Hello,
I have a Fairphone 4 with /e/OS 1.18 based on Android 12 and as of today I have two OS updates available on the phone: version 1.19 and version 1.20.
My question is about how the OS updates work and what might be a good practice to follow in terms of OS updates.
In case I’d want to update, should I install both the updates (1.19 followed by 1.20) or could I only install 1.20 knowing that the changes of 1.19 are also part of 1.20?
I tried searching this forum (and also forum.fairphone.com) but didn’t find my answer, could anyone shed some light and/or point me to the eventual relevant documentation?
Yes it is a stable version: 1.18-s-20231207360611-stable-FP4
Going back to my situation, did I understood correctly your “every update is a full ROM, they are not incremental” that I won’t miss anything by, for instance, skipping 1.19 and going directly to 1.20?
Not that I want to do it, I’d simply like to understand how updates work.
Yes, you can go direct to latest even comming from a very old version… (even 0.23 if vendor parts are unchanged)
Generally latest is the best, even you can install the one you want as
It contire and will replace the entire content of /system partitions,
(when user activity result, will stay untouched on /data partition)
Unfortunately they are a bit too technical and since I am not used to these terms they are not fully clear to me.
I am still not able to understand if I will miss something important (for the /system partitions of my phone or elsewhere) by, for instance, skipping 1.19 and going directly to 1.20.
So 1.18-s → 1.19.1-s → 1.20-s are what I called simple updates (my use of simple has no real meaning other than uncomplicated). However 1.19-s looks like it was withdrawn.
Because of /e/'s close working relationship with Fairphone updates may in addition contain “vendor parts” which can be kept up to date with Fairphone development.
Yes you made it more complex but I also got the answer to my question and, more importantly, your feedback and Piero’s one adds context and helps me in slowly expanding my view and in starting to get used to /e/OS and FP4 which are both brand new to me.
On top of this there is the fact that I am not particularly tech savvy for smartphones and their OSs: before the FP4 I always had a normal (not smart) cell phone.