Software update for vzw Note 4

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Came home for lunch, connected to wifi, and my Note 4 began downloading a software update.

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Update 1: Update is pretty small. Vzw's site has no info yet.

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Update 2: thanks bsweetness!



Official changelog from Verizon:

THE FOLLOWING ARE NOW PRELOADED
APPS/SERVICES:
• Transparent Amazon Widget
• Compatibility with Gear VR
• ISIS wallet now changed to Softcard
• Updated Galaxy Essential widget

THE FOLLOWING ISSUES HAVE BEEN RESOLVED:
• Screen/font color for non-active items have been made more legible
• Updated Mobile Hotspot to support Spanish
• Fixed an error that prevented access to Security under Settings
• Fixed a compatibility issue between Google Drive and the Office viewer
• Text can now be selected and copied from any Calendar entry
• Fixed email notification issues
• Improved Wi-Fi performance
• Fixed an error affecting Fingerprint scanning

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Sent from my Note 4
 
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I don't have a mobile data toggle anymore. :(
 

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Official changelog from Verizon:

THE FOLLOWING ARE NOW PRELOADED
APPS/SERVICES:
• Transparent Amazon Widget
• Compatibility with Gear VR
• ISIS wallet now changed to Softcard
• Updated Galaxy Essential widget

THE FOLLOWING ISSUES HAVE BEEN RESOLVED:
• Screen/font color for non-active items have been made more legible
• Updated Mobile Hotspot to support Spanish
• Fixed an error that prevented access to Security under Settings
• Fixed a compatibility issue between Google Drive and the Office viewer
• Text can now be selected and copied from any Calendar entry
• Fixed email notification issues
• Improved Wi-Fi performance
• Fixed an error affecting Fingerprint scanning

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Official changelog from Verizon:

THE FOLLOWING ARE NOW PRELOADED
APPS/SERVICES:
• Transparent Amazon Widget
• Compatibility with Gear VR
• ISIS wallet now changed to Softcard
• Updated Galaxy Essential widget

THE FOLLOWING ISSUES HAVE BEEN RESOLVED:
• Screen/font color for non-active items have been made more legible
• Updated Mobile Hotspot to support Spanish
• Fixed an error that prevented access to Security under Settings
• Fixed a compatibility issue between Google Drive and the Office viewer
• Text can now be selected and copied from any Calendar entry
• Fixed email notification issues
• Improved Wi-Fi performance
• Fixed an error affecting Fingerprint scanning

View attachment 73776
Thanks! Pretty underwhelming. Added this info to the OP.

Sent from my Note 4
 

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Thanks! Pretty underwhelming. Added this info to the OP.

Sent from my Note 4

Yeah, not much here. I think Gear VR support was intended to be the main part of the update. I was really hoping for VoLTE support myself.
 
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Yeah, not much here. I think Gear VR support was intended to be the main part of the update. I was really hoping for VoLTE support myself.
I figured it was for the Gear. I hadn't experienced issues with wifi myself, but if they made it better, good. I'll.

Don't think I know anyone else who's excited for VoLTE, so it's not like I could use it with friends & family anyway.

I would like some lollipop action though... Haha

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Don't think I know anyone else who's excited for VoLTE, so it's not like I could use it with friends & family anyway.

I used it on my S5, and it's really great. There's a big difference in the voice quality. It's going to eventually be the standard on Verizon, so the sooner it rolls out to more devices the more useful it will be.
 
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I used it a lot the last couple months while I was saving mobile data for my road trips now that I dropped unlimited, but I'm good with my cap beyond that, so I leave it on now except when I'm at home and connected to my network. That way, if wifi happens to drop (hasn't that I've noticed, as I mentioned), I'm not burning mobile data in the foreground or background without realizing it.
 

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For the first time after the update my phone rebooted. Saying unable to see sim card. I never had reboots with this phone. I hope that this is the only time that this happen.
 

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I haven't noticed a difference yet....

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Obviously it's a different build number, but the features included in the change log are very similar to the updates Sammy pushed out on the S5 in 4.4.4. We still have the mobile data toggle though. Not that I ever use it anyway since I hardly ever use WIFI.
Keep us updated guys!

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