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[Galaxy S6 Edge General] dynot:
Yep, and I'm still there. I started a little higher but there must have been some cancellations that brought me down. This was the first time I pre-ordered and frankly expected to be in the high hundreds close to 1,000 having done so about 2 weeks after pre-orders opened.

The highest I've seen in the various posts read was somewhere in the 300's. With one week to go before launch, if we assume a total of 1,000 pr-eorders that should be easy for Rogers to fill on launch date. After all we're talking about only 1,000 across the entire country. What did Samsung say...they expect to sell 50 million world-wide in the first manufacturing batch? So this is just a drop in the bucket.

Still, I'm surprised how low the numbers are for pre-orders. But I have no idea what the norm would be for a national carrier in Canada.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Hendrycks:
I don't have much knowledge with how this works but what if It's just your spot in line for Rogers in your area? Or it could be possible that Rogers already shipped the first couple 100's of them and so now you're first in line for the next batch they ship?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mrnovanova:
It basically means that the first black 64gb s6 edge is mine. I'm not with Rogers so I'm having the phone sent to a store near me. I spoke to a rep and he told me that the 10th is not the day they ship it out but the day I pick it up. Fingers crossed.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Hendrycks:
That's sweet. I talked to Telus yesterday and they said a lot of people are getting them early, they're just shipping them asap. He said I should have it around Wednesday which would be sweet as I have no phone atm!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mrnovanova:
No I ordered it on April 2nd. I didn't know pre-order was open is what I meant. I was just checking out the Rogers website because I was thinking of switching to them for their 12gb share everything plan that I could use for my s6 and my gear s. Then I saw the link and followed it and to my surprise, I was first in line.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Dimitri.k:
Haha very nice. I am #5 for the 64GB Black S6 edge!. They will start shipping them Lat next week. Remember Good Friday and Easter Sunday the carriers don't work same with UPS. So i would say Monday or Tuesday it will change for us.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mrnovanova:
Nice. My guess is they will start shipping on Tuesday for us to get them by Friday. Yes there's a bit of wishful thinking in that guess. Fingers crossed.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Dimitri.k:
So you aren't a Rogers customer? So u pre ordered it as a new customer I am guess from what i have read on ur posts. As i am #5 for the same device and color and GB and reserved it under my account the first day the reservations opened.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mrnovanova:
That's right. I'm switching to Rogers. I'm pretty sure I ordered the first day as well.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Dimitri.k:
Welcome the Rogers then! Lol. Yeah i saw your number and was like what the heck how? Haha. Then read ur posts and understood it lol. I am running the Rogers S6 and S6 edge reservation thread on the Rogers community forums if u guys want to check it out. Other users posting on there and I am helping them out.

Also from what i remember last year, my S5 went into progress on April 9th and was delivered to the store April 11th on release day.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mrnovanova:
If I get to the store and want to switch up to a 128gb do you think it'll be possible?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Dimitri.k:
It is possible as long as the store has it in stock. The store shouldn't have a problem just changing it as i have done it for and many others as well with other devices. Did this with my iPhone 6 Plus last year twice.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] adsam3927:
Not sure why I'll be getting my Telus 64Gb Edge on Tues well before any Rogers customers ??
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Dimitri.k:
Reason being is that Rogers customer reserved it to go to the store as this was the only option. The stores won't release them until Friday unless somehow Rogers systems change it. Telus customers are having their devices sent to their home. So it's very different. So if my Rogers S6 Edge goes to the store Wednesday or Thursday let's say, the system at the store won't let it go as a upgrade or outright price or new activations as it won't be able to put the S/N and IMEI it the system until launch date which is Friday. The only way that can Change is if head office changes the launch date. Also the price for the device will be set as $9,999,99 on the screen until the official launch. Then the actual price will come in
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] EnIXmA:
What about Bell? I ordered online the very first day when they started taking pre orders.. My order status still shows processing.. :(
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Dimitri.k:
It all depends. I think Bell is doing the same as Rogers.. Maybe Samsung has told some carriers to release the device early? Makes no sense to me.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Dimitri.k:
So Telus sent me this after I questioned them about customers receiving emails. Makes no sense lol. I showed him SS of the SS the other user sent us here. Hopefully they respond again and we will see. I take what they say sometimes with a grain of salt seeing as they are just reps.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] Hendrycks:
I talked to customer support as well as their Corporate support number directly and just like someone above said, if you order anything online they have the right to ship things to make sure the customer gets the product by release. If Telus thinks they need to ship out the phone today to have it get to them by the 10th then they will. If that happens to make you get the phone early then awesome.

I've seen this happening pre-ordering anything online. I constantly get video games early ordering on Amazon as they promise to deliver it on release and to do so they need to ship it early.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] polish_pat:
Besides better management i saw a boost in battery life. I'm at 76% and have 1h49 SOT. Also the phone stays cooler than before. I torrented an episode of suits on my phone while i was playing poker and the phone got barely warmer than my hands, before it would get quite hot. Honestly i find this update solved a lot of the issues I had... I'm glad i didnt have to wait to 5.1.1 to get a lagfree phone.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] elena11:
Much smoother after this update
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jproy12:
For the ones that did the latest update, how has it been now? For the last day or two?

How's memory management? Better than before? I'm debating unrooting to do the update and loose root completely :/
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] JiraffeLeung:
I highly recommend it. The phone is so smooth. Battery life and memory management is much better. I think im squeezing out around 1-2 hours more on a normal day. Nothing really lags the phone for me right now, unless I'm downloading and updating apps in the background. Whereas on the previous stock rom it was laggy quite often. Phone is cooler to the touch as well I've noticed. I'm using the Google Keyboard, the stock launcher and it seems to be doing alright. Not much stutter.

I still have Greenify on my phone but it's running without root, so I just need to press a widget button to close background apps (Instagram, Facebook & Messenger is amazingly persistent at getting itself started again).

Highly would recommend updating and waiting until 5.1.1 comes out next month, and then rooting thereafter.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jproy12:
^^ Thanks for the feedback! I may end up doing the update in that case, wondering if the update also takes care of the stagefright problem
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] elena11:
Now my AnTuTu is 61900
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jproy12:
What was it before the update?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] elena11:
46200
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jproy12:
I just tested on mine, and got 69035 and this is without the update...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] elena11:
I guess I have apps that are slowing the phone down.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jproy12:
Weird, it's very tempting to upgrade, I tested again and came around 62###

It's just that I loose root and I'm not sure if it takes care of the stagefright problem... Can anyone confirm if the update takes care of it?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] kojobaafi:
Yes it does, the update was specially for the stagefright issue. I was also able to root again right after. Not sure what root method you used but I had already tripped Knox so I didn't care.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jproy12:
Yea, haven't tripped Knox yet, what root method did you use if you don't mind asking?

I'm not even sure if Knox/Samsung Pay will ever get to us Canadian owners.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] kojobaafi:
I used CF-Auto root which definitely trips Knox. I wondered the same thing about Samsung pay which prevented me from rooting when I first got it but I honestly don't have high hopes of it coming to Canada anytime soon. I'll prob be on to a different phone by then even if it does.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jproy12:
Thanks, used CF-Auto root for my S4 and was nice and easy, I'll look into it for the S6, is there a variant for the Canadian S6 edge? Haven't looked into yet.

I'm of the same opinion, doubt Samsung Pay will get to Canada anytime soon, plus I'm not even sure I'd use the feature...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] kojobaafi:
Exactly, the benefits of rooting far outweighed the slim possibility of Samsung pay or Knox for me. I used the international version of CF, I think the model number is SM-G925F. The other version didn't work for me.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jproy12:
Thanks, and did you install TWRP on your device as well?

I'm very tempted now to trip KNOX and go ahead and root and download a custom recovery as well!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] kojobaafi:
I didn't install a custom recovery because in this instance I don't need one. I've backed up everything on the phone and in Samsung smart switch. Have another backup on my laptop as well. I haven't found any Roms that I'm really interested in trying so a custom recovery is not necessary for me right now.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bravocbf:
Hello guys do you know how to add the multi language option to have more than five options in our 925W8 I tried rooting and downloading all the third part apps and any work for me I flash to xstretolite but didn't work the fingerprint sensor any suggestions to have the multi language option enable thank you
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jproy12:
Alright, I think I'm tempted to try a different ROM then the stock one. I have a couple questions I'd like to get answered before doing the switch. I’m coming from the S4, where it was very easy to root/install recovery and flash a ROM.

-Seems like I can use the CF-Auto Root for the G925F on the G925W8, as per kojobaafi’s posts above

-Which recovery is everyone using on their G925W8, I assume TWRP, but for which device since they don't make a specific one for the G925W8?

-Which ROM is compatible with the G925W8, I see that the T-Mobile may be compatible, just want some confirmation?

-May have more questions soon...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] brar.arsh:
-Yes

- https://twrp.me/devices/samsunggalaxys6edgetmobile.html zeroltetmo

- http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6/sams...xtrestolite-deodexed-mod-edition-1-3-t3119968 with Kernel http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6/sams...e-unified-development/tw-simplkernel-t3149460

P.S. You will loose your FP scanner if you install 5.1.1 rom
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jproy12:
Sweet thanks! Was mostly for root and TWRP that I was wondering, didn't find much information about our device.

May try that ROM, I know I'll loose FP :(
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] brar.arsh:
Np mate.. And I always feel much better when someone presses the thanks button under my post.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bravocbf:
HI, I was wondering how is working in your W8? do you have the fingerprint sensor working? Im looking to the same thru TWRP. I wish to have more languages options but seems that our Rogers Rom is limited to five. I flashed already the xstrelite ROM and HDcarROM but the bootloader is 5.1 so my fingerprints is not working in my bootloader 5.0.2 I was thinking that maybe if I have the T mobile in my w8 5.0.2 should be work, what do you think?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] LNJ:
No workaround until we get a W8 5.1.1 bootloader.

Sent from my SM-G920W8
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bravocbf:
Thank you for your answer, my question is if the tmobile image 5.0.2 is the same that my rom and bootloader 5.0.2 why is not working the Fingerprint sensor, why I have to wait until 5.1? is possible to have more than five language options with other rom 5.0.2? and having the Fingerprint sensor working.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] LNJ:
It's not the same as the T. Their radio and bootloader won't work on the W8.

Sent from my SM-G920W8
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bravocbf:
Thank you, so is any way possible to get the multilanguage option in my W8? I would like to have the Spanish and the Fingerprint sensor working.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] evonc:
Best bet would be to flash only the system partition of a G925F 5.0.2 image and then flash the audio patch on top along with a compatible 5.0.2 kernel. That's probably the only way to have everything you want and keep the fp reader working.

If you can live without the fp reader, you can flash one of the 5.1.1 custom roms and then flash a compatible 5.1.1 kernel. Do not enable fingerprint support if there is an option provided in the aroma installer as you will have issues.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bravocbf:
Perfect, when Im trying to install just the system T thru TWRP I have a fail message, the system image is 5.0.2 Im using the kernel kootz. I dont know if I have to install first the kernel and then the system. What do you think?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] polish_pat:
the S6 and edge are horrible for rom-o-holics. Because of the closed source nature of the Samsung hardware, I have to say every single of my attempt to flash another roms either miserably failed or was too much compromise and not enough reward. There is no xposed, pratically no more than 2 or 3 roms we can flash but then again we have to give up things like the fingerprint sensor, or stable call connection. I simply gave up and am staying stock, rooted with slight optimizations.

I have the say the OG2 update pushed last week has had a much bigger positive impact on the phone and I thought. I was in the understanding that it would be a Stagefright fix only but it was a lot more than that. Anyways, that will hold me until the Note 5 next week which I hope comes eventually with the snapdragon 820 instead of the exynos 7420.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jproy12:
Do you mind letting us know what method of root you used? If it's CF-Auto Root and if so, if it's the root for G925F?

I'll probably upgrade to the latest firmware as I'm still on the old update and reroot. Do you also mind letting us know what tweaks you did to the "Stock" ROM to have an even better ROM?
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mrnovanova:
Horrible? At least we have roms. Do you know how many roms are available for the LG G4 canadian variant? Zero, niet, nada. Boy I can't wait for the new nexus 5 to come out. I need a fix bad...
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] polish_pat:
CF-Autoroot bricked my phone. The only method that worked was flashing TWRP in odin and installing superSU in TWRP. My variant is W8.

As for the tweaks, it consists of greenify, freezing some stuff in tibu, using clean master to optimize the phone and clean residual files. Besides that, I dont turn off any phone function such as location or other stuff that drains the battery faster and since last Stagefright OTA that also included some performance improvements and tweaks, i'm able to get about 4-5 hours SOT a day with auto brightness

Ya well LG is LG for a reason. Its not my concern that there are no devs motivated enough to code for them, its not like they have our problem where a vital parts of the phone is closed source. But what concerns me is the fact that we used to have dozens of roms and mods in previous iterations and now samsung opted for an inhouse CPU and most mods and roms are not compatible. It's a major change from the image samsung have with their modder community and i'm not sure a many will like it if they keep their codes under lock. Anyways, only time will tell. One think I know for sure is i'm never going with a Nexus device. I already have a Nexus 9 and i've went to hell and back with that tablet. Nexus phones always have been poor in hardware, bad camera, terrible battery, sub par screens, just to name a few. In my perspective, the fact that you get OS upgrades much faster is outweighed by the fact that you have a midrange device at best.

The trend I'm starting to like is lesser popular manufacturers that are starting to make their own place, OnePlus, Asus Zenfone 2, Xiomi, those guys give you a phone that a fraction of the price of an OEM, still cheaper than a flagship nexus, but so much bang for your buck. Bought my mom a Zenfone 2 64GB for under 350$ after her Note 4 clone died, and man am I impressed. Its a very good phone for the price, has expandable storage, dual sims, 4GB RAM, and its silky smooth, responsive, powerful, battery life is very good. If those companies keep throwing things like that at us, at such a low price, major OEMs will have to act or else their market share will be eaten away, and to be honest, Samsung is the only OEM that can afford losing a few %, all others will suffer a lot and eventually even close doors, a bit like HTC is going through now. Having a nice built phone isn't enough now a days, you either have to offer an amazing bang for your buck, or you have to make the cadillac of phones to justify a high price
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] mrnovanova:
You are absolutely right. Those Chinese up and comers do make great phones with amazing value but what about sustainability. There are about 1600 Android phone makers. About 2 or three making any kind of profit. At this point we might as well start calling those phones disposable. Customer support and accessibility has to count for something. Does it matter how great that 250$ is if it cost you the same amount to get it fixed? That's if you can get it fixed. Like I said I agree with everything you said but I'd rather stick with household names until I see a Huawei or a Xiaomi store near me.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jproy12:
Thanks! I'm currently rooted on the 1AOE1 and also using Greenify and Titanium Backup for tweaks, was curious to see what else could be done. How did you get your phone unbricked if you don't mind me asking?

Which version of TWRP did you use for our W8 variant (I also have a W8 device),I assume you have the G925W8 (edge)? Actually, you mind sending me a PM with the steps you used to root+all and the versions of programs you used with links :) for TWRP and SuperSU and other apps? I know my way around with Odin and all, I've rooted/loaded different Roms on my S3 and S4, just want to make sure I don't brick the device.

Thanks a bunch!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] polish_pat:
Bricked my device when trying CF-Auto root. Unbricked with Odin. Ended up finding this set of instructions that worked and have been using them since to root and install TWRP. Don't remember what thread this was in but i kept a copy of it on a word file.

Yes i have W8 edge on Rogers

Here you go:

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Well, Huawei, Xiaomi and OnePlus are not very well incorporated in north america (because the american government thinks Huawei and Xiaomi put spying equipment in their phones that would allow them to evesdrop on american military communications) but Asus is a very well known brand, they have many repair centers all over US and Canada, they are a reputed brand for making a good portion of computer components, they have great customer service in general, their RMA system is quite fluid as they even offer an advanced RMA where in exchange of a credit card number, they will ship your replacement to you first and then you ship the defective device after...they are trustworthy, and they also offer a full year warranty just like any other, I think its safe to say this high end budget phone market has only one place to go and that's up.

As for the three others, I know somebody that got a OnePlusOne with a defective display, where the display would be yellowish, and they also offered a good RMA process, he was sent a pre-paid box where he put the phone in, he had to ship it to China, and its a good thing the return shipment was pre-paid because they might ship us stuff for peanuts, but when we ship them stuff, you almost have to sell an organ. This time around, the 2nd gen is shipped through amazon so it makes the return process that much easier. Like I said, this type of phone has just emerged within the past 12 months. Having high end devices for a fraction of OEM cost will eventually start impacting big OEMs. I work in an electronic shop in Canada and we are an authorized zenfone reseller and man, those things fly off the shelves. We receive maybe 30 of them per week, and we have about 30 stores across canada, and they sell out so fast I cannot wait for Asus to unveil their sales numbers.

This is such a new device category that there might be a little doubt in our heads right now, but wait another 6-12 months and you'll see the temptation build. I am getting the Note 5 within the next few weeks, and I think I might sell my edge shortly and buy a zenfone just to play around with it. I bough my mom one and I got to use it for about 2 days while I was settings everything up and testing out the phone and I was very surprised with the device. For 300$ for 64GB, 4GB RAM, Intel Atom 4 core (some laptops used to run on that) full HD display, 13MP back and 5MP front, microSD and most other features we have on our S6, you absolutely cannot go wrong with that.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jproy12:
Thanks! Found the thread/post with those instruction (i put it in the quote above), the ones you had posted, all links didnt work. Do you know which version of TWRP that is loaded when using that link for TWRP? Can you let me/us know? Is is the latest version, TWRP V2.8.7.0? You used this exact method and links with the latest update we got a week or 2 ago?

Thanks again for your time and help, much appreciated :)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] polish_pat:
Yes latest
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jproy12:
Sweet! Will be attempting it tonight or tomorrow evening!
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] polish_pat:
Good luck! And make sure to make a copy of all your files on your computer because Nandroid backup was useless for me, it just bricked my phone
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] jproy12:
Thanks for the heads up! I usually copy all files to my PC before I flash anything, just in case :)
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] SaHiLzZ:
G925F cfroot worked for me in rooting the latest update on G925w8.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bravocbf:
Hi guys I did an update in my 925W8 to CarHDRom and works very good. The only problem is I lost the original imei number I have a new one, I would like to come back to my original imei number, anyone knows how to do it? Thank you
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] evonc:
Did you make a backup of your EFS partition? Because if you didn't you'll have to send it back to a service center for them to repair the IMEI number. There is no other way to recovery it without having a backup of the EFS.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] bravocbf:
I did a complete nandroid backup using the twrp and I'm able to get back to my rom stock using the restore option.
[Galaxy S6 Edge General] evonc:
Yes, but did you select EFS while making the backup? That is the partition that contains IMEI data and if you did not backup that partition, it is not possible to recover your IMEI.

If you go into recovery, select restore and then select a backup, it should show what partitions you would like to restore. If EFS is not one of the options you get to restore, the backup did not backup that partition.

You can attempt to do a factory restore using ODIN/SmartSwitch and see if that resolves the problem but more than likely, you will have to send your phone in to Samsung for repairs as there is no way to rebuild/repair that partition.