Hi I have browsed these forums for many years and they have served me well but this is my first question.
I have been given an old Samsung Galaxy Note II International Version. However the firmware is Chinese and thus has no play services. I am wondering if it is possible to switch from Chinese To English firmware and upgrade to the official Kit Kat upgrade, without rooting my device?
Here are some details of my device:
Model - GT-N7100
Android Version - 4.3
Baseband Version - N7100ZCUENB1
There may be a very short answer of "No" coming my way but I just wondered if this is indeed possible. I have the English firmware version for the N7100 already for the Android Version 4.4.2, I have experience with flashing via Odin.
Help is much appreciated.
Boot into download mode and verify the model #.
If it is a Note 2 that is made for mainland China, you may not be able to flash any English stock ROMs to the phone.
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Galaxy Note 2 (International) GT-N7100 CHN N7100ZCUEMK3 Android 4.3 11.11.2013 2010080
Has anyone tried this firmware? Is it stable?
I bought my GT-N7100 in Indonesia. It is compatible with my phone?
The firmware is for China,I f your phone is N7100,you shouldn't face any problem..so go for it.But,Beware it might contain KNOX enabled bootloder,so do some research before flashing..
Gud luck.
Dont flash this
MimpiGadget said:
Galaxy Note 2 (International) GT-N7100 CHN N7100ZCUEMK3 Android 4.3 11.11.2013 2010080
Has anyone tried this firmware? Is it stable?
I bought my GT-N7100 in Indonesia. It is compatible with my phone?
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Hi ,
Don't flash this ROM for Indonesia version of Note 2.
The boot loader for China Note 2 is different from International ones.
There are strong reasons, that you may brick your phone. Thanks
Hi there,
Sorry to resurrect a month old thread. I just wanted to chuck my findings at this as I have recently received a GT-N7100 CHN N7100ZCUEMK3 Galaxy Note 2 as a birthday present from my wife. And if anybody could recommend any suggestions that would be great!
As I now live in the UK as opposed to China I was getting frustrated that I couldn't use Google Play and the default search engine is Baidu and can't be changed to Google, so i've been trying for the past few days to flash it but it just won't work.
I've been downloading only the official stock roms for the international N7100 and so far i've tried 10 versions from various regions (Europe, UK, India, US) and none of them work. Some fail the moment you hit start on Odin, others will go through the entire process and fail at the end - thus soft bricking my mobile.
Luckily I have been able to use Kies to restore it - which I've installed on the laptop as opposed to my PC which is doing the flashing - but this just puts it back to Chinese mode.
I should also note that the China version is Knox enabled - mine is now burned so anybody else trying this really ought to be careful.
andy3012 said:
Hi there,
Sorry to resurrect a month old thread. I just wanted to chuck my findings at this as I have recently received a GT-N7100 CHN N7100ZCUEMK3 Galaxy Note 2 as a birthday present from my wife. And if anybody could recommend any suggestions that would be great!
As I now live in the UK as opposed to China I was getting frustrated that I couldn't use Google Play and the default search engine is Baidu and can't be changed to Google, so i've been trying for the past few days to flash it but it just won't work.
I've been downloading only the official stock roms for the international N7100 and so far i've tried 10 versions from various regions (Europe, UK, India, US) and none of them work. Some fail the moment you hit start on Odin, others will go through the entire process and fail at the end - thus soft bricking my mobile.
Luckily I have been able to use Kies to restore it - which I've installed on the laptop as opposed to my PC which is doing the flashing - but this just puts it back to Chinese mode.
I should also note that the China version is Knox enabled - mine is now burned so anybody else trying this really ought to be careful.
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Sorry to resurrect so old thread, but I have an exact same phone with that firmware from China, and wanted to put either the international version or cyanogenmod on it. So did you ever get anything besides China roms installed?
Hi All,
Looking for a bit of advice here with my newly purchased Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition (P605).
I'm in Australia and I bought it from what I thought was a reseller with the local version but when the device turned up it had an international power plug and what looks to be a Hong Kong ROM.
So first thing I did was try and flash it with the Australian unbranded firmware and every time Odin fails with an FAIL! (Size) error. I've tried both the unbranded and the Telstra firmware with no luck. The only way I could get the device back to a working state was by installing the Taiwan ROM (I expect the Hong Kong ROM may have worked too).
Anyone got any suggestions as to how to resolve this? Having the Chinese keyboard pop up frequently when I connect my bluetooth keyboard is pretty annoying. I've read some stuff about this perhaps being related to partitioning?
Other options I'm looking at are flashing the device with the UK firmware and even the South Korean 4.4.2 firmware. I've got a Galaxy S5 with 4.4.2 and I think it is much nicer than 4.3 - would be good to standardise the OS on both as the little inconsistencies are a bit annoying.
Appreciate any thoughts and thanks in advance.
Dave
daveb21 said:
Hi All,
Looking for a bit of advice here with my newly purchased Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition (P605).
I'm in Australia and I bought it from what I thought was a reseller with the local version but when the device turned up it had an international power plug and what looks to be a Hong Kong ROM.
So first thing I did was try and flash it with the Australian unbranded firmware and every time Odin fails with an FAIL! (Size) error. I've tried both the unbranded and the Telstra firmware with no luck. The only way I could get the device back to a working state was by installing the Taiwan ROM (I expect the Hong Kong ROM may have worked too).
Anyone got any suggestions as to how to resolve this? Having the Chinese keyboard pop up frequently when I connect my bluetooth keyboard is pretty annoying. I've read some stuff about this perhaps being related to partitioning?
Other options I'm looking at are flashing the device with the UK firmware and even the South Korean 4.4.2 firmware. I've got a Galaxy S5 with 4.4.2 and I think it is much nicer than 4.3 - would be good to standardise the OS on both as the little inconsistencies are a bit annoying.
Appreciate any thoughts and thanks in advance.
Dave
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DON'T flash the Korean KK firmware... When looking for a rom only pick P605 rom, the Korean rom is a different model number.. It will brick your device.
Try the UK rom (BTU). You should be able to flash just about any P605 rom (nothing with with letters behind) but the Oz rom is weird... I'm in same boat, got the Hong Kong 32gb P605 but can't flash Oz rom. Not gonna sweat it though as there are a bunch of other roms out there with a release of KK not far off, the nordish Notes just got updated to KK on the 29th...
Shouldn't be too long...
4.4.2 installed
ultramag69 said:
DON'T flash the Korean KK firmware... When looking for a rom only pick P605 rom, the Korean rom is a different model number.. It will brick your device.
Try the UK rom (BTU). You should be able to flash just about any P605 rom (nothing with with letters behind) but the Oz rom is weird... I'm in same boat, got the Hong Kong 32gb P605 but can't flash Oz rom. Not gonna sweat it though as there are a bunch of other roms out there with a release of KK not far off, the nordish Notes just got updated to KK on the 29th...
Shouldn't be too long...
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Not to worry - I've installed 4.4.2 NEE from the instructions at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2766394&page=12
Only one problem though - the left key on the Galaxy S5 brings up the app list while on the Note 10.1 2014 it brings up the settings menu (same behaviour as my S4). I don't care either way really but some consistency would be nice!! Dunno how many times already I've pushed the left button on the Note looking for the app list.
Hi developers,
Kindly accept my apology in advance if my question sounds stupid. I have Samsung galaxy Note II (N7105) with andriod jellybeans 4.3 (official) . I tried to install custom rom (DN3) but wasn't sucessfull. As there is no rom installed in my cell phone now, it is only showing the startup screen of note 2. Now I want to install back my original rom but dont know how to install again. I tried to download the firmware from the sammobile but i dont know the baseband version of my cell phone. I only knows its model number (i mentioned above) and this cell phone is manufactured in Vietnam and I purchased this phone in New Zealand. Kindly help me out. waiting for your prompt and positive reply.
Regards
Tony
Hello! I planning to flash a newer version of my android
don't know what region I should choose
things you need to know:
device: samsung galaxy S4 mini (GT-I9195)
I'm from Sweden
note: looking for correct region for my country... also would be great if you can give me the link for correct fw
thank you!
Sooux said:
Hello! I planning to flash a newer version of my android
don't know what region I should choose
things you need to know:
device: samsung galaxy S4 mini (GT-I9195)
I'm from Sweden
note: looking for correct region for my country... also would be great if you can give me the link for correct fw
thank you!
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Check the installed firmware version under "Settings --> About phone", post the version here and I can get you the link for the latest available firmware.
LS.xD said:
Check the installed firmware version under "Settings --> About phone", post the version here and I can get you the link for the latest available firmware.
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current Android version: 4.2.2
baseband version: I9195XXUBNB3
Sooux said:
current Android version: 4.2.2
baseband version: I9195XXUBNB3
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Thats not specific enough as too many regions with the same firmware version are available. You can use Phone INFO - Samsung to read out
region code / country
Latest official Android is 4.4.2
firmware I9195XXUCNK1 can be flashed (instaled) using ODIN.
LS.xD said:
Check the installed firmware version under "Settings --> About phone", post the version here and I can get you the link for the latest available firmware.
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Model number SCH-I435L
Baseband version I435LWWUBNK1
Build number KOT49H.I435LWWUBNK1
Hardware version I435L.05
Would you help find the stock rom that can be flashed with odin?
blackrabit said:
Model number SCH-I435L
Baseband version I435LWWUBNK1
Build number KOT49H.I435LWWUBNK1
Hardware version I435L.05
Would you help find the stock rom that can be flashed with odin?
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I can't find any valuable informations about your device. SCH-I435 is Verizon's S4 mini. Which carrier is the I435L?
Sooux said:
Hello! I planning to flash a newer version of my android
don't know what region I should choose
things you need to know:
device: samsung galaxy S4 mini (GT-I9195)
I'm from Sweden
note: looking for correct region for my country... also would be great if you can give me the link for correct fw
thank you!
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1. In ONE ROM you have MORE THAN ONE COUNTRY
2. By flashing rom, recovery, rooting the phone it is possible to loose warranty or bricking the phone.
3. You can follow these steps:
- Download the rom (firmware) acording to your country from samfirmware or sam-updates websiet.
example 1: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/GT-I9195/SWC/
example 2: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/GT-I9195/AUT/
In that Rom there will also be country like HU, DE, IT, FR and so on.
The software/rom will "take" the CSC for choosing if is a O2 or an ITM or Vodaphone or Verizon etc. after flashing it.
So, you need to change CSC, if you wish to swich from IT to DE for example, and that CSC to be contained into the ROM.
But to change CSC you need root, as far as I can see.
Read here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2751192
section " - How to change CSC? "
I hope it helps.
You will not have any problem flashing different region.
Mine was panama Latin America, but I've flashed Russia, India, Germany, different carrier for my country and all worked fine.
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I can't find any valuable informations about your device. SCH-I435 is Verizon's S4 mini. Which carrier is the I435L?
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It appeared in samsung's official website and seems to be sold without contract.
It has almost the same hardware to I435.
blackrabit said:
It appeared in samsung's official website and seems to be sold without contract.
It has almost the same hardware to I435.
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The phone is not listed as SCH-I435L. The firmware version on Samsung's website is SCH-I435ZKAXAR, search engine shows I435"L"... in title but its not listed anywhere on the Samsung website. If you click on "retailer" online or locally you won't get listed any shops selling this model. The common sources for Samsung firmware don't provide any downloads. Its as the phone doesn't exist. Only option left is to contact Samsung's customer care.
It doesn't matter which region you choose.
LS.xD said:
The phone is not listed as SCH-I435L. The firmware version on Samsung's website is SCH-I435ZKAXAR, search engine shows I435"L"... in title but its not listed anywhere on the Samsung website. If you click on "retailer" online or locally you won't get listed any shops selling this model. The common sources for Samsung firmware don't provide any downloads. Its as the phone doesn't exist. Only option left is to contact Samsung's customer care.
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Maybe contacting samsung's customer care is ultimate way. The i435L does exist cuz I abtained the firmware version from an ebay's seller.
i found a correct rom but...
The rom has same version i got now (4.2.2)... will something happen if I flash a rom that has same version?
Samsung Galaxy tab S 10.5 Verizon Help please with as root and install the new version of the android
SM-T807V
OS and firmware: 4.4.2
Description of the problem:
Hello, good people! I bought a new tablet Samsung Galaxy tab S 10.5 Verizon on Ebay. And I had a Problem I can not install the Russian language which has not been in the settings! Morelocale 2 and Language enabler does not work! Tell me please how to do the right thing. I load the screenshot ihz settings on the device.
I learned that on this forum people can hepl me with setting of Russian language it is the main my purpose! Thank you!
Efforts steps:
From other people I learned that it is necessary to put root it or install a new version of Android right which has to be with the Russian language. I liked the second idea because it is 4.4.2 and I want LOLIPOP 5.0, or at least something. And I found the information that you need to do through Odin and all that, but nowhere I could not find the firmware version for the SM-T807V.
Firstly you can't get root unless kingroot works, second you can't flash anything other than official firmware of which there isn't any for your device.
Your bootloader is locked so don't even try to flash non official firmware.