T-Mobile's Galaxy Note 8 Oreo update rollout is currently on hold

Last updated: Apr 24th, 2018 at 11:42 UTC+01:00

North American carrier T-Mobile started rolling out the Android 8.0 Oreo update for the Galaxy Note 8 right on Apr Fools' Mean solar day, but information technology looks like the company didn't pull a prank on its customers until two days later. If you have a Milky way Note 8 from T-Mobile and haven't yet received the Oreo update, that's because the rollout has been put on hold by the magenta carrier on April 3. T-Mobile hasn't offered any data on what caused information technology to pull the update, and the update still hasn't been released three weeks later, leaving T-Mobile as the but United states carrier to non have sent out Oreo to all of its Galaxy Note viii users.

T-Mobile's Milky way Notation 8 Oreo update on hold

T-Mobile pausing the rollout of a major OS update for a flagship device is nonetheless another case of these updates having issues that should accept been sorted out during the months Samsung took for testing. At present, this particular instance might be the carrier's error and not Samsung's, merely it's disappointing to see how consumers take to wait and then long — it'due south been 8 months since Google starting time released Android 8.0 Oreo — for major software updates on flagship devices that cost an arm and a leg.

Hopefully, Projection Treble will bring the much-needed alter it was designed for, and considering how we are already reaping the benefits of Project Treble in the form of smaller update sizes on the Galaxy S9, fingers crossed that major Os updates (like Android P) will arrive much faster on Samsung devices launched with Android 8.0 Oreo out of the box.

Have you received the Oreo update on your Galaxy Note 8 on T-Mobile? If yes, accept you run into any issues that might propose why the rollout was paused?