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After updating to Android 8.0 on launch yesterday, I've gone through the different features and I'm here to explain the ones that are, in my opinion, the most important. Listed from most important to least. TL;DR The update process can be difficult(And risky) for some, giving you only minor updates with battery management being the only important one. Bottom line, if you want to be that guy who takes full advantage of owning a Nexus/Pixel with an earlier OS update schedule then update to it and you won't be(terribly) disappointed. Here is an extensive "How To" update guide. WARNING: Before you update, if you're not familiar with image flashing or unlocking the bootloader read my step by step guide below. It's not a simple system update(as you're probably aware) and you'll really have to understand how to navigate with CMD prompt to accomplish the update. Here's a very brief rundown of what you need to do to unlock the bootloader and update(DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK I AM NOT AT FAULT IF YOU BRICK YOUR PHONE), Googles update guide hasn't been changed in a while so some of their instructions are incorrect. This is how I updated my phone, Android 8 update files: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/download.html Download the SDK platform tools from google when you go to get the system image SDK platform tools: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools.html Unzip it to the desktop. Open CMD prompt and type cd desktop Press enter, now you're in the desktop. Now type platform-tools (This is the name of the SDK platform tools file after the unzip) Press enter and now you're in the platform-tools folder Now turn your pixel off, then hold the volume down button and then the power button simultaneously to launch into fastboot, plug it into the computer. Now type fastboot devices (This will tell you if your device is detected) Press enter and your device should pop up, it'll say something like "FA6982894" as the device name Now type fastboot flashing unlock Press enter, go to your phone and use the volume up and down buttons to navigate to "yes" then press the power button to select "yes". Now the bootloader is unlocked. To update, download the Android 8.0 update from googles site for your phone, unzip it to the desktop. Then, copy and paste everything from the platform-tools folder into the sailfish android 8.0 folder To go back to the desktop type cd.. (in the CMD prompt) Here's the tricky part, check the name of your Android 8.0 file, their names are all different. For instance, my file name was sailfish-opr6.170623.011 So, Type cd [Name of your Android 8.0 file] Press enter and now you're in the update file, Finally, ensure your phone is plugged into the computer and type flash-all Press enter and do NOT touch the phone whatsoever. It took me about 5 minutes, in total, for the update to finish. Don't unplug it under any circumstances. Now that it's updated you can lock the bootloader using the same steps you used to unlock it, but this time you'll want to type flashing lock instead of flashing unlock. Below are, in my opinion, the most important updates and the ones I'll notice most. 1. Battery management. I'm using a pixel phone and as everyone knows, it doesn't have the best battery life (3 hours screen on with everything cranked, background processes etc.). Well, with Android 8.0 the new battery management is actually quite good! As we speak, my phone has been sitting on my desk at 18% full brightness with Discord, Instagram, YouTube, Chrome, Hangouts, and John GBA emulator running in the background. The battery hasn't budged from 18% for, what's been, 13 minutes. While my testing isn't scientific, and you can say "Gee, that's not very impactful", you will notice the difference over the course of a day. It really sips the battery and prevents apps from going too crazy in the background, I really did notice this yesterday when I tried to run the battery down. 2. UI. The UI changes are minor but address some of my pet peeves from Android Nougat(7.0). When you go into your app tray, instead of the buttons remaining white, thus blending in and looking unpolished, they turn black which is a nice touch. A double tap on the screen brings up the time in a smaller font and shows the app icons that have a notification. I find this to be the most important because I am concerned with privacy, so instead of it just showing what the notification is, say a text, it only shows the icon on a double tap which I really appreciate. Another nice touch is when you're playing music and open the notif tray, the music player will match the color theme of the album. For instance, if I'm playing a song off of Kendrick Lamar's "DAMN." album, the background of the Spotify app in the notif tray is a blackish brown and the buttons are a pastel red. This doesn't work with Pandora, perhaps there is future integration for it but at the moment there's none. 3. Apps/Accessibility. When you long press on, pretty much, any application you can open app info or quick shortcuts. With Instagram, if you long press it brings up an option to open app info, while not at all useful, I'm expecting more options to be available. The settings are much less "intimidating" as one reviewer has stated. They're, subjectively, easier to navigate with everything being in it's own category now having substantially less options plastered all over the landing page of settings. Also, it's worth noting that there will be notification dots on your respective apps displaying shortcuts which is going to be one of those things you'll have to train yourself to use to the point where it actually becomes more efficient instead of opening the app. I liken the dots to using CMD prompt over file explorer, once you learn to use it extensively and get past the point of training your brain it becomes more efficient in some areas. 4. Bluetooth. This one many people won't appreciate but it's one of my personal favorites. You can, FINALLY, change Bluetooth CODEC to several different standards, SBC, AAC, aptX, aptxHD, LDAC(sony) etc. Personally, I'll be using LDAC because I use sony wireless devices (i.e. SRS XB3) but your mileage will vary. Also available, are the options to change the sample rate, bits per sample, channel mode and playback quality. All of these will be useful in case you have a spotty BT connection, have audio difficulties or really want to make the most of your experience.

Hello Everyone. Recently, Verizon rolled out the update to Oreo for Pixel and Pixel XL users. After installing the OTA update, my Pixel has frame and stuttering problem when pulling up the App drawer. Has anyone else had this problem or is this just a device issue?

Hey all. I got Bluetooth headphones recently and I am having an odd issue. The audio quality for music is great (YouTube, my song collection, etc)... but when I place or receive a call, there is a deafeningly loud horn-like crackly buzzing noise the moment I hit the call button, or the moment I get an incoming call, and it continues into the call with this noise instead of the person's voice -- and the other person hears it too on their end of the call, saying it was very loud like a constant "crackling boat horn". Things to note: - I contacted the seller, they thought it was a bad mic so sent me a replacement... same thing on replaced pair - I then paired the replacement with a co-worker's phone and it worked fine, so it seems isolated to my device Things I tried before contacting seller: - unpairing and re-pairing - turning it off and back on - turning my phone off and back on - on the 3rd try turning the headphones off and back on, it worked (I could have a conversation using it), but on attempts 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 onward it was just that awful horn-like static madness - I tried it with Google Hangouts and it didn't make the weird noise.... but it was a one-way convo. the person on the other end could hear me well, but I couldn't hear them in my ears Any idea why this may be? The headset has like a zillion reviews on Amazon.in and no one else mentions this.... plus the fact it works fine on my co-worker's phone means the product itself is likely fine. My device is Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro C900F running Android 8.0 Oreo. Thanks all!

Hi, I've just been sick of waiting for Sony to release Oreo for my Android TV. So I decided to try an do some research if its possible to install Android Oreo whilst keeping the existing Sony applications for inputs and Live TV. Anyone know if its possible to make a custom Android TV rom? Cheers.

So, i have an Samsung Galaxy J3 2017 (SM-J330F/DS) and i want to ask some questions about a problem. When i try to play any game on my phone, the phone just randomly restarts. This happen everytime. That started to happen after last system update my operating system is Android 8.0 (Oreo) (baseband version J330FXXU3BRI3) I tried the next things. Factory reset, wipe cache from recovery I want to try next. Factory reset without the sd card (maybe is a virus on it idk) The Phone warm up a lil bit (and apps for temp says it's 60 C (celsius) when i play a game i can play aprox 10 min and then restart, the way it manifest tell me that is an system crash) I have to mention that this problem occur only in games and in other apps even those that need plenty of resources that problem doesn t occur The questions are: Is a hardware problem, or an software problem? What is the problem that cause this to occur? What can i do to fix this? Do i need to downgrade to android 7 to fix this problem? (using a custom rom and then wiping the system and writing the old android 7.0) Please help me because this problem really bothers me

in dolphin browser 12.0.11 for android on Oreo 8.1 the ad blocking is missing and i tried to add it to the add ons and it told me dolphin had it built in which was not true

LG still not getting Oreo updates to g6 (H870S) and I'm angry for two reasons. 1.I bought a flag ship with less config (snapdragon 821) for the price of a flag ship and all other phones (like Sony or Samsung or etc.) got Oreo about a year ago. 2.LG doesn't allow the other nations for unlock boot loader so i can't use custom roms to do it on my own.

This should have treble right? =3= I have yet to test this amazing looking device that just cost 80$! :3

So i got a peanut butter filled oreo pack that was left for a month cuz i was on vacation , and it expired on the 31st of july , so... do i eat it? I mean it smells peanut , and doesnt have hair or green parts or waht ever well ..?

Hello community, My oneplus 6 (android 8.1 oxygen os 5.1.11) has constant buffering issues with Netflix. My connection isn't slow and I can watch YouTube all day, only Netflix won't do it. On my ps3 there is no problem with it but my phone. Any ideas? I have tried restart (app, phone), reinstall and I have also emptied the cache Thanks

I've just recently bought a Huawei P8 Lite(2017) to replace my old P8 Lite that kicked the bucket two days ago. Phone served me well which is why I opted to replace it with the updated P8 Lite(2017). While looking to see if the phone was in stock at my local Carphone Warehouse(UK phone store) I saw articles saying the device could be update to Android 8.0/8.1. Iirc I did something similar updating the old P8 Lite to Android 7.1 but unfortunately I can't remember how I did it. Anyone able to explain how I can update my P8 Lite(2017) to Android 8.0/8.1 at a reasonably simple level? I'm not exactly new to this sort of thing but my memory isn't really reliable.

So I find it strange that folder icons are always circles, even if you make your icons another shape using the adaptive icons. So I created this feature request to the android team to make folder icons adaptive as well. It would help show them that we want this feature if you could star it. https://issuetracker.google.com/u/0/issues/74352590

HI! Incredibly frustrated Galaxy S8+ user here! Saw my friend with a show/hide button for his navigation bar and I wanted it. Checked my settings, wasn't there. Checked to see if I was up to date, my phone says it is. Checked version numbers: Android Version 7.0 and Samsung Experience version 8.1 Oreo rolled out for AT&T users a month ago and my phone says it's up to date. What's the deal? Where is my update? I have no idea what the Hell is going on with this thing and i'm about to go berserk on this piece of crap. Can someone help?

Hello community, I just wanted to ask what your update experience to oreo with the axon 7 is. I know that zte used the US as their betaprogram for oreo and promised that for example Germany would get it too in april, but now it's already may and I haven't seen anything from them(everytime I checked for updates it did say that it couldn't reach the server). Maybe they are still fixing bugs but I wanted to ask if someone has more information about the launch. Also there is something strange going on with the zte website and it's forum. Everytime I search for a forum threat it just prompts me back to the main page and it says literally nothing.

Hi. I have a Xiaomi mi a1 phone. I have android 8.0 oreo on it. I saw a lot of videos about the oreo's new features, one of them is that you can make a little window for your youtube videos, while you are running other app. I can't do this on my phone, maybe i should enable somthing. Sory for my English and sory if this is a wrong place for my topic.

I want to make my navbar smaller in height but I don't have root access. Running Android 8

SRSLT WHAT IS GOING ON? The most beloved cookie , the one and only that comes in all flavours and sizes ( maybe not that many sizes) now tastes like a pile of feces! It has been around 4 months since i noticed the different in the taste... I would get a package of oreos and dumb it in a bowl with milk , put it in the oven for 1 min , throw sliced banana , nutella or peanut butter , stirv and live like a damn boss! But now , it has gotten so fluffy and sweet that i cant even eat half the bowl!!! i just wanna puke after 6 scoups of it ... WTF happened NABISCO!!???? GET UR PANTS TOGETHER DOG

So it looks like the Android Oreo 8.0 and 8.1 updates may be causing issues with mesh and, in some cases, non-mesh wireless routers. The cause isn't exactly known yet but there are plenty of reports with people who have mesh routers and Oreo 8.0 or 8.1 who've reported issues with the signal randomly to drop or even the router to just crash or reboot completely. Google seems to be looking into the issue though but nothing has been reported back at this time. While most issues have been reported coming from the Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL there are reports that other phones that have received Oreo in some form are also having similar issues. Article Link: http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/12/24/android-8-oreo-may-causing-wi-fi-connection-problems-mesh-routers-like-netgears-orbi/

Latest Android OS Oreo, has a bug, where it will continue to use mobile data, even when users are connected to WiFi. This was discovered when some users who have updated to Oreo found out all of their mobile data has been used up. On a properly working OS, whenever wifi is connect, the phone is suppose to use wifi instead of the mobile network. Google is working on a fix, but in the meantime anyone with Oreo needs to disable their mobile data when connecting to Wifi. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/mobile/android-oreo-bug-bypasses-wifi-to-use-mobile-data-and-incur-extra-costs/