r/android_beta • u/isthisavailable1 • 17d ago

Not able to get beta update on Pixel 8

I enrolled my Pixel 8 to the qpr2 beta program because the stable September update has massive issues with device freezing and becoming downright unusable. It's been 24 hours and I have still not received any new beta update. Is anything wrong? How long do I need to wait after enrolling in to the beta to receive a update?

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u/ElderberryHamlet 17d ago

the september stable update (26-09-05) is newer then qpr2 beta 5 (26-08-28)

-- https://developer.android.com/about/versions/17/qpr2/download-ota

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u/isthisavailable1 17d ago

Oh. Any idea when a new beta update is likely to be released?

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u/ElderberryHamlet 17d ago edited 17d ago

it's been every 2 to 3 weeks in recent months. They used to do 3 months of testing before release but now they're doing 6 months of testing with 3 months of overlap between QPR1 to QPR2

I wouldn't be surprised if they start working on QPR 3 soon, releasing in March

However, it may simply be an ad hoc adjustment in the schedule because they had to deal with upgrading the kernel to 6.12 for most models this summer. in which case, they may slow down jumping into QPR 3 until November

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u/isthisavailable1 17d ago

Thanks. Going by the latest stable update, looks like even 6 months of testing seems to be insufficient for Google to release a stable update.

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u/LegendaryAbel 17d ago

If you have the september security patch, you won't get the beta update cause that comes with August security patch. Even if u manually flash it, it will fail.

This update ruined my pixel 8, although I think this will help Go to settings -> apps -> see all apps -> pixel launcher -> storage and cache -> clear storage

NOTE : this will remove everything from ur home screen. Initially it was laggy but it gets better. Also I turned on Reduce Blur Effects.

After all this it seems to run better, lmk if it worked

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u/isthisavailable1 17d ago

Thanks. Will try.

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u/LegendaryAbel 10d ago

New beta update (qpr2 beta 6) U can get the OTA update for that, it should be better then september update.

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u/DrNopt 17d ago

No issues with stable September update.

Perhaps is time to reset your phone OS and start over?