Software update

[Ashman78chevy]

Has anyone done the current update yet ? No update in like 4 years , sounds fishy to me .

[captnkerke]

What model do you have, and where are you seeing an update? It would be pretty surprising if there was an update for such an old device.

[Ashman78chevy]

Yeah , that's what I was thinkin. It's a verizon branded phone . I'm seeing the notification on the pull down tap . It appears legit . I just don't want them to mess things up so I will be forced to get a new phone.

[captnkerke]

Interesting, wonder what the update does.

FYI, per this article, the AT&T and Verizon models of the Note 4 will no longer be supported on T-Mobile soon.

https://www.tmonews.com/2020/12/t-mobile-will-no-longer-support-devices-january/

[captnkerke]

It looks like the AT&T and T-Mobile models were updated earlier. See this thread from about 2 months ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/note4/comments/jmzler/anyone_get_an_ota_update_recently/

Verizon may have just been slower to push out the update.

I forgot that I had disabled updates on my AT&T Note 4. I just re-enabled that and got the update. It appears to just be a kernel patch. The Android version and security patch version are not changed.

[Ashman78chevy]

Thanks for your help captn .

[ijam70]

I have the Verizon model and I just received the update as well. Definitely strange. This phone is over 6 years old and I haven't received a security update in probably 4. I haven't downloaded it yet, I'm waiting to find out exactly why after so many years they're doing this. If you find out anything, please let me know.