Thanks to the /e/OS team for another update that went flawlessly on my FP4 stable! Waiting to see what will happen with the battery drain issue my wife and other users experience on their device.
Also curious about version 0.2.28 of microG which seems to entirely rethink the location approach, since this aspect has not clearly been discussed or announced in v1.12 (just a link towards microG github but I’m not experienced enough to understand the implications of what they have done). Hopefully this has been tested previously.
The new location stack does not support UnifiedNlp modules anymore. This was a step necessary to take to get locations properly working on latest Android versions. This means that some features previously available through UnifiedNlp modules do no longer exist. The goal is to merge the most important of those features into GmsCore. For now, the new locations stack is relying exclusively on Mozilla Location Service for network based location.
There is further discussion here. So if you like how your location works or Mozilla isn’t accurate for yourself, this is a release that will be worth NOT updating to until such time as some more, better, backends are utilised.
There is chat here from ‘mar-v-in’ about where ‘GmsCore’ is hoped to go.
Fairphone | FP3+ | FP3 | previously on /e/OS 1.11-s-20230511288805-dev-FP3 | not rooted
Update worked well. Total time including download, preparation time and restart about 1 hour. Longer than the other times, but fine, because it works in the background.
Everything working fine, banking app, discreet launcher, app lounge which just has given three updates.
Thank you a lot, it is a great work to have an update every month.
Vendor Name: Samsung
Device name: Samsung S9 SM-G960F
Device CodeName: starlte
Version of /e/OS or Stock which existed previously: 1.11-20230514289715-dev-starlte
Is the device Rooted / Not rooted: Not rooted
Just update to 1.12.3-q-20230620301517-dev-starlte and everything work perfectly
Well done /e/ team !!!
OK for my S9+ (Samsung S9+ SM-G965F (purchased in /e/-shop) not rooted).
updated from 1.11
There is no icons reorganization.
I’m testing if the battery drain is still present.
Only the Seek app (INaturalist) does not work correctly because of the new version of microG (ref).
S9 SM-G960F: updated fine in about 10 minutes time
Pixel 5 redfin: Took more than 1 hour to update (went to bed waiting…).
This is the second update where the Pixel 5 took an extraordinary amount of time to update. There is obviously a problem. If this is “normal”, then the update process should explicitly state that it will take this long, as this is not something that you should do if you need access to your phone.
I was a bit hasty in my last message when I said that I hadn’t noticed any problems after the update.
Since the update and more and more often, the screen moves by itself, as if someone was touching the screen.
Most of the time it’s a change of page from left to right, sometimes the status bar menu decends and sometimes it launches applications by itself.
Is this really related to the update ?
I don’t know, but it’s becoming a serious handicap as it happens more and more often.
Turning the screen off and on again sometimes stops this behavior, otherwise you have to restart the phone, but it always comes back.
Vendor Name: Fairphone
Device name: FP3
Device CodeName:
Version of /e/OS or Stock which existed previously: /e/OS 1.11 (stable)
Not rooted
Unfortunately, the location still isn’t working. After walking about 1.5 km to work and now being inside a building, the location in Magic Earth jumps around within a radius of 9 km. With version system 1.11, I was able to get good localization results by deactivating the Mozilla Location Service and installing the Local NLP Backend, but this is a setback. The Local NLP Backend also seems to not be activatable under 1.12.3. The location in the Here WeGo app continues to work accurately within 5-10 meters.
Vendor Name: OnePlus
Device name: OnePlus 6
Device CodeName: enchilada
Version of /e/OS or Stock which existed previously: 1.10 S
Is the device Rooted / Not rooted: Rooted
The update went smoothly. The battery drain issue caused by media storage is gone.
Settings app kept closing after update. I had to factory reset (using TWRP - not possible using Settings because Settings app kept closing…)
Vendor Name: Sony
Device name: Xperia XZ1 Compact
Device CodeName: lilac
Version of /e/OS or Stock which existed previously" e-1.11-q
Is the device Rooted / Not rooted: Not rooted
When I received the Update notification, I downloaded it, exported it, copied the update to my laptop, then installed the update. After the reboot, the message 'Settings app keeps closing` appeared. Selection ‘App info’ of course tried to open Settings which of course crashed. I was not able to clear storage because that needs Settigs to work. So I had to factory reset using TWRP, lsing all my user-installed apps and data.
