I would really appreciate if some kind soul could explain to me how to do the upgrade.
Note: i bought a new 128 GB sd card and formatted to portable storage. My phone already had portable storage 32 GB but was getting full. I mention this because i have an info link on my upgrade notice that explains about needing
portable versus Adoptable.
Just for your information 1.17.1-q-herolte was a “special release” the purpose of which was to ensure users did not bring forward Adoptable storage. Here is the link to the Release Note v1.17.1-q · e / os / 🚀 Releases · GitLab. I understand from what you say that you already tried to deal with this.
I am following your much appreciated advice now. Cleared cache/storage in Update section.
About to soft reset. I figure i have to close phone first so will log off here and do that and report back,
I did the soft reset. Twice.
First time after simply turn phone off. Same result in updater.
Then shut phone down (shutdown on long press power button) and tried soft reset as you suggested.
which will lead to a download page if the URL is copied and pasted into a browser.
(I had already done that prior to starting this thread - which is how i know)
When the downloaded zip file is extracted, there are several files and folders.
The official advice on an Android version Upgrade is to treat it as a fresh install except in the case of an official or stable build, Different Build Types ← please read the link! – where the process is automated.
Please can we first establish (and please record here) for sure that the current build is stable.
Settings > About Phone > Android version > /e/OS version. Tap on /e/OS version to copy to clipboard.
So the automated stable (aka official) Android version upgrade was expected to happen in February / March 2024 – at the time one would have read:
Did the phone ever have an SD card as Adoptable storage?
A degree of speculation, but the encryption of the device may hold some “ghost” of a memory of this.
I would suggest that you uninstall all apps that are not vital to you.
You could install the app “List my Apps” de.onyxbits.listmyapps - (you may have apps you forgot about).
Especially uninstall all apps which ever existed in an Adaptable storage environment.
Did something I should know about happen with the phone around that time that would complicate the process?
Please prepare a backup, there is quite a high chance that you may have to Factory reset & reinstall as happened in the final post of the “Problem update 1.20 on Samsung Galaxy S7” which you already read – if necessary please ask before moving on.
Stage two
There is a risk of data loss. If you are given the choice to Format data, I suggest on a first pass you just say No.
I believe the file you should use is “url”: "https://ota.ecloud.global/stable/herolte/e-1.20-r-20240221382013-stable-herolte.zip",
From the filename we see the build date 2024-02-21.
Now down load this file on your phone, if necessary find it and move it to a location you can navigate to.
Boot into Recovery
Tap Apply update > Tap Choose from … > and navigate to e-1.20-r-20240221382013-stable-herolte.zip (If necessary use some appropriate button to apply, continue or install.)
The desired outcome is that the phone will boot into /e/OS 1.20-r-xxx in which case the Android version Upgrade will be complete.
Thanks @piero I edited the earlier post to make it quite clear that the archive should be reached only from the intended route, Django REST framework. However while working a few hours ago is Not Found now.
