Hi,
Every now and then I glance at the forum to see if I can figure out when or if there will ever be an OTA upgrade for my Murena FairPhone 5. I can’t. It’s not that I am desperate, it’s just that the majority of compatible phones are on U Community, and as a Murena user, (T Official), I am starting to feel like I’ve been forgotten.
What’s happening?
For the sake of distinction and avoiding misunderstandings, an OTA update is a regular update your phone gets via the updater within the same Android version including those important security updates etc.
What you are waiting for is an OTA upgrade to a newer Android version via the updater, which has to be prepared with extra effort and testing by the development team per individual device and per single upgrade step, and thus takes extra time.
You can follow proceedings here …
You can manually install the U (or now A14) community build … /e/OS community FP5 download
You are absolutely right, I meant upgrade and not update.
I had previously seen the OTA Related Information which says, “To be planned”. This is why I started this thread because, “To be planned”, literally means that it is not planned yet but will be planned at some unidentified time in the future. Once it is planned I presume there will be a target date. Again, I’m not desperate or complaining, just wondering what’s happening because it all seems very vague.
In developing you usually set certain tasks to be tackled, depending on when you are to finish that task, you don’t start a different one. But from a pool of tasks you pick one you know you should do next.
Hope that makes sense for you and why it is how it is.
Probably not. From what is visible in the history of the weekly development and testing updates, the status of OTA upgrades could go from To be planned to Under development to Under Testing without an ETA. The ETA would then be added later when nearing completion.
Software development is not an exact science date-wise or deadline-wise. Development is finished when it’s finished. In my opinion any ETA is just being given out to the public because people outside of the development demand an ETA and feel better when they get one. It’s up to differing levels of luck then whether any ETA can be met, or not.
Every project with a deliverable I have been involved in has a timeline, even at the start, and it might go from a target year, to a target quarter to a target month to a target day as the project evolves. Yes there are concurrent projects, personnel and dependencies to factor in but that’s part and parcel of the project.
However, that’s not really what I’m commenting on. Again, not complaining but rather commenting on the vagueness of the information coming out of e/os with regard to the OTA upgrade for FP5.
Absolutely! Feeling good is what keeps the customer coming back. Feeling bad is what turns them away.
Indeed. Well this one is “to be planned”.
When we get these requests I wonder why the users choose stable then imply that they want “current”.