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[Galaxy S6 General] samver8:
OTA downloading now on S6 purchased from Samsung Sydney store! Been waiting months for this day
[Galaxy S6 General] kevlarman:
Yay!
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
Still nothing listed on sammobile.com for XSA, TEL, OPS or VAU, but if you want to grab the Odin-flashable ROM, use the latest SamFirm Tool and it will find either the XSA (unbranded) or OPS (Optus branded) ROMs if you put those country sales codes in. If you need any help, check out my Helper Post for an easy-to-follow guide...
[Galaxy S6 General] harlz:
XSA update is here for S6
[Galaxy S6 General] JohnnyGT:
darn ... beaten by them Aussies again !!! :p
[Galaxy S6 General] tangcla:
Thanks [MENTION=1263460]djshotty[/MENTION] - downloading on SamFirm now.

So much faster than SamMobile too - downloading at 1800kb/sec :)

SamFirm v0.3.5.0

Checking firmware for SM-G920I/XSA/G920IDVU3EPD3/G920IXSA3EPD3/G920IDVU3EPD3

Model: SM-G920I

Version: G920IDVU3EPD3/G920IXSA3EPD3/G920IDVU3EPD3/G920IDVU3EPD3

OS: Marshmallow(Android 6.0.1)

Filename: SM-G920I_1_20160411142527_3g9xl0l2mu.zip.enc4

Size: 1753100192 bytes

LogicValue: yy2pi4wnkt7349dl
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
Just run the XSA brah...
[Galaxy S6 General] allanrive12:
Thanks djshotty, just did it. Working great!
[Galaxy S6 General] tangcla:
So, just flashed XSA MM, then flashed TWRP - but rebooting into recovery tells me Recovery is not SEAndroid enforcing, and it gets stuck there.
[Galaxy S6 General] silashack:
Which version of TWRP?

I had the same issue with the OPS version, then remembered that I needed to use this version

arter97-recovery-g920fi-13.0-twrp_3.0.0-0.tar.md5

Used that and it all went well, now doing my tidy up but need to 'fix' a few things that don't look right.
[Galaxy S6 General] tangcla:
3.0.2.0 from the TWRP website. It worked fine on Lollipop though.
[Galaxy S6 General] dwarfer66:
Also go here:

http://arter97.com/browse/S6/kernel/13.1/g925fi/
[Galaxy S6 General] dfaovred:
About time :P

Just flashed XSA to get rid of the Optus crap. The CSC still shows as OPS, does that matter or does it only affect OTA or nothing at all?
[Galaxy S6 General] numloxx1978:
So I flashed MM INU a few weeks ago, do I still need to factory reset if I flash MM XSA or VAU because it's already MM?
[Galaxy S6 General] harlz:
If you factory reset and wipe cache in recovery it will wipe the OPS csc and only use XSA
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
Follow my Helper Post, and all will be well.
[Galaxy S6 General] zakarados:
Damn it, after the latest INU OTA update (the 30MB one) my battery has been getting smashed by Google Services and Android OS (10% an hour idling with screen off). I will be installing the XSA firmware tonight, hopefully its not a hardware issue.

Would you guys suggest a factory reset if going from INU 6.0.1 to XSA 6.0.1?
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
I've made a couple of edits to my Helper Post now that the unbranded Australian MM 6.0.1 is out. Maybe you'd consider trying out a few of the tips and tricks there?
[Galaxy S6 General] theclaytons:
Turn off location high accuracy to resolve battery drain. Is bug in firmware.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
Man, there's a HEAP of stuff you can switch off in it to save battery. Take a good look at yourself first though, because its all got to do with how you personally use your phone what background services you switch off...
[Galaxy S6 General] dfaovred:
Yeah I reset and wiped cache before and after flashing, I must be misunderstanding the "phone info" app.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S6 General] theclaytons:
True, you can turn the phone off and save a lot of battery. The latest versions of the S6 and S7 rom have a battery drain bug that keeps Android OS awake for many users. The fix for now is to turn location to Battery saver until this is resolved....
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
You don't need to turn the whole phone off, but switching certain services and apps to manual (like in Windows) helps heaps. All I'm saying is what's obvious - the phone will chew battery while things you aren't actually using stay active in background...
[Galaxy S6 General] theclaytons:
What you say is true, but there is also a bug in the firmware affecting some users where Android OS uses 100% of battery. A temporary fix is to reduce location accuracy until a permanent fix comes.
[Galaxy S6 General] tangcla:
What phone/OS does this bug occur with?
[Galaxy S6 General] silashack:
OK OK

How do I WIPE the phone?

I wanted to work with the latest OS, so I have waited till XSA/OPS was available, did the documented install and I have a few small issues that bug me.

I did a factory/wipe then used odin to install the OPS MM from samfiles, but MY data still remained !! files and folders were still there after the install.

I then installed the xtrasolite 3.3 as I like the builds, again followed the instructions to a T and still had my data on the phone.

So I just wiped the lot again and installed the XSA, and guess what? yup my data is still there !!

am I just being a **** here, or am I genuinely missing something?

Does an factory reset/wipe NOT clear out user data?

puzzled and pissed off at the moment.

OH and the XSA install goes mad with google play services stops when installed !!!
[Galaxy S6 General] articuno1_au:
Turn off your device.

Hold down Power, Home and Volume Up until your phone shows the Android robot.

When the menu appears, use Volume Up and Down to navigate. Select wipe device by hitting the power button when highlighted.

Let it run.

Select restart.

There's no way your data is persisting through resets unless it's being pulled from somewhere after the reset. There are ways to format your phone through ADB, but I wouldn't touch them until you rule out everything else.

Good luck :)
[Galaxy S6 General] theclaytons:
Actually, if you flash a new stock ROM via Odin the user data is untouched. You just get a new ROM installed. Try it.
[Galaxy S6 General] articuno1_au:
Thanks for that buddy. Good to see your input is as useful as ever.

Kindly actually read his post wherein he stated that he had already done multiple factory resets.

I never said Odin would wipe his data.

Please don't let the facts get in the way of your further pontification.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
To get into Recovery you need a combo of Volume UP + Home + Power. If you use the Volume Down button with Home and Power, you'll go into Download Mode (used to flash with Odin).

Which is why I suggest in my Helper Post that, if you're going to flash a new stock ROM, it's best to

(i) backup and delete everything except the Android folder from the internal storage using Windows Explorer,

(ii) do a factory reset from the phone's Settings menu,

(iii) when your phone auto-reboots into Recovery, do a cache wipe first then Factory reset,

(iv) shut down the phone completely from Recovery,

(v) restart directly into Download Mode with Vol.Down + Home + Power, then

(vi) flash in the stock ROM.
[Galaxy S6 General] articuno1_au:
Damn. Cheers for the correction. I'll update my post.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
All good. If you're on Marshmallow and do a Factory reset from the phone's Settings menu, it should automatically reboot into Recovery anyway. All I'm trying to say is that the only way you'll remove user data such as photos and music is to physically delete it yourself with a file explorer app. on the phone, or Windows Explorer. The Factory reset you do from the Settings menu clears out user app. data and returns the device to what it was like the moment it rebooted post-flash, meaning it should also wipe user accounts and files...
[Galaxy S6 General] silashack:
I hear what you are saying, but 'for me' this is not the case, what I am talking about are files I changed in the system/media/audio folder, and it appears 'for me' that THESE do NOT get wiped, I am NOT talking about the usual pics music and downloads in what you could refer to as the 'user' space, these are system files (as such) and they survived the install of both XSA and OPS done with ODIN.

So my question is still about how to fully wipe the phone, and as such I am just about to do two options suggested..

1. Wipe system data cache and then sideload the xtrasolite files

2. Used a decrypted binary nature file that contains the four individual files for use in odin.

This is not a contradiction or argument with anyone, just what is happening to me when I rebuild.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
If you want your own ringtones, alarms and notfications - just like I always do - then you can hack the Xtrestolite ROM ZIP before you copy it to your phone pre-flash. I'm pretty sure you're rooted - same as me - so it's a simple case of using a root explorer app. post-flash to change those files to what you want to eventually set as your alarm tone, notification tone and ringtone.
[Galaxy S6 General] silashack:
Yup, that's what I do, but the process for a fresh install for me was flawed, and I have had to follow the process of FULLY wiping the following

SYSTEM

CACHE

DATA

I then used an external USB/SD with the files on and flashed from there, so far looking good.

As usual could not get the adb to work, do not know if it is the W764 but getting it to see ALL the drivers at the right time is a PITA for me, so I resorted to my external SD for the files.
[Galaxy S6 General] theclaytons:
Really? You know so little about Android you believe someone can factory reset a device and the data magically comes back? This might come as a shock, but not all things on the internet are true.
[Galaxy S6 General] articuno1_au:
At what point does your wilful stupidity become bannable trolling? You can clearly see here where I said it doesn't work like that.

More to the point, are you not aware that the point of this forum is to work with others to help make all of our phones better?

You have added nothing useful to the conversation. You simply sit back and make snide and petty remakes that regularly expose you haven't bothered to read what's previously been posted.

Either way, I'm not here to gunk this thread with stupid. I'll leave you to it.
[Galaxy S6 General] tangcla:
Is it just me... or have they taken away the screen rotation quick setting tile in MM?
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
On a stock ROM, when you slide down the Notification bar at the top of screen, you should have (from left to right)

Wi-Fi - Location - Sound - Auto rotate - Bluetooth​

and if you slide those five icons to the left, you'll end up with

Mobile data - Power saving - Flight mode - Do not disturb - Torch​

If you tap the little down-arrow in the top right corner, you can slide the icons you want as your First Five into those positions, and also switch any feature ON or OFF.

Hope that gets you sorted...
[Galaxy S6 General] tangcla:
Yes, I know the default ones - but since upgrading to XSA MM it seems the rotation one has disappeared.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
I myself am on the very same ROM, and it's there for me. Slide open your notification bar, then tap on the down-arrow next to the cog up the top right. It should be there in that group. If not, then I'm not sure what will help other than a re-flash...
[Galaxy S6 General] tangcla:
I did a wipe to reset the phone and it's there - but, the other problem is that doing a wipe data/factory reset in the stock recovery has now wiped my /sdcard/ internal storage as well... F##K.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
Which is why the OS warns you on that Factory reset screen...

All data will be erased from your device storage, including your:

Google account

System and app data

Device settings

Downloaded apps

Music

Pictures

All other user data

Sorry that you've lost your files, but that's why I talk about backing up those files in my Helper Post BEFORE doing a Factory Reset...
[Galaxy S6 General] tangcla:
Thanks, but before you treat me like an idiot, I've owned numerous Samsung and non-Samsung phones and never when doing a factory reset has it deleted my files. Apologies if that's not your intention but I feel your tone comes across as being patronising. To be fair you have provided helpful responses.

I went through recovery to do the wipe, and I did it in the stock recovery rather than TWRP (see above posts showing difficulty in getting TWRP installed on MM) as every other time I"ve done a wipe in recovery it only deletes /data but keeps /sdcard intact.

Another reason for me not to get a phone with just internal storage. At least on phones with external storage, I always had my Titanium Backup on /extsdcard and that wouldn't get touched with whatever resets occur.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
I'm not treating you like an idiot, nor am I the one who didn't read the warning presented by the new operating system you've installed that clearly states that a Factory reset will wipe your personal files.

But you fail to mention your reasons for believing why the same would occur this time around.

I've already explained why I write my posts the way I do, and if you look through the last few pages of posts from people asking for help after not following procedures which have worked time and again since the days of Gingerbread 2.3.6 on the Galaxy i9000, you'll understand why I feel as though 'dumbing-down' things is the way to go. I'm not saying you're like this, tangcla, but when someone wants to go off half-cocked with next to no idea what they're doing, then they come back here crying for help after not following instructions of developers and the ROM chefs, how dare they abuse us when we challenge their intellect?

Then your culprit is TWRP. As far as I'm concerned, with the way Chainfire's CF-Auto-Root works there's no need to install a custom Recovery unless you want to run a custom ROM. Thing is, the Top Five custom ROMs here on XDA - that's NanoROM 5.1 20160508, XtreStoLite 3.3 FINAL Marshmallow Android 6.0.1, ALEXIS ROM 4.1, NobleROM 3.2 and TYRANNUS ROM v27.0 - have all been cooked using a 'F' variant stock ROM as their base ingredient. This is also the case with many of the most popular custom kernels, where the stock 'F' variant kernel is the source, so why you'd want to run a ROM and/or kernel that's not cooked from the I variant source is beyond me.

You know there's no external SD card in the S6 and S6 Edge, yet I don't understand why you, as experienced as you say you are, didn't copy your personal files to an external location before taking the risk that a Factory reset might just wipe your phone's internal memory. No need to jump up and down at me for your failure to back your files up!
[Galaxy S6 General] tangcla:
No, I think the culprit (apart from me, duh) is the stock recovery. In TWRP when I wipe, I can wipe any combination (or none) of /system, /data, internal storage, cache, dalvik - whereas stock recovery only says "wipe data / factory reset".
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
I was under the impression you had TWRP in, sorry. You're spot on about the stock Recovery having limited options, but in the Backup and reset feature you access through the phone's GUI Settings menu, it explains just what a Factory reset will wipe. I myself use Titanium Pro to backup my messages and call log, plus the caches and data of my games and favourite apps that I have hacked with Lucky Patcher and Game Guardian. I skip over the stuff I can restore from Play Store, then copy my music, DCIM folder and the folder Titanium's copied everything into, across to my laptop.

While my phone's hooked up, I then delete every folder - except the Android folder - then do a Factory reset from the Settings menu. When the phone boots into the stock Recovery, I do TWO cache wipes then TWO factory resets, then Power off. I'll reboot into Download, and flash the stock. The very moment my phone hits the Welcome screen, I power-off again, then go to Download mode again, and flash in CF-Auto-Root. That way, I'm doing the post-boot setup on a rooted phone. I go through the steps, choose the Play Store apps I want to restore and get that going. Next, into Settings, crank up Developer options, set the USB debugging ON, change the three animation scale settings to 0.5, change the Unknown sources setting to 'Allow', copy back my data from the lappy and wait for Play Store to restore my apps. Lastly, Titanium Pro to restore everything else, and I'm away looking damn close to how I was before, except the OS version has changed. Last moves are, I use Root Explorer to replace the stock ringtones with my own set of files, reboot, set my ringtones how I had them and Barb's your aunty...
[Galaxy S6 General] tangcla:
I'm going to try Samsung's backup and restore of text messages going forward. :)
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
I personally have never used that method, but then again I've never had a problem restoring stuff with Titanium Pro since paying for it when I bought my S2.
[Galaxy S6 General] tangcla:
Same here. Titanium Backup has been great for me... Except of course when my backup files go disappearing!!
[Galaxy S6 General] theronlas:
It works fine, but I can never get the auto backup to actually back anything up, so have to trigger it manually. (same on all roms, right back to stock 5.1 when phone was released).

SMS backup/restore works very well for both call log and SMS, and can export data to google drive/dropbox etc.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
I simply create a folder in the mnt/sdcard directory, then back up the big downloads such as Real Racing 3 (over 2½ gig) and Pinball Arcade (over 1½ gig). I throw into that backup those games that don't save to the cloud, SMS messages and entries in my call log I need to keep, and use the latest update of Titanium Pro to do it.

When I get back up and running I use the latest Titanium Pro from Play Store to bring everything back. As I said earlier, I've been using that method ever since Titanium first came out. Sometimes I'll do a Nandroid - I actually have my very last Lollipop install and first Marshmallow on this device stored on an external hard drive - but I promise you I never do any firmware update or maintenance on my S6 without ensuring my most important files are safely stored where they can't be lost forever, either 'accidentally' or otherwise...
[Galaxy S6 General] Vairn:
I have used this for years, back on my Galaxy S2, works awesome. and doesn't need root.
[Galaxy S6 General] tangcla:
Oh well. Good opportunity for me to keep my SMS database at zero. :D
[Galaxy S6 General] tangcla:
Does the new Google Play Services 9.0.83 cause your phone to force close repetitively? It does on mine.

edit: Figured out the problem. Amplify and the Icing wakelock caused it.
[Galaxy S6 General] dwarfer66:
My Google Play Services is at 8.7.03, but I am running CarHDRom v22.
[Galaxy S6 General] JohnnyGT:
woop woop .... us Kiwis made it to 6.0.1 ... eventually
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
Now you're talking! Still no Telstra branded 6.0.1, just proves their technology staff aren't anywhere near as good as their network coverage.
[Galaxy S6 General] theronlas:
Telstra's coverage is still better than any other carrier...
[Galaxy S6 General] dwarfer66:
Have to say Telstra coverage is better. I was living in an outer suburb here in perth, and my housemate who had a vodafone iphone had to walk around the house or sometime even in the street to get a signal (funny as f##k to watch) as I was with telstra she even sometimes had to use my phone. The phone tower was about 3km away from our house.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
What I said was...

meaning that Telstra's firmware technicians have been far too complacent in getting their version of Marshmallow out to 920's and 925's. The only reason I'm with them is because their coverage is superior to both Vodafone and Optus. Thing is, every telco in the world that sold the 'I' variant of both the 920 and 925 got the vanilla MM 6.0.1's from Samsung within days of each other, but when the XSA ROM contains information that each country's telco is obliged to provide Samsung's regional tech. centre for inclusion in the 'unbranded' firmware, Telstra should hang their heads in shame over the more-than-significant delays to release of both the XSA and TEL 6.0.1 ROMs.
[Galaxy S6 General] tangcla:
What I mean was, it's all relative to where you live. Blackspots will still be blackspots, and the opposite will hold true for other locations (or homes) where Telstra is the dud telco and *shock horror* Vodafone has the superior coverage. :)

The 4G speeds from Telstra are impressive though.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
Nah mate, I'm very serious. Telstra's technicians are hopeless, and led by a complete lunatic that wouldn't know the first thing about mobile device firmwares. They expect every single aspect of the vanilla they get to run the way they exclusively want it, and the fact they've actually had that vanilla since the beginning of March should say a lot about both how little they care and how hopeless they are.

I agree with you all. Yes, I do get the occasional 'mudstation' in some valley areas, but whenever I'm PMSL at my S6 screaming away on a 100 megabits per second downstream Speedtest with Telstra 4G-X, my Craptus and Vodafail mates are whingeing like schoolgirls at under 100 meg...
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
Big problems with the latest Security Update released by Samsung!!! For more detail on exactly what happened, visit Chainfire's blog and read all about it for yourself...

https://plus.google.com/+Chainfire/posts/XMFgencRR11

Now if, like me, you lost root access, there IS a way to sort it out without losing all your installed apps and user files. This is EXACTLY what I did.

I grabbed the stock XSA 6.0.1 ROM, then re-flashed it with Odin straight over the top of what I had; that means rebooting into Download mode, then loading up the md5 file to replace the updated boot.img with the original unchanged files. Then, I grabbed the very latest CF-Auto-Root, which Chainfire has made changes to (at least, according to his blog (above).

For the SM-G920I, grab the newest CF-Auto-Root from:

https://download.chainfire.eu/736/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-zeroflte-zerofltedv-smg920i.zip

For the SM-G925I,

https://download.chainfire.eu/791/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-zerolte-zeroltedv-smg925i.zip

Once your device restarts following the re-flash, reboot into Download mode again, flash in the newest CF-Auto-Root for your particular phone, and root will be restored. Then, using your root file explorer, go into the root/data/security folder, and DELETE the folder called 'spota'. That's where the (Security Policy Over The Air) files went to, and with the changes Chainfire made to SuperSU it will block any further policy updates completely, keeping your device on the same SELinux policy version embedded in the stock ROM's boot image, which means you should stay 'rooted'. Just remember though, that re-flash will wipe out any custom ringtones you had, and install any bloatware you may have removed first time around...
[Galaxy S6 General] 11marcusm:
Thanks Shotty.
[Galaxy S6 General] numloxx1978:
When you say flash the entire XSA onto your phone, does this matter if you have the INU installed? Or do you mean flashing only the boot.img part? Does this mean you need to extract the boot.img from the md5 file and flash it in Odin using the AP button?

Forgive me if it's a silly question, am currently recovering from dental surgery so not my 100% like I normally am. Am really hoping to not wipe my phone again.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
Couldn't tell you what may happen jumping CSC's, or even whether boot.img files in the XSA and INU ROMs are the same. However, I'd be surprised if there were differences, seeming though it's the system.img that's the biggest single file you'll extract frOm the tarball. I was on XSA when I lost root, and it was like 1am in the morning when I realised it was gone, so I pretty much quickly researched what the issue was, found out from the CF-Auto-Root thread here at XDA-Developers what caused it and how to fix it, then just smashed the same stock ROM over the top. I then grabbed the new autoroot zip, flashed it with Odin, and I was away again...