How To Update Razer Phone To Pie

[Update 2: Rolling out again] Razer affirms its plans to upgrade the Razer Phone to Android Pie

Update 2 (9/26/19 @ nine:50 AM ET): Afterwards beingness paused concluding month, the Android Pie update for the Razer Phone is rolling out once again.

Update ane (viii/19/19 @ 11:10 AM ET): Android Pie for the original Razer Phone is finally rolling out now.

With the OnePlus vii Pro, Nubia Ruddy Magic three, and ASUS ROG Phone Ii dominating the headlines for their high refresh rate displays, it's looking similar 2019 will exist a great year for fans of HFR. We can thank Razer for kickstarting this new mobile trend in western markets. Razer's first smartphone, the 2017 Razer Phone, sports a 120Hz QHD LCD panel, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, a four,000mAh battery, and a about-stock Android build. The telephone originally shipped with Android seven.1 Nougat, but it eventually got an update to Android viii.1 Oreo. Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan tweeted that the Android Pie update for the phone will be released quondam this year, just that was before we learned about Razer'due south declining smartphone business. Amidst worries that the telephone may never receive some other update (its concluding update was for the July 2018 security patches), a member of Razer's Marketing Squad has affirmed the brand's plans to upgrade the original Razer Telephone to Android 9 Pie.

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Nosotros know the brand is capable of updating its kickoff smartphone to Android 9 Pie since they managed to practise the aforementioned for its second telephone, the Razer Telephone 2. Unfortunately, the second-gen Razer is also stuck on outdated security patches from February 2019. It'due south unclear what security patch level the first Razer device's Pie upgrade will bring, so we'll have to wait for the update to coil out. In case yous would rather not wait for Razer to release the update, you can always unlock the bootloader and install LineageOS 16.

Update 1: Finally Rolling Out

Android Pie is finally rolling out to the original Razer Phone. The update brings all the Pie goodies, such equally adaptive battery, gesture navigation, Digital Wellbeing, July security updates, and more. It comes in at a piddling over 1 GB in size. Reddit users started receiving the update earlier today, simply information technology has been temporarily paused while Razer irons out an upshot with Game Booster.

Via: Reddit

Update 2: Rolling out once more

After being paused over a month ago, Reddit users are reporting that Android Pie is in one case once more rolling out to the original Razer Phone. As earlier, the update includes adaptive battery, gesture navigation, Digital Wellbeing, July security updates, and more than. You can download the OTA with the link below.

Download Android Pie OTA for the Razer Phone

Source: Reddit

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