T-Mobile is now pushing the official OTA Android 6.0.1 update on their Samsung Galaxy Note 5 devices. But as it happens, the new update is being rolled out in stages and not all users are getting it at the same time. You can check if a new update is available for your Galaxy Note 5 device by going to Settings-> About Phone and see if a System Update is ready to be installed. To download it, you just need to confirm the update process and your device will take care of the firmware file installation automatically.
If you do not want to wait for the new OTA Android update to arrive in your region you can manually flash the Android 6.0.1 files using ODIN app. In order to learn how to do that, follow the steps from below.
Before starting to flash the update, check that the following guidelines are met:
Your device is a T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 5 N920T model. Check the model by going to Settings> About Device and see if the model is SM – N920T.
- Download and install the Samsung USB drivers on your computer from here. The drivers will allow your phone to be detected by the computer when connected.
- To install the Android Marshmallow update, you will have to use the Odin app,that can be opened on your PC using the Samsung USB drivers.
- Make sure that USB Debugging is enabled by going to Developer Options menu from your phone. In case the Developer Options is missing, go to Settings-> About Phone and tap seven times on the Build Number section to enable it.
- If your Samsung device is running with a rooted firmware, the root access will be lost in the flashing process. Also, any custom Recovery you might have installed on your device, that replaced with a stock Recovery image.
- You can flash the Android 6.0.1 Update over custom ROM, too, but for that you require ‘Factory Reset’ the system partition after the update is over. By applying the Factory Reset process, your device will wipe clean the system and remove the custom ROM, allowing it to boot in normal mode. Factory Resetting will not delete any data from the internal storage of your device.
- To ‘Factory Reset ‘Power Off your phone. Boot the phone in Recovery Mode. (To boot Recovery Mode, press and hold at the same time Volume Up + Home + Power buttons). Select ‘wipe data/ factory reset’ and confirm. Reboot the device in Normal Mode when the process is complete.
- To prevent powering off your phone during the installation process, make sure that the battery charge level of your phone is full. As this process is very technical, it has to be used only by advanced users. We cannot be blamed in case you brick your phone or in case you lose any data files in the process.
- Please make sure your phone meets all requirements and also that you won’t skip any step.
How to Manually Flash Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow on your T-Mobile Galaxy Note 5 device:
- Download the Android 6.0.1 N920TUVS4DPH2 archived firmware file from here.
- Once downloaded, unzip the contents and save the files on your computer. After download, you will obtain the N920TUVS4DPH2 tar.md5 file, but don’t unzip the tar.md5 firmware file.
- Download the Odin 3.10.7 app from here, extract the contents and save them on your computer.
- Power Off your phone.
- Boot your T-Mobile Galaxy Note 5 in Download Mode by pressing and holding Volume Down + Home + Power buttons at the same time. Keep pressing these buttons until the Download Mode is being displayed. To confirm Download Mode boot, press Volume Up button.
- Launch the Odin exe file on your computer.
- Connect the phone and the PC using a USB cable and wait for Odin app to detect your phone. If the phone is not detected, try reinstall the Samsung USB drivers one more time.
- Go to Odin main screen, open Options, find ‘Re-Partition’ and disable it. Do not edit default Odin settings.
- From Odin’s main screen click the AP button. Find the N920TUVS4DPH2 tar.md5 firmware update file and load the file in Odin.
- Press START button to begin the Android 6.0.1 update process. Wait until all the new files are done installing, don’t press any other buttons.
- Once the update is over, you will see the PASS alert in ODIN. The phone will reboot in normal mode.
- Finally, unplug the phone from your computer, and use your default login info in order to unlock your phone.
If ODIN shows the FAIL alert, or any other error that impedes you from completing the Marshmallow update, repeat the installation process once more, making sure that you won’t skip any steps.
If ODIN is showing the PASS alert, but your phone enters in a boot loop, or it gets stuck in the boot animation screen, you need to ‘factory reset’ it.
Hoping that this post was useful, please share with us your installation experience using the comments section from below.