Android 15
is lastly obtainable in steady for Pixel gadgets, so Google’s beta program is lots simpler to observe together with these days. As a substitute of creating two concurrent prerelease builds, the corporate is concentrated fully on Android 15 QPR1, quickly to be launched because the December 2024
Pixel Function Drop
. At the moment, that new model obtained one step nearer to a steady launch.
Earlier replace
Here is what Google added in Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2
The December Pixel Function Drop shall be a giant one
Mishaal Rahman was first to report the brand new firmware after recognizing the construct quantity for at present’s replace (AP41.240925.009) when the corporate uploaded the brand new DSU photos. Google has since confirmed the rollout with a submit on its Android Beta subreddit, noting a safety patch stage of October 2024. The corporate additionally equipped the next launch notes, highlighting a laundry record of bug fixes:
At the moment we’re sending you an Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3 (AP41.240925.009) that features the next repair:
- Fastened a difficulty that generally brought about notifications to be displayed with some content material that was reduce off. (Subject #369022573)
- Fastened a difficulty with system reminiscence paging that generally brought about gadgets to crash and restart. (Subject #370281133, Subject #363067081)
- Fastened a difficulty the place the amount buttons did not work when related to sure Bluetooth gadgets. (Subject #370700569, Subject #362542656, Subject #362115174, Subject #369774572)
- Fastened a difficulty the place some app icons on the house display have been displaying the default system icon as a substitute of the app’s icon. (Subject #335579823)
- Fastened a difficulty that brought about a tool to run slowly and generally crash when switching again to the first person from the secondary person. (Subject #339635839)
- Fastened a difficulty that generally brought about the system UI to crash. (Subject #370214367)
- Fastened a difficulty for foldable gadgets the place the display generally went clean when unfolding the system. (Subject #367324432)
- Fastened a difficulty that generally prevented customers from interacting with heads-up notifications.
- Fastened a difficulty that generally brought about the system to crash whereas taking a bug report.
- Fastened numerous different points that have been impacting system stability, connectivity, and interactivity.
- Repair a crash in BluetoothDevice.getType() that occurred primarily within the testing surroundings when Bluetooth sources have been reused between digital system situations.
- Improved LE Audio quantity management by enabling unbiased adjustment of every related sink’s quantity utilizing the UI and limiting quantity key changes to the first sink.
Notably, the final two bullets deal with Bluetooth connectivity points. It is potential these might repair the issues we had beforehand seen on the brand new Pixel 9 Professional — person reviews following the steady Android 15 replace earlier this month appear to point as a lot, so we’re cautiously optimistic that the difficulty is mounted on the beta channel as properly.
Code sleuth AssembleDebug famous on his Telegram channel that this construct incorporates new strings suggesting Google will quickly set up Fast Settings tiles into classes, making new toggles simpler to search out. The sections seen have been Accessibility, Connectivity, Show, Privateness, Unknown, and Offered by apps. This seems to be a part of Google’s bigger initiative to revamp the Fast Settings space within the mildew of Apple’s lately expanded Management Heart.
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The October safety patches included on this replace are a reasonably large deal
The October 2024 Android Safety Bulletin flew beneath the radar with Android 15’s steady launch grabbing headlines, however it mounted a number of vital bugs. A complete of 28 Frequent Vulnerabilities and Exposures have been shored up, all of which have been deemed high-severity. Google’s Pixel-specific Safety Bulletin for October outlines one other 29 fixes arriving with this construct, and whereas most have been for moderate-severity CVEs, six addressed high-severity points, and an extra 5 (CVE-2024-47012, CVE-2024-47016, CVE-2024-47024, CVE-2024-47027, and CVE-2024-47035) have been deemed to be crucial vulnerabilities.
Google says the replace is already within the technique of rolling out, however we have but to get it on our gadgets. To see if it is obtainable in your Pixel, head to Settings → System → Software program updates → System replace → Verify for replace. Alternatively, you may obtain the OTA file or manufacturing facility photos and manually apply the replace with Google’s Android Flash Software.