One other month is within the books which implies it’s time for a brand new Android safety patch replace. Unsurprisingly, Samsung is main the race, as the corporate has already delivered the April 2021 safety patches to a bunch of Galaxy units, together with the Galaxy S21, Galaxy Z Fold 2, Galaxy S20 FE, Galaxy S10, and extra. Now the Galaxy Fold and the Galaxy S9 lineup are getting the identical remedy.
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Tagged with the model quantity G96xFXXUFFUC6, the brand new firmware for the Galaxy S9 sequence is meant for the Exynos 9810-powered international variants of the common S9 (mannequin quantity SM-G960F) and the S9+ (mannequin quantity SM-G965F). The OTA is presently rolling out within the DBT area, which is the Korean OEM’s inner code for Germany. For the Galaxy Fold, it’s the 4G variant (mannequin quantity SM-F900F) that’s getting the replace within the type of software program model F900FXXU4EUCF in France.
Now we have but to find the whole changelog for these builds, however the software program model numbers are adequate to conclude that there are some further enhancements aside from the plain bump within the Android safety patch stage. The bootloader model, nevertheless, stays unchanged in each circumstances, which implies a software-based downgrade is theoretically attainable.
In case you personal a Galaxy Fold or a Galaxy S9/S9+ and reside within the aforementioned areas, maintain an eye fixed out for the OTA notification. As is normally the case with staged software program rollouts, nevertheless, it would take a number of days earlier than the replace is rolled out to everybody so don’t fear if you happen to’re not seeing any replace immediate in your system simply but. You may also manually verify for the replace by heading to Settings > Software program updates, or simply chew the bullet and immediately obtain the brand new firmware bundle in your cellphone from the corporate’s replace server utilizing instruments like Samsung Firmware Downloader.
