Samsung Galaxy S7 edge smartphone is on display at the Samsung booth during CES 2017 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 5, 2017 (Photo : Getty Images/Alex Wong )
Samsung has started seeding the latest Android Security patch on its older Galaxy handsets, namely the Galaxy J2 Prime and Galaxy Grand Neo.
The South Korean giant is slowly taking its security patches on its unpopular flagships. Now, the security suite rolls out on the Galaxy j2 Prime and Grand Neo (otherwise known as Grand Lite). The said update comes with fix for security issues and improvement on overall compatibility.
On another note, the firmware version of the security patch is named G532GDXU1AQA4 for the Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime and I9060CUBS0AQA1 for the Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo (Grand Lite).
According to Nashville Chatter, the Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime was released in November 2016, which features an Android 6.0 Marshmallow out-of-the-box. On the other hand, the Jelly Bean-powered Galaxy Grand Neo was dropped in the market in February 2014.
At launch, Galaxy Grand Neo features a Broadcom BCM23550 quad-core 1.2 GHz processor, coupled with 1 GB of RAM and two variants of internal storage, one, an 8 GB storage and other a 16GB of storage onboard.
On the other hand, the Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime features a MediaTek MT6737T four-core 1.4 GHz with 1.5 GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal storage.
For the Galaxy J2 Prime and Grand Neo users, the latest security patch could be viewed on the notification panel inside the phone's settings, mentioning about the Android security patch update. It can be viewed on the 'Settings' menu of the phone and 'Check for updates' manually.
Earlier, Samsung began its Android 7.0 Nougat upgrade on a slew of devices, including the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge. According to Neowin, the company has updated its list of device getting the Nougat firmware soon. The devices named are the Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 edge, Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy Tab A with S Pen, Galaxy Tab S2 (LTE Unlock), Galaxy A3, and Galaxy A8. The mentioned devices may receive the update by June.
Meanwhile, the Samsung S6 Edge+ has recently received its Nougat firmware update, in XXS3BQA7 version. The said update will come on S6 Edge+ users over-the-air (OTA), which will offer 67 fixes from Google and an additional 28 fixes from Samsung.
