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Anyone who has the Samsung Q850T
soundbar
in their
home theater system
may have struggled to get their audio kit working, afterwards a mid-September firmware update appears to have impacted the speakers’ functionality.

A number of Samsung customers have taken to the company’s United states
forums
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to complain about bug with the Q850T – a five.1.two aqueduct 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 wrong, with the Samsung SmartThings app declining to fully cease the update:

“Updated last night past Wifi and it’s causing massive issues. Commencement off, the update didn’t really finish going through using ‘Smart Things.’ It starts for a few seconds and 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, just this has made the unit unusable.”

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This issue is corroborated by a scattering of other users, with others saying that the HW-Q900T (the next model upwardly) suffers from the same outcome, and that trying to install over either Wi-Fi or USB is a no-go.

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“I am having the exact same outcome. Seems to have started subsequently the nine/fifteen/21 firmware update,” one user states.

Roperband adds that “Unfortunately, I can’t install either by Wifi or USB. Nosotros’ll only have to await for the newer firmware to fix this issue I guess.”

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A new firmware update (1021.0) was released on September 30, seemingly to address the above bug.

Another user claims that they successfully updated the firmware over USB, while others continue to flounder trying to practice so over Wi-Fi through the SmartThings app.

One user writes that “Tried to perform an update via the SmartThings app but information technology 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 audio bar service port, with the sound bar on, and after a few seconds the sound bar began flashing UPDATE.

“Once the update completed the sound bar ability cycled and came up on eARC and I had sound from the bar, rear speakers and woofer […] Fingers crossed that this latest firmware has permanently resolved the kicking loop event.”

We tin can run across the 1021.0 version available on Samsung’s support site
hither
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, though it seems similar using a USB is the style to get to implement the set. We’re waiting to hear back from Samsung on the continuing bug over Wi-Fi, though, then promise to be able to update this article with more information before long.

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Henry is a freelance technology journalist. Before going freelance, he spent more than 3 years at TechRadar reporting on TVs, projectors and smart speakers as the website’southward Dwelling Cinema Editor – and has been interviewed alive on both BBC World News and Channel News Asia, discussing the futurity of transport and 4K resolution televisions respectively. Equally a graduate of English Literature and persistent theatre enthusiast, he’ll usually be found forcing Shakespeare puns into his technology articles, which he thinks is what the Bard would accept wanted. Bylines also include Border, T3, and Piddling White Lies.