Hello,
I bought a galaxy s6 in Latam (g-920i) before returning to Europe (Spain). It is network unlocked, so it works perfectly. Turns out that the Latam firmwares (g920i) for marshmallow are being left behind in comparison to other regions as Europe (g920f). I have compared both phones (i/F) and they are identical, so I am feeling moved to flash a g920f firmware on my phone. When I try it, it fails. In the very beginning, I thought that it failed because the model name was wrong, so once rooted, I changed it in /system. Nothing happened, so I am assuming that the firmware fails because there is some sort of different partition set between g920i and g920f.
My question is, if I flash a g920f pit file on my s6 (originally g920i), will it firstly not brick it, and then enable me to flash a g920f firmware?
Thanks for your help.
Be good boy and never mess your device flashing stock fw with different phone version. BTW this is belong to Q&A section
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I know your feel
Just wait 2 week and we will get marshmallow on our 920i and don't brick you phone
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Hello,
I have checked several threads and didnt find anything specific, so i am going to try and explain myself. I have a SM-G920I phone (galaxy s6), bought in America. I am living in Europe and I have unlocked the network with a code gotten from Samsung. The network and band works great and there is nothing wrong with it even tho the European g920f firmware and g920i have slightly different band/modem.
My friend has a g920f and I have checked in depth her phone and it is exactly the same as mine in everything.
So yes, I want to flash a g920f firmware on my g920i firmware. Please, don't mind why I do it, it is not relevant to my experiment.
I have flashed a modified kernel to my s6 (Droid 5.1.1) in order to root it and back my efs up. Once that is done, I know that if I brick my phone, I can bring it back as long as I have the efs. So okay, I flashed a g920f firmware (Mm) and it failed. I did some research and i guess that there is a file in the md5 which recognizes that my phone is not a g920f and rejects the updating. I have read about pit files and I have seen that all of them set different partition sizes, so I guess that may be another reason why I can't flash the 920f firmware -some file is larger than the current g920i partition-
My question is, if the g920f and g920i phone are TOTALLY equal in hardware, why does it fail? Please, don't give me a silly reason. I am expecting a technical reason.
Also, if I flash on my 920i a pit file according to the g920f firmware, will I be able to flash the F firmware later? If not, why?
Don't worry about band or modem. I will be happy if it gets flashed without any network. It is an experimental thing (i can always go back and flash a g920i firmware)
Thank you!
Hi all
I have a Sim free Galaxy S6 running Android 6.0.1 BTU, I want to flash it with the Three firmware so I can use VOLTE and the 800mhz LTE. Every time I try to flash with Three firmware using odin I just get a fail.
Infact I was using Android 5.1 BTU and tried to flash Three 6.0 firmware using odin and that failed and soft bricked my phone, so I had to flash 6.0.1 BTU using odin, so I know I can flash my phone, it just doesn't seem to work with the Three firmware for some strange reason
Any help will be appreciated!
Edit: Just saw I posted this in general discussion :silly::silly: my apologies on that part
Hi All,
I have a moderate experience in flashing firmwares and modding my samsung devices over the years.
I have recently purchased an S7 which is unfortunately a SM-G930V model, i thought it would have been the SM0G930F which would have made life much easier.
I want to know if it is possible to get the original Australian firmware or even generic stock firmware on this device?
My issue is with the network settings where i have manually put in APN settings my match my carrier and 4G coverage in australia.
If not am i able to just flash a different baseband to this device preferably Australian?
I have read that flashing a different model firmware will soft brick the device, i just want some insight before i start breaking things, also what are my options.
Much appreciated, thanks, Will
You have the snapdragon s7, you can't flash the exynos 930f firmware on it, you can only flash the american firmware. You might have luck with the 930u unbranded firmware just do some research on it.
Thanks mate,
I'm going to flash this firmware using ODIN, do you know if it will be successful?
https://forum.xda-developers.com/att-galaxy-s7/how-to/xda-community-love-g930u-t3415875
not sure how to check my bootloader version etc
No clue, goto the verizon subforum and see if anyone flashed the 930u firmware on their 930v.
Just tried to flash the firmware to my phone and recieved an error, the phone is now stuck at download mode with error:
sw rev check fail : [system] fused 3 > binary 4
this means the bootloader won't accept the firmware?
LOL, guess ill try another firmware.. Any ideas?
Im confused i upgraded to android 8.0 and didnt like it at all now i want to downgrade but i cant find correct firmware. I flashed one and soft bricked my phone but i was able to recover back with the oreo rom through odin. My phone's region is uk but there are so many regions such as btu ee etc i dont know what version is right for my phone. Im a noob so i have no idea what to provide u guys to help me find the firmware.
Hi I'm new here, I'm having a problem choosing the correct firmware to flash on my s7 g930v because I live in South Africa an from what iv gathered g930v is for USA an that g930f is what we use in SA. Am I on the write path so far? I bought the S7 2nd hand an the previous owner tryed rooting it but I think he used the wrong firmware cause it had g930f and the motherboard has g930v written on the actual board. So what I'm asking is how do I check what firmware I have to flash to the fone? Cause the firmware info that I get are the firmware I flashed with and I'm getting pit error in Odin an only combination firmware is work on the fone. I need South African networks to work. If any1 knows what I should do would be of great help.
Thanks
Boot into recovery and see what it says