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[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] matthewd769:
Im sure you never aksed a question without doing your research correct? Can you come down of your high horse for a minute, ... I have helped many a people who have asked a question for the 2nd 5th and 20th time and still offering help and answers. You people who complain about it and then mary john and whoever else has to complain about it is what fills the thread. How about this and pass this to everyone else .... if your going to take the time to complain about something that was asked or suggested or whatfreakingever ... then HELP AND PROVIDE some insight to where you found the answer or how you can help. Stop being so high and mighty this community is to HELP eachother not criticize everyone ... THAT is whats wrong with society and this community ... youd rather bash and complain then assist and help.

if you cant help or offer assistance when reading a post or comment ... DONT REPLY !!!!! it takes just as much time with less anger and hostility or degrading someone with a crappy answer then a positive one.

as for your "spoon feeding" that were refer more to you brining yourself to MY house and do the process for me. Just help people out and stop being bullies.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] ayjays:
So skimming through this last session all I seen was bull**** fighting so excuse me if this already been asked but is there going to be a port for the new beta version
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Epic htc 1:
#AMEN
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Wagedroid:
No one was bashed and there was no hostility. Go ahead White Knight of XDA, victimizing was a great reach.

I'm sure you helped and answered a lot since your join last August.

Real mad hours ??

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We get these ota's when at&t releases them. I check the at&t update page and the firmware sites before looking here.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] bmark34:
I've been away from XDA for quite some time, and man has it changed. People are more lazy than ever and people "rookie haze" every chance they get. I've been on these forums for over 10 years and the excitement of "pimping" your phone is definitely gone. This is exactly why all the best devs have left. There used to be a sense of camaraderie being a team in a thread and pushing the phone to the limits while reveling in the success of others. Long gone are those days.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] matthewd769:
awe kiddo ... if you only knew.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] JeffATL:
Anyone update to Oreo from a U1 base rom? All the update zips at samsung.firmware.science are U roms .
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] xdanilva:
You can update from AQJC to ZQKS
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
I've been on here since 2008, there were also way less members and way less repeat questions over and over and over.

In fact, I would wager that that is why 50% of the devs you're referring to left anyway.

When this site was smaller, people who came here typically already had the desire to learn to tweak their device, and didn't mind reading for a minute or two in order to do so. Having the same questions on every page takes away from members wanting to learn other things that haven't been answered, since they have to wade through much more to find an answer to a legitimate question. It's a catch 22.

Anyway, this is derailing the thread. I thought what you posted needed a response though since it is only 1/4 or 1/2 true.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] JeffATL:
Need a BL2 rom. Want it to be based on an unbranded rom. I know you had said that U and U1 roms are interchangeable but Sprint sim keeps forcing conversion to SPR , someone suggested because I did not start out with U1 rom when carrier switching
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] falcon67:
But you can force u1 phone to u softwaee by using modified odin.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Marekkatowice:
Hi can i use this to update my g955W ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Reechings:
Yes
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] tailgunner9:
https://www.sammobile.com/news/andr...d-galaxy-s8-plus-receive-wi-fi-certification/

https://www.sammobile.com/news/galaxy-s8-android-8-0-oreo-beta-program-ends-january-15-2018/
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] sfld:
Looks like a official one dropped. Should be the same thing as before if im on zqks? I gotta odin to bqk5 and then boot into recovery and flash the update? Or do i have to flash bqkl ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] real77055:
Odin 3.12

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I tried and the installation was aborted in recovery error ASKS token doesnt exist. HOME-CSC it from AGQL right?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Dudash:
That's what I used. But I used the AQGL firmware from Verizon since my S8+ is the Verizon model. I didn't use the one from the OP.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] real77055:
so You had installed oreo beta 1 with one from OP but now you've used one from Verizon? mine too is Verizon s8+. can you give me the link of that?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Dudash:
I used the Verizon one for both. Here is a link to it. But you may want to wait a bit to try what I did. The update is getting goofy after doing my little method. I'm going to try to see if I can fix it or if I have to factory reset.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] real77055:
thanks. Im going to whait. ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] dmezh:
You can use the one in my OP, it's not region-specific. It will brand itself Verizon if you have a Verizon SIM installed. It will install the same Verizon bloat and specifics. All USA S8/+ are internally identical.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Dudash:
There may be something off with beta 2, since it hasnt been pushed to anyone in the beta yet and was pulled off of AT&T's servers.

I did the same process I did to update to beta 2, downgrading to AQGL with the HOME_CSC, then immediately booting into recovery after it finished downgrading, then re-installed beta 1 again and it works fine. I'm right back where I was before attempting to downgrade and upgrade to beta 2.

A factory reset might fix it but I don't want to lose all my data if it wont even fix it. I'll wait for someone else to come along and try that.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] gmmorrell:
My attempt giving me a 'fingerprint' error. I had previously rooted mine using the instructions here on XDA. My fingerprint is now verizon/dream2qltesq....... when it was looking for samsung/dream2qltesq.....

any way around this?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Commies:
Every time I try to download the AQGL update from here , it tries to tell me I'm not logged in and have to log in to download it when I am logged in. Any way to get a mirror?

I have a Verizon S8 currently running AQH3
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] nozzleman_85:
I have successfully flashed back to the latest 7.0 update on Verizon (KRACK update)
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Josephigloe:
So is it recommended to Odin back to QGL nougat then update to beta 2,

I have tried to go straight from beta 1 to beta 2 and I get error and it won't update.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] cam30era:
Required, not recommended. As you found, you can't go from point A to point B directly. ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] cledee:
Does anyone know what the changes are in the beta 2?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] sabresfan:
Can't say I know the changes but it seems snappier to me. I'm not gonna stay on it but overall it's better than beta 1 in my opinion.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] :
How do I flash this for G955W?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] pro_granade:
I installed it dirty and I'm locking up constantly. If/when they come up with a package for beta 1 to beta 2 I'll flash it, but **** wiping data lol
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] effortless:
Beta 2

If anyone is on the 1st beta and wants the 2nd (but doesn't want to wait for the OTA), just download Samsung Smart Switch on PC or MAC and it will prompt you to update once you plug your phone to PC.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] real77055:
for what version ? if the phone is supported by Samsung then it will work but Verizon branded phones will not update
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] bogdi1988:
Finally able to install beta2 on my device. I downgraded from AQHD to AQGL and then apply beta 2 using the following steps:

1. downgrade AP, CSC (used HOME) and CP

2. reboot

3. downgrade BL

4. boot in recovery and apply beta 2 zip - i used the SD as a source instead of adb sideload.

Patching took about 10 minutes.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] hazard666:
Question that might not necessarily belong here. Is flashing an Oreo Beta image via ODIN the only way of accessing the beta as of now? Is the beta program full? I ask because I've checked the Samsung+ app on both the Tmobile firmware and the U1 firmware and never receive the ability to register.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Reechings:
Need to Odin to BQL1
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] JeffATL:
Is KS affected by Spectre?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] xdanilva:
No we're on snapdragon processors not intel...

Also it was already patched with the December security update.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Marekkatowice:
Confirmed!

I install right now working perfect

thank you! good job
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] falcon67:
Now KS to LJ update is avalible:

https://samsung.firmware.science
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] xdanilva:
[MENTION=4937687]dmezh[/MENTION]

Hey guys oreo beta is over..

We changed from ZQ to CR. Files that start with Z are beta files.

S8+ BQL1

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-ikUEBd_uZevIGA3jgaVFu04p5PLk6ze

S8+

https://samsung.firmware.science/download?url=48926/1488/SS-G955USQS2BQL1-to-U2CRA1-UP

S8 BQL1

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uaaShucxftXYos_p7dfse-L5RKFYkh7Z

S8

https://samsung.firmware.science/download?url=48927/1488/SS-G950USQS2BQL1-to-U2CRA1-UP
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] sfld:
Wow so I can just flash the update.zip instead of having to use Odin to downgrade? Just to make sure, im on zqks on vzw.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] nhoc_maruko9x:
From samsung.firmware.science, if current firmware is BQK5, there's no option for upgrade to CRA1. So I suppose we must odin BQL1 first. I will try directly flash CRA1 from ZQKS to see if it working. Just to test because I will odin BQL1 anyway :D
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] crixley:
There is a K5 to L1 zip

just a heads up in case anyone went back to K5 like me out of habit LOL
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Suzook1:
odin?

what version of odin do you use ?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] nhoc_maruko9x:
K5 to L1 nonsense, isn't it? Because we need to use odin anyway.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Suzook1:
I have the BQK5 to BQL1 files. which version of ODIN do you use?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Nitefire77:
I flashed the LJ update from KS and it installed quick. It has the January security patch, but I'm curious to what's different between it and CRA1
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] mopartonyg:
What version is the LJ zip? Looks like the Cr zip is the latest OREO.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] sfld:
Ya is LJ newer than the cr zip? I want to flash Lj directly from ks. Wonder if i can flash cr after that?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Nitefire77:
The CQLJ was built on December 29th. What's the build date on CRA1? Since R zcomes after Q I'm guessing it's newer but it doesn't hurt to check
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] falcon67:
We have to be L1 which latest nougat software to be able to update to CRA1.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] JAMAS0409:
it is a question???? or we can update from ks to CRA1 ????
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] xdanilva:
January 2nd 2018
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] tailgunner9:
OK on CRA1 is latest for our S8+. So I am on ZQKS now, so what do I need to do to use the Update from SD card to this CRA1 Please. Too many different answers xdanilva. Do I Odin back to BQK5 first? Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks xdanilva....
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] falcon67:
I tried from LJ to CRA1 but it failed becsuse it to be on L1 to be able to update to CRA1.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] sfld:
You would goto bql1 and then before it boots goto recovery quickly and then flash the cra1.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] JAMAS0409:
yep.. i tried to flash from qks to cra1 and filed.. now i m flashing bql1 and them flash cra1....
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] xdanilva:
Odin to BQL1 then sideload to CRA1

S8+ BQL1

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-ikUEBd_uZevIGA3jgaVFu04p5PLk6ze

S8+ CRA1 OTA

https://samsung.firmware.science/download?url=48926/1488/SS-G955USQS2BQL1-to-U2CRA1-UP

S8 BQL1

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uaaShucxftXYos_p7dfse-L5RKFYkh7Z

S8 CRA1 OTA

https://samsung.firmware.science/download?url=48927/1488/SS-G950USQS2BQL1-to-U2CRA1-UP
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] johnc0865:
Verizon S8+ went from ZQKS odin to BQL1 then flashed sd card method in recovery CRA1 working fine.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] falcon67:
Is CRA1 actually Oreo or a new nougat update?Just checking to be sure.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] xdanilva:
Here
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] falcon67:
Thank you for confirming that.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] rohitece06:
I have a feeling that CRA1 is actually a release candidate something like RC1
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] snehal1991:
Looks like you have accidentally used s8+ CRA1 link in S8! Other than that, updates are working. Just updated my s8 to latest CRA1! THANKS!

T-Mobile s8, odin ZQKS to BQL1, and sideload CRA1. Working perfectly!
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] xdanilva:
Oops.

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Fixed it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] rohitece06:
Can someone, who is on CRA1, please check if beta service is installed and running in background?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Marsh10:
Is anyone facing problems with Odin? I am trying to go back to BQL1 but odin not responds when I select the AP file
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] diet.tampon:
that's normal, just wait a few minutes for it to start responding. it'll work.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] xdanilva:
There's no beta service present at all.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] tailgunner9:
This article says Beta Testing will End Jan. 15

https://www.sammobile.com/news/galaxy-s8-android-8-0-oreo-beta-program-ends-january-15-2018/

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Yep it takes it awhile to load into Odin 3.12.7 and depends on how Fast a PC you have also. Also takes BQL1 Awhile to load in phone and get started. Be Patient!!!!!
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] sfld:
anyone got a black navigation bar apk that works with all these new oreo builds? Looks like the apk i have doesnt work with the latest CR build
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] tailgunner9:
BAD part of having 2 different phones on same forum page. Should just be things for S8+ on here as it says at top of page. But OH Well....
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Neurokk:
And you guys, what do you think about the new CRA1? How is it working? Compared to the last beta 4.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] tailgunner9:
I installed it late last night, was running Oreo ZQKS. I have not had any problems with it so far today, but I did not have any problems with ZQKS either. Maybe others will say if they have found any problems.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] cledee:
Has anyone gotten Dolby Atmos feature to work on the new CRA1?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] JeffATL:
Some Snapdragon cores are affected - I think the S8 falls into that category
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] xdanilva:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3245790/mobile/spectre-cpu-faq-phones-tablets-ios-android.html

We already have the December security patch we're fine.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] rohitece06:
Please updates us on how the battery life is. Until ZQKS, nougat (BQL1) has significantly better life than oreo.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] JeffATL:
Thanks.

Are you still using Samsung Cloud for backup and restore? Are you using anything in conjunction ?

Restoring phone after rom flashing without root on the s8+ has always had hiccups.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] xdanilva:
I'm still using Samsung cloud.

I didn't have any problems.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] tailgunner9:
See it on mine, Auto, Movie, Music and Voice settings.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] cledee:
I have it on but it doesn't do anything, probably will work on next release.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] tailgunner9:
Battery life is worse than Android 7 but that is to be expected since these Builds just getting more & More junk in them and other things in them to use memory & CPU. So guess it is expected. Oh WELL....
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Wagedroid:
Can anyone on CRA1 confirm working Dolby Atmos? It's supposed to be intergrated
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] xdanilva:
Somebody on the telegram group confirmed that samsung messed up and put it there by accident meaning for it to work with the s9. It only shows up in quick settings. Dolby Atmos doesn't show up in the soundalive ui and they removed it in note 8's 3CRA2 build.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Marsh10:
Does anyone have dolby atmos on their beta 5?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Goneeuro:
I am all for answering questions but come on. The answer is directly above your post. It was there in part accidently. It's supposed to be released on the S9.

EDIT: I see you posted less than a minute after the answer was given. So maybe you didn't see it.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Nitefire77:
So they are going to give the S9 Dolby Atmos and give us S8 users the finger? There's no reason why our devices shouldn't have the ability to use Atmos.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] 0vermind:
Hahaha how do you mess something up like that. Some junior engineer: "Just posted a the live commit for the Dolby stuff. Am I good to take off?" His boss: "..... You idiot, you just wasted 2 hours committing changes to the WRONG PHONE."

Exclusivity. They seem to be refusing to add anything new or any major changes aside from what we saw in Beta 1. I've asked them repeatedly to give us options for emojis just like font packs, and put a checkbox that says "Got it, don't remind me again." on the volume warning box. They refuse. I'm assuming they have their plan and they're sticking to it. Only big change/addition I've gotten them to do was fixing the cookie emoji. My thread in the beta members app received a lot of attention.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] xdanilva:
They could make it work though. Now that people are seeing it on the leaked oreo official build lol... but who knows.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] 0vermind:
Samsung could do many awesome things to really hit the ball out of the park with the Oreo update. But they won't. They could very easily have committed AOSP changes of 8.1 and then released us a testing build and fixed bugs from that moving forward. 8.1 doesn't have huge stack changes. Will they? Nah. It deviates off the plan.

EDIT: If that junior engineer didn't get the time to remove all of the Dolby commits he accidentally made, you could try this https://techonation.com/install-dolby-atmos-on-android-without-root/. With the commits that are still left in there, and that APK, I wonder how well it would work.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] jdelano:
A quick note of thanks

Thanks to everyone here, I've been following this thread for a while. I really appreciate the ability to jump ahead and flash Oreo and how easy it was made by having all the info you all spelled out, especially some of the repeat info which is a nice confirmation. Again Thank you!

For anyone who might not have been trying the betas (like me). My S8+ was on stock BQL1 and I simply put the CRA1 zip on my sd card and updated in stock recovery.

I downloaded the S8+ CRA1 OTA update.zip file to my sd card (yes it must be on the sd card) using the link from this post (graciously created by [MENTION=7820902]xdanilva[/MENTION]) **it is always best to download such a large file when you're on WiFi

Then I powered off

Then pressed and held vol up then Bixby and then power button and held them down until I saw the blue screen with the android on it

I waited for the menu (stock recovery) to appear (it can take a little bit)

Selected Update from sd card (use the vol up/down rocker to move the selector and then use the power button to select a menu item)

then I selected the update.zip file that I saved to the sd card previously

from there the update ran, you'll see a permission error mounting system, ignore it. The process will take some time. Just be patient.

once the phone reboots it will continue to update Android, again be patient.

:highfive:
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] xdanilva:
Go into recovery mode Power + Vol Up + Bixby

Choose adb sideload

You can also put it on your pc download sdk platform tools and shift right click and open a command window then type adb sideload update.zip
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] tailgunner9:
Maybe they doing like Apple did with iPhone slowing older phones down so maybe you buy newer phone. Maybe they messing with us with Dolby and want you to buy S9 when it is out. Just a thought. I am alright without the Dolby myself.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Goneeuro:
I don't even know what this Dolby thing does so I won't miss it. I am sticking with my s8+ till we see a foldable display. It does plenty for me.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] Wagedroid:
Could care less if Atmos is working or not, just thought it was odd they added it with/for no apparent reason. I'd be happy if they just gave us gif support in native messaging app ... Smh
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] nofearkingbiatch:
I watched netflix on my phone at work for 9 hours straight to see how it would do and I still have 30 percent left.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] rizzo269:
For me it's way better than ZQKS on my device. In standby last night I lost 4% in 9 hours overnight which was better than nougat as well. I've got 32% left with almost 4 hours of SOT today so that seems pretty good. It's the first full day on the new build though.
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] diet.tampon:
Question: I can't download BQL1 at the moment but I have BQK5 already downloaded, could I just Odin BQK5 and do a OTA update in my phone to BQL1, then sideload CRA1? will I have an update to BQL1 after flashing BQK5?
[Samsung Galaxy S8+ Guides, News, & Discussion] tengtengvn:
I can't seem to turn off Dolby Atmos in CQLJ. It toggles off but when I check again, it's still on.