Galaxy S8 and Galaxy Note 8 February security update released

Concluding updated: Feb 17th, 2020 at 06:45 UTC+01:00

With the Galaxy S20 now official and on its way to retail stores in a few weeks, Samsung is going to exist quite busy. But the company isn't slowing downward when it comes to updating existing phones. Case in point: Both the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy Note 8 have begun receiving the Feb 2020 security update in the concluding couple of days.

Samsung has released new updates for its 2017 flagships that bring the latest security enhancements. The Galaxy S8 and S8+ are receiving an update with software versionG95xFXXS7DTA6 in some European countries, including Federal republic of germany, the netherlands, Kingdom of spain, France, and Poland.

The Milky way Annotation 8, meanwhile, has been getting an update with software versionN950FXXS9DTA1 in European markets including Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Bulgaria, Italian republic, and France since terminal calendar week. In the US, information technology's being updated with build number N950USQS7DTA4 on Dart and T-Mobile models.

As you would expect, you won't be getting whatever new features or major changes equally part of the new updates, but the latest security fixes. The Feb patch fixes two critical vulnerabilities in the Android operating organization and xxx vulnerabilities that affect only Samsung Galaxy smartphones, details of which can be constitute at this link.

You can download the new update on your Galaxy S8, S8+, or Note 8 over the air by opening the phone's Settings app, navigating toSoftware update, and tappingDownload and install. If the update doesn't bear witness upwards right abroad, you can attempt tapping that choice a few times, and if that doesn't work, you can update by downloading the latest firmware from our firmware archive and installing information technology on the phone using a Windows PC.

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