No OTA updates for my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge

[Anonymous]

Hi I have not had any of the recent OTA updates for my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge since I had it in March. Is this because O2 are slow and rolling them out or is it my phone?

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[MI5]

It's probably not the only thing they control either which is why I would never buy a network branded phone.
The whole point of Android is MY choice - if I want someone else to tell me I'll buy an iPhone

[Anonymous]

Hah i need to break the cycle of contracts inc the phone and buy my handsets myself and add a SIM only deal in

[MI5]

If you can't afford it straight off you can take a contract from CPW as all their phones are sim free - they just attach them to contracts but they aren't network locked or restricted in any way.

[Chris_K]

I can certainly feed this back to our device team on your behalf, but with updates being restricted to Wifi this ensures:

- Customers retain their mobile data to do more of what they love (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Games, Internet etc)

- Less chance of a corrupt download due to fluctuations in mobile data (eg, moving between cells and causing a temporary loss of service). A corrupt download would mean re-downloading it, leading to more data usage

I get that you want to use your data however you please, but in the grand scheme of things, this will help save your data allowances and help lead to a better experience with software updates. Some updates can be 2GB or even larger in size - imagine getting to 1.9GB of that for the download to stall and need to start again... With a 5GB allowance, it could be used up just by this one thing and could limit what you can do with your data for the rest of your allowance period.