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Flashing software to NA Region? & unlock?

Hi guys, I am not new to android, I daily flash my Samsung Nexus via CWM all the time.
However, My dad recently went to india and i believe got his phone unlocked their for Indian sim cards to work.
Now if they flashed a indian rom on the phone as well, How do i flash the native BELL rom? also, How do i unlock this?
I read around one has to download multiloader and find the Bell Flash file, or whatever the stock one is that Bell gives out in Canada.
Can anyone help me with this? I'm new to this area of XDA. Basically I need a Bell stock flash file, and need to network lock his sim card back to Bell again.
Cheers

Ok So from reading around it seems like I should do the following:
-Download Multiloader--- Done
- Download Bell Software from SAMFIRMARE, Im downloading the Firmwares for GT-S8500M - Canada (Bell)? is that right one?
- Follow http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1759424 guide to flash my firmware,
and then I should have my dads phone back and on the Bell network right in Canada?

Please give more details so that it is easier to understand you and offer solution.
If I guess right, your dad's phone is Samsung WAVE 8500? And that the phone is completely unlocked now?
If the answer is affirmative, then there is no need to lock it back again to Bell Network. An unlocked phone can be used with any SIM card.
And as the phone was originally of BELL network, just go to Sammobile and download the Canadian firmware for S8500 (WAVE).
Flash your phone with the downloaded firmware and start using it. You don't have to LOCK for it to work with BELL.
The above is only if your dad's phone is WAVE and originally of BELL network. If not, please give more details.

Hey thanks spacks. It was originally from Bell. So if it was flashed to some firmware for india, I will just flash it back to the Bell firmware.
Right now its locked to his India cell phone carrier, So i should probably flash the bell rom to put him back on his original network.
If i run into problems I will post back here, as I am leaving for work now
Edit** If the phone is just locked to the indian carrier, How can i UNLOCK it without flashing a new firmware??

Please read this thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1473089
Best Regards

Ok i tried the first step to flash the boot files BUT now running into a issue, the laptop wont detect the samsung phone anymore, I tried reinstalling and updating drivers and uninstalling them, Can anyone help me? The phone boots up to the "Samsung Wave I8500M" logo screen but freezes...I really need to flash this Bell firmware asap.

Ooooops
This is not going well as expected :S
Go to SamMobile and download the canadian fw available there and flash it
Then try again with the flock to unlock your phone
Best Regards
Edit : here is the file you are seeking : http://hotfile.com/dl/153842100/e332000/S8500MUGJF5_S8500MBMCJF5_BMC.zip.html

mylove90 said:
Ooooops
This is not going well as expected :S
Go to SamMobile and download the canadian fw available there and flash it
Then try again with the flock to unlock your phone
Best Regards
Edit : here is the file you are seeking : http://hotfile.com/dl/153842100/e332000/S8500MUGJF5_S8500MBMCJF5_BMC.zip.html
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Hey it's okay! I fixed it the driver was somehow corrupt, so I downloaded Samsung kies, everything is fixed. Flashed the Canadian firmware last night.
However, is there any way to get BADA 2.0 on the Canadian wave?? Any flash files? I can't find anything.....I hate when they delay updates!
Sent from my Nexus S

[Q] So How does this actually work?

I picked up a pre-owned Gold G3 yesterday, my last one went pop!
This new G3, is Sim Unlocked, but with a Vodafone UK rom (V10a.235.15). After researching and reading around.. the G3 has EFS, so I followed the KDZ back to stock guide and flashed the Open EU rom, which went without any issues and seemed as if it had flashed and replaced the VF Rom, but it still has the VF splash screen, a VF updates Icon (Which can be removed) and software version, yet the G3 still detected and Loaded in my EE UK APN settings and no sign of any VF APN.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089
So am I right in thinking.. If I wanted to make this a full UK unbranded phone, so no splash screen with a software V10a.EUR.XX.. I would have to Jailbreak the EFS partition and Replace VFRom stored on the EFS with the EUR-XX rom.
OR am I wrong entirely, so... How does this work
There are so many threads on here, that ask the same questions in different ways, hence why Im a litle confused as how this works
Thanks

Wait Wait Wait
So you cant manually import APN settings right? How about flashing a Rom from another European country?
Dont tamper with the EFS partition under any circumstances. If you do you wont have a IMEI and your phone will be worthless. Carrier branding does not occur within the EFS partition
I remember my carrier apps disappeared from Update Center when i upgraded my Australian firmware to a Taiwan Firmware so im pretty sure it might work for you.
When you flash the KDZ make sure you flash it using CSE Flash Mode

itsbighead said:
Wait Wait Wait
So you cant manually import APN settings right? How about flashing a Rom from another European country?
Dont tamper with the EFS partition under any circumstances. If you do you wont have a IMEI and your phone will be worthless. Carrier branding does not occur within the EFS partition
I remember my carrier apps disappeared from Update Center when i upgraded my Australian firmware to a Taiwan Firmware so im pretty sure it might work for you.
When you flash the KDZ make sure you flash it using CSE Flash Mode
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Can I just be clear before I answer... The G3 I bought is Branded to Vodafone UK, I am personally on EE UK and Im trying to remove the Vodafone Branding and make it a factory unlocked unbranded G3.
Thanks for the reply friend. I didnt have to enter any EE APN settings, they were already there, so not sure how that was... because I didnt enter them. Glad to hear its not the EFS, because I would rather use a branded phone and have it working than change its file system and mess it up. Also, I know the guide doesnt state it but I turned ON USB Debugging, would that make a difference
I followed the guide closely so did flash using CSE. Ill now flash another countries KDZ and let you know how i get on?
Could it be that Vodafone UK is the EU Open Rom, just a few minor changes..... What I dont understand is...
The EUR Open Rom flashes perfectly fine, reboots and starts... so why after a perfect flash using CSE, is the Vodafone UK rom still there. Any Ideas.

itsbighead said:
How about flashing a Rom from another European country?
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Im afraid no Luck... I flashed Open France, still booted to VF rom with VF software on it v.10a-235-15), then installed "Italy Orange", which actually worked, booted up a clean LG rom BUT, even though its v.10a, When trying OTA update, it said I was n the latest OS, which is no good, then using LG PC Sync.. it just updated to the UK VF rom again (20h).
So I took a long shot and flashed Open UK, still the same.... boots into VF splash screen and software.. so, Im at a loss. This is why I reckon carriers hide a rom on the EFS partition.
Any thing to add
Thanks

I can't update my phone

Hello everyone, I'm making this thread because Im having some trouble updating my phone to the latest version of Andriod.
I have an LG G3 D850 factory unlocked. This means it's an at&t phone, so I'd need an at&t sim to update it. The problem is, I dont live in the US, Im from southamerica, Uruguay specifically.
As I dont have the sim or anything, my phone is stuck in Android 4.4.2.
My question is, is there any way for me to update my phone? What happens if I download and install the D855 version for this phone (the international version) will it block my networks?
Thanks for reading!

Manu9830 said:
Hello everyone, I'm making this thread because Im having some trouble updating my phone to the latest version of Andriod.
I have an LG G3 D850 factory unlocked. This means it's an at&t phone, so I'd need an at&t sim to update it. The problem is, I dont live in the US, Im from southamerica, Uruguay specifically.
As I dont have the sim or anything, my phone is stuck in Android 4.4.2.
My question is, is there any way for me to update my phone? What happens if I download and install the D855 version for this phone (the international version) will it block my networks?
Thanks for reading!
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It will block your network most probably brick your phone

Manu9830 said:
Hello everyone, I'm making this thread because Im having some trouble updating my phone to the latest version of Andriod.
I have an LG G3 D850 factory unlocked. This means it's an at&t phone, so I'd need an at&t sim to update it. The problem is, I dont live in the US, Im from southamerica, Uruguay specifically.
As I dont have the sim or anything, my phone is stuck in Android 4.4.2.
My question is, is there any way for me to update my phone? What happens if I download and install the D855 version for this phone (the international version) will it block my networks?
Thanks for reading!
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download latest mm kdz of ur D850 and use flashtool to falsh it.u can google it on how to flash and where to download it from

jokerpappu said:
download latest mm kdz of ur D850 and use flashtool to falsh it.u can google it on how to flash and where to download it from
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What does mm kdz mean?

Manu9830 said:
What does mm kdz mean?
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kdz is the format that the stock flashable rom is in.
go to this thread here and you will know what to do.all guide is written here on how to update to latest and how to degrade from latest stock rom ok.hope this will help you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089

S9 Message Your current software version isn't supported. Visit a service centre

Hi first post, please be gentle
I've got an s9 which is on EE UK, I flashed the phone with stock firmware, I did run into a couple of issues where when flashing the phone it got stuck on odm.img so I had to start again but using CSC and not home CSC so I lost everything
When the phone rebooted, it started up in German, so as I had my sim card in, it restarted in English
I'm using the following
G960FXXU2CSA2/G960FOXM2CSA2/G960FXXS2BRK3
Service provider SW SAOMC_SM-G960F_OXM_DBT_PP_0009
DBT/XEU/EVR
When I check for updates I get the following
Your current software version isn't supported. Visit a service centre
Can anyone help on how to put this right, I want to stay on stock firmware, not EE firmware
Thanks in advance

Good morning, I have a problem with my S9 model G9600 which came from the factory with the firmware of Hong Kong, however I tried to change the firmware for the one in Colombia because some voice services of the operators only work with the software of the country. But when trying to flash the part of CSC I mark the error and obviously the installation fails as in a kind of A brick because the logo of Galaxy S9 does not pass and is only solved by reinstalling the firmware with which it came from the factory; I have already made sure that the binary is the same, however I can not find a solution. I attach photos of the error.

dancevision said:
Hi first post, please be gentle
I've got an s9 which is on EE UK, I flashed the phone with stock firmware, I did run into a couple of issues where when flashing the phone it got stuck on odm.img so I had to start again but using CSC and not home CSC so I lost everything
When the phone rebooted, it started up in German, so as I had my sim card in, it restarted in English
I'm using the following
G960FXXU2CSA2/G960FOXM2CSA2/G960FXXS2BRK3
Service provider SW SAOMC_SM-G960F_OXM_DBT_PP_0009
DBT/XEU/EVR
When I check for updates I get the following
Your current software version isn't supported. Visit a service centre
Can anyone help on how to put this right, I want to stay on stock firmware, not EE firmware
Thanks in advance
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You need to flash the XEU firmware, you have the German DBT firmware running right now

same issue, i have a hungarian telenor phone which suppoesed to be (PAN) , i flashed XEH which is hungarian, but it said software version not supported visit a support center , so i flashed the PAN 9.0 version and it still says this

Did you find any solution for this?

Bizzhub said:
Did you find any solution for this?
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are you having an identical issue? i ask that because resolutions are very specific. Flashing firmware from www.sammobile.com/firmwares is very commonly the fix for a great many issues, but id hate to have you go thru the trouble of doing so if its not necessary

I tried flashing using odin but didnt work. btw, im using SM-965U and currently residing in Thailand. I dont know if this is the reason why I cant update at all.

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I am in the U.S. and am getting the message that software isn't supported also. Is there any resolution to this problem?

In case it helps, I was having this same issue with my unlocked Galaxy Note 10+. I found this thread after searching. I had gotten into this situation by flashing CP/AP/BL from TMO firmware without also flashing TMO's CSC or USERDATA. I avoided CSC/USERDATA (I was using the home CSC) because I wanted to avoid wiping the phone.
When I finally gave up and flashed CSC and USERDATA, everything was back to normal.

hueboy said:
I am in the U.S. and am getting the message that software isn't supported also. Is there any resolution to this problem?
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have you tried flashing the stock firmware via Odin?
ThugEsquire said:
In case it helps, I was having this same issue with my unlocked Galaxy Note 10+. I found this thread after searching. I had gotten into this situation by flashing CP/AP/BL from TMO firmware without also flashing TMO's CSC or USERDATA. I avoided CSC/USERDATA (I was using the home CSC) because I wanted to avoid wiping the phone.
When I finally gave up and flashed CSC and USERDATA, everything was back to normal.
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thats usually the fix. Glad you got it working
Bizzhub said:
I tried flashing using odin but didnt work. btw, im using SM-965U and currently residing in Thailand. I dont know if this is the reason why I cant update at all.
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what is the issue after you flash in Odin?

A little help with flash firmware

Hello guys. I am from Europe and just buy Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra with Snapdragon. The phone is unlocked, but have carrier brand, Verizon, I want to remove it. Can't change phone language (see that this problem is discussed here, but I did not see a solution) and in Verizon miss Samsung Cloud.
I decided to try changing stock rom with Odin. Now downloading official firmware SM 988U, because I read that must put firmware with "U", and downloading SM-988USQU1CTLB (this is my baseband version and hope that this is correct firmware), write only USA, without any brands, from sammobile, I hope that is without carrier brand. Don't know if I will manage to change language successfully, because the phone is made for USA, but hope that carrier brand will disappear and Samsung Cloud will show. Will do this for first time and don't understand a lot of things. However, my question is for Bootloader.... I try to see if my bootloader is unlocked or locked, but can't do it.... If I put new firmware and bootloader is locked what will happens? Sorry for my stupid question, but I try to learn how things happen What you think, is my idea is good or no?

Something is bricks. I downloaded the original stock firmware from sammobile. USA only, I successfully uploaded it, everything with Odin was good, but after restarting and entering my sim card pin code, the phone want pin code to get app notifications. Please someone help me.... What is this pin code? I can only received phone calls

I manage to put the phone in downloading mod, please someone tell me witch firmware must download and install? The phone is SM-988U