Hi guys.
I can see there are some threads with leaks of the rom or other country's releases but was hoping do get an OTA to install the Lollipop update.
I have read that apparently the UK has started to receive it not so long back but i have tried to request the update via the settings menu and also via Kies but it just says that it is up to date.
Any ideas when i should receive it or if any of the other zips in those other threads are complete and official and also okay to use for the UK?
My phone is the unlocked international version. It was originally from Three network but early on in it's life i grabbed an official zip from on here and installed it to remove the Three branding etc. It is unrooted.
i flashed the official firmware from sammobile its vodaone uk but i think they have made a mistake with it because its got german apps on it.
so i dont think there is one for the uk yet.
cheers mate.
thats what i didnt want, any sort of incorrect rom or even apps on it. seems odd that some info across the net state the UK as havcing started receiving it a while back but it still hasnt actually started to speed up with it's rollout
marc.knuckle said:
cheers mate.
thats what i didnt want, any sort of incorrect rom or even apps on it. seems odd that some info across the net state the UK as havcing started receiving it a while back but it still hasnt actually started to speed up with it's rollout
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Same here. Have been expecting it since I heard Russia started getting it a number of weeks ago. Russia!
No OTA available to unlocked European phones - how can carriers be getting it before unlocked phones???
It really must be any day now here in the UK.
dj-suicide said:
i flashed the official firmware from sammobile its vodaone uk but i think they have made a mistake with it because its got german apps on it.
so i dont think there is one for the uk yet.
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i got an ota lollipop update a few days ago on my n9005 but my sons phone says up to date on 4.4.2 (n9005 also)
melliwuk
i should mention that my update seems to be from vodafone (my network) not from samsung.
im going to flash the vodafone stock kitkat see if i get the update that way. ill let you know how i get on.
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so i flashed the vodafone stock kitkat didnt get no update because i was still on BTU csc so i changed the csc to VOD and checked for the update again and it was there. both in software update settings on the phone and in kies.
Its rubbish isn't it, I got bored waiting and flashed the stock Poland rom....once again the UK is at the back of the queue ...
whats with the delay for BTU for UK ?
are there carrier timed exclusives ? bit of a joke that we're what up to 3 weeks now ?
Yeah I'm getting impatient too, been checking every day only to get disappointed, and SamsungMobileUK twitter doesnt help by saying its "Top secret knowledge", why they wouldnt want customers to know a date is beyond me.
I would like to think it should be soon, but I have really no expectations for them anymore, I don't even know how carrier versions went up before the UK international version, I thought the international version would be up first no?
Still have the beta(?) lollipop rom on my Note 3, seems pretty fine for now, haven't noticed any breaking bugs really, but I am still eager for the final version (And espicially 5.0.1 to bring mute back, which will be an EVEN longer wait probably, unless the wait is because they're going straight to 5.0.1?)
Blame Vodafone. They paid money to get the exclusive Lollipop release .That's why it's only available to the Vodafone and daughter companies, and not the unbranded and other companies. They do that quite often.
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Blame Vodafone. They paid money to get the exclusive Lollipop release .That's why it's only available to the Vodafone and daughter companies, and not the unbranded and other companies. They do that quite often.
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Honestly? That's really crap if true. Pretty bad deal for Vodafone too imo. I haven't heard of any promoting from them they're the only ones offering lollipop for note 3 and I can't see people selling their note 3's and buying a new one from Vodafone for lollipop either. This type of deal just seems like screwing most owners off and making Vodafone owners feel happy buying from them. Helps Vodafone look better too as they may not have been first providing the update if there was no such deal.
Still nothing for me. I've been restarting my phone some mornings before going into settings and hitting the check for update.
I seem to remember before, a method of clearing the data of a Google app that reset the clock i think and it sometimes helped get an update sooner. I can't remember what app it was though.
marc.knuckle said:
Still nothing for me. I've been restarting my phone some mornings before going into settings and hitting the check for update. I seem to remember before, a method of clearing the data of a Google app that reset the clock i think and it sometimes helped get an update sooner. I can't remember what app it was though.
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none of that is true, its works of your csc code. BTU is unbranded, VOD is vodafone H3G is three O2U is o2 EE,EVR is ee and so on lol
so what ever you got on yor phone if its unbranded or on a network is when you get it.
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Honestly? That's really crap if true. Pretty bad deal for Vodafone too imo. I haven't heard of any promoting from them they're the only ones offering lollipop for note 3 and I can't see people selling their note 3's and buying a new one from Vodafone for lollipop either. This type of deal just seems like screwing most owners off and making Vodafone owners feel happy buying from them. Helps Vodafone look better too as they may not have been first providing the update if there was no such deal.
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That's pretty much the general idea with these deals, customer binding. Keep your customers happy by being able to tell them 'We're faster than everyone else. Look, they don't have Lollipop yet, and we do!'
They don't advertise with it because the decision came from HQ, but every country has its own marketing team. Most of the time the marketing team has no idea it was even done.
On top of that, people don't care enough to go to a provider because it got the firmware first (They'd all buy or flash Unbranded if they did), but they're exceptional good at whining about it when others get the update first and they don't have it yet.
(The T-Mobile forums are a nightmare right now. And they(Samsung) cancelled 5.0 for the S5 temporarily before rolling out a new one, making it even worse as the branded version is always spectacularly late.. "Why do they have the update? I can't download it, but my [neighbour, sibling, friend] has the same phone and same provider, and they have the update? Are you blocking me?"x500 *sigh*)
That's how marketing works, make people feel bad about other brands, and better about yours.
I know it sounds a bit... conspiracy theory-ish. But if you look at the list of released updates, it's pretty obvious.
The last one came out on 01 February 2015, so with luck we'll see the rest in a week or two. (My attempt at optimism isn't working, is it? ) Depending on how much they paid it's either 1 month or 3. (HTC once paid several million to Google to get the exclusive release for 3 months.)
Edit: Oh, hello!
March 6, 2015
Model SM-N9005
Model name GALAXY Note 3 LTE
Country Poland
Version Android 5.0
Changelist 3643614
Build date Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:57:23 +0000
Product code XEO
PDA N9005XXUGBOB6
CSC N9005XEOGBOA4
On Sammobile! It's from today! (It's the second Poland version. That's promising, because the rest usually follows)
Your updates are all dependent on your Carrier / CSC.
Just think for a minute. Samsung have you by the short and curlies. If you go custom rom, they jump up and down saying that your warranty is invalid due to knox counter. Biggest pile of poop ever!
The carriers have you by the short and curlies because of this CSC junk. The carriers have you by them as well, because of the CSC's.
Why would any business want to upgrade you at the same time as releasing 'flagship' models. A carrier / manufacturer would want to shift more 'new' units rather than look after it's current, loyal, customer base. Samsung have released the N4, S6 and edge in a relatively short period of time. Considering their market share is falling, what would you rather do? Sell boatloads of new stuff, or encourage people to keep their older phone? Realisticaly, just HOW much better is the N4 or S6 than it's preceding model? The S6 doesn't even have the option of an SD card!! As I have said on other boards, how many times can you re-invent the wheel?? I turned down a note 4 upgrade because it didn't do things, noticeably, better than my N3.
As you are probably aware, loyalty is worth nothing to businesses these days. Who gets the best deals? New customers. Once the S6, edge and N4 sales slow down, the N3 will probably receive the Lollipop update.
If I were in your situation, I would download the Vodafone BTU or Polish XEO and use the app manager to freeze the apps you don't require. Lollipop is OK and it is very smooth, apart from the material design and WAY too much white, but as you are aware, you will end up with an updated bootloader. You need the updated bootloader etc or your camera will misbehave! I have the Vodafone BTU, Echoe Rom based rom and have no issues. I have also tried the stock Vodafone BTU and the Polish one and report no Issues. My wifes N3 is running the XEO, and it is rock solid. The polish rom only has a couple of polish apps that can be deleted without any worries. Best of all, they are official, and can be flashed via Odin without tripping Knox.
I also heard that Vodafone 'paid' to be first for 5.0. The reason vodafone probably did this is because they are now pushing sim only tarrifs and have an advertising campaign on the telly. O2 have also started the sim only push, but their updates are usually so late, people forget what phone they were for!! The Polish XEO usually get the updates pretty quick as there is an R&D department tied with samsung, and sim only is big over there.
Samsung are losing me.
I'm also not happy to wait so long. Checking every day and no luck. Very disappointed in Samsung. Sick of my buggy Kitkat firmware from them that can't remember default apps to save its life and having to constantly choose Chrome to view internet links.
Oh yes, they are good enough to update the 1 year old Note 3 and say that they will even update the Note 2 with Lollipop eventually, but who would want it, when Android M will be released right after, as they took so long.
Funny how LG and Motorola especially were able to be so quick to give their devices the Lollipop update.
My next phone won't be from Samsung.
I got bored of waiting for the UK release so this morning and have flashed recent Polish update, I'd advise you guys to do that same.
Doesn't trip knox, don't have to do a full wipe, English language maintained, very simple.
straxusii said:
I got bored of waiting for the UK release so this morning and have flashed recent Polish update, I'd advise you guys to do that same.
Doesn't trip knox, don't have to do a full wipe, English language maintained, very simple.
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Been more and more tempted to do this, but wasn't sure if there would be a problem flashing it on a UK unbranded Note 3?
Also is there a way to back up data and restore it? I read helium could do it, but not sure how well it works. I just want to keep my game saves and etc.
Also there will be no problem flashing the UK version of lollipop when it eventually comes out?
I do have the beta version of lollipop already though. Not sure about the whole CSC thing either
I have the retail UK unbranded note 3, no problem at all flashing the Polish bob6 rom over it, just follow the simple steps on sam's firmware.
In terms of backing up I think you would need to root and use something like titanium, I didn't bother, as I said you don't need to wipe so all things like sms, game progress etc is not erased.
If you want to flash the UK version when it comes out I suspect there will be no problem at all to do so, I doubt I'll bother though, to all intents and purposes this behaves like the stock UK firmware would.
Just flashed it with the lollipop poland firmware before. Phone felt RED HOT after updating, ha ha. Seemed a little laggy after the first boot, but a restart seemed to fix all that.
It feels a little faster than previously actually, will see if the battery life is better on tuesday where the battery is put to the test really.
Good to see there doesnt seem to be any issues! Will flash to the UK version when samsung decide to release it...really bad these sort of exclusivity deals go on.
Hey everyone I was just wondering if anyone who has the Nougat Beta, have you gotten the official update yet? and if so when is the soonest we could possibly be getting a zip file? I tried the VZW version and it was smooth for about the first week, then I noticed some random rebooting and battery life issues as to be expected since it was only a first beta version. Not rushing anything but I'm a little impatient as well as some of you are to get your hands on the Nougat goodness. The whole reason for me even flashing the TMO version is because I bought the Metro PCS version and usually their updates roll out a lot later than TMOs updates. Thanks all
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Hey everyone I was just wondering if anyone who has the Nougat Beta, have you gotten the official update yet? and if so when is the soonest we could possibly be getting a zip file? I tried the VZW version and it was smooth for about the first week, then I noticed some random rebooting and battery life issues as to be expected since it was only a first beta version. Not rushing anything but I'm a little impatient as well as some of you are to get your hands on the Nougat goodness. The whole reason for me even flashing the TMO version is because I bought the Metro PCS version and usually their updates roll out a lot later than TMOs updates. Thanks all
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Only uk have it so far China is being delayed and T-Mobile (obviously) is coming out later this month if not well **** me and call me billy
Ok I got my phone 4 MONTHS ago! I wanted to update my phone but no updates i contact honor support they tell me i need to wait upto 8 weeks 130A! I wait out the 8 weeks to get my update but i get nothing. I contact the support again and i ask what happend with the update i was told it had been changed for 130B i was told that if i wait to 21 march i would be getting an manual update so around 6 more weeks. I waited those weeks and guess what ah no they cannot do manual updates even tho they promised me that update will be sent the 21. Now 3 april i contact them they tell me 130A and 130B Never exisisted and that 140A is the update i will get in 8 weeks from 2 april meaning if they did not lie again a total of 6 months wait to get 1 update! That sickens me!
Dear Honor get to work on ur support!
Edit :Im still on 8.0.0.120A(C432)
[QRCODE]Just Update ME![/QRCODE]
Same here. I was told to wait until 22. March, and then to wait 8 more weeks. So now, I have to wait until May to get my first update, just like you.
I know the Honor is obligated to send updates every 3 months, so I'm asking what now? Do we really have to wait 6+ months? If so, this is definitely my first and LAST Honor phone. It's just frustrating.
Hello,
Love my phone, but without update I will change the phone next time. We don't have any security updates, so disappointed with Honor ?
I think all of us is disappointed. The view 10 is like a Ferrari without the engine.
Keep supporting the post I will send this to honor
Lack of updates has literally pissed me off. It is better not to buy Honor/Huawei phones no matter how compelling they seem
Shame sbout this company.If they really want to compete with the likes of Oneplus they really have to address the lack of support and otas.
I was close to buying this phone but after doing my research I can see the majority of customers are disapointed with lack of updates .
Firmware finder for Huawei in the app store now has several EU updates.
I've just bought op5t sending this crap back unusable video
Guys! Firmware finder added du updates! Huawei can't support us they can
I updated my Honor View 10 to 130 update through the Firmware Finder, but I'm not sure about the newer updates. It shows that there's a 141 update. Has anyone tried it?
For the moment it's not possible to update with FFH. Il tried several times without success
i am on B130 with Huawei Firmware finder with the Proxy trick and it shows B140 and B141
wallah said:
Hello,
Love my phone, but without update I will change the phone next time. We don't have any security updates, so disappointed with Honor
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I fully agree! It's April now and the phone shows an Android security patch level of January the first. The support team told me I might have to wait until June (!) to receive an update. Additionally there is no fully working custom ROM supporting every feature of the phone so far. And maybe there will never be one. Next phone will definitely be an OnePlus again.
yup, i also wonder about this.
i know honor/huawei is doing a great job in keeping the phone up to date with latest patch, but the ota rollout process is quite slow and most of the phone did not get it on time. Currently, my view 10 is still stuck with January security patch despite newer patch for march n april is already available for a long time?
i understand ota is roll out in batch, but it is quite unreasonable if we need to wait for a few month just get a security update, by that time new update will also become available and we need to wait again and this keep going on.
i hope the ota rollout can be improve.
I don't understand Honor, my wife have Honor 7x and this morning received second update... I have honor view 10 and nothing...
I wanted to buy the Honor View 10 in two weeks for my birthday. I have had the Honor 7 so far. I was happy with the phone but not happy with the update policy. I thought this changed? Now i read this and i start to doubt if i should get another honor phone when it still takes so long for the updates and patches to be delivered.
ZaK_McKracken said:
I wanted to buy the Honor View 10 in two weeks for my birthday. I have had the Honor 7 so far. I was happy with the phone but not happy with the update policy. I thought this changed? Now i read this and i start to doubt if i should get another honor phone when it still takes so long for the updates and patches to be delivered.
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Was seriously considering the v10 myself but their update policy is terrible.Im not going to get one now.Looking at the Nokia 7+ which has Android one and guaranteed updates for 2 years for android versions and 3 years of security patches.I will wait to see how much tbe Oneplus 6 costs first though.
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For the moment it's not possible to update with FFH. Il tried several times without success
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@oldroid shared this link https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-9/development/tool-flash-official-firmware-recovery-t3769279 to update firmware via TWRP
Santi_SAZ said:
@oldroid shared this link https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-9/development/tool-flash-official-firmware-recovery-t3769279 to update firmware via TWRP
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Thank you, but my honor it's not rooted
I just did a manual check for updates. Verizon S7 Edge, I got this notification...
Well.. It said I didn't have permission to post photos. But the notification said "We are planning an update to 8.0 Oreo and it may take a while. Check back in a few weeks". Paraphrasing...
Sent from my SM-G935V using Tapatalk
I got that too today when I checked. Just came here to make a post and see if anyone else got this. I believe Google play services was supposed to at some point make the update ui a bit more pretty to look at and a bit more informative. That's what I thought I had heard awhile back. Looks like it's happening now.
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I got that too today when I checked. Just came here to make a post and see if anyone else got this. I believe Google play services was supposed to at some point make the update ui a bit more pretty to look at and a bit more informative. That's what I thought I had heard awhile back. Looks like it's happening now.
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I got oreo downloaded and ready to install on my phone, you may want to try a force update.
NM it was not the oreo update after all.
Fear_The_Fluff said:
I got oreo downloaded and ready to install on my phone, you may want to try a force update.
NM it was not the oreo update after all.
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Haha oh well I tried it anyway and still got the same message about Oreo being planned and to check back in a few weeks. At this point, it'll land right before I switch to the Note 9. It's not near the jump ice cream sandwich was to jelly bean or jelly bean to kit kat or kit kat to lollipop.
Around KitKat I finally was a bit more lax with not getting a major OS update from Samsung as soon as I had been (even though those updates were still a bit behind) as they really started making their own apps / system apps (along with Google) available in the Playstore, when you used to have to wait for the major OS updates to get updated apps.
I do still want the newest major OS updates for those updated API's though. But Samsung has done a pretty nice job of adding features in their own skin that vanilla Android ends up adding in their major OS updates and so in that respect Samsung is usually ahead with those features.
Anyways, hopefully the Oreo update for the S7 and S7 Edge shows up for the Verizon variants fairly soon. The new API's will be nice and maybe there will be a few new features I'm not aware of and hopefully the performance of the phone increases. ?
I bought my Note 20 Ultra when I still was using my iPhone as my main phone (I'm on AT&T) I switched to the Note last year and never really noticed it has *never* updated at all.
Just bought a Galaxy Tab S8 and realized the Note has not updated since Aug 2021.
I have been trying to figure out how to update the phone for about 2 weeks now, there is no option to check for an update at all. There is however a "Software Update" under the Battery and Device care option in settings.. but pressing it does nothing.
I went to AT&T last week and they are completely stumped. The guy helping me has the exact same phone and he has the update option where it should be and is running the latest Android 12 that AT&T pushed out. He gave me a 1-800 number to call for "advanced" support but i know they will say wipe the phone as their first "fix" and i'd rather not do that yet.
He checked my account, all my settings on their end and in my phone and has no clue whats going on.
Has anyone come across this? any ideas how to force an update?
I did download the Smart switch app for my computer from Samsung to check for an update (read that it can check for updates) and nothing.
12 is worse than 11; many that tried 12 rolled back to 11. Leave it on 11 and be happy.
This N10+ is still running on Pie. It runs like a bat out of hell. Security is not an issue. Current load will be 3 yo in June, still fast, stable with minimal maintenance. Good as it gets.
Rule#1- if the firmware is fast, stable and fulfilling its mission... let it be!!!