I’m using /e/ on a GS290. It is running version 1.10-20230406280390 and I never get an update proposed though I think I’ve read a GS290 user had received an update in october.
I’ve had this phone since februari 2021 and didn’t have issues updating the system after I got a notification that an update was available. But since february I got no update notification.
When I manually trigger a check for a newer version I get the message “You are running the lastest version”… What’s going on?
Thanks @AnotherElk and @Manoj .
I’m indeed running a dev build. I’d rather switch to a stable build to have all future OTA updates proposed automatically.
However I have an error raised with the easy-installer installed as a snap on Ubuntu 22.04:
$ easy-installer
/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
X Error: BadAlloc
Request Major code 149 ()
Request Minor code 2
Error Serial #39
Current Serial #40
For clarity’s sake: On dev you get the usual regular updates via the updater while staying on the same major Android version … until the update support moves on to the next major Android version, which happened on your device (twice since the /e/OS version you are running). As @Manoj pointed out already …
On stable, the developers may additionally prepare upgrades via the updater (“OTA” - over the air) from one major Android version to the next for select devices and select Android version jumps (it’s complicated and takes considerable effort), so this possibility is what you would gain with stable. But there’s no guarantee your device will get any further Android version upgrades offered by the updater after the ones already there or in testing currently.
You can follow proceedings here … https://community.e.foundation/tag/development-updates … section “OS OTA upgrades” in the posts respectively.
I’ve looked further and I have an AMD CPU which seems to be an usual culprit with snaps as linked by @aibd. Seems the snap published uses the snap Core18, and an advice somewhere was to go to Core20. So to avoid this it seems the easy-installer snap would need to be updated.
