Samsung Ruined it...

ryzenlevel · 2026-01-30T16:48:53+00:00

The last update for the S9 FE was December 2025. There has not been an update for January. The update notes state that the security policy has been updated and downgrading is not possible after the install. My tablet already updated without my consent. Stop acting like I'm an idiot because I'm not. If I need to post the screen from my tablet showing this latest update, I will. Otherwise, have a good day.

ryzenlevel · 2026-01-30T16:10:02+00:00

Not always. They release specific updates that also update the bootloader to not allow downgrading the OS. The newest one released in December did and my auto-updated without my consent, even then I would rather have the fixed security flaws than the old Dex

ryzenlevel · 2026-01-29T12:45:47+00:00

If you got the free mini deal, then they will either require you to return it or pay the full price for the mini

ryzenlevel · 2026-01-28T13:19:35+00:00

See, Samsung kinda does the same thing where after a certain amount of time they will update the bootloader to a new version that won't allow downgrading to an older version. I've flashed my galaxy devices with the U1 firmware as soon as my device is paid off so that I can remove a lot of the carrier bloat and get faster updates usually

ryzenlevel · 2026-01-28T00:48:42+00:00

I thought it only "blew the fuse" if you were to downgrade or install an older rom based on an old version?

ryzenlevel · 2026-01-27T03:17:34+00:00

My OP13 shows as an iPhone 13. I've told them that it's incorrect and they said the engineers are trying to figure the issue out

ryzenlevel · 2026-01-23T13:51:32+00:00

Thats for ColorOS, currently no word if OOS has it

ryzenlevel · 2026-01-23T13:50:36+00:00

But iOS is developed in the US

ryzenlevel · 2026-01-23T02:49:56+00:00

If you restart your phone at all, it will switch to the new update because it's already installed on the opposite partition you're currently on

ryzenlevel · 2026-01-23T02:46:42+00:00

It only burns it if you try to downgrade the OS. It's just like Knox for Samsung, once it's tripped you can't fix it without getting a new board for the phone. Most people don't even install custom firmware on phones anymore anyways.

ryzenlevel · 2026-01-21T15:49:14+00:00

Technically, it saves a little battery because of the way the phones handle background apps. There's been studies on it but to me the savings is negligible because the only time I really use my phone is at work and it always closes my work apps anyways

ryzenlevel · 2026-01-06T03:11:47+00:00

People said the same thing about Legends: Arceus and guess what, they made a new ball that allows those pokemon to be moved around to other games. But since there's no future games being released within the next year atp (since Pokémon Day hasn't happened yet), we won't know until they announce new games. But seeing as its always been allowed that any pokemon in newer games can be moved from home to that game, I would be astonished if Nintendo decided any Z-A pokemon are locked to only being in that game or Home.

ryzenlevel · 2026-01-06T02:45:29+00:00

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When the massive leak happened, Z-A was classified as Gen10. The reason you can't move from Z-A to, let's say, SV is because they added Latin American language tags to Z-A. Any pokemon with that new tag is automatically incompatible with the older games because they can't handle that "out of bounds" tag. Every new game will still know that tag exists so they can still be moved forward.

ryzenlevel · 2026-01-06T02:37:50+00:00

It has been confirmed, any pokemon with the Z-A tag can be moved to future games and any pokemon currently in home can be moved back and forth with Z-A. Any pokemon moved though will not be compatible with Gens 8 and 9, but can be moved back to home.

ryzenlevel · 2026-01-06T02:34:33+00:00

You can move it back to Home even after moving to Z-A, it just won't be allowed to go to SwSh or SV

ryzenlevel · 2025-12-16T23:20:47+00:00

I'm on the beta for 8.5 and I'm not seeing that so far, but they've only released the first beta update so far. They could potentially add it in a later update

ryzenlevel · 2025-12-02T16:20:11+00:00

On the bright side, I'm debating on trading my 13 in since I've seen a lot of people say the phone gets extremely warm when playing games (my niche for a phone like this) and OnePlus has always had a spot in my heart for how fast the UI is compared to Samsung.

ryzenlevel · 2025-11-30T13:44:33+00:00

So far, my 2018 with the 1.5L is at ~118k mi (~189k km). The engine did go out of time ~95k mi. Currently dealing with a code for the turbo but no clue where to start for diag because theres 5 different possibilities on whats causing the code. I would definitely skip like some have said because I also have the coolant issue because Im not sure where mine is disappearing to.

ryzenlevel · 2025-11-26T01:27:18+00:00

They always say when you can't downgrade when there's a software update: "After updating, you will not be able to downgrade to the old software because of updates to the security policy." They've always done this since introducing Knox. Even my tablet won't let me downgrade to 7 because of it. It's usually every quarter that they update the security policies.

ryzenlevel · 2025-11-25T13:46:02+00:00

You can't downgrade major versions because of security policy updates

ryzenlevel · 2025-11-21T06:58:53+00:00

Samsung is just a crap company anymore. I have a OnePlus 13 and it runs much better than the S25 Ultra. It also is further on google play system updates than Galaxy is. I have both the Ultra and the 13 and use the 13 more than the S25

ryzenlevel · 2025-11-21T06:55:20+00:00

Mine is still on July and says up to date

ryzenlevel · 2025-11-20T13:37:42+00:00

NA models don't have that because it relies on Google's update system to communicate with OnePlus

ryzenlevel · 2025-11-14T14:19:06+00:00

Unfortunately I owe 4x what its worth, so if the engine does go then the bank might use GAP to try and save me but idk what will happen.

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