nougat

There was once a time when Motorola was one of the quickest OEMs to release updates. This was during the time they were controlled by Google which could explain the speedy releases. Now they are owned by Lenovo and updates are much slower. The Verizon exclusive Moto Z Droid and Z Droid Force had...

Android 7.1.2 began to roll out to those of you enrolled in the Beta program yesterday. This is great if you are already on stock and aren't running some sort of custom rom. If you are running custom firmware you would need to manually install the Android 7.1.2 Beta image, and now you can. The...

The latest and greatest build of Android 7.1.2 is now official. It is currently available for download in open beta. The update is a bit anticlimactic however and is exactly what we expected it to be, an incremental build. Android VP of Engineering David Burke says the update is focused on...

The HTC 10 Nougat update was abruptly pulled last week, but HTC vowed to hastily continue the roll out of Nougat. Today they made good on that promise. They confirmed that the ota roll out for the HTC 10 has already started in the UK and will eventually roll out to the remaining regions. You can...

We finally got the official rollout of Nougat for the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. Now that Samsung has taken care of their flagship devices they have plans to continue releasing updates for their older devices bringing the whole family up to Nougat. You may be wondering if your device will be...

As far as Android tablets are concerned there really have not been any big releases. It seems that the tablet revolution didn't really take off the way that many thought it would. Phone's have large enough screens these days that tablet's can seem redundant. Tablets were only really ever good...

Last week the Galaxy S7 finally received its official update to Nougat. You may be wondering exactly what all is new in the latest build. Here is a list of what has changed. -More color in the phone app -Battery usage in settings has been cleaned up -App folders are transparent -New blue light...

While both the Moto Z and Moto Z Force have already received their updates to Nougat the Moto Z Play is still waiting on the sidelines to joing the fun. Motorola has not given any confirmation as to when they plan on releasing the update however Koodo Mobile has just dropped a hint honing in on...

The day has finally arrived! Samsung is now rolling out the Official Stable builds of Nougat to S7 and S7 Edge devices. I am currently running the beta build and have not seen the update on my device, but I have seen many others who are reporting that the update is coming through on their...

Samsung has been working on perfecting their Nougat update for the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge for the past few months now. I have been running the Beta build of Nougat on my Galaxy S7 Edge for a good 3 weeks now and I have to say it has been very smooth and mostly bug free. The only issue that I have...

Now that CyanogenMod is dead it will take the rest of the Rom community stepping up to take the place of the now defunct custom rom juggernaut. One of the most popular Roms from the past is back with a new Rom release. We have not heard from CarbonRom in a while but they have just started the...

Over the holiday weekend the co-founder of OnePlus let us know that he would be sending out Beta builds of Nougat to OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T units. Of course owners of the phone were not satisfied with Beta builds, as stable builds were promised by the end of 2016. A few hours after the beta...

OnePlus had promised earlier this year that they would have a stable update of Nougat ready for the OnePlus 3 by the end of 2016. Well today is the last day of the year and we were beginning to wonder if that promise would be fulfilled. Carl Pei had tweeted early this morning that a beta build...

We are nearly to the first of the year and we still don't have a stable build of Nougat for Galaxy S7 devices. That is about to change though as Samsung has wrapped up the Nougat beta program for the S7 and S7 edge. The beta program has been running strong for the past few months. I have...

As devices age it is expected that some problems may arise. Smartphones are not built to last years and years. They now almost always include an internal non user replaceable battery. This has shortened the life span of many phones as the phone is useless once the battery expires which normally...

Samsung is currently rolling out a fourth major Nougat update to Samsung Galaxy Beta Program Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge testers. This is the fifth build overall if you include a small Facebook bug fix that was rolled out earlier. The new update includes bug fixes. The update notes also mention...

I was recently able to update my Galaxy S7 Edge to the Beta build of Nougat. There have been plenty of nice changes in this update including better battery life with Doze On The Go, Split Screen, and other features. I just tried to use FoxFi and it appears that Nougat has killed the app. For...

HTC is now officially rolling out Android 7.0 Nougat to the HTC 10. I have not actually used the HTC 10 in quite a while but this update may be enough to get me to pull the phone out of my desk drawer. HTC mentioned the update would be coming soon on November 24th through their twitter account...

Motorola has started sending out the official over the air updates to Android 7.0 Nougat for the Moto Z and Moto Z Force. We know exactly what all has changed in the update thanks to the official changelog that Verizon has posted. The new build is labeled NCL25.86-11. Some new features included...

There are currently only a handful of devices out there with official Nougat builds. The Pixel, Pixel XL and LG V20 are among those, but it looks like a few other devices are beginning to receive the update right now. According to some reddit users Verizon is already starting to force push the...