How will /e/ update from Android Oreo to Pie work?

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Hi @dln949 do you have a phone with /e/ on it now ? If yes dont you get OTA update notifications on it. For standard same OS updates we have OTA updates.
This is an OS change …from oreo or nougat to Pie. For that update while testing we found that certain devices for e.g Xiaomi phones do not work with a simple OTA update. There was functionality which did not work. So the best option was to revert to latest Pie stock and then flash the /e/ Pie on it as there were firmware changes which were not get through on the OTA builds. The same problem is there on Lineage Os updates as well i believe i.e. update from 15.1 to 16.0 do not work perfectly.
Not a perfect solution but the only one we have at the moment. If any one of the users can come out with a tested method of updating or building a OS update ROM we would love to hear about it.

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Currently I have /e/ on a Motorola Moto G3. Currently I do get OTA notifications for updates. But, I don’t know if I will get them for an OS change, like from nougat to pie. How do I know if the normal OTA update process for that kind of update will work on my phone, or if I’ll need to do something different? (The device is currently Android 7.1.2.)

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All OS change will be preceded by an announcement on our Telegram channels + this Forum . The announcement had details of the page on wiki from where you can get the ROM to download along with instructions on how to flash them.
If your device is on nougat first you could check if it has Pie builds on Lineage. If it has a Pie build you can request for a OS upgrade here. The more the users request for the build the better the chances.

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Sorry, I’m still struggling.

Please tell me if I’m understanding all this correctly, Currently, the process is like this:

  1. I need to monitor this forum and/or Telegram to know if there is an OS change.
  2. If there is such a change, then I need to look on LineageOS to see if the new OS exists for my device.
  3. If LineageOS supports the new OS on my device, I need to figure out the correct method for my device to upgrade /e/ to support that new OS.

Do I have this right?

If I have this right, how can I tell on the LineageOS site if the new OS supports my device? For example, for the Pixel XL https://download.lineageos.org/marlin, it says that the latest LineageOS version is 16.0. But, how do I know if that is nougat or pie or whatever???

Also, where will I find the instructions unique to my device for the method to upgrade /e/ to a new OS, assuming that LineageOS supports the new OS on my device - that is, whether or not an OTA process will work?

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how do I know if that is nougat or pie or whatever?

Just duck it:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lineageos+version+history&t=canonical&ia=web
and take a look at the first hit, wikipedia, more specifically, the Version History part of the Wikipedia entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LineageOS#Version_history
Spoiler alert, 16 is Pie.
Good luck

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On e you can see it on the version.
V1-n… = nougat
V1-o… = oreo
V1-p…= pie

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There is no OTA for MAJOR upgrades (nougat -> oreo -> pie), OTA are only for minor updates (bug fixes, minor improvements,…).

To upgrade from oreo to pie you need :

  1. To check if /e/ has been builded under pie for your device (if there is a e-pie build for your phone). If there’s no pie build available for /e/ but there’s one for Lineage, you can request dev team to build a pie /e/ ROM.

  2. Depending of your devices :

  • You’ll have to flash the pie /e/ version over your oreo /e/ version. ( /e/ oreo -> /e/ pie )

  • On some phones like Xiaomi’s ones, you’ll have to flash MIUI pie over your /e/ oreo then flash /e/ pie. ( /e/ oreo -> MIUI pie -> /e/ pie )

Is that clearer ?

PS : MIUI is the default android-based software when you buy a Xiaomi phone,… This can also be EMUI for Huawei phones, ColorOS for Oppo and Realme, or Samsung’s ROM. I mean the ROM shipped with your phone.

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