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I had the galaxy S8+ last year and I did register for the beta. I live in the us. The beta usually only comes out for partnering carriers or non carrier unlocked devices. In other words, buy a t mobile device or a device that is completely unlocked by default from Samsung. I have the galaxy S10 now and I did not run the beta bc my device is an unlocked verizon wireless device that I use through t mobile but this morning i received android 10 one ui 2.0 via update. Galaxy S9 and S9+ should already be running on android 10 one ui 2.0 beta now. If you are a t mobile carrier or an unlocked carrier you should be able to register on this app. If you are verizon or at&t you are most likely not going to get the beta. Anyway it's best to wait until the update is ready and Samsung releases it. The beta isn't about running latest updates first, it's about letting a handful of people run the beta early and report back to Samsung what errors do occur so they can collect the data and work everything out before mass release. Don't feel bad if you cant sign up for the beta. It's actually a lot of head ache. Just enjoy your device and wait for the update to come out. To those who do test it out and run it before the release, thank you for reporting the problems in so Samsung could fix the update ahead of time. One ui 2.0 is working great on my galaxy S10. 🙂 ... View more

If anyone is experiencing problems updating there carrier unlocked device to the newest software/monthly security update, if you bought a carrier unlocked device and decide to use it through a different carrier. Save your sims card from the original carrier the device was made for. Instead of using smart switch or odin you can just take your carrier sims card out of the device, pop in the original sims card that came with your unlocked through carrier device, the device will prompt you to restart your phone. Restart it, let it power on, it should be on the original carrier after this. Go to wifi settings, connect to wifi and then go to software updates and check for update. The update will come right in. The new devices starting with galaxy s10 and up will not update unless you use them through the carrier that unlocked the device. If you use at&t in an unlocked t mobile phone, you have to keep the tmobile sims card to put in the device when an update is available. You can keep up with when your device gets a new software update online and everytime you see an update available for your carrier unlocked device just pop in the old sims card connect to wifi and you will be able to up date. After all that is done pop out the old sims card, put it somewhere safe for the next time you know you will be receiving a software update and put the carrier you go through now sims card back in the device. It will prompt you to restart the device again to switch over to the carrier you are using. After this you can go under about device and software and see that the latest security patch is still installed. For carrier unlocked phones the software update is sent out to the carrier you purchased the device from unlocked. the update doesnt come from say (at&t) if you're unlocked device is an unlocked (verizon) or (t-mobile) device. The update comes from the unlocked (verizon) or unlocked (t-mobile) device and the only way for the device to get the update is through the sims card. ... View more

If your device is carrier unlocked and you are using a different carrier from the original carrier who unlocked the phone there is only 2 ways to update the software. You can use smart switch or if you have the original carriers sims card take your sims card out, pop the carrier sims card that the device was originally unlocked from, power on the device, it will tell you device needs to restart to read original device carriers sims card, let the device restart, connect to a wifi network, go under settings, software update, click update and the device will update. After that you can take the old sim card out of your device and put your carriers sims card in that you are using now and it will prompt you to restart the device and once it's back powered on your device will be updated to the latest software. Like if you have verizon wireless unlocked but you are using at&t carriers, you would take the at&t sim card out of the slot and put the Verizon sim card in just temporary while your update the device using wifi connection to the newest software update. I actually have to do this everytime a new software update comes out and it works doing it this way. Nothing will be erased and your device wont be harmed. You are only doing this to get the latest update. It's a way of tricking the galaxy s10 or galaxy note 10 by making the device think you are using the carrier the device was made for. Just keep up with sammobles latest updates to your device model and each time you can do this as long as you keep the sim card the device originally came with. If you dont have it, the best thing to do is just use the smart switch app connected to a compatible laptop or computer. Good luck. ... View more

My galaxy watch S3 frontier did all of that by itself. All I had to do was connect it and the time zone changed on it's own. The galaxy watch s3 frontier is my very first Samsubg watch I have ever had. At first I was all about getting it. Actually I wanted to get the galaxy sport watch 2 to start with but i found this one. I haven't had any problems out of it at all, i just dont really like how thick the device is and i dont like the dial on the top having that rugged look. If i find a galaxy sport 2 I'm probably trading mine for it. I was really upset when I bought an apple watch and found out i couldn't use it on my galaxy s10 so i ended up trading it for the galaxy watch s3 frontier. ... View more

So if anyone who is using the device sm 973u is having problems updating there software update, if you switched to another carrier or plan to, make sure you keep your verizon wireless sims card. That's your trick to successfully updating your software. Just follow the instructions that I gave under this message. I have had other people respond to my previous post saying they were having the same problem. If you switched from verizon to another compatible carrier just keep up with the security patch updates and keep your verizon sims card. Everytime there is a new one out you can stick your verizon sims card in the device and still be able to access the newest updates. You have to update the device over wifi with the verizon wireless sims card in. It's a little of a hassle but hey it works. I'm glad I thought about trying this. ... View more

If I manually update my device it just shows that I'm up to date. What I did was buy a verizon wireless galaxy s10, run it using verizon wireless for a month to get it unlocked and then the next month stuck my At&t sims card in it and went back to using at&t. Anyway for anyone who has done this also, I have figured out a way to bypass all of the issues with the software updates not coming in. This is what I just did. I looked for my verizon wireless sims card, took my at&t sims card out and put my verizon wireless sims card back in. After that I connected to wifi network and used my galaxy s10. Once you cut the phone back on with the verizon sims card in, the device is going to act like it doesn't recognize the sims card. At the bottom of the phone it will say restart device to load verizon wireless back on to the device. Click restart. Once the phone cuts off and back on go to your wifi settings and connect to wifi. From there go down the settings page to software update, click on software update, the software update will be there. It will ask you if you want to update your device. Click on update device and let the software update go ahead and update your device. After the update is completely done you can go ahead and turn your device back off. Take the verizon wireless sims card out and put your other sims card back in. You will be prompted to restart your device again once you cut the device back on and it will switch everything back to your carrier. After that go under settings and go to about phone about software update and make sure the latest update is installed. It should be. Now you have the newest software update running on your device. Just keep up with when the newest security patch update comes out and you can update your phone by sticking the verizon wireless sims card back in each time and connecting to wifi. So problem solved. I'm running the november security patch update now. ... View more

That's what I just had to do but I don't have a laptop anymore so I had to take mine like an hour away to have it installed by one of Samsungs phone fixers and samsung claimed it would fix the corruption and would start receiving its updates. You shouldn't have to use odin every time to download an update when you upgrade to the newest in Jun. Samsung needs to address this problem. I'm not the only one who has experienced it lol. ... View more

The under glass fingerprint scanner update is for security purposes on your device. It's to improve the security functionality so it absolutely should not effect the device in that way. I updated the fingerprint scanner and it didn't do anything but make the fingerprint scanner work better and faster. ... View more

It's likely that galaxy S9 will receive the newest update around the time Galaxy S11 family comes out. I'm not sure if galaxy S8 will get it, that's why I went ahead and traded my Galaxy S8 plus in for a Galaxy S10 and got a pretty decent deal. Phone manufactures usually only keep devices up to date with the newest software for 2 years unless Samsung agrees to update the galaxy S8/S8 plus and note 8. They did this twice with 2 previous flagship devices that wasn't expected to get any new 'big' software updates. ... View more

The Galaxy s10 will most likely get android 10 one u 2.0 in December. December is usually always the month newest Samsung flagship's get there new and improved Software updates. Last year beta testing for galaxy s9 and note 9 went in to effect on November 14th and 15th. After that Samsung stated that the official 9.0 update wouldn't be released until sometime in January but instead they released the first stable 9.0 pie on December 24th at 3am. This year samsung released android 10 one ui 2.0 for beta testers a month earlier. Once beta testing is finally over, there will be a pause in between and then the first unlocked devices will start receiving one ui 2.0. It will happen sometime in December unless they "jump the gun" again. They only released 9.0 a few weeks earlier than there original post claimed they would be releasing it. Don't expect it right in December though. If you have a device glued to a carrier, you will have to wait until the carrier irons out the update before they decide to release it but if you have an unlocked device, December should be the month. It honestly has happened like this every single year besides the newer devices were released. I'm almost sure even galaxy S7 got its newest software update the same year it came out to. November, December, and January is usually always when the newest software is released. I wouldn't worry to much right now though, a lot of people have said the 10.0 beta one ui 2.0 is very buggy and flawed. I'm glad I didn't decide to use the beta this year. ... View more

I actually wanted to test the beta also but for some reason, this year, samsung did not release the beta to Galaxy S10 sm-g973u/u1. That's really sad. Last year I had Samsung Galaxy S8 plus and it was sm-g***u/u1 and I was able to test the beta out when it first became available on the samsung members app. I also thought that it would eventually become available but I'm guessing it's obsolete considering that Samsung is testing Galaxy Note 10/10+ devices now and moved the eligible device's (galaxy S10e/s10/s10+/5G) who already enrolled to the second faze of beta testing. Oh well, maybe next time with a future update. Hopefully one ui 3.0 packs in another entire complete change like one ui 1.0 did. ... View more

I'm having the same problem here also. My phone model number is SM-G973U and I'm still running security patch update BSGJ which is the security patch that was upgraded on Aug 7th. September has come and gone, Samsung says they have already released that update along with October's security patch that supposedly happened during the middle of this month. This morning I felt that I had waited long enough to atleast get Septembers security patch so I called my phone provider first and they told me to get in contact with Samsung. They told me this was very weird that I haven't received September nor October and they told me to power off my device and then press and hold volume up, Bixby button and power button until my device goes into recovery mode, then use the volume down button to go down to wipe pertinent cache and hit the power button to select and then use the volume button to go to reboot device and hit the power button. Wait for the phone to power back on and then go under settings to software update and try to manually update. It did not work for my phone so they basically told me I will have to go to this place close by my house and have the last software update flashed onto my device and it would be free of charge bc the warranty covers it so I'll just be going there tomorrow and having them flash the software update on to my device and they said it would unblock the software updates from coming through. If that doesn't work for you, you'll have to take your device to one of the Samsung places and have them flash your device. Maybe the software update hasnt been released yet but I'm absolutely sure it has been released and sent out. We dont usually go almost 3 months with out a security patch update so theres a good possibility that your device is just stuck on the August security patch update and will have to be flashed to get everything working properly again. Good luck man. ... View more

The beta program is already full. Your phone carrier was one of the first to be eligible for signing up like a week or 2 ago. You can keep watching the members app to see if someone decides to sign out of beta but from what I hear from everyone else the beta this year is extremely full of bugs and crashes. Sometimes it's best to wait until beta is over and samsung sends out the real update one ui 2.0. ... View more