Samsung releases its Android 14 update, US coming 'soon'
Samsung releases its Android 14 update, US coming 'soon'
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Samsung releases Android 14 update for Galaxy S23, coming to US 'soon'
cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2747324 (!samsung@lemdro.id)
As of today, Samsung is rolling out Android 14 to the Galaxy S23, S23+, and Galaxy S23 Ultra in regions including the UK and portions of Europe, such as France, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Spain. The update weighs in at 350mb for users who are updating from the latest beta to the stable update, but for those coming directly from One UI 5.1, it’s an update of over 3GB.
GrapheneOS had it's first stable Android 14 release on October 8th, just 3 days after it the first release by Google. GrapheneOS is just superior. And it doesn't include any spyware and unlike the Samsung ROM it doesn't install TikTok on your phone...
They had the betas fairly early. I wouldn't fault them for taking a bit extra time before considering it stable. They do have a suite of useful features like Dex and whatnot, along with being used in corporate environments with Knox, which could require some extra care.
I didn't have Tiktok installed on my S23U. It was much better than older Samsung devices that had a ton of apps preinstalled.
I already responded to that in my other comment:
I really don't mean to insult Samsung users or to make fun of Samsung software, but have you ever used Dex? In my entire time of using a Dex-compatible Samsung phone, I didn't touch this feature once. It reminds me of what Microsoft did on their crappy Windows Phones with Continuum. Who would ever use something like that?
I have an unlocked phone from samsung and no Facebook or tiktok apps, that's a new one I haven't heard yet.
https://screenrant.com/tiktok-essential-app-samsung-install/ https://reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/tyepqa/samsung_now_installs_tiktok_as_an_essential_app/ https://reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/ufcszz/samsung_forcing_tiktok_on_me_claiming_its_an/
I also encountered that when I set up a Samsung phone for my dad. And I also got Facebook preinstalled on a Samsung phone a few years ago.
Also within those 3 days of porting, Graphene also fixed the disastrous profile bug that Google didn't even fix, causing tons of data to be deleted. Just another common Graphene W
Huge fucking W for Graphene as always. It's probably the only competent mobile OS developmemt team out there right now
@netchami @ijeff ironically, graphene had to do its porting through unofficial source releases and then finish the porting by comparing against the official A14 source; whereas Samsung, as a partner of google, had exclusive access to the unreleased source.
Well it takes more time if you also have to port all the spyware/bloatware to ensure that the user will always be spied on. Imagine the spyware failing, that would have disastrous consequences for Samsung, Google and their other data mining friends...