Why haven’t you received the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Update yet? If you have the Samsung Galaxy S3 with Sprint, you should be able to get it in just a few simple steps.
With both Halo 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops II coming out earlier this month, I haven’t made a lot of time for playing with my new Samsung Galaxy S3. But over the Thanksgiving holiday I was out of the house (and away from my Xbox), so I had more time to try and figure out why I hadn’t received the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Update yet.
Like me, you’ve probably read that Sprint began rolling out the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update to Samsung Galaxy S3 owners at the end of October. I picked mine up at the beginning of November, so I thought I would get the update soon. I waited for a couple weeks and still hadn’t received it, even though several of my friends on Sprint told me that they already had. I stumbled on a Samsung support page and the representative told me that indeed the update was available, but that it had to come from Sprint — that there was nothing I could do to trigger the update.
Thankfully, that was incorrect. There are a few simple steps that I took to force the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update on my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3, and you can too. Follow these 5 steps, and you should be running Jelly Bean in no time.
How to get the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Update in 5 Steps
- Open the “Application manager” from the settings menu.
- Tap on “Google Services Framework” (you will find this alphabetically under the “All” section).
- Tap “Clear data” and “Force stop.”
- Go back to the main Settings menu and click “System Update” near the bottom. Tap on “Update Samsung Software.” Since we cleared the data in the last step, this screen will list the date last checked as 12/31/1969.
- Tap “Check now.”
At this point your Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 should find the update and begin downloading it. If it does not, repeat these steps. Some have reported needing to do this two or three times before they found the update.
The update is pretty big, so it will take a while to download. After it is completely downloaded, you battery will need to be charged to at least 50% (or you must be connected to a charger) to install the update.
And that’s it. Enjoy your Jelly Bean.
Thank you very much, worked like a charm. I was waiting for a solution for this problem for a month or so!
Glad to hear it, Steve!
I accidentally disabled Google services framework. How do I enable it?
Never mind I found it
Great!
i have the unlocked version and my country received the update last month but i didn’t ,could this work on my s3 ?
Hey, Firas. Thanks for your comment. I’m not sure if this would trigger the Android Jelly Bean update for the Samsung Galaxy S3 in another country or with a different carrier, but the process should be harmless even if it doesn’t start the update for you. However, the liability would be yours, so you might want to contact your carrier and see what they say about it.
I am unable to get the clock thing to go away it says I have 21 hours to wait, I tried updating this evening when samsung announce my phone was eligible for the update, but it refused to update, I was on 3G HSPA at the time, would that have anything to do with it?? I’m really ticked Samsung took so dang, (to put it nicely) long to issue the patch, now 4.2 is out in most countries.. when is Samsung gonna catch up?
i do this more than 10 times but i found no updates available. plz help me to download the jelly bean software. thank you
i have a galaxy s3 middle east version. i got up to step 3 and got stuck?i dont have system update in my system menu? what do i do??
Does this work to force 4.2 also? Thank you for the information!
I haven’t heard anything about it working for 4.2 yet.
How do you know if it installed?
To find out what version of Android is installed on your Samsung Galaxy S III, go to your settings menu. Then scroll all the way down to the bottom and tap “About device.” The Android version is listed on this screen. The Sprint S III version of Jelly Bean is 4.1.1.