HELP! Not Receiving updates - Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Questions and Answers

Hi guys!
I have the exynos variant, SM-N950F, and switched to the France firmware to get the oreo update. I switched back to my home CSC when it prompted me to factory reset when i inserted my sim.
Apparently, i am not getting OTA updates even if its already available in my country (PH).
Need help in what i need to do to get OTAs again.
Thanks!

jyuuken said:
Hi guys!
I have the exynos variant, SM-N950F, and switched to the France firmware to get the oreo update. I switched back to my home CSC when it prompted me to factory reset when i inserted my sim.
Apparently, i am not getting OTA updates even if its already available in my country (PH).
Need help in what i need to do to get OTAs again.
Thanks!
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I would flash the latest firmware for your home region through Odin and see if you get the next OTA (also use home_csc so it doesn't wipe data).
My N950FD is XSG and it received OTAs, but then I flashed BTU firmware and OTAs stopped even though my CSC was still XSG. So I just flashed the newest XSG firmware with Odin, and will see if I get the June update when it's released.

A factory reset can sometimes work. Has for me in the past.
Couple of months ago I did not have my phone for about 5 weeks, saw there had been an update since but when I got it back, nothing. Factory reset and it popped up on the first boot.

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is oem unlock needed for changing csc v3 bootloader and oreo

I have done several searches re the above.
As stated in a previous post I want to change my phone back to tel/tel/tel from xsa/xsa /tel ( xsa is generic unbranded phone in australia and telstra is a branded in Australia phone )
I have no oem unlock available as it has not been 7 days since I have flashed my phone.
should it be possible to change the csc without oemunlock with olin_csc not home_csc ( and using the other associated firmware files bl,ap etc)
and picking f reset time, auto reboot and repartition in odin .
You're good, oem unlock is only needed for flashing custom binaries.
I'm curious, how did you get xsa/xsa/tel? I have been trying to achieve this but haven't had success.. I have flashed stock xsa rom with Odin with CSC and wiped everything and it's still tel/tel/tel. I even tried Optus software and it never changes..
kloony11 said:
I'm curious, how did you get xsa/xsa/tel? I have been trying to achieve this but haven't had success.. I have flashed stock xsa rom with Odin with CSC and wiped everything and it's still tel/tel/tel. I even tried Optus software and it never changes..
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I did the below with oreo firmware
flash xef french firmware and setup without simcard or sd card ( you will get xef/xef/tel) then flash xsa firmware
both times use csc not homecsc. you will get xsa/xsa/tel
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but even though I tried to reverse the above with the telstra firmware instead of xsa after reflashing french to try to get back to telstra but it did not I still have xsa/xsa /tel. no biggy samsung pay volte and richtext messages work still . Just thought I might get back to branded for something to do.
g_alahad12345 said:
I did the below with oreo firmware
flash xef french firmware and setup without simcard or sd card ( you will get xef/xef/tel) then flash xsa firmware
both times use csc not homecsc. you will get xsa/xsa/tel
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but even though I tried to reverse the above with the telstra firmware instead of xsa after reflashing french to try to get back to telstra but it did not I still have xsa/xsa /tel. no biggy samsung pay volte and richtext messages work still . Just thought I might get back to branded for something to do.
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Thanks for that info. Will try this. Hopefully I can get Volte and Wifi calling to work with Optus, even though its a Telstra phone.
solution to get back to telstra
hello all got back to telstra through the factory binary in the below post
and following steps there
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74324845&postcount=87

Setting CSC to BTU needed for OTA?

Hi,
Recently got a Note 8 and found it was the Italian version with the CSC code TIM.
I then used Odin to flash the latest Oreo BTU firmware, and afterwards wiped the cache and reset to factory settings.
However, I'm not sure if this will allow future OTA firmware updates?
My brother also has a Note 8 which was the UK version and upgraded to Oreo via OTA, and using the phone info app, found his firmware versions and CSC codes were identical to mine, so I'm not sure if my phone will receieve OTA updates for BTU or not?
If not, what steps do I need to follow to ensure I do?
Thanks
I flashed my uae import to XEU and then VOD oreo. I am getting OTA updates.

Note 9 Update to other CSC

I have two questions.
I updated my note 9 pie via "apply update from sd card" a few weeks ago and all went well. However i'm wondering if I still will be able to get updates (from the NEE region). I am on the NEE region CSC, but I applied the update file before the pie update rolled out in the NEE region, but with a newer build number of the pie update. (note that I did update to pie already on NEE region CSC without reseting the device)
If Updating OTA is not possible in the future, can I just flash the newer NEE region update (with reset ofc) without downgrading to oreo first?
Thanks in advance!
Yes, if OTA is for some reason is not available use Odin instead (and no downgrading to Oreo).
edit: thread to follow
https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...icial-stock-fw-update-odin-thread-xx-t3825204

Will I get OTA updates?

Hello! I have an S10 but it's CSC is Austria. Since I live in Bulgaria, I want to flash stock firmware through Odin. Am I going to still get OTA updates when they are available for my country and is it possible that my data isn't wiped?
EDIT: I flashed the firmware, everything went fine and most importantly I kept my data!
Why bother with risky processes , at some point or time , your phone will receive the OTA update.......
yes you can pass the csc for bulgaria without problems just to not lose your data you will pass the HOME _CSC.
receive the OTA update normally...

SM-G977B - Flash to BTU not working but ODIN Passes

Hey all
Strange one here, i have a SM-G977B (S10 5G on EE UK), i have unlocked it and trying to flash BTU firmware on it via ODIN (download fw from sammobile)
It flashes ok and passes but when phone starts up its CSC is TEL! (Australia!!)
I have re done the flash with XEU and still the same. firmware version says TEL/TEL/EVR in settings
any ideas on this? can this model be flashed to a different region? i want it on BTU not EVR (EE UK)
tried few versions of ODIn too, and left all check boxes default
Thanks
ok, i have reflashed the latest EVR firmware back to the phone and it has taken this fine
Wonder why it doesnt like BTU or XEU?
What firmware files were you trying to flash specifically?
Sounds like you downloaded the wrong one. What are the names of the firmware files you flashed?
the_scotsman said:
What firmware files were you trying to flash specifically?
Sounds like you downloaded the wrong one. What are the names of the firmware files you flashed?
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Hi
Tried these
https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/firmware/SM-G977B/BTU/download/G977BXXS2ASJ7/299842/
https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/firmware/SM-G977B/XEU/download/G977BXXS2ASJ7/299840/
The above all flash on in Odin, but when the phone starts (even with uk sim in the phone) it defaults to Australia language and 2x Telstra apps install automatically, software info says tel/tel/evr
I then tried this one:
https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/firmware/SM-G977B/VOD/download/G977BXXU2ASJ5/299590/
And the above install the 2x Vodafone uk apps automatically which is fine as I am on Vodafone uk but in software Info is still says vod/vod/evr
What my issue is now is I don’t seem to get 5g on this phone even though I’m on a a 5g contract and has worked previously on a note10+ 5g handset.
Is this handset 5g modem locked to ee?
bigup7 said:
Hey all
Strange one here, i have a SM-G977B (S10 5G on EE UK), i have unlocked it and trying to flash BTU firmware on it via ODIN (download fw from sammobile)
It flashes ok and passes but when phone starts up its CSC is TEL! (Australia!!)
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Did you enable OEM unlock in developer options before flashing?
I am waiting for delivery of an EE branded S10 5G tomorrow and planned to flash BTU firmware
dezborders said:
Did you enable OEM unlock in developer options before flashing?
I am waiting for delivery of an EE branded S10 5G tomorrow and planned to flash BTU firmware
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Didn't think I needed to.
Gave up and went back to evr firmware.
Lmk how you get on please
bigup7 said:
Didn't think I needed to.
Gave up and went back to evr firmware.
Lmk how you get on please
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OK, well I have always had to do that to change CSC via FW flash since the S9 range was released in 2018.
I am waiting for postman to deliver my S10 5G today so will try to flash BTU with OEM Unlock enabled, and let you know the outcome.
(If it doesn't work for me, i will do same as you and flash a network specific FW via Odin - H3G is my network provider).
bigup7 said:
Didn't think I needed to.
Gave up and went back to evr firmware.
Lmk how you get on please
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Didn't work ended up with TEL CSC code so just flashed latest H3G
dezborders said:
Didn't work ended up with TEL CSC code so just flashed latest H3G
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If you go to software information in settings, does it say h3g/h3g/evr?
bigup7 said:
If you go to software information in settings, does it say h3g/h3g/evr?
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Yes exactly. My product code is also SM-G977BZAAEVR, so its always going to be an EE UK handset
Hello,
I have the same phone (SM-G977B), I exchanged it with someone in Shanghai (without a box, stupid me)
It was rooted with some CHC firmware (which did not let me download any Google play services), I tried to root the phone (my first time) and ended up re-locking the bootloader.
Later on, while trying different things, I ended up deleting the firmware from TWRP (as I formatted the data, cache folders/directories) as it was not booting up (bootloop on Samsung logo).
Long story short (and rather sad and stupid):
I have a brick phone which has no SD card slot, No OS installed, I do not know the original CSC (except that it was bought in some country in Europe), other firmwares does not flash with Odin (gives me Repartition error failed error), I am unable to mount the device (thought I could transfer the firmware using MTP), I can not change TWRP (downgrade or upgrade) as disk won't mount (for some reasons). I have formatted the disk, changes its format to ext4, ext2 etc.
Any ideas?

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