Well here’s some interesting news today for those of you that own a U.S. carrier-branded Galaxy S 5. Assuming your local Best Buy store has a Samsung Experience Shop in it, you can walk in with your Galaxy S 5 and they will install Android 5.0 Lollipop on it. Sprint and Verizon are already pushing the update to their respective S5′s, but even you have an AT&T or any other carrier device, you can still get the update. The only exception would be T-Mobile.
This news comes from a post on Reddit from an actual Samsung Experience Shop rep and it does seem legit. According to him the update is the same for all carriers, but each carrier has to add their own bloatware and conduct testing. How it works is that Samsung issues the update as say 1.0, which is what goes into the SMART system at least a week before they get officially released. Once carriers add their stuff, it might become 1.0att, 1.0vzw, or whatever. By going into the store, you will be getting the unadulterated version with no bloat, but apparently the bloat will still get downloaded to your phone once they are available and your SIM connects to the network.
There is a caveat to this and that is your phone cannot be rooted.
Let us know if you were able to get the Lollipop update on your Galaxy S 5 with this method.
source: Reddit
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