Feedback for v1.20

/e/OS Smartphone Operating System Build Feedback
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What a lovely spring clean!
It’s a great start to the new year.
My update went smoothly and quickly. I made sure that the screen didn’t go dark during the installation (standby?). I had the impression that this made it run faster than when the screen was dark.
Thanks for the great work. redfin

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Indeed I still wonder why this isn’t automatic be done before an OTA update starts. Nobody needs an update time of more than a whole hour.

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I would wonder how much more battery the quick way (keeping the screen on) would really use, if any, before making this the default way.
But then again I wouldn’t want to invest the odd hour and change to find out :slight_smile: .

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The only thing needed would be a checkbox on the update page, “let the screen on”. Then the user could test this and decide himself. A rather simple thing.

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Thank you for taking up my suggestion. It is indeed surprising from the user’s point of view. An options popup should appear before the installation, with the recommendation to temporarily suspend standby during the update. This should certainly be a useful enhancement suggestion for the wish list here in the forum. Thanks.

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Dear all,
I can confirm the exact same behaviour for my Fairphone 5. It looks like bricked :zap: (I did not test to connect it to a computer as @kipo did though).
Please provide help !

I liked /e/OS until yesterday evening after I hit “Reboot” and then could only see a black screen and think that I might have been too much confident in Murena and /e/OS developers.

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Found out and updated manually Mi 11 Lite 5 NE (lisa) from 1.19.1-s to 1.20-t.
All working well. Thanks team! Nice thing I found out in /e/OS 1.20-t is capability to charge my phone to desired percentage - nice :slight_smile:

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please does a power-user interested in Fairphone can investigate on How to unbrick the FP5 and share his found on this forum.
thanks in advance…

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Would be great if they implement that also for the FP5, still missing there :confused:

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So, my Fairphone 4 sucks the battery within 4-8 hours…

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/e/OS supports 5 different Fairphones right now … 2/3/3+/4/5.
And /e/OS is available as dev as well as stable for most of them.

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  • Vendor Name: Fairphone
  • Device name: Fairphone 4
  • Device CodeName: FP4
  • Previous Version of /e/OS: 1.19.1-s (stable)
  • Rooted: False

Since v1.20 it’s no longer possible to download Apps from AppLounge, when using a USB-C- Lan-Connector. It now says: No connection

At home my Family and I don’t use wifi. I only use my Fairphone with a LAN-Adaptor and so fare it worked well. Would be great, if the AppLounge worked again in 1.21.

Thanks, for all your hard work.

Cheers Marc

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  • Vendor Name: Google

  • Device name: Pixel 7a

  • Device CodeName: lynx

  • Previous Version : stock ROM

  • Rooted: False

Hi everyone,
So with v1.20 the Pixel 7a (lynx) is now supported, thanks a lot to the team !
However, I had some difficulties to achieve the installation, since the e-recovery image provided doesn’t work (and Lineage recovery does but won’t install /e/OS), and the additionnal partition files are missing…
I would have suggested improvements in documentation but the topic doesn’t exists yet in the wiki section (@Manoj ?)
So if someone wants to install 1.20 on a Pixel 7a (lynx) device, I managed to do it by downloading the /e/OS 1.20 zip file provided in the installation instructions, then use the payload-dumper-go tool (see here) to extract from the the zip file all the .img files needed to flash the various partitions AND the recovery.
Using those files in the same way as described in the install proc finally worked !

Now, the phones seems to work great, even tho I haven’t used it for long at the moment.
Thanks again !

And one final question, I see that it is possible to relock the bootloader for Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, but I can’t manage to find a solution to do it on the Pixel 7a. Does someone know if it could be possible ?

Thank you,

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Vendor Name: Fairphone
Device name: Fairphone 5
Device CodeName: FP5
Previous Version of /e/OS: 1.19.1-s
Rooted: False

Working fine apart from now having a persistent ‘cloud storage full’ notification meaning i cant sync things despite only using 656.8 MB of 1GB storage.

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Realising i also had this issue when updating also on fp5

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The documentation suggestion page for the list of devices added is to be published. Should be released early next week.

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I have the same ecloud problem. Yesterday the ecloud was supposedly empty, today it says it is too full and I get warning notifications. I only have 500MB used though. Surely a more general issue. @Manoj do you have any information about it by chance?

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Oh just saw this thread

https://community.e.foundation/t/e-os-drive-cloud-is-full-not-true/

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  • Vendor Xiaomi
  • Device Mi 11 Lite 5G NE Lisa
  • Version of /e/OS e-1.19.1-s-20240112372761 to e-1.20-t-20240222382228
  • the device not rooted

Everything went well and working ok except for the fact that I had to do it manualy

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Hi dexic, i suggest having a look at the akku usage page in settings to check if an app uses unusual amounts of battery.
For my FP4 I noticed that advanced privacy consumes some more than before v1.20 but its still tolerable to me.
HTH

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