I am in the US on an unlocked S7 G930U.
Earlier this week I received notice of a Software Update.
I am always hesitant to install these updates until I know what they are and see what people are saying about their performance.
I havent seen anything about this here (am I missing it somewhere) although on GSMArena there is a scary sounding thread with people installing a recent update and having major battery issues.
Is there anyway to see what this update is before it gets installed? Any ideas? Thanks.
BTW - the update is ~452MB.
lirong said:
I am in the US on an unlocked S7 G930U.
Earlier this week I received notice of a Software Update.
I am always hesitant to install these updates until I know what they are and see what people are saying about their performance.
I havent seen anything about this here (am I missing it somewhere) although on GSMArena there is a scary sounding thread with people installing a recent update and having major battery issues.
Is there anyway to see what this update is before it gets installed? Any ideas? Thanks.
BTW - the update is ~452MB.
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I'm kind of new here, but after reading up on the Samsung support forums apparently G930U will only be receiving quarterly security updates so this update is all of the regular updates the carrier versions have received since September rolled up into 1 large package. It's still 6.0.1, and so far, I haven't seen any adverse effects (although I'm not rooted, so no clue if it effects anything along the lines of the boot loader) Also, during my internet search on what this update was, I came across this site that lists out the firmware (and Android level) of every release for a Samsung product, which confirmed not the nougat update. - can't make a real link since I'm new to posting on XDA, so search Google for "live-samsung updates"
Hope that helps!
lirong said:
I am in the US on an unlocked S7 G930U.
Earlier this week I received notice of a Software Update.
I am always hesitant to install these updates until I know what they are and see what people are saying about their performance.
I havent seen anything about this here (am I missing it somewhere) although on GSMArena there is a scary sounding thread with people installing a recent update and having major battery issues.
Is there anyway to see what this update is before it gets installed? Any ideas? Thanks.
BTW - the update is ~452MB.
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I updated my G930U and have had no issues. Took it off the charger this morning at 8am, it's now nearly 1pm and battery is at 97%. Obviously I haven't used it much but there's certainly no unusual standby battery issue so far.
Related
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/22/samsung-captivate-gets-gps-fix-other-galaxy-s-versions-wait-pat/
"An update to improve the Samsung Captivate's GPS performance is now available. Captivate customers will receive a notification on their device that an update is available and will simply need to download the file to update their phone. The updates will be pushed to customers' devices over the next few weeks.
The update for the Captivate will also improve additional device functions, such as media scanning time, add the full version of Quickoffice and address Microsoft Exchange 2003 policy support."
Fingers crossed, that this already hasn't been leaked, torn apart, and found useless...
Its probably the JH7 OTA that they started rolling out yesterday, not a new separate fix...has anyone that received the OTA updated noticed any difference on the GPS?
I saw a few ppl that got the update say the GPS is the same as before.
I wouldn't trust Engadget for anything GPS related. They botched Galaxy S reviews so many time on the GPS topic:
1. They said GPS works just fine when they review Captivate and Vibrant.
2. They said all you need to do to fix the GPS is just turn on the 'Use Wireless Networks' in Location and Security settings because Samsung told them so.
3. They said EPIC 4G has GPS all fixed out of box, again because Samsung told them so.
4. Now, again, they claim the latest JH7 update fixes GPS because, again, Samsung told them so. Never mind AT&T itself never mentioned any GPS fixes in its release notes.
Yea, I re-read the update discription that was posted on a couple of other android sites, and it sounds just like the JH7 ...
Damn
I am downloading and updating now.. will see.
Yes, they are wrong again. Well, I wouldn't put the blame on them 100%, since I believe that letter came from Samsung PR (who know nothing tbh).
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Yes, they are wrong again. Well, I wouldn't put the blame on them 100%, since I believe that letter came from Samsung PR (who know nothing tbh).
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Yes, it is bad jounalism. What happens to 'trust but verify'?
Yea, I read the same quote on a couple of different sites outside of engadget...
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I am downloading and updating now.. will see.
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I just downloaded and updated then said "Update is failed." Is this because I'm rooted?
Engadget does suck. All those aggregate tech sites suck at everything, but stealing good sites articles.
I am happy about quick office though. I really hope custom roms don't rip it out as bloat.
This site is claiming that the update DOES fix the gps, and has video:
http://www.careace.net/2010/09/21/s...te-being-rolled-out-this-week-starting-today/
I'm not rooted, am stock and update failed. Won't resume either, says no firmware to update if I try that.... so it may be something wrong with the update.....
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This site is claiming that the update DOES fix the gps, and has video comparing before and after:
http://www.careace.net/2010/09/21/s...te-being-rolled-out-this-week-starting-today/
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The site says they are doing more testing and update the results by 2PM. The video only shows a GPS location fix by standing still, not driving around. My JH7 can do that w/o problem either but when driving, it is all over the place.
What is the csc version after the update?
I have had jh7 for over a week, it is an improvement but not a fix
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To be honest, my GPS was working when I first got it.
And yes, it is jh7. Which has bad ass GPS when I use it.
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I'm not rooted, am stock and update failed. Won't resume either, says no firmware to update if I try that.... so it may be something wrong with the update.....
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I unrooted to give it another shot and just learned of the "check once/24hrs" deal. Bull****! Thanks ATT
I am downloading now. It is taking quite a while (out in the wilds of KS we only get EDGE speeds). Does anyone know if this will work if I am rooted? I didn't un-root, and the last time I did a backup was Saturday. I suppose I won't lose much if it craps out.
mine is stuck at "Communication in progress" it just loads....
If anybody has successfully done the OTA update, can they please post the stock JH&GPS settings from the LBSTEstMode menu?
Has anyone tried Keis?
I've got a family member who got a Oneplus One about a year ago, still running the old 25R as I killed the OTA when we got it as at the time some of the more recent ones had battery issues, they'd like to update as the camera isn't great on this version, is it worth it?
Obviously they're using early firmware that's a year old now, is it worth updating to YNG1TAS2I3 or should we leave it as is as it seems to work.
Thanks.
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I've got a family member who got a Oneplus One about a year ago, still running the old 25R as I killed the OTA when we got it as at the time some of the more recent ones had battery issues, they'd like to update as the camera isn't great on this version, is it worth it?
Obviously they're using early firmware that's a year old now, is it worth updating to YNG1TAS2I3 or should we leave it as is as it seems to work.
Thanks.
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I heard that CMOS12.1 update is rolling out this August, so you can wait for this update and check out it's review and flash fastboot images if reviews are positive in terms of battery life, performance and other factors which you are looking for.
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I heard that CMOS12.1 update is rolling out this August, so you can wait for this update and check out it's review and flash fastboot images if reviews are positive in terms of battery life, performance and other factors which you are looking for.
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Yeah I thought about that, but based on all the other updates the first few have been junk so thought maybe the last 5.0 update may be better than the first few 5.1 updates, but want to know if people recommend it as if it's worse I have to do the downgrading back to 25R which is always a pain!
Anyone else get an update yesterday?
Yes, got it on mine last night. No clue what it supposedly does yet. Probably just the July security update.
The update notes said it fixed something with corporate email performance and integrated typical android security updates....took it today, i dont notice anything new.
I cannot install the update on any of my rooted phones (which isn't a huge surprise to me). However, the update has been out for a few days, and I haven't seen anything about the update here on the forum until today. I'm hoping someone posts an update method for those of us with rooted phones.
Does anyone know can we use BT firmware from S6 onto S7? I have problem connecting my car hands free system, thought no such problem with S6
BQG1 improves network speed.
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Yes, got it on mine last night. No clue what it supposedly does yet. Probably just the July security update.
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Got the BQG1 update on 7/29 and after stabilizing for an hour ran speed test via WiFi. I had noticed a drop to around 140Mbps on my Comcast service with the last update and couldn't figure out why. With BQG1, my downlaod speed is back up to 230Mbps and running very smooth. Don't know what VZ did, bit it works!
Hope that helps.
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The update notes said it fixed something with corporate email performance and integrated typical android security updates....took it today, i don't notice anything new.
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I wanted to give a quick update.
Following suggestions I found on a few threads here, I went ahead and updated all three of my rooted phones to firmware QH1 on Friday, and they are all still rooted.
I used ODIN to re-flash the stock firmware (using HOME-CSC to keep my apps and settings intact. I downloaded the firmware from one of the links I found here on XDA.
I then re-rooted using the procedure in the OP.
I had two issues (that I can think of):
1. A few of the settings (lock screen settings, specifically - maybe one or two others?) were cleared in the process - and I had to set them up again.
2. One of the phone (the one *I* use, of course), rooted okay, but SuperSU was missing after the reboot. Installing it from the Play store appeared to break root. So I just re-rooted it again.
Other than those issues, I think everything else went pretty smoothly.
I hope this is helpful to others.
I couldn't find anything anywhere online about this OTA that I got yesterday on my US996, no record of it ever existing. So I asked LG about it and this was their response. I haven't applied the update yet, but will update this post if I notice anything other than what LG stated. I will hold off for a while on installing it so if enough people want me to capture and share the OTA then I will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsD3pGv5cv8
From what I see all I've noticed is the Nov 6 security patch which means blueborne and krack are fixed among other exploits, ARB is still 0 so can be rolled back if wanted for some reason. Cool that it adds rcs support, not that my carrier has support anyway
was there a point for a video? simple screenshot of the conversation would have sufficed
updated, and i can't use my sim card anymore, the phone detected sim card but no signal at all, got some extra buttons in dailer.
ttnduy said:
updated, and i can't use my sim card anymore, the phone detected sim card but no signal at all, got some extra buttons in dailer.
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As I mentioned in another thread, after I installed the update, it listed "unknown version" for baseband and wouldn't connect to Verizon for a few minutes. Then the baseband version showed correctly and it connected.
Since baseband is a wholly separate CPU and OS, it's not clear what it was updating in the background, but it fixed itself eventually.
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I couldn't find anything anywhere online about this OTA that I got yesterday on my US996, no record of it ever existing. So I asked LG about it and this was their response. I haven't applied the update yet, but will update this post if I notice anything other than what LG stated. I will hold off for a while on installing it so if enough people want me to capture and share the OTA then I will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsD3pGv5cv8
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Obviously LG thinks that we don't need to know the details, just that LG has improved the usability and functionality of the phone, that's all we need to know. /s
From what I can tell, it's the same build of android, NRD90M, as before the update. So probably only has google supplied security patches.
As long as LG gives us US996 Unlocked users an Oreo update early next year, I'm OK with them not doing much with the original 7.0 firmware... but definitely security updates more than once per year would have been nice.
The "slower than" or "completely missing" compared to major carriers updates up until this one, has definitely been a disappointment since the factory unlocked version of the phone should be the easiest to get updates pushed out for.
Is anyone else still waiting for the December update to be available for OTA download? Google Pixel 3, unlocked, not rooted, not happy. Never waited this long before.
Is it a Verizon phone? Verizon updates are supposed to roll out this week. The update for non-Verizon phones was available last Monday.
I don't get OTA updates on my rooted phone because of root. I don't know if just being unlocked prevents OTA. You can always download the factory image and manually update. The images are at https://developers.google.com/android/images.
Thank you forI use Verizon, but it's not a Verizon phone. My updates come from Google, and always on the second or third day. This length of time is unique.
Fat fingers! 1st sentence intended to be "Thank you for the response".
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Thank you forI use Verizon, but it's not a Verizon phone. My updates come from Google, and always on the second or third day. This length of time is unique.
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In that case, you will have to apply the update manually. The factory image is at the URL I gave previously. Edit flash-all.bat/sh to remove the -w from the last line in the file so the phone is not wiped.
You could also apply just the OTA manually. The OTA images are at https://developers.google.com/android/ota. I have not done that - I use the factory image method.
Thank you for your response. While manually installing this, or any other update is always an option, I was more concerned with why an alternative should have been needed at all. Nothing on my phone has been changed and previous monthly updates have always been available in a timely manner. I had also hoped to hear from others whether this problem was widespread.
My phone received the December update an hour ago, so my "problem" has disappeared. My concern has not. I would still like to know what changed, but cannot justify continuing this thread. Thank you for your suggestions.
I may need more help marking this thread "resolved".
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Thank you for your response. While manually installing this, or any other update is always an option, I was more concerned with why an alternative should have been needed at all. Nothing on my phone has been changed and previous monthly updates have always been available in a timely manner. I had also hoped to hear from others whether this problem was widespread.
My phone received the December update an hour ago, so my "problem" has disappeared. My concern has not. I would still like to know what changed, but cannot justify continuing this thread. Thank you for your suggestions.
I may need more help marking this thread "resolved".
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You can search for update errors in logcat. See https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/tutorial-how-to-logcat.1726238/ on how to get a logcat. If you did the manual "Check for update" look in the log at the time you did the check. Logs are kept for quite a while, so the info should still be available.
I am having a major brain block. I have a google store pixel 3 unlocked rooted. I am on Verizon, do I download the Verizon or non-verizon update. Thanks in advance, like i said, my brain is literally broken on this
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I am having a major brain block. I have a google store pixel 3 unlocked rooted. I am on Verizon, do I download the Verizon or non-verizon update. Thanks in advance, like i said, my brain is literally broken on this
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I also have a google store pixel, but with a Verizon SIM. I had the same question, but finally decided on the non-verizon update. I believe the Verizon update is only for Verizon branded phones, with the added Verizon software. I have no Verizon software.
I have had no problems with the non-verizon update.
paradox923 said:
I am having a major brain block. I have a google store pixel 3 unlocked rooted. I am on Verizon, do I download the Verizon or non-verizon update. Thanks in advance, like i said, my brain is literally broken on this
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dcarvil said:
I also have a google store pixel, but with a Verizon SIM. I had the same question, but finally decided on the non-verizon update. I believe the Verizon update is only for Verizon branded phones, with the added Verizon software. I have no Verizon software.
I have had no problems with the non-verizon update.
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Sorry, I didn't see this sooner. You take the Verizon update if you are on Verizon. They contain different radio/network code for Verizon. It won't add bloat and it won't lock your bootloader.
This has always happened on the Pixels. A carrier will get a separate update for a month or two before the changes are merged into the same path and there is only one again. Been happening since the OG Pixel.
I doubt you will have any major problems using the other one. Maybe you won't get as strong a signal, or switch towers quite as fast as the VZ version. It will be something minor like that.
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Sorry, I didn't see this sooner. You take the Verizon update if you are on Verizon. They contain different radio/network code for Verizon. It won't add bloat and it won't lock your bootloader.
This has always happened on the Pixels. A carrier will get a separate update for a month or two before the changes are merged into the same path and there is only one again. Been happening since the OG Pixel.
I doubt you will have any major problems using the other one. Maybe you won't get as strong a signal, or switch towers quite as fast as the VZ version. It will be something minor like that.
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Thanks for the info. I installed the January Verizon update today, and now I have a new Verizon app on my phone - com.verizon.obdm_permissions. Do you have any idea what that is for, and if it is necessary? I've disabled it for now.
I do not have the com.verizon.obdm app installed, so don't know why I'd need the permissions app.
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Thanks for the info. I installed the January Verizon update today, and now I have a new Verizon app on my phone - com.verizon.obdm_permissions. Do you have any idea what that is for, and if it is necessary? I've disabled it for now.
I do not have the com.verizon.obdm app installed, so don't know why I'd need the permissions app.
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That has always been there, very sure of that. A lot of us went done that rabbit hole with the Pixel 1 or 2. We never new for sure what it did, but I remember freezing it and had all kinds of connection problems.
Other carriers have those types of things too. They are built into the image and go live when the phone sees what carrier it is on.