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Launch of Android Go brings Oreo optimizations and features to low-end phones...
Google has made public the first release of Android Go—the optimized version of Android for low-end phones targeted toward developing markets, which was announced in May at I/O 2017. Rather than let...
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Android 8.1 OTA files and factory images are now live
Anxiously waiting for 8.1 to land? It would appear that today is the day. Google has just released both the OTA files for sideloading 8.1 and the requisite factory images. Intrepid Android enthusiasts...
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[FYI] For some, mobile data is now set to “always active” by default in Oreo
Android O contains plenty of power-saving improvements for the platform. But it would appear that at least one of the changes won't be improving your battery life. For some users, on updating to...
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Essential Phone now receiving Android 8.1 Oreo update
At the end of January, Essential announced that it would be skipping a full release of Android 8.0 Oreo, instead going straight to 8.1. About a month after the first beta build of 8.1 came out for the...
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Android 8.1 update for 2016 Pixel XL causes a potentially dangerous...
Generally speaking, updates remove bugs, but in the case of Google's 2016 Pixel XL, a new problem was introduced with the Android 8.1 update this January. When charging in certain circumstances, the...
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[Update: Fix in coming weeks] Android 8.1 update for 2016 Pixel XL causes a...
Update 1: 2018/03/21 12:25pm PDT On one of the support forum posts related to the issue, Google's head of Safety and Compliance Engineering for Google Consumer Hardware delivered the following...
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Android 8.1 is now rolling out to the Nokia 5 and 6 (2017)
HMD Global is fast gaining the reputation as the best Android phone-maker around when it comes to fast OS updates. Its Nokia-branded phones have been updated ahead of the pack more often than not in...
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Motorola releases 8.1 Oreo kernel source code for Moto X4
The Moto X4 started receiving Android 8.1 Oreo back in May, and it brought with it a couple of issues. Two months later, Motorola has released the kernel source for that update as it's mandated to do...
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