WARNING: As time goes by, the downloaded updates will take up a lot of space on your storage space if you have not enabled the “Delete updates once installed” option in the “Preferences” of the update page. Feel free to delete them using TWRP:
In the TWRP main menu, click on “Advanced”.
Click on “File Manager”.
Go to data/lineageos_updates.
Click on the update file that you no longer need.
Click on “Delete” and confirm if necessary.
Et voilà ! You can now enjoy /e/ with the latest features and patches
For any question or remark, do not hesitate, this tutorial is intended to be precise to the word.
@Anonyme what if we don’t use Windows?
For me, Ubuntu os is the very best… @Anonyme Thank you for making the post!!!
Its no good to me (unless I switch) but I really appreciate the hard work you did!
Actually this tutorial can be done with Ubuntu easily, because I suppose Linux’s users know how to put a file in the internal storage of a phone without a screen
And for my other tutorial about how to install /e/ on a Samsung phone, yes Odin is only for Windows, but begginers have windows so I let Linux’s users find another way (like Wine maybe)
But of course, I agree, complete howto’s for each computer OS and all brands of phone would be better, that’s why everybody is invited to make good howto’s. It’s free, it takes juste a couple of hours and helps make /e/ a more user-friendly OS
Thanks! It worked just as you described with my J5! I am not stuck to the 0.6 version anymore! Also, I had to install the latest version of TWRP available for J5 in another repo than the official website as you indicated to me in another post. Thanks for helping the newbies like me!
This tutorial was great for learning how to install updates OTA but doesn’t explain how to put a smartphone in recovery mode to access TWRP to install updates using a computer or to delete unwanted update files.
J’ai découvert tout le travail de /e/ et je trouve ça génial !
Quelle connerie de mettre au rebut nos appareils qui sont encore en état simplement parce que la rom est obsolète !
Merci beaucoup pour ce tuto. Je vais réutiliser mon note 2 avec plaisir ! Bravo !
“It’s Lombard Street to a China orange”. It’s a fact that the devices are more vulnerable to security if they don’t get hardware dependent improvements from the manufacturers over the years.
But it’s thanks to “The LineageOS Project” and other custom ROM developers as well as /e/ OS that devices neglected and abandoned by the manufacturers can still be used with current operating systems.
Does the flashing process (“updating with a computer”) delete the user data?
What happens when I need to update a phone with multiple accounts / profiles?
Are user profiles deleted when upgrading the Android version, e.g. from pie to r or from q to r?
No, the whole of the /system partition is replaced. This has the benefit that /e/ version updates are not incremental, you can “jump” an /e/ version if you need / want to.
What happens when I need to update a phone with multiple accounts / profiles?
The phone returns to exactly how you left it as regards to all your personal content. It is always good to learn and practice backing up (just in case). I have never had loss of data with an /e/ version update.
It is a good idea before applying any update to check the 3 dot menu top right to see that you are getting the version you expect and that you are not (for some very unusual reason) being offered an Android version upgrade.
Are user profiles deleted when upgrading the Android version, e.g. from pie to r or from q to r?
You find you are nearly always required to delete the /data partition in the process of Android upgrade. Generally there are no entry level ways to back up the data partition and transfer across Android versions.
Where personal stuff is backed up on eCloud, this of course returns after an upgrade.
I find it best to research the best way to backup each app that is important to me and not covered by eCloud.
I’m trying to update e os on a Samsung S10. After downloading and installing, the phone reboots and opens e recovery. I have no idea what option to choose so to make the update stick: when I choose ‘reboot system now’, it reboots into e os, but the update has not been applied. Do I need to install TWRP to update e os?
So is this an Android version Upgrade you are attempting?
If yes which Android version are you changing from / to?
Official /e/ documentation does not include upgrade pages. Some more modern Samsung devices have required Format / wipe data for an upgrade. The LineageOS wiki for this device may include an Upgrade page which might indicate if this is advised.
in theory NO, e-recovery and TWRP can both do the job, regarding sideload the .ZIP, But regarding installing the already downloaded file, the e-recovery don’t have the feature in its user interface
The Phone in e-recovery choose “apply the update by ADB”, then on the PC run :
Thank you. When (after downloading (eOS 2.6.3…) and installing the eOS update and the phone rebooting) eRecovery starts (by itself, not me holding any button combo), it has an Apply Update option, but when i click it, a sub menu opens having 1 option: Update from ADB. I didn’t click it before, but did now, and it opens another submenu with only option Cancel.
So ‘simply “apply the update”’ seems no option for me with eRecovery?
Do i need to go through all kinds of hoops every time there is a new eOS-version?
I did find Update /e/OS software , but that last step doesn’t work for me currently (the phone actually committing the update).
