Little advice buying an international version (SM-G965F/DS)

stewa2jm

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Aug 31, 2011
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I'm looking at picking up a SM-G965F/DS (FACTORY UNLOCKED) for use on the USA T-mobile network. The one I'm looking at is reportedly Region free (no region lock) and SIM unlocked. . So a couple of questions:
1 - Should I be fairly safe in my ability to bootloader unlock and mod this version of the phone as described above?
2 - To get the OEM unlock will I use my t-mobile SIM for 7 days to make OEM unlock available or will the date hack work:
How to fix the missing OEM Unlock button on the Samsung Galaxy S9/S8/Note 8
3 - I'm familiar with unlocking and installing on older devices such as the OnePlus One, and Nexus series of devices. Is the process for the S9+ fairly bulletproof like those devices? I mean, they were all pretty forgiving to a little "Oops" here and there. No one needs $700 brick.
 

bwilk316j

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Feb 4, 2018
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Did you ever figure out how to get the oem unlock fixed. I just bought a Claro s8+ sm-g955f and no matter what I try the oem unlock remains missing in my developer options