Week 30, Development and Testing Updates

The chances of the older devices being dropped are high as they are already EOL. The team is facing difficulties in building on latest OS versions for these devices. A final decision on if these devices will be dropped is yet to be taken.

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It still does not appear on /e/OS official FP6 download

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Interesting, I don’t know more then that the update server has it.

Same here.

I’d wait until Monday, even if the wait is annoying.
If the update still isn’t available on Monday, I’d say there’s a problem.

Looking at the details of the 4.1.1 update as it is listed on

https://ota.ecloud.global/api/v1/FP6/official/

I noticed that it says

"is_upgrade_supported": false

which I think means that it will never be listed in an FP6 updater.

I also think that it can be used for a wipe-and-clean install. But I did not (and will not) try.

/e/ has a convention to refer to Android version upgrade as an Upgrade while an update of /e/OS version is an update.

That list is of OTA updates. If and when a release is organised as part of OTA Upgrade (only on an official release) then that line is true.

In that case, I’d say there’s a misunderstanding or a miscommunication.
Either the upgrade to Android 16 has been approved for the FP6, or it will remain on 15.
I also noticed the line with ā€œis_upgrade_supportedā€: false and thought it was odd that there was an inconsistency in the information.
These things can happen, but I expect it will be fixed soon.

@Manoj Can you clear this up with the development team plesse.

Notice:

FP6 is still listed here in the Weekly Update as ā€œunder development,ā€ but in the release notes it’s already listed under the upgrade to Android 16.

Surely it’s the last A15 version that needs to be shown as upgradable, as indeed v4.0 does. Same as for the FP3 where the last A13 (t) version shows as upgradable, but not the first A15.

I don’t think there’s any need for @manoj to bother the developers here. The release notes show the FP6 being upgraded to A16 in v4.1.1.

All that’s needed here is just a little patience.

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The FP6 is kind of a bad example to learn about this because it didn’t need many upgrades yet, but just have a look at e.g. https://ota.ecloud.global/api/v1/FP3/official/ and which builds there are marked as true, and you will clearly see it is as @dave says.
The builds you can upgrade from are marked as true.

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The FP6 A16 should be released tomorrow 27 July.

Once it is released will move the device name from ā€˜Under Development and Testing’ to ā€˜Completed’ section.

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For future reference and for understanding the process …
Since https://ota.ecloud.global/api/v1/FP6/official/ is offering the upgrade already, is this not the server consulted by the /e/OS updater on the FP6, or is there some additional blocking in place we can’t see and which then gets removed to ā€œreallyā€ release a build to the updater?

local transcribe works well enough (vs some details). There’s no post yet celebrating that, congratulations!

For others: using a multilingual model is a good choice, simplifies the code at some cost to perf, but makes alternating language input possible - the 600mb model is saved at

/data/user/0/foundation.e.stt.offline/files/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3-int8

info on the model at nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3 Ā· Hugging Face

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