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You can check whether your device's modem is compatible with this procedure or not. Please make sure to check it as the first step.
To know what are your phone *ware versions, type on the phone keypad (if you want them to work on GoDialer or any software that sits on top of the phone keypad, you need to add "*#" without the quotes before the code and "*#*" without the quotes again after):
A code to test all your phone capabilities (screen, sound, sensors, ...):*#0*#
After typing the firmware version code and you reach the screen, you will get 3 different kinds of information. As an example, my phone shows:
A bit more details about the concepts:
PDA AND PHONE CODE MEANING:
What does N7000XXKKA mean?
N7000(=model)XX(=Region)K(=Year)K(=Month)A(=Revision)
What are BIT numbers and how can you find them?
Bit versions are modem versions, which can be different for every firmware. Our team works on adding newer BIT versions for all models with our new updates. BIT versions are cannot be downgraded however you can flash a firmware which has the same or higher BIT number as your current one.
To check the BIT version of your phone, you have to go to Settings, then About Phone and Software Version. In the software version you will find the BIT version as well.
Let's take an SM-A102U as an example: A102USQU4ASK7
A breakdown of a firmware:
A102U (Model number) SQU4 (Version and security BIT) ASK7 (Date of release and revision).
For us, the BIT number is important because that will determine determine whether the procedure can be done successfully. Usually the BIT version is the 5th caracter starting from the right. If you cound find the BIT number successfully you can search for the modem version in the table below. If the the BIT version is equal or lower than your BIT version the procedure can be done with ChimeraTool.
Now that you know what model you have, here is the complementary information provided by Samsung:
REGION CODES:
BD - Cyprus, Greece
CP - Finland
DB - Vietnam
DC - Thailand
DD - India
DT - Australia
DX - Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam
DZ - Malaysia, Singapore
JA - South Africa
JC - Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia
JP - Arabic
JR - Arabic
JV - Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey
MT - Switzerland
XA - Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom
XB - Denmark, Norway, Sweden
XC - Portugal, Spain
XD - Croatia, Czech, Hungary, Slovakia
XE - Bulgaria, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine
XF - Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania
XW - France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom
XX - Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom
ZC - China, Hong Kong
ZH - Hong Kong
ZT - Taiwan
YEAR CODES:
A - 2001
B - 2002
C - 2003
D - 2004
E - 2005
F - 2006
G - 2007
H - 2008
I - 2009
J - 2010
K - 2011
L - 2012
M - 2013
N - 2014
O - 2015
MONTH CODES:
A - January
B - February
C - March
D - April
E - May
F - June
G - July
H - August
I - September
J - October
K - November
L - December
REVISION CODES:
1 = 1
2 = 2
3 = 3
...
A = 10
B = 11
C = 12
...
SC CODE MEANING:
For CSC, you might've noticed a different scheme: between the phone model and the release code there are not 2 letters but rather 3, in my case "OXA". This is simply a code explaining from which country and which operator this phone is classified. OXA is supposed to be O2 UK, and I'm using it for SFR France (code should be SFR).
As a conclusion, this is not harmful to your phone to have a different CSC code than the one you are supposed to use. But if you would like to properly change it anyway, you can do it using the code *#272*
If you can't find your country code in the list, just choose the X?? version (for France it is XEF), this is for retail code (i.e. not operator branded). But be careful, if you apply a new CSC, it is also a phone factory reset (all your data and settings will be lost).
PS:
Often, SGN users are wondering if using KK1 kernel on a KJ4 ROM or a KKA on a KJ1 will brick their phone. I think people are mislead by Samsung revision numbers more than the real technology behind the letters and numbers. As far as I have seen, ALL ROM kernels are based on 2.6.35.7 or 2.6.35.14 (which includes very very insignificant changes to the Kernel structure, i.e. mainly bugfixes) which would mean that applying kernel on ROM has something like a 99% chance to work perfectly fine and a 1% chance to end in a bootloop which can be avoided by flushing the cache and the dalvik cache.
I hope this article gives you a full knowledge about the Samsung Firmware questions.
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