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Over the past few months, Samsung has sent out updates for the Galaxy Note 7 that cap the battery charge in order to nudge owners to return their units. It has also been rolling out the final Galaxy Note 7 update in several markets including the United States, this particular update basically bricks the device […]
Samsung has been urging people to return their Galaxy Note 7 for a few months now and while it says that a vast majority of customers have obliged, the company is now taking some serious steps to basically force people to give up the ill-fated flagship. Earlier today it confirmed that a software update will […]
Samsung first rolled out a software update for the Galaxy Note 7 about a month ago in Australia to limit the handset's battery charge to 60 percent. It was a precautionary measure by the company to reduce the odds of the Galaxy Note 7's battery catching fire. Samsung today announced that it's now releasing the […]
Samsung recently released a software update (N7100XXDLL7) to the Galaxy Note II and this update is reported to suffer from battery drain. Owners of the Galaxy Note II who installed the new software update reported us about the battery drain issue. We of SamMobile have also tested the new firmware and we can confirm that the […]
While Samsung is about to finish the release of its Android 14-based One UI 6.0 update, Google is already planning to release the first look at Android 15. Yes, it has been revealed that Google is planning to release the first Developer Preview of Android 15 tomorrow, and that could reveal what new features we […]
Samsung has been quickly updating eligible devices to One UI 5.1 ever since the latest iteration of its custom software was unveiled earlier this month. Many of its current and old flagships have received the update already. It was only a matter of time before Samsung released the One UI 5.1 update for the Galaxy […]
Samsung has made a few changes to its firmware update schedule this month. Whenever it makes such changes, there are always some devices that get cut off permanently. It's a similar story this time around as well. The device in question is already four years old. It's highly uncommon for Samsung to support devices for […]
The Galaxy Note 9 has become the twelfth smartphone from Samsung to get the latest security patch. The rollout started last week with the Galaxy Z Flip 5G, and it later reached the Galaxy S20 series, Galaxy S21 series, Galaxy Z Flip, Galaxy A50, Galaxy A8 (2018), Galaxy A71, and the Galaxy A52 5G. Now, […]
The Galaxy S10 and the Galaxy Note 10 had received the One UI 3.0 beta update a few weeks ago. However, the company never released the next beta builds for the devices due to bugs. Now, Samsung has mentioned that upcoming One UI 3.0 beta updates for its 2019 flagship phones have been delayed even further. […]
The Galaxy Note 10 Lite has received its first software update after it went on sale in some markets in late January. The update is quite similar to the one Samsung rolled out to the Galaxy S10 Lite earlier this week. It brings improvements to the camera performance and quality and to fingerprint recognition along […]
There's good news for you if you have been waiting for the Galaxy Note FE Android Pie update. Samsung has started rolling out Android 9.0 for this handset. The company released this device quite a while after the Galaxy Note 7 debacle which seriously dented the reputation of this stellar series. The Galaxy Note FE […]
The final version of the Galaxy S9 Android Pie update is impressively stable, or so it seemed. Yours truly still stands by his opinion that the update is quite stable overall for such a quick release, but it looks like a battery drain issue may have slipped past Samsung's bug checking team. Battery life has […]
The Device maintenance feature on Galaxy smartphones allows users to handle their device storage, memory, battery life, and security. There are plenty of simple and advanced maintenance options in there, with new options introduced with Android Pie. Device maintenance has been renamed to Device care on Android Pie, and it looks like Samsung has also added a […]
Samsung isn't done adding all of the Android Pie features to the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note 9 One UI beta it seems. The latest beta update for the Galaxy S9 (and most likely the next Note 9 beta) comes with one of Android Pie's highlight features: Adaptive Battery. Adaptive Battery is an AI-based feature […]
Samsung denied slowing down phones through software updates earlier this year when Apple was caught in the controversy. Apple was said to be slowing down phones on purpose to nudge customers to purchase newer iPhones. The practice is called planned obsolescence. When those reports surfaced earlier this year, Italy's consumer watchdog announced that it was […]