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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] WorldIRC:
Unfortunately not the same as the update we got this week (which was just the security patch). I'm sure by Feb, we'll see this patch.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
Samsung is a bit tricky in that respect becoz of their regional thing... Most of the other phones do not face similar issues.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] mrnovanova:
????Feb 2020 that is ???
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] hkalltheway:
Wow, thank you for this!! I can confirm I have got VoLTE and Wifi calling working!! To confirm if it's working, the trick for a Rogers / Fido sim is as follows:

First, insert your SIM in a legitimate note 9 that was purchased from Rogers / Fido. Leave the phone on for around 10 minutes...then the whitelist catches it, and on that phone, wifi calling and VoLTE start to work...

Turn off that phone, and take out the SIM, put it back into my rooted Note 9 with bober's flash

Voila! Wifi calling and VoLTE worked...for a good 10 minutes!!! Screw rogers / fido for not whitelisting other devices though...after 10 minutes, it doesn't work. At least I know it works, and I will switch providers because I know Telus and freedom allow unlocked devices on VoLTE and Wifi calling.

Now, onto another two important questions for Bober:

1- I am keeping stock firmware. Although I rooted, I want to keep stock firmware. I installed your patch and at least confirmed that I got VoLTE and wifi calling to work. Now, when there's an OTA update, what do I do? How do I update my phone...period?

2- If I ever want to factory reset my phone, is it safe to go to device settings and "reset?" Will that break anything? What is the best way to restore to factory?

Thank you, Bober!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
1- u have to manualy update your phone. root = no OTA

2-thats one way to do it. Have you installed TWRP recovery? if so you can do it there too.

edit:

there was an update for W8 firmware and csc also got updated. not sure exactly if its only cosmetic( just a version number increase to match new base) but never the less i updated csc.

also i might/can include quick settings shortcut tiles. as you know it can be done manualy with a PC. using a cheapo front end i made for the csc decryoter/encrypter.

most popular missing tile is:

mobile hotspot

any other?

edit2:

i just thought about what i said and i cant be modding all sub carriers of XAC ... too time consuming.

would need to decrypt on the fly in aroma and not sure i could pull it off. ill let the real devs figure that one out.

anyways for those wanting to edit their cscfeature file with the tool, decrypt, and replace this whole section and then re-encypt and copy back to phone and set right permissions:

check text file attached (besure there are no space or line breaks)

https://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4608264&stc=1&d=1538299827

updated v1.1 xac csc is now up too:

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AhXVLDDj8g3AgdYon_ESoxOk04eI2w

as usual do a twrp backup first and all credits to tkkg1994
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] hkalltheway:
Thanks for all the help! If no OTA, how do I update the firmware? Odin? What should I do and what options should I select so I keep root and twrp?

Also, I'm new to this CSC stuff. What exactly did you do for a lay man? I don't know programming. In the future, can I extract a Canadian CSC from Canadian firmware and flash that through odin? In principal, is that what you did? Would you mind giving a walk through to a total noob like me? I am curious what you do exactly to get the Canadian CSC. As of now, your zip file is super helpful and just an easy flash. What if that is not there in the future? What do I do? Lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] LitoNi:
Quick question, I want to see if this is a regional thing. Do you all have a mobile data toggle in the quick settings ?

Cause mine doesn't ? and if you do, where did you get your note 9? Maybe I want to flash another regions firmware...
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
[MENTION=8132601]bober10113[/MENTION] thanks for your front-end for csc decrypter.

Please note that csc files don't have to be re-encrypted. This way people can edit them at will if they are packaged open in the aroma. Just like we did in the old days.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
i never tried to copy back unencrypted. i always assumed they had to be reconverted..

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i dl 960W firmware. convert and extract csc/odm update the aroma zip and thats it.

i modified tkkg's script so that anyone can just copy over contents of new csc when there is an update. acctualy csc doesn't realy need to be up to date. only a few carriers here and there have major additions to CSC when a new OTA is pushed.

so next time you update your N960F/ds or N960N with new stock or custom rom, just flash back my modded zip and youll be good to go.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Quick informational observation for freedom mobile users and unlocked international galaxy phones. Specifically issue with band 66.

See my note 9 from Singapore with original csc had band 66 prominently on top in hidden network shortcut from nova. It also showed preference for band 66 15 mhz when checking with *#0011#. In absence of band 66, it would fall back to band 7 10mhz (band 4 5mhz indoors), as it should and it mirrors the behaviour of Canadian Note 9 with freedom csc.

Now in order to get VoWiFi, flashing GLW (freedom) csc, something strange happens on exynos devices.

Hidden network shortcut no longer shows band 66, and connection preference falls to band 7 and 4, only falling back to 66 when first 2 are unavailable. Carrier aggregation works thankfully so in certain areas there is still 15mhz total throughoutput. Unlike Canadian Note 9 that has carrier aggregation disabled.

Tried unsuccessfully to compare original Singapore csc to spot what exactly makes modem behave this way. Managed to find workaround though. If you manually disable one or more unused bands in *#2263# (i disabled band 46 that as far as I know has to do with small cells 5g and is definitely unused), behaviour returns to normal, giving preference to band 66 15mhz (although it still does not show the band in hidden network shortcut). Tested same with s8 duos exynos (disabled random unused band), and behaviour is corrected in there as well.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
[MENTION=8132601]bober10113[/MENTION] as you are the foremost knowledgeable on csc behavioral instructions, would you happen to know what exactly triggers VoLTE checkbox to appear in system settings/connections/networks. I know it has to be a combination of csc and sim card.

See all the recent galaxy devices on freedom have gotten VoLTE, except note 9. Tried unsuccessfully to trigger this setting, even partially adding it to quick settings, but without the toggle, no dice.

Its probably something stupid, but comparing csc from s9+ and note 9 for GLW, brought no results.

Thanks.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
maybe latest firmware for note 9 simply didn't include it?

i based my v1.1 csc pack based on 1ARH6 . on rogers i have everything working. so i suspect that that build didn't have the new wifi calling and volte features for freedom and koodo as i have herd reports that both models dont have those recent changes. best thing do to is get a hold of a n960w user and check with them if they have those options.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
I know latest firmware for note 9 does not include VoLTE for Freedom. It does however include VoWiFi as it was officially launched with it. And I have it working just fine on s8 duos and note 9 duos (F/DS)

Was only inquiring if you know what exactly triggers it to show. When I tried to spot a difference by unpacking September s9 and s9+ csc that has it (VoLTE) enabled on Freedom, couldn't spot a difference.

I guess I'll have to wait for official note 9 launch of the feature, but if it's going to be mid month small Ota update only for freedom, like s8 and s8+, it might be a long wait to get full Odin files.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
wonder if using adb to pull the files out of omc of a working phone would do the trick to get them instead of waiting...

i suspect etc/keystings.dat file has whats missing..

but getting the whole omc folder to compare would help

one thing i noticed is when manualy changing the files and copying then over via trial and error versus starting with stock csc and fresh rom and flashing the correct files and modifications once, yields better results. so once phone has changed its csc and ran its sequence but you did not get expected results, its doomed till next newer revision is flashed. sometimes i purpously switch to a random csc and then reapply the one i want to make sure the switch is done properly but its a quick and dirty approach and dosen't always work.

its as if once the phone applied what aver it could after first reboot and android updating did its thing, subsequent attempts to modify files manualy just dont take affect. so i often restore stock to figure if things went well when applying modded csc.i believe other parts of the phone whether it may be in root/system or elsewhere get a modification of somesorts due to new csc. thus why i restore often to stock to determine if flashing the moded csc pack works or not.

edit:

(restoring pre altered efs and omc aka carrier files in twrp and wiping system and caches and flashing a custom rom should also be a good alternative to flashing back to stock)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] whips:
Does Samsung Pay on the note 9 work with MST here in Canada? I'm asking because:

1) this is my first Samsung device and first time trying out Samsung pay

2) I am yet to make a successful payment at a terminal that doesn't support NFC

3) I notice the "tutorial" overlay on the US note 9 illustrates both NFC (phone hovering over NFC reader) and MST (phone hovering over magnetic reader), while on the Canadian Note9, the tutorial only illustrates NFC.

Is there some special setting to turn on MST? Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] mrnovanova:
That's a very good question. I was wondering the same thing. I was able to use MST with the S7 edge and the s8 plus. But it's not working on the Note 9 for some reason. I don't know if it's because it has been deactivated or the terminals don't support MST because we haven't swiped credit cards in Canada for about 3 years. I know MST used to work back in the day because it would trigger a signature request from the terminal. Maybe someone else with more technical knowledge could chime in.

MST is the only advantage S-Pay has on Google pay.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] whips:
So I did some more digging on this. It turns out interac doesn't work with MST and as such MST is only available for credit card transactions. I personally tried it and it worked for my credit card but not debit card. Kinda sucks but it is what it is
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
[MENTION=8132601]bober10113[/MENTION] solved... First VoLTE Note 9 on Freedom mobile.

Way before official Freedom launch ?

Now I definitely don't regret leaving Rogers, or buying F/DS on a hunch that I might make this work, even though I was unsuccessful previously with s8 and s9+ international.

Time to sell s8, note 9 Canadian, as I don't need them for testing anymore ?

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] bober10113:
so what did u do to make it work?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Found a way to launch ims settings app. Edited Wind VoLTE IMS profile, to include lte instead of just wifi (noticed before that while connected to wifi calling, the default android network screen (shortcut from settings, using nova... Basically screen you get with stock android when *#*#4636#*#*) showed volte connected as long as VoWiFi was on.... That got me remembering something I was messing with few years ago on s7 edge when we had easy access to ims settings app... And Rogers Sammy phones had unlocked bootloaders... Yes I'm talking about volte on hspa lol, mainly for video calling over 3g, like some providers in europe. Never worked properly but options were there) . Checked services to include and saved. That enabled option in the phone settings that was missing no matter what I tried previously (even using csc package from s9+ without success. Everything should have worked, but alas). Turned it on and rebooted phone.

So figured that as freedom launches volte it updated ims database as well (something others providers already had) to include volte settings checkmark.

Sadly none of this helps to force rogers Whitelisting imei bs. Tried throughout last year while on nougat, as well as dozens of phonecalls trying to threaten and /or con my way into them adding my imei.

P. S. Now need another Freedom user to replicate this on international s8, s9, and its bigger brothers, or another note 9 phone so that I can check if forcing VoLTE-Video would work.

Somehow I have impression there is none of those browsing xda lol.

Now I'm set till pie screws it all, and locks out more things from community.

Sent from my phone

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BTW: Unrelated to above, continues your work from few days back...

Wifi,SilentMode,MobileData,Flashlight,RotationLock,Bluetooth,Nfc,Location,AirplaneMode,PowerSaving,Aod,WifiHotspot,BikeMode,DormantMode,BlueLightFilter,SFinder,Ebook,Cast,Cellular,ColorInversion,DefaultData,DeviceVisibility,Dnd,Intent,RedPacket,WifiCalling,AllShareCast,PersonalMode,VoLte,UHQ,TouchSensitivity,SmartStay,Toolbox,Sync,MultiWindow,UltraPowerSaving,ScreenCapture,UDS,Hotspot,QuickConnect,SmartGlow,EdgeLighting,PowerPlanning

Shamelessly stolen from TEKHD Detonator, and credit for the quick settings list goes to him, although I had, and known of, most of these over the years.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
[MENTION=2760104]Idan73[/MENTION]

Can u elaborate a bit more please....?

U added the new tiles to qucknsettkngs and then what are the things that unchanged in IMs services?

Can u post some screenshots?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
You think that I don't elaborate in my posts? ?... You're the first lol

Quick settings list is for people to pick and choose what they want to add in csc themselves. Continues topic [MENTION=8132601]bober10113[/MENTION] talked about Sept 30th. Unrelated to Freedom, VoLTE, and IMS

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] mrnovanova:
To be fair you could have spruced it up with a pie chart or two???
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
Finally figured out... For me wifi was enabled... However when I had to manually register the profile... Once I did that volte settings showed up in mobile settings... I was excited and enabled it... However calls are not volte..

Also the wifi calling settings does not show up in phone

Is their anyone here who has note 9 n960f device working with Koodo for volte and wifi calling?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Could be several factors.

If you're not getting VoLTE, even though you enabled it, it could be your kodoo profile. Put sim in kodoo phone from friend that has these features, and do a check, as well as register for 911 for VoWiFi.

Could be that you might have to call Koodo to check if your profile has these features enabled on account and provisioned correctly.

Make sure you flashed correct [MENTION=8132601]bober10113[/MENTION] csc for kodoo (personally i unencrypt the files for my provider, repack, so that I can change and edit lines on-the-fly.

If Koodo has it officially enabled on their own phone, that should be all. The options should be there...

Oreo introduced 'unified wfc app' for VoWiFi, and stock firmware should include it on note 9 (not included on international s8 for example, but needed for Canadian csc for example). Have a check if your rom has this.

I assume you have everything properly checked in ims settings, and that's what you meant when you said 'manually register'?

Sent from my phone

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Just checked your csc files for Koodo, and everything seems fine. You should have wifi calling, voice over lte, no rcs, no video calling. You should have it working provided things above... ^^^.

I'll reiterate.

Unified wfc app in firmware, correct csc flashed, correct things checked in ims profile, your profile on Koodo end.

Lost my pie charts, here's a ?

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
Awesome....

I will have to check wfc app is present...

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
I have added the tmomobile wifi calling app from tekhd but i am not sure if there is a separate wfc app for canada.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Nope. System/app/UnifiedNFC/***app*** + your csc properly applied, gives you wifi calling option in phone app.

My firmware is stock Singapore, and it has it, so I wouldn't say separate for Canada.

T-Mobile app = proprietary

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
I tried to extract the file from system.img but failed. Can you please share that file ?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
So you don't have it?.... What kind of rom is that? Kinda think it's a bad idea troubleshooting stock things with custom rom, unless you made it yourself... Just too many variables. Also kinda unfair to anyone trying to help, unless that person is on same rom. Could spend days troubleshooting, and it could be something simple as missing app lol, cause rom maker finds no use for it, and no one's wiser

CLICK HERE

Make sure correct permissions are set for folder and files after copying in system/app

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] MikiMau5:
I saw that this was brought up before and someone had flashed their model with firmware from a slightly different model number, so just restarting this discussion since it seems like it should be possible.

I just bought an SM-N9600 variant of the Note9 and am using it in Canada on the Koodo network. I was looking on SAMMOBILE for the specific firmware I would need (below), but this would be for a SM-N960W model number. Really, all I'm looking for is getting the country code adjusted to Canada so that I can use the Canadian pay app and install country-specific firmware. Any insight as to how I can get the CSC changed on this model (currently has this as the firmware: Hong Kong, 2018-08-17, 8.1.0, N9600ZHU1ARH2, N9600TGY1ARH2)?

Canada (Koodo Mobile)

2018-09-26

8.1.0

N960WVLS1ARH6

N960WOYV1ARH6

Any insight as to whether the CSC can be changed to Canada on this model and how to do it?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
If you got root, and twrp for your model, it's the same as the rest of us with f model.

You will trip Knox and lose samsung pay and secure folder. That's about it.

If you don't have above, or unwilling, then I don't know. American threads might have more insight.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
U won't be able to flash the W firmware even though both are sd.

However u can root and then flash the csc
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
[MENTION=537184]Techvir[/MENTION] So you got it?

VoWiFi + VoLTE?

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
Short answer No.

- I get Vowfi and Volte working well when I put my sim in an iphone.

- Koodo had already activated the features on my line. It is an addon and it is good.

- My phone is note 8 ( sorry for encroaching on the note 9 thread) . I was trying to get the files from note 9 to get it working for note 8 as I am for sure that note 9 is fully supported for these features in Koodo.

- With the files and all the help, I have now volte settings and wifi calling app. Both are showing activated on my phone. Inspite of this I cannot get both features to actually work.

- I am at the point of getting Note 9 ( N960F) . But I want to be sure that both of these features will work on N960F with appropriate csc alone.

So I am waiting for someone with n960F on Koodo to report that it works.

The reason for getting N960F is development support since I like to used custom roms, rooted apps and so on.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Is it possible that you have to call Koodo to whitelist your imei on note 8. IOS users are exempt from this particular policy. If the network has feature and supports specific iPhone model, every single phone from that model qualifies, no matter the source of purchase.

Last I heard about it (this info was about telus and might be outdated but Koodo same ****), and while I regularly browsed rogers forum and begged, threatened, filed complaints to crtc etc., then left, I remember reading that telus also uses whitelist, but can be coaxed to add imei. That was one of the arguments made in the thread, why rogers and bell are biggest assholes, cause they won't budge.

The only ones really I know for sure don't use whitelist are videotron (got confirmation from user from Quebec) and freedom. Although no official support, which is fine (few times I called about freedom model gave me impression I should avoid calling tech support at all and any cost).

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If you're in GTA and don't mind driving, I don't mind flipping to Koodo csc and popping your sim in it.... Testing... and switching back. Ten minutes tops.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
Thanks for the amazing offer to check it . Unfortunately, I am in Ottawa. I hope someone here can give this offer :)

I called Koodo again today and they are saying my line is provisioned. They even reset everything..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
There is a difference between line being provisioned and phone imei being provisioned. That is IF they are using Whitelisting. I do not know if they do or not.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
They told me they do not actively block any phone from using volte or wifi calling. They have a list of phones they support and if they are from Koodo they are guaranteed to work. However, if a non-koodo device has the capability then it will work. So there is no whitelisting of imei.

So international phones are supported.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idan73:
Not to discourage you, but since figuring out what my issue was on note 9, I was able to apply the same to s8 f/ds and both services are working on freedom. So there's probably nothing inherently blocking you on note 8 vs note 9.

Note that there is difference in the way csc is setup in system between last year's s8 and note 9. It was smart for bober to limit his csc flash edit to crown device only.

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[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
I have posted in koodo community. Hopefully someone will get back.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Guides, News, & Discussion] Techvir:
Has anyone purchased note 9 from this seller on ebay ?

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/NEW-Samsung...LOCKED/332773775550?var=541896310789#rpdCntId