Android 8 - Developer Beta!

[1901Madison]

Do we still think we are getting the public rollout of Oreo in 2017? I haven't heard of the Beta 2 releasing yet, and we are only 13 days from the new year.

 

[Stinger4321]

Do we still think we are getting the public rollout of Oreo in 2017? I haven't heard of the Beta 2 releasing yet, and we are only 13 days from the new year.

I think on Reddit they said this week

 

[1901Madison]

I think on Reddit they said this week

For public rollout or Beta 2?

 

[digitalbreak]

For public rollout or Beta 2?

Beta 2

 

[m3lover1]

And beta 2 is out!

https://twitter.com/essential/status/943557743780220929?s=17

 

[Randy Ohio]

I side loaded it tonight. I had held off until this release. The first thing I found was a setting to display the battery % ! Not having that drove me crazy. I'm still looking around in settings. There seems to be additional app level battery settings to allow it not running in the background. Also night mode. Neat stuff!

 

[modifier]

The first thing I found was a setting to display the battery % ! Not having that drove me crazy.

You can do that in M, N and the Oreo Beta 1 build. Enable System UI Tuner and enjoy. https://www.androidcentral.com/inside-marshmallow-system-ui-tuner

 

[Randy Ohio]

Thanks for that tip. I only wish I knew that a month ago! it does work in the Oreo Beta 2 build. I guess I never knew about this because I came from an LG phone which has much if this built into their customizations.

 

[modifier]

The feature is now arguably better in Oreo since the percentage is beside the battery icon rather than inside. It was difficult to read in M and N.

 

[dtresca]

You can do that in M, N and the Oreo Beta 1 build. Enable System UI Tuner and enjoy. https://www.androidcentral.com/inside-marshmallow-system-ui-tuner

I never knew this. Thank you so much!

 

[Freakster1]

Can somebody post a step by step to do this? I'm in the platform tools directory after unzipping and I can't get the command prompt window to open.. It keeps flashing on the screen then vanishing..... I'm assuming you click the ADB application?

 

[Jdane07]

Can somebody post a step by step to do this? I'm in the platform tools directory after unzipping and I can't get the command prompt window to open.. It keeps flashing on the screen then vanishing..... I'm assuming you click the ADB application?

No, make sure nothing is highlighted, then on an empty space right click while holding down shift. Then you can select "open a command window here/powershell window". If you use powershell like I did, then you have to use ./ before the command (ex: ./ADB sideload).

Or hit alt+d, then type cmd and hit enter to open a command terminal.

 

[Freakster1]

No, make sure nothing is highlighted, then on an empty space right click while holding down shift. Then you can select "open a command window here/powershell window". If you use powershell like I did, then you have to use ./ before the command (ex: ./ADB sideload).

Or hit alt+d, then type cmd and hit enter to open a command terminal.

Worked like a charm! Thank you for taking the time to reply!

 

[Freakster1]

Ok well I thought it did.... Right to where I got to do the actual sideload. I type on "ADB sideload" then what? The full name of the folder that was downloaded?

Edit-Figured it out... Didn't put

.zip at the end of the file name.. Lol