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expiredcgigate posted Nov 01, 2023 02:55 PM
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expiredcgigate posted Nov 01, 2023 02:55 PM
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I believe you will always get this as its still a Metro firmware. I typically flash the generic U1/XAA firmware once I unlock a phone. For US FW, you can get it at https://www.sammobile.c
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1. Carrier-Unlock the phone
2. Download the PATCHED Odin3 tool
3. Download the XAA firmware. I used this link: https://samfw.com/firmware/SM-S711U1/XAA
4. Extract the firmware zip file
5. Put your phone into "Download mode": Turn it off, then hold both volume up+down buttons and press and hold the power button. A screen with chinese will pop up. Press the volume up button to continue to the next screen. Then connect your phone to your computer where you have the PATCHED Odin3 tool.
6. Now that you have your phone connected. Open the PATCHED Odin3 tool. One of the rectangles in the top half of the window should be colored and show something with "COM". This indicates that the tool recognizes the phone
7. On the right hand side, click the button BL and pick the extracted file that starts with BL_
8. Do the same with the buttons AP and CP
9. IMPORTANT: For CSC, pick the extracted file with the name HOME_CSC_. This ensures none of your data gets deleted! do NOT pick the CSC_ file, pick the one that begins with HOME_CSC_!
10. Click the start button and wait until it completed. Do NOT touch your phone or move the cable or do anything that could cause the connection to somehow be interrupted.
11. After 4-5 minutes your phone will restart and the Metro logo will no longer show up. Keep in mind that the first boot will take a bit longer, so be patient.
12. If it doesn't prompt you to switch the service provider for your sim: Go into Settings->Connections->WIFI Calling, change the preference to "Wifi preferred". This will trigger a prompt to switch the mobile profile. Do the switch, which will trigger a reboot. This ensures that the entire mobile stuff switches to whatever your SIM needs. Feel free to change the WIFI calling preference back to the previous selection after it came back.
I believe you will always get this as its still a Metro firmware. I typically flash the generic U1/XAA firmware once I unlock a phone. For US FW, you can get it at https://www.sammobile.com/samsung...711U1/XAA/ [sammobile.com] Also gets rid of all the bloatware from the provider.
1. Carrier-Unlock the phone
2. Download the PATCHED Odin3 tool
3. Download the XAA firmware. I used this link: https://samfw.com/firmware/SM-S711U1/XAA
4. Extract the firmware zip file
5. Put your phone into "Download mode": Turn it off, then hold both volume up+down buttons and press and hold the power button. A screen with chinese will pop up. Press the volume up button to continue to the next screen. Then connect your phone to your computer where you have the PATCHED Odin3 tool.
6. Now that you have your phone connected. Open the PATCHED Odin3 tool. One of the rectangles in the top half of the window should be colored and show something with "COM". This indicates that the tool recognizes the phone
7. On the right hand side, click the button BL and pick the extracted file that starts with BL_
8. Do the same with the buttons AP and CP
9. IMPORTANT: For CSC, pick the extracted file with the name HOME_CSC_. This ensures none of your data gets deleted! do NOT pick the CSC_ file, pick the one that begins with HOME_CSC_!
10. Click the start button and wait until it completed. Do NOT touch your phone or move the cable or do anything that could cause the connection to somehow be interrupted.
11. After 4-5 minutes your phone will restart and the Metro logo will no longer show up. Keep in mind that the first boot will take a bit longer, so be patient.
12. If it doesn't prompt you to switch the service provider for your sim: Go into Settings->Connections->WIFI Calling, change the preference to "Wifi preferred". This will trigger a prompt to switch the mobile profile. Do the switch, which will trigger a reboot. This ensures that the entire mobile stuff switches to whatever your SIM needs. Feel free to change the WIFI calling preference back to the previous selection after it came back.
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Swapped Sim card from the Metro by Tmobile to my Prepaid Tmobile, no issues.
Splash screen is Tmobile, no evidence of Metro on Splash screen.
Swapped Sim card from the Metro by Tmobile to my Prepaid Tmobile, no issues.
Splash screen is Tmobile, no evidence of Metro on Splash screen.
U1/XAA will bring your phone back to the same look/feel of a standard unaltered Samsung phone without all the Metro specific apps. My current phone is the S22 from TMo and I could not get wifi calling to work on Tracfone service. Once flashed, TF recognized the phone as std unbranded Samsung and wifi calling then worked. So yeah, it added capabilities for me.
Swapped Sim card from the Metro by Tmobile to my Prepaid Tmobile, no issues.
Splash screen is Tmobile, no evidence of Metro on Splash screen.
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