I am about to upgrade to kitkat on my i9305 but am wondering which sammobile country version would be best for my Australian phone as there is no Australian version available to download ?
simian253 said:
I am about to upgrade to kitkat on my i9305 but am wondering which sammobile country version would be best for my Australian phone as there is no Australian version available to download ?
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As stated by an aussie XDA user
The T model is tuned to favour the 850mhz band. There is a difference in hardware but very minor. Other than that they are the same.
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you can use any country firmware other than the asian countries (china, thailand, koreea, vietnam, etc.) unless you want some apps to be in a wierd language .
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I think i have a Latin American version of the phone. Is it safe to flash with a UK ROM? Will it, for all intent and purposes, be like a UK version of the SGS2?
Yeh it'll be fine as long as there are no hardware differences, you can find stock firmwares on samfirmware.com
viva.fidel said:
Yeh it'll be fine as long as there are no hardware differences, you can find stock firmwares on samfirmware.com
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Thanks! Gonna do this afternoon then!
You're welcome, if i was you I would flash a generic European rom (XEU) as they receive ROM updates through Kies before the UK specific versions do, I'm on O2 in the UK and still on KE2 (my product code is O2U)
viva.fidel said:
You're welcome, if i was you I would flash a generic European rom (XEU) as they receive ROM updates through Kies before the UK specific versions do, I'm on O2 in the UK and still on KE2 (my product code is O2U)
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I plan on flashing this one, which is the last one listed for Europe on SamFirmwares.com:
I9100XWKF3 ## EXT4.PIT 2.3.3 2011 June 9 CSC - KCL
Is that a good one to get?
I'm starting to understand the whole firmware numbers now. Damn, talk about immersing yourself in a new culture to learn the language!
Seems like the newest generic UK ROM is KE7.
Since I'm in the US, and there is no US version of the phone, I wonder which CSC I should use. I guess it comes down to which region has the most desirable app choices in the market, huh?
Hey, i like to change my csc to europ or global region, so i can get the global updates.
what it the best csc to change for?
Ocean2k said:
Hey, i like to change my csc to europ or global region, so i can get the global updates.
what it the best csc to change for?
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use the ones posted here on the forums they will always be more up to date than an OTA but if I had to choose a CSC I would use EU anyway.
Does not work that way CSC does not define the update path .
General updates quicker than others i would choose Europe based firmware .
UK certainly has received a number of updates .
jje
uk is not europe? which firmware should i use for general Europe based firmware?
Ocean2k said:
uk is not europe? which firmware should i use for general Europe based firmware?
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Well FFF my old boots there is us poor UK buggers paying billions in to Europe and i now find out we are not part of Europe beggars believe . Lucky i got David on fast dial before he stumps up any more cash .
jje
So, what is the best CSC to get the quickest updates ?!?!
onesolo said:
So, what is the best CSC to get the quickest updates ?!?!
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None CSC does not decide upgrade path Samsung do .
jje
So for those of you that got your S3 with TMobile branded firmware you'll realise how stupid it is.
I wanted to know if I flash it with unbranded firmware will that mean I won't be elegible for updates via Kies and via OTAs. (So even though I will now have the option to get OTAs, I wont be able to?)
Also if the answer to the above is Yes, is there any way to get around this and if no what am I doing wrong because my updates via Kies is not working.
sm. said:
So for those of you that got your S3 with TMobile branded firmware you'll realise how stupid it is.
I wanted to know if I flash it with unbranded firmware will that mean I won't be elegible for updates via Kies and via OTAs. (So even though I will now have the option to get OTAs, I wont be able to?)
Also if the answer to the above is Yes, is there any way to get around this and if no what am I doing wrong because my updates via Kies is not working.
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I believe you can simply debrand it by flashing a stock firmware version with odin.
sm. said:
So for those of you that got your S3 with TMobile branded firmware you'll realise how stupid it is.
I wanted to know if I flash it with unbranded firmware will that mean I won't be elegible for updates via Kies and via OTAs. (So even though I will now have the option to get OTAs, I wont be able to?)
Possible but not 100%
Also if the answer to the above is Yes, is there any way to get around this and if no what am I doing wrong because my updates via Kies is not working.
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There has to be an actual update for YOUR phone on the Kies server as its TMobile ask them .
Why not join XDA Developers and flash stock roms on release .
jje
The only unbranded firmware that I know of is for the international version. If there is unbranded firmware for the TMO version it would be somewhere in the US forums, not here. And you cant go flashing an international version rom on a TMO GS3. different processor,modems etc...Unless you want a brick
graffixnyc said:
The only unbranded firmware that I know of is for the international version. If there is unbranded firmware for the TMO version it would be somewhere in the US forums, not here.
Why would TMobile send their firmware to the USA for TMobile UK customers to download .
TMob UK firmware is as usually in the stock /branded roms threads on SGS3 I9300 International forum that is this one .
The T-Mobile brand is present in 11 European countries – Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany (as Telekom), Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom – as well as the US, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
jje
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JJEgan said:
graffixnyc said:
The only unbranded firmware that I know of is for the international version. If there is unbranded firmware for the TMO version it would be somewhere in the US forums, not here.
Why would TMobile send their firmware to the USA for TMobile UK customers to download .
TMob UK firmware is as usually in the stock /branded roms threads on SGS3 I9300 International forum that is this one .
The T-Mobile brand is present in 11 European countries – Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany (as Telekom), Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom – as well as the US, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
jje
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You didn't specify what country you were talking about. I dont know which variant TMO Europe has, but the US TMO version is dual core snapdragon. If TMO EU has the i9300 then you could flash international roms, but if it's the same as the TMO US variant you cannot flash international i9300 roms on it
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I have a T-Mobile S3 and got fed up with kies saying no update so I just rooted and flashed wanamlite, not looked back since. Although I did take a nandroid back backup of stock firmware first for version references.
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Jack
P.s all uk based T-Mobile S3's are GTi9300 that I have come across
Hi,
I am a slight issue with unrooting my phone back to the stock rom jellybean 4.1.2. I am unable to find the stock ROM for the Orange UK carrier? I can find it for france, romania, poland etc.. but there is no UK?
Can anyone assist me in finding this please?
saintryan said:
Hi,
I am a slight issue with unrooting my phone back to the stock rom jellybean 4.1.2. I am unable to find the stock ROM for the Orange UK carrier? I can find it for france, romania, poland etc.. but there is no UK?
Can anyone assist me in finding this please?
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Have u tried www.sammobile.com for now
yes
Sun90 said:
Have u tried for now
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Yes I have and there are only 4.0.4 versions of the software.
I have also tried another popular firmware downloading site and still cannot find this and there are only versions for france, poland, romaina, spain and i think netherlands... no UK 4.1.2 anywhere to be found?
saintryan said:
Yes I have and there are only 4.0.4 versions of the software.
I have also tried another popular firmware downloading site and still cannot find this and there are only versions for france, poland, romaina, spain and i think netherlands... no UK 4.1.2 anywhere to be found?
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Has Orange UK released an update to 4.1.2 for now
not sure
Sun90 said:
Has Orange UK released an update to 4.1.2 for now
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Well they have released it for the other countries in europe since may... but the UK version is nowhere to be found?
Anyone else?
saintryan said:
Well they have released it for the other countries in europe since may... but the UK version is nowhere to be found?
Anyone else?
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if its not listed on sammobile then it might be an OTA update
currntly what rom/kernel ur phone is into
If its a custom rom then do flash the Stock ICS firmware for ORANGE UK and then see if u get an OTA update to JB4.1.2
Also u can check the link below
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/471197/20130525/galaxys2-gti9100-android412-xwlsu-jellybean-install-root.htm
Sun90 said:
if its not listed on sammobile then it might be an OTA update
currntly what rom/kernel ur phone is into
If its a custom rom then do flash the Stock ICS firmware for ORANGE UK and then see if u get an OTA update to JB4.1.2
Also u can check the link below
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Well i currently have the rom for the Vodafone UK network. But that not longer works as I am with Orange. Yeah i checked out that link and that is what confuses me. Why would you release a 4.1.2 update for pretty much the whole on europe for the orange network but not the uk?
Currently download stock ICS to see if there is another update.
Very strange.
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**Update - Solved**
Hi I just thought i'd come back to my original thread and post a solution to this problem.
If anyone get this issue then what I did was go to samsung-updates dot com and downloaded a stock rom called Region: XEU and with a version id of: I9100XWLSW.
Works a treat and will recognise the orange / Everything everywhere / t-mobile network.
Thanks
Hi,
My firmware numbers are:
pad:ml2 /phone: ml2 / csc:mk1 (xsi)
Can you please help me understand these codes? as far as I researched xsi should be the country code but I can't fund a country whose code is xsi.
This is an Original Samsung Galaxy S4 Active phone that I originally bought from Duabi.
Moreover, I should be getting kitkated but I'm still at 4.2.2 and kies says no firmware upgrade for me.
All help is appreciated.
XSI is for the United Arab Emirates regional firmware.
http://www.sammobile.com/2014/05/27/samsung-galaxy-s4-active-gt-i9295-receiving-kitkat-update/
You should be update the phone with any unbranded firmware for the international version.
es0tericcha0s said:
XSI is for the United Arab Emirates regional firmware.
http://www.sammobile.com/2014/05/27/samsung-galaxy-s4-active-gt-i9295-receiving-kitkat-update/
You should be update the phone with any unbranded firmware for the international version.
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Thanks for the link, much appreciated.
I'm surprised that Kies didn't offer me an update yet, I'm now located in Egypt, maybe that's the reason?
djkabo said:
Thanks for the link, much appreciated.
I'm surprised that Kies didn't offer me an update yet, I'm now located in Egypt, maybe that's the reason?
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Kies sucks. Manual updates with Odin are 100 times better.