Third Android Pie beta for the Galaxy S8 brings February patch

Last updated: February 1st, 2019 at 09:15 UTC+01:00

Samsung today rolled out the third Android Pie beta for Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ ane week afterwards the second beta landed. The visitor opened up the beta program for the 2017 flagship in an unprecedented motion. It previously used to limit the beta program to the Galaxy Due south flagship of the current year. Not only that, it also released Android Pie beta for the Milky way Note nine and the Galaxy Note viii. The phablets were non made a function of the programme before.

The latest beta release for the Milky way S8 and Galaxy S8+ brings fixes for several bugs. It as well adds the February 2019 security patch. Samsung has not even detailed it notwithstanding for devices running stable builds of Oreo and Pie.

Tertiary Android Pie beta for Galaxy S8 has been released

Samsung is now rolling out firmware version G950FXXU4ZSAI and G955FXXU4ZSAI for the Galaxy S8 and Milky way S8+, respectively. This is the third Android Pie beta release for these devices and weighs in at just over 500MB.

Bugs fixed in this release include one which prevented the fingerprint sensor from working in Samsung Pay. Issues where the Camera app would forcibly close and virtual keyboard would announced when unlocking with iris recognition have been addressed too.

The visitor is probable going to release the stable Android Pie update for the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+ later on this month. It's quite possible that this might be one of the concluding Android Pie builds for these devices. Those on the beta program can become this latest build over-the-air by borer Software update in the Settings app and selecting the Download and install option.

Android Pie beta for Galaxy S8