Upgrade Samsung Galaxy S10 5G from 1.19.1-s (A12) to 3.2-t

[TheKindOne]

hi team,

I’m trying to upgrade my partner’s Samsung Galaxy S10 5G from 1.19.1-s (Android 12) to 3.2-t (Android 13) and possibly even beyond without data loss.

I attempted the steps highlighted here:

Mettre Android eOS a niveau sur votre téléphone Ekimia libère le numérique

I restarted manually the phone into fastboot mode and then attempted the command line:

sudo ./fastboot flash boot recovery-e-3.2-t-20251026540684-community-beyondx.img

but I’m getting the error message:

Warning: skip copying boot image avb footer (boot partition size: 57671680, boot image size: 67633152).
Sending ‘boot’ (66048 KB) OKAY [ 1.791s]
Writing ‘boot’ FAILED (remote: ‘Value too large for defined data type’)
fastboot: error: Command failed

USB Debugging is on.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

[piero]

@TheKindOne

I’m trying to upgrade my partner’s Samsung Galaxy S10 5G from 1.19.1-s (Android 12) to 3.2-t (Android 13)

Why not latest e-3.2-a15 ?

@TheKindOne

What am I doing wrong?

Using fastboot on a Samsung device ?

@TheKindOne

I restarted manually the phone into fastboot mode

How did you do that ?

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[piero]

@piero

In order to determine if it is possible, you must answer those 4 questions :

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1. What was the StockOS version installed before /e/ ?
2. What is the current StockOS available ?

• If answers to 1 and 2 are the same, you can have a go for dirty upgrade !
• If answers to 1 and 2 are differents, you must answer to questions 3 or 4

3. does latest /e/ build include the upgraded needed parts of the firmware ?
   download it and have a look inside the .ZIP (you may need to extract it)
   what to do if you find a payload.bin file ?
4. does Lineage wiki offer a firmware upgrade solution for this device ?

• if answers to 3 and 4 are no, you will have to install latest available full Stock OS (relative to the android version of the /e/ build you want to install → not higher), then reinstall /e/OS from scratch.
• if answer to 3 is yes, you can have a go to dirty upgrade /e/OS.
• if answer to 4 is yes, you can have a go for dirty upgrade the firmware, then dirty upgrade /e/OS !

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Case of beyondx

1. Please share the baseband version
   (foundable in → settings → about–> android version → baseband version)

2. visit samfw.com

[TheKindOne]

Thanks for the reply.

Baseband is

G977BXXSEHWC1

I was also curious to see that there is a fastboot option on a Samsung device. It is offered on the restart menu:

Should i go into recovery mode instead? I tried that but there doesn’t seem to be any communication been the Linux PC and the device.

[piero]

you are in good situation, as according to https://samfw.com/firmware/SM-G977B “E-HWC1” is the last ever published SamsungOS, so :

@piero

If answers to 1 and 2 are the same, you can have a go for dirty upgrade !

@piero

you have several options

1. download the file on the phone, go to “→ settings → system updater” and use the feature called “locale update” (if you have it in the “3 dot menu” at top right of the screen).

or

2. download the file on the phone, reboot the phone into the recovery mode and use “apply update” then “from internal storage” (if your “recovery mode” have the feature).

or

3. download the file on a SDcard, reboot the phone into the recovery mode and use “apply update” then “from External SDcard” (if your “recovery mode” have the feature).

or

4. Universal Method, download the file on a computer, boot the phone into the recovery mode and use “apply update” then “from ADB” :

@TheKindOne

communication between the Linux PC and the device.

in recovery mode type : adb devices
in fadtbootd mode type : fastboot devices

[TheKindOne]

Thanks Piero

Do you think it’s safe to go straight to A15?

[TheKindOne]

Also seems like the easier option is to download on the phone and do a local update

In this case do i download the recovery image file too? Or just the newer e os version?

Thanks

[piero]

hum… i always did it Net-less cause i am confident (and a bit lazy as backup android is a complicate job),

but for fearful people it is stipulate (in small letters) :

@piero

(it is recommended to take a backup of your things in case)

[TheKindOne]

I have a backup already

[TheKindOne]

But what about jumping straight to A15?

[TheKindOne]

@piero

Net-less

What do you mean by this? Local update? Option 1?

[piero]

@TheKindOne

do i download the recovery image file too? Or just the newer e os version?

the recovery will be upgraded too, as it is included into the main .ZIP,
the process use the current recovery.
it is what OTA update does…

[TheKindOne]

Hmmm local update is not available in the 3 dots menu. So I guess it’s booting into recovery and go for apply update

[TheKindOne]

@TheKindOne

But what about jumping straight to A15?

Any Opinion on this please?

[piero]

@TheKindOne

@piero

Net-less

What do you mean by this? Local update? Option 1?

because i am confident, i can perform any of the proposed methods without backup (“Net-less” is a Circus wording)

[piero]

@TheKindOne

@TheKindOne

But what about jumping straight to A15?

Any Opinion on this please?

dirty upgrade is possible since android 11 because system tree have no major changes

@TheKindOne

local update is not available in the 3 dots menu

it only exist since android 12 or 13

[TheKindOne]

@piero

because i am confident, i can perform any of the proposed methods without backup (“Net-less” is a Circus wording)

Aha OK gotcha

Anyway looks like i need to use sideload from my pc. The recovery doesn’t include the option to install from local file

[piero]

Samsung generaly support from SDcard or from internal storage

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there is no build.zip on my SDcard so it is not visible.

[TheKindOne]

@piero

it only exist since android 12 or 13

Probably since A13

This is what I see in the 3 dots menu

And then in Preferences:

[TheKindOne]

@piero

Samsung generaly support from SDcard or from internal storage

I only get the sideload option. Is it because I’m still on 1.19?