It took a few months, but several aloft phones are assuredly accepting updates to Android Oreo. At this point, we've spent cogent time talking about Oreo on the Galaxy S8, Galaxy Note 8, and Essential Phone. While an amend to the latest OS is consistently great, there is one big Android 8.0 affection that isn't advancing to every phone.
For those unaware, Project Treble is Google's latest attack to advance for faster and easier Android updates. At the basal level, Acute separates the bell-ringer accomplishing from the Android OS framework application a new allotment layout.
Bottom line, this agency that approaching Android updates should crave beneath time to advance out. The bell-ringer accomplishing can abide clear while the Android OS allocation is adapted to the latest version. With beneath appropriate parties to arrange updates, users would accept a quicker turnaround on the latest version.
Google is acute that all phones ablution with Android 8.0+ abutment Acute activity forward. Unfortunately, not all phones appear in 2017 will accept Project Acute abutment aloft actuality adapted to Android 8.0. Luckily, it's absolutely absolutely simple to analysis if your phone supports Treble.
Requirement
- device active Android 8.0 or higher
Step 1: Download the Termux App
First, you'll charge to install Termux, which is a able terminal adversary app for Android. This app allows you to interface with your phone's book system. Many able uses of Termux crave basis to admission the bare files or folders, but thankfully, we do not charge basis for this tutorial.
Step 2: Analysis Your Phone for Acute Support
Next, accessible the Termux app and blazon in the afterward command, again hit enter:
getprop ro.treble.enabled
If the command band allotment "true," your phone is Acute enabled. If the banderole allotment "false" again you're out of luck. We already begin out that neither the Galaxy S8 nor Galaxy Note 8 abutment Acute on the accepted Oreo beta builds. If you're an Essential Phone user, you'll be animated to apperceive that their accepted Oreo beta does abutment Treble.
There has been some abashing surrounding added methods to analysis for Acute support. One accepted abstraction is to analysis for the attendance of a binder labeled "vendor" in the basis agenda of your phone. This adjustment can assignment if you apperceive what to attending for, but the bald actuality of the binder itself is not enough.
The Galaxy Note 8 and Essential Phone both accept the bell-ringer binder in basis storage, but the Note 8 does not abutment Treble. If you attending anxiously at the photo below, you will apprehension that the aberration amid these phones is area the bell-ringer binder is stored. While Essential stored the bell-ringer binder on its own basis partition, the bell-ringer binder for the Note 8 lives central the arrangement partition.
Checking your phone for Acute abutment is quick and easy. It's additionally account a attending because the allowances of accepting faster updates in the approaching (not to acknowledgment bigger abeyant custom ROM support). If you're absorbed in affairs a 2017 flagship, it's a acceptable abstraction to see if Acute abutment is advancing back the accessory receives Oreo. Let us apperceive in apperceive in the comments if your Oreo accessory supports this advantageous new feature!
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