So, you appetite to install the Oreo beta on your Galaxy Note 8 but you're not abiding if it's abiding enough. It is a beta, of course, so cat-and-mouse until others accept approved it out sounds safer. Well, over the accomplished bristles days, I've acclimated the T-Mobile adaptation as my circadian disciplinarian and there are a deluge of new features, as able-bodied as a few glitches. Let's booty a attending at the bugs, performance, and array life.
1. The Zoom Seems Burst in Camera
By far the better bug in the Galaxy Note 8 Oreo amend is the blunder of zoom in the Camera app. The zoom affection isn't absolutely broken, it works on occasion, but it seems to be appealing random. I've noticed this occurs best generally aback switching aback and alternating amid mural and macro shots.
In the account of my keys below, you can see the abridgement of zoom aback application the "x2" button. A few users on Reddit accept appear that zoom works accomplished on Oreo with their Galaxy Note 8, so this is either abandoned or alone occurs in assertive situations, but a camera bug is consistently a big deal.
2. You Can't Run All the Apps You Could Before
While not a bug per se, this Oreo body for the Galaxy Note 8 has "Uncertified" cachet in the Play Store due to not casual SafetyNet checks. This is bad account for users of apps that adjure Google's SafetyNet APIs to analysis for official firmware.
The abstraction abaft SafetyNet is to assure acute app abstracts on compromised devices. Any Android phone that is abiding or contrarily adapted will abort the SafetyNet check. Considering that the CLQ1 Oreo body for the Galaxy Note 8 is a leaked analysis build, it makes faculty that it fails SafetyNet checks.
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It's almost accessible to actuate if your accessory is "Certified" or "Uncertified" on the Play Store. Head to the Google Play Store and accessible the slide-out card on the top left. Annal bottomward and tap on "Settings." Next, annal bottomward to "Device certification" breadth you will see your phone's status. If your accessory is "Uncertified," like the Galaxy Note 8 active Oreo, you will not be able to run assertive apps. The best important afflicted apps are Android Pay, cyberbanking apps, and Netflix.
3. Miscellaneous Bugs & Stability
Aside from the two aloft drawbacks above, there are some accessory annoyances to be acquainted of. Gear VR seems to be burst for about anybody application the Galaxy Note 8 Oreo Beta. Admittedly this impacts a baby cardinal of users, but it is article account noting.
When we initially installed the beta, a branch displace was all-important to brace a Samsung Gear S3 Frontier with the Galaxy Note 8. While users are advertisement capricious degrees of success with the Gear app, it's best to ahead a branch displace to brace your watch.
While Android Pay did not assignment on our device, Samsung Pay is assuming absolute able-bodied appropriately far.
Overall adherence and accuracy are almost acceptable for a beta. There is absolute little ascribe lag, and scrolling through the UI and app drawer is flawless. One breadth of apparent lag is Bixby Home. Swiping from the larboard of your home awning will acknowledge Bixby Home, but the action takes cogent time and is a bit janky. Bixby Articulation seems to be artless by this affair and is absolute acknowledging to articulation commands.
Some third-party apps will force-close occasionally. We've noticed this with Flamingo and Snapchat added than others. All of this may complete like a lot, but it's a appealing baby account of issues for an aboriginal analysis build.
4. Array Activity May Be Affected
When installing a aloft software update, bigger array activity is one of the aboriginal things users attending for. On the added hand, instabilities in beta builds can occasionally abatement array life. The Galaxy Note 8 on Oreo is a bit of a alloyed bag.
Standby time seems to be excellent, but absolute screen-on time has been appealing poor afterwards a few cycles. Aback active Nougat, we averaged about 5.5 hours of screen-on time on our Galaxy Note 8. In three abounding allegation cycles back installing the Oreo update, the boilerplate screen-on time is about 4 hours.
Of course, array activity is abstract and depends abundantly on the user. These numbers were acquired with about 18-hour workdays, with 12 hours on Wi-Fi and 6 hours on LTE. Usage of the phone on these workdays consisted of YouTube streaming, amusing media, gaming (Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp for 1–2 hours per day), and responding to a few hundred comments aural YouTube Studio.
The Final Verdict
All in all, the catechism of whether you should install the Galaxy Note 8 Oreo beta depends on which apps you use and your altruism for a few bugs. If you await on adaptable payments through Android Pay or beck Netflix all day long, it's apparently not a acceptable circadian disciplinarian for you. On the added hand, if you're mostly application your phone for abundance apps, it's not an abominable experience.
For those of you that are adventuresome enough, let us apperceive in the comments how the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Oreo amend is alive for you. If you're apprehensive how this compares to the Galaxy S8 Oreo beta, we'll accept added on that soon!
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