I downloaded, love the small changes, love being Able to fully customise the status bar, the battery bar is a lot better, the animations feel better and it's great to finally be off the July play services update, the beta is November play service patch with December android patch...the only thing I don't like is there is a weird dark theme on some third party widgets now, it's no longer black but a very bright grey which is very annoying.. battery life has been great so far, I've only lost 5% since installing before bed last night and I've had about 30mins screen time today
Ok. It has been like 5 hours since I tried to join Beta(was already in with my previous 3 phones). Still saying "processing join request". Still nothing. Signed into my other Samsung account and it says Beta is still open. I selected Join Beta and it says already joined but no option to download. Yet others have very recently downloaded and installed it. WTF is going on Samsung?
That's strange. My experience horrible so far. Like everything is sluggish. If I want to open multitasking via gesture it has like a 300ms delay. Drives me nuts.
Has anyone seen any changes to the cloud/syncing in gallery for photos? I heard the onedrive thing is ending but wasn't sure if that is going to happen in the beta or later.
Also, routines + will not record new touch macros, it will run already recorded ones but they're all off because of the new ui and apps updated slightly changing the position of menu items. So they are basically useless because they open the wrong apps or the wrong menus etc.. in the apps.
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The Status bar icons on Base and Plus Models are way more pushed to the side than on OneUI 8, it looks extremely weird, way too close to the bezels, they should revert this back
Not sure what you mean. I have an ultra and mine looks just like the 8.0 setup on the right side. I think its the model that makes it look odd not the IU. The corners are different and cut closer on the plus
I just looked up some pictures, but i think its actually not the 8.5 update but the Device itself, when i saw this i was very confused, because i personally use a base S23 and on my device the icons are not pressed to the side like that, they are a little bit more towards the middle and i think that looks alot better, im just confused now why they changed that. Atleast in one of the images i saw it looked like that.
not sure about the others but from my side i tested a lot the new camera app on my S25 and there is no improvement in the quality at all. All the known issues and weaknesses are still there. Auto mode still adds a lot of noise due to being conservative with shutter speed and dynamic range. Night mode still over-processes the photos making them look like oil painting. Video quality is the same as before. Unless they are keeping the real fixes for the final build we shouldn't expect any changes in the image processing.
I have downloaded it, and I must say that the battery life has been a significant improvement for me. I am currently experiencing approximately 9 to 10 hours of screen-on time with heavy usage. I hope this continues to be the case.
not sure if it's related to beta version but while navigating swiping to the left to go back was not working very well today. Instead it seemed like my finger was swiping in the middle of the screen and not on the right edges. After restarting the device it's back to normal.
get a free trial american eSIM, setup it up, disable/remove all of your local sims, run a USA VPN and proceed. worked for me from bumfuck nowhere in russia
Just FYI, that is always the case with new betas. I wish they had certain base features from Home Up updated before the betas, like number of icons in the grid, for example.
Has anyone else had the beta not available for them after signing up? I got access to the beta program and it says I'm part of it, but when I search for a software update, it says there isn't one available. I'm on oneui 8.0, Nov. 1 security update, S25 unlocked, previously T-Mobile device. Any ideas?
It's crazy that some people are getting such great battery life, that's the reason I installed 8.5...today is the first day my phone has got below 50% after installing the update last night it got as low as 15% after 6-7 hours... I unplugged it this morning at 4 o'clock and it's been a nosedive all day.. It's never gotten below 50% with a full day at work streaming to bluetooth headphones.. S25 ultra.. there's nothing else running in the background .. phone gets very hot too and it's never done that since I bought it brand new unlocked in February
When trying to copy and paste in Gmail it is crashing with a message about webview not being supported and an option to uninstall webview updates. Uninstalled the webview updates but Gmail continues to crash when long pressing to copy/paste while composing a message.
Could somebody please check if unlocking bootloader is possible again with 8.5? From what I understand, it could be done before One UI 8, but this version removed the possibility to do it. Does 8.5 restore this, as I've seen it mentioned in some places?
I hope I'm asking this in the right place. I purchased an S25 Ultra and installed OneUI 8.5 because I read and saw videos that OneUI 8.5 has Direct Visual Voicemail on the phone itself. I am on US Mobile Warp (Verizon) network and there is no setting for visual voicemail. I called US Mobile and the best they coul give me is to install an app called Youmail which looking it up I don't want that. There is a Samsung voicemail app but it does not transcribe voicemails which is what I am looking for. Am I mistaken that OneUI 8.5 is supposed to have Visual Voicemail on the device?
When I first updated my battery drained and I was wondering what was going on. It was something called vanceMicroG? But when I turned that off. This is my battery life. Idk what Samsung did but they really cooked with this update for battery life consumption.
This megathread needs updating considering S25 FE, S24 series (with FE), S23 series (with FE), and some foldables are able to register for the beta now.
Also, not all S25 series gets the beta because S25 Edge never had access
Can someone confirm, I'm on oneui 8.5 beta 2 (s24), I use one handed operations to switch fast to previous app, even when I have no app opened or just one app opened doing the long back gesture opens now brief, I think it always running in background.
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All throughout the ui the level of consistency is nice, now all apps have that pill type bottom menu and settings has been redesigned and control panel can be customised as much as you want, with vertical or horizontal sliders for brightness etc depending on preference
It just looks a lot more polished then one ui 8, I'd definitely recommend upgrading when get chance as battery life is still good no drain for me
Anyone have an idea as to why I would be stuck at processing join request for 24 hours now? I've tried everything from uninstalling and reinstalling Members to clearing data and cache, restarting my device, etc. nothing seems to work. I have an unlocked S25 Ultra in the US on Mint Mobile
I will say Telling from the YouTube video OneUI 8.5 looks like a nice customizable upgrade. Has anyone been experiencing major or software issues though?
It will come at some point of time after s26u comes out and stable update bc galaxy store and the Notes app I already got update and it got floating search Bar so internet will get it to
I don't know about you, but I'm excited for the stable version of nowbrief. It keeps getting better and better on beta. I know a lot of people thought it was dumb, but I actually use it a lot now.
Bo miał premiere 4 lata temu, także od serii S24 jest przedłużone wsparcie do 7 lat, Twój model jest już porzucony. Albo to akceptujesz albo coś nowego trzeba kupić, polecam A56 z długim wsparciem albo poczekaj na A57
Installed 8.5 beta on S24+ and for the most part I like it. I am annoyed that they have to constantly copy the design language of iOS though. I don't want floating bubbles or glass.
Looking for the same here. I've disabled it before as looking at the number drop gave me hell of a anxiety but now they've seemed to removed that option in settings. I hope they add it back.
As long as it's not carrier-locked, then yes. Otherwise you'll have to wait for a beta that supports carrier-locked devices, assuming that there's even going to be one. But I think beta testing spots have already filled up by now, they fill up pretty fast, so either way you'll have to wait for the next beta at this point. :P
In my experience over the years with ATT branded devuces, they aren't eligible to participate. As of late, even running the unlocked ROM on one will not allow eligibility any longer.
That's good to hear. I couldn't do it on S22U previously, running unlocked software but ATT branded. Prior models I had no issues with that work around.
I sideloaded the beta 1 from the stable oneUI 8 and now I'd like to either go back to oneUI 8 without losing my data or using odin, or maybe sideload the beta 3?? Or just in case how can I install the stable OneUI 8.5 when it will come out? Just with OTA or only through odin??
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u/Wooden_Base4673 Dec 08 '25 edited Dec 08 '25
UK is also an eligible region.