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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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#5517267 Posted on: 02/05/2018 10:58 AM
Looks i'll be switching over to LineageOS soon then. My S6 Edge has been horribly sluggish and very poor on battery performance.
Long time since I fiddled with costum roms.
Looks i'll be switching over to LineageOS soon then. My S6 Edge has been horribly sluggish and very poor on battery performance.
Long time since I fiddled with costum roms.
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#5517276 Posted on: 02/05/2018 11:58 AM
Samsung's software (Touchwiz) is far more bloated than LineageOS.
The main reason why I was using Cyanogenmod and later LineageOS on my Galaxy S5 was because of the lag when using Touchwiz.
It's much better now, but LineageOS was still more responsive on my S5 than Touchwiz is on my S8, simply because it's very lightweight. I'm very confident your tablet wouldn't have worked well with the Touchwiz version of Android 6.0 for example.
Touchwiz is only the launcher.
What you are talking about is Samsung Experience. The reason why it feels heavier on your S8 is due to infinity screen and bixby. You can get much better performance with the right build.prop tweaks.
I recently put a custom android 6 rom on a Samsung Note Pro (which has android 4 as stock).
The system is faster and it has all the nice features/gui now. I tried LineageOS before but it had bugs like smartview not working.
LineageOS is basic as it can get. no fancy gui/animations or extras at all. Also be aware that if you like to take pictures, the quality is worse and other features might have bugs as well.
Samsung's software (Touchwiz) is far more bloated than LineageOS.
The main reason why I was using Cyanogenmod and later LineageOS on my Galaxy S5 was because of the lag when using Touchwiz.
It's much better now, but LineageOS was still more responsive on my S5 than Touchwiz is on my S8, simply because it's very lightweight. I'm very confident your tablet wouldn't have worked well with the Touchwiz version of Android 6.0 for example.
Touchwiz is only the launcher.
What you are talking about is Samsung Experience. The reason why it feels heavier on your S8 is due to infinity screen and bixby. You can get much better performance with the right build.prop tweaks.
I recently put a custom android 6 rom on a Samsung Note Pro (which has android 4 as stock).
The system is faster and it has all the nice features/gui now. I tried LineageOS before but it had bugs like smartview not working.
LineageOS is basic as it can get. no fancy gui/animations or extras at all. Also be aware that if you like to take pictures, the quality is worse and other features might have bugs as well.
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#5517368 Posted on: 02/05/2018 05:40 PM
You pay too much attention to version numbers and not enough attention to what each version changes and such. For example, Samsung has so many features months and years before Google implements them into stock android but people ignore that and only go by version numbers which doesn't tell the full story. Let's take 8.1 as an example, many fixes there are for Google's Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL devices, which obviously aren't needed for Galaxy S8 because Samsung has it's own drivers and firmware.
Also let's look at something like Oneplus 5T, it's supposed to run nearly stock android yet it received Oreo update only today or yesterday. So don't blame Samsung, if you want day1 updates either get Google Pixel or get an iPhone.
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.
You pay too much attention to version numbers and not enough attention to what each version changes and such. For example, Samsung has so many features months and years before Google implements them into stock android but people ignore that and only go by version numbers which doesn't tell the full story. Let's take 8.1 as an example, many fixes there are for Google's Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL devices, which obviously aren't needed for Galaxy S8 because Samsung has it's own drivers and firmware.
Also let's look at something like Oneplus 5T, it's supposed to run nearly stock android yet it received Oreo update only today or yesterday. So don't blame Samsung, if you want day1 updates either get Google Pixel or get an iPhone.
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#5517405 Posted on: 02/05/2018 07:25 PM
Touchwiz is only the launcher.
What you are talking about is Samsung Experience. The reason why it feels heavier on your S8 is due to infinity screen and bixby. You can get much better performance with the right build.prop tweaks.
I recently put a custom android 6 rom on a Samsung Note Pro (which has android 4 as stock).
The system is faster and it has all the nice features/gui now. I tried LineageOS before but it had bugs like smartview not working.
LineageOS is basic as it can get. no fancy gui/animations or extras at all. Also be aware that if you like to take pictures, the quality is worse and other features might have bugs as well.
I'm not sure if I misunderstood you but..
Samsung Experience is merely the new name for Touchwiz, the UI on top of Android that Samsung uses. It includes everything that makes the UI a Samsung, including the bloat of features. The apps are obviously not part of the UI per-se, but they are included with any stock Samsung phone.
I'll look up the tweaks you're talking about, thanks for the suggestion. The phone is fine as it is right now but it just doesn't go that extra mile in responsiveness like LineageOS.
Good point about the LineageOS camera though, both it and the Cyanogenmod ROMs I had before made my camera almost completely useless for photos. Videos were ok though.
Touchwiz is only the launcher.
What you are talking about is Samsung Experience. The reason why it feels heavier on your S8 is due to infinity screen and bixby. You can get much better performance with the right build.prop tweaks.
I recently put a custom android 6 rom on a Samsung Note Pro (which has android 4 as stock).
The system is faster and it has all the nice features/gui now. I tried LineageOS before but it had bugs like smartview not working.
LineageOS is basic as it can get. no fancy gui/animations or extras at all. Also be aware that if you like to take pictures, the quality is worse and other features might have bugs as well.
I'm not sure if I misunderstood you but..
Samsung Experience is merely the new name for Touchwiz, the UI on top of Android that Samsung uses. It includes everything that makes the UI a Samsung, including the bloat of features. The apps are obviously not part of the UI per-se, but they are included with any stock Samsung phone.
I'll look up the tweaks you're talking about, thanks for the suggestion. The phone is fine as it is right now but it just doesn't go that extra mile in responsiveness like LineageOS.
Good point about the LineageOS camera though, both it and the Cyanogenmod ROMs I had before made my camera almost completely useless for photos. Videos were ok though.
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I recently updated my Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 (GT-P5210) to Lineage OS 14.1 with Android 7.1.2.
Not sure why Samsung never updated past 4.4.2 cuz it works just fine.
Samsung's software (Touchwiz) is far more bloated than LineageOS.
The main reason why I was using Cyanogenmod and later LineageOS on my Galaxy S5 was because of the lag when using Touchwiz.
It's much better now, but LineageOS was still more responsive on my S5 than Touchwiz is on my S8, simply because it's very lightweight. I'm very confident your tablet wouldn't have worked well with the Touchwiz version of Android 6.0 for example.