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new update via OTA

I got this update this morning via OTA.
XWKI1
Android version2.3.4
XWKI1

lolololololol

What firmware were you on before?

try plugging in to kies to see what it says?

XXKF3
If you could remember i was on this Dummy update so i decided to go back to xxkf3 this morning . Immediately after installing through odin i checked for update via OTA and i got this

Nothing here,i run KE7 2.3.3

Has anyone else got it ?

Somehow you have ended up with a test phone i reckon .
jje

You mean the phone i bought from very.co.uk for 600pounds with my own money should be a test phone.

segunmichaelolu said:
You mean the phone i bought from very.co.uk for 600pounds with my own money should be a test phone.
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Hehe not very likely... ;-)

segunmichaelolu said:
You mean the phone i bought from very.co.uk for 600pounds with my own money should be a test phone.
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You are lucky, on the Sensation forums there was a guy who bought a Sensation and got by accident an eng off, rooted phone whilst the rest of the world was stuck with a locked bootloader.
I guess for devs your phone could be worth more than what you paid for it

Well maybe am lucky. I was wondering really why i get the update before everybody. The last time was xxkh5 which samsung manage to change to a dummy update. But this time i have learnt my leason .

what provider you you have? csc?
segunmichaelolu said:
Well maybe am lucky. I was wondering really why i get the update before everybody. The last time was xxkh5 which samsung manage to change to a dummy update. But this time i have learnt my leason .
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am on t-mobile . But my phone is not lock to any network. i.e sim free

Maybe we are lucky sometime in near future.
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Do a system dump of the firmware!!!!
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We think that these updates are only meant for Samsung staff and some how your phone got added to the list of test phones -- it explains why you and nobody else gets them.
My guess this happen because you installed a leaked firmware from samfirmware.com. Remember these leaked firmware could be test builds for internal staff use only. May be something happened on this leaked firmware that got your phone added to the list of staff test phones.
Are there any new great and wonderful features you can see in this update? (It could be months and months before they release any updates for the rest of us!)

Tweet from Samfirmware.com: First roms with Android 2.3.5 for Galaxy S II will be online this month.
Robbielicious has got the leaked firmware, but it's not yet ready for release: "in my possesiosn but in my believe not worthy o releasing just yet"
Darky's crew are now working with Samfirmware.com (i9000 version released about an hour ago) so I imagine the i9100 version will be released as soon as it is ready.

The ki1 update
The update is quiet good. The new goodies on the update are something
1. on the top where the 3g is , we have h+ and R . It really helps me a lot because formally when i visit our basement at my working place i normally lost connection. after i have to reboot my phone but in this case no more rebooting. The batterie life is very amaizing. Internet super fast.
Thanks samsung for the great work done.

What a joke dude!
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My Big blunder

What y'day i did was i thing biggest blunder ever i caused on android.
Here is story
My friend came to me to get update to ICS for his device SGS 2.
I have done lots of flashing/rooting so it was not a big task for me, just i have asked abt his device and i have downloaded require ICS ROM for his device.
I have flashed it with odin
it was failed.
I have retry again fail
Lost recovery as well download mode too.
I was confidient (N over smart)
used JIG to get into download mode
find out pit file and flashed it
find out boot loader and flashed it
Nothing nothing it was semi bricked
Downloaded GB ROM and flashed
Fail, here i exhausted
And ask my friend are you sure your device is i9100 and not the varient?
he : yes it is i9100G
ME : then wtf you said it is i9100 when i have asked you at starting of procedure
He: but you said digit is same, so i think 'G' have no meaning
Me : 'G' is same important as g-sp*t
Then i got perspirated, and badly searched for correct pit (Here really i can say Note forum is much organised)
after 2hrs of search i found correct pit N bootloader (i think bootloader is almost same) but it was abt 3am and battery was emptied
Again in morning managed battery and flashed correct pit
then stcok GB and then ICS
and phone wokeup after a full night of deep sleep But Now i need a good sleep. But thnx God at last everything is fine.
Moral :
Confidence is good to have, but over confidence can kill U
Never trust any person who is not enough sound, N always check urself before flashing/modding(Look before you leap!! perfectly said dennis )

Interesting and useful experience sharing! Thanks.

there's a lesson for us all in that tale Dr Ketan!
Look before you leap!!
dennis

wow~.... your friend nearly killed his device by withholding that tiny bit of info... lol
Glad to see you recovered it for him

That happened with me. When in december last year i got my sgs2 at that time i was not aware if there is i9100g is present in the market.
So for rooting purpose i had to download insecure kernel or an older rom.
I flashed a i9100 and was stuck at samsung logo.
After that i researched here about it and found out thelat samsung screwed me.

Nice,
Moral..... Don't bother to play with others device...

Thanks for sharing Dr,
And I learn my first root from ur thread...thanks a lot

brililant and scary story im pretty sure u wont repeat this when someone comes to you with a US Note

Never
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My last phone was a galaxy Ace. On the Ace forum, there is lots of this due to people assuming the i etc, is the same version!
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Moral of the story: don't trust friends to know ****.
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What a great thread, sounds like you're a good mate as well, a lot of other people would of said, sorry, and bye!
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doctors don't say "Sorry, Bye!".. they save lives.... and smartphones
never say never

dr.ketan said:
Then i got perspirated, and badly searched for correct pit (Here really i can say Note forum is much organised)
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that be true ,when I had my s2 I found it hard to learn anything ,too much info all over the place .
here it's much easier to find what you're looking for
dr.ketan said:
And ask my friend are you sure your device is i9100 and not the varient?
he : yes it is i9100G
ME : then wtf you said it is i9100 when i have asked you at starting of procedure
He: but you said digit is same, so i think 'G' have no meaning
Confidence is good to have, but over confidence can kill U
Never trust any person who is not enough sound, N always check urself before flashing/modding(Look before you leap!! perfectly said dennis )
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ermmm ...how did you miss the big 19100G below the samsung logo?! I'm sure I've seen a G variant before and it stated 19100G on boot.
anyway your story is a good reminder that even if you are a pro you need to double check everything
thanks for sharing

MR.change said:
ermmm ...how did you miss the big 19100G below the samsung logo?! I'm sure I've seen a G variant before and it stated 19100G on boot.
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As i am used to do these stuff, I have swith off device N just put in download mode. yes there will be tiny letter on download mode screen too (first line), but really does we check it ever?

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dr.ketan said:
As i am used to do these stuff, I have swith off device N just put in download mode. yes there will be tiny letter on download mode screen too (first line), but really does we check it ever?
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I guess we should check it from now on.
to be honest I also made a mistake with my friend's S2 ,though not that big but still, I rooted and installed CM9 all the while talking about nandroid backup and that he shouldn't worry about loosing his stuff cause a nandroid restore will return them all
in the end he wanted to go back to GB ,so I rebooted into recovery and viola it hit me like a train that I forgot to make a nandroid backup in the first place lol.
mistakes do happen it seems ,but one should learn from them so as not to repeat them .

Well try to flash the software for engine of a ferrary on a fiat...
wwwrrrouuuuummmmmm or brick - that's the question.
Nothing is more funny than real life.

@Mr.Change
Ya once it mistake, but repeat of mistake is stupidity.
Though it was misunderstanding, but i believe it was my blunder, b'coz i shudn't have to rely on his answer. if he is sound then why wud he come to me for just flashing, thats why i cudn't sleep for half night.

I had similar situation, i ordered and payed a i9100, who came with the mail and my first look on the box?
"Hm what's with the G letter, what this means?!"
Google straight away - and guess what? Completly different as Samsung said improved phone but do i need G version? No, i dont cause i suspected that most of the custom roms will be build for original i9100.
I spand half of my day explainin a guy who sold me the phone that this isn't phone that i ordered!
At the end i asked: Do you have Galaxy Note? He said yes i do, excellent i'm coming to get it
So guys be careful when you're buyin or flashin phone

I been trying to root this sg5 prime after i do the phone brick and give me this

i found the right one,and fix it forget it

Deezy88 said:
i got sg5 prime,and since day one i got the root from chainfire,thing is that crap aint working it keep bricking my phone and i have to odin the firmware from sam mobile,i dont want a 16gb or normal sg5,i cant see it now it look like ppl aint supporting for this phone,if maybe the metal one comes to uk than maybe,unitl than,does anyone have a prime here and has done it with no problems,or knows forums on this phone,get back at me ASAP,thinking of returning it
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Uh huh. The S5 prime has only been released for a week or so, so almost no one outside of Korea is going to have any direct experience with it. Hopefully someone who has the prime can assist you - but I'd say the chances of that are slim.
It's too bad that you didn't provide any useful technical details so that people could help troubleshoot.

@Deezy88
FYI,
SM-G906S/K/L/ S805 Info Sharing thread (Root/CWM/Custom Rom)
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fffft said:
@Deezy88
FYI,
SM-G906S/K/L/ S805 Info Sharing thread (Root/CWM/Custom Rom)
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thanks i already found it

bug in UAE MM, quick settings

As the title says, there's no quick settings on my tablet, when i upgraded my rom to mm, it's th same one as per galaxy s6, waiting for a fix maybe...

Salam alikoum
Mine is a german one, still waiting for the mm update, please tell me, is it holding up well like lollipop? Things are rock solid for me right now, I hope that the update keeps things as they are, specially battery life.
Ps : My grand parents lives in Dalass, centre ville

sos_sifou said:
Salam alikoum
Mine is a german one, still waiting for the mm update, please tell me, is it holding up well like lollipop? Things are rock solid for me right now, I hope that the update keeps things as they are, specially battery life.
Ps : My grand parents lives in Dalass, centre ville
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no it isn't yet, no twrp, and no root, wait until there's one for the us version, it will goes down well after that.

Well, I just wanted to ask you about the overall experience with marshmallow, I do not intend to root or flash custom kernels or recoveries.
And by the way I am Stayfi too[emoji14](i think you didn't get it when i told you that my parents are from Cité dalass)
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Nexus 6p again?

I have 2 more weeks to return the phone... The phone it's great ( price, build quality , screen resolution ... Battery life got way better Whit time and some apps disable) but it looks like ZTE will never release the factory images for us to play Whit the phone as we like on a way would hate to return it back....
So its that's the case I don't see any other phone worth buying now but going back to the nexus 6p since the upcoming nexus by htc looks more like a downgrade [emoji29] ...
Would you guys consider a downgrade going back to the. 6p ? I saw them at 399 the 64 gigs on Amazon last weeks and I think I should of got it at that price ?
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I know there is a new big update coming (base on comments and reply from ZTE Community) and this update may bring the factory image we want, that's the only reason i see why they haven't release a factory image for us to play with, beside CM 13.1 is just days away or less.

Thank you for the fast respond... I see you very active on these community don't know if ur a developer but looks like u have tons of knowledge regarding Android system ... U mean some one it's already working on CM 13.1 wow that would be pretty fast, honestly I would prefer something more stable and less ? drainer like the nexus pure project , it would be hard to port it probably ... I wouldn't even main if it's the stock Rom just polished Whit some tweaks and heavy debloat it oh well will wait those 2 weeks and go from there I really like these phone!
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tupirujp said:
Thank you for the fast respond... I see you very active on these community don't know if ur a developer but looks like u have tons of knowledge regarding Android system ... U mean some one it's already working on CM 13.1 wow that would be pretty fast, honestly I would prefer something more stable and less drainer like the nexus pure project , it would be hard to port it probably ... I wouldn't even main if it's the stock Rom just polished Whit some tweaks and heavy debloat it oh well will wait those 2 weeks and go from there I really like these phone!
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i'm not a Dev. but i do have my share of Android Knowledge if i can called like that ,
i see you haven't been following this forums a lot so here, have fun reading specially post # 8 :good:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/how-to/a2017-cyanogenmod-development-discussion-t3447971

So Where do you get all that info like there is a update coming ?
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tupirujp said:
So Where do you get all that info like there is a update coming ?
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this Thread here is 1 of many about Z Employees posting about New Update coming with fixes
https://community.zteusa.com/thread/11997
sshasanCorrect Answer
by sshasan Employee on Aug 29, 2016 11:02 AM
UPDATE:
After forwarding the information over to R&D and lots of testing, an issue has been found and is set to be corrected in the next update.
Thank you to everyone for your help in identifying and testing solutions to resolve the issue.
This is what the community is all about!
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Return it is my advice. Never get a phone based on possible "future" features or upgrades. Don't get stuck with a phone you hate because of wishful thinking that didn't pan out. I been down that path and it's a waste of time.

I have also my concerns with that phone. If we don't have prospect of custom ROMs based on CM or AOSP it is quite useless (for me).
Unfortunately there is not much development going on until now... maybe it's getting better as soon as the deives are everywhere available but maybe not, who knows....
fact is everything is going slow in comparison to other devices mainly caused by ZTE itself

Its going back tomorrow ?
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Slow? The phone has only been out a month and limited at that. We've already got root. You haven't had a phone on day one much have you? This is fast compared to other non Nexus devices.
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Guido83 said:
I have also my concerns with that phone. If we don't have prospect of custom ROMs based on CM or AOSP it is quite useless (for me).
Unfortunately there is not much development going on until now... maybe it's getting better as soon as the deives are everywhere available but maybe not, who knows....
fact is everything is going slow in comparison to other devices mainly caused by ZTE itself
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If you look at the previous gen Axon http://forum.xda-developers.com/zte-axon, mirrors this forum.
You have root, twrp but no custom roms. Keep this device for it's current list of features that's what you get for a $400 phone. You want custom rom, then Nexus 6P or OP3 will have plenty of custom roms to choose from.

tupirujp said:
I have 2 more weeks to return the phone... The phone it's great ( price, build quality , screen resolution ... Battery life got way better Whit time and some apps disable) but it looks like ZTE will never release the factory images for us to play Whit the phone as we like on a way would hate to return it back....
So its that's the case I don't see any other phone worth buying now but going back to the nexus 6p since the upcoming nexus by htc looks more like a downgrade [emoji29] ...
Would you guys consider a downgrade going back to the. 6p ? I saw them at 399 the 64 gigs on Amazon last weeks and I think I should of got it at that price
Sent from my ZTE A2017U using XDA-Developers mobile app
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im in the same boat but reversed. i just bought the 6p from bestbuy a week ago. its ok but the battery life on 7.0 is subpar and the lcd is pretty bad. the axon 7 looks to offer more bang for the buck. im contemplating exchanging mine today for the grey axon i see is in stock. custom roms will come in time, you have root and an unlocked bootloader.
Edit: just bought the grey axon. reset my 6p and ill be at best buy at 11am.

fix-this! said:
im in the same boat but reversed. i just bought the 6p from bestbuy a week ago. its ok but the battery life on 7.0 is subpar and the lcd is pretty bad. the axon 7 looks to offer more bang for the buck. im contemplating exchanging mine today for the grey axon i see is in stock. custom roms will come in time, you have root and an unlocked bootloader.
Edit: just bought the grey axon. reset my 6p and ill be at best buy at 11am.
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congrats on settling in. I'm sure you made the correct decision. I'm at your decision-making point regarding my OnePlus One. I've owned a ZTE desktop for 5 years, their customer (based on one call) was excellent. (toll-free 24/7 Lifetime). Maybe different for cellular. I'm sure you will give your impression and I'll look forward to them.
I assume they're immediately available at BestBuy?

rayturner said:
congrats on settling in. I'm sure you made the correct decision. I'm at your decision-making point regarding my OnePlus One. I've owned a ZTE desktop for 5 years, their customer (based on one call) was excellent. (toll-free 24/7 Lifetime). Maybe different for cellular. I'm sure you will give your impression and I'll look forward to them.
I assume they're immediately available at BestBuy?
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Only 2 local best buys had the axon 7 grey available. less than 3 in stock. thats why i bought this morning. these devices are hard to get and are sold out everywhere.

I'm in the same boat but with op3. Not sure if I wanna go back to it yet.

jordy787 said:
I'm in the same boat but with op3. Not sure if I wanna go back to it yet.
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get it, i just rooted and unlocked the bootloader. this thing is gorgeous, fast and the screen is the best ive seen since the s7. plus all of the accessories they give you. not one regret returning my nexus 6p.

fix-this! said:
get it, i just rooted and unlocked the bootloader. this thing is gorgeous, fast and the screen is the best ive seen since the s7. plus all of the accessories they give you. not one regret returning my nexus 6p.
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I just received mine yesterday. Maybe I would like it better rooted and all haha. Could you help me root mine? I couldn't figure out how to use that program. And could I indoor if I wanted to?(if I ever resell). What's the purpose of BL unlock if you can root with locked bootloader ?
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Also one thing I hate is that the Dolby Atmos changes sound profile ..for example if I chose my custom profile and scroll through Instagram it changes to the movie profile ..

jordy787 said:
I just received mine yesterday. Maybe I would like it better rooted and all haha. Could you help me root mine? I couldn't figure out how to use that program. And could I indoor if I wanted to?(if I ever resell). What's the purpose of BL unlock if you can root with locked bootloader ?
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Also one thing I hate is that the Dolby Atmos changes sound profile ..for example if I chose my custom profile and scroll through Instagram it changes to the movie profile ..
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/how-to/guides-info-info-a2017u-bootloader-t3440254
just follow the steps there to unlock and get twrp installed. rooting is easy, you just flash the supersu zip in recovery.

fix-this! said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/how-to/guides-info-info-a2017u-bootloader-t3440254
just follow the steps there to unlock and get twrp installed. rooting is easy, you just flash the supersu zip in recovery.
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Am I able to fastboot oem lock when I am done with the phone ? For resell ..so the next owner can get ota? If not if I rooted with locked bootloader could I still get ota?

sadly i returned mine today and got a 4gb ram model g4+. i loved the axon's look and feel but the software is junk and i had nothing but issues with overheating and random reboots, loosing wifi and iemi. ive learned a valuable lesson. only buy phones with stock android.