Nokia 8 Oreo 8.1 now live

[anzbert]

8.1 and March update have just arrived for some users in Australia, including myself.
Hopefully the april patch will appear soon as well.

 

[lxxxxxr]

8.1 and March update have just arrived for some users in Australia, including myself.
Hopefully the april patch will appear soon as well.

I have April patch but no 8.1 in Australia

Sent from my TA-1012 using Tapatalk

 

[droid_freak90]

I have April patch but no 8.1 in Australia

Sent from my TA-1012 using Tapatalk

Same here, April patch, no 8.1 on Optus network. Vodafone has it listed as "Rolling out soon" so might chuck in my housemates Vodafone sim and check for updates later on.

 

[Pumpino]

Same here, April patch, no 8.1 on Optus network. Vodafone has it listed as "Rolling out soon" so might chuck in my housemates Vodafone sim and check for updates later on.

You could try what this Nokia 7 Plus user did to trigger an update. https://xdaforums.com/nokia-7-plus/...odel-stuck-t3780101/post76376307#post76376307

 

[ajgftw]

Same here, April patch, no 8.1 on Optus network. Vodafone has it listed as "Rolling out soon" so might chuck in my housemates Vodafone sim and check for updates later on.

Don't bother trying a Vodafone Sim, I'm on Vodafone.
The Nokia 8 on Vodafone hasn't received a single update since December last year. No security patches or anything.

That Vodafone website will probably say rolling out soon for the rest of the year.

 

[Pumpino]

Don't bother trying a Vodafone Sim, I'm on Vodafone.
The Nokia 8 on Vodafone hasn't received a single update since December last year. No security patches or anything.

That Vodafone website will probably say rolling out soon for the rest of the year.

Have you tried the suggestion I linked to above? Nokia itself suggested it, too:

To try and get your phone to update to the latest Android Security Patch and Version, could you please do the following: First, please go to Settings >> Applications >> Three dots on the top-right >> Show System >> > Cache >> Carrier Services >> Storage and tap to clear it. Remove any SIM Cards on your device and shut down your device (Long press the Power Button >> Power Off). Wait for about 15 minutes, then turn on your device without the SIM Card. 10 minutes after it loads, please connect to a stable Wi-Fi Connection and check for your System Updates by going to Settings >> About Phone >> System Updates. Should this not work, please go back to step 2, but on step 3, please insert a SIM Card from a different Network Operator and proceed to step 4. https://community.phones.nokia.com/support/discussions/topics/7000023194

 

[ajgftw]

Have you tried the suggestion I linked to above? ...

Sorry, I could have been clearer in what I said.

I am with Vodafone in Australia and they haven't released an update since android 8.0 (December security patch).

However my Nokia 8 is currently on Android 8.1, April security patch.

I have always kept my girlfriends and my own Nokia 8 running the most recent update available using a method similar to the one you're referring too.

For reference, my current method is:

- Remove the Vodafone Australia SIM
- Disable GPS Location (including WiFi and BT scanning)
- Enable an always on VPN set to another country where the update has been released (Germany or Denmark typically)
- Clear the data & cache and of Carrier Services
- Reboot the Device
- Check for updates and download and install the update.

Unfortunately, in Australia at least, using another carriers SIM wouldn't help much because they are often months behind other countries carriers at best.

But of all the Australian carriers, Vodafone, in my experience, is the worst at releasing Android updates in general but they are plain lazy when it comes to the Nokia 8.

Currently they do not release security patches as they are made available by Nokia (i.e. every month), and instead choose to bundle the updates and release them every 6 months (or more) to users.

This is why I suggested in my previous post that trying a Vodafone (Australia) SIM wouldn't help at all. ?

 

[Pumpino]

I am with Vodafone in Australia and they haven't released an update since android 8.0 (December security patch).

Updates for Nokia phones using Vodafone in Australia are particularly delayed because Vodafone is the only carrier selling Nokias, and so it's decided to do its own testing.

Yeah, I'm in Australia and was stuck with 8.1 beta for months on my Nokia 8 before I sold it. I wish I'd known about these tricks then. While I tried a VPN at the time, I didn't include the other steps.

Looking back at a previous post of yours, I see you ended up wiping in order to receive the 8.1 update. I wonder if that step would have been required if you'd included the step of Settings >> Applications >> Three dots on the top-right >> Show System >> > Cache >> Carrier Services >> Storage and tap to clear it. That may achieve the same thing as wiping, without having to reconfigure your phone.

Can I ask which VPN app you use?

 

[ajgftw]

Updates for Nokia phones using Vodafone in Australia are particularly delayed because Vodafone is the only carrier selling Nokias, and so it's decided to do its own testing.

Yeah, I'm in Australia and was stuck with 8.1 beta for months on my Nokia 8 before I sold it. I wish I'd known about these tricks then. While I tried a VPN at the time, I didn't include the other steps.

Looking back at a previous post of yours, I see you ended up wiping in order to receive the 8.1 update. I wonder if that step would have been required if you'd included the step of Settings >> Applications >> Three dots on the top-right >> Show System >> > Cache >> Carrier Services >> Storage and tap to clear it. That may achieve the same thing as wiping, without having to reconfigure your phone.

Can I ask which VPN app you use?

Yeah the first time I went to update the phone nothing I did was working to trigger the update. And I mean I tried everything.
So I just wiped the phone based on the theory (wild guess) that because Vodafone are doing thier own testing and releases, the firmware on my phone might have a different version number than anywhere else in the world which might be why I couldn't get it to work so I took out the SIM card, factory reset the phone and followed the steps I posted above.

As for which VPN, I use CyberGhost (Premium).

But I didn't use the app as it isn't able to create an always on VPN, I had to set up a VPN profile and then add it to the phone manually.
There may be other VPN apps that can create always on VPNs, but I'm already paying for cyberghost so just did it that way

 

[lxxxxxr]

I tried everything but no 8.1

 

[droid_freak90]

Can someone capture the ota maybe? I'll sideload if I need to.

 

[rodrigo granemann]

only 4 hours of screen. Moderate use

 

[droid_freak90]

OTA Captured

I'll just leave this here for the other Aussies/VodafoneAU subscribers in case they aren't aware of it. Full OTA zip including 8.1, Pro camera and May 1st patch. Confirmed working on unlocked and VodafoneAU TA-1012 model. (Replace *DOT* With period punctuation mark and add "https://" at the beginning) forum*DOT*xda-developers*DOT*com/nokia-8/development/nokia-8-nb1-june-firmware-via-ota-t3798056