[Samsung Galaxy Note 8 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] QSquared:
Trying to Activate on Verizon

It's an unlocked SM-N950U, I received it from Amazon with the SM-950UZVAXAA Firmware running on it.

The Sim is a Working Sim from my Galaxy S8+ that was bought through verizon.

(That S8+ has a broken screen so I am moving off it once this phone is able to activate.)

IEMI shows clean, and Verizon Care team over phone said I have to go to the store to get a "Demo Sim" and they would be able to finish the activation.

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I am a little concerned because after going through the process to get a rooted Nougat 7.1.1, I am seeing the carrier display as AT&T on the phone status screen.

I found that when I put the Sim in the phone notices the Sim is there and tries to connect to a network under automatic or when I use manual but always fails.

But, the Sim Info is missing when I look into it's details under phone status, I am not sure if that is because of something wrong, or just because I am not on the network.

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I do see a huge list of verizon APNs for Verizon and tried selecting a few including looking up some settings onl8ine and trying to create my own off of that, and also took the settings from the S8+ and created one with that just in case., but no luck so far.

But If I go under Network Providers If I try to join networks other than Verizon or AT&T it just errors immediately that the SIM won't allow it, if I try to use Verizon or AT&T the Phone sits on Registering for a minute before giving a status in the notifications that it can't connect to AT&T/verizon)

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I spoke with a Care team member from Verizon for a couple hours on trying to activate it last night.

The Care team member had to look into it several times but confirmed that the phone is able to move over is unlocked, and is allowed even from other carriers, ad went through and did some stuff on her side, but ultimately said that it wasn;t working, and their instructions indicated to her that I needed to go to a store to try a Demo sim.

She said this is pretty common with phones comen from other carriers, that it's free, and that it should solve the problem, and ocne it works then they can transfer my number to that sim.

She said it there was still an issue the store might make some changes to my phone in the store as well but IDK what those might be.

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I wonder if the SIM on verizon is encrypted somehow and the verizon firmware decrypts it normally so you have to us a non encrypted sim on the phones ported for other carriers?

(I may be way off base just looking for scenarios which could fit the info I have at hand)

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yeah in both cases you needed the Qualcom drivers.

I foudn that I had to flash the FA71 a coyuple times to make it work, the first time I was in EDL mode with qualcomm drivers the recovery.bat file didn't do anything except time out and access denied.

I think my problem there was I was using a USB 3.0 Cable.

I reflashed FA71, rebooted the laptop, got into EDL again, and then connected the phone to the laptop via the USB 2.0 cable then I was able to see it as qualcomm and ran recovery.bat, which then worked correctly.

If you can see the phone as EDL you can flash to the phone using ODIN so you can flash the FA71 or another bootloader if you wish, at least I found I was able to , but i's not going back a week and I don;t have a detailed set of screenshots and notes from the experience to be 100% certain, this is just what I get from the quick notes I jotted down after getting it to work.

I had to reboot the computer and get into EDL again then re-attach the phone.

ALSO I had to MAKE SURE TO USE A USB 2.x Cablebecause I have USB 2.0/3.0 combo ports.