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Samsung rolls out a new update to its 5 year old Galaxy S6 and Note 5
Samsung this week rolled out a brand new update for the Galaxy S6 series and Galaxy Note 5, years after the company stopped supporting them.
Support for the Galaxy S6 series and Galaxy Note 5 ended a few years ago, and considering their age, most users have likely upgraded by now. But that hasn’t stopped Samsung from introducing new firmware updates for these devices, extending their life for a little longer.
Nearly 4-year-old Samsung Galaxy S6 gets January 2019 security update
Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge have received the Google security update from January 2019, even four years after its launch.
Samsung is gearing up to launch the Galaxy S10 series later this month. But amidst this pre-launch bustle and rampage in form of leaks, the company has not forgotten its older devices. The four-year-old Samsung Galaxy S6 is still being updated and it sure feels like an exception among the usual crowd of Android devices.
How a graphics driver bug on the Samsung Galaxy S6 leaked Google Chrome tab data
Ever wonder how security vulnerabilities are found? UK based firm GraphicsFuzz explains how they came across a graphics driver bug on the Samsung Galaxy S6 that they could exploit to see data from opened tabs in Google Chrome.
Back in late March, a U.K. based start-up firm specializing in testing GPU reliability approached us with a GPU bug they discovered that causes the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ to reboot when visiting a web page. The firm, called GraphicsFuzz, worked with us to report the issue to Qualcomm and Samsung. Some of our readers were interested in learning just how a company like GraphicsFuzz is able to find these vulnerabilities, so we collaborated with the company to showcase how they discovered an older GPU vulnerability. This already-patched vulnerability allowed an attacker to remotely "spy" on the contents of Google Chrome browser tabs on the Samsung Galaxy S6.
Samsung Galaxy Note 5, S6, S6 Edge, and S6 Edge Plus May Receive Android Oreo According to T-Mobile Support Page
According to official T-Mobile support pages, the Samsung Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge, Galaxy S6 Edge Plus, and Galaxy Note 5 will receive the Android Oreo update.
By now, it's been a long wait for owners of Samsung Galaxy flagship smartphones waiting to receive the Android Oreo update. Android 8.0 Oreo was released in August 2017, but it took Samsung two months just to start an official beta program for the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+. We explored in depth all of the new features of Samsung Experience 9.0 for the Galaxy S8, and after multiple beta updates and months of testing, the company finally started rolling out the stable Oreo update to the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+.
Samsung Pay Not Supported On Knox-Tripped Devices
Reports emerged that Samsung Pay does not work on "rooted" devices. But are the reports correct assuming root to be a tripped Knox counter? Read to find out
Back at MWC 2015, when Samsung announced the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge, it also unveiled its ambitious attempt on the existing mobile wallet scene. In order to stand above the crowd and competition from services of Google and Apple, Samsung's methodology involved use of NFC as well as a new proprietary technology called Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST).
Samsung Releases 16 New Themes on the Theme Store
Samsung's theme store brings system themes to Touchwiz, and the collection continues to grow as earlier today, sixteen new themes were made available.
The launch of the S6 and S6 Edge back in March saw the latest version of Touchwiz being released alongside the devices, with some serious effort put into it this time around, in a bid to move away from the notorious reputation Samsung's Android skin has gained over the past few years. Memory efficiency and decreased bloatware were the obvious fixes, but Samsung went above and beyond, adding features that end users actually needed. One of them is the homebrewed Theme Store that allows users to style their device using a multitude of themes from the store.
Not unlike Nexus devices on Lollipop, Galaxy S6 users have been complaining of ram issues for some time now. Apps don’t seem to stay in memory very long, and there are launcher redraws abound. Ideally 5.1 brings some much needed help as it did with Nexus devices.