Upgrade from /e S to /e T

/e/OS Devices Motorola
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Hi

I am upgrading(at last)on a G7 river. Can’t the details from settings for you as the the phone is now stuck in /e recovery.

The upgrade is to e-1.16-t-20231019342574-dev-river.zip from e-1.17-s-20231113351092-dev-river.zip.

I understood that no data format is necessary with this upgrade and I flashed the /e recovery to make sideloading easier(TWRP won’t work anyway for sideloading).

Anyway connecting through the recovery mode for sideloading is working and the upgrade proceeds to the usual 47% giving me Total xfer: 1.00x when finished. However in the recovery bt left I get 0 failure.

In recovery the active partition is B. I think that should be A. I this the reason for failing? What else could this be?

Thanks

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Which /e/ recovery did you flash?

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to > e-1.16-t-20231019342574-dev-river.zip 
from e-1.17-s-20231113351092-dev-river.zip.

While the Android version is upgrade, the /e/OS version is a downdate.

A downdate will often fail, usually with an error message.

Generally there is no good reason to install anything but the latest, so I would be inclined to flash
recovery-e-1.21-t-20240325389105-dev-river.img
followed by
e-1.21-t-20240325389105-dev-river.zip

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Thanks for that

Apologies for the error. I’m upgrading from /e S to /e T. I decided to go to the lower 1.16 T to begin. The recovery is same 1.16

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Incidentally when I say I’m stuck in recovery it’s just that. When I reboot the system returns me to recovery

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  • try to Install a more recent build, i mean latest /e/OS-T

or

  • try to perform a factory-reset

or

  • flash latest recovery-e
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Understood; you should however still be able to boot to fastboot in order to flash e-recovery.

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Yep you’re right I can do that. But any attempt to boot /e resulted in a return to recovery.

Anyway I’ve upgraded to recovery-e-1.21-t-20240325389105-dev-river.img and installed e-1.21-t-20240325389105-dev-river.zip.

Once again adb returns Total xfer: 1.00x

Recovery returns Install completed with status 0 and yet this time it works! I now have Android 13. It wouldn’t boot with e-1.16-t.

How is that?

thanks to all