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Since last Wednesday I have been one of the people who when I tried the OTA update, got the message saying, update service is not available, maximum number of roll out has been released, try later or upgrade through Kies.
Not that you could upgrade through Kies, as that always came back saying the latest firmware was installed.
As if 5 days of that message was not enough!
This morning Monday 9th December, that message has gone and it's gone back to just saying. Latest updates have already been installed.
It's as if the hope of an upgrade has been dangled in front of me for 5 days and now Taken away.
It certainly hasn't been updated. Unless the new version is keeping the random 5 to 10 second wait for the lock screen to undo, due to popular demand.
My phone is an unlocked S3 that was not supplied by a carrier, so was supposed to be one of the ones updated first.
How bad can you make a problem Samsung. Was the roll out of crap firmware not enough for you.
Nick
f*ck samsung!
Unless Samsung pulls off a miracle with future updates I intend to stay with custom ROMs! Currently I am using the 4.3-based SentinelRom which works perfectly. KitKat needs more time to mature on our phones.
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Curst said:
KitKat needs more time to mature on our phones.
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Sammy treats OS versions like wine. However, doesn't matter his age, mostly of time is just garbage. Fancy garbage.
Please use the relevant discussion threads for such topic: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2344133
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Now with the S5 getting MM I'm really hoping it comes to this device. At the end of the day it has way better specs if it does not come from Samsung this is my last device with them forever.
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I'm also wondering the same thing. I'm waiting for the Marshmallow update and checking the updates daily. What's worse is that I cannot do it OTA, because when I check for updates, I receive a message regarding "unauthorized modifications", so Kies or SmartSwitch are my options. Regardless, I hope the update for G901F will also come until May 19th or when the scheduled timeframe for the update ends. It's annoying that you can't find info about this update anywhere.
It will come
There are many many different variants of the Galaxy S5 model. The update is being slowly rolled out to each model and will reach the SM-G901F very soon. They won't leave this model out. They roll out each build to the different models in a certain order incase of mass bugs within the firmware. Imagine rolling out the firmware to all devices in one day and suddenly realising there were critical bugs that left people with faulty devices.
I think its a shame that Samsung have so many different models of all their phones because it just delays the update process... but hey that's how they appeal to people by having so many buying options. I bought my S5 early last year as it was still the flagship in this country at the time... it took months and months for 5.0.2 to be rolled out to it only to find it had terrible ram management issues and I had to resort to going back to KitKat 4.4! So the most up to date software isn't even 5.1!!! I can't even remember when Marshmallow was announced but I think it's coming up to almost 12 months now which is pretty ridiculous for our G901F to still not have it....
My lesson has been learnt... if you want the most up to date software for your phone then buy Nexus!
S6, S7... who cares LOL
I own the SM-G901F
it's my personal flagship and i want MM 6.1 asap
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official firmware SM-G901F PHN came out, working fine here.
Not rooted beacuse i read all weird stuff when pple r using chainfire's autoroot
I think chainfire is a magician (grinn) and hope someone can tell me if the CF-Auto-Root-kccat6-kccat6xx-smg901f.zip works on Android 6.1.
(PHN= G901FXXU1CPF6 and the zipfile is G901FXXU1CPE1 (Vodafone) based, maybe thats the problem?)
andreoide said:
S6, S7... who cares LOL
I own the SM-G901F
it's my personal flagship and i want MM 6.1 asap
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I just got an SM-G900W8 and it had the MM 6.0.1 update ready to be installed, which I did. Still waiting for my ZE551Ml to get it.
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Hey all,
Since the ota download for 6.0 has been pulled I was wondering if anyone had a chance to grab it before it went down?
Thanks
I did
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I did
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Is there an chance you can post it for us that missed out?
Wait
I have it as well - but wouldn't want to post it. It's a beta release, and as such, you won't get future OTA updates (at least until the official release comes out), and will have to update manually, and will have to wipe/reset to avoid issues going from beta to official. I really regret not waiting for the official, but hopefully fixing it won't be more of a hassle than upgrading was. I don't like that I'll have to set up everything again, but it is what it is, and as long as I get back on official so I can get future updates all will be well. It'll be better to wait, especially since the beta has bricked many people's phones (I got lucky, mine works flawlessly), and you won't have to go through extra bullcrap to get back on the official releases.
If you want so badly
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xXIJDIXx said:
I have it as well - but wouldn't want to post it. It's a beta release, and as such, you won't get future OTA updates (at least until the official release comes out), and will have to update manually, and will have to wipe/reset to avoid issues going from beta to official. I really regret not waiting for the official, but hopefully fixing it won't be more of a hassle than upgrading was. I don't like that I'll have to set up everything again, but it is what it is, and as long as I get back on official so I can get future updates all will be well. It'll be better to wait, especially since the beta has bricked many people's phones (I got lucky, mine works flawlessly), and you won't have to go through extra bullcrap to get back on the official releases.
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It's a pain that we'll have to stick to beta for now, judging from the other variants that asus release marshmallow before it will take a month or less(eg: Zenfone Max, mm beta release on 1st week of may, mm official release on 1st week of june), sad for us non-modder users.
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Well, at least I don't have to dread setting up my phone again too soon. I just really hope going from beta to official will be just as simple as upgrading from L to M was.
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Is there an chance you can post it for us that missed out?
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I have the FW on my phone but really hesitant to upgrade after seeing the comments.. Better to wait a few more days rather than brick the phone...
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humayunarshad said:
I have the FW on my phone but really hesitant to upgrade after seeing the comments.. Better to wait a few more days rather than brick the phone...
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Definitely wait for official, the beta release really worked well for me but I'm lucky, and now I'm dreading having to figure out how to get back on an official release so I'll get updates in the future - and I'll have to set up my phone from scratch again.
I did upgrade to 6.0, so far i've experienced a bit of lag and battery drain( lot worse than .184)
Same here, upgrade went fine but now some significant battery drain taking place; I can guess why, the phone is now constantly warm and the system monitor utility shows that the processor spends some serous time at higher clock frequencies.
Also experiencing some microSD card disconnects, from time to time, for no apparent reason.
All in all, it wasn't a bad update though [emoji57]
Initially I also had really heavy battery drain after updating, but doing a factory reset and reinstalling my apps afresh seemed to fix. Now getting basically the same battery life as before the update, which is to say neither great nor terrible. Am very pleased with the improved RAM management after updating though - it is releasing RAM much better than before and running very smoothly.
Hi guys!
Just wanted a few suggestions. I have a SM-G935FD and currently running G935FXXU1BPH firmware. Some time ago I had received the OTA update for BPIO. Am still wondering if one should update the phone or not. I am happy with my current setup and battery life, and historically whenever I have updated samsung phones they have led to some or the other bugs and poorer battery life. The only compelling reason is the security patches. What is the view of people out here? Can one continue to use his phone as stock always if he is happy with the performance or should you always do the OTA updates?
I think, if you happy with current version and the next version doesn't has useful features(read update change log) then you should keep it.
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The update changelog usually don't say anything. It is just a "standard" text to inform you that the update MAY contain security updates, fixes or new features. You never don't know exactly what is changed or added...not from that log anyways. Best thing is to check over the Internet by the update code to find a detailed changelog but that's also hard to find.
I would advice to update tho, regardless of your past experiences. Most of the time updates contain bug fixes and/or security patches and they are also incremental. That means that, even if you don't update now, at some point, when a big update will come containing new features for ex, you'll want to upgrade. And that update will contain also previously skipped updates. Nobody tries to ruin your end user experience, especially on a high end phone like this and for sure they have a high quality control in place. But as everyone knows, there are bugs and flaws that could cause issues in some specific cases.
On S6 Edge and my current S7 Edge I had several updates and none brought me an issue...so go ahead.
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Perosnally I don't understand why you wouldn't update.
I'm on 1BPH and no updates available at the moment.. Haven't had an update since I've had the phone
Received mine several days ago,haven't had an update.
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The update changelog usually don't say anything. You never don't know exactly what is changed or added...not from that log anyways. Best thing is to check over the Internet by the update code to find a detailed changelog but that's also hard to find.
I would advice to update tho, regardless of your past experiences. .
On S6 Edge and my current S7 Edge I had several updates and none brought me an issue...so go ahead.
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the_scotsman said:
Perosnally I don't understand why you wouldn't update.
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Well the only reason I don't feel like updating is that I have the mortal fear of bugs and bad battery life. In all previous experiences with android, updates mostly gave issues (mostly used Samsung and LG). Also its so difficult to know what are the changes being made.
We have no way to know that companies are actually injecting bugs to reduce battery or performance once their next flagship phones are out! So that customers are compelled to upgrade! Infact so many of friends and family have given this opinion that android phones don't last. After a year or too it becomes buggy or slow. Whereas look at apple my Ipad 2 still gets updates and battery is phenomenal!
I know most of what I am saying may be more of hunch but that's the reason I was wondering what others think about it...
Smith 001 said:
Received mine several days ago,haven't had an update.
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As long as it runs good don't worry. You may have got an already updated phone
alok_dhawal said:
As long as it runs good don't worry. You may have got an already updated phone
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Simply put, it is a gamble. Ask anyone who had the phone in March, then updated to April and got Android System drain and 6-7 hour SOT down to 4-5 lol. There is a 200+ page thread and the only known thing in there is that Samsung update on the S7 series have made battery life dog poop (compared to what it used to be).
Even those who claim great battery life, would have more if they flashed March firmware again. I flashed the most recent update and it was OK. Nothing special. Went back to March though, battery took a massive hit. I'd say stay where you are if things are running smoothly. I ain't updating till Nougat or till they fix Android System burning through 20-30% of the battery.
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Simply put, it is a gamble. Ask anyone who had the phone in March, then updated to April and got Android System drain and 6-7 hour SOT down to 4-5 lol. There is a 200+ page thread and the only known thing in there is that Samsung update on the S7 series have made battery life dog poop (compared to what it used to be).
Even those who claim great battery life, would have more if they flashed March firmware again. I flashed the most recent update and it was OK. Nothing special. Went back to March though, battery took a massive hit. I'd say stay where you are if things are running smoothly. I ain't updating till Nougat or till they fix Android System burning through 20-30% of the battery.
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Exactly!!!
Galactus said:
Simply put, it is a gamble. Ask anyone who had the phone in March, then updated to April and got Android System drain and 6-7 hour SOT down to 4-5 lol. There is a 200+ page thread and the only known thing in there is that Samsung update on the S7 series have made battery life dog poop (compared to what it used to be).
Even those who claim great battery life, would have more if they flashed March firmware again. I flashed the most recent update and it was OK. Nothing special. Went back to March though, battery took a massive hit. I'd say stay where you are if things are running smoothly. I ain't updating till Nougat or till they fix Android System burning through 20-30% of the battery.
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one day one charge,always on display with a pic,mostly use it at noon and evening,battery life is not so poor.
Maybe the firmware on my phone is March firmware.lol:laugh:
Galactus said:
Simply put, it is a gamble. Ask anyone who had the phone in March, then updated to April and got Android System drain and 6-7 hour SOT down to 4-5 lol. There is a 200+ page thread and the only known thing in there is that Samsung update on the S7 series have made battery life dog poop (compared to what it used to be).
Even those who claim great battery life, would have more if they flashed March firmware again. I flashed the most recent update and it was OK. Nothing special. Went back to March though, battery took a massive hit. I'd say stay where you are if things are running smoothly. I ain't updating till Nougat or till they fix Android System burning through 20-30% of the battery.
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Exactly my point. When you buy the phone you know what you are buying and what is expected. However once you update that control goes back to the supplier who may ruin or improve you experience!!
Which firmware are you referring to? Please share the link.
alok_dhawal said:
Exactly my point. When you buy the phone you know what you are buying and what is expected. However once you update that control goes back to the supplier who may ruin or improve you experience!!
Which firmware are you referring to? Please share the link.
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http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/67697/G935FXXU1APC8_G935FBTU1APB2_BTU/
This is what I use for my UK s7 edge
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It's been rolled out for 2 days now, i still haven't gotten a notification and when i check it says i am up to date. just wondering if anyone has gotten it yet.
Not I. I thought only beta people get it till the 17th.
I have not unfortunately. Hopefully it'll be here by Wednesday.
I received an update this morning for build number G930PVPU4APL6 and was around 400mb. Unfortunately it's another marshmallow update, December security patch. It said something about improved LTE, sorry for no screenshot of update log. It's probably just preparing for nougat
I'm on the beta and haven't got the update yet. Which sucks because the Beta 5 has made my phone so slow it's almost unusable and the battery life is the worst I've ever had.
mrfunnyguyky said:
I'm on the beta and haven't got the update yet. Which sucks because the Beta 5 has made my phone so slow it's almost unusable and the battery life is the worst I've ever had.
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I'm on the beta 5 as well and also have not gotten the update. I haven't had any issues with battery life or speed. However I did disable a lot of stuff. Maybe try that or a factory reset.
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Seems they are only pushing Exynos chipsets at the moment