Samsung Fingerprint Update

[Curufinwe_wins]

Hi all,

 

So most of us here have already seen the issue with Samsung's underscreen fingerprint reader if you recorded it while having a TPU screen protector.

 

I'm pleased to note that a patch for the behavior along with detailed information on who is or isnt affected has started rolling out. 

 

My note 10+ (unlocked) got the patch last night, for version 2.0.24.20. [I didnt think to take a screenshot of it sorry]

 

 

Just goes to show that any actually serious issue, Samsung is perfectly capable and willing to push quick updates out.

[Skooz]

18 hours ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

Hi all,

 

So most of us here have already seen the issue with Samsung's underscreen fingerprint reader if you recorded it while having a TPU screen protector.

 

I'm pleased to note that a patch for the behavior along with detailed information on who is or isnt affected has started rolling out. 

 

My note 10+ (unlocked) got the patch last night, for version 2.0.24.20. [I didnt think to take a screenshot of it sorry]

 

 

Just goes to show that any actually serious issue, Samsung is perfectly capable and willing to push quick updates out.

i mean this is some serious market breaking bug, they HAVE to push it out quickly.

[Curufinwe_wins]

3 hours ago, Skooz said:

i mean this is some serious market breaking bug, they HAVE to push it out quickly.

Google isnt planning on fixing theres except in the next "couple of months" and last massive issue for apple (the charging bug) they took over two weeks to fix it after press.

 

**shrugs** not saying you are wrong, and definitely not giving Samsung a pass on the length of their update service, but I'm always strongly preferred updates that don't break shit to more of them. 

[Commodus]

Can we have Samsung apply the same kind of urgency to every update, please?  It'd be great if Samsung didn't take half a year to roll out major versions of Android, or skip minor updates simply because it couldn't release them in time.

 

I swear, Samsung's OS update policy is sometimes a good sales pitch for Apple products.

[Curufinwe_wins]

8 hours ago, Commodus said:

Can we have Samsung apply the same kind of urgency to every update, please?  It'd be great if Samsung didn't take half a year to roll out major versions of Android, or skip minor updates simply because it couldn't release them in time.

 

I swear, Samsung's OS update policy is sometimes a good sales pitch for Apple products.

If there was an actual improvement or reason to update more often, I'd agree... But there isn't honestly. Other than just 'I'm on the latest', it doesn't matter until you fall numerous generations behind on android. Feature set improvements on both operating systems have been pretty irrelevant for a couple of generations, and stability over the edge of performance (when it isn't a downgrade as has happened for launch variants of both Android and iOS) is a trade I would personally take.

 

But again... criticizing the length of support and how quickly they give up on devices is a seriously fair point.

 

Though again, if people get over the 'need to be on the latest' it isn't like iOS where apps quickly stop working (ignoring a lack of updates) if you aren't on the latest OS. If and only if you have security updates though.

 

 

[I've been beating the update dead horse for ages. Sorry not sorry. Still have a running and fully functional kitkat Nook Tablet that actually works the same as it did ages ago vs non-supported apple tablets being paperweights half the time.]

[Commodus]

15 hours ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

If there was an actual improvement or reason to update more often, I'd agree... But there isn't honestly. Other than just 'I'm on the latest', it doesn't matter until you fall numerous generations behind on android. Feature set improvements on both operating systems have been pretty irrelevant for a couple of generations, and stability over the edge of performance (when it isn't a downgrade as has happened for launch variants of both Android and iOS) is a trade I would personally take.

 

But again... criticizing the length of support and how quickly they give up on devices is a seriously fair point.

 

Though again, if people get over the 'need to be on the latest' it isn't like iOS where apps quickly stop working (ignoring a lack of updates) if you aren't on the latest OS. If and only if you have security updates though.

 

 

[I've been beating the update dead horse for ages. Sorry not sorry. Still have a running and fully functional kitkat Nook Tablet that actually works the same as it did ages ago vs non-supported apple tablets being paperweights half the time.]

You don't actually need the latest version of iOS to keep apps working!  You may miss out on features, but there are many apps that will keep working on, say, iOS 10.  And in Apple land, a device that can't run newer than iOS 10 is quite old... we're talking iPhone 5 old.

 

I do know that Android's update situation isn't quite as terrible as it implies thanks to Google Play Services, and that Android updates have been more iterative as of late (I'd say iOS has been making more meaningful strides).  It's more a matter of principle -- you shouldn't be forced to wait half a year for features simply because you bought the 'wrong' phone.  Or, for that matter, the vendors who punish people who have lower-end phones by shrinking the update window or even limiting a phone to its shipping OS for all eternity (Samsung has done that!).

[Curufinwe_wins]

49 minutes ago, Commodus said:

You don't actually need the latest version of iOS to keep apps working!  You may miss out on features, but there are many apps that will keep working on, say, iOS 10.  And in Apple land, a device that can't run newer than iOS 10 is quite old... we're talking iPhone 5 old.

 

I do know that Android's update situation isn't quite as terrible as it implies thanks to Google Play Services, and that Android updates have been more iterative as of late (I'd say iOS has been making more meaningful strides).  It's more a matter of principle -- you shouldn't be forced to wait half a year for features simply because you bought the 'wrong' phone.  Or, for that matter, the vendors who punish people who have lower-end phones by shrinking the update window or even limiting a phone to its shipping OS for all eternity (Samsung has done that!).

I definitely agree on the later principle. 

 

[Though 'meaningful strides' is hard to accept when the OS still fills top to bottom left to right, no matter what ;:]