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Nearly 4-year-old Samsung Galaxy S6 gets January 2019 security update
Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge have received the Google security update from January 2019, even four years after its launch.
Samsung is gearing up to launch the Galaxy S10 series later this month. But amidst this pre-launch bustle and rampage in form of leaks, the company has not forgotten its older devices. The four-year-old Samsung Galaxy S6 is still being updated and it sure feels like an exception among the usual crowd of Android devices.
Get the Samsung Galaxy S9/S8/Note 8 Edge Screen feature on any Android phone
Samsung's Edge Screen feature from the Samsung Galaxy S9, Samsung Galaxy Note 8, and Samsung Galaxy S8 has been ported to any Android device.
Samsung introduced curved edge displays to their phone lineup starting with the Galaxy Note Edge, a phone that was sold in limited quantities. The Edge display became mainstream with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge in 2015. With the Samsung Galaxy S8, Samsung Galaxy Note 8, and Samsung Galaxy S9, every Samsung flagship device now has a curved display. The Edge display was also accompanied by the Edge Screen feature, which a developer has replicated to work on any Android device.
How a graphics driver bug on the Samsung Galaxy S6 leaked Google Chrome tab data
Ever wonder how security vulnerabilities are found? UK based firm GraphicsFuzz explains how they came across a graphics driver bug on the Samsung Galaxy S6 that they could exploit to see data from opened tabs in Google Chrome.
Back in late March, a U.K. based start-up firm specializing in testing GPU reliability approached us with a GPU bug they discovered that causes the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ to reboot when visiting a web page. The firm, called GraphicsFuzz, worked with us to report the issue to Qualcomm and Samsung. Some of our readers were interested in learning just how a company like GraphicsFuzz is able to find these vulnerabilities, so we collaborated with the company to showcase how they discovered an older GPU vulnerability. This already-patched vulnerability allowed an attacker to remotely "spy" on the contents of Google Chrome browser tabs on the Samsung Galaxy S6.
Official LineageOS 14.1 now available for the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
LineageOS 14.1 based on Android 7.1 Nougat has now been made official for the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. As the build is official, you can expect it to be stable with nearly everything working. Try it out!
LineageOS is by far the most popular custom ROM; we prefer not to compare ROMs because each has their own merit, however, we can say for sure that much of the popularity of LineageOS stems from its stability rather than its feature-set. When a build of LineageOS is marked "official", then you'll know that the ROM is stable and usually just works. That's why it's significant that the LineageOS 14.1 build for the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge has just been made official.