Samsung is Sending Updates to their Oldest Phone Models

A sprinkle of old Galaxy smartphones that are no longer officially supported got streamlined before this month, but that was only the morning. As it turns out, Samsung is rolling out a similar firmware update with GPS fixes for millions of other growing Galaxy phones, including the Galaxy S5 Neo, the Galaxy Alpha, the Galaxy S6 series, and the Galaxy A7( 2018). 

Similar to the other recent firmware updates for the Galaxy Note 8, the Galaxy S7, and the Galaxy S8, the rearmost software release for Samsung’s aged Galaxy phones appears to address an issue concerning GPS connectivity and stability. 

Samsung has n’t explained the exact reason behind this new swell of firmware updates for old Galaxy phones, but the company may have discovered a security excrescence that needs fixing. Whatever the case, Samsung is rolling out the update for nearly hundreds of millions of growing Galaxy smartphones, and that’s not a small undertaking. 

The update for the Galaxy S5 Neo carries firmware interpretation G903FXXU2BFG3. The Galaxy S6- series update is linked by firmware interpretation G92xFXXU6EVG1. Galaxy Alpha stoners assuming there are any left in 2022 — can look forward to firmware interpretation G850FXXU2CVH9. And the new update for the Galaxy A7( 2018) can be linked by firmware interpretation A750FXXU5CVG1. 

None of these phones should still be supported, so nothing anticipated them to admit new firmware updates in 2022. The Galaxy S5 Neo, for illustration, got released in 2015, and it recently celebrated its seventh anniversary. The Galaxy Alpha is indeed aged and got released in September 2014. It was Samsung’s first smartphone to adopt a further ultraexpensive face design with a solid aluminum frame. 

Keep in mind that these firmware updates do n’t come with the bottommost security patch. The tracker only mentions GPS stability advancements, although, according to the sanctioned changelog, the Galaxy S6 series might also enjoy fresh device stability advancements and fixes, along with performance upgrades. 

Samsung guests should be suitable to download these new updates via the Settings app on their phones. Alternatively, they can download the sanctioned firmware lines from our website and install the new updates manually using a Windows PC. 

Is anyone still using the Galaxy S6, S5 Neo, Galaxy Alpha, or Galaxy A7( 2018)? We ’d like to hear from you, so feel free to note below and let us know your studies on Samsung releasing these new updates.