Samsung firmware differences

AntennaMan

AntennaMan

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I have a Samsung S9 that I got on contract way back in March 2018. When MTN stopped providing regular, monthly updates (XFA), I switched to XFE, and doing it myself.

Due to the terrible MTN signal at home, I have switched over to Vodacom (only slightly better!).

Now my question is, is there a good reason to switch to the XFV firmware?

I know that when upgrading to a newer XFE firmware, I could keep my data, but I'm guessing that switching to a completely new firmware, it would be better to do a clean install?
 
Very frustrating that MTN are always several months behind. So did you loose OTA updates when going to XFE?
 
AntennaMan said:
I have a Samsung S9 that I got on contract way back in March 2018. When MTN stopped providing regular, monthly updates (XFA), I switched to XFE, and doing it myself.

Due to the terrible MTN signal at home, I have switched over to Vodacom (only slightly better!).

Now my question is, is there a good reason to switch to the XFV firmware?

I know that when upgrading to a newer XFE firmware, I could keep my data, but I'm guessing that switching to a completely new firmware, it would be better to do a clean install?
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You should look into installing lineageOS

Very good OS.
 
matthieup said:
Very frustrating that MTN are always several months behind. So did you loose OTA updates when going to XFE?
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Yes and no. I didn't receive XVE updates OTA, had to manually install them using Odin, but even when on XFE, I still received the XFA OTA's, if they were newer than my XFE firmware.
 
Rickster said:
You should look into installing lineageOS

Very good OS.
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I had LineageOS on my Oneplus One. It's OK, but I'm not willing to lose Samsung Pay, Samsung Health, and a couple of other features.
 
AntennaMan said:
Yes and no. I didn't receive XVE updates OTA, had to manually install them using Odin, but even when on XFE, I still received the XFA OTA's, if they were newer than my XFE firmware.
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When installing with ODIN you didn't get any issues? You used HOME_CSC to keep your data?
 
eg2505 said:
this, also,

many newer firmware. that Samsung never officially released for this phone.
and many other better apps that work the same as propeitery apps like samsung pay ect...
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FNB has tap to pay, but I haven't found another app that makes use of MST. I don't use it a lot, but it has helped me a couple of times when the cc terminals can't accept tap to pay.
 
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