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Our guide breaks down the latest updates, such as the Notification and Quick settings panels, connected device capabilities, and AI options, so you can learn how to use your updated phone or tablet. I had the same issue when trying to update the firmware on my Samsung 990 PRO using Samsung Magician — it always showed "Failed to update firmware on the selected drive." In my case, the problem was that my system was running under Intel RST (RAID mode) instead of AHCI. Samsung Magician could not properly handle the firmware update in RAID mode.