Hello guys I hope everyone is doing well,
I have purchase the Galaxy S9+ G9650 HK version with Snapdragon 845 back in April and the device's CSC was TGY and it came with the march security update out of the box, so I have looked over sammobile and noticed that the chilean version CHO recieves security updates a bit faster than TGY and already had the April security update so I have switched the oem unlock on (I thought that was necessary) and switched the firmware using odin and everything was going great until I have received the first ota update for May the device started to have this weired issue, everytime I restart the phone the microphone doesn't work anywhere until I leave it on for about a week they the microphone starts to work normally and I thought thay was a bug in that update and they will fix it in the next update unfortunately a couple of updates later and running the August update now and the issue is still present even thought I have flashed the TGY firmware back but still no luck, I am not sure if that's a hardware issue because I couldn't find anyone that has the same problem but the weird thing that after a week of keeping it on it starts to work perfectly like it had no issue until I turn it off or the battery dies on me I have to wait for another week with the phone being worthless with no mic, samsung only sells the exynos version here where I live and I it is hard and really expensive to ship the device to hong kong. Thanks guys I hope that someone can help me with that because it's really frustrating.
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Hi guys,
I've had this phone for just over a month now. I ordered it from amazon.co.uk. It was a third party seller. I had suspicions when first using it that something wasnt right. The phone didn't go through the initial setup when I turned it on so I had to do a factory reset. Also although I ordered it from amazon uk the phone seems to be the middle east varient L21C185B140.
Because of this I couldn't get the stock marshmallow update and instead installed cm13. Cm13 has been great for this phone but the devs are saying that the phone which weren't updated to stock marshmallow may have issues from now on with cm13. I've started experiencing this in the form of incorrect cellular signal strength displaying.
I am considering returning the phone to get a proper UK varient. I have being trying to figure out how to get it back to stock before returning but most of the methods seem to be for the US or Uk version of the phone.
Does anyone know anyway I could do this or alternatively change the phones region so I could install a stock marshmallow update?
All suggestions welcome
Thanks
Okay, I got a good one for you guys and I'm hoping someone can give me an idea I haven't thought of yet. Here's the scenario:
I owned a Rogers Samsung Galaxy S6 edge (SM-G925W8) that I passed down to my best friend when I bought a Pixel XL last fall. While it was still my daily driver, I had gotten tired of waiting for Rogers to push the Marshmallow OTA to their customers while other carriers had already sent it out so I went on over to SamMobile and downloaded the 6.0.1 firmware from Eastlink, installed it on my device using Odin and went on to enjoy my life with the latest version of Android.
Flash forward a little more than a year and my friend is still using the S6 edge as his daily driver but a couple months ago, the USB port stopped working. Not the end of the world at the time as I had given him my wireless charger with the phone and that still works just fine. When Rogers released the Nougat update for the S6 edge, my buddy mentioned that he hadn't gotten it yet but I thought it would just be a matter of time until he got the notification that it was ready to download.
Towards the end of August, news broke that certain Samsung devices on the Rogers network would no longer be able to call 911 due to network enhancements that they were planning in the fall https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/08/30/android-6-x-lower-samsung-devices-911-calls-rogers/ Okay, no big deal we're thinking except Rogers has sent out a text message in the past week stating that any affected devices not updated by October 26, 2017 will have LTE network access removed to ensure that they can still access 911 services. Okay, so let's load up that OTA update already right? Well it just dawned on me today that since I had loaded the Eastlink firmware, that's why he's not seeing the OTA update from Rogers.
So now we gotta figure out how we're going to address this problem. He's going to take it to a repair shop in the morning to see how much it is to fix the USB port so that we can update it using Odin but he's obviously not looking to spend too much to repair a 2.5 year old phone. In the worst case scenario that the USB port cannot be repaired, what I want to know is what are my options? Will changing the CSC of the device back to Rogers result in the OTA update appearing for the device (despite the obvious downside of the device having to be factory reset and not being able to do a full, proper backup because no USB port)? Does anyone know if the Rogers (or Eastlink) OTA zip file is available to download like with Nexus/Pixel devices? (I'm doubtful but have to ask. Any other suggestions?
Thanks for reading my lengthy post and thanks in advance for any help that you can provide
AllBlaxx said:
Okay, I got a good one for you guys and I'm hoping someone can give me an idea I haven't thought of yet. Here's the scenario:
I owned a Rogers Samsung Galaxy S6 edge (SM-G925W8) that I passed down to my best friend when I bought a Pixel XL last fall. While it was still my daily driver, I had gotten tired of waiting for Rogers to push the Marshmallow OTA to their customers while other carriers had already sent it out so I went on over to SamMobile and downloaded the 6.0.1 firmware from Eastlink, installed it on my device using Odin and went on to enjoy my life with the latest version of Android.
Flash forward a little more than a year and my friend is still using the S6 edge as his daily driver but a couple months ago, the USB port stopped working. Not the end of the world at the time as I had given him my wireless charger with the phone and that still works just fine. When Rogers released the Nougat update for the S6 edge, my buddy mentioned that he hadn't gotten it yet but I thought it would just be a matter of time until he got the notification that it was ready to download.
Towards the end of August, news broke that certain Samsung devices on the Rogers network would no longer be able to call 911 due to network enhancements that they were planning in the fall https://mobilesyrup.com/2017/08/30/android-6-x-lower-samsung-devices-911-calls-rogers/ Okay, no big deal we're thinking except Rogers has sent out a text message in the past week stating that any affected devices not updated by October 26, 2017 will have LTE network access removed to ensure that they can still access 911 services. Okay, so let's load up that OTA update already right? Well it just dawned on me today that since I had loaded the Eastlink firmware, that's why he's not seeing the OTA update from Rogers.
So now we gotta figure out how we're going to address this problem. He's going to take it to a repair shop in the morning to see how much it is to fix the USB port so that we can update it using Odin but he's obviously not looking to spend too much to repair a 2.5 year old phone. In the worst case scenario that the USB port cannot be repaired, what I want to know is what are my options? Will changing the CSC of the device back to Rogers result in the OTA update appearing for the device (despite the obvious downside of the device having to be factory reset and not being able to do a full, proper backup because no USB port)? Does anyone know if the Rogers (or Eastlink) OTA zip file is available to download like with Nexus/Pixel devices? (I'm doubtful but have to ask. Any other suggestions?
Thanks for reading my lengthy post and thanks in advance for any help that you can provide
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I'm almost certain the only way to flash any firmware to s6 edge or any Samsung device is through Odin. So usb port will be needed.
You can download the firmware but not as a zip to install OTA.
Another thing is you need root to change the CSC. Again which needs usb port so you can flash twrp on to it.
You can pick up usb ports pretty cheap nowadays so maybe just be best to repair it and flash it through Odin.
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I bought the phone couple of weeks ago, it's running Oreo 8.1.0...
I read on different pages that update "came" to Italy towards the end of November 2018, but I still can't update my device...
Every time update in system settings it just says your device is up to date...
Can someone, please, tell me why is this happening... One of the reasons I bought this phone was because Android One and now this happened..
It depends on the carrier. In the Netherlands, too, there are some carriers that haven't OKayed the Pie update yet (Vodafone).
You could try to take your sim card out of the phone and look for an update, or, even, put a different carrier's sim card into the phone and look for an update.
No guarantee that this will work, but that's what I'd do. (I was lucky enough to get the Pie update long ago, and I even received the January security update already)
I'm having the same issue. My phone is still stuck with Android 8.1 and the november security patches.
I've contacted the Nokia support and they told me to clear the Google Play Store cache and reboot in safe mode.
I've also tried other solutions on my own, such as clearing the Google Play Services cache and rebooting without the SIM, but nothing changed.
The phone is carrier unlocked (in Italy we say "no brand"), model TA-1095, bought from Amazon Italy a couple of weeks ago.
UPDATE: I've contacted the Nokia support once more and I was told to "just wait" because the update is only released to 10% of the user base and the rest will get it "soon".
Guys, I just read about someone from .nl who also didn't get any updates via Vodafone. When he popped a free SIM card from another provider into the phone, updates started immediately. YMMV of course.
I also continue with Oreo and the security patch of November, they told me that it also spares
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I also continue with Oreo and the security patch of November, they told me that it also spares
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Have you tried my solution? Just take another sim card for a few minutes (from another operator), you never know, it might work.
So I just got the first software update on the phone. I have the S10+ from T-Mobile. It included the March Security update from Google. It did not list any other specific change in the details.
Does anyone know what this update includes besides the security update or is that all? Like does it fix the known issue of waking the display in your pocket?
Also has anyone else gotten this update on other carriers or other variants of the S10?
Also let this be documented that Samsung is very fast with updates now for this new S10. Releasing the security path only about 4 weeks after Google released it for its Pixel phones is very impressive.
Also let this be documented that T-Mobile is the best carrier for fast updates from my experience. They always pass out an update for their variant of a phone as soon as the manufacturer releases it.
Got the same update on AT&T phone today. 500mb size. Let see if they fixed any problems with it.
hello everyone, I thought that samsumg sent updates at the same time to everyone, but my surprise is greater when I see that Europe has updates and not in Latin America, my question is then what can I expect with this, that is, will I have updates every three months? I understand that if I change the firmware there may be some regions where it is faster, but then I lose functions like volte and vowifi? It's my first Samsung, I'm waiting for an answer for dummies since I don't know anything, thanks
waldoud said:
hello everyone, I thought that samsumg sent updates at the same time to everyone, but my surprise is greater when I see that Europe has updates and not in Latin America, my question is then what can I expect with this, that is, will I have updates every three months? I understand that if I change the firmware there may be some regions where it is faster, but then I lose functions like volte and vowifi? It's my first Samsung, I'm waiting for an answer for dummies since I don't know anything, thanks
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Updates are staged from region to region, just in case there is a major problem with the update so that it does not affect every region to which the update is delivered to. Furthermore, if one's phone is through a carrier, the delivery of that update will be delayed in order for the carrier to tailor it to their network (normally just a week or two these days).
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Updates are staged from region to region, just in case there is a major problem with the update so that it does not affect every region to which the update is delivered to. Furthermore, if one's phone is through a carrier, the delivery of that update will be delayed in order for the carrier to tailor it to their network (normally just a week or two these days).
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Hello, thank you for your answer, the device is free, it is not an operator, it has the region and continuation of my country, that is, could I expect it to take two weeks to receive the update? It's just that I heard from people who said that it took up to two months to receive an update, is that false?
I'm in the USA and have not gotten the update either, i wouldn't worry to much it will drop soon.
waldoud said:
hello everyone, I thought that samsumg sent updates at the same time to everyone, but my surprise is greater when I see that Europe has updates and not in Latin America, my question is then what can I expect with this, that is, will I have updates every three months? I understand that if I change the firmware there may be some regions where it is faster, but then I lose functions like volte and vowifi? It's my first Samsung, I'm waiting for an answer for dummies since I don't know anything, thanks
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South Korea gets the update 1st. Then it's sent out to other countries but even if it was sent to your country, your carrier may delay the update for any reason. Samsung is better with updates but expect 1-2 months per update for devices 1-3 years old. Devices older than that I'm not sure.
I'm in the USA and I was getting 1 update almost every month on my S22U around 1 week after it was received in Europe.
(I received the February update yesterday about 1 week after it was received in Europe)
Got mine today in USA for Unlocked
Got it today too on unlocked running two MVNOs, Boost Infinite (AT&T) and Tello (T-Mobile). I was amazed how quickly the update was done too lol