts:

1- we know fido/rogers have an IMEI whitelist and don't provision devices not purchased through them. However, with iPhone, they all work, regardless of where they were purchased. That peaqued my curiosity... What if we change the user agent in IMS settings to that of an iPhone? Since all iPhone should work regardless of imei, would a user agent switch possibly work?

2- further down the ims settings page, there's an option in debug to "add fake capability info." Any idea what this may be about?

I'm on a quest to see if we can all work together and find a way to make IMS working with Rogers / Fido, and hope everyone can help!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
i just ditched rogers for virgin.

everything's working now.

screw Rogers and their subsidiaries

[MENTION=1053675]hkalltheway[/MENTION]

btw if the provider dosent white list your imei , there's nothing you can do. thus why i simply ditched them after 2 years of waiting and screwing around with settings and pipe dreams. i was like you once lol today was the last straw.

problem solved.

ive also updated test version ro v1.400

added quick tile settings for virgin and global wind or what ever your provider is.

if it dosent flash go to tour build.prop and change crownlte??? to crownlte

save and flash back csc pack 1.4
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Welcome to VoLTE, VoWiFi, VoSMS on international phones.

Yes I can confirm playing with every conceivable IMS option and setting on Rogers / Fido before that for number of years, and concur, unless whitelisted..... Crap.... Gave up as well last summer, and was extatic some months ago when I got it working on Freedom.

Be careful, of video calls (VoVIDEO) on bell/virgin. Heard they are not free and unlimited as on Rogers (which are counted like regular minutes).

Don't have to worry about it myself, as we don't get that option yet.

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Glad you got it working.

Pay it forward, when you see someone else needing help with Freedom and F/FD phones. Not that many of us. Counting 2 so far lol.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
I really though Rogers would eventualy cave in. looks like I was wrong. people have been complaining for years now on their forum and truly thought i could wait it out.( but with my luck i wouldint be surprised this year might be the year...lol)

for anything v lte i dont have any use for it but like anything else, its good to know that it works and can have acces to it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
Good to hear that you have switched from Robbers!!!!!

Sucha shame that they play these games.. I switched from Rogers for the same reason and horrible rates...

Now with Koodo as I got a great deal... They are a subsidary of Telus.. For Telus everything works but Koodo has screwed up something..

Might have to jump ship again!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
lol Robbers

haha never heard of that 1 before. very funny. ill be sure to quote you on it!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Not sure if you saw some of my previous posts, but this will help you have more consistent and proper band 66 experience.

Right now you are mostly on band 4 and band 7 with international phone. While it works, you are not getting most consistent speed and coverage for freedom network, as they are only 5 and 10 mhz respectively, vs 15mhz on band 66. You can see it *#0011#.

If you go to *#2263# and try to set band 66 preferred, it will not work, and will still default to 4 and 7.

2 ways to mitigate this. Now that you have VoLTE, you can simply set lte only (lte all) , and that will fix band 66 being primary connection.

Second way is to disable one unused lte band, for example band 39, 40 something, etc.

This will fix it as well. Don't go back to automatic menu after setting this as it will override previous settings.

Now when you go to 0011 you will see that you are mostly connected to band 66, just like Canadian Note 9, and will fall back to band 4, 7 and 13 only in absence of 66, as you should.

All is well with the world.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] hkalltheway:
Wow, this is awesome! I can confirm it's working way better now and my speeds have almost doubled! The fact that it showed "LTE" up top, I thought everything was good! But, it was not that fast until now. Thank you! Looks like you've really figured this all out for Freedom haha
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Unfortunately we don't have access to master codes since shortcuts master stopped working as a result of samsung tightening screws with oreo. So we can't do anything with carrier aggregation, mimo etc.

Although in all fairness, Canadian Note 9 on freedom has ca disabled as well, while it works just fine on Canadian s8 and s8+.

Some in Niagara falls, and waterloo region report speeds of CA 66 + 66 and 66 + 7 upwards of 180 to 200 Mbps. Max i Got is 109 Mbps on single 66 connection in GTA (while the averages are anywhere between 20 and 60 depending on congestion, distance from tower etc).

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
are you freedom mobile guys able to connect to band 2? its 20mhz...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] hkalltheway:
So mine just shows "crownlte" without anything after that. This is despite having installed the Alexandr Oreo Rom. Can I upgrade to Pie?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
yeah. dunno what happened with my korean phone...

but u can use my new test build if you want ( in test folder)

you will have the benefit of additional quick setting tiles.

one thing i noticed is that volte tile is toggle -able.

wifi call isint. but you can just go to the phone app and go to the 3 dots settings and enable/enroll for wifi calling from there.

once done call your self with an other phone. it should force ims to register. then toggle volte and you should be goog to go.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Only when Roaming. In fact I'm on it now in Caledon. I assume I'm Roaming on bell or telus, due to shared infrastructure.

Freedom in GTA has band 66 15mhz, band 7 10mhz, band 4 5mhz, band 13 5 mhz. That's quite small, until you realize freedom has only 1.4 million users, compared to 10+ million on rogers network, and roughly 20 million on telus/bell shared network.

With carrier aggregation it can get quite respectable speeds, then again anything above 10 Mbps, unless directly downloading large files, is bound to be unnoticed.

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With me both are togleable. I didn't use latest flash, added them for myself a while ago and they always worked, once IMS app was properly setup for freedom.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
in pie or oreo?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Sorry oreo. If you were talking about pie only, I missed it.

I Don't dabble with pie yet. Traditionally I'm the holdout for major versions, as I find they break more things and become more security strict with every update. So if I can update without bootloader update I dabble, but more then likely something is broken due to old bootloader, and ince taking that step there's no going back.

Lol took me 3 months to switch to oreo from nougat.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
ya was referring to Pie issue( on beta)

but you dont need to update to a pie BL to to try it.

for me the big takeaway is that i really like gravity box and flat styled colored bars modules. can almost not live without them.

and for now i suspect my issue with wifi toggle being frozen is related to oreo csc on a pie rom...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Yup, that was a big reason why I stayed on nougat for so long. First I was waiting for Canadian oreo csc, cause nougat csc was fckd. Your insights into csc changes have been invaluable. Thanks. Then I got really busy with work.

Plus I had few issues on oreo while on nougat bootloader that somehow didn't bother others but annoyed the hell out of me.

Haven't been back on xposed since then as well. Yeah I miss those 2 apps, and make due with few substratum mods instead.

Might try pie with oreo

bootloader and will probably make full switch once the Canadian pie is released.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
if i remember correctly, oreo came very late in the game for Canada.(even for samsung standards) wondering if this time around it will be the same.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
so apparently in my last pie test i was not patient enough.

moreover the quick tile behaviour is a bit different. in oreo i would long press the wifi calling tile to get to the registration/activation menu. from there i could click the url to go through the enrollment process or simply turn on the feature if the device was already enrolled. on Pie after a wipe ims needs time to register either by provocation or by waiting. anyways today i tested lates official build from dr.ketan and i did see the wifi calling tile was kind of greyed out/non toggle able like i had seen on a previous beta build. so no surprise there. i continued my way into testing other aspects if the build. i eventually noticed that phone had registered and i saw the wifi call logo pop up i the status bar. i went to the quick launch tiles and wifi calling tile was fully functional. so all in all pie works 100% with oreo csc. now i just got to iron out playstore licences not restoring and the damn blue tooth pairings not being remembered after reboot which as this point dosent make sense that its a OS issue. in the past oreo was blamed and was renowned to have this issue. Now on pie i have the same issue. Id doubt samsung would have the same issues again. ive never used fully stock firmware but just for the sake of it, might revert back to full stock PIE since its now available in samfirm tool for my device.

edit:

i though id get used to it but... anyone else find the new oneui big and retarded? the notification and quick tiles are a mess. way to big, not refined at all...it just feels like a step back...towards apple.

just tired of companies trying to mimic them. i wish they would just go way... go bankrupt or something lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] dakore:
Hello dear Canadians! I was lucky enough to win N906W. Sadly, I figured out it is imposible to get CSC for Croatia (that's where I live) since this model cannot be rooted. That means no voLTE/voWIFI for me...

On the other hand, my phone is on latest N960WVLU1ARJA firmware. I haven't inserted SIM card during initial setup and I ended up with BMC region.

I'm wondering would it be any difference if I start setup again with SIM inserted in order to get non-branded XAC region? Is there any benefit having XAC over BMC at all (notice that I don't live in CA or use your providers)?

Right now I can notice some Bell apps which I frozze immediately and most important I cannot add/edit/view APNs (connection-mobile networks-APN). It says "unable to view the APN settings. Access is restricted for the current user profile". I have working LTE, but I don't like having no control over my APNs.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
[MENTION=8132601]bober10113[/MENTION]

Increase resolution. And otherwise play with dpi in dev options to get the look less disturbing.

To my Croatian friend.

Yeah some providers are more strict, and some more lax in allowing APN and voicemail changes, it's all in csc. XAC would help with that at least. Sadly not with advanced calling features due to no root, and no chance of flashing your csc.

True that you can not root, but good thing is that the master code works to force change csc for Canadian version to XAC.

If you had Canadian sim once inserted it would automatically prompt reset and would switch to that csc if the initial setup was done without sim. Because you are putting Croatian sim, I'm afraid it would just stay on BMC.

So google for the code for w version. Can't remember it now, but I know I came across it recently, and it also works for us that have international phones with Canadian csc.

Not sure if the old method still works *#272*imei#, but the newer code does. You just have to find it.

Got it :

*#243203855#*

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] lbarouf:
This SM-N960W sold in Canada is single sim only? The hardware for the second sim is actually missing, correct?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Yup

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] lbarouf:
None of the Canadian carriers and roaming partners allow VoLTE when roaming? I have a few SIMs when I travel for different regions. When in Canada, I will have at least 2-3 in devices in Canada. I noticed none of them with be able to use VoLTE. Some even attach to 4G but drop to 3G when a call comes in. Thanks Rogers! Anyone successfully using a device in Canada while roaming and using VoLTE? I'd be curious to see the config. N960W with stock firmware won't allow, so it's not just the device software, I believe they either block at the VLR or the home carriers bar it on roaming. Any idea?

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Since the dual SIM version isn't sold in Canada, is there a recommended version I shiuld aim for ? I don't plan on rooting my device, I would like to use Canadian bank apps, I don't care much for neither Google pay nor Samsung Pay, but would be nice to have a way in case I want to use it in Canada. When travelling, not so much. I would use this device mainly for travel, but it would be with me roaming in Canada often. Band support for the Americas (north south central) and Europe bands is most important. VoLTE in Canada on Rogers with a Fido/Rogers sim and video calls is a nice bonus. The cheapest N960F/DS I see seem to be from Malaysia. Should it work? Any advise? Specs wide it seems fine, but what about the software?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] dakore:
Hey! Thanks for this, I'm now officially on XAC. Luckily I googled about this code and saw it factory reset the phone so - beware whoever read this and make a backup :)

So far so good, I managed to add APNs and I can see/edit them so it seems everything is good now. And no more carrier apps!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
Cant agree more..... I hate the new UI with those large legacy icons... So much wasted space on the screen with the top half being occupied by a big blank area.

However, I think it is samsung's way of making the device operate one hand or make it easier for people who have smaller hands...

There are so many good and better devices out there but lack of pen support and the developer support is what is keeping me with Note series....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
im hating it by the minute. everything takes 1 more step to do.

for instance i the bluetooth menu, its impossible to rescan. either have to toggle on and off or go to the details link and do it from there.

but it is fast though...fluid.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
What rom are you on ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
ketans. i wrestled with the damn bluetooth like i always do with his roms. but looks like his fix worked after an hour of screwing around. i always end up flashing rom 2x because it never works the first time with all the finicky stuff with his essential fix and stuff.

but right now with ALL my apps restored i am very surprised at the performance. i guess ill know for sure in 2 days. but since i got the phone, it really feels like the fastest yet. i did run it the whole day but bluetooth was not remembering pairings so why ive been trying to get it working. and battery life did seem descent but once ive setup my daily go to apps ill know for sure.

for now apps are 'dormant' and have never been ran once since restore. usualy in 2 days lag and performance issues will appear once i get to use them and foogle play updates and revives them...

but it is looking promissing. enough for considering to stay on pie... but i really miss xposed...

i miss nav bar left and righ cursor scroll

i miss status and nav bar dynamic background tinting( good for diminishing screen burn)

wonder if i can find non exposed alternatives
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
I have been on ketan rom for the last few days... It is fast but not the fastest in my experience. However, feature wise this is the best now..

Once xposed becomes compatible for PIE there will lot of options for roms..

Devbase and some of the non-xda roms like Alexega( from 4pda) are quite fast and stable as well but they have not incorporated some of the features.

Few good things about PIE I like are the inherent darkmode, ability to compeletly hide the navigation bar without any third party apps and ofcourse much much faster than OREO.

I have not used the navigation bar in the last 5 years or more since GMD gestures app was released.. I find it is such a waste of screen real estate and gestures work wonderfully to replace them.

Taichi is virtual exposed but very few apps work with that now... It is a temporary solution but it does not support any system mods now.

I really wish Magisk advance to a different level to replace xposed... This might be a better long term solution.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
i agree on magisk vs xposed.

also i forgot, i tested also:

https://sites.google.com/site/minotaurusrom/minotaurusn9

still on beta dec. patch but his rom control has the most mods for pie ive seen yet. quite impressive.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
I did try one of his earlier versions...I can't remember why I left ...may be try again once he releases the pie stable version
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
appart from still being on beta, turn key 1st boot everything working great was a big plus in my case. but in the end i opted for a pie 'stable' build but this bluetooth and other random no root prompt issues are killing me each and everytime i switch over to ketans. but to be truthfull right now i do have it running good so i cant complain.

also 3minit clock and data traffic gauge is like the bare minimum of mods i can live with since no xposed lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Tried flashing stock dbt pie.... No go. Goes into bootloop. Dirty flashed only modem, system, vendor, and kernel. Which is what I always do, with exception that I also flash bootloader, when I know what to expect.

Don't wanna flash bootloader yet.

Don't want to play with custom roms yet, cause you just mentioned reasons ^^^, and I have very limited time for play lately. This lack of time is also reason why I don't really want to wipe completely and see if flashing partial stock is going to boot that way. Maybe I missed something, and if I can dirty flash, I do, I did for years.

Restored twrp oreo for now. Not without its issues as well, cause restore first time of system, data (restoring data is necessary as it gets corrupted after pie update with same symptoms as trying to boot pie itself) , etc. ends up with system not mountable and not boot able. Then second time just system gets it going.

Don't really know where I'm going with this lol. Just reporting for fun.

P. S. Lots of navbar options with good lock app. And as I've mentioned before I'm living without xposed for a while with few substratum substitutes, but can't test for reasons above if they are good on pie. Ohayoubaka & Draco are Devs behind samsung mods I'm using on oreo.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
did you try a custom pie rom instead of firmware?

and for good lock pie is limited to crap for the time being.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
is there any sort of dark mode yet for pie, if so where?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
High contrast themes not enough?

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
well i thought there was a 'mode' ...lol somewhere. embedded in oneui
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Don't want to deal with bluetooth issues etc.

But yeah I tested stock firmware after wipe for few hours. Boots fine. Partial flash like I mentioned before. But don't have time or nerves to go through new setup so restored twrp oreo backup.

Mixed opinion about pie. I do know that I prefer hidden nav bar, and 'one hand +' that I'm using on oreo over new samsung nav.

I'll play a bit over next days to try to see which app is interfering with oreo to pie update, have few suspects. But if I can't I'll probably stay on oreo for a bit longer.

One thing I noticed for freedom users, you don't have to do IMS settings tricks to get VoLTE anymore, with pie. They included recent GLW changes that were only on Canadian model to international rom. So flashing proper csc gets you both VoLTE and VoWiFi right away. This is good cause shortcut master lite no longer works at all for launching ims settings.

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Last I read about it was talk about android o systemwide dark mode, but we've heard that before.

High contrast theme, + individual apps dark mode works well enough for me.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
There is the dark mode also called night mode that can be enabled for system including quick panel, system settings, dialer,etc..

For some other non Samsung apps I use swift installer...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
yessss thx thats what i ment!

its awesome!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
There is quick tile and it can be easily be toggled....works very well.....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
yeah you are right. dont know how i missed it. my mind might have classified it as screen tinting towards brownish...amber lol

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anyone know if canada even get a beta program?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
I missed it as well.

From what I see this is identical to high contrast 2 theme from oreo ,now built in system, while the themes themselves are actually removed from oreo at least for me and look different on pie. Instead of orange and these blue highlights, now the themes are yellow and light blue in the store.

Spending night setting up my phone on pie. Titanium only gets you so far. Tedious but had to. After finding original culprits ,was able to boot to pie with dirty flash, only to lose wifi completely.

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