S9+ Flash Firmware to V10 in order to update /e/ OS to Q

I deleted a previous post because I needed to edit it and for whatever reason I couldn’t figure out how to edit the post. I will cut and past a copy of the deleted post at the bottom of this post.

Update: the easy installer put the old android version of android back on my phone I thought everything was good because I had the 0.14 version of e. But later I realized I was back on android 8. Every thing is good now but I ended up following the instructions from this post, [HOWTO] Install /e/ on a Samsung smartphone with Windows easily , to get a proper Q install (which is not at e 0.14 at the time of this post) I also added my tip about the device manager as a reply to the post.

I would also like to point out that the install docs from the main e page has a link in a blue tip box near the bottom of the page to make suggestions for improving the install docs. I plan on taking the time to post on there soon and also I apologize for criticizing the documentation with out following the steps to try and improve it.

As sated above the following is my original post I deleted spelling mistakes and all:

I looked into it further and your right. I was able to get the new version installed. After I flashed with the file from samfrew. I just used the easy installer and everything went smoothly. I did have a small issue getting odin to work to flash the file from samferw. The problem I had was odin didn’t recognize my phone when it was in download mode. It would recognize it to charge or when running normally but not in download mode. I fixed this problem by opening device manager finding my phone under usb devices right clicking to update driver software then clicking on “Browse my computer for diver software” then chosing the option to “let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer” then selecting Samsung Mobile USB CDC Composite Device" I clicked to install (the driver) unpuged and puled back in and was good to go. I hope that helps other people who run into the same problem.

The install documentation would probably benefit form instructions of how to upgrade to andriod 10 and some trouble shooting tips rather then just saying that you need to do it. I’d like to think of myself as tec savy but clear and easy instructions in the install documentaion would have saved me a good bit of time.

1 Like