Category: Android Marshmallow

Good news for Galaxy Note 5 owners on the T-Mobile network.  Today the carrier has started rolling out the Android Marshmallow update to the device.  The update is coming to Note 5 users as an OTA update and weighs in at a hefty 1.4GB.  This is one that you will certainly need to be on Wi-Fi to download and you can expect a 10-20 minute total install time once you do get it downloaded.  For those keeping score, the updated build is N920TUVV2DPD1.

Owners of the NVIDIA Sheld Tablet K1 should start seeing an update come to the device that brings, amongst other things, Android Marshmallow 6.0.1.  The update is version 1.2 for those keeping NVIDIA software version scores and has been released by the company at this point.  The update will come to users as an OTA update over the course of the next several days.  The headliner feature of the update is of course Marshmallow 6.0.1 and the improvement that update made as well as the new emoji that are in that release.  But the update contains much more than that according to the NVIDIA update page.

Android Marshmallow has taken another big step forward in the number of devices the platform is install on according to the latest report from Google.  For the week ending April 4, 2016, Marshmallow represented 4.6% of all devices that came to the Google Play Store.  That is a 100% growth over the March figure of 2.3% and is reflective of the significant number of devices that have seen the update come to them or new devices hitting the market.

It has been a long wait and one that more than a few (Clinton raises his hand) thought would happen.  Android Marshmallow has finally comes to the OnePlus One thanks to the release of Cyanogen 13 for the device.  While Cyanogen has been working on Marshmallow for a variety of devices, it wasn’t clear if the OnePlus One, OnePlus’ original phone from 2014, would see it as the companies have parted ways from a business perspective.  For now, at least, those concerns are settled.

Verizon has started rolling out the Android Marshmallow update to customers who have the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge on their network.  The updates will come to users as an OTA update and it could be several days before everyone sees it.  The updated version you are looking for on your device is build MMB29K.G920VVRU4CPC2 and that is the same build for either device.  This update is a big one, approaching 1GB in size, so you will have to make sure you are connected to Wi-Fi before the update will download.

It has taken a long time but for those who have the OnePlus 2, your wait for Android Marshmallow is coming to an end.  OnePlus today announced that a preview of OxygenOS 3.0, the Marshmallow based OS running on the 2, is now available for download for members of the community who want to try it.  The preview means that it is still in beta and it is possible (likely) that you will run into issues if you decide to load it on your device.  If you use your OnePlus 2 as your daily driver, it may be best to wait until the software is released to the general public.