I happened to be at Best Buy and stopped by the Samsung desk to see if the phone can be updated, but the update isn't in the system yet. They did say that if you continually check for an update, that the phone will get put at the end of the update queue.
I thought the update file at XDA had to be renamed. If that's not the case and I download it to the sd card, will I eventually get the notice that the update is available?
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Renaming the file doesn't matter. .... Just the contents. Renaming it will simply make it easier for you to recognize it in the list when you start up using volume up. .... home. .... and power.
But once you update this way you will not receive a notification to update from Sprint unless they come up with another version or patch.
This is exactly what i did:
1: Clicked on the xda link....I use Dolphin browser and it prompted me to save and I chose sd card
2: Power down waited 30 secs power on by Holding volume up &home key& power. .... released once I saw small blue text in upper left corner of screen
3: Menu comes up. ....volume down button until update from sd is highlighted then push power to select. Then scrolled to file.... power to select
At that point it just did its thing.... took several minutes and I think it rebooted. ...I left it and took a shower and it was done.
At that point I started tweaking my settings.
I cleared some cache files. ...etc then powered down. Restarted using volume power and home keys again. .... This time I chose the option to clean the cache from there.
From that point on I tested some apps. .... had to uninstall reinstall two. DEFINITELY go into settings and applications then all. Turned off a lot of bloat ware. ...ie Samsung printer plug in. ...hp printer plug in. .... some Samsung stuff I don't use. .. like chat on.
Restarted again the normal way. ..... all good.
Battery life has improved as I've turned off bloat ware.
Now I'm just tweaking. Moving everything possible to sd card.
Only thing I've had an issue with is that the music player requires the folks to be in the device music folder. ... won't let me use off sd card. Probably a way around that though.