Thread: [HOWTO] Comprehensive Firmware Flashing Guide for N9
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2016-01-04 , 22:10
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Originally Posted by N9x3 View Post
@VIBE

Just to confirm, as I am not sure what "Sure" in your post means:

1. After copying content of extracted MCU firmware image into rootfs partition, I will get eg. N9 that will went from variant 418 to variant 001?
2. Because it is Chinese version, after that I will not be able to connect to EU GSM networks, therefore I need then to flash "CMT only" part from original Chinese MCU firmware to be able to connect EU GSM.
3. After such operations, my phone will be variant 001?
oh i thought you want to change the current chinese firmware to eu 2. if you want this you cannot change to simply 001 eu variant. if you checked the thread's article (1st post) you saw the following:

001 - Europe (1), Latin/South America, South Africa
003 - China
005 - Asia/Pacific (incl. Australia/New Zealand, excl. China)
006 - Middle East
009 - Europe (2)
2xx, 3xx, 4xx - "Country Variant" and carrier-branded images

1. you have a 418 variant. that means that your current firmware is a branded chinese varian but the "basic" variant is 003. so you can flash your phone with higher basic variants 005/006/009.
2. yes, you only need the CMT from the chinese firmware cause the phone cannot use the RF modules with other CMT's.
3. you can change only to the same or higher variants. 009 recommended in this case (as i mentioned in my tutorial).