Samsung halts the Oreo update for the Galaxy S7 lineup once again

Samsung was never too fast in delivering the major Android updates, but they've been going through a lot of problems during the rollout of Android Oreo lately. In February, they halted the Oreo update for the Galaxy S8 lineup shortly after it began to reach the users across a few countries worldwide, including Turkey, India, and the UAE. Earlier this month, T-Mobile users also faced problems with the Oreo update, but this time only LG flagships were affected. Now, the time has come for Galaxy S7 owners to get an Oreo update plagued with problems.

"Following a limited number of cases where Galaxy S7 devices have rebooted unexpectedly with the Android 8.0 Oreo, we have temporarily stopped the rollout of the update. We are investigating the issue internally to ensure that the impact to the affected devices is minimized and the rollout of the update can resume as quickly as possible," revealed a Samsung moderator on the company's official European forum earlier this week.

Samsung also pointed out that the update is currently "pending a fix for a technical issue discovered post initial rollout" and more information will be revealed once it becomes available. Since the Galaxy S7 family will not receive Android P, these problems with Oreo are probably the last software-related ones the owners of these flagships will be facing.

Obviously, the hardware of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge will probably allow them to run LineageOS firmware based on Android 9 once it becomes available, but — from my personal experience — most Samsung users are not adventurous enough to run unofficial operating system builds.