When can we expect the OTA update to Marshmallow (Android 6.0) on our Samsung Galaxy S5 phones?
Only the Samsung team working on the update has any idea of when they might be finished and they along with every other Samsung employee are not talking. Verizon Wireless reps won't know any sooner then us customers.
MaxSmart We know how much our customers anticipate new software updates.At this time, we do not have any new information regarding the Marshmallow update for Samsung devices. As updates roll out you will be notified by a prompt on your device to install the update. We apologize for any inconvenience. How is the Samsung S5 working, overall?
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It's a great phone, but the best feature - the battery lasting 2+ days on a charge - has diminished to <1 day, even after I replaced the battery. I have read that this was due to problems with Android 5.0, and that 5.1 or 6.0 should make it better again. Some of my other favorite features got removed by a past update, too - such as the silent-mode-timer, which was great for telling the phone to stay silent through the duration of a movie, but automatically turn the ringer back on afterwards. I believe this was also restored in later versions.
The ruggedness is great, people's eyes bug out when they see me rinsing it off in the sink!
My only complaint is the layers of bloatware - Google wants to run our lives, but so does Samsung, and Verizon. The partnership with Amazon adds a 4th company trying to duplicate every app/feature. It gets confusing having multiple versions of every app/feature, until you disable the ones you don't want to use.
Perhaps consider a Nexus phone to reduce the amount of "bloatware" on the phone when you are looking to purchase a new phone.
I got the original Nexus, but we all know how that went on Verizon. I love the Samsung hardware, too - especially the water-proof bit.
I could write a novel here if I only had the time.
Yes, the Samsung Galaxy S5 is a capable and rugged phone when it is configured as Samsung intended it to be. Unfortunately, Verizon does not consider it to be the slightest priority any longer for keeping it up to date with Lollipop let alone Marshmallow updates.
Check your settings "About Phone". You will find it to show your Android version to be 5.0. This was the first and by far the worst iteration of Lollipop which is highly regarded to be FULL of bugs. Samsung has sent Verizon multiple Lollipop updates straight through version 5.1.1 but Verizon has decided that we and our phones are not worth the effort to maintain.
They have, however, started pushing critical security updates to our phones on a monthly basis but the end result is a phone which is still on a widely known Bug-Laden version of Android. There are so many fixes in later versions of Lollipop which we SHOULD have be don't due to Verizon's choice to ignore us since we do not have the latest and greatest phone in the quiver.
MARSHMALLOW? MAYBE they are concentrating their efforts and instead of taking time on approving and adding their fluff to Lollipop updates are now working on tailoring a version of Marshmallow for us but DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH! In fact a Samsung rep at a local Verizon store told me NOT to allow Marshmallow to install on my S5 (That's if it is offered) because it is more demanding on hardware resources and would result in performance degradation.
I for one am biding my time and when my phone is paid of I'm upgrading to either an IPhone or Nexus as Verizon does NOT hinder the update processes on those devices. I will NEVER purchase another Samsung device and have to live out the rest of the life of said device with another buggy operating system which the carrier refuses to update.
Yes, I've seen the S5 on the list as being scheduled for an upgrade to Marshmallow by Samsung, but I stand by my previous statements.
* That list indicates the intention of Samsung to send carriers their Samsung (Vietnam?) tailored Marshmallow software to the carriers specific for each of their devices. What then needs to happen is for Verizon to get their grubby little fingers on the software and throw their junk in there, and THEN push it out to their S5 clients. Given that they have failed to push out ANY of the sorely needed subsequent Samsung S5 Lollipop updates to fix all the 5.0 bugs I have my doubts that our S5's will see 6.0.
* There is also the statement made by a Samsung Representative who I spoke with personally at my local Verizon Store who recommended AGAINST installing 6.0 on an S5, if and when it arrives, as the S5 does not have the hardware resources to run Marshmallow as Google intended it to be run. If they DO push out Marshmallow I'll bet you that we get 6.0.0 which just like our 5.0.0 is known to have many bugs. The chance then of Verizon pushing out a later version of Marshmallow with required bug fixes would be ZERO.
The best solution for the S5 is the latest Lollipop updates which have been sent to Verizon during the course of the last 9 months or so on multiple occasions with multiple updates of which Verizon chose NOT to release for our phones.
I would LOVE for Verizon to prove me wrong and either push out 5.1.1 for the S5 or push a relatively bug free version of Android 6 to the S5 which does not bog down these phones, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Marshmallow is being rolled out to the S5 by Samsung worldwide beginning today, but so far, no word on Verizon's timing.
You don't want it. It has [removal required by the Verizon Wireless Terms of Service] my phone up.
As of today, Q1 is officially over. I'm sticking with KitKat until further notice !
When will S5 users get the 6.0 Marshmallow update?
Well its official. Big Red can't even beat sprint to the update. Guess they can't figure out how to make the bloatware work on it.
Samsung has different teams working on updates. Different devices require different testing and certification approvals before releasing the update. The various devices get completed at different times.
So what you are saying is the largest carrier in the US was stuck behind Sprint to get the update. Everybody knows the update was released to the carriers a month ago or more. Cmon man. We can't even get the 5.1.1 update. Because Big Red don't care about this phone or the customers who were screwed with it. They think I will just upgrade when my contract is up. Nope going to another carrier. I pay for insurance on this junk and they just send another piece of junk. My friend has a fully updated s5 with AT&T that works wonderfully. What is the point of being on the best network if the carrier is going to brick a perfectly good phone. Can't blame it on Samsung if the updates work fine on other carriers. I know half of this will be deleted and that's fine. People aren't stupid as Big Red believes they are.
The Galaxy S5 is a great phone spec wise - but the GM-900V (Verizon S5) is inhibited by the 5.0 update.
Let's talk about that for a second here - the 5.0 update required most if not ALL users to do a Factory Reset. Phones were overheating and dying in a matter of hours from a bug in the update.
What can we expect with 6.0.1? Well, here's my plan - 1) Update 2) Factory Reset 3) Use AS IS - not installing any custom apps, just using it STOCK for a week.
If after 1 week of stock use the phone is still just as buggy as it was with 5.0, then it will be time to move on.
I'm getting a Nexus device, enough of this bloatware. Thankfully, the Nexus devices support CDMA and offer timely OS updates.
I am done with Verizon and Android. I buy a phone that worked for a couple
of months. Then the update comes up and the phone has been junk fo over a
year. Samsung and Verizon keep blaming each other for it being junk.
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Buy a Nexus phone or Apple.
That's exactly what I'm going to do. Verizon won't be my carrier anymore, either.
Lankylegs,
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I paid money for a phone and this is the 3rd Galaxy S5 in less than 2
years. I am so sick of this phone. They keep replacing it with the same
piece of junk. This phone was supposed to be the best phone there was when
it came out. Then it was updated with junk software and now it is junk and
we have just been abandoned with it for more than a year. So I don't want
to be with Verizon or Android anymore.
On Apr 21, 2016 2:52 PM, "Verizon Wireless Customer Support" <
Another week goes by - no Marshmallow
Before we know it, Android N will be out and our S5's will become obsolete
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