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Anyone World Health Organization has the Samsung Q850T soundbar in their home theatre arrangement may have struggled to get under one's skin their audio outfit working, afterward a middle-September firmware update appears to have impacted the speakers' functionality.

A numeral of Samsung customers have taken to the company's U.S. forums to complain about issues with the Q850T – a 5.1.2 channel loudspeaker system system with Ray M. Dolby Atmos audio frequency – specifically when connecting the soundbar to rear speakers.

Drug user Roberband posted in September about an update over Wi-Fi that went wrong, with the Samsung SmartThings app failed to fully complete the update:

"Updated last night by Wifi and it's causation massive issues. First off, the update didn't really finish going through using 'Smart Things.' Information technology starts for a few seconds and and then says there are no updates. Then now the soundbar gets stuck in a boot-loop when I try to connect the rear speakers. If I unplug the tail end speaker receiver the job ceases, only this has successful the unit unusable."

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This issue is verified by a handful of different users, with others saying that the HW-Q900T (the next model upward) suffers from the same write out, and that stressful to set up terminated either Wi-Fi Oregon USB is a no-go.

"I am having the exact same issue. Seems to have started after the 9/15/21 firmware update," one drug user states.

Roperband adds that "Unfortunately, I lav't install either by Wifi or USB. We'll just take to wait for the newer microcode to fix this issue I guess."

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

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

One substance abuser writes that "Dependable to do an update via the SmartThings app merely it indicated there was no update available. Atomic number 3 a result I downloaded the firmware Energy file and traced its content to the root of a flashdrive. Socially connected this flashdrive to the Q850T sound bar service port, with the legal exclude happening, and after few seconds the sound bar began flashing UPDATE.

"One time the update completed the sound bar major power cycled and came au courant eARC and I had sound from the bar, rear speakers and woofer [...] Fingers crossed that this latest firmware has permanently resolved the boot out loop issue."

We give notice see the 1021.0 version available on Samsung's accompaniment site hither, though information technology seems like using a USB is the way to attend implement the fix. We're wait to get wind back from Samsung on the continuing issues over Wi-Fi, though, so hope to atomic number 4 able to update this clause with much entropy soon.

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Joseph Henry is TechRadar's Word & Features Editor, covering the stories of the day with vitality, moxie, and sang-froid. He's spent the past three years reporting on TVs, projectors and smart speakers as well as gaming and VR – including a stint as the website's Home Cinema Editor program – and has been interviewed live some BBC Cosmos News and Channel News Asia, discussing the later of transport and 4K resolve televisions severally. As 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 Caparison would have wanted. Bylines let in Edge, T3, and Little White Lies.