jb55
December 15, 2020, 10:52am
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Hello there!
I have Fairphone 3 with /e/ OS. Everything fine so far. Today i got my FP 3+ Camera module, which is not working after installing. Now I see that i still have Android 9 after installing all updates in phone settingsā¦
I think to get the camera work i need: /e/OS 0.13-q-2020120789006
Or is there another solution to get the camera run?
There is no OTA update from Pie to Q possible at the moment.
Be warned: this will delete all your data en settings!
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That question seems to be all over the place
Here are some rather official statements
Unfortunately at the moment we do not have a way to update the OS version without a complete wipe. We are working on modifying the updater to be able to upgrade OS ā¦it works on a S7 and if I remember the test was to update Nougat to Oreoā¦not sure there was much progress after that. The reason was essentially we did not want to mess up user devices with such a big change flowing out on all / more devices.
No. It is not possible at the moment to upgrade the OS through an OTA build on /e/OS.
Reasons as mentioned in the previous post are the Updater code needs modifications.
Are we working on this modification - Yes.
It there an ETA for this modification - Not at the moment.
As mentioned in previous postsā¦there is no OTA method to update the OS as of today. The default Updater throws an error when it detects a higher level OS . We had a developer work on modifying this and he was able to get it working for a Samsung device. That means for one particular model of Samsung we were able to upgrade the OS by sending the ROM OTA. The development stopped at this point mainly due to lack of resource and also because further development would require detail testing on multipā¦
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