Pixel 4a: shift from S to T Community

[piero]

HI @MNNMTT, welcome to this Forum.

it will depend on your device model…

[HOWTO] Give complete /e/OS version info easily for support, answers, comparison etc

If you read just the start of this text because it gets cited in the forum: There are screenshots here, please have a look at them before assuming you know what this is about. Thank you! As they say, every hint has its history . Where were we? Ah, yes … You are running /e/OS on your device and want to give info about your version to get support, or a simple answer to a question, or anybody else to confirm whether they can observe the same behaviour you observe? Sure … Your device will …

Dirty upgrade to /e/OS-T is possible ! (But not for all devices)

The official documentation seems not accurate (inherited from previous versions), since the /e/OS-“T” build generation (like LineageOS 21) are expected to include the updated needed parts of the firmware. finally the sentence : “your device must be on latest android” (that leads in many case to lose /data by reinstalling full stock software ) now looks not mandatory, at minus on a device already running /e/OS “R” or “S” version. . @Leon If you reread attentively their post, none of them ha…

@Leon

After what I read I’ll have a try updating to dev-version from stable android R.
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I’ll get back to you here as soon as I find the time
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I can confirm that it worked!! Wonderful!!

@mihi

Here was my update from R stable to T dev with help from @aibd
[How-to] OnePlus 6 - Direct upgrade (dirty flash) of /e/ OS from Android 10 "Q" to Android 13 "T"