yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
So, in one post you are asking for someone to upload the file and in another post you say you want to download directly from AT&T's server. I've summarised the instructions for downloading from ATT and khaliullov has uploaded it to his cloud site. And then you complain that you don't want tampered update files even though it's been described here and elsewhere that tampering with these updates will make them invalid your phone will reject the update. It's now your turn to work on this yourself and get it working. I suggest downloading from the mail.ru repository and being done with it. If you are keen, download from both the ATT site and the mail.ru site and compare the hashes on the two files (there are android apps that calculate hashes). You will almost certainly see that the files are identical. And if not make sure the download completed properly.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] o_01uk:
Hey guys, I'm in the UK and have purchased this model from the USA as it is ideal for me as I work outdoors.

I absolutely love the phone just one small thing bugs me that all the fancy features do not work as in video calling, Volte and wifi calling.

I know I'm not an expert on roms etc but would it not be possible to edit sections on the CSC file to say mimic the carrier in the UK I'm on versions of the s7?

I know they are two different devices but the roms must be very similar and share the same basic setup?

Just a thought I had.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] zsolti256:
Hey Guys, any way to update without letting it wipe my whole phone? Every update wipes it for me :(

Or any very good backup apps?

Also How do you know where the update files are on the ATT site?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
If you pick through this thread you will find the answer to how to prevent the wipe after update. The bottom line is watch your phone closely as it updates. Eventually you will see a line to the effect of "Script succeeded: result was [/system]". As soon as you see that, press and hold power, home, vol+up, vol+down until the phone reboots. I've done this a few times and it works. When the phone boots for the first time, it will say Nougat updating and will be sluggish for a sec but it will settle down. This was discovered and is described in this post:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=71758322&postcount=255

Also, samsung's cloud backup does a pretty good job.

To find the files, I brute force search for them based on the naming conventions that user khaliullov spelled out on a russian website. Basically, the filenames contain the android version, the bootloader version, the year and the month and the version of the update. I cycle through these by hand once a month looking for downloads with any size. ATT has been updating monthly pretty well. Occasionally, like for the December update, there will be numerous versions of a given month's update at which time one needs to be careful to get the non-beta and non-alpha versions as these may not have an upgrade path.

Cheers
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] jembot:
See this old post:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=74551312&postcount=815
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Droid_Razr:
Recent update won't stick, fails after reboot even after wipe.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] zsolti256:
In the post it mentions adb sideload in recovery. Are they talking about selecting update.zip? Or can I only cancel the wipe if I do it though usb adb sideload? Havent done it that way
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
I've only done it when applying the update through recovery using the phone alone (my phone's USB port is rusted/salted to oblivion, so I cannoct connect directly). I don't know what would happen with sideloading through adb.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Note that U2BRA5-UP and U2BRA6-UP have landed on the AT&T servers. They are 527MB each, so likely a major update although not a full android version worth of upgrade. We have seen dual, large upgrades like this before that didn't become the officials, so I wouldn't go out and sideload these just yet unless you don't mind potentially putting your phone on a dead-end upgrade path.

Note also that I'm checking for U2C and U3C potential upgrades as these would be Oreo. Probably still a couple of months off though. Interestingly, the Active seems to get updates before the S7/S7 Edge variants so we'll have it before they do. Regardless, AT&T continues to keep a fairly regular update schedule which is commendable in my opinion.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] miniminus:
thats great news :) love that you keep this thread informed, and that AT&T are still keeping this updated ..

and that you are, as i was hoping, checking on U2C/U3C :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
I went ahead and sideloaded the U2BRA6 update with success. The result is Jan 1 security patch level with Spectre/Meltdown fixes. The latter are indicated under About Device -> Security software version -> SMR Jan-2018 Release MS.

You may want to wait on updating until official as always. The linux kernels on my PC's have had to undergo numerous updates (intel chips) as the fixes for those vulnerabilities have evolved. So, the current update that I installed may still be a testing update. YMMV.

Have fun.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] forcefollow:
greetings everyone, I'm newly registered here though my phone has been saved countless time by reading and following the instructions and suggestions listed here, so many thanks to all the thread contributors.

I'm currently running on G891AUCU2BQB2, will I be able to directly flash QH1 update without any downside?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
Hi! See this post a few pages back:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=74481053&postcount=441
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] forcefollow:
Thank you, for your response

I guess I worded my question badly. I was wondering whether I will be able to directly odin-sideloading in download mode directly from QB2 to QH1 or do I have to sideloading the in-between version?

I would if I dare to but I'm currently the active is my main phone and bricking it will cause me quite a headache, lol
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
You have to install every step as stated in that post.

QB2 cannot be updated directly to QH1.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] blacky_83:
Had the same problem...Stuck @K3... where did you get the latest build for odin?...

....got it
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] landfiller:
BQL6

I'm wondering, I've got

G891AUCS2BQL6 on my S7 Active. Are the OTA's you posted newer?

---------- Post added at 10:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:51 PM ----------

I'm running G891AUCS2BQL6, Are the OTA'S posted newer???
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] blacky_83:
For now this is the latest official OTA version.

U2BRA6 could become the next version, an it has security patch "january 18"
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] YAARRR:
Any news about oreo?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
No news regarding the S7 series (afaik). Beta period seems to have ended for S8 a couple of days ago:

https://www.sammobile.com/news/is-samsung-about-to-release-final-galaxy-s8-oreo-update
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] YAARRR:
we will see what AT&T and Samsung have in mind for this device.

I hope they are already working for the last major update to release for the S7 Active.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] maxwell0312:
Does this device have LED notification? Kimovil.com says it does not. A Google search only brings up the S7 LED light. Please let me know
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] mojebada.cz:
It does have LED notification.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
It also says that the phone has a Sony rear camera. I wouldn't take their word too seriously :)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] berniesteven:
Just installed OTA update. BRA7. Under 40 MB. Still 7.0

Se​nt fr​om my SM-G891A

* Peace
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] CFoote:
Just got it too. I am guessing just security fixes with the small size.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] DireSpook:
Updated as well, was wondering what it was. Guessing small bug fixes.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] r3d10tu5:
update

Thanks for the update. I guess we have to wait a little bit longer for Orio.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] landfiller:
BRA7

I'm running G891AUCS2BRA7... is that of interest to anyone? LMK and we'll see if we can get it out to people.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] maxwell0312:
Noob question here: If I buy an unlocked S7 Active, can I just use Odin to flash Oreo (when it's available to this device)? This is assuming AT&T doesnt allow you to get the updates if you're not on their network. Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
Yes! :)

Edit: Sorry I meant the official firmware after it is released by Samsung and then later uploaded by a private person, including ATT bloatware. Just like we can now install official Nougat with Odin because some nice person has made it available for download. I read the word "unlocked" as in "carrier unlocked".
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] landfiller:
Oreo

I'm not quite certain, but I don't believe you can. If it was stock Android like Android Open Source Project originally planned, then yeah... android was supposed to allow us to do whatever we wanted with our devices. Samsung and other manufacturers have taken over and added device specific source code. Unique to each device. That's why it takes so long for OTA update to be released, and why devices loose OTA support after a certain time. Certain devices aren't deemed worthy of the time and effort to write program specific to that device!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] maxwell0312:
Thanks. So would flashing wipe the AT&T bloatware?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] gqukyo:
Are you referring to the unlocked S7 firmware? Not sure it'll go through. Only ATT has the S7 Active so it'll have ATT bloat. There won't be an unlocked firmware for this device. That being said, you can use one of the multitude of disabler apps to disable the bloat you dislike.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] zakk87:
Thank you for the advice,

can someone know which updates can I sideload next after QJ4 ,which files because there's a lot of them here https://cloud.mail.ru/public/BGy7/gKs4xzhRE/
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
That's true, I now edited my "Yes"-response.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] r3d10tu5:
update sequence

They would be QJ4 -> QK4 -> QL6 -> RA7.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] erwinrm:
S7 Active is wiped after updates

I updated my phone from QH1 to QJ4 using update from SD card and it wiped my phone. I updated from QJ4 -> QK4 -> QL6 -> RA7 using ADB sideload, and it also wiped my phone each time I ran the update.

It takes me hours to setup my phone just the way I like it. I though ADB sideload doesn't wipe the phone applying OTA updates, but I was wrong.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
This is discussed in this thread and then repeated throughout. You can prevent the wipe by pressing and holding power+home+volup+voldown during the update when "script succeeded: result was [/system]" shows on the screen. If you use Samsung Cloud backup setting up your phone after wipe isn't terrible.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
U2BRB1 is up as is BRB2. They are 533MB and 553MB updates respectively so probably includes the app updates that some of the dead-end betas have included (and which I'm now stuck on forever...). These are probably also dead ends, so proceed with caution until you hear from ATT which BRBX is the mainline.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
U2BRB4 and U2BRB5 are also up. Probably alpha/betas of some kind. Come in at ~550MB.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] prakashkashyap:
Any News Regarding ORIO Update
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] berniesteven:
OTA update today. BRB5. January security update.

Se​nt fr​om my SM-G891A

* Peace
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] r3d10tu5:
Thank you so much. Gonna upgrade my phone very soon : D.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] dctrbnsttr:
I thought that the prior ota already contained the January security update. I see an updated kernel. I see an updated messenger app. I noticed that the phone keeps bugging me now to turn on wifi calling since yesterday's ota. Other than that, what is new?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
Update:

In case someone else who has to waddle through random responses to this thread, this is the upgrade path that worked for me:

QD4 -> QF2 -> QG1 -> QH1 -> QJ4 -> QK4 -> QL6 -> RA7 -> RB5
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] aamszia:
Any idea when oreo is going to release in this model >?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
SS-G891AUCU2BRB5-to-S2BRC1-UP is up on ATT servers at 35.4 MB. Likely one more security update. as always, this is about two weeks before it will roll out to phones, so this may be a beta. Don't be like me and get stuck on a beta dead end!

Oreo will probably come next month or the month after. April/May would be the same timing as for Nougat. I'll watch out for it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] troublesome:
Delete
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
First sign of Oreo on AT&T servers:

curl -A 'Python-urllib / 1.17' -o SS-G891AUCU2BRB5-to-U2CRC7-UP.zip https://xdmd.sl.attcompute.com/agents/48838/1488/SS-G891AUCU2BRB5-to-U2CRC7-UP

It's 1.4 GB, updates the android version of the baseband (2BR to 2CR) and is a U. probably beta, but it's coming...

S2BRC1 is also up, and that's the likely OTA update. I'm guessing that after a month or two of trials the Oreo will move out of beta so we'll probably see parallel update and security patch releases for a while. Just guesses.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
Thanks for keeping us informed.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] berniesteven:
I so want to flash this but am afraid I'll get stuck in a beta dead end and have to revert again.

Se​nt fr​om my SM-G891A

* Peace
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
They might be keeping this under wraps as both attempts I've made to download the file have been interrupted. The second one soon after I initiated it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] berniesteven:
I just dl on my phone using Dolphin and this custom user agent: Python-urllib / 1.17

Se​nt fr​om my SM-G891A

* Peace
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] berniesteven:
Woo hoo! Running Oreo!

Se​nt fr​om my SM-G891A

* Peace
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] o_01uk:
Great news. Could you give us a little feed back ie on new features and performance etc?

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] berniesteven:
Very smooth. Cool animations. Battery life seems better. A lot of notification settings to get used to.

Se​nt fr​om my SM-G891A

* Peace
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] mojebada.cz:
I am worried about battery life on Nougat. On 6 I had about 5 hours SOT, on Nougat I have max 4 hours SOT. Hope on Oreo I will have better experience.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] zelendel:
I'm still getting that plus some. I wouldnt count on battery life being better. 8.0 doesnt do the battery any help. My last device is on 8.1 and the battery is worse then any before it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
Latest Full Firmware for Nougat?

Hey guys!

I was browsing through that download section from the russian OTA updates / firmware website:

I noticed there was a full G891AUCS2BRA7 Nougat Firmware, which is one of the latest full firmware ones before the most recent OTA update RB5 .

url]https://cloud.mail.ru/public/BGy7/gKs4xzhRE/firmwares/Nougat/[/url]

Also, there is a new version of the Beta Oreo OTA update RC8. I will attempt to upgrade to and see how it works out. I will keep you all posted.:cool:

*** Update: I successfully flashed the complete Nougat firmware BRA7 with no issues.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
RC8 so far has 2 bugs

- notification sounds repeat themselves until you clear them

- led notification light has been disabled and the toggle for it is not present. The toggle is normally located in the settings->display

*Disabled to the point where the charging light does not turn on

*Update: RC7 Oreo OTA has the same mentioned bugs as RC8*
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] YAARRR:
so just to be sure on what I read here ; Is this, SM-G891_G891AUCS2BRA7_USA_ATT_v7.0, the last stable full build to safely flash on S7 active? Is this safe also for European users?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
The purpose of these updates is for people outside of att or united states are able to update to the current patches and os, so I would say yes.

I'm Canadian and so far this latest nougat full build is stable and working for me. Worst case, follow the first stable release upgrade path.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] prakashkashyap:
Should We wait for Official Oreo OTA Update.?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] mojebada.cz:
delete please, my fault
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
If you want to be sure that you can keep installing future official updates on top of it, then yes you should wait. Those that are currently uploaded could be test versions that will not follow the official upgrade path.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] bandario:
Thank you for that update, I really appreciate it. I would LOVE to flash this right now (7.0 beta was waaay faster than final versions for me!) but that is an unacceptable bug for me. Would drive me nuts.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
Np! Just stick it out till the official release. I'm sure it's gonna be out by May
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] YAARRR:
Flashed by Odin yesterday. For now the only things that give me issue it's Knox and relative services: Samsung pay, health and others connected. Check the screenshot below. Any advice to resolve this? The phone is not rooted.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
It's because your phone is rooted. Mine wasn't so I never got that error.

Can you unroot your phone?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] r3d10tu5:
I guess I should wait for the official one.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] bandario:
I couldn't wait, too exciting - maybe finally these lags will be gone?

Updating now, and what a journey it has been.

I only managed to get hold of the OTA package for RC8 so I've had to go step by step from whatever 7.0 version I'd flashed with Odin, what a pain in the arse.

Update below:

--------------

No opinion on battery life yet as this will obviously take some time to settle in but I thought it worth mentioning, if you are outside the US and you're holding out because of the repeating notifications issue: this can be resolved. On first set-up you get to choose between having detailed notifications on your lock screen or just icons.

I stuck with icons only on my 2nd install and I am no longer getting the repeating notifications.

As far as speed goes, I was initially disappointed but after a few hours the install seems to have settled itself down and I have to say right now even after restoring my Samsung Cloud backup of 40 something apps, the device is extremely snappy. Snappy like it was out of the box on Android 6.0.

I stuck with one of the early flashable releases of 7.0 for a very long time and it was slow as hell. I'm kind of kicking myself for not applying all of the OTA updates for that as I'm thinking I may have just had a dud flash all along.

Anyway, here's hoping this beta doesn't turn into a dead end for months until an Odin package is available.

Long story short: so far, so good. I'll make a post in about a week giving an update on battery life.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
Good stuff! You won't have to go back and do all the updates again as there is a latest full Nougat Odin flashable file.

>https://cloud.mail.ru/public/BGy7/gKs4xzhRE/firmwares/Nougat/
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] bandario:
Another quick RC8 update: Simple Ad Blocker for Samsung (SABS) works well via KNOX (in spite of my past rooting etc) but is a bit tricky to set up. On the bright side, once you get it going this does a handy job of blocking all of the AT&T and other bloat as well as blocking ads apart from youtube.

Battery life is not looking great so far but as I said, hopefully it will settle down. Fully charged last night and even with wifi off, lost 15% overnight. Not great but these numbers are pretty useless at this point until I've done a few 100%-0% cycles and the phone knows its own strength.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] supertac:
once offical comes out is their anyway we can flash moddedodin instead of OTA?

OTA takes forever!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] YAARRR:
If knox trip because of knox......

first you need samsung drivers for windows, ODIN PrinceCosmy version, Last build unzipped ( G891AUCS2BRA7 )

all you need is here https://cloud.mail.ru/public/BGy7/gKs4xzhRE/

knox was tripped, that was the point, not the root status of the phone. If you guys have the same issue, just do this:

1) enable developer mode by multitapping the build version;

2) enable OEM unlock (allow the device to to be OEM unlocked), enable USB debugging;

3) close all, turn OFF the phone;

4) with the phone turned OFF press: Vol down + home button + power; press volume up for the confirmation;

5) connect you phone to your PC and than start ODIN app (winpc PriceCosmy version);

6) now select the file to flash from the last build: BL, AP, CP; wait until the ODIN app does his CHECK, than click START than WAIT ultil ends;

7) take a cup of tea or coffee, or whatever you like, your phone will end the flash and restart without reset all thinks.

I hope that this will help someone.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
This would require a kind soul to come up with a full Oreo ROM. These seem to be infrequently made available, so you are probably better off waiting for the OTA to do its thing than waiting for a ODIN flashable image to become available.

Probably one more month until the official Oreo OTA is out.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
If anyone sees the OTA from ATT, can you comment if it's S2BRC1?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
According to att the latest is brb5
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] *blackzer0:
U2BRB5 compare to U2CRC8 is very smooth & fast i have no tiny bug. thank you for link.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
Any news on battery life for your device? :)