Timeline for Is this Android phone Android 9.0 or Android 6.0?
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| Jul 17, 2019 at 19:17 | comment | added | Doktor J | I agree with IMSoP. While useful as a "quick check" this is far from foolproof (my old stock LG phone running 6.0 looks closer to the "9.0" screenshot than the "6.0" screenshot!). The process in Nzall's answer, while a bit more involved, provides much more concrete confirmation. | |
| Jul 17, 2019 at 16:36 | comment | added | IMSoP | While this is a useful quick check, it's worth noting that many builds of Android are heavily customised by OEMs (e.g. Samsung's "Touchwiz"). It would be perfectly possible to build a ROM based on Android 6 that looked very like your second screenshot, if someone was trying to pass off the phone as something that it wasn't. The system information in Nzall's answer seems a much better clue. | |
| Jul 17, 2019 at 12:16 | vote | accept | Steven Haggerty | ||
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| Jul 17, 2019 at 11:45 | comment | added | Grimoire | Interesting, concise answer. +1. | |
| Jul 17, 2019 at 11:34 | comment | added | emmalyx | Android 6 Marshmallow is not, in fact, still supported. Its last security update was released in August 2018. | |
| Jul 17, 2019 at 10:52 | comment | added | alecxs | It's a normal android you can use normal. android 6 is still supported official | |
| Jul 17, 2019 at 9:11 | comment | added | Steven Haggerty | Thanks all. Assuming I treat this phone as a BIO HAZARD and want to nuke it from orbit, is there a generic android 9.0 I can install? It appears 9.0 is only appearing for certain devices at the moment. I can put an axe through it, but it'd be nice to get some use from it! | |
| Jul 17, 2019 at 9:10 | comment | added | Andrew T.♦ |
@StevenHaggerty with root and build.prop, it's possible for anyone to fake the Android version (ref: MIUI forum)
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| Jul 17, 2019 at 8:51 | comment | added | Ferrybig | @StevenHaggerty Note that android 9 was released in August 6, 2018, and your screenshots show that your phone has the security patches from May, 2017, another sign that there was some tampering | |
| Jul 17, 2019 at 7:27 | comment | added | Qwertie | @StevenHaggerty Certainly possible and likely not very difficult. If you plan to continue to use this phone I would install a clean version of the OS on the device as you can't know what other changes have been made. Or try to get a refund. | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 20:38 | comment | added | Steven Haggerty | Thanks, looks like it's android 6.0 then. I guess the only thing that would give this kind of result is a tampered with version of android, made to show these results in About Phone? | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 20:24 | history | edited | Robert | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 16, 2019 at 19:50 | history | answered | H4ZE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |