Samsung drip feeds stable One UI 5 update to at least one lucky user
It’s been two months and one week sinceAndroid 13went stable and all this time, we’ve been wonderingwhen our phones— that is, not the Pixels, thank you very much — would get the update. Well, if you own a late model Samsung device, the one-word answer at this point is “days.”
More than a week ago, the company announced at its Samsung Developers Conference thatOne UI 5would reach stability and begin distribution by the end of this month. Now,SamNews24is reporting from a Samsung Europe bulletin which we haven’t been able to independently verify that the Galaxy S22, S22+, S22 Ultra, Z Flip 4, and Fold 4 will all start getting OTAs from this Monday, October 24.
The same site was also able to obtain screenshots of an Italian Galaxy S22 Ultra receiving the update which sizes up at close to 3GB. The bulky package includes security patches from October 1 and is attached to a build number with the four-character suffixBVJA.
SamMobilenotes that Italy hasn’t been sited as a One UI 5 beta testing region in the weeks leading up to this release, but considering that there isn’t much more “end of the month” to go in October, we think there’s little to disbelieve here.
The One UI 5 beta program beganin early Augustwith the fourth and last update prior to today’s news arriving onOctober 7. It seems at this point that there’s not much left for us to do but to wait for the download.
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