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Guru3D.com » News » Wondering if your Samsung Smartphone Gets Oreo? Here's a list.

Wondering if your Samsung Smartphone Gets Oreo? Here's a list.

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/03/2018 11:14 AM | source: | 31 comment(s)
Wondering if your Samsung Smartphone Gets Oreo? Here's a list.

Android 8, better known as Oreo has been announced last summer and is seeing slow adoption towards compatible devices. Samsung currently rolled out an Android Oreo beta program only to its Galaxy S8 and S8+ devices, and nobody really knows if other Galaxy device owners will get that yummy cookie update, that now changes as there is a list. 

So here's the thing, the list is not 100% official/confirmed but seems solid and was made thanks to help from a XDASenior Member. Within framework-res file of the unreleased Note 8 Android Oreo beta he and xda-developpers found a list of XML files that describe the hardware that is present on certain Samsung devices. More importantly, the titles of these XML files contain the internal code-names of many current Samsung devices. The existence of these XML files isn’t proof that the devices listed below will receive Oreo since they could be leftover files, however, the fact that several code-names for unreleased Samsung devices are also mentioned suggests to me that Samsung is experimenting with Oreo on these different devices.

That xml files with code names suggest that these devices are being tested by Samsung for Android Oreo and there is a good chance that they will get that update. 

So while not confirmed, it's plausible that the following devices will get Android 8.0 / Oreo:

Smartphones:

  • Samsung Galaxy A3 2017 (a3y17)
  • Samsung Galaxy A5 2017 (a5y17)
  • Samsung Galaxy A7 2017 (a7y17)
  • Samsung Galaxy A8 2016 SM-A810 (a8xe)
  • Samsung Galaxy A8 2018 (jackpotlte)
  • Samsung Galaxy A8 + 2018 (jackpot2lte)
  • Samsung Galaxy J3 2017 (j3y17)
  • Samsung Galaxy J5 2017 (j5y17)
  • Samsung Galaxy J7 2017 (j7y17)
  • Samsung Galaxy J7 + (jadelte)
  • Samsung Galaxy J7 Duos 2017 (j7duo)
  • Samsung Galaxy J7 Max (j7max)
  • Samsung Galaxy J7 Neo (j7velte)
  • Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime (j7popelte)
  • Samsung Galaxy Note FE (gracer)
  • Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (great)
  • Samsung Galaxy S7 (hero)
  • Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (hero2)
  • Samsung Galaxy S8 Active (cruiserlte)
  • Samsung Galaxy S8 (dream)
  • Samsung Galaxy S8 + (dream2)
  • Samsung Galaxy W2018 (kellylte)

Tablets:

  • Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 SM-T355 (gt58lte)
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 SM-T380 / T385 2017 (gta2s)
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 SM-T580 (gtaxl)
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab Active 2 (gtactive2)
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab E 8.0 (gtesvelte)
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 SM-T825 (gts3)






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Raider0001
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#5517152 Posted on: 02/04/2018 07:35 PM
Because the A3 shipped with Android MM (6.0), and Samsung release 3 major versions per device, so it will get or has got Nougat 7.0, then will get Oreo 8.0

S6 came with Lollipop 5.0 I'm guessing, then got MM 6.0, then Nougat 7.0, now EOL

Still better than Xiaomi... Redmi Note 2 was released with 5.0 and still has 5.0

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#5517155 Posted on: 02/04/2018 07:51 PM
Would make more sense to update them to 8.1, this is the reason why I'd never touch a Samsung, the updates are terrible.

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#5517163 Posted on: 02/04/2018 08:46 PM
Still better than Xiaomi... Redmi Note 2 was released with 5.0 and still has 5.0


Yea that's bad

Would make more sense to update them to 8.1, this is the reason why I'd never touch a Samsung, the updates are terrible.


There are plenty of updates to Samsung phones (flagships anyway), they just don't like to go above the initial release version of Android for some reason, for example there have already been 10 Nougat updates for the S7, it's just that they've all been 7.0

But they're very late with the updates, getting August security patch in October, currently I am on the December 2017 security patch and it is now February 2018

But overall the updates are solid, I don't have any bugs that I know of

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#5517228 Posted on: 02/05/2018 04:58 AM
Samsung is awful when it comes to updates. My Xperia x performance got already two updates since I updated to 8.

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#5517238 Posted on: 02/05/2018 07:37 AM
Would make more sense to update them to 8.1, this is the reason why I'd never touch a Samsung, the updates are terrible.

Pretty much all company's updates are terrible, save for a few like Google, or maybe One Plus who have a plethora of other problems.

Don't buy an Android phone expecting updates unless it's a flagship from a major company, in that case don't expect more than 1 guaranteed and don't expect it sooner than 10 months after Google releases it.

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