Hi guys,
I have the i9500 S4 (firmware I9500XXUAMDE) and I've noticed people talking about an 53.8mb OTA update (I9500XXUAMDK), which my phone hasn't received yet. It says "The latest updates have already been installed" when I check. I tried KIES but it says my firmware is up-to-date too. Is the OTA update dependent on my mobile service provider at all (I'm using a different SIM, rather than my provider's), or is it supposed to get it's OTA updates direct from Samsung? I hear the updates are rolling out region by region. If this is the case, would it make a difference flashing, say, the Indian firmware on my South African S4 (if I were impatient enough to root with intent to flash)?
Thanks in advance.
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Hiya i bought a samsung galaxy s4 i9505 unlocked from amazon directly. For some reason i cannot get updates via kies or ota and i manually had to flash a offical firmware with odin so that i had the most up to date firmware. Does anyone know why i cant get updates ota? My carrier is "3" in the uk however the phone is factory unlocked any help is appreciated. What would i have to do to get updates ota or via kies?
ahsan2k12 said:
Hiya i bought a samsung galaxy s4 i9505 unlocked from amazon directly. For some reason i cannot get updates via kies or ota and i manually had to flash a offical firmware with odin so that i had the most up to date firmware. Does anyone know why i cant get updates ota? My carrier is "3" in the uk however the phone is factory unlocked any help is appreciated. What would i have to do to get updates ota or via kies?
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Hi,
Have 3 released an OTA update yet?
You might get an answer from THIS THREAD
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the device is unbranded so it wont get updates from 3 i think, i think it will get updates from samsung directly
however yes 3 have released ota update however my phone is saying the latest updates have been installed when there are actually infact updates available
ahsan2k12 said:
the device is unbranded so it wont get updates from 3 i think, i think it will get updates from samsung directly
however yes 3 have released ota update however my phone is saying the latest updates have been installed when there are actually infact updates available
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As your phone report that the latest updates have been installed, that means everthing is OK and the phone status is official...
Sometimes some roms available to dowload (for example from Sammobile) could be not available yet in OTA mode. I always flash with Odin, I don't really relay on OTA updates...
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okk thanks, just a quick question which country gets the updates first? and which countrys firmware are you running on your device?
ahsan2k12 said:
the device is unbranded so it wont get updates from 3 i think, i think it will get updates from samsung directly
however yes 3 have released ota update however my phone is saying the latest updates have been installed when there are actually infact updates available
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Hi,
Unbranded phones are due an update on the 7 th
Sent telepathically from my S4
Hi
Picked up an S5 after years of iPhones, Which i bought from the three store in the UK.
After installing a few apps i started to get error 24 installing netflix. I didnt fancy doing a factory reset so i routed my phone to use a root browser to remove the temp files which resolved my issue (but of course i still had to do a factory reset) However i didn't realise that android confirms if its official or not and then doesn't receive OTA updates.
I'm not much into messing with releases these days so i downloaded the stock UK firmware (NCE) from sammobile and it now says official after flashing it.
However i notice that there is an OTA update out today (NC2) which i'm not getting when i check for updates (the message says latest update installed).
Is this simply a case of the update not having rolled out to everyone yet or does the update checker use the serial number of my phone to check that it should be on the H3G UK firmware rather than the stock UK firmware? Kies also states the firmware is up to date.
Thanks for any advice
Scottw1975 said:
Hi
Picked up an S5 after years of iPhones, Which i bought from the three store in the UK.
After installing a few apps i started to get error 24 installing netflix. I didnt fancy doing a factory reset so i routed my phone to use a root browser to remove the temp files which resolved my issue (but of course i still had to do a factory reset) However i didn't realise that android confirms if its official or not and then doesn't receive OTA updates.
I'm not much into messing with releases these days so i downloaded the stock UK firmware (NCE) from sammobile and it now says official after flashing it.
However i notice that there is an OTA update out today (NC2) which i'm not getting when i check for updates (the message says latest update installed).
Is this simply a case of the update not having rolled out to everyone yet or does the update checker use the serial number of my phone to check that it should be on the H3G UK firmware rather than the stock UK firmware? Kies also states the firmware is up to date.
Thanks for any advice
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Rather than waiting for ota would I just be as well flashing the new stock uk firmware through Odin?
Eeee, like this ... I apologize in advance for the bad english, but I'm trying to understand this ota update ...
I own a Samsung S5 phone, and well you know it's going lolipop 5.0 update for this model.
Firmware on my phone for southeast Europe SEE
Kies offered me an update, but I want to OTA. Currently, when I run the OTA update and leave me to the latest firmware already installed. (Currently on my phone 4.4.2)
I would like to know if the OTA come, and how much will be delayed, if the delay problem ... Did someone already arrived OTA for this region ...
Advance grateful!
Hi Guyz
can you help and explain why my device got no updates till now? B126 released few month ago and the B135 followed but i got nothing.
Am i missing something i got the phone from Dubai and live in UK
model is: MHA-L29C185B110
Seems like the sim card region matters
Yes papped is right, your phone region is set to middle East but living in UK will not show your phone to the OTA . changing your region in the "cust" file requires rooted phone and a sound experienced individual.
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You can use FunkyHuawei to update to the latest version, if you aren't getting OTA updates. I don't think B135 was released for your version -- it's B126 for the C185, which is currently the latest. You won't have to unlock bootloader, root, or void your warranty to use FunkyHuawei.
Theoretically, I think that you will eventually get OTA updates through Huawei, regardless of region. But since not even eRecovery works on non-Chinese models as of yet, FunkyHuawei's the only option for right now.
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The latest firmware build for EE UK (EVR) (G935FXXU1BPLJ/G935FEVR1BPK5/G935FXXU1BPL1/G935FXXU1BPLJ) was released on SamMobile around Christmas time.....I'm still not getting any update notification via OTA.
I don't know whether or not to wait for the OTA to come through, or just go for an Odin flash.
I was wondering typically, how long does it take for an update to come through over OTA after it goes up on SamMobile?
Has anyone else received the PLJ update on EE over OTA yet?
I think the distribution time differs per carrier.. For me, (T-Mobile NL) the firmware is often available after it being on Sammobile for one day at max. But sometimes carriers only allow a certain amount of people to upgrade per hour/day, not sure why. (maybe to prevent server overload)
I tend to agree with you mate.
I've since found this quite interesting EE article which seems to confirm this
I like the network but their software updates plain suck.
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I noticed the same, EE update but not pushed to my handset. I was about to download the firmware and Odin then found a guide that said to use Samsung Smart Switch for Windows. I installed that and although the update was not available to me via OTA through the Smart Switch application I was able to update.