changed as required
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Hi Manoj, can you estimate, when the 1.4.1 will come?
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I have not got an update as yet on this. Will check again on Monday and get back
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The 1.4 Version (e_FP3-userdebug 11 RQ3A.211001.001 eng.root.20220922.215721 dev-keys) works fine on my FP3
The correct folder structure should be visible on the stable and dev builds now.
The one build on which it is still pending is the FP3 Q dev build. Will try to get it out as part of the v1.4 or the next v1.5 which should be released in the week after next.
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https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP3/upgrade
Warning: Please note this upgrade build could not be tested as there were no device specific testers available. Some devices may need a revert to stock ROM prior to upgrade. To flash the stock ROM you would need to use a tool provided by your vendor. You may also need to download a recovery image built specifically for your device.****
Is this really true for FP3?
And also, in this guide it says sideloading work but that is not the case when you have a locked bootloader
The flash instructions are outdated as for the S dev (or other dev) builds.
The complete section “Installing /e/OS from the bootloader” refers to unzipping and starting “flash_FP3_factory.sh” but the latest dev builds contain the complete OTA which is just a payload.bin file.
So it needs to be flashed by sideloading and not via “flash_FP3_factory.sh”.
As I ran in some kind of a dead end with my FP3 Q dev build, now having to manually upgrade to R, I would suggest to add the following important information for all devices affected:
You can’t switch (or get switched by updates) from a certain dev build to its stable counterpart. OTA upgrades from one OS version to another are not available for dev builds. When development of updates for your dev build is discontinued, you will have to install a more up-to-date OS version manually.
The command line install instructions given at Install /e/OS on a Fairphone FP3/3+ - “FP3” are currently only valid for the stable install files, not for the dev install files.
The stable install files currently come in the format which installs partition images with fastboot, the command line install instructions cover this.
The dev install files currently come in the OTA format ready for use with ADB sideload in the recovery, the command line install instructions don’t reflect this at all as far as I see.
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Related to my previous post …
The instructions at /e/OS Version Upgrade for FP3 are currently only valid for the dev install files, not for the stable install files.
While the instructions according to their heading are supposed to upgrade to S, which is dev only currently, R stable downloads are also referenced there.
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the lack of up-to-date instructions is horrifying(!).
We’re not talking about any phone, but about the (kind of) flagship of /e/ - about FAIRPHONE that officially refers google-criticists to the murena website. Not that the instructions are remarkably better for other phones (even the ones that get supported by Easy Installer).
Since I reported that issue on Sep '22, there is still no solution except for the very recent Forum Post by AnotherElk, that could be converted into a simple and fast guide. you woldn’t even have to write anything new, since the recently referred upgrade instructions contain the same procedure…
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Woaw, that’s just frightening!
I spent two hours reading posts and I still don’t know REALLY how to update my FP3 Pie version to R with the appropriate documentation. The geeks world is amazing 
Did you manage the upgrade?
Hi.
Why do I need to manually upgrade the OS
The updater app does not support upgrades from one Android version to another. It will hide any update of a different version. We are working on resolving this issue. While this issue is resolved, users need to manually upgrade their OS. Upgrading manually requires similar steps to installing /e/OS for the first time.
This is outdated - at least for me.
The OTA upgrade from a stable 1.8.1-R to a stable 1.9-S just worked for me flawlessly.
I did not even expect it - except that the system-upgrade info box warned me, that the new Android 12 - based version … bla bla… please make a backup - etc.
I thought that the upgrade information would be a typo or not realizing correctly I still had an Android 11-based version.
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The wording from step 4 is confusing, it looks like this is a step one has to execute but no instruction how to do it because this how-to is explained in step 5. Maybe merge these two together to get a better understanding for the non-so-knowables like myself
Hi,
I followed the doc for installation on my FP3 :
https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP3/install
Once downloaded and unziped this :
IMG-e-1.10-s-20230412278810-stable-FP3.zip
I launched the script to wipe and install eos on my phone :
chmod +x flash_FP3_factory.sh && ./flash_FP3_factory.sh
I got the following error:
error: cannot load ‘…/IMG-e-1.10-s-20230412278810-stable-FP3/tz.img’: No such file or directory
Editing the script and checking, I see that there are two files missing in the zip built:
flash_image_ab_or_abort “${sn}” tz “${IMAGES_DIR}/tz.img”
flash_image_ab_or_abort “${sn}” vendor “${IMAGES_DIR}/vendor.img”
Can you help ?
My mistake, sorry : the downloaded file was corrupted.
Yes @fab, I eventually understood how to do and used easyinstaller. Some steps were not working exactly as expected but the process succeeded. Now I have version 1.8.1 R and most things work fine.
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That’s cool. So now you know how to upgrade to 1.10 stable! 
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Yes! I have done it two days ago. It was just easy and fast!
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