Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ receive Android Oreo in Canada
Samsung launched the Android 8.0 Oreo beta program last year. Since then, the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ users around the world have been eagerly waiting for the rollout of the Android Oreo update.
In February, Samsung finally started rolling out the update in Turkey, Norway, the UAE, India, Belgium, Germany, France, Poland, etc., but then halted it only to resume a week later after sorting out user-reported update issues. In the last week or so, the update has been pushed out aggressively in more markets and by most top carriers in North America.
Canada gets a taste of Oreo
After Verizon, T-Mobile, and Sprint in the US, now telecom carriers in Canada are rolling out the Android Oreo update for the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. Currently, Rogers, Videotron, Bell, Telus, Virgin Mobile, Fido, and Freedom Mobile customers in Canada are receiving the update on their devices.
All the eligible devices may not receive the update notification at once as OEMs and carriers tend to adopt staged rollout as a precautionary measure. Galaxy S8 and S8+ owners in Canada can try manually pulling the update by going to the Software update menu in the Settings app if they haven’t received the over-the-air update notification yet.
Since the update is already rolling out in many other markets and no major issues have been reported so far, it shouldn’t be a risky proposition to update your Galaxy S8 and S8+ immediately as and when the update is available. If you would like to know the new features and improvements the Oreo update brings to your Galaxy S8, do read our exhaustive What’s New with Android 8.0 Oreo series.
Do let us know in the comments section about your experience with the new update so far.
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I have updated my Galaxy S8+ on Bell. I am having screen flicker issues when switching between app. My battery is also draining a lot quicker! Anyone else experiencing this?
You are better to report those issues in Samsung Members app. There, posts are seen by Samsung Canada, unlike here.
My Galaxy Note 8 is updating to Android O 8.0 just right now! (Exynos model N950F) and I live in Costa Rica by the way 😉
Plz plz update 8 for s8 950fd in iran
My iranian customers are not love samsung
Who cares. What about the U.S. ? This website shows more news for overseas regions than the U.S. its ridiculous.
You said who cares!!! If it is like that, nobody should care about you too. We poor iranian receive updates in the list of last countries. It is now our right to get the update sooner than other times. If you were in our situation you could understand us.( unfortunately you cannot😔)
About the news that you said;
Do you see any news about iran in this website!!!! Actually if you go to the download page of android versions for s8(either 8 or 7) you cannot even see iran’s name.
It’s been a long time we are waiting for android oreo in Iran
Unfortunately Iran is the last country that gets major OS updates
We hope this time we won’t be the last country
We are bro. We are. We all have unlocked phones in Iran, have paid as much as anyone else’s, maybe even more but now are getting a different treatment from Samsung. This is brutal and humiliating. Let’s not accept this behavior and never again pay for another Samsung device and encourage others to do the same as well. This kind of behavior shouldn’t be reinforced.
Completely agreed bro. I’ll switch to other android devices specially sony phones
Yes, me too. Sony or LG phones are very good.
I got the Oreo update for my S8 from Rogers this morning and it put my phone into a bootloop. I’ve tried the usual troubleshooting steps with no success 🙁
Not rolling out in New Zealand yet lol.
First time ever they sent a major update simultaneously to all carriers. Yesss.
Since updating to Oreo battery is draining super quick
true. on nougat i got 6 hours of SOT and now on oreo just 3 hours.
Here too. Installed the “Open Austria” Update. Battery draining was horror. I installed the CRAP version again.
This is by far the most frustrating experience for me regarding technology. Stupid Samsung!
Manually downloaded on phone this morning. Works fine. Not a whole lot different cosmetically. Freedom Mobile.
waiting for note 8 canada 🙁
The Note 8 is getting it in 9 days here, the 28th. Just be patient 🙂
G9550 still waiting…
I just wanna see how many comments are from Iran, lol
Whats ur problem dude
I also wait how many IRAN comment
we want android 8 in iran!
samsung what are you doing??!!!
G950FD THR
I dont know , they dont see many countries and just see uk and us
sm-g955u aun no llega oreo
Still on nougat in iran ( g950fd ) 🙁