Funny behaviour for the OTA notifications

Using /e/OS Settings
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I have noticed something very weird happening, the last 3 consecutive /e/OS OTA updates (the update to 2.9, the update to 3.0.1, and the update to 3.0.4) - I get two identical “new updates” notifications. The first time they were 1 day apart, but last time and this time, both appeared at the same time.

One of these notifications is linked to my settings-> Updater menu. If I click on the other one, it shows the same updater page, but if I complete the download and then exit that page before initiating the install, when i go back to my settings->updater page, it shows I have a new update which I haven’t downloaded yet (I have no idea where the other download is going).

The actual OTA process works as expected, if I download the update from my settings-> updater menu.

Too bad I cannot attach pictures to this thread, as I took a screenshot.

Has anybody encountered anything similar?

Phone: Samsung Galaxy S10+
Not rooted
Current /e/OS 3.0.1 T community (have not initiated the update yet)

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On the basis that the Updater seems to quite often need Clear storage when it does not work properly in delivering an update, perhaps try

Settings > Apps and notifications > See all … apps > 3 dot menu top right > Show system > Updater > Storage & cache > Clear storage

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I only had 16MB in storage and just a few KB in cache.

As soon as I cleared the cache, one of the notifications disappeared and my settings->updater needed a new “check for updates” to re-detect that there was an update available.

So the other notification is linked to some sort of bogus/ghost Updater app instance…

… or is it possible the other notification is linked to the Updater app inside my work profile? this is one thing I haven’t checked…

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(you should be able to attach images to posts?)

you didn’t enable the test ota server in dev mode?

all I can see for the beyond2lte regular ota api answer (or most devices in dev / community) is the top entry having a epoch timestamp in “incremental” where you’d find a build string (think “eng.root.20250608.214822”). I speculate it finds 2 possible updates (one being A15), hides 1. There is an option in the updater preferences menu to “show all available updates”, maybe you see it then?

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The second notification seems to be linked to the “updater” app from the work profile. Once I cleared the storage and cache on the work profile app, the second notification disappeared too.

Would be interesting to try and see what happens if i try to install an OTA update from inside the work profile :slight_smile:

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