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Samsung haven't released the UK generic firmware yet (o2 may or may not have it for testing, who knows?) but I do know 100% that you won't be downloading it today.
As it will also be 5.0 when it is released you would be advised to wait until at least the 5.01 update anyway, that's if you want some friendly advice from someone who has used the firmware already
As it will also be 5.0 when it is released you would be advised to wait until at least the 5.01 update anyway, that's if you want some friendly advice from someone who has used the firmware already
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Samsung haven't released the UK generic firmware yet (o2 may or may not have it for testing, who knows?) but I do know 100% that you won't be downloading it today.
As it will also be 5.0 when it is released you would be advised to wait until at least the 5.01 update anyway, that's if you want some friendly advice from someone who has used the firmware already
As it will also be 5.0 when it is released you would be advised to wait until at least the 5.01 update anyway, that's if you want some friendly advice from someone who has used the firmware already
@MI5 wrote:
Samsung haven't released the UK generic firmware yet (o2 may or may not have it for testing, who knows?) but I do know 100% that you won't be downloading it today.
As it will also be 5.0 when it is released you would be advised to wait until at least the 5.01 update anyway, that's if you want some friendly advice from someone who has used the firmware already
Well apart from the security fixes, I'm frankly not looking forward to it at all based on what I've read. Surely Samsung will roll the 5.01 update in to the generic release now? Or will we still end up applying it in bits?
Why oh why can't those of us who buy their phones sim free, off network, just dowload the signed firmware by ftp, put it on an sd card, and flash it ourselves?
I thought the idea of Android being open source was, in part, to make it techie-friendly. What a joke. Doing anything hacky with Android involves so much bumming around that at least I lost interest in it and spend my time on other things, whilst the wannabes who think they understand more than they do, make a right mess of rooting their handsets and wondering why they become fouled up after they just left them wide open.
Sorry for the rant 
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I deon't see the rush. Let it be tested properly by others before being disappointed that your lovely phone is now lagging, overheating and draining the battery in four hours. I've been bitten before so won't be rushing into any update until I've read the user experiences.
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The S3 is running well on 5.0.2, no issues at all. Battery lasts 2 days with light use simply because it isn't my main phone. My only real concern with it, though it isn't a problem tbh, is that with everything closed down there is only ever around 300mb ram available. As the ram is only 1GB this is to be expected I suppose, it shows how fast phones are evolving these days.
My advice would be to wait, certainly for 5.01...
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@MI5 wrote:
Samsung firmware is available to download now if you want and no need to root either, it's just not officially released OTA or via Kies.
The Note 4 will go straight to 5.01 but the firmware released so far for Note 3 is only 5.0, but I'm sure 5.01 isn't far away.
Is the Note 3 firmware available anywhere other than dodgy third party websites? Or is it at least signed by Samsung? Presumably I still need to upload it via USB using some weird software I've got to make work on one of my computers 
or have things moved on since I last fiddled around with these things?
