New note8 owner

[TexasPride]

Hi I switched over from a Iphone 7 + to a galaxy 9+ had issues with att video chat so got the note 8 since my girlfriend has one and it works. Sad thing is mine doesn't. Still lost on this issue also will post this message in att thread but thats my background

since I haven't had android since galaxy s4 how is root done? I do love towel root and safestrap through made life easy.

 

[BluePhnx]

Since your on att note 8. Sm-n950U

First don't update your phone to any firmware with u4cxxx (the 4 means bootloader v4 and there is no root for that)

Read this thread out for root:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-8/development/root-samfail-galaxy-note8-t3685340


I would READ the first post real carefully!

May I ask what model is your gf's note 8 is it from att or Samsung store? Also where did you get yours?

It's either sm-n950U (Samsung cell unlocked) or sm-n950U1.

 

[TexasPride]

Ok now do I find bootloader info?

Her phone was gotten at best buy i am not sure what model number though. Mine was gotten at the att store.

If this is the case i may end up taking mine back and going with the unlocked version

 

[BluePhnx]

Look in settings/about phone/software information

And look for the "baseband version"

You should see for eg. N950U1UEU3CRC1

Notice the "3" at the fifth spot from the right (...."3"CRC1). That number will tell you your bootloader version. There are 4 versions of your bootloader. Only version 1 to version 3 are rootable. Version 4 is NOT rootable (and it won't allow you to downgrade to v3.)

I believe you can make your n950u1 to a n950u (search on how to do that with a modded odin)

And you can try on phone dialer *#1234# to get the pda, cp and csc info.

I believe best buy sold the unlock version (might be wrong) .

Compare your baseband version with your gf's phone baseband version and see if its n950U1..... or n950u......

 

[TexasPride]

Thank you for that my phone is on baseband 3 so gonna probably end up rooting it.

Gonna look at her phone here in a bit.

 

[TexasPride]

Ok both phones are the exact same so now i gotta dig deeper in to this problem

 

[iceepyon]

I would pay a visit to your local AT&T store and see if they can help. It maybe a device config issue.