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[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pawelss:
Hey guys, so I just became an owner of the galaxy note 5 920C

I'm really happy with this upgrade since my one M8 was slowly dying (phone would shut down whenever the battery reached ~20%) and fixing the device is extremely difficult so I decided to get something newer.

everything is great, except for the data connection. it was REALLY bad. like, here, let me show you a screenshot from speedtest app:

[IMG="speedtest results"]http://imgur.com/a/idQVT[/IMG]

as you can see its terrible despite being on 4G (its not shown, but you have to believe me).

The battery life is far below average too, but I assume its because of the firmware.

I have some experience in using custom roms and stuff, but I dont really wanna do it to this phone since I'm more than satisfied with the user experience. with the exception of data speeds.

WiFi is excellent btw. So I came to a conclusion that it must be the firmware, I downloaded one from ukraine which made the H+ speeds work much better (3MB/s down and 1MB/s up), however LTE was nowhere to be found. so I flashed another one from South Africa (XFE Product Code, PDA N920CXXS3BPI3) and the H+ speeds are very good now, reaching 13MB/s easily with very low latency (22ms), but LTE is still unavailable. So my question is:

Theres a ton of firmware packages for the 920C on the internet and each one of them is approx 2GB. I really dont want to spend hours downloading and testing each package one by one, so is there a tested firmware that works best for central europe? namely Poland, Orange provider?

thanks in advance, until someone replies with a possible answer I will be testing packages one by one and if someone happens to have the same issue I'll make sure to update the thread.

The South Africa firmware I mentioned above did give LTE, but the signal strength is extremely weak. Here's the result for it though:

[IMG="SA Firmware"]http://imgur.com/95nldqZ[/IMG]

Turns out the best firmware was from Saudi Arabia. the name of the rar on sammobile was N920CXXS3BPI3_N920COJV3BPH7_WTL

results are in the last post on the first page.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafeba:
You don't have to flash the whole firmware. Just the modem.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pawelss:
can you explain further? it is literally my first day "digging" in the phone and second day having it. I havent had enough time to figure everything out yet. I knew there should be some sort of radio (or modem as you said) that I could just flash as there was a similar story with every other device I had in the past.

if you could perhaps post direct links it would definitely help a lot.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pawelss:
guys anything? the south african firmware has good internet but gives terrible battery life :(
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ocielz:
I have the same situation. Mine is stock firmware and it shows signal bar at around 2 or 1. It pisses me off to see that but I haven't had any missed or drop calls. In some areas it'll be full bars and others most of the time 2 or less. My Note 3 had full bars all over the place.

Also mine only shows 4G but I'm getting the Full 4G LTE speeds and using an app to check what I'm getting. It says LTE on the app but phone says 4G.
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pawelss:
Im testing the UAE firmware right now. battery life is good, played a 35min youtube video with 50% brightness and it only drained 8%. disadvantage is that theres no 4G :( speeds seem to be over 3Mb/s topping at about 12 - 13Mb/s

I wouldnt mind having 2 bars or less if I would get over 5Mb/s speeds and decent battery life. Today it drained over 50% battery with only 16 minutes of screen on time in 4 hours
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pawelss:
your IP address says you live in the US. I think theres a canadian firmware somewhere on the net, perhaps you should try it?

saudi arabia firmware gave me rock solid H+ performance at constant and stable 13mb/s down and 2mb/s up. Still no LTE but I can live with this kinda speeds I guess
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ocielz:
I'll have to look into that Canadian firmware
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pawelss:
ok, last update. I checked the saudi arabia firmware and it seems to be the best

here's the result:

http://imgur.com/a/J8u53
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ocielz:
Great speeds and also full Bars!!
[Galaxy Note5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ivanox1972:
best is one with highest changelist number- this is pakistan N920CXXS3BPI5
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] tupirujp:
Would the new google camara work on the axon 7 ?
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] ekerbuddyeker:
I downloaded a Google camera. It works fine. Perhaps a little simple.
[ZTE Axon 7 Questions & Answers] tupirujp:
Is it the 4.2 apk ?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] nicosomers:
Hi,

I tried to upgrade my rom, now i'm stuck on the bootloader screen. I treid to to use the update util, it gets stuck on 99% and then says it can't update.

So im totally stuck in the boot loader. I tried several roms, al the same problem.

Does someone know how to fix my Wizard?

Please help me!!

Greetz
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] starkwong:
You didn't CID unlock your Wizard before update.

Follow the instructions at the stickies in Wizard Upgrading forum.
[Nexus 6P General] mattkroeder:
According to AndroidPolice

http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/1...vices-pixel-c-will-land-end-2016-dev-preview/

Nexus line is dead. This is the nail in the coffin.
[Nexus 6P General] B3501:
No surprise they're not going to release their major Pixel selling point to Nexus devices. But yeah, the Nexus is dead. This menu updated have gone now.
[Nexus 6P General] LanguageSoez:
I bought a nexus 2 months ago cause the nexus experience was awesome :( I want to cry....
[Nexus 6P General] ps000000:
Google try to make 7.1 special for Pixel Phone.:p:p:p
[Nexus 6P General] galaxys:
XDA will save the Day! :) :cool:
[Nexus 6P General] therock3181:
Who knows maybe a port can be done. Let's wait it out.
[Nexus 6P General] kristiangmez:
So disappointed with Google today...
[Nexus 6P General] kolyan:
Time to switch to Note 7!
[Nexus 6P General] galaxys:
That's a bomb! :eek::laugh::p
[Nexus 6P General] UrbanLagoon:
The note 7 is cheaper than the 128gb pixel xl. And pixel xl has like 10 less features. Horrible day for Google today...
[Nexus 6P General] milan187:
Me too but it will stay awesome. We have all the developers on XDA.

Honestly only thing wrong with the Pixel is the price.
[Nexus 6P General] LanguageSoez:
Man.. Nexus 5x is the most expensive phone I've ever bought.
[Nexus 6P General] CappyT:
The only thing wrong?

REALLY?

I bought a 6P because i like having the latest version of Android and I also develop on it. And because google promised it (which turns out as false advertising, at this point)

What now? Will be only 7.1 delayed or every release? We will see another major upgrade?

By what I saw today, google's intentions are not anymore in the nexus line, so I can't even expect another major version of Android this time around.

Google may haven't lost money, but they surely lost a lot of customers trust. And trust isn't easy to build.

But it seems they couldn't care less.
[Nexus 6P General] Zaphon:
Couldn't agree more. At this point I'm just convinced that Google is lost. They are trying so hard to re-invent themselves as some kind of Apple/Samsung/Amazon Wannabe that they have screwed everything up. I mean come on, Pixel EXCLUSIVE features? Seriously? Delayed releases for the Nexus Line?

Google you have just lost a customer today. My wife and kids wanted to move away from iPhone, and I was hoping for the Pixel to do so, but there's no way. I'm not even sure where to go now. I hate TouchWiz, I want a phone I can unlock the boot loader on, root, etc. Maybe the LG V20 will turn out better, but it's been MIA now for weeks.

I didn't realize until today how high of standards I hold my 6P too, and how I'll not be able to move away until something truly amazing comes along (and I'm really hung up on having front facing stereo speakers now)
[Nexus 6P General] xSilas43:
"features"

p.s. rip nexus you wont be forgotten.
[Nexus 6P General] Arcide:
By features he probably means gimmicks, lol.
[Nexus 6P General] B3501:
Sd card slot, waterproofing, HDR screen, always on display, front firing speaker, wireless charging, OIS. There's a lot of good useful features the Pixel doesn't have and you could get in a phone cheaper.
[Nexus 6P General] chispas117:
[emoji23]
[Nexus 6P General] chrisnewton:
Well this sucks! I thought the nexus 6p would get at least android 8,but that is looking doubtful now
[Nexus 6P General] AndrasLOHF:
Yup. I started android with HTC. Was burned with promised OS updates on the Hero, gave them a second chance and was burned again with promised OS updates on the Evo LTE, jumped to Nexus to avoid having that issue ever again and here I am wondering when we are going to get updates and what "features" are they going to withhold for no reason other than greed.
[Nexus 6P General] Instigare:
I bought a 6P for quick updates directly from Google. Now I'm shafted by them too.

Next phone will be iPhone, I'm so done.
[Nexus 6P General] TheIgster:
Yup, I hear ya'. Updates as soon as they are released was one of the main reasons why I bought a 6P and not another Android device. Now, with Google pulling this crap and all of these Pixel "exclusives" with their flagship device barely a year old now, I say to hell with Google. I'm off to iPhone as well when the 8 comes out. Certainly not going to buy an overpriced Pixel with no features to match that ridiculous pricing. Plus who is to say they don't go back on their word again?
[Nexus 6P General] nardow:
C'mon guys. Really? The 6P is one year old. Nexus isn't dead. Of course: Google might delay the 7.1 update to the Nexus devices, since there's these new Pixels phones out, but it really doesn't mean that the 6P is gone. This is the best Nexus ever, and still one of the best phones out there atm. I really don't know the reason to have this discussion.
[Nexus 6P General] TheIgster:
We're not saying it's dead. At least I'm not. I'm saying the exact opposite. This phone is barely one year old. Google promised updates RIGHT AWAY for Nexus devices. Now they are saying Pixel devices will get updates right away and get exclusives, while those of us who were promised updates right away on nexus devices wait. This goes against what we were told by Google when the phones were their "flagship" devices. Google lied.
[Nexus 6P General] nardow:
I know you didn't say that. I referring to the other answers from the other folks here in this thread and in this one. Google once was a very good company, you know. But they at Google are still a company and we, customers, can't trust anything everything they say. That's all about money. And apparently, Google won't make profit if they release the 7.1 update as soon as the new Pixels are out.
[Nexus 6P General] B3501:
The Nexus philosophy of pure Android being updated on all the Nexus devices at once is dead. We're now seeing phone specific features and staggered updates. Pretty much like all other OEMs. If Google want to head in the at direction then fair enough, it's up to them.
[Nexus 6P General] kolyan:
Google sheep will follow Google anyway :) maybe I am a sheep too.....I've been on Fi since launch and very frustrated with it.
[Nexus 6P General] COLGOT:
The correct name is iGoogle hahaha
[Nexus 6P General] B3501:
The iPixel.
[Nexus 6P General] neo905:
You mean the replacement one with the new battery that just exploded on a plane? Good luck with that...
[Nexus 6P General] Ryno77:
I can't go to an iPhone because I cannot stand IOS, it's awful. I literally just bought my wife an iPad for her birthday since there are no Android tablets anymore (that will ever see updates anyway), helped her set it up....I hated it, every second of it. It froze twice while setting up (so much for it just works) and it's boring as hell. She doesn't care but I do. There is no way I could deal with that boring ass garbage that apparently doesn't "just work". I ordered a pixel mostly because I'm curious and I'll return it if it doesn't seem like a big upgrade after using it and really we're only talking about maybe a 100-200 dollar price hike. I hate this sd810 so for me that may be worth it by itself. I don't really see $200 over the course of a year to be much money at all but that's just me.
[Nexus 6P General] kolyan:
**** happens. i wouldnt mind buying one right now at a discount. i wonder how much all those refurbished units will cost
[Nexus 6P General] dratsablive:
Bye Felicia!
[Nexus 6P General] neo905:
Ummm. This is the "new and improved" version though. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

There are far too many other options out there than buying a phone that could explode beside your junk.
[Nexus 6P General] sharp2G:
Below is the full list of changes coming to Android 7.1 Nougat:

Night Light

Touch/display performance improvements

Moves (Fingerprint swipe down gesture – opt-in)

Seamless A/B system updates

Daydream VR mode

Developer features:

App shortcuts / shortcut manager APIs

Circular app icons support

Keyboard image insertion

Fingerprint sensor gesture to open/close notification shade

Manual storage manager Intent for apps

Improved VR thread scheduling

Enhanced wallpaper metadata

Multi-endpoint call support

Support for various MNO requirements

PCDMA voice privacy property

Source type support for Visual Voicemail

Carrier config options for managing video telephony

Manual storage manager – identifies apps and files and apps using storage

NO GOOGLE ASSISTANT AMONG OTHER MISSING FEATURES

https://9to5google.com/2016/10/05/heres-everything-thats-new-in-android-7-1-nougat/
[Nexus 6P General] kolyan:
I just hate what Google has done with this Pixel launch (price, dumped Nexus line, delayed 7.1 to make Pixel more exclusive etc). I wouldnt mind switching to Note this time. I tired Note 4 and even back then I really liked it.
[Nexus 6P General] milan187:
How is Sami on bootloaders these days? Unlockable?
[Nexus 6P General] kolyan:
Have no clue
[Nexus 6P General] B3501:
Yes, the international model bootloaders come already unlocked.
[Nexus 6P General] zymphad:
Same. I'm amazed that anyone in Google's office believes their brand has the same weight as Apple. Actually it's cheaper to buy an iPhone, insane.

Also am I the only one who thinks Google's AI ambitions are creepy? Always on speaker always listening? It's literally going to hear and record everything we say and do, and stored on some server. Yeah yeah, they claim it's just to help tailor their service to the individual. I don't believe it and just creeped out by it. If I had a Pixel I'd disable all the AI features, shut it all down.
[Nexus 6P General] neo905:
To be honest. I have not been impressed with any phone so far in 2016. Especially from the major players. They all seem to interested in shareholder value and not consumer value. That goes for Apple, Samsung and Google. The price of these "flagship" phones internationally have become disgraceful. The One Plus 3 and Axon 7 certainly have some good value but those devices are becoming few and far between.
[Nexus 6P General] paniro187:
Enjoy all that bloatware

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I call those "features" bloatware

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Meanwhile my iPhone 6s plus gets updated the same day as the iPhone 7

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Shouldn't need developers just to get a update.

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What's funny is they are doing exactly what the carriers do with holding back updates
[Nexus 6P General] maferrario:
Since the first nexus all i wanted was one. Now I finally got my hands on the 6p, and google does this, very disappointed :(
[Nexus 6P General] manup456:
How do you guys figure Google is delaying an update? 7.0 is the latest that we got early and 7.1 is not ready yet and when it is we will get it. People find anything to complain about because the fact is Google is still a company at the end of the day trying to make money and they are still going to update the Nexus line with the latest.

Oh I didn't get the 3-4 features that the pixel has Boohoo...Get a Note 7 and tape it to your head and have a good time with that. ?
[Nexus 6P General] mattkroeder:
If Pixel is released in 2-3 weeks with 7.1 and current Nexus devices don't get a stable 7.1 build until sometime in 2017, how is that NOT delaying an update? Nexus has always been developer phones getting the latest Android versions as soon as they are released.

So now the 6P has been relegated from getting new stock Android as soon as possible to "You'll get it when we've sold some Pixels first"

or in other words, people bought the 6P expecting updates asap to not much different than buying a Samsung or LG and waiting months for major upgrades
[Nexus 6P General] manup456:
The reason they say January is because the Pixel won't officially launch until then so no it's still on time as normal and we got Android N super early this time. I don't get your point?

Edit: Also how is it like Samsung or LG they have Android N?
[Nexus 6P General] stankyou:
At this point, as long as I get the update way before any other OEM does, I ain't complaining.

Pixel is Google's new baby and is the focus of their attention and Nexus is the older brother who kinda feels left out because the parents primary focus has shifted to the new baby.

Sent from my Nexus 6P
[Nexus 6P General] UrbanLagoon:
If you throw an AOSP rom onto a note 7, it no longer has all that bloatware and murders the nexus 6p in terms of screen on time. I came from to a nexus 6p from a note 4 and I feel like I downgraded in terms of screen quality, brightness, camera quality, etc. But I am happy I only paid $330 for the 64gb gold 6p.
[Nexus 6P General] B3501:
The Pixel is on sale being delivered with 7.1 in 2-3weeks.

The 6P and other Nexii aren't getting 7.1 until at least January probably later. That very much is it being held back.
[Nexus 6P General] mattkroeder:
Maybe you can clarify then because I'm not sure what you're referring to. Sources are saying October 20th for Pixel launch date.

How did we get N super early? If anything, unless you're referring to beta enrollment, even the factory images took longer to be posted compared to other devices this time around.

The S7 and Note series don't have Nougat yet.
[Nexus 6P General] manup456:
We never got a release until the day of the event or after, the official N build was out a month before and not beta official.

You can't compare the Pixel line it's a totally new thing Google is doing and you think source for that phone will go out when it's released?
[Nexus 6P General] mattkroeder:
That's the entire argument. The abandonment of the Nexus philosophy a year into the 6P life cycle and the introduction of the "new" Google branded phone philosophy.
[Nexus 6P General] Zaphon:
Hey now, this kind of logic isn't welcome amongst all the Google Pixel for life folks who have been posting here lately. The writing is on the wall, and they simply refuse to see it.
[Nexus 6P General] B3501:
There will be source released for Vanilla Android, not the Pixel version, people that thinking it will be ported are crazy. It's funny hiroshi lockheimer, posted on Twitter last week the 4th of Oct 2016 will go down as a day in history for Google (or something like that). Yes, the day the Nexus died and Android took the first steps to becoming closed source. It's kind of obvious what's happening.
[Nexus 6P General] galaxys:
Agree, but Nexus on XDA will never die! It's spirit & development lives for ever! :cool::)
[Nexus 6P General] milan187:
Let wait and see what the Pixel ships with. I believe it could be a 7.0 with a few extra features and real 7.1 isn't exactly ready.
[Nexus 6P General] B3501:
It's shipping with 7.1

https://madeby.google.com/intl/en_uk/phone/specs/

It was also mentioned yesterday, it's final 7.1 it comes with.

The 6P and other Nexii are getting a Dev preview at the end of 2016 and final release in 2017.
[Nexus 6P General] stuff:
So they seem to have put 7.1 development on the back burner while preparing for a Google Pixel phone launch? I'm not sure I care about the latest Pixel features, except that launcher (in which, I don't see why that would have issues being ported over to our devices once devs get ahold of it?).
[Nexus 6P General] Citizen_Snips:
The launcher is already around XDA, just search for it. No point though, if you ask me. 0 customization and the beta of Nova Launcher already has all of the features from the Pixel launcher. Better to just use that. Only thing I really would have wanted is the full OS integration of Google Assistant, but looks like I have to buy a new phone for that. No thanks. I will not pay $650+ for 1 feature I want that is specific to that device. What happens when 7.2 or 8.0 or whatever comes out next year? "CHECK OUT THIS AWESOME NEW ANDROID FEATURE COMING IN THE NEXT OS VERSION.....That you will only get if you buy the new phone this year!"

Not liking where Google is going with this either. Keep new features exclusive to new phones so they can try to sell you a phone that costs nearly a thousand dollars every single year?? I got into the Nexus line because aside from easily being able to mod them, they were half the price of other flagships with comparable specs. Also they were guaranteed for 18 months of direct support from Google. Guaranteed to get the latest and greatest and now instead we get a watered down version so they can sell more handsets. Sad day indeed.

What happened to you, Google? You used to be cool...
[Nexus 6P General] stuff:
Well, that launcher was slightly bugged for me. Now cards failed to load occasionally so I went back to before.

We were guaranteed to get the latest Android versions. I'm 100% position we still will get every update, and that's all we were promised. I'm ok with that. Fortunately we will have probably every feature from the Pixel ported to our Nexus 6P.

Nothing speaks louder than customers. And I guess the Nexus line was not moving anywhere in sales, it was a dead product as far as Google was concerned (in making money). So they reapproved it with the identical way Apple does.
[Nexus 6P General] B3501:
The 6P will only be supported with OS updates for another year, security updates probably 2 years but we now won't get OS updates as soon as they're on the Pixel, we'll have to wait.
[Nexus 6P General] stuff:
Time will tell. I highly doubt Google would abandon it's Nexus 6P/5X users. We will get OS updates and security updates until they claimed. Otherwise it's pretty easy to form a lawsuit over that, because it was actually a selling point, just like the Pixel Phone had it as a selling point in its PowerPoint.

The Google assistant is not going to be any more useful to you unless you accompany it with all of the additional Google hardware.
[Nexus 6P General] B3501:
Google themselves have said the 6Pwill be supported until September 2017 which is around a year away....

http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/06/21/google-support-site-now-lists-end-life-dates-nexus-devices/

7.1 is being released on the 6P in 2017 and on the Pixel in 2weeks so timely updates have gone.
[Nexus 6P General] stuff:
My point is, you're acting like we're doomed and never getting another Android version. 7.0 literally came out just a few weeks ago.

There isn't any surprise if OS updates discontinue around September 2017.