UPDATED 22 JUNE 2015
"There can be no doubt that one area that Samsung excel at is their policy of continual improvement and updates to their firmwares."
I wrote that, here, over a year ago and it still holds true.
A month ago, Samsung issued a massive update to Lollipop with the OD3, (changelist #4664691), firmware which brought users a whole host of under-the-hood fixes and improvements. See, Lollipop release. Massive update!!!
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Now they have launched the new OE5, Android 5.0, release for the worldwide, international, model with an even bigger changelist of #4920185 (see post #7)
First to receive this release, its 5th Lollipop update, is the carrier free G900F model for the United Kingdom, CSC code BTU. If Samsung run true to form, they will start rolling out this improved Lollipop to unbranded and lightly branded G900F users in the coming weeks.
Whilst Samsung do not post actual detailed changelogs, they excel at releasing improvements and bugfix updates continually. Past improvements have brought a whole host of fixes, such as Voice unlock, Mute toggle, Screen pinning, Alarm notification in silent mode, Wi-Fi and signal improvements, camera fixes, fully charged notification removed, as well as the all important performance and battery enhancements.
To give you an idea of how this latest update compares to other firmwares, here are the changelist #'s for the U.S. and Canadian carrier branded, minority variants...
T-Mobile (USA) model G900T build OF6 = changelist #5117004*
Cricket model G900AZ build OE2 = changelist #4837836*
Verizon model G900V builds OE1 = changelist #4782027*
Sprint model G900P build OD3 = changelist #4631307* (This is not the same OD3 build as the G900F)
C-Spire model G900R7 build OC2 = changelist #4538308*
AT&T model G900A build OF2 = changelist #4432708*
U.S. Cellular model G900R4 build OC1 = changelist #4385544*
Bluegrass Cellular etc: model G900R6 build OB3 = changelist #4173671*
Canada (all models G900W8) build OC1 = changelist #4100894*
(*N.B. The carrier changelists above, include their bloatware. The actual Samsung changelist # they are based on will be much lower)
So, you can see, depending on which carrier you are with and which build they have chosen, your Lollipop firmware could be very out-of-date.
For more information about your model of Galaxy S5, see, 40 Galaxy S5 models - Dummies Guide, which starts with the sentence...
"Think that everyone's Samsung Galaxy S5 is the same as yours...
Think again!"
"There can be no doubt that one area that Samsung excel at is their policy of continual improvement and updates to their firmwares."
I wrote that, here, over a year ago and it still holds true.
A month ago, Samsung issued a massive update to Lollipop with the OD3, (changelist #4664691), firmware which brought users a whole host of under-the-hood fixes and improvements. See, Lollipop release. Massive update!!!
.
Now they have launched the new OE5, Android 5.0, release for the worldwide, international, model with an even bigger changelist of #4920185 (see post #7)
First to receive this release, its 5th Lollipop update, is the carrier free G900F model for the United Kingdom, CSC code BTU. If Samsung run true to form, they will start rolling out this improved Lollipop to unbranded and lightly branded G900F users in the coming weeks.
Whilst Samsung do not post actual detailed changelogs, they excel at releasing improvements and bugfix updates continually. Past improvements have brought a whole host of fixes, such as Voice unlock, Mute toggle, Screen pinning, Alarm notification in silent mode, Wi-Fi and signal improvements, camera fixes, fully charged notification removed, as well as the all important performance and battery enhancements.
To give you an idea of how this latest update compares to other firmwares, here are the changelist #'s for the U.S. and Canadian carrier branded, minority variants...
T-Mobile (USA) model G900T build OF6 = changelist #5117004*
Cricket model G900AZ build OE2 = changelist #4837836*
Verizon model G900V builds OE1 = changelist #4782027*
Sprint model G900P build OD3 = changelist #4631307* (This is not the same OD3 build as the G900F)
C-Spire model G900R7 build OC2 = changelist #4538308*
AT&T model G900A build OF2 = changelist #4432708*
U.S. Cellular model G900R4 build OC1 = changelist #4385544*
Bluegrass Cellular etc: model G900R6 build OB3 = changelist #4173671*
Canada (all models G900W8) build OC1 = changelist #4100894*
(*N.B. The carrier changelists above, include their bloatware. The actual Samsung changelist # they are based on will be much lower)
So, you can see, depending on which carrier you are with and which build they have chosen, your Lollipop firmware could be very out-of-date.
For more information about your model of Galaxy S5, see, 40 Galaxy S5 models - Dummies Guide, which starts with the sentence...
"Think that everyone's Samsung Galaxy S5 is the same as yours...
Think again!"
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