I bought a used Note 20 Ultra (Exynos) which is unlocked to all networks, (so works fine) but still has the original Vodafone Service provider software, which means every time I reboot it tries (and fails) to load a Vodafone mobile calling plan.
Now I've uninstalled the preloaded 'My Vodafone' app, done numerous wipe and restarts, I've even used Odin and Installed the carrier free BTU (UK) firmware from 1st of Nov but the Vodafone crap is still there, even after installing the BTU firmware with my EE sim card installed.
I'm at a loss on how to remove this Vodafone rubbish. And the help guides to change the CSC by *#272* imei etc doesnt work on my handset.
In the screen shot you will see the Service Provider SW Ver is VOD/VOD/VOD/EUX/VOD.
Even now on the 1stNov BTU firmware it still says VOD/VOD/VOD/EUX/VOD
Does anyone know how to remove this so I can just have a stock UK/EU firmware?
Thanks.
So after doing a bit of research, I managed to change the csc to BTU, apart from the last listing.
Can anyone help with this please?
Gasman said:
So after doing a bit of research, I managed to change the csc to BTU, apart from the last listing.
Can anyone help with this please?
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I'm not to sure, but according to my past experience, in changing the CSC , (the last CSC )
eg...... / /XFV
is "hardcore" and cannot be changed.?
I might be wrong, but that's what I found /understood.!
Don't know, if you are rooted... maybe?
Good luck
Gasman said:
I bought a used Note 20 Ultra (Exynos) which is unlocked to all networks, (so works fine) but still has the original Vodafone Service provider software, which means every time I reboot it tries (and fails) to load a Vodafone mobile calling plan.
Now I've uninstalled the preloaded 'My Vodafone' app, done numerous wipe and restarts, I've even used Odin and Installed the carrier free BTU (UK) firmware from 1st of Nov but the Vodafone crap is still there, even after installing the BTU firmware with my EE sim card installed.
I'm at a loss on how to remove this Vodafone rubbish. And the help guides to change the CSC by *#272* imei etc doesnt work on my handset.
In the screen shot you will see the Service Provider SW Ver is VOD/VOD/VOD/EUX/VOD.
Even now on the 1stNov BTU firmware it still says VOD/VOD/VOD/EUX/VOD
Does anyone know how to remove this so I can just have a stock UK/EU firmware?
Thanks.
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The vodafone bloat is probably linked to your sim card, install a package into app and see (select system processes from 3 for menu) and get a list of ALL apps, then it'll be easier to see if there is something in the firmware and then just uninstall it via adb.
Reason why it tries to load a Vodafone plan it's mostlikely last owner of the phone used E-SIM it's electronic sim. Go into settings then go to where you manage SIM 1 and 2. There you can manage e-SIM check if a plan is added there if it is then remove it so the phone will stop loading it.
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I think you might be right, but no matter what I try, I cannot or don't have the option of removing the Vodafone bloat.. There isn't anything listed in sim 2 or esim, but when I access the esim field/ option it tries to load a Vodafone plan. Just like when the phone is restarted.
I've attached two screen shots.
Appreciate the help
And you have done factory reset?
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The last is changing if you put a Sim card and when you reset the phone on startup it asks that it found a sim card and if you want to switch to that , or is that only for country csc ?
Use frija or sammobile to download UK firmware without Vodafone.
Initially I did download the BTU version of the latest firmware release, and that installed correctly, with a clean wipe, but the VOD csc remained all intact.
I then bought and used Samkey, to change the csc to BTU (uk unbranded) and that has got me to where I am now, with the last csc entry still listed as VOD, and what looks like a 'baked' in esim plan.
I didnt do a fresh wipe when I used Samkey. And I've never owned a VOD simcard. It is running fine with EE sim. Apart from this last bit of Vodafone carp.
Do you think another full wipe and install will remove this last bit of Vodafone? Now the csc is changed?
Thanks
Update:
As much as I hate wiping and reinstalling, I bit the bullet, and used odin to install btu yet again. This is the first time since using samkey, and this time I put two sim cards in the tray. One BT (EE), and the other giffgaff (O2). Before flashing.
Now the VOD (Vodafone) csc entry is still present, but it looks like all the carrier esim & app data has gone.
I think that's as good as it's going to get. I just don't know how to remove that last csc entry.
willcor said:
I'm not to sure, but according to my past experience, in changing the CSC , (the last CSC )
eg...... / /XFV
is "hardcore" and cannot be changed.?
I might be wrong, but that's what I found /understood.!
Don't know, if you are rooted... maybe?
Good luck
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Well, I got the proof now that the last assumed hardcore named AID should be able to change because I know somebody who was able to remove it but I don't want it removed but changed!
I add image as proof that you should be able to change it otherwise that person shouldn't be able to remove it!
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Well, I got the proof now that the last assumed hardcore named AID should be able to change because I know somebody who was able to remove it but I don't want it removed but changed!
I add image as proof that you should be able to change it otherwise that person shouldn't be able to remove it!View attachment 5526925
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My guess, is that the person rooted his phone.!
So if you root your phone, you most probably
can change it.!
My point /post was about flashing Stock firmware. No root.
Good luck.
willcor said:
My guess, is that the person rooted his phone.!
So if you root your phone, you most probably
can change it.!
My point /post was about flashing Stock firmware. No root.
Good luck.
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Ok, I understand and that person probably rooted the phone indeed!
But I guess when you root your phone and are able to get rid of it then it should be able to change it as well because hardcore means that you never can change it or remove it otherwise it isn't a HARDCORE! Because that person told me he does everything with kernel and not rooted
So I guess it should be possible as well with a flash but then we need to find a good firmware to flash and not just the original.
I guess it can be done with kernel but at the moment I am still learning/figuring out how kernel works.
Then I guess it can be done without rooting.
Do you know how to fix to get deleted maps/files back when you have deleted them while rooted?
Salutare
personal am reusit ceva ,cu mult chin,cu aplicatia Unistaller
Uninstall any Apps – Aplicații pe Google Play
Cel mai simplu și mai rapid instrument de dezinstalare pentru Android
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dar vodafone appbox inca råmåne in aplicatii,si trimite mesaj ,,multumim ca esti client vodafone,, dar acest mesaj apare doar daca pornesti telefonul,nu mai apare la fiecare deblocare normala a ecranului
Howdy
I personally managed something, with a lot of trouble, with the Unistaller application
Uninstall any Apps – Aplicații pe Google Play
Cel mai simplu și mai rapid instrument de dezinstalare pentru Android
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but the vodafone appbox still remains in the applications, and it sends a message, thank you for being a vodafone customer, but this message only appears when you turn on the phone, it no longer appears every time you unlock the screen normally
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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/
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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.
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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.
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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
Hey guys! I just bought my S8 unlocked in Canada to use it with my sim card from Mexico, my S8 got blocked with that sim card and some forums recommended to use a sim card from the same country, do a 5 min phone call and everything will be nice. It didn't solve it but installed in my phone bloatware from Fido...
I fixed that lock region problem but not this one... Fido install as a bloatware Spotify, so I can only disable, cannot uninstalled unless I root my phone which I don't want to... Yet (at the end of the warranty) and of course, I want to install Spotify the premium one, but there's this little problem
app cannot be installed an existing package by the same name
I tried "uninstall" from abd with my computer and nothing... I tried using apk editor... Nothing...
If you guys know a possible solution another to root the phone, I'll appreciate
1. you can't root the canadian s8
2. change your csc to xac, this is the unbranded canadian s8 firmware https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=71525525&postcount=1413 this will wipe your whole phone and you won't have any fido bloatware
I get the same error unless I'm installing immediately after a fresh wipe. I dl everything I want then install it after setup.
It worked!!!
peachpuff said:
1. you can't root the canadian s8
2. change your csc to xac, this is the unbranded canadian s8 firmware https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=71525525&postcount=1413 this will wipe your whole phone and you won't have any fido bloatware
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Thank you so much!!! I did it and solve my problem!!! Now I installed Spotify premium and no problems at all:good:
Just taped *#272*IMEI# on my call dial and chose XAC and that's it!! I didn't even care about restore my phone like fabric... So better do a backup if someone is gonna do this
Thanks again
Hello, I first bought my phone from Taiwan and the CSC was pointing to BRI(Taiwan) at first but now after flashing Germany's Oreo firmware by following the xda thread, it no longer shows anything in my avaliable CSC, I'm only getting CHO(Chile) and nothing else. Is there a possible fix? I also tried flashing Taiwans firmware for nougat but still ended up with CHO service provider.
Im trying to get back to stock Taiwan firmware because they now have oreo update and supports Samsung Pay while the Germany's firmware doesn't support at all.
Also I accidentally reset my phone with Canada's Sim card in while factory resetting once.
I've attached an image of my phone's CSC info
Any help is appreciated. Thank you
EDIT: another thing I noticed was my phone model changed from SM-G955FD to SM-G955F, is there any way to get it back to FD somehow? In my settings. About phone, it does say SM-G955FD still though
If you change the 'model' of your phone via a flash, you need to flash/change the CSC with the same 'model' of the OS you used.
If it seems a bit convoluted, I'd flash back to full OEM, and make sure that is all OK, and then flash the proper CSC package.
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Hello, I first bought my phone from Taiwan and the CSC was pointing to BRI(Taiwan) at first but now after flashing Germany's Oreo firmware by following the xda thread, it no longer shows anything in my avaliable CSC, I'm only getting CHO(Chile) and nothing else. Is there a possible fix? I also tried flashing Taiwans firmware for nougat but still ended up with CHO service provider.
Im trying to get back to stock Taiwan firmware because they now have oreo update and supports Samsung Pay while the Germany's firmware doesn't support at all.
Also I accidentally reset my phone with Canada's Sim card in while factory resetting once.
I've attached an image of my phone's CSC info
Any help is appreciated. Thank you
EDIT: another thing I noticed was my phone model changed from SM-G955FD to SM-G955F, is there any way to get it back to FD somehow? In my settings. About phone, it does say SM-G955FD still though
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Firmwares for SM-G955F and SM-G955FD are IDENTICAL, your model number has not changed. To change CSC I had to install FW with new CSC, then do factory reset and after first boot I got prompted whether I want to change my CSC (based on inserted SIM card), confirmed, the phone did factory reset again and got new CSC installed. Also, Canada is not included within OXM multi-CSC package as G955F/FD is not sold there (or at least not officially).
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Firmwares for SM-G955F and SM-G955FD are IDENTICAL, your model number has not changed. To change CSC I had to install FW with new CSC, then do factory reset and after first boot I got prompted whether I want to change my CSC (based on inserted SIM card), confirmed, the phone did factory reset again and got new CSC installed. Also, Canada is not included within OXM multi-CSC package as G955F/FD is not sold there (or at least not officially).
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JeffDC said:
If you change the 'model' of your phone via a flash, you need to flash/change the CSC with the same 'model' of the OS you used.
If it seems a bit convoluted, I'd flash back to full OEM, and make sure that is all OK, and then flash the proper CSC package.
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Thank you both for your help. I'll try and flash just the CSC firmware then reset when samsung decides to push the OTA again and will see if that solves it. The firmware for Taiwan came out only a few days before they took it out so didn't have a chance to download it.
Hello peeps, i have installed the latest firmware for the SM-G930F from Belgium (G930FXXS3ERL4_G930FVFG3ERJF_PRO) but somehow the carrier apps from vodafone get installed when booting into the system even though the Proximus app should be installed... I have tried to reinstall it multiple time and still have the same outcome? had this problem with my S6 Edge in the past too but i fixed it somehow (I didn't fix it but it fixed itself tho XD)
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Hello peeps, i have installed the latest firmware for the SM-G930F from Belgium (G930FXXS3ERL4_G930FVFG3ERJF_PRO) but somehow the carrier apps from vodafone get installed when booting into the system even though the Proximus app should be installed... I have tried to reinstall it multiple time and still have the same outcome? had this problem with my S6 Edge in the past too but i fixed it somehow (I didn't fix it but it fixed itself tho XD)
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There is only one reason this happens, the firmware is not an unbranded international version.
Complete waste of time messing about with Belgian, French,German version etc just Download the BTU firmware from sammobile or direct from Samsung. It's says United Kingdom but it's basically western Europe unbranded.
cooltt said:
There is only one reason this happens, the firmware is not an unbranded international version.
Complete waste of time messing about with Belgian, French,German version etc just Download the BTU firmware from sammobile or direct from Samsung. It's says United Kingdom but it's basically western Europe unbranded.
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So if i download and install the BTU version what will be different rom the belgian software? Like i remember with my s4 i used to install BTU firmware all the time because there wasn't one for belgium, but didn't notice anything different with my sim card... so i hope this will be the same that i still have the functionallity like i had before i flashed custom roms
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So if i download and install the BTU version what will be different rom the belgian software? Like i remember with my s4 i used to install BTU firmware all the time because there wasn't one for belgium, but didn't notice anything different with my sim card... so i hope this will be the same that i still have the functionallity like i had before i flashed custom roms
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The BTU stock holds all the csc codes, base bands, network functions for all of the European region which means once it connects to the network in your country, it automatically detects which system files to use so you "don't notice anything different" than if you had installed country specific like Belgian.
There is always one stock which hold everything for a region, in Europe its the UK unbranded, generic, international, BTU version. It works everywhere in Europe.
okay so i've installed the btu version and it worked just fine, except it was a little slower and idk why. but when i tried to use mobile networks it wouldn't work so i checked my apn settings and my provider wasn't in there so i had to add it manually wich for me turned into an even slower experience on my phone... I really don't know what i did wrong or what happend, so is it possible to get a detailed instruction to flash the stock oreo rom? and also a how to for rooting stock oreo with magisk? because my guess would be that something went wrong when rooting
VoidedKN0X said:
okay so i've installed the btu version and it worked just fine, except it was a little slower and idk why. but when i tried to use mobile networks it wouldn't work so i checked my apn settings and my provider wasn't in there so i had to add it manually wich for me turned into an even slower experience on my phone... I really don't know what i did wrong or what happend, so is it possible to get a detailed instruction to flash the stock oreo rom? and also a how to for rooting stock oreo with magisk? because my guess would be that something went wrong when rooting
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Hello well unfortunately Belgium isn't important enough country to have your own unbranded stock firmware.
APN settings should install automatically when you connect to mobile network in your country.
There is a specific guide to follow to root S7 on Oreo, please google and follow it exactly.
Also BTU is a stock Oreo ROM.
Hi how are you i'm having a problem flashing the rom, i use to have a galaxy s10e and remove the aro version of the rom, i'm from Argentina, and installed the dbt version that is from Germany because of the faster updates that in my country always come much latter. Now i'm doing exactly the same procedure with my s21+ and the flash process goes well but when i check the region of my rom stills says aro, what am i doing wrong, could the phone be region locked? I bought it from a carrier but they say the phone is unlocked, which is true because i put a sim card from other provider and work perfectly fine, my s10e i bought it directly from Samsung. Is there anything i'm missing? I understand that you can change rom a put a rom from another country but i don't know what else can i do. Hope i express myself correctly, thanks for any help you can give me and sorry if i post this in the wrong place i'm new in the forum.
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Hi how are you i'm having a problem flashing the rom, i use to have a galaxy s10e and remove the aro version of the rom, i'm from Argentina, and installed the dbt version that is from Germany because of the faster updates that in my country always come much latter. Now i'm doing exactly the same procedure with my s21+ and the flash process goes well but when i check the region of my rom stills says aro, what am i doing wrong, could the phone be region locked? I bought it from a carrier but they say the phone is unlocked, which is true because i put a sim card from other provider and work perfectly fine, my s10e i bought it directly from Samsung. Is there anything i'm missing? I understand that you can change rom a put a rom from another country but i don't know what else can i do. Hope i express myself correctly, thanks for any help you can give me and sorry if i post this in the wrong place i'm new in the forum.
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Hi Mate
I had the same issue , on the S10 it was possible to do it as you mention , not any more , the region is locked , I finally changed but not thru flashing , i got lucky and i could use a phone dialer code to change it , there are 3 options you could try ( without root)
Check here , this option worked for me , careful it will factory reset your phone and in my case i could only use it 3 times...
Option 2 , another dialer code ( did not work for me) check here
And last option use a pay service SAMKEY
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Hi Mate
I had the same issue , on the S10 it was possible to do it as you mention , not any more , the region is locked , I finally changed but not thru flashing , i got lucky and i could use a phone dialer code to change it , there are 3 options you could try ( without root)
Check here , this option worked for me , careful it will factory reset your phone and in my case i could only use it 3 times...
Option 2 , another dialer code ( did not work for me) check here
And last option use a pay service SAMKEY
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Many Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I changed my CSC to ZTO again using this method.
Snake said:
Many Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I changed my CSC to ZTO again using this method.
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Great news mate
But which method?
I had to use Samkey on mine to change from carrier locked CSC to open unlocked CSC (TNL to PHN) and after that worked and I had 2 credits left I changed it again to my current carrier CSC, VDF. Worked fine.