[OTA Updates] S7 Active SM-G891A (MM & N firmware update files)

[landfiller]

Oreo

I'm not quite certain, but I don't believe you can. If it was stock Android like Android Open Source Project originally planned, then yeah... android was supposed to allow us to do whatever we wanted with our devices. Samsung and other manufacturers have taken over and added device specific source code. Unique to each device. That's why it takes so long for OTA update to be released, and why devices loose OTA support after a certain time. Certain devices aren't deemed worthy of the time and effort to write program specific to that device!!!

 

[maxwell0312]

Yes!

Thanks. So would flashing wipe the AT&T bloatware?

 

[gqukyo]

Are you referring to the unlocked S7 firmware? Not sure it'll go through. Only ATT has the S7 Active so it'll have ATT bloat. There won't be an unlocked firmware for this device. That being said, you can use one of the multitude of disabler apps to disable the bloat you dislike.

 

[zakk87]

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?

Thank you for the advice,
can someone know which updates can I sideload next after QJ4 ,which files because there's a lot of them here https://cloud.mail.ru/public/BGy7/gKs4xzhRE/

 

[staffeyx]

Are you referring to the unlocked S7 firmware? Not sure it'll go through. Only ATT has the S7 Active so it'll have ATT bloat. There won't be an unlocked firmware for this device. That being said, you can use one of the multitude of disabler apps to disable the bloat you dislike.

That's true, I now edited my "Yes"-response.

 

[r3d10tu5]

update sequence

Thank you for the advice,
can someone know which updates can I sideload next after QJ4 ,which files because there's a lot of them here

They would be QJ4 -> QK4 -> QL6 -> RA7.

 

[erwinrm]

S7 Active is wiped after updates

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):

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


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?

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

It takes me hours to setup my phone just the way I like it. I though ADB sideload doesn't wipe the phone applying OTA updates, but I was wrong.

 

[faronium]

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

It takes me hours to setup my phone just the way I like it. I though ADB sideload doesn't wipe the phone applying OTA updates, but I was wrong.

This is discussed in this thread and then repeated throughout. You can prevent the wipe by pressing and holding power+home+volup+voldown during the update when "script succeeded: result was [/system]" shows on the screen. If you use Samsung Cloud backup setting up your phone after wipe isn't terrible.

 

[faronium]

U2BRB1 is up as is BRB2. They are 533MB and 553MB updates respectively so probably includes the app updates that some of the dead-end betas have included (and which I'm now stuck on forever...). These are probably also dead ends, so proceed with caution until you hear from ATT which BRBX is the mainline.

 

[faronium]

U2BRB4 and U2BRB5 are also up. Probably alpha/betas of some kind. Come in at ~550MB.

 

[prakashkashyap]

Any News Regarding ORIO Update

 

[berniesteven]

OTA update today. BRB5. January security update.

Se​nt fr​om my SM-G891A
* Peace

 

[r3d10tu5]

OTA update today. BRB5. January security update.

Se​nt fr​om my SM-G891A
* Peace

Thank you so much. Gonna upgrade my phone very soon : D.

 

[dctrbnsttr]

I thought that the prior ota already contained the January security update. I see an updated kernel. I see an updated messenger app. I noticed that the phone keeps bugging me now to turn on wifi calling since yesterday's ota. Other than that, what is new?

 

[harbnger]

Update:

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

QD4 -> QF2 -> QG1 -> QH1 -> QJ4 -> QK4 -> QL6 -> RA7 -> RB5

 

[aamszia]

Any idea when oreo is going to release in this model >?

 

[faronium]

SS-G891AUCU2BRB5-to-S2BRC1-UP is up on ATT servers at 35.4 MB. Likely one more security update. as always, this is about two weeks before it will roll out to phones, so this may be a beta. Don't be like me and get stuck on a beta dead end!

Oreo will probably come next month or the month after. April/May would be the same timing as for Nougat. I'll watch out for it.

 

[troublesome]

Delete

 

[faronium]

First sign of Oreo on AT&T servers:

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

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

S2BRC1 is also up, and that's the likely OTA update. I'm guessing that after a month or two of trials the Oreo will move out of beta so we'll probably see parallel update and security patch releases for a while. Just guesses.

 

[staffeyx]

Thanks for keeping us informed.