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[Galaxy S6 General] johentie:
it seems the Gold version on Rogers and every other carrier in Canada is getting it April 30th... read the article on Mobilesyrup... they got confirmation from Samsung for the April 30th date

I have it pre orderd and i am #1 in line for the 64gb Gold Edge as well ;>

i am worried about the free wireless charging pad for the Gold version... i am corporate client and it still says u can get a free wireless charging pad on their NRS reservation system... [MENTION=688535]rogers[/MENTION]Help replied to me tweet saying it was dependent on what number you are in the queue... but never stated for which colour variant..

kinda sucked reading that news today... i was really excited to get my phone on april 10th.. sigh... oh well more time to get all my accessories since most are still pre order status.. i would rather get the colour i want if it's only going to take 3 more weeks.. i am not paying $460+ dollars for a colour i KIND of want.. rather pay to get what i want..
[Galaxy S6 General] meboy:
My 128gb is now showing In Progress with Rogers. (was #4 in line)

Not sure exactly when it updated. Haven't checked since maybe Monday morning.

No tracking number or email about it yet.

I was starting to think it would be the end of April, so this week is not bad.
[Galaxy S6 General] @Class:
Hi all with the SM-G920W8 Canadian version. Does *#2263# work on your phones?
[Galaxy S6 General] htc fan89:
Yeah it does

Sent from my SM-G920W8
[Galaxy S6 General] LNJ:
Can someone with a Rogers phone hook me up with the stock recovery please?

You can back it up with the Flashify app from the Play Store if you are rooted.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 General] BiggTeddy26:
I will .. elisha first chance got a contact email or
[Galaxy S6 General] LNJ:
Tried to PM you but says you're set to not receive any.

Even if you can link me to a Google Drive link or Dropbox would be great!

Thanks.
[Galaxy S6 General] TikiThePug:
Works for me too for ServiceMode.
[Galaxy S6 General] evonc:
Could you also send me a link for the stock recovery when possible? Thanks.
[Galaxy S6 General] lizaSB:
Firmware files for the W8 starting to roll out:

http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/database/SM-G920W8/

As a Koodo user can anyone on Telus tell me if there are any additional carrier added files beyond their app? The build versions are the same and the only extra app that came installed on my phone was Koodo's Self Serve app. Seems to me like I should be able to use the Telus firmware in case of emergency (though here's to hoping each of the partner carriers gets their own).

Think I might pull the trigger on root today now that I can restore if things turn south. Samsung pay... pshhh. I highly doubt us Canadians will ever see it.
[Galaxy S6 General] Brava27:
All firmwares are exactly the same. Change the csc and get your carrier bloat.
[Galaxy S6 General] meboy:
128gb with Rogers dispatched to UPS tonight.

Anyone else got a 128gb yet?
[Galaxy S6 General] QAM:
Hola

Is anyone here who has rooted their SM-G920W8 seeing the deep sleep issue? Currently I am rooted and have TWRP installed, but my phone doesn't go into deep sleep at all. CPU Spy shows that the phone is running at 400MHz during off screen periods and of course killing my battery much faster than normal.

Tried the wiping cache suggestion, uninstalling TWRP, rewiping cache again but nothing seems to be working. I can't revert back to stock firmware as yet as Samsung hasn't released Koodo based firmware.

Any suggestions are most welcome.
[Galaxy S6 General] LNJ:
Get an app called Phone Info and check your PDA and CSC and see if they match the Bell and Telus firmware that's on Sammobile. If they do then download and extract the recovery.img and restore it.

Should work as I'm using the Bell recovery on my Rogers phone to get deep sleep again.

If you want to try the Bell recovery, here it is thanks to [MENTION=4377503]evonc[/MENTION]

http://www37.zippyshare.com/v/6knt7dK5/file.html

Sent from my SM-G920F
[Galaxy S6 General] BiggTeddy26:
You guys are nuts i aint doing shut till i see G920W8 Fido Firmware and root

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I hate doing things when things arent meant for something
[Galaxy S6 General] lizaSB:
The Telus one is posted on the previous page. Should be good enough. A user mentioned you can just change the csc (though I'm a stock Samsung noob admittedly) and get it to read as Koodo.

Also, if you feel like waiting many hours for a download, our firmware is hosted on rapid-gator: http://samsung-updates.com/device/?id=SM-G920W8

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I feel you. There was a thread where someone figured out you could maybe get Rogers/Fido straight from Samsung via Smart Switch. I have no idea how that was accomplished though and I was digging around in the app for a bit
[Galaxy S6 General] melo_mx:
xposed

I'm on telus, rooted and got TWRP all working fine.

Hopefully xposed works for arm64 soon
[Galaxy S6 General] Brava27:
I reverted to recovery from Bell and deep sleep came back. How do I make backups now? Twrp was working fine for me just no deep sleep lol
[Galaxy S6 General] LNJ:
Backup of the recovery or a nandroid? For recovery, just use Flashify to backup. For Nandroid, you're gonna have to go back to TWRP to do it and then revery back.
[Galaxy S6 General] Brava27:
Well that is annoying. Hopefully they figure out why it doesn't deep sleep on twrp recovery.
[Galaxy S6 General] evonc:
Wrote a quick guide on how to get Stock Localized Firmware. Currently using an Edge but it should work for regular S6 as well. Mac only for now. Haven't had time to experiment with it on Windows.

Link: http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6-edge/help/guide-how-to-download-stock-odin-t3084233
[Galaxy S6 General] KAPABLE-K:
499+13% = 563.87 always worked that way before now I have to do 499 * .13 + 499 dunno why they changed it
[Galaxy S6 General] bean72:
499*113% works as well. I don't understand why they would change it either, it's a common function in a calculator to do it the way you describe. Samsung can't math properly :D
[Galaxy S6 General] asdfvtn:
I'm also on Rogers, but I flashed eastlink's MM. I'm not rooted though so I wouldn't be able to change it anyway.

Maybe I should factory reset it?
[Galaxy S6 General] Rakcoon:
13% of what?

13% of 499 is 64.87.

499+64.87 = 563.87
[Galaxy S6 General] meboy:
I don't understand how anyone can use the stock calculators.

Try "Office Calculator".
[Galaxy S6 General] bean72:
On a standard calculator you can enter in 499+13 and hit the % key instead of = and it will give you the value of the first number with the percentage specified added onto it. If your phone is rooted, and you used Titanium backup before the update, you might be able to restore the app to the previous version.
[Galaxy S6 General] Choquette:
So what rom do you suggest then?
[Galaxy S6 General] ere1nion:
Than google is wrong, in google 100+13% = 113.....

as stock nexus calculator....
[Galaxy S6 General] JHoang:
i installed the xtrelite rom and calls werent working so I went back to the stock 6.0.1 rom from EastLink and calls still don't work. I tried the steps but I still can't get it to work. I'm on Rogers. Any ideas?
[Galaxy S6 General] lizaSB:
Which kernel are you using?
[Galaxy S6 General] JHoang:
Got it to work. My CSC was changed so I just had to change it back.
[Galaxy S6 General] evonc:
Nvm. Checked my CSC again and it's set to BTU. I think I changed it while flashing one of the unbranded 925F firmwares.
[Galaxy S6 General] Rakcoon:
I have Telus S6, been using Xtrestolite rom 5.1.1 before.

Kicks the phone into bootloop at "Galaxy s6" screen.

Tried everything..

As for flashing official firmware, it'll flash via Odin successfully. But it's stuck at boot with black screen and only the led glowing in blue.

Any inputs?
[Galaxy S6 General] lizaSB:
Not ones you're going to like to hear :( If you can't get past the boot screen could be your data isn't playing nice anymore. First step I would try is rooting your kernel as this has knocked me out of a boot loop before.

After that, start small, work bigger -- might be able to try to get twrp back on your phone. At this point you might be able to get a backup of your data. Start with wiping dalvik and cache and move up to data.

I'm willing to bet that a factory reset would fix any issues you might've gotten yourself into in the attempt to flash, this is why it might be prudent to grab a backup of your data if it's especially important to you.

Edit, I would like to note that all of my successful attempts at booting xtrestolite were preceded by a wipe of data. I have not attempted to boot XtreStoLite using my old data.
[Galaxy S6 General] Rakcoon:
Thanks for you time.

I'm really disparate. and work depends on it.

I don't care about my data, I already have them backed up.

I just want to get this rom going.

I downloaded the official one from sammobile three times to ensure there were no corrupt data.

Still after flashing it via odin, and factory wipe/reset, the phone boots to a black screen with blue LED glowing.
[Galaxy S6 General] anonymous13:
This worked! Thanks!
[Galaxy S6 General] thatsupnow:
Call audio is working for you?? What does step 3 mean?? Flash boot.img from update thru twrp?
[Galaxy S6 General] anonymous13:
I didn't flash the boot.img through twrp, I extracted it from the bell firmware file then used the converter from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2446269

to turn it into a .tar and flashed it through odin. I think s.rapp posted the boot.img file on page 198

I hope that makes sense.
[Galaxy S6 General] lizaSB:
Are your CSC codes matching your carrier? This may be a bit of a long shot....

You may want to attempt to restore through SmartSwitch at this point -- that's the recovery standard. Be advised though that SmartSwitch will necessarily wipe your SDcard as part of the restore process and may infact downgrade you to Lollipop -- though not entirely certain because bootloaders aren't supposed to allow downgrading. You'll need your serial number to achieve this, however.

Alternatvely, if you have xtrestolite kicking around you could try flashing it and seeing if it will boot at all. Don't muck with call audio fix, don't muck with kernel. Just a data wipe, rom flash, maybe a few extras and nothing more. The device will still boot and be functional you just won't have call audio. A booting device is better than a non-booting device. Will lend hope that not all is lost :) You may consider grabbing your serial number from the settings at this point too -- it's only available when the phone is booted, and for some incredibly dumb reason it's required by smart switch to restore your phone when it won't boot.
[Galaxy S6 General] thatsupnow:
I got it figured out now. Just packaged the bell stock kernel with xtresolite rom. Flashed the rom, add on and call fix and we're good to go!
[Galaxy S6 General] hs16:
I have the Rogers S6, but there are 3 versions of the 5.1.1 firmware on Sammobile. Any idea which one I should use or does it not matter? What's the difference? My phone doesn't boot into any mode other than Download mode, so there's nothing I can do to check the PDA :/
[Galaxy S6 General] thatsupnow:
All canadian firmware is the same. Just change you csc
[Galaxy S6 General] Choquette:
If I use the sammobile firmware with Koodo, do I need an unlock phone?
[Galaxy S6 General] AwaKeN:
What is the CSC ? And where you change it ? And I change it for what ? i'm with Bell.

Thanks !
[Galaxy S6 General] meboy:
Use OJ7 for 5.1.1 on Rogers.

Not the others.
[Galaxy S6 General] flexfulton:
If you are doing nothing other than flashing the stock ROM from Sammobile via Odin then you shouldn't have to worry about the CSC. Your phone will figure it out and set it accordingly.

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No. All the Canadian carriers use the same ROM. Flash whatever you want and your phone will adjust itself according to the carrier you are on. No unlocking needed. This is how everyone is able to update their phone even though only Eastlink and Videotron have technically released it. Only requirment is that you are flashing the correct firmware for your phone model number which all Canadian S6s have the same one.

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NOTE: Bell, Virgin Mobile and Sasktel all have F/W posted on Sammobile now. Once again, it shouldn't matter which one you use as they all have the same build number. Your phone will set itself accordingly after flashing.
[Galaxy S6 General] ulloobata:
Hi All,

I have Wind S6. Just installed Eastlink firmware using ODIN. Works fine, no issues so far except missing data toggle.

All the apps and setting were retained after update.

I'll test is and see if there are any issues.
[Galaxy S6 General] ere1nion:
18 hours on 6.0.1 here, work fine. Only thing, battery life seems to be less than before, maybe a factory reset is needed... your thoughts.
[Galaxy S6 General] GLRobichaud:
I did a Factory Wipe before the installation of the Eastlink ROM and I was root with Arter97 Kernel with XtreStoLite. I can say that after 1 battery cycle, battery life is at par with my previous setup.

Standby is roughly 1d with a SoT of ~4hrs (light to moderate usage).
[Galaxy S6 General] ere1nion:
After 8 hours off charger, 62% left, 21% (53 min sot) Android os 30%. Working so mostly an attack in coc and clash royal and a bit of Web browsing during lunch time and before day start. Will see how it goes in the next few days, as just received the phone from warranty so not too bad if factory reset/wipe is needed.
[Galaxy S6 General] autom8r:
Yeah, you only need the call audio fix when using an edge ROM. This is a native W8 ROM, so the radio library is meant for our phone.

If you don't have call audio after installing 6.0.1, it must be due to a remnant from an old installation.

Typically it's always worth factory resetting before a major flash.
[Galaxy S6 General] AwaKeN:
Now it's fully compatible with the new release of xtrestolite 3.1.1, the other release was not working out of the box for the canadian W8
[Galaxy S6 General] Choquette:
Can MM be rooted? ANd is there any custom rom for it yet?
[Galaxy S6 General] bean72:
Read the post right before yours, that ROM will work on your phone. Rooting methods have been posted a few times a few pages back

Rooting:

http://www.recovery-mode.com/root/h...xy-s6-sm-g9208-android-6-0-1-marshmallow.html

Arter Recovery(If you plan on installing custom ROM):

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6/general/root-rooting-g920i-marshmallow-6-0-1-t3339394

XtreStoLite ROM:

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6/development/rom-xtrestolite-deodexed-mod-edition-1-0-t3094423
[Galaxy S6 General] TheOneNoob!:
Just flashed EastLink 6.0.1 with ODIN to my G920W8.
[Galaxy S6 General] SkyandDirt:
Did anyone run into issues flashing G920W8 modem and bootloader using odin? I'm currently stuck on the samsung boot screen. The modem and bootloader files I used were found here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=60390986&postcount=5
[Galaxy S6 General] Choquette:
Well it didnt go very well, Stock on logo before the boot logo! anyone with a stock image for 5.1.1?
[Galaxy S6 General] SkyandDirt:
What carrier do you have?
[Galaxy S6 General] TheOneNoob!:
Finished flashing. Marshmallow is great on my phone. Did factory reset before and after to change CSC. Phone is originally Telus but using with Virgin Mobile. For the newbies, KNOX was not tripped but I'm going to flash the Telus one when it comes out. Should be same procedure:

Drivers

Download .zip file unzip to take out .tar.md5

Direct Odin3 "AP" flash to .tar.md5 file

Wait for finish

All done. Good marshmallow. Now to wait for Android N?
[Galaxy S6 General] BrendenDonaher:
What rom do you have on your phone?

If you didn't upgrade to MM it likely won't boot.
[Galaxy S6 General] theaenimal:
I'm in the same boat and I was on the Xtrestolite for 5.1.1, what are the steps to get out of this? Seems to only be able to go into download mode.
[Galaxy S6 General] BrendenDonaher:
Couple options.

1) Download stock 6.0.1 (make sure its 920 for S6, 925 for S6 Edge) and then chuck that in AP of Odin and flash. That should do it.

2) Flash modem + BL for 6.0.1 (from XtreSto thread) and then after it's done flashing boot into recovery and flash XtreSto 3.1.

You need a MM rom to boot on the MM Bootloader, so those should solve it.
[Galaxy S6 General] SkyandDirt:
Please see this POST regarding the issue. Hope it helps, cheers.
[Galaxy S6 General] theaenimal:
Where would I find stock 6.0.1 for 920W8?
[Galaxy S6 General] BrendenDonaher:
Sammobile. Download eastlink version and flash with Odin. Any carrier version will work.
[Galaxy S6 General] SkyandDirt:
A faster alternative to sammobile is downloading directly from samsung using SamFirm. See this post LINK for details on how to do that.
[Galaxy S6 General] theaenimal:
Thanks for the tip, gave it a go but doesn't look like it's working "Could not fetch info for SM-920W8/ESK".
[Galaxy S6 General] Choquette:
IS it better arter recovery or TWRP ?

and what is Hacker Kernel?

thank you!
[Galaxy S6 General] SkyandDirt:
You're missing the "g" in your model number :P. Should be SM-G920W8/ESK
[Galaxy S6 General] ere1nion:
Don't put your hopes too high, sadly
[Galaxy S6 General] Choquette:
Thank you ! it worked

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thanks
[Galaxy S6 General] hostilebynature:
Hey guys, I'm a little stuck right now. Kinda messed up.

I flashed the MM BL and Modem (from the XTRElite forum) via Odin and now I'm in a bootloop (stuck on samsung galaxy s6 screen). Can't seem to get into recovery mode to flash the xtrelite MM rom. Currently has the lollipop rom installed.

How can I get into recovery mode? All I'm able to do is make it reboot (home, vol down, power) and get into download mode. Cant get it into recovery mode. Any ideas?

Edit: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66351355&postcount=11733 <---my question was already asked and answered by others
[Galaxy S6 General] hostilebynature:
Ok, update on my issues. I've flashed the Eastlink rom and im in.

The issue now is no matter what custom recovery i try and install. I can't get into it. It bootloops everytime i try and boot into it. Any ideas?

this solved it for me

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66351806&postcount=11743
[Galaxy S6 General] Choquette:
Can we flash those kernels (Arter, hacker, Spacex) if yes, what would be the advantage of doing so?
[Galaxy S6 General] Orion9k0:
Were you able to install custom ROM after this?
[Galaxy S6 General] Mekret:
You will lose call audio.
[Galaxy S6 General] bahuy2003:
I am from Vietnam. Today, i flashed rom 6.0 for my s6 Rogers by odin. Then, i flashed bootloader and modem. Finally, i flashed rom cook Xtrestolite 3.3.1 over recovery (i used recovery for g920i). My S6 goes excellently now! Thank you all of you for helping!
[Galaxy S6 General] Joe-Pk:
Wind Mobile update is out today. Downloading as we speak on a locked Wind S6, updated is approx 1.2gb.
[Galaxy S6 General] Dyn4myT:
HI,

About the root, do you use this one to root ? (sm-g920w8)

http://www.androidinfotech.com/2016/04/root-samsung-galaxy-s6-sm-g920w8-canada.html

I really don't want to brick my s6 and just began to read about the rooting.

Thank you
[Galaxy S6 General] hostilebynature:
yup!
[Galaxy S6 General] autom8r:
No, it's working great on mine using Eastlink's stock release. But of course I properly wiped my RIL, I bet others did not.
[Galaxy S6 General] Choquette:
but isnt there a fix for call audio?

ANother thing, is there any other roms than Xtrestroslite ? Is there a list of all roms for our canadian mobile phone? I'm on 6.0.1 tho!
[Galaxy S6 General] theaenimal:
What's the latest TWRP/CF root for MM?
[Galaxy S6 General] Mekret:
Not for those kernels.
[Galaxy S6 General] Choquette:
OK thank you! So we dont have alot of choices then with the canadian variant!
[Galaxy S6 General] pappcam:
I'm not seeing these new FWs on Sammobile.
[Galaxy S6 General] flexfulton:
I'm sorry. You are correct. I was looking at the S6 Edge. Aside from 925 instead of 920 in the firmware name, they have the exact same PDA and CSC so I didn't even notice when I pulled up the page.
[Galaxy S6 General] jb_alphamale:
This worked for me as well but without flashing Eastlink or any stock 6 ROM but following the order in the link below and then XtreStoLite 3.1.1.
[Galaxy S6 General] lgsshedden:
installed the Eastlink FW first using Odin, then installed Xtrestroslite 3.1.1 which has the call fix included, has a W8 kernel option and is a big improvement for me over stock FW as it removes much of the extra bloat and apps I don't use
[Galaxy S6 General] Choquette:
Is it normal with Xtrestoslite when I reboot I always get the Android is starting ''Optimizing app xxx of xxx''' ??

IS there a way to load AOSP instead of Touchwiz?
[Galaxy S6 General] bean72:
It should only Optimize apps on the very first boot after you install the ROM, and after clearing cache/installing xposed. The only non-TW based ROM right now would be CM13, but it's not for daily driver use. It might be a while before you see any AOSP based ROMs, as the processor used in the S6 lacks documentation from Samsung.
[Galaxy S6 General] Choquette:
Thanks for your help!
[Galaxy S6 General] popotvin:
Hi guys,

I read a lot of people telling to flash stock marshmallow from a different carrier. But if I just change my csc to eastlink, shouldn't I be prompted with an automatic update.?

I on bell 5.1.1 and that's what I did to get 5.1.1 from 5.0.2.

Thanks
[Galaxy S6 General] meboy:
For anyone on 6.0 that still has Mobile Data Toggle in quick setteings.

Can you please root browser to data/data/com.android.provider.settings

There should be a settings.db file in there.

Even if you can just say the file size.

Thanks
[Galaxy S6 General] GLRobichaud:
I'm on Bell and simply did a factory wipe and install EastLink right after. The ROM has multi CSC support and will detect yours. You won't have to do anything afterward.

Enjoy!
[Galaxy S6 General] popotvin:
Thanks, will try
[Galaxy S6 General] Mekret:
4,096 bytes
[Galaxy S6 General] Ramsey:
I don't get it, what do you want us to do exactly when we get there? I don't have MM yet but once I do I can get the info that you want. I will have to root first.
[Galaxy S6 General] meboy:
I think that's the issue.

It's 0b for me and I would assume others that lost the toggle.

That's the database that all the previous mods were editing to get the toggle back.

It's not too difficult to imagine a database getting messed up at some point.

Can you copy/save and upload that?

(Even if you're not on 6.0 the file might be of use.)
[Galaxy S6 General] bean72:
The directory exists, but settings.db file doesn't even exist on my phone, yet I still have the mobile data toggle.
[Galaxy S6 General] h_khan:
Hey. On arter97's kernel thread, SM-G920W8 is listed as a supported device, but I can't seem to find the kernel for our model on the download page for 6.0.1.

Which arter97 kernel are you using?
[Galaxy S6 General] GLRobichaud:
I "was" on Arter97's kernel prior to the upgrade (while on 5.1.1). Arter97's current MM kernel doesn't support T/W8 as of now. The last update he posted says it's upcoming. So I would suggest that you keep an eye on his thread for further update.
[Galaxy S6 General] bahuy2003:
I try to flash arter97 kenel. It doesn't work for my S6, no audio call.
[Galaxy S6 General] h_khan:
Yeah that's what I figured. Thanks.

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As [MENTION=6997262]GLRobichaud[/MENTION] said, our model isn't supported as of yet. Soon hopefully.
[Galaxy S6 General] meboy:
It seems there is another setting somewhere (user inaccessible) but a database with the right info in that location will override.

Thanks for checking.
[Galaxy S6 General] pilotgav:
I was just thinking of posting the same thing. Finding battery life poor.