When is Verizon going to release the android pie update for Samsung Note 9 phones???

[Android Central Question]

I still have yet to receive the pie update and it is now March 2nd. T-Mobile has even sent it out to their Note9 phones. When is Verizon releasing this? I was told by the end of February, which is clearly untrue at this point; WHICH is just irritating, because Verizon has already sent out a SECOND pie update to s9 and s9+ models. What is going on here?

 

[Rukbat]

It may be true. They don't release it to everyone on the same day (that would crash their servers). They may have started rolling it out on February 28, but that could mean that you won't get it until March 31. It goes to a few phones at a time.

 

[Longfucui]

In theory that's a nice defense for them, but it isnt like it is just my issue. No one on Verizon has gotten it yet. If it had even started rolling out then it would be all over the internet, because they've been claiming it would come out for months now. The s10 is being released tomorrow and T-Mobile has even given it out. The fact is, Verizon hasn't even started giving it out.

 

[Longfucui]

** I should say no one with a Note 9 on Verizom, just for clarification purposes

 

[soccsoccermania]

In theory that's a nice defense for them, but it isnt like it is just my issue. No one on Verizon has gotten it yet. If it had even started rolling out then it would be all over the internet, because they've been claiming it would come out for months now. The s10 is being released tomorrow and T-Mobile has even given it out. The fact is, Verizon hasn't even started giving it out.

Yeah I haven't gotten it either , I'm on Verizon.my friend on Sprint got in early Feb . I'm not so mad cause the note 9 phone is awesome but I just hope Verizon gets it one day

 

[Rukbat]

Then it's probably just Verizon checking and re-checking and re-re-checking and ... Which is better than releasing a new version and having it brick 90% of the phones that get it. I'd rather get it right than get it soon. (And, as an old developer [starting back in the late 60s], I know how some tiny little bug can be a lot more difficult to fix than something huge.)

TMobile, for example, once pulled an update after the release was announced - the night before it went live. And it took them a couple of weeks, IIRC, to find and fix the bug someone had found.

If the phone is easy to flash, you can always flash back to the old version if the update soft-bricks the phone - but if it damages the - in Samsung's case - download partition, you're dead, and they have to start replacing millions of phones. (At least with an unlockable bootloader, you stand a chance of just booting the boot image and getting everything back, if you didn't back up before accepting the update.)