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Hey guys,
I've recently bought an Galaxy S5 G900F from Vodafone Germany, but now i live in Romania.
The phone is running stock with all the vodafone and samsung bloat.
My question is how to flash an international rom without any bloat, or maybe my current country rom?
Sorry for being noob but i am new to samsung, not android
kRYySTy said:
Hey guys,
I've recently bought an Galaxy S5 G900F from Vodafone Germany, but now i live in Romania.
The phone is running stock with all the vodafone and samsung bloat.
My question is how to flash an international rom without any bloat, or maybe my current country rom?
Sorry for being noob but i am new to samsung, not android
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Just use Odin and flash any unbranded firmware from Samsung Updates,SamMobile or links from Firmware thread here
so there's no need to unlock bootloader and so on? only download firmware and flash via odin? does this unbrand phone? i mean get rid of vodafone bloat?
Bloat comes with the ROM, if you flash a clean bloat free ROM, bloat is gone
kRYySTy said:
so there's no need to unlock bootloader and so on? only download firmware and flash via odin? does this unbrand phone? i mean get rid of vodafone bloat?
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Example, my phone also had bloatware by the carrier, but I flashed various firmware various countries unbranded and branded without problems
carriers bloat is gone
but Samsung bloat comes with all stock firmwares
I now even i'm with Malaysian firmware or (not remember now)
See Firmware thread in General section
Thanks for the info
Hi all,
I currently own a sim free Samsung galaxy S5 Device model: SM-G900F. I'm on contract with EE in the UK and they're currently offering WIFI calling, but only on their EE devices. Does anyone know if I can flash the stock EE ROM on my S5 SM-G900F? and if so how I'd go about finding it?
Thank's in advance.
So I basically need to convert my SM-G900F into an SM-G900T. Is this possible?
I found this EE firmware. Should I be pretty safe flashing it? It has the same model number as mine but it's an EE firmware so I'll be able to get my WIFI calling. http://storagecow.eu/index.php?dir=Xda/Galaxy+S5/United+Kingdom/
Yes, it's safe flashing it with that firmware.
Thank you.
The rom your link goes to is a 4.4.2 2014 rom go to sammobile.com and search for the latest EE rom for the G900F you can't convert an F to a T version either latest EE rom should be PDA G900FXXU1POD1 CSC G900FEVR1POD1 after flashing the rom you will need to do a factory reset on the phone
Have no problem on mine, has no warranty so it's on custom rom's. While ago I rooted the stock kk on my friend n9005 and upgraded it to the last stock of the time, it is now on n9005xxugnh1 (csc: n9005huignj2) stock H3G (tre in Italy) - he wants to upgrade to stock Lollipop but the LP H3G roms are old and in my experience terrible - the most stock up to date are the unbranded ones (ITV):N9005XXUGBOK6. So here is my question: do I dirty upgrade with MOP or FF from the rooted stock branded H3G kk to the stock unbranded LP or do I have to do some steps in between like rooted H3G kk to unbranded kk (to root) and finally unbranded LP?
verbumomo said:
Have no problem on mine, has no warranty so it's on custom rom's. While ago I rooted the stock kk on my friend n9005 and upgraded it to the last stock of the time, it is now on n9005xxugnh1 (csc: n9005huignj2) stock H3G (tre in Italy) - he wants to upgrade to stock Lollipop but the LP H3G roms are old and in my experience terrible - the most stock up to date are the unbranded ones (ITV):N9005XXUGBOK6. So here is my question: do I dirty upgrade with MOP or FF from the rooted stock branded H3G kk to the stock unbranded LP or do I have to do some steps in between like rooted H3G kk to unbranded kk (to root) and finally unbranded LP?
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You can't unbrand the device like that. You will have to buy a IMEI unlock code to unbrand it.
I wrote unbrand, not unlock! The phone is not carrier locked, simply the Samsung stock rom has some apps and boot screen of the provider - none of branded n9005 I've seen here in Italy are carrier locked, not Tim, Wind, Vodafone, H3G- Mine was H3G even if it was sent me by Samsung as replacement (it was brand new) also this one was bought in a shop without a subscription to H3G
verbumomo said:
I wrote unbrand, not unlock! The phone is not carrier locked, simply the Samsung stock rom has some apps and boot screen of the provider - none of branded n9005 I've seen here in Italy are carrier locked, not Tim, Wind, Vodafone, H3G- Mine was H3G even if it was sent me by Samsung as replacement (it was brand new) also this one was bought in a shop without a subscription to H3G
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1. The latest H3G firmware is N9005XXUGBOD6 (not old). They are preparing the new update to it.
2. Unbrand is easy only if your device allow installing other CSC Code countries. How you can know them? Install this APP and take a look in CSC Code Tab -> Available CSC Codes (example in the pic attached). You can't unbrand it if there you dont' see that setting or only 1 CSC available (it means lock/branded device).
*Answering your first question if you have more CSC availables:
1. Download android 4.4.2 of the CSC that your device supports (and you selected).
2. Backup all your internal data (+ IMEI too).
3. Reset your flash counter via Triangle Away 3.26.
4. Flash the firmware of the step 1 via ODIN.
5. Update your device to Lollipop via OTA or via ODIN directly.
Well as it is stock branded and never flashed a different rom (all upgrades have been official H3G via Odin after root) it won't have any CSC in "available" - AFAIK csc has nothing to do with the IMEI, the code involved in lock/unlock a device. On mine I rooted, chanced recovery and flashed unbranded (ITV) and then custom rom (with ITV, as only a few have HUI) and have different CSC available... but when it was brand new there was only HUI (italian H3G) and nothing else - that one of my doubts: dirty flashing or not? Will it have problems from a 4.4.2 HUI csc to a 5.0 ITV and probably different pit. Personally I returned to kk, waiting for rock stable N5 port -I don't care about estetic and prefer battery friendly dark themes...
My friend wants LP, the H3G from may gave some problems on mine (battery life was terrible) - so I think the last ITV should be a better choice...
So finally you suggest to be "classical": step from actual 442 HUI rom to 442 ITV (towelroot able version, pre july 2014) and then upgrade to last LP ITV. Don't think that triangle away is needed as in case of problems a neat clean flash of H3G stock should be made...
So I have a new G950F that has international firmware on it. I am with TELUS in Canada. I want to flash a "stock" firmware that allows for Samsung Pass / Pay / etc. and use on TELUS. Am I correct to do the following?
1) Turn off the OEM lock in Settings.
2) Flash latest firmware of G950F via Odin (a link to the firmware I should use would be great)
3) Flash TWRP for Exynos
4) Flash the CSC Selection zip for Canada to use the TLS CSC.
5) Root with Magisk.
I'm coming from the Snapdragon variant and just don't want to screw this up.... if someone could confirm, that'd be awesome.
If you have the F from a region that already has Samsung Pay enabled, you can just download Samsung Pay from the Galaxy Store and add a CIBC card to it.
Does anyone have recent experience flashing carrier firmware to the unlocked (U1) model, especially on BL5? Does it still require combination firmware or can I just flash the latest AT&T firmware from Updato using regular Odin?
It would just be regular firmware from at&t. The same way if you wanna flash back to the unlocked firmware. No combination files are needed.