Note: this guide is for Windows, you may use it for getting an idea of what the requirements are for a successful firmware but don’t expect a guide for any other OS to be made. If you find this guide saving you time and hassle you can thank me here.

Prepare your USB stick

You will need to property format and partition your USB in order for the monitor to detect the files. Let’s wipe all the data in a USB stick below.

• Open a Command Window (cmd)
• Enter diskpart
• Enter list disk (it is important you KNOW which disk is the USB key you are formatting)
• Enter select disk x where x is your USB key
• Enter clean
• Enter convert MBR
• Enter create part primary
• Enter select part 1
• Enter active
• Enter format fs=fat32 label=”firmware” (Label is optional – ensures USB key is labelled as ”firmware” in Explorer etc)

Download firmware and copy to USB

Visit samsung.com support page for the G9 monitor, grab the .zip file containing the update. It should look like something like “M-T9549GGAA-1016.0[1109]” (1016.0 is the current version as of this posting).

1. Download .zip file from samsung.
2. Unpack .zip
3. Grab the single file “M-T9549GGAA-1016.0[1109]” and put it on the USB stick on the parent (never put inside a folder inside usb stick).
4. Connect USB to back of monitor; ensure all other USB plugs are unplugged and only the USB stick is connected.
5. Turn on monitor (if not already on), go to MENU > Support > Software Update and hit enter.
6. Monitor should detect the update file/usb stick and apply the newest firmware.

Validate a successful update

Before and after a firmware update do these steps to check your firmware version on the monitor.

1. Turn on monitor (if not already on).
2. Go to MENU > Support > Information
3. Your Model, Serial Number, Software version is displayed. Take note of it.

If samsung.com says your current version is equal or higher than their download then your firmware does not need to be updated.

Important notes (read this!)

• DO NOT RENAME the .img files after unzipping. Just copy them to USB as it is named.
• SAMSUNG ARE IDIOTS. Upgrading a very old firmware to latest version may not be detected as an update; regardless of the proper naming and format in the USB stick. If you face errors of ‘no update files detected’ then find the next firmware release after your current running firmware. I was forced to upgrade from 1008 firmware to M-T9549GGAA-1012.1[984C].img before I was able to flash the latest version downloaded from samsung’s website.

If this guide / tips / how-to saved you time consider thanking me here.

# Find out the INTERFACE-ID or "ZONE ID" to send outgoing packets thru
netsh interface ipv6 show interface
ping fe80::2080:218b:b6e7:8f35%4 (sends out ping via ID 4)

So I created a scheduled task that resets the device, after resuming from hibernate open your Event Viewer > System.

Look for event ID 27 – “The boot type was 0x2.” right click  “Attach task to this event”

Run program: powershell.exe

Arguments: Restart-NetAdapter -InterfaceDescription ‘Edimax AC1750 Wi-Fi USB Adapter’ -Confirm:$false

This should fix the issue automatically after every reboot. Your interface description may be different, in powershell run “Get-NetAdapter” to get the device’s specific and edit the arguments above as needed.

Since then I have always wished team viewer would notify my cellphone every time someone connected or disconnected from my workstation, since I am the only user that connects to it I find the peace of mind extremely valuable and I wouldn’t mind getting some push notifications each time I used TeamViewer.

As TeamViewer themselves don’t have this feature I decided to write my own little program that will  send instant notifications to any phone for anyone connecting to your workstation using TeamViewer. Say hello to go-TValerts!

I have released my code as open source, written instructions on how to install and implement it. Find out more at github.com/TheLinuxGuy/go-tvalerts

However, if you open the command line and you attempt to run “chrome.exe” it will complain that the executable is not found in the %PATH%

This is because Control+R also looks up the registry values within HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\

Which include all apps ever installed such as Chrome.exe, Firefox.exe, Excel.exe, Illustrator.exe, etc.

So if you are ever writing a program in your programming language of choice, using a Windows Registry check of the location (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths) for whatever.exe will be the perfect solution when that program is not in the System Environment variable %PATH%

The problem I recently encountered was trying to find the executable PATH of the git-bash.exe so that I can configure my Webstorm IDE to use it. All the documentation on the internet seems to point to C:/Program Files/Git folder but Github may have changed this as in the latest release I downloaded (v 3.3.3.0) the files reside elsewhere and I will share where to find them.

To find your git-bash.exe path try the following:

1. Open File Explorer and put %AppData% in the address bar, hit enter.
2. It should redirect to something like:  C:\Users\Giovanni\AppData\Roaming
3. Now change folders from Roaming to Local
4. You should now be at: C:\Users\Giovanni\AppData\Local 
5. Find the Github folder, enter it.
6. You should see a list of files and folders, we care about “PortableGit” it has a longer name that just PortableGit, so enter it.
7. You will see git-bash.exe in there.
8. Go back into Webstorm > Settings > Terminal
9. Set your terminal to this new path, in my case: “C:\Users\Giovanni\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_d7effa1a4a322478cd29c826b52a0c118ad3db11\git-bash.exe”

You’re all set! Webstorm should now be able to launch Github Desktop’s git-bash.exe as the terminal, no additional software required.

There is a gotcha: the terminal window will open separate from Webstorm window, if you want a tab under your code then I suggest to download and install git for windows in addition to Github Desktop.https://git-for-windows.github.io/