Verizon pushes Oreo to Galaxy S7, is absolutely Nougat

Verizon-branded Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge owners were apparently aflame to get an Oreo amend recently. However, it’s aloof Nougat, fam.

If you own a Verizon-branded Samsung Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 Edge, you ability accept been aflame to see a notification that Big Red is blame an OTA Android 8.0 Oreo amend your way. However, we accept some bad account for you: it’s not Oreo, it’s actually Nougat, via Android Police.

Despite the actuality that the absolution addendum for the OTA say it’s an amend to Oreo and includes descriptions of Oreo appearance like picture-in-picture mode, notification dots, and UI improvements, those appearance aren’t actually in the update. The alone allotment of the amend that’s new is the latest Android security patch.

The Verizon Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge accessories alien with Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow and were adapted to Android 7.0 Nougat in March of aftermost year. With that in mind, users were apparently appealing aflame about accepting an OS amend for the aboriginal time in over a year, so we can brainstorm how aghast Verizon users are appropriate now.

It’s not actually bright what happened here. Did Verizon beggarly to advance out an Oreo amend but again advance the amiss file? The body cardinal for the absolution is NRD90M, which is acutely a Nougat update. Or did Verizon beggarly to advance out a simple Android security application amend but again accidentally acquaint it with a pre-prepped Oreo absolution note?

Regardless of what happened, you should actually install the update, as it’s important for your accessory to be abreast with the latest security patches. But don’t apprehend any affection updates afterwards you’re finished.

We’ll let you apperceive if and back Verizon either fixes this amend with the absolute Oreo OTA, or issues a account on the matter.

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  • An amend to Verizon-branded Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge accessories claims to be Android 8.0 Oreo.
  • However, the amend is aloof Nougat with the latest Android security patch.
  • It’s not bright if Verizon meant to advance Oreo and pushed Nougat, or meant to advance Nougat and accidentally answer it as Oreo.

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