How to Check Firmware on Samsung Soundbar
Samsung soundbar problems: if y’all’re having issues, here’southward how to fix them
Anyone who has the Samsung Q850T
soundbar
in their
home theater organization
may have struggled to become their sound kit working, later a mid-September firmware update appears to take impacted the speakers’ functionality.
A number of Samsung customers have taken to the company’s The states
forums
(opens in new tab)
to complain about issues with the Q850T – a 5.1.ii channel speaker system with
Dolby Atmos
sound – specifically when connecting the soundbar to rear speakers.
User Roberband posted in September about an update over Wi-Fi that went incorrect, with the Samsung SmartThings app failing to fully finish the update:
“Updated final dark by Wifi and information technology’south causing massive issues. First off, the update didn’t really finish going through using ‘Smart Things.’ It starts for a few seconds and then says there are no updates. So now the soundbar gets stuck in a boot-loop when I try to connect the rear speakers. If I unplug the rear speaker receiver the problem ceases, but this has made the unit unusable.”
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This issue is corroborated past a handful of other users, with others saying that the HW-Q900T (the next model upward) suffers from the same upshot, and that trying to install over either Wi-Fi or USB is a no-go.
“I am having the exact same result. Seems to have started after the 9/15/21 firmware update,” one user states.
Roperband adds that “Unfortunately, I can’t install either past Wifi or USB. We’ll just have to wait for the newer firmware to fix this upshot I guess.”
How to fix your Samsung speakers
A new firmware update (1021.0) was released on September xxx, seemingly to address the above problems.
Another user claims that they successfully updated the firmware over USB, while others go on to flounder trying to do and then over Wi-Fi through the SmartThings app.
One user writes that “Tried to perform an update via the SmartThings app only it indicated there was no update available. As a result I downloaded the firmware Zip file and copied its content to the root of a flashdrive. Connected this flashdrive to the Q850T sound bar service port, with the audio bar on, and after a few seconds the audio bar began flashing UPDATE.
“Once the update completed the sound bar power cycled and came upwards on eARC and I had sound from the bar, rear speakers and woofer […] Fingers crossed that this latest firmware has permanently resolved the kick loop issue.”
We tin can see the 1021.0 version available on Samsung’south support site
here
(opens in new tab)
, though it seems similar using a USB is the mode to become to implement the fix. We’re waiting to hear back from Samsung on the continuing issues over Wi-Fi, though, and then hope to exist able to update this commodity with more information soon.
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