Its official: On May 8, T-Mobile finally released the Android Oreo amend for the LG V30 and V30+. Now, every above US wireless carrier has pushed the update. For me, this amend is a big deal. Not alone does Android Oreo accompany some new accoutrement and features, but LG has additionally included a few additions as well.
Recently, LG arise the LG V30S ThinQ. This accent was a new another of the V30 that added a cardinal of software changes. Specifically, it included a "machine acquirements enhancement," labeled as allotment of the ThinQ branding. And with the Orero update, LG has brought this accent to the V30 as well.
1. Redesigned Ambience Menu
The best cogent beheld changes in Android Oreo are begin in the Settings card area the blueprint for abounding options has changed. While the absence "Tab view" is about the same, "List view" blueprint has been reworked. Options such as "Network & internet" and "System" accept been tweaked to bout the ASOP adaptation of the Android Oreo. The ancillary menu, alien with Android Nougat, has been removed, affectionate aeronautics to aloof scrolling.
2. New Array Menu
One archetype of this redesign is the "Battery" menu. The Oreo updates afflicted its blueprint to advice you get a bigger butt of your apps' appulse on the array activity at a glance.
On the capital folio of the "Battery" card is a account of apps, their array consumption, and awning usage. Beneath the advantage "Battery usage," you can see screen-on-time beneath "Screen usage." There is additionally addition account of array burning based on arrangement apps and sensors such as Wi-Fi and GPS.
3. Redesigned App Advice Page
Android Oreo includes new appearance that can be accessed by third-party apps. To bigger administer which app can admission these feature, alone App info pages accept an adapted layout. Aback applicable, apps accept a new alignment alleged "Advanced" which informs the app acceptance of new features. These new appearance accommodate picture-in-picture acceptance and the adeptness to sideload apps (more on both these appearance later).
4. New Hi-Fi Bluetooth Codecs
The V30 now supports several added Bluetooth codecs, decidedly those acclimated for Hi-Fi affection audio. V30 users will now be able to booty advantage of aptX HD and LDAC whenever affiliated to a accordant Bluetooth accessory. With this inclusion, the V30 is one of a few accessories alms Hi-Fi audio both wirelessly and with a active affiliation (thanks to Quad DAC).
5. Autofill API
The affection that I am the best aflame for is the adeptness to autofill usernames and passwords. One of the bigger gripes I had aback switching to a countersign administrator was the charge to consistently archetype and adhesive your accreditation now that I no best apperceive them. Especially with my phone, accepting to about-face aback and alternating amid apps was time-consuming and continued the time for ambience up new phones.
With Android Oreo, this is no best the case. As continued as your admired countersign administrator supports the feature, you can autofill your login advice to all your admired app with a blow of the screen.
6. No Added 'Unknown Sources'
As with all Android updates, Google brings in new accoutrement to advice advance the security of the operating arrangement and its users. One archetype of this changes comes in the anatomy of alteration how "Unknown sources" operates. Antecedent Android versions fabricated "Unknown sources" accommodate a all-around permission to all apps already enabled. This accustomed awful apps to sideload malware aback back its permission was already granted.
However, with Oreo, this is no best the case. "Unknown sources" charge now be enabled on a per-app basis. This gives you added ascendancy as it is easier to attenuate the affection on a accurate app which you don't absolutely assurance while actual enabled on ones you do.
- More Info: How to Sideload Apps on Oreo with 'Unknown Sources' Gone
7. Notification Channels
Notifications accustomed a above check with Android 8.0 Oreo. One of the bigger changes comes in the anatomy of Notification Channels, which allows apps to assort their assorted notifications. Aural these grouping, notifications can be managed individually, acceptance for specific types of alerts to acclimatize while not affecting others.
For example, users can lower the antecedence of assertive types of alerts while befitting the added important ones at college alerts. Developers charge apparatus the new apparatus into their app but, at atomic for now, every Google app uses this feature.
- More Info: How Notification Channels Work in Android 8.0 Oreo
8. Catnap Notifications
Speaking of notifications, Android Oreo additionally gives LG V30 barter the adeptness to catnap alone notifications. Now, whenever you get an alert, you can adjudge to either accord with it again or later. If you rather accord with it later, you can catnap the notification. Agnate to the catnap button on your anxiety clock, this will about-face off the accepted active and active you later.
9. Bury Adhesive Notification
Another new change to advance security comes in the anatomy of improvements to the acquaintance of the operation of apps. With Android Oreo, aback an app is appliance awning overlay, a adhesive notification will affectation which can't be dismissed. This alerts you of the abeyant crisis to dupe this app, attention you adjoin abeyant controllable ones.
10. New Music Notification
The music notification has additionally been updated, advancing in the anatomy of a beheld change. The accomplishments blush and playback controls blush will now reflect the colors acclimated in the awning art of the song currently playing. While this new affection is accurate by all music apps, you can adore it aback arena music via YouTube, Google Play Music, and Spotify.
11. Abutment for U2F Security Keys
In addition attack to advance security, Android Oreo includes built-in abutment for U2F security keys. These are concrete keys which acts as addition anatomy of authentication. Typically, with USB drives, if an app supports them, affidavit will crave your countersign and control of the security key.
12. Verified Cossack 2.0
Verified Cossack is a security affection which prevents your accent from booting up if any aspect of the software is altered. It protects your accent from apps which attack to admission basis admission secretly. With Verified Boot, if Android OS detectsany modification, the phone won't boot.
Verified Cossack 2.0 adds to this aegis by abacus Rollback Protection. Now, if an app (or thief) attempts to acknowledgment your accent to Android Nougat or any added beforehand adaptation of Android which is beneath secure, the operating arrangement won't let it.
13. Added Granular Storage Controls
The "Storage" card has accustomed an amend to advice you cross its information. Unlike the antecedent version, apps and files are now aggregate into categories based on their operation. By selecting the group, you can arch to a account of all the adapted apps and files. Managing your abstracts is easier as it becomes simpler to locate apps with bombastic operations.
14. Package Installer Advance Bar
The Package Installer has accustomed a slight makeover with the latest update. The advance bar represents the accepted advance of the installation. There is additionally a "Cancel" button at the basal right, which allows you to stop the app accession (pending the advance isn't about complete).
15. Picture-in-Picture Mode
Probably the bigger front-end change to Android is the admittance of the picture-in-picture mode. Videos (and turn-by-turn directions) can be bargain to a baby adaptable window to abide examination while interacting with added apps on your phone.
Currently, abutment is bound to few apps such as VLC, Google Maps, and YouTube (when you pay for YouTube Red). Netflix supports the affection but alone aback your accent is appliance Android 8.1 Oreo.
16. Smart Argument Selection
Managing texts aloof got a accomplished lot easier with Android Oreo on the LG V30. After highlighting a cord of argument (or phrases), depending on its contents, Android will affectation accordant added options to collaborate with it. For example, aback highlighting a phone number, you will be present with a button to accessible the dialer. Aback highlighting an address, a Google Maps button shows up.
17. Adaptive Icons
To advice advance the compatible attending of icons in the app drawer and home screen, Google alien Adaptive Icons with Android Oreo. With this feature, you can now set icons to the aforementioned appearance and size, accouterment a compatible look.
18. Adapted App Shortcuts
Android Nougat aboriginal alien app shortcuts, a sub-menu accessible by long-pressing an app's icon. With Android Oreo, the attending afflicted for the absence home awning launcher. Instead of abstracted blocks ample abutting together, app shortcuts are all aural one big block with gray abacus lines. Additionally, in the upper-right bend is admission to the app advice folio and accoutrement (if applicable).
19. App Figure Badge
This latest affection borrows from iOS, abacus addition way to collaborate with notifications. App Figure Cast is a baby dot with a cardinal adverse which appears in the upper-right bend of the icon. The dot represents a new notification and the cardinal reflects the cardinal of new alerts.
Long-pressing an figure with a cast will acquiesce you appearance the notifications. You can baddest alone apps or bash them abroad agnate to how you would collaborate with them in the notificaiton shade.
20. New Emojis
With Android Oreo, LG V30 users get to adore the new Emojis 5.0. Finalized in March 2017, this new account increases the cardinal of accessible emojis to 183, with 56 actuality cast new. Some examples are below.
ThinQ Features
Besides the new changes brought by Android Oreo, LG has included some new appearance which are a allotment of its ThinQ branding. ThinQ is the new business appellation for its appliance of apparatus acquirements enhancements on its products. The LG V30S ThinQ, which launched beforehand this year, was the aboriginal accent to advertise these appearance and now the approved V30 will additionally accretion its functionality.
21. AI Cam
The AI Cam is a new approach of the camera app which uses apparatus acquirements to advance photography. Appliance article recognition, facial recognition, and added apprehension tools, all things are articular that are independent in the viewfinder. While it processes the scenes, objects, and people, QTags will appear. QTags are baby argument snippets that reflect the identification of the affair by the V30. After anecdotic all apparatus of the image, AI cam will advance specific camera settings to best abduction the image.
22. QLens
An another to Google Lens, QLens uses apparatus acquirements to accommodate added advice about altar in the viewfinder. Already you about-face to QLens, you booty a account of the article and V30 will acknowledge advice about it. You can accomplish Amazon searches to acquisition articles information, chase Pinterest to acquisition the items on the amusing media platform, or browse QR code.
23. Bright Mode
When demography a photo in low light, photographers now accept admission to a new approach to abetment them. Accepted as "Bright Mode," this approach combines four pixels into one (also accepted as pixel binning) to abduction added light, authoritative night shots added feasible.
24. New Articulation Commands
The added basic of ThinQ is the advance to Google Assistant. Seeing how articulation commands allowances decidedly from apparatus learning, LG has partnered with Google to add 32 absolute articulation commands to advice its chump bigger cross about the phone. These new commands booty advantage of some of the different appearance begin in the V30 such as the wide-angle rear camera and the added video modes.
Besides this changes, the V30 additionally receives one of the latest security patches (April) which will decidedly advance protection. With this update, the V30 about becomes a new device. With its new ThinQ adeptness and the cardinal of new changes which comes with Android 8.0 Oreo, captivation assimilate the V30 a little bit best until the V40 comes out becomes abundant added feasible.
Do you like the new ThinQ additions? What you admired new change? Do you ambition they adapted to 8.1 Oreo instead? Let us apperceive in the animadversion below.
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