I love my BV8000 Pro, the hardware including the screen is great and the Android 7 with the BlackView launcher is the nicest variant I've ever encountered. However, there's one thing that is severely lacking, and that is security.

Not too long ago my BV8k Pro got an OTA update to BV8000Pro-Blackview-V01_20170803_20180522-1555. What is shocking is that this version is still on a security patch level of Jul 2017, which means my phone is vulnerable to a wide range of bugs and exploits, some of the highly critical, that have been fixed in the subsequent monthly security rollups available from Google.

As good as the phone otherwise is, the lack of security updates means anyone who puts personal information or credit card data on a BV8000 Pro is at risk.

For BlackView, the sloppiness when it comes to security means you're putting all your hard work at risk. Besides, it shouldn't be difficult to include the latest set of security updates when you create a new firmware image.

Besides, it wouldn't hurt if BV firmware updates would be based on the latest subversion instead of the core version. For Android 7 this would be 7.1.2 I believe.

Hi there! For security updates, please refer to this already existing thread:

viewtopic.php?f=191&t=338198&start=10

If you are interested, you can download the Android 8.0 firmware. Follow this links:
viewtopic.php?f=192&t=213272
viewtopic.php?f=192&t=436084
viewforum.php?f=224