Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3 is live now as a quarterly platform release (QPR) beta and is rolling out to Pixel devices.
When any major OS update launched by the company, it operates on a quarterly release schedule. As major OS update, Android 15, has been launched by the Google, it will follow up that release with a QPR1, QPR2, and QPR3 update. And, it will launch multiple beta versions before moving to the next QPR.
Which devices are eligible for Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3 ?
The devices which are eligible to get Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3 are-
- Pixel 6
- Pixel 6 Pro
- Pixel 6a
- Pixel 7
- Pixel 7 Pro
- Pixel 7a
- Pixel 8
- Pixel 8 Pro
- Pixel 8a
- Pixel 9
- Pixel 9 Pro
- Pixel 9 Pro XL
- Pixel 9 Pro Fold
- Pixel Fold
- Pixel Tablet
What’s new in Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3?
Third beta has been released to come out for QPR1 by Google. According to the release notes, a variety of known issues has been fixed by this new beta. Theses fixes includes-
Developer- and user-reported issues
- An issue causes notifications to be displayed sometimes with content that was cut off has been fixed.
- An issue fixed with system memory paging causing devices to crash and restart sometimes.
- An issue in which volume buttons didn’t work when connected to certain Bluetooth devices has been fixed.
- An issue fixed where some app icons on the home screen were displaying the default system icon instead of the app’s icon.
- An issue that caused a device to run slowly and sometimes crash when switching back to the primary user from the secondary user has been fixed.
- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the system UI to crash.
- An issue of foldable devices has been fixed where the screen sometimes went blank when unfolding the device.
Other resolved issues:
- An issue has been fixed that sometimes caused the system to crash while taking a bug report.
- an issue that sometimes prevented users from interacting with heads-up notifications has been fixed.
- Various other issues that were impacting system stability, connectivity, and interactivity has also been fixed.
Resolved issues related to Bluetooth:
- LE Audio volume control has been improved by enabling independent adjustment of each connected sink’s volume using the UI and limiting volume key adjustments to the primary sink.
- A crash has been fixed in BluetoothDevice.getType( ) that occurred primarily in the testing environment when Bluetooth resources were reused between virtual device instances.
Some of the other updates that can be seen in Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3 are-
Pixel 9: Thicker status bar
With Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3, the height on the status bar everywhere has been increased by Google.
There is a large front-facing camera cutout on Pixel 9 Pro, and the status bar has been made taller by new beta update to account for that.
Themed icon tweaks:
Themed icons have a lighter background in a dark theme. And the actual icon at the center is lighter in light theme.
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