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[29.04.2013] NEW ROM Korean Galaxy S 4 (SHV-E300S) Region: SKT PDA: E300SKSUAMDK)

Another fine ROM For other variant of Galaxy S 4 - Korean Version (SHV-E300S), this rom is provided by Samsung-Updates.com, and thanks for the Sammobile who first found this release
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Device: SHV-E300S (Galaxy S 4 - Korean)
Region: SKT (Korea)
Android: 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)
ChangeList: 507268
Build Date: 19.04.2013
PDA: E300SKSUAMDK
CSC: E300SSKTAMDK
MODEM: E300SKSUAMDI
Download Firmware (E300SKSUAMDK, SKT) Here
Download Kernel (E300SKSUAMDK, SKT) Only
Download Odin 3.07 (Flashing Program) Here
You will be able to get all the versions as soon as Samsung releases it at: SHV-E300S Firmware Repository Page from Samsung-Updates.com
Enjoy!
AL
PS: This download is powered by Samsung-Updates.com , Sammobile and Samsung's KIES !

Unfortunately I bought a SHV-E300S (32GB).
AT&T and T-Mobile puts this phone on the GPRS slow lane.

this i shv-300s )

SKT Hidden Menu helped me. I'm on T-Mobile 3G now.
T-Mo is bring their 4G network online today. Maybe.....4G for the SHV-E300S is coming.

soundping said:
SKT Hidden Menu helped me. I'm on T-Mobile 3G now.
T-Mo is bring their 4G network online today. Maybe.....4G for the SHV-E300S is coming.
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Hey there, how did you get the shv e300s imported to you? I am in the UK and I cant seem to find anyone importing the phone here. How did you get yours? Thanks for your help

I bought mine from ebay. It came from S. Korea factory unlocked and preset to english.
Looks like the seller isn't selling this model now.

video call
soundping said:
I bought mine from ebay. It came from S. Korea factory unlocked and preset to english.
Looks like the seller isn't selling this model now.
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I also bought this 1. the problem is that I can't make normal video call.
when I press video call, it says "video call is not supported in international roaming area"...
the same sim used on my s2 was ok before.
any chance to get custom rom to fix this?
plz help....

how can i factory unlock my SHV-300S and remove all the bloatware? Can i uninstall them all?? I am a noob,help please!

avishaan said:
how can i factory unlock my SHV-300S and remove all the bloatware? Can i uninstall them all?? I am a noob,help please!
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Where did you get your SHV-300S ? if you imported in then it should be automatically factory unlocked.. Also if you wanna remove the bloatware use this app Link2SD and by the way be carfeful what you remove as you can brick your device just make a full rom backup and save it some where before you proceed.....

N1NJATH3ORY said:
Where did you get your SHV-300S ? if you imported in then it should be automatically factory unlocked.. Also if you wanna remove the bloatware use this app Link2SD and by the way be carfeful what you remove as you can brick your device just make a full rom backup and save it some where before you proceed.....
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Look.. I got my mobile from china,it showed on the model number that it was GT-I9505,it was already factory unlocked,i wanted to remove chinese bloatware by downloading another firmware,but when i got on the download mode,it showed korean language and showed that it was shv-e300s. then i had to download korean firmware because the mobile did not go past the samsung logo. after flashing,it was fine,but there are loads of korean bloatware,atleast 15
it is also factory locked,and there is the SK telecom boot animation that shows when restarting or shutting down,i would like to remove this also and replace it with the official samsung logo.
how to factory unlocked? i have rooted the phone already.

avishaan said:
Look.. I got my mobile from china,it showed on the model number that it was GT-I9505,it was already factory unlocked,i wanted to remove chinese bloatware by downloading another firmware,but when i got on the download mode,it showed korean language and showed that it was shv-e300s. then i had to download korean firmware because the mobile did not go past the samsung logo. after flashing,it was fine,but there are loads of korean bloatware,atleast 15
it is also factory locked,and there is the SK telecom boot animation that shows when restarting or shutting down,i would like to remove this also and replace it with the official samsung logo.
how to factory unlocked? i have rooted the phone already.
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i got the same model as you, its got the same boot up screen as you the SK Telecom full hd.. But mines factory unlocked ??? Also im pretty sure you dont have to flash the kernel if you am flashing a rom, i could be wrong. here try this post it got everything you need for your e300s http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2284543

New xda user SOS!!
Hi, do you have a link that has the E300S Firmware,Kernel and Odin for flashing i.e. E300SKSANMH3_E300SSKTMHK3_SKT zip file .with a faster file transfer rate coz sammobile's terafile link is downloading at 10kbps it will take me 3 days to download it. I need help. Thanks.

[Completed] [Q] Accidentally installed branded firmware on my unbranded S4 i9500. How to revert?

Hi all. My S4 was rooted on Kitkat, and I ran a software called "Dr. Fone" from Wondershare to retrieve some lost messages. The software attempted to root/unroot and seemed to have messed up my root. I tried re-rooting and while Odin said "Pass!" the phone was stuck at the Samsung logo on boot. Clearing the cache and wipe data from recovery mode did did not resolve.
I looked on Sammobile for my country and found a "jellybean" firmware and used Odin to install. It came up fine but it appears locked to one of the carriers in my country. I use this phone when I travel and would like to have it unbranded again. Is my phone screwed? I see an unbranded firmware for Russia, but reading the instructions said to make sure your phone is unlocked, but now it seems locked to a carrier with the rom I installed. Is there anyway to get out of this situation and get back unbranded. I am afraid to try the russia rom and dig myself in a deeper hole.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Zmantaz669

Hi, thank you for using XDA Assist. Once a phone in unlocked it will remain unlocked. Can you change your APN? Branded firmware can disallow this function. If not I would flash the unbranded firmware and then change the APN to your carriers.

No response. Thread closed.

[Q] Possible to change region completely in SM-G920i?

First of all, sorry if this has been answered here, I simply can't find a definitive answer for our S6, let me explain better.
As you may know, I'm not a newbie here or in other forums, I've rooted most of my phones (Not this one) and have installed custom roms dozens of times to all of them, BUT, I'm definitely a newbie about what I need here, I'm trying to see if I can change my SM-G920i region from XSA (Australia) to any other one, India in this case. I have read tons of threads and posts and that's what is confusing me, in some threads there are people saying that they did it and is working great, in that same threads there are people saying that they did it but Knox got tripped, there are others that say that the device is soft bricked and others are saying that they have read somewhere that changing the CSC from it's original one may brake future Samsung pay.
So, this phone is paid by my office, they allow me to do what I want to it while I'm able to just put it back as it came from factory, so that means that I can root it if it doesn't trip Knox, that I can install anything while I can simply go back anytime they need me to, and obviously, Samsung pay works when it finally comes. With this in mind, can somebody answer me a couple of questions?
1-) I know it's possible to do it, but is it true that by doing this I'll have Samsung pay issues? I doubt that knox will be tripped if I do it with odin, but besides knox, is there any possibility that Samsung Pay will not work in certain regions (India in this case) and that's why some are saying that it will break it?
2-) If I download the firmware and flash it via Odin, I'm reading that it won't brick the phone is done via Odin, but in worst case scenario I assume that I can always go back to original one and it gets factory reset, am I right?
3-) If I flash it correctly as I expect an it doesn't brick, does this means that it will change PDA and CSC versions all together, that it will basically become a device from the new flashed region? So if I flash the India one to my XSA (Australia) now it will work completely as an India device and should get future OTA like the rest?
Again, sorry if this has been asked and answered but going back a lot of pages here can't give me definitive answer, thanks in advance for those of you kind enough to answer to this.

Flash a G920i ROM via odin other than your own region/country:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-G920I/

roydok said:
Flash a G920i ROM via odin other than your own region/country:
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-G920I/
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Thanks.
In another thread that I have posted (Brazilian one) I was replied to, so because of that I decided to do it, so far everything is working great as expected. Mine was an Australian baseband (XSA), only thing you I noticed is that when I connect it to Smart Switch app for PC or MAC it will still detects the Original CSC, I was curious about it and installed Phone info apk and it shows correctly the information, both PDA and CSC are now from India but it shows that the Original CSC was XSA (In my case), Firmware's CSC code is INU (India) and Active CSC code it says XSA/INU, so I'm assuming that it's showing multiple CSC.
Does somebody know if having the Active CSC showing XSA/INU causes future OTA issues?

After flashing a ROM its good practice to go to recovery mode and do a full wipe of cache and full reset to change CSC to the default of the ROM you flashed.

roydok said:
After flashing a ROM its good practice to go to recovery mode and do a full wipe of cache and full reset to change CSC to the default of the ROM you flashed.
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Well, in that case I think I will pass for now, as I did a Full wipe cache and Full reset before the Flash but just did a Wipe cache after I flashed it.
The issue is that I basically just finish setting everything back as it was before (about 3 hours and I still haven't set my Contacts Ringtones and Accounts links) so begin again it's a PITA. Once I finish this I'll do a full nandroid backup to have everything as I want, but if I do the Wipe Data/Full Reset and then restore from the Full backup, does this put everything as it was including CSC again? I've been always confused about how deep this restore goes in the system files. Do you know about it?
Thanks.

Try restoring from your backup after the full wipe from recovery. If everything works then you should be ok. Otherwise start from scratch and reinstall everything one by one.

Will try that later today, thanks.

Goodluck.

roydok said:
Goodluck.
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I tried that and nothing, still the same, then I decided to remove the Re-activation Lock in Find My Mobile settings, and after that and enter to recovery mode, it changed the CSC to India, so for those of you with same issues, remember about Re-activation lock.
Thanks for your help.

Did you have a SIM card inserted when you flashed your ROM with removed reactivation lock?

I had the SIM card on the phone today all the time as I forgot to bring with me the SIM removal tool and didn't have anything to open the Sim card tray, but last night I didn't have the Sim card installed when I flashed the ROM.
So today after I did the Wipe cache Partition and Data and saw that it still had the same issue, I flashed a UK ROM into a SM-G925f that had some African country ROM (have never heard of it before in my life but for the name it sounded like an African country), anyways I did that and everything went great, so that's when I thought what was different between the devices and then I remember that I had turned on the Reactivation lock in my S6 and not in the S6 Edge, so I turned it off, then went to Recovery mode and for my surprise the CSC was already changed without any other reset or anything.

erasat said:
I had the SIM card on the phone today all the time as I forgot to bring with me the SIM removal tool and didn't have anything to open the Sim card tray, but last night I didn't have the Sim card installed when I flashed the ROM.
So today after I did the Wipe cache Partition and Data and saw that it still had the same issue, I flashed a UK ROM into a SM-G925f that had some African country ROM (have never heard of it before in my life but for the name it sounded like an African country), anyways I did that and everything went great, so that's when I thought what was different between the devices and then I remember that I had turned on the Reactivation lock in my S6 and not in the S6 Edge, so I turned it off, then went to Recovery mode and for my surprise the CSC was already changed without any other reset or anything.
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can you post a screen of CSC page of Phone ** info ** just for reference?
I see you said that CSC changed to India, but Active CSC or also Original CSC?
What I mean is that, now I have a S6 which has Original, Active CSC as MRU...I'd like to put a European fw on it since I'm based in Europe (got this Middle East / Africa phone just because Dual sim it's not available in europe) but I'm in doubt if putting an european fw will still show that CSC has changed from original one and maybe OTA updates won't work.
thanks

Changing csc!!!
I succesfully installed a G920I indian INU rom in my device which had a XSA rom but when i go to recovery it still shows as XSA ....How do i change that to INU?

Hi i am using a galaxy s6edge+ and i am really struggling with the region lock. I have tried a few options of the factory full reset changing the Apn's to the ones needed and using different sim cards.when it used to go into emergency mode "h+" now it won't connect to any internet at all. Can i possibly have any basic assistance with the rom and resetting options to change the csc when i do a hard reset the csc says it's 'multi'. what does that mean? Any region unlocking help would be appreciated so much!
Thanks guys

{SONIM XP7} Anyone have a Stock ROM?

Does anyone have a stock rom for a SONIM XP7? I am with Bell/BMC Canada -- ill take any carrier as I have the BMC Lollipop FOTA for BMC edition phones, this will re-write my modem...
Any help is appreciated! Will do what I can in return....
Best,
JE

me too i am almost ready to but the same phone a second time and try and clone it to fix it

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jeagle24 said:
Does anyone have a stock rom for a SONIM XP7? I am with Bell/BMC Canada -- ill take any carrier as I have the BMC Lollipop FOTA for BMC edition phones, this will re-write my modem...
Any help is appreciated! Will do what I can in return....
Best,
JE
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The OEM or Carriers has no update or standalone file at this time. Both state the updates are available only over a OTA.
Based on your details, a provider (Bell Canada, Ontario) has a firmware release (latest brings FW 7A.0.5-11-5.1.1-11.01.24 and Lollipop 5.1.1) that can only be obtained over OTA.
http://support.bell.ca/Mobility/Smartphones_and_mobile_internet/Operating-Systems?alias=sonim-xp7
There aren't any power user friendly tools, so I can see why you're frustrated.
But if I stumble across standalone tools, I'll host the links.

I'm in the boat too i was having software issue's with my phone then purchased another one on kijiji to try and get the stock rom off if it and flash it to mine.I'm having software issues and the one i just purchased the sim card reader is faulty. Sonim support's answer to me in both situations is factory reset the phone.
My issue is when i tried updating with there app it crashed 30% into the update and caused so irreversible bugs that makes my screen stay on all the time.I'm new to this and figured i could copy some system files over to my phone to try and fix this but u give up.Love the phone hate the company for lack of support.
I am stuck with 2 paperweights right now

Same situation here. Device will only boot to recovery, or fastboot.

Rogmatic said:
Same situation here. Device will only boot to recovery, or fastboot.
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Anyone has extracted partition images from FOTA update? Any help is greatly appreciated...
-albertr

Has anybody managed to pull off some of the stock files? My XP7 stuck on the Sonim logo after doing a factory reset, I think its the boot.img thats corrupt. I contacted Sonim who did not want to know. They did not even offer to do a paid repair as the phone was purchased off ebay. I had a long argument with them about support but still the phone is stuck. I can get into fastboot and recovery, have tried a factory reset, still the same.

jeagle24 said:
Does anyone have a stock rom for a SONIM XP7? I am with Bell/BMC Canada -- ill take any carrier as I have the BMC Lollipop FOTA for BMC edition phones, this will re-write my modem...
Any help is appreciated! Will do what I can in return....
Best,
JE
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I have the kitkat rom that i used to root this telus xp7 to use on a koodo network

JOchu38 said:
I have the kitkat rom that i used to root this telus xp7 to use on a koodo network
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Can you share it?
Anyone have firmware?
I have flashed verixon cdma xp7 with lte 4.4 and lost modem. Maybe someone have link for QFIL loaded verizon fw or 5.x lte version?

Hello guys, i have the sonim xp7 and i wiped system in recovery. Now device stuck at logo

someone backup stock rom xp7 pls, i wiped system

minkhs said:
someone backup stock rom xp7 pls, i wiped system
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I probably have a stock ROM. How do I find out and send it to you? Is this David?

Finding the correct firmware to fix soft-bricked phone.

Hello,
I'm trying to fix my soft bricked phone with this error (no quotes):
"dm-verity verifiation failed..."
I've already soft and factory reset the phone to no avail, as it still will not boot past the Samsung logo. Googling the problem has told me that flashing the original firmware with Odin should fix it, but after hours of searching I still cannot determine what firmware I need to download and use. Reading some of the threads here supposedly i can use firmware that shares my carrier and country but I cannot find the correct combination on any site.
Country: US
Phone: S7 (G930F) - On the recovery mode screen the full designation is G930FXXU1BPH6
Carrier: T-Mobile
Version 6.0.1
Does anyone know exactly where I can find useable firmware for the phone? Everything I see online (like sammobile for example) just has the firmwares for other countries.
Before the bootlock my phone was rooted if it matters.

Vhozite said:
Hello,
I'm trying to fix my soft bricked phone with this error (no quotes):
"dm-verity verifiation failed..."
I've already soft and factory reset the phone to no avail, as it still will not boot past the Samsung logo. Googling the problem has told me that flashing the original firmware with Odin should fix it, but after hours of searching I still cannot determine what firmware I need to download and use. Reading some of the threads here supposedly i can use firmware that shares my carrier and country but I cannot find the correct combination on any site.
Country: US
Phone: S7 (G930F) - On the recovery mode screen the full designation is G930FXXU1BPH6
Carrier: T-Mobile
Version 6.0.1
Does anyone know exactly where I can find useable firmware for the phone? Everything I see online (like sammobile for example) just has the firmwares for other countries.
Before the bootlock my phone was rooted if it matters.
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The G930F is a primarily European device, so a different region than the US.
The firmware version you have provided is an old version of Marshmallow on T Mobile Poland. The fact that it's Poland doesn't really matter it's still EU region.
Now heres the important part....T Mobile in Europe do not use all of the same bands as T Mobile US so although you can flash any firmware for Europe your phone will not work 100% in the US
So first of all flash with either a nougat firmware for United Kingdom T Mobile or Untied Kingdom nougat undranded (BTU). From Sammobile.
I don't advise going straight to Oreo because there may be a fix for older nougat firmware from EU region to work perfectly in US. Once you upgrade firmware you cannot downgrade.
Once your phone is up and running you just need to look on the forum of how to get a G930F device working perfect on US networks.