yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
Nice! Big thanks to faronium. Note that on the ATT website, the latest official update is still H1 (august update). This could change soon though. Just pointing out as faronium said, that the linked version above might be beta and a dead end for future updates.

Edit: Now it's official!

https://www.att.com/devicehowto/tut...tep_KM1136420?make=Samsung&model=SamsungG891A
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Ultima99:
I know that QF2 is available as an Odin image, but hasn't been publicly released that I've seen. Perhaps QJ4 will have an Odin image that someone in the community will be able to acquire.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
QJ4 is up on the mail.ru site for easier download for those who understandably don't want to mess with their browser's user agent or the command line.

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/BGy7/gKs4xzhRE/SS-G891AUCS2BQH1-to-S2BQJ4-UP.zip

Still no sign of a later build of this patch but still no sign of the update on the official AT&T web pages. Proceed with care.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Ultima99:
I'm just curious about how far you're going since we're well into November now. I bet you're checking S2BQK1,2,3 etc, but have you also checked U2BQK1,2,3 etc?

I supposed its also possible we could see a new bootloader in anticipation of the Oreo update so that could be S3QK1,2,3 or U3QK1.,2,3.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Good point. That had just occurred to me today too. I looked for a few combos of bootloader/update/Android version/month and etc and didnt find anything. Oreo is in beta for the S8 with Samsung so probably a long ways off for carrier S7s. I'd guess we'll get November's patch late and bundled with the KRACK wpa supplicant patch. Maybe in December? I'm personally only interested in final firmware so am expecting to wait until I hear about it at least on the S7 non carrier phones. I considered setting up a brute force script to look for updates but don't want to have my IP filtered by AT&T. But maybe a slow creepy crawly thing is in order to run in the background...

Anywho, carry on.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] jackprieto:
Has anyone tried this file yet? It was easy to download. Good stuff or bait for dummies?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
I've been running the version from AT&T for a week or so now and it's fine. By bait for dummies I assume you are wondering if the files on the russian site are filled with malware? That's probably a smart question to ask and it's one I wondered about when I got this phone and started looking for patches for it.

For one thing, the update packages are protected by unique keys that enable the update script to verify if each patch is valid. However, upon update, a phone isn't connected to a network, so it has no external way of knowing if the package is legitimate. So, I think it might be possible for a careful hacker to modify as update patch and also modify the signature keys so that the updater thinks it's getting a valid package. I'm not an expert in this, not by a long shot, and have been wondering about it because I'd like to modify the update script to halt at the point before it wipes the user cache. I can see where to do it in the package, but can't tell if it will cause the package to be rejected and haven't tested it yet. But that's a digression.

The simpler way would be to compare the package from AT&T to that from the mail.ru site. I just did a check for myself by calculating the sha512 hash for each file which should be identical if the packages are identical. I can't convince you that I didn't make up these results but here's the SHA512 for the mail.ru package:

sha512sum Downloads/SS-G891AUCS2BQH1-to-S2BQJ4-UP.zip
60db61571e23d79b716c1221ea736fea42039cce53e6467c30453060f005bb2412dfec414695ac4d709a82ec7700cab22436a2c4286e69cc5d48c2f189cdf4bc

And here it is from the AT&T version

sha512sum SS-G891AUCS2BQH1-to-S2BQJ4-UP.zip
60db61571e23d79b716c1221ea736fea42039cce53e6467c30453060f005bb2412dfec414695ac4d709a82ec7700cab22436a2c4286e69cc5d48c2f189cdf4bc

I can say I'm convinced that the package on the mail.ru site is legitimate. But, I could be a nefarious hacker lying to you. I'ts the internet, who knows. The only way for you to be sure would be to download both. Find a user agent switcher for your browser, set if up with the string I described above, and download the AT&T file and compare with the mail.ru using a hashing algorithm.

In my case, I used several packages from mail.ru when I first updated my phone trusting that the internal signatures of the package were hard to tamper with and therefore trustworthy. I also decided that the group of users manually updating S7 actives is pretty small, so we aren't a big hacker target. Their time would be better spent elsewhere.

Hope this helps.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] berniesteven:
Just got ota update to qj4.

Se​nt fr​om my SM-G891A

* Peace
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] jackprieto:
thanks

Thanks for getting back on this. I was hoping for some reassurance, you went the distance. I hope you didn't feel challenged, that wasn't my intention. My next question is - do I load this to my phone with Odin? If this gets a chuckle that's OK. I freely admit I'm new at this and am finding it a steep learning curve compared to learning PCs. I have an unlocked AT&T phone that I'm using Mint Sim with. There's no chance I'll get an update downloaded from AT&T. Can you point me in the right direction?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] khaliullov:
cloud.mail.ru - is Russian analog for Google Drive. This is my mirror and I am just collecting stuff relayted to ours S7 Active.

All OTA files downloaded by myself from ATT servers and I am first person who discovered method for downloading them (wrote special bruteforce Python script). All OTA updates protected by digital sign and it is impossible to inject virus there without knowing Samsung private signing keys. So, any OTA update is safe to download from any site, not just from my mirror. If OTA update file was modified by hacker - digital sign verification won't pass.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Thanks for the clarification and for your work in gathering the S7 active files into a single repository for folks to grab. I'm guessing you are also the one who posts to 4pda? I've found that a very helpful resource.

It's unfortunate that many of us North Americans are suspicious of an entire nationality. We are overexposed to too many negative stories about Russian hacking which makes it easy to forget that the majority are hard working and talented folks out there.

Good to know that the signatures in the files make them uncorruptible as I'd suspected. It's too bad though because it means that modifying the install script in the package to prevent the data wipe will invalidate the package so that hack won't work.

Have a nice weekend

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Not ODIN. That's for full firmware. Read through the thread for instructions. The updates are incremental so you can only go from QH1 to this update. But the installer will check and fail without harm if you don't have the correct precurser installed .

Basically download the file to your phone, reboot into recovery and choose install from sdcard. Make sure you are plugged into a charger or have enough juice.

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Not ODIN. That's for full firmware. Read through the thread for instructions. The updates are incremental so you can only go from QH1 to this update. But the installer will check and fail without harm if you don't have the correct precurser installed .

Basically download the file to your phone, reboot into recovery and choose install from sdcard. Make sure you are plugged into a charger or have enough juice.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] jackprieto:
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Not ODIN. That's for full firmware. Read through the thread for instructions. The updates are incremental so you can only go from QH1 to this update. But the installer will check and fail without harm if you don't have the correct precurser installed .

Basically download the file to your phone, reboot into recovery and choose install from sdcard. Make sure you are plugged into a charger or have enough juice.[/QUOTE]

You've told me a great deal. I'm currently on QB2. How many increments are there till I can get QH1? I saw a thread with a bunch of successive roms but they stop at QB2. What's the latest full firmware? It seems I could use that as a baseline while I stumble around with this stuff. Thanks for everything you've told me so far.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
QB2 is a dead end for further updates.

QD4 is the latest full version available for download.

I would recommend to backup all your data, then install QD4 with odin (will wipe your phone completely):

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/BGy7/gKs4xzhRE/G891AUCS2BQD4_7.0_all.7z

Then go through the following updates: QD4 -> QF2 -> QG1 -> QH1 -> QJ4

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/BGy7/gKs4xzhRE/

I also think these updates will wipe your phone, at least they did for me when I installed via SD card in recovery mode. Can someone confirm this or clarify?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] khaliullov:
OTA updates wipe workaround

There is a trick to workaround wipe. I am using it on each OTA update. Nothing was lost. To save data with Odin - Home-CSC file is required, but it is absent in all available firmwares.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Godmonkey80:
I head bden downloaded from cloud.ru and installed from the SD card. However, i found some game (4 games) gone with this update. How does the original OTA file?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] jackprieto:
It took me a while

I can't thank you enough for the information you gave me. It took me most of a day between looking at youtube 'how to' videos and making a couple of mistakes anyway. I now have the phone up to QJ4. Hopefully, if I'm patient, someone will come up with a root method that doesn't involve starting with an engineering rom and the 'one update after another' route.

After the first full firmware there was no worrying about anything left on the phone. I'm pleased with the Samsung Cloud backup. It even remembers on what pages my icons were. All I had to do was keep my hands off the phone for a few hours and it was just as it was before I started.

All in all, I'm a happy camper right now. Thanks again for your patience with me and my questions.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
Glad it worked out for you! (To be fair I only responded to your last question, while others responded before me :))
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Go to the mail.ru site and look through the files. The file names tell you what the preceding firmware must be and what the destination firmware will be for that update. Start with QB2 and follow the chain. They are roughly monthly so 5 or so.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] jackprieto:
Thanks for you advice. If you look back a couple of posts, I did manage to do all the incremental updates to the latest so far. Any new updates should be easy now that I have a better handle on side-loading a package.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Sorry about that. :silly:

Glad you are all set up. I agree, the Samsung cloud backup has worked really well for me for going from one update to the next.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Godmonkey80:
I had meet problems after update to QJ4 (source from cloud.mail.ru) via SD card:

- 04 game added;

- after some day of use, the google ads popup show on screen for many time. I try factory reset but it still remain.

Please help,
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
What is "04 game"? And what ads do you mean? A screenshot would be good to see, but I don't think I can help.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Godmonkey80:
Thanks for your reply.

04 game: Empire, Star war,...i had been removed after reset.

I cannot take screen shoot. In the minimize windows they appear the Google (ads) in status bar.

I think stock rom update file (from this site) which had been modified. :confused:

Who are meet the same my problem?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
Whan you install an update this way, the phone normally resets and personal data and apps/games are removed. What does the ad say?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
I Think he means that he believes that the firmware had malware embedded in it. But, as was discussed earlier, that would be very unlikely given the security measures involved in signing an update. Any modifications to the update or any package within the update will cause the signature to be invalid and the phone wouldn't apply it
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Godmonkey80:
I met the Ads from last update (QH1) from SD card. Ads appear as below link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gk1xX2e-eJedPrl8jzvRCoZyFvF67GnB/view?usp=drivesdk

Games pre-installed in the QJ update. But, i these game not listed in setting>apps.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Just downloaded S2BQK4 from ATT. It's 36.9 MB so likely the November security update. Perhaps will have the KRACK update as well...?

--Update --

It is the November security patch and it does include the fix for the KRACK vulnerability according to the information on Samsung's mobile security page:

https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb

Note, it's my understanding that the KRACK vulnerability is on both sides of a WiFi connection, so routers need to be patched as well as devices. So, this patch doesn't make you immune.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Godmonkey80:
Can you share OTA.zip file or Full Odin files? I think, if i update zip file from sd card, the problem will remain. Because, the malware/code had been added to system files.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
That was meant to be a separate post along the lines of this thread, not regarding your specific issue. It sounds much more likely that you got the malware from downloading something to your phone than from an update patch, but I"m not an expert. Look through this thread for instructions on downloading the updates. I'm not going to post the latest update file. I don't have a place to do so nor do I have confidence that it's not a dead end beta version which will cause people woe. You can download the file yourself and apply it but I'm not going to provide it for you. And, it almost certainly wont help any more than a factory reset of your phone would.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Ultima99:
Your infection is most likely not from the update, but if you are certain it is then you should download the QD4 Odin image and flash it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Godmonkey80:
Thanks,

I just flashed QD4 via Odin. I hope, my problems may be resolve. Their will appear after some used days

I had been checked 04 games from AT&T store.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Alega75:
battery drain after QJ4 update

>Hi, since I upgraded to QJ4 (applyed update from sd card) my battery is drained constantly, I already made the factory format, I have even formatted the external memory and it is not solved .... someone with the same problem? Any suggestions?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
Are all apps updated to latest version? Otherwise try that and then restart. There is also a way to wipe cache from recovery mode, that might help.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Ultima99:
You can try this:

https://www.androidpit.com/how-to-calibrate-the-battery-on-your-android-device
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Alega75:
Thank you, you gave it in the eye, yesterday night when I reached 1% never turned off and I continued using it for 16 more hours until it was turned off, I followed the instructions of the link, after the battery was fully charged I turned it on and showed 6%, I restarted it and there it returned to normality showing 98%, apparently it is solved.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Ultima99:
Glad it worked for you. Sometimes Android battery calibration just needs a reset.

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U2BQK3 is also available and it's almost 480MB.

https://xdmd.sl.attcompute.com/agents/48838/1488/SS-G891AUCS2BQJ4-to-U2BQK3-UP
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Thanks for checking that. Let us know what it is if you decide to install it. Seems too small to be an Oreo Beta...? Or, I wonder if I've now put myself on a non-upgradable path with QK4? Time will tell!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Ultima99:
Just finished flashing U6DQK3 on my S6 Active and its still showing 7.0 but with December security update. Can't flash my S7A until I have enough time because its my main phone. S6A is standby so I can flash at will.

Edit: I feel like we're long overdue for an update Odin package anyways. How do people get ahold of those? Is it through Kies/Smart Switch or is someone inside Samsung or AT&T leaking them?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
I've just downloaded QK5 and QK6 updates (each was 466 MB) so it's really not clear what will be the main channel here.. Best to hold off on updating until someone who gets an OTA can guide as to what the official path will be.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] rxil:
Official update bqk4 not Oreo Nov 1 security update
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] zsolti256:
shxt installed the g891aucu2bqk6 and now android pay isnt working says it is rooted or modded. what?? can i change the rom somehow to make it work, update to an earlyer version?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
See the post above yours. BQK4 was the official and likely the only ROM with a forward update path. BQK3, BQK5 and BQK6 all must have been betas or alphas or worse. Sounds like you will have to install whatever the latest full ROM is using ODIN. This isn't something I can help you with but this thread and another on the s7 active section of XDA has info and guides on the latest available ROM. From there you will have to sideload all the incremental updates to get to BQK4.

Out of curiousity, did QK6 get you to Nougat 7.1?

Good luck!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] zsolti256:
yeah, got it fixed flashed latest odin then updated one by one to the last zip that was 30mb only that is bqk4.

nope all 7.0 and nov.1 security updated.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] DR28:
I also got caught. Need to flash 4xfiles (or 5, .pit file not required) BQD4 through ODIN. Further in order to bqk4 through OTA. Did it the day before yesterday, all ok. Sorry, don't see the last post.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] mojebada.cz:
I live in Europe and use this phone. Can anyone tell me if I will have some for example prepaid ATaT simcard, will I get OTA updates, or not?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] jembot:
I'd assume you are new to XDA. Please read the OP and other threads for S7Active--it should answer your queries (which were already answered countless times). Always read the thread OPs as it contains relevant and easy to understand info and instructions.

You can always use search terms such as "firmware upgrade" to start with.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
Nope, only on ATT within US. But you can install them manually as described in this thread.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Ricky2301:
Hey guys, I have an unlocked S7 active that's on Metropcs. I get that you can use Odin to flash the files but which order? I have baseband version G891AUCU1APG7 and I'm running on Android 6.0.1.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
Hey, let me point you to a previous post of mine regarding file order, see link below. After QJ4 you can also now go to QK4 (it is confirmed to be official).

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=74481053&postcount=441

This will put you on Android 7.0 with the latest patches and security.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Looks like there's a new update, but as always, not sure if it's the official path as it's not on ATTs support pages yet. Weighs in at 46.3 MB and brings the baseband up to S2BQL6. Anyone want to try to load it and see what it does?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] nachofriend:
I just updated my phone and it now shows December 1st 2017 security update.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Did you update through an OTA with ATT or using a sideload? If you used the OTA, can you look to see if the last few characters of the baseband are QL6?

I'm preparing to sideload this onto mine device, but confirmation that this is official would be great. Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] nachofriend:
I did OTA from ATT.

QL6 is correct.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] gqukyo:
Same Russian site?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
No, I grab it directly from ATT's servers. You need a command line with the curl utility or to know how to change the user agent of your browser to enable the download. The link is then:

https://xdmd.sl.attcompute.com/agents/48838/1488/SS-G891AUCS2BQK4-to-S2BQL6-UP

Google "user agent switcher" for whatever browser you use and use the tool to set the user agent to 'Python-urllib / 1.17'

I learned this from the 4pda.ru site for the phone that seems to have changed. It used to list all of the available updates and had a how-to on downloading from ATT.

I've summarized this earlier if you search through my posts and my summary came from reading this thread in full which you should do as well.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Godmonkey80:
Please upload the update file for outside US.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] gqukyo:
Yes I've been following this thread, that's why I asked if the Russian had it. Didn't want to do what you suggested. Lol. But thanks, guess we have no choice now.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] khaliullov:
Just uploaded it to the cloud: SS-G891AUCS2BQK4-to-S2BQL6-UP.zip
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Godmonkey80:
Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] khaliullov:
You are talking rubbish. OTA updates are digitally signed and could not contain any modifications (see "Digital signature" wiki). All firmwares contains public keys for OTA updates and system checks digital signature of update before appling an update. If this check not pass - update will be canceled.

Let's make America great again!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] gqukyo:
Dang it, now I'm stuck in recovery mode. Never happened before but now when I boot up into recovery mode, it stays on the Downloading... screen forever and no key presses do anything. I've powered off and back on normally and everything works. I'm not sure what happened. Googled but didn't find anything. It's not bootlooping either, just stuck on that one screen.

*Ignore me, I haven't done this in a while and was actually in Odin recovery mode... lol Move along now... lol