Note 8 Exynos: do you have the 5 GHz option in the advanced hotspot configuration?

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Sep 21, 2017 at 8:44 PM
themissionimpossible said:
Well, your SM-N950U1 should be the Snapdragon version.
Now let's see if also the international Exynos version has the band selection option.
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Oh my bad I thought you wanted to know for note 8 in general but I reread your post and see you're asking for the exynos model

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Sep 21, 2017 at 9:53 PM
Actually both the posts were useful, so now I know that this option can be available both on Snapdragon and Exynos version.

It looks like that there is no limitation in the Exynos SOC itself, it's apparently a Samsung decision to show or hide this option in the regional firmwares.
 
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Hi guys,

Just found this old thread while searching in Google for a similar question. I have the Note 8 too, Exynos version (SM-N950F) and, as seems by the previous post, Exynos also allows to broadcast the hotspot at 5.0 GHz, so it might be a firmware limitation.

Do you know if there is any specific ROM, CSC, tweak; anything that would give me that option to use the hotspot at 5.0 GHz? I have found this post by @phatWares mentioning a quite old tool by Wanam. Can anybody confirm this still would work? I ask because I'm fully on stock on my Note, so I'd like to have some assurance before tripping Know, flashing ROM, etc.

Thanks in advance for any feedback you can provide.
 
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Aug 14, 2019 at 10:33 PM
I had the same question and did some research.
It seems there is a new EU directive that restricts the use of 5ghz frequencies for mobile hotspots and this is why we are running into this issue (has to do with interference with police radars and such).
Logically one way to circumvent this limitation is to change CSC to a country that does not have such limitation.
I am outside the EU and I have a EU phone with British firmware and CSC, I have yet to find a proper CSC to switch to.
 
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Aug 15, 2019 at 12:20 AM
aljazzair said:
I had the same question and did some research.
It seems there is a new EU directive that restricts the use of 5ghz frequencies for mobile hotspots and this is why we are running into this issue (has to do with interference with police radars and such).
Logically one way to circumvent this limitation is to change CSC to a country that does not have such limitation.
I am outside the EU and I have a EU phone with British firmware and CSC, I have yet to find a proper CSC to switch to.
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Thanks for your reply aljazzair. I'm also outside of the EU and US, but I think my phone is (SM-N950F) is an international unlocked version; I don't know what that is supposed to comply to.

Are you rooted? Have you tried the tool that I've mentioned in my previous post from Wanam? It seems to be a CSC Editor that allows you to enabled the 5.0 GHz option with a checkbox.
 
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Aug 15, 2019 at 4:36 AM
Dan_Aykroyd said:
Thanks for your reply aljazzair. I'm also outside of the EU and US, but I think my phone is (SM-N950F) is an international unlocked version; I don't know what that is supposed to comply to.

Are you rooted? Have you tried the tool that I've mentioned in my previous post from Wanam? It seems to be a CSC Editor that allows you to enabled the 5.0 GHz option with a checkbox.
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Hi,
My phone is not rooted. Like you, I have a SM-N950F (european unlocked).
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I did change the CSC on my phone successfully once, it was a couple of weeks ago.
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The reason was that I was on a TUR CSC due to an OTA update whilst in Turkey with a Turkish SIM on a TIM phone which had XFE firmware.
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I was annoyed by the resulting samsung software notifications in Turkish, which is a language I do not understand, so I wanted them gone.
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My CSC is now BTU/BTU/TIM.
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The procedure I used involves using odin to flash what is called a "combination rom".
The combination rom essentially replaces the stock rom with samsung software used by samsung support engineering staff for diagnosis and repair.
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It is critical to only flash a combination ROM that is compatible with your bootloader version.
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I had the DSG1 stock ROM with the latest bootloader when I flashed the combination ROM, so the version I used is:
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COMBINATION_FA71_N950FXXU7ASG1_CL12991683_QB24738638_REV00_user_mid_noship.tar.md5
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There is a seemingly cumbersome procedure to follow involving Odin, several factory resets and reflashing multiple times, and it worked flawlessly for me.
It is described here:
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74324845&postcount=87
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I would re-use this procedure again without hesitation.
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But I have yet to find a CSC code that would allow 5ghz hotspot capabilities (so non-EU) whilst retaining Samsung Pay and avoiding software notifications in a language I do not understand :)
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If you know of such a CSC code, pls share :)
 
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