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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
[MENTION=4463570]force70[/MENTION] been a while... What you on now ?

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] asif9t9:
I just bought an N960F. Trying to use it with Telus in Ontario. I put my SIM card from my old Telus S8+ and it works. But the data speeds are bad with the default APN settings. I've messed around with settings online and I sometimes get 4G+ and full speed, but later I look at my phone and it's saying 4G and the data is lower.

Anyone have the right Telus APN settings for an N960F? Or do I need to register my phone with Telus? I took it to a store and the guy said if I connect, there's nothing more they can do. Thoughts? This is my first time buying an overseas device. Would rooting help?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] force70:
Note 9 and S10plus.

Note 10 for sure if they dont ditch the stereo speakers!

Hows things with you bro?

---------- Post added at 04:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:05 PM ----------

I have an exynos Note 9 on rogers and a rogers S10 plus, generally speaking the Note 9 doesnt get as good a signal or data speeds as the Rogers device.

This is due to carrier aggregation and some of the modem bands are not the same. Im using the rogers LTE APN on both.

I think telus has at least one or two different bands than rogers (dont quote me on that lol). This will either improve or make reception worse depending on device compatibility.

I know not the answer your looking for but hopefully gives you some insight into whats going on.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] asif9t9:
That's good insight, thanks. Would rooting help? Feels like a bit of a lame duck phone compared to my S8+ with "Canada's fastest speeds". Lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] force70:
I dont believe rooting would help no, unless that would allow you to enable some extra bands (which we sued to be able to do years ago).

Having an international version does have a few disadvantages true but that unlocked bootloader, root, twrp and roms is the other positive side to it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
does anyone know the string to edit in the csc xml file(s) to enable editing of an apn?

i want to add it to the csc pack while updating a few csc revisions.

also if any Americans want to test XAA multi csc and/or people from europe/middle east,asia or Oceania test DBT multi csc

in this:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhXVLDDj8g3AgeA6IyH1iTzQAGB4MA?e=4PYK4d

XAC multi csc is already working fine and tested so i need Americans or Intl. people.

also like anything beware you might get sim lock in which case would need to restore stock firmware.

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
[MENTION=8132601]bober10113[/MENTION] as far as I know it's in customer xml.

Sections where it says Editable >>no<< Editable.

These deal with bookmarks, landing page in browser, as well as allowing APN edits.

[MENTION=4317695]asif9t9[/MENTION]

It might... As a posted to force70 (stupid xda... Lost the post to [MENTION=4463570]force70[/MENTION] and don't have the time to type again... Oh well) , we can get 4g+ international=lte+ Canadian carrier aggregation to work, but still wouldn't recommend for someone not fully comfortable with rooting, flashing, etc.

The only way, that bober discovered, is to totally wipe csc/odm, and boot (heh did it with custom firmware flash and noted the discovery, I did mine with meticulous deletion of any and all references to any csc, cause I'm running stock firmware and it took me number of tries), which defaults the modem to factory default, which allows dual band carrier aggregation on Canadian networks, then load proper Canadian provider csc, that bober has graciously kept updated for us all this time.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
one weird thing I've noticed, maybe the internets are wrong,but F and N variants are supposed to have band 7. i check again on the same internets and Bell and Telus seemingly operate a 2600mhz 7th band. when i manualy set it to 7 i get no signal. so i decided to make the phone search dor available networks and i come up with Ext and Videotron networks.

then i thought about apn and thats why i am wanting to edit it and see. but i suspect that any modification to it wont change/allow me to connect .

can anyone on an F use band 7?

are the internets wrong?

am i going insane?

btw thanks for pointing to the right xml, i got lazy and should have known. but i guess it was a pretence to bring up the band 7 thing...lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
so i made a few modifications concerning un branded csc because since it contains settings for all carriers, it was not taking into account some of the edits in featurecsc.xml.

i noticed this because xac did not get the wifi calling option in phone settings.

ive added the correct mods to customer.xml for wifi calling and video calling and apn edit to true.

but the ladder did not allow me to edit apn.

what am i missing? ive uploaded a new version of the csc pack that adds these things.(v1.531)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Got band 7, 4, 13 and 66 on freedom. Can force to it as well (by disabling other bands leaving only 7) .

Always had wifi calling options on XAC loaded on freedom, so confused bout that. But maybe some specific setting in bell section either disables that, on dails to enable it. Like I said, on freedom this is fine.

You seem to be right. Changing Editable no longer seems to work. Not that I ever needed it as you can just add the new APN and select it as primary, so fail to see why this is important.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] asif9t9:
Ah this looks like the tool I've been reading about. You created something to change the CSC without rooting. Where are the instructions? I want to change my n960f from a UAE phone to Telus.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
This is only with root.

People from the rest of the world can change without root (personally i find it harder than rooting, but they want their samsung pay lol), but Canadian providers are not part of international multicsc. So we root, and flash bober's Canadian multicsc with twrp. Then we play with IMS settings to get VoLTE and VoWiFi (cept rogers/Fido).

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
yes so very true about adding an apn instead of editing one...why didint it think of it...lol

for band 7, i checked and bell does seemingly support it according to different internet sources. oh well
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
As I said when I go to 2263 menu and select disable bands, and disable all Canadian but 7, I can force my provider to it, which is how I know I have it although rarely used due to prevalence of band 66 on freedom.

When I'm Roaming on nationwide, in adition to 4 and 7 and 13 (no 66), I also connect to band 2, 12 and 17.

I guess thats all Canadian bands we have so far till someone launches 71 and 600 mhz spectrum which will probably be tied to having 5g phone and having to buy from provider.

Things are not looking up for us tinkerers.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
i force band 7. didn't think i had to also disable the other ones because forcing a band should imply that it wont switch. ill try just for fun to disable all other bands.

edit nope didnt work. disabling all bands except 7 just kicks me to 3 g so its basicaly the same results as having no signal on forced band 7 since there is no failover to go to.

ill try band 7 when im in another region just for the heck of it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Without disabling others, choosing preferred band only works if all conditions are same. So if band 4 is full signal, and band 7 below quality threshold, it will stick to 4, for example. So for troubleshooting I use disable menu.

Strange. Maybe bell, while having spectrum, chooses not to deploy it in certain regions since they have abundance of other bands.

At this point you might look for user on bell, with provider phone, in your area...

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
so looks like i was in a spotty area...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] costy11:
I am on Koodo, without volte and wfc working but have the options enabled and have gone through the IMS settings like you advised on page 51.

I also have talked to their support and they keep saying I am fully configured.

I dont have CA working and was going to try the wipe csc/odm but dont know how to do it.

Can you provide some quick pointers?

Thanks!!

My device is SM-N960F/DS
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
I was with Koodo and tried everything to get volte and wfc to work... It will not work unless u r on a north American device....

I eventually moved to virgin....

Miss the amazing phone deals but now have a slightly better plan but awesome volte and wfc... Also CA works
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] revisioncuda:
I'm stuck on may update , how about you all?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
this is the latest. if yours dosen't match just download it and flash with Odin:

N960WVLU1CSE3
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] peterg21:
Rogers yesterday evening released the July update which includes night camera mode. Over 700 MBs.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
cool. then anyone wanting it just DL RWC firmware with samfirm tool 0.3.6 to get it. all canadian csc are multi csc by default and will work even if you are not with rogers.

edit i check XAC and its still not updated but again it dosent matter for the reason stated above.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] inthedark22:
I'm going to Vancouver and Vancouver Island on holiday in November. Im from Europe and have the exynos note 9. What's the best provider / coverage in these area's? Any suggestions for a simcard for 2 weeks?

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Joshua Mr PC Repair:
So just flash them all I'm currently on Bell
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Joshua Mr PC Repair:
Anyone notice this

Just got it with July update Rogers
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Cyclops1055:
Notice what?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
It is new charging animation when connecting charger...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Joshua Mr PC Repair:
Yeah apparently it's the same as The S10 phones confirmed by Sam's mobile
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Makes me wanna weep when I see this bandwidth + carrier aggregation.

Travelling in Bosnia, third rate country politically and based on gdp, that was all but destroyed in the Balkan wars of the 90's.

"Unlimited internet" for equivalent of $24 cad. Slowed down after 10gb every 5 days renewal (so 60gb of lte per month).

The only "inconvenience"... I have to type the rate code ($3 cad) every 5 days lol, as it is prepaid card. None of their 3 national providers show signs of strain, they are making profit and aggressively advertise for tourist dollars especially during summer.

Next week off to Croatia with $35 true uncapped unlimited lte and calls, then Montenegro with 90 gb for 10 euro. Now from the news, their main telecom is on the verge of insolvency, but not due to low prices, but because of outright theft by executives and corrupt politicians.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
in north america they do that to us but we embrace them by enrolling with new contracts.( "we" meaning the general public)

my last contractual phone was the exy s7. since the lock down, ive never looked back. i prefer to send my money abroad and pay in full than play their games.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] dakore:
Guys, what to use on non-rooted n960w in order to prevent future android updates or disable showing update notifications? Freezing update.apk or blocking update popups/notifications is what I preffer to do.

I'm on latest oreo and planning to stay on it. I used adhell untill samsung f* us up with changes with licence keys. Right now I'm using PDP pro (older version) but it's not working anymore. Again. They want new purchase which they would not get from me for third time. Nope.

Bk disabler is also rip...

Any alternative?

They hardly advertise it for common tourists but mostly for dijaspora people. Pay anything for one week ability to share pictures of cevapcici and janjetina with your friends abroad :D jk

Enjoy your vacation!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] raul6:
have a look at CCSWE app manager (Samsung) on GP
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] slayer2333:
Hi Folks, i am willing to downgrade my 960w fido note 9 to the latest oreo 8.1 firmware (ARJA). Can anyone provide a link to a fast download location or upload theirs if available ? So far with updato or sammobile i am not exceeding 120kb/s and it will take 10 hours to complete.

Thank you in advance!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] dakore:
Thank you! I've never heard of this app (or read about it), weird... Works as advertised :)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] gruuvin:
It still seems like it's the last Note.

10 is a joke.

Samsung has become a joke.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
Hear it every time with every device, whether it is Samsung or apple or others

Why don't you tell why u think its a joke.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-fix-the-latest-android-bug-thats-draining-your-b-1837170436/amp
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] prince_72:
Is there a way to convert the W model (Canadian) to the US model (U or U1) ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
i belive its as simple as using patched odin and flashing u1.

but dont take my word for it.

and also why would u want to do that???
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] prince_72:
Is that simple?

I want to use my Note9 with an ATT sim card in order to have wifi calling and VoLTE
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
no idea if that's going to work or not but apparently u1 wont have wificalling working. so ull have to use U firmware. but again not sure if it will work or not. searching xda for something similar seem to point that some have done the reverse, on an s8 U flash W firmware. so technically the reverse should work.... but that was on a s8:

https://xdaforums.com/tmobile-galaxy-s8+/how-to/flash-canadian-firmware-bloat-free-t3602667

patched odin:

https://xdaforums.com/android/software/patched-odin-3-13-1-t3762572

user beware.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] prince_72:
I read those links but I was not sure if I use only the patched odin would work. I thought maybe I need a combination firmware as well

I am wondering if someone has done that successfully so can report us the process
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
there is no mention of combo firmware. anyways it wouldn't make things work any better even if the procedure included it.

so it would be pretty simple:

flash U firmware with patched odin.

but i wouldnt be game to try...lol unless you're still on warranty.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] prince_72:
I was trying to flash as you mentioned but the patched odin was sitting idle on the setup connection and was not doing anything. I re-install the new drivers and change the usb cable and odin flashed it. :)

I flashed it with a U1 firmware marked it as AT&T downloaded it using the samfirmware app.

I will reflash it a U but I don't see any AT&T firmware. I thought the U is the branded firmware

Let's see now what I have and get back to you
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
check xda discussion. venom posted it
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
https://www.redflagdeals.com/deal/c...-off-the-samsung-galaxy-note10-with-trade-in/

wow up too 1000 off...(note 9 tradein)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Samsung flavour of rcs, live on freedom (in adition to google rcs with Google messenger) , with bober's csc on unlocked f model.

Great... now I have total of 1 person to try this with.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
OVY_OYN_OXM_CSCSelection_SM-N9x0X_V1.534.zip:

"now with 30% more better writing"
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
if any one cares to test a test version under the test folder within this link:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhXVLDDj8g3AgcVU7LbF6RVfFwZQXA?e=P7Gvgc

thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] dlshadow:
Hello, a bit of a newb here and I need some help.

Few months a go I got a Unlocked Dual SIM Note 9 [SM-N960F] of Amazon and I'm totally in love with it. That said I discovered that it's region locked to United Emirates XSG and I don't get any updates from FIDO. I also don't get a few other features like wifi calling.

What Firmware would I need to flash through Odin ??
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
well if it were region locked you would not get a signal and be able to use in on fido in canada. ( which is what i understand since you say that ure not getting ota with a fido sim). you can simply manualy flash firmware to the most recent patch. there are a few tools and sites that allow you to download firmware. search for samfirm tool 0.3.6 or check out sammobile site.

if you care to read/search this thread, there was discussion on which carriers allows BYOD devices to use their advanced csc features such as volte and wificalling. Fido is unfortunately not one of them.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Any particulars, or just to test for stability?

Freakin xda. Couldn't login for over a week.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
i changed scripts to reduce file size and use common HWRDB and spidb keyboard lang files(acctualy HWRDB was already common for a while. spidb is the new part) so more of a reliability test. i did update XAA and cant remember if i also updated XAC for note 9...lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
On a side note. Freedom is killing it lately. It all started with wifi calling suddenly showing up on samsung international model firmwares during summer as [MENTION=8132601]bober10113[/MENTION] noted in other thread. My daughters 2 year old s8-f got wifi calling working on freedom last month. Past week, VoLTE started working as well. Today I realized she"s got full carrier aggregation (on band 66 as well as others).

Lol, now me with our little modem trick that enabled carrier aggregation for robellus, but not for freedom, don't have it, and my daughter on stock dbt, unrooted, aggregating on band 66 (Steeles and 410 Costco side), clocked at 180 Mbps, vs my 87 Mbps download. For freedom this is huge.

Gotta figure out how to bring my modem to normal, without going through firmware reset ?.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
dont you have an old backup of efs? because nv_data.bin is the "culprit". it stores what ever magic that carrier and device exchanged to determine what advanced features are possible.

but anyways cant you just full twrp backup to sd card and flash stock and just restore everything except efs and csc and take it from there?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Yeah... That did work. Kinda. Flashing old efs, brought back all the crap things that your accidental discovery fixed months ago. Namely default Roaming on band 66,rather than falling back to 4 and 7 and 66 only in absence of those. Good news wifi calling, name display and volte still worked even under dbt csc flashed with Odin, not from your PACKAGE, but no ca, even with latest firmware.

Flashed back the efs backup from yesterday, CA or no CA.

Mind you all I did was extremely dirty, and have actually introduced some bugs to my firmware.

Might force me to clean flash in the future, and retest, but not just yet, no time.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] ma678:
Good news for international note 9 users. Does it mean Note 9 with sd845 gets all advanced features out of box?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
YMMV

I can only vouch for s8 and freedom now. Lack time for proper testing on my note

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Yeah no luck on fresh install and European firmwares. At this point now even sure about carrier aggregation for Canada (Freedom in particular) on general s8 international models. Don't get me wrong. It works on my daughters phone, but I did play and turn on carrier aggregation for this particular phone way back on nougat, before modem access was taken away from us.

So not sure if this is just this phone.

As for me, oh well. I get to splurge when I'm Roaming on big 3, when I leave gta ?.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
next update for Ns, ill flash full stock and see if CA appears.

also, is CA even working on Ws? if so since when?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
I lost CA few months ago... Did not bother to restore the files to get it working...

However for note 8 it has been working consistently with no issues...

Virgin mobile..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
korean just got september update. going to restore full stock and see whats working and what is not.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
From my side... I finally flashed combination firmware and played with that. It is interesting. I can get access to modem, and all secret codes work. Namely *#27663368378#

Played with ca lte settings and revision versions as well as lte rrc.

Thought it was going great, cept for the fact that in this modem there's no ca pairs to choose from, like I remember from s8 on nougat.

Alas from my limited testing. All the changes get reverted to whatever your csc/provider says. Flashed twice and noticed reversion to previous state.

When going back to regular firmware, I flashed bootloader, kernel, modem, and twrp. Then without booting, from twrp restored only system, data, and csc (note without flashing or restoring csc phone will boot up as not having one, even though combination itself does not contain csc).

Turns out ca pairs that are existing, none of them are for band 66. Which explains why I get carrier aggregation on bell and Telus card with band 4, 7, 17 etc. And freedom did not enable ca 4-7 for example, while others did. Only 66-66. Which as I did some reading only comes with rrc release 13 and my modem software is maxed at REL. 12, Cat. 10

Making it 18 ca pairs of uselessness for me.

Still stomped by my old s8 though. Till this summer, couldn't get default 66, always preferring band 4 and 7. Same default behaviour as my note 9 out of the box. Then July update hit and I had default 66 and ca 66-66.

Did they up the modem rrc version? No idea?

Oh well, was so happy for a moment.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
how to check rrc? is it only seen in combo?

for me in the poor coverage area that i am, 66 is way to slow.