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Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

zlays84 — Mon, 14 May 2018 17:55:31 GMT

Any plans?Anything at all?

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

Pascale_F — Tue, 15 May 2018 18:22:13 GMT

Hi zlays84,

I'm just looking into this for you and will update this thread with any suggestions.

Thanks,

Pascale

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

zlays84 — Tue, 15 May 2018 19:00:06 GMT

Thank you...some info would be nice...

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

cinek2 — Wed, 16 May 2018 07:26:58 GMT

last time they said yes it is, but there's no eta

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

Kuschelmonschter — Fri, 18 May 2018 05:09:12 GMT

The only official information is that they are planning to bring O to the 2018 models. This is probably also true for models they are bringing over to 2018 from previous years (A1, ZD9). Anything except that O will come to models released in 2018 is just speculation so far though.

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

zlays84 — Wed, 16 May 2018 08:42:48 GMT

If its only 2018 models that would be straight up b.s from sony...

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

Kuschelmonschter — Wed, 16 May 2018 09:52:58 GMT

It would not make sense either. All Sony TVs since mid-2016 are based on the same (slow and *****ty) hardware platform (ATV2). So the software image should work for all TVs since then.

The bad thing is that the expensive early 2016 models (XD85, XD93, XD94) probably won't receive the update because they are ATV1, but cheap models from the very same model year probably will (like XD70, XD80) as these are already based on ATV2. Those cheap 2016 models also received Google Assistant/Amazon Alexa support in the U.S., while the expensive ones from the same year did not. So that's pretty bad mismanagement.

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

Sean_Mc — Wed, 16 May 2018 09:51:37 GMT

Hi zlays84,

Unfortunately I don't have any information on future updates.

Best wishes,

Sean Mc

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

cinek2 — Wed, 16 May 2018 15:19:44 GMT

that's a no then 😞

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

kinggo01 — Thu, 17 May 2018 07:01:49 GMT

considernig that every new "update" takes away something crucial from the smart side of the TV I don't get it why people even want that. I would gladly go back to lollipop just so that I can write on my disks.

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

mmhorda — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:22:04 GMT

Yes of course.
nVidia updated their Shield TVs from 2015 and 2017 to Android Oreo...

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

stormyuk — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:54:45 GMT

Maybe its a blessing, as an update to Android TV would probably make our TVs run even slower.

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

Kuschelmonschter — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 13:20:06 GMT

According to a German news site, Philips is putting Oreo on all MediaTek based Android TV sets. That might put some pressure on Sony too...

SOURCE

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

zlays84 — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 13:34:35 GMT

Lets hope so...it would make sense because we paid 3 times more for our sony tvs...

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

stormyuk — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:33:21 GMT

This is interesting if true..

https://ausdroid.net/2018/06/26/confirmed-oreo-google-assistant-sony-android-tv-2018-2017-models-2016-models-also/

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

Kuschelmonschter — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 20:09:05 GMT

So according to that Sony will put Oreo only on MediaTek MT5891 (ATV2) based TVs while MediaTek MT5890 (ATV1) based TVs won't receive it. Philips also puts it on MT5890 based TVs it seems...

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

stormyuk — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 20:44:37 GMT

Not sure I even believe it.

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

Kuschelmonschter — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 05:02:21 GMT

I do. Because all TVs since mid-2016 share the same processor and firmware image (drivers a.s.o.). So updating all those TVs is actually easier than restricting it to some. Of course it is more testing effort... in theory... Sony doesn't do that though...

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

zlays84 — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 05:13:44 GMT

This is great news!

Re: Any news on Android O for 2017 TV's

Kuschelmonschter — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 05:16:23 GMT

@zlays84 schrieb:
This is great news!

Way too early to be celebrating. Suppose we are still far away from a release. And they will probably f* it up like they always do.