Rumours Sony TV's Marshmallow rollout may be beginning.

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Personally I think it needs to be taken with a Russian salt mine sized pinch of salt but rumours are starting to filter around that the much rumoured and often delayed rollout to Sony's Android TVs of Marshmallow may be beginning today.

see post 74 here:

https://community.sony.com/t5/4K-Ul...ugat-coming-to-2016-models/td-p/573432/page/8

There are other posts in other forums hinting the same thing but I can't link to them because of language and content.

Personally I think it's just more rubbish but we can only see and hope.

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Well there has definitely been an update released a friend is reporting there is a new firmware for his XD80 listed on the Sony support site today in the last hour, it's listed as version 6.0614, whether that is an update to Marshmallow he can't say until he gets home to install it.
 
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Yup, mine has an update available. Going slow ish so most be sizable.

Updated finished, now showing as PKG6.0614.0004EUA whatever that means!
 
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Although the rumor for 2015 models getting marshmallow is false and my mates an idiot as he has an XD85 not an XD80 so he was checking the wrong support page, I believe that XD70, XD75, XD80, XD83, SD80 & ZD9 have been on Marshmallow since September??
 
bemaniac said:
XD85 Marshmallow! :D Yay!
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Are you saying you've got the XD85 updated to Marshmallow currently? As I'm hearing conflicting reports that it's all more smoke and mirrors from Sony support and it is in fact non existent except for the small patch for the late 2016 models already on Android 6
 
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Are you saying you've got the XD85 updated to Marshmallow currently? As I'm hearing conflicting reports that it's all more smoke and mirrors from Sony support and it is in fact non existent except for the small patch for the late 2016 models already on Android 6
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No I want to get it when I get home. I'll keep an eye on the site for my tv though
 
I don't think it's going to happen, I suspect that Sony are refusing to admit that the MT5890 SoC with it's gimped Cortex-A17 is just not up to the job since the later 2016 models with the MT5891 which has a Cortex-A53 have Android 6 running Ok(-ish) now.
 
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I don't think it's going to happen, I suspect that Sony are refusing to admit that the MT5890 SoC with it's gimped Cortex-A17 is just not up to the job since the later 2016 models with the MT5891 which has a Cortex-A53 have Android 6 running Ok(-ish) now.
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Which TVs have MT5891 in them please?
 
Wow. None of those are going to be a swap option with Sony support if my replacement 8599 is still stuttering on rgb full range 4k inputs. They'll offer the XD83 but it's a downgrade really. They ought to bring out an XD9005 or something.
 
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That doesn't sound good, any chance you'll be bale to get a refund?
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Only really if Sony give a refund authorisation code to Currys support. Sony did say they would try same tv first then different tv but hell if I'm having a downgrade when I paid £1500 on release even though its £1100 now. £1500 right now would get me an X93 and I will stress that.
 
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Only really if Sony give a refund authorisation code to Currys support. Sony did say they would try same tv first then different tv but hell if I'm having a downgrade when I paid £1500 on release even though its £1100 now. £1500 right now would get me an X93 and I will stress that.
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Keep pushing them you have nothing to lose

budge1972 said:
Mine is updating right now (XD80),anyone know exactly what's included in the update?
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Just stability fixes apparently
 
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