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There's absolutely NO possible way to perpetrate "theft of service" with a wireless carrier so don't go there. It's very simple. If you don't pay your bill what happens? They disconnect your service until you pay your bill. Therefore they don't allow people to steal service from them...

Good evening fellow XDA members. It has been quite a long time since I've been on XDA, let alone work on any ROM's/mods. As time goes by I look back at all of the many, many hours I put into this ROM and others and today it's a sign of how fast technology/devices advance. By today's standards...

IT_Architect Native call recording on Samsung phones was removed a while back as far as I know. A few devices back, such as the Note 4, it could be enabled by editing the CSC. This would enable the call recording button on the dialer but it replaced the call waiting/3-way call button. So today...

Obsolete firmware Since this firmware is long outdated and Samsung & every U.S. carrier has made their Pie firmware available to the public, this thread will be closed. Please find your carrier's current firmware from their support website or visit updato.com

Call recording is only available on certain international firmware. It's a CSC feature that isn't available on the U.S. firmware. If you have root you can add the call recording feature to your CSC and that will be the only way to get call recording unless you find the specific international...

Locked bootloaders is the primary reason for the lack of custom ROM's for the U.S. variants. Everyone knows this.

My post above is in regards to the N9's with locked bootloaders and no root. Clearly some people have no idea how the Android system works or how Samsung's proprietary camera apk utilizes additional libraries and framework java. Without these things that are REQUIRED for the camera apk to...

First of all the S10 camera has hardware specific features. Secondly, the Samsung camera app is a system app that integrates throughout Samsung's OneUI allowing it to be used from within several Samsung applications seamlessly. Without root or the ability to first remove the stock Samsung...

Since T-Mobile took their time releasing Pie, the new TMB OTA has a different revision than the CSAA build. This means the T-Mobile OTA expects your phone to be on the previous RL1 firmware or it will fail. Exactly.

Seriously? You come in this thread and disrespect people and "vent" and somehow you feel the need to "let me slide" for asking you to be more respectful and to simply offer your findings (more clear instructions that some kind person posted elsewhere) without the insults. I'd rather you not let...

Check the Galaxy Store application. Go into it's settings and enable notifications for app updates and also look at your "My Page" and you will see the "Update" section which will list all of your pre-installed Samsung apps that have available updates. The "All" section is all of your apps...

It failed because your bootloader expects a certain firmware version and it's being rejected. Make SURE you are on the correct firmware version that is required for the newer firmware to flash successfully. You may also need to use the patched Odin which has the signature verification disabled...

First of all this thread is NOT a "How to or guide". That's up to each individual to do their own research before messing with their phone which most all of us here have done long ago. Just because you pop in here and expect ABC, 123 hand-holding, doesn't entitle you to be rude and...

Yes. Carriers are now pushing the Pie OTA. No need to go back to official Oreo firmware unless you are on a leaked carrier build. Official betas should allow you to receive OTA update through your carrier WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE from your carrier. Or wait for the official Odin package and...

Yes it will. However, when the official Verizon/Xfinity Pie becomes available you might want to run it incase you don't get your carrier OTA updates with this release. I haven't seen any confirmations on whether other carrier OTA's work on this official "AT&T" build, which is supposedly...

If your phone's current firmware is U1 then you would need to flash RL1 carrier firmware to change it to the carrier U variant before applying the update zip. If you're on AT&T you might as well just take the OTA directly from settings. It's the exact same thing as this OTA zip, which was leaked...

Correct. This is the U.S. carrier firmware, not the Unlocked non-carrier firmware. I thought I made this clear in the OP. Samsung removed this feature for some reason. I liked this feature too. Samsung seems to have taken a few steps backwards with the release of One UI.

For your convenience, this is the official OTA update for the U.S. Snapdragon SM-N960U. If you can't wait for the Official Android 9 Pie OTA to hit your device/carrier then this is what you're looking for. It is universal for all U.S. carriers as Samsung has streamlined their Galaxy firmware...

The weather widget is available for me after updating from RL1 to CSAA via the FS zip. No issues whatsoever installing the update via the stock recovery. Just make sure you flash the correct zip depending on your current firmware version. Ex. RL1, RL2.

ALL of the U.S. carriers latest Odin packages are RL1. I expect the RL1 to CSAA update zip from FirmwareScience will work on any of the official RL1 firmwares from updato.com, not just the AT&T RL1. I'm going to give it a try in a little bit.

I remember a senior member saying the leaked AT&T updates are compatible with Canada N9's.. There's no harm in trying it. If for some reason your Telus sim doesn't get detected and your phone doesn't setup correctly for your network, you can always factory reset and Odin the latest firmware for...

I also had better battery life on Oreo. I also prefer to Oreo implementation of split screen. Samsung is going backwards with some things on the N9.

Same for me, including solid black wallpaper.

I'm in your boat too. I'm not getting great battery life on SA7 either. Standby drain is approximately 5 to 8% overnight while i'm asleep. I'm going to uninstall all apps that I've installed and go a day or two and compare battery usage. I always use Basic screen mode and FHD+ screen resolution...

First there's all of this fake news, now there's fake 5G. What the heck is going on with all of this illegitimate stuff that's being promoted? LOL Especially considering they never fully rolled out reliable 4G to many areas across the country. I guess it's their way of tricking customers in advance.

Rwhyayn Excellent job putting this guide together! Very straight forward and easy to understand. Much needed by many people.

Yes. this happened to me also. I do have advanced calling feature turned off. This bug needs to be reported to Samsung ASAP.

I'm going to hold out for the Friday night SA8 leak. Fingers crossed.

Dirty Flashing Most of us are aware of this but I'll post it for others so they can be informed. You should always do a factory reset and/or wipe system, data, cache & dalvic-cache anytime you are flashing a new ROM build. In this case you are Odin flashing back to a specific official release...

I'm not speaking for Venom but i'm pretty sure he'd be OK with you quoting his posts from this thread as long as you quote his original posts so people can immediately see where the links originated from and by who. So you'd simply visit this thread, find his posts that contain the info/links...

I'm pretty sure the beta is closed. I tried it several days ago and for several hours I could never get the beta banner. At this point I think people can just use what's been posted here and by firmware.science. I think the official OTA is closing in fast.

HaHa! I knew it! I wonder if there's going to be a Friday surprise too? This morning I told myself I would only flash end of the week leaks because they are coming in daily. I wish we could get some leaked changelogs or dev patch notes. LOL

Calm down buddy. My post wasn't directed at you specifically. I've read all 300 plus pages in this thread and I'm fully aware of who has made good contributions to this thread. I'm simply pointing out the obvious. Instead of people repeating instructions and repeating the same posts over and...

For those who aren't aware, I highly recommend that you go into security settings and delete all of your saved fingerprints BEFORE you factory reset and BEFORE you ODIN the stock RJA software and flash any of the PIE update zips. This will prevent corrupting the secure data/fingerprints. ALWAYS...

With these builds being compiled on a daily basis I can only assume the development team is very close to releasing the official OTA. I agree about a Jan. OTA being very likely. These AT&T builds work perfectly on my Sprint N960U and after flashing, my phone looks exactly like I walked out of...

Status bar icons in screeshots I'm on SA3. When I do a screenshot with the palm swipe method the status bar icons are included. When I use the screen write method after removing the spen and selecting screen write with the Spen the status bar icons aren't included.

You need to read back two or three pages. Venom posted everything you need. He posted the Odin RJA firmware and he posted the RJA to SA3 update zip. Do this. First locate and downloaded the patched Odin so you can flash the RJA firmware without error. Download both the RJA firmware and the RJA...

Ditto. Thanks for your uploads!!!

This is impossible without Samsung's signatures that's used when creating their proprietary firmware, including bootloaders. And this has NEVER been leaked or otherwise been made available to the public and never will be. Once a locked bootloader is flashed onto the phone at the factory, it is...

Unless you flash the official Samsung software using Odin, you will not be able to install OTA updates. But from my understanding you can't flash USA U1 firmware onto the Hong Kong/International N9600 Note 9. The bootloader will only accept firmware for their respective models. All U.S. Note 9's...

Clearly the OP has neglected to do basic research on the Snapdragon Note 9. There's absolutely zero information on the firmware version, kernel or any other information about this ROM. In my opinion, this is against forum rules and should be removed for obvious reasons. This is the kind of...

Scroll all the way to the bottom. Tap on "More". You will be in a section called "Others". In this list you will see "Korea mode Set". Tapping on it brings up four options... "Korea Mode", "Sprint Mode", "India Mode" and "Mode Off". On my factory original Sprint Note 9 all of these options are...

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For those visiting this thread. Deodexing services.jar or any other system jar/apk on a modern stock Samsung ROM will trigger DM-verity and the phone will NOT boot. Therefore this must be done on a custom ROM with a custom kernel having DM-Verity disabled. As for deodexing itself, use a program...

"If the phone has the correct hardware and band support, the phone will work on Verizon with an already activated sim card. It's been this way for years by the way". I'm fully aware of this however, in recent years this has stopped working and the IMEI is also required for activation. For...

Like I said. You'd be the first and only person to get Verizon to activate an international Samsung S8, N9, S9 or N9. Prove your claim instead of getting angry.

How about you provide a screenshot of your "About Phone" in settings and prove that your sim and IMEI are activated on Verizon. Include the "Status" section as well. This will prove it once and for all. I'd love to be proven wrong.

Your Chinese Note 9 is not activated on Verizon. The international IMEI cannot and will not activate on the Verizon network. Your sim card might be activated along with the IMEI of a different phone [simultaneously] but it's definitely not activated. And unless the IMEI is registered on the...

Most all android apps are dependent on Google services. Generally speaking, Google services is heavily integrated throughout many system apps as well as downloaded apps. It's a core dependency. If you get com.google.android.gms errors, it could be one of many applications that can cause this...

Simple answer. No. Sprint or Verizon will NOT activate the IMEI of any international/Chinese smartphone. If the IMEI of the phone is not in the carrier's database it cannot be activated, A while back you could pop in your currently activated SIM into an international phone and it would work as...