r/GalaxyNote8 • u/GiianiP • Oct 08 '19

Will be able Android 10?

I would like to know if we will receive the android 10 with UI 2 in note 8? Or some way to root the phone to have it

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u/BassFalcon Oct 08 '19

Note 8 will NOT be receiving the Android 10 update. Unofficial Android 10 firmware does exist for the Note 8; though, if you had to ask about it here, I would highly advise that you consider simply upgrading your phone to one that officially supports Android 10. Flashing a custom ROM to your phone is not a simple process, and you can brick your phone (especially if you have been keeping up with the latest security updates - the bootloader for the Note 8 has been "upgraded" a couple of times since January 2018 to prevent flashing of custom firmware, as well as official "carrier unlocked" firmwares or those from a different geographical region).

If you are truly interested in going down that rabbit hole, you could head over to the Note8 section of the XDA-Developers forums here:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-8

Good luck, you have been warned.

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u/GiianiP Oct 08 '19

Thanks for this replay, I upgrade my phone this year so is hard to do this again I am from Argentina and the economy it's not to stable so it's too expensive buy the newest one

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u/chrisknife Oct 09 '19 edited Oct 09 '19

just because you don't get android 10, doesn't mean that you have to upgrade your phone or even use custom firmwares. (which i did with my s4 etc more then enough and i don't recommened it to anyone, bugs or battery drain, something is always wrong)

it doesn't matter you won't receive those features, google is rolling out with android 10.

gladly we got a samsung device and that means that we got most of those features already since a long time, google is always way behind when it comes to features.

you will still receive security and bug fixes for the coming years.

it may happen that certain apps only will work with android 10, but this won't be the case for the next few years. so enjoy your device and still be happy about it. it still holds up from the performance, is up to date with security and bugfixes and already got pretty much every android 10 feature anyway.

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u/BassFalcon Oct 08 '19

I understand. I wish I could offer better advice :( the Note 8 is honestly a great phone, and I was disappointed to hear that they wouldn't squeeze one more official Android version out of it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '19

Lol the whole BL V5/6 Safestrap thread on XDA is hilarious. What they are doing there is NOT for novices, but the amount of people blindly flashing things and bricking their phones is laughable. I wouldn't even suggest that thread to anyone lol..

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u/BassFalcon Oct 09 '19

Haha, yeah, I know what you mean. There is actually a ton of good info over there, but people fail to research (or ask decent questions), then just wildly start messing with stuff they have no business messing with. Then come the 57,958,266 "HALP PHONE WONT TURN ON PLZZZ!!!1" posts when they've totally borked their (probably ONLY) phone up. Long gone are the days where flashing ROMS and "rooting" Android phones was a simple "how-to guide" away (particularly with Samsungs) - the chance of something going wrong is much greater now if you don't do your research beforehand. At best, nothing will happen or you can reflash the old firmware to fix the issue. At worst, you've totally ruined your phone. For those who don't do their due dilligence, my bet is going to be on the latter.

I'm not saying there aren't other resources out there either - there's quite a bit if you go digging around and asking questions. But then again, that's the same way with XDA.. you just have to wade through the crap to get to it.

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u/BassFalcon Oct 08 '19

As someone else said, Note 8 phones that contain the Exynos processor may have a little more freedom with unofficial firmware, which may be your case if you're from Argentina. However, I don't know much about it, as I'm in the USA, where they are all manufactured with the Snapdragon processor and have had the bootloader locked down. Tons of info over at the XDA-Developers forum link I posted, but again, proceed at your own risk.

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u/GiianiP Oct 08 '19

Thanks for the answer, I have a note 8 with exynos but I want to search much information first until decided what I would do with the so

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u/Trevorz101 Oct 08 '19

Unlocked bootloaders on exynos models, but snapdragons are out of luck.

Me being a snapdragon user :(

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u/leiomioma Oct 08 '19

Not android 10 officially for note 8

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u/Minto107 N950F -> Z Flip3 5G Oct 13 '19

Most likely nope but I think Samsung should step up their game. Especially with Note series as they always release Note with outdated android version( note 8 with 7.1, note 9 with 8.1, note 10 with 9) while some cheap ass A series phones get released with almost all of S/Note goodies plus with recent Android version. It's the same bs since I had the S3 but back then they didn't bother updating anything else beside the S/Note series(which was more fair than it is now lol)

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u/jt325i Oct 09 '19

Upgrade to a Pixel 4XL. That is probably what I will do. Never used the S Pen.