{"id":678664,"date":"2026-06-01T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/678664\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T22:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:37:08","slug":"android-17-beta-4-1-update-surprises-pixels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/678664\/","title":{"rendered":"Android 17 Beta 4.1 Update Surprises Pixels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon, Google dropped a bit of a surprise update on its Pixel line-up. Android 17 Beta 4.1 was released as a minor update <a href=\"https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2026\/04\/16\/android-17-beta-4-arriving\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to April\u2019s Beta 4<\/a>, which Google said at the time would be the \u201clast scheduled beta\u201d of the cycle before things went stable. I guess they needed one last bug-fixer.<\/p>\n<p>The Android 17 Beta 4.1 update should be small, but is still available to the Pixel 6 up through the new Pixel 10 series devices. The Pixel 10a is still missing for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>As for what\u2019s new, Google shared 5 fixes and no new features. The new build information can be found below.<\/p>\n<p>Release dateJune 1, 2026BuildsCP21.260330.011Emulator supportx86 (64-bit), ARM (v8-A)Security patch level2026-05-05Google Play services26.11.36<\/p>\n<p>Android 17 Beta 4.1 bug fixes<\/p>\n<p>You can see the fixes included in this 4.1 update and it\u2019s mostly minor stuff. There\u2019s a fix for a status bar display issue, another for a Quick Settings bug, one for external display connections, and a couple more.<\/p>\n<p>An issue where the status bar incorrectly displayed zero signal bars despite active connectivity. (Issue #488358813)<\/p>\n<p>A UI synchronization issue where the mobile data Quick Settings icon remained active during Airplane mode. (Issue #501368569,\u00a0Issue #505757076,\u00a0Issue #512828669)<\/p>\n<p>An issue where external displays would go black when selecting high resolutions. (Issue #504952465)<\/p>\n<p>A Bluetooth audio routing issue that caused playback silence after system interruptions like timers. (Issue #497181008)<\/p>\n<p>An issue causing hearing aids to be automatically forgotten from paired devices after inactivity or charging. (Issue #504968772,\u00a0Issue #504395613,\u00a0Issue #493347800,\u00a0Issue #504696777)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m actually not sure how you\u2019ll get this update. If you are enrolled in the Android Beta Program still, you should be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2026\/05\/19\/android-17-qpr1-beta-3-is-here-for-pixel-phones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">receiving Android 17 QPR1 Beta builds<\/a>. However, you can manually flash (<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/about\/versions\/17\/download\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">factory images<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/about\/versions\/17\/download-ota\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OTAs<\/a>) this if you were for some reason still on Android 17 Beta 4.<\/p>\n<p>\/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/about\/versions\/17\/release-notes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android Developers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This afternoon, Google dropped a bit of a surprise update on its Pixel line-up. Android 17 Beta 4.1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":["post-678664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}