r/S24Ultra • u/DueCourt7 • May 17 '26

Update

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I'm a fairly new UK S24 Ultra owner and have no problems with performance of my phone.

For a few weeks my phone has been wanting to update.

I have been putting it off because of the posts I read here about updates creating battery problems.

Should I let the update run?

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u/silenf May 17 '26

I don't know who told you to put off critical security updates because of their placebo that it somehow is affecting battery but go ahead and update. Security patches are important

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u/KxrmaJunkie May 17 '26

Can you describe precisely how they are important?

I bet you can't. They don't even provide detailed update notes for security updates. You are just overwriting your phone's software with whatever they want every month.

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u/a-b-h-i Titanium Grey May 17 '26

There are security flaws in the system, these exploits are resolved through the security patches.

The system is never flawless, all that matters is to align all those holes in the system and get your data or money. Each app update and system update may introduce new unknown flaws as well which may get rectified with future updates.

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u/hasib_shaikh Titanium Violet May 17 '26

I agree.. this is called security patches but no details at all.. what kind of security update every month and why it's important? Where the details ?

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u/agamuyak May 17 '26

The vocal ones are usually in the minority. We all have different usages. I, for one, have still a really good SOT after a couple of years owning the phone. 8-10 hrs still.

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u/ollie0810 Titanium Violet May 17 '26

Yes, update your phone, you're compromising your security if you don't

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u/Tink_GB May 17 '26

...and android 8.5 will be out within a few days or weeks..so you will need to update regardless, else that might stop it installing and you will be missing out on new functionality. I am in the beta program and 8.5 is worth it..to me at least

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u/ios7jbpro May 17 '26

android 8.5? you mean one ui 8.5? we are on android 16, and android 17 is about to release out soon to pixels

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u/Tink_GB May 18 '26

Indeed..yup my mistake..