yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] [Lemmy]:
ah ok so samfirm is not defunct, just not developed anymore...

well, updato does not even list the most recent firmware, according to it the last you get for the S8+ is android 8, which is not true anymore, at least for some regions... samfirm correctly offers android 9 (DBT).

edit: it actually does list android 9 for SM-G955F (DBT), but the default sorting order is ... weird.

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by the way, the flashing instructions on updato are a bit off. the downloaded file is not just one file with a tar.md5 extension, it is the usual zip file with five different images, BL, AP, CP, and the two different home partitions.

Better elaborate a bit about what those are and where to flash them, especially the difference between the two home_ images.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Outlaw Dragon:
I noticed the same.

On top of the incorrect instructions on the website, I had to extract and rebuild the tar files in Linux before I could flash them successfully. My goal was to update the bootloader, modem and csc rather than fully stocking my device.

But in the end the files downloaded on updato.com via p PC worked.

The files download via the updato App were completely useless..
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] UweRammelt:
Now it's about 20kb/s - absolutely useless :(
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ahtorbskin:
Man are the speeds EXTREMELY slow for others as well? Getting like 30 kilobytes per second.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] TevW:
Don't you love leaving it overnight at 32.6KB/s, realizing it stopped at some point around 500MB, but you can't continue the download because of the weird hotlinking protection so you have to start it again at 12.6KB/s.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] cooltt:
Samfirm tool is the best super quick and direct from Samsung severs
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Outlaw Dragon:
Which tool? (that still works)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kippy51:
Like he said: 'Samfirm'. It's discontinued, but still works great.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] masChmagic:
Hi, does anyone know how I can change firmware without using the USB port?

My USB port doesn't work, it chargers only. It never gives an option to use MTP, PTP etc. It used to a long time ago, I've changed cables, used with multiple Windows computers, etc. I can transfer files with WiFi or SDcard.

My phone just upgraded to Pie and I need it back to Oreo.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ashyx:
Nope.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] texas2607:
Hello,

As soon as I connect to https://updato.com/ I get a warning message: "Looks like you're using an ad blocker..."

But I have nothing, neither Adblock nor any other program. I'm on Firefox 66.0.3.

Do you have a solution?

In advance, thank you

Fred
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ashyx:
Disable whatever it is in Firefox that is blocking ads.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] texas2607:
Hi,

It's done, I have nothing.

Pop-ups, trackers, cookies are allowed,
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] updato-team:
Updato - Testing a new hosting provider Wasabi

Hi everyone,

We have heard you on the download issues and are exploring and testing a few different options to bring better stability and speed to downloads. We have recently started a test with Wasabi to host our firmware. We are testing these with the latest firmware released starting today.

If anyone tries to download, we'd love to hear any comments on how its performing.

Thanks

Updato Team
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] evelyne3:
Download speeds slow still

I am getting 40kb/secs (I am on a 300Mbps line)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] updato-team:
Thanks - Can I get more info?

We have only put those firmware available since Weds on new server. Can you tell which firmware you downloaded? Also what is your location/country?

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] rroyy:
any chance to change date format on site? You can't get proper order by selecting date due mm/dd/yyyy format. yyyy/mm/dd would be better.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] kamilmirza:
[MENTION=9873628]updato-team[/MENTION]

getting internal error when downloading firmware
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] zxz0O0:
Which firmware or link?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] kamilmirza:
https://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model?record=372AC2836C0811E9BE8CFA163EE8F90B
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] updato-team:
Hi - Yes. We are looking at improvements to UI and filtering etc. We will add this to our list. Would love any other suggestions also.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] rroyy:
Okay, one more. on your firmware home page you can list latest OS's added to your server. Without filtering the results It would be good to see latest OS's. I'm downloading mostly other devices OSs to decompres and get apks to update my apps and upload them to apkmirror. I'm sure there are developers too looking for that feature.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] updato-team:
Excellent - Thank you. We will add to the list
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Alexander9822:
The download for the S7 Edge https://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model?record=16AF82B92E7A11E89F15FA163EE8F90B is painfully slow.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ooxoox:
Does it mean it is no any possible way to flash back to XME (malaysia) firmware without using the OLB version? its default is thailand and I can't get back to my XME anymore....
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dylan25111:
It does not download when I hit the download button.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] dovedescent7:
My file downloads are maxing out at 40.0 KB/s. Did you guys go all Sammobile/Rapidshare on us?

This is the file i need, but i'd prefer not to wait 17 hours for it. :D

https://updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model/?record=BAA62C874CC211E99F15FA163EE8F90B

[IMG="screenshot"]https://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4770398&stc=1&d=1559512760[/IMG]
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] unknown_50296:
Having the same speeds.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] bleros:
Same here poor speed
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Haswell4200:
Download speeds are abysmal. What's going on? I'm on gigabit.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] bleros:
I still use software is max speed
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] updato-team:
Download Speeds

All,

We are looking into the issue on the servers and looking into alternatives for more stable download speeds.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Thanks

Updato Team
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] updato-team:
Updato Announcement to the community

Hey all,

We wanted to reach out to the community to inform you that we are making some changes to Updato. Over the course of the past few years, we have hoped to keep our firmware downloads free. However we have become a victim of our success. Our firmware database has reached over 100 TB+ and continues to grow daily. We serve over 500 TB of firmware on a monthly basis to a worldwide network from the US, EU, LATAM to APAC. This has stretched our ability to provide a stable infrastructure with our current resources. Therefore, we have not been able to keep our costs in line with the ad revenue and donations.

We have decided to move to a Freemium Model. We will still offer ALL our firmware downloads for free (at capped speeds) but we are going to charge a nominal amount for high speed downloads (served via a global CDN) OR users can opt to EARN CASHLESS CREDIT through our ad partner for premium downloads. To earn credits, you can take surveys, offers, watch video etc which will earn you credits. The premium service is priced to be very affordable and matches donations amounts.

Our hope that this will allow us to remain viable while also improve our ability to provide better services and content as we move forward with Updato into the future. We know that this may upset some of our loyal supporters. This was not our intention. We have worked hard over the years to build Updato.. We do hope you understand and continue to support us into the future.

As such, the website will be down from 7p PST to about 3a PST tonight to execute the updates.

Sincerely,

The Updato Team
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jeshter2000:
You just screwed every Samsung user with your App!

Tweet from [MENTION=317694]rtl[/MENTION]nieuws: https://twitter.com/RTLnieuws/status/1147081961409789952

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw...0-million-samsung-phone-updates/#2cfacbfb3cf8

https://medium.com/csis-techblog/up...t-revenue-goldmine-of-10-000-000-166585e34ad0

https://www.zdnet.com/article/fake-...pp-tricks-more-than-10-million-android-users/

https://twitter.com/9to5Google/status/1147115940703850496

[MENTION=6360238]9TO5[/MENTION]Google: Report: Over 10 million people installed scam 'Updates for Samsung' app https://t.co/JsDoHvDt5r by [MENTION=3495800]iAmD[/MENTION]amienwilde https://t.co/XOYPhSPW3H

Trying to make a quick buck but now Samsung will probably shut of acces for everyone.

You just shot yourself in the foot and in the feet of every Samsung user!

Bunch of losers and scammers you are..
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ashyx:
How do you know this alleged scam app is linked to updato?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jeshter2000:
Really...developers name is Updato.com.. In thr app you go to Updato...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Painman1963:
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

I used to be an avid advocate for this site and it had blazing fast downloads. Recently though, my experience has been exactly as described. Slow, full of Ads and trying to sell a premium version.

Greed wins again and we're all the losers!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] bleros:
He want to be rich with samsung servers lol and want people to purchase premium.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jeshter2000:
The thing is if Samsung wants to block it. He screws it up for every Samsunguser...

The amount of stupidity is insane...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] maXDAmn:
for free, and then freemium. so, what's the point?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jeshter2000:
Read the articles...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] miroid:
Please delete this thread. its nothing what it tells. I made an account and have to wait 11 hours for a download.

right...the same as just going to sammobile website
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] nm111:
The tool SamFirm although abandoned still works. You can find it here https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-tab-s/general/tool-samfirm-samsung-firmware-t2988647.

I am also looking for ways to bypass the premium account and I may have found one but it will take time.

BTW it is even open source so you can find the sources here https://github.com/eladkarako/SamFirm-Source
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Painman1963:
There is a new tool (works in the same way as SamFirm) called Frija that is being maintained and developed

https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?ur...share_tid=3910584&share_fid=3793&share_type=t
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] KingPin:
what complete utter nonsense.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Agent_0013:
How I supposed to find latest version? This results are already "sorted by date"

[IMG="Search results"]https://aliencrack.ucoz.ru/Files/xda/updato_logic.png[/IMG]
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] redeemer01:
Can't register for free now
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Asdfguy86:
greed

"completely free with no download speed restrictions."

delete this post, stop lying to your users. the greed in this sort of thing (downloading firmwares) is ever so high. limit the download speeds. ok. don't make it 64kbps though, wow. i could live with 1mbps, but 64kbps? come on. pathetic.

yet another good service falls to its own greed and becomes money sucking.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] nor24o:
Lying

"completely free with no download speed restrictions."

delete this post, stop lying to your users. the greed in this sort of thing (downloading firmwares) is ever so high. limit the download speeds. ok. don't make it 64kbps though, wow. i could live with 1mbps, but 64kbps? come on. pathetic.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] siiik_:
Just use SamFirm, downloads the firmware directly from Samsung
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xerves78:
This tool is deprecated.

https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-tab-s/general/tool-samfirm-samsung-firmware-t2988647
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ashyx:
Doesn't matter, it still works.

However it has now been superseded:

https://xdaforums.com/s10-plus/how-to/tool-frija-samsung-firmware-downloader-t3910594
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] sgrayban:
15 hours to download ? That's fukin nuts....

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anyone got the G930VVRU8CRJ3 firmware file ?

it's the galaxy s7 / sm-g930V
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Zionator:
Dude the guy above you posted a link. I got 5.6 gb download in around or less then one hour... :rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Klaymoor:
I call BS.

I tried to find the firmware for my Note 8 for Sprint. Found it but there were no download links. Paid, free anything. The closest thing I could find was just a redirect to another crappy website.

Your site appears to be an ad full scam site. When you have to purposefully navigate around craploads of ads, its a scam site. If a download link actually appears I'll probably get like 0.1k/s speed and it will be a giant waste of time. Additionally, I'm not going to give any money to a site that obviously preys on its users. You should be ashamed of yourselves and I hope anyone reading this will avoid your site like a plague!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] HazemSayad:
I agree, it first started really good was able to download roms normally and in 1 month i wasn't able to do anything useful with the site. Took them 1 month to start getting into what they are now. Hopefully they will change the site into a better one or they get what they deserve. I can't be anymore mad at them.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Raismy Roa:
Samsung Galaxy J7 Refine 2018 Sprint J737P

My Samsung Galaxy J7 Refine 2018 Of Sprint J737p, Is not there. I just tried rooting it and it startet to restart over and over, I need the firmware, since its the only thing left to do. :(
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] dukeforever:
Thanks for the tip, samfirm still works perfectly, not sure why what improvement frija would bring.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] rchtk:
What a terrible site full of trackers. Even had to change browser for it to work. But then downloads at 80Kbs

Samfirm might work but I tried Frija.

Using Frija I got the 1.2GB ROM in 15 minutes.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] chrisrevoltes:
Works great (using full download speed), thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] jsebela:
updato.com does not exist, error 404
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kippy51:
For me it works alright. No error.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] djrys:
updato.com does not exist, error 404 ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Cptnfruitloops:
Just as bad as sammobile. Requires signup to download firmware. Its like you copy their business model
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] VovaVilim:
I am beyond disappointed that this website has turned from a neat tool to a full-on generic spam middleware extortion website. Shame on you, devs, shame on you.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] rsperson:
well - ignores facebook with errors and will not download - thanks for trying
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] dmt0:
For Samsung S10e doesn't have anything past Android 10. Totally outdated. sammobile is the only way now?

Edit:

Samloader with a GUI is the way

Releases · zacharee/SamloaderKotlin

Contribute to zacharee/SamloaderKotlin development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] JazonX:
I miss the Samfirm Tool.

Does anyone have a working version of it ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Idebutterpiep:
Instead of using SamFirm you can use Frija.

Newest Frija version v2.0.22044.1 you can download from: GitHub.

Just downloaded newest firmware BTU for Gallaxy S20+ SM-G986B
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] bigtom624:
I am having the same problem.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] JazzaYWB:
Yeah it's very strange behavior. I'm trying to download it from their website instead now, and it's now showing in downloads. I'm not the most knowledgeable android user, but I'm sure the firmware downloaded, and it's just disappeared completely.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] billa:
Try searching the entire C:\ drive for a partial file name for example "G930F" (substitute it with whatever you have downloaded), which should be able to locate it along with all the other G930F files of course.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] peterjitg:
Thanks! We're running some tests right now, hope to address this soon...

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Thanks Steve. Will pass it along...

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Thank you. We're going to look into this... Did you check Device storage > Download? That's strange. Meanwhile, if you do find it, I'd appreciate if you drop us a note here.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] JazzaYWB:
It's the Android app, not PC. I've searched everywhere, and it's not there, even though "my files" app says there was a recent download of 1.6gb. With solid Explorer I checked "downloads" and then the app's file path too, and it's not in either. Doing a search for the file that "my files" says was downloaded gives no results. Regardless, I ended up downloading through the website and it shows in downloads like it should.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] peterjitg:
I ran several tests on my devices and they all worked fine. Nonetheless, we won't take this lightly bud, looking into it as we speak :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] h_khan:
Samsung Galaxy S7

I downloaded the firmware, and I noticed it's in a ZIP file format. I extracted it and there's 5 different md5 files in there - BL, AP, CP, CSC and HOME. Am I supposed to individually select those in their appropriate boxes in Odin?

EDIT: Found the answer at [TOOL] SamFirm - Samsung firmware downloader & checker

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66365943&postcount=734

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66373967&postcount=736

Followed through and all is well.

Thanks! :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] peterjitg:
Nice! Well, you beat me, lol.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] StevePritchard:
Looks like the filter/sort on the website isn't working properly. The filter on its own seems to work, but once you attempt to sort, the filter seems to get ignored (also, I'm not sure why the Date AND the Region/Carrier have sort direction icons - they can't be active at the same time?).
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] peterjitg:
Thanks. Looking into it and will have a fix in the upcoming update. As for date or region sorting, you can only do one at a time.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] StevePritchard:
Re sorting one at a time, I thought that would be the case, but I'm seeing direction icons (pointing down) on both columns.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] peterjitg:
Ahh! Cosmetic fix. Will add that to our list. Can you please elaborate on your sorting issue? I am unable to reproduce it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] StevePritchard:
To reproduce:

1. Filter on 'SM-N910F' (which works)

2. Click on the Date heading (the dates are ordered, but it's ignoring which device I was filtering on)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] peterjitg:
Okay, thanks. Will look into it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ma678:
I bought my S7 Edge unlocked from Samsung Store Canada. Its CSC is XAC. If I flash any carrier's firmware, e.g. Telus' (TLS) with CSC w/o Home, will its CSC be changed to TLS? The reason I want to do this is XAC has disabled VoLTE feature that my carrier Fido supports.

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] paddy01:
Very nice service! Thanks!

Love the search possibilities and they work perfectly on the web :)

A couple of feature wishes for the Android App:

Set "default" device and country code in settings or search term

With the above option - add OTA like option so you get a notification when a new version is available

And on that notion set update interval either by number(minutes) or set options

Bug like wishes:

When you've selected device and then want to select country the sorting looks wierd ?

And on top of that when multiple versions are available all show up but without version specifications ?

Maybe incorporate FlashFire support ? :)

Either way - Great work! :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] nolook:
how do you know it's disabled the XAC new firmware doesn't seem to be out yet? I'd like to be able to use volte on my XAC Samsung store bought s7 too (using on public mobile)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] bynarie:
Dude, this is FANTASTIC! Way better than that junk site sammobile. Thank you so much.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] zxz0O0:
As far as I remember, CSC will be changed even if you flash the home version.

Thanks for your suggestions and bug reports. We will look into this. Could you elaborate what you mean with FlashFire support? FlashFire should already be able to flash the firmwares I think.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] eRPeeX:
If original HOME_CSC is used in Odin, CSC is not changed.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Raithlin:
I'll stick with Frija. I came here looking for a tool to work with enc4 files. Updato doesn't even list the Z Fold 3 (SM-N926B).
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Harley Avery:
I've bought a premium download package from these people and have yet to receive any upgrade from free to premium. It's been over a week and several emails sent with zero reply from anyone. I do not recommend anyone to use this BS to download firmware. Period!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Raiz:
Thread Closed, this website is in violation of rule 11 of the XDA Developers Forum Rules.

Regards,

Raiz

Edit :

Be advice, in addition to violating rule 11, the webiste advertised in the thread is allegedly not trustworthy. Articles have appeared online in 2019 advising against using it or buying "full version".​

Spoiler content hidden.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ma678:
May I change CSC without root if I flash the other CSC file? Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Guides, News, & Discussion] peterjitg:
Thank you! Our next app update is going to include most of the ideas and bug fixes you mentioned...working on them as we speak. I'm afraid OTA option won't be possible, at least for now.

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Thank you so much! But I know we can make it even better! No time to sleep :)