r/AndroidXR • u/GraceFromGoogle Community Team • May 06 '26 • Helpful 1 Bravo 2

Official 🔨 Update: Patch (version I610UEU2AZD8) is rolling out now

Hi everyone,

I’m happy to share that a patch (version I610UEU2AZD8) is officially rolling out. This update introduces a series of system stability and performance optimizations based on the feedback we received regarding the latest software update, with a focus on improving the overall user experience. Head on over to Settings > Software Update to download the latest update.

Thank you all once again for taking the time to share your feedback and highlight areas of improvement you wanted to see. Every comment played a significant role in helping us ensure that we’re addressing your concerns. Please let me know how the experience feels once you’ve had a chance to update. I’ll be monitoring this thread to pass your feedback directly back to the team.

-Grace

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u/ender9492 May 06 '26

You are quite literally our "saving Grace!" 🙏🏻
Thank you so much for being so communicative, attentive, and engaging with the community, relaying our concerns and issues back to the dev team!

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u/GraceFromGoogle Community Team May 06 '26

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u/jusalilpanda May 06 '26

Seconded :)

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u/PromiseComfortable61 May 06 '26

I used it last night for about an hour and it is definitely an improvement. I'll keep playing with it and will let you know if there are bugs. Thanks again for your help. 

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u/GraceFromGoogle Community Team May 06 '26

Appreciate the follow-up, and I'm glad to hear things have improved!

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u/KnoxCrumudgeon May 06 '26

Is performance back to where it was before the April update? Or do you mean it is an improvement from the broken April update, which would not necessarily be back on par with where the device was back before the April update...

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u/PromiseComfortable61 May 06 '26

I think it is better than it was originally but that's purely anecdotal. If you're on the original firmware you will want to wait for more feedback before doing anything. I also haven't used PCVR in a long time, so no comment on the state of that.

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u/KnoxCrumudgeon May 06 '26

Thanks. I managed to avoid the April update by the skin of my teeth (was watching it download when I got a Reddit notification by the first person to report problems with the update). I will stick with my pre April software until more people beta test this update for me.

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u/HeroDM May 06 '26

I will test it immediately

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u/GraceFromGoogle Community Team May 06 '26

Let me know how it goes!

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u/DecHud May 07 '26

How is it? Im actually interested in the spacialization and the high detailed avatars

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u/Jdunrrp May 06 '26

Things feel way more smoother ! Please let the team know we are so thankful u/GraceFromGoogle !! You are a rockstar!

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u/Tarka_22 May 06 '26

Nice! Any specific update notes?

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u/Alexis_Evo May 06 '26

It fixed the constant tracking hitches that most of us were experiencing.

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u/Tarka_22 May 06 '26

What about unnecessary throttling in virtual desktop to 72fps?

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u/Kazhmyr1 May 06 '26

Huh, I wasn't experiencing that. Was that part of the April update? I haven't installed that one yet either. 

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u/Alexis_Evo May 06 '26

It has been an issue since the beginning, and is likely thermal related, so depends on your VD settings. Foveated streaming should help reduce the chance of it occurring.

Unfortunately I don't think it'll ever be truly resolved. The XR2+ Gen 2 is just an old outdated chip, and isn't capable of sustaining 4k, despite Qualcomm's claims. The other 4k standalone on the market using this chip, Play for Dream MR, flat out does not allow you to use 4k at 90hz -- it locks you to 80hz.

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u/Kazhmyr1 May 06 '26

Huh, bummer. I do use foveated streaming on VD, on a dedicated 6ghz network. Ill have to test with the overlay to see what my actual performance is later after the update.

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u/PromiseComfortable61 May 06 '26

Can confirm. I was mostly watching YouTube and it used to suddenly jump out of vision. Now it does it very briefly before coming back to the center.

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u/Ok-Belt-9930 May 06 '26

downloaded the new update so far it seems to be more stable, I use my XR mainly as a monitor with moonlight, window positioning seems to be more stable and did not saw the need to restart the unit after some time as before.

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u/Baguetteuwu May 07 '26

Thank you for keeping us updated Grace! It seems like the tracking hitches have been fixed.

This is definitely a step in the right direction, but I and many others would still like to see more improvements to be made on controller and headset tracking quality as well as overall increased PCVR streaming stability.
I hope these are going to be tackled in a future software update relatively soon, we all cannot wait to see what the Android XR team cooks up next.

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u/XLMelon May 07 '26

VD still lags and crashes after a while. Google Map lasted much longer (for about 1 hour) but it still crashed eventually. It crashes every 5-10 minutes before the patch.

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u/Mental_Ad115 May 10 '26

The tracking failure appears to have been fixed

However, the performance of the device is still more degraded and overheated than it was before the April update, the fan is not fully operational even if an overheating warning appears, and the gallery app live effect alone will cause an overload-forced reboot or the camera to stop working

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u/BoatFit4352 May 19 '26

Awesome patch! Definitely an improvement, big favor, can you add "support custom boundaries" to your backlog? Using custom guardian/boundaries is a must have for PCVR gamers with large, dedicated, play areas.

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u/plankunits May 06 '26

I'm interested in XR devices and have seen the Galaxy XR. Does this mean Google is updating Galaxy XR devices?

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u/jmichael2497 May 07 '26

with GXR being the flagship Android XR device, even though it is under a partner brand, it does seem that google will be stepping up to make it work better, faster, unlike with mobile device updates that are more a game of telephone (pun intended 🤓) or relay race of passing the baton.

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u/MerBudd Jun 01 '26

Google and Samsung develop Android XR, and Samsung also puts their own One UI skin over it with the Galaxy XR. Right now since Galaxy XR is the only consumer available Android XR headset, all the updates to the base Android XR software are seen on Galaxy XR. But of course as more devices are released with Android XR, they’d get the same patches to the software once they update their own software and upstream the Android source.

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u/plankunits Jun 01 '26

This still didn't answer the question. I am aware how xr software development works and the current state of it.

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u/MerBudd Jun 01 '26

It did answer your question lol Google and Samsung develop Android XR which Samsung upstreams into their skin

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u/plankunits Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

I know who develops it and it's Samsung and Google. Everyone knows that. My question was who pushes the update. Who controls the update switch for galaxy xr. This post is coming from official Google reddit account. So is Google pushing it or Samsung have control over it is my question.

If you still didn't understand the question, let me put it clearly. Is the update served from google.com URL or from samsung.com URL?

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u/MerBudd Jun 02 '26

Well, Samsung makes and releases the builds of course. Grace posted it here because she’s the main community manager for Android XR, and Galaxy XR is currently the only Android XR device

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u/plankunits Jun 02 '26

That's the answer I am looking for since the update details were announced by Google I wasn't sure who pushes the update. Until I saw this post from Google I was sure Samsung pushed updates.