Galaxy S8 Oreo Beta apps and features port – Samsung Experience 9.0 apps

Samsung is currently rolling out official Android 8.0 Oreo Beta for some of its latest devices including the Galaxy S8 and S8+. This comes under Samsung’s Beta program and is only available for users in the United States associated with network carriers like T-Mobile, Sprint, unlocked and also in the United Kingdom with unlocked S8 SM-G950F. However, there are only limited slots available; for about 5000 members. Users from other countries or regions can’t enroll. Tn order to solve this problem, we have listed new apps and features port from Samsung’s Oreo Beta program for other Galaxy device running Nougat or later.

Samsung Experience 9.0 apps and features port from Galaxy S8+ Android 8.0 Oreo Beta

The Galaxy S8 8.0 Oreo apps consists of the latest TouchWiz Home 9.0 application. The new Oreo UX from the manufacturer is called Samsung Experience 9.0. So you get all the SE 9.0 stock apps and features ported to many Samsung phones. Download Oreo apps like TouchWiz Home 9.0, Bixby Home, Samsung Internet, stock Galaxy apps. Whereas, you also get feature ports like new Oreo fonts, new Samsung Emojis, and much more.

Following we have listed Samsung’s Android 8.0 Oreo based stock apps and features port for all Galaxy devices running Nougat or above. Download Samsung Experience 9.0 apps and features.

List of Samsung device running Nougat:

• Galaxy S7(Edge)
• Galaxy S6 (Edge) (Plus)
• Note 8
• Note 5
• Galaxy J5 & J7
• Galaxy A5 & A7

How to install latest TouchWiz Home 9.0 app from Samsung Experience 9.0 Oreo Beta?

The following instructions will show you how to setup stock apps into Nougat based Samsung stock firmware updates. The following apps are directly extracted from Samsung’s Oreo Beta. Hence, they are not TWRP flashable zips, and neither can they be installed directly as normal APK. For this to work, you will need to find the location of the particular app or package and replace it with new Oreo Beta package. You will also need to set proper permissions.

For instance, we are going to replace the TouchWiz 8.1 to TouchWiz Home 9.0. You may need root access to get to the packages.

• Download and copy the new TouchWiz Home 9.0 app to phone’s internal storage.
• Open a file manager app like ES File Explorer.
• Go to storage or SD Card section. Go to root directory where you will find the system folder.
• Go to system/priv-app/TouchWizHome folder.
• Backup the APK file you see in there. That means create a copy of the original app before you proceed.
• Copy the new “TouchWizHome_2017.APK” and paste it or replace it with the older TouchWizHome APK from system/priv-app.
• Now correct permissions or else the app won’t work. Go to properties of the app and change permissions to rw-r-r (0644) and reboot
• Reboot the device once.

For correct permissions image visit: How to port S7 apps to S6.

If your device enters bootloop or the home app crashes, simply replace the old TouchWiz Home and set correct permissions.

You may also try to wipe cache & dalvik cache from stock recovery. As a last resort, simply restore Samsung device to stock.

S8 Oreo Beta Bixby Home:

The new Bixby Home has also been updated.

Download new Bixby Home from Samsung Experience 9.0

For installation, go to system/priv-app/Bixby and replace app. Set correct permissions as listed above. Reboot the device.

S8 Oreo Beta Samsung Internet:

The new Samsung Internet app brings new features with the S8 Oreo Beta.

Download new Samsung Internet 7.0 from Samsung Experience 9.0

For installation, go to system/priv-app/ and replace app. Set correct permissions as listed above. Reboot the device.

S8 Oreo Beta Samsung Connect:

The new Samsung Connect app brings new features with the S8 Oreo Beta.

Download new Samsung Connect from Samsung Experience 9.0

For installation, go to system/priv-app/ and replace app. Set correct permissions as listed above. Reboot the device.

S8 Oreo Beta Galaxy Apps:

The new Samsung Galaxy app is also updated with new features with S8 Oreo Beta.

Download Galaxy Apps from Samsung Experience 9.0

For installation, see the above tutorial. Extract the zip file, go to system/priv-app/, and replace the app. Set correct permissions as listed above. Reboot the device.

How to install Samsung Galaxy S8 Oreo Beta Fonts?

• Extract new S8 Oreo fonts zip.
• Copy all the new “.ttf” files to system/fonts.set
• Set correct permissions.
• Reboot to system.

Download Samsung Experience 9.0 new Emoji from S8 Oreo Beta

The new Galaxy S8 Beta ROM comes with a new and improved set of Emoji. The package is listed below. You will need to go through the above procedure. However, you may not always find the Emoji package in system/priv-apps. You will need to find the package and replace it.

Download Samsung Oreo Beta Emoji.

Once you get used to replacing apps, and settings correct permissions, you can improvise and use a similar method for other apps or packages like music, video player, etc. Follow and share us on social media. Comment down below if you have any queries.