Table of contents:
- Yes, but when will my Samsung Galaxy S9 update to Android 10?
- Don't you want to wait? Put a ROM with Android 10
- LineageOS 17.1 compatible with Samsung Galaxy S9 and Samsung Galaxy S9 +
- Alexandr DevBase V7.1 Beta 5
One of the factors that we must take into account when purchasing a new phone is the brand's update policy and the version of Android that is pre-installed. It is convenient to make sure to buy a phone with the latest version of Android available or, in the worst case, that you know that it is going to update to it. Each manufacturer acts differently, releasing progressive updates according to their own schedule. Samsung is one of them.
Samsung covers its terminals with its own personalization layer based on Android and called One UI. The Samsung Galaxy S9, a phone that appeared in our lives back in March 2018, had Android 8 Oreo pre-installed from the factory and was updated to Android 9 Pie at the beginning of last year. As is customary for the Korean brand and others in the industry, mobile phones usually have two updates, so the rise from Android 9 to 10 will be the last that the Samsung Galaxy S9 has.
Yes, but when will my Samsung Galaxy S9 update to Android 10?
It will be next March when the deployment of the update to Android 10 begins on its Samsung Galaxy S9 and Samsung Galaxy S9 + terminals. It does not mean that the month of March you already have this new version available, and the time may be extended to the following months, so we recommend patience.
From March, then, it may be a good opportunity to acquire this high-end 2018 at a good price, but counting on that its version 10 of Android will be the last. Although we can always place successive ROMs cooked that have the future Android 11. Currently, at Amazon we can buy this phone for 474 euros so we think that in a couple of months it will even be at a lower price.
Don't you want to wait? Put a ROM with Android 10
LineageOS 17.1 compatible with Samsung Galaxy S9 and Samsung Galaxy S9 +
One of the most popular cooked ROms in the Android environment is called Lineage. In this ROM we can find that almost everything works, except the iris scan and the IMS services since Samsung has its own implementation and it is impossible to port them to the Lineage ROM. It also has, among its bugs, animation errors when we use the S-Pen and, on occasions, the signal indicator can also fail to be displayed. For the rest, you would have Android 10 operating on your Samsung Galaxy S9 and Samsung Galaxy AS9 +.
Alexandr DevBase V7.1 Beta 5
A ROM based on the Beta 05 Stock version of Samsung's Android 10. Among the novelties that this ROM has, we have the characteristics of Android 10, such as a dark mode for the Android system, a renewed gesture control to take advantage of the screen more, as we already have in other Xiaomi terminals with MIUI layer, a improvement in the management of the permissions that we grant to applications, to increase privacy, a new method of subtitling in real time of videos, podcasts and our own recordings, intelligent responses to the notifications that come to us and special optimization for folding mobiles.
We recommend that you only install both ROMs if you know very well what you are doing since, on the one hand, the installation process may fail and you have problems with the phone and that, on the other hand, you lose the warranty when you install a cooked ROM. Follow in detail the steps to install it in any of the tutorials that populate the Internet but, if you're not sure, you'd better wait for the official update.