Category: Android Marshmallow

For those who have a Nextbit Robin, April is going to be a fun month for you.  The company took to Twitter and Periscope and announced that a new build of Android Marshmallow will be coming to the device along with some fixes around the camera app in the device.  The startup company indicated that the update will be based on Android Marshmallow 6.0.1 but there is no indication at which security patch will be included in the update.  Hopefully it will have at least the March update but by the time the update is released, the April patch could well be included.

The adoption of Android Marshmallow continues today with the release of the latest supported build of Android coming to both the Verizon LG V10 and the Sprint Galaxy Note 5.  For those of you on Verizon who have a V10, the build you are looking for is VS99022A while on Sprint, the version you want to get for your Note 5 is N920PVU2BPC3.  As with all of these update, they are rolling out in phases so it make take a day or up to a week for it to actually come to your device.  Once it does, you will have all of the benefits of Android Marshmallow including things like Doze and more robust app permissions.

While the news dominating the Android world the past 24 hours has been the release of the technical preview for Android N, that doesn’t mean that Android Marshmallow is dead and gone.  Today customers on the Sprint network that have the Samsung Galaxy S6 are the latest to see the current shipping version of the OS hit their devices.  The update brings the device up from Lollipop and weighs in at a hefty 1.2GB so you will absolutely have to be on Wi-Fi for the update to download.

Google has released the latest Android distribution numbers and it is good news for Android Marshmallow.  The latest report was posted yesterday and the most current version of Android saw a 109% increase in its install base over February 2016.  While the overall percentage compared to all Android version is small, only 2.3%, the jump is reflective of the significant number of devices that have seen Marshmallow come to them over the course of the last month.

After what could only be described as a snail’s pace for the release of Android Marshmallow by manufactures and carriers, the last few weeks have been more of a frantic pace.  Last Friday I posted that the Galaxy Note 5 on Verizon was seeing the latest version of Android start to roll and today the carrier along with competitor T-Mobile have begun the release of Marshmallow the HTC One M8.

US-based carrier Verizon has released the Android Marshmallow update for the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 to customers on their network.  The update brings all of the goodness of Marshmallow but also brings some specific features from Verizon like Wi-Fi calling and improvements in Live Broadcasting.  As you would expect, this update is hefty, so you will have to be connected to Wi-Fi in order to download it to your device.  Once downloaded, it will take up to 10 minutes to install and will require a reboot of your Note 5.  For those keeping score, you will be looking for build MMB29K.N920VVRU2BPB2 for your Note 5.