The Android Oreo Beta for the Galaxy S8 and S8+ has been accessible for about two weeks. Samsung started rolling out the Beta 2 amend backward aftermost anniversary in the UK, and aloof bygone in the US. Unfortunately, the US adaptation of the amend firmware (G955USQU1ZQK6) accomplished a analytical bug with the phone app at launch. As a result, Samsung has absolutely pulled the US Beta 2 amend for the time being.
It appears the Oreo Beta 2 amend began in the US about 12 PM EST on November 13. Shortly after, abounding users over on Reddit appear a bug that absolutely dead corpuscle reception. The affair seems to be a again blast of the com.android.phone process. User CitizenV acclaimed a accessible fix for the crash:
Go into Settings -> Apps -> overflow card -> Show System Apps. Then annal bottomward to Phone -> Storage and bright data. I had three abstracted Phone entries I had to do. Should bright it up afterwards a reboot
We downloaded the Beta 2 amend aftermost night and accomplished this affair on our device. The fix appropriate aloft did assignment in analytic the affair for us, but others are advertisement that their issues persisted afterwards reboot. It is important to agenda that there are several variants of the S8 accommodating in the beta, and corpuscle arresting can absolutely be afflicted abnormally on anniversary SKU.
In acknowledgment to these boundless issues with the phone app and cellular reception, Samsung has absolutely pulled the Beta 2 amend in the US for users on T-Mobile, Sprint, and the Unlocked model. The beta aggregation acquaint a bulletin in the Samsung Members app to let users apperceive that they can apprehend a new amend soon.
We will absolutely amend this column back Samsung starts blame out the revised update. In the meantime, we're accepting to assignment attractive at the new appearance in Beta 2 and blockage to see if any of the bugs are fixed. Did you grab the amend afore it was pulled? Let us apperceive if you had any issues in the comments!
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