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[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] yungzoe0624:
What beta channel forum do you speak of?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
The one on Samsung Members app
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] yungzoe0624:
OK. I had to search for your username to take me to that community because for some reason when I searched beta that forum wasn't listed. Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
That's funny. I am surprised by your resolve to find the community.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] yungzoe0624:
I'm trying any method I can for better notification when the beta becomes available again because I have now missed my opportunity 3 times to get enrolled lol
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Haunt3r:
Not to hijack the thread, but I figure more people would see it here, I made a post on the beta forums if you're a beta member, about removing ads from samsung apps as we already paid for the phones, we shouldn't be forced to be bombarded with ads as well. If you guys could go give it a heart/comment on it to get it some traction, that'd be tight.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
I think I did that yesterday already.. But yeah everyone should.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] psychoboogie:
loving it so far. thanks for the walkthrough. Rainy day = phone of the future day.

Any way for adb flash to not wipe data?

hopefully will Ota in future but just wondering.

have backup but actually always nice to start fresh from time to time too.

trying swipe gestures out this time around.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
Adb sideload should not wipe data. But it's tough for me to get what's going on. I didn't lose data and was same for many others, while a few here lost data. Not sure who did what wrong.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] psychoboogie:
Yeah was a bit disappointing but I have a backup
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Geekser:
I really appreciate all the work done to make this Beta update possible for our Note Ultras - I am currently running the 2nd Beta and looking forward to any more future releases - if any will be coming that is .

One quick comment - each time I have flashed the update (Via ADB Sideload) it did wipe my data -so when it booted up I had to go thru setup again, add accounts and aps etc. I followed instructions to the letter so I don't think I could have done anything to avoid wiping data - but I am curious why some of us get data wiped and apparently some don't ??

Not complaining mind you - just curious.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
You can complain too, i didnt write any of the software LOL so we can blame Samsung, Google etc etc, all i have done is written the guide.

I will be honest, i am curious to know that too. I was able to register for Beta and was getting the update on phone still decided to sideload the second Beta to risk it and see why some people were losing data (I cant even afford to lose data), I didnt lose Data this time either so this would be a good thing to know why some people are losing data.

May be if we can get enough data from people like who all had their phones wiped we can do a root cause analysis. I do have few things that i think could have been the reason for data wipe.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] riveralc:
Side loaded both betas and did not lose data using my CSC, beta 2 is the latest correct?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
Yes Second beta is the latest Beta.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] riveralc:
Do you recommend factory resetting after installing the updates?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] kangi26:
Something I learned when I was on the Note 8 and ran the betas. When the production releases came, going back to Stock did require a reset. There were device instabilities when we went back to stock. Just thought I'd toss it out there.

BTW, thanks a lot for putting this thread together [MENTION=587077]warriorvibhu[/MENTION],

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They typically aren't needed, but if your device is doing something wonky (that isn't in the bug list) You should try it
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
Basically what he said, no need to reset unless something is wonky.

You are welcome, as long as these help. You know from your OTA thread that some of us are too impatient to wait. :) . BTW keep an eye out for third Beta its been released in India, so ours may be around the corner.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] TuxPenguin98:
Note 20

Was there a way to flash the beta on the original Note 20 5G (SM-N981U) not the Ultra? Or am I stuck with waiting until Samsung actually releases it?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Tstraley28:
Is there a link for beta 2 in here? Been trying to find it but struggling to locate it. Thanks in advance
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] ajent:
At the bottom of the OP
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
The process will be same as long as your are on correct firmware for your device and you can find the zip of the Ota or the FOTA link. It's better if you look into threads for your device you might find links to Beta there.

First post bottom just read, there is also another thread named New Beta ZTK1
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Aurien:
when beta 3 comes out?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] NippleSauce:
I got a notification in Samsung Members that stated that Beta 3 was currently available for download in the US... But I still don't have the ability to download it in my settings.

As a result, I'm just waiting for someone here to get into the beta and upload the zip =P.

I'm just hoping that we can still root/flash TWRP once Android 11 officially releases. I've been thinking about doing that more and more recently... So if Samsung ends up sticking with all of their in-app pop-up ads, then I'll most likely have to start with root :/. And since I still don't have voicemail support (T-Mo carrier - saw a few people with the same problem on T-Mo), then I'll try TWRP and custom roms lol.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
I am on T-mo and voicemail works perfectly fine, even on Beta versions so lets check what can be done to fix .. also i dont see Beta 3 notices anywhere on the members app can you share a screenshot?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Venom0642:
I know it's out for Exynos, so Snapdragon should be out soon

Running On SM-N986U Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G 512GB
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] NippleSauce:
My apologies. I read it quickly (and incorrectly lol). It says "These were the changes in the recent beta update". I thought that it had said "in the new beta update".

But yeah, the voicemail thing has definitely been an issue for me. I posted it on the Samsung Member Beta forum, so we'll see if anyone else has found a solution too. Regardless, once Android 11 officially drops, I'm gonna do a factory reset and start over with this phone (maybe the problem was due to the fact that I got the phone two days before launch?). I just don't feel like doing that now and having to set everything up again on a beta build haha.

Also, I wanna just take a guess that beta 3 will release for us on the 17th =P
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] riveralc:
Did the factory reset fix your voicemail issue? Mine worked fine but then stopped working all of a sudden..
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] todd3835:
I'm guessing your on ATT. ATT forces a wipe on sideloading.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] NippleSauce:
Nahh, I didn't factory reset yet. I'm not going to until Android 11 officially releases on our phones. But I'm glad that there's another person experiencing the voicemail issue here (not glad that you're experiencing it, just glad that I'm not the only one alone in the corner lol).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Jobudden:
ZTK7 has been announced should be released shortly.

I'm having a few bugs on mine with the beta 2

Maps starting randomly and not being able to dismiss it

And when doing Android auto wirelessly sometimes the music will play thru the phone instead of the cars stereo.

Other then that I haven't seen much in the way of bugs
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] evnStevn:
Any idea when, I just checked for XAA and nada?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] jjimenezjj:
This happened to me too, and I'm on an unlocked Note 20 Ultra.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] todd3835:
This isn't just for the beta. I had att sim for the S9+, S10+ and N10+ and ANY side load forces a factory reset.

I did read once that someone avoided a reset by taking out the sim, reboot, change csc to something else, reboot to recovery, flash, wait for it to reboot fully, insert sim. I've never tried it, but it's an option if you want to risk it. I did see some posts for the N20 Ultra where doing that hosed the csc.

Honestly, this is one of the reasons I dumped ATT. There's others but wiping during a manual flash was super annoying.

Edit: it's not a matter of unlocked or not. It was discussed in older forums that the sim itself determines if it wipes or not. You could try without a sim in, see if that works.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
Wow thanks this is new Info. Never had ATT (well not since windows phone.. Lol) ... and over the course of years of sideloading never had a problem of data wipe.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Geekser:
That is correct - thanks, I didn't know that about ATT - but it doesn't surprise me. :)

Thanks for the heads-up
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Interceptor777:
Hey guys, I tried searching but no good answer came up. Does Samsung Pay still work if I upgrade to beta? This is the only important feature for me that could be broken.

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
Yeah i updated this info in the first post. Thanks to [MENTION=833287]todd3835[/MENTION] too for providing the insight.

Yes, works for me, last checked was yesterday night, i am on Beta 2, you have to first be on Beta 1 and then go to Beta 2 as per the instructions in first post, dont sideload Beta 2 without sideloading Beta 1 first.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Jobudden:
No idea when. Someone found it on another site. But had no details on when it would release. Just had the build letters

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https://www.sammobile.com/news/galaxy-note-20-note-20-ultra-latest-one-ui-3-0-beta/

According to this it's out in Germany and India or something like that
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] geekasso:
Did you ever get this resolved? Been at it for a day and can't get the phone to connect.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
Did you try my suggestion, somewhere after that post. It wasn't straightforward but with little trial and error it worked.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] geekasso:
I did. Been at it all day and nothing. Never completes connection. Tried adding and reconnecting in the wear app dozens of times. I even booted the watch to recovery to get rid of anything that might be lingering. I suspect it may be root, so I might just boot to recovery and factory reset again. Then try the galaxy wear first before I do root and other app restores.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
Ahh I have heard that many times before that root doesn't play nice with wearables.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] TheUndertaker21:
Not true

My issue is fixed

Mentalmuso fixed it.

Im rooted.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
Post the solution for others then. If it needed fixing that means something isn't playing nice with root isn't it. Well to be honest I didn't face any issues it was a just a little hiccup and i am unrooted, also if you think not true then here are some threads you can see Here and Here but most importantly if you have a solution please post it.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] psychoboogie:
loving the beta... but.

I am going to shoot myself when playing podcasts.

regardless if something is buffering or playing back from a download. I am halfway through it and it jumps back to the beginning

or it just stops and says buffering even if downloaded. killing me softly
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Geekser:
Saw a post tonight from someone saying they got Beta 3 (they said they were on Verizon) any word on when we can expect to see a download for the 3rd beta here ? Fingers crossed..... Thanks to all for their contributions....
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] dizidi:
Just received the notification for the OTA but it wouldn't let me download unless I'm connected to wifi... Is there any way to bypass this restriction? Currently don't have access to wifi... All my data is thru mobile. Thanks .
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Geekser:
Found another post and answered my own question -
[MENTION=504266]hayabusa1300cc[/MENTION] posted a link to download the 3rd beta. I flashed today and all working great so far.

You will find the thread here - be nice if he will allow the OP to post a direct link in the OP -

3rd Beta Update Thread
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] TechGoon954:
I just received it this morning, I'm on TMO
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
Thanks for the tip Geekser :). Also try to see if you can register for Beta last time Samsung opened the registration when they released Beta 2, first post has a link to page with instructions (The first line iteself) ....

Looks like everytime i go to bed early Samsung releases a beta LOL .. just got the update myself and was able to get FOTA, it was not needed thanks to [MENTION=504266]hayabusa1300cc[/MENTION].

Attaching the Beta Notice to see what's fixed. View attachment 5137075

********** ANNOUNCEMENT - Beta Enrollment Info

November 16th 2020 - Beta Enrollment open again - Sign up Quickly ​
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Waynestuckart:
i need the ODIN CSC file from BETA 2

does anyone have this?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
Thats not how it works my friend but you can totally change your CSC there is a thread by Mellojosh go through that one, there is a CSC guide in the bottom section see that.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Waynestuckart:
thanks for your help.

Im pretty sure the reason I am not getting OTA updates is because i switched beta 2 CSC for ATT CSC to enable wifi calling
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Geekser:
No worries - I did follow your advice and clicked enroll after following the link you offered for registering - and this time it did work. I am not sure if I will actually get any updates though - I did flash the CSC file from the most recent firmware (for N986U) so I could get WiFi calling to work. (do you know if that breaks the chance of getting updates ? Or will I still be eligible for getting updates if and when there are any ?

Regardless, thanks for the tip -
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] sangiman:
I'm still unable to pair my watch with Android Wear, anyone else or maybe I need to do a factory reset? On the latest beta #3
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
You should get the updates as long as your CSC is one from the below, there are always some exceptions and weird cases so its hard to tell for sure unless someone has a first hand experience.

This is taken from inside the build btw what is your full csc like mine is TMB/TMB/XAA

csc_information=OYM(ACG ATT AIO LRA VZW BST TMB TMK TFN USC XAA XAR XAS CCT CHA XAG ATC FKR GCF WWD SPR DSH)

Some people have solved it, i suggest you try sending a DM to them, a few posts above someone was mentioning Mentalmuso who helped solve it. Sorry i wasnt able to replicate this issue and i asked folks here to post the solution but they didnt.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] inneyeseakay:
Samsung Visual Voicemail works in Beta 3 (AT&T)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] airmaxx23:
It's working on Verizon as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Jobudden:
This is great news
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
Thanks for confirming this was a deal breaker for some. Guys Beta Registration is open, dont know how long it will be so if you have not then register for it. In the first post first line itself you will find more info.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Geekser:
I do already have the update, I downloaded it manually last night and installed this morning, so for now I am good to go. (thanks to all who offered help. :) )

Checking in my Settings/Software/Software Information on my phone, my CSC is ATT/ATT/ATT - so that means I should be getting future updates - right ? assuming there are any more. (I think I read that we will only be getting three, is that correct?)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
Yes you should be getting the Beta updates for sure if there are any.

About Stable release updates from ATT based on that CSC my only concern would be your device would identify itself as SM-N986U1 which you must be on, to flash the Beta.

That will affect updates from ATT (Based on your CSC i can tell you had SM-N986U device), so we may have to rely on someone to share the FOTA link for ATT, Android 11 version, then you can download and sideload that and get back to official updates.

Let me know if you have any questions or if i didnt explain something properly.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Geekser:
Explanation was great - and helpful. Thanks. TBH, I am not that anal about phone updates - at least, not needing them to happen automatically. I have no patience - I usually flash the update via odin as soon as it is available - from whatever compatible CSC that gets it first -CCT, USC, TMB, Verizon, etc. as soon as hear about a new release for 986U or U1, I find a download and flash it in Odin as soon as I can. :D
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] jr313:
Quick question everyone. I've read you need to be on the unlocked version which I am using on verizon. I just got an update, but I also just got selected for the beta. Will I get access to the beta software or do I have to roll back to a previous version?
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
If you have enrolled in Beta check for Software updates. As far as i know you have to be on ATID firmware to get the Beta update but you are on ATJ5 so you might have to rollback to ATID. I did read somewhere where someone on ATJ5 got the Beta update or were able to do it manually, so my information might not be 100% correct.

Best would be for you to check for updates and if you don't get it from the settings of your phone then rollback to ATID.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] jr313:
Ah ok, I'll get it a day or 2 to see andiof not I'll just roll back and see. Thank you for the information
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] jawonder:
Is the 3rd Beta Rootable ?.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Boeing747x:
Wow, how awesome this is for you! I wish I could get update.zip for N986N, but I've searched on Google and didn't find any update.zip for N986N.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] bogarty:
Just got the Beta banner in Samsung Members and finally got enrolled. Third Beta came through immediately after in my Software Updates, updating me from the second beta that I sideloaded. Woo hoo! Thought I missed the boat on registering when I got the original banner awhile back and it said the beta was full.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
Nice, I updated about this here, in the announcement thread and posted this info in many threads I think this may close anytime now, good that you got in.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Shaettr:
I started with an unlocked TMB variant and couldn't get the banner to show up in Members this morning so I said screw it and used this post. Worked amazing! No issues at all flashing the U1 firmware ending in ATID, and using adb to sideload the updates. Running very nice and I'm kinda not worried about OTA at all anymore whenever a root happens? Excited for the future.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
Nice. Try to see if you can register for beta. The first line of the OP (First post) has a link to the page with instructions to enroll in beta.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] youssefehab500:
Any hope for the n9860?

Anyone has any info
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Shaettr:
Oh dang I forgot to mention, I did try. Now when I open samsung members it gives a splash screen that says "welcome to the beta!" But then if I try to do anything related to the one ui beta in Members it gives a new popup saying "you or your device are not registered for the beta" or something along those lines. Running system update still shows "system up to date" when I try.

If it wasn't my DD I'd have taken the hit and tried flashing over the plain U firmware for fun to check for people but yeah. Unclear if OTA will work or if I can get into the beta officially. I did try the post instructions for signing up before and after U1 and beta zip flashes with no luck.

EDIT: IM A LIAR! I did it the same way I did yesterday and it worked just fine following the link in chrome on the phone. Swear I tried before so maybe you can't right after flashing? Right after flashing beta3 Members said device not eligible. Now a couple hours later (yesterday, today, idk I napped) the link works and Members shows me as signed up for the beta!

Thank you for all your work amazing sir!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] droppinbaums:
Had anyone been able to use their Active 2 and got Samsung Health Monitor ECG feature to work with any of the betas? When I install, it says not available in my region (US). Any thoughts? Also was able to enable wifi calling without flashing the ATT CSC. Hoping that it will work.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
Glad you got it. I have been pushing for people to sign up for Beta coz the sign ups will close, no one knows (Except people at Samsung) how long is the sign up window.

I am aware that they got FDA approval so it should work did you try updating any related apps through Galaxy store ? Some of Samsung's own apps are not ready for Android 11 Beta versions so they arent playing nice (I am looking at GoodLock)
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] torhect:
I miss the SD card old method to flash beta is so much easier than ADB method !!!
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] warriorvibhu:
That method has not gone anywhere, its still available. Only thing is your SD card has to be formatted in FAT32 (if i am not wrong). Just place the zip file and try "Apply Update from SD card" option in recovery.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] adj998:
you can flash via sd card, I did because my PC would not run adb whatsoever and I am now on the 3rd beta
[Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Guides, News, & Discu] Dcox28:
I know this is a thread for Beta Android 11, but do any of you guys know of a pixel launcher that works on Android 11 for the Note 20? I was using Lawnchair on 10, but it doesn't work with 11