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Read the terms and conditions for the chance to win rewards. You may significantly increase your chances of winning by playing at the right time. Basically, for many of them they give it to the first person who tries after a certain time. For some of the rewards, that time is scheduled. For...

Samsung won't even give out information about when to expect critical security patches for any particular device (see the G930U threads), let alone when a feature update is coming.

It is a device that contains lots of personal information and is more likely than any other device that I own to connect to lots of untrusted networks. If I can't convince you that device security is important, well that's really your problem. But it is anything but unreasonable to be upset...

Also, in case you are right, and Samsung doesn't care, well then that makes my future purchasing decisions a little easier, since they won't involve Samsung.

The SM-G930U does NOT get updates through the carriers. It is Samsung's responsibility to update the U phones, and they are failing in it. Unless they are utter fools, they will care if a customer is expressing dissatisfaction with their products, especially if they take the time to actually...

If anyone knows a physical mailing address, sending an actual letter may be a better option (or do both). Maintain a reasonable tone, but state that you are not seeing any reason to continue purchasing or recommending Samsung products if they fail to support the one you have bought.

Yeah, the European unlocked Galaxy S5 is apparently getting the November security patch before the G930U. Yes, a two-year-old model is getting updates prior to the current flagship getting them in the USA. It's infuriating, since supposed experts playing up how much faster updates came to...

No. As long as you stick to the SM-G930U firmware, you won't get Verizon bloatware. That's also why you don't get visual voicemail and all that.

I don't think you can just install the Visual Voicemail app, or at least I haven't found a trustworthy source for the APK if it is possible. To be honest, I'm seriously considering trying to flash the SM-G930V firmware, because it's looking like the SM-G930U is dead last in line to get security...

The SM-G930U definitely works on Verizon. For me, I only had to move the SIM card from an iPhone 6 into the S7. The only thing special I had to do was the usual iPhone->Android thing of turning off iMessage so that iPhone users sending me a message wouldn't try to send it through iMessage...