[Update: Verizon, too] AT&T finally delivers Android 9 Pie to the 8-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab A (2018)

Earlier this year, Samsung shared its roadmap for updating its devices to Android 9 Pie. While it was able to keep its promise for the majority of Galaxy Tab A 2018 (T387AA) owners who received the update in June, customers who bought the device from ATT were sadly left out. The new OS version has finally arrived this week.

ATT’s support website says the Pie update started going out to users on Tuesday. Along with all the new goodies that come with Android 9, it also ups the security patch level to August 1 — a welcome jump considering the ATT version of the tablet only had the June patch before. The update details should look like this:

Release date: August 20, 2019
Android version: 9.0
Security patch level (SPL): August 1, 2019
Baseband version: T387AAUCS1BSG9
Build number: PPR1.180610.011.T387AAUCS1BSG9
File size: 1.14GB

With the global roll-out mostly completed, one should hope that all potential issues have been caught by now. ATT users should expect the update to hit their devices soon if it hasn’t already. It’s a bummer that carriers can delay updates for such a long time, but it’s better late than never.

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