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[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] bacs2000:
To clarify a bit, android 6.0.1 is bootloader 2 and Nougat 7.0 is bootloader 2 too??
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
The change from V1 to V2 happened with the November, 2016 update which DID NOT change the android version. The Android version stayed at 6.0.1. You can look this up yourself here:

https://www.att.com/devicehowto/tut...tep_KM1136420?make=Samsung&model=SamsungG891A

Under the build numbers, the 5th to the last number, which is a 2 in the most recent builds, indicates the bootloader version. If you look at previous updates you will see the September to November 2016 update as the time when 1 went to 2.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] *blackzer0:
Any one try gear app mine not work on crd4
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
I doubt anything will work right with these beta builds. Gotta wait for an official full firmware
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] YAARRR:
I cannot answer for the gear app, but I'm with the last oreo from a week, and all I usually use are working really good. Battery life still good
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
Can you use pay pass with the nfc ? Like visa payments at the check out ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] YAARRR:
I'm sorry but in Italy that kind of "payment" is really rare to be found.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Avirexone:
Hi guys!! sorry but i didn't have mutch time to follow you and read everything...so i'll ask if you can help me

i'm still in this rom g891aucu2bqf2 how i can do it? wich rom is after and where's?

Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] spthimmelving:
https://xdaforums.com/s7-active/how-to/s7-active-sm-g891a-ota-updates-firmware-t3540866/post75959348 and https://xdaforums.com/s7-active/how-to/s7-active-sm-g891a-ota-updates-firmware-t3540866/post75536899
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] AryM10:
Hi!

Search the AT&T's update page, in that page you can found the historial updates versions.

Next you can download the OTA updates to install in the order that you found in the AT&T page.

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

Or install with modified Odin, one of the last nougat firmware of the firmware folder.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] bandario:
I found a workaround for this. Post # 629

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=76360888&postcount=629
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Avirexone:
thank you i start all the update
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] *blackzer0:
Its work thank you bandario
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] bacs2000:
What modify odin you recommend?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] AryM10:
In the link you can found a zip with the name "Odin modified" o something else, use that. Don't use a "normal" Odin's version.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Unfortunately, ATT has modified their server settings breaking the current means of accessing the updates. I don't have time or the means to reverse engineer this, so I won't be able to update this thread any longer. If anyone out there wants to work on this, now would be the time.

All the best.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] khaliullov:
Just use User-Agent "Test"
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Haha. Thanks! The Python user agent had failed a while ago and I switched to a null UA. Anyhow, carry on.

On attempting that, it doesn't work. Maybe my IP has been blocked? Anyhow, carry on.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] khaliullov:
Just tried:

curl -A "Test" -O https://xdmd.sl.attcompute.com/agents/48838/1488/SS-G891AUCS2BRC1-to-U3CRD6-UP

Working on my side.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Works for me from another IP. I think the IP I was using has been filtered.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
For anyone else who is sick of vague answers to how to get into the att link here's how

https://xdaforums.com/att-galaxy-s5/general/how-to-download-official-att-firmware-t3422665

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Also how are you able to even see the latest update on their server ? Is there a way of seeing a physical list of whatever has been uploaded to the att server?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] rxil:
WiFi calling seems to be hit or miss. The calls connect but no voice
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] AryM10:
New OTA Updates?

Any new update? the currently update is XXXD6? :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
I learned by reading through this thread and links from here to one that used to be on 4pda.ru which seems to be gone? Also, having a basic knowledge of linux has helped. You can certainly modify the user agent in your browser and do the same brute-force thing that I do at the command line with the same result. Beware that I seem to have got my IP address blacklisted on the ATT server, so use care when you look for update files. The safest way to do this is to monitor ATTs device help site and when a new software update is shown, only then try to download it from the ATT servers. This will keep your profile low and most importantly, keep your use of their resources to a minimum. Hope one of these methods works for you.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
S2BRC1-to-U3CRE2 is up on ATT servers
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
Thank you for responding. While I'm pretty good with most basic and intermediate computer related things, brute force with command line , Linux is not common knowledge for me. Majority of us are coming here to just OTA update or Odin our phones. Some of the explanations are incredibly vague around here which can be frustrating. Willing to learn but Some of the posts assume everyone knows what the person is talking about. "Go find it on Google" also gets old and obnoxious (which is a common response I've seen here). Some people get a slew of results that require perusing at the expense of lots of time.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
TL;DR:

1) you aren't missing out on anything by not being able to access the att server and poke around. Everything there gets mirrored out on the mail.ru site.

2) You can educate yourself to check for these things on your own and it wouldn't hurt you to spend the time to gain that skill set. You could even put it on your resume.

3) we need to be careful to note that our access is not supported/authorized and need to treat lightly.

Long version:

There are a few dimensions to this. I agree that a tutorial would make things better. There was a tutorial that explained a lot about how this phone could be updated over on the 4pda website. I lost track of that and haven't gone looking, but that was a great resource and I was thankful for how well google translate handled the russian!

There's great value in educating yourself even if it takes you a lot of time. It would be possible to spoon-feed you and others how-tos, but that wouldn't help you learn. If you run windows and have access to the linux subsystem for it, then it's not a big step for you to learn the curl command and in doing so you will begin to open up a massive new skill set for yourself.

If you just want access to OTA updates and are outside of the US or in the US and not on ATT services, then just be patient. XDA user [MENTION=5947262]khaliullov[/MENTION] maintains a repository of all the known updates including full firmware and it's updated as things become available. We should be very thankful for this hosting. [MENTION=5947262]khaliullov[/MENTION] usually finds the updates first, or watches this thread and puts the updates on the mail.ru site as soon as they are available.

Another dimension here is that our poking at ATT's servers is, at best not supported, and at worst may provoke them to close the access. I don't think they could completely close the access as their official OTA updates likely happen via HTTP, but my IP has been banned from their server so they do apparently watch their logs and are sensitive to scanning for updates. My point is that instructing hundreds of people in how to scan their websites makes it more likely that getting the updates through the channels we use will get shut down and then there will be no way for non-ATT users to get updates in the future.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] CFoote:
Just got a update today. I am on BRD1 for build. Seems a little more responsive. Don't think they fixed anything with that new, junky, Messages app. Anyway, I was notified today of it.

Chris
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Can you give the full build number please? It's BRD1 not BRC1? I'm asking because I'm not able to download that from ATT
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
It's on the Russian .ru website
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
I'm missing something. There's CRD1 which is Oreo and BRC1 which is Nougat. The full update filenames are U2BRB5-to-U3CRD1 and U2BRB5-to-S2BRC1. I haven't seen a BRD1 either on ATT's server nor on the mail.ru cloud site.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
Apologies I was thinking about the latest.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] CFoote:
It may not be on ATT's servers yet. The full build # is NRD90M.G891AUCS3BRD1.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] Matad1974:
My S7 Active has the network unlocked, it works in Italy, Base band version G891AUCS2BQL6 with patches on December 1, 2017, which should I put to update it? Sorry for my English.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] mojebada.cz:
first step BQL6 to BRA7

second step BRA7 to BRB5

third step BRB5 to BRC1
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Ah, I'm an idiot. I had assumed that going from bootloader 2 to 3 would be an update rather than a security patch, so I was looking for S2BRD1 and U3BRD1 but not S3BRD1. I see that build now. 41MB and must contain the April security updates. I saw your message right after installing U3CRE2, so now I'm not on the official path. Doh.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
Looks like me you and that other fella have to wait for a full official Oreo firmware before we update or risk some serious bricking lol

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I looked up reddit and someone said something about a update that brought it to baseband 3 but it's still nougat

https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS7/comments/8ihl7j/att_update_no_oreo/
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Ha ha. Darn. Luckily, the CRE2 Oreo seems pretty solid. Has nice new goodies and the only bug I've found so far is that I can't make the icon frames go away on the stock launcher. But, there are a lot of features I never use, so can't say this has been any kind of thorough test. Here's hoping someone gets a full ROM together in the relatively near future, but if not, my phone could happily sail away into the sunset with the software it has now and I wouldn't be too bothered.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] khaliullov:
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/BGy7/gKs4xzhRE/OTA/Nougat/SS-G891AUCS2BRC1-to-S3BRD1-UP.zip

BL updated to 3rd version. So, It is impossible to rollback to previous versions after applying this OTA update.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
Yup the lot of us that updated are ****ered until a full firmware Oreo is out...or if att decides to give us the bootloader unlock
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
I just noticed there is a 2.24mb file in the nougat firmware section s2brc1 to s3brd1. Really odd ( the russian cloud mail website)
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] CFoote:
Oreo should be here in June or July, we'll see, the S9 Active is also coming out, but I like the smaller screen (more runtime with the battery) and buttons on the S7 so we'll see what they do with the S9 Active.

Do you find Oreo to be more responsive than Nougat?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
I'm on 3crd4 and I can say Oreo is as responsive as nougat was. Only issues as follows:

1) occasionally bogged down when using Google maps. ( unsure of it's Google maps or that this Oreo is beta)

2) swiping through app screen is sometimes choppy
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] stateOFplay:
App screen?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
. In nougat you select the bottom right icon with the multi folder pic and it pulls up all apps to choose from. In Oreo you swipe from the bottom ** up to access them. I hope that makes sense
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] CesarLucker:
I have my S7 active and it has network unlocked, I want to downgrade it from the baseband BQF2 to BQD4 because I tried to rooted and I couldn't and for that reason I can't use samsung pay or S health. Do you think that if I downgrade it, the network will be locked? Another thing is when I turn on my S7 active on screen appears the word "Custom" and an unlocked padlock.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] roland05:
Got a stock ATT S7 Active, currently running BRC1, started getting update notices the last couple of days. Download succeeds with a 41.45M file, but when it reboots the system it gets to 25% then fails :( I tried all the usual stuff - clear cache, etc - with the same result (or rather lack thereof). Finally nuked to device and started fresh - same deal. A day later, update didn't show anything new, then three days after the same package showed up again with the same fail. Any idea if this is a broken ATT G891AUCS3BRD1 package or?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
I'm confident that it remains network unlocked, but don't take my word for it alone.

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It probably is - the file size matches BRD1 as far as I know. You could contact ATT about it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
update from S3BRD1-to-U3CRE2 is up on ATT servers. That makes two updates to U3CRE2 so that "might" be the official Oreo for the phone. I'm not seeing any major issues with CRE2 having used it for a few days now. But, to be sure you don't get stuck on a dead branch, you should wait until someone chimes in with an official ATT update notice.

EDIT: looks like [MENTION=5947262]khaliullov[/MENTION] beat me to it. That update has been on the mail.ru site for a couple days now.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] CesarLucker:
Thank you!

Thank you, I'll try it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Yeah, this looks like an incomplete upload mistakenly placed in the firmwares section. There's a complete version of that update under the OTA section.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
It excited me temporarily but makes sense.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] khaliullov:
Hi, I've bought firmware for $18.5 with BL3:

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/BGy7/g..._QB17619845_REV02_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.7z

if it works, donate me via PayPal mail@leandr.su
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
Im really curious but Where did you buy it from ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] ThunderingLight:
Thank you so much!! Your work with the cloud storage of all the OTA and firmwares saved my butt a lot of times. I will try to flash back to Nougat with the file. Thank you again!
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] khaliullov:
First link in Google by full name of firmware 'g891aucs3brd1'
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
Shady looking website. Wondering if files were tampered with.

Also I'm very grateful for your cloud account and all the files you provided for everyone here.

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This file has to be on the att server at this point. I see a Chinese website trying to extort money for it just like that Arab website.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
The update files are but ATT doesn't post full ODIN flashable firmwares on their site AFAIK.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
So how do people get a full flashable Odin firmware ? Sorry for all the questions I'm just very curious how any of these processes work
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] khaliullov:
I think it is impossible to flash modified or fake firmware with locked bootloader. Odin will cause error on firmware signature verification step.

[MENTION=4506008]miniminus[/MENTION] could you please clarify this? You are expert in building custom ROMs and flashing them.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
Shouldn't that be possible, since BRD1 (Nougat) is also on BL3?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] cheema23:
Let's wait for update status from

harbnger
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
This is all you need to know. If the full firmware that [MENTION=5947262]khaliullov[/MENTION] posted was tampered with and if the user had somehow managed to get their phone to accept it (impossible) then the OTA update to CRE2 would have failed the signature check. Apparently it didn't and if you go through this process and are able to apply the Oreo OTA, then you should be golden. from reading about android update and image security on the AOSP pages here:

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/ota/sign_builds

It's pretty clear that building or modifying updates and firmwares with malicious intent is impossible unless you know someone who works for Samsung and has access to the signing certificates. This isn't impossible, but is very very unlikely.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
I have flashed the new nougat file with Odin. So far so good. But My phone battery life is still terrible ever since these updates. I've lost almost 20 percent in 4.5 hours of mild usage
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
Thanks for the heads-up. You've tried the usual stuff like wipe system cache, app cache etc?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
I thought firmware flashing / ota updating wipes that stuff

I also did not backup apps. I only restored texts and my files / pictures sd card.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
True, app cache would not be necessary to wipe I guess. But sometimes it helps to wipe cache partition in recovery mode.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] bacs2000:
Esta es la actualización actual: Android 7.0 Nougat

The details

Release date:*May 9, 2018Android version:*7.0Security patch level (SPL):*April 1, 2018Baseband version:*G891AUCS3BRD1Build number:*NRD90M.G891AUCS3BRD1Previous version required:*G891AUCU2BRB5 or G891AUCS2BRC1File size:*42.3MB or 41.4MB

The updates

What's changing:*Android device security updates

Thats now on AT&T update page, they just mention a normal security update, but nothing about change to bootloader from version 2 to 3
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
If you followed the thread you would understand.

Basically

U2BRB5 update has the number 2 in it. That denotes the bootloader2

G891AUCS3BRD1 (look at the S3BRD1)

Has the number 3 in it which denotes bootloader 3. Att won't explain that because they don't need to. 99 percent of users won't benefit from that knowledge.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] bacs2000:
Yes, thanks, i follow the thread and undestand about bootloder, im just mention that at&t dont have a full changelog on the page. But i undestand what you say that 99% people could no undestand about it.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
Thanks for letting us know that it's up and official. I see that they didn't mention the previous change from bl1 to bl2 either.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] zekev:
G891AUCS2BQH1 to G891AUCS3BRD1

Hi, I just bought a S7 active (my previous was a S5 active).

Since I'm from Canada (and using an ATT US phone) I'm used to update my phone with ODIN.

What is the shortest path to upgraed from G891AUCS2BQH1 to G891AUCS3BRD1 ? Is there a full package to do it ?

Thanks for any help !
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] bacs2000:
Hi, with ODIN go to https://cloud.mail.ru/public/BGy7/g..._QB17619845_REV02_user_low_ship_MULTI_CERT.7z

This is a full ODIN flashable firmware with last official S3BRD1, remeber always to make a backup. In this page on main you can find ODIN Modify too following this link: https://cloud.mail.ru/public/BGy7/gKs4xzhRE/ODIN-modified.zip
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] zekev:
Thanks, that was a quick answer. But I've found ODIN v.13.1 since it is newer isn't it better to use this version instead of the odin-modified you sent me with the link ? What's the difference between these 2 odin version ?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] AryM10:
Odin modified is for s7 active and normal Odin doesn't have active support. Don't use a newer normal Odin version.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] zekev:
Hoho, I used the newer version. My phone seems to work perfectly and the active part of It as well (special button, hearth beat,...).

Should I reflash using the modified ODIN ?

Thanks !
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] bacs2000:
No, it's no necessary to reflash if it works for you.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
Just a heads up that on U3CRE2 I'm having much difficulty with international roaming from Canada to the US. Something is up and I reckon it has to do with the delay in releasing Oreo to the S7s. So, just a warning to hold off on updating to that version if you had it in mind to. One more month....
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] harbnger:
Thanks for letting us know! Fellow Canadian here as well
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
S3BRD1-to-U3CRE5 is up on ATT servers. Nothing above version 5 as yet.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] james59802:
Do you happen to have a link?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] staffeyx:
Beware that it might be a beta of some sort. It seems to be uploaded on the russian site:

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/BGy7/gKs4xzhRE/OTA/Oreo/SS-G891AUCS3BRD1-to-U3CRE5-UP.zip
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] faronium:
As always, if you don't want to (or can't) mess around with ODIN, then wait until ATT releases the official update.

Thanks to [MENTION=5947262]khaliullov[/MENTION] I was able to revert from CRE2 back to BRD1 then up to CRE5. I've installed this as of yesterday and am not seeing any issues yet. I can't comment on the roaming issue that I had on the weekend because I'm back home now.

Overall, these Oreo builds have really good battery life and some nice additions to the Samsung take on Android. For instance, it's easy to set up a password manager to autofill app account passwords. There are notification badges on app icons. Quick actions on long-press. Sound over bluetooth is noticeably better (to my ears). Samsung keyboard seems to work better. New gesture to open app drawer and notification/quick settings. etc. All of this definitely breathes some life into our 2 year old phones.
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Active Guides, News, & Discussio] AryM10:
Thanks for your review!

Maybe I'll try this build on few hours while I'm doing a backup :)