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High-End Android Phones Powered with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5

Some smartphones featuring the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 have already been launched in China, with many expecting a global release shortly after. A growing list of flagship smartphones are expected to feature the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, which was officially announced in late September 2025. The chipset is anticipated to power top-tier Android devices throughout late 2025 and 2026, with several phones already confirmed or heavily rumored. Xiaomi 17 series: The Xiaomi 17, Xiaomi 17 Pro, and Xiaomi 17 Pro Max were confirmed as the first phones to use this chip. The Pro and Pro Max models will include a secondary rear display. nubia REDMAGIC 11 Pro series: The gaming-focused nubia REDMAGIC 11 Pro series is set to feature the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. realme GT8 Pro: The realme GT8 Pro launched in China in October 2025 with the new Snapdragon chip and is expected to be released in international markets later. Honor Magic 8 series: The Honor Magic 8 series, which includes t...

Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900I Android 5.0 Lollipop G900IZTU1BOA1 Update Begins in Taiwan

The Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900I 4G LTE version has also started receiving its Android 5.0 Lollipop update. The new software builds with version number G900IZTU1BOA1  has just officially rolled out in Taiwan. Noting that the Galaxy S5 SM-G900I is only available in select countries, particularly in Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and India. The Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900I was also acquired and branded with network providers such as Vodafone, Telstra, Optus. While the rest remained as unbranded or SIM-Free during its market-launched. This device is powered with a Quad-core (Snapdragon) processor like the Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900F, so it's not so surprising that this device also gets the Android 5.0 Lollipop treatment. So for those Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900I users in Taiwan you can start seeing the Android 5.0 update G900IZTU1BOA1 thru Kies. This is a direct update from Android 4.4.2 KitKat dubbed with build numbers such as G900IZTU1ANI3, G900IZTU1ANI2, and G900IZTU1ANI1 which was...

G860PVPU1ANK2 Sprint Galaxy S5 Sport Minor User Interface enhancements update

Sprint Galaxy S5 Sport also known as Galaxy S5 Active receives new Android 4.4.2 treatment. The software build number is G860PVPU1ANK2 and it brings  a "Minor User Interface enhancements update" according to the addressed changelog. Noting that the latter already runs in Android 4.4.2 so everyone might been expecting some any major over-haul  but it's not yet so far available with this update.  The G860PVPU1ANK2 is an update to the initial released  G860PVPU1ANG3 way back on August 2014. There might be some minor glitches to user's interface that had have been found so this update will hell resolves such issues. Here are the details of the G860PVPU1ANK2 OTA update. Device: Sprint Samsung Galaxy S5 Sport Model number: SM-G860P Android version: Android 4.4.2 Baseband version: G860PVPU1ANK2 Kernel version: 3.0.4-2113914 Build number: KOT49H.G860PVPU1ANK2 The update is now live via Over-The-Air OTA only, but nowhere to ...

G900FXXU1BOA3 Galaxy S5 Android 5.0 Lollipop Update Arrived in UK, First firmware build in 2015

The Android 5.0 Lollipop update has finally reaches in UK Samsung  Galaxy S5 users.  A unique software build number G900FXXU1BOA3, indicating a fresher build this year. The three last digits letters "OA3", the  "O" basically emphasized as a date of a year "2015", while letter "A" holds the first month of the year which is "January"  and the number "3" shows how many revisions has its made. In addition,  if one might have to ask why Samsung had to released another firmware build version in UK whilst the rest of European countries has the same build version. Well, maybe it just happens that UK's Galaxy S5 just got delayed a bit and there is nothing to argue with that. If we take a closer look to the firmware build G900FXXU1BOA3 itself, it has a similar changes-value to the previous Android 5.0 G900FXXU1BNL9. It is simply means that nothing more any special added features to it. But n...

Root G900FXXU1BNL9 Galaxy S5 Android 5.0 Lollipop Update, SuperSU and TWRP Method

Root G900FXXU1BNL9  official Android 5.0 Lollipop update for Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900F.  Achieve root  on Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900F latest Android 5.0 Lollipop update G900FXXU1BNL9  is quite sophisticated on some part.  After the first Android 5.0 released ,  those who have rushed-in into rooting had suffered bootloop issues without knowing it once installed the root file.  Some might still confused and wondering why the SuperSU had failed to worked on  G900FXXU1BNL2 5.0 Lollipop update and the recent release. While  others were successfully rooted using the same rooting approach. The G900FXXU1BNL9 can be rooted with the use of latest TWRP and the SuperSU v2.37and even the v2.44 but you may experience some turbulence like the unwanted bootloop issue during on reboot. And might as well losing root once on other reboots and or see an error message that says; " There is no SU binar...

G900FXXU1BNL9 Android 5.0 Lollipop update on Galaxy S5 Continues in Europe

The Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900F international variant have had started  receiving the Android 5.0 Lollipop update early in December. The recent firmware released with build number G900FXXU1BNL9 which landed in Poland and Spain few weeks ago  now continues and are also available for Vodafone, A1, and SI.mobil branded Galaxy S5 but might as well going to arrive to several countries in Europe.  It seems that the G900FXXU1BNL9 have had showed and acquired the flexibility and stability firmware build after some few revision attempts from  G900FXXU1BNL2 and  G900FXXU1BNL 7. Furthermore, there are still some few glitches has been reported which particularly talked about regarding some 3rd-party apps compatibility issues. So I highly recommend to make a full data reset and clean wipe once before and after the installation. You might also need to update any outdated applications ...

Samsung Galaxy S5 Lollipop Update G900FDXU1BNL3 Rolling Out in SEA region

If you are rocking the Samsung Galaxy S5 and happens to be from Southeast Asia, you should keep an eye of the Official Android 5.0 Lollipop update as it is coming on its way.  This is SEA region's first Android lollipop update and dubbed with build number G900FDXU1BNL3,  but only seen rolled out in Malaysia at this time being.  Just hope that it might also arrive to the rest of SEA countries very soon, if there are no any major glitches to its performance. In addition, the G900FDXU1BNL3 has a different development  path and is basically built for Southeast countries only, but in theory it still similar to the European  firmware build such as the   G900FXXU1BNL9 . So it's not a better idea to compare which released build is better from one specific region to another.  This might have some less or more apps However,  for those who wants to have their Galaxy...

Galaxy S5 Lollipop Update G900FXXU1BNL9, Much Stable Android 5.0

Firmware build G900FXXU1BNL9 Android 5.0 Lollipop update on Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900F. The G900FXXU1BNL9 is the 3rd firmware build for Europe countries.  Unlikely before the previous released such as the   U1BNL2  and the  U1BNL7  which are available in Poland only.  The G900FXXU1BNL9 update was also seen and had been rolled out in Spain.  This is a good indication that the rest of world might also see an update very soon. Perhaps, many of us has been expecting the Android 5.0 update on our Galaxy S5 last year. Unfortunately, it wasn't made it through as a worldwide release. There are still some issues reportedly found out that causes some adverse effect on some 3rd party apps, like FC's and lag-issues. In addition, it seems like Samsung developers still on ironed out some bugs, so let's hope that they can give us a much stable Android 5.0 Lollipop update this year. So everyone with Samsung Galaxy S5 at hand...