Hello,
I bought an international samsung galaxy s7 silver titanium from BestBuy. But to my disappointment samsung pay doesnt work (I am in the US). I read somewhere on reddit that if you mess around with the PDA/CSC files you can get it to work, but I dont want to mess anything up since this is my first time messing with odin (I am coming from a oneplus one). I am on T-Mobile.
A few questions:
What is CSC and what is PDA?
If I change them will it trip Knox?
Will changing CSC and or PDA affect cell coverage in the US?
If so, what is the best CSC/PDA to be on?
And how do I get S-Pay working?
Can I just sideload the relevant APKs from apkmirror?
Pointers on what to do will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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I forgot to get the actual model number but I guess it's the international version? In any case, does anybody have an actual experience of bringing an unlocked S6 bought directly from Samsung to t-mobile? I'm trying to figure that out. Don't want to get back to the states and find out it doesn't fully work on some/all T-Mobile bands.
Ah never mind, I found it. It is sm-g920fd. Should have used searched first. Looks like it will work with T-Mobile, just incase anybody reading this is searching too.
I've seen a variety of conflicting reports online so I wanted to get some more expert opinions from XDA:
If I buy an international Galaxy S7 (specifically, the G930F):
(1) I'm in the US. Will I be able to use that on AT&T's LTE network? I know some bands are supposedly different but I've heard that's really only a problem for T-Mobile's LTE.
(2) Does Samsung Pay work out of the box? If not, is there a way to easily make it work while still being able to take software updates?
EDIT: Looks like people have got it working by flashing Australia, Germany, or UAE CSCs and then sideloading Samsung Pay. Which leads to another question…
(3) What disadvantages are there to being on a different CSC than your actual country? Will it be a problem downloading apps, regionally restricted videos, etc? And will Samsung Pay break after phone software updates?
Answers to these would be appreciated!
I have recently bought a Galaxy s8+ from Kogan Australia which turned out to be a Korea Telecom edition with SM-G955N on it. Our other s8+ in the household is a SM-G955F bought directly from Samsung Australia which is quite clean and free of bloatware, however, the recent gray import-buy comes with all sorts of KT provider crap.
I have been away from rooting and flashing game from since my Galaxy SII and tried to have a quick read and follow some guides like this one to see if I can flash an Australian XSA firmware on the SM-G955N device, however, again and again came across this warning telling me,
Before downloading, make sure your device has the exact model code SM-G955N
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Firstly, what would be the implications of flashing a SM-G955F over a SM-G955N device?
And if that will risk to brick and turn the new phone to a cool looking paper weight, what options I have to still stay with Samsung Stock FW and to get rid of these bloatwares? This is mainly because I am not going to be the user for this phone and I want it to be as close to the vanilla device and I would've be more than happy to order this one off Samsung as well if they offered the blue color in their preorder. So please be gentle with your answers as I am already heartbroken
If its exynos just root it and delete what bloat you want.
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May Arno said:
I have recently bought a Galaxy s8+ from Kogan Australia which turned out to be a Korea Telecom edition with SM-G955N on it. Our other s8+ in the household is a SM-G955F bought directly from Samsung Australia which is quite clean and free of bloatware, however, the recent gray import-buy comes with all sorts of KT provider crap.
I have been away from rooting and flashing game from since my Galaxy SII and tried to have a quick read and follow some guides like this one to see if I can flash an Australian XSA firmware on the SM-G955N device, however, again and again came across this warning telling me,
Firstly, what would be the implications of flashing a SM-G955F over a SM-G955N device?
And if that will risk to brick and turn the new phone to a cool looking paper weight, what options I have to still stay with Samsung Stock FW and to get rid of these bloatwares? This is mainly because I am not going to be the user for this phone and I want it to be as close to the vanilla device and I would've be more than happy to order this one off Samsung as well if they offered the blue color in their preorder. So please be gentle with your answers as I am already heartbroken
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You can actually remove a bunch of bloatware without root using Package Disabler Pro Samsung.
I'm not entirely sure about it but the SM-G955N is 128GB and without the proper PIT file in Odin, you may lose storage space. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm using an SM-G955N and the only carrier bloat that makes this device different that is activated, is T Roaming in Settings, and the Band LTE bootanimation/shut down animation, with Korean bootloader and recovery. All the other bloat was disabled without rooting and Knox 0x0
same issue here guys..how can i flash a different csc firmware on g955n skc?
Hey Guys....any answers?
bidav1 said:
same issue here guys..how can i flash a different csc firmware on g955n skc?
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i have the same problem, i need help
So I probably know the answer already, just making sure. I used to live in the UK, and now I live in Canada; I still have my Galaxy S7 G930F phone. It's unlocked, so it works here. The problem is Samsung Pay - can't get it to work at all, it has the UK version installed unfortunately and doesn't want to work here; probably due to the phone not being the 930W8 version.
So I know both the Canadian and the UK have Exynos processors, so should I attempt to flash the Canadian stock ROM to my phone? Any idea whether that'd work? Or, if not, any idea how I can make Samsung Pay work and avoid this?
Thanks!
Hi all, I'm asking here because there is no dedicated subforum for XCover 6.
So, I'm planning on buying Galaxy XCover 6Pro but I'm getting confused if there are different version of it out on the market? I've noticed that shops in my country (Poland) mark phones they are selling using these three different product numbers:
sm-g736bzkdeeb,
sm-g736bzkdeee,
sm-g736bzkd
with the first one (EEB) being called "Enterprise Edition" appearing in most of stores while the offical samsung.com store lists XCover 6Pro with "EEE" product number. Neverthless google shows up a samsung page for the "EEB" model too.
https://www.samsung.com/uk/business/smartphones/xcover/galaxy-xcover6-pro-sm-g736bzkdeeb/
https://www.samsung.com/levant/business/smartphones/xcover/galaxy-xcover6-pro-sm-g736bzkdeee/
So i checked the specs, in stores and on these samsung pages and they all appear to be the same XCover 6 Pro, 6GB 5G phones with Dual Sim in black colour.
So here is my question. Are they really the same phone or there is some difference that's my eye is missing?
The difference between the two devices you have named, is that one is made for the German market (EEB) and one is made for the eastern European and Swiss/Austrian markets (EEE).
There may be some issues with things such as samsung pay if you are using a device outside of its region but overall the device should work fine either way.
With the previous model (G715FN), I was able to flash to my local firmware without issue and all bands worked flawlessly as well as all localised features such as samsung pay. Unfortunately once this is done, you will not receive OTA updates any longer as it recognises your device has been modified. This may be because I tripped knox doing all this.
The only other thing to look out for is that you aren't buying a device that has been locked to a given carrier, or requires a sim from that carrier for activation.
Again, there's usually ways around this but you don't need to complicate your life like that.
If you are able to buy locally, surely they can give you some assurances that the device will work with your local providers?
There is no difference in specs, bands etc, it's just localisation support and operator specific configurations to worry about.
Samsung generally include all international MBN files in their modem config files so it's not such a huge deal these days as long as you can successfully register the device for use.
bandario said:
The difference between the two devices you have named, is that one is made for the German market (EEB) and one is made for the eastern European and Swiss/Austrian markets (EEE).
There may be some issues with things such as samsung pay if you are using a device outside of its region but overall the device should work fine either way.
With the previous model (G715FN), I was able to flash to my local firmware without issue and all bands worked flawlessly as well as all localised features such as samsung pay. Unfortunately once this is done, you will not receive OTA updates any longer as it recognises your device has been modified. This may be because I tripped knox doing all this.
The only other thing to look out for is that you aren't buying a device that has been locked to a given carrier, or requires a sim from that carrier for activation.
Again, there's usually ways around this but you don't need to complicate your life like that.
If you are able to buy locally, surely they can give you some assurances that the device will work with your local providers?
There is no difference in specs, bands etc, it's just localisation support and operator specific configurations to worry about.
Samsung generally include all international MBN files in their modem config files so it's not such a huge deal these days as long as you can successfully register the device for use.
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Thanks for detailed explanation!
Anyone tried root with Magisk?
bandario said:
Anyone tried root with Magisk?
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I have one I got recently, but have not used Magisk. Doesn't one have to access bootloader to do that? Which is my question: Anyone have an unlock for the bootloader?
Yes. There's instructions Here