topic Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL in Android

February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

ianh — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:46:52 GMT

Hi All,

Has anyone with a Pixel 2 XL received the February update yet?

There was an O2 UK specific variant of the January update but currently there is only the generic variant listed online: https://developers.google.com/android/images#taimen

Will there be an O2 variant? If not, why is the update not being delivered yet?

Regards,

Ian

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

Cleoriff — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:58:14 GMT

@ianhI will mention @Chris_K here. He will be able to let you know whats happening....

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

MI5 — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:07:12 GMT

I didn’t think o2 sold the Pixel?

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

liggerz87 — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:16:03 GMT

O2 never did sell the pixel the update will come direct from google

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

Cleoriff — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:29:22 GMT

O2 didn't sell them but CPW did....(with O2 plans)

https://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/pay-monthly-tariff.html#!/t_network/O2/sort/relevance/model/GOOPIXEL2XL64GBBLA

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

MI5 — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:01:43 GMT

Not o2 firmware though.

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

ianh — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:59:27 GMT

I'd already PM'd Chris_K but no response

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

ianh — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:00:41 GMT

O2 still need to sign off on the update before it can be distributed to Pixel 2 XLs on their network (like mine that I purchased through CPW).

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

hayw77 — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:02:52 GMT

@ianh is right. This happened with previous OTA security updates from Google regardless of whether O2 firmware is on the phone. I remember @Chris_K mentioning a need to ensure APN settings were ok.

My unlocked Pixel 2 XL on O2 received the Feb update a few days ago

Colin

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

ianh — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:57:59 GMT

I finally got the update last night. Thank you all

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

Cleoriff — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:01:52 GMT

Great to hear @ianh, Enjoy

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

MI5 — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:07:01 GMT

@ianhwrote:
I finally got the update last night. Thank you all

I assume generic and not O2 specific as I don't see anything listed for O2 in Feb?

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

ianh — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:21:48 GMT

I assume so as there's nothing listed on the developer site.

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

Chris_K — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 09:36:51 GMT

Hey all,

Sorry for the delay but I've been checking into this one with our devices team. It's a little complicated, so i'll try and lay it out below.

This February update for Pixel is a 'pure' open market update and it comes direct from Google without any kind of intervention on our end
This differs to the January update as that one had fixes specific to O2, which required our testing and approval

So going forward, Pixel updates will happen in one of two ways:

If there are no specific fixes or changes for O2, these will come direct from Google
If there are specific fixes or changes for O2, we'd receive the modified open market software to test, send our approvals (or require more fixes) back to Google, and then they would release it

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

hayw77 — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 09:52:30 GMT

@Chris_K
Many thanks for the clarification, much appreciated.
Colin

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

Cleoriff — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:04:08 GMT

Thanks for that @Chris_K . So either way we would probably still need to tag you as none of us would be aware whether the fixes are specific to O2...? #justasking

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

hayw77 — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:28:47 GMT

Hi @Cleoriff
As @ianh mentioned in an earlier post, we can check https://developers.google.com/android/images#taimen
to see if there is an O2 specific build as there was in January but not this month
Regards
Colin

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

Cleoriff — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:35:27 GMT

Thanks Colin (@hayw77) You make a very relevant point. Sadly not everyone posting here will think to look at that link, although some of us will. It's a useful one to have though

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

ianh — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:47:25 GMT

Hi @Chris_K, thanks for the explanation.

So in future I'll keep an eye on the Android Developer page to see if there's an O2 specific update.

Re: February OTA Update for Pixel 2 XL

adrianbridgett — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:03:09 GMT

Another month, another delayed update. Nothing at lunchtime, it's _just_ come though.

I'd really like to at least understand where this hold up is - there's no specific O2 patch (unlike Jan), but why does it take 8 days for it to be approved? i.e. is it possible to get an actual "we approved this" timescale?

I appreciate that a) 5th of the month (when Google release the updates) could be a weekend, b) that there _were_ some issues in Jan, so I'm not against the approval per-se, just the fact that we're all exposed for 8 days (and in my job that's especially bad)

Nice overview here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/7bfkdr/psa_pixelnexus_updates_can_still_be_subject_to/

Thanks,

Adrian