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[Galaxy S6 General] Zico 10:
Sorry, not sure I understand the negative reaction to the linked article?

The article is about Telus, a Canadian carrier, delaying their own release of Marshmallow (and ironically, not for the S6 which remains to their schedule). Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I don't see the correlation between Telus who support the SM-G920W8, not the SM-G920I, and the release of Marshmallow to the SM-G920I/SM-G925I.
[Galaxy S6 General] dwarfer66:
I meant in general the delay for 920i and 925i.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
My bad! I didn't notice the carrier-branded bit. Still, it paints a pretty bleak picture for 920/925I users when a carrier as big as Telus publicly announce to their customer base that further delays are planned. I've never known a better way to send customers to a competitor OEM and/or network provider!
[Galaxy S6 General] dwarfer66:
I have only has the S4 and now the S6 Edge and I really do like the Samsung phones, but it is crap they take so long to release firmware updates as they do, gets very frustrating.
[Galaxy S6 General] Danzano:
Hence why for a number of us this will be the last Sammy, unless they start doing nexus phones again (have they even tried for nexus the past 4yrs) or Google play editions, drastically change there attitude but they probably won't do any of the above. So for some, like me have decided great phones but not worth sticking with if you like new software or open source, tweaking and modifying etc
[Galaxy S6 General] self_slaughter:
Yeah. Not an issue for the majority of users who avoid updates like the plague lol.

Just the few that like tinkering that care. Hardly going to ruffle Samsung's feathers if you run away. ;)
[Galaxy S6 General] Peanuts.:
MM has taken so long to be released for us that Android N (although developer edition) got released. Wouldn't surprise my if my Nexus 5 gets that update before we get MM. Luckily Samsung still makes the best hardware otherwise a very bleak future indeed.
[Galaxy S6 General] schoolofmonkey:
I always buy my phones outright from JB Hifi, honestly I always goto Samsung due to them having the best hardware for android, only other choice is the same bracket is and iPhone (no no no).

Heck my son is still using my old Galaxy S3, so I'm willing to give them a pass this once for the MM thing.

Though I think it still boils down to that there's a small number of people who can't wait for MM (like us), but the majority of S6 owners don't care when it gets pushed out.
[Galaxy S6 General] amresmael:
Indian 920i get ota update

Hope ither regions get it soon
[Galaxy S6 General] Zico 10:
Would you guys recommend flashing the Indian/INU firmware, or waiting for the Australian/XSA release?

I don't mind wiping and starting from scratch, just concerned of potential (if even minute) regional variances.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
Here's a suggestion, flash the INU 5.1.1 stock, then try a OTA (over-the-air) update. If that doesn't work, flash in INS stock. Both are available through sammobile, because for some reason the SamFirm tool says it can't get information for INS and INU country sales codes. All other CSC's show up as Lollipop 5.1.1 (with varying build dates) being the latest available firmware.

Me myself and I? Well, because I've got heaps of games with high scores, plenty of coins or gold or all features unlocked, I need root access to restore those apps with Titanium Pro. That leaves me in a spot where I'm willing to hold off throwing MM in until there's a proper way to get that root access. Thing is, because the MM ROM for the 920/925I hasn't been available for blokes like Chainfire and Philz to play with, I can't be sure if rooting methods for other MM builds will work on whatever ROM Samsung decide to release for us.

EDIT: I've just found a workaround for grabbing the Lollipop 5.1.1 for India unbranded CSC. Open up your SamFirm tool for Windows on your PC, and fill out the fields exactly as they are in the image below:

[IMG="SamFirm tool"]http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd40/djshotty/india.png[/IMG]

Then click Download, and the ROM will come into the same folder the SamFirm program is located. Next, find the tar.md5 file, run Odin and flash that file into your phone as you would any stock ROM. Wake up the phone, set language to English (United States), skip all user account setups and go through to the first Home screen. Then, go Settings->About device and tap System updates. As for what happens then, it should (and I repeat 'should') tell you an update is available. Right at this moment I'm watching the Australian F1 GP action, but I'm also grabbing the INU stock to try all this for myself...
[Galaxy S6 General] Zico 10:
Shotty,

Potentially silly question, but I haven't really tinkered with my S6 as much as I used to with all prior phones...

If I were to flash an INU/INS version of 5.1.1 straight over the top of what I have now, would I retain my data?

If there's a change to do it without backing up & restoring everything, it might save a bit of time. And if performance is sketchy, I can always go back and do a factory reset after the fact.

Downloading a 5.1.1 from INU now. Or it might be INS, I don't know ...
[Galaxy S6 General] Dancube:
I'm tempted to give this a go too, and haven't done anything to my S6 since day 1. Will flashing the INU/INS versions of the 5.1.1 firmware do anything to my phone to affect warranty or anything like that? What is this Knox counter I hear about? I haven't had a Samsung phone since the S2!
[Galaxy S6 General] zakarados:
Tempted to do this... Maybe when 5.1/5.1.1 comes out and Telstra lags delpoyment, I will do it. Did it trip the KNOX counter?
[Galaxy S6 General] jigna:
If it was 5.1/5.1.1, I probably would have done a factory reset afterwards.

Just checked download mode, doesn't look like knox tripped.
[Galaxy S6 General] boxa72:
As long as it's a stock rom Odin will not trip Knox.
[Galaxy S6 General] dlotters:
The only issue with dirty flashing between variants (eg Voda to xsa) is that you won't get OTA updates until you factory reset :(

Might want to use Smart Switch and back up then factory reset. You only have to do it once and then you'll be offered ota updates going forward.

Would love it if someone worked out how to enable ota updates without having to factory reset!

Sent from my Galaxy S6 Edge
[Galaxy S6 General] jigna:
Oh right... didn't know that. I'll definitely get to backing everything up and doing a factory reset.

Thanks for the tip.
[Galaxy S6 General] dlotters:
Yeah, the device needs to re-register with Samsung.

That is something happens the first time the device checks for updates (so if you haven't factory reset then it's already registered previously and it's registered with the old CSC - hence, no updates). Factory resetting forces the device to register again (this time with your new CSC).

There's probably a way to get the device to re-register without factory resetting (maybe by clearing the data of whatever the app is that checks for updates) but I dunno what that is and a once off factory reset seemed like it wasn't too much trouble. Did forget to backup my whatsapp chats though :/

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Yeah, the device needs to re-register with Samsung.

That is something happens the first time the device checks for updates (so if you haven't factory reset then it's already registered previously and it's registered with the old CSC - hence, no updates). Factory resetting forces the device to register again (this time with your new CSC).

There's probably a way to get the device to re-register without factory resetting (maybe by clearing the data of whatever the app is that checks for updates) but I dunno what that is and a once off factory reset seemed like it wasn't too much trouble. Did forget to backup my whatsapp chats though :/
[Galaxy S6 General] jigna:
Just performed a factory reset and used smart switch PC to restore... it's not perfect, but took most of the pain out of building the phone from scratch.
[Galaxy S6 General] zakarados:
Anyone here use alarms + snooze?

I find it so annoying that after pressing snooze it goes to full brightness notifications screen! Annoys me every morning...
[Galaxy S6 General] Peanuts.:
Use Timely. Much much better
[Galaxy S6 General] boxa72:
Yeah Timely is great! I need to be challenged otherwise I wouldn't wake up lol ?
[Galaxy S6 General] thething869:
Fellas anyone having any issues flashing the stock roms via odin?

I get to download mode etc and load the rom up in odin, but when I hit start it just seems to be stuck on "NAND Write Start"... I left and came back and there was no change for ages (rebooted phone and everything was fine). No progress bar appears on the phone either, and no disk or cpu usage in task manager. Any ideas? Am I missing something?

Flashed millions of roms on my gs3, figured this would be the same...

Cheers
[Galaxy S6 General] Denisuu:
Hi guys I ordered the S6 yesterday :D I went for the 920F instaid of 920I because I'm probably going back to Belgium in a year ant it's the model in Belgium, I wonder with which charger it will come tough. If it's European will it still do fast charging with a travel adaptor?
[Galaxy S6 General] thething869:
Fixed the Odin issue

I think i fixed my problem. Seems to have been an issue with the older versions of odin (3.07 and 3.10). I downloaded the newest version (3.10.6) from sammobile and that worked perfectly.

I've attached it here in case anyone else has the same issue :)
[Galaxy S6 General] silashack:
Got the S6 SG920I last wed, that night, rooted and installed custom rom, [ROM][G920F/I][22APR] XtreStoLite Pure Edition 1.0a [662MB°Super Debloated°] and wow

how nice not to have all the bloat

so far so good, few oddities, but none that seem to stay out all the time.
[Galaxy S6 General] zakarados:
Anyone experience black screen when trying to unlock? It has happened to be intermittently around 5 times over the last month. I would press my thumb to unlock and it just loads to a black screen. Last night I saw that Touchwiz crashed, but it has happened when I was using Nova as well. Maybe the new RAM management is killing the launcher, which is rather hilarious....
[Galaxy S6 General] boxa72:
I found the best Theme today in Samsung's theme store. It's called Space Odyssey and it looks fantastic ?
[Galaxy S6 General] jcodde:
No, I'm using Nova too but not black screen at present (I hope it's not telepathically transmitted.....[emoji6] )
[Galaxy S6 General] jigna:
Might be just me, but has anyone else on the new firmware (E02) experienced bluetooth issues?
[Galaxy S6 General] boxa72:
Yeah I am finding it much harder to connect since getting the update although I just wiped the cache n it seems to be getting better
[Galaxy S6 General] jigna:
Thanks... thought i was going nuts

I'll give that a go and see if it works. Other threads/forums seem to point to it being futile, but meh, no harm in trying.
[Galaxy S6 General] Vairn:
If you know the CSC, PDA, and Phone for them, you can manually set it, and use Samfirm to download them,

So I will copy paste what you wrote a few weeks back.

I guess the Server is updating those firmware's atm, so they're unavailable.

Model: SM-G920I
Region: INU
PDA: G920IDVU3DOL5
CSC: G920IODD3DOL1
Phone: G920IDVU3DOL5

Model: SM-G920I
Region: INS
PDA: G920IDVU3DOL5
CSC: G920IODD3DOL1
Phone: G920IDVU3DOL5

Which it looks like you found out while I was writing this post... LOL.
[Galaxy S6 General] sendhiloo7:
it will retain all data..in lollipop ROM I have installed AUS ROM on top of Indian ROM.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
If you fill out the fields of your SamFirm tool the way I have, you'll get the last unbranded Indian stock Lollipop ROM, for INU sales region. Flashing that wipes all data, of course, but you can do a 'nandroid' backup. Go here to learn more about how to do that...

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/NANDroid

Flashing any stock Samsung released firmware with Odin does not trip the Knox counter, same with any OTA update to the device when you're running a stock non-rooted ROM. The only way to trip Knox is to install a custom Recovery. I'm still going through the process of backing up, clearing my custom ROM and flashing INU 5.1.1 myself, and will keep you all posted as regularly as possible.
[Galaxy S6 General] ganklah:
I've installed the LP inu and am halfway thru the MM update download... I'll be testing for root etc once it's finished. Will post success/fails here
[Galaxy S6 General] dwarfer66:
Yeah keep us upto date as I already have the Indian rom on my PC.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
I'm looking around at the moment to see if there's root, but haven't found anything yet. Actually doing a few other things first, such as grabbing some lunch, Titanium's still doing a full backup of Real Racing 3, Pinball Arcade, Subway Surfers, Alto's Adventure etc., and I'm also watching Practice 1 of the cars at Albert Park. As for getting root, I'm tempted to try the latest CF-Auto-Root first, cos I just don't want to run MM as a 'daily driver' without root access.

Good onya, haha!

NEXT: Now downloading a 1220.11MB update, this should be MM for the India INU country sales code. Thing is, the stock 5.1.1 India ROM I installed - same as what I've shown in the earlier post - is calling the device a S6 Edge. Not sure if that's gonna make a difference, but we'll see...
[Galaxy S6 General] Braedz:
It works fine. That is exactly what I have done, and have updated to MM without any problems.
[Galaxy S6 General] dwarfer66:
Cheers guys will do it myself in a moment or three. Just have to get a working root method.

Edit: Is there are specific TWRP we use to get custom recovery.
[Galaxy S6 General] allanrive12:
Can I go flash G920IDVU3DOL5 coming from G920IDVU3DPA5 or will it brick the device?
[Galaxy S6 General] dwarfer66:
No you wont brick it mate.
[Galaxy S6 General] zakarados:
Did we need to restore factory settings after installing INU to change the CSC and get the OTA? I am currently on TEL stock firmware.
[Galaxy S6 General] dwarfer66:
Have a question guys, can we downgrade from MM to LP safely? (If I have too)
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
Here's step by step what I did just now.

Backup your device, factory reset it, reboot to Download,

flash in INU, don't put all your account stuff in, hook it to your wi-fi,

go to Settings->About device, tap on Updates (right up the top), search for updates,

it should find a 1220.11MB update, download it, your phone will then restart and install the update.

Get up and running, then do a full factory reset, and input all your account stuff.

Kaboom, you're on Marshmallow.

Be aware, the restarts take a fair while, so be patient...

Not sure, but if you've done a Nandroid backup before jumping to MM, you can always try it and report your experiences here...
[Galaxy S6 General] dwarfer66:
Cheers mate will be doing it soon, and yes I do a nandroid backup to try just in case!
[Galaxy S6 General] zakarados:
Thx champ! Will be doing this once I get home. INU downloaded.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
Be very aware of this fact:

As far as my intensive research has found so far, there's no rooting solution for what we're putting in. Before you muppets ask if following what I've been up to today will trip Knox, or whether the counter will get reset,

NO and NO​
[Galaxy S6 General] dwarfer66:
For now root is not that much of an issue and I'm sure that will get sorted out soon, now the "I" version is rolling.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
99% of my apps need root access to work, such as Root Explorer, GPS FasterFix, Titanium Backup Pro, Lucky Patcher and Game Guardian. Not only that, it's much easier to remove bloatware when you have root access...
[Galaxy S6 General] dwarfer66:
Yeah, I have a few apps that need it too, such as Root Browser, SetCPU, Uninstall, and a couple of others. But like I said it should not be too long before a proper root is achieved.
[Galaxy S6 General] ganklah:
Oops heh wrote my last comment to standard MM forum.. Anyway... Testing away shortly... Will report back soon.

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ok root working fine here. MM > ater97 twrp > arter97 v13 kernel > superSU 2.68. All working flawlessly. Dunno if there's another way... but that worked first time :)
[Galaxy S6 General] madnezzz:
Is the MM update available for SM-G925I using the INU and INS software?.

I'm not getting any software update
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
I'm on the east coast of Australia, and right now am running Marshmallow 6.0.1. Here's how I did it.

I did a full backup of what Lollipop I had going.

Next, Odin-flash stock India INU country code Lollipop 5.1.1 ROM called G920IDVU3DOL5, available from sammobile and other places

When it is running, hook it up to a wi-fi network, or get prepared for a big download

Go into Settings->About device

Tap on System updates

Check for new updates

It'll tell you an upload of over 1100 megabytes is there

Download it, and it will self-install

It takes about ten minutes to install, and a few minutes to come back to the Home screen. Then, go into Settings and do a factory reset. That also takes around ten minutes to do, then you'll be up and running on the new Indian Marshmallow ROM.

Note: this process does NOT trip Knox, or reset the Knox counter if you have tripped it.

Good luck...

Oh, and if you need the INU stock ROM, use the SamFirm tool for Windows (look back a couple of pages and I explain how to use it to grab the ROM) or go to sammobile.com
[Galaxy S6 General] Billchen0014:
the new update is AMAZING! The RAM now feels like 3GB and animations are much improved. the new highDPI mode is fantastic as well, making use of the screen size much better for those with good eyesight. Well worth the hour of tinkering. Though I do miss root, but I have another phone for that!
[Galaxy S6 General] madnezzz:
I did exactly what you have said here but with G925I. No updates after 2 hours.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
Play around with Pro mode in the camera, it saves photos in digital uncompressed RAW format...
[Galaxy S6 General] dwarfer66:
Cool, just waiting for my apps to restore, then gonna do that!
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
The details I advise are for the 920I only. If you have a 925I, then you need to put in the stock INU ROM for the Edge, which is like this on SamFirm Tool...

[IMG="samfirm"]http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd40/djshotty/Capturehhh.png[/IMG]
[Galaxy S6 General] madnezzz:
Yeh I used those settings. Installed the firmware but no update for me.
[Galaxy S6 General] Billchen0014:
My 920I couldn't wait to get updated after the first boot... Good Luck!
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
See, I'm running a 920I and not the Edge, so the advice I'm giving you is based on a combination of what worked for me and what I've been constantly researching since around 10am today Australian East Coast (NSW) time. Might pay for you to ask around a few other places, cos there's a fair few peeps that are getting MM today...
[Galaxy S6 General] schoolofmonkey:
Ok walk me through this, I flashed ater97 twrp through odin, tried to boot into recovery to install the kernel but it just booted the standard MM recovery, so how did you do it?
[Galaxy S6 General] ganklah:
OK so here's what I did to have MM with custom recovery and root.

First I used odin to install the latest INU Lollipop. Once done, and OTA update provided the shiny new MM 6.0.1

OK... then I grabbed arter97s twrp and 13 kernel both on arter97.com. flashed the twrp with odin, manually reboot back into twrp, install kernel and supersu 2.68 via twrp. Reboot and enjoy :)
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
I'm jumping through the same hoops, and if it works I will write up a How To for everyone.
[Galaxy S6 General] madnezzz:
That's what happens to me. You supposed to quickly hold down the buttons and boot into the custom recovery before it can overwrite the custom one with a stock one.
[Galaxy S6 General] ganklah:
The trick here is to untick the auto reboot option in odin. Do a manual reboot into twrp first otherwise rom will overwrite it.
[Galaxy S6 General] ganklah:
Oh and just the pic for shts and giggles. :)
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
Gotcha go!
[Galaxy S6 General] madnezzz:
My problem is that i cannot ever get the phone (s6 edge) to boot into TWRP. I've tried everything. seems like my phone is a bit tricky.
[Galaxy S6 General] ganklah:
On mine I had to catch the very first manual reboot from download mode into twrp then I was good.

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And autoreboot must be unticked in odin
[Galaxy S6 General] schoolofmonkey:
Cool got it now mate, I let odin restart the phone, not do it manually straight into TWRP...duh... :o

Working well :good:

Hey does this mean we can use some of the custom ROM's now that our bootloader and modem's are updated to MM?
[Galaxy S6 General] ganklah:
Oh yeah and the twrp must be the modified one on arter97s site. The latest twrp official didn't work. I believe arter97 has modified it .

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Excellent good to hear mate :)
[Galaxy S6 General] schoolofmonkey:
Hope it's ok to post the link to arter97's TWRP/Kernal we're using:

http://arter97.com/browse/exynos7420/kernel/13.0/g920fi/
[Galaxy S6 General] Mejortango:
agree but anyway my SM-G920I (carrier free) is working fine on 5.1.1. so I will wait, Iread today taht in India somebody get tonight teh MM update they are normally also on 920I version.. so maybe we can get it earlier ...hope died at the last ..
[Galaxy S6 General] dwarfer66:
I just talked to crisscross rom dev and he said we can use him rom.
[Galaxy S6 General] djshotty:
No need to be a DH about it, we're here to help a huge number of people.

Its a P.I.T.A. to get it to reboot after flashing in the Recovery, but holding down all buttons gets it to switch out of Download, then you three button to get it into TWRP. Flash the kernel, then reboot. Thing is, what exact version of SuperSU are you throwing in?
[Galaxy S6 General] dwarfer66:
I am going to try supersu 2.68
[Galaxy S6 General] ganklah:
To get out of download it's the same combo as going into download... if that makes sense. I'm using 2.68 supersu

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There's a guide now posted by someone in the general forum ... but I didn't use that version of supersu besides that it's exactly what I did

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

That's essentially what I did.... but I kinda went in blind and fluffed around a bit lol anyway.... that should work
[Galaxy S6 General] schoolofmonkey:
I used BETA-SuperSU-v2.68-20160228150503, seems to be working perfectly.

Lucky Patcher is working fine.
[Galaxy S6 General] rimonayoub:
Guys I followed all instructions but no update as yet I rebooted few times and still no luck
[Galaxy S6 General] Billchen0014:
Maybe it's because you haven't found the "root" of your problem :p Jkjk, more detail please.
[Galaxy S6 General] rimonayoub:
Once I installed the Indian firmware, i got this: “DM-VERITY VERIFICATION FAILED” ERROR and I keep getting boot loops

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Once I download the zip file through Samfirm, Do I need to extract the content and only install the AP through Odin?
[Galaxy S6 General] ganklah:
Yep. Install the tar.md5 file using odin in the AP section.